Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten.
Speaker 2: On one in ah Town. Good Morning Tuesday edition, Matt
Thomas showed Ross, this is Sports Talk seven ninety. There's
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Speaker 3: Jam one hundred ten ninety with thirty nine point nine seconds,
Lakers up by ten.
Speaker 1: Fix.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna tell you something. I get highly
compensated to do the show, and I love it. I'm
going to give you an hour's worth of pay, Okay,
because I don't know if I want to speak until
eleven o'clock. Well, I didn't know the postgame show, and
I listened till twelve seventeen in the am screaming at people.
You weren't screaming you, you were very diplomatic. You had
two Nutso calls in a row. But other than that, oh,
we had like Lebron's biggest fan talking about how he dominated.
He had eighteen points. Look at Donchetz dominated that kid.
He's the third wheel. And if you're Lebron's your third wheel,
you're good. I'm sorry. Yeah, even though the Lakers sucked
last night from the perimeter. I mean Austin Reeves brick.
Marcus Martin actually hit some, Luca hit some, but everybody
else was just I mean, my gosh, the Lakers and
Art could even hit. The Lakers weren't good last night. No,
the Rockets were worse. One ninety two and it hurts,
and well, save your tears for another day, maybe like
late April, early May. So that's the weekend. And I'm
not familiar with his work, but sometimes I acquiesce. Is
that what them to you? And to Jonathan for songs
that are maybe post nineteen ninety Yes, and you went
with one and it fits. Uh, it's it's a clever song.
Conceed maybe let's go to Concede. I don't know, uh
not it. Yeah, I was gonna say, uh, lead to
lend your expertise to well. The theme of that song
is save your tears for another day because I'm gonna
leave you later anyways. Basically, So, okay, that's so what
I'm going with here. I'm alogue for one minute and
then you can have the rest of the her. You
can do the I did. I've already did seventeen mines,
so you can go, Oh, that's right, you've already gotten seventeen.
I'll turn my mic off. I'm gonna sit my coffee.
Go ahead. I love the Houston Rockets. A qualifier, No, no,
there's no qualifying. There's a but coming here. I'm leading
up to it. I have been a part of that
organization for thirteen years, three when I was in the
PA in the nineties when they won two championships. You're
welcome and ten now is the verdial voice and half
of that all radio, and half of that PA and radio.
So it I take losses greater than I should, knowing
that in an NBA season, if you go fifty two
and thirty, that's a successful season. That's what the Rockets
went last year. They were the number two seed in
the Western Conference. You're going to lose games. You're gonna
lose games on back to backs. You're gonna lose games
when you shoot poorly. You're gonna lose games when you
give up a defensive play late in the contest. You're
gonna lose a game when you miss a free throw.
I mean, there's a variety of ways to lose it.
In my ten years, that's a top five aggravating fourth quarter.
I've called. So let's put it this way. I've called
eighty games a year, give or take, for ten years,
and that's three one hundred and quarters. Is that eighty
games year or four quarters per game? It's three thousand,
two hundred quarters, right, I'm sure, why not? That's the
top three for me. The h the Austin Reeves, Jackson Hayes,
Marcus Smart, whoever you wanted to put, insert two of
the three. The double team to Durant, and it was
turnover after turnover after turnover, and then when they were
not turning it over, they were missing threes. And again,
I don't mean to pregnant, pause, but I just I'm
I'm really really down today, and I try to, as
the voice of the team, remain up and I will
always remain up, because again I would it's hard to
score just twelve points in a quarter. I mean that,
that's it's hard to score thirty five and a half
college basketball all the time, forty eight minutes, the twenty
four minute NBA thirty five. That's hard. So I would
like to call that a one off. But the turnovers
are grading Ony sports Harvey, they just are well, they're
not getting any better. And the fact of the matter
is you don't have enough ball handlers. Alpi last night,
first of all, could have helped with spacing. Alpi could
have helped with low post threats scoring as obvious he
does twenty He's a twenty one, nine and six guy
every single night, just about every single night. Yeah, and
does handle the ball more than any other center not
named Nicola Jokic. It if you want a double team
Durant and you can flash alprynshing Goon to Durant to
come help. Alpriyn shing Goon can turn around and a
drive to the basket and collapse the defense. B He
can find the open man because he's a good playmaker.
When you take him off the floor, and the next
guy that Kevin Durant is throwing it two off double
teams is Dorian Finney Smith or God love him, but
he's not a great playmaker. Tarry Easan, It's it becomes
a different situation. Here are the realities. You don't have
enough perimeter shooters right now, and one of your perimeter
guys who you relied on the first three months of
the year, sports RV has hit one three pointer in
the month of March we're talking about Tarti's I've never seen,
and I've called everyone Atari's games except when I was
doing the PA I've never seen. Maybe I have done
every one of its games.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I've never seen Tari struggle as badly. And when you
don't have a lot of perimeter threat to begin with,
and your third best three point shooter can't knock down
a three or can't hit a shot, period, he either
it's the minutes, it's the number of game member. This
is the most games he's playing in a row since
going back to his leg injuries a couple of seasons ago.
He's he's either out of gas. The ball isn't in wax,
and I ever talking about this in the game last night.
The ball doesn't even leave his hand, right, you know
there's a rotation to it, Yeah, and there's a spin
to it, and you go, that looks good on takeoff.
I can tell from me from my spot at the
upper end of the top side of the lower level,
if the ball's got a chance to go in it
leaves his poorly. It's it. There's there's nothing in Tarresan's
game right now except for his offensive rebounding that has
been redeeming at this point. Yeah, And the funny thing
is he's still shooting a higher three point percentage at
this moment than he has ever in his career. So
that's the thing we have to remember too, is that
he he he went way, way, way up. And so
how much of this is the legs, how much of
this is the shooting form, how much of this is
just being out of sync, and how much of this
is just statistical regression that we should have anticipated, that
we did anticipate. But it's hitting so hard it's getting
smacked to the ground. Yeah, guys that will shoot forty
eight forty nine percent from three could go on a
three for ten for four or five games. Kind of
like what reach upard? We was off to a hot
start regress and now his back to worries about forty percent,
which you accept. It's like you get a couple of
good shoes in blackjack, You're like, all right, we're gonna
get a bad shoe, but then you get the worst
shoe of all time, like four blackjacks in a row insurance. No,
have it again? Well, I got black given money. No,
though it's a six to five table, you can't take
even money. You can't take even money at six five. No,
you may not know, don't get I don't mean can
teach you all round up there. Okay, let's let's focus
on the rockets.
Speaker 5: You didn't know that.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. I didn't know because I never play it
while you're smart. Yeah, that's what's happening. He got two
pretty really good shoes and they're like, all right, well,
the next shoe is just gonna be maybe break even.
Next you ain't break even. Next sho's taking it all back.
That's what's happening right now with Tarry Easton, with it,
as you said, playing all these games in a row
and everything, it's all rolled up into one with him.
He doesn't look good out there. He's getting beat off
of dribbles more than he normally does. His body language
is in as great as it normally is. Just to imagine,
and if I'm having the worst month of my NBA career,
then my body you know, I don't mean that. It's
because some people bring that up in like all the
body language. The body language is good. Well, they're human beings, yeah,
you know, they get tired, they get hurt, they get
bumps and bruises, they get in their head like that, Yeah,
he's having a bad month, and you roll that in
with I mean, Jabari Smith Junior was great last night.
He for with the with the pull up midies, but
he was two of eight from three. Your your your
best two three point shooters. Kevin Durant oh for three,
Reed Shepherd won for six, and you had looks too.
They weren't even contested that much. Honestly, So I'm a
frustrated man this morning, Houston text. It was frustrating. It
was it was just it was maddening. And the hits
keep coming, it keeps, it keeps getting harder and harder
to rationalized and say this is going to turn and
they can make a deep playoff run. You got smoked
by the Spurs, You got destroyed by the Nuggets in
the second half of that game, and then you're going
up against another contender and you do that at home
with two days of rest before it was like, oh,
you're on the road, it's the Spurs. You shot bad
from three. Oh you're an altitude second half of a
back to back whatever that What was the excuse last night?
There's no excuse. I mean, Chingoon being out we can
go there. Yeah, but yeah, but that game was winnable
without alpreaching.
Speaker 5: Noo oh yeah.
Speaker 2: It was a back and forth game. Rockets at a
double digit lead, yeah yeah, and oh, by the way,
Rockets put the Lakers again. And then you've got maybe
the hottest team in the East, the Atlanta Hawks, coming
in on Friday. I think it won tenth straight. And
then you have the Miami Heat maan out of bio
once put up eighty three and he's not gonna do
that gain, No, he's not. I wouldn't think so. So
I speak to you openly and honestly as a humble
man that lives in Kingwood at ten thirteen, I would
use that one. And that was every day. That was
That was a while. That was a while. Yeah, I'm
defeated sports Harvey. Yeah, but we have something to embrace,
love and go after today. And then it's Texas in
the playing game and the NCAA tournament tonight, big watch party.
You're really trying to piss me off, Why don't you
just go ahead and say you're mister Texas and then AMBI,
I'll I'll be full blown in a fit. I wouldn't
say that go ahead. No, I'll let the audience do it.
I didn't need to throw you off by saying you
get you don't get. You can't get even money on
six to five. No, that didn't piss me off. I
mean that makes me mad for sad for you. I
know I'll be playing three two in New Orleans next week.
Don't worry you depended on the time of night and
fifty dollurs a hand, but that's on the hand of there.
Don't do continuous shuffle either, Yeah, all little tricks trying
to make because of the house win. You need that break.
You need that break between shoes sometimes on the bathroom exactly.
The chips there with three keep you there. The continuous
shuffle is genius. You cannot count cards and it's fewer breaks,
and then you lose track of time and you don't
get up to go to the bathroom, and then you
just sit there and lose It's genius, genius, all right,
Matt and Ross with you here. We have a gut
feelings at eleven thirty this morning, Jonathan, your gut feeling
on the rockets not going so hot, Okayn, we skip
gut feelings. I was just to say, can we just
move past that. We're gonna We're gonna have to. We
must acknowledge and defeat what we say. I want to
abstain from gut feelings because all of my gut feelings
about the Rockets are very bad right now. I've missed
for the last four weeks. Yeah, I don't, I don't
know what. What are we doing wrong? Folks? What? What?
What's in our gut that's so bad? We have bad
digestive issues right now? Uh, twelve thirty, our buddy read
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This is a day, ladies and gentlemen. Frankly, I am
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Ross and I'll just sit back and listen and and
I'll brood. Is it kind of brewed today?
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 2: Is that a good brood day? Not on the radio?
You gotta talk. It's gone right talk radio. Let's go
ten fifteen on Sports Talk seven ninety ten twenty one
Sports Talk seven ninety Matt and Ross with you on
this Tuesday seven one three two one two five, seven ninety.
If you want to chime in our conversation, we're gonna
hear from Kevin Durant. Coming to the bottom of the hour.
You get a few things to say. I've watched Kevin Durant.
I mean I watch every one of his games, but
I watched a lot of Kevin Durant over his career.
I've been honored to call his games this year. He
always was a turnover guy. That was always That was
always the biggest detriment to his career, as his turnover
count is higher than some of the players at his level.
But everything else he does beautifully. They threw. And this
is where Ross you have to admit your weaknesses, and
my weakness is I'm not an analytical person. I can
call what I see, but I need an analyst to
help me explain. And this is your strong suit. Walk
me through the fact that kevin'spring up the ball up
in the court as much as he is, and Reed
Shepherd is setting the screens, that's not going to necessarily
give him any separation because those screens, those pick and
rolls are set just beyond mid court to give Katie
a little separation to get rid of the double team.
The Lakers are fighting through those rather easily. Yeah, I
don't know exactly why they were doing it that way.
He was getting doubled, I mean from the jump. And
the bottom line is Kevin Durant's not a point guard.
Kevin Durant isn't supposed to be in that role. He
needs someone to be setting him up. He is more
of the tip of the spear, and he can create
some for himself and he can get to the basket,
and he's the second greatest shooter of all time in
my opinion, but he's not a point guard. And so
in those types of sets where you're gonna be able
to play four on three. The Rockets needed somebody to
step up and then be able to roll downhill and
create and break guys down off dribbles and be good passers.
And that just didn't happen. You had guys fumbling the dribbles.
You had guys making inaccurate passes. How many passes in
that game sailed into the second or third role? How
about Dorian Finney Smith to throw the men Thompson. That
was too bad. God, that was so on a fast
break too. You threw away Not only did you throw
away the ball. Anytime you throw away the ball, you're
throwing away points, but you threw away a guaranteed two points.
So you had inaccurate passing, bad ball handling, bad offense,
bad shooting, basically bad everything from the Rockets last night
and what you're dealing with right now is just a
bunch of imperfect players. Kevin Durant is not a point guard.
Reach epperd has defensive issues, and while he is pretty
good as a facilitator, he's not a great playmaker. He's
not a great dribble driver. He can do it some,
but he's not unstoppable and he's not. He's a great shooter,
but he was one of six from three last night.
A men Thompson can't shoot, but he can do some
of the other things. You're dealing with a bunch of
puzzle pieces you're trying to fit together because everybody has
an issue. It's like you're on the Wizard of Oz
and you're on the Yellow Brick Road and it's like, Hey,
I'm a Men Thompson. I can't shoot. Hey I'm Kevin Durant.
I'm not a playmaker. Hey I'm my outbring hing noon.
I can't play defense and I can't shoot threes. That's
what it is, John, to put the headsets on for
a minute. Can you hear us? Okay, I've been working
with Ross hild Loreal for sixteen years and three months.
That might be a top three analogy i've ever heard. Yeah,
you went Wizard of Oz. Yes on the rockets, Yes,
and I guess he made Docus Dorothy. Who's the Wicked Witch? Uh?
Don't even answer that question, Sam, Presty Web and Yama God.
I hate it when you've done something well because I
have to give you your props. Thank you. You just
went Wizard of Oz. They all have value, yes that
we all love all four of the characters. I love
the Lion, I love the Scarecrow. Ten Man's a good dude.
He's a chill bro. He's got issue. We're gonna play
ten Man by America coming back from the break now
that I think about it. Oh, that's a great song.
That's so, that's what you're dealing with. How did you
come up with that? I don't know how you came
up with that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Raw Show
featuring Matt the rest of the way. I'm sorry. I
can't top that. Yeah, I don't know if we're getting
nas now, I can put it in the late seventies?
Can we ease on Down's On Down the Road? Ode?
I love the Whiz? Are you kidding me? Diana Ross?
Nipsey Russell, Oh hell yeah, not not the other Nipsey
that passed Nipsey Hustle. No, he passed away. Nipsey Russe
is also made the Nipsey's Rest Love. I Saw the
Ways back when I was a kid. I love that movie. Yeah,
I hated The Wizard of I still do. Every time
the Witch goes on that bike, I run in the bathroom,
shut the door and lock it. I'm fifty three years old.
Still happening on the phone as we go. Let's talk
to Steve on Sevening at ten twenty six Steve, good morning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good morning, Matt. Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 5: Ross.
Speaker 7: Great to be with you both. Everything you just said
is basically what I was about to say, although I
might say it in a.
Speaker 6: Slightly different way. When it was announced in the offseason
that Kevin Durant was coming to the Rockets, I think
the expectation was that he was going to take the
team from let's say, slightly above average to really one
of the upper upper echelon teams. And the net effect
is is he has made a difference in that he's
made them good. But I don't think I don't think
they're great. I don't think they're anything even close to great.
And yet Kevin Durant himself has been great. You know,
I don't question his individual greatness. But what I'm saying
is he's been so great that in a way, it's
it's kind of its own. Why of Bill is that
it has maybe softened the rest of the team because
they're relying so much on Kevin Durant. I mean, I
don't know, what do you guys think about that?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to give you a nice simple answer
of when Kevin Durant came here via trade, his point
guard was supposed to be Fred van Blee. I mean,
I don't I don't want to go back to that,
but but it matters. It certainly matters. It does, it
absolutely matters, and it doesn't necessarily have to be Fred VanVleet.
It just has to be a look a men Thompson.
I am one of the biggest of mend Thompson fans.
You know, I've talked about how in touch pol I
think he is. Love him man and Reed Shepherd has
taken a significant upgrade in his playing ability from year
one to year two, but neither one. I'm mertrude point guard. No,
And when you were when your salary cap tough, you're
in a tough spot because of contracts. You have a
backup to a backup point guard, Aaron Holiday. That's the
kind of play you'd probably get either. The trades are
hard freeings you pick up just picking guys up the streets.
You're picking up Aaron Holiday guys. If I may trusted
Aaron Holliday, he'd be getting some serious minutes and in
crucial moments. He just doesn't do that at this point.
So they're saying, I'd rather go with athleticism with Tari
and with with Reed Shepherd and shooting and with a
men being a quasi point guard. I'll take that over
a guy that I just don't think that they can
give me fifteen twenty minutes a night. So that's the
Fred van v Flakt. The Fred van Vliet says he
said easily factor cannot be talked about enough.
Speaker 7: And that's that's the whole thing. And I've got nothing
but good things say about Kevin Durant. I know y'all
are having him on here in a few minutes and
I'm really looking forward to that.
Speaker 6: But you know that that's not enough. And to your point,
I mean, yeah, it needs to be a sum total.
There needs to be a totality of effort. I mean,
it is a team game, after all, it is.
Speaker 2: So I hate to do this because I don't want
to be that guy. But the team that we're watching
for almost sixty five games of the season is not
the one that we thought was going to be the
one when the deal was made to begin with. It's
just not Yeah. I think we have to remember that
and and I think a lot of times we just
kind of brush it off because we've been used to
it the whole season. But that's also it's how the
team was built. It's what they were expecting. It's what
what was planned by rafel Stone is not what you're
seeing out there on the floor. And it's the caller.
We're playing some Kevin Durant audio. We're not gonna be
We're not eating one. I don't think he wants to
come on. I mean he would, but it's his time.
We've had him before. But yeah, yeah, you're you're missing
every piece you could have. Look, I don't want to
like put everybody in tears and stuff like that, but
Fred van Vliet, it hurts, and it hurts you in
so many different ways because you you got him from
You're getting him for zero games zero. If he got
hurt for the first fifty, they could have figured it out.
If he was coming back today, you'd be like, all right,
let's get down these last fifteen games, get a bit
of work, get some working, get your rhythm, and get
ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 5: He's gone.
Speaker 2: He's gone for the year. Same thing for Steven Adams.
Like these are I know they've happened months ago, so
we've kind of just filtered them out of our brains
and our consciousness, but they impact what's happening out there
on the floor and what you're seeing out there. When
you say, why can't they get into their offense? Why
can't do We saw it last year when when Fred
van Vliet had an ankle injury or missed a couple
of games, We're like, oh, my gosh, you really miss
Fred van Vliet tonight when the fans are crushing him
because he would go cold from three because that's just
what they do. But you what he does for them,
especially especially last night, in crunch time situations where you
need to get into the flow of your clutch time offense.
It doesn't Kevin Durant has want to do it. Yeah,
I think he feels like he has to do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're just you're missing you are and it's not
going to change, but it is what it is a
reason of why you're seeing what you're seeing on the floor.
Seven one, three, five seven and will talk to easy.
We've also got some sound from Kevin Durant being open
and honest on the podium yesterday times late. When things
aren't you, the deep will share the gift of gam
between them. So you brought the tin man so quick
to take those So this is my fault. No, I
think it's terrific. Take responsibility for jam On Jonathan. Here
we go, here we go, not bad, but give nothing
to the tin man. I didn't see this. You're on
the lake. Oh yeah, it's about seventy two degrees and
it's breezy, light breeze, yes, but you got You've got
the sun too, so it's you're not cold because the
sun's on you right and the breeze. You're laying back.
You weren't a hat or no, and you're not thinking
about the rockets at all. Now you're not thinking about
clunky offense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm listening to America Letter today. Yeah, I got like
a nice maybe like a Moscow mule, like a for
refreshing cocktail. Something maybe with a little pineapple or more.
It's more wine cooler, Frankly, wine Cooler's fine. It's something. Yeah,
maybe a little fruit infusion, Like you're not drinking hard
to scotch on neat. No, you know what I'm saying.
You have Zeema's with a jolly rancher. No, you're always
way off the bingo board. I don't like Zeino, so
that's fine. I'm just I mean, we work well together
because I'm off the bingo board in some things and
you're off the bingo board in others. But Zeema's and
jolly Ranchers, what are you taught?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 8: What are you?
Speaker 2: Sixteen and nineteen eighty six? I didn't like him then,
I don't like them now. I was talking about you
may I've never had his. Ah, hold on, come on,
you have had same in my life? You have it
with a jolly rancher in it. I might have stolen
you know, I'm getting an unlocked memory right now. I
might have stole a sip of my dad's when I
was like a teenager. Sorry, Dad, he's fine. You've done worse.
And it's funny because my mom listens to show sometimes
she's like, did you what, dude? My parents always tell
me that, they're like, oh, I heard you going on vacation.
Oh yeah, dad, I'm going to vake it. Yeah, I
heard you on air talking about going on vacation. This
is this is how your father finds out. By the way,
I am father of the day. By the way, Oh
you are yes, I told you this off air, and
I will tell Jonathan and the rest of you on air.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: So when we play eight thirty games, I typically will
get a room at a hotel close to here because
it gives me a chance to go take a legitimate nap.
I nap here at the office sometimes on seven o'clock games,
but eight thirty it's even an hour and a half later.
So I get a hotel. And Cam had my tickets
for the game last time, my oldest did, and he's like, man,
I gotta go up at work early more the next morning.
And I'm like, why don't you just stay with me
at the hotel. So we got a hotel. I got
a hotel with two double beds. He comes in after
the game when we're sitting there mad about the game.
Good night son, good night Dad. Sleep well, earbuds. Always
travel with your You're traveling on a one to ten?
Is gordylike.
Speaker 5: Nine and a half?
Speaker 2: Nine point seventy five? The only time makes you god
Father was a good part of it that I allowed
him to stay in my room. Oh you did so.
You not kicking out your firstborn son makes you father
of the year. With snoring and needing the good rest,
spending time with your Okay, that's that's your specimen. That's yeah,
that's you. He's born of you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always well, I learned this. You know I'm not trying.
You threw Gordy on the bus already, so I always well,
I'll throw my brother into the bus too. I always
make sure I travel with earbuds and or earplugs. Why
is it on us sleep on your stomach? Do something?
I know what my wife's like. Did you wake him?
I said no, because that's my boy. I try to
push him on his side because you're gonna snore less
on your side. I have an important question, Hetty. I
don't think so. You might have had one of the game,
but that's about it, because you got no shot. If
they've had a few, it's that they're gonna snore no
matter where you put them. All right, I owe you
some Kevin Durant on it. Let me give you a
couple of cuts here. We'll play a couple more here.
We also got easy in Geary the line. Let me
go to Kevin Durant about what went wrong in the
fourth quarter of last night's game.
Speaker 4: I mean, I just feel like I just feel like
we gonna make shots.
Speaker 9: I mean, and then we fied for twenty six from
the three, and that usually helps win team of w
a half cores. You swing, swing and make three. But
I missed two wide open threes when we were up
to one point. I could have pushed us up for
I just felt like I lost the game for us tonight.
That's simple. I mean, my teammates could. I mean, of course,
we probably can make more threes, but it's all on
It's on me.
Speaker 4: I mean, be honest.
Speaker 9: I'm the offense and the opposing team is going use
all eight resources and not let me get comfortable.
Speaker 4: First half.
Speaker 9: I got comfortable in ice, so comfortable coming off of
pitting downs, picking rolls, and they decided not to let
me get comfortable no more. So I gotta be smarter
better with the ball. I gotta be maybe shoot over
some of them double teams. But like I said, space out,
be ready to catch and shoot, be ready to be
a screener, just being a dunker, spot just being able
to be there. As a resource for my teammates to
provide space, and I didn't need to have the ball
as much as I did tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but problem is he can't shoot over the double
teams when he's forty feet away from the basket. Yeah,
he was. He was so far back. And there there's
a video. Do you know who worldwide Wide is. He's
always on the NBA Twitter streets. Yeah, he put he
put together a compilation I just retweeted on my Twitter
if you want to see it at Sports RV of
all the final possessions. Like they had some open looks
they had they had a couple of open threes. They
had Tari pushing the shots of all rebounds in the
fourth it was actually not I thought it was even
worse than it was. It's just because the result, like
does a lot of the shots weren't that bad. They
just weren't going in. They couldn't make anything. And again,
five of twenty six from three, you're you're not gonna win.
You turn the ball over twenty you were giving the
wrong number of turners. I was like, you said twenty
one for a while, I'm like, ro, it's higher, Yeah,
it's twenty one points. Off the half four, so I
kept reading the wrong number. I figured it out. I
was like, oh my god, twenty four turnovers. You're not
gonna win. You're not gonna beat the Washington Wizards with
twenty four turnovers and shooting five to twenty six from
three easy on seven ninety.
Speaker 10: Good morning, man, I got a couple of things to
say today, Matt. That fourth quarter yesterday was about as
frustrating as the one with Phoenix when they were up
twenty to win that game and going down on two
of the Choke City Times number two. The longest days
for a person is the day after the super Bowl
and the day after you get fired. And I got
fired yesterday. So to that caller that called Ross the
lebron fan and that punk as ginger that fired me,
shut cho bum as up happy saying Patty's Day, Phyllis,
I'm gonna go fishing and drink some beer, all.
Speaker 2: Right, easy, sorry about your situation. Take it easy as
a little way. Well I don't mean it that way,
but yeah, take it easy. Yeah, work out for the best. Yeah,
deep breath, he's doing it right. He's gonna go fishing,
just all acts. Just don't drink too much clear. Might know,
don't drink too much, don't do anything rash right, take
your time. Also introspect what could I have done better?
You don't want to hear that right now? I know
I said down the road, more durant, more phone calls,
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Rio and of course you want to come see Matt
Thomas that's what you really want to do. Uh, no,
you can, It's it's fine. I'll be nervous as a
rec anyway, nine to ten, first tip off of the
Cougars against title. We gotta take a your This is
a late night week for you. Yeah, a lot of Rockets,
eight thirty rockets, eight thirty Cougars. Yeah, on Thursday and
then Friday, Saturday back there. It's a long week. And
I was gonna say, at least it's two hours, but
not normally in college basketball. No, no, no, no no, and
also not in the tournament. Those thirty second time outs
are where we're gonna see a lot of where we
see about two hours of Jake from State Farm and
Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith and Samuel L. Jackson in
Capitol one of these spots. Rapidal dun Yeah for Rapidal
done with a nineteen percent interest, Right, we see more
of them than we see Kelvin Sampson's true. All right,
come more from Kevin Durant. We brought up the double teams,
we brought up the wrong of the fourth quarter. How
about he's saying that he maybe doesn't need to be
the key part of the Rockets offense. He will tell
us this. We got Jonathan working on video editing.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. I think we just
got to convert.
Speaker 9: Maybe I got he just got the way, get in
the corner space to flow off other guys. And I
think just that when I get the ball against certain teams,
they just gonna settle out and just say, you know,
we're just going double and play a little zone behind
it and see what happens. And if we give an
open shots, that's cool. But maybe I just need to
get out the way, you know, be honest, seth greens,
be able to be ready to catch and shoot, just
space to fly off for my teammates. You know, it's
been happening throughout the season, but you know, I'm starting
to figure out. I think I just need to get
out the way and let other guys dribble the ball.
Speaker 2: Agree or disagree. Believe him or not? Does he believe
what he just said? I like the first did you
hear the first second of that play? A player? The
first play that first five seconds? Again?
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know, you gotta ask. I don't know.
I think we just got to convert.
Speaker 2: Top You may right, I think so okay, how I
don't know. Yeah, that's an easy one to go to
as coach. Here is lastly, Katie on the impact of
not having Freddie around playing the team.
Speaker 4: I just feel like they would do that with friends
out on the floor too. You know, so.
Speaker 9: A lot of teams are going to just say just
set out and say, all right, this sort we're gonna
try to take away this source of offense and see
what happens. And you know, that's what teams are starting
to do around the league, is try to take out
the best players and you know, make other guys beat you.
But yeah, I feel like it's gonna be the same
with Fred in the lineup too, I think. But I
think Fred will for sure make teams pay a little
bit more with the three ball and his aggressiveness. So yeah,
but I feel like those covers are gonna be the
same regardless of who want to court with me.
Speaker 2: I miss Fred. Yeah, I don't think it's understated. When
you win, if somebody's getting double team, somebody needs to
get up to him. They need to find the open lane.
They need to not just stand directly in front of
him when he's getting doubled, so he can't pass through
human beings. You gotta get around, you gotta flare around,
and it's got to be somebody who's ready to get
downhill and make some decisions and get the ball. You
can't just be the outlet and just stand there because
that allows the Lakers defense to reset. You got to
catch the ball running, get downhill, either attack the basket
yourself or find the open man. It's four on three basketball.
You're in the NBA and you're four on three. The
Rockets should be able to thrive in those scenarios. And
with Fred van Vliet and with alprin Chinhon, if you
outlet to Alpi, as I said, he can get downhill
and find other guys. Fred van Vliet would have been
able to do that. But so let's make let's get
our crystal ball out. How many times we're gonna see
Kevin Durant bring the ball across the timeline tomorrow night
against the Lakers in round two. I mean, it depends
on you automatics philosophically change things away. But one thing
that you also have to do is you're gonna have
to deal with this. You're gonna have to learn how
to play four on three if you want to be
if you want to be at your best, Kevin Durant's
gonna have to start a lot of your possessions. So
you need to figure out this puzzle before. You can't
just say, ah, you know what, We're never gonna We're
you can't go We're never having Kevin Durant pull bring
the ball up ever again. You can't do that. You
got to figure this out and you don't have options,
And maybe that's part of it. Maybe Imadoka was like, hey,
go figure it out, guys, because you're gonna have to
deal with this, especially when you see the same team
over and over and over in a playoff series. Gary,
before the top of the are high, Gary.
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning guys. I just want to chime in
on the Rockets. You know, just sitting and listening, it's
just kind of dawned on me. What's going on here
with the Rockets.
Speaker 5: There's no saying.
Speaker 7: About snowball effect, and here's what's going on. What's happening
to the Rockets. You've got one guy out the point
guard that is affecting four different positions of huge importance.
That minus Fred, you've got you bring in in Thompson
as a point guard. He's not a point guard, so
you're taking him out of the position where he's strongest at,
which is either off guard or or forward small forward.
So that's two spots that are that are out of kilter.
Then you've got Ethan as a starter, and he's a
damn good player, but he's not a starter on this team.
If we had our full boat, he would be coming
off the bench and one of the best bench players.
Speaker 6: In the league.
Speaker 7: So and then you've got Durant having to play positions
like that.
Speaker 6: So you have a.
Speaker 7: Team of five players for that one guy out is
causing four positions out of a filter or kilter, so
they can't be play at their potential when four of
the five positions are not in the right spot. So
I think that's what's going on here. I think they're
doing good considering all that, and it's too late to
bring in a guard or change anything other than with
what you got. So just thought i'd put that out
there and see if you see that. Also to where
just the point guard missing is affecting four other key positions,
so hopefully hopefully they can get that corrected by running
some different type offensive anyway, So just wonder what you
thought about that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jerry. Yeah. When I do rockets launch pads,
I say your guard. When I do the starting lineups,
I say your guards are none. They're not guards men
Thompson sixty seven East six to eight. They're not guards.
Tired is very little ball handling occasionally but not that's
not one of his strong sha And he's not terrible
at it, but he's not great. I like a men's versatility. Yes,
I don't know he would even admit. I don't think
he wants to be a point guard for thirty five
minutes a game. That's why you see Reed Shepperd when
he comes in ball handle most of the time, moving
men to the to a to a dunker spot. You know,
maybe Rockets Twitter got it right, just put read at
the at the point guard spot. But I like him
coming off the bench. I do too. You need bench scoring. Well,
you know, look again, Tari has had I mean the
numbers for March, numbers of the last two months and
not being great, but March is he's just fallen off
the cliff and and that's that hurts. And I'll be
being gone. Yeah, you you've you've lost low post presence
because God love Clint, but you know, Clinton in the
best again, but Clint's can give you thirty minutes a game. No,
it hurts. Yeah, you're down. You're also down, Alba may
are we? Are we overreacting? You're down? Fred're just disappointed down.
I mean I'm speaking from down Alp as well. Look
Alpera and Shingoon is not without his warts. But if
this team is going to be at their best, he's
on the floor. He's he's twenty one nine and six overclick. Yeah,
I'm sorry. He was an All Stars an All Star play,
but he's an All Star caliber player. Rossie, I know
where the or arch Manning is going to play professional
football and in one year from now, you do?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 2: Hm, he's playing professional football right now?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Could I say he's playing in Austin right now? I
wish I could say it for gut feelings, but I'm
going to put it in early, okay, and back it
up with gut feelings. Okay, that's what we have to
start the second hour of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Seven to one three, two, one two five seven ninety
is The.
Speaker 1: Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: All Right, we were in the hour number two. We
spent a lot of time on the rockets this first hour.
We'll get you an Astros update as well before the
hour is over. We we got gut feelings at eleven thirty. Now, look,
we put our gut feelings out and we write them down.
We reserve the right to change them so bad that
we need you guys to come help us out because
you go to us for your our gun feelings to hit.
We're not hitting lately. Well, collectively, I reserved a right
to get rid of this rockets hangover and change my
gut feeling. But it's not. I'm not feeling great right now.
All right, early gut feeling, half hour before we start
to do it. Go ahead, your home for Arch manning
in twenty twenty seven. Okay, gut feeling early on, and
I will back this up in twenty five minutes. Sure,
why not? The Miami Dolphins, Okay, I got a battle. Yeah,
I've been traded from Miami to Denver in exchange for first, third,
and fourth round in this year's draft. Okay, they're getting
starts for Arch. Malik Wallace is their quarterback. He's gonna
have a He's gonna be great. He's gonna be top
twenty in QBR according to I Believe Yankees, Keith and
No Jayalen Waddle, Devon Nchen gotta be not far behind,
right there, gott I interest you in a David Montgomery
Nick love my phone call. No, he's happy with Montgomery.
They're gonna suck. Yeah, they're gonna be bad. And I'll
tell you what. Arch will go to Miami and he'll
love it. That's not a bad landing spot. Honestly, it's
a good landing spot. It was raising nice out there
is real nice. I'm just saying, you trade your best
receiver and you supplant your quarterback with at his best
receiver for a guy who's been below average ninety eight
percent of his NFL career, that's a recipe for disaster. Now,
you can answer this question better than I can. If
you want to go somewhere and see extremely attractive people
and feel out of shape and or just not attractive,
La and Miami I got one two, Which one are
you going over the other? No, Miami is more fit
than La. It's crazy because they're on the beach too. Well,
they're on the beach in La, but it's a little further. Yeah,
I think you're right. Uh, because you can get outside
of LA You can get outside of LA County and
get fat. Yeah, you can't if you're with if you're Miami,
Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Boca Raton, all that, you can't
have any body fat in anywhere of one hundred miles
radius lowest win totals on the board, Yes, sir, Miami
Dolphins four and a half, Arizona Cardinals four and a half,
New York Jets five and a half, Raiders five and
a half. Well, the Raiders are gonna need Arch because
they're gonna I'm assume they're gonna put They're gonna take them. Mendoza. Oh,
you don't want to go to the Jets. No, no, no,
Arch can't go to New York. He'll be miserable. I'm
telling you. He's gonna look good at Miami Dolphin gear.
I can picture it. I picture Quinn. You weres in
that gear. Come back with Quinn. He can reunite with Quinn.
That'd be funny, backing up Quinn is for his his year.
That's very funny.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: So that's that's the NFL note of the day I
wanted to pass. That just came along just a few
minutes ago. That's good, that's one lesson, and that that
the Miami was a contender dating they worked, but Denver
now looks better. That's that's me at the end of
the day. It's bad. That's bad for the Texans. And
the question is going to be will bow knicks be
every bit as good as you was last year and
even a year even being better now that he's gonna
year more experience underneath this. But I'm not super sold
long term on bow next year. It's just to me,
midd John Peyton's a good coach. They had a great defense, Yeah,
and all they were was a Jarrett sent him away
from going to the Super Bowl, and then then a
second half snowstorm and not going for a field goal
when they should have took the point. Got to those
cut Those Seahawks probably win the Super Bowl no matter what.
But I think they would have put up a better
fight than the Patriots. Yeah, I think you're probably right.
All right, How do you reach us this morning? Seven
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three two one two five seven nine zero. You see
that Josel tub was in the crowd last night in
Miami rooting on his team Venezuela. They took care of
Italy and they're playing the United States four, the WBC champions. Yes,
he started. He put on his eye black and his spikes.
He's ready to get He's ready to get out there.
Can I be a eighth inning pinch hint?
Speaker 22: Guy?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Can he do?
Speaker 2: Literally? Can he do that? How does that work? He
was sitting in the stay insurance I guess no. Yeah,
They're like, no, can he get insurance for one pinch
hit appearance? Apparently not? Okay? So USA versus Venezuela for
the whole kitt in caboodle. Yes, for all the toastedos
in Miami where they're they're drawing people, they're excited, and
they're like, can y'all play de WBC games NonStop? Because
the Marlins are starting in a month. Yeah, they're they're
liking this concession cash. They're getting more in these handful
of games they're gonna get like the first two months
of the season. Could you imagine building a stadium for
a team that's going to perennial lose ninety games a year. Well,
people are making a great point, like clearly the city
can support baseball, absolutely can' Miam is a huge ara.
I mean the whole South floor. I mean there's there's
eight million people down there ross you know what, you
need a salary floor. He just finally listening to Dan
this morning on the Morning Drive and he was like,
come on, Baseball, come on Baseball. You can't do this
to us. WBC's got good buzz, new national TV contract,
crowds are good. I wanted to call Dan and Texas
sent and then they are so ready for this. They
are fully prepared. They are locked and loaded for this.
Heels they had the players union. They are building up
the war chest. Yes, to help everybody with fun disbursements,
I'm sure, and we guys are doing that for the
for the concessionaires and the people the work at stadium, because
the're gonna they're gonna lose out on this, I hope.
So I don't know about that. Unfortunately, it's gonna you're
gonna take some athletes, take millionaires, and the millionaires are fighting.
Why can't the billionaires give the Why can't Jim Crane
take care of his own employees? That's I think it's
a great question. Millionaires versus millionaires. I mean, honestly, that's
the negative. And Ross. We have people that listen to
our show that that work at these games, and I
feel terrible for them because they're going to lose money
that literally gives them some pay their bills. And there
are people that live and breathe astros and that's why
they listen to us, and that's why we appreciate them. Yeah, yeah, you.
I mean, I don't mean to get debbut downer because
it's been a debut down an hour and ten so
far of the show. But y'all just got to get
ready for this. We know, I mean, ROSSI we've been
talking about this for two years. They were settling it
on this. At some point we need a segment of positivity.
At some point we can get let.
Speaker 5: It all out.
Speaker 2: Well, we can't do it until we can't do it,
I know, at least till eleven thirty afternoon. We got
reget us at twelve, like twelve to fifty, maybe can
we go. I gotta be honest, we're gonna have to
go an hour forty of this. I'm going to throw up. No,
you're not, You're fine, Okay, twelve to fifty until one fifty. Oh,
I can't do an hour positivity? Did you watch that
fourth quarter? Okay, one segment of positive positivity between twelve
fifty and one o'clock today. Uh man, it's gonna be fine.
Got another thing for you went on Wednesday. Another thing
it bothered me yesterday. Go ahead. So when I can
go spend the night at at a hotel, I will
sometimes get food after, which is terrible, terrible idea. But
you're hunger. You're hunger, and you're hunger. You're hungry. And
so I went to Rurger Ring yesterday. Okay, do you
get a bunch of new commercials about how they're going
back to old school? And I ordered me a boppera
with cheese, Yeah, with onion rings. I don't like their fries.
And uh so they give you the onion ring sauce.
I don't eat the ring sauce. Oh it's good. It's
not my thing. It's zesty. It's fine. I mean I
would eat it. So I said, can I have some
ketchum In said, because we've only got three left, so
give me one. What do you say to that? I
took all three. But here's the thing. It was it's eleven.
It was eleven forty at night. They keep their drive
through open. I think till two am if I'm not mistaken.
So you're telling me they're gonna go two hours and
twenty minutes without any Ketchup for anybody. I would have
taken one, matt Oh, hell no, Why do I care
about the other people behind me? There wasn't even behind me. Yeah,
that makes sense. Stop or I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You
would not have taken just one ketchup. That's a freaking lie.
She lied to me. There's no way she only had
three ketchups left. I'm sorry she just didn't. Maybe she did.
There's no way she lied, and you know she did.
They're in low supply. That's why I took all three
because I know she was lying. She's like, I'm not.
I'm sick of people giving away ketchup. Eight ketchups at
eleven o'clock at night. I'm gonna have They never give
you eight ketchups you asked for. They probably give you three.
You asked for eight. No, I said to have some Ketchup, please,
I said, ketchup. If you would have gotten three, nobody
would have said anything. She doesn't have said anything, right,
I guess I got three left. You know what I
got a problem with. I got beef with butter Burger
because they gave me one cat up last time. All
of this for a medium fry. I got Butterberger over
the weekend, no napkins, no receipt in which I asked for,
and no ketchup. So I wrote a letter, then I
responded yet a letter I can email on their website.
I was gonna say, hey, we might get a gift
card out of it. That's what I'm hoping for. It'd
be nice because I thought, you know, the drivet wasn't
crazy long. I'll go in there and do it. And
I got none of the above. Sorry, Matt, it's fine.
I asked for spicy ketchup and they're like, okay, yeah,
you've got one. Remember that alabam Gar we were talking
about yesterday. M Yes, we've an update on him. Oh
it's not Balenny charges butt them up on the Meta
mis show with Ross felony charges. How much prison time
will we go? Well, let's see how much prison for
how long will go? Hell?
Speaker 8: You go?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Or you write these things ahead of time?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks, Jonathan for helping us. Thank you, Thank you
Jonathan for the critique on that seven one three two
one two five seven Hounty Alabama point guards who sell weed?
Will you play this weekend? That's next year? Are you
a plea deal or no?
Speaker 1: Continues so on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Eleven nineteen, Matt Thomas should ross. Nice to have all
of you with us on this Tuesday read gettings. We'll
talk from college basketball with us in an hour, and
he will fire up rossfieldery out because he will discuss
the Texas Longhorns a little bit. I'm assuming I'm gonna
step out and cry, come on, it's just one extra game.
Probably their favorites. Now, I don't know what. Flip the uh, well,
flip the line. They were one and a half point dogs.
Now the Longhorns are no wait what just flipped again?
What the heck? What's coming on? Maybe you're watching different lines?
So I thought, yeah, maybe I was looking it's the
women's line. They're actually good. Yeah, North Callina State is
a one a half point favorite right now. Yeah, I
just saw I don't know, weird, maybe it was a
typo or something.
Speaker 4: I got it.
Speaker 2: I got kind of half excited, how said, hush, all right, whatever,
We'll see what happens well as will Wade the coach
North John today is that where he went?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Has he headed back to LSU. It's n C DOUBLEA
infraction coach versus n C DOUBLEA infraction coach wow in
the n C Double A tournament. Okay? In depth preview
read guess talking about the Cougars two love it all right?
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two five seven
ninety real quick before we get to gut Fillings and
we get to our buddy Keeso. So we talked about
yesterday our friend Nian, our friend Aiden Holloway, about his
rest Monday morning on felony drug charges. He had a
pound weed. Yes, Come to find out, Holloway was quote
removed from campus and not with the team four days
before it's term and open opener, which is obviously this Friday.
Hours earlier, authorities found more than a pound of marijuana
at the home, quoting a coach Nate Oates, who is
a bastion of integrity himself. Yes, we got standards in
our program, and we've got ways. We've held our guys
accountable and we try to keep everything in house. Obviously,
some of the situations you can't, and this is one
of those. We found out about what was going on
this morning. I found out this morning. I guess all
went out down this morning. We have to suspend him
pending the investigation. We're certainly disappointing in his behavior. Of
that being said, we still love him. He's still our guy.
We're helping him get the help he needs, and we're
going to continue to help him wherever we can. But
as far as our team goes, I thought we had
a great practice. We're going to prepare to play without
him this weekend. What do you mean we're what do
you mean? The help he needs? He was looking to
make some money and some legal help. Oh okay, I
need a lawyer. West Alabama Narcotics Tax Force. But they
went deep in the weeds for this one, ROSSI. They
searched some local residents and found quote more than a
pound in marijuana, plus paraphernalia and of course cash. Hmm,
that's time for a plea bargain. Sounds like a setup.
He's planted there. Yeah, he's been set up, I'm saying,
Bruce Pearl. They found the trap. That's what happened. Now okay,
they found the trap house. Yeah, that's what happened. What
do you think in Alabama Drugs Task Force sky sounds
like I threw that to you. Don't hit it, take
that outside, take the pitch, don't swing at it, don't
take it. Well, now we'll in the holloway. He had
a pound of marijuana on him. We had to ask him,
what do you doing with a pound of marijuana, young man?
Then we found some peril from Elia and we arrested him.
Right up, boy, you have to be plumb stupid to
be caught with a pound of marijuana. There you're playing
for the beautiful, wonderful Crimson Tide. You represent that weird elephant,
and you represent our great state of Alabama, and you're
selling marijuana. No, it's it's that let that strange. Let
it hippie lettuce. Now, just ain't right. I told you
to do this, you know, yes you did. No, I said,
this is your face to take the pitch. This is
no one's fault with Johnathan, I tell him swinging the pitch. Well,
I went full Yonner is on it. Matt, I can't
help myself. Yeah, you just threw a pitch to Yan
das I'm swinging now, I might swing and miss that.
I'm Zach Colon. Can I be somebody better?
Speaker 5: Hold on?
Speaker 2: Why good you draft? Is that cole on Us? That's
nice a lot? How does Alabama football him in Alabama football?
How does Alabama football him?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You think they think basketball there the preferential treatment over basketball. Well,
probably if here's a quarterback of the Crimson tab that'd
be a different thing, because I know Kaitlyn de boor
personally so Jonathan is paraphernic. Are we talking about a bong?
Is that we're talking about? What are we getting here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 23: Are the kids using bongs these days? Or like you
could have had a pop? Nah, you're right, probably like
a bong or like like how much cash is laying
around me? I were talking about a thousand dollars packs
of swish or sweets. Now, I'm a Philly man myself.
Maybe there was a maybe a pan of.
Speaker 2: Brownies or something you don't ever know? Yeah, maybe a
pan of brownies. Yeah, yeah, he had an Aye brendan
oven mitzing there mixing up brownies. Now, I had marijuana
bronies as an accident as a kid. Now he went
with Duncan Hines. I'm more of a betted crocker.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: If I gave you a brownie with marijuana and am
married with that without it, would you get up? Tell
the difference?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Notice?
Speaker 2: I would imagine. I don't know, Matt. I'm just like,
if you don't know, you don't know. I'm just telling you.
I accidentally, as a kid, had some of my dad's
and I got I don't do drugs, and I'm saving
myself for marriage. You are just the saint. I know
your peers at said you have the show two thirty there,
two thirty. I let's get down to fifteen. Let's go
not wasting time. Let's talk to Keso on seven eleven,
twenty four high Queso.
Speaker 24: Hey, you guys, can you hear me?
Speaker 5: All right? Yes? Yo?
Speaker 25: Oh well perfect? Hey man, I got a bong. I
use it almost every day.
Speaker 24: It's cool, all right, we still use them.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But you're you're not You're not twenty k though, I
mean no offense.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not. But I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't have an answer for that.
Speaker 24: Quick quick question, mister Texas. I was out in the
beautiful Marfa, Texas last week. I'm sure you know that
you know the place.
Speaker 2: A r F A Marfa. The people in Marfa love me.
He's never been. I've been to Marfa.
Speaker 24: Beautiful people of Marfa.
Speaker 2: And you go by the product, You go by the
product store. No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. You
don't go to Marfa without going to Texas Burger. I'm sorry,
you just don't.
Speaker 25: It's a beautiful place full of tipster cowboys and people
from Austin that's given up on life. So other than that,
it's very pretty. Uh Alpine is beautiful as well. But
I was listening to you guys.
Speaker 24: And I just said, man, mister text, be so proud
of me.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 24: You got the Matt Thomas with Ross Yeah, the podcast.
Speaker 2: Yes, God love it, God love it? Did you Yes?
Did you go to bass Drop two while you're over there,
because I know those streets are mine too. Don't forget
about bass Drop. You don't know about bas driven through
basp Tru much time you spent in bas State Park.
I've been to the bass Drop Opera House for multiple plays.
I went to bass Drop and Hello Tas in the
same day, So suck it to you both. You've ever
been to the Bassdrop State Park many a time. You're
a fraud. Go ahead, kay, So sorry you got us bickering.
This is your fault case, so go ahead.
Speaker 24: I went to the Basdrop gas station. They knew who
that was.
Speaker 2: Yes, very yes, thank you. That's the guy who yells
at us when he when he can't figure out how
to start the pump.
Speaker 26: And love Matt.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, thank you, Kase so that I
am loved all the rock the five to one two,
the four O nine one three, No, theyved loved me.
I had an el pass and I've been there in
fifteen years, even longer than that. Terrible. You know, I
have not gone. I'm not going to Middland or Odessa yet.
It's miler nowhere. I had bus money. There are you
going to the oil field? Like one city is really
rich and one is small. I don't which that's rich. Yeah,
one has all the money, one doesn't. I don't which
one is Windland. Somebody helped me out, that's what the coin.
It doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean, I'm wishing them the best.
I want to say it's Midland has the money and
Odessa doesn't. But I could be wrong, but yeah, that's
only started to say or not I've been to Amarillo
by morning? Okay, smells like poop? You went there? Did
you go to take place at eat or No? No,
I didn't do that. I went to an Amarillo was there?
Oh man, they had a hockey team there. I went
to the hockey game. That was fun. I went to
beautiful downtown Amarillo. Is there a downtown?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I went to where all the cars are planted in
the in Honestly, it wasn't that cool. It's like the
art thing, our art house thing where like the half
of the cars are like it's like they're planted into
the ground. And Amarillo it was cool. I guess. Let
me tell you why how sixty six? I went to
Did you ever you've been to the Buddy Holly Museum
in Lubock?
Speaker 4: No I have not.
Speaker 2: I have. That's cool, mister Texas moving around in those streets. Okay,
have been a big ben National Park?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: No you haven't. You're such a fraud. How many lies?
That was like four lives in one segment? Oh no,
not Bill, Bill? What are you calling for you? It's
not time to win a prize yet.
Speaker 20: Yeah, Well you know I'm I'm kind of I'm kind
of still over my limit. I think it's a thirty
day gap. So you know, I think Ross still mind
to me. But anyway, Matt, you we gonna.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on you because you're the You're the
all time. You know that you're the number. You are
the Michael Jordan of prize horing. Do you know that?
Speaker 1: Bill?
Speaker 20: Oh Man? You know I'm sitting I'm trying to be
born again.
Speaker 6: Are you talking like this?
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what. I'm sorry. All right, Well, we
appreciate you stealing and grifting our prizes over the decades,
and we still love you.
Speaker 27: Wow.
Speaker 20: Anyway, Matt, you owe me.
Speaker 24: You owe me a very vision because, uh, the other
day she just call us.
Speaker 20: Called in and you said, the man sound like Joe Biden.
Man almost had a freaking You were right, Mac, listening closer,
Man did sound like Joe Biden. But anyway, I went
to the to the Sanitaio this weekend to see the U.
Speaker 4: I L.
Speaker 20: Basketball game of my wife. You know, she's from Beaumont,
So I went to see Beaumont United and Beaumont Westbrook.
Speaker 24: Anyway, what puzzled me, Uh, I think both my.
Speaker 20: Westbrook lost for Frisco in Frisco, Texas. And you know
that is five star recruit. I think it's Brice and
Dawson or something like that. You know, he's pray awesome.
Speaker 5: But anyway, what.
Speaker 20: What what threw me off?
Speaker 15: Max?
Speaker 20: It was about five thousand on Frisco side, all Caucasian and.
Speaker 28: Frisco team oh black, man, oh black, Oh twelve of them.
Speaker 2: That's because Frisco does not a lot of white basketball players.
Speaker 20: Oh that threw me off, man, But that the.
Speaker 2: Whites cannot hoop. We cannot hoop, we can't. And that's
why if I'm friscot All, I don't like whites on
the team either. I wouldn't do it.
Speaker 20: Man. They could like somebody.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no no no no no no no.
We don't want we don't want any. We don't want any.
We want all the whites in the crowd. Thank you
for the phone call, Bill, What the hell was very important?
Said Rockets Lakers. It did, but he wanted to know.
He was curious about the fact the team was all
black and the play and the fans are all white,
because we uh, you know, if you're a good basketball team,
you don't wantny white players. You just don't. This is
not any fun. Repard's great Florida. The Lakers disagree. By
the way, By the way, can we I got ten
seconds here? Can we eliminate head bands in the NBA?
Why they were all over the place last night? Even
Lebron got rid of his? Thank god? Why do they bother?
They just do? You know, what's a youth for it?
Speaker 5: Right? Hey?
Speaker 2: Keep the sweat out of your eyes. Oh stop, there
are hundreds of players in the NBA that have hair
that don't worry about, uh the sweat. Come on, Austin Reeves,
even a men Thompson, take that damn thing off. Tarry
I took you. I don't like him this you are okay?
You want to shake your fists at a cloud and
also get them off your lawn right now? No, I'm
just saying, I'm man, he's young whippers never aware now
Joan really really fat bands? Who is the coolest person
you know that wears a headband? Right now?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 2: Right now? Men's that that's that's up and down here
I'm talking about consistently. Is Austin Reeves a cool dude?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Is Alex Caruso a cool dude? No, Aman Thompson does it,
Josh Josha Koge. Maybe Josh Smith does it. Jaylen Suggs
does it. Lebron's been doing it for like twenty years.
He's yeah, I'm if I'm the leader of the basketball
White Chocolate Jason Williams. He was cool warhead band? Rondo?
Didn't he wear a headband? Have you ever heard of
this guy named Alan Iverson? Was he cool? It's twenty
twenty six. Eliminate the head They're back. You're so weird.
They're just they're just for style points and Austin Reeves
should be wearing one. He probably breaks this way anyway.
Don't play a defense like although he's a double team
in the rocket sale. All right, see if it goes
back to last night's fourth quarter, so we can't have
that ross sad. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's time
for gut feelings. We are so bad at it. We
are so bad. More of you and less of the
three of us would be better for the next half hour.
If you have any gut feelings at all, it could
be about your life.
Speaker 5: Look at it.
Speaker 2: Last week's don't please save us from embarrassing ourselves. Seven
oh there's our guy calling in seven to one three
two one for taking my call. Governor Thomas got wf
in seek. I'm gonna make a horrible prediction about the Yankees.
I'm gonna say they're going to the World Series and
they're gonna flame out. Is that your James and garden Oaks? Yea,
how was it? Terrible? Thank you? I've heard worse. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven Any gut feelings are next?
Speaker 27: Listen ups and seven So pelsn't that tommit? You'll they
got a gut dealing.
Speaker 2: This is their gut feeling on The Matt Thomas Show
eleven thirty eight, seven ninety. This is the Matt and
Ross Show. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
theser gut fillings. This is where we spend a half
an hour every week giving supports predictions and before we
get to the fresh ones. This week we talked to
James god Noakes. CJ wants to get a gut filling,
and you guys can follow them up at seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Ross how did
we do from last week? All right, Matthew, last week?
You have the old the Astros. Oh, this is James's
fault over on eighty six and a half. It's your
lock of a week. Astros over eighty six and a
half wins? Say with it?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not? Mike Burrows second starter by the end of
the year for the ass with it? Although EMI might
be fighting for that too, as long as they it's
stay healthy. Hey, guess what if it's a fight between
the both of them. I'm okay with that, right situation.
That sounds amazing, that's right. I had the Rockets going
four and one in the five game homestand they're one
in one, so that's in play. It's in play. I'm
feeling great, but that's okay. I have the USA winning
it all in the WBC. I said Brian Abrady will
not blow a save while hater is out. I love that.
And I said Rockets will tap out in the second
round of the playoffs. You're not wrong.
Speaker 5: I'm not right.
Speaker 2: No, I might be wrong. I might be wrong, just
not in the way that I want. You know, let
me give you this is not this is literally this
is the today's no one cares stat of the Day. Okay,
the Atlanta Hawks will be here on Friday. Yes, they
won ten straight games. What, Yeah, there's still the eighth
seed in the Eastern Conference. Damn. So they're like the
Clippers of the East. Correct went on this hot run
and there's still just let's see, where are the Clippers
there in the eighth spot? But how do you win
ten games in a row and you don't move up
but maybe a half a scotia in the Eastern Conference standings.
It is so bizarre. That's today's Nobody cared about stat
of the Day, brought to you by absolutely no one
who's playing so well for them Jalen Johnson, uh neck
out of Congo and ni kill Alexander walker Head. Yeah,
and he's averaging over twenty points again forty one. Yeah,
there's so much talent expansion. I'm welcome. I'm welcoming it
leaks two talented. You need some more easy dubs on
the schedule. So you're they're talking about a dollarmount between
seven and ten Billy to get in the league. Remember, folks,
when people take when the NBA is dying and Major
League Baseball is dying, they're neither one of there dying.
They're go fine, go woke, and go broke. Well, they're
asking for ten billion dollars for a franchise, I think
they're doing okay, Well they get it. No, but even
they get seven billy, that's gonna mean hundreds of millions,
not one hundreds. But what divided by thirty teams got almighty?
I think I guess if all, they have the best
international reach right of all the major leagues, and that's
that's where all because the ratings are down, but international league,
I think it is where they're they're dominating. All right,
there's seventy billion dollars right in my calculator, divided by
thirty teams. Yes, Now the NBA is gonna get their
share of it. Two you did seventy billion? Oh okay,
so they're gonna get twenty three million dollars apiece. No, No,
that's not right. Two hundred and thirty million apiece to
thirty Oh what is it? Ross?
Speaker 5: Dang it?
Speaker 2: A two hundred and thirty million apiece seems that seems
too high per team. That's crazy. Two hundred and thirty
million times ten is two point three million times three. Yeah,
they're gonna have to give something they're gonna get. NBA
is gonna go thirty million a team. Tillman said, ah,
let's go and expand. That means if it's two teams,
you're getting five hundred million just for the to let
them in the club. Let me do this. Let me
find out for sure the exact number before that seems
because I know what the Pelicans have already said, we're
gonna take all that money that we're getting and we're
gonna put it toward rebuilding this jet. Let's go, let's go.
It's more money for the public.
Speaker 5: Plant g.
Speaker 2: I wonder if you're gon trickle down that far. That's
probably true. All right, what else you got? Uh? Jonathan said,
the Rockets are going to come back and win their
next four games, and then they lost to the Nuggets.
They beat the Raptors. That was that Tuesday night. Then
they lost to the Nuggets on Wednesday, and then they
lost to the Lakers, so they went two and two
instead of four to ozho. Sorry, Jonathan, I appreciate your optimism, yeah,
and enthusiasm, but they're those are those are our picks
from last week? Yeah, the rule I'm reading the story
today between seven and ten billion dollars per team. So
you're gonna and they're gonna, but the fees are gonna
go directly to existing owners rather than being shared with players,
providing a massive one time influx of cash. Are wishure
the players are agreeing with us? Well, you know what's
gonna they're gonna do they they get there, they're gonna
go open spots. That goes with revenues, that opens up
with more more revenues. Thirty players think about it? I mean,
is everybody in the union happy with sharing the pie?
More vets are happy? How the young players feel a
feel Yeah, that's right, all right, Aaron Holidays of the
world are happy. Yeah, gut feelings. How I go? I
told you this before eleven o'clock hour. I believe that
you will see arch Manning is a member of the
Miami Dolphins. I think they're going to milink. Willis is
going to throw I don't know, twenty one picks before
he gets hurt. They will win three games this year,
Miami Dolphins, arch Manning. Okay, got that written down right?
Kids beat the Lakers tomorrow night. You know what, Matt,
I'm gonna say, Well, my chest. Rockets are beating the
Lakers on Wednesday. Yes, they're not gonna shoot that bad
from three. Yeah, they're not gonna turn the ball over
twenty four times. They're gonna work on the double team
stuff in practice, and they're gonna be ready, and they're
going to win the game on Wednesday. Lack of a week.
Take the Houston Rackets on the money line against the
Los Angeles Lakers. Let's go love it. I'm ready. Team
Venezuela wins the World Baseball Class Upset Upset City. Oh
you anti American? You hate America? Is this Alabama Coppical?
Where are you going for the vital Schweiling's Matt? Come
on now, who's starting that game? I don't know.
Speaker 26: Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, I predicted last week for USA to win it all,
so I'm sticking with it all right, us A USA? Jonathan,
what do you got in? You're got feelings? Venezuela upset
with jose L Tuove coming out of the stands in
the ninth inning. No not playing?
Speaker 23: Oh you know, just so I can hit something maybe
just down the line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take some easy, take an easy one. Kyler Murray
is gonna do well as a biket. Oh, okay, that
could happen. That's not a terrible one. I got Justin
Jefferson down there somewhere Cougar's cover against Idaho on Thursday night.
Right now, the line is at Cougar's cover versus twenty
three and a half. I got, I got, I got
you of h minus twenty three and a half against Idaho.
I will say this, which is also very impressive for
for Calvin Sampson and his run the University of Houston.
Do you you have like these these bill selves, like,
oh we just lost to at thirteen. Oh you know
these uh you know Mike r Chefski or whoever, Like, oh, no,
we just had struggle with the fourteen. Calvin Sampson opens
a can of whoop ass on those those seats because
he has a well coached team that's not taking anybody lightly.
They they beat some ass in the early rounds. Yeah,
obviously against better teams, things happen, but they take care
of business. And I got one more. Your Longhorns beat
North Carolina State tonight.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm the tournament, baby, let's get Longhorns losing in my misery.
Oh geez, you are such a bandwagon wagon, Yeah, Hall
is on the Texas Longhorns basketball bandwagon. Suffering Brewer shock
us smart and and now Sean Miller and Rodney freaking Terry. Yeah,
and with and the Rodney Terry offensive. Let's roll the
ball out and just watch guys play. But went to
text and Rick Barnes and Chris Beard. We're getting fired
from choking out his wife Rick Barnes getting upset in
the tournament every single year. What the hell kind of
bandwagon is that I want off? If you're on the
Texas band wagon? Seven one, three five, seven, hoy, we
go to your calls next here on seven ninety eleven
fifty two Sports Talk Sevenini rosslet's call the phones.
Speaker 22: Let's go to line number two for every Monday.
Speaker 2: James Shohn the fan.
Speaker 28: James, Well, thank you Governor Thomas for taking my call,
and shout out to r V and Jonathan Listen. I'll
get to it real quick, Okay. My prediction number one
is that Tillman Fatita will be able to purchase that
Caesars Palace because I'm I'm hoping, just like thousands of
y'all here in Houston. Uh, that's gotta happen now, getting
back to the best. I'm talking about best with baseball.
I got you over on the Yankee season win at
ninety and a half ninety one. That's an easy picking
I got.
Speaker 8: I got that.
Speaker 28: And also I want to put I'm going to plan.
I'm putting down a one hundred dollars wager on both
Jorge and oor Tany winning the MVP in the respectively,
because that would be precedents that never happened where a
player has been able to win three m vps in
a row. So I look forward to that. And one
other thing, I'm also predicting that Connecticut will win the
NC Double A. I'm not sure who will be the
opponent because there's a whole litany of good teams in them,
and that thing, and I'm still having made my bracket
out final yet, but I got time to tomorrow to
get that done. And one nice thing, Okay, the Rockets
will probably acquire Giannis next year because I'm feeling it.
I kind of had like a dream about it. So
John's will be moved and he probably will come here
to Houston to try to help out KD because right
now the Rockets is just an average team. But if
they get Gianni's gonna be a force, and I know
you like that.
Speaker 7: Matt.
Speaker 28: All right, so thank you for checking my card.
Speaker 2: Thank you, and enjoy and enjoy the Thank you very much, James,
thanks for calling us on sixty six W the Sports
Radio sixty six we are You're in New York. Sports
leader Jalen Brunson can hold Bernard King's Jack Colin Anthony
Towns is softer than a Shuman six pass. Patrick Ewing
needs to get him in, coach him one on one.
The Yankees haven't been the same since Willie Randolph. Not
that we stereotype the Jets, Missic Kenny O'Brien so bad.
C Jay, what's in your gut this week?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 8: Man? Hmm, it's been a tough one man.
Speaker 2: I know, my brother, I know, I know.
Speaker 4: Oh Man.
Speaker 8: Okay, So let me just go ahead and say, Rockets,
they're not making it out the first round because of
the levers that they're about to lose. They're gonna end
up being a fourth to fifth seed and have to
battle it out first round and probably get eliminated by
a team that just has more playoff experience than everybody
except Ad. That's one, but two. I just want to
get into it because I know nobody wants to talk
about it, but I'm going to say the Rockets failed
this season, and they failed miserably because they did not
do what they were supposed to do. We can all
sit here and say that we've seen these issues before
the trade deadline and they could have did something to it.
Speaker 4: Just these issues.
Speaker 8: And I know nobody wants to say the elephant in
the room we should have got James Harden. I don't care.
You do what you have to do to get James Harden.
If he wanted to come here and he wanted to
be here, you bring him here. You turned him down
twice to basically be an average team and not even
a better team than you were last year. This team
doesn't have any identity, not even on the defensive end.
Is disgusting and that it pisses me off because I
listen to you every every game. So I'm listening to
you as you watching the game. You could tell like
the frustrations in your voice, like it's like, oh my god,
and it's like this team literally had some type of
chemistry last like towards the beginning of the season, and
it's like they lost it. All The chemistry does not
look the same. These guys do not look into and
I feel like you gotta blame me Dope a little
bit because it's his team and I never expected his
team to not look focused.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I know, let's go. Let's look at this.
Aman Thompson, Tarry Easton, Clint Capella, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith Jr.
Versus Luka, doncic Lebron James Marcus Smart, Austin Reeves, Deander eight.
Which list just sounded better last night. But the bottom
was the rock The Rockets were had a double legit
leading the game. They could have won the game. But
I think at the end, when we start coach blaming,
I think we also have to look at what the
talent on the floor is and what east coach has
to work with.
Speaker 8: But is that not he Dope's job to like push
them and get the best out of this team, whatever
team he.
Speaker 5: Has absolutely in the past two seasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're forty one and twenty six and they're in
the fourth seed. It's not like they're you know, the
ball the Trailblazers or something like that.
Speaker 8: You know, the past two years that they wouldn't have
lost to some of the teams that they lost to
this year.
Speaker 2: Like clear, everybody loses the bad teams unless your name
is will even the Thunder have some losses to some
bad teams. CJ. Let me ask you this, though we're
missing the point guard, do you think I'd be nearly
as exasperated if I had if we had a point
guard that was cutting down these turnovers from say, I
don't know, twenty four to fourteen a game. Didn think
I feel Think I feel better and think I'd be
less exasperated.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you could have even brought Chris Paul in here
to do that. I'm sorry you could have. You could
have brought Chris Paul.
Speaker 2: He's retired.
Speaker 4: Deal with guys.
Speaker 2: You could have got he's out a gas, CJ. Look,
I appreciate Siege, I appreciate Chris Paul. Chris Paul's out
of gas. And I got to roll on this weekind
to the news at noon. The reality is this, Chris Paul,
he retired, he quit, Nobody wanted him. Thirty teams said
we don't need this all time Hall of Fame. Great,
he's not fixing the rockets, he's slower. The mid range shot,
which has been his repartee, is gone. And you don't
You've already got one coach in the sideline with you
don't need four oh with Fred, you have a friend
adding it on. Yeah, I got. I don't know the
intricacies of whether or not they could have pulled off
a trade, like there was a guy named hose Alvarado
plays for the NIXT backup guard would have been flawless
for this basketball team. Give you ten, fifteen, sixteen minutes
a game, whatever the case may be, run on offense.
Put it in her true point guard's hands. But again,
I don't know what his financial situation was, and I
don't know what the Rockets were. You know what other
teams WI want to give. I think New Orleans got
a second round pick for him. I don't know if
that is. But again, if the Rockets couldn't afford his salary,
you're getting in those in those crazy apron things, I
don't even really know what they mean. If you're strapped
because you got a lot of nights up in the guys,
you just didn't have much flexibility. And that's the sentiment
I got from the Rockets, And they would know their
salary camp at this point better than I would, but
it's frustrating. I don't even know if just having a
true legit ball handler would would cure the Eels. There
were open shots that are missed. Yesterday. There were three
point shots that were going around. And it wasn't just
Durant turned the ball over. Everybody turned it over. Everybody
turned it over. Durant had was the worst culprit for sure,
But it was twenty four turnovers Smith, I feel like, yeah, sorry,
go ahead, Yeah, the bad one on the on the
fast break.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 23: If we're gonna playing anybody on the turnovers, I was
gonna say. Phinney Smith is the main one.
Speaker 2: That actually Douring scored okay yesterday, I mean relatively speaking
to better what he's done this year. I thought Durant
had nine. Now I'm seeing seven on the turnovers, but
it's I see seven. But anyways, it's twenty four. It's
too many. He had seven. A man had four. Uh,
Dorny and Finney Smith had three. Yeah, Durant had seven
turnovers in thirty seven minutes. Uh does the does the
does the eight second violation count as a team turnover?
That's a team turnover?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so maybe so I forgot all about that. That
was so maddening. A matter of fact, there were two
team turnovers because you had twenty two turnovers but a
total of twenty four sets. One is going to be
a shot clock violation and one is going to be
the eight second. Yeah, that was on Jabari Smith. That's
shot clock Valu. Yeah, thanks for bringing that up. I
appreciate you.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin Durant was doubled and then they threw it
to Jabbar. Was that the one when you know? Was
that the one when he was at the top of
the key. No, I don't know, it doesn't I don't
want to talk about this. Oh La, I'm laving you mad.
You listen to Hello Lights Necks twelve oh one on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: He's the mac Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: There was a cross court pass and it centers out
the by Austin and roars. This will seal it on
a little round. James jams.
Speaker 3: One hundred ten ninety with thirty nine point nine second
clickers up by ten. There is the same that song
game turnovers.
Speaker 2: Oh, save your tears for another day, because I'm sicking.
I'm you know what turnover for game tomorrow. Save your
tears for early May. Favorite turnover Apple. Of course Apple's
got to be there, right, people like cherry. I'm not
a huge cherry fan, Okay, Apple. I like Apple. Be cranberry, uh, blueberry?
You should make killer uh turnovers? Was Arby's. I don't
know if they still do or not, but they could
do a nice job. Mhmm. I'm gonna go blueberry number two?
Really Apple one. Peachberry's number two for me? Peaches up there? Okay?
What's and the thing about Rarby's is they put a
little frosting on top of the little layers of frost
about strawberry. Uh yeah, I can do that too. I'll
go Apple, a little red, white and blue filo doughruit,
fruit and sugar. Boom, let's go delicious. Oh, speaking of
roll Quod sugar cup of coffee, I've been trying to
kept back on sugars in general. Yes, I went with
and I love apple juice. The Motz Apple juice zero
sugar awful. Okay, it's a big Motts guy. In general,
the aftertaste is wretched. Coke zero Sprite zero, love you
root Beer zero. You' all doing great juices. You gotta
have the sugar. It is what it is. Yeah, isn't
that's supposed to be better? Well, I guess if it's
not like added sugars, right said, fruit sugar is supposed
to be the good sugars or something like that. I
don't think there's a good cholesterol. Backs, we'll get a
new trust nutrition. A good fat, bad fat. Let's get
lead tocado's good fat. How about you know what, by
the way, twelve fifty today, it's a whole segment of
good stuff. Okay, positivity, But right now we gotta give
you the news at nude. That's not gonna be great, okay,
leading the news at noon is what you just heard
the Houston Rockets late last night, eight thirty pm. Here,
of course, on sports, a lot I don't like your
fans of the building, okay, rank and order, I guess jerseys, Oh, Lebron, Luca,
Luca won over Lebron. Really yes? Interesting? A lot of
Slovenians in the house, now, can we go with a stereotype? Yes,
A lot of African American fans had Luca jerseys on
a lot of white guys had Lebron jerseys. Really yes,
which makes me happy because it doesn't you know what
color shouldn't matter. If you love a player, you should
love the player. Were you writing this down what we're
talking about. Were you taking note? No, I just happen
to be in the bathroom. I was like, man, there
are a lot of First of all, I was surprised
that you were looking around in the bathroom. I'm sorry, man,
what I mean sorry? You should be apologizing to the
rest of the audience. Listen to this rap, Matt. You're
supposed to look stairs, straight ahead or up at the ceiling. Matt,
I'm looking at in the bathroom when people are watching
in their hands, when they're dropping the drawers. Continue, please,
I'm out the stair ahead all right? Anyways? Uh yeah,
Rockets horrible fourth quarter, twelve points and it was That's
what makes it that much more frustrating, Matt is the
fourth quarter was for the taking. You helped the Lakers
to seventeen. They were terrible. Somehow, you were worse in
that fourth quarter. You were only able to score twelve
points and the Rockets get the one hundred ninety two
loss against the Los Angeles Lakers. There was a lot
of talk about Kevin Durant and the double teaming that
he was facing at the end of that game. Here
is Kevin Durant speaking to the media after the game
on how best to avoid those double teams.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know, you gotta asks. I don't know.
I don't know.
Speaker 9: I think we just got to convert. Maybe I got
to just got the way, get in the corner space
to flow off for other guys. And I think just
that when I get the ball against certain teams, they
just gonna settle out and just say, you know, we're
just going double and play a little zone behind it
and see what happens. And if we give an open shots,
that's cool. But maybe I just need to get out
the way, you know, to be honest, seth greens, be
able to be ready to catch and shoot, just space
to fly out for my teammates. You know, it's been
happening throughout the season, but you know, I'm starting to
figure out. I think I just need to get out
the way and let other guys dribble the ball.
Speaker 2: Was he saying that just to react to the pile
performance he had, or do you really think tomorrow night
the Rockets will come up with a different philosophy. Maybe
I don't know, and man, ESPN should jobam Man's up
what I did. Their headline is saying, Katie Katie on
Lakers loss, quote, I'm the offense. That is so hot
a context that is so clickbait. Come on, man, that's
that's egregious. But yeah, bottom line was he I mean,
he did on the offense, but he's talking about that
at the end of the game. Yeah, he's the offense
and he needs to get some other guys involved. They're
running the offense through him. That's a fact. But right,
I don't think it's not any ironians statement. But you
know what, I'll give the offense to him. Yeah, I
can't know when somebody says on the offense, he doesn't
literally mean one hundred percent of the time. I know,
But that's all the headline says on ESPN. All right, well,
let's move along then, because that is depressing me.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Broncos have traded for Jalen Waddle from the Miami Dolphins
four picks. It will be the Dolphins they receive Waddle
as well as the Dolphins fourth round pick, while they
will send a first round pick and a third and
a fourth, so effectively a swap of fourths and then
a first and a third for Jalen Waddle. That's a
pretty steep price.
Speaker 5: Matthew.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're sucking for Arch. What's what's our what's
our term? Get starts for Arch? March? March asked for
arts the march for Arch? That sounds better, March for Arch? Okay?
Or play ass for Arch? Either one death march for Arch. Uh?
Do you want to hear the wide receiver room right
now in Miami? Who I was gonna say? That's magical
term too. You know that tip jar is pretty upte
this week. I'm behaving myself. You're doing great. I'm froud
of you than you.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: These are the the wide receiver corps for Malik wllis
to work with Malik Washington, h Jalen Talbert, two two
at Well and then guys, I quite frankly haven't heard
of THEOWIESE Junior. We think we should do wide receiver
or not for the Dolphins, Todd Washington, Stobby when you've
heard of somebody, how about sat heard of any Tarnce
Marshall Junior. I mean I know two two at Well,
Jalen Tolbert, uh huh uh. And they're tied, end of course.
Greg Dulcic and Ben Simms. Yeah, you're gonna be right
on Milik Wllis. He's got nobody around him, Matt, and
he also sucks man. Get ready to learn forty five
carries a game, Buddy Davon, Ahchan'm gonna finish two season Miami.
There's no chance. Yeah, they're on the march for Arch.
There you go. So that's some NFL news. Also, we
have an update in the Aiden Holloway case. The Alabama
guard found with it's been upt Matt two point one
pounds of marijuana. What wait a minute, felony drug possession
charge Monday morning. According to charging documents obtained by ESPN,
it is significant because over two point two pounds is
a drug trafficking charge. He is at two point one pounds,
So good thing he smoked that next that extra blunt
the night before. Okay, Jonathan, time to play the young
man's game.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: If you were his best friend? Okay, what would you
know about everything you've heard about him? What describe your
best friend us? What do you mean like? Is he selling?
Is he an addict? Is he just two pounds? Give
us a life story of him?
Speaker 23: I would say he just had maybe a cousin or
something that helped him out, and he was just getting
the extra cast on the side, just but keeping it
to himself, you know, just riding around helping his homies
out type of thing.
Speaker 2: So just getting what he wanted. The robin hood of
weed is what you're saying. He's a GIF his small
legs circle. It's like when I buy gift cards for
people for for holidays you don't know here and giving
out to But if somebody says, man, I could use
for I could use a gift card to uh cash?
That actually okay? That that was that a bout thank you.
I'll take the gift card used by anybody, including Aiden Holloway.
That's called cash. He's not taking rick Relay cards. So
you don't think he's selling a lot of this. This
is for his bros.
Speaker 5: Nah.
Speaker 2: I mean he what's his n IL deals looking like?
Maybe somebody said, maybe it is his in IL deal.
Maybe he wants to get drafted. Yes, signed with Alabama
will give you two pounds. He's insisting on play for
Denver for some reason. Yes, of course he wants to
be the expansion Seattle as well. That's true. More im
Portland for that matter, give me, take me the expansion draft.
Speaker 23: And after seeing the Twitter feed after yesterday, a lot
of people have a pound just laying around.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think so. One more
quick note Matt Hawks fans still support Magic City as
they wear the gear even despite the canceled promotion. Yesterday
eighteen thirty eight fans in attendance atmosphere resembling a playoff game.
Hawks get a win over the Orlando Magic still with
the fans putting on for their city, despite Commissioner Adam
Silver shutting down Magic City's promotion due to quote a
broad array of league stakeholders, including fans, partners, and employees
showing concern it was the right thing to do. And
they have won ten straight and they're coming to town Friday,
and they're gonna get shut down. Yes, And Kevin Durant's
not breaking Jordan's record for a couple more games. They
only had eighteen last night, two points in the second half.
That was in the last thirty seconds of the game.
All right, uh re getting in fifteen minutes Here on
Sports Talk Seminey, we have some breaking news about Thomas
show Ross. Here on Sports Talk seven ninety Hit it again?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: Are we are doing these sounders as battle Red Ross
or his actual objective? Observers of sports battle Red Ross?
Speaker 6: Do it?
Speaker 2: Give me a dollar?
Speaker 5: One?
Speaker 2: We don't guess we know, discuss fancive line. Put a
dollar in the job like the load, and let's go.
Let's talk some Texans offensive line. Who wants to talk
some Texans offensive line?
Speaker 22: Let's go.
Speaker 2: The Texans have agreed to terms and a two year
deal with guard wied Teller wid Teller, three time Pro
Bowl with the Browns. Let's scared in some Texans? Oh talk,
he's a three time Pro bowler with the Browns. Teller.
I finds a new home in Houston. He's thirty one
years of age. He wears every seventy seven. He enjoys
a good steak and has six cats.
Speaker 5: Six.
Speaker 2: Huh yeah, that's I've never thought an offensive lineman for
the Texas would get you so excited. Let's go, baby,
you are excited? What Teller? It wasn't enterprising?
Speaker 22: Man?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Hold on, what now do you want to You want
to see one data one data point? One data point.
It's the one. It's it's for the Hounds Company, remember
the poor hounds er Pro Football Talk or FOOTOC. Now
he was a three time Pro bowler, why teller? Twenty one,
twenty two, twenty three. Yes, he has not made the
Pro Bowl in a couple of years. All right, two
year deal, by the way, he was, Yeah, thirty one
year old on a two year deal. That's got Nick
Cassario written all over it. Yes, okay, we can turn
out celebration when I give you these PFF grades. Hold on,
so you're telling Jonathan to turn the music off. I'll
give you his ranks in guard on their their blocking
grades overall in the last six years. All right, he
was first in twenty twenty, first in all football. And okay,
what year we got to go into twenty twenty? I
didn't hear it. Try again. Then he went to fifth, eighteenth, thirteenth, okay,
forty third. Last year he bumped back. He's trending back upwards,
thirty ninth out of seventy nights. Great at sixty two,
he's a pro bowler in twenty three, he's better on
you got two year deal? Probably not a ton of money.
I like the well, how would you not like to deal?
We still needed a guard. We some Texans man. It
is also a good feeling hit for me. I said
they were going to sign a guard I just one
week late. You get credit for that, thank you. All right, So, ladies, gentlemen,
believe it or not, Today on they show at one
fifty all things about a guy you've never heard of
before until about three minutes ago. This you wanted me
to make eight things up. I'm just saying, Hey, he
started a garage band with his high school buddies. Why Teller, what.
Speaker 5: Are we doing?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Can't you get us next? Gosh? All right, how excited
are you about? Wyatt Teller? Seven? One three two one
two five seven? Honey, Wyatt freaking Teller. Let's go baby seriously?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, do you think wex is even? He's beside himself?
You get the two to six show, locked up and loaded. Pff.
Poonhounds say he's mid two year deal, serial perfect.
Speaker 5: Let's go Baby.
Speaker 2: Better offensive line today than it was yesterday. Oh my gosh.
Of course, absolutely feeling good. See dis shrouds ready to
destroy baby. Dave Montgomery, Dave streaking we're calling him Dave Montgomery. Now,
I said David. He said it fast David Dave Montgomery.
I just said it quickly. David Montgomery's streaking down the field. Nicocollins,
Jalen Noel, Jayden Higgins, Dalton Schultz is back. Whoo we
ever going to a Super Bowl? Baby got billing? Where's
the Super stop? Where's the Super Bowl odds? I mean,
if they're they're long enough. I think wyat Tellers helping
the super I did twenty seven to one like two
years ago. Howd to turn out for you? They lost
that version around.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Remember, good value doesn't mean anything if you don't catch it.
I know, I know that with my Man City futures,
they they went into the positive. Now they're dead. All right,
We're gonna talk some college basketball next. Somebody read gets
Who's gonna tell us how UT is gonna beat North
Carolina State to night seven one three? Our next guest
is a staple of this program every March. He should
be doing many more national TV games, but he's busy
being a successful attorney. That's fine for the all time
Cougar greats and a man that I go for my
baseball analysis read the Astros outfield in twenty twenty six.
What are you thinking.
Speaker 5: He'll say you only call me in March. You really
undersell my fandom of the Stros.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm bringing you on. Now, what do you
think about? I think Zach Paul's gonna make the team
coming ont of spring. What what's your thoughts?
Speaker 5: Come on, let's go, Yeah, come on, the way he
played last year, he's absolutely gonna make the team. Hey.
The bigger deal is all the infielders and all the
people saying, oh, we got too many, we got too many.
No we don't. That's like saying you have too many
shooters going into March madness. Oh too many people? All
don't keep them all? All right?
Speaker 2: You go, all right, thank you man. It's good to
hear your voice. We've misworking with these other this year
because those national people took all of our games from
us at the Bastards.
Speaker 5: Fine, yeah they did. We had a bunch of really
good games and they just left us with the dogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no disrespect to Toledo, but it is what it is,
all right. So let's get first things first. Our beloved
Cougars are the two seeds South Regional. It doesn't look
particularly pesky, although a potential rematch of Florida for the
Championship of the South could be happening inside Tota Center.
Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, here's the deal. It's really really good
to be a number one or a number two. Other
than that, seeds just don't matter. And the reality is
that one or two seeds gives you what should be
a really good warm up game, and then after that
you're playing really good teams. Having said that, I would
much rather be in the South than in the East.
The East is brutal, but I've got I've got the
coops making a run to the final four. I got
a rematch with Florida. But let me tell you something, Illinois,
who's unpredictable. That's gonna be a really tough game. And
then I may not care what else happens in the
bracket as long as we don't lose to A and L.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that right, that's the second round match of
potential Clamba City. Let me ask you this in painting
with a broad brush on the Cougars. Defense isn't nearly
as intensive as it was last year, but man, it
surely showed up for the most part in Kansas City.
It last year's defense could mask some offensive woes. Is
the defense good enough this year to mask some of them.
Maybe perhaps offensive woes the Cougars might have, and maybe
you don't have those woes if Kingston Flemings is playing,
you know, thirty four to thirty five minutes a game.
Speaker 5: Yeah that I was about to say. The answer to
that is no. But the good news is we have
less offensive woes. Not to be mistaken as Noah, but
we have less. And Kingston is that good and he's
been that good since the since the opening tip on
the first game. If you watch them play, kid is
just special and he can he can go get not
difficult shots, you know, Emmanuel Sharp can go get you,
you know, a degree at difficulty nine point nine on
the scale. Kingston can go get your shots that it
looks like they're wide open fifteen footers and can come off,
you know, can come off on the ball screens and
pull up and get you all balanced, can get to
the rim. And so he more than makes up for
the for the the less. You know, I don't want
to say the defensive woes. I don't know what they
ended up in Kim Palm, but they've still got to
be really close to the top ten. What what I
don't understand is why they aren't as good because Milo
is excellent on the ball, Emmanuel Sharp is still as
good as anybody, Jojo Tuggler is one of the top
ten defensive players in the country, and Chris Sanak has
been terrific. So I don't you know, I would agree
with the premise not as good, but I think people
are overplaying that. I hear a lot of the national
pundits going, oh, they're not as good. They don't have
you know, they don't have jam all, you know, And
I'm like, I wouldn't. I wouldn't oversell that.
Speaker 2: Well, McCarty's played better, Snak is getting better this season
progresses it. It feels like to me it's a little
bit of a deeper squad than maybe Kelvin's had in
years past.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I just I kept waiting for him to have
trust in Mercy Miller uh and he's a difference maker.
I'm telling you that kid is special without a doubt.
Matt if you if you extrapolated out over forty minutes,
maybe the two I'll start off with. Kristaanak is as
good a rebounder and he had has latable skill to
the NBA rebounding having said that extrapolated over forty minutes,
Chase McCarty and Mercy Miller are the best rebounders on
the team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: They have They have been exceptional bounding. And he went
Percy Miller just to say the heck with it. I'm
going out and I'm letting it fly. The kid is
really good. But I agree with you those two off
the bench, and Chase Chase. You know the fact that
he's a freshman. Everyone talks about all the freshmen and
and you know Kingston and Isaiah Harwell and Chris Sanak.
Chase McCardy is a freshman. That kid is really going
to be good.
Speaker 2: We get us ESPN Attorney du jour, Phi Slama Jama
just one of the greatest Cougars of them all joining
us here on Matt Thomas, Joe Ross. Last question about
you age, what type of team you know it's getting
in particular, but what type of teams scares you against
the Cougars and potentially running the Indianapolis Arizona.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't run into the until we get there. Yeah,
but they they the teams. This is crazy. Kelvin Sampson
has changed the way basketball's played in the big twelve
Texas Tech. Now they're shorthanded. They duplicated how how the
Cougars defend and their approach, and they can beat us.
Iowa State is almost a carbon copy. They do the hard,
they blitz on the ball, screens double they do the
hard hedge, they double down on the talk about that meme,
you know, Spider Man pointing to Spider Man that that's
Iowa State and Arizona can play that way too. All right,
let's get similar problems because go ahead, Well, I'm just
saying those guys don't have the offensive struggles that we do.
So those are the teams that scare me.
Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense. All right, let's get
to a little bit of the other schools in the state. Texas.
Are you surprised they're playing this extra game tonight?
Speaker 5: No, I'm not. And I wanted to pick in C
State just because I get so mad at Texas. But
there's not a chance in God's creation I can ever
articulate that I'm cheering for the wolfback. Got that right.
By the way, Sexas is good. Texas has got size,
They've got guards. I don't you know. They've struggled, but
that's a team that could jump up and they could
win too. They could beat BYU.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Demands is really really good. Everybody else on
b YU I'm not overly impressed with, but he can
take over a game if necessary. But enough about them.
Uh do you like Texas Tech? Tell me about what
you think about TCU. Squeeze it in is sim you
have a chance to survive the playing game as well.
I mean, you've got quite a bit of flavor in
this long star state again this season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got s m U is healthy and they've
struggled being healthy all year long. And I've got them
beat in Miami, Ohio, and they could beat Tennessee. I
don't think they're going to, but that would not surprise me.
But I've got A and m Over Saint Mary's A
and m is is all gas, no breaks. They don't
defend very well, but man, can they shoot the ball?
And do they do? They crank up the tempo and
so I like I like them a lot. In TCU.
I've got TCU winning their first round game. They they're
the kid Punch. I want to say Donald Punch, but
I think that's who I went to high school with.
David punch. He's he's as good of an interior player
as there is in a country. I don't think they
can beat Duke h but I definitely think they can
beat Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Uh you mentioned Miami, Ohio. If you're in the committee room,
what's your take on the RedHawks with the schedule strength
of two ninety six?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I you know, I don't put a lot into that.
Any team that you know goes into their tournament, what
were they thirty and oh or thirty one and oh
or whatever they were, that team deserves an invite. And
you look at the bubble teams, I mean, does Oklahoma
really have a reason to jump up and down and
yell no? You know. So if there was some team
that you just thought, oh man, they got screwed, then
I would listen to that argument. But I don't think
that team was out there this year.
Speaker 2: All right, I have I mentioned this on my show yesterday.
If not for Houston, I think Arizona wins the whole thing.
So would you like to back me up on that
or is there somebody else do you think could be
a legitimate championship contender besides the.
Speaker 5: Coops without Well no, I yeah, I think I think
there's about six or seven teams that are legitimate contenders.
I think Duke would. I think Duke and Arizona are
the best teams in the country, but Duke's not healthy.
I've got I've got you of H and Arizona playing
for the championship. Arizona is the best team in the country.
They flat out or can you of H? Can we
beat them? Absolutely, we can beat them. But they they
are the best team, extremely well coached. But yeah, Leo,
they loaded with talent.
Speaker 2: Here's what makes me nervous about the Cougars, and it's
been this way I think ever since really Kelvin's turned
the program around, is that the foul trouble and look,
jojo Is has become a bunch bigger offensive force for
the Cougars in the last week in per se. But man,
when he gets us that second quick foul five six
minutes in the contest, it's like taking the air out
of the balloon a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no doubt about that. If you want one
key to the game, that is that Jojo doesn't pick
up his second foul until the last five minutes of
the first half, because then you can take him out,
it won't have that big impact. But if he picks
up his second foul, you know, before the ten minute mark.
I'm with you that that's gonna make me nervous. And
I don't care. I don't care who we're playing.
Speaker 2: All right, you mentioned it not rooting ever for North Calistate.
I bless you on that. I rained to Terry Gannon
in December. Such a good dude, I said, when you
come to Houston for NBA game, the three of us
something to have dinner. He is, he's got to pick
up the tap. Correct on that.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, and he can be
a good dude, But I mean, really, are we going
to break bread with me?
Speaker 2: You tell me if you don't want to, we can.
I can say that you're sick.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't let me think about that. I'm I'm
still not over it.
Speaker 2: Nor am I I'm twelve years old. Read it's always
good to hear your voice. Get back in the courtroom
and we'll have a visit with you soon. Thank you, friend, Okay,
thank you, it's three. Get us. I think reads genuine.
I don't think he wants to go to Donner with
Terry Gannon I don't think he wants anything to do
with anybody at North Cali State. Do you have something
in your life like that? Like I I'll never shake it? Hmm,
Like I don't think going on new Ut. I don't
think ever that Matt Leonner wants to ever have dinner
with Matt Vince Young. Probably not. They did a commercial
or something together, right, or he speaks h I don't know.
I don't like thinking. The things I don't like thinking
about most would be oilers versus bills, like yeah, I
don't know Wall's hamstring. Would I want to have dinner
with any Golden State Warrior if the game seven? Not
after Game seven?
Speaker 5: But I would?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? Well, as I said, I saw Harry,
is Megan gonna be there? If Klay Thompson's there, I'll
have to ask his dad? Is the game last night?
I mean, I'm not gonna say a word. What are
you gonna do? Just Google? Hi?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really? Ogle? Ogle? Or Google? Well? I Google is acceptable,
but we are our boss. Brian Erickson got on me
for saying Google. I guess ogling is more correct, but
I think Google is accepted. Is it a president past
tense on that?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't think so I'll ask Clay's dad tomorrow. Twelve
forty six, it is Madden Ross with you until two
o'clock this day afternoon. What is today's edition? I believe
or not? By the way, we'll see how much more
white talking squeeze from the white teller, orange grapefruit? Are
you really gonna get eight questions at a while? I
got four already? Do you really get ready for some nuts?
Speaker 5: Shame?
Speaker 2: We might go with Braden Smith too, Yeah, why not?
You can do four and four? That's no probably with that, Yeah, yeah,
I mean we might throw in somebody else, Evan Brown,
any any lineman of the Texans have the pattern? Patterson
ed Ingram Trent Brown. I only owe the tip jard Dollar.
I only said seeing d one time you started a
couple more times. I'm proud of you, though I'm trying
to get you doing great, trying to get better. Twelve
forty seven, it's Madden Ross till two. Here on seven
ninety twelve fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety we
will hear from Kevin Durant coming up at the top
of the hour. He was uh trying to explain last
night we're also trying to wrap our mits around it.
It was that's the Is that the worst twelve minutes
of Rockets basketball since teammates taken over in three quow man,
I don't even got the first year. Really, I will
just say yes, yeah, it just it was. It was
full points, turnovers, not hitting threes, couldn't make a shot,
couldn't dribble, couldn't pass. Yeah, what do you do on
a basketball court, matt if I was describing the to
a five year old, you shoot the ball, you dribble
the ball, you pass the ball. What else? You follow
the rules of basketball? You get the ball over before
eight seconds. They couldn't do any of it, any of it. Yeah,
I know. All right, let's talk about something else. Yeah,
supposed to be a positive segment. We already started off negative.
We're strapping around. Jonathan, do not tell us when you
open up to one o'clock counter, please, I want you
to find the happiest so absolutely in your brain. Okay,
And if you need to go google what is the
happiest anything, please literally do not tell us what it is.
We'll take a medley. Please take something that's very famous
so we can all relate to it for us, Yes,
any generation between twenty and sixty. So like maybe it's
I don't want to give you a example. I want
to just find the happiest song you can find to collect. Okay,
So today is Saint Patrick's Day. Oh it's Saint Patrick.
It's basically a day for alcoholics.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 2: Is there any redeeming value in these A good day
for alcoholics to get out there and get drunk. That
SINKO to MYO. You want to put it, you know,
I'm gonna. Yeah, I'm gonna really respect Irish culture. Yeah,
hand me that green beer and let me put on
my green mustache and my green I wish I were drunk.
Shirt any corn beef, which is delicious, by the way,
that's great. I love corn beef. I'm your on your face. Yeah,
I'm gonna have a minute anywhere. No green, you know,
not mentioned me. I did it on I did it
on the Saturday I'm in I'm in powder blue when
I was out at the Sam Houston Race Park. That's
when I did it. I wore green. Then today, who cares?
I don't think I'm no, you're not. I'm not wearing
any green. It's fine. Nobody in the office all of ourselves.
Folks are out having cocktails. So yeah, and by the way,
I saw on Twitter, so it must be true. It's
supposed to be Saint Patti's day, not Saint Patty's. So
pat Patty's has more to Patricia, and Patty is more Patrick.
In Ireland, why do we don't believe in? Not on
that we've done, guys don like fifty times. That's true,
we go I could throw some in there. No, I
need some help white tellers. Let's just say, uh, we're
running into our rope on white tailor questions.
Speaker 1: I put it.
Speaker 2: I put a statement on Twitter. I said, uh, oh here,
I'm gonna throw your old quick white teller one to
reward a listener, okay, white teller. While in Virginia Tech,
his major was property management. That's a believe it that
doesn't believe it? Yeah, offensive lineman, property management makes sense.
Go ahead, it says, I said, why teller? What comes
to mind? And a golf cart kid says, my ex
cheating on me? Did why teller cheat on golf cart kids? X?
Or on golf cart?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No? What did he lay his wife down? Sweetly? White teller, big,
big Buxom, offensive lineman, brooding canst muscles. You can't compete
with that. No, golf cart kids probably like five, six
and fifteen. Yeah, you better go get a personality. Yeah,
golf cart kids, go, how's your four? One k o?
Teller's is more than yours too, You golf cart kids,
you want to live life? Yeah, you better buy your flowers.
You better just go on find somebody else, you know.
Paul Bunyan, offensive lineman coming our way. That it's like
there's a Shane Gillis bit like his girlfriend's ex was
like a Navy seal. It's like God, all right. So
we were supposed to do positivity at twelve Fiftyeah, we didn't
start positive, so we we gotta regroup one o'clock, which
is in three minutes. Yes, a totally positive segment. So
if you call the show, yes, it must be something good. Like, Hey,
I'm excited about the Astros pitching staff, I'm excited about
the Cougars in the tournament. I'm excited about the Texans
getting a better offensive line put together. Yes, if you
get something negative from us, you taser us. If you
say something negative, we taser you. Okay, you the great
listeners of Houston, Texas The Matt Thomas Show. Ross may
say nothing negative about what's going on with your local
sports teams ending in your life seven one three two
one two five seven a eighty a nothing but a
positive segment because we've spent almost three hours of negativity
here on this radio show seven to one to three
two one two five seventy. By the way, Sam the
sports fan Jonathan believes, now if this is the song,
you can't change it. Okay, all right, he is predicting
you're playing Pharrell's song Happy. That's what his prediction is. Okay,
that's prediction. Okay, I don't know, don't do it if
it is. If it is it is seven one three
two one two five seven ninety, it might thing crazy
And what a mom say? Sam? Got it right? Wow,
that's a surprise. Shout out to.
Speaker 23: You, Sam. How it was either this or a pocket full
of sunshine?
Speaker 2: Wanted to how about walking on sunshine for training the waves?
It's a jam. Ross loves that song. It's fine. Whatever,
you know, what, can you play a couple of positive
Rocket Hollys from last night? Just go just find a
couple of random and I know there's a bunch in there.
It's good for three quarters, well two and a half.
Really members ah, taser ham taser me. Sorry, come on,
it was really a fun time to any Go ahead,
good lobs it back to Jabbaris timers at seven, posting
up back fifteen footer, got it mid range, Jeff Serge.
Jabari Smith rockets up double digits for the first time
at sixteen a double digits.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 2: Oh you know where we're missing? Red slam? Oh yeah,
I get that. Read slam in there. Let's go. It's
in there. I gotta be in there, gotta be I think,
I think I put a hammer on it. I know,
I don't know. Two and flush Sam. I can recreate it.
You know, we had about seven hundred highlights in my DFS.
Read Shepherd three point line, right chest pass outlet, what
is going on in the court? Ard screened by Larrabia Greed,
Shepherd steals the basketball, He'll take it himself and jamming
down for twos. Shepherd with nine rockets back to back past.
Get togin with it too, because that's the one when
Tari was right next to him, like okay, all right,
go ahead, can be fighting with the ball well basketball,
plenty of spots. It is a happy segment of Matt
Thomas should Ross. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Let me tell
you something. Ross can't do it, so you better get
They're gonna win Wednesday. They're gonna win on Wednesday. Win
on Wednesday. They gotta bounce back. Love it. They're gonna
make their threes. You know what. I will personally guarantee
you they're not gonna turn the ball over twenty four times.
About that, Thank you for that. And I got why
Tellor wearing a texting uniform. God, life is good. Love
me some white tailor, four hours of wide tailor. Let's go, baby,
I'm busy. Can you No, you're not being positive cast
you're negative negative energy this man, no, no, wrong, yes, right, happiness,
wait for it. Okay, they gotta warm it up, too bad.
It's guy. We got to hit it with the USBC.
We gotta charge it up. Hold on Carl Thompson on Twitter,
Texans didn't get better? Yes with all caps, Yes they did, Matt.
I think Carl Thompson is an online nerd too. That's good. Yeah,
get him get his ass. I refuse to. You can
get me to get him too, because what did I do?
I said something negative? All right, let's go the phones.
Bill's on seven, aunty, Bill, thank you for holding in.
Good afternoon, Hey, good afternoon.
Speaker 26: On the positive suck. What I loved this morning was
your back and forth about the Alabama point guard. Oh
my god, starting with I threw it out there, let
it go, let it be a ball outside, don't swing,
don't swing, and then the arresting officer. You guys were
swaying me. That's the best.
Speaker 2: I told you to swing at the pitch. Bill loved it.
But Bill, thank you. That's good.
Speaker 26: The team, we're blessed and to have wonderful sports.
Speaker 29: Icons and CJ's neck.
Speaker 26: All right, thank you.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: See the Bill, you saved Bill's day. You made him,
you made him a bright, smiley face. Good. CJ's next baby,
got a better offensive line. Weapons are staying and getting
better and making fifty three million dollars next year. You
always maybe it doesn't matter. I'm not paying him. I
don't write to check. Oh you'll be writing the check.
I don't write any check. Let me tell you something.
Those fried cheese are gonna cost you twenty one dollars
a spot at Toro town. I'm not going to Toro town.
You just you told me they don't need me, but
you'll go anywhere. So you know, you told me they
don't need me, they don't need you. Guess what. They
don't need you. But you'll go anyway, said you. Originally
you're gonna want to go. No, I'm good.
Speaker 23: Those people over there by the Way and Cyprus are
so happy because their property dues gonna go so hot.
Speaker 2: Hotels, restaurants, flying football fields, volleyball court. I won't be there.
Take me to a Toro town. I will be inside
the loop and then the Toro Dome will be out
there shortly after loop adjacent. Let's go to Javier on seven,
Unty Javier, it's a good hour to you, my friend.
How are you vier, Javier? Where are you?
Speaker 29: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, of course you're here. Where are you there, Vire?
Do me a favor. Turn your radio up as soon
as you as high as you can, turn up all
the way hove here all the way up, turn all
the way up, singing here yourself? You going.
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 5: So all right? Good?
Speaker 2: What you got on your mind today?
Speaker 29: Uh? Say the Rockets are going to be doing this well.
The leadership like KD go far and oh. Also, I
think the Actions are gonna do very well.
Speaker 27: I'm getting his bat, yes, get his swing back?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I can't wait. Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 27: Let's got Texans.
Speaker 29: Texans are gonna picky?
Speaker 27: Why tell her be bet you We're gonna be back
in the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and let go Houston Bay. I answer one
question for me? How far will the Texans go in
the playoffs next year?
Speaker 29: At championship game?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Let's go hop here? Yeah, baby, AFC Championship,
they're gonna win it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have the crystal ball, didn't see that far.
But why would I predict them to go to the
super Bowl right now? When they could? But I'm not
saying they are? Are they could? Will you do it
outside this segment? What you can say? You can you
tell us how you're really feeling about ten minutes. You
can look at the math. But I'm optimistic. We have
four minutes off from this totally positive segment. I like
these odds. Baby, let's go all right, let me joys.
Then you do it. A great job. You're your blossoming
off air and on and really appreciate you let's keep
it positive. Positive. Here we go, and you're saying that
because I mean, you do some grunt work and you
did it. Appreciate it? Yeah, he did? Uh positive Cougar's
win by thirty. Yes, Rockets be the Lakers tomorrow. Texas
wins tonight. You know what I'm with you. Longhorns win,
Astros outfield gets settled in the next handful of days
with nothing but slugging of ops of Titus with a
double double for the Longhorns tonight. Really all right? And
by the way, we're gonna be on location Thursday. Speaking
of positivity, Yes we are. Let's go to ninety and
Barker Cypress. If you want to come out to Willie's,
We're gonna have some great tournament action. Crawfish season is
in full swing. They great crawfish at Willies as well.
And if you come out to see us, Ross is
gonna pill your crawfish for you. That is not true.
Oh sorry, Uh, Matt will ask you. Matt will probably
think that you're part of the bar staff and ask
you for something. That's what's gonna happen. You're gonna He's
gonna be in, You're gonna be introducing yourself, Matt Man,
I'm such a big fan. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry. Can
I get some more iced tea? That's what's gonna happen.
Then they ask you. Let me tell you what's gonna
happen next Thursday. This Thursday, This Thursday, Willies, we're gonna
be out there for the full show. Two ninety Barkerside
n Barkercipers, Northwesterns. You must that's not too far from Tarletown. Actually,
you think about it, we'll get check it out. You
put a hard head on and get to do some
land prospecting. Yeah, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna
try to invite Callan hannahim in studio. Okay, I think
they would come. I know why not? I I don't
know this for a fact, but they probably know this show,
doesn't I didn't like them? I don't who does? I
never said I didn't like him, did you? I hope
they haven't ever caught my impression of col If you
just sped it up, it would be perfect, and it wouldn't.
Are you talking about Matt Hits a taser? That's negative?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 2: Not like Forest gub Almost it is forest that's the thing, Jonathan.
I've told him, if he just speeds it up, it's
a perfect impersonation. But he will never speed it up.
It's funnier to the other way. I know it is
to you. By the way, I got some more positivity
for you. Yes, Astros lead and the Pirates four to one.
In the fourth, Shaye Whitcomb with an RBI single, Bryce
Matthews with a home run to right. Zach Cole with
the home run to right, four hundred and twelve foot bomb. Baby,
he's ready believe it. We can't get the highlight of it,
can't we? Uh? Why not? Couldn't we? I think on
TAPEO that we cannot. We're not supposed to play him. No,
we just can't. Technically we can't. It depends because I mean,
they're available. Why don't you go ask us, go text clearance.
I'll get clearance from Clarence and we'll come back with
another great positive song. Jonathan, I want another positive song
for you. But I want to Okay free nineteen ninety,
okay pre nineteen ninety, and we're gonna try to get
Zach Cole's home run. Okay, is it mega blast right
pre nineteen ninety. Oh yeah, that was thirty six years ago,
you know, correct, pre okay, nineteen ninety to take care
of the older folks. Oh okay, take care of the
ogs and some good songs. Yeah, I mean that's good.
Music was great before the nineties.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: It was the best music in the seventies, in the eighties, sixties,
six seventies and sixties, and then everything else is a
distant third, distant third, one thirteen of the Matt Thomas
shield ross I'm gonna have my say.
Speaker 7: This was no doubt or right field and day there's
Zach Cole big home run to right field.
Speaker 2: It's back to back for the Astros and it's four nothing.
Speaker 30: The difference in distance significant. The Bryce Matthews home run
was hit in front of the boardwalk area that a
lot of fans watched the game from. That ball is hit,
it was, it was hit. The fans on the boardwalk
started looking behind that because they knew that ball was
not only going to get to the boardwalk but over
their heads.
Speaker 5: You can.
Speaker 2: Like a tag and the loss of it don't stop
the Astros now. So Bryce Matthews went deep to is
Bryce Matthew's gonna make this team off of spring tell
me stay off your Queen. It's a good song. I
love this song. I it what we're gonna do. We're
gonna we're gonna figure out way to get Bryce Matthews
on roster. Zach Allen out is his name Zach or
Jake or whatever? His name nick nick Allen? Whatever was
his option situation. I'm gonna imagine he has some you
want to have a good time. So if I don't know,
does Paniel gonna open the year on the deal? I
don't think he wants to start the end Angel list.
He is trying to do his best to be ready
for him. Jeremy Paine, I'm gonna my, you know what,
I'm gonna write this back down, retroactive gut feeling not
opening day, but not ill. Can I jump aboard that
as well? It feels about right right? Yeah, Yeah, I don't. Yeah,
he's taking ground balls now, he's not throwing anything. But
at least he's he's out. They wouldn't put him out
that if he felt super scared about the situation. Yeah,
although it still only has to be ten days for
players said ten days out of one sixty two and
not gonna kill you yeah, they might. I'm gonna stick
with it though, Penia not opening day, but all right,
I'm gonna go opposite. I'm changing my mind. Okay, yeah
I could. Jeremy DL excuse me, I l to start
this season. Bryce Matthews makes opening to a roster. Okay,
well he plays a lot. I don't know, but he
has been playing quite a bit of outfield, just trying
to keep him as versatile as possible. He is the
astros top prospect. He's the only guy on the friend
the top one hundred lists out there. Yeah, there's everything
that list hasn't done us. Jack Squad didn't mean everything.
Hunter Brown was the top hundred the Astros. Wanda is
gonna be like in the top fifteen. Is it ever
gonna happen that happened when they had these guys named
George Springer, Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa. Okay, so we do
it once every fifteen years. So what you're telling me,
Kyle Tucker, you're on Alvarez. I think that I want
to wonder who their last like top hundred guy to
come up and contribute was. Was that Hunter Brown? He
was a top Hunter guy, top one hundred Derek Fisher. No,
I mean more recently than I'm sorry, like, okay, no,
Morfrido is on the top one hundred. No blue ball, no, nope,
all right, let's move on. Let's keep it a positive. Yeah, oh,
turn this off? Why lay out? We gotta lay out here?
What our guy online? One? Our buddy? Okay, you want
me to it's to it so you're ready to go?
Hold on, I'm not ready to count down from three? Uh,
let's click him first? Hello first? Oh that's right, Hey, Girard,
how's it going? How are your friend all right? Man?
Speaker 27: How you got it?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 2: Good to hear for you what you got today? And go?
Speaker 27: Uh on the game last night? Man, you know that
game kind of remind me. You remember when the Rockets
played the Lakers in the Bubble. Uh, the year the
Lakers won the championship. You got to seeing what they
did with James Harden. They kind of trapped hard and
got the ball out of his hands and league the
other Rockets beat him. You know, they had Russell westbol
Gatton on that team, but he struggled in that series
and they pretty much took the Rockets out that offense.
After the Rockets won Game one, they won too straight,
So I probably believe that Lebron Dad's probably got in
the coach here, Reddick here told us the Hey, they
got one guy that's dangerous out there, we ain't got
to worry about nobody else. I did this back in
the day in the bubble where we uh were different coach.
We trapped him and got the ball in his hands
and make somebody.
Speaker 10: Else beat him.
Speaker 27: As did the same thing Durant. Durant Masson took it
over the James roll when Harden was here. He's the
only got in it that really there's a guy that
craned off the drive and get his own shot off
with tenn his teammates up. They kind of missed that
with van Fleet. You know a lot of people talking
about Van Fleet, you know, losing him at the point guard,
and that's true too, but they also lost another player.
Make another guy that can break the defense office dribble
and get to the rackets score along with us, you know,
setting up his teammates for a basket. That's that's that's
that's a that's a missing ingredient that they have missed
the Rockets year.
Speaker 4: They don't have enough.
Speaker 27: We don't have another playmaker outside of the rant. So
I thought, basically that's what the Lakers did last night.
The only the only kind of tweak was behind the
trap Red did come with like a zone. They kind
of threw the Rockets off. But it's basically the same
Christmas they did in that bubble when they beat the Rockets,
and that the Stecond round playoff back up the same
same thing. One guy we would ot to worry about,
get the boy in his hand and make the other guy.
The other players have to make plays, and the Rockets
couldn't do it. So hopefully the Rockets, you know, with
the practice to day or whatever, a doker makes the adjustment.
Speaker 8: Because it's out there.
Speaker 27: J get Riddick, you know, it came with a scheme
that a Donka in his coachy path couldn't come up
with a answer for. During the game, hopefully the come
up with a answer winst and so we'll see what
happened quick thing on the tournament. I look at Arizona
and Duke. I think those are the two best teams.
I look at you Bate as that Rupal team that's
probably a half a step behind those teams like your
of h U konn Iura State. I think those are
and those three teams are probably right behind Arizona and Duke.
But You'll basically has an excellent chance to get back
to the final four with the draw. They have also
put fraud in that city group along with your base Sweet,
so I think You'll ayally has a chance to get there.
So I come down to uh, I think Tho's on.
I think if he has a good citizens him in
sharp take something the pressure out for plenty, they would
have a good chance. And if Tucker look and give
him something inside because that's one thing they missed from
last year's team. They get jumped the ball down to
Robertson and Robinsons would get them a back inside and
sous was able to do that a little bit during
the tournament. Look for your vates to make another deep run.
But but to me that right outside the top top
Eselon team they got. Now you're getting the one game
they have a chance to win it. I thought I
put them much halfitship behind Arizona and Duke, right along
with the other teams I mentioned Yukon, Florida, Iowa State
and teams. And the teams are that I think those
teams are kind of right behind Arizonia and Duke. So
what's what happened?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 27: I'm putting for you to finally win the championship. You know,
Tel Stampsons has had a Hall of Fame career. He's
just looking for that last last thing that kind of
stepped his name. Is one of the one of the
great coaches in college basketball. They is winning the championship.
Hopelly get it done this year.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jroed. Appreciate the phone call, my friend. Don't
be stranger. What you got?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 2: Any thoughts for us? I'm good he's rooting for Cougar's.
I haven't happy about that. Yeah, Duke and Zona one
tier and then yeah, Cougar's and others than another. Is
that what he's going on?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm crazy. I'm busy on my Twitter. I know you
said Zona is winning at all? I think, right I did?
I said, if not, the Cougar's Arizona, Arizona's the most
complete team. Okay, so how does your I feel like
she's got injuries?
Speaker 5: She's not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's not speaking to me. Okay, she heard me
say the other day. You know, our friend Kim Palmer
was saying, don't sleep on Purdue. Uh, there were somebody
on the national stage that's had Purdue winning, said that
the being in Indianapolis at the Final four will be
the difference maker. What kind of injuries Duke got going?
I don't know. I don't know their players. I need
to know this from my bracket. I'm feeling out on
two days and two days? Yeah, how many brackets you
got filled out so far?
Speaker 5: Zero?
Speaker 2: I don't like to fill in before the play did
you're doing a deep dive on all the team?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't like to fill into the playing games. Yeah,
I got my metrics, I got my algorithms. Hey, we're
carrying the game tonight, right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, No, it's going to be somewhere, right, because we're
carrying a where's it with UT games? Somewhere it's gotta
be KPRC, right, Probably KPRC. So that means, Jonathan, you
have an assignment. We have to cut highlights for Texas tomorrow.
We're opening up with the Texas and the Texas wins,
opening the show with with with the Texas highlights. Yeah,
rockets are taped to tonight, heure not astros are I'm sorry, Astros.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh. And the UT basketball the Longhorns will be taking
on the wolf Pack seventh starting at seven thirty. You
know it's an eighteen fifty eight fifteen tip and they'll
probably start after that. Oh, Craig, he loves pregame. Craig
Wae's got about an hour and a half of Craig's
gonna give you every elementary school. Those kids played on
both both teams. Well, now as the added layer, of course,
you got to learn fro where everybody transferred from. Well
he knows that by now, right. All right, So here's
the thing. When UT wins tomorrow and Jonathan, we open
the show with UT highlights, what song are we going with?
We're gonna go with, Oh we need some more happy music?
What now? Morgan news seven to one Astros beating up
all the Pittsburgh part hit the music. Yeah, Shay wickm
RBI single blow Perfeto scores Hound out, turn it up.
Craig Mesio, I mean wait, cat Visio, Sorry, that'd be crazy.
Craig did it single to right?
Speaker 10: Is that call?
Speaker 2: And Bryce Matthews scoring station to station. Baby, you're worried
about the offense. Gordian's looking good baby, stop worrying about
the Astros offense. Cole Thompson. I mean it's fine.
Speaker 15: Oh another run, baby, ain't going the.
Speaker 22: Christian Fascus Christian what good Christian vest Christian RBI single Rip.
Speaker 2: Says ourselves ours career station to station baseball folks, the
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stay station to marketplace anyway, Tyler. Yes, by the way,
I've asked people about their wired telor Matt thoughts, and
we'll get those thoughts in the audience next. Great, do
we trust this website? This is Twitter account at mL
football aggreator got four and thirty seven thousand followers. I
don't know. I can't say so for sure. Apparently Why Teller,
the new Texans guard is at Disney World right now.
Oh great, and he's wearing mouse ears. Where are you
seeing this from mL football?
Speaker 5: Look?
Speaker 2: mL football, look for you. Tab shouldn't be going got
to watch out over there. I'm just saying, maybe why
Teller's that got working. Maybe we're all gonna like learn
to love why at Teller? Honestly, yes, go ahead? Will
you learn more about him coming up in the next segment.
Really chock full of good information. Oh man, man, some
made up stuff, all right? So I put a question
out about why, because we are your official home of
Texans O Line Talk. There's really no other mark station
in the marketplace that gives you Texans O line talk
like we do. Yes, indeed, let's see here. So I said,
what is your thoughts about Wyatt Teller? What comes to mind?
Bryan says, helped me with my car insurance last week.
I saved a bundle. It's nice him to do that. Okay,
should let Altuova play? Is he related to Miles Teller?
Who's Miles Teller?
Speaker 19: Right?
Speaker 2: Who Miles Teller is the actor?
Speaker 5: It's okay.
Speaker 2: He made movies after nineteen What is he best known for? Uh?
I would say he was in some superhero movies. He
was in a Fantastic four. He was in what is
that movie? With the drumming? That was great. It was
a Whiplash nice Whiplash is an oscar winner. So he's
able actor. Penn and Teller didn't find them ever very funny.
One guy speaks, one doesn't. Oh, Miles Teller was in
the Footloose remake. Oh, that didn't do very well. Oh
he was in the new Top Gun of course. Okay, Uh,
whyite arp? Oh? Why is Cafeteria Whiplash? Great movie by
the way, Jonathan Jonathan's a movie movie. Oh yeah, that's
my guy. I'd uh, Bob says Brown's and Texans fan here.
He was elite for four seasons. He was good last year,
but not elite. He's a very solid starting O line
on a good team. I love the signing for Houston.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: David and Austin says he was an enterprising man. That's
a man that listens to the show. I love that.
Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 2: And again golf Car, I'm really worried about golf car.
Speaker 5: Kid.
Speaker 2: He's worried my ex cheating on me with an unhappy
face emoji. Okay uh. And then Freezan says, another month
of deep draft discussion, I think the Texans got You're
ready for a sneaky hot take. Do you think Nick
Casario has done enough in free agency not to draft
alignment in the first round? I think, well, it depends
on how you don't have to. I would like him to.
I'm still calling a shot on this one that he's
going down. He's getting out of the first that's fine.
Take two of them. Take two guards in a year. No,
he loves extra. Pick two centers in a guard. I mean, look, uh,
Miles Teller, he's on a two year deal. He's thirty
one years old. He's been in decline. No, no, no, no,
don't sell it that way. Brown's fan loved him. Okay,
he's good, but he is not your long term option.
You still draft guys. I think he still should. It
feels like to me that this does not preclude the
Texts from going on line in the first round of
the draft, right, wouldn't that be just? And again, you
never should do anything for a fan base. You do
it for your owners, just as the reason why they
trade up to get another pick to get Cej Stropp.
But don't you think the city would not lose his
mind positively, but would be like, oh, thank you, Nick
for realizing your offensive line's been hot garbage the last
three seasons. Him drafting a non running, non offensive lineman
might get fringe Texan fan beside themselves. Well, they should
shut up. That'll be fine, We'll see what happens. Let
him play out. He's not great at drafting offensive lineman. Anyways, Yeah,
that's true. Maybe there's the new assembled coaching staffle can
help that. Okay, I again, I I don't have any
opinions about this because I want to look at the
finished product. You can sign all these guys a one
two year deals to your blue in the face. You
know who needs He's like a better season. CJ needs
to have that offensive line of true, you know, to
help him have a better season. A better offensive line,
better run game, better better pass catchers. And Montgomery is
greater than Woodie Marks, greater than Nick Chubb, greater than
Joe Mixon, Jair Jordan. Not greater than healthy Joe Mixon,
but Joe mixing maybe with his foot shot off. Who
knows slantick over there. That's alright, he's he's been worked. Yeah,
thank you, just zoned out, you know that's my bad.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: No, it's okay. It's a four hour show. It's tough.
I zone on on Matt and I sit in here
with him. I know what, Like tomorrow, I'll barely I'll
barely hear from you. I'm trying. I'm trying. I think
I'm getting better. Oh no, I was gonna say, I
don't wear my Apple Watch every day now to try
to distract them. Today, I'm wearing it. This is an accident.
I don't normally wear it every day now. Oh you
know what Ross talking about tune out and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: What.
Speaker 2: Matt finally admitted that there was so many people here.
It's spring break. Really, I wanted to hear the on
air admission. Are you Are you conceding to Jonathan? I
just remember this. No, I will tweet you. I will
repeat the text that I sent out to you yesterday.
And apparently you did not sarcasm. John, let me read
it because everybody, Because Jonathan, spring break is for college kids, yes,
and adults too, but but it's primarily for college It's
for college kids. Yes, So go ahead with your your
your tweet or text. Uh, where is it? Show group?
Let's take a look here. Where is a showgroup? Don't
hurt yourself while you're here. Follow me on Instagram at
sports RV. I really appreciate it. I've been posting so
I called twenty five travel agencies all across the country
from east and west coast. They're booking flights to Houston hourly.
It's amazing. The thousands and thousands and thousands of almost
means that people coming to Houston. Now, did you see
the airports where they're having everybody had to lay down,
like in cots and stuff like that in Houston. That's
because they're travel nobody's called. Nobody's calling a travel agency
in twenty twenty six, that's yeah, that's me taking the
travel agencies out behind the barn. Okay, you're only three
minutes late on the Joe bisaid, we're gonna put I'm
gonna we're gonna put you down easy traveling agency. Look,
I never said the kids didn't come to Houston, did
I just said, let me make sure. I just I
don't believe the numbers, and I never will believe the numbers,
because five hundred thousand. Look when the Super Bowl came
to Houston, Jonathan, you were a young kid, right, was
this well? How long was that ten years ago?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: The recent one?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was the U Was that the Eagles? Was that
the Philly Special one? Or that the Patriots one? I
can't remember the Patriots and the Welker catch. Oh no,
I don't know. Okay, the last Super Bowl apparently brought
one hundred and fifty thousand people to Houston, twenty seventeen. Okay,
I was a sophomore high that's one game. We're talking rodeo,
we're talking parties, we're talking what else, WBC, all kinds
of stuff. But that's because the events are here. If
the WBC is not here, thousands and thousands and thousands
of kids are not running the the spring break here.
The events are spring break. And say they're not, they're
not twenty five thousand kids at the WBC. If they're
spending their spring break here, they're spring breaking here. It
doesn't matter what event is happening. They're spring breaking here.
I think, Matt, you just forget. Oh you know what, Hey,
if there was no beach on South Padre, they wouldn't
even be going to they wouldn't be going there.
Speaker 23: That's a land that's a that's a land event. I
think Matt forgot. Miami shut down their beaches. That was
the spring break. This nation really can't go no, yeah,
oh really it's a curfew at like nine o'clock or
something like that.
Speaker 2: Oh really over there, and I didn't know that. I mean,
we need a curve. There's no curfews here in Houston.
Speaker 23: And that's where exactly and radio last to what midnight
and we saw a fight over the big brawl.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. On Saturday. She's like everybody was throwing
hands all night long. That's nice. She catching any good fights?
She no, but she was no. She was like haggler.
Hearns out there, Hey maker on some let me tell
them teen girls can fight too, Jonathan, don't forget that
the first thing.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: No, I I never said that people didn't come to Houston.
I just I continued, and I always want you and
you' I'll take the loss whatever. I'll never believe five
hundred thousand people came to spring Break. I just won't
believe the number. The number is inflated, just like when
Trump was talking about the millions and millions of people
at the Washington Wall for his inauguration. E bellish those numbers.
People in life in bellish numbers. Okay, well there's a
news outlet. Oh he's you're right, they're fake news. Two
they said two point two million. You can't give them
five hundred thousand. I mean they're saying there's such a discrepancy.
I think I can give them a quarter. I can
give him a quarter of the ess honestly, you know,
let me give you the honest number. I bet you
what does spring break? Three weeks? Depending on what time
of year you are. Oh yeah, you can get a
one hundred and fifty a week is four to fifty.
I can't get you a hundred fifty week. I can
give you fifty a week. Okay, Well, I'm gonna go
with the news outlets over you. I'm sorry. I know
year year. Oh you of all people who doesn't watch
the news, now trust to your I didn't say I
trust him? Why you saying? You just said you try
to think they checked more sources than you did. How
do they try? How do you check a source? You
check none? You go, you drive around the streets. All
looks busy. Okay, five hundre thousand people are here, all right,
we're outside of the post. You're pulling a number out
of your ass. And at least they checked a source.
So you have a made up number. They have number,
So I'm gonna go with them. I'm gonna it otherwise
I'm open to changing my mind. Let me tell you something,
as mister Texas, I check all the streets, as mister
making up a number and living in Kingwood and you're insulated.
I'm not insulated. I come to the city every single day,
okay except tomorrow. Oh no, I'll be in the city tomorrow.
We're coming to the city. You're still not coming for
the show. Great, I got a Rockets game seven, But
I'll be Thursday. We're gonna be on two ninety and
Barker Cypress. We're gonna be in Northwest Used today break
Believe it or not? Is up next? What's category today?
All new Texans offensive line? Is that right? Ooh, that's right.
We're gonna Oh, we're gonna well, I can't say it
almost cost me a dollar A new Texans offensive line
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first question. Whyat Teller was recruited to Virginia Tech as
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