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Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: Ten oh two in h Town. Good morning, and welcome

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to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

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That's Sports Talk seven ninety not incredible overtime coming in

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from Oklahoma City. It's a short ride though, that's the

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only saving grace. But man, we got started at a

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half hour earlier because the game was at well six

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forty two by the time it started, and then double

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overtime and you're working the game, and I had done

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the show before, so it was a lot of talking

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yesterday and I wanted a nice victory to kind of

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wrap up the day, and unfortunately, uh, it did not happen.

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We're gonna try this again at noon. That's okay with

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a song. You know, we're all getting back in the

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swing of things. Certainly.

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Speaker 3: I am.

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Speaker 2: How the hell are you? I'm good, Matt. What's in

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your mind to day? I have to say a few words, please,

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I'll step aside, yes, Matt. Last Thursday, during our interview

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with Coach Fritz, some off air audio of me talking

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with our puer was accidentally recorded and posted online. It

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was me doing my impression of Coach Fritz and saying

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when he gets fired, I'll call in as Willie on

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a mobile. I would like to stress again because there

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is some misinformation out there. This was off air and

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not directed at the coach. Nonetheless, I was trying to

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be funny off air. I realized my actions were hurtful

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and misguided. I should not have implied that Willy Fritz

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should or could get fired anytime either. That was not

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my intention. I would like to publicly apologize to Coach Fritz,

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the University of Houston, and its administration for my words,

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which I should not have said. Serve a suspension up here.

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Have learned from this, look forward to moving on with

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a great partnership with iHeartMedia, Houston and the University of

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Houston and me and Matt Thomas. Yes, it's important. You

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can't get rid of me. You try him, but you can't.

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I'm trying, all right, Thank you, Ross, Good morning everybody.

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It is at ten oh four. And uh, what's so?

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You gave him a song? You gave him Brandy. It

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almost doesn't count Brandy, but he probably didn't get the text.

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He's very busy. He's a busy, he's working up there.

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It's all right, all right, so we'll do this again. Yes,

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unfortunate evening for the Houston Rockets. They cover the seven

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and a half map, but that doesn't really mean I

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don't I don't care. I don't care if they covered,

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they should have won the games. To me, I just

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have a spread. Don't you think I thought it was

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Apparently all the sharp money was on your Houston Rockets

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and that came through. But unfortunately double overtime. By the way,

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I keep saying this, can we go to the you know,

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the elam ending what they call it, like eleven points

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in overtime, first to eleven and then we're out of

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here because that bad boy almost went to triple overtime

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and it's like nobody needs that game one out of

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eighty two triple overtime. Poor Matthew Thomas not getting any sleep,

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The announcers don't want to be there, the players are

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all fouling out. Everybody wants to get home. We don't

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need triple overtime in regular season NBA how they did

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something in baseball with the ghost Runner. Just make it

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like or even even first to fifteen or something like

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that for overtime, and that's it. And then when you

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go to playoffs, then you can do the full overtime.

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Do you have to win by two or just first

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to fifteen, first to fifteen, no matter what? Yeah, what

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do you think? I'm all for it? Because here's the

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thing with our game going as long as it did

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yesterday that put the Lakers Warriors game not on the

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NBC and never done. Yeah h yeah, all right, So

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I honestly, again I did not I didn't obviously see

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the television production of the game. Uh, it sounded like

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to me, everybody feel like it was really good. It

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was good. Mike Turrico has still got it for basketball.

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He was very good. They opened up with a they

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did the I was wondering if they were gonna do

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the laser into a round bowl laser, the laser peacock

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into round bowl rock. They did an updated version of

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that they had at the very beginning NBA on NBC,

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and first they did some young players. It was like

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Victor wibin Yama, like, hey, what's your NBA on NBC memories?

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He has none, No, he was born in two thousand

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and two or two. Kevin Durant County Memories. The Vin

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Durant had some Lebron like Steph Curry. So at first

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they brought the young players on, They're like, I have

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no memories of NBA on NBC, and it was funny. Yeah,

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it was funny. And then they bought the veteran players

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on and they talked about you know, watching MJ and

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the rivalries and all that other stuff. And then they

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went into the full and then the laser Oh, it

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was great. It was awesome, and then into round Ball

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Rock it was great. And then Mike Turico was on

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the call with Jamal Jamal Crawford needs a little polishing.

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Reggie Miller was good, but overall it was it was

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pretty good. It's funny because they know they're gonna mix

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Cruise up, but I think that's the number one crew. Okay,

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Well Crawford has to get back. But he's you know,

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this is his first time on playbup on color right

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for a big I mean he's maybe have done some

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side stuff, but nothing on this level. For sure, he

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needs some polish. It kind of felt like he didn't

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know when to jump in when you know nuance of

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the game. Well, I'll say this, I don't I've never

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worked in a three man move before. A certainly that

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level three men and two men basketball, when it's up

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and down, it's tough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Reggie Mounder also has never referred to say anything so yeah, yeah,

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looking to Phil Space, Reggie was Reggie. He's you know,

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think he used to be kind of misinformed, and I

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think maybe he saw a lot of that backlash and

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now he's up on its teams. Yeah, if you're gonna

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if you're gonna make millions of dollars being the number

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one analysts on one of the networks, you got to

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make sure you're up to speed on everything and adapted

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to the times. Uh So Lingos to say, a really

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entertaining game. And I was kind of teasing dur in

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the broadcast lost. I said, Man, if we get eighty

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two of these, I'm gonna I can't do eighty two

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of those. I need some Charlotte blowouts. Yeah, that'd be nice.

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The Rockets needed too. Yeah, and then Thompson needs it.

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What's the latest on him? We'll find out what they

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we got that coming up at about fifty minutes, so

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we'll talk to him. It sounded like to me and

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I did not see him after the game, Uh, cramps,

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looked like he was limping. There was also a little

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bit of blood on his left knee, so I mean,

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but that's just I mean, that's a men Thompson. Yeah,

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it's getting blood on him in the game. It's like,

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did he even play? If he doesn't. So we'll get

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to what was wonderful and what was not so wonderful

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the game in itself. And I want to make sure

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I'm very clear when I tell you this. There were

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some struggles last night. Obviously, a men Thompson did not

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shoot well from three, and there were some other things

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that happened during the course of the game, and there

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were some people were kind of not overly throw the

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ball handling from both both Reid and from AMN. Oklahoma

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City the defending champions. They have nine returning players back.

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They're just hounds defensively, Cason Wallace, Aaron Wiggins, lou Dort.

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Lou Dort can't shoot anymore, but lou Dort can defend

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the hell out of people. That's an excellent basketball team.

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I was talking to and I don't mean to name

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drop here. I was talking to PJ. Carlissimo, the former

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Seaton Hall coach and Golden State Warrior coach, and he's like,

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because I was telling I was gonna do, I'm doing

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a show back in Houston. He's like, man, he says,

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y'all are a really excellent basketball team. You just went

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against the defending champions who made their life doing what

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they didlast night sixty five times during the regular season

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last year and winning an NBA championship.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 2: They are just a suber insanely talented basketball team. Should

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have won that that basketball game, yeah, I mean, Katie

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kind of warrant. He's like, ay, I should have made

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my free throw, which is clear because the Rockets made

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their free throws generally speaking, they just missed them down

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the stretch that were tough. And the foul, yeah, he

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used me foul with was it SGA? He fouled SGA

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with like two point something seconds to go. We heard

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that at the beginning of the show. But yeah, men,

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Thompson went over seven from three. Kevin Durant's not gonna

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that might happen every now and then, but he was

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making him in preseason right, and he looked like he

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was in good rhythm. They just weren't going in Kevin Durant,

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oh for three and I'm just gonna be oh for

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four from three. It just any number of things could

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have gone the Rockets way and they I'm gonna say

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they should have won that basketball game. It win a

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really nice start to the Kevin Durant era. And I

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will say this, and I think I brought it up

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during the course of the broadcast when it happened. The

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Rockets also got lucky in one huge aspect.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I do the Chris Weber moment. Okay, that

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they should have lost the game. That would have been

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the most awful way to lose an opening night game

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to start the season with two title contenders. I will

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also say so mass talking about Kevin Durant at the

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very end of the first overtime, Yes, started to call

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time out. And he wasn't the only one. No, he wasn't.

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That's what I wanted to point out. I'm glad you

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said that. It was also Jabaris Smith Jr. I want

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I know there was hands signed. I know this is radio.

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don't touch me. I didn't do it. I'm not doing anything.

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call a time out. But Jabaris Smith, Junior Men Thompson,

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and Kevin Durant I believe there's three of them were

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calling a time out and it did not get awarded.

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Therefore there was no no offense committed. Were three players

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they didn't have a timeout. That Yeah, if you don't

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have a timeout, for those who don't know, you got you.

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know until last night. Yeah, just because you asked for

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it doesn't mean you get it. You had to get

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granted it and then it's a foul, I mean a

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technical foul. Well, I thought the problem was was that

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maybe that they called the timeout after the buzzer and

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they did not do that. It was there was definitely

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a time left on the clock. Mark Dangnault was the

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is a coach of Oklahoma City. He was very diplomatic

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after the game. He said, I told those officials what

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I thought. They can show it, he says, but you

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have excellent officials. I mean, Zach Zarba is one of

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the best officials in the NBA. He's the he was

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the crew chief last night, and he's the one that

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was on the microphone and felt like five or six

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times last night. My guess is when they are reviewing

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their tape, they missed it, and luckily for the Rockets,

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they missed it. Yeah. Do you think that they're so

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aware that they Rockets have no timeouts that they'd even

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look for it to get called? And maybe that was

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part is correct that those referees will talk during crucial moments,

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who's got timeouts? Left? With the timeout? His call? Where

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replace the ball? They go through one hundred scenarios in

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their mind. They didn't have the scenario in their mind

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one of these guys is going to call a time right.

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So that's the reason why I look for Honestly, I

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don't know they cover their ass on that by saying

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we didn't see it, because it was they had. What

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they have was a pool reporter that will go one

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reporter from the game, can go talk to the referee.

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The lead referee question was asked, did you see it?

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Zach Zarbas said, I did not see it, and that

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was the end of the conversation. There was no what

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Speaker 2: I did not. I can't call a timeout for a

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team that I didn't see. So, needless to say, Oklahoma

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but didn't end up mattering no. So they won the game.

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supposed to win the game because they probably could have

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won the game on the technical foul. A lot to

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get to today on the radio program. If you watched

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the game last night or listen do it hopefully here

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on seven ninety, let us know what you think about

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what you saw of the first regular season edition. There

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was one amazing surprise from last night's game. We'll talk

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about that. Uh Emaie Doug is going to join us

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at eleven o'clock this morning. We'll get to his thoughts

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on the game from last night. We'll get to shut

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your ball mass up at eleven thirty. We got the

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news at noon, and believe it or not, as we

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take this program today until two o'clock this afternoon here

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seven ninety. Also some very interesting Demico Ryan's comments from

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his media availability yesterday. He met it with the media

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via zoom at two thirty. Because you know, they got

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back a mill of the night from Seattle. The shine

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on Demko starting to come off a little bit there,

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battle red, get a little tarnished little turn and fighting

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Texas aggies. What are y'all doing? Jac and injuries hmmm,

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getting fines and the reprimand the reprimand's tough, get reprimand

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you feel it. You feel like, yeh, fifty k that's

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nothing for them dropping a bucket. By the way, I

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mentioned this the other day yesterday, you can't throw your

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teas anymore like gonna get you a hundred K fine.

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It's true text tech Fan part of it is still

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crying about it. Part of it as well, we've done

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it forever. But part of it is, well, you weren't

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finding us when we were six and six. Every year

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we can't throw food on them. Crawl on the plane

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seven one, three, two two five, seven, nuty ten twenty

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on the mat. Tommy's showed Ross Rossi's back with us today.

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Crazy to be back, Matthew. Nice to have you back.

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Great to see the shining face.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I got some twigs you is youthful exuberance.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 2: Did Western Kentucky football win last night? They did? I

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don't know if they were hilltops, they were up. I

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think I don't know the final tops. I've asked you

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this before. I forgot the answer. Jonathan, if s FA

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and Western Kentucky played each other, you would go Western Kentucky.

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You said, right, yeah, I'll go. Okay, I'm gonna be

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a top. Yeah, originally my first class. That's because you're

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going FBS OVERFC. Who doesn't like tops? Well that was

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my first gol I recruited by you know, Yeah, I

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got you. I got you for them. Do you did

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you ever go to? Which city is wasted? Is in

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Bowling Green, Bowling Green, Yes, did you did you take

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the offer sight unseen? Or did you go there first?

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Speaker 3: Look?

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Speaker 2: I went there first, then I went to Ou, and

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then I decided from there. Oh okay, you went to Norman, Oklahoma.

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You could have gone there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I got This was the two schools that

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wanted me out of high school. Though, the only two

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offers I got was you in. You could have gone

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two worst places for sure.

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Speaker 2: What was Norman?

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Speaker 6: You didn't like Norman and the culture was weird. Bowling

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ever go there, it's very full.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it felt like a family atmosphere. Ye, but I've

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never done a game at Western Kentucky, so I can't

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speak to it. But uh, you know, Hilltoper is a

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good name. It is a great name. Nice logo. Yeah,

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all right, it is Matt and Ross. We are with you.

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So if you watched the game last night seven one

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three two one two, let's go Rockets basketball, I'll tell

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you maybe always asleep. I told it wasn't that late

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though it was a six thirty start. Well it was,

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though it was you know, the game with like three

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hours and fifteen minutes it did. I was telling my

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engineering good brit it's like you're doing all care, I said, Yeah,

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I said, I've only been on the year seven hours today.

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It's like I was doing a hurricane coverage or something. Yeah,

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but yeah, uh you you the nooners were helping coming

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through ten o'clock. Wake up, let's go. We're here four

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hours every day. I've been that way for about a

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year now.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: You can say hello to me, Hi, say had to

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Ross take a shot at him. Yeah, others have. Let's

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go because I'm I've been catching those strays too, more

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Teflo than other Ever. Now I got buried by through fans. Jesus,

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I don't know what you're talking about. I do seven

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three two two five seven honey. All right, So the

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biggest surprise for me I missed you, mad, I really did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I didn't miss you to an extent. Uh alprin Shangoon

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the three point assassude. Okay, yeah, how much do you? Okay?

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One game does not a season make no. Nothing about

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last night is indicative of eighty two games last year

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the Rockets. Remember who the Rockets played last year to

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open up the year? Gold to say Charlotte and lost

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at home. Oh yes, Charlotte, and it was like, oh

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more the same, like yeah as uh, like I want

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to be encouraged by Alprin Shangoon above the break in rhythm,

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like just letting it fly. He was all over the place.

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But then I'm like, okay, I'm in. Thompson went over seven,

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so we got to take everything with a great man.

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And as you mentioned, Lou dor went over eight in

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the last two seasons. He's been really good from three.

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So just one game, you don't want to make too

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much of it. But overall, I mean, Kevin Durant is

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still a walking bucket, even though he went over for

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free and frankly probably should have taken more shots. And

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I don't think it's because Kevin was being conservative. I

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think let me tell you something, Oklahoma City locks people down.

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Was all over him. He was all over him. And

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lou Dort is one of the I want to say,

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I'm gonna go look it up. I think he was

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first team all in all defense. Well, you had you

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had that, you had Jalen Williams. It was a great

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defender who didn't play last night. Obviously. Shake Gildess Alexander

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gives you a professional approach.

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 2: And the Rockets the thing in zaggervates member last night

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is you kept Sga in check for the first half

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and then he had thirty points in the second half

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and over two. I mean, he was just making That's

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the thing that's the beauty of the NBA and sometimes

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the curse if you're on the other side of it,

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is like you can have perfect defense, and a lot

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of times they did and shake Gilgs Alexander is just

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that good. He was just making tough buckets.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was perfect defense, better offense from him, especially there

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in that second half, and he's you feel like he

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kept him quiet and he still got thirty five. I

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mean it was just for they keep him quiet for

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the first half. Yeah, I was looking like and first

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of all, and the Rockets got an opportunity to kind

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of take advantage of something that doesn't normally happen. He

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had missing free throws. He went I think he went

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seven of eleven for the free throw line. Oh yeah,

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he finished. He finished ten of fourteen, So yeah, he

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did missed. He made him at the end, right, but

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he got to the line and that's what he does.

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He's one of the all time greats, one of the

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all time foul hunters, and he that slidestep moved to

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the left is still min range. Sixteen foot shot still

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goes through. He's deadly. He's deadly. I mean, there's a

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reason the dude is reigning MVP. And yeah, lou Dort

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was first team All Defense last year, finished fourth in

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Defensive Player of the Year. He was doing a great

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job muscling up and one of the things that can

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give Kevin Durant problems is physicality, and lou Dort was

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being very physical, and especially if the referees are are

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kind of letting him play, which they did last night

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two very physical teams, it was difficult for him to

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get into his spots consistently. Yeah, I thought again for

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a first game, and look, we got eighty one of

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these and we're not gonna get eighty one more of those,

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whort and there's gonna be some dogs in this group everything.

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If you were like, a, hey, I'm gonna check out

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NBC see how they do this in this NBA bit

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and oh, by the way, the World champions are having

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their ceremony, YadA YadA, dah. How could you not have

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been highly entertained with that game. I mean that was

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it was greaxactly what NBC was looking for in terms

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of a really good game with two outstanding teams. Do

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you know what the biggest margin was that whole It

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felt like it was within double within single digits basically

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the entire game. Yeah, Rockets had a ten point lead

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what one or two times I think during the But

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for the most part it was just I mean, it

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was nip and tuck, it felt like, and the atmosphere

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was great the Oklahoma City Thunder of course, their fans

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are one of the best in the business. It felt

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like a playoff game. It just did. It was awesome.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: The crazy part was, so the game was at six

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thirty last night. They had the ceremony started at six o'clock.

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They opened the arena at four thirty. I want to say,

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by like five point fifteen, five thirty, ninety percent of

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the building was full. Now, granted, what are you gass

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gonna do in Oklahoma City? I understand it'd be nice,

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it'd be nice to have that at least close to that. Well,

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here in Houston, I don't know if that's going to happen.

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It's not we've got fifteen years we've been talking and

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it's not even it's just I mean, we've talked about

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that with Dyke in Park crowds, especially during playoffs. We've

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talked about it within our g basically since the Texans

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have been around, except for like maybe the first couple

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of years, we've talked about late arriving crowds and stuff

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like that is just how we roll in each town.

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We're on our own time. But and you know, it's

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an argument that that the Rock is an organization have

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Do you put the games at seven thirty? Do you

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put them at seven? Do you they used to?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because you know, if you stay at seven thirty and

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you're staying too late, does that get people out of there?

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There's all the other writers. We've got to get the

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kids home and all that stuff. Y. Yeah, let's talk

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to Stephen in the Heights at ten twenty seven of

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The Matt Thomas Show and Ross Stephen, good morning.

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Speaker 4: To you and Matt.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Ross, I watched the game last night. I enjoyed it.

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Speaker 8: My my friend's a Thunder fan, so it's texted him

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the whole night and I you know, he told me

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he goes at the beginning, he said thunder by ten.

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I said, no way, Like you know, I told him,

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I said, I think it's going to be at best

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for y'all at Tippin at the buzzer, and at worst

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for y'all Rockets win by twenty. Now, obviously that twenty

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was way too much. But the other thing I wanted

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to say is that I thought the announcers I had

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a problem with them because apparently they don't read the

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pronunciation guy that y'all are given, because he kept saying,

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Shane Goon and Matt, I know you get the pronunciation guy,

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So can you talk go to the NBC guys and

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go talk to them, because that just like it was

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annoying me the.

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Speaker 2: Entire night, like he was saying shin gun to me.

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But maybe he kind of just throw a little accent

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on there. I didn't really notice, huh personally.

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Speaker 8: Well then, also also since i'm also your rest and

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a issue guy, a issue by two touchdowns, I got.

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Speaker 2: News for Sam Levett. Three picks, Cougars pull off the

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upset boom.

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Speaker 8: Okay, hey, Ross, why don't you take a bet with

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Matt on this?

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Speaker 2: I'm staying away. That's a stay away from me. Darn it,

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Arizona State minus seven and a half. Yeah. And the

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only sad part about me this weekends because I'm going

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to the game, but I'm going to Phoenix just for

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the day. So wow, because the Cougars the Rockets play

473
00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:28,720
on Friday night, so we're leaving Saturday morning, gettingto the

474
00:21:28,759 --> 00:21:30,160
game and the flying right back with the team. So

475
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,079
I love Tempe. I love your school. You've got it

476
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,920
is such a great part of the country. It's the

477
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,440
thing about, in all seriousness, is that major metropolitan cities

478
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:46,440
don't typically have great college atmospheres. Temping. I don't know

479
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,839
if you know this ross is a little bit of

480
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,319
a little community within a big city. It's like West

481
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,880
you would be, uh, you know if Rice was irrelevant

482
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,240
athletic school. Hey, I mean, I'm sorry, that is what

483
00:21:57,319 --> 00:21:59,920
it is. But apologize to the university now.

484
00:22:01,319 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 8: To be fair, it got better when you know, because

485
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,279
I was there through twenty fourteen and we would go

486
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,119
to Ashue football games and I mean they were fine.

487
00:22:10,279 --> 00:22:14,519
But when Kenny Tellingham came in to the to the

488
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,920
program like as head coach, he said, hey, guys, come

489
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,160
to the stadium, and now they're starting to like sell out.

490
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Speaker 7: You know, everyone show it up.

491
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it should be fun. I'm looking forward to it. Stephen,

492
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,640
thanks to the phone call, and keep smack talking. It's fine.

493
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,039
I can I can handle it. It's great because I'm

494
00:22:29,079 --> 00:22:33,519
representing my a great one huge Big twelve implications. I assume, Yeah,

495
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,799
here's the thing, and we gotta give to a break here.

496
00:22:36,559 --> 00:22:39,240
When you had these mega conferences, there's gonna be like

497
00:22:39,319 --> 00:22:43,240
six way ties. You understand this, Yeah, you have like

498
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,359
six way tie breakers. Well, like, look at the big

499
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,039
If you look at the Big twelve standings right now,

500
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,160
b YU and Cincinnati are undefeated, and then there's three

501
00:22:50,279 --> 00:22:56,119
one loss teams Cougars, Sun Devils and Red Raiders. Would

502
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,279
you be up up first, splitting the league in half

503
00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:00,440
and just taking one each side? I mean, you tell

504
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,480
me how we do this. I have no clue. What

505
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,279
the SEC They don't split them up like they used to.

506
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,920
I mean you you have the top two teams, correct, Yes?

507
00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:11,839
Didn't they want some an SC Yeah? These have SEC

508
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,640
East at SEC West. I don't do that any Yes,

509
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,240
I don't know. This is a question for Chris Gordy,

510
00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:17,799
But I mean look at the like it's a Big ten.

511
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:23,759
You've got eight teams with one conference loss. I guess

512
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that they go to the seating. I don't think as

513
00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:28,400
like ultimate time breakers. I think something like that. I

514
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,640
think yeah, yeah, so yeah. I don't know. I don't

515
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,920
know how you figured that out, but these mining conferences

516
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,400
will figure out with us in the two best teams

517
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of their respective championship games ten thirty on The Matt

518
00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:40,000
Thomas Show at ross seven one three two one two

519
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,839
five seven ninety. If you want to chime into the

520
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,400
conversation seven one three two one two five seven ninety

521
00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:47,359
battle right, you've not been able to at least publicly

522
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:51,960
discuss your beloved Texans against Seattle. We will discuss that

523
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,160
on the show today. We will also get into uh,

524
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Demico's zoom. It's twenty twenty five. I'mre zooming these days,

525
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,240
and I think he's seeing a different football team than

526
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,519
the rest of us are, especially when you're two and four.

527
00:24:09,759 --> 00:24:12,839
They're close, Matt. Uh yeah, Tamiko has said that over

528
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,160
and over and over again. They're close. Seven one three

529
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:20,359
two one two five seven on eighty. But you were

530
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,839
six some b last night. Yeah, I don't know if

531
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,839
that's going to be a regular thing. But if he

532
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,839
wants to hit five threes in a game, I mean,

533
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,079
I'm all for it, because again, if you're going the

534
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,960
dumble big lineup, you're gonna have to get that four.

535
00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:34,240
Is gonna have to shoot the three. Kevin Durant is

536
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,079
the longest two guard in the NBA history right at

537
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,599
six ten. I know he didn't play some two guards

538
00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:39,920
in previous spots. I mean, I know we saw that

539
00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:42,799
dude at Media Day. He's like seven foot He was

540
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:46,039
taller than Jabari Smith Junior. He was taller than Ryan Hollins.

541
00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:49,640
Ryan respects the hell out of it. He gets look

542
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:54,599
ey eye to somebody. I mean, he's frigging huge. But yeah,

543
00:24:54,599 --> 00:24:57,559
if Alpi's gonna okay, now, obviously, if if he's gonna

544
00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:00,559
be like a thirty five to thirty eight percent repoint shooter,

545
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,279
which I don't think is going to happen, but then

546
00:25:02,319 --> 00:25:06,519
he's gonna be literally one of the best scores on

547
00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:08,279
the planet, one of the best players on the planet.

548
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,160
He was already an All Star, so he already is

549
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:11,880
one of the best players on the planet in that respect.

550
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,599
But he's going to even make a make a bigger

551
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,000
leap rockets if that happens and men Thompson. I like

552
00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:20,880
the way that he was scoring and he was aggressive

553
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,559
and he can knock down the occasional three, the Rockets

554
00:25:23,559 --> 00:25:25,720
are gonna win like fifty five plus games. Yeah, I

555
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,920
just what I think. What I thought about last night

556
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:29,720
was oh, is he settling?

557
00:25:29,799 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 3: Is he?

558
00:25:30,039 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 2: Is he? Because when sometimes when you're a shooter that

559
00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:33,920
doesn't have a lot of threes in your game, you

560
00:25:34,039 --> 00:25:35,440
make one or two and you're like, I can use

561
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:36,920
this as a part of my arsenal. I'm like, okay,

562
00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:40,400
he was he checking out there, but he made it.

563
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,920
I can't argue with the he can't argue with the results, right,

564
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,759
I hate heat checks unless they go in and they're amazing.

565
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 3: Yeah.

566
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 2: What do you think of the ceremony last night for

567
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,480
the phones? So they didn't They kind of just showed

568
00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:56,519
highlights out of it. They showed them all standing in

569
00:25:56,559 --> 00:25:58,720
front of the banner and those Okay, can we stop

570
00:25:58,799 --> 00:25:59,480
with these rings?

571
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Speaker 9: Now?

572
00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:03,920
Speaker 2: Do you see those? They were hurting their hands. Yeah,

573
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,880
they were weighing them down. Those things are like fifteen pounds.

574
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,640
Now it got out of control. Like it's funny you

575
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,680
go look at like the Yankees nineteen twenty seven rings

576
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,000
and they're like regular rings and then now getting bigger

577
00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:18,279
and bigger and bigger and bigger. Right, but like it's

578
00:26:18,559 --> 00:26:21,759
it's it's too gouty, it's too much. It's it's like

579
00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:24,200
the covers like three fingers. Well, I think part of

580
00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:28,119
the charm. Now, most players don't wear their rings, right,

581
00:26:28,519 --> 00:26:30,359
they put him they wear them once a year and

582
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,039
they put them in a box and they just like

583
00:26:32,079 --> 00:26:35,599
a ball like a gala or something like that. Yeah,

584
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,559
but I would want to wear I mean, I'm the dad.

585
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,400
You wear a ring because you are proud of that ring, right,

586
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:42,599
they can't. You don't wear the rings. You don't want

587
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:44,920
to lose the circulation in your second finger there. Yeah,

588
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,079
so I you know, they like the owner of the

589
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:50,839
team was, you know, for he got the he got

590
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,240
the very first one. I mean it was like he

591
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:55,119
was weighing him down. He couldn't move. Yeah, those those

592
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,480
things are ridiculous now they literally cover two, if not

593
00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:02,359
three fingers, that's how big those are. Let's it's comical.

594
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,480
But I mean, yeah, you know what if you get

595
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,359
a budget, you get a budget, don't you That's true.

596
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,279
I guess I want one of those. I mean, I

597
00:27:09,319 --> 00:27:11,039
don't think when I get mine from the Rockets that'll

598
00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:13,440
be that big. But I mean I'll take the medium,

599
00:27:13,599 --> 00:27:15,119
take whatever you can get. I'll you know what I

600
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,720
got cubics when I was doing the PA back in

601
00:27:16,759 --> 00:27:19,160
the nineties. Yeah, okay, Matt, Can I get one diamond

602
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,880
in this one? Championship ring? Gonna be fantastic.

603
00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:22,599
Speaker 3: I can't wait.

604
00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 2: Bill's College one. You should Bill and port Arthur on

605
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,759
the Matt Thomas hild Ross Bill, Good morning.

606
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,279
Speaker 3: Matt, How you doing, good friend?

607
00:27:31,759 --> 00:27:34,759
Speaker 1: I have a question, and it kind of deviates from

608
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,519
today's major subject topics being the Rockets in Texas.

609
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 2: Anything you want.

610
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: I have a question that's been bugging the hell out

611
00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:46,519
of me for several years, and it's concerned in Major

612
00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:52,720
League Baseball. Sure, and it is why the crowd booze

613
00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:59,720
an opposing pitcher when he throws the first base. Well,

614
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,119
you got an educated answer for that.

615
00:28:02,599 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 2: Uh. The reality is five years ago, you could throw

616
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,400
over there as much as you want. So you are

617
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,119
talking about a fan base that has been acclimated to

618
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,279
seeing that done over and over again. Bill in twenty

619
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,920
twenty five, and it's been this way, what for two

620
00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:20,400
or three years? Now you're allowed to throw over there twice,

621
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,480
and that's it. So why anybody tries to throw over

622
00:28:24,559 --> 00:28:27,759
there and get booed. You're wasting your time. You're wasting

623
00:28:27,759 --> 00:28:29,799
your brother. There's other things Bill a boo about. That's

624
00:28:29,839 --> 00:28:31,440
not one of them, because you can only do it twice.

625
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,680
If you do it a third time, either you tag

626
00:28:33,759 --> 00:28:36,000
the guy out or he gets to go to second base.

627
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:38,960
So you're absolutely right, it makes zero sense.

628
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: Well to me, my memory serves me correct. They've been

629
00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:48,440
doing this long before that real change. It seems like

630
00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:50,839
every time I've ever been to a game or watched

631
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,400
it on television, they boo the opposting picture when he

632
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,480
throws the first base, and I'm going, what the hell's

633
00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:56,160
going on here?

634
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 5: Yeah?

635
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 2: I think I think Matth's is saying yeah, because previous

636
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,279
it could be like a stall tactic or all like that. Bill,

637
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:05,000
you've been watching sounds like you've been watching baseball a

638
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,920
long time. You've seen games before they throw over their

639
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:10,839
five six times and it drags the game down. Yeah,

640
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,279
that I would get mad about that. The other stuff

641
00:29:13,279 --> 00:29:15,559
I now, you can't throwing over the first base and

642
00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:18,119
doing makes it. That's a tactical part of the game

643
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,240
that makes no sense why anybody would be at this point.

644
00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:23,759
Speaker 1: I know I've been watching the Houston team since the

645
00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:24,559
cold forty five.

646
00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, watched the Dome get.

647
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,519
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well thanks, thanks, you got a nice

648
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,839
to hear from you. Yeah. Yeah, I'll say this when

649
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,599
they said because when they first changed the rule, I thought, well, man,

650
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,240
you are really putting it a huge advantage towards the

651
00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:43,079
runner because if he throws over twice, then it gives

652
00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,319
you a little more of an opportunity to get that base.

653
00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:47,279
And then I thought to myself, that's good. I like

654
00:29:47,359 --> 00:29:50,119
so on bases. I like when teams take the chance.

655
00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:53,279
And the fact of the matter is it forces catchers

656
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,839
to be better. It also forces pitchers to alter their

657
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,480
stance and delivery and get to home plate faster and

658
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,240
not these long wind ups and not paying attention. It's

659
00:30:05,599 --> 00:30:08,559
a facet of the game. But I frankly now enjoy Yeah,

660
00:30:08,759 --> 00:30:11,279
it's it's it's made the game better. A lot of

661
00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:13,079
these rules that they put in. It may has made

662
00:30:13,079 --> 00:30:14,559
the game a lot better, a lot more fast and

663
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,599
more exciting. Yeah. The only thing I'm worried about, and

664
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,119
I know we're not in baseball season. But the reality is,

665
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,240
I am worried that the speeding of the game when

666
00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:28,319
it comes to pitch clock has negatively effected the amount

667
00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:34,200
of injuries we're seeing in baseball. And there's no proof

668
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,400
of this, or if there is, they certainly haven't told us,

669
00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:39,640
Hey you are. But it's uh, there's actually I think

670
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,000
disagreements between I think the Players Association is trying to

671
00:30:43,119 --> 00:30:45,119
argue that it is, and then in Major League Baseball,

672
00:30:45,119 --> 00:30:47,960
of course, is trying to argue that it's not. All right. Uh,

673
00:30:48,519 --> 00:30:50,200
let's get your thought on the textans we come back

674
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,519
because you've not had a chance to at least we

675
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,519
used to have for the whole game. Yes, of course,

676
00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:59,799
I'll people didn't, Well, come on, people, Well, I'm a natural.

677
00:31:00,279 --> 00:31:01,920
This is my wheelhouse. I to you know what I did.

678
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,240
I told the audience yesterday, you took a nap. I

679
00:31:04,279 --> 00:31:07,240
went to a little bit of a catnap, and then

680
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,079
I went to dinner, and then I had two large

681
00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:11,920
cups of coffee at nine o'clock and I was told

682
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,079
twenty five I was wired. Really Yeah, okay, so I

683
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,440
watched every single bit of that thing. Good for you.

684
00:31:17,759 --> 00:31:19,880
We'll get your thoughts on the game. We'll get to

685
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:25,839
Miko Ryan's there's a chance we're gonna play some soundbites

686
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:27,759
that aren't going to necessarily endear himself to the Houston

687
00:31:27,799 --> 00:31:29,519
fan base. Was pretty upset there, two and four and

688
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,559
three and a half games out of first place, three

689
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,759
and a half games at a first place in the

690
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:38,720
ANC South. Well, hmm, well, I'll say it. Save it

691
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,119
for the next segment of the Matt Thomas showed Ross

692
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,599
ten fifty Sports Talk seven ninety. It is a Matt

693
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,960
Thomas Show with Ross battle Red. Take us through your

694
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,839
Monday night. Uh, you just mean watching the game everything

695
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,759
you thought about it? Oh, because it was for me

696
00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:01,799
now being a fan of the team and being an observer.

697
00:32:04,039 --> 00:32:05,839
I don't even know how the hell they were within

698
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,680
eight points at halftime. Seattle tried their best to make

699
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,279
it a ballgame for no reason. Yeah, this is certainly

700
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:16,920
one of those games where the final score doesn't reflect

701
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:21,519
how badly they got beaten. You're you lost by eight

702
00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:25,319
and you won the turnover battle four to one. I mean,

703
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:30,240
you just couldn't get anything going offensively, you know, until

704
00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:31,000
the end of the game.

705
00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: And c J.

706
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 2: Stroud was really I mean he was under a lot

707
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:41,799
of duress. He was also missing throws. He why does

708
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,559
he take these horrible, horrible sacks where he loses fifteen

709
00:32:45,559 --> 00:32:48,839
to twenty yards And by the way, every time, I

710
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:51,960
really thought fifty two. But I understand, like when the

711
00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:54,319
contact started, they're giving them the benefit of the doubt.

712
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,599
It doesn't really end up mattering. It was a break

713
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,720
caught by the Houston Texans with the whole safety business

714
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,440
both times. But why is he running back there like that?

715
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,680
Those are bad sacks to take if you are in

716
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,200
eighth grade or high school or any level of football.

717
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,599
And he just sometimes with how good he can look

718
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,559
and how well he can throw and look under control,

719
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,440
and when he does scramble, it's like, all right, he

720
00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:24,000
looks great, and then sometimes he just looks like he's

721
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:29,200
totally lost and uncoordinated. It's very bizarre, and I understand,

722
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,000
of course, a lot of it is he's under a

723
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:33,440
lot of duress. With this offensive line, especially when they

724
00:33:33,519 --> 00:33:36,960
go onto the road, they have communication issues. It seems

725
00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:39,640
like every snap they're too soft in the interior of

726
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,640
the line. Jake Andrews is getting pushed around. They had

727
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,359
rotating left tackle sit left guard situation. Yeah, rotating, that's

728
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:48,799
not good. But I mean you just have nobody that's good.

729
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,400
Laken Tomlinson hasn't been that good and Juice Scruggs is

730
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,720
not good either. It's it's just a mess. And yet

731
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,359
late in the game, if you were up at twelve ten,

732
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,480
twelve fifty in the morning, yes, all Kimi fairbrhand to

733
00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:03,039
do is kick the ball out of bounds to be

734
00:34:03,079 --> 00:34:04,680
able to preserve the two minute warning?

735
00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:05,319
Speaker 7: And what was that?

736
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,199
Speaker 2: And that's another thing too. Another point is that is

737
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:14,360
far too often there are these little things that detections

738
00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:18,000
get wrong. And that's where I do think there is

739
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:21,440
fair criticism for Demiko. Ryan well I mentioned this on

740
00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:25,119
the show multiple times. Yesterday I said, ROSSI, when is

741
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:26,760
he going to win the coaching battle?

742
00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:27,679
Speaker 3: Right?

743
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 2: When is Domico going to out coach the other other

744
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,199
side of the ball? I think too often there are

745
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,239
time now. He's obviously a great leader of men, a

746
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,480
great defensive mind, helping build players love him. He checks

747
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:41,679
a lot of the boxes. A box he does not

748
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,719
check is the little things, as far as attention to detail,

749
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,239
when it's coaching, when it's clock management, when it's do

750
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,199
we need a time out here? Do we need to

751
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,360
kick here do going forward? On fourth downs? I think

752
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,760
he is far too conservative, which I understand. He's defensive

753
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,360
minded ball coach. This is he's gonna be his DNA.

754
00:34:58,639 --> 00:35:00,800
We're gonna run the ball, We're gonna established the run.

755
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,360
We're gonna win with our defense. We're gonna punt. We're

756
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,760
gonna be conservative because we're gonna trust our defense. And

757
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,679
that's gonna be the backbone. That is old school, defensive

758
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,719
minded coach, and that's who Demico Ryans is. I get it,

759
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,039
but sometimes it's far too often in the NFL, we're

760
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:17,760
just about every game is a one score game. You

761
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,400
keep shaving off win probability with bad fourth down decisions,

762
00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:24,719
with what you talked about with not kicking the ball

763
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,519
out of bounds the third and one fourth and one

764
00:35:26,599 --> 00:35:29,199
run over left side that got zero. You're running to

765
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,320
our left side, where you have a rookie who's getting

766
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,800
blown up every play, and you have whatever swinging tag

767
00:35:36,159 --> 00:35:38,800
left guard that's letting everybody in. The best part of

768
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,079
your your run blocking is the right side with Titus

769
00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:44,079
Howard and Ingram, and you run to the left side

770
00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:46,960
both times. I don't I don't get it. So yes,

771
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,519
it's all these little things. And by the way, the

772
00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:53,079
head coach, even though maybe Nick Keyley calling the plays

773
00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:55,639
and it may be Frank Ross on special teams, those

774
00:35:55,679 --> 00:35:57,679
are guys in your staff. You have to ultimately answer

775
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,880
to the responsibility of what things didn't go right, coach.

776
00:36:00,159 --> 00:36:03,719
And when when Dimko Ryan says we're close, he's kind

777
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,480
of he's right and wrong at the same time, because

778
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,960
everybody's close in the NFL, everybody has fifty three of

779
00:36:10,039 --> 00:36:13,280
the most talented football players on the planet. So the

780
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,159
way that you win is you win in the margins.

781
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,559
You win going for those fourth downs, making the right timeouts,

782
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:25,159
saving those precious few seconds every little thing. Yeah, you're close,

783
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,159
but when you keep on missing those, that's where you're

784
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,800
far away. And that's where it feels like the Texans

785
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:34,360
are not close, because it's happening every week where all

786
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,920
these little things, these attention to details, they just don't

787
00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:41,199
add up to victories for the Texans. And that's that's

788
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,760
where you are right to say they're far They're far

789
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,360
away from being a contentment. I really don't ever want

790
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,400
to hear it was a one position game ever again,

791
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:54,440
because games are one possession games. Yes, So that's where

792
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,920
you can convince yourself, especially when you're a little bit

793
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,599
biased and you're like, hey, we didn't get this break,

794
00:36:58,639 --> 00:37:00,760
we didn't get that break, we didn't get this. We're close,

795
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,960
we're close. We're close. But like if you're if you're

796
00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:05,760
like standing back and watching every single week, yeah, we're

797
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,000
saying that every week. If every week you're piling up

798
00:37:08,039 --> 00:37:11,559
missing all these these these plays, four or five plays,

799
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,840
then that piles up, and then you're not close, because like, yeah,

800
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,559
every every week is a one score game, and that

801
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:23,119
the coaches and the best well coached teams with that

802
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,400
are making the right decisions and within the thin margins,

803
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,440
those are the teams that are winning every week. How

804
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,599
many times have we said the Kansas City Chiefs, how

805
00:37:31,639 --> 00:37:33,760
did they get away with this one? There's all these

806
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,159
little things that they do. And that's not even saying

807
00:37:36,159 --> 00:37:37,920
that because any Read's not even really a great two

808
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,559
minute manager. I think he has he's become one, I

809
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:42,559
think early in his career, especially even early in his

810
00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:44,320
chief's career, like what the heck is he doing? But

811
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,880
I think lately, I don't know if they've hired some

812
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,000
kind of assistant or whatever. It just feels like they

813
00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:51,360
do the attention to detail things correctly. I would say

814
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,599
say the same thing about Bill Belichick and some of

815
00:37:53,639 --> 00:37:56,519
the other great coaches, where you never say, what the

816
00:37:56,599 --> 00:37:58,760
heck are they doing with this time? Why is this class?

817
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,400
Why is this I'm click kicking off the clock? Why

818
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,079
aren't they ready? Why aren't they kicking it out of bounds?

819
00:38:03,079 --> 00:38:04,760
Why aren't they It seems like four or five times

820
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,199
a week it's I'm saying, why isn't Demico doing this?

821
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,000
And then they lose the game, And that's an indictment

822
00:38:12,039 --> 00:38:15,519
about him as a head coach. Excellent defensive coordinator, wildly

823
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:18,599
regarded as as such, and was a hot commodity, and

824
00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:21,280
the Texans won the battle. Denver wanted him too. He's like,

825
00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:25,239
I'm good there, I'm coming to Houston, but I'm ready

826
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,480
for Demiko to start winning some coaching battles, the intangibles,

827
00:38:28,559 --> 00:38:31,400
the little things that help you overcome. Yes, he's one

828
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,800
depth of these one score games. Let's talk to Emyodoka,

829
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,559
speaking of head coaches. He'll join us next year on

830
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:39,519
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross great attention to detail

831
00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:43,000
with EMADG. You'll call it time out and assault you

832
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:45,760
and yes, tell you what little person you are or

833
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,760
how great you are. Seven one three two one two

834
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,039
five seven out he's seven one three two one two

835
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,760
five is seven nine zero one. Is the Matt Thomas

836
00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:01,000
Show with Ross He no ian to have Sports Talk

837
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:03,159
seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show and Ross

838
00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:06,760
for our number two Rockets last night fall in Oklahoma

839
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,840
City to start this season. A very exciting basketball game

840
00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:12,800
in double overtime, and he made dok is going to

841
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,360
join us he does every week here on the show

842
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,519
between now and hopefully a late run in June for

843
00:39:16,559 --> 00:39:19,599
an NBA championship coach. Good morning, thanks for joining us

844
00:39:19,599 --> 00:39:22,400
again this season. A couple of thoughts as you're on

845
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,480
the plane to trying to close your eyes and reflect

846
00:39:24,519 --> 00:39:26,639
on an exciting game that just came up a little

847
00:39:26,639 --> 00:39:27,320
bit short last night.

848
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,159
Speaker 9: Well, the opportunities that we had to win it, and

849
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,800
some of the things that we did well early on

850
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,400
that kind of got away from us in the second

851
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,679
half in overtimes, So plenty of positives to take away

852
00:39:38,679 --> 00:39:41,119
from it, opportunities to do it, but we did some

853
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:42,199
things to lose it as well.

854
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,280
Speaker 2: You know a lot of folks will look at the

855
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,960
stat sheet and there's nothing more crazier for me as

856
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,880
a sports broadcaster and a fan than to over discuss

857
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,760
something of one game, because it's a body of work.

858
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,199
But you to realize and you know this, and I

859
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:59,480
think hopefully good NBA fans know you were going against

860
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:02,400
one of the preme defenses in the NBA case, and

861
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,280
Wallace and Aaron Wiggins and lou Dort were not going

862
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,039
to make it easier for you guys, and you were

863
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:09,639
able to still get some things done accomplish it offensively,

864
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,400
especially with the way out he was playing last night.

865
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

866
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, there were top defense as far as forcing turnovers

867
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,519
last year, making you play in the crowd, and we

868
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:22,159
handled that really well early. I think, you know, in

869
00:40:22,159 --> 00:40:24,800
the first half we were really good. And then second

870
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,480
half overtimes got away from us. And you have twenty

871
00:40:27,559 --> 00:40:29,960
four turnovers and give up twenty six points off those

872
00:40:30,039 --> 00:40:32,480
and you know barely lose and have a chance to win.

873
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 3: That's obviously going to stand out.

874
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,639
Speaker 9: And so some things we need to do better with

875
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,039
spacing and playing with pace and then just handling the

876
00:40:39,079 --> 00:40:40,000
pressure a little bit better.

877
00:40:40,159 --> 00:40:42,039
Speaker 2: You'll do a deeper dime on those turnovers and that

878
00:40:42,159 --> 00:40:44,159
was obviously a huge part of the game. In your

879
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,119
mind as you watch, it was some things you were

880
00:40:46,159 --> 00:40:49,320
doing offensively that getting in rhythm and the offense that

881
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,719
was troubling you, or was it more of what Oklahoma

882
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,199
Cey was doing in terms of intercepting passing lanes than

883
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:54,559
the like.

884
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:57,039
Speaker 3: A little bit of both.

885
00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 9: I think the pressure bothered some guys bringing up court,

886
00:41:00,039 --> 00:41:02,079
for sure, I know that was there. But then you know,

887
00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:04,519
we have different outlets and different guys that can initiate.

888
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,519
But from there we have to, you know, set good screens,

889
00:41:07,559 --> 00:41:09,880
set our guy man up to take those denials away

890
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,599
and get ourselves open. And they did a really good

891
00:41:12,639 --> 00:41:14,559
job of kind of choking away those pass the lanes

892
00:41:14,599 --> 00:41:16,519
and taking taking us out of some sets.

893
00:41:17,199 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 3: From there, you know, we want to keep it simple.

894
00:41:19,519 --> 00:41:21,679
Speaker 9: We talked about hitting singles all night and make the

895
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:24,519
simple passes, not playing the crowd, and sometimes he over

896
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:25,519
dribbled a little bit.

897
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 3: And when we did play in the crowd.

898
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 9: We have to know where our outlets are at so

899
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,760
I get to get to our spacing a little bit quicker.

900
00:41:31,519 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 2: How is a man Thompson doing.

901
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:34,840
Speaker 3: He's fine.

902
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,639
Speaker 9: It was just cramping in the calf came on and

903
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:39,920
late in the fourth quarter he tried to play through

904
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,000
it a little bit and until it really caught up

905
00:41:42,039 --> 00:41:44,400
to him and had to hold him out. Obviously, would

906
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,599
love to have him in the in the later stages

907
00:41:46,639 --> 00:41:49,760
of the game, but just cramping I think the first

908
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,000
game obviously, and then the two overtimes extra minutes for

909
00:41:53,119 --> 00:41:54,000
him caught.

910
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 2: Up with them rocketed. Coach Amy Adoka was here on

911
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,000
Sports Talk seven ninety. How would you assess overall his game? Obvious,

912
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,239
very aggressive getting to the basket and did not go

913
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,840
the way that he wanted from the three point line.

914
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,199
But did you like the takes that he was shooting.

915
00:42:10,119 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean for the most part, you know, they're

916
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,199
sagging off him, so he gets to get downhill and

917
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,280
attack and try to find guys and did a good

918
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,199
job of that. You know, he just like everybody else,

919
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,800
had the high turnover numbers. You know, a few guys

920
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,280
had four and steven and a few others had three.

921
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,800
But you know, we want him to get to the corners,

922
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,280
and he shot it extremely well in preseason and has

923
00:42:32,679 --> 00:42:35,159
been better since last year, and so I wanted to

924
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,840
be confident with those and at times in summer late

925
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,559
shot clocks as well, But we want him to shift

926
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:42,400
and invert on the wings and kind of give guys

927
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,599
space to operate there. And a few times we were

928
00:42:44,599 --> 00:42:45,559
a little slow with our space.

929
00:42:45,599 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 2: And like I mentioned, he may you ransom zone, they

930
00:42:48,519 --> 00:42:50,599
ransom zone you. And I talked a little bit last

931
00:42:50,679 --> 00:42:52,719
year about it. It felt like ten years ago you

932
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,000
didn't even see his own defense. Why are we seeing

933
00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:58,000
it more today? Especially with as many prolific three point

934
00:42:58,039 --> 00:42:59,320
shooters as the league has right now.

935
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 9: It's a change of pace that it takes teams out

936
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,400
of some of the things they're trying to do.

937
00:43:05,079 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 3: They have really good one on.

938
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 9: One players, you can kind of load up and send

939
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,760
them certain places on the court. But at the same time,

940
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:15,039
we're playing big lineups with some really small lineups, and

941
00:43:15,119 --> 00:43:18,039
so may not be as many favorable matchups for us.

942
00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:19,840
And you know, it's a game of cat and mouse

943
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,559
and who's going to make who adjust to what, and

944
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,559
its own helps us kind of guards some of those

945
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:24,559
actions better.

946
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 2: Was altbea in Rhythm three. The most he's ever been

947
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,039
is you've seen him in person. I mean, look, no

948
00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:34,760
disrespect to euro League and whatnot, and you've seen him

949
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,079
in practice, but in terms of an NBA game, it

950
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:39,199
looked like he had a conference with that ball left

951
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,199
his hand. Beyond the artfit. Maybe I haven't even seen

952
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:42,400
in his entire NBA career.

953
00:43:44,119 --> 00:43:46,119
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, I think he's going to be in some

954
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:48,840
different situations this year. He's putting a ton of work

955
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,639
on his jump shot in the offseason. You saw that

956
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:54,440
in euro Basket and so, but like you said, the

957
00:43:54,519 --> 00:43:56,239
line is a little bit different, a little closer there,

958
00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,960
and I think he's had great carryover from his his

959
00:43:59,079 --> 00:44:02,519
summer playing basketball there and so with him playing with

960
00:44:02,599 --> 00:44:04,559
Steven and some other bigs, he's gonna have to space

961
00:44:04,639 --> 00:44:07,320
the times and be in some physicians to make him

962
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,519
pay from three, and teams are going to make him

963
00:44:09,519 --> 00:44:11,719
prove it. He obviously he was confident and did a

964
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,360
great job last night, but a lot more catch and

965
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,239
shoot opportunities versus picking pops now that he's kind of

966
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:19,840
playing at the four at times, and I think he

967
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,119
was extra aggressive ready for those. And if you're gonna

968
00:44:23,119 --> 00:44:24,480
be in those slots, you have to make him pay, and.

969
00:44:24,519 --> 00:44:26,360
Speaker 2: He did that overall.

970
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:27,079
Speaker 3: All.

971
00:44:27,119 --> 00:44:30,159
Speaker 2: Would you see from Reed Shepherd twenty eight minutes from

972
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,880
him and just how he played on the floor both sides.

973
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was some some ups and downs.

974
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 9: It's gonna be some learning curves for guys, especially you know,

975
00:44:39,079 --> 00:44:41,199
with Fred out and they're having to handle and initiate

976
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,440
and not just play off ball as much as they

977
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,440
did last year. I'm in as well, and so just

978
00:44:46,639 --> 00:44:49,199
understanding the physicality of game, which he's improved at since

979
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,559
last year, and how teams are going to guard him

980
00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:53,440
and respect him, you know, being the third pick, being

981
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:57,239
a shooter, and you know, freeing up hisself. Guys have

982
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,199
to free up and set screens as well. Like I said,

983
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,960
they were kind of blowing everything up on and off ball,

984
00:45:02,039 --> 00:45:03,920
and so for him, it's just just more of the

985
00:45:04,039 --> 00:45:05,360
learning that he's going to have to go through.

986
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:05,760
Speaker 7: This year.

987
00:45:06,519 --> 00:45:08,519
Speaker 3: Was aggressive looking for shot. I think it wasn't just

988
00:45:08,559 --> 00:45:08,840
some' me.

989
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 9: In that didn't shoot it well, a few other guys

990
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:12,960
as well. And you look at the numbers, only going

991
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,599
eleven for thirty nine from three and having some really

992
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:19,199
good looks and so game one. Some things to take

993
00:45:19,199 --> 00:45:21,559
away positive or negative. I think that's with the team

994
00:45:21,639 --> 00:45:23,679
overall and reed to learn and go from this.

995
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,599
Speaker 2: Some people talking during the game, I guess about Kevin

996
00:45:27,639 --> 00:45:29,679
Duran and his looks. How did you feel overall just

997
00:45:30,039 --> 00:45:32,960
working within the offense where you know that's that's a

998
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,159
guy that can go down the floor and basically get

999
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,519
up a shot anytime he wants to, but you also

1000
00:45:37,599 --> 00:45:40,079
want him to kind of play with the team around him.

1001
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,679
What is it like for you as a coach finding

1002
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,360
the right moment to get him going and but also

1003
00:45:45,559 --> 00:45:47,360
wanting to play with with everyone else.

1004
00:45:49,159 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you want him to be who he is,

1005
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,239
which is a great score. But we understand just like we're.

1006
00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 9: Trying to take Shay out, they're trying to take Kevin out.

1007
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,039
Speaker 3: For the most part. They want lou Dort pretty much

1008
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:00,519
face guarding the whole time.

1009
00:46:00,639 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 9: So, like that's what I mentioned. Our setups have to

1010
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:06,000
be better. Guys have to try to make theirselves get open,

1011
00:46:06,039 --> 00:46:08,159
and we need to set better screens. So playing with

1012
00:46:08,199 --> 00:46:10,639
a little more force and pace and not to let

1013
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:12,159
him dictate where we're going to go in the court,

1014
00:46:12,199 --> 00:46:14,559
that's gonna be a big thing. But at times he

1015
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,239
was somewhat of a decoy because they held the way

1016
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,199
they reguarding him, and he got guys open looks and

1017
00:46:20,119 --> 00:46:22,440
at times when they're trapping him or or they're really

1018
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,519
face guarding him. We're basically playing four on four at times,

1019
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:28,320
almost like a box in one, and so we have

1020
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,360
to do a better job getting them open, getting them

1021
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,559
into spots to score. But he has to be aggressive

1022
00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:35,679
as well and get open, and so it's a little

1023
00:46:35,679 --> 00:46:38,079
bit of both. And we understand what okay Se does,

1024
00:46:38,199 --> 00:46:40,360
but he's seen that throughout his career, and then it's

1025
00:46:40,519 --> 00:46:41,760
just well and take.

1026
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:43,199
Speaker 3: We'll handle that as the season goes.

1027
00:46:43,679 --> 00:46:46,039
Speaker 2: I don't think you guys did anything differently to Shane

1028
00:46:46,039 --> 00:46:48,800
in the second half. Was there something that you saw

1029
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,719
from him and the bernard being turned up a little bit,

1030
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,800
because obviously in the first half he wasn't a real

1031
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:56,119
huge part of the offense, but got himself involved in

1032
00:46:56,159 --> 00:46:57,199
the second half in overtime.

1033
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 9: No, I think our traps weren't as aggressive, for sure.

1034
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,800
I think we got caught a few times looking at

1035
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,679
other actions and then he got the pick and roll

1036
00:47:05,679 --> 00:47:08,960
where he had more room freedom to operate. You know

1037
00:47:09,039 --> 00:47:11,440
he's gonna come out aggressive when he's has a poor

1038
00:47:11,559 --> 00:47:14,000
first half. We saw that last year and and season tournaments.

1039
00:47:14,039 --> 00:47:17,400
On the games reguard him really well, and then when

1040
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:19,320
we were in the zone. We did allow him to

1041
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,920
get to the spots where we didn't want him to.

1042
00:47:21,079 --> 00:47:22,760
We wanted to send him to the crowd, send him

1043
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,039
to middle. He that wants to attack the seams and

1044
00:47:25,079 --> 00:47:28,079
get away from the double teams, and repeatedly late in

1045
00:47:28,119 --> 00:47:30,119
the fourth court in overtime, he got to those spots

1046
00:47:30,119 --> 00:47:31,840
and that's where he saw some of those jumpers where

1047
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,320
we did a great job of funneling him to the

1048
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,239
help in the zone specifically, and so we didn't do

1049
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,159
it as good a job and for those reasons and

1050
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,639
kind of allow him to get going. And then obviously

1051
00:47:41,679 --> 00:47:43,039
you got to free throw line a little bit too

1052
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:43,559
much as well.

1053
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,559
Speaker 2: Before you wrap things up, I asked you just before

1054
00:47:46,599 --> 00:47:48,960
the game yesterday, it's worth for this audience as well.

1055
00:47:49,159 --> 00:47:50,880
You went with the double bigs last night, or with

1056
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,719
the jumble, whatever you want to call the lineup, tell

1057
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,719
for this audience dictate he may what you think you

1058
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,880
will do. How much it will be against who you're

1059
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,119
going with now Homegren obviously it being out there with

1060
00:48:01,199 --> 00:48:03,800
Hartenstein that dictated it last night. How much will you

1061
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,239
try to push the envelope to put that big line

1062
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,960
up out there against guys that maybe not be as

1063
00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:09,880
tall and as physical as Oklahoma City would be.

1064
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 9: Yeah, there are a lot of things that play in

1065
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,519
it into it, and it's not just other teams with

1066
00:48:15,639 --> 00:48:18,920
big lineups. We do like to put alpurn on some

1067
00:48:19,599 --> 00:48:22,000
lesser scoring threat wings and you saw him on door

1068
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,320
It and certain guys last night, and there's plenty of

1069
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:25,840
guys in the league and from game.

1070
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,639
Speaker 3: To game we could do that with.

1071
00:48:27,199 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 9: But it's also dictated by how they want to guard.

1072
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,320
And you know, they've they've been a team that puts

1073
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,320
home grin on them in a lot, and we wanted

1074
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:35,960
to free up them in as well, and so we

1075
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,280
if we don't play out double big, they'll switch that matchup.

1076
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 3: And so it's not just.

1077
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 9: Based on their personnel's how they want to defend. We

1078
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,239
take all those things into account and you know, fringing

1079
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,880
up them in with a guard on him. You saw

1080
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,320
how he got downhill versus the length of home grin

1081
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,480
and some of those guys, And so it's a night

1082
00:48:53,519 --> 00:48:55,800
by night based night to night thing to start. We'll

1083
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,199
be flu with it until we get healthy, fully healthy

1084
00:48:58,199 --> 00:49:00,239
and have some options with Douring and Jaysha.

1085
00:49:00,159 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 3: And those guys, we can look at.

1086
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 9: But we love the versatility that we have and obviously

1087
00:49:04,559 --> 00:49:06,679
the lineup that we've had a ton of successes is

1088
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,039
playing with those two bigs, and some will continue to

1089
00:49:09,119 --> 00:49:10,000
go with you.

1090
00:49:10,119 --> 00:49:12,320
Speaker 2: Look, once the game got started last night, once the

1091
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,239
ceremony was overwhe in the rings and all that, it

1092
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,559
was just an NBA game, But you were going to

1093
00:49:16,599 --> 00:49:18,679
get that opportunity coming up here on Friday night. I'm

1094
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,360
assuming that Katie is very excited about being wearing the

1095
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,039
Rock and Home gear for the very first time.

1096
00:49:24,559 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think everybody is, and you know, to me,

1097
00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:30,400
I think our whole team enjoyed that game. You know,

1098
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,159
we want to be tested right from the start, and

1099
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,679
so Detroit is another you know, up and coming team

1100
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,760
that plays extremely physical as well, and so it will

1101
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,719
be another challenge for us and ready to get this

1102
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,159
first win out of the way. Had an opportunity, like

1103
00:49:42,199 --> 00:49:44,400
I said last night, you know, fouled laid a few

1104
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,000
times with some free throws and things of those nature,

1105
00:49:47,079 --> 00:49:49,239
but had the opportunity there, and then we'll take a

1106
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:50,840
look at that and try to improve on game two.

1107
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,159
Speaker 2: Great visit, friend, thank you for the time. We'll see

1108
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:55,480
you Friday night, and good luck against the Pistons. Appreciate

1109
00:49:55,519 --> 00:49:57,800
the time as always, Thank you, Thank you, guys, appreciate it.

1110
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,920
That team Adoka joining us here for a weekly visit,

1111
00:50:00,119 --> 00:50:02,320
but with us once week, probably gonna be Wednesdays and Thursdays,

1112
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:05,320
depending on our the schedule. But it should be fun

1113
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,320
and great stuff as always. Let me tell you there's

1114
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:14,360
no shirt coating. There's very little cliches. No, he's a

1115
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,519
players coach, yes, but he one hundred percent will tell

1116
00:50:18,519 --> 00:50:21,719
you how he's feeling and will not mince words, especially

1117
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:24,559
when things are going right or going wrong. And you know,

1118
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:30,840
look SGA just SGA does SGA things that that is

1119
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,400
an excellent title contending team. There's a lot of buzz

1120
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,800
about the Rockets. There's a lot of buzz about Denver.

1121
00:50:38,519 --> 00:50:41,400
But why anybody is not giving okay see the respect

1122
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,760
they deserve after having their nine rotation guys back and

1123
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,920
again late last time, they didn't have Jalen Williams, the

1124
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,960
good Jalen Williams, not that the bad one was bad. Hey,

1125
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,880
you know, I know there's eight and six and eight

1126
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:56,360
significantly better than six, that's true. I just don't want

1127
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,159
anyone more of those. You're not gonna get mats.

1128
00:50:59,199 --> 00:50:59,639
Speaker 3: Are you sure?

1129
00:51:00,079 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 2: Yes, I personally guarantee you they won't go to double

1130
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,920
overtime and lose by one. And can I get a

1131
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,079
nineteen point blow out Friday night against the Back? I can't.

1132
00:51:07,639 --> 00:51:09,719
I can't guarantee you that. All Right, This S's are

1133
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:13,519
pretty good. They're really good, Austars. That's the twin Battles

1134
00:51:13,519 --> 00:51:16,280
are It's gonna be great. And thankfully it sounds like

1135
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,320
everything is okay with the men, So that's good to know.

1136
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,159
Seven one three two point two five seven ninety seven

1137
00:51:21,199 --> 00:51:26,480
one three two one two five seven night. Yeah, that

1138
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:36,800
Dodger podcast, I'm sure is highly entertaining. Oh jesus, I'm

1139
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,119
actually gonna move to that one when I finish my

1140
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:44,639
anthology podcast on the twenty nineteen Washington Nationals. Yeah, I'm

1141
00:51:44,679 --> 00:51:47,639
gonna go with my next podcast I will listen to

1142
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:49,840
is the Greatness of the eighty three North Carolina State

1143
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:55,000
wolf Pack and the twenty twenty four Florida Gator basketball team. Yes,

1144
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:57,920
and then we're gonna move on to the Dynasty Warriors

1145
00:51:58,559 --> 00:52:00,719
recapping all of their playoff seriesgainst the Rocket, and then

1146
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,519
the podcast going to is just How Cool with the

1147
00:52:02,559 --> 00:52:05,400
Buffalo Bills in ninety three. Yes, can't wait, this is

1148
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:13,800
actually funny, Bed. Let's continue, Jonathan, he's going to the

1149
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:26,000
greatness of SFA football. Oh wow, m dam Lillard underrated

1150
00:52:26,639 --> 00:52:29,840
three port shooter in clutch Moments the podcast I heard.

1151
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,280
I'll be doing the two thousand and nine Alabama Crimson

1152
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,480
Tide podcast. I'll be checking that one out. Yeah, it

1153
00:52:35,519 --> 00:52:39,719
don't really make me feel good. Yeah, the Charlie Strong

1154
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:44,320
was Misunderstood podcast. I think he still deserved a fair shot.

1155
00:52:45,199 --> 00:52:48,800
I'm kidding. Oh, here's one the day Texas got back.

1156
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,280
I'm sorry, used to have somewhere to get back from.

1157
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,480
All right, I'm sorry. You know what, I'd like to

1158
00:52:58,519 --> 00:53:04,519
apologize each other. You say your apologies are Friday? Okay, Yeah, Look,

1159
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,400
we have a wonderful company, but promoting the Dodgers is

1160
00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:11,039
just not a great idea. But everything else we do

1161
00:53:11,159 --> 00:53:14,400
is great. I'm very pleased, all right? Seven one three, two,

1162
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,639
one two five seven Natty people texting in. I would

1163
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:21,719
even take dudes on dudes over this. Seriously, let me

1164
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:23,320
give you the run of what we get. We were

1165
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,719
promoted the development of the MLS team in San Diego.

1166
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:31,440
I heard that one wasn't there Polynesian Philipeen battle Peen

1167
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,960
Basketball League don't be that many. Pacio's dropping twenty a game.

1168
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,360
It can't be that good of a league. Dudes on, dudes,

1169
00:53:37,519 --> 00:53:45,199
that was something else. These are from iHeart national folks.

1170
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,400
It's not our call, not our call. Sorry, trust me.

1171
00:53:47,639 --> 00:53:51,400
Our local management is like, what are we doing? National management?

1172
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:52,199
You'll play these things?

1173
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:52,639
Speaker 3: I like it.

1174
00:53:53,039 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 2: Yes, the Dodger last thing about this is a nice

1175
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,880
wor moving on? Why would I mean our company, the

1176
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,039
Dodgers don't carry a national fan base. The Yankees do.

1177
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:11,400
I no, I'm saying it. I'm no. You are not

1178
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:13,880
gonna know. I don't as big as the Yankees. I mean,

1179
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,119
I'm with you there. Let me tell you who. Let

1180
00:54:16,159 --> 00:54:18,519
me tell you the national brands are. You could do

1181
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:20,920
a Yankee podcast and do quite well. You can do

1182
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,840
a Dallas Cowboy podcast and do quite well. I don't.

1183
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,039
I don't think people are just generally speaking. Looking now,

1184
00:54:29,119 --> 00:54:32,239
if you want to do show hey, that's where I'm going.

1185
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,440
Maybe that's it show Tani. I mean, they have a

1186
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:41,480
lot of Japanese players, you know. I think there's a

1187
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,039
there is a why we're global appeal for sure. But

1188
00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:47,760
but we don't. I heard doesn't globally promote these things.

1189
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:53,199
They're trying to Matt trying to grow baby. We've we've

1190
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:57,639
had We've had some doozies. Hmmm, yeah, this one's the worst.

1191
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,119
Let me tell you something. Wasn't there another one that

1192
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,480
was like was it a Warriors podcast or something like that?

1193
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:05,840
It was something recently. We've had a ste Yeah, we've

1194
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,000
had we've had a curry. Just like Poking the Bears.

1195
00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:12,320
What they're doing Poking the Bear podcast? What podcasts can

1196
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,039
our parent company do that can anger people? Well? I

1197
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:17,480
think they're playing the hits right now, the Dodger Blue.

1198
00:55:19,679 --> 00:55:21,400
If my schedule wasn't so hectic, I would go. I

1199
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,400
would do power bomb planking power bombs, you would, because

1200
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,480
I think I can do pretty well with that. Uh,

1201
00:55:29,079 --> 00:55:31,159
you know what, You're right, it's a little to you.

1202
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,039
You're picking two niches. Yes, I am, But that's what

1203
00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:38,199
podcasts should be. You shouldn't. Yes, one niche, but that's

1204
00:55:39,519 --> 00:55:42,159
the vin diagram of people who really love game shows

1205
00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:47,000
and really love eighties wrestling is not about you and

1206
00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:49,760
maybe three other people and three other people, Yes, but

1207
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:54,119
I you know what, Yes, niche podcast. Good idea, two

1208
00:55:54,199 --> 00:55:57,000
niches and one maybe not the best idea. I'm just

1209
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,440
I'm trying to be helpful. You're probably right. Got a

1210
00:55:59,519 --> 00:56:03,400
nice message for one of our listeners, and he says,

1211
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:05,400
David listening, he sent me on Instagram. By the way,

1212
00:56:05,519 --> 00:56:07,599
I'm all, I'm going to getting very close to three thousand.

1213
00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

1214
00:56:08,039 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 1: Well you you know what.

1215
00:56:09,079 --> 00:56:12,039
Speaker 2: Somehow on my unpaid vacation, I got a lot of

1216
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,039
I didn't even promote the my Instagram at sports Him,

1217
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:17,920
I got a lot of followers for whatever reason. I

1218
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,280
appreciate the support, and many of you who reached out,

1219
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,079
I appreciate you as well. All right, it says Matt.

1220
00:56:22,119 --> 00:56:24,719
I'm from David Matt. I'm primarily a baseball fan. I'm

1221
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:26,840
not a big fan of modern NBA, primarily to his style.

1222
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,079
But I do follow and listen to you in the

1223
00:56:28,119 --> 00:56:29,719
air and whin the car and catch a few games.

1224
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,800
Thank you very much for that. But since they moved

1225
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,519
back to the NBA moved back to NBC, I thought

1226
00:56:33,519 --> 00:56:35,280
I would sit down and dedicated an entire night to

1227
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,119
watch the game. He says. My only criticism about the

1228
00:56:38,159 --> 00:56:40,320
coverage NBC could not wait to break away and get

1229
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:42,480
to the LA game. It kind of ruined the overtime

1230
00:56:42,519 --> 00:56:44,920
excitement experience because they made it obvious they were ready

1231
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,519
to break away to the LA game. David, I thank

1232
00:56:47,559 --> 00:56:50,239
you for that. If I'm NBC, I do the exact

1233
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:54,760
same thing. Postgame commentary. Getting Shay Gilgess Alexander on the

1234
00:56:54,840 --> 00:56:57,360
microphone for a minute two minutes not going to be

1235
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:01,119
greater than watching Steph Curry and Luca in a live

1236
00:57:01,159 --> 00:57:03,760
basketball game. I would do the exact same thing again.

1237
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,440
I don't know how they did it, how long they went.

1238
00:57:05,599 --> 00:57:07,559
I didn't notice that, but I kind of also once

1239
00:57:07,599 --> 00:57:09,400
the game was over, I wasn't really paid. I had

1240
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,360
it on, but I wasn't paying attention. People want to

1241
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,960
see games. Post game stuff's cool. Pregame stuff's cool. By

1242
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,079
the way, seeing Vince Carter and Carmelo Anthony in the

1243
00:57:18,119 --> 00:57:21,119
same building last night, that was interesting. They did the

1244
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:25,400
NBA pregame show floor on the floor, and I forgot

1245
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,800
who else was a part of that. But yeah, no,

1246
00:57:28,199 --> 00:57:30,360
when in doubt, people want to see the games because

1247
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,880
what you don't want to do, even though peacock is

1248
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,920
the alternative, you're paying these billions of dollars to get

1249
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,679
these Superstar Markeee games on the NBC channels. Correct, So

1250
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,119
that's what you know. But thank you David for the

1251
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,000
message on that. And my guess is, if you wanted

1252
00:57:45,039 --> 00:57:47,280
postgame celebration, my guess is you probably could have gone

1253
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,199
to Peacock for like the post game stuff. I don't

1254
00:57:50,239 --> 00:57:50,480
even know.

1255
00:57:50,559 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1256
00:57:51,599 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to learn a lot about how these

1257
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:54,800
television networks are operating.

1258
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:56,119
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1259
00:57:56,119 --> 00:57:59,119
Speaker 2: I just had it on Peacock. The picture is great,

1260
00:58:00,079 --> 00:58:03,039
graphics were good. It's not stuff I didn't hear. Bug

1261
00:58:03,159 --> 00:58:04,840
was good. There's like when the three gets made a

1262
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,880
little three splashes up really yeah, and when like when

1263
00:58:09,159 --> 00:58:11,559
when somebody dunks a little a little, it pumps up

1264
00:58:11,599 --> 00:58:13,920
the score two points with it and then it says slam.

1265
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,639
Somebody's out there working pressing buttons. And I didn't record

1266
00:58:17,679 --> 00:58:19,320
the game, but I will do it. I will make

1267
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:20,880
sure back to it. Yeah, Peacock, Right, you can go

1268
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:22,719
back and watch replanting. Well, you can do it with

1269
00:58:22,719 --> 00:58:24,079
all the Premier League games. I'll put it that way.

1270
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:25,800
I don't know. I imagine you can do it with

1271
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,480
the basketball. Yeah, all right, seven one three, two one

1272
00:58:28,559 --> 00:58:30,760
two five seven ninety is how you reach the show

1273
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:32,280
if you want to get in today. That's seven one

1274
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:34,920
three two one two five seven ninety. You know what

1275
00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:36,280
we're gonna do right now. We're gonna tell the people

1276
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:40,039
tohut their bomb masses up. Okay. I told some people

1277
00:58:40,079 --> 00:58:42,679
to shut their bum mass up and see. Okay, there

1278
00:58:42,719 --> 00:58:44,360
were two people that want you know, one guy called

1279
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,800
me a tampon and a C and a P and

1280
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:49,320
what else? What else do you call me a n f?

1281
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,599
Oh when you when you mentioned the Mariners, Yeah, because

1282
00:58:52,639 --> 00:58:54,039
I put the I put the video up of the

1283
00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:56,519
manager of the Blue Jay saying how disrespectful was it

1284
00:58:56,599 --> 00:58:59,920
that people were booing when when George Springer got his knee.

1285
00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:04,039
But some were cheering. Apparently some are cheering some we're

1286
00:59:04,079 --> 00:59:06,639
doing but it was none classy. And thus, by the way,

1287
00:59:06,679 --> 00:59:08,719
you did be't so proud of me. I didn't. I

1288
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,920
was on a phony to Softy on Monday. I didn't

1289
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:16,119
wish him good luck, Good you guys yell. No, I

1290
00:59:16,159 --> 00:59:18,199
didn't care, but I empathize with him because we've been

1291
00:59:18,239 --> 00:59:20,000
in Softy spot. I mean, he missed me. He'd been

1292
00:59:20,039 --> 00:59:21,960
marrin Heer fan since he was a kid fifty years

1293
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,800
and he was also like, what down the half of

1294
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,599
what whiskey? Well, yeah, he had a thing of whiskey.

1295
00:59:25,639 --> 00:59:29,480
He was string whisky early. That's ober. I don't know. Yeah,

1296
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,639
do you do you go the whiskey at eight o'clock

1297
00:59:32,639 --> 00:59:35,239
in the morning? Probably not, I mean unless you're a

1298
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,119
problem drinker slash functioning alcohol. So we were talking about

1299
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,800
shower beers, and then we talked about morning beers, and

1300
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:44,920
the overriding thought was people do morning beers, but you

1301
00:59:45,079 --> 00:59:47,679
usually do it when you're tailgating for an eleven o'clock kiss.

1302
00:59:47,719 --> 00:59:50,360
You are morning beering at eight thirty. Yes, if you're

1303
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:55,599
tailgating or on vacation, it's acceptable just about any other instance. Yeah,

1304
00:59:55,679 --> 00:59:58,360
but we actually maybe any instance. I woke upbout eight

1305
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:00,760
up till eight oh five this morning, that's as late

1306
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:02,320
as I can really sleep. When you get here in

1307
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:04,719
reasonable time. I didn't wake up and have a beer.

1308
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,760
You should have. Probably the sho would be better. Yeah,

1309
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,159
ten o'clock would have been some faster seven one three, two,

1310
01:00:12,199 --> 01:00:13,880
one two, five, seven nine. If you want to tell

1311
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:15,719
people to some shut their bumb asses up, get in here.

1312
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,880
If you want to tell somebody, anybody got time for that?

1313
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:19,639
It's our favorite half hour of the week. Just to

1314
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,320
let it, let it go. Seven one three two one

1315
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,639
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

1316
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:28,719
five seven ninety gets eleven twenty eight. It's a Matt

1317
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,480
Thomas showed Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety Here

1318
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:32,679
again here.

1319
01:00:32,719 --> 01:00:36,199
Speaker 10: Again, time here again, damp it here again.

1320
01:00:36,119 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 9: Damp it here we get, damp here again here baby again.

1321
01:00:41,039 --> 01:00:49,239
Speaker 2: Time here, Let again damp it. The most cathartic thirty

1322
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:54,000
minutes of your week starts right now. Do you want

1323
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,719
to tell somebody to shut their bumb asses up? Ain't

1324
01:00:56,719 --> 01:00:59,280
nobody got time for that? You know where to find us?

1325
01:00:59,639 --> 01:01:03,960
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

1326
01:01:04,039 --> 01:01:11,320
one three two one two five seven nine zero Ross.

1327
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:16,000
I'm gonna probably not happen anything I have to pass

1328
01:01:16,079 --> 01:01:21,760
this week. I'm gonna watch out for you. Can I

1329
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:25,119
just say something in general? Please, I'm gonna keep in

1330
01:01:25,159 --> 01:01:28,239
general people who go online, and this is for anybody.

1331
01:01:28,599 --> 01:01:31,320
I'll jump onto this as well and want to just

1332
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,840
go and like take go out of your way to

1333
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,000
somebody you don't know anything about, and just go personal

1334
01:01:37,119 --> 01:01:41,400
shots and try to tear them down like out of nowhere,

1335
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,400
get get a life, okay, And this is happening everywhere.

1336
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,679
And this is also recently. Uh, I'm guarantee you didn't

1337
01:01:48,679 --> 01:01:51,239
talk about this map. But there's a young grandmaster's name

1338
01:01:51,239 --> 01:01:56,320
is twenty twenty. His name is Daniel Narditsky. Unfortunately died

1339
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:58,079
at the age of twenty nine. The assumption is that

1340
01:01:58,239 --> 01:02:01,519
he uh that he killed himself because of he was

1341
01:02:01,559 --> 01:02:04,239
getting online bullied. And this is happening all over the place,

1342
01:02:05,159 --> 01:02:09,119
and it's just it's too much. Those of you people

1343
01:02:09,199 --> 01:02:12,280
who go online for no reason and attack people you

1344
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,719
don't even know, without knowing context about anything that's going on.

1345
01:02:17,079 --> 01:02:20,519
Ain't nobody got time for that? Like it's it's just ridiculous.

1346
01:02:20,639 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 6: Ain't nobody got.

1347
01:02:23,079 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 2: I think I'm just gonna leave it at that because

1348
01:02:25,079 --> 01:02:26,280
I don't want to get angry and I don't want

1349
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:29,320
to get too much into anything else. Okay, Yeah, keepboard warriors.

1350
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:33,519
Shut your by. Masses up shit, Toby mass up man.

1351
01:02:33,679 --> 01:02:35,440
You are miserable human beings. And I hope that you

1352
01:02:35,519 --> 01:02:41,599
get in car crashes. Yes what, you know what, I'm

1353
01:02:41,599 --> 01:02:47,639
allowing that this week? Nothing to say. That's a great question.

1354
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:49,599
Some of you should deserve fender benders. Some of you

1355
01:02:49,679 --> 01:02:51,880
should be in a fiery car. It depends the case

1356
01:02:51,960 --> 01:03:03,440
by case basis. Yeah, terrible. Uh, let's see. I mean, look,

1357
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,719
I'm a little fatigued because I don't have the piston

1358
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,440
vinegar that I normally do. Yeah, so I'm gonna let

1359
01:03:09,519 --> 01:03:11,880
y'all sit back. And how about the NBA allowing in

1360
01:03:12,199 --> 01:03:15,920
unlimited overtimes? Anybody got time? Yeah, let's go go to

1361
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:20,199
the elam Indy first to fifteen. Let's go by the way.

1362
01:03:20,599 --> 01:03:23,840
Miscreate drama too missed the Ultimates. First fan texted us

1363
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,039
and said it was Reggie Miller that was mispracticing Shane Goon,

1364
01:03:27,199 --> 01:03:29,719
Shane Goon's name, and like I said, I didn't notice that.

1365
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,320
Maybe it's just Reggie Miller's just Reggie Miller. Yeah, when

1366
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,239
he said it, I remember only Okay, they were kind

1367
01:03:34,239 --> 01:03:36,880
of butchering that a little bit. I guess I'm using it.

1368
01:03:37,239 --> 01:03:41,679
Reggie's done fifteen or twenty opera in Shinoon games. Yeah, well,

1369
01:03:41,679 --> 01:03:43,639
at least I don't call him Shanguini like the guys

1370
01:03:43,679 --> 01:03:47,679
on NBA TV. What Yeah, I think we have that

1371
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,079
somewhere now. They do it as a joke. Like, I

1372
01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:54,639
guess that he's Italian. I don't know. I don't like it,

1373
01:03:55,800 --> 01:03:57,840
but yeah, they call him Alpera and Shanguini or something.

1374
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,440
That's ridiculous. All right, So come on in here, Houston,

1375
01:04:04,039 --> 01:04:06,519
this is your half hour. Let it all out. I

1376
01:04:06,599 --> 01:04:10,400
got we wait? Oh seven one three, yeah, Mark will

1377
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:11,639
put you on hold. We'll get to you a second.

1378
01:04:11,679 --> 01:04:14,159
Seven one three two one two five seveninety seven one

1379
01:04:14,199 --> 01:04:19,639
three two one two five seven nine zero. All right, Jonathan,

1380
01:04:19,679 --> 01:04:20,400
what's the matter with you?

1381
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 6: And I'm going straight for Titus Howard the offensive tackle

1382
01:04:25,559 --> 01:04:31,199
of Oh you coming out after the after you losing

1383
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,800
a horrible game. Defens did everything they could once again,

1384
01:04:36,079 --> 01:04:39,280
quarterbacks getting messed up behind you, and you want to

1385
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,199
come out and say and try to generalize the entire

1386
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:48,920
offensive line room saying we were complacent. I cannot stress

1387
01:04:49,039 --> 01:04:52,239
how much as an athlete that irritates the soul out

1388
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:56,679
of me. We are so passed as athletes, even even

1389
01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:01,039
at the the JUCO level. You go to your teammate like, yeah,

1390
01:05:01,239 --> 01:05:02,559
you know I was complacent. Yeah you know I was

1391
01:05:02,559 --> 01:05:03,400
doing whatever last night?

1392
01:05:03,519 --> 01:05:03,679
Speaker 3: Did it?

1393
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 6: Ain't nobody got time for that man's alone. That statement

1394
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,119
should have got him should get him to try talks

1395
01:05:10,119 --> 01:05:11,360
and I'm being serious.

1396
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 2: Well, for those of you that don't know, he was

1397
01:05:13,559 --> 01:05:16,320
asked after the game on Monday night about the offensive

1398
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:18,000
line and the performance, and he said, we were kind

1399
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,239
of complacent. And to my response yesterday was rossy. How

1400
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:23,440
is a team that's two and three going in complacent

1401
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,159
about anything? Yeah, and maybe that's just kind of like

1402
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:29,440
something you just say in front of in front of

1403
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:31,280
a microphone. It's kind of a cliche. He said that

1404
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,719
a couple of times before, so it was like a

1405
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,440
crutch phrase. Well, first of all, you should eliminate the

1406
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:40,000
word complacent from his vocabulary as an NFL professional.

1407
01:05:40,079 --> 01:05:41,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's oh my.

1408
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 2: Oh well, it's either we were complacent or they're incompetent.

1409
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:48,400
You don't want to say the latter. Kimi Fairbairn, who

1410
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:51,159
should get his name in the Ring of honor. Ain'tybody

1411
01:05:51,199 --> 01:05:52,960
got time for you kicking the ball in the in

1412
01:05:53,039 --> 01:05:54,880
the end zone to make it returnable. I want to

1413
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,760
hear his side of the story. He be like, nobody

1414
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,000
told me what are you talking about? If you're the

1415
01:06:01,079 --> 01:06:03,880
head putting to you, if you're Demiko Ryans, even if

1416
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,519
you don't know that, Jamika. You walk over there and

1417
01:06:06,639 --> 01:06:10,159
say kick the ball to the second to the second

1418
01:06:10,239 --> 01:06:13,360
deck of the stadium in Seattle Lumenfield. You make sure

1419
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:16,800
nobody wearing a Seattle Seahawk uniform can touch that football.

1420
01:06:18,199 --> 01:06:23,480
As elementary late game special teams execution, that fail is

1421
01:06:23,599 --> 01:06:26,119
But now, even if it would have gone out of

1422
01:06:26,199 --> 01:06:28,719
bounds and the two minute warning, you probably would have

1423
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:31,119
only had about thirty five or forty seconds you'd had

1424
01:06:31,159 --> 01:06:32,679
to go to the links in the field. The chances

1425
01:06:33,039 --> 01:06:35,599
were at five percent. Well guess what they were at

1426
01:06:35,719 --> 01:06:38,039
zero when Tim Saddle jumped on a bunch of guys

1427
01:06:38,079 --> 01:06:39,639
that got the fifteen year od penalty. That, by the way,

1428
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:41,480
was a bad call. I agree with you on that

1429
01:06:41,639 --> 01:06:44,239
because how often have we seen the piles get pushed

1430
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:46,599
and somebody goes and gets the first down. Tim Settle

1431
01:06:46,639 --> 01:06:49,440
needed to do that. It was a horrible call. Yeah,

1432
01:06:49,440 --> 01:06:51,239
I didn't think it was a good call, but it

1433
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,760
just came. You were you're you just you were battling

1434
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,280
the clock and there was lading blown by the way, Yeah, yeah,

1435
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:58,760
I agree with you. I think it was a bad call.

1436
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:01,519
But the worst part of it was kicking the ball

1437
01:07:01,599 --> 01:07:07,639
and bounce and running the left side. Nick Cayley, shut

1438
01:07:07,719 --> 01:07:08,440
your bumb ass up?

1439
01:07:08,639 --> 01:07:09,199
Speaker 11: What are you doing?

1440
01:07:09,599 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 2: Shits o bum ass up? Tomlinson sucks, well, he doesn't suck.

1441
01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:15,199
He's not very good. Missus Scruggs doesn't. Is that very good?

1442
01:07:16,239 --> 01:07:18,239
I should I'm trying to back off on the term sucks.

1443
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:22,119
Good jobs, Saddle fans, you suck. By the way, shut

1444
01:07:22,159 --> 01:07:26,079
your bum ass. Yes you know Toronto said shut you up.

1445
01:07:26,079 --> 01:07:27,280
Gate might have got time for you go in the

1446
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,360
World series. When I made my tweet, I made sure

1447
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,119
I put a I put like the restriction on that

1448
01:07:31,199 --> 01:07:33,199
the only people that follow me could reply, because I

1449
01:07:33,199 --> 01:07:34,760
didn't want to hear from Seattle fans. Oh I got

1450
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,880
it from Seattle. I got it because I got it

1451
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,119
in the I said the hate watch continues. I made

1452
01:07:39,159 --> 01:07:42,000
like a simple joke. Jo. I was like, fifteen Mariners

1453
01:07:42,079 --> 01:07:45,599
fans come out of nowhere, clearly searching the word Mariners,

1454
01:07:45,639 --> 01:07:47,519
get out there for you and take a bunch of

1455
01:07:47,599 --> 01:07:52,880
personal shots and say like, shut obumass up, you miserable shit.

1456
01:07:54,679 --> 01:07:55,480
We got close.

1457
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 9: I like it.

1458
01:07:56,639 --> 01:07:59,440
Speaker 2: I almost said something that starts with the tea. Yeah,

1459
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,280
I got call a t A p A c an

1460
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:08,519
a A b and an F. Yeah, if there was

1461
01:08:08,559 --> 01:08:11,519
a nasty word. Seattle fan called it to me the worst.

1462
01:08:11,639 --> 01:08:13,159
Go go home and put a shoe on your head.

1463
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:15,760
Dumb asses, like.

1464
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 12: What signs they look click? You look like idiots. My

1465
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:21,520
team gonna score some runs if I push you on

1466
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,680
my head? Shut up, Shut your bumb ass up? How

1467
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:26,479
did baytonge? In the mix of I don't know and

1468
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:31,000
whoa up? We're hearing from We're here for Baytown folks.

1469
01:08:31,239 --> 01:08:34,239
Speaker 2: No, I'm just tea, they say, you know, I'm just

1470
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:39,279
man j T on seven eleven forty j T. What's

1471
01:08:39,279 --> 01:08:39,800
the matter with you?

1472
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 7: Miko Ryan, shut Jo bumb ass?

1473
01:08:45,079 --> 01:08:46,319
Speaker 5: The only thing you're close.

1474
01:08:46,159 --> 01:08:47,359
Speaker 13: To is all in six.

1475
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 2: We gotta play some Dimico come in the news and

1476
01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:53,319
new we gotta we just gotta do something. It's just

1477
01:08:53,399 --> 01:08:55,800
gonna pitch you all off. What we're here for week day?

1478
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,119
Said the two seven one three two one two five

1479
01:08:59,239 --> 01:09:01,760
seven Doty s Ever won three two one two five

1480
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,279
Sevenati Mark is with his son Semonnie Mark. What's the

1481
01:09:04,319 --> 01:09:04,760
matter with you?

1482
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 3: Oh?

1483
01:09:07,039 --> 01:09:09,600
Speaker 7: I guess at the the Mavericks stay healthy all year

1484
01:09:09,680 --> 01:09:12,239
they won the championship. Hey, stephen A.

1485
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:14,800
Speaker 3: Smith, shut your bumb ass up.

1486
01:09:16,319 --> 01:09:20,399
Speaker 2: Up man, He say that, Uh, he's yeah, he's his

1487
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,800
takes hard. I don't know what he What is Steve

1488
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:25,079
and A trying to do? Is he trying to run

1489
01:09:25,119 --> 01:09:28,920
for office? He's he's spending as much time on political shows.

1490
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:31,680
He's on sports shows. I didn't know that what channel?

1491
01:09:31,720 --> 01:09:33,199
What what's he doing with shows? He was on a

1492
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,760
town hall on News Nation, which I don't I don't

1493
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:38,479
know what that channel is. But they had three different

1494
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:42,119
people on from three different philosophies, and then he's like

1495
01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:46,760
kissing Kyrie irvings ass he's now then he's getting into politics.

1496
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:52,880
He I mean, how about just turn the microphone off

1497
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,600
and go have dinner, let me some music. But actions

1498
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:58,720
aren't matching up with his words that he doesn't want

1499
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:02,039
to get into politics one hundred percent. And and for me,

1500
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:05,039
I want him to run for any office he can

1501
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:08,680
because they don't have to go promise you I will

1502
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:12,680
vote for the other person. Hmmm. Well, I'm never going

1503
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:14,159
to a voting booth again in my life. But that's

1504
01:10:14,199 --> 01:10:17,000
a different discussion for a different time. Yeah, in your

1505
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:20,279
own podcast. I'll be on my podcast. The world is

1506
01:10:20,359 --> 01:10:24,880
burning with Ross Vial. Hey, nobody get tape Dodger podcast.

1507
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:25,880
Anybody got time for that?

1508
01:10:26,239 --> 01:10:26,399
Speaker 4: Hey?

1509
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:32,840
Speaker 2: Nobody get if you do have time. The system is broken,

1510
01:10:33,159 --> 01:10:40,119
Ross Viria, yourar system is broken. That's true. Actually seven

1511
01:10:40,239 --> 01:10:43,079
one three two one two five seven dotty seven one

1512
01:10:43,119 --> 01:10:46,800
three two one two five seven nine zero. We want

1513
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:48,880
we got We had three good calls right there, Let's

1514
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:49,800
get three more. Sure?

1515
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:50,039
Speaker 3: Why not?

1516
01:10:50,159 --> 01:10:52,199
Speaker 2: We got people that got something to say. We give

1517
01:10:52,239 --> 01:10:54,760
you a little more freedom on this. You got something

1518
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:57,880
wrong with you, tell the world. We won't judge you

1519
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,760
too badly. Seven one three two one two five seven

1520
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,479
nine zero. That's seven one three two one two five

1521
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:11,840
seven ony one A right, I gotta preface something, you know.

1522
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:20,039
They call me the prefacery. My middle son's a fine

1523
01:11:20,039 --> 01:11:25,199
texting him graduate. Oh and I have a strong affinity

1524
01:11:25,239 --> 01:11:28,279
for its Texas A and m H great school. My

1525
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,760
son wishes he could get a job in Collesation. If

1526
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:32,520
you own a business in College station. My son wants

1527
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,359
to move back, desperately get out of my house, which

1528
01:11:34,359 --> 01:11:37,279
I'm okay with because I wanted to go. He loves

1529
01:11:37,319 --> 01:11:41,439
Collesation interesting. He he loves the Aggie lifestyle. He went

1530
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:43,399
to the Coach The Basketball Coaches Show, that's how much

1531
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:45,600
he loves Aggie athletics. Wow, I'm so proud of am

1532
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:47,600
Or doing that. Those are radio shows can sometimes they

1533
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:50,319
don't draw great. But if you got Peyton Thomas going,

1534
01:11:50,359 --> 01:11:54,560
he's ready to go. Okay. So with all that being said,

1535
01:11:56,239 --> 01:11:59,399
Aggie fans, ain't nobody got time for your football program

1536
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,000
being fine? Fifty thousand dollars for faking an injury to

1537
01:12:02,119 --> 01:12:04,600
save some time. Hey, nobody got to put it. I mean,

1538
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,680
come on, it's twenty twenty five. We're gonna catch you

1539
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:14,680
doing that. You cannot slow momentum, you know how, he's

1540
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:17,439
some momentum you make a stop. Well, they weren't doing

1541
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,920
much of that. You don't fake an injury. They're very

1542
01:12:21,039 --> 01:12:23,840
They're frankly very lucky. It's only fifty thousand dollars. And

1543
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:28,279
Mike Elko got a reprimand because if I had tangible proof,

1544
01:12:28,319 --> 01:12:31,000
which clearly A and M did, I'd be finding five

1545
01:12:31,079 --> 01:12:35,279
times that amount. Yes, So yeah, the SEC statement said

1546
01:12:35,319 --> 01:12:37,319
they saw a staff member telling the player to go

1547
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:41,640
down to the ground. That's that's as blatant and obvious

1548
01:12:41,840 --> 01:12:45,359
as they gotta come up with a buzzword that you

1549
01:12:45,399 --> 01:12:53,399
can just say, yeah, uh, donut, apple, turnover first, squeeze juice,

1550
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:59,039
anything but pointing down to the ground and going down, down, down.

1551
01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:02,439
If you're gonna fake an injury, just be smarter about it.

1552
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:06,159
We all fake things in life. Annexation to Puerto Rico. Yeah,

1553
01:13:07,199 --> 01:13:13,840
God bless America, all right? Number two on this, Mike Elko,

1554
01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:19,399
his name has been discussed in dealings with Penn State.

1555
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:20,159
Speaker 12: Hmmm.

1556
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:23,239
Speaker 2: I don't know if I if he answered it the

1557
01:13:23,359 --> 01:13:25,279
right way when he was asked about it during his

1558
01:13:25,359 --> 01:13:26,560
little weekly get together here.

1559
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 5: It is.

1560
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:29,520
Speaker 3: For the Penn State job.

1561
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,560
Speaker 9: I'm just curious your thoughts on that, how you handle

1562
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:34,840
your name being linked to that kind of job, and

1563
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:36,720
if that's something you've ben discussed with your players.

1564
01:13:37,159 --> 01:13:39,319
Speaker 4: I don't discuss it with my players. I think it's

1565
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:43,439
absolutely hilarious how you guys cover coaches. I think three

1566
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:47,359
weeks ago I was getting fired. Now I'm getting hired.

1567
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,520
Now you don't want me to stay.

1568
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:50,239
Speaker 3: But I'm lea like.

1569
01:13:50,319 --> 01:13:53,359
Speaker 4: It's just it's absolutely hilarious. It is a waste of

1570
01:13:53,439 --> 01:13:56,600
brain space to spend any time talking or thinking about any.

1571
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:57,239
Speaker 3: Of that stupidity.

1572
01:14:00,159 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 2: Mike Calco, I think you're a good football coach and

1573
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,119
you've got A and M football being as relevant as possible.

1574
01:14:05,680 --> 01:14:07,720
No one was calling for your firing three weeks ago,

1575
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:11,640
Mike Elcho, shut your bumb ass up, mate, shit so

1576
01:14:11,760 --> 01:14:15,239
bum ass up man. Well maybe not three weeks ago, no,

1577
01:14:15,680 --> 01:14:16,239
eight weeks ago.

1578
01:14:16,279 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no oh.

1579
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 2: When they collapsed, there were people not liking Melchlco last year.

1580
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:22,239
He's been there a year and a half. If you

1581
01:14:22,319 --> 01:14:24,359
are calling for Mike Calco's job after a year and

1582
01:14:24,359 --> 01:14:25,840
a half, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Have

1583
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:29,560
you seen the internet? What are you speaking as sports Harvey?

1584
01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:30,800
Have you been on this place?

1585
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:31,239
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1586
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:33,319
Speaker 2: The Cougar fans love me, so I don't know what

1587
01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:35,760
you're speaking of. I bet you can find a fire

1588
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:38,399
Elcho tweet somewhere. I bet you last year it's the

1589
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:40,000
keyboard warrior in mentality.

1590
01:14:41,079 --> 01:14:41,399
Speaker 5: You know what.

1591
01:14:42,119 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 2: Here's how you say. This is a little this is

1592
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:47,199
a little public relations one oh one. If questions like

1593
01:14:47,279 --> 01:14:48,800
that are being asked to you, which I think are

1594
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:51,840
very fair questions, It's a very difficult question to ask

1595
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:53,600
from the minute member of the media, but sometimes got

1596
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:57,000
to be asked. If you're really not interested in Penn State,

1597
01:14:57,079 --> 01:14:58,760
you know what you do. You say, I am not

1598
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,319
interested in Penn State. I love being the head coach

1599
01:15:01,359 --> 01:15:04,119
at Texas A and M. And you leave it beginning

1600
01:15:04,119 --> 01:15:05,920
into this. Well, you were asking me to be fired

1601
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:09,439
three weeks ago, and it's absurd. It's not absurd. The

1602
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:13,760
world of college football sees tangible change all the time.

1603
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:16,600
What would you have said if you were a duke

1604
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:18,840
of the weekly press conference? I heard your name being

1605
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,520
attached to Texa A and M. Are you interested?

1606
01:15:22,119 --> 01:15:22,359
Speaker 3: You know what?

1607
01:15:23,319 --> 01:15:27,640
Speaker 2: Especially for a campus that saw that douchebag Jim whatever

1608
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,600
Schlasnagel or whatever the hell's name is. Hey, you heard me,

1609
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:32,319
and you are a douchebag Jim, and I hope you

1610
01:15:32,359 --> 01:15:34,000
lose every game in Texas. I love your school, but

1611
01:15:34,039 --> 01:15:36,399
you hope you lose. They won't lose. They're gonna be

1612
01:15:36,399 --> 01:15:41,760
really good. But coaches lie. He didn't deny it, by

1613
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:43,680
the way, he didn't say. He didn't say, I'm not

1614
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:45,600
going to Penn State and I'm committed to Texas A

1615
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,840
and M. I said, I think A and M's a

1616
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:50,960
better job. I really do.

1617
01:15:54,239 --> 01:15:54,399
Speaker 5: Now.

1618
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:56,680
Speaker 2: Penn State isn't easy. I think the Big ten's easier

1619
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,079
to win in Franklin a little bit. But Ohio State's

1620
01:15:59,079 --> 01:16:01,000
not going You haven't been an ohiose Ainton gotten knows

1621
01:16:01,039 --> 01:16:03,960
how long they're not going anywhere us. He's gonna be

1622
01:16:04,039 --> 01:16:07,960
relevant Indiana Apparently it's going to be a powerhouse for

1623
01:16:08,039 --> 01:16:10,680
the foreseeable future. Penn State's a bigger national brand and

1624
01:16:11,039 --> 01:16:13,640
it has more of deep, rich history. It's got it

1625
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,640
in the playoff last year. I get it, but we

1626
01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:18,239
were were you with me when we were talking about this.

1627
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,279
It's not about what jobs used to be, like, we're

1628
01:16:21,319 --> 01:16:24,079
bigger Johnson. It's where the money in it's and who's

1629
01:16:24,079 --> 01:16:27,399
got a better Nilan. Apparently Penn State's got some money. Yeah,

1630
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,640
Franklin forty nine million a goal. Well they went to

1631
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,720
Roritas to get that day didn't care of course. Uh yeah,

1632
01:16:34,359 --> 01:16:36,600
Aggies are like, so what we're paying off Jimbo seventy

1633
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,960
five mil? Yeah, that's light work today's edition. If we

1634
01:16:39,039 --> 01:16:43,640
can out pay your fire coach, that'd be funny. You're

1635
01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:45,760
talking about iHeart Radio podcasts. We do a podcast of

1636
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:49,520
coaches that have been paid great than forty million every week.

1637
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:54,079
This week, Hey you buy a jim Jimbo Fisher Last week?

1638
01:16:54,560 --> 01:16:58,000
Their next week, James Franklin week after that, it'll be Billionapier.

1639
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:00,840
Oh yeah, I forgot about billionaire. You're getting fired, and

1640
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:05,720
then Mike Normal you'll be coming up here shortly. Did

1641
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,039
you see a stat It's like Mike Norvel has three

1642
01:17:08,359 --> 01:17:11,399
four game losing streaks, and the Florida Saton had had ones,

1643
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:13,680
hadn't had one since like nineteen seventy two or something.

1644
01:17:15,159 --> 01:17:17,560
He's got three, like three years coming up next in

1645
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:21,239
Florida Sport today. M last call, by the way for

1646
01:17:21,319 --> 01:17:23,079
some shut your bom masses up getting here right now.

1647
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:26,079
Seven one three two one two five seven Auntie seven

1648
01:17:26,119 --> 01:17:28,239
one three two one two five seven Aunty. Do you

1649
01:17:28,319 --> 01:17:31,560
know what Albert pool holds total the Angels? What did

1650
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:32,960
he tell you? Anybody got time for your job?

1651
01:17:33,640 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 3: Oh?

1652
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 2: Did they offer him the manager at Gerial job? That

1653
01:17:36,239 --> 01:17:38,720
was supposed to be the foregone conclusion. But Kurtzuzuki's gonna

1654
01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:41,600
get the job. I don't want the Angel job. Zuki.

1655
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:45,239
That's cool. I guess it's fine, but he's gonna lose. Yeah,

1656
01:17:45,399 --> 01:17:48,680
you can lose, yeah exactly. That's why why would Albert

1657
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:50,560
pool holes want that job? Nobody wants. He's made like

1658
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:53,800
half a billion dollars career, that job that you're gonna

1659
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:56,239
be told that we're gonna pretend we spell like a big,

1660
01:17:56,479 --> 01:18:03,840
big league team, but we don't. Yeah, congratulations to Kurt Suzuki.

1661
01:18:04,239 --> 01:18:06,279
I'm sure he'll be enjoy his two years there, and

1662
01:18:06,319 --> 01:18:08,079
I enjoy it. I was gonna say three, but yeah,

1663
01:18:08,119 --> 01:18:11,600
two sounds right. Nohe runners two and a half. There's

1664
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:13,840
gotta be a parlay on that somewhere. All right, anything

1665
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:15,479
else with you boys before we wrap things up? I

1666
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:19,119
think I'm good, I felt good, I'm a released. Well

1667
01:18:19,279 --> 01:18:21,119
you mean you were mad at all? Titus?

1668
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:23,840
Speaker 6: That actually really upsets me because you don't you don't

1669
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:25,760
even know that at college athletes, there's people that do

1670
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,119
that same thing, and it just makes it just makes

1671
01:18:28,159 --> 01:18:29,439
you think, like why are you even doing?

1672
01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:30,640
Speaker 2: All right? So let me ask you this, and we

1673
01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:32,760
got one minute here, what would you if you had

1674
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,640
tied us next to you and he was asked that question,

1675
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:37,479
what advice would you give him? What would be the

1676
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,800
proper answer? Just make something up or.

1677
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 6: Just do the classic pr We we failed to do

1678
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:46,319
our execution. We got to go back and get at work.

1679
01:18:46,399 --> 01:18:48,000
We had a little break and we'll come back to it.

1680
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:50,560
Why would you go out and say that your team

1681
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:55,239
is complacent? I don't understand that. Well, how about this?

1682
01:18:55,640 --> 01:19:01,039
Can you appreciate honesty? Yeah so some point, but complacent

1683
01:19:01,159 --> 01:19:02,119
only comes a negative.

1684
01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?

1685
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:04,520
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?

1686
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:07,199
Speaker 2: He he was asked a question and he gave you

1687
01:19:07,279 --> 01:19:13,960
a thoughtful, honest response. Now you, I guess what you

1688
01:19:14,039 --> 01:19:14,840
know what you could do? Also do?

1689
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:15,119
Speaker 3: Guys?

1690
01:19:15,159 --> 01:19:17,640
Speaker 2: You could also say we just we were flat. We

1691
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:19,680
should have been flat. We had a week off, we

1692
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,520
had some downtime, and we were flat. Maybe if he

1693
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:26,039
says flat, you can probably stomach that a little bit

1694
01:19:26,079 --> 01:19:31,159
of a thousand. So it's complacent. It's you know what

1695
01:19:31,239 --> 01:19:33,000
it is. It's the word complacent. It just got you.

1696
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:34,960
All right, We're gonna hear a little bit of him, Demiko.

1697
01:19:35,119 --> 01:19:38,039
We'll see how complacent he is with his team. It's

1698
01:19:38,159 --> 01:19:40,119
three three and a half out of first place in

1699
01:19:40,159 --> 01:19:40,920
the ANFC South.

1700
01:19:44,239 --> 01:19:44,640
Speaker 7: That alright?

1701
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,520
Speaker 2: How you feeling they're not making the playoffs? I know

1702
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:50,640
that I might not even get the seven and a half.

1703
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:53,720
I've made a lunch bet with you Wolf withth I'm big.

1704
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:54,520
Speaker 3: How lunch was that bet?

1705
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 2: I reeled you in? So you seven to well. He

1706
01:19:59,119 --> 01:20:01,760
got me very early. Yes, and then I was just

1707
01:20:01,840 --> 01:20:03,119
trying to be as much of a homer as I

1708
01:20:03,159 --> 01:20:05,239
could because I was thinking it's a AFC South. They suck.

1709
01:20:05,319 --> 01:20:07,239
Who the hell would have thought that Daniel Jones would

1710
01:20:07,239 --> 01:20:09,840
have a team that's six and one and they went

1711
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:11,439
to harry on one of my fantasy squads. They went

1712
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:13,479
to LA and they kicked the crap out of the Chargers.

1713
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:18,239
They're legit. Theyre are legitly legit. Seven one three two

1714
01:20:18,279 --> 01:20:53,960
one two five. Seven's the Matt Thommas Show with Ross.

1715
01:21:06,399 --> 01:21:10,600
We are played Brandy on the show. Almost doesn't count.

1716
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:13,680
I think it may be the exact song to lose

1717
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:16,560
track of things I swore we did at George Springer,

1718
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,039
believe it or not. That's why I texted you. Guess

1719
01:21:18,119 --> 01:21:19,560
I was going to just reuse it, but I had it.

1720
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:20,199
I came up my own.

1721
01:21:20,239 --> 01:21:20,359
Speaker 5: I know.

1722
01:21:20,399 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 2: I'm on the beach on vacation, just trying to try

1723
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,199
to relax, get blown up with these texts. I sent

1724
01:21:27,279 --> 01:21:32,920
you one text. Yeah, I know it was when you

1725
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:39,239
needed something. That's all right, come on, Matt, you are

1726
01:21:40,199 --> 01:21:43,000
you are awful? Is that is one of the five

1727
01:21:43,039 --> 01:21:46,199
worst things you've ever done. That's not true. Okay, much

1728
01:21:46,239 --> 01:21:52,199
worse than uh twelve oh six. So the bat tabas

1729
01:21:52,199 --> 01:21:55,520
showed Ross almost doesn't count, Maddie.

1730
01:21:55,520 --> 01:21:55,800
Speaker 3: It does.

1731
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 2: Let's get to the news that do you want to? Yes,

1732
01:22:01,239 --> 01:22:04,920
Rockets almost get the win, but they fall short, one

1733
01:22:05,039 --> 01:22:08,600
twenty five to one twenty four. A double overtime thriller.

1734
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,600
By the way, Matt Thomas in midseason form, great calls there, Matthew,

1735
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:15,880
I was pretty happy with my work. Again, you not

1736
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:18,039
being with me yesterday, you were missed, and so it

1737
01:22:18,159 --> 01:22:19,439
was fair. I had a couple of guests, but it

1738
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,359
was long. And then the double overtime, I said my

1739
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,479
go to lines, I need a cigarette. I don't smoke,

1740
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:26,680
but I definitely need a cigarette after the last night's game,

1741
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:30,359
that's for sure. Well, double overtime for Matt Thomas, double

1742
01:22:30,359 --> 01:22:33,279
overtime for the players on the floor, a Men Thompson

1743
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:37,119
not finishing the game, coach imy Adoka saying on this

1744
01:22:37,319 --> 01:22:41,560
show earlier today that it is just cramps. Overall. I

1745
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:43,640
thought he played pretty well, Matt. He was aggressive only

1746
01:22:44,279 --> 01:22:46,600
but did not make a three zero for seven. But

1747
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:51,640
the story of the game also Aubryn Changoon thirty nine points. Okay,

1748
01:22:52,039 --> 01:22:54,880
we mentioned five of eight from three. How about ten

1749
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:57,960
of eleven from the free throw line for Aubryn Shangoon

1750
01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:01,000
who struggled from both lines and is in career. Yeah,

1751
01:23:01,199 --> 01:23:03,680
one game does not a season make, but encouraging as

1752
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:07,039
far as the shooting prowess of Alpi looking to be

1753
01:23:07,119 --> 01:23:09,159
bigger and better this season. He shot very well in

1754
01:23:09,239 --> 01:23:12,600
the preseason from the free throw line. He did actually

1755
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,279
the first two months of last season shout at about

1756
01:23:15,279 --> 01:23:18,760
seventy five percent, and his percentages slowly declined as a

1757
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:21,359
season progress. He finished short of seventy percent for the line.

1758
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,439
He's got to be for as many times I think

1759
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,079
he's gonna go to the free throwing it for it

1760
01:23:26,199 --> 01:23:28,560
to be a pivotal part of the Rockets offense. He's

1761
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:30,960
got to get to the seventy three seventy four percent range,

1762
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:33,800
and I think he'll do it hopefully. I mean, yeah,

1763
01:23:33,840 --> 01:23:35,399
he was seventy five at the beginning of last year

1764
01:23:35,399 --> 01:23:36,960
and then he kind of fell off of a map.

1765
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:38,079
Fell off the map.

1766
01:23:38,119 --> 01:23:38,199
Speaker 9: There.

1767
01:23:38,319 --> 01:23:42,079
Speaker 2: Rockets back in action home opener coming up this Friday

1768
01:23:42,239 --> 01:23:47,960
against he hated Detroit Pistons. They hated Detroit. It's not much.

1769
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,159
I'm trying to sell a little bit. I mean, there

1770
01:23:50,279 --> 01:23:52,399
used to be a Jalen Green kid Cunningham kind of

1771
01:23:52,520 --> 01:23:54,680
rivalry thing. But Jalen Green is a Phoenix sun.

1772
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 5: Now.

1773
01:23:55,039 --> 01:23:56,680
Speaker 2: By the way, if you missed the conversation with I

1774
01:23:56,760 --> 01:23:58,479
may Dook, we'll replay it for you coming up at

1775
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:02,279
one thirty today, So to catch yeah coming up later

1776
01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:05,279
there all right. Elsewhere in the news, did you see

1777
01:24:05,359 --> 01:24:09,079
Roger Goodell's statements on the NFL's halftime show, Matthew, I

1778
01:24:09,159 --> 01:24:11,119
did not. This is why we have the news at

1779
01:24:11,199 --> 01:24:12,840
noon for things just like this. We know that there's

1780
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:15,359
been a lot of blowback. People very upset that bad

1781
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:19,760
bunny who is a Spanish speaking entertainer and does Spanish

1782
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:22,800
speaking music. Some people not happy with that. I thought

1783
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:25,359
you should put Lee Greenwood down there at halftime. Well,

1784
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:28,640
Roger Goodell says that ain't happening. Quote. He's one of

1785
01:24:28,680 --> 01:24:31,399
the leading and most popular entertainers in the world. That's

1786
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,880
what we try to achieve. It's an important stage for us,

1787
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,960
It's an important element to the entertainment value. It's carefully

1788
01:24:37,319 --> 01:24:40,479
thought through. Also said the league is accustomed to getting

1789
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:43,800
blowback for its entertainment choices, giving the size and breath

1790
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,079
of its fan base, So no change to be made.

1791
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:50,960
Bad Bunny is your Super Bowl halftime show come February.

1792
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,000
So here's my general thought is that again, no matter

1793
01:24:55,039 --> 01:24:56,560
who you put out there, at fifty percent of the

1794
01:24:56,560 --> 01:24:58,239
country is gonna love it. Fifty percent of the country

1795
01:24:58,319 --> 01:25:01,800
is going to hate it generally, but generally ninety nine

1796
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:04,920
percent of the country will watch it. So I don't

1797
01:25:05,039 --> 01:25:07,840
know Bad Bunny from what I've heard, It's not my

1798
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:09,680
cup of tea, but it is what it is. I'm

1799
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:12,399
not offended by it. If I don't want to watch

1800
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:14,359
it because I don't like him, or I don't like

1801
01:25:14,399 --> 01:25:15,920
the first two or three minutes I got I'm gonna do.

1802
01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:20,920
I'm gonna go get some food, Okay, get a drink.

1803
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:23,039
Maybe maybe I'll call somebody. May I'll call my mom,

1804
01:25:23,079 --> 01:25:25,079
see how she's doing. Yeah, probably not cann do that

1805
01:25:25,199 --> 01:25:27,520
halftime a Super Bowl. I mean it's thought, man, I

1806
01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:30,159
guess stop the camp all right. Keeping with the NFL

1807
01:25:30,319 --> 01:25:33,439
the Pro Bowl festivities, of course, there is no more

1808
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:37,520
Pro Bowl game is moving to Super Bowl Week beginning

1809
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:41,680
this February, as now the flag football game that it

1810
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,479
was changed to a couple of years ago and all

1811
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,079
the other stuff. Roger Ganell announcing that change Wednesday in

1812
01:25:47,079 --> 01:25:50,159
the league's annual Fall owners meeting, talking about how they

1813
01:25:50,159 --> 01:25:52,119
spend a lot of time evolving the Pro Bowl and

1814
01:25:52,159 --> 01:25:54,000
how to make it better. So it is moving to

1815
01:25:54,159 --> 01:25:57,800
the week of the Super Bowl. It'll be on Tuesday night,

1816
01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:03,640
February third in San Francisco. Don't care, won't watch. And

1817
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:07,000
remember there's been one person out there that has been

1818
01:26:07,079 --> 01:26:11,159
asking you for basically a decade just say no to

1819
01:26:11,279 --> 01:26:14,199
the Pro Bowls. Well, that's not a real Pro Bowl anyways.

1820
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:15,840
And by the way, every time I say that every

1821
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:18,239
year the ratings are good, the ratings are good. I

1822
01:26:18,279 --> 01:26:20,119
don't know. Just see the NFL is king. No matter

1823
01:26:20,159 --> 01:26:23,159
what they do, it just ends up whatever they touch

1824
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,399
turns to gold. A couple of other NFL notes, Matthew,

1825
01:26:28,239 --> 01:26:32,000
you have Jayden Daniels out versus the Chiefs on Monday

1826
01:26:32,119 --> 01:26:35,560
night for the Washington Commanders, Marcus Mariota getting another start

1827
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:40,119
for them. Unfortunately. I think the bigger issue right now

1828
01:26:40,560 --> 01:26:43,119
is the injury on the Houston, Texan side of things.

1829
01:26:43,199 --> 01:26:45,760
The injury report today will have an update on one

1830
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:50,000
Nico Collins. That will be an interesting one because yes,

1831
01:26:50,079 --> 01:26:52,279
he did leave the game Monday. Oh CJ. Stroud feeling

1832
01:26:52,319 --> 01:26:53,760
as well. He was getting banged up in that game,

1833
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:56,279
Like I got a pissed offensive line in front of me.

1834
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:58,920
It wasn't working. Taken eighteen yard sacks, one and a

1835
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:02,159
half point favorites home against San Francisco forty nine ers.

1836
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:04,399
I always want to say giants, even when it's football.

1837
01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:07,359
I know, and by the way, the New York Football Giants.

1838
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,239
They've always been the New York Football Giants. Yes, I

1839
01:27:10,359 --> 01:27:12,640
like baseball team has been the New York Baseball Giants

1840
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:14,520
in sixty years. I don't know if you've noticed. Also

1841
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:15,880
in the Rotten Five, I like to say New York

1842
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:18,960
Football Jets just because I don't know. It's a stupid well,

1843
01:27:19,039 --> 01:27:21,840
I call them the Jetropolitans. There's no such thing as that.

1844
01:27:22,159 --> 01:27:25,920
And elsewhere in quarterback News, Nimmit's legend Aaron Glenn saying

1845
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:28,640
he knows who the quarterback one will be, but he's

1846
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:31,439
keeping it close to the vest. Matt for the Jets.

1847
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,439
The Bengals are quaking in their boots. Is it gonna

1848
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,520
be justin fields or is it gonna be Tarrod Taylor,

1849
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:44,199
it does to find out. Apparently Torod Taylor day to

1850
01:27:44,319 --> 01:27:46,680
day with a knee injury, and Justin Fields has just

1851
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:49,960
been terrible. It's been pretty decent on fantasy for a

1852
01:27:50,039 --> 01:27:53,239
couple of games, had a few thirty point games, but

1853
01:27:54,119 --> 01:27:57,520
as a practical matter on the field, the Jets have

1854
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,279
been awful. And I would expect them to be number

1855
01:28:00,319 --> 01:28:02,039
one in the Rotten five this week because they are

1856
01:28:02,079 --> 01:28:04,920
still the win the only loan winless team in the

1857
01:28:05,039 --> 01:28:07,680
National Football League. And mat my friends the news at noon.

1858
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,079
All right, we're gonna finally play some Dimico cuts here, Yes,

1859
01:28:10,159 --> 01:28:13,159
for real, this time organic. We're gonna get organic reactions

1860
01:28:13,199 --> 01:28:15,319
to what we hear. We'll play two or three things here.

1861
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,680
By the way, Nope, no World Series till Friday. A

1862
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:23,560
little much, don't you think if you're the Dodgers are like,

1863
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:25,039
hey man, they get the Blue Jays get all the

1864
01:28:25,119 --> 01:28:26,600
they went to Game seven, and they get all these

1865
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,560
days off because they get to set their rotation. So

1866
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:33,720
Game seven was Monday. What would have Game seven been

1867
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:36,840
in the Brewers series Dodgers? Would that have been Tuesday?

1868
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:37,640
Maybe Tuesday?

1869
01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:38,000
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1870
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:41,520
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm gonna have to disagree with you and say

1871
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:45,399
that you not necessarily need the time off. I think logistically,

1872
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,359
you've got a lot of moving parts. H I think

1873
01:28:48,359 --> 01:28:51,119
that's the reason why they waited till then. Ah, it's

1874
01:28:51,159 --> 01:28:54,479
baseball but every day. But it is funny. Then they

1875
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:56,720
do go do a good job in the postseason, where

1876
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:59,640
it's wild Card day off right of the Division Series

1877
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,039
day off, front of the Championship. It supposed to be

1878
01:29:02,039 --> 01:29:05,880
the Fall Classic. And by the way, the Rockets game

1879
01:29:06,239 --> 01:29:08,880
next Wednesday, which is one week from today in Toronto,

1880
01:29:09,439 --> 01:29:13,000
is being moved up an hour, not because the Blue

1881
01:29:13,119 --> 01:29:16,239
Jays Dodgers game is in Toronto. It's actually going to

1882
01:29:16,239 --> 01:29:18,680
be in Los Angeles. But they want everybody at home

1883
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:20,960
the viewing be at the sports bars and whatnot.

1884
01:29:21,079 --> 01:29:21,840
Speaker 4: So uh.

1885
01:29:22,039 --> 01:29:23,800
Speaker 2: And also, by the way, did you talk much about

1886
01:29:23,800 --> 01:29:26,760
the Shoho Tani performance. Oh you mean the three for

1887
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,800
three and the complete game and all that good stuff. Yeah, yeah,

1888
01:29:30,239 --> 01:29:35,239
we six inning is a shutout ball, ten strikeouts and

1889
01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:39,600
three bombs. Greatest single performance ever in a post is

1890
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:41,720
a game by one human being in two different both

1891
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:45,520
offensively and defensively. I mean, not a huge lot of

1892
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:50,079
people fighting for that, is he the greatest athlete we've

1893
01:29:50,399 --> 01:30:03,279
seen in our lifetimes. Man, all that over, Yes, got

1894
01:30:03,359 --> 01:30:05,159
a little bit of breaking news. I don't even think

1895
01:30:05,159 --> 01:30:07,239
it's worthy of a sounder because we're just not a

1896
01:30:07,359 --> 01:30:09,960
Giants baseball town. You might as well, you know what

1897
01:30:10,079 --> 01:30:14,600
the sounder one time? But I thought this was done.

1898
01:30:14,680 --> 01:30:21,279
Deal Tony Vottello. You're like, hey, this is terrible. We

1899
01:30:21,359 --> 01:30:23,640
cannot do you know what. I don't like to apologize

1900
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:26,640
to everyone, sincerely, God, but don't If you have a

1901
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:29,039
name of Tony Vottello, aren't you supposed to just say

1902
01:30:29,039 --> 01:30:36,640
it Tony Votteto is Italiana eatery right, hey, right, Frank, Yeah,

1903
01:30:37,199 --> 01:30:41,359
I'm sorry. Here comes thirty seconds. Ain't get the greatest

1904
01:30:41,399 --> 01:30:44,079
gottic bread with that apamagan of Gee's on the top. Well,

1905
01:30:44,119 --> 01:30:45,840
now he's going to the San Francisco Giants. He's the

1906
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:49,119
Giants manager. Like, who the hell is Tony Vattello Tennessee

1907
01:30:49,239 --> 01:30:51,960
Volunteers head coach. He goes from a coach to a manager.

1908
01:30:52,039 --> 01:30:54,119
It's kind of a dude, bro, isn't he? I don't

1909
01:30:54,159 --> 01:30:56,640
know much about I mean, probably Gordy on Sports Knows

1910
01:30:58,119 --> 01:31:03,359
is locked on sec that is as seismic of a

1911
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:07,000
jump as you possibly can make in sports. Not saying

1912
01:31:07,039 --> 01:31:09,479
the college baseball coaches don't know what they're doing doesn't

1913
01:31:09,520 --> 01:31:14,319
mean they can't manage. But it's a completely different it's

1914
01:31:14,359 --> 01:31:18,479
a completely different sport. You're talking about different bats, sixty games. Oh,

1915
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:21,239
by the way, different bats. You're talking about using pitchers

1916
01:31:21,279 --> 01:31:23,399
for one hundred and forty eight pitches per game. Yeah,

1917
01:31:23,680 --> 01:31:26,600
he's gonna throw his Verlander back with the Giants. Yeah

1918
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:29,760
well no, yeah, he's your agent. Okay, he's gonna throw

1919
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:31,880
him out there about hundred and fifty eight pitches, old

1920
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:34,359
school style, justin you're going seven ings and one to fifty.

1921
01:31:34,399 --> 01:31:39,279
Whatever's first. I'm trying to look at his Yeah, he

1922
01:31:39,439 --> 01:31:43,439
has no major league experience as a cog Alerty was saying, no,

1923
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:46,760
Gordy was saying, he's the first coach like ever to

1924
01:31:46,920 --> 01:31:50,920
have no major league experience as an assistant anywhere and

1925
01:31:51,159 --> 01:31:53,479
to make the leap. I mean, let me give you,

1926
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:57,279
let me give you some comps. MLB manager going from

1927
01:31:57,359 --> 01:32:00,279
coaching a women's college basketball team in an NBA team,

1928
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:12,319
h maybe going from coaching an FCS football team to

1929
01:32:12,399 --> 01:32:15,079
an NFL team. I'm trying to see where his playing

1930
01:32:15,119 --> 01:32:22,039
career was he played at Missouri and yeah, he didn't

1931
01:32:22,079 --> 01:32:28,880
play in the miners or majors at all. Now, wow,

1932
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:33,840
he's forty seven years old too. He looks young, look

1933
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:36,319
looks pretty solid. Felik's good for a forty seven year

1934
01:32:36,359 --> 01:32:40,840
old SEC Coach of the Year in twenty two World Series,

1935
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:44,359
College World Series in twenty four and he's going to

1936
01:32:44,399 --> 01:32:49,520
be the manager of the San Francisco Giants. Tell me

1937
01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:53,479
the Milwaukee manager has got an interesting path too, Am

1938
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:54,279
I ryan about that?

1939
01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:54,720
Speaker 9: Oh?

1940
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:55,039
Speaker 5: Uh?

1941
01:32:55,399 --> 01:33:00,199
Speaker 2: What's his name? Milwaukee Brewers manager. I'll get give me

1942
01:33:00,279 --> 01:33:02,159
just a second, I'll think about it. Murphy, Pat Murphy.

1943
01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:06,319
What is his background? Wasn't his background in college coaching?

1944
01:33:06,399 --> 01:33:06,560
Speaker 5: Two?

1945
01:33:07,319 --> 01:33:09,840
Speaker 2: Okay, he's sixty six years old. I'm looking at his

1946
01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:15,159
Wikipedia Pat Murphy. No, he was the brew Well before that,

1947
01:33:15,239 --> 01:33:17,600
he was a Padres. Oh he doesn't a guy. I

1948
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:21,600
guess he was an ASU head coach in nineteen ninety five. Okay,

1949
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:26,640
he left in two thousand and nine at Arizona State.

1950
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:30,000
But he did play four years in the miners and

1951
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:33,000
he was on the Padres staff. He was a special

1952
01:33:33,039 --> 01:33:36,640
assistant to the baseball operations between twenty ten and twenty fifteen,

1953
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:38,640
and he was the interim manager as well when and

1954
01:33:38,760 --> 01:33:40,479
then when Bud Black got a fire, and then the

1955
01:33:40,520 --> 01:33:42,920
bench coach for Craig Council when Craig Council left that

1956
01:33:43,640 --> 01:33:45,039
so at least he had had a little bit of

1957
01:33:45,079 --> 01:33:46,960
work in the major league systems. But yeah, it was

1958
01:33:47,079 --> 01:33:49,760
longtime college coach too. He was the interim manager for

1959
01:33:49,920 --> 01:33:53,159
ninety six games in Padres for the Padres in twenty fifteen.

1960
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:55,840
Man Bud Bludy said, Bud Black, you're out pretty quick.

1961
01:33:56,760 --> 01:33:59,399
Ninety six games? Is the interim? Is Bud Black still

1962
01:33:59,399 --> 01:34:04,199
the manager of the poor Black? Hey, he's ajor league

1963
01:34:04,199 --> 01:34:08,039
record sixty wins and four and forty four losses. Yeah,

1964
01:34:08,079 --> 01:34:10,800
he was the manager of the Padres, Bud Black, and

1965
01:34:10,840 --> 01:34:13,119
then the manager of the Rockies for almost eight nine years.

1966
01:34:15,079 --> 01:34:18,239
Expectations are low. You're gonna go get beat up, make

1967
01:34:18,279 --> 01:34:20,920
a million dollars living in Denver, and he's he's been

1968
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:24,279
the manager in San Diego and Denver. It's not bad. Yeah,

1969
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,880
summers in San Diego and Denver. Yeah, it could be worse.

1970
01:34:28,359 --> 01:34:30,600
You living a good life, making a lot of money,

1971
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:33,600
your team sucks. You're not gonna be a manager anywhere else,

1972
01:34:33,640 --> 01:34:36,279
maybe working on altoon dependenties and millions and millions to

1973
01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:39,760
just watch the Padres and the Rockies lose. Yeah, but

1974
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:41,520
you spend your summers in some good towns, you do,

1975
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:45,039
all right? So uh, tony novellas that weren't pronouncing it

1976
01:34:45,159 --> 01:34:49,319
vitello vitello ortello. Are we gonna do him believe it

1977
01:34:49,399 --> 01:34:49,479
or not?

1978
01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:49,840
Speaker 14: Today?

1979
01:34:50,119 --> 01:34:50,159
Speaker 5: No?

1980
01:34:51,520 --> 01:34:54,119
Speaker 2: What is believe it or not? Today? Good having you back.

1981
01:34:54,159 --> 01:34:56,319
By the way, you know what, I can't take a

1982
01:34:56,359 --> 01:34:58,760
week off. No, you know you already get your time off.

1983
01:34:58,800 --> 01:35:01,840
I've suspended myself. I can believe you some more suspension

1984
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:06,079
time seven one three two five seven seven one three

1985
01:35:06,159 --> 01:35:07,920
two one two five seven. Oh, by the way, we

1986
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:09,279
know this real quick, and we were supposed to get

1987
01:35:09,279 --> 01:35:11,039
the where I swear to god, we're gonna play some

1988
01:35:11,119 --> 01:35:13,479
Demico soundbites because it's gonna really air thrill this time.

1989
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:15,199
But we're gonna get We only have a minute left

1990
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:17,479
I want to do to tell the truth. The other day.

1991
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:21,399
Oh okay, I was pretty proud of this. Okay, when

1992
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:22,880
you say, John that we did I did a pretty

1993
01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:26,800
good job. Although how many do you believe we did have? Uh,

1994
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:28,479
we did have a bunch of winners. Did we know?

1995
01:35:28,560 --> 01:35:30,439
I think we did. Yeah, we were. Actually we're out

1996
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:34,800
of Judas Priest tickets because of that oops, breaking law, dude.

1997
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:37,920
They're coming here every three months Judas Priest on a

1998
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:43,720
loop like we give it away Judas Priest every five minutes. Yeah,

1999
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:46,920
it's bad. I gotta I gotta find it. It was

2000
01:35:46,920 --> 01:35:49,119
we did it on Monday, right. Let me Yeah, all right,

2001
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:50,920
promote your I hate to do this.

2002
01:35:52,279 --> 01:35:52,680
Speaker 3: Promote it.

2003
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:55,119
Speaker 2: Give me a follow on Instagram. Now, I've been putting

2004
01:35:55,119 --> 01:35:57,199
a lot of content. I'm kind of staying uh, kind

2005
01:35:57,199 --> 01:36:03,600
of staying the onto the internet due to certain events. Yeah,

2006
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:04,920
but yeah, you know what, I would have a lot

2007
01:36:04,920 --> 01:36:06,239
of y'all followed me on my time off, and I

2008
01:36:06,319 --> 01:36:08,720
got a lot of encouraging messages. I really appreciate y'all.

2009
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:11,279
You can do so at sports RV and Instagram. You

2010
01:36:11,319 --> 01:36:12,800
can follow me on Twitter there as well.

2011
01:36:13,399 --> 01:36:13,560
Speaker 5: Um.

2012
01:36:14,079 --> 01:36:15,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna try to slap some more content on there.

2013
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:18,119
Actually today you're gonna make it with one of those

2014
01:36:18,159 --> 01:36:20,960
really weird background screens. Why is it really weird to

2015
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:22,600
you because your head is super basic?

2016
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:23,359
Speaker 1: No, it is not.

2017
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:26,079
Speaker 2: It's less than a third of the picture. I don't

2018
01:36:26,159 --> 01:36:28,359
understand how you you know, I understand? Never mind, you

2019
01:36:28,399 --> 01:36:30,039
know I'm gonna be nice to you. You should, you should?

2020
01:36:30,079 --> 01:36:32,079
You know a lot of people usual error all here

2021
01:36:32,119 --> 01:36:33,920
we go real quick to tell the truth. But you

2022
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:35,479
know what, get that to tell the truth? Music ready

2023
01:36:35,479 --> 01:36:37,520
to go? Here John to get it to tail the truth.

2024
01:36:38,720 --> 01:36:40,760
It's such a nice nice nineteen sixty eight.

2025
01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:41,039
Speaker 3: Jam.

2026
01:36:44,279 --> 01:36:47,359
Speaker 2: You didn't hear this right? No, I was. I should

2027
01:36:47,359 --> 01:36:49,399
have been listening. I didn't listen to a second of

2028
01:36:49,479 --> 01:36:52,039
the show. If I'm apologizing multiple times, I'm sure it

2029
01:36:52,159 --> 01:36:54,399
was great. I saw a lot of tweets about how

2030
01:36:54,399 --> 01:36:55,039
great show was.

2031
01:36:56,760 --> 01:36:57,520
Speaker 1: What I did?

2032
01:36:57,680 --> 01:37:00,720
Speaker 2: You did not? You're just not any tweets. I'm not well.

2033
01:37:00,760 --> 01:37:07,119
There were some complaints. Okay, here we go. There are

2034
01:37:07,199 --> 01:37:10,159
too many good jobs. This is three truth one line. Okay.

2035
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:12,439
There are too many good jobs out there for Nick

2036
01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:14,279
Saban to stay in television. He needs to get back

2037
01:37:14,319 --> 01:37:17,680
into coaching. Okay, there's Florida, probably gonna be Florida to stay.

2038
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:22,279
There's one lie, one line, three truths. Okay. Monday night

2039
01:37:22,359 --> 01:37:25,159
doubleheaders and stagger games are dumb. Single games on Monday

2040
01:37:25,199 --> 01:37:29,479
night are plenty. Okay, that's number two. Old Wow, Saban,

2041
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:30,319
I'm writing this down.

2042
01:37:30,399 --> 01:37:30,600
Speaker 3: Yep.

2043
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:34,119
Speaker 2: Monday night doubleheaders and stagger games are dumb. Single games

2044
01:37:34,119 --> 01:37:37,319
are plenty on Monday Night. Number three, I think Lebron

2045
01:37:37,399 --> 01:37:39,640
will not let Kevin Durant be the all time NBA

2046
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:43,000
sour leader. Lebron's going to keep playing until he pulls

2047
01:37:43,039 --> 01:37:45,960
away from Kevin Durant to be the all time earner

2048
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:50,399
in NBA history. And number four, the Texans need to

2049
01:37:50,439 --> 01:37:53,439
trade for a running back before the trade deadline. Okay,

2050
01:37:53,479 --> 01:37:54,880
you don't believe one of them. I don't believe one

2051
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:56,079
of those. Which one of the form I lying to you?

2052
01:37:56,520 --> 01:38:06,760
Number one? You win now you called it too Sorry,

2053
01:38:07,399 --> 01:38:08,920
just a look at disappointment on your face. It was

2054
01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:10,800
just I was hoping because I thought they were pretty good.

2055
01:38:10,840 --> 01:38:12,880
But then people caught on, like, yeah, NEX seventy is

2056
01:38:12,880 --> 01:38:15,359
staying television. Nick Simon doesn't want to get ANIL game.

2057
01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:16,640
It's too dastardly.

2058
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:17,119
Speaker 3: It just is.

2059
01:38:17,760 --> 01:38:20,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think Lebron's gonna stay, but I

2060
01:38:20,319 --> 01:38:23,960
mean perhaps passing Durant will be somewhat of a motivating factor,

2061
01:38:24,239 --> 01:38:26,680
but he's gonna get destroyed by by Devin Booker. Devin

2062
01:38:26,720 --> 01:38:28,880
Booker came at the right time of the Supermax. Do

2063
01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:31,680
you see Devin Booker's like fourth all time, He's like

2064
01:38:31,760 --> 01:38:34,920
twenty eight. That's nuts. Yeah, he's got no show.

2065
01:38:35,119 --> 01:38:35,399
Speaker 3: I like that.

2066
01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 2: Booker is gonna make like a billion I'm not even

2067
01:38:37,560 --> 01:38:42,000
joking a billion dollars he is. Yeah, all right seven

2068
01:38:42,079 --> 01:38:44,439
one three two one two five, seven nine. If you

2069
01:38:44,479 --> 01:38:47,399
want to jump into the conversation seven one three two

2070
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:50,079
one two five seven and yes, Ross we have believe

2071
01:38:50,119 --> 01:38:52,000
it or not today coming up at one fifty. If

2072
01:38:52,039 --> 01:38:53,960
you missed our conversation with Amy A Dooka, we're gonna

2073
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:56,079
replay it before they replay it for you, coming up

2074
01:38:56,159 --> 01:39:02,720
at about one thirty this afternoon, right now, all right,

2075
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:05,680
asked promised, we'll get to some rocky conversation. Come on

2076
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:07,159
blow because we had a great game last night. But

2077
01:39:07,159 --> 01:39:09,600
we've got to play a couple of sound bites and

2078
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:11,920
you and I are going to organically respond to some

2079
01:39:12,039 --> 01:39:14,199
of the things that I Okay, I think some Texans

2080
01:39:14,239 --> 01:39:17,560
fans are quite upset with. This is yesterday late because

2081
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:21,119
the US the Texans did not get into Houston to

2082
01:39:21,159 --> 01:39:22,439
like six o'clock in the morning because they know to

2083
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:25,199
play the West Coast game. Long flight from Seattle. So yeah,

2084
01:39:25,239 --> 01:39:27,880
it is a long flight. That's Seattle Houston fly that

2085
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:30,119
kicks your ass at Portland Houston flight kicks my ass,

2086
01:39:31,119 --> 01:39:33,960
that's true. The Great Northwest. It's beautiful up there, though

2087
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:38,079
once you finally get there, it's too far. Gorgeous. Imagine

2088
01:39:38,079 --> 01:39:41,720
if you are a Portland Trailblazer fan. I mean all

2089
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:43,680
them extra miles you have to fly. We fly a lot,

2090
01:39:43,720 --> 01:39:45,479
but thankfully we're in the central part of the country,

2091
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:47,760
so we get to nothing's too far in the direction.

2092
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:54,159
That's true. Fair how shut up? Fairly centrally located back

2093
01:39:54,239 --> 01:39:56,039
into the swing of things. Hit my knee on stuff

2094
01:39:56,039 --> 01:40:00,319
in here. Sorry, sorry for that, but get the because

2095
01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:02,720
we got to get to this. Okay, Yeah, let me

2096
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:06,399
go Ryans. What's going on with the offensive? A slow starts.

2097
01:40:07,399 --> 01:40:09,800
Speaker 14: Yeah, for us as collectively as a team, like we

2098
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:13,279
we have to do our jobs right if we expect

2099
01:40:13,319 --> 01:40:15,720
to win, we have to do our job, not offense.

2100
01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:18,439
Was just on the offense, but it's all three phases.

2101
01:40:18,479 --> 01:40:20,600
Guys have to do their job and we have to

2102
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:22,720
do it at a high level. So that that's the

2103
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:26,479
main reason we didn't play up to the standard. We

2104
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:29,079
didn't execute how we needed to execute a win a game.

2105
01:40:31,239 --> 01:40:33,760
Speaker 2: There we go. We got to do our jobs. We

2106
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:34,640
got to execute.

2107
01:40:35,720 --> 01:40:37,000
Speaker 8: You know what.

2108
01:40:37,279 --> 01:40:40,199
Speaker 2: You know what is happening, Nicky C is getting into

2109
01:40:40,239 --> 01:40:44,319
the word salad world with Demiko. I mean, Dimiko has

2110
01:40:44,319 --> 01:40:46,239
been a coach speak guy, though since he really has

2111
01:40:46,439 --> 01:40:48,880
I don't like him, but he's been very vanilla coach speak,

2112
01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:51,840
do our job, blah blah blah blah blah. I mean,

2113
01:40:52,239 --> 01:40:55,239
I mean, I understand, you don't want to sensationalize, you

2114
01:40:55,279 --> 01:40:58,039
don't want to make uh, you don't want to make

2115
01:40:58,079 --> 01:41:00,159
headlines and all that type of stuff. He certainly he's

2116
01:41:00,159 --> 01:41:02,239
a player's coach, so he's not gonna call anybody out

2117
01:41:02,279 --> 01:41:04,479
for the most part, just say we all got to

2118
01:41:04,520 --> 01:41:06,920
do our jobs. Okay, well, right now the job is

2119
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:10,800
not being done by the offensive Linemiko. Ryan's on those folks.

2120
01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:14,079
Speaker 14: I think the most frustrating thing for me is things

2121
01:41:14,159 --> 01:41:16,520
we've covered, things we've worked in practice, and we get

2122
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:18,960
in the game and it's just it's not getting done.

2123
01:41:19,039 --> 01:41:21,359
We're doing something different, We're doing things that we're not

2124
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:23,399
coached to do. That's the most frustrating thing.

2125
01:41:24,199 --> 01:41:26,720
Speaker 2: You know what, That's Actually, that's that's not so vanilla.

2126
01:41:27,239 --> 01:41:30,560
That's not doing things we're being coached to do. That's hey,

2127
01:41:30,680 --> 01:41:33,760
kyimy kick the ball out of the stadium. Yeah well yeah,

2128
01:41:33,800 --> 01:41:36,680
that question was specifically on the offensive line. That sounds

2129
01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:40,000
like complacency. If you don't get that word out of

2130
01:41:40,039 --> 01:41:42,279
your mouth, stop thinking about that. By the way, do

2131
01:41:42,319 --> 01:41:44,439
you want the weekly offensive line rankings?

2132
01:41:44,520 --> 01:41:44,640
Speaker 9: Matt?

2133
01:41:44,880 --> 01:41:47,239
Speaker 2: You know your folks at Pro Football Focus. Let's get

2134
01:41:47,239 --> 01:41:49,760
we get any more first, Yeah, we can do a

2135
01:41:49,800 --> 01:41:52,159
little more. How about c J Stroud? Are you seeing

2136
01:41:52,199 --> 01:41:53,319
some improvement from him?

2137
01:41:54,319 --> 01:41:56,600
Speaker 14: CJS has to do a better job of running the

2138
01:41:56,720 --> 01:41:59,279
offense right, getting the ball out when it's supposed to

2139
01:41:59,279 --> 01:42:02,439
be out. Everybody around him has to play better. He

2140
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:05,640
has to play better, just all around. It's not about

2141
01:42:05,800 --> 01:42:08,680
just one person. Is collective to better and he falls

2142
01:42:08,720 --> 01:42:10,239
in that same category as well.

2143
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:16,399
Speaker 2: Here you go, I got one for you. Oh go ahead.

2144
01:42:18,119 --> 01:42:21,680
This is a fairly hot taking moment for me. Here,

2145
01:42:22,359 --> 01:42:27,479
I love it. Bring it. I think CJ was largely

2146
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:33,000
responsible for the firing of of Bobby Slowick. I think

2147
01:42:33,039 --> 01:42:35,439
he I'm I could just about yeah, I guarantee he

2148
01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:40,239
gave part of this, says blessing. So CJ goes to

2149
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:44,199
demikosas I need a new OC, and he goes like, Okay,

2150
01:42:44,520 --> 01:42:46,640
you know, Bobby is my guy, but I'll do it

2151
01:42:46,680 --> 01:42:51,399
because you're my franchise and his development hasn't been any

2152
01:42:51,479 --> 01:42:54,039
better that He's going like, you know what, I protected

2153
01:42:54,079 --> 01:42:56,840
you once you're not playing well, I'm gonna tell the

2154
01:42:56,840 --> 01:42:57,319
world about it.

2155
01:42:58,199 --> 01:42:58,359
Speaker 3: Now.

2156
01:42:58,520 --> 01:43:02,319
Speaker 2: Is that hot take you or is that a reasonable deductions?

2157
01:43:02,399 --> 01:43:09,319
They don't know that Demiko's doing that necessarily, but it

2158
01:43:09,680 --> 01:43:13,760
hasn't been good from anybody and just going and get

2159
01:43:13,800 --> 01:43:17,560
your getting your John Carroll buddy slash Patriots buddy, Nick

2160
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:22,880
Casario getting Nick Cayley's. By the way, my got feeling yesterday.

2161
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:26,000
I don't have Nick Assario losing his job at any point,

2162
01:43:26,119 --> 01:43:28,079
even they don't make the playoffs that I think the

2163
01:43:28,239 --> 01:43:30,199
Texans you're ready for this. This is my gut, This

2164
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:33,359
is gut feelings. Nick, you see, keeps his job for

2165
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:38,039
one more year. The Texans let Kaylee go and they

2166
01:43:38,119 --> 01:43:40,119
go get a guy like Mike McDaniel once he gets

2167
01:43:40,119 --> 01:43:43,039
fired from Miami. Damn one year for mister John Carroll,

2168
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:48,840
Nick Cayley. Of course I could see all of that

2169
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:51,560
It depends on how the rest of the season goes.

2170
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:55,000
I mean, if they start really falling apart. Honestly, you've

2171
01:43:55,039 --> 01:43:57,279
got three home games coming up with the Niners, Broncos,

2172
01:43:57,319 --> 01:43:59,399
and Jags. You could lose all three of those games.

2173
01:44:00,199 --> 01:44:05,560
You really could. If you're sitting there, everybody's everybody's job

2174
01:44:05,640 --> 01:44:08,319
is on the line in the NFL basically at any time. Well,

2175
01:44:08,399 --> 01:44:09,960
I said this a week ago, you had I think

2176
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:11,319
you had to go three and one to get back

2177
01:44:11,359 --> 01:44:15,800
in the race for the division. I think the vision

2178
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:19,119
is done. The vision is done. Your home for the night.

2179
01:44:19,159 --> 01:44:21,560
You can beat the culture. You could beat the Colts twice.

2180
01:44:21,279 --> 01:44:21,600
Speaker 3: And do that.

2181
01:44:21,600 --> 01:44:23,560
Speaker 2: I mean you could, but are you going to You've

2182
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:26,479
you've won Indianapolis before they have. But the Cults are

2183
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:30,199
miles better than you understand. And this this uh bringing

2184
01:44:30,279 --> 01:44:32,720
up this offensive line rankings twenty nine for the Texans,

2185
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:35,479
the Culture number one on this list. Oh did you

2186
01:44:35,560 --> 01:44:38,000
just did you just slip that in?

2187
01:44:38,279 --> 01:44:38,479
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2188
01:44:38,920 --> 01:44:41,039
Speaker 2: They were twenty ninth last week, they were twenty nine

2189
01:44:41,119 --> 01:44:43,800
this week. They didn't get worse. Well, the teams behind

2190
01:44:43,880 --> 01:44:46,640
were the Bengals and the Dolphins. Dest does not agree

2191
01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:49,159
with this PFF grade. Well, Bingals, Dolphins of Browns are

2192
01:44:49,159 --> 01:44:53,920
pretty terrible too. That's two you're lumped in with right now.

2193
01:44:54,920 --> 01:44:59,319
Not good and they're just behind the Raiders. So poor

2194
01:44:59,359 --> 01:45:03,279
Ashton gent got like thirty yards last week? Did he really?

2195
01:45:03,319 --> 01:45:06,079
I don't even know. He's well, he's got the twenty

2196
01:45:06,119 --> 01:45:08,199
eighth offensive line. Things haven't been going well for him

2197
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:12,159
from a yard for Kerry standpoint. But anyways, yeah, you

2198
01:45:12,279 --> 01:45:13,880
just get one more because this is a question we

2199
01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:17,119
were talking about rotating the guards for the Houston Texans.

2200
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:19,760
Speaker 14: For us, rotating both of those guys is a matter

2201
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:22,960
of just feel like when those guys rotated and we

2202
01:45:23,119 --> 01:45:25,079
had a better situation than left guard.

2203
01:45:25,199 --> 01:45:30,560
Speaker 2: That's the reason behind him. What what they're trying to find? Somebody,

2204
01:45:30,560 --> 01:45:32,479
don't they say when you have two left guards, you

2205
01:45:32,479 --> 01:45:35,319
don't really have one? That is correct? They It's just

2206
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:39,079
it kind of doesn't matter who goes out there. Laken

2207
01:45:39,119 --> 01:45:42,079
Tomlinson was just a kind of a guy. And Juice

2208
01:45:42,079 --> 01:45:49,479
Scruggs continues to not develop. Massive failings by your general manager. Yes,

2209
01:45:50,159 --> 01:45:53,520
so I'm gonna miss talent assessment. It could be his scouts.

2210
01:45:54,359 --> 01:45:56,840
It could be somebody pulling on his ear and saying, hey,

2211
01:45:56,920 --> 01:46:01,039
this is the can't miss guy. But roster instruction. At

2212
01:46:01,079 --> 01:46:02,840
the end of the day, the general manager has to

2213
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:04,520
answer for it, just like Dannon Brown has to answer

2214
01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:06,239
just like Rofelson has to answer for it. I mean,

2215
01:46:06,520 --> 01:46:11,399
general managers create the roster. Your second round picks. If

2216
01:46:11,439 --> 01:46:14,279
you take second round picks on the offensive line, at minimum,

2217
01:46:14,319 --> 01:46:19,000
they're supposed to be solid starters almost from day one.

2218
01:46:19,279 --> 01:46:21,359
And arianta ursery has been a started from day one,

2219
01:46:21,399 --> 01:46:24,119
not because an slily deserted, but because they needed him

2220
01:46:24,119 --> 01:46:27,000
to do it. And he's going through typical rookie growing pants,

2221
01:46:27,119 --> 01:46:33,479
right he has been He's yeah, he's been struggling. It's

2222
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:36,279
not been great for him, and he's had some tough

2223
01:46:36,279 --> 01:46:40,920
assignments and on the road it's getting worse. But and NFL,

2224
01:46:41,039 --> 01:46:43,800
you're supposed to build chemistry with your left guard. That's

2225
01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,479
another thing you want. You want to stabilize and make

2226
01:46:46,560 --> 01:46:49,000
things easier with your left guard with your left tackle.

2227
01:46:49,199 --> 01:46:50,800
And one way you do that is you give him

2228
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:52,520
the guy next to him every snap that they can

2229
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:54,880
build chemistry and be on the same page with as well,

2230
01:46:55,319 --> 01:46:57,920
passing off stunts and knowing who's picking up who all

2231
01:46:58,039 --> 01:46:59,479
is you get a look to your right and figure

2232
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:01,880
out who's your left guard. Every other series. That's not

2233
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:04,840
conducive for success. It's not a good situation for him,

2234
01:47:04,960 --> 01:47:08,000
all right. And he's not looking like I mean, things

2235
01:47:08,039 --> 01:47:10,560
can Tackles can struggle ear in their career and figure

2236
01:47:10,600 --> 01:47:13,039
things out. So you're not saying this is his career

2237
01:47:13,119 --> 01:47:15,079
is over or anything like that. But it's obviously not

2238
01:47:15,159 --> 01:47:16,079
been a good start, all right.

2239
01:47:16,119 --> 01:47:16,560
Speaker 3: So there you go.

2240
01:47:16,720 --> 01:47:21,119
Speaker 2: There's Jamiko one possession games most weeks. Gotta get better.

2241
01:47:21,399 --> 01:47:24,000
Cg's got to get better. I've got to get better.

2242
01:47:24,239 --> 01:47:28,279
Team's got to get better. But really, I mean they

2243
01:47:28,439 --> 01:47:32,079
think they got a gift, not a gift Will Anderson earned.

2244
01:47:32,279 --> 01:47:35,079
They they earned the pressure and the touchdown and stuff

2245
01:47:35,159 --> 01:47:38,000
like that. Not a gift. But I mean, that's that's

2246
01:47:38,079 --> 01:47:40,199
a good back. The football could have gone anywhere. It

2247
01:47:40,199 --> 01:47:42,479
could have been a safety, like you got lucky in

2248
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:46,039
a way to get that touchdown that you got. Yeah,

2249
01:47:46,079 --> 01:47:48,479
because if if Sam Darno would have held on the

2250
01:47:48,520 --> 01:47:50,239
ball like a responsible human being and just taking it

2251
01:47:50,279 --> 01:47:53,119
to your points, right, Yeah, all right? Twelve forty three

2252
01:47:53,159 --> 01:47:59,239
on Sports Talk seven, Honey, there are so many heroes

2253
01:47:59,279 --> 01:48:02,399
of mine as a kid that have weird Twitter accounts,

2254
01:48:04,119 --> 01:48:06,680
and somebody just put out one of my childhood heroes

2255
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:09,640
put out a weird tweet, and I'll tell you who

2256
01:48:09,680 --> 01:48:11,119
it is, and I'll read it for you. Ver rate him.

2257
01:48:11,159 --> 01:48:14,319
Next twelve forty three Matt Thomas Show with Ross We've

2258
01:48:14,359 --> 01:48:16,039
got to Believe It or Not Today at one fifty.

2259
01:48:16,119 --> 01:48:18,279
Before that, if you miss our conversation with ima A Dooka,

2260
01:48:18,319 --> 01:48:20,159
we'll have it for you at one thirty, it's Sports

2261
01:48:20,199 --> 01:48:22,960
Talk seven ninety at seven one three two one two

2262
01:48:23,279 --> 01:48:36,680
five seven ninety ten seven This morning on the Twitter

2263
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:42,680
verse that is known as x at Magic Johnson, I

2264
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:45,079
don't follow him, it's on the for you tab a lot.

2265
01:48:45,920 --> 01:48:48,600
And remember I was never a Laker fan growing up,

2266
01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:55,119
but I loved Magic Johnson. I mean, was one of

2267
01:48:55,199 --> 01:48:57,359
my all time favorite players. I was a kid that

2268
01:48:57,439 --> 01:49:00,600
grew up during the Lakers Celtics back and forth and finals.

2269
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:04,399
I mean guy plays four positions of actually five. He

2270
01:49:04,439 --> 01:49:07,159
account he played center to eighty finals, but could play

2271
01:49:07,199 --> 01:49:09,159
five different positions. One of the greatest point guards of

2272
01:49:09,199 --> 01:49:14,399
all times, six foot nine, great personality you know, overcame

2273
01:49:14,880 --> 01:49:16,840
you know his illness, I guess, and been living a

2274
01:49:16,960 --> 01:49:19,560
very productive life, multi billionaire because of all the things

2275
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:23,399
he's done. But he's just odd on Twitter a lot

2276
01:49:23,439 --> 01:49:27,000
of times. Captain obvious on Twitter. Case in point ten

2277
01:49:27,119 --> 01:49:30,359
forty seven this morning. I went to the Lakers game

2278
01:49:30,439 --> 01:49:32,880
last night and watched my Lakers get beat by the

2279
01:49:32,920 --> 01:49:38,840
Warriors one nineteen to one, O nine. Thank you? Wait,

2280
01:49:38,920 --> 01:49:43,000
that's it? That's it? What did he accidentally? You know

2281
01:49:43,119 --> 01:49:45,680
sometimes you accidentally hit post in the middle of typing.

2282
01:49:46,359 --> 01:49:46,800
Speaker 4: Do you do that?

2283
01:49:48,840 --> 01:49:52,760
Speaker 2: It's his account, it's well verified, doesn't necessarily mean anything.

2284
01:49:52,840 --> 01:49:56,920
But did you see his follow up? I did not

2285
01:49:58,039 --> 01:50:00,680
the Golden State Superstars put on a perform. It's Jimmy

2286
01:50:00,680 --> 01:50:03,159
Butler had thirty one points and Curry added twenty three.

2287
01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:06,000
But Laker superstar Luca Daanget stole the show with forty

2288
01:50:06,039 --> 01:50:08,920
three points, twelve rebounds and not assists in a losing effort.

2289
01:50:09,199 --> 01:50:13,479
Is somebody writing it? Is he writing a recap for

2290
01:50:13,520 --> 01:50:18,960
the AP? What's that? Two days ago? To my Dodgers,

2291
01:50:19,239 --> 01:50:21,800
it's time to get back to work, lock out the noise,

2292
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:24,399
remember no distractions, and focus on having a good week

2293
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:30,880
of practice and preparation for Game one of the World Series. Yeah,

2294
01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:43,239
it's it's just odd. He's just odd on Twitter. Crazy.

2295
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:45,119
You remember, you don't know this, you know he had

2296
01:50:45,159 --> 01:50:47,479
a late night talk show for a while. I do

2297
01:50:47,640 --> 01:50:51,000
know that failed. Well, it's not that long of a while.

2298
01:50:51,880 --> 01:50:54,640
I mean it didn't last for a long, right, it

2299
01:50:54,760 --> 01:50:56,239
was I think it was called the Magic Show, right,

2300
01:50:56,720 --> 01:50:58,920
the Magic Hour or some magic. He's you know, he's

2301
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:02,199
really gregarious. If Magic walked in here right now and

2302
01:51:02,279 --> 01:51:06,880
sat down, I would be a I'd be a silly putty. Yeah,

2303
01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:12,079
The Magic Hour June to September nineteen ninety eight. That

2304
01:51:12,239 --> 01:51:17,359
was quick. It was on Fox, right, Yeah. Fox. Fox

2305
01:51:17,439 --> 01:51:21,680
tried a lot of different stuff. Yes, they did early Fox,

2306
01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:23,800
like early ninety Fox. It was they would do anything.

2307
01:51:23,840 --> 01:51:26,479
They had put anything on twenty one Jump Street. You

2308
01:51:26,520 --> 01:51:28,560
had Marrible Children of the Simpsons, and you had the

2309
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:29,520
Joan Rivers Show.

2310
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:31,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2311
01:51:32,039 --> 01:51:33,840
Speaker 2: But then they would do like the Glutton Bowl and

2312
01:51:33,880 --> 01:51:37,239
all this other stuff. Fox, celebrity boxing. Fox really never

2313
01:51:37,319 --> 01:51:39,640
became the Fox we know today until they go when

2314
01:51:39,640 --> 01:51:41,439
they got the NFL. When they got the NFL in

2315
01:51:41,479 --> 01:51:43,800
the early nineties, yeah, I don't think you were paying

2316
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:48,680
intentionally legitimized them. It it it rocked the sports world world,

2317
01:51:48,720 --> 01:51:52,800
It rocked the broadcasting world. You're this Fox TV channels.

2318
01:51:53,159 --> 01:51:55,960
You know, because you think about this, ABC, CBS and

2319
01:51:56,119 --> 01:52:01,600
NBC are on your two, nine, eleven, FT thirteen, like

2320
01:52:01,640 --> 01:52:06,000
the numbers. Fox forty nine, it's not suposed been carrying games.

2321
01:52:06,039 --> 01:52:09,079
It's supposed to be carrying like repeats of old Mama's Families,

2322
01:52:09,119 --> 01:52:11,680
you know what I mean. And they were doing that,

2323
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:13,359
and they were doing that, and all of a sudden,

2324
01:52:13,439 --> 01:52:16,079
Fox forty nine became your home of the NFL, NFC

2325
01:52:16,199 --> 01:52:18,720
football and that's when you started to see news departments,

2326
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:22,279
I mean everything. This just shows you how impactful sports

2327
01:52:22,319 --> 01:52:24,680
television is. And we're talking about thirty plus years ago.

2328
01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:31,159
You go from that from carrying Mama's Family and idream

2329
01:52:31,199 --> 01:52:34,159
Aginie to carrying Sunday NFL double letters. And only did

2330
01:52:34,199 --> 01:52:37,479
they do that they went and got Pat Summerle and

2331
01:52:37,640 --> 01:52:40,760
John Manned to be their number one team. They went

2332
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,319
and got this young broadcaster named Joe Buck who worked

2333
01:52:43,319 --> 01:52:47,640
their lower tier games. They had Kenny, I mean all,

2334
01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:50,960
they had all the sons, They had Tom Brennaman doing games.

2335
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:54,760
They Kenny Albert was doing games. A young guy named

2336
01:52:54,800 --> 01:52:57,680
Kevin Harlan was doing it, was doing his first National Games,

2337
01:53:00,319 --> 01:53:02,159
the power of the NFL. But it's just Irvin. You

2338
01:53:02,359 --> 01:53:04,680
just and I'd call him magic like I said I would,

2339
01:53:04,720 --> 01:53:07,800
I would bow on him. I just love him, but

2340
01:53:08,319 --> 01:53:12,600
just really bizarre. Captain obvious on Twitter. I hate He's

2341
01:53:12,640 --> 01:53:16,399
got eighty five hundred likes, which is nice. Michael J.

2342
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:19,159
Babcock says, Opening Night, but Magic in mid season tweeting

2343
01:53:19,239 --> 01:53:26,960
for him, that's pretty good. Moe Egger says, I remain

2344
01:53:27,039 --> 01:53:35,520
on this app almost solely for these tweets. Great stuff, LMO,

2345
01:53:36,279 --> 01:53:39,880
perfect tweets, no notes, A lot of folks were sleep,

2346
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:42,399
so I give him a pass on this one. Riveting stuff,

2347
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:49,159
great tweet. Wow, what amazing insight all you might have

2348
01:53:49,239 --> 01:53:51,199
to suit up. That's funny. That is true.

2349
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:52,479
Speaker 3: That is true.

2350
01:53:52,560 --> 01:53:55,640
Speaker 2: Let's talk to our buddy Stunna on the Matt Thomas

2351
01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:57,520
showld Ross. If you want to join the conversation, you

2352
01:53:57,640 --> 01:53:59,800
may do so at seven one three two one two

2353
01:54:00,079 --> 01:54:06,199
five seven aunty seven five seven onty. My screen is frozen,

2354
01:54:06,319 --> 01:54:07,880
so I would like you to hit line number one

2355
01:54:07,920 --> 01:54:09,520
and say hi to our buddy stun of heist. Know

2356
01:54:09,520 --> 01:54:09,920
what's going on?

2357
01:54:11,119 --> 01:54:11,760
Speaker 3: What's going on?

2358
01:54:12,079 --> 01:54:12,960
Speaker 9: Man? Hey man?

2359
01:54:13,039 --> 01:54:16,199
Speaker 7: It was a pretty crazy gang last night.

2360
01:54:16,319 --> 01:54:17,000
Speaker 2: Pretty crazy.

2361
01:54:18,800 --> 01:54:23,000
Speaker 11: Yeah, man, but uh, when did Chagoon turn into dirt

2362
01:54:23,119 --> 01:54:28,079
Novinsky shooting three? Because I was like, don't don't the

2363
01:54:28,159 --> 01:54:29,159
deed he made a couple.

2364
01:54:29,880 --> 01:54:31,680
Speaker 2: I fell a little at.

2365
01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:35,479
Speaker 11: Ease, but you know how I am about Chagun already.

2366
01:54:36,039 --> 01:54:40,960
And and man, then Kevin Durrett looked like he was forty,

2367
01:54:41,159 --> 01:54:42,159
not thirty seven.

2368
01:54:43,079 --> 01:54:44,479
Speaker 3: It looked like he was forty.

2369
01:54:44,520 --> 01:54:48,039
Speaker 11: And then at point guard situation, oh man, when they

2370
01:54:48,159 --> 01:54:53,119
brought Shepherd in, Man, okayse started licking their shops, like home,

2371
01:54:53,479 --> 01:54:56,479
we know where we're going with this ball, because I

2372
01:54:56,600 --> 01:54:58,920
mean I thought Shepherd was a lot taller.

2373
01:54:59,039 --> 01:55:02,479
Speaker 9: But nah, man, they took it to.

2374
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:05,760
Speaker 7: Him real fast. Man, we gotta find.

2375
01:55:05,600 --> 01:55:09,279
Speaker 2: Us at point guard. Man, we don't have one, not

2376
01:55:09,479 --> 01:55:13,520
at all. Well, thank you, Sona, Thank you Sona. They're

2377
01:55:13,600 --> 01:55:16,439
gonna give Read every opportunity. Remember this was a team

2378
01:55:16,479 --> 01:55:19,560
that was supposed to have Fred running point and then

2379
01:55:19,920 --> 01:55:24,520
having Reed Shepherd play some backup minutes or perhaps having

2380
01:55:24,600 --> 01:55:27,199
him and Thompson shift over. I think Men's got work

2381
01:55:27,199 --> 01:55:29,680
to do as a point guard. I think there was

2382
01:55:29,720 --> 01:55:32,880
a lot of times the offense got into their rhythm

2383
01:55:32,960 --> 01:55:34,640
way too late. I mean, there were how many times,

2384
01:55:34,720 --> 01:55:36,760
Rossie last night with their less than five in the

2385
01:55:36,800 --> 01:55:39,119
shot clock before the Rockets took their first shot. Yeah,

2386
01:55:39,119 --> 01:55:40,960
and a lot of times. I mean you thankfully you

2387
01:55:41,039 --> 01:55:42,880
have the guy that you can just can bail you

2388
01:55:42,920 --> 01:55:45,479
out of bad possessions in Kevin Durant, and he did

2389
01:55:45,520 --> 01:55:49,119
that a number of times last night. But yes, everybody's

2390
01:55:49,199 --> 01:55:51,159
ball handling needs to be better. And we talked with

2391
01:55:51,279 --> 01:55:53,479
the coach Udoka will hear this coming up in the

2392
01:55:53,520 --> 01:55:56,039
next hour, and he talked about how, yes, yes, Oklahoma

2393
01:55:56,079 --> 01:55:58,760
City is very physical. They get up, you know, into

2394
01:55:58,840 --> 01:56:01,680
your space, and they make difficult especially when you have guys.

2395
01:56:01,960 --> 01:56:03,880
I mean, look, it's it's natural. It's physics. When you

2396
01:56:03,960 --> 01:56:06,640
have somebody who is like Kevin Durant and as tall

2397
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:08,520
as they are, when you have a seven footer, you're

2398
01:56:08,600 --> 01:56:10,199
not gonna be the same kind of ball handler as

2399
01:56:10,199 --> 01:56:13,199
somebody who's six two. Here's not that's just natural. That's

2400
01:56:13,399 --> 01:56:16,760
that's it's physics. Now, it is nice that that Shingu

2401
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:18,800
can bring it up, as nice that Durant can and

2402
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:23,920
Aman Thompson. But yes, you you're looking, you're gonna miss

2403
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:25,560
Fred van Vliet, And I know the people don't want

2404
01:56:25,600 --> 01:56:27,239
to admit that, but you're going to miss him and

2405
01:56:27,319 --> 01:56:30,800
it's gonna take some time to transition, and frankly from

2406
01:56:30,920 --> 01:56:34,199
from a roster construction, if things don't work out with

2407
01:56:34,319 --> 01:56:36,720
Riidan or men split in time of the point, they

2408
01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:38,520
can do something after the I think of the turn

2409
01:56:38,560 --> 01:56:40,680
of the calendar, but nothing for the first two months

2410
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:42,920
of the season. This is what we're gonna see, so

2411
01:56:43,039 --> 01:56:45,760
hopefully it works out. And again you're playing one of

2412
01:56:45,800 --> 01:56:50,920
the best defensive teams in base baseball basketball. Yes, Aaron

2413
01:56:50,960 --> 01:56:53,600
Wiggins and Cason Wallace were up in there, and lou

2414
01:56:53,680 --> 01:56:56,800
Dort can't shoot for the for the world, but man,

2415
01:56:56,840 --> 01:57:02,319
he can defend well his size. But yeah, yeah, he

2416
01:57:02,439 --> 01:57:05,359
finished fourth and Defensive Player of the Year blue Door

2417
01:57:05,680 --> 01:57:08,279
his first team All NBA defense. So yes, you did

2418
01:57:08,359 --> 01:57:12,960
play a team that is great at forcing turnovers. But

2419
01:57:13,039 --> 01:57:17,239
also you just have the simple dribbling it off your

2420
01:57:17,319 --> 01:57:20,479
foot and dribbling into guys when you're just going a

2421
01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:21,960
little bit out of control. So they need to play

2422
01:57:21,960 --> 01:57:23,880
a little bit more in control. It is gonna get

2423
01:57:23,920 --> 01:57:25,800
easier when you're not on the road playing against a

2424
01:57:25,920 --> 01:57:29,000
defense that is great as the Oklahoma city that we've mentioned.

2425
01:57:29,079 --> 01:57:31,279
Chet Holmgren. I mean that guy did in his wings

2426
01:57:31,319 --> 01:57:35,560
track changed last night. He hits the first but seven baskets.

2427
01:57:35,560 --> 01:57:37,560
Then he goes like two and a half quarters not

2428
01:57:37,760 --> 01:57:39,279
making one, and then he steps up in the fourth

2429
01:57:39,319 --> 01:57:41,159
quarter and makes a bunch of shots. Yeah, but he's

2430
01:57:41,239 --> 01:57:44,239
got wingspan. Wingspan and length is what he has as well.

2431
01:57:44,359 --> 01:57:46,279
So everybody's gonna get into passing lines when it comes

2432
01:57:46,319 --> 01:57:48,760
to the Oklahoma City Thunder. So twenty two turnovers a

2433
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:50,840
game or did he end up being twenty four whatever

2434
01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:53,399
it was? Team turnovers way too many. Not going to

2435
01:57:53,479 --> 01:57:56,239
be like that. I don't think every single night. But

2436
01:57:56,319 --> 01:57:59,039
we saw this last year. There were games that Fred

2437
01:57:59,119 --> 01:58:01,720
van Vliet missed. And you're searching for a ball handler.

2438
01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:03,000
You're searching for a guy who can get you an

2439
01:58:03,079 --> 01:58:05,399
offense and a guy who has a great assist to

2440
01:58:05,439 --> 01:58:08,199
turnover ratio. You're gonna miss him. We understand that, and

2441
01:58:08,279 --> 01:58:10,640
we saw it in the first night seven one three, two,

2442
01:58:10,720 --> 01:58:12,880
one two five seven ninety. Those of you on hold,

2443
01:58:12,920 --> 01:58:14,279
do not go anywhere. We're gonna get to you to

2444
01:58:14,319 --> 01:58:16,399
the top of the hour. We've got the conversation with

2445
01:58:16,640 --> 01:58:18,199
Ema a Doka. We're gonna play for you at one

2446
01:58:18,239 --> 01:58:20,880
thirty Ross, what is today's edition of Me Believe It

2447
01:58:20,960 --> 01:58:26,520
or Not? At one fifty Tony what's his name? Tony Sakamano,

2448
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:31,279
Tony Vattello, Tony Vattela. Yeah, we'll do a preliminary research.

2449
01:58:32,119 --> 01:58:33,720
You know, sometimes when we're choosing a topic, we're like,

2450
01:58:33,960 --> 01:58:35,479
can I find enough about this guy? We'll do We'll

2451
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:37,560
get the research team on it. All right, we're gonna

2452
01:58:37,760 --> 01:58:39,840
so they call it exploratory. We're gonna do Believe or Not?

2453
01:58:39,880 --> 01:58:42,000
From yesterday, George Springer, See how I saw you? See

2454
01:58:42,039 --> 01:58:43,319
how you would do on that too? I thought I

2455
01:58:43,319 --> 01:58:46,159
was pretty probably Oh you you? I did it? Oh

2456
01:58:46,199 --> 01:58:49,399
you did? Yeah? What's how you do playing the game? Okay?

2457
01:58:50,920 --> 01:58:53,560
Already already won? I know that didn't take a long time.

2458
01:58:53,560 --> 01:58:54,359
It was like five seconds.

2459
01:58:54,359 --> 01:58:54,479
Speaker 3: Now.

2460
01:58:54,880 --> 01:58:56,319
Speaker 2: You didn't even think about it? Yeah, I should have.

2461
01:58:56,399 --> 01:58:58,079
I should have slow played it. Make you feel a

2462
01:58:58,079 --> 01:59:03,079
little better. I feel terrible. I'm so disappointed. Somebody on

2463
01:59:03,159 --> 01:59:06,279
Twitter just sent me a note that Irvin Magic Johnson

2464
01:59:06,279 --> 01:59:10,000
doesn't run his account all the time. It says this

2465
01:59:10,159 --> 01:59:13,760
is from at Drop the Top Pod Magic doesn't run

2466
01:59:13,800 --> 01:59:14,560
his account all the time.

2467
01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:14,960
Speaker 3: Lol.

2468
01:59:15,039 --> 01:59:21,720
Speaker 2: He said it before in a pod eh, but I

2469
01:59:21,840 --> 01:59:27,039
got news for you. If I if I've got sports

2470
01:59:27,159 --> 01:59:30,319
MPT which is my account, and I got somebody running it,

2471
01:59:30,399 --> 01:59:31,920
I'm going to make sure that we're on the same

2472
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:34,760
page one hundred percent of the time. I'm never allowing

2473
01:59:34,880 --> 01:59:38,600
something on my Twitter account that wouldn't be representing. I

2474
01:59:38,640 --> 01:59:41,199
wouldn't personally say, I mean that one has to be

2475
01:59:41,279 --> 01:59:44,479
for Magic. Who else is putting that out there? I

2476
01:59:44,560 --> 01:59:47,960
went to the Lakers. What social media manager in twenty

2477
01:59:48,039 --> 01:59:51,000
twenty five is saying, yeah, I went to the Lakers

2478
01:59:51,079 --> 01:59:53,279
game last night and watched my Lakers get beat by

2479
01:59:53,319 --> 01:59:55,680
the Warriors one nineteen to one oh nine. If you are,

2480
01:59:56,279 --> 01:59:58,960
if you are basically a billionaire, which Magic is right,

2481
01:59:59,079 --> 02:00:03,239
that's true. Yes, so you can hire really smart social

2482
02:00:03,319 --> 02:00:06,359
media people. You're not hiring a freshman at cal State

2483
02:00:06,399 --> 02:00:07,840
Fullerton to do it, you know what I mean. It's

2484
02:00:07,840 --> 02:00:10,000
like a family member who's just running his account and

2485
02:00:10,119 --> 02:00:13,720
just putting the most obvious No no no no no

2486
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:15,960
no no no no no no no no no. You're

2487
02:00:16,039 --> 02:00:20,600
urban Magic Johnson. You have five point one million view

2488
02:00:20,680 --> 02:00:24,560
You're not letting your kids run the account. Apparently, according

2489
02:00:24,600 --> 02:00:29,479
to Forbes, worth one point five billion dollars. Yeah, they

2490
02:00:29,600 --> 02:00:32,199
are his movie theaters still around. I've not seen them. No,

2491
02:00:32,560 --> 02:00:36,520
what's he making his money on. He's a part owner

2492
02:00:36,560 --> 02:00:40,520
of the Dodgers and the Commanders. That's enough right there.

2493
02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:43,760
First of all, I don't know what else he's got.

2494
02:00:43,840 --> 02:00:49,520
But yeah, so Shack is doing very well in the

2495
02:00:49,640 --> 02:00:53,079
endorsement category and he's made his he's making more money. Oh,

2496
02:00:53,199 --> 02:00:56,199
Shack's gonna be a billionaire if he's before for anything

2497
02:00:56,239 --> 02:00:59,760
he's done on the cars, in everything. Next sports owner

2498
02:00:59,800 --> 02:01:02,760
of a team that owned that is a athlete gotta

2499
02:01:02,760 --> 02:01:05,680
be Lebron, Right, I think Lebron's already a billionaire. But

2500
02:01:05,760 --> 02:01:09,159
I'm talking about Lebron trying to get into sports. Yeah,

2501
02:01:09,239 --> 02:01:14,760
he's part owner of Liverpool and part owner of something else.

2502
02:01:14,840 --> 02:01:17,319
I think. I think he's going to be the one

2503
02:01:17,399 --> 02:01:23,000
that's going to lead an expansion franchise maybe, and if

2504
02:01:23,039 --> 02:01:25,399
he's smart, he'd put it in Las Vegas. Okay, he

2505
02:01:25,560 --> 02:01:29,520
owns this. He owns a part of the Finway Sports Group,

2506
02:01:29,760 --> 02:01:33,159
which has bought the Red Sox and Liverpool. Okay, Lebron,

2507
02:01:35,680 --> 02:01:37,119
let me tell you, if you all have some extra

2508
02:01:37,159 --> 02:01:39,880
money sitting around, sports ownership is where it's at he's

2509
02:01:40,119 --> 02:01:43,399
he's an owner in the electric boat racing series. How's

2510
02:01:43,439 --> 02:01:52,800
that do oh raush finway racing. That's uh yeah, that's

2511
02:01:53,000 --> 02:01:53,239
f one.

2512
02:01:53,359 --> 02:01:53,479
Speaker 3: Right.

2513
02:01:53,600 --> 02:01:55,079
Speaker 2: I'd buy you know what I would do. I'd buy

2514
02:01:55,119 --> 02:01:59,600
sports teams, and I'd buy horses because the rate of

2515
02:01:59,640 --> 02:02:03,920
return on a Kentucky winner Derby Winter Horse and horses

2516
02:02:03,920 --> 02:02:07,600
are a text right off too right for sure. Horses

2517
02:02:07,640 --> 02:02:08,520
are tax right offs.

2518
02:02:08,560 --> 02:02:08,760
Speaker 3: I know.

2519
02:02:08,840 --> 02:02:15,159
Speaker 2: Cows are cows horses. Who's cow? Cal cow? Cows? Cows

2520
02:02:15,439 --> 02:02:17,960
cows are right off. Yeah wait wait wait wait what

2521
02:02:18,359 --> 02:02:21,399
it's like cattle though, right? Yeah, yeah, I don't think

2522
02:02:21,439 --> 02:02:23,800
he's got early. He might be a cattle rancher like

2523
02:02:23,920 --> 02:02:28,640
no on Ryan, no natural beef. Cows. Horses are cows, cows,

2524
02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:32,520
cows cows like that put on that. Yeah. Do you

2525
02:02:32,560 --> 02:02:34,439
think cow's walking up from the long strip from Seattle?

2526
02:02:34,439 --> 02:02:34,680
Speaker 3: Again?

2527
02:02:35,960 --> 02:02:41,800
Speaker 2: They think he's strolling his jammies. I got no comment. Okay,

2528
02:02:43,119 --> 02:02:45,520
I'm telling you that made enough. Somebody, somebody did not

2529
02:02:45,760 --> 02:02:47,479
like that flight home. And it wasn't cow. It was

2530
02:02:47,640 --> 02:02:49,760
he was sleeping like a baby. Hand. It was pissed off.

2531
02:02:49,840 --> 02:02:53,720
He's run up and down the aisles. Where's Kimie fair

2532
02:02:53,760 --> 02:02:57,079
Baron kicked them all out of bounds. Miko, what the

2533
02:02:57,079 --> 02:02:58,880
hell you do running third and one and fourth? Where's this?

2534
02:02:59,039 --> 02:03:00,800
Who is this Nick? Kaylee? I want to meet him,

2535
02:03:01,520 --> 02:03:05,840
you know he's in the cargo section. Dave on seven

2536
02:03:05,960 --> 02:03:08,319
ninety at one oh seven, Dave, Good, afternoon, Thank you

2537
02:03:08,399 --> 02:03:10,399
for holding Hey.

2538
02:03:10,439 --> 02:03:11,359
Speaker 13: I appreciate the time.

2539
02:03:11,720 --> 02:03:11,920
Speaker 3: MT.

2540
02:03:12,680 --> 02:03:14,680
Speaker 13: If I tell you last night's game, I thought NBC

2541
02:03:14,840 --> 02:03:17,439
did a fantastic job, knocked it out of the park,

2542
02:03:17,960 --> 02:03:20,520
and I was thrilled with the way they brought the

2543
02:03:20,680 --> 02:03:25,000
entire show along. And I was thoroughly exhausted when it

2544
02:03:25,079 --> 02:03:27,079
was all said and done after two overtimes. I don't

2545
02:03:27,119 --> 02:03:28,359
know how you pulled it off. You you did a

2546
02:03:28,399 --> 02:03:32,399
great job yourself. To thank you, yep, I was going

2547
02:03:32,479 --> 02:03:34,439
to say, we were talking about the point guard situation

2548
02:03:34,560 --> 02:03:36,760
earlier and forgive me for being a complete and total

2549
02:03:36,800 --> 02:03:40,399
homer and supporting everything Houston. But boy, I just figured, well,

2550
02:03:40,439 --> 02:03:42,960
don't they make a call up to Toronto and call

2551
02:03:43,600 --> 02:03:46,520
and try to bust to move and trade here and

2552
02:03:46,960 --> 02:03:49,199
get Jamal shed down here. I mean, I think he

2553
02:03:49,239 --> 02:03:52,359
would fit in the system so well with how hardcore

2554
02:03:52,479 --> 02:03:54,920
coaches about defense and everything else. And we know he's

2555
02:03:54,960 --> 02:03:56,800
a heck of a point guard. Now, I know you

2556
02:03:56,840 --> 02:03:58,399
said it could be a couple of months before they

2557
02:03:58,479 --> 02:03:59,760
make any move, But I just think he'd be a

2558
02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:01,439
great And I know that's the home run.

2559
02:04:03,960 --> 02:04:07,239
Speaker 2: I've not seen Jamal play enough to say that he

2560
02:04:07,239 --> 02:04:12,079
would automatically be a significant improvement. Played seventy five games

2561
02:04:12,199 --> 02:04:15,720
last year, shot forty percent from the floor. That's not

2562
02:04:15,920 --> 02:04:19,680
great for a guard. Thirty two percent from three good

2563
02:04:19,720 --> 02:04:24,000
assist numbers. Uh, turnover is better than two to one,

2564
02:04:24,119 --> 02:04:25,640
two and a half to one, So that's good.

2565
02:04:27,920 --> 02:04:28,159
Speaker 9: You know what.

2566
02:04:28,319 --> 02:04:30,760
Speaker 2: I'll see him next week because the Rockets are playing

2567
02:04:30,800 --> 02:04:37,079
in Toronto, little undersized ross at six' to. ONE i don't,

2568
02:04:37,119 --> 02:04:39,239
KNOW i DON'T i don't HAVE i can't give. YOU

2569
02:04:39,399 --> 02:04:41,479
i love him as a college, player, Clearly, dave BUT

2570
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:44,039
i don't know if he's done enough at the at

2571
02:04:44,039 --> 02:04:46,560
THE nba. Level that's ALL i. MEAN i just have

2572
02:04:46,640 --> 02:04:48,680
an INCOMPLETE i have been breaking down a whole bunch

2573
02:04:48,680 --> 02:04:50,960
Of raptors tape. Unfortunately, yeah AND i don't Think toronto has.

2574
02:04:51,000 --> 02:04:52,880
Either thank you for the phone, Call. DAVE i appreciate.

2575
02:04:52,880 --> 02:04:52,920
Speaker 9: It.

2576
02:04:53,039 --> 02:04:58,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah The rockets are kind of necessarily stuck that

2577
02:04:58,239 --> 02:05:00,279
they they created this roster for a the hands are

2578
02:05:00,279 --> 02:05:01,800
tied behind their back for a couple of. Months they

2579
02:05:02,039 --> 02:05:05,199
ARE i mean you could say basically they they're hard.

2580
02:05:05,279 --> 02:05:07,680
Capped they're hard, caps so there's gonna be some you

2581
02:05:07,760 --> 02:05:10,119
gotta send money back the direction and what are you

2582
02:05:10,159 --> 02:05:13,760
gonna what if you're? AGAIN i don't. Know it's Just

2583
02:05:13,880 --> 02:05:16,000
Jamal schak considered to be a starting guard for them this.

2584
02:05:16,119 --> 02:05:21,079
Year you're gonna get some some improvement from the guys they.

2585
02:05:21,119 --> 02:05:23,439
Have they're gonna have to look for internal. Growth that's

2586
02:05:23,479 --> 02:05:25,760
what they're gonna have to. DO i didn't think drechepperd looked.

2587
02:05:25,840 --> 02:05:30,600
Terrible he's all, right he's. Aggressive i'm not a huge

2588
02:05:30,600 --> 02:05:33,039
fan of his fade away. JUMPERS i think he's got

2589
02:05:33,159 --> 02:05:34,680
to lean into the shots compared to more of the

2590
02:05:34,720 --> 02:05:36,680
fade away trying to separate. Him but maybe that's because

2591
02:05:36,680 --> 02:05:42,520
the of the Again Oklahoma City, thunder they're they're they're.

2592
02:05:42,600 --> 02:05:46,680
Interrupters they're putting hands in their. Face they're not gonna

2593
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:48,560
make it easy For you're gonna get very few open,

2594
02:05:48,640 --> 02:05:53,920
LOOKS i, think all at. ALL i, mean they looked

2595
02:05:54,840 --> 02:05:59,199
every bit as They they didn't look like they didn't

2596
02:05:59,199 --> 02:06:00,680
belong in the court of so he went to double.

2597
02:06:00,720 --> 02:06:03,159
Overtime But i'm saying like it looked like this was

2598
02:06:03,239 --> 02:06:05,680
a this is back and forth. Battle it looked like

2599
02:06:05,800 --> 02:06:08,880
two evenly matched. Teams if you play that game ten,

2600
02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:11,479
times The rockets can win five of. THOSE i would

2601
02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:17,239
Hope Jayleen wiams out it'll be. Different well that's the. Weapon,

2602
02:06:17,399 --> 02:06:20,359
Yeah but let's be brutally. Honest they were playing on

2603
02:06:20,520 --> 02:06:24,000
championship night in a hostile building that is sold out

2604
02:06:24,079 --> 02:06:27,000
in full and screaming and. Yelling they handled their own

2605
02:06:27,039 --> 02:06:29,000
they handled their. Business they Had they had a couple

2606
02:06:29,039 --> 02:06:31,840
of opportunities to. Win you know what's, Interesting are we

2607
02:06:31,920 --> 02:06:35,239
gonna hear much about This Kevin durant timeout. THINGS i

2608
02:06:35,279 --> 02:06:39,560
don't think, so because you, Know, mark who's the coach

2609
02:06:39,600 --> 02:06:43,560
of The, thunder SAID i let the officials know HOW

2610
02:06:43,600 --> 02:06:45,960
i felt about, it and he's and he was very very.

2611
02:06:46,039 --> 02:06:48,600
Polite after he, says they know HOW i. Feel those

2612
02:06:48,640 --> 02:06:52,640
are good. Officials he didn't he didn't say they admitted

2613
02:06:52,680 --> 02:06:55,800
a mistake or. Whatever he just SAID i told him

2614
02:06:55,840 --> 02:07:00,119
HOW i, felt meaning probably ift. Him and then he

2615
02:07:00,199 --> 02:07:02,239
said we're done with. It we're gonna go finish the,

2616
02:07:02,279 --> 02:07:05,800
game and they did and they. Won BUT i think

2617
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:09,359
the point we're talking about earlier is that officials go

2618
02:07:09,520 --> 02:07:12,479
through a variety of scenarios about time on the clock

2619
02:07:12,640 --> 02:07:14,279
or to put the ball if a team calls a.

2620
02:07:14,319 --> 02:07:17,800
Timeout and since he knew The i'm presuming the three

2621
02:07:17,800 --> 02:07:20,159
officials knew that they didn't every timeouts that no one

2622
02:07:20,199 --> 02:07:22,520
would call a, timeout, because let's face, it we had

2623
02:07:22,560 --> 02:07:27,159
The Chris Webber, michigan probably he should. Know, yeah that

2624
02:07:27,279 --> 02:07:29,720
was thirty plus years. Ago that was the first. Thing

2625
02:07:29,800 --> 02:07:31,119
that was the first Thing Reggie miller. Said it was

2626
02:07:31,119 --> 02:07:32,319
the first THING i, Thought and it was the first

2627
02:07:32,319 --> 02:07:34,399
Thing Reggie miller, said. Too so you're telling me something

2628
02:07:34,479 --> 02:07:37,239
like that happens once every thirty. Years the officials are

2629
02:07:37,239 --> 02:07:39,399
probably going to think about. It BUT i do believe

2630
02:07:40,439 --> 02:07:42,000
there was a huge part of, me AND i remember

2631
02:07:42,079 --> 02:07:43,920
calling and going oh oh. OH i THINK i said

2632
02:07:43,960 --> 02:07:46,359
oh no ten. TIMES i don't. Know do we have

2633
02:07:46,439 --> 02:07:47,840
the audio of me SAYING i don't even know IF

2634
02:07:47,840 --> 02:07:53,520
i don't think. So BUT i was really really scared

2635
02:07:54,279 --> 02:07:57,960
which play When durant got the rebound and they called

2636
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:01,119
for a. TIMEOUT i wonder if WE i don't think

2637
02:08:01,159 --> 02:08:02,800
we have. IT i think we do hold, on, oh

2638
02:08:02,840 --> 02:08:04,159
you can look for. It let me find. It we

2639
02:08:04,239 --> 02:08:05,920
gotta take a break point being is THIS i was

2640
02:08:05,960 --> 02:08:07,600
really afraid that was gonna end the game that, way

2641
02:08:07,600 --> 02:08:08,760
and that would have not been the way to open

2642
02:08:08,840 --> 02:08:11,319
up a season with a. TEN i was sitting there watching, saying,

2643
02:08:12,479 --> 02:08:14,800
hey this is a technical. Foul it should have been

2644
02:08:14,920 --> 02:08:17,600
the call of me talking about that last.

2645
02:08:17,680 --> 02:08:17,920
Speaker 3: Play.

2646
02:08:18,079 --> 02:08:23,359
Speaker 2: NOW i, tried you can't be silent because you're the

2647
02:08:23,399 --> 02:08:25,640
one calling the. Game BUT i did it like five

2648
02:08:25,760 --> 02:08:29,119
zos BECAUSE i was waiting to see you exactly whether

2649
02:08:29,119 --> 02:08:33,039
the team was going to be called or. What because

2650
02:08:33,319 --> 02:08:37,000
the Benchro Klahmba city was losing their. Mind the eighteen

2651
02:08:37,079 --> 02:08:39,560
thousand people in the building were losing their. Mind the

2652
02:08:39,680 --> 02:08:43,960
rockets are like nothing to see. Here so here is

2653
02:08:44,199 --> 02:08:47,600
how the game. Ended it was at the end of first. Overtime, Right,

2654
02:08:48,199 --> 02:08:51,399
yes this is WHERE i was deathly AFRAID i was

2655
02:08:51,439 --> 02:08:54,000
going to call off a call a rocket loss be

2656
02:08:54,359 --> 02:08:59,960
via the technical. Foul caruso on the Inbound shaggoon guards

2657
02:09:00,640 --> 02:09:03,640
Dash ga baseline right with THREE a long shot is an.

2658
02:09:03,640 --> 02:09:07,720
Airball durant doesn't have a time. Out uh oh uh

2659
02:09:07,840 --> 02:09:09,119
oh uh oh.

2660
02:09:11,399 --> 02:09:13,880
Speaker 9: Uh oh uh Oh.

2661
02:09:18,359 --> 02:09:22,560
Speaker 2: Mark Dan not Says Kevin durant single for a time.

2662
02:09:22,680 --> 02:09:31,600
Out everybody off the. Bench, oh And kevin's got his

2663
02:09:31,720 --> 02:09:35,199
hands together calling for the time. OUT i told you

2664
02:09:35,279 --> 02:09:40,520
The rockets didn't have. One Zach zarba is now having

2665
02:09:40,560 --> 02:09:48,479
to explain it To Mark. Dagnault uh, oh, Break, yeah

2666
02:09:48,680 --> 02:09:52,000
you should clip one of those, os maybe a. COUPLE

2667
02:09:53,199 --> 02:09:56,119
i didn't mean to do, five BUT i was shell.

2668
02:09:56,239 --> 02:09:58,359
SHOT i thought they were going to ever call the

2669
02:09:58,399 --> 02:10:00,840
game where a timeout was. Called when they, HAVE i

2670
02:10:01,039 --> 02:10:03,359
thought that they, dude it was everybody it. Was it

2671
02:10:03,439 --> 02:10:05,239
Was Kevin, durant but it Was Jabaris Smith, junior And

2672
02:10:05,239 --> 02:10:07,199
i'm And thompson. TOO i thought they were going to

2673
02:10:07,359 --> 02:10:09,640
lose on a technical. Foul and then they're, LIKE i

2674
02:10:09,760 --> 02:10:11,720
have nothing to. Say here's first night ON. Nbc let's

2675
02:10:11,720 --> 02:10:15,319
go ahead play this thing. Out could you imagine if

2676
02:10:15,319 --> 02:10:17,800
we're DOING Okac raider the day The rockets would have

2677
02:10:17,920 --> 02:10:20,199
beaten the, thunder how pissed top people.

2678
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:20,399
Speaker 3: Would have been?

2679
02:10:20,720 --> 02:10:24,479
Speaker 2: Nice but unfortunately they. Lost see How i'm, saying all weather, ends,

2680
02:10:24,520 --> 02:10:26,159
WELL i, guess And i'm gonna go to find and

2681
02:10:26,239 --> 02:10:28,239
clan these things even. OUT i TELL i tell him

2682
02:10:28,239 --> 02:10:28,600
this all the.

2683
02:10:28,640 --> 02:10:28,800
Speaker 3: Time.

2684
02:10:29,239 --> 02:10:30,560
Speaker 2: Him i'm going to go find. Him it be on

2685
02:10:30,600 --> 02:10:34,840
at two o'clock THE a, team, right, yeah they're still. On,

2686
02:10:34,920 --> 02:10:38,520
okay yeah, yeah just making sure you do that. Check

2687
02:10:39,239 --> 02:10:42,840
let's go To scott on seven eight one twenty one

2688
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:43,479
High Scott.

2689
02:10:44,840 --> 02:10:44,960
Speaker 3: Matt.

2690
02:10:45,159 --> 02:10:48,680
Speaker 7: Ross what's going, on, Guys i'm going To What's what's?

2691
02:10:48,760 --> 02:10:49,039
Speaker 1: Up what's?

2692
02:10:49,119 --> 02:10:51,800
Speaker 7: UP i just wanted to call and, say so last night's.

2693
02:10:51,840 --> 02:10:55,279
GAME i know we, lost but what what a basketball?

2694
02:10:55,319 --> 02:10:58,319
Game and from my my perspective after watching you, know

2695
02:10:59,199 --> 02:11:02,560
not only The texan On, monday but REALLY i feel

2696
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:05,279
LIKE i have we have not seen A houston team

2697
02:11:05,600 --> 02:11:10,560
play at a high level since The dodger series back

2698
02:11:10,720 --> 02:11:13,479
From july, fourth and it was just so refreshing to

2699
02:11:13,680 --> 02:11:17,399
watch what even though we, lost to watch us go play,

2700
02:11:17,479 --> 02:11:20,640
okay see you, know pound for pound to BE i

2701
02:11:21,079 --> 02:11:25,359
leave that game saying with our defensive talent and, alone

2702
02:11:25,520 --> 02:11:27,920
we are a top three team in THE nba that

2703
02:11:28,119 --> 02:11:30,119
it was just refreshing to watch that we were. Playing

2704
02:11:30,119 --> 02:11:32,079
it felt like we were playing a very high level.

2705
02:11:32,119 --> 02:11:36,520
Game And, GOD i did not leave that game feeling

2706
02:11:36,600 --> 02:11:39,199
bad about The rockets at. All it almost felt like we.

2707
02:11:39,319 --> 02:11:42,720
WON i, know moral victories aren't a, thing but it

2708
02:11:42,840 --> 02:11:45,760
was just left me very excited about the season and

2709
02:11:45,960 --> 02:11:47,720
just how much fun they're going to be to. WATCH

2710
02:11:47,800 --> 02:11:49,960
i don't know what it's what y'all take.

2711
02:11:49,960 --> 02:11:53,399
Speaker 2: Is and here's the crazy, Part, scott is that's the

2712
02:11:53,800 --> 02:11:56,520
type of game that we got last night is what

2713
02:11:56,840 --> 02:12:01,039
excellent semi final and finals basket is like in the

2714
02:12:01,119 --> 02:12:04,760
conference at THE nba, level those are those types of

2715
02:12:04,840 --> 02:12:07,720
GAMES i want to see on a regular, basis like

2716
02:12:07,800 --> 02:12:10,239
in six. Months it was fun and interesting that it

2717
02:12:10,279 --> 02:12:13,560
was game. One, uh and maybe we win The rockets

2718
02:12:13,560 --> 02:12:15,199
win some of those games that they don't get like.

2719
02:12:15,319 --> 02:12:17,239
That other times that the game was In, houston maybe

2720
02:12:17,279 --> 02:12:20,000
things would have. Changed but we should all get accustomed

2721
02:12:20,039 --> 02:12:21,600
to it for those that have left the game of

2722
02:12:21,680 --> 02:12:25,000
THE nba for whatever, reason whether it's a, futility whether

2723
02:12:25,119 --> 02:12:27,520
it's the three AND, d whether it's just you just have,

2724
02:12:27,720 --> 02:12:31,800
nothing you've got other time to spend last, night but

2725
02:12:31,880 --> 02:12:34,119
the way THE nbc folks presented the broadcast from what

2726
02:12:34,199 --> 02:12:37,800
most people were, saying and the excellence in basketball on

2727
02:12:37,880 --> 02:12:40,359
both sides is a reason why people should go back

2728
02:12:40,399 --> 02:12:43,159
to THE nba and especially The Houston, rockets because we're

2729
02:12:43,159 --> 02:12:44,640
gonna got a lot of nights like, that and hopefully

2730
02:12:44,720 --> 02:12:46,000
more on the winning side than losing.

2731
02:12:46,079 --> 02:12:47,640
Speaker 3: SIDE i.

2732
02:12:48,159 --> 02:12:50,600
Speaker 7: Agree and you, KNOW i was born in the, nineties

2733
02:12:50,640 --> 02:12:53,000
SO i didn't get to watch THE nba ON nbc.

2734
02:12:53,079 --> 02:12:55,640
ERA i didn't get to remember. It that theme song

2735
02:12:55,920 --> 02:12:58,359
is you know it gave me chills a little, bit

2736
02:12:58,479 --> 02:12:59,960
kind of like when they were going into the. GAME

2737
02:13:00,119 --> 02:13:02,319
i wish they did that that one part of the

2738
02:13:02,399 --> 02:13:04,039
highlight that they used to do where they had like

2739
02:13:04,119 --> 02:13:07,439
little highlights of the players while THE nbc logo pulled.

2740
02:13:07,520 --> 02:13:11,199
Up that would have been, cool cool. Too but, YEAH

2741
02:13:11,279 --> 02:13:13,159
i guess if we are going to, nitpick you know

2742
02:13:13,439 --> 02:13:16,239
how we can. Improve obviously we. Didn't we didn't win the.

2743
02:13:16,279 --> 02:13:18,439
Game AND i noticed this in the preseason as well,

2744
02:13:18,520 --> 02:13:22,560
too in the half court without you, Know Van. Fleet

2745
02:13:23,039 --> 02:13:25,960
we have got to find a way to Get durant

2746
02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:28,760
the ball in an easier. Way it felt like trying

2747
02:13:28,840 --> 02:13:31,119
to solve The Da vinci code. Sometimes and you've got

2748
02:13:31,199 --> 02:13:34,000
to give some credit to Lou dort and, okay see with,

2749
02:13:34,119 --> 02:13:36,279
That BUT i did feel LIKE i noticed that in

2750
02:13:36,359 --> 02:13:38,840
the preseason as, well WHERE i, mean he is just

2751
02:13:39,720 --> 02:13:42,720
there's not a very fluid way to get him the.

2752
02:13:42,800 --> 02:13:45,840
Basketball yet and when you do get him the, ball you,

2753
02:13:45,920 --> 02:13:48,560
know he's so good at scoring in the mid. Range

2754
02:13:48,960 --> 02:13:51,439
But i'm sure that'll. Come a man And reed are

2755
02:13:51,760 --> 02:13:54,520
only going to get better offensively as the season goes.

2756
02:13:54,560 --> 02:13:56,760
On and the defense and the hustle and the energy

2757
02:13:56,920 --> 02:13:58,560
was just an absolute blast to.

2758
02:13:58,640 --> 02:14:01,119
Speaker 2: Watch but men, sake Mccallek scott appreciate. It, YEAH i

2759
02:14:01,199 --> 02:14:02,800
got great news for. You there are a lot of

2760
02:14:02,840 --> 02:14:07,600
good teams in THE. Nba there aren't Twenty oklahoma cities out. There,

2761
02:14:08,159 --> 02:14:08,680
yeah don't.

2762
02:14:08,680 --> 02:14:08,960
Speaker 7: Worry.

2763
02:14:09,199 --> 02:14:11,640
Speaker 2: Yeah and also Lou dord just did a great job

2764
02:14:11,720 --> 02:14:13,680
of being physical With Kevin durant and try to keep

2765
02:14:13,760 --> 02:14:18,039
him off of his spots and being physical and basically

2766
02:14:18,159 --> 02:14:20,560
pushing him out towards the three point line where they

2767
02:14:20,560 --> 02:14:21,920
didn't want to get. Him and even when he did

2768
02:14:21,960 --> 02:14:24,479
get the, BALL i, mean just basically in his kitchen

2769
02:14:25,000 --> 02:14:27,039
and making it difficult for him to move and operate at.

2770
02:14:27,079 --> 02:14:31,840
All he's he's an elite, defender, yes elite scoring, wise

2771
02:14:31,960 --> 02:14:34,159
take as many threes as you. Want, no last two

2772
02:14:34,239 --> 02:14:37,479
years he's been four forty. Percent the ball left his

2773
02:14:37,600 --> 02:14:39,760
hand horribly last. Night he was oh for eight last.

2774
02:14:39,840 --> 02:14:42,920
Night last two years he's been around forty, percent though he's. Improved,

2775
02:14:42,960 --> 02:14:46,640
oh he's right for being he's an undersized forward who can. Shoot,

2776
02:14:46,880 --> 02:14:50,560
yeah last night not so. Much three Inded Baby dave

2777
02:14:50,720 --> 02:14:54,039
on seven Ninety, High, Dave, hey good, afternoon.

2778
02:14:54,119 --> 02:14:54,920
Speaker 1: Guys hey.

2779
02:14:55,000 --> 02:14:56,720
Speaker 5: MAN i called in a couple weeks. Ago it was

2780
02:14:56,760 --> 02:14:58,600
a gut, feeling AND i told you THAT i Thought

2781
02:14:59,199 --> 02:15:01,640
Jabari smith so he's going to kind of break out this. Year,

2782
02:15:01,760 --> 02:15:05,239
yeah and you agree with. Me, Yeah and watching watching last,

2783
02:15:05,279 --> 02:15:07,279
NIGHT i just feel it even more. SO i mean

2784
02:15:07,600 --> 02:15:09,600
every year he comes, back he's so, young he's a

2785
02:15:09,640 --> 02:15:12,359
little less. Willowy every. Year he does a lot of

2786
02:15:12,439 --> 02:15:15,039
good things out, there you, know with the, rebounding the shot,

2787
02:15:15,119 --> 02:15:17,640
Blocks he's got a good. SHOT i just you, know

2788
02:15:17,720 --> 02:15:20,920
there's there's only so many you, know he give the

2789
02:15:20,960 --> 02:15:22,800
ball to so many. Guys you got kd out, there

2790
02:15:22,840 --> 02:15:24,600
you Got alpy out, there you got On man out.

2791
02:15:24,640 --> 02:15:27,119
There BUT i wish they ran a little offense For

2792
02:15:27,239 --> 02:15:30,880
jabari BECAUSE i, MEAN i just think HE i don't,

2793
02:15:30,880 --> 02:15:33,720
Know i'm a Big jabbari. GUY i think, again he's

2794
02:15:33,720 --> 02:15:36,319
gonna have a good. Year and And i'm really glad

2795
02:15:36,359 --> 02:15:38,479
they didn't trade him in That phoenix. Deal BECAUSE i

2796
02:15:38,479 --> 02:15:39,640
Think phoenix wanted him real.

2797
02:15:39,680 --> 02:15:42,880
Speaker 2: Bad, Absolutely, Yeah phoenix was looking for a. Man thompson

2798
02:15:43,039 --> 02:15:45,439
looking For Jabari. Smith they're looking for, him all, yeah

2799
02:15:45,800 --> 02:15:50,800
and uh and then uh, up you can't have.

2800
02:15:50,920 --> 02:15:51,039
Speaker 3: Him.

2801
02:15:51,760 --> 02:15:53,560
Speaker 2: Yeah by the, WAY i want to make sure it

2802
02:15:53,680 --> 02:15:55,720
very clear about, this The rockets are going to Miss

2803
02:15:55,800 --> 02:15:57,960
dylan Brook Dylan brooks would have been perfect last night

2804
02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:03,319
for this. Team, yeah and for Eight Jalen green had

2805
02:16:03,399 --> 02:16:06,840
value for an eighty two, game twenty point per game store. Scorer. Yeah,

2806
02:16:07,119 --> 02:16:11,960
yeah but, Yeah jabari he looked pretty good, scoring made

2807
02:16:11,960 --> 02:16:14,760
a couple of. Three body look. Stronger, yeah he's gonna

2808
02:16:14,920 --> 02:16:18,079
He the knock on him last year was he's basically

2809
02:16:18,439 --> 02:16:22,439
turn around jump shot or catch and shoot, three and that's.

2810
02:16:22,520 --> 02:16:25,840
It gotta add some a little diversity showing that in

2811
02:16:25,920 --> 02:16:27,600
the preseason and a little. Bit it was a funny

2812
02:16:27,640 --> 02:16:29,840
observation For Mike. Turico he mentioned at one point in the,

2813
02:16:29,840 --> 02:16:31,560
game is like everybody's wanting to show what they worked

2814
02:16:31,600 --> 02:16:34,399
on in the, offseason and that's what kind Of game one, was,

2815
02:16:34,479 --> 02:16:36,280
Like everybody's, like LOOK i can do, this, GUYS i

2816
02:16:36,319 --> 02:16:38,159
can drive. In Jabari smith was doing that a little.

2817
02:16:38,159 --> 02:16:40,680
Bit so if he can be consistent and score a

2818
02:16:40,719 --> 02:16:42,959
little bit more off the, dribble making some, moves AND

2819
02:16:43,040 --> 02:16:45,200
i Mean thompson's doing the same, thing being aggressive and

2820
02:16:45,200 --> 02:16:47,280
getting into the, basket then that's gonna that's gonna be.

2821
02:16:47,319 --> 02:16:48,600
Great we just need to see a little bit more

2822
02:16:48,600 --> 02:16:50,840
from him BEFORE i say. That you Know Emio doka

2823
02:16:50,840 --> 02:16:53,280
and he's to be running things Through Jabarsmith. Junior welcome

2824
02:16:53,319 --> 02:16:55,479
back to The Matt Thomas show With ross here On

2825
02:16:55,959 --> 02:16:59,479
Sports talk seven eighty talking a lot of things in,

2826
02:16:59,559 --> 02:17:04,600
sports including The rockets heartbreaking double overtime loss to The

2827
02:17:04,680 --> 02:17:08,399
Oklahoma City thunder last. Night earlier in the, show we

2828
02:17:08,520 --> 02:17:11,360
Had rockets head Coach Immy, adoka as we will every,

2829
02:17:11,440 --> 02:17:12,840
week SO i wanted to bring you guys some of

2830
02:17:12,920 --> 02:17:16,079
that great. Conversation so here is the coach starting off

2831
02:17:16,159 --> 02:17:19,159
talking about the win that wasn't and how close they,

2832
02:17:19,200 --> 02:17:21,719
were some things that went wrong and went right last

2833
02:17:21,799 --> 02:17:22,600
night In Oklahoma.

2834
02:17:22,680 --> 02:17:25,239
Speaker 9: City oh, well the opportunities that we had to win,

2835
02:17:25,319 --> 02:17:27,399
it and some of the things that we did well

2836
02:17:27,760 --> 02:17:29,319
early on that kind of got away from us in

2837
02:17:29,399 --> 02:17:32,559
the second half in. Overtimes so plenty of positives to

2838
02:17:32,600 --> 02:17:35,159
take away from, it opportunities to do, it but we

2839
02:17:35,239 --> 02:17:36,319
did some things to lose it as.

2840
02:17:36,360 --> 02:17:39,559
Speaker 2: Well you, know a lot of folks will look at

2841
02:17:39,600 --> 02:17:43,120
the stat sheet and there's nothing more crazier for me

2842
02:17:43,159 --> 02:17:45,920
as a sports broadcaster and a fan than to over

2843
02:17:46,760 --> 02:17:48,799
discuss something of one, game because it's a body of.

2844
02:17:48,879 --> 02:17:51,360
Work but you to realize and you know, this AND

2845
02:17:51,479 --> 02:17:53,520
i think hopefully GOOD nba fans know you were going

2846
02:17:53,520 --> 02:17:56,600
against one of the supreme defenses in THE nba, case

2847
02:17:56,680 --> 02:17:59,440
And wallace And Aaron wiggins and Lou dort were not

2848
02:17:59,479 --> 02:18:01,399
going to make it for you, guys and you were

2849
02:18:01,399 --> 02:18:03,959
able to still get some things done accomplish it, offensively

2850
02:18:04,040 --> 02:18:05,559
especially with the way Alp he was playing last.

2851
02:18:05,600 --> 02:18:05,760
Speaker 3: Night.

2852
02:18:07,639 --> 02:18:10,719
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah there were top defense as far as forcing

2853
02:18:10,760 --> 02:18:13,120
turnovers last, year making you play in the, crowd and

2854
02:18:13,840 --> 02:18:16,399
we handled it really well EARLY i, think you, know

2855
02:18:16,440 --> 02:18:17,959
in the first half we were really. Good and then

2856
02:18:18,879 --> 02:18:21,000
second half overtimes got away from, us and you have

2857
02:18:21,559 --> 02:18:24,040
twenty four turnovers and give up twenty six points off

2858
02:18:24,079 --> 02:18:26,600
those and you know barely lose and have a chance to.

2859
02:18:26,639 --> 02:18:29,799
Win that's obviously going to stand. Out and so some

2860
02:18:29,959 --> 02:18:31,719
things we need to do better with space and playing

2861
02:18:31,760 --> 02:18:34,479
with pace and then just handling the pressure a little bit, better.

2862
02:18:34,479 --> 02:18:36,360
Speaker 2: You'll do a deeper dive on those. Turnovers and that

2863
02:18:36,479 --> 02:18:38,479
was obviously a huge part of the. Game in your

2864
02:18:38,600 --> 02:18:40,440
mind as you, watch it was some things you were

2865
02:18:40,479 --> 02:18:43,639
doing offensively that getting in rhythm and the offense that

2866
02:18:43,760 --> 02:18:46,079
was troubling, you or was it more of What Oaklhoma

2867
02:18:46,079 --> 02:18:48,520
city was doing in terms of intercepting passing lanes and

2868
02:18:48,559 --> 02:18:48,879
the like.

2869
02:18:50,639 --> 02:18:51,120
Speaker 3: A little bit of.

2870
02:18:51,159 --> 02:18:53,959
Speaker 9: BOTH i think the pressure bothered some guys bringing up,

2871
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:56,319
court for, SURE i know that was. There but then you,

2872
02:18:56,399 --> 02:18:58,280
know we have different outlets and different guys that can.

2873
02:18:58,360 --> 02:19:01,479
Initiate but from there we have, to you, know set good,

2874
02:19:01,520 --> 02:19:03,959
screens set our guy man up to take those denials

2875
02:19:04,000 --> 02:19:06,760
away and get ourselves. Open and they did a really

2876
02:19:06,760 --> 02:19:08,879
good job of kind of choking away those passing lanes

2877
02:19:08,920 --> 02:19:10,399
and taking us out of some.

2878
02:19:10,520 --> 02:19:13,440
Speaker 3: Sets from, there you, know we want to keep it.

2879
02:19:13,520 --> 02:19:15,920
Speaker 9: Simple we talked about hitting singles all night and make

2880
02:19:15,959 --> 02:19:18,639
the simple, passes not playing the, crowd and sometimes he

2881
02:19:18,719 --> 02:19:21,120
over dribbled a little, bit and when we did play

2882
02:19:21,120 --> 02:19:22,959
in the. Crowd we have to know where our outlets

2883
02:19:22,959 --> 02:19:24,360
are at SO i get to get to our spaceing

2884
02:19:24,360 --> 02:19:24,719
a little bit.

2885
02:19:24,799 --> 02:19:27,000
Speaker 2: Quicker how is a Man thompson.

2886
02:19:27,079 --> 02:19:30,959
Speaker 3: Doing he's. Fine it was just cramping in the calf

2887
02:19:31,440 --> 02:19:33,159
came on and late in the fourth.

2888
02:19:33,280 --> 02:19:34,719
Speaker 9: Quarter he tried to play through it a little bit

2889
02:19:34,799 --> 02:19:37,479
and until it really caught up to him and had

2890
02:19:37,520 --> 02:19:39,479
to hold him. Out, obviously would love to have him

2891
02:19:39,639 --> 02:19:42,079
in the in the later stages of the, game but

2892
02:19:42,760 --> 02:19:45,000
just CRAMPING i think the first game, obviously and then

2893
02:19:45,079 --> 02:19:48,440
the two overtimes extra minutes for him caught up with.

2894
02:19:48,520 --> 02:19:51,120
Speaker 2: Them Rocket tea Coach Amy adoka was here On Sports

2895
02:19:51,159 --> 02:19:53,840
talk seven. Ninety how would you assess overall his? Game

2896
02:19:54,079 --> 02:19:57,280
obviously very aggressive getting to the basket and did not

2897
02:19:57,520 --> 02:19:59,799
go the way that he wanted from the three point.

2898
02:19:59,840 --> 02:20:02,159
Line but did you like the takes that he was.

2899
02:20:02,200 --> 02:20:06,399
Speaker 9: Shooting, YEAH i mean for the most, part you, know

2900
02:20:06,879 --> 02:20:09,440
they're sagging off, him so he gets to get downhill

2901
02:20:09,479 --> 02:20:12,440
and attack and try to find guys and did a

2902
02:20:12,479 --> 02:20:15,319
good job of. That you, know he just like everybody,

2903
02:20:15,360 --> 02:20:17,879
else had the high turnover, numbers you, know the few

2904
02:20:17,920 --> 02:20:18,719
guys had four and.

2905
02:20:20,239 --> 02:20:21,360
Speaker 3: Steven and a few others had.

2906
02:20:21,399 --> 02:20:23,719
Speaker 9: Three but you, know we want him to get to the,

2907
02:20:23,799 --> 02:20:26,360
corners and he shot it extremely well in preseason and

2908
02:20:26,479 --> 02:20:29,440
has been better since last, year and SO i wanted

2909
02:20:29,440 --> 02:20:32,200
to be confident with those and at times in summer.

2910
02:20:32,040 --> 02:20:32,840
Speaker 3: Late shot clocks as.

2911
02:20:32,879 --> 02:20:35,479
Speaker 9: Well but we want him to shift and invert on

2912
02:20:35,520 --> 02:20:37,520
the wings and kind of give guys space to operate,

2913
02:20:37,600 --> 02:20:39,079
there and a few times we're.

2914
02:20:38,920 --> 02:20:41,360
Speaker 3: A little slow with our. Space and LIKE i, mentioned he.

2915
02:20:41,440 --> 02:20:44,040
Speaker 2: May you ransom, zone they ransom zone. You AND i

2916
02:20:44,120 --> 02:20:46,120
talked a little bit last year about. It it felt

2917
02:20:46,159 --> 02:20:48,120
like ten years ago you didn't even see his own.

2918
02:20:48,200 --> 02:20:50,680
Defense why are we seeing it more? Today especially with

2919
02:20:50,879 --> 02:20:53,799
as many prolific three point shooters as the league has right, Now.

2920
02:20:55,559 --> 02:20:57,600
Speaker 9: Let's just change the pace that it takes teams out

2921
02:20:57,639 --> 02:20:59,520
of some of the things they're trying to. Do they

2922
02:20:59,559 --> 02:21:01,319
have really good one on one, players you can kind

2923
02:21:01,360 --> 02:21:04,840
of load up and send them certain places on the.

2924
02:21:04,920 --> 02:21:07,920
Court but at the same, time we're playing big lineups

2925
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:10,440
with some really small, lineups and so may not be

2926
02:21:10,799 --> 02:21:13,319
as many favorable matchups for, Us and you, know it's

2927
02:21:13,360 --> 02:21:14,879
a game of cat and mouse and who's gonna make

2928
02:21:14,879 --> 02:21:17,200
who adjust to, what and its own helps us kind

2929
02:21:17,200 --> 02:21:18,639
of guards some of those actions.

2930
02:21:18,680 --> 02:21:23,440
Speaker 2: Better Was albe In rhythm. Three the most he's ever

2931
02:21:23,520 --> 02:21:26,000
been is you've seen him in. PERSON i, mean, look

2932
02:21:26,319 --> 02:21:28,879
no disrespect to Euro league and, whatnot and you've seen

2933
02:21:28,959 --> 02:21:30,840
him in, practice but in terms of AN nba, game

2934
02:21:31,399 --> 02:21:33,239
it looked like he had a conference with that ball

2935
02:21:33,360 --> 02:21:35,200
left his hand beyond the arc that MAYBE i haven't

2936
02:21:35,200 --> 02:21:36,360
even seen in his ENTIRE nba.

2937
02:21:36,479 --> 02:21:36,719
Speaker 3: Career.

2938
02:21:38,440 --> 02:21:40,440
Speaker 9: Yeah, ABSOLUTELY i think he's going to be in some

2939
02:21:40,520 --> 02:21:43,200
different situations this. Year he's putting a ton of work

2940
02:21:43,239 --> 02:21:45,959
on his jump shot in the. Offseason you saw that

2941
02:21:46,479 --> 02:21:48,760
in Euro basket and, so but like you, said the

2942
02:21:48,840 --> 02:21:50,559
line is a little bit, different a little closer, there

2943
02:21:50,600 --> 02:21:53,000
AND i think he's had great carryover.

2944
02:21:52,639 --> 02:21:54,760
Speaker 3: From his his summer playing basketball.

2945
02:21:54,840 --> 02:21:57,719
Speaker 9: There and so with him playing With steven and some other,

2946
02:21:57,760 --> 02:21:59,520
bigs he's gonna have to space the times and be

2947
02:21:59,559 --> 02:22:03,000
in someitions to make him pay from, three and teams

2948
02:22:03,000 --> 02:22:05,120
are going to make him prove. It he obviously he

2949
02:22:05,239 --> 02:22:07,239
was confident and did a great job last, night but

2950
02:22:07,920 --> 02:22:11,559
a lot more catch and shoot opportunities versus picking pops

2951
02:22:11,799 --> 02:22:13,399
now that he's kind of playing at the four at,

2952
02:22:13,479 --> 02:22:15,920
times AND i think he was extra aggressive ready for

2953
02:22:16,000 --> 02:22:18,079
those and if you're gonna be in those, slots you.

2954
02:22:18,079 --> 02:22:20,719
Speaker 2: Have to make him, pay and he did that overall,

2955
02:22:21,280 --> 02:22:24,319
all would you see From Reed shepherd twenty eight minutes

2956
02:22:24,360 --> 02:22:27,920
from him and just how he played on the floor both.

2957
02:22:27,959 --> 02:22:30,200
Speaker 3: Sides there was some ups and.

2958
02:22:30,319 --> 02:22:33,079
Speaker 9: Downs it's gonna be some learning curves for, guys especially

2959
02:22:33,200 --> 02:22:34,959
you know With fred out and, there having to handle

2960
02:22:35,040 --> 02:22:37,680
initiate and not just play off ball as much as

2961
02:22:37,680 --> 02:22:39,319
they did last. Year i'm in as, well and so

2962
02:22:40,719 --> 02:22:43,319
just understanding the physicality of, game which he's improved at

2963
02:22:43,360 --> 02:22:45,719
since last, year and how teams are going to guard

2964
02:22:45,799 --> 02:22:47,559
him and respect, him you, know being the third, pick

2965
02:22:47,639 --> 02:22:51,440
being a shooter and you, know freeing up. Hisself guys

2966
02:22:51,520 --> 02:22:53,280
have to free up and set screens as. Well LIKE i,

2967
02:22:53,319 --> 02:22:56,040
said they were kind of blowing everything up on and off,

2968
02:22:56,120 --> 02:22:58,200
ball and so for, him it's just just more of

2969
02:22:58,200 --> 02:22:59,719
the learning that he's gonna have to go. Through this

2970
02:22:59,840 --> 02:23:02,719
year was aggressive looking for. SHOT i think it wasn't

2971
02:23:02,799 --> 02:23:04,920
Just i'm Me inn that didn't shoot it, well a

2972
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:06,479
few other guys as. Well and you look at the

2973
02:23:06,559 --> 02:23:09,280
numbers only going eleven for thirty nine from three and

2974
02:23:09,399 --> 02:23:12,920
having some really good looks and so game one some

2975
02:23:13,079 --> 02:23:15,280
things to take away positive and. NEGATIVE i think that's

2976
02:23:15,399 --> 02:23:17,680
with the team overall and read to learn to go.

2977
02:23:17,760 --> 02:23:21,319
Speaker 2: From this some people talking during the, GAME i guess

2978
02:23:21,360 --> 02:23:23,520
About Kevin durant and his, Looks how did you feel

2979
02:23:23,520 --> 02:23:27,000
overall just working within the offense where you know that's

2980
02:23:27,079 --> 02:23:28,680
that's a guy that can go down the floor and

2981
02:23:28,879 --> 02:23:31,319
basically get up a shot anytime he wants, To but

2982
02:23:31,440 --> 02:23:33,639
you also want him to kind of play with the

2983
02:23:33,680 --> 02:23:35,920
team around. Him what is it like for you as

2984
02:23:35,959 --> 02:23:38,799
a coach finding the right moment to get him going

2985
02:23:39,000 --> 02:23:41,440
and but also wanting to play with with everyone.

2986
02:23:41,479 --> 02:23:44,840
Speaker 9: Else, well, yeah you want him to be who he,

2987
02:23:45,000 --> 02:23:48,040
is which is a great. Score but we understand just

2988
02:23:48,120 --> 02:23:50,479
like we're trying to Take shay, out they're trying to

2989
02:23:50,520 --> 02:23:50,920
Take kevin.

2990
02:23:50,959 --> 02:23:51,559
Speaker 3: Out for the most.

2991
02:23:51,600 --> 02:23:54,639
Speaker 9: Part they want Lou dort pretty much face guarding the whole.

2992
02:23:54,680 --> 02:23:56,680
Speaker 3: Time, so like that's WHAT i. Mentioned our setups have

2993
02:23:56,760 --> 02:23:56,920
to be.

2994
02:23:57,000 --> 02:24:00,079
Speaker 9: Better guys have to try to make theirself get to

2995
02:24:00,159 --> 02:24:01,840
open and we need to set better screens and so

2996
02:24:02,159 --> 02:24:04,479
playing with a little more force and pace and not

2997
02:24:04,879 --> 02:24:06,280
let him dictate where we want to go in the.

2998
02:24:06,319 --> 02:24:07,200
Speaker 3: Court that's gonna be a big.

2999
02:24:07,280 --> 02:24:10,760
Speaker 9: Thing but at times he was somewhat of a decoy

3000
02:24:10,799 --> 02:24:12,440
because they're held the way they reguarding, him and he

3001
02:24:12,520 --> 02:24:15,399
got guys open looks and at times when they're trapping

3002
02:24:15,479 --> 02:24:18,360
him or he or they're really face guarding. Him we're

3003
02:24:18,399 --> 02:24:20,760
basically playing four on four, times almost like a box in,

3004
02:24:20,840 --> 02:24:23,200
one and SO u we have to do a better

3005
02:24:23,280 --> 02:24:25,559
job getting them, open getting them into spots to. Score

3006
02:24:25,639 --> 02:24:28,280
but he has to be aggressive as well and get

3007
02:24:28,319 --> 02:24:30,600
open and so it's a little bit of. Both and

3008
02:24:30,920 --> 02:24:33,840
we understand What okac, does but he's seen that throughout

3009
02:24:33,840 --> 02:24:35,360
his career and it's just well and.

3010
02:24:35,959 --> 02:24:37,239
Speaker 3: Take we'll handle that as the season.

3011
02:24:37,319 --> 02:24:40,000
Speaker 2: GOES i don't think you guys did anything differently To

3012
02:24:40,120 --> 02:24:43,120
shane the second. Half was there something that you saw

3013
02:24:43,200 --> 02:24:45,959
from him and The bernard being turned up a little

3014
02:24:45,959 --> 02:24:47,920
bit because obviously in the first half he wasn't a

3015
02:24:47,959 --> 02:24:50,399
real huge part of the, offense but got himself involved

3016
02:24:50,399 --> 02:24:51,040
in the second half in.

3017
02:24:51,120 --> 02:24:55,760
Speaker 3: Overtime, NO i think our traps weren't as, aggressive for.

3018
02:24:55,879 --> 02:24:58,000
Speaker 9: SURE i think we got caught a few times looking

3019
02:24:58,040 --> 02:24:59,760
at other actions and then he got to pick and

3020
02:24:59,840 --> 02:25:03,200
roll where he had more room freedom to. Operate you,

3021
02:25:03,239 --> 02:25:05,600
know he's gonna come out aggressive when he's had the

3022
02:25:05,639 --> 02:25:07,520
poor first. Half we saw that last year and in

3023
02:25:07,600 --> 02:25:10,360
season tournaments of the games reguard him really, well and

3024
02:25:11,159 --> 02:25:13,399
then when we were in the, zone we did allow

3025
02:25:13,479 --> 02:25:15,200
him to get to the spots where we didn't want him.

3026
02:25:15,200 --> 02:25:16,879
To we wanted to send him to the, crowd send

3027
02:25:16,959 --> 02:25:18,920
him to, middle and he either wants to attack the

3028
02:25:19,000 --> 02:25:22,000
seams and get away from the double, teams and repeatedly

3029
02:25:22,159 --> 02:25:23,920
late in the fourth court in overtime he got to

3030
02:25:23,959 --> 02:25:25,479
those spots and that's where he saw some of those

3031
02:25:25,559 --> 02:25:28,399
jumpers where we did a great job of funneling him

3032
02:25:28,479 --> 02:25:31,159
to the help in the zone, specifically and so we

3033
02:25:31,280 --> 02:25:33,200
didn't do it as good a job and for those.

3034
02:25:33,079 --> 02:25:34,520
Speaker 3: Reasons and kind of allow him to get.

3035
02:25:34,600 --> 02:25:36,920
Speaker 9: Going and then obviously you got to free throw line

3036
02:25:36,920 --> 02:25:37,719
a little bit too much as.

3037
02:25:37,760 --> 02:25:40,600
Speaker 2: Well before you wrap things, UP i asked you just

3038
02:25:40,639 --> 02:25:43,079
before the game, yesterday it's worth for this audience as.

3039
02:25:43,120 --> 02:25:45,120
Well you went with the Double biggs last night or

3040
02:25:45,159 --> 02:25:46,840
with the, jumble whatever you want to call the, lineup

3041
02:25:47,920 --> 02:25:50,920
tell for this audience dictate he may what you think

3042
02:25:51,040 --> 02:25:53,079
you will. Do how much it will be against who

3043
02:25:53,079 --> 02:25:55,440
you're going with now homegrenn obviously being out there With

3044
02:25:55,520 --> 02:25:58,120
hartenstein that dictated it last. Night how much will you

3045
02:25:58,280 --> 02:26:00,600
try to push the envelope to with that big line

3046
02:26:00,639 --> 02:26:02,280
up out there against guys that maybe not be as

3047
02:26:02,360 --> 02:26:04,159
tall and as physical As Oklahoma city would.

3048
02:26:04,200 --> 02:26:07,040
Speaker 9: Be, yeah there are a lot of things that play

3049
02:26:07,079 --> 02:26:09,760
in it into, it and it's not just other teams

3050
02:26:09,799 --> 02:26:13,079
with big. Lineups we do like to put outpron on

3051
02:26:13,200 --> 02:26:16,079
some lesser scoring threat wings and you saw him on

3052
02:26:16,200 --> 02:26:18,600
Door it and certain guys last, night and there's plenty

3053
02:26:18,600 --> 02:26:20,479
of guys in the league and from game to game.

3054
02:26:20,360 --> 02:26:22,959
Speaker 3: We could do that. With but it's also dictated by

3055
02:26:23,000 --> 02:26:23,520
how they want to.

3056
02:26:23,520 --> 02:26:26,639
Speaker 9: Guard and you, know they've been a team that puts

3057
02:26:26,799 --> 02:26:28,639
home grin on them in a, lot and we wanted

3058
02:26:28,639 --> 02:26:30,280
to free up them in as, well and so we

3059
02:26:30,840 --> 02:26:33,079
if we don't play out double, big they'll switch that.

3060
02:26:33,200 --> 02:26:36,000
Matchup and so it's not just based on their personnel's

3061
02:26:36,000 --> 02:26:36,520
how they want to.

3062
02:26:36,559 --> 02:26:38,200
Speaker 3: Defend we take all those things into.

3063
02:26:38,200 --> 02:26:41,319
Speaker 9: Account and you, know freeing up Our inn with a

3064
02:26:41,399 --> 02:26:43,399
guard on, him he saw how he got downhill versus

3065
02:26:43,639 --> 02:26:45,920
the length of Home grin and some of those. Guys

3066
02:26:46,000 --> 02:26:48,799
and so it's a night by night based night to

3067
02:26:48,920 --> 02:26:51,120
night thing to. Start we'll be flu with it until

3068
02:26:51,159 --> 02:26:53,399
we get, healthy fully healthy and have some options With

3069
02:26:53,479 --> 02:26:55,600
douran And jayshan and those guys we can look, at

3070
02:26:55,680 --> 02:26:58,760
but we love the versatility that we have and obviously

3071
02:26:58,879 --> 02:27:01,319
the lineup that we had a ton of successes playing

3072
02:27:01,319 --> 02:27:03,680
with those two, bigs and someone will continue.

3073
02:27:03,319 --> 02:27:03,639
Speaker 3: To go with.

3074
02:27:04,280 --> 02:27:06,559
Speaker 2: You, look once the game got started last, night once

3075
02:27:06,600 --> 02:27:08,600
the ceremony was overwheling the rings and all, that it

3076
02:27:08,680 --> 02:27:10,920
was just AN nba, Game but you were going to

3077
02:27:10,959 --> 02:27:13,040
get that opportunity coming up here On friday. Night i'm

3078
02:27:13,040 --> 02:27:15,719
assuming That katie is very excited about being wearing The

3079
02:27:15,799 --> 02:27:17,159
Rocket home gear for the very first.

3080
02:27:17,200 --> 02:27:21,159
Speaker 9: Time, YEAH i think everybody, is and you, know to,

3081
02:27:21,280 --> 02:27:24,120
ME i think our whole team enjoyed that.

3082
02:27:24,239 --> 02:27:26,040
Speaker 3: Game you, know we want to be tested right from the.

3083
02:27:26,120 --> 02:27:28,479
Speaker 9: Start and So detroit is another you, know up and

3084
02:27:28,520 --> 02:27:30,840
cooming team that plays extremely physical as, well and so

3085
02:27:30,879 --> 02:27:33,959
it'll be another challenge for us and ready to get

3086
02:27:34,040 --> 02:27:36,399
this first win out of the. Way had an, opportunity

3087
02:27:36,440 --> 02:27:38,520
LIKE i said last, night you, know fouled laid a

3088
02:27:38,559 --> 02:27:40,959
few times with some free throws and things of those,

3089
02:27:41,040 --> 02:27:43,559
nature but had the opportunity, there and we'll take a

3090
02:27:43,600 --> 02:27:44,959
look at that and try to improve on game.

3091
02:27:45,040 --> 02:27:50,000
Speaker 2: Two that, again the thoughts Of Emai doka and Again

3092
02:27:50,120 --> 02:27:53,840
rockets and Action friday night against The Detroit. Pistons, monday

3093
02:27:53,959 --> 02:27:56,479
they'll be taking On brooklyn and then off to a

3094
02:27:56,520 --> 02:27:59,479
two game road trip to take on The Toronto raptors

3095
02:27:59,639 --> 02:28:01,840
and The Boston. Celtics believe it or, not is up

3096
02:28:01,959 --> 02:28:03,280
Next tony we?

3097
02:28:03,360 --> 02:28:03,840
Speaker 9: Go we go With?

3098
02:28:03,879 --> 02:28:07,399
Speaker 2: Fotello is that we're going with V, tello the new

3099
02:28:07,520 --> 02:28:11,520
manager of The San Francisco giants who's fresh off of

3100
02:28:11,600 --> 02:28:14,799
successful career as the coach at The university Of. Tennessee Tony,

3101
02:28:14,920 --> 02:28:18,159
Vytello believe it or, Not he's up next here On

3102
02:28:18,280 --> 02:28:20,559
The Matt Thomas show With ross seven one three two

3103
02:28:20,600 --> 02:28:24,040
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

3104
02:28:24,120 --> 02:28:26,360
two five seven Ninety if you want to, play we are.

3105
02:28:26,399 --> 02:28:29,239
Playing you're playing for those you of H arizona tickets

3106
02:28:29,280 --> 02:28:31,239
that we're going. With this is all? Right so all

3107
02:28:31,319 --> 02:28:33,840
The judas priests is. Gone. Huh ain't that a? Blip,

3108
02:28:34,120 --> 02:28:34,799
yeah we.

3109
02:28:34,879 --> 02:28:37,520
Speaker 6: Gotta blame that on that. One but will you Blaming

3110
02:28:37,680 --> 02:28:39,319
we blame you on that. One but that's, fine you

3111
02:28:39,319 --> 02:28:41,760
can blame. Me i'll take the. BLAME i want to

3112
02:28:41,760 --> 02:28:42,000
take the.

3113
02:28:42,040 --> 02:28:55,680
Speaker 10: Blame very excited tomorrow on the program we HAVE i

3114
02:28:55,840 --> 02:28:56,360
just don't get.

3115
02:28:56,399 --> 02:29:00,559
Speaker 2: It we'll Have Rosses rotten, five and we're gonna have

3116
02:29:00,760 --> 02:29:03,239
one of the greatest running backs ever to play in

3117
02:29:03,319 --> 02:29:05,399
The National Football. League Frank gore is gonna be on the,

3118
02:29:05,399 --> 02:29:09,319
show number three on the all time rushing, list former

3119
02:29:09,399 --> 02:29:11,719
forty nine Er Frank, Gore, yes who we will be

3120
02:29:11,879 --> 02:29:15,760
talking about football in. Life and he's got an appearance

3121
02:29:15,799 --> 02:29:19,239
coming up In houston and The texans by The niners This.

3122
02:29:19,280 --> 02:29:23,760
Sunday So Miami. Hurricanes Miami, hurricanes so they're back in

3123
02:29:23,879 --> 02:29:26,360
prominent form. Again So Frank gore will be on the show.

3124
02:29:26,360 --> 02:29:28,479
Tomorrow nice to have him on the. Program And i'm

3125
02:29:28,520 --> 02:29:30,200
going to Purst i'm gonna do something that's gonna be rather.

3126
02:29:30,319 --> 02:29:33,200
DOUCHEY i Think i'm gonna thank him for his contributions

3127
02:29:33,239 --> 02:29:34,879
to my fantasy football league over the. Year oh my,

3128
02:29:35,040 --> 02:29:38,760
GOD i think kissing ass via fantasy football is a

3129
02:29:38,799 --> 02:29:41,520
good way to endear yourself with the. Guest and we'll

3130
02:29:41,520 --> 02:29:44,319
see how it. Goes all, right we'll see five minutes

3131
02:29:44,360 --> 02:29:46,360
left to go in the. Show what should we? Do

3132
02:29:48,639 --> 02:29:54,280
we Should playmeryka's fastest growing sports radio game. Show we

3133
02:29:54,399 --> 02:29:56,479
simply call it it be leave it or out and

3134
02:29:56,559 --> 02:29:59,360
here's how it. Works you will call seven one three

3135
02:29:59,440 --> 02:30:01,879
two two two five seven ninety seventy one three two

3136
02:30:01,959 --> 02:30:05,559
one two five seven Ninety today's edition Of believing Or

3137
02:30:05,600 --> 02:30:08,959
not is all about the brand new skipper of The

3138
02:30:09,440 --> 02:30:12,799
San Francisco, Giants Tony. Vottello i'll read just name it About.

3139
02:30:12,840 --> 02:30:16,000
Tony statement is completely utterly. Ancory you'll say this the

3140
02:30:16,040 --> 02:30:17,639
same as he running as full of bunking made. Up

3141
02:30:17,680 --> 02:30:20,280
you will say this not all right if you get

3142
02:30:20,319 --> 02:30:22,520
two in or all? Right, Uh jonathan just told me

3143
02:30:22,559 --> 02:30:24,559
we do have one pair of tickets to See Alice

3144
02:30:24,639 --> 02:30:27,079
cooper And Judas Priest october the twenty sixth at this

3145
02:30:27,200 --> 02:30:30,920
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3147
02:30:34,520 --> 02:30:38,079
sunday The Preview College Basketball exhibition will FEATURE a AND

3148
02:30:38,200 --> 02:30:41,879
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3151
02:30:47,840 --> 02:30:51,239
you Play Believe it Or not seven one three two

3152
02:30:51,319 --> 02:30:54,040
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

3153
02:30:54,120 --> 02:30:56,079
two five seventy do you think our audience is really

3154
02:30:56,159 --> 02:30:59,760
up to? Speed On Tony, Bottello we'll see it's gonna

3155
02:30:59,760 --> 02:31:00,920
be just flat out guessing.

3156
02:31:00,959 --> 02:31:01,239
Speaker 3: GAME i.

3157
02:31:01,319 --> 02:31:05,559
Speaker 2: Guess let's talk to Uh. Jeremiah, jeremiah you're on? Seven

3158
02:31:05,559 --> 02:31:06,680
are you ready to? Play believe it or?

3159
02:31:06,719 --> 02:31:08,239
Speaker 3: Not believe?

3160
02:31:08,280 --> 02:31:11,239
Speaker 2: It Tony mittelo's playing career was cut short his junior

3161
02:31:11,319 --> 02:31:14,520
year At missouri after a bad knee injury during an

3162
02:31:14,600 --> 02:31:16,639
off season. Workout believe it or?

3163
02:31:16,719 --> 02:31:19,319
Speaker 3: Not? Not that is a?

3164
02:31:19,440 --> 02:31:21,840
Speaker 2: Not that's. Correct statement number two for The way And

3165
02:31:21,920 --> 02:31:24,959
Tony vitel also played soccer in high, school even winning

3166
02:31:24,959 --> 02:31:28,799
The missouri state championship back in nineteen ninety. Seven believe

3167
02:31:28,840 --> 02:31:32,920
it or? Not, not that's a believe? It i'm, Sorry,

3168
02:31:33,200 --> 02:31:39,040
Oh chris And King wood on seven on, Me, chris

3169
02:31:39,079 --> 02:31:41,559
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio, show.

3170
02:31:42,639 --> 02:31:44,360
Speaker 7: The whole absolute?

3171
02:31:44,479 --> 02:31:47,920
Speaker 2: Thing god bless. You Tony mittelo has two degrees From

3172
02:31:47,959 --> 02:31:51,280
missouri at bachelor's degree in management and a master's degree in.

3173
02:31:51,360 --> 02:31:52,559
Business believe it or?

3174
02:31:52,639 --> 02:31:54,639
Speaker 3: Not believe?

3175
02:31:54,680 --> 02:31:57,040
Speaker 2: It, yeah of course you. Should statement number two for

3176
02:31:57,120 --> 02:32:00,559
The way And Tony vitelo has zero professional baseball experience

3177
02:32:00,719 --> 02:32:03,600
as a, player assistant or a. Coach believe it.

3178
02:32:03,799 --> 02:32:04,000
Speaker 9: Or not.

3179
02:32:07,760 --> 02:32:08,079
Speaker 3: Believe.

3180
02:32:08,120 --> 02:32:12,559
Speaker 2: It that's, correct that's the. Story he's got none of

3181
02:32:12,600 --> 02:32:16,040
that now he's a manager of The. Giants, Congratulations, chris

3182
02:32:16,079 --> 02:32:18,559
you're going to either a concert or basketball this. Weekend

3183
02:32:19,239 --> 02:32:21,600
cody on Seven Anti, cody you're ready to. Play believe

3184
02:32:21,600 --> 02:32:21,719
it or?

3185
02:32:21,760 --> 02:32:23,479
Speaker 3: Not believe.

3186
02:32:23,479 --> 02:32:26,319
Speaker 2: It Tony vittelo was friends With tennessee alum And giants

3187
02:32:26,399 --> 02:32:30,639
president of Baseball Operations Buster, posey With posey instructing At

3188
02:32:30,799 --> 02:32:34,000
vall's offseason baseball. Clinics believe it or not.

3189
02:32:36,559 --> 02:32:36,879
Speaker 3: Believe?

3190
02:32:36,920 --> 02:32:42,760
Speaker 2: It, No Ros posey has no ties at all To. Tennessee,

3191
02:32:42,840 --> 02:32:46,399
CORRECT i don't believe so all, right let's continue on

3192
02:32:46,559 --> 02:32:49,200
and talk To thomas on SEVEN, Ninti, thomas you're ready to?

3193
02:32:49,200 --> 02:32:53,879
Play believe it or? Not, Yes Sir Thomas. Thomas Tony

3194
02:32:53,920 --> 02:32:57,639
bettelo immediately became a graduate assistant At missouri following his

3195
02:32:57,799 --> 02:33:01,360
playing career, there despite Coach Tim jamison not wanting him

3196
02:33:01,360 --> 02:33:03,799
to coach his former. Teammates believe it or not.

3197
02:33:06,600 --> 02:33:06,920
Speaker 3: Believe?

3198
02:33:06,959 --> 02:33:10,120
Speaker 2: It believe? It that seems. Rude statement number two for

3199
02:33:10,200 --> 02:33:12,639
the way In Tony buttelo's salary while At tennessee was

3200
02:33:12,760 --> 02:33:15,920
three million dollars per year with a three million dollar.

3201
02:33:16,040 --> 02:33:22,159
Buyout Believe it Or? Not but, oh we just talked

3202
02:33:22,159 --> 02:33:25,879
about that. TOO rossi had pays and listen To Matt

3203
02:33:25,920 --> 02:33:26,879
thomas show At ross is it?

3204
02:33:26,959 --> 02:33:27,840
Speaker 3: Not it? Does all?

3205
02:33:27,920 --> 02:33:31,440
Speaker 2: Right last? One George john Seven, Onty, george you're ready

3206
02:33:31,440 --> 02:33:32,120
to Play believe it Or?

3207
02:33:32,120 --> 02:33:34,239
Speaker 3: Not i'm, Ready.

3208
02:33:34,079 --> 02:33:36,520
Speaker 1: Tony can get it in great word last, night Mister,

3209
02:33:36,600 --> 02:33:37,120
matt great.

3210
02:33:37,159 --> 02:33:39,600
Speaker 2: WORDS i don't deserve. IT i don't deserve, You. George

3211
02:33:39,879 --> 02:33:42,479
tony Mitelo is said in a twenty twenty three interview

3212
02:33:42,520 --> 02:33:45,600
With Baseball america That tennessee was his dream job and

3213
02:33:45,639 --> 02:33:48,760
then he never sees himself Leaving. Knoxville believe it or?

3214
02:33:48,840 --> 02:33:51,440
Speaker 13: Not, uh just Like.

3215
02:33:51,559 --> 02:33:59,000
Speaker 2: Swalzenegger believe. It, no he's never said. It, well the

3216
02:33:59,079 --> 02:34:02,479
game is Called believe it Or? Not, oh believe it

3217
02:34:03,239 --> 02:34:08,000
and so? Not he made it? Up, Sorry, yeah don't

3218
02:34:08,040 --> 02:34:11,120
reinvent the rules of the. Game you don't go On

3219
02:34:11,239 --> 02:34:14,159
jeopardy and S id like to buy a. Vow you

3220
02:34:14,360 --> 02:34:20,399
just don't names And, George OH i, Know, George george

3221
02:34:20,520 --> 02:34:24,079
is really Not. George georgie is an alias or something. Else,

3222
02:34:24,319 --> 02:34:27,440
Okay So, GEORGE i know what you're. Doing you lose you.

3223
02:34:27,760 --> 02:34:33,040
Lose Good, Sir. Rossy great to have you. Back great

3224
02:34:33,120 --> 02:34:37,079
to be, Back. Matthew don't go. Anywhere you got vacation

3225
02:34:37,200 --> 02:34:43,399
time coming? Up ACTUALLY i do for real. Vacation next

3226
02:34:43,440 --> 02:34:45,719
week is strange for. Me i'm working at college, Week

3227
02:34:46,600 --> 02:34:49,159
i'm working on. Them i'm on The i'm Working, Monday

3228
02:34:49,159 --> 02:34:52,440
wednesday And. Friday, tuesday we're traveling To toronto, early SO

3229
02:34:52,479 --> 02:34:53,840
i gotta get through all the customs and all the.

3230
02:34:53,840 --> 02:34:56,559
Crap and Then, thursday my daughter is gonna play AND

3231
02:34:56,680 --> 02:34:58,520
i play out volleyball. Game Then i'm coming back To

3232
02:34:58,559 --> 02:34:59,840
houston just to see her do.

3233
02:34:59,920 --> 02:34:59,959
Speaker 9: It.

3234
02:35:00,600 --> 02:35:02,239
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay And i'll be with you in studio On

3235
02:35:02,280 --> 02:35:04,719
friday BEFORE i, go BEFORE i go To. Boston. Wonderful

3236
02:35:04,799 --> 02:35:05,399
that's What i'm talking.

3237
02:35:05,399 --> 02:35:05,959
Speaker 3: About i'm a.

3238
02:35:06,000 --> 02:35:09,600
Speaker 2: Team I'm Team sports across The. Country, Yeah TEAM rossi

3239
02:35:09,840 --> 02:35:13,520
And Team, Worldwide Team instagram at. Sports oh my, GOD

3240
02:35:13,680 --> 02:35:15,319
i only need like fifteen more to get to three.

3241
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Thousand let's. Go let's. Go uh seven one three sevenety

3242
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that's the number you will use to join Mister wexler

3243
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and Mister clinton to entertaining lads that comprise the. Team

3244
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talk to you tomorrow at ten With Frank gordon eleven

3245
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here on seven ninety