May 18, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about the Pacers forcing Game 7 against the Knicks and bring in Mark Medina, who has a little bit of fun at Jason's expense.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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(00:50):
Tom Thibodeau has subbed everybody out. I really want thought
Larry Johnson would come in from the stands to come
play a couple of minutes, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They just showed all the former Nicks.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, classic Nick's not really enjoying this game so much.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Kind of say this though, Jason whenever they show h
Walt Clyde Fraser and you're dressed as brilliantly as he
always is. But he's got the long hands, right, those
long figures, and he's got his hands folded. Don't you
wait for some really crazy s to go down, you know,
like he's he's directing traffic and something bad it's about
(01:23):
to go down.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean, come on now, he always just looks not happy,
like no matter what's going on, it's like like Clyde's
got that look like okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Unless he's on camera and then he's smiling from here
to here.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So you got Clyde at the game, and LJ is
at the game and Spree well, and they're sitting in
the stands and not allowed to be you know, on
the baseline, you know, getting in the way of the
pacers players are grabbing them. It'll be a different experience
for them in game seven of the MSG on Sunday.
That's sure, No, that's it. I mean just a very
subdude group. Like they showed him up with the.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Stands and obviously you know we're doing the show and
like ran to refill the old never ending cup of coffee.
So I didn't have the sound up, but I came
back to that montage. Boy, I wish I had the
sound up to see what was being said about these
guys right now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So I guess Timms listens to the show because I said, hey, dude,
it's a twenty point burial. Get everybody out of the game.
They're damn towel, They're all out of the game. Jericho
Simms is in the game. I think Molly Simms is
in the game. I think Phil Simms is in the game.
And I said, hey, put shake Milton in, and shake
Milton's in the game.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's like I'm coaching the team.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So you're able to coach this squad. Now you just
need that full straight line to the clubhouse there for
your mets. But what's been mostly disastrous? I mean like
it's been an awful night. Give up one hundred and
sixteen points, you're down eighteen inside of two minutes. But
down the stretch it's just a layup line and yunk fest.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Like there's a.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Contesting of shots. There's not a whole lot of any
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, no, I looked. The big question now is Josh Hart,
who left the game with an injury. Looks like an
injury to his mid section. I don't know if he
strained a muscle. Uh, but something happened in the game.
He left, he came back in bud he went to
the locker room. I mean, if they're missing missing Josh Hart,
I mean, come on, man, what else do you need?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Wears game as bad as and decided as it is Jason.
They just did the in rewind going to the old
Amad russhad thing of kind of showing the play where
it's believed heart got hurt, kind of tangled up underneath
for a rebound with siakam and and just kind of
goes to one knee, grabbing his mid section. I don't
(03:32):
know if just the hyper extension pulled muscle, what's going on?
But uh, clearly in a lot of pain.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, it looks like the the what do they called
the intercostal muscle? Right? Like? Nice? What it is? The intercostal? Yeah,
the the or as as Jesse the body Ventur would
always say like, uh, like when, uh, when when who
is a Tony Gia right had the abdominal stretch right,
like something would happen? He say, that's the lateral collateral
area of the back, Like, is that a real thing?
(03:58):
Come on, man, I could call my daughter if she's
on a work break, because right now she's doing a
lot with anatomy and one of.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Her courts work. Yeah, he should saying, though, you.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Tell me that if your daughter's doing work on a
Friday night and I'm picturing her like doing flatliners stuff
like her, yeah, how to contact the other world. We're
gonna die for three minutes and then come back and yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, tonight is just helping people with art supplies and
stuff out of Michael's.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, when you're doing science on a Friday night, I'm
just thinking it's flatliners.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, she does have to get back into the science
books because she's got a huge TSK on Tuesday. So
I know that's part of the post workshift plan. And
in addition to whatever gluttonization of a fast food restaurant
comes into play.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So it is a final now in Indiana, Jalen Brunson
walking to the locker room, he looks, Okay, that's good.
Indiana wins it one once.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The fact that you have to characterize its he's why
he let us down. And he looks a bit sewing,
but he's not hurt.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, no, no, no, Brunson's the guy, right. Look if Josh
Hart is hurt, no, everybody, It's like, I still think
they can win as long as they have Brunson. It
does it. It's like it's like Brunson's a new Ditka.
Who would win if it was Ditcka or a hurricane
named Ditka, if it was Brunson or a hurricane name Brunson.
Brunson one oh seven, Hurricane seventy six, Hurricane Brunson seventy six.
(05:25):
I thanks, hi, frat your final score, Like that's right.
I'm like, if Brunson's okay, we're going home. Game seven
nix more physical. Yes, let's why they're here for Game
Seven's why you bust your ass to try to get
to the two seed in the playoffs. Oh, by the way,
for all the teams that wanted to say, oh, we're
gonna rest guys the last couple of games because we
don't want to play a certain team in the first round,
this is why you try to get the highest seed
(05:46):
possible so you can play Game seven at home. Because
as much as the Pacers are happy about what happened tonight,
they do not want to go to Madison Square Garden
and play Game seven. That is the last thing they
want to do, but that's they got to do to
go win this, So that's why you do it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Twenty points for your guy McBride. Brun said eleven of
twenty six from the field. Much better second half thirty
one points. So the underhit was thirty four and a
half as he sat out those final minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
But look, it'll look.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
More respectable in the box score for those that didn't
watch it. Thirteen points. I mean maybe a late run
whatever not. They got beat down as it went through.
So but Game seven back at home, hopefully with Josh Hart.
And this is just me from a basketball watching standpoint, obviously,
you know I want the best for you. My Nick's
(06:35):
loving friend, but he's been a hell of a joy
to watch him play in these rounds of the playoffs.
I actually anticipate a rebounding master class to be offered.
How to be undersized and dominate your field could be
applied anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I mean really it can.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I mean rebounding is where you start in terms of
angles and being able to see the full court and
everything else. I mean all the metaphors for life are there.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Look, and I'm also glad that you saw that. The
most important thing for tonight was, in fact, Brunson walking
into the locker room after the game. I got up
a couple of dudes, Hey, here you go, Here you go. Great,
all right, all right, he looks he looks okay.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Thet sad, but he looked like Gill.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Said, that's okay, that's okay, that's a victory tonight. That
that's a that's a that's a w tonight. That's what
I call it. That now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He and his guys, I mean, Devincenzo looked all right.
Hartenstein had a couple of scary moments, right he hit
the court a couple of times You're like, ta get up.
Devincenzo had one of those where it was kind of
interesting because you saw precious at youa. Uh, they were
down low and he ended up going to the free
throw line, but Deeven Chezzo was on the court and
he just walked away. It's like, not as your teammate, dude,
(07:46):
And eventually he was helped up by the other and
they actually kind of commented it, uh commented on the broadcast. Uh, Well,
I think he just kind of had the wind knocked
out of him. He's okay, but you're trying to cover
up the fact dude just turned his back and walked
over to thee like, hold on, your guy is down.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, no, I know, I know. It's insane.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So we are gonna have two game sevens now on Sunday,
and it looks like the times are official. Uh, Pacers
and the Knicks will be at twelve thirty pm East
Coast time. And then I think the Timberwolves Nuggets is
actually my if I'm reading it right online with people
that with check marks, it might be a night game,
like this might be something that tips off at six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, it's gonna be a day night double header.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, the day night you leave the game, then you.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Shepper tickets, Baby Sepper tickets. No, no, no, you don't
get to sit around.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Side that. We're gonna get that. We're gonna get that
the day night doubleheader on on Sunday. I think that's
gonna work. Geah, I think that'd be pretty cool. You
got a game, you got some time to go, get
something to eat, You gotta go back. You got game seven.
H Yeah, you know you're drama. Three thirty PM Eastern time,
eight pm Eastern on Sunday night. So t Wolves and
the Nuggets is a primetime game on the East Coast
on Sunday night. Pacers and the Knicks three thirty pm.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
So you'll have time, you'll have you got about an
hour and a half three thirty tip off or is
that pregame?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, no, that's pregame. When we talked off three thirty
seven or whatever it is, you know that. That's kind
of okay.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Just so, just so I'm not suckered into watching a
bad pregame show, because I tell you I watched a
few minutes tonight. I muted it.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What are you gonna want on music? You're gonna watch
JJ Reddick say, look, this is look how smart I am.
I can be the head coach of the Lakers. Here's
some things I'm seeing. This is what I got going on.
But they won't hire me to left for the NBA
Finals are over, so but I want to show you
this is how smart I am. This is what I
have happening. I mean, the pregame shows are just okay.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
It's question asked, is part of the pregame has really
come down to Halliburton versus Brunson. Everybody on the panel
looks at like that's the question you're asking.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Come on, I mean, look, I'll tell you this right now.
If I'm looking at Game seven on Sunday, now we
have we have back to back Game seven on Sunday,
we'll do We'll do the first, We'll do the first.
Picks right here, I'm gonna go for games. I'm going
Nuggets and Knicks. I'm going both home teams are gonna win. Yeah. Look,
the Nuggets, even though they got blown out last night
against the timber Wolves. You saw the tea Wolves really
(10:11):
honking it up and enjoying themselves when Jokic was on
the bench of the fourth quarter. It's gonna be a
much different situation for Game seven. Yes, they've won two
games in Denver earlier this series, but that feels like
it was a month ago. Give me the Nuggets to
give me the champs in Game seven at home, at
the end of a long series, in the mile high air,
and it's gonna be the t Wolves. Yes, I know
(10:33):
people think that Anthony Edwards could go Michael Jordan and
he scores sixty and the t Wolves get to the
Western Conference Finals. But give me the Nuggets, and give
me the Knicks unless something crazy happens and Josh Hard
is out of Devincenzo is out here. But give me
the Knicks to win Game seven at home. They will
be able to put their physical style on display much
more than they have tonight. They missed a lot of
(10:54):
easy shots tonight. This is one reason why the Pacer
were able to get away with a runaway with the game,
rather not get away with any They were able to
run away with the game because look, yes, the Knicks
had problems. It was a bad night for the Nicks.
It was a great night for the Pacers. They did
everything right tonight, and still the Knicks missed so many bunnies,
so much from two feet and end. And I'm saying,
how does that roll off the rim? I seven eight
(11:16):
shots that you're counting as okay, this is a bucket,
and somehow it just rolls off the rim. So that's
not gonna happen again. So it's not just me being
Knicks fan. I'm seeing how the Knicks have played at home,
how the Pacers have played on the road, how they've
played very inconsistently. I know they're gonna be jacked up
for Game seven. This is a different animal. You've seen
(11:36):
the atmosphere at Madison Square Garden. If something happens and
Josh Hart can't play, then John Starks will play, or
Spree Well will play, or somebody else. It doesn't matter.
But give me the Knicks. Give me the Nuggets in
Game sevens on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Thirty five assists on forty nine makes tonight for the
Pacers moving the ball around only eight turnovers. By way
of contrast, for the Knicks, just twenty assists on their
thirty six makes not to mention all those early missed
free throws that you know kept the deficit a little larger,
then well it should have been by the normal statistics
(12:09):
and over a season sample size. So yeah, Josh Hart
is the key to it all right, if he plays.
I'm feeling pretty good. Thirty one minutes. Gutted it out tonight,
but obviously limited. He had did have eight rebounds, but
offensively was a non factor, So would expect him to
be better and Jalen Bronson in front of that home crowd,
he ain't going two for thirteen and a half just
(12:32):
because I mean, it wasn't defensively that they did anything
special on him. Just came up a short on a
lot of shots, including the free throws that we mentioned before.
Hartenstein one of three from the field. Really, he's only
gonna take three shots now. More activity on the on
the boards, more fluidity in what they're doing there, and
(12:55):
better shooting night in the home confines. I would fully add,
anticipate your Nicks to walk away with a win. As
for the Nuggets, you know we had Rick Buker on
what did he say? Yeah, they pissed him off. It's done.
But how hurt is Jamal Murray?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Really?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You want to talk about a guy given a no
opponent credit, like, oh, what did you get defensively from
Edward's company? He's like, ah, my elbow hurt and I
was missing shots like cave absolutely no credit to anything.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Did you know what?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I put some numbing crea He immediately went into the
treatment on his elbow. Yeah, I put some numbing cream
on there or whatever. That's how he was excusing the
four for eighteen. And maybe that's the case, but you know,
we talked about it last night. With the requisite chucking
of three point shots instead of going and running their
offense when it's most effective through Jokic. Yes, they've had
(13:50):
so much success doing Yeah, go back to basics, neutralizing
some of the seven footers. I'll still take Minnesota to win.
Why because I like chaos and I like our boss
to be happy. But in tough sledding, kiss you are
you are?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Eh CCC Scott Sapiro, I picked a team for you. Hey,
how does that sound?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
How does that sound?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Now? The bigger thing is just the auxiliary players. I'm
expecting it doesn't have to be Anthony Edwards just talking
about the myriad seven footers. You get to run out
defensively to cause enough chaos, and I do have the
asterisk next to Jamal Murray. I don't know what to
expect because his jump shots been broken with the exception
(14:33):
and Prostper's not here to yell at me. Of those
two shots he made against against the Lakers, Right, he's
shot terribly at these two rounds of the playoffs. Whether
he's hurt or whether you know it's just broke, it's broke.
I expect more struggles from him, and that's going to
allow the difference to be made on the boards and
(14:53):
in the low posts by Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah. Look, just so you know, I just got a
text from our boss, Scot Shapiro. He'd like you to
run to the corner and get a pack a cigarettes
for him. Could you do that? Could you do that?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
What are you saying? He's still under twenty one? No,
I just don't. He just doesn't want to be shown
as buying smokes. You know, back in the day in
my Chicago neighborhood, they didn't care. I cared for my
mom in the seventies, nobody cared about it. But it's like,
I'm just buying these from my mom, Okay, like legitimately,
And I legitimately was because you know, there was the
(15:24):
old rule of hey, you fly. You know, here's a
buck by a you know, thing of candy, and it
would inevitably be packs of nineteen eighty one genres baseball cars.
But that would make me eight Smith being able to
buy cigarettes, and chick, I'm buying cigarettes when I'm eight.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I need a couple of packs of Don Rash, I
got some some of those malls.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Give me, give me that Highlights magazine on the side,
give me that, give me give me one of those
What's the Puzzle ones where you had the highlighter that
you would reveal the answers.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Oh no, I know it.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah yeah, and a back of Paul Ball. Oh you
know what, and give me a Marlborough, give me a red.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Pack and give me that game where I got the
guy's face and I can move around and put a
beard or different hair styles on them. Oh one of
those two.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
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He'll preview both game sevens. What about the injury problems
for the Nuggets? What about the big injury problem that's
just cropped up for the Celtics. I'll keep it right here.
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
I can't believe the Knicks. They lost this game. It
was never close, and now Josh HoTT has hurt. That's insane,
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Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh I got that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
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you're You're on the wrong octave. No, I'm not. I'm
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Damn right. Uh. Only game of the NBA tonight in
(18:53):
the books. While it was in the books a while ago.
The Pacers beat the Knicks one sixteen to one oh three.
This series now hi to three games apiece. We have
two big game sevens on Sunday. Joining us now on
the hotline. We're gonna talk about these games. We're gonna
talk about big Celtics injuries, big Nuggets injuries. Well, longtime
NBA inside or friend of the show. You can fall
him on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That's Mark Medina. Mark.
(19:18):
What's happening? Man? How are you?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I am doing well? How are you? Are you? Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I always figure we would go to seven games. I'm fine.
Really you think I'm you and harmon, But I'm fine.
I expected this to go to seven games. I didn't
think the Knicks are going to win tonight. It's got
seven written all over it. Yes, I am okay. This
is why you have home court advantage and why you
play for the highest seed you can and don't rest
guys at the end because you want to avoid a
first round matchup. This is why you do it, Mark,
(19:44):
Jay and.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
The Knicks have done this before. They've hosted a Game
seven against the Pacers in nineteen ninety five. It was
such a gutsy performance. They ended with Patrick Ewing this
in a layup.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought you were going to follow
up by asked him what his comfort food was, Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
How about this jathon?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know what that was? You want you want a
great story about that? About that game, Ewing misses a
layup at the buzzer that would have tied the game
senate to overtime. But Ewing misses a layup and it's like,
oh my god, we just lost. Right, So they go
right from the game because I'm watching on local. I'm
watching the local channel in New York, and they go
right to like sports desk with SNY whatever it was
back then. And Bob Page, who was a huge, you know,
(20:28):
New York guy for the longest time national guy too,
is at Fox Sports Radio. We started like twenty years ago.
He comes on and the first thing he says after
the game is welcome inside the sports desk. The New
York Knicks, once again, more specifically Patrick Ewing, have failed
that was the first thing he right out of the gate.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well, Jason, let me share a story here. It'll start
with me trolling Bill, end with me inspiring you. Here's
the throwing part. I predicted when I was ten years old,
and I have an article that I say you to
back this up a few years ago that I told
my late great grandfather, this game between the Indiana Pacers
and the New York Knicks are is not over even
(21:10):
though the Pacers are down by six points with eighteen
seconds left, because I knew that Reggie Miller would score
eight points during that time. All he need to do
is a two straight threes hit, a pair of freeze rows.
Game over. That's exactly what happened. I shared the story
Regi Miller promote on Twitter. Love it. I'm going to
make another prediction that I think is going to come true.
(21:33):
It's going to be Jalen Brunson having another forty point game,
just like I called it earlier in the playoffs after
he had some struggles.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But do they win when he scores forty this time?
Because right now, I mean he got the thirty one
tonight and he wasn't very good.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
They will win because they need him. I mean, basically,
you look at the next injuries, they're broken down worse
than the New York subway system here, so wow, all
the way carrying them.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Look watching tonight, Mark, you know, here's what it breaks
down for to me. And obviously Josh Hart hopefully is
okay with whatever abdominal injury it looked like he left
the game with. But you know, yes, the Pacers played
great brunting out of bad first half. But the Knicks
missed a lot of bunnies, like they missed a lot,
Like they missed so many around the rim that just
they don't miss. And I felt like that was the
(22:26):
difference in the game, like there was, okay, hey we
got to the hoop, but and this should be hey
off the glass, through and through the net, and it
was around and off the backboard and off the iron.
I'm saying, these are so many misses from two feet in.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Yeah, so many misses from two feet in. There's another
huge Ducks factor. The Pacers out rebound of forty seven
to thirty five. The Pacers actually played like they gave
it damn. But here, as I've been looking at this series,
I mean, we can't discount the Knicks injuries that they're
pretty extensive. But when I've seen the pendulum swings with
the series, the Knicks have fallen short because they the
(23:00):
injuries have caught up to them and Jaylen Bronston can
only do so much. When I've seen the Pacers fall short,
it's because they haven't defended at a high level, or
they miss open shots, or they play like they don't
care and they can cruise through it. And I think
that the Pacers are going to fall into that trap
again in game seven, and you're going to see the
Knicks just continue to tap in to the resiliency and
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find another level, somehow, some way to play through it all,
even though half the roster is on the game of
the operation board.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well that's it. I've been calling it that for a while, Mark,
you know, which is next on a guy, because that's
what we do with Luka Dancis all the time. But
Josh Hart with the injury tangled up a little bit
with Pascal Siakam still trying to ascertain exactly what went
down beyond all right, did he just stretch?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Right?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You know the old abdominal stretch from our wrestling parlance
that caught up to him. Did he take a shot
somewhere that we didn't see?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
What did you?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What did you catch from the broadcast?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, I was concerned about just kind of the images.
It looked like he was wrapped everywhere and wincing. And
these abdominal injuries are no joke. I mean there's I
think it's not so much a pain tolerance issue there.
You certainly need pain tolerance to play through it, but
there's a sensitivity part where if you have a weird
angle or you move at an awkward position similar to
(24:22):
hamstring injury, that can just turn for the worst. So
they got to be very careful. As you guys know,
Josh Hart always wants to play forty eight minutes, so
he's going to try to play. But it's just gonna
be a matter of does the medical team think that
this is just such a drastically serious injury that's not
worth it. But again, I think that the Knicks, whether
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they win or lose, I'm comforted Jason on their long
term projection. Unlike Draymond Green and his podcast saying that
they're like the Hawks and they're a fluke, I think
it's a complete opposite. We're seeing Jalen Brunson be a gamer,
be a leader, make his teammates better. You know, I
think it really extended his game to another level. But
(25:05):
you have a real identity where you know all their
role players are playing above their potential and once their
guys are back, they'll be even even more dangerous teams.
So how this pertains see your next to this season?
I think it's very well possible they advance the Game
seven meet Boston, and well, I do guess we have
(25:25):
to see if Chrissforzingis will get healthy. I don't think
that they can be Boston, but take comfort in this, Jason,
if they advance to Boston, they can at least provide
enough resistance to Boston wear them down that you know
they'll do the Denver Nuggets or the Oklahoma City or
the Dallas Mavericks or the Minnesota Favors for when they
meet Boston the finals.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
NBA insider Mark Medina, our guest, the Jason Smiths or
the Mike Carmon live from the tirak dot com studios.
All right, so let's head to the other Game seven
on Sunday. Get a great doubleheader Sunday night, we have
the Nuggets and the te Wolves. You could tell that
that jokicch and some of the Nuggets not happy with
the way the Timberwolves running it up in the fourth
quarter last night. I know Jamal Murray has banged up
(26:09):
a little bit with his elbow. A situation. How do
you see game seven go?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Well, I think it's really just flip a coin at
this point, Minnesota showing they can want on Denver's own floor.
The Nuggets show that, for better and for worse, they
play at their best when they feel challenged and vulnerable.
But if I have to make a prediction here and
I will, I say the Wolves are going to take
it because this unfertney with Jamal Murray's health, that's a
(26:36):
real significant thing. Well, I do trust that he'll play,
he'll play through it, He'll find ways to be effective.
There's no question that it was affecting his shot in
game six, and I want to be surprised if it's
the same thing in game seven. So edge of the
Wolves and Anthony Edwards, you know, showing that he's that
worthy comparison to this guy named Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well Smith and I are excited because Game seven means,
you know, all four teams are gonna give an effort, right,
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You're not gonna see road management in these games here.
You're not gonna see if guys are sitting out, it's
because it's actual injuries that could cause long term damage.
It's not the oh yeah, I want to protect myself
because I might want to get traded next summer.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
All right, Mark, So getting away from from those games,
we get to Game six with the Dallas Mavericks and
the Oklahoma City Thunder. How do you see this? Are
we going to see Luca and the Mavericks in the
Western Conference Finals?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I think this is flip a coin as well. Look,
Jason I throwing all this shade at Luca Dodgers, but
he actually has an injury. He is showing the old
adage that there's thirdstwen being hurt and being injured. He
is playing and gutting it out. Sometimes it's been good,
sometimes it's been in efficient. But lately it's been good
and he's not complaining to the ref as much. I'm
(27:55):
really torn on this because I thought Oklahoma City had
the edge because they had more of a poet team.
But I think that Dallas has shown that it's not
just the Lucas show. It's not even just the Luca
Kyrie Show. They actually have a supporting cast that knows
how to play defense at the high level. So I
think Dallas winds up taking this. I mean when you
look at you know, some guys like Chet Holmgren and
(28:18):
Joe and Williams, they haven't been able to shoot the
ball as consistently in this series, where Dallas they've been
more reliable from top to bottom. So I'm going to
give the edge of the Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Chaos and Zeus is Dallas would then advance. Okay, So
as we set it up, you know, we have to
ask the obligatory Lakers coaching question after a couple more days.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
The interview list.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I'm sorry, you know, I try, Mark, I try to
every couple of years. I try to get you on
that list.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And I don't call it all, let's say, because it
comes up every two years.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
So well, there is a key line in the stories
here that I know that ESPN wrote. You know, they
want to talk to candidates that they don't know well first.
So maybe once they get through that process, though, they'll
circle back with it was.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Like three paragraphs of candidates though it seemed like everybody
that's ever been an assistant.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's already familiar with my body, a worker
whack thereof So like they'll get through the candidates they
don't know first and maybe they'll circle back later.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You can follow on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina.
That's at Mark g Underscore Medina. Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time and thank you for the kind words
about Sunday. I'm feeling good and if the Knicks don't win,
I can always blame you. So it's always, of.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Course, only through the errors my life. Real quick, I mean,
it's serious about the Lakers news. I've been told all
signs are pointing toward JJ Reddick getting the job and
then trying to surround him with assistants that are experienced
to shield the fact that he hasn't been a head
coach before. So we'll see the amazing podcast extended out
into the court.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hereo J Reddick surrounded by big time coaches. Wow, there
it is Mark Medina again.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, that's saying they're gonna, we're gonna spend money on
coaches then, so they cheap out on the head guy
and then surround him with the guys that are waiting
to usurp him. I mean, we had that a couple
of years ago, where hey, when's this guy get a
stage of bloodless coup and take the job.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So big time assistants surrounding JJ Redick, uh and JJ
Reddick looks like he could be the next Lakers head coach. Wow, Mark,
great stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Man, Thank you, appreciate you, Jim Mark.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Big stuff there, JJ Reddick another guy for Lebron to
not listen to. Uh time Now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports from special delivery
Steve the Sager's Stevo, what do you got for us?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Let's start with the NBA playoff game tonight, where the
Knicks and Pacers were tied mid second quarter. Indiana led
by ten at the half and beat New York one
sixteen to one oh three. Series tied at three games apiece,
so game seven Sunday afternoon in New York. Jalen Brunson
did have thirty one points tonight after two of thirteen
shooting from the floor in the first half. Josh Hart
(31:03):
left with abdominal soreness. The Pacers six to zero at
home this postseason series winner goes to Boston to start
the Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday. The Western Conference Finals
will start Wednesday tomorrow. The Mavericks up three games to two.
We'll be playing against Oklahoma City. Denver hosts a Game
seven against Minnesota on Sunday night. In the NHL playoffs.
(31:25):
Right now, at Colorado, the Avs late in the second
period lead top seed Dallas one nothing, trying to force
a game seven, which would be in Dallas on Sunday.
It is, by the way, Boston out in the East.
Florida gets a goal with about a minute and a
half left in the game tonight to win at Boston
two to one in Game six to take the series.
New York Rangers will host Florida in Game one in
(31:48):
the East Final on Wednesday. By the way, Vancouver up
three games to two, plays tomorrow at Edmonton. Toronto's new
head coach is Craig Berubi, ex of Saint Louis. Xander
Schaffley leads the PGA Championship by one strokeover Colin Morikawa.
Scottie Scheffler, rank number one, shot a second round sixty
six after being arrested this morning. Police say he kept
(32:08):
driving dragging an officer who attempted to stop him. The
four charges include second degree assault of a police officer.
Scheffler was trying to avoid a traffic backup and drive
into the country club today. His arraignment is scheduled for
Tuesday morning. Tiger woodshot seventy seven today and will miss
the cut, as will Phil Mickelson. A reminder, NASCAR's All
Star Race is Sunday night on FS one. As for
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Major League Baseball, we've got three late games. The Dodgers
got a leadoff homer from Mookie Betts and lead three
to two against the Reds. Top of the six, Shoeo
Tani with his thirteenth home run of the season. Dodger
third baseman Max Munsey goes on the injured list with
a strained oblique. Outfielder Jason Hayward was activated. LA center
fielder James Outman was sent to Triple A. The Rockies
(32:52):
lead at San Francisco four to two in the top
of the fifth. Giants outfielder Jung Hu Lee will have
season ending shoulder surgery and bottom of the eighth, the
Tigers are leading thirteen nothing at Arizona Diamondbacks with just
one hit Hobby Baias with three hits five RBIs, his
batting averages up to one eighty five. Tampa Bay a
(33:12):
four to three winner at Toronto the wind to Rays
pitcher Tyler Alexander, who was perfect for seven and a third,
and the Yankees won their fifth straight four to two
over the White Sox. Well, Houston won at six in
a row five four against Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Back to you thanks a bun Steve. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from the
tyreck dot com studios. Wow, there you go, Mark Medina,
NBA insider saying all signs point to JJ Reddick being
the next head coach of the Lakers. Will break that
down coming up next right here. Does it even matter
(33:44):
who the Lakers hire as their head coach, whether it's
JJ Reddick or somebody else, that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the ti iraq dot com studios. Thanks to
Mark Medena who joined a few minutes ago talked to
all the latest in the NBA, looking ahead at Game
seven's on Sunday, and also letting it slip that the
people he has spoken to, it feels like it's JJ
(34:20):
Reddick's job with the Lakers, and the Lakers will surround
him with big time assistants to help the transition, and
it's Reddick's job basically to lose right now with the Lakers.
All right, so let's get into this. Reddick certainly has
all the the I would say, the eyebrow raising. He's
(34:42):
got the level of interest now because he's a broadcast
where he's never coached before. He's been used to giving
out hot takes on the air, and now, hey, my
basketball knowledge, I could wind up being the head coach
of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Right, Hey, I was good enough that Lebron chose to
do a podcast with me.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
No no, no, no. Look, and that's great because, hey,
as I'm sitting here saying, the more these guys win,
I can be the manager of the Mets one day.
Right If JJ Reddick coaches the Lakers, got leaves coaching Wisconsin,
Green Bay, Hey, man, I could be the manager of
the Mets one day. I really I want nothing but
success for all these guys because I want to be
able to manage the Mets, because that's my gig.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Your dream stinks, I was talking to her. Let me
go straight to tangle down you.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Let me just say this. It doesn't matter who the
Lakers higher, It really doesn't. It makes no difference. It
doesn't matter if they hire JJ Reddick, It doesn't matter
if Hier Kenny Atkinson, it makes no difference. Then this higher.
It's just gonna have the same type of input that
Darvin Ham does, right, and Darvin Ham did. JJ Reddick's
(35:45):
not gonna get Lebron to do what he feels he
needs to do to win games. JJ Reddick is someone
who's gonna try to come in because you see him.
He's gonna try to come in and coach a certain way,
and it's gonna be hey, like, he's got to come
in and show that I'm the authority figure here. And
he's gonna come in and coach all you know, all
all bells and whistles at all to the wall, and
he's gonna have some kind of really strict discipline, disciplinary style.
(36:08):
And that ain't gonna sell, right, because that's kind of
his personality. It ain't gonna sell And it doesn't matter
because whether they hire JJ Redding, the Lakers are gonna
be the Lakers. This is just how it's gonna go
because Lebron and Ad aren't gonna buy into anything anybody's doing.
They're not gonna suddenly play defense better. They're not gonna
suddenly do things offensively they haven't done. They're not gonna
(36:29):
buy into a big game plan. They're gonna do what
they've done all along, all right, and that's what it is. Look,
that's what Lebron has always done. And now Ad is
kind of a clone of Lebron because hey, being as
tight as he is with Lebron on the court. Yeah yeah, yeah,
you don't see it. There's nobody coming in to transform
the Lakers and turn them into something the best. Honestly,
(36:49):
the best thing would be if they reunite with Frank Voge,
because at least then I know they'd be better defensively
because they have the cachet of the day we won
the title in twenty twenty. Can we do that again?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Let's should they buy in four years later? I guess
this is the question. I bought in for the sixth
but I bought in for the short term and for
the bubble. Can I get you back in a couple.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Of years later.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I think it would be a great experiment with this one.
The surprising thing to me, Jason was the idea that
there'd be a bunch of high priced, highly influential assistance,
because we know that one of the big criticisms about
the Lakers they don't want to spend money on the
coach either.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, well no, but look, I mean, it's gonna be
kind of uninspired. JJ reddicks a headline, But is he
suddenly really JJ Redick's gonna be People aren't lining up
to coach the Lakers. It's it's a gig that nobody
really wants, right what did what did Rick Buker tell
us last night on the show right where we talked
about the Lakers gig? And he said that or is
it Mark Stein? Mark? The other night side, I told
(37:49):
us that the Lakers gig is like, hey, it's still
a good job because you can have it on your
resume and when you get fired, people are gonna say
it's not your fault like that. That's what it is
to coach the Lakers. It's gonna be uninspired and the
Lakers are gonna be exactly the same. It's it's irrelevant
who they hire. A JJ Reddick would be headlines. It'd
be great for us. I guarantee you his style will
great on the team right away because I know how
(38:11):
he's gonna wind up coaching. So there's that.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
But overall, is.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
He suddenly coming in with a with a system that's
gonna help. Hey, we don't have money to go out
and sign free agents, So here's how we're gonna improve
from within because I see this, this, this, this, and this,
and I'm gonna get you to play defense this way
and move the ball this way. No, Lebron's gonna say, hey, great,
my podcast guy is here. Uhh yeah, I'm not practicing today,
by the way. Just by the way, you know what,
I don't really practice, just so you know, so anything
(38:35):
you want to get into practice, I don't really do that.
So I mean, i'd love I'd love it to work.
I'd love it to work. I'd love to see the
Lakers head coach mean something, But it hasn't since Phil
Jackson was the coach. Right, Lebron and ad are simply
gonna do what they want to do, and it's gonna
be a lot like the last couple of years. That's
how the next few years will go with LA just
like the last couple of ways.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Well, but you also look at this year. Look at
the number of games, and we talked about it all
year long. Look at the the waste of a good
year in terms of games played and the availability for
Lebron James and Anthony Davis. If you were to go
to Vegas right now and they gave you the over
under their combined games what was it, one hundred and
forty two or whatever they played together, Are you going
over or under? You're you're probably slapping down as much
(39:18):
money as you could fit in your pocket on the
under for.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
That, aren't you. So?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
For JJ Reddick or whoever takes the gig, let's assume
it's Redick right here, boy, you're gonna get to coach
your ass off because you ain't gonna have those two
guys every night. But you're not gonna have enough guys
in the Western Conference, because that's the other thing. You're
climbing a really tall mountain there, all right. As much
as you could say, wow, you know, it was a
more competitive series against the Nuggets. This year, you still
(39:45):
were out Thereah, they won one games.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So next year they play win two games, and then
the year after that they'll win three games. So in
four years, when yo get just thirty one, Yeah, hey
we finally beat the numbers.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
But he's back on his farm, ride around his horse,
who are playing with his MVP trophies. That's what you
can get him, that's what you're telling me.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I really, I'm telling you man, I'd love to see
it make a difference, but it's just not going to right,
whether it turns out to be Reddick or not. There's
nobody who's gonna come in. Nobody wants to come in
and coach Lebron and ad nobody does. And yet every
every hire is is like uninspired. You know. It's like
the fact that JJ Reddick could walk from the broadcast
(40:25):
booth into coaching the Lakers. What does it tell you
about overall interests and who they can get for the job. Well,
it's all Jillian.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
It's one of thirty, So I have interest in it.
I'm in let's go exit out.
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we're just under two minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
(00:50):
Tom Thibodeau has subbed everybody out. I really want thought
Larry Johnson would come in from the stands to come
play a couple of minutes, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
They just showed all the former Nicks.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, classic Nick's not really enjoying this game so much.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Kind of say this though, Jason whenever they show h
Walt Clyde Fraser and you're dressed as brilliantly as he
always is. But he's got the long hands, right, those
long figures, and he's got his hands folded. Don't you
wait for some really crazy s to go down, you know,
like he's he's directing traffic and something bad it's about
(01:23):
to go down.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean, come on now, he always just looks not happy,
like no matter what's going on, it's like like Clyde's
got that look like okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Unless he's on camera and then he's smiling from here
to here.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So you got Clyde at the game, and LJ is
at the game and Spree well, and they're sitting in
the stands and not allowed to be you know, on
the baseline, you know, getting in the way of the
pacers players are grabbing them. It'll be a different experience
for them in game seven of the MSG on Sunday.
That's sure, No, that's it. I mean just a very
subdude group. Like they showed him up with the.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Stands and obviously you know we're doing the show and
like ran to refill the old never ending cup of coffee.
So I didn't have the sound up, but I came
back to that montage. Boy, I wish I had the
sound up to see what was being said about these
guys right now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
So I guess Timms listens to the show because I said, hey, dude,
it's a twenty point burial. Get everybody out of the game.
They're damn towel, They're all out of the game. Jericho
Simms is in the game. I think Molly Simms is
in the game. I think Phil Simms is in the game.
And I said, hey, put shake Milton in, and shake
Milton's in the game.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's like I'm coaching the team.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So you're able to coach this squad. Now you just
need that full straight line to the clubhouse there for
your mets. But what's been mostly disastrous? I mean like
it's been an awful night. Give up one hundred and
sixteen points, you're down eighteen inside of two minutes. But
down the stretch it's just a layup line and yunk fest.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Like there's a.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Contesting of shots. There's not a whole lot of any
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, no, I looked. The big question now is Josh Hart,
who left the game with an injury. Looks like an
injury to his mid section. I don't know if he
strained a muscle. Uh, but something happened in the game.
He left, he came back in bud he went to
the locker room. I mean, if they're missing missing Josh Hart,
I mean, come on, man, what else do you need?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Wears game as bad as and decided as it is Jason.
They just did the in rewind going to the old
Amad russhad thing of kind of showing the play where
it's believed heart got hurt, kind of tangled up underneath
for a rebound with siakam and and just kind of
goes to one knee, grabbing his mid section. I don't
(03:32):
know if just the hyper extension pulled muscle, what's going on?
But uh, clearly in a lot of pain.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah, it looks like the the what do they called
the intercostal muscle? Right? Like? Nice? What it is? The intercostal? Yeah,
the the or as as Jesse the body Ventur would
always say like, uh, like when, uh, when when who
is a Tony Gia right had the abdominal stretch right,
like something would happen? He say, that's the lateral collateral
area of the back, Like, is that a real thing?
(03:58):
Come on, man, I could call my daughter if she's
on a work break, because right now she's doing a
lot with anatomy and one of.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Her courts work. Yeah, he should saying, though, you.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Tell me that if your daughter's doing work on a
Friday night and I'm picturing her like doing flatliners stuff
like her, yeah, how to contact the other world. We're
gonna die for three minutes and then come back and yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, tonight is just helping people with art supplies and
stuff out of Michael's.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, when you're doing science on a Friday night, I'm
just thinking it's flatliners.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, she does have to get back into the science
books because she's got a huge TSK on Tuesday. So
I know that's part of the post workshift plan. And
in addition to whatever gluttonization of a fast food restaurant
comes into play.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
So it is a final now in Indiana, Jalen Brunson
walking to the locker room, he looks, Okay, that's good.
Indiana wins it one once.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
The fact that you have to characterize its he's why
he let us down. And he looks a bit sewing,
but he's not hurt.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, no, no, no, Brunson's the guy, right. Look if Josh
Hart is hurt, no, everybody, It's like, I still think
they can win as long as they have Brunson. It
does it. It's like it's like Brunson's a new Ditka.
Who would win if it was Ditcka or a hurricane
named Ditka, if it was Brunson or a hurricane name Brunson.
Brunson one oh seven, Hurricane seventy six, Hurricane Brunson seventy six.
(05:25):
I thanks, hi, frat your final score, Like that's right.
I'm like, if Brunson's okay, we're going home. Game seven
nix more physical. Yes, let's why they're here for Game
Seven's why you bust your ass to try to get
to the two seed in the playoffs. Oh, by the way,
for all the teams that wanted to say, oh, we're
gonna rest guys the last couple of games because we
don't want to play a certain team in the first round,
this is why you try to get the highest seed
(05:46):
possible so you can play Game seven at home. Because
as much as the Pacers are happy about what happened tonight,
they do not want to go to Madison Square Garden
and play Game seven. That is the last thing they
want to do, but that's they got to do to
go win this, So that's why you do it.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Twenty points for your guy McBride. Brun said eleven of
twenty six from the field. Much better second half thirty
one points. So the underhit was thirty four and a
half as he sat out those final minutes.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
But look, it'll look.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
More respectable in the box score for those that didn't
watch it. Thirteen points. I mean maybe a late run
whatever not. They got beat down as it went through.
So but Game seven back at home, hopefully with Josh Hart.
And this is just me from a basketball watching standpoint, obviously,
you know I want the best for you. My Nick's
(06:35):
loving friend, but he's been a hell of a joy
to watch him play in these rounds of the playoffs.
I actually anticipate a rebounding master class to be offered.
How to be undersized and dominate your field could be
applied anywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I mean really it can.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I mean rebounding is where you start in terms of
angles and being able to see the full court and
everything else. I mean all the metaphors for life are there.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Look, and I'm also glad that you saw that. The
most important thing for tonight was, in fact, Brunson walking
into the locker room after the game. I got up
a couple of dudes, Hey, here you go, Here you go. Great,
all right, all right, he looks he looks okay.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Thet sad, but he looked like Gill.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Said, that's okay, that's okay, that's a victory tonight. That
that's a that's a that's a w tonight. That's what
I call it. That now.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He and his guys, I mean, Devincenzo looked all right.
Hartenstein had a couple of scary moments, right he hit
the court a couple of times You're like, ta get up.
Devincenzo had one of those where it was kind of
interesting because you saw precious at youa. Uh, they were
down low and he ended up going to the free
throw line, but Deeven Chezzo was on the court and
he just walked away. It's like, not as your teammate, dude,
(07:46):
And eventually he was helped up by the other and
they actually kind of commented it, uh commented on the broadcast. Uh, Well,
I think he just kind of had the wind knocked
out of him. He's okay, but you're trying to cover
up the fact dude just turned his back and walked
over to thee like, hold on, your guy is down.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, no, I know, I know. It's insane.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So we are gonna have two game sevens now on Sunday,
and it looks like the times are official. Uh, Pacers
and the Knicks will be at twelve thirty pm East
Coast time. And then I think the Timberwolves Nuggets is
actually my if I'm reading it right online with people
that with check marks, it might be a night game,
like this might be something that tips off at six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, it's gonna be a day night double header.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, the day night you leave the game, then you.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Shepper tickets, Baby Sepper tickets. No, no, no, you don't
get to sit around.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Side that. We're gonna get that. We're gonna get that
the day night doubleheader on on Sunday. I think that's
gonna work. Geah, I think that'd be pretty cool. You
got a game, you got some time to go, get
something to eat, You gotta go back. You got game seven.
H Yeah, you know you're drama. Three thirty PM Eastern time,
eight pm Eastern on Sunday night. So t Wolves and
the Nuggets is a primetime game on the East Coast
on Sunday night. Pacers and the Knicks three thirty pm.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
So you'll have time, you'll have you got about an
hour and a half three thirty tip off or is
that pregame?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, no, that's pregame. When we talked off three thirty
seven or whatever it is, you know that. That's kind
of okay.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Just so, just so I'm not suckered into watching a
bad pregame show, because I tell you I watched a
few minutes tonight. I muted it.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
What are you gonna want on music? You're gonna watch
JJ Reddick say, look, this is look how smart I am.
I can be the head coach of the Lakers. Here's
some things I'm seeing. This is what I got going on.
But they won't hire me to left for the NBA
Finals are over, so but I want to show you
this is how smart I am. This is what I
have happening. I mean, the pregame shows are just okay.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
It's question asked, is part of the pregame has really
come down to Halliburton versus Brunson. Everybody on the panel
looks at like that's the question you're asking.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Come on, I mean, look, I'll tell you this right now.
If I'm looking at Game seven on Sunday, now we
have we have back to back Game seven on Sunday,
we'll do We'll do the first, We'll do the first.
Picks right here, I'm gonna go for games. I'm going
Nuggets and Knicks. I'm going both home teams are gonna win. Yeah. Look,
the Nuggets, even though they got blown out last night
against the timber Wolves. You saw the tea Wolves really
(10:11):
honking it up and enjoying themselves when Jokic was on
the bench of the fourth quarter. It's gonna be a
much different situation for Game seven. Yes, they've won two
games in Denver earlier this series, but that feels like
it was a month ago. Give me the Nuggets to
give me the champs in Game seven at home, at
the end of a long series, in the mile high air,
and it's gonna be the t Wolves. Yes, I know
(10:33):
people think that Anthony Edwards could go Michael Jordan and
he scores sixty and the t Wolves get to the
Western Conference Finals. But give me the Nuggets, and give
me the Knicks unless something crazy happens and Josh Hard
is out of Devincenzo is out here. But give me
the Knicks to win Game seven at home. They will
be able to put their physical style on display much
more than they have tonight. They missed a lot of
(10:54):
easy shots tonight. This is one reason why the Pacer
were able to get away with a runaway with the game,
rather not get away with any They were able to
run away with the game because look, yes, the Knicks
had problems. It was a bad night for the Nicks.
It was a great night for the Pacers. They did
everything right tonight, and still the Knicks missed so many bunnies,
so much from two feet and end. And I'm saying,
how does that roll off the rim? I seven eight
(11:16):
shots that you're counting as okay, this is a bucket,
and somehow it just rolls off the rim. So that's
not gonna happen again. So it's not just me being
Knicks fan. I'm seeing how the Knicks have played at home,
how the Pacers have played on the road, how they've
played very inconsistently. I know they're gonna be jacked up
for Game seven. This is a different animal. You've seen
(11:36):
the atmosphere at Madison Square Garden. If something happens and
Josh Hart can't play, then John Starks will play, or
Spree Well will play, or somebody else. It doesn't matter.
But give me the Knicks. Give me the Nuggets in
Game sevens on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Thirty five assists on forty nine makes tonight for the
Pacers moving the ball around only eight turnovers. By way
of contrast, for the Knicks, just twenty assists on their
thirty six makes not to mention all those early missed
free throws that you know kept the deficit a little larger,
then well it should have been by the normal statistics
(12:09):
and over a season sample size. So yeah, Josh Hart
is the key to it all right, if he plays.
I'm feeling pretty good. Thirty one minutes. Gutted it out tonight,
but obviously limited. He had did have eight rebounds, but
offensively was a non factor, So would expect him to
be better and Jalen Bronson in front of that home crowd,
he ain't going two for thirteen and a half just
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because I mean, it wasn't defensively that they did anything
special on him. Just came up a short on a
lot of shots, including the free throws that we mentioned before.
Hartenstein one of three from the field. Really, he's only
gonna take three shots now. More activity on the on
the boards, more fluidity in what they're doing there, and
(12:55):
better shooting night in the home confines. I would fully add,
anticipate your Nicks to walk away with a win. As
for the Nuggets, you know we had Rick Buker on
what did he say? Yeah, they pissed him off. It's done.
But how hurt is Jamal Murray?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Really?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
You want to talk about a guy given a no
opponent credit, like, oh, what did you get defensively from
Edward's company? He's like, ah, my elbow hurt and I
was missing shots like cave absolutely no credit to anything.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Did you know what?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I put some numbing crea He immediately went into the
treatment on his elbow. Yeah, I put some numbing cream
on there or whatever. That's how he was excusing the
four for eighteen. And maybe that's the case, but you know,
we talked about it last night. With the requisite chucking
of three point shots instead of going and running their
offense when it's most effective through Jokic. Yes, they've had
(13:50):
so much success doing Yeah, go back to basics, neutralizing
some of the seven footers. I'll still take Minnesota to win.
Why because I like chaos and I like our boss
to be happy. But in tough sledding, kiss you are
you are?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Eh CCC Scott Sapiro, I picked a team for you. Hey,
how does that sound?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
How does that sound?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Now? The bigger thing is just the auxiliary players. I'm
expecting it doesn't have to be Anthony Edwards just talking
about the myriad seven footers. You get to run out
defensively to cause enough chaos, and I do have the
asterisk next to Jamal Murray. I don't know what to
expect because his jump shots been broken with the exception
(14:33):
and Prostper's not here to yell at me. Of those
two shots he made against against the Lakers, Right, he's
shot terribly at these two rounds of the playoffs. Whether
he's hurt or whether you know it's just broke, it's broke.
I expect more struggles from him, and that's going to
allow the difference to be made on the boards and
(14:53):
in the low posts by Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah. Look, just so you know, I just got a
text from our boss, Scot Shapiro. He'd like you to
run to the corner and get a pack a cigarettes
for him. Could you do that? Could you do that?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
What are you saying? He's still under twenty one? No,
I just don't. He just doesn't want to be shown
as buying smokes. You know, back in the day in
my Chicago neighborhood, they didn't care. I cared for my
mom in the seventies, nobody cared about it. But it's like,
I'm just buying these from my mom, Okay, like legitimately,
And I legitimately was because you know, there was the
(15:24):
old rule of hey, you fly. You know, here's a
buck by a you know, thing of candy, and it
would inevitably be packs of nineteen eighty one genres baseball cars.
But that would make me eight Smith being able to
buy cigarettes, and chick, I'm buying cigarettes when I'm eight.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
What do you got?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I need a couple of packs of Don Rash, I
got some some of those malls.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Give me, give me that Highlights magazine on the side,
give me that, give me give me one of those
What's the Puzzle ones where you had the highlighter that
you would reveal the answers.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Oh no, I know it.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah yeah, and a back of Paul Ball. Oh you
know what, and give me a Marlborough, give me a red.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Pack and give me that game where I got the
guy's face and I can move around and put a
beard or different hair styles on them. Oh one of
those two.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
I can't believe the Knicks. They lost this game. It
was never close, and now Josh HoTT has hurt. That's insane,
all right, Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with
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lead singer of Asia, the voice is kind of tough.
It's kind of tough for me to get that pitch right.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh I got that?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. Zoe always tells me the car Dad, Dad, you're
you're You're on the wrong octave. No, I'm not. I'm
at the octave where it sounds right now. But Dad,
you're in the wrong octave. I'm not at the wrong
You sing in the octave. I want to sing. I'll sing, However,
I haven't tried yet. This is this isn't a concert.
You didn't pay money to sit next to me. Now
be quiet, listen well I sing sweet Child of Mine.
Damn right. Uh. Only game of the NBA tonight in
(18:53):
the books. While it was in the books a while ago.
The Pacers beat the Knicks one sixteen to one oh three.
This series now hi to three games apiece. We have
two big game sevens on Sunday. Joining us now on
the hotline. We're gonna talk about these games. We're gonna
talk about big Celtics injuries, big Nuggets injuries. Well, longtime
NBA inside or friend of the show. You can fall
him on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That's Mark Medina. Mark.
(19:18):
What's happening? Man? How are you?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I am doing well? How are you? Are you? Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I always figure we would go to seven games. I'm fine.
Really you think I'm you and harmon, But I'm fine.
I expected this to go to seven games. I didn't
think the Knicks are going to win tonight. It's got
seven written all over it. Yes, I am okay. This
is why you have home court advantage and why you
play for the highest seed you can and don't rest
guys at the end because you want to avoid a
first round matchup. This is why you do it, Mark,
(19:44):
Jay and.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
The Knicks have done this before. They've hosted a Game
seven against the Pacers in nineteen ninety five. It was
such a gutsy performance. They ended with Patrick Ewing this
in a layup.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I thought you were going to follow
up by asked him what his comfort food was, Mark.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
How about this jathon?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
You know what that was? You want you want a
great story about that? About that game, Ewing misses a
layup at the buzzer that would have tied the game
senate to overtime. But Ewing misses a layup and it's like,
oh my god, we just lost. Right, So they go
right from the game because I'm watching on local. I'm
watching the local channel in New York, and they go
right to like sports desk with SNY whatever it was
back then. And Bob Page, who was a huge, you know,
(20:28):
New York guy for the longest time national guy too,
is at Fox Sports Radio. We started like twenty years ago.
He comes on and the first thing he says after
the game is welcome inside the sports desk. The New
York Knicks, once again, more specifically Patrick Ewing, have failed
that was the first thing he right out of the gate.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well, Jason, let me share a story here. It'll start
with me trolling Bill, end with me inspiring you. Here's
the throwing part. I predicted when I was ten years old,
and I have an article that I say you to
back this up a few years ago that I told
my late great grandfather, this game between the Indiana Pacers
and the New York Knicks are is not over even
(21:10):
though the Pacers are down by six points with eighteen
seconds left, because I knew that Reggie Miller would score
eight points during that time. All he need to do
is a two straight threes hit, a pair of freeze rows.
Game over. That's exactly what happened. I shared the story
Regi Miller promote on Twitter. Love it. I'm going to
make another prediction that I think is going to come true.
(21:33):
It's going to be Jalen Brunson having another forty point game,
just like I called it earlier in the playoffs after
he had some struggles.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But do they win when he scores forty this time?
Because right now, I mean he got the thirty one
tonight and he wasn't very good.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
They will win because they need him. I mean, basically,
you look at the next injuries, they're broken down worse
than the New York subway system here, so wow, all
the way carrying them.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Look watching tonight, Mark, you know, here's what it breaks
down for to me. And obviously Josh Hart hopefully is
okay with whatever abdominal injury it looked like he left
the game with. But you know, yes, the Pacers played
great brunting out of bad first half. But the Knicks
missed a lot of bunnies, like they missed a lot,
Like they missed so many around the rim that just
they don't miss. And I felt like that was the
(22:26):
difference in the game, like there was, okay, hey we
got to the hoop, but and this should be hey
off the glass, through and through the net, and it
was around and off the backboard and off the iron.
I'm saying, these are so many misses from two feet in.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Yeah, so many misses from two feet in. There's another
huge Ducks factor. The Pacers out rebound of forty seven
to thirty five. The Pacers actually played like they gave
it damn. But here, as I've been looking at this series,
I mean, we can't discount the Knicks injuries that they're
pretty extensive. But when I've seen the pendulum swings with
the series, the Knicks have fallen short because they the
(23:00):
injuries have caught up to them and Jaylen Bronston can
only do so much. When I've seen the Pacers fall short,
it's because they haven't defended at a high level, or
they miss open shots, or they play like they don't
care and they can cruise through it. And I think
that the Pacers are going to fall into that trap
again in game seven, and you're going to see the
Knicks just continue to tap in to the resiliency and
(23:23):
find another level, somehow, some way to play through it all,
even though half the roster is on the game of
the operation board.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Well that's it. I've been calling it that for a while, Mark,
you know, which is next on a guy, because that's
what we do with Luka Dancis all the time. But
Josh Hart with the injury tangled up a little bit
with Pascal Siakam still trying to ascertain exactly what went
down beyond all right, did he just stretch?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Right?
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
You know the old abdominal stretch from our wrestling parlance
that caught up to him. Did he take a shot
somewhere that we didn't see?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
What did you?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What did you catch from the broadcast?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, I was concerned about just kind of the images.
It looked like he was wrapped everywhere and wincing. And
these abdominal injuries are no joke. I mean there's I
think it's not so much a pain tolerance issue there.
You certainly need pain tolerance to play through it, but
there's a sensitivity part where if you have a weird
angle or you move at an awkward position similar to
(24:22):
hamstring injury, that can just turn for the worst. So
they got to be very careful. As you guys know,
Josh Hart always wants to play forty eight minutes, so
he's going to try to play. But it's just gonna
be a matter of does the medical team think that
this is just such a drastically serious injury that's not
worth it. But again, I think that the Knicks, whether
(24:44):
they win or lose, I'm comforted Jason on their long
term projection. Unlike Draymond Green and his podcast saying that
they're like the Hawks and they're a fluke, I think
it's a complete opposite. We're seeing Jalen Brunson be a gamer,
be a leader, make his teammates better. You know, I
think it really extended his game to another level. But
(25:05):
you have a real identity where you know all their
role players are playing above their potential and once their
guys are back, they'll be even even more dangerous teams.
So how this pertains see your next to this season?
I think it's very well possible they advance the Game
seven meet Boston, and well, I do guess we have
(25:25):
to see if Chrissforzingis will get healthy. I don't think
that they can be Boston, but take comfort in this, Jason,
if they advance to Boston, they can at least provide
enough resistance to Boston wear them down that you know
they'll do the Denver Nuggets or the Oklahoma City or
the Dallas Mavericks or the Minnesota Favors for when they
meet Boston the finals.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
NBA insider Mark Medina, our guest, the Jason Smiths or
the Mike Carmon live from the tirak dot com studios.
All right, so let's head to the other Game seven
on Sunday. Get a great doubleheader Sunday night, we have
the Nuggets and the te Wolves. You could tell that
that jokicch and some of the Nuggets not happy with
the way the Timberwolves running it up in the fourth
quarter last night. I know Jamal Murray has banged up
(26:09):
a little bit with his elbow. A situation. How do
you see game seven go?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Well, I think it's really just flip a coin at
this point, Minnesota showing they can want on Denver's own floor.
The Nuggets show that, for better and for worse, they
play at their best when they feel challenged and vulnerable.
But if I have to make a prediction here and
I will, I say the Wolves are going to take
it because this unfertney with Jamal Murray's health, that's a
(26:36):
real significant thing. Well, I do trust that he'll play,
he'll play through it, He'll find ways to be effective.
There's no question that it was affecting his shot in
game six, and I want to be surprised if it's
the same thing in game seven. So edge of the
Wolves and Anthony Edwards, you know, showing that he's that
worthy comparison to this guy named Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well Smith and I are excited because Game seven means,
you know, all four teams are gonna give an effort, right,
Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You're not gonna see road management in these games here.
You're not gonna see if guys are sitting out, it's
because it's actual injuries that could cause long term damage.
It's not the oh yeah, I want to protect myself
because I might want to get traded next summer.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
All right, Mark, So getting away from from those games,
we get to Game six with the Dallas Mavericks and
the Oklahoma City Thunder. How do you see this? Are
we going to see Luca and the Mavericks in the
Western Conference Finals?
Speaker 5 (27:33):
I think this is flip a coin as well. Look,
Jason I throwing all this shade at Luca Dodgers, but
he actually has an injury. He is showing the old
adage that there's thirdstwen being hurt and being injured. He
is playing and gutting it out. Sometimes it's been good,
sometimes it's been in efficient. But lately it's been good
and he's not complaining to the ref as much. I'm
(27:55):
really torn on this because I thought Oklahoma City had
the edge because they had more of a poet team.
But I think that Dallas has shown that it's not
just the Lucas show. It's not even just the Luca
Kyrie Show. They actually have a supporting cast that knows
how to play defense at the high level. So I
think Dallas winds up taking this. I mean when you
look at you know, some guys like Chet Holmgren and
(28:18):
Joe and Williams, they haven't been able to shoot the
ball as consistently in this series, where Dallas they've been
more reliable from top to bottom. So I'm going to
give the edge of the Mavericks.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Chaos and Zeus is Dallas would then advance. Okay, So
as we set it up, you know, we have to
ask the obligatory Lakers coaching question after a couple more days.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
The interview list.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I'm sorry, you know, I try, Mark, I try to
every couple of years. I try to get you on
that list.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And I don't call it all, let's say, because it
comes up every two years.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
So well, there is a key line in the stories
here that I know that ESPN wrote. You know, they
want to talk to candidates that they don't know well first.
So maybe once they get through that process, though, they'll
circle back with it was.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Like three paragraphs of candidates though it seemed like everybody
that's ever been an assistant.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's already familiar with my body, a worker
whack thereof So like they'll get through the candidates they
don't know first and maybe they'll circle back later.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
You can follow on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina.
That's at Mark g Underscore Medina. Mark as always, buddy,
appreciate your time and thank you for the kind words
about Sunday. I'm feeling good and if the Knicks don't win,
I can always blame you. So it's always, of.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Course, only through the errors my life. Real quick, I mean,
it's serious about the Lakers news. I've been told all
signs are pointing toward JJ Reddick getting the job and
then trying to surround him with assistants that are experienced
to shield the fact that he hasn't been a head
coach before. So we'll see the amazing podcast extended out
into the court.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Hereo J Reddick surrounded by big time coaches. Wow, there
it is Mark Medina again.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, that's saying they're gonna, we're gonna spend money on
coaches then, so they cheap out on the head guy
and then surround him with the guys that are waiting
to usurp him. I mean, we had that a couple
of years ago, where hey, when's this guy get a
stage of bloodless coup and take the job.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
So big time assistants surrounding JJ Redick, uh and JJ
Reddick looks like he could be the next Lakers head coach. Wow, Mark,
great stuff.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Man, Thank you, appreciate you, Jim Mark.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Big stuff there, JJ Reddick another guy for Lebron to
not listen to. Uh time Now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports from special delivery
Steve the Sager's Stevo, what do you got for us?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Let's start with the NBA playoff game tonight, where the
Knicks and Pacers were tied mid second quarter. Indiana led
by ten at the half and beat New York one
sixteen to one oh three. Series tied at three games apiece,
so game seven Sunday afternoon in New York. Jalen Brunson
did have thirty one points tonight after two of thirteen
shooting from the floor in the first half. Josh Hart
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left with abdominal soreness. The Pacers six to zero at
home this postseason series winner goes to Boston to start
the Eastern Conference Finals on Tuesday. The Western Conference Finals
will start Wednesday tomorrow. The Mavericks up three games to two.
We'll be playing against Oklahoma City. Denver hosts a Game
seven against Minnesota on Sunday night. In the NHL playoffs.
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Right now, at Colorado, the Avs late in the second
period lead top seed Dallas one nothing, trying to force
a game seven, which would be in Dallas on Sunday.
It is, by the way, Boston out in the East.
Florida gets a goal with about a minute and a
half left in the game tonight to win at Boston
two to one in Game six to take the series.
New York Rangers will host Florida in Game one in
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the East Final on Wednesday. By the way, Vancouver up
three games to two, plays tomorrow at Edmonton. Toronto's new
head coach is Craig Berubi, ex of Saint Louis. Xander
Schaffley leads the PGA Championship by one strokeover Colin Morikawa.
Scottie Scheffler, rank number one, shot a second round sixty
six after being arrested this morning. Police say he kept
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driving dragging an officer who attempted to stop him. The
four charges include second degree assault of a police officer.
Scheffler was trying to avoid a traffic backup and drive
into the country club today. His arraignment is scheduled for
Tuesday morning. Tiger woodshot seventy seven today and will miss
the cut, as will Phil Mickelson. A reminder, NASCAR's All
Star Race is Sunday night on FS one. As for
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Major League Baseball, we've got three late games. The Dodgers
got a leadoff homer from Mookie Betts and lead three
to two against the Reds. Top of the six, Shoeo
Tani with his thirteenth home run of the season. Dodger
third baseman Max Munsey goes on the injured list with
a strained oblique. Outfielder Jason Hayward was activated. LA center
fielder James Outman was sent to Triple A. The Rockies
(32:52):
lead at San Francisco four to two in the top
of the fifth. Giants outfielder Jung Hu Lee will have
season ending shoulder surgery and bottom of the eighth, the
Tigers are leading thirteen nothing at Arizona Diamondbacks with just
one hit Hobby Baias with three hits five RBIs, his
batting averages up to one eighty five. Tampa Bay a
(33:12):
four to three winner at Toronto the wind to Rays
pitcher Tyler Alexander, who was perfect for seven and a third,
and the Yankees won their fifth straight four to two
over the White Sox. Well, Houston won at six in
a row five four against Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Back to you thanks a bun Steve. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from the
tyreck dot com studios. Wow, there you go, Mark Medina,
NBA insider saying all signs point to JJ Reddick being
the next head coach of the Lakers. Will break that
down coming up next right here. Does it even matter
(33:44):
who the Lakers hire as their head coach, whether it's
JJ Reddick or somebody else, that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the ti iraq dot com studios. Thanks to
Mark Medena who joined a few minutes ago talked to
all the latest in the NBA, looking ahead at Game
seven's on Sunday, and also letting it slip that the
people he has spoken to, it feels like it's JJ
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Reddick's job with the Lakers, and the Lakers will surround
him with big time assistants to help the transition, and
it's Reddick's job basically to lose right now with the Lakers.
All right, so let's get into this. Reddick certainly has
all the the I would say, the eyebrow raising. He's
(34:42):
got the level of interest now because he's a broadcast
where he's never coached before. He's been used to giving
out hot takes on the air, and now, hey, my
basketball knowledge, I could wind up being the head coach
of the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Right, Hey, I was good enough that Lebron chose to
do a podcast with me.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
No no, no, no. Look, and that's great because, hey,
as I'm sitting here saying, the more these guys win,
I can be the manager of the Mets one day.
Right If JJ Reddick coaches the Lakers, got leaves coaching Wisconsin,
Green Bay, Hey, man, I could be the manager of
the Mets one day. I really I want nothing but
success for all these guys because I want to be
able to manage the Mets, because that's my gig.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Your dream stinks, I was talking to her. Let me
go straight to tangle down you.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Let me just say this. It doesn't matter who the
Lakers higher, It really doesn't. It makes no difference. It
doesn't matter if they hire JJ Reddick, It doesn't matter
if Hier Kenny Atkinson, it makes no difference. Then this higher.
It's just gonna have the same type of input that
Darvin Ham does, right, and Darvin Ham did. JJ Reddick's
(35:45):
not gonna get Lebron to do what he feels he
needs to do to win games. JJ Reddick is someone
who's gonna try to come in because you see him.
He's gonna try to come in and coach a certain way,
and it's gonna be hey, like, he's got to come
in and show that I'm the authority figure here. And
he's gonna come in and coach all you know, all
all bells and whistles at all to the wall, and
he's gonna have some kind of really strict discipline, disciplinary style.
(36:08):
And that ain't gonna sell, right, because that's kind of
his personality. It ain't gonna sell And it doesn't matter
because whether they hire JJ Redding, the Lakers are gonna
be the Lakers. This is just how it's gonna go
because Lebron and Ad aren't gonna buy into anything anybody's doing.
They're not gonna suddenly play defense better. They're not gonna
suddenly do things offensively they haven't done. They're not gonna
(36:29):
buy into a big game plan. They're gonna do what
they've done all along, all right, and that's what it is. Look,
that's what Lebron has always done. And now Ad is
kind of a clone of Lebron because hey, being as
tight as he is with Lebron on the court. Yeah yeah, yeah,
you don't see it. There's nobody coming in to transform
the Lakers and turn them into something the best. Honestly,
(36:49):
the best thing would be if they reunite with Frank Voge,
because at least then I know they'd be better defensively
because they have the cachet of the day we won
the title in twenty twenty. Can we do that again?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Let's should they buy in four years later? I guess
this is the question. I bought in for the sixth
but I bought in for the short term and for
the bubble. Can I get you back in a couple.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Of years later.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I think it would be a great experiment with this one.
The surprising thing to me, Jason was the idea that
there'd be a bunch of high priced, highly influential assistance,
because we know that one of the big criticisms about
the Lakers they don't want to spend money on the
coach either.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, well no, but look, I mean, it's gonna be
kind of uninspired. JJ reddicks a headline, But is he
suddenly really JJ Redick's gonna be People aren't lining up
to coach the Lakers. It's it's a gig that nobody
really wants, right what did what did Rick Buker tell
us last night on the show right where we talked
about the Lakers gig? And he said that or is
it Mark Stein? Mark? The other night side, I told
(37:49):
us that the Lakers gig is like, hey, it's still
a good job because you can have it on your
resume and when you get fired, people are gonna say
it's not your fault like that. That's what it is
to coach the Lakers. It's gonna be uninspired and the
Lakers are gonna be exactly the same. It's it's irrelevant
who they hire. A JJ Reddick would be headlines. It'd
be great for us. I guarantee you his style will
great on the team right away because I know how
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he's gonna wind up coaching. So there's that.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
But overall, is.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
He suddenly coming in with a with a system that's
gonna help. Hey, we don't have money to go out
and sign free agents, So here's how we're gonna improve
from within because I see this, this, this, this, and this,
and I'm gonna get you to play defense this way
and move the ball this way. No, Lebron's gonna say, hey, great,
my podcast guy is here. Uhh yeah, I'm not practicing today,
by the way. Just by the way, you know what,
I don't really practice, just so you know, so anything
(38:35):
you want to get into practice, I don't really do that.
So I mean, i'd love I'd love it to work.
I'd love it to work. I'd love to see the
Lakers head coach mean something, But it hasn't since Phil
Jackson was the coach. Right, Lebron and ad are simply
gonna do what they want to do, and it's gonna
be a lot like the last couple of years. That's
how the next few years will go with LA just
like the last couple of ways.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Well, but you also look at this year. Look at
the number of games, and we talked about it all
year long. Look at the the waste of a good
year in terms of games played and the availability for
Lebron James and Anthony Davis. If you were to go
to Vegas right now and they gave you the over
under their combined games what was it, one hundred and
forty two or whatever they played together, Are you going
over or under? You're you're probably slapping down as much
(39:18):
money as you could fit in your pocket on the
under for.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
That, aren't you. So?
Speaker 3 (39:23):
For JJ Reddick or whoever takes the gig, let's assume
it's Redick right here, boy, you're gonna get to coach
your ass off because you ain't gonna have those two
guys every night. But you're not gonna have enough guys
in the Western Conference, because that's the other thing. You're
climbing a really tall mountain there, all right. As much
as you could say, wow, you know, it was a
more competitive series against the Nuggets. This year, you still
(39:45):
were out Thereah, they won one games.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
So next year they play win two games, and then
the year after that they'll win three games. So in
four years, when yo get just thirty one, Yeah, hey
we finally beat the numbers.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
But he's back on his farm, ride around his horse,
who are playing with his MVP trophies. That's what you
can get him, that's what you're telling me.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
I really, I'm telling you man, I'd love to see
it make a difference, but it's just not going to right,
whether it turns out to be Reddick or not. There's
nobody who's gonna come in. Nobody wants to come in
and coach Lebron and ad nobody does. And yet every
every hire is is like uninspired. You know. It's like
the fact that JJ Reddick could walk from the broadcast
(40:25):
booth into coaching the Lakers. What does it tell you
about overall interests and who they can get for the job. Well,
it's all Jillian.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
It's one of thirty, So I have interest in it.
I'm in let's go exit out.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
About a Fresca exit swollen dumb. The Jason Smith Show
is my best friend. Mike Harmon coming up next to
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