May 18, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to Game 6 of the Knicks and Pacers with Josh Hart getting injured in the game and what that could mean for Game 7.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Buying should be well right now, first overtime, Dallas and
Colorado tied at one apiece. Dallas leading the series three
games at two, Colorado can set up a Game seven
with a win.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Again, midway through the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
First overtime, Dallas and Colorado at one apiece. Meanwhile, I
want you to know that I'm being completely honest when
I tell you I am absolutely okay. The Knicks get
blown out tonight. I told you this series is gonna
go seven. I was hoping they would close it out tonight.
I knew they would come out big, and they did,
but the Pacers were better. I am absolutely okay. I'm
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not putting on any airs or putting I'm not. I
am absolutely okay. The Knicks lost, Okay, the Pacers played
better overall, the Knicks missed a lot of easy shots.
That's what it comes down to for me, because that
was really what the game was, not anything else other
than boy two feeting in. The Knicks missed about seven
or eight shots, a bittle bit of difference in the game.
So I am okay going And not only that, I'm
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so okay going into game seven. If they lose Game seven,
I'll be okay. I mean I'll be mad, but then
I'll let it go, because hey, how far are we
really gonna go with guys? Just it's like a horror movie,
Like every few minutes, someone's gotta die, someone's gotta go out.
Every couple of games for the Knicks, someone else is
gonna get hurt. Josh Hart got hurt tonight. I mean,
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how much further are we gonna go?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Again? It's a magic carpet ride, and I told you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
From the beginning, as long as it goes, it's awesome.
But they're missing for their top eight roadation players. I mean,
how much longer can you expect it to go? I
love to think they have one more game in them
on Sunday, and I think they will. I think they'll
play physical, Brunson will have a big game. You know,
you had a bad first half earlier tonight and that
really put the Knicks behind. But I'd like to think
that's going to happen on Sunday. That's how I see it.
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But if not, I.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Will be okay.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I will be okay talking about the Celtics and the
Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. If anybody even cares
about that, it's Celtics pass. I will be absolutely fine
talking about that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, I mean, the Celtics make move to you, because
everybody will be hate watching Tatum not to have a
thirty point performance, or for them to come out with
a bad home effort, all of that and complain about,
you know, the advantages that they're not operating within, and
then Missoula takes all of the hits. But I am
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really impressed with your resolve, with your ability to go
through this, and and you're selling it well. I don't
know if you've taken some acting lessons, but here we are,
here we are. You are selling your being okay with
the game seven scenario, and of course it's at home,
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and that's fantastic. Problem is you don't know who's walking
through that door, right, We can't use the old adage
of hey, Michael's not walking through that door. We honestly
don't know who's walking through the door. No, no, no, no,
Josh going to be able to be all taped up
and having all the different cushions and pillows and whatever
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the hell ls he needs because is it a rib injury?
Is it just uh he's had the stress of the
intestinal fortitude that maybe finally maxed out on minutes blade.
I don't know, but we're gonna find out. Hey, let
all right, let let let let let let's let's put
this to bed right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I got the yeah, I know you you would. You
went very much girl.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Him on soon. That was very good. I celebrate his
entire cattle.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's a little fortitude that it's very good. Uh do
you really think Josh Hart's not playing all forty eight?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Play?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He's gonna play all forty eight? I don't care. I
don't care if he loses ribs and he only has
like five, I don't care. What that that intercostal injury?
He is playing all forty eight minutes on Sunday. It
doesn't back. There's no way he is not playing. I mean,
there's just there's just no way for the Knicks, He's
absolutely gonna play. There's no is no way he's out.
No way anybody else I would say, Okay, when you
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see guys missing and that you know, honestly, that's the
best part about the Knicks, right because I know if
a guy is out for the Knicks, it's because.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He really can't. He physically can't go.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Like I am sure O Gano Noobi is really hurt
because the guy hasn't come back with it after after
this injury, he hasn't come back in a while. And
is he gonna come back for Game seven? Probably not.
Is he gonna suddenly be better to come back? No,
But I know he's because I know how bad the
Knicks want to play. That's look, and that's the Kicks
are so much fun because you can see it on
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their faces how much they want to play, how bad
they want to win. That their three top three four
guys all play forty five minutes a night, that's the
best part about the Knicks. And then you look at
other teams where guys say, what, how is Donovan Mitchell
not playing? He'd finished the game, How is he not
playing these last two games?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You see that so often right there, man sitting out there,
and I know there have been some reports that that
calf is bad enough that he's gonna have to have surgery.
So now the offseason really gets kind of uh dicey
oh yeah for his for his situation.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Sure, but but I look, you know, you see so
many people missing games and all. And it's not to
say I'm not singing singling out Donovan Mitchell at I
don't think I'm not I am, but it's just I
know how badly they're gonna play.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They want to play.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
There's no way he's gonna miss There's no he's gonna
miss this because the Knicks. The Knicks have brought back
a mentality and that's why they're so popular these playoffs.
They brought back a mentality that was popular in the
in the salad days of the NBA when they segued
in to the nineties and Jordan was winning championships and
it was the greatest period of growth we have seen
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the NBA have. When suddenly the finals go from as
we hear tape delay in the late seventies. Hey, Lakers
and Celtics in the eighties. That was great, and that
was the conduit to get to the modern level of
NBA now. But the NBA in the nineties was about
lunch Pale, you know, Kevin McHale saying take your hard hats,
You take your hard hats to work, and the same
same thing. It's not like we always saw the the
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Bulls playing some kind of great, unbelievable game where.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
They scored one hundred and forty points.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, they were as hard nose and bruising as everybody
else's and that's something that we really latched onto and
that was a great way. That's why the Knicks were
so popular, and that's why this version of the Knicks
is popular because it's kind of like that. It's guys
coming in and playing hard and playing physical and making
big shots, and it's it's it's it translates more now
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because you get the pretty threes that go along with
all the physicality, right, you get you get all the
threes that come in because hey, well physicality is great,
but I don't want the game to be eighty eight
to eighty five. I don't want it to be seventy
eight to seventy six. No, No, you still get games one, ten,
one oh five, because hey, it's exciting. When someone hits
a three, everybody stands up, everybody still goes crazy. So
you have the combination of the Knicks with that hard
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style attitude that everybody loves going back to, and you
still get the excitements of the threes and the big plays.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That's why they translate so well. Now, No, it's it's
been fun to watch, and there's you know, we use
the term culture with teams perhaps a bit much, but
normally it's because the absence of it on so many
other squads. Right, last year in the NFL, how many
teams do you think towards the back end of the year,
we were still trying to figure out what the hell
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were they trying to establish? What was their identity? Not sure? Right?
And with the NBA, it's the all right war of
attrition and all right, are these guys buyding the coach?
What's the GM trying to do? Whatever? With the Knicks,
It's pretty clear you just want guys that are gonna
give you forty eight minutes if physically they're able to
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do it, and you start getting on board that. Even
if you get tired of you know, the go New
York Go song and seeing all the classic knicks as
you call them, and inject themselves into the action and
actually physically a cost of posing players. You know, that
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can get you can get bored or upset with that
to a degree, but you have to respect that there's
no give up like given in this game, which was
done for a very very long time. You can still
they were pissed now. They gave up a lot of
layups and dunks. So when they watch that tape they
should be really mad at themselves. But they're still sprinting
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back and forth. They're still trying to make an effort.
And so there's something to be said for that. And
I think, you know, especially going into the next round
where you've got a Celtics team that, let's face it,
a lot of folks are out on them, a lot
of folks are waiting for the collapse, for the fail,
and even if it is New York, I think they're
okay with it.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, look, here's the thing about the Celtics, right, here's
why we look.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We talk about the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Having a bye all the way to the NBA Finals
and everything. But here's where I'll give whoever comes out
of this series a bit of a puncher's chance, because,
as we've seen, the Celtics are prone to games where
they just don't care, they don't feel like they're challenged,
and they played terribly. And we talked about this early
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in the playoffs. You can get away with that when
you're playing a first round against the Miami Heat, who
were playing without their best player, right, you can. You
can win game one by thirty and be so disinterested
you lose Game two and still win the series pretty easily. Right,
you get maybe in the second round of the playoffs.
You can say, once you get to the Eastern Conference
Finals in the NBA Finals, you give away a game.
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You give away a game because yeah, we just weren't motivated.
Because this is what the Celtics do, and it's why
it upset so many people, because they have so many
games where they just look listless, and games where they
should have the killer instinct they just don't. That's why
people are kind of out on them. But they're gonna
have a couple of those games, at least one in
the Eastern Conference Finals and eventually that's gonna flip the series.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Hey, here it is what we're up. Won nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We won Game one by thirty five and Tatum had
forty and Brown had thirty eight boys and then suddenly, hey,
the Knicks find a way to take Game two one
oh one to ninety five. And then suddenly they go
home to Madison Square Garden and it's physical and the
officiating is is it goes the next way? And then
you have Missoula is crying and about officials. They want
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the big market team to win. And suddenly you look
in your down three to one like this is when
it's really gonna come back to bite you. And it's
why it's really hard to pick the Celtics because they
are and they've been prone to games like this for
a long time. They've never put it to bed. They've
never solved and said, hey, we got to figure this out.
We gotta make sure we got we got we got
this team on the ropes. They're not feeling confident. I
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can see it in their body language. We gotta come
out and throw the hammer. They just don't do it,
and eventually it's gonna really come back to haunt them.
And that's gonna be something where you get to the
Eastern Conference finals. Whether it's the Knicks, whether it's the Pacers,
they're gonna give those teams one game and if the
door is open for that, look out because something the
Celtics are gonna go.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
How do we lose? The Knicks played with three guys.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mean, I know it was three guys from Villanova,
but they were still five on three and we still
lost the game. I can't believe we did that. That's
gonna happen. So there's your bit of silver lining forever
comes out of the series.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But that's the thing, right watching as we have with
the Celtics, this is where I want to get. Maybe
we find a sports psychologist to come on, why are
they so lackluster at home for a team that was
so dominant you know when it comes to the play
I mean, look at that regular season, right, they win
going away? What was the difference thirteen games, twelve and
a half games, whatever it was in the Eastern Conference
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ahead of your Knicks. As the Bucks had their injuries
and they had doc and then when they get to
the playoffs the last couple of years, they're a five
hundred squad. I'd love to have someone who's trained in
the human mind, beyond you and me and our years
of living and just saying that guy's an idiot or
that guy's lazy, to have an explanation as to why
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you have such systematic letdowns. I think it's a fascinating
kind of case study, particularly with the amount of talent
that you have on that squad that's been demonstrated so
much time and time again.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
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the Knicks loose Sunday, I'll be fine. At the time
we hit the air Monday night, I'll be fine. Trust me,
I'll be absolutely fine.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I think.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure, Yeah, pretty sure, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I mean, I'm using this weekend to say goodbye to
the Mets because we're gonna get swept by the worst
team in baseball and then it's really gonna be over.
So I mean, not like Steve Cohen didn't already say
he's gonna trade everybody the deadline anyway, but I will
be absolutely fine. I'll be absolutely fine me. I promise
you update here. The Stars scored a goal in overtime.
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Looked like they won the game, won the series. However,
it was disallowed because of interference in front of the net.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And boy, that was a I don't know, tough call.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's a tough call, man, that's a dicey interference call.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I really don't know how that goal got disallowed. Well,
defender bumps him back into the goal. Did they rule
that he hit him a second time unnecessarily?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I really need to reset.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Wow, I really want to see the pool report after
the game on this.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I would like to see what that happens. Jumping up
and down, everybody asking for explanations. Meanwhile, the goalie takes
his helmet off, took a nice long sip of water
and exhaled. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I saw the goal, and then they then they immediately
said no, we're gonna look at it.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'm like, that's a goal. Then I saw the replay.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm like, that's a goal. Then they looked at it
and they said the replay again. I said, yeah, that's
a goal. And then they came out and said, no goal,
not enough to overturn Jason telling it. Overturn it, buddy,
These big market hockey teams. Mike dig get all the calls,
You'll want to tell you what all the calls?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Man? Know you all the calls? Damn it? All the hell.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. You know what we'll get to potentially
we know who the next Lakers head coach might be
in a second.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
But yeah, let's go. We're going to double overtime right now.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Dallas looked like they had won the game in overtime
and won the series over the Avalanche.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But they get a disallowed goal.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Because of goalie interference and we go to double ot
and I really watching this so many times. This is
a hard one, man, This is a hard one to say. Boy,
that's a goal. I I didn't see a lot of it.
But the only thing I can look at right we
talked to the stars, got hosed on this, the Avalanche.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You're lucky, you're alive.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Still going a double overtime going, oh man, we used
that ball. Our good luck on that because this did
not look like like it was a it was a
goal that should have been disallowed. But I will say this, right,
I will say this in most sports now, we get
really pissed at the end of a game when the
referee quote decides a game. And I don't mean the
end of an NBA game when you say, oh, we
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got seventeen calls, here's seventy eight calls. But like, we
don't like the end of the Super Bowl when when
all of a sudden the final two minutes, what wasn't
a penalty the first fifty eight minutes is a penalty
now and they throw a flag and that and that,
you know, tilts the game one way or another, right,
we don't We don't like it in Major League Baseball
when Angel Hernandez umpire. Right, we don't like it when
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the end of a game comes, and we saw it
a lot in the NFL, when there are officiating calls
that rob us, and you can even you want to
throw in like one call once in a while at
the end of an NBA game, in the final four
or five seconds that wins a game. You want to
talk about the call that sent Iowa to the to
the championship game. In women's college basketball after the screen
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that got called, the illegal screen that got called on Yukon.
We don't like it when officials step in and decide
a game. Well, here's a situation where they could have
allowed that goal. But if the goal is allowed and
the series ends, it ends under controversy because there's still
fans going, oh, that was interference, and look at this
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and he gets pushed in and all that. You're still
ending under some sort of a cloud of controversy, even
though it would probably be less than if you allowed
the goal, because like I said, it looked like it
was good. But at least there's that and I kind
of understand that. And look, I'm not telling you if
you're an Avalanche fan, you can't stand what I'm saying.
But overall, just to see that, okay, maybe and maybe
part of it was can we end a series on
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that play? Can we end a series and send a
team home on that play where the goal potentially was
nebulous we can defend and we had some kind of
we had some kind of interference that we ruled on
the ice when first came out. At least there is
that that, Hey, we want the players to decide this
and not be decided because we had in we had
uh some kind of contact in the goal and the
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goalie was thrown off and the puck at the back
of the net.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, it's you know you called it a no goal immediately,
right because that call came quickly. There was no hesitation.
Uh So good work by the guy's eyes, very decisive.
But to your point, yeah, it becomes the well, there's
not enough to overturn. And now they're now that you've
gone into the next uh intermission, it's being replayed at nauseum.
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Oh yeah, the marchman sets up in front of the net,
uh huh, and then it becomes the well, does he
initiate contact with the goalie? Does the goalie get up
on him? And then you get bounced by a defender,
which means now you got two people kind of backing
into the goalie, so he can't get back in front
of the net. Ye air goo of the goal.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So like he's on the white ice the entire time,
Like he's on the way, he's on the white ice.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
So I mean that's you.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
If you're on the white ice, you're on the white ice,
you know, I you kind of left right had man.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, So to me, should have been a goal and
it was funny with what was it about thirty seconds
left also where the stick kind of got dislodged so
he had to cover up with both gloves. Another opportunity
to score there late. So yeah, we get some motus
hockey late into a Friday night Saturday morning. But this,
this one is going to be looked at repeatedly, so
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we'll keep you updated on this.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Steve de Sayinger, We'll have more on this game coming
up and what's trending. But big NBA stuff tonight, right, Yeah,
the Knicks lost though. Okay, ready to see you for
Game seven. But we talked to NBA insider Mark Medina
earlier in the show, and you know, obviously the the
outside of the NBA playoff games, the big topic of
conversation is who's getting the Lakers head coaching job. And
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Mark Medina told us, we put this out on Twitter,
you can see it, and you get to get it
in the Best of Podcasts that goes right after the
show on iTunes.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He said, listen to people I talked to.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
What I'm hearing is that this is this could be
JJ Reddick's job to lose with the Lakers, right, Like
this could be I've been told all signs point towards
JJ Reddick being the Lakers head coach. That was the
exact quote from NBA insider Mark Medena. And the Lakers
will surround him with big time assistants to help his
transition from the broadcast booth into being head coach of
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the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
See that's the part of it that intrigues me. Like
the Reddick thing, it's confirmation of I think what we've
kind of been gravitating towards the adding all these people
and name assistant coaches surrounding him. That's what intrigues the
hell out of me because one of the big knocks
on the Lakers is they're a quote mom and pop
organization that won't spend on a coach. But you're gonna
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bring in Reddick and bring in some you know, hired
guns as assistance with you know, long, long teeth in
the game. That's intriguing to me.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So the thing is is that, Yeah, and you know
it's kind of you see it a little bit like
when when a young head coach gets hired in the
NFL and they say, you know, we gotta do I
got to bring in a great defensive cowardier, right, A guy,
I can kind of give that side of the ball
to you while I get my feet wet and understand
what's going on. Yeah, so like the exact opposite of
what the Jets did, you know with the Robberts, all right,
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so so I so I get that part of it.
And look, I would love this to happen because A
it's great for us, because it's great for our business.
For a guy that's been, you know, spitting out hot
takes on television for the last few years because JJ
Riddick's a hot take machine, all of a sudden, he
goes with no coaching experience, doesn't just get an NBA job,
He could get the Lakers job. Like really, with that
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happening and Gottlieb coaching Wisconsin Green Bay, I could get
the Mets managerial job.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They lost again tonight to the bleep in Marlins. Many stick.
I don't want shutouts, man.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I know, but yeah, yeah, we're yeah yeah yeah, because
hell yeah, because that's what I'm gonna say. As how
the Mets are catching the Marlins at the wrong time.
The guy any Ray six and a half and the
Mets got five hits. Okay, so maybe I'm closer than
two years. Maybe I'm a year away from getting this job.
But but quite honestly, I mean because it would be awesome,
because I'll say, hey, broadcaster, head coach, broadcaster, head coach, broadcaster, manager,
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that could be me. But even though Reddick, if the
signs point to Reddick, if Reddick gets this job, yes
he's buddies with Lebron podcast we've heard this.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I don't. I don't think it matters who the Lakers
head coaches like.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's great headline, JJ Redick, and it'll be something we
talk about and that's great. But is JJ Redick really
going to affect the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Of the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Are they going to win more games? Are they going
to go further in the playoffs next year? If JJ
Redick is their head coach? They're not because the team
still and for years they go and as as Lebron
and Ad Goo and Lebron and Ad do their own
thing right, they cut bait and stop listening to Frank Vogel.
After they won a championship, they stop listening to Darvin Am.
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They're not gonna listen to Reddick. They may slap him
on the back and laugh with them a little bit.
Hey yeah, buddies, Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. We're
just gonna go out and do what we've always done.
I mean, he's not gonna set a culture. He's not
gonna get players to buy Again, this is a guy
who's not even forty coming out of a broadcast that, again,
a lot of people disagree with stuff he says because
he's been a hot take guy for a long time.
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Is it really gonna matter? Lebron and ad are gonna
do their own thing. And when you don't get a
buy in from the two best players, how much can
you really make a difference on the other team. It's
why I go back and saying, man, they should make
up with Frank Vogel, because the one thing I know
is Frank Vogel made them better defensively. That's how they
won the title. And if they don't have money to
go get guys in the off sea, and if they
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can't pull off a big trade rumored that they really
want to try to do something for Trey Young, if
they can't do that, then how are they gonna get better? Well,
you know what, playing better defensively, that does it for you?
A hundred percent. So Frank Vogel, at least we know
he's got the track record of doing that three times
his team has been the best defensive team in the NBA,
including twenty twenty with the Lakers. So, but that I
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know will be a difference is JJ Reddick. Is he
bringing in some sort of system? Is what's what's he
gonna do? How's he gonna get the buy in?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I mean, I don't I don't know how's he gonna
be able to relate to the modern NBA player, because
I JJ Reddick's gonna come in and he's gonna have
to say I have authority here, and that's gonna turn
people off right away. Somebody who doesn't have any cachet
is gonna have to come in and throw the hammer
down and say it's my way or the highway, and
I'm gonna watch film all the time, and I'm gonna
work hard and I'm always gonna be here, and I
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expect that from all my players. That's not the Lakers. Sorry,
but it's not. That's not Lebron, it's not Ad, it's
it's not how it works. So I just don't know
how he's gonna come in and really it's not a
Reddick thing, but we're just talking about him specifically. I
don't know that anybody can come in and do that.
How does anybody any difference maker out there that's gonna
come in and get the Lakers to buy and suddenly
get Lebron to say, hey, hey man, let's go follow me.
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We're going to another title. I think whoever gets the job,
it doesn't matter, it's gonna be the we've seen for.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
The last few years.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
The Lakers are gonna be good, they're gonna underachieve, They're
gonna look great in spurts, but then they're gonna look
really bad. They're hamstrung because they made bad moves, and
they're gonna wind up making it into the playoffs. They'll
have an exciting round or two, and then they'll go
home and they'll say, what do we do? We have
an ill constructed roster and it's gonna be rinse and repeat,
because that's what it is. From since twenty twenty, it's
been an ill constructed roster and head coaches that they
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don't listen to, and Lebron and Ad doing their thing,
and that that's what's gonna be on repeat. For the
Lakers until the Lebron James era ends at some point
in the next two or three years.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well, but that's the thing, right, maybe you can get
Lebron to buy in and the locker room follows right
ad on down the line. That's fine, you still don't
have enough talent and you had what probably and look,
they seem to defy logic and quite often, particularly Lebron,
with the games played, et cetera. But you just had
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the most games Anthony Davis has played since he left
New Orleans. Remember when we were like, wow, this guy's
like one of the top three or five players in
the game. Remember when we were having those conversations in
the infancy of the show. And then he did Operation
shut Down before becoming a Laker. I mean you have
you know that circumstance. He played seventy games this year.
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Are you getting that again? Lebron's another year older? Is
he going to be able to rev it up every game?
And look, we could talk about defensive intensity and possessions
off and whatever, and that's where the vocal thing would
be really fun to watch. Oh sure, four years later,
could you still get the level of buying It's not
a shortened season, although you'll have to convince them it is.
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And are we playing in a bubble? Yes, yes, we're
playing in a bubble. And then they do like a
virtual reality thing where it looks like they're back down
at Walt Disney World and their little complex there. But
it's really just kind of the the idea of you're
only gonna get so much out of the squad as constructed,
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and with the dollar constraints that are there, right, the
creativity of the front office, and this year, you know,
coming into the year with the signings some of the veterans,
and look, you have some bad luck in terms of health.
I get it. Vincent and Vanderbilt were guys you were
counting on to be big defensive additions for you. Just
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ponder that for a second. Lakers and their ballplayers, they've
been in the league and they have their place in
a rotation. But how many times did you hear people
bellyaching that those two guys were unavailable and it killed them. Really,
that's where we're going. We're pinning it all on, well,
those guys were hurt, So no, a lot of change
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certainly needs to come in and year after year it's
this really the lather, rinse, repeat, as far as the
coach go. They buy in for about half a year,
and then you know what, it's not working. The rotations
don't work. They go on a bit of a losing streak,
and before long everybody's unhappy. And then you gotta have
a fall guy because you can't fire all the players,
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and boom there they.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Go, exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. The
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Speaker 3 (28:24):
Who's got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I feel like we're ready for rookie camp. Here run
the NHL Playoff second round series not over yet for
the top seed in the West, the Dallas Stars. It
looked like they got an overtime and series clinching goal
at Colorado tonight. It was ruled no goal and that's phrase,
by the way, no goal is trending on Twitter right now.
Ruled no goal and not overturned by video review, dude
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to gold tender interference, even though it appeared the Colorado
goalies own defenseman created the contact in front of the net.
But we'll continue into a second overtime. I mean just
a minute. Stars tied one to one at Colorado.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Dallas.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Star is leading the series three games to two. Game
seven of this second rounder would be at Dallas on
Sunday tomorrow. Vancouver up three games to two, plays at
Edmonton in the East.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You know, you know what's surprising about that goal? See,
but I'll tell you this the no goal, the no goal.
The no goal is that if if they because you
hear the philosophy of okay, if that was called a goal,
it's hard to overturn, right.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Because I could I could see that either way. They
called it a goal.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Boy, you look at it an outside and now, look,
I think it was a goal one hundred percent, right,
I think it's a goal.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
But I'm trying to look at it from different perspectives.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
What really surprised me is, as I think about that
that if they called it a goal, that it would
have stayed, is that they very quickly called that no goal.
Like I was surprised like, isn't that something you you
let stand and then look and see if you if
you have to overturn it at the end, Like, isn't that?
I mean they very fast, Ah, no goal right away,
like before they could even celebrate, it was no goal.
(29:58):
And I'm like, how did you see that from that
far out that that was a no goal? That really
surprised me that it was done that quickly and it
was no goal right away. That's what stands out to
me now about this.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
And how could you not see the defenseman's own contact
to initiate all of this. Meanwhile, the video review explanation
from the League office has been sent out as we
start the second overtime in Colorado tonight. They said that
the Dallas player impaired the Colorado's players' ability to play
his position in the crease prior to the puck entering
(30:33):
the net. Well, yeah, because he got shoved by Cale
mccarth the defenseman. But okay, that's neither here nor there.
On to the East, the New York Rangers will host
Game one of the East Final on Wednesday. Florida will
be there. Panthers win at Boston tonight two to one
on a goal with about a minute and a half
to go, ending their second round series in six. Toronto's
(30:53):
new head coach is Craig Burubix of Saint Louis. In
the NBA Playoffs, six seed Indiana Forces again Game seven
at New York Sunday afternoon, beating the Next to nine
one sixteen, one oh three. Jalen Bruntson thirty one points
in defeat. First half. He was two of thirteen shooting
from the floor. Josh Hart left with abdominal soreness. Pascal
Siakam twenty five points in the win, and Tyrese Haliburton
(31:16):
had nine assists and won turnover. Xander Schaffley leads the
PGA Championship by one strokeover Colin Morikawa. A reminder, NASCAR's
All Star Race is Sunday night on FS.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
One Everything Final.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
In Major League Baseball, the Giants ended Colorado seven game
winning streak ten to five. The Dodgers got a Shoheo
Tani home run is thirteenth and beat Cincinnati seven to
three a late homer from Jason Hayward, just activated off
the injured list. Wins for Detroit and Saint Louis. For
Kansas City and the Angels. Houston won at sixth in
a row. Yankees won their fifth straight. Tampa Bay was
(31:50):
a four to three winner at Toronto. The winning pitcher
for the Rays, Tyler Alexander, was perfect for seven and
a third innings. He then allowed a bloop single a
two run homer. Eventually three runs allowed in his seven
and a third one hundred and five pitches thrown. Cleveland
got a solo homer bottom in the ink from Jose
Ramirez and edge Minnesota three to two. Saved Emmanuel class
A is thirteenth wins for Pittsburgh and Baltimore, and Philadelphia
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was Zach Wheeler getting to win. Defeated Washington for to two.
The Phils have won seventeen of their last twenty one.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
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Speaker 2 (32:23):
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disloged goals coming up in this game. But straight ahead, maybe,
just maybe, after what we saw today, working really hard
at golf is something you don't have to do to
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be successful.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, I'm just what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Maybe you don't have to work as hard as you
think because they only see the story we got for you.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
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Speaker 3 (33:25):
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Speaker 2 (33:29):
Dallas and Colorado tied at one apiece, still in double overtime.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
That disallowed goal.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Who That's gonna be everywhere in the next twenty four hours.
But again goal is disallowed. The Stars don't win the series.
The two teams play on in double overtime.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Don't tell me we don't talk hockey here.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Meanwhile, let me just say this for a second, because maybe, maybe,
just maybe professional athletes don't need to practice as much
as they say.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Maybe they don't maybe, yeah, I mean not so much.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Forget like NBA players, like how much they really practice. Okay,
I understand, you know NFL. But when you look at
Scotty Scheffler today, right, Scotty Scheffler, who had one of
the most bizarre days you'll ever see, trying to get
to the PGA Championship, number one rent golfer in the world,
gets stopped outside of Valhalla because there was a fatality
(34:24):
where someone working the event was struck by a bus.
There were police, there were security there trying to keep
the scene intact, and Scheffler tried to bypass traffic and
get in and he was stopped by police. There was
apparently some sort of miscommunication and Scheffler wound up getting arrested.
He goes, he's trying to get to Valhalla at like
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six in the morning. Right, it's rainy, and it's dark,
and it's like five thirty, and he teas off at ten.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Right, He's trying to get there like four and a
half hours before.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
He's got a tee off and he goes to jam
like he's arrested, he is cuffed, he is thrown in
the back of a squad car.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
He has taken to jail.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Now he does say that, well, after I got there,
the treatment of me changed a little bit.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
They asked if I wanted a sandwich. I ate a sandwich.
But this guy is because Darlington. One of the things
he said was he was asked because he was there
on the scene. Reporter Jeff Darlington. Uh. He said that
the police officers did ask who they were arresting. He
hooked him up. Google him.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Are we we arrested Xander Schawfleet. No, no, no, no,
you arrested Scottiereffler. All right, right right, Charles schwartzel no, no, no, no, okay, okay,
got it. Tony Scheffler tight end, Tony Broncos tight end,
Tony Scheffler.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh catching strays is Tony Scheffler. Okay?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So uh like that, you got Tony Scheffler and there
you guys. So he's in he's in jail in the
morning and he gets released. Finally it's like, oh my god,
he's able to go play.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Well.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, he got arrested and he went to jail for
a few hours and he was let go, and he
got to the course about a little less than an
hour before he teas off and he shoots five under
and he's like three shots off the lead going into
day three. So maybe, just maybe, And I'm not saying
like every day you should spend time in jail, but
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maybe the whole Hey, I gotta make sure I hit balls.
I gotta do this, I gotta get this, I gotta
get this guy. Maybe that's a little overrated when you
can go from a jail cell and you can shoot
five under and you, I mean, maybe practice is a
little overrated.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Maybe you don't need practice much to think if you
can go do that. And well, maybe you're just hyper
focused because you're not sleeping because you have a new
child at home. Oh no, to add that wrinkle to everything, sure,
because he was gonna withdraw they had the kid. So
perhaps he's just dialed up and this is now a
relief after being up all night with the kid. I
(37:02):
don't know, but yeah, to your point, he did say
he got some quality stretching in in his cell while
he waited.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Okay, let's go here. I was able to stretch. Yeah,
I was gonna feel good.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So in the morning, like, what what happened? Once you
get well, you know, I got some stretching in Well,
I never thought i'd say that. All right, well let
me find some levity at all.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And yeah, yeah, now now I'm now I'm really superstitious,
and I want to go stretching that cell before tomorrow.
I want to get there at six in the morning.
I want to stretch what you eat a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
An orange jumpsuit and whatever sandwich it is. I need
to replicate that.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I'm gonna do that, and then I'm gonna get ready
and go play. I mean, really is maybe prac may
Maybe you don't need to hit like a hundred one
irons every day. Maybe you could just play a little
bit and then get out there. Yeah, I shot five under.
What'd you do in the morning? Did you do extra time?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I went to prison? Wait what Yeah? No, I got
fingerprinted and everything. They took my picture. My mug shot
is out shot. Yeah, it's wild. I got to watch
myself on TV in the morning. I got to watch
my arrest on television.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
It was great trying to me to figure out what
the hell was going on.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I mean, not on the golf channel, because you know,
they didn't cover it, but other places I watched it
and I got to see myself get arrested.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
It was wild, and I shot five under, Like, maybe
you don't need to do that. Maybe another Shaquille O'Neal
was shooting too many free throws. Maybe i'd he just
not practiced at all. He'd have been able to make
all of them the hell women doing it wrong this
whole time. You know, I only trying.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know, I will say when I play golf, and
I play with my dad, and we haven't played a
lot lately because my dad's shoulder's been bothering, mean, he
can't play as much as he used to. But I
noticed that when I play a lot of golf, Right,
if I play a bunch of weeks in a row,
and I'll play well, but eventually I'll feel like, oh,
I'm either getting into bad habits, I'm not playing as
well by like I hit a peek and then suddenly, oh,
(38:51):
I have trouble hitting the ball. And then if I
get away from it for like a month or two,
and then I go back and play, I'm hitting the
ball like I was, you know, at my peak when
I was playing. Because I've had time to get away
from bad habits, and I go, well, I'm back my
normal swing. I haven't you know, a jut's like you know,
a batter, you know, and when you hit, when you
hit all year, you realize when you're slumping, hey, you're
(39:12):
doing this. You're moving, You're moving your obbol up a
little bit. You you know your your your stance is
a little bit wider than it was, and you get
back to what you're doing. But I noticed that when
I play golf, like boy, if I get away from it,
I come back and I played pretty well right away
because my bad habits are gone that whatever I developed
over the course of that. So maybe not playing a
lot really helps. Maybe maybe he's hit on something incredibly
(39:33):
huge for golf. You don't need to practice a lot,
going to where you can just show up and just
tee off and you can maybe win a major.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Well, maybe you have to clear the mechanism and go
back to the old basics that Chubbs taut you. It's
all in the hips. It's all in the hips. I
knew you're gonna get Chubbs in there, and knew I
knew you're going. I mean, it's officially green Land I mean,
let's go, well that's true. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Now now Adam Sandler is back to hey, what made
money in the nineties. Because no one's put me in
movies anymore, I'm gonna have to do Uncut Gems seven
at some point.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Wait, he does his own movies anymore.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
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Speaker 3 (40:13):
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Buying should be well right now, first overtime, Dallas and
Colorado tied at one apiece. Dallas leading the series three
games at two, Colorado can set up a Game seven
with a win.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Again, midway through the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
First overtime, Dallas and Colorado at one apiece. Meanwhile, I
want you to know that I'm being completely honest when
I tell you I am absolutely okay. The Knicks get
blown out tonight. I told you this series is gonna
go seven. I was hoping they would close it out tonight.
I knew they would come out big, and they did,
but the Pacers were better. I am absolutely okay. I'm
(01:08):
not putting on any airs or putting I'm not. I
am absolutely okay. The Knicks lost, Okay, the Pacers played
better overall, the Knicks missed a lot of easy shots.
That's what it comes down to for me, because that
was really what the game was, not anything else other
than boy two feeting in. The Knicks missed about seven
or eight shots, a bittle bit of difference in the game.
So I am okay going And not only that, I'm
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so okay going into game seven. If they lose Game seven,
I'll be okay. I mean I'll be mad, but then
I'll let it go, because hey, how far are we
really gonna go with guys? Just it's like a horror movie,
Like every few minutes, someone's gotta die, someone's gotta go out.
Every couple of games for the Knicks, someone else is
gonna get hurt. Josh Hart got hurt tonight. I mean,
(01:51):
how much further are we gonna go?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Again? It's a magic carpet ride, and I told you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
From the beginning, as long as it goes, it's awesome.
But they're missing for their top eight roadation players. I mean,
how much longer can you expect it to go? I
love to think they have one more game in them
on Sunday, and I think they will. I think they'll
play physical, Brunson will have a big game. You know,
you had a bad first half earlier tonight and that
really put the Knicks behind. But I'd like to think
that's going to happen on Sunday. That's how I see it.
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But if not, I.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Will be okay.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I will be okay talking about the Celtics and the
Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. If anybody even cares
about that, it's Celtics pass. I will be absolutely fine
talking about that.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, I mean, the Celtics make move to you, because
everybody will be hate watching Tatum not to have a
thirty point performance, or for them to come out with
a bad home effort, all of that and complain about,
you know, the advantages that they're not operating within, and
then Missoula takes all of the hits. But I am
(02:52):
really impressed with your resolve, with your ability to go
through this, and and you're selling it well. I don't
know if you've taken some acting lessons, but here we are,
here we are. You are selling your being okay with
the game seven scenario, and of course it's at home,
(03:12):
and that's fantastic. Problem is you don't know who's walking
through that door, right, We can't use the old adage
of hey, Michael's not walking through that door. We honestly
don't know who's walking through the door. No, no, no, no,
Josh going to be able to be all taped up
and having all the different cushions and pillows and whatever
(03:33):
the hell ls he needs because is it a rib injury?
Is it just uh he's had the stress of the
intestinal fortitude that maybe finally maxed out on minutes blade.
I don't know, but we're gonna find out. Hey, let
all right, let let let let let let's let's put
this to bed right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I got the yeah, I know you you would. You
went very much girl.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Him on soon. That was very good. I celebrate his
entire cattle.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's a little fortitude that it's very good. Uh do
you really think Josh Hart's not playing all forty eight?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Play?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
He's gonna play all forty eight? I don't care. I
don't care if he loses ribs and he only has
like five, I don't care. What that that intercostal injury?
He is playing all forty eight minutes on Sunday. It
doesn't back. There's no way he is not playing. I mean,
there's just there's just no way for the Knicks, He's
absolutely gonna play. There's no is no way he's out.
No way anybody else I would say, Okay, when you
(04:31):
see guys missing and that you know, honestly, that's the
best part about the Knicks, right because I know if
a guy is out for the Knicks, it's because.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
He really can't. He physically can't go.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Like I am sure O Gano Noobi is really hurt
because the guy hasn't come back with it after after
this injury, he hasn't come back in a while. And
is he gonna come back for Game seven? Probably not.
Is he gonna suddenly be better to come back? No,
But I know he's because I know how bad the
Knicks want to play. That's look, and that's the Kicks
are so much fun because you can see it on
(05:02):
their faces how much they want to play, how bad
they want to win. That their three top three four
guys all play forty five minutes a night, that's the
best part about the Knicks. And then you look at
other teams where guys say, what, how is Donovan Mitchell
not playing? He'd finished the game, How is he not
playing these last two games?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You see that so often right there, man sitting out there,
and I know there have been some reports that that
calf is bad enough that he's gonna have to have surgery.
So now the offseason really gets kind of uh dicey
oh yeah for his for his situation.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Sure, but but I look, you know, you see so
many people missing games and all. And it's not to
say I'm not singing singling out Donovan Mitchell at I
don't think I'm not I am, but it's just I
know how badly they're gonna play.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
They want to play.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
There's no way he's gonna miss There's no he's gonna
miss this because the Knicks. The Knicks have brought back
a mentality and that's why they're so popular these playoffs.
They brought back a mentality that was popular in the
in the salad days of the NBA when they segued
in to the nineties and Jordan was winning championships and
it was the greatest period of growth we have seen
(06:05):
the NBA have. When suddenly the finals go from as
we hear tape delay in the late seventies. Hey, Lakers
and Celtics in the eighties. That was great, and that
was the conduit to get to the modern level of
NBA now. But the NBA in the nineties was about
lunch Pale, you know, Kevin McHale saying take your hard hats,
You take your hard hats to work, and the same
same thing. It's not like we always saw the the
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Bulls playing some kind of great, unbelievable game where.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
They scored one hundred and forty points.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
No, they were as hard nose and bruising as everybody
else's and that's something that we really latched onto and
that was a great way. That's why the Knicks were
so popular, and that's why this version of the Knicks
is popular because it's kind of like that. It's guys
coming in and playing hard and playing physical and making
big shots, and it's it's it's it translates more now
(06:55):
because you get the pretty threes that go along with
all the physicality, right, you get you get all the
threes that come in because hey, well physicality is great,
but I don't want the game to be eighty eight
to eighty five. I don't want it to be seventy
eight to seventy six. No, No, you still get games one, ten,
one oh five, because hey, it's exciting. When someone hits
a three, everybody stands up, everybody still goes crazy. So
you have the combination of the Knicks with that hard
(07:17):
style attitude that everybody loves going back to, and you
still get the excitements of the threes and the big plays.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That's why they translate so well. Now, No, it's it's
been fun to watch, and there's you know, we use
the term culture with teams perhaps a bit much, but
normally it's because the absence of it on so many
other squads. Right, last year in the NFL, how many
teams do you think towards the back end of the year,
we were still trying to figure out what the hell
(07:44):
were they trying to establish? What was their identity? Not sure? Right?
And with the NBA, it's the all right war of
attrition and all right, are these guys buyding the coach?
What's the GM trying to do? Whatever? With the Knicks,
It's pretty clear you just want guys that are gonna
give you forty eight minutes if physically they're able to
(08:05):
do it, and you start getting on board that. Even
if you get tired of you know, the go New
York Go song and seeing all the classic knicks as
you call them, and inject themselves into the action and
actually physically a cost of posing players. You know, that
(08:26):
can get you can get bored or upset with that
to a degree, but you have to respect that there's
no give up like given in this game, which was
done for a very very long time. You can still
they were pissed now. They gave up a lot of
layups and dunks. So when they watch that tape they
should be really mad at themselves. But they're still sprinting
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back and forth. They're still trying to make an effort.
And so there's something to be said for that. And
I think, you know, especially going into the next round
where you've got a Celtics team that, let's face it,
a lot of folks are out on them, a lot
of folks are waiting for the collapse, for the fail,
and even if it is New York, I think they're
okay with it.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, look, here's the thing about the Celtics, right, here's
why we look.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We talk about the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Having a bye all the way to the NBA Finals
and everything. But here's where I'll give whoever comes out
of this series a bit of a puncher's chance, because,
as we've seen, the Celtics are prone to games where
they just don't care, they don't feel like they're challenged,
and they played terribly. And we talked about this early
(09:33):
in the playoffs. You can get away with that when
you're playing a first round against the Miami Heat, who
were playing without their best player, right, you can. You
can win game one by thirty and be so disinterested
you lose Game two and still win the series pretty easily. Right,
you get maybe in the second round of the playoffs.
You can say, once you get to the Eastern Conference
Finals in the NBA Finals, you give away a game.
(09:54):
You give away a game because yeah, we just weren't motivated.
Because this is what the Celtics do, and it's why
it upset so many people, because they have so many
games where they just look listless, and games where they
should have the killer instinct they just don't. That's why
people are kind of out on them. But they're gonna
have a couple of those games, at least one in
the Eastern Conference Finals and eventually that's gonna flip the series.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Hey, here it is what we're up. Won nothing.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We won Game one by thirty five and Tatum had
forty and Brown had thirty eight boys and then suddenly, hey,
the Knicks find a way to take Game two one
oh one to ninety five. And then suddenly they go
home to Madison Square Garden and it's physical and the
officiating is is it goes the next way? And then
you have Missoula is crying and about officials. They want
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the big market team to win. And suddenly you look
in your down three to one like this is when
it's really gonna come back to bite you. And it's
why it's really hard to pick the Celtics because they
are and they've been prone to games like this for
a long time. They've never put it to bed. They've
never solved and said, hey, we got to figure this out.
We gotta make sure we got we got we got
this team on the ropes. They're not feeling confident. I
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can see it in their body language. We gotta come
out and throw the hammer. They just don't do it,
and eventually it's gonna really come back to haunt them.
And that's gonna be something where you get to the
Eastern Conference finals. Whether it's the Knicks, whether it's the Pacers,
they're gonna give those teams one game and if the
door is open for that, look out because something the
Celtics are gonna go.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
How do we lose? The Knicks played with three guys.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I mean, I know it was three guys from Villanova,
but they were still five on three and we still
lost the game. I can't believe we did that. That's
gonna happen. So there's your bit of silver lining forever
comes out of the series.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But that's the thing, right watching as we have with
the Celtics, this is where I want to get. Maybe
we find a sports psychologist to come on, why are
they so lackluster at home for a team that was
so dominant you know when it comes to the play
I mean, look at that regular season, right, they win
going away? What was the difference thirteen games, twelve and
a half games, whatever it was in the Eastern Conference
(11:49):
ahead of your Knicks. As the Bucks had their injuries
and they had doc and then when they get to
the playoffs the last couple of years, they're a five
hundred squad. I'd love to have someone who's trained in
the human mind, beyond you and me and our years
of living and just saying that guy's an idiot or
that guy's lazy, to have an explanation as to why
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you have such systematic letdowns. I think it's a fascinating
kind of case study, particularly with the amount of talent
that you have on that squad that's been demonstrated so
much time and time again.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon Love the
Tireck dot Com Studios. So I believe I'm fine if
the Knicks loose Sunday, I'll be fine. At the time
we hit the air Monday night, I'll be fine. Trust me,
I'll be absolutely fine.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I think.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
So.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure, Yeah, pretty sure, I'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I mean, I'm using this weekend to say goodbye to
the Mets because we're gonna get swept by the worst
team in baseball and then it's really gonna be over.
So I mean, not like Steve Cohen didn't already say
he's gonna trade everybody the deadline anyway, but I will
be absolutely fine. I'll be absolutely fine me. I promise
you update here. The Stars scored a goal in overtime.
(13:04):
Looked like they won the game, won the series. However,
it was disallowed because of interference in front of the net.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And boy, that was a I don't know, tough call.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
That's a tough call, man, that's a dicey interference call.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I really don't know how that goal got disallowed. Well,
defender bumps him back into the goal. Did they rule
that he hit him a second time unnecessarily?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I really need to reset.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Wow, I really want to see the pool report after
the game on this.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I would like to see what that happens. Jumping up
and down, everybody asking for explanations. Meanwhile, the goalie takes
his helmet off, took a nice long sip of water
and exhaled. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I saw the goal, and then they then they immediately
said no, we're gonna look at it.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I'm like, that's a goal. Then I saw the replay.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I'm like, that's a goal. Then they looked at it
and they said the replay again. I said, yeah, that's
a goal. And then they came out and said, no goal,
not enough to overturn Jason telling it. Overturn it, buddy,
These big market hockey teams. Mike dig get all the calls,
You'll want to tell you what all the calls?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Man? Know you all the calls? Damn it? All the hell.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
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coming up next, we have more big news out of
the NBA, courtesy of what somebody told us on our
show earlier tonight. Wait what, Yeah, that's next right here
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. You know what we'll get to potentially
we know who the next Lakers head coach might be
in a second.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
But yeah, let's go. We're going to double overtime right now.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Dallas looked like they had won the game in overtime
and won the series over the Avalanche.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But they get a disallowed goal.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Because of goalie interference and we go to double ot
and I really watching this so many times. This is
a hard one, man, This is a hard one to say. Boy,
that's a goal. I I didn't see a lot of it.
But the only thing I can look at right we
talked to the stars, got hosed on this, the Avalanche.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You're lucky, you're alive.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Still going a double overtime going, oh man, we used
that ball. Our good luck on that because this did
not look like like it was a it was a
goal that should have been disallowed. But I will say this, right,
I will say this in most sports now, we get
really pissed at the end of a game when the
referee quote decides a game. And I don't mean the
end of an NBA game when you say, oh, we
(16:22):
got seventeen calls, here's seventy eight calls. But like, we
don't like the end of the Super Bowl when when
all of a sudden the final two minutes, what wasn't
a penalty the first fifty eight minutes is a penalty
now and they throw a flag and that and that,
you know, tilts the game one way or another, right,
we don't We don't like it in Major League Baseball
when Angel Hernandez umpire. Right, we don't like it when
(16:42):
the end of a game comes, and we saw it
a lot in the NFL, when there are officiating calls
that rob us, and you can even you want to
throw in like one call once in a while at
the end of an NBA game, in the final four
or five seconds that wins a game. You want to
talk about the call that sent Iowa to the to
the championship game. In women's college basketball after the screen
(17:02):
that got called, the illegal screen that got called on Yukon.
We don't like it when officials step in and decide
a game. Well, here's a situation where they could have
allowed that goal. But if the goal is allowed and
the series ends, it ends under controversy because there's still
fans going, oh, that was interference, and look at this
(17:24):
and he gets pushed in and all that. You're still
ending under some sort of a cloud of controversy, even
though it would probably be less than if you allowed
the goal, because like I said, it looked like it
was good. But at least there's that and I kind
of understand that. And look, I'm not telling you if
you're an Avalanche fan, you can't stand what I'm saying.
But overall, just to see that, okay, maybe and maybe
part of it was can we end a series on
(17:46):
that play? Can we end a series and send a
team home on that play where the goal potentially was
nebulous we can defend and we had some kind of
we had some kind of interference that we ruled on
the ice when first came out. At least there is
that that, Hey, we want the players to decide this
and not be decided because we had in we had
uh some kind of contact in the goal and the
(18:07):
goalie was thrown off and the puck at the back
of the net.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, it's you know you called it a no goal immediately,
right because that call came quickly. There was no hesitation.
Uh So good work by the guy's eyes, very decisive.
But to your point, yeah, it becomes the well, there's
not enough to overturn. And now they're now that you've
gone into the next uh intermission, it's being replayed at nauseum.
(18:33):
Oh yeah, the marchman sets up in front of the net,
uh huh, and then it becomes the well, does he
initiate contact with the goalie? Does the goalie get up
on him? And then you get bounced by a defender,
which means now you got two people kind of backing
into the goalie, so he can't get back in front
of the net. Ye air goo of the goal.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
So like he's on the white ice the entire time,
Like he's on the way, he's on the white ice.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
So I mean that's you.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
If you're on the white ice, you're on the white ice,
you know, I you kind of left right had man.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, So to me, should have been a goal and
it was funny with what was it about thirty seconds
left also where the stick kind of got dislodged so
he had to cover up with both gloves. Another opportunity
to score there late. So yeah, we get some motus
hockey late into a Friday night Saturday morning. But this,
this one is going to be looked at repeatedly, so
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we'll keep you updated on this.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Steve de Sayinger, We'll have more on this game coming
up and what's trending. But big NBA stuff tonight, right, Yeah,
the Knicks lost though. Okay, ready to see you for
Game seven. But we talked to NBA insider Mark Medina
earlier in the show, and you know, obviously the the
outside of the NBA playoff games, the big topic of
conversation is who's getting the Lakers head coaching job. And
(19:51):
Mark Medina told us, we put this out on Twitter,
you can see it, and you get to get it
in the Best of Podcasts that goes right after the
show on iTunes.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
He said, listen to people I talked to.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
What I'm hearing is that this is this could be
JJ Reddick's job to lose with the Lakers, right, Like
this could be I've been told all signs point towards
JJ Reddick being the Lakers head coach. That was the
exact quote from NBA insider Mark Medena. And the Lakers
will surround him with big time assistants to help his
transition from the broadcast booth into being head coach of
(20:24):
the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
See that's the part of it that intrigues me. Like
the Reddick thing, it's confirmation of I think what we've
kind of been gravitating towards the adding all these people
and name assistant coaches surrounding him. That's what intrigues the
hell out of me because one of the big knocks
on the Lakers is they're a quote mom and pop
organization that won't spend on a coach. But you're gonna
(20:47):
bring in Reddick and bring in some you know, hired
guns as assistance with you know, long, long teeth in
the game. That's intriguing to me.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
So the thing is is that, Yeah, and you know
it's kind of you see it a little bit like
when when a young head coach gets hired in the
NFL and they say, you know, we gotta do I
got to bring in a great defensive cowardier, right, A guy,
I can kind of give that side of the ball
to you while I get my feet wet and understand
what's going on. Yeah, so like the exact opposite of
what the Jets did, you know with the Robberts, all right,
(21:22):
so so I so I get that part of it.
And look, I would love this to happen because A
it's great for us, because it's great for our business.
For a guy that's been, you know, spitting out hot
takes on television for the last few years because JJ
Riddick's a hot take machine, all of a sudden, he
goes with no coaching experience, doesn't just get an NBA job,
He could get the Lakers job. Like really, with that
(21:44):
happening and Gottlieb coaching Wisconsin Green Bay, I could get
the Mets managerial job.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
They lost again tonight to the bleep in Marlins. Many stick.
I don't want shutouts, man.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I know, but yeah, yeah, we're yeah yeah yeah, because
hell yeah, because that's what I'm gonna say. As how
the Mets are catching the Marlins at the wrong time.
The guy any Ray six and a half and the
Mets got five hits. Okay, so maybe I'm closer than
two years. Maybe I'm a year away from getting this job.
But but quite honestly, I mean because it would be awesome,
because I'll say, hey, broadcaster, head coach, broadcaster, head coach, broadcaster, manager,
(22:17):
that could be me. But even though Reddick, if the
signs point to Reddick, if Reddick gets this job, yes
he's buddies with Lebron podcast we've heard this.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
I don't. I don't think it matters who the Lakers
head coaches like.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's great headline, JJ Redick, and it'll be something we
talk about and that's great. But is JJ Redick really
going to affect the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Of the Lakers?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Are they going to win more games? Are they going
to go further in the playoffs next year? If JJ
Redick is their head coach? They're not because the team
still and for years they go and as as Lebron
and Ad Goo and Lebron and Ad do their own
thing right, they cut bait and stop listening to Frank Vogel.
After they won a championship, they stop listening to Darvin Am.
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They're not gonna listen to Reddick. They may slap him
on the back and laugh with them a little bit.
Hey yeah, buddies, Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. We're
just gonna go out and do what we've always done.
I mean, he's not gonna set a culture. He's not
gonna get players to buy Again, this is a guy
who's not even forty coming out of a broadcast that, again,
a lot of people disagree with stuff he says because
he's been a hot take guy for a long time.
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Is it really gonna matter? Lebron and ad are gonna
do their own thing. And when you don't get a
buy in from the two best players, how much can
you really make a difference on the other team. It's
why I go back and saying, man, they should make
up with Frank Vogel, because the one thing I know
is Frank Vogel made them better defensively. That's how they
won the title. And if they don't have money to
go get guys in the off sea, and if they
(23:44):
can't pull off a big trade rumored that they really
want to try to do something for Trey Young, if
they can't do that, then how are they gonna get better? Well,
you know what, playing better defensively, that does it for you?
A hundred percent. So Frank Vogel, at least we know
he's got the track record of doing that three times
his team has been the best defensive team in the NBA,
including twenty twenty with the Lakers. So, but that I
(24:06):
know will be a difference is JJ Reddick. Is he
bringing in some sort of system? Is what's what's he
gonna do? How's he gonna get the buy in?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I mean, I don't I don't know how's he gonna
be able to relate to the modern NBA player, because
I JJ Reddick's gonna come in and he's gonna have
to say I have authority here, and that's gonna turn
people off right away. Somebody who doesn't have any cachet
is gonna have to come in and throw the hammer
down and say it's my way or the highway, and
I'm gonna watch film all the time, and I'm gonna
work hard and I'm always gonna be here, and I
(24:34):
expect that from all my players. That's not the Lakers. Sorry,
but it's not. That's not Lebron, it's not Ad, it's
it's not how it works. So I just don't know
how he's gonna come in and really it's not a
Reddick thing, but we're just talking about him specifically. I
don't know that anybody can come in and do that.
How does anybody any difference maker out there that's gonna
come in and get the Lakers to buy and suddenly
get Lebron to say, hey, hey man, let's go follow me.
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We're going to another title. I think whoever gets the job,
it doesn't matter, it's gonna be the we've seen for.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
The last few years.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
The Lakers are gonna be good, they're gonna underachieve, They're
gonna look great in spurts, but then they're gonna look
really bad. They're hamstrung because they made bad moves, and
they're gonna wind up making it into the playoffs. They'll
have an exciting round or two, and then they'll go
home and they'll say, what do we do? We have
an ill constructed roster and it's gonna be rinse and repeat,
because that's what it is. From since twenty twenty, it's
been an ill constructed roster and head coaches that they
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don't listen to, and Lebron and Ad doing their thing,
and that that's what's gonna be on repeat. For the
Lakers until the Lebron James era ends at some point
in the next two or three years.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well, but that's the thing, right, maybe you can get
Lebron to buy in and the locker room follows right
ad on down the line. That's fine, you still don't
have enough talent and you had what probably and look,
they seem to defy logic and quite often, particularly Lebron,
with the games played, et cetera. But you just had
(25:56):
the most games Anthony Davis has played since he left
New Orleans. Remember when we were like, wow, this guy's
like one of the top three or five players in
the game. Remember when we were having those conversations in
the infancy of the show. And then he did Operation
shut Down before becoming a Laker. I mean you have
you know that circumstance. He played seventy games this year.
(26:18):
Are you getting that again? Lebron's another year older? Is
he going to be able to rev it up every game?
And look, we could talk about defensive intensity and possessions
off and whatever, and that's where the vocal thing would
be really fun to watch. Oh sure, four years later,
could you still get the level of buying It's not
a shortened season, although you'll have to convince them it is.
(26:41):
And are we playing in a bubble? Yes, yes, we're
playing in a bubble. And then they do like a
virtual reality thing where it looks like they're back down
at Walt Disney World and their little complex there. But
it's really just kind of the the idea of you're
only gonna get so much out of the squad as constructed,
(27:01):
and with the dollar constraints that are there, right, the
creativity of the front office, and this year, you know,
coming into the year with the signings some of the veterans,
and look, you have some bad luck in terms of health.
I get it. Vincent and Vanderbilt were guys you were
counting on to be big defensive additions for you. Just
(27:23):
ponder that for a second. Lakers and their ballplayers, they've
been in the league and they have their place in
a rotation. But how many times did you hear people
bellyaching that those two guys were unavailable and it killed them. Really,
that's where we're going. We're pinning it all on, well,
those guys were hurt, So no, a lot of change
(27:45):
certainly needs to come in and year after year it's
this really the lather, rinse, repeat, as far as the
coach go. They buy in for about half a year,
and then you know what, it's not working. The rotations
don't work. They go on a bit of a losing streak,
and before long everybody's unhappy. And then you gotta have
a fall guy because you can't fire all the players,
(28:06):
and boom there they.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Go, exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live
from the tyreq dot com studios. Speaking of a fall guy, Well,
the guy that Mike Harmon and I have already designated
as our fall guy if something ever goes really wrong,
it's Steve Desager.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Who's got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I feel like we're ready for rookie camp. Here run
the NHL Playoff second round series not over yet for
the top seed in the West, the Dallas Stars. It
looked like they got an overtime and series clinching goal
at Colorado tonight. It was ruled no goal and that's phrase,
by the way, no goal is trending on Twitter right now.
Ruled no goal and not overturned by video review, dude
(28:49):
to gold tender interference, even though it appeared the Colorado
goalies own defenseman created the contact in front of the net.
But we'll continue into a second overtime. I mean just
a minute. Stars tied one to one at Colorado.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Dallas.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Star is leading the series three games to two. Game
seven of this second rounder would be at Dallas on
Sunday tomorrow. Vancouver up three games to two, plays at
Edmonton in the East.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You know, you know what's surprising about that goal? See,
but I'll tell you this the no goal, the no goal.
The no goal is that if if they because you
hear the philosophy of okay, if that was called a goal,
it's hard to overturn, right.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Because I could I could see that either way. They
called it a goal.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Boy, you look at it an outside and now, look,
I think it was a goal one hundred percent, right,
I think it's a goal.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
But I'm trying to look at it from different perspectives.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
What really surprised me is, as I think about that
that if they called it a goal, that it would
have stayed, is that they very quickly called that no goal.
Like I was surprised like, isn't that something you you
let stand and then look and see if you if
you have to overturn it at the end, Like, isn't that?
I mean they very fast, Ah, no goal right away,
like before they could even celebrate, it was no goal.
(29:58):
And I'm like, how did you see that from that
far out that that was a no goal? That really
surprised me that it was done that quickly and it
was no goal right away. That's what stands out to
me now about this.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
And how could you not see the defenseman's own contact
to initiate all of this. Meanwhile, the video review explanation
from the League office has been sent out as we
start the second overtime in Colorado tonight. They said that
the Dallas player impaired the Colorado's players' ability to play
his position in the crease prior to the puck entering
(30:33):
the net. Well, yeah, because he got shoved by Cale
mccarth the defenseman. But okay, that's neither here nor there.
On to the East, the New York Rangers will host
Game one of the East Final on Wednesday. Florida will
be there. Panthers win at Boston tonight two to one
on a goal with about a minute and a half
to go, ending their second round series in six. Toronto's
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new head coach is Craig Burubix of Saint Louis. In
the NBA Playoffs, six seed Indiana Forces again Game seven
at New York Sunday afternoon, beating the Next to nine
one sixteen, one oh three. Jalen Bruntson thirty one points
in defeat. First half. He was two of thirteen shooting
from the floor. Josh Hart left with abdominal soreness. Pascal
Siakam twenty five points in the win, and Tyrese Haliburton
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had nine assists and won turnover. Xander Schaffley leads the
PGA Championship by one strokeover Colin Morikawa. A reminder, NASCAR's
All Star Race is Sunday night on FS.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
One Everything Final.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
In Major League Baseball, the Giants ended Colorado seven game
winning streak ten to five. The Dodgers got a Shoheo
Tani home run is thirteenth and beat Cincinnati seven to
three a late homer from Jason Hayward, just activated off
the injured list. Wins for Detroit and Saint Louis. For
Kansas City and the Angels. Houston won at sixth in
a row. Yankees won their fifth straight. Tampa Bay was
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a four to three winner at Toronto. The winning pitcher
for the Rays, Tyler Alexander, was perfect for seven and
a third innings. He then allowed a bloop single a
two run homer. Eventually three runs allowed in his seven
and a third one hundred and five pitches thrown. Cleveland
got a solo homer bottom in the ink from Jose
Ramirez and edge Minnesota three to two. Saved Emmanuel class
A is thirteenth wins for Pittsburgh and Baltimore, and Philadelphia
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was Zach Wheeler getting to win. Defeated Washington for to two.
The Phils have won seventeen of their last twenty one.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
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Mike and I love putting this content out for you
every single night. So we'll see if there's any more
disloged goals coming up in this game. But straight ahead, maybe,
just maybe, after what we saw today, working really hard
at golf is something you don't have to do to
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be successful.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, I'm just what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Maybe you don't have to work as hard as you
think because they only see the story we got for you.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Coming up next, this is Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 3 (33:25):
Here who tickets at tomorrow show? Don't forget your girlfriend.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Dallas and Colorado tied at one apiece, still in double overtime.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
That disallowed goal.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Who That's gonna be everywhere in the next twenty four hours.
But again goal is disallowed. The Stars don't win the series.
The two teams play on in double overtime.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Don't tell me we don't talk hockey here.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Meanwhile, let me just say this for a second, because maybe, maybe,
just maybe professional athletes don't need to practice as much
as they say.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Maybe they don't maybe, yeah, I mean not so much.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Forget like NBA players, like how much they really practice. Okay,
I understand, you know NFL. But when you look at
Scotty Scheffler today, right, Scotty Scheffler, who had one of
the most bizarre days you'll ever see, trying to get
to the PGA Championship, number one rent golfer in the world,
gets stopped outside of Valhalla because there was a fatality
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where someone working the event was struck by a bus.
There were police, there were security there trying to keep
the scene intact, and Scheffler tried to bypass traffic and
get in and he was stopped by police. There was
apparently some sort of miscommunication and Scheffler wound up getting arrested.
He goes, he's trying to get to Valhalla at like
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six in the morning. Right, it's rainy, and it's dark,
and it's like five thirty, and he teas off at ten.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Right, He's trying to get there like four and a
half hours before.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
He's got a tee off and he goes to jam
like he's arrested, he is cuffed, he is thrown in
the back of a squad car.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
He has taken to jail.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Now he does say that, well, after I got there,
the treatment of me changed a little bit.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
They asked if I wanted a sandwich. I ate a sandwich.
But this guy is because Darlington. One of the things
he said was he was asked because he was there
on the scene. Reporter Jeff Darlington. Uh. He said that
the police officers did ask who they were arresting. He
hooked him up. Google him.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Are we we arrested Xander Schawfleet. No, no, no, no,
you arrested Scottiereffler. All right, right right, Charles schwartzel no, no, no, no, okay, okay,
got it. Tony Scheffler tight end, Tony Broncos tight end,
Tony Scheffler.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh catching strays is Tony Scheffler. Okay?
Speaker 2 (35:51):
So uh like that, you got Tony Scheffler and there
you guys. So he's in he's in jail in the
morning and he gets released. Finally it's like, oh my god,
he's able to go play.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Well.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, he got arrested and he went to jail for
a few hours and he was let go, and he
got to the course about a little less than an
hour before he teas off and he shoots five under
and he's like three shots off the lead going into
day three. So maybe, just maybe, And I'm not saying
like every day you should spend time in jail, but
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maybe the whole Hey, I gotta make sure I hit balls.
I gotta do this, I gotta get this, I gotta
get this guy. Maybe that's a little overrated when you
can go from a jail cell and you can shoot
five under and you, I mean, maybe practice is a
little overrated.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Maybe you don't need practice much to think if you
can go do that. And well, maybe you're just hyper
focused because you're not sleeping because you have a new
child at home. Oh no, to add that wrinkle to everything, sure,
because he was gonna withdraw they had the kid. So
perhaps he's just dialed up and this is now a
relief after being up all night with the kid. I
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don't know, but yeah, to your point, he did say
he got some quality stretching in in his cell while
he waited.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Okay, let's go here. I was able to stretch. Yeah,
I was gonna feel good.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
So in the morning, like, what what happened? Once you
get well, you know, I got some stretching in Well,
I never thought i'd say that. All right, well let
me find some levity at all.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And yeah, yeah, now now I'm now I'm really superstitious,
and I want to go stretching that cell before tomorrow.
I want to get there at six in the morning.
I want to stretch what you eat a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
An orange jumpsuit and whatever sandwich it is. I need
to replicate that.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I'm gonna do that, and then I'm gonna get ready
and go play. I mean, really is maybe prac may
Maybe you don't need to hit like a hundred one
irons every day. Maybe you could just play a little
bit and then get out there. Yeah, I shot five under.
What'd you do in the morning? Did you do extra time?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I went to prison? Wait what Yeah? No, I got
fingerprinted and everything. They took my picture. My mug shot
is out shot. Yeah, it's wild. I got to watch
myself on TV in the morning. I got to watch
my arrest on television.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
It was great trying to me to figure out what
the hell was going on.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
I mean, not on the golf channel, because you know,
they didn't cover it, but other places I watched it
and I got to see myself get arrested.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
It was wild, and I shot five under, Like, maybe
you don't need to do that. Maybe another Shaquille O'Neal
was shooting too many free throws. Maybe i'd he just
not practiced at all. He'd have been able to make
all of them the hell women doing it wrong this
whole time. You know, I only trying.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
You know, I will say when I play golf, and
I play with my dad, and we haven't played a
lot lately because my dad's shoulder's been bothering, mean, he
can't play as much as he used to. But I
noticed that when I play a lot of golf, Right,
if I play a bunch of weeks in a row,
and I'll play well, but eventually I'll feel like, oh,
I'm either getting into bad habits, I'm not playing as
well by like I hit a peek and then suddenly, oh,
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I have trouble hitting the ball. And then if I
get away from it for like a month or two,
and then I go back and play, I'm hitting the
ball like I was, you know, at my peak when
I was playing. Because I've had time to get away
from bad habits, and I go, well, I'm back my
normal swing. I haven't you know, a jut's like you know,
a batter, you know, and when you hit, when you
hit all year, you realize when you're slumping, hey, you're
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doing this. You're moving, You're moving your obbol up a
little bit. You you know your your your stance is
a little bit wider than it was, and you get
back to what you're doing. But I noticed that when
I play golf, like boy, if I get away from it,
I come back and I played pretty well right away
because my bad habits are gone that whatever I developed
over the course of that. So maybe not playing a
lot really helps. Maybe maybe he's hit on something incredibly
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huge for golf. You don't need to practice a lot,
going to where you can just show up and just
tee off and you can maybe win a major.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Well, maybe you have to clear the mechanism and go
back to the old basics that Chubbs taut you. It's
all in the hips. It's all in the hips. I
knew you're gonna get Chubbs in there, and knew I
knew you're going. I mean, it's officially green Land I mean,
let's go, well that's true. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Now now Adam Sandler is back to hey, what made
money in the nineties. Because no one's put me in
movies anymore, I'm gonna have to do Uncut Gems seven
at some point.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Wait, he does his own movies anymore.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
For my top, Jason bern and Bernie Frattos.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Next, nix Yo
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