The Best Of 2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe

On this episode of 2 Pros & A Cup Of Joe, Jonas Knox & Brady Quinn recap the Geno Smith trade to go back to the Jets for a home coming. Plus, the guys go over Bam Adebayo's monster 83 point game, chat with Petros Papadakis, and much more!!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Listen. I'm not trying to be completely negative, all right.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I know we were pretty critical of the NBA, but
I do feel like if you were trying to get
people amped up, there's probably a better Sound Garden song
than this. And it's not saying it's a bad song, okay.
I just think that there's some songs with, you know,
a little bit more high energy.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Hi, why do you always have to be critical us?
Why can't you just accept it for what it is.
It's a good song.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
I agree it's a great song, but I just think,
you know, there's certain songs that hit in this timeslot,
and then there's other songs that you just want to
listen to. While you're you know, like you're in the
woods with a thirty pack and a sod Off by yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, you know that's that that would be.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
Thanks, thanks for taking it there.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
I just think I just think that there's you know,
certain things that apply to certain situations.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
But you know is what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is two pros and a cup of Joe.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Here on Fox Sports Radio, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox with you.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
No, LeVar Arrington. Uh, he is not here.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Leave.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Arrington will not be here today, he will not be
here tomorrow, and he will not be here Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Man, look at what I'm doing them.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
So if you if you tuned into this show to
hear LeVar over the next three days, he basically told
you to kiss his ass.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I hope, hope you're aware of that.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
And kisses as whatever else you want I point to.
Have you ever heard this story? Do you know about
this from the whole Long Island University basketball program and
they celebration everything else. Have you heard this story yet?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:06):
So, there were two avid college basketball fans who they
just wanted to follow up a pathetic fan base team
and they wanted to try to start up like a tradition,
and so what has become now like a viral thing
with these these two guys that stated, I guess across
the court from each other while the other teams shooting

(02:26):
free throws, they yell fins up and they put up
their fins. The Long Island University is the Sharks. But
when you show the first video, it's just one guy
by himself, like down by the free throw line, and
then three other dudes all the way across the court
and what was deemed to be in the student section.
And this has now become kind of a trend, which

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Long Island University I believe just played the NAC Championship
recently or last night. I think they've lost, but still
they've actually built up a fan It's become somewhat of
a trend. They've got a little bit height behind the program.
So it's pretty neat to see a grow. But also
just two avid college basketball fans, which really just means

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they're they're huge gamblers because they all are involved in
March Madness. But that's how it all got started.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
So I'm looking up the Long Island University Sharks. They're
in the Northeast Conference. Whatever the hell that is located
in Brooklyn. Yeah, it's twenty four and ten this year. Yeah,
all right, good for them first in the Northeast.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
All right.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Good, so at least now they've seen it through and
now they're seeing some success there.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
That's good. That's a feel good story. So good for
those guys. That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
By the way, here's something else that's awesome. Your former
teammate Gino Smith back with the Jets, just like he
was thirteen years ago when you were also with the Jets.
Geno Smith is now a member of the New York

(04:10):
Jets yet again. The Jets are acquiring Smith in a
trade from the Las Vegas Raiders. We're assuming that he's
passed his physical. You never know what these Raiders. They're
a real tricky bunch. But he has arrived to the
Jets in exchange for a twenty twenty six sixth round pick.
The Raiders will also be sending a twenty twenty sixth
seventh round pick in the trade. I can already tell

(04:32):
you right now that seventh round pick probably going to
end up in the bottom ten mock draft that I'll
be doing coming up next month here on the show.
But Geno Smith back to New York, back with the Jets,
and apparently he's real fired up about it. This was
a text from a very pumped up Geno Smith, according
to Ian Rappaport, quote, complete full circle moment, back to

(04:56):
where it all began. I'm excited to connect with my
new teammates, coaches, and everyone in the building, as well
as build a new relationship with the fan base and community.
Your guy, Gino Smith back home.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
You don't see this happen very often in sports in general,
let alone the NFL, so it is a full circle moment.
He's a completely different player and really man than what
he was back in twenty thirteen. I mean, I remember,
you know, a rookie coming in who was so kind
of trying to understand how to be a pro, how
to break down film, how to prepare himself week in

(05:31):
and week out. I mean, Geno's always had a lot
of talent and the ability to throw the football, and
that's one of the reasons why I've still being able
to have some long successful career in terms of how
that goes. But this is not as good of a
situation as he was drafted into, meaning the team that
he was trapped into was a lot closer and more

(05:54):
talented as far as being competitive than what this one is.
So I will say that I think that's the uphill
battle for all of this is he's going to be
on a team where the coach, if things don't go well,
is going to be on the hot seat. You know,
you've got your star receiver, which back then it was
Santonio Holmes. You know now it's Garret Wilson. But you know,

(06:17):
outside of that, and you've got you know, Brief Hall
in the backfield. But this is a team that offensively,
I think I'm not sure the offensive line is as
good as that one was. Well, guys like Nick Mangold
got rest of soul and the britishoft Ferguson on that front.
I mean, those those guys could absolutely get after it.
And defensively, you know, that was still during the Rex

(06:37):
Ryan years where you know, they didn't have any issues
getting interceptions where you're getting turnovers and they had the
ability to get pressured. You know, that was a team that,
if I'm not mistaken, I think they ended up being
you know five hundred that year or around maybe just
a game off of that, but it's just it's not
as good of a situation I think for him going
into it as what it was if he was drafted

(06:59):
into at least for a gard to the roster. So
he's guys were cut out for him. But it's another
opportunity and kind of a cool way to again come
full circle, and I think he's more equipped to handle
a lot of the adversity that will be thrown his
way as the Jets quarterback compared to again when he
was still there as a rookie, still learning, still kind

(07:21):
of growing. He's a completely different player today.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
By the way you were naming off all those names,
I forgot how talented the Jets were back then. There's
a reason why they were a problem for the Patriots.
Like they beat New England in a playoff game at Foxborough.
They went to back to back AFC title games. The
Jets are really talented back then.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah, people, I mean Antonio and Carmarti on the outside.
You look at their linebacking crew. Up front, you had
guys like Mohamon Wilkinson, who's a hell of a player,
especially young. I mean they had.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Some studs was still there, was still there on the other.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Side, and you had Willy Coloonne up front to an
offensive line. I mean that roster was his talent as
some of the best that I played for over about
eight years. And it's you know, again looking looking at
what it is now, it's just gonna be a different challenge.
And that's where I say he's better prepared for it.
And I think if Aaron Glenn can get this thing

(08:17):
turned around and get the defense playing at a higher
level like Rex had been playing at, you know, they
could be competitive in some games. But I again, I
think it's an uphill battle. You know, based on what
last year looked like.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I know that it's easy to take shots at the
Jets because they make it easy and they've been a
disaster and all that. And we've obviously had our laughs
with with some of what's gone on there. And I
know that it would be easy to look at Geno
Smith and you know, oh god, you're going to bring
Geno Smith back. That's really going to work this time.
And then you see the comments from Geno Smith. I

(08:51):
think it illustrates something about him. I think he probably
recognizes Yeah, I get it, it's the Jets. It probably
wouldn't be my first choice, but you know what, I'm
going to be the starter. I know that I'm going
to get an opportunity to play. I know I'm not
going to be backing up, you know, a developmental quarterback
at all likelihood. I'm actually going to get an opportunity
to play. And a guy like that who's already seen

(09:12):
his own mortality in the league, who's already seen what
can go wrong, especially you know if you're drafted at
a certain place and it doesn't work out initially. I
think he probably looks at this and cherishes the opportunity
to just play anywhere and be the guy, which he's
going to be with the Jets.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
I think all those things are true. And I also think,
you know, they know that there could be some university here,
you know, based on how the season goes. Let's just
go back to Woodie Johnson not allowing Aaron Quin the
higher defensive coordinator and saying, no, you are a defensive
play call, you call the defense. That to me was
the first sign of they maybe feel like they made
a mistake. They don't want to make it a one

(09:50):
year thing. They're trying to get through this year. That's
that's how it feels to me, and unfortunately, for Tino Smith,
He's going to take the opportunity to go there, play
and start and be able to manage what will be.
You know, again, I think it up till battle this season,
but I think it sets them up to be in
a position to draft high next year and in a

(10:12):
much better draft class. And I know I keep, you know,
pounding the table for that class. But again, from what
I've watched and what a lot of people I've talked
to around the league say, is that that's what teams
are preparing to do. They're preparing themselves to be able
to draft a quarterback and down your draft. I would
not be shocked at all if the Jets to have
what the number two pick. Yeah, if they don't trade

(10:35):
back with someone who sees something in ty Simpson, if
they go that route and try to get out accumulate
more picks and then build up for what will be
that quarterback in next year's draft. Now, could they could
take ty Simpson as well and allow this year to
be a year where you know, Smith starts, ty Simpson
sits and learns. He doesn't have a ton of starting

(10:56):
experience at the college level. But it would be my
guest if they could straight out of it. They will,
or they would look at taking best player available. But again,
this is not a very highly touted draft in either
way for quarterbacks or for top end talent. I mean again,
we're looking at what I believe to be maybe a
historic draft class next year. Pete says five quarterbacks. Also,

(11:17):
you know, I'd say six, but not even that. I
think about guys like Jeremiah Smith who're gonna be coming
out too as a wide receiver. You're gonna plug in
right away as your number one wide receiver to throw to.
Ryan Williams out of Alabama, another absolute Blazer who's gonna
be talked about as part of that crew too. So
it's an extremely talented class all the way around, not

(11:41):
just a quarterback. And there are a lot of teams
setting themselves up to be able to get some of
those prize pieces in that draft. So if you look
at what the Raiders are this year and Genus just
started playing games for them, you know, maybe there's a
thought too of like, hey, he's gonna be a guy
who could manage a lot of the adversity, keep us
competitive games. Maybe we could win. But at the end

(12:01):
of the day, we're still gonna be able to get
through what could be a very adverse season with where
our rosters at, where our team's at, or this organization
right now, and look to make more of a reset
and twenty twice seven.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
And also, if you think about it, because you mentioned
they've got the number two pick, they've also got the
number sixteen pick because that was part of the Sauce
Gardner trade when they traded him to Indianapolis. And so
that's that could be a spot to where if ty
Simpson is sitting there, teams could also want to trade
up and maybe feel like that's maybe a more appropriate
place to want to take him if they value him

(12:33):
more so at a sixteen as opposed to number two overall.
So they've got options, man like, trading back makes sense,
especially with the class that's coming in next year. And look,
I also when I think about Geno Smith too, because
we talked, we had a lot of conversations about, you know,
the fallout in Minnesota, letting Sam Darnold walk and then

(12:55):
seeing what happened. He goes on to win a Super
Bowl and you know what happened to I mean, I
JJ McCarthy, you call him nine whatever, get you know,
to each their own, but to see what happened there
and how that's perceived. With Sam Darnold leaving and when
his winning a super Bowl, I also look at it
and I go, man, Gino Smith was just there in Seattle,

(13:17):
like he was just there. He gets traded away, He
goes to the Raiders, They pay him what close to
sixty million dollars, give up a third round pick whatever.
The compensation was there, and it was awful. And Pete
Carroll the same, and so Gino Smith's probably looking around going,
damn man, like I like, you know, I was on

(13:37):
a potentially a super Bowl winning roster at the time.
Obviously they added a couple of pieces, you know, in
that in the next offseason. But I was on that roster.
They just won a super Bowl, and here I am
with the Raiders and we're a clown show. And so
I to the fact that he's going to be able
to get an opportunity after all that's happened in the
past year, and it's going to be going all the

(13:58):
way back to New York and getting that chance to start,
you know with some with you know, some talent there.
You got your Garrett Wilson the Breees halls you've mentioned.
I just, yeah, I look at it, I go I
feel good for Gino Smith. My hopes aren't that high
because the Jets, but at least he's going to get
another shot and another chance to start, and who knows
how many more of these he's going to get.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
In his career.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, and again a different player, now, much more matured player,
knows how to handle. At first, I thought he handled
a lot of the adversity last season. You know, people
tend to forget. They fired their office to Cordner midyear,
and I think Chip Kelly got a lot of blame
for what was going on. However, you know, when you
start reading more of the reports that came out from
Las Vegas, I mean, it was a clown show behind

(14:39):
the scenes in regards to how they were trying to
prepare for stuff. I mean, whether it's the old line
room and the blocking schemes and John Spytech down there
breaking down film with some of the old linemen because
they didn't feel like they were prepared. With Pete Carroll's
sons like kind of helping out on the staff coaching,
there's a lot of things going on there. He weathered
the storm. I mean, he really did. You know a
lot of stuff did this surface until it became more apparent,

(15:03):
you know, how things were being orchestraed on the coaching
staff with the firing of Chim Kelly. So again you're
bringing in a guy who is going to be the
face the franchise, at least initially as the quarterback, as
their starter again. And he's handled the New York media
before and he'll be able to handle it again. And
he'll be able to handle again some adversity that could
come from a team that stuggled to win games last

(15:26):
year and probably will struggle to again win games this year.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, I just hold, for Geno's sake that I can.
And Paulie is not anywhere near the building.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
You know, I knew this would come up. Well at
some point, I knew it would. You couldn't help yourself.
What I mean, isn't he busy? What's he busy doing
right now?

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
I mean, I just I mean, well, because for those
that aren't familiar Gino Smith.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
I think you need to touch on the ik And and
Pauli story.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Okay, well, so the reason I can in Pauli's name
is being brought up is because apparently there's a dispute
over money that was owed to him from Geno Smith.
There was a skirmish in the locker room, and the
report was that I Can and Polly punched Ginosmith and
broke his jaw. Now you hear that, you go, wow,
that's salacious enough, and then we go, oh but no,

(16:11):
but wait, there's more. When it comes to I Can
and Polly who back in I believe twenty fifteen, he
was arrested. There was police called because there was an
issue that he had. He was going to meet up
with a woman to consummate a plan of attack of

(16:31):
a sexual nature.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
We'll put it that way.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
He was going to meet up and get some stuff
done with a lucky lady that he met online who
I believe's name was Missy Lee. So he meets up,
he goes to this residence. He goes in the side
door and when he's there, he sees Missy Lee with
a blanket over her head, and for whatever reason, she
won't remove the blanket, and he thinks it's a little weird,

(16:56):
so he gets frustrated.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
He just leaves.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Missy Lee texts Can and paul In says, come back in.
I can, and Poullie comes back in. Missy Lee's phone
lights up under the blanket and I can't, and Paulie
sees that missy Lee's got facial hair, then sees another
individual walk in the room. You know, no, no, we

(17:22):
don't have it confer whether or not it was the
gimp from pulp fiction who actually the real guy just
passed away last week. Thought some prayers, but I can't,
and Polly punched missy Lee, who turns out name was
probably Mike with a full blown beard under the blanket
as the phone lights up and there was an arrest,

(17:42):
teeth were knocked out, All sorts of stuff happened there.
So that is one of the all time great catfish stories.
Just imagine walking into somebody's house one time, they sell
you on coming back in again, and then you figure
out who they really are because the phone lights up
under the blanket and they've got to go tea.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's terrifying.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
So Raita, I hope you never put yourself in that situation.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Colrada, you better shave. That's enough, Oh man, Yeah, so
that's uh. But again, ginosmiths back, everybody he is back
and he is now a New York Jet again, so
we were often running with the Jets in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3 (20:39):
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Speaker 4 (21:01):
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Speaker 3 (21:37):
Just incredible stuff.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Did somebody explain to me what the hell was going
on with that game? Like, why are they sally bam
out of Bio? Is that just so you could go
past Toby's point total? Is that what this is about.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Oh that's correct. Yeah, yeah, that's correct. Yeah you got yeah,
you saw that. Yeah correct, Yeah, that's exactly what it was.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
So the NBA has reached the point now where we're
trying to help other players just break records. I mean,
I guess that's that's why Lebron still playing. That is
that a case?

Speaker 6 (22:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:05):
I mean, listen, that's why I said it's a Papa shot.
When you play Papa shot, there gets to a point
to where you get an extra point the final ten seconds,
so like, and then everything becomes a three and the
rim starts moving from left to right, and they may
as well just do that, like if if we're going
to go all the way with this gimmicky garbage. And look,
it's not to say he didn't have a great game,

(22:26):
but I hope that people historically remember the game for
what really happened. You had players intentionally fouling so the
guy could go get more points at the line. Again,
incredible game, a really really good player. Was probably really
fun for he fans that were in attendance. All of

(22:48):
that is nice, but dude, they the whole thing felt
rinky dink based on the fact that they were manipulating
the game so that he could tack on points like
how's there?

Speaker 3 (22:59):
How are hos anybody okay with this?

Speaker 5 (23:02):
When would this ever happen in the nineties? What would
this ever happen in two thousands? Like what would this
have happened under David Stern in in all.

Speaker 4 (23:12):
Seriousness, like it wouldn't It wouldn't have happened. I was
Ben Maller and I were joking. We were talking about,
you know, in the nineties, it wouldn't have happened because
you either would have had some guy who's hung over
from the night before or some random white guy who's
seven to one from you know, some some semi pro

(23:35):
league in Lithuania who would have just taken somebody out
at the knees, like he would have been brought in
to use his six fouls to make a point that
you're not going to have that happen against us.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's how that would have worked.

Speaker 6 (23:47):
Well.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
The mentality of the league was just different. You know,
guys weren't friends, Guys weren't trying to team up. You know,
guys are trying to win championships, and they were cutthroat
about it, and they were physical and the way they'd
go about playing is took pride and defense. They took
pride in not allowing guys to do something like that,
and that's unfortunately where we've gotten to now with the NBA.

(24:09):
It's why it makes it such a hard product to
watch that we're just promoting a guy where both teams
are trying to help them beat a record. I mean,
what are we doing here?

Speaker 4 (24:21):
I would also say, if you're the NBA and you're
so worried about everything being on the up and up
from a gambling standpoint, if I was a gambler, if
I was a sports book, I'd be looking at that going,
really that that's so so now everybody's in on it.
So is this you versus them? Or is it hey,

(24:42):
let's all be a part of history. That's and I
know that they're you know, nobody's gonna take that approach
because maybe you know it didn't impact the betting line,
but still the fact that that's allowed and that's going
on in a game would raise questions for me if
I if I was going to actually take that sport
serious and feel like, you know, at least I'm betting
on something that's on the up and up if they're

(25:03):
going to roll that out so some guy can get
a record, A.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Lot we're looking at too. But even more than that,
you know, where does the NBA players Union step in
and just try to protect I mean one of the
things that when you have a union, and obviously everyone's
talking about like cbas and work conditions, but it's also
about preserving the legacy of the guys before you. And
at no point to the other players around the league

(25:29):
go hey, guys, what are we doing, Like this isn't basketball,
This isn't a game that we were brought up on,
Like where we're propping up a guy or trying to
foul guy in the final moments just so you can
help break a record. I mean, it's ridiculous. At some point,
like the league needs to turn this thing over to
some players who remember how the game is supposed to

(25:50):
be played and what it's supposed to represent. I mean
that might be entertaining from Miami fans or there in
attendance or fans you get like a free taco or something.
He scores a certain amount of points, a certain amount
free throws, but you know, watching the end of it,
it wasn't even an entertaining game to watch, just because
of all the back and forth. I mean, it was honestly,

(26:13):
I was watching like a disbelief of what the sport
has become. And I feel like with the NHL will
all the momentum off of the Olympics, with the way
baseball has made some subtle changes, and you see the
impact obviously the the you know, the World Baseball Classic
right now. I just I feel like the NBA has

(26:35):
tried to pride itself and it's kind of you know,
the Christmas Day Game. Everything else. The NFL has taken
that away. If they're not careful, people will continue to
care less and less about that sport and it will
get surpassed by some of the others that have been
beneath it for a while because they're not. And this
is a large, large part to do with Adam Silver too.

(26:55):
He's not doing anything to guard the sanctity of the
actual game. It'slf instead of just letting anything happen. And
that was evidence of that last night.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
And the problem is is that you'll get you'll get
people who want to defend the sport and the league
and and go all the way.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
And I get it.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
There's you know, TV partners and ESPNS involved, there's a
lot of people involved. But but they'll just they'll call
us haters, like they'll say, you're a hater, You're just trying.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
To be a downer. All you guys are.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Doing is propping up football, when the reality is, nobody's
been more honest about awful football games that we've watched
over the past couple of years NFL college football than
this show.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
We'll tell you the game sucks.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
They were.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
In fact, that was one of the one of the
great moments of the show. Getting to come in every
Monday after Penn State defecated all over themselves in another
game that was great, that was.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Fun for us, started off as a number two team
and an example of that.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
That was just a wonderful time to exist on this
show every Monday morning, having to deal with that. But
I just, yeah, I don't know how you watch that
and you're just okay with it.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
I really don't. I don't. That seems a little weird.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
And I'd say this, like, I love the game of basket.
I grew up playing basketball, you know, and my daughters
now my kids are all well, all play basketball. I
actually feel like it is the best sport, the most
fundamental sport to teach kids at a young age that
will help every other sport they play. So like, this
doesn't come from any sort of mean spiritedness. This comes
from like, look at the ratings, look at the downward

(28:39):
trend of what's happening to that sport and why, I mean,
what we love is when we watch competition. You know,
one of the reasons why whether you're a hockey fan
or not. And you could say, well, I'm patriarch and
that's why I've watched, you know, the the Olympics, and
I watched you know, the men's hockey win and the
women's hockey win. That's it was about that. It's like, no,

(29:01):
it's not. It was because there was a competitive game,
Like anyone who watched that was like, man, it feels
kind of like David versus good Lias. We went to
overtime three B three and you're watching the three best
hockey players in the world for Canada and they couldn't
figure out how to get a goal and instead the
United States did. Like that's one of those all time

(29:22):
incredible stories. What story is that being told right now
in the NBA? I mean, Lebron and how long he's
playing into this at this point, but basically just playing offense,
not really playing any defense. I mean, like a team
propping up a guy just to beat Kobe's old point,
you know, total.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
And also, like Charles Barkley is one of the most
brutally honest insiders you'll ever see. There's no He'll just
call it as he sees it, and that's why he's
so great. And Charles Barkley openly admits he prefers the
NHL playoffs over the NBA, and he's not, and he
covers the sport. They've got video of him watching hockey

(30:02):
games during the NBA games that he's covering on.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Set like that, I'll tell you everything you need to know,
Like it's right.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
There'll he'll tell you, like, yeah, I prefer this product
over the other one.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
It's just yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
That was I see the eighty three, and I'm thinking
of myself and the first, you know, and here's the problem.
I see the eighty three and the first thing I
thought of was how many free throws? Because when Kobe
got his eighty one, I think he had twenty free throws.
I think it was something around that number. And I
go and I check, and there's forty three free throw attempts.

(30:38):
The Wizards as a team, I think had twenty seven?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (30:43):
And well beyond that, the game wasn't really that close
at them and thinking why are they fouling him? You're like,
what are the is this really about? Just trying to
get him back in the freequim Wine score with very
little time lights to surpass it. I mean, it also
leads to think, is it just guys love at a
bio that much? Did they dislike Kobe that much? I mean,

(31:05):
like I would imagine there's some players who idolized Kobe
and would want to protect that in a manner. You
know what I'm saying, Like, there's guys who feel that
where were like, I'm not going to let him, you know,
take Kobe's record, or I'm not going to let him
take you know, this away from Kobe's legacy. Well, yet
apparently that's not the mentality of the league anymore.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Let me ask you this, if Kobe Bryant was in
BAM shoes last night, do you think he would have
been okay with people fouling intentionally?

Speaker 3 (31:30):
So he hell, he'd be paid well he'd.

Speaker 5 (31:33):
Be paid, by the way, it would have never happened
that way anyway. You know, he wasn't gonna be taking
all his shots to your point at the free throw line.
He was going to be making sure he was taking
shots out on the court.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
So, but hey, congratulations. So there's that. Congratulations to Bam
out of Bio now second all time in points in
a game in NBA history, next to Will Chamberlain and
just ahead of a Kobe Bryant at eighty three.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
So there's that.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
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And one of those tradition every Wednesday at the top
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Speaker 6 (33:18):
Good morning, Good morning everybody. How's it going.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Oh, it's going baby, it's on Petros.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
Oh it sounds like it. I heard about this. What
what is? What's the deal? Guys?

Speaker 5 (33:32):
We're having some technical difficulties here. We just got to
get through today and we'll be we'll be in the
clear the next couple of days.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
Yeah, are you in uh Ohio like this.

Speaker 5 (33:44):
I'm home. I'm home, but some technical difficulties from home.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
So all right, wow, all right, well I appreciate and
and uh, I appreciate and I salute your efforts to
uh to create normalcy the radio given the situation. How
are you, Jonas?

Speaker 3 (34:04):
We're good.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
I'm looking forward tomorrow. Petris and I are going to
be working together tomorrow and Friday.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
I'm jealous.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
I'm jealous.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
You know he doesn't. I mean, I realized that'll live
out there, so you can't ask me to come in
studio with him. But I may just fly out to
deal one of these days.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
Well, you're welcome to if you want. Friday. I'll probably
be tired of Jonas by that. I'm just kidding, of course,
just joshing, of course.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, we were kicking around what happened in the NBA
last night?

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Yeah, yeah, but I want to ask you, are you
like on a phone?

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yeah, I'm si a cell phone. That's that's We're at
the last resort here of our technical capabilities.

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Yeah, that is that is how I would put that.
That is well put.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Hey, you know some uh, some hosts on this network
have done full shows when there was other options on
the cell phone.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
So there is you know there really well you know.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
Sounds like gottlieb oh no oh no, oh no, hey,
I heard you, miss class. Well, anyway about this Lebron thing.
You're right, though, that is the last resort. I mean,
I remember being on a phone being like, oh my god,

(35:21):
Rudy Gobert threw up on the court and COVID's happening
and we're all gonna die.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
It wasn't it wasn't a pandemic that cost us. But
let's just say.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
We're here, all right, all right? Did one of your
kids spill like gatorade or something on your comrades, like
what happened?

Speaker 5 (35:40):
My assumption is my one year old just ripped a
port of power corps that has left me powerless for
my combat unit. That is my assumption. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Wow, that's a rough ticket. And what's up with LeVar?

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Well? That thought good question.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yeah, he's uh, you got took some time off hanging
out with the kids. They're back from college, so family time. Okay,
but we'll just say it's a PD suspension.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
We'll keep it honest.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
Yeah, well, you like to say he pissed hot?

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Yeah, he's on the gas.

Speaker 6 (36:12):
All right. Well, I'm here and you guys want to
talk about the NBA. I did not watch a lot
of the NBA last night. I know the Lakers came
back to beat the te Wolves, which is impressive. That's there.
What third straight win without Lebron. They look like the
team they were when the season started and Lebron was

(36:35):
lying to everybody about having sciatica and taking some time off.
And because of that, these guys got a taste of
playing together. Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves and even that
very disinterested most of the time. DeAndre Ayton was into it.
And they came back and won the game. So that

(36:56):
was one thing that happened. So there'll be plenty of
debate shows about Lebron and disrespecting Lebron and all these
stupid things. And then we had the guys score eighty three,
but almost half of it for Bam was free throws, right,
Forty free throws.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, forty three attempts.

Speaker 6 (37:15):
Yeah, that's hardcore. That's a lot of free throws to
get to eighty three, right, I mean that's I mean,
good for him, and congratulations and what a great moment.
But I think we can all agree that the NBA
has changed so much. A lot of these stats in
this weird stat era are I don't know, they feel

(37:35):
a little more empty. Maybe we all were gas lighted
into thinking the NBA was so great in the nineties
when it wasn't just because of the John Tesh song.
But one way or another, I mean, for me, that
was really the kicker, But one way or another, it
was a big night in the NBA. And there'll be
a lot of debate. They'll be debate about disrespecting Kobe

(37:55):
and his big, big night, and then they'll be debate
about Bam and whether or not it was legit. There'll
be debate about Lebron and if the Lakers are better
off without them, which they undoubtedly are, And there will
be debate about whether or not any of us should

(38:16):
care because Italy beat the United States last night.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
The Greeks could ever do that? Could they?

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Well, I don't know. I mean, you could put together
a Greek baseball.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Team, Marqukus Mustakus, who yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Can put together a Greek baseball team and just find
guys that are half Greek. Grew up in Clearwater, Florida,
different things like that. But but I don't know. The
World Baseball Classics interesting, it's kind of a built It's
sort of a built up event, which I guess anything

(38:53):
is when it started, and I remember going to World
Baseball Classics and Anaheim Stadium. I'm wearing my outfit, like
my American outfit versus Mexico and trying to root and
being excited about it and sort of faking it. He
kind of feels like a like a ratings grab for

(39:13):
the MLB. But the fans love it. I mean, you
got people in the crowd freaking out, having a great time.
You have the espresso machine, you have the guys doing
the Italian fingers at each other, and you guys, I mean,
it's not really in your wheelhouse, Brady, because you're a
national broadcaster. But the guy who runs Team Italy, do

(39:34):
you know who that is? I do not, Okay, the
guy who runs Team Italy used to be the GM
of the Dodgers, and he's a very public GM.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Did a lot of meat is running the team. I
forget ed.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
Kaletti is the GM of the the Italy team, and
right now his sausage is swollen, by the way, is awesome.
He great. I mean, you know, back take the.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
We go back to the qualifications, to what determines if
you're Italian then you're playing on this steam away. I
mean these aren't like natural born you know, Italians that
moved the States, like like what is the qualified?

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Well, no, that's why it's kind of a manufactured event,
you know what I mean. That's why it's a little
bit of your name.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
You get to play on the Italy team that.

Speaker 6 (40:28):
Yeah, Lorenzen not quite there, but he's he's pitching to night. Uh.
It's uh, it's fun, it's interesting, but I do think
it's a little bit of a manufactured event. One of
the funny things is what you can did you guys
see this story? What you can bring into the World
Baseball Classic?

Speaker 3 (40:48):
No, can you bring your own stuff in?

Speaker 6 (40:50):
Yeah? Dude, The list of what you can bring in
is amazing. Uh, it is really uh uh let me
find it, because like you can bring in like every
obscure Latin instrument that ever was, but you can't bring
in like normal white guy fan stuff, so.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Like az you could bring in.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
No, here's the list of what you can bring in.
Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (41:18):
A FUCA, which is like one of those like cylinders
with a handle and you go, you know like that, right, bongos.
You can bring a boulador, which is a giant Puerto
Rican drum for bomba music. You can bring clavest Do

(41:39):
you know what claves are? Those are the two sticks.
So basically you can bring like you know, like nuonchoks.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
Basically next time we here to kinsinta just grab away and.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
Not even halfway. Congos you can bring. You can bring
a cow bell, but not the one with the with
the penis in the middle, you know what I mean,
the ones that will at Mississippi State, right, you have
to bang the cow bell with a stick, not the

(42:14):
one with the little thing in the middle that you
just wag around. A ghita, which is another like cheese
greater type of instrument, sort of like the washboard of
the bluegrass world. A gito which is a gourd which
grooves that you hit a stick on. Like you know,

(42:37):
you can bring moroccas. You can bring matrakas. Do you
know what that is? No, it's like a big wooden
ratchet noisemaker. Oh yeah, I know that you can bring this.
You can bring three different kinds of tambourines. You can
bring a tambora, which is a drum. You can bring
a giant Indian guitar a citar. Is it a citar? No,

(43:03):
it's called a tampoota, but an India would be called
a sitar, similar shape. You can bring a trumpet, and
you can bring a trombone, just in case of fat
guy falls down? Are you ready for what? You can't
bring a horn, hair horn. You cannot bring a bullhorn.

(43:28):
You cannot bring clappers like the hands that clap that
you flap around. You cannot bring a kazoo. You can
bring a trumpet, but not a kazoo. You can you
can't bring thundersticks. You can't bring pots and pans sorry
jonas and no vouzella and no whistle and that's the book.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Oh man, Well look I mean they're trying, man, I mean.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Amazing, right, I mean that's an amazing list.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
What is the debate between a kazoo and a trumpet?

Speaker 6 (44:08):
I think what they're looking for is like a band,
if you have it, like any old idiot can bring
a kazoo, But if you have a trumpet, you know,
it's assuming you know how to play.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
That, right, you're a professional right.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
So you know they want like a Latin makeshift band
in the crowd.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
We just talking about Jonah's wedding.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
Oh yeah, wedding yea, And it sounds a lot like
we got we got married during COVID. They kept the deposit,
so maybe they're maybe they can finally.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
To do their job six years later.

Speaker 6 (44:40):
Jeez, it's fortunate. Well anyway, that's the rules for the
World Baseball Classic. And now after all that, the Team
USA is going down. That's so they're going I don't
understand the tie breaker, but very few do.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Yeah, it's basically you need Italy to win out right
if you're the US, or you need Mexico to not
score a lot of runs and win.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Like It's just it feels like it could have been done.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
It also doesn't helpen your manager Mark de Rosa, I
don't know if that's an Italian name, but that's also
confusing when Mark de Rosa doesn't know that the US
hadn't already clinched into the next round and basically alludes
to the fact that the players got banged up after
the Mexico win and so they were dragging ass yesterday.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
It's probably also not a great look.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
You know, it sounds like a taliant spy. I mean,
how do we know they didn't plan one? And as
our manager, you know.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
I don't know. I thought Italian Italy was friendly with
that angry Georgia Meloney. Their prime minister didn't. I don't
even know if Italy knows this is happening because all
the players are American guys. But I'm not surprised that
nobody knows the rules. And I'm not surprised. I guess
the guys on D Day didn't get beat up by

(45:50):
Mexico in day one. Right, Well we're dragging ass day two. Sorry,
we can't take the area is Italian.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
They're usually having an Italian horn on and they're killing
them one about it, you know, like that's I get
a buddy. I'm not gonna dave names here Italian last name,
but I'm more Italian than he is. He's basically Irish,
but you would never know that base on his persona.

Speaker 6 (46:11):
I thought, yeah, we have David Vassa, who really leans
into the Italian thing. But he doesn't like the World
Baseball Classic because he works with the Dodgers. So the
one thing I just keep thinking about Brady is when
this show's over, you're just gonna like hit hit the
hang up button on your phone.

Speaker 5 (46:32):
I mean, it would be no different than me just
powering down the comra.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
It's just, you know, I don't know, it's just kind
of funny to me, like, Okay, I'm gonna hang up
my phone. Now.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Hey, you know what thought at least he's here, he's
battling through.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
You know, there's something you know that.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
You're absolutely right. A lot of guys would just be
like that lady in the com Mine a couple of
years ago on that radio show with Chicago, she had
a little echo and she just said f this and
threw her headset off. Remember that I did.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
Want on the bam on a bio eighty stupid.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
I mean, the guy averages eighteen a game and he
ends up scoring eighty three.

Speaker 4 (47:09):
It's, by the way, he scored so many points last night.
His average is up to twenty. I was curious about that.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
So hear what Craig Cartin wrote about it. No, he wrote,
the Miami Heat versus Washington Wizards game is a disgrace
to basketball. Miami up twenty six and fouling Washington as
soon as the ball is inbounded, missing free throws on
purpose to get Bam more shots and points is pathetic.
The Wizards are triple teaming Bam full court trying to

(47:34):
prevent him from scoring eighty three, which he now did.
He has taken over forty free throws at over forty shots.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
Total s show at NBA.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
It's also for the league that is so worried about
everything being on the up and up because of gambling,
and you've got these charades going on where teams are
in it together to get a guy a point total.
It's just the whole thing's awful. And then Steve Kerr
comes out and he's talking about how to improve the
league is by doing ten less games. At this point,

(48:06):
there's some people that just want eighty two less games,
and I just it's not anywhere close to what it was.

Speaker 6 (48:13):
Yeah, the player empowerment era has kind of gone out
of control, which is weird. I mean, you want the
people that deserve the money to be playing between the lines.
And obviously basketball players are very elite and very special
athletes and some of the best looking and most impressive
athletes in the world. I'm not saying they're the toughest,

(48:35):
but they are really graceful, and the propioception of knowing
where your limbs are when you're moving around, and not
only do they go up and down the court, but
they go up and down like pogo sticks, which is
what's really hard, jumping high and then jumping high again
the second time. That kind of stuff is really impressive,
and people don't concentrate on it. And there is something

(48:57):
to the fact that athletes are or fine tune now
and they go up and down a little faster, and
everything is a little bit more optimized than it was
from our era. But I think now that you kind
of take a longer view of it and look at
today's NBA from the mean mister Mustard outfit that Shay

(49:20):
Gilges Alexander wore the other night to eighty three points
for Bam of all people last night, and just Lebron
hanging on for dear life, fingertips, holding on to the
cracks and the foundation of him as a Laker, all
of it just you know, you figure that even though

(49:42):
maybe it's optimized and everybody's making more money, it's not
better than it was. I mean, it's probably the same
thing as college football right now. I'm not for players
not getting paid and I'm not for the weird, crooked
system that we grew up playing under, although I don't
think it was that bad when in retrospect, but I

(50:05):
mean it was almost better when when college football was done,
everything was done under the table, right like we almost
had we almost had a little bit more of an
understanding of the sport and we almost had a better
handle on how to cover it when everything that was
being done illegal was being done behind the scenes. And

(50:26):
now that everything is above board and everything is it's
kind of like Las Vegas right at the end of
that movie Casino where they say, hey, Vegas was better
when the mob ran it. You know, now that it's
all corporate and it's all you know, there's no there's
no intimacy anymore, there's no pride anymore, there's no I mean,
these are all interesting things. Like there's a lot of

(50:47):
great things that have come with with modern sports or
contemporary NBA and college football and the different things we watch,
even even the NFL. But there's a lot of stuff
when you look at it compared to the way it
used to be that is not as cool, and the
way that that guy got to eighty three last night
is probably one of those things. And the way people

(51:10):
dress in the tunnel is the other.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
Well, put petriss I want to go back to the
World Baseball Classic and just and I noticed you were
you wanted more celebration from the walk off homer by
Puerto Rico.

Speaker 6 (51:26):
Yeah, I didn't see enough. I didn't see enough emotion.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
Could you describe for our listeners what exactly that that
walk off home look like?

Speaker 6 (51:37):
I mean, it looked like a choreographed party in a
different country. It was awesome, you know, I mean, it
was absolutely great. I don't know how you just stand
there and wear that in the chest if you're Nicaragua.
I mean, I think if it wasn't the American team,
there might have been a fistfight if they cared enough.
But it's fun to watch people get emotional. It's fun
to watch people freak out. You know, it's really interesting. Brady.

(52:01):
In today's day and age, if you build a stadium now,
it's not all like this. We have great things in community.
We have you know, the wave to the kids in
the hospital at Kinnick. Yeah, at Florida, they sing I
won't back down between the third and fourth quarter, the
enter Sandman stuff in Blacksburg. I mean, there's a lot
of stuff that is cool, But when you build a

(52:23):
new stadium today, what are the one thing they're trying
to build all the time? Sweets? Sweets and partitioned off areas.
And you watch the World Baseball Classic and the World
Cup is coming to la and coming to the United
States North America soon, and I mean there's a real
thing about being in community. It's not really our deal

(52:45):
because we're sportscasters and we don't, you know, drink before
the games and drink during the games and hang out afterwards.
What we're doing is working. But standing with other people
in a game and watching stuff is not as American
that used to be. You know, we want to sit
in a suite next to Ice Spice and Taylor Swift,
like that's what we want to do, you know, Or

(53:08):
like you're Kendall Jenner dancing along to Bad Bunny who
you used to date, and Lewis Hamilton sitting in front
of you, who you also used to date with your
big fat cow sister Kim who he's dating now. You know,
Like that's like the that's become the American the elite
American sports experiences watching from a suite or watching yeah,

(53:31):
there she is, or watching the Armenian Cow, or watching
she needs to be milked. Brow us your problem, bro,
You talk about Kim in such way. So I do
think it's kind of sad that we don't stand together
and watch sports in the same way in America like
a lot of these people do because obviously they're having

(53:52):
the time of their lives like Sergio dipp and we
on the other hand, are just like, hey, I look
at Ice, Spice, look at that. You know it's not
I mean, and I know that people most a lot
of people do still have that experience, but it.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
Feels like, is that because is this because we've made
it a for TV product? Like I always feel like
that TV networks battle between trying to make the atmosphere
out of venue look incredible to be at, Like when
you're home, you're like, God, I wish I could go
to that. However, then when you go, it's like, well, now,

(54:26):
like for example, halftime show, you brought up that bunny.
People who were there in attendants are like, yeah, it
was awful because the audio is actually just everything's piped
in for TV not for the people who are actually
there in attendance.

Speaker 6 (54:37):
You know, you're right about that. Halftime shows have just
become a steady cam following a guy around in a maze, right, But.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
Is that part of its like we're so keen on
making the product good for TV, we forgot about the
people who actually go there in person.

Speaker 6 (54:51):
Well, I think that's a great point. But and you
do the big noon show, so you would know. I mean,
it's not like you guys are looking for a game
that doesn't have anybody that's air, you know, I mean,
I mean you guys. I mean that's part of the
experience of having a great TV product is having a
great crowd to show. I mean, when something bad happens
to the home team, you immediately have a director trying

(55:13):
to find a guy doing the surrender Cobra in the crowd, right,
or people excited in the crowd, or people dejected in
the crowd. I mean, the crowd is such a huge
part of the production. But you're right, I mean, it
isn't made for TV product, and that's how they're making
the money. But it's a very difficult balance because every

(55:34):
time there's a big crowd at any sporting event that's
into it. It makes the event better on TV, at
the event, for the players, everybody involved. So it's a
very interesting thing. But I think when we have the
World Cup and the World Baseball Classic and we get
to see other people celebrating from other countries, singing songs,

(55:56):
being together, sharing their culture, it makes me a little
bit more ashamed of Taylor Swift and Ice Spice if
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
I mean, look, uh, it's like every weekend with the
in Laws minus a bounce house.

Speaker 6 (56:10):
I mean, I like Eye Spice as big ass as
much as everybody else. Yeah you know, I mean I
also like people singing songs and banging their.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Choclass little little culture.

Speaker 6 (56:19):
You know, are you trying to bring in two little
baseball bats? That's illegal? Certain, No, these are choklass. I'm
a musician, that's right.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
Where do I put my trombone?

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Petros?

Speaker 6 (56:32):
I guess if they figure if you have a trombone,
you know, like you better know you probably know how
to play very professional.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
Petro's always fun looking forward to tomorrow and Friday and
we will do it to get here on this show.

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a desire to try to listen uh to the just
to hear what the show's going to be like in
the next two segments.

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That's right, that's what makes you never know.

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Crap that phone.

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