Monse Bolaños & Kerry Rhodes Talk NBA Playoff Madness, Juan Soto's Controversial Comments & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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We've been in touch today, you know, getting our rundown together.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Like, oh, we knew it was gonna be basketball heavy.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We knew that we're big, we love hoops, and we're
happy to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
And as I was putting the rundown together, you know.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Okase is literally just crushing the Grizzlies, and I didn't
have them to start the show off. I actually was
gonna talk about it LA Team Shocker, right course of course.
And then I was like, I am the problem. It's me,
I'm the problem. Yes, for not taking OKAC seriously. I
didn't even want to put them at the top of
our show, even though they just had a fifty one

(01:13):
point blowout against the Grizzlies, and I watching that game,
it was so many things went through my mind. It was, Okay,
maybe OKAYC does need to be taking a little bit
more seriously. Not that I don't think they're good, but
I do give a lot of a lot of a
lot more credit to experience. If you've been there, I

(01:34):
give you a lot of credit. I think that's a
big deal, right, Yes, So with OKAC, I think that's
the one thing that's like holding me back. A bunch
of young guys who love to hoop. I love their brotherhood.
Like all of their interviews, it's always all about together,
all together. I love the relationship that they have. But yeah,
I'm gonna give the edge to a team like the
Nuggets who has been there, even though they're kind of
like a wounded animal who just fired their coach. Yeah,

(01:56):
but I'm gonna give them the edge because they've been
there before. I'm gonna give the Warriors the they've been
there before, they know what they're doing. So with Okay Seed,
that has been the whole thing with me. Why I'm
not just like, yep, it's Okaysey's conference to win, you know.
But today they come out against a team, a good
Grizzlies team that's put up good fights in this plane,
trying to survive and get in there. Obviously a bit

(02:19):
of an up and down season when he comes to
the Grizzlies and Jahwick as a man, our friend, Calvin
Washington's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's so I can't say credit for a jaw where
it comes from Calvin Washington, Ja Moran and all. So
they're up and down season, but we know that they're
they're a talented team. And yet they came out and
I was like, is this who is this?

Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah? No, no, I'm with you. It was one of those
things where I thought it was going to be well,
it's not a thought, but the whole thing res versus
rust and so I pick. I mean, Okay, so he's
gonna win the series. I knew that coming into it,
but I was like, this first game is gonna be interesting.
That was my thought, Like myth has just had a
nice little play in win against the Marapicks, and you know,

(03:02):
they played so they're kind of in that mode of
survival battle which OKC hasn't been in for a long
time the whole season, right, So I'm like, oh, this
would be a close game. I didn't know who would
win this first one. It was like a toss up
in my mind. Yeah, first first five minutes, I was like,
this game's over.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's over.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
They scored enough points this game for this whole series
to be over. They should just canceled the whole series. Now.
That was my take coming in here today. I was like, okay,
fifty one, Yeah, it's enough to just cancel the series.
I wish for the first time in NBA history they
canceled a series after Game one. That was my that
was my thinking.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
It's like, we saw enough. And even after the game,
you know, I'm telling you, they're talking to me after
the game. Chut Holmgren, who was a double double helped
with their win today because shake Gil just Alexander not
so hot today. But this is what Chut Holmgren had
to say after the game.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
At the end of the day, we.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Can't control what people say, what narratives y'all come up
with that's your job. Our job is to focus on
what we can focus on, go out there and play.
And you know that's what we did all week to
pres for this. And you know it's not done. We
got to get back in the lab tomorrow, figure out
how we can be better, be better, and then come
out and do it again.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
The crazy thing about that clip, and I think what
kind of encapsulates this this playoff run for everybody, is
the disrespect for the top seeds in both in both conferences.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yes, absolutely, this may be the.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
First year where the two number one seeds people still
have question marks about and are doubting. And I can
see it from the Cleveland perspective. They you know, they
had talent, they were there last year, but they kind
of underwhelm us. Okay, see, then underwhelm us. They lost
to a better team last year in the Mavericks, right,
and they have playoff experience, even though we say they don't,

(04:42):
they do. It's not a lot, but they were just
in it last year with this same squad and they've upgraded,
so they should be the favorite.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
They should and the disrespect again not just to the
Calves to Okay, see as Chet Holmgren said, we can't
control the narrative, and he's talking about how nobody is
taking them seriously, like how I'm over here putting a
rundown together and I don't have them at the top
of the list, even though they just put on a
show to tell us we are the real deal. You
may not think we have the experience to win an

(05:13):
NBA title, but we actually do. And I think the
fact that shay Gil just Alexander had a very mid
performance is even more of the story. Like the Grizzlies
were bad. I don't know how you bounce back from this,
even though Jon Moran says, will never play that badly again? Well,
the I mean, I hope so forty, but I hope

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you never play that bad again. That's an hot dake there, jaw.
And so they're being disrespected like the Cleveland, like the Cleveland.
I was gonna say Guardians, but that's because baseball's going
on to and also Boston, and Boston is also in
a sense I say disrespect in the sense that people
aren't talking about them, but I think it's more that
everyone it just expects them to get out of the

(05:54):
East right, Like yeah, it's like, it's not that I
don't think I think you are the best team. I
don't know. Give props right now to the Orlando Magic
for hanging in there right now with Boston in this
game one. Because the Celtics they have so many shooters,
Like when Peyton Pritchard comes off the bench, You're like, great,
can you just go back to the back?

Speaker 5 (06:10):
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I think I prefer the starting five.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, then you Peyton.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Prichard, Like, they all can shoot the ball. So it's like,
I'm not talking about the Celtics, but it's not because
I don't think they can do. It's like, no, you're
you've been there, you won. I actually think it's your
conference to Loots. And it's still though we're not talking
about them, why because are they not flashy? Just because
it's we know what we're gonna get.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Yeah, I think I think is that right? It's that
we know what we're gonna get from them. They're gonna
shoot a lot of theories. Their defense is interchangeable. They're
pretty much unbeatable when Porzingis is healthy in the middle
because of the way they switch on the perimeter. Ye
and so if they do get by you. They got
a seven foot three guy standing there waiting for you.
So I mean they're predictable and what they're gonna do usually.
I think the only way we would talk about the

(06:54):
Boston Celtics right now is if they're getting in a
scare with the with the team and then then everybody
comes out the will works and talks about Boston. But
I mean, I think for them, they are the favorite
in the East, even though they're the second seed and
what Okay, see, it's just it's just business as usual.
I mean, these guys, like you said, they love to
play and they have like an AAU vibe around their

(07:14):
team so lightly like high school college buddies, and and
they are young, and so they just go out and
play basketball. They love it and they do it really well.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
We'll get back to this Boston Orlando name because it's
not over right now. Boston is up. But a similar
trait that I think Orlando has, which is why they're
keeping up. Is this this AAU description you just said
of Okay see, they just they're hooping and they're playing
every game every second like it's very important. They're like
it does at matter if it's the first quarter. As

(07:43):
a matter, if it's the second one, I'm gonna hustle
every play. It's like they have five Russell Westbrooks out there,
which we'll talk about, you know what I'm saying, Like
it's it's hustle, my little tease. Yes, it's hustle every
single play, which is something that a lot of teams
have a hard time doing because it's very it can
be very exhausting running up and down for forty eight
minutes and switching gears.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I get all that, But with Okac, we've talked about it.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
They are annoying.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
They are can you get off me? Like I can
feel your breath on me?

Speaker 5 (08:10):
And you met a great point. No, you're right, you
had a great point because okay See and Orlando is,
in my opinion similar okay See is a better shooting
team obviously, and that's why they're who they are. But
Orlando was healthy this whole year, they wouldn't be the
seventh seed. And so that's why it's a little scary
sometimes when you get these matchups like this, and even
with Memphis, you thought they were the number two seed.

(08:32):
Every team that can play and they can play, and
you fall to the A seed and play the one seed.
That's the recipe for you know, for an upset, right,
and that's what Orlando does. Orlando and ok See is similar.
They have young players that have you know, in Orlando
Paolo Ben Carrol, you have Franz Wagner. Okay See, you
have chet Holk Them, you have Shade Gilders Alexander, you

(08:52):
have those two like cornerstone pieces. I mean, when Orlando
gets healthy and they get a few more shooters around,
they're gonna be a problem. They're young and they played
just like okay See. As far as the tenacity to right.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Exactly, I'm glad we're on the same page on that.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
One of the things that I don't want to do
because it's only day one really of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I don't want to I don't want to overreact.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
I don't write.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
But it's natural.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
So with this OKAYC game, you literally just said wrap
it up, like Grizzlies are done. So you don't think
there are any adjustments that can be made by the
Grizzies because like John Morant was was not great, and
neither was Jaron Jackson. Jaron Jackson Junior was two of thirteen.
Like I can't expect him to do that again. I
can't expect John Morant too well, can we six of seventeen?

(09:36):
I mean, I guess we can check that. What we
can I guess I guess we can't.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
There's no way that they come out this flat.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Again, right, Yeah, I don't know if it's yeah, I mean,
not this flat. They're not going to get be about
fifty again. I don't think I would, right, you know,
you know, you never know. But I don't think that
will happen. I just don't see methods.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
What I don't think it's me.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
I think it is.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Is it as simple as discipline?

Speaker 7 (09:59):
I think so. I think so.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's like Desmond Bain, who I also think is an
underrated player, did not have a great game today either
that none of them shot the ball well. But again, okay, see,
they're going to disrupt your play. They are going to
make it uncomfortable, uncomfortable for you to take any single shot,
any fast break, it doesn't matter. They are going to
run with you. And it's tough to keep up with that.
But Memphis is I'm using air quotes here of you

(10:21):
because you guys can't see me the radio. Memphis is young.
Memphis is young.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
She did again.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Guys, why why are they not keeping up with okacs speed?
You are a young team as well well.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Memphis runs. They like to play fast, they like to
seem like it. Today they didn't. They were all discombobulated.
And I think that's it is. It's from okay C's pressure.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Right.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
It makes when somebody is constantly putting pressure on you
to do something, it's kind of irritating, right is always,
and that's.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
Just what it is.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
A right, So somebody's under your skin all day, all
game and it's not and it's unrelenting. And then when
they bring in the bench, it's the same thing. It's
just it's it's annoying.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
All of it annoying, and it's like we say, annoying,
but it's a real compliment. It is a real compliment
to play annoying basketball for forty eight minutes and not
play annoying basketball the last six minutes of the fourth quarter.
Because any team can do that. And the difference is
with Okac, which we've talked about, even though I feel
like we have not given them as much credit. Maybe
throughout the season, you and I have sat here and

(11:19):
talked about how OKC plays for the entire game and
they don't care if they're beating you by fifty, they're
gonna still stump on your throat. They're such they they're
definitely trying to prove a point. Yeah and again me,
they're trying to point to me.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
All of us, all of us. Yeah no, because that's
that's the thing. I think that's the part about it, right,
the fact that people, i mean even Draymond Green said
it in something like nobody's scared of okay, see like
all these So it's not.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Just media, not just the media.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Absolutely, it's players as well, and no air quotes again guys,
but respected players saying it right. So that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
So it's another part of it. The Shay Gill just
Alexander free thrown narrative. It is, it's insane, right, But
also like he there's so many times you see him
and you're like you are you're going in for a dunk,
in for a layup, but you don't really.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Finish your whole movement because you're waiting for the foul.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like there's SEMs. I'm like, you could have still scored
that and gotten the foul, but instead you went for
the foul and then you didn't finish the move and
you could have done that. And I feel like that
is a big part of why maybe okay See is
not getting the credit. Even though today shake Guilders, it's
been I feel like since maybe since they played the
Lakers that Shake Guilders, Alexander's whistle has calmed down. I

(12:37):
feel like that's the game where I feel like he
did not he got bumped around a little bit.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
And obviously Lakers also have a friendly whistle.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Yes, we talked about that as well, But I feel
like since then, the whistle for SGA has chilled out,
and he hasn't been to the free throw line twenty
three times, Yeah you know what I'm saying, but two,
but twenty two but not today. No, today he only
shot seven free He was six of seven, so not
to you know, he didn't go to the free throw
but he also didn't have to.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
I was about to say, this is a different game, right,
So is this a different game?

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Is this kind of we're gonna throw it out the window?

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Oh? No, He's still gonna be aggressive, And because I
mean where he gets where he lives and where he
gets most of his points, and where he's the most
dangerous is in the paint. And so if he continues
to get to that point and uh and still be
a factor there, he's gonna get some foul attempts and
that's just part of his game. And the NBA seems
to be rewarding that as well. And so, I mean,
we'll see. But it was crazy because like during the season,

(13:32):
you can start seeing the talk or the chatter start
to arise where oh, he's a free throw merchant. Then
you'll see like the memes and you'll be like, oh,
ga without his free throws. Today, he looks like somebody
like it just started.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
It's been the whole year. It's been the whole year.
And I think it's just obviously that has been the
narrative with Okay see even though they've been up the
top the entire time, because when you're good, people try
and find a reason to like discredit you, and you
he gets that. The best of the best get that.
I mean, Thekla y Okay yesterdaygainst the Clippers was definitely
flailing all over the place also doing it, and Luka

(14:05):
Doncic does it.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
And we'll we'll dive more into that but all right,
it's just came one.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
I said, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
I didn't want to, you know, make over reactions here.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
I made it hurry.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
So okay, see sweeps.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
I'll say, gentleman a gentleman's Memphis, may get one.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
May get one at home. Maybe maybe. But it's like,
after this, you're kind of like, I don't know how
I feel like this was such a crushing defeat. I
know it's the first one you just had to play
in the play in, but what a crushing defeat. And
it's it's gonna be hard to get yourself out of it.
And also, okay, so he's like, shake, Gill just didn't
play well and we won by fifty.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Lyin right, Yeah, they are and that, And I don't
think they came into this playoff run thinking that Sea
is the only guy they got anyway. No, internally, now
we look at it and people, you know, he's gonna
be the MVP, right, So that's if he doesn't play well,
you have a chance to win.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
He the MVP.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
But when he played, if he played, if he doesn't
play well in a game, we haven't seen that a lot.
We have not seen that, So I mean to see
that and come out here right now and played the
way he played and you still win by fifty. I
mean that just has to put a dagger in the
other team.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Talk absolutely thunder very similar to Boston in the sense
that they have so many scores all around, all around,
and that's a dangerous, a dangerous recipe for anyone. Do
you think after this one, when you're watching this game,
were you sitting there as a MAVs fan at home
thinking Dallas would have done would have put up a
better fight?

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
You didn't think that, well, no, that don't have to
put a better fighting game one.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
No, no, Okay, so you're I mean I was watching, Yeah,
I was watching the game. Thingk and that Dallas may
have lost by one hundred. So that was that was
my idea of what was going on at the moment.
But I mean, Dallas does play, okay, see different and
they have a you know, had a rivalry, and it
would have been fun to see them play first round
after you know, beating them in the Western Conference finals.
But seeing the way Okac came out focus and obviously

(16:00):
ready to show the world that this isn't the fluke
and we are you know, we're trying to win this thing,
win this whole thing. Yeah, Dallas didn't want any part
of this.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Dallas didn't want any part of this. I wonder how
Nico Harrison feels right.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
Now, Leo alone.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'm never gonna leave him alone. None of us are
ever gonna leave him alone. He Yeah, We're never gonna
leave him alone. This is one of the many series
that you and I are gonna dive into.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
But I am with you.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
I think with this performance, okay See is saying something
to all of us, Hey, we're the real deal, whether
you believe it or not. We're out here to win,
and we just one by fifty and I think it
will be some sort of sweep. Whether it's a gentleman's
sweep or just the sweep, it's gonna happen. Grizzlies just
seemed too dysfunctional, no answer, no answers, and like no heart,

(16:48):
no like we're as we're watching the Celtics in Orlando
right now. Boston is trying to trying to pull away,
and Orlando's making it hard white because there's heart there.
Every ball that hits the floor, I see an Orlando
player dive for it along with the Celtics player Memphis,
there was no heart like they lost early.

Speaker 5 (17:06):
On and they felt it got a great point. And
that's the thing we just talked about with U with
Orlando and Okay, see right, you said they play hard. Yeah,
they die for every ball. That means they have an identity.
And that's the same thing as Okay, see Memphis.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Does not do not have an identity, whether it's off
court stuff whatever, they're not. They're not disciplined. There's no
identity and literally figuring it out. They have talent, but
I don't believe in the talent, especially after Game one.
This is really the first series that we're gonna dive into.
Carrie and I hear Fox Sports Sunday, don't go anywhere
because we got to talk about the Clippers. I don't

(17:39):
want I don't want to carry we got to, but
we're gonna talk about the Clippers. Coum deular side, don't
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Speaker 2 (18:00):
Fuck Sports Sunday, What's Up? Everybody, thanks for hanging out.
I am Manci Belanya's alongside former All Pro safety Carrie Roads,
and we are just getting started because we have Lauren
Rosen here, who covers the Clippers for Fan.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
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Speaker 2 (18:18):
I was like, I know it's beyond that. I know
it's a longer name than Fan a Duel, but the
quick one is Fanduels.

Speaker 8 (18:22):
And today I get to be at Fox Sports Radio
with you guys. I'm so thrilled.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I thank you for being with us. She's actually here
in studios. Yes, I know, very excited and obviously had
to bring in someone to talk about the Clippers.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I was hoping this conversation was going to be slightly
different than how it's starting. But it's game one. One
of the things I already told carry in the opening segment,
I don't want to overreact to game one in the NBA,
of any of these series. I mean, you can say
except okay, see that's over. It's a sweet let's call
it a day.

Speaker 8 (18:54):
That's an over reaction.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
So that's yeah. It ended in the first half. That
one was if you stopped watching the game in this quarter,
you didn't miss anything. That's probably the big story there
the Clippers. Yesterday. Let me tell you, I was in
Vegas watching this from my room because I had a
nice patio, so I was like tanning while watching the game.
And it started off real great.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
It was a great game, and then it was a
close game.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
It's still good, still good. Then all of a sudden,
we get to the fourth quarter and things, slowly, because
it happened slowly, start to unravel. Lauren, what do you
think happened? Was it just maybe the Clippers got a
little comfy they saw me. Maybe they thought in the

(19:42):
first half of oh, this is gonna be a little
easier than we anticipated.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Did they get a little comfy too early in the altitude?

Speaker 8 (19:48):
So let's zoom way out.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Let's zoom way out. Girl, let's go.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
Let's go Bird's Eye, Let's go Love to fifty eighty
that's the altitude in Denver. Let's go way out.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, let's go.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
Everybody would excited about this series. A lot of people
picked the Clippers. I've picked unsurprisingly the Clippers. Yes, we
expected a super duper competitive series. It has everything. It
has the best player on the planet right now, it
has the team that went into the playoffs the hottest.
The Clippers hadn't lost a game in a long time,

(20:19):
so to come out of the game a two point
game and overtime game, forcing overtime on the road, by
the way, where you don't have a home court advantage
throughout the series. To me, I see an amazing game
that signifies that there is going to be an amazing series.
What happened in the fourth quarter, totally fair question. What
I saw was a Clipper team that came out really hot.
They had a game plan. It worked really well in

(20:40):
the first half. In the playoffs, you hear people say
it all the time, are all about adjustments, and the
Denver Nuggets made great adjustments in the second half. Russell
Westbrook did Russell Westbrook things. He's someone, by the way,
that knows. He said it after the game. He knows
a lot of what the Clippers were running right, and
I think that you'll see the best of us throughout
the series.

Speaker 7 (21:00):
You'll see some of his.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
Problems, yeah, throughout the series as well. And listen, that's
what you get when someone who plays that hard is
a part of a series. Make no mistake, though, the
Clippers have those guys as well.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (21:12):
So what I saw was a super close game. I
didn't see anyone relax. I just saw some tension. I
saw playoff basketball. I think it was by far the
best game that we have seen thus far this weekend,
especially now that today's games are unfolding. I'm really excited
about the series. All I learned from game one is
that it's going to be close and it's going to
be a fight.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
Yeah. No, I think the thing about the Clippers, and
I think we would all agree that ty Loo's one
of the best adjustment coaches from game the game one
of the best. And so when you watched this first game,
I mean I pick the Clippers to win that series
as well, But I also I don't see I don't
even think it's that close in my mind. So for
them to give one away, and you know the playoffs,

(21:53):
how that comes to every possession of everything matters. So
to give one away the way they did in that
first game, is there any any thoughts shift from them
within organizationally or with.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
The table, Well, you know, it stings, first of all
because it was a super winnable game. And what they
say about the playoffs, if you're the one without the
home court advantage. All you got to do is steal
one on the road. So you steal one on the road,
then you protect home court in your new building. By
the way, that's going to make its playoff debut next week.
I'm so excited. All you got to do is steal one,
and they were so close to stealing the first one.
You want to throw the first punch. They threw the
first punch in the first half, weren't able to execute,

(22:25):
so you know it stings, but you know that they
learn all right, all these games are winnable. They were
all hard on themselves postgame about turning the ball over.
That's been an emphasis all season long. Tyler even was
saying last week at practice back into a dome, this
series is going to come down to taking care of
the ball. And they didn't take care of the ball
well in Game one and they almost won. Yes, So

(22:46):
in theory, they correct the one thing that they knew
they had to come correctly with and the rest of
the series could.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Look a lot different. You're new two covering the Clippers,
and we'll talk about the team you cover for six
years in a second. I've been a Clipper fan my
whole life. Why I don't know.

Speaker 8 (23:01):
Listen, I remember, thank you for having me. The Clipper nation. No,
the Clippers fans, listen, they don't have the volume that
I think they're going to have now that they have
their own homes and a great team that, by the way,
is always winning, always a winning team. The fan base
is so strong and tight knit. It's an honor to
be welcomed in this way.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
I think I'm a fly back a little bit.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
You get in here, you're you're a little Clippers fan.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
For those listening. He pushed himself back for the table home.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
He sure did, but he doesn't want to go anywhere.
And so I guess, like, and it's stung because I
have seen the Clippers throughout the many years kind of
lose it at the end, just because it feels like
they're not disciplined at the very end. And I am not.
I don't want to overreact to some people want to say, like,
the Clippers are the ones who lost that game. It's
like they they did, but Denver also made the shots

(23:51):
like they It wasn't just that the Clippers sucked at
the end. They didn't suck.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's just that it got tighter and tighter and the Nuggets.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Still made the big shots, the big crucial passes, the
rebounding us. Oh my, those second chances in those last
two minutes of the regulation. I was not you know,
I was ready to have a shot of nineteen forty
two when they won. And let me tell you what,
I didn't get it. An it's still the bottle, Harry,
I didn't. It'll still be good. It'll still be good.

(24:18):
Thank you, long, thank you. So I think that's why
it was a bit like the sting was just like,
this is not the same Clippers team. This is not
the same Clippers team. We are gonna get past this hump.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
It was a great, great battle, great battle.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
And you're right, Kawhi Leonard is not gonna have seven
turnovers again. And when I was going to say, you
have that trauma right, and by the way, luckily you do.
Because the Clippers are one of the teams that has
made the playoffs most consistently in the entire league throughout
the last decade. They have been solidly one of the
best teams. Like overall, I get that they haven't gotten
to the mountaintop, but most teams haven't, right, So I'll

(24:55):
remind you that as someone that's relatively new to this ecosystem.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
Only one team gets to win each year.

Speaker 9 (25:00):
M hm.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
Seven teams are going to lose in this first day
of playoffs, right, Seven other teams besides the Clippers are
going to lose over this two day period so far,
and again no moral victories and players and former players, well,
not like what I'm about to say, but the narrowest
lost by far, the hardest fault loss by far, the
most impressive loss by far. There's a lot to like.
It's a long series. Everybody take a deep breath.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
No, she's right, now, go ahead, one hundred percent. I
think the I think what fans and what people don't
understand in those games they're highly contested, always that four
or five series should be this way. It should be
back and forth as well. But again, I think for
them it's going to be paramount for them to win
this one, this second game. They don't want to fall
behind two oho. And so what do you what do

(25:43):
you see tyl Lou's adjustments being coming into the second game.
Let's see if you're really really on your stuff here.

Speaker 8 (25:49):
Well, I would say the biggest credit to Tyler is
that I don't actually know exactly what his judgment adjustments
will be because he's so precise and because he's so creative.
But listen, this was a top three defense at the
end of the season. It was a top five d
defense all season long. They want to bring more defensive
intensity than they did in that second half. Turnovers we
talked about Kawhi Leonard doesn't usually turn.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Over the ball. We talked about or careless with the ball,
because he was a little careless at the end there.

Speaker 8 (26:13):
And he by the way, we talk about shop making
laid in games. I was previously with the Philadelphia seventy
six ers. I know what it feels like to have
Kawhi Leonard crush the dreams of a city that cares
a couple of bounces. He can do it. He is healthy,
So I think, listen, adjustments, there aren't that many to
be made, because again, they played really good basketball. The

(26:35):
big one is taking care of the ball and setting
the tone on defense. Those are those have been the
themes all season long. So while I said Tyler's going
to get creative, it's not that creative. Actually, when you
look at the script of what this team has been
able to do and why they've been able to be successful.
So getting back to themselves and absolutely you want to
leave having stolen a game in Denver, and.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
You talk about we talked about TYLERU quite a bit here,
but I also want to give some credit to Jeff
Jeff ben Gunndie. You have to turning that defense around.
You talk about defense and how they played. I think
that is their identity. Obviously they have Kawhi and they
have James Harden to shoulder the load offensively, and also
Zoo backed as well. And I don't want to discredit him,
but let's talk about Jeff ben Gundy and what he
brought to that team as well.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
Absolutely so the two of them. For those that don't
know Tyler jeffan Gundy, they were at the Olympics together
on Steve Kurtz coaching staff in Paris over the summer.
Of course, longtime friends, guys that have respected each other
over the years. But jeffan Gundy hasn't been formally on
the bench in a while. A great broadcaster, a consultant
for the Celtics last year who by the way, won
a title. For Tyler to convince Jeff to come back

(27:33):
to coaching to be on his staff, make no mistake,
there was some convincing to be done, and watching the
way that the two of them work together. Tyleru one
of the smartest coaches I have ever been around, so
sharp and quick and creative, but also one of the
most mellow coaches I've ever been around. So the two
of them have a bit of a yin and yang.

(27:54):
Because Jeff van Gundy has so many positive traits, I
would not say that he is mello. He is walked in,
dialed in intense all the time. So the two of
them in timeouts as a yin and a yang. Jeff
likes to start the timeout. He's really getting into people's
faces and making sure that people know what's going on.
He's so precise. By the way, They're both equally precise,

(28:15):
but their styles are different. And then time comes in
with a little bit of a calmer second act to
a timeout. But I would imagine, and you tell me
as an athlete, that's got to be really effective, right,
that tone shift, being able to address things differently, being
able to have an equal brilliance but totally different approaches.

Speaker 9 (28:32):
He stay on your yes.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
But there's always a guy on any team assistant coach.
It can be somebody on the medical staff. It can
be anybody, right, Like, if you have that common presence
in that room, if your coach is a fiery coach,
you want to always kind of take that and you
take that lesson and you move on. But you have
that guy to kind of pacifies you a little bit.
I mean, even though we're grown men and we you
know we're going to war all the time, you still

(28:55):
want to have that steadying calm and force somewhere in
the organization. For it to be the head coach is
a great thing, and also it's a cool thing.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
You're listening to Fox Sports Sunday. I'm Moncey Belogas alongside
Carrie Rhoads, and we have Lauren rosen In from fan
Duel Sports TV covering the Clippers this season to talk
about the Clippers and the series. All right, so we
agree here, Clippers still come out of this series absolutely right,
Like I'm comfortable with that. I am, I really am,

(29:24):
just because I was no. I'm comfortable. Clippers are going
to the finals. I've told you Clippers are going to
the finals. I don't understand Clippers are going to the finals.

Speaker 10 (29:33):
I'm going to be at the finals.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Oh, yeah, so I don't know about you.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
Let me right, I don't know the finals. We love
the enthusiasm, you know, I hate again. I can imagine
into it Dome in its first year hosting the finals.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
It would be absolutely crazy. You probably can't say who
you think comes out of the West because I don't
want you don't want to put you in the spot.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Who do you think comes out of the East?

Speaker 8 (29:56):
Oh, that's a good one. I wasn't expecting to be asked.
I'll be honest. I came in here guns of blazon
on the Western Conference. And by the way, the Western
Conference is so far superior to the East this year
exactly watching the way that the end of the regular
season panned out, teams that were middling, teams that were
almost trying to duck the playoffs as a whole, being
forced to play in the play in in the East,

(30:19):
whereas you have a team like the Clippers in the
last three games of the season could have been the
three seed and could have had to go play in
a play in game. That's craziness. So that's the first thing. Yeah,
I think the Celtics come out of the East. To
answer your question, despite the fact that their Game one
was a little bit rocky. I like also the Detroit
Pistons a lot. I know that their Game one wasn't

(30:40):
what they wanted, but I've been so impressed with again,
the way that they're going to grow. That's mostly a
young team. They've surprised a lot of folks, and I
will say the Cleveland Cavaliers, who were about to watch
for the first time in these playoffs, they're a little
disrespected in this situation, and like, look at what Oklahoma
City was able to do today. That's what a one
seed looks like. That's what a dominant team all season

(31:02):
long looks like. So I wouldn't be surprised to see
Cleveland either. But listen, I'm a bit of a traditionalist.
It's easy to pick the defending champion. Sure, it's hard, though,
to repeat a championship. So I go Celtics, But I
think the Cavs have a really, really legitimate shot and
people should give them a little bit more credit, the
same way I feel about the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
We literally just had that entire conversation. Yes, don't go anywhere, Lauren,
We're gonna We're gonna go over to our news desk,
Martin Wiseheim Martin, right on, Martin Martin, can you can
you give us a rundown of what Martin?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:36):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (31:36):
In thought? Yeah. Jason Tatum right now gripping his left
that's his right right. Yeah. I was getting there. You know,
I had to do my hands.

Speaker 11 (31:45):
You know which one makes it out? Jason Tatum holding
his right wrist. He went down after a foul trying
to dunk the ball. They're reviewing it now to see
if it was a hostile act. I let you know
how that out in just a moment. Eighty nine to
seventy three.

Speaker 5 (32:02):
The score.

Speaker 11 (32:03):
It was close at the half, but it's been all
Boston in the second half. Right now, eighteen lit'stene Orlando
was outscored thirty to eighteen in the third quarter and
right now eleven is six in the fourth quarter. That's
how the margin is what it is. Jason Tatum right
now has ten points right now, zero for six from three,
so he's struggling a little bit. Derek White, the big

(32:25):
guy for Boston, row with twenty seven points, six to
eleven from three again, eighty nine to seventy three.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
The score right now in the.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
NHL clock ticking down in the third period, three thirty left.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
The Hurricanes have a three to one lead over the Devils.

Speaker 11 (32:39):
Earlier today, we saw the Oklahoma City but bt a
to the Grizzlies. As the kids say, one thirty one
to eighty Yes was the score. All five of o
case He starters ended in double digits. Chad Holgern had
a double double. Jalen Williams twenty points, six assists. That
SGA only fifteen points and five assists. But when you
win by fifty one, who cares? Largest margin of victory

(33:01):
and NBA playoffs is fifty eight, that's seven seven. They
could have really went for it. Jaron Jackson had four points.
John Morant seventeen points on seventeen shots. In Major League Baseball,
bottom of the sixth inning, Cubs and the Diamondbacks tied
one apiece. Top of the sixth inning won a piece
between the Angels and the Giants. Let's see earlier today,

(33:21):
the White Sox got their first or the first one
on the road eight to four against the Red Sox
Reds twenty four to two.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
Twenty four to two was the final score.

Speaker 11 (33:31):
Ellie Da La Cruz had a home run in the
third inning that led to seven run inning Guardians edge
the Pirates five to four in ten. Also in ten,
the Marlins had to meet the Phillies seven to five,
Braves over the Twins six to two, and.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
The Mariners beat the Blue Jays eight to three. Back
to you guys, look, you know lost by fifty eight?
Who lost by fifty eight? That would be in wars Pelton.
There you go, I left that actually pack that point.
At that point it was New Orleans Hornets like.

Speaker 7 (34:04):
That good point?

Speaker 11 (34:06):
Yes, thanks Mart, And you know what real quick I
found pretty sure if member reserves correctly, it was the
Baron Davis, Jamal Mashburn and Jamal mcglore.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
New Orleans Hornets. So there you go. I do know
who there was.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I had that on my note.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Oh you did.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, you didn't have all of that though.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
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love to. All right, don't go anywhere. We're still gonna
talk to Lauren Rosen about the NBA. This is Fox

(35:16):
Sports Sunday. It is Fox Sports Sunday. I am Manci
Belanos alongside former All Pro safety and my buddy Carrie Rhoads,
and Lauren Rosen hasn't left the studio. I wanna go yet.
So she's sticky. Turn on your mic.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (35:33):
I live here now, Yeah, she lives.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
You know, She's not going anywhere. She wanted to keep
talking NBA with us, and that's exactly what we are
going to do. Disrespected teams all around, not just on
the West coast like okay see, but also on the
East coast.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
But what I wanted to ask you, Lauren, is the
team that you covered for.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Six years, the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. Yes, ma'am, watching
now from afar, this season must have been a little
hard for sure, you know, like I don't think any
anticipated for them to not be in the playoffs or
for them to have just the injuries that they had
and for it was a bad season, a disaster, yes,
And you know, obviously as a Clipper fan, I was

(36:13):
happy to see Paul George not do well because I
didn't like how he bad mouth the Clippers after he left.
And that's the truth. I just didn't like what he
said and I thought he didn't need to say all
those things anyway. So without me hating on Paul George,
I already did. And I'm good every time I get
I'm glad to do. How do you think the seventy
six ers come out of this offseason? What do you
see them doing?

Speaker 8 (36:34):
So Fred offices guys talk a ton about positive and
negative variants. So that's basically the idea that you can
put together whatever team you want, and you can put
together as many opportunities to succeed as you possibly can.
That's the goal, right, But ultimately you're gonna need some
positive variants. So that's staying healthy, that's young players making
a leap, that's older players not taking a dip, right.

(36:57):
And then there's negative variants, right, injuries, chemistry issues, young
players not getting better, young players getting better and getting injured.
The Sixers had every piece of negative variance that a
team can have this season. So all that is to say, yes,
it was hard for me to watch because some of
my best friends are over there. I mean, I built
a whole career in Philadelphia. I got there when I

(37:19):
was twenty three years old. My frontal lobe developed in Philadelphia, right,
I became an adult there, So I have so much
love for the city, for the fans, for that team.
It was hard to watch, and as I did, though,
you consider you run it back and bring that whole
same and they won't. They won't bring the entire same
group back. But let's just say they did and they
got some positive variants. Next season, they stay healthy, they

(37:42):
get better, they take advantage of scheduling opportunities. They could
be a one seed in the Eastern Conference right that
same exact group. So I think that my response is
kind of what it was to Game one for the Clippers.
Don't overreact, And I know it's really hard if you're
in Philly right now, it's really hard not to, But

(38:02):
don't overreact. It's so many things outside of their control
went wrong and it's just a shame to see. You
don't like to see it as a fan of the game.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
Yeah, it's crazy when you watch them. When you look
at the Sixers, it's they have so many right now
because of injuries. They have so many like players in
the same positions. You got Jared McCain, you have Quinton
Grimes that came over. Also, you have Tarrey's Maxie. All
those guys are small guards and guards that can go
out and get buckets on their own. So they got
a lot of stuff to figure out. But I think

(38:30):
the process is over right. I mean, I've heard rumors
of I've heard rumors of Joel themb now being on
the trade on the trading table, trade and block, but
who's going to take that contract? And take that player
at this moment. So I don't know if Elton brand
Stield the GM there or is it.

Speaker 8 (38:44):
Elton Brand is the GM. Daryl Morey is the president of.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
Right, so I mean, what is he going to do
for them to try to I guess get the right
mixed there because they have players.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (38:52):
I heard Daryl Moriy in his exit interview or his
press conference following the season talk about the fact that
maybe they didn't pay enough attention to the regular season
and what it takes to get through a regular season.
Perhaps this playoff, this this team was too engineered for
the playoffs, and if you can't arrive there, that's obviously
a problem. So I think they're gonna tweak the margins.
I think, as is the case with any team that
doesn't make it to the playoffs, you have to shop

(39:12):
everybody around a little bit and see what and if
you want to make any bigger moves. Right, But I
see moves made on the margins, and I see a
core group of players, highlighted by the guys that you
just named, coming back, being ready, being healthy, and trying
this thing again, hopefully with some positive variants.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I like this, positive and negative that's it. I like
how you explain that you're so right. If just a
couple of things coulda switched, they would have had a
different season. Don't go anywhere. We still got two more
hours to go on this Fox Sports Sunday, and I
don't think Lauren's going anywhere for another segment. So stick around.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
You're listening to Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
What's up? Everybody is Fox Sports Sunday. I am Mont
Sivelanya as along as I former All Pro safety Carry
Roads And if you were listening to the last hour,
we have a guest and she has not gone anywhere.
Lauren Rosen, who covers the Clippers for fan Duel TV Sports,
is still here because we realize, you know, she doesn't
just want to talk Clippers. She wants to talk basketball.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
She wants to talk something that's very near and dear
to most people in this area right want.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
To talk about absolutely. Yes, we covered OKAC, talked about
how we're disrespecting them me as in we as in me,
But they proved to me today that I got to
pay attention. They won by fifty one. We talked about
my Clippers and the sting of a loss that it was,
but now we got to talk about the other La tas.
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Speaker 5 (40:54):
We all know it.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Before we get going, I want to I want you
guys to hear what JJ Reddick had to say after
the game.

Speaker 12 (41:00):
They're great opponent, They're one of the best teams in basketball.
There's I think it's not to say our guys weren't
like ready to withstand like a playoff level basketball game.
We were mentally ready. I thought our spirit was right.
I thought even when they made runs, our huddles were great.
You know, the communication was great. I mean, I'm not

(41:23):
sure physically we were ready and if that makes sense,
And really when they started playing with a lot of
thrust and physicality, like we just didn't respond immediately to that.
And then that stretch to start of the second through
you know, five four or five minutes to go in
the third, I you know, we lost that stretch by
thirty four.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
So you know that's a that's a blowout.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
All right, So let me get this straight.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Blow up.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Let me get this straight. A team like the Lakers
with Lebron James, who has been to the playoffs one
hundred and twenty seven times, with Luka Danja, who was
at the finals last year, was not ready for physicality
in game one of an NBA playoff game.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
That's what he said.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
So, yeah, so you let this one go. This was
your fault.

Speaker 9 (42:09):
JJ Reddick.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
You're telling me you weren't prepared physically for this game.
How could you say that?

Speaker 5 (42:15):
That's a tough one, Monci. I mean, I think mentally
the coach. Obviously, you got to know the tenor of
your team, right, that's number one. So he said going
into the game that he thought they had that energy,
they had that makeup and was ready to go. Obviously,
once you get on the court and the other team
starts to punch you, you have to respond. They didn't
have a chance to respond. They didn't respond the right way.

(42:36):
Lebron started slow. Luca was the only one in the
first quarter that was kind of keep it in the floats.
But overall, I mean I've talked about this, and we
talked about it off air. Minnesota is a team that
has a really, really, really good player, a great player
on their team that understands these moments. Now, he's been
in it, he's tasted it. He knows what it takes
to win these games. And if you come out lacking

(42:58):
and you think that this team is to lay down,
which I think that was part of I think the
Lakers expected Minnesota to come in and they would win
that game easily. Minnesota's here for a fight, and you
add Randall to that mix as well. Who is a
guy that's gonna fight you as well? Where Carl Anthony
Towns is a guy that he can score, he's gonna
look pretty doing it and do it well. But Randall
brings another added I guess, goon to the mix for them,

(43:22):
and so it's a different makeup and these guys are
going to play physical, and I don't think the Lakers
were ready for that.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
I'm just I don't get how are you not ready
for a Western conference that is so close to the
very last game in the regular season, everyone is still
fighting to get into a seat and you're not ready
for a physical game. I just I thought that answer
was a little bit an easy way out.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
You did.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, that's just how I took it. That's just how
I took it.

Speaker 10 (43:47):
Yeah, I I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
I was I did not like that answer.

Speaker 8 (43:51):
I'm not gonna lie and Monty, You're from here, so
your passion is heard, and I lack it because I'm
not from here. So let's start there. And what else
this game I've already said about a couple is. I
would urge folks that watched not to overreact. First of all, Yes,
it's going to be a long series in the West.
By the way, the two I was the most excited
to watch were the Clippers series and the Lakers series.

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It's a great time to be a basketball fan. Total
angelis what.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
I saw yesterday.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
I saw good Timberwolves more than I saw bad Lakers.

Speaker 10 (44:20):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (44:20):
I will also remind everybody in season, trades are really
tough no matter what, especially when you get a new
centerpiece and make no mistake, at least when we talk
about the next ten years. Luka Doncic is now the
centerpiece of that team, and they've had a limited amount
of time to get him acclimated. Listen. I could see it.
I could see them deteriorating, and I could see them

(44:40):
winning their way through the rest of the playoffs. But
it is really, really tough to completely invert your system
the way that they are going to have to now
that they have a new centerpiece. I just saw a
Timberwolves team physicality aside JJ Reddick's assessment aside, that was
so ready for that moment and ready to surprise folks.
They came in playing free, playing hard, and everyone played well.

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They saw the supporting cast step up in a way
that the Lakers failed to see. So I loved what
I saw from the Timberwolves. I don't know that they're
making it out of the West. I think the West
is way too competitive, but I think they're going to
be exciting and competitive four years to come. I loved
what I saw. I love Chris Finch, by the way,
an underrated head coach in this league, so maniacal, so methodical,

(45:26):
so smart, so cool to see the way that that
game one went. But I think that that's another long
series coming.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
So did they expose the Lakers like I understand in
season trades? I get all that, but before this trade,
the big thing was like the Lakers needed maybe a
little bit of depth, right. They still didn't get the depth,
but they got you can argue, greatest player on the
planet alongside Nikola Yokich. They got Luka, And so I
did Minnesota just decide, all right, you know what, we

(45:55):
are gonna let Luca go off and we won't worry.
We won't worry about him, but we're going to worry
about the others. To add to what you said, I
think a big part of the Minnesota win came in
was it the second quarter when nas Reed off the
bench just had that nice little run for them, and
I feel like that was the beginning of them pulling
away with nas Reed off the bench.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
Well, I'll tell you this, going into this series, I
think the dominating I guess factor for both teams going
into the series was that La has Luca and they
have Lebron.

Speaker 9 (46:28):
Right.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
Lebron does this in playoff series sometimes as well. He
likes to assess he comes out. He plays a brand
of basketball where he's not super aggressive, right. And so
we also talked about the centerpiece, the corner piece. The
cornerstone for the Lakers moving forward is Luca, right, But
for them to advance and actually win in this playoff run.
Lebron's got to be Lebron too. I thought he took

(46:50):
a back seat early and tried to kind of ease
himself into it, and so we talk about JJ saying
they weren't ready to go physically. I put a lot
of the a lot of that on Lebron because he
is the engine for that team still right now, at
this present time, and if he's just going to sit
back and allow Luca to run the show, they're not
going to win this series.

Speaker 8 (47:10):
In my opinion, you mentioned nas Reid, I think there's
a huge something to be said for the fact that
we've seen playoffs after playoffs play in games, these consequential matchups.
When someone explodes for twenty three off the bench, that
team does usually win. Right When you get a huge
performance from someone that isn't traditionally one of your huge producers,

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you're going to end up usually in a pretty good spot.
So look for the Austin Reeves of the world to
have a massive performance at some point during this series.
What he's done all season was no joke. Lebron James
one of the greatest playoff performers of all time. It's
what we said about Kawhi Leonard earlier, right, some uncharacteristic
flubs when you talk about those two in game one.

(47:52):
Those guys are going to dominate at points throughout their
respective series. And so if I'm a Lakers fan, I'm
not panicking. If I'm a Tea woll I'm feeling really
good though, because they showed up. They looked prepared. And again,
when everybody's eating the way that they were, you're gonna
turn a lot of heads, you're gonna surprise a lot
of folks, and you're going to push a great Lakers
team to six or seven games.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
Now, Lauren, you hit something on the head right there
with I think the Lakers as well. And that's Austin
Reeves right. He's the best third option in the NBA,
is what everybody's kind of proclaiming right now.

Speaker 8 (48:21):
And I'm like, pompides perhaps he eats a zoobots no, yes, no, And.

Speaker 5 (48:24):
I agree with you. I'm saying like I'm saying, pumped
the breaks, because this is the thing right now, the
tension in the playoffs, the attention to detail is totally different, right.
The game plan, the scouting is on a different level.
And so guys are going to have to actually beat
their guys one on one, and you're not going to
get the open looks that you usually got throughout the
regular season with them trying to take away certain things

(48:46):
in this in the playoffs series. So for the Lakers
to actually get it done, Austin Reed is going to
have to have a better game too.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Absolutely. You know, there's a theory out there. Everyone says
that Lebron likes to take game one to assess. So
was it that he was assessing the situation because it's
all about adjustments right in the playoffs or was it
that he just came out a little bit flat. Well,
I guess we'll see. I guess we'll see what happens.
But this may be what the Timberwolves want is for Luca,
let Luca go off. We don't care absolutely too. I mean,

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they knew Rudy Gobert was gonna be a liability. That
had been the talk the whole time going into this.
And you know, Rudy Gobert took two shots. They were like,
just just get out there and get some rebounds.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
They don't throw a d by the ramp.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
It just so he took two shots, and I'm pretty
sure they came in the second half, like I think
they were up and they're like, okay, now you.

Speaker 8 (49:33):
Can shoot the ball, right, And they didn't need him
to though they did not.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
He was not He was there only six rebounds, but
definitely was not the liability that I thought he would
be going into this game. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie.
I thought he held his own. But again we're talking
about Okay, maybe players didn't have that great game. Anthony
Edwards was fine eight of twenty two. He also wasn't
that great, you know what I mean. So, like you said,

(49:57):
if you're Timberwolves fans, you should feel happy, you should
feel good.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
But it is just game one, so we don't want
to overreact, even though I like to overreact.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
I mean, we had if we talked to Shannon Sharp,
he's still he's still going to say last you know
what I mean. We'll see, we'll see what happens.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
So all right, so we all agree that, Okay, he's
probably gonna sweep, probably maybe a gentleman sweep. Agree Clippers
are probably still going to come out against the Nuggets.
All right, How do we feel about Silberl's Lakers after one.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Oh.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
Now, that's that's we're not ready to commit.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
I'm not ready to commit.

Speaker 8 (50:30):
I'm ready to commit to a long series.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Yes, I think that's the case.

Speaker 8 (50:35):
That one did not tell the whole story.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
This did not tell the whole story.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I think we are about to see a six to
seven game series for here from here on out, for sure.
And I also feel that the rest of the games
are going to be like a five point, you know, winner.

Speaker 8 (50:48):
Closer game.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
This is not gonna happen again. This won't be it.
There's no way. There's no way, but there's a there's
a lot to go here, guys. We're gonna see what happens.
It's it's calm during the playoffs, but calm the chaos
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(51:32):
with the live video simulcast on the Fox Sports Radio
YouTube page. Win Win brought to you by ship Station. Lauren,
tell us what you like the most about La. You're
new to La.

Speaker 8 (51:43):
Oh my gosh, what's not to like?

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Woo Okay, Because I say this, I think it's hard
for somebody to move to LA who's not from LA.
There's a lot of traffic, There's a lot of people,
so I find it hard. I know you came from Philly,
which is also a big city. You say, from Houston, So.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
But you like it.

Speaker 8 (51:58):
I got to test drive, that's kind of clear. So
being with the seventy six ers, I got to travel
the country. I got to get to know thirty cities
pretty well. So I have a working proficiency with every
NBA city. I have a coffee shop, I have a
favorite walking path. I usually have a restaurant or two.
So I knew coming to LA, I already had some
favorites and I knew that I was going to get
some some weather change, right or black thereof once you

(52:19):
get here, right, I love it here. The fan base,
the Clipper fans have been fantastic, the organization has been fantastic.
I cannot say enough good things about how welcome I
feel here, which has been so just delightful. The traffic
stuff is real, but I grew up in Texas, so
I'm used to a long drive. If you have patients,
you'll be just fine. There's not a lot to complain
about here. So I feel very lucky, very blessed, and

(52:40):
I'm just, you know, happy to be here and happy
to be here with you guys. Now, what a fun
way to spend a Sunday.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
No, this was awesome. We're gonna definitely have you back.
Don't worry, don't hoard you to it. We Clipper fan, girl,
you got be here all the time. You're gonna be
here all the time now that you liked it so much. Absolutely,
I know there's a lot of NBA going on, but
we do have to talk NFL. I mean, the Draft
is just a couple of days away, so we're gonna
talk to our NFL insider on the other side, of this.

(53:05):
Adam Kaplan, Lauren, thank you so much. Where can everybody
follow you on social media?

Speaker 8 (53:11):
Laurens that is correct. Lauren m Rosen, thank you guys.
I would love to be back. I had such a
fun time and thank you for your enthusiasm, both of you.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Listen here, let's go Climbers record to the finals. Don't
go anywhere.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
What's up everybody. Hope you are enjoyed today. If you're
celebrating Easter, be safe out there. I hope you got
an Easter basket? Did you get an Easter basket?

Speaker 5 (53:38):
Carry not this year? This year, I'll get you one.
Are you gonna make me want? Thank you one?

Speaker 2 (53:43):
I'll make you one.

Speaker 10 (53:44):
The problem.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah, you're my buddy. I'll make you one. Maybe Sean
will help me make one for you.

Speaker 7 (53:49):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
He'll be all excited. Carrie.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
I'll make it exactly.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Put a little bro love in there, maybe some legos
or something. You are broadcasting live from the tireg dot
com studios and taking a little break away from the
NBA playoffs. We have our NFL insider Adam Kaplan joining us. Adam,
are you there, happy Sunday, I am how are you?

Speaker 13 (54:16):
Adam Carrie always going to talk to you. I'm ready.
You know, we're just five days away from the draft.
It cannot get here soon enough because the speculation, you
know why this is happening to that happening, and the
folks is historically week first round, it's deep though, second round,
third round deep at certain positions.

Speaker 7 (54:37):
But what's going to happen, folks? Thursday night?

Speaker 13 (54:39):
You're gonna hear some players go off the board from
the twenties on and you go, wow, what are they?
What is this team thinking? Well, it's simple, they can't
trade out. Nobody wants to trade out right now, and
they're gonna have to take player.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Not a lot of movement, which is none none, yeah, none,
none at all? Any. Okay, So I don't even know
where to start. Let's start with Shador Sanders here. What
is the latest that you're hearing because I'm still hearing mixed,
you know, reviews that he's going to go early. I mean,
we know that the Saints need a quarterback, but they
also need a bunch of other things. They're not a
quarterback away, but we know that.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Do you see Chador maybe landing there.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Do you see me?

Speaker 3 (55:16):
I've heard the Raiders maybe taking Shador earlier.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Than that, Like, what is what have you heard? Tell me?

Speaker 13 (55:22):
Yeah, the Raiders first of all, you know they extended
you know, Smith's contract. They feel this season and next season,
so for two seasons that Jina Smith will be the Raiders' quarterback.
So I don't see them doing that. And then with
the Saints, they got they have a lot of needs. Yes,
there's no question the biggest need of the football team
for the future by far is quarterback. But your door standers,

(55:43):
you know why why it's been speculated that maybe he's
not going to go in the top ten. I would
say this, he's going to go in the first round.
It could be very late. See when personnel evaluators, quarterback coaches,
offense coordinators and general managers impersonnel directors the greatest tape,

(56:03):
they seem to agree in one thing. He's a good
college quarterback, but there's nothing special about him. When you
draft a quarterback in the first round, you got to
feel like this is your guy for the next eight
to ten years. It's like, I'll give an example, when
the Steelers took Kenny Pickett. Now This is a former
general manager, Kevin Kevin Colbert. It was his last draft class.
A very good general manager, by the way. But the

(56:24):
third round league was that Pickett should have been a
third round pick, and he was drafted the first and
it didn't work out.

Speaker 7 (56:30):
He's now on his third team. You don't want to
just take a quarterback because you need one.

Speaker 13 (56:34):
That This is what happens when Team Smith's at any position,
when you feel like you have to have a position,
that's when.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
You reach Adam. I got a question. So right now,
like obviously this draft, we've been hearing the noise about
it being not a strong draft at top up top right,
there is there any player in that top ten or
at the top of the of the draft board right
now that you would put all your eggs since it's
eat all your eggs in the basket of saying this

(57:03):
guy is going to be an all pro performer or
somebody that's going to have a really, really great successful
career moving forward. Do you have anybody there?

Speaker 13 (57:11):
Yeah, I would see Travis Hunter. Travis Hunt is going
to go to almost certainly to Cleveland. What's fascinating. Curry
is on FSR and always asked back in January. I
was like, everything I'm hearing is going to be corner.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
Look not.

Speaker 13 (57:23):
Maybe it's a change up receiver if I go eleven
personnel or ten personnel where you spread the field with
three or four receivers.

Speaker 7 (57:29):
Maybe.

Speaker 13 (57:29):
But now, and the thing that's absolutely just floored me
is when Andrew Berry, the general manager, not once but twice,
he was asked right in front of me at the combine,
and you know, he had his press briefing.

Speaker 7 (57:39):
He was asked about.

Speaker 13 (57:40):
Where they would want to play, where they saw Travis Hunter.
He didn't really hesitate, and Andrew Berry is very tight
lipped usually, and he said, no, we see him as
a corner, and we know it could play receiver. No,
I'm sorry, he said, we see him as a receiver,
we know he could play corner. And he was asked
again with the local media in Cleveland and he said
he doubled down on he goes got you know, weaving
rafted them yet we made draft him. We haven't drafted him,

(58:02):
so we have to get him first. But we still
see it more as a receiver than a corner. That
that's really not the way the league sees it. And
now I'm not saying he's wrong because I talked to
a receivers coach who who said that he had his
two best corner two best receivers were Hunter and Tat McMillan.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
From Arizona U of A.

Speaker 7 (58:23):
Now, this is not a very strong receiver class. Now.

Speaker 13 (58:26):
It just look, you don't see players like this. They
could play two positions, probably equally as well. But carry
you know, as a former player, the taxing that it
puts on your body, and then from a coaching standpoint,
you got to know who you're going to have. It's
it's you know, it's a good problem to have. And
I'll see this again with Cleveland. They need a shot
in the arm. They need something to be positive it.

(58:46):
It's been Deshaun Watson wound up being the worst transaction
probably NFL history. Unfortunately, that's why they're picking where there
are so Mancia as they sent him back to you.
This would be a pick that I hate to say,
can't miss because you say that and then something happens.

Speaker 7 (59:01):
But I'd be very surprised if this misscarry on your question,
but I mean just.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
And I think that's the one that people would say.
But outside of that one, Adam, is there anybody else
that could. I mean, I know I do Carter with
somebody on throwing out, but yeah, anybody else outside of Jovis.

Speaker 13 (59:17):
I would say this, although in Carter, Carrie and this
you could relate to a as a safety. He doesn't
tackle very well, he doesn't make the effort that you need,
and he just needs a little bit of hard coaching.

Speaker 7 (59:25):
Pretty good kid for one to understand.

Speaker 13 (59:28):
I would say gent I'd be very surprised if he's
not a stud at the next level because he's going
to go somewhe where they're going to run the football,
whether it's the Raiders or team like that. I had
an offensive line coach told me, I'll give you guys
something really interesting I got in the last couple of days.
He said, if a team in the top ten drafts
Will Campbell is a guard, he could be the next
Zach Martin, which means probably a Hall of Famer because

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he's got short arms or he's got unfortunately arms less
than thirty three inches and that that almost tells you
he's got to play guard. But those would be some
of the guys I think have a chance to be
really good to the next level.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Yeah, my question was going to be about because some
have him going for overall with the Patriots. Somehow him falling.

Speaker 13 (01:00:05):
You don't see that, not at the Patriots now because
they they've got ramondre Stevenson.

Speaker 7 (01:00:10):
That makes really no sense to me. I'd be surprised
if that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
But I mean, he hasn't been bad, but you think
there's more to it. You don't think he's reached the ceiling.

Speaker 7 (01:00:19):
It could be better.

Speaker 13 (01:00:19):
But look, it's one of these situations where you know
it's funny and everybody pinch it holds.

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
Mike Rabel is just running the game, ball guy, And yeah,
he does like to run the ball.

Speaker 13 (01:00:30):
But I could tell you from soon who's coach for
him before talking to one of his former coaches with
the Titans, had he not gotten fired because he knew
they were going to get rid of Derrick Henry. He
knew that Henry wasn't coming back. He wanted to start,
He wanted to be more forward thinking, start throwing the
ball more. But he never got that chance because he
got fired. So and look, they've got a quarterback in
Drake May who's a little bit ahead of schedule, is

(01:00:52):
better than they probably thought when they drafted him, and
they need to help them receive her in a major way.
They're really bad there. But yeah, MANSI do they need
to add another running back? Absolutely, it doesn't have to
be early.

Speaker 7 (01:01:02):
It just to me it. You know, it's one thing
like if you wanted to pair.

Speaker 13 (01:01:08):
Him up with an explosive back like Detroit did, because
you know that when they signed David Montgomery and they
drafted Jamior Gibbs, a lot of people look, wow, two backs?
Do you really need two backs? And quite frankly, you
can't argue with it right now. It's been so special.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
I was like, you're not caring to see if he
was ready?

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Oh gotcha? Okay, so maybe maybe he does not go there.
There are I've I read about people trading to go higher,
specifically maybe the Bears to get Ashton Gent that we
would see this trade happening obviously coming Thursday night.

Speaker 13 (01:01:46):
Ryan Poles, the general manager of the Bears, is certainly
willing to do some things. And by the way that
remember Ben Jonson was the OC and Detroit he saw
what he did with the two back system. DeAndre Swift
is this last year of the guaranteed.

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
Money on his contract.

Speaker 13 (01:01:59):
Now that one I could certainly see them being interested
in a running back, no question about it. That they
have a major needed edge rush that's a problem for them.
There are a couple other positions offensive line. I know
they need a guard for the future, but it's not
something they've needed to now. I certainly could see a
running back that would be a team potentially to trade up.

Speaker 7 (01:02:21):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 13 (01:02:22):
But you know, it's interesting with Marion Hampton, the running
back from North Carolina, he'll be the other back will
certainly go in the first round. I know if two
teams that actually have him grated higher than genty, which
kind of floored me. Oh but yeah, now, and again
that's on their board.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
That's not majority.

Speaker 7 (01:02:35):
The majority league has certainly got genty over him.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
Go Adam, I'm gonna pivot from the draft for just
one second, and I want to talk about what's this
whole deal with Aaron going on the Pat Show and
talking about the actual exit and how it was a
bizarre exit with him and Aaron Glenn and that whole
meeting with the Jets.

Speaker 13 (01:02:53):
I think what disappointed him Curry was like, you know,
he flies across country, yep, and he's sticking. He's going
to get a real long meeting where they could talk
about a lot of things, and even if he didn't,
even if they weren't going to bring him back, which
just want to be in the case, it's like they
they already knew they weren't bringing him back, and it's
almost like they could have done it over zoom, so
he didn't have to fly in it. He just didn't
get enough time, and he felt that of a stature

(01:03:15):
he deserved, he was sort of I don't want to
call it entitled to, but he should have gotten alonger
mean not get to understand that. I don't have a
problem with him saying that, and I'll tell you if
from behind the scenes talking to the Jets actually did
a lot of good things behind the scenes. I know
people want to question. You know, he left the team
last year to take a trip, which was scheduled, but
he shouldn't have done it. You know, he couldn't stay

(01:03:37):
healthy for two seasons. You know, he's forty one and
a half years old, and clearly the new general managers.
When I was asking FSR in January, do I think
we'll be Beckerson.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
No.

Speaker 13 (01:03:45):
They have a new general manager coming in and they're
going to want to have their own guy, and that
was part of it. Darren Mujie who came over from Denver,
the new general manager, and Aaron Glenn, they deserve to
have the right to have their own quarterback now justin
fields and he's of acquired tastes very streaky. What it
is is he's a young quarterback who needs time to develop.

(01:04:06):
And the cool thing is you've got a new coaching staff.
They've got a young offensive coordinator came over with a
tenor Angstrado came over from from the Lions. So they're
at a new beginning there. With with the Jets, there
there are what we call startover program.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
With Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
Adam, do you think that he mentioned retirement because that's
kind of what is happening in live time, like Jets
don't want him.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
I don't think he is a good fit with the Steelers,
and I think he realized that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:33):
And it's like, I don't I don't agree with that.

Speaker 13 (01:04:35):
I mean that, well, maybe he doesn't want to be
there because he really wants to be Monsi's Minnesota and
they they were very flattered and intrigued that he called them.

Speaker 7 (01:04:43):
But my understanding is they're like, no, if something happens
with with JJ.

Speaker 13 (01:04:48):
McCarthy when they you know he's doing well coming back
with torm Niscus, something happens in OTA's that they're surprised
with it doesn't look right, then they'll be on the
phone Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 7 (01:04:57):
But right now it's the Steel's clo. They want them.

Speaker 13 (01:05:01):
They've done nothing in free agency of note. I mean,
Mason Rudolph is a basically a low end number two quarterback.
He'd be at the starter right now if the season
started today, but it doesn't, and they really want him.

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
But no, he's he's It is true, they're aware of it.
He's deal with some kind of personal issue.

Speaker 13 (01:05:14):
I don't know what it is, and it's his business
or you know, I wouldn't even guess, but he's still
with something going on with him personally.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
We need again.

Speaker 7 (01:05:22):
Yeah, I have no idea, but no, but it's something
or in his inner circle. I just don't know what
it is. But look, it's his private life and you know,
whatever it is, you know he's got to take care
of it.

Speaker 13 (01:05:33):
I'm just interested to see what the Steelers do a
quarterback because Rogers will not affect what they're going to do.

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
At all.

Speaker 13 (01:05:37):
If they if at twenty one on their board as
a quarterback, then they'll take that quarterback. I don't think
it will be though, I'd be surprised, and we'll talk
obviously more about this next Sunday. I just meant, I
just know they were scarred from the Kenny Pickett situation.
I know they have a new front office, but that
was kind of a reach. And guys, this is just
not a good quarterback class. That's the thing I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (01:05:58):
To get through to people.

Speaker 13 (01:06:00):
I look, well, if I happen to be a betting man,
I probably bet three will go in the first round
because quarterbacks always get overdrafted. But I could tell you
I know many teams only have one quarterback grated in
the first round. That's cam Warden is going to go
number one.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
Who will be that third at him?

Speaker 13 (01:06:13):
I would say Jackson Jarred Adam Mississippi. And he's had
a really bow Knicks type of offseason. I used that
line back at the combine. He he had great, he
had a really good Senior Bowl, good combine. He's an
acquired chase. He's not gonna be for everyone. Carry he
throws the ball. It's kind of a three quarter, funky release,
but it gets there.

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
It's just the thing. There's a saying in the national.

Speaker 13 (01:06:32):
Football if you don't have one, you're looking for one,
and that's a franchise quarterback.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:06:36):
Look, bo Nux was better than I thought. He definitely
was better than anyone really thought other.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Than demand them.

Speaker 7 (01:06:45):
Yeah. Well, no, he loved He did pick Denver to
make the playoffs.

Speaker 13 (01:06:48):
That was the call, which yeah he did say that,
like Steve likes chicks the chest out, but I give
him credit for think he does.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
That's a great call that was. I didn't see it
because you know, the odds makers gave him five and
a half wins. Wow, it tells you that. Look, that's
how good of a call was.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Yeah, so three So the Saints will take you, think,
whatever quarterback is available when their pick comes up at
number nine.

Speaker 13 (01:07:09):
No, no, I don't see the value of Okay, they've
got edge wresser problems. Yeah, they've got corner problems. They've
got other positional needs. Now, the other problem ons before
we get out of here, is they I'm sure they'd
love to trade down get extra picks, and you know,
maybe there's a value of genty drops a little bit,

(01:07:31):
you know, maybe so on trades up. They're a team
that's sort of they're kind of stuck in neutral like
the They're just they just have not been able to
get out of their own way. They've since Sean Payton's left,
they've really struggled, and they've missed on a number of picks.
They've had a lot of injuries. They their cat problem
has been terrible, and they just have not gotten it right.

(01:07:51):
Uh and they there are cars have miss I mean
they missed on him. He's not quite what they want.
And now they have this mysterious shoulder injury, which is
he had an ac joints for an injury. So I
don't know what this could be, but well we're going
to learn more that that's The quarterback situation for them
is really intriguing. There's no question about it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Absolutely. I mean I said it to Carrie last week.
I think that they just need to call it a year.
Let's just reset it, because you're not a quarterback away
from making damage.

Speaker 13 (01:08:19):
No, I agree, I agree, and they're another team. By
the way, I don't think they'll take genty but Alba
Kamaraz is on the last year of his deal, so
they got to start looking to the future for him quarterback.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Obviously he sold his house as well.

Speaker 7 (01:08:32):
Oh yeah, well, you know, they.

Speaker 13 (01:08:35):
Redid his deal and they did him a major solid.
Oh it's sitting off the field issue that he had
last year. They actually guaranteed him a lot of money
last year and he's got a little bit of guaranteed
money this year. But it's been a great player, a
former third round pick in twenty seventeen. But as we
finished this off here, BOYD New Orleans is just a
team that just cannot get it right. And then they
got to take another look at it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
We are just a couple of days away from getting
the answers to all of these questions we have, and
we'll see if any moves happen. Adam Kaplan our NFL
insider uh Inside the Birds podcast, Adam, thank you. We'll
talk to you next week by Adam. All right, let's
check in with Martin wise Silver at the news desk.

(01:09:17):
Martin is having a snack. I literally threw it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
To him at the worst time.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Yeah, just I apologize and it's passed where, you know,
That's all I was. I was like, I honestly, I asked,
I already do my Bottom of the hour updated on
No you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Did not, you did not. We're on our own schedule today.

Speaker 9 (01:09:31):
Thing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:32):
I see. Why is it just bashing you know the
Saints as well? It's been like more do you know
who had the big playoff laws? And answer? Yeah, I do,
I do. In fact, you knows? Are the words some
kind of situations in the NFL? Yeah, I do, I do,
I do. Derek Carr, yeah he was at missed Adam.
I agree?

Speaker 11 (01:09:49):
Whose who has a who has a potential uh seasoned
injury in April?

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
April and April. Yeah, that's not ideal.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
Anyway.

Speaker 11 (01:10:01):
Anyway, Three playoff games in the books so far across
professional sports, none of them particularly close. Game one of
the Carolina New Jersey series. The Hurricanes beat the Devils
four to one. The Magic lost to the Celtics, I'm sorry,
one hundred and three to eighty six. Paalo ben Carol
led all scores with thirty six points, but kind of
like the earlier Eastern Conference whooping we saw yesterday, Gianna's

(01:10:25):
had thirty six. Nobody else came along for the ride.
Franz Wagner. He had twenty three points on twenty four shots.
Jason Tatum struggled from the field eight for twenty two,
had seventeen points. But again, when you're plus twenty three,
does it matter. Derek White led the team with thirty.
Earlier today we saw the Thunder put B two a
to the Grizzlies won thirty one to eighty. All five

(01:10:46):
of the thunderstarters had double digits, Cheded Comgren with a
double double SGA fifteen points, five assists.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
Yeah, and it was seven points away from the largest
margin of victory in NBA history.

Speaker 11 (01:10:57):
So yeah, I meant you look it up the score.

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
You have sixty points in the fourth.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Honestly, it was over in the first half, it really was.
They came out with no heart.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
It never made it onto my TV.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
You didn't know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
By the time I checked the score, I was like, yeah,
I can.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Sit this one out exactly, just like the Grizzlies did.

Speaker 11 (01:11:20):
Let me ask you this, as a Mavericks guy, right,
would you have rather than made the playoffs than the
Grizzlies We already.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
Talked about this last Absolutely not, get Martin, absolutely not.
We would have lost this game today by one hundred
I understand that.

Speaker 11 (01:11:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but let me ask you this, did
you consider the concept because look as it is that
somebody who's enjoying the games, right, we watched, we have
to watch others on TV, so it may as well
be fun. Right, Yes, this is not going to be
a fun series, going to be four to oh wah wah. Right,
But in games three and four, in the fourth quarter,
we could have heard.

Speaker 5 (01:11:51):
Fire Ego raining down.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
You know what I'm saying, like the theater of it, Yeah,
he makes a good would have been so much better.

Speaker 11 (01:12:00):
Yeah than you know, the bombs Burschigan air that we'll
see from John Moran as they hit a three down forty.

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
Right, listen now, Yes, watching the play in, I wanted
them to beat Memphis and make it to the playoffs, obviously,
but not for the reason you're talking about. You're talking
about fire Nico. Man, Come on, man, I'm not so tired.

Speaker 11 (01:12:19):
I don't even think they should have fired Nicoll kept saying, yeah,
it would have been much better television.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
Yes, whatever the hell we're gonna watch in Memphis in
games three and four.

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Yes, man, A wrong, a wrong, thank you, Martin, because
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Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
All right, Dollars Shave Club, you heard it all, all right,
It's time for a little fun easy as one, two, three, four.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
I'm gonna make it easy because you don't have as
much time, so.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
You're gonna be on the clock, So I'm gonna six
and a half is over under six and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
All right, Right, you have all your lifelines, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Don't think too hard, all right, give me one of
two players with the highest point average in NBA Playoffs history.
One of two players one of two players.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Highest point average and NBA Playoffs history.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
Yeah, I'll go, I'll go Luca, all right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Show me Luca. That's right, Luca is right under the
go MJ Michael Jordan who averaged thirty three point four,
Luca thirty point nine. And he guesses on the who's
after Luca?

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
Who's after Luca? I would probably guess I'd say Nicola.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Nicola, No, Allen Iverson, Hey I twenty nine point seven points? Yeah,
all right, onto the next one. So USC has produced
the most number one overall picks in the NFL. Six
they have the most. Now give me two of the
three schools that have five number one overall picks. You

(01:15:51):
got your lifelines, You've got Martin, You've got Ian, you've
got Mary mac How many you have the three schools
that have reduced five number one overall picks? US as
the most. Caleb Williams most recently they have six, but
three schools actually have five.

Speaker 5 (01:16:09):
Martin, what you got, Martin, I'm gonna go with.

Speaker 11 (01:16:12):
I think when you're thinking about this, you gotta go
old school, right, Like teams that have been really good
forever are like had, especially when there was, like you know,
less NFL teams and less college teams you're drafting from
or picking from.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
I will go with I'll go with Notre Dame. I'd
say that for sure. I was going to say that
too as well. Okay, what we got we got one more.

Speaker 9 (01:16:39):
I'm racking my brains here too, and I like what
Martin was saying, old.

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
School, but that Notre Dame. Yeah, I'm thinking.

Speaker 9 (01:16:47):
I'm trying to think, what's what's qbu? Because the most
number one overall picks are quarterbacks, and obviously USC comes
to mind there. But I'm trying to think what would
be that next QBU. I feel like one should be
coming to mind so and one isn't. So. I think
if I had to just throw against mine would be
probably Georgia.

Speaker 11 (01:17:07):
See that's the problem when you ask a young kick, No,
that's the problem when you ask a Jets.

Speaker 5 (01:17:12):
Fan what's TB you it's not by us.

Speaker 9 (01:17:16):
All you all right, so we've got one, give you
another one response to that?

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
We got Notre Dame for sure, I mean, oh man, no,
Alabama would all the first round picks they have, but
I don't know if they had number one.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Correct, it's number one overall?

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
Oh Manzi, let's I'll just say, let's let's say Penn.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
State, Penn State, all right, okay, show me Notre Dame,
that is correct, Notre Dame Old School. I mean their
most recent one was nineteen seventy two. So Martin, you
were on one. Is it Penn State?

Speaker 10 (01:17:53):
You know who it is?

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Is it Georgia? Georgia has it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Walker the most recent? Matthew Stafford also, and the other one,
I'll give you a clue. Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. Kyler
Murray came out of there as well. Mostly said, so
those were the other ones that have five? All right, quickly,
and if not, we'll finish on the other side at
the start of the hour. But give me three of
the four NBA players who have the most all defensive

(01:18:21):
first team selections of the four in history.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
Yes, oh yeah, sign me the Kim Bae Is he
one of them? The Kim Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
I mean Mark Martin doesn't seem like he's in.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
I mean Draymond Green is one right, he's got.

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
For sure all defensive first team selections.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Man, we may have to we got to go to
the next week. We may have to start on the
other side. You can actually think about that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
I need to think about it for a second. To
Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tien Duncan. That's at
least three. Can I see a Rudy Goberro on the list,
on the list, and then what do I need? I
need one more?

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
I need one more, I need it's three or four?

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Yeah, give me Gary Payton the glove boom. So go ahead.
On the other side for.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
He's Carrie, that'smart and that's he and that's very.

Speaker 7 (01:19:31):
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Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Carrie is still deciding on who has made the most
first team All Defensive a team in the NBA. I
am Monty Belanos, Carrie Roads here, Happy Sunday. If you're
celebrating Easter, I hope you're having a great day. We
are having just a grand time and we didn't get
to finish the segment because yes, I was trying to

(01:19:55):
on purpose give you some stress with the time, Uh,
because sometimes you just like to take your you know,
you're like, oh, we're here forever.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
I could just think about it, So I wanted to
put a little.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Pressure under you. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
It didn't work, No, but that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Yeah, I guess it didn't work, but it worked because
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Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
So we're gonna wrap up easy as one, two, three, four. Yes,
we are or three of the four NBA players who
have the most all defensive first team selections.

Speaker 5 (01:20:39):
Yeah, I still don't know, but I said, uh, we're
gonna we're gonna go with Uh, We're gonna go with
mj Okay. I have to go at Rudy Gobert okay, Eh,
and Martin said Kobe, I just don't know if it's
Kobe though.

Speaker 11 (01:21:00):
I just said what I will say this when MONSI
said who has the most All First Team defensive.

Speaker 5 (01:21:07):
Uh, you know nominations?

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Yeah I was.

Speaker 5 (01:21:10):
I immediately said, oh I got.

Speaker 9 (01:21:12):
This come to me.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Yes he did. He was confident.

Speaker 5 (01:21:15):
A No, don't mister take your five minutes to figure
it out. We're gonna go with Kobe.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
Okay, all right, so show me Michael Jordan, that's correct,
Michael Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
Nine, show me Kobe Bryant that is correct.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Nine, nine, and Rudy go bear.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
And not even Rudy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
Rudy has seven. Rudy has seven First Team All selections
A lot.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Yeah, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, and Gary Payton
all have nine, which Martin also told also coming in
at number with eight selections, Tim Duncan and Scottie Pippen,
saying Scotty being on the break. But Rudy Gobert is
at seven, so he's in the next bracket, right, last

(01:22:07):
one here, give me four of the five best selling
albums for Beyonce.

Speaker 5 (01:22:11):
Oh, I don't know any of those, like the album made.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
You've got Mary mac to help you out.

Speaker 5 (01:22:18):
I'm definitely going to marry on this one. This is
Mary's four tape? How many four?

Speaker 8 (01:22:22):
Four of her best five selling albums.

Speaker 5 (01:22:26):
Come on, Mary, you're the only one that's going to
get this one. Okay, I feel disrespected.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
Ian all of you might know Beyonce album.

Speaker 5 (01:22:35):
No, I don't believe you guys. Come on, Mary, you
see it's not that easily in the hot seat.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
No, no, no, And they don't have to be an order,
just no, Just give me four of the five most
you know, highest selling albums for her. They don't have
to be an order.

Speaker 10 (01:22:52):
I look, you want to say Lemonade, but it might
not be it Lemonade.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
Got Lemonade?

Speaker 10 (01:22:56):
Okay, Lemonade?

Speaker 5 (01:22:57):
I think? So what's the album? I agree women, lemon
for sure.

Speaker 10 (01:23:02):
It's not the Kitty. It's not called it's the birthday album.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
You want to go beat Day?

Speaker 10 (01:23:07):
Okay, Lemonade b Day? He said four?

Speaker 11 (01:23:10):
Right, Mary Mac How about that the first surprise album
that's self titled, like the first.

Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Once she dropped in the middle of the night.

Speaker 10 (01:23:20):
Oh yeah, beyond Yeah, who's.

Speaker 5 (01:23:22):
The musician here again?

Speaker 8 (01:23:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:23:24):
Right now, that's because that one had a bunch of
hits on there.

Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
What about this country when it just came out. I
know the country market, Carter, I can't go there.

Speaker 10 (01:23:31):
No, probably no, No, you know what, it probably Renaissance.

Speaker 5 (01:23:37):
Why did you it's Manti's But no, because it's album.

Speaker 6 (01:23:49):
Sales right core exactly, So we had to think about this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:52):
Beyonce has been active.

Speaker 11 (01:23:54):
Since I was in like middle school exactly right, So,
like there were times in Beyonce's music career where people
went out to Sam Goody and bought Beyonce CD mathing.
So like I feel like anything past like the you know,
the the Apple Music nine a month era, Yeah, is
not really gonna be knocking on the door here.

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
I agree with you Martin on that one.

Speaker 9 (01:24:17):
Yeah, guy has the age of streaming music, though not
helped sales because.

Speaker 10 (01:24:22):
There's no more physical copies. Basically right, saying you're not
going to I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:24:25):
That's like me genuinely asking.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Yeah, it's still not the siest it's not the same
streams and actual album is something totally different. All right,
give me one more. You guys have Eliminade b Dave
Beyonce and it.

Speaker 10 (01:24:38):
Might have to be cow with Carter.

Speaker 11 (01:24:40):
What you got Martin, No, it's every guy's favorite Beyonce album,
Dangerously in Love.

Speaker 10 (01:24:45):
Oh I didn't even think about that one.

Speaker 11 (01:24:47):
You're right, You're right Dangerous, which has every guy's favorite
Beyonce song Me Myself and I.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
It's a great wife. And doesn't she have that song
with boys Crazy Crazy Love?

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
Oh my god? All right, I hated that they camp outside.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
So we're saying Lemonade, be Date, Beyonce, Dangerously in Love. Okay,
all right, show Me Dangerously in Love. Technically the highest
selling album of hers is Dangerous, But like it's been,
it's been around.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
A long long time, so that's part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
I was like I was in the seventh grade when
that came out.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
This what I'm saying, Yeah, all right, show Me be Day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
That's correct, that's actually third, show Me Beyonce, that is correct,
that's actually fourth.

Speaker 10 (01:25:36):
Nicki Minaj's like feature on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Come on now, is it Lemonade? Believe? I was surprised
Lemonade is sixth in the list. I am Sasha Fierce
is number right.

Speaker 10 (01:25:51):
She had the Lady Gaga feature on that one too.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
But what was over under six and a half ones?
You get seven.

Speaker 5 (01:25:58):
Barely went out answering nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
Very nicely done.

Speaker 5 (01:26:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah you win. Yeah, it's not who you know,
it's I want you know who you know?

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
It is it is on this Yes, you barely want it.
Good job though, very well done.

Speaker 5 (01:26:16):
Man. If it wasn't, if it wasn't for the supporting
yes it was.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Yeah, Martin was Peyton Pritchard off the bench for you
and the Celtics. The Celtics won today, guys, and we
are just now talking about it because of the disrespect,
the disrespect. We don't take them seriously. Why don't we
take them seriously? Is it just because they're good?

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
Yeah? I think that's what it is. People are just
kind of board with how how they operate, how they
do things, how they win. They shoot a lot of threes.
If they make them, they're going to win. If they miss,
you may have a chance to beat them. It's kind
of predictable. You got the stars, who are you know,
more inward than outward? Uh, as far as you know
their personality and who they are, and so yeah, it's

(01:27:02):
not like the sexy thing to talk about them. I
guess a lot a lot and give them their flowers.
But I'm here to give them their flowers. They did
a good job today of helling their business in Game one. Today,
Orlando came out, fought well, actually laid at the half
by one third quarter. Boston came out and you know,
just put the pressure on them and put their championship

(01:27:24):
medal to the test and came out and won the game.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Yeah, I give it up to Orlando because, like you said,
they didn't make it easy. And this is if I'm
the Celtics, I want this. I do want you to
come and give me a hard time so that I
don't think this is going to be an easy trip
to the finals. I think we both agreed that this
is the Celtics Eastern Conference to lose. They are the
best team, and you're right. If they are shooting that

(01:27:47):
three and all seven of them are hitting their threes,
it's really hard to beat them. Today from the three
point line, they shot forty three percent sixteen of thirty seven.
But it's the fact that they just have.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
So many three point shooters.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Any you can't leave someone open on the perimeter, and
that's really hard to do. And Orlando did their best
to try and put a hand up around the perimeter
the entire game. They pulled away in the second half,
and I still think Boston wins this, but I think
Orlando has a chance to make this a really interesting
series where Boston doesn't win it in five games. Maybe

(01:28:23):
it's going to take six games for Boston to win
this one. Orlando might go home and win the two
they have it there, Halo Bancaro thirty six points, Franz
Wagner twenty three points. But yeah, there everybody else was
kind of quiet when that's the problem you face. The Celtics,
I mean, Peyton Pritchard off the bench nineteen points.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
Yeah, I was just about to say MASSI we talked
about okay see and them winning with say say Gildess
Alexander having a below normal game for him. Right, Yep.
The Celtics won this game by seventeen points. Jason Tatum
was eight for twenty two. Yeah, Porzeingis was one for
eight and Jaylen Brown was six or fourteen. Nothing effishing
about their top three players and they still won by seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
So scary, that's what Scarry times.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Yeah, you know I know that, like Jason, I agree
that Jason Tatum I think does not get the credit
he should get. I also think it's just there's a
bit of like an X factor. It's almost like you're
too normal. You're just a good, great, elite basketball player.

Speaker 5 (01:29:21):
Yeah, not good, he's great, he's great elite.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Yeah, doesn what I'm saying all of that, But you're
like just like a normal dude. And I don't know
if we want something that's polarizing or what, but there's
something about it where like the X factor doesn't hit
with Jason Tatum. I also feel like if I'm Derek White,
I'm Derek. I mean, like, hello, I know I'm not
supposed to be one of the stars. Yeah, but Derek
White is a consistent factor, positive factor.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
What was it that Lauren variables? Positive variables that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Lauren Rosen who was our guest earlier on the show,
if you missed it, she stuck around for a while,
or Lauren Rosen covering the Clippers for fan Dual TV
Sports and we just talked a lot of NBA with her.
She's talking about very and the Celtics just have like
a lot of variables that if one variable is going negative,
you can probably rely that the other one is going
to be a positive.

Speaker 5 (01:30:09):
And in this case, three three and they still won
by seventeen. I mean And that's the thing about the Celtics.
Right out of their starting five, how many of those
guys can give you thirty? I would say four at
the five, I was like all of them, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Maybe not Holiday, but if he did, you'd be like, oh,
look at Drew.

Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
This was his game exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
That's scary. I didn't even think of it like that.
That's a good point. If I looked at them, all
of them can hit thirty. Peyton Pritchard off the bench could.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Hit thirty, and you're just like, also, like, I'm not
gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
If Al Horford hit twenty eight, you'd be like old
school that day. He could have that day old school
out coming out there man Al Horford. Yes, I forget
that he's on the team. And then I see him
hit two back to back threes, and I'm like, that's
what you're there for, exactly. Literally, like just the other
team is getting some sort of momentum and you think
I'm gonna stop them. A player you are not expecting

(01:31:02):
on the Boston team is going to stop your momentum.

Speaker 5 (01:31:05):
Yeah. No, they're the best. Like I said, they're the
best team that are a team to beat. I think
throughout the whole NBA in my opinion, Yeah, even with Oka. See,
I mean, that'll be a great series. Obviously they got
to that point, but long way to go. And the
Celtics came out and took care of business in Game one, for.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Sure, the care of business.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
And again I think it's good that Orlando put up
a fight.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
No, that it wasn't easy, because you can kind of
like take your foot off the gas, like OKC has
to go after their blowout wind today have fifty one points,
they have to go home and be like, Okay, guys,
like this was fun and all, but we can't take
our foot off the gas at all. And so I
think this is like a good sign for Celtics, right,
like we are better, but there's good basketball teams out there.

(01:31:42):
We cannot ease up.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
No, yeah, I mean Orlando's not going to make this
easy at all. We thought, we talked about it, talked
about it in the opening of the show. Right, it's
they have an identity. Their identity is defense. They held Boston.
I'm not and I didn't. We didn't get to watch
the game the way that I would like to watch
it in show, Yes, but I'm sure these shooting performances

(01:32:03):
by the top three from Boston isn't just because they missed, right.
Orlando plays defense, and so like if they can get
some supporting characters to score some more points, which is
Orlando's problem, they can't score enough. I mean they held
Boston to one o three.

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
If you hold Boston to one o three, you think
you can win that game. Yes, And so that's the thing.
If Orlando gets a KCP or a Wyndale Card or whoever,
somebody else would give them just a few more points,
this can be an interesting series.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Yeah, you know, I look at this is just for
the future. I look at you know, Orlando, and I
feel like they need like a like a Jamal Murray.

Speaker 5 (01:32:42):
They need Jalen Suggs who was injured. You get we
forget about it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Well, I forgot that Jail is injured. Yeah, and that
would have made it you're saying, yeah, that would have
made an absolute difference. Yeah, they did hold them to
only one hundred and three points. And you know it's
because Orlando, like you said, they don't just play defense.
But those fifty to fifty balls, oh, they get them,
they're gonna get up. So how did they lose this
because the Celtics just have such great shooting. Yes, all around,
they are on paper the best team right in the NBA,

(01:33:08):
and like, there is no reason to not think that
they're not going to be in the NBA Finals and
possibly win back to back, which I know is very
difficult to do. But Celtics again proving how deep their
roster actually is, even if their stars are not as hot.
Give it up though, again for magic and their defense
and making a little bit harder. Let's talk about yesterday's

(01:33:29):
game where the Knicks and the Pistons. I we've talked
about that we think the Pistons could be a dark
horse in this entire playoff run. But when you go
on a twenty one zero run in the fourth quarter,
you are not gonna win many games. No, no, twenty

(01:33:52):
one zero run.

Speaker 6 (01:33:53):
For the next it was epic, an epic collapse, epic
a collapse collapse, No, no game.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
They were shell shocks. Yes, they could not even get
a shot attempted up Manzi. It was crazy as good
as good as they played, and obviously even early on
you could see they were a little nervous being in
the playoffs for the first time in a long time.
You could see it a little bit, you can sense it.
But they gathered, regrouped, play really well all the way
up until the end of the third quarter. Fourth quarter

(01:34:21):
was just an epic collapse.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
It was Detroit's first playoff game since twenty nineteen. You're right,
I mean, and they also haven't won a postseason game
since two thousand and eight, so it's been a minute.
Nerves all of that, but that collapse is like beyond
the nerves. Twenty one zero is a lot. It's like,
I need you to get a layup in, I need
you to get fouled and see the ball go in

(01:34:43):
the bast skit and it was bad. I don't know
if it was Jalen Brunson changing his shoes. You saw
that he left.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
He had missed the last I don't know, fifteen games.

Speaker 5 (01:34:52):
No, he came back at the end and played a couple.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
So he played a couple, so, but he missed a
lot because of that sprained ankle that he suffered against
the Lakers. Correct, and he left, switched his shoes and
then all of a sudden, the Knicks kind of hit
a different gear.

Speaker 5 (01:35:06):
Yeah, yeah, he started two for thirteen. Then, yeah, yeah,
and that's something crazy there was.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
He was not a factor until literally the end.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
I mean Tom Tabodeau at the at the end when
they asked him about the shoe thing, He's like, no,
I think he got his cape because it was weird.
He went switched his shoes out all of a sudden.
They all seems like, all right, we're ready to play. Yeah,
it was like that Michael's secret stuff like in Space Jam.
You know what I'm saying. The secret stuff was the shoes.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
Yeah. And it's funny because when he did change the shoes, he,
like I said before, he was two for thirteen. I
think after that, I think he was like eight for
eleven or eight for ten. So like a totally different
player came out, got the job done. And that Nick
team if they want to get to where they want
to get to, and they got a good day. I
think they really do have a really good team. I
don't know what, you know. They had a little lull

(01:35:50):
throughout the season where they couldn't It seemed like it
was coming off the rails at a little bit. But
if you look at their roster and you look at
their starting five, they have a chance to compete and
I think that the X factor with them is going
to be o Gianoby though.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
I'm glad you said that. I agree with you. Looking
at them, it's like they can They can score. By
the way, Brunson ended twelve of twenty seven for thirty
four points. I mean, he was the leading scorer for
the Knicks in the entire game after that run in
the fourth quarter that they had. But ogian Unobi is
going to be I think their X factor. Sure here,
they also they play defense. You know, Michel Bridges, He's

(01:36:24):
gonna be out there playing defense. He doesn't need to
score points. He's happy to be there just playing defense.
He gave eight points four of nine. They can score
a lot of points. So if they can find a
way to hold the other team to they're under their average,
Knicks can win. And I just am shocked that the
Pistons unraveled like that.

Speaker 5 (01:36:45):
Yeah, the Pistons aren't going anywhere, and I think they
they ultimately have a team that's built off of the
same principles that we talked about with the other teams
that are in this that we talked about earlier. Okay,
see in Orlando, they have an identity. They're gonna play defense.
They're going to play hard as well. They have a
star player in Kay Cunningham. They got supporting cast that
needs to get a little bit better and I think

(01:37:06):
grow up through this playoff run. But I mean having
an identity the way they do. They're going to come
out and fight, and this series right here is definitely
not going to be a quick one or an needsy one.
They're going to come back and win, win, win a
couple of games in this series.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
Do you think they still won a New York game too?

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
Not yet. I don't know, but they have a chance
they do.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
I yeah, Like I know that they unraveled and I
wasn't expecting it, but I am also like, I'm not
ruling them out. You know, We've talked about they're a
good team, and there's something about the Knicks where I
feel like they can unravel any minute, right at any
in any game. And so like, because we felt first,
I were like, is there is there is there issues
maybe off the court that we don't know we talked about.

(01:37:50):
We don't know. We were just like guessing because it
seemed like something was off and it wasn't just Jalen
Brunson's injury. It seemed like it went deeper than that. Obviously,
they came out and they won, and I'm sure like
this is what the Knicks needed. This is NBA loves this,
The NBA loves that the Knicks can be successful, and
they won't probably want this to be a Knicks win

(01:38:12):
after it's all been said and done. But I'm not
dismissing the Pistons yet.

Speaker 10 (01:38:17):
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
I think there's still a chance because again, we don't
want to overreact after game one, we don't want to
overreact and they.

Speaker 5 (01:38:23):
It took a twenty one oh run to switch that game.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Which isn't going to happen again. There's no way. And
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Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
If you've missed the show, you've got to go back
and listen.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
To our podcast because we've dissected all of the NBA
games as much as we can. Had Lauren Rosen on
the show, who covers the Clippers. Talked to add Kaplan
about the NFL Draft coming up on Thursday, but even
he didn't have answers for us Carrie when it came
to Aaron Rogers, No, not real answers. What guess the stuff,

(01:40:16):
Guess what's gonna happen. Aaron Rodgers made an appearance on
the Pat McAfee show earlier this week, literally was on
the show for like forty five minutes. Was very zen, which,
by the way, ever since last week, I keep using
zen in my life because of you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:28):
He looked very zen, very relaxed and chill.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
And he essentially said that he was still mulling over
the situation of what he was going to do in
twenty twenty five, and retirement was definitely an option. Personal
life things going on. He's in a serious relationship, he
said that himself. And then he also added that he
went to the Steelers just to see things for himself,

(01:40:53):
so that he wanted to go and chat. Didn't say
anything bad about the Steelers, said some bad things about
the Jets, and then said that money was not an
option and that he would even play for ten million.
Let me tell you what I got from everything he said.
I was like, oh, this guy is considering retiring, but
it's kind of being forced on him. What do I

(01:41:14):
mean by that? If Aaron Rodgers takes a deal where
he's taking ten million dollars, he has accepted the fact
that he is no longer Aaron Rodgers possibly the greatest
football player of all time, which is different than the goat.
We've talked about that nicolae Ugdge is the greatest basketball
player of all time.

Speaker 10 (01:41:31):
He's got the goat.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
A lot of people say Aaron Rodgers is the greatest
right quarterback that they've seen him. Taking a pay cut
means that he is accepting that he is no longer
the elite quarter back Aaron Rodgers that he once was,
and that is a tough pill to swallow, almost easier
to retire.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Yeah, that's a I mean, yeah, it's a good point,
and I think it's a valet point. I think you
get to a point where as an athlete, the meter
isn't running on fool anymore, right, so you have to
acknowledge that, and I think he understands that part of it.
But then when your meter is not running on full,
that means the gas prices aren't going to be the

(01:42:13):
same as well either, right, And so you have a
you have to make a you have to make a decision.

Speaker 7 (01:42:18):
Do I.

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
Come off of the thought that I am who I
once was to now realizing who I am, And that
is a tough pill to swallow, and especially if for
him started out slow throughout the season it was didn't
look good at all. Then at the end of that season,
you start to look like yourself a little bit, right,
and so you do feel like you can get it

(01:42:41):
done still, but then the tape is the tape, and
so you know you are what you are for that
season and you don't warrant that same number that dollar anymore.
It's it's tough for a star player. And again, if
you talk about him as a person, as a quarterback,
a lot of people still do say he's the most
talented quarterback they've seen. Right, doesn't mean it's the best

(01:43:04):
quarterback that go what we talked about, but the most
talented quarterback we've seen. I was on the record saying
that as well. He came in the same crazy to
say this, but we came in the same draft together. Wow,
I understand that. Wow, Manty, No, I know, I'm aze
to myself, but also like, yeah, I'm so amazed at
him and for that reason alone. And I didn't want

(01:43:28):
to say he's going to retire this year. We had
this conversation earlier, and now I think it's a real thing,
and that's crazy to me.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
Absolutely, I did not think he was going to retire.

Speaker 3 (01:43:39):
I did not think that was an option, right, And
that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
I think the option is kind of being forced on
because there would just be a lot of acceptance if
he were to take a pay cut for himself. And
I think he realized, like when he went to Pittsburgh,
It's like, I could do this, but is this really
the best fit for me? Probably not, not that he
can't do it. Of course he can do it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
And then when he said I would take a pay
cut or take less money, in.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
My head, I was like, all right, so if Vikings
call and say take I don't know what's Is there
a minimum that he has to be making? Said well,
because he said it. Yeah, But like, okay, if you're
taking a pay cut and the Vikings call and say
eight million for one year for you to just be
alongside JJ McCarthy, he's not gonna do it. No, He's
not gonna do. But that's what he wants though. Adam

(01:44:24):
Kaplan told us if something happens to JJ McCarthy for
whatever reason during OTAs and all of that, they're they're
gonna call him.

Speaker 5 (01:44:32):
Yeah, but he won't go below ten million. That's what
I'm saying to you. I don't think he wants to.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
I don't think he wants to play for ten million, right.

Speaker 5 (01:44:39):
Right, I hear, So what's two more?

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
What's two more at this point if you really want
to play and it seems like that's just where he
finds the best fit.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
Yeah, but I think it's just kind of being forced
upon him in live time.

Speaker 5 (01:44:54):
Yeah, I agree. I mean I agree with that. I
think it's been forced upon him also with the just
the thought or the fact that there aren't many teams
that would be a good fit for him. Yeah, right,
Like he could go play football somewhere. I'm sure somebody
would give him the chance absolutely play football. But would
it be beneficial and would it make sense for your career?

Speaker 2 (01:45:14):
It's just no, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
And I think you said it right where it's like
the end of the season left you with.

Speaker 2 (01:45:21):
Hope yep, right, or like a good taste in your life,
a positive taste. We have Jets fan Ian our producer, Ian,
what do you think Aaron Rodgers is mulling over? You
saw you were a Jets fan. You saw it at
the end, I did, and what I.

Speaker 9 (01:45:42):
I want to tread lightly on the topic, just because
he did say he's been dealing with some personal stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:45:47):
Absolutely.

Speaker 9 (01:45:48):
Yeah, but it's like, you know, with that caveat you
have to say, you know, you you preface all of
it by saying that, because at the same time, you're
holding everybody hostage absol regardless of whether or not that's
what you mean to be doing. That's what you're doing.
Like there, it's there's all these and it's not just
the teams you're holding hostage. It's the fan bases too,
and it's the entire NFL fan base as a whole. Which,

(01:46:09):
don't get me wrong, I'm sure that's what he means
to be doing, and he loves doing it, but it
just adds to who he is, I guess.

Speaker 5 (01:46:15):
But and but you got to think about this, And
so the NFL teams and their gms and their owners
are more at fault than he is. They don't have
to deal with it. Yeah, it's no like he's making
a decision, but they don't have to give him that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:28):
Decision, which is what he told me a couple months
this man, I.

Speaker 5 (01:46:34):
Mean, that's all it is. It's a two way street
either way. It's true, three way street, right organization, But.

Speaker 9 (01:46:39):
When you have talent, like it's just the way of things.
Like I get that technically they have to wait on him,
you know, because he's the one who's playing, and he's
the one with the talent and all that. But at
the same time, it's like the reality of the situation
is that they are waiting on him and he knows
that way on him, so it's you know, you're holding
them hostage regardless.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
And he's lucky, as we've heard a million times, not
a great quarterback draft class, Like he's lucky that this
is the year that this is happening, because that's why
they're they're waiting, you know.

Speaker 9 (01:47:10):
But because last year he would be forced into retire.

Speaker 5 (01:47:12):
To be done.

Speaker 9 (01:47:13):
Drake May, Caleb Williams, bow Nicks like you can get
these guys, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
It's absolutely absolutely so you know, he's I don't know
what he's gonna do, but I.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
For the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
I really do feel like retiring is really on his mind.

Speaker 5 (01:47:26):
And I did not think this to be a sad
way to go out too. That's why always for him.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
Yeah, but like he would, he didn't go out right
after the Achilles injury.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
He came back and like was able. I feel like
there's a worse way to go out. What if he
plays one more year and it's even worse than that.

Speaker 9 (01:47:44):
I mean, it's always talking about him right now. It's
just such a negative, that's what.

Speaker 5 (01:47:49):
And I see what you're saying.

Speaker 9 (01:47:50):
If you were to retire right now, think about this
is such a you know, sideway, you know whatever. Maybe
it's not even that related. But Darren Waller retired a
few years ago, right. He was one of the best
tight ends of his era. You know, these last few
years he was a must have in fantasy. But he
had that last year with the Giants where he was terrible.
I barely played, he was injured the whole year, and

(01:48:11):
then he retired after that year. No one expected him
to actually retire because that year was so bad, right,
And now I feel like all he's really known for
is these songs he keeps coming out with. He was
break up with Kelsey Plumb, and people forget how good
he was as a player, And I think it's because
he went out on such a sour note that people
just kind of forget, And.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
I think that's one of maybe the reasons he's not
fully wanting to retire.

Speaker 9 (01:48:32):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
I just think, like it was not that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
But I hear what you're saying that the discourse around him, like,
aside from how the season ended, has been negative for
the most part, and this is the way he would
go out if he retires.

Speaker 5 (01:48:46):
And it's funny the Waller thing, Like you think about that,
like he's going to be an afterthought obviously right now
at this point. But he did have a few moments
of brilliance there was really good And I think what
Ian is saying is, like the way he went out, yes,
that's I don't know if that's a worse way, Yeah,
but it's pretty bad and aaron for him, though his

(01:49:08):
his ceiling was way higher than Wallers and what we
expected from him, and for him to go to the
Jets and to have the thought of being the savior
and to not even make the playoffs, that's that's a
pretty bad way to go. Out.

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:49:22):
Well yeah, just coming up short is kind of what
what he would end up being known for, which which
sucks because he didn't end up playing that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Right Yeah yeah, well never coming up short? Is Martin
Weiss over at the news desk. Martin, give us a spin.
What's going on? What's the score?

Speaker 11 (01:49:38):
I just have a question for Carry, because you guys
came in the same draft, the same draft class.

Speaker 5 (01:49:42):
How crazy is that? Why did you retire when you did?
We were we were just talking about this, I mean
my last year in Arizona, right, I so we're talking
about the money. We're talking about the ten million and
Aaron Rodgers, right, So like my last year, I was
due to make eight, right, and they were going to
guarantee that in another year, So they're adding an extra
year to the contract. It would have been essentially the

(01:50:04):
same eight, but really a pay cut. So the same
thing that Aaron's they're talking about Aaron going through. I
was going through it, but I knew my worth. I
was coming off my last year. I was still one
of the top three like safeties by the PFF, the
sure pro football focused thing, right, so people them, so

(01:50:25):
I still had that cachet to do it. So I
was like, nah, I'm not playing for that number. And
I just wanted to do other things outside of that.
So I wanted my health. I hurt my back that
last year. It was other factors. I wanted to move
on and be healthy and have a career after.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
But it was money was a factory.

Speaker 11 (01:50:42):
Money wasn't for money. I think you hit on the
big one where it was like I wanted to do
other things. Yes, you got other things going on in
your life that you were interested in besides football. I
just don't know why Rogers hasn't retired if you've got
all this stuff going on, and maybe if somebody had off,
just like you know, one of your different twenty million dollars,
you might have played sixteen more.

Speaker 5 (01:51:03):
Games in the NFL the case right, right, all right,
but you figured those personal issues out anyway. I just anyway. Anyway,
The timan is left in the second.

Speaker 11 (01:51:13):
Quarter between the Heat and the Cavaliers, Cleveland with a
thirty seven to twenty nine lead. It's been the theme
of the playoffs so far today. These games have not
been close, no matter what sports you're looking at. Right now, again,
Cleveland with a thirty seven to twenty nine lead with
just under ten minutes to go in the first half.
We'll see how that one plays out. But earlier today

(01:51:33):
we saw the Celtics pound on the Magic one oh
three to eighty six. Derek White had thirty Palo ban
Caro had a thirty six and eleven double double, but
nobody else really came along for the ride. Speaking of
the Oklahoma City Thunder one thirty one to eighty the
final score, you know it's tough for Memphis from Marvin
Bagley Junior as a leading scorer with seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
Points, didn't he hit the half court shot or something?

Speaker 5 (01:51:55):
Sure, I don't know, I'm watching.

Speaker 11 (01:51:57):
Yeah, in a game in which the team has thirty
six points at the half in Oklahoma, shitty scored thirty
six points in the second quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:52:05):
I'm not watching that.

Speaker 11 (01:52:06):
So in the NHL, the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New
Jersey Devils four to one, and the Maple Leafs have
a two goal lead on the Senators with just over
four minutes and thirty seconds left in the first period.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Moncy and carry back to you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
Thanks Marin Fox Sports Sunday, Monty Belangas alongside former All
Pro safety Carrie Rhodes, What a Sunday. We started the
show with saying like, we have too many things to
talk about and not enough time, and in fact, what
we are gonna talk about to wrap up the show
was supposed to be talked about in the first hour,
but we ran out of time having so much fun
with Lauren and the NBA talk. We got to discuss

(01:52:45):
Kwan Soto and how he already misses the Yankees, and
we're gonna talk about that. On the other side, don't
go anywhere. It's Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 5 (01:52:54):
Who's won? Soto?

Speaker 13 (01:52:58):
Mary?

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
This is a one of my gms. I like it
takes me back to Europe. I was in Europe and
I feel like this song was playing over there.

Speaker 5 (01:53:09):
You got your you got your hands in your hair
right now you already thinking about it?

Speaker 10 (01:53:13):
Was in second grade one then.

Speaker 2 (01:53:14):
Yeaft I throw my hands up in the air sometime
and it's Fox Sports Sunday and I am Montibalayos alongside
former All Pro safety Carry Roads.

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Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
The best part was that I got to dance the
entire time.

Speaker 9 (01:54:26):
That you did that.

Speaker 5 (01:54:27):
While I was over here breathing really hard.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
Over there doing your job, I was dancing away.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Mary who sings this.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
One hit wonder kind of kind of right like we
would say that, right, like we would.

Speaker 10 (01:54:40):
I don't think he has any more song.

Speaker 9 (01:54:44):
Yeah, like I'm only gonna break break your heart.

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
Oh yeah, good job, that's why I said. That's what
I said.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
That kind of good job. Though.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
Yes, listen, there's some one hit wonders where it's like,
I don't they.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
Last for years, like years and forever. It's quite impressive.
It is quite impressive. What's not impressive is Juan Sota's
performance to start the season for the New York Mets. Now,
today he was not too shabby. Think he went two
of three, three.

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
RBIs was on base. Not too shabby today for Juan Soto.

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
But how much is he being paid? Seven hundred and
sixty five million dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:55:22):
Way more than any of us.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
But wait forever, no, for.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
The rest of my for our lives altogether, you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:55:27):
He is definitely making lots of money. And he literally
joined the Cross team, the Crosstown team, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:55:34):
Cross.

Speaker 2 (01:55:34):
The team was in the World Series last year with
the Yankees, batting ahead of what's his name, I can't
think of his name, Aaron John all Rise exactly, the
captain all Rise and has started off really slow for
the Mets, but it's long season. Is a long season,
And was asked about his hitting slump and if you

(01:55:56):
didn't hear it, he said, well, they're pitching to me differently.
They were pitching to me in New York when I
was batting in front of Aaron Judge a certain way,
and now they're pitching to me differently. First, oh, I
didn't like that. First of all, tell us you missed
the Yankees without telling us you missed the Yankees. That's

(01:56:17):
what you told me there. And second of all, the
disrespect to your teammates. You have Pete Alonso batting behind you,
who is his in his own right to start with
New York and the Mets along Franciscool Lindor. This guy
just was the reason that you went and beat the
Milwaukee Brewers in the playoffs last year. He was a

(01:56:38):
clutch hitter. And to say that, I'm just like, how
does how does this go? In the clubhouse for the Mets.

Speaker 9 (01:56:46):
I think Alonzo is statistically one of the best hitters
in baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
This here so far, right, I thin, because ops is crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
Right now? What are we like? What are we saying?
What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (01:56:56):
One? Well, tell me he's not lying either. I mean
the captain, Aaron Judge is the best hitter in baseball, right,
and so yes, they're gonna pitch you a little differently,
I think. And also I think with him, he needs
to man up and just own his own mistakes and
his own you know what he's going through right now.
I mean obviously, change of scenery, different team, different circumstances

(01:57:20):
always happens. I mean, each of these years are different always,
and so for him he needs to just stay away
from the mics and start doing this shuffle and getting
back into hitting the ball the way that we're used
to seeing hit the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
It's just crazy because it's like you didn't have to
say anything. Nobody is judging, like, Okay, yeah we're judging.

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
We're judging.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
We're judging your early slump because of how much money
you're making, right, but you change it around in this
next month and we're no longer saying this. But it's
because you left a World Series team to go for
money when you were being offered what seven hundred millions
still from the Yankees or something, So like that's what all.

Speaker 7 (01:57:57):
Of this is.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
I am Just like all you had to say was like, yeah, man,
I am not playing straight now, But don't worry. I'll
be back. It's only April.

Speaker 5 (01:58:05):
That's all. That's it, That's all I had to say.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
How do we not have PR classes for these guys?

Speaker 5 (01:58:10):
Well, I mean, how do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
How are you training these guys on what to say?

Speaker 5 (01:58:14):
Maybe I got lost some translation.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
There is no loss in translation here with Juan Soto.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
I just don't know, Like what was the point here
to like save yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
Because that didn't work. You threw your teammates under the bus,
and then you basically told me I miss the pinstripes. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:58:32):
He's a young man, I guess, but he's been through
some already, don't We don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
It's a separate conversation, maybe for their podcast, But you've
been to the World Series multiple times with different teams.

Speaker 3 (01:58:46):
I don't know how this was the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
If I am the Mets clubhouse, in the Mets Clubhouse,
I am looking at him with the side eye.

Speaker 5 (01:58:52):
Yeah, I'm sure it's an uncomfortable conversation was.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
Had After that, Francisco Linder told him in Spanish, how
I'm comfortable it was? You know what I'm saying. There
was no there was no miscommunication when it came to
those two. Carrie, it's over. I told you we were
not gonna have enough time, and we did it. We
barely got through it. Thank you so much, Fox Sports Sunday.
I am Manci Bolangos alongside Carrie Roads. Don't go anywhere
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