May 5, 2023 • 35 mins
Big Ben talks about the Lakers losing to the Warriors in Game 2, Mike Budenholzer getting fired by the Milwaukee Bucks, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!
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Speaker 3 (01:28):
You know the drill.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
This time of the year, in the month of May,
you get the obligatory mandatory NBA themed monologue playoff basketball,
and now we react in real time to what happened
within the last couple hours.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Here the game of the night. We usually picked the
game of the night, and there.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Was only one game, one game to pick from, so
we picked that game. Not that hard Lakers, the bane
of the NBA, the blight of the NBA, the Lake
everyone hates him, playing the Golden State Warriors, and they
were wrangling by the bay now San Francisco. The scene
here and the scene to be seen.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
By the cool people.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Very expensive these tickets, and the Lakers looking to take
game two. They took game one. They got a little
help on that one. They see if they got atle
help in this game. Golden State looking to square things up.
So if you didn't watch this game, and perhaps not,
Clay Thompson, who had had a couple of duds, a
couple of clunkers for Golden State, he came out scored
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thirty points, Steph Curry twenty. He also had twelve assists.
And the Warriors they took out a bucket and a
mop and they mopped.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
The court with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Lakers look like they should be getting ready for the
draft lottery the way they played in this game. Twenty
seven point win for Golden State. Wow, everyone was resting.
All the starters were wrestling in the fourth quarter of
Warriors Liby as many as thirty two and the game
turned in the second in the third quarter, and if
you saw the game, you know that the Warriors outscored
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LA eighty four to forty seven in the twenty four
minute block that crossed over a halftime, so second and
third quarter. But for our purposes, the better story is
in the losing locker room. That would be the Laker
locker room. And there's only one person that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So we want to join the parade. The congolion and
it's not really the congo line.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's more like a pinata, and it's got a brow,
a unibrow on it.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Anthony Davis. Now, the other night I was told unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No one on Golden State can possibly slow this guy down.
He's a modern day Wilt Chamberlain. That this is going
to cement the legacy of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
He will average.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Thirty five points and twenty rebounds a game because Golden
State cannot possibly slow down Anthony Dams. Every genius, every
blowhard and gas bag told me that. Okay, So Anthony
Davis had thirty points and twenty three rebounds in game one,
so surely he had what thirty five points twenty rebounds
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in game game number two?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, let me let me check my notes.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He had to have at least twenty points, right, twenty
points fifteen rebounds. Yeah, no, okay, Let mean, how about
a solid fifteen points, ten rebounds, good workmanlike effort. No,
eleven points and seven rebounds unstoppable, my fat ass in
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game two. So let us discuss the question. Do the
Lakers have an Anthony Davis problem?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, I am nodding my head.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, I've got sci fi clipper, Darryl and barn door,
and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice route or root,
which is what we had in pro bouncy ball with
Golden State winning going away.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No need to even watch the fourth quarter. So ay,
Anthony Davis, you know what he is.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
He's the cherry red Porsche that looks great and everyone's
impressed and they're like, oh, you're so cool. You've got
a cherry red Porsche, but then when you drive it,
it's got faulty brakes and you could die going off
a cliff. That's Anthony Davis in a nutshell. You can't
trust the guy.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It is a.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Boone doggle boone doggle. Davis sucked at a time you
cannot suck. He went out there on national television. He
got in the bed and got the baby yoga pos
and poop the bed and I love it. I think
it's great. I hope he plays the rest of his
career with the Lakers. He is such an enigma. The
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unibrow is physically.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Incapable of consistent domination.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Imagine at your job if you had one good day
of work and then the next day you didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like it's I'm trying to in my world where I
do radio.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right, come in, I do the show every Imagine if
I say, you know, I'm gonna try to have a
good show on, I'll come in on Monday and Wednesday,
and I'll mail it in a couple other days of
the week.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
How is that possibly feasible that that is? But it happens,
and then the Lakers are enablers. They've allowed this to continue.
And as far as what happened in this, it's not
that hard. It's it's Ockham's razor. It's just not in
his makeup to have dominance consistently. It's pretty simple. We've
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seen this a lot. James Harden's the same way. James
Harden occasionally have a great playoff game, but you know
he's gonna vanish at some point. And Anthony Davis was
canon I by the toe sucking NBA media after Game one.
Lebron James even went as far as to retire his
uniform number after Game one of the second round of
the NBA Playoffs and the unibrows suffocated from all the flowers.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That he was given. And so what did Davis do
for an encore? This was a.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Tinsel Town, tinsel Town like performance, leading man material, because
Anthony Davis showed everyone all those Hollywood phonies that liked
the Lakers because they're the Hollywood team, the Clippers of
the people's team. But Anthony Davis starred against Golden State
in a remake of a sci fi classic, The Incredible
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Shrinking Man a wall Man. Was it fun to watch
how masculating This was Harry Houdini special watching Anthony Davis
sink into the quicksand it was orgasmic. Imagine thinking that
this guy's an alpha and I heard it. You should
see the email that I get in my inbox during
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the show.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And athletes, Oh, he's.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So got out, you're so wrong, you're no no basketball.
These historians are so Clovis, they're lovable, they're so stupid,
these people. He is not that guy, pal, He's not
that guy. Anthony Davis is an omega. And that's the case. Listen,
this was not because of some brilliant coaching move by
Steve Kerr or some wild change of events. No, Anthony
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Davis simply mailed it in the guy's lethargic.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
He tapped out all.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Right now page two here, who was the secret weapon
for the Warriors in this game?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So two words mean green, right, mean green?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And that that's a guy who's you know the guys,
hasn't earned a lot of money, hasn't been around, you know,
journeyman guy. But he earned his green because he was
me And we have said for years on this show,
and we documented the numbers, back it up. The Clippers
run LA. They own the Lakers, and this performance was
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a Clipper Darryl special. He was beaming because the Lakers
not only lost the Golden State, they lost to the
Clippers on Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Let me make my elevator pitch.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Why that is the Golden State Warriors turned to Jamichael Finley.
Jamichael Finley was the guy they turned to, a proud
Clipper alumni member, and even Clipper rejects continue to dominate
the Purple un fold? Or are they the Purple and
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Old because they can't play back to backyard games? As
he went out there and painted the Mona leaguers in
a limited role, Jamichael Finley making all of Clipper Nation proms.
Finished with fifteen points, six of nine shooting in thirteen minutes,
all of those points, all of them coming in the
second and third period avalanche, a virtuo soul performance. And
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yet again, even in the playoffs, the Clippers continue to
haunt the Lakers as a Clipper alumni member beating beating
the Lakers in the playoffs. Now the last word here,
so how will the Lakers respond after being.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Run off the court? A wow?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That was terrible type performances. They paled in comparison to
Golden State. So how will the Lakers respond? I believe
Saturday is Game three, So the better question is, rather
than how the Lakers gonna respond, I would advise you
to check.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The barn door.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
If you can, let me know which way the Zebras
are going to be leaning inside the barn. I'll tell
you who's gonna win the game, because if they're gonna
call the game straight up, then this series is over
in five games. It's over in five games. The Warriors
will win the next three games and that's it. The
Lakers proved in bow of these games that they are
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second class citizens. They're chumps compared to Golden State, and
they can't keep up. The Lakers were suffocating trying to
guard the perimeter of Golden State. And this game validated
by the way a take we had in a previous
episode of the show. The referees medled. They meddled, they meddled,
they meddled in Game one. If the game had been
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officiated straight up, this would be two. The Lakers were
looking at an O two deficit against Golden State, and
these historians, who I feel like I'm a teacher. I
have to educate these people. They are basketball. They just
like the Colors and the Hollywood phonies that go to those
lakering they're obtuse, right, consider this, my radio webinar. Officiating
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is subjective, Okay, it is a subjective thing, just like
we always talk about in football during the NFL season.
You can call by the letter of the law. You
can call holding on every play in the NFL. You
can also blow the whistle or choose to swallow the
whistle on every possession.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
In the NBA. There is physical contact on almost every
possession of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And this was a it's been a textbook example of
the clear and obvious bias the Lakers get from time
to time in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They got it in Game one and my evidence.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Game one, the Lakers twenty nine foul shot attempts, the
Warriors had six plus twenty three. Game two, the Lakers
had more foul attempts foil shot attempt than the Lakers
seven than the Warriors rather seventeen to sixteen. But it
was called fair. It was called an eve an even game.
And the idiots wearing their purple and goal boxer Shorts
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told me, well, it's because Golden State's a jump shooting team.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
That's why. That's why there's a dispairiting. There's nothing to
see here, moron.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
In this game, the Warriors shot forty two to three pointers.
The Lakers shot thirty four three balls, and yet somehow
the referees.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Called it even.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Imagine that, Holy crap on a cracker, they called the
game even.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They called it straight up again the Laker. It's not difficult.
The Lakers are not good enough.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They cannot guard the perimeter snipers for Golden State. The
Warriors shot fifty percent in this game two on three
point shots. The Lakers they took thirty four. They missed
twenty four of them, less than thirty percent from outside. Wow,
is this a missmatch? But it's it's not over because
the NBA. I've seen this too many times over the years,
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phone calls made, Scott Foster comes in, some kind of
bull crap happens, and then the thing turns upside down.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
All right.
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Speaker 3 (14:06):
We don't need it. Sure we'll get radio silence from
the historians.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They will not be calling, But that'll leave time for
the Warrior fans who also didn't call the other night
after their team got a loss because of the NBA
meddling with the officiating.
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We'll get back to the NBA playoff shenanigans later on.
As the Warriors ran the Lakers off the court twenty
seven point win. Twenty seven point win. My math is
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correct when you take away the foul shooting disparity.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I believe the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Have outscored the Lakers in real basketball, not with the
referees meddling.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Bye, I want to say over forty points. I think
it's like forty two or forty three points.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That you take the foul shooting out of it, which
is a biased officiating. It's crazy. Hey, our lead, We're
not gonna go there. The guillotine has dropped on a
successful floor general. The coaching carousel Wisconsin we go. Did
you say the new Tron coaching bomb that was tossed out?
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The Milwaukee Bucks, a team that was a champion a
couple of years ago, have ex communicated Mike Budenholzer as
coach after five seasons.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Hang out, one of the.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Great coaches in that franchise's history, right up there with
Don Nelson and the guy that coached lu Al Sinder.
So the Bucks won fifty eight games, under Mike Budenholzer
during this last NBA A season, and they entered as
the gambling favorite to win the whole thing. They were
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the number one overall seed according to the gambling market
to win the championship. And then they had to play
the games, and there was an implusion that took place.
We all saw it first round, lowly number eight seed
Miami who had been in the playing tournament, and it
only took five games, and so as a result, Milwaukee
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becomes one of the great disasters in NBA history, only
the sixth number one overall seed to lose to a
number eight and the first ever to lose to number
eight that was in the playing tournament, the Fugazi Playing Tournament.
So Milwaukee did it with style. They did it with
razmataz when they gagged. They blew double digit leads in
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Game four and five. In Game five, Milwaukee had a
couple of chances to win the game on their final possession,
fourth quarter and overtime, but Mike Budenholzer decided, Ah, you
know what, I'm gonna hold on to that time out.
I'm not gonna use my last time out there, and
in both cases he blew it. Now people have pointed
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out it's unfair, this is not right, that Budenholzers were
one of the great coaches in franchise history and he
was going through a personal tragedy. It has been widely
reported that tragically his brother died in an auto accident
during that particular series, and that that was a mitigating factor.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
In all of this.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And so the Milwaukee Bucks did him dirty. So let
us discuss the question. Did Mike Budenholzer get a raw
deal from the Bucks? So I'm shaking my head no
on this. I'm going no, I don't believe he got
a raw deal. I've got French Benjamin Franklin and Wingstop
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to fear the deer, something that nobody
in the NBA playoffs did, because it's certainly Miami did
and they didn't fear the deer. So number one number.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
This is.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
This is not one of these things. Most of these
things we talk about are not that complex, right, Pearl
clutching aside, pearl clutching aside big business, big I will
guarantee you that this came from the very top, that
this was an ownership decision and some fat cat aristocrat
Robert barn every want to say, say it one of
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these high falutint billionaires that owns part of the team.
They're like, hey, you embarrassed me. Everyone expected my team
to go and win a bunch of playoff games, and
you embarrass me at my cocktail party. We must fire
the coach. Coaches are expendable. They always have been, they
always will be more expendable in basketball than most other sports.
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Now hockey's also expendable baseball. There used to be a
thing in baseball where you were valuable, not anymore because
it's just a three ring binder. I'd say, of all
the sports, football coaches.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Are the most valuable. If you've got a good football coach,
but the other sports that it's not important.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know, you're mostly an ambassador, you're mostly dealing with
the media and personalities, and you're essentially massage egos. Players
know how to play by the time they get to
the top level, so you're expanded, is what I'm trying
to say. And while it is not ideal, I certainly
would agree from a optics standpoint. Guess what, there is
no good time to find out you are being whacked
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from your job. If the Bucks were going to do
this anyway, I say, based on my life experience, that
you want to find out sooner than later so you
can then move on with your life, find another job.
And here's how I relate to this. I've worked in
the radio business my entire adult life, and if you've
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heard the show, you know that I've gotten fired a
number of times over the years. Not in a long time,
but who knows. I've gotten my share of pink slips.
And so the message don't let the door hit your
ass on the way out. I've gotten that. You know,
you gotta roll with the punches. But as the French
saying goes, say la v say lobby.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That is life.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And this is not Mike Budenholzer's first time at the circus.
He's been to the circus before. He likes the popcorn
budded popcorn. But Coach Bud has lived under the big top.
He's been in that business since the mid nineties, an
entire generation. He started as an NBA assistant with the
Spurs in the nineties and the mid nineties, He's been
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hired and fired.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Budenholzer will dust.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Off I'm pretty confident he'll get back on the saddle again.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He's got a nice, glowing regular season resume. He's got the.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Little Chiny Trophy that he won a couple years ago
as coach.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
So I expect him to be back on the sidelines
with an NBA franchise.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
One of the mediocre teams in the NBA will hire
him next season. Plus, pro sports firings are not real firings.
I have never really gotten worked up into a lather
over a coach manager being fired. I'm telling you why
right now. I'll tell you why to make believe it's
never never Land. I feel bad for people that have
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real jobs that lose their job. That's the people I
feel bad for. I don't feel bad for coaches. Mike
Budenholster is not going to be filing Chapter eleven. He's rich,
he will continue to be rich. He's going to leave
the Milwaukee Bucks job with what we all want to
have if we lose our job, a golden parachute.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What is my evidence.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Mike Budenholster has not one but two two years left
on his deal, worth in the neighborhood of sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
So I'll tell you right now. I love working at
Fox Sports Radio. I've been here a long time. But
I will make a deal with the company. If they
pay me sixteen million dollars for the next two.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Years, I will walk away. Fire my fat ass. Okay,
give me the sixteen million. I'm good now. Secondly, what
does this particular move tell us about the mindset of
the Milwaukee basketball team? So there is a disconnect, That's
what it tells me right away. There are geographical problems.
You've got the Greek freak who's living in his own bubble.
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Giannis famously said there is no failure in sports. You
then have the ownership of the Bucks who disagree. They
are residing in a place called Realityville. They are holding
people accountable. It's really simple algebra. It's E plus L
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equals T. You know what that that's expectations plus losses
equal termination is what that is.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's by the good book.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
If you go out and lay an egg in the playoffs,
it's the curse of high expectations.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Heads are going to roll plus.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
In an indirect way, Yannisi dent to Cumbo suddenly, or
I should say suddenly suddenly buried his coach. Yeah, can
We call Gianis the coach killer because on one hand
he said, there's no failure in sports, but then on
the other hand he ripped a new one for coach
Bud and the lack of adjustments Milwaukee made trying to
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stop Jimmy Butler, saying that he wished that the coaching
staff had made more of an adjustment to have him
defend Butler. Gianna said he wanted to guard Butler, and
that did not happen, he said, And I got to
let the coaches make the adjustment, he said, which was
a way of bearing the coach. And the vast majority
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of pro sports teams follow the Benjamin Franklin model that
house guests and phish and coaches all stink after a
finite amount of time, and even when they win titles.
It is a transient position. The stats been going around
the last eight NBA champions. There is only one coach
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left and that's Steve Kerr.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Everyone else has been changed jobs. Some of them have
other jobs, but only Steve Kerr is still employed. It
is a kid with the team that they won with.
It's a kin to playing running back in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You're easily replaced.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You're easily of course, we're all easily replaced, unfortunately the
way of the world. All right, final points, So who's
got next on the sidelines for the box?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You'll fire somebody.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You go out the door there and somebody's coming in
the other door from the other side. So this is
actually a job that people want. This is a B
plus job, not an A job, not an A job,
because an a job's a job where you can get
free agents where the weather's good.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That ain't Milwaukee. But it's a B plus job. You
got to see the table.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Even with Giannis a dentacumbo and his lack of competitiveness
and thinking that there are no winners and losers in sports,
very unorthodox. Even with that, Milwaukee is guaranteed to be
at least a second line contender in the East as
long as he is motivated and in his prime.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The Greek freak.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So if you spin the wheel of speculation, who is
likely to get the Milwaukee Bucks coaching job. So you've
got the usual suspects, you've got the leaders. Some guy
I've never heard of named Charles Lee. I don't know
who that is, but that's the obvious. We just promote
from within, and then there's some mild big names.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I don't know how many these guys are really big names.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Nick Nurse, who was whacked from Toronto, he's available, Frank Vogel,
Vagabond coach, Mike D'Antoni of Vagabond coach Doc Rivers will
likely be fired when Philadelphia loses to the Celtics, and
so Doc will be available if you want to bring
him in there. He's got some Midwestern roots. You can
bring him back. And another wild card, how about Tyler.
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There is a scenario there with me. I don't have
a problem with Tyler, but there is a scenario where
Kawhi Leonard, who's still running the show in Clipperland, wakes
up one morning and says, I want to recreate the
magic we had in Canada, and I would like Nick
Nurse to be my coach. And then the Clippers, of course,
they always bow down to Kawhi, even though it gets
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hurt all the time in the playoffs and vanishes and
the Lakers are okay, and so then Milwaukee asks for
permission through back channels, goes to Wisconsin. He gets to
coach Giannis, and then Nick Nurse comes to La and
coaches Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
But regardless whoever whoever is.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Going to want that job, the Bucks job, they need
to visit Wingstop and I'll tell you why they need
to be one of the wingmen for Giannis, Because a
dent to Coombo is the franchise. He's going to have
final cut on who gets the gig. Appropriately, whoever coaches
the Bucks will be living on the old wing and
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a prayer.
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Multiple teams around the NFL reportedly saw the forty nine
ers signing of Sam Donald as quote sneaky significant, thinking
that Donald will actually play a significant role for the
forty nine ers. Ben, do you think Donald will play
a significant role?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Can we put a time out on the mora one
of these guys that covers the forty nine ers guys,
one of our listeners in the in the Bay Area,
simme story.
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One of these guys.
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Went on the radio and said that that Sam Donald
is the greatest thrower in forty nine or history. Can
we can we stop with the drugs? What are we
doing here? Brock Perty's not healthy, He's a wild card.
Sam Donald is insurance. I don't think that he's going
to sit on the bench. I think he'll actually start
some games. But if you're depending on Sam Donald to
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do anything other than dump off and throw screen passes
and crossing routes or roots, then you're you're in trouble.
He can do the basic throws, but I don't trust him.
He's got sporadic malfunction, So forget about that.
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No, he's not gonna have it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
If let's put it this way, if he has a
significant role for the forty nine ers, things have gone
terribly wrong.
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Next, Ravens GM Eric DaCosta said during an interview that
the reason other teams didn't pursue Lamar Jackson is because
of the franchise tag. They knew that the Ravens would
match an offer sheet.
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You buying that, Ben, No, this is Eric DaCosta, the
GM in Baltimore, patting himself on the back. Scae. Well,
really everyone wanted this guy. There were twenty teams that
wanted Lamar Jackson. But because we would have kept him
no matter what, it's not true. The reality is, if
Lamar had a market, he would have signed an offer
sheet with somebody. There would have been an offer sheet
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that was made. There were no offers. They would have
figured out a poison pill to make it work.
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And none of that happened.
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He's back in Baltimore and the Ravens got him there. Happy, whatever,
But don't lie.
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Next, Justin Herbert will soon be up for a contract
extension from the Chargers, and the question is will it
be in the same range as Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson,
Like many in the media believe it will.
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Yes. I mean he's next in line.
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I think a lot of what Herbert's done is their
empty calories because the Chargers haven't been particularly great.
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But he's next in line, and.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, actually Joe Burrow is going to get a redoncus
amount as well.
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But there's a bunch of guys getting paid. How did
we don't come out out pass?
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I wanted the guy.
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And these are actual jokes by actual listeners. We have
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Did you hear that Lizzo is so rich she now
lives in a castle. Yes, turns out that Lizzo now
lives in a white castle. There, white cardon street, Takoma.
Did you hear that Lizzo was at the met gala
earlier this week?
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Really?
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Yeah?
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Yeah?
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When she arrived, she showed up to it. She just
went straight to the kitchen. RJ in San Antonio. Why
don't people like to play basketball with Lizzo? She's a ballhog,
a big buck. That's surfer. Todd the comedian sent that
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one in. Why doesn't Lizzo like the Golden State Warriors?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Why?
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Well, it turns out she does not like Curry gives
her heartbreak, delicate stomach. Brendan in Boston sent that one
in speaking of Lizzo and whatnot. Big breaking news out
of the crypto community. Lizzo and Bartolo Cologne are forming
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a platform to trade NFTs. Really, yes, it's nachos for
tacos is what it's called.
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That's NFTs.
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Scott from Oakland, who sent that one in, What did
Lizzo say when management asked her to up for a
four oh one k No idea.
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What did she say? She said, there is no way
in hell I'm running that far. No way.
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That's just Josh who sent that one in Thank you
for that. Just Josh big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
What do Lizzo and weed Man hippie have in common?
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No idea. They're both hippie all right in Roseville, Minnesota.
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I guess weed Man is not here, so we can
skip over the weed Man radio roast.
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We don't need to do that.
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What are the three best things about Eddie taking the
day off?
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What are they?
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According to fer Dog, Brian Finley, Brian Finley and Brian Finley.
I don't think that joke killed. He said that joke
was gonna kill. I don't think that joke. It's a
bad job by him.
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Why do some analysts think Kyler will end will.
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Be involved as a great passer, will evolve into a
great pastor.
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I don't know why.
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Uh, because he fits into any pocket. DC who sent
that one in the Bruins' first round playoff exit seems
to have left blind Scott in shock. Really yeah, I
guess he did not see it.
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Coming he did not.
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There you go, and the original racing sausages out of
Milwaukee are up for auction. Turns out the Oakland A's
are a strong contender to have the winning bid. Really yeah,
yeah they would They would like to have some seat
fillers for home games. George in Rochester, Minnesota. What's worse
than putting Doc Mike in charge of refreshments of the
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I don't know what's worse than that.
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Letting Hayes in Minnesota throw the axes? Did you know
that Doc Mike is a religious man?
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No idea.
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Yes, he's a Piscopellian, is what he is. That's what
the comedian lame jokes of the week shortened by the
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You know the drill.
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This time of the year, in the month of May,
you get the obligatory mandatory NBA themed monologue playoff basketball,
and now we react in real time to what happened
within the last couple hours.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Here the game of the night. We usually picked the
game of the night, and there.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Was only one game, one game to pick from, so
we picked that game. Not that hard Lakers, the bane
of the NBA, the blight of the NBA, the Lake
everyone hates him, playing the Golden State Warriors, and they
were wrangling by the bay now San Francisco. The scene
here and the scene to be seen.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
By the cool people.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Very expensive these tickets, and the Lakers looking to take
game two. They took game one. They got a little
help on that one. They see if they got atle
help in this game. Golden State looking to square things up.
So if you didn't watch this game, and perhaps not,
Clay Thompson, who had had a couple of duds, a
couple of clunkers for Golden State, he came out scored
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thirty points, Steph Curry twenty. He also had twelve assists.
And the Warriors they took out a bucket and a
mop and they mopped.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
The court with the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Lakers look like they should be getting ready for the
draft lottery the way they played in this game. Twenty
seven point win for Golden State. Wow, everyone was resting.
All the starters were wrestling in the fourth quarter of
Warriors Liby as many as thirty two and the game
turned in the second in the third quarter, and if
you saw the game, you know that the Warriors outscored
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LA eighty four to forty seven in the twenty four
minute block that crossed over a halftime, so second and
third quarter. But for our purposes, the better story is
in the losing locker room. That would be the Laker
locker room. And there's only one person that everyone's talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
So we want to join the parade. The congolion and
it's not really the congo line.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's more like a pinata, and it's got a brow,
a unibrow on it.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Anthony Davis. Now, the other night I was told unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
No one on Golden State can possibly slow this guy down.
He's a modern day Wilt Chamberlain. That this is going
to cement the legacy of Anthony Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
He will average.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Thirty five points and twenty rebounds a game because Golden
State cannot possibly slow down Anthony Dams. Every genius, every
blowhard and gas bag told me that. Okay, So Anthony
Davis had thirty points and twenty three rebounds in game one,
so surely he had what thirty five points twenty rebounds
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in game game number two?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
No, let me let me check my notes.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He had to have at least twenty points, right, twenty
points fifteen rebounds. Yeah, no, okay, Let mean, how about
a solid fifteen points, ten rebounds, good workmanlike effort. No,
eleven points and seven rebounds unstoppable, my fat ass in
(04:49):
game two. So let us discuss the question. Do the
Lakers have an Anthony Davis problem?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, I am nodding my head.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, I've got sci fi clipper, Darryl and barn door,
and we will tie all of these things together and
we are going to make a nice route or root,
which is what we had in pro bouncy ball with
Golden State winning going away.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
No need to even watch the fourth quarter. So ay,
Anthony Davis, you know what he is.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
He's the cherry red Porsche that looks great and everyone's
impressed and they're like, oh, you're so cool. You've got
a cherry red Porsche, but then when you drive it,
it's got faulty brakes and you could die going off
a cliff. That's Anthony Davis in a nutshell. You can't
trust the guy.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
It is a.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Boone doggle boone doggle. Davis sucked at a time you
cannot suck. He went out there on national television. He
got in the bed and got the baby yoga pos
and poop the bed and I love it. I think
it's great. I hope he plays the rest of his
career with the Lakers. He is such an enigma. The
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unibrow is physically.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Incapable of consistent domination.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Imagine at your job if you had one good day
of work and then the next day you didn't show up.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like it's I'm trying to in my world where I
do radio.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Right, come in, I do the show every Imagine if
I say, you know, I'm gonna try to have a
good show on, I'll come in on Monday and Wednesday,
and I'll mail it in a couple other days of
the week.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
How is that?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
How is that possibly feasible that that is? But it happens,
and then the Lakers are enablers. They've allowed this to continue.
And as far as what happened in this, it's not
that hard. It's it's Ockham's razor. It's just not in
his makeup to have dominance consistently. It's pretty simple. We've
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seen this a lot. James Harden's the same way. James
Harden occasionally have a great playoff game, but you know
he's gonna vanish at some point. And Anthony Davis was
canon I by the toe sucking NBA media after Game one.
Lebron James even went as far as to retire his
uniform number after Game one of the second round of
the NBA Playoffs and the unibrows suffocated from all the flowers.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
That he was given. And so what did Davis do
for an encore? This was a.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Tinsel Town, tinsel Town like performance, leading man material, because
Anthony Davis showed everyone all those Hollywood phonies that liked
the Lakers because they're the Hollywood team, the Clippers of
the people's team. But Anthony Davis starred against Golden State
in a remake of a sci fi classic, The Incredible
(07:42):
Shrinking Man a wall Man. Was it fun to watch
how masculating This was Harry Houdini special watching Anthony Davis
sink into the quicksand it was orgasmic. Imagine thinking that
this guy's an alpha and I heard it. You should
see the email that I get in my inbox during
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the show.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And athletes, Oh, he's.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
So got out, you're so wrong, you're no no basketball.
These historians are so Clovis, they're lovable, they're so stupid,
these people. He is not that guy, pal, He's not
that guy. Anthony Davis is an omega. And that's the case. Listen,
this was not because of some brilliant coaching move by
Steve Kerr or some wild change of events. No, Anthony
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Davis simply mailed it in the guy's lethargic.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
He tapped out all.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Right now page two here, who was the secret weapon
for the Warriors in this game?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So two words mean green, right, mean green?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And that that's a guy who's you know the guys,
hasn't earned a lot of money, hasn't been around, you know,
journeyman guy. But he earned his green because he was
me And we have said for years on this show,
and we documented the numbers, back it up. The Clippers
run LA. They own the Lakers, and this performance was
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a Clipper Darryl special. He was beaming because the Lakers
not only lost the Golden State, they lost to the
Clippers on Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Let me make my elevator pitch.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Why that is the Golden State Warriors turned to Jamichael Finley.
Jamichael Finley was the guy they turned to, a proud
Clipper alumni member, and even Clipper rejects continue to dominate
the Purple un fold? Or are they the Purple and
(09:42):
Old because they can't play back to backyard games? As
he went out there and painted the Mona leaguers in
a limited role, Jamichael Finley making all of Clipper Nation proms.
Finished with fifteen points, six of nine shooting in thirteen minutes,
all of those points, all of them coming in the
second and third period avalanche, a virtuo soul performance. And
(10:07):
yet again, even in the playoffs, the Clippers continue to
haunt the Lakers as a Clipper alumni member beating beating
the Lakers in the playoffs. Now the last word here,
so how will the Lakers respond after being.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Run off the court? A wow?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
That was terrible type performances. They paled in comparison to
Golden State. So how will the Lakers respond? I believe
Saturday is Game three, So the better question is, rather
than how the Lakers gonna respond, I would advise you
to check.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
The barn door.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
If you can, let me know which way the Zebras
are going to be leaning inside the barn. I'll tell
you who's gonna win the game, because if they're gonna
call the game straight up, then this series is over
in five games. It's over in five games. The Warriors
will win the next three games and that's it. The
Lakers proved in bow of these games that they are
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second class citizens. They're chumps compared to Golden State, and
they can't keep up. The Lakers were suffocating trying to
guard the perimeter of Golden State. And this game validated
by the way a take we had in a previous
episode of the show. The referees medled. They meddled, they meddled,
they meddled in Game one. If the game had been
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officiated straight up, this would be two. The Lakers were
looking at an O two deficit against Golden State, and
these historians, who I feel like I'm a teacher. I
have to educate these people. They are basketball. They just
like the Colors and the Hollywood phonies that go to those
lakering they're obtuse, right, consider this, my radio webinar. Officiating
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is subjective, Okay, it is a subjective thing, just like
we always talk about in football during the NFL season.
You can call by the letter of the law. You
can call holding on every play in the NFL. You
can also blow the whistle or choose to swallow the
whistle on every possession.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
In the NBA. There is physical contact on almost every
possession of the NBA.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
And this was a it's been a textbook example of
the clear and obvious bias the Lakers get from time
to time in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
They got it in Game one and my evidence.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Game one, the Lakers twenty nine foul shot attempts, the
Warriors had six plus twenty three. Game two, the Lakers
had more foul attempts foil shot attempt than the Lakers
seven than the Warriors rather seventeen to sixteen. But it
was called fair. It was called an eve an even game.
And the idiots wearing their purple and goal boxer Shorts
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told me, well, it's because Golden State's a jump shooting team.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
That's why. That's why there's a dispairiting. There's nothing to
see here, moron.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
In this game, the Warriors shot forty two to three pointers.
The Lakers shot thirty four three balls, and yet somehow
the referees.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Called it even.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Imagine that, Holy crap on a cracker, they called the
game even.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
They called it straight up again the Laker. It's not difficult.
The Lakers are not good enough.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They cannot guard the perimeter snipers for Golden State. The
Warriors shot fifty percent in this game two on three
point shots. The Lakers they took thirty four. They missed
twenty four of them, less than thirty percent from outside. Wow,
is this a missmatch? But it's it's not over because
the NBA. I've seen this too many times over the years,
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phone calls made, Scott Foster comes in, some kind of
bull crap happens, and then the thing turns upside down.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
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But if you have nothing to say, there's no need
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Speaker 3 (14:06):
We don't need it. Sure we'll get radio silence from
the historians.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They will not be calling, But that'll leave time for
the Warrior fans who also didn't call the other night
after their team got a loss because of the NBA
meddling with the officiating.
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We'll get back to the NBA playoff shenanigans later on.
As the Warriors ran the Lakers off the court twenty
seven point win. Twenty seven point win. My math is
(15:37):
correct when you take away the foul shooting disparity.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I believe the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Have outscored the Lakers in real basketball, not with the
referees meddling.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Bye, I want to say over forty points. I think
it's like forty two or forty three points.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That you take the foul shooting out of it, which
is a biased officiating. It's crazy. Hey, our lead, We're
not gonna go there. The guillotine has dropped on a
successful floor general. The coaching carousel Wisconsin we go. Did
you say the new Tron coaching bomb that was tossed out?
(16:15):
The Milwaukee Bucks, a team that was a champion a
couple of years ago, have ex communicated Mike Budenholzer as
coach after five seasons.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Hang out, one of the.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Great coaches in that franchise's history, right up there with
Don Nelson and the guy that coached lu Al Sinder.
So the Bucks won fifty eight games, under Mike Budenholzer
during this last NBA A season, and they entered as
the gambling favorite to win the whole thing. They were
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the number one overall seed according to the gambling market
to win the championship. And then they had to play
the games, and there was an implusion that took place.
We all saw it first round, lowly number eight seed
Miami who had been in the playing tournament, and it
only took five games, and so as a result, Milwaukee
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becomes one of the great disasters in NBA history, only
the sixth number one overall seed to lose to a
number eight and the first ever to lose to number
eight that was in the playing tournament, the Fugazi Playing Tournament.
So Milwaukee did it with style. They did it with
razmataz when they gagged. They blew double digit leads in
(17:29):
Game four and five. In Game five, Milwaukee had a
couple of chances to win the game on their final possession,
fourth quarter and overtime, but Mike Budenholzer decided, Ah, you
know what, I'm gonna hold on to that time out.
I'm not gonna use my last time out there, and
in both cases he blew it. Now people have pointed
(17:49):
out it's unfair, this is not right, that Budenholzers were
one of the great coaches in franchise history and he
was going through a personal tragedy. It has been widely
reported that tragically his brother died in an auto accident
during that particular series, and that that was a mitigating factor.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
In all of this.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And so the Milwaukee Bucks did him dirty. So let
us discuss the question. Did Mike Budenholzer get a raw
deal from the Bucks? So I'm shaking my head no
on this. I'm going no, I don't believe he got
a raw deal. I've got French Benjamin Franklin and Wingstop
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to fear the deer, something that nobody
in the NBA playoffs did, because it's certainly Miami did
and they didn't fear the deer. So number one number.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
So here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
This is.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
This is not one of these things. Most of these
things we talk about are not that complex, right, Pearl
clutching aside, pearl clutching aside big business, big I will
guarantee you that this came from the very top, that
this was an ownership decision and some fat cat aristocrat
Robert barn every want to say, say it one of
(19:17):
these high falutint billionaires that owns part of the team.
They're like, hey, you embarrassed me. Everyone expected my team
to go and win a bunch of playoff games, and
you embarrass me at my cocktail party. We must fire
the coach. Coaches are expendable. They always have been, they
always will be more expendable in basketball than most other sports.
(19:39):
Now hockey's also expendable baseball. There used to be a
thing in baseball where you were valuable, not anymore because
it's just a three ring binder. I'd say, of all
the sports, football coaches.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Are the most valuable. If you've got a good football coach,
but the other sports that it's not important.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You know, you're mostly an ambassador, you're mostly dealing with
the media and personalities, and you're essentially massage egos. Players
know how to play by the time they get to
the top level, so you're expanded, is what I'm trying
to say. And while it is not ideal, I certainly
would agree from a optics standpoint. Guess what, there is
no good time to find out you are being whacked
(20:18):
from your job. If the Bucks were going to do
this anyway, I say, based on my life experience, that
you want to find out sooner than later so you
can then move on with your life, find another job.
And here's how I relate to this. I've worked in
the radio business my entire adult life, and if you've
(20:39):
heard the show, you know that I've gotten fired a
number of times over the years. Not in a long time,
but who knows. I've gotten my share of pink slips.
And so the message don't let the door hit your
ass on the way out. I've gotten that. You know,
you gotta roll with the punches. But as the French
saying goes, say la v say lobby.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
That is life.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And this is not Mike Budenholzer's first time at the circus.
He's been to the circus before. He likes the popcorn
budded popcorn. But Coach Bud has lived under the big top.
He's been in that business since the mid nineties, an
entire generation. He started as an NBA assistant with the
Spurs in the nineties and the mid nineties, He's been
(21:22):
hired and fired.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Budenholzer will dust.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Off I'm pretty confident he'll get back on the saddle again.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
He's got a nice, glowing regular season resume. He's got the.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Little Chiny Trophy that he won a couple years ago
as coach.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
So I expect him to be back on the sidelines
with an NBA franchise.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
One of the mediocre teams in the NBA will hire
him next season. Plus, pro sports firings are not real firings.
I have never really gotten worked up into a lather
over a coach manager being fired. I'm telling you why
right now. I'll tell you why to make believe it's
never never Land. I feel bad for people that have
(22:03):
real jobs that lose their job. That's the people I
feel bad for. I don't feel bad for coaches. Mike
Budenholster is not going to be filing Chapter eleven. He's rich,
he will continue to be rich. He's going to leave
the Milwaukee Bucks job with what we all want to
have if we lose our job, a golden parachute.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
What is my evidence.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Mike Budenholster has not one but two two years left
on his deal, worth in the neighborhood of sixteen million dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
So I'll tell you right now. I love working at
Fox Sports Radio. I've been here a long time. But
I will make a deal with the company. If they
pay me sixteen million dollars for the next two.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Years, I will walk away. Fire my fat ass. Okay,
give me the sixteen million. I'm good now. Secondly, what
does this particular move tell us about the mindset of
the Milwaukee basketball team? So there is a disconnect, That's
what it tells me right away. There are geographical problems.
You've got the Greek freak who's living in his own bubble.
(23:03):
Giannis famously said there is no failure in sports. You
then have the ownership of the Bucks who disagree. They
are residing in a place called Realityville. They are holding
people accountable. It's really simple algebra. It's E plus L
(23:24):
equals T. You know what that that's expectations plus losses
equal termination is what that is.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
It's by the good book.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
If you go out and lay an egg in the playoffs,
it's the curse of high expectations.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Heads are going to roll plus.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
In an indirect way, Yannisi dent to Cumbo suddenly, or
I should say suddenly suddenly buried his coach. Yeah, can
We call Gianis the coach killer because on one hand
he said, there's no failure in sports, but then on
the other hand he ripped a new one for coach
Bud and the lack of adjustments Milwaukee made trying to
(24:06):
stop Jimmy Butler, saying that he wished that the coaching
staff had made more of an adjustment to have him
defend Butler. Gianna said he wanted to guard Butler, and
that did not happen, he said, And I got to
let the coaches make the adjustment, he said, which was
a way of bearing the coach. And the vast majority
(24:26):
of pro sports teams follow the Benjamin Franklin model that
house guests and phish and coaches all stink after a
finite amount of time, and even when they win titles.
It is a transient position. The stats been going around
the last eight NBA champions. There is only one coach
(24:47):
left and that's Steve Kerr.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Everyone else has been changed jobs. Some of them have
other jobs, but only Steve Kerr is still employed. It
is a kid with the team that they won with.
It's a kin to playing running back in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You're easily replaced.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You're easily of course, we're all easily replaced, unfortunately the
way of the world. All right, final points, So who's
got next on the sidelines for the box?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You'll fire somebody.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
You go out the door there and somebody's coming in
the other door from the other side. So this is
actually a job that people want. This is a B
plus job, not an A job, not an A job,
because an a job's a job where you can get
free agents where the weather's good.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That ain't Milwaukee. But it's a B plus job. You
got to see the table.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Even with Giannis a dentacumbo and his lack of competitiveness
and thinking that there are no winners and losers in sports,
very unorthodox. Even with that, Milwaukee is guaranteed to be
at least a second line contender in the East as
long as he is motivated and in his prime.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The Greek freak.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
So if you spin the wheel of speculation, who is
likely to get the Milwaukee Bucks coaching job. So you've
got the usual suspects, you've got the leaders. Some guy
I've never heard of named Charles Lee. I don't know
who that is, but that's the obvious. We just promote
from within, and then there's some mild big names.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I don't know how many these guys are really big names.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Nick Nurse, who was whacked from Toronto, he's available, Frank Vogel,
Vagabond coach, Mike D'Antoni of Vagabond coach Doc Rivers will
likely be fired when Philadelphia loses to the Celtics, and
so Doc will be available if you want to bring
him in there. He's got some Midwestern roots. You can
bring him back. And another wild card, how about Tyler.
(26:34):
There is a scenario there with me. I don't have
a problem with Tyler, but there is a scenario where
Kawhi Leonard, who's still running the show in Clipperland, wakes
up one morning and says, I want to recreate the
magic we had in Canada, and I would like Nick
Nurse to be my coach. And then the Clippers, of course,
they always bow down to Kawhi, even though it gets
(26:54):
hurt all the time in the playoffs and vanishes and
the Lakers are okay, and so then Milwaukee asks for
permission through back channels, goes to Wisconsin. He gets to
coach Giannis, and then Nick Nurse comes to La and
coaches Kawhi.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
But regardless whoever whoever is.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Going to want that job, the Bucks job, they need
to visit Wingstop and I'll tell you why they need
to be one of the wingmen for Giannis, Because a
dent to Coombo is the franchise. He's going to have
final cut on who gets the gig. Appropriately, whoever coaches
the Bucks will be living on the old wing and
(27:32):
a prayer.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
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Speaker 7 (28:33):
Multiple teams around the NFL reportedly saw the forty nine
ers signing of Sam Donald as quote sneaky significant, thinking
that Donald will actually play a significant role for the
forty nine ers. Ben, do you think Donald will play
a significant role?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Can we put a time out on the mora one
of these guys that covers the forty nine ers guys,
one of our listeners in the in the Bay Area,
simme story.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
One of these guys.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Went on the radio and said that that Sam Donald
is the greatest thrower in forty nine or history. Can
we can we stop with the drugs? What are we
doing here? Brock Perty's not healthy, He's a wild card.
Sam Donald is insurance. I don't think that he's going
to sit on the bench. I think he'll actually start
some games. But if you're depending on Sam Donald to
(29:16):
do anything other than dump off and throw screen passes
and crossing routes or roots, then you're you're in trouble.
He can do the basic throws, but I don't trust him.
He's got sporadic malfunction, So forget about that.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
No, he's not gonna have it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
If let's put it this way, if he has a
significant role for the forty nine ers, things have gone
terribly wrong.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
Next, Ravens GM Eric DaCosta said during an interview that
the reason other teams didn't pursue Lamar Jackson is because
of the franchise tag. They knew that the Ravens would
match an offer sheet.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You buying that, Ben, No, this is Eric DaCosta, the
GM in Baltimore, patting himself on the back. Scae. Well,
really everyone wanted this guy. There were twenty teams that
wanted Lamar Jackson. But because we would have kept him
no matter what, it's not true. The reality is, if
Lamar had a market, he would have signed an offer
sheet with somebody. There would have been an offer sheet
(30:11):
that was made. There were no offers. They would have
figured out a poison pill to make it work.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
And none of that happened.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
He's back in Baltimore and the Ravens got him there. Happy, whatever,
But don't lie.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Next, Justin Herbert will soon be up for a contract
extension from the Chargers, and the question is will it
be in the same range as Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson,
Like many in the media believe it will.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yes. I mean he's next in line.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I think a lot of what Herbert's done is their
empty calories because the Chargers haven't been particularly great.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
But he's next in line, and.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Well, actually Joe Burrow is going to get a redoncus
amount as well.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
But there's a bunch of guys getting paid. How did
we don't come out out pass?
Speaker 2 (30:52):
That is nur winner.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I wanted the guy.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
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It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And these are actual jokes by actual listeners. We have
one minute for the lame jokes. One minute Cooper loop
boll guarding the time for the lame jokes. This week
is weed Man? There, Weed Man, No, I don't know.
You don't even Coops, so fed up you didn't even
see if weed Man is there.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
All right, here's some jokes. Here we go.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Did you hear that Lizzo is so rich she now
lives in a castle. Yes, turns out that Lizzo now
lives in a white castle. There, white cardon street, Takoma.
Did you hear that Lizzo was at the met gala
earlier this week?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Really?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
When she arrived, she showed up to it. She just
went straight to the kitchen. RJ in San Antonio. Why
don't people like to play basketball with Lizzo? She's a ballhog,
a big buck. That's surfer. Todd the comedian sent that
(32:18):
one in. Why doesn't Lizzo like the Golden State Warriors?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Why?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Well, it turns out she does not like Curry gives
her heartbreak, delicate stomach. Brendan in Boston sent that one
in speaking of Lizzo and whatnot. Big breaking news out
of the crypto community. Lizzo and Bartolo Cologne are forming
(32:44):
a platform to trade NFTs. Really, yes, it's nachos for
tacos is what it's called.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
That's NFTs.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Scott from Oakland, who sent that one in, What did
Lizzo say when management asked her to up for a
four oh one k No idea.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
What did she say? She said, there is no way
in hell I'm running that far. No way.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's just Josh who sent that one in Thank you
for that. Just Josh big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
What do Lizzo and weed Man hippie have in common?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
No idea. They're both hippie all right in Roseville, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
I guess weed Man is not here, so we can
skip over the weed Man radio roast.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
We don't need to do that.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
What are the three best things about Eddie taking the
day off?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (33:36):
According to fer Dog, Brian Finley, Brian Finley and Brian Finley.
I don't think that joke killed. He said that joke
was gonna kill. I don't think that joke. It's a
bad job by him.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Why do some analysts think Kyler will end will.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Be involved as a great passer, will evolve into a
great pastor.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Uh, because he fits into any pocket. DC who sent
that one in the Bruins' first round playoff exit seems
to have left blind Scott in shock. Really yeah, I
guess he did not see it.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Coming he did not.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
There you go, and the original racing sausages out of
Milwaukee are up for auction. Turns out the Oakland A's
are a strong contender to have the winning bid. Really yeah,
yeah they would They would like to have some seat
fillers for home games. George in Rochester, Minnesota. What's worse
than putting Doc Mike in charge of refreshments of the
(34:43):
malor meet and greet.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I don't know what's worse than that.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Letting Hayes in Minnesota throw the axes? Did you know
that Doc Mike is a religious man?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
No idea.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yes, he's a Piscopellian, is what he is. That's what
the comedian lame jokes of the week shortened by the
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