May 20, 2024 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about the Denver Nuggets getting eliminated by the Timberwolves, the Knicks losing at home to the Pacers in Game 7, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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A little bit of magic that's not supposed to happen
to a team from Minnesota.
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
My man.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Our lead comes out of Colorado. I'm old enough to
remember when the Nuggets were the reigning champions, but they
have been dethroned.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Dethroned.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That was the site Game seven, Game seven Timberwolves and Nuggets,
with Alex Rodriguez getting lots of television time making it
all about him, but the winner would advance to the
Final four of the NBA Final Four cut down. The
Nets go to the Final four. So if you didn't
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see it, I've given you the outcome. You already know
the outcome. But Carl Anthony Towns and Jayden McDaniels each
had twenty three points and Minie Salta comes back from
twenty down. They were on Life Sport down fifteen and
a half, time down twenty early third quarter, and they
eject the reigning champions of pro bouncy ball, the Nuggets,
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as they're done ninety eight to ninety the final, the
Timberwolves that have advanced. Now they're in the Western Finals.
They'll start with Dallas on Wednesday in the Twin Cities.
But we will have plenty of time to discuss the
Western Conference Finals. But instead we must do the ata
on what just happened here in Colorado with the Nuggets
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who seemingly had everything cooking and then they had nothing
cooking the rest of the way. So the question who's
to blame for the Rocky Mountain collapse in the NBA
Playoffs in Game seven at home? What an embarrassment? What
an absolute embarrassment? Will start with that. So a we
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focus in on the headlines. Right in the headlines here
are all about the stars not performing at the end.
Now you look at the stat line, said, well, the
only two Nuggets and you know, double figures were the
two Stars.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But Nikola Jokich.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And Jamal Murray they had to have a higher gear
in this game, and they did not have a higher
gear in this game. They did not step up really
from about three minutes in to the second half, from
that point forward after going up at the ten to
fifty marks, So it wasn't even three minutes in ten
to fifty mark of the third quarter so that's a
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minute and ten seconds. My computer like brain tells me
from that point forward, the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I wrote it down.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They were outscored by twenty eight points in their own gymnasium. There,
Jokichen Murray combined to shoot ten of twenty five from
the floor the rest of the game forty percent. Michael
Porter Junior had one three point basket that was it,
which doesn't sound very impressive until you consider that Aaron
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Gordon was shut out. He had a goose egg the
rest of the game. Now, I didn't play in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I don't think that's good. But what do I know.
I just do the overnight show here.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So Minnesota, let's not misconstrue the fact they were a
good defensive team. This was not because of lockdown Timberwolve defense.
This was wide open shots, many of them that were
missed in cahoots with some good defensive possessions by Minnesota.
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But howell history, Remember Anthony Edwards' sninky performance. He got
the postgame interview and all that. Anthony adverags you didn't
see the game here. He's the headliner. I was told
by my NBA media elites that he is Michael Jordan
two point oh. And I like Anthony Edwards. I have
nothing against the guy, but man, was he a ball
a suck in this game? Man did he stink? Anthony Edwards.
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To answer the question, how will history remember his performance?
Is stinky performance in this game. He picked up a
presidential pardon, is what he got. Because Edwards took twenty
four shots. He only made six of them twenty five percent.
That's it. While he was on the floor there just ineffective.
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He's the offensive dynamo, but he wasn't the offensive dynamo
in this game. And the idea that somehow he turned
on the performance in the second half. I've heard some
pundits trying to say that it's not true. He took
in the second half of the game. He took seventeen shots.
He was five of seventeen. That was slightly better, so
still under thirty percent. But the deal is, and we
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know this from past examples here, that victory is one
hell of a wonderfully smelling cologne. And he took a
bath in cologne, Anthony Edwards. And even though he's stunk,
over time, we know how this works. Over time, people
will remember the fact that Minnesota won the game, the
turning point in the third quarter, comeback, and then the
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final score, and that's it, period.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Stop. That's what people were going to remember.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
History has shown us that people suffer from amnesia, and
even over time, long term, you'll forget.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You'll forget the turning point. You just remember the final score.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
If you go back and look and you go on
like Basketball Reference dot Com, you're like, Okay, what happened
pro basketball Reference dot com? And that's it now page
two here, what the heck does this series win by minutes?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So to prove? So I like this.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I was thinking about it as I was taking my
long ride in from the.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
North Woods here.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And what it proves to me is it debunks a
bunch of things. And I've been hiding out under the
cover of darkness behind these microphones, and I have over
the years had some positions, some have been attacked by dufuses.
But this is confirmation. And that's why I was happy
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with the outcome. I was because the first thing it debunks.
I'll go through not a list. I don't do list radio.
But coach Michael Malone implied that his team was gassed.
That's the implication that he said, Ah, I played last
year deep into the summer and all that. That's embarrassing.
And I'll tell you why it's embarrassing. And this is
what it debunks. This is the franchise in Denver that
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likes to be very braggadocious about how high up in
the air they play. And they dominated home and all
the Conrad teams because of the altitude. And they have
that number, even the jerseys, the uniforms they were wearing
five eighty five to eight. Oh, it's on the court,
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it's on the alternative uniforms for the Denver Nuggets. The altitude,
the mile high city. They nobody comes in there and wins, right,
they have so great you can't handle. The team that's
gonna get tired. Is the road team, not the home
team because of the altitude, it's impossible to win there.
How many home games did the team from Denver that
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plays at that high altitude losing the series?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Not one, not to three? Wow? That's uh, it's almost
like it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Debunked the whole altitude thing. If you're good, it doesn't matter.
If you're bad, you use it as an excuse. Who goofed?
I've got to know.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The other thing that it debunked. Here is Uncle Moe.
The only Uncle Moe is a guy from Brooklyn that
calls the show randomly. Uncle Mo in sports does not
does not exist here, period, hard stock.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's just something uneducated fans, low information fans like to
grab onto and yap about. We now have d and
a evidence in this series does not exist. The Timberwolves
won the first two games in Denver. They had all
the momentum. Oh they were right and high. Oh man,
they were looking great all the momentum. So then they
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went back home. Everyone's better at home. Surely they were
going to continue. But what wait a minute, why would
Minnesota give up the momentum they had? They had the momentum.
Did they lose it somewhere over Iowa? Did it drop
down into a cornfield on their way back from Colorado?
What happened to the momentum? Okay, So then the Nuggets
they had all the momentum, oh, feeling good about themselves.
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They won the three games in a row, Oh my god.
And then they went back to Minnesota. And then wait
a minute, the Nuggets lost by I mean forty five points.
It says in my note forty five points they lost
by but they wait a minute, the Nuggets had the momentum.
I don't understand. How could that happen? Explain that to me.
I'm not that bright. Explain it to me.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And so okay, So then wait a minute. Minnesota won
by forty five points. But back to Denver, and Denver
the altitude, the whole thing and all that stuff. But
wait a minute, the Nuggets had a twenty point lead.
So they did they got the momentum back. They had
a twenty point ly they were up twenty at home.
Oh my god, oh MG, twenty point lead at home.
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Game seven, Championship Bettigrage. Mike come alone bragged about it.
Championship Betigrade. They puked in their mouth. They all puked
in their mouth, the Denver Nuggets at the end there,
Why would they do that? Did they not want to win? See,
there is no such thing as momentum sport. It does
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not exist. This series a textbook example. You can also
talk about the Indiana Pacers on their performance on the
road against the New York Knickerbockers.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The same situations like, well, they can't win on the road,
the Knicks are at home.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They had all those acts celebrities there, well what happened, Well,
we know what happened, but momentum is used after the
fact to explain the outcome, explain what happening now, and
it usually goes away when it doesn't fit the narrative.
All right, last word, So do you have any problem?
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This is big talking point among the NBA hards. Do
you have any problem with the wolves? Anthony Edwards as
the clock was running down, waving goodbye to the people
that bought tickets or got free tickets to the Nuggets game,
waving goodbye.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
There as the game came to an end.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So I only have a slight grumble. Generally, I don't
have a problem with this. The only issue I have.
Since it's a talk show, I have to have an issue.
I do have this issue. My pet, Peeve Edwards, played
like manure most of the game. He's an offensive Mozart.
But it was it was just horrific. Okay, it was
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absolutely horrific. And so I don't when you go take
twenty four shots and you miss eighteen of them and
you're I don't know, it seems a little odd. It
reminded me of in football when you're and I don't
miss it a one. But it's like you get a
sack when you're you're not playing that well and the
team's not doing any you celebrate and all that stuff.
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And then I watched on the TNT postgame there inside
the NBA. I believe, unless my TV was was not
working there, maybe it wasn't that Anthony Edwards was pointing
out that it was his defense in the second half
that that shut down Jamal Murray. I didn't really see
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it that way either, didn't see that the whole thing
was slightly awkward, slightly awkward, but I did see Murray
miss a number of open shots. I saw Naz Reid
of Minnesota play some pretty good defense at times. There
the ensemble group collectively got it done.
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The Mecca.
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So it's called Game seven. Game seven Pacers and the Knicks.
It's the Knicks versus the Hicks, say, date in the
Eastern Final, four on the line. And this was the
early game. Some thought it would be the late game.
Get that New York audience their primetime on a Sunday night,
But no, it was the afternoon game. And if you
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didn't watch, don't worry. We watched for you. Why not,
we have nothing else to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
So tyresee Halliburton, Pritt deep pretty good. Tyrese Saliburton twenty
six points and the Pacers, said an NBA playoff record,
they shot the lights out literally sixty seven percent from
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the floor, and they were better than that. While the
game was in the balance, it really was never in
the balance. As they beat the Knickerbockers. The final score
one thirty to one hundred and nine. They put up
one hundred and thirty points as the road team, a
team that traveled by horse drawn carriage. It would appear
the way they had played on the road. But they've
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advanced out of the Eastern Finals a date with Boston,
first time in ten years that the Indiana basketball team
has advanced.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
How about that last.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Time they were in the conference finals, they had a
player named Lance Stevenson who blew into the ear of
Lebron James if I remember correctly. The better story, though,
here is in the losing locker room, and we will
wallow in the mire with Jalen Brunson who left Game
seven in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh, my aching hand, he broke.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
His hand, his right hand, left hand, left hand, he
broke his left So let us discuss the question when
you look at this wide angle lens, does this count
as a Knickerbocker choke job?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Or do do.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The Knicks get a pass because Jalen Brunson was injured.
So I've got New York City Health Code, barcode and
Kellogg's and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a ghost runner, which
you only get there in baseball, because if you see
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a ghost runner outside of baseball, you probably panic and say,
oh my god, I should call over to Coast to
coast because there's a there's a weird alien thing ghost
thing like running around anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
So number one.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
To answer the question, does this count as a Knickerbocker
choke job or do they get a pass because Jalen
Brunton's injury. We don't give out passes here. We do
not give out passes. I don't know if you're new
to the show. We're not the type of show that
gives out passes.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
We don't. This is black and white.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We love the tenacity of Jalen Brunson, and I've waxed poetic.
I have massaged him, given to the manny and the
petty on the show about the way Jalen Brunson plays. However,
you also have to call a spade a spade, and
he went from dog to arf dog dog with fleas
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here he needed a flea bat Jalen Brunson in this game,
Brunson six of seventeen from.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
The floor, which I don't think is that good.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If he takes seventeen shots and miss eleven of them,
and he was out played by the player he was
going against, Tyrese Haliburton, who had the marvelous real sexy
stat line. There for Indiana, the entire Nick roster went kerflooey,
all of it, from top to bottom, from A to
Z alpha to omega. All Indiana was really playing was
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house money here. They were underdogs. They hadn't been able
to play well in the row all this stuff, and
they were expected to lose. It was going to be
a coronation of the Knickerbockers. And all you had to
do was show up. All the Knicks had to do
was show up, and they showed up, and then what happened.
Indiana had little pressure and the Knicks were surrounded by
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a who's who of elites, all the Manhattan celebrities who
got their free tickets to sit court side of the
garden to make it seem more important than it is,
the one percenters.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And they were there. The Knicks, they were da dead
on arrival. Cause of death tight took his syndrome. That
was the cause of death on the autopsy report. This
game was for all the marbles and they choked on
one of the marbles. That's what happened. That's what happened there.
And they really what happened the Knicks and people goesaid,
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well Brunson got her.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know you hear they would have won? Would it
could have showed or they were gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
No, the Knickerbockers violated the New York City Health Code
Section one five to three point h nine public urination.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
They pitdled down their leg. That's what they did there.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's an unclassified misdemeanor against the next Jalen Brunson also
said in his postgame commentary, he said that the next
season was not a success.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He said, I fact, just to prove I'm not making
that up. Let's go do a cut three there.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Here's Jalen Brunson pointing out the Knickerbocker season was not successful.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Pros and cons How I played the pros is obviously
I played well individually at some points in time during
the playoffs, and the cons or that I didn't play
well enough to help my team. Before you can say
I got hurt in Game seven, I wasn't playing well
in Game seven.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
We had a two to zero.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
In the future lead, and so it's just it's hard
to look at things individually when you don't help your team.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
All right, that's actually not the one I wanted. Do
we have the right one? Do we have that? By chance?
Possibly we do. Okay, let's see what we can find
the right one.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Here we go TV winn the championship. Did we get close?
So no, that's just to my mindset. That's as how
it is.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Okay, so that's the one we were looking for. Jalen Ronson.
There you go. He says.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
The nixt season was not a success. Do you agree? Yes,
I'm nodding my head, Yes, I do agree. And how
could it have been a success. They didn't even make
the final four? The baseline is the final four. Now
you make the final four? He said, Okay, I'm doing okay,
we're in the right direction. We're going in the right direction.
But you get blown out your pants, ripped off, public
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humiliation at home in game seven and you played Matador defense.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oleay Oley, o Layoley. There.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Indiana shot seventy one point seven percent when Brunson left
the game. Up until that point, Bruston left with an
injury with the hand injury, but at that point he
left the game. The Pacers were shooting seventy one point
seven percent from the floor and Indiana was up by eighteens.
But we're supposed to go if only Brunson hadn't gotten
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hurt the Knicks, We're going to come back and win
the game.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, that's the ticket, unless it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Now page two here some people up in arms because
of some postgame Shenanigan was by the star of the
Indiana basketball team. Did the Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton crossed
the line in the sand? Did he cross the line
in the sand by taunting the Knickerbockers In the postgame
war Drowby wore a Reggie Miller choke sweater and the
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famous if you're old, you remember this back in the
nineties when the Pacers had good teams and they played
the Knickerbockers and Reggie Miller, we go like this, Joe
good to the Knicks anyway. So the answer to that
is absolutely not okay. And the difference here we talked
earlier in the show about what happened in Minnesota and
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Anthony Edwards, who was a total stiff most of the
game for Minnesota, was waving goodbye to the Nuggets fans
on a night he played terribly well. Tyrese Haliburton, though
he he was monster mashing for Indiana. It's like, have
you monster mash, You got it done, You outplayed the
Knick star Jalen Brunson. Good luck, you do what you want.
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I had no issue with that at all. Show business.
That was entertaining. And Haliburton going back that famous quote
from a senator to named William L. Marcy back in
the eighteen hundreds, who said, to the victor goes the
spoil and Indiana won the game, and they were all excited, right,
They didn't puke.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
They thought they were gonna puke. Everyone thought they were
gonna pee. They didn't puke. There was no puke, and
so they celebrated with a nice sweater.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Now, I will tell you the only part of this
that I would say, well that's kind of bugeyzy, is
if Indiana had gone out there and the outcome had
been different. Do you think that Tyrese Haliburton had some
other clothes to wear other than that?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Me thinks he did.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Methinks he brought a couple of other pieces of clothing
to wear postgame and that we would not have seen
that Reggie Miller photo on the hoodie that he was
wearing after the game.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
We would not have seen that. But what do I know?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I would have been in mothballs. And then what did
you make of the Bristol, Connecticut coverage there of the Knickerboxers.
One of our listeners in Indiana got all episode. Did
you just see what they did? They were like watching
the Knick TV broadcast. I did not watch the pregame show.
I saw some clips online. I don't really watch ESPN
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at halftime or pregame or post game because they're bad
and my time is valuable and I don't want to
be bored, so I just don't.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I don't do anything for me. I'm not that content
doesn't do any for me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So fine, But others did, and I watched the clips online.
It was fanboy like I would I describe it as
fanboy like, right, Spike Lee isn't as biased as the
broadcast was towards the Knickerbockers, And it always blows me away.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Because the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You think about teams that get a lot of coverage
like that, like everyone sucks the toes of the Lakers
and it goes.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
On and on like that. But like the Knicks haven't.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Had a championship team since before the Barcode was invented.
Think about that, the Barcode. The Barcode was invented after
the Knicks won their last championship with walk Clyde Fraser,
and yet they were being fonned and slabbered all over. Slapper, slaughter, slaughter.
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Oh man, they were all over, which also made the
inevitable choke all that much more enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Final points.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So dude, Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers have a shot
against the Celtics. They have a shot in the Eastern
Conference files. So I would classify this in the slim
to none category. These slim to none category for Indiana.
You're talking about slaying the dragon, and yet again things
have opened up for the Boston Celtics that you look
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series by series, here everything lining up.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
For the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
And this is another one of those David versus Goliath
and the Celtics of the Goliath. In this particular matchup,
you got Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. The only scenario
where Indiana can come through here is if Jalen if
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum get together. They have breakfast,
They have the Kellogg's rice crispies and snap crackle pop.
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Happens outside of that, rightide, even with Prezingi's hobbling and
on a pogo stick, even with that, As the adage goes,
the age all adage goes, You're only a few sprained
ankles and broken hands away from upset city.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
But would I bet on Indiana? No? Could they win
a game?
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Could they win two games? Yeah, they can win two.
Are they gonna win three game? No, they shouldn't win three,
and not even forget forget about four. Forget them.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
To the third degree? This is one big event. Gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I think he's wearing a Bronco hat, but it's dark
in the other room and I can't still. Okay, all right,
what do we have here? Koperl I'm wearing my Bucky's hat.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I get my buckets. Saw that? Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Over the weekend, Shams reported that Lebron James leaving the
Lakers to go wherever Bronnie James is drafted is not
a given? Are you buying that?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, this seems like you might cut out there, But
am I buying it?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It sounds to me like Lebron has given the Lakers
and a bunch of ultimatums like a ransom note. He
wants JJ Reddick to be the head coach and he
wants some other moves made Otherwise he's gone. But Lebron
has said for years it's been an open secret he
wants to play with Brownie James. Why wouldn't he right
father son combination? Why would you not want to have
(27:51):
that happen? But the location has to work. If the
Utah Jazz draft Bronnie James, that'd be very difficult for
to see Lebron going to Salt Lake.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But is it? Is it a done deal? No, but
it's close to being a done deal.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Next.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Carlos Correa spoke Friday after the Twins were burned by
several borderline calls, and he made a suggestion to help umpires.
He said pitchers are just too nasty these days and
it would help if the ums had access to the
PitchCom Do you agree well, you know my.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Default position, coup on on Carlos Core a human scum
cheating a hole. He's wrong, and Major League Baseball is
committed to one thing, and one thing only, robot umpires.
It's gonna happen whether it's twenty twenty five or twenty
twenty six, so there's no need to bother Futson around.
I love the umpires to know where the PitchCom is
and all that stuff. Now they're worried about robots taking over,
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and I'm a human element guy, So I'm human element
that's going away.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Screw the humans.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Next, The Sun's GM James Jones said during a radio
interview over the weekend that there is no scenario where
they trade any of the Big Three this offseason. Do
you believe him?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No, he's a GM. He of course these people lie.
And Bradley I will say, Bradley Beal, you can't that albatross.
Now they're stuck with Bradley Beal. He's not going anywhere.
But Kevin Durant could wake up later today and have
bad eggs and the bacon's not cooked properly and say, man,
I want out of here. I want to go to Canada.
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And I'm done and whatever? All right, how do we do?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Koobloo? You pass us on?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That is a I wanted to start a week. I
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I was gonna do the knickerbockers, but I think we
will mark at a good idea or Matt rather had
a good idea, said what about Spike Lee? So all right, man,
well that makes sense. Rather than just the Knicks in general.
Spike Lee. Advice to Spike Lee, long suffering Knickerbocker fan,
as they yet again gagged as a favorite at home.
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Could have gone back to the conference finals and the
Knicks eliminated, losing to Indiana eight seven seven.
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Line one. Your advice to Spike Lee. Line one.
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Line one is not there. We'll go to line two. Hello,
line you're on the air line too. Advice to Spike Lee.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Line two.
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When Ben takes a horse, bet on it. I'm a
very wealthy man, thinks you.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Ben.
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I'm so happy I could kiss you.
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That's okay because your buddy over there, the numb nuts
will be upset. Hello Line three, Line three, you're on
the airline three.
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Morning time the tag to change his name to.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Skunk yet, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'll check with the rain A. Line four. Hello, line four,
you're on the airline four.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Ben Miller dumping Knicks again.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Big b oh, this's shown the hood guy. He's smiling.
You can tell he's happy there. Hello, Line six. You're
on the airline six. We're giving advice to Spike Lee
on how to deal with the Knickerbockers losing yet again.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Line six is not there. We're going to line one. Hello.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Line one, you're live on the airline one. Hello, also
with line one not working? Line two, Hello, line too,
you're on the airline too.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
When does parade.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
A Line three?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Line three?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Go?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
The problem with me?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Is the problem with me? Oh, there's our friend from
the Bay Area. All right, hello, Line five, you're on
the airline five.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Go. They are who we thought they were, and we
let them off the fun.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, we give me advice to Spike Lee. The Knickerbockers
gagging as a favorite at home, But that got on
a Sunday afternoon to the Indiana Pacers. Line six, you're
on the air line six. Go. Line six is not
paying attention. We're gonna line one, eight, seven, seven, ninety
nine on Fox. A lot of people not paying attention. Hello,
(32:31):
Line one, have you ever fought?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
It's so good? You were proud of it?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Line two, you're on the air Hello line two, Spike
is that angry bill? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I'll spile spiz on a Spike for me.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Okay, that sounded very creepy. Line five, you're on the
air Hello. Line five, advice to Spike Lee. Line five,
that's a fake. That's your your fraudster, sir, you're not
the real pokey pokey guy.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Line six, Hello, line six, My advice is roll it up. Okay,
well you do that. Whether the nixt win or lose,
it doesn't matter. Line one, you're on the airline one. Yeah,
I'm not a spiled dan An.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No, no, that's that's wrong. She screwed that up a Hello.
Line two, you're on the airline too. Where's oh see,
that's a pretender too. But that's a classic. But thank
you for bringing that guy back. All right, all right
with you one more hurry up cool Peggott final call.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It's an advice line for Spike Lee. I'm six. Line six,
you're on the airline six.
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Go.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You could become a Boston Toepics.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Hands. Yeah, jump on the Celtic bandwagon.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
They're gonna win the whole thing now, right,
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A little bit of magic that's not supposed to happen
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
My man.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Our lead comes out of Colorado. I'm old enough to
remember when the Nuggets were the reigning champions, but they
have been dethroned.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Dethroned.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That was the site Game seven, Game seven Timberwolves and Nuggets,
with Alex Rodriguez getting lots of television time making it
all about him, but the winner would advance to the
Final four of the NBA Final Four cut down. The
Nets go to the Final four. So if you didn't
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see it, I've given you the outcome. You already know
the outcome. But Carl Anthony Towns and Jayden McDaniels each
had twenty three points and Minie Salta comes back from
twenty down. They were on Life Sport down fifteen and
a half, time down twenty early third quarter, and they
eject the reigning champions of pro bouncy ball, the Nuggets,
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as they're done ninety eight to ninety the final, the
Timberwolves that have advanced. Now they're in the Western Finals.
They'll start with Dallas on Wednesday in the Twin Cities.
But we will have plenty of time to discuss the
Western Conference Finals. But instead we must do the ata
on what just happened here in Colorado with the Nuggets
(03:06):
who seemingly had everything cooking and then they had nothing
cooking the rest of the way. So the question who's
to blame for the Rocky Mountain collapse in the NBA
Playoffs in Game seven at home? What an embarrassment? What
an absolute embarrassment? Will start with that. So a we
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focus in on the headlines. Right in the headlines here
are all about the stars not performing at the end.
Now you look at the stat line, said, well, the
only two Nuggets and you know, double figures were the
two Stars.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But Nikola Jokich.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And Jamal Murray they had to have a higher gear
in this game, and they did not have a higher
gear in this game. They did not step up really
from about three minutes in to the second half, from
that point forward after going up at the ten to
fifty marks, So it wasn't even three minutes in ten
to fifty mark of the third quarter so that's a
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minute and ten seconds. My computer like brain tells me
from that point forward, the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I wrote it down.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
They were outscored by twenty eight points in their own gymnasium. There,
Jokichen Murray combined to shoot ten of twenty five from
the floor the rest of the game forty percent. Michael
Porter Junior had one three point basket that was it,
which doesn't sound very impressive until you consider that Aaron
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Gordon was shut out. He had a goose egg the
rest of the game. Now, I didn't play in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I don't think that's good. But what do I know.
I just do the overnight show here.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So Minnesota, let's not misconstrue the fact they were a
good defensive team. This was not because of lockdown Timberwolve defense.
This was wide open shots, many of them that were
missed in cahoots with some good defensive possessions by Minnesota.
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But howell history, Remember Anthony Edwards' sninky performance. He got
the postgame interview and all that. Anthony adverags you didn't
see the game here. He's the headliner. I was told
by my NBA media elites that he is Michael Jordan
two point oh. And I like Anthony Edwards. I have
nothing against the guy, but man, was he a ball
a suck in this game? Man did he stink? Anthony Edwards.
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To answer the question, how will history remember his performance?
Is stinky performance in this game. He picked up a
presidential pardon, is what he got. Because Edwards took twenty
four shots. He only made six of them twenty five percent.
That's it. While he was on the floor there just ineffective.
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He's the offensive dynamo, but he wasn't the offensive dynamo
in this game. And the idea that somehow he turned
on the performance in the second half. I've heard some
pundits trying to say that it's not true. He took
in the second half of the game. He took seventeen shots.
He was five of seventeen. That was slightly better, so
still under thirty percent. But the deal is, and we
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know this from past examples here, that victory is one
hell of a wonderfully smelling cologne. And he took a
bath in cologne, Anthony Edwards. And even though he's stunk,
over time, we know how this works. Over time, people
will remember the fact that Minnesota won the game, the
turning point in the third quarter, comeback, and then the
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final score, and that's it, period.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Stop. That's what people were going to remember.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
History has shown us that people suffer from amnesia, and
even over time, long term, you'll forget.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You'll forget the turning point. You just remember the final score.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
If you go back and look and you go on
like Basketball Reference dot Com, you're like, Okay, what happened
pro basketball Reference dot com? And that's it now page
two here, what the heck does this series win by minutes?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
So to prove? So I like this.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I was thinking about it as I was taking my
long ride in from the.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
North Woods here.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
And what it proves to me is it debunks a
bunch of things. And I've been hiding out under the
cover of darkness behind these microphones, and I have over
the years had some positions, some have been attacked by dufuses.
But this is confirmation. And that's why I was happy
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with the outcome. I was because the first thing it debunks.
I'll go through not a list. I don't do list radio.
But coach Michael Malone implied that his team was gassed.
That's the implication that he said, Ah, I played last
year deep into the summer and all that. That's embarrassing.
And I'll tell you why it's embarrassing. And this is
what it debunks. This is the franchise in Denver that
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likes to be very braggadocious about how high up in
the air they play. And they dominated home and all
the Conrad teams because of the altitude. And they have
that number, even the jerseys, the uniforms they were wearing
five eighty five to eight. Oh, it's on the court,
(08:12):
it's on the alternative uniforms for the Denver Nuggets. The altitude,
the mile high city. They nobody comes in there and wins, right,
they have so great you can't handle. The team that's
gonna get tired. Is the road team, not the home
team because of the altitude, it's impossible to win there.
How many home games did the team from Denver that
(08:36):
plays at that high altitude losing the series?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Not one, not to three? Wow? That's uh, it's almost
like it.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Debunked the whole altitude thing. If you're good, it doesn't matter.
If you're bad, you use it as an excuse. Who goofed?
I've got to know.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
The other thing that it debunked. Here is Uncle Moe.
The only Uncle Moe is a guy from Brooklyn that
calls the show randomly. Uncle Mo in sports does not
does not exist here, period, hard stock.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
It's just something uneducated fans, low information fans like to
grab onto and yap about. We now have d and
a evidence in this series does not exist. The Timberwolves
won the first two games in Denver. They had all
the momentum. Oh they were right and high. Oh man,
they were looking great all the momentum. So then they
(09:34):
went back home. Everyone's better at home. Surely they were
going to continue. But what wait a minute, why would
Minnesota give up the momentum they had? They had the momentum.
Did they lose it somewhere over Iowa? Did it drop
down into a cornfield on their way back from Colorado?
What happened to the momentum? Okay, So then the Nuggets
they had all the momentum, oh, feeling good about themselves.
(09:57):
They won the three games in a row, Oh my god.
And then they went back to Minnesota. And then wait
a minute, the Nuggets lost by I mean forty five points.
It says in my note forty five points they lost
by but they wait a minute, the Nuggets had the momentum.
I don't understand. How could that happen? Explain that to me.
I'm not that bright. Explain it to me.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And so okay, So then wait a minute. Minnesota won
by forty five points. But back to Denver, and Denver
the altitude, the whole thing and all that stuff. But
wait a minute, the Nuggets had a twenty point lead.
So they did they got the momentum back. They had
a twenty point ly they were up twenty at home.
Oh my god, oh MG, twenty point lead at home.
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Game seven, Championship Bettigrage. Mike come alone bragged about it.
Championship Betigrade. They puked in their mouth. They all puked
in their mouth, the Denver Nuggets at the end there,
Why would they do that? Did they not want to win? See,
there is no such thing as momentum sport. It does
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not exist. This series a textbook example. You can also
talk about the Indiana Pacers on their performance on the
road against the New York Knickerbockers.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The same situations like, well, they can't win on the road,
the Knicks are at home.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
They had all those acts celebrities there, well what happened, Well,
we know what happened, but momentum is used after the
fact to explain the outcome, explain what happening now, and
it usually goes away when it doesn't fit the narrative.
All right, last word, So do you have any problem?
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This is big talking point among the NBA hards. Do
you have any problem with the wolves? Anthony Edwards as
the clock was running down, waving goodbye to the people
that bought tickets or got free tickets to the Nuggets game,
waving goodbye.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
There as the game came to an end.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
So I only have a slight grumble. Generally, I don't
have a problem with this. The only issue I have.
Since it's a talk show, I have to have an issue.
I do have this issue. My pet, Peeve Edwards, played
like manure most of the game. He's an offensive Mozart.
But it was it was just horrific. Okay, it was
(12:20):
absolutely horrific. And so I don't when you go take
twenty four shots and you miss eighteen of them and
you're I don't know, it seems a little odd. It
reminded me of in football when you're and I don't
miss it a one. But it's like you get a
sack when you're you're not playing that well and the
team's not doing any you celebrate and all that stuff.
(12:41):
And then I watched on the TNT postgame there inside
the NBA. I believe, unless my TV was was not
working there, maybe it wasn't that Anthony Edwards was pointing
out that it was his defense in the second half
that that shut down Jamal Murray. I didn't really see
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it that way either, didn't see that the whole thing
was slightly awkward, slightly awkward, but I did see Murray
miss a number of open shots. I saw Naz Reid
of Minnesota play some pretty good defense at times. There
the ensemble group collectively got it done.
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The Mecca.
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So it's called Game seven. Game seven Pacers and the Knicks.
It's the Knicks versus the Hicks, say, date in the
Eastern Final, four on the line. And this was the
early game. Some thought it would be the late game.
Get that New York audience their primetime on a Sunday night,
But no, it was the afternoon game. And if you
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didn't watch, don't worry. We watched for you. Why not,
we have nothing else to do on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
So tyresee Halliburton, Pritt deep pretty good. Tyrese Saliburton twenty
six points and the Pacers, said an NBA playoff record,
they shot the lights out literally sixty seven percent from
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the floor, and they were better than that. While the
game was in the balance, it really was never in
the balance. As they beat the Knickerbockers. The final score
one thirty to one hundred and nine. They put up
one hundred and thirty points as the road team, a
team that traveled by horse drawn carriage. It would appear
the way they had played on the road. But they've
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advanced out of the Eastern Finals a date with Boston,
first time in ten years that the Indiana basketball team
has advanced.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
How about that last.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Time they were in the conference finals, they had a
player named Lance Stevenson who blew into the ear of
Lebron James if I remember correctly. The better story, though,
here is in the losing locker room, and we will
wallow in the mire with Jalen Brunson who left Game
seven in the third quarter.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh, my aching hand, he broke.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
His hand, his right hand, left hand, left hand, he
broke his left So let us discuss the question when
you look at this wide angle lens, does this count
as a Knickerbocker choke job?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Or do do.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The Knicks get a pass because Jalen Brunson was injured.
So I've got New York City Health Code, barcode and
Kellogg's and we will combine all of these things together,
and we are going to make a ghost runner, which
you only get there in baseball, because if you see
(17:32):
a ghost runner outside of baseball, you probably panic and say,
oh my god, I should call over to Coast to
coast because there's a there's a weird alien thing ghost
thing like running around anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
So number one.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
To answer the question, does this count as a Knickerbocker
choke job or do they get a pass because Jalen
Brunton's injury. We don't give out passes here. We do
not give out passes. I don't know if you're new
to the show. We're not the type of show that
gives out passes.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
We don't. This is black and white.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We love the tenacity of Jalen Brunson, and I've waxed poetic.
I have massaged him, given to the manny and the
petty on the show about the way Jalen Brunson plays. However,
you also have to call a spade a spade, and
he went from dog to arf dog dog with fleas
(18:24):
here he needed a flea bat Jalen Brunson in this game,
Brunson six of seventeen from.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
The floor, which I don't think is that good.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If he takes seventeen shots and miss eleven of them,
and he was out played by the player he was
going against, Tyrese Haliburton, who had the marvelous real sexy
stat line. There for Indiana, the entire Nick roster went kerflooey,
all of it, from top to bottom, from A to
Z alpha to omega. All Indiana was really playing was
(18:55):
house money here. They were underdogs. They hadn't been able
to play well in the row all this stuff, and
they were expected to lose. It was going to be
a coronation of the Knickerbockers. And all you had to
do was show up. All the Knicks had to do
was show up, and they showed up, and then what happened.
Indiana had little pressure and the Knicks were surrounded by
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a who's who of elites, all the Manhattan celebrities who
got their free tickets to sit court side of the
garden to make it seem more important than it is,
the one percenters.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And they were there. The Knicks, they were da dead
on arrival. Cause of death tight took his syndrome. That
was the cause of death on the autopsy report. This
game was for all the marbles and they choked on
one of the marbles. That's what happened. That's what happened there.
And they really what happened the Knicks and people goesaid,
(19:45):
well Brunson got her.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know you hear they would have won? Would it
could have showed or they were gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
No, the Knickerbockers violated the New York City Health Code
Section one five to three point h nine public urination.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
They pitdled down their leg. That's what they did there.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
It's an unclassified misdemeanor against the next Jalen Brunson also
said in his postgame commentary, he said that the next
season was not a success.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He said, I fact, just to prove I'm not making
that up. Let's go do a cut three there.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Here's Jalen Brunson pointing out the Knickerbocker season was not successful.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
Pros and cons How I played the pros is obviously
I played well individually at some points in time during
the playoffs, and the cons or that I didn't play
well enough to help my team. Before you can say
I got hurt in Game seven, I wasn't playing well
in Game seven.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
We had a two to zero.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
In the future lead, and so it's just it's hard
to look at things individually when you don't help your team.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
All right, that's actually not the one I wanted. Do
we have the right one? Do we have that? By chance?
Possibly we do. Okay, let's see what we can find
the right one.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Here we go TV winn the championship. Did we get close?
So no, that's just to my mindset. That's as how
it is.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Okay, so that's the one we were looking for. Jalen Ronson.
There you go. He says.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
The nixt season was not a success. Do you agree? Yes,
I'm nodding my head, Yes, I do agree. And how
could it have been a success. They didn't even make
the final four? The baseline is the final four. Now
you make the final four? He said, Okay, I'm doing okay,
we're in the right direction. We're going in the right direction.
But you get blown out your pants, ripped off, public
(21:31):
humiliation at home in game seven and you played Matador defense.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oleay Oley, o Layoley. There.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Indiana shot seventy one point seven percent when Brunson left
the game. Up until that point, Bruston left with an
injury with the hand injury, but at that point he
left the game. The Pacers were shooting seventy one point
seven percent from the floor and Indiana was up by eighteens.
But we're supposed to go if only Brunson hadn't gotten
(22:02):
hurt the Knicks, We're going to come back and win
the game.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Yeah, that's the ticket, unless it's not.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Now page two here some people up in arms because
of some postgame Shenanigan was by the star of the
Indiana basketball team. Did the Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton crossed
the line in the sand? Did he cross the line
in the sand by taunting the Knickerbockers In the postgame
war Drowby wore a Reggie Miller choke sweater and the
(22:28):
famous if you're old, you remember this back in the
nineties when the Pacers had good teams and they played
the Knickerbockers and Reggie Miller, we go like this, Joe
good to the Knicks anyway. So the answer to that
is absolutely not okay. And the difference here we talked
earlier in the show about what happened in Minnesota and
(22:49):
Anthony Edwards, who was a total stiff most of the
game for Minnesota, was waving goodbye to the Nuggets fans
on a night he played terribly well. Tyrese Haliburton, though
he he was monster mashing for Indiana. It's like, have
you monster mash, You got it done, You outplayed the
Knick star Jalen Brunson. Good luck, you do what you want.
(23:11):
I had no issue with that at all. Show business.
That was entertaining. And Haliburton going back that famous quote
from a senator to named William L. Marcy back in
the eighteen hundreds, who said, to the victor goes the
spoil and Indiana won the game, and they were all excited, right,
They didn't puke.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
They thought they were gonna puke. Everyone thought they were
gonna pee. They didn't puke. There was no puke, and
so they celebrated with a nice sweater.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Now, I will tell you the only part of this
that I would say, well that's kind of bugeyzy, is
if Indiana had gone out there and the outcome had
been different. Do you think that Tyrese Haliburton had some
other clothes to wear other than that?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Me thinks he did.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Methinks he brought a couple of other pieces of clothing
to wear postgame and that we would not have seen
that Reggie Miller photo on the hoodie that he was
wearing after the game.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
We would not have seen that. But what do I know?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
I would have been in mothballs. And then what did
you make of the Bristol, Connecticut coverage there of the Knickerboxers.
One of our listeners in Indiana got all episode. Did
you just see what they did? They were like watching
the Knick TV broadcast. I did not watch the pregame show.
I saw some clips online. I don't really watch ESPN
(24:30):
at halftime or pregame or post game because they're bad
and my time is valuable and I don't want to
be bored, so I just don't.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I don't do anything for me. I'm not that content
doesn't do any for me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
So fine, But others did, and I watched the clips online.
It was fanboy like I would I describe it as
fanboy like, right, Spike Lee isn't as biased as the
broadcast was towards the Knickerbockers, And it always blows me away.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Because the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
You think about teams that get a lot of coverage
like that, like everyone sucks the toes of the Lakers
and it goes.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
On and on like that. But like the Knicks haven't.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Had a championship team since before the Barcode was invented.
Think about that, the Barcode. The Barcode was invented after
the Knicks won their last championship with walk Clyde Fraser,
and yet they were being fonned and slabbered all over. Slapper, slaughter, slaughter.
(25:31):
Oh man, they were all over, which also made the
inevitable choke all that much more enjoyed.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Final points.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So dude, Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers have a shot
against the Celtics. They have a shot in the Eastern
Conference files. So I would classify this in the slim
to none category. These slim to none category for Indiana.
You're talking about slaying the dragon, and yet again things
have opened up for the Boston Celtics that you look
(26:00):
series by series, here everything lining up.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
For the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
And this is another one of those David versus Goliath
and the Celtics of the Goliath. In this particular matchup,
you got Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. The only scenario
where Indiana can come through here is if Jalen if
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum get together. They have breakfast,
They have the Kellogg's rice crispies and snap crackle pop.
(26:25):
Happens outside of that, rightide, even with Prezingi's hobbling and
on a pogo stick, even with that, As the adage goes,
the age all adage goes, You're only a few sprained
ankles and broken hands away from upset city.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
But would I bet on Indiana? No? Could they win
a game?
Speaker 7 (26:45):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Could they win two games? Yeah, they can win two.
Are they gonna win three game? No, they shouldn't win three,
and not even forget forget about four. Forget them.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Here we go, It's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
To the third degree? This is one big event. Gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I think he's wearing a Bronco hat, but it's dark
in the other room and I can't still. Okay, all right,
what do we have here? Koperl I'm wearing my Bucky's hat.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
I get my buckets. Saw that? Yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Over the weekend, Shams reported that Lebron James leaving the
Lakers to go wherever Bronnie James is drafted is not
a given? Are you buying that?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well, this seems like you might cut out there, But
am I buying it?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
It sounds to me like Lebron has given the Lakers
and a bunch of ultimatums like a ransom note. He
wants JJ Reddick to be the head coach and he
wants some other moves made Otherwise he's gone. But Lebron
has said for years it's been an open secret he
wants to play with Brownie James. Why wouldn't he right
father son combination? Why would you not want to have
(27:51):
that happen? But the location has to work. If the
Utah Jazz draft Bronnie James, that'd be very difficult for
to see Lebron going to Salt Lake.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
But is it? Is it a done deal? No, but
it's close to being a done deal.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Next.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Carlos Correa spoke Friday after the Twins were burned by
several borderline calls, and he made a suggestion to help umpires.
He said pitchers are just too nasty these days and
it would help if the ums had access to the
PitchCom Do you agree well, you know my.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Default position, coup on on Carlos Core a human scum
cheating a hole. He's wrong, and Major League Baseball is
committed to one thing, and one thing only, robot umpires.
It's gonna happen whether it's twenty twenty five or twenty
twenty six, so there's no need to bother Futson around.
I love the umpires to know where the PitchCom is
and all that stuff. Now they're worried about robots taking over,
(28:40):
and I'm a human element guy, So I'm human element
that's going away.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Screw the humans.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
Next, The Sun's GM James Jones said during a radio
interview over the weekend that there is no scenario where
they trade any of the Big Three this offseason. Do
you believe him?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No, he's a GM. He of course these people lie.
And Bradley I will say, Bradley Beal, you can't that albatross.
Now they're stuck with Bradley Beal. He's not going anywhere.
But Kevin Durant could wake up later today and have
bad eggs and the bacon's not cooked properly and say, man,
I want out of here. I want to go to Canada.
(29:14):
And I'm done and whatever? All right, how do we do?
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Koobloo? You pass us on?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That is a I wanted to start a week. I
have won ways all time than anyone. A listen on
the winds King Hi Malor.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
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Speaker 3 (29:43):
Were you talking to sons? Here's some interesting advice. Hold
that thought. No one's paid attention to me for ten
whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
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Speaker 3 (30:05):
We we have no safety net here. The safety is gone.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
We go to the phones and the question on the
incid advice line, who needs our advice this week in sports?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Who?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I was gonna do the knickerbockers, but I think we
will mark at a good idea or Matt rather had
a good idea, said what about Spike Lee? So all right, man,
well that makes sense. Rather than just the Knicks in general.
Spike Lee. Advice to Spike Lee, long suffering Knickerbocker fan,
as they yet again gagged as a favorite at home.
(30:36):
Could have gone back to the conference finals and the
Knicks eliminated, losing to Indiana eight seven seven.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
If you want to be part eight seven seven nine nine,
six six three sixty nine is a high volume of
call segment, so call early, call often.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Line one. Your advice to Spike Lee. Line one.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Line one is not there. We'll go to line two. Hello,
line you're on the air line too. Advice to Spike Lee.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Line two.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
When Ben takes a horse, bet on it. I'm a
very wealthy man, thinks you.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'm so happy I could kiss you.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's okay because your buddy over there, the numb nuts
will be upset. Hello Line three, Line three, you're on
the airline three.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Morning time the tag to change his name to.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Skunk yet, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I'll check with the rain A. Line four. Hello, line four,
you're on the airline four.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Ben Miller dumping Knicks again.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Big b oh, this's shown the hood guy. He's smiling.
You can tell he's happy there. Hello, Line six. You're
on the airline six. We're giving advice to Spike Lee
on how to deal with the Knickerbockers losing yet again.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Line six is not there. We're going to line one. Hello.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Line one, you're live on the airline one. Hello, also
with line one not working? Line two, Hello, line too,
you're on the airline too.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
When does parade.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
A Line three?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Line three?
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Go?
Speaker 3 (32:00):
The problem with me?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Is the problem with me? Oh, there's our friend from
the Bay Area. All right, hello, Line five, you're on
the airline five.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Go. They are who we thought they were, and we
let them off the fun.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Yeah, we give me advice to Spike Lee. The Knickerbockers
gagging as a favorite at home, But that got on
a Sunday afternoon to the Indiana Pacers. Line six, you're
on the air line six. Go. Line six is not
paying attention. We're gonna line one, eight, seven, seven, ninety
nine on Fox. A lot of people not paying attention. Hello,
(32:31):
Line one, have you ever fought?
Speaker 5 (32:35):
It's so good? You were proud of it?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Line two, you're on the air Hello line two, Spike
is that angry bill? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I'll spile spiz on a Spike for me.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Okay, that sounded very creepy. Line five, you're on the
air Hello. Line five, advice to Spike Lee. Line five,
that's a fake. That's your your fraudster, sir, you're not
the real pokey pokey guy.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Line six, Hello, line six, My advice is roll it up. Okay,
well you do that. Whether the nixt win or lose,
it doesn't matter. Line one, you're on the airline one. Yeah,
I'm not a spiled dan An.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
No, no, that's that's wrong. She screwed that up a Hello.
Line two, you're on the airline too. Where's oh see,
that's a pretender too. But that's a classic. But thank
you for bringing that guy back. All right, all right
with you one more hurry up cool Peggott final call.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It's an advice line for Spike Lee. I'm six. Line six,
you're on the airline six.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
Go.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
You could become a Boston Toepics.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Hands. Yeah, jump on the Celtic bandwagon.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
They're gonna win the whole thing now, right,
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