May 1, 2025 • 42 mins
Big Ben talks about the Lakers getting eliminated from the playoffs in a Game 5 loss against the Timeberwolves, the Rockets hanging on and blowing out the Warriors in Game 5, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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story is a feel good story for America. And I
don't know anyone that's not happy about this. Man, is
this a great night in sports? Awesome? Helllllujah, helllllujah. Yeah,
we shout out skid Row adjacent. Skid Row Adjacent. That
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was the location for Game five of the NBA plus
memory Lakers in five, Lakers in five. That's what you
told me, you ben the Lakers, then they're gonna win it. Fun,
they lost that first one, but they're gonna win it
fuck all right, So five game series five Game five
NBA Playoff opening round, you had Hookah Luca and the
Lakers trying to stave off elimination to avoid termination from
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the postseason against Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves. And yeah,
they were trying to advance to a higher level. So
I don't know if you were watching it, and I
assume you were, but maybe not. Maybe you were not watching,
not listening. You don't know what happened there, but we
were and the most shocking of things took place. There
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was a metamorphosis that happened in that playoff game. Rudy,
Go Bear. It was Rudy go Bye Bye Lakers. Rudy, Rudy, Rudy,
Rudy playoff career high twenty seven points at twenty four rebounds.
I kicked their ass. Rudy go Bear, kick your ass.
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How embarrassing is that? Oh my god, that is even
better than I could have possibly imagined. And a former Laker,
Julius Randall, who he thought was trash, had twenty three
and was better down the stretch, was better down the stretch.
And the team that was superior the better team. The
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Timberwolves have advanced in the NBA playoffs one to oh,
three to ninety six, and the Lakers are dead. The
Lakers are dead. Anthony Edwards wasn't even good in a
quiet night and it didn't matter, as Minnesota has done it.
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They won three straight games to eliminate Lebron and Bronnie James.
First time ever a father son combo has been eliminated
in the first round of the NBA playoffs and huk
Luka he might show up next year at seven hundred pounds,
says he's out. First postseason as a Laker and he's gone.
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And after winning a playoff round in back to back
seasons that has only happened one other time for that franchise.
The Wolves will now rest up and they will face
the winner of Houston and Golden State. That series has
been extended to a sixth game as Golden State forfeited
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a very bold move by Steve. For more on that later,
Steve Kerr conceding in the middle of the game the
game was over, did not try to win? That should
be some kind of violation, I would think, But you know,
you got to have a commission with balls to do that.
The NBA does not have that, so I would imagine
that will not happen. But let us discuss let's focus
in on this glorious night, great night for sports in
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America and North American rule in the world. The Lakers
are done so better stories in the losing locker room.
Let's begin with that. As we discussed the question who
gets the biggest piece of the Lakers Purple and gold
accountability case of Diya because there, lesays, So I've got Nascar,
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I hop and opera, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will make an all inclusive
trip to can Kuhn, because that's where the Laker players
will be going. They won't be going to the second round.
They'll be going to can kun now a Lebron, James
and Luca side by side, they can enjoy and all
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you can eat special, all right, all you can eat
special in that case of D here and it's seafood.
Actually it's a seafood case of D. I heard when
I was younger that a fish stinks from the head down.
So you don't need a best You told me you
don't need depth, you don't need anyone. As long as
you have Luca and Lebron, you're gonna win every close
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game in the fourth quarter. No one will stop them. Oh,
by god, could you have been more wrong? What happened
to that championship pedigree? What happened to that? Are we
allowed to say Lebron looks cooked? Are we allowed to
say that? Is that allowed? Or Am I gonna get
in trouble for that? Am I gonna get hit by
lightning from the sports radio gods, Lebron looks cooked, loser,
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capital l as a Lake. What a failure. Lebron's been
no championships as a Laker, more first round exits than anything.
An absolute failure as a Laker, Lebron James, You're not
supposed to say that, though. And those two Lebron and
Luca playing slow and dumb in crunch time Minnesota with
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the game on the line. Dominated in physicality, they were
the faster team. They won the fifty to fifty balls,
they secured the loose balls, They took advantage of the Lakers'
inability to match them mono amano. And in the game
that was played here on Wednesday night, the Lakers in
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the fourth quarter, needing to win or that's it, shot
thirty percent in the fourth quarter thirty percent. Lebron and
Luca took ten shots. They made just three of them
combined for eight points. They were outscored by Julius Randall.
How does that taste? How does that that taste good?
That's better? Right, that's better? Julius Randall outscored Lebron and
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Luca combined in the final twelve minutes of the game
and overall in this series. That is stat on TNT
the Wolves were plus forty two in the fourth quarter
of the five games. They outscored the Lakers by forty
two points in the fourth quarter of these gamess. Now,
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to use the NASCAR terminal, as you're watching this series,
it appeared the Lakers for some reason were driving their
stock car with restrictor plates on while the Wolves were
going zoom zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom zoom. Broom broom, broom, broom, broom.
They upshifted, is what they did. They absolutely upshifted and
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were just clearly the superior team in this one. And
my guy, all right, let's hear it from some of
the participants. Jump over to Lebron first, and we'll hear
from someone else later. But here's Lebron. The question is Lebron,
you're old, You look like you can't play anymore. The
game passed you by and crunch time. Will you finally retire?
(09:04):
Lebron James, will you finally retire? Let's go to the
audio tape.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Enter into an off season on a roster that has
look at datis that secured the number three seeds in
the West in a really tough West this year?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
What type of thoughts does that give you about your
end game? And you know, how many more years will
we see you? Pat? It's a long question.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I don't know. I don't have the answer to that. Something.
I'll sit down with my family, my wife and my
support group and kind of just talk through it and
see what happens, and then they just have a conversations
with myself on how long I want to continue to play.
I don't know the answer to that right now, to
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be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So it's Lebron's way of saying, I want everyone to
talk about me for the next three weeks. I want
everyone to say, well, I play. And it's funny though,
when Lebron's says, hey, I need to get with my
wife and my family, that means his teammate, right, because
one of his family members is on the effing team
because you made him be on the effing team and
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he sucks. He's terrible. Holy crap, does Bronni James blow?
And he's on your team, Lebron because of you, you
could have had an actual good NBA player that could
have been a bench player that would have helped you out,
but you had to put your sucked bag kid on
the team. How's that taste? Lebron hah you loser all
right now? Pace two? What was the uber eats order,
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if you will? In honor of Femi in Minnesota, who's
smiling from you to ear? What was the uber eats
order for the Timberwolves to child down on an easy
five game series win over the pathetic Lakers. The answer,
I hop is the answer. The Wolves child down on
the Rudy tu Dy fresh and fruity Rudy Gobert combo.
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The Lakers pathetic defense turned Rudy go bear the butt
of all jokes in that sport, Rudy Gobert into a
combo of Shaquille O'Neil and keem Olaijahwan in that game.
So you got your two pancakes, You got your sweet
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syrupy fruit topping, got the strawberries. Hell Minnesota tossed the
blueberry topping on there. They had the mixed berry, they
had the apple, sent him in the whole thing, two eggs,
a couple of pieces of bacon on the side. Rudy
Gobar was stupefying in this game, and he left the Lakers.
In honor of the late great Brian Wheeler, mystified, mesmerized,
and mortified. He was a stunner, and Minnesota did everything
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they could to keep the game from going their way.
They missed eighteen straight three balls, eighteen straight three point
shots they missed. They still won the game. Anthony Edwards
had small D, not big D, small D energy. He
took nineteen shots, he missed fourteen of them. He shot
twenty six percent in a closeout game, and it didn't
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matter because Rudy go Bear was Shaquille O'Neil. Un real, unreal?
All right? Now, last word here, So to the blow
up heard round the hoops world. This is actually pregame
before the Lakers went out there and embarrassed the franchise
yet again, getting stomped on by the Wolves. Podcaster masquerading
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doing cosplay as a coach, JJ Reddick stormed out of
his news conference after he was asked if he would
lean on his assistance when it comes to fourth quarter substitutions,
and Reddick barked back at some faceless reporter, Are you
saying that because I'm in experience with a question mark,
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you think I don't talk to my assistance about substitutions
every single time out Now, the reporter then tried to
calm the situation down and said a lot of coaches
talked to assistants and tried to soften the hothead Reddick.
But well, rather than me just I'm I can give
you the playboy. But here's JJ Reddick. Listen to this
weird back and forth. Listen close.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
What do you recall about your thought process in the
moment sticking with the five you stuck with in the
fourth quarter the other day?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And is there an.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Assistant or someone maybe that you'll lean on tonight maybe
to try to get you know, some other guys involved,
if that opportunity presents.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Are you saying that because I'm inexperienced and that was
an inexperienced decision that I made. Do you think I
don't talk to my assistance about substitutions every single time out?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
No, I just think there's a lot of coaches lean
on their assistance in those situations, as.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Do O Lock every single time. That's a weird assumption.
I watch it drops the mic Ah walks with all right,
So how do you evaluate that sound by JJ Reddick
blowing a gasket over his coaching skills. Well, it's par
for the course. He's an embarrassment, right, everyone knows JJ's
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an embarrassment to the Lakers. It's an embarrassment to basketball.
He's Lebron's podcast buddy, like, I'm as qualified to coach
in the NBA I do podcast. Why don't I coach
the Clippers?
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's so embarrassing And he got out coached by nobody.
Can't even name Minnesota's coach, This guy Finch, Nobody can
name him. But it's par for the course with JJ Redick.
Everything with Reddick is an Italian opera. He's the prima donna.
He's temperamental, he's arrogant. He thinks he invented basketball. I
think he still believes he's doing a show, like on
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First Take with Steven A. When he talks to the media,
he's overly dramatic. He's self absorbed. He plays to the cameras.
And the good news is we can say now officially,
JJ Reddick as a coach is the same as JJ
Reddick as a player. The guy missed every big shot
with the Lob City Clippers when it mattered, and as
coach of the Lakers, he embarrassed himself in the playff course,
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he was just following the marching orders all Lebron James.
His lead coach is Lebron, He's the assistant, but man
a lot and it's it's it really is inflammation. JJ
Reddick is suffering from inflammation, nerve damage. That struck a nerve.
It's a sorp subject. He knows, he doesn't he's not
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qualified to be a head coach. He didn't pay his
dues to become a head coach. He jumped in line,
and that was a totally fair question to ask. Reddick
was the first and is the only coach, the only
one in the NBA to play all five guys in
entire half of a playoff game. It had never happened,
and he did something ridiculous. Again, it's it's like an
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f you to Rob Polink. Is very bizarre. What's going
on because like Lebron's kind of shadow running everything, but
it's like they're sending these messages out in this game.
The first person off the bench was Maxi Kleeball, who
you probably don't even know who was on a team.
He was trashed the Mavericks tossed in in that Luca trade.
The guy hadn't even practiced, according to the TNT broadcast
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with the Lakers. But he came in there like the
first guy off the bench, which was the bird to
Rob Polenka, hadn't even practice and not a gay, not
a game. We talked about practice. And then you got
Jackson Hayes, who is so far in JJ Reddick's doghouse
and really Lebron's doghouse that he got a DNP coach's decision,
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didn't get off the bench. He's got hemorrhoids right now,
he's getting medication. He's getting medication hemorrhoids from sitting on
the bench. I mean, it's so good, it's so great.
All right, let's hear one more from JJ Reddick. This
was postgame. Here's Reddick doing some evaluation. I'm sure he's
going to say how bad he did. Unless he doesn't,
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let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I'll use my own thoughts to evaluate myself, and I'll
use what my players say and what my coaching staff
says to evaluate. But you know, I know I can
be better, and I know I will get better. I
don't necessarily take any satisfaction from how the year went.
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That's not to say I'm not proud of what the
group was able to do and how we're able to
figure things out on the fly and put ourselves in
a position to have home court in the first round.
But there's always there's always ways to get better, and
I can I can get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I'm sure your players will give you a big
thumbs up. You sat most of them on the bench
the entire time you battled to get home court, so
you can lose two home games some home court advantage,
you losers. Oh, it's so good, Oh my god, that
is great. So I'd fire him. I would fire JJ Reddick.
(17:50):
The Lakers don't really have an owner, they don't, you know,
so that won't happen. JJ should have never been hired.
I'd fire him. Let him go back and hang out
with Stephen A. Smith and give takes, you know, rip
old NBA players, old men say they're plumbers and all that.
Do that. Go ahead, JJ, Yeah, that'd be the way
to go. Jeezu, It's how great when people like that lose?
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Is that not one of the great things about being
some of the falls sports? When a holes lose like
JJ Reddick and the Lakers, God, is that good?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Man?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Does that taste good? That is so good? Delicious, delicious, delicious, delicious.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
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pro Bouncy Ball. We'll get back to the decommissioning of
Lebron and Hookah Luca. Good news for those running hookah
bars around La. Luca's got nothing to worry about other
than just enjoying himself. The Lakers are done. Minnesota has advanced.
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But our lead this hour is from Houston. And it's
not Houston we have a problem. It's Golden State we
have a problem. That was the playground in Texas for
Game five of the first round playoff series between the
Rockets and the Warriors. Now Stephen Curry and Golden State.
My media elites cover the NBA told me that they
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just know how to win. They just know how to win.
They are just more savvy, more savvy than the Rockets.
So if they won Golden State, they would have advanced Houston.
They won, they would have continued on if they lost.
That's it. It's over. That was the setup. This was
the early game on the card. I don't know if
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you saw this or not. You can't watch everything. I
get it. We have no excuse. So we watched Fred
van vliate Fred van vlate twenty six points. Amen Thompson
with twenty five the Rockets, putting the Warriors into the
shredding machine. The paper Shredder won thirty one to one
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sixteen in the game that was not that close. They
stave off, stave off elimination and they go thumper on
Golden State as they win by a large margin. Game
six will be Friday night in northern California. Now Dylan
Brooks the pest. Dylan Brooks. He had twenty four points
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on a night when all five Houston players in the
in the starting line up. There he scored in double figures.
Five Houston players in double figures. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we are going to begin this diatribe. In a stunning
juxtaposition from what many of us were taught growing up.
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You never give up. You compete to the end. You
never want to stop the competition, right, You play to
win the game. It's grolling, it's exhausting. It might look blake,
you could be frazzled. But the tradition of sport is
you keep going. You keep going. Unless you're coached by
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Steve Kerr, then not so much.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
So.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The Warrior coach shockingly threw in the towel. He threw
in the towel early in this one, well not too early,
but early enough, and so that's it. We're good. After
a layoff by Fred van Vliet midway through the third quarter,
with about eighteen minutes to go in the game, it
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was ninety three to sixty four. Did not look good.
It did not look good. So Steve Kerk called the
time out, and he took all of his good players
and put them on the bench. He took all of
his garbage players and put them on the court and said,
all right, let's get the garbage in there, and here
we go. I'll put you in there and have your way.
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All right, So let us discuss the question. Did coach
Steve Kerr make the right call by conceding a playoff game, which, oh,
by the way, the Warriors' backups actually got within a
manageable number in the fourth quarter. Did Steve Kerr make
the right call by conceding this playoff game for the Warriors.
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So my observations, I've got Yetti, Ernest Hemingway, and RoboCop,
and we will combine all of these random things together
and we are going to make the Gabba ghoul. We're
gonna make the Gabba gooul, all right? So numb burn
Can I get a numb burne? This one is a
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head scratcher to me. I admit the game seemed over
and I don't even have a problem taking the starters
out at that point. My issue is not putting them
back in when the game was a workable number. That
is a felony. That is inexcusable. That is malfeasance by
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Steve Kerr, and there's really no defense to it, all right,
So he doesn't put him back in. The Warrior scrubs
had cut the deficit. I believe the number was down
to thirteen or fourteen with about six minutes ago in
the fourth quarter. It was a manageable deficit with a
three point shot. You close out that game and you
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get some extra rest. You get extra rest. Steve Kerr, like,
what are you doing all right now? Kurt mentioned that
he took the council of Draymond Green. So apparently Kurr
doesn't actually coach the team. Draymond Green coaches the team.
Here's Draymond on the decision to sit the starters on
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their ass. Take a listen. I mean it is what
it is.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Obviously, it's not ideal to play more minutes because since
we're winning, play way more. But yeah, we had a
kind of quick conversation and he was just saying, Yo,
I don't think we should chase it. I said, cool,
we'll give it five six minutes. We can't turn it
fast and pull the plug.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, okay, here's Draymond Green. I'm getting the ass kicked
by the Rockets.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
At this point in our careers, we've seen it all,
had all the experiences, so you got something to draw
back on.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But yeah, they played a good game.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
But whether they went by one or fifty, it's a
playoff series. It counts is one win.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh I didn't know that, Thank you. I don't have
that experienced Draymond, so I didn't realize that. Anyway, Let's
get back to Steve Kerr. So Steve Kerr again, he
said in the media postgame he's like, well, I talked
to Draymond. We had a conversation. Draymond's like, it's a
quick conversation. Steve Kerr needs a YETI cooler, he needs
the YETI, he needs a YETI cooler filled with medello.
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And because they're lacking the fighting spirit, that was a
betrayal of the competitive spirit. It undermines integrity. Am I
being too dramatic? I don't think I'm being too dramatic.
And the reason I think what Steve Kerr said is
bull crap is because on the TNT broadcast, for some reason,
I had the audio up. I usually don't because the
broadcasters annoyed me. Other than Kevin Harlan and a couple others,
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most of them annoyed me. But I had the audio
up and they were saying it was like the second quarter,
and I swear to God I heard this, and you
can back me up on this if you were watching
the TNT broadcast. I don't even know their names. They
were like, well, yeah, we talked to Steve Kerr before
the game and he told us that if the Warriors
fell behind in the game, he would be willing to
pull people from the game early. So that was like
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the mindset, Like the mindset was, we're gonna toss away
a playoff game because because why we We're gonna prioritize rest.
What are you a mama Luke? Like, seriously, what is
the message? That was the pregame message to the teams?
Like well, you know, or you know, to give up
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if things don't go really good early and all that.
They're keep in mind you don't play back to back
in the place, you have a day off between games.
And people talk about the grueling travel. Uh, I got
to live in that world a little bit many years ago.
I traveled with a baseball team. You are on chartered flights,
chartered buses, You're staying at five star hotels. It is
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not waiting online for group B at Southwest Airlines, okay,
and having people that haven't showered in months, that have
horrible body odor and just horrific breath. Uh, you know
you're dealing with that. Okay. You're sitting on a plane.
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You can sleep, you can be on your phone. They've
got the Wi Fi. It's not exactly the most taxing
thing in the world.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
If you travel for business, you've got more problems than
a professional sports team traveling, you just do and so
he said, well, we got to get the rest. You know,
they don't play back to back. So essentially, what Steve
Kerr saying is that my team is soft. But I'm
not going to tell you my team is soft. I'm
just gonna do things that indicate the Warriors are a
soft team. They should still win. Now, the other part
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of this page two, have the e may Udoka coached
Rockets figured out something with the Warriors what was a
domination situation. So I'm not willing to go that far
that the Rockets have figured out some things. Things are
looking up. Houston's strategy yere of smothering Stephan Curry with
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physicality and forcing turnovers and using their size and their
youth advantage. It has worked for stretches in these games
and Curry the last couple of games, Curry is shooting
forty percent from the floor, twenty nine percent from three
point range, the greatest shooter in the history of the
sport is shooting five of seventeen from beyond the arc
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over the last couple of games. And the Rockets, I
would say they are still on the innocent side of
things here. They're energetic they're bright eyed, bushy tailed all that.
But as Ernest Hemingway famously wrote back in the day,
one of the Hemingway quotes, all things truly wicked start
from an innocence. So the Rockets overwhelmed the Warriors in
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this game. The Warriors had the mindset, well, we're probably
gonna quit anyway. Golden State mailed it in, which is
something you should never and they did, and they were
just going through the motions. But Houston, they win big,
and yet they still have not really gotten Jalen Green going.
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He had another suck bag games, just eleven points in
this game on three of eight shooting. He is, as
my friend Tony Bruno would say, strapper Jalen Green. He
is a regular season, has been great. Playoffs, he's been
mostly in embarrassment. He had that one big game. Other
than that, bad, bad, bad, bad bad. The Rockets are
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playing at this point with house money. Even though they're
the higher seed. They are supposed to lose. But it
really seems like it comes down to a one game
situation here. The Warriors should win at home, but it's
Steve Kerr and the Warriors who are messing with the
basketball gods. By flushing away Game five again pulling the starters.
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That's not the biggest sin in the world. But then
when the bench mob gets you back in the game
and you don't put the starters back in, that is
the violation. That is high crimes and misdemeanors. That is
a war tribunal. That is that what are you doing? All? Right?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Final point?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We head now away from the NBA plaous. We go
to Milwaukee where we are hearing now the Bucks and
Giannis A. Dentacumbo are scheduled to have a pow wow
to discuss his future and the plans of the organization. Question,
what does that mean?
Speaker 8 (31:31):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's what Normally this happens a post season when you
are eliminated. Every player meets with the organization. So it's
not new, it's not outraged. It's a little different when
you're the headliner, so that part of it is different.
But if you use your brain on this one and
look at all of the evidence. We've talked about this
in previous episodes, if you go RoboCop and use your
(31:56):
cyborg X ray vision, read the room like the Buck
have had three consecutive first round playoff exits, bye bye
in the first round. There's all kinds of rumors swirling
that the Rockets, who are in this series we just
talked about with the Warriors, they're gonna make a run
at Yiannis. The Warriors are gonna try to throw some
(32:17):
players together. Oklahoma City that's got every draft pick for
the next thirty years, is going to try to trade
some of those and they're all gonna make big offers,
multiple first round picks, young players, all that stuff. So
the Greek freak will undercover ask to enter the portal.
It's gonna be like, I'm okay, I want to kind
(32:37):
of go to the portal, and he'll do it subtly
like It's kind of like that response he gave the
other night when Jannis was asked if he thinks he
can still win championships in Milwaukee, and rather than saying yes,
I think I can win championships with the Milwaukee Bucks
or no, I don't. We have to get better, Yannis
gave a non answer answer. He said, quote, I'm not
(33:00):
gonna do this. Whatever I say, I know it's going
to translate. I don't know, man, I wish I was
still playing. So he is correct. Whatever he said would
be used, and that was used, okay, and it is
used and it is fair. It is red meat. He
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didn't say yes. He wanted to, he wanted to say no. However,
he refused to take the bait. He just said I
don't know, which is a way of saying no. And
how has Doc Rivers not been fired? Wouldn't that be
the if you owned the bucks? Wouldn't that be the
first That's the easiest move. That should be the first
move you make. You just say bye bye and you
(33:41):
get rid of Doc Rivers? Like why does that not happen?
Like what are you waiting for? What bother? Going through
the charades with Doc Rivers? He stinks he's the most
replaceable part of professional sports is coach in basketball or hockey.
So just get rid of him. That's it, See you later, Asta,
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so happy to home my friends there that enjoyed the
juicy lucy And minnesota's a long suffering sports. Fans AND
i mentioned at the end of last Jar Mark williams
of The Charlotte, hornets who was traded to The lakers
and then Skinny Jeans Rob polenka rejected the, trade, saying
oh my, god he's. Damaged. Goods Mark williams played the
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rest of the, season was perfectly, fine and he sent
out at the end of The lakers game With minnesota
where they were exterminated from the, playoffs a smiley face.
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Degree this is one Big ben gets.
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Grilloblo, so The San francisco forty Nine ers gave star
tight End George kittle a four year extension that makes
him the highest paid tight end in the. League, ben
do you think this extension has any impact On Brock purty's?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Extension, no it's apples and. Oranges you're talking about a
tight end versus a, quarterback and the fact that Brock
purty hasn't signed a contract yet indicates they're far. Apart
and if The niners are, smart AND i hope they're,
NOT i hope they're. Dumb but if they're, smart they'll
just go year to year with Brock, purty franchise tag,
him and then dump. Him but the two things are.
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Unrelated although the fact That George kittle is there helps
Brock perdy because Brock perty's he doesn't make players around him,
Better they make him, better which is not the normal
quarterback team mate. Relationship but in terms of the, finances
it doesn't. Matter it's a different. Position.
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NEXT Nba Commissioner Adam silver spoke to the media On
monday and said that the league wants to fix The
All Star game by adopting a similar format as to
what THE nhl did with their Four nations face.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Off, ben do you think this will fix The All
Star game for THE.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Nba, no It's Adam silver stealing Off Gary bettman's, paper
is what he's. Doing the problem with The All Star
game is nobody in The All Star game cares about
The All Star. Game it's a noosance like it's the
weirdest thing in THE, nba because, like the players love
going To All Star, weekend it's like a big. Deal
there's a lot of parties All Star weekend in THE.
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Nba it's a great social. Event but playing in the
game is an. Annoyance and it doesn't matter whether it's
representing countries or. Not it's it's not gonna move the.
Needle now in terms of fans, support people love the.
Flag they love wrapping some of themselves in the, flag
so that part of it people will be into. It
but if the players aren't into, it it's not gonna
(36:59):
Mat if the players are just going through the, motions
which they always, do they always do now in THE,
nba the players are.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
Soft, Next Travis hunter has the early lead on rookie
jersey sales over Cam. Ward, Now, ben do you Think
hunter still leads all rookies and jersey sales by the
end of the.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Season, well it's it's going to be an offensive, player.
Right and It's neither one of those teams is a national.
Team The titans are. Not they're a regional. Team jacksonville's
even more regional than The Tennessee titans. Are it's just
there's no one there other than those, two like who?
Else Shelder sanders was a fifth round. Pick so, yeah
(37:38):
at this Point Travis hunter is going to get a
fair amount of opportunity With. Jacksonville SO i say that'll.
Hold how did we do? That is put on? More
i've won more times than anyone else that mallardy the
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Reading all, Right, ben you want to start off with
a with a deep.
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One oh that that could be a. Drop, Yeah bobby And.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
Florida he wants to know do you think THAT ai
will improve society or be its?
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Downfall?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
WELL i always look at these things like they're never
as bad as people think they, are and they're never
as good as people think they. Are SO i think
the answer is somewhere in the. Middle LIKE i think for,
medicine it's going to be amazing and that they will
be able to come up with cures to a lot
of the illnesses that are killing so many of us
and our parents and whatnot in terms of cancer and
(39:04):
things like. That SO i think from that perspective it's
going to be. WONDERFUL i am concerned about the number
of people that are currently have jobs that will be
replaced BY, ai AND i don't know what everyone's going
to do for, work so that part of it does trouble.
Me BUT i think in the end of technology, changes
it's like when the car came, along people who had.
(39:25):
HORSES i don't want a, car and then now it's
just you move on to whatever's next and things will settle.
In what about, You, lorraine what do you think ABOUT?
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Ai, YEAH ai is gonna rule us.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
All, okay we're, Done we're all. Cooked it's Over.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Coop i'm kind of on the same page as, You.
Speaker 9 (39:43):
BEN i think, overall it's gonna it's gonna be better for,
society but it's gonna it's gonna be, different or we're
gonna have to make some.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Adjustments there's an adjustment. Period, yeah you, know it's like
you know in in my, life you, know you reflected
when you get older and you're, LIKE i think about
WHEN i was a, Kid LIKE i didn't have bones and,
crap you, know we had to go out and run
around and cause havoc in the. Neighborhood and now just
sit on your phone play video games all, day WHICH
i probably would have done IF i had. IT i
didn't have, it So i'd like to run through orange
(40:12):
groves and throw oranges and crap like. That but it's
just like things. Change you're in and we'll figure it.
Out what's? Next what are we all?
Speaker 9 (40:19):
Right we have connected questions here? Connected, Yes, first The
King rory would like to, Know, Hi King, rory how
many holes are too many until you throw out a
pair of?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Socks, yeah this is a. PROBLEM i wear the socks
until there are multiple. Holes normally there's an intervention by
my wife to get rid of the. SOCKS i will
continue to wear. THEM i have no shame in my
sock hole, game SO i normally somebody has to step
in and take them, out OTHERWISE i will keep wearing.
Them so the answer, is, really there's no end to
(40:52):
the amount of holes in the. Socks what about, You, lorraina.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
No, no, no no holes in my. SOCKS i cannot
handle such. Things my feet are too.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Soft, okay well mine or? NOT i have a lot
of wear and. Tear shall we? Say? Anyway what about, You?
Coop i'm With.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Lorena one hole and it's.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Gone, well aren't you guys up at the up at
the all? Right what's? Next where we're? At all?
Speaker 9 (41:14):
Right so Donkey sausage said to, you my donkey to
go along With King rory's, question how holy does your
underwear got to be before they are thrown?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Out, well that is a little, different and it does
depend about, where as you, Know, coop because of our
anatomy where the hole, is there's certain locations that are
immediately a. Throwaway there are other locations that might be
up on the tookas that doesn't really. Matter but if
it's in the bottom part there and it hits you
just where where there's important stuff right away, Trash.
Speaker 8 (41:43):
Lorena i'm sorry about holes in men's underwear is. Disgusting fix?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
It you know women's underwear are some of ours holes
in it, Naturally so as long as it's not wear and.
Speaker 8 (41:56):
Tear i'm keeping them all.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Right, well, yeah if you're going a, date, guys you
should probably not wear the pair of underworth.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
Holes these are my Lucky.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah maybe maybe save those for.
Speaker 8 (42:08):
Later, Man i'm kind of with.
Speaker 9 (42:11):
You if it's, like if there's holes up, by like the,
Waistband i'll keep.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Those, yeah. Exactly, yeah there you, go ask. Man there
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don't know anyone that's not happy about this. Man, is
this a great night in sports? Awesome? Helllllujah, helllllujah. Yeah,
we shout out skid Row adjacent. Skid Row Adjacent. That
(02:17):
was the location for Game five of the NBA plus
memory Lakers in five, Lakers in five. That's what you
told me, you ben the Lakers, then they're gonna win it. Fun,
they lost that first one, but they're gonna win it
fuck all right, So five game series five Game five
NBA Playoff opening round, you had Hookah Luca and the
Lakers trying to stave off elimination to avoid termination from
(02:43):
the postseason against Anthony Edwards and the tim Wolves. And yeah,
they were trying to advance to a higher level. So
I don't know if you were watching it, and I
assume you were, but maybe not. Maybe you were not watching,
not listening. You don't know what happened there, but we
were and the most shocking of things took place. There
(03:08):
was a metamorphosis that happened in that playoff game. Rudy,
Go Bear. It was Rudy go Bye Bye Lakers. Rudy, Rudy, Rudy,
Rudy playoff career high twenty seven points at twenty four rebounds.
I kicked their ass. Rudy go Bear, kick your ass.
(03:31):
How embarrassing is that? Oh my god, that is even
better than I could have possibly imagined. And a former Laker,
Julius Randall, who he thought was trash, had twenty three
and was better down the stretch, was better down the stretch.
And the team that was superior the better team. The
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Timberwolves have advanced in the NBA playoffs one to oh,
three to ninety six, and the Lakers are dead. The
Lakers are dead. Anthony Edwards wasn't even good in a
quiet night and it didn't matter, as Minnesota has done it.
(04:16):
They won three straight games to eliminate Lebron and Bronnie James.
First time ever a father son combo has been eliminated
in the first round of the NBA playoffs and huk
Luka he might show up next year at seven hundred pounds,
says he's out. First postseason as a Laker and he's gone.
(04:37):
And after winning a playoff round in back to back
seasons that has only happened one other time for that franchise.
The Wolves will now rest up and they will face
the winner of Houston and Golden State. That series has
been extended to a sixth game as Golden State forfeited
(04:57):
a very bold move by Steve. For more on that later,
Steve Kerr conceding in the middle of the game the
game was over, did not try to win? That should
be some kind of violation, I would think, But you know,
you got to have a commission with balls to do that.
The NBA does not have that, so I would imagine
that will not happen. But let us discuss let's focus
in on this glorious night, great night for sports in
(05:20):
America and North American rule in the world. The Lakers
are done so better stories in the losing locker room.
Let's begin with that. As we discussed the question who
gets the biggest piece of the Lakers Purple and gold
accountability case of Diya because there, lesays, So I've got Nascar,
(05:41):
I hop and opera, and we will combine all of
these things together and we will make an all inclusive
trip to can Kuhn, because that's where the Laker players
will be going. They won't be going to the second round.
They'll be going to can kun now a Lebron, James
and Luca side by side, they can enjoy and all
(06:02):
you can eat special, all right, all you can eat
special in that case of D here and it's seafood.
Actually it's a seafood case of D. I heard when
I was younger that a fish stinks from the head down.
So you don't need a best You told me you
don't need depth, you don't need anyone. As long as
you have Luca and Lebron, you're gonna win every close
(06:25):
game in the fourth quarter. No one will stop them. Oh,
by god, could you have been more wrong? What happened
to that championship pedigree? What happened to that? Are we
allowed to say Lebron looks cooked? Are we allowed to
say that? Is that allowed? Or Am I gonna get
in trouble for that? Am I gonna get hit by
lightning from the sports radio gods, Lebron looks cooked, loser,
(06:50):
capital l as a Lake. What a failure. Lebron's been
no championships as a Laker, more first round exits than anything.
An absolute failure as a Laker, Lebron James, You're not
supposed to say that, though. And those two Lebron and
Luca playing slow and dumb in crunch time Minnesota with
(07:12):
the game on the line. Dominated in physicality, they were
the faster team. They won the fifty to fifty balls,
they secured the loose balls, They took advantage of the Lakers'
inability to match them mono amano. And in the game
that was played here on Wednesday night, the Lakers in
(07:34):
the fourth quarter, needing to win or that's it, shot
thirty percent in the fourth quarter thirty percent. Lebron and
Luca took ten shots. They made just three of them
combined for eight points. They were outscored by Julius Randall.
How does that taste? How does that that taste good?
That's better? Right, that's better? Julius Randall outscored Lebron and
(07:57):
Luca combined in the final twelve minutes of the game
and overall in this series. That is stat on TNT
the Wolves were plus forty two in the fourth quarter
of the five games. They outscored the Lakers by forty
two points in the fourth quarter of these gamess. Now,
(08:19):
to use the NASCAR terminal, as you're watching this series,
it appeared the Lakers for some reason were driving their
stock car with restrictor plates on while the Wolves were
going zoom zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom zoom. Broom broom, broom, broom, broom.
They upshifted, is what they did. They absolutely upshifted and
(08:42):
were just clearly the superior team in this one. And
my guy, all right, let's hear it from some of
the participants. Jump over to Lebron first, and we'll hear
from someone else later. But here's Lebron. The question is Lebron,
you're old, You look like you can't play anymore. The
game passed you by and crunch time. Will you finally retire?
(09:04):
Lebron James, will you finally retire? Let's go to the
audio tape.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Enter into an off season on a roster that has
look at datis that secured the number three seeds in
the West in a really tough West this year?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
What type of thoughts does that give you about your
end game? And you know, how many more years will
we see you? Pat? It's a long question.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I don't know. I don't have the answer to that. Something.
I'll sit down with my family, my wife and my
support group and kind of just talk through it and
see what happens, and then they just have a conversations
with myself on how long I want to continue to play.
I don't know the answer to that right now, to
(09:49):
be honest.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So it's Lebron's way of saying, I want everyone to
talk about me for the next three weeks. I want
everyone to say, well, I play. And it's funny though,
when Lebron's says, hey, I need to get with my
wife and my family, that means his teammate, right, because
one of his family members is on the effing team
because you made him be on the effing team and
(10:10):
he sucks. He's terrible. Holy crap, does Bronni James blow?
And he's on your team, Lebron because of you, you
could have had an actual good NBA player that could
have been a bench player that would have helped you out,
but you had to put your sucked bag kid on
the team. How's that taste? Lebron hah you loser all
right now? Pace two? What was the uber eats order,
(10:33):
if you will? In honor of Femi in Minnesota, who's
smiling from you to ear? What was the uber eats
order for the Timberwolves to child down on an easy
five game series win over the pathetic Lakers. The answer,
I hop is the answer. The Wolves child down on
the Rudy tu Dy fresh and fruity Rudy Gobert combo.
(10:55):
The Lakers pathetic defense turned Rudy go bear the butt
of all jokes in that sport, Rudy Gobert into a
combo of Shaquille O'Neil and keem Olaijahwan in that game.
So you got your two pancakes, You got your sweet
(11:17):
syrupy fruit topping, got the strawberries. Hell Minnesota tossed the
blueberry topping on there. They had the mixed berry, they
had the apple, sent him in the whole thing, two eggs,
a couple of pieces of bacon on the side. Rudy
Gobar was stupefying in this game, and he left the Lakers.
In honor of the late great Brian Wheeler, mystified, mesmerized,
and mortified. He was a stunner, and Minnesota did everything
(11:42):
they could to keep the game from going their way.
They missed eighteen straight three balls, eighteen straight three point
shots they missed. They still won the game. Anthony Edwards
had small D, not big D, small D energy. He
took nineteen shots, he missed fourteen of them. He shot
twenty six percent in a closeout game, and it didn't
(12:04):
matter because Rudy go Bear was Shaquille O'Neil. Un real, unreal?
All right? Now, last word here, So to the blow
up heard round the hoops world. This is actually pregame
before the Lakers went out there and embarrassed the franchise
yet again, getting stomped on by the Wolves. Podcaster masquerading
(12:26):
doing cosplay as a coach, JJ Reddick stormed out of
his news conference after he was asked if he would
lean on his assistance when it comes to fourth quarter substitutions,
and Reddick barked back at some faceless reporter, Are you
saying that because I'm in experience with a question mark,
(12:47):
you think I don't talk to my assistance about substitutions
every single time out Now, the reporter then tried to
calm the situation down and said a lot of coaches
talked to assistants and tried to soften the hothead Reddick.
But well, rather than me just I'm I can give
you the playboy. But here's JJ Reddick. Listen to this
weird back and forth. Listen close.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
What do you recall about your thought process in the
moment sticking with the five you stuck with in the
fourth quarter the other day?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
And is there an.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Assistant or someone maybe that you'll lean on tonight maybe
to try to get you know, some other guys involved,
if that opportunity presents.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Are you saying that because I'm inexperienced and that was
an inexperienced decision that I made. Do you think I
don't talk to my assistance about substitutions every single time out?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
No, I just think there's a lot of coaches lean
on their assistance in those situations, as.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Do O Lock every single time. That's a weird assumption.
I watch it drops the mic Ah walks with all right,
So how do you evaluate that sound by JJ Reddick
blowing a gasket over his coaching skills. Well, it's par
for the course. He's an embarrassment, right, everyone knows JJ's
(14:03):
an embarrassment to the Lakers. It's an embarrassment to basketball.
He's Lebron's podcast buddy, like, I'm as qualified to coach
in the NBA I do podcast. Why don't I coach
the Clippers?
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's so embarrassing And he got out coached by nobody.
Can't even name Minnesota's coach, This guy Finch, Nobody can
name him. But it's par for the course with JJ Redick.
Everything with Reddick is an Italian opera. He's the prima donna.
He's temperamental, he's arrogant. He thinks he invented basketball. I
think he still believes he's doing a show, like on
(14:36):
First Take with Steven A. When he talks to the media,
he's overly dramatic. He's self absorbed. He plays to the cameras.
And the good news is we can say now officially,
JJ Reddick as a coach is the same as JJ
Reddick as a player. The guy missed every big shot
with the Lob City Clippers when it mattered, and as
coach of the Lakers, he embarrassed himself in the playff course,
(14:57):
he was just following the marching orders all Lebron James.
His lead coach is Lebron, He's the assistant, but man
a lot and it's it's it really is inflammation. JJ
Reddick is suffering from inflammation, nerve damage. That struck a nerve.
It's a sorp subject. He knows, he doesn't he's not
(15:17):
qualified to be a head coach. He didn't pay his
dues to become a head coach. He jumped in line,
and that was a totally fair question to ask. Reddick
was the first and is the only coach, the only
one in the NBA to play all five guys in
entire half of a playoff game. It had never happened,
and he did something ridiculous. Again, it's it's like an
(15:41):
f you to Rob Polink. Is very bizarre. What's going
on because like Lebron's kind of shadow running everything, but
it's like they're sending these messages out in this game.
The first person off the bench was Maxi Kleeball, who
you probably don't even know who was on a team.
He was trashed the Mavericks tossed in in that Luca trade.
The guy hadn't even practiced, according to the TNT broadcast
(16:04):
with the Lakers. But he came in there like the
first guy off the bench, which was the bird to
Rob Polenka, hadn't even practice and not a gay, not
a game. We talked about practice. And then you got
Jackson Hayes, who is so far in JJ Reddick's doghouse
and really Lebron's doghouse that he got a DNP coach's decision,
(16:27):
didn't get off the bench. He's got hemorrhoids right now,
he's getting medication. He's getting medication hemorrhoids from sitting on
the bench. I mean, it's so good, it's so great.
All right, let's hear one more from JJ Reddick. This
was postgame. Here's Reddick doing some evaluation. I'm sure he's
going to say how bad he did. Unless he doesn't,
(16:48):
let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I'll use my own thoughts to evaluate myself, and I'll
use what my players say and what my coaching staff
says to evaluate. But you know, I know I can
be better, and I know I will get better. I
don't necessarily take any satisfaction from how the year went.
(17:10):
That's not to say I'm not proud of what the
group was able to do and how we're able to
figure things out on the fly and put ourselves in
a position to have home court in the first round.
But there's always there's always ways to get better, and
I can I can get a lot better.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I'm sure your players will give you a big
thumbs up. You sat most of them on the bench
the entire time you battled to get home court, so
you can lose two home games some home court advantage,
you losers. Oh, it's so good, Oh my god, that
is great. So I'd fire him. I would fire JJ Reddick.
(17:50):
The Lakers don't really have an owner, they don't, you know,
so that won't happen. JJ should have never been hired.
I'd fire him. Let him go back and hang out
with Stephen A. Smith and give takes, you know, rip
old NBA players, old men say they're plumbers and all that.
Do that. Go ahead, JJ, Yeah, that'd be the way
to go. Jeezu, It's how great when people like that lose?
(18:11):
Is that not one of the great things about being
some of the falls sports? When a holes lose like
JJ Reddick and the Lakers, God, is that good?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
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Speaker 1 (18:20):
Does that taste good? That is so good? Delicious, delicious, delicious, delicious.
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than just enjoying himself. The Lakers are done. Minnesota has advanced.
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But our lead this hour is from Houston. And it's
not Houston we have a problem. It's Golden State we
have a problem. That was the playground in Texas for
Game five of the first round playoff series between the
Rockets and the Warriors. Now Stephen Curry and Golden State.
My media elites cover the NBA told me that they
(20:48):
just know how to win. They just know how to win.
They are just more savvy, more savvy than the Rockets.
So if they won Golden State, they would have advanced Houston.
They won, they would have continued on if they lost.
That's it. It's over. That was the setup. This was
the early game on the card. I don't know if
(21:08):
you saw this or not. You can't watch everything. I
get it. We have no excuse. So we watched Fred
van vliate Fred van vlate twenty six points. Amen Thompson
with twenty five the Rockets, putting the Warriors into the
shredding machine. The paper Shredder won thirty one to one
(21:31):
sixteen in the game that was not that close. They
stave off, stave off elimination and they go thumper on
Golden State as they win by a large margin. Game
six will be Friday night in northern California. Now Dylan
Brooks the pest. Dylan Brooks. He had twenty four points
(21:54):
on a night when all five Houston players in the
in the starting line up. There he scored in double figures.
Five Houston players in double figures. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we are going to begin this diatribe. In a stunning
juxtaposition from what many of us were taught growing up.
(22:16):
You never give up. You compete to the end. You
never want to stop the competition, right, You play to
win the game. It's grolling, it's exhausting. It might look blake,
you could be frazzled. But the tradition of sport is
you keep going. You keep going. Unless you're coached by
(22:38):
Steve Kerr, then not so much.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
So.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
The Warrior coach shockingly threw in the towel. He threw
in the towel early in this one, well not too early,
but early enough, and so that's it. We're good. After
a layoff by Fred van Vliet midway through the third quarter,
with about eighteen minutes to go in the game, it
(23:04):
was ninety three to sixty four. Did not look good.
It did not look good. So Steve Kerk called the
time out, and he took all of his good players
and put them on the bench. He took all of
his garbage players and put them on the court and said,
all right, let's get the garbage in there, and here
we go. I'll put you in there and have your way.
(23:26):
All right, So let us discuss the question. Did coach
Steve Kerr make the right call by conceding a playoff game, which, oh,
by the way, the Warriors' backups actually got within a
manageable number in the fourth quarter. Did Steve Kerr make
the right call by conceding this playoff game for the Warriors.
(23:49):
So my observations, I've got Yetti, Ernest Hemingway, and RoboCop,
and we will combine all of these random things together
and we are going to make the Gabba ghoul. We're
gonna make the Gabba gooul, all right? So numb burn
Can I get a numb burne? This one is a
(24:10):
head scratcher to me. I admit the game seemed over
and I don't even have a problem taking the starters
out at that point. My issue is not putting them
back in when the game was a workable number. That
is a felony. That is inexcusable. That is malfeasance by
(24:31):
Steve Kerr, and there's really no defense to it, all right,
So he doesn't put him back in. The Warrior scrubs
had cut the deficit. I believe the number was down
to thirteen or fourteen with about six minutes ago in
the fourth quarter. It was a manageable deficit with a
three point shot. You close out that game and you
(24:52):
get some extra rest. You get extra rest. Steve Kerr, like,
what are you doing all right now? Kurt mentioned that
he took the council of Draymond Green. So apparently Kurr
doesn't actually coach the team. Draymond Green coaches the team.
Here's Draymond on the decision to sit the starters on
(25:13):
their ass. Take a listen. I mean it is what
it is.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Obviously, it's not ideal to play more minutes because since
we're winning, play way more. But yeah, we had a
kind of quick conversation and he was just saying, Yo,
I don't think we should chase it. I said, cool,
we'll give it five six minutes. We can't turn it
fast and pull the plug.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Yeah, okay, here's Draymond Green. I'm getting the ass kicked
by the Rockets.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
At this point in our careers, we've seen it all,
had all the experiences, so you got something to draw
back on.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
But yeah, they played a good game.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
But whether they went by one or fifty, it's a
playoff series. It counts is one win.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Oh I didn't know that, Thank you. I don't have
that experienced Draymond, so I didn't realize that. Anyway, Let's
get back to Steve Kerr. So Steve Kerr again, he
said in the media postgame he's like, well, I talked
to Draymond. We had a conversation. Draymond's like, it's a
quick conversation. Steve Kerr needs a YETI cooler, he needs
the YETI, he needs a YETI cooler filled with medello.
(26:23):
And because they're lacking the fighting spirit, that was a
betrayal of the competitive spirit. It undermines integrity. Am I
being too dramatic? I don't think I'm being too dramatic.
And the reason I think what Steve Kerr said is
bull crap is because on the TNT broadcast, for some reason,
I had the audio up. I usually don't because the
broadcasters annoyed me. Other than Kevin Harlan and a couple others,
(26:45):
most of them annoyed me. But I had the audio
up and they were saying it was like the second quarter,
and I swear to God I heard this, and you
can back me up on this if you were watching
the TNT broadcast. I don't even know their names. They
were like, well, yeah, we talked to Steve Kerr before
the game and he told us that if the Warriors
fell behind in the game, he would be willing to
pull people from the game early. So that was like
(27:08):
the mindset, Like the mindset was, we're gonna toss away
a playoff game because because why we We're gonna prioritize rest.
What are you a mama Luke? Like, seriously, what is
the message? That was the pregame message to the teams?
Like well, you know, or you know, to give up
(27:30):
if things don't go really good early and all that.
They're keep in mind you don't play back to back
in the place, you have a day off between games.
And people talk about the grueling travel. Uh, I got
to live in that world a little bit many years ago.
I traveled with a baseball team. You are on chartered flights,
chartered buses, You're staying at five star hotels. It is
(27:54):
not waiting online for group B at Southwest Airlines, okay,
and having people that haven't showered in months, that have
horrible body odor and just horrific breath. Uh, you know
you're dealing with that. Okay. You're sitting on a plane.
(28:14):
You can sleep, you can be on your phone. They've
got the Wi Fi. It's not exactly the most taxing
thing in the world.
Speaker 8 (28:21):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
If you travel for business, you've got more problems than
a professional sports team traveling, you just do and so
he said, well, we got to get the rest. You know,
they don't play back to back. So essentially, what Steve
Kerr saying is that my team is soft. But I'm
not going to tell you my team is soft. I'm
just gonna do things that indicate the Warriors are a
soft team. They should still win. Now, the other part
(28:45):
of this page two, have the e may Udoka coached
Rockets figured out something with the Warriors what was a
domination situation. So I'm not willing to go that far
that the Rockets have figured out some things. Things are
looking up. Houston's strategy yere of smothering Stephan Curry with
(29:07):
physicality and forcing turnovers and using their size and their
youth advantage. It has worked for stretches in these games
and Curry the last couple of games, Curry is shooting
forty percent from the floor, twenty nine percent from three
point range, the greatest shooter in the history of the
sport is shooting five of seventeen from beyond the arc
(29:31):
over the last couple of games. And the Rockets, I
would say they are still on the innocent side of
things here. They're energetic they're bright eyed, bushy tailed all that.
But as Ernest Hemingway famously wrote back in the day,
one of the Hemingway quotes, all things truly wicked start
from an innocence. So the Rockets overwhelmed the Warriors in
(29:53):
this game. The Warriors had the mindset, well, we're probably
gonna quit anyway. Golden State mailed it in, which is
something you should never and they did, and they were
just going through the motions. But Houston, they win big,
and yet they still have not really gotten Jalen Green going.
(30:13):
He had another suck bag games, just eleven points in
this game on three of eight shooting. He is, as
my friend Tony Bruno would say, strapper Jalen Green. He
is a regular season, has been great. Playoffs, he's been
mostly in embarrassment. He had that one big game. Other
than that, bad, bad, bad, bad bad. The Rockets are
(30:33):
playing at this point with house money. Even though they're
the higher seed. They are supposed to lose. But it
really seems like it comes down to a one game
situation here. The Warriors should win at home, but it's
Steve Kerr and the Warriors who are messing with the
basketball gods. By flushing away Game five again pulling the starters.
(30:54):
That's not the biggest sin in the world. But then
when the bench mob gets you back in the game
and you don't put the starters back in, that is
the violation. That is high crimes and misdemeanors. That is
a war tribunal. That is that what are you doing? All? Right?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
Final point?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
We head now away from the NBA plaous. We go
to Milwaukee where we are hearing now the Bucks and
Giannis A. Dentacumbo are scheduled to have a pow wow
to discuss his future and the plans of the organization. Question,
what does that mean?
Speaker 8 (31:31):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's what Normally this happens a post season when you
are eliminated. Every player meets with the organization. So it's
not new, it's not outraged. It's a little different when
you're the headliner, so that part of it is different.
But if you use your brain on this one and
look at all of the evidence. We've talked about this
in previous episodes, if you go RoboCop and use your
(31:56):
cyborg X ray vision, read the room like the Buck
have had three consecutive first round playoff exits, bye bye
in the first round. There's all kinds of rumors swirling
that the Rockets, who are in this series we just
talked about with the Warriors, they're gonna make a run
at Yiannis. The Warriors are gonna try to throw some
(32:17):
players together. Oklahoma City that's got every draft pick for
the next thirty years, is going to try to trade
some of those and they're all gonna make big offers,
multiple first round picks, young players, all that stuff. So
the Greek freak will undercover ask to enter the portal.
It's gonna be like, I'm okay, I want to kind
(32:37):
of go to the portal, and he'll do it subtly
like It's kind of like that response he gave the
other night when Jannis was asked if he thinks he
can still win championships in Milwaukee, and rather than saying yes,
I think I can win championships with the Milwaukee Bucks
or no, I don't. We have to get better, Yannis
gave a non answer answer. He said, quote, I'm not
(33:00):
gonna do this. Whatever I say, I know it's going
to translate. I don't know, man, I wish I was
still playing. So he is correct. Whatever he said would
be used, and that was used, okay, and it is
used and it is fair. It is red meat. He
(33:20):
didn't say yes. He wanted to, he wanted to say no. However,
he refused to take the bait. He just said I
don't know, which is a way of saying no. And
how has Doc Rivers not been fired? Wouldn't that be
the if you owned the bucks? Wouldn't that be the
first That's the easiest move. That should be the first
move you make. You just say bye bye and you
(33:41):
get rid of Doc Rivers? Like why does that not happen?
Like what are you waiting for? What bother? Going through
the charades with Doc Rivers? He stinks he's the most
replaceable part of professional sports is coach in basketball or hockey.
So just get rid of him. That's it, See you later, Asta,
(34:03):
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seven nine nine six six three six' nine mentioned The
lakers Eliminated Minnesota's timberwolves have advanced in THE nba, playoffs
(34:26):
so happy to home my friends there that enjoyed the
juicy lucy And minnesota's a long suffering sports. Fans AND
i mentioned at the end of last Jar Mark williams
of The Charlotte, hornets who was traded to The lakers
and then Skinny Jeans Rob polenka rejected the, trade, saying
oh my, god he's. Damaged. Goods Mark williams played the
(34:46):
rest of the, season was perfectly, fine and he sent
out at the end of The lakers game With minnesota
where they were exterminated from the, playoffs a smiley face.
Emoji he sent out the smiley face. Emoji he did.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
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Speaker 1 (35:09):
Here how about?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
That to the third?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Degree this is one Big ben gets.
Speaker 9 (35:16):
Grilloblo, so The San francisco forty Nine ers gave star
tight End George kittle a four year extension that makes
him the highest paid tight end in the. League, ben
do you think this extension has any impact On Brock purty's?
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Extension, no it's apples and. Oranges you're talking about a
tight end versus a, quarterback and the fact that Brock
purty hasn't signed a contract yet indicates they're far. Apart
and if The niners are, smart AND i hope they're,
NOT i hope they're. Dumb but if they're, smart they'll
just go year to year with Brock, purty franchise tag,
him and then dump. Him but the two things are.
(35:48):
Unrelated although the fact That George kittle is there helps
Brock perdy because Brock perty's he doesn't make players around him,
Better they make him, better which is not the normal
quarterback team mate. Relationship but in terms of the, finances
it doesn't. Matter it's a different. Position.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
NEXT Nba Commissioner Adam silver spoke to the media On
monday and said that the league wants to fix The
All Star game by adopting a similar format as to
what THE nhl did with their Four nations face.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
Off, ben do you think this will fix The All
Star game for THE.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Nba, no It's Adam silver stealing Off Gary bettman's, paper
is what he's. Doing the problem with The All Star
game is nobody in The All Star game cares about
The All Star. Game it's a noosance like it's the
weirdest thing in THE, nba because, like the players love
going To All Star, weekend it's like a big. Deal
there's a lot of parties All Star weekend in THE.
(36:39):
Nba it's a great social. Event but playing in the
game is an. Annoyance and it doesn't matter whether it's
representing countries or. Not it's it's not gonna move the.
Needle now in terms of fans, support people love the.
Flag they love wrapping some of themselves in the, flag
so that part of it people will be into. It
but if the players aren't into, it it's not gonna
(36:59):
Mat if the players are just going through the, motions
which they always, do they always do now in THE,
nba the players are.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
Soft, Next Travis hunter has the early lead on rookie
jersey sales over Cam. Ward, Now, ben do you Think
hunter still leads all rookies and jersey sales by the
end of the.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Season, well it's it's going to be an offensive, player.
Right and It's neither one of those teams is a national.
Team The titans are. Not they're a regional. Team jacksonville's
even more regional than The Tennessee titans. Are it's just
there's no one there other than those, two like who?
Else Shelder sanders was a fifth round. Pick so, yeah
(37:38):
at this Point Travis hunter is going to get a
fair amount of opportunity With. Jacksonville SO i say that'll.
Hold how did we do? That is put on? More
i've won more times than anyone else that mallardy the
third of.
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Speaker 1 (38:06):
For, time hoy ask Bad twitter, said is your questions On? Twitter? Now?
Anyway we go in his, aspect your, questions our answers
for the rest of the, hour and over to the
kooperl loop for the reading of the, questions which will
not sound like he's.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Reading all, Right, ben you want to start off with
a with a deep.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
One oh that that could be a. Drop, Yeah bobby And.
Speaker 9 (38:34):
Florida he wants to know do you think THAT ai
will improve society or be its?
Speaker 8 (38:40):
Downfall?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
WELL i always look at these things like they're never
as bad as people think they, are and they're never
as good as people think they. Are SO i think
the answer is somewhere in the. Middle LIKE i think for,
medicine it's going to be amazing and that they will
be able to come up with cures to a lot
of the illnesses that are killing so many of us
and our parents and whatnot in terms of cancer and
(39:04):
things like. That SO i think from that perspective it's
going to be. WONDERFUL i am concerned about the number
of people that are currently have jobs that will be
replaced BY, ai AND i don't know what everyone's going
to do for, work so that part of it does trouble.
Me BUT i think in the end of technology, changes
it's like when the car came, along people who had.
(39:25):
HORSES i don't want a, car and then now it's
just you move on to whatever's next and things will settle.
In what about, You, lorraine what do you think ABOUT?
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Ai, YEAH ai is gonna rule us.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
All, okay we're, Done we're all. Cooked it's Over.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Coop i'm kind of on the same page as, You.
Speaker 9 (39:43):
BEN i think, overall it's gonna it's gonna be better for,
society but it's gonna it's gonna be, different or we're
gonna have to make some.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Adjustments there's an adjustment. Period, yeah you, know it's like
you know in in my, life you, know you reflected
when you get older and you're, LIKE i think about
WHEN i was a, Kid LIKE i didn't have bones and,
crap you, know we had to go out and run
around and cause havoc in the. Neighborhood and now just
sit on your phone play video games all, day WHICH
i probably would have done IF i had. IT i
didn't have, it So i'd like to run through orange
(40:12):
groves and throw oranges and crap like. That but it's
just like things. Change you're in and we'll figure it.
Out what's? Next what are we all?
Speaker 9 (40:19):
Right we have connected questions here? Connected, Yes, first The
King rory would like to, Know, Hi King, rory how
many holes are too many until you throw out a
pair of?
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Socks, yeah this is a. PROBLEM i wear the socks
until there are multiple. Holes normally there's an intervention by
my wife to get rid of the. SOCKS i will
continue to wear. THEM i have no shame in my
sock hole, game SO i normally somebody has to step
in and take them, out OTHERWISE i will keep wearing.
Them so the answer, is, really there's no end to
(40:52):
the amount of holes in the. Socks what about, You, lorraina.
Speaker 8 (40:55):
No, no, no no holes in my. SOCKS i cannot
handle such. Things my feet are too.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Soft, okay well mine or? NOT i have a lot
of wear and. Tear shall we? Say? Anyway what about, You?
Coop i'm With.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Lorena one hole and it's.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Gone, well aren't you guys up at the up at
the all? Right what's? Next where we're? At all?
Speaker 9 (41:14):
Right so Donkey sausage said to, you my donkey to
go along With King rory's, question how holy does your
underwear got to be before they are thrown?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Out, well that is a little, different and it does
depend about, where as you, Know, coop because of our
anatomy where the hole, is there's certain locations that are
immediately a. Throwaway there are other locations that might be
up on the tookas that doesn't really. Matter but if
it's in the bottom part there and it hits you
just where where there's important stuff right away, Trash.
Speaker 8 (41:43):
Lorena i'm sorry about holes in men's underwear is. Disgusting fix?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
It you know women's underwear are some of ours holes
in it, Naturally so as long as it's not wear and.
Speaker 8 (41:56):
Tear i'm keeping them all.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Right, well, yeah if you're going a, date, guys you
should probably not wear the pair of underworth.
Speaker 8 (42:03):
Holes these are my Lucky.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yeah maybe maybe save those for.
Speaker 8 (42:08):
Later, Man i'm kind of with.
Speaker 9 (42:11):
You if it's, like if there's holes up, by like the,
Waistband i'll keep.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Those, yeah. Exactly, yeah there you, go ask. Man there
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