May 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about the Clippers forcing a Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets, Jalen Brunson and the Knicks eliminating the Pistons with a clutch game-winning 3-pointer, Maller to the Third Degree, Lame Jokes of the Week, and more!
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because he thought it was all over. It's all done
there it say his team, all they had to do
was show up. They were gonna win that date. That's
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I'll lead this out. Is from the hood in Inglewood.
That is where the joker was leading the Nuggets into
so Cal. They were gonna win kimani at all the momentum,
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all the momentum right there in so Cal. Clippers, the
People's team La trying to force a game seven over
the weekend Denver looking to advance to play Oh Klahoma,
Oh Oklahoma City. There. Now, that was the nightcap on TNT,
so we'll start with that. Charles Barkley was not working.
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Bad job by him. Did he get suspended for ripping
the tennis coverage on TNT. I don't know, but we
were watching. He probably wasn't, but we were watching. Maybe
you were watching. I don't know if you were not.
James harden I mentioned he had gotten the stank out
of his system. In the previous game. Harden had twenty
eight points, eight assist, big second quarter and a big
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bounce back for Harden after he was riding the vomit
comet in the previous game. Kawhi Leonard the Silent Assassin
twenty seven points. The Clippers brought down the Hammer and
force a Game seven in that playoff series. There they
went by six over the Nuggets. In Game six, Norman
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Powell twenty four points. The Clippers get it done in
the Dome, the intoit Dome there and now after a
big second half, actually second and third quarter, Game seven
will be Saturday. Depending on your time zone, it is
five to thirty local time in the Mountain time zone,
four to thirty in the West, and if you're on
the East coast seven thirty for your weekend planning purposes
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of their Clippers and Nuggets Game seven, Jamal Murray, who
had an out of body experience his previous game, had
twenty one points for the Nuggets. Now the better story
is in the losing locker room. So we will start
out with that. Let us discuss the question what went wrong?
What went sideways for the Nikola Jokic Nuggets in game six.
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So I've got e Sha dah and stones rules and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will be rough and ready. Rough and ready is what
we're going to be. So a listen, the Denver Nuggets.
You can break it down ten million ways, and we'll
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break down some of the ways here. But they essentially
choked on the sandwich. That middle part of the game,
the meaty part of the game, the second and the
third quarters. The Clippers of my math was right. I
drotted this down on my notes app on my phone.
The Clippers outscored the Nuggets by fourteen points in the
bridge over troubled waters there the second and third periods.
That was enough. That was enough to get it done.
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Now for individuals, I say, the man in the mirror,
the man in the mirror running the wrong way on
this particular night, Nikola Jokic, who was done in by
his evil twin. You see, the Nikolio that showed up
in the second half was the guy that was drafted
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in the second round while there was a Taco bell
commercial on television. The guy that played in the second
half first half fine Jokich had twenty points on nine
of thirteen shooting. He shot sixty nine percent in the
first half. The problem at halftime, he went in there,
he took some stupid pills and the joker was a joke.
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The evil twin showed up in the second half. Jokich
shot twenty two point two percent in the second half,
only had five points, and Ivatsa, Zubats and Nick Batoom
handcuffed the unguardable Jokich, three time MVP, all time great
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NBA player, was held with as many points, as many
points as you and I had for eleven minutes in
the third quarter, scoreless. For an eleven minute stretch of
the third quarter, Nikola Jokic did not put up a
single point and zubots emasculating him with a block for
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the ages. Now that was a nasty block. And you
are the franchise here, you're the face of the Nuggets
and all that. And you suffered a dereliction of duties,
is what you did there? And how about the partner ATKREP.
Now we tried to explain this the other day. Some
of you are so stupid you can't understand it. But
Jamal Murray suffered from a classic regression to the mean.
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It happens all the time. Extreme outcomes are followed by
more moderate ones, and Murray, using malarmath, was fifty one
percent worse from game to game. From game five to
game six, his performance went down fifty one point one percent.
He went from forty three points in a ridoculous game
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in game five to twenty one points. And then the
Russell west Brick showed up. Now, if you look at
the box score and look at the overall stats, you're ah,
he was fine. He was good. Then he was good. Well,
not when it mattered. West Brick showed up late. He
was two of seven shooting floor in the fourth quarter,
two of seven, and missed an absolute bunny in the
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final couple of seconds there that would have brought Denver
within four of a tie. You hate to see it
unless you don't. I mean thats just have him shoot.
I'd pray there's a close game in game seven and
the ball goes to Russell Westbrick to make a shot.
Let him shoot. If he beats you. That's fine. Let
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him shoot. Let him shoot. You'll be smiling more times
than that. Now, recent history is not looking good for
Denver either. They have started to have issues with the
fur ball in their throat. On Thursday, they lost a
potential series clinching playoff game for the third time in
four tries over the last couple of seasons there since
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they won that championship in twenty twenty three. Denver also
blowing it over Minnesota last year. They had a three
to two lead in that series and could not get
past the Timberwols, who are advanced in this playoff. That
was in the second round last year. Now page two
to the winner side of things. So who are we
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going to give flowers to for the Kawhi Leonard Clippers,
So that the sound that should be played here for
the Clippers is some shot a smooth operators. They were
as clean as a whistle. They only had seven turnovers
in this game. There's a little shot day for it.
Seven turnovers plus thirteen in points off turnovers. So smooth, unstoppable,
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and they did their job. They did their job. James
Harden did not need a shave. He was fine. He
was good in stretches. There were a couple points. I
was yelling at my television Kawhi. Leonard did his thing.
Harden was not as passive. He had storman Norman Powell
with twenty four points nine to fifteen floor the rock
solid Zubots defense. They played with the proper amount of
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intensity and hustle in this game. I know it's a
bad day for the haters. You were so excited, you
had all your things ready to go in draft mode
on social media. Try to tell you, oh, you see
there you go, Clippers sugge. You talk trash about the Lakers,
the Clippers loss. Okay, well you have to wait another
day for that. I know you're going to hiding. You're
all cowards. I got you all right now. Last word here,
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do the Nikola Jokic Nuggets have an insurmountable edge? Insurmountable
edge in Game seven at home? They are favored in
Game seven, as you might imagine. The pillars of the
NBA community to answer the question, though, do they Nikola
Yokich nugg have an insurmountable edge in game seven at home?
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I am shaking my head no, and I'm going very
fast back and forth from right to left here. I'm
shaking my head off. Now, low information fan, the uneducated fan,
the knuckle dragging fan, will say Denvers guaranteed to win.
They're at home, right, altitude, championship pedigree, all that mumbo jumbo.
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But follow Stone's rules. Political pundit Roger Stone who famously
said the past is effing prologue. Now I have an
unpopular opinion, and my unpopular opinion here is that the
matchups do not matter. The film does not matter, the
home court advantage does not matter. Injuries, who gives a crap, right,
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All that matters is who does better in the moment.
And as the iconic Dick Stockton taught me, stats to
tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And if you're a great player, but you play like
an average Joe in this particular game, it doesn't matter. Now,
playoff Harden got his hiccup game out of the way.
We did the math. He's bad for ten percent of
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playoff games. He's fine or good for ninety percent, So
that means he's good for another eight games or so
based on the odds, before he has another clunker. So
you're okay there. And as far as the home court advantage,
and there was a point years ago where if you
were the home team, you always won Game seven. Spoiler alert,
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not the case. Fun fact. Fun fact, malord fun fact
on Game seven home court advantage, it turns out there
is none since the bubble pop goes to the babble. Since
twenty twenty one, road teams have won eight of the
last eleven Game sevens. So you're actually better off being
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on the road than you are at home. Since the pandemic,
you're better and that does not include the pandemic. There
was no home court. That's why that was the easiest
playoff of all time. Some of you dumb dumbs don't
understand that, but the road team has done better. Since
twenty twenty one, eight of eleven Game seven's have gone
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the way of the road team. That'll be nine out
of twelve of following the game there on Saturday night.
But we'll take your thoughts on that. We do have
some postgame reaction as the Clippers get the win there
and now the Denver Nuggets they decided to fire their
coach right before the playoffs, and how's that working out
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with they're about to lose in the first round of
the playoffs. I don't think that's particularly good. But they
haven't lost yet, so technically they haven't lost since Michael
Malone was given as walking papers. But they did hire
the NEPO coach takeover this David Adelman character. And here
is a David Adam. He just looks like they got
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him out of like nerd Army or something like that. Anyway,
here's Adalman commenting on the adjustment. So I love these comments.
It's talking about the Clippers adjustments. Let's take a list.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And I also on the third quarter, we played good defense.
We never ever came up with the fifty to fifty ball,
and that's just such a backbreaking feeling to do everything
right and don't come up with the ball. So we
gave him a lot of extra possessions. You know, that
quarter absolutely killed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The rest of the game was very even. We played
a really really good fourth quarter. It's a lot of effort.
We got to be better throughout the whole game.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Isn't an embarrassing when a professional coach talks about effort?
Why would you even mention it the only way? Why
would you mention seriously, like the only way you would
mention it is if your team doesn't give effort, your
team's a bunch of dogs, and you have to compliment
them because they actually give effort in a playoff game,
not some random Thursday in December when no one's watching anyway. Yeah,
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here's one more from the son of Rick Adelman, David
Adelman here and commenting about the Game seven at home,
which the Nuggets are about to lose.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
He talked about, you know after the game, he win
those last three games not just to stay out of
the plan, but to get the home court in Game seven,
bottom line, And we earned it. And that's why I
told him there, you've earned this opportunity. He earned the
opportunity tonight to try to close it out because of
the way you played in the series to get to
three to two. But now you have the opportunity to
go home in front of your home fans and advance,
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and so you know, you play.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All year for that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We got that opportunity and we're very, very excited to
go back out there and play again.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Keep in mind, the Nuggets and Clippers had the same
exact record during the regular season, and the Nuggets earned it.
They did so much good work during the season. The
players got their coach fired before the playoffs. They really
earned it, my fat ass, they earned it. You gotta
be kidding me.
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and I do have those numbers. I promise you're listening.
Last hour, I was put on the spot by that
dope Jeff and Denver and Cooper loop you any numbers back?
That was okay, I'll give you the numbers later, but
we're gonna start with the game in the Motor City,
which was a really good game. I enjoyed it. I
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was sitting on my ass watching the game Game six,
the Detroit Basketball and the New Yorkers, the Pistons looking
to force a Game seven, the Knicker trying to close
things out and move on to take on that Green team.
Were you watching? I hope you were. This was actually
a pretty good game. It came down to the final
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seconds with the clock running down. Jalen Brunson the killer
crossover dribble between his legs. He got a little space
and then the dagger from Downtown a three point shot
with four point three seconds left in the clock, and
then he blew a kiss right there to the upper balcony.
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The crowd had been taunting him. That's what good fans do.
They taunt the best player on the other team, and
so they did. Now Brunson had a forty burger in
this game, forty points and the Knicks win the game
by three, and what a great way for the piss
and season. And they didn't even get a shot up.
They fetched the ball out of bounds. Beasley fumbled the
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ball out of bounds, so Detroit could have had a
chance to tie the game, and they blew it. And
so the win goes to the team from the Big Apple.
New York will now face the number two, the number two,
the Boston basketball team, as they look to advance to
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the Eastern Conference Finals. You realize the Knicks have not
been to the Eastern Conference Finals since two thousand. That's
a generation. How is that? Man? When I was growing
up of old Buckle mar Day, but it was like, oh,
New York teams have all the advantage. Those New York
teams win all the time, they have all the top players.
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The Jets have been terrible. The Giants are an embarrassment.
The Knickerbockers are pathetic like, for the most part, the
Mets are ridiculously bad. The Mets haven't won the World
Series since the nineteen eighties. Ronald Reagan was the president.
Last time the nixt one or the Mets won the
World Series. The Yankees, they're going on, how many years?
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Is been fifteen years plus?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
The Yankees haven't won the World Series? So who goofed?
I've got to know. Anyway, let's get back to this one. Now.
The better story is in the losing locker room. We'll
get to that, but I wanted to start with this,
all right, So as we discussed this game since the
Knicks one and everyone has their pants down because of
Jalen Brunson, can you put into context Jalen Brunson's game
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winning basket for the Knicks. So I've got meantastic F
seventeen Nighthawk and Kentucky Bourbon, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna say, forget about
it and just have some Detroit pizza. I didn't even
know Detroit pizza was a thing until a few years ago.
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I didn't I had no idea it was a Detroit
So I knew a Chicago style. I knew New York
style pizza. I didn't even know there was a Detroit
style pizza until a couple years ago, and then all
of a sudden, it was like everywhere, all right. So
my first thought on this, I guess we'll say, numb burn?
Can I get a numb burn? All right? All right?
Enough of that, all right? So my first aught is Baywatch,
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as in Jalen Brunson was the lifeguard who saved the
Knicks from themselves. Complete shambles for the Knicks. They were drowning,
the Knickerbockers were drowning. It looked early on they were
gonna blow out the Pistons. They were up hacking fifteen.
I jotted that down on my little notes app. They
were up fifteen early on, and then the Pistons came back,
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and then the Knicks went ahead again, and then it
was a little bit bit of back and forth game,
but facing a door die Game seven, Jalen Brunson had
to rescue his teammates from sinking into the deep blue
sea of Lake Michigan. It was bad, it was bad,
uh and the Pistons were on their way to a
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historical possible come back. In game seven. Detroit was leading
this by seven points with two thirty five to go.
That that's not insurmountable. But you're up by seven with
two and a half minutes to go, you're in pretty
good shape. Unless Doc Rivers is your coach. Doc Rivers
was not coaching the Pistons. But Jalen Brunson I didn't
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know they had this on the betch, but he put
his cape on down the stretch, nerves of steel and
that dagger the crossover to get some space and then
the knockdown three point shot was meantastic. Jalen Brunson went
twilight zone. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man.
Jalen Brunson with that shot, and it was chest thumping, kissing,
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blown kisses up to the upper decks some the Jabbroni up.
There was a good time and it is a reminder
that one big shot or a couple of big shots
cover up a lot of bad shots. Jalen Brunson took
fourteen shots in the fourth quarter. He only made four
of them. However, it's the last shot obviously that people remember.
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They'll talk about it. Remember Jalen Brunson beat the Pistons
in a playoff game in the road with that three
point Yeah, they're not gonna say he went four to
fourteen in the fourth quarter. But when they were downed,
when Detroit had a seven point lead, seven point lead,
in really good shape, really good shape. There in the
final couple minutes of the game, Jalen Brunson with was
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three of five four eight points in the comeback. New
York outscored Detroit eleven to three to close out the
game and turn out the last the parties over for
the Pistons. Now, speaking of that, the better story is
in the losing locker room, So we're gonna go there now.
Despite the loss, I have been seeing a number of headlines,
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number of stories, number of posts on the socials with
tributes pouring in that the social media world eulogizing the
Pistons performance, but celebrating that the Motown Hoopers, who had
not broken twenty five wins in the last five five seasons,
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they jumped all the way up from fourteen and sixty
eight to forty four and thirty eight. They were the
sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. The consensus among popular
people the pundits is that Detroit is now set up
they've arrived. They're a force in the Eastern Conference for
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years to come. They're good to go. They're good to go,
all right. So that's the consensus. So I ask the
Esteem panel, which you are a part of, are you convinced?
Are you conmissed you make the call? Are you convinced
that the Caid Cunningham Pistons have a arrived? So after
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a minute long deliberation, I am shaking my head. No
again on this one, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
This is a stinger. There was venom. There was venom there.
Now there are good signs. I'm not gonna sit here
and say there's no good signs. There were good signs. However,
the finished product is not there, and there are no
moral victories, at least not here. Maybe some other people
like the give us out. But the Knickerbockers, I'm Detroit.
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I'm spitting mad. The Knickerbockers should have lost this series, right,
they were plumped for the taken. Detroit blew this series.
And again, most games have lost them, not one. We
talk about that all the time, and this is a
great example. Down the stretch, four straight games were decided
by three points or less. Three of them were Detroit
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Basketball home losses. They lost at home by two points,
by one point, by three points. Now, the big picture
the Pistons, if you look at that turnaround from fourteen
wins the forty four wins year to year, the Pistons
have been the last year the F seventeen nighthawk, and
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that's what they were, certainly during the regular season this
year where they flew below the radar, they were not
detected by any dar. And you don't just pick up
where you left off. You have to start fresh. And
so they they go back and to the very bottom
and have to push the rock back up the mountain.
It's kind of like you're playing a video game and
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in the old days, and then the power goes out
and you've got to start over. It doesn't save it.
You got to go back to the very beginning, which
is not ideal all right. Now, final point to the
Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers as they now have a chance or
do they have a chance to upend the Celtics. That's
how we're gonna frame this. Do the Jalen Brunson Knicks
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have a chance to up end the Celtics Boston with
home court advantage, Boston, the championship pedigree from a year ago.
All that nonsense. So do the Knicks have a chance.
So I look at this for the Knickerbockers. It's not ideal,
but it is Kentucky Bourbon. It is a puncher's chance.
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It is a puncher's chance. Okay. And the Celtics dominated
the Knicks in their four regular season meetings. They won
all four games. There was only one of them that
was close. But you can't really base too much of
that because certain star players don't play and so not
everyone was out there. And whatever you were back in
November and December, obviously you know you're not the same team.
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Things get better or worse, they don't stay the same. Now,
the big red flag for the Knickerbockers. They played nine
games against the top teams Boston, Cleveland and Oklahoma City.
Nine games. Out of those nine games, how many did
they win? The answer would be as many as you
and I and Lorena and Coope and blind emmett oer
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for nine. The Knickerbockers against Boston Cleveland in Oklahoma City,
which obviously raises questions about the fraud nature of the Knickerbockers. Now,
fortunately I cannot stress this enough. Past results do not
guarantee future out. Boston's reliance on three point shooting is
a blessing and a curse because when the threes are
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not falling, they struggle. They can still win. They beat
Orlando in a game they didn't make a three point
shot in half, but it's much more difficult. You've also
got Jalen Brown, who's taking time bomb with a knee
that's all wonky. You've got Porzingis who's made out of
glass most of the time. And in Game one, there's
an opportunity to sneak in there and steal Game one.
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The Knicks have played, and played and played the Celtics.
You talk about the old debate, We have it every year,
Russ versus Rest, the football debate normally, but Russ versus Rest.
So the Celtics have been off for a number of days.
The Knicks just played here on Thursday night, so they
should be ready to pounce at the beginning of the game. Now,
for the Knicks, another problem is Carl Anthony Towns, kitty
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cat Karl Anthony Towns is in position physically to dominate.
He often does not. He often is a spectator when
he's on the court. He doesn't normally move the needle
in playoff games, at least he doesn't know back to
back games. And you never know from game to game
how Karl Anthony Towns is going to play. That's been
the curse going back to his days in Minnesota. It
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hasn't changed with the Knickerbockers. And you know, Jalen Brunson
is the real deal, and he'll get some numbers and
he'll put up some good stats and all that. So
when I bet on the Knicks, I wouldn't bet on
the Knicks. Do I think this is gonna be a
sweep by the celt I would be very surprised. This
has six game series and the Celtics will lose a
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game they shouldn't lose early on. They'll lose a game
at the Garden, but they'll end up the Madison Square Garden.
Both teams playing the Garden, but they'll end up winning
in the end.
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Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Here were to the third degree. This is
one big Ben gets gilled.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Earlier this week, Bill's GM Brandon Bean expressed frustration over
being criticized for not drafting a receiver, and he pointed
out that he was also criticized for taking josh Allen. Ben,
do you think the criticism is warranted?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well, the problem is that Bills have terrible wide receiver
like they scored a bunch of points in all that,
but Keon Coleman, Khalil Secure and Joshua Palmer who they
picked up from the Chargers does not exactly get you
all horny. So they should have done something there. I
know they. I guess they added Elijah Moore the other
day this week from Cleveland. I think the criticism is fair.
(29:33):
This is the golden run for josh Allen. They didn't
do enough.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Next Tyre's Halliburton also hit back at his critics after
knocking out the Bucks by posting overrate that on X Now, Ben,
who do you think is actually the most overrated player
in the NBA?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well, how by the way, Tyrs Saliburton, you won a
first round series against Doc Rivers and the fucks I
would not celebrate. There's a bunch how about Lebron James
is the most overrated next Ben the Tiger.
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We're a Cinderella story last year, but they're kind of
leading the al this year.
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Do you think they're the team to beat? No, they're not.
They're not the team to beat. They're in the American
League Central, the Central Terrible. Uh, they are not the
team to beat in the American League. I'm still gonna
say the Yankees, how did we do? You failed? This edition?
How I fail? That's a winning edition of Mallard of
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Let's change it up a little bit this week. Do
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the Leprechaun with an iron? Why she wants to press
her luck? Is she what she wants to do? That's
Kurt from Earth. Well, apparently Mike the Leprechaun is scared
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of Lorena getting a lot of male weed.
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Man.
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Why, yeah, I guess she. He's going postal on him soon.
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data term. How did William Shatner celebrate my birthday? How
new diaper? He got a new diaper? That's Tony in
the Bay Area. Why did blind Scott boycott the show?
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Why he was in a blind fury? That's why did
you hear about the recent John Elway incident on the
golf course? Whoa, yeah, it does change the meaning of
the drive. Now. That's JJ JJ and Kirby from East
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Long Beach near the pyramid there. We thanked him for that.
What NBA award did Jahn Morant win? Unanimously? What best
shooting guard? Best shooting guard? That's hip in name naked
chip very nice. Here you hear that Anthony Edwards was
fined fifty thousand for verbally comparing his manhood with a
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Laker fan. Wow, yeah, oh yes. After visually inspecting both parties,
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver agreed with Edwards and doubled the fine.
Doubled it. That's Gordon Tacoma. What do you call blind
Scott's stocker mentality? What blind devotion? That's Drew in Minnesota.
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We sent that in. It's Big Bends. Lame jokes of
the week. These were actual jokes by actual listeners to
the show. How do you kill one hundred flies? Wow?
Smack weed man, hippie in the face. That's John in Youngstouth, Ohio.
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did weed Man and his roommate watch on movie night?
What ten things I hate about you? That's Eric in Kansas? Again,
you got any jokes over there? Coop? Let me see
hold on? Okay, while you're working on that, did you
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phone programs? Here about that? Whoa, yeah, apparently Trump was enraged.
Weed Man Hippie's phone sounds better than Ben's. That's Tom.
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What Mike baze regularly the blaggio and has fresh breath?
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I hope, I hope.
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Mouthwashed Mike is okay. We've not heard from him in
a while. I hope he's all right. How can weed
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What's that all? Bat? She now has Heine's sight, eke
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What is weed man Hippie's favorite candy?
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croat your words, She's gonna try to eat them. That's
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I'll lead this out. Is from the hood in Inglewood.
That is where the joker was leading the Nuggets into
so Cal. They were gonna win kimani at all the momentum,
(02:11):
all the momentum right there in so Cal. Clippers, the
People's team La trying to force a game seven over
the weekend Denver looking to advance to play Oh Klahoma,
Oh Oklahoma City. There. Now, that was the nightcap on TNT,
so we'll start with that. Charles Barkley was not working.
(02:32):
Bad job by him. Did he get suspended for ripping
the tennis coverage on TNT. I don't know, but we
were watching. He probably wasn't, but we were watching. Maybe
you were watching. I don't know if you were not.
James harden I mentioned he had gotten the stank out
of his system. In the previous game. Harden had twenty
eight points, eight assist, big second quarter and a big
(02:54):
bounce back for Harden after he was riding the vomit
comet in the previous game. Kawhi Leonard the Silent Assassin
twenty seven points. The Clippers brought down the Hammer and
force a Game seven in that playoff series. There they
went by six over the Nuggets. In Game six, Norman
(03:15):
Powell twenty four points. The Clippers get it done in
the Dome, the intoit Dome there and now after a
big second half, actually second and third quarter, Game seven
will be Saturday. Depending on your time zone, it is
five to thirty local time in the Mountain time zone,
four to thirty in the West, and if you're on
the East coast seven thirty for your weekend planning purposes
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of their Clippers and Nuggets Game seven, Jamal Murray, who
had an out of body experience his previous game, had
twenty one points for the Nuggets. Now the better story
is in the losing locker room. So we will start
out with that. Let us discuss the question what went wrong?
What went sideways for the Nikola Jokic Nuggets in game six.
(03:59):
So I've got e Sha dah and stones rules and
we will combine all of these things together and we
will be rough and ready. Rough and ready is what
we're going to be. So a listen, the Denver Nuggets.
You can break it down ten million ways, and we'll
(04:19):
break down some of the ways here. But they essentially
choked on the sandwich. That middle part of the game,
the meaty part of the game, the second and the
third quarters. The Clippers of my math was right. I
drotted this down on my notes app on my phone.
The Clippers outscored the Nuggets by fourteen points in the
bridge over troubled waters there the second and third periods.
That was enough. That was enough to get it done.
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Now for individuals, I say, the man in the mirror,
the man in the mirror running the wrong way on
this particular night, Nikola Jokic, who was done in by
his evil twin. You see, the Nikolio that showed up
in the second half was the guy that was drafted
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in the second round while there was a Taco bell
commercial on television. The guy that played in the second
half first half fine Jokich had twenty points on nine
of thirteen shooting. He shot sixty nine percent in the
first half. The problem at halftime, he went in there,
he took some stupid pills and the joker was a joke.
(05:27):
The evil twin showed up in the second half. Jokich
shot twenty two point two percent in the second half,
only had five points, and Ivatsa, Zubats and Nick Batoom
handcuffed the unguardable Jokich, three time MVP, all time great
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NBA player, was held with as many points, as many
points as you and I had for eleven minutes in
the third quarter, scoreless. For an eleven minute stretch of
the third quarter, Nikola Jokic did not put up a
single point and zubots emasculating him with a block for
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the ages. Now that was a nasty block. And you
are the franchise here, you're the face of the Nuggets
and all that. And you suffered a dereliction of duties,
is what you did there? And how about the partner ATKREP.
Now we tried to explain this the other day. Some
of you are so stupid you can't understand it. But
Jamal Murray suffered from a classic regression to the mean.
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It happens all the time. Extreme outcomes are followed by
more moderate ones, and Murray, using malarmath, was fifty one
percent worse from game to game. From game five to
game six, his performance went down fifty one point one percent.
He went from forty three points in a ridoculous game
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in game five to twenty one points. And then the
Russell west Brick showed up. Now, if you look at
the box score and look at the overall stats, you're ah,
he was fine. He was good. Then he was good. Well,
not when it mattered. West Brick showed up late. He
was two of seven shooting floor in the fourth quarter,
two of seven, and missed an absolute bunny in the
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final couple of seconds there that would have brought Denver
within four of a tie. You hate to see it
unless you don't. I mean thats just have him shoot.
I'd pray there's a close game in game seven and
the ball goes to Russell Westbrick to make a shot.
Let him shoot. If he beats you. That's fine. Let
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him shoot. Let him shoot. You'll be smiling more times
than that. Now, recent history is not looking good for
Denver either. They have started to have issues with the
fur ball in their throat. On Thursday, they lost a
potential series clinching playoff game for the third time in
four tries over the last couple of seasons there since
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they won that championship in twenty twenty three. Denver also
blowing it over Minnesota last year. They had a three
to two lead in that series and could not get
past the Timberwols, who are advanced in this playoff. That
was in the second round last year. Now page two
to the winner side of things. So who are we
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going to give flowers to for the Kawhi Leonard Clippers,
So that the sound that should be played here for
the Clippers is some shot a smooth operators. They were
as clean as a whistle. They only had seven turnovers
in this game. There's a little shot day for it.
Seven turnovers plus thirteen in points off turnovers. So smooth, unstoppable,
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and they did their job. They did their job. James
Harden did not need a shave. He was fine. He
was good in stretches. There were a couple points. I
was yelling at my television Kawhi. Leonard did his thing.
Harden was not as passive. He had storman Norman Powell
with twenty four points nine to fifteen floor the rock
solid Zubots defense. They played with the proper amount of
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intensity and hustle in this game. I know it's a
bad day for the haters. You were so excited, you
had all your things ready to go in draft mode
on social media. Try to tell you, oh, you see
there you go, Clippers sugge. You talk trash about the Lakers,
the Clippers loss. Okay, well you have to wait another
day for that. I know you're going to hiding. You're
all cowards. I got you all right now. Last word here,
(09:39):
do the Nikola Jokic Nuggets have an insurmountable edge? Insurmountable
edge in Game seven at home? They are favored in
Game seven, as you might imagine. The pillars of the
NBA community to answer the question, though, do they Nikola
Yokich nugg have an insurmountable edge in game seven at home?
(10:04):
I am shaking my head no, and I'm going very
fast back and forth from right to left here. I'm
shaking my head off. Now, low information fan, the uneducated fan,
the knuckle dragging fan, will say Denvers guaranteed to win.
They're at home, right, altitude, championship pedigree, all that mumbo jumbo.
(10:28):
But follow Stone's rules. Political pundit Roger Stone who famously
said the past is effing prologue. Now I have an
unpopular opinion, and my unpopular opinion here is that the
matchups do not matter. The film does not matter, the
home court advantage does not matter. Injuries, who gives a crap, right,
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All that matters is who does better in the moment.
And as the iconic Dick Stockton taught me, stats to
tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen.
And if you're a great player, but you play like
an average Joe in this particular game, it doesn't matter. Now,
playoff Harden got his hiccup game out of the way.
We did the math. He's bad for ten percent of
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playoff games. He's fine or good for ninety percent, So
that means he's good for another eight games or so
based on the odds, before he has another clunker. So
you're okay there. And as far as the home court advantage,
and there was a point years ago where if you
were the home team, you always won Game seven. Spoiler alert,
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not the case. Fun fact. Fun fact, malord fun fact
on Game seven home court advantage, it turns out there
is none since the bubble pop goes to the babble. Since
twenty twenty one, road teams have won eight of the
last eleven Game sevens. So you're actually better off being
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on the road than you are at home. Since the pandemic,
you're better and that does not include the pandemic. There
was no home court. That's why that was the easiest
playoff of all time. Some of you dumb dumbs don't
understand that, but the road team has done better. Since
twenty twenty one, eight of eleven Game seven's have gone
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the way of the road team. That'll be nine out
of twelve of following the game there on Saturday night.
But we'll take your thoughts on that. We do have
some postgame reaction as the Clippers get the win there
and now the Denver Nuggets they decided to fire their
coach right before the playoffs, and how's that working out
(12:44):
with they're about to lose in the first round of
the playoffs. I don't think that's particularly good. But they
haven't lost yet, so technically they haven't lost since Michael
Malone was given as walking papers. But they did hire
the NEPO coach takeover this David Adelman character. And here
is a David Adam. He just looks like they got
(13:06):
him out of like nerd Army or something like that. Anyway,
here's Adalman commenting on the adjustment. So I love these comments.
It's talking about the Clippers adjustments. Let's take a list.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And I also on the third quarter, we played good defense.
We never ever came up with the fifty to fifty ball,
and that's just such a backbreaking feeling to do everything
right and don't come up with the ball. So we
gave him a lot of extra possessions. You know, that
quarter absolutely killed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
It's not.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
The rest of the game was very even. We played
a really really good fourth quarter. It's a lot of effort.
We got to be better throughout the whole game.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Isn't an embarrassing when a professional coach talks about effort?
Why would you even mention it the only way? Why
would you mention seriously, like the only way you would
mention it is if your team doesn't give effort, your
team's a bunch of dogs, and you have to compliment
them because they actually give effort in a playoff game,
not some random Thursday in December when no one's watching anyway. Yeah,
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here's one more from the son of Rick Adelman, David
Adelman here and commenting about the Game seven at home,
which the Nuggets are about to lose.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
He talked about, you know after the game, he win
those last three games not just to stay out of
the plan, but to get the home court in Game seven,
bottom line, And we earned it. And that's why I
told him there, you've earned this opportunity. He earned the
opportunity tonight to try to close it out because of
the way you played in the series to get to
three to two. But now you have the opportunity to
go home in front of your home fans and advance,
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and so you know, you play.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All year for that.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We got that opportunity and we're very, very excited to
go back out there and play again.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Keep in mind, the Nuggets and Clippers had the same
exact record during the regular season, and the Nuggets earned it.
They did so much good work during the season. The
players got their coach fired before the playoffs. They really
earned it, my fat ass, they earned it. You gotta
be kidding me.
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and I do have those numbers. I promise you're listening.
Last hour, I was put on the spot by that
dope Jeff and Denver and Cooper loop you any numbers back?
That was okay, I'll give you the numbers later, but
we're gonna start with the game in the Motor City,
which was a really good game. I enjoyed it. I
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was sitting on my ass watching the game Game six,
the Detroit Basketball and the New Yorkers, the Pistons looking
to force a Game seven, the Knicker trying to close
things out and move on to take on that Green team.
Were you watching? I hope you were. This was actually
a pretty good game. It came down to the final
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seconds with the clock running down. Jalen Brunson the killer
crossover dribble between his legs. He got a little space
and then the dagger from Downtown a three point shot
with four point three seconds left in the clock, and
then he blew a kiss right there to the upper balcony.
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The crowd had been taunting him. That's what good fans do.
They taunt the best player on the other team, and
so they did. Now Brunson had a forty burger in
this game, forty points and the Knicks win the game
by three, and what a great way for the piss
and season. And they didn't even get a shot up.
They fetched the ball out of bounds. Beasley fumbled the
(17:55):
ball out of bounds, so Detroit could have had a
chance to tie the game, and they blew it. And
so the win goes to the team from the Big Apple.
New York will now face the number two, the number two,
the Boston basketball team, as they look to advance to
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the Eastern Conference Finals. You realize the Knicks have not
been to the Eastern Conference Finals since two thousand. That's
a generation. How is that? Man? When I was growing
up of old Buckle mar Day, but it was like, oh,
New York teams have all the advantage. Those New York
teams win all the time, they have all the top players.
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The Jets have been terrible. The Giants are an embarrassment.
The Knickerbockers are pathetic like, for the most part, the
Mets are ridiculously bad. The Mets haven't won the World
Series since the nineteen eighties. Ronald Reagan was the president.
Last time the nixt one or the Mets won the
World Series. The Yankees, they're going on, how many years?
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Is been fifteen years plus?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
The Yankees haven't won the World Series? So who goofed?
I've got to know. Anyway, let's get back to this one. Now.
The better story is in the losing locker room. We'll
get to that, but I wanted to start with this,
all right, So as we discussed this game since the
Knicks one and everyone has their pants down because of
Jalen Brunson, can you put into context Jalen Brunson's game
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winning basket for the Knicks. So I've got meantastic F
seventeen Nighthawk and Kentucky Bourbon, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're gonna say, forget about
it and just have some Detroit pizza. I didn't even
know Detroit pizza was a thing until a few years ago.
(19:47):
I didn't I had no idea it was a Detroit
So I knew a Chicago style. I knew New York
style pizza. I didn't even know there was a Detroit
style pizza until a couple years ago, and then all
of a sudden, it was like everywhere, all right. So
my first thought on this, I guess we'll say, numb burn?
Can I get a numb burn? All right? All right?
Enough of that, all right? So my first aught is Baywatch,
(20:08):
as in Jalen Brunson was the lifeguard who saved the
Knicks from themselves. Complete shambles for the Knicks. They were drowning,
the Knickerbockers were drowning. It looked early on they were
gonna blow out the Pistons. They were up hacking fifteen.
I jotted that down on my little notes app. They
were up fifteen early on, and then the Pistons came back,
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and then the Knicks went ahead again, and then it
was a little bit bit of back and forth game,
but facing a door die Game seven, Jalen Brunson had
to rescue his teammates from sinking into the deep blue
sea of Lake Michigan. It was bad, it was bad,
uh and the Pistons were on their way to a
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historical possible come back. In game seven. Detroit was leading
this by seven points with two thirty five to go.
That that's not insurmountable. But you're up by seven with
two and a half minutes to go, you're in pretty
good shape. Unless Doc Rivers is your coach. Doc Rivers
was not coaching the Pistons. But Jalen Brunson I didn't
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know they had this on the betch, but he put
his cape on down the stretch, nerves of steel and
that dagger the crossover to get some space and then
the knockdown three point shot was meantastic. Jalen Brunson went
twilight zone. You're a bad man. You're a very bad man.
Jalen Brunson with that shot, and it was chest thumping, kissing,
(21:35):
blown kisses up to the upper decks some the Jabbroni up.
There was a good time and it is a reminder
that one big shot or a couple of big shots
cover up a lot of bad shots. Jalen Brunson took
fourteen shots in the fourth quarter. He only made four
of them. However, it's the last shot obviously that people remember.
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They'll talk about it. Remember Jalen Brunson beat the Pistons
in a playoff game in the road with that three
point Yeah, they're not gonna say he went four to
fourteen in the fourth quarter. But when they were downed,
when Detroit had a seven point lead, seven point lead,
in really good shape, really good shape. There in the
final couple minutes of the game, Jalen Brunson with was
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three of five four eight points in the comeback. New
York outscored Detroit eleven to three to close out the
game and turn out the last the parties over for
the Pistons. Now, speaking of that, the better story is
in the losing locker room, So we're gonna go there now.
Despite the loss, I have been seeing a number of headlines,
(22:41):
number of stories, number of posts on the socials with
tributes pouring in that the social media world eulogizing the
Pistons performance, but celebrating that the Motown Hoopers, who had
not broken twenty five wins in the last five five seasons,
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they jumped all the way up from fourteen and sixty
eight to forty four and thirty eight. They were the
sixth seed in the Eastern Conference. The consensus among popular
people the pundits is that Detroit is now set up
they've arrived. They're a force in the Eastern Conference for
(23:22):
years to come. They're good to go. They're good to go,
all right. So that's the consensus. So I ask the
Esteem panel, which you are a part of, are you convinced?
Are you conmissed you make the call? Are you convinced
that the Caid Cunningham Pistons have a arrived? So after
(23:43):
a minute long deliberation, I am shaking my head. No
again on this one, I'm shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
This is a stinger. There was venom. There was venom there.
Now there are good signs. I'm not gonna sit here
and say there's no good signs. There were good signs. However,
the finished product is not there, and there are no
moral victories, at least not here. Maybe some other people
like the give us out. But the Knickerbockers, I'm Detroit.
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I'm spitting mad. The Knickerbockers should have lost this series, right,
they were plumped for the taken. Detroit blew this series.
And again, most games have lost them, not one. We
talk about that all the time, and this is a
great example. Down the stretch, four straight games were decided
by three points or less. Three of them were Detroit
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Basketball home losses. They lost at home by two points,
by one point, by three points. Now, the big picture
the Pistons, if you look at that turnaround from fourteen
wins the forty four wins year to year, the Pistons
have been the last year the F seventeen nighthawk, and
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that's what they were, certainly during the regular season this
year where they flew below the radar, they were not
detected by any dar. And you don't just pick up
where you left off. You have to start fresh. And
so they they go back and to the very bottom
and have to push the rock back up the mountain.
It's kind of like you're playing a video game and
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in the old days, and then the power goes out
and you've got to start over. It doesn't save it.
You got to go back to the very beginning, which
is not ideal all right. Now, final point to the
Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers as they now have a chance or
do they have a chance to upend the Celtics. That's
how we're gonna frame this. Do the Jalen Brunson Knicks
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have a chance to up end the Celtics Boston with
home court advantage, Boston, the championship pedigree from a year ago.
All that nonsense. So do the Knicks have a chance.
So I look at this for the Knickerbockers. It's not ideal,
but it is Kentucky Bourbon. It is a puncher's chance.
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It is a puncher's chance. Okay. And the Celtics dominated
the Knicks in their four regular season meetings. They won
all four games. There was only one of them that
was close. But you can't really base too much of
that because certain star players don't play and so not
everyone was out there. And whatever you were back in
November and December, obviously you know you're not the same team.
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Things get better or worse, they don't stay the same. Now,
the big red flag for the Knickerbockers. They played nine
games against the top teams Boston, Cleveland and Oklahoma City.
Nine games. Out of those nine games, how many did
they win? The answer would be as many as you
and I and Lorena and Coope and blind emmett oer
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for nine. The Knickerbockers against Boston Cleveland in Oklahoma City,
which obviously raises questions about the fraud nature of the Knickerbockers. Now,
fortunately I cannot stress this enough. Past results do not
guarantee future out. Boston's reliance on three point shooting is
a blessing and a curse because when the threes are
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not falling, they struggle. They can still win. They beat
Orlando in a game they didn't make a three point
shot in half, but it's much more difficult. You've also
got Jalen Brown, who's taking time bomb with a knee
that's all wonky. You've got Porzingis who's made out of
glass most of the time. And in Game one, there's
an opportunity to sneak in there and steal Game one.
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The Knicks have played, and played and played the Celtics.
You talk about the old debate, We have it every year,
Russ versus Rest, the football debate normally, but Russ versus Rest.
So the Celtics have been off for a number of days.
The Knicks just played here on Thursday night, so they
should be ready to pounce at the beginning of the game. Now,
for the Knicks, another problem is Carl Anthony Towns, kitty
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cat Karl Anthony Towns is in position physically to dominate.
He often does not. He often is a spectator when
he's on the court. He doesn't normally move the needle
in playoff games, at least he doesn't know back to
back games. And you never know from game to game
how Karl Anthony Towns is going to play. That's been
the curse going back to his days in Minnesota. It
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hasn't changed with the Knickerbockers. And you know, Jalen Brunson
is the real deal, and he'll get some numbers and
he'll put up some good stats and all that. So
when I bet on the Knicks, I wouldn't bet on
the Knicks. Do I think this is gonna be a
sweep by the celt I would be very surprised. This
has six game series and the Celtics will lose a
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game they shouldn't lose early on. They'll lose a game
at the Garden, but they'll end up the Madison Square Garden.
Both teams playing the Garden, but they'll end up winning
in the end.
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Speaker 5 (28:59):
Earlier this week, Bill's GM Brandon Bean expressed frustration over
being criticized for not drafting a receiver, and he pointed
out that he was also criticized for taking josh Allen. Ben,
do you think the criticism is warranted?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well, the problem is that Bills have terrible wide receiver
like they scored a bunch of points in all that,
but Keon Coleman, Khalil Secure and Joshua Palmer who they
picked up from the Chargers does not exactly get you
all horny. So they should have done something there. I
know they. I guess they added Elijah Moore the other
day this week from Cleveland. I think the criticism is fair.
(29:33):
This is the golden run for josh Allen. They didn't
do enough.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Next Tyre's Halliburton also hit back at his critics after
knocking out the Bucks by posting overrate that on X Now, Ben,
who do you think is actually the most overrated player
in the NBA?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well, how by the way, Tyrs Saliburton, you won a
first round series against Doc Rivers and the fucks I
would not celebrate. There's a bunch how about Lebron James
is the most overrated next Ben the Tiger.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
We're a Cinderella story last year, but they're kind of
leading the al this year.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Do you think they're the team to beat? No, they're not.
They're not the team to beat. They're in the American
League Central, the Central Terrible. Uh, they are not the
team to beat in the American League. I'm still gonna
say the Yankees, how did we do? You failed? This edition?
How I fail? That's a winning edition of Mallard of
the third degree. It's bad judging by you the judges bias.
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Speaker 1 (30:38):
Who's there?
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Blame we?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Blame we too. It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
Lame jokes jokes of the week, not the singular jokes
of the week. Is weed Man? There? Do we have
the the weed Man as the laugh track of the
lame jokes of the week? There? I don't hear them.
(31:00):
Apparently we don't have the weed Man. I notice you
don't call other than this anymore your big time that week?
Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
No, I'm gonna call.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Every night for the next couple of weeks. Really, Oh yeah, Sue,
do you promise? Yeah? All right, here we go. Are
you ready to you sound like you're your little nasal?
You're under the weather? Everything? Okay, No, I'm good, all right.
Thanks for the birthday present. I believe I'm very kind
of you to get me nothing. I thank you for that.
All right, here we go, big man's lamb jokes. I've
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given you nothing, You've given me nothing. Oh, here we go.
Let's change it up a little bit this week. Do
some other jokes. Why does Lorena want to burn Mike
the Leprechaun with an iron? Why she wants to press
her luck? Is she what she wants to do? That's
Kurt from Earth. Well, apparently Mike the Leprechaun is scared
(31:54):
of Lorena getting a lot of male weed.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Man.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Why, yeah, I guess she. He's going postal on him soon.
That's Kurt from Earth again. I feel like that's a
data term. How did William Shatner celebrate my birthday? How
new diaper? He got a new diaper? That's Tony in
the Bay Area. Why did blind Scott boycott the show?
(32:23):
Why he was in a blind fury? That's why did
you hear about the recent John Elway incident on the
golf course? Whoa, yeah, it does change the meaning of
the drive. Now. That's JJ JJ and Kirby from East
(32:46):
Long Beach near the pyramid there. We thanked him for that.
What NBA award did Jahn Morant win? Unanimously? What best
shooting guard? Best shooting guard? That's hip in name naked
chip very nice. Here you hear that Anthony Edwards was
fined fifty thousand for verbally comparing his manhood with a
(33:08):
Laker fan. Wow, yeah, oh yes. After visually inspecting both parties,
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver agreed with Edwards and doubled the fine.
Doubled it. That's Gordon Tacoma. What do you call blind
Scott's stocker mentality? What blind devotion? That's Drew in Minnesota.
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We sent that in. It's Big Bends. Lame jokes of
the week. These were actual jokes by actual listeners to
the show. How do you kill one hundred flies? Wow?
Smack weed man, hippie in the face. That's John in Youngstouth, Ohio.
What was the worst bud weed Man got on four
to twenty? What your roommate? That's Eric in Kansas. What
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did weed Man and his roommate watch on movie night?
What ten things I hate about you? That's Eric in Kansas? Again,
you got any jokes over there? Coop? Let me see
hold on? Okay, while you're working on that, did you
hear that President Trump is going to cancel the Obama
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phone programs? Here about that? Whoa, yeah, apparently Trump was enraged.
Weed Man Hippie's phone sounds better than Ben's. That's Tom.
What is the difference between mouthwashed Mike and weed Man Hippie?
What Mike baze regularly the blaggio and has fresh breath?
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That's ship and Man.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I hope, I hope.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Mouthwashed Mike is okay. We've not heard from him in
a while. I hope he's all right. How can weed
Man solve his roommate problem? Ow move out back on
the streets? No more roommate? That's Noah in Austin? All right?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
What?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Oh boy? I don't know if I could read this
by all right? Probably should skip over that one. I
want to have a job on Monday. What are Lizzo's
fondest memories from her college softball career? What the pizza parties?
You win pizza, you lose pizza. That's Surfer Todd the comedian. Well,
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Lizzo accidentally rubbed ketch up in her eyes weed made Wow? Yeah?
What's that all? Bat? She now has Heine's sight, eke
and rose to Minnesota. Coop, you got anything over there? Coop?
Speaker 5 (35:44):
What is weed man Hippie's favorite candy?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Don gummies? Because he has enough teeth? Yeah? What is
the title of Lizzo's autobiography? What pigmy? That's a chip
in Maine? If Anny bright Side set my joke on
that beg you, Benny bright Side? Why should you always
be bruly honest to Lizzo? Why? Because if you sugar
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croat your words, She's gonna try to eat them. That's
that's Noah Noah in Austin. Why does Lizzo get better
service than anyone from the United States Postal Service? Why
she has her own ZIP code? That's Terry in Saint Paul.
Right there there it is big bens lame jokes. We
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thank you, weed Man. You're the best. You're the greatest. Buddy,
he does the great weed Man Hippie from Miami Yard Buddy.
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