May 8, 2025 • 37 mins
Knicks are exposing the cracks in the Celtics Championship DNA. The Thunder’s historic offense buries the Nuggets but did they get help from referee Scott Foster? Plus, Maller to the 3rd Degree, #AskBen and much more!
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So if you lose game one, that's just a random occurrence.
But if you lose again, what is that like? Where
does that fall in the spectrum?
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NBA games, but only one really worthy of much conversation.
So that is where we will begin the conversation. And oh,
what a fun conversation it will be here because our
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lead is from Boston. As that was the stage for
Game two, everyone and their mother anticipating that the Boston
basketball team would come out with vengeance and they were
going to not let their guard down like many said
they did in Game one. But it was the Eastern
Conference semi finals, Jason Tatum and the ce's trying to
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even the ledger against Jalen Brunson in the knickerbocket. Now,
this was the early game. Some say the undercard undercard,
and I don't know if you were watching it or not.
If not, we had another o MG mommut, another OMG
mamt in this one. What was McHale Bridges ceiling another
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massive come back. The Knicks were down by twenty again
they did it again. Oops, it happened again. Down twenty.
The Knicks stormback, second straight win and second straight game,
ceiling steel at the very end and the Knickerbockers leave
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the Boston Celtics totally discombobulated as they win ninety one
to ninety and now New York on the road, up
two games to none, they have the lead the upstart
underdog slim pickings of the Knickerbockers in the Eastern Conference
semi fround. Jalen Brunson didn't play all that well. He
only had seventeen points. But New York with Jalen Brunson
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out there, he had a couple of foul shots with
twelve point seven seconds to go in the game, so
that left the score ninety one to ninety. Jason Tatum
mister all everything, mister I'm the greatest, all that stuff.
Jason Tatum then could not get to the rim and
McHale Bridges came over there. He moved in, he bat
the ball away, a futile effort by Jason Tatum, rather pathetic,
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and the Knickerbockers got it and that's it. That's all
she wrote. So Josh Hart twenty three points, Karl Anthony
Towns Kitty Kat, the old Timberwolve with twenty one points,
seventeen rebounds, and a partridge in the pear tree for
New York, who will now host Game three in Midtown Manhattan,
right adjacent to Penn Station there on Saturday afternoon. So
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let us discuss the question. You know what, the story
here is the better story in the losing locker room.
But the question is who gets the biggest slices of
the Celtics Boston cream pie here? Who gets the biggest
slices of that? So I've got Green Comet, Nobel Prize
winner and Prince and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are going to make a delicious
soft pretzel, which the Celtics got twisted into in the
fourth quarter. Yet again they got twisted into a delicious
soft pret so you can find out on the street.
So a let's start with the head of the fish.
I was told when I was younger that the fish
rots from the head Jason Tatum ding Ding Ding Ding
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Dan Jason, Jason, Hey, you know I know you won
your little championship last year, but yeah, you still got
to play this year. What was that You're supposed to
be the franchise player on the final possession, I'm gonna
go back to that. So I don't know that this
can be understated. The Knicks take a one point lea
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and Al Horford came up to the top of the
like the three point line. He said a screen, Tatum
is dribbling the ball. So on the screen. I don't
know if you noticed this or not, but I jotted
this down on my little notesap on my phone. So
Horford sets the screen. There's two Knicks players there on
the screen. Tatum at this point after the screen is
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now guarded by Mitchell Robinson, a taller player, a lumbering
big man, Mitchell Robinson with not a lot of lateral movement.
And so what did Jason Tatum do? Did Jason Tatum
zoom pasted Mitchell Robinson or did he fall back and
he take it easy jumper over Robinson? No, he hesitated,
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he snoozed, and he losed as he failed to even
get a shot up, and then mentioned mkil Bridges came
over and snatched the ball. The way Tatum was actually
trying to pass the ball. He's trying to pass the ball.
You can't make this up. So you have the two
headliners on the Celtics, Jalen Brown, who fetched the final
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play in Game one, and now Jason Tatum says, hold
my beer and let me take care of this right now.
He failed to even get a game winning shot. So
both your star players, neither one of them got the
shot on the rim, or even in genon Tatum's case,
even get the shot up at all as time ran out.
And on this night, when the dust set, Jason Tatum
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only had thirteen more points than you and I had
and we didn't play in the game. He took nineteen shots,
he missed fourteen of them. And Jason Tatum was the
green comet, the green comet of vomit is what he
was in this game. Overall, Tatum two games in two
games in to the second round of the NBA Playoffs,
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Jason Tatum, your all everything player, shooting twenty eight and
a half percent from the floor and even worse than
that from three point range, but twelve to forty two
from the floor. And this was a team wide infestation
of suck. For the Celtics, who definitely sucked at a
time he cannot suck. The Green team went more than
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eight minutes without a field goal in the fourth quarter,
more than eight minutes without a field goal in the
fourth quarter. They missed not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
not nine, not ten, not eleven, not too How about
thirteen consecutive shots? And what was the coach doing over
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there in the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Keep shooting, boys. Yeah, thirteen consecutive misshots. So is this
series exposing cracks in the Boston Championship, Dannah, there's so
many hack sportscasters like to say so A thousand percent right.
The dependence, the absolute dependence on the three ball is
at this point entering into ancient Egyptian territory. You know
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that image that was left by the people that lived
in that time in the caves. They had the art
in the caves in Egypt, and there's the image of
the dragon eating its own tail, sometimes it's a snake.
That's essentially the Celtics here, like they are a one
trick pony and they're okay with it, right, it's a
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self defeating style. You live by the three ball, you
die by the Yeah. But they won last year, so
you can't criticize them. They won the championship last year.
You don't know basketball. That's what you're doing the overnight
show on Calm Down. All right, Well, it ain't last year,
it's this year, and what goes around comes around. Right now,
the math ain't mathing as the Celtics. Holy Conoley, how
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bad are they they have? Now? Based on the math,
they have a twelve point five percent chance of coming
back and winning this series. That's the percentage chance on
teams that have come back losing the first two games
at home. But that does tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. Now, page two, can you
explain how Tom Thibodeau's knickerbockers have spotted Boston twenty point
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leads and then come back and won both games? So
I'm gonna follow the teachings of the Nobel Prize winner
died a few years ago, Desmond to two. You don't
often hear Desmond Tutu's name on sports radio, but he
famously is quoted as saying there is only one way
to eat an l a bite at a time. The
Celtics had a massive lead in both games New York.
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What did they do. They whittled the lead down in
the second half, and they trimmed it down to bite
size portions. And the thing that I will credit them
unlike a team that I like, that's gutless. The Clippers
are the spineless Denver Nuggets that gave up in that game.
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And okay, seemore on that later, but there was no
white fight. They were getting punched the Knicks, but they
didn't tap out, and so well, you're never supposed to
tap out. It's the playoff teams tap out all the time.
The Knicks kept on, kept on fighting, trucking, whatever you
want to say. They finished the race. And a perfect
embodiment of the Knicks coming back. Mckill Bridges, who was
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on his way to being the villain. He was on
his way to being the villain, and then he turned
out to be the hero because he rewrote the story
in the fourth quarter. If you weren't watching the game,
Bridges was not only a basketball player, he was terrible
for a three quarters. Certainly offensively, he was terrible. He
made some plays defense, He've been oh of eight from
the floor. He had a goose egg in the points
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category over the first three quarters, and then he ends
up scoring all of his fourteen points in the fourth quarter.
And so in the end, now everyone's saying he's a Celtic.
He's a villain for the Celtic fans, but he was
gonna be a villain for the for the next the
way he was playing. All right, Now, what is the
anatomy of the Boston Celtics choke job? So there's some sound.
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I have four sounds for the Celtics and how they
lost this game. Boom wop bang doink. That's the sound
of the basketball missing the net. Boom wop bang doink. Yeah.
So they were up seven, Boston was up seventy three,
fifty three, and I jotted it was a little over
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three minutes to go in the third court. So they're
up by twenty. From that point, you want to take
a guess, Take a guess what the Celtics shot the
rest of the game. So the final fifteen minutes and
twelve seconds. I went back, I looked at the box score.
I did the Malord math on this. So the Celtics
took twenty eight shots over the final fifteen minutes and
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twelve seconds. Of those twenty eight, how many did they miss?
Not make? How many did they miss? Okay, got your answer,
don't cheat. The Celtics missed twenty three of twenty eight
shots they shot. Somehow, a professional basketball team, the reigning
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championship Pro Basketball in the fourth quarter, in the final
minutes of the third quarter, shot seventeen point nine percent.
Let me repeat that for those of you a little
slow because we're on at night here. Seventeen point nine
percent is the shooting percentage for the C's in the
final fifteen minutes. And Jalen Brown took five shots in
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that stretch. He did not score zero points. Jason Tatum
made one basket from the floor, Boston. How about from
three point range? They took fourteen three point shots in
the final fifteen minutes. Of course they did, that's all
they do, and they missed twelve of them. They shot
actually worse from three point range than they did from
two point range. And anyway, two of fourteen from downtown.
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For the Celtics, who find themselves in a very, very
tough quagmire at this point, all right now. Last word.
So a couple of you knuckleheads that listen to us
in Boston on the Sports Hub, and we thank you
for that. You requested that I comment on Joe Missoula,
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but in particular, I guess there's a nickname and I'm
gonna take your word for this, So hopefully you're not
lying to me, because if you're lying to me, I'm
gonna sound like a jacket. But two different people, as
far as I know, they know each other. They said, Hey,
I want to get you. You know, you got to talk
about this apparently the popular afternoon shower in Boston, the
I guess it's the Felger and Mas show. They gave
the nickname to Celtics coach Joe Missoula. They said that
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his his nickname is JJ, after the podcaster imposter Laker coach. Okay,
so that's that's I laughed. I chuckled when I saw that.
So does the comp does the comp of Joe Missoula
Celtic coach Joe Mozula being like JJ Reddick hold water?
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So I'm gonna nod yes, although there is a qualifier
like Reddick is the podcast puppet for Lebron We know
he's in over his head, you really know what he's doing.
I think he proved that in the playoffs. He had
a meltdown. It was a full circus meltdown when he
was questioned, and then the Lakers went out there lost
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the final game, which was just great, just great. But
Joe Mizzoula, on the other hand, or jj I guess
as they're calling Joe Mosula, is living in the as
he says, the expected world, attacking the game analytically, which
tells you he's not really coaching. Like coaching is okay,
I'm gonna mix in the analytics, but I'm also gonna
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go by the field of the game. There's no feel
of the game. I promise you Joe Mazoula does not
follow the feel of the game. If Joe Mosula followed
the field of the game, the Celtics would not have
played the way they played, right and uh and then
both both are arrogant. Although you gotta understand here side
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by side, if you look at these guys, you got Reddick,
who's next level, right, next level, temperamental and all that,
and a lot of bacteria around both of them. Now,
is Joe Mozoula in any danger of the Celtics lose
this series. No, because the entire organization this is how
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they want to play. He is just a middle manager,
that is all he is, Just like JJ Reddick is
a middle manager to Lebron and Lebron's coaching the team
and JJ is pretending to be the coach and giving
a whole answers to the media. Joe Mosula is doing
much of the same thing. Right you know, in terms
of is Missoula his confidence an asset or a liability
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for the Celtics or right now it's a liability. But again,
I don't think he's in position to change anything. Like
he's a true believer in the dogma. He is a prince.
He's a partisan prince. He blindly follows the analytics. There's
no wiggle room and he's at the point. And I
didn't see much of the postgame news conference, but he
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seems to be unwilling to even acknowledge that there is
an alter a way to play basketball. And if anyone
questions the way the Celtics play, he shames them. Shame, shame, shame,
How dare you? What's wrong with you?
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So our lead this hour is from Oklahoma, and that
is where the Western Conference semi Finals Game number two,
Your peace signed Game number two now s GA for
ok C. All right, that was the matchup. So yet
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he had the MVP. It is hard to believe that
he's not gonna win the MVP. Shaw Jogis Alexander and
Oklahoma City looking to avoid the embarrassment of losing at
home again and trying to even things up with the
Jokers Denver Nuggus. This was the set up here. It
was expected to be a competitive game. I don't know
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if you saw it, good news. If you missed it,
you are in a better situation than me. He didn't
miss anything. Holy Toledo. What a terrible game in terms
of competition. So he had Shay Jogis Alexander who had
thirty four points, and then play as many minutes as
you and I did in the fourth quarter. He only
played three quarters. The reason he only played three quarters
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is because the thunder put the whammie on Denver. A
revenge performance. OKC set a league record and wins one
forty nine to one ZHO six. Yes, let me repeat
that they won by forty three points over the Denver
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basketball team and now the Western Conference semi finals tied
up at one game apiece. How lopsided was it? Thanks
for asking. Oklahoma City set an NBA postseason record for
first half points with eighty seven. They put up eighty
seven points in twenty four minutes. That broke the record
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of eighty six eighty six points. They probably think that
record was probably set back in the eighties. No, it
was said within the last ten years, back in twenty seventeen,
which seems like it's a lot closer than ten years ago.
But June of twenty seventeen, the Cleveland Cadavers against the
Golden State Warriors in Game four of the NBA Finals.
But eighty seven points a new record for a playoff
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game for Oklahoma City. The Thunder led by as many
as forty nine points forty nine point lead in a
second round playoff game. So let us discuss toss up
question bigger story the Thunders historic offensive explosion or the
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Nuggets complete and total collapse. So my observations on this,
I've got quantum, leap, porta potty, and liberty, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have a lick your wounds party, which I
think is what they're doing in Denver. They're licking their wounds.
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The better story, almost always, all right, number one story
is in the losing locker room. This was a biblical beatdown,
Biblical beatdown. This was Goliath versus you know who, and
Goliath won. This was a Goliath win Oklahoma City in
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a domination situation across the board. Now there was a
little bit of funny business. We're gonna get to that
in a minute. And we didn't watch the second half.
We made the editorial decision at halftime. We watched Charles
Barkley with Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal, and
then when halftime ended, we turned the game off and
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then we went back to it on the post game.
So we did not watch the second half, and so
we'll focus on the first half. If you if you
watched like us, like we were watching the first half,
I'm pretty sure that my eyeballs moving back and forth
at the television put more of an effort into the
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game than Denver did. How bad was it? It was
so bad? Thanks for asking. The kolea jokicch and the
Nuggets underwent a quantum leap, a metamorphosis in this game.
They became bullfighters. And if you've ever been to a
bullfight or seen one on television, they were the matador
Oley Oley o lay olay on defense, lackluster snagnet Oklahoma City.
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It was. It was so ridiculous. At one point it
looked like you were watching the old Harlem Globe Trotters
from back in the day. They shot almost sixty percent
okase did in the first half of that game. They
won all the haf of the Hustle staff, that's all
of them. As Jill Gis Alexander was slicing and dicing.
You look at the points of the paint, second chance points,
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fast break points, the rebounds, everything every the fifty to
fifty balls, the raffle balls, all that stuff all right now,
Page two. So how do the Joker and the Nuggets
overcome this absolute stink bomb in Oka? See? And it
was a stink bomb. This was flatulence in the air everywhere.
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And yeah, so you go to the porta potty and
you take the wisdom of Eagles Super Bowl winning quarterback
Jalen Hurts, who famously said after an absolute dud against
the Cowboys, he said, when you take your deuce, you
don't sit there and look at it. You flush it
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and you move on. Now, it's very hard to flush
in a porta potty, very hard to flush. Every time
I've gone to a porta potty, things are stacked on
top of each other, if you know what I mean.
But it's really how you react. I mean, we are
looking at a best of five series if my malor
math is correct, and Denver does now have home court
advantage over Kyriees Oklahoma City Thunder. That's the guy that
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we know who loves the Thunder and has interacted with
the show. Now, why couldn't these Nuggets, these Nuggets guys
have shown up and played like they did in the
game on Wednesday night. Why couldn't they have played like
that in Game seven against the Clippers, Right Denver, they
were huffing and puffing as they were out there. It
looked like they had not one, not two, not three,
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not four, but five James Harden out on the court.
There's a James Harden there there's a James Harden there.
There's a James Harden over there. There's a James Harden
over there. Everywhere's James Harden. Playoff Harden everywhere you look,
playoff Harden everywhere. All right, final point. Now, let's get
to the Komodo dragon in the room if you will.
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If you didn't see this game, you probably don't know
where I'm going with this. The official became part of
the story. So well, it doesn't matter that Nuggets were
down by forty nine points. Oklahoma City won by forty
three points. It doesn't matter. But I've got a talk
show to do, so to me, it matters. Scott Foster
who had been out with a calf injury and not
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officiating game I think since back in March, so he
was out, but he was the crew chief Scott Foster
for game number two. So Scott Foster was out his
first playoff game of twenty twenty five. Now, Internet investigators
believe the NBA assigned Scott Foster to this game to
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ensure that Oklahoma City would tie this series up. So
where are you at on this one? Again? Internet salus
believe they've uncracked the code that the NBA purposely put
Scott Foster out there to make sure that Oklahoma City
tied up the series. So on this one my reaction,
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I have a cheshire Cat smile on my face right
now from ear to ear, I just do. Scott Foster
is like the last of the Mohicans. I grew up
in my wheelhouse. In my era, there was the shady referee.
Typically in baseball. The last real shady umpire was Angel Hernandez,
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and Angel Hernandez is no longer un Baseball finally was
able to force him out. And the NFL's had a
few officials over the years that you thought there might
be some something going on there, but not really now.
And then you look at basketball and you've got Scott Foster,
the last one standing, the last one left. It's the
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twilight zone. All the other crooked officials have either died off,
or retired or been fired. But you've got Scott Foster,
who was Buddies if I'm not miss and as I
understand it, with Tim Donahey who was fixing NBA games
back in the day. So you got Scott Foster will
get many people think is involved in some funny business
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and a lot of the belief is that he was
there as a secret agent for Oklahoma City. Are you
buying any of this? No, the NBA would never fix
any games. We know the games have been doctored with again,
Tim Donnie. So to me, this is a liberty story.
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A liberty story. When the legend becomes the fact, you
print the legend. The man who shot Liberty Bounce an
old movie in Hollywood, and it's true. When the legend
becomes the fact, you print the legend. And the Nuggets, now,
I'm not gonna sit here and say they played well.
They didn't play well, but they were swimming against the
tide the early part of the game. Hey, the early
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part of the game that the tide was the tempo
set by the officials. It did appear that the officiating
crew who favored Oklahoma City. Let me explain, early on
in the game, you had some early soft foul calls
on Denver, in particular Nakoli Jokic, who's always complaining and
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vetching the referees. But it did look like some of
those calls early on were we're not kosher and so,
and then it appeared that the Oklahoma City team was
been giving leeway. They were giving leeway, the benefit of
the doubt, and that they were able to play a
little a little spic here, shall we say, right, moving screens,
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hacking yokics, things like that. Now, before you dismissed this,
oh you're just an overnight conspiracy guy. What do you know?
A right, let me put my tinfoil hat on and
go through the numbers on this. So Scott Foster has
officiated over sixteen hundred regular season games. He has worked
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over two hundred and forty playoff games. He's done twenty
NBA finals. He is the, if not the most, he's
near the very top most experienced referees. Do you know
what Scott Foster's nickname is in basketball? Do you know
what his nickname is? No, his nickname is the Extender.
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Why is he known as the Extender? It's kind of
like this old TV show, The A Team back in
the day, and they've made some remakes of that. I
think they made a movie a few years back. But
the A Team and their whole mantra, right, they were
a crack commando unit, the A Team, and they gave
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this whole rant. You know, they were soldiers of fortune.
They say, if you have a problem, if you have
an issue, and you've got that problem and no one
can help you. Right, you have a problem. No one
else can help you, And if you can find them,
maybe you can can hire the eight team in the NBA.
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If you've got a series that you want to make
sure it's a close series and it's extended for television
ratings purposes, who you gonna call. You're gonna call your
version of the A team, the extender, like a mafioso,
name the extender Scott Foster, who's often been associated with
games where the trailing team wins to extend the series,
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thus the nickname the Extender, often with his own proprietary
blend of controversy where he's involved in some controversial foul
calls or technical fouls or whatever. Now I went back
and I looked at the numbers, because why not. The
data shows that home teams win over sixty percent of
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the games he officiates, and say, well, that's kind of
within the margin of error in terms of generally the
home team usually wins more than the road team, So
does that prove anything? But then you have to go
on a game by game basis and say, okay, what
about in playoff series. When he's officiating and it's the
team that's trailing, does that team win? And I don't
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have those numbers. I haven't gone that deep down the
rabbit hole. I will at some point on a slow day,
I will do that, but I will not do that
right now.
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Right here we go, It's Maller. How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I think you're older than that, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
This is one big Ben gets grilled Lorraine. That was
on the air, Lorraine, Wait a.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
While, Ben, Terry Yes, Terry Hill recently listened to his
top five current quarterbacks, including Mahomes, Burrow Allan Lamar Jackson,
and an even Baker Mayfield, notably.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Leaving off his own quarterback to uh, is it a problem?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yes, it is a massive problem, Tyreek Hill. He wants
to be traded to me. The better story, though, the
is he had surgery on his wrist. Did you see
what he was eating in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Chick fil a? That's what I would eat in the hospital.
He had somebody delivered chick fil a. He was in
the hospital bed. He just had an operation and he
was eating Chick fil A's a bit.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
That's healthy fast food there, Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Well, sure, absolutely right next Ben.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Following the trade of Pickens to Dallas, the Steelers are
rumored to be interested in Amari Cooper, Rogers former teammate
Ellen Lazard, and even Gave Davis, who was just released
by the Jags. Do any of these receivers move the
needle for you or mister Rogers.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, obviously Alan Lazard is a safety blanket for Aaron Rodgers,
so that would be the one. This is. I would
like to think the Steelers are not going to fall
for the same trap that the Jets did and just
bring a bunch of Rogers toadies to Pittsburgh. But otherwise,
why would you bring the lizard in? He's not that good?
Next quick bye.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
We know the Draft is set into DC after Pittsburgh.
Baltimore's pushing to host it afterwards. Is charm City deserving
of this prestigious events?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yes, they should hold in Baltimore. They should hold the
draft at my friend's Sports with Coleman's home in Baltimore
in his front yard. They can hold it right there.
There'll be fifteen people that will show up in Baltimore.
How did we do?
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I'd go that's a pass.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I pass I n ron in Rochester.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I run. I'm a winner.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I won the game. It's now time for time for honey, honey,
I can hurry ask bad Twitter said, is your questions
on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And no way we go it's ask man. Your questions
are answers. Put our rest govey hour and now the
reader of the questions, but it will not sound like
he's reading.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
We say hello to lead a lot good more than everybody.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
A fitting first question for ask Ben from mister Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Hi donkey, Uh, when was the.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Last time you went skiing or snowboarding?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
God, it's been it's been many years. I do like
going to snow. The problem I have with the snow
and I can't get around this. If somebody can help
me out. I was actually just having this conversation with
my wife. We love going to the snow. The thing
we don't like is snow tires or the chains. Rather
putting the chains on the tires. I hate that worse right,
So yeah, so that's why I don't do more snow
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stuff because of the chains.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Yeah, I'll cancel a trip if I know I have
to put chains on, not gonna have.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like one of my favorite places to
go in the world is the Sequoia National Forest with
the big redwoods there in Sequoia, and I love going
during the winter's winter wonderland. But it's just the chains
are such a nightmare. No, So what about you, Lorrain
or last time you went to the snow.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
I haven't skied or snowboarded in a long time, but
I've entertubed recently.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Okay, yeah, this year two and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Okay, that's so that's a long time. What about you
lead a lap?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Well, funny enough, I do got to ask you some
questions about Sequoia off the air, But last time was
actually with Coop, probably two years ago. We go to
a big bear, not ma'am, although mammoth is better, and
that's when I realized.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I was a lot better at snowboarding than Coop.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Oh really, okay, all right? Take that Coop taking strays here?
All right, what's next? What do we have here? It's
ask Ben.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Your questions are answers from at Lady Sideburns. If you
were forced to be caged up for a year and
with an animal at the zoo?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Which animal would you choose?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Kowala bear, m that's a good one. All they do
is they just they're high all the time from the eucalyptus, right, Yeah,
they're just kind of hang outs like I'm hanging out
with the callers. You know, it's the same vibe. What
what about I would also if I wasn't gonna get
eaten or they're not gonna spit on me the Komodo dragon,
which they have in San Diego. I was I saw
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the Komodo dragon at the zoo. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
You know, I'm a very cuddly person. I would want
something that would cuddle with me. So I'm probably gonna
choose a lion.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You think they're there?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, they're always They're always up on a mound with
all their lady lions all like snuggled up together, looking
all majestic. So I think I could beat of them.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
You're not a lion.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
They might eat they won't eat me, Okay, all right, Yeah,
I wonder I think it comes down to the enclosure
versus the animal, Like which enclosure would you want to
be stuck in for a year?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Like The meerkats would be fun because you can kind
of hang out with the meerkats. They'll look out after you.
But otters are fun. I would go with the otters. Yeah,
but they have land too. There you go with the
fresh water otters, not the not the sea otters.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
The seals look kind of cool too, you know, they're
kind of chill.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Yeah, but then you'd be stuck in the water. Hang
out with the penguins.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
You could walk like a penguin side by second, All right,
what's next year? It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour. I fine.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
How about King Rory says, who would win in a
fight between a gorilla and one hundred Mallard Militia members?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Okay, so we do have a criminal element in the
Malord militia. Okay, so there's some boys that bring weapons. Okay,
these guys they call in when they get out of print.
You know who you are, Boys' wes. It's my I'm
answering the question. I'm saying I would take the prison
wing of the Malard Militia and that gorilla has no chance.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Well, I know most of our militia has the IQ
of a peanuts.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
So it's not about IQ. Okay, so you know what,
George Washington, you have to outsmart the gorilla. No, you don't.
George Washington was an idiot, but he's one of the
famous people in the history of the world.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
They don't die.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You're a liar, you're a hater.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
You do all get smoked. It'd be done. Don't get
in that. Uh yeah, even if you had a year.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
You see this. This is the kind of disrespect of
Mala You know what. The new boys in the Malad militia,
they think you're These two people think you're a bunch
of towers. We'll get you a gorilla. See how they
think you're gutless puke? All right?
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Next, Uh, what is the best ice cream to get
from an ice cream truck? From Bobby and in Florida?
I know, I know Loraina's answer already.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, well my answer is that Bobby. Listen, the greatest
ice cream treat is the chocolate chip cookie sand which
with two giant oversized soft chocolate chip cookies and it's
vanilla ice cream. That's all I need. I'm a basic
beach when it comes to that. What about you, Lorraina.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Lee thinks there would be a fudgetaicle, but off of
the ice cream Chucks. I really like the SpongeBob ones
with the bubblegum iyeballs.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Come on, what are you five years old?
Speaker 6 (37:19):
You fudgetles in the fridge?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
What about you? What about Classic Drumstick?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Classic Drumstick.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's a good one. That was Mike. No, that's like
the trump Stick's good too. You got the nuts on top.
That's a good that's a good ice cream.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
You would like the nuts on top.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
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So if you lose game one, that's just a random occurrence.
But if you lose again, what is that like? Where
does that fall in the spectrum?
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NBA games, but only one really worthy of much conversation.
So that is where we will begin the conversation. And oh,
what a fun conversation it will be here because our
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lead is from Boston. As that was the stage for
Game two, everyone and their mother anticipating that the Boston
basketball team would come out with vengeance and they were
going to not let their guard down like many said
they did in Game one. But it was the Eastern
Conference semi finals, Jason Tatum and the ce's trying to
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even the ledger against Jalen Brunson in the knickerbocket. Now,
this was the early game. Some say the undercard undercard,
and I don't know if you were watching it or not.
If not, we had another o MG mommut, another OMG
mamt in this one. What was McHale Bridges ceiling another
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massive come back. The Knicks were down by twenty again
they did it again. Oops, it happened again. Down twenty.
The Knicks stormback, second straight win and second straight game,
ceiling steel at the very end and the Knickerbockers leave
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the Boston Celtics totally discombobulated as they win ninety one
to ninety and now New York on the road, up
two games to none, they have the lead the upstart
underdog slim pickings of the Knickerbockers in the Eastern Conference
semi fround. Jalen Brunson didn't play all that well. He
only had seventeen points. But New York with Jalen Brunson
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out there, he had a couple of foul shots with
twelve point seven seconds to go in the game, so
that left the score ninety one to ninety. Jason Tatum
mister all everything, mister I'm the greatest, all that stuff.
Jason Tatum then could not get to the rim and
McHale Bridges came over there. He moved in, he bat
the ball away, a futile effort by Jason Tatum, rather pathetic,
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and the Knickerbockers got it and that's it. That's all
she wrote. So Josh Hart twenty three points, Karl Anthony
Towns Kitty Kat, the old Timberwolve with twenty one points,
seventeen rebounds, and a partridge in the pear tree for
New York, who will now host Game three in Midtown Manhattan,
right adjacent to Penn Station there on Saturday afternoon. So
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let us discuss the question. You know what, the story
here is the better story in the losing locker room.
But the question is who gets the biggest slices of
the Celtics Boston cream pie here? Who gets the biggest
slices of that? So I've got Green Comet, Nobel Prize
winner and Prince and we will combine all of these
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things together and we are going to make a delicious
soft pretzel, which the Celtics got twisted into in the
fourth quarter. Yet again they got twisted into a delicious
soft pret so you can find out on the street.
So a let's start with the head of the fish.
I was told when I was younger that the fish
rots from the head Jason Tatum ding Ding Ding Ding
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Dan Jason, Jason, Hey, you know I know you won
your little championship last year, but yeah, you still got
to play this year. What was that You're supposed to
be the franchise player on the final possession, I'm gonna
go back to that. So I don't know that this
can be understated. The Knicks take a one point lea
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and Al Horford came up to the top of the
like the three point line. He said a screen, Tatum
is dribbling the ball. So on the screen. I don't
know if you noticed this or not, but I jotted
this down on my little notesap on my phone. So
Horford sets the screen. There's two Knicks players there on
the screen. Tatum at this point after the screen is
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now guarded by Mitchell Robinson, a taller player, a lumbering
big man, Mitchell Robinson with not a lot of lateral movement.
And so what did Jason Tatum do? Did Jason Tatum
zoom pasted Mitchell Robinson or did he fall back and
he take it easy jumper over Robinson? No, he hesitated,
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he snoozed, and he losed as he failed to even
get a shot up, and then mentioned mkil Bridges came
over and snatched the ball. The way Tatum was actually
trying to pass the ball. He's trying to pass the ball.
You can't make this up. So you have the two
headliners on the Celtics, Jalen Brown, who fetched the final
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play in Game one, and now Jason Tatum says, hold
my beer and let me take care of this right now.
He failed to even get a game winning shot. So
both your star players, neither one of them got the
shot on the rim, or even in genon Tatum's case,
even get the shot up at all as time ran out.
And on this night, when the dust set, Jason Tatum
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only had thirteen more points than you and I had
and we didn't play in the game. He took nineteen shots,
he missed fourteen of them. And Jason Tatum was the
green comet, the green comet of vomit is what he
was in this game. Overall, Tatum two games in two
games in to the second round of the NBA Playoffs,
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Jason Tatum, your all everything player, shooting twenty eight and
a half percent from the floor and even worse than
that from three point range, but twelve to forty two
from the floor. And this was a team wide infestation
of suck. For the Celtics, who definitely sucked at a
time he cannot suck. The Green team went more than
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eight minutes without a field goal in the fourth quarter,
more than eight minutes without a field goal in the
fourth quarter. They missed not one, not two, not three,
not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight,
not nine, not ten, not eleven, not too How about
thirteen consecutive shots? And what was the coach doing over
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there in the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Keep shooting, boys. Yeah, thirteen consecutive misshots. So is this
series exposing cracks in the Boston Championship, Dannah, there's so
many hack sportscasters like to say so A thousand percent right.
The dependence, the absolute dependence on the three ball is
at this point entering into ancient Egyptian territory. You know
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that image that was left by the people that lived
in that time in the caves. They had the art
in the caves in Egypt, and there's the image of
the dragon eating its own tail, sometimes it's a snake.
That's essentially the Celtics here, like they are a one
trick pony and they're okay with it, right, it's a
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self defeating style. You live by the three ball, you
die by the Yeah. But they won last year, so
you can't criticize them. They won the championship last year.
You don't know basketball. That's what you're doing the overnight
show on Calm Down. All right, Well, it ain't last year,
it's this year, and what goes around comes around. Right now,
the math ain't mathing as the Celtics. Holy Conoley, how
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bad are they they have? Now? Based on the math,
they have a twelve point five percent chance of coming
back and winning this series. That's the percentage chance on
teams that have come back losing the first two games
at home. But that does tell you what has happened,
not what's going to happen. Now, page two, can you
explain how Tom Thibodeau's knickerbockers have spotted Boston twenty point
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leads and then come back and won both games? So
I'm gonna follow the teachings of the Nobel Prize winner
died a few years ago, Desmond to two. You don't
often hear Desmond Tutu's name on sports radio, but he
famously is quoted as saying there is only one way
to eat an l a bite at a time. The
Celtics had a massive lead in both games New York.
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What did they do. They whittled the lead down in
the second half, and they trimmed it down to bite
size portions. And the thing that I will credit them
unlike a team that I like, that's gutless. The Clippers
are the spineless Denver Nuggets that gave up in that game.
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And okay, seemore on that later, but there was no
white fight. They were getting punched the Knicks, but they
didn't tap out, and so well, you're never supposed to
tap out. It's the playoff teams tap out all the time.
The Knicks kept on, kept on fighting, trucking, whatever you
want to say. They finished the race. And a perfect
embodiment of the Knicks coming back. Mckill Bridges, who was
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on his way to being the villain. He was on
his way to being the villain, and then he turned
out to be the hero because he rewrote the story
in the fourth quarter. If you weren't watching the game,
Bridges was not only a basketball player, he was terrible
for a three quarters. Certainly offensively, he was terrible. He
made some plays defense, He've been oh of eight from
the floor. He had a goose egg in the points
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category over the first three quarters, and then he ends
up scoring all of his fourteen points in the fourth quarter.
And so in the end, now everyone's saying he's a Celtic.
He's a villain for the Celtic fans, but he was
gonna be a villain for the for the next the
way he was playing. All right, Now, what is the
anatomy of the Boston Celtics choke job? So there's some sound.
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I have four sounds for the Celtics and how they
lost this game. Boom wop bang doink. That's the sound
of the basketball missing the net. Boom wop bang doink. Yeah.
So they were up seven, Boston was up seventy three,
fifty three, and I jotted it was a little over
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three minutes to go in the third court. So they're
up by twenty. From that point, you want to take
a guess, Take a guess what the Celtics shot the
rest of the game. So the final fifteen minutes and
twelve seconds. I went back, I looked at the box score.
I did the Malord math on this. So the Celtics
took twenty eight shots over the final fifteen minutes and
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twelve seconds. Of those twenty eight, how many did they miss?
Not make? How many did they miss? Okay, got your answer,
don't cheat. The Celtics missed twenty three of twenty eight
shots they shot. Somehow, a professional basketball team, the reigning
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championship Pro Basketball in the fourth quarter, in the final
minutes of the third quarter, shot seventeen point nine percent.
Let me repeat that for those of you a little
slow because we're on at night here. Seventeen point nine
percent is the shooting percentage for the C's in the
final fifteen minutes. And Jalen Brown took five shots in
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that stretch. He did not score zero points. Jason Tatum
made one basket from the floor, Boston. How about from
three point range? They took fourteen three point shots in
the final fifteen minutes. Of course they did, that's all
they do, and they missed twelve of them. They shot
actually worse from three point range than they did from
two point range. And anyway, two of fourteen from downtown.
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For the Celtics, who find themselves in a very, very
tough quagmire at this point, all right now. Last word.
So a couple of you knuckleheads that listen to us
in Boston on the Sports Hub, and we thank you
for that. You requested that I comment on Joe Missoula,
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but in particular, I guess there's a nickname and I'm
gonna take your word for this, So hopefully you're not
lying to me, because if you're lying to me, I'm
gonna sound like a jacket. But two different people, as
far as I know, they know each other. They said, Hey,
I want to get you. You know, you got to talk
about this apparently the popular afternoon shower in Boston, the
I guess it's the Felger and Mas show. They gave
the nickname to Celtics coach Joe Missoula. They said that
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his his nickname is JJ, after the podcaster imposter Laker coach. Okay,
so that's that's I laughed. I chuckled when I saw that.
So does the comp does the comp of Joe Missoula
Celtic coach Joe Mozula being like JJ Reddick hold water?
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So I'm gonna nod yes, although there is a qualifier
like Reddick is the podcast puppet for Lebron We know
he's in over his head, you really know what he's doing.
I think he proved that in the playoffs. He had
a meltdown. It was a full circus meltdown when he
was questioned, and then the Lakers went out there lost
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the final game, which was just great, just great. But
Joe Mizzoula, on the other hand, or jj I guess
as they're calling Joe Mosula, is living in the as
he says, the expected world, attacking the game analytically, which
tells you he's not really coaching. Like coaching is okay,
I'm gonna mix in the analytics, but I'm also gonna
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go by the field of the game. There's no feel
of the game. I promise you Joe Mazoula does not
follow the feel of the game. If Joe Mosula followed
the field of the game, the Celtics would not have
played the way they played, right and uh and then
both both are arrogant. Although you gotta understand here side
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by side, if you look at these guys, you got Reddick,
who's next level, right, next level, temperamental and all that,
and a lot of bacteria around both of them. Now,
is Joe Mozoula in any danger of the Celtics lose
this series. No, because the entire organization this is how
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they want to play. He is just a middle manager,
that is all he is, Just like JJ Reddick is
a middle manager to Lebron and Lebron's coaching the team
and JJ is pretending to be the coach and giving
a whole answers to the media. Joe Mosula is doing
much of the same thing. Right you know, in terms
of is Missoula his confidence an asset or a liability
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for the Celtics or right now it's a liability. But again,
I don't think he's in position to change anything. Like
he's a true believer in the dogma. He is a prince.
He's a partisan prince. He blindly follows the analytics. There's
no wiggle room and he's at the point. And I
didn't see much of the postgame news conference, but he
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seems to be unwilling to even acknowledge that there is
an alter a way to play basketball. And if anyone
questions the way the Celtics play, he shames them. Shame, shame, shame,
How dare you? What's wrong with you?
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So our lead this hour is from Oklahoma, and that
is where the Western Conference semi Finals Game number two,
Your peace signed Game number two now s GA for
ok C. All right, that was the matchup. So yet
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he had the MVP. It is hard to believe that
he's not gonna win the MVP. Shaw Jogis Alexander and
Oklahoma City looking to avoid the embarrassment of losing at
home again and trying to even things up with the
Jokers Denver Nuggus. This was the set up here. It
was expected to be a competitive game. I don't know
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if you saw it, good news. If you missed it,
you are in a better situation than me. He didn't
miss anything. Holy Toledo. What a terrible game in terms
of competition. So he had Shay Jogis Alexander who had
thirty four points, and then play as many minutes as
you and I did in the fourth quarter. He only
played three quarters. The reason he only played three quarters
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is because the thunder put the whammie on Denver. A
revenge performance. OKC set a league record and wins one
forty nine to one ZHO six. Yes, let me repeat
that they won by forty three points over the Denver
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basketball team and now the Western Conference semi finals tied
up at one game apiece. How lopsided was it? Thanks
for asking. Oklahoma City set an NBA postseason record for
first half points with eighty seven. They put up eighty
seven points in twenty four minutes. That broke the record
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of eighty six eighty six points. They probably think that
record was probably set back in the eighties. No, it
was said within the last ten years, back in twenty seventeen,
which seems like it's a lot closer than ten years ago.
But June of twenty seventeen, the Cleveland Cadavers against the
Golden State Warriors in Game four of the NBA Finals.
But eighty seven points a new record for a playoff
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game for Oklahoma City. The Thunder led by as many
as forty nine points forty nine point lead in a
second round playoff game. So let us discuss toss up
question bigger story the Thunders historic offensive explosion or the
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Nuggets complete and total collapse. So my observations on this,
I've got quantum, leap, porta potty, and liberty, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to have a lick your wounds party, which I
think is what they're doing in Denver. They're licking their wounds.
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The better story, almost always, all right, number one story
is in the losing locker room. This was a biblical beatdown,
Biblical beatdown. This was Goliath versus you know who, and
Goliath won. This was a Goliath win Oklahoma City in
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a domination situation across the board. Now there was a
little bit of funny business. We're gonna get to that
in a minute. And we didn't watch the second half.
We made the editorial decision at halftime. We watched Charles
Barkley with Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal, and
then when halftime ended, we turned the game off and
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then we went back to it on the post game.
So we did not watch the second half, and so
we'll focus on the first half. If you if you
watched like us, like we were watching the first half,
I'm pretty sure that my eyeballs moving back and forth
at the television put more of an effort into the
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game than Denver did. How bad was it? It was
so bad? Thanks for asking. The kolea jokicch and the
Nuggets underwent a quantum leap, a metamorphosis in this game.
They became bullfighters. And if you've ever been to a
bullfight or seen one on television, they were the matador
Oley Oley o lay olay on defense, lackluster snagnet Oklahoma City.
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It was. It was so ridiculous. At one point it
looked like you were watching the old Harlem Globe Trotters
from back in the day. They shot almost sixty percent
okase did in the first half of that game. They
won all the haf of the Hustle staff, that's all
of them. As Jill Gis Alexander was slicing and dicing.
You look at the points of the paint, second chance points,
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fast break points, the rebounds, everything every the fifty to
fifty balls, the raffle balls, all that stuff all right now,
Page two. So how do the Joker and the Nuggets
overcome this absolute stink bomb in Oka? See? And it
was a stink bomb. This was flatulence in the air everywhere.
(22:29):
And yeah, so you go to the porta potty and
you take the wisdom of Eagles Super Bowl winning quarterback
Jalen Hurts, who famously said after an absolute dud against
the Cowboys, he said, when you take your deuce, you
don't sit there and look at it. You flush it
(22:50):
and you move on. Now, it's very hard to flush
in a porta potty, very hard to flush. Every time
I've gone to a porta potty, things are stacked on
top of each other, if you know what I mean.
But it's really how you react. I mean, we are
looking at a best of five series if my malor
math is correct, and Denver does now have home court
advantage over Kyriees Oklahoma City Thunder. That's the guy that
(23:13):
we know who loves the Thunder and has interacted with
the show. Now, why couldn't these Nuggets, these Nuggets guys
have shown up and played like they did in the
game on Wednesday night. Why couldn't they have played like
that in Game seven against the Clippers, Right Denver, they
were huffing and puffing as they were out there. It
looked like they had not one, not two, not three,
(23:35):
not four, but five James Harden out on the court.
There's a James Harden there there's a James Harden there.
There's a James Harden over there. There's a James Harden
over there. Everywhere's James Harden. Playoff Harden everywhere you look,
playoff Harden everywhere. All right, final point. Now, let's get
to the Komodo dragon in the room if you will.
(23:57):
If you didn't see this game, you probably don't know
where I'm going with this. The official became part of
the story. So well, it doesn't matter that Nuggets were
down by forty nine points. Oklahoma City won by forty
three points. It doesn't matter. But I've got a talk
show to do, so to me, it matters. Scott Foster
who had been out with a calf injury and not
(24:19):
officiating game I think since back in March, so he
was out, but he was the crew chief Scott Foster
for game number two. So Scott Foster was out his
first playoff game of twenty twenty five. Now, Internet investigators
believe the NBA assigned Scott Foster to this game to
(24:41):
ensure that Oklahoma City would tie this series up. So
where are you at on this one? Again? Internet salus
believe they've uncracked the code that the NBA purposely put
Scott Foster out there to make sure that Oklahoma City
tied up the series. So on this one my reaction,
(25:03):
I have a cheshire Cat smile on my face right
now from ear to ear, I just do. Scott Foster
is like the last of the Mohicans. I grew up
in my wheelhouse. In my era, there was the shady referee.
Typically in baseball. The last real shady umpire was Angel Hernandez,
(25:26):
and Angel Hernandez is no longer un Baseball finally was
able to force him out. And the NFL's had a
few officials over the years that you thought there might
be some something going on there, but not really now.
And then you look at basketball and you've got Scott Foster,
the last one standing, the last one left. It's the
(25:49):
twilight zone. All the other crooked officials have either died off,
or retired or been fired. But you've got Scott Foster,
who was Buddies if I'm not miss and as I
understand it, with Tim Donahey who was fixing NBA games
back in the day. So you got Scott Foster will
get many people think is involved in some funny business
(26:11):
and a lot of the belief is that he was
there as a secret agent for Oklahoma City. Are you
buying any of this? No, the NBA would never fix
any games. We know the games have been doctored with again,
Tim Donnie. So to me, this is a liberty story.
(26:31):
A liberty story. When the legend becomes the fact, you
print the legend. The man who shot Liberty Bounce an
old movie in Hollywood, and it's true. When the legend
becomes the fact, you print the legend. And the Nuggets, now,
I'm not gonna sit here and say they played well.
They didn't play well, but they were swimming against the
tide the early part of the game. Hey, the early
(26:52):
part of the game that the tide was the tempo
set by the officials. It did appear that the officiating
crew who favored Oklahoma City. Let me explain, early on
in the game, you had some early soft foul calls
on Denver, in particular Nakoli Jokic, who's always complaining and
(27:14):
vetching the referees. But it did look like some of
those calls early on were we're not kosher and so,
and then it appeared that the Oklahoma City team was
been giving leeway. They were giving leeway, the benefit of
the doubt, and that they were able to play a
little a little spic here, shall we say, right, moving screens,
(27:35):
hacking yokics, things like that. Now, before you dismissed this,
oh you're just an overnight conspiracy guy. What do you know?
A right, let me put my tinfoil hat on and
go through the numbers on this. So Scott Foster has
officiated over sixteen hundred regular season games. He has worked
(27:56):
over two hundred and forty playoff games. He's done twenty
NBA finals. He is the, if not the most, he's
near the very top most experienced referees. Do you know
what Scott Foster's nickname is in basketball? Do you know
what his nickname is? No, his nickname is the Extender.
(28:18):
Why is he known as the Extender? It's kind of
like this old TV show, The A Team back in
the day, and they've made some remakes of that. I
think they made a movie a few years back. But
the A Team and their whole mantra, right, they were
a crack commando unit, the A Team, and they gave
(28:40):
this whole rant. You know, they were soldiers of fortune.
They say, if you have a problem, if you have
an issue, and you've got that problem and no one
can help you. Right, you have a problem. No one
else can help you, And if you can find them,
maybe you can can hire the eight team in the NBA.
(29:02):
If you've got a series that you want to make
sure it's a close series and it's extended for television
ratings purposes, who you gonna call. You're gonna call your
version of the A team, the extender, like a mafioso,
name the extender Scott Foster, who's often been associated with
games where the trailing team wins to extend the series,
(29:23):
thus the nickname the Extender, often with his own proprietary
blend of controversy where he's involved in some controversial foul
calls or technical fouls or whatever. Now I went back
and I looked at the numbers, because why not. The
data shows that home teams win over sixty percent of
(29:47):
the games he officiates, and say, well, that's kind of
within the margin of error in terms of generally the
home team usually wins more than the road team, So
does that prove anything? But then you have to go
on a game by game basis and say, okay, what
about in playoff series. When he's officiating and it's the
team that's trailing, does that team win? And I don't
(30:10):
have those numbers. I haven't gone that deep down the
rabbit hole. I will at some point on a slow day,
I will do that, but I will not do that
right now.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
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Speaker 1 (30:25):
Right here we go, It's Maller. How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I think you're older than that, Ben.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
This is one big Ben gets grilled Lorraine. That was
on the air, Lorraine, Wait a.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
While, Ben, Terry Yes, Terry Hill recently listened to his
top five current quarterbacks, including Mahomes, Burrow Allan Lamar Jackson,
and an even Baker Mayfield, notably.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Leaving off his own quarterback to uh, is it a problem?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yes, it is a massive problem, Tyreek Hill. He wants
to be traded to me. The better story, though, the
is he had surgery on his wrist. Did you see
what he was eating in the hospital.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Chick fil a? That's what I would eat in the hospital.
He had somebody delivered chick fil a. He was in
the hospital bed. He just had an operation and he
was eating Chick fil A's a bit.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
That's healthy fast food there, Ben.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Well, sure, absolutely right next Ben.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Following the trade of Pickens to Dallas, the Steelers are
rumored to be interested in Amari Cooper, Rogers former teammate
Ellen Lazard, and even Gave Davis, who was just released
by the Jags. Do any of these receivers move the
needle for you or mister Rogers.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Well, obviously Alan Lazard is a safety blanket for Aaron Rodgers,
so that would be the one. This is. I would
like to think the Steelers are not going to fall
for the same trap that the Jets did and just
bring a bunch of Rogers toadies to Pittsburgh. But otherwise,
why would you bring the lizard in? He's not that good?
Next quick bye.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
We know the Draft is set into DC after Pittsburgh.
Baltimore's pushing to host it afterwards. Is charm City deserving
of this prestigious events?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yes, they should hold in Baltimore. They should hold the
draft at my friend's Sports with Coleman's home in Baltimore
in his front yard. They can hold it right there.
There'll be fifteen people that will show up in Baltimore.
How did we do?
Speaker 6 (32:07):
I'd go that's a pass.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I pass I n ron in Rochester.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I run. I'm a winner.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I won the game. It's now time for time for honey, honey,
I can hurry ask bad Twitter said, is your questions
on Twitter?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And no way we go it's ask man. Your questions
are answers. Put our rest govey hour and now the
reader of the questions, but it will not sound like
he's reading.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
We say hello to lead a lot good more than everybody.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
A fitting first question for ask Ben from mister Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Hi donkey, Uh, when was the.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Last time you went skiing or snowboarding?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
God, it's been it's been many years. I do like
going to snow. The problem I have with the snow
and I can't get around this. If somebody can help
me out. I was actually just having this conversation with
my wife. We love going to the snow. The thing
we don't like is snow tires or the chains. Rather
putting the chains on the tires. I hate that worse right,
So yeah, so that's why I don't do more snow
(33:12):
stuff because of the chains.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Yeah, I'll cancel a trip if I know I have
to put chains on, not gonna have.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like one of my favorite places to
go in the world is the Sequoia National Forest with
the big redwoods there in Sequoia, and I love going
during the winter's winter wonderland. But it's just the chains
are such a nightmare. No, So what about you, Lorrain
or last time you went to the snow.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
I haven't skied or snowboarded in a long time, but
I've entertubed recently.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
Okay, yeah, this year two and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Okay, that's so that's a long time. What about you
lead a lap?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Well, funny enough, I do got to ask you some
questions about Sequoia off the air, But last time was
actually with Coop, probably two years ago. We go to
a big bear, not ma'am, although mammoth is better, and
that's when I realized.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I was a lot better at snowboarding than Coop.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Oh really, okay, all right? Take that Coop taking strays here?
All right, what's next? What do we have here? It's
ask Ben.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
Your questions are answers from at Lady Sideburns. If you
were forced to be caged up for a year and
with an animal at the zoo?
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Which animal would you choose?
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Kowala bear, m that's a good one. All they do
is they just they're high all the time from the eucalyptus, right, Yeah,
they're just kind of hang outs like I'm hanging out
with the callers. You know, it's the same vibe. What
what about I would also if I wasn't gonna get
eaten or they're not gonna spit on me the Komodo dragon,
which they have in San Diego. I was I saw
(34:41):
the Komodo dragon at the zoo. What about you, Lorena?
Speaker 4 (34:44):
You know, I'm a very cuddly person. I would want
something that would cuddle with me. So I'm probably gonna
choose a lion.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
You think they're there?
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Yeah, they're always They're always up on a mound with
all their lady lions all like snuggled up together, looking
all majestic. So I think I could beat of them.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
You're not a lion.
Speaker 7 (35:00):
They might eat they won't eat me, Okay, all right, Yeah,
I wonder I think it comes down to the enclosure
versus the animal, Like which enclosure would you want to
be stuck in for a year?
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Like The meerkats would be fun because you can kind
of hang out with the meerkats. They'll look out after you.
But otters are fun. I would go with the otters. Yeah,
but they have land too. There you go with the
fresh water otters, not the not the sea otters.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
The seals look kind of cool too, you know, they're
kind of chill.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
Yeah, but then you'd be stuck in the water. Hang
out with the penguins.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
You could walk like a penguin side by second, All right,
what's next year? It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers
for the rest of the hour. I fine.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
How about King Rory says, who would win in a
fight between a gorilla and one hundred Mallard Militia members?
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Okay, so we do have a criminal element in the
Malord militia. Okay, so there's some boys that bring weapons. Okay,
these guys they call in when they get out of print.
You know who you are, Boys' wes. It's my I'm
answering the question. I'm saying I would take the prison
wing of the Malard Militia and that gorilla has no chance.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Well, I know most of our militia has the IQ
of a peanuts.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
So it's not about IQ. Okay, so you know what,
George Washington, you have to outsmart the gorilla. No, you don't.
George Washington was an idiot, but he's one of the
famous people in the history of the world.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
They don't die.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You're a liar, you're a hater.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
You do all get smoked. It'd be done. Don't get
in that. Uh yeah, even if you had a year.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
You see this. This is the kind of disrespect of
Mala You know what. The new boys in the Malad militia,
they think you're These two people think you're a bunch
of towers. We'll get you a gorilla. See how they
think you're gutless puke? All right?
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Next, Uh, what is the best ice cream to get
from an ice cream truck? From Bobby and in Florida?
I know, I know Loraina's answer already.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, well my answer is that Bobby. Listen, the greatest
ice cream treat is the chocolate chip cookie sand which
with two giant oversized soft chocolate chip cookies and it's
vanilla ice cream. That's all I need. I'm a basic
beach when it comes to that. What about you, Lorraina.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Lee thinks there would be a fudgetaicle, but off of
the ice cream Chucks. I really like the SpongeBob ones
with the bubblegum iyeballs.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Come on, what are you five years old?
Speaker 6 (37:19):
You fudgetles in the fridge?
Speaker 1 (37:22):
What about you? What about Classic Drumstick?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
Classic Drumstick.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's a good one. That was Mike. No, that's like
the trump Stick's good too. You got the nuts on top.
That's a good that's a good ice cream.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
You would like the nuts on top.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Hey, that was on the air.
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