May 12, 2025 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the Pacers absolutely destroying the Cavaliers to take a 3-1 series lead, the Thunder evening up their series against the Denver Nuggets, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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would be. So our lead this hour is from the
pro Bouncy Ball playoffs. Playoffs. Uh yeah. Now, normally the
anticipation is what both teams are going to show up
and they're going to compete. We've had some real does.
We had a stretch of amazing NBA playoff games and
the last couple of days some no shows, some no shows,
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and that is our lead. Here will start out in
the Hoosier State, the late game on Mother's Day, Game
four of the Eastern Conference semi finals. Donovan Mitchell, Spider Mitchell.
Oh he's aw, he's so guided you tell U. The
stats are great Spider Mitchell, but his teams never do anything,
going back to his days with Utah. Yeah. So there
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is Spider Mitchell, the Cavaliers trying to even things up
against the Indiana Pacers. That was the nightcap, the late game.
And was it worth a watch? No, I don't know
if you were watching or not, it was I mean,
I was, but I have no choice. Part of the job.
You're supposed to be part of the job. Pascal Siakam
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got to make sure I say that name right. Thanks
to our friend Marcel and Brooklyn Pascal Siakam twenty one points.
The Pacers never trail. This is a Harvard bow raise situation.
They led by over forty and halftime they tied the
record for the biggest halftime lead in playoff history. They
were about forty one points, and they added on to that.
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They were by forty four points at one point. They
win one twenty nine to one oh nine, a twenty
point win, which was not indicative how the game was
actually played. So they get it done. The Pacers are
now up three games to one in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Upstart Indiana and the Cavs had their guys. They were
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there and they didn't show up. My god, all right,
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel
here as you look at that Pacers and Calves game.
Was this game more about the global domination of the
Indiana Pacers who took a can of whoop pass to
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the Cleveland basketball team? Or was it by the total
systemic incompetence of the Cavaliers. So my thoughts on this,
I have Nike, good doctor, and feline, and we'll combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make delicious breadsticks, is what we're gonna make. So a
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my default position, my default position, which rarely changing now
does change everyone so long, every once in a while,
I will go away from my default position. By my
default position is what that's right. My default position is
most games are lost, they're not one. The better story
is in the losing locker room. That has been my position.
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That will continue to be my position. And on this game,
I'm not changing my position. As good as the Pacers played,
and they were running and gunning, and the Calves were
stumbling and bumbling, but that's because of the Calves stumbling
in public. The Caves were not only an NBA team,
they were terrible. As the line goes right, there's really
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no say and that's an understatement. And I will maintain
till my last breath in this mortal coil that it
is impossible. There's not that big a gap between teams.
If both teams are playing competent basketball, you're never gonna
have a game end up where one team has a
forty point lead over No, it's certainly not a playoff game,
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but wowsers. It's an understatement to say they were terrible.
They were worse than terrible. It was a torts level,
uninspired performance. And you know that means. That means, as
John Tortorelli so famously said a hockey coach, they sucked
from head to toe. They sucked at a time you
cannot suck, which was when the game started. Cleveland playing
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like they were playing a regular season game, and it
was the end of a road trip, and they wanted
to get back and they had a lot on their mind.
They played in second gear. Then you have Spider Mitchell
out there. You had in the first half, you had
Spider Mitchell, he was out there, Darius Garland, Evan, those
are the three horsemen of the apocalypse for the Cavaliers.
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Here the headliners in the land, and they played toothless.
They played gutless basketball in the first half. It was
a if you were to describe it as a item,
it would be a dirty diaper performance, a dirty diaper performance.
They were out hustled by the Pacers, and as a result,
Indiana made some shots and then the snowball effects started
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taking place where there was a shove here and a
push there, and the Caves did not respond, and they
were essentially the Cleveland Cavaliers were play dough, right, They
were play dough for the Pacers there. They were putty
in the hands of the Indiana basketball team and Cleveland,
I'm pretty sure they had this new concept sneaker from Nike,
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the air cement shoe. They looked like, did it look
I don't mean maybe you didn't see the gamer, didn't
hear the game, or you I mean, you're just taking
my my brilliant analysis. But I'm telling you, we've seen
this several times over the last week, where one team
looks like they're playing a totally different game at a
totally different speed. Cleveland was in second gear and the
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Pacers were not, and all the effort all that, like
the Caves were weighted down, they were utterly ineffective, and
like all the effort plays went in favor of Indiana.
And then by the time Cleveland woke up, the game
was already over, so it didn't really matter at that point.
But you look at the fifty to fifty balls, all
that's picked they always loved those fifty to fifty balls.
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But points in the paint, second chance points, the fast
break statistic, all those different stats within stats all went
in favor of Indiana. Now, page two. So you're down
three to one in the Eastern Conference semi finals. How
much trouble are the Donovan Mitchell Calves in at this point?
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So here's the issue, Right, They're not going to win
this series. Indiana Pacers are going to win this series.
Fighting history is what they're doing the Cavaliers. Right, I'm
declaring the Pacers are going to wait. That's a bold
take up three to one. Now, NBA teams leading three
to one in a best of seven series, it's happened
two hundred and ninety three times that have finished the series,
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and of those two hundred ninety three times, two hundred
and eighty of the times it has gone the way
of the team up three to one, which my computer
like brain tells me is a ninety six percent winning percentage.
We round up ninety five points six, we round up
to ninety six percent, So ninety six percent in favor
of the team up three to one winning. Now, that
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tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen now,
even though Indiana's going to win this series, Let's just
try to help out the cavaliers. Why not, let's help
out the cavaliers. So what does Cleveland need to turn
things around? The answer is a good doctor, and not
because of Spider Mitchell and his situation. We'll get to
that in a minute. Because of that, No, No, what they
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need is Rick Carlyle to catch the neural virus. Okay,
this is the key. I thought this all out. Okay,
I had a long drive. There's a lot of traffic
for some I do an overnight sho Why is there traffic?
Should be traffic. It's like Mother's day traffic coming in.
I do an overnes Why would they be? I don't
get it anyway, So I had a lot of time
to think as I was making my way in. And
if Rick Carlile can get the neural virus, and for
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some reason, the Pacers don't elevate an assistant they bring in,
they get the Bucks to fire Doc Rivers, which hasn't
happened yet. Then they bring Doc Rivers in as the
interim coach. Then then the Calves are in really good shape, right,
Doctor doctor, give me the news. I mean, Doc Rivers
by himself is responsible for almost twenty five percent of
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the choke jobs up three to one where a team
blew it in NBA history. One man, one man, stands
atop all of the men when it comes to blowing
series up three one. Doc Rivers the only NBA coach
with multiple blown three to one leaves. He's done three
of those masterpieces in his career. That's twenty three percent
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of all three to one series blown in NBA history.
Nobody else has done it more than once, Doc Rivers,
and he's still getting a check. He's still getting a
check in the NBA. I digress. So Cleveland just do better,
be better. You're gonna lose anyway. But who cares? All
right now? Donovan Mitchell his injury the cherry on top
of the crap tastics Sunday. But is it a real
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injury or is it? My god, we're getting our ass kicked.
I don't feel like playing. I'm going to say I'm out.
I have an He's gonna have an MRI. So that
means it's real. Okay, it's it's real, Sure it is.
Why not? But here's the problem. Even with the numbers
Mitchells put up. He didn't do anything in the first half,
nobody did for the Calves, and he's had some big
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playoff games. Here's some big stat lines. It's it. I
got the vibe. It's like it's Dak Prescott, like the
numbers look good, but they just don't not in the
context of winning. I get that vibe from Donovan Mitchell.
I had the same vibe when he was in Utah.
It's like he's a good stat guy, but it doesn't
really seem to matter all that much. All right now,
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last word, So over the weekend, I was thinking, maybe
we can rehash the Celtics Knicks game, but I think, eh,
there's really nothing there. The Celtics molly wopped the Knicks.
It wasn't a total blowout and all that, but the
Celtics in a make or miss league. They made their
three point shots that they'd missed all of them. It
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seemed at back in Boston and then Madison Square Garden,
different garden, different garden, party, and they were making So
there's not a lot to dissect on that. If they
make them, the Knicks have no chance. It's forget about
it now. Jason Tatum though. This is a good talk.
So I don't know if he saw it or not,
but Jason Tatum is getting called out for something that
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he did. I guess he's actually been doing it, but
it got more attention in the game against the Knickerbockers.
He's been accused by internet investigators of stealing stealing another
Star Players celebration. That's right, Jason Tatum has been put
on blast. The astro blasters are out because Jason Tatum
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taking the proprietary blend of Kawhi Leonard and his celebration.
So how do you evaluate the accusations, the charges against
Jason Tatum for stealing another Star Players celebratory act? All right,
So I looked at this. I put this in the
Petri dish. I dusted off the Malard microscope to look
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at it, and in honor of Jerry Jones, we decided
to circumcise the mosquito and take a deep dive on it.
So we determined, based on the evidence that was available
to us that Jason Tatum. We asked the question, what
type of feline is Jason Tatum? You think of the
big cat. There's so many different breeds of cats. You've
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got the Persian cat, the Bangle, the Siamese, the main
coon cat. You've got a lot of different cats out there, right,
but Jason Tatum is the It turns out he's the copycat.
That's what he is. Right again. I mean, I feel
like we're back, maybe the finals when the Celtics won
last summer, and it was all about Jason Tatum's lack
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of originality after the Celtics won, and here we are
yet again, is on court antics with the Celtics. Jason
Tatum no ifs ands or butts about it. After a
thorough minutes long Mallor investigation, we have concluded beyond a
reasonable doubt that Jason Tatum absolutely mimicked the Clipper star
Kawhi Leonard, his signature hand salute celebration that goes all
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the way back to the San Antonio Spurs vintage of
Kawhi Leonard back in the day, that twenty fourteen Spurs team.
So it's over a decade old. Kawhi doesn't do it
as much anymore, but usually does it, and he did
it in Toronto. So there you go. Now you can
add this one to the list. You can add this
one to the list. After remember then the others won
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the championship. In O four, he Jason Tatum being he
recreated the Kevin Garnett anything Is Possible moment like he
had that he'd been watching that clip on his phone
before the game and he recreated that. He also posed
for the traditional finals photo after the championship and he
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very similar to the like he was ripping off a
Michael Jordan classic photo that goes way back to the
early nineties, a long time ago. So it's fair to
say again Jason Tatum the type of cat he is,
He's a copycat and he likes to repurpose, recycle celebrations.
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And as the quote goes, imitation is the highest form
of flattery. Jason Tate is a master at imitation, so
there's clearly some high flattery. Who will he copy next?
Stay tuned developing hot dot dot dot.
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the pro Bouncy Ball World. Not a great game. It
was the early game on the Mother's Day, the doubleheader
action and how did it turn out? Well? If you
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enjoy missed jump shots, if you enjoy missed layups, it
was a cornucopia of fun fun fun fun fun fun
fun fun. So that is our our lead here. Game
number four, that's right. Game four, Nuggets and Thunder Denver
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looking to take a three games to one lead over
ok C put a choke hold on this series in
the Western Conference semi finals, okay see, trying to snake
their way back even and get home court advantage back. Now,
we were told after the Nuggets won on Friday they
had the championship pedigree, that's the plays of a champion.
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Uh yeah, we were told that. So they clearly must
have won the game on Sunday. But that was the
the early game on Mother's Day there, and maybe you
didn't watch it, and we did. It's our good mitzvah
of the day. We did it for you. There was well,
I could have watched baseball. There was some baseball games on.
I may or may not have flipped over a couple.
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Just say it. I watched most of it. So Shay
juggas Alexander nine of his twenty five points in the
fourth quarter. And you don't remember how you got there.
You remember that you got there as the number one
overall seed. There the Thunder ninety two to eighty seven
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win in Game four, So okaysee Dodges a three to
one sinkhole and instead Abra cadabra, hocus Pocus. The Thunder
Kyrie's Thunder, not Kyrie Irving the other Kyrie. He lives
in okac He's a big fan of the show. So
his thunder are now even up to to Game five
will be on Tuesday, Tuesday night, and so we have
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time to look at that now. As we were reminded
last hour when Tyrese Halliburton of the Pacers pointed out
Aunt that when the team loses, he doesn't have to talk.
When they win, he's cool with talking. So the better
story is in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will go. That is where our focus will
be in much of the conversation on the Joker. What
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has happened to the Joker? What has happened? Oh, the
greatest player of this generation, greatest big man in the
conversation with all time legends of the game, and he
has been dreadful of late. So let us get into
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it the question how concerned, how concerned should the Nuggets
be with Nikola Jokice at this point? So I've got Walmart,
Tears for Fears and Rumpel Stiltskin, and we will combine
all of these things together, and we are going to
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make rocky mountain oysters, which I had to eat. I
lost to Bed. I think all the Nuggets players should
have to eat rocky mountain oysters after that shooting performance.
Holy crap. All right. So to answer the question, how
concerned should the Nuggets be with Nikola Jokice on the
patented Mallard scale of concern from one to ten malor
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scale of concern from one ten, with ten being you're
you're smoking hookah with Luca out of the playoffs. That's
the highest level. I am at an eight point oh
eight point zero on the Malard scale of concern for
Nikola Jokicic. And here's why they say that seeing is
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believing whoever they are, and we're not used to seeing
what we're seeing from Nikola Jokics. Here, Denver was up
by eight points early in the fourth quarter. It was
a disgusting offensive performance by both teams. More on that
in a second, but they were up by eight. So
if you saw the game, Denver was up seventy one
to sixty three. Now, eight is not a game changing
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lead or anything like that. But you have an eight
point lead, you're at home. It's the fourth quarter. The
final eleven minutes and twenty six seconds of that basketball
game was the big bang, big clank, whatever you want
to call it. There now Nikola Jokic in particular, we're
talking about him. The final eleven minutes of that game.
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He took seven shots, he only made two of them,
and the Nuggets were outscored by thirteen points to close
the game. Denver from an eight point lead to the
end of the game shot less than thirty percent. They
took twenty one shots. They missed a mind boggling fifteen
of the twenty one. Not all of them were from
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three point range, although they really did suck from three
point range. They took eleven three pointers up up eight
to the end of the game. They made one. That
is nine point one percent. Nine point one percent. So
the Nuggets, what they did is they went to Walmart
and went down to Walmart and they bought some bicycle
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playing cards. They got those out and they built this
house of cards, and then they pulled the joker out
of the house of cards and the whole thing came
tumbling down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down down. You get the point. Jokic, he
looked frazzled. He played bitdraggled. I've not seen him like
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this maybe when he was early in his career and
nobody he was drafted, the famous story during a Taco
bell commercial and nobody knew who he was, and people
said he was going to be good in Denver and
you're like, yeah, sure, he's gonna be good. Yeah, right,
But since he established himself, I cannot recall a stink
bomb stretch of games this bat. Now, we don't watch
every Nuggets game, right, we pay attention to the playoffs,
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and this is brutal and so frazzled on the court,
and that's what he looked like. And then the eyeball
test confirmed that last three games to Kola Jokic shooting
thirty three point three percent half the Sign of the Devil,
eighteen percent from three point range, which is dreadful, and
he's got fifteen assists and sixteen turnovers combined in the
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last three games. Pay yeah, what stinks Now? That is
the worst three game stretch shooting for Jokic in the
last seven years. He is completely befuddled. But it's not
because of anything Oklahoma City's doing. I'm not noticing. Maybe
I'm missing it, but if you can tell me he
helped me out. I've not noticed anything that the Thunder
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are doing that is any different than the other teams
are attempting to do. So this is more of a
problem with Jokic and whether my theory is he just
got worn down, it's really zubots. The Clippers wore his
ass down and they took it. Took so much effort
to beat the Clips at Jokic. He's not in the
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greatest shape in the world, and he's being exposed here.
He's not in great physical condition, didn't have a lot
of extra time off, which is part of the deal. Right,
He's running on fumes, There's a lot of miles on
the car and a zubots and the Clippers wore them out.
Now the Thunder are benefiting yet again, another team benefiting
from the generosity of the Clippers that they wore out.
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The Zoopbots wore out Jokic, and now the team that
benefits is Oklahoma City because of the Clippers yet again,
helping a team advance in the playoffs. Pathetic? All right, now,
page two, So one of the great underlying storylines, if
you will, I don't know if I'm saying that the
right way. In this particular series, one of the great
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talking points is the amount of time between Game three
and Game four or go. We had Jeff and Denver,
that nugget lapdog who called up last hour, but about
thirty six hours after the overtime Game three Friday night
game which went to the Nuggets, they had the early
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television window on Mother's Day, and that robbed many media
elites the wrong way. They were very upset. To you,
the basketball media elites were offended their sensibilities. It's not fair.
Oh my god. We had a reporter I've never I
heard of from the Athletic who said it was absolutely
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ridiculous of the NBA to have the series go every
other day and then put Game four in the early
portion of the Sunday schedule, having Game three is the
late game on Friday. He added on quote, it's actually
kind of dangerous. Now we looked, nobody died, so that's good. Weird.
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We made it through the game. No one dropped dead
from playing in the game early on Mother's Day, so
that's positive. Zeh. You talk about risking your life, bro,
I ain't playing. I was like, I'm risking my life,
bra it's Blake Snell. So Charles Barkley then chimed in
on television and he got into the action. Sir Charles,
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who you would not expect this take like you would
expect the opposite take. You would not expect this take
from Charles bark But Charles Barkley went on a rant
on TNT. He said, I thought what the NBA did
to the Nuggets was unfair. It was unfair, Barkley said,
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making them play late Friday night and then early afternoon,
not on Saturday, mind you on Sunday. He said, So
all right, let's break it down like this. So you
have one reporter say it was dangerous, borderline danger actually
kind of dangerous, kind of dangerous. A reporter said, you
have Charles Barkley who said it's unfair. It's unfair of
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the NBA to have the Thunder and Nuggets play the
early game on Sunday. So question question is is this
ridiculous as it sounds? This is insane to the membrane.
To me, it is I just I don't I don't
get it. They're playing basketball. They played forty eight minutes
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and they had to pay. Oh my god, they had
to play overtime an extra few minutes, and they do
that in the span of about two hours, right, two
hours and forty minutes or whatever. It is less than
that to twenty these games with all the TV timeouts
and all the stoppages and all that stuff. It's like,
what are we doing? Seriously? Playoffs mean, I do not understand.
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It wasn't unfair. It was even both teams had to
play the same schedule. The schedule is also made in advance.
It's made, by the way for television. I'll make a
deal with you. If these guys want, all these idiots
in the media who are, by the way, making money
because of this, why not just play. Have no television,
have no media coverage. You can play whenever the f
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you want. How about that, Go out there and knock
your lights out, play with no one will watch. You're
not gonna make any real money because it's all directed
through television, all funnel through TV. But go out there,
take a week off, play like the NFL. These NBA
guys are such softies. Play once a week and you'll
complain about that. Goes Oh, it's two amanding, so stupid.
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It is so ridiculous that We're at the point now
where you had a you had a game on a
Friday night, you had it Sunday, had Saturday off, and
you had to play on Sunday. The game started at
what one thirty local time? Oh my god? Dangerous, unfair, dangerous. God.
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Do you imagine if the like the military, approach things
that way, like the you know, the Marines have the
slogan embrace the suck. The NBA bitch about the suck.
That's the NBA mantra. Complain about it, complain about it. Right.
The they used to play back to backs in the
NBA playoffs, Oh my god, horror of horrors, draconian. The
Middle Ages. Uh, the NHL, which is a much more
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demanding manly sport hockey. We don't talk about it because
you know, more people watch basketball, but it's much more
demanding physically to play hockey than this basketball. And the
NHL they, if I'm not mistake, they go every other day,
that's their schedule, every other day in the playoffs, every
other day. But the NBA guys and the media that
cover the NBA, the toll lickors. It's pathetic. And wow,
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I mean so as far as where things are looking
now for Oklahoma City at this particular point, obviously they're
looking up. I would say it's not anything that Oklahoma
City is doing per se. I don't think they've found
some cheat code to stop to call the Oakic again
the War of Attrition, which is supposed to be part
of this, that is supposed to be part of the deal,
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that it's the Tiers for Fears Song, War of Attrition
that you are in this and the team that stands
at the end is the one that survived the War
of Attrition, the Tears for Fear Song. And right now
Oklahoma City is even up with the Nuggets, and so
we'll see who can win the last two of the
last three games. But again, I don't think it's anything
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Oklahoma's doing that is great here. That's why they're they're
in position. It was a tough afternoon for both teams.
Oklahoma City shot thirty five percent and won the game
because the Nuggets were worse. But it's not because they
were good. They weren't good. They didn't shoot well from
anybody twenty four percent from three point range. It's not
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like anyone did it in the first quarter. Was it
was like a make a wish situation with these guys
out there with both teams. So anyway, I we'll move
away from that. We'll go to baseball quickly. We had
a managerial change and a Mallard monologue requested by supermarket Steve.
So everyone wants hot Rocky talk. So here's some hot
Rocky talk a few good minutes. So the Rockies announced
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on a Sunday after they won a game. After they
won a game, they decided that, you know, we have
decommissioned our manager, Bud Black, and we've also whacked his buddy,
the bench coach, Mike Redman. They have been fired. They're
out of here, see you later. So somebody named Warren Schaeffer,
we have no who that is. He is now the
(31:02):
interim manager of the Rockies. And Clint Hurdle we've heard
of him. He used to manage the Rockies. He's back
as the interim bench coach. Okay, So then we add
Dave Roberts, not a Rocky, a Dodger. Dave Roberts comment
after the Dodgers poll axe the Diamondbacks, Dave Roberts ran
to defend Bud Black, the Dodger manager said, not even
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Casey Stangele could change the outcome for the Rockies. That
was the money quote, which begs the question did Bud
Black get a raw deal from the Rockies? And I
have a two words. One starts with an A and
one starts with an N. Absolutely not, absolutely not. Colorado
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has sucked the entire time Bud Black has been there. Now,
they're epically bad, they are historically bad. They are Hall
of Fame level trash this year. There's no even the
mascots having a bad year for the Rockies right now.
And when you are the worst team in baseball and
then lose a game twenty one to nothing, your manager
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gets fired. That is universally how it works. They lost
on Saturday twenty one of the Rockies. Of course, they
couldn't get all their ducks lined up. They had to
wait till after the game on Sunday to fire Bud Black.
They should have fired him on Saturday night, but they didn't.
And so as far as Dave Roberts part of this,
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you get it. Dave Roberts is like, listen, this is
a guy I beat up on. And all coaches defend coaches,
all managers defend managers. That doesn't work in the radio.
By the way, other talk shows don't defend other talk shows.
They rip other talk shows. But in sports, coaches always
look out for other coaches, right, the managers always look up.
So it's the same thing. But Bud Black was tasked
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with being a cousin of Rumpelstiltskin. He was asked to
spin worthless dust into diamonds, and he has failed every
year he's been there. The team has gotten progressively worse
in terms of talent. But even when they had talent there,
and they had some ballplayers with Bud Black, and it
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never worked. It never worked. And so yeah, you got
a tough hand to cards. You shouldn't be like a
little league team, which is what the Rockies are this year.
You know, maybe don't hit, play defense right, So they
can't hit, they can't field, they can't pitch. I don't
know what else there is other than that they look
good in uniform. What happened to coach them up? What
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happened to coach him up? Right? The kill shot? You
lose twenty one to nothing, that's it, You're done, see
you later, goodbye. Somebody's got to lose their job, and
you're the guy to lose. The job and all that.
But don't feel bad for Bud Black. It is estimated
he has earned over seventeen million dollars to manage Rockies
Baseball seventeen million and overall he has spent eight teen
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years Bud Black as a major League Baseball skipper with
the Podres and the Rockies. It's a long run, you know. Me.
Playoff wins Bud Black has in San Diego and Colorado
in eighteen years as a big league manager, He's got
one more than you and I have and Loraina and Coop.
He won one playoff game one number one. That's it,
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Bud Black. One playoff win. So yeah, if I was
Dave Roberts, I would be upset because, listen, you're guaranteed
at least ten wins a year if you're the Dodgers,
playing the right. If the Rockies actually get some decent
ballplayers and a manager that knows what they're doing, they
might actually compete with teams like the Dodgers rather than
be at the very bottom in the sewer.
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Ben Did you know there's another kubiak son in the NFL?
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Uh? Yeah, it was was he even like the Saints
or something that I think was he Seattle, that's Clint
Kubiak's there's Clay Kubiak. Oh, yeah, you like Gremlin's cool.
He's with the forty nine ers, Okay.
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And he talked to the media over the weekend and
he was talking about mac Jones and he said that
he believes mac Jones can is still capable of being
a starter in this league. Yeah, do you agree with him?
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So he didn't say it would be a good quarter
Could he be a start? Sure, he started games last
year in Jacksonville when there were injuries. The question is
can he be good? He can't be good. He sucks.
So yeah, there's a lot of bad starting quarterbacks. Could
he be good? I don't know. I've seen no evidence
he can be good.
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Next, I was reported over the weekend that Kevin Durant
and the Heat have mutual interests thank God in joining force.
I'm sure they do. Yes, ben Ken, Durant save Miami.
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Why would he say he can't say he couldn't save
the Suns. He didn't save Brooklyn. Like it's been a
minute since Durant has been that guy. I see no
evidence that I'm not. I'm not beyond Coop talking about Durant.
I'll probably do seven monologues on Durant between now and
the time he changes teams. But do I think he's
going to turn the fortunes of a team around? No,
unless he goes to the Clippers. Next reason.
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Reports say that quote momentum is building towards the nc
double A lifting its ban on gambling on professional sports. Yeah, Ben,
you think there's actually a chance of this happening.
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Well, I don't believe in momentum, as you know, Coop,
I know, I don't believe that in sports that doesn't exist.
But yes, I think there is. There is an efforts like, well, listen,
as long as you don't bet on college sports, who
cares if you bet a parlay in the NFL or
you're betting on golf or whatever. So I could that
that would make sense. They want to limit the amount
of punishment because they are in bed with gambling. How
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did we do passes that is a win winner win,
A win, a winner the game.
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Well you talking to song? If here some interestant advice?
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And if you don't like it, you and away we go.
It's the inst advice line. Who needs our advice? Now?
I was gonna go a different direction, but I thought
that's actually not a bad IDEA gunner from the Walmart
in Minnesota. Northern Minnesota said the person that needs advice
Draymond Green. Things are not going well for Draymond Steph
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Curry got hurt. The Warriors are falling apart here and
Draymond Green played the victim from the bottom of the
deck last week. He's upset that people are calling him
and I says, I'm not an angry black man, although
there are video of him kicking guys in the nuts,
choke hold and whatever. So Draymond's upset. So advice to
Draymond Green. Any wisdom you'd like to share with Draymond here?
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Who thinks he's the victim of some great grand conspiracy,
and you can join us at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. We'll start out with you. Line one,
advice to Draymond Green. It is the instant advice. Line
Line one, go.
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Charleston, conven together.
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Okay, yes, Cauled Jerome. Line two, you're on the airline too. Hello, welcome,
advice to Draymond Green. Line two. You should get a
guy to help with their social media so you can
get that rundown. Yeah, all right, shut up, supermarket CB loser.
Line three, you're on their advice. Please to Draymond Green.
Line number three. Line three's not there. We'll go to
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line four. Line four, you're on there. Advice to Draymond Green.
Line four. Aliens, if you can give me a nineteen
year old Marilyn Moreau and a semi polar readers to
take me to your leader. Okay, we might lose toning
in the bay out somewhere in the cosmos, some subspecies
out in the ocean as a base a. Line five.
You're on the Airline five. Advice to Draymond Green. This
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is unscreened radio. The He's safety and it is off
Draymond needs the wisdom of the malord militia.
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means a lot to me that you came.
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All right, thanks for the extra piece of cake you're getting.
The cupcake was really good. Line six, Hello, Line six morning. Oh,
this is Rick and Maryland Draymond Green.
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I thought it was Bill lambierd get some different shade.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, yeah, well it's they're cut of the same cloth.
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You know.
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He was a Pistons guy. A line number what Hello,
Luke de bending guy says he should listen to more.
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Line two, it's the incident of ice line for Draymond Green.
You're live on the airline too. He's a bet because
he know he know he's going fishing. Yeah, well that's yeah,
you'll be that's right. That's Sean the hood guy. Man.
These legends are coming out for the incident of ice
line and they'll be on TNT going fishing. Line three,
you're on the air. It's the incident of ice line
for Draymond Green. Line three, all right, please, you've already
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been on the air one. Line four, you're on the air.
Advice to Draymond Green, Line four, and bring the angry
villain roll.
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Be a movie star.
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Yes, that's what they don't have really movie stars like
that anymore, but sure, why not bring them back? Line five,
you're on the airline five? Go okay, was that was
that him? Yeah, Dick Fudgie alright? Line six, you're on
the air line six.
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It's still your fault. The clippers lost.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
All right, you don't need to call back, You've already
been on the air once. You loser. Line one, Hello,
Line one, just pretend you're Chinese? All right? Sure, why not?
Line two, you're on the airline too. Go take that
deep breath and stop choking people. Yeah, that seem to
make sense. I would do One'll do one more. If
it's good. I'll take credit of not all blame the coup.
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Last call for Draymond Green on the instinit of ice.
Line Line five. Line five, last one advice to Raymond Green.
Line five. You're on the air go.
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Grandma Green?
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pro Bouncy Ball playoffs. Playoffs. Uh yeah. Now, normally the
anticipation is what both teams are going to show up
and they're going to compete. We've had some real does.
We had a stretch of amazing NBA playoff games and
the last couple of days some no shows, some no shows,
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and that is our lead. Here will start out in
the Hoosier State, the late game on Mother's Day, Game
four of the Eastern Conference semi finals. Donovan Mitchell, Spider Mitchell.
Oh he's aw, he's so guided you tell U. The
stats are great Spider Mitchell, but his teams never do anything,
going back to his days with Utah. Yeah. So there
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is Spider Mitchell, the Cavaliers trying to even things up
against the Indiana Pacers. That was the nightcap, the late game.
And was it worth a watch? No, I don't know
if you were watching or not, it was I mean,
I was, but I have no choice. Part of the job.
You're supposed to be part of the job. Pascal Siakam
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got to make sure I say that name right. Thanks
to our friend Marcel and Brooklyn Pascal Siakam twenty one points.
The Pacers never trail. This is a Harvard bow raise situation.
They led by over forty and halftime they tied the
record for the biggest halftime lead in playoff history. They
were about forty one points, and they added on to that.
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They were by forty four points at one point. They
win one twenty nine to one oh nine, a twenty
point win, which was not indicative how the game was
actually played. So they get it done. The Pacers are
now up three games to one in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Upstart Indiana and the Cavs had their guys. They were
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there and they didn't show up. My god, all right,
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel
here as you look at that Pacers and Calves game.
Was this game more about the global domination of the
Indiana Pacers who took a can of whoop pass to
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the Cleveland basketball team? Or was it by the total
systemic incompetence of the Cavaliers. So my thoughts on this,
I have Nike, good doctor, and feline, and we'll combine
all of these things together and we are going to
make delicious breadsticks, is what we're gonna make. So a
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my default position, my default position, which rarely changing now
does change everyone so long, every once in a while,
I will go away from my default position. By my
default position is what that's right. My default position is
most games are lost, they're not one. The better story
is in the losing locker room. That has been my position.
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That will continue to be my position. And on this game,
I'm not changing my position. As good as the Pacers played,
and they were running and gunning, and the Calves were
stumbling and bumbling, but that's because of the Calves stumbling
in public. The Caves were not only an NBA team,
they were terrible. As the line goes right, there's really
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no say and that's an understatement. And I will maintain
till my last breath in this mortal coil that it
is impossible. There's not that big a gap between teams.
If both teams are playing competent basketball, you're never gonna
have a game end up where one team has a
forty point lead over No, it's certainly not a playoff game,
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but wowsers. It's an understatement to say they were terrible.
They were worse than terrible. It was a torts level,
uninspired performance. And you know that means. That means, as
John Tortorelli so famously said a hockey coach, they sucked
from head to toe. They sucked at a time you
cannot suck, which was when the game started. Cleveland playing
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like they were playing a regular season game, and it
was the end of a road trip, and they wanted
to get back and they had a lot on their mind.
They played in second gear. Then you have Spider Mitchell
out there. You had in the first half, you had
Spider Mitchell, he was out there, Darius Garland, Evan, those
are the three horsemen of the apocalypse for the Cavaliers.
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Here the headliners in the land, and they played toothless.
They played gutless basketball in the first half. It was
a if you were to describe it as a item,
it would be a dirty diaper performance, a dirty diaper performance.
They were out hustled by the Pacers, and as a result,
Indiana made some shots and then the snowball effects started
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taking place where there was a shove here and a
push there, and the Caves did not respond, and they
were essentially the Cleveland Cavaliers were play dough, right, They
were play dough for the Pacers there. They were putty
in the hands of the Indiana basketball team and Cleveland,
I'm pretty sure they had this new concept sneaker from Nike,
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the air cement shoe. They looked like, did it look
I don't mean maybe you didn't see the gamer, didn't
hear the game, or you I mean, you're just taking
my my brilliant analysis. But I'm telling you, we've seen
this several times over the last week, where one team
looks like they're playing a totally different game at a
totally different speed. Cleveland was in second gear and the
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Pacers were not, and all the effort all that, like
the Caves were weighted down, they were utterly ineffective, and
like all the effort plays went in favor of Indiana.
And then by the time Cleveland woke up, the game
was already over, so it didn't really matter at that point.
But you look at the fifty to fifty balls, all
that's picked they always loved those fifty to fifty balls.
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But points in the paint, second chance points, the fast
break statistic, all those different stats within stats all went
in favor of Indiana. Now, page two. So you're down
three to one in the Eastern Conference semi finals. How
much trouble are the Donovan Mitchell Calves in at this point?
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So here's the issue, Right, They're not going to win
this series. Indiana Pacers are going to win this series.
Fighting history is what they're doing the Cavaliers. Right, I'm
declaring the Pacers are going to wait. That's a bold
take up three to one. Now, NBA teams leading three
to one in a best of seven series, it's happened
two hundred and ninety three times that have finished the series,
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and of those two hundred ninety three times, two hundred
and eighty of the times it has gone the way
of the team up three to one, which my computer
like brain tells me is a ninety six percent winning percentage.
We round up ninety five points six, we round up
to ninety six percent, So ninety six percent in favor
of the team up three to one winning. Now, that
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tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen now,
even though Indiana's going to win this series, Let's just
try to help out the cavaliers. Why not, let's help
out the cavaliers. So what does Cleveland need to turn
things around? The answer is a good doctor, and not
because of Spider Mitchell and his situation. We'll get to
that in a minute. Because of that, No, No, what they
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need is Rick Carlyle to catch the neural virus. Okay,
this is the key. I thought this all out. Okay,
I had a long drive. There's a lot of traffic
for some I do an overnight sho Why is there traffic?
Should be traffic. It's like Mother's day traffic coming in.
I do an overnes Why would they be? I don't
get it anyway, So I had a lot of time
to think as I was making my way in. And
if Rick Carlile can get the neural virus, and for
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some reason, the Pacers don't elevate an assistant they bring in,
they get the Bucks to fire Doc Rivers, which hasn't
happened yet. Then they bring Doc Rivers in as the
interim coach. Then then the Calves are in really good shape, right,
Doctor doctor, give me the news. I mean, Doc Rivers
by himself is responsible for almost twenty five percent of
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the choke jobs up three to one where a team
blew it in NBA history. One man, one man, stands
atop all of the men when it comes to blowing
series up three one. Doc Rivers the only NBA coach
with multiple blown three to one leaves. He's done three
of those masterpieces in his career. That's twenty three percent
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of all three to one series blown in NBA history.
Nobody else has done it more than once, Doc Rivers,
and he's still getting a check. He's still getting a
check in the NBA. I digress. So Cleveland just do better,
be better. You're gonna lose anyway. But who cares? All
right now? Donovan Mitchell his injury the cherry on top
of the crap tastics Sunday. But is it a real
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injury or is it? My god, we're getting our ass kicked.
I don't feel like playing. I'm going to say I'm out.
I have an He's gonna have an MRI. So that
means it's real. Okay, it's it's real, Sure it is.
Why not? But here's the problem. Even with the numbers
Mitchells put up. He didn't do anything in the first half,
nobody did for the Calves, and he's had some big
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playoff games. Here's some big stat lines. It's it. I
got the vibe. It's like it's Dak Prescott, like the
numbers look good, but they just don't not in the
context of winning. I get that vibe from Donovan Mitchell.
I had the same vibe when he was in Utah.
It's like he's a good stat guy, but it doesn't
really seem to matter all that much. All right now,
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last word, So over the weekend, I was thinking, maybe
we can rehash the Celtics Knicks game, but I think, eh,
there's really nothing there. The Celtics molly wopped the Knicks.
It wasn't a total blowout and all that, but the
Celtics in a make or miss league. They made their
three point shots that they'd missed all of them. It
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seemed at back in Boston and then Madison Square Garden,
different garden, different garden, party, and they were making So
there's not a lot to dissect on that. If they
make them, the Knicks have no chance. It's forget about
it now. Jason Tatum though. This is a good talk.
So I don't know if he saw it or not,
but Jason Tatum is getting called out for something that
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he did. I guess he's actually been doing it, but
it got more attention in the game against the Knickerbockers.
He's been accused by internet investigators of stealing stealing another
Star Players celebration. That's right, Jason Tatum has been put
on blast. The astro blasters are out because Jason Tatum
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taking the proprietary blend of Kawhi Leonard and his celebration.
So how do you evaluate the accusations, the charges against
Jason Tatum for stealing another Star Players celebratory act? All right,
So I looked at this. I put this in the
Petri dish. I dusted off the Malard microscope to look
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at it, and in honor of Jerry Jones, we decided
to circumcise the mosquito and take a deep dive on it.
So we determined, based on the evidence that was available
to us that Jason Tatum. We asked the question, what
type of feline is Jason Tatum? You think of the
big cat. There's so many different breeds of cats. You've
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got the Persian cat, the Bangle, the Siamese, the main
coon cat. You've got a lot of different cats out there, right,
but Jason Tatum is the It turns out he's the copycat.
That's what he is. Right again. I mean, I feel
like we're back, maybe the finals when the Celtics won
last summer, and it was all about Jason Tatum's lack
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of originality after the Celtics won, and here we are
yet again, is on court antics with the Celtics. Jason
Tatum no ifs ands or butts about it. After a
thorough minutes long Mallor investigation, we have concluded beyond a
reasonable doubt that Jason Tatum absolutely mimicked the Clipper star
Kawhi Leonard, his signature hand salute celebration that goes all
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the way back to the San Antonio Spurs vintage of
Kawhi Leonard back in the day, that twenty fourteen Spurs team.
So it's over a decade old. Kawhi doesn't do it
as much anymore, but usually does it, and he did
it in Toronto. So there you go. Now you can
add this one to the list. You can add this
one to the list. After remember then the others won
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the championship. In O four, he Jason Tatum being he
recreated the Kevin Garnett anything Is Possible moment like he
had that he'd been watching that clip on his phone
before the game and he recreated that. He also posed
for the traditional finals photo after the championship and he
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very similar to the like he was ripping off a
Michael Jordan classic photo that goes way back to the
early nineties, a long time ago. So it's fair to
say again Jason Tatum the type of cat he is,
He's a copycat and he likes to repurpose, recycle celebrations.
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And as the quote goes, imitation is the highest form
of flattery. Jason Tate is a master at imitation, so
there's clearly some high flattery. Who will he copy next?
Stay tuned developing hot dot dot dot.
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the pro Bouncy Ball World. Not a great game. It
was the early game on the Mother's Day, the doubleheader
action and how did it turn out? Well? If you
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enjoy missed jump shots, if you enjoy missed layups, it
was a cornucopia of fun fun fun fun fun fun
fun fun. So that is our our lead here. Game
number four, that's right. Game four, Nuggets and Thunder Denver
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looking to take a three games to one lead over
ok C put a choke hold on this series in
the Western Conference semi finals, okay see, trying to snake
their way back even and get home court advantage back. Now,
we were told after the Nuggets won on Friday they
had the championship pedigree, that's the plays of a champion.
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Uh yeah, we were told that. So they clearly must
have won the game on Sunday. But that was the
the early game on Mother's Day there, and maybe you
didn't watch it, and we did. It's our good mitzvah
of the day. We did it for you. There was well,
I could have watched baseball. There was some baseball games on.
I may or may not have flipped over a couple.
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Just say it. I watched most of it. So Shay
juggas Alexander nine of his twenty five points in the
fourth quarter. And you don't remember how you got there.
You remember that you got there as the number one
overall seed. There the Thunder ninety two to eighty seven
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win in Game four, So okaysee Dodges a three to
one sinkhole and instead Abra cadabra, hocus Pocus. The Thunder
Kyrie's Thunder, not Kyrie Irving the other Kyrie. He lives
in okac He's a big fan of the show. So
his thunder are now even up to to Game five
will be on Tuesday, Tuesday night, and so we have
(18:32):
time to look at that now. As we were reminded
last hour when Tyrese Halliburton of the Pacers pointed out
Aunt that when the team loses, he doesn't have to talk.
When they win, he's cool with talking. So the better
story is in the losing locker room. So that is
where we will go. That is where our focus will
be in much of the conversation on the Joker. What
(18:54):
has happened to the Joker? What has happened? Oh, the
greatest player of this generation, greatest big man in the
conversation with all time legends of the game, and he
has been dreadful of late. So let us get into
(19:15):
it the question how concerned, how concerned should the Nuggets
be with Nikola Jokice at this point? So I've got Walmart,
Tears for Fears and Rumpel Stiltskin, and we will combine
all of these things together, and we are going to
(19:35):
make rocky mountain oysters, which I had to eat. I
lost to Bed. I think all the Nuggets players should
have to eat rocky mountain oysters after that shooting performance.
Holy crap. All right. So to answer the question, how
concerned should the Nuggets be with Nikola Jokice on the
patented Mallard scale of concern from one to ten malor
(19:58):
scale of concern from one ten, with ten being you're
you're smoking hookah with Luca out of the playoffs. That's
the highest level. I am at an eight point oh
eight point zero on the Malard scale of concern for
Nikola Jokicic. And here's why they say that seeing is
(20:20):
believing whoever they are, and we're not used to seeing
what we're seeing from Nikola Jokics. Here, Denver was up
by eight points early in the fourth quarter. It was
a disgusting offensive performance by both teams. More on that
in a second, but they were up by eight. So
if you saw the game, Denver was up seventy one
to sixty three. Now, eight is not a game changing
(20:41):
lead or anything like that. But you have an eight
point lead, you're at home. It's the fourth quarter. The
final eleven minutes and twenty six seconds of that basketball
game was the big bang, big clank, whatever you want
to call it. There now Nikola Jokic in particular, we're
talking about him. The final eleven minutes of that game.
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He took seven shots, he only made two of them,
and the Nuggets were outscored by thirteen points to close
the game. Denver from an eight point lead to the
end of the game shot less than thirty percent. They
took twenty one shots. They missed a mind boggling fifteen
of the twenty one. Not all of them were from
(21:23):
three point range, although they really did suck from three
point range. They took eleven three pointers up up eight
to the end of the game. They made one. That
is nine point one percent. Nine point one percent. So
the Nuggets, what they did is they went to Walmart
and went down to Walmart and they bought some bicycle
(21:43):
playing cards. They got those out and they built this
house of cards, and then they pulled the joker out
of the house of cards and the whole thing came
tumbling down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down down down. You get the point. Jokic, he
looked frazzled. He played bitdraggled. I've not seen him like
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this maybe when he was early in his career and
nobody he was drafted, the famous story during a Taco
bell commercial and nobody knew who he was, and people
said he was going to be good in Denver and
you're like, yeah, sure, he's gonna be good. Yeah, right,
But since he established himself, I cannot recall a stink
bomb stretch of games this bat. Now, we don't watch
every Nuggets game, right, we pay attention to the playoffs,
(22:28):
and this is brutal and so frazzled on the court,
and that's what he looked like. And then the eyeball
test confirmed that last three games to Kola Jokic shooting
thirty three point three percent half the Sign of the Devil,
eighteen percent from three point range, which is dreadful, and
he's got fifteen assists and sixteen turnovers combined in the
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last three games. Pay yeah, what stinks Now? That is
the worst three game stretch shooting for Jokic in the
last seven years. He is completely befuddled. But it's not
because of anything Oklahoma City's doing. I'm not noticing. Maybe
I'm missing it, but if you can tell me he
helped me out. I've not noticed anything that the Thunder
(23:13):
are doing that is any different than the other teams
are attempting to do. So this is more of a
problem with Jokic and whether my theory is he just
got worn down, it's really zubots. The Clippers wore his
ass down and they took it. Took so much effort
to beat the Clips at Jokic. He's not in the
(23:37):
greatest shape in the world, and he's being exposed here.
He's not in great physical condition, didn't have a lot
of extra time off, which is part of the deal. Right,
He's running on fumes, There's a lot of miles on
the car and a zubots and the Clippers wore them out.
Now the Thunder are benefiting yet again, another team benefiting
from the generosity of the Clippers that they wore out.
(24:00):
The Zoopbots wore out Jokic, and now the team that
benefits is Oklahoma City because of the Clippers yet again,
helping a team advance in the playoffs. Pathetic? All right, now,
page two, So one of the great underlying storylines, if
you will, I don't know if I'm saying that the
right way. In this particular series, one of the great
(24:20):
talking points is the amount of time between Game three
and Game four or go. We had Jeff and Denver,
that nugget lapdog who called up last hour, but about
thirty six hours after the overtime Game three Friday night
game which went to the Nuggets, they had the early
(24:42):
television window on Mother's Day, and that robbed many media
elites the wrong way. They were very upset. To you,
the basketball media elites were offended their sensibilities. It's not fair.
Oh my god. We had a reporter I've never I
heard of from the Athletic who said it was absolutely
(25:02):
ridiculous of the NBA to have the series go every
other day and then put Game four in the early
portion of the Sunday schedule, having Game three is the
late game on Friday. He added on quote, it's actually
kind of dangerous. Now we looked, nobody died, so that's good. Weird.
(25:24):
We made it through the game. No one dropped dead
from playing in the game early on Mother's Day, so
that's positive. Zeh. You talk about risking your life, bro,
I ain't playing. I was like, I'm risking my life,
bra it's Blake Snell. So Charles Barkley then chimed in
on television and he got into the action. Sir Charles,
(25:46):
who you would not expect this take like you would
expect the opposite take. You would not expect this take
from Charles bark But Charles Barkley went on a rant
on TNT. He said, I thought what the NBA did
to the Nuggets was unfair. It was unfair, Barkley said,
(26:08):
making them play late Friday night and then early afternoon,
not on Saturday, mind you on Sunday. He said, So
all right, let's break it down like this. So you
have one reporter say it was dangerous, borderline danger actually
kind of dangerous, kind of dangerous. A reporter said, you
have Charles Barkley who said it's unfair. It's unfair of
(26:33):
the NBA to have the Thunder and Nuggets play the
early game on Sunday. So question question is is this
ridiculous as it sounds? This is insane to the membrane.
To me, it is I just I don't I don't
get it. They're playing basketball. They played forty eight minutes
(26:56):
and they had to pay. Oh my god, they had
to play overtime an extra few minutes, and they do
that in the span of about two hours, right, two
hours and forty minutes or whatever. It is less than
that to twenty these games with all the TV timeouts
and all the stoppages and all that stuff. It's like,
what are we doing? Seriously? Playoffs mean, I do not understand.
(27:20):
It wasn't unfair. It was even both teams had to
play the same schedule. The schedule is also made in advance.
It's made, by the way for television. I'll make a
deal with you. If these guys want, all these idiots
in the media who are, by the way, making money
because of this, why not just play. Have no television,
have no media coverage. You can play whenever the f
(27:41):
you want. How about that, Go out there and knock
your lights out, play with no one will watch. You're
not gonna make any real money because it's all directed
through television, all funnel through TV. But go out there,
take a week off, play like the NFL. These NBA
guys are such softies. Play once a week and you'll
complain about that. Goes Oh, it's two amanding, so stupid.
(28:03):
It is so ridiculous that We're at the point now
where you had a you had a game on a
Friday night, you had it Sunday, had Saturday off, and
you had to play on Sunday. The game started at
what one thirty local time? Oh my god? Dangerous, unfair, dangerous. God.
(28:26):
Do you imagine if the like the military, approach things
that way, like the you know, the Marines have the
slogan embrace the suck. The NBA bitch about the suck.
That's the NBA mantra. Complain about it, complain about it. Right.
The they used to play back to backs in the
NBA playoffs, Oh my god, horror of horrors, draconian. The
Middle Ages. Uh, the NHL, which is a much more
(28:48):
demanding manly sport hockey. We don't talk about it because
you know, more people watch basketball, but it's much more
demanding physically to play hockey than this basketball. And the
NHL they, if I'm not mistake, they go every other day,
that's their schedule, every other day in the playoffs, every
other day. But the NBA guys and the media that
cover the NBA, the toll lickors. It's pathetic. And wow,
(29:13):
I mean so as far as where things are looking
now for Oklahoma City at this particular point, obviously they're
looking up. I would say it's not anything that Oklahoma
City is doing per se. I don't think they've found
some cheat code to stop to call the Oakic again
the War of Attrition, which is supposed to be part
of this, that is supposed to be part of the deal,
(29:36):
that it's the Tiers for Fears Song, War of Attrition
that you are in this and the team that stands
at the end is the one that survived the War
of Attrition, the Tears for Fear Song. And right now
Oklahoma City is even up with the Nuggets, and so
we'll see who can win the last two of the
last three games. But again, I don't think it's anything
(29:57):
Oklahoma's doing that is great here. That's why they're they're
in position. It was a tough afternoon for both teams.
Oklahoma City shot thirty five percent and won the game
because the Nuggets were worse. But it's not because they
were good. They weren't good. They didn't shoot well from
anybody twenty four percent from three point range. It's not
(30:18):
like anyone did it in the first quarter. Was it
was like a make a wish situation with these guys
out there with both teams. So anyway, I we'll move
away from that. We'll go to baseball quickly. We had
a managerial change and a Mallard monologue requested by supermarket Steve.
So everyone wants hot Rocky talk. So here's some hot
Rocky talk a few good minutes. So the Rockies announced
(30:40):
on a Sunday after they won a game. After they
won a game, they decided that, you know, we have
decommissioned our manager, Bud Black, and we've also whacked his buddy,
the bench coach, Mike Redman. They have been fired. They're
out of here, see you later. So somebody named Warren Schaeffer,
we have no who that is. He is now the
(31:02):
interim manager of the Rockies. And Clint Hurdle we've heard
of him. He used to manage the Rockies. He's back
as the interim bench coach. Okay, So then we add
Dave Roberts, not a Rocky, a Dodger. Dave Roberts comment
after the Dodgers poll axe the Diamondbacks, Dave Roberts ran
to defend Bud Black, the Dodger manager said, not even
(31:25):
Casey Stangele could change the outcome for the Rockies. That
was the money quote, which begs the question did Bud
Black get a raw deal from the Rockies? And I
have a two words. One starts with an A and
one starts with an N. Absolutely not, absolutely not. Colorado
(31:46):
has sucked the entire time Bud Black has been there. Now,
they're epically bad, they are historically bad. They are Hall
of Fame level trash this year. There's no even the
mascots having a bad year for the Rockies right now.
And when you are the worst team in baseball and
then lose a game twenty one to nothing, your manager
(32:10):
gets fired. That is universally how it works. They lost
on Saturday twenty one of the Rockies. Of course, they
couldn't get all their ducks lined up. They had to
wait till after the game on Sunday to fire Bud Black.
They should have fired him on Saturday night, but they didn't.
And so as far as Dave Roberts part of this,
(32:30):
you get it. Dave Roberts is like, listen, this is
a guy I beat up on. And all coaches defend coaches,
all managers defend managers. That doesn't work in the radio.
By the way, other talk shows don't defend other talk shows.
They rip other talk shows. But in sports, coaches always
look out for other coaches, right, the managers always look up.
So it's the same thing. But Bud Black was tasked
(32:53):
with being a cousin of Rumpelstiltskin. He was asked to
spin worthless dust into diamonds, and he has failed every
year he's been there. The team has gotten progressively worse
in terms of talent. But even when they had talent there,
and they had some ballplayers with Bud Black, and it
(33:13):
never worked. It never worked. And so yeah, you got
a tough hand to cards. You shouldn't be like a
little league team, which is what the Rockies are this year.
You know, maybe don't hit, play defense right, So they
can't hit, they can't field, they can't pitch. I don't
know what else there is other than that they look
good in uniform. What happened to coach them up? What
(33:37):
happened to coach him up? Right? The kill shot? You
lose twenty one to nothing, that's it, You're done, see
you later, goodbye. Somebody's got to lose their job, and
you're the guy to lose. The job and all that.
But don't feel bad for Bud Black. It is estimated
he has earned over seventeen million dollars to manage Rockies
Baseball seventeen million and overall he has spent eight teen
(34:00):
years Bud Black as a major League Baseball skipper with
the Podres and the Rockies. It's a long run, you know. Me.
Playoff wins Bud Black has in San Diego and Colorado
in eighteen years as a big league manager, He's got
one more than you and I have and Loraina and Coop.
He won one playoff game one number one. That's it,
(34:24):
Bud Black. One playoff win. So yeah, if I was
Dave Roberts, I would be upset because, listen, you're guaranteed
at least ten wins a year if you're the Dodgers,
playing the right. If the Rockies actually get some decent
ballplayers and a manager that knows what they're doing, they
might actually compete with teams like the Dodgers rather than
be at the very bottom in the sewer.
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Speaker 1 (34:49):
Here we got Miller, How about that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
To the third degree. This is one great.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Ben Did you know there's another kubiak son in the NFL?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Uh? Yeah, it was was he even like the Saints
or something that I think was he Seattle, that's Clint
Kubiak's there's Clay Kubiak. Oh, yeah, you like Gremlin's cool.
He's with the forty nine ers, Okay.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
And he talked to the media over the weekend and
he was talking about mac Jones and he said that
he believes mac Jones can is still capable of being
a starter in this league. Yeah, do you agree with him?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
So he didn't say it would be a good quarter
Could he be a start? Sure, he started games last
year in Jacksonville when there were injuries. The question is
can he be good? He can't be good. He sucks.
So yeah, there's a lot of bad starting quarterbacks. Could
he be good? I don't know. I've seen no evidence
he can be good.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Next, I was reported over the weekend that Kevin Durant
and the Heat have mutual interests thank God in joining force.
I'm sure they do. Yes, ben Ken, Durant save Miami.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Why would he say he can't say he couldn't save
the Suns. He didn't save Brooklyn. Like it's been a
minute since Durant has been that guy. I see no
evidence that I'm not. I'm not beyond Coop talking about Durant.
I'll probably do seven monologues on Durant between now and
the time he changes teams. But do I think he's
going to turn the fortunes of a team around? No,
unless he goes to the Clippers. Next reason.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Reports say that quote momentum is building towards the nc
double A lifting its ban on gambling on professional sports. Yeah, Ben,
you think there's actually a chance of this happening.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Well, I don't believe in momentum, as you know, Coop,
I know, I don't believe that in sports that doesn't exist.
But yes, I think there is. There is an efforts like, well, listen,
as long as you don't bet on college sports, who
cares if you bet a parlay in the NFL or
you're betting on golf or whatever. So I could that
that would make sense. They want to limit the amount
of punishment because they are in bed with gambling. How
(36:48):
did we do passes that is a win winner win,
A win, a winner the game.
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Speaker 1 (37:12):
Hey, you sports figure, guy or girl? Who got here?
Well you talking to song? If here some interestant advice?
Speaker 5 (37:19):
Hold that thun No one's paid attention to me for
ten whole seconds.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
And if you don't like it, you and away we go.
It's the inst advice line. Who needs our advice? Now?
I was gonna go a different direction, but I thought
that's actually not a bad IDEA gunner from the Walmart
in Minnesota. Northern Minnesota said the person that needs advice
Draymond Green. Things are not going well for Draymond Steph
(37:43):
Curry got hurt. The Warriors are falling apart here and
Draymond Green played the victim from the bottom of the
deck last week. He's upset that people are calling him
and I says, I'm not an angry black man, although
there are video of him kicking guys in the nuts,
choke hold and whatever. So Draymond's upset. So advice to
Draymond Green. Any wisdom you'd like to share with Draymond here?
(38:06):
Who thinks he's the victim of some great grand conspiracy,
and you can join us at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. We'll start out with you. Line one,
advice to Draymond Green. It is the instant advice. Line
Line one, go.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Charleston, conven together.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Okay, yes, Cauled Jerome. Line two, you're on the airline too. Hello, welcome,
advice to Draymond Green. Line two. You should get a
guy to help with their social media so you can
get that rundown. Yeah, all right, shut up, supermarket CB loser.
Line three, you're on their advice. Please to Draymond Green.
Line number three. Line three's not there. We'll go to
(38:42):
line four. Line four, you're on there. Advice to Draymond Green.
Line four. Aliens, if you can give me a nineteen
year old Marilyn Moreau and a semi polar readers to
take me to your leader. Okay, we might lose toning
in the bay out somewhere in the cosmos, some subspecies
out in the ocean as a base a. Line five.
You're on the Airline five. Advice to Draymond Green. This
(39:04):
is unscreened radio. The He's safety and it is off
Draymond needs the wisdom of the malord militia.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Thanks for making out at the wedding, Ben, it really
means a lot to me that you came.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
All right, thanks for the extra piece of cake you're getting.
The cupcake was really good. Line six, Hello, Line six morning. Oh,
this is Rick and Maryland Draymond Green.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I thought it was Bill lambierd get some different shade.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, yeah, well it's they're cut of the same cloth.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
You know.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He was a Pistons guy. A line number what Hello,
Luke de bending guy says he should listen to more.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Ben, Yeah, Luke defending guy fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Line two, it's the incident of ice line for Draymond Green.
You're live on the airline too. He's a bet because
he know he know he's going fishing. Yeah, well that's yeah,
you'll be that's right. That's Sean the hood guy. Man.
These legends are coming out for the incident of ice
line and they'll be on TNT going fishing. Line three,
you're on the air. It's the incident of ice line
for Draymond Green. Line three, all right, please, you've already
(40:05):
been on the air one. Line four, you're on the air.
Advice to Draymond Green, Line four, and bring the angry
villain roll.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Be a movie star.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yes, that's what they don't have really movie stars like
that anymore, but sure, why not bring them back? Line five,
you're on the airline five? Go okay, was that was
that him? Yeah, Dick Fudgie alright? Line six, you're on
the air line six.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
It's still your fault. The clippers lost.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
All right, you don't need to call back, You've already
been on the air once. You loser. Line one, Hello,
Line one, just pretend you're Chinese? All right? Sure, why not?
Line two, you're on the airline too. Go take that
deep breath and stop choking people. Yeah, that seem to
make sense. I would do One'll do one more. If
it's good. I'll take credit of not all blame the coup.
(40:53):
Last call for Draymond Green on the instinit of ice.
Line Line five. Line five, last one advice to Raymond Green.
Line five. You're on the air go.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Grandma Green?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Sure, why not
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