Hour 1 – Denver is a Diamond

Ben Maller reacts to the upset in OKC as SGA and the Thunder defense let the Nuggets take Game 1. Plus the ‘Who Am I?’ game and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one, our one
of the original Recipe podcast, and a happy Tuesday to you.
Is the sixth day of May. And here in our
number one, we start out with upset City in OKC
despite dropping thirty three points. How much of the blame

(00:22):
does Shae Juggas Alexander deserve for Oklahoma City as they
go down? Also, the Thunder had the top defense in
the regular season. So how did the Denver basketball team
shoot fifty percent and score seventy one points in the
second half? And what does this win do for Nikola
Jokic and the Nuggets taking Game one? And does this

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postseason we're in the second round, all the teams that
had extra rest lost. Does that prove that extra rest
kills your mojo in the NBA when you need it most.
We'll talk about all of those things and more right
now here it is make way for the title wave.
That is our number one.

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our lead. This hour A pretty decent night, pretty decent night,
not a bad night. You know, normally come in here complain.
We covet y'all. That's terrible. It sucked garbage. Can't say that.
Can't say that. Normally we often have a PSA on
the show that we watched the games, so you would

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not have to. But this was a pretty good night,
pretty good night. We'll start out in the dust bowl. Now,
I was not planning on starting out in the dust ball.
I was like, ah, that's not going to be that
good a game. And here we are, here we are
discussing as Oklahoma the stage game number one, Game one

(03:03):
Western Conference semi Finals, Nicola Jokic leading the Nuggets into
OKC for a matchup with Shae Julius Alexander and the Thunder.
And that was the nightcap after the Boston Celtics gagged
at home against the Knickerbockers in overtime to a twenty

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point lead in the final minutes of that game to
lose in overtime. So I, oh, okay, that'll be the lead.
And then no, no, no, no, the Nuggets and Thunder
got together and upset City as Nikola Jokic had forty
two points, twenty two rebounds, a partridge in a pear tree,
and Aaron Garden from Downtown Dagger the three point shot

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there in the closing seconds, and the Nuggets with a
mind blowing one is that two dramatic mind blowing They
win by two. They come back over the top seeded
Thunder there in the late game on Monday night, So
Oklahoma City was out of timeouts after Gordon hit the

(04:09):
three point shot, they missed a desperation heave as time expired,
turn out the last the party's over, just like that.
And so Gordon at twenty two points, fourteen rebounds, that's
a decent I'd rather lose on a three point shot
than a dunk like the Clippers lost to the Nuggets
on right at the buzzer. But Gordon the game winner again.

(04:31):
Jamal Murray, who was spotty, was spotty in this game
at twenty one points, and so the four seed the
Nuggets get home court. Game two will be on Wednesday
back in the Sooner state. I know you're excited about that,
but the better store is in the losing locker room,
so that is where we will begin this rant and

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rave in the night. So let us discuss the question,
despite dropping thirty three points thirty three, how much of
the blame does shake gilgis Alexander deserve for OKC in
this one. So I've got Planet Fitness, CDC approved, and

(05:13):
West Virginia and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some blooney because
the thunder were full of blooney the way they played
in the final minutes of this particular game. So the
anatomy of a rally, I've often pointed out that most

(05:35):
games are lost, not one. So to answer the question,
despite having thirty three points SGA, how much of the
blame does he deserve? Quite a bit, quite a bit
of the blame blooney, quite a bit of the blame
bloonee for Oklahoma City. You're the headliner, you're the face
of the franchise. Blah blah blah blah blah. De facto MVP. Right,

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he's gonna win the MVP award. Be very surprising if
he doesn't win the MVP Award. Here for the regular season,
and all of that stuff is deserved, All of it
is deserved. Had a fine year, was great, Oklahoma City
won a bunch of games and all that. But in
this moment, I learned this from Stanley. You've got to
go Spider Man. With great power comes great responsibility. And

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if you're all that good stuff, you're the MVP or
the face of the franchise. YadA, YadA, YadA YadA. That
means in the final minutes, you get it done, you
get the job done. Did he do that? No, he
did not get the job done. You put you don't
put the team on your back, and you're gonna get
called out on it, and he didn't shake yogas Alexander

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in this particular situation did not step up and crunch
time instead of going out to Planet Fitness and lifting
weights and putting the team on your back and all
that stuff. He's like, you know what, I'm gonna go
hit the hay and take a snooze. I'm gonna catch
some z's is what I'm going to do. Now, what
is my evidence? Down the stretch. If you look at
the final part of the game, SGA took six shots.

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Now the game was blown in the final six thirty
nine or so of the game as Denver was able
to outscore the opposition to close the game, and they
also going by fifteen down the stretch. It was a
domination situation to close out the game. So the question becomes, Okay,

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you're Sagios Alexander the thunder as a team shot twenty
eight percent. But he was He's the MVP, right, he's
the guy he had nine points but got outscored by
his rifle. I know they play a different position, but
the joker Nikole Jokic had sixteen and so your you're
minus seven in the head to head MVP MVP guy,

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and so you lose by two. You can do the
math on that. You don't need me to do the
male of the math. Denver also shot sixty two percent
to close out the game, and it was a collective
suck though. To be totally, Shaye deserves the lions share
of the blame because he's supposed to be the greatest
player in basketball this year. I need to play like it.

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But you look around and the other suck bag players
for Oklahoma City. You've got Chet Holmgren, who was like
a Walmart greeter, leaving the door open for Denver as
he missed not one, but two big free throws. Nobody
guarding you, there's no one guarding you, has to play.
Anyone that can make It's the only play I can

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think of in team sports that anyone can can do
at a professional level. Make a foul shot in a game.
There's no one that's going to block you. No one
is going to take the ball from you. You stand
at the line, everyone's standing around watching you. You just
hold the ball, dribble, dribble shoot in this case, dribble

(08:49):
dribble clank, clank, clank, clank me. So that that allowed
as the Walmart greet chet Holmgren that allowed the Nuggets
to get the ball out and then the game winning
shot at the end by Aaron Gordon, so that that
allowed it at the bitter end. There and the thunder

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who were either number one or number two in just
about every defensive category in pro bouncy ball this year.
How do they play in the second half? Let's see
here a Denver shot fifty percent in the second half
and scored seventy one points in the final twenty four minutes.
Outstanding defense, boys, way to go, way to shut him down.

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Good job by you. Yikes. All right, now, what does
this win We'll go to the other side, page two.
What does this win now do for the Nikola Jokic
Nuggets as they get the game one wins us best
of seven. It's only one game and all that stuff,
But you obviously set the tone. Doesn't guarantee anything. There
is no such thing as momentum. It's not like now

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Denver is gonna win the next three games in oh,
they have all the momentum. That is bull crap. You
know it's bull crap, So you don't have to worry
about that. However, it gives you the upper hand, and
especially in a series like this, well, you've got one
team that has players that have had success in the
playoffs and you've got another team with a bunch of
your bronis in Oklahoma City when it comes to the playoffs.
And so it's a CDC approved booster shot for Denver, right,

(10:20):
It's a booster shot helps keep the immunity level up.
And more importantly, what it does is it is not
so much the confidence. I don't think Denver needs any
confidence per se. They're a proud, hearty bunch and all
that stuff. But what this does is mess with the
mojo of OKAC And that's the key here, right. Many

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have pointed out that's a fragile team. That is a
team that has been lampooned by many Oklahoma City as
a paper tiger. They're a paper tiger, right, They're just
a bit of a fraud regular season team, not built
for the big moment and all that. And in Game
one of this series, they absolutely proved that. They absolutely

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proved that is the case. And so you can expect
that Oklahoma City, what are they gonna do now? They're
gonna have to go back and the coach is gonna
start tinkering a little bit, say what did we do wrong?
Who ft up? And now they have that extra pressure
but a capital P and oh man. Now, it has
been said by many that pressure is a privilege, right,

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and that is true. It is also a double edged sword.
It is a double edged sword. And it's one of
the fun things about the plaus We don't really care
much about the regular season in the NBA, but in
the playoffs in all sports, it's whose rises to the occasion. Right,
It doesn't matter what you've done in the past, is
what you do in that moment and rising the pressure
of the moment. And it's one of those things, right,

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you talk about the pressure, capital P and all that
and pressure, as we've talked about in recent days. Pipe
pipes burst from pressure, right, pipes burst kaboom from pressure. Also,
diamonds are made from pressure. So will you be a
diamond or will you be a pipe? And at this
moment we do the show right now tonight, at this moment,

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the thunder are the pipe and Denver is the diamond
at this particular moment in time. And as far as
the bigger story just side by side for the Nuggets,
is it the Nicole jokicic forty two point twenty two
rebound performance or is it the clutch Aaron Gordon game

(12:32):
winning basket. So I have an unpopular opinion. As good
as Jokich was, he set the Nuggets up, but without
the final dagger, it doesn't work out. Without the shot,
the game winning shot, obviously the math doesn't work out,
and the Nuggets would have lost. And said, ah, Jokis
played as well as you could possibly play, and Denver
still lost the game. Boohoo. If that's a brick house,

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We're in a parallel dimension. We're doing a much different
mallor monologue about how lucky Oklahoma City is that they
won this game, and how Denver we know what would
have been said if that shot had been missed, We
know how that would have gone. Well, it's because of fatigue.
They were exhausted. Give the Nuggets a break. I would
like to address that pet peep. I realized that I'm

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wired a little differently than a lot of the other
gas bags and blowhards. But this is a pet peep.
So I'm watching all these games, I'm sitting on my ass,
should be doing something more productive, but it's part of
the job so fine. I'm watching these games and we
are three games in now to the second round of
the NBA plus, And if you've paid any attention, there
is a common theme that has taking place early on

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in every one of these games. You got Cleveland, Boston,
and Oklahoma City who all lost, all of them losing
at home.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Right.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
And the other hand, you've got Indiana, New York, and
Denver with little rest, with little time off, and they
are all in the winners circle, all of them. Right.
So does this postseason prove does it prove that that
extra rest is a killer, because in these broadcasts they
were all laying it on extra, extra surupy, extra surupy.

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But does this postseason, three games into the second round
prove that the extra rest in the NBA kills the mojo,
kills it when you need it most. So I think
this is a lame conversation. I will engage in it
mainly to goof on the common theme among NBA broadcasters.

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Very small sample size, right, that's important to mention, very
small sample size. And this changes by the year. We've
had this conversation. In the baseball playoffs, we've had this
conversation that would you rather have the top seed and
have that first round by or would you rather be
in the wild card round? And typically it's one of

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those self fulfilling prophecies where if a team does well
when they have played in the wild card round and
not had time off, you say, well, that's what you want.
You want to know time off. And then if a
team on the other side does well with the rest,
you say, okay, like the Dodgers last year and the
Yankees both had time off and they both got to
the World Series. Dodgers end up winning the World Series

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in baseball. But this NBA conversation the broadcasters, I wanted
to throw something at my TV. Now, the only broadcast
I always mute is the Doris Burke broadcast, So whatever
game she's doing, I mute. But other than that, I
normally have the audio up. Sometimes I turn it down
a little bit. But the theme was, oh man, these
Pacers and the Knicks and the Nuggets, the teams that

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were playing on short rest. It was like they were
in West Virginia and they were working in coal mines
back in the seventies in West Virginia. Right cue the
John Denver song take Me Home Country Roads. Right as
I heard that, I was like, oh my god, these guys.
It is oppressive. It is like there is some kind
of slave lake camp they're playing in the NBA and

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they only had less than forty eight hours. Oh my god, nightmere,
Oh holy fatigue, batman. It's like you can see the
Blue Ridge Mountains in the Shenandoah River, just like the
John Denver saw, Like, what is going on here? Somebody
get these guys some oxygen and an IV. These NBA players,
God forbid you play it forty eight minute game. It

(16:24):
takes two and a half hours because every five minutes
the damn referees are going over to check out the
damn replay to look at something. Who cares. That's the NBA, right,
that's going on? Right, no clear path foul. Okay, that
does not rise to the level of a flagrant. Thank you,
Thanks for taking seven minutes of my life to decide that.

(16:45):
God Anyway, here's the way it works in the NBA.
There is an excuse. Every night, every single game, there's
an excuse. And since the home teams this season have
all lost and Golden State will test the final leg
of this theory. The Warriors off short rest will take
on Minnesota, which had a little extra time. So if

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the Warriors win, all man be prepared, be prepared. But
since the home teams so far have all lost, I
can garrong take guarantee that since this is after the fact,
every excuse maker is gonna pivot they instead of the
storyline which was supposed to be all I can't believe it.

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It's unreal, all of this time with with these teams rested,
and since the teams that were rested lost, they're gonna
pivot and say it's not right. Russ Russ, Russ Russ
makes me want to puke in my mouth. All right,
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and I want to share this with you. It involves

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the Denver Oklahoma City game. But there's something that happened
at the end of that game that is hilarious, absolutely hilarious,
and we will explain why it is so hilarious and
why it is so fitting and so perfect and all that.
We'll get to it, and we will do it next.

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good night here as Denver and the Knickerbockers both get
or done on the NBA playoff cards. So all the
road teams are victorious to start the second round of
the playoffs. There's one more second round game to begin

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Game one, and that's Minnesota and Golden State, and so
that is up next. Fer Dog right since says I
am not surprised the Nuggets stole Game one. Diamond sharpens
diamond after getting past the buzz saw that is the Clippers.
The Nuggies are playing the best ball of their lives,
the only team that can maybe start them as Gunner's Wolves,

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says Fergno, what else do we have? Let's see here,
Ed Wright, since says ed Fremin is that fast, fast
Eddie from man. He says, Celtics deserve all the blame.
Sixty threes. Yeah, that's how they always play. They always
play that way, man, all right, Femi in Minnesota right

(21:23):
since has been the thunder lost at the Buzzer by
two points. How are they paper tigers? Everybody can't be
as good as the Timberwolves. I'll tell you how. Why
femy They had a thirteen point lead in half a
quarter to go and they lost. They blew a thirteen
point lead at home and shot less than thirty percent

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to close the game. That's how. That's how I can
say that gunner from the Walmart in northern Minnesota, way
past the luth says, I am going to guarantee we
are going to win. He now apparently works for the Timberwolves.
Ant Man is locked in playoff mode, so he says, well,
what else do we have? Page down? See can't read that.

(22:09):
Let's go to Let's go to Darius, who was apparently
at the game in Oklahoma City. They're the Denver, Okay
see game. Hello Darius, Welcome.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
He's been. How's it been?

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Uh? If I was any better, I probably sleeping. But no,
so you're at the game. You stay, You stayed to
the bitter end. You didn't leave early, did you?

Speaker 4 (22:32):
No? No? No, because you know I thought we were
gonna pull out towards the end. But you know, just uh,
some very bad plays, very bad calls throughout the game
or more so in the second half.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Are you blaming the referees theres It sounds like you're
blaming the officials.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
I'm blaming him a little bit.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Come on, come on, you guys.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Look look, if you watch the like the last like
three minutes, most of their points came from free throws.
It stopped the thunders a drive towards the end. I
mean the free throws killed them.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, well it would also the game would have not
ended had your guy made the foul shots there. Homebreak
he makes them?

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I better not see a home break
coming out the gym. You better go straight to the
gym to the game. That's how that that that's the
only way I can see him out in public.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Now look at that. He's gotta he's gotta be in hiding.
He's gotta he's gotta go, like put a bag on
his head or something like that. I don't know, but
that's uh, that's that's pretty bad. But outscored. Was it
twenty six to thirteen or something like that? I think
it was worse than that. Actually to close the game
and just couldn't make a shot, and it's like.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
No, no, yeah, I mean like the free throws the Reds.
I mean, if it was like, uh, it got to
a point where it would just stop the thunderstrive right, Well, at.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Least you got a T shirt out of the deal.
I saw everyone wearing T shirts.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Man, it would be come a little bit better with
the w But it's well, I mean I think we're
still going to take the series.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
Yeah, but yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Think when it comes to the rest time between these teams,
like we're saying before, I think it does have an effect.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
No, I don't think that is the reason that the
Thunder lost the game.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
No, no, no, no, it's not.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
But also I mean it does affect.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
How maybe for five minutes in the first quarter, but
you had the lead.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
You can't give me.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
And the only the only team that really got blitzed
was the Cavaliders, and they even came back in the
fourth quarter Like this Celtics had a twenty point lead
in their game and blew it. The Thunder had a
thirteen point lead and blew it down the stretch. So
it's like, well, maybe I'll give you. Like the first
five minutes of the first quarter, you're trying to get

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yourself back into the right mojo. But after that, I'm
not going to give that to you.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
I can't know they played well. Then you had the rest.
I mean there was one challenge call where it was
called on SGA you know, just grab the rebound and
then he yoga put his head up or he blocked
and then you know, there there's no way that that
was called a foul. And then the fact that they

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reviewed it and they didn't make it successful.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
All right, well listen the you know, no, no pity
party go and what what's what's.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
The point of having this playoff setting if you're going
to get away with that type of boul calls?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Okay, but again, you shot less than thirty percent. It's
not the officials were not blocking the thunder shots at
the end of the game. I mean, you just couldn't
make a You couldn't make shots in the final five
minutes or six minutes of the game. All Right, I
gotta thank you, Darius, and I help you. I don't
know how much you enjoyed it. You didn't enjoy the outcome.
My god, big rig Rob rights and says Ben, how

(25:59):
in the world do you call yourself a pro bouncy
ball player? And blow a twenty point lead to the Knicks.
Shame on the Clovers. I guess even a blind Scott
gets a nut every now and then. Okasey is fake news.
Blame it on the Canadian Wow. No, we love Canada.
We'll be in We're gonna go to Canada. Oh god,

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we'll be there later this month, malar Meet and Greet
in Vancouver. Be hanging out there and more details to come.
We're still trying to figure out what we're doing on
that Saturday. We have an event on Thursday, Malard Meet
and Greet Lorrain. I'm very excited about that. By the way, update,
we're not gonna talk about this on the air. But
I have my outfit. I have my full outfit. You

(26:46):
gotta get yours and we're good now. You know, Coop
needs his outfit. But I am prepared cool. I'm going
very formal for this Malor Meet and greet.

Speaker 7 (26:54):
Yeah, yeah, I can't. I'm still you know, I don't
know if I'm gonna do like a dress version or well.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
We have a plan and I think we should follow
the plan. I think this will be an epic momon
here in the history of the Ben Mallor Show done
a lot of these meet and greets in different cities.
Is our first Canadian one, So I think we need
to we need to go in there and then bring
the the Rasma task. Gotta bring the Rathma test sign
out for the play of the night, the tire Iraq

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play of the night. So let's take you back to
Oklahoma City, the Thunder and the Nuggets and Denver down
by one, and then this happened.

Speaker 8 (27:32):
A second free throw home Groun missed it again, rebound
down to Christian Brown. You got a hurry eight seven
seconds front court over to Westbrook, left side Gordon for
the win. Yeah, two point eight seconds left coming back
the other way.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Williams from half court take.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
It no good at the horn and the Denver Nuggets
shock the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game number one final tonight,
one twenty one to one nineteen.

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Who to mute and who not to mute? Nostredenis writes
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He says, no Stredenas has put the whammy on the
thunder as the old Sonics truck stop. Fungus writes In says,

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I hit the Seattle fish Market today, never been there before,
staying till Saturday and hitting the Blue Jay Mariner game
on Friday. Shout out to the militia. Yeah, that's that's
like the number one turn that in the space needle
in Seattle. Man, I've been to that fish mark every
time I go. I've been to Seattle. I've gone to
the fish Market. You gotta walk down. Don't they have

(29:09):
something that has a lot of guitars to like, like
a big music museum. I'm sure they well, I'm sure
they do.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Well.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, we have Jay Scoop is here visiting he used
to live in Seattle. Says, yes they do. Okay, I
was I've never been to that me neither. Yeah, we
did walk through the streets of Seattle and were what
about the gum wall the gum Well, they have that
in San Luis Obismo, though they don't need to go
there for that. You know, I'm just just saying theseum

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of pop culture, Museum of pop Culture. Okay, when you
think pop culture, you think Seattle, you got to make
sure you say Jay Scoop, because it almost sounded like
you say Coop, who is not in the building. He's
still he's in therapy because the Lakers was looping. He
bet ten thousand dollars in the Lakers to beat Minnesota
and he lost all his money and he's just devastated,

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and understandably so. Nature Boy answering the call to the
wild Rights and says, Oklahoma City, poop their pants, be
better next time, no excuses. Absolutely correct, Absolutely correct. See
ferk Duck says, I only see three topics on the
malor Rundown. Only a three hour show. Yes, that's it,

(30:24):
only a three hour show. We'll check out after that,
unless we don't. You see the other hours, A mystery hour,
the hour of mystery. What do you think this is interesting?
What do you think the hour four lead monologue will
be Ferg Dog and rest of the Malard militia. You
can say, I wonder what do you think it will be?

(30:45):
I didn't put it in there, but there will be
something that will be there. So I love this story.
This sums up the NBA postseason beautifully, beautifully. So let's
take you back to the game in Oklahoma City, the
Nuggets and the Thunder and down the stretch we come

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and there was some drama. Now we know that the
Nuggets won the game on a clutch three point shot,
essentially with just a couple seconds to go in the game.
But the setup on that when the thunder chet Holmgan
missed two foul shots, the Nuggets got the ball and
taking the ball down the court was Russell Westbrook. So

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there was a camera in studio where the Nugget broadcasters
were getting ready to do the postgame, and they had
the game on and it was do we have the audio?
I think we have the audio, So check this out.
This is just imagine your head. Nuggets broadcasters in Denver
watching the game on TV, getting ready to go on television,

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and the Nuggets have the ball. Russell Westbrook's dribbling the
ball and listen to how it sounded.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
No no, no, no no, yeah, no no, man.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah. The reason it's more of a visual thing that
the audio is good. But when they were saying no, no, no, no, no,
it's because Russell Westbrook was dribbling with the ball going
to the basket and they were like, no, holy no, no,
sweet Moses, don't do that. What are you doing? Oh
my god? And then he paid past. See, they all

(32:43):
know the real Russell Westbrook. They all know that is
west Brick, and they absolutely know that is west Brick.
And they wanted none of that smoke. They wanted none
of that smoke for sure, that one.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
Jeez.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Alright, oh man, all right, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
Time now for the who am I? Game? And this
is where we pretend to be somebody else and you
can attempt to answer it. Thus it's hotly who am I? Game?
So there have only been three players to score seventy
five or more fourth quarter points for their first seven

(33:21):
games of a postseason run in the play by play
era that goes back to nineteen ninety seven. Those players
are Jalen Brunson. This season, Stephan Curry with the Warriors
back in twenty twenty three, and me again. Only three
players to score seventy five or more points in the
fourth quarter through the first seven games of a postseason

(33:44):
run in the play by play era that goes back
to nineteen ninety seven. They are Jalen Brunson this season,
Steph Curry a couple years back in twenty twenty three,
and me. Who am I? That is the question? If
you know the answer, you can send it in on
the X machine at Ben Maller. We'll get to it

(34:04):
and we will do it next.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
It is the Ben Mahler Show. Be sure to check
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be sure to subscribe. You'll never miss a Mallar monologue

(34:34):
or the other gas bags and blowhards at Fox Sports Radio.
All the videos there on the YouTube channel. Now back
to it.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
Thank god for the Internet.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Yes, thank god for that. And it is I Ben
time now for the who am I? Game? This is
where we pretend to be somebody else with that's the
who am I? Game? We go to who pro bouncy
Ball for the who am I? Game? And here it is.
There have only been three players to score seventy five
or more points in the fourth quarter through their first

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seven games of a postseason run in the play by
play era. They are Jalen Brunson this season for the Knicks,
Steph Curry a couple of years back, and me, who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Page down

(35:25):
Day mayor Remedy from malor prop guy Lebron James guest
by FEMI in Minnesota. Ferg Dog going with the met galach.
He says, I hope the fourth hour breakdown is all
fashion on display.

Speaker 7 (35:39):
That was a little much, a little bit, it's a
little much. Zaza Patolia from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Shrimpy
from Stevie Meatballs, McGruff the crime Dog from Andy and
Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Flounder says Milkman Mike in Colorado. Nick
ASASKI from mister nice guy King Rory's going with Gunner

(36:02):
from Minnesota has some good cartoon art of Gunner there.
Who else do we have Page Down the muffin Man
guest by Scrooge in Northern California, Bay City Tony says
big smooth Victor Alexander good name. Haven't thought of him
in a while till all rights in says the Yankees.

(36:24):
Duly Womack, he lived the Jersey gobbagool. He lived the
gobbagool in Jersey. George Costanza from alf the Alien Opiner
very funny from Rob in Minnesota. And I see that
Jay Scoop in the other room up with the Ukrainian
boxing champion Alexander U sick.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
And I get that right? I think I get that right?
A right? What else do we have? A Johnny Rutherford
guests by malibur Rubin. Nick the Wendy's Guy in Minnesota
says the answer is Kobe Bryant Sasquatch from Donkey Sausage.
Jeff Ruling guests by Kirby. Who else do we have?
V Barberino from Nature Boy answering the call to the
wild Arn Anderson from Steve the Misplaced San Diego. Gunner's

(37:09):
going with his favorite hero in the greatest Viking of
all time, Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Big rig Rob says
Andre from the Commonwealth, who was on hold but hung up?
Who else do we have? Wilt Chamberlain or the teletubbies
from Spox Weed on the Oregon Trail? That that is
the answer?

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Coops? Bookie? Guest by Terry in England, Nick Collison, Nick Collson,
guess by Kelly. All right, Lorraine A. Do you have
an answer? Loraina need an answer? Yes, Yes, my answer
is Dwayne the Rock Johnson, benk Okay, Dwayne? Is it
Dwayne the Rock Johnson? The correct answer is Kobe Bean Bryant.

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Back in twenty eighty seventeen years ago, let's go to
the phones. We'll say hello to Jeff in Denver. What's
going on? Jeff in Denver?

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Hey, Ben, It's like when you get grilled by Coop.
I'd like to give you a win a passing grade
on the monologue.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
That was more than a passing grade, sir. That was
an elite level Marconi worthy mault of monologue.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
How dare you you actually gave the Nuggets some props
for going into OKC and taking Game one.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, I didn't get too carried away, Yeah I did not,
But they played list And it's nice to see a
team that doesn't quit when they fall behind. The Nuggets
could have easily just thrown in the towel there. I've
seen a team do that recently when they fall behind.
Rather than push back, they just give up. And the
Nuggets didn't do that. So it's amazing what happens when
you use perseverance, Jeff, and you don't just you just

(38:42):
don't play like gutless quitters.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Well, the slogan ever since we won the slogan for
twenty twenty three on the locals talk around here with
stay the Course.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Well, that's a fine slogan. It this proves that coaching
does not matter. Right, As a buddy of mine pointed out,
You're coach looks like Edward E. Newman. I mean, my god,
uh he he has no credit. You should just not
even have a coach. The Nugget should just go out there.
It seems like Jokic is doing most of the coaching anyway,
Just have him be the coach.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
Well, they do like the guy and in the locker room.
They showed me in the locker room speech and he
was like, you know, you guys, stuck with it. And
but he did say the last thing he said was like, uh,
news flash. That game.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well yes, but you know, keep in mind, it's much
like I don't know what you your what your job
is or whatever. I have meetings at my job. We
always pretend like we're paying attention just to the boss,
and then we we want to get out of there.
You know, I'm sure it's no different in the NBA.
They have a meeting, they want to get the damn
thing over with. So whatever the coach says, Okay, raw, Raw,
let's get the hell out of here. We're done.

Speaker 6 (39:49):
For that last play with the Westbrook and he made
the right play, made the right play.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
That proves that I'm right, My take was correct. That
my take that you don't want Westbrook shooting your own.
Broadcasters for the Nuggets, Jeff were saying no, no, no.
As Westbrook was driving to the basket. There was a no, no, no,
because they know they know the truth about Westbrook.

Speaker 6 (40:17):
But you've gotta be you got you gotta admit you
were wrong about Harden the other night, though he choked in.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
I know. Let the record show. The Nuggets just won
a second round playoff game over Oklahoma City on a
game winning three point shot, and Jeff from Denver is
still talking clips because the clips matter. They moved the needle.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
We moved on.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
We brought it up there. They're in your head. They're
in your head. Jeff, you deliver yourself. Jeff, this is
on you. I talked about the Nuggets in the thunder.
I didn't mention the Clippers. Listen, that's on you, Jeff. Dude, Jeff,
you're a Clipper fan. You're deep down you like the Clippers.
You love the Clippers, and say my name is Jeff
and I love the Clippers.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
Say it, my name is Jeff and I love Then.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Now you don't you called up after one of the
great Nugget playoff wins to talk about the Clippers. You
know why it's hip to clip. That's why