May 18, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about Cade Cunningham's Pistons losing Game 7 at home against the Cavaliers by 31 points, coach J.B. Bickerstaff saying that the Pistons losing Game 7 is not a disappointment, what storylines stand out about the NBA Conference Finals, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka. It's our number one, our one, and
we're ready for some fun. We kick off the new
week on this Monday, the eighteenth day of May. The
Ben Mathers Show a full week ahead. But here in
our number one, what's the word? What is the word for?
Kid Cunningham's Pistons losing an elimination game by thirty one
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points to Cleveland. We'll discuss that. Also, coach JB. Bickerstaff
says the Pistons losing Game seven is not a disappointment.
They were at home, they were favored, and Pistons feel good.
Coach also said he will only accept positivity. What say
you and talk about that? Also, what storylines stand out
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about the NBA Conference Finals. We're down to the final
four in the NBA. We'll go there as well. Right
now here, it is our number one. Well, they're hitting
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on all cylinders. And then there is that all the
bull crap about all the two greatest words in sports.
Game seven. Welcome in the beginning of another week of
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in here, and we start out in Motown. It was
an island game, the only game going. It had the
entire sporting world watching. Well in theory, of course, it
was on Amazon Prime, so I don't how many people
were watching. People clicking rounded by some toothpaste. Hey, what's that? Oh,
it's a basketball game. Okay, I'll watch a second of it.
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And that's that. But Game seven in the East, the
final spot in the final four of the NBA on
the line.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't know if you watched this or not, perhaps
you missed it, but it was Spider Man, well not
really Spider Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell with twenty six points, and
it was really more Jared Allen and Sam Merrill who
they each had twenty three and the Cavaliers stomped out
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the once proud Pistons a one twenty five to ninety four.
Holy Joe Dumars Batman. What happened? As the team from
Ohio has advanced to the final four of the conference finals. There,
the four seeded Calves, often referred to as there by
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their nickname the Cadavers. They they have the ouse to
the top seed. Detroit was the number one seed in
the Eastern Conference and they are out. And so the
third seeded Knicks will have home court advantage at the
Mecca for Game one of that series tips off in
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Midtown Manhattan, just adjacent there above Penn Station, and that'll
be coming up on Tuesday. That is a good jumping
off point. Let us discuss the question, all right, what
is the word? What is the word for Cade cutting
Ham's Pistons losing an elimination game by thirty one point? Heights?
(05:01):
Thirty one point loss at home? So I've got SpaceX,
GPS and rotary phones and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to hit a
walk off home run, is what we're going to do.
So a my word again, we're playing the word game.
(05:23):
What is the word for cad Cuttingham's Pistons losing an
elimination game by thirty one points? So my word is
the G word? Gutless? That was gutless by the Detroit
basketball team. My god, was that bad. You don't lose
by thirty one points if you're doing what you're supposed
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to be doing. If you're fighting and scratching and clawing
that team quit. There are a bunch of quitters, the
Detroit Pistons in a game seven. Quit Tell me I'm wrong,
Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me that the cams are
thirty one points better on the road than Detroit. If
Detroit's trying, come on, it's pathetic, right favor They were
favored by four points the Pistons at home season on
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the line, and that was the effort. That's all you got, Like,
what are we doing here? Seriously? Now home cooking? You
might want to you might want to call the ambulance
in advance if that's how you're cooking your meals at home.
The Pistons burned the kitchen down. Okay, think of it
like one of those SpaceX satellites disintegrating as they re
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enter the atmosphere. That was the Detroit Pistons here spraying
aluminum oxide into the ozone. And the crowd watched and
they wall, my god, what is that? Burn, baby burn,
that's your twenty twenty six Detroit Pistons right there. This
was not a situation where they were overwhelmed by the moment.
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They were steamrolled by the moment. Here. My goodness, gutless
does not even cover it. I use the word gutless,
but yeah, you gotta go deeper than that. This was
like Oregon donor level soft is.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What this was.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Let me detroyed. They didn't just lose, you know what
they did. They did a base jump without a parachute
is what they did. That doesn't go so well as
we saw in this particular game. Kate Cuttingham, the former
number one overall pick face of the franchise, Kate Cuttingham here,
and he did not rise to the moment. Oh you're
being mean, mallor why are you being mean? I'm just
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telling you what I watched. He tripped over the moment
Kate Cuttingham and then common deered the Vomit Commet. In fact,
he loved the Vomit Commet so much he sold tickets.
Come on down, you're on the Vomit Commet. Why not?
Why not? My goodness, it was so bad. The team
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plane didn't just divert to Panic City. They upgraded the
entire team got first class tickets to Panic City. There
and they signed the least My god, uh And he said, well,
it was a magic run, wonderful, great to all that
magic carper ride top seed during the regular season. Well,
the clock definitely did tick tick tick tick tick towards midnight.
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And how about Tobias Harris, who had played way above
his skill set for most of this playoff run for
the Pistons, and he turned back into a y MCA
stretch four at the worst possible time. He turned back
into the guy. Everyone said, why did he get all
that money? How did why did Tobias Harris get paid
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all the money? He turned into that guy? Uh yeah, so,
and Cinderella did not just lose the shoe. No, no, no, no,
Detroit crushed Detroit themselves crushed. It wasn't Cleveland crushing at
Detroit crushed it all right. Now, staying with the Pistons,
here says we get some outrageous commentary, and we got
some from JB. Bickerstaff. You might not know who that is,
(09:03):
because why would you know the coach of the Pistons.
I mean, come on, please, anyway, So JB. Bickerstaff is
the head coach. I remember his dad, Bernie, Bernie Bickerstaff.
I believe he's passed away, but Bernie was coaching in
the NBA for a million years. Coach the Sonics and
a bunch of other teams. Anyway, the kid JB. Bickerstaff,
the NEPO baby, the NEPO coach. He was asked about
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whether or not this is a disappointment and losing by
thirty plus points at home? Hello in a game seven
kind of an obvious no brainer answer, low hanging fruit. Well,
it turns out Jay JB. Bickerstaff didn't take the bait.
Take a less how big of a disappointment.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's not a disappointment at all. I'm not ever will
I be disappointed. These guys every single day give us
what they got, you know. So it is not a disappointment.
It's a loss, and it's a tough loss. But you
know that adjective will never be used as the.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
All right, he wanted to say anything other than positivity
is unacceptable. That was the rest of it. So the
question coach JB. Bickerstaff, moments after the Piston has lost
Game seven by thirty plus points, said it is not
a disappointment, and he said that they will only accept positivity.
(10:26):
What say you? All right? So I say capital M
malarkey is what I say? Okay, Detroit, they didn't choke,
as we've laid out here. They never showed up. They
never showed up. They pitdled down their legs in a
game that was plausibly on national TVO, that was on Amazon.
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They trailed for ninety nine point nine percent of the game.
They briefly had a three to two lead at the
eleven minute mark of the first quarter of Game seven.
That is not a stat that is a diagnosis for
those of you a little slow in the back of
the room. This is a civic embarrassment. Listen, I'm not
from Michigan, I'm not from Detroit. I got no skin
in the game. I'm just outside telling you what I see.
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And this is pathetic, all right. If you check the GPS,
you know a lot of teams say who's house, you know,
with the home court home field division, Who's house? And
in Detroit they can yell crap house. Who's house, crap house.
That's the Pistons. And they even supplied the plumbing which
was all backed up with feces in the air everywhere.
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There wasn't basketball, per se. It was not basketball. It
was public defecation. And they had around twenty thousand witnesses
in downtown Detroit outworked out hustled, outplayed, and apparently not disappointed.
That's your Detroit Pistons in a nutshell right there. That's it. JB.
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Bickerstaff saying no disappointment is the most disappointing thing of all.
It's like, come on, do you think the fans are morons?
Maybe they are idiots? Are you Piston fans? Your coach
thinks you're morons? Is he right? Is JB. Bigger Staff right?
My god? You know what? Hearing that and listening to
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some of the other comments from the Detroit locker room,
this is what scared franchises do, right They talk about
positivity while they're drowning in po They talk about positivity
and all that stuff. And Bigger Staff sounded scared. That
sounded to me like a man that was scared. He's
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afraid to criticize his players. Are the Detroit Pistons that
soft that if the coach just comes out and says, hey,
we sucked at a time we cannot suck, which is
what everyone knows that he's gonna lose the locker room?
Are they that delicate of the delicate little flowers there?
Kate Cuttingham and the Pistons, they can't be criticized. Come on,
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you refuse to publicly acknowledge the snuffle upagus in the room. Okay,
uh and the player gonna normalize as oh I were
nothing's disappointing. What are you talking about? If if I
own the team and my coach after a thirty five
point game seven loss, humiliation came out and said what JB.
(13:22):
Bickerstaff said, he would be fired before the news conference ended.
That's it. I'd gung him off the stage, get out
of here. Now. The Pistons have already, from what I understand,
given Bickerstaff an extension, because that's what bad teams do.
They just why not that this didn't work? So let's
bring back the guy that's like, No, listen, I understand
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coaches in the NBA and do very little. Yet you
got to give me more than that. You got to
give me more than that. And if that does not
qualify for the Pistons as disappointment, I would hate to
see what does qualify as disappointment. You would non competitive?
You gave up. You were down by as many as
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thirty five points. I lost by thirty one at home.
You showed no fight, no gut, no backbone. That's the Pistons.
That's how they played. I'm just telling you what I
saw and and that's it, and that there's a team
that needs a Joel So when I had a top
seed in the East and all that stuff, keep an
eye out that John Morant chatter. You know, not that
(14:23):
I think John Morant's God's gift to basketball. I did
at one point. But there's a team. Shake it up,
make a move, Try to get John Moran somebody like that.
To change the temperature in the room. You gotta change
the temperature in the room. Meanwhile, the last word, we
now go to the coveted big picture, because I know
that you've been dying to know. My take from a
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wide angle ends. The NBA's final four is sick. The
last four who will be cutting down the nets after
the NBA Finals. Oh they don't do that, Okay, fine, Well, anyway,
you have New York versus Cleveland on the eastern part
of the bracket, and Oh Oklahoma, Oh Oklahoma and San
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Antonio in the West. One of those teams will stand
alone the pro bouncy ball mountaintop as the champion of
pro basketball. So the question what story lines, what storylines
stand out about the twenty twenty six NBA Conference Finals.
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So the conference finals are a buffet of You've got
some desperation off to the right, over here, the little desperation.
You've got delusion, that's all over here. There's in the
middle of there's delusion. And then you've got over here
on the left hand side, you've got television executives who
are clutching stress balls right now. They're holding the balls,
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the stress balls. What they're doing here. The Knickerbockers have
not won a title since nineteen seventy three. Okay, that
is not a drought. That is, to use a term
familiar with Oklahoma, that is a dust bowl is what
that is. Fifty three years without winning in the top
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market supposedly in terms of population in the country. The
Knicks have not won since the era of rotary phones.
What is a rotary phone? And the price of gas
when the Knickerbockers won the championship was thirty nine cents
a gallon. I just filled up here in LA the
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other day it was like five eighty something a gallon.
Thirty nine cents. Of course, that's most of that's the
People's Republic of California, tex But thirty nine cents a
gallon for gas when the Knicks won the championship the
last time, and there were there was no internet, and
there were three channels on television. That's it. That's all.
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You got the ABC, CBS, NBC, and now I guess PBS.
So nobody watched that, like nobody watches it these days.
So that's where we are. That's where we are are.
And what else though? But wait, there's more. Well, you've
got at this point that the Knicks are like a
social experiment, and you see how how low can you
go right, how much hope can one fan base endure
(17:16):
before spontaneous combustion leads in? They gonna think about the
Knicks every year like, oh, this are year, we're gonna
be good. Oh the next you're gonna get this year. Anyway,
here's the reality the Knicks are in this scenario, the
final four teams of the avay, the Knicks are a
life raft. On the other side, you've got the Enigma Bowl. Okay,
you've got Carl Anthony Towns versus James Harden, Carl Anthony
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Towns versus James Harden, and Kat still carries that even
though he spied well in the playoffs. He carries that
marshmallow vibe with him. You've got that. And then you've
got James Harden, who one of those guys gonna make
the finals. If James Harden makes the finals, that effectively
breaks the social media world, and I think basketball Twitter
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will have to just die. That'll be it. And either way, though,
someone is going to get the redemption arc that we
do not want. It is going to happen. Then you
got Spider Mitchell, Donovan Mitchell, who grew up in the
shadow of Madison Square Garden in the New York area
there and now he can evict the Knicks from championship
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dreams and all that, and then that, and so he's
the hometown kid who's playing the role of the neighborhood burglar.
You've got out west. You got Wemby versus SGA, that's
the match up there. And the Parisian prodigy versus what
they call me the Maple Mamba. I don't know it
seems gonna be, but you know Forberd Clipper, of course.
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And then you got Wemby, who's out there looking like
he's built in a lab somewhere, some kind of weird
basketball lab. In France with French philosophers, or possibly just
a draft that to dribble by studying jazz. It's also
possible he still looks like a draft. Meanwhile, you got
the SGA Clipper former clipper there, the debonair superstar who
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just won another MVP award, reigning champion, trying to add
to his jewelry collection and all that stuff. And if
you look though at the tail of the tape, it's
very important to tail of tape here, and you look around,
A finals without the Knicks. If Cleveland ends up winning
a finals without the Knicks is a ratings apocalypse. Now,
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I don't work in television. I don't work for the NBA.
It's not my problem. And I will talk about the finals.
I don't care who's in it, and it's part of
the job. However, doesn't mean I'm gonna be all gung ho.
And this is looking really dangerous. If the Knicks aret in,
you're gonna have either Cleveland versus San Antonio. That's not
a finals, that's a rerun from twenty seven that nobody
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asked for. So you got that. Cleveland is the seventeenth
largest market media market in the country. And although without Lebron,
it feels like they're one hundred and seventeenth in terms
of impact. And it's weird watching the cast because they
they had a good team this year. It's just those uniforms.
They should have gone back to the old school uniforms.
(20:15):
Those are like the Lebron uniforms, like you're waiting for
Lebron to run out. He didn't run out. San Antonio
is the thirty seventh biggest media market in terms of
marcut size. But first, and please please don't make the
finals energy. See you got that. And then okay, see
the reigning champions there market number forty five, which in
terms of television is like having a TV station in
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a ghost town in terms of national appeal, so that's
what you got. The Knicks are the only thing, the
only thing keeping the NBA Finals from becoming a regional broadcast.
And yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes ye and Mike Brown, I mean,
I know it even thinks out Mike Brown's that good
a coach. But here we are the league's several decades,
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several decades building global ambassadors to the sport, and they
very well could end up here with the finals watched
exclusively in airport bars, which shows you how little impact
Sga and Wemby have made in terms of being must
see TV. They're just not not that despite the success
on the court. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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Seven The knicks shouldn't need seven games to beat The.
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and some guy FROM i don't, KNOW i assume he's From.
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a game that the basketball team From ohio won by
thirty one. Points James harden took ten, shots he missed
eight of. Them he was zero for six from three point.
Range he had nine points in thirty five. Minutes he.
Is that's the same guy he was with The, rockets
and the same guy he was with The clippers and
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all these other teams he's played. For nothing has. Changed
it just happens That cleveland was able to overcome Playoff,
harden and so it's really a big advantage for The.
Knickerbockers you would think that The knicks would be able
to take advantage of, that and because you really are
playing five against, four And harden will have one or
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two good games and then he'll have the usual malaise
and a couple of games and then the. Rest forget about.
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on the opening mall of. Monologue, yeah gas was real
cheap back when The knicks last won THE nba, title
but you have to remember that the minimum wage back
then was only about a dollar sixty an. Hour that's, true,
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however based on inflation hip If i'm not, mistaken the
price of gas from nineteen seventy three to today should
be based on inflation ABOUT i think it was like
two ninety three or something like. That something in that
area should be less than three dollars a, gallon WHICH
i know it is a lot of, places AND i
(25:56):
don't want to go down gas price mode because then
we'll just get a bunch of people, say, well but
two seventy cents for, GUESS i don't know what you're talking. About,
yeah but based on, inflationship it should be about two
ninety three to eighty three somewhere in that. Area King rory,
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was in The Western conference, finals they would rather start
(26:18):
the off season now instead of Mid. June, besides most
of The pistons players are not used to playing this
late In, may and they would rather unwind and enjoy the.
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ankles just the right, time and then you can go
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going to give you a dreaded oatmeal raisin. Cookie that's
when we give.
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just makes me. Win just, Wait Ben, mallard just wait
till you're in a hospital getting. Surgeries you Know i'm
going to send you all.
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yes just talking about talking about a sports injury and
real life are very. Similar that's that's really. Sharp that's
a sharp take By mark the full name. Guy because
nobody gets hurt in these sports, games, right nobody, know
there are no injuries that doesn't. Happen so why WOULD
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i bring that up as a talk? Shows why WOULD
i bring that?
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but they can afford injuries where other people.
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series changed moron based on. Injury that are you that
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the wrong time injury. Season why is that so hard
for you?
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One you money, Gambling, Ben, NOW i don't really.
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AMBLE i didn't talk about. Gambling this has nothing to
do with. Gambling in your, head everything has to do with.
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Is now off the.
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Shelves, god we don't want to talk about basketball because
the nick will actually win a. CHAMPIONSHIP i just did
a monologue about.
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has this pee up your? Tuck us about? BASKETBALL i don't.
Care i'll talk about.
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don't you explain to us when, yes what do? You
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about injuries Because mark the full name guy might be
offended by.
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Mallard he meant that with.
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LOVE i feel LIKE i might have touched a.
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one of the worst takes. Ever, mark you should go
to you, know we're gonna send you to hot take,
Jail mark the full name. Guy you need some, Help,
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about the series changing on, injuries which is universally true
in professional, basketball and, you're, well you shouldn't talk about.
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there's a bunch of people in hospitals all over the.
Country so we can't talk about that because your mark's
a little sense of a little delicate flower there on
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Bass who's? Next all, All Blind Sea, Bass, Welcome Benjamin.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Man i'm really surprised that this is you, Know. Detroit, well,
actually it doesn't surprise me at all that, they you,
know lost as bad as they. DID i, MEAN i.
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Don't watch basketball to listen to, it BUT i, mean
if you go back to what was at the ninety.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Season wasn't supposedly the bad boys with all them that
walked off the court with like what two minutes to
go against The bulls the year The bulls won. It
so this is like it was an absolute not a
shocker WHEN i heard.
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Isaiah thomas team from back in the day because they
didn't physically leave the, court but mentally they left the
court very. Early in, fact before the fourth. QUARTER i
believe they walked off somewhere in the second. Quarter they gave,
up so very impressive.
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a chill. OUT i, mean you're completely. Right injuries and
anyes for. IT i mean, basketball, football, hockey, baseball and
injury can change the game of a, series and then,
there you, know a game completely. Around so he just
needs to take a chill filling to. Relax but not
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how you've been.
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meet and greet scheduled, Upcoming so we'll just chill out,
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Boom, shaka laka. It's our number one, our one, and
we're ready for some fun. We kick off the new
week on this Monday, the eighteenth day of May. The
Ben Mathers Show a full week ahead. But here in
our number one, what's the word? What is the word for?
Kid Cunningham's Pistons losing an elimination game by thirty one
(00:23):
points to Cleveland. We'll discuss that. Also, coach JB. Bickerstaff
says the Pistons losing Game seven is not a disappointment.
They were at home, they were favored, and Pistons feel good.
Coach also said he will only accept positivity. What say
you and talk about that? Also, what storylines stand out
(00:46):
about the NBA Conference Finals. We're down to the final
four in the NBA. We'll go there as well. Right
now here, it is our number one. Well, they're hitting
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on all cylinders. And then there is that all the
bull crap about all the two greatest words in sports.
Game seven. Welcome in the beginning of another week of
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he used to call the show all the time and
the stress of being a celebrity caller. He had to
retire from calling the show because it's just too much,
very emotional. When you're a star caller, people they expect
certain things out of you. It's not that easy. People
think this is this is not that easy to be
a a big name caller in the mallet militia. So
our lead this hours we begin the new week. Welcome
(03:04):
in here, and we start out in Motown. It was
an island game, the only game going. It had the
entire sporting world watching. Well in theory, of course, it
was on Amazon Prime, so I don't how many people
were watching. People clicking rounded by some toothpaste. Hey, what's that? Oh,
it's a basketball game. Okay, I'll watch a second of it.
(03:28):
And that's that. But Game seven in the East, the
final spot in the final four of the NBA on
the line.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't know if you watched this or not, perhaps
you missed it, but it was Spider Man, well not
really Spider Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell with twenty six points, and
it was really more Jared Allen and Sam Merrill who
they each had twenty three and the Cavaliers stomped out
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the once proud Pistons a one twenty five to ninety four.
Holy Joe Dumars Batman. What happened? As the team from
Ohio has advanced to the final four of the conference finals. There,
the four seeded Calves, often referred to as there by
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their nickname the Cadavers. They they have the ouse to
the top seed. Detroit was the number one seed in
the Eastern Conference and they are out. And so the
third seeded Knicks will have home court advantage at the
Mecca for Game one of that series tips off in
(04:39):
Midtown Manhattan, just adjacent there above Penn Station, and that'll
be coming up on Tuesday. That is a good jumping
off point. Let us discuss the question, all right, what
is the word? What is the word for Cade cutting
Ham's Pistons losing an elimination game by thirty one point? Heights?
(05:01):
Thirty one point loss at home? So I've got SpaceX,
GPS and rotary phones and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to hit a
walk off home run, is what we're going to do.
So a my word again, we're playing the word game.
(05:23):
What is the word for cad Cuttingham's Pistons losing an
elimination game by thirty one points? So my word is
the G word? Gutless? That was gutless by the Detroit
basketball team. My god, was that bad. You don't lose
by thirty one points if you're doing what you're supposed
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to be doing. If you're fighting and scratching and clawing
that team quit. There are a bunch of quitters, the
Detroit Pistons in a game seven. Quit Tell me I'm wrong,
Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me that the cams are
thirty one points better on the road than Detroit. If
Detroit's trying, come on, it's pathetic, right favor They were
favored by four points the Pistons at home season on
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the line, and that was the effort. That's all you got, Like,
what are we doing here? Seriously? Now home cooking? You
might want to you might want to call the ambulance
in advance if that's how you're cooking your meals at home.
The Pistons burned the kitchen down. Okay, think of it
like one of those SpaceX satellites disintegrating as they re
(06:34):
enter the atmosphere. That was the Detroit Pistons here spraying
aluminum oxide into the ozone. And the crowd watched and
they wall, my god, what is that? Burn, baby burn,
that's your twenty twenty six Detroit Pistons right there. This
was not a situation where they were overwhelmed by the moment.
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They were steamrolled by the moment. Here. My goodness, gutless
does not even cover it. I use the word gutless,
but yeah, you gotta go deeper than that. This was
like Oregon donor level soft is.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What this was.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Let me detroyed. They didn't just lose, you know what
they did. They did a base jump without a parachute
is what they did. That doesn't go so well as
we saw in this particular game. Kate Cuttingham, the former
number one overall pick face of the franchise, Kate Cuttingham here,
and he did not rise to the moment. Oh you're
being mean, mallor why are you being mean? I'm just
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telling you what I watched. He tripped over the moment
Kate Cuttingham and then common deered the Vomit Commet. In fact,
he loved the Vomit Commet so much he sold tickets.
Come on down, you're on the Vomit Commet. Why not?
Why not? My goodness, it was so bad. The team
(07:56):
plane didn't just divert to Panic City. They upgraded the
entire team got first class tickets to Panic City. There
and they signed the least My god, uh And he said, well,
it was a magic run, wonderful, great to all that
magic carper ride top seed during the regular season. Well,
the clock definitely did tick tick tick tick tick towards midnight.
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And how about Tobias Harris, who had played way above
his skill set for most of this playoff run for
the Pistons, and he turned back into a y MCA
stretch four at the worst possible time. He turned back
into the guy. Everyone said, why did he get all
that money? How did why did Tobias Harris get paid
(08:40):
all the money? He turned into that guy? Uh yeah, so,
and Cinderella did not just lose the shoe. No, no, no, no,
Detroit crushed Detroit themselves crushed. It wasn't Cleveland crushing at
Detroit crushed it all right. Now, staying with the Pistons,
here says we get some outrageous commentary, and we got
some from JB. Bickerstaff. You might not know who that is,
(09:03):
because why would you know the coach of the Pistons.
I mean, come on, please, anyway, So JB. Bickerstaff is
the head coach. I remember his dad, Bernie, Bernie Bickerstaff.
I believe he's passed away, but Bernie was coaching in
the NBA for a million years. Coach the Sonics and
a bunch of other teams. Anyway, the kid JB. Bickerstaff,
the NEPO baby, the NEPO coach. He was asked about
(09:25):
whether or not this is a disappointment and losing by
thirty plus points at home? Hello in a game seven
kind of an obvious no brainer answer, low hanging fruit. Well,
it turns out Jay JB. Bickerstaff didn't take the bait.
Take a less how big of a disappointment.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It's not a disappointment at all. I'm not ever will
I be disappointed. These guys every single day give us
what they got, you know. So it is not a disappointment.
It's a loss, and it's a tough loss. But you
know that adjective will never be used as the.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
All right, he wanted to say anything other than positivity
is unacceptable. That was the rest of it. So the
question coach JB. Bickerstaff, moments after the Piston has lost
Game seven by thirty plus points, said it is not
a disappointment, and he said that they will only accept positivity.
(10:26):
What say you? All right? So I say capital M
malarkey is what I say? Okay, Detroit, they didn't choke,
as we've laid out here. They never showed up. They
never showed up. They pitdled down their legs in a
game that was plausibly on national TVO, that was on Amazon.
(10:47):
They trailed for ninety nine point nine percent of the game.
They briefly had a three to two lead at the
eleven minute mark of the first quarter of Game seven.
That is not a stat that is a diagnosis for
those of you a little slow in the back of
the room. This is a civic embarrassment. Listen, I'm not
from Michigan, I'm not from Detroit. I got no skin
in the game. I'm just outside telling you what I see.
(11:09):
And this is pathetic, all right. If you check the GPS,
you know a lot of teams say who's house, you know,
with the home court home field division, Who's house? And
in Detroit they can yell crap house. Who's house, crap house.
That's the Pistons. And they even supplied the plumbing which
was all backed up with feces in the air everywhere.
(11:34):
There wasn't basketball, per se. It was not basketball. It
was public defecation. And they had around twenty thousand witnesses
in downtown Detroit outworked out hustled, outplayed, and apparently not disappointed.
That's your Detroit Pistons in a nutshell right there. That's it. JB.
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Bickerstaff saying no disappointment is the most disappointing thing of all.
It's like, come on, do you think the fans are morons?
Maybe they are idiots? Are you Piston fans? Your coach
thinks you're morons? Is he right? Is JB. Bigger Staff right?
My god? You know what? Hearing that and listening to
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some of the other comments from the Detroit locker room,
this is what scared franchises do, right They talk about
positivity while they're drowning in po They talk about positivity
and all that stuff. And Bigger Staff sounded scared. That
sounded to me like a man that was scared. He's
(12:40):
afraid to criticize his players. Are the Detroit Pistons that
soft that if the coach just comes out and says, hey,
we sucked at a time we cannot suck, which is
what everyone knows that he's gonna lose the locker room?
Are they that delicate of the delicate little flowers there?
Kate Cuttingham and the Pistons, they can't be criticized. Come on,
(13:01):
you refuse to publicly acknowledge the snuffle upagus in the room. Okay,
uh and the player gonna normalize as oh I were
nothing's disappointing. What are you talking about? If if I
own the team and my coach after a thirty five
point game seven loss, humiliation came out and said what JB.
(13:22):
Bickerstaff said, he would be fired before the news conference ended.
That's it. I'd gung him off the stage, get out
of here. Now. The Pistons have already, from what I understand,
given Bickerstaff an extension, because that's what bad teams do.
They just why not that this didn't work? So let's
bring back the guy that's like, No, listen, I understand
(13:42):
coaches in the NBA and do very little. Yet you
got to give me more than that. You got to
give me more than that. And if that does not
qualify for the Pistons as disappointment, I would hate to
see what does qualify as disappointment. You would non competitive?
You gave up. You were down by as many as
(14:03):
thirty five points. I lost by thirty one at home.
You showed no fight, no gut, no backbone. That's the Pistons.
That's how they played. I'm just telling you what I
saw and and that's it, and that there's a team
that needs a Joel So when I had a top
seed in the East and all that stuff, keep an
eye out that John Morant chatter. You know, not that
(14:23):
I think John Morant's God's gift to basketball. I did
at one point. But there's a team. Shake it up,
make a move, Try to get John Moran somebody like that.
To change the temperature in the room. You gotta change
the temperature in the room. Meanwhile, the last word, we
now go to the coveted big picture, because I know
that you've been dying to know. My take from a
(14:45):
wide angle ends. The NBA's final four is sick. The
last four who will be cutting down the nets after
the NBA Finals. Oh they don't do that, Okay, fine, Well, anyway,
you have New York versus Cleveland on the eastern part
of the bracket, and Oh Oklahoma, Oh Oklahoma and San
(15:05):
Antonio in the West. One of those teams will stand
alone the pro bouncy ball mountaintop as the champion of
pro basketball. So the question what story lines, what storylines
stand out about the twenty twenty six NBA Conference Finals.
(15:26):
So the conference finals are a buffet of You've got
some desperation off to the right, over here, the little desperation.
You've got delusion, that's all over here. There's in the
middle of there's delusion. And then you've got over here
on the left hand side, you've got television executives who
are clutching stress balls right now. They're holding the balls,
(15:47):
the stress balls. What they're doing here. The Knickerbockers have
not won a title since nineteen seventy three. Okay, that
is not a drought. That is, to use a term
familiar with Oklahoma, that is a dust bowl is what
that is. Fifty three years without winning in the top
(16:09):
market supposedly in terms of population in the country. The
Knicks have not won since the era of rotary phones.
What is a rotary phone? And the price of gas
when the Knickerbockers won the championship was thirty nine cents
a gallon. I just filled up here in LA the
(16:29):
other day it was like five eighty something a gallon.
Thirty nine cents. Of course, that's most of that's the
People's Republic of California, tex But thirty nine cents a
gallon for gas when the Knicks won the championship the
last time, and there were there was no internet, and
there were three channels on television. That's it. That's all.
(16:51):
You got the ABC, CBS, NBC, and now I guess PBS.
So nobody watched that, like nobody watches it these days.
So that's where we are. That's where we are are.
And what else though? But wait, there's more. Well, you've
got at this point that the Knicks are like a
social experiment, and you see how how low can you
go right, how much hope can one fan base endure
(17:16):
before spontaneous combustion leads in? They gonna think about the
Knicks every year like, oh, this are year, we're gonna
be good. Oh the next you're gonna get this year. Anyway,
here's the reality the Knicks are in this scenario, the
final four teams of the avay, the Knicks are a
life raft. On the other side, you've got the Enigma Bowl. Okay,
you've got Carl Anthony Towns versus James Harden, Carl Anthony
(17:39):
Towns versus James Harden, and Kat still carries that even
though he spied well in the playoffs. He carries that
marshmallow vibe with him. You've got that. And then you've
got James Harden, who one of those guys gonna make
the finals. If James Harden makes the finals, that effectively
breaks the social media world, and I think basketball Twitter
(18:02):
will have to just die. That'll be it. And either way, though,
someone is going to get the redemption arc that we
do not want. It is going to happen. Then you
got Spider Mitchell, Donovan Mitchell, who grew up in the
shadow of Madison Square Garden in the New York area
there and now he can evict the Knicks from championship
(18:24):
dreams and all that, and then that, and so he's
the hometown kid who's playing the role of the neighborhood burglar.
You've got out west. You got Wemby versus SGA, that's
the match up there. And the Parisian prodigy versus what
they call me the Maple Mamba. I don't know it
seems gonna be, but you know Forberd Clipper, of course.
(18:46):
And then you got Wemby, who's out there looking like
he's built in a lab somewhere, some kind of weird
basketball lab. In France with French philosophers, or possibly just
a draft that to dribble by studying jazz. It's also
possible he still looks like a draft. Meanwhile, you got
the SGA Clipper former clipper there, the debonair superstar who
(19:10):
just won another MVP award, reigning champion, trying to add
to his jewelry collection and all that stuff. And if
you look though at the tail of the tape, it's
very important to tail of tape here, and you look around,
A finals without the Knicks. If Cleveland ends up winning
a finals without the Knicks is a ratings apocalypse. Now,
(19:31):
I don't work in television. I don't work for the NBA.
It's not my problem. And I will talk about the finals.
I don't care who's in it, and it's part of
the job. However, doesn't mean I'm gonna be all gung ho.
And this is looking really dangerous. If the Knicks aret in,
you're gonna have either Cleveland versus San Antonio. That's not
a finals, that's a rerun from twenty seven that nobody
(19:54):
asked for. So you got that. Cleveland is the seventeenth
largest market media market in the country. And although without Lebron,
it feels like they're one hundred and seventeenth in terms
of impact. And it's weird watching the cast because they
they had a good team this year. It's just those uniforms.
They should have gone back to the old school uniforms.
(20:15):
Those are like the Lebron uniforms, like you're waiting for
Lebron to run out. He didn't run out. San Antonio
is the thirty seventh biggest media market in terms of
marcut size. But first, and please please don't make the
finals energy. See you got that. And then okay, see
the reigning champions there market number forty five, which in
terms of television is like having a TV station in
(20:38):
a ghost town in terms of national appeal, so that's
what you got. The Knicks are the only thing, the
only thing keeping the NBA Finals from becoming a regional broadcast.
And yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes ye and Mike Brown, I mean,
I know it even thinks out Mike Brown's that good
a coach. But here we are the league's several decades,
(21:03):
several decades building global ambassadors to the sport, and they
very well could end up here with the finals watched
exclusively in airport bars, which shows you how little impact
Sga and Wemby have made in terms of being must
see TV. They're just not not that despite the success
on the court. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If
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Ago we'll get to all of, that and we will
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AND i love, you and you.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Can say hello To LORENA Fsr Tech, queen what Up?
Bill talk to me and Coober loop at All bronco
fan your comments can and we'll be used against you
in the court of sports. Radio jill In, minnesota although
her heart is In New York. City The knicks in.
Seven The knicks shouldn't need seven games to beat The.
(24:05):
Calves it's not like. Playoff harden is not a. Thing
and some guy FROM i don't, KNOW i assume he's From.
Cleveland he didn't say where he's. FROM i assume he's
A calves. Fan and, well he is A cavs. Fan
and he sent me an. Emo are you gonna apologize
To James? Harden are you gonna say Sorry JAMES horyo
know A James harden validated my take In game, seven
(24:30):
a game that the basketball team From ohio won by
thirty one. Points James harden took ten, shots he missed
eight of. Them he was zero for six from three point.
Range he had nine points in thirty five. Minutes he.
Is that's the same guy he was with The, rockets
and the same guy he was with The clippers and
(24:51):
all these other teams he's played. For nothing has. Changed
it just happens That cleveland was able to overcome Playoff,
harden and so it's really a big advantage for The.
Knickerbockers you would think that The knicks would be able
to take advantage of, that and because you really are
playing five against, four And harden will have one or
(25:13):
two good games and then he'll have the usual malaise
and a couple of games and then the. Rest forget about.
It chip in the queues, right since says a plus
on the opening mall of. Monologue, yeah gas was real
cheap back when The knicks last won THE nba, title
but you have to remember that the minimum wage back
then was only about a dollar sixty an. Hour that's, true,
(25:35):
however based on inflation hip If i'm not, mistaken the
price of gas from nineteen seventy three to today should
be based on inflation ABOUT i think it was like
two ninety three or something like. That something in that
area should be less than three dollars a, gallon WHICH
i know it is a lot of, places AND i
(25:56):
don't want to go down gas price mode because then
we'll just get a bunch of people, say, well but
two seventy cents for, GUESS i don't know what you're talking. About,
yeah but based on, inflationship it should be about two
ninety three to eighty three somewhere in that. Area King rory,
Writes since says The pistons lost intentionally after seeing who
was in The Western conference, finals they would rather start
(26:18):
the off season now instead of Mid. June, besides most
of The pistons players are not used to playing this
late In, may and they would rather unwind and enjoy the.
Summer so he, Says Ferg dogs is nice showing by
your sorry ass angels over the, Weekend, COOP i guess
(26:39):
your halos are just no match For ben And E's
dodgers back to back. Champs Baby Ferg dogs officially burned
his angel. Memorabilia it would appear that he has burned
all of His angel. Memorabilia did you.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
See they've found apossum in the.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Stadium oh is that?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Right, yes they pulled it up from the top of the.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Bleachers, okay, well the possum actually showed more effort than
The angel batters this. Series rob Rights in says The
cavs smashed The pistons In game seven like they were
playing against The lakers' From, well that's pretty, HARSH i do,
that Random ryan In carolina Rights. In he SAYS nascar
(27:23):
had Their All Star race On sunday In, Dover, delaware
because nothing says All. Star harden knows racing Like. Delaware mugging,
it mugging, it mugging, it mugging, it muggingy absolutely, correct thousand.
Percent Bill's, monster part Of Bill's, mafia Says John morant
(27:44):
will be traded The lakers in the. Offseason so Will,
Jokic so, so he. Says michael Writes, SPEN i know
you are not a Big jersey, guy BUT i wore
My Sean elliott number thirty two to The Tulsa Minor
league baseball game last night just to annoy thunder. Fans
(28:05):
the only team standing In okase's way Is San antonio and,
Objectively i've got okac in seven versus My spurs The.
East please all, right, well it's a good looking retro
old School spurs jersey and all that With Sean. Elliott,
(28:26):
Though i've learned over the years that if it looks too,
easy it probably. Is and all you need if you're
The knicks or The cavaliers is a couple of twisted
ankles just the right, time and then you can go
out and win a. Championship let's go to the, phones and,
Yes cooper a little would like to hear him. BREATHING
i Hear coop. Breathing, Yes.
Speaker 9 (28:43):
COOP i, MEAN i know Fer dog was being like
tongue in, cheek BUT i did get a number of
different tweets from people over the weekend with Like angels
memes and Don angels. SUCKED i don't know if you
listened to the, show BUT i gave up on The
angels years. AGO i don't care when you're over, It,
(29:04):
yeah moved. On it Doesn't it doesn't hurt. ME i
know they are a trash, franchise But, cooper remember.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Now that it's for the moms and the kids Of Orange.
County they don't care where the team. Wins and then come,
on moms want to take their kids to a safe
space and watch some baseball and they don't really. Care
what do you even keep? Scoring? Already to save? Money
you know how much that scoreboard costs of The BIG.
A just shut it. Down don't even put the score up?
There who? Cares save some money in? Electricity what seriously
(29:34):
were the? Outsore was the? Total let me? SEE i
DIDN'T i? Know it was fifteen The dodgers wor fifteen On?
Saturday forty five to? Three things that it's it's. Outstanding let's, go.
Folks let's say hello To Enie Meani Miney. Mode let's
go To mark the full name guy who is out
(29:56):
on The Oregon. Trail, Hello, mark the full name, guy.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The LOW bn. Mallur you, know listening to you talk
about THE nba makes me not ever want to watch a. Game.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Ever you haven't watched AN nba game and at least
ten years it's AN nba game in a week you
have Not you are lying you don't watch THE.
Speaker 8 (30:19):
Nba it's been an entire week SINCE i watched AN.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Nba, Congratulations i'll give you a.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Cookie thank, you so much as long as it's a
chocolate chip.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
COOKIE I, mica, no, No i'm not going to give
you a chocolate. Chip you haven't earned the. Chocolate i'm
going to give you a dreaded oatmeal raisin. Cookie that's
when we give.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
You you Can i'll take.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
That you, know.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
The next, Year mike win a.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Championship as to hear you, say, snap, crackle, pop it
just makes me. Win just, Wait Ben, mallard just wait
till you're in a hospital getting. Surgeries you Know i'm
going to send you all.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Those, well that is that is a brilliant you, know,
yes just talking about talking about a sports injury and
real life are very. Similar that's that's really. Sharp that's
a sharp take By mark the full name. Guy because
nobody gets hurt in these sports, games, right nobody, know
there are no injuries that doesn't. Happen so why WOULD
(31:20):
i bring that up as a talk? Shows why WOULD
i bring that?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Up.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
ALR i know they get paid a lot of, money
but they can afford injuries where other people.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Cannot it's not the, point. Dummy the point is that
series changed moron based on. Injury that are you that
oubtuose that you don't understand that he's a twisted ankleed
the wrong time injury. Season why is that so hard
for you?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Understand, LOOK i don't care how many INJURIES i have
One you money, Gambling, Ben, NOW i don't really.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Care About HAVE i mentioned gambling at all in the?
Show i've not mentioned. GAMBLING i have. Not i've been
on the airph almost forty. MINUTES i haven't Mentioned gammingcuse?
Speaker 8 (31:59):
Me could you?
Speaker 1 (32:00):
AMBLE i didn't talk about. Gambling this has nothing to
do with. Gambling in your, head everything has to do with.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Gambling, Okay Ben maller speaking of, baseball me and his basketball.
Speaker 8 (32:12):
Is now off the.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Shelves, god we don't want to talk about basketball because
the nick will actually win a. CHAMPIONSHIP i just did
a monologue about.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Basketball what are you talking? About you're the one that
has this pee up your? Tuck us about? BASKETBALL i don't.
Care i'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Anything so here we go IN, Mlb Ben, maller why
don't you explain to us when, yes what do? You
what do?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
You?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
When they?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yet what she? Eating side stealing began because there wasn't
a twenty seventeen AND i.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay so this Is this Is mark trying to support
cheating the. Astros this Is. Mark he likes cheaters and all.
That go ahead to sport before your little out boom boom.
Egg you, see he got hurt, again old. On we
can't talk about that movie got. Hurt we shouldn't talk
about injuries Because mark the full name guy might be
offended by.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
That you're talking over me the whole. Time, huh fuck You.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Mallard he meant that with.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
LOVE i feel LIKE i might have touched a.
Speaker 7 (33:16):
Nerve maybe you, did, maybe but you know what he's.
Saying you're talking over. Him he's yelling over. You you're not.
Yelling he's over here like.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
He's just talking. Gibberish and he got absolutely school and
one of the worst takes. Ever, mark you should go
to you, know we're gonna send you to hot take,
Jail mark the full name. Guy you need some, Help,
MARK i, mean that's the worst take. EVER i talk
about the series changing on, injuries which is universally true
in professional, basketball and, you're, well you shouldn't talk about.
(33:45):
It oh my, god it's in a. Hospitals so but
there's a bunch of people in hospitals all over the.
Country so we can't talk about that because your mark's
a little sense of a little delicate flower there on
The Oregon. Trail all, right let's go To Blind Sea.
Bass who's? Next all, All Blind Sea, Bass, Welcome Benjamin.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
Man i'm really surprised that this is you, Know. Detroit, well,
actually it doesn't surprise me at all that, they you,
know lost as bad as they. DID i, MEAN i.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Don't watch basketball to listen to, it BUT i, mean
if you go back to what was at the ninety.
Speaker 6 (34:16):
Season wasn't supposedly the bad boys with all them that
walked off the court with like what two minutes to
go against The bulls the year The bulls won. It
so this is like it was an absolute not a
shocker WHEN i heard.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
This, well in many, ways The pistons actually honored The
Isaiah thomas team from back in the day because they
didn't physically leave the, court but mentally they left the
court very. Early in, fact before the fourth. QUARTER i
believe they walked off somewhere in the second. Quarter they gave,
up so very impressive.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
Almost and most definitely they. Did and, Dude Mark guiney's
a chill. OUT i, mean you're completely. Right injuries and
anyes for. IT i mean, basketball, football, hockey, baseball and
injury can change the game of a, series and then,
there you, know a game completely. Around so he just
needs to take a chill filling to. Relax but not
(35:09):
how you've been.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Brother oh look at that blind ce, bass the, man the,
myth the. Legend you check in every once in a,
while the. Listener you're still. Alive that's a good. Thing
you sound, healthy you sound. Good sound everything's, fine everything's,
okay everything's. Good we're back at it. Here No mallard
meet and greet scheduled, Upcoming so we'll just chill out,
here do the, show and then at some point this
summer we'll pick that up. Again we had a great
(35:30):
time In boston and a wonderful, time AND i had
a great time In kentucky there In, Newport. Kentucky so
it's been a good couple of, weeks good. Month when
you come out to the, veill, UH i haven't been.
INVITED i got to be properly invited and all. That you, know,
well THEN.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
I formerly improperly invite you to the.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Veill all, right we gotta go to the Vill you
want to go to the VILLA i love a good
vill you don't even? Know has no idea what that she? Has?
No what do you think that? Is what do you?
Speaker 7 (35:59):
Think maybe Maybe? Victorville, Yes.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Victorville, yeah last place we will ever have a. Meet and,
yeah we will not be meeting In. VICTORVILLE i will not.
Be that's in the high desert by the, Way Blind
Sea bass In. California you have no but try. Again
you're all for, One, Lorena try. Again which ville are
we talking?
Speaker 7 (36:20):
About the only other VILLA i know Is Cruella? Deville is?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It, yes we're gonna meet At Corella.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Deville we're gonna meet totally. DOWN i can dress up for,
that all, right reveal.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Answers, yes this is.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
The answer to the Correct.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Ishville the.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
Music oh my, GOSH i want to have chicken. Strips
Buck rising is In, Nashville, Travis, okay all, right, yeah
well we'll get.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
There at some, point we'll get. There we'll HANG i gotta.
Go thanks for checking in the Great.
Speaker 7 (36:48):
Blind, Nashville, Nashville.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Nashville, yes, Okay, yeah they're. More they're known for more
than just. Chicken it's, uh it's other other things that
can hand country music, yes, there we got the birthplace
of modern country. Music it is The Bean Malor. Show
ton now for the who AM? I? Game so The
Pistons Jalen duran average nine point three fewer points in
(37:12):
the playoffs than he did during the regular, season the
biggest drop off in An All star season since. Me,
again The Pistons jalen burn averaged nine point three fewer
points in the playoffs than he did in the regular,
season the biggest drop off in An All star season since?
Me who AM?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I the?
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Answer, next be sure to catch live editions Of The
Ben Maller show weekdays at two Am eastern eleven Pm, Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Bill miller and. You it is The Ben Mahler, show
which is plausibly a radio. Show it is also a YouTube.
Show you can check it out on. YouTube we have
our own, channel and we know how many people listen
to the. Show we know how many people listen to the.
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YouTube so please follow us on the YouTube channel At
Ben Mahler's. Show do, better be, Better thank, you thank,
(38:03):
you thank. You all right back to where we go
and in his, Time now for the payoff on the
who AM? I? Game that's where we pretend to be
somebody else and we go to pro bouncy ball where
The Pistons Jalen duran who Is he averaged nine point
three fewer points in the playoffs than he did in
(38:25):
the regular. Season i'm told that's not. Good in, fact
it's the biggest drop off in An All star season since.
Me who AM? I that is the? Question what's the?
Answer femi Says the referees best Friend Shaye Jogis alexander
is the. Answer who else do we? Have andy in
(38:46):
Lion O, Lakes minnesota going With Harry. Tumor it's wonderful
to be back listening to the show. Again, Well i'm
glad we're all united. Here ike In, Roseville, minnesota Said Baron.
Davis Alf the a ol piner from just adjacent To,
springfield mass Near, worcester Says randy And, norman who created
(39:08):
the hullabaloo over pro bouncy ball Or bouncy Arn bouncy
got a very Upset John, cangelosi good name by, mister nice.
Guy love the. Name Freddie freeman from Analog Al hayes In.
Minnesota From shane in the, morning we haven't heard From
hayes in a. While it's been been a long. Time
our Vetas sabonis From robbie The mariner. Fan who else
(39:31):
do we? Have anthony And Louisiana Halea rena from malor Prop.
Guy that's his, Answer chalky Mcchalky white From Just? Josh
who else we? Have mark From queen Says James harden
has got to be the. Answer Willis reid From eileen
who likes a good radio jingle In San. Francisco mathra
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From michael In, OKLAHOMA Jj reddick the podcaster From, Robin.
Minnesota Zill unus ilgoscis a good name From sean in
The valley of The. Sun bozo the clown From, Gillen San,
diego also not a bad, name by the, Way mark
the full name guy is enraged on social. Media he's
very upset with. Me he's sending me lots of mean.
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Things All, RIGHT, I, lorena do you have an? Answer
the Ranger keanu reeves, no that is. Incorrect the correct,
Answer Elgin baylor is nineteen sixty. Nine that's how long
it's been since somebody sucked as much As Jalen durham
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