May 21, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Minnesota Timberwolves getting smoked by the Thunder in the 2nd half of Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals and who is to blame, if OKC was so dominant that the series is over after one game, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah our one
on this Wednesday, Happy hump Day, the twenty first day
of May, as we are united together for marginal sports talk.
We were up all night recording this pod here in
our number one. It's all about the Western Conference Finals
game number one and who wears the Dunce cap of
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shame for the Timberwolves getting smoked in the second half.
Also was SGA and the thunder so dominant that this
series is over after one game. Some are saying just that,
and Michael Malone, the Nuggets coach, has entered the chat.
Malone doing some television said during the broadcast that Shay
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jogis Alexander, that he showed why he's the MVP. Do
you find that meaningful considering the past commentary of Michael
Malone in Denver? We do, and we'll explain why. All right,
Now give it up for our numberumber one. Well that
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was not the big bad Wolf, No, no, no. I
thought the wolf would not be blown away and scared
of the thunder. I didn't think that was going to happen.
But surprise, surprise, surprise, Welcome in not beginning of another
night of the Bain Mallard show, one after another. They
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keep coming and coming and coming and coming.
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You're Minnesota Termrill' you gonna sweep?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
How'd that go?
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every day. We have the soup of the day, we
have the meal of the day, we have the dessert
of the day, all of that, all of that for you. Now,
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the main course here in our number, I said our number. Yes,
the main course here is our lead in the dust bowl.
That's where we go here. That was the stage for
an island game. An island game, there's a standalone event,
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a standalone event, the lid lifter on the Conference finals.
The curtain goes up. And I would not say much anticipated.
I do not believe that's true. I believe that would
be fake to say it is much anticipated. But Anthony
Edwards in the well rested timm Mberwolves visiting Sga and
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Okase in Game one of the Western Finals. So I
don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe you
were doing something else and you didn't get to watch it.
Not your cup of tea. I watched it either, mute button,
you know certain broadcasters. I just can't. I can't do it.
I try, I can't do it. So no words. We
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watched so you would not have to. It is our
good mitzvah of the day and good news. You did
not miss anything that game. It was a dud duh,
dud dud dude shake. Jilgis Alexander, who did not play
particularly well through the first twenty four minutes of the
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game and his team was trailing at halftime in a
very unentertaining first half of basketball, and then in the
second half he scored twenty of his thirty one points.
I'm told that's good. I didn't play in the NBA,
but I'm told that's good. And the top seed there,
Oklahoma City, took out the butcher knife and butchered off
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some wolf and they had that for dinner as they win,
going away one fourteen to eighty eight in Game one
of the Western Finals. So Joegis Alexander eight of fourteen
in the second half from the floor, I think that's good.
And Julius Randall did all of his damage, mostly in
the first half he had twenty eight points, just eight
points in the second half when it was blow out city. Now,
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Game two is on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, as the Eastern
Conference will take the center stage in the game coming
up here on a Wednesday night. But let's discuss Game
one of the Western Conference Finals and the question who
wears the Dunce cap of shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves
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getting smoked in the second and a half of this
game run off the court. So my thoughts on this,
I've got Mickey Gambler's fallacy and Pink Floyd and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some amazing, amazing Baba Ganooche is what
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we're gonna make. We're gonna make the barbaganuse shirley. We
normally make the barbag noose later, we're gonna make the
barbaganus shirly. So my first thought on this a nothing
has changed more in my lifetime than halftime adjustments. Now,
this is a line one of my old radio friends,
part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I used
to do a very popular Sunday show until the company
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cancel it, and we used to screw around with all
the cliches and sports and we love the halftime adjustments
and how dumb fans, oh halftime adjustments, Oh my god,
like you wait till halftime to make some kind of
amazing adjustments. But anyway, Minnesota's up by four at halftime.
I'm trying to stay awake, right, I got an overnight
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show to do. I'm trying to I mean, this was
not entertained. Was anyone entertained? You know, were you not entertained?
I don't know anyone that was entertained with the first half,
but it it was within the margins. They're like, okay,
so it's not a great game. However, if it's close
with five minutes to go or four minutes to go,
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there's something there. There's something there. Okay, I can deal
with that. I can I can navigate that. But to
answer the question, who wears the Dunce cap of shame
for the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's go to the very top
of the CEO as Anthony Edwards did the thing you
can't do with the time, you can't do it. He
decided to go surfing. Anthony Edwards. Now, if you've ever
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been in Oklahoma, that is mission impossible to go surfing
in Oklahoma, cow ubunga dude as Anthony Edwards went out
there as a surfer and wiped out. That was a
will wipeout in the second half, blown off the map?
How bad was it? Thanks for asking? How bad was it? Was?
So bad? Okay? Ant Man went Mickey and I'm not
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talking Mickey mouse. I think somebody might have slipped him
a Mickey at halftime there, Oh Mickey, You're so fine
unless you're not. Holy crap. Did he suck in the
second half? Did he need a nap? Maybe he needed
a nap the way he played two of six floor
in the second a half five point. I may give
you have numbers the number I don't think you have had.
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We've seen it. The numbers are bad. His his performance
was actually worse. He ended up with five points in
the second half, a couple of assists, a couple of fouls.
And keep in mind, going to the fourth quarter, the
Wolves were down by ten, So ten is not an
insurmountable at least five possessions five to two point baskets.
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But the NBA now is Papa shot and so it's
just shoes made three pointers so that's that's like three
and and a half possessions, and you have the lead
in the NBA, and he in the fourth quarter down ten,
going to the fourth quarter, Anthony Edwards the face of
the franchise, well facil on this night, certainly not. He
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pitched a shutout, very rare to see a shout out
these days, and did not even need to go to
the bullpen. As Anthony Edwards the final twelve minutes, as
the joker would say, he got zero zip, zilch, nada,
And as my grandfather would say, bupkis is what he
got in the fourth quarter of that game, as Minnesota
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got run off the court there by Oklahoma City. So
the question as we turned the page here, the next
question to address was the Oklahoma City domination situation with
schae Jogis Alexander. Was Oklahoma City's so oh good, so
amazing that this series is now over after one game?
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Is this Western Conference Finals? Can you now start to
write the eulogy for Minnesota and the concession speech for
Minnesota to give to Oklahoma City? Was it that bad
a performance by the Wolves that this is a futile
effort by Minnesota. So I'm shaking my head. No, here,
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I don't believe that. And as pat Riley taught me
when I was a little boy, the playoffs, they don't
start until the home team loses at home. So last
I checked, Oklahoma City was favored. They won the game
at home. Okay, so they did what they were supposed
to do. Congratulations, what be damn do? But I would
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also advise you to not be a prisoner of the moment.
And one of the reasons that the sportsbooks do so
well is the gambler's fallacy that the low information fan
believes that whatever they just saw is going to continue
forever and effort and ever and effort, and well, Minnesota's
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just not very good and they don't match up well
with Oklahoma City, and so this is just gonna the
way it's gonna go, and the series will be over,
maybe five games. It'll be a gentleman sweep. And that's
that's that. I have learned that life generally does not
work that way. Assuming Minnesota doesn't doesn't quit. Some of
these NBA teams have a propensity to quit. As we
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learn from Aaron Gordon to the Nuggets, the players are
very tired and they need a lot of time. Didn't
Aaron Gordon tell us the Nuggets genius the mensa there
for the Nuggets, didn't he tell us that if the
NBA wanted to prevent blowouts, they need more time off
between games. Well, Minnesota had more time off. They got
run off the court in the second half. So I
guess that kills that hypothesis from Aaron Gordon. Anyway back
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to this, So, one of the reasons that many people
seem to enjoy the pro bouncy ball is the chess match,
right that that's the selling point. It's a chess match
on hardwood, and we've all heard that. And you make
your move and then there's a counter move, and so
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that is where we are, right, that is where we
are at this point. For Minnesota, they got embarrassed in
the second half and Chris Finch and the Wolves half,
so I'm explaining to do. I would recommend getting out
the mop and the bucket and doing a little scrub
a dub dub, and that's what I recommend there Minnesota.
They also lost their marbles a bit as they were
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doing what all NBA players do and their things are
not going well. They bitch and complained to the officials.
That's what always happens. I always we're not getting the whistles.
They seemed very upset that that Shaye Juggas Alexander was
being able to bait players into fouls early in the game.
And I think you would expect that. That's how the
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NBA has been my entire life. I'm getting old and
it's always been this way, like the start player is
able to bait get the officials to call foules. Here's
Chris Finch, the Minnesota coach, commenting on that hullabaloo.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Take a listen, coach, because you sent some of the
frustrations that some of your players had with some of
the calls that Shay was able to drink.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there. But
we got to we know, we talked about that before
the series started, and you know, we got we have
to be able to uh kind of put that aside
and get on with the next play mentality.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay, well they didn't do that, Coach, they you might
have told them to do that. They're not listening. You
might want to get them a Q tip and clean
out their ears because there's some orange goo in their ears.
I would say, uh either, I mean the scouting guide,
which tells you what has happened now is going to
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happen coming into this game. The argument was that this
is a mismatch because Minnesota is a wreck team with
the basketball. They are not someone that protects the ball.
He turned the ball over a lot. They make a
lot of self inflicted mistakes. And you combine that with
a team that does force mistakes and you take advantage
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of that, and that's a huge problem. And so that
was a problem in this game as Oklahoma City was
plus twenty one on points off turnovers, they outscored Minnesota
by twenty one points on points off turnovers. So that
is I didn't play in the amba. Not a coach.
I think that's an issue. You know, you're so hard
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on the Minnesota team. But give him a break. Okay,
all right, I'll give him break. Give him a break
and go out. I think you can get this on Amazon.
Buy some smelling salts and at halftime and whatever Anthony
Edrewards was doing. You know, we made a joke about
a mickey. But give him some smelling salts, wake him
up a little bit, give him some caffeine or something
to get him going there at halftime. That would help
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and remind Joyous Randall that he does need to play
the full game, not part of the game. Now, the
story within the story, though, happened on the TV broadcast
I mentioned I have the sound down. There's a certain
broadcaster that I always mute when I hear their voice.
I just like nails on a truck board. So, but
the other stuff, which is also terrible about it? God,
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is TNT so much better than ESPN. My guy, were
you just work at Fox? No? I work at iHeart Fox.
Whatever it is, it just sucks. I mean, they are
so bad, Holy crap? Are they bad? Do they try
to be bad? Do they have like production meetings saying
how bad can we be at television? I might, Oh
my god, it is unwatchable, but it's so bad. They
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bring in random guest commentators that Michael Malone and the
former Nuggets coach, popped up on TV in the Conference
finals and he ended up actually making some news. Now,
how on God's Green Earth could Michael Malone, the old
Nuggets coach, makes some news. Let me let me explain here.
(15:59):
So I think, do we have the audio on this
and we have this? Are I think we both. No,
we don't have it. Oh, okay, I sent you to
Actually I sent you to two clips. All right, Well,
I guess we don't have it. But Malone two months ago,
as coach of the Denver Nuggets, was waxing loquacious about
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his guy at the time, Nicola Jokic, and he was
laying it on thick. Take a listen, we have it
our two months ago. Here is Michael Malone as Denver
Nuggets head coach, talking about the MVP race, and at
that time he was talking mostly about a guy named
the Joker. Take a list My thing is this.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You know, if you didn't know that Nicola won three
MVPs and I put player A and player B on paper,
and you had no idea that the guy who's averaging
a triple double, the guy who's top three in the
three major statistical categories, things that no one's ever done,
he wins the MVP ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Okay, so boom perfect, that's your MVP. Well here's Michael
Malone on television on ESPN ABC a few hours ago.
Take a listen, and then.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Shake gilges Alexander. He showed he's the MVP, all right,
so there you go. Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
In the span of a short period of time, Shade
Jogis Alexander showed why he's the MVP. Do you find
that meaningful? Yes? To infinity and beyond, Yes, I find
it meaningful. The plot thickens, The plot thickens. Okay, Malone
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was on the campaign trail. We played some of it
when he was in Denver there and he was essentially
wearing knee pads for Nikola Jokic as the MVP. Keep
in mind, they haven't even named the MVP. It's not
like SGA won the award on Monday. They haven't even
announced who the MVP is. But this is what's known
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as say it with me now, kids, a dead way.
It is a deadive way. It is a dead giveaway
because it's rather obvious. I mean, you could see this
from outer space right and it's I don't even know,
I mean it was. It's kind of like in sometimes
in music there'll be a subliminal message. I don't know
how subliminable this is. You know, sometimes there's messages hidden
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deep in songs. A lot of you have an old timer,
you remember back in the day, Pink Floyd famously had
a backward saying in empty spaces in the saying was congratulations,
you have just discovered the secret message. So Michael Malone
is telling you without telling you, that NICOLEA. Jokic is
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a coach killer. That nicoleak is why Michael Malone is
not the coach of the Denver Nugates. And it's rather obvious,
like unless you're just a country bump kid, it's right there,
it's right there, Michael Malone TV. Michael Malone is announcing, hey,
this guy is by saying scambb the way he said it,
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that is a tell. It is an absolute tell. And
Malone's been around long enough, we know how this. When
you're the star player, franchise player, all right, franchise play.
If you want the coach, the coach stays. If you
don't want the coach, or you don't give an opinion
on the coach, the coach goes. So to me, this
is there's no debate, like it's over. Nikola Jokic is
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a coach killer. He did not advocate for Michael Malone.
And that is why Michael Malone's not doing bad television.
Right there, all right, is the Ben Mahler Show. If
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it'll be just amazing, just amazing. Well, it is a
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I will attempt to be Benny Brightside. We'll get to
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Speaker 5 (20:16):
Do it.
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It's just an empty space situation. It's II Bill Miller
reminding you of these old songs. They used to be
these things called DJs on radio stations, and they used
to talk up to the post of the song when
the song kicked in, so they have these long leadings.
And some friends in the music industry have told me,
some music radio people that they stop doing that about
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ten years ago because DJ's don't talk into songs anymore.
They just go from song to songs. Look, it's still going,
It's it's still there. You go anyway. It is right
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Oh man, you'll be so bummed out. Man Alive Troy
writes and says aunt Man was more shook than Ben
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mal after that game one ok C smacked down on
the Wolves. He'll be fine one stinking game Late night
drug Testers says no worries about the timber puffs until
Hayes is washing washing that playoff body. They are still alive.
Speaking of Hayes, is Ohio State recognizing Jeffrey Dahmer's birthday today. Yeah,
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you don't hear a lot of Ohio State people celebrating
the former Buck Eye there Jeffrey Dahmer that you know.
I decided that they eat some play.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Some Jeffrey Dahmer songs though yeah, wow, there ain't.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Really what there's songs that have his name in them.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Wow. Okay. You know some schools like Harvard, there's been
some people that went there and dropped out that started
like the people that started Zuckerberg. They went to Harvard,
he fell out. They like to celebrate the fact that
he went to Harvard, but he didn't graduate as far
as I know at the time, from Harvard, and he
started Facebook. He actually stole it from a couple other
people and then went with it.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Weird fandoms like yeah, but this guy, like Jeffrey Dahmer's infamous,
he like killed people and chopped him up and ate
them like that's I mean, you know, not many people
want to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Most people look down upon that. Firk Dog says, the
only thing I knew for sure, you'd say about the
thunder wind tonight, was that you didn't watch a second
of the game, was sound on. I don't blame you,
And he mentions that Doris Burk. I have nothing against
dorisburg I'm sure she's a lovely woman and a very
nice woman, just be great to hang out with. I
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just cannot cannot deal with her broadcasting. I can't. He's
probably a me problem, I admit it. Uh, you know
a lot of you Wolkester's lover. Good for you, just
not my my thing, not my jam. So the Mexican
John Dutton writes and says Ben tells Slingshot that the
Timberwolves will lose this series. Okay, Well, if he's listening,
(24:57):
he's he's likely in hiding. He's probably in the back
of a Walmart, hiding in the corner of the Walmart
there in northern Minnesota, in the fetal position, sucking his thumb.
King Rory writes in from Wisconsin. Northern Wisconsin says, I'm
calling it now, get those broomsticks out, because the thunder
are sweeping the timber pups and it's all thanks to
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the clippers. So if the thunder go to the finals
it's basically like they did it for the Clippers and
the city of Seattle, says King Rory. Okay, you're falling
for the gamboos policy. Zephyr writes in says, hey, Ben,
your guy a helmet man talking to Tim Case. I
guess we're getting covered up by Dodger programming in La. Okay,
(25:41):
go good for helmet man. He did reach out to
me the other day. A helmet man sent me a
message with his new Obama phone. So he's got his
phone now. He's a very exciting helmet man. He let
me know that he's got his new phone that taxpayers
are paying for. So that's good.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Is it so called the Obama phone?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It is a legacy of the Obama administration forever known
as the Obama phone. You ask any most of the
people that call the show have Obama phones and they
proudly say it's an Obama phone.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Yeah. Same with food stamps. Right, we don't call them
what they now are called, like snap benefits or something.
We don't call them snap. They still call them food
stamps even though they're not foodstamp.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, we don't. The food stamp thing is like a
dated Uh well, it's actually the EBT is what they
call it, Electronic Benefits Transfer Card. But forever it's foodstamps.
It's food stamps. Yeah, and that's just what it is.
That's the colloquial term. It's big word, colloquial.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
It's the fun term.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's a great term.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
By term of the.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Week, Yeah, that could be the term of the week,
I can on the Fifth Hour podcast, colloquial could be
the term I can say. G Man's in Chicago rights in.
He says a plus on the Mala Monologue. NBA playoffs
are as good as a lead a lap fart in
the Fox Sports radio studios. The tech queen smells it.
It stinks, it says a G Managers. I watch one
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hundred and twenty seconds of an NBA game, It stinks.
What's the difference, by the way, f al touve that
little nudist cheater. Great ending to that message by GM Manage,
Great ending, GM Manage. Listen. I watched that game. I
didn't bet on the game Minnesota and Oklahoma City. If
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I did not have a talk show to do, would
I have been watching that game? What do you think
that was a rhetorical question? I think you know the answer.
Sean in the Valley of the Sun Rites and better
known as Syrias Sean, and he's the non secutar man Sewn.
He sent us a photo of a map of his
(27:40):
coverage area as he's delivering stuff driving around the Greater
Phoenix area, and it does look like a bird eating
a snack. The coverage map, to me, looks like an
ostridge that is at a lake and is eating some
kind of item on the side of the lake, bending
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down its neck.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
That's what it looks like because they're like their path
makes a doodle, right.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, something like ye, yes, somebody like just go with it,
super Marcus Steve Wrights and says Ben I can almost
he said, he said, I called my shot two days
ago that Minnesota, if they lose in the first game
of the finals, they will claim it's because they had
too much time off between games. Uh, and yeah, I
did hear. I listened to some of Chris Finch on
the postgame, the Minnesota coach, and he didn't mention rust.
(28:33):
So you you can't make this up. These guys will
complain about anything. Yeah, you got the Denver nugget. Guys
bitching because they don't have enough time off Minnesota complaining
because they had too much time off. Make your bloody
minds up, Make make your mind up, Tacoma. Drew rights
in from where else, Tacoma, He says, Ben, please, can
(28:53):
you cut a drop? Saying Shay Gilros Alexandra, He says,
A plus us on the intro, My guy with me.
Terry in England is listening live to the Overnight show.
No call from Terry. I'm surprised. I thought he would
call up as a Knight in shining armor to defend
Brock Purty. But even he cannot defend Brock Parties. He
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chose not to call, he says. Of the Twitter menu,
the X menu, he says, it's more of a list
kind of suits you and Slim Tim Big update. Slim
Tim would like to let all the affiliates down the
line know he's not dead yet. Slim Tims still with
the living, Outstanding, Slim Tim, We're glad you're still with
(29:38):
us and outstanding, so says a pleasure listening live there.
He's had some some medical problems, had some medical problems
for sure. All let's go the phones and the eenie
meenie miney moe. Who do we have here. Let's go,
let's go to Minnesota. Get the pulse of the people
right now. What is it like? There is there panic
at the disco in Minneapolis and we say, hello, the
(30:02):
hollow hollering James welcome. This can't be real. No, this's
gotta be fake. He's gotta be He's got to be
acting right, This has to be faking. Well, they seem
very concerned in Minnesota. They seem very worried about the timberwolves.
(30:27):
How is that possible? He hadn't even been on hold
that long.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Well, you know, when you're really tired, you can just
pass out.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There's something soothing about a hollering James phone call. Yeah,
imagine in a different world James had gotten married and
some woman had to sleep next to this. Can you imagine?
Holy crap?
Speaker 9 (30:54):
I think they would have had separate bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh, like old television, like.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
Early yeah there, because you cherish your slumber and your rest.
Early do you get proper rest, you murder your husband.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Early TV they had men men and women had different beds.
That was big in television room though, right, Yeah, yeah,
it was very odd. There was like a table, like
a table between the beds all right. Is it bad
that I'm enjoying this call? It's only going to go
(31:25):
downhill from here.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Why don't we interview James about Hey, James, you're live
on Fox Sports Raders. This is Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There, so, James,
what was your opinion of Anthony Edwards? James? Okay? And
how do you think how do you think the Wolves
played in the second half? Hollering James, No, interesting, okay?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What adjustments do you believe the Timberwolves should make in
Game two? Really? Why is that? Gotcha? Okay? Any final
thoughts you'd like to share? James? Okay, thank you, very
(32:14):
opinion it Uh, let's let's go to Big Daddy. Big
Daddy is in Memphis and he is here. He'd like
to talk to his fans, his electorate and constituous. I
just screwed that up his constituents, the Honorable Mayor of Memphis.
Big Daddy has arrived.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
He's the daddy. Oh boy, I'm talking about knocked out man.
He's snoring the man good god.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, he's man.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
I'm like you man, These ladies, Uh sorry, Loreno, Uh,
we know stant we know everything? Is I turned the
sound down, and then when he started on and I
changed the county.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Man, Well, I'm not I'm not here to pile on.
I'm sure there's people like Doris Burke. I'm not one
of them. So, uh, that's fine. That's why they invented
the mute button. I'm sure there's people that hate me.
That's that's that's sweetest.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
If I'm not mistaken. We can read stats. We don't
need her or another guy here read the stats.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I mean we all well, well, there are plenty of
stats on. You can get stats up your wazoo if
you want. There are stats out there for sure.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Going man, just enjoin it. Uh, just laughter if that's
the only way you get it when you call, you
know what I'm saying, we're late.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You got to hear something that snow boy, I don't
know how you're gonna beat that.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, oh yeah, it's a it's an all time right too.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
That's one of the bestrews I heard. Every guy you're
asking something.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah he did, and and I respect that. You know,
a lot of a lot of people don't answer questions
in you know, twenty twenty five, James answered every one
of my questions? Do you do you have any questions
for James? I can ask him if you want. Yeah,
what do you want to ask him? Okay, all right,
(34:06):
big daddy, all right, buddy, all right, have a good night.
All right, there's a big daddy. All right. Uh hey,
hey James, James, big daddy has no questions? Is that okay? Yeah? Okay,
I got you? All right? There he is all right,
great hollering James. That's not a SoundBite. That's not a
(34:28):
drop that's not it. Hey, Tjacoba Drew says, man, I'm
sorry I was driving. We need the drop cut. You
can't freaking say sga. Isn't it great? There you go?
Absolutely all right, we'll do that for you because you're
the king wordsman. Absolutely. Let's see who else do we
have page down? Fat Daddy says you're a reliable listener.
(34:51):
Fat Daddy would never be a wokester. And I'm not
now and I can't stand doors Burke. I don't need
to see how she gets I don't see how she
gets a paycheck. Yeah, Justin says Jeffrey Dahmer. Did not
disrespect Pete Rose like a caller to your show. Okay,
(35:11):
thank you for that justin in Cincinnati. It is the
Ben malerstoe So Benny Brightside, Benny Brightside. For minnesot they
don't seem too worried there hollering. James is fast asleep,
not too concerned. However, typically if you get a wide
open shot, you're going to make it most of the time.
That's the theory, right. For example, Oklahoma City had sixteen
(35:34):
wide open three point shots in game one. They made
ten of them. Ten of sixteen. That's pretty good, right.
Minnesota had thirty nine open three point shots deemed open.
There was not a defender that was in the face
of the offensive player. Minnesota shot eleven of thirty nine
(35:55):
on wide open three point shots. Terrible. Dante de Vincenzo
nas Reed and Nikiel Alexander Walker combined to go four
for twenty four on wide open three point shots. Wide open,
(36:16):
like you're in the gym and there's you're just you know,
having a shoot around. Wow, wow, wowser's wowsers. It is
the Ben Mahler Show. We'll get back to the calls.
Time now for the who Am I Game? And here
we go. Okay sees Sga, Shay Jugis, Alexander had his
fifteenth career thirty plus point game in the playoffs. That
(36:38):
passes Jalen Brown and me the sixty first most in
NBA playoff history. Who am I the answer? We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
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all right, back to it, and we got to pay
off the who am I? Game? Here's the who am I? Game?
So okay, sees Shay Jogis. Alexander had his fifteenth career
thirty plus point game in the playoffs. That passes Jalen
Brown the Celtics and me for the vaunted sixty first
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place on the all time list in NBA playoff history.
Who am I? Very simple? That is the question? Who
is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
DJ Spin aka Patrick in San Diego going with Adam Dunn.
Eileen says, hollering James is the answer? He, James? Are
(38:28):
you the answer? Hollering James, Aileen says. Aileen says here, okay,
she apparently Aileen. He says He's not the answer. Top
Daddy says spot web Chet Hercules Homegrin from Eke and
Rosevio Minnesota, Mister Surr from Scrooge Josh Allen, who is
twenty nine today? That according to Late Night Drug tester,
(38:51):
who else do we have? Page down? Is the Bill's
mafia coming back to the show.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I think Andy the comic book guy left the show.
Some of the other Bill's mafia guy. They're all in
hiding the guys that were big Bills fans haven't heard
from him in a while. Frankenstein guests by Andy in Lione,
Old Lakes, Minnesota. Who else do we have Robbie's new
sport Terry. Yeah, you boys say Robbie's a big WNBA fan. Now,
(39:18):
who else do we have? Page Down? Lou Caine from Trucker,
Joe Duffy Dyer from mister nice guy, Lorraine? What set you, Lorraine?
I'm gonna go with Donovan Mitchell, Ben Donovan, Spider Mitchell.
No Shay yogis Alexander. He is now pasted Jalen Brown
(39:38):
and Tracy McGrady for sixty first place most career thirty
point playoff games. He's got fifteen of them now
He we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah our one
on this Wednesday, Happy hump Day, the twenty first day
of May, as we are united together for marginal sports talk.
We were up all night recording this pod here in
our number one. It's all about the Western Conference Finals
game number one and who wears the Dunce cap of
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shame for the Timberwolves getting smoked in the second half.
Also was SGA and the thunder so dominant that this
series is over after one game. Some are saying just that,
and Michael Malone, the Nuggets coach, has entered the chat.
Malone doing some television said during the broadcast that Shay
(00:46):
jogis Alexander, that he showed why he's the MVP. Do
you find that meaningful considering the past commentary of Michael
Malone in Denver? We do, and we'll explain why. All right,
Now give it up for our numberumber one. Well that
(01:06):
was not the big bad Wolf, No, no, no. I
thought the wolf would not be blown away and scared
of the thunder. I didn't think that was going to happen.
But surprise, surprise, surprise, Welcome in not beginning of another
night of the Bain Mallard show, one after another. They
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I think called the Sweep. How's that working out, Gunner?
(02:11):
You're Minnesota Termrill' you gonna sweep?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah?
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How'd that go?
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then it's got the full menu. We change the menu
every day. We have the soup of the day, we
have the meal of the day, we have the dessert
of the day, all of that, all of that for you. Now,
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the main course here in our number, I said our number. Yes,
the main course here is our lead in the dust bowl.
That's where we go here. That was the stage for
an island game. An island game, there's a standalone event,
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a standalone event, the lid lifter on the Conference finals.
The curtain goes up. And I would not say much anticipated.
I do not believe that's true. I believe that would
be fake to say it is much anticipated. But Anthony
Edwards in the well rested timm Mberwolves visiting Sga and
(04:05):
Okase in Game one of the Western Finals. So I
don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe you
were doing something else and you didn't get to watch it.
Not your cup of tea. I watched it either, mute button,
you know certain broadcasters. I just can't. I can't do it.
I try, I can't do it. So no words. We
(04:26):
watched so you would not have to. It is our
good mitzvah of the day and good news. You did
not miss anything that game. It was a dud duh,
dud dud dude shake. Jilgis Alexander, who did not play
particularly well through the first twenty four minutes of the
(04:47):
game and his team was trailing at halftime in a
very unentertaining first half of basketball, and then in the
second half he scored twenty of his thirty one points.
I'm told that's good. I didn't play in the NBA,
but I'm told that's good. And the top seed there,
Oklahoma City, took out the butcher knife and butchered off
(05:10):
some wolf and they had that for dinner as they win,
going away one fourteen to eighty eight in Game one
of the Western Finals. So Joegis Alexander eight of fourteen
in the second half from the floor, I think that's good.
And Julius Randall did all of his damage, mostly in
the first half he had twenty eight points, just eight
points in the second half when it was blow out city. Now,
(05:34):
Game two is on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, as the Eastern
Conference will take the center stage in the game coming
up here on a Wednesday night. But let's discuss Game
one of the Western Conference Finals and the question who
wears the Dunce cap of shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves
(05:59):
getting smoked in the second and a half of this
game run off the court. So my thoughts on this,
I've got Mickey Gambler's fallacy and Pink Floyd and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some amazing, amazing Baba Ganooche is what
(06:21):
we're gonna make. We're gonna make the barbaganuse shirley. We
normally make the barbag noose later, we're gonna make the
barbaganus shirly. So my first thought on this a nothing
has changed more in my lifetime than halftime adjustments. Now,
this is a line one of my old radio friends,
part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I used
to do a very popular Sunday show until the company
(06:43):
cancel it, and we used to screw around with all
the cliches and sports and we love the halftime adjustments
and how dumb fans, oh halftime adjustments, Oh my god,
like you wait till halftime to make some kind of
amazing adjustments. But anyway, Minnesota's up by four at halftime.
I'm trying to stay awake, right, I got an overnight
(07:05):
show to do. I'm trying to I mean, this was
not entertained. Was anyone entertained? You know, were you not entertained?
I don't know anyone that was entertained with the first half,
but it it was within the margins. They're like, okay,
so it's not a great game. However, if it's close
with five minutes to go or four minutes to go,
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there's something there. There's something there. Okay, I can deal
with that. I can I can navigate that. But to
answer the question, who wears the Dunce cap of shame
for the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's go to the very top
of the CEO as Anthony Edwards did the thing you
can't do with the time, you can't do it. He
decided to go surfing. Anthony Edwards. Now, if you've ever
(07:47):
been in Oklahoma, that is mission impossible to go surfing
in Oklahoma, cow ubunga dude as Anthony Edwards went out
there as a surfer and wiped out. That was a
will wipeout in the second half, blown off the map?
How bad was it? Thanks for asking? How bad was it? Was?
So bad? Okay? Ant Man went Mickey and I'm not
(08:12):
talking Mickey mouse. I think somebody might have slipped him
a Mickey at halftime there, Oh Mickey, You're so fine
unless you're not. Holy crap. Did he suck in the
second half? Did he need a nap? Maybe he needed
a nap the way he played two of six floor
in the second a half five point. I may give
you have numbers the number I don't think you have had.
(08:33):
We've seen it. The numbers are bad. His his performance
was actually worse. He ended up with five points in
the second half, a couple of assists, a couple of fouls.
And keep in mind, going to the fourth quarter, the
Wolves were down by ten, So ten is not an
insurmountable at least five possessions five to two point baskets.
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But the NBA now is Papa shot and so it's
just shoes made three pointers so that's that's like three
and and a half possessions, and you have the lead
in the NBA, and he in the fourth quarter down ten,
going to the fourth quarter, Anthony Edwards the face of
the franchise, well facil on this night, certainly not. He
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pitched a shutout, very rare to see a shout out
these days, and did not even need to go to
the bullpen. As Anthony Edwards the final twelve minutes, as
the joker would say, he got zero zip, zilch, nada,
And as my grandfather would say, bupkis is what he
got in the fourth quarter of that game, as Minnesota
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got run off the court there by Oklahoma City. So
the question as we turned the page here, the next
question to address was the Oklahoma City domination situation with
schae Jogis Alexander. Was Oklahoma City's so oh good, so
amazing that this series is now over after one game?
(10:07):
Is this Western Conference Finals? Can you now start to
write the eulogy for Minnesota and the concession speech for
Minnesota to give to Oklahoma City? Was it that bad
a performance by the Wolves that this is a futile
effort by Minnesota. So I'm shaking my head. No, here,
(10:28):
I don't believe that. And as pat Riley taught me
when I was a little boy, the playoffs, they don't
start until the home team loses at home. So last
I checked, Oklahoma City was favored. They won the game
at home. Okay, so they did what they were supposed
to do. Congratulations, what be damn do? But I would
(10:51):
also advise you to not be a prisoner of the moment.
And one of the reasons that the sportsbooks do so
well is the gambler's fallacy that the low information fan
believes that whatever they just saw is going to continue
forever and effort and ever and effort, and well, Minnesota's
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just not very good and they don't match up well
with Oklahoma City, and so this is just gonna the
way it's gonna go, and the series will be over,
maybe five games. It'll be a gentleman sweep. And that's
that's that. I have learned that life generally does not
work that way. Assuming Minnesota doesn't doesn't quit. Some of
these NBA teams have a propensity to quit. As we
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learn from Aaron Gordon to the Nuggets, the players are
very tired and they need a lot of time. Didn't
Aaron Gordon tell us the Nuggets genius the mensa there
for the Nuggets, didn't he tell us that if the
NBA wanted to prevent blowouts, they need more time off
between games. Well, Minnesota had more time off. They got
run off the court in the second half. So I
guess that kills that hypothesis from Aaron Gordon. Anyway back
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to this, So, one of the reasons that many people
seem to enjoy the pro bouncy ball is the chess match,
right that that's the selling point. It's a chess match
on hardwood, and we've all heard that. And you make
your move and then there's a counter move, and so
(12:15):
that is where we are, right, that is where we
are at this point. For Minnesota, they got embarrassed in
the second half and Chris Finch and the Wolves half,
so I'm explaining to do. I would recommend getting out
the mop and the bucket and doing a little scrub
a dub dub, and that's what I recommend there Minnesota.
They also lost their marbles a bit as they were
(12:37):
doing what all NBA players do and their things are
not going well. They bitch and complained to the officials.
That's what always happens. I always we're not getting the whistles.
They seemed very upset that that Shaye Juggas Alexander was
being able to bait players into fouls early in the game.
And I think you would expect that. That's how the
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NBA has been my entire life. I'm getting old and
it's always been this way, like the start player is
able to bait get the officials to call foules. Here's
Chris Finch, the Minnesota coach, commenting on that hullabaloo.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Take a listen, coach, because you sent some of the
frustrations that some of your players had with some of
the calls that Shay was able to drink.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there. But
we got to we know, we talked about that before
the series started, and you know, we got we have
to be able to uh kind of put that aside
and get on with the next play mentality.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Okay, well they didn't do that, Coach, they you might
have told them to do that. They're not listening. You
might want to get them a Q tip and clean
out their ears because there's some orange goo in their ears.
I would say, uh either, I mean the scouting guide,
which tells you what has happened now is going to
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happen coming into this game. The argument was that this
is a mismatch because Minnesota is a wreck team with
the basketball. They are not someone that protects the ball.
He turned the ball over a lot. They make a
lot of self inflicted mistakes. And you combine that with
a team that does force mistakes and you take advantage
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of that, and that's a huge problem. And so that
was a problem in this game as Oklahoma City was
plus twenty one on points off turnovers, they outscored Minnesota
by twenty one points on points off turnovers. So that
is I didn't play in the amba. Not a coach.
I think that's an issue. You know, you're so hard
(14:34):
on the Minnesota team. But give him a break. Okay,
all right, I'll give him break. Give him a break
and go out. I think you can get this on Amazon.
Buy some smelling salts and at halftime and whatever Anthony
Edrewards was doing. You know, we made a joke about
a mickey. But give him some smelling salts, wake him
up a little bit, give him some caffeine or something
to get him going there at halftime. That would help
(14:55):
and remind Joyous Randall that he does need to play
the full game, not part of the game. Now, the
story within the story, though, happened on the TV broadcast
I mentioned I have the sound down. There's a certain
broadcaster that I always mute when I hear their voice.
I just like nails on a truck board. So, but
the other stuff, which is also terrible about it? God,
(15:16):
is TNT so much better than ESPN. My guy, were
you just work at Fox? No? I work at iHeart Fox.
Whatever it is, it just sucks. I mean, they are
so bad, Holy crap? Are they bad? Do they try
to be bad? Do they have like production meetings saying
how bad can we be at television? I might, Oh
my god, it is unwatchable, but it's so bad. They
(15:38):
bring in random guest commentators that Michael Malone and the
former Nuggets coach, popped up on TV in the Conference
finals and he ended up actually making some news. Now,
how on God's Green Earth could Michael Malone, the old
Nuggets coach, makes some news. Let me let me explain here.
(15:59):
So I think, do we have the audio on this
and we have this? Are I think we both. No,
we don't have it. Oh, okay, I sent you to
Actually I sent you to two clips. All right, Well,
I guess we don't have it. But Malone two months ago,
as coach of the Denver Nuggets, was waxing loquacious about
(16:21):
his guy at the time, Nicola Jokic, and he was
laying it on thick. Take a listen, we have it
our two months ago. Here is Michael Malone as Denver
Nuggets head coach, talking about the MVP race, and at
that time he was talking mostly about a guy named
the Joker. Take a list My thing is this.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You know, if you didn't know that Nicola won three
MVPs and I put player A and player B on paper,
and you had no idea that the guy who's averaging
a triple double, the guy who's top three in the
three major statistical categories, things that no one's ever done,
he wins the MVP ten times out of ten.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Okay, so boom perfect, that's your MVP. Well here's Michael
Malone on television on ESPN ABC a few hours ago.
Take a listen, and then.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Shake gilges Alexander. He showed he's the MVP, all right,
so there you go. Michael Malone.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
In the span of a short period of time, Shade
Jogis Alexander showed why he's the MVP. Do you find
that meaningful? Yes? To infinity and beyond, Yes, I find
it meaningful. The plot thickens, The plot thickens. Okay, Malone
(17:41):
was on the campaign trail. We played some of it
when he was in Denver there and he was essentially
wearing knee pads for Nikola Jokic as the MVP. Keep
in mind, they haven't even named the MVP. It's not
like SGA won the award on Monday. They haven't even
announced who the MVP is. But this is what's known
(18:03):
as say it with me now, kids, a dead way.
It is a deadive way. It is a dead giveaway
because it's rather obvious. I mean, you could see this
from outer space right and it's I don't even know,
I mean it was. It's kind of like in sometimes
in music there'll be a subliminal message. I don't know
how subliminable this is. You know, sometimes there's messages hidden
(18:26):
deep in songs. A lot of you have an old timer,
you remember back in the day, Pink Floyd famously had
a backward saying in empty spaces in the saying was congratulations,
you have just discovered the secret message. So Michael Malone
is telling you without telling you, that NICOLEA. Jokic is
(18:48):
a coach killer. That nicoleak is why Michael Malone is
not the coach of the Denver Nugates. And it's rather obvious,
like unless you're just a country bump kid, it's right there,
it's right there, Michael Malone TV. Michael Malone is announcing, hey,
this guy is by saying scambb the way he said it,
(19:13):
that is a tell. It is an absolute tell. And
Malone's been around long enough, we know how this. When
you're the star player, franchise player, all right, franchise play.
If you want the coach, the coach stays. If you
don't want the coach, or you don't give an opinion
on the coach, the coach goes. So to me, this
is there's no debate, like it's over. Nikola Jokic is
(19:36):
a coach killer. He did not advocate for Michael Malone.
And that is why Michael Malone's not doing bad television.
Right there, all right, is the Ben Mahler Show. If
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it'll be just amazing, just amazing. Well, it is a
make or miss league. It is a make or miss league.
I will attempt to be Benny Brightside. We'll get to
that and we will.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
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And some friends in the music industry have told me,
some music radio people that they stop doing that about
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They just go from song to songs. Look, it's still going,
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not gonna want to miss it because if you miss it,
Oh man, you'll be so bummed out. Man Alive Troy
writes and says aunt Man was more shook than Ben
(22:59):
mal after that game one ok C smacked down on
the Wolves. He'll be fine one stinking game Late night
drug Testers says no worries about the timber puffs until
Hayes is washing washing that playoff body. They are still alive.
Speaking of Hayes, is Ohio State recognizing Jeffrey Dahmer's birthday today. Yeah,
(23:25):
you don't hear a lot of Ohio State people celebrating
the former Buck Eye there Jeffrey Dahmer that you know.
I decided that they eat some play.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Some Jeffrey Dahmer songs though yeah, wow, there ain't.
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Really what there's songs that have his name in them.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Wow. Okay. You know some schools like Harvard, there's been
some people that went there and dropped out that started
like the people that started Zuckerberg. They went to Harvard,
he fell out. They like to celebrate the fact that
he went to Harvard, but he didn't graduate as far
as I know at the time, from Harvard, and he
started Facebook. He actually stole it from a couple other
people and then went with it.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Weird fandoms like yeah, but this guy, like Jeffrey Dahmer's infamous,
he like killed people and chopped him up and ate
them like that's I mean, you know, not many people
want to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Most people look down upon that. Firk Dog says, the
only thing I knew for sure, you'd say about the
thunder wind tonight, was that you didn't watch a second
of the game, was sound on. I don't blame you,
And he mentions that Doris Burk. I have nothing against
dorisburg I'm sure she's a lovely woman and a very
nice woman, just be great to hang out with. I
(24:35):
just cannot cannot deal with her broadcasting. I can't. He's
probably a me problem, I admit it. Uh, you know
a lot of you Wolkester's lover. Good for you, just
not my my thing, not my jam. So the Mexican
John Dutton writes and says Ben tells Slingshot that the
Timberwolves will lose this series. Okay, Well, if he's listening,
(24:57):
he's he's likely in hiding. He's probably in the back
of a Walmart, hiding in the corner of the Walmart
there in northern Minnesota, in the fetal position, sucking his thumb.
King Rory writes in from Wisconsin. Northern Wisconsin says, I'm
calling it now, get those broomsticks out, because the thunder
are sweeping the timber pups and it's all thanks to
(25:18):
the clippers. So if the thunder go to the finals
it's basically like they did it for the Clippers and
the city of Seattle, says King Rory. Okay, you're falling
for the gamboos policy. Zephyr writes in says, hey, Ben,
your guy a helmet man talking to Tim Case. I
guess we're getting covered up by Dodger programming in La. Okay,
(25:41):
go good for helmet man. He did reach out to
me the other day. A helmet man sent me a
message with his new Obama phone. So he's got his
phone now. He's a very exciting helmet man. He let
me know that he's got his new phone that taxpayers
are paying for. So that's good.
Speaker 9 (25:56):
Is it so called the Obama phone?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
It is a legacy of the Obama administration forever known
as the Obama phone. You ask any most of the
people that call the show have Obama phones and they
proudly say it's an Obama phone.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
Yeah. Same with food stamps. Right, we don't call them
what they now are called, like snap benefits or something.
We don't call them snap. They still call them food
stamps even though they're not foodstamp.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, we don't. The food stamp thing is like a
dated Uh well, it's actually the EBT is what they
call it, Electronic Benefits Transfer Card. But forever it's foodstamps.
It's food stamps. Yeah, and that's just what it is.
That's the colloquial term. It's big word, colloquial.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
It's the fun term.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's a great term.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
By term of the.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Week, Yeah, that could be the term of the week,
I can on the Fifth Hour podcast, colloquial could be
the term I can say. G Man's in Chicago rights in.
He says a plus on the Mala Monologue. NBA playoffs
are as good as a lead a lap fart in
the Fox Sports radio studios. The tech queen smells it.
It stinks, it says a G Managers. I watch one
(26:56):
hundred and twenty seconds of an NBA game, It stinks.
What's the difference, by the way, f al touve that
little nudist cheater. Great ending to that message by GM Manage,
Great ending, GM Manage. Listen. I watched that game. I
didn't bet on the game Minnesota and Oklahoma City. If
(27:17):
I did not have a talk show to do, would
I have been watching that game? What do you think
that was a rhetorical question? I think you know the answer.
Sean in the Valley of the Sun Rites and better
known as Syrias Sean, and he's the non secutar man Sewn.
He sent us a photo of a map of his
(27:40):
coverage area as he's delivering stuff driving around the Greater
Phoenix area, and it does look like a bird eating
a snack. The coverage map, to me, looks like an
ostridge that is at a lake and is eating some
kind of item on the side of the lake, bending
(28:03):
down its neck.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
That's what it looks like because they're like their path
makes a doodle, right.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yes, something like ye, yes, somebody like just go with it,
super Marcus Steve Wrights and says Ben I can almost
he said, he said, I called my shot two days
ago that Minnesota, if they lose in the first game
of the finals, they will claim it's because they had
too much time off between games. Uh, and yeah, I
did hear. I listened to some of Chris Finch on
the postgame, the Minnesota coach, and he didn't mention rust.
(28:33):
So you you can't make this up. These guys will
complain about anything. Yeah, you got the Denver nugget. Guys
bitching because they don't have enough time off Minnesota complaining
because they had too much time off. Make your bloody
minds up, Make make your mind up, Tacoma. Drew rights
in from where else, Tacoma, He says, Ben, please, can
(28:53):
you cut a drop? Saying Shay Gilros Alexandra, He says,
A plus us on the intro, My guy with me.
Terry in England is listening live to the Overnight show.
No call from Terry. I'm surprised. I thought he would
call up as a Knight in shining armor to defend
Brock Purty. But even he cannot defend Brock Parties. He
(29:16):
chose not to call, he says. Of the Twitter menu,
the X menu, he says, it's more of a list
kind of suits you and Slim Tim Big update. Slim
Tim would like to let all the affiliates down the
line know he's not dead yet. Slim Tims still with
the living, Outstanding, Slim Tim, We're glad you're still with
(29:38):
us and outstanding, so says a pleasure listening live there.
He's had some some medical problems, had some medical problems
for sure. All let's go the phones and the eenie
meenie miney moe. Who do we have here. Let's go,
let's go to Minnesota. Get the pulse of the people
right now. What is it like? There is there panic
at the disco in Minneapolis and we say, hello, the
(30:02):
hollow hollering James welcome. This can't be real. No, this's
gotta be fake. He's gotta be He's got to be
acting right, This has to be faking. Well, they seem
very concerned in Minnesota. They seem very worried about the timberwolves.
(30:27):
How is that possible? He hadn't even been on hold
that long.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Well, you know, when you're really tired, you can just
pass out.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
There's something soothing about a hollering James phone call. Yeah,
imagine in a different world James had gotten married and
some woman had to sleep next to this. Can you imagine?
Holy crap?
Speaker 9 (30:54):
I think they would have had separate bedrooms.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh, like old television, like.
Speaker 9 (30:59):
Early yeah there, because you cherish your slumber and your rest.
Early do you get proper rest, you murder your husband.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Early TV they had men men and women had different beds.
That was big in television room though, right, Yeah, yeah,
it was very odd. There was like a table, like
a table between the beds all right. Is it bad
that I'm enjoying this call? It's only going to go
(31:25):
downhill from here.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Why don't we interview James about Hey, James, you're live
on Fox Sports Raders. This is Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There, so, James,
what was your opinion of Anthony Edwards? James? Okay? And
how do you think how do you think the Wolves
played in the second half? Hollering James, No, interesting, okay?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What adjustments do you believe the Timberwolves should make in
Game two? Really? Why is that? Gotcha? Okay? Any final
thoughts you'd like to share? James? Okay, thank you, very
(32:14):
opinion it Uh, let's let's go to Big Daddy. Big
Daddy is in Memphis and he is here. He'd like
to talk to his fans, his electorate and constituous. I
just screwed that up his constituents, the Honorable Mayor of Memphis.
Big Daddy has arrived.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
He's the daddy. Oh boy, I'm talking about knocked out man.
He's snoring the man good god.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, he's man.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
I'm like you man, These ladies, Uh sorry, Loreno, Uh,
we know stant we know everything? Is I turned the
sound down, and then when he started on and I
changed the county.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Man, Well, I'm not I'm not here to pile on.
I'm sure there's people like Doris Burke. I'm not one
of them. So, uh, that's fine. That's why they invented
the mute button. I'm sure there's people that hate me.
That's that's that's sweetest.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
If I'm not mistaken. We can read stats. We don't
need her or another guy here read the stats.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
I mean we all well, well, there are plenty of
stats on. You can get stats up your wazoo if
you want. There are stats out there for sure.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Going man, just enjoin it. Uh, just laughter if that's
the only way you get it when you call, you
know what I'm saying, we're late.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Now.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
You got to hear something that snow boy, I don't
know how you're gonna beat that.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Yeah, oh yeah, it's a it's an all time right too.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
That's one of the bestrews I heard. Every guy you're
asking something.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, yeah he did, and and I respect that. You know,
a lot of a lot of people don't answer questions
in you know, twenty twenty five, James answered every one
of my questions? Do you do you have any questions
for James? I can ask him if you want. Yeah,
what do you want to ask him? Okay, all right,
(34:06):
big daddy, all right, buddy, all right, have a good night.
All right, there's a big daddy. All right. Uh hey,
hey James, James, big daddy has no questions? Is that okay? Yeah? Okay,
I got you? All right? There he is all right,
great hollering James. That's not a SoundBite. That's not a
(34:28):
drop that's not it. Hey, Tjacoba Drew says, man, I'm
sorry I was driving. We need the drop cut. You
can't freaking say sga. Isn't it great? There you go?
Absolutely all right, we'll do that for you because you're
the king wordsman. Absolutely. Let's see who else do we
have page down? Fat Daddy says you're a reliable listener.
(34:51):
Fat Daddy would never be a wokester. And I'm not
now and I can't stand doors Burke. I don't need
to see how she gets I don't see how she
gets a paycheck. Yeah, Justin says Jeffrey Dahmer. Did not
disrespect Pete Rose like a caller to your show. Okay,
(35:11):
thank you for that justin in Cincinnati. It is the
Ben malerstoe So Benny Brightside, Benny Brightside. For minnesot they
don't seem too worried there hollering. James is fast asleep,
not too concerned. However, typically if you get a wide
open shot, you're going to make it most of the time.
That's the theory, right. For example, Oklahoma City had sixteen
(35:34):
wide open three point shots in game one. They made
ten of them. Ten of sixteen. That's pretty good, right.
Minnesota had thirty nine open three point shots deemed open.
There was not a defender that was in the face
of the offensive player. Minnesota shot eleven of thirty nine
(35:55):
on wide open three point shots. Terrible. Dante de Vincenzo
nas Reed and Nikiel Alexander Walker combined to go four
for twenty four on wide open three point shots. Wide open,
(36:16):
like you're in the gym and there's you're just you know,
having a shoot around. Wow, wow, wowser's wowsers. It is
the Ben Mahler Show. We'll get back to the calls.
Time now for the who Am I Game? And here
we go. Okay sees Sga, Shay Jugis, Alexander had his
fifteenth career thirty plus point game in the playoffs. That
(36:38):
passes Jalen Brown and me the sixty first most in
NBA playoff history. Who am I the answer? We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
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And now back, thank god for the Internet. To the show,
all right, back to it, and we got to pay
off the who am I? Game? Here's the who am I? Game?
So okay, sees Shay Jogis. Alexander had his fifteenth career
thirty plus point game in the playoffs. That passes Jalen
Brown the Celtics and me for the vaunted sixty first
(38:04):
place on the all time list in NBA playoff history.
Who am I? Very simple? That is the question? Who
is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
DJ Spin aka Patrick in San Diego going with Adam Dunn.
Eileen says, hollering James is the answer? He, James? Are
(38:28):
you the answer? Hollering James, Aileen says. Aileen says here, okay,
she apparently Aileen. He says He's not the answer. Top
Daddy says spot web Chet Hercules Homegrin from Eke and
Rosevio Minnesota, Mister Surr from Scrooge Josh Allen, who is
twenty nine today? That according to Late Night Drug tester,
(38:51):
who else do we have? Page down? Is the Bill's
mafia coming back to the show.
Speaker 9 (38:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I think Andy the comic book guy left the show.
Some of the other Bill's mafia guy. They're all in
hiding the guys that were big Bills fans haven't heard
from him in a while. Frankenstein guests by Andy in Lione,
Old Lakes, Minnesota. Who else do we have Robbie's new
sport Terry. Yeah, you boys say Robbie's a big WNBA fan. Now,
(39:18):
who else do we have? Page Down? Lou Caine from Trucker,
Joe Duffy Dyer from mister nice guy, Lorraine? What set you, Lorraine?
I'm gonna go with Donovan Mitchell, Ben Donovan, Spider Mitchell.
No Shay yogis Alexander. He is now pasted Jalen Brown
(39:38):
and Tracy McGrady for sixty first place most career thirty
point playoff games. He's got fifteen of them now
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