Hour 1 - Stars Not So Bright

Ben Maller talks about the diminishing returns of Anthony Edwards (and Julius Randle) for the Timberwolves as they drop Game 4 to the OKC Thunder, if this series is over with Minnesota on the brink of elimination, how the Thunder played with SGA, and more!

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on this Tuesday, the twenty seventh day of May, the
last Tuesday show for the month of May twenty twenty five.
It's all about pro Bownsie ball. How do you explain
the diminishing returns of Anthony Edwards who took only one
shot the first twelve minutes of that game last night
Minnesota would lose? Also, how do you juxtapose how Oklahoma

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City played with SGA after getting their doors blown off
in the previous game and the Wolves are now on
the brink of extinction? Is this series over? Is this
series over? We'll talk about that and more right now here.
It is our number one. Oh, we've heard over the

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years of the stars shine brightest and big games, big opportunities,
well not always not so much. Welcome in the beginning
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hour is from the playoff game on the holiday Monday night,
a national holiday in America, Moral Day, and some pro

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bouncy ball. Not a good one. Not a good one. Now,
I admit I have no skin in the game on this.
I don't obviously, we talk about it doesn't matter who
plays in these games. We come in here and we
break them down. But there is just no juice at
all in this series there just isn't my God. And

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it continued again on a Monday night. Not a blowout,
but not exactly a game that you thought Minnesota was
going to win at the end. And so our lead
is from the Land of ten thousand Lakes. And as
we have pointed out in previous episodes of the show,
that is just a marketing term. There are actually eleven

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eight hundred and forty two lakes in Minnesota that are
ten acres or more. But people love round numbers, so
it sounds better to put on the license plate the
Land of ten thousand Lakes. It doesn't sound as good
if you say the Land of eleven eight hundred and
forty two Lakes. It just doesn't have the same Rasmataz,
so they go with the Land of ten thousand Lakes. Nevertheless,

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that was the playground for game number far between the
Thunder and the Wolves. In a series that has been
one blowout after another blowout, this was a pivot point game.
A pivot point game. It was a two one series
going in so Minnesota. They win this game and it's

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now a best of three series. We square the books up,
Mono Amano eye to eye, and here we go, and
how did that turn out? Well, hopefully you did not watch.
We did for you. It's our public service, it's our
good mist of the day. And so the newly crowned
recently as of a few days ago most valuable player

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as shay jogis Alexander forty points, ten rebounds, nine assists,
a partridge in a pear tree as Okac snapping back
and bringing the hammer down, goes the hammer. After getting
a forty two point shalaking over the weekend, they come
back and beat the Minnesota tim Burwels six your final

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in game four, and so that's where we are three
to one, and using the mal on this, the team
from Oklahoma needs one more win. They can close it
out back in the dust Bowl. They're close out Game
five on Wednesday. They do that and it's onto the
NBA Finals. But the better story here is in the

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losing locker room, and so that is where we will
direct our focus the losing locker room as we discuss
the question for the esteem panel here, how do you
explain the diminishing returns of Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves.
And you can sit here and break it down, and
we normally do the blame pie. And it's rather obvious,

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like there's not a lot of debate here. Julius Randall
gets an assist, but the headliner, mister I dominate. I'm
the man. Anthony Edwards was not the man at all.
So let us discuss how do you explain Anthony Edwards
and the diminishing returns in this particular performance. So my
thoughts on this, I've got state farm, cool mint, and saloon,

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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make a delicious, juicy Lucy which
is really good, much better than the performance of the
basketball team through much of this game. But Heysten, the
story here, don't bury the lead moment. The story in
this game is the rising star, Anthony Edwards, the headliner.

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And these playoff games or opportunities, they're launching pads to
go up into the heavens of basketball chatter and have
people lick your toes and all that if you play well.
And so here's Anthony Edwards, who've been dazzling people for
most of the season and certainly earlier in the playoffs,
has had some big moments here and now he finds

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himself in the slump at the time you cannot slump,
which is like, right here, what are we doing so
Anthony Edwards, we enjoy watching a play. He's obviously a star.
How big a star? How bright a star? That's open
to interpretation, that's opening to debate. Yet again, though he

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looked rattled with a capital R. He looked rattled with
capital R here, and that was not the moment to
do that. That was not the game to do that,
That was not the situation to do that, and that
was not the performance you give your team. But he did.
He did it. He was five of thirteen from the floor,

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did not even shoot more. I think only took a
couple of shots in the first half. He won like
the first ten to eleven, twelve minutes something like that.
That was like ten minutes without taking a shot in
the game, which I didn't play in the NBA. I
don't think that's ideal. I don't think that's ideal. Sixteen points,
five turnovers for Anthony Edwards. That is a chicken feathers performance.

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I can't say what I'd like to say, so instead
I will substitute the word I would like to use
is an S word, but I will instead use the
word feathers. So it's a chicken feathers performance there by
Anthony Edwards. Now, so we thought, hey, this is a
chance you even up the series here, best of three.
You win this game. Man, you're in really good shape.
All of a sudden, you're the Cape Crusader. Right, you

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can go out there. You're the Cape Crusader. But that
was not the version of Anthony Edwards you got. Instead,
he was what a decoy for much of this game?
A decoy unacceptable. And the commercial which gets shown a
million times during these basketball games is the State Farm commercial.

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That was appropriate because you had Anthony. Originally, this guy's
the Cape Crusader out there, and no, you're it's like
getting Baitman when you wanted the protection of Batman, and
that's what they got. They got Baitman. They didn't get Batman.
And man, what a night. You're supposed to put your
cape on, go out there and fly around and all that,
and man, instead the Minnesota a counterfeit version and just

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look like a brain frog. Usually what happens if you
go by the book, We've been doing this for a
couple of minutes over the years, and so usually when
a player plays that pathetically, there'll be some kind of
phantom injury that they will chalk it up to when
the series ends. Well, he was dealing with so and so,
and it would have killed seven of ten players, but

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he stayed and played. They'll make some kind of bull
crap excuse. He just looked like his mind was wandering.
I don't know. Maybe he's got some more kids on
the way we don't know about. He's certainly very prolific
in that area as well. I don't know what's going on.
But he was pressing and did not get the job done.
And you know, he was bragging to the historians in

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La that he had the big D and did not
look he looked like he had more of a micro
D in this game here, not a big D, a
micro D. And the moment he was small, he was small, passive,
way too passive, spectator like spectator like here, And so

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there you go, no rhyme or reason why that would
happen in this particular game. But he was there, and
then he wasn't. I was there, then he wasn't. Just
a spectator, very passive and not a compelling lead character
at all. And then you've got Julius Randall the yin

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to the yang and well he does not get as
much crap oldok because he's not as big a deal
in the universe of basketball. Joyous Randalls showing everyone why
he keeps changing teams. And a couple days ago there
was a question that was asked about, Wow, he's arrived.
Now he's proved the doubters wrong. Well, methinks you spoke

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too soon. The regression to the mean water seeks its
own level, and also extreme outcomes are followed by more
moderate or in this case, more normal ones, as this
is the player that we have seen in the past
from Julius Randall. This is the enigma. This is the
guy that looks really good and then goes out there

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and vomits all over himself. Writing the vomit comment one
of seven from the floor for Julius Randall, he had
five points. He was a five for five, five by five,
five points, five turnovers, so very impressive and way to go,
Way to go. That was a manure like performance. Now

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on the other side, the winning locker room, which is
not as good as story. How do you juxtapose Okase
and the way they were able to play with SGA.
There's a lot of letters there you got OKAC and
then SGA needs more vowels. But that's that's where we are.
So this was a Listerine cool mint performance. After suffering

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from halatosis in that game three, really bad breath, they
get their mojo back in a large way. Here they
went a wall in game three, and when you compare
and contrast, when you can compare and contrast the way
the Thunder played in game three where they just quit,

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they did the thing that was gutless Okase Championship possible
team quit in a playoff game. They did. They gave up.
It's just wild to me, it's it's just nuts, but
they did. And when you look at that and compare
it to where we are right now, where they didn't

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give up. I was in the game, they played with
the lead most of the game. It makes you wonder.
Those are the kind of nights where you're like, what happened?
Like it's one thing to lose by twenty, but to
lose by forty you got to put work into losing
by forty. So what kind of funny business was going on?

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I don't get either way. On this particular night, while
ant Man on the Minnesota side was drowning in the soup.
You had Sga shay Yogis Alexander out there who was cooking,
controlling the game for the most part, the merchant of doom,
the merchant of doom and made mostly the right decisions,

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put up big fantasy stats and all that stuff, and
played the way you thought your star player was gonna play.
Minnesota star player did and play like that, obviously. And
so that is where we are. And so the thunder
who gave up in Game three, now they come back,
they win again. And are they good for basketball? No,
they're not. They're boring. They're not good for talk radio.

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They're not good for the conversation Oklahoma City. They're good
at basketball, But in terms of the conversation around it,
there's no theatrics there. There's nothing that really just moves
the needle. They're an efficient team, they come at you
in waves. It's just not entertaining to talk about. There
is nothing really that compelling. Sga is pretty boring, and

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you go down the list. I mean, that's where we
are all right now. Last word, so the Wolves are
on the brink of extinction. The Timberwolves are on the
brink of extinction. Is this series over at three to one,
is it OvR over? So it certainly feels over. Technically

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it's not. They have to play another game and there
will be another game that is broadcast coming up back
in Oklahoma. If this were a film for the Timberwolves,
if it was a film, it would be called Timberwolves
the Western Collapse. It's a sequel. Actually, it's a sequel
to last season. You might remember when the Mavericks with

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Fat Luca, we're able to beat Minnesota. That was in
five games Dallas one of the first three. A little
different this year because it was two to one and
Minnesota has shot to end up tying the series as
opposed to last year it was three to one and
then they lost Game four. But it's a deja vus
situation where it's highly unlikely that the Wolves are going

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to come back in this series. Now technically can they sure?
I mean technically they could, right, Minnesota can claw back
into this. You and I both know that you have
to scratch and you have to push, and you have
to have that determination, that target determination. And are they
the type of team that is willing to get into
the mud neck deep into the mundy? It doesn't appear

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that way it does. I mean, you couldn't even get
Anthony Edwards to show up and lock in in a
game that would have tied the series up at two two.
He just decided, for whatever reason, did not perform. And
I should have gotten him a bucket of popcorn point
early in the game. My god. So the other issue

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here is the saloon. And that's the other issue because
it's the last chance saloon. And again it goes back
to how much fight are they willing to put in here?
And you have no wiggle room at this particular point.
It's like the NCAA tournament, single elimination. Now the rest
of the way in this series for Minnesota, and it's

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going to take perfection for three consecutive games. It really
is one game, and then you have to do it
again and again, and you also need a voodoo doll
would help, Like a good voodoo doll, like a twisted
ankle here or a sprained a knee ligament over there.
And then all of a sudden, like things flip around,

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like things get much different, and things change around quite
a bit. And I know I'm not going popped Achilles.
We've already had a couple of those who were not
doing that, but de pendulum can swing that direction, but
you have to have the fight. And I have not
seen any real evidence here based on what I just
saw a few hours ago, that Minnesota's got that fight
in him. I just don't I don't see it. If
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and cannot wait to meet everyone. This shows up and
be a lot of fun. I heard there's going to
be lots of food. Oh good, Well that's that's good.
Well I'll have to eat no fasting. I'll have to
enjoy these no fasting, no fasting, I'll be I'll be partaking, yes,
although generally Lorena at the mallor meet and greets, there's
a you know, very social. I'm an introvert, but I'll

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be social for the night and then so you know
what I eat, because then a chicken finger eating competition
could do that. Do we have any really like hearty eaters.
I don't know. I feel like we have a hearty
audience that knows how to every one of these I've
been to, there's at least one person that can throw

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down a massive amount of food.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
See I could probably do one to two chickens stas. Oh,
come on, that's that's pathetic. You know one of those
food competition eaters, Well, those are professionals, and I don't
know that we want to do that for liability reasons.
I'm sick because we've done that on the show. Years ago.
We had a hot dog eating contest with Big Sexy
against my board op and the people at Major League

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Eating brought in a paramedic in case there was a
medical emergency because there's choking. There's a choking hazard when
you do competitive eatings. This is not that easy. Keep
the water on hand, you got it, dunk. There was
a radio promotion where somebody, you know, the drinking contest
where how much water can you hold down? And somebody
died right they didn't use the restroom. Well there's if

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you drink too much water, you're done. That's it. Game over,
everything in moderation. Anyway, Malart meet coming up on Thursday.
We began here with the Western Conference Finals. A clunker,
an absolute clunker. Yet again, I did have some sound.
I didn't see this, but I wanted to play this.
So Anthony Edwards, who was not only a basketball player,

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he was terrible and by most accounts, I don't know
anyone that thought he played well. I don't know anyone
thought well, that was a good performance by Anthony Edwards.
And so Anthony Edwards, he was commenting about his performance
and he had a very interesting perspective on how he
played in that game. Take it was I don't look
at it like I struggled or he struggled. It just.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
They had a good game plan making us get off
the ball. Especially for me, man it was superan gaps.
I made the right play all night. So I don't
really look at it like I struggled. I didn't get
enough shots to say I struggled. So that's that might
be how you guys look at it. But yeah, I
don't struggle.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Oh it just I made the right way, all right.
So Anthony Edwards in a little community I called the Nile,
which is good. That's nice. That's outstanding. So you play
like garbage and I don't look at it like I struggled.
That's good. Just don't do anythy stand out there. That's

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the way to go. That is the way to approach it. Femi,
the number one Uber East driver in Minnesota and proud
Timberwolves fan, says ben did Michael Jordan ever score less
than ten points and a half? Well, it's conceivable he
did at some point. We don't remember that. The Washington Wizards,
he probably did. We go back and look, they only

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kept track of that starting in nineteen ninety seven, so
before nineteen I I mean, most of Jordan's career was
before nineteen ninety seven, So you'd have to go way
back and dig through box scores and all that. Absolutely, Bill,
who's your Bill writes in, says, have a great broadcast.

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A lot of work for the team. We're not broadcasting
from Vanpoover. We're just hanging out. No, no, no, we thought
about it. We're just going to get hammered on Canadian
alcohol and food. And we thought about it and then
would have cost the company money, so that that was
its n A on the money. Anything that costs the
company money, they are on the overnight. That does not happen.

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So no, no live broadcast from Vancouver. Unfortunately, ferg Dog
writes in with a non sequitur. He says, if there
was any question who the it team of LA was,
we now have our answer. Chris Taylor is an Angel
CT three, fortifying the Halo roster. The Angels are poised

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for a deep playoff run. We love you, Chris, signed
fer Dog a love note from Fergie. He's very excited.
And I thought Chris Taylor was right where he was
with the Dodgers in his Angel debut. Yeah. Worked out
well today, Yes, wearing his number three jersey. It's c
T three three times three. Chris Taylor playing center field

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for the Halos, and he went out there with a
solid over over three and the Angels, who did have
brief lead early. I actually watched this game because there
wasn't much on late and the basketball game was boring me.
So one nothing Angel lead until that fourth inning and
then it all went to hell. As the enigma Johann Mancata,

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who's not a very good baseball player, but people thought
he was going to be good, and they thought he
was going to be great for the Red Sox, and
then they Red Sox traded him. He was the big
player in the Chris Sale trade, if I remember correctly.
And then he sucked with the White Sox and now
the Angels like, oh no, no, so many you know,
ten years ago when this guy was like a teenager,
thought this guy was gonna be good. So we're gonna

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keep but throw his ass out there every day and
he can suck for us like he sucked for the
White Sox. Why not. I was gore to the phones.
And we'll start out with a verified show legend. And
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Big Daddy is in the air everywhere. Hell oh big Daddy, Yes.

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He called another show?

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The guy that comes home? Is the guy that comes
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Right? That dirty bastard? Are you serious? He's dead to me?
Real talk is dead to me. No more real talk.
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you need something exactly, all right, underwear a well even
then sometimes you go commando. All right, thank you, all right,
there's all right, the great the big Daddy checking it.
So we had rhythmic chanting. I love rhythmic chanting. We

(29:04):
had some rhythmic chanting, a pretty good rhythmic chant I
gotta tip the cap to the Timberwolf. Fans. Don't know
if this was designed by some sports I feel like
these things usually start on sports radio and then the
crowd all kind of gets into it. But let's take
you back to the arena Target Center last night, just
a few hours ago, Game four Oklahoma City and Minnesota,

(29:27):
and shaeh jogis Alexander there, the MVP of the NBA,
and he was just serenaded by the fans. Take a list. Yeah,

(29:48):
if you make that out it, you know, I maybe
not on the radio. They were chanting, trying real hard
to figure out what they were saying. They were channing,
free throw merchant again, free throw merchant. Listen you hear
it now? Yeah, yeah, I said it, and there it is.

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He was at the foul line and they were they
were giving the rhythmic chanting there and it was solid.
I did get a couple of emails from people complaining
about the broadcast, and they wanted me to rant about
Richard Jefferson, but I couldn't tell you what he said.
I don't listen. When I see Doris Burke on television,
I hit the mute button, so I don't know. He's

(30:34):
right next door. So I'm sure she's a lovely lady.
My apologies to her, but I just I can't handle
her broadcasting. So I don't watch the I don't have
the audio. I have the game on, but I don't
have the audio. Well, I mean reality, I mean we
all have. People don't like me and they don't listen
to this show because I think I suck. I so
that's fine, but you suck. I like what I like

(30:57):
and I don't like what I don't like, so you
don't need I don't know Richard Jefferson. They were saying,
I don't know if this is true or not because
I didn't I didn't hear the audio, but they were
complaining about Jefferson sucking up to Shae Sga Shay joggis
Alexander like he's not a free throw merchant and you know,
getting all the defensive and one guy and one of

(31:17):
the people at email me he's like, well he's he's
like carrying the water for the NBA and all that,
and no, I listen, I don't. I didn't hear it.
It wouldn't surprise me if Jefferson's in the tank for
the league. He's a league broadcaster. That's usually how that works.
I don't know that that's what happened because I didn't
hear it. So I'm just hearing the secondhand that that's

(31:39):
that's what he said. It's gonna be tough once tn
T is on the Charles Barkley Crew there is on ESBN,
because then I'll have to unmute the game at halftime
and then mute it right when halftime's over, and that'll
be unfortunate. But often I think I can figure it out.
I think I'll be able to kind of figure out
how to hit the mute button and then un muted

(32:00):
it and all that. I think that will will absolutely work.
So anyway, now, after the rhythmic chanting the aforementioned SGA,
the MVP of the NBA, was asked about the fans
heckling with free throw Merchant free throw Merchant, and he

(32:20):
claimed that he was unbothered by it, and he said
the label, it doesn't matter. He just wants to He
just wants to win the game. Says, I don't care.
I never cared. I never cared, But I would be
so happy to be heckled like that. That is the
greatest sign of respect. Dude. You play in Oklahoma City, Okay,

(32:42):
You're playing in a small market, and these people are
worked into a lather because of you. That is outstanding.
That is outstanding. And it's like the the old line
from years ago that you know, they don't. They don't
boo nobody's so in order for them to boo you,
they have to know who you are. To be verbally

(33:03):
abused and heckled by the fans, you have to have
done something. Although I don't care, You're just out there.
Nobody cares who you are. You just filler on the
court and that's that. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
As we are navigating the overnight hours away and what
do we have here? Let's see Jimmy, right, since since

(33:25):
you did a did the third shift, weekends have often
listened to the whole show. Obviously, with the exception of
the times I was in the hospital and they did
not allow any electronic devices or I was in a
coma and it didn't matter. But I am generally pathetic,
says says Jimmy. All right, well, and you didn't have

(33:48):
any but you did say you were in the hospital,
so you must have had some medical medical issues. Yeah,
there you go. King Rory writes and says, I was
looking at the rundown. I was going I was wondering
what hour you're going to talk about? How the WNBA
is going on hiatus until Caitlin Clark recovers from her
injury well likely mentioned in passing. We'll mentioned in passing

(34:12):
some of that in passing. Anyway, it is the Ben
Mahlord show. Time Now for the who am I Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else. Thus
we call it the who am I Game? And we'll
get back to the calls as everyone. Stay on hold there.
But here's the who am I game? OK sees SGA.
That's a lot of letters. OK sees SGA, who has

(34:35):
joined Michael, Jordan and Blank as the only guards with
ten or more thirty point games eleven or more team
wins for the first fifteen games played in a single postseason.
So there's a lot of numbers to that, But try
to keep track again, this is a quiz. You can
answer that on X at Ben Mallard. But Oklahoma City's

(34:58):
SGA ruinning Mike Gold, Jordan and Blank as the only
guards with ten or more thirty point games and eleven
plus team wins through the first fifteen games played in
a single postseason. This is all time in pro bouncy ball.
That is the who am I Game? The answer, we'll
get to it. We will do it next.

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(36:10):
it we go, and time to pay off the who
am I? Game? This is where we pretend to be
somebody else. Now, before we pay off the win my game,
we have the play of the night. That's right, the
play of the night, the tire ract play of the night.
So let's hit the audio right now here we go
the play of the night. Two seconds. Okay, apparently we
do not have the play of the night. All right, well,

(36:31):
let's pay off the who am I game? Then we'll
pay off the who am I? Game. And here is
today's who am I game? Question? This is where we
pretend to be somebody else us. It's the who am
I game? Okaysees SGA joined Michael Jordan and Blank as
the only guards with ten plus thirty point games and
eleven plus team wins through the first fifteen games played

(36:54):
in a single postseason all time. That is the question.
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com and then see does anyone know the answer? I
did see Nick the Wendy's guy checking. He's very proud
father as his daughter graduating high school in June. So
there you go. June sixth am, I invited to the
graduation Nick, and we can go out and have some
windys after, have a big party. That wouldn't be awkward
at all. Malaprop guy says, the answer is Sergeant Schultz.

(37:37):
He had an amazing jump shot, considering he never saw anything.
What else do we have? Femi going with Scott Foster. Yeah,
Minnesota needs Scott Foster to officiate the next game in
that series. TJ Ford from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Good
good name there? Who else we have Alf the Alien

(37:58):
Olpiner going with Dix and Date as his answer. Former
All Star Chris Taylor from fer Dog. There you go,
great former Dodger Jesse the Body Ventura from Rob in Vegas.
George Orda, it's not a bad name from mister nice guy.
Who else do we have? Andy in line O Lakes,

(38:19):
Minnesota going with ex Timberwolve the Big Cat Carl Anthony
Towns is his answer. Stuck in Sacramento says, he says, SGA,
MJ and LBJ the answer, He says, Sacramento sucks. King
Roy going with Angel Reese is his answer to the
dynamic duo Marcel and Blind Scott from Milkman Mike in Colorado.

(38:44):
That's about what they look like. Big Lou, He's on
number two. Big Lou's supposed to be in Vancouver hanging
out with US Supersonic Great Kendall Gill Guessed by Big Lou.
Marv Albert, the Czar of the Illustrator, as he used
to say to Mike Rotello there, and that's from Ostrich

(39:06):
chant h U a blob from Bay City, Tony. Paige Dow'
see here brevity because this Who Am I game is
too damn long, so you want some some brevity. Who
else do we have? Paige Dan Jimmy from Marino Valley.
He did not have an answer, but he did give
some very intense details about his situation. You might might

(39:30):
have shared too much with the class. Zaza Patulia from
Mister Irrigation in Houston, Indie Legend. Sam Posey who turned
eighty one eighty one today from Malibu Rubin. That's his answer.
Patrick Waugh from Sheen in Des Moines. Anthony Goldwire guessed
by Rob in Minnesota. All right, what say you, Lorraine up?

(39:53):
Julius Randall deck one of the great guards of all time,
Julius Randall. No, the correct answer is a Kobe b
mean Bryan L Like Kobe Bryant. Yeah,