April 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the play of Luka & LeBron down the stretch of the Lakers loss to the Wolves in Game 4, JJ Redick getting killed for playing the same five guys the entire second half, the refs admitting a missed foul call for the Pistons, and much more!
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Welcome and a happy Monday to you. It is the
twenty eighth day of April and it's our numb Berwan.
So here in our number one, how do you explain
the play of Lebron and Luca down the stretch for
the Lakers as they come up short yet again they
have been terrible in these playoff games against the Timberwolves. Also,
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where do you stand on JJ Reddick? The podcast are
getting killed for playing the same five guys the entire
second half. We'll discuss that, and we'll talk about the
Knickerbocker's last second win over Detroit. What does the referees
admission of a missed foul call at the end on
Tim Hardaway Junior due for JD. Bickerstaff's pistons. We'll discuss that,
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and who knows what else? Here it is our number one,
from the purple and Goal to the purple and coal,
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at least you're here. You survived, You're alive. That's that's
half the battle. So our lead this hour is from
pro bouncy Ball, the story that everyone's yapping about here.
The Lakers given the player, they didn't have to give
up anything real value to get Luca, and they are
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one loss away now from lights out parties over. That's it,
You're done. And that is where we begin our sojourn
around pro bouncy Ball. We start out in Minneapolis, where
the Timmerwols looking to go up three games to one
against the Lakers who were trying to even up the
books there and I don't know if you were watching this,
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maybe half stuff going on, you actually want to go
out and see the outside and hang out with people
and not sitting on your ass and watch basketball on
television all weekend. I don't know what you got going on,
but perhaps you missed it. We were watching so Jaden
Daniels coming up big, a three point play with under
a minute to go, in fact under forty it's thirty
nine and a half seconds on the clock, and that
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right there for the lead for the tim Perwolves, and
then the inbounds back Lebron that season veteran, that's a
rookie mistake by Lebron James. Turn the ball over and
sure enough, that was it. See you later there as
Minnesota rallies back and they get to win one, sixteen
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to one, thirteen to the final over the helpless Lakers,
and now the Timberwolves are up three games to one.
Anthony Edwards the ant man. He had that big D energy,
not the little D. He had the big D energy
right there forty three points. He also drew a controversial
foul from Lebron James during a drive to the basket.
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There are about ten seconds to go in the game,
more on that later. He converted both foul shots, and
so the Lakers had one last opportunity. Austin Reeves took
a final shot, and that was the guy, not Luca,
not Lebron. They couldn't draw up a play to get
those guys a shot. So Austin Reeves took the final shot,
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clankety clank. It rimmed out, and that's it. The Lakers
now facing their last supper in the NBA playoffs. The
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we will begin. And the question for
the Esteemed panel, which you are a part of, how
do you explain the play down the stretch by Lebron
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and Luca for the Lakers. The whole argument was, if
you have Lebron and Luca on the court together, you're
not going to lose a close game. You're not going
to be the lesser team with those two geniuses on
the court, the maestros of the basketball world. And yet
the Lakers have lost close games multiple times here already
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in this playoff series. So my thoughts on this, I've
got Squish Mintal manager and Demi Lovado and we will
combine all of these things together, and we were going
to make a delicious, juicy lucy is what we're gonna make,
just chef's kiss, all right, So number what I said,
number what? So, how do you explain the play of
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Lebron and Luca in clutch time for the Lakers? Will
you explained it? I got if it's a rhetorical question
or not. But the Lakers move a ten point lead
in the fourth quarter. On the Mallor report card. On
the Mallor report card, they did not get an A,
A B, A C, A D, an E or an F.
They got an I, an I rating on the malle
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report card for ick factor. The ick factor was there
for these two down the stretch, and I loved every
second of it. Man, was that fun to watch? God?
Was that great? I enjoyed me and I wanted to
watch it again and again and again and again. Lebron
and Luca they played the entire second half, They played, obviously,
the entire fourth court play every minute of the second
and a half, and yet in the fourth quarter, each
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of them did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it down the stretch run of this game.
They combined in the fourth quarter took eight shots, made
one of them. That's a twelve point five shooting percentage
from the floor. Lebron was the shampoo guy, head and shoulders,
head and shoulders above everyone else at his worst when
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the game meant the most down the stretch, there sucking
at a time you cannot suck. Lebron made as many
field goals, as many field goals as you had and
I had in the fourth quarter of that game, that
would be buppus none zero. And like a good starting pitcher,
Lebron pitched a shutout in the fourth quarter, man only
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a couple of shots, but no points. No points. In
the fourth quarter, he took a moneyball shot while standing
roughly five feet from Duluth. He was pretty far out there,
near the near the logo at mid court, which is
not ideal. If you don't make it, it's not ideal,
it's an error. And it was an error. And then
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of course compounded the mistake with the foul on Anthony
Edwards there on the turnover. So the most experienced player
in the NBA and he coughs up a fur ball
with that turnover. Now the bigger issue here, though, is
if you look at key pressure situations for the Lakers
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in this series against Minnesota. What has been the common
denominator in these games? The games have been close for
the most part. Hey, there's an early on blow up.
But if you look at the fourth quarter game on
the line, Lebron and Luca have been squish mellows down
the stretch, the raggedy Ann raggedy Ann version, if you
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will hear. Now, what is my supporting evidence. Let's go
to the stats. Eyeball test says these guys have been bad.
But what is the supporting evidence to back up the
eyeball test. So here's the supporting evidence. Let's go to
the numbers. Luca in the fourth quarter in this series
against the Timberwolves has taken seventeen shots. He's missed twelve
of them. He's shooting twenty nine point four percent from
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the floor in the fourth quarter of playoff games. And
while he's been on the court, the Lakers have been
outscored in the fourth quarter by thirty one points by
the Timberwolves. Luca Man somewhere Nico Harrison has a Cheshire
cat smile from earedear Toja. Told Ja he's a fattie.
He's not in shape all right. How about Lebron, Oh God,
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greatest of all time, Lebron. Sick of fans will tell
you that Lebron is so much better than Michael Jordan,
a gift from the gods. Well, in the fourth quarter here,
Lebron James, who's a freak of nature, has taken twenty
shots in the fourth quarter in the series, and he's
missed thirteen of the twenty. He's shooting thirty five percent,
which compared to Luca's pretty good. However, while he's been
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on the court in this series, the Lakers have been
outscored by thirty four points plus minus in the fourth quarter,
So combined Luca and Lebron while they've been on the
court a minus sixty five on the plus minus while
they've been out there. All right, now take that, Yeah,
there you go. Put that in your pipe and smoking
all right now, page two. The big storyline I guess
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afterwards is people were up in arms. How could the
Lakers play all of their guys this entire second half?
JJ Reddick getting put on blast the coach podcaster of
the Lakers. Now, where do you stand? Where do you stand?
On JJ Redick getting absolutely killed for playing the same
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five guys the entire twenty four minutes of the second half.
So my position on this is pretty simple. We know
how this works. Reddick was hired as a the asole
to Lebron. Ja Reddick is doing what Lebron tells him
to do. It's not that difficult to figure out. Lebron
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has always had sock puppets as coaches other than Eric Spoulster,
and that didn't go so well in Miami. There was
a loggerhead situation, actually more with pat Riley. But if
you look at it here, Reddick has no business being
a coach. And I think most of us know going
in that he's a bit of a fraud as a
head coach, and he's been exposed here unorthodox. But he's
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just doing In this case, it's you're just following the
wisdom of Lebron. You're you're a middle manager, that's what
you are, and you're taking your cues from Lebron. He's
your podcast BFF, right, whatever Lebron wants lebron y blah
blah blah blah blah. That said, on this one, I'm
actually okay with it. Like I'm not gonna kill Reddick
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for playing the guys the entire second half. I'm not.
And here's the thing is that mantra in sports you
dance with the one who brought you, and this was
for essentially elimination. The way the Lakers played it, They're
not going to come back. They have no chance. Like
you don't play your starters the entire second half. If
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you think you can lose that game and still come
back and win, that is an admission from the Lakers
were cooked, Like we had to win this game. We
will play our guys because if we lose this game,
we're not winning the series. And so by losing that game,
it's over. But you went down with the players that
were your you thought your five top players out And
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as far as the oh my god, some of the
things that have been said by blowhards in the media
and fanboys, it is it just it's wild. They think
this is like some kind of Iron Man competition and
these guys were in a decathlon playing all twenty four
minutes in an NBA playoff game, And I'm really First
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of all, these are supposed to be world class athletes. Okay,
that's the first part. Secondly, have you ever been to
an NBA game, You don't mean timeouts. There are on
an NBA games, there's built in TV timeouts, there's actual
timeouts for strategy for each team. There's downtime when teams
are shooting faushas. There's a lot of downtime, like the
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idea that you are playing this grueling, unbelievable test of
the athletic the human body, and it's just nonsense. It's
just now. I know it's not the norm to play
every single minute. But again, JJ Redick and Lebron would
not have done this if they thought they had a
chance to come back and win the series without winning
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that game. You don't do that now. The other part
of it, which is really amusing to me is they're
not the only ones that played down the starts, like
in the fourth quarter. Anthony Edwards, Julius Randall and Jade
mcdani's played all twelve minutes in the fourth quarter. But really,
what this accomplished is it's not so subtle way of
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calling out Rob Polinka, who just got an extension because
Nico Harrison handed him Luka Donzik and and so it's
a flawed group. That's what JJ Reddick and his boss
Lebron are saying. It's a flawed group and they don't
trust the piecemeal roster that they only trusted five players
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on the roster in the second half of what was
essentially an elimination game. And so that's it. But imagine,
if you will, being handed for a broken down unibrow,
and that's about it, being handed Luca, and yet you
get this thing on a silver platter and you're still
about to be eliminated in the first round of plus.
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That's fascinating to me. It's not good enough. Like what
do you need? What do you need the Greek freak?
Does he have to come in there next? Like? Who
else you need? How many other players do you have
to get on your hands? It's just it's absurd. But
here we are all right now turning the page. So
let's go to the Eastern Conference early game on Sunday,
early game in Motown, and you had Carl Anthony Towns
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kitty cat, who remember he did nothing in the second
half I think it was game two, just completely missed.
Carl Anthony Towns made the go ahead three pointer in
this game. Another controversial finish here. There was less than
a minute ago forty six point six seconds on the
game plock He finished with twenty seven points and Jalen
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Brunson getting it done thirty two points eleven assists. The
Knickerbockers get past the Pistons by the skin on their
chinny chin chin, ninety four to ninety three, so they
take a three games to one lead on the brink
of advancing to the second round of the playoffs. The
controversy here, if you saw it, you know what I'm
about to bring up. Tim Hardaway Junior. Tim Hardaway Junior
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a rebound pass out Kyd Cunningham missed a shot. They
got the ball out to Tim Hardaway Junior for a
three point shot just before the buzzer, and he was slammed.
There was contact with Josh Hart of New York and
it wasn't called a foul. They did not call it
a foul. At the end of the game. There were
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no whistles there. And sure enough, it turns out after
the fact in a pool report somebody named David Guthrie.
We're not sure who that is. We were told he's
the crew chief for that particular game. So David Guthrie
said afterwards, bad job by us. We should have called
the foul. We screwed up, we fed up. Yes, postgame review,
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they said, we observed that heart made body contact. That's
just the New York guard Josh Hart made body contact
that is more than marginal on Tim Hardaway Junior, and
a foul should have been called. Had the foul been called,
the Pistons would have gone to the foul line for
not one, not two, but three foul shots down by
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I won and would have had the lead and likely
won the game. So what does this referee admission of
bad job by us. We blew the foul call due
for JD. Bickerstaff and the Pistons. Okay, so this is like, hey,
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I know you were gonna win the lottery, but you know,
I we just we didn't actually process your request for
those numbers. The machine broke, and it's it just is
bupkuss right, it's bupcus is what. It's the NBA playing
the Demi Levado song. Sorry, not sorry, the We're sorry,
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but we're really not that sorry. You know, we're not
that sorry. Detroit can read the sign on the cash
register if they want. All sales are final. All sales
are final, and no refunds, no exchanges. That's it. And
you can sulk all you want, it's not changing, and
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the call stands you're screwed. So that's essentially what all
that means. Like like you come on and say it's
like okay, it's like this whole two minute report thing
that they've had for a number of years now in
the NBA. It's just pouring salt on the wound, is
what it is. It's just pouring salt on the wound.
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we're here to do another fine week of overnight gas baggery.
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A malaprop guy writes in he says shampoo references the
Lakers with finesse tried to rumble but fell in a
bumble and bumble. Lebron was head and shoulders lacking, though
his moves will still swave after the game. Herbal essence
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rose from Lucas hookahs. Lucas hookahs, but soon they will
all get the axe. Okay, deep writing very poetic form,
Mala prop Guy ferg Dog writes and says, do you
feel a little sorry for Laker historians having to watch
their team go down in flames like this in the
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first round? Because I don't lee Peekaboo isn't good enough
to lace Jordan's boots. So he says, what else do
we have? Page down? Let's see here. Justin in Cincinnati
says he said about something about underlying tension. I'm not
sure what that's all about.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
There you can massage that Outcoli Pecoli writes in this place,
as you can go for that, Speccoli says, we want
Schedur Shotenfreud and.
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Now or we go on strike. There you go all
you can get it, get in line and go on strike.
In Minnesota says been you said the Lakers are as
good as eliminated. Can the Wolves just play the bench
against them on Wednesday? Then sure? Why not? Fami go
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He's obsessed apply he is. Yeah, he's a big fan,
unless he's not. Nature Boy writes in answering the Call
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of the Wild. He says the pistons were hosed by
the no call refs. Need to make up for that
mess says the nature Boy. No nature Boy sound effect.
We've lost the nature Boy sound effect. Yeah there you go, Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
No.
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Stredinis checks in, he's he's alive. So there is that
big Big Rob says, what a fantastic, fantastic night full
of Laker failures, bringing a volcanic eruption of shotenfreude to
the entire country. The People's team has officially taken over
the crown in l a j juretick. He's gone, He gone.
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Maybe Bronny can coach next year since he ain't playing.
A plus plus Gunner writes in, says, about time I
gave you an a plus plus plus and five stars.
Wolves are sending the king home with no crown. He says,
all right, very nice. Rick O rights in. He's actually
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crying as he's typing this, saying, Wow, the Lakers are crappier, right, Ben,
and listen, I wish they were as good as the Clippers.
Your team, right, too bad? Not the Lakers year here?
Good luck to your clippers. Well, thank you, rick I
appreciate that. Very kind of you to say that. Classy,
I think would be the word. All right, we'll take
some calls here, and by the way, we have the
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play of the day. We have the play of the day.
I have no idea what the play of the day
is here. It is made possible by tie rag What
is the player that day? Do we have the play
of the day ready to go?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Here?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
This is exciting. We'd hear the play of the day
from I assume from the world of the NBA. Do
we have it? No, we don't have I lie, I'm
a liar. We don't have the play of the day. Oh,
yes we do. Well, what is it? Lovey and Lebron
James will trigger it? Dangerous passes knocked away, Dayton got
a hand to it. Here's Cilius Randall. Randall back out
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to answer that was that was a terrible play. There's nothing,
there's no like that was the play. Figure that would
be your favorite play, Ben, it's the turnover that costs
the Lakers the game. But that, I mean, that's a
terrible Just play something else from the That's what I mean.
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My god, that's not the play, My god. I mean.
I love Alan Horton. He used to work here, He
used to fill in for me. He's the voice of
the Timberwolves. We love Alan. We're big fans of his work.
That was not one of his better calls, though, I mean,
that was not great. That's true. It was not a
great call. It was not a great call. Do we
have like an Aunt Edwards three point shot or a
dunk er? Yeah? Sure, all right, play one of those.
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Let's see. Here we go and this is really the
two for one player of the day. Here we go.
Here we get Overweaves on the pull up three. Yeah again,
it's been three of the game is third here in
the quarter, he's up to thirty eight points. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 7 (27:00):
Me.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Let's go to the phones. S Hello to Phil, who's
in Minneapolis? Hello Phil, Welcome, Welcome. I don't hear Phil.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
I call him of the winners that are about to
become champions for the first time in franchise history.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
You heard the first Doctor Phil.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh, Doctor, this is doctor Phil. I love you on TV,
Doctor Phil.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Well, Doctor Phil has a has an anidote he wants
to give to uh, these referees who.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Blew that Detroit game. They need to uh if the game,
if the play happened within the part of the game,
why is that not challenged?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
How come they can't challenge that. That's the first question
from the doctor that he needs answer because he's gonna
have troubled guests all week sitting in.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
My studio wondering what the heck happened out there.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
That's the first thing. The second thing you can watch
out for these wars Anthony Edwards. Now this is a
question to you, mister mall.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, here we go. Now we're getting down to the
big part of the call. This is doc this admits
Let me tell you, doctor Phil calling the show with
my question for me.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Go ahead, there you go. How s do you think
Anthony Edwards is away from that? Michael Jordanesque tyboo.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, okay, So uh in terms of playing ability, he's outstanding.
He will never get to that level because of his mouth.
It ain't happening, it's not gonna it's not gonna work.
He's he's already been eliminated from that. So forget about that.
Don't worry about that. Just worry about him winning and
all that. I mean, you know he's got the big
d he likes to talk about that. Generally that doesn't
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play well in parts of the country, so the Bible
Belt and whatnot. So that's over. That ain't happen.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Okay. Do you think he'd be better off than a
bigger market, then well, what you admit it?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So you want him, you want him on a bet,
you want him in a big sit. What are you doing?
He's in your town. Why would you want him to
go somewhere else?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I just I just heard that for one of my
guests in my studio right now.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He just won the ass all right, Well, listen, Obviously,
if the NBA would like you in big markets because
there's more people that live there and they get higher
TV ratings when those teams do well, if they have
large followings, and that's obvious. But if you're in Minnesota,
you don't want to see him in LA or New
York or something like that. Of course.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Now, this guy, this guy is one thing I do
really appreciate about Anthony Edwards is that he is He's
constant defense, offense, whatever they need him to do. I mean,
he's had forty points at least close to forty in
a couple of games this series alone.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah. And the good news is the way he's having kids,
he's gonna have to stay in Minnesota because no, seriously,
because if he goes anywhere else, he's gonna have to
take a pay cut, right, I mean, the way it works,
if you stay with the team you're with, you can
get the mega max and all that stuff. If you
go to a different team, you're gonna have to take
let's money. So he he should be a timberwl for life,
the way he's producing children. So I think you're okay there, man.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
I'm doctor Tripp, but I do that medication for.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
The young man. I think he's a perfectly healthy, young,
red blooded man. And uh, he's a does not believe
in birth control. All right, thank you, doctor Phil. Get
back to here. There's the great doctor Phil checking in undelab.
What a way to start the week, doctor Phil an Icon.
Oh man, we're just flowing. The magic is here. The
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magic is in the air. It is absolutely in the air.
There was a lot of grumbling playing the blame game.
You had JJ Reddick ripping the officials do we have
that audio JJ Reddick taking some shots. He was upset
with a call out. There was a play with Luca
who you know, was it a trip? Was it not
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a trip? It was not called a trip. It was
a no call, and that led to JJ Reddick complaining
postgame him here's the audio on that. Take a list.
What was your vanish point on the inbound that.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Was a t let Let's just start with Luca got tripped.
I mean, that was a blatant trip. He doesn't just
fall on his own. We watched it, you know, he
gets tripped, So we should have been at the free
throw line.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
You know, you not.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
That's not an excuse for why we lost.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
But he felt and you know we had a chance
to go. Oh see that he put a butt in there.
He said, that's not an excuse. But then he put
a butt, which means that that's a lie. He's lying.
That is an excuse. Play it again. Let's hear it again.
Listen to the butt. Remember the butt's to tell. When
you hear the butt. When you hear a butt, that
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means everything you said before, that's you're lying. What was
your vanish point on the inbound?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
That was a t let Let's just start with Luca
got tripped. I mean that was a blatant trip. He
doesn't just fall on his own. We watched it, you know,
he gets tripped, So we should have been at the
free throw line.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
You know, you not.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
That's not an excuse for why we lost.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But but he's the butt bomb, butt bomb, butt bomb.
He's he's admitting that's why they lost right there. He's
making excuses JJ Reddick. He also had the Orlando coach
Jamal Moseley the Magic and Celtics says Boston, toying with
Orlando in that one. He questioned the officiating after Game four,
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said the teams are playing similar, similar attacks, but not
the same foul cut count complaining about that. As Orlando
is on the brink of extermination from the post season,
to exit stage right from the playoffs, let's say he
look a big daddy. Speaking of elimination, the Grizzlies have
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been decommissioned from the playoffs. Hello, big daddy in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
He's the daddy the hell out to all my fans
and all my position. Well, yeah, like Lebron's to get
on out of that too, man. I love what you say.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
His night.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Ain't nobody else saying like it don't get what to
do it?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
They rather they lose. You ain't got no coach, like
we ain't got no coach. I want what I wanted
the Holly. It's about all these hype bo Sakura. If
they ain't no weighing, no Super Bowl, I ain'tn't even
going to the NFL. I don't even going at this.
You got all these hype.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Well you're talking me should shoulder Sanders? Forget about that.
The Browns the only bowl they go to is the
toilet Bowl every year. Usually by around week four or
five they're in the Toilet Bowl. So that's about it.
So yeah, you don't need to worry about that. But
the amount of coverage that Shadur Sanders got, holy melk Kuiper,
I think he needs a therapist. After the weekend, melk
(33:40):
Kuiper had a mental breakdown on television. It was wild man.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Look they gave him his roses on the draft. You
know four to two years they wanted to think and
may have none to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I gotta tell you a big daddy, I said, mel
Kuiper should go to Hall of Fame. After this weekend,
I might have to retract that statement. I might have
to do a duel. That's a Mulligan on that Mallon monologue.
Holy crap, was he anoint man?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
They were all the ways back Male's great greatest points.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, geez enough man, he started everything you know, you
know with him, the podcast when they weren't podcasts back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
But man, come on, Lebron don't get it, and we
need somebody else to talk about Lebron Man.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
All right, all right, beg dad, all right there, all right,
the great Big Dad. We love Big Dad. Always positive,
big Daddy, always happy dad. We love that great? Is
that all you other losers? They call up and complain
all the time. The Big Daddy's happy. You can't be
happy and call the overnight show? Time now for the
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who Am I?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Game?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Orlando's Paulo Boncero is the fourth youngest forward in NBA
history to reach three hundred career playoff points. Only Lebron, James, Kawhi,
Leonard and Me were younger. Again. Orlando's paulo' Boncherro the
fourth youngest forward in NBA history to reach the three
hundred career playoff points. Only Lebron kawhi me were younger
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at the time. Who am I? That is the question.
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
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way through the overnight hours here and time for the
who am I?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
The payoff on the who am I?
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Orlandos Pallo Boncerro, the fourth youngest forward in NBA history
to reach three hundred career playoff points. Paulo Boncherro fun
name to say, only Lebron and Kawhi and me were younger.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see here? Who do we have? Super Marcus Steve
(36:54):
says you are the creepier Mike the Leprechaun. This guy
is obsessed with the Queen says Supermarkets. See I thought
Supermarket Steve quit the show. What's up with that? Uh
Manuel from Guardina says you are Julius Randall who punks
the Lakers regularly. Who Scrooge in the Bay Area? Says
Lebron's choking trainer Shannon Sharp is the answer? Kelvin Escobar
(37:19):
from Mister Nice Guy, Doctor Phil from alf the Alien Opiner?
Who else do we have? Paig the Big Ten Networks
Brian Finley. I don't know who that is? Nick the
Wendy's Guy, went with Kevin Durant as his answer. Andy
in Line o' Lakes, Minnesota, going with Kevin Garnett. Who
(37:40):
else do we have you? Donnas Haslam from Malibu, Rubin
Paige down King Roy says President Donald J. Trump is
the answer. Saint Peter from I forty Ian Femi, the
number one Uber eats driver in Minnesota, says Baron Baron
jd Vance. Who else do we have? Pastor Clipper Daryl
(38:01):
from the Mexican John Dutton Othellow Harrington guest by James.
That's his answer, Greg Odin from Andrew in the Bay Area,
Biglo with a name I'm not gonna even try to pronounce.
Who else do we have? Page down Mark from Queens
said Dame Time Lillard. Too soon, Too soon, Shane and
the Moyes says Gunner in Minnesota is the answer. Shane
(38:24):
from Portland. Here's a good name, World be Free, World
be Great name. That's a real person. World be Free.
Lloyd Free changed his name to World Be Free. Sean
in the Valley of the Sun going with metal Lark
Lemon as his answer. Mike says it's former Fox Sports
Radio Talks Your host Pooh Richardson as the answer. We
(38:45):
used to have Pooh working here. Some would say we
still have Pooh working here, but uh, this is a joke.
Calm down, nature boy answering the call. But there is
a role of coilet papers, by the way you see it.
You here, come in here, somebody let's must have been running. Well, No,
there's tissue. You don't need a roll of toilet paper.
We are they wiping their ass in here? Seriously? Oh
(39:07):
that was a good take. Let me wipe my ass.
There's toilet paper anyway, Lorenda, do you have an answer
the who am I?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Game?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Orlando's Paulo Bancherro the fourth youngest forward in NBA history
to reach three hundred career playoff points. Only Lebron Kawhi
and me were younger. Yeah, you gotta go with the
youngest in the game. Bronnie James. Bronnie James. Fine answer,
Bronnie James. Is that the answer raw? The correct answer
from the Boston Celtics, not Larry Bird, Jason Tatum. Jason
(39:39):
Tata playing right now getting their done. He's got a
lot of records. I don't think of him as that great.
He's got a lot of records, though, Tatum's got like
the record book man in Boston. He does
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome and a happy Monday to you. It is the
twenty eighth day of April and it's our numb Berwan.
So here in our number one, how do you explain
the play of Lebron and Luca down the stretch for
the Lakers as they come up short yet again they
have been terrible in these playoff games against the Timberwolves. Also,
(00:26):
where do you stand on JJ Reddick? The podcast are
getting killed for playing the same five guys the entire
second half. We'll discuss that, and we'll talk about the
Knickerbocker's last second win over Detroit. What does the referees
admission of a missed foul call at the end on
Tim Hardaway Junior due for JD. Bickerstaff's pistons. We'll discuss that,
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and who knows what else? Here it is our number one,
from the purple and Goal to the purple and coal,
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Express dot Com. Hope you had a Okay, we get
at least you're here. You survived, You're alive. That's that's
half the battle. So our lead this hour is from
pro bouncy Ball, the story that everyone's yapping about here.
The Lakers given the player, they didn't have to give
up anything real value to get Luca, and they are
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one loss away now from lights out parties over. That's it,
You're done. And that is where we begin our sojourn
around pro bouncy Ball. We start out in Minneapolis, where
the Timmerwols looking to go up three games to one
against the Lakers who were trying to even up the
books there and I don't know if you were watching this,
(02:41):
maybe half stuff going on, you actually want to go
out and see the outside and hang out with people
and not sitting on your ass and watch basketball on
television all weekend. I don't know what you got going on,
but perhaps you missed it. We were watching so Jaden
Daniels coming up big, a three point play with under
a minute to go, in fact under forty it's thirty
nine and a half seconds on the clock, and that
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right there for the lead for the tim Perwolves, and
then the inbounds back Lebron that season veteran, that's a
rookie mistake by Lebron James. Turn the ball over and
sure enough, that was it. See you later there as
Minnesota rallies back and they get to win one, sixteen
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to one, thirteen to the final over the helpless Lakers,
and now the Timberwolves are up three games to one.
Anthony Edwards the ant man. He had that big D energy,
not the little D. He had the big D energy
right there forty three points. He also drew a controversial
foul from Lebron James during a drive to the basket.
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There are about ten seconds to go in the game,
more on that later. He converted both foul shots, and
so the Lakers had one last opportunity. Austin Reeves took
a final shot, and that was the guy, not Luca,
not Lebron. They couldn't draw up a play to get
those guys a shot. So Austin Reeves took the final shot,
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clankety clank. It rimmed out, and that's it. The Lakers
now facing their last supper in the NBA playoffs. The
better story is in the losing locker room, and so
that is where we will begin. And the question for
the Esteemed panel, which you are a part of, how
do you explain the play down the stretch by Lebron
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and Luca for the Lakers. The whole argument was, if
you have Lebron and Luca on the court together, you're
not going to lose a close game. You're not going
to be the lesser team with those two geniuses on
the court, the maestros of the basketball world. And yet
the Lakers have lost close games multiple times here already
(04:55):
in this playoff series. So my thoughts on this, I've
got Squish Mintal manager and Demi Lovado and we will
combine all of these things together, and we were going
to make a delicious, juicy lucy is what we're gonna make,
just chef's kiss, all right, So number what I said,
number what? So, how do you explain the play of
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Lebron and Luca in clutch time for the Lakers? Will
you explained it? I got if it's a rhetorical question
or not. But the Lakers move a ten point lead
in the fourth quarter. On the Mallor report card. On
the Mallor report card, they did not get an A,
A B, A C, A D, an E or an F.
They got an I, an I rating on the malle
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report card for ick factor. The ick factor was there
for these two down the stretch, and I loved every
second of it. Man, was that fun to watch? God?
Was that great? I enjoyed me and I wanted to
watch it again and again and again and again. Lebron
and Luca they played the entire second half, They played, obviously,
the entire fourth court play every minute of the second
and a half, and yet in the fourth quarter, each
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of them did the thing you can't do at the time.
You can't do it down the stretch run of this game.
They combined in the fourth quarter took eight shots, made
one of them. That's a twelve point five shooting percentage
from the floor. Lebron was the shampoo guy, head and shoulders,
head and shoulders above everyone else at his worst when
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the game meant the most down the stretch, there sucking
at a time you cannot suck. Lebron made as many
field goals, as many field goals as you had and
I had in the fourth quarter of that game, that
would be buppus none zero. And like a good starting pitcher,
Lebron pitched a shutout in the fourth quarter, man only
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a couple of shots, but no points. No points. In
the fourth quarter, he took a moneyball shot while standing
roughly five feet from Duluth. He was pretty far out there,
near the near the logo at mid court, which is
not ideal. If you don't make it, it's not ideal,
it's an error. And it was an error. And then
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of course compounded the mistake with the foul on Anthony
Edwards there on the turnover. So the most experienced player
in the NBA and he coughs up a fur ball
with that turnover. Now the bigger issue here, though, is
if you look at key pressure situations for the Lakers
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in this series against Minnesota. What has been the common
denominator in these games? The games have been close for
the most part. Hey, there's an early on blow up.
But if you look at the fourth quarter game on
the line, Lebron and Luca have been squish mellows down
the stretch, the raggedy Ann raggedy Ann version, if you
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will hear. Now, what is my supporting evidence. Let's go
to the stats. Eyeball test says these guys have been bad.
But what is the supporting evidence to back up the
eyeball test. So here's the supporting evidence. Let's go to
the numbers. Luca in the fourth quarter in this series
against the Timberwolves has taken seventeen shots. He's missed twelve
of them. He's shooting twenty nine point four percent from
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the floor in the fourth quarter of playoff games. And
while he's been on the court, the Lakers have been
outscored in the fourth quarter by thirty one points by
the Timberwolves. Luca Man somewhere Nico Harrison has a Cheshire
cat smile from earedear Toja. Told Ja he's a fattie.
He's not in shape all right. How about Lebron, Oh God,
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greatest of all time, Lebron. Sick of fans will tell
you that Lebron is so much better than Michael Jordan,
a gift from the gods. Well, in the fourth quarter here,
Lebron James, who's a freak of nature, has taken twenty
shots in the fourth quarter in the series, and he's
missed thirteen of the twenty. He's shooting thirty five percent,
which compared to Luca's pretty good. However, while he's been
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on the court in this series, the Lakers have been
outscored by thirty four points plus minus in the fourth quarter,
So combined Luca and Lebron while they've been on the
court a minus sixty five on the plus minus while
they've been out there. All right, now take that, Yeah,
there you go. Put that in your pipe and smoking
all right now, page two. The big storyline I guess
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afterwards is people were up in arms. How could the
Lakers play all of their guys this entire second half?
JJ Reddick getting put on blast the coach podcaster of
the Lakers. Now, where do you stand? Where do you stand?
On JJ Redick getting absolutely killed for playing the same
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five guys the entire twenty four minutes of the second half.
So my position on this is pretty simple. We know
how this works. Reddick was hired as a the asole
to Lebron. Ja Reddick is doing what Lebron tells him
to do. It's not that difficult to figure out. Lebron
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has always had sock puppets as coaches other than Eric Spoulster,
and that didn't go so well in Miami. There was
a loggerhead situation, actually more with pat Riley. But if
you look at it here, Reddick has no business being
a coach. And I think most of us know going
in that he's a bit of a fraud as a
head coach, and he's been exposed here unorthodox. But he's
(10:29):
just doing In this case, it's you're just following the
wisdom of Lebron. You're you're a middle manager, that's what
you are, and you're taking your cues from Lebron. He's
your podcast BFF, right, whatever Lebron wants lebron y blah
blah blah blah blah. That said, on this one, I'm
actually okay with it. Like I'm not gonna kill Reddick
(10:52):
for playing the guys the entire second half. I'm not.
And here's the thing is that mantra in sports you
dance with the one who brought you, and this was
for essentially elimination. The way the Lakers played it, They're
not going to come back. They have no chance. Like
you don't play your starters the entire second half. If
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you think you can lose that game and still come
back and win, that is an admission from the Lakers
were cooked, Like we had to win this game. We
will play our guys because if we lose this game,
we're not winning the series. And so by losing that game,
it's over. But you went down with the players that
were your you thought your five top players out And
(11:36):
as far as the oh my god, some of the
things that have been said by blowhards in the media
and fanboys, it is it just it's wild. They think
this is like some kind of Iron Man competition and
these guys were in a decathlon playing all twenty four
minutes in an NBA playoff game, And I'm really First
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of all, these are supposed to be world class athletes. Okay,
that's the first part. Secondly, have you ever been to
an NBA game, You don't mean timeouts. There are on
an NBA games, there's built in TV timeouts, there's actual
timeouts for strategy for each team. There's downtime when teams
are shooting faushas. There's a lot of downtime, like the
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idea that you are playing this grueling, unbelievable test of
the athletic the human body, and it's just nonsense. It's
just now. I know it's not the norm to play
every single minute. But again, JJ Redick and Lebron would
not have done this if they thought they had a
chance to come back and win the series without winning
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that game. You don't do that now. The other part
of it, which is really amusing to me is they're
not the only ones that played down the starts, like
in the fourth quarter. Anthony Edwards, Julius Randall and Jade
mcdani's played all twelve minutes in the fourth quarter. But really,
what this accomplished is it's not so subtle way of
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calling out Rob Polinka, who just got an extension because
Nico Harrison handed him Luka Donzik and and so it's
a flawed group. That's what JJ Reddick and his boss
Lebron are saying. It's a flawed group and they don't
trust the piecemeal roster that they only trusted five players
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on the roster in the second half of what was
essentially an elimination game. And so that's it. But imagine,
if you will, being handed for a broken down unibrow,
and that's about it, being handed Luca, and yet you
get this thing on a silver platter and you're still
about to be eliminated in the first round of plus.
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That's fascinating to me. It's not good enough. Like what
do you need? What do you need the Greek freak?
Does he have to come in there next? Like? Who
else you need? How many other players do you have
to get on your hands? It's just it's absurd. But
here we are all right now turning the page. So
let's go to the Eastern Conference early game on Sunday,
early game in Motown, and you had Carl Anthony Towns
(14:07):
kitty cat, who remember he did nothing in the second
half I think it was game two, just completely missed.
Carl Anthony Towns made the go ahead three pointer in
this game. Another controversial finish here. There was less than
a minute ago forty six point six seconds on the
game plock He finished with twenty seven points and Jalen
(14:27):
Brunson getting it done thirty two points eleven assists. The
Knickerbockers get past the Pistons by the skin on their
chinny chin chin, ninety four to ninety three, so they
take a three games to one lead on the brink
of advancing to the second round of the playoffs. The
controversy here, if you saw it, you know what I'm
about to bring up. Tim Hardaway Junior. Tim Hardaway Junior
(14:51):
a rebound pass out Kyd Cunningham missed a shot. They
got the ball out to Tim Hardaway Junior for a
three point shot just before the buzzer, and he was slammed.
There was contact with Josh Hart of New York and
it wasn't called a foul. They did not call it
a foul. At the end of the game. There were
(15:14):
no whistles there. And sure enough, it turns out after
the fact in a pool report somebody named David Guthrie.
We're not sure who that is. We were told he's
the crew chief for that particular game. So David Guthrie
said afterwards, bad job by us. We should have called
the foul. We screwed up, we fed up. Yes, postgame review,
(15:38):
they said, we observed that heart made body contact. That's
just the New York guard Josh Hart made body contact
that is more than marginal on Tim Hardaway Junior, and
a foul should have been called. Had the foul been called,
the Pistons would have gone to the foul line for
not one, not two, but three foul shots down by
(16:00):
I won and would have had the lead and likely
won the game. So what does this referee admission of
bad job by us. We blew the foul call due
for JD. Bickerstaff and the Pistons. Okay, so this is like, hey,
(16:20):
I know you were gonna win the lottery, but you know,
I we just we didn't actually process your request for
those numbers. The machine broke, and it's it just is
bupkuss right, it's bupcus is what. It's the NBA playing
the Demi Levado song. Sorry, not sorry, the We're sorry,
(16:41):
but we're really not that sorry. You know, we're not
that sorry. Detroit can read the sign on the cash
register if they want. All sales are final. All sales
are final, and no refunds, no exchanges. That's it. And
you can sulk all you want, it's not changing, and
(17:02):
the call stands you're screwed. So that's essentially what all
that means. Like like you come on and say it's
like okay, it's like this whole two minute report thing
that they've had for a number of years now in
the NBA. It's just pouring salt on the wound, is
what it is. It's just pouring salt on the wound.
That's all it is. If you'd like to be part,
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say it again. That's fine, that's it. All right and
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straight ahead now the playing of the blame game, and
a lot of these zebras under attack. A lot of
these zebras under attack. We will get to that will
take your calls, the whole thing, and we will do
it next.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
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was a hot mess last week? Lorena, I don't know
what happened last week. It was not good. Questions are
too hot, too hard, yes, apparently too hard, and the
malord militia feud. So all of that in our four
as we are settling in, everyone survived the weekend, so
we're here to do another fine week of overnight gas baggery.
(21:03):
A malaprop guy writes in he says shampoo references the
Lakers with finesse tried to rumble but fell in a
bumble and bumble. Lebron was head and shoulders lacking, though
his moves will still swave after the game. Herbal essence
(21:25):
rose from Lucas hookahs. Lucas hookahs, but soon they will
all get the axe. Okay, deep writing very poetic form,
Mala prop Guy ferg Dog writes and says, do you
feel a little sorry for Laker historians having to watch
their team go down in flames like this in the
(21:46):
first round? Because I don't lee Peekaboo isn't good enough
to lace Jordan's boots. So he says, what else do
we have? Page down? Let's see here. Justin in Cincinnati
says he said about something about underlying tension. I'm not
sure what that's all about.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
There you can massage that Outcoli Pecoli writes in this place,
as you can go for that, Speccoli says, we want
Schedur Shotenfreud and.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Now or we go on strike. There you go all
you can get it, get in line and go on strike.
In Minnesota says been you said the Lakers are as
good as eliminated. Can the Wolves just play the bench
against them on Wednesday? Then sure? Why not? Fami go
ahead knock it out? Yeah exactly. Steve says, is this
(22:40):
the only blank media that you use? Not on Instagram
or TikTok? Well, I don't know, blank. If you need
to go there, we use this during the show, but
we are on I am on Instagram. There are videos
that are put up there from malar monologue. You can
say hello on Instagram Ben Maller on Fox, and we're
still hanging out over there when the last one's left
(23:01):
on Facebook Ben Mather Show, so you find us there
as well. But Instagram Ben Maller on Fox Facebook page
Ben Mather Show, we just don't use that during the
live show. So you can have fun over there, but
we're not monitoring that during the live show. Shane in
des Moines writes, In says playing the what if game
with Shader Sanders is as useful as taking a call
(23:23):
from Mike the Leprechaun. Both are useless to the show,
especially when Mike drops Lorraine on Bernie's Weekend show. Okay,
I don't know. You'll have to let me know about that.
He's obsessed apply he is. Yeah, he's a big fan,
unless he's not. Nature Boy writes in answering the Call
(23:43):
of the Wild. He says the pistons were hosed by
the no call refs. Need to make up for that
mess says the nature Boy. No nature Boy sound effect.
We've lost the nature Boy sound effect. Yeah there you go, Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Stredinis checks in, he's he's alive. So there is that
big Big Rob says, what a fantastic, fantastic night full
of Laker failures, bringing a volcanic eruption of shotenfreude to
the entire country. The People's team has officially taken over
the crown in l a j juretick. He's gone, He gone.
(24:21):
Maybe Bronny can coach next year since he ain't playing.
A plus plus Gunner writes in, says, about time I
gave you an a plus plus plus and five stars.
Wolves are sending the king home with no crown. He says,
all right, very nice. Rick O rights in. He's actually
(24:44):
crying as he's typing this, saying, Wow, the Lakers are crappier, right, Ben,
and listen, I wish they were as good as the Clippers.
Your team, right, too bad? Not the Lakers year here?
Good luck to your clippers. Well, thank you, rick I
appreciate that. Very kind of you to say that. Classy,
I think would be the word. All right, we'll take
some calls here, and by the way, we have the
(25:04):
play of the day. We have the play of the day.
I have no idea what the play of the day
is here. It is made possible by tie rag What
is the player that day? Do we have the play
of the day ready to go?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Here?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
This is exciting. We'd hear the play of the day
from I assume from the world of the NBA. Do
we have it? No, we don't have I lie, I'm
a liar. We don't have the play of the day. Oh,
yes we do. Well, what is it? Lovey and Lebron
James will trigger it? Dangerous passes knocked away, Dayton got
a hand to it. Here's Cilius Randall. Randall back out
(25:37):
to answer that was that was a terrible play. There's nothing,
there's no like that was the play. Figure that would
be your favorite play, Ben, it's the turnover that costs
the Lakers the game. But that, I mean, that's a
terrible Just play something else from the That's what I mean.
(26:01):
My god, that's not the play, My god. I mean.
I love Alan Horton. He used to work here, He
used to fill in for me. He's the voice of
the Timberwolves. We love Alan. We're big fans of his work.
That was not one of his better calls, though, I mean,
that was not great. That's true. It was not a
great call. It was not a great call. Do we
have like an Aunt Edwards three point shot or a
dunk er? Yeah? Sure, all right, play one of those.
(26:22):
Let's see. Here we go and this is really the
two for one player of the day. Here we go.
Here we get Overweaves on the pull up three. Yeah again,
it's been three of the game is third here in
the quarter, he's up to thirty eight points. Yeah, that's right.
That's great. Alan Horton part of the Fox Sports Radio
Alumni Association, with the call and the play of the
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Speaker 7 (27:00):
Me.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Let's go to the phones. S Hello to Phil, who's
in Minneapolis? Hello Phil, Welcome, Welcome. I don't hear Phil.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
I call him of the winners that are about to
become champions for the first time in franchise history.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
You heard the first Doctor Phil.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh, Doctor, this is doctor Phil. I love you on TV,
Doctor Phil.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Well, Doctor Phil has a has an anidote he wants
to give to uh, these referees who.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Blew that Detroit game. They need to uh if the game,
if the play happened within the part of the game,
why is that not challenged?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
How come they can't challenge that. That's the first question
from the doctor that he needs answer because he's gonna
have troubled guests all week sitting in.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
My studio wondering what the heck happened out there.
Speaker 7 (27:58):
That's the first thing. The second thing you can watch
out for these wars Anthony Edwards. Now this is a
question to you, mister mall.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Okay, here we go. Now we're getting down to the
big part of the call. This is doc this admits
Let me tell you, doctor Phil calling the show with
my question for me.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Go ahead, there you go. How s do you think
Anthony Edwards is away from that? Michael Jordanesque tyboo.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, okay, So uh in terms of playing ability, he's outstanding.
He will never get to that level because of his mouth.
It ain't happening, it's not gonna it's not gonna work.
He's he's already been eliminated from that. So forget about that.
Don't worry about that. Just worry about him winning and
all that. I mean, you know he's got the big
d he likes to talk about that. Generally that doesn't
(28:47):
play well in parts of the country, so the Bible
Belt and whatnot. So that's over. That ain't happen.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Okay. Do you think he'd be better off than a
bigger market, then well, what you admit it?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So you want him, you want him on a bet,
you want him in a big sit. What are you doing?
He's in your town. Why would you want him to
go somewhere else?
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I just I just heard that for one of my
guests in my studio right now.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He just won the ass all right, Well, listen, Obviously,
if the NBA would like you in big markets because
there's more people that live there and they get higher
TV ratings when those teams do well, if they have
large followings, and that's obvious. But if you're in Minnesota,
you don't want to see him in LA or New
York or something like that. Of course.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Now, this guy, this guy is one thing I do
really appreciate about Anthony Edwards is that he is He's
constant defense, offense, whatever they need him to do. I mean,
he's had forty points at least close to forty in
a couple of games this series alone.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah. And the good news is the way he's having kids,
he's gonna have to stay in Minnesota because no, seriously,
because if he goes anywhere else, he's gonna have to
take a pay cut, right, I mean, the way it works,
if you stay with the team you're with, you can
get the mega max and all that stuff. If you
go to a different team, you're gonna have to take
let's money. So he he should be a timberwl for life,
the way he's producing children. So I think you're okay there, man.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
I'm doctor Tripp, but I do that medication for.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
The young man. I think he's a perfectly healthy, young,
red blooded man. And uh, he's a does not believe
in birth control. All right, thank you, doctor Phil. Get
back to here. There's the great doctor Phil checking in undelab.
What a way to start the week, doctor Phil an Icon.
Oh man, we're just flowing. The magic is here. The
(30:31):
magic is in the air. It is absolutely in the air.
There was a lot of grumbling playing the blame game.
You had JJ Reddick ripping the officials do we have
that audio JJ Reddick taking some shots. He was upset
with a call out. There was a play with Luca
who you know, was it a trip? Was it not
(30:51):
a trip? It was not called a trip. It was
a no call, and that led to JJ Reddick complaining
postgame him here's the audio on that. Take a list.
What was your vanish point on the inbound that.
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Was a t let Let's just start with Luca got tripped.
I mean, that was a blatant trip. He doesn't just
fall on his own. We watched it, you know, he
gets tripped, So we should have been at the free
throw line.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
You know, you not.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
That's not an excuse for why we lost.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
But he felt and you know we had a chance
to go. Oh see that he put a butt in there.
He said, that's not an excuse. But then he put
a butt, which means that that's a lie. He's lying.
That is an excuse. Play it again. Let's hear it again.
Listen to the butt. Remember the butt's to tell. When
you hear the butt. When you hear a butt, that
(31:39):
means everything you said before, that's you're lying. What was
your vanish point on the inbound?
Speaker 8 (31:45):
That was a t let Let's just start with Luca
got tripped. I mean that was a blatant trip. He
doesn't just fall on his own. We watched it, you know,
he gets tripped, So we should have been at the
free throw line.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
You know, you not.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
That's not an excuse for why we lost.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
But but he's the butt bomb, butt bomb, butt bomb.
He's he's admitting that's why they lost right there. He's
making excuses JJ Reddick. He also had the Orlando coach
Jamal Moseley the Magic and Celtics says Boston, toying with
Orlando in that one. He questioned the officiating after Game four,
(32:21):
said the teams are playing similar, similar attacks, but not
the same foul cut count complaining about that. As Orlando
is on the brink of extermination from the post season,
to exit stage right from the playoffs, let's say he
look a big daddy. Speaking of elimination, the Grizzlies have
(32:43):
been decommissioned from the playoffs. Hello, big daddy in Memphis.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
He's the daddy the hell out to all my fans
and all my position. Well, yeah, like Lebron's to get
on out of that too, man. I love what you say.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
His night.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Ain't nobody else saying like it don't get what to
do it?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
They rather they lose. You ain't got no coach, like
we ain't got no coach. I want what I wanted
the Holly. It's about all these hype bo Sakura. If
they ain't no weighing, no Super Bowl, I ain'tn't even
going to the NFL. I don't even going at this.
You got all these hype.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Well you're talking me should shoulder Sanders? Forget about that.
The Browns the only bowl they go to is the
toilet Bowl every year. Usually by around week four or
five they're in the Toilet Bowl. So that's about it.
So yeah, you don't need to worry about that. But
the amount of coverage that Shadur Sanders got, holy melk Kuiper,
I think he needs a therapist. After the weekend, melk
(33:40):
Kuiper had a mental breakdown on television. It was wild man.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Look they gave him his roses on the draft. You
know four to two years they wanted to think and
may have none to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I gotta tell you a big daddy, I said, mel
Kuiper should go to Hall of Fame. After this weekend,
I might have to retract that statement. I might have
to do a duel. That's a Mulligan on that Mallon monologue.
Holy crap, was he anoint man?
Speaker 3 (34:02):
They were all the ways back Male's great greatest points.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, geez enough man, he started everything you know, you
know with him, the podcast when they weren't podcasts back
in the day.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
But man, come on, Lebron don't get it, and we
need somebody else to talk about Lebron Man.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
All right, all right, beg dad, all right there, all right,
the great Big Dad. We love Big Dad. Always positive,
big Daddy, always happy dad. We love that great? Is
that all you other losers? They call up and complain
all the time. The Big Daddy's happy. You can't be
happy and call the overnight show? Time now for the
(34:44):
who Am I?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Game?
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Orlando's Paulo Boncero is the fourth youngest forward in NBA
history to reach three hundred career playoff points. Only Lebron, James, Kawhi,
Leonard and Me were younger. Again. Orlando's paulo' Boncherro the
fourth youngest forward in NBA history to reach the three
hundred career playoff points. Only Lebron kawhi me were younger
(35:07):
at the time. Who am I? That is the question.
The answer. We'll get to it and we will do
it next.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
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back to the talk. Well, it's back to the show
and as I ben, as we continue to navigate our
(36:23):
way through the overnight hours here and time for the
who am I?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:29):
The payoff on the who am I?
Speaker 8 (36:31):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Orlandos Pallo Boncerro, the fourth youngest forward in NBA history
to reach three hundred career playoff points. Paulo Boncherro fun
name to say, only Lebron and Kawhi and me were younger.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see here? Who do we have? Super Marcus Steve
(36:54):
says you are the creepier Mike the Leprechaun. This guy
is obsessed with the Queen says Supermarkets. See I thought
Supermarket Steve quit the show. What's up with that? Uh
Manuel from Guardina says you are Julius Randall who punks
the Lakers regularly. Who Scrooge in the Bay Area? Says
Lebron's choking trainer Shannon Sharp is the answer? Kelvin Escobar
(37:19):
from Mister Nice Guy, Doctor Phil from alf the Alien Opiner?
Who else do we have? Paig the Big Ten Networks
Brian Finley. I don't know who that is? Nick the
Wendy's Guy, went with Kevin Durant as his answer. Andy
in Line o' Lakes, Minnesota, going with Kevin Garnett. Who
(37:40):
else do we have you? Donnas Haslam from Malibu, Rubin
Paige down King Roy says President Donald J. Trump is
the answer. Saint Peter from I forty Ian Femi, the
number one Uber eats driver in Minnesota, says Baron Baron
jd Vance. Who else do we have? Pastor Clipper Daryl
(38:01):
from the Mexican John Dutton Othellow Harrington guest by James.
That's his answer, Greg Odin from Andrew in the Bay Area,
Biglo with a name I'm not gonna even try to pronounce.
Who else do we have? Page down Mark from Queens
said Dame Time Lillard. Too soon, Too soon, Shane and
the Moyes says Gunner in Minnesota is the answer. Shane
(38:24):
from Portland. Here's a good name, World be Free, World
be Great name. That's a real person. World be Free.
Lloyd Free changed his name to World Be Free. Sean
in the Valley of the Sun going with metal Lark
Lemon as his answer. Mike says it's former Fox Sports
Radio Talks Your host Pooh Richardson as the answer. We
(38:45):
used to have Pooh working here. Some would say we
still have Pooh working here, but uh, this is a joke.
Calm down, nature boy answering the call. But there is
a role of coilet papers, by the way you see it.
You here, come in here, somebody let's must have been running. Well, No,
there's tissue. You don't need a roll of toilet paper.
We are they wiping their ass in here? Seriously? Oh
(39:07):
that was a good take. Let me wipe my ass.
There's toilet paper anyway, Lorenda, do you have an answer
the who am I?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Game?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Orlando's Paulo Bancherro the fourth youngest forward in NBA history
to reach three hundred career playoff points. Only Lebron Kawhi
and me were younger. Yeah, you gotta go with the
youngest in the game. Bronnie James. Bronnie James. Fine answer,
Bronnie James. Is that the answer raw? The correct answer
from the Boston Celtics, not Larry Bird, Jason Tatum. Jason
(39:39):
Tata playing right now getting their done. He's got a
lot of records. I don't think of him as that great.
He's got a lot of records, though, Tatum's got like
the record book man in Boston. He does
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