May 1, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Warriors loss to the Rockets in Game 5 and if Steve Kerr made the right call by conceding the game, if Ime Udoka and the Rockets have figured something out with the Warriors, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shacka Laca. It's our numb bird too. Our number
two is ready for you. And here in hour number two,
it's all about the Warriors and the Rockets. Something that
you don't see very often in professional sports, a coach
giving up on a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
But it happened, and nobody seems upset about it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We don't understand why did coach Steve Kerr make the
right call by conceding a playoff game for the Warriors
even though Golden State got back into the game. They're
geting blown out and got back into the game, and
Steve Kerr said, I don't want the game, I don't
need the game. I'm not gonna take the game. Also,
have the eme Udoka Rockets figure it out something with
the Warriors as they get the easy win and away
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from that playoff series. We're hearing the Milwaukee Bucks and
Giannis Adenta koombo Or scheduled to meet to discuss both
his future and the future plans of the organization. What
does all of that mean. We'll try to figure it
all out. Right now, get ready for our number two.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A hasty and I do mean hasty retreat.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
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Speaker 2 (02:41):
We'll get back to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The decommissioning of Lebron and Hookah Luca. Good news for
those running hookah bars around La. Luca's got nothing to
worry about other than just enjoying himself. The Lakers are done.
Minnesota has advanced. But our lead this hour is from Houston.
And it's not Houston we have a problem. It's Golden State,
we have a problem. That was the playground in Texas
(03:05):
for Game five of the first round playoff series between
the Rockets and the Warriors. Now Stephen Curry and Golden State.
My media elites cover the NBA told me that they
just know how to win. They just know how to win.
They are just more savvy, more savvy than the Rockets.
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So if they won Golden State, they would have advanced Houston.
They won, they would have continued on. If they lost,
that's it. It's over. That was the setup. This was
the early game on the card. I don't know if
you saw this or not. You can't watch everything.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I get it. We have no excuse.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So we watched fred van vlate Fred Van vlate twenty
six points. I'm and Thompson with twenty five the Rockets,
putting the Warriors into the shredding machine, the paper shredder,
one thirty one to one sixteen.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In the game that was not that close.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
They stave off, stave off elimination, and they go thumper
on Golden State as they win by a large margin.
Game six will be Friday night in northern California. Now
Dylan Brooks the test. Dylan Brooks, he had twenty four
points on a night when all five Houston players in
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the in the starting line up. There they scored in
double figures. Five Houston players in double figures. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we are going to begin this diatribe. In a stunning
juxtaposition from what many of us were taught growing up.
You never give up. You compete to the end. You
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never want to stop the competition, right, You play to
win the game. It's growing, it's exhausting, it might look blake,
you could be frazzled, but the tradition of sport is
you keep going.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You keep going.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Unless you're coached by Steve Kerr, then not so much so.
The Warrior coach shockingly threw in the towel. He threw
in the towel early in this one, well not too early,
but early enough, and said that's it.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
We're good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
After a layoff by Fred van Vliet midway through the
third quarter, with about eighteen minutes to go in the game,
it was ninety three to sixty four. Did not look good.
It did not look good. So Steve Kerk called the
time out, and he took all of his good players
and put them on the bench. He took all of
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his garbage players and put them on the court and said,
all right, let's get the garbage in there, and here
we go. We'll put you in there and have your way.
All right. So let us discuss the question. Did coach
Kerr make the right call by conceding a playoff game which, oh,
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by the way, the Warriors' backups actually got within a
manageable number in the fourth quarter. Did Steve Kerr make
the right call by conceding this playoff game for the Warriors?
So my observations, I've got Yetti, Ernest Hemingway, and RoboCop,
and we will combine all of these random things together
(06:28):
and we are going to make the Gabba gool we're
gonna make the Gabba gool, all right, So numb burn?
Can I get a numb burn?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
This one is a head scratcher to me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I admit, the game seem over and I don't even
have a problem taking the starters out at that point.
My issue is not putting them back in when the
game was a workable number. That is a felony, that
is inexcusable. That is malfeason by Steve Kerr, And there's
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really no defense to it, all right, So he doesn't
put him back in. The Warrior Scrubs had cut the deficit.
I believe the number was down to thirteen or fourteen
with about six minutes ago in the fourth quarter. It
was a manageable deficit with a three point shot. You
close out that game and you get some extra rest.
You get extra rest. Steve Kerr like, what are you
(07:26):
doing all right now? Kurt mentioned that he took the
council of Draymond Green, so apparently Kerr doesn't actually coach
the team. Draymond Green coaches the team. Here's Draymond on
the decision to sit the starters on their ass. Take
a listen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean it is what it is obviously it's not
ideal to play that mon minutes because since we're winning
play way more. But yeah, we had a quick conversation.
He was just saying, ooh, I don't think we should check.
I said, cool, we'll give it five or six minutes.
We can't turn it fast and pull the plug.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, okay, here's Draymond Green on getting the ass kicked
by the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
At this point in our careers, We've seen it all,
had all the experiences, so you got something to draw
back on. But yeah, they played a good game, whether
they went by one or fifty. It's a playoff series.
It cons is one win.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh I didn't know that, Thank you. I don't have
that experience, Draymond. So I didn't realize that. Anyway, Let's
get back to Steve Kurerr. So Steve Kerr again, he
said in the media post game, He's like, well, I
talked to Draymond. We had a conversation. Draymond's like, it's
a quick conversation. Steve Kerr needs a YETI cooler, he
needs the Yeti he needs a YETI cooler filled with medello.
(08:52):
And because they're lacking the fighting spirit. That was a
betrayal of the competitive spirit. It undermines integrity. Am I
being too dramatic? I don't think I'm being too dramatic.
And the reason I think what Steve Kerr said is
bull crap is because on the TNT broadcast, for some reason,
I had the audio up. I usually don't because the
broadcasters annoyed me. Other than Kevin Harlan and a couple others,
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most of them annoyed me. But I had the audio
up and they were saying it was like the second quarter,
and I swear to god I heard this, and you
can back me up on this if you were watching
the TNT broadcasts.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I don't even know their names.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They were like, well, yeah, we talked to Steve Kerr
before the game and he told us that if the
Warriors fell behind in the game, he would be willing
to pull people from the game early. So that was
like the mindset, Like the mindset was we're gonna toss
away a playoff game because because why we were gonna
prioritize rest. What are you a Mama, Luke? Like, seriously,
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what is the message? That was the pregame message to
the teams, Like well, you know or you know to
give up if things don't go really good early and
all that. They keep in mind, you don't play back
to back in the place. You have a day off
between games, and people talk about the grueling travel. I
got to live in that world a little bit many
(10:14):
years ago. I traveled with a baseball team. You are
on chartered flights, chartered buses, You're staying at five star hotels.
It is not waiting online for group B at Southwest Airlines, okay,
and having people that haven't showered in months, that have
horrible body odor and just horrific breath.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know you're dealing with that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Okay. You're sitting on a plane. You can sleep, you
can be on your phone. They've got the Wi Fi.
It's not exactly the most taxing thing in the world. Okay,
if you travel for business, you've got more problems than
a professional sports team traveling. You just do. And so
he said, well, we got to get the rest. They
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don't play back to back. So essentially, what Steve curR
saying is that my team is soft. But I'm not
going to tell you my team is soft. I'm just
going to do things that indicate the Warriors that are soft.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They should still win.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Now the other part of this page two, have the
e may Udoka coached Rockets figured out something with the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was a domination situation, So.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm not willing to go that far that the Rockets
have figured out some things. Things are looking up. Houston's
strategy yere of smothering Stephan Curry with physicality and forcing
turnovers and using their size and their youth advantage. It
has worked for stretches in these games and Curry the
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last couple of games, Curry is shooting forty percent from
the floor, twenty nine percent from three point range, the
greatest shooter in the history of the sport is shooting
five of seventeen from beyond the arc over the last
couple of games. And the Rockets, I would say they
are still on the innocent side of things here. They're energetic,
they're bright eyed, bushy tailed.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All that.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
But as Ernest Hemingway famously wrote back in the day,
one of the Hemingway quotes, all things truly wicked start
from an innocence. So the Rockets overwhelmed the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The Warriors had the mindset, well, we're probably gonna quit anyway,
Golden State mailed it in, which is something you should
never do, and they did. They were just going through
the motions. But Houston they win big, and yet they
still have not really gotten Jalen Green going. He had
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another suck bag games, just eleven points in this game.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
On three of eight shooting.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He is, as my friend Tony Bruno would say, strapper
Jalen Green. He is a regular season, has been great. Playoffs,
he's been mostly in embarrassment. He had that one big game.
Other than that, bad, bad, bad, bad bad. The Rockets
are playing at this point with house money. Even though
they're the higher seed. They are supposed to lose. But
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it really seems like it comes down to a one
game situation here. The Warriors should win at home, but
it's Steve Kerr and the Warriors who are messing with
the basketball gods by flushing away Game five again pulling
the starters.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's not the biggest sin in the world. But then when.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
The bench mob gets you back in the game and
you don't put the starters back in, that is the violation.
That is high crimes and misdemeanors. That is a war tribunal.
That is that what are you doing all right. Final point,
we head now away from the NBA playoffs, we go
to Milwaukee where we are hearing now the Bucks and
(13:48):
Giannis A Dentacumbo are scheduled to have a pow wow
to discuss his future and the plans of the organization. Question,
what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's what Normally this happens a postseason when you are eliminated.
Every player meets with the organization. So it's not new,
it's not outraged. It's a little different when you're the headliner,
so that part of it is different. But if you
use your brain on this one and look at all
of the evidence. We've talked about this in previous episodes,
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if you go RoboCop and use your cyborg X ray vision,
read the room. Like the Bucks have had three consecutive
first round playoff exits, bye.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Bye in the first round. There's all kinds of rumors swirling.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That the Rockets, who are in this series we just
talked about with the Warriors, they're going to make a
run at Giannis. The Warriors are going to try to
throw some players together. Oklahoma City that's got every draft
pick for the next thirty years, is going to try
to trade some of those and they're all going to
make big offers, multiple first.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Round picks, young players, all that stuff. So the Greek
freak will under cover ask.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
To enter the portal.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's gonna be like, I'm okay, I want to kind
of go to the.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Portal, and he'll do it subtly like it's kind of
like that response he gave the other night when Giannis
was asked if he thinks he can still win championships
in Milwaukee, and rather than saying yes, I think I
can win championships with the Milwaukee Bucks or no, I
don't we have to get better, Yannis gave a non
(15:27):
answer answer.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He said, quote, I'm not gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Whatever I say, I know it's going to translate. I
don't know, man, I wish I was still playing. So
he is correct. Whatever he said would be used, and
that was used, okay, and it is used, and it
is fair. It is red meat. He didn't say yes.
(15:51):
He wanted to. He wanted to say no. However, he
refused to take the bait. He just said I don't know,
which is a way of saying no. And how has
Doc Rivers not been fired? Wouldn't that be the if
you own the box, wouldn't that be the first That's
the easiest move, that should be the first move you make.
You just say bye bye and you get rid of
(16:11):
Doc Rivers, Like why does that not happen?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Like what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What bother? Going through the charades with Doc Rivers? He stinks. Yeah,
he's the most replaceable part of professional sports is coach
in basketball or hockey.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So just get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's it. See you later, Osta Lavista, Bye bye, get
out of here. All right is the Ben Mahler Show.
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six three six nine mentioned the Lakers eliminated Minnesota's Timberwolves
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have advanced in the NBA playoffs. So happy to all
my friends there that enjoyed the juicy lucy in Minnesota's
long suffering sports fans. And I mentioned at the end
of last jar Mark Williams of the Charlotte Hornets, who
was traded to the Lakers and then Skinny Jeans Rob
Polenka rejected the trade, saying, oh my god, he's damaged. Goods.
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Mark Williams played the rest of the season was perfectly fine,
and he sent out at the end of the Lakers
game with Minnesota where they were exterminated from the playoffs,
a smiley face emoji.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
He sent out the smiley face emoji he did.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, all right, it.
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playoffs here. We'll get back to it right now, but
we will get back to it. And the Golden State
Warriors conceding a game, not putting the starters back in
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even though it was a workable number in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And if you win that game, you don't have to worry.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
About rest because you're resting up until the next round
of the plus, meaning you win that game and you're
good to go, as opposed to having to rest to
play the game on Friday night. But that was not
the strategy that they chose. Also, next hour, we are
going to have not only the malord Riddle of the Day.
But we'll also have in addition to that, we're going
(19:38):
to have ask Ben your questions are answered, so we
use the hashtag ask Ben. That'll be coming up next hour,
so we look forward to that. Shane and the Moys
says a plus on the male of the monologue as usual,
as consistent as the Lakers choking in the playoffs, Nature
(19:58):
Boy says, who could hate a smiley faced emoji? Answering
the call to the Wild Eugene in Chicago where the
Pizza's Deep Dish and the Takes or Not says the
Greek Freak should play in San Antonio. Mad Jack writes
and says, I've been told I look like Steve Kerr
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or he looks like me. Either way, I stopped outside
of a target. He says, I was stopped outside of
a target for my autograph. Alas I digress my look
alike mismanaged that game. We should really wake Arnie Spanier up.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
He's hanging out in Vermont.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We should call Arnie and say, hey, Arnie, that's your
old high school buddy Steve Kerr, Like, what's going on
with that? What are you doing? Arnie? Pour some maple
syrup out on that one. Nature Boy says, I missed
our number one. Did you happen to discuss the Lakers collapse? Well,
I was very measured, Nature Boy. I did not take
a strong opinion. You know, as a talk show host
(20:58):
you're not supposed to have strong as because someone could
be offended. So I was very measured with my commentary
on the Lakers. And you can go back and download
the podcast. It'll be up in a little bit. Now
we have some grumblin We have some grumblin here. Steve
Kerr postgame, and he started out rather light and delicate
regarding how the Rockets are defending Steph Curry.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But when you break down.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Word for word what Steve Kerr said among the quote,
he said, on every release, Steph's getting hit.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
This is how the league wants it right now, he said.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He also said, I know we got thirty coaches who
all think it's just idiotic that we allow this. He
complained and grumbled and said that that's why Steph Curry
is missing shots, which am I wrong to interpret it
this way? That this is an admission that Steph Curry
(21:55):
could not have played in the nineties, that Steph.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Curry is a product modern basketball.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
That the fact that they are in his face defensively
and they're defending Steph Curry with lockdown defense, that he
is getting physically defended and the league is allowing that,
and Curry can't make shots consistently. That this is an
admission by Steve Kerr subtly that Steph Curry is not
(22:26):
a player that's a general meaning, not a player who
could have played in the previous generations where they did
have defense in your face and in that kind of thing.
So anyway, all right, let's go to the phones, and
who do we have here?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Eeny Meani miny mode.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let's go to E Dog in New York.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hello, E Dog, Welcome, Hey Ben.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Now how's it going, buddy?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
What's going in? What's going on in your world? E Dog?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (22:53):
First of all, if Towns plays Rando in the finals,
and the great accomplishment for both of them because they're
playing on some good teams.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
But I gotta ask you a question. Okay, now listen
to this. I have three dates coming up and the
next week I have Melissa, Christa and Elizabeth. Who do
you think I should take?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I thought you were dating Melissa. I thought that was
the girl you were dating her.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
We just became friends again. And Chris and Elizabeth like
me too.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
So I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, then if you're in the friend zone, you gotta
once you're going the friend zone, you don't go out
of the friend zone.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
He dog, so literally second base, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, but you're you said, Melissa is in the friend
zone territory, right, that's a friend zone.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yeah, right now, right now.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
We brothers a good guy too, he's gonna he We
went out for bagels one time, you know, with locks
and everything. That was pretty good. He's a great guy.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Also.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what are you talking about?
We were talking about which you're going to date and
then you what did you say?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I said, back in the day when I was dating Melissa.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Her father, Bobby Goldberg, took me out to eat at
the Bangel Shop.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh well that's big. I mean that's great.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Fathers always loved me because I cheat that woman.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
The daughter's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah sure, and.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Melissa, Melissa said, her father likes me because I'm the
only son he ever had.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But you're you're not You were never his son. I mean,
you didn't marry Melissa.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
So no, so she did. Also back in the day
when I was in partial hospitalization.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, well why why hospitalized?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I had a little bit of depression.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh okay.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Anyway, So there was these two girls there that that
worked there, and they one was Sonya and one was Jill.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
So I said to different Dave, who's pretty as Sonya
and Jill? And he goes Sonya. I go why and
he goes ya. Sonya had a little bit of meat
on her. Anyway, I got something.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I got a bone to pick with Lorena.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
If I may, Okay, Lorena e dog has a bone
to pick.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
With you, all right, pick it?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Okay? Now, I mean who am I game?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
She picked Sequille O'Neill.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Right, that is correct, now, Sequilla and Neil never had
a free vesicle percentage over like forty percent, so it
could be him.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Well, it was a field The question was field goal percentage,
not free throw.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Percent You only never had a good field goal percentage anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But all he did was dunk.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
He didn't do anything. You have any other offensive game
other than.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Don't like like Mitchell Robinson the same same type of guy.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, it's very similar Mitchell Robinson in Shaq, very similar player. Correct.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Okay, well you should be lucky.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I didn't say Felix the Cat. Okay, what's wrong with that?
Felix the Cat's got a car dealership in l A.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
What's wrong with that? You know?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Seeing one guy told me he he sell used cars.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So here we got here. You got a story for everything,
he dogged, you got a story about I mentioned Felix
the Cats selling cars.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
He said, I got a guy in the car business.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Anyway, So what happened was my grandma story is this.
My grandmother took my mom and her girlfriends on the
basement and.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Said something in Yiddish and if it was over, they said.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
They said to my mom, what did what did?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
What did?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
What did she say? And she said, no sex before marriage?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Now I'm gonna go lay Keppie.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
All right, okay, all right, thank you, go away.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
But I'm curious why everyone.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Was being you know, where that call was hold on?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
He that call was for takda.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
That was what that call was. Yes, that's you know
what that means.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No, I'll tell you later. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And he's a Schmendrick.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You see that, e dog. You're a Schmendrick, is what
you are. I did I learned yet? My grandfather was
spoke the Yiddis squad. But let's go to MGM John,
who's in vags now. We have not talked to MGM
John on a regular basis in a long time. I
see that name up there, I'm like, this is a
classic caller. It like, this is one of the guys
(27:28):
from the old days. Hello, MGM. John, Welcome, Pokey.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Pokey pokey, mister Ben Mallor. It is a great day
for the Clipper Nations. The People Team, that's a Laker
historian era has finally ended. No more of Lebron James,
no more hearing we're gonna win the title. Nope, We're done.
The People Team will finally win our title this year
(27:55):
and this year only.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You know why it's hit the clip.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
That's why it's hip two clip. That's why exactly.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
We're gonna win Game six, We're gonna win Game seven.
We're gonna upset the Thunder, and we're gonna be whoever's
in the Conference finals, and we're gonna be whoever's in
the Eastern Conference. And that one title will invalidate the
twelve titles that these Laker historians claim they won fairly.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
No, we do not believe that is that is correct?
Speaker 9 (28:26):
They want?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, you're right now. All it takes is one Clipper
championship and it erases everything that the Lakers have done,
and that as one hundred percent correct. That's a great take.
You know what, you get a golden take it, you get,
a golden take it you get. I would assume you're
not working at night anymore. M MGM, John, you're not
(28:47):
working at night anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Right, you're done with that?
Speaker 9 (28:50):
No, No, I'm slow. I'm working niceful like I haven't
had the time to call into the show.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, all right, Well, it's good to hear that you're
still out there. I hope you still listen. You know,
it's good to hear you.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So oh.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
I try to listen every night.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We'll be in Vegas at some point, probably in July.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
We don't have a date on that yet, but we're
gonna do a Malord meet and greet sometime in the summer.
Gonna wait till it's like one hundred and thirty degrees
in Vegas and then we'll go hang out for for
a night. Have a great time. Bam Bam cam right,
since says, I believe what you are saying, Ben, is
that Steph.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Curry is soft. No, I didn't say, you know what
we need on this show.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
We need the play of the day is what we need,
and yes we do. Who does not enjoy the play
of the day. So here's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna go back to that Laker Minnesota game and Rudy
go Bear, Rudy go Bear.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Listen up, kids, this guy was.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Possessed by the gods of basketball.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
It is the tai Iraq play of the day. And
here it is.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Ran along the run, bumps into reason, bangs him out
of the way, he floats up the shot.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No good slam follow Rudy gobear?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
What the game for?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Rue? He is having a monster night ferocious on the glass.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There it is, And that is a guy that I
know that used.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To work here, part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
the great Alan Horton. Holy crap, he's in his seventeenth season.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Is the radio play by play voice of your Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh my god, I'm getting old. But he used to
fill in for me back in the day, and he's
done great called a lot of bad basketball games over
the years there in Minnesota. But it's nice to see
the Wolves are good. And so that is the call
and our guy on Wolves Radio one hundred point three
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Speaker 2 (31:14):
Wow, that's wild man.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I do not believe he's been there seventeen years now.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It seems like he's only been there a few years.
But seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
FERG Dog Right since sys great call by MGM John,
the Clipper fans are so much more reasonable and smarter
than the Faker fans. Joe the Ghost Hunter says the
new worst caller of the year is e Dog, And
yet Bill says that that caller was eloquent. He was
eloquent that I don't know about that, not so much,
(31:45):
not so much anyway. It is the Ben Mather Show.
I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Now, Dylan the chillin villain, Dylan Brooks of the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He was asked postgame on he said the war He
was asked the question saying the Warrior broadcaster were claiming
that he was intentionally targeting Steph Curry's thumb. Steph Curry's
got a mangled thumb. Now, Dylan Brooks responded, He said, quote,
if I had an ankle injury, I would attack that
ankle every single time.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So whatever they're.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Saying on the broadcast, they can keep saying it close quote,
which is his way of saying he is absolutely targeting
Steph Curry's thumb.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Does anyone have a problem with that?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I don't. That isn't that how it works? Like that's
why you try to keep that stuff on the down low.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And you're like, all everything's fine, And.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I think in hockey, you know, they got rid of
the hockey guy on the show.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
But in hockey, they won't even say if you have
like a knee or an ankle injury. They'll say you
have a lower leg injury.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
They won't even get specific because in hockey they'll just
take the stick and whack your knee.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
If you've got a bad knee, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
And in basketball, in any sport, like you're a football
player and you got a bad ankle, somebody's gonna step
on your ankle. That's just kind of how that works.
We're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Malard of
the third degree. We'll get to that coming up here
in a moment time now though for the insta trivia,
and we'll go back to pro bouncy ball one more time.
(33:15):
Houston's Amen Thompson is just the fifth player in NBA
history to have twenty five or more points, five or
more steals, three or more blocks in a playoff game.
He joins Rockets legend Akeem Elijahwan.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Who was at that game.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
He did it twice the round mound to rebound, Charles Barkley,
Elvin Hayes, and Blank as the only players to do it.
Amen Thompson just the fifth player in NBA history to
have twenty five or more points, five or more steals,
three or more blocks in a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
He joins a Keem Elijahwan, who did.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It twice, Charles Barkley, Elvin Hayes, and Blank as the
only players to do it in the postseason. That is
the Insta Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
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All Right, it is I Ben. Let's get back to it.
Time now for the always popular Insta trivia where we
try to get you to listen a little bit longer
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And here is the Insta Trivia question of the hour,
and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree. We
go to pro Bouncy Ball one more time, where Houston's
I'm and Thompson is just the fifth player in NBA
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history to have twenty five or more points, five or
more steals, three or more blocks in a playoff game.
He joins Akeem, Elijahwan who did it twice? Charles Barkley,
Elvin Hayes, and blank. That is the Insta trivia What
is the answer, And let's see does anyone know the answer?
We go to the Great Unwashed here and I forty
(35:51):
Ian says sweet Judy blue Eyes Judy Collins, who is
eighty six today? That's incorrect. Stee me, Meatball's a name.
I don't know who that is? Bay City Tony going
with Allen, not Alan Horton, but Tito Horford as his answer. Well,
that did shock me that he's been there seventeen years
(36:12):
as the voice of the Wolves. Holy crap, where does
the time go? Oh my Charlie d Emilio TikTok Dancer
who is twenty one today from the Late Night You've
never heard of?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Is she famous? A TikTok dancer?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Really? Alf the Alien Ol Pinter is going with lee Ilia.
We have to play the lee Ilia tape at some
point here at the anniversary of the greatest rant in
the history of rants. Bobby and Florida's going with Brian Bosworth,
Lucas Allen from Johnny Q, Tyreek Hill from Ozzi Waz
stealing in his new movie Tony's En Dahas from mad Jack.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All right, Lorraine, do you have an answer? Lorraine?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yes, my guest was going to be mister Elvis Presley,
Elvis the King.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
All right, is it Elvis?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Question? Still alive?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Though?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Elvis Presley, he's working at a bo Jangles somewhere in Tennessee. No,
that is incorrect. The correct answer is Rick Barry Very.
That's a basketball player.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
He used to play for the Golden State Warriors back
fifty years ago. Here we go here, how about that?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets Grillo.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
So the San Francisco forty nine ers gave star tight
end George Kittle a four year extension that makes him
the highest paid tight end in the league. Ben, do
you think this extension has any impact on brock Purty's extension.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
No, it's it's apples and oranges. You're talking about a
tight end versus a quarterback, and the fact that brock
Perty hasn't signed a contract yet indicates they're far apart.
And if the Niners are smart, and I hope they're not,
I hope they're dumb.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But if they're smart, they'll just.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Go year to year with brock Purdy, franchise, tag him,
and then dump him.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
But the two things are unrelated.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Although the fact that George Kittle is there helps brock
Perty because brock Perty's he doesn't make players around him better,
They make him better, which is not the normal quarterback
teammate relationship. But in terms of the finances, it doesn't matter.
It's a different position.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Next.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke to the media on Monday
and said that the league wants to fix the All
Star Game by adopting a similar format as to what
the NHL did with their four Nations face off.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Ben, do you think this will fix the All Star
Game for the NBA? No, it's Adam Silver stealing off
Gary Bettman's paper is what he's doing. The problem with
the All Star Game is nobody in the All Star
Game cares about the All Star Game. It's a nusance,
like it's the weirdest thing in the NBA. Because like
the players love going to All Star Weekend. It's like
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a big deal. There's a lot of parties all Star
Weekend in the NBA. It's a great social event. But
playing in the game is an annoyance. And it doesn't
matter whether it's representing countries or not.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It's not gonna the needle.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Now in terms of fans support, people love the flag.
They love wrapping something themselves in the flag, so that
part of it people will be into it. But if
the players aren't into it, it's not gonna matter. If
the players are just going through the motions, which they
always do, they always do now in the NBA, the
players are soft.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
Next, Travis Hunter has the early lead on rookie jersey
sales over cam Ward. Now, Ben, do you think Hunter
still leads all rookies and jersey sales by the end
of the season.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Well, it's it's going to be an offensive player, right,
and it's it's neither one of those teams is a
national team.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
The Titans are not. They're a regional team.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Jacksonville's even more regional than the Tennessee Titans are. It's
just there's no one there other than those two, Like
who else Shulder.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Sanders was a fifth round pick.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
So yeah, at this point, Travis Hunter is going to
get a fair amount of opportunity with Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
So I say that will hold.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How did we do that is a put on. I've
won more
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Times than anyone else that Mallardy with where the game
Boom shacka Laca. It's our numb bird too. Our number
two is ready for you. And here in hour number two,
it's all about the Warriors and the Rockets. Something that
you don't see very often in professional sports, a coach
giving up on a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
But it happened, and nobody seems upset about it.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We don't understand why did coach Steve Kerr make the
right call by conceding a playoff game for the Warriors
even though Golden State got back into the game. They're
geting blown out and got back into the game, and
Steve Kerr said, I don't want the game, I don't
need the game. I'm not gonna take the game. Also,
have the eme Udoka Rockets figure it out something with
the Warriors as they get the easy win and away
(00:44):
from that playoff series. We're hearing the Milwaukee Bucks and
Giannis Adenta koombo Or scheduled to meet to discuss both
his future and the future plans of the organization. What
does all of that mean. We'll try to figure it
all out. Right now, get ready for our number two.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A hasty and I do mean hasty retreat.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Welmeme in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Mather Show. We are in the air everywhere, riding the
radio waves. We are dancing and pranson coast to coast,
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Speaker 2 (01:43):
By my new friend, old Man River.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Old Man River lives in Texas.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
He's eighty eight, He's got no cell phone, no social media,
and he listens to this show. God bless him every
single night. And the old Man River, you know who,
you are, big fan of Old Man River. So we
begin new here this hour, another baffosco hour of the
Big Time Radio Show. And this portion, by the way,
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Speaker 2 (02:41):
We'll get back to.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The decommissioning of Lebron and Hookah Luca. Good news for
those running hookah bars around La. Luca's got nothing to
worry about other than just enjoying himself. The Lakers are done.
Minnesota has advanced. But our lead this hour is from Houston.
And it's not Houston we have a problem. It's Golden State,
we have a problem. That was the playground in Texas
(03:05):
for Game five of the first round playoff series between
the Rockets and the Warriors. Now Stephen Curry and Golden State.
My media elites cover the NBA told me that they
just know how to win. They just know how to win.
They are just more savvy, more savvy than the Rockets.
(03:25):
So if they won Golden State, they would have advanced Houston.
They won, they would have continued on. If they lost,
that's it. It's over. That was the setup. This was
the early game on the card. I don't know if
you saw this or not. You can't watch everything.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
I get it. We have no excuse.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So we watched fred van vlate Fred Van vlate twenty
six points. I'm and Thompson with twenty five the Rockets,
putting the Warriors into the shredding machine, the paper shredder,
one thirty one to one sixteen.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
In the game that was not that close.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
They stave off, stave off elimination, and they go thumper
on Golden State as they win by a large margin.
Game six will be Friday night in northern California. Now
Dylan Brooks the test. Dylan Brooks, he had twenty four
points on a night when all five Houston players in
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the in the starting line up. There they scored in
double figures. Five Houston players in double figures. The better story, though,
is in the losing locker room. So that is where
we are going to begin this diatribe. In a stunning
juxtaposition from what many of us were taught growing up.
You never give up. You compete to the end. You
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never want to stop the competition, right, You play to
win the game. It's growing, it's exhausting, it might look blake,
you could be frazzled, but the tradition of sport is
you keep going.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You keep going.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Unless you're coached by Steve Kerr, then not so much so.
The Warrior coach shockingly threw in the towel. He threw
in the towel early in this one, well not too early,
but early enough, and said that's it.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
We're good.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
After a layoff by Fred van Vliet midway through the
third quarter, with about eighteen minutes to go in the game,
it was ninety three to sixty four. Did not look good.
It did not look good. So Steve Kerk called the
time out, and he took all of his good players
and put them on the bench. He took all of
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his garbage players and put them on the court and said,
all right, let's get the garbage in there, and here
we go. We'll put you in there and have your way.
All right. So let us discuss the question. Did coach
Kerr make the right call by conceding a playoff game which, oh,
(06:06):
by the way, the Warriors' backups actually got within a
manageable number in the fourth quarter. Did Steve Kerr make
the right call by conceding this playoff game for the Warriors?
So my observations, I've got Yetti, Ernest Hemingway, and RoboCop,
and we will combine all of these random things together
(06:28):
and we are going to make the Gabba gool we're
gonna make the Gabba gool, all right, So numb burn?
Can I get a numb burn?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
This one is a head scratcher to me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I admit, the game seem over and I don't even
have a problem taking the starters out at that point.
My issue is not putting them back in when the
game was a workable number. That is a felony, that
is inexcusable. That is malfeason by Steve Kerr, And there's
(07:03):
really no defense to it, all right, So he doesn't
put him back in. The Warrior Scrubs had cut the deficit.
I believe the number was down to thirteen or fourteen
with about six minutes ago in the fourth quarter. It
was a manageable deficit with a three point shot. You
close out that game and you get some extra rest.
You get extra rest. Steve Kerr like, what are you
(07:26):
doing all right now? Kurt mentioned that he took the
council of Draymond Green, so apparently Kerr doesn't actually coach
the team. Draymond Green coaches the team. Here's Draymond on
the decision to sit the starters on their ass. Take
a listen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I mean it is what it is obviously it's not
ideal to play that mon minutes because since we're winning
play way more. But yeah, we had a quick conversation.
He was just saying, ooh, I don't think we should check.
I said, cool, we'll give it five or six minutes.
We can't turn it fast and pull the plug.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, okay, here's Draymond Green on getting the ass kicked
by the Rockets.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
At this point in our careers, We've seen it all,
had all the experiences, so you got something to draw
back on. But yeah, they played a good game, whether
they went by one or fifty. It's a playoff series.
It cons is one win.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh I didn't know that, Thank you. I don't have
that experience, Draymond. So I didn't realize that. Anyway, Let's
get back to Steve Kurerr. So Steve Kerr again, he
said in the media post game, He's like, well, I
talked to Draymond. We had a conversation. Draymond's like, it's
a quick conversation. Steve Kerr needs a YETI cooler, he
needs the Yeti he needs a YETI cooler filled with medello.
(08:52):
And because they're lacking the fighting spirit. That was a
betrayal of the competitive spirit. It undermines integrity. Am I
being too dramatic? I don't think I'm being too dramatic.
And the reason I think what Steve Kerr said is
bull crap is because on the TNT broadcast, for some reason,
I had the audio up. I usually don't because the
broadcasters annoyed me. Other than Kevin Harlan and a couple others,
(09:14):
most of them annoyed me. But I had the audio
up and they were saying it was like the second quarter,
and I swear to god I heard this, and you
can back me up on this if you were watching
the TNT broadcasts.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I don't even know their names.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They were like, well, yeah, we talked to Steve Kerr
before the game and he told us that if the
Warriors fell behind in the game, he would be willing
to pull people from the game early. So that was
like the mindset, Like the mindset was we're gonna toss
away a playoff game because because why we were gonna
prioritize rest. What are you a Mama, Luke? Like, seriously,
(09:53):
what is the message? That was the pregame message to
the teams, Like well, you know or you know to
give up if things don't go really good early and
all that. They keep in mind, you don't play back
to back in the place. You have a day off
between games, and people talk about the grueling travel. I
got to live in that world a little bit many
(10:14):
years ago. I traveled with a baseball team. You are
on chartered flights, chartered buses, You're staying at five star hotels.
It is not waiting online for group B at Southwest Airlines, okay,
and having people that haven't showered in months, that have
horrible body odor and just horrific breath.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
You know you're dealing with that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Okay. You're sitting on a plane. You can sleep, you
can be on your phone. They've got the Wi Fi.
It's not exactly the most taxing thing in the world. Okay,
if you travel for business, you've got more problems than
a professional sports team traveling. You just do. And so
he said, well, we got to get the rest. They
(11:02):
don't play back to back. So essentially, what Steve curR
saying is that my team is soft. But I'm not
going to tell you my team is soft. I'm just
going to do things that indicate the Warriors that are soft.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
They should still win.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Now the other part of this page two, have the
e may Udoka coached Rockets figured out something with the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
It was a domination situation, So.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm not willing to go that far that the Rockets
have figured out some things. Things are looking up. Houston's
strategy yere of smothering Stephan Curry with physicality and forcing
turnovers and using their size and their youth advantage. It
has worked for stretches in these games and Curry the
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last couple of games, Curry is shooting forty percent from
the floor, twenty nine percent from three point range, the
greatest shooter in the history of the sport is shooting
five of seventeen from beyond the arc over the last
couple of games. And the Rockets, I would say they
are still on the innocent side of things here. They're energetic,
they're bright eyed, bushy tailed.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All that.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
But as Ernest Hemingway famously wrote back in the day,
one of the Hemingway quotes, all things truly wicked start
from an innocence. So the Rockets overwhelmed the Warriors.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
In this game.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The Warriors had the mindset, well, we're probably gonna quit anyway,
Golden State mailed it in, which is something you should
never do, and they did. They were just going through
the motions. But Houston they win big, and yet they
still have not really gotten Jalen Green going. He had
(12:42):
another suck bag games, just eleven points in this game.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
On three of eight shooting.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He is, as my friend Tony Bruno would say, strapper
Jalen Green. He is a regular season, has been great. Playoffs,
he's been mostly in embarrassment. He had that one big game.
Other than that, bad, bad, bad, bad bad. The Rockets
are playing at this point with house money. Even though
they're the higher seed. They are supposed to lose. But
(13:09):
it really seems like it comes down to a one
game situation here. The Warriors should win at home, but
it's Steve Kerr and the Warriors who are messing with
the basketball gods by flushing away Game five again pulling
the starters.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's not the biggest sin in the world. But then when.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
The bench mob gets you back in the game and
you don't put the starters back in, that is the violation.
That is high crimes and misdemeanors. That is a war tribunal.
That is that what are you doing all right. Final point,
we head now away from the NBA playoffs, we go
to Milwaukee where we are hearing now the Bucks and
(13:48):
Giannis A Dentacumbo are scheduled to have a pow wow
to discuss his future and the plans of the organization. Question,
what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
What does it mean?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's what Normally this happens a postseason when you are eliminated.
Every player meets with the organization. So it's not new,
it's not outraged. It's a little different when you're the headliner,
so that part of it is different. But if you
use your brain on this one and look at all
of the evidence. We've talked about this in previous episodes,
(14:23):
if you go RoboCop and use your cyborg X ray vision,
read the room. Like the Bucks have had three consecutive
first round playoff exits, bye.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Bye in the first round. There's all kinds of rumors swirling.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That the Rockets, who are in this series we just
talked about with the Warriors, they're going to make a
run at Giannis. The Warriors are going to try to
throw some players together. Oklahoma City that's got every draft
pick for the next thirty years, is going to try
to trade some of those and they're all going to
make big offers, multiple first.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Round picks, young players, all that stuff. So the Greek
freak will under cover ask.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
To enter the portal.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
It's gonna be like, I'm okay, I want to kind
of go to the.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Portal, and he'll do it subtly like it's kind of
like that response he gave the other night when Giannis
was asked if he thinks he can still win championships
in Milwaukee, and rather than saying yes, I think I
can win championships with the Milwaukee Bucks or no, I
don't we have to get better, Yannis gave a non
(15:27):
answer answer.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He said, quote, I'm not gonna do this.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Whatever I say, I know it's going to translate. I
don't know, man, I wish I was still playing. So
he is correct. Whatever he said would be used, and
that was used, okay, and it is used, and it
is fair. It is red meat. He didn't say yes.
(15:51):
He wanted to. He wanted to say no. However, he
refused to take the bait. He just said I don't know,
which is a way of saying no. And how has
Doc Rivers not been fired? Wouldn't that be the if
you own the box, wouldn't that be the first That's
the easiest move, that should be the first move you make.
You just say bye bye and you get rid of
(16:11):
Doc Rivers, Like why does that not happen?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Like what are you waiting for?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
What bother? Going through the charades with Doc Rivers? He stinks. Yeah,
he's the most replaceable part of professional sports is coach
in basketball or hockey.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
So just get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's it. See you later, Osta Lavista, Bye bye, get
out of here. All right is the Ben Mahler Show.
If you'd like to comment on any of that, you
can join us right now at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six nine mentioned the Lakers eliminated Minnesota's Timberwolves
(16:53):
have advanced in the NBA playoffs. So happy to all
my friends there that enjoyed the juicy lucy in Minnesota's
long suffering sports fans. And I mentioned at the end
of last jar Mark Williams of the Charlotte Hornets, who
was traded to the Lakers and then Skinny Jeans Rob
Polenka rejected the trade, saying, oh my god, he's damaged. Goods.
(17:14):
Mark Williams played the rest of the season was perfectly fine,
and he sent out at the end of the Lakers
game with Minnesota where they were exterminated from the playoffs,
a smiley face emoji.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
He sent out the smiley face emoji he did.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, all right, it.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Is the Ben Maler Show straight ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
You've got the grumbling, the Dylan, and the chillin' You
got that as well. We'll get to those stories and
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We'll take your calls as well. Eight seven seven ninety
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Speaker 2 (17:50):
Nine nine, six six three six nine, and we'll.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Get to all of that, and we will do it next.
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You can also call in at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox as we are discussing mostly the NBA
playoffs here. We'll get back to it right now, but
we will get back to it. And the Golden State
Warriors conceding a game, not putting the starters back in
(19:12):
even though it was a workable number in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And if you win that game, you don't have to worry.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
About rest because you're resting up until the next round
of the plus, meaning you win that game and you're
good to go, as opposed to having to rest to
play the game on Friday night. But that was not
the strategy that they chose. Also, next hour, we are
going to have not only the malord Riddle of the Day.
But we'll also have in addition to that, we're going
(19:38):
to have ask Ben your questions are answered, so we
use the hashtag ask Ben. That'll be coming up next hour,
so we look forward to that. Shane and the Moys
says a plus on the male of the monologue as usual,
as consistent as the Lakers choking in the playoffs, Nature
(19:58):
Boy says, who could hate a smiley faced emoji? Answering
the call to the Wild Eugene in Chicago where the
Pizza's Deep Dish and the Takes or Not says the
Greek Freak should play in San Antonio. Mad Jack writes
and says, I've been told I look like Steve Kerr
(20:20):
or he looks like me. Either way, I stopped outside
of a target. He says, I was stopped outside of
a target for my autograph. Alas I digress my look
alike mismanaged that game. We should really wake Arnie Spanier up.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
He's hanging out in Vermont.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We should call Arnie and say, hey, Arnie, that's your
old high school buddy Steve Kerr, Like, what's going on
with that? What are you doing? Arnie? Pour some maple
syrup out on that one. Nature Boy says, I missed
our number one. Did you happen to discuss the Lakers collapse? Well,
I was very measured, Nature Boy. I did not take
a strong opinion. You know, as a talk show host
(20:58):
you're not supposed to have strong as because someone could
be offended. So I was very measured with my commentary
on the Lakers. And you can go back and download
the podcast. It'll be up in a little bit. Now
we have some grumblin We have some grumblin here. Steve
Kerr postgame, and he started out rather light and delicate
regarding how the Rockets are defending Steph Curry.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But when you break down.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Word for word what Steve Kerr said among the quote,
he said, on every release, Steph's getting hit.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
This is how the league wants it right now, he said.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He also said, I know we got thirty coaches who
all think it's just idiotic that we allow this. He
complained and grumbled and said that that's why Steph Curry
is missing shots, which am I wrong to interpret it
this way? That this is an admission that Steph Curry
(21:55):
could not have played in the nineties, that Steph.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Curry is a product modern basketball.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
That the fact that they are in his face defensively
and they're defending Steph Curry with lockdown defense, that he
is getting physically defended and the league is allowing that,
and Curry can't make shots consistently. That this is an
admission by Steve Kerr subtly that Steph Curry is not
(22:26):
a player that's a general meaning, not a player who
could have played in the previous generations where they did
have defense in your face and in that kind of thing.
So anyway, all right, let's go to the phones, and
who do we have here?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Eeny Meani miny mode.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Let's go to E Dog in New York.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Hello, E Dog, Welcome, Hey Ben.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Now how's it going, buddy?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
What's going in? What's going on in your world? E Dog?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (22:53):
First of all, if Towns plays Rando in the finals,
and the great accomplishment for both of them because they're
playing on some good teams.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
But I gotta ask you a question. Okay, now listen
to this. I have three dates coming up and the
next week I have Melissa, Christa and Elizabeth. Who do
you think I should take?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I thought you were dating Melissa. I thought that was
the girl you were dating her.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
We just became friends again. And Chris and Elizabeth like
me too.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
So I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Well, then if you're in the friend zone, you gotta
once you're going the friend zone, you don't go out
of the friend zone.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
He dog, so literally second base, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, but you're you said, Melissa is in the friend
zone territory, right, that's a friend zone.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yeah, right now, right now.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
We brothers a good guy too, he's gonna he We
went out for bagels one time, you know, with locks
and everything. That was pretty good. He's a great guy.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Also.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what are you talking about?
We were talking about which you're going to date and
then you what did you say?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
I said, back in the day when I was dating Melissa.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Her father, Bobby Goldberg, took me out to eat at
the Bangel Shop.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Oh well that's big. I mean that's great.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Fathers always loved me because I cheat that woman.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
The daughter's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah sure, and.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Melissa, Melissa said, her father likes me because I'm the
only son he ever had.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
But you're you're not You were never his son. I mean,
you didn't marry Melissa.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
So no, so she did. Also back in the day
when I was in partial hospitalization.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, well why why hospitalized?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I had a little bit of depression.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh okay.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Anyway, So there was these two girls there that that
worked there, and they one was Sonya and one was Jill.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
So I said to different Dave, who's pretty as Sonya
and Jill? And he goes Sonya. I go why and
he goes ya. Sonya had a little bit of meat
on her. Anyway, I got something.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
I got a bone to pick with Lorena.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
If I may, Okay, Lorena e dog has a bone
to pick.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
With you, all right, pick it?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Okay? Now, I mean who am I game?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
She picked Sequille O'Neill.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Right, that is correct, now, Sequilla and Neil never had
a free vesicle percentage over like forty percent, so it
could be him.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Well, it was a field The question was field goal percentage,
not free throw.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Percent You only never had a good field goal percentage anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
But all he did was dunk.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
He didn't do anything. You have any other offensive game
other than.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Don't like like Mitchell Robinson the same same type of guy.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, it's very similar Mitchell Robinson in Shaq, very similar player. Correct.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Okay, well you should be lucky.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I didn't say Felix the Cat. Okay, what's wrong with that?
Felix the Cat's got a car dealership in l A.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
What's wrong with that? You know?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Seeing one guy told me he he sell used cars.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
So here we got here. You got a story for everything,
he dogged, you got a story about I mentioned Felix
the Cats selling cars.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
He said, I got a guy in the car business.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Anyway, So what happened was my grandma story is this.
My grandmother took my mom and her girlfriends on the
basement and.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Said something in Yiddish and if it was over, they said.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
They said to my mom, what did what did?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
What did?
Speaker 7 (26:40):
What did she say? And she said, no sex before marriage?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Now I'm gonna go lay Keppie.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
All right, okay, all right, thank you, go away.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
But I'm curious why everyone.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Was being you know, where that call was hold on?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
He that call was for takda.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
That was what that call was. Yes, that's you know
what that means.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
No, I'll tell you later. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And he's a Schmendrick.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
You see that, e dog. You're a Schmendrick, is what
you are. I did I learned yet? My grandfather was
spoke the Yiddis squad. But let's go to MGM John,
who's in vags now. We have not talked to MGM
John on a regular basis in a long time. I
see that name up there, I'm like, this is a
classic caller. It like, this is one of the guys
(27:28):
from the old days. Hello, MGM. John, Welcome, Pokey.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Pokey pokey, mister Ben Mallor. It is a great day
for the Clipper Nations. The People Team, that's a Laker
historian era has finally ended. No more of Lebron James,
no more hearing we're gonna win the title. Nope, We're done.
The People Team will finally win our title this year
(27:55):
and this year only.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
You know why it's hit the clip.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
That's why it's hip two clip. That's why exactly.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
We're gonna win Game six, We're gonna win Game seven.
We're gonna upset the Thunder, and we're gonna be whoever's
in the Conference finals, and we're gonna be whoever's in
the Eastern Conference. And that one title will invalidate the
twelve titles that these Laker historians claim they won fairly.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
No, we do not believe that is that is correct?
Speaker 9 (28:26):
They want?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, you're right now. All it takes is one Clipper
championship and it erases everything that the Lakers have done,
and that as one hundred percent correct. That's a great take.
You know what, you get a golden take it, you get,
a golden take it you get. I would assume you're
not working at night anymore. M MGM, John, you're not
(28:47):
working at night anymore.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Right, you're done with that?
Speaker 9 (28:50):
No, No, I'm slow. I'm working niceful like I haven't
had the time to call into the show.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, all right, Well, it's good to hear that you're
still out there. I hope you still listen. You know,
it's good to hear you.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So oh.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
I try to listen every night.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We'll be in Vegas at some point, probably in July.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
We don't have a date on that yet, but we're
gonna do a Malord meet and greet sometime in the summer.
Gonna wait till it's like one hundred and thirty degrees
in Vegas and then we'll go hang out for for
a night. Have a great time. Bam Bam cam right,
since says, I believe what you are saying, Ben, is
that Steph.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Curry is soft. No, I didn't say, you know what
we need on this show.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
We need the play of the day is what we need,
and yes we do. Who does not enjoy the play
of the day. So here's what we're gonna do. We're
gonna go back to that Laker Minnesota game and Rudy
go Bear, Rudy go Bear.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Listen up, kids, this guy was.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Possessed by the gods of basketball.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
It is the tai Iraq play of the day. And
here it is.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Ran along the run, bumps into reason, bangs him out
of the way, he floats up the shot.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
No good slam follow Rudy gobear?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
What the game for?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Rue? He is having a monster night ferocious on the glass.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There it is, And that is a guy that I
know that used.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To work here, part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
the great Alan Horton. Holy crap, he's in his seventeenth season.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Is the radio play by play voice of your Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Oh my god, I'm getting old. But he used to
fill in for me back in the day, and he's
done great called a lot of bad basketball games over
the years there in Minnesota. But it's nice to see
the Wolves are good. And so that is the call
and our guy on Wolves Radio one hundred point three
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Speaker 2 (31:14):
Wow, that's wild man.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I do not believe he's been there seventeen years now.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It seems like he's only been there a few years.
But seventeen years.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
FERG Dog Right since sys great call by MGM John,
the Clipper fans are so much more reasonable and smarter
than the Faker fans. Joe the Ghost Hunter says the
new worst caller of the year is e Dog, And
yet Bill says that that caller was eloquent. He was
eloquent that I don't know about that, not so much,
(31:45):
not so much anyway. It is the Ben Mather Show.
I wanted to mention this.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Now, Dylan the chillin villain, Dylan Brooks of the Rockets.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He was asked postgame on he said the war He
was asked the question saying the Warrior broadcaster were claiming
that he was intentionally targeting Steph Curry's thumb. Steph Curry's
got a mangled thumb. Now, Dylan Brooks responded, He said, quote,
if I had an ankle injury, I would attack that
ankle every single time.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
So whatever they're.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Saying on the broadcast, they can keep saying it close quote,
which is his way of saying he is absolutely targeting
Steph Curry's thumb.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Does anyone have a problem with that?
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I don't. That isn't that how it works? Like that's
why you try to keep that stuff on the down low.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And you're like, all everything's fine, And.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I think in hockey, you know, they got rid of
the hockey guy on the show.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
But in hockey, they won't even say if you have
like a knee or an ankle injury. They'll say you
have a lower leg injury.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
They won't even get specific because in hockey they'll just
take the stick and whack your knee.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
If you've got a bad knee, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
And in basketball, in any sport, like you're a football
player and you got a bad ankle, somebody's gonna step
on your ankle. That's just kind of how that works.
We're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Malard of
the third degree. We'll get to that coming up here
in a moment time now though for the insta trivia,
and we'll go back to pro bouncy ball one more time.
(33:15):
Houston's Amen Thompson is just the fifth player in NBA
history to have twenty five or more points, five or
more steals, three or more blocks in a playoff game.
He joins Rockets legend Akeem Elijahwan.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Who was at that game.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
He did it twice the round mound to rebound, Charles Barkley,
Elvin Hayes, and Blank as the only players to do it.
Amen Thompson just the fifth player in NBA history to
have twenty five or more points, five or more steals,
three or more blocks in a playoff game.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
He joins a Keem Elijahwan, who did.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
It twice, Charles Barkley, Elvin Hayes, and Blank as the
only players to do it in the postseason. That is
the Insta Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll
do it next.
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All Right, it is I Ben. Let's get back to it.
Time now for the always popular Insta trivia where we
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And here is the Insta Trivia question of the hour,
and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree. We
go to pro Bouncy Ball one more time, where Houston's
I'm and Thompson is just the fifth player in NBA
(35:28):
history to have twenty five or more points, five or
more steals, three or more blocks in a playoff game.
He joins Akeem, Elijahwan who did it twice? Charles Barkley,
Elvin Hayes, and blank. That is the Insta trivia What
is the answer, And let's see does anyone know the answer?
We go to the Great Unwashed here and I forty
(35:51):
Ian says sweet Judy blue Eyes Judy Collins, who is
eighty six today? That's incorrect. Stee me, Meatball's a name.
I don't know who that is? Bay City Tony going
with Allen, not Alan Horton, but Tito Horford as his answer. Well,
that did shock me that he's been there seventeen years
(36:12):
as the voice of the Wolves. Holy crap, where does
the time go? Oh my Charlie d Emilio TikTok Dancer
who is twenty one today from the Late Night You've
never heard of?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Is she famous? A TikTok dancer?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Really? Alf the Alien Ol Pinter is going with lee Ilia.
We have to play the lee Ilia tape at some
point here at the anniversary of the greatest rant in
the history of rants. Bobby and Florida's going with Brian Bosworth,
Lucas Allen from Johnny Q, Tyreek Hill from Ozzi Waz
stealing in his new movie Tony's En Dahas from mad Jack.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All right, Lorraine, do you have an answer? Lorraine?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yes, my guest was going to be mister Elvis Presley,
Elvis the King.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
All right, is it Elvis?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Question? Still alive?
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Though?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Elvis Presley, he's working at a bo Jangles somewhere in Tennessee. No,
that is incorrect. The correct answer is Rick Barry Very.
That's a basketball player.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
He used to play for the Golden State Warriors back
fifty years ago. Here we go here, how about that?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets Grillo.
Speaker 8 (37:28):
So the San Francisco forty nine ers gave star tight
end George Kittle a four year extension that makes him
the highest paid tight end in the league. Ben, do
you think this extension has any impact on brock Purty's extension.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
No, it's it's apples and oranges. You're talking about a
tight end versus a quarterback, and the fact that brock
Perty hasn't signed a contract yet indicates they're far apart.
And if the Niners are smart, and I hope they're not,
I hope they're dumb.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But if they're smart, they'll just.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Go year to year with brock Purdy, franchise, tag him,
and then dump him.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
But the two things are unrelated.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Although the fact that George Kittle is there helps brock
Perty because brock Perty's he doesn't make players around him better,
They make him better, which is not the normal quarterback
teammate relationship. But in terms of the finances, it doesn't matter.
It's a different position.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Next.
Speaker 8 (38:15):
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke to the media on Monday
and said that the league wants to fix the All
Star Game by adopting a similar format as to what
the NHL did with their four Nations face off.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Ben, do you think this will fix the All Star
Game for the NBA? No, it's Adam Silver stealing off
Gary Bettman's paper is what he's doing. The problem with
the All Star Game is nobody in the All Star
Game cares about the All Star Game. It's a nusance,
like it's the weirdest thing in the NBA. Because like
the players love going to All Star Weekend. It's like
(38:46):
a big deal. There's a lot of parties all Star
Weekend in the NBA. It's a great social event. But
playing in the game is an annoyance. And it doesn't
matter whether it's representing countries or not.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It's not gonna the needle.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Now in terms of fans support, people love the flag.
They love wrapping something themselves in the flag, so that
part of it people will be into it. But if
the players aren't into it, it's not gonna matter. If
the players are just going through the motions, which they
always do, they always do now in the NBA, the
players are soft.
Speaker 8 (39:16):
Next, Travis Hunter has the early lead on rookie jersey
sales over cam Ward. Now, Ben, do you think Hunter
still leads all rookies and jersey sales by the end
of the season.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Well, it's it's going to be an offensive player, right,
and it's it's neither one of those teams is a
national team.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
The Titans are not. They're a regional team.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Jacksonville's even more regional than the Tennessee Titans are. It's
just there's no one there other than those two, Like
who else Shulder.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Sanders was a fifth round pick.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
So yeah, at this point, Travis Hunter is going to
get a fair amount of opportunity with Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
So I say that will hold.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How did we do that is a put on. I've
won more
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Times than anyone else that Mallardy with where the game
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