Hour 2 - The Boston Blooper

Ben Maller talks about the 76ers crushing the Celtics in Game 5, who gets to wear the dunce cap for Boston, how things are looking for Joe Mazulla, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two, hour two of
our radio show. We're talking pro bouncy ball the Sixers
and the Celtics in Game five from the Commonwealth. Philadelphia
only trailed the first part of the game, and after

(00:20):
that the final forty three minutes they never trailed again.
Philly wins comfortably after dominating that game. Who gets to
wear the Dunce cap for the Celtics in this one?
And O are things looking right now for the career
coaching of Joe Missoula in Boston? And does this count
as a signature moment for Joellen Baide in Philadelphia? We

(00:46):
analyze the crazy commentary from Reggie Miller. We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number two,
the Boston Blooper, if you will welcome and not beginning
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Go to the Eastern Commerce. Last hour we talked about
the West. You can hear that on the podcast if
you missed it. But we are equal opportunity take assassins.
So we go to the Eastern Conference and the Commonwealth.
The location the Sixers visiting Boston, game number five of
the Eastern Conference semi Finals, the series tied up to two,

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to the park, the location there the much anticipated Game five.
The winner of Game five in a two to two
series has gone on to win eighty three percent of
the time. That tells you what has happened, not necessarily
what's going to happen. So I don't know if you
saw this game or not. It was the early game
on the NBA Fight Card, and maybe you had stuff

(02:34):
going on and you missed it whatever might have been
going on, So we watched it. If you missed it,
the mv pay playing like an MVP in this game.
Joel embiid thirty three points. He powered him down, grabbed
seven reboun It's not that many. Philadelphia pummeling Boston won
fifteen to one oh three, a game that was not

(02:55):
that close. The seventy Sixers, led by as many as
twenty one points, controlled the lead for the final forty
three minutes. Last lead the Celtics had was about the
seven minute mark, give or take. And so for the
rest of the game, the Sixers were up, and for
most of the game they were up by double digits
as they controlled this game. The better story is where

(03:17):
these shamrocks reside, as our friend Paul and Rhode Island
likes to say. And so the seas fans boom. They
were booing the team off the court as they walked
off the parque. There they deserve to be bowed. That
was a bootastic performance by the hometown team. So the
question who gets to wear the Dunce cap for the

(03:41):
Celtics in this one? So I've got the free to Bandito,
Gulf Stream and Party Foul, and no one else has
this content. We are the only show that has this.
We'll give to you right now. So number wa God,

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you start with Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum has a problem.
I had this problem when I was in high school,
so I kind of relate to Jason Tatum. I was
not the most punctual student. I like to take my
time getting the class and things like that and cause
me some problems. Caused me some problems. That's why I

(04:23):
got into radio. The one job. You have to be there.
You can't be late. You have to be there when
the show starts, or you are a rude, you are
a screwed. So Jason Tatum, he's got a problem being punctual.
And in boxing, I like boxing. I'm not really into
the whole UFC. I watch an occasional UFC fight, but

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I'm old school. I like the big, big boxing match.
So you watch boxing and there's a phrase which has
been hijacked by other sports. It says you have to
answer the bell. And that is a boxing term that
goes back to the old days, and it's just kind
of obviously be prepared. You're you're a fighter, You've got
to be prepared. At the start of each round. When
you come out of your corner, they ring the bell

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and Jason Tatum has shown a skill set which is
really impressive if you're someone that doesn't like showing up
to your job on time. He has been bedraggled at
the beginning of these games of the Celtics, and sometimes
he's able to get away with it. Oftentimes he's not.
This is one of those games. First quarter, Tatum set

(05:28):
the tone, set the mood, you know, lighting candle light,
lighting the whole thing. And zero for five in the
first quarter from the floor for Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown.
Now he picked up some of the slack for the Celtics.
He shot the ball pretty well, but regardless, the star
everything flows through Jason Tatum here and now that's two

(05:49):
consecutive games where Tatum has been unfashionably late to the party.
And maybe we recommend a thing called Lombardi. Now, what
is Lombardi time. Lombardi time as old school to expedite
the process or process. If you're on time, you're actually late,
that's Lombardi time. I remember reading about this when I

(06:12):
was younger, and there's like Lombardi he had to be
there fifteen minutes early with the Green Bay Packers back
in the old days and Tom Coughlin. He used to
coach the Giants and then Jags and his mother college teams. Whatever.
He well, Boston College coach Tom Coughlin, He's like, oh,
you gotta be there. I think it was five minutes early.
I think for Tom Cofflin. But whatever the case, whatever
Tatum's doing now is not working. It's not worry and

(06:34):
the other problem here, I fight this battle. I had
people who were texting me saying, hey, I heard some
guy on the radio show that Steph Curry had a
good game, and you said he didn't have a good
game the other night. It was like, yeah, he took
thirty was it thirty shots to get thirty one points,
So that's not a good game. Well, Jason Tatum, who
I believe is related to the Freeto Bandito. Why is

(06:55):
Jason Tatum related related to the Freedo Bandito? I will
tell you he's a second cousin. His name is the
stat Bandito. That's his name. Because that was some serious
stat stuffing by Jason Tatum. The game was out of hand.
Tatum scored thirty six points on twenty seven shots, did
nothing of note in the entire first half, took eleven shots,

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made only three of them in the first twenty four minutes.
You talk about a way to impress dumb people that
don't actually watch these games, because there are people like, Oh,
I didn't see the game, but I looked at the
box where he had twenty seven points while he was
on the court. The fact of the night. Fun fact
of the night. Walt Tatum was on the court for
the Celtics. They were outscored by twenty six points. When

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Tatum was on the bench for about nine minutes, give
or take nine minutes, the Celtics outscored the Sixers by fourteen,
so they were actually tangibly better when Tatum was wearing
a towel around his neck and drinking some kind of
sports beverage. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
And what happened to the home court advantage for the

(08:01):
Celtics their last nineteen playoff games in the Jason Tatum era,
they are now under five hundred at home in their
last nineteen playoff games, they are nine to ten. I
thought that was supposed to be an advantage, but maybe
I'm wrong. Maybe I don't know basketball.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
The second thing your page two, So how are things
looking for Joe Mizula. So we began this diatribe by
pointing out that the Dunce cap goes to one Jason
Tatum as among the players. But oh man, holy Canola,
Joe Missoula, he might want to go over to his

(08:38):
LinkedIn page and update his resume. I'm just saying you
might want to update your resume at this point. Not
over yet, but this is a demoralizing situation. You have
no resume as a bona fide successful head coach if
you're Joe Missoula and he was guilty of insubordination, he

(08:59):
fetched around winnable game let him play, Joe, and he
didn't call time out at the end of regulation, in
the end of overtime, and so the Celtics decided a
team with Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Let's let Marcus
Smart shoot the shot. Let's let him shoot the shot.
And we know how that turned out. But Game four,
Celtics had a five point lead with a couple minutes
to go in regulation, they were up by a couple

(09:21):
of points with twenty seconds to go, and they end
up losing. And so now you compound that with just
a no show from Tatum and the Celtics and so
now they're down three games to one. And that is
that is when Missoula got called to the carpet and
he was forced to issue a mia culpa as he
comes out very angrily. That's his technique with the media,

(09:42):
which is that's his style. Whatever he complains, he's grumpy.
Even when the Celtics win. Joe Missoula, he's bitching about something.
So he's complaining and you look at this and it's like, WHOA,
So he screwed up the other game. He get called
the carpet. How do we know that because he issued
a mea culpa. He issued a mea culpa. And so

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he's holding on right now by his fingernails. He's grabbing
on by his fingernails, and he's about to fall into
the demon sinkhole. The Lava Lakes is bubbling up right
now for Joe Missouli. If they do not come back,
you gotta have a fall guy. Then I get rid
of Tatum and so you get rid of Missoula and
get some other Jabroni in there to coach the Celtic

(10:26):
if they don't rally back, and they're facing the theoretical
hell fire and damnation here and Joe has a Gulf
stream waiting for him destination unknown, but it's close to
Dante's inferno if Boston does not come back in this series.
And again I go back to the fact there's no
track record. E may Udoka is not walking back through

(10:46):
that door. They had to get rid of him because
the Wokesers got all upset and he had been fishing
off the company pier. You're not supposed to fish off
the company pier. So they pivoted to somebody else. And
now you know, Jason Tatam's the golden boy, he's the
object of worship and all that. Now it's also conceivable
that Jalen Brown is also gone. But I think if
the Celtish the way I look at this, if you

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go by the comps, there's no reason to keep Joe Missoula, like,
you know, is it a nice guy? Or you can
put him in the organization somewhere and have him work
in the front office, but he's got no resume. You
can't waste these years. If Jason TAM's legit, who knows
if he is or not. Maybe he's a fraud, But
if he's legit, this is your window of opportunity. Not

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that coaches matter all that much, but a bad coach
can derail you. That a great coach doesn't help you
per se, but a terrible coach can cost you a game.
And we've seen that here. And so Jalen Brown, whether
he migrates out of Boston or not, and the smart
money says he's not gonna be back because he wants
out and they're not gonna pay him and whatever. But

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Missoula is on thin ice. Now, final point, does this count?
Does this win count as a signature moment in the
care rear of Joel Embiid in Philadelphia? So I am
shaking my head no on this. Reggie Miller, if you're
watching the game on TNT, got a little carried away.
I got a little carried away there at the end

(12:12):
of the game, and he proclaimed that this was a
signature win for Joel Embiid, And methinks not so much.
Long long thought process which lasted about two seconds. Disagree.
We can pump the brakes on that. That is what's
called a party foul, a premature take, because this is

(12:34):
gonna blow Reggie Millers away. You need to win four
games to advance that you don't. Winning three does not
cause you to advance in a best of seven playoff series,
unless I'm mistaken on it. Maybe they changed the rules
and they didn't tell me about that, you know, out
of an abundance of caution. So the players don't have
to play in an extra game. They just have to
win three games in a seven game series. But the

(12:55):
report card, get to the point, please, the report card
is incomplete. It is Joel Embiid has merely positioned himself
to get to the Final four. He's not in the
Final four yet, but he's in position to get to
the Final four. And he hasn't done anything of note.
And the Sixers wall to the untrained eye, they're in

(13:15):
great shape. And while Joe Missoula does not look like
he can coach his way out of a wet paper bag.
That said, I have seen Doc Rivers coach teams do
their magic. So I am not bearing the Celtics yet.
Because if you ever needed to come back, no serious,
if you ever need to come back against an NBA team,

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the coach you want on the other side is Glenn Rivers.
That's the guy you want. He is the gold standard
for needing the Heimlich maneuver. There is no coach ever
that has matched the ineptitude of Doc Rivers in the postseason.
He is the goat of blowing playoff series. Did it

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twice with the Clippers. I think no, I think I
read this. We talked about a couple of years ago
the last time he did it. But Doc Rivers coach
teams have blown three series where they're up three games
to one. No other coach has blown more than one
and said, well, it's three to two. If you blow
a three to one series lead, I'm gonna go out

(14:19):
on the limit. It's a little easier to blow a
three to two series lead with Game seven on the road,
although that doesn't seem to be a problem for anybody
that comes to Boston these days because they all do
well against the Celtics. So it ain't over yet, but
things are not looking good for Joe Miszula. The good
news for him and the Celtics is they do have
Doc Rivers on the other side. It is The Ben

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Speaker 1 (16:48):
It's Ben Maller, a Celtic theme monologue to begin here
hour two, as the Sixers are one win away from
the Eastern Finals. Just Josh says, would not want to
ruffle Tatum's feathers here, but his potato chip has more
fire than his game. Lame jokes are on Friday. You

(17:09):
gotta wait till Friday's batchup by your supermarket. Steve says,
my high school basketball coach's favorite expression was when you're
five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. Yeah. Punctuality I've
learned as i've gotten older. Punctuality when I was younger, man, eh,
especially school stuff, I hated it. Midnight Walker, writes In,

(17:31):
says Jason Tatum, He's the stat bandito. He was patting
his numbers, no doubt, but Boston got beat and the
ship be sinking. Just one more loss and they're out,
says the Midnight Walker. Will the Midnight Walker make an
appearance at the Malor Meet and Greet in Minnesota coming
up a week from Saturday? Who knows? Mister Wonderful writes

(17:52):
In and says the Celtic fans have not been this
disappointed since the Emancipation Proclamation were wonderful. How dare you
would it do? Let's see Bengo fan Brian writes in
and he says, I heard Bob Huggins is interested in
becoming the coach of the Lakers. I'm sure he is interested.
And there wasn't a rumor years ago he was going

(18:13):
to coach the Lakers. A PHEMI in Chicago rights since
says Hey Mallard, A plus and a box of Enteman's
chocolate covered donuts on the hour two monologue. He doesn't
fit in the cup of milk. So the key is
to take the first bite and then the flaky inside
of the donut absorbs it when you do. That's a
veteran donut eating move. A veteran donut eating move by Yafimi.

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Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? I
can't read that. On Thet's call the phones and we'll
go to Rhode Island. We'll say hello to the number
one fan of the Shamrocks, Paul in Rhode Island, known
as red Breast Paul on this show. Let's see if
he's away, Hello, Red Breass Paul. He's awake, the man, awake,

(19:03):
hard working man. This guy, he's got a good union
job at the casino. We know his whole store. You
know everything about this Kelly.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yes, I participated, one of the users to participated. Yes, Uh, yeah,
we just we just didn't expension forty thousand yards forty
thousand feet. Yeah, it's fine, it's beautiful. Uh, you know
what's small. But we'll get by. Where are the Valley's casino? Yes?

(19:31):
And round? Yes, And I'm proud of it. You know
it was food on my table.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Does anyone go by and say, is that Paul from
Rhode Island? You get recognized, You're a big star. Everyone
knows who you are.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Let me see. I ran into the half of the
Giants team. I ran into.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Really, they were all hanging out the carino.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
I ran into a couple of quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Name him name the name of Joe Fisman.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, Joe?

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Did you ask to see his leg? Did you want
to see what his leg look like? The scar?

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Uh back in the day, I mean been Uh. I
ran to Brett Bob, I ran into a few other
uh two quarterbacks. I ran into and uh of course,
uh the Giants quarterback.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're bragging. Nobody wants. Yeah, I know you're all right,
very good, but partly your shamrocks. What's going on with
your shamrocks.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
My sham rocks are just playing comfortable. I don't understand why.
And I understand after learning what their names went through,
the Bruins being enough three to one. I don't understand
why these guys play comfortable. I just thought, I can't
get it that that you know the average team that
you performed doing the regular season, that you should be

(20:52):
These guys should be in your league. They should be
put away and not go to the seven game crap
of the money hungry whores you know of the river.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yes, why we have to be put in this situation?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
All right now now, Paul, Right now, everyone's listening, and
no one's sleeping. Right now, everyone's wide awake. I would
like you to give a message to Joe Missoula. Give
him a message right now. Go ahead, give a little
pep talk to the Celtics here, Paul, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
About what I actually coached this kid when he was
eight nine years old and recreational soccer. Our father was
a big basketball player.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait time. Now,
you say you coached Joe Missoula when he was a kid.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, eight nine years old, My son's Yes, and this
kid happened to.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
That explains a lot, Paul, that explains a lot.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
And you know this is just uh, you know, eight
nine year roles are recreational. This kid has so much talent,
so much coordination down his feet. If he chose soccer
as his premier sport, he would have made the national
team in the US.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
And let me say something for many Celtic finans right now, Paul,
listen to me, Paul, listen to me. Many people wish
he had picked soccer. The way this series is going, right.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
This is in Johnson recreational. Yes, and I tell you
that talent back back then. But he was you know,
his father was a big basketball basketball player, no big deal.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
But either way, this kid small world.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Let me let me tell you something I coached myself,
and I'm telling you players make coaches, not coaches make players.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Okay, now they come down, Bukero. Let me ask you said,
did you when you were coaching Joe Missoula in the
soccer game he was eight or nine years old?

Speaker 3 (22:50):
You said, oh, he had talent.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Okay, fine, but like let's says, say, there's like, you know,
a minute to go in the game, down by a goal,
you have a time out. Do you all the time
out and just let the game go?

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Listen? When you are a coach, you recognize kids.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
I'm not asking you that. I'm not asking you that.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
What are you asking me? Go ahead, When.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're coaching nine year old Joe Missoula on the soccer
fields of Rhode Island and he's the star player, and
you're down by a goal and you have a time out,
do you call the time out?

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
With the minute going again?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Bashing my intelligence?

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, no, I'm asking you. I would never do that. Well,
why would you say that? What would?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Here's the deal. The deal is this, you don't have
the right to ask a coach how to coach. Okay,
you have a right to ask a coach how to
coach's team? Right, So you.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Think that fans should you think?

Speaker 3 (23:54):
All right?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
You think fans should just sit there and not criticis
all right? Then I gotta go all right. So that
explains a lot about Joe Mozzulla. That we have a
guy that coached one of his influences at eight nine
years old, Little Joe, I think you just made that up.
You can stay on radio longer. Probably, I ain't never know.
Rhode Island is not the biggest state. It's conceivable there

(24:17):
might be one soccer field there that Paul was at.

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Speaker 2 (24:58):
So we had I guess another announcer, another sports broadcaster,
getting in trouble for something. He said, did you want
to no?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
It? Was not.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
This was on Sports Center. Oh yeah, John Anderson is
the guy's name. He's been around there for a long time.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
That kind of guy. Awful announcing rated him out and
about it. He was supposed to like enjoy broadcasting. Was like,
they're trying to got your mom.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
I guess. So he was doing he was doing a
highlight of the Golden Knights Oilers game and there's a
guy plays defense for Vegas his named Zach white Cloud.
And he made a joke he said, what kind of
name is white Cloud? Great name if you're a toilet paper.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Good line. It's a solid line.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
So Zach white Cloud apparently was very upset about this.
Really he is, he is a indigenous gentleman.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Does he have a sense of humor?

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Ready, I'm gonna say no.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
So he was very upset about this and called out
John Anderson, who apologized to Zach white Cloud. Zach Whitecloud
did a little I don't know if it was a
press conference, but he was, you know, it was around reporters.
He was he was talking to reporters about this.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
John pay for his therapy.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Hold on. So he said, I hope that this can
be a teaching moment. For everyone. And then he broke
down and cried, do we have audio? Actually?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
I think we do here. We gotta play this here here, man,
here's the weird thing. My name all the time? You
know what I do? I say f them, I don't
care what they say. Who cares?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Not only here as a white guy would be okay.
But he's got Native American roots.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Not only is he a hockey player. But I don't
know if people know this, because hockey players are very
boring when they do interviews. But on the ice they
say some of the most foul, offensive things to each other.
You could possibly but imagine.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Most of them have good Canadian accents, so it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
I'm sure he has had awful things said to him. Yeah,
and to cry over this is I just I don't know.
It's we live in the era where playing the victim
gets you.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
A lot of credibility. People love victims. All this guys
get who's the guy on? Was a guy on Tampa
Bay made a big deal because the Bruins broadcaster goofed
on him? Remember I think it was it was it
earlier this year. We talked about it. The play by
play guy for the Boston Bruins. He made a fat
joke about some guy on Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yes, Patrick Maroon, Yah Maroon.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
And the Maroon played it up, and everyone's, Oh, it
feels so bad for you. Oh, it feels so bad
for you. It's so stupid. It's like, man, I don't know,
maybe I'm on the wrong side here, and we should
love all everyone that claims to be like I think
it cheapens people that are legitimately like it's some guy
on TV saying your name, goofing on you who cares like,

(27:56):
no one's watching Sports Center. It's not nineteen ninety seven anymore. Okay,
get over it anyway, all thank you for that, Eddie.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show, and feel free to
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for the Celtics star. He has now missed fourteen straight
shots in the first quarter, and that is one shy

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of matching the longest streak by any player over the
last generation of NBA ballplayers in the postseason. It's been
twenty five years. Last twenty five years, twenty five years
as a generation. And so Jason Tatum has the biggest
suck performance in the first quarter of playoff games, with

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only one play ahead of him on that list. And
liberty balance of defense. So I noticed that the Golden
State Warriors have missed a lot of wide open three
point shots. So I went back and I dug through
the numbers. I say, let me, let me see what
the numbers are in this. And if you don't know
the liberty balance of defense, it's when the legend becomes

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the fact. You go with the legend. So the legend
is the Lakers defense has been amazing and the Warriors
are this greatest shooting team of all time. The facts
or something else. The Warriors have missed an unbelievably large
number of wide open three point shots. Now my eyeballs
told me this, but I went back and I crunched
the numbers. So the Warriors as a team are shooting

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thirty five percent when wide open. Now, according to the
NBA's own advanced stats, wide open means no defender within
six feet. You know how when you die, they bury
you six feet underground. So they're shooting thirty five percent.
But it's even worse than that because you look at
some of the individual numbers here Jordan Poole eighteen wide

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open three point shots, he's six of eighteen, Andrew Wiggins
ten of thirty. But the Big three, if you will, Curry,
Thompson and Jordan Poole collectively have been left wide open
sixty one times in the playoffs collectively, some of these
with Sacramento, some with the Lakers, and they've only made
twenty three of them wide open. And they're not even

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good when they're like, it's like they're bad wide open.
When there's somebody kind of in the area, they're not
any better. It's wild what is going on right here?
But I guess the defense is just leave people wide open.
Lebron James. No one should ever guard Lebron James. Lebron
James has been left wide open with no defender within

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six feet twenty times on three balls wide open, and
twenty five times on three pointers in the postseason with
a defender some what in the area. He is shooting
less than twenty four percent when left wide open in
the postseason. That is a new level of suckage. It

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is the Ben Mallards that's even worse than the guys
on the Warriors who've been bad. It is the Ben
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In the four major sports leagues NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL,
the four big sports leagues we have here in North America,
there are only three players with multiple MVPs and multiple
championship round MVPs meaning the Finals, World Series, et cetera,
or Super Bowl in their first six seasons. So in

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the four major sports leagues, there are only three players
that have had multiple MVPs and multiple championship round MVPs
in their first six They are Patrick Mahomes, we just
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Speaker 1 (33:03):
Have Mallard of the third Degree. We'll get to that
coming up in a moment right now, though, got to
pay off the Insta trivia. In the four major sports
leagues in North America, there are only three players that
have had multiple MVPs and multiple championship round MVPs in

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their first six seasons. They're Patrick Mahomes, Tim Duncan and blank.
That is the question. What is the answer. Let's see
if anybody knows the answer. Luke the vending Guy going
with Carne Lansford. Rob in Vegas says, Ricky the Dragon
steamboat is the way to go. Roy Campanella from Eke

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and Roseville, Minnesota, Bengal fan Bryan's going with Meg Ryan
Cowboy killer Ronald McDonald. Who else do we have? Toby
the tram engine guessed by ferg Dog, one of his
favorite favorite heroes in life. Late Night Drug Tester says
you are Pat Summer All who would have been ninety

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three today? Pat Summer All Voici the NFL for years,
million years ago with John Madden Blind Emmett Smith guessed
by Just Josh in Cincinnati. Page down, page down, Hartford
Whaler's goaltender Sean Burke guessed by Shane from Des Moines.
Dino Cicarelli tossed out by Rob in Minnesota. Alf the

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Alien Opiner says it has to be the smitten kitten.
Carol Baskin that that's the answer. Wayne Gretzky guessed by
Sean and Portland a bunch of other people. Kirby's going
with Steve Yeager as his answer. Late night forklift operator says,
if my memory serves me right, it's miss Piggy. Yes,
you have a great memory. It is absolutely Miss Piggy.

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Rob in belcher Toowown, Massachusetts, he's been with the sh
a time, I met rop at a Mala meet and
Greek back in Boston a couple of years ago. He's
Wayne Gretzky is his answer? Who else do we have?
Page down page Dan? Let's see here. Kathy in Madison
says it's Bo Diddley's muse for writing Hey Mona. Of course,

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Kathy famous on the show for Hey Mona. Eddie, do
you have an answer?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Eddie?

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Did he question?

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Please? Let's go with Washington Capitol Legend, Alexandro Rovechkin.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Alex Ovechkin, Now is that correct? You know that's not correct?
It's also Eddie. It's a hockey guy, so that's a
demerit for you. It is Bobby or Bobby or is
the corrected time? Four? My time too? But Bobby or
back in the day, godardne it's Mallard. How about that

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to the third degree.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
This is one gets and the coop dal.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Loop Man danner Orlomski said on Monday that he believes
Justin Field will be in the MVP discussion this season
and that he'll have a season somewhat like Josh Allen
had in his second year.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Do you agree to disagree? Well, I think Dan dani
O Lopski's little puffy stickers near his name for this
take like it at es Man, I think, I think
you get to keep your job for another couple of weeks.
If you have that kind of take. It's the most
outrageous take you can possibly come up with. No, that
is what's known as clickbait. Like I think the Bears
will be better, but you have to be on a

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good team to win the MVP. And the amount of
distance that Justin Fields has to cross, he's gonna have
to have a quantum leap throwing the football. Like I'm
convinced Justin Fields will lead the NFL and highlight runs
and all that sash shanging his way around Packers and
Vikings and Lions, oh my, would be tacklers. But to

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be an MVP, no, no way, There's no reason to
think he's gonna be an MVP.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
In the end.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
No zero zero next.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
In the week since the draft, we have learned that Bull,
Bryce Young, and CJ. Stroud are expected to compete for
and win the starting job with the Panthers and Texans, respectively. Ben,
do you think both of these guys are under center
come day one of the regular season.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
So the way I look at this, if both these
guys are not starting, something has gone terribly wrong. Because
Bryce Young was the number one pick. I know he's
a pint sized quarterback, but all he's got to do
is beat out Andy Dalton, the red pea shooter. That's it,
that's all, and then CJ. Stroud in Houston, the backup,
if you look around, is a guy named Davis Mills.
They also have case Keenum there. They might trade Davis

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Mills before the season gets going and all that. But
the one that's got a better chance of not playing
right away is Frank Wright. His quarterback for the Panthers
Bryce Young, because he's like old school. I could see
him being a douche and making Bryce Young wait a
little bit. But normally what happens is the owner interferes,
and then that's what happens next.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Dak Prescott told reporters that he believes Brandon Cooks is
going to be huge for both himself and the wide
receiver room. Apparently has already begun mentoring Cde Lamb and
other young receivers. Ben, do you do you expect Cooks
to have a big effect on the offense.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Well, yes, as long as Dak Prescott has a hot
tub time machine and can go back several years. This
is very presidential of Dak Prescott because listen, I have
anohing against Brandon cook It's good football etiquette. But if
I'm not mistaken, we talked about this trade when it happened.
The Texans paid six million dollars and gave up draft

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picks to get rid of Brandon Cook's He's also at
the age where you have diminishing returns. Good luck. How
did wait?

Speaker 5 (38:34):
Now?

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Benny Passes is a win, just like the Warriors are
gonna win on Wednesday night. That's a wait ah take
that code Warriors.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Whoo