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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. The Celtics are gone, at least in game one.
It's our number two, our two. It's radio silence in
Boston and whenever the Celtics do well, we are flooded
with calls on our affiliate, the Sports Hub in Boston.
When the Celtics don't do well, many people go into hiding.
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This will be an example. The Knickerbockers down twenty, come
all the way back. So who's the fall guy for
the Jason Tatum Celtics. Will discuss that. Where is the
Celtic panic level after dropping Game one? Is the loss
of a mild concern or a full blown crisis in Boston?
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We'll talk about that. And is this knixt team for
real or did they just catch Boston on a lolly
gagging situation late in the game and they were off
their game late. We'll talk about that, and who knows
what else? Give it up for our number two.
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hour is from the Eastern Conference NBA game. We go
to Boston and this was projected to be a blowout.
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I got an email from one of our listeners that
listens on the Sports Hub in Boston who said, Ben,
all the local guys are convinced this is gonna be
at most a Gentleman's sweep. Four games should be all
the Celtics need to take care of the Knicks, and
they're already projecting who they're gonna play in the NBA Finals. Now,
I don't know if that's true or not. I'm sleeping
during the day. I don't know what those guys are you
happing about. But one game, one game into the Eastern
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Conference semifinals, and things have gone upside down. Top seat Turvey,
Jalen Brunts leading the upstart Knickerbockers playing with house money
into the Commonwealth for a hoe down with Jason Tatum
and the heavily favored Celtics. Were you watching? Were you
watching this game? No, of course you were. No. Well,
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Jalen Brunson and og Ananobi, may the force be with you.
They scored twenty nine points in this game and the
Knicks leaving the Celtics dazed and confused as they win
it in overtime. New York oneh eight, Boston one oh five.
So game one goes to the team from the Big Apple,
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Carl Anthony Towns, who was okay. He had fourteen points,
thirteen rebounds. It wasn't a dominating performance by any means.
But the Knicks had lost all four games against Boston
during the regular season, which again that is what has happened,
not is what's going to happen. They lost all four
games during the regular season, and that's why they play
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the games. But New York was down by twenty points
in the second half of this game. The Boston Celtics,
the reigning champions of the NBA, coughed up a fur ball,
a big one. Now Game two, we'll be back on
the Parque floor. That'll be on Wednesday night. Jason Tatum
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and Jalen Brown both had twenty three points for the Celtics,
who taken on the chin in game number one. The
better story is in that locker room, that is the
losing locker room. So that is where we will direct
our attention to the question for the esteem panel here,
who's the fall guy. Who's the fall guy for the
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Jason Tatum Celtics. So I've got air force in and
out and robust DNA, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to make Boston cream pie,
which is what the Celtics got. A face full Boston
cream pie is what they got, all right, So number Why.
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I said number why, there's a lot of shame and
blame to go around. We'd like to shame and blame.
It's fun to do here. So Boston was up seventy
five to fifty five with less than six minutes to
go in the third quarter. Now the game's not over
at this that point. Obviously it's not over. They still
got a quarter and a half to go with the
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final seventeen to eighteen minutes of the game or so.
If you just merely take care of your business and
don't have any major screw ups, you're going to win
the game. And as the late great Dennis Green, who
worked at Fox Sports Radio for about a month before
he got a TV job, said, if you want to
crown them, then crown their asses. But they are who
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we thought they were, and the Celtics let them off
the hook. And that's what happened. Now, the issue for
Boston in this game down the final eighteen minutes or
so of the game. It is a King of Pop classic,
The Man in the Mirror. That is what did in
the Celtics in this game. The Man in the Mirror,
Jason Tatum and much of the same conversation we had
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In a previous hour, we was talkt about Shay Jilgis
Alexander and his shortcomings at the end of the game. Well,
the same concept applies here. It's not brain surgery. We're
just merely talking about sport. But you look at it,
Jason Tatum is supposed to be the franchise player. Close
game right now. It wasn't even a close game. It
should not have been a close game, but it did
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turn out to be a close game. And the reason
is because the way that you close the game. Jason Tatum,
who to my knowledge has no military experience, but he
looked like he was in the Air Force and he
was a pilot flying the Vomit comet to close out
the game. How bad was it? I'll tell you so,
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Jason Tatuma the eyeball test, you knew it wasn't good.
But then to close the game, Jayson Tatum. Over the
final twenty minutes, including overtime, Jason Tatum shot three of
twelve from the floor. He took twelve shots, he only
made three of them. And we're sitting in here where
he's supposed to be the franchise player, and we're in
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here talking about a crap performance by Jason Tatum. The
three headed monster of the Boston basketball team turned out
to be a three headed Garden slug in this particular game.
He had Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, and Derek White, who
has been marvelous. But in the end of the game,
up twenty to losing in overtime, Tatum, Brown and White
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combined to shoot twenty percent twenty point eight percent from
the floor in that stretch. And that's how you blow
a twenty point lead. And the Celtics as a team,
the number that stood out here the forty five missed
three point shots, which is an appalling amount of miss
three point shots. But the Celtics, just in the time
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they went up twenty to the close of the game,
they attempted twenty eight to three point shots in that stretch.
They only made six of them from downtown. So that
is the ingredient that will lead you to defeat. So
Jason Tatum's gotta wear that now. Page two. And this
is a deeper philosophical look at things here. So where
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is the Celtics panic level? Where's the Celtics panic level
after dropping Game one? Is this a mild concern for
the Boston basketball team or a full blown crisis.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Full blown crisis.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So, after a thorough Mallard deliberation and contemplation about the
New York Knickerbockers, we have this as a mild concern.
As a mild concern, it is a wake up call
that you should not have needed. You should not have
needed a wake up call in game one of a series.
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And the question must be asked, did the Celtics underestimate
the Knicks? Did they start buying into all the social
media chatter that this would be no series, this would
be no contest. What is that you're up twenty and
you take a little siesta at that that particular point. Now,
Joe Missoula, a couple of years ago we nicknamed him,
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let him play Joe. Let him play Joe, And in
this particular game, Joe Mazoo, did he make any adjustments?
Maybe he did, I just didn't notice it. Did you
notice anything that he did? Things were not going right
for the Celtics. Did he ever say, hey, maybe we
shouldn't shoot three point shots every effing time down the cart?
Did he ever say that? Let him play Joe? I
didn't notice any adjustment. I'm not a big coaching matter. Guy.
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The Denver Nuggets don't have a coach and they just
wont a game on the road in the second round
of the NBA Playoffs. But the reason I am only
at a mild concern, and trust me, you know, doing
talk radio, it'd be much more fun, full blown Bible
alarm fire for the Celtics, and we will be def
Con one if Boston loses on Wednesday. But game one now,
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we're not gonna go there, not yet cause Madison Square
Gardens not tough. A bunch of teams go in there
and win. They just it's not like the Knicks have
any real home court advantage at Madison Square Gardens, so
you lose the next game. And again that's a different conversation.
But every extra game, every extra game the Celtics play,
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the chances of injury go up, the chances of heartbreak
hotel go up even more. And then the other question
that must be asked is do these Celtics get a pass?
Do they get a mulligan? Because the Unicorn hardly played
and if you saw the game, you know what I'm
talking about here, So that would be as the great
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judge on a reality TV show, Randy Jackson back in
the day said that would be a no for me.
Dog no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Chris tops porzingis played only thirteen minutes. He did not
get into the game after halftime because he had an illness.
He had the creeping crud or whatever he had. We
don't know. He was out. So here's the issue. Boston,
even though they didn't have the top record in the East,
they are perceived to be the top team. Is that
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a fair statement. I believe it is. Cleveland had the
top record, but most most pundits believe that these Celtics
are the better team. So you go into this, You're
supposed to be the big bad beast of the East
and you're the Boston Celtics. And you think of this
like In and Out Burger. Now I know there's no
in and out Burger in Boston, but just work with
me on this. So they have the secret menu at
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In and Out Burger and very popular animal style fries,
very popular. People love that. Some people like that flying Dutchman.
But those are all extra items. You don't need those
things to be good to have a good meal. You
don't need those things to have a good You don't,
and so it's good enough. And the Celtics are good
enough without Porzingis. And if Porzingis is the key player,
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come on, now, the Celtics took so many three point shots.
They always do. The difference is they were able to
win a game. Remember the Orlando game in the opening round.
They won a game the Celtics, and they didn't play
very well, they did not do well from three point range,
but they won that game. They're playing the Orlando Magic
Knicks are a better team obviously than Orlando. But still
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all right, now, final point, So question, is this knicker
Bocker team for real? Should we revisit the analysis leading
into this series? Are they for real? Or was this
just a case where they they fell behind by twenty
New York and then they caught Boston just kind of
lollygagging around having an off end of the game. They
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just thought the game was over. They assumed the Knicks
would give up. That's what NBA teams do, like the
Clippers and other teams, when they fall behind, they just quit.
There are a bunch of gutless quitters. So that's the quest.
So the errow on this one is pointing more towards
just lollygagging up twenty, lollygagging around again until we see
this happen a second consecutive game and the heavy underdog,
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the Knicks are playing with house money, absolute house money.
Now that being said, if the game is close, if
the Celtics do not have a comfortable advantage in these
games and it's coming down the stretch, who would you
rather have in a three or four point game in
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the final ninety seconds. I'd rather have the Knicks, But
mainly because of one guy, right, mainly because of one guy.
And that's the interesting thing here that one guy who
you know who I'm talking about here, has robust DNA.
He was not the reason that the Knicks won this
game in overtime. Talk about Jalen Brunson, and Jalen Brunson,
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who clearly has the optimal genetic makeup for big mores
in basketball games, but he didn't score in overtime. He
was over four from the floor in overtime, missed a
tear drop that should have won the game in regulation,
and it still didn't matter. So he got a dud
out of the way. Jalen Brunson down twenty. The New
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York Nation that the reason they got back in the
game was in part because of Brunson down twenty, they
cranked on the old Phil Collins tune there thunder and lightning,
because you had not only Jalen Brunson during the regulation part,
but Og and Abe getting it done in a large way. Annobi.
He had the clutch gen on this night, big time,
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big time. Seven of eleven down from down twenty, he
made seven of eleven shots and four of seven, four
of six, four of six from three point range and
including a big overtime as well. I mean, it was
just his night to dominate the Celtics who struggled to
make the three point shot throughout the game. And so
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the Celtics all of a sudden don't turn to garbage, right,
This is not a garbage situation. They just don't regularly
perform close games. Most of the games are lopsided for
the Celtics. So and the problem with Jason Tatum, as
great as Jason Tatum has been, he didn't have that
dog get him. I need dogs, not cats. I need dogs.
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Doesn't have it, haven't seen it. You trust Jalen Brown
more than you would trust Jason Tatum. And that's the
real kick to the nuts for the Celtics. So they're
down three at the end of the game. You saw
what happened to you're watching or you're listen to it.
They're down three. The Celtics have the ball, a chance
to take a three point shot to tie the game.
Jalen Brown, who normally is the guy you want with
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the ball in your hand at the end of the game,
he couldn't even get a shot off because Michel Bridges
came over and ripped the ball out of his hands.
He's all the ball. There was robbery on the court,
so the sellers didn't even get a game time shot
up in overtime. You're talking about a masculation situation. What's
going on with that? All right? It is the Ben
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I want it back at the derby, Ben, Oh yeah,
I did good.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
My name is Bill. By the way, how dare you
and lead a lap on X? Lead a lap on
X and back to it? Here we go? Hey, Lee?
All right? And I don't know why Lee would call
Bill Ben and it makes no sense. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Yeah, no,
no credit for you. Have you been to the derby?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Lee?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Have you been to the Kentucky Derby?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
I have not been to the derby. I've been to
sant Ana many times. Santa Anita, Santa Anita. I'm sorry
you've been to sant Anna too. Oh yeah, there's a
different kind of derby in Santa Anna. It's not it's
a different situation.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
But I've news you the horses. Yeah yeah, okay, all right,
but uh yeah, well we were at what.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Was that big event they had? Was it? Last year?
At the at Santa Anita?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
We were all out there doing there.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah. I love Santa Anita. I used to live out
here there and I used to go there quite a
bit to Santa Anita. I love the vibe. I like
the track. He's got really rich people and really poor
people side by side, you super wealthy and super poor,
and everyone's you know, mingling together, well not really mingling.
There's one side where the rich people are on the
one side where the poor people are, but occasionally they
interact with each other.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Two dollars bets, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Anyway, it is the Ben Mau Show talking about all
these NBA playoff games, and later this hour we have
Mallor to the third degree. No credit for you, No
credit for you. We'll get to that coming up in
a little bit as well. Ferknog says, what's the battle
plan when lead a lap fills in? Open all the
windows in the studio, or just hold your breath the
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entire show. That's not my problem, that's the rain is problem.
I am on the end of the room. You gotta
walk out of a door. You've got to walk down
a little hall and make a turn, and there's a door.
These are bank vault doors here. These are massive doors.
No one can get in here.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Now, you think it's not your problem, Ben, But if
I get gassed out of this room, yeah, and your
boardop is no longer at the board, then whose problem
is it?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's Fox Sports Radios problem. That's not my problem. I'm
a well be here and that's it. You know, that's all.
Now Lee really wants to mess with us. He'll go
up to the building where the skunks are and then
he'll let one rip right into the air conditioning vents
because that'll stink up the whole building. How many times
over the years, Lee, you've been here a while now,
how many times have there been a skunk on the
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top of the building that gets into the air conditioning
system and the gas is the whole building.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
We've had a number of instances. We've had bats. Yeah,
we've had a skunk. We've had we've had multiple skunks.
But the bad thing, yeah, we've done that to the
bats have been The number of things that have fallen
from the ceiling is wild.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah. And the cockroaches which all seem to die right
near the old studio. There's a there's a there's a
plank of metal and that's like where they go to
commit cockroach suicide. They just go right there.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
And well, I love our solution for it was just, uh,
what's that. Well, we put a sticker in front of it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Oh well well yeah, well and yeah, there is a
window facing out to the street here where a bunch
of cockroaches got in between there's double plane glass and
they got in there and they died. And they died
in about two thousand and two. It is twenty twenty five,
and they are still if you look mommified, they're mummified.
They it's wild. You can still see those classic cockroaches
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from twenty oh two.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
They literally look like ghosts. These are like shells of
But you think.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
They would have evaporated by now, that they would have
gone away, But no, they have not gone away.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Proof that they can survive a nuclear holocaust. But not
the Fox Sports radio.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, and that. Let me tell you that that logo thing,
the strip of oxporstrated logo tape they put up there,
very impressive, outstanding. Eugenie in Chicago says our number four.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You got to give your thoughts on Justin Tucker getting
fired by the Baltimore Ravens. Well, maybe we will maybe
we won't. What else we have Paige and Andy in
Line Lakes, Minnesota rights and says, thank you for lamb
basing Jeff from Denver. Maybe we won't have to listen
to his calls until Game five when the Chicken Nuggets
end their season. Love it, there you go, Nate says,
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Coach Adelman looks like Murray from Impractical Jokers. Yeah, that
is a more contemporary reference. That is actually pretty good, Nate.
That's a bad job by me. One of my buddies
text me is that. Yeah, that coach of the Nuggets
looks like Edward k Newman. But that's a dated reference.
He does look just like Murray from Impractical Jokers. That's
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a good call by you, Nate. That's solid. Now, every
time I see the Nuggets coach, I'm gonna think of
Murray from that show. That's what I'm gonna thinking of. Yeah, anyway,
six some phone calls here. I would like to point
out the Celtics lost. Now, when the Celtics win, it's
like I'm doing Boston Celtic postgame talk. When they lose,
suddenly the phone stopped working in Boston and all over
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the New England States. It is a shocking situation. I'm
sure it's just a kawinkie dink that when the Celtics
take it on the chin or they take in the shorts,
that all of a sudden, all those proud, boisterous Bostonians
suddenly can't call in. I'm sure it's just a coincidence,
nothing else. Let's go to the phones. Miami, Miami, Miami.
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Weed Man, hippie, who is actually in Hollywood, Florida? Hello,
weed Man, hippie, Hey.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Man, I saw that game that Knicks game that was
crazy down by twenty and they come back and they
win over time.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Did you watch it on a Russian website? Weed Man?
Do you have that Russian link? You sit around all day,
you watch every possible movie, TV show. You got it all.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Covered right now?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Yeah, yeah, you're you're a couch potato. But you haven't
gained any weight. You're you're still very You're a thin man,
weed man, I am. Yeah. Most people that would just
sit around and watch TV all day, that would not
be good for them. You'd gain a lot of weight.
But you're not eating I guess, so you don't have
to worry about it.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
What So, who's the heavyweight champ in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
That would be Muhammed Ali heavyweight. Muhammad Ali, the greatest
boxer of all.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Really, you know, to see boxing all the time now
I've never ever see it.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, boxing killed itself. They went to the pay per
view model and they no longer the people stop caring.
And then now you've got the people are into the UFC.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Now I'm not yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
The great Alexander Yusik is the heavyweight champion of the world.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I never even heard of.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I don't know who that is either, have no idea.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You know, Aaron George is hitting three or three forty,
I mean four thirty.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, he's playing. I actually watched some of that Yankee game.
There was a they were playing for like two innings
and it was raining and the rain was the size
of actual peanut M and m's And they played for
two innings and that and then there was a I
don't know if they finished the game. I think they
did finish the game, but there was.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
A lot that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh, the Potters beat the Yankees, and they came back
to beat the yank Yankees are up to nothing at
that rain delay, and the Yankees blew it. But that
problems in the Bronx. Aaron Judges hitting four to fourteen.
He was zero for three. Now, bad job by.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Okay, let yesterday it was four thirty one.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Bad day is down, down all the way down to
four fourteenth.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It's really hard. Hit four hundred left somebody four hundred.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Wow, well that would be what Ted Williams was the
last one right, that's it Teddy ball game. Wow slend.
Look at you becoming a regular again, weed Man. You're
back in the rotation. Now we're getting every day weed Man,
every day with the weed Man, because you're the real
reason your roommate's not that. Where's your roommate? You don't
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know where he didn't he didn't tell you I'll be back,
and so and so. He just left.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Two weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Two weeks of freedom. All this is like a vacation
for you. Every night, two weeks of weed Man. How
lucky are we? Well? My god?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
In Alaska?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Alaska? What are you talking about? Alaska?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Man?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
He lost ten grand on the Lakers. I don't why
we go to who said he's in Alaska? I never
said he's in Alaska. Did you say he's in Alaska? Larna,
I didn't say it lea. Did you say he's in Alaska?
The guy that answered the foes, the guy that answered
the phone. I don't know who that guy is, that
intern guy that answered the phone. Really, why interns don't
know what they're talking about? Come on, we'll go to Alaska.
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Why would you go to Alaska?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Come on, man, I would go That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That's like your night Your nightmare is to go to Alaska, right,
that's to be your nightmare. Yeah, you're you're about far
away in America. Well, I guess you go to key West,
you'd be a little further away. But other than that,
you're you're pretty safe.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
I like to I don't want to be cold.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
You've made that perfectly clear. That's why you do not
want to go to Louisville. You could have been at
the Kentucky Derby weed man. Remember the guy in Louisville
said you can go there and you can work on
the horses and clean up the poop, and then they'll
give you a place to stay for free.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
No, I might want to do that. When this guy
comes back, I might want to do that. Might take
you up on that.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I don't believe you. I don't I don't believe you're
not going to do that. You're not doing that. I know,
I know you're not going to do that. There's no chance, zero.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Chance from acwadog.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, that's a different than than Churchill downs, you know,
just saying so, all right, any are you done? I say,
you have nothing else? You just want to say hello.
That's all. You have a couple of error Judge lines
and the Knicks line, and that's it. You're good every night, unbelievable,
every single bleeping night. All right, yeah, go away, thank you.
Here he is the wed Man hit eight seven, seven
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ninety nine on Fox the number, and that leads us
into Jalen Brown. Jalen Brown, who was not in a
giving mood, not in a giving mood postgame. So the
Celtics missed an NBA record forty five three point shots.
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This record has been broken multiple time. I think there's
a the third time the record's been broken in the
playoffs for miss three point shots in a playoff game.
And that is the storyline that everyone's running with the
Celtics the greatest three point shooting team in the regular season,
blah blah blah, modern era, and they just missed the
most three point shots in a playoff game during the
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modern era. So after the game, Jalen Brown was asked
how the Knicks defense was different from the or Lando
Magic and what they did in the first round, and
Jalen Brown he essentially claimed that the Knicks were a
non factor and then missing a record amount of shots.
He said, Orlando kind of took the three point line away.
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It felt like the Knicks were kind of daring us
to shoot, like they wanted us to shoot those shots.
We just didn't make them tonight, he said. Quote continues,
but it felt like we had a ton of good looks.
Some maybe we forced up blah blah blah blah blah.
Actually I don't disagree with that. I don't disagree that
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the Celtics did appear to have a lot of would
appear to be wide open three point shots that they missed.
And Jalen Brown went one of ten from the three
point line even though he had twenty three points, one
of ten from the three point line and his efficiency
was horrific. He made only seven of his twenty field
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goal attempts, shooting thirty five percent from the floor. So
it did not want to give the Knicks and as
you don't disagree with that. It sounds bad. The headline's
not particularly good, but that's that's about about right. Remember
there was a Laker game where Minnesota missed a bunch
of shots the game they lost, and people were giving
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the Lakers defense credit and giving the podcaster coach that fraud,
JJ Reddick. How's he not been fired? By the way,
how's JJ Reddick not been fired? Holy crap, that guy,
I've fired him right away. That's representing your franchise, that
pampas a hole. Of course, the Lakers are a franchise
that supports pampas a holes. Anyway, the Lakers, we're getting
credited for this great defensive effort and there were just
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a bunch of missed miss jump shots. Now let's move
over back to the Oklahoma City Thunder OKC and they
go down. They blow a thirteen point lead in the
final minutes, and Shay jilgis Alexander of the Thunder, who's
going to be the MVP, did not seem too concerned,
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did not seem too concerned. The post game, here, he's
at the dais there, he's drinking a sports drink. He's
sitting next to one of his teammates there at the
dais and I did not seem too worried about the loss.
Take a list. We have the audio on this, all right,
let's go to the audio tape.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Take a list, Chey, obviously, taste of adversity here tonight.
What's your expectation of how this team will respond to tonight?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, it should be good. It should be fun, fun, fun.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
We're gonna find out what we're made of, we're really
made of, and we can't expect it to be smooth
sailing this whole journey. No journey in life is, and
we know that. And today's a bump in their own unexpected.
No one expects to lose, especially that way. But it's
the game of life. So yeah, it's about how you
respond to getting to getting knocked down. And that's what
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we gotta do next game.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, if you really want to have some fun, lose
the next two games and then you'll see what you're
really made of. Go out there, okay, see and just
drop a deuce right there at mid court in the
next two games.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Also in that clip, Williams of the Thunder was sitting
next to Shay yogas Alexander and he did something that
very few people do. He appeared to smell the I
think he was drinking like a gatorade and he smelled it.
Have you ever smelled the gatorade? Like, I've never. That's
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not something I've ever do they really even smell? I
haven't had. I haven't had gatorade in a while. Like,
is there really a smell to the gatorade? I feel
like it's not. I don't think there's a smell to it.
I don't think it's a scent based product. I don't.
I don't. Maybe maybe it is. It was very odd
He's sitting up there, nobody was talking to him, and
so he was just sitting there and he's trying to
kill time, and he appeared to be sniffing the beverage.
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So it was rather odd anyway, all right, yes, yes, Lee, Well.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
This single to could have been something in the gatorade.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Oh oh that's good point. Yes, that's see that. It
looked to me like those were just the gatorades that
were on the table. You know how they have the
product placement at these NBA games, like they just happened
to have the sports make up on the on the podium.
Remember in the one of the Clipper games, Kawhi Leonard
took the drink off the table and said, kids shouldn't
be drinking this. I don't think that's what the sponsor
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was looking for, but I don't know. Maybe they were
happy with that. You know, any publicity's good publicity and
all that. Who knows, man alive.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
What's your color of choice on Gatorade?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Well, visually, I like the blue. I think the blue
Arctic freeze. Yeah, the Arctic freeze. I think that's just
really cool. But then I occasionally, because I grew up
with wind decks, I think sometimes I'm just drinking wind decks.
You know, it's a similar color and all that. But
I like the color blue.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
So yeah, anyway, blue is the best flavor.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
You're going with the blue blue? Team blue?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Well, it looks refreshing.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Loreno though, on the other hand, I'm guessing she doesn't
drink any of that. You're not a sports drink consumer.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
You know.
Speaker 8 (33:49):
I don't look like I would, and I usually don't,
but sometimes I do. And back in the day, melon
flavor used to be the best, but it has been discontinued. Orange, yeah,
it was orange. It was an orange color. Yeah, but
it was melon melon.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, if you want somebody to send you some, I'm
sure they don't.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
They don't make it at all, Ben, I've looked online.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You can find it. I bet you could.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
As long as there's no mold particles in mold that
it's good.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
For your gut health, you know, Yeah it is. You
put a little mold in there. Hey, the kids that
are the healthiest play in mud all the time, and
they eat dirt and they're the healthiest kids. They say, right, Well,
I don't know who they are, but yeah, why not
I buy into that?
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Why not? Are gonna have mallard of the third degree?
Mallard of the third degree. We'll get to that coming
up in a moment time. Now for the uh see
the instat trivia, the insta trivia. This is gonna be
the hardest instant trivia that we've ever done. I don't
think anyone's going to get this right, but we're gonna
do it anyway. I said, I think no one will
be able to get it. And here it is. Here's
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the Insta trivia question. Blank is the only player, the
only one in the NBA to be swept in three
different decades? All right, Blank, the only player in the
ENDBA to be swept in three different decades. That is
the instant Trivia. We'll get to that and also Mallarly
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third degree and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
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have to stumble and bumble and try to find any
of that and now back to it, well, back to it,
and the Insta trivia is I Ben. Here's the Insta trivia.
Blank is the only player, the only one in the
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NBA ever to be swept in three different decades. That
is the question. What is the answer? Alf the alien
opinter going with he Man Scrooge says, Swaggy p is
the answer. Chuck Barkley from Andy in lin O Lakes, Minnesota.
The King Rory going with the Milwaukee Bucks mascot Bengo
(36:54):
the Buck. Who else do we have? Shannon to Moyne
says as Pitcher Luis Severino is the correct answer. Milkman,
Mike and Colorado got it right. Bad job by him.
Otis Thorpe. That's just a good name from the past. There,
Otis Thorpe. Let's see here. Scott He's he said he
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got it right back on the Facebook page. Bad job
by him. Bullwinkled Jay Moose from Donkey Sausage. That's his answer.
Brooks Robinson from Rob in Minnesota. JT the Wingman going
with Kareem abdul Jabbar, Brad Lojas from Steve the misplaced
Sandy Egan. Who else do we have? Page Nan Brendan
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says the bum who stole these backpack out of the car?
When did this happen? Lee? When did this stake time? Oh?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Good times? Last year? Yeah, a couple bumps. I chased
the wrong bum in the building here, No at.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
All?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Right, very nice? What else we have? Mark and Queen
Slash Arlington, Texas? He got it right? Bad job by him,
Mike Trout guests by Patrick in a Sunday I go,
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 8 (38:03):
LORRAINA, yes, My my answer is Batman?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Batman. Uh No, it's sorry, it's a correct answer. Is
a lebum? James bron lebron lebron I'm a bomb. He
was swept into two thousands by San Antonio twenty eighteen,
by Golden State twenty twenty three, by the Denver Nuggets.
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Here we go, Here we go, Mallord, how about that?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
To the third degree? This is one gets quick lead
a laugh?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
What do we got? Late third Ram jam?
Speaker 5 (38:40):
At thirty seven years old, Matthew Stafford signed a deal
today with the Rams, giving him forty four million dollars
this year and impossible forty million dollars guaranteed next season
if he's on the roster, which would make him the
heighest earner in NFL history. Ben is Stafford worth that
title and will even be on the roster now.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
I was told when I once negotiated a contract, you
are worth what you can get. So I'm worth peanuts.
He's worth what he can get, So yeah, I mean sure,
why not. I'm not a huge Stafford fan. He's a
middle of the road quarterback. He's right in the middle,
slightly above that and as as long as he's healthy,
he'll get the money. I don't see any reason he
won't get the money. They don't even replace him.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Next maler Masteria.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
Today, President Trump, Roger Goodell, and Commander's owner Josh Harris
announced that the twenty twenty six NFL Draft will take
place from the National Mall between the US Capitol and
the Washington Monument, anticipating.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Over one million fans flooding the Mallow. Do you buy it?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:34):
The Land of make Believe is Disneyland and NFL Math.
They always embellish the amount of people that attend these events.
I never believe the amount of attendant. There's a lot
of people that go to these things, but there's not
as many as the NFL says.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Next musical chairs have a musical lockers.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer announced that he's going to
be making a practice to shuffle locker remplacement as well
as where players sitting team meeting, saying there's a method
to his madness. Ben, Does Schottenheimer's madness bring clarity to
Dallas or is it all to do about No.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
It's gonna be great because're gonna have Dak Prescott and
Michael Parsons trading notes on how they wrote the vomit
comment together on defense and offense. It's ridiculous. How do
we do beautiful A plus? What are you saying? I want?
I want them write up good job. Then I won.
Oh my god, I want the