May 26, 2025 • 51 mins
Dan and Monse welcome FSR NBA Insider Ric Bucher onto the show to talk about the major headlines coming out of the NBA Playoffs.
In this week's installment of Love and Hate: Dan, Monse and the crew share what they loved and hates most from the sports weekend.
Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos in for Doug as they break down the Knicks' comeback win over the Pacers in game 3 of their series.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
In that New York state of mind, we've got a
series in the East, a series in the East, and
I think things are cooking up in the West. A
happy Memorial Day to you, monty four hours you me,
let's get it done.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Best way to spend
my Memorial Day with you, Dan, I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I don't care about barbecue like that, so I'm excited
to be here with you.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's gonna be a fun time. What as a vegetarian
would you have on the grill today?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
A veggie burger?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A veggie burger? What about a nice big squash? I yes,
I know, something like that.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
But I would like to part take and feel like
I'm having a burger, you know. And I do love
an old school veggie patty, like with actual like veggies
and not the fake meat that we have now, but
definitely a veggie burger of some Sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, if you are grilling out having some fun today,
we appreciate it you hanging out with us. We love
to have your thoughts. You can always hit Manty up
at Monte Blanos. You can find me. You can find
me by the way in a multiple of areas social media.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Stand tell us on exit.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Can also find me on Blue Sky, Dan Bayer, Yes,
I am on TikTok, buyer Talk as well, buy your
Grahams on Instagram, all of those formats. So reach out
anyway that you would like. It is going to be
a fun day. But I don't know if we're going
to have as much fun as Timothy Chalamat had last
night in Indianapolis, and those New York Knicks as they
are back in the series beating the Indiana Pacers last
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night now a two to one matchup. I don't want
to say that this was a series that we just
pushed to the side because the Pacers had gone up
to and winning both games to New York. But for
as great as New York was Monci in the Boston series,
I think we had legitimate questions about them considering how
things played out in the first two games of this
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Pacers series.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Naturally, naturally it was rough losses for New York. It
was impossible to walk away from that and not think that, oh,
this one, this one was a gut punch. There's ways
to lose where when you get blown out, you're not
just like I got blown out. Okac was not affected
or offended by their blowout loss. When you lose close
games when you should have won, when you can't close out,
(02:35):
those hurt in a different way and.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They stay with you. They stick with you.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So I think most of us were just wondering, can
the Knicks get out of this really gut punch of
a funk. It wasn't just oh you lost it, It
was how you lost it hurt a little much, and also.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Losing at home. Losing at home, and you know, everybody
talks about it.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Madison Square Garden at one point maybe was a place
where visitors did not want to go too, But now
everybody wants to go play there, you know what I mean,
Like everyone thrives there, they love it, So it's almost
not an advantage anymore for the Knicks. And that there
were so many layers of it, where naturally you were
just like augh, it looks like the Pacers may get
away from this series easily quote unquote, even though.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What the first two games were decided by what's six
eight points.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And in game one that they probably should have lost,
that they should it wasn't for a miracle comeback exactly.
That's the heads and tails of this on the both
sides of the coin. You can look at what happened
in Game one and say, if you're a Knicks fan, like,
we should have won that game, absolutely, But when you
when you step back in the series, in what is
such a thin series, you have to win those coin flips,
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You have to win those fifty to fifty games, and
ultimately that game still may come back to bite New
York absolutely, even if they even if they win in
Game four on Tuesday night against the Pacers in Indianapolis,
you're gonna look back and say, if we just would
have closed that one out, be up three to one
at this point, worst case scenario, and we'd have three
(04:05):
opportunities to close this out, and everything would be good
because everything again went right for the Pacers in that
game one. Now last night, not everything went at least
at the end of Game one for the Pacers. Everything
went right last night. Things did not go right for
the next at the beginning, but Carl Anthony Towns put
on quite a show. We're gonna hear from Kat because
he did speak in the postgame, talked a little bit
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about his confidence and his twenty point fourth quarter. But
this is the part of the New York Knicks that
if you're a Knicks fan, it's exhilarating. Yet it's so
frustrating because this is the Carl Anthony Towns that you
have wanted game in and game out. And while they
lost Game one, he had thirty five points in that game.
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He was benched at times in Game two, and so
now in Game three, by the way, Monci had four
points entering the fourth quarter last night and then turns
it on with that twenty point effort. Magnificent quarter for
Karl Anthony Towns. But this is what makes it so frustrating.
If you're a Knicks fan or a fan of.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Cats, listen.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Frustrating and exhilarating, those are two words I'm very familiar
as a Clippers fan, so I feel for Knicks fans
how this entire series has gone. Watching Carl Anthony Towns
in that fourth quarter. I was laughing because it's like, dude,
we know you can do this. He just hasn't done
it when the game is on the line, like that
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first quarter. Yeah, like it's great, but how did that
game end? And to see him do it while Jallian
Brunson was on the bench, and to take those threes
where he barely jumps, like he's not even really getting
off his feet and he just makes those shots. He
also like the way he reacts, Like I know some
people maybe like are turned off by the way he
(05:45):
like reacts, but I find him fun to watch and
I could not stop yeah zesty, like I love that,
and I was enjoying it so much, and I was like,
we know, again frustrating because it's in there.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's in there. But the problem.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Is Dan a team like the Pacers the entire season,
they have relied on their entire roster to perform.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
The Knicks have relied on mister Clutch when it comes
down to it, so we don't get to see these.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Moments and they're not used to it. And then yesterday,
I don't know if Carl Anthony Tells was like, oh,
I guess I gotta do it. You're in foul trouble.
You're in foul trouble. I'm in foul trouble. Somebody's got
to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
This was the crazy thing though about Kat's fourth quarter
Monzi was it wasn't twenty points in the fourth quarter,
it was twenty points in seven minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Of course it was, Yes, it was.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It was from the twelve from the start of the
fourth quarter to about five minutes left in the game.
And that's so in that span of seven minutes he
had twenty And this is a guy with a fifty
five point game. I think in his career we've seen
him put these points up to do the way that
he did, not only with the three, had a three
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point play or even did this little gun to bring
the next closer, and then an absolute monstrous dunk, which
then everybody feeds off of with the Knicks and that's
what that's what you want from Carl Anthony Towns, but
you don't get every single game. This was Towns more
of a dilemma of not what Towns was going to
show up in the game, what voice was he going
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to use in the post game? Is it gonna be
the deep voice. Is it going to be the happy voice?
We're about to find out. This is Karl Anthony Towns
after last night's win over the Pacers.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That's so opportunity to utilize all those hours I'll put
into the gym. And the game wasn't looking great for
me as well, but for all of us, and I
just wanted to do whatever it takes to help put
us in a position to win. And like I said,
it's a testament to my teammates, you know, having trusted
me and giving me, you know, putting me in spots
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where I could succeed and and utilize my talent. So
that's just testing, you know. Shout out to the guys
in the locker room. You know this is a great
team win. But we got we know, we gotta be
better than we were tonight if we expect to find
a way to get another win.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That leaned deeper. That was not as much zest on
that leaned in the deeper. Absolutely, job's not finished, as
Carby said, job's not finished up too, Oh, jobs not finished?
Why should I smile? Jobs not finished? That question, by
the way to Kobe Bryant, asked by the Great Ted
Sobel La broadcasting legend. But the job is not finished
for the New York Knicks. But they finished the Pacers
(08:22):
off last night. Not only were Karl Anthony Town scoring
twenty points in a seven minute span. It's nice to
frame it in the fourth quarter, but it's more impressive
when you actually put what it was, and that was
seven minutes. They didn't have Jalen Brunson on the floor
from the seven minute mark till about ninety seconds left
in the game, and they played the Pacers even at
that point. And if you're the Knicks, that's extreme confidence
now that you have. As Tom Thibodeaux expanded his bench,
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ended up playing Landry Shammitt last night, who hadn't seen
in this series. So Shamant ends up getting minutes. And
you have to because if this series is gonna go
six or seven games, which the Knicks are good to
need it too. If they're gonna win, they're gonna need contributions.
And they did it last night with Jalen Brunson and
follow trouble. Kat was in follow trouble. He brunts. It
had four fouls and I mean early, so he was
(09:07):
he was in it. Kat was in it. But from
the seventh minute mark to the minute thirty mark. The
Knicks played the Pacers even without Jalen Brunson on the floor.
If anything, if you take anything from that, not even
Kat's performance or the buckets said Jalen Brunson made, or
Josh Hart's rebounding, is that your crew of I don't
want to say it's misfits, but it was a group
(09:29):
that wasn't necessarily used to playing together that much because
Jalen Brunson is usually always on the floor, played the
Pacers even.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, it was funny during the broadcast.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I don't know if it was Reggie Miller or if
it was Van Gundy, but they were like Landry Shammitt,
he's such a great shooter, and I was.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Like, it doesn't matter. He hasn't played, so even though
he is a great shooter, he's got to get in
some sort of rhythm and he is a great shooter.
And it was about damn time that Thibodeaux decided to
go into his depth because you can see get gassed
in the second half against the Pacers because none of
them play typically over forty minutes, so you see them
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get gassed.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
So it was about damn time you had to try it.
You had to make an adjustment. And just like games
one and two where gut punches to the Knicks, this
win was also a gut punch to the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
They needed to win like this in a way where
it hurt. You came back again down twenty. This is
the nixt m you got to. I guess they'd like
to be down by twenty. I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
But then they get in there and they hit them
where it hurts. So it really kind of makes you
feel like this is more.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
This is not over. It's not even close to over.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The series. When you have it too Ozero and you
went on the home court says a lot. And it
was a big lead, like the Pacers getting both games
in New York. Not to downplay it, no, there's no
reason to downplay it. But when you look at each
of those games and how they played out, the game
one was the one that the Knicks threw away and
that's why it still could come back to haunt them.
The game two was the game. Yeah, the Pacers went
(10:58):
in and took it from them. Even if the Nick
We've had an opportunity to tie the game at the end.
That's a game that a road team wins in the
NBA playoffs, and now it's two to one. My question now,
and I can pose it to you and pose it
to anybody listening that wants to chime in. Do you
think the Knicks have momentum with this game?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You don't like momentum?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I do not. I think the Timberwolves have momentum. Okay,
I just don't believe that it's always there. I don't
believe that each win in a series is momentum. I
think that each win has to be taken in a separate,
separate spot, in a vacuum, however you want to put it,
I don't. I think that the Knicks feel better about themselves,
(11:38):
but I don't think the only takeaway that I'll say
this about Indiana on why why? I think maybe something
could favor the Knicks if Aaron Neismith isn't one hundred percent,
even if he came back into the game with his
ankle injury, I felt they were a different team without
him out there, and he obviously saved them in Game one.
But we think of Siakam for all Grady was in
Game two, and we think of Tyre's Halliburton for all
(11:59):
Grady's been throughout these playoffs, and Miles Turner's been really
good as well. But I felt that they were missing
something and they had to play Ben Math and they
had to play other guys because Nie Smith wasn't available
for that period, and even though the Nie Smith came
back in, he wasn't the same guy that I felt
that he was at other points. So this ankle injury
is bothering Nie Smith. And the Knicks now feel that
they have some encouragement with their bench, then that is
(12:21):
momentum on their side. But I honestly think that this
matchup is each game is going to be its own entity,
and that's why actually Game one still will stick in
the craw of the New York Knicks because it's the
one that you should have had. So I don't believe
that there's momentum in the series. I think the Knicks
got one. I think they're in a better spot obviously
that they were after leaving game two or after leaving
(12:42):
Game three than they were leaving Game two. But I
don't think this is an overall reaching thing that we're
going to see the Knicks board on. I think there's
just as good a chance that Indiana can go in
and winning game four.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I think you explained that perfectly.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
The Knicks feel better, they feel better going into game four,
but they should not have the momentum the excitement that
maybe Minnesota has after a blowout win at home.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
No, this is both of all.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
The three of these games have been so close and
the losses have been rough for the losing team. So
Knicks feel better. But I hope that's that. That's just
that they're looking at it the way you're looking at it.
It's one game, one game at a time, isolated and
who can adjust a little bit better the next one.
That's what it's going to come down to. And it
seems that way because all three games have been so close.
(13:26):
But yeah, I agree, I don't think. I don't think
there is momentum for the next right now.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And there is the X factor, and that is Tyre's
Halliburton's dad will be allowed back in to gain Bridge
Fieldhouse four Game four in a suite after his banishment
that lasted a whole three games for the home games.
What a penalty. You want to talk about throwing the
book at a guy three home games. Maybe he would
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have showed up in Cleveland. Maybe he would have been
in the garden. Yeah, I'm not sure, but Tyre's Halliburton's dad.
After taunting Gaddison, Tetakoompoll will be let back into the
building for Game four in a suite. I felt that
they should just put him in a suite anyway, Like
just don't just don't sit courtside where you have an
opportunity to run on the floor.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
I thought it was a lot longer of a punishment,
And when you put it in that perspective, you're like, oh,
that's all he's missed.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
But I'm not against him being able to come back.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, come back, And that should have been the response
the whole time. Just put him in his suite because
he can't do much from there.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The La County DA didn't want him out at all.
He wanted him to be a miss games for like
five years. That's a Menandez brother's joke that only us
in southern California would likely get, but maybe not the nation.
But still I thought it was apropos. The new DA
wanted to keep the Menendez brothers in jail, uh huh,
and the former DA, I think to try to get reelected.
(14:46):
It was like, yeah, Menanda's brothers should be free. But
then when the new guy got elected, he's all like,
not stay in jail.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And I did not know that I was the latest.
I knew that they were looking at the case again.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I just didn't know that that was the latest and now.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And the DA did not get his way. So John
Tyres Haliburton's dad did.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Get his way to get his way.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
We will be back for Game four.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
This is the best of the Done Dot Leap Show
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Speaker 2 (15:13):
Hanging out on a Memorial Day Chris purfet Is with US,
Jason Stewart, Steve de Sager. The gang is all here
on a Monday. Welcome in. Please, if you're traveling, be
safe and also take a moment to remember why we
have this three day weekend. Remember those that we lost
that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Lise, if you will just
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take a moment to do that. We've got a Game
four tonight in the Twin Cities on the ice as
well as the Panthers try to close out things with
the Carolina Hurricanes. So much happening at the end of
May and the unofficial start of summer. Today is that
today the insial.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Unofficial, unofficial start of summer. Interesting. Yeah, you mentioned the
NHL playoffs, which you know.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I'm not a big hockey gal, but when the playoffs
kick in, I tune in more. And if you need
any excitement, just watch the NHL playoffs because it doesn't
matter if it's a blowout, You're probably gonna see.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
A couple of fights.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
You're probably going to see some tensions run really high,
whether the score is one to one or six to one. Like,
if you're looking for excitement, watch a period of the
NHL playoffs.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
They've been fun.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And if you want to watch the Eastern Conference Finals,
tonight may be your final chance because it could be
all over very soon with the Florida Panthers at home
of three oh on Carolina. But stranger things have happened
on the ice. But we shall see tonight. For the
time being, it's time for love and hate. I'll look
(16:40):
back at our weekend of what we loved, what we hated.
From there, it is everybody chiming in with their loves,
getting ready, and I'm going to start right there, just myself.
I'm gonna start this off. I'm going to take the
baton and I choose me I love that Edmonton went
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up to one in their series because again they are
the lone hope of a Canadian team hoisting Lord Stanley's
Cup for the first time since the early nineties. Winnipeg
let us down, the Maple Leafs, they always let people down.
But the Edmonton Oilers could be could be on track
for a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup final. Let
(17:24):
us down, you say, yes, all of us who want
a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup, it is
it is not only it is not only about Canada.
It's about teams where it's ninety five degrees right now
winning a Stanley Cup.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
How many Florida teams in the last few years have
been to a conference final, right Florida?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Answer all of them? Yeah, Tampa Bay. I mean it's
and and they've won Cups. They've all won Cups. Both
teams the Lightning of won a bunch of them. The
Anaheim Lay Dallas has won a Cup since the last
time the anybody in Canada won a Stanley Cup. But
the Oilers won yesterday over the Dallas Stars. Took a
(18:12):
two to one series lead Game four in Edmonton tomorrow
night to try to take a commanding three to one
series lead. But that's what I love that Edmonton is
keeping out hope and I actually think it would be
a great rematch. Last year's series won seven games. Connor
McDavid's the best player in hockey. To see him on
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that stage, let's do it. Yeah, I love the Oilers.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
So you're loving the MVP pick in the NBA that
it's a Canadian.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You're hoping that Steve Natch will come. No, no, because
there's no It's only with hockey.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That you feel this way.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What we should be saying in late May in the
Stanley Cup playoffs are like Montreal beat Boston, that's what
we should be saying, or original sead teams Edmonton goes
to like those things. We sat Hockey Town Toronto again. Absolute,
(19:09):
even if we said Moose Jaw ends up. That's much
better than Carolina, Dallas and Florida and obligatory. Bring back
the Hartford Whalers. Sure, absolutely bring it back. I've been
to a I've been to a Florida Panthers game. By
the way, they're kind of playing tonight the hart wal
you know, do you know, yeah, they kind of are.
(19:30):
Do you know that where the arena is where the
Panthers have in Florida. It's it's in Sunrise, Florida, Isn't
it on the water? Is that the one? It's No,
that's that's where the heat play. This is right across
the freeway from the Everglades, like it's it's right there. Yeah,
so it's not. So that's why you say South Florida
because it just kind of encompasses it all. But it's
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nowhere near Miami common thought of associated off the hockey scenes.
The exact opposite of ice is across the freeway.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
They threw pla cigrats out there. We're gonna need some
plastic gators before too long.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Coming up with something. They're pretty good. Florida's all right,
that's my love, MANCEI what you love from the weekend?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
All right.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
So I just gotta remind myself how grateful I am
to have Netflix.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
In my life.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You know, back then, you couldn't just watch a movie
that you were like, oh, I've never seen that. So
for the first time, I watched Sacario on Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
So good.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I never seen it. And so the.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Boyboom was that it's not a series. Suddenly, that it's
not a series.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
The movie that came out in like twenty fifteen, yes,
or something like that, and there's more to it the
second one.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, so no, I'm getting ready to watch it.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
But I had no idea, And for a moment, I
was like, I can't believe this is a thing now
where it's like, oh, I haven't seen this movie.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Let me see where I can find.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It, and it just easily pops up for me to find,
no problems, And I loved it. I can't wait to
watch I can't believe I've missed out on it. But
because there are so many movies and during a season
in sports where there's a lot of games, so.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We watched this late on Friday night. But I was
so into it. I was like, Wow, how have I
missed out on this? For the last ten years?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Nobody told me about it, but I'm sure everybody told
me about it ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't even know how to spell it. I don't
know what he's talking about right now. Cinema fans.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah, so Emily Blunt is in it, Benicio del Toro.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Josh Brolin, Jeffrey.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Donovan, a lot, a lot of a lot of faces
that I saw, and you know, it's funny that you
mentioned who's like you don't know who is in it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I can't think of this actor's name.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
But he was the guy who created the boat Titanic
in the movie, you know, the like the one who
built the boat in Titanic in the movie.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
And I can't get past that.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
So whenever I see him, I'm like Titanic, Titanic, Like
I cannot see him in any other role.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, Victor Garber, sure, yes.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But I can't see him in any other role like
I see him in like Titanic. That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh, I know that guy I saw a Titanic, yes.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But so he's in this movie and I couldn't. I
was like Titanic.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
By the way, Uh, Secario, that's how you pronounced that.
And that's from the mind of Taylor Sheridan, the creator
of Yellowstone and everything you watch on Paramount right now?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh really?
Speaker 10 (22:09):
And the director is Denny Villanaire, who did Dune and
Anaya and Canadian.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
We'll get back to Canada.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
When it comes to hockey. That's all it is.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So yeah, I can't wait for Sacario.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Does I am mourning you? Now?
Speaker 10 (22:24):
It's not Villainer involved in it, and it's a very
different movie from what I've heard.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh, what you've heard? Well, but you can't speak on it.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
I know enough about how the sequels were.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No, you haven't seen it. Don't give me it. Don't
tell me what I what to expect me. You haven't
seen it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Right? Yeah? Yeah, you can't comment on something you haven't seen.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, you seen it, you feel that way, But don't tell.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Me that how many there's how many? There's three of
these movies?
Speaker 12 (22:50):
Let me see there's there working on a third one.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I just honestly, it's like Google. In Google Cecario and
then it said Zacario three. So I don't know if
that was out. Yeah, that is something that's coming up now,
not yet, all right, Jason Sewart, what did you love
for the weekend?
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I loved not watching the Indy five hundred. Oh, come
on now, it was on Fox. This is a big
deal for people in Indianapolis and people from Europe, this
kind of whatever you call those kind of cars and racing. Oh,
we've never been into the Indy five hundred, and I've
never been into watching cars go around to circle, especially
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those kinds of cars. I did like that Tom Brady
was booed and I was hoping. I just read the
headline tom Brady booed yeah, and I'm like, oh good.
So everyone's letting them know what they think of as
broadcasting because I'm not a fan either.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
But no.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Then I thought, Okay, it's like a Peyton Manning Colts thing. Okay,
but that was a little disappointing, but I love not
watching it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Then you miss Scott McLaughlin crashing before started just on
the yes and he's out. Yeah, but Kyle wasn't. Then
crashed and warm up.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Scott McLaughlin crashed before there was zero of two hundred laps.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Is he good?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And he bashed because he's going back tires.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
He said it was literally like one of the worst
moments of his entire life.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That was sports life. That feels like the dream that
you didn't show up the class all year long and
the final is there. But that's the reality of I've
practiced all year long for this. I'm in the car,
we're about to start, and I've now wrecked our chance
and it happened and I can't undo it. Correct. It
was atrocious, all right, Steve, would you love from the weekend.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Everything I thought of that I loved this weekend had
to do with the general point of wow, this is
great for baseball. So, like you mentioned, the complete game
with scooball or Otani is throwing VP. I don't care
what team he's on. It's great for baseball. If Otani
is pitching also and hitting like he is, or that
the Cubs are good. They scored at least ten in
a game. Yet again, a Cubs franchise has not done
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that this often, this early in the season since the
eighteen hundreds, and we had I had a young star
on display again Yesterday O'Neil Cruz of the Pirates hit
a home run measured at nearly one hundred and twenty
three miles an hour off the bat.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
We're going to get to that later on today.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
The hardest hit ball in the ten years they've been
doing using stat Cast for.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
This loving, loving, loving Major League. There's a lot of
good going on.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
We do that.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
The host of the show, Doug Gottlieb, is very much
braggadocious about his Angels. I think they lost yesterday, but
they had one, what seven or eight in a.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Row and they lost Saturday.
Speaker 11 (25:30):
Is that good for baseball, that the Angels are good
or do they won't care?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Winning without Trout makes no the waves the filter.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
The Phillies were on a nine game winning streak, and
four of those happened in Colorado. Two of those happened
in Sacramento, So there's also like, who would you be?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Right, it still gets him ahead of the Mets in
the standing, it does by two games as we speak,
Chris Prophett, what'd you love from this week? Right?
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Well, I think we've covered a few bases on schoo Bold,
so I'm going to turn to Sock and what I
was happy to talk about on Saturday. It is kind
of cheating a little bit since it was on Friday,
but I mean you, me and Dan, You and I
were in here watching the final day of the Premier
League season and thoughts out to what just happened in
Liverpool and their parade. But Friday the entire year. I
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I love Italian soccer and it had been an entire
year watching Inter Milan and Napoli, who had been like
back and forth, and you usually don't get this, you
don't get this year. Not well, I'm just not well.
They got relegated, not even the same language.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
God, that was funny. You can love alone anyway.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Napoli Napoli.
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Like look, there was a name in the nineties, Maradonna,
but like they they and inter Milan had been going
back and forth, and like they didn't play each other
in the final day, but like Milan had to get
two more like more points than Napoli. Napoli ends up
clinching their second title in three years, their fourth all time.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
The scenes there, and I had to feel bad because
they kept tuning into this one guy there trying to
engrave the name on the title. They had brought the uh,
the trophy to the stadium, but they hadn't finished the engraving.
And every time I'd look over on CBS, it just
be this guy with the with the engraving drill, just
like working, working like hell, working like hell. Meanwhile, outside,
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there's flares everywhere in Naples.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Because it's tradition to put the name of the team
on the trophy as it comes out.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
Yeah, I mean, and it was kind of already there,
but they had to like fill it in with some
sort of blue or something.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
I know nothing about engraving.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
On the jug as well, And so when John Van
Develt blew his three shot lead. There were some changes
that needed to be made during the whole playoff.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Yeah, and again because it's the final day they've got that,
they got to wait and figure out is it gonna
be inter is it going to be Nopoly? So they
kept coming back to the guy. But good job on
him and good job on Napoli.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
All right, there it is our loves for the weekend.
There's the other side of this. I don't believe this,
but this is how Doug always introduces this segment. Our
resident hater, Jason Stewart is up first.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
By the way, Fox just announced they got over seven
million viewers for Indy yesterday. Wow, largest audience Indy's had
in almost twenty years, minus one, I should say.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
So, did Steve just interrupt my hate with information about
the Indy?
Speaker 12 (28:35):
Five hundred?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (28:36):
Supporting?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Is that your hate?
Speaker 11 (28:41):
I am not lacking what's going on with the Dodgers,
especially this weekend, and it really has nothing to do
with the pitching. It has to do with our third basement.
And yes, that's it's you. Max Munsey, he admitted after
the game yesterday he's not good at defense. Well, Max,
if you're not good at defense and you're hitting like
one seventy exactly what are you doing on the team?
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We gotten rid of a couple really popular players over
the last couple of weeks, and I know it caused
a stir on wine. And Max Mounsey still has a job.
There's a guy in Boston right now who really hates
not playing third base. Maybe we trade for him. But
Max Munsey is kind of drawing the attention of my
ire of all the things to complain about with the
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Dodgers right now, and he's on my s list. I
hate Max Munsey at this current moment. How are you
with your love of Tommy Edmund? I know he was
kind of dinged up for a while.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I love tom Yeah, Tommy's great.
Speaker 12 (29:35):
When he's healthy, he's great. I like watching that guy.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right, Manzi, what'd you love from the weekend?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
So a little piggyback on Jason, but it's not about
the Dodgers and the third baseman. I get really annoyed
when there's a game on like Apple TV, and that's
what was on Friday night, and that game went into
extra innings, and I feel like once it goes into
extra innings, I should be able to watch the game
on the Dodgers network, like run it on both once
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against the extra Indians.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Give me the option to watch this please.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
It was so annoying that I could not tune in
to watch that Dodger game.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
And it was a great and it was and all I.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Could do was like refresh what happened? Refresh?
Speaker 12 (30:14):
Tell me.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I was so annoyed that unless I have Apple TV,
which yes, I could buy it, but guys, and I'm
tired of buying all these you know, streamings, you're.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Not buying Roku for the Sunday morning baseball game.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Oh, let me tell you what I'm not doing, Absolutely
no Roku.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
It was such a good game.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
It's the kind of thing they would repeat in the
off season where they don't have live games to show.
But I will add when the Yankees are at Dodger
Stadium Friday, guess who's carrying Friday Night's game?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh no, yet again Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And then they always mike them up. They're the worst
ones too. Let's make up the shortstop yo, they're playing.
Can you mike up somebody in the dughouse?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Can you make up somebody who's not literally digging a ball?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
They're the worst. Thanks, Steve.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Doug Gotlib show is always famous for talking about miked
up in the NBA.
Speaker 12 (30:59):
Let's go, ooh, gotta rebound, you gotta rebound.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Let's know, let's go. That's an insight. All right, have
a good one. Yeah, let's have a good one. Have
a good one. All right, have a good one. You
can just go to the game on Friday, can't you
so missing it on TV?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I will be at the game Friday, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Steve Desagar, what did you hate from the weekend? Well,
hate is a strong word.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
But as entertaining as the Rocky season has been an
undeniably this car wreck of a.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Season is very entertaining.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Nice the fact that they've literally not won a series yet,
I mean, just be bad, but they're just astoundingly bad
to this point of the season. They are zero to
seventeen in series, and apparently they have the worst major
League record at this point of a season since nineteen
oh one. So that part's a little extreme for me.
If this keeps going, I don't see how that's.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Good for anyone who knows the Harrisburg Mudcats I think
in nineteen oh one, I don't know I'm just making
up old team names that would sound as such. Somebody
in medicine had perhaps, oh, baseball didn't go to Canada
until a long time after Steve only hockey? Are we
chairing for Canada? Nothing else? Chris Purfett, what'd you hate?
Speaker 10 (32:10):
I don't know if I hate the people pouring milk
on themselves at baseball stadiums. That was very odd apparently, Yeah, yeah, well,
I mean, yeah, someone comes out in an Indy five
hundred shirt. But first off, where do you even buy milk?
Speaker 12 (32:23):
And Fenway? It's not even sure how you do that exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
But I'm saving my hate for the big Cheloupa, Aaron Rodgers,
because stop, stop there. There's a movie that my dad
loves that when I watched with my dad as a kid,
called Mars Attacks. I know Dan hasn't seen it. Jack Nicholson,
Tim Burton. Jack Nicholson plays the president every time. Now
we have to listen to Aaron Rodgers come out here
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and play footsie around how he might play with the
Vikings or might play He has this thing where he's
talking with the little girl and where was his Austin?
And he's uh, I think audio, I might yeah, I'll
have to find But like he's like, oh, I might
you know, be we might there might be a team
that's playing the Bears. I just imagine in me is
Jack Nicholson for that movie, And there's a line of
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Jackal's going shot up, shot up, shot up, shut up,
shut up, shut up. This serves nobody. Nobody is getting
enriched by this. Nobody is having except for us where
we get to talk about Aaron Rodgers. But nobody's lives
is getting bettered by this entire thing. Let me tell
you what Rogers is going to do. He is not
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playing at his levelay more. What's going to happen is
he's pointed to waste our time for another month, finally
pick a team, tear something two games into the season,
and then spend the rest of the year. The twenty
twenty five calendar year going on, going on, what's the show?
Pat McAfee talking about how he thinks I don't know
the women on the view are actually reptile aliens?
Speaker 12 (33:53):
Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
All right?
Speaker 12 (33:55):
Who is this serving?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Alright? There it is Chris Purphatt hates Aaron Rodgers, so
rang to talk. We're gonna get to Aaron Rodgers in
a little bit here on Fox Sports Radio. In just
a little bit, I hated that I mentioned the wrong
show earlier today here on Fox Sports Radio. And I'm
pretty sure I picked both teams in the shows that
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I did this weekend. I think I picked the Knicks
one day and then I picked the Pacers the other,
or vice versa. You're bound to win, but guess what
you're bound to lose.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, But I think that's more of a that series
like I think you genuinely felt one way one day
and a genuinely felt the other way the other day.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It's this I didn't have a true sense of a feel.
But I also just feel that my suggestion on a
pick is completely meaningless and pointless. That's the whole thing.
No one is going to say, you know, I heard
Dan like.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
The name on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
They might someone yelled at me for being on Blue Sky.
I'm just trying to broaden my social media horizons, that's all.
I just want a TikTok video up. And I did
this on Friday, so it's kind of like that of
the worst shot that I ever saw on televised on TV.
It's from the Siege Senior PGA, and it's more of
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because golf is always recorded, So there's a reason that
they're showing the shot. People point out like, oh, I
wonder if the SHOT's going to go in. If the
guy's ten shots back and we haven't heard from them
all weekend and they're going to show the shot. Yeah,
because they want you to see the shot. But there
was a reason that someone showed this shot of a
guy that wasn't in contention, and I think somebody had
a bone to pick. I put it up on TikTok.
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It got a little run on TikTok as well.
Speaker 11 (35:36):
Go.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That's all we're trying to do with these social media platforms.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
I support you on Blue Sky Broaden your horizons. It's
also big in kam Loops.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And he's not getting away from the Canadian thing. It's
only hockey, Steve, it's only hot fans. Broaden your horizon. Absolutely.
How great would it be? Like the cop is in
a win a bag and we will not have that
moment this year, but if it goes back to Edmonton,
what a scene it will be.
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I'm reading wrong reads. Maybe I'm like the Indiana Pacers
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last night. Rick, Happy Memorial Day? How are you?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I'm good? Hey, it's a holiday, your work on holiday?
All things are forgiven.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Okay, two pieces they looked somewhat similar, and it was
my bad. I grabbed the wrong one. Karl Anthony Towns.
He's hitting miss, but boy was he a hit last
night in the fourth quarter. Montia and I were just
talking about how frustrating it must be. But last night
is the night where you reaped the fruits of all
of his labor. Do the Knicks need this Karl Anthony
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Towns like takeover Towns to win this series? Or can
they get by if he's just even a little less
of what he was last night?
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Oh, God's hope not. Let's talk. Let's hope not, because
I don't know that you can count on twenty points
from Karl Anthony Towns in the fourth quarter for every game.
I do believe that sort of maintaining I mean, the
big the big thing is controlling the pace, making this
a game where first team to one hundred wins. I
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think that's really the only way that the Knicks have
a chance of winning this And and I do like
the move of having Mitchell Robinson in the starting lineup
and playing him more. And maybe Josh Hart left nothing
against Josh Hart, but it really is not a function
of what Josh Hart is or isn't doing. It's finding
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ways to free up Jalen Brunson to do what he
does and without a big like Mitchell Robinson setting screens,
I just don't know that the pick and roll and
his ability to get free one on one or without
any sort of help is going to is going to
get the job done. So look, the Knicks are up
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against it overall. Do I think that this win changes
my view of who's going to win the series? No,
I hope that. I was hoping that it was going
to be a long, entertaining series. I guess this gives
me a little bit of hope that we might get that.
But the fact of the matter is Indiana's just they
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have too much. For the Knicks. It's been, it's been
a good run. But the bell Weather is Pascal Siakam
for the Indiana Pacers. It's so funny, like we I
always feel like I need to apologize or I need
to like introduce anybody or anything when I talk about
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the Pacers. Is it the world like, Hey, I got
to tell you about this, this brand new thing over here.
You may not have heard about him to the Pacers
and all these players that are pretty good, and you
probably never heard of them either. But no, Pascal Siakam
every series for whatever reason, and Game three in particular,
has loses his matchup by a by a vast his
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plus minus is off, the charge bad, and the rest
of the series it's it's to the good. This it
happened again. It happened in the first round, it happened
in the second round, it happened in in game three.
But generally does not happen. And it's not like he's
scoring thirty every game or whatever. It's simply he wins
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his and he didn't in this in this last game.
I don't expect that to happen again. I think he's
a difficult matchup for the Knicks in general or in particular,
and so I'd like to come in here thinking, you know,
advertising that hey, now we got a series, and now
it's going to be different, and Karl Anthony Towns is
the answer. And I just I just think the Pacers
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have too much for the Knicks, and I just hope
the Knicks make it interesting for as long as they
can before we get to the the OKC Pacers Final
that you and Mandy and me will be buying nobody
else interesting.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Rick, I don't know if you saw during that like
seven minute stretch of Carl Anthony Town's on the fourth quarter,
he went in for a dunk and then he seemed
to grab his knee for the remainder of the game.
Even standing during a free throw, he kept grabbing his knee,
and he looked a little bit banged up.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Yeah, is that something you think they should be worried about.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
Nobody has said anything, but I noticed after that drive
he kept grabbing his knee.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Yeah. I what Karl Anthony does generally, his gestures and
his like everything that he does. He he looks like
he's hurt when he gets off the way he runs.
I mean it's right he does.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
No, you're not wrong, you are, but.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
He's running get back on whether he's going going on
offense or he's going back on defense. When he's running,
it looks like, oh man, did somebody put some like
rocks in his shoes or something. I yeah, he might,
you know. Look the number one, most everybody is dealing
with some kind of physical issue at this point in
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the season. And two, I don't I haven't seen any
reports as far as as far as a knee issue.
But honestly, Karl Anthony Talis is probably like, yeah, I
got this knee problem. So I'm only going to shoot threes.
I hope that's okay with you guys.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I know what he wants to do anything fs what
I mean inside Rick Buker joining us here at the
Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. She's Bonti blainios.
I'm Dan Byer in for Doug today. So you don't
believe in the Timberwolves, or at least don't believe in
them as much to win this series, but there is momentum.
Why do you still think Oklahoma City has the edge
in the West.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Just because the Minnesota Timberwolves from a talent standpoint, I
could make a case whether they're the better team and
that they could win the series. But for the better
part of this year to have reflected in their regular
season records and even in the early rounds while they
had two gentlemen sweeps, they don't play hard for forty
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eight minutes. And there's just a certain point you get
to in the playoffs where you're going to face opponents
where you have to play maybe don't not forty eight,
but forty four forty five, Like you can't have the
kind of long last Is that the that the Minnesota
Timberwells have and the maddening thing is they showed you
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what they're capable of when they play at the level
that they did in Game three. But I can count
on one hand the number of times that I've seen
in them play with that intensity for an entire game,
and that includes the you know, their their leader, Anthony Edwards.
I mean, he's probably the number one culprit in terms
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of this. Can't figure out when he's going to play
hard or when he's going to show you everything that
he's capable of at both ends of the floor, particularly
offensively and attacking the paint, even if he's not scoring.
When he's just being decisive and aggressive, it changes the
whole dynamic for them. You know, one of the reasons
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that they shot the three Wells so well in game
three was simply because Anthony Edwards was being decisive, so
that the guys who are getting the ball aren't wondering
if they're going to get it or when they do
get it. It's because ant decided I can't get anywhere here,
it's your turn, as opposed to I'm getting into the paint. Okay,
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I've now I've got too much attention here, let me
kick it out and somebody's got an open three. It
sounds subtle, but that makes a huge difference for shooters.
And so if I knew that I was going to
get this ANT for you know, another three four games,
I would have an entirely different opinion about who is
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going to win. And you know the suspense in this series,
but I just I haven't seen that consistently from Ant,
so there's no reason for me to believe it. I'm
going to see it going forward.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Okay, So I have a not it's not a theory,
and I believe more in the Timberwolves than you do
in this series. But I also know how the NBA goes.
So the Timberwolves do bow out against OKAC and it's
the second straight year Western Conference Finals, There's going to
be money, There's going to be contracts, like is is
Chris Finch like in danger because we saw Michael Malone
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be Austin at the end of the regular season, you know,
not even two years removed from a title. It would
be the second straight year changes obviously you'd have to
try to think that something needs to be done to
get over that hump. What could be the fallout for
Minnesota if they don't get it done this time around.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
I honestly, we've got brand new ownership, So there's always
that always raises a question in terms of who they
want going forward. But as far as Chris Finch in
his relationship with the guys in the in the locker room,
it's completely different than than the one that Mike Malone
had with UH with with guys you know, the the
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the It's just it's a different relationship.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
Mike for all the years that he was there, never
cultivated a close relationship with with guys like Aaron Gordon
and Michael Porter Jr. And they went through some things
and I'm blanking on the guy on the bench. The
off se that who's Chris Finch had made a great
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gesture for him and his son got him into a
game because he normally doesn't play and he wanted his
son to to see him play. And his son has
very good Joe ingles and and and those are the
kind of things that Mike Malone did not do. That
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Chris Finch did and that goes a long way with
your players. I know that he's got a very close
relationship with Mike Conley, Anthony Edwards, you know, believes in him.
So I don't think that would be the fallout. And
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I'm not sure that there honestly, I'm not I'm not
convinced that there will be. I think that the alibi
will be it was, you know, the first year of
Julius Randall. Randall's coming along in a big way, like
we just need to we just need to hold this
together and make the next step.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
And I don't want to be a weird heill for
me to you know, to stand on and shout from
the hills that Chris Finch should be fired. That's not
the point of it. It's just I wonder where they go,
you know, like to me if they were ousted for
the second straight year, because there's only so many places.
You know, Anthony Edwards isn't going anywhere, and so that's
why I just thought it was it was unique with
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with Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
You know, it's understandable, but I mean there's this is
one of the issues I think that that we have
with ownership and maybe media as well, which is like,
if you don't win a championship, it's a failure. Something's
got to change. And I think what you've seen with
Oklahoma City if they end up taking it this year.
(47:58):
Is the fact that they've they basically help serve you know,
They've allowed this team to growth and add little tweak
you know at Isaiah Hartenstein kind of figure out where
our young guys are going and what pieces do we
need to put around them, and I would I mean, look,
if you're getting to the conference finals two years in
(48:19):
a row, for me, if I'm being the Timberwolves are
honest with themselves about what the shortcoming is with this team.
The shortcoming is that Anthony Edward is twenty three years
old and you're looking at him to be the leader
of your team and he's not ready to do that
at the level necessary to win a championship. That's the
(48:41):
bottom line.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, fair enough. I think strides have been made, but
I think that you're also correct in your assessment. Rick Buker,
thank you so much on this Monday holiday. We appreciate
it every week. Can't wait to talk to you down
the line next week. Have a good one, man.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Did you see what happened in baseball yesterday?
Speaker 11 (48:56):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (48:56):
It was a busy day.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
It was a busy day.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Are you talking about Detroit?
Speaker 5 (49:01):
I am just because it was something you don't get
to see every day, or here or here all in two.
Speaker 13 (49:09):
Here we go, the pitch swaying and I miss strike three,
one oh three.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
He rings up the radar gun.
Speaker 12 (49:17):
He claps on the mound.
Speaker 13 (49:19):
Here come the Tigers from the outfield, an infield and
a big hug from Tyllon Dingler on the first ever
complete game shutout for Tarik Scoople, the ace of the Tigers.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Great moments. Yeah, and it's a sad moment that we
have to celebrate a complete game in Major League Baseball.
Sad think it is like we shouldn't be celebrating somebody
pitching a whole game. That should not happen. Chris Burfett, do.
Speaker 10 (49:50):
You know how many complete games have been pitched in
the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
I'm guessing one.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
No, I'm gonna guess three.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Eight, eight.
Speaker 10 (50:01):
It's still high, but still like that still feels incredible.
I'm sure if we go back through history, that's going
to seem appreciably extremely low.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah, a complete game, I don't know. Do you know
if they were shutouts?
Speaker 10 (50:14):
I would have to go and Okay, Steve is in
here and tells me five complete Game shows.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Mag You, Steve, You're the real MVP.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
My guess of one was an awful guest.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
I knew it was more.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
But I did not know is that he also did
it on ninety four pitches, right, just threw one hundred
and three on that final pitch too.
Speaker 5 (50:33):
Yeah, and the numbers I think out of that seventy
something were strikes. Like he it was a very old
school performance which we don't get to see a lot of.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
He threw ninety four pitches and the pitcher that he
beat yesterday for the Guardian's Logan, Allen through ninety seven
pitches and Alan lasted three and two thirds stop yes, stop,
through less pitches and Alan didn't even make it out
of the.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Fourth inning efficient ship and dominant through through and through
the last pitch to be one hundred and three miles power.
Speaker 3 (51:05):
That was crazy.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
But it is sad, Dan, how you put it in
perspective that we're celebrating this.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
It was It sounded like it was a no hitter.
Speaker 11 (51:14):
He was.
Speaker 12 (51:14):
It was only get it.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yeah, but yeah,
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
In that New York state of mind, we've got a
series in the East, a series in the East, and
I think things are cooking up in the West. A
happy Memorial Day to you, monty four hours you me,
let's get it done.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie. Best way to spend
my Memorial Day with you, Dan, I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
You know.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
I don't care about barbecue like that, so I'm excited
to be here with you.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's gonna be a fun time. What as a vegetarian
would you have on the grill today?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
A veggie burger?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
A veggie burger? What about a nice big squash? I yes,
I know, something like that.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
But I would like to part take and feel like
I'm having a burger, you know. And I do love
an old school veggie patty, like with actual like veggies
and not the fake meat that we have now, but
definitely a veggie burger of some Sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, if you are grilling out having some fun today,
we appreciate it you hanging out with us. We love
to have your thoughts. You can always hit Manty up
at Monte Blanos. You can find me. You can find
me by the way in a multiple of areas social media.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Stand tell us on exit.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Can also find me on Blue Sky, Dan Bayer, Yes,
I am on TikTok, buyer Talk as well, buy your
Grahams on Instagram, all of those formats. So reach out
anyway that you would like. It is going to be
a fun day. But I don't know if we're going
to have as much fun as Timothy Chalamat had last
night in Indianapolis, and those New York Knicks as they
are back in the series beating the Indiana Pacers last
(01:50):
night now a two to one matchup. I don't want
to say that this was a series that we just
pushed to the side because the Pacers had gone up
to and winning both games to New York. But for
as great as New York was Monci in the Boston series,
I think we had legitimate questions about them considering how
things played out in the first two games of this
(02:11):
Pacers series.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Naturally, naturally it was rough losses for New York. It
was impossible to walk away from that and not think that, oh,
this one, this one was a gut punch. There's ways
to lose where when you get blown out, you're not
just like I got blown out. Okac was not affected
or offended by their blowout loss. When you lose close
games when you should have won, when you can't close out,
(02:35):
those hurt in a different way and.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They stay with you. They stick with you.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
So I think most of us were just wondering, can
the Knicks get out of this really gut punch of
a funk. It wasn't just oh you lost it, It
was how you lost it hurt a little much, and also.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Losing at home. Losing at home, and you know, everybody
talks about it.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Madison Square Garden at one point maybe was a place
where visitors did not want to go too, But now
everybody wants to go play there, you know what I mean,
Like everyone thrives there, they love it, So it's almost
not an advantage anymore for the Knicks. And that there
were so many layers of it, where naturally you were
just like augh, it looks like the Pacers may get
away from this series easily quote unquote, even though.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
What the first two games were decided by what's six
eight points.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And in game one that they probably should have lost,
that they should it wasn't for a miracle comeback exactly.
That's the heads and tails of this on the both
sides of the coin. You can look at what happened
in Game one and say, if you're a Knicks fan, like,
we should have won that game, absolutely, But when you
when you step back in the series, in what is
such a thin series, you have to win those coin flips,
(03:43):
You have to win those fifty to fifty games, and
ultimately that game still may come back to bite New
York absolutely, even if they even if they win in
Game four on Tuesday night against the Pacers in Indianapolis,
you're gonna look back and say, if we just would
have closed that one out, be up three to one
at this point, worst case scenario, and we'd have three
(04:05):
opportunities to close this out, and everything would be good
because everything again went right for the Pacers in that
game one. Now last night, not everything went at least
at the end of Game one for the Pacers. Everything
went right last night. Things did not go right for
the next at the beginning, but Carl Anthony Towns put
on quite a show. We're gonna hear from Kat because
he did speak in the postgame, talked a little bit
(04:26):
about his confidence and his twenty point fourth quarter. But
this is the part of the New York Knicks that
if you're a Knicks fan, it's exhilarating. Yet it's so
frustrating because this is the Carl Anthony Towns that you
have wanted game in and game out. And while they
lost Game one, he had thirty five points in that game.
(04:46):
He was benched at times in Game two, and so
now in Game three, by the way, Monci had four
points entering the fourth quarter last night and then turns
it on with that twenty point effort. Magnificent quarter for
Karl Anthony Towns. But this is what makes it so frustrating.
If you're a Knicks fan or a fan of.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Cats, listen.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Frustrating and exhilarating, those are two words I'm very familiar
as a Clippers fan, so I feel for Knicks fans
how this entire series has gone. Watching Carl Anthony Towns
in that fourth quarter. I was laughing because it's like, dude,
we know you can do this. He just hasn't done
it when the game is on the line, like that
(05:24):
first quarter. Yeah, like it's great, but how did that
game end? And to see him do it while Jallian
Brunson was on the bench, and to take those threes
where he barely jumps, like he's not even really getting
off his feet and he just makes those shots. He
also like the way he reacts, Like I know some
people maybe like are turned off by the way he
(05:45):
like reacts, but I find him fun to watch and
I could not stop yeah zesty, like I love that,
and I was enjoying it so much, and I was like,
we know, again frustrating because it's in there.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
It's in there. But the problem.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Is Dan a team like the Pacers the entire season,
they have relied on their entire roster to perform.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
The Knicks have relied on mister Clutch when it comes
down to it, so we don't get to see these.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Moments and they're not used to it. And then yesterday,
I don't know if Carl Anthony Tells was like, oh,
I guess I gotta do it. You're in foul trouble.
You're in foul trouble. I'm in foul trouble. Somebody's got
to do it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
This was the crazy thing though about Kat's fourth quarter
Monzi was it wasn't twenty points in the fourth quarter,
it was twenty points in seven minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Of course it was, Yes, it was.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
It was from the twelve from the start of the
fourth quarter to about five minutes left in the game.
And that's so in that span of seven minutes he
had twenty And this is a guy with a fifty
five point game. I think in his career we've seen
him put these points up to do the way that
he did, not only with the three, had a three
(06:57):
point play or even did this little gun to bring
the next closer, and then an absolute monstrous dunk, which
then everybody feeds off of with the Knicks and that's
what that's what you want from Carl Anthony Towns, but
you don't get every single game. This was Towns more
of a dilemma of not what Towns was going to
show up in the game, what voice was he going
(07:18):
to use in the post game? Is it gonna be
the deep voice. Is it going to be the happy voice?
We're about to find out. This is Karl Anthony Towns
after last night's win over the Pacers.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That's so opportunity to utilize all those hours I'll put
into the gym. And the game wasn't looking great for
me as well, but for all of us, and I
just wanted to do whatever it takes to help put
us in a position to win. And like I said,
it's a testament to my teammates, you know, having trusted
me and giving me, you know, putting me in spots
(07:47):
where I could succeed and and utilize my talent. So
that's just testing, you know. Shout out to the guys
in the locker room. You know this is a great
team win. But we got we know, we gotta be
better than we were tonight if we expect to find
a way to get another win.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That leaned deeper. That was not as much zest on
that leaned in the deeper. Absolutely, job's not finished, as
Carby said, job's not finished up too, Oh, jobs not finished?
Why should I smile? Jobs not finished? That question, by
the way to Kobe Bryant, asked by the Great Ted
Sobel La broadcasting legend. But the job is not finished
for the New York Knicks. But they finished the Pacers
(08:22):
off last night. Not only were Karl Anthony Town scoring
twenty points in a seven minute span. It's nice to
frame it in the fourth quarter, but it's more impressive
when you actually put what it was, and that was
seven minutes. They didn't have Jalen Brunson on the floor
from the seven minute mark till about ninety seconds left
in the game, and they played the Pacers even at
that point. And if you're the Knicks, that's extreme confidence
now that you have. As Tom Thibodeaux expanded his bench,
(08:46):
ended up playing Landry Shammitt last night, who hadn't seen
in this series. So Shamant ends up getting minutes. And
you have to because if this series is gonna go
six or seven games, which the Knicks are good to
need it too. If they're gonna win, they're gonna need contributions.
And they did it last night with Jalen Brunson and
follow trouble. Kat was in follow trouble. He brunts. It
had four fouls and I mean early, so he was
(09:07):
he was in it. Kat was in it. But from
the seventh minute mark to the minute thirty mark. The
Knicks played the Pacers even without Jalen Brunson on the floor.
If anything, if you take anything from that, not even
Kat's performance or the buckets said Jalen Brunson made, or
Josh Hart's rebounding, is that your crew of I don't
want to say it's misfits, but it was a group
(09:29):
that wasn't necessarily used to playing together that much because
Jalen Brunson is usually always on the floor, played the
Pacers even.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, it was funny during the broadcast.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I don't know if it was Reggie Miller or if
it was Van Gundy, but they were like Landry Shammitt,
he's such a great shooter, and I was.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Like, it doesn't matter. He hasn't played, so even though
he is a great shooter, he's got to get in
some sort of rhythm and he is a great shooter.
And it was about damn time that Thibodeaux decided to
go into his depth because you can see get gassed
in the second half against the Pacers because none of
them play typically over forty minutes, so you see them
(10:08):
get gassed.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
So it was about damn time you had to try it.
You had to make an adjustment. And just like games
one and two where gut punches to the Knicks, this
win was also a gut punch to the Pacers.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
They needed to win like this in a way where
it hurt. You came back again down twenty. This is
the nixt m you got to. I guess they'd like
to be down by twenty. I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
But then they get in there and they hit them
where it hurts. So it really kind of makes you
feel like this is more.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
This is not over. It's not even close to over.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
The series. When you have it too Ozero and you
went on the home court says a lot. And it
was a big lead, like the Pacers getting both games
in New York. Not to downplay it, no, there's no
reason to downplay it. But when you look at each
of those games and how they played out, the game
one was the one that the Knicks threw away and
that's why it still could come back to haunt them.
The game two was the game. Yeah, the Pacers went
(10:58):
in and took it from them. Even if the Nick
We've had an opportunity to tie the game at the end.
That's a game that a road team wins in the
NBA playoffs, and now it's two to one. My question now,
and I can pose it to you and pose it
to anybody listening that wants to chime in. Do you
think the Knicks have momentum with this game?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You don't like momentum?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I do not. I think the Timberwolves have momentum. Okay,
I just don't believe that it's always there. I don't
believe that each win in a series is momentum. I
think that each win has to be taken in a separate,
separate spot, in a vacuum, however you want to put it,
I don't. I think that the Knicks feel better about themselves,
(11:38):
but I don't think the only takeaway that I'll say
this about Indiana on why why? I think maybe something
could favor the Knicks if Aaron Neismith isn't one hundred percent,
even if he came back into the game with his
ankle injury, I felt they were a different team without
him out there, and he obviously saved them in Game one.
But we think of Siakam for all Grady was in
Game two, and we think of Tyre's Halliburton for all
(11:59):
Grady's been throughout these playoffs, and Miles Turner's been really
good as well. But I felt that they were missing
something and they had to play Ben Math and they
had to play other guys because Nie Smith wasn't available
for that period, and even though the Nie Smith came
back in, he wasn't the same guy that I felt
that he was at other points. So this ankle injury
is bothering Nie Smith. And the Knicks now feel that
they have some encouragement with their bench, then that is
(12:21):
momentum on their side. But I honestly think that this
matchup is each game is going to be its own entity,
and that's why actually Game one still will stick in
the craw of the New York Knicks because it's the
one that you should have had. So I don't believe
that there's momentum in the series. I think the Knicks
got one. I think they're in a better spot obviously
that they were after leaving game two or after leaving
(12:42):
Game three than they were leaving Game two. But I
don't think this is an overall reaching thing that we're
going to see the Knicks board on. I think there's
just as good a chance that Indiana can go in
and winning game four.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I think you explained that perfectly.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
The Knicks feel better, they feel better going into game four,
but they should not have the momentum the excitement that
maybe Minnesota has after a blowout win at home.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
No, this is both of all.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
The three of these games have been so close and
the losses have been rough for the losing team. So
Knicks feel better. But I hope that's that. That's just
that they're looking at it the way you're looking at it.
It's one game, one game at a time, isolated and
who can adjust a little bit better the next one.
That's what it's going to come down to. And it
seems that way because all three games have been so close.
(13:26):
But yeah, I agree, I don't think. I don't think
there is momentum for the next right now.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And there is the X factor, and that is Tyre's
Halliburton's dad will be allowed back in to gain Bridge
Fieldhouse four Game four in a suite after his banishment
that lasted a whole three games for the home games.
What a penalty. You want to talk about throwing the
book at a guy three home games. Maybe he would
(13:50):
have showed up in Cleveland. Maybe he would have been
in the garden. Yeah, I'm not sure, but Tyre's Halliburton's dad.
After taunting Gaddison, Tetakoompoll will be let back into the
building for Game four in a suite. I felt that
they should just put him in a suite anyway, Like
just don't just don't sit courtside where you have an
opportunity to run on the floor.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
I thought it was a lot longer of a punishment,
And when you put it in that perspective, you're like, oh,
that's all he's missed.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
But I'm not against him being able to come back.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, come back, And that should have been the response
the whole time. Just put him in his suite because
he can't do much from there.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
The La County DA didn't want him out at all.
He wanted him to be a miss games for like
five years. That's a Menandez brother's joke that only us
in southern California would likely get, but maybe not the nation.
But still I thought it was apropos. The new DA
wanted to keep the Menendez brothers in jail, uh huh,
and the former DA, I think to try to get reelected.
(14:46):
It was like, yeah, Menanda's brothers should be free. But
then when the new guy got elected, he's all like,
not stay in jail.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
And I did not know that I was the latest.
I knew that they were looking at the case again.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I just didn't know that that was the latest and now.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And the DA did not get his way. So John
Tyres Haliburton's dad did.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Get his way to get his way.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
We will be back for Game four.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
This is the best of the Done Dot Leap Show
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Hanging out on a Memorial Day Chris purfet Is with US,
Jason Stewart, Steve de Sager. The gang is all here
on a Monday. Welcome in. Please, if you're traveling, be
safe and also take a moment to remember why we
have this three day weekend. Remember those that we lost
that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Lise, if you will just
(15:34):
take a moment to do that. We've got a Game
four tonight in the Twin Cities on the ice as
well as the Panthers try to close out things with
the Carolina Hurricanes. So much happening at the end of
May and the unofficial start of summer. Today is that
today the insial.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Unofficial, unofficial start of summer. Interesting. Yeah, you mentioned the
NHL playoffs, which you know.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
I'm not a big hockey gal, but when the playoffs
kick in, I tune in more. And if you need
any excitement, just watch the NHL playoffs because it doesn't
matter if it's a blowout, You're probably gonna see.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
A couple of fights.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
You're probably going to see some tensions run really high,
whether the score is one to one or six to one. Like,
if you're looking for excitement, watch a period of the
NHL playoffs.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
They've been fun.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
And if you want to watch the Eastern Conference Finals,
tonight may be your final chance because it could be
all over very soon with the Florida Panthers at home
of three oh on Carolina. But stranger things have happened
on the ice. But we shall see tonight. For the
time being, it's time for love and hate. I'll look
(16:40):
back at our weekend of what we loved, what we hated.
From there, it is everybody chiming in with their loves,
getting ready, and I'm going to start right there, just myself.
I'm gonna start this off. I'm going to take the
baton and I choose me I love that Edmonton went
(17:02):
up to one in their series because again they are
the lone hope of a Canadian team hoisting Lord Stanley's
Cup for the first time since the early nineties. Winnipeg
let us down, the Maple Leafs, they always let people down.
But the Edmonton Oilers could be could be on track
for a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup final. Let
(17:24):
us down, you say, yes, all of us who want
a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup, it is
it is not only it is not only about Canada.
It's about teams where it's ninety five degrees right now
winning a Stanley Cup.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
How many Florida teams in the last few years have
been to a conference final, right Florida?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Answer all of them? Yeah, Tampa Bay. I mean it's
and and they've won Cups. They've all won Cups. Both
teams the Lightning of won a bunch of them. The
Anaheim Lay Dallas has won a Cup since the last
time the anybody in Canada won a Stanley Cup. But
the Oilers won yesterday over the Dallas Stars. Took a
(18:12):
two to one series lead Game four in Edmonton tomorrow
night to try to take a commanding three to one
series lead. But that's what I love that Edmonton is
keeping out hope and I actually think it would be
a great rematch. Last year's series won seven games. Connor
McDavid's the best player in hockey. To see him on
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that stage, let's do it. Yeah, I love the Oilers.
Speaker 9 (18:35):
So you're loving the MVP pick in the NBA that
it's a Canadian.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You're hoping that Steve Natch will come. No, no, because
there's no It's only with hockey.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
That you feel this way.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What we should be saying in late May in the
Stanley Cup playoffs are like Montreal beat Boston, that's what
we should be saying, or original sead teams Edmonton goes
to like those things. We sat Hockey Town Toronto again. Absolute,
(19:09):
even if we said Moose Jaw ends up. That's much
better than Carolina, Dallas and Florida and obligatory. Bring back
the Hartford Whalers. Sure, absolutely bring it back. I've been
to a I've been to a Florida Panthers game. By
the way, they're kind of playing tonight the hart wal
you know, do you know, yeah, they kind of are.
(19:30):
Do you know that where the arena is where the
Panthers have in Florida. It's it's in Sunrise, Florida, Isn't
it on the water? Is that the one? It's No,
that's that's where the heat play. This is right across
the freeway from the Everglades, like it's it's right there. Yeah,
so it's not. So that's why you say South Florida
because it just kind of encompasses it all. But it's
(19:50):
nowhere near Miami common thought of associated off the hockey scenes.
The exact opposite of ice is across the freeway.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
They threw pla cigrats out there. We're gonna need some
plastic gators before too long.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Coming up with something. They're pretty good. Florida's all right,
that's my love, MANCEI what you love from the weekend?
Speaker 3 (20:09):
All right.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
So I just gotta remind myself how grateful I am
to have Netflix.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
In my life.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You know, back then, you couldn't just watch a movie
that you were like, oh, I've never seen that. So
for the first time, I watched Sacario on Friday Night.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
So good.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
I never seen it. And so the.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Boyboom was that it's not a series. Suddenly, that it's
not a series.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
The movie that came out in like twenty fifteen, yes,
or something like that, and there's more to it the
second one.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah, so no, I'm getting ready to watch it.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
But I had no idea, And for a moment, I
was like, I can't believe this is a thing now
where it's like, oh, I haven't seen this movie.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Let me see where I can find.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It, and it just easily pops up for me to find,
no problems, And I loved it. I can't wait to
watch I can't believe I've missed out on it. But
because there are so many movies and during a season
in sports where there's a lot of games, so.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We watched this late on Friday night. But I was
so into it. I was like, Wow, how have I
missed out on this? For the last ten years?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Nobody told me about it, but I'm sure everybody told
me about it ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't even know how to spell it. I don't
know what he's talking about right now. Cinema fans.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah, so Emily Blunt is in it, Benicio del Toro.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Josh Brolin, Jeffrey.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Donovan, a lot, a lot of a lot of faces
that I saw, and you know, it's funny that you
mentioned who's like you don't know who is in it.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I can't think of this actor's name.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
But he was the guy who created the boat Titanic
in the movie, you know, the like the one who
built the boat in Titanic in the movie.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
And I can't get past that.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
So whenever I see him, I'm like Titanic, Titanic, Like
I cannot see him in any other role.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh, Victor Garber, sure, yes.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But I can't see him in any other role like
I see him in like Titanic. That's it.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Oh, I know that guy I saw a Titanic, yes.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
But so he's in this movie and I couldn't. I
was like Titanic.
Speaker 11 (21:57):
By the way, Uh, Secario, that's how you pronounced that.
And that's from the mind of Taylor Sheridan, the creator
of Yellowstone and everything you watch on Paramount right now?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh really?
Speaker 10 (22:09):
And the director is Denny Villanaire, who did Dune and
Anaya and Canadian.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Damn.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
We'll get back to Canada.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
When it comes to hockey. That's all it is.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So yeah, I can't wait for Sacario.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
Does I am mourning you? Now?
Speaker 10 (22:24):
It's not Villainer involved in it, and it's a very
different movie from what I've heard.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh, what you've heard? Well, but you can't speak on it.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
I know enough about how the sequels were.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
No, you haven't seen it. Don't give me it. Don't
tell me what I what to expect me. You haven't
seen it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Right? Yeah? Yeah, you can't comment on something you haven't seen.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, you seen it, you feel that way, But don't tell.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Me that how many there's how many? There's three of
these movies?
Speaker 12 (22:50):
Let me see there's there working on a third one.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I just honestly, it's like Google. In Google Cecario and
then it said Zacario three. So I don't know if
that was out. Yeah, that is something that's coming up now,
not yet, all right, Jason Sewart, what did you love
for the weekend?
Speaker 11 (23:05):
I loved not watching the Indy five hundred. Oh, come
on now, it was on Fox. This is a big
deal for people in Indianapolis and people from Europe, this
kind of whatever you call those kind of cars and racing. Oh,
we've never been into the Indy five hundred, and I've
never been into watching cars go around to circle, especially
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those kinds of cars. I did like that Tom Brady
was booed and I was hoping. I just read the
headline tom Brady booed yeah, and I'm like, oh good.
So everyone's letting them know what they think of as
broadcasting because I'm not a fan either.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
But no.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Then I thought, Okay, it's like a Peyton Manning Colts thing. Okay,
but that was a little disappointing, but I love not
watching it.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Then you miss Scott McLaughlin crashing before started just on
the yes and he's out. Yeah, but Kyle wasn't. Then
crashed and warm up.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Scott McLaughlin crashed before there was zero of two hundred laps.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Is he good?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And he bashed because he's going back tires.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
He said it was literally like one of the worst
moments of his entire life.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
That was sports life. That feels like the dream that
you didn't show up the class all year long and
the final is there. But that's the reality of I've
practiced all year long for this. I'm in the car,
we're about to start, and I've now wrecked our chance
and it happened and I can't undo it. Correct. It
was atrocious, all right, Steve, would you love from the weekend.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Everything I thought of that I loved this weekend had
to do with the general point of wow, this is
great for baseball. So, like you mentioned, the complete game
with scooball or Otani is throwing VP. I don't care
what team he's on. It's great for baseball. If Otani
is pitching also and hitting like he is, or that
the Cubs are good. They scored at least ten in
a game. Yet again, a Cubs franchise has not done
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that this often, this early in the season since the
eighteen hundreds, and we had I had a young star
on display again Yesterday O'Neil Cruz of the Pirates hit
a home run measured at nearly one hundred and twenty
three miles an hour off the bat.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
We're going to get to that later on today.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
The hardest hit ball in the ten years they've been
doing using stat Cast for.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
This loving, loving, loving Major League. There's a lot of
good going on.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
We do that.
Speaker 11 (25:20):
The host of the show, Doug Gottlieb, is very much
braggadocious about his Angels. I think they lost yesterday, but
they had one, what seven or eight in a.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Row and they lost Saturday.
Speaker 11 (25:30):
Is that good for baseball, that the Angels are good
or do they won't care?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Winning without Trout makes no the waves the filter.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
The Phillies were on a nine game winning streak, and
four of those happened in Colorado. Two of those happened
in Sacramento, So there's also like, who would you be?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Right, it still gets him ahead of the Mets in
the standing, it does by two games as we speak,
Chris Prophett, what'd you love from this week? Right?
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Well, I think we've covered a few bases on schoo Bold,
so I'm going to turn to Sock and what I
was happy to talk about on Saturday. It is kind
of cheating a little bit since it was on Friday,
but I mean you, me and Dan, You and I
were in here watching the final day of the Premier
League season and thoughts out to what just happened in
Liverpool and their parade. But Friday the entire year. I
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I love Italian soccer and it had been an entire
year watching Inter Milan and Napoli, who had been like
back and forth, and you usually don't get this, you
don't get this year. Not well, I'm just not well.
They got relegated, not even the same language.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
God, that was funny. You can love alone anyway.
Speaker 12 (26:45):
Napoli Napoli.
Speaker 10 (26:46):
Like look, there was a name in the nineties, Maradonna,
but like they they and inter Milan had been going
back and forth, and like they didn't play each other
in the final day, but like Milan had to get
two more like more points than Napoli. Napoli ends up
clinching their second title in three years, their fourth all time.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (27:03):
The scenes there, and I had to feel bad because
they kept tuning into this one guy there trying to
engrave the name on the title. They had brought the uh,
the trophy to the stadium, but they hadn't finished the engraving.
And every time I'd look over on CBS, it just
be this guy with the with the engraving drill, just
like working, working like hell, working like hell. Meanwhile, outside,
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there's flares everywhere in Naples.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Because it's tradition to put the name of the team
on the trophy as it comes out.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
Yeah, I mean, and it was kind of already there,
but they had to like fill it in with some
sort of blue or something.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
I know nothing about engraving.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
On the jug as well, And so when John Van
Develt blew his three shot lead. There were some changes
that needed to be made during the whole playoff.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Yeah, and again because it's the final day they've got that,
they got to wait and figure out is it gonna
be inter is it going to be Nopoly? So they
kept coming back to the guy. But good job on
him and good job on Napoli.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
All right, there it is our loves for the weekend.
There's the other side of this. I don't believe this,
but this is how Doug always introduces this segment. Our
resident hater, Jason Stewart is up first.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
By the way, Fox just announced they got over seven
million viewers for Indy yesterday. Wow, largest audience Indy's had
in almost twenty years, minus one, I should say.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
So, did Steve just interrupt my hate with information about
the Indy?
Speaker 12 (28:35):
Five hundred?
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (28:36):
Supporting?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Is that your hate?
Speaker 11 (28:41):
I am not lacking what's going on with the Dodgers,
especially this weekend, and it really has nothing to do
with the pitching. It has to do with our third basement.
And yes, that's it's you. Max Munsey, he admitted after
the game yesterday he's not good at defense. Well, Max,
if you're not good at defense and you're hitting like
one seventy exactly what are you doing on the team?
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We gotten rid of a couple really popular players over
the last couple of weeks, and I know it caused
a stir on wine. And Max Mounsey still has a job.
There's a guy in Boston right now who really hates
not playing third base. Maybe we trade for him. But
Max Munsey is kind of drawing the attention of my
ire of all the things to complain about with the
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Dodgers right now, and he's on my s list. I
hate Max Munsey at this current moment. How are you
with your love of Tommy Edmund? I know he was
kind of dinged up for a while.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I love tom Yeah, Tommy's great.
Speaker 12 (29:35):
When he's healthy, he's great. I like watching that guy.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
All right, Manzi, what'd you love from the weekend?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
So a little piggyback on Jason, but it's not about
the Dodgers and the third baseman. I get really annoyed
when there's a game on like Apple TV, and that's
what was on Friday night, and that game went into
extra innings, and I feel like once it goes into
extra innings, I should be able to watch the game
on the Dodgers network, like run it on both once
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against the extra Indians.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Give me the option to watch this please.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
It was so annoying that I could not tune in
to watch that Dodger game.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
And it was a great and it was and all I.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Could do was like refresh what happened? Refresh?
Speaker 12 (30:14):
Tell me.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
I was so annoyed that unless I have Apple TV,
which yes, I could buy it, but guys, and I'm
tired of buying all these you know, streamings, you're.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Not buying Roku for the Sunday morning baseball game.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
Oh, let me tell you what I'm not doing, Absolutely
no Roku.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
It was such a good game.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
It's the kind of thing they would repeat in the
off season where they don't have live games to show.
But I will add when the Yankees are at Dodger
Stadium Friday, guess who's carrying Friday Night's game?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh no, yet again Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And then they always mike them up. They're the worst
ones too. Let's make up the shortstop yo, they're playing.
Can you mike up somebody in the dughouse?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Can you make up somebody who's not literally digging a ball?
Speaker 3 (30:51):
They're the worst. Thanks, Steve.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Doug Gotlib show is always famous for talking about miked
up in the NBA.
Speaker 12 (30:59):
Let's go, ooh, gotta rebound, you gotta rebound.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Let's know, let's go. That's an insight. All right, have
a good one. Yeah, let's have a good one. Have
a good one. All right, have a good one. You
can just go to the game on Friday, can't you
so missing it on TV?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I will be at the game Friday, all right.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Steve Desagar, what did you hate from the weekend? Well,
hate is a strong word.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
But as entertaining as the Rocky season has been an
undeniably this car wreck of a.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Season is very entertaining.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Nice the fact that they've literally not won a series yet,
I mean, just be bad, but they're just astoundingly bad
to this point of the season. They are zero to
seventeen in series, and apparently they have the worst major
League record at this point of a season since nineteen
oh one. So that part's a little extreme for me.
If this keeps going, I don't see how that's.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Good for anyone who knows the Harrisburg Mudcats I think
in nineteen oh one, I don't know I'm just making
up old team names that would sound as such. Somebody
in medicine had perhaps, oh, baseball didn't go to Canada
until a long time after Steve only hockey? Are we
chairing for Canada? Nothing else? Chris Purfett, what'd you hate?
Speaker 10 (32:10):
I don't know if I hate the people pouring milk
on themselves at baseball stadiums. That was very odd apparently, Yeah, yeah, well,
I mean, yeah, someone comes out in an Indy five
hundred shirt. But first off, where do you even buy milk?
Speaker 12 (32:23):
And Fenway? It's not even sure how you do that exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
No.
Speaker 10 (32:26):
But I'm saving my hate for the big Cheloupa, Aaron Rodgers,
because stop, stop there. There's a movie that my dad
loves that when I watched with my dad as a kid,
called Mars Attacks. I know Dan hasn't seen it. Jack Nicholson,
Tim Burton. Jack Nicholson plays the president every time. Now
we have to listen to Aaron Rodgers come out here
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and play footsie around how he might play with the
Vikings or might play He has this thing where he's
talking with the little girl and where was his Austin?
And he's uh, I think audio, I might yeah, I'll
have to find But like he's like, oh, I might
you know, be we might there might be a team
that's playing the Bears. I just imagine in me is
Jack Nicholson for that movie, And there's a line of
(33:09):
Jackal's going shot up, shot up, shot up, shut up,
shut up, shut up. This serves nobody. Nobody is getting
enriched by this. Nobody is having except for us where
we get to talk about Aaron Rodgers. But nobody's lives
is getting bettered by this entire thing. Let me tell
you what Rogers is going to do. He is not
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playing at his levelay more. What's going to happen is
he's pointed to waste our time for another month, finally
pick a team, tear something two games into the season,
and then spend the rest of the year. The twenty
twenty five calendar year going on, going on, what's the show?
Pat McAfee talking about how he thinks I don't know
the women on the view are actually reptile aliens?
Speaker 12 (33:53):
Why are we doing this?
Speaker 2 (33:55):
All right?
Speaker 12 (33:55):
Who is this serving?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Alright? There it is Chris Purphatt hates Aaron Rodgers, so
rang to talk. We're gonna get to Aaron Rodgers in
a little bit here on Fox Sports Radio. In just
a little bit, I hated that I mentioned the wrong
show earlier today here on Fox Sports Radio. And I'm
pretty sure I picked both teams in the shows that
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I did this weekend. I think I picked the Knicks
one day and then I picked the Pacers the other,
or vice versa. You're bound to win, but guess what
you're bound to lose.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Yeah, But I think that's more of a that series
like I think you genuinely felt one way one day
and a genuinely felt the other way the other day.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
It's this I didn't have a true sense of a feel.
But I also just feel that my suggestion on a
pick is completely meaningless and pointless. That's the whole thing.
No one is going to say, you know, I heard
Dan like.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
The name on Blue Sky.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
They might someone yelled at me for being on Blue Sky.
I'm just trying to broaden my social media horizons, that's all.
I just want a TikTok video up. And I did
this on Friday, so it's kind of like that of
the worst shot that I ever saw on televised on TV.
It's from the Siege Senior PGA, and it's more of
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because golf is always recorded, So there's a reason that
they're showing the shot. People point out like, oh, I
wonder if the SHOT's going to go in. If the
guy's ten shots back and we haven't heard from them
all weekend and they're going to show the shot. Yeah,
because they want you to see the shot. But there
was a reason that someone showed this shot of a
guy that wasn't in contention, and I think somebody had
a bone to pick. I put it up on TikTok.
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It got a little run on TikTok as well.
Speaker 11 (35:36):
Go.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That's all we're trying to do with these social media platforms.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
I support you on Blue Sky Broaden your horizons. It's
also big in kam Loops.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
And he's not getting away from the Canadian thing. It's
only hockey, Steve, it's only hot fans. Broaden your horizon. Absolutely.
How great would it be? Like the cop is in
a win a bag and we will not have that
moment this year, but if it goes back to Edmonton,
what a scene it will be.
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Speaker 2 (36:07):
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Maybe Rick Buker can save us here on Fox Sports Radio.
I'm reading wrong reads. Maybe I'm like the Indiana Pacers
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last night. Rick, Happy Memorial Day? How are you?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I'm good? Hey, it's a holiday, your work on holiday?
All things are forgiven.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Okay, two pieces they looked somewhat similar, and it was
my bad. I grabbed the wrong one. Karl Anthony Towns.
He's hitting miss, but boy was he a hit last
night in the fourth quarter. Montia and I were just
talking about how frustrating it must be. But last night
is the night where you reaped the fruits of all
of his labor. Do the Knicks need this Karl Anthony
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Towns like takeover Towns to win this series? Or can
they get by if he's just even a little less
of what he was last night?
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Oh, God's hope not. Let's talk. Let's hope not, because
I don't know that you can count on twenty points
from Karl Anthony Towns in the fourth quarter for every game.
I do believe that sort of maintaining I mean, the
big the big thing is controlling the pace, making this
a game where first team to one hundred wins. I
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think that's really the only way that the Knicks have
a chance of winning this And and I do like
the move of having Mitchell Robinson in the starting lineup
and playing him more. And maybe Josh Hart left nothing
against Josh Hart, but it really is not a function
of what Josh Hart is or isn't doing. It's finding
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ways to free up Jalen Brunson to do what he
does and without a big like Mitchell Robinson setting screens,
I just don't know that the pick and roll and
his ability to get free one on one or without
any sort of help is going to is going to
get the job done. So look, the Knicks are up
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against it overall. Do I think that this win changes
my view of who's going to win the series? No,
I hope that. I was hoping that it was going
to be a long, entertaining series. I guess this gives
me a little bit of hope that we might get that.
But the fact of the matter is Indiana's just they
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have too much. For the Knicks. It's been, it's been
a good run. But the bell Weather is Pascal Siakam
for the Indiana Pacers. It's so funny, like we I
always feel like I need to apologize or I need
to like introduce anybody or anything when I talk about
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the Pacers. Is it the world like, Hey, I got
to tell you about this, this brand new thing over here.
You may not have heard about him to the Pacers
and all these players that are pretty good, and you
probably never heard of them either. But no, Pascal Siakam
every series for whatever reason, and Game three in particular,
has loses his matchup by a by a vast his
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plus minus is off, the charge bad, and the rest
of the series it's it's to the good. This it
happened again. It happened in the first round, it happened
in the second round, it happened in in game three.
But generally does not happen. And it's not like he's
scoring thirty every game or whatever. It's simply he wins
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his and he didn't in this in this last game.
I don't expect that to happen again. I think he's
a difficult matchup for the Knicks in general or in particular,
and so I'd like to come in here thinking, you know,
advertising that hey, now we got a series, and now
it's going to be different, and Karl Anthony Towns is
the answer. And I just I just think the Pacers
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have too much for the Knicks, and I just hope
the Knicks make it interesting for as long as they
can before we get to the the OKC Pacers Final
that you and Mandy and me will be buying nobody
else interesting.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Rick, I don't know if you saw during that like
seven minute stretch of Carl Anthony Town's on the fourth quarter,
he went in for a dunk and then he seemed
to grab his knee for the remainder of the game.
Even standing during a free throw, he kept grabbing his knee,
and he looked a little bit banged up.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Yeah, is that something you think they should be worried about.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
Nobody has said anything, but I noticed after that drive
he kept grabbing his knee.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Yeah. I what Karl Anthony does generally, his gestures and
his like everything that he does. He he looks like
he's hurt when he gets off the way he runs.
I mean it's right he does.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
No, you're not wrong, you are, but.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
He's running get back on whether he's going going on
offense or he's going back on defense. When he's running,
it looks like, oh man, did somebody put some like
rocks in his shoes or something. I yeah, he might,
you know. Look the number one, most everybody is dealing
with some kind of physical issue at this point in
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the season. And two, I don't I haven't seen any
reports as far as as far as a knee issue.
But honestly, Karl Anthony Talis is probably like, yeah, I
got this knee problem. So I'm only going to shoot threes.
I hope that's okay with you guys.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
I know what he wants to do anything fs what
I mean inside Rick Buker joining us here at the
Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio. She's Bonti blainios.
I'm Dan Byer in for Doug today. So you don't
believe in the Timberwolves, or at least don't believe in
them as much to win this series, but there is momentum.
Why do you still think Oklahoma City has the edge
in the West.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
Just because the Minnesota Timberwolves from a talent standpoint, I
could make a case whether they're the better team and
that they could win the series. But for the better
part of this year to have reflected in their regular
season records and even in the early rounds while they
had two gentlemen sweeps, they don't play hard for forty
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eight minutes. And there's just a certain point you get
to in the playoffs where you're going to face opponents
where you have to play maybe don't not forty eight,
but forty four forty five, Like you can't have the
kind of long last Is that the that the Minnesota
Timberwells have and the maddening thing is they showed you
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what they're capable of when they play at the level
that they did in Game three. But I can count
on one hand the number of times that I've seen
in them play with that intensity for an entire game,
and that includes the you know, their their leader, Anthony Edwards.
I mean, he's probably the number one culprit in terms
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of this. Can't figure out when he's going to play
hard or when he's going to show you everything that
he's capable of at both ends of the floor, particularly
offensively and attacking the paint, even if he's not scoring.
When he's just being decisive and aggressive, it changes the
whole dynamic for them. You know, one of the reasons
(43:50):
that they shot the three Wells so well in game
three was simply because Anthony Edwards was being decisive, so
that the guys who are getting the ball aren't wondering
if they're going to get it or when they do
get it. It's because ant decided I can't get anywhere here,
it's your turn, as opposed to I'm getting into the paint. Okay,
(44:11):
I've now I've got too much attention here, let me
kick it out and somebody's got an open three. It
sounds subtle, but that makes a huge difference for shooters.
And so if I knew that I was going to
get this ANT for you know, another three four games,
I would have an entirely different opinion about who is
(44:32):
going to win. And you know the suspense in this series,
but I just I haven't seen that consistently from Ant,
so there's no reason for me to believe it. I'm
going to see it going forward.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
Okay, So I have a not it's not a theory,
and I believe more in the Timberwolves than you do
in this series. But I also know how the NBA goes.
So the Timberwolves do bow out against OKAC and it's
the second straight year Western Conference Finals, There's going to
be money, There's going to be contracts, like is is
Chris Finch like in danger because we saw Michael Malone
(45:04):
be Austin at the end of the regular season, you know,
not even two years removed from a title. It would
be the second straight year changes obviously you'd have to
try to think that something needs to be done to
get over that hump. What could be the fallout for
Minnesota if they don't get it done this time around.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
I honestly, we've got brand new ownership, So there's always
that always raises a question in terms of who they
want going forward. But as far as Chris Finch in
his relationship with the guys in the in the locker room,
it's completely different than than the one that Mike Malone
had with UH with with guys you know, the the
(45:48):
the It's just it's a different relationship.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
Mike for all the years that he was there, never
cultivated a close relationship with with guys like Aaron Gordon
and Michael Porter Jr. And they went through some things
and I'm blanking on the guy on the bench. The
off se that who's Chris Finch had made a great
(46:14):
gesture for him and his son got him into a
game because he normally doesn't play and he wanted his
son to to see him play. And his son has
very good Joe ingles and and and those are the
kind of things that Mike Malone did not do. That
(46:38):
Chris Finch did and that goes a long way with
your players. I know that he's got a very close
relationship with Mike Conley, Anthony Edwards, you know, believes in him.
So I don't think that would be the fallout. And
(46:59):
I'm not sure that there honestly, I'm not I'm not
convinced that there will be. I think that the alibi
will be it was, you know, the first year of
Julius Randall. Randall's coming along in a big way, like
we just need to we just need to hold this
together and make the next step.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
And I don't want to be a weird heill for
me to you know, to stand on and shout from
the hills that Chris Finch should be fired. That's not
the point of it. It's just I wonder where they go,
you know, like to me if they were ousted for
the second straight year, because there's only so many places.
You know, Anthony Edwards isn't going anywhere, and so that's
why I just thought it was it was unique with
(47:36):
with Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
You know, it's understandable, but I mean there's this is
one of the issues I think that that we have
with ownership and maybe media as well, which is like,
if you don't win a championship, it's a failure. Something's
got to change. And I think what you've seen with
Oklahoma City if they end up taking it this year.
(47:58):
Is the fact that they've they basically help serve you know,
They've allowed this team to growth and add little tweak
you know at Isaiah Hartenstein kind of figure out where
our young guys are going and what pieces do we
need to put around them, and I would I mean, look,
if you're getting to the conference finals two years in
(48:19):
a row, for me, if I'm being the Timberwolves are
honest with themselves about what the shortcoming is with this team.
The shortcoming is that Anthony Edward is twenty three years
old and you're looking at him to be the leader
of your team and he's not ready to do that
at the level necessary to win a championship. That's the
(48:41):
bottom line.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
Yeah, fair enough. I think strides have been made, but
I think that you're also correct in your assessment. Rick Buker,
thank you so much on this Monday holiday. We appreciate
it every week. Can't wait to talk to you down
the line next week. Have a good one, man.
Speaker 3 (48:54):
Did you see what happened in baseball yesterday?
Speaker 11 (48:56):
Dan?
Speaker 2 (48:56):
It was a busy day.
Speaker 3 (48:57):
It was a busy day.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Are you talking about Detroit?
Speaker 5 (49:01):
I am just because it was something you don't get
to see every day, or here or here all in two.
Speaker 13 (49:09):
Here we go, the pitch swaying and I miss strike three,
one oh three.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
He rings up the radar gun.
Speaker 12 (49:17):
He claps on the mound.
Speaker 13 (49:19):
Here come the Tigers from the outfield, an infield and
a big hug from Tyllon Dingler on the first ever
complete game shutout for Tarik Scoople, the ace of the Tigers.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Great moments. Yeah, and it's a sad moment that we
have to celebrate a complete game in Major League Baseball.
Sad think it is like we shouldn't be celebrating somebody
pitching a whole game. That should not happen. Chris Burfett, do.
Speaker 10 (49:50):
You know how many complete games have been pitched in
the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
I'm guessing one.
Speaker 3 (49:57):
No, I'm gonna guess three.
Speaker 2 (50:00):
Eight, eight.
Speaker 10 (50:01):
It's still high, but still like that still feels incredible.
I'm sure if we go back through history, that's going
to seem appreciably extremely low.
Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah, a complete game, I don't know. Do you know
if they were shutouts?
Speaker 10 (50:14):
I would have to go and Okay, Steve is in
here and tells me five complete Game shows.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Mag You, Steve, You're the real MVP.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
My guess of one was an awful guest.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
I knew it was more.
Speaker 2 (50:26):
But I did not know is that he also did
it on ninety four pitches, right, just threw one hundred
and three on that final pitch too.
Speaker 5 (50:33):
Yeah, and the numbers I think out of that seventy
something were strikes. Like he it was a very old
school performance which we don't get to see a lot of.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
He threw ninety four pitches and the pitcher that he
beat yesterday for the Guardian's Logan, Allen through ninety seven
pitches and Alan lasted three and two thirds stop yes, stop,
through less pitches and Alan didn't even make it out
of the.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Fourth inning efficient ship and dominant through through and through
the last pitch to be one hundred and three miles power.
Speaker 3 (51:05):
That was crazy.
Speaker 5 (51:06):
But it is sad, Dan, how you put it in
perspective that we're celebrating this.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
It was It sounded like it was a no hitter.
Speaker 11 (51:14):
He was.
Speaker 12 (51:14):
It was only get it.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yeah, but yeah,
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