May 11, 2023 • 45 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the riveting game 5 between the Warriors and Lakers, AD Suffers an elbow to the head possibly leaving him unable to play on Friday Night, and the whole crew has a fun back and forth on Snoop Dogg?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Go New York, New York CO. Go New York, O,
New York CO. Cower York, New York CO. And I
mean the Mets because Verlander's back, Go New York, New
York CO. Go New York, New York Co.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Are they like a tag team? Now? Well, here's her
and Verlanders right, one in, one out. That's right there.
You have cindergard gets hurt. There, Ther Harvey retires. What
the hell happened all these Mets pitchers that were supposed
to be dominant all these years.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
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big yes friend.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
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Speaker 5 (01:23):
Day, don't put don't say what hasn't happened yet, because
if that doesn't happen, I'm blaming you. And I'm gonna
burn the white Sox hat that's on your head, except I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Gonna do it while you're wearing it, so your head
is gonna go up in flames. I have been called
the heat miser. Before It's all good.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You wouldn't look very much heat miser, so very much
shut I'm bump, bump. I can do that. Stroll out
through the hallway too, while my head's on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Here's where things sit right now, twenty five seconds left
in Game five, the Knicks trying to send it to
Game six. They lead the Heat one oh nine to
one oh three. They also have the basketball following a
miss three by the Heat. So it looks like and
I say looks like because it is the Knicks the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Could be I'm not gonna say yet, but the Knicks
could be back. They could They were never back, well
let me be back. No, they were gone. Now they
were going Frostburg, So that means they could be back.
They at least you've gone here for a while. I mean,
I do like that. We've got John Starts hanging alongside
the Jonas Brothers, court size everybody, and suddenly everybody wants
to be at the Knicks games. Now everybody there any
(02:32):
watch Jimmy Butler, Mike stop.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're here to watch Jalen Brunson and his thirty eight points,
eight rebounds and seven since go New.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
York, Go, New York, coat, go New York, Go, New
York go. It's so exciting. The Knicks could be back.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And another twenty one point three seconds to any one
point three seconds.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Fifteen minutes left on this fantastic voyage. Uh, they keep
saying Robinson back to nice, Robinson back to the line,
and thus far four of eight.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, yeah, the hack of Robinson. He missed one, but
they started that with about five minutes left here.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes, but Julius.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Randall with the rebound after a Mitchell Robinson miss making
a nine point lead for the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
That was one of the laziest rebounding efforts from a
team desperate to try to get back into a game
I've ever seen. And that's gonna be it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The Knicks are gonna win this game, one twelve to
one oh three.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The Knicks are back. Go New York, Go New York.
Coat and you know what this means, New York. Go
as soon as that Laker game doesn't matter, Go New York. Yeah,
but that's what's happening. Now, Go New York. Just inevitable,
go New York live to see him one more day.
He wait till we.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Sweep you in the finals. Frostburg Knicks Lakers. It's happening, man,
it's happening.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Go New York, Go New York, Go New York's happening
like the Mets going on a win street. We've won
one in a row. It's all good. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That is the big final right there, one twelve, one
oh three. The Knicks will play again. They will go
back to Game six in Miami. Jalen Brunson with thirty eight, R. J.
Barrett with twenty six, Julius Randall twenty four, five and one,
and the one is a big black guy he got
getting elbowed earlier in the game. The uh, the viral
(04:16):
exploits of what his eye looked like at the beginning
of this was absolutely insane.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So there's your night.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You got Brunson hugging John Starks right now, Starks saying,
remember when I went four for seventeen in Game seven
against the against the Rockets.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Man, you can't do that in the next game. So
the n is going to bring up any of his futility.
He's a mixture to tell you about the four he made.
Go New York, Go New York, Go, Go New York,
Go New York. Go got go or go all right?
All right, good, look, only eight points off the bench
for the Knicks, but they did get six rebounds from Hartenstein.
He had four points.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And the big big I mean, just think about this
for a second, the biggest hoop of the Nick the
knixer up by two, trying to hold on to a
lead late. They led by at one point, but you
know it's the Knicks and it's the NBA.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You're gonna blow it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In theory, you're either getting a run or you're getting
someone symbolically waving a white white towel somewhere. He's just
a whether you get to see it on the screen
or now. So things are getting really tight. I'm not
too happy as we're watching the game. No, and it's
it's a seven.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Point lead, and a four point lead, and a three
point lead, and a five point lead. Then it gets
down to two, and now I'm feeling, Okay, this is
not good. This is not good. And the Knicks take
it all the way down to the end of the
shot clock.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
RJ.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Barrett goes in for a layup, he misses high, but
Isaiah Hartenstein goes in for the follow up jam.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The biggest bucket of the year for the Knicks, and
it's Isaiah Hartenstein who makes it. He is Thelannie Walker
so far off tonight, except he only had two points
instead in the fourth quarter instead of like fifteen. But
the biggest bucket of the season.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If I could, I could a point to anybody, Hey,
who's gonna score the biggest Nicks bucket of the season, Jason,
I would say, Well, it's gonna be Brunson. No, well
it's gonna be Randall. No it would be Barrett. No, oh,
it'll be quickly off the bench. No, it'll be Obi Toppin. No,
who's it gonna be. It's gonna be Isaiah Hartenstein. Oh well, okay,
then quickly still not available. You got eighty eight points
between your big three, including your your monster effort from
(06:17):
Jalen Bronson thirty eight. As you said, four of ten
from three, your guy Julius Randall. You want to talk
about someone bre exhaling very loudly. You can almost hear it,
even though we have no sound on from these monitors
in the studio. When they showed him getting ready to
hug his kid and then walk off the court, might
(06:37):
be the most relieved guy leaving Madison Square Garden today.
We got that one done, all right, We live to
see another day. A lot of excitement. He got all
the luminaries there, but a huge game and when it
came to crunch time, yeah, you went to the hakka
whoever was nearby, and that that happened about a halfway
(06:59):
through the fourth quarter, and they they stayed composed. You
had a couple of runs where wide open Robinson on
the other end, or or Jimmy Butler with a bucket.
Kyle Lowry hit a couple of big threes, but they
never were able to overcome that gap. Right, close it
down to two, and then it extended back out and
(07:20):
a couple of bad bad shots selection with the game
still on the line, and then you close out.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So congratulations, the Lakers Warriors are getting ready to start.
Good nut. It was good except for the go New York,
New York. I mean you need to have eight other
people behind you to really we need a cacophony of
(07:49):
voices to make that work. Go New York, Go New York, Go,
Go New York, Go New York Go. I didn't mean
that you need to start whispering it like you were
a crowd. I could just do it short towing it.
I could do it in different voices. I could do
it like Roy Kent, Go New York, Go New Yak
do that like e F and go and then have
a tight shirt layer them together so it's a a symphony. Sure,
(08:12):
I could do it like Rage against the Machine, New
York with a pocket that could have done it like
Hall of Famers. Well, well look the next they'll be
Hall of Famers when they come back from three to
one New York. You know, we talked about it the
other night, only five percent of teams able to do
that in the history of the NBA playoffs. Knicks get
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one to stay alive tonight, and now we'll see if
the Warriors can match and keep this series go and
force it back to Los Angeles. Mike, five percent for
Jason is like winning the lottery. Well, I mean, my
team's usual usually an acceptable rate of error, right the
plus or minus when we're looking at polling questions and
election results and all of those kind of things, margin
(08:57):
of error three to five percent, so usually uptimal rate.
But in this case, it's you got five percent chance
to win the series, and and you slamm the table
and you say you're saying there's a chance, Go New York.
Never tell me the odds, go New York, Go New York.
I went to, Yeah you did, but go New York.
The liberty chant Uh no, that's liberty Liberty games. Liberty. Oh,
(09:22):
I thought you met like the liberty commercials Liberty Liberty.
That's not a sponsor, No, not a sponsor. You mean
the New York Liberty I don't know what they sing
it to, the New York Liberty games. Think the song
that you're singing, the horrible song you're saying they might
also have some kind of chance specific to an opponent
that we can't say on air. Back in the New
York I'm back back in the New York groove, but
(09:45):
I'm back.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
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Speaker 4 (10:02):
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Speaker 1 (10:05):
Uh so, yes, we are getting set to tip. The
Lakers and Warriors are seconds away. But look, let me
just say this about the Knicks and the Heat.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Well the ball tip chase all there you you're running
for your life. Next are done? Man, I'm shooting. What's happening? No?
Are we playing Ward Association karaoke tonight? Is that? Is
that what wentzay has become? Here? I'll be honest. This
is not a great series. Neither team is playing great.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I mean that's kind of where we are right now
in the NBA playoffs where sometimes you just get series
like that because look, this Knicks heat that the Heat
have not played well and they're up three to two.
The Knicks have just played a little bit worse than
the Heat, so they're down three to two. That's kind
of what this series has been. But tonight what's happened
is a guy that doesn't get enough credit that continues
(10:59):
to get a bigger and bigger slice of the pie every.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Day we go on.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Is Jalen Brunson. Now doesn't he look like a bleeping bargain?
At four years and one hundred million dollars, you get
Jalen Brunton for you. What are your guys doing?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Oh wait a minute, that's the biggest bargain of all.
That's the biggest free agent signing in years in the NBA.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Okay, wait, the guy
came and totally redid the culture and was a guy
that said I'm not gonna let us lose. Oh yeah,
suddenly he's an absolute bargain at four years and one
hundred million dollars. Also, just recognizing the cost of doing business.
We do this every time a quarterback gets signed and
(11:32):
people don't like it. Team decided they were worth the money,
and I'm looking squarely going back to New York and
looking at Daniel Jones, you may not like it. They
think there's something more in the tank. So they're paying
ahead for what may become a better offense and more
prolific offense. Can he be that guy? I don't know,
but they're paying for it. Likewise, bringing in Jalen Brunson,
(11:54):
you go to New York, you know you gotta pay
the piper because we're talking about the New York tax
when it comes to the actual state income tax there,
so you might have to do a bit of an overpay.
But you're also looking to shake things up, which means
you're coming over the top of any offer, which means
Dallas really didn't get a seat at the table from
all we're told. Dad being there as part of the
(12:17):
step that certainly doesn't hurt Rick Bronson, of course. But
the idea is that where are you finding juice in
this NBA. It's not a center driven league, right. You
got very few guys that truly hit free agency without
a bunch of strengths. Because most of your big guys
that have moved around, what do they do? They decided
(12:38):
they hated the team they were with, and then they
force a trade as opposed to I'm actually in free agency,
and we'll listen to offers and we'll choose the place
that makes the most sense. Bought into Thibadeau's philosophy, came in,
worked with Derek Rose, a guy who I think needs
more credit for what he's been. Hasn't been able to
be on the court, and that's fine, he's at that
(12:59):
part of his NBA life cycle. But he's a guy
that's Thibodeau's right hand man and one of those guys
that was helping to try to figure out what the
culture of this squad needed to be. Brunson comes in
and you've had many games like tonight where he's carrying him.
Julius Randall, third Team All NBA. Love him or hate him,
the guy put up numbers for the season and in
(13:21):
the playoffs. Yeah, there's big efforts that he gives you
and sometimes disappearing acts. Guess what. That's the rest of
the NBA. But you go four for one hundred, it's
it's a bargain because look where the market's headed. If
you've got a point guard that can run things and
can still put up thirty five points on you while
running the show, we don't have a lot of guys
that do both very well. I have some initials for you,
(13:44):
g n Y g n YG go New York, New
York coat, go New York, New York co, co New York,
New York and go York co New York coat, go
New York, New York coat. Uh So, the Knicks have
won the biggest win in franchiseestor well leased since the
seventy three championship.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
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Speaker 1 (14:15):
Now, just think about this for a second, because we
talk about Lebron being near the end and how much
can you count on him for it. It's really hard
to say we're counting on him. You can count him
to play because of the injury that he has had
the last couple of years. Now, he has been pretty
healthy in the playoffs so far. And okay, maybe part
of his thing was the minute I sense sense a
(14:36):
little bit of pain, I'm sitting out and want to
be healthy for this part, right, But let's go just
a little bit deeper on something here. Lebron is thirty eight. Okay,
Lebron is thirty eight, and he had a regular season
where he was twenty nine eight and seven. All right,
just think about that for a second team all in
this NBA, right, third team All NBA today, twenty nine
(14:58):
eight and seven.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
He was thirty eight years old. Michael Jordan had come
out of retirement. He had already been retired for three years,
and he came out to go play for the Wizards,
in which he was a twenty point a game scorer.
That's kind of what he was, twenty four and three.
At the end.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
He wasn't embraced by his teammates. A lot of his
teammates were upset that he came out. He didn't really
get along that great with Rip Hamilton, some of those
guys on the Wizards. So just for a second, you know,
for all the oh, Lebron is this he should be
doing this? He should be doing this at thirty eight
years old. He's a twenty nine eight and seven guy.
And here they are in the second round of the playoffs,
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one game away from the Western Conference finals. Again, whereas
Michael Jordan had already been retired and was coming out
of retirement to see if he could still play. I
just think just that for a second. When you want
to rip Lebron to go all Lebron, and you think
about the Lebron Michael Jordan comparisons. This is now part
of it. Yeah, O Jordan's got six titles. Yeah, okay,
all right, I'm fine with that. But Lebron is still
(15:56):
potentially going to finals. He won you know, he went
to a final and won it three years ago. He
could be going back to another one.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
He is still.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Playing at an extremely high level. It's almost like watching
Lebron at the end to compare it to a different
sport is kind of like watching Jerry Rice where he
was still thirty eight years old catching ninety passes with
the Raiders, where some of the best receivers in NFL
history they'd been they were saying they were counting the
days they're almost eligible to go to the Hall of
(16:24):
Fame because they've been out of the game since they
were thirty four, thirty five years old. And here's Jerry
Rice at the end thirty eight Cup, I got ninety
catches everything.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah I'm still rolling man'. That's kind of what Lebron
well and that he wouldn't hang it up. I have
trading cards to show you him in a Seahawks uniform
and in a Denver Broncos uniform. Are they worth anything?
Are they worth anything that really commons like they weren't.
I mean you can find the parallels that are you know,
serially numbered at all, but the base cards going all
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the way back to two thousand and five as he's
finishing things up. That not to get all hey shit
and Jordan Chestey, remember you did also have several years
of playing college basketball and the emphasis on nutrition and
basketball being a three hundred and sixty five day job
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and keeping your body in shape and not say smoking cigars,
drinking kognak and disappearing for a month. Not that Jordan
was out of shape, but there's a difference in hey,
body temple. And you've got all the legendary stories and
how much money and effort Lebron, Tom Brady, all these
athletes today put in to keep their body in peak condition.
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That was not the case back then. Right, if you
got to the gym, you were a million light years
ahead of everybody else. Hey, I'm working out. Oh that's
why you win. He guy worked. He actually showed out
the other guys had so much.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I can't just put the ball away and sleep and
hang you out and eat for four months and then
get bout.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I can't do that, all right, Well, but I mean
even go back to the NFL. For a lot of
guys in Jerry Rice's era, off season was the off
season you came to training camp to get in and
for Lebron's career, that hasn't been the case. And even
going back to the early years, it's a shift and
the dynamic of the game, how the game is played
more wide open, less of the grind down type series
(18:15):
that we would have, particularly in the playoffs. I mean,
go back and watch your Nicks against the Bulls, go
watch the Bulls against the Pistons basketball, and insert any
other series you want there. There weren't a lot of
high flying offenses running around. Now they're beating the hell
out of each other in the low post. So the
game has changed, and with that, the evolution of your body,
(18:36):
your supplements, how you're treating your body, Everybody hitting the
hyperbaric chamber instead of a blackjack table. I mean, all
of those things come to play. And yeah, I guess
if you want, you could say, well, that's a slight
against Michael Jordan because he didn't care. He was too
busy smoking cigars and said lots of other stuff. Folks
seem to forget that the first retirement came after his
dad was murdered. Yeah, yeah, right, And look, well, may
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never know the full truth of what all went on
there in terms of going and playing baseball and all,
but different times, different measures, but certainly an appreciation for
what Lebron is this year. Maybe he can't do it
every night, but certainly in the playoffs, even when he
picked his spot the other night, Right, he didn't do
it a whole lot offensively in the first half and
(19:22):
then it became the gladiator at my signal on leash,
hell and away he went and still finished with twenty
one and facilitated on a lot of baskets. It was
huge defensively. So it's about how you use your energy,
You store it and then you go to work. Jason, Yeah,
what's up, Frostberg. So basically, if I'm reading the writing
on the wall here correctly, what you're saying is Lebron
(19:44):
is better than Michael.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Jordan at this point. Yeah, yeah, anyt even close. Well,
when you talk about in their heyday and dominance. But
once you get out of that, it's not even close.
I like this writing on the wall, like if you
want to talk about I think that guy who was better?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Who was? But you always hated Lebron because he was
coming for Kobe? I mean, come on, what.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Do you do?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
No? Like like after the age of never coming for Kobe,
can't come for the King, dude.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I think the big question is who's more impressive in
their league? I mean, these you're talking about probably the
two most impressive along with Brady and Rogers.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Right, who are the dgers that in there you can't beat?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
On Rogers come right at thirty seven thirty eight Aaron
Rodgers won two mv just threw the whole argument out
on two MVPs. But Brady, Rogers, Lebron and Jerry Rice
there you're over thirty five Mount Rushmore right, Like, who's
like seriously by one guy who's had a betting? George
blanda Gordy bleeping Yeah okay, Gordy, how was you know
(20:46):
fifty nine playing in the wh I mean Robert.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
De Naro is seventy nine. He just had another kid? Yeah, yeah,
that's uh my dad. My dad had some choice thoughts, Oh,
said my dad. Just no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no spoiler, I've held it back for a decade.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
We started talking about that and he went off, like,
what come on, what are you doing? You say, my
dad just a another kid? You know? All right? What's
your dad's beef? What? Mom and dad is celebrating an
anniversary today? No extra? Oh, and I'm aware maybe that's
gonna be the big news. That would be a bad
big story. You're getting a kid again, and you're gonna
be a big brother. I'm out. You did to take
(21:25):
care of your little brother because you know you're gonna
be fifty and he's gonna be two. My mother suld
go down that path. I'm done. You're gonna be your dad.
What's your dad's beef? Mike, who the hell cares? It's
not like your dad's raising his kid. No, no, no,
it was just more you know, the men of a
certain age, What are you doing when you're seventy nine?
Advy kid? Like one of those deals? Since DeMar was
supposed to do act singers sing the same on your uncelluloid,
(21:51):
like you've been doing same character for the last twenty years,
he's gonna act like he's a dad. Oh more than
twenty years. Danier has been playing the same guy since,
like after Cape Fear. I mean, like you're going back,
what was Cape Fear ninety two ninety one?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I think that he's playing the same after that same
guy every movie. Everything, make the face, make the face,
every single he did everything.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
They insulted him every single kind of like the Jets
this season after season. No, that to your point, I
liked it. I think the big quite who was better?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I mean you're talking about two guys, dominant Lebron and
Jerry Rice, who was better in their late thirties, Because,
like I said, Jerry Rice was still catching nine He
caught ninety passes when he was forty with the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I don't think the Raiders even out a quarterback that year.
But it was the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think they directly snapped the ball to a running
back who threw the ball to Jerry Rice. That's how
impressive it's been. Was still getting it on man. I
mean he had him, you had Tim Brown. I mean
they were still but that a prolific offense at that point.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
But that but but the whole thing that Lebron and
Michael Jordan. It's like everybody wants to stop the conversation
with Michael went six for six and look at Lebron,
He's gone to finals and lost. And the big thing
I will say is, hey, you know what you want
to talk about? A conversation in which Lebron is is
going to win this conversation with Michael Jordan, because look,
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we remember the romanticism of the Bulls and Jordan being
the first guy to be that kind of player, right,
but since Jordan, we've seen guys be pretty similar. We've
seen Kobe Bryant do his thing. Now we see big
players who were do we see guys who's seven footers
with that kind of skill set with Giannis Lebron, It's like,
I'm sorry, the conversation doesn't stop just because Michael Jordan
(23:29):
went to six finals, he won six. I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I can't penalize Lebron because he went to more finals
and lost, like Jordan didn't get to other finals.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
But but but.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
But Lebron getting there and losing suddenly is a mark
against him.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
No, I'm not down with that. I'm also down Hey,
Jordan stopped I'm not down with that, man, I'm not
down with that, dude. I'm back. I'm back because I'm
back when the Knicks were relevant. Let's go New York,
Go New York, goat, go to So I'm not down
with that. And you can't just stop the conversation when
you've okay, well it's done well. When Jordan stopped, No,
the fact that Lebron can still do this at thirty eight,
(24:04):
I'm sorry, that's a really big deal and he's been
doing it for the past three and four years. Jordan
retired at the age where Lebron won another championship. So yeah,
I mean that's part of the that's part of the
discussion when you want to talk about the greatest players.
You can't have the Lebron Jordan conversation yet because Lebron's
not done and I don't know that he's even two
years from being done. Is he gonna be healthy enough?
(24:27):
That's the thing, right if he if suddenly his health
is like I can't play anymore, Okay, But it's like
we wanted to write the end of the discussion and
you can't yet because Lebron is still playing and he's
still playing pretty right, you can dislike the paths for both, right,
Folks didn't like Jordan retiring twice and the Wizard era,
and you know, some argue gets lopped off like it
(24:47):
never happens, like no, it exists, and he played, I
talk about it. Nobody happened. For what it was still
averaging twenty points a game. But is it the same player? No,
and you but it's romanticized. It's like being in the
museum and you want you don't want to disparage anything
from that museum. Folks would have you believe Michael Jordan
never missed a shot, right, Even Giann has brought it up.
(25:09):
Probably not the best example because Michael Jordan would would
kill to have those other nine titles right and the
failure seasons as it were. But for Lebron, that's always
gonna be it. Eh. I'm I'm an evolved guy. I can't.
I can hold my my love for Jordan, but recognize
what I'm watching in front of me. I'm not. I'm
not an animal. Guys, we haven't even seen Orlando Magic
(25:31):
Lebron yet.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, ye had No, that's true, that's true. We have
not seen that yet. Just wait for that, wait for
the Bigro's gonna get too.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Good after this. Next lottery between them and the Rockets
should get better than whoever gets victory. So yeah, and
then we go after that. Yeah yeah, Twitter and out
about a Fresco. Mike gets swollen down.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
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Speaker 2 (26:07):
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Speaker 1 (26:14):
Still think the general fan thinks of the Warriors as
they're the champs. They didn't have a great regular season
because you can't have a great regular season all the time.
When the playoffs come, everybody's great. And we have watched
the Warriors giveaway two leads in this game, in this
series and be able to win two games where they
couldn't execute the end of games, and this would be
a third. This would be one of those Hey, time
(26:37):
to find something new, Time to you know, Draymond Green
won't come back. They'll find a way to move on.
They'll try to bring in a new mix of players.
Because as much as they wanted to point out that, hey,
Wiggins is.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Great and Pool is great and these are our future,
maybe not maybe not Wiggins anymore, Maybe not Pool anymore, Kamingo,
who knows you can get on the court anymore. This
would definitely be one of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The Hey, we have to retool in a larger way
because you you would have had a disappointing regular season
and an extremely disappointing playoff runt. Now, still time left
here and they have the lead, but we've seen them
give away leads before.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
This is how precarious the Warriors are right now, Well, no,
and that's it, right. You take a bad shot, long
rebound and you have the opportunity for an easy layup
for Anthony Davis, and then the lead is still at fifteen.
You have a file being called on Draymond Green. He's
fighting with the official again, him up. Not quite sure
(27:32):
what was going on there. It looks like Austin Reeves
was doing some acting. Either that or there was a
fingernail swipe up trying to steal the ball we didn't
quite catch either way. The still of it was fantastic.
It was almost like the Scream also as done by
McCauley culkin. If that's gonna help make the reference better.
But I thought you meant like the Scream, like the
(27:53):
movie Scream. No, I was going back to the original
painting into McCauley culkin to ghost Face and that original
original painting, which beget nicauley Culkin, which beget the Scream
movies with ghost Face. Anytime we get to use the
word begat repeatedly, it's very biblical in nature. Gat.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
There's no other like like. That's like one of the
words that is most widely associated with the biblegette.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
No question about it. The other word is about The
other word is holy. But you know you have holy
and begat. You gotta have a little bit of that.
And then he gets to the Book of Revelation. Well,
I mean he got all sorts of stuff going on there.
By the way, was the Book of Revelations? That was
that movie with Jenna Ortega right where the Future Comes
and John William Scott Right, was that Book of Revelation?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Well, I don't know that what it was, No, that's
the the second part of the Bowser movie when he
fights Mario getting for Peaches.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Peaches, Peaches peace, does we have Bowser? And then they
have Bowser Junior? Okay, all right, I didn't know that
was that was highly entertaining. By the way, if you
haven't seen it, yeah, I was, you know, I was
watching a bits and pieces on YouTube. Oh sorry you,
I'm it's not supposed to say was I not supposed
to say that. I'm sorry. They're coming to get you.
(29:05):
I mean, it's gonna be the Mike Harmon show here
because you're you're talking about terrible things. It was on
your computer. No, it wasn't. It was go see that
brow ain't gonna find that that brows They might find
some other stuff, but you ain't finding that. Jail for Harmon?
Look at Harmon? Hey, now, wow, can you do the
show from jail? Can you set up a com rex
box and then do a show for I think I could.
(29:26):
They probably have a podcasting unit in most jails. Now
your Harmon talking really lovely? Instead have an hour on
the yard. I get my hour in front of a microphone.
Hello everybody, what Yeah, it is late here, it is
lights out. You shut that radio off and stop talking.
All right? Well cut guy tomorrow, guy running out, Jase
across the bars, Jase, I really gotta go. They're not
(29:46):
happy that I'm being allowed. You shut that up. You
know what I when I had that speech against the Lakers,
that did not serve me. Well, well, listen, here's what
you do. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you advice.
If it ever happens that you went to that, you
will go to prison. If you're prison, Jason, give it me.
Make sure they know who you are. Wanted, they know
who you are.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And at lights out, you do a radio show and
you take questions on their callers, except instead of calling,
they're just shouting.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
You know, Jim from from Level B.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I like that, but watch out for too many hot takes.
I think you want to play it right down the middle.
In prison, you got into jails like City Field.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Do you want to make well? I mean, he's still
is a fugitive of the law from that federal.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That was that was that that the statute of limitations.
And again, if you take a mailbox on a Sunday,
it's not a crime.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You ready for your blank meat sandwich? You're not tongue
tight shirt.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
What you're getting very loose lipped here a little bit,
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
What's blank? Meet you just you just well, it's a
type of sandwich me. Son, hit that big red button
right there, big red button right there, hit like two
or three times. Just they don't know what he's gonna
do in the new studio.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Hit that, hit that button.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Uh So, the Lakers trying to come back against the Warriors,
still on a time left, eight minutes left to go.
It's a thirteen point lead for Golden State ninety nine
to eighty six. But let's not lose focus and lose
sight of the big story tonight, and that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Is go New York, Go New York co. Go New York,
Go New York Co. Go New York, Go New York
CoA the New York Next. The Knicks are back. Forget
about the Lakers charity. The Knicks are back. I did
I like chaired Dancing?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Well, they survived the way chair Dancing. How long till
that becomes a TV show on a music type network.
They're getting rid of MTV news. You know what? We
we talked about that off air yesterday. We did not
proper tribute for Kurt Loader. Kurt Loader was John Norris.
I mean those are two of those seminal voices. I'm
(32:06):
Kurt Loader of Random Entertainment News.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, John, No, it was John Norris and Kurt and
Norris and Tabitha Soren. Yeah, they were the they were
the big ones. But Kurt Loder was always I'm so
very serious and I'm in a T shirt and a
blazer and he would wear that every single time and.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
The whole time I'm sitting it going are you high?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And the guy had The guy had no experience at all.
He was an editor at Rolling System. Put John TV,
I'm Kurt Loader MTV news. No, We've never heard of
anything like that.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I'm Kurt Loader, MTV News. And then John Norris is
all the Hey, I'm John Norris. You like me? Like
like me? Like me.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
He was always excited to be there, so I liked him.
He was He was Tabitha Soren. Oh yeah, Tabitha Soren, who.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Was married to hang On, hang On, I know this
married to Michael Lewis, the author who wrote Moneyball. How
about that? They are married Tabitha Sworn and Michael Lewis.
It's the time to get Michael Lewis on. You can
run Moneyball. That's all I would do is run Moneyball plus.
That's all I would do. I just remember the MTV
music video when they were just went through the when
(33:07):
they when they did the the song about the network,
and it was just Ricky Ricky, Ricky Rackman, Ricky Ricky Rackman.
Tabitha Tabitha, Tabatha sore and Tapatha Tapatha this one, I
know that was the whole song. It was called, was
it yo MTV whatever? I forget what it was called.
But tt MTV did a song. There was a video
that was a song that was about the people who
(33:28):
were on MTV. Now, let me ask you a question.
Taller hair Adam Curry VJ. Yeah, but he was a VJ.
Wasn't MTV by by well? I mean I'm going on
mv TV now or Howard Stern when he showed up
his fart man, No, Adam Curry, You kidding, Adam Curry.
Adam Curry was like he had like twice the hair
(33:50):
that Axel Rose had when you want like that, and
he was all bangled out too. He would have all
the oh yeah, Adam Curry like me in my early twenties.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sure, Oh, I'm Adam Curry.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I'm very serious with this music news. Very serious music news.
Very That's what we found out about all our musicians games.
Now you'd be in the middle of a block of
videos all of a sudden, like, here's an update from
MTV news, like terribly terrible news exactly. I was like,
what's the bead bad one this week? I mean, I'm
so old. I had to you guys. Remember, in order
(34:22):
to see a music video for the first time, you
had to wait for Carson Daily to put it out
on TRL.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But before that, I remember when when they would say, hey,
the world premiere video is something.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
We have a world premiere video tonight. But also on
on network television. We did have Friday night videos and
Saturday night stuff for a while. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert,
which is like one thirty in the morning. Kids don't
know how how easy they have it these days, man,
I mean Saturday morning, like if we weren't out and about,
and this goes back to that whole logic of people
(34:53):
sitting at home. I mean Saturday morning, you should have
been out doing things. We were watching the Soul Trains,
not a cartoon. Yeah, no, no, no, Soul Train was great. Great.
Don Cornelius's finally going into the rocket.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You want a good Soul Train story. My wife and
I once got kicked off the set of Soul Train.
It's not surprised we got kicked when we came out
to La. We moved out to La you can and
when we went to I think it was on Universal
Studios where it used to be the Soule Train set. Yeah,
So we went to Universal and we just you know,
walking around doing different things, you know, going on rides
(35:25):
and everything else. And we had this part of the
park where like, what's that big building. We didn't know
what it was. We walked inside and it was a
Soul Train kid. And this is like a Thursday afternoon
at like two o'clock, so like, oh my god, it's
a Soul Train set. Pam goes, I want to go
up there and take a picture. I go, We're not
supposed to be here, so I.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Want to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
She runs up and she stands, you know, sticks her
butt out towards me, and she starts she's smiling. So
from really far away, I got to picture this Soul Traine.
It's Soul trained with PAMs in and they were like,
oh my god, I wanted to get one. And then
we hear it, hey, and we hear this door closed,
we run out.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
That's pretty good. You did impression that gets you in
a lot of a lot of trouble and you have
to just sit there going please don't.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
I should have said, I know, Don Simpson, Yeah, yeah, don't, Yetta,
you got Donny Simpson.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Back your nose. I'm here, which I probably wouldn't, but
you know, I don't know, maybe maybe because right he
get in there and sales Soul trained for a while,
right Don Simpson, Yeah sure he was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean after Don Cornelius too too. Yeah. I mean,
you know, well, I remember those the football commercial with
Don Cornelius when they tried to make it out to
be like a Don Oh yeah. Herman Moore went up
(36:31):
to him asking him, Hey, can you got teach me
how to dance Herman more like the funky Chicken, No,
like a touchdown dance like Pam Greer was in that commercial.
Oh yeah, Hey, we're back to the nineties now, everybody. Hey,
it's awesome. You might want to have to explain the
millennials what the nineties were. Oh? Sorry, yes, what is
a soul train the nineteen and not the eighteen ninetiesth okay, no, okay,
(36:52):
did you say soul train or soul plane? I said train? Okay,
Soul Train dance show on Saturday mornings. Were they on
a train where they where it was?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
They played music and people dance kind of like American bandstand.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Okay, got you.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Soul Plane was a movie where Snoop Dogg was a
pilot and Kevin Hart.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
It was absolutely hilarious. Stop soul playing. If you ever
seen back to two thousand and four, Soul Plane is
hysterical method man, it's so funny. It's it's Snoop Dogg
is a pilot of this plane that they're flying flight
New York to go back to Kevin Hart. Soul Plane
is so funny, and Tom Arnold is in it too. Sophia,
it's one of her first movies. You said, Vigara, Yeah, yeah,
(37:37):
Soul Plane is hysterical. So why does Snoop not fly anymore? Well?
He was.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
He was a pilo high he was what I'm saying, Well,
that's part of the plot of the movie that they
didn't take him out because he was you know, he
couldn't fly.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
So you're saying he wasn't a real pilot, but he
was flying. This plane was playing a real place. It's
it's just a movie.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Just the plane bounces up and down, right. Yeah they
did have part of that, then, yeah they did that.
They wonder what caused that. I was sitting there, little John,
little John Karl alone, Caromelone was in it as himself,
was he? I remember? Okay, I haven't seen it in
a while. I'm just going through the IMDb.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
So Soul Train, reel, Soul Plane not real? Well, no,
so plain real movie. But how so Snoop Dogg not
because it was a movie. I'm gonna sk Snoop dog
to fly a plane for me. Then that sounds awesome him.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
On the show. Anyway, Let's go pilot. That's people who
are pilots. You should have titles.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I think it should be titled right like a doctor, lawyer,
pretty you put your life in their hands, just like
doctors and Captain, Captain, everybody, Captain.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Assistant Captain, Captain, Captain, the Long Night on the show, Captain,
how about Friday?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Did I ever tell you Jason I met snoop dong.
Uh No, it was out the Fox lot when I
was filling in one time. He was getting off from
the show before me. He's like, well, sup, nephew was
I'll saw bunk.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
That's it. But it was great wall. You called me nephew,
and you called him bank Un. I'm cash. I thought
he said bunk. I called him bunk. Hey, I'm pretty
sure you said bunk as I said. You said, just
like Frostburg said the Price of Heart instead of the
Prices rights ago.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
All right, I'm pretty sure I would've end up smoking
and joint with him. I stayed around.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Okay, whoa allegedly allegedly? I mean, yeah, that's why didn't happen.
I mean allegedly allegedly. Let's fake like Soul Plane. Okay,
so Soul Plane's a movie, Soul Trained TV show, Oh
thank you, Soul Trained sol one runs a train one.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
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Speaker 4 (39:36):
Watching the Warriors win tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Obviously, we'll have more on Anthony Davis as soon as
we know something Susie no more will tell you, but
the Warriors tonight.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Look, I don't want no screw.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I don't care when I talk about Steph Curry and
the greatness of of Steph. The situation has to be
a certain way for Steph Curry to succeed. And the
style of basketball and the system that Steve Kurr was
able to implement with the Warriors when he first came over,
turned Steph Curry from a guy scoring.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
About twenty three a game, right, that's what he was.
He was a periphery All star. Suddenly now he's scoring
thirty a game and he's the greatest shooter we've ever seen.
Steve Kurr doesn't get enough credit for being the coach
he is. We see, we talk about the players, we
talk about Steph and Clay and Draymond, and oh yeah
Steve kurt No, Steve Kurr turned that team around and
took these guys that were already on the team and
turned it into a superstar team. But this is what
(40:31):
the Warriors need for Steph Curry to be Steph Curry.
And again, tonight wasn't a great night for him, but
he did hit big shots near the end, and a
couple of big threes when the Warriors can front run
or they have to come from behind. This is where
Steph Curry is at his best because defensively, you have
to be a little bit looser.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
You can't roll coverages towards him because hey, you're losing big.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
You know you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
And you know they make a couple of baskets if
they're down big you want to try to avoid.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
There's a lot more freedom with the offense that teams
have when they're up bigger. They're down big, we're coming
up the floor, we're finding a spot and we're chucking
it up. Because it's almost like teams are in a
prevent defense when you when you're talking about being up big,
when you're talking about trying to hold off a team
when you're up big, this is where Steph can get loose,
get one on one and get his shots off. Conversely,
(41:21):
when they're down biggots, why they can come back. The
spurret ability that you talk about, Hey, in eighty seconds,
they can take a ten point devisit and suddenly Hey,
because the game was going one way, but Steph is
able to get loose, hit a three es being single guarded.
Oh suddenly, here come the worries. Now it's back. Then
the game gets close, and then Steph Curry's effectiveness is
not quite what it is. When the Warriors can play
(41:43):
their style, when they confront run or if they have
to come from behind, Steph Curry is unstoppable because the
shots he can get whatever he can, it's terrific. But
it's those close games that Steph struggles at once. Do
you see the stat the other day, then, I'm sure
nobody wants to hear that. Say Steph, Steve's Steph zero
for twelve in the playoffs game winning game time shots
final forty five seconds. I've told you he can't get
(42:05):
his own shots off. When teams say we have to
stop you, he doesn't score and he doesn't set his
teammates up because he's too small to be able to
get out and make a big pass. That's what happens
in the close games. His effectiveness is lessened in games
that aren't close. And this is a talent, it's a skill.
We've never seen a team like the Warriors get out
and beat teams like we had in their early heyday,
(42:27):
where suddenly they're up by thirty in the first five
minutes of the game, and look what they're doing, and
they turn the NBA on their ear. No, we've never
seen them do that. That's something that's big. But I
think we've seen enough sample size the Warriors to know that, Hey,
when they get that big lead or they're trying to come, hey,
that's when Steph just puts up all kinds of those numbers.
But those close games, back and forth, that's where it
struggles because every possession is earned, and you can afford to, Hey,
(42:49):
we're gonna make somebody else other than Steph beat us,
because if we put two guys on you score, Okay,
we're down to but we put two guys on you
and Steph scores again, all right, instead of being down ten,
we're down thirteen. We can't get down. But we get
down too many, that's gonna be it. But we can
afford to gamb a little bit roll some coverages towards you,
because if you make a bucket, hey, we can go
down and tie the game up. But when we can't
(43:09):
do it and you go up big, well, we can't
afford that. So again you see his effectiveness a little
bit less, but a game like tonight where the Warriors
had an eight to ten point lead for the vast
majority of the game. Once you got in the third quarter,
it's Hey, Steph is unstoppable, right, and making those shots
one on one, being able to get a shot and
get open. Well, what we saw in this game is
you had multiple players that had their shot, like Klay
(43:31):
Thompson there. There's got to be a better explanation to
where we're at with him because he continues to struggle
from the outside and give everything you want to the
Lakers defense and closing out and flashing at him whatever
his shot has been off this entire series. But Draymond
being aggressive offensively, You saw Andrew Wiggins best offensive game
(43:53):
he's had in a while. So you've got other options,
which means there's more of a flow to the offense. Right,
there's a lot of games where it's standing around and
watching Steph work the flow stops. He's the guy that's
constantly moving, so as long as your defense switches up
and generally you're giving up the height. And we watched
(44:13):
it with Anthony Davis the other day, Right, you had
an opportunity where yes, he did get into the lane,
on him once, but then in the all important sequence
when he went off balance misdirected by Davis's defense, got
the ball back out at the top and had to
take a step back instead of being able to come
towards the line because of Davis's closeout. To your point,
(44:36):
that's where it becomes a bigger issue, because you get
a lot more standing around waiting for Steph to do something.
And that's I don't know what you call that in
terms of stagnation, right, the old Jordan effect or Lebron effective. Yeah,
the superstar is gonna go do it. We've seen it
with James Harden, go back to past generations in his
career and places where he's playing. It's like, all right,
(44:58):
well James is gonna take the shot, so try to
get your breather and eventually either crash the border. I mean,
if you missed the shot, what are we going to do?
We're done? And I think with Steph Curry you get
some of that as well, of there's just standing around
and that energy, that fluidity in motion kind of gets lost.
But that zero for twelve stat Yeah, that suddenly popped
(45:19):
up everywhere. Something that had been said here oftentimes with
the like a standing eight count. Suddenly someone built a
lower third for it. It became the most used stat in
the last forty eight hours.
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the hell happened all these Mets pitchers that were supposed
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if that doesn't happen, I'm blaming you. And I'm gonna
burn the white Sox hat that's on your head, except I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Gonna do it while you're wearing it, so your head
is gonna go up in flames. I have been called
the heat miser. Before It's all good.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You wouldn't look very much heat miser, so very much
shut I'm bump, bump. I can do that. Stroll out
through the hallway too, while my head's on fire.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Here's where things sit right now, twenty five seconds left
in Game five, the Knicks trying to send it to
Game six. They lead the Heat one oh nine to
one oh three. They also have the basketball following a
miss three by the Heat. So it looks like and
I say looks like because it is the Knicks the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Could be I'm not gonna say yet, but the Knicks
could be back. They could They were never back, well
let me be back. No, they were gone. Now they
were going Frostburg, So that means they could be back.
They at least you've gone here for a while. I mean,
I do like that. We've got John Starts hanging alongside
the Jonas Brothers, court size everybody, and suddenly everybody wants
to be at the Knicks games. Now everybody there any
(02:32):
watch Jimmy Butler, Mike stop.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They're here to watch Jalen Brunson and his thirty eight points,
eight rebounds and seven since go New.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
York, Go, New York, coat, go New York, Go, New
York go. It's so exciting. The Knicks could be back.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And another twenty one point three seconds to any one
point three seconds.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Fifteen minutes left on this fantastic voyage. Uh, they keep
saying Robinson back to nice, Robinson back to the line,
and thus far four of eight.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, yeah, the hack of Robinson. He missed one, but
they started that with about five minutes left here.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yes, but Julius.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Randall with the rebound after a Mitchell Robinson miss making
a nine point lead for the Knicks.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
That was one of the laziest rebounding efforts from a
team desperate to try to get back into a game
I've ever seen. And that's gonna be it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
The Knicks are gonna win this game, one twelve to
one oh three.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
The Knicks are back. Go New York, Go New York.
Coat and you know what this means, New York. Go
as soon as that Laker game doesn't matter, Go New York. Yeah,
but that's what's happening. Now, Go New York. Just inevitable,
go New York live to see him one more day.
He wait till we.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Sweep you in the finals. Frostburg Knicks Lakers. It's happening, man,
it's happening.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Go New York, Go New York, Go New York's happening
like the Mets going on a win street. We've won
one in a row. It's all good. Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
That is the big final right there, one twelve, one
oh three. The Knicks will play again. They will go
back to Game six in Miami. Jalen Brunson with thirty eight, R. J.
Barrett with twenty six, Julius Randall twenty four, five and one,
and the one is a big black guy he got
getting elbowed earlier in the game. The uh, the viral
(04:16):
exploits of what his eye looked like at the beginning
of this was absolutely insane.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
So there's your night.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You got Brunson hugging John Starks right now, Starks saying,
remember when I went four for seventeen in Game seven
against the against the Rockets.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Man, you can't do that in the next game. So
the n is going to bring up any of his futility.
He's a mixture to tell you about the four he made.
Go New York, Go New York, Go, Go New York,
Go New York. Go got go or go all right?
All right, good, look, only eight points off the bench
for the Knicks, but they did get six rebounds from Hartenstein.
He had four points.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And the big big I mean, just think about this
for a second, the biggest hoop of the Nick the
knixer up by two, trying to hold on to a
lead late. They led by at one point, but you
know it's the Knicks and it's the NBA.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You're gonna blow it.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In theory, you're either getting a run or you're getting
someone symbolically waving a white white towel somewhere. He's just
a whether you get to see it on the screen
or now. So things are getting really tight. I'm not
too happy as we're watching the game. No, and it's
it's a seven.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Point lead, and a four point lead, and a three
point lead, and a five point lead. Then it gets
down to two, and now I'm feeling, Okay, this is
not good. This is not good. And the Knicks take
it all the way down to the end of the
shot clock.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
RJ.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Barrett goes in for a layup, he misses high, but
Isaiah Hartenstein goes in for the follow up jam.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The biggest bucket of the year for the Knicks, and
it's Isaiah Hartenstein who makes it. He is Thelannie Walker
so far off tonight, except he only had two points
instead in the fourth quarter instead of like fifteen. But
the biggest bucket of the season.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
If I could, I could a point to anybody, Hey,
who's gonna score the biggest Nicks bucket of the season, Jason,
I would say, Well, it's gonna be Brunson. No, well
it's gonna be Randall. No it would be Barrett. No, oh,
it'll be quickly off the bench. No, it'll be Obi Toppin. No,
who's it gonna be. It's gonna be Isaiah Hartenstein. Oh well, okay,
then quickly still not available. You got eighty eight points
between your big three, including your your monster effort from
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Jalen Bronson thirty eight. As you said, four of ten
from three, your guy Julius Randall. You want to talk
about someone bre exhaling very loudly. You can almost hear it,
even though we have no sound on from these monitors
in the studio. When they showed him getting ready to
hug his kid and then walk off the court, might
(06:37):
be the most relieved guy leaving Madison Square Garden today.
We got that one done, all right, We live to
see another day. A lot of excitement. He got all
the luminaries there, but a huge game and when it
came to crunch time, yeah, you went to the hakka
whoever was nearby, and that that happened about a halfway
(06:59):
through the fourth quarter, and they they stayed composed. You
had a couple of runs where wide open Robinson on
the other end, or or Jimmy Butler with a bucket.
Kyle Lowry hit a couple of big threes, but they
never were able to overcome that gap. Right, close it
down to two, and then it extended back out and
(07:20):
a couple of bad bad shots selection with the game
still on the line, and then you close out.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So congratulations, the Lakers Warriors are getting ready to start.
Good nut. It was good except for the go New York,
New York. I mean you need to have eight other
people behind you to really we need a cacophony of
(07:49):
voices to make that work. Go New York, Go New York, Go,
Go New York, Go New York Go. I didn't mean
that you need to start whispering it like you were
a crowd. I could just do it short towing it.
I could do it in different voices. I could do
it like Roy Kent, Go New York, Go New Yak
do that like e F and go and then have
a tight shirt layer them together so it's a a symphony. Sure,
(08:12):
I could do it like Rage against the Machine, New
York with a pocket that could have done it like
Hall of Famers. Well, well look the next they'll be
Hall of Famers when they come back from three to
one New York. You know, we talked about it the
other night, only five percent of teams able to do
that in the history of the NBA playoffs. Knicks get
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one to stay alive tonight, and now we'll see if
the Warriors can match and keep this series go and
force it back to Los Angeles. Mike, five percent for
Jason is like winning the lottery. Well, I mean, my
team's usual usually an acceptable rate of error, right the
plus or minus when we're looking at polling questions and
election results and all of those kind of things, margin
(08:57):
of error three to five percent, so usually uptimal rate.
But in this case, it's you got five percent chance
to win the series, and and you slamm the table
and you say you're saying there's a chance, Go New York.
Never tell me the odds, go New York, Go New York.
I went to, Yeah you did, but go New York.
The liberty chant Uh no, that's liberty Liberty games. Liberty. Oh,
(09:22):
I thought you met like the liberty commercials Liberty Liberty.
That's not a sponsor, No, not a sponsor. You mean
the New York Liberty I don't know what they sing
it to, the New York Liberty games. Think the song
that you're singing, the horrible song you're saying they might
also have some kind of chance specific to an opponent
that we can't say on air. Back in the New
York I'm back back in the New York groove, but
(09:45):
I'm back.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
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Speaker 4 (10:02):
Com Concrete Shong Goal where things are made.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Uh so, yes, we are getting set to tip. The
Lakers and Warriors are seconds away. But look, let me
just say this about the Knicks and the Heat.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Well the ball tip chase all there you you're running
for your life. Next are done? Man, I'm shooting. What's happening? No?
Are we playing Ward Association karaoke tonight? Is that? Is
that what wentzay has become? Here? I'll be honest. This
is not a great series. Neither team is playing great.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
I mean that's kind of where we are right now
in the NBA playoffs where sometimes you just get series
like that because look, this Knicks heat that the Heat
have not played well and they're up three to two.
The Knicks have just played a little bit worse than
the Heat, so they're down three to two. That's kind
of what this series has been. But tonight what's happened
is a guy that doesn't get enough credit that continues
(10:59):
to get a bigger and bigger slice of the pie every.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Day we go on.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Is Jalen Brunson. Now doesn't he look like a bleeping bargain?
At four years and one hundred million dollars, you get
Jalen Brunton for you. What are your guys doing?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Oh wait a minute, that's the biggest bargain of all.
That's the biggest free agent signing in years in the NBA.
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Okay, wait, the guy
came and totally redid the culture and was a guy
that said I'm not gonna let us lose. Oh yeah,
suddenly he's an absolute bargain at four years and one
hundred million dollars. Also, just recognizing the cost of doing business.
We do this every time a quarterback gets signed and
(11:32):
people don't like it. Team decided they were worth the money,
and I'm looking squarely going back to New York and
looking at Daniel Jones, you may not like it. They
think there's something more in the tank. So they're paying
ahead for what may become a better offense and more
prolific offense. Can he be that guy? I don't know,
but they're paying for it. Likewise, bringing in Jalen Brunson,
(11:54):
you go to New York, you know you gotta pay
the piper because we're talking about the New York tax
when it comes to the actual state income tax there,
so you might have to do a bit of an overpay.
But you're also looking to shake things up, which means
you're coming over the top of any offer, which means
Dallas really didn't get a seat at the table from
all we're told. Dad being there as part of the
(12:17):
step that certainly doesn't hurt Rick Bronson, of course. But
the idea is that where are you finding juice in
this NBA. It's not a center driven league, right. You
got very few guys that truly hit free agency without
a bunch of strengths. Because most of your big guys
that have moved around, what do they do? They decided
(12:38):
they hated the team they were with, and then they
force a trade as opposed to I'm actually in free agency,
and we'll listen to offers and we'll choose the place
that makes the most sense. Bought into Thibadeau's philosophy, came in,
worked with Derek Rose, a guy who I think needs
more credit for what he's been. Hasn't been able to
be on the court, and that's fine, he's at that
(12:59):
part of his NBA life cycle. But he's a guy
that's Thibodeau's right hand man and one of those guys
that was helping to try to figure out what the
culture of this squad needed to be. Brunson comes in
and you've had many games like tonight where he's carrying him.
Julius Randall, third Team All NBA. Love him or hate him,
the guy put up numbers for the season and in
(13:21):
the playoffs. Yeah, there's big efforts that he gives you
and sometimes disappearing acts. Guess what. That's the rest of
the NBA. But you go four for one hundred, it's
it's a bargain because look where the market's headed. If
you've got a point guard that can run things and
can still put up thirty five points on you while
running the show, we don't have a lot of guys
that do both very well. I have some initials for you,
(13:44):
g n Y g n YG go New York, New
York coat, go New York, New York co, co New York,
New York and go York co New York coat, go
New York, New York coat. Uh So, the Knicks have
won the biggest win in franchiseestor well leased since the
seventy three championship.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
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Speaker 1 (14:15):
Now, just think about this for a second, because we
talk about Lebron being near the end and how much
can you count on him for it. It's really hard
to say we're counting on him. You can count him
to play because of the injury that he has had
the last couple of years. Now, he has been pretty
healthy in the playoffs so far. And okay, maybe part
of his thing was the minute I sense sense a
(14:36):
little bit of pain, I'm sitting out and want to
be healthy for this part, right, But let's go just
a little bit deeper on something here. Lebron is thirty eight. Okay,
Lebron is thirty eight, and he had a regular season
where he was twenty nine eight and seven. All right,
just think about that for a second team all in
this NBA, right, third team All NBA today, twenty nine
(14:58):
eight and seven.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
He was thirty eight years old. Michael Jordan had come
out of retirement. He had already been retired for three years,
and he came out to go play for the Wizards,
in which he was a twenty point a game scorer.
That's kind of what he was, twenty four and three.
At the end.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
He wasn't embraced by his teammates. A lot of his
teammates were upset that he came out. He didn't really
get along that great with Rip Hamilton, some of those
guys on the Wizards. So just for a second, you know,
for all the oh, Lebron is this he should be
doing this? He should be doing this at thirty eight
years old. He's a twenty nine eight and seven guy.
And here they are in the second round of the playoffs,
(15:34):
one game away from the Western Conference finals. Again, whereas
Michael Jordan had already been retired and was coming out
of retirement to see if he could still play. I
just think just that for a second. When you want
to rip Lebron to go all Lebron, and you think
about the Lebron Michael Jordan comparisons. This is now part
of it. Yeah, O Jordan's got six titles. Yeah, okay,
all right, I'm fine with that. But Lebron is still
(15:56):
potentially going to finals. He won you know, he went
to a final and won it three years ago. He
could be going back to another one.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
He is still.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Playing at an extremely high level. It's almost like watching
Lebron at the end to compare it to a different
sport is kind of like watching Jerry Rice where he
was still thirty eight years old catching ninety passes with
the Raiders, where some of the best receivers in NFL
history they'd been they were saying they were counting the
days they're almost eligible to go to the Hall of
(16:24):
Fame because they've been out of the game since they
were thirty four, thirty five years old. And here's Jerry
Rice at the end thirty eight Cup, I got ninety
catches everything.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Yeah I'm still rolling man'. That's kind of what Lebron
well and that he wouldn't hang it up. I have
trading cards to show you him in a Seahawks uniform
and in a Denver Broncos uniform. Are they worth anything?
Are they worth anything that really commons like they weren't.
I mean you can find the parallels that are you know,
serially numbered at all, but the base cards going all
(16:53):
the way back to two thousand and five as he's
finishing things up. That not to get all hey shit
and Jordan Chestey, remember you did also have several years
of playing college basketball and the emphasis on nutrition and
basketball being a three hundred and sixty five day job
(17:15):
and keeping your body in shape and not say smoking cigars,
drinking kognak and disappearing for a month. Not that Jordan
was out of shape, but there's a difference in hey,
body temple. And you've got all the legendary stories and
how much money and effort Lebron, Tom Brady, all these
athletes today put in to keep their body in peak condition.
(17:35):
That was not the case back then. Right, if you
got to the gym, you were a million light years
ahead of everybody else. Hey, I'm working out. Oh that's
why you win. He guy worked. He actually showed out
the other guys had so much.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I can't just put the ball away and sleep and
hang you out and eat for four months and then
get bout.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I can't do that, all right, Well, but I mean
even go back to the NFL. For a lot of
guys in Jerry Rice's era, off season was the off
season you came to training camp to get in and
for Lebron's career, that hasn't been the case. And even
going back to the early years, it's a shift and
the dynamic of the game, how the game is played
more wide open, less of the grind down type series
(18:15):
that we would have, particularly in the playoffs. I mean,
go back and watch your Nicks against the Bulls, go
watch the Bulls against the Pistons basketball, and insert any
other series you want there. There weren't a lot of
high flying offenses running around. Now they're beating the hell
out of each other in the low post. So the
game has changed, and with that, the evolution of your body,
(18:36):
your supplements, how you're treating your body, Everybody hitting the
hyperbaric chamber instead of a blackjack table. I mean, all
of those things come to play. And yeah, I guess
if you want, you could say, well, that's a slight
against Michael Jordan because he didn't care. He was too
busy smoking cigars and said lots of other stuff. Folks
seem to forget that the first retirement came after his
dad was murdered. Yeah, yeah, right, And look, well, may
(19:01):
never know the full truth of what all went on
there in terms of going and playing baseball and all,
but different times, different measures, but certainly an appreciation for
what Lebron is this year. Maybe he can't do it
every night, but certainly in the playoffs, even when he
picked his spot the other night, Right, he didn't do
it a whole lot offensively in the first half and
(19:22):
then it became the gladiator at my signal on leash,
hell and away he went and still finished with twenty
one and facilitated on a lot of baskets. It was
huge defensively. So it's about how you use your energy,
You store it and then you go to work. Jason, Yeah,
what's up, Frostberg. So basically, if I'm reading the writing
on the wall here correctly, what you're saying is Lebron
(19:44):
is better than Michael.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Jordan at this point. Yeah, yeah, anyt even close. Well,
when you talk about in their heyday and dominance. But
once you get out of that, it's not even close.
I like this writing on the wall, like if you
want to talk about I think that guy who was better?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Who was? But you always hated Lebron because he was
coming for Kobe? I mean, come on, what.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Do you do?
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
No? Like like after the age of never coming for Kobe,
can't come for the King, dude.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I think the big question is who's more impressive in
their league? I mean, these you're talking about probably the
two most impressive along with Brady and Rogers.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Right, who are the dgers that in there you can't beat?
Speaker 6 (20:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
On Rogers come right at thirty seven thirty eight Aaron
Rodgers won two mv just threw the whole argument out
on two MVPs. But Brady, Rogers, Lebron and Jerry Rice
there you're over thirty five Mount Rushmore right, Like, who's
like seriously by one guy who's had a betting? George
blanda Gordy bleeping Yeah okay, Gordy, how was you know
(20:46):
fifty nine playing in the wh I mean Robert.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
De Naro is seventy nine. He just had another kid? Yeah, yeah,
that's uh my dad. My dad had some choice thoughts, Oh,
said my dad. Just no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no spoiler, I've held it back for a decade.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
No.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
We started talking about that and he went off, like,
what come on, what are you doing? You say, my
dad just a another kid? You know? All right? What's
your dad's beef? What? Mom and dad is celebrating an
anniversary today? No extra? Oh, and I'm aware maybe that's
gonna be the big news. That would be a bad
big story. You're getting a kid again, and you're gonna
be a big brother. I'm out. You did to take
(21:25):
care of your little brother because you know you're gonna
be fifty and he's gonna be two. My mother suld
go down that path. I'm done. You're gonna be your dad.
What's your dad's beef? Mike, who the hell cares? It's
not like your dad's raising his kid. No, no, no,
it was just more you know, the men of a
certain age, What are you doing when you're seventy nine?
Advy kid? Like one of those deals? Since DeMar was
supposed to do act singers sing the same on your uncelluloid,
(21:51):
like you've been doing same character for the last twenty years,
he's gonna act like he's a dad. Oh more than
twenty years. Danier has been playing the same guy since,
like after Cape Fear. I mean, like you're going back,
what was Cape Fear ninety two ninety one?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I think that he's playing the same after that same
guy every movie. Everything, make the face, make the face,
every single he did everything.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
They insulted him every single kind of like the Jets
this season after season. No, that to your point, I
liked it. I think the big quite who was better?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I mean you're talking about two guys, dominant Lebron and
Jerry Rice, who was better in their late thirties, Because,
like I said, Jerry Rice was still catching nine He
caught ninety passes when he was forty with the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I don't think the Raiders even out a quarterback that year.
But it was the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think they directly snapped the ball to a running
back who threw the ball to Jerry Rice. That's how
impressive it's been. Was still getting it on man. I
mean he had him, you had Tim Brown. I mean
they were still but that a prolific offense at that point.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
But that but but the whole thing that Lebron and
Michael Jordan. It's like everybody wants to stop the conversation
with Michael went six for six and look at Lebron,
He's gone to finals and lost. And the big thing
I will say is, hey, you know what you want
to talk about? A conversation in which Lebron is is
going to win this conversation with Michael Jordan, because look,
(23:08):
we remember the romanticism of the Bulls and Jordan being
the first guy to be that kind of player, right,
but since Jordan, we've seen guys be pretty similar. We've
seen Kobe Bryant do his thing. Now we see big
players who were do we see guys who's seven footers
with that kind of skill set with Giannis Lebron, It's like,
I'm sorry, the conversation doesn't stop just because Michael Jordan
(23:29):
went to six finals, he won six. I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I can't penalize Lebron because he went to more finals
and lost, like Jordan didn't get to other finals.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
But but but.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
But Lebron getting there and losing suddenly is a mark
against him.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
No, I'm not down with that. I'm also down Hey,
Jordan stopped I'm not down with that, man, I'm not
down with that, dude. I'm back. I'm back because I'm
back when the Knicks were relevant. Let's go New York,
Go New York, goat, go to So I'm not down
with that. And you can't just stop the conversation when
you've okay, well it's done well. When Jordan stopped, No,
the fact that Lebron can still do this at thirty eight,
(24:04):
I'm sorry, that's a really big deal and he's been
doing it for the past three and four years. Jordan
retired at the age where Lebron won another championship. So yeah,
I mean that's part of the that's part of the
discussion when you want to talk about the greatest players.
You can't have the Lebron Jordan conversation yet because Lebron's
not done and I don't know that he's even two
years from being done. Is he gonna be healthy enough?
(24:27):
That's the thing, right if he if suddenly his health
is like I can't play anymore, Okay, But it's like
we wanted to write the end of the discussion and
you can't yet because Lebron is still playing and he's
still playing pretty right, you can dislike the paths for both, right,
Folks didn't like Jordan retiring twice and the Wizard era,
and you know, some argue gets lopped off like it
(24:47):
never happens, like no, it exists, and he played, I
talk about it. Nobody happened. For what it was still
averaging twenty points a game. But is it the same player? No,
and you but it's romanticized. It's like being in the
museum and you want you don't want to disparage anything
from that museum. Folks would have you believe Michael Jordan
never missed a shot, right, Even Giann has brought it up.
(25:09):
Probably not the best example because Michael Jordan would would
kill to have those other nine titles right and the
failure seasons as it were. But for Lebron, that's always
gonna be it. Eh. I'm I'm an evolved guy. I can't.
I can hold my my love for Jordan, but recognize
what I'm watching in front of me. I'm not. I'm
not an animal. Guys, we haven't even seen Orlando Magic
(25:31):
Lebron yet.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No, ye had No, that's true, that's true. We have
not seen that yet. Just wait for that, wait for
the Bigro's gonna get too.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Good after this. Next lottery between them and the Rockets
should get better than whoever gets victory. So yeah, and
then we go after that. Yeah yeah, Twitter and out
about a Fresco. Mike gets swollen down.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
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Speaker 1 (26:14):
Still think the general fan thinks of the Warriors as
they're the champs. They didn't have a great regular season
because you can't have a great regular season all the time.
When the playoffs come, everybody's great. And we have watched
the Warriors giveaway two leads in this game, in this
series and be able to win two games where they
couldn't execute the end of games, and this would be
a third. This would be one of those Hey, time
(26:37):
to find something new, Time to you know, Draymond Green
won't come back. They'll find a way to move on.
They'll try to bring in a new mix of players.
Because as much as they wanted to point out that, hey,
Wiggins is.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Great and Pool is great and these are our future,
maybe not maybe not Wiggins anymore, Maybe not Pool anymore, Kamingo,
who knows you can get on the court anymore. This
would definitely be one of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
The Hey, we have to retool in a larger way
because you you would have had a disappointing regular season
and an extremely disappointing playoff runt. Now, still time left
here and they have the lead, but we've seen them
give away leads before.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
This is how precarious the Warriors are right now, Well, no,
and that's it, right. You take a bad shot, long
rebound and you have the opportunity for an easy layup
for Anthony Davis, and then the lead is still at fifteen.
You have a file being called on Draymond Green. He's
fighting with the official again, him up. Not quite sure
(27:32):
what was going on there. It looks like Austin Reeves
was doing some acting. Either that or there was a
fingernail swipe up trying to steal the ball we didn't
quite catch either way. The still of it was fantastic.
It was almost like the Scream also as done by
McCauley culkin. If that's gonna help make the reference better.
But I thought you meant like the Scream, like the
(27:53):
movie Scream. No, I was going back to the original
painting into McCauley culkin to ghost Face and that original
original painting, which beget nicauley Culkin, which beget the Scream
movies with ghost Face. Anytime we get to use the
word begat repeatedly, it's very biblical in nature. Gat.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
There's no other like like. That's like one of the
words that is most widely associated with the biblegette.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
No question about it. The other word is about The
other word is holy. But you know you have holy
and begat. You gotta have a little bit of that.
And then he gets to the Book of Revelation. Well,
I mean he got all sorts of stuff going on there.
By the way, was the Book of Revelations? That was
that movie with Jenna Ortega right where the Future Comes
and John William Scott Right, was that Book of Revelation?
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Well, I don't know that what it was, No, that's
the the second part of the Bowser movie when he
fights Mario getting for Peaches.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Peaches, Peaches peace, does we have Bowser? And then they
have Bowser Junior? Okay, all right, I didn't know that
was that was highly entertaining. By the way, if you
haven't seen it, yeah, I was, you know, I was
watching a bits and pieces on YouTube. Oh sorry you,
I'm it's not supposed to say was I not supposed
to say that. I'm sorry. They're coming to get you.
(29:05):
I mean, it's gonna be the Mike Harmon show here
because you're you're talking about terrible things. It was on
your computer. No, it wasn't. It was go see that
brow ain't gonna find that that brows They might find
some other stuff, but you ain't finding that. Jail for Harmon?
Look at Harmon? Hey, now, wow, can you do the
show from jail? Can you set up a com rex
box and then do a show for I think I could.
(29:26):
They probably have a podcasting unit in most jails. Now
your Harmon talking really lovely? Instead have an hour on
the yard. I get my hour in front of a microphone.
Hello everybody, what Yeah, it is late here, it is
lights out. You shut that radio off and stop talking.
All right? Well cut guy tomorrow, guy running out, Jase
across the bars, Jase, I really gotta go. They're not
(29:46):
happy that I'm being allowed. You shut that up. You
know what I when I had that speech against the Lakers,
that did not serve me. Well, well, listen, here's what
you do. I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you advice.
If it ever happens that you went to that, you
will go to prison. If you're prison, Jason, give it me.
Make sure they know who you are. Wanted, they know
who you are.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
And at lights out, you do a radio show and
you take questions on their callers, except instead of calling,
they're just shouting.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
You know, Jim from from Level B.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I like that, but watch out for too many hot takes.
I think you want to play it right down the middle.
In prison, you got into jails like City Field.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Do you want to make well? I mean, he's still
is a fugitive of the law from that federal.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That was that was that that the statute of limitations.
And again, if you take a mailbox on a Sunday,
it's not a crime.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You ready for your blank meat sandwich? You're not tongue
tight shirt.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
What you're getting very loose lipped here a little bit,
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
What's blank? Meet you just you just well, it's a
type of sandwich me. Son, hit that big red button
right there, big red button right there, hit like two
or three times. Just they don't know what he's gonna
do in the new studio.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Hit that, hit that button.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Get rid of that.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Uh So, the Lakers trying to come back against the Warriors,
still on a time left, eight minutes left to go.
It's a thirteen point lead for Golden State ninety nine
to eighty six. But let's not lose focus and lose
sight of the big story tonight, and that.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Is go New York, Go New York co. Go New York,
Go New York Co. Go New York, Go New York
CoA the New York Next. The Knicks are back. Forget
about the Lakers charity. The Knicks are back. I did
I like chaired Dancing?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Well, they survived the way chair Dancing. How long till
that becomes a TV show on a music type network.
They're getting rid of MTV news. You know what? We
we talked about that off air yesterday. We did not
proper tribute for Kurt Loader. Kurt Loader was John Norris.
I mean those are two of those seminal voices. I'm
(32:06):
Kurt Loader of Random Entertainment News.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, John, No, it was John Norris and Kurt and
Norris and Tabitha Soren. Yeah, they were the they were
the big ones. But Kurt Loder was always I'm so
very serious and I'm in a T shirt and a
blazer and he would wear that every single time and.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
The whole time I'm sitting it going are you high?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
And the guy had The guy had no experience at all.
He was an editor at Rolling System. Put John TV,
I'm Kurt Loader MTV news. No, We've never heard of
anything like that.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I'm Kurt Loader, MTV News. And then John Norris is
all the Hey, I'm John Norris. You like me? Like
like me? Like me.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
He was always excited to be there, so I liked him.
He was He was Tabitha Soren. Oh yeah, Tabitha Soren, who.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Was married to hang On, hang On, I know this
married to Michael Lewis, the author who wrote Moneyball. How
about that? They are married Tabitha Sworn and Michael Lewis.
It's the time to get Michael Lewis on. You can
run Moneyball. That's all I would do is run Moneyball plus.
That's all I would do. I just remember the MTV
music video when they were just went through the when
(33:07):
they when they did the the song about the network,
and it was just Ricky Ricky, Ricky Rackman, Ricky Ricky Rackman.
Tabitha Tabitha, Tabatha sore and Tapatha Tapatha this one, I
know that was the whole song. It was called, was
it yo MTV whatever? I forget what it was called.
But tt MTV did a song. There was a video
that was a song that was about the people who
(33:28):
were on MTV. Now, let me ask you a question.
Taller hair Adam Curry VJ. Yeah, but he was a VJ.
Wasn't MTV by by well? I mean I'm going on
mv TV now or Howard Stern when he showed up
his fart man, No, Adam Curry, You kidding, Adam Curry.
Adam Curry was like he had like twice the hair
(33:50):
that Axel Rose had when you want like that, and
he was all bangled out too. He would have all
the oh yeah, Adam Curry like me in my early twenties.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sure, Oh, I'm Adam Curry.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I'm very serious with this music news. Very serious music news.
Very That's what we found out about all our musicians games.
Now you'd be in the middle of a block of
videos all of a sudden, like, here's an update from
MTV news, like terribly terrible news exactly. I was like,
what's the bead bad one this week? I mean, I'm
so old. I had to you guys. Remember, in order
(34:22):
to see a music video for the first time, you
had to wait for Carson Daily to put it out
on TRL.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But before that, I remember when when they would say, hey,
the world premiere video is something.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
We have a world premiere video tonight. But also on
on network television. We did have Friday night videos and
Saturday night stuff for a while. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert,
which is like one thirty in the morning. Kids don't
know how how easy they have it these days, man,
I mean Saturday morning, like if we weren't out and about,
and this goes back to that whole logic of people
(34:53):
sitting at home. I mean Saturday morning, you should have
been out doing things. We were watching the Soul Trains,
not a cartoon. Yeah, no, no, no, Soul Train was great. Great.
Don Cornelius's finally going into the rocket.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You want a good Soul Train story. My wife and
I once got kicked off the set of Soul Train.
It's not surprised we got kicked when we came out
to La. We moved out to La you can and
when we went to I think it was on Universal
Studios where it used to be the Soule Train set. Yeah,
So we went to Universal and we just you know,
walking around doing different things, you know, going on rides
(35:25):
and everything else. And we had this part of the
park where like, what's that big building. We didn't know
what it was. We walked inside and it was a
Soul Train kid. And this is like a Thursday afternoon
at like two o'clock, so like, oh my god, it's
a Soul Train set. Pam goes, I want to go
up there and take a picture. I go, We're not
supposed to be here, so I.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Want to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
She runs up and she stands, you know, sticks her
butt out towards me, and she starts she's smiling. So
from really far away, I got to picture this Soul Traine.
It's Soul trained with PAMs in and they were like,
oh my god, I wanted to get one. And then
we hear it, hey, and we hear this door closed,
we run out.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
That's pretty good. You did impression that gets you in
a lot of a lot of trouble and you have
to just sit there going please don't.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
I should have said, I know, Don Simpson, Yeah, yeah, don't, Yetta,
you got Donny Simpson.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Back your nose. I'm here, which I probably wouldn't, but
you know, I don't know, maybe maybe because right he
get in there and sales Soul trained for a while,
right Don Simpson, Yeah sure he was yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean after Don Cornelius too too. Yeah. I mean,
you know, well, I remember those the football commercial with
Don Cornelius when they tried to make it out to
be like a Don Oh yeah. Herman Moore went up
(36:31):
to him asking him, Hey, can you got teach me
how to dance Herman more like the funky Chicken, No,
like a touchdown dance like Pam Greer was in that commercial.
Oh yeah, Hey, we're back to the nineties now, everybody. Hey,
it's awesome. You might want to have to explain the
millennials what the nineties were. Oh? Sorry, yes, what is
a soul train the nineteen and not the eighteen ninetiesth okay, no, okay,
(36:52):
did you say soul train or soul plane? I said train? Okay,
Soul Train dance show on Saturday mornings. Were they on
a train where they where it was?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
They played music and people dance kind of like American bandstand.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
Okay, got you.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Soul Plane was a movie where Snoop Dogg was a
pilot and Kevin Hart.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
It was absolutely hilarious. Stop soul playing. If you ever
seen back to two thousand and four, Soul Plane is
hysterical method man, it's so funny. It's it's Snoop Dogg
is a pilot of this plane that they're flying flight
New York to go back to Kevin Hart. Soul Plane
is so funny, and Tom Arnold is in it too. Sophia,
it's one of her first movies. You said, Vigara, Yeah, yeah,
(37:37):
Soul Plane is hysterical. So why does Snoop not fly anymore? Well?
He was.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
He was a pilo high he was what I'm saying, Well,
that's part of the plot of the movie that they
didn't take him out because he was you know, he
couldn't fly.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
So you're saying he wasn't a real pilot, but he
was flying. This plane was playing a real place. It's
it's just a movie.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Just the plane bounces up and down, right. Yeah they
did have part of that, then, yeah they did that.
They wonder what caused that. I was sitting there, little John,
little John Karl alone, Caromelone was in it as himself,
was he? I remember? Okay, I haven't seen it in
a while. I'm just going through the IMDb.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
So Soul Train, reel, Soul Plane not real? Well, no,
so plain real movie. But how so Snoop Dogg not
because it was a movie. I'm gonna sk Snoop dog
to fly a plane for me. Then that sounds awesome him.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
On the show. Anyway, Let's go pilot. That's people who
are pilots. You should have titles.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
I think it should be titled right like a doctor, lawyer,
pretty you put your life in their hands, just like
doctors and Captain, Captain, everybody, Captain.
Speaker 4 (38:41):
Assistant Captain, Captain, Captain, the Long Night on the show, Captain,
how about Friday?
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Did I ever tell you Jason I met snoop dong.
Uh No, it was out the Fox lot when I
was filling in one time. He was getting off from
the show before me. He's like, well, sup, nephew was
I'll saw bunk.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
That's it. But it was great wall. You called me nephew,
and you called him bank Un. I'm cash. I thought
he said bunk. I called him bunk. Hey, I'm pretty
sure you said bunk as I said. You said, just
like Frostburg said the Price of Heart instead of the
Prices rights ago.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
All right, I'm pretty sure I would've end up smoking
and joint with him. I stayed around.
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Okay, whoa allegedly allegedly? I mean, yeah, that's why didn't happen.
I mean allegedly allegedly. Let's fake like Soul Plane. Okay,
so Soul Plane's a movie, Soul Trained TV show, Oh
thank you, Soul Trained sol one runs a train one.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Doesn't be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 4 (39:36):
Watching the Warriors win tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Obviously, we'll have more on Anthony Davis as soon as
we know something Susie no more will tell you, but
the Warriors tonight.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Look, I don't want no screw.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
I don't care when I talk about Steph Curry and
the greatness of of Steph. The situation has to be
a certain way for Steph Curry to succeed. And the
style of basketball and the system that Steve Kurr was
able to implement with the Warriors when he first came over,
turned Steph Curry from a guy scoring.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
About twenty three a game, right, that's what he was.
He was a periphery All star. Suddenly now he's scoring
thirty a game and he's the greatest shooter we've ever seen.
Steve Kurr doesn't get enough credit for being the coach
he is. We see, we talk about the players, we
talk about Steph and Clay and Draymond, and oh yeah
Steve kurt No, Steve Kurr turned that team around and
took these guys that were already on the team and
turned it into a superstar team. But this is what
(40:31):
the Warriors need for Steph Curry to be Steph Curry.
And again, tonight wasn't a great night for him, but
he did hit big shots near the end, and a
couple of big threes when the Warriors can front run
or they have to come from behind. This is where
Steph Curry is at his best because defensively, you have
to be a little bit looser.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
You can't roll coverages towards him because hey, you're losing big.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
You know you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
And you know they make a couple of baskets if
they're down big you want to try to avoid.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
There's a lot more freedom with the offense that teams
have when they're up bigger. They're down big, we're coming
up the floor, we're finding a spot and we're chucking
it up. Because it's almost like teams are in a
prevent defense when you when you're talking about being up big,
when you're talking about trying to hold off a team
when you're up big, this is where Steph can get loose,
get one on one and get his shots off. Conversely,
(41:21):
when they're down biggots, why they can come back. The
spurret ability that you talk about, Hey, in eighty seconds,
they can take a ten point devisit and suddenly Hey,
because the game was going one way, but Steph is
able to get loose, hit a three es being single guarded.
Oh suddenly, here come the worries. Now it's back. Then
the game gets close, and then Steph Curry's effectiveness is
not quite what it is. When the Warriors can play
(41:43):
their style, when they confront run or if they have
to come from behind, Steph Curry is unstoppable because the
shots he can get whatever he can, it's terrific. But
it's those close games that Steph struggles at once. Do
you see the stat the other day, then, I'm sure
nobody wants to hear that. Say Steph, Steve's Steph zero
for twelve in the playoffs game winning game time shots
final forty five seconds. I've told you he can't get
(42:05):
his own shots off. When teams say we have to
stop you, he doesn't score and he doesn't set his
teammates up because he's too small to be able to
get out and make a big pass. That's what happens
in the close games. His effectiveness is lessened in games
that aren't close. And this is a talent, it's a skill.
We've never seen a team like the Warriors get out
and beat teams like we had in their early heyday,
(42:27):
where suddenly they're up by thirty in the first five
minutes of the game, and look what they're doing, and
they turn the NBA on their ear. No, we've never
seen them do that. That's something that's big. But I
think we've seen enough sample size the Warriors to know that, Hey,
when they get that big lead or they're trying to come, hey,
that's when Steph just puts up all kinds of those numbers.
But those close games, back and forth, that's where it
struggles because every possession is earned, and you can afford to, Hey,
(42:49):
we're gonna make somebody else other than Steph beat us,
because if we put two guys on you score, Okay,
we're down to but we put two guys on you
and Steph scores again, all right, instead of being down ten,
we're down thirteen. We can't get down. But we get
down too many, that's gonna be it. But we can
afford to gamb a little bit roll some coverages towards you,
because if you make a bucket, hey, we can go
down and tie the game up. But when we can't
(43:09):
do it and you go up big, well, we can't
afford that. So again you see his effectiveness a little
bit less, but a game like tonight where the Warriors
had an eight to ten point lead for the vast
majority of the game. Once you got in the third quarter,
it's Hey, Steph is unstoppable, right, and making those shots
one on one, being able to get a shot and
get open. Well, what we saw in this game is
you had multiple players that had their shot, like Klay
(43:31):
Thompson there. There's got to be a better explanation to
where we're at with him because he continues to struggle
from the outside and give everything you want to the
Lakers defense and closing out and flashing at him whatever
his shot has been off this entire series. But Draymond
being aggressive offensively, You saw Andrew Wiggins best offensive game
(43:53):
he's had in a while. So you've got other options,
which means there's more of a flow to the offense. Right,
there's a lot of games where it's standing around and
watching Steph work the flow stops. He's the guy that's
constantly moving, so as long as your defense switches up
and generally you're giving up the height. And we watched
(44:13):
it with Anthony Davis the other day, Right, you had
an opportunity where yes, he did get into the lane,
on him once, but then in the all important sequence
when he went off balance misdirected by Davis's defense, got
the ball back out at the top and had to
take a step back instead of being able to come
towards the line because of Davis's closeout. To your point,
(44:36):
that's where it becomes a bigger issue, because you get
a lot more standing around waiting for Steph to do something.
And that's I don't know what you call that in
terms of stagnation, right, the old Jordan effect or Lebron effective. Yeah,
the superstar is gonna go do it. We've seen it
with James Harden, go back to past generations in his
career and places where he's playing. It's like, all right,
(44:58):
well James is gonna take the shot, so try to
get your breather and eventually either crash the border. I mean,
if you missed the shot, what are we going to do?
We're done? And I think with Steph Curry you get
some of that as well, of there's just standing around
and that energy, that fluidity in motion kind of gets lost.
But that zero for twelve stat Yeah, that suddenly popped
(45:19):
up everywhere. Something that had been said here oftentimes with
the like a standing eight count. Suddenly someone built a
lower third for it. It became the most used stat in
the last forty eight hours.
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