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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday Jason Smith Show with my bass.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
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(00:59):
dixir up, they would. Everybody else is sweating it out.
We jump right in with the NBA playoffs TONIGHTO these years,
I'm living it up on top right now. Man. I
don't know when it's gonna be summertime in hell again,
and I gotta go back. So I'm living it up
on top right now like an eighties.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Staying down below and every year and finally finally wait
for me. Yeah, I'm coming.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Let's go. Halftime Thunder and the Lakers. The good news,
good news and bad news. Actually, there's good news, good
news and bad news for the Lakers. Okay, all right.
The good news is I really thought they'd be losing
by a lot more. It is a sixty one to
fifty three deficit. Lebron has been fantastic so far, has

(01:48):
taken over the scoring onus again. It's an eight point
game at halftime day it was a big lead. They
had cut it to one. Uh, Oklahoma City goes up
by a bit at the end of the first half,
but still this game is still there for the Lakers.
That's the good news. I can't give you the the
other good news until I give you the bad news,
so I gotta give them the bad news next. Okay.

(02:10):
Austin Reeves has continued to be terrible and tonight, I mean,
they're they're not gonna win this game. They're not gonna
even be close unless Austin Reeves is Austin Reeves. And
so far in the first half, tonight four points one
out of seven from the floor. He has just not
found his stroke since coming back from injury. He's not
been able to be the number two guy the Lakers

(02:31):
needed him to be jumping in and they're not gonna win.
They're not gonna come close to winning if he doesn't
pick it up in the second half. He's the most
important player on the floor right now. Now. The good
news is, at least he's making it easier for the
Lakers to keep him in the offseason because you know
he's got that option that he's gonna decline. He's gonna
be more money. So you know, hey, coming off this,
if this is his playoffs's gonna make it much easier

(02:52):
for the Lakers to keep him next season. So there
is a silver lining in all of this.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Mike, Well, two games reaching in that Houston series. You
know your Rockets that are at home tonight in that
second game, the closeout game. So you'll take that, you'll
wear that. What's curious as you go through and I
was finding the stats because you know Lebron James not

(03:17):
only does he love a taco Tuesday, he has been
magnificent historically on the Cinco Demayo. Well it's Taco Tuesday
and Synco Tomayo the same day, but that's shit. They
may mash up here.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
He is on case.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
He's never scored fewer than thirty two points in a
game on Cinco Demayo.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
So like, I got this for you, though, smart guy.
If that's Lebron so far, what about Chet Holmgren. Maybe
maybe Cinco de Mayo on Taco Tuesday is chet Holmgren's day.
He's got twenty just another alley I feel like every
play is an alleyup for chet Holmgren.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
W Now, I mean it's the Mike Harmon Spectacular because
you know nobody loves him, some Chet Holmgren more than me.
But here's Lebron all time Cinco de Mayo, thirty two,
thirty four, thirty five, thirty eight, and then you have
your requisites seven to ten rebounds and seven assists in
three of those four games. So he comes to play.

(04:10):
It's just a matter of whether everybody else can match
his energy. I love when he was ball hawking and
he had that big steal on the laziness of Shay
Gilgess Alexander who had an uncharacteristic four turnovers they were
asking it, and half is they were going, it's like,
what the hell, you guys had eight turnovers? What's going
on in there? It's like, calm down, calm down, It'll

(04:30):
be just fine, but a little sloppy with the basketball
to let the Lakers hang around.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
So wait, So what you're saying is, if I'm getting
everything you're saying, you are, you are basically accusing the
NBA and Adam Silver of pushing this Lakers game an
extra day to Tuesday, not just to get Luca potentially
healthy to play, which they didn't, yeah, but to get
Lebron to play on Taco Tuesday on Sinco to mind.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
That's it, because he is a more motivated, consistent, and
brilliant op raider when tacos are on the line.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean really well, I mean and
plus I mean being sacred to Mayo. I mean, I
mean I I I can see that, man. I feel
like Silver. I can see Adam Silver doing that. What
do we need You want me to get Scott Foster there? No, no, no, no, no,
not not yet. Don't worry about it. We'll do something
else first. We'll do the whole A single dot. That's
what the Lakers are gonna play, but boy, really they
should really play on Monday because they've had rest, and

(05:25):
maybe the Knicks and the sixth No, no, no, we
need the Knicks to make it to the finals. Let's
put this. Let's put the Sixers up on Monday, where
they're really really exhausted, and the Knicks can win by fifty.
Wait wait, do you see what social media is like
the next day for the Knicks. Now, let's do that.
Screw the Sixers, make them play Monday, Put the Lakers
on Tuesday. We gotta have it.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, all in you know, the invisible hand, right, just
like we'll all be anxiously awaiting the results of the
draft lottery when that goes down. Right on chance that
Dallas was able to at least save some face after
the Luka Doncis trade last year. Tada, Hey the kid
from Akrons coming out in two thousand and three. Hey,

(06:06):
who's number one?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Cleveland?

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Hey Derek Rose, you like Chicago? Hey, go to the Bulls.
It's almost like you can pick your spot. It's almost
I mean, don't draft at all.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
And I think I think you're, I think you're you're,
you're you're you know blowing past the big thing a
congratulations Toronto Maple leafs that they basically tank this year
and they get the number one pick in the NHL
draft that just came out today. Congratulations Toronto.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
See they worked themselves right into that. Never mind me
the whole thing. Hey, who works really well with big men? Popovich, Hey,
Victor Wenbiama, go to San Antonio and then we'll do
it again and again, and now we'll act some rules
so you can't do those things. But all of that
is is secondary. I mean, Detroit Basketball holds serve Game one,

(06:51):
and now we've got, you know this the second half
of OKC and and the Lakers underway.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
So again, eight and a half to go in the
third quarter, still a ten point lead for the Thunder.
Game is still there for the Lakers. It's not been
a an SGA takeover, which I thought. Look, I told
you last night, Hey, whatever the spread is, what was it?
Fifteen and a half went off at Yeah, yeah, I'll
take you give me the thunder and twenty five. Give
me the twenty five, give me almost thirty. This game

(07:18):
is still there for the Lakers. SGA is not taking
it over. He's had a customer an unaccustomary, unaccustomed slower
type of first half. But chet Holmgren's played really well.
He's hit a couple of threes. Now it's a seven
point game. This game is still there for the Lakers.
I mean, I think got to be pretty good, right right.

(07:40):
You did not talk about the not talk about.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
This game about it? Yes, Well, he was looking for
you to have a big opening on the Houston Rockets,
which is three or four times. It's one thing to
be said though, is certainly in the first quarter, maybe
a little less than the second. But first quarter they
let them get physical and even you know, as I
was in my commute to the studios and listening to

(08:04):
a little of the local broadcast and they're like, wow,
they're letting him beat each other up either physicality on
Lebron and look, he's just gonna bulldoze through people like
he tried to do at the end of the half
when they threw it up and he ran through three guys,
fell harmlessly on to the to the floor and missed
the shot. But for shay Gil just Alexander only three

(08:26):
free throw attempts in the first half, so he got
bodied up a little bit, tried to create a little
bit of contact and the refer he's just looked at
him and smiled literally, So it'll be curious to see
how that's adjudicated here in the second half.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
So we'll keep you updated here again. Seven point game
for the Thunder and the Lakers. Meanwhile, earlier tonight, game
one of the East Semifinals, the Pistons, despite a subpar
shooting game from Kate Cunningham, and that's being kind six
out of nineteen tonight, but he still went nine flooding
for the free throw line, the Pistons outlast the Cavs

(09:01):
one eleven to one oh one. And this is probably,
I would say the biggest nightmare for the rest of
the Eastern Conference is that tonight the Pistons looked like, hey,
we shook off the first round. This is who we are,
Like they had like it the way they played tonight.
Their body language they had turned into in the first round.

(09:22):
They were Caid Cunningham and that's it, right. They had
a tough time seeing their supporting cast step up and
it was hey, Caid's gotta save us. Then you know,
Orlando blows the three to one lead. They come back.
The Pistons were really on the ropes tonight. They looked
like a team that had figured it out. Right. They
jump out to a huge lead right away in the
first quarter, and they kind of coast from there. You know,
a couple of mini runs by Cleveland and boy, you

(09:45):
talk about a horrendous game. Jared Allen just eighteen minutes,
two points in that one. But James Harden going very
much James Harden in the second round of the playoffs
six out of fifteen, seven assists, seven turnovers. Right like
this series, this might be a Pistons sweep because it
looks like the Pistons have figured it out in the

(10:05):
combination of the Cavaliers. And again, this is why I
always say, I don't know why people think there were
James Harden away from anything, because this is who Harden is. Yeah,
he'll still show I can do it in the regular season.
The playoffs come when he's playing every other night, he
gets tired by the time you get to the second
or third round. This is who James Harden is. He
fell down like three times, just dribbling the basketball, trying

(10:26):
to go trying to attack the basket. He just fell
and the ball fell out of his arms. Like like,
this is the James Harden that that unfortunately we have seen,
and I have seen so many times in the last
few years, like like, okay, James Harden's not gonna carry
you anywhere in the playoffs, right, He was much better
in the regular season than I thought he would be,
and he continues to do that. Every time I think
he's done in the regular season, he shows I still

(10:48):
have a little bit left. But he has been the
same guy in the playoffs for the last few years.
And again, seven assists, seven turnovers, you can't have it.
I mean, some really bad time he had a he
had a turnover on a three on one. I just said,
what the hell is that? Man? Like what you get?
You got two guys wide open? You dribbled off your foot,
off the defender's foot, and it went the other way,
Like what is happening here?

Speaker 4 (11:07):
You've never gotten over excited, I mean in any type
of moment like that.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
And you're likely in the drive throughout McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
I think, yeah, especially when they tell me, hey, you
know the value, man, you when you get two things
off the value MANU, it's two for one? Oh really yeah? Yeah?
Oh it give me two things off the value bet takes.
So I mean, really, I mean this, I've seen this
from James Harden. I've seen this so many times, and
this is what we get from Harden. And at this point, honestly,
I'm thinking this is gonna be a Piston sweep and
they're gonna be waiting around for the Knicks and the

(11:36):
Sixers as they finished their series.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Six to fifteen from the field, one of seven from
three point rans to your point. The seven turnovers, but
another one of those, You're you're trying to find some
help somewhere else. Strus had had nineteen off the bench, fantastic,
but Wade and Allen played a total of forty six minutes.
They gave you seven points. Donovan Mitchell went to the
free throw line twice for the night, So I mean,

(11:59):
you add it all up, it's a losing proposition for Detroit.
You had good balance, all five starters in double figures,
including five three pointers from Duncan Robinson a huge effort,
nineteen points for him, uh and he had Tobias Harris
with another twenty. So you're you're looking at your starters
taking care of business. Jenkins, Stewart, Holland all gave you

(12:21):
contributions from the bench, so you know the old it's
it's not a series until you know a home team
loser or whatever. But I don't know that we're gonna
see it. The James Harden thing is always it's always
tough to watch because you know, he's a guy that
during the course of a regular season, you'll you'll see
those games where clearly huffing and puffing and grinding through

(12:43):
heavy minutes. But by time you get to the postseason,
he's got nothing left.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I mean, that's James Harden's James Harden.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Is every man because you want a cheer for him
because he is every man grinding away, and then we
got nothing left when we needed.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Most of these teams that still think, yeah, we'll go
get somebody in their thirties to play such a huge
role for us and think that that's gonna get us
to the NBA finals, stop it. It's never been a
younger man's league than the NBA is right now, and
James Harden is that. Look, James Harden was getting tired
of the playoff when he was twenty eight. Yeah, like
he would get to the end. He would get to
the end of the game in the second round, Harden

(13:21):
would be tired, he'd miss a shot, he'd turned the
ball over like that's been James Harden's entire career. Man like.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
But it's also that argument though, Jason of you know,
we were talking about it. I said it jokingly. With
the Kevin Durant injury that pops up after he plays
seventy eight regular season games, young guys didn't know what
to do because suddenly the guy that was doing all
the shooting and taking care of the ball at the
end of games isn't there. So they were confused. With

(13:46):
James Harden, go back and look at his game log.
You know, he would have been one of those guys
that we would have championed for at least, hey, at
least you tried. He would have gotten the Bart Simpson
cake once upon a time for showing up seventy five
games a year. So at least you know he has
that to hang his hat on.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit swollen dome The Jason
Smith Show with my bas friend Mike Harmon. So again,
a seven point lead for the Thunder has just turned
into a four point lead for the Thunder. Ruey Hachimura
Buries a three, big, big third quarter so far for
the Lakers, staying in this game again. Six and a

(14:24):
half to go. It is a four point lead now,
Hatcham up to twelve, Marcus Smart has twelve. Austin Reeves
still with four points, one out of eight from the floor.
He's just gone down in a heap. So we'll keep
you up here talk. I mean, dude, I mean this
has been Austin Reeves. Man. The guy's got hurt. You
come back.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Hurt and they're done.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Now he's getting I gotta tell people what's happening for
I can't lie to people, Like when I say the
Knicks are going to the finals, I can't lie. I can't.
That was three years ago.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
You've come back to that bunch.

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Speaker 1 (17:01):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My base
friend Mike Harmon Hobo. Three and a half to go
in the third quarter, Lakers still hanging around. Seventy six
sixty nine, lebron with eighteen and six assists. Austin Reeves
still four points, just one of ten from the floor.

(17:23):
He just has not been able to get it going.
He's getting there being physical with him, and I mean,
it's been amazing that the Lakers have been able to
keep it going despite the fact that he's not really
been affecting the box score and affecting it negatively. But
they're gonna need it at some point if they're gonna
make a running this game again. Seventy six sixty nine,
staying close with three and a half to go in
the third.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Quarter, Gotchamura take it over as Robin.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
We'll have more on this coming up in a few minutes,
Steve to say, we'll have it for you in What's Trending,
But right now, time to break down all the latest
news in Major League Baseball with a man who has
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(18:06):
John Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening man? Happy Tuesday?

Speaker 7 (18:09):
I am outstanding, my friends, and listen the Tigers. Another
loss tonight for the Detroit baseball team, but Detroit basketball
teams looking pretty good. That was an impressive game one win.
Cade was excellent as always during as well.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
So I could just talk about the Pistons for a
minute to lift the spirits. But you're right, Trek google
out indefinitely, and who knows, will it be weeks, will
it be months? Probably more months than it is weeks
for Trek Scooble having the loose bodies removed from his elbow,
but this is not how the Tigers drew it up,

(18:48):
nor is it how the Mets drew it up this season,
Jason as well know. But I've got some great news
for you. The Mets did not lose tonight because the
Mets did not play, So there is some good news
for you.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
There needed an act of God snowstorm to cancel the
game tonight, like one of the biggest snowstorms in May
and Rockies hit Colorado history. We get a May snowstorm
to stop.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
The game that the as they know, the mid May
clipper that comes through through Colorado and the snows out
of ball game. You're right, it's this is It has
been one of those years. It has been one of
those years for the New York Mets and the pieces
just not fitting. But there are some teams that are
playing well. And you look around and the Cubs walk

(19:32):
off win last night with Conforto, and the Braves getting
even healthier right now with the Glaciers coming back, and
the Yankees are playing really good baseball, and that the
Rays are actually playing excellent baseball right now. So maybe
wasn't all the teams that we expected. But it may
sound surprising to you Jason, But there are teams out

(19:53):
there playing beautifully, just crisp clean, fundamentally strong, exciting, exhilar
Baseball is happening in places, just not city fields.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Well that's the thing, John, and you mentioned the Yankees,
and I think that this is a team that is
not getting the do for what they're doing right now. Yes,
first place, the al least. Okay, they're still waiting for
two studs to come back and not great Knights rehab
for Garrett Colin Rodan obviously, but it doesn't matter. They're
still rolling up at a six ninety four winning percentage

(20:25):
and they haven't even had two guys that are gonna
just put on jet packs when they come back into
the Yankee rotation. Like this is incredibly impressive what the
Yankees are doing without these guys.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
You're right, and to your point, they'll eventually get even
better when they add in additional layers of pitching. But
if you haven't been watching carefully, and some fans obviously
who are maybe just following the game generally names like
gam Schlittler, who's been great since last season, Warren Will
Warren has been excellent, and then also Ryan went Os

(21:00):
they acquired last year, last offseason. Rather, they've all pitched
outstanding to begin this season, and so when you consider
that the bullpen has been a little more stable now
than it was this time last year when they were
going the ups and downs with Devin Williams and then
in the lineup as the day began, the OPS leader

(21:22):
in Major League Baseball playing for the Yankees, but his
name actually is not Aaron Judge's Ben Rice. Ben Rice
leaving the major leagues and ops Judge is fourth. Obviously,
it is still a really great season for number ninety nine,
but that has Ben Rice there. Honestly, this is what
made them special the year they went to the World
Series in twenty four, when it was Soto and Judge,
and now Ben Rice is not at the same cache

(21:45):
in the sport necessarily as as Soto does, but he's
playing that role very nicely. Where it's the two of
them and the Yankees right now, you start looking at
where they have some flaws, and yes, again maybe you're
going to say, hey that they should you get all
the pitching back and before they can really have a
full determination of what they've got. But I like this

(22:07):
team and they like themselves so much, right now that
they kept close A Cabierro with the everyday shortstop and
optioned Anthony Volpi down to the minor leagues when his
rehab assignment was over. So when you consider all these
different decisions they're making right now, the Yankees like the
mix they've got, and they should because they're a really
good baseball team.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
All right, plenty of time to extol the virtues of
my upstart White Sox as they try to crawl back
to five hundred JP. But we'll go to the larger
national international story that is Shoho Tani has struggle at
the plate, pitch well again tonight, but overall they're dealing
with a bunch of injuries with La not the full lineup,

(22:47):
but a lot of concern with the pitching, hitting splits
of Otani and what it means for the long term here.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, you're right, and I think it's it's fair to
point out, as you know, his age starts with the
three now, not a rookie any longer. He's been in
the league for almost a decade and it's probably starting
to wear a little bit. And by the way, he's
been an immortal for so long that he's allowed to
have at least mortal times, mortal months, mortal weeks. However

(23:18):
long this lasts, he's still excellent at what he does,
and obviously he does the things that no one else
has ever done for this long in the game. But
remember that it wasn't just that he did it. It's
trying to endure and maintain and get this out of
his body for year after year after year. It does
seem like in the way that Dave Roberts has managed

(23:40):
to to this point, giving him some days where he's
getting DH four, so to speak, and when he's pitching,
which I actually like because it allows the Dodgers to
rest some of their other players or at least partially
a Will Smith half day or a rushing half day,
and rushing has been really good for them behind the plate.
So however it all played is out. I think it's

(24:01):
actually smart baseball to to not always have Otani as
the DH on on days that he pitches, because that's
the one negative about all that is Otani is that
you don't have that DH spot to rotate anyone else
through and everybody that's in the lineup they have to
be able to play every single day in the field.

(24:21):
So that's the difficult part for the Dodgers. And so
I think that this this is now getting a bit
more Uh, it's just it's a it's a bit more
like normal baseball is about as normal as you're going
to see it when Otani's around. That you that on
some days at least you're going to have someone dhing
on the day that he starts, and and the fatigue
might be setting in a bit offensively, and he's just

(24:42):
not driving the ball quite as well as as he
has and it's it's one of the longer dry spells
from a standpoint of damage that we've seen from him,
and it's probably to be expected. And and the Dodgers
are still an elite team. They're amazing and in just
about every way, but they're not as explosive as.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
They have been.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
And in a large part of that is that Otani
is not as explosive as he has been. He still
has time to get it back, but what he's done
in the first six weeks or so of the season
is just reminding us of how extraordinary he's been for
a very very long amount of time. And it's probably
time to start ever so slightly, not significantly, but by

(25:25):
a little bit adjusting your expectations of what's possible for show.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Hey see, here's the thing, John Paul Is, I don't know,
because before the season started, I said, okay, my big
bull prediction show Hao Tani your twenty twenty six National
League saw Young Award winner. It felt like this is
what he wanted to take a lot of time focusing on.
He wanted to show everybody he's back. The guy's era

(25:50):
is under one, Like, I mean, he is having a
Jacob de Gram type start to the season where he's
not giving up any runs and the Dodgers aren't hitting,
which is what happened with to Gram. With the Mets,
he got like he lost tonight two to one. Right
he is, He's allowed five runs in six games, Like
he has been incredible on the mound. And I kind
of feel like maybe that's a little bit of it.

(26:10):
That when when he spent so much time and you
hear all the Dodgers say in the offseason he was
so locked in, he was so obsessed with Hey, I
want to get back to being that pitcher. I could
see where things get down, you know, get get down
a little bit at the plate until he finds his
happy medium. But on the mound, John Paul, he's been incredible.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
He has been and you're exactly right that this this
might be his ear to to chase the cy young
he's got. He's had obviously plenty of m vps and
now now was his chance to make a move for
this uh in in this part of his career where
he wants to check that box obviously, and and really
welcome himself back to being the full two way player

(26:49):
and maybe even tipping towards the pitching side of the equation,
because as let's be honest, as a d H, he's
already done everything you could play possibly do the fifty
to fifty of the things that he was able to
achieve when he was strictly focusing on that and and
and oh to be so so blessed and so talented

(27:11):
that you can take your pick of which of the
things you want to do, the things that no one
has ever done before, and and and he's able to
do that. So I think that's that just speaks to
what a unique talent he is. And and I agree
with you, Jason, I think he has probably given a
bit more uh more attention on the on on the

(27:31):
on the pitching side of things. And that's and that's
that's fair. That is the one thing that he has
not been able to do before. And by the way,
it's probably the thing that his team needs at the moment.
Just you, given the rest of the roster questions about Sasaki,
et cetera, this is where I think he can probably
make the biggest impact on the Dodgers right now. And

(27:51):
it certainly was not his fault that they fell to
one of the astros tonight. He did everything that he
could have been expected to do.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
All right, I'll ask one. I'll go back to the
NL East really fast here. Jason's still kind of wringing
his hands with the Mets. What's the magic that Donnie
Baseball has brought to the fills?

Speaker 3 (28:10):
It's his name is Zach Wheeler. And he got activated
just as don Madley took that job. It certainly again.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
In their last ten now.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
Right right.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
So, so Donnie is a first of all, he's phenomenal person.
Everyone has ever met him in baseball just has great
words to say about him. And so he has that
that calmness and the coolness about him that I do
think is is easily relatable for a veteran team with
guys like Schwarber and Briale, Muzzo and Harper in particular,

(28:45):
Shorebert Harper have hit really well since Donnie took over.
And and again, I wasn't just being glib there to
say that getting Wheeler back is a big deal because
he just he changes the whole staff. He doesn't pitch
every day, but his pre and matters every day. And
and look at the way Luzardo was pitched. I think

(29:05):
you get a better version of Lusardo when Wheeler's pitching,
because he feels like he can slot in a bit
more to the number two spot. I mean, when they're
all going. I'm not sure how many teams have a
better one, two three than Wheeler, Lusardo and Christopher Sanchez
when they're all going. And by the way, look at
how sand has pitched tonight. I mean, it's just that
they're the Phillies. I'm sad to say, Jason are just

(29:26):
a much more fixable team than the Mets. The Mets
are it's difficult to see what their path is to
the playoffs. With the Phillies, it's a lot easier, and
it's a lot clearer in terms of what they are
able to do. And I think that the Phillies are
very much alive in the the NL East and or
at least the NL wild Card. The Mets are probably

(29:48):
a separate conversation that we'll we'll have more time for
on a night when they actually play and we have
some fresh, fresh data to discuss the next time we
have this conversation.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
His last appearance here on Fox Sports Radio, John Paul moros, Hey.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
You never know, you never know. We're gonna keep the faith.
I'm gonna I try my best to give you perspective,
and that's why I'm here.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
But uh, we appreciate the candor.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
I appreciate that. And hey, we could still have another
Nick Pistons rematch like from last year, just with a
whole lot more at stakes. So we'll just we'll keep
hoping that's the case.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network. John Paul as always, buddy, appreciate it,
enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Love this conversation, my friends, Thanks for everything.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
You're the best.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
There goes John Paul. I like how he feels like
he needs to be delicate with me, Like like Hey,
you know, Hey, I got some bad news for your Mets.
You think I don't know, like like no.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
But.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
It's your friend. He wants to tell you reality. But
he's not gonna slap you upside the head while he
does it.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Sometimes, I mean you need that, but I think he's
got the verbiage went without the the blow to the
skull like you're you know, John Stossel and he's doctor
d David Joltz. You don't need that.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
It's like it's like what you know when you get
a bunch of bad grades and your teacher tells you
you know, you know you got a fifty five in
this last exam. Yeah, you didn't turn in your your
turn paper. No I didn't. Uh you got a forty
two on the first quiz. Yeah, no, I know that
you are going to fail this class. Wait what we
are talking about?

Speaker 5 (31:22):
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (31:25):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
I completely understand.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, from special delivery Steve to seger s D.
What do you got for us tonight?

Speaker 8 (31:35):
Well, we'll start with baseball, and veteran writer Bob Nightingale
has this on show Hey Otani and his last nine starts.
His e IRA is zero point seven to oh and
the Dodgers are two and seven in those nine games.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Tonight, Jacob deGrom would like a word yes, I eat games.

Speaker 8 (31:53):
Yeah. Houston two to one over La tonight with two
early solo homers, so Tony finished with eight strikeouts no
walks in seven innings of work. His ERA is up
to zero point nine to seven. The Mets game at
Colorado was rained out. It'll be made up on Thursday.
Wednesday's game will now be at night in Colorado. The
Saint Louis home game against Milwaukee was rained out. They'll

(32:14):
make that up in July as part of a doubleheader.
It's possible the Chicago White Sox could win tonight and
with a five hundred record, be in first place of
the divisions. They're tied to two at the Angels. In
the top of the fourth. Detroit was beaten at home
ten to three by Boston. The loss to from ber Veldez,
who allowed ten runs, three homers, and then hit a

(32:37):
better in the fourth and was thrown out. Baltimore lost
its fifth in a row, nine to seven. Had lost
five in a row. I should say, but got two
in the ninth to win nine to seven. At Miami,
Tampa Bay won it's fifth in a row. Yankees won
their fifth straight, Kansas City one. It's fifth straight. Cubs
have won six in a row, but they're tied in
the top of the tenth at home Cubs two, Reds two.

(32:59):
The Reds closer Emilio Pegan was carted off with a
hamstring injury on his first pitch. Minnesota and Philadelphia with wins.
Among the Lake games it is the Braves tied two
to two at Seattle in the bottom of the fourth,
Diamondbacks two nothing over the Pirate's bottom of the fourth,
and already Padres five to four at San Francisco in
the top of the fourth inning. Well, Lakers got close

(33:21):
in the third quarter. It's now heavily favored Oklahoma City
up eighty eight seventy three over La early in the
fourth quarter of their second round opener, fifty three percent
shooting for the Thunder. They're led by chet Holmgren, who
has twenty points. Lebron James twenty two points for the Lakers,
but Austin Reeves is one of eleven shooting from the floor.

(33:42):
Detroit won its second round opener at home against Cleveland
one eleven to one oh one. Cade Cunningham twenty three
points but six of nineteen shooting from the floor. AP
came out with a list of most turnovers in your
first eight games of a postseason at the last forty years,
because Charles Barkley apparent he had forty five turnovers the
first eight games of the nineteen eighty six postseason. Kate

(34:05):
Cunningham now has forty five turnovers. Also in this postseason,
James Harden's up to forty three. He had seven to
sis second turnovers in the loss in this game at Detroit.
By the Way, Pistons were up eighteen late in the
first quarter. The Celtics Jalen Brown was fined fifty thousand
dollars by the league for criticizing the refs after Boston

(34:25):
lost Game seven at home against Philly. That telecast, by
the Way, followed the great ratings Kentucky Derby, so that
win for the seventy six ers drew eleven million total viewers.
The first round average four million per game nationally for
the NBA. The NFL Referees Union is due to vote
on a new labor contract Thursday, wide receiver Stefan Diggs

(34:49):
was found not guilty of assault. Seattle signed veteran defensive
end Dante Fowler, and the Giants reportedly gave defensive tackle
Dj Reider a two year deal.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon. We have more NBA
on the way. The Thunder now looking to run away
from the Lakers a fifteen point lead, eighty eight to
seventy three, ten and a half to go in the
fourth quarter. More NBA on the way. Next, we got
the play of the day end numbers that I really

(35:18):
just can't believe what I'm gonna tell you is true.
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yes, Jason, we know Austin Reeves is struggling.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
You know, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
That is not John Cena.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Lebron. James has twenty four points. That's the good news
for the Lakers. The bad news is the Thunder. Just
keep pouring it. On seven and a half to go
in the fourth quarter, Oklahoma City has opened up a
ninety six seventy nine game one of the Western Conference SEMIS.
Will have more in this game coming up in a
few minutes, but time right now to bring you the

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(36:27):
allegedly because he's been terrible shooting the ball so far
in the playoffs. But Kay Cunningham can also get it
done on the other side of the floor. Pardon a
quid run of challenge Cunningham. Cunningham till within the BATFF
with a stale stoop it up. Thompson can find NBC
on the call. Yes, a James Harden turnover I turned

(36:48):
into a big hoop for the Pistons, one of the
seven turnovers James Harden had tonight as part of the
Cavaliers one eleven one oh one loss of the Detroit Pistons.
I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't know what
else to say, Mike. Every year James Harden, I feel like, boy,
I feel so smart because I'm right about James Harden
the playoffs every single year, I felt so intelligent.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
Well, at this point, it's like just putting money in
a nice fortune five hundred company and blue chip er
and just letting him roll. Okay, Yra, just playing the
S and P five hundred. You know you're gonna have
a down year now and again, but on average you're
getting your seven percent returns nice and steady as they go.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I'm just gonna keep investing in Yahoo and all these platts.
But it's not sexy, you're not now, but I'm making
money on it. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna invest in
the big place. I know. It's not Hey, Jim Kramer
giving you advice here at buy this and sell this
and all this mad money and George Clooney in a
boxing ring telling me what to do now. I mean,
it's not that, but hey, sometimes you just gotta you know,
if if that's the way it's going that's the way

(37:46):
it's going.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Look at you getting that Clooney movie in Mad Money
from all those years ago we tried to do. I
tried to pitch a fantasy bit in the early days
of Kramer when he was still on to come uh,
and they looked at me like I was insane. I'm like,
this is this is gonna become a big deal. And
it did, and it did, Bye bye bye sous out
and eventually Clooney actually did a movie on it. I mean,

(38:07):
come on, man, it could have been on it. By
the way, don't remind me of Yahoo Stuck, because on
paper I was a millionaire for about five minutes, and
by time I could do anything, I couldn't even have
paid off my two bit car. So that you had
that five minutes though, Oh I felt great at that
Christmas party. We were all living large, and then by
time we vested nothing.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
You can always make a jump to declusions, Matt.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
I can't, like, you know, like we do with each
of these sporting events. I do like that James Harden
turnover constitutes a play of the night in game one
of a second round series, So that's good.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Yeah, But just also think you jump to conclusions. So
you jump, you jump on the mat, you jump to conclusions.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
I was rewatching a little bit of the uh, the
Book of Boba fet and you got Luke Skywalker training
training grow. Hey jump, yeah, don't think about it.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Jump.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah. That was that needed Luke to show up in
the worst way. Hey, we need something here. This show
is really not great. Don't worry. By the time we
get to the sixth episode, we got Luke. Okay. Now
we're gonna get to the sixth episode. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yeah. Now, numbers,
I want to tell you that at this point, if
I'm the NBA, I just say every game is the

(39:23):
highest rated game we've ever had. Today, news comes out
that the Game seven this weekend between the Sixers and
the Celtics on NBC and Peacock averaged eleven million viewers,
making it the most watched first round Game seven in
NBA history and the highest first round game in twenty

(39:45):
seven years. Now. It did follow the Kentucky Derby. Okay, great,
but I see this and I go, really that many
to watch the Sixers and the Celtics really to really
that many? Like I feel like with the way the
NBA is right now with the NBC and Peacock and
they claim that Kaka Maimie Hey ratings were up eighty
six percent. I feel like I'm not gonna believe anything
you tell me about ratings. So just tell me whatever

(40:06):
you want lie to me, whatever you want to say.
We had a hundred million people watching that game. Great, Yeah,
it's a hundred million people, just like the Super Bowl
watching Game seven between the Six and the Celtics. Like
we're still so early days with figuring out ratings and streaming.
Like I feel like anybody could tell us whatever they
want to when it comes to ratings. So I see
this and I go, yeah, maybe it was that big.
I mean maybe not. Maybe it was that big, But

(40:28):
I don't know. I can't tell you one way or
the other. So would I would just I'd tell the
NBA just make stuff up. Whatever you want to say,
Say it and people might believe it, you know.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
But a lot of it has been fuzzy math and
extrapolating and kind of chaos going all the way back. Man,
how many people had a box in their house? Maybe
you did, maybe you didn't. I mean, maybe I flipped
and I got five seconds, ten seconds of a song.
Does that count? I don't know, but right now it's like, yeah,
it's it's fuzzy math. But I could say maybe there's

(40:58):
some truth to it that you would have had a
lot of people in New York hate watching that series
because they hate both those teams.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Bring out those guys.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Nah he hit a shot.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, bring out those dirty Yeah. I mean because you
might have had a lot of that. I got, I
got no time. I gotta watch a game today because
I'm rooting against both teams and one of them is
gonna lose. So that's what I'm I.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Lost my ass in the derby and now I'm gonna
hate watch this.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit swollen dome? No, come on, Nixon,
four nix and four nix and for coming up next,
big stuff out of the NBA playoffs. This is Fox Sports.

Speaker 4 (41:32):
Radio, the backers of the Thunder. That's all I can
say right now.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Oh sure he does. Yeah. Look Hartenstein is you know
got that lead out now to seventeen. We're getting We're
getting there. It's up to seventeen. It went off at
fifteen and a half. It's there, it is there. Uh
So again We'll have more on this game coming up
in about fifteen minutes. Again, we break down game one
going into game two. But look a couple of other
big stories from today in the NBA, and and and

(41:59):
two guys who have really started to seize the limelight
in the first into the second round of the NBA
playoffs and the first one. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go off the court because there has been nothing more
entertaining than watching this Draymond Green Austin Rivers feud unfold
on the internet that you know, Austin Rivers says, Draymond

(42:22):
Green's had the luckiest career. Draymond Green said, Dude, you
the last time we were where equals was in college.
There's been no bigger bailout in US history than your
tad giving you a forty two billion dollar contract. Like, oh,
after that, I think I just watched Draymond Green kill
a man. I just watched m kill a man on
social media. No bigger bailout than your dad giving you

(42:45):
forty two million.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Like if we're playing dozens, I mean that that might
be the end game for you there.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
I mean that, I mean that that's really that, that's
really it. I mean, you know, and and just seeing
this and understanding that the situation with getting players to
become big time media members is very difficult. You are
you know you Every league likes to think they know

(43:13):
who the next big guys are gonna be, and you
take chances. Right, look at look at the NFL. They said, Okay,
Tom Brady's retiring. Fox says we're gonna give Tom Brady
thirty eight million dollars a year, ten year deal. He's
gonna come in and be our ace broadcaster. And it's
taken Brady a little bit, right, Like his best work
was at the end of the year last year. I'm
surprised it's taken him this long. I thought he would

(43:34):
be great right away, but you know, hey, it's taken
him a little bit, right. It's it's everybody thinks we
know who the next great broadcaster is, and then a
couple of years later, hey, we're moving off this guy.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Right.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
I can't believe CBS wants to give Russell Wilson all
the money they allegedly do. Like, dude, who's gonna listen
to Russell Wilson? Who cares what he has to say? Right?
But in a situation where, especially in the NBA, where
you know players run to podcast and they you know,
it's an easier thing for them. I don't know, if
you're not ESPN, you're not TNT, not TNT. If you're

(44:05):
not ESPN, you're not inside the NBA. You are not saying, Okay, Draymond,
when you are done, here is a four year, one
hundred million dollar contract to be an analyst for us.
Like this is what this is what Fox did with Brady. Hey, Tom,
when you're done, we want you to come here and
be and be. Remember Brady agreed to that deal and
we didn't know if he was gonna keep playing or not.

(44:26):
Like it was the lay Fox is saying, we want
to lock up the best quarterback any of us have
ever seen. He must see television, Like I don't know
why somebody hasn't jumped into that so bad, like to
where it's like all right, you know, because look, obviously
he does. You know, he's in a multi year agreement
with Turner Sports back in twenty twenty two. But now
you're talking about him just making guest appearances doing this

(44:47):
like he's the guy, man, he's the guy that's gonna
that's gonna stir the drink when it comes to NBA players.
He's gonna walk off the court. He's gonna have instant cachet.
People care about what he says. I mean, he's the
new Barkley, Like he's going to be the new Barclay.
And these guys are hardly ever on TV anymore. Like,
I'm really surprised at hey, okay, it's been four years

(45:07):
for Draymond Green signing this deal, with with with with
Turner and now with moving everything. You know, who knows
where it's going to be. But I'm really stunned that
this is not gonna be a hey, hey, Draymond, how
about this man? Now you know one more year left
on your contract. Here's a huge deal that we're gonna
give you for the next four or five years. It's
gonna be a Brady type of contract to be our analyst,

(45:28):
to do our NBA games, and obviously other things you're
gonna do as well. They'll probably have podcasts for him X,
Y and Z. But here's a ton of money for you,
basically what you were making the last few years as
a player. Like, I'm surprised nobody's done that for me.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Yeah, I mean at this point in terms of disclosure, one,
you don't want to upset the Apple card. You got
enough issues in publication of what the current group is doing, right,
a lot of complaints that they're not edgy enough until
they did the Recini variabel, they're not visible enough because
well they're not on and they've been buried, so they're

(46:02):
probably already a little terse, even though they may like
the working hours a little bit. Nobody wants to be
buried in a lineup right in our business, in any level,
you don't want to feel like you're sloughed to the
back end. So I don't think you want to upset
the current guys of Barkley, Kenny Smith, et cetera. But

(46:23):
behind the scenes, there's no doubt there's a lot there
because he's been part of the extended family for many
a year. Once the Warriors have been eliminated, he's established
his brand quite well. And let's face it, the price
of poker keeps going up, So you're not gonna lock
yourself into a deal with any kind of terms until

(46:46):
you really can put your foot down on all of it. Right,
you still have one more year left on the contract
you're gonna make a lot of money, and if you're
willing to accept the lesser deal, of no doubt, if
he wanted to play for another couple of years, he
could just matter of you know, accepting a role and
accepting a difference and trying to figure out to Steph
Curry still want him around in Golden State or not.

(47:08):
But all that said, just because it's not public doesn't
mean there isn't a framework out there. It's just a
matter of how much you publicize it.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Yeah, I mean, but you Oh, I don't think Draymond
Green is gonna be a guy saying hey, I'm gonna
keep this under my hat. No, no, no, he'd be
the first guy. Hey, look at this deal I got
coming up. You know, I got a great deal coming
up under the inside the NBA umbrella. I'm gonna make
thirty million. Do I'll make more money doing this talking
to you than I am gonna be playing out.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
He's also gonna be careful after getting punked by Anthony
Davis on that skit you know that they did on
his punk show. But by the way, I did enjoy
the the Austin Rivers stuff. Just to circle back to that,
briefly because we haven't done a lot on that, you know,
just there back and forth. Folks, forget what Austin River is.
Once upon a time was and had nothing to do

(47:54):
with his dad. Right, he was a tenth over right,
but he was a tenth overall. Picky only played one
year at college. There were great expectations that didn't then
didn't play out. But once upon a time he was
that guy in terms of expectation.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
When your dad bailed you out with that forty two.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Yeah, I mean that's a great line. There's no question.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
That's amazing. Man, that's amazing.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
I'm just saying from the Austin Rivers he was that
dude for a minute, once upon a time in twenty eleven.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I really it it really stuns me that nobody has
been proactive on on Draymond going okay, dram when you
stopped playing we want to be here, will be your
home podcast, everything else, But you're on TV doing appearances.
I mean, I I don't know how that hasn't happened yet.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
I mean Colin did for a while, right, I mean
he had them, you had him with the volume.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah. No, but that's like, hey, you're gonna make guest appearances.
Here's you're making it. This is you're doing this full time.
You're our You're our voice, You're our guy. You're the
next Charles Barkley, like like you're you know, he's I mean,
he's gonna walk in with a bigger with a bigger
a bigger amount of notoriety already then Barkley walked in
with He's gonna walk in ahead of the ahead of

(49:07):
the curve for Barkley. When Barkley came in, you know,
coming off the end, you know his NBA cort Sure.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
I mean it's a different animal, right, I mean, guys
were doing all these media hits and everything else. Barkley
it was all right. He threw a guy through a
windshield and was good with a quote when he was
you know, golfing terribly and showed up on those or
if you caught him in Vegas. Now, guys are hell
from the time they're twelve, they're running social media accounts

(49:33):
trying to get noticed. So you know, a little bit
different there. And Draymond has never been shy. I think
that's the kindest way to say that. I got no
issues with it. If he wants to have beef and
he's got his crowding achievement is trying to body Austin Rivers.
I got a little little question about that of how

(49:54):
you know soft soft you may have gotten if that's
the fight you're picking, but hey, have at it right,
because if you really think he's that much lower than you,
then why are you responding again? That one liner is
fantastic that far, but beneath you, why are you bothering?

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Yeah? Oh no, no, I mean real, but because it's fun,
it's easy. I mean he started with him. Hey, you
started it. Okay, Well you started, I gotta finish it. Okay,
that's how it goes. You started, I gotta finish it.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
So that's where we're at right now with Draymond Green
and Austin Rivers. Now the other bit of news today.
Wherever Wemby went, he couldn't stop making headlines right his
big press conference last night following the game, saying that
he had a big misuse of his energy and offensively
for the Spurs, he had a bad night like oh

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for eight from three point range, had a really awful
night shooting Spurs go down in Game one, needed to
use his energy more and then you get Chris Finch,
head coach the Timberwolf, saying, hey, I don't understand why
Wemby doesn't get called for more goaltending. At least four
of his twelve blocks last night was goltending. So now
here's Chris Finch after winning game one, trying to try
to try to get in on the official Dude, you

(51:05):
won game one.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
That's fine, though, you got a lobby though you won
game one. Here how many of those were falls? How
many of those were goaltends? I mean, look, you gotta
put it out there. It's gamesmanship. Right.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Here's Chris Finch from earlier today.

Speaker 5 (51:19):
Wolves are the Best.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
That's our that's our boss, Scott Shapiro here at Fox
Sports Radio with the Wolves are the Best. Question. This
is Chris Finch from earlier today talking about that and
the block party that Wemby should not have had.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
Call me elf one more time, you said, Miles Finch, Right.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Chris Finch, Chris Finch, Chris Finch, Chris Finch, De Santa
know you left the workshop? Okay, okay? Chris Finch. Just
him running across the table and he tackles Wemby. Look
at you and Webby hoolds his arms out far.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
The proportions are actually kind of acculine, aren't they. Oh boy, dank,
Steph Farrell.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
And Fish anybody to Wemby. I think you're right. I
think you're right. Now here's Chris Finch.

Speaker 9 (52:08):
Obviously got uh in a historic night, but when we
looked at him, at least four of them were goaltending,
maybe even a fifth.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (52:24):
You know, it's kind of to me it's a little
alarming that none of them were called.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
And you know, here's a.

Speaker 10 (52:34):
Generational shot blocker who's seven to six, who goes after everything,
and there's like no height in awareness that these these
blocks could could be you know, goaltends. I mean, the
third possession of.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
The game was It's like, dude, you won the game.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
I keep waiting like w w E like while he's
talking like Webby to just come out of nowhere. The
flying kick? Yeah, I know. Why is that that fifth,
maybe five blocks that he had should have been called
the goaltending. I can't believe all.

Speaker 4 (53:01):
That is that worth fifty thousand? Is that more or
less than Jalen Brown's fine?

Speaker 5 (53:05):
And not just a kick a kick from like twenty
feet away where his.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Yeah, elastic man go gud.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
It's okay, Yeah, I got to say he can't. Oh no,
he's reaching me very quickly. Oh it's Wenby. I forgot
about that. Oh I don't feel good. I'm gonna tell
you this, right We talked about this last night. We
knew Wemby was gonna be pissed. Wemby coming off last
night and he talked about it. Wait do you see
Wemby stat line Tomorrow? I will tell you this seeing

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and Edwards what he was able to do in Game
one in being able to lift the Tea Wolves to
victory and inspire them. Here, I'm telling you what you're
gonna get from Wemby tomorrow. We are going to see
right now one of the great NBA playoff series that
we have ever seen. I have a feeling this is

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gonna be an all time great series with absolute eye
popping stuff Edwards Wenby, Like it's that time to see
something like that, and of course it's gonna be all streaming,
but like, I just seeing the way Game one went
and how great it was down to the wire and
Edwards being the guy he was, and now here's the
controversy coming off of Game one and now Wemby's inspired.
Going to game two, I got a feeling we are

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gonna see an all time great playoff series the rest
of this way. I feel like it's gonna go seven
and it's gonna be punch CounterPunch. It's gonna be and
Edwards with a forty point game and then Wemby with
a forty point game with twenty eight blocks, and he
could tell in Chris Fitch, Yeah, see if that's a
goal tend like that's the kind of series I think
we're gonna get.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Well, if they can do the fourth quarter magic of
getting him away from the basket and then driving around
him by using extra men, there's some really uh beautifully
designed plays to get some open looks in a way,
because he can only extend so far back even with
all those blocks. So yeah, the curiosity because the minutes
restriction of Edwards will go off and maybe we get

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that one on one monomano battle.

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