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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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gotta tell you, Mike, you know, after seeing the Pistons
and the Cavs sit right now Detroit with a huge
win tonight, their bench is incredible. One fifteen to ninety four.
We got another day of playoff Harden. But let's deal
(01:11):
with this first, seeing this series and seeing how horribly
the Pistons played in the last game, especially how disinterested
and cook they were at the end of Game five,
to come out and play like this in game six,
and for the Cavaliers to really just kind of throw
up on themselves here in game In game six, you know,
they shoot thirty nine percent. It's a close out game.
(01:31):
Donovan Mitchell is six for twenty, he's minus twenty five.
The big takeaway, the big ten of being a and
you're gonna say, don't say it. You're gonna say, don't
say it. You're gonna say don't, don't, don't, don't don't.
But I'm gonna say it because I gotta tell you
what I feel. It's hard to not look at this
Pistons Cavalier series and not think Nixon four, Nixon four,
Nixon four, Nixon four, nix in four. It's hard, Seriously,
(01:55):
it's hard to not look at this and go boy,
and yes, everything series is different. There's every different there's
every different parts of energy and matchups and how they're
different and how teams can, you know, getting a more
favorable one as the time goes on. I understand all
of that because I've seen a basketball game, but judging
by how the teams have played, The two best teams
in the playoffs this year have been the Thunder and
(02:15):
the Knicks. The best offense in the playoffs this year
has been the Knicks, and it's not even close. It's
hard for me to see the Pistons and the Cavaliers
winning a game at this point right now, where they
are just throwing punches, like it's like Rocky and Apollo
at the end of Rocky One, when they're they're all
just there. They can't even see out of their eyes,
and they're walking around the ring and one would punch
the other and then you wait five seconds and be
(02:36):
another punch Like that's kind of what Detroit and Cavaliers
look like right now. Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And then we get Game seven, so we get everything
we wanted and then some standing, staggering, punching shadows. Which
one do I hit the one in the middle, And
that's kind of where we're at this process. Points in
the paint bludgeoning by the Detroit Pistons, And I think
in the next series, I guess that becomes the big question.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can you impose your will? Will the.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Your New York Knicks shoot the lights out as they
have through the first couple rounds of the playoffs, you
gotta think at some point, as you like to say,
they get a bounce, and it's not just the you know, yodelin'
guy from the Prices, right that just keeps going up
because you know eventually he falls off too.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So is there for you know, a buster game or two.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Karl Anthony Towns will need to revert to scoring Karl
Anthony Towns, which he has not had to do in
a while. At some point, you know, the facilitators all
finding good, but you know the guy, at least on
one side, from the Detroit side, we trust their defense
a bit more. The other is, of course, the James
Harden part of the equation. And we had a streak,
(03:49):
we had a streak of three great games in a row.
We tried to push for four and we failed.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Just the whole thing here, all right, But before we
get to Harden, is that I get you on the
bounce That takes up most of my thinking now is
what are the Knicks gonna get a bounce in the
next round of the Eastern in the Eastern Conference Finals.
If they're gonna get a bounce, it's gonna be in
the NBA Finals, and it's gonna be, hey, welcome to
the finals by either the Spurs or more likely the Thunder.
But I don't see either of these teams suddenly, hey,
(04:17):
we're putting it all together, right. The Pistons are having trouble.
They still can't rely on a second guy. I mean,
they had an incredible night to night from their bench,
which is why they won this game. But that's not
gonna be there for them the entire time. Cad Cunningham again,
he looks like he's out of guests. Every night is
seven for nineteen for him. So it was an incredible
night by the Pissops. This shows you the Cavaliers how
flawed they are. You're at home and you can't close
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out a team that is so wounded and is not
shooting well, and you still find a way to lose
by twenty in a closeout game. Like, I don't see
either of these teams saying, okay, yeah, this is where
all of a sudden we hit the next level. They're
just surviving. These two teams are surviving, and whoever makes
it to the East Finals, now that's gonna be Hey,
where we did. We made it to the East Finals.
It's a huge achievement for us both of these teams.
(05:01):
It's gonna be great and the Knicks are gonna win,
and then it's gonna be okay the NBA Finals. But
as much as I went Frostburg Frostburg, you're just lucky
that Luca has been cleared for Game five. You're just lucky.
You know how, they're gonna win. Now, they're gonna win,
I mean now that they will not lose again the
rest of the season. Now that Luca's cleared. It's absolutely
Fatcason to take the Knicks in four Knicks in four mix.
(05:22):
You're gonna that's gonna be my pick. I got it.
Whoever they play, I'm gonna say Nixon. For whoever they play,
I'm gonna say Nixon four.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I think you were gonna do that regardless. You
might have had you do that in the NBA Finals
and those monsters off that Apple Show, and you would
have been calling for Nixon four. With the rose collared
glasses that you stole from Elton John that you're wearing
here on a beautiful Friday night. That's kind of where
we're at in this process of your expectation is over
the moon. I'm here to try to temper such things. Now,
(05:53):
do I try to deny what we've seen from your
New York Knicks to this point, No, I do not.
But performance is not indicative of future results. And as
you get into the next series, and yes, they will
be dog ass tired, your team will be sitting around
and we'll have all sorts of hot topic debates on
morning shows like rest or Rust the New York Knicks
(06:16):
edition and all sorts of stuff about Jalen Bronson and
not getting into the you know, parties after the met
Gala and all that fun stuff. We'll talk about that
some more, but it you know, styles make fights. And
if suddenly the Pistons are ready to go and they
want to fight your Nicks, and they can slow it
down to a half court game, look you get on
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a nob back and that'll be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
All words is that he'll be ready to go for
the Eastern Conference finals when we get there, and you know,
that's one more piece and then the Mike Brown arsenal.
But I to think that predicting a sweep is always
heady business unless we're in March and you're just predicting
a sweep against the Eastern Conference teams that don't want
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to play anymore Knicks.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
In four knicks in four Nicks in fine. I mean, look,
it's been five days since I had a k next game.
I got four more days till my next next game.
I mean it's it's this is a long time, Like
I love the break, but at some point I'm like, yeah,
I'd like a game this weekend. But good enjoy it.
Good enjoys.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The Knicks are a sixty nine likely champion out of
the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I mean, look, and the time for Anunoby to come back,
that's the big thing, right, Like if he's trending this
well and now going to game seven, uh you know, okay, great,
they're gonna be tired and and and ensuring that he
doesn't have to like he's gonna be it's two weeks
now basically for the injury for him, like I expect
to him back as it come back. And as much
as I thought last year was the year, hey we
(07:50):
got a home court, it's the Pacers, I'm not like
this is even more. This is the year to get
to the final, to get back to the.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Game we just watched. If you really want to laugh,
and for all of you out there, if you can
follow this at home, go find the shot chart from
this game and go file up the third quarter, where
both teams tried to live in the paint. One was
far more successful than the other. A lot of empty
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circles for you to bubble together for the Cleveland Cavaliers,
a lot of empty shots and opportunities down low, whereby
the Detroit Pistons feasting going three of eight from three
point range. That's no matter because there's a nice cluster
of black dots for made field goals. Feasting in the
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paint and building out a big lead with a thirty
to nineteen third quarter performance.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So what you're telling me is you're done talking about
the next part of it because you just went right to.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, hey, look at the third you're not playing
the show's tonight about the game tonight? You you getting
all excited and getting your Knicks wallpaper installed in your home.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Who the Knicks could be playing? Is way more interesting
than the game we just saw. It was a twenty
point burial. Man, Come on, but does it informed game seven? Question?
It does? Now? I will say, I will say playoff
hardened Returning was a was a welcome site, like hey,
you know when the pressure was off and they were
down to zip and everything was saying looking like it
(09:19):
was done, it was gonna be a sweet for the
for the Pistons. Hey, James Harden played really well for
those next three games. He did. He played fantas.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
He played thirty seven minutes tonight, Yeah, twenty three points.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But what did I say? But what did I seven?
And how well he played? What did I say? I say,
how well he played? Hey, he's been terrific. Let's if
he can keep it up. Just like that, I did it,
just like that. I gave you those subliminal messages that
were really not subliminal, but they kind of were. They
were radio subliminal. I said, Hey, he's been great these
last three games. He has been absolutely fantastic, best player
(09:51):
on the floor. Let's if he can keep it up.
James Harden. Tonight another game with more turnovers than he
had made baskets. He had twenty three points. Nice night, right,
shot pretty well, eight turnovers, six made bass playoff. Harden
is back angel cat playoff. Harden is back right right
(10:14):
when his team and it's really this is how it
goes for James Harden. It's not that James Harden is
always terrible in the playoffs. It's just when it comes
down to it, what happens. He gets tired, and the
games that mean the most, he fades. He fades in
the fourth quarter. He's tired, he turns the ball over.
That was tonight, man, that was Harden tonight, I mean
playoff Harden came back in a large, large way this evening.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, I think the bigger issue is the fact that
from his shooting percentage, he wasn't chucking until the fourth
quarter when they were down big. Then suddenly he's got
shots for days, Like, where are you trying to assert
yourself in the offense earlier? Oh wait, it was the
eight turnovers because you only have thirteen attempts over the
course of the night, and several of those were deep
(10:58):
threes where he's flailing and flopping and trying to get himself. Yeah,
some calls down the stretch. So just a curious space
when for three games you've dominated, you're at home potential
to finish this thing off, and you're passive in your
shooting game when that's who you've been for sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, that's the thing is certainly con man. You have
to just get to the point and accept this is
who they are. Right. There's sometimes where if a player
is trending a certain way for the first few years
in the league, you say, Okay, eventually you're gonna understand
that you have to start doing X, Y and Z. Right,
Luca's got to understand it. Hey, you're in your mid
to late twenty you getting into your later twenties. You
(11:40):
gotta start taking care of your body. Okay, you heard
it for a long time. But you've been in the
league four or five years. Okay, I get it. You know,
five to six years, everybody hits that next level. But
guys like Joel Embiid and James Harden and Kevin Durant,
it's the same thing. This is just who they are.
They're completely unpredictable and when it comes down to a
(12:01):
point where you need them the most. How many times
can you say much more for Embiid and hard than
it is for Durant, But how many times can you say, wow,
that was absolutely terrible, whether not playing in a game,
playing poorly, not looking motivated, playing to a level where
rookies play at like that just is the thing that
(12:23):
you have to accept now with Harden, who's been in
the league for so long, and embiad who's been in
the league for so long. This is just who they are.
I could sit here and say they gotta do this,
and Harden's got to take care of the ball. Hard's
gotta find this, Harden's got I could tell you all
these things, but it doesn't matter, because that's just who
he is. He's unpredictable. He is just as liable to
come out with a twenty five and ten game in
(12:44):
Game seven and the Cavaliers win one like one oh five,
one hundred, just as likely as he used to come
out with a game where he's got eighteen points on
four to thirteen shooting and he turns the ball over
seven times. That's just who James Harden is. No, it's
a curiosity.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
We've been doing this show long enough to watch the
evolution and the ebbs and flow of what James Harden
has been. Right when he started to become a facilitator
and we saw the assist.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Numbers go up.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Scoring still could take over a game at times, but
playoff Harden is very much that thing. And in this game,
three of four started out well from the field, then
over the next two quarters proceeded to go one of
three three shot attempts.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
For a guy who was a top ten score of
all time.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
My god man uh and then he finishes two of four.
Couple of three porters in the fourth quarter, a couple
of trips to the fall line. As we set up
for Game seven, Pistons established early on as a four
point favorite.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Two five your total, right to the betting, right to
the betting. No, that was fourteen minutes later, right to
it straight. Yeah, now you're counting the minutes. Now you
say no because you go straight to it. No, So
I gotta have proceipts. How many minutes? How many minutes
till I can go to gambling where it won't look
like I'm going right to gambling? And you were counting
(14:02):
the minutes. I gave you the.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Odds for winning the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You didn't complain. Then thirty four to twenty five is
the score right now. In the nightcap, as the Spurs
go for the closer, they're up by nine over the Timberwolves.
We'll have more on this game coming up next. We
got to get into Edwin Diaz and the latest news
for Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano is just outstanding. It
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Speaker 1 (16:06):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, Spurs lead the Tea Wolves.
Spurs going for the closer. It is a big lead
right now for San Antonio. Make it forty three to
twenty seven, ten minutes to go before halftime. Time Out
on the floor, Wemby just had a big bucket. He's
(16:28):
got nine right now. However, it's Steph Castle with fourteen
leading the way for the Spurs. It's a big lead
and Minnesota looks really dicey. But just for a second,
there was a play a couple of minutes ago. When
you talk about plays it that Wemby makes you just go,
I can't believe it, right, You just can't believe stuff
he makes. It was just an average play where this
(16:50):
where the Tea Wolves were kind of on a break
in transition, not quite. Wemby was back in the paint
and there was another defender uh like like maybe on
the right elbow, and uh Desumu had the ball on
the right side of the court, and Wemby is pointing
to the to the to the opposite side, just pointing
(17:11):
and instructing his teammates. So he's only kind of halfway
paying attention right and here and and here's Dosumu who says, okay,
I have the numbers here right because I have three
or four in transition. Even though it's kind of it
was it was it wasn't a straight uh fast break.
And he's got a player in the corner and he
just turns to whip the ball into the corner and
(17:33):
and it's it's just one of those cross court passes
that you can see it's gonna be wide open and
and it's gonna be received and it's gonna be a
wide open three. And Wemby is I mean, he's only
halfway paying attention, Harman. He's only halfway pay because he's
talking to his teammate and he just and he just
sees the ball and he just puts his arm out.
I mean he's five feet from the ball and he
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just puts his arm out. The ball hits his arm
and bounces like ten feet in the air, and there's
a scrum for it. Now the play results in in
Minnesota getting the ball and they wind up getting a bucket.
But just here's like a four on two and I'm
gonna whip this ball cross court and it looks like
it's not even close, and Wenby just sticks his arm
out and doesn't just get a piece of it, but
(18:15):
hits it, knocks it ten twelve feet up in the air.
Like I see plays like that, and I go, I
really don't know how the Spurs even give up a point?
How even how does anybody even score on the Spurs
when it's the kind of plays makes I get the
hey coming down and I got two guys on me,
and I because I'm taller than everybody, I can dish
out to a wide open guy for a three, or
I can come back out. I always get my shot
(18:37):
over whoever is on me. That stuff I get. But
a play like that where he's he's still trying to
figure out where to put his defenders with them coming
down in the break and he just puts his arm
out and knocks them all up in the air, and
I go, that's where he looks unfair. That's where Wemby
just looks.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Like well, and this is where I blow your mind. Ready,
let's take it to my world. In the Memorabilian card market.
What is Wemby collect He collects Star Wars cards he
has called the Alien and he clearly using the force
or he has really good peripheral vision. In this case,
we're gonna say he's got really good use of the
force and command of that as if he were hanging
(19:13):
out with Grogu himself.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I did well, Honestly, I think Wemby it takes Grogu
a little bit too long to get his power going, right.
I got that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I mean the long road begins with that first step,
and he's got to milk it out for as many
seasons as you can. Because Pascal has already said, I
like this gravy train, let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah. But the thing he's gonna remember, Groguo's one hundred
years old. Now, he's had some time, right, He's had
a little bit, and it still takes him forever to
get going where Wemby's just edged. It's going right away.
Webby's going right away.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well maybe he wants to see you know, like you say,
with all the teams that have to do something for themselves,
he's not gonna just jump right in with the force,
gonna watch things chaos like all right now I'm in.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I'm wait in here. This is what I'm doing now, slowly,
that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Slow play like it. It allows for the tension to build. Yeah,
Wemby dropped a bunch of several thousand bucks on a
couple of Star Wars cards about a year ago. That
was a big deal in the marketplace because as more
and more players get on board, it, uh, the machine
keeps going. But there you go using the Force, and
you you so definitely described.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You know who tried to tried to wade in with
the forces, Quigan Jin who didn't, Darth Ball who won
that one? Oh, Darth Maul can't wait in man, You
gotta go right in with the force.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, And how much longer was Darth Maul with us?
You gotta whip he got he gotta win over him,
and he was defeated really fast.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So good they brought him back as a half man
half spyt.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, that was the greatest marketing scam ever perpetrated by
a franchise and and giant econog. Happy belated birthday, George
Lucas eighty two years old, greatest boom dog will ever.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
This guy's on the.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Marketing and sales for everything. There he is in the trailer,
and then bam, he's gone.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, so we'll have more on this game coming
up again, Spurs and the Tea Wolves forty five twenty seven,
nine and a half to go before halftime. Again, Spurs
going for the closer. We could be just a couple
of quarters away from the NBA Western Conference Finals. We
all thought we were gonna get in December. So that's
where we are meanwhile, tomorrow night. And I am really
(21:18):
happily surprised, how interested I am and can't wait to
see this because normally, if you want to give me something,
some kind of sporting event that tugs on my retro
or here's what we had going up and here's when
when times were better and remember this back Like I'm
only okay with that, right, Like I'm like, yeah, I
don't really care to see Floyd Mayweather fight again. I
(21:39):
don't care to see Manny Packey I'll fight again. I
don't care to see Mike Tyson fight again. You know
all this stuff, right, yeah, okay, yeah, I saw it.
I saw it the first time when it was great.
I don't need to go see this now. But I
tell you I can't get over and how happy I'm
and how interested I am in the Rowsy Coronto fight
tomorrow night on Netflix. Right Like it's I don't know why,
(22:00):
it may be because it's still the recency. It's you know,
it's been you know, almost ten years for Ronda Rousey,
but it feels like yesterday that she was just running
roughshod in the UFC. And Gina Corona, who of course
was the conduit that helped get us there. She was
the biggest star going back to the late adds, early teens.
But just you know, I don't know what it is,
(22:20):
but just my desire to see how they both fight,
how they both look, how how Ronda Rousey is able
to try to continue on to teat keep her star
power at its highest level. And Gina Courana, who hasn't
fought nearly twenty years. Like, I don't know why, but
this is something that I really can't wait to see.
(22:41):
And I don't know why, because if you gave me
some if you gave me a bunch of other MMA
guys or other other boxers who were fighting, I'm like, yeah,
I don't know. But Rowsy and Gina Carano maybe because
they found a way to stay relevant and current outside
of the ring with Rowsy and WWE and Gina Carno
acting on Mandalorian and of course you know, some some
controversial stuff with her. But just this, I like, I'm like,
(23:04):
I I really have to make time to watch this
tomorrow night. Like this is this is the big must
for me this weekend, because you know, the Nicks aren't playing,
so this is the big, big must for me this week.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, Corona talking today about one hundred pound weight loss,
so a much different look and feel, and and you
go back to when she was fighting, I mean that's
all the way back in two thousand and nine. Uh
so the the old Tapa flowing through. And and for
Ronda Rousey, I mean you missed when we got to
talk to her that time and and we asked all
about you know, you you had some planted questions that
(23:36):
really got weird but it was all good, you know,
as to whether she would date a Knicks fan, Mets fan,
bald guy, all all that stuff, if he was kind
of funny And yeah, I mean that washing when we
had Ronda Rousey on and it was I couldn't make
the interview, so you and Frostburg interviewed her and she
was single and and and at the time she said,
he said, well, you know, our our our host is
(23:57):
a real big you know, you know, what do you
think which you ever date a Mets fan?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And she said, yeah, he could teach me about baseball.
I was like, oh, man, was I born too late?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, like you missed the what would have been the
interview of your life, just like potentially either finding out
common ground and falling in love with Britney Spears or
getting stabbed by her one or the other the other
night here just down the road at the Blue Dog.
You gotta listen to the whole show. Go to the podcast,
find the clip on the entire Britney Spears saga from
(24:27):
just down the road here the other night.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But yeah, I mean I'm intrigued right into it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Dome get Ins a little over a hundred bucks, so
you know, satisfy some of that curiosity Rousy. You know,
there's still I think part of her that is mad
that the WWE part of things didn't flow as smoothly
as she'd hoped. And it goes back to you could
do everything you.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Want in the ring.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
You could be a bully in the ring and all
that stuff. You need to be able to do the
shoot interviews, you need to be able to do the
mic work, and that that was lacking at times, and
would just go back to you, all right, let's just
beat people up, which is great, which is why you
go back to the UFC and to MMA and get
back into the ring, into the squared circle, the octagon
(25:12):
as it were.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know, and you mentioned before we give you before
we pick, because because I have a strong opinion of
how this fight's gonna go. Gina Carano with her big
Instagram post toed Ay weighing in at one forty one
and a half pounds, and she said, I've lost one
hundred pounds in the better part of the last eighteen months,
like she was weighing over to forty as you said,
(25:33):
she was pre diabetic and finding a way to and
for you and I, you both had really big weight
losses over the course of the past year. I can't
tell you how happy I was to see this, just
just to see somebody, you know, be able to say, hey,
this is what I was and I you know, and
my my body got out of control and now here
I am getting it back right. On a minor way,
(25:54):
Eddie Lacy had a big story. He's been in the
news the last couple of days showing, you know, he's
had a big weight loss from his days in the NFL.
But like Gina Carano, I mean talking about how was
one hundred pounds heavier and be able to lose one
hundred pounds and to keep it off. Now, there's all
different ways you could do it, and there's there you
know however it is. There's Hollywood ways to do it,
there's there's diet ways to do it. There's all different ways.
(26:15):
But no matter how you slice it, losing one hundred pounds,
I mean, you're adding years to your life, You're adding
you're adding years to your health, you're adding years to
your knees. I mean, it's it really is something to
see that and go, man, one hundred pounds in the
better part of fifteen months, Like that is some kind.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Of weight loss, certainly the knees, the back, and for
you know, Gronto, obviously a desire to get back into
the mix. When it comes to the Hollywood side of things.
You alluded to the controversy and social media and tweets
and everything else. But you know, how you get there
is as long as you're doing no harm to anybody
(26:54):
else in the process, right, whatever gets you there. There's
many different ways, and certainly you can walk around many
bookstores and nutrition centers as to as to how you
go through that process. You and I took a different
path last year, and you know, you keep going with it.
I cheat a little bit more, but it's well, you
(27:14):
know what that lack of sleep man. You know, they
carbs and sugars and and whatever keep me talking to
you but maintaining as best we can. But for for
Janna Carona, I mean, it's just the the curiosity of
what we're gonna get now in the matchup tomorrow, I mean,
decided underdog in the batting odds, yes it's appropriate to
(27:35):
do them here is, but just that curiosity because the
last time we saw Ronda Rousey wasn't exactly inspiring confidence
in this regard either no.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And really, in the end, it's hard to know just
how good of a UFC fighter she was. Right, because
the women's division was still brand new, we didn't how
good were the people she was fighting. And then when
people learned how to fighter, which was don't get knocked
out in the first twenty seconds, okay, make her fight longer,
and it gets more difficult. Like, I still don't know
(28:07):
how good a fighter she is, but I saw what
she was able to do when she was when she
was facing somebody who was not at her level, and
it's hard for me to see Gina Carano make it
at this level again. The last time she fought was
in two thousand and nine. Right now, Ronda Rowsi same thing.
It's been ten years for Ronda Rousi, but Ronda Rousi
is younger. She's been doing WWE, so she's been in
(28:30):
that in that mode of of being active and athletic.
Gina Carano has been more getting getting her weight down
and getting back in a great life shape. But it's
almost been twenty years, like she fought in two thousand
and nine. What kind of stamina is she going to have?
How is that gonna go when when when when you're
Ronda Rousi and you're you've been in fighting shape for
(28:51):
a long time, and here's Gina Carrano who has been
trying to get into it while losing weight. I don't
know how that translates when you get into the octagon,
And it would really stun me if this was a
fight that was longer, I don't know, ninety seconds, Maybe
I don't. I really think this is gonna be Ronda Rousey.
It's to be Ronda Rousey big. Maybe it's arm bar,
you know, to go back to where it is, and
(29:12):
maybe this jump starts her MMA career again. But it's
really gonna be hard for me to see Ronda Rousey
not win this in ninety seconds. Yeah, I have nothing else.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's a payday and some time in the limelight, get
some interviews, get back out there and try to find it.
The implied odds right now is Rowsy at eighty six percent.
It would be something to see Toronto go and win.
And but to your point, we watched the division mature,
you know, before our very eyes, as Rowsey was having
(29:40):
that level of dominance and then just like that, it
was gone. The invincibility was gone, the fear was gone
from all the opponents, and she was gettable. To your point,
get a little bit of dancing around the ring and
the octagon a bit more and work to tire her out.
So if you could survive that initial barrage, then perhaps
(30:02):
you've got a puncher's chance.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Either way.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
A lot of interested folks for this one, and it's
good to be talking these names once again. Little nostalgia
as we kind of keep pushing forward our sports narratives,
right whenever we can grab a little bit from the
past and the longevity of some of these athletes. You know,
I feel less old.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
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just figuring out just how many points the lead is
for the Spurs over the Tea Wolves, cause it's getting
pretty big. It's Steve de Seger.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Actually I was having trouble finding out. Wait a minute,
So Game one is Monday for the neck. Yeah, they're
probably not going to be having a Game seven in
San Antonio. This series on Sunday. The Spurs are on
a twenty to nothing run to start the second quarter
at Minnesota. The lead is fifty six to twenty seven
in the second quarter. Spurs already up three games to
(31:04):
two in this second round playoff series. Thirty one percent
shooting for the home team Timberwolves, sixty four percent from
the floor for visiting San Antonio, led by stefang Castle
seventeen points, six of seven shooting. Detroit was a winner
at Cleveland, another elimination faced and test passed one fifteen
(31:26):
ninety four the final Pistons, led by Kay Cunningham twenty
one points. He had eight assists seven turnovers. Game seven
will be at Detroit on Sunday. An impressive win for
the Pistons, getting a victory at Cleveland, where the Cavs
had been six and zero at home this postseason. Nick
scard O, Gian Andobi practice fully for the first time
(31:46):
since his hamstring injury. He missed their last two games.
Game one of the East Finals will be Tuesday. Game
one of the West Finals look like looks like we'll
be Monday. This past Monday, Oklahoma City swept the Lakers
and okasees. Jalen Williams says he is healthy now. He
missed the last six games with a strained hamstring. In
the WNBA, Asia Wilson scored forty five points tonight as
(32:08):
Las Vegas won at Connecticut one oh one, ninety four
Connecticut Son who can't move soon enough now oh and four.
Washington won at Indiana one oh four, one oh two.
Caitlin Clarke in defeat thirty two points, eight assists. As
for the MLB games in progress, two outs in the
ninth Cubs they're leading ten to four at the White Sox.
(32:29):
Top of the ninth, it's the Royals, tied three to
three at Saint Louis. Diamondbacks scored six in the top
of the first. They're now leading at Colorado nine to one.
In the bottom of the seventh. The Dodgers starting pitcher
was due to be Blake Snell. He was scratched due
to an elbow injury. The team is confident he'll return
this year. No decision yet as far as surgery. So
(32:52):
it's an all bullpen game and it looks like the
Dodgers have just homered, so make it a four to
nothing Dodger lead. Max Munsey rounding the bases after the
round tripper his twelfth of the year. Andy pot Has
has already hit a three run shot his ten four
nothing Dodgers at the Angels in the top of the fourth.
Padres are winning one nothing at Seattle in the bottom
(33:14):
of the fourth. Padres only a half game back of
the first place Dodgers. In the NL West, Houston shut
out Texas to nothing. The winning pitcher Spencer arraghetti seven
and a third. He came out after allowing his first hit.
He did have four walks. Yankees in Tampa Bay each one.
Ray's still first in the AL East by two games.
Atlanta one again a ten inning win over Boston three
(33:36):
to two, Detroit with a run bottom of the niney
vegged Toronto three to two, and Philadelphia got two homers
from Kyle Schwarbery has twenty. They came back for a
ten inning win at Pittsburgh eleven to nine. And at
the PGA Championship, Maverick McNeely is tied for the lead
with fellow American Alex smalley. Hideki Matsuyama is one back,
tied for third, barely making the cut at four over
(33:58):
Shane Lowry. A second round seventy six Today, Back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
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(35:10):
It is a twenty point Spurs lead sixty through forty four.
They're shooting free throws right now. Looks like in a
little bit we'll be previewing the Spurs Thunder Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
You know, I showed the Colts schedule reveal to my
daughter this morning and Madeline started laughing because she appreciated
the same game and you did boring.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
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Speaker 4 (36:15):
Paul Reid to Kade right Glynn, triple tribe Bang, it's
through for three and the Pistons now leading by eleven.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
This is Radio Network on the call. Five threes from
Cade Cunningham. That's all he really did well tonight shooting
because he was just two of nine the rest of
the way, and the Pistons find a way to beat
the Cavs one fifteen ninety four. I mean, and this
is this is what I mean when I said earlier
in the show, Hey, hard not to think Nixon four, right,
(36:45):
hard not thinking is four because the Pistons have not
been playing well, right, Frostburg, just just worry about game five.
Worry about you know how many points Luca's gonna score
in Game five now that he's clear, Uh, is that
the Pistons have not been playing well. Kate Unningham has
not been playing well, yet they're find a way to
keep this series three to three. The Cavaliers have been
(37:05):
incredibly inconsistent, right up and down. As James Harden goes,
so go the Cavaliers, which you're like, wow, really okay sentence.
I didn't think you would say, like four months ago,
But they've been incredibly inconsistent. Both of these teams are
just trying to stay afloat all. Right. None of them
is playing great, none of them is saying we're getting
to our next level. They both look like getting to
the conference finals will be their big feather in their cap. Hey,
(37:29):
mid to the conference finals this year, next year will
make our big move and go up with you know,
the arrows going up for our team. We're feeling really good.
We have young bases, both of them do, and they're
both franchises on the way up. It's awesome to see this,
but really, I mean, you watch the game and you go, wow,
it's it's just it's just not the same basketball that
we've seen played when the Thunder the Knicks in the
(37:49):
series against the against the Sixers, and I'm sorry, but
the Knicks have been the second best team in the
playoffs the entire time. Now, maybe the Spurs are making
a run at it with their big game tonight Wemby,
But like, it's really hard to see when you see
this level of play versus some of the other play
we've seen.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
But again, it's it's the matchups and the slug as
you go through it, and then you get into the
next round, you don't know how guys are gonna react, right,
I mean, even though it's the home court playing in
Madison Square, guard might be a bigger advantage for the
visitors because they get jacked up to go there versus
just another day at the office for Brunson and those guys.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, that's great, But is it the Pacers? Is it
the pacers? It's not the pacers? I'm feeling Okay, I
don't know you. You dismissed the Pacers a year ago
the Pace.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
You said they were a bunch of bums, and you
hated them all and nem hard didn't belong on the
same cord as as Jalen Brunson and all your heroes,
and and what happened there.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
The mirror another miracle shot by cunning by by Tyrese
Halliburton that bounces off the back of the rim up
and through. I mean, come on, man, two years two
miracle shots like the pay I mean, I think that's
what happened to the Pacers this year. It said, hey, listen,
he gave you whatever you sold your souls for. You
didn't sell it for enough, because now you're going to
the lottery. Okay, you beat the Knicks twice with miracle
(39:06):
shots you shouldn't have had, and hey, okay, but now
you got to pay the piper. So now get ready
for the lottery. Now, no, that is fair.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I mean, eventually the devil comes to get his due.
I mean we've talked about it at length, the whether
it's the football gods and we you know, the lowercase
G for whatever sport you want to apply it to,
or if you want to go crossroads where we get
a little Stevie vay In and then Ralph Baccio and
a cool Fanora, all of that fun stuff is there that, Yeah,
(39:33):
eventually it does even itself out. Now you wishing illness
and problems for our guy Haliburt and out of that
is just wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Did not say that? Did not?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
No, you kind of implied it like he had to
pay the price.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Don't tell me, no, no, No, the Pacers had to
pay the price with the year where they're going to
the lottery because they used up all their good fortune
and they got zero championships out of it. So whatever
you sold your souls for. So Nenmar could make that
three pointer from thirty feet with his eyes closed in
Game three two years ago, and Haliburton can make that
shot off the back of the arven it goes through
where he makes the choke thing. Oh, he's gonna live forever. Yeah,
(40:08):
you got zero championships. Well, you know that is generally.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
The the lore and history of how the deal with
the Devil works. You get right to the precipice of
what you were trying to achieve, and maybe you get
a little taste of it, but then it's torn asunder
and you lose it all just that fast.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah. But usually in the movies, though, they beat the
devil in the end, like you know, real life, I
guess the devil wins more than you expect. Yeah. No,
the the odds are, you know, generally in his favor. Yeah, yeah,
What are the odds for Satan in this arm? And
do you have the odds for.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Satan prohibitive favorite in this What.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Kind of favorite of Satan is he seven and a
half points? Like like what, like what you're gonna lose
on the temptation? That's it?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Okay to eat the sweet may for may that ill
gotten donut be forever on your head.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Oh but I'm so sweet and tasty. Satan is a
perpetual favorite. Last time, you know, the last time Satan
was an underdog. It's like, you know, it's like UCLA
basketball with Wooden. Last time they were an underdog in
a game that's like eight years ago. Last time, Satan
was an underdog who sixty nine nets man that's a
last in the Grand Battles. Still still, you know, forever
(41:17):
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gotta tell you, Mike, you know, after seeing the Pistons
and the Cavs sit right now Detroit with a huge
win tonight, their bench is incredible. One fifteen to ninety four.
We got another day of playoff Harden. But let's deal
(01:11):
with this first, seeing this series and seeing how horribly
the Pistons played in the last game, especially how disinterested
and cook they were at the end of Game five,
to come out and play like this in game six,
and for the Cavaliers to really just kind of throw
up on themselves here in game In game six, you know,
they shoot thirty nine percent. It's a close out game.
(01:31):
Donovan Mitchell is six for twenty, he's minus twenty five.
The big takeaway, the big ten of being a and
you're gonna say, don't say it. You're gonna say, don't
say it. You're gonna say don't, don't, don't, don't don't.
But I'm gonna say it because I gotta tell you
what I feel. It's hard to not look at this
Pistons Cavalier series and not think Nixon four, Nixon four,
Nixon four, Nixon four, nix in four. It's hard, Seriously,
(01:55):
it's hard to not look at this and go boy,
and yes, everything series is different. There's every different there's
every different parts of energy and matchups and how they're
different and how teams can, you know, getting a more
favorable one as the time goes on. I understand all
of that because I've seen a basketball game, but judging
by how the teams have played, The two best teams
in the playoffs this year have been the Thunder and
(02:15):
the Knicks. The best offense in the playoffs this year
has been the Knicks, and it's not even close. It's
hard for me to see the Pistons and the Cavaliers
winning a game at this point right now, where they
are just throwing punches, like it's like Rocky and Apollo
at the end of Rocky One, when they're they're all
just there. They can't even see out of their eyes,
and they're walking around the ring and one would punch
the other and then you wait five seconds and be
(02:36):
another punch Like that's kind of what Detroit and Cavaliers
look like right now. Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
And then we get Game seven, so we get everything
we wanted and then some standing, staggering, punching shadows. Which
one do I hit the one in the middle, And
that's kind of where we're at this process. Points in
the paint bludgeoning by the Detroit Pistons, And I think
in the next series, I guess that becomes the big question.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Can you impose your will? Will the.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Your New York Knicks shoot the lights out as they
have through the first couple rounds of the playoffs, you
gotta think at some point, as you like to say,
they get a bounce, and it's not just the you know, yodelin'
guy from the Prices, right that just keeps going up
because you know eventually he falls off too.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So is there for you know, a buster game or two.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Karl Anthony Towns will need to revert to scoring Karl
Anthony Towns, which he has not had to do in
a while. At some point, you know, the facilitators all
finding good, but you know the guy, at least on
one side, from the Detroit side, we trust their defense
a bit more. The other is, of course, the James
Harden part of the equation. And we had a streak,
(03:49):
we had a streak of three great games in a row.
We tried to push for four and we failed.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Just the whole thing here, all right, But before we
get to Harden, is that I get you on the
bounce That takes up most of my thinking now is
what are the Knicks gonna get a bounce in the
next round of the Eastern in the Eastern Conference Finals.
If they're gonna get a bounce, it's gonna be in
the NBA Finals, and it's gonna be, hey, welcome to
the finals by either the Spurs or more likely the Thunder.
But I don't see either of these teams suddenly, hey,
(04:17):
we're putting it all together, right. The Pistons are having trouble.
They still can't rely on a second guy. I mean,
they had an incredible night to night from their bench,
which is why they won this game. But that's not
gonna be there for them the entire time. Cad Cunningham again,
he looks like he's out of guests. Every night is
seven for nineteen for him. So it was an incredible
night by the Pissops. This shows you the Cavaliers how
flawed they are. You're at home and you can't close
(04:39):
out a team that is so wounded and is not
shooting well, and you still find a way to lose
by twenty in a closeout game. Like, I don't see
either of these teams saying, okay, yeah, this is where
all of a sudden we hit the next level. They're
just surviving. These two teams are surviving, and whoever makes
it to the East Finals, now that's gonna be Hey,
where we did. We made it to the East Finals.
It's a huge achievement for us both of these teams.
(05:01):
It's gonna be great and the Knicks are gonna win,
and then it's gonna be okay the NBA Finals. But
as much as I went Frostburg Frostburg, you're just lucky
that Luca has been cleared for Game five. You're just lucky.
You know how, they're gonna win. Now, they're gonna win,
I mean now that they will not lose again the
rest of the season. Now that Luca's cleared. It's absolutely
Fatcason to take the Knicks in four Knicks in four mix.
(05:22):
You're gonna that's gonna be my pick. I got it.
Whoever they play, I'm gonna say Nixon. For whoever they play,
I'm gonna say Nixon four.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I think you were gonna do that regardless. You
might have had you do that in the NBA Finals
and those monsters off that Apple Show, and you would
have been calling for Nixon four. With the rose collared
glasses that you stole from Elton John that you're wearing
here on a beautiful Friday night. That's kind of where
we're at in this process of your expectation is over
the moon. I'm here to try to temper such things. Now,
(05:53):
do I try to deny what we've seen from your
New York Knicks to this point, No, I do not.
But performance is not indicative of future results. And as
you get into the next series, and yes, they will
be dog ass tired, your team will be sitting around
and we'll have all sorts of hot topic debates on
morning shows like rest or Rust the New York Knicks
(06:16):
edition and all sorts of stuff about Jalen Bronson and
not getting into the you know, parties after the met
Gala and all that fun stuff. We'll talk about that
some more, but it you know, styles make fights. And
if suddenly the Pistons are ready to go and they
want to fight your Nicks, and they can slow it
down to a half court game, look you get on
(06:39):
a nob back and that'll be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
All words is that he'll be ready to go for
the Eastern Conference finals when we get there, and you know,
that's one more piece and then the Mike Brown arsenal.
But I to think that predicting a sweep is always
heady business unless we're in March and you're just predicting
a sweep against the Eastern Conference teams that don't want
(07:03):
to play anymore Knicks.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
In four knicks in four Nicks in fine. I mean, look,
it's been five days since I had a k next game.
I got four more days till my next next game.
I mean it's it's this is a long time, Like
I love the break, but at some point I'm like, yeah,
I'd like a game this weekend. But good enjoy it.
Good enjoys.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
The Knicks are a sixty nine likely champion out of
the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I mean, look, and the time for Anunoby to come back,
that's the big thing, right, Like if he's trending this
well and now going to game seven, uh you know, okay, great,
they're gonna be tired and and and ensuring that he
doesn't have to like he's gonna be it's two weeks
now basically for the injury for him, like I expect
to him back as it come back. And as much
as I thought last year was the year, hey we
(07:50):
got a home court, it's the Pacers, I'm not like
this is even more. This is the year to get
to the final, to get back to the.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Game we just watched. If you really want to laugh,
and for all of you out there, if you can
follow this at home, go find the shot chart from
this game and go file up the third quarter, where
both teams tried to live in the paint. One was
far more successful than the other. A lot of empty
(08:17):
circles for you to bubble together for the Cleveland Cavaliers,
a lot of empty shots and opportunities down low, whereby
the Detroit Pistons feasting going three of eight from three
point range. That's no matter because there's a nice cluster
of black dots for made field goals. Feasting in the
(08:38):
paint and building out a big lead with a thirty
to nineteen third quarter performance.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So what you're telling me is you're done talking about
the next part of it because you just went right to.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, hey, look at the third you're not playing
the show's tonight about the game tonight? You you getting
all excited and getting your Knicks wallpaper installed in your home.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Who the Knicks could be playing? Is way more interesting
than the game we just saw. It was a twenty
point burial. Man, Come on, but does it informed game seven? Question?
It does? Now? I will say, I will say playoff
hardened Returning was a was a welcome site, like hey,
you know when the pressure was off and they were
down to zip and everything was saying looking like it
(09:19):
was done, it was gonna be a sweet for the
for the Pistons. Hey, James Harden played really well for
those next three games. He did. He played fantas.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
He played thirty seven minutes tonight, Yeah, twenty three points.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
But what did I say? But what did I seven?
And how well he played? What did I say? I say,
how well he played? Hey, he's been terrific. Let's if
he can keep it up. Just like that, I did it,
just like that. I gave you those subliminal messages that
were really not subliminal, but they kind of were. They
were radio subliminal. I said, Hey, he's been great these
last three games. He has been absolutely fantastic, best player
(09:51):
on the floor. Let's if he can keep it up.
James Harden. Tonight another game with more turnovers than he
had made baskets. He had twenty three points. Nice night, right,
shot pretty well, eight turnovers, six made bass playoff. Harden
is back angel cat playoff. Harden is back right right
(10:14):
when his team and it's really this is how it
goes for James Harden. It's not that James Harden is
always terrible in the playoffs. It's just when it comes
down to it, what happens. He gets tired, and the
games that mean the most, he fades. He fades in
the fourth quarter. He's tired, he turns the ball over.
That was tonight, man, that was Harden tonight, I mean
playoff Harden came back in a large, large way this evening.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, I think the bigger issue is the fact that
from his shooting percentage, he wasn't chucking until the fourth
quarter when they were down big. Then suddenly he's got
shots for days, Like, where are you trying to assert
yourself in the offense earlier? Oh wait, it was the
eight turnovers because you only have thirteen attempts over the
course of the night, and several of those were deep
(10:58):
threes where he's flailing and flopping and trying to get himself. Yeah,
some calls down the stretch. So just a curious space
when for three games you've dominated, you're at home potential
to finish this thing off, and you're passive in your
shooting game when that's who you've been for sixteen years.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, that's the thing is certainly con man. You have
to just get to the point and accept this is
who they are. Right. There's sometimes where if a player
is trending a certain way for the first few years
in the league, you say, Okay, eventually you're gonna understand
that you have to start doing X, Y and Z. Right,
Luca's got to understand it. Hey, you're in your mid
to late twenty you getting into your later twenties. You
(11:40):
gotta start taking care of your body. Okay, you heard
it for a long time. But you've been in the
league four or five years. Okay, I get it. You know,
five to six years, everybody hits that next level. But
guys like Joel Embiid and James Harden and Kevin Durant,
it's the same thing. This is just who they are.
They're completely unpredictable and when it comes down to a
(12:01):
point where you need them the most. How many times
can you say much more for Embiid and hard than
it is for Durant, But how many times can you say, wow,
that was absolutely terrible, whether not playing in a game,
playing poorly, not looking motivated, playing to a level where
rookies play at like that just is the thing that
(12:23):
you have to accept now with Harden, who's been in
the league for so long, and embiad who's been in
the league for so long. This is just who they are.
I could sit here and say they gotta do this,
and Harden's got to take care of the ball. Hard's
gotta find this, Harden's got I could tell you all
these things, but it doesn't matter, because that's just who
he is. He's unpredictable. He is just as liable to
come out with a twenty five and ten game in
(12:44):
Game seven and the Cavaliers win one like one oh five,
one hundred, just as likely as he used to come
out with a game where he's got eighteen points on
four to thirteen shooting and he turns the ball over
seven times. That's just who James Harden is. No, it's
a curiosity.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
We've been doing this show long enough to watch the
evolution and the ebbs and flow of what James Harden
has been. Right when he started to become a facilitator
and we saw the assist.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Numbers go up.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Scoring still could take over a game at times, but
playoff Harden is very much that thing. And in this game,
three of four started out well from the field, then
over the next two quarters proceeded to go one of
three three shot attempts.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
For a guy who was a top ten score of
all time.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
My god man uh and then he finishes two of four.
Couple of three porters in the fourth quarter, a couple
of trips to the fall line. As we set up
for Game seven, Pistons established early on as a four
point favorite.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Two five your total, right to the betting, right to
the betting. No, that was fourteen minutes later, right to
it straight. Yeah, now you're counting the minutes. Now you
say no because you go straight to it. No, So
I gotta have proceipts. How many minutes? How many minutes
till I can go to gambling where it won't look
like I'm going right to gambling? And you were counting
(14:02):
the minutes. I gave you the.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Odds for winning the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You didn't complain. Then thirty four to twenty five is
the score right now. In the nightcap, as the Spurs
go for the closer, they're up by nine over the Timberwolves.
We'll have more on this game coming up next. We
got to get into Edwin Diaz and the latest news
for Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano is just outstanding. It
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Speaker 1 (16:06):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Right now, Spurs lead the Tea Wolves.
Spurs going for the closer. It is a big lead
right now for San Antonio. Make it forty three to
twenty seven, ten minutes to go before halftime. Time Out
on the floor, Wemby just had a big bucket. He's
(16:28):
got nine right now. However, it's Steph Castle with fourteen
leading the way for the Spurs. It's a big lead
and Minnesota looks really dicey. But just for a second,
there was a play a couple of minutes ago. When
you talk about plays it that Wemby makes you just go,
I can't believe it, right, You just can't believe stuff
he makes. It was just an average play where this
(16:50):
where the Tea Wolves were kind of on a break
in transition, not quite. Wemby was back in the paint
and there was another defender uh like like maybe on
the right elbow, and uh Desumu had the ball on
the right side of the court, and Wemby is pointing
to the to the to the opposite side, just pointing
(17:11):
and instructing his teammates. So he's only kind of halfway
paying attention right and here and and here's Dosumu who says, okay,
I have the numbers here right because I have three
or four in transition. Even though it's kind of it
was it was it wasn't a straight uh fast break.
And he's got a player in the corner and he
just turns to whip the ball into the corner and
(17:33):
and it's it's just one of those cross court passes
that you can see it's gonna be wide open and
and it's gonna be received and it's gonna be a
wide open three. And Wemby is I mean, he's only
halfway paying attention, Harman. He's only halfway pay because he's
talking to his teammate and he just and he just
sees the ball and he just puts his arm out.
I mean he's five feet from the ball and he
(17:55):
just puts his arm out. The ball hits his arm
and bounces like ten feet in the air, and there's
a scrum for it. Now the play results in in
Minnesota getting the ball and they wind up getting a bucket.
But just here's like a four on two and I'm
gonna whip this ball cross court and it looks like
it's not even close, and Wenby just sticks his arm
out and doesn't just get a piece of it, but
(18:15):
hits it, knocks it ten twelve feet up in the air.
Like I see plays like that, and I go, I
really don't know how the Spurs even give up a point?
How even how does anybody even score on the Spurs
when it's the kind of plays makes I get the
hey coming down and I got two guys on me,
and I because I'm taller than everybody, I can dish
out to a wide open guy for a three, or
I can come back out. I always get my shot
(18:37):
over whoever is on me. That stuff I get. But
a play like that where he's he's still trying to
figure out where to put his defenders with them coming
down in the break and he just puts his arm
out and knocks them all up in the air, and
I go, that's where he looks unfair. That's where Wemby
just looks.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Like well, and this is where I blow your mind. Ready,
let's take it to my world. In the Memorabilian card market.
What is Wemby collect He collects Star Wars cards he
has called the Alien and he clearly using the force
or he has really good peripheral vision. In this case,
we're gonna say he's got really good use of the
force and command of that as if he were hanging
(19:13):
out with Grogu himself.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I did well, Honestly, I think Wemby it takes Grogu
a little bit too long to get his power going, right.
I got that.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I mean the long road begins with that first step,
and he's got to milk it out for as many
seasons as you can. Because Pascal has already said, I
like this gravy train, let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah. But the thing he's gonna remember, Groguo's one hundred
years old. Now, he's had some time, right, He's had
a little bit, and it still takes him forever to
get going where Wemby's just edged. It's going right away.
Webby's going right away.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well maybe he wants to see you know, like you say,
with all the teams that have to do something for themselves,
he's not gonna just jump right in with the force,
gonna watch things chaos like all right now I'm in.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
I'm wait in here. This is what I'm doing now, slowly,
that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Slow play like it. It allows for the tension to build. Yeah,
Wemby dropped a bunch of several thousand bucks on a
couple of Star Wars cards about a year ago. That
was a big deal in the marketplace because as more
and more players get on board, it, uh, the machine
keeps going. But there you go using the Force, and
you you so definitely described.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
You know who tried to tried to wade in with
the forces, Quigan Jin who didn't, Darth Ball who won
that one? Oh, Darth Maul can't wait in man, You
gotta go right in with the force.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, And how much longer was Darth Maul with us?
You gotta whip he got he gotta win over him,
and he was defeated really fast.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
So good they brought him back as a half man
half spyt.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, that was the greatest marketing scam ever perpetrated by
a franchise and and giant econog. Happy belated birthday, George
Lucas eighty two years old, greatest boom dog will ever.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
This guy's on the.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Marketing and sales for everything. There he is in the trailer,
and then bam, he's gone.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
All right, so we'll have more on this game coming
up again, Spurs and the Tea Wolves forty five twenty seven,
nine and a half to go before halftime. Again, Spurs
going for the closer. We could be just a couple
of quarters away from the NBA Western Conference Finals. We
all thought we were gonna get in December. So that's
where we are meanwhile, tomorrow night. And I am really
(21:18):
happily surprised, how interested I am and can't wait to
see this because normally, if you want to give me something,
some kind of sporting event that tugs on my retro
or here's what we had going up and here's when
when times were better and remember this back Like I'm
only okay with that, right, Like I'm like, yeah, I
don't really care to see Floyd Mayweather fight again. I
(21:39):
don't care to see Manny Packey I'll fight again. I
don't care to see Mike Tyson fight again. You know
all this stuff, right, yeah, okay, yeah, I saw it.
I saw it the first time when it was great.
I don't need to go see this now. But I
tell you I can't get over and how happy I'm
and how interested I am in the Rowsy Coronto fight
tomorrow night on Netflix. Right Like it's I don't know why,
(22:00):
it may be because it's still the recency. It's you know,
it's been you know, almost ten years for Ronda Rousey,
but it feels like yesterday that she was just running
roughshod in the UFC. And Gina Corona, who of course
was the conduit that helped get us there. She was
the biggest star going back to the late adds, early teens.
But just you know, I don't know what it is,
(22:20):
but just my desire to see how they both fight,
how they both look, how how Ronda Rousey is able
to try to continue on to teat keep her star
power at its highest level. And Gina Courana, who hasn't
fought nearly twenty years. Like, I don't know why, but
this is something that I really can't wait to see.
(22:41):
And I don't know why, because if you gave me
some if you gave me a bunch of other MMA
guys or other other boxers who were fighting, I'm like, yeah,
I don't know. But Rowsy and Gina Carano maybe because
they found a way to stay relevant and current outside
of the ring with Rowsy and WWE and Gina Carno
acting on Mandalorian and of course you know, some some
controversial stuff with her. But just this, I like, I'm like,
(23:04):
I I really have to make time to watch this
tomorrow night. Like this is this is the big must
for me this weekend, because you know, the Nicks aren't playing,
so this is the big, big must for me this week.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, Corona talking today about one hundred pound weight loss,
so a much different look and feel, and and you
go back to when she was fighting, I mean that's
all the way back in two thousand and nine. Uh
so the the old Tapa flowing through. And and for
Ronda Rousey, I mean you missed when we got to
talk to her that time and and we asked all
about you know, you you had some planted questions that
(23:36):
really got weird but it was all good, you know,
as to whether she would date a Knicks fan, Mets fan,
bald guy, all all that stuff, if he was kind
of funny And yeah, I mean that washing when we
had Ronda Rousey on and it was I couldn't make
the interview, so you and Frostburg interviewed her and she
was single and and and at the time she said,
he said, well, you know, our our our host is
(23:57):
a real big you know, you know, what do you
think which you ever date a Mets fan?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And she said, yeah, he could teach me about baseball.
I was like, oh, man, was I born too late?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, like you missed the what would have been the
interview of your life, just like potentially either finding out
common ground and falling in love with Britney Spears or
getting stabbed by her one or the other the other
night here just down the road at the Blue Dog.
You gotta listen to the whole show. Go to the podcast,
find the clip on the entire Britney Spears saga from
(24:27):
just down the road here the other night.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
But yeah, I mean I'm intrigued right into it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Dome get Ins a little over a hundred bucks, so
you know, satisfy some of that curiosity Rousy. You know,
there's still I think part of her that is mad
that the WWE part of things didn't flow as smoothly
as she'd hoped. And it goes back to you could
do everything you.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Want in the ring.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
You could be a bully in the ring and all
that stuff. You need to be able to do the
shoot interviews, you need to be able to do the
mic work, and that that was lacking at times, and
would just go back to you, all right, let's just
beat people up, which is great, which is why you
go back to the UFC and to MMA and get
back into the ring, into the squared circle, the octagon
(25:12):
as it were.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
You know, and you mentioned before we give you before
we pick, because because I have a strong opinion of
how this fight's gonna go. Gina Carano with her big
Instagram post toed Ay weighing in at one forty one
and a half pounds, and she said, I've lost one
hundred pounds in the better part of the last eighteen months,
like she was weighing over to forty as you said,
(25:33):
she was pre diabetic and finding a way to and
for you and I, you both had really big weight
losses over the course of the past year. I can't
tell you how happy I was to see this, just
just to see somebody, you know, be able to say, hey,
this is what I was and I you know, and
my my body got out of control and now here
I am getting it back right. On a minor way,
(25:54):
Eddie Lacy had a big story. He's been in the
news the last couple of days showing, you know, he's
had a big weight loss from his days in the NFL.
But like Gina Carano, I mean talking about how was
one hundred pounds heavier and be able to lose one
hundred pounds and to keep it off. Now, there's all
different ways you could do it, and there's there you
know however it is. There's Hollywood ways to do it,
there's there's diet ways to do it. There's all different ways.
(26:15):
But no matter how you slice it, losing one hundred pounds,
I mean, you're adding years to your life, You're adding
you're adding years to your health, you're adding years to
your knees. I mean, it's it really is something to
see that and go, man, one hundred pounds in the
better part of fifteen months, Like that is some kind.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Of weight loss, certainly the knees, the back, and for
you know, Gronto, obviously a desire to get back into
the mix. When it comes to the Hollywood side of things.
You alluded to the controversy and social media and tweets
and everything else. But you know, how you get there
is as long as you're doing no harm to anybody
(26:54):
else in the process, right, whatever gets you there. There's
many different ways, and certainly you can walk around many
bookstores and nutrition centers as to as to how you
go through that process. You and I took a different
path last year, and you know, you keep going with it.
I cheat a little bit more, but it's well, you
(27:14):
know what that lack of sleep man. You know, they
carbs and sugars and and whatever keep me talking to
you but maintaining as best we can. But for for
Janna Carona, I mean, it's just the the curiosity of
what we're gonna get now in the matchup tomorrow, I mean,
decided underdog in the batting odds, yes it's appropriate to
(27:35):
do them here is, but just that curiosity because the
last time we saw Ronda Rousey wasn't exactly inspiring confidence
in this regard either no.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
And really, in the end, it's hard to know just
how good of a UFC fighter she was. Right, because
the women's division was still brand new, we didn't how
good were the people she was fighting. And then when
people learned how to fighter, which was don't get knocked
out in the first twenty seconds, okay, make her fight longer,
and it gets more difficult. Like, I still don't know
(28:07):
how good a fighter she is, but I saw what
she was able to do when she was when she
was facing somebody who was not at her level, and
it's hard for me to see Gina Carano make it
at this level again. The last time she fought was
in two thousand and nine. Right now, Ronda Rowsi same thing.
It's been ten years for Ronda Rousi, but Ronda Rousi
is younger. She's been doing WWE, so she's been in
(28:30):
that in that mode of of being active and athletic.
Gina Carano has been more getting getting her weight down
and getting back in a great life shape. But it's
almost been twenty years, like she fought in two thousand
and nine. What kind of stamina is she going to have?
How is that gonna go when when when when you're
Ronda Rousi and you're you've been in fighting shape for
(28:51):
a long time, and here's Gina Carrano who has been
trying to get into it while losing weight. I don't
know how that translates when you get into the octagon,
And it would really stun me if this was a
fight that was longer, I don't know, ninety seconds, Maybe
I don't. I really think this is gonna be Ronda Rousey.
It's to be Ronda Rousey big. Maybe it's arm bar,
you know, to go back to where it is, and
(29:12):
maybe this jump starts her MMA career again. But it's
really gonna be hard for me to see Ronda Rousey
not win this in ninety seconds. Yeah, I have nothing else.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
It's a payday and some time in the limelight, get
some interviews, get back out there and try to find it.
The implied odds right now is Rowsy at eighty six percent.
It would be something to see Toronto go and win.
And but to your point, we watched the division mature,
you know, before our very eyes, as Rowsey was having
(29:40):
that level of dominance and then just like that, it
was gone. The invincibility was gone, the fear was gone
from all the opponents, and she was gettable. To your point,
get a little bit of dancing around the ring and
the octagon a bit more and work to tire her out.
So if you could survive that initial barrage, then perhaps
(30:02):
you've got a puncher's chance.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Either way.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
A lot of interested folks for this one, and it's
good to be talking these names once again. Little nostalgia
as we kind of keep pushing forward our sports narratives,
right whenever we can grab a little bit from the
past and the longevity of some of these athletes. You know,
I feel less old.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports
Radio Studios. Time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world the sports. But guy who's having trouble
just figuring out just how many points the lead is
for the Spurs over the Tea Wolves, cause it's getting
pretty big. It's Steve de Seger.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Actually I was having trouble finding out. Wait a minute,
So Game one is Monday for the neck. Yeah, they're
probably not going to be having a Game seven in
San Antonio. This series on Sunday. The Spurs are on
a twenty to nothing run to start the second quarter
at Minnesota. The lead is fifty six to twenty seven
in the second quarter. Spurs already up three games to
(31:04):
two in this second round playoff series. Thirty one percent
shooting for the home team Timberwolves, sixty four percent from
the floor for visiting San Antonio, led by stefang Castle
seventeen points, six of seven shooting. Detroit was a winner
at Cleveland, another elimination faced and test passed one fifteen
(31:26):
ninety four the final Pistons, led by Kay Cunningham twenty
one points. He had eight assists seven turnovers. Game seven
will be at Detroit on Sunday. An impressive win for
the Pistons, getting a victory at Cleveland, where the Cavs
had been six and zero at home this postseason. Nick
scard O, Gian Andobi practice fully for the first time
(31:46):
since his hamstring injury. He missed their last two games.
Game one of the East Finals will be Tuesday. Game
one of the West Finals look like looks like we'll
be Monday. This past Monday, Oklahoma City swept the Lakers
and okasees. Jalen Williams says he is healthy now. He
missed the last six games with a strained hamstring. In
the WNBA, Asia Wilson scored forty five points tonight as
(32:08):
Las Vegas won at Connecticut one oh one, ninety four
Connecticut Son who can't move soon enough now oh and four.
Washington won at Indiana one oh four, one oh two.
Caitlin Clarke in defeat thirty two points, eight assists. As
for the MLB games in progress, two outs in the
ninth Cubs they're leading ten to four at the White Sox.
(32:29):
Top of the ninth, it's the Royals, tied three to
three at Saint Louis. Diamondbacks scored six in the top
of the first. They're now leading at Colorado nine to one.
In the bottom of the seventh. The Dodgers starting pitcher
was due to be Blake Snell. He was scratched due
to an elbow injury. The team is confident he'll return
this year. No decision yet as far as surgery. So
(32:52):
it's an all bullpen game and it looks like the
Dodgers have just homered, so make it a four to
nothing Dodger lead. Max Munsey rounding the bases after the
round tripper his twelfth of the year. Andy pot Has
has already hit a three run shot his ten four
nothing Dodgers at the Angels in the top of the fourth.
Padres are winning one nothing at Seattle in the bottom
(33:14):
of the fourth. Padres only a half game back of
the first place Dodgers. In the NL West, Houston shut
out Texas to nothing. The winning pitcher Spencer arraghetti seven
and a third. He came out after allowing his first hit.
He did have four walks. Yankees in Tampa Bay each one.
Ray's still first in the AL East by two games.
Atlanta one again a ten inning win over Boston three
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to two, Detroit with a run bottom of the niney
vegged Toronto three to two, and Philadelphia got two homers
from Kyle Schwarbery has twenty. They came back for a
ten inning win at Pittsburgh eleven to nine. And at
the PGA Championship, Maverick McNeely is tied for the lead
with fellow American Alex smalley. Hideki Matsuyama is one back,
tied for third, barely making the cut at four over
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Speaker 1 (34:02):
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It is a twenty point Spurs lead sixty through forty four.
They're shooting free throws right now. Looks like in a
little bit we'll be previewing the Spurs Thunder Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
You know, I showed the Colts schedule reveal to my
daughter this morning and Madeline started laughing because she appreciated
the same game and you did boring.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
But you never know. Against the NBA, we're still today still,
but it looks like, wow, this is yeah. We're just
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Speaker 4 (36:15):
Paul Reid to Kade right Glynn, triple tribe Bang, it's
through for three and the Pistons now leading by eleven.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
This is Radio Network on the call. Five threes from
Cade Cunningham. That's all he really did well tonight shooting
because he was just two of nine the rest of
the way, and the Pistons find a way to beat
the Cavs one fifteen ninety four. I mean, and this
is this is what I mean when I said earlier
in the show, Hey, hard not to think Nixon four, right,
(36:45):
hard not thinking is four because the Pistons have not
been playing well, right, Frostburg, just just worry about game five.
Worry about you know how many points Luca's gonna score
in Game five now that he's clear, Uh, is that
the Pistons have not been playing well. Kate Unningham has
not been playing well, yet they're find a way to
keep this series three to three. The Cavaliers have been
(37:05):
incredibly inconsistent, right up and down. As James Harden goes,
so go the Cavaliers, which you're like, wow, really okay sentence.
I didn't think you would say, like four months ago,
But they've been incredibly inconsistent. Both of these teams are
just trying to stay afloat all. Right. None of them
is playing great, none of them is saying we're getting
to our next level. They both look like getting to
the conference finals will be their big feather in their cap. Hey,
(37:29):
mid to the conference finals this year, next year will
make our big move and go up with you know,
the arrows going up for our team. We're feeling really good.
We have young bases, both of them do, and they're
both franchises on the way up. It's awesome to see this,
but really, I mean, you watch the game and you go, wow,
it's it's just it's just not the same basketball that
we've seen played when the Thunder the Knicks in the
(37:49):
series against the against the Sixers, and I'm sorry, but
the Knicks have been the second best team in the
playoffs the entire time. Now, maybe the Spurs are making
a run at it with their big game tonight Wemby,
But like, it's really hard to see when you see
this level of play versus some of the other play
we've seen.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
But again, it's it's the matchups and the slug as
you go through it, and then you get into the
next round, you don't know how guys are gonna react, right,
I mean, even though it's the home court playing in
Madison Square, guard might be a bigger advantage for the
visitors because they get jacked up to go there versus
just another day at the office for Brunson and those guys.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, that's great, But is it the Pacers? Is it
the pacers? It's not the pacers? I'm feeling Okay, I
don't know you. You dismissed the Pacers a year ago
the Pace.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
You said they were a bunch of bums, and you
hated them all and nem hard didn't belong on the
same cord as as Jalen Brunson and all your heroes,
and and what happened there.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
The mirror another miracle shot by cunning by by Tyrese
Halliburton that bounces off the back of the rim up
and through. I mean, come on, man, two years two
miracle shots like the pay I mean, I think that's
what happened to the Pacers this year. It said, hey, listen,
he gave you whatever you sold your souls for. You
didn't sell it for enough, because now you're going to
the lottery. Okay, you beat the Knicks twice with miracle
(39:06):
shots you shouldn't have had, and hey, okay, but now
you got to pay the piper. So now get ready
for the lottery. Now, no, that is fair.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I mean, eventually the devil comes to get his due.
I mean we've talked about it at length, the whether
it's the football gods and we you know, the lowercase
G for whatever sport you want to apply it to,
or if you want to go crossroads where we get
a little Stevie vay In and then Ralph Baccio and
a cool Fanora, all of that fun stuff is there that, Yeah,
(39:33):
eventually it does even itself out. Now you wishing illness
and problems for our guy Haliburt and out of that
is just wrong.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Did not say that? Did not?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
No, you kind of implied it like he had to
pay the price.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Don't tell me, no, no, No, the Pacers had to
pay the price with the year where they're going to
the lottery because they used up all their good fortune
and they got zero championships out of it. So whatever
you sold your souls for. So Nenmar could make that
three pointer from thirty feet with his eyes closed in
Game three two years ago, and Haliburton can make that
shot off the back of the arven it goes through
where he makes the choke thing. Oh, he's gonna live forever. Yeah,
(40:08):
you got zero championships. Well, you know that is generally.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
The the lore and history of how the deal with
the Devil works. You get right to the precipice of
what you were trying to achieve, and maybe you get
a little taste of it, but then it's torn asunder
and you lose it all just that fast.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah. But usually in the movies, though, they beat the
devil in the end, like you know, real life, I
guess the devil wins more than you expect. Yeah. No,
the the odds are, you know, generally in his favor. Yeah, yeah,
What are the odds for Satan in this arm? And
do you have the odds for.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Satan prohibitive favorite in this What.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Kind of favorite of Satan is he seven and a
half points? Like like what, like what you're gonna lose
on the temptation? That's it?
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Okay to eat the sweet may for may that ill
gotten donut be forever on your head.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Oh but I'm so sweet and tasty. Satan is a
perpetual favorite. Last time, you know, the last time Satan
was an underdog. It's like, you know, it's like UCLA
basketball with Wooden. Last time they were an underdog in
a game that's like eight years ago. Last time, Satan
was an underdog who sixty nine nets man that's a
last in the Grand Battles. Still still, you know, forever
(41:17):
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