December 5, 2024 • 40 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike open the hour by looking into the College Football Playoffs and reacting to what a 4 team playoff would have looked like! Next, they look into Lakers HC JJ Redicks comments after the disastrous loss to the Miami Heat. Don’t miss all this and more in the Hour 2!
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get to a big developing basketball story coming up in
about twenty minutes. It was just it was just ten
days ago where things were unbelieved great for the Lakers.
Oh on a great run. They figured everything out and
after what head coach JJ Reddick said following their loss tonight,
oh boy, we got problems. Where's that panic button? Because
(01:13):
the Lakers are looking to press it. I'm stunned with
what he had to say following the game. Well, we'll
have that coming up in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Go to town, burn it down, Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But something a little bit different for the college football playoff,
right because now we're into the next to last playoff poll.
We have championship week this week, and we went through
the controversy of Alabama over Miami yesterday and the way
the College Football Playoff Committee, they haven't done the wrong things,
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but they've kind of handled this whole thing very ham handedly. Right,
Like we said, nobody throws stuff up against the wall
and sees what sticks better, and more often than college football,
that's time they come with the playoff idea, let's do
this and see. But when you hear them come out
and the Playoff Committee say things like, oh, the rankings
of Alabama, you know, won't change from nex till next week.
Miami's ranking won't change because they don't play games. All
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of this it's not gonna affect because a conference championship week.
I kind of feel like they've lost the plot a
little bit because in theory, what you're supposed to do
is is look at the teams and take the whole
season into account, right, I get that, Hey, you lost
two out of three, you're Miami, you lost to Syracuse,
you lost to Georgia Tech. Yeah that sticks in your
head because, yeah, always the committee, the posters, they'll remember November.
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They forget September, but everybody remembers November, right, the big
phrase mel Kiper used to say all the time, they
remember November. In this case, you know, early December. So
I feel like they need to have a little bit
more control over it because they kind of feel like
they're using their arguments just to really more defend what
they did, other than to say it's our of you.
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Alabama is a better team, you know, because this is
what they've done all season long. And stick to that,
stick to the whole the whole schedule, the whole season,
everything from the first week is September all the way
till now, and say this is why Alabama is out
of Miami, not just because of last week, but the
three losses Alabama has had. They've beaten three teams. Miami
doesn't have a win like that on their schedule, not
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one win like that. No they don't. I'm sorry, but
they don't. Like you need to show that, Hey, we're
looking at the whole body of work and not just hey,
we're knee jerking to what we saw over the last
couple of weeks at the end when teams are vying
for the playoffs because the stakes are getting really high.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, I think that's been the process, right, it's the
let's see what social media says and then we just
have to respond to that instead of in the affirmative,
here's our bullet points of how we got this decision,
because you know exactly where the fights are gonna be. Right,
when it was four, it was well, what are three
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and four doing? Well, now that it's twelve, what are eleven, twelve, thirteen,
add two or three more teams that you need to
go and really layout why they didn't make the discussion
or where the teams when it comes to conference title
games will find their way into that mix and be
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proactive about it. Right, say, with authority, here's what we're doing,
as opposed to all right, we didn't anticipate this, right,
It's like all these coaches when they go in front
of you know, the press, after gacking away fought leads
or opportunities in the final minutes of games, right, bad
down distance, decisions, time out management. No, I'm not just
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talking about the Bears, but it's perfect and Germane to
this conversation is that they always go in they look
shell shocked. It's like, how dare you ask me that?
It's like, no, you idiots, that's the lead. It's the
same thing here when you're gonna get into the Miami
versus Alabama, or Alabama versus you know, pick the next
four teams that they're in over, especially when you've got
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to look at just the giant crooked number that's staring
you in the face, right, which one of these is
not like the other? The three That's why there there's
a plenty of folks that are really going, Clemson can't win, right.
Clemson can't win right, because then you have a three
T three lost team that's suddenly jumping into the top four.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So all of that to say that, you know, there's
just that hand ringing that goes on and revisionist all right,
let's be reactioning. It's like, no, you guys made the decision,
it's final. The Miami acc You sure you don't want
to re you reconsider that. It's like, you know, you're
playing checkers or chess or a board game with your kid,
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and you're like, you sure you want to make that move. Basically,
you're telling your kid, don't make that move because you're
about to be bankrupted Innopoly, or I'm gonna triple jump
you in checkers, or don't take off that piece.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Don't take your finger off that piece because that means
you I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Now see by the letter of the law. Look, you
played it. It's done right. You're playing scrabble and I realize,
oh wow, you could have had like a fifty letter
word and all these bonuses and whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now you played it. It's over. Like when when Homer
doesn't know what word to play and he's got equinox
on his board and he plays no. Yes, Now look
now that being said, okay, here's he Look we'll tell
you why already this playoff is better than the fourteen
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playoff we have. And here's where I'm gonna use to
illustrate this. Let's just say, wipe from your mind that
we have a twelve team playoff this year. Right, Let's
say there's no twelve team playoff and instead it's a
fourteen playoff. Okay, what are we arguing about right now
with the twelve team playoff, boy, should Miami be in
over Alabama? And the reason it's a big deal is
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because Alabama and Miami are big schools, incredibly popular schools.
Alabama's been rock stars for the last twenty years. Miami
incredibly popular as well. But really, this is not something
that this is the only topic, no, no one else
is talking about. There's no other bit of controversy about
this list, about the it's about, you know, this is
why I like this, because this is about simply winning
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enough games, getting that conversation and get safely in the
top twelve. Right. The only bit of controversy and drama
has been, oh look at Miami. Nothing else, right, nothing else,
So understand that. Now you wipe that from your head
and you think, okay, what do we have right now?
Let's just say it was just the four team playoff? Okay,
Right now? The top four teams are Oregon, Texas, Penn State,
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and Notre Dame, followed by Georgia, Ohio State, Tennessee SMU. Right,
those are the as your next four. So what would
happen this weekend? Who would make the playoff? Right now?
Oregon Penn State winner one hundred percent, the winner of
that winner of that is in, and if Penn State wins,
likely Penn State and Oregon would both get in. So
that's two spots, Texas and Georgia. The winner of that
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game is in, right, and likely if Georgia beats Texas,
probably they have two spots as well, But you never know.
Notre Dame is also in at number four. They're not
going to get jumped and left out by anybody. Notre
Dame be in at number four. So what are you
looking at right now? Well? Okay, on one one ray
of this you could say, well, okay, if Oregon wins,
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which they probably will, Oregon's in. If Texas wins, which
they should, they're in. Notre Dame's in. Okay, then what
about that fourth spot? Wha wait a minute, Wait a minute,
wait a minute. If that fourth spot happens, is it
Penn State with two losses? Is it Georgia with three? Okay,
maybe not? But wait? Is it Ohio State with two losses?
Is it Tennessee with two losses? Is it SMU who's
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a C champion at twelve and one? Right? If SMU loses,
is it Indiana, who is eleven and one that gets
to jump all the way up the way, but they
lost to Ohio State. But Ohio State lost two games.
Look how much drama there is and how many teams
are quote being left out. If it was just a
fourteen playoff, you can look and say that that the
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losers of those two of the of the two the
Big Ten and the SEC championship games, the loser of
those two games also Ohio State, Tennessee, SMU, and to
a lesser extent, Indiana. But you're talking about four or
five other teams that would have just as big an
argument to be in the playoff as anybody else. Could
you really decide between Ohio State and Tennessee? Could you
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really break that tie? If you see Penn State like state,
Penn State gets obliterated by Oregon, how do you break
that tie between Ohio State and Tennessee? I mean, really,
how do you do that? You can't? Well, we got
two teams and the two toughest conferences. How do you
do it?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Right? But wait a minute, but what about SMU. SMU
would be a Power five conference champion. They'd be the
champion of the third best conference in all of college football?
Can you really leave them out just because they're SMU,
like you have all kinds of drama built in because
there was only four teams. You think about what we
were dealing with yesterday. Now go back to yesterday. Now
back to a twelve team playoff? Oh yeah, Oh we're
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talking about Alabama or Miami, and you're talking about teams
getting in that have had chances to win games and
improve their resume. They're not a team that is SMU
that could say, what do you want us to do?
We lost one game, we won the ACC. What else
do you really expect us to do to try to
get in this playoff? I mean, honestly, what else could
we possibly do? All right, let's just say Notre Dame
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winds up getting left out because Georgia wins and Penn
State wins in Oregon and Texas don't drop No to
Dame can say, what else could you possibly want us
to do? We want eleven and one against a really
difficult schedule. Yes, we lost in Northern Illinois, I'm sorry,
but we beat a lot of good teams. We beat
ranked teams. What else could you possibly want us to do?
Playing the schedule going eleven and one like, there's so
much more controversy and craziness with the four team playoff.
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Isn't it already better now? Isn't it already better with
what we've seen? And yes, changes probably are gonna come
to it because we're gonna get through the first year
of a twelve team playoff and say, Okay, this worked well,
this work didn't, but you can already see that the
best part of this conversation is that we're talking about
stuff on the field and who's gonna win enough to
get in and rather than oh, who's gonna get left out? Right,
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the story now with the twelve team playoff is one
team is left out. That's not really The story is
the seedings and who's gonna play where and who's gonna
get a bye. This is how the playoffs should be, right.
It's not about who's getting snubbed. It's why in the
NCAA tournament comes up and the first day, the first Monday,
for like five hours on Monday morning and afternoon, is
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about who gets snubbed, and then that story goes away
and then it's all about the tournament because the tournament
starts the next day and we have first four games, Like,
that's the way the conversation is going. Now, Yes, Miami's
gonna be upset. It'll be a story for a day
and a half and then it's gone. But all these
teams left out, like you saw the teams getting left
out last year. Florida State still pissed off they got
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left out last year and they were undefeated. Right, Yes,
we lost our quarterback. What else do you want to do?
We won all our games. What else can we possibly do?
Think of the chaos and the argument that has to
go on about we deserve to be in rather than
you did or didn't show enough on the field, which
is much easier to do when you're talking about twelve
teams versus four.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, And that's but the beauty of it, again from
the on field product, is that for the final month
of the season, we still have juice and debates and
you know, all the different scenarios that have to be
built in. If nothing else, it gives the broadcasters, you know,
ten minutes of filibustering at least twice during the game
as scenarios. Player. Hey wait, we use that graphic in
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the first It's okay. If they're still here, they wouldn't
mind seeing it again. Go ahead, break down all the
scenarios of how this game affects things as it plays out.
So we get that the rivalry games we saw still
had immense emotion and rolling through like we watched this
with baseball. Right for all the Rob Manford talk that
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we've done, how great the wild card is because fringe
teams are still on the area were going forward or
we play in our prospects and generally you're getting meaningful baseball. Here,
we're getting meaningful football. And if you didn't get it done.
Guess what that means you either wear in a subpar conference.
That's just Look, you just have to recognize who you
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are and what your conference is in the grand scale
of college football. And I'm sorry if that offends people.
Actually I'm really not at Swollen Dome if I offended
you with that statement. You could be the best of
a bad conference. You'll get your bids on occasion. But
if you stumble, don't be surprised. If you're outside the
top twelve, you can't complain. Go enjoy your bowl game
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and the destination whatever that is. But otherwise we're talking
about three loss teams like that's where the line in
the sand is, at least here in yere one. We're
talking about two and three loss teams.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You don't really have a whole hell.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Of a lot of an argument if you're a two
or three loss team, right, go win your games, take
care of business, you know, never leave it up to
the judges, Never leave it up to whatever rankings, whatever
human sentiment comes in. And remember, on the grand scale
of it all, where do you fit on the mar key?
If we're we're booking this for a television show or
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a movie. If you're in really small print, guess what
you're gonna get left out?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
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I mean, it's simple when you look at this year
like it would be last year, and it's easy.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's easy to see, it's easy to see just this
year's Florida State.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, no one goes to hell just that rest right,
think how bad? Because because the argument is, hey, we're
just as good as any of these other teams that
you let into the top four, and no one could
say anything. Can Miami really say we're just as good
as No, they can't. They didn't play the schedules. The
other teams had chances to win. Don't lose two games,
beat Syracuse, beat Georgia Tech. What you could say, there's
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much more room to escape and there's much more room
to move on and to recover your seasons because of
the twelve team playoffs, so obvious. So Miami had more
than enough chances to get in. And I think that's
kind of where we're gonna be as this goes forward.
Is it's gonna be the maybe the one or two
teams were kind of maybe talking about at twelve, but
no one's gonna have as much sympathy for them. The
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Miami thing was shocking because you know, look, they were
in the top seven, top eight most of the year.
They were in the top four going into last week.
So it is a shocking story. You know that they
were that they were left out, but you can't really
argue against You can't say, oh, they didn't have chances
where you as you would be able to say it
for all of these teams. Hey wait a minute, man,
we're twelve and one and won our conference. Wait, we're
a two lost team in the SEC how are we
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getting left out of here? And you just have to
shrug your shoulders because it's really hard to make that
argument to say, yes, this team one hundred percent deserves
it over You can't do it when there's four. You
could do it much better th when there's twelve.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, and I understand, like all the thought pieces and
arguments still going against Alabama. Look, they had two bad losses,
they had several more good wins, right, so what's the weight?
And then ty goes to the runner or to the
program that brings eyeball and hate watch. That's really where
we're at with this. And you know Frostburg, he's out
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here tonight. SHA's in his stead, so I'll use the
line for him. And you lost to Syracuse.
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Coming up next. Oh, by goodness, are things potentially set
to fall apart for the Lakers after what was said
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirac dot Com Studios.
And you know, look, it's early in the NBA season.
It is early. I know this. I understand. Even though
we were into the quarterfinals of the E Cup. It's
almost like the games tonight are irrelevant. They weren't a
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Cup games tonight, Ben, why don't even care? The floors
look like they normally do every night. Come on, man,
it's an E Cup night or nothing. So I get this.
I understand. I understand that you shouldn't go crazy about
Minnesota being ten and ten when they played so well
last year. I get it right. The Nicks started out
five hundred. They're starting to win now a little bit. Okay,
the Bucks were awful, but now they had won seven
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to zerwo until they lost tonight, So maybe Doc Rivers
will make it to Christmas after all day. However, what's
going on with the Lakers You could put in that
category except what head coach JJ Reddick said following the
game tonight. Now, the Lakers lose to the Heat tonight
and they just get blown out. The game was never close,
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Lakers never made a run. One thirty four to ninety
three was the final, and it was just an absolute
pasting from from the moment. From the get go. Bam
Adebayo was with a double double, near triple double. Tyler
Hero had thirty one, right.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
He was on three point shooters.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I mean, I will say, hey, congratulations, Lebron James made
a three, so I think it's his first. Oh, it's
his first three made since the twenty twenty playoffs. So
there's twelve of eighteen to night he did twenty one.
But hey, no, tonight he did shoot better. He was
playing better. But Lebron has not been playing well. Like
his struggles. The last few games have been well noted,
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and whereas the Lakers really seemed to hit on something
earlier in the year, when oh, wait a minute, if
we bring D'Angelo Russell off the bench and maybe Dalton
connect starts instead, or Lebron starts at point guard. A
we ripped off seven wins in a row, right, it
was six wins in a row. But now they're losing,
and now they've won twice in their left last eight games.
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It's been a really bad rough stretch for the Lakers.
They've lost to good teams, they've lost a bad teams,
they've lost to everybody. But okay, it's part of the
up and downs of a season where the Lakers really
as good as they were when they started. Not it
was more what did I say at the time, no
reason to not be very tepidly and extremely cautiously optimistic
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that maybe the Lakers are okay. So the same way,
you don't want to overreact to this losing streak over
the course of the last few games. But look, they
beat Utah, but outside of that, they lost to Oklahoma City,
they lost to Phoenix, lost to Denver, lost to Miami,
they lost the Minnesota So everything, okay, this is part
of the travels how it goes in the NBA. You
don't want to get too crazy too early.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Except.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
For what happened after the game, where JJ Reddick wanted
to make sure everybody knows he's got a lot of
hard work ahead of him because, oh, the Lakers, they
might not be together as much as he wants them
to be. Take a listen. You you you you're cool.
(20:06):
You I'm out. Look he was, and then he hit somebody.
Then then he hit Dan Woiki on his way out
of the breast conference. It was amazing. I don't uh.
He was upset.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I understand close to space, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, you get these microphones away from me.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Here is Reddick talking about how he doesn't think the
Lakers are as together as they need to be, especially
in team huddles.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Take a listen, there has to be some ownership on
the court, and I'll take all the ownership in the world.
This is my team and I lead it, and I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But I can't.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I can't physically get us organized. I can't physically be
into the basketball. I can't physically talk and call out
reds and physically call out coverages, and it's you know,
I'm not men. By the way, I'm not blaming players.
That's not I own this. I own this, But I
couldn't need some ownership on the court as well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
He went on to say that especially during team huddles,
he did not feel the Lakers were together. So yes,
I love the fact that, Look, I can't do any
of these things, but I'm not blaming the players. Right,
I'm not playing. I can't. Yeah, but I'm not blaming
the players. I don't want to blame them. It's like
he wanted to get that off his chest and then
realized midway through all this doesn't sound good. I mean,
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it sounds good for me because I'm frustrated, but now
it really is not gonna play well. So he tries
to walk it back by saying, I'm not blaming the players.
But when you sit there and say and say things
like hey, there needs to be ownership, there needs to
be accountability, and especially when when you're talking about how
the huddle it doesn't feel like they're together. This is
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this is a big, big flashing red light. And the
two guys that are in the in the that are
bathing in the red glow of this light. Are JJ
Reddick and Lebron James one hundred percent yes, use o
Anthony Davis all this stuff. This is a JJ Reddick
and Lebron James thing, right, Because for Lebron James, first,
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it's obvious that Reddick wants Lebron to take on more
of a role. Right. He's the guy that's gonna call
those things out on the court, right, He's the guy
running the show. He's the guy that he wants to
take a bigger role as a leader. And maybe JJ
Reddick and I'm sure was probably surprised when he came
into the Lakers. I'm going, boy, this is really boy.
Lebron doesn't have his hand on this team like I
(22:30):
expected him to. Like usually, Hey, the team is an
extension of a superstar player, right the you know the
Nuggets do they live and die and they are guided
by the hand of Nicola Jokicic and the Knicks it's
Jalen Brunson. But Lebron is just different, right, He's a
he's a bigger icon, a bigger star, and he has
never been that guy to say I'm gonna put the
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Lakers on my back. Everybody follow me. He's not that guy.
And I don't know if JJ Reddick is because of
his inexperience or expected, but the guy does podcasts with him,
so he knows what he is.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, hey, hey, we have a forum by which
to hatch this out, you know. I mean, if you're
expecting it any time, if.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You're expecting Lebron to turn into a little bit more
of a leaders of players you get older, it's not
unreasonable because you would think players would get to that
point where him about teaching the next guys and making
sure and taking that ownership level. He's forty now, and
Lebron's still not doing that. He's still not that guy.
He still is somewhat at arms length from the Lakers,
from the team, and exists apart from them so much
(23:31):
so that it never feels like, are they really together?
Is this Lebron on the court trying to find a
way to make it work playing his style of basketball.
That's still how the Lakers feel like it is after
all of these years, and when he was younger, and
when he was with Cleveland and with Miami, it worked
because Lebron was just so much better than everybody else
and just put so many points up in so many
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rebounds and so many assists, and there was literally no
way to stop the guy. He was able to be
successful at it. But now here he is forty and
as good as he is. Yeah, obviously you can see
when he is struggling. You can beat the Lakers, you can.
You can shut him down a little bit more. Now
you can, you can control him a bit more. And
it became a problem for the other teams. When Lebron
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was decided to be Hey, I'll be the point guard
and I'm gonna be a past first kind of guy,
and I'll let Ady become the number one option, it
was tough to beat. But now that Lebron is shooting
more again, try to get more involved in scoring. Uh,
it's not working right, And and this is this it's
not unreasonable for JJ Reddick to expect that from his player,
but he's also naive if he thought, well, this is
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this is what Lebron's gonna turn into. Right, So you know,
for the Lebron perspective of it, this is just who
he's been. You can't get mad, can't you can't get it,
can't get newly mad at him because it's not like
suddenly this is something that's brand new. So for Lebron,
that's kind of what it is. But I look at
Reddick and I go, is he really up for this? Right?
I mean, like all the concerns you had about Reddick
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coming into this season when he got hired, is he
really up for this? Coaching fourth grade bat basketball the
only coaching experience he had. Now walking into the heat
and the fire of the Lakers where Lebron and Ad
kind of do their own thing, can you impart your
will on the team? Can you get people to follow?
We thought you could, But now, as you said, you're
having trouble. You're having trouble getting through to the players
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and getting through and making the team the way it
should be. It's not something that is outside of the
job description of what they want you to do as
a head coach. But now already it feels like he's
making excuses for why he can't do it. And that's
what I come back to with Reddick is that his
basketball knowledge, his desire, his hard work, all those things,
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none of that is in question at all. But the
fact that is this too big for him? Is this
job too big for him?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Because here you are at twelve and ten and he
has a press conference where he says, I can't do it.
The players have to. But I'm not blaming the players.
We're not together in the huddles anymore. Now you've made
it combative and Lebron's been through this a million times.
Lebron and A you have been through this a million times.
Things something You're gonna hear them and go, oh man,
I gotta change my ways and make sure that I'm
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leading it. Ever you think that's gonna happen, that's not
That's not who Lebron is. And to think to come
in and think that, Okay, I'm gonna make it this
way or things are going to change, that's naive. And
again it all falls under the umbrella of is this
too much for him? Is it too big of a
step for him to take right away coming in and
not coaching the magic or coaching at team's a little
(26:24):
bit more off the radar where he can make your
mistakes a little bit more anonymously and travel a bumpy
road and get to where you're really good head coach
for a long time. But you're trying to do it
in LA where teams expect results. Now they expect you
to go far in the playoffs. Now, you can't waste
another year of Lebron's prime, AD's prime, as long as
he's gonna be on the floor, and as as good
a basketball mind as he has, as hard work as
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he does. Now I go back to what I said
in the beginning, is this too much for him right now?
Because after this what he said tonight, I'm wondering if
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack with it is, you know,
because he realizes in the moment that he is flogging
the squad right, He's going ahead and he's like, all right,
let me drop this out here, because you know, the
thought pieces and hot take nonsense is gonna fly out
of it. And then he tries to reel it back
too late. The I can't play with them sounds like
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a lot like what Jared Mayo was doing a couple
of weeks ago with the Patriots. Right of Hey, once
they're out there, I mean, what do you what do
you want me to do? And then in the huddle,
remember we had plenty of memes mocking Darvin Ham a
year ago. By the way, the Lakers are now behind
the pace of Darvin Ham's team from last year, just
throwing it out there. They got up there.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It shouldn't be a time to part. You're twelve and ten. Okay,
guess what many other teams, really good teams are around
five hundred. So it's definitely it's not a panic time.
So again when you say are you up for this?
This is not a panic time in the NBA for
these teams. And yet, but for the Lakers, suddenly, now
here's a big panic moment. Well, but already had two
big panic moments with the D'Angelo Russell situation. Now you
(27:58):
have one here and and the just turn to December.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Well, but it shows how much you have to ride
the lightning with Lebron James to a degree, bringing in
JJ Reddick and all the criticism. They're part of his
demeanor at this point to me, is I'm really going
to prove once and for all I didn't hire him,
I wasn't the invisible hand. Again, we're all gonna kind
of laugh at that whole thing, but this is his
(28:21):
way to do it. It's like, hey, you know, he's
in charge here. JJ's got to get us through it
and roll through And for the Lakers, yeah, there is
a bit of a panic because you're only twenty two
games in, but you've seen the heavy minutes that Lebron
had to play only twenty nine tonight because they were
getting their asses kicked.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But all of that to say, you.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Know, you're already at the point where in your season,
not only is he diminishing the value of the E Cup,
which is just insane. I mean, how do you how
dare you do that to something? Your knicks are already
in the locker room squabbling about how they're going to
spend their five hundred plus thousand dollars and yelling at
each other about But the fact is that you've you've
(29:03):
got a long way to go. Clearly, there's no continuity defensively.
Joke about it in terms of close out in threes,
but that's been an issue this entire season. And if
a team's actually hitting shots, you're in trouble because you're
not rotating. You're the extra pass and leads to a
wide open guy because there is no movement defensively. And
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that's not gonna suddenly get better, right, That's not suddenly
you're gonna find some defensive stoppers that have been hiding
at the end of the bench, they're not there, so
you've got all that. The other thing is Lebron's distracted
because you know why why he's Christmas. But he's trying
to figure out how his schedule and that of the
Lakers syncs up with the new Kendrick Lamar tour that
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goes on sale this week. I mean, that is a
big bleeping deal.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Okay, all right, I'm with you there, I'm with you.
Could be it could best.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Get tickets in each of those spots, don't I remember
looks trying to program bots. I don't know. There's a
lot going on.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Because I'm old enough to remember when Rex Grossman really
tanked in a game at the end of the year
because he was too worried about a New Year's party.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
He was going, you leave Rex Grossman alone.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I mean I I go. And now I'm back to
where I'm back to square one with Reddick, where it's
is this job too much for you? Did you? You
may be in over your head with what you thought
you could accomplish and and trying to go forward here
and again, this is why Lebron has been always been
difficult to coach, but a first time coach coming in
who was friends with him. I mean, what this is
almost like it was it was inevitable you were going
(30:37):
to get something like this, and now you're at a
crossroads at game twenty two in the regular season again,
is it too much for him? Dude? I'll love more
in this story coming up right now, Let's find out
what's trending from someone who was almost tired as the
Clippers head coach. Hey, Montils, but you know, down to
be here with us, here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Coach right now, Jason, I'm yelling at them. I'd be
yelling at James Harden going oh for seven in the
first half.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, not okay, not okay.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
This is probably why I can't be a coach, because
I'd be yelling at my team.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You'd be a really you'd be a really good coach, though.
You would be really because like you would yell, and
you would be I could think you'd be really loud,
and then you would yell in English and Spanish, which
would be really fun, and you would just go back
and forth the three. No, you'd be a fun head
coach to watch. You'd be you'd be a black you'd
be the most watchable head coach in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I would yes, I would like to think that that's
the positive way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
That I would just be bilingual yelling at people.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yeah, the Clippers are are not doing well, guys, I'm
not doing well. As I mentioned, James Harden oh for
seven from the field, No bueno. The Timberwolves came out swinging.
Julius Randle has twenty points and the Timberwolves are beating
the Clippers at halftime fifty nine to thirty two. I
don't like it, but the heat crushed the Lakers, so
(31:56):
that's good. One thirty four to ninety three. Tyler Herro
had nine threes in the game for a total of
thirty one points. His career high is ten. Franz Wagner
had thirty five points seven rebounds, his seventh game of
thirty or more points. As a Magic beat the seventy
six ers one oh six to one oh two. The
Hawks snap the Bucks seven game winning streak, coming out
on top one nineteen to one oh four. In college hoops,
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we're down to the final minute of number two Auburn
and number nine Duke Duke on top seventy nine to
seventy two again fifty seconds to go in this one
at halftime, twelve thrank Oregon is losing to USC thirty
to twenty three, and number twenty four San Diego State
up on Fresno State twenty nine to twenty four. But
give it up for the Blue Jays because crighton handed
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the number one team in the country Kansas their first
loss of the season, coming out on top today seventy
six to sixty three. Mississippi State crush Number eighteen Pittsburgh
ninety to fifty seven. We do also have some hockey
going on. The Golden Knights are currently beating the Ducks
two to one after two periods, and the Stars are
up on the Kings two to one with about six
(32:59):
months two go in the second period. Week fourteen of
the NFL kicks off tomorrow Thursday night football Lions Packers
Detroit is going to be without offensive tackle Taylor Decker
and Green Bay will be without cornerback Jy Yere Alexander
and wide receiver at Romeo Dobbs for the game. And
in case you're wondering, in case you want to spend
money not like millions of dollars on a batmobile like
Joe Burrow, but Freddie Freeman's Grand slam Ball from Game
(33:22):
one of the World Series is now up for auction,
with bidding starting at three hundred thousand dollars, so more
affordable for us guys. I mean maybe, I mean, you know,
just a little.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Bit batmobile we rule.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
But can you take the batmobile like on on the streets.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You can make it. He's got the money to make
it street legal. Absolutely, that'll work.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Does it fit?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Like besides even being street legal or not, does it fit?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It doesn't look like it's much water than like a
hum Vy, So I think you're probably all right. Yeah,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Saying the batmobile. Who's pulling you over?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm not saying try to get in a compact spot
at Target, but you know, I think you might.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
You could.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So many people still do that. Yes, especially here where
we work.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
It's like all these giant.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Escalades are getting in compact spots and I'm like, why
look at.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You attacking the hot yoga pizza. Yes, said back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
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I couldn't believe was this easy to pull off in
the world of sports, But it happened. That's next right here,
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Speaker 2 (34:37):
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Speaker 1 (34:45):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the tirag dot Com studios. And
I gotta tell you, there's there's crazy story, there's certain
scams people can pull off, and then there's you know
(35:08):
what we saw earlier today with the big gambling scandal
and halving a guy that that presented himself as an
insider in sports. I mean, really, it's it's a it's
a crazy story. And when I saw it, they said,
there's no way this guy, no, no, he did it. No,
that okay, okay, he he pulled us off. For a
(35:33):
long time. A pro poker player, Corey Zeidman, who won
a bracelet at the World Series of Poker back in
twenty twelve, pled guilty today to defrauding betters in New
York and Florida by falsely claiming to have inside information
on sporting events. So basically what it was was he
positioned himself as an insider. I have all this inside
(35:55):
info on all of these sporting events, and he, you know,
charged money now be able could place their bets and
he actually was found out. He ran national radio advertisements
under fake names. I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You remember the Ray Palmer group.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
We all remember Gordon Howard Global? Sure? Sure, and what didn't.
What surprised me about this wasn't that he got busted
for this, because the guy wasn't an insider, fake faked
he that he had inside information. But in reading this story,
his scheme lasted from two thousand and six to twoy
(36:32):
and twenty, Like this was a fifteen year scam the
guy pulled as an insider. How does he know? Is
it really that easy, Harmon? Is it really that easy
to say, Hey, I have inside information and I'm gonna
keep this thing going for the better part of two
decades before I get caught, Like, I can't believe it's
just that easy to do. But I had some kind
(36:53):
of success, because if he's in business with all this,
he must have been doing well. At some point.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I had me scheme lasted from two thousand and six
to twenty twenty. Now I don't know what the ad
rates were on Sundays, but I certainly remember those areases.
But I asked this question, and I do so tongue
in cheek. How much different is this? Then? I've got sources?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, I mean in all.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Seriousness right to where it's like, no, no, no, you kind
of wanted to see this happen, so you floated it
out there, right, and things like sit in the hair, Hey,
I've got inside information, all right? Is ankel grade one
of grade too, don't know, but he's got an ankle,
you know, things like that, going through sources well placed
(37:37):
within the organization. That's how he is leaning and leveraging
this to the point of millions of dollars. I'd love
to see the complaint though, and the exact terminology use,
because part of me is sitting there going he told
a story, and yes he lied about that, but that's
like you, you wouldn't have to corroborate that, right, You're
to be confidential in that regard. So so what where
(38:00):
where's the crime?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
When customers called, they were told the organization had privileged
info about fixed games. Yeah, that it received from physicians
at colleges, n TV executives. So this was, Hey, the
doctors are suddenly, hey, we're all telling you everything going on.
This player. He's hurt, he's hurt, he can't play, he
can't play. And suddenly television executives somehow they were there
(38:23):
on the Yeah, yeah, TV TV. Exactly what do you do? Well,
I run k COW channel nine here in La. Oh, hey,
let me tell you what's going on in this way.
You know, you know you saw that info.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But you saw that two weeks ago, right, the it
was I don't know if it was so fine which
stateium was, but I think it was so fine. I was,
here's you know, did you in the testing of the scoreboard?
And it said seven nothing at the end of one
like that was hours of the game, and then the
score was actually seven nothing at the end, Like wait
a minute, the script is out. Ariet Foster was right
(38:56):
as well as Ray Balmer.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I really, I just can't believe that you could keep
that going with with fake inside info for for fifteen years.
Like I said, he must have. He must have had
some level of success in in people winning games, and
it's just hey, I I think I know how to
pick games, and I'm gonna use this knowledge is as
the backbone of why people are gonna listen to me,
(39:20):
because I mean, for a I mean really, if this
didn't more give me out of business pretty much pretty
quick after this. Right, Hey, wait a minute, you told
me this game was was gonna go one way. It
was even close. Well, but some of it is.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
You know, you feed it into one of two streams,
so you either get one pick or the other. So
some folks are always winning on the right side of that.
So yeah, it rolls through a dial, my nine hundred number. Now, Oh,
it's the five star lock of the week. I got
the inside information for fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
I'm a fake insider. Who'd you talk to this week? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
You know who could have gotten to the heart of it? Though?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Who's that? Your guy?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Gil Brandt?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
What's your sh Yeah? Yeah, could have happened? Could have happened? Ye?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Great, Gilbrandt?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
What if it was a TV What if it was
a doctor who was a TV executive? What if there
was both? I mean that guy could have been the
big the bit I get a TV executive, a doctor, I.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Mean checking off boxes?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
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get to a big developing basketball story coming up in
about twenty minutes. It was just it was just ten
days ago where things were unbelieved great for the Lakers.
Oh on a great run. They figured everything out and
after what head coach JJ Reddick said following their loss tonight,
oh boy, we got problems. Where's that panic button? Because
(01:13):
the Lakers are looking to press it. I'm stunned with
what he had to say following the game. Well, we'll
have that coming up in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Go to town, burn it down, Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
But something a little bit different for the college football playoff,
right because now we're into the next to last playoff poll.
We have championship week this week, and we went through
the controversy of Alabama over Miami yesterday and the way
the College Football Playoff Committee, they haven't done the wrong things,
(01:45):
but they've kind of handled this whole thing very ham handedly. Right,
Like we said, nobody throws stuff up against the wall
and sees what sticks better, and more often than college football,
that's time they come with the playoff idea, let's do
this and see. But when you hear them come out
and the Playoff Committee say things like, oh, the rankings
of Alabama, you know, won't change from nex till next week.
Miami's ranking won't change because they don't play games. All
(02:07):
of this it's not gonna affect because a conference championship week.
I kind of feel like they've lost the plot a
little bit because in theory, what you're supposed to do
is is look at the teams and take the whole
season into account, right, I get that, Hey, you lost
two out of three, you're Miami, you lost to Syracuse,
you lost to Georgia Tech. Yeah that sticks in your
head because, yeah, always the committee, the posters, they'll remember November.
(02:29):
They forget September, but everybody remembers November, right, the big
phrase mel Kiper used to say all the time, they
remember November. In this case, you know, early December. So
I feel like they need to have a little bit
more control over it because they kind of feel like
they're using their arguments just to really more defend what
they did, other than to say it's our of you.
(02:50):
Alabama is a better team, you know, because this is
what they've done all season long. And stick to that,
stick to the whole the whole schedule, the whole season,
everything from the first week is September all the way
till now, and say this is why Alabama is out
of Miami, not just because of last week, but the
three losses Alabama has had. They've beaten three teams. Miami
doesn't have a win like that on their schedule, not
(03:12):
one win like that. No they don't. I'm sorry, but
they don't. Like you need to show that, Hey, we're
looking at the whole body of work and not just hey,
we're knee jerking to what we saw over the last
couple of weeks at the end when teams are vying
for the playoffs because the stakes are getting really high.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, I think that's been the process, right, it's the
let's see what social media says and then we just
have to respond to that instead of in the affirmative,
here's our bullet points of how we got this decision,
because you know exactly where the fights are gonna be. Right,
when it was four, it was well, what are three
(03:50):
and four doing? Well, now that it's twelve, what are eleven, twelve, thirteen,
add two or three more teams that you need to
go and really layout why they didn't make the discussion
or where the teams when it comes to conference title
games will find their way into that mix and be
(04:10):
proactive about it. Right, say, with authority, here's what we're doing,
as opposed to all right, we didn't anticipate this, right,
It's like all these coaches when they go in front
of you know, the press, after gacking away fought leads
or opportunities in the final minutes of games, right, bad
down distance, decisions, time out management. No, I'm not just
(04:33):
talking about the Bears, but it's perfect and Germane to
this conversation is that they always go in they look
shell shocked. It's like, how dare you ask me that?
It's like, no, you idiots, that's the lead. It's the
same thing here when you're gonna get into the Miami
versus Alabama, or Alabama versus you know, pick the next
four teams that they're in over, especially when you've got
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to look at just the giant crooked number that's staring
you in the face, right, which one of these is
not like the other? The three That's why there there's
a plenty of folks that are really going, Clemson can't win, right.
Clemson can't win right, because then you have a three
T three lost team that's suddenly jumping into the top four.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
So all of that to say that, you know, there's
just that hand ringing that goes on and revisionist all right,
let's be reactioning. It's like, no, you guys made the decision,
it's final. The Miami acc You sure you don't want
to re you reconsider that. It's like, you know, you're
playing checkers or chess or a board game with your kid,
(05:40):
and you're like, you sure you want to make that move. Basically,
you're telling your kid, don't make that move because you're
about to be bankrupted Innopoly, or I'm gonna triple jump
you in checkers, or don't take off that piece.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Don't take your finger off that piece because that means
you I'm gonna get you.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Now see by the letter of the law. Look, you
played it. It's done right. You're playing scrabble and I realize,
oh wow, you could have had like a fifty letter
word and all these bonuses and whatever.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Now you played it. It's over. Like when when Homer
doesn't know what word to play and he's got equinox
on his board and he plays no. Yes, Now look
now that being said, okay, here's he Look we'll tell
you why already this playoff is better than the fourteen
(06:25):
playoff we have. And here's where I'm gonna use to
illustrate this. Let's just say, wipe from your mind that
we have a twelve team playoff this year. Right, Let's
say there's no twelve team playoff and instead it's a
fourteen playoff. Okay, what are we arguing about right now
with the twelve team playoff, boy, should Miami be in
over Alabama? And the reason it's a big deal is
(06:46):
because Alabama and Miami are big schools, incredibly popular schools.
Alabama's been rock stars for the last twenty years. Miami
incredibly popular as well. But really, this is not something
that this is the only topic, no, no one else
is talking about. There's no other bit of controversy about
this list, about the it's about, you know, this is
why I like this, because this is about simply winning
(07:07):
enough games, getting that conversation and get safely in the
top twelve. Right. The only bit of controversy and drama
has been, oh look at Miami. Nothing else, right, nothing else,
So understand that. Now you wipe that from your head
and you think, okay, what do we have right now?
Let's just say it was just the four team playoff? Okay,
Right now? The top four teams are Oregon, Texas, Penn State,
(07:30):
and Notre Dame, followed by Georgia, Ohio State, Tennessee SMU. Right,
those are the as your next four. So what would
happen this weekend? Who would make the playoff? Right now?
Oregon Penn State winner one hundred percent, the winner of
that winner of that is in, and if Penn State wins,
likely Penn State and Oregon would both get in. So
that's two spots, Texas and Georgia. The winner of that
(07:53):
game is in, right, and likely if Georgia beats Texas,
probably they have two spots as well, But you never know.
Notre Dame is also in at number four. They're not
going to get jumped and left out by anybody. Notre
Dame be in at number four. So what are you
looking at right now? Well? Okay, on one one ray
of this you could say, well, okay, if Oregon wins,
(08:15):
which they probably will, Oregon's in. If Texas wins, which
they should, they're in. Notre Dame's in. Okay, then what
about that fourth spot? Wha wait a minute, Wait a minute,
wait a minute. If that fourth spot happens, is it
Penn State with two losses? Is it Georgia with three? Okay,
maybe not? But wait? Is it Ohio State with two losses?
Is it Tennessee with two losses? Is it SMU who's
(08:37):
a C champion at twelve and one? Right? If SMU loses,
is it Indiana, who is eleven and one that gets
to jump all the way up the way, but they
lost to Ohio State. But Ohio State lost two games.
Look how much drama there is and how many teams
are quote being left out. If it was just a
fourteen playoff, you can look and say that that the
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losers of those two of the of the two the
Big Ten and the SEC championship games, the loser of
those two games also Ohio State, Tennessee, SMU, and to
a lesser extent, Indiana. But you're talking about four or
five other teams that would have just as big an
argument to be in the playoff as anybody else. Could
you really decide between Ohio State and Tennessee? Could you
(09:20):
really break that tie? If you see Penn State like state,
Penn State gets obliterated by Oregon, how do you break
that tie between Ohio State and Tennessee? I mean, really,
how do you do that? You can't? Well, we got
two teams and the two toughest conferences. How do you
do it?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
All?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Right? But wait a minute, but what about SMU. SMU
would be a Power five conference champion. They'd be the
champion of the third best conference in all of college football?
Can you really leave them out just because they're SMU,
like you have all kinds of drama built in because
there was only four teams. You think about what we
were dealing with yesterday. Now go back to yesterday. Now
back to a twelve team playoff? Oh yeah, Oh we're
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talking about Alabama or Miami, and you're talking about teams
getting in that have had chances to win games and
improve their resume. They're not a team that is SMU
that could say, what do you want us to do?
We lost one game, we won the ACC. What else
do you really expect us to do to try to
get in this playoff? I mean, honestly, what else could
we possibly do? All right, let's just say Notre Dame
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winds up getting left out because Georgia wins and Penn
State wins in Oregon and Texas don't drop No to
Dame can say, what else could you possibly want us
to do? We want eleven and one against a really
difficult schedule. Yes, we lost in Northern Illinois, I'm sorry,
but we beat a lot of good teams. We beat
ranked teams. What else could you possibly want us to do?
Playing the schedule going eleven and one like, there's so
much more controversy and craziness with the four team playoff.
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Isn't it already better now? Isn't it already better with
what we've seen? And yes, changes probably are gonna come
to it because we're gonna get through the first year
of a twelve team playoff and say, Okay, this worked well,
this work didn't, but you can already see that the
best part of this conversation is that we're talking about
stuff on the field and who's gonna win enough to
get in and rather than oh, who's gonna get left out? Right,
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the story now with the twelve team playoff is one
team is left out. That's not really The story is
the seedings and who's gonna play where and who's gonna
get a bye. This is how the playoffs should be, right.
It's not about who's getting snubbed. It's why in the
NCAA tournament comes up and the first day, the first Monday,
for like five hours on Monday morning and afternoon, is
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about who gets snubbed, and then that story goes away
and then it's all about the tournament because the tournament
starts the next day and we have first four games, Like,
that's the way the conversation is going. Now, Yes, Miami's
gonna be upset. It'll be a story for a day
and a half and then it's gone. But all these
teams left out, like you saw the teams getting left
out last year. Florida State still pissed off they got
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left out last year and they were undefeated. Right, Yes,
we lost our quarterback. What else do you want to do?
We won all our games. What else can we possibly do?
Think of the chaos and the argument that has to
go on about we deserve to be in rather than
you did or didn't show enough on the field, which
is much easier to do when you're talking about twelve
teams versus four.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, And that's but the beauty of it, again from
the on field product, is that for the final month
of the season, we still have juice and debates and
you know, all the different scenarios that have to be
built in. If nothing else, it gives the broadcasters, you know,
ten minutes of filibustering at least twice during the game
as scenarios. Player. Hey wait, we use that graphic in
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the first It's okay. If they're still here, they wouldn't
mind seeing it again. Go ahead, break down all the
scenarios of how this game affects things as it plays out.
So we get that the rivalry games we saw still
had immense emotion and rolling through like we watched this
with baseball. Right for all the Rob Manford talk that
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we've done, how great the wild card is because fringe
teams are still on the area were going forward or
we play in our prospects and generally you're getting meaningful baseball. Here,
we're getting meaningful football. And if you didn't get it done.
Guess what that means you either wear in a subpar conference.
That's just Look, you just have to recognize who you
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are and what your conference is in the grand scale
of college football. And I'm sorry if that offends people.
Actually I'm really not at Swollen Dome if I offended
you with that statement. You could be the best of
a bad conference. You'll get your bids on occasion. But
if you stumble, don't be surprised. If you're outside the
top twelve, you can't complain. Go enjoy your bowl game
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and the destination whatever that is. But otherwise we're talking
about three loss teams like that's where the line in
the sand is, at least here in yere one. We're
talking about two and three loss teams.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You don't really have a whole hell.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Of a lot of an argument if you're a two
or three loss team, right, go win your games, take
care of business, you know, never leave it up to
the judges, Never leave it up to whatever rankings, whatever
human sentiment comes in. And remember, on the grand scale
of it all, where do you fit on the mar key?
If we're we're booking this for a television show or
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a movie. If you're in really small print, guess what
you're gonna get left out?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smithson with Mike Carmen Live from the TIREC dot Com Studios.
I mean, it's simple when you look at this year
like it would be last year, and it's easy.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It's easy to see, it's easy to see just this
year's Florida State.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, no one goes to hell just that rest right,
think how bad? Because because the argument is, hey, we're
just as good as any of these other teams that
you let into the top four, and no one could
say anything. Can Miami really say we're just as good
as No, they can't. They didn't play the schedules. The
other teams had chances to win. Don't lose two games,
beat Syracuse, beat Georgia Tech. What you could say, there's
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much more room to escape and there's much more room
to move on and to recover your seasons because of
the twelve team playoffs, so obvious. So Miami had more
than enough chances to get in. And I think that's
kind of where we're gonna be as this goes forward.
Is it's gonna be the maybe the one or two
teams were kind of maybe talking about at twelve, but
no one's gonna have as much sympathy for them. The
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Miami thing was shocking because you know, look, they were
in the top seven, top eight most of the year.
They were in the top four going into last week.
So it is a shocking story. You know that they
were that they were left out, but you can't really
argue against You can't say, oh, they didn't have chances
where you as you would be able to say it
for all of these teams. Hey wait a minute, man,
we're twelve and one and won our conference. Wait, we're
a two lost team in the SEC how are we
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getting left out of here? And you just have to
shrug your shoulders because it's really hard to make that
argument to say, yes, this team one hundred percent deserves
it over You can't do it when there's four. You
could do it much better th when there's twelve.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Yeah, and I understand, like all the thought pieces and
arguments still going against Alabama. Look, they had two bad losses,
they had several more good wins, right, so what's the weight?
And then ty goes to the runner or to the
program that brings eyeball and hate watch. That's really where
we're at with this. And you know Frostburg, he's out
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here tonight. SHA's in his stead, so I'll use the
line for him. And you lost to Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
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see tonight's show posted right after we get off the air.
Coming up next. Oh, by goodness, are things potentially set
to fall apart for the Lakers after what was said
following their loss tonight. Keep it here, that's coming up next,
Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirac dot Com Studios.
And you know, look, it's early in the NBA season.
It is early. I know this. I understand. Even though
we were into the quarterfinals of the E Cup. It's
almost like the games tonight are irrelevant. They weren't a
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Cup games tonight, Ben, why don't even care? The floors
look like they normally do every night. Come on, man,
it's an E Cup night or nothing. So I get this.
I understand. I understand that you shouldn't go crazy about
Minnesota being ten and ten when they played so well
last year. I get it right. The Nicks started out
five hundred. They're starting to win now a little bit. Okay,
the Bucks were awful, but now they had won seven
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to zerwo until they lost tonight, So maybe Doc Rivers
will make it to Christmas after all day. However, what's
going on with the Lakers You could put in that
category except what head coach JJ Reddick said following the
game tonight. Now, the Lakers lose to the Heat tonight
and they just get blown out. The game was never close,
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Lakers never made a run. One thirty four to ninety
three was the final, and it was just an absolute
pasting from from the moment. From the get go. Bam
Adebayo was with a double double, near triple double. Tyler
Hero had thirty one, right.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
He was on three point shooters.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I mean, I will say, hey, congratulations, Lebron James made
a three, so I think it's his first. Oh, it's
his first three made since the twenty twenty playoffs. So
there's twelve of eighteen to night he did twenty one.
But hey, no, tonight he did shoot better. He was
playing better. But Lebron has not been playing well. Like
his struggles. The last few games have been well noted,
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and whereas the Lakers really seemed to hit on something
earlier in the year, when oh, wait a minute, if
we bring D'Angelo Russell off the bench and maybe Dalton
connect starts instead, or Lebron starts at point guard. A
we ripped off seven wins in a row, right, it
was six wins in a row. But now they're losing,
and now they've won twice in their left last eight games.
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It's been a really bad rough stretch for the Lakers.
They've lost to good teams, they've lost a bad teams,
they've lost to everybody. But okay, it's part of the
up and downs of a season where the Lakers really
as good as they were when they started. Not it
was more what did I say at the time, no
reason to not be very tepidly and extremely cautiously optimistic
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that maybe the Lakers are okay. So the same way,
you don't want to overreact to this losing streak over
the course of the last few games. But look, they
beat Utah, but outside of that, they lost to Oklahoma City,
they lost to Phoenix, lost to Denver, lost to Miami,
they lost the Minnesota So everything, okay, this is part
of the travels how it goes in the NBA. You
don't want to get too crazy too early.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Except.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
For what happened after the game, where JJ Reddick wanted
to make sure everybody knows he's got a lot of
hard work ahead of him because, oh, the Lakers, they
might not be together as much as he wants them
to be. Take a listen. You you you you're cool.
(20:06):
You I'm out. Look he was, and then he hit somebody.
Then then he hit Dan Woiki on his way out
of the breast conference. It was amazing. I don't uh.
He was upset.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I understand close to space, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah, you get these microphones away from me.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Here is Reddick talking about how he doesn't think the
Lakers are as together as they need to be, especially
in team huddles.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Take a listen, there has to be some ownership on
the court, and I'll take all the ownership in the world.
This is my team and I lead it, and I'm embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But I can't.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I can't physically get us organized. I can't physically be
into the basketball. I can't physically talk and call out
reds and physically call out coverages, and it's you know,
I'm not men. By the way, I'm not blaming players.
That's not I own this. I own this, But I
couldn't need some ownership on the court as well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
He went on to say that especially during team huddles,
he did not feel the Lakers were together. So yes,
I love the fact that, Look, I can't do any
of these things, but I'm not blaming the players. Right,
I'm not playing. I can't. Yeah, but I'm not blaming
the players. I don't want to blame them. It's like
he wanted to get that off his chest and then
realized midway through all this doesn't sound good. I mean,
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it sounds good for me because I'm frustrated, but now
it really is not gonna play well. So he tries
to walk it back by saying, I'm not blaming the players.
But when you sit there and say and say things
like hey, there needs to be ownership, there needs to
be accountability, and especially when when you're talking about how
the huddle it doesn't feel like they're together. This is
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this is a big, big flashing red light. And the
two guys that are in the in the that are
bathing in the red glow of this light. Are JJ
Reddick and Lebron James one hundred percent yes, use o
Anthony Davis all this stuff. This is a JJ Reddick
and Lebron James thing, right, Because for Lebron James, first,
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it's obvious that Reddick wants Lebron to take on more
of a role. Right. He's the guy that's gonna call
those things out on the court, right, He's the guy
running the show. He's the guy that he wants to
take a bigger role as a leader. And maybe JJ
Reddick and I'm sure was probably surprised when he came
into the Lakers. I'm going, boy, this is really boy.
Lebron doesn't have his hand on this team like I
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expected him to. Like usually, Hey, the team is an
extension of a superstar player, right the you know the
Nuggets do they live and die and they are guided
by the hand of Nicola Jokicic and the Knicks it's
Jalen Brunson. But Lebron is just different, right, He's a
he's a bigger icon, a bigger star, and he has
never been that guy to say I'm gonna put the
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Lakers on my back. Everybody follow me. He's not that guy.
And I don't know if JJ Reddick is because of
his inexperience or expected, but the guy does podcasts with him,
so he knows what he is.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, hey, hey, we have a forum by which
to hatch this out, you know. I mean, if you're
expecting it any time, if.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
You're expecting Lebron to turn into a little bit more
of a leaders of players you get older, it's not
unreasonable because you would think players would get to that
point where him about teaching the next guys and making
sure and taking that ownership level. He's forty now, and
Lebron's still not doing that. He's still not that guy.
He still is somewhat at arms length from the Lakers,
from the team, and exists apart from them so much
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so that it never feels like, are they really together?
Is this Lebron on the court trying to find a
way to make it work playing his style of basketball.
That's still how the Lakers feel like it is after
all of these years, and when he was younger, and
when he was with Cleveland and with Miami, it worked
because Lebron was just so much better than everybody else
and just put so many points up in so many
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rebounds and so many assists, and there was literally no
way to stop the guy. He was able to be
successful at it. But now here he is forty and
as good as he is. Yeah, obviously you can see
when he is struggling. You can beat the Lakers, you can.
You can shut him down a little bit more. Now
you can, you can control him a bit more. And
it became a problem for the other teams. When Lebron
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was decided to be Hey, I'll be the point guard
and I'm gonna be a past first kind of guy,
and I'll let Ady become the number one option, it
was tough to beat. But now that Lebron is shooting
more again, try to get more involved in scoring. Uh,
it's not working right, And and this is this it's
not unreasonable for JJ Reddick to expect that from his player,
but he's also naive if he thought, well, this is
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this is what Lebron's gonna turn into. Right, So you know,
for the Lebron perspective of it, this is just who
he's been. You can't get mad, can't you can't get it,
can't get newly mad at him because it's not like
suddenly this is something that's brand new. So for Lebron,
that's kind of what it is. But I look at
Reddick and I go, is he really up for this? Right?
I mean, like all the concerns you had about Reddick
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coming into this season when he got hired, is he
really up for this? Coaching fourth grade bat basketball the
only coaching experience he had. Now walking into the heat
and the fire of the Lakers where Lebron and Ad
kind of do their own thing, can you impart your
will on the team? Can you get people to follow?
We thought you could, But now, as you said, you're
having trouble. You're having trouble getting through to the players
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and getting through and making the team the way it
should be. It's not something that is outside of the
job description of what they want you to do as
a head coach. But now already it feels like he's
making excuses for why he can't do it. And that's
what I come back to with Reddick is that his
basketball knowledge, his desire, his hard work, all those things,
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none of that is in question at all. But the
fact that is this too big for him? Is this
job too big for him?
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Because here you are at twelve and ten and he
has a press conference where he says, I can't do it.
The players have to. But I'm not blaming the players.
We're not together in the huddles anymore. Now you've made
it combative and Lebron's been through this a million times.
Lebron and A you have been through this a million times.
Things something You're gonna hear them and go, oh man,
I gotta change my ways and make sure that I'm
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leading it. Ever you think that's gonna happen, that's not
That's not who Lebron is. And to think to come
in and think that, Okay, I'm gonna make it this
way or things are going to change, that's naive. And
again it all falls under the umbrella of is this
too much for him? Is it too big of a
step for him to take right away coming in and
not coaching the magic or coaching at team's a little
(26:24):
bit more off the radar where he can make your
mistakes a little bit more anonymously and travel a bumpy
road and get to where you're really good head coach
for a long time. But you're trying to do it
in LA where teams expect results. Now they expect you
to go far in the playoffs. Now, you can't waste
another year of Lebron's prime, AD's prime, as long as
he's gonna be on the floor, and as as good
a basketball mind as he has, as hard work as
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he does. Now I go back to what I said
in the beginning, is this too much for him right now?
Because after this what he said tonight, I'm wondering if
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack with it is, you know,
because he realizes in the moment that he is flogging
the squad right, He's going ahead and he's like, all right,
let me drop this out here, because you know, the
thought pieces and hot take nonsense is gonna fly out
of it. And then he tries to reel it back
too late. The I can't play with them sounds like
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a lot like what Jared Mayo was doing a couple
of weeks ago with the Patriots. Right of Hey, once
they're out there, I mean, what do you what do
you want me to do? And then in the huddle,
remember we had plenty of memes mocking Darvin Ham a
year ago. By the way, the Lakers are now behind
the pace of Darvin Ham's team from last year, just
throwing it out there. They got up there.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It shouldn't be a time to part. You're twelve and ten. Okay,
guess what many other teams, really good teams are around
five hundred. So it's definitely it's not a panic time.
So again when you say are you up for this?
This is not a panic time in the NBA for
these teams. And yet, but for the Lakers, suddenly, now
here's a big panic moment. Well, but already had two
big panic moments with the D'Angelo Russell situation. Now you
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have one here and and the just turn to December.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Well, but it shows how much you have to ride
the lightning with Lebron James to a degree, bringing in
JJ Reddick and all the criticism. They're part of his
demeanor at this point to me, is I'm really going
to prove once and for all I didn't hire him,
I wasn't the invisible hand. Again, we're all gonna kind
of laugh at that whole thing, but this is his
(28:21):
way to do it. It's like, hey, you know, he's
in charge here. JJ's got to get us through it
and roll through And for the Lakers, yeah, there is
a bit of a panic because you're only twenty two
games in, but you've seen the heavy minutes that Lebron
had to play only twenty nine tonight because they were
getting their asses kicked.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But all of that to say, you.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Know, you're already at the point where in your season,
not only is he diminishing the value of the E Cup,
which is just insane. I mean, how do you how
dare you do that to something? Your knicks are already
in the locker room squabbling about how they're going to
spend their five hundred plus thousand dollars and yelling at
each other about But the fact is that you've you've
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got a long way to go. Clearly, there's no continuity defensively.
Joke about it in terms of close out in threes,
but that's been an issue this entire season. And if
a team's actually hitting shots, you're in trouble because you're
not rotating. You're the extra pass and leads to a
wide open guy because there is no movement defensively. And
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that's not gonna suddenly get better, right, That's not suddenly
you're gonna find some defensive stoppers that have been hiding
at the end of the bench, they're not there, so
you've got all that. The other thing is Lebron's distracted
because you know why why he's Christmas. But he's trying
to figure out how his schedule and that of the
Lakers syncs up with the new Kendrick Lamar tour that
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goes on sale this week. I mean, that is a
big bleeping deal.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Okay, all right, I'm with you there, I'm with you.
Could be it could best.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Get tickets in each of those spots, don't I remember
looks trying to program bots. I don't know. There's a
lot going on.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Because I'm old enough to remember when Rex Grossman really
tanked in a game at the end of the year
because he was too worried about a New Year's party.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
He was going, you leave Rex Grossman alone.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I mean I I go. And now I'm back to
where I'm back to square one with Reddick, where it's
is this job too much for you? Did you? You
may be in over your head with what you thought
you could accomplish and and trying to go forward here
and again, this is why Lebron has been always been
difficult to coach, but a first time coach coming in
who was friends with him. I mean, what this is
almost like it was it was inevitable you were going
(30:37):
to get something like this, and now you're at a
crossroads at game twenty two in the regular season again,
is it too much for him? Dude? I'll love more
in this story coming up right now, Let's find out
what's trending from someone who was almost tired as the
Clippers head coach. Hey, Montils, but you know, down to
be here with us, here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Coach right now, Jason, I'm yelling at them. I'd be
yelling at James Harden going oh for seven in the
first half.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, not okay, not okay.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
This is probably why I can't be a coach, because
I'd be yelling at my team.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
You'd be a really you'd be a really good coach, though.
You would be really because like you would yell, and
you would be I could think you'd be really loud,
and then you would yell in English and Spanish, which
would be really fun, and you would just go back
and forth the three. No, you'd be a fun head
coach to watch. You'd be you'd be a black you'd
be the most watchable head coach in the NBA.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I would yes, I would like to think that that's
the positive way to look at it.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
That I would just be bilingual yelling at people.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yeah, the Clippers are are not doing well, guys, I'm
not doing well. As I mentioned, James Harden oh for
seven from the field, No bueno. The Timberwolves came out swinging.
Julius Randle has twenty points and the Timberwolves are beating
the Clippers at halftime fifty nine to thirty two. I
don't like it, but the heat crushed the Lakers, so
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that's good. One thirty four to ninety three. Tyler Herro
had nine threes in the game for a total of
thirty one points. His career high is ten. Franz Wagner
had thirty five points seven rebounds, his seventh game of
thirty or more points. As a Magic beat the seventy
six ers one oh six to one oh two. The
Hawks snap the Bucks seven game winning streak, coming out
on top one nineteen to one oh four. In college hoops,
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we're down to the final minute of number two Auburn
and number nine Duke Duke on top seventy nine to
seventy two again fifty seconds to go in this one
at halftime, twelve thrank Oregon is losing to USC thirty
to twenty three, and number twenty four San Diego State
up on Fresno State twenty nine to twenty four. But
give it up for the Blue Jays because crighton handed
(32:39):
the number one team in the country Kansas their first
loss of the season, coming out on top today seventy
six to sixty three. Mississippi State crush Number eighteen Pittsburgh
ninety to fifty seven. We do also have some hockey
going on. The Golden Knights are currently beating the Ducks
two to one after two periods, and the Stars are
up on the Kings two to one with about six
(32:59):
months two go in the second period. Week fourteen of
the NFL kicks off tomorrow Thursday night football Lions Packers
Detroit is going to be without offensive tackle Taylor Decker
and Green Bay will be without cornerback Jy Yere Alexander
and wide receiver at Romeo Dobbs for the game. And
in case you're wondering, in case you want to spend
money not like millions of dollars on a batmobile like
Joe Burrow, but Freddie Freeman's Grand slam Ball from Game
(33:22):
one of the World Series is now up for auction,
with bidding starting at three hundred thousand dollars, so more
affordable for us guys. I mean maybe, I mean, you know,
just a little.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Bit batmobile we rule.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
But can you take the batmobile like on on the streets.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You can make it. He's got the money to make
it street legal. Absolutely, that'll work.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Does it fit?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Like besides even being street legal or not, does it fit?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
It doesn't look like it's much water than like a
hum Vy, So I think you're probably all right. Yeah,
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Saying the batmobile. Who's pulling you over?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm not saying try to get in a compact spot
at Target, but you know, I think you might.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
You could.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So many people still do that. Yes, especially here where
we work.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
It's like all these giant.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Escalades are getting in compact spots and I'm like, why
look at.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
You attacking the hot yoga pizza. Yes, said back to you.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Garman Live the tirag
dot Com Studios. Coming up next, A scandal when I
saw it today. I couldn't believe it was real and
I couldn't believe was this easy to pull off in
the world of sports, But it happened. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:45):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the tirag dot Com studios. And
I gotta tell you, there's there's crazy story, there's certain
scams people can pull off, and then there's you know
(35:08):
what we saw earlier today with the big gambling scandal
and halving a guy that that presented himself as an
insider in sports. I mean, really, it's it's a it's
a crazy story. And when I saw it, they said,
there's no way this guy, no, no, he did it. No,
that okay, okay, he he pulled us off. For a
(35:33):
long time. A pro poker player, Corey Zeidman, who won
a bracelet at the World Series of Poker back in
twenty twelve, pled guilty today to defrauding betters in New
York and Florida by falsely claiming to have inside information
on sporting events. So basically what it was was he
positioned himself as an insider. I have all this inside
(35:55):
info on all of these sporting events, and he, you know,
charged money now be able could place their bets and
he actually was found out. He ran national radio advertisements
under fake names. I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You remember the Ray Palmer group.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
We all remember Gordon Howard Global? Sure? Sure, and what didn't.
What surprised me about this wasn't that he got busted
for this, because the guy wasn't an insider, fake faked
he that he had inside information. But in reading this story,
his scheme lasted from two thousand and six to twoy
(36:32):
and twenty, Like this was a fifteen year scam the
guy pulled as an insider. How does he know? Is
it really that easy, Harmon? Is it really that easy
to say, Hey, I have inside information and I'm gonna
keep this thing going for the better part of two
decades before I get caught, Like, I can't believe it's
just that easy to do. But I had some kind
(36:53):
of success, because if he's in business with all this,
he must have been doing well. At some point.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
I had me scheme lasted from two thousand and six
to twenty twenty. Now I don't know what the ad
rates were on Sundays, but I certainly remember those areases.
But I asked this question, and I do so tongue
in cheek. How much different is this? Then? I've got sources?
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, I mean in all.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Seriousness right to where it's like, no, no, no, you kind
of wanted to see this happen, so you floated it
out there, right, and things like sit in the hair, Hey,
I've got inside information, all right? Is ankel grade one
of grade too, don't know, but he's got an ankle,
you know, things like that, going through sources well placed
(37:37):
within the organization. That's how he is leaning and leveraging
this to the point of millions of dollars. I'd love
to see the complaint though, and the exact terminology use,
because part of me is sitting there going he told
a story, and yes he lied about that, but that's
like you, you wouldn't have to corroborate that, right, You're
to be confidential in that regard. So so what where
(38:00):
where's the crime?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
When customers called, they were told the organization had privileged
info about fixed games. Yeah, that it received from physicians
at colleges, n TV executives. So this was, Hey, the
doctors are suddenly, hey, we're all telling you everything going on.
This player. He's hurt, he's hurt, he can't play, he
can't play. And suddenly television executives somehow they were there
(38:23):
on the Yeah, yeah, TV TV. Exactly what do you do? Well,
I run k COW channel nine here in La. Oh, hey,
let me tell you what's going on in this way.
You know, you know you saw that info.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But you saw that two weeks ago, right, the it
was I don't know if it was so fine which
stateium was, but I think it was so fine. I was,
here's you know, did you in the testing of the scoreboard?
And it said seven nothing at the end of one
like that was hours of the game, and then the
score was actually seven nothing at the end, Like wait
a minute, the script is out. Ariet Foster was right
(38:56):
as well as Ray Balmer.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I really, I just can't believe that you could keep
that going with with fake inside info for for fifteen years.
Like I said, he must have. He must have had
some level of success in in people winning games, and
it's just hey, I I think I know how to
pick games, and I'm gonna use this knowledge is as
the backbone of why people are gonna listen to me,
(39:20):
because I mean, for a I mean really, if this
didn't more give me out of business pretty much pretty
quick after this. Right, Hey, wait a minute, you told
me this game was was gonna go one way. It
was even close. Well, but some of it is.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
You know, you feed it into one of two streams,
so you either get one pick or the other. So
some folks are always winning on the right side of that.
So yeah, it rolls through a dial, my nine hundred number. Now, Oh,
it's the five star lock of the week. I got
the inside information for fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
I'm a fake insider. Who'd you talk to this week? Doctor?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
You know who could have gotten to the heart of it? Though?
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Who's that? Your guy?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Gil Brandt?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
What's your sh Yeah? Yeah, could have happened? Could have happened? Ye?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Great, Gilbrandt?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
What if it was a TV What if it was
a doctor who was a TV executive? What if there
was both? I mean that guy could have been the
big the bit I get a TV executive, a doctor, I.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
Mean checking off boxes?
Speaker 1 (40:13):
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