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of the third inning in Los Angeles, Walker Buehler. It's
his first start in well over almost two years, right,
coming back from a slew of injuries, and I think
there has been seven home runs hit so far. It's
a lot of activity in this the Marlins of it too.
The Dodgers have it three three home runs in the
first two plus innings of this game. Otani's gone deep,
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Freddie Freeman, James Outman, Wait out hit the ball? Yeah,
Outman hit the ball. Surprise outm hit the ball? Means
was the White Sox fan? We got you right there, buddy, No.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's I mean the two can be true. They're not
mutually they're not mutually exclusive.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
But anyway, I will say this real quick about the show. Heytani,
home run the deep center. Yeah, you will never hear
the crack of the bat that loud in your life.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
We'll play.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I will say baseball is so dumb that you can't
play a highlight during the game. Still.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, it's a heavy crack of the bat, like he
it's yeah, Well you'd have to get the highlight anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But the team center. You want to pay the final
hit play? No, no, no, no, no, you pay because
you're gonna pay that fine, not me. I'm not paying
the don't play it for ad Dodger highlight. Let's display, Rob.
We'll just blame the saga. We'll say disagre needed it
and he got just blame to saga. That's fine. He
got excited to hit it extra Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Steeve what do you think are we allowed to play
the crack of about? Is that that's not considered a highlight?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Is it? Shaking his head going yes, it sounds like
wood hitting anything. You're probably in the dangerous territory. So
since Steve said the play it, let's uh, let's not
be uh. So we'll have more on this game coming up. Meanwhile,
Rudy gober has got to be enjoying his night with
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his child congratulations and watching the Minnesota Timberwolves have no
difficulty with the Nuggets in the first half. With a
minute to go before halftime, Minnesota leads Denver fifty six
to thirty three. It is an absolute implosion by the
Nuggets and the Tea Wolves out here are boat racing Denver. Look,
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we've heard word Nicola yokuld say this after game one. Hey,
and that was a really big statement. Hey, the t
Wolves know us, right, because how much do we always
talk about the NBA players are about matchups? Right? They
are the Lakers. The Nuggets are a horrible matchup for them, obviously,
and it looks like the matchup with the Nuggets and
the Tea Wolves this is not good for Denver. So,
I mean, he says, hey, they know us, they know us,
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and when you hear they go, Okay, they know us.
We need to have a little bit more focus, a
little bit more energy. But when when he says something
like that, that's like a bit of a warning sign,
going hey, maybe by that he means, hey, we're in
trouble here because they don't fear us. We are a
bad matchup for them, and seeing how they are being
able to just continue to get better by leaps and
bounds as this game goes on. And I just watched
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the Nuggets have two straight turnovers in a row with
twenty nine seconds left to go in the first half.
It's now sixty one thirty three Minnesota over Denver. I mean,
you think this series might be.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Over watching as it goes I mean you talk about
roster construction.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
They know each other.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I think the more in telling Jokic quote after Game
one was the I need to clone myself in terms
of matching up with the height and depth of what
they have in Minnesota. And certainly, you know we're missing
one of those elements tonight. But Tim Connelly was the
guy that helped construct what Denver became, and now he's
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running things in Minnesota. So saw the success, saw the
growth and depth there and said, oh and one on
the other side. And now you look at the Timberwolves
equip to give Denver everything they need. And look, we
joked about it before, but the reality is from a
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just shot making standpoint, Jamal Murray has been invisible in
this game and he struggled outside of the game. Winners
against the Lakers don't need to revisit that series, but
outside of that, he what do you shoot like thirty
eight percent in that series as a bad ankle that
we've talked about about, but shooting, he's been off the mark.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He's one for ten tonight. It's one for ten tonight.
And you've seen a.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Number of bad turnovers, bad rotations, and they're letting them
play physically, and that doesn't bode well for Denver because
you don't have you know, the size. You know Gordon
will get down into it as well. But if you're
not gonna get Jokic to the foul line, he's going
and he's taking a beating like that that adds up
in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So right now, halftime sixty one, thirty five, Minnesota the
lead over Denver. We we may get the t Wolves
in the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals. Look out
and if that happens, like we said last week, maybe
SGA and Anthony Edwards is the next great rivalry in
the NBA. Went on that was the case. What what
if Edwards and XGA all the Yeah, we got Curry
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and Lebron and now we're bringing in Wenby we got better? No, No,
what if Anthony Edwards an XGA was the next big
rival But.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The worst of it is, you know, because we love
to do our comparisons and start attaching names to guys.
How many morphings of Edwards did you see into Michael
Jordan and big thought pieces and debates about Michael Jordan's Like,
we can't just let him be Anthony Edwards and a
guy in Minnesota and talk about Minnesota mattering for the
first time in the NBA sphere in a long time. No,
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compare them to the greatest of all time. Let's get
the tongues wagon. Aaron Gordon leads the Nuggets with fifteen
first half points, Jokics just three of eight eight points.
On the other side, Towns with twenty, Edwards finishing strong
with sixteen. Meanwhile, the game that everybody can't just get
over because it was so great. Oh, I was gonna say,
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I was hoping we'd get a good game tonight. We
did see a great one earlier because we sure as held.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
On out we did. That Cleveland game yesterday was yecause
a hell of a game. Nobody watched. The Knicks beat
the Pacers one twenty one to one seventeen. They hold
on at the end. Jalen Brunson with another incredible game.
He goes for forty three and six rebounds as as
much as and you think about this for the Pacers, right,
because we'll get to the big coaching move in a second.
That I want a spotlight is that you think of
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this as pay You did everything you could to slow
him down, right, It felt like watching the game, the
Pacers were doing everything they wanted to do. They had
McConnell chasing Jalen Brunson. They were exhausting him. They were
making him work for every bucket he had. And the
guy had forty three. Like that's a Jordan Knight. Fourth
quarter was Jordan Knight? Yeah, I mean he I mean
that's where you have to really understand that, Hey, this
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is how deep the Pacers are for all this, all
the pacers athletically, and the Knicks are playing five guys. Yeah,
I get it. They did everything they wanted to do,
and still he goes for forty three.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, I would also say this, don't underestimate the guy
that doesn't look like he's in great shape because Jalen Brunson,
like folks will take their shots like, ah, he looks
short and stumpy whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
He's basically Tony Gwinn Mike, but he's dead after it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I mean Tony Gwinn, who was a great point guard
before he became Sure, before he.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Became the greatest hitner I've seen in my life.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sure, but you look at Jaylen Bruns like, oh, we're
gonna tire him out cardio physically, there's no chance in hell.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah. And then he's still running around guys in the
fourth quarters like damn it, I thought he'd fall. That's
how Tims hasn't tired you out. No, right, playing with
that squad, Timms has him doing like Rocky four workouts
with like in the snow, carrying like all these big
like piles of shot the wood. Now you have to
carry the wood, get after foulders, little wheelbarrow with Paulie
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in it. Let's go come Ony Rock, Push Push Jalens,
jal The pacers are on the treadmill getting shot up.
But that's how good the guy failed. That's how good
the guy is. That's how good the guy is. I mean,
that's how good.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Jalen been amazing and and he's become a cult hero.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I just did New York. But all the folks, I've
never heard more people and then this is a testament
to him and what he's done this year. I've never
heard it more people in our business say they were
wrong about a guy like legitimately, get on their TV
radio platforms and just say when he got signed, I
didn't like the contract. I was wrong. Because now they've
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watched him, and let's face it, because of the Knicks,
you you were going to get them over the course
of the year. As soon as it was determined they
were they were gonna be a bit better than average
in the Eastern Conference, that they became a focal point
and so you got a lot of oh case in point,
let's watch this performance and what he's been doing in
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these playoffs thus far absolutely amazing. I mean, really, I mean,
we're gonna exhaust and we're gonna make them work for
all those points. And now it's like, crap, Now, what
the hell do we do because we just did this
game one and he torched us. We couldn't even get
into their bench like we could. I think if guys
fouled out, Tims was just gonna leave four guys on
the floor. My team's on the court. Yeah, I mean,
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oh man, oh man, that sucks, and heart and stuff
fouled out. Oh nobody else is coming in.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Now we're going with those four US. Three guys off
the bench. Robinson played twelve minutes, took a shot, You
had McBride come in. He played eleven minutes. Again, the
total played there were at no point did it seemed
they were out there that long. I thought it was
they're out there and there was quick click, so they
must have like subbed in for eight seconds at a time.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But you get one for three between them and then
precious at chew a I hit one of two free throws.
So you had to combine three points off the bench
on the court. He was, he was on the court,
he was, Marbury was there. Yeah, they were all there
trying to get trying to get he was holding some
guy up. I didn't know what was going on. Steve
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Cohen got so much airtime, he's sitting. He's sitting in
the jack seats for the next time, like Steve Cohen
is there. Oh stop, they keep showing. He keeps wearing
the set. Dude. The dude is worth like thirty billion dollars. Okay,
he's worth thirty billion dollars free he I think he
makes five hundred million dollars a month. I think that's
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what his business is. That's what he makes a month dollars. Yes, exactly,
because you and JJ Abrams. But look, let me just
talk about this because we talk about coaching moves. And
for most of the first half, I said, wow, Rick
Carlisle really has the advantage here, because again, the Pacers
did what they wanted to do. They had the pace
of the game being what they wanted. They were going
up and down the floor, they were getting easy baskets,
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they were making the knicks work offensively, and they were
trying to exhaust Jalen Brunson. Right, they did everything they
wanted to do. And I said, wow, they have to
find some way to figure things out at halftime, and
then middle of the third quarter. It's a it's a
it's like a one point game, and there's a foul
call that looked like it was questionable that sent Pascal
Siakam to the line, and it looked like something you
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could challenge, but Tims was like, no, I'm not going
to challenge it. And he wound up missing both three
throws anyway, and I'm like, oh, okay, and I'm sitting
there going, yeah, you want to save that challenge for
some time later on. It's a basket in the third quarter,
it's a one point game. What are you really doing?
But at that point the Knicks were kind of struggling
a little bit, and I was like, ah, maybe you
could have done it, but okay, I get it. And
then two minutes later, Brunson goes up and blocks Miles Turner. Right,
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you know, you know, four foot one Jalen Brunson goes
up and blocks nine foot tall Miles Turner and the
ball goes the ball gets deflected to the to the Knicks,
who keep possession. They call a foul. This is the
play that Tibbs challenges, and I'm like, okay, wow, okay, wow,
we didn't use it a couple minutes ago. Now we're
using that, okay, and it comes back and saying yep,
no foul on Brunson, Knicks retained possession. And that was
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such a great decision because that play was an energetic play,
Like that bump put life back in the garden because
here's Brunson, who you know, you know only at six '
three is blocking Miles turn which he should never be
able to do. And the fact that your best player,
you now got the ball and it was a tie
game at that point. You now got the ball and
no foul and the Knicks went on a run and
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went up by six and the Pacers had to come
back and it became a tie game going to the
fourth quarter. Like that was such a great decision because
at that point the Knicks needed something that even though
it was a one point game, they didn't have a
lot of energy, not a lot going on. But here's
a very emotional play. I take that chance and it
gets overturned and the Knicks going and go on a
run and it was their biggest lead they had in
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the game up until that's.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Okay, Now take your Nick's hat off for a moment, okay,
and be a realist.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Watch this. There is no chance in hell that should
have been reversed.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Brons jumps into his body.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, but he got all ball. No, but he got
all of him. Man, but he got him off his blood.
But now, when we had a rock root, his neck
would have been flying. You know what Turner needed to
do was he needed to move to sell that, and
he didn't like that. He went like a guy that
got No. He didn't do it until after the ball
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had already come down, Like if he wants to sell
he he needed to sell that that there was more
contact if he sold that more But I think but
I think he was surprised obviously that that Brunson came
from you know, came from behind to get it. If
he goes down, if he doesn't, if he if he
gets that contact, knows the ball's not going in and
immediately goes to the ground, I don't think that call
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gets reversed. But he's able to keep his his He says,
how do you reverse it?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
With that amount of contact that knocks him the way
he does?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
How do you reverse it? I understand if you didn't
call the fall, how you can then say no, no, no,
We challenge if you're Rick Carlyle and and and they
they flip it to a fall, but going the other
way like there's too much contact. Yeah, it was a
tough one to overturn.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It was ridiculous between that, the kickball that wasn't a kickball,
the me just just kick it doesn't mean it's not
a kickball. Let's go through all the I forget about
the times that the Knicks lost the ball and they
gave it to the Pacers in the last couple of
minutes to that happened.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Don't all times, No, just so once where the Pacers
lose it. Okay, I got it. He took the game
from them. Yes, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Well, you tried telling me that Jalen Bronson was had
air when they threw the ball and it bounced up.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, it looked like he didn't. It looked like he
was already out, but apparently wasn't. So yeah, but but
when you're out of bounds, you're out of bounce, you're
at a bound, you're at a bound, you're standing at bound,
you're standing at a bounce, you're not in bounds. Well,
hits you, it's it's off. The guy that threw it
out of bounce. But it looked like he had hit
the ground, which means okay, but they said was in
the air. Okay, didn't look like it to me, But okay.
They get the Pacers ball, got the ball back there.
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You were fine, got the ball back, did everything you
needed anyway.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
The the end game is that you put up by
hail Mary and you got it completed on a reversal
that shouldn't have been a reversal and it was a.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Huge They wouldn't They wouldn't have called for it if
they didn't think they were gonna get it. The Knicks
aren't going to do that in the late late stage
of the third quarter unless they knew they were gonna
get it. So they knew something. They ever home cooking,
they ever replayed guru who knows, like the Knicks do
great challenging like that Tims is, TIBs is. Percentage of
challenging of calls is really big. And they have a
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guru that like, hey, when when I say this, you
challenge it because you're gonna have to look at the
pool reports because someone had to have asked them about this.
I'm gonna say we robbed the Pacers. Stop you, guys.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry of your teams are in the playoff.
No no, but no, no, no, but literally you you brought
this play up like it was just a play in
the game on a grand scale, and now you've brought
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it up as the huge play to flip stuff it did.
And I'm gonna tell you they got it wrong. Well again,
they went back and looked at it. Okay, so the
nick saw it, said they would get it. They went
back and looked at it, and then still and then still.
They got it wrong. Okay, all right, just want to
see where you're at with it.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Okay, officials got it right, they got screwed. I'm gonna
get marked down live. Okay, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon,
Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Third quarter underway
between the Nuggets and the t Wolves. The t Wolves
missing Rudy Gobert so much tonight, their lead over Denver
is only sixty four to thirty seven with ten minutes
to gardy seven shut up in the third quarter, so really,
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if they had go bear tonight went with like eighty
to thirty seven, eighty five thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I will say this, you and I were at seven.
We're here in the Tyrack dot Com, Fox Words Radio
studios and live and in living color, Alex and Justin
making a sound so brilliant and smart. Uh Steve de
Seger as well on the updates, and that might have
been the shortest halftime ever. It was almost like they're
getting their asses kicked. We got nothing to say, let's go,
let's get everything's a running clock. Halftimes are running clock,
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and third quarter is running clock to go all the
way to the end now. But it's like, I know
you and I were having the conversation about that challenged
out of balance call and everything, but it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Really did seem like halftime went be the fast. Yeah, yeah,
what's fast? I hear here?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Do you guys think this low score ranks all time
as of right now in playoffs?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Lowest? Ooh, thirty seven points? Thirty seven thirty seven shut
up in a row at nine forty three to go
in the third quarter. Wow, thirty seven points. This has
got to be one of the because you're talking about
that's only spreading out to be what not even seventy
points in a game? Yeah, I looked it up.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
How how low is it goes right in the middle
of every next nineties playoffs?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Yeah? Hey, I was proud of some of those sixty
five sixty wins that we had.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You know, I was funny.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I was thinking about the nineties, and I'm like China
Spin and should have just taken the one liner.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Good, good work for Rossbury. I should just realized that
one liner was coming, because Frostburg is not doing that
kind of work for the show. So I mean I
should have known that right away.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I should Oh, he's just try to No, none of
this matters, right, Why does none of it matter?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Justin because Tom Brady got right. We will have more
on Tom Brady coming up in a couple minutes. But again, yes,
it's a huge Minnesota Timberwolves lead over the Nuggets right now,
sixty four to thirty seven. What do you think Scott
Shapiro is doing right now. I think he's passed out.
I think his wife is trying to revive him. Wake up,
wake up.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
This is at it's actually happening right now.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
His twins win like twelve in a row in the second. Dude,
we are in the golden age of Minnesota sports. It
has never been this good for Minnesota sports ever in
the history of the state.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I did said, you know, we had a brief exchange
after the game one win from the Tea Wolves sing
you okay over there because I don't know like you
just have someone pinch it, because again the Twins had
won again that day and and extended the streak.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
So yeah, I'm even living right. I mean, maybe Ricky
Foggy when he was quarterback from Minnesota eighties, Maybe Ricky Foggy,
we could tell him to act like he's been there,
but he hasn't. No, he really hasn't. Yeah, he really hasn't.
And now the one thing is one thing he always
likes to say is in Scotch Bira, our boss here
is a huge Minnesota Timberwolves fan. He forever talks about
the two thousand and four tea Wolves like it's the
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greatest team Wolves in the history of the state. Right
the twenty two thousand and four to two thousand and
four remember.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
That video of the young Scott Shapiro when they came
to Gonna have to change that to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, greatest year for the best Minnesota team ever. I mean, look,
they're they're they're eight. You're talking about being twenty minutes
away from going home, being up two zip on the
defending Chaps, with a birth in the conference finals, and
maybe just having to beat Oklahoma City to go on
to the NBA Finals to lose to the next.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And you miss one of your biggest defense some contributors
because of a birth today.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I ain't come on, baby, go bear picked a good
day to come right. They don't need me. I'm good,
I'm good, and I'm good as a team.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Do you think they rallied and said, you know what,
you could need an extra hard screen. I need you
to really be on your point rebounding. We gotta get
all those angles. You know why you got to do
it for Rudy, Rudey, Rudey.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's the Rudy game. They all came in. They all
came into Christian office. Ned baby. They had their jersey going.
If he doesn't play, we don't play. And they just
keep putting the jerseys down, and Chris Finch is going,
you know, I pour my entire leg and I'm coaching. Okay,
I can't even stand up. You'll punt those jerseys back
on Rudey.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Ben's fawn walks through ceremonially with a jersey as well.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, and I just love my favorite part for Vincement
when they go, boy, he came to Notre Dame with
such great promise. What a disappointing career. He's uh. But look,
I want to say this because we got into a
conversation about the officiating with the Knicks and the Pacers game. Really,
there there are some calls down the stretch that favored
the Knicks. The kickball we talked about that that could
(22:06):
have been that could have been gone the other way
easy because it didn't look like it was technically a kickball.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Officials but in the post reviewed it and said we
got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, I mean, and they couldn't go on river, which like,
how could you not? You can't you can't review? Why
do we still why are there still plays we can't,
especially when it was instant what is called the instantaneous
possession that if a team gets the ball right away,
they can review it and give the ball to the
other team. Now, if that was a ball where they
made the call and the ball was bouncing around and
nobody got it, then you can't. You can't look back
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at it. But if you can view, if you can
rule the instantaneous possession, you can say okay, because the
ball went bounce to them and they were going on
So I don't know why they couldn't do that. You
look at the moving screen and that was called and
live watch it and you can see that the reason
it's a turner is still moving forward towards Devincenzo when
he runs into them. Now, Devincenzo flops and falls against
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the call. But this wasn't one of those I screen,
I stop and I'm standing his moment. He was still good,
he was okay if he was able to stop, but
he took that extra little step and his momentum was
still going forward. And so that's what got the call.
And that I kind of get that.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
No, I said it before I say it now, It's like,
I don't disagree that it's a fall by the letter
of the law. I'm just saying, you generally don't call that.
There was a There wasn't a lot of contact.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Asked you and m if they make that call.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Of course, you know again, we we do have the
the direct circumstance. Uh and and I've seen that that
joke that you made uh earlier and come back, you know,
talking about Iowa, but it's one that seemed a bit soft.
It's kind of like you're watching you know, you're you know,
you've coached, right, and it's on the sideline for soccer, like,
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indn't call that, and then you see a kid get trucked.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Right, wait, that's not a.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Fall, and what are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
They're reviewing everything in the last couple of minutes. So yeah,
did it look a little bit like the game with
this game too with the Sixers where the Sixers could
have had that foul call on Tyres MAXI yes, But
let me just say this right because I'm with you,
way spun around like he was one of the stuntman
in the fall guys. He was, he was good.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He You notice that they did get that sound effect
in at one point a couple of times, a couple
of times. But let me just say this right because
the same thing for the Sixers. I'll say in game
two of the knickt series, where it was all the
officials gave it to the next Yes, a couple of
calls went the next one not saying they did the
big screen call at the end they call it. You
can see it because Turner was going forward. But I
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want to say this is that despite that, it wasn't
the officials fault that your best player took six shots
in the game. Okay, Tyre's Halliburton six shots, six points
on six shots. Now I get game flow. And TJ
McConnell was playing a lot because he was hounding Jalen Brunson.
But this is where you you you walk away from
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this game, and if you're Rick Carlisle and and and
you are Tyres Halibert, you're going, what the hell did
we just do here? Because this game flow got you
away from your best player being the best player on
the floor. Because at no point did I ever think that, well,
Halliburton's gonna take this game over. It's Halliburton time. He
was just background fodder in this game. Everybody else Siakam
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was taking the ball strong to the hoop. He was
getting a lot of buckets, so was Turner. McConnell was hot.
He you know, he was making a lot of baskets
in transition. But Halliburton was just invisible right like and
and never at any point that I think, hey, he's
gonna come take over now. And that's a fail for Carlisle,
that's a fail on Halliburton for not being more aggressive,
because when you're best player doesn't play well, hey man,
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what the hell? So I firmly expect the pacers to
come out in Game two Gangbusters, and Halliburton's gonna be
very super aggressive because he just wasn't. This was game flow,
and I get that the Pacers probably thought we have
this game. Could I understand that, all, Hey, we're getting
easy baskets and we're making the knicks work for theirs.
But this could have been a much different game if
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you decided to say, Okay, Tom, we have to make
sure we get Haliburton the ball, and we have to
make sure we get him shots. Because he was able
to get shots because they were running the ball all
across the court. They're running double triple screens, they were
moving the ball really, really well. There was no reason
for Haliburton to not have a better game. This is
a guy who's a point guard, the only real point
guard on Team USA's roster for the Olympics. They didn't
take any didn't take Jalen Brunson, didn't take anybody else.
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We're taking Halliburton. This was such an epic fail by
he and Rick Carlisle because if he's not aggressive, this
is when Carlisle's got to stop and say, hey, we
need to do this. We gotta do X, Y and
Z to get you shots and get you into this
game because I know it looks good for us right now,
but we need you if we're gonna win. And that
was a big fail. You're looking at a guy that
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over the course of the regular season he averaged twenty
points a game and eleven assists.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
He took one shot in the second half.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, so unless he was throwing up at halftime to
where he was done.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh wait, he still played thirty six minutes. Hey, this
isn't a hey, I'm out, you know, no injury like
you played extended minutes, extended time, didn't touch the ball,
And it's just unconscionable, right, especially in a game this tight,
and the way you tried to again, tried to run
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the Knicks out of the gym, thinking that eventually they
like would topple over like the Weebel never did. Instead,
they kept going.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
They don't fall down one hundred and eighteen points out
of the one hundred and twenty one scored by the
Knicks starters. Once again, But for Halliburton, you know, you
talk about the lofty expectations and Team USA and everything else, like, yeah,
he was one of those guys that you were trying
to put on the dais right to take from the
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Tom Brady roast and apply it ear of Hey, all
these veterans are gone, we've got Haliburt. He's one of
those guys on the gump. He's missing from the side.
He's on the side of the milk carton. Yeah, he
was the most.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Visible, Like it was hard to even like if you
were just watching the game, you would not even know
that he was in it. He announcers didn't say his name.
It's not like he was one play on.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
The sideline right where Brunson went to do one of
those long dribble passed and he bounced it off. That
was the first time you and I and all the
time we sat watching together like, hey, it was off haliberg.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Yeah, I mean really that was so I expect him
to come out Game two like a house to fire.
I'm gonna own this game. I'm gonna dominate this game.
We're try to get out ten nothing over the Knicks
and make them try to come back here and try
to send this thing back to Indiana one to one.
Uh but that but I men of all the foul calls,
all the things to say, hey, rest didn't stop your
best player for only taking six shots and that was
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a big fail. Poison Pens will be out well.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Greg Doyle do one of those heart things saying, Hey Tyrese,
we need you.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
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Speaker 3 (29:30):
Last live update, they lost twenty one and a half.
Now they lead Denver eighty to fifty five late in
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even with no Rudy Go Bear. It has been all
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and none lead going home in the Western Conference semifinals.
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
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a few minutes, as well as more on than Nick's
huge win.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But the Tom Brady roast the day after, and it was,
you know, for everybody who says, wow, I can't believe
it was this good, I'm so stunned. Yes, there is
a moment in time factor with the Brady roast, right
there was nothing else really competing for your attention last night.
Jason Lock and Forward talked about it. The NBA games,
we didn't really have anything that was there. NHL was
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was you know, if you like Game seven, maybe you're
what you're not watching that over the ridge to.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Watch thereat the Vegas Golden Knights in their request to repeat.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean look that that's that's the big thing.
And you also had where it's a it's a night
in May, it's there's no NFL Draft, there's no It
was a perfect placement for Netflix, and they got very
fortunate because it was a lot of people at the
moment I think it was oh, hey, I'm not doing
anything out the stuff, Oh the Tom Brady roast is on,
because how much of it was word of mouth going, dude,
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are you watching this Brady roast. No turn it on
because you have Netflix, you could see it after and
it was it was a it was a moment in
time for that. But I'm surprised when people sound surprisedly
good it was. Roasts are the funniest things in the
world when they're done right. When when you have the
right person that you are roasting that has a rich
tapestry of things to pull from from their career, roasts
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are the funniest things in the world. And as good
as some of the people were last night, he didn't
expect to be good. When the roast Masters came on,
whether it's Nicky Glazer or the podcast guy, whoever it was,
they were just killing you. And I was wheezing laughing
so hard. So when it's done right ROAs a the
I don't laugh out loud any anything more than I
do when a roast when something is really really funny,
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because it's there's that bit of anxiety because you're not
just watching to be entertained. You're thinking, are they gonna
go here, are they gonna go there with a joke?
Are they really gonna say this? And I'm just cringing,
And then they say it and everybody laughs and you laugh.
There is nothing more laugh out loud funny than a
roast done well. And that was like a perfect storm
of roast from the people that did it to the
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subject matter in Tom Brady. And Brady's comebacks were great.
I mean when he you could tell he didn't want
to run the line Kim Kardashian when he said she's
scared to be here tonight because their kids are home
with their dad, and he kind of least going, oh, man,
like you tell he didn't want to run that one.
But it was still really fun because then you see
Kim Kardashian's reaction is just there's such, it's such, it's
so unbelievably entertaining. But like I said, there's not a lot.
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You can't just do it for anybody. It's got to
be a perfect store. And Brady was that guy. Yeah,
and Kim responded nice. So she was at the met
gallon tonight, so she did just fine. Metscal It's Metscala,
the metscal the Mets one tonight, so it's the Mets now.
At otherwise, Cohen wouldn't have been at the Knicks game.
I think he would have actually I had to have attended.
I think he went from the Metscala to the game.
He went underground somehow went from the Metscalle to the
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game fast. He witnessed their pacers getting robbed. Uh stuck in.
Would you stop you, Frostburg, you're so bitter? Stop better
from what?
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Stop being bit of Dodgers have won like thirty seven
in a row, thirty seven in a row in a
row in a row. But your point, I mean, there's
just all these storylines, the social anxiety of it.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You know.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
One of the things I love here in Los Angeles
that we do have all these small comedy clubs. It
was part of the Netflix is a joke thing that
goes on for several weeks here across many venues, Hollywood
Bowl down to the Comedy Store and everything down on
Sunset is. I love live events in general, right concerts,
theater or whatever is, but there's nothing better in than
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live comedy when everybody just acknowledges the rules of engagement.
And that's what Kevin Hart set this up brilliantly, like
it's gonna it's gotta be uncomfortable and then we'll get comfortable.
And it's said thing you go to a comedy set,
Like if you go to any of the places here,
you may see eight or nine comics. You may only
have heard of one or two, maybe a surprise guy
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pops in or woman pops in that you've seen before.
But it's the all right, I've got to leave it
at the door and know that there's gonna be some
stuff flying here with Brady. You knew the list of
potential ingradients to this suit sure before you even got going.
So I was like, all right, who's gonna go there?
How uncomfortable does it get? And how good are the
directors and how much alcohol everybody need to really get
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out there? Well, but that's the other side, right, A
lot of debate of how inebriated people were, and certainly
mister Hart was having a good time because the solution
everything was have a shot. But the just the idea
of how good are the camera workers going to be right?
Camera operators to be able to get the proper reaction
shot and stay away from the guys that looked like
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they were falling asleep. You know, behind everybody, I'm calling
out you all, you ex patriots. Terrible job, waked up
of all the people there. Right, we talked Nicki Glazers
getting a lot of run. There were so many people
who were good as good as Bill Belichick was. If
he was able to read a teleprompter, he would have
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been the best guy there because there were three or
four great jokes he had that he stumbled over because
he couldn't read the prompter well. He also got spooked
any time there was a noise, like if someone kind
of interjected in the middle of him setting up the line,
and he would pause.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And just and you know, And that's the thing is
that he and he still gave my funniest one when
he turned to Brady and said, not easy running a team,
is it? Top I was good, but off of his
soccer team relegation, for he would have been the best hattie.
But because reading prompter is a skill, and that gets
into a big part of it. That's why the roast
masters are so good, is that they do this for
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a living and everything they do is just electric. And
then when you get the players up there who want
to talk. I think it's great to have players up
there who want to but you can't just let everybody
up there. You gotta know, hey, you gotta entertain a
little bit here. If you're come out there and be flat,
you're just gonna people are gonna want to leave people.
The energy is gonna is gonna come down to the
whole thing, and so you need to understand that. Boy,
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you know, maybe maybe this roast thing isn't for you,
Randy Moss, Ben Affleck, maybe this is not for you
and other people have to come up. He because as
much as I wanted to see Bob Kraft come, what
did Bob Craft say? You know, I mean, it's not
you know, there's the the the anxiety, oh Bob Kraft.
But then he doesn't say anything. So it's like you
have to understand going in. Okay, everybody might want to
be a part of it, but really we got to
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make sure that people are gonna be good because you're entertaining,
after all, for three hours. Yeah, it's a long one.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
It's long's it's a long block to build in and
you know, we leaned into the bag of vance.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Joke was pretty good for Randy Moss's appearance. Oh yeah,
oh no, no outfit. The stuff about Randy Moss was
funny live, but Randy Moss and one or two lines,
but clearly you know it's not his thing. That's fine.
We'll have more on this and including one big takeaway
you need to have from this, Tom Brady Rose, plus
the incredible night that was for the Knicks. That's straight
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ahead right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio, Jason,
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