June 12, 2026 • 37 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss Victor Wembanyama's dirty plays in these NBA playoffs and why it's bad for the NBA that their next face of the league plays dirty + the guys are joined by NBA Insider Marc Stein.
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rip the up off. So a little bit of a
different take on the Spurs collapse in Game four coming
up at a minute, right, little bit of a different
take because I think things are a little bit simpler
(01:10):
than people want to make it out to be. After
last night, everybody's going through all the the zepp Bruder film.
They did this and this and this, and I think
it's a lot simpler than what's being Okay, we did
the Zebruder film in living color last specific place. I
just been overall seeing a lot of this and this
and this and this. But I'll give you a big
Bowl prediction for the World Cup. Okay, go ahead, prize
(01:32):
semi final team, Okay, surprise semi final team. And it's
it's it's it's weird, but I'm basing this around one player.
And the draw is okay. I don't know that they'll
win their group because it's a it's a tough draw
to win the group. I think the same page. I
am going to go with a run kind of reniscent
(01:52):
of Steph Curry at Davidson. If you remember when he
made that big run of the Elite eight, almost not
to the final four, all by himself, put him himself
on the market or on the map of Wait, Steph
Curry could be one of the next great players in
the NBA. And and you know, seven teams decided no,
we don't want that guy. I can see this kind
of surprise run simply because he is the best player
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in the world at his position. He is unstoppable. And
you hear a lot of talk about the United States
being this is the generational time for them. It's the
same thing for them. But give me Erling, Holland and
Norway to make a run to the semi finals. He
is the best striker in the world. He spent way
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too much time together. Oh, there's a lot of soccer
fans that are not head going, yes, because he is.
He's he's six' five to. Ten he's, unstoppable, Right he's
not what you expect This like you hear about scorers and.
Strikers you expect to see the fat you, know to
see the guys Like messi And. Ronaldo, no, no, no
this guy. Is he is an absolute. Tank in the
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last few years from an, city he has been. Phenomenal
he gets the world stage now really for the first
time since becoming the best striker in the, world and
it's going to be fun to watch. Him he will
be one of the big stars that grabs the average soccer,
fan the Average United states fan, going who is this
guy showing? Up you, know Like Ivan drago because he
looks like a bad. Guy, ready you just see him and, go,
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oh he's the bad. Guy, right he, looked he looks
like a bad. Guy he is the, again he's the
best striker in the. World he scores A goali. Game
that's basically what he. Does. Right if you want to
look back and say when did someone last do? This
remember When slaton was in THE mls and he scored
a goal of game for THE La. Galaxy you know
he was thirty, eight then do. It but this is
What holland does the best competition in the. World give
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Me norway's surprise semi final. Team he you're. Smiling it's
funny because, LOOK i don't sleep much as we. Will
we've well established on this. Show but there's NOTHING i
love more than early MORNING epl and watching that guy
go to work because it makes no. Sense, Right it's
like when you've got that commanding of physical, presence that
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you find that much space to operate on set, plays
that you find that much space to operate. It how's
you not checked by two? Guys, right things like, that
and you just watch them go to work and it's
it's a. Marvel now they're in the same group As,
france so as you, WISH i, mean the best plus
two seventy five just to win their. Group so you're
(04:21):
already in plus territory anywhere from thirty three to fifty to,
one depending on where you're. Shopping but it's also that
generational thing to pull it back a little bit. More
norway hasn't qualified since ninety. Eight yeah it's been a.
Minute they've never reached beyond the round of. Sixteen but
you have that singular athlete that it's the all, right
(04:42):
let's watch him go to, work kind of like everybody
wants to Watch Jamal here in The United, states it's, polistic, polisic.
Polisic It's holland is just we we use the term
the alien for Wembin yama and he's embraced. It you
Watch holland go to, work it's the thing, LIKE i
don't know that there's a better one to one than
(05:04):
the two of those guys in their respective sports of
how they can take. Over And i'm also not just
saying this because he was At game five of The
Stanley cup final. Tonight no Helpsh they don't play Till,
tuesday and this is where their training camp is set.
Up so, yeah him and some teammates taking him, like,
yeah that's pretty. Cool there is Ailin. Hollande, no, no, no,
again you'll see why he is the best striker in the.
World he's he's different from anything you have. Seen and if,
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look soccer fans know because they've seen the. Guy he's
twenty five years. Old this is when he's gonna be
at his. Best you, know This World cup maybe is,
next but right, now at twenty, FIVE i mean he
is absolutely. Unstoppable norway's walking around going, finally we just
happened to have a. Guy we happen to have a.
Guy oh this is, awesome that guy that breaks. THROUGH
i love their photo. Shoot you, right here's the warship
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and and all of, that and then the little video
with him And Channing tatum dressed up in as A. Norseman,
yeah oh, YEAH i mean it's having some fun there
by the, way twenty Four Jump. Street yeah, yeah well
we waited so long we had to skip one. Yea
at some Point chennington was Got, okay you, Know i've
done a lot of. Movies NOW i don't know That
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i'm getting in anything UNLESS i go back and have a.
Hit how did they how's? That how did that not
just get green? LATE i gotta BE i don't know
why Roof man didn't become a, bigger bigger, hit because
that's that's available on. Streaming i've watched it probably three. Times, Dinklage,
yeah oh, sure, sure, sure but i'd be, like Here's.
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JOHN i, mean it was a good. Movie you can
see with Chant it's, Like, OKAY i really need a
big hit BECAUSE i want to keep your Headline, Mosse
so let me go back and do twenty Four Jump.
Street you'll get twenty Five Jump. Street. Towys you know
they all want to see the money you make us.
Money well we'll give you another. Pe they actually make
all those movies that they did at the end of
the sequel ooh in Medical. School, yeah it's a good.
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DraftKings the crowd is. Yours so we Got Mark stein
coming up in a few. Minutes we look back at game,
four In game five of THE Nba. Finals but let
me JUST i can take everything that went wrong with
The spurs last. Night you can show me the world
AND i can put yes a, shining, shimmering splendid very.
Good uh pebo. Uh so many people had a lot
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of different reasons what happened to The spurs last night
blowing a twenty nine point lead in the second, half
and we pointed to a couple of specific, things, like
you want to talk what ground, zero what patient zero,
was what the inflection point Was wemby getting the flagrant,
call The knicks go on a fifty five to twenty
five run the rest of the game and they. Win.
Right we talk About Dearon fox's play at the end
(08:02):
of the. Game, Right we even Mentioned Karl Anthony towns
tipping that ball at the end that could have been
a layup For Steph castle if he catches a clean,
right those plays, definitely but it's more than. That it's you,
know With steph. Castle he didn't really step out of
Boun it's, OKAY i get, that but it's a twenty
nine point lead that you. Blew this wasn't a back
and forth game where oh hey they blew a. Call yeah,
(08:23):
nice hey just hanging down the. WALL i mean had
a twenty nine point lead and to in its, TOTALITY
i guarantee. You and, again people haven't talked about this,
today But i'll tell you exactly what it. Was you,
know BECAUSE i went back and watched a lot of
the game today and seeing the second half and seeing
how it went, out and we talked To Rick buker last.
Night he, said you, know The spurs just kept thinking
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they were going to hit, threes, Right they kept thinking
it was going to go like the first, half and
it didn't. Happen AND i don't know that that was
quite the. Case as much as this is what it.
Is The spurs are a young. Team they've gone through
four days In New york of absolute insanity where fans
are going. Nuts are they gonna give this flagrant to
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wemby all the fans at the, side all the big superstar,
fans whether It's Ben stiller Or schalomey And Kylie jenner
And Tracy morgan And Tina. Fey they went through, everything
and they got up big over The knicks in the first,
half AND i guarantee you the reason they blew it
in the second. Half and all of a, sudden they're
taking all these bad. Threes they wanted to win by one.
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Hundred they wanted to not just win this. Game they
wanted to win and, say we just walked into your
arena where you were having a party for the first
time in twenty five, years and look at what we
did to. You, yeah we won game, three but we're
gonna win game four by one. Hundred and that's why
they're taking all these bad. Threes and all of a,
sudden The nicks are chipping, away chipping, away and they
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don't realize that when it's a fifteen point game at
the end of, Three hey you just watch the Next
you've seen what they've done this. Playoffs twenty two, points
so seven minutes left to. Go, nope you're twenty point
lead in game, One, Nope hey we can overcome. This
they still, Felt hey we're up. Fifteen they wanted to
win by one. Hundred so they're taking all of these bad,
shots thinking it's an. Avalanche we were up by twenty
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nine at, halftime we're feeling. It they're a young, team.
Immature they wanted to win. Big they wanted to send that,
message and that's why they wound up giving up this.
LEAD i don't think it's any more crazy than, that
BECAUSE i don't think for a Second Mitch johnson's telling
them keep Do let's keep doing, threes let's keep shooting,
threes let's keep doing, this let's keep doing. That but
they kept taking bad, shots they kept forcing the, play
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they kept playing too fast because they wanted to, win
and not just, win but they wanted to win by one.
Hundred and when you do, that you make bad. Decisions
and that allowed The knicks to claw their way back
in the, game and by the time they realized they
were in a, fight it was too late Because wenby
was tired because he played too many, minutes and they
couldn't hit any, shots and The knicks had enough to
reel them in at the. End but that's why you
want to take all of its. Totality The spurs wanted
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to win by one, hundred and that's why they. Lost,
yeah add the Wen minyama, factor the underscore that that
you just had at the end. There of he played
forty four, minutes you're up twenty seven and a. Half
twenty nine was the. Max you didn't steal a couple of, Minutes,
yeah just let him sit in the middle of all of.
That couldn't steal a couple of minutes With. Cornett maybe
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find one of those other guys who've done nothing all series,
here you can give me a warm body minute or. Two,
No SO i think it speaks to that of all,
right we built this huge. LEAD i still contend there's
something going on with that, basket some bad juju down.
There first, half The knicks couldn't hit a, shot second
half The spurs. Couldn't but we looked at the shot.
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SELECTION i mean, again it was the greatest coloring page
you could ever take to a family. Restaurant here's all
the empty circles around the heart of what it shows.
Up it took eight shots inside the lane and inside
the three point. R how the hell does that? Happen quick,
shots bad, shots careless, passes trying to go cross courts like.
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Those you can't half ass those and The knicks if
we've seen. Anything they weren't going to allow themselves to
get fully. Embarrassed now they weren't in the first, half
no question about. It but it's the one thing that
you have to love about these. Guys And i'm not
doing this because of the, win but it's what we've
talked about regular season into the playoffs is it's a prideful,
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bunch just go to, work right, lunch Pale New york
kind of. Guys so if suddenly you're playing with a
little less, intensity a little less, focus they're gonna come
and snatch it. Front H, YEAH i mean that's exactly
what they. Did they just chased you, down possession by.
Possession you, can you can get into it bit by
bit and talk about, it but the overarching was they
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wanted to win and they were feeling. It we wanted
just a we're so pissed about how the last few
days have gone and wemby and flagrant fouls And Ben
stiller Videotaping Mike brown after every. Game, no we want
to really show, you we want to say blank. You
and that's what killed. Them that's what absolutely killed him
in that. Game it killed them in the third. Quarter
it killed him after when we got the flagrant. Foul
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and you, know they didn't realize the dog fight they
were in until it was too, late because they still
thought at, fifteen, well yeah we're. Okay no you're not.
Okay you're definitely not. Okay. Man this is this is
this is The. Knicks down by, fifteen go to the fourth.
Quarter it's almost like. Eight we have you where we want.
You and now The spurs are, saying what lead is?
Safe if we're up by thirty five the next, game
is it's, Safe we're up by, forty the next, game
(13:26):
it's safe forty? Five if it's say, fifty is it's? Safe,
like what's safe for? Them play smart? Basketball get the
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At The stein. Line it Is Mark. Stein, mark what's?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Happening?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Man how are you.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Not as good as?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
You but things are?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
GOOD i still Feel i'm still. Shaking i'm STILL i
still feel Like i'm drunk coming off of last night's.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Game that is obviously not the that is. This that
is the circuitut route to a three to one, lead for.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Sure so where are you on that coming off of last?
Night what we saw the nixt twenty nine point come
back and where it sits, Historically, like where are you
now twenty four hours after you saw that game and
how it went?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
DOWN i, mean it's hard not to focus on the
collapse aspect of it because it's just so devastating for San.
Antonio but The knicks had a lot to do with it.
Too You you, know it's. TRUE i agree with everyone
who says you don't erase a twenty nine point deficit without,
help but that's still a monster deficit to. Overcome SO
(17:27):
i mean it, really you, know nobody wants that answer
that it's both an amazing comeback and a historic. Collapse
BUT i do think it is. Both that's it the
tip And andobe made to win the game is, like,
okay yes he. Was he beat everyone to the, spot
(17:48):
he beat, all you, know but that's still just a
ridiculously hard tip skill, Wise like it's it's. Crazy the whole,
state the whole thing is.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Crazy, yeah just the strangest set of convergence of. CIRCUMSTANCE i,
mean for four straight, games Roner, edge how many times
have you started to write something and then just had
to delete it and restart a column or a.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Missive, well, look in TODAY'S, nba no lead is safe
because of the three point. Shots but that isn't exactly
what happened, Here like The spurs started shooting themselves out
of the game to you, know to start the snowball.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Effect it's it's truly.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
LIKE i, mean at, Halftime Jason, smith did you really
think there was any chance your guys were coming? Back?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, No, NO i THOUGHT i, thought, okay they'll play
better in the second. Half but this is. Good the
twenty nine is too Much, NOW i know twenty nine
is not too. Much maybe thirty five is what's too
much of. It maybe fifty is too. Much, MARK i don't.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Know and see that's the thing The, spurs for all
of their, greatness for all of their, championships they do
have a history of some really really really painful playoff.
Moments AND i was not there last, night BUT i
was in the arena for all the, others The Derek
(19:18):
fisher plaint for, shot The, mono the obviously The Ray allen,
Shot LIKE i was there for all of. Those but
this was like a Sustain.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
NOPE i think we're Losing Mark stein there for a.
Second let's hang. On we'll get you. Back we'll get it.
Back you're, Back, Mark, no we'll get him. Back that's,
fine we'll get him. Back but, YEAH i, mean as
you breaking it, down like the convergence of events and
all of the. Spots but go back to The spurs
and their. History it's the next line on The WIKIPEDIA.
(19:59):
Ba all, right all, right we got it. Back go, Ahead,
mark keep going with your.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Point, YEAH i hope this is.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Working, sorry, GUYS i don't know what's, wrong but. Good
WHAT i was saying is like those were all, moments you,
know just devastating, moments but this wasn't like this wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Moment this was a whole.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
HALF i mean they were up twenty seven and a
half the lead the league got up to twenty, nine
and it was just like a long, nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You, know part of. It we talked about this a
few minutes, ago and there's so many things you can lay,
down you, know lay down and talk. About we talked
Look wenby missing the free throws And Steph castle at the,
end And Karl Anthony towns tipping the ball And Darren fox's.
Play BUT i go back to the third quarter MARK
i kind of feel like The spurs were just pissed
and everything they've gone through the last few days and
(20:47):
the fans AND msg and The, knicks AND i felt
like in the third quarter they, felt we don't want
to just, win we want to win by one. Hundred
so we're gonna keep taking these. Threes we're gonna keep
doing this because we Don't we're pissed and we just
don't want to beat The. Knicks we want to absolutely
show the we can win by as many points as we.
Can and that's what kind of helped jump start The knicks,
comeback because they kept taking all those trees thinking they're
going to keep making.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Them, yeah you know this isn't a follow by. Monitor
you no believe it Sends Dirk naviski to the line
late in the, game more or A Ray allen corner
three after a crazy offensive rebound like this was a
sustained unraveling For San. Antonio BUT i have to say
What i've been thinking about a, lot and we Don't
(21:28):
we haven't heard the full extent. Yet, obviously nobody does
media today the way they do the. Finals now when
you switch, cities everyone travels, today and then tomorrow is
when we will all these, guys will all The. Spurs you,
know key players are going to have to get up
in front of a podium and take questions about this
all over. Again but What i've really been curious. ABOUT
(21:49):
i remember in twenty, thirteen The Ray allen, shot The
spurs were. Up The spurs thought they were closing out
a championship On miami's. Floor they end up losing those
finals in seven. Games it was the first time they
lost in the. Finals but you remember that next year
they came back and just blitzed the heat and it
(22:11):
was the last we saw the heatles and they got their.
Revenge and in all the STUFF i wrote about those.
YEARS i remember being told by so many people within
The spurs that maybe one Of Greg popovic's greatest moments
as a coach In San antonio was the way he
kind of glued the team back together after The Ray allen. Shot,
(22:35):
now they didn't win that game, seven but it was
a very close game. Seven San antonio had their chances
on the, road but people told me That pop really
did some of the best coaching of his life to
kind of get that group through that. Disappointment and after
watching last, night ALL i could think, of, now who's
(22:55):
gonna glue These spurs back? Together because this is such
a young team And Mitch johnson is a young, coach
and Obviously pop is still, involved and you know he'll
have a presence when they're back In San. Antonio but,
like this isn't The Duncan Genobli Parker. Spurs this is
a really young, team and SO i Just i'm so
curious to HEAR i hope we get stories Of obviously
(23:19):
it was awful the scenes outside their hotel when The
spurs got back to the hotel and had to get
off the. Bus But i'm talking about when they're back
at the hotel together as a team behind closed doors
flying back To San antonio, today like what was that? Flight,
like who's trying to get them past? This because, again
The knicks comeback, historic but it was a collapse for
(23:39):
The ages.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And that's where we're. At Mitch. Johnson obviously a fantastic
run to this, point but we look at all these
these games where it's, like all, right you've got, It
you've got this figured, out and do we just chalk
it up to inexperience both his and the average age
of the. SQUAD i, Mean wemby's got forty four minutes
yesterday even though they had that massive, Lead, like there's
(24:03):
just a lot of questions to this point for.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Me, yeah, no they they were coaching, mistakes there were player,
mistakes nerves were a. Factor all these things are. True
but then like like even today the last two minute
report comes, out it was Like Stefan castle didn't step
out about this actually should have been a?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Foul like.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Does that?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Help?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
No, exactly like again like they and look it. Wouldn't
it will not surprise me if The spurs can bounce
back and Win game five and force The knicks to
finish this In New york but it ALSO i don't
think would be terribly surprising if they don't recover because
it was that it was that, Painful and LIKE i,
(24:45):
said even tomorrow just doing media When Mitch johnson And
victor Wenman yama AND i don't, Know fox will take
a turn at the, podium but, like these guys are
going to have to get up there again and talk
about it, again and that's going to be a painful.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
EXPERIENCE nba Insider Mark, stein our Guest Jason, Smith micrmon
live from The Fox Sports radio. Studios all, right so
through the first four games of the. Series now to
look at it from The knicks, perspective what surprised you
the most about this team first four, games whether it's
overall a player in a, game what surprised you the
most about this team that.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
They were able to win the first couple With brunson
shooting the ball far below his usual. Standard we were
how Many i'm sure you guys on the show were
talking About Karl anthonytown playing the best basketball of his.
Life Carl Anthony town his first fourth quarter points in
this series were last. Night, yeah he made that corner.
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Three like The, knicks that's the thing about The knicks
is they're getting it from a lot of different, places
and they're just they have a lot of, confidence and
let's face, it they've pulled off comebacks like this. Before you,
know they did this To cleveland in the last round
down twenty two to. One like they've made a habit
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of coming back from twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Plus the last two.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Postseasons and they are a very tough and together.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Team Mark one of the things we've talked about a
little bit on, air The wenby, problem not that you
have to contend with him and try to defend, him
but the. Aggression now you add another flagrant file from
him and a super cut of chippiness starting to really evolve.
Here how does the league adjudicate curb? That what could
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they do internally or is it just we've seen it
on the big stage a, lot so it's just fresh
in our.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Consciousness, well because of the way the game, ended that's
not really foremost among San antonio's issues right. Now had
San antonio carried on with their twenty seven point lead
and won that game like they should, HAVE i think
that would be a dominant storyline, today because of course
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you had the Of Jalen brunton early In game, three
and the league could have assessed a retroactive flagrant foul
and decided not, to and Then wemby gets a flagrant
In game. Four had they given the retroactive flagrant In game,
three he'd now be on four flagrant foul points and
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he'd have to be suspended for a. Game so had
The spurs, ONE i think that actually would have been
one of the loudest talking points in this. Series but
the ending and the absolute hole that The spurs now
find themselves in have kind of overshadowed all, that and
they frankly have larger.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Problems you, know just hearing them, Talk, MARK i kind
of feel like WHEN i Hear Mitch johnson talking The spurs,
talk they do a lot of, well it's not, them it's.
Us it's not, them it's. Us and at some POINT
i want TO i want to want them to, say
don't you realize that it's forty eight. Minutes it's not
we played well for the first thirty, minutes but the
last eighteen don't. Count LIKE i feel like that's kind
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of where The spurs are when they're talking about this.
Series i'm not really addressing why they're down three to.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
One the three to one lead isn't.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Enough you need you need the.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Spurs, mark we got two days till game. Five, mark
we need.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Something we got two.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Days we got two.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Days he's, on don't don't get don't get. Greedy you're
doing you're you're ahead of the.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Game right. NOW i was gonna, say is Is hurricanes?
Won The mets have actually won a? Game, yeah you
got The nix on the verge of.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
This what do you mean His? Hurricanes where did that come? From?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
WELL i Was i'm A whaler, fan so LIKE i got.
Both my every day is sports stress. REMARK i go
from the next to The, hurricanes the next to The.
Hurricanes so, yeah this has Been this has been a
last ten. DAYS i DIDN'T i didn't Think i'd ever
have to worry ABOUT i didn't.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
KNOW i didn't know you were A whaler's. Guy that makes.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Sense, now, yeah it's it's. INSANE i might might teams
don't win like they go like like my entire, life
nobody wins. Anything and NOW i got two teams playing
in the finals at the same. Time he's On twitter
at the, steinline that is at the. Steinline check him
out on substack as. Well mark is always, appreciated my.
Friend maybe the next time we, talk we're talking about
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the Champion. Knicks we're talking About game. Six have a great.
Week enjoy the, game my. Friend enjoy.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
It you're enjoy. It you guys enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Too we'll talk TO i appreciate, You.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Mark there Goes Mark, stein like it's not. ENOUGH i
was talking more for The spurs THAN i was FOR
i didn't need them to say great things about The.
Knicks BUT i kind of feel, like you know a little,
bit you want to understand. That, Okay, hey it's not
just about the leads that we get to. It there's
the rest of the game, Too like there's the other
eighteen minutes that boy who really. Struggled you know, what,
though there's a long off. Season once you're eliminated and
(29:48):
clear out your locker and just say uh and cause
you get to do the. Thing Remember Jim varney when
he was on And homer went and The carnies got
over on. Him, yeah and Then homer got him back
at the end and he and the the mantra was
we were beaten by the. Best, yes that's what you,
want until it's. Over you're not giving him any. CREDIT
i kind of respect it time out to find out
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Go UH a very Happy Alex tyshert right now His
South korea. Squad, Now i'm so, Excited. Jason what great
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things CAN i tell you About?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Korea?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh go all, right that's, it all, right thought. You,
well they're up to one in this play watching the. Game, okay,
okayn we do A korea game. Later, okay, sure facts About,
korea let's, go let's drop. One the television show mash
took place in what country and during what?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
War, no i'll give you.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Things you tell me if it was done In korea or.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Not?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, okay all, right very, good perfect squid? Gag, yes all,
right very, good there we. Go, yes all, right good, Good,
okay we're. Good all, Right i'm so. Excited, okay uh
so again ninetieth minute right? Now Uh South korea with
a two to one. Lead now we said last, week,
boy when When Jag Christian, WATSON i Mean jag not
because he's A, jaguar because he's just a guy signs
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a four, year hundred and ten million dollar contract despite
the fact he has shown difficulty staying healthy and. Producing,
hey that's the contract that's going to make people stop
paying wide. Receivers i'm not going to do it because
it's incredibly out of. Control oh that's nothing compared to
the contract that was given out today To Jalen. Coker
(32:17):
right now, again if you can't be started in. Fantasy
you can't make big money like that should be the. Role,
okay if you can't be AND i don't know any
fantasy league unless you're going so dear in one of
those leagues, where, hey we play ten wide receivers every.
WEEK i don't know when you are ever Playing Jalen. Coker,
NO i play him all the.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Time by the, Way Jalen, cokery we call ourselves The. Cokeheads, okay.
Okay Jalen cocher is a legend in the fantasy. Community
he is the sleeper of all. Sleepers he was great
down the. Stretch he had an elite playoff, game one playoff.
Game it didn't matter in fantasy at, all way.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Better Than watson's.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Contract three years for forty one million probably produces as
much As watson are.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Close rando was your, record like oh to thirteen in
fantasy because if you were playing a title, WEEK i
can't believe you. Won.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
WELL i was not playing him every, week but in deep.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
LEAGUES i played him in a few DEEPLEAS i did
not win. Those deep is your league to play a
guy that in two years hasn't caught more than thirty
three passes in a season and averages around five hundred.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yards he is. Cryptocurrency Jalen. Cocher, there it's gonna. Pop
and once it, does this is like THE SpaceX. Valuation
it's gonna go. Crazy THE ipo just went. Crazy it's
gonna go crazy for Uh Jalen coker this, Year i'm
telling you bye bye.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Bye okay what? Okay however much he paid you for
the last couple of, MINUTES i hope it's worth.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
It.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
UH. I i saw this contract. Today mike with the panther, Said,
okay so you're paying a guy you don't have to
pay who's your number two? Receiver that again in two?
Years number one can't stay healthy because eleven games each
of his first two years and two, again thirty three.
Passes the guy's catching two passes a. GAME i, mean
(34:01):
this is two to three passes a. Game and we're
paying him twelve to fourteen million dollars a year this three,
year twelve million dollar a year. Extension he is just a.
Guy wide receiver salaries have gone off the deep end
in THE. Nfl, yeah but this isn't, prohibitive, RIGHT i
mean The watson you take it to a whole other.
(34:21):
Level you start getting into that. Stratosphere can't stay. Healthy
potential for the big play, threat, right seventeen and a
half yards per catch and good in the red. Zone
that's what we've seen From watson in the. Past To
brandon's point About, COCHER i, mean you need someone to
move the, chains and right, now at the market and
the salary cap of three hundred million, dollars a guy
(34:44):
that catches three to five balls a, game no, no, no,
no, no no, no it's two to three balls a. Game
it's it's it's to, Okay so the other games he's average,
Zero so in the third of the games he's AVERAGED
i understand. That, Look i'm going. Full i'm not paying
him on what he. Did can we just have this
discussion yesterday or in the day, before did we do
(35:06):
that whole? Thing he's on The Patrick mahomes, contract, right
he's been in the league two. Years, okay you don't
have to pay him. YET i know you, don't AND
i like THAT'S i agree with that three. YEARS i
agree with that part of the. ARGUMENT i don't need
to need to get. There but if you think that
the breakout is, there it's one of Those Atlanta braves
ill Fated Chicago White sox back in the, day that
(35:28):
this is the guy you're. Backing you're Backing Bryce, Young
you're in this next phase that you think he's going
to be the guy to take off and maybe be.
THERE i don't think it said a prohibitive amount of,
money since it's twelve million dollars when THE salid you
run up to that salary cap pretty quickly in THE,
nfl AND i want to pay a guy twelve million
(35:49):
dollars a year THAT i know is. GOOD i don't
want to give a guy twelve million that, well maybe
he's gonna be good sometime the next couple of. Years
so far he's just been below, average And i'm gonna
give him twelve million dollars a year. YEAR i, mean come, on,
man you could Pay John metchi that. Time if you
see the end of the, season right final, week playoff,
game and thinking That young is going to take that
(36:10):
next step. Forward whether it happens or, NOT i don't,
know but you're also looking at a salary cap that
goes up twenty million dollars a. Year and if you
think this is the guy on the come the old
third year receiver. Law remember that From fantasy all those years.
Ago let's, go, Baby come on. You division, Stinks opportunity.
Knocks IF i can't play you In, FANTASY i can't
give you a twelve million dollars year. CONTRACT i mean
(36:33):
really to. Honestly IF i can't play you In fantasy
in a standard league where it's two wide receivers maybe
a couple of flex, spots IF i can't play you
in any one of those, SPOTS i can't give you twelve. Million,
yeah AND i gotta Bring brandon back In what what
do you call this coin? Though and what's the picture
on the? Coin what?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Coin?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Crypto we're gonna go, cryptocurrency coin.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Coin coker. Coin there we, go make it a little coker.
Coin you guys are you guys are? Insane by the,
way the coke heads it's About Jalen, cocher not a.
Substance that is Not do you know you're defending. Yourself,
next we got a Big World cup prediction for THE.
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rip the up off. So a little bit of a
different take on the Spurs collapse in Game four coming
up at a minute, right, little bit of a different
take because I think things are a little bit simpler
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than people want to make it out to be. After
last night, everybody's going through all the the zepp Bruder film.
They did this and this and this, and I think
it's a lot simpler than what's being Okay, we did
the Zebruder film in living color last specific place. I
just been overall seeing a lot of this and this
and this and this. But I'll give you a big
Bowl prediction for the World Cup. Okay, go ahead, prize
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semi final team, Okay, surprise semi final team. And it's
it's it's it's weird, but I'm basing this around one player.
And the draw is okay. I don't know that they'll
win their group because it's a it's a tough draw
to win the group. I think the same page. I
am going to go with a run kind of reniscent
(01:52):
of Steph Curry at Davidson. If you remember when he
made that big run of the Elite eight, almost not
to the final four, all by himself, put him himself
on the market or on the map of Wait, Steph
Curry could be one of the next great players in
the NBA. And and you know, seven teams decided no,
we don't want that guy. I can see this kind
of surprise run simply because he is the best player
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in the world at his position. He is unstoppable. And
you hear a lot of talk about the United States
being this is the generational time for them. It's the
same thing for them. But give me Erling, Holland and
Norway to make a run to the semi finals. He
is the best striker in the world. He spent way
(02:34):
too much time together. Oh, there's a lot of soccer
fans that are not head going, yes, because he is.
He's he's six' five to. Ten he's, unstoppable, Right he's
not what you expect This like you hear about scorers and.
Strikers you expect to see the fat you, know to
see the guys Like messi And. Ronaldo, no, no, no
this guy. Is he is an absolute. Tank in the
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last few years from an, city he has been. Phenomenal
he gets the world stage now really for the first
time since becoming the best striker in the, world and
it's going to be fun to watch. Him he will
be one of the big stars that grabs the average soccer,
fan the Average United states fan, going who is this
guy showing? Up you, know Like Ivan drago because he
looks like a bad. Guy, ready you just see him and, go,
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oh he's the bad. Guy, right he, looked he looks
like a bad. Guy he is the, again he's the
best striker in the. World he scores A goali. Game
that's basically what he. Does. Right if you want to
look back and say when did someone last do? This
remember When slaton was in THE mls and he scored
a goal of game for THE La. Galaxy you know
he was thirty, eight then do. It but this is
What holland does the best competition in the. World give
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Me norway's surprise semi final. Team he you're. Smiling it's
funny because, LOOK i don't sleep much as we. Will
we've well established on this. Show but there's NOTHING i
love more than early MORNING epl and watching that guy
go to work because it makes no. Sense, Right it's
like when you've got that commanding of physical, presence that
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you find that much space to operate on set, plays
that you find that much space to operate. It how's
you not checked by two? Guys, right things like, that
and you just watch them go to work and it's
it's a. Marvel now they're in the same group As,
france so as you, WISH i, mean the best plus
two seventy five just to win their. Group so you're
(04:21):
already in plus territory anywhere from thirty three to fifty to,
one depending on where you're. Shopping but it's also that
generational thing to pull it back a little bit. More
norway hasn't qualified since ninety. Eight yeah it's been a.
Minute they've never reached beyond the round of. Sixteen but
you have that singular athlete that it's the all, right
(04:42):
let's watch him go to, work kind of like everybody
wants to Watch Jamal here in The United, states it's, polistic, polisic.
Polisic It's holland is just we we use the term
the alien for Wembin yama and he's embraced. It you
Watch holland go to, work it's the thing, LIKE i
don't know that there's a better one to one than
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the two of those guys in their respective sports of
how they can take. Over And i'm also not just
saying this because he was At game five of The
Stanley cup final. Tonight no Helpsh they don't play Till,
tuesday and this is where their training camp is set.
Up so, yeah him and some teammates taking him, like,
yeah that's pretty. Cool there is Ailin. Hollande, no, no, no,
again you'll see why he is the best striker in the.
World he's he's different from anything you have. Seen and if,
(05:26):
look soccer fans know because they've seen the. Guy he's
twenty five years. Old this is when he's gonna be
at his. Best you, know This World cup maybe is,
next but right, now at twenty, FIVE i mean he
is absolutely. Unstoppable norway's walking around going, finally we just
happened to have a. Guy we happen to have a.
Guy oh this is, awesome that guy that breaks. THROUGH
i love their photo. Shoot you, right here's the warship
(05:49):
and and all of, that and then the little video
with him And Channing tatum dressed up in as A. Norseman,
yeah oh, YEAH i mean it's having some fun there
by the, way twenty Four Jump. Street yeah, yeah well
we waited so long we had to skip one. Yea
at some Point chennington was Got, okay you, Know i've
done a lot of. Movies NOW i don't know That
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i'm getting in anything UNLESS i go back and have a.
Hit how did they how's? That how did that not
just get green? LATE i gotta BE i don't know
why Roof man didn't become a, bigger bigger, hit because
that's that's available on. Streaming i've watched it probably three. Times, Dinklage,
yeah oh, sure, sure, sure but i'd be, like Here's.
(06:30):
JOHN i, mean it was a good. Movie you can
see with Chant it's, Like, OKAY i really need a
big hit BECAUSE i want to keep your Headline, Mosse
so let me go back and do twenty Four Jump.
Street you'll get twenty Five Jump. Street. Towys you know
they all want to see the money you make us.
Money well we'll give you another. Pe they actually make
all those movies that they did at the end of
the sequel ooh in Medical. School, yeah it's a good.
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DraftKings the crowd is. Yours so we Got Mark stein
coming up in a few. Minutes we look back at game,
four In game five of THE Nba. Finals but let
me JUST i can take everything that went wrong with
The spurs last. Night you can show me the world
AND i can put yes a, shining, shimmering splendid very.
Good uh pebo. Uh so many people had a lot
(07:40):
of different reasons what happened to The spurs last night
blowing a twenty nine point lead in the second, half
and we pointed to a couple of specific, things, like
you want to talk what ground, zero what patient zero,
was what the inflection point Was wemby getting the flagrant,
call The knicks go on a fifty five to twenty
five run the rest of the game and they. Win.
Right we talk About Dearon fox's play at the end
(08:02):
of the. Game, Right we even Mentioned Karl Anthony towns
tipping that ball at the end that could have been
a layup For Steph castle if he catches a clean,
right those plays, definitely but it's more than. That it's you,
know With steph. Castle he didn't really step out of
Boun it's, OKAY i get, that but it's a twenty
nine point lead that you. Blew this wasn't a back
and forth game where oh hey they blew a. Call yeah,
(08:23):
nice hey just hanging down the. WALL i mean had
a twenty nine point lead and to in its, TOTALITY
i guarantee. You and, again people haven't talked about this,
today But i'll tell you exactly what it. Was you,
know BECAUSE i went back and watched a lot of
the game today and seeing the second half and seeing
how it went, out and we talked To Rick buker last.
Night he, said you, know The spurs just kept thinking
(08:44):
they were going to hit, threes, Right they kept thinking
it was going to go like the first, half and
it didn't. Happen AND i don't know that that was
quite the. Case as much as this is what it.
Is The spurs are a young. Team they've gone through
four days In New york of absolute insanity where fans
are going. Nuts are they gonna give this flagrant to
(09:05):
wemby all the fans at the, side all the big superstar,
fans whether It's Ben stiller Or schalomey And Kylie jenner
And Tracy morgan And Tina. Fey they went through, everything
and they got up big over The knicks in the first,
half AND i guarantee you the reason they blew it
in the second. Half and all of a, sudden they're
taking all these bad. Threes they wanted to win by one.
(09:27):
Hundred they wanted to not just win this. Game they
wanted to win and, say we just walked into your
arena where you were having a party for the first
time in twenty five, years and look at what we
did to. You, yeah we won game, three but we're
gonna win game four by one. Hundred and that's why
they're taking all these bad. Threes and all of a,
sudden The nicks are chipping, away chipping, away and they
(09:47):
don't realize that when it's a fifteen point game at
the end of, Three hey you just watch the Next
you've seen what they've done this. Playoffs twenty two, points
so seven minutes left to. Go, nope you're twenty point
lead in game, One, Nope hey we can overcome. This
they still, Felt hey we're up. Fifteen they wanted to
win by one. Hundred so they're taking all of these bad,
shots thinking it's an. Avalanche we were up by twenty
(10:09):
nine at, halftime we're feeling. It they're a young, team.
Immature they wanted to win. Big they wanted to send that,
message and that's why they wound up giving up this.
LEAD i don't think it's any more crazy than, that
BECAUSE i don't think for a Second Mitch johnson's telling
them keep Do let's keep doing, threes let's keep shooting,
threes let's keep doing, this let's keep doing. That but
they kept taking bad, shots they kept forcing the, play
(10:31):
they kept playing too fast because they wanted to, win
and not just, win but they wanted to win by one.
Hundred and when you do, that you make bad. Decisions
and that allowed The knicks to claw their way back
in the, game and by the time they realized they
were in a, fight it was too late Because wenby
was tired because he played too many, minutes and they
couldn't hit any, shots and The knicks had enough to
reel them in at the. End but that's why you
want to take all of its. Totality The spurs wanted
(10:53):
to win by one, hundred and that's why they. Lost,
yeah add the Wen minyama, factor the underscore that that
you just had at the end. There of he played
forty four, minutes you're up twenty seven and a. Half
twenty nine was the. Max you didn't steal a couple of, Minutes,
yeah just let him sit in the middle of all of.
That couldn't steal a couple of minutes With. Cornett maybe
(11:17):
find one of those other guys who've done nothing all series,
here you can give me a warm body minute or. Two,
No SO i think it speaks to that of all,
right we built this huge. LEAD i still contend there's
something going on with that, basket some bad juju down.
There first, half The knicks couldn't hit a, shot second
half The spurs. Couldn't but we looked at the shot.
(11:39):
SELECTION i mean, again it was the greatest coloring page
you could ever take to a family. Restaurant here's all
the empty circles around the heart of what it shows.
Up it took eight shots inside the lane and inside
the three point. R how the hell does that? Happen quick,
shots bad, shots careless, passes trying to go cross courts like.
(12:01):
Those you can't half ass those and The knicks if
we've seen. Anything they weren't going to allow themselves to
get fully. Embarrassed now they weren't in the first, half
no question about. It but it's the one thing that
you have to love about these. Guys And i'm not
doing this because of the, win but it's what we've
talked about regular season into the playoffs is it's a prideful,
(12:22):
bunch just go to, work right, lunch Pale New york
kind of. Guys so if suddenly you're playing with a
little less, intensity a little less, focus they're gonna come
and snatch it. Front H, YEAH i mean that's exactly
what they. Did they just chased you, down possession by.
Possession you, can you can get into it bit by
bit and talk about, it but the overarching was they
(12:44):
wanted to win and they were feeling. It we wanted
just a we're so pissed about how the last few
days have gone and wemby and flagrant fouls And Ben
stiller Videotaping Mike brown after every. Game, no we want
to really show, you we want to say blank. You
and that's what killed. Them that's what absolutely killed him
in that. Game it killed them in the third. Quarter
it killed him after when we got the flagrant. Foul
(13:05):
and you, know they didn't realize the dog fight they
were in until it was too, late because they still
thought at, fifteen, well yeah we're. Okay no you're not.
Okay you're definitely not. Okay. Man this is this is
this is The. Knicks down by, fifteen go to the fourth.
Quarter it's almost like. Eight we have you where we want.
You and now The spurs are, saying what lead is?
Safe if we're up by thirty five the next, game
is it's, Safe we're up by, forty the next, game
(13:26):
it's safe forty? Five if it's say, fifty is it's? Safe,
like what's safe for? Them play smart? Basketball get the
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Minute a lot of time left on that. PAGE i
know You're you're asolutely, Right you're absolutely.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Right you're out to get.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Her what what IF i had The bingo card for
a free throw in to be the? Header, yeah SURE
i would have. Lost it's like the guy In Ted
losso that can do that throw all the way In buzz's.
Life but joining us now on the hot line for
what could be the cusp of The knicks winning THE nba,
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Speaker 1 (16:28):
At The stein. Line it Is Mark. Stein, mark what's?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Happening?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Man how are you.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Not as good as?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
You but things are?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
GOOD i still Feel i'm still. Shaking i'm STILL i
still feel Like i'm drunk coming off of last night's.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Game that is obviously not the that is. This that
is the circuitut route to a three to one, lead for.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Sure so where are you on that coming off of last?
Night what we saw the nixt twenty nine point come
back and where it sits, Historically, like where are you
now twenty four hours after you saw that game and
how it went?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
DOWN i, mean it's hard not to focus on the
collapse aspect of it because it's just so devastating for San.
Antonio but The knicks had a lot to do with it.
Too You you, know it's. TRUE i agree with everyone
who says you don't erase a twenty nine point deficit without,
help but that's still a monster deficit to. Overcome SO
(17:27):
i mean it, really you, know nobody wants that answer
that it's both an amazing comeback and a historic. Collapse
BUT i do think it is. Both that's it the
tip And andobe made to win the game is, like,
okay yes he. Was he beat everyone to the, spot
(17:48):
he beat, all you, know but that's still just a
ridiculously hard tip skill, Wise like it's it's. Crazy the whole,
state the whole thing is.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Crazy, yeah just the strangest set of convergence of. CIRCUMSTANCE i,
mean for four straight, games Roner, edge how many times
have you started to write something and then just had
to delete it and restart a column or a.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Missive, well, look in TODAY'S, nba no lead is safe
because of the three point. Shots but that isn't exactly
what happened, Here like The spurs started shooting themselves out
of the game to you, know to start the snowball.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Effect it's it's truly.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
LIKE i, mean at, Halftime Jason, smith did you really
think there was any chance your guys were coming? Back?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Oh, No, NO i THOUGHT i, thought, okay they'll play
better in the second. Half but this is. Good the
twenty nine is too Much, NOW i know twenty nine
is not too. Much maybe thirty five is what's too
much of. It maybe fifty is too. Much, MARK i don't.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Know and see that's the thing The, spurs for all
of their, greatness for all of their, championships they do
have a history of some really really really painful playoff.
Moments AND i was not there last, night BUT i
was in the arena for all the, others The Derek
(19:18):
fisher plaint for, shot The, mono the obviously The Ray allen,
Shot LIKE i was there for all of. Those but
this was like a Sustain.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
NOPE i think we're Losing Mark stein there for a.
Second let's hang. On we'll get you. Back we'll get it.
Back you're, Back, Mark, no we'll get him. Back that's,
fine we'll get him. Back but, YEAH i, mean as
you breaking it, down like the convergence of events and
all of the. Spots but go back to The spurs
and their. History it's the next line on The WIKIPEDIA.
(19:59):
Ba all, right all, right we got it. Back go, Ahead,
mark keep going with your.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Point, YEAH i hope this is.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Working, sorry, GUYS i don't know what's, wrong but. Good
WHAT i was saying is like those were all, moments you,
know just devastating, moments but this wasn't like this wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Moment this was a whole.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
HALF i mean they were up twenty seven and a
half the lead the league got up to twenty, nine
and it was just like a long, nightmare.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You, know part of. It we talked about this a
few minutes, ago and there's so many things you can lay,
down you, know lay down and talk. About we talked
Look wenby missing the free throws And Steph castle at the,
end And Karl Anthony towns tipping the ball And Darren fox's.
Play BUT i go back to the third quarter MARK
i kind of feel like The spurs were just pissed
and everything they've gone through the last few days and
(20:47):
the fans AND msg and The, knicks AND i felt
like in the third quarter they, felt we don't want
to just, win we want to win by one. Hundred
so we're gonna keep taking these. Threes we're gonna keep
doing this because we Don't we're pissed and we just
don't want to beat The. Knicks we want to absolutely
show the we can win by as many points as we.
Can and that's what kind of helped jump start The knicks,
comeback because they kept taking all those trees thinking they're
going to keep making.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Them, yeah you know this isn't a follow by. Monitor
you no believe it Sends Dirk naviski to the line
late in the, game more or A Ray allen corner
three after a crazy offensive rebound like this was a
sustained unraveling For San. Antonio BUT i have to say
What i've been thinking about a, lot and we Don't
(21:28):
we haven't heard the full extent. Yet, obviously nobody does
media today the way they do the. Finals now when
you switch, cities everyone travels, today and then tomorrow is
when we will all these, guys will all The. Spurs you,
know key players are going to have to get up
in front of a podium and take questions about this
all over. Again but What i've really been curious. ABOUT
(21:49):
i remember in twenty, thirteen The Ray allen, shot The
spurs were. Up The spurs thought they were closing out
a championship On miami's. Floor they end up losing those
finals in seven. Games it was the first time they
lost in the. Finals but you remember that next year
they came back and just blitzed the heat and it
(22:11):
was the last we saw the heatles and they got their.
Revenge and in all the STUFF i wrote about those.
YEARS i remember being told by so many people within
The spurs that maybe one Of Greg popovic's greatest moments
as a coach In San antonio was the way he
kind of glued the team back together after The Ray allen. Shot,
(22:35):
now they didn't win that game, seven but it was
a very close game. Seven San antonio had their chances
on the, road but people told me That pop really
did some of the best coaching of his life to
kind of get that group through that. Disappointment and after
watching last, night ALL i could think, of, now who's
(22:55):
gonna glue These spurs back? Together because this is such
a young team And Mitch johnson is a young, coach
and Obviously pop is still, involved and you know he'll
have a presence when they're back In San. Antonio but,
like this isn't The Duncan Genobli Parker. Spurs this is
a really young, team and SO i Just i'm so
curious to HEAR i hope we get stories Of obviously
(23:19):
it was awful the scenes outside their hotel when The
spurs got back to the hotel and had to get
off the. Bus But i'm talking about when they're back
at the hotel together as a team behind closed doors
flying back To San antonio, today like what was that? Flight,
like who's trying to get them past? This because, again
The knicks comeback, historic but it was a collapse for
(23:39):
The ages.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And that's where we're. At Mitch. Johnson obviously a fantastic
run to this, point but we look at all these
these games where it's, like all, right you've got, It
you've got this figured, out and do we just chalk
it up to inexperience both his and the average age
of the. SQUAD i, Mean wemby's got forty four minutes
yesterday even though they had that massive, Lead, like there's
(24:03):
just a lot of questions to this point for.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Me, yeah, no they they were coaching, mistakes there were player,
mistakes nerves were a. Factor all these things are. True
but then like like even today the last two minute
report comes, out it was Like Stefan castle didn't step
out about this actually should have been a?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Foul like.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Does that?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Help?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Right?
Speaker 5 (24:25):
No, exactly like again like they and look it. Wouldn't
it will not surprise me if The spurs can bounce
back and Win game five and force The knicks to
finish this In New york but it ALSO i don't
think would be terribly surprising if they don't recover because
it was that it was that, Painful and LIKE i,
(24:45):
said even tomorrow just doing media When Mitch johnson And
victor Wenman yama AND i don't, Know fox will take
a turn at the, podium but, like these guys are
going to have to get up there again and talk
about it, again and that's going to be a painful.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
EXPERIENCE nba Insider Mark, stein our Guest Jason, Smith micrmon
live from The Fox Sports radio. Studios all, right so
through the first four games of the. Series now to
look at it from The knicks, perspective what surprised you
the most about this team first four, games whether it's
overall a player in a, game what surprised you the
most about this team that.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
They were able to win the first couple With brunson
shooting the ball far below his usual. Standard we were
how Many i'm sure you guys on the show were
talking About Karl anthonytown playing the best basketball of his.
Life Carl Anthony town his first fourth quarter points in
this series were last. Night, yeah he made that corner.
(25:40):
Three like The, knicks that's the thing about The knicks
is they're getting it from a lot of different, places
and they're just they have a lot of, confidence and
let's face, it they've pulled off comebacks like this. Before you,
know they did this To cleveland in the last round
down twenty two to. One like they've made a habit
(26:00):
of coming back from twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Plus the last two.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Postseasons and they are a very tough and together.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Team Mark one of the things we've talked about a
little bit on, air The wenby, problem not that you
have to contend with him and try to defend, him
but the. Aggression now you add another flagrant file from
him and a super cut of chippiness starting to really evolve.
Here how does the league adjudicate curb? That what could
(26:30):
they do internally or is it just we've seen it
on the big stage a, lot so it's just fresh
in our.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Consciousness, well because of the way the game, ended that's
not really foremost among San antonio's issues right. Now had
San antonio carried on with their twenty seven point lead
and won that game like they should, HAVE i think
that would be a dominant storyline, today because of course
(26:59):
you had the Of Jalen brunton early In game, three
and the league could have assessed a retroactive flagrant foul
and decided not, to and Then wemby gets a flagrant
In game. Four had they given the retroactive flagrant In game,
three he'd now be on four flagrant foul points and
(27:21):
he'd have to be suspended for a. Game so had
The spurs, ONE i think that actually would have been
one of the loudest talking points in this. Series but
the ending and the absolute hole that The spurs now
find themselves in have kind of overshadowed all, that and
they frankly have larger.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Problems you, know just hearing them, Talk, MARK i kind
of feel like WHEN i Hear Mitch johnson talking The spurs,
talk they do a lot of, well it's not, them it's.
Us it's not, them it's. Us and at some POINT
i want TO i want to want them to, say
don't you realize that it's forty eight. Minutes it's not
we played well for the first thirty, minutes but the
last eighteen don't. Count LIKE i feel like that's kind
(28:04):
of where The spurs are when they're talking about this.
Series i'm not really addressing why they're down three to.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
One the three to one lead isn't.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Enough you need you need the.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Spurs, mark we got two days till game. Five, mark
we need.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Something we got two.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Days we got two.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Days he's, on don't don't get don't get. Greedy you're
doing you're you're ahead of the.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Game right. NOW i was gonna, say is Is hurricanes?
Won The mets have actually won a? Game, yeah you
got The nix on the verge of.
Speaker 5 (28:38):
This what do you mean His? Hurricanes where did that come? From?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
WELL i Was i'm A whaler, fan so LIKE i got.
Both my every day is sports stress. REMARK i go
from the next to The, hurricanes the next to The.
Hurricanes so, yeah this has Been this has been a
last ten. DAYS i DIDN'T i didn't Think i'd ever
have to worry ABOUT i didn't.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
KNOW i didn't know you were A whaler's. Guy that makes.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Sense, now, yeah it's it's. INSANE i might might teams
don't win like they go like like my entire, life
nobody wins. Anything and NOW i got two teams playing
in the finals at the same. Time he's On twitter
at the, steinline that is at the. Steinline check him
out on substack as. Well mark is always, appreciated my.
Friend maybe the next time we, talk we're talking about
(29:18):
the Champion. Knicks we're talking About game. Six have a great.
Week enjoy the, game my. Friend enjoy.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
It you're enjoy. It you guys enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Too we'll talk TO i appreciate, You.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Mark there Goes Mark, stein like it's not. ENOUGH i
was talking more for The spurs THAN i was FOR
i didn't need them to say great things about The.
Knicks BUT i kind of feel, like you know a little,
bit you want to understand. That, Okay, hey it's not
just about the leads that we get to. It there's
the rest of the game, Too like there's the other
eighteen minutes that boy who really. Struggled you know, what,
though there's a long off. Season once you're eliminated and
(29:48):
clear out your locker and just say uh and cause
you get to do the. Thing Remember Jim varney when
he was on And homer went and The carnies got
over on. Him, yeah and Then homer got him back
at the end and he and the the mantra was
we were beaten by the. Best, yes that's what you,
want until it's. Over you're not giving him any. CREDIT
i kind of respect it time out to find out
(30:10):
what's trending in the wide world of. Sports so someone
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love putting this content out for you every single. NIGHT
i like. THAT i sounded Like monty in that little
drop back in no least blah blah. Blah he's not
the Best adlston in business for. Nothing. Guys there we.
Go UH a very Happy Alex tyshert right now His
South korea. Squad, Now i'm so, Excited. Jason what great
(31:13):
things CAN i tell you About?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Korea?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh go all, right that's, it all, right thought. You,
well they're up to one in this play watching the. Game, okay,
okayn we do A korea game. Later, okay, sure facts About,
korea let's, go let's drop. One the television show mash
took place in what country and during what?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
War, no i'll give you.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Things you tell me if it was done In korea or.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Not?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Oh, okay all, right very, good perfect squid? Gag, yes all,
right very, good there we. Go, yes all, right good, Good,
okay we're. Good all, Right i'm so. Excited, okay uh
so again ninetieth minute right? Now Uh South korea with
a two to one. Lead now we said last, week,
boy when When Jag Christian, WATSON i Mean jag not
because he's A, jaguar because he's just a guy signs
(31:57):
a four, year hundred and ten million dollar contract despite
the fact he has shown difficulty staying healthy and. Producing,
hey that's the contract that's going to make people stop
paying wide. Receivers i'm not going to do it because
it's incredibly out of. Control oh that's nothing compared to
the contract that was given out today To Jalen. Coker
(32:17):
right now, again if you can't be started in. Fantasy
you can't make big money like that should be the. Role,
okay if you can't be AND i don't know any
fantasy league unless you're going so dear in one of
those leagues, where, hey we play ten wide receivers every.
WEEK i don't know when you are ever Playing Jalen. Coker,
NO i play him all the.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Time by the, Way Jalen, cokery we call ourselves The. Cokeheads, okay.
Okay Jalen cocher is a legend in the fantasy. Community
he is the sleeper of all. Sleepers he was great
down the. Stretch he had an elite playoff, game one playoff.
Game it didn't matter in fantasy at, all way.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Better Than watson's.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Contract three years for forty one million probably produces as
much As watson are.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Close rando was your, record like oh to thirteen in
fantasy because if you were playing a title, WEEK i
can't believe you. Won.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
WELL i was not playing him every, week but in deep.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
LEAGUES i played him in a few DEEPLEAS i did
not win. Those deep is your league to play a
guy that in two years hasn't caught more than thirty
three passes in a season and averages around five hundred.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yards he is. Cryptocurrency Jalen. Cocher, there it's gonna. Pop
and once it, does this is like THE SpaceX. Valuation
it's gonna go. Crazy THE ipo just went. Crazy it's
gonna go crazy for Uh Jalen coker this, Year i'm
telling you bye bye.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Bye okay what? Okay however much he paid you for
the last couple of, MINUTES i hope it's worth.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
It.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
UH. I i saw this contract. Today mike with the panther, Said,
okay so you're paying a guy you don't have to
pay who's your number two? Receiver that again in two?
Years number one can't stay healthy because eleven games each
of his first two years and two, again thirty three.
Passes the guy's catching two passes a. GAME i, mean
(34:01):
this is two to three passes a. Game and we're
paying him twelve to fourteen million dollars a year this three,
year twelve million dollar a year. Extension he is just a.
Guy wide receiver salaries have gone off the deep end
in THE. Nfl, yeah but this isn't, prohibitive, RIGHT i
mean The watson you take it to a whole other.
(34:21):
Level you start getting into that. Stratosphere can't stay. Healthy
potential for the big play, threat, right seventeen and a
half yards per catch and good in the red. Zone
that's what we've seen From watson in the. Past To
brandon's point About, COCHER i, mean you need someone to
move the, chains and right, now at the market and
the salary cap of three hundred million, dollars a guy
(34:44):
that catches three to five balls a, game no, no, no,
no, no no, no it's two to three balls a. Game
it's it's it's to, Okay so the other games he's average,
Zero so in the third of the games he's AVERAGED
i understand. That, Look i'm going. Full i'm not paying
him on what he. Did can we just have this
discussion yesterday or in the day, before did we do
(35:06):
that whole? Thing he's on The Patrick mahomes, contract, right
he's been in the league two. Years, okay you don't
have to pay him. YET i know you, don't AND
i like THAT'S i agree with that three. YEARS i
agree with that part of the. ARGUMENT i don't need
to need to get. There but if you think that
the breakout is, there it's one of Those Atlanta braves
ill Fated Chicago White sox back in the, day that
(35:28):
this is the guy you're. Backing you're Backing Bryce, Young
you're in this next phase that you think he's going
to be the guy to take off and maybe be.
THERE i don't think it said a prohibitive amount of,
money since it's twelve million dollars when THE salid you
run up to that salary cap pretty quickly in THE,
nfl AND i want to pay a guy twelve million
(35:49):
dollars a year THAT i know is. GOOD i don't
want to give a guy twelve million that, well maybe
he's gonna be good sometime the next couple of. Years
so far he's just been below, average And i'm gonna
give him twelve million dollars a year. YEAR i, mean come, on,
man you could Pay John metchi that. Time if you
see the end of the, season right final, week playoff,
game and thinking That young is going to take that
(36:10):
next step. Forward whether it happens or, NOT i don't,
know but you're also looking at a salary cap that
goes up twenty million dollars a. Year and if you
think this is the guy on the come the old
third year receiver. Law remember that From fantasy all those years.
Ago let's, go, Baby come on. You division, Stinks opportunity.
Knocks IF i can't play you In, FANTASY i can't
give you a twelve million dollars year. CONTRACT i mean
(36:33):
really to. Honestly IF i can't play you In fantasy
in a standard league where it's two wide receivers maybe
a couple of flex, spots IF i can't play you
in any one of those, SPOTS i can't give you twelve. Million,
yeah AND i gotta Bring brandon back In what what
do you call this coin? Though and what's the picture
on the? Coin what?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Coin?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Crypto we're gonna go, cryptocurrency coin.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Coin coker. Coin there we, go make it a little coker.
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way the coke heads it's About Jalen, cocher not a.
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