April 10, 2024 • 37 mins
Jason shares a wild story. Maybe Anthony Davis is the NBA MVP? Giannis left the Bucks game after an apparent leg injury in the 3Q. And ONLY 2 FREE THROWS WERE ATTEMPTED IN THE BUCKS-CELTICS GAME!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Let me tell you about the epic fail Mike Harmon
(00:49):
has had tonight. Epic epic fail. Last night. Yeah, we
ordered food late, so you walked across the street to
I ordered food late, to Alpoyo Loco to pick eyes
literally sprinted to go pick it up because we're waiting
on a phone call that was promised for about an
hour and never can Okay, okay, focused, it's about tonight
in the epic fail tonight. Last night, it's not an
(01:10):
epic fail nothing. You're asking long, we had an epic fail.
Let me let me just assude.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You got legs.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hang on epic fail tonight. You ordered the food, you
went and got it, and you brought home because it closed.
We have two cups of aio Loco, because a poil
Loco is free refills. I feel like this is suddenly
where Carl Weather's in the rest of development. I go
to this Burger King because it has free refills. Now
we have two brand new a loco They are beautiful news.
So what you said last night we left here last
(01:36):
night you put the cups down. The cups are in
my hand, but the cups down for me. Said this
is tomorrow night, we're gonna rob Parker it which okay, sorry,
guy explained to millennials, h rob Parking. It means after
the maybe the day after or two days after, you
go have something to eat at a fast food restaurant.
If you still have the cup, you just go in
there and get a free refill. So you were gonna
go in tonight and say, well, you didn't get the
(01:57):
drinks last night because they gave me the cups. You
were gonna go get it tonight, we're halfway through the show.
Cups are sitting here. You could have gone to get
all kinds of they have the they have cherry coke.
I could do the half diet half cherry coke, and
it's just sitting here with no soda in it. Epic
failed by you. You ordered the food, you got the cups.
This is on you.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I paid for the food, ergo the cups, and my
value proposition of now running to refill those is minimal, negligible.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You weren't running anywhere. You're phrase, well, I'm not running.
He got the food. If I got the food, I
would go. But he got the food, he's got the
cups here. These are two you could do is fill
it up for These are two brand spanking new cups.
You have food for free. You now you're complaining to
me you don't have a coke in front. When you
promised me drinks the next you promised you last night
you said tomorrow night you put the company like this,
(02:46):
you would tomorrow night we get free drinks. Okay, I
didn't say I was gonna go get them and said
I was not implied in any way shapes. No, it was,
of course. If it wasn't, you would have said, hey,
tomorrow night, we get free drinks. You are going to
get them. That you would have said, but you said,
Toronto you got free drink supplies. I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get this drinks. That's an epic fil it's
a free it's a cups that you can go hell, Minnesota.
(03:09):
If you were sewing hot cups, it could have your
ass is too busy fighting with Alex over which version
of everybody wants to rule the world you want to hear.
I'm telling him to pull something out like David Blatt.
I make I make so many decisions every second like
a US fighter pilot. Does I mean this is something
you probably?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I took this off my plate of things I had
to worry about tonight. Okay, use it. Okay, cup was here,
cup was here? No drink, nothing, you don't want to
McDonald's got a drink? Did you say, hey, Mike, you'd
like a coffee? Oh you didn't say that. Who came
in with a coffee the other night? And nice? And
you got one from Hemisphere three days. Yeah, this is
from yesterday. I don't believe you this heat it up now,
I think you're lying.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You also put it in the microwave, and you subject
us to whatever, because what does it say is it's
spinning around?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Mister helper, say not to microwave, Yes, not to microwave.
What do you would you rather mean microwave stuff? Or
did you rather the microwaves smell like all kinds of
whatever crazy stuff Ty Shirt puts in it. No, you
want me to gonna kill me, so it doesn't matter
how how is what Ty Shirt's gonna put in the microwave.
I'm afraid of what he's got. He doesn't make you
eat it? No, no, but Jason did goes into the
door an hour without a diet coke man. No, come on, man,
(04:14):
I can't do that. This is IV This is prime
diet coke hours. This stick me here, it's the uh.
You know you gotta do the diet to understand me.
You got to watch the paper with Michael King. I
still don't understand you. You got to watch the paper.
We've had a decade and it's still not even close.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
My favorite, my favorite is still trying to construct the
DNA like I'm in the Jurassic Bark last.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Two thousand and two. The paper two thousande. Michael Keaton
is the editor of I think the New York Daily News,
New York Post, whatever is the paper, and and that's
his job, and it's a whole, you know, it's about
and he's the editor of the paper. And he comes
in the morning. Of course, people have photos to show
him that are really you know, here's from last night's murder,
from this, from that, and so says, here, I got
(04:55):
the pictures from that stabbing last night to show you.
And they show him and he goes, oh, what did
I tell you you three diet cokes before you show
me something like this? Okay, here take it back. I'm like, yes,
three diet coakes where you showed me something that where
you stole it from No, I've diden' drinking die Cox
for ever, but I mean to be immortalized on celluloid
like that is pretty good. I like that three diet
cokes you heist from Kroger this week's No, God, don't
(05:19):
get donuts it Kroger. Come on, man, come on, I
did have a great Sorry Albertson's I did have. I
did have a great show up with your violin and
your vest. No, I did have a great donut today
At lunch though, we went with my wife and I
went to a friend. Gise time when you're in Aisle four, yes, yes, yes,
what can I do for you, sir? Oh I had
to wear bow ties in college at Wegman's. It was awful.
It was we had to wear. But I'm like, I
(05:40):
just had a clip on that I put on the
side because like when the manager was there, you had
to wear the bow tie. Everybody hated it because that
was the look. It was a white dress shirt and
a bowtie, classic style clip off of fifties. Yeah, you
can wear a clip pop shop. Yes, But the minute
the manager left for the night, it was like when
and started taking was out for the summer, started up
with nothing that can okay When the adult store manager
(06:03):
left for the night, like the guy that this was
his job, he was the adult inside the no no, no,
the guy who was a curtain a super store just stortop. No.
The man or woman whose job it was was to
be the store manager because it's what they did for
a living. They went to beverage restaurant beverage management school.
Their managers and you know, they work forty hours a week.
(06:25):
They managed the whole store, but they would all work
during the day and the kids, you know, we all
came We all worked at nights and worked after school,
so we all come in. But like the first hour
and a half you would come in, the managers were
still there. So if you worked like four to ten
or four to eleven until five thirty, the managers were there.
And the managers all came around to chick in on
you before. Hey, everything good, everything's good, everything's good. As
soon as that manager left boom, everybody took the bow ties,
(06:47):
put him on the side. I just took mine off,
and it was like, okay, great because now the nighttime
managers were all the people who were just like a
couple of years older than you were, that were just
out of college and it was there. They were just
working king and they didn't know if they were going
to be in it for industry for forever, but they
didn't want to be They didn't want to feel like
they were telling you what to do, so they were
the cool managers. They didn't care if we wore bow ties.
(07:09):
So it was like, yeah, as soon as that matter.
We watched We watched Elmer walk out Elma or Patty
or walk out in the car gone boom, bow ties
gone everybody. How they wear bow ties too. You had
a guy you were working for named Elmer? How old
are a great manager? Elmer was great? Elmer Alton, Elmer
Alton He Oh, he was great. I loved Elmer. Where's Elmer? Now? Uh,
(07:29):
it's funny you say that he passed away a few
years ago. Yeah. Thanks, thanks for bringing up the guy
who's dead. Thanks, thanks for doing that. You brought up Elmer. Thanks.
I wanted, you know, if Elmer was still wearing and
then you had for me of the sad passing of
old Elmer. Shirk you know. Oh all right, now I'm
gonna tell a great story that your ears are probably burning.
(07:50):
This weekend. So we were hanging out at home this weekend.
Had a couple of friends though, he had a couple
of friends over, a couple of friends over, and it's
it's a couple of friends that, oh we just met
this year. Now we're meeting me for the first time.
They ask what I do, and I said, I do
a show. And I said, oh, yeah. Yeah. My partners
Mike Harmon, you know, we do the show and then
you know, somebody who's hap to say. I forget what
(08:11):
movie was on. It might have been Anchorman, I think
might have been Akerman that was on, and they said, oh, so, whoa,
what's your what's your partner like? Is he like you?
Does he say? What you're like you? And I said,
I said, oh, here's my partner. I said, here's a
typical thing. My partner would say. He said, what I
go see this scene right here and Anchorman and she goes, yes,
see the Baxter that dog right there? Yeah, yeah, backs
backs ago, he would say, hey, see the dog on
(08:32):
TV right now? Yeah, that dog's dead, And Pam starts laughing,
and he goes, yeah okay, and they go He doesn't
go yeah. He loves to point out anybody who is dead.
He just he has a thing pointing out who's dead.
See the dog on TV? Yeah, that dog's disparaging my
name outside of these studios. That dog's dead really unfair, unwarranted,
(08:57):
and categorically false. Okay, okay, Alex tie shirt. Is that
categorically falls about Mike Carmen or is that right on
the money it'd see right on the money. Yeah, it's
right of the money. Sorry, buddy, that's that's absolutely right
on the money on you who knew see that dog?
That dog's dead. You see that. I don't know that
I've done it with the animal actors in our larger
cinematic universe. You also do that is our friend that
(09:19):
does weekends here Steve Hartman. Like, why I remember doing
a show with Steve Hartman when where first started filling
in And it was when like Fox, this is I'm
going back like fifteen years or so, like yeall, what
more than maybe about twelve years or so when the
different channels like Fox and ESPN used to show like
great games, like you know, NBA's Greatest come and they
(09:40):
went back and they showed the Lakers. It was Fox
Sports one here in LA was showing the Lakers after
they won like in eighty seven when they beat the
Celtics or something like that, and they showed everybody in
the locker room after spray and champagne and they were
showing doctor Jerry Buss a bunch of other people with
the trophy. And Steve Hartman goes to me, Hey, you
see the celebration, right, here. Yeah, you see all those
(10:01):
people up there? I go, yeah, you guess they're all dead?
And I go, oh my god, why do I respond
to that? See all those people up there? Yeah, they're
all dead. Well, Steve's really proud God to tell you
how many guys he's stepped over to continue going. Hasn't
moved since seventy No, no, no, not at all. Yeah,
(10:22):
ye him, him and Steve Levy could have a hair off. No,
I don't know who it went loses. No Levis is
at least you know, great. So there's been some coloration.
All Star Game, NHL All Star Game ninety six. This
is before I'm a talent and I'm a producer, and
I go to the All Star Game in Boston and
(10:44):
me and Leevey worked a lot together in that way
talent and I just lost all respect for it. And
we walked into the NHL. It was the NHL game
like the like the NFL experience with the supers NHL
All Star Game. Yeah, so we walk in and there's
a bunch of radio people doing a show and it
was Pharrell when he went back when he was popular.
(11:05):
Everything Farrell on the bench was on this like ninety
six and he's doing, and you could hear it throughout
the entire area of of of the experience. He's said,
we unique voice, we walk in, We just happen to
walk in, and all this all of a sudden, you
just you just hear, you hear Steve Levy's here. When's
the last time your hand moved? Nineteen seventy two, And
(11:28):
everybody just starts laughing, and Levy's face gets so red
because all he did was walk in. It's all he
did was walk in. Ah, not like they announced him
or anything. He just walked into.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Hey, he's the ladies and gentlemen presenting Steve nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean a hair off with Steve Levy and and
and Steve Hartman. Man, that's like who that's wow, that's
that's like, that's that's that's Iowa, South Carolina. Man's that's
top of heavyweights getting answered. There's no question about resistible
movable object. Are you kidding? That's a big thing. Hmm. Man.
(12:06):
Seeing all those people they're all dead. Okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I really feel sad that after a decade on air together,
that's the first.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Thing you go to in terms of any remembrance of
what I've brought to the table, Are you No, I'm
really gonna go home for it might be the end
to me brain. This really might be the thing that
pushes me over.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
In the end.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
On your tombs, I was gonna say, here lies Mike Carmen.
He's dead now, just like everybody else he talked to him.
That's what it's gonna say. No tombstone. No, you're not
gonna have a tombstone. Why not done?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I'm done vegas to get shot into space, have cremated
and shaken out Shawshanks style, shaking out my favorite places
in prison.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Because that's where it does. Got shuck out in prison. Well, no,
here you gotta be, you know, kind of sneaky about it.
So you know ball fields and can so so you
have right down guaranteed rate field is where you want
your whatever it's called at that point. Yeah, okay, all right, okay,
what if you say Ryan Field got raised? So now
it's just the you know the next iteration, Northwestern locker
(13:12):
room is that where it's gonna go? Okay, all right,
just making sure you banned coffee can cool? Ok Yeah, No,
it's right maybe on top of a mountain like you
know in in the uh Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman movie.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You know.
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike harmon Late Night. NBA is now over the Clippers,
who got out to a thirty two to four lead
over the Suns tonight. Real score fifty one fourteen at
one point. Real score. It's like halftime the Jets game.
Hold on to beat the Suns. Meanwhile, the Warriors sending
(16:24):
a play in preview message to the Lakers without Anthony
Davis as they rolled to a one thirty two, one
sixteen victory. Draymond Green is laughing hitting threes and maybe
eight D's the MVP? Did jarry D's the MVP? Did
Darvin ham ever take his hand out of his pockets?
I did not see that. I did not see Darvin
(16:45):
Haam do that. Did he ever really coach him up? Well,
he talked a lot before the game. He did, he did,
he did.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, no excuses all of the Yeah, I saw the quotes,
but yeah, there were a lot of question marks of
whether Lebron was gonna show up or not. Two forty
five minutes before the game, he hadn't even been part
of warm ups or anything. He finishes with thirty three,
seven rebounds, eleven assists on the night, But yeah, decisive
(17:11):
Golden State Warriors win, and.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The Warriors setting an NBA record tonight, the highest single
game three point percentage in NBA history. That's not even
a stat minimum forty three point attempts in a game.
The Warriors were twenty six for forty one guys, making
this up from the three point line tonight, not making
the stats like this is on Lakers postgame coverage. This
(17:37):
is Spectrum Sportsnet. It's the best shooting night now from
behind the arc. Anybody in your NBA history is ADS
and Keener is pissed. It's Chris Mullen. It's Chris Mullin
on television talking about this. Twenty six out of forty
one that was the most allowed three pointers in Lakers
franchise history. Again, maybe AD's the MVP, now you're coming around.
(18:01):
He didn't play tonight. Look what happened for three months.
Maybe a D's the MVP. Maybe players off the bench
for the Warriors seven of thirteen, but everybody plays, everybody wins.
But yeah, that's insane. Twenty six of forty one. Close out, man,
close out. So I mean that, let's let's turn to
(18:24):
a positive. That means Anthony Davis is the MVP without
him tonight, with his headache and nausea. Look what the
Warriors did, Look what they did. But I tell you what,
folks were boodle this afternoon as that announcement came down,
heading towards tip off and again mentioning the lebron James.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I'm sure there's a story. I'm sure there'll be some
post with it. But you know, shoot around and our
guy Dan Woiki La times like not there forty five
minutes before the game, not there for shoot around. So
still some questions, you know, all about that because he look,
he'd been sick, so question of his availability had been
out there as l comes up with a big stat line.
(19:02):
But Warriors, when you're at that level of efficiency and
seeing the highlights, it's just kind of like the all right,
nobody's bothering to slip back towards you. So here, we're
gonna dump it out you. You take another one, put.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Up forty one to three point shots and hit to
that level. I mean the look even the Lakers were
still at thirty four. Yeah, yeah, no, then that sounds great,
except when you shot sixty three. When you're at sixty three,
you're not gonna win many games that way. No ads, MVP, MVP,
MVP Jason. Yeah, what he got from I told you
(19:35):
so height easy. How to take a really bad negative
and turn it into a positive. There it is being
stump for your guy. And congrats to the Clippers. I'm
making the playoffs for the first time. First Clippers playoff.
How about that though, that that game that suddenly became
a game. Yeah, almost lost another quarter. If the game
(19:58):
was five quarters, maybe the Sons would have come all
the way back from thirty two to four and one.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I assault, you know, you got to eleven points and
I'm standing up and you look at what are you
getting excited about? Like, hey, you can take it to
double single did and then they turn it over. It's
like damn it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
But look at that Lakers Warriors a clear unique. We
don't get play in preview matchups like this just out
of day. That's right, Lakers Warriors, Man, look at that previous.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
How lucky we are are we that two of the
giant names in the sport are still gonna battle it
out monoing mon in.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
What do you think the odds are that they wind
up being the two teams in the plane? Do you
think something might happen and maybe one of them vaults
up a spot so they can play in the eight
and nine game? What do you think? Look at you,
you're going deep into your w E K fame kind
But instances here from the bottom of the playoffs to
(20:51):
the top where the NBA playoffs stop, right now as
we wait for word as to what the severity is
of the injury to young honest onto nkunpo tonight, Look,
the Bucks win a game over the Celtics. NBA record
two free throws attempted in the game. Amazing any talking
about NIMA record there two free throws, two fans in.
(21:11):
Yannis leaves the game in the third quarter after a
made three by Derek White. Giannis is just jogging back
up the court and he goes down in a heap.
Right now, it is a calf injury and MRI is
on tap for tomorrow. Here's how it sounded on the air.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Nayless to say, gay, this is a major concern here.
Giannis Adeokumpo just sits down to stop playing. Now, best
case scenario, let's just hope it's a cramp of the calf.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Uh Yeah, remember when Aaron Rodgers sat down, he was
gonna be fun. What happens? H Look, not to not
to say that we know what it is, but certainly
we're hoping it's a calf injury for Yannis. But you
know the correlation that sometimes happens who it's a calf
injury to it's an achilles injury. Aaron Rodgers had a
strained calf in practice for the Jets this summer, and
(21:58):
then what happened after five plays the Jets, he was
done for the season with a torn achilles, likely an
MRI tomorrow. So far, what we're seeing, hopefully, some doctors
who have talked about it before the weigh in on
injuries like this say, looks like it could be good news.
The way Yannis walked off the court, it could just
be a strain. But here's where the dark side is
for Milwaukee, because I know everybody wants to just write
(22:20):
them in to the Eastern Conference finals. It's Jannis, it's
Dame Lillard, and here they are. You're already looking at
a best case scenario for Yannis that he comes back
for the beginning of the playoffs. Right now, you do
have a little bit more time because the season end Sunday,
you have the playing games the next night. He had
a couple of days off, so he's got a little
bit over a week to potentially get ready. But this
(22:41):
team is incredibly vulnerable. They're in a lot of trouble,
and it's not just Yannis. Like I can see the
Bucks losing in the first round easy and Damian Lillard
was brought in to be the guy to make sure
the Bucks didn't lose series like this, like he hit
big shots late and what I've seen from him. You know,
we talked about this with Rick Buker a few days
(23:02):
ago that it could just be, hey, when you get old,
you get old overnight. Because we're watching Damian Lillard not
get his shot off at the end of games, get
his shot blocked when he never has before, try to
get the ball to the hoop, and maybe he doesn't
have that burst like he used to because players defensively
are able to cover and cover more ground and send
a shot back his way or be able to alter
(23:25):
the shot where it's not going. He just looks like
a different guy. And you watch his games. He's a
volume shooter now, you'll get Stot's he's still screa. Yeah,
when he has thirty eight points twenty seven shots, always
had thirty three points twenty five shots. He is a
volume shooter now, and when you're a volume shooter, yeah,
you're still gonna get your points. But it has not
been smooth. The Bucks have not been good, and you
(23:46):
would think adding Damian Lillard a peak Damian Lillard to
this team would be everything they would need. Hey, when
a game's close at the end, guess what Now he
got two guys can take the shot, and likely it's
gonna be Lillard because we can't get it to Giannis,
because he can't get the free throw. All these different things.
It was supposed to be this way, but instead it's
been so mismanaged, and Doc Rivers has come in and
whatever he has done for the team has not worked.
(24:07):
He is now pushing desperation buttons by moving guys from
the from the bench of the starting lineup, looking for
some kind of spark. As we get close to the playoffs,
it is desperation time. I'm telling you, I'm not gonna
be surprised if Milwaukee loses in the first round. In fact,
if Janni's return is up in the air, I'll tell
you right away they're going out in the first round
because they're gonna wind up finishing third, fourth. Because right now,
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you've got a couple of teams, including the Knicks, who
are right on them with three games to go, and
it's a it's a game behind. They're gonna wind up
playing a team that they're gonna wind up dropping a fourth,
they'll play Orlando, They'll play somebody who is pretty good.
And look out when a thirty three ish almost thirty
four Damian Lillard has to carry the load, and he
hasn't done it so far this year. This is danger
time for the Bucks and all of a sudden, the
(24:52):
East is way more wide open than you thought it was.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, I got two things that you know. I'll continue
on that point and expound upon it a second. You
want to go back to this game one O four
ninety one is your final. There were a total of
two free throws shot in this game.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Two. I said that right, twelve personal fouls in a
regulation NBA game. Did the officials not show up? I mean,
we've had that for some soccer league stuff, but it's
just amazing that that would be the case. Now. As
for bringing in Lillard right thirty six minutes tonight, only
eleven shot attempts. So there's the riddled me. This doc
(25:31):
rivers for one, especially with Giannis missing a bunch of time.
But you knew you were going to give up some
stuff defensively by bringing him in, right, So that's part
of it. The extra expenditure of energy to all of
that many miles on the legs. I'd been in the
league over a decade at this point. The fact that
Doc Rivers is eighteen and eighteen at this point off
(25:53):
a team that was thirty and thirteen when he was
hired is a whole other problematic thing to discuss. But
you gave up stuff defensively, and now you lose Giannis,
who's against these younger, at more athletic teams top to bottom.
It's problematic. Now Beverly gave him a jump today, inserted
(26:14):
in the lineup, and you know, whenever he's on his game,
all right, maybe he can ratchet up, but can you
put bank on that? The reason he was coming off
the bench right and you get a quick jolt, But
if Jannis isn't able to give you thirty five minutes
a night, you don't have the depth. And Lillard played
a lot in obscurity and then we'd get the runs
(26:36):
where people would get excited about Dame time, but he
had to it was basically a two man operation for
most of that time there, right, So again a lot
of wear and tear on the body. And then I
mentioned Doc in is eighteen and eighteen. That can't be dismissed.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
No right, as much as we can talk about the
roster construction, dame himself like, how just we've heard all
the stories about how disgruntled people are. There's our obligatory
curb your enthusiasm reference, but you are disgruntled, but that
everybody was salty with their roles and how he's playing,
(27:13):
and it's it's borne out over thirty six games.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You're a middling team with Doc Rivers as your coach.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Lucky you got off to a great start, you know
before you fired the guy.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They're in a lot of trouble man there in time. Again,
I'm not going to be great, right, it's the Celtics
and everybody. Celtics are great at home. The Celtics are
great at home, and being the number one seed, certainly
that's going to be a huge advantage for them. But
it's it's wide.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The rest of these teams are suspect down the line,
which is why you're starting to get all hopeful and
dancing around going Nicks Nicks, Nicks, Nicks Nicks again.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Now I'm going to ask Alex Tycher to question for
a dollar, does he get it right or does he
miss it? You can take either side of this, either side.
Does he get it right? Yeah, he's gonna get he
gets right all right, Alex Teischert. The Milwaukee Bucks are
officially calling right now before the mridanis they are officially
calling it for giannis A solius injury s O L
(28:13):
e U S. Solius injury. What is the solius and
what is it right below in the leg? Because you're
a healthy guy, so I figure maybe you would know
this plexus solar plex What is it, doctor Alex ty Shirt. No, okay,
we said it was a calf strain, so you know
(28:33):
calf strain. Calf is not in the solar PLEXI. You're
right right, Solius injury so his ankle. No, first of all,
like you said, oh it's not that bad. You made
it seem like, oh it's not that bad. It's not.
The solius is a muscle just below the fibia and
the tibia. Okay, that's good. So that's where it is
long it's it's not the fibia or tibia. It's it
(28:54):
is not it's below then it We're good. The solius muscle, yeah,
it is, Uh, it's it's by its health.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Where do you keep.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Solius muscle that your feet. No, no, no, no, that's
s O L E. S. And then it's there to
give your calf muscle. It's with yes, that's what it does. Wow, Frostburg,
know how did you know that? Because Harmon has really
big ones? But how did you? Okay, like it's true, okay,
(29:22):
category Glinger, But how did you know that word? Though?
How did you? How did you? Because I'm a doctor,
you're not even that. You're not even the healthy guy
on here, like Tyshirt's the guy. So I didn't even know.
It doesn't mean he hasn't study. I mean, look, he's
a member of the Chargers organization. If he knows anything,
he knows what injuries are because they've been staffed for years.
(29:42):
That's the past we got Ben Herbert Nower thought the
calf was in your solar plex. Yes, well, I'll tell
you that it hurts. I get a fifth I get
a fifth leg. It comes out of my stomach. Whoa
fifth leg? And how many? How many muscles are in
the calf? Guys? In the calf there are a total
uh of four? Nope, how do you don't even know? No,
(30:04):
you don't know. I know muscles too. I didn't know
I was right, it's I'm right. No, he just said
I'm right. He said, he's right. There's four muscles. It's two,
two in the right leg and two in the left.
You're too much muscle too, I'm correct, you're too much.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Doctor Chaso.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's correct to yeah, two in the right legs, two
in the left, less sun four. What I should teach one?
I should teach anatomy medical school? Oh boy, what's one
times one? One? I thought that's two? Is it ends
two things? That's one and one? How's one and one?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
One?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
And how many muscles are there? How many total muscles
are leg? And how many the other one? Well, if
you're gonnadd two legs and four? Okay, so how many
we're in a calf, not calves? But you have two
of them? You assumed do you have two of them?
Ni has two of them? Four muscles? Not for long?
I'm right. You thought it was in his stomach, his stomach. Hey,
(31:03):
just coming up next, we got more NBA on the way.
You can watch basketball for the rest of your life,
however old you are, and you may never see what
we saw in a game tonight. That's next right here.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
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Speaker 1 (31:31):
Dude pod is not that hard? Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. True,
I am ready to go full conspiracy theory on you,
full conspiracy but not quite conspiracy theory, but more like, wow,
it seems conspiracy theory. But then it's that it really
makes sense? Okay, Okay. Now, obviously we spend a lot
(31:54):
of time tonight talk about Giannis the injury, waiting to
find out what it is. Right now, it's a calf strain?
Is it more serious? Doc Rivers says, he's very concerned. Sure,
who's got the most pressure on him? Let's go. But
part of this game tonight where the Bucks beat the Celtics,
NBA record low two free throws were attempted in this
(32:17):
game two Giannis was one out of two. Yep, that
was it. I mean that that shatters the record for
fewest free throws in a game, which previously had been eleven.
As Doc Rivers said after the game, Adam Silver is
the happiest Our fifty seven game time. My goodness, you
can go to a game and still have dinner. Unbelievable.
(32:39):
He was asked for the stats. You asked for the
stats after the game, he said, no, I want the
whole games. That's no, this is it because he saw
no free throws. Two free throws during the game by
the officiating crew, just to let you know, it's we
did na see Scott Foster in this two free throws.
(33:00):
Now here's where I get conspiracy theory on you. There
is no way the referees and the officials did this
game and said, yeah, clean game. We're just staying a
clean game. Don't see it. I get that some games
you get more threes, but Yannis is one of the
most top three most fouled guys in the league. So
is Tatum, and so is Liward. These like they're in
(33:21):
the top seven of fouled guys in the league. And yes,
Yanna's played until the midway through the third quarter before
he got hurt free throw line. Two free throws in
this game. I'll tell you what I would bet. I
would bet. This is me geting a little conspiracy theory,
but I would bet because the NBA knows what they
do when they send referees. What if tonight it was, Hey,
(33:43):
you know what, this game, lay off the whistle, let
them play, and we want to see what this looks
like in a game. It's a game that doesn't really matter. Yes,
it's two good teams, right, but doesn't matter really in
the standings because the Bucks are second or th you know,
they still have a couple of games left. The Celtics
are in first place. They're gonna finish in first places
(34:04):
very easily. But we want to see what this looks
like in a game with two good teams, what it
looks like in the playoffs. Because you already had Doc
Rivers talking about pace of play and the game ended
in two hours of what this is? And I wonder again,
I wonder, is this the NBA saying this is our
answer to pace of play? Officials, You're gonna swallow the
whistles a little bit more. You're gonna let them play
(34:26):
because it's gonna speed up the game. It's going to
allow us to make a more aesthetically pleasing game. Maybe
there's more points, but in the end, the games aren't
gonna be marathons. They're not gonna be problems with the
game being more bloated. We're gonna let them play and
to see. This is the test game and the test
balloon to see if it works. And if it does,
you'll see games officiated this way. Maybe not to this extent,
(34:49):
but you'll see it officiated this way from now on,
this era of the NBA under Adam Silver, Because there's
no way that you saw this game tonight and there
wasn't at least a opportunity for a dozen or more
free throws in this game. There wasn't this happened like this,
But that's NBA. And some will be quick to point out,
as you know, I did just anecdotically, anecdotally the number
(35:12):
of three point attempts, right, So all right, you're you're
just shooting jump shots, so you're not taking the ball
into the paint. Because that's part of the criticism slash
evaluation of where the NBA is anyway, Right, How many
times even guys on their own broadcasts and postgame comments, Ah,
just a three point shooting contest? Anymore black in my day?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
But to your point, Giannis ten point eight free throws
per game, Lillard seven point one, Tatum six point nine,
all top ten in said category. It would be curious
again with the where you're sitting with the Bucks with
a couple of teams hot on their trail for the
number two spot in seeding, that you would take that
(35:56):
game in a nationally televised game, maybe as your litmus test,
your your balloon, as it were. But if Doc already
has a statement ready for it, wow, cool on our
fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It's nice.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
It's nice and compartmentalized. What do people always cite is
one of the first reasons they love soccer. It's done
in two hours, it's done right, here's halftime, forty five
minute half. Yeah, you got some extra injury time and whatever.
But it's a nice, basically compartmentalized piece for television. And
that's where Major League Baseball and Rob Manford have tried
(36:32):
to do. And maybe some of the success that you've
seen there from a television and attendance standpoint, maybe the
NBA trying to follow suit.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I mean, just think about it for a second. There's
no way. There's only one one play where a guy
goes to the free throw line. There's no way. There's
no way.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Now I can't say I got to watch it, you know,
and really scrutinize it. I mean, we had four games
on and we're getting ready for the show and all,
but it's still leads me.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
The incredulity is off the charts. I mean an NBA game.
You may never see this again unless this is a directive,
and this is how we see games being officiated from
now on. This is our way of doing it without
really doing it. If you didn't watch it, I mean,
you'd say, wow, was it a call your own there's
only twelve dollars. Oh so I thought you guys knew
that you had to call your own fellows. So we
decided to save money by eliminating referees altogether. My bet,
(37:23):
my bet exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen dome.
So just something to think about that sounds conspiracy theory,
but might not be coming up next. Reaction to the
college basketball story that still is resonating twenty four hours later.
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Let me tell you about the epic fail Mike Harmon
(00:49):
has had tonight. Epic epic fail. Last night. Yeah, we
ordered food late, so you walked across the street to
I ordered food late, to Alpoyo Loco to pick eyes
literally sprinted to go pick it up because we're waiting
on a phone call that was promised for about an
hour and never can Okay, okay, focused, it's about tonight
in the epic fail tonight. Last night, it's not an
(01:10):
epic fail nothing. You're asking long, we had an epic fail.
Let me let me just assude.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
You got legs.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hang on epic fail tonight. You ordered the food, you
went and got it, and you brought home because it closed.
We have two cups of aio Loco, because a poil
Loco is free refills. I feel like this is suddenly
where Carl Weather's in the rest of development. I go
to this Burger King because it has free refills. Now
we have two brand new a loco They are beautiful news.
So what you said last night we left here last
(01:36):
night you put the cups down. The cups are in
my hand, but the cups down for me. Said this
is tomorrow night, we're gonna rob Parker it which okay, sorry,
guy explained to millennials, h rob Parking. It means after
the maybe the day after or two days after, you
go have something to eat at a fast food restaurant.
If you still have the cup, you just go in
there and get a free refill. So you were gonna
go in tonight and say, well, you didn't get the
(01:57):
drinks last night because they gave me the cups. You
were gonna go get it tonight, we're halfway through the show.
Cups are sitting here. You could have gone to get
all kinds of they have the they have cherry coke.
I could do the half diet half cherry coke, and
it's just sitting here with no soda in it. Epic
failed by you. You ordered the food, you got the cups.
This is on you.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I paid for the food, ergo the cups, and my
value proposition of now running to refill those is minimal, negligible.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You weren't running anywhere. You're phrase, well, I'm not running.
He got the food. If I got the food, I
would go. But he got the food, he's got the
cups here. These are two you could do is fill
it up for These are two brand spanking new cups.
You have food for free. You now you're complaining to
me you don't have a coke in front. When you
promised me drinks the next you promised you last night
you said tomorrow night you put the company like this,
(02:46):
you would tomorrow night we get free drinks. Okay, I
didn't say I was gonna go get them and said
I was not implied in any way shapes. No, it was,
of course. If it wasn't, you would have said, hey,
tomorrow night, we get free drinks. You are going to
get them. That you would have said, but you said,
Toronto you got free drink supplies. I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna get this drinks. That's an epic fil it's
a free it's a cups that you can go hell, Minnesota.
(03:09):
If you were sewing hot cups, it could have your
ass is too busy fighting with Alex over which version
of everybody wants to rule the world you want to hear.
I'm telling him to pull something out like David Blatt.
I make I make so many decisions every second like
a US fighter pilot. Does I mean this is something
you probably?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I took this off my plate of things I had
to worry about tonight. Okay, use it. Okay, cup was here,
cup was here? No drink, nothing, you don't want to
McDonald's got a drink? Did you say, hey, Mike, you'd
like a coffee? Oh you didn't say that. Who came
in with a coffee the other night? And nice? And
you got one from Hemisphere three days. Yeah, this is
from yesterday. I don't believe you this heat it up now,
I think you're lying.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
You also put it in the microwave, and you subject
us to whatever, because what does it say is it's
spinning around?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Mister helper, say not to microwave, Yes, not to microwave.
What do you would you rather mean microwave stuff? Or
did you rather the microwaves smell like all kinds of
whatever crazy stuff Ty Shirt puts in it. No, you
want me to gonna kill me, so it doesn't matter
how how is what Ty Shirt's gonna put in the microwave.
I'm afraid of what he's got. He doesn't make you
eat it? No, no, but Jason did goes into the
door an hour without a diet coke man. No, come on, man,
(04:14):
I can't do that. This is IV This is prime
diet coke hours. This stick me here, it's the uh.
You know you gotta do the diet to understand me.
You got to watch the paper with Michael King. I
still don't understand you. You got to watch the paper.
We've had a decade and it's still not even close.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
My favorite, my favorite is still trying to construct the
DNA like I'm in the Jurassic Bark last.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Two thousand and two. The paper two thousande. Michael Keaton
is the editor of I think the New York Daily News,
New York Post, whatever is the paper, and and that's
his job, and it's a whole, you know, it's about
and he's the editor of the paper. And he comes
in the morning. Of course, people have photos to show
him that are really you know, here's from last night's murder,
from this, from that, and so says, here, I got
(04:55):
the pictures from that stabbing last night to show you.
And they show him and he goes, oh, what did
I tell you you three diet cokes before you show
me something like this? Okay, here take it back. I'm like, yes,
three diet coakes where you showed me something that where
you stole it from No, I've diden' drinking die Cox
for ever, but I mean to be immortalized on celluloid
like that is pretty good. I like that three diet
cokes you heist from Kroger this week's No, God, don't
(05:19):
get donuts it Kroger. Come on, man, come on, I
did have a great Sorry Albertson's I did have. I
did have a great show up with your violin and
your vest. No, I did have a great donut today
At lunch though, we went with my wife and I
went to a friend. Gise time when you're in Aisle four, yes, yes, yes,
what can I do for you, sir? Oh I had
to wear bow ties in college at Wegman's. It was awful.
It was we had to wear. But I'm like, I
(05:40):
just had a clip on that I put on the
side because like when the manager was there, you had
to wear the bow tie. Everybody hated it because that
was the look. It was a white dress shirt and
a bowtie, classic style clip off of fifties. Yeah, you
can wear a clip pop shop. Yes, But the minute
the manager left for the night, it was like when
and started taking was out for the summer, started up
with nothing that can okay When the adult store manager
(06:03):
left for the night, like the guy that this was
his job, he was the adult inside the no no, no,
the guy who was a curtain a super store just stortop. No.
The man or woman whose job it was was to
be the store manager because it's what they did for
a living. They went to beverage restaurant beverage management school.
Their managers and you know, they work forty hours a week.
(06:25):
They managed the whole store, but they would all work
during the day and the kids, you know, we all
came We all worked at nights and worked after school,
so we all come in. But like the first hour
and a half you would come in, the managers were
still there. So if you worked like four to ten
or four to eleven until five thirty, the managers were there.
And the managers all came around to chick in on
you before. Hey, everything good, everything's good, everything's good. As
soon as that manager left boom, everybody took the bow ties,
(06:47):
put him on the side. I just took mine off,
and it was like, okay, great because now the nighttime
managers were all the people who were just like a
couple of years older than you were, that were just
out of college and it was there. They were just
working king and they didn't know if they were going
to be in it for industry for forever, but they
didn't want to be They didn't want to feel like
they were telling you what to do, so they were
the cool managers. They didn't care if we wore bow ties.
(07:09):
So it was like, yeah, as soon as that matter.
We watched We watched Elmer walk out Elma or Patty
or walk out in the car gone boom, bow ties
gone everybody. How they wear bow ties too. You had
a guy you were working for named Elmer? How old
are a great manager? Elmer was great? Elmer Alton, Elmer
Alton He Oh, he was great. I loved Elmer. Where's Elmer? Now? Uh,
(07:29):
it's funny you say that he passed away a few
years ago. Yeah. Thanks, thanks for bringing up the guy
who's dead. Thanks, thanks for doing that. You brought up Elmer. Thanks.
I wanted, you know, if Elmer was still wearing and
then you had for me of the sad passing of
old Elmer. Shirk you know. Oh all right, now I'm
gonna tell a great story that your ears are probably burning.
(07:50):
This weekend. So we were hanging out at home this weekend.
Had a couple of friends though, he had a couple
of friends over, a couple of friends over, and it's
it's a couple of friends that, oh we just met
this year. Now we're meeting me for the first time.
They ask what I do, and I said, I do
a show. And I said, oh, yeah. Yeah. My partners
Mike Harmon, you know, we do the show and then
you know, somebody who's hap to say. I forget what
(08:11):
movie was on. It might have been Anchorman, I think
might have been Akerman that was on, and they said, oh, so, whoa,
what's your what's your partner like? Is he like you?
Does he say? What you're like you? And I said,
I said, oh, here's my partner. I said, here's a
typical thing. My partner would say. He said, what I
go see this scene right here and Anchorman and she goes, yes,
see the Baxter that dog right there? Yeah, yeah, backs
backs ago, he would say, hey, see the dog on
(08:32):
TV right now? Yeah, that dog's dead, And Pam starts laughing,
and he goes, yeah okay, and they go He doesn't
go yeah. He loves to point out anybody who is dead.
He just he has a thing pointing out who's dead.
See the dog on TV? Yeah, that dog's disparaging my
name outside of these studios. That dog's dead really unfair, unwarranted,
(08:57):
and categorically false. Okay, okay, Alex tie shirt. Is that
categorically falls about Mike Carmen or is that right on
the money it'd see right on the money. Yeah, it's
right of the money. Sorry, buddy, that's that's absolutely right
on the money on you who knew see that dog?
That dog's dead. You see that. I don't know that
I've done it with the animal actors in our larger
cinematic universe. You also do that is our friend that
(09:19):
does weekends here Steve Hartman. Like, why I remember doing
a show with Steve Hartman when where first started filling
in And it was when like Fox, this is I'm
going back like fifteen years or so, like yeall, what
more than maybe about twelve years or so when the
different channels like Fox and ESPN used to show like
great games, like you know, NBA's Greatest come and they
(09:40):
went back and they showed the Lakers. It was Fox
Sports one here in LA was showing the Lakers after
they won like in eighty seven when they beat the
Celtics or something like that, and they showed everybody in
the locker room after spray and champagne and they were
showing doctor Jerry Buss a bunch of other people with
the trophy. And Steve Hartman goes to me, Hey, you
see the celebration, right, here. Yeah, you see all those
(10:01):
people up there? I go, yeah, you guess they're all dead?
And I go, oh my god, why do I respond
to that? See all those people up there? Yeah, they're
all dead. Well, Steve's really proud God to tell you
how many guys he's stepped over to continue going. Hasn't
moved since seventy No, no, no, not at all. Yeah,
(10:22):
ye him, him and Steve Levy could have a hair off. No,
I don't know who it went loses. No Levis is
at least you know, great. So there's been some coloration.
All Star Game, NHL All Star Game ninety six. This
is before I'm a talent and I'm a producer, and
I go to the All Star Game in Boston and
(10:44):
me and Leevey worked a lot together in that way
talent and I just lost all respect for it. And
we walked into the NHL. It was the NHL game
like the like the NFL experience with the supers NHL
All Star Game. Yeah, so we walk in and there's
a bunch of radio people doing a show and it
was Pharrell when he went back when he was popular.
(11:05):
Everything Farrell on the bench was on this like ninety
six and he's doing, and you could hear it throughout
the entire area of of of the experience. He's said,
we unique voice, we walk in, We just happen to
walk in, and all this all of a sudden, you
just you just hear, you hear Steve Levy's here. When's
the last time your hand moved? Nineteen seventy two, And
(11:28):
everybody just starts laughing, and Levy's face gets so red
because all he did was walk in. It's all he
did was walk in. Ah, not like they announced him
or anything. He just walked into.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Hey, he's the ladies and gentlemen presenting Steve nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I mean a hair off with Steve Levy and and
and Steve Hartman. Man, that's like who that's wow, that's
that's like, that's that's that's Iowa, South Carolina. Man's that's
top of heavyweights getting answered. There's no question about resistible
movable object. Are you kidding? That's a big thing. Hmm. Man.
(12:06):
Seeing all those people they're all dead. Okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I really feel sad that after a decade on air together,
that's the first.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Thing you go to in terms of any remembrance of
what I've brought to the table, Are you No, I'm
really gonna go home for it might be the end
to me brain. This really might be the thing that
pushes me over.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
In the end.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
On your tombs, I was gonna say, here lies Mike Carmen.
He's dead now, just like everybody else he talked to him.
That's what it's gonna say. No tombstone. No, you're not
gonna have a tombstone. Why not done?
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I'm done vegas to get shot into space, have cremated
and shaken out Shawshanks style, shaking out my favorite places
in prison.
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Because that's where it does. Got shuck out in prison. Well, no,
here you gotta be, you know, kind of sneaky about it.
So you know ball fields and can so so you
have right down guaranteed rate field is where you want
your whatever it's called at that point. Yeah, okay, all right, okay,
what if you say Ryan Field got raised? So now
it's just the you know the next iteration, Northwestern locker
(13:12):
room is that where it's gonna go? Okay, all right,
just making sure you banned coffee can cool? Ok Yeah, No,
it's right maybe on top of a mountain like you
know in in the uh Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman movie.
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You know.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike harmon Late Night. NBA is now over the Clippers,
who got out to a thirty two to four lead
over the Suns tonight. Real score fifty one fourteen at
one point. Real score. It's like halftime the Jets game.
Hold on to beat the Suns. Meanwhile, the Warriors sending
(16:24):
a play in preview message to the Lakers without Anthony
Davis as they rolled to a one thirty two, one
sixteen victory. Draymond Green is laughing hitting threes and maybe
eight D's the MVP? Did jarry D's the MVP? Did
Darvin ham ever take his hand out of his pockets?
I did not see that. I did not see Darvin
(16:45):
Haam do that. Did he ever really coach him up? Well,
he talked a lot before the game. He did, he did,
he did.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, no excuses all of the Yeah, I saw the quotes,
but yeah, there were a lot of question marks of
whether Lebron was gonna show up or not. Two forty
five minutes before the game, he hadn't even been part
of warm ups or anything. He finishes with thirty three,
seven rebounds, eleven assists on the night, But yeah, decisive
(17:11):
Golden State Warriors win, and.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
The Warriors setting an NBA record tonight, the highest single
game three point percentage in NBA history. That's not even
a stat minimum forty three point attempts in a game.
The Warriors were twenty six for forty one guys, making
this up from the three point line tonight, not making
the stats like this is on Lakers postgame coverage. This
(17:37):
is Spectrum Sportsnet. It's the best shooting night now from
behind the arc. Anybody in your NBA history is ADS
and Keener is pissed. It's Chris Mullen. It's Chris Mullin
on television talking about this. Twenty six out of forty
one that was the most allowed three pointers in Lakers
franchise history. Again, maybe AD's the MVP, now you're coming around.
(18:01):
He didn't play tonight. Look what happened for three months.
Maybe a D's the MVP. Maybe players off the bench
for the Warriors seven of thirteen, but everybody plays, everybody wins.
But yeah, that's insane. Twenty six of forty one. Close out, man,
close out. So I mean that, let's let's turn to
(18:24):
a positive. That means Anthony Davis is the MVP without
him tonight, with his headache and nausea. Look what the
Warriors did, Look what they did. But I tell you what,
folks were boodle this afternoon as that announcement came down,
heading towards tip off and again mentioning the lebron James.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I'm sure there's a story. I'm sure there'll be some
post with it. But you know, shoot around and our
guy Dan Woiki La times like not there forty five
minutes before the game, not there for shoot around. So
still some questions, you know, all about that because he look,
he'd been sick, so question of his availability had been
out there as l comes up with a big stat line.
(19:02):
But Warriors, when you're at that level of efficiency and
seeing the highlights, it's just kind of like the all right,
nobody's bothering to slip back towards you. So here, we're
gonna dump it out you. You take another one, put.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Up forty one to three point shots and hit to
that level. I mean the look even the Lakers were
still at thirty four. Yeah, yeah, no, then that sounds great,
except when you shot sixty three. When you're at sixty three,
you're not gonna win many games that way. No ads, MVP, MVP,
MVP Jason. Yeah, what he got from I told you
(19:35):
so height easy. How to take a really bad negative
and turn it into a positive. There it is being
stump for your guy. And congrats to the Clippers. I'm
making the playoffs for the first time. First Clippers playoff.
How about that though, that that game that suddenly became
a game. Yeah, almost lost another quarter. If the game
(19:58):
was five quarters, maybe the Sons would have come all
the way back from thirty two to four and one.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
I assault, you know, you got to eleven points and
I'm standing up and you look at what are you
getting excited about? Like, hey, you can take it to
double single did and then they turn it over. It's
like damn it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
But look at that Lakers Warriors a clear unique. We
don't get play in preview matchups like this just out
of day. That's right, Lakers Warriors, Man, look at that previous.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
How lucky we are are we that two of the
giant names in the sport are still gonna battle it
out monoing mon in.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
What do you think the odds are that they wind
up being the two teams in the plane? Do you
think something might happen and maybe one of them vaults
up a spot so they can play in the eight
and nine game? What do you think? Look at you,
you're going deep into your w E K fame kind
But instances here from the bottom of the playoffs to
(20:51):
the top where the NBA playoffs stop, right now as
we wait for word as to what the severity is
of the injury to young honest onto nkunpo tonight, Look,
the Bucks win a game over the Celtics. NBA record
two free throws attempted in the game. Amazing any talking
about NIMA record there two free throws, two fans in.
(21:11):
Yannis leaves the game in the third quarter after a
made three by Derek White. Giannis is just jogging back
up the court and he goes down in a heap.
Right now, it is a calf injury and MRI is
on tap for tomorrow. Here's how it sounded on the air.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Nayless to say, gay, this is a major concern here.
Giannis Adeokumpo just sits down to stop playing. Now, best
case scenario, let's just hope it's a cramp of the calf.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Uh Yeah, remember when Aaron Rodgers sat down, he was
gonna be fun. What happens? H Look, not to not
to say that we know what it is, but certainly
we're hoping it's a calf injury for Yannis. But you
know the correlation that sometimes happens who it's a calf
injury to it's an achilles injury. Aaron Rodgers had a
strained calf in practice for the Jets this summer, and
(21:58):
then what happened after five plays the Jets, he was
done for the season with a torn achilles, likely an
MRI tomorrow. So far, what we're seeing, hopefully, some doctors
who have talked about it before the weigh in on
injuries like this say, looks like it could be good news.
The way Yannis walked off the court, it could just
be a strain. But here's where the dark side is
for Milwaukee, because I know everybody wants to just write
(22:20):
them in to the Eastern Conference finals. It's Jannis, it's
Dame Lillard, and here they are. You're already looking at
a best case scenario for Yannis that he comes back
for the beginning of the playoffs. Right now, you do
have a little bit more time because the season end Sunday,
you have the playing games the next night. He had
a couple of days off, so he's got a little
bit over a week to potentially get ready. But this
(22:41):
team is incredibly vulnerable. They're in a lot of trouble,
and it's not just Yannis. Like I can see the
Bucks losing in the first round easy and Damian Lillard
was brought in to be the guy to make sure
the Bucks didn't lose series like this, like he hit
big shots late and what I've seen from him. You know,
we talked about this with Rick Buker a few days
(23:02):
ago that it could just be, hey, when you get old,
you get old overnight. Because we're watching Damian Lillard not
get his shot off at the end of games, get
his shot blocked when he never has before, try to
get the ball to the hoop, and maybe he doesn't
have that burst like he used to because players defensively
are able to cover and cover more ground and send
a shot back his way or be able to alter
(23:25):
the shot where it's not going. He just looks like
a different guy. And you watch his games. He's a
volume shooter now, you'll get Stot's he's still screa. Yeah,
when he has thirty eight points twenty seven shots, always
had thirty three points twenty five shots. He is a
volume shooter now, and when you're a volume shooter, yeah,
you're still gonna get your points. But it has not
been smooth. The Bucks have not been good, and you
(23:46):
would think adding Damian Lillard a peak Damian Lillard to
this team would be everything they would need. Hey, when
a game's close at the end, guess what Now he
got two guys can take the shot, and likely it's
gonna be Lillard because we can't get it to Giannis,
because he can't get the free throw. All these different things.
It was supposed to be this way, but instead it's
been so mismanaged, and Doc Rivers has come in and
whatever he has done for the team has not worked.
(24:07):
He is now pushing desperation buttons by moving guys from
the from the bench of the starting lineup, looking for
some kind of spark. As we get close to the playoffs,
it is desperation time. I'm telling you, I'm not gonna
be surprised if Milwaukee loses in the first round. In fact,
if Janni's return is up in the air, I'll tell
you right away they're going out in the first round
because they're gonna wind up finishing third, fourth. Because right now,
(24:30):
you've got a couple of teams, including the Knicks, who
are right on them with three games to go, and
it's a it's a game behind. They're gonna wind up
playing a team that they're gonna wind up dropping a fourth,
they'll play Orlando, They'll play somebody who is pretty good.
And look out when a thirty three ish almost thirty
four Damian Lillard has to carry the load, and he
hasn't done it so far this year. This is danger
time for the Bucks and all of a sudden, the
(24:52):
East is way more wide open than you thought it was.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, I got two things that you know. I'll continue
on that point and expound upon it a second. You
want to go back to this game one O four
ninety one is your final. There were a total of
two free throws shot in this game.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Two. I said that right, twelve personal fouls in a
regulation NBA game. Did the officials not show up? I mean,
we've had that for some soccer league stuff, but it's
just amazing that that would be the case. Now. As
for bringing in Lillard right thirty six minutes tonight, only
eleven shot attempts. So there's the riddled me. This doc
(25:31):
rivers for one, especially with Giannis missing a bunch of time.
But you knew you were going to give up some
stuff defensively by bringing him in, right, So that's part
of it. The extra expenditure of energy to all of
that many miles on the legs. I'd been in the
league over a decade at this point. The fact that
Doc Rivers is eighteen and eighteen at this point off
(25:53):
a team that was thirty and thirteen when he was
hired is a whole other problematic thing to discuss. But
you gave up stuff defensively, and now you lose Giannis,
who's against these younger, at more athletic teams top to bottom.
It's problematic. Now Beverly gave him a jump today, inserted
(26:14):
in the lineup, and you know, whenever he's on his game,
all right, maybe he can ratchet up, but can you
put bank on that? The reason he was coming off
the bench right and you get a quick jolt, But
if Jannis isn't able to give you thirty five minutes
a night, you don't have the depth. And Lillard played
a lot in obscurity and then we'd get the runs
(26:36):
where people would get excited about Dame time, but he
had to it was basically a two man operation for
most of that time there, right, So again a lot
of wear and tear on the body. And then I
mentioned Doc in is eighteen and eighteen. That can't be dismissed.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
No right, as much as we can talk about the
roster construction, dame himself like, how just we've heard all
the stories about how disgruntled people are. There's our obligatory
curb your enthusiasm reference, but you are disgruntled, but that
everybody was salty with their roles and how he's playing,
(27:13):
and it's it's borne out over thirty six games.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You're a middling team with Doc Rivers as your coach.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Lucky you got off to a great start, you know
before you fired the guy.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
They're in a lot of trouble man there in time. Again,
I'm not going to be great, right, it's the Celtics
and everybody. Celtics are great at home. The Celtics are
great at home, and being the number one seed, certainly
that's going to be a huge advantage for them. But
it's it's wide.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The rest of these teams are suspect down the line,
which is why you're starting to get all hopeful and
dancing around going Nicks Nicks, Nicks, Nicks Nicks again.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Now I'm going to ask Alex Tycher to question for
a dollar, does he get it right or does he
miss it? You can take either side of this, either side.
Does he get it right? Yeah, he's gonna get he
gets right all right, Alex Teischert. The Milwaukee Bucks are
officially calling right now before the mridanis they are officially
calling it for giannis A solius injury s O L
(28:13):
e U S. Solius injury. What is the solius and
what is it right below in the leg? Because you're
a healthy guy, so I figure maybe you would know
this plexus solar plex What is it, doctor Alex ty Shirt. No, okay,
we said it was a calf strain, so you know
(28:33):
calf strain. Calf is not in the solar PLEXI. You're
right right, Solius injury so his ankle. No, first of all,
like you said, oh it's not that bad. You made
it seem like, oh it's not that bad. It's not.
The solius is a muscle just below the fibia and
the tibia. Okay, that's good. So that's where it is
long it's it's not the fibia or tibia. It's it
(28:54):
is not it's below then it We're good. The solius muscle, yeah,
it is, Uh, it's it's by its health.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Where do you keep.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Solius muscle that your feet. No, no, no, no, that's
s O L E. S. And then it's there to
give your calf muscle. It's with yes, that's what it does. Wow, Frostburg,
know how did you know that? Because Harmon has really
big ones? But how did you? Okay, like it's true, okay,
(29:22):
category Glinger, But how did you know that word? Though?
How did you? How did you? Because I'm a doctor,
you're not even that. You're not even the healthy guy
on here, like Tyshirt's the guy. So I didn't even know.
It doesn't mean he hasn't study. I mean, look, he's
a member of the Chargers organization. If he knows anything,
he knows what injuries are because they've been staffed for years.
(29:42):
That's the past we got Ben Herbert Nower thought the
calf was in your solar plex. Yes, well, I'll tell
you that it hurts. I get a fifth I get
a fifth leg. It comes out of my stomach. Whoa
fifth leg? And how many? How many muscles are in
the calf? Guys? In the calf there are a total
uh of four? Nope, how do you don't even know? No,
(30:04):
you don't know. I know muscles too. I didn't know
I was right, it's I'm right. No, he just said
I'm right. He said, he's right. There's four muscles. It's two,
two in the right leg and two in the left.
You're too much muscle too, I'm correct, you're too much.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Doctor Chaso.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's correct to yeah, two in the right legs, two
in the left, less sun four. What I should teach one?
I should teach anatomy medical school? Oh boy, what's one
times one? One? I thought that's two? Is it ends
two things? That's one and one? How's one and one?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
One?
Speaker 1 (30:40):
And how many muscles are there? How many total muscles
are leg? And how many the other one? Well, if
you're gonnadd two legs and four? Okay, so how many
we're in a calf, not calves? But you have two
of them? You assumed do you have two of them?
Ni has two of them? Four muscles? Not for long?
I'm right. You thought it was in his stomach, his stomach. Hey,
(31:03):
just coming up next, we got more NBA on the way.
You can watch basketball for the rest of your life,
however old you are, and you may never see what
we saw in a game tonight. That's next right here.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 4 (31:25):
Good fuck boored Radio from now.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Dude pod is not that hard? Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. True,
I am ready to go full conspiracy theory on you,
full conspiracy but not quite conspiracy theory, but more like, wow,
it seems conspiracy theory. But then it's that it really
makes sense? Okay, Okay. Now, obviously we spend a lot
(31:54):
of time tonight talk about Giannis the injury, waiting to
find out what it is. Right now, it's a calf strain?
Is it more serious? Doc Rivers says, he's very concerned. Sure,
who's got the most pressure on him? Let's go. But
part of this game tonight where the Bucks beat the Celtics,
NBA record low two free throws were attempted in this
(32:17):
game two Giannis was one out of two. Yep, that
was it. I mean that that shatters the record for
fewest free throws in a game, which previously had been eleven.
As Doc Rivers said after the game, Adam Silver is
the happiest Our fifty seven game time. My goodness, you
can go to a game and still have dinner. Unbelievable.
(32:39):
He was asked for the stats. You asked for the
stats after the game, he said, no, I want the
whole games. That's no, this is it because he saw
no free throws. Two free throws during the game by
the officiating crew, just to let you know, it's we
did na see Scott Foster in this two free throws.
(33:00):
Now here's where I get conspiracy theory on you. There
is no way the referees and the officials did this
game and said, yeah, clean game. We're just staying a
clean game. Don't see it. I get that some games
you get more threes, but Yannis is one of the
most top three most fouled guys in the league. So
is Tatum, and so is Liward. These like they're in
(33:21):
the top seven of fouled guys in the league. And yes,
Yanna's played until the midway through the third quarter before
he got hurt free throw line. Two free throws in
this game. I'll tell you what I would bet. I
would bet. This is me geting a little conspiracy theory,
but I would bet because the NBA knows what they
do when they send referees. What if tonight it was, Hey,
(33:43):
you know what, this game, lay off the whistle, let
them play, and we want to see what this looks
like in a game. It's a game that doesn't really matter. Yes,
it's two good teams, right, but doesn't matter really in
the standings because the Bucks are second or th you know,
they still have a couple of games left. The Celtics
are in first place. They're gonna finish in first places
(34:04):
very easily. But we want to see what this looks
like in a game with two good teams, what it
looks like in the playoffs. Because you already had Doc
Rivers talking about pace of play and the game ended
in two hours of what this is? And I wonder again,
I wonder, is this the NBA saying this is our
answer to pace of play? Officials, You're gonna swallow the
whistles a little bit more. You're gonna let them play
(34:26):
because it's gonna speed up the game. It's going to
allow us to make a more aesthetically pleasing game. Maybe
there's more points, but in the end, the games aren't
gonna be marathons. They're not gonna be problems with the
game being more bloated. We're gonna let them play and
to see. This is the test game and the test
balloon to see if it works. And if it does,
you'll see games officiated this way. Maybe not to this extent,
(34:49):
but you'll see it officiated this way from now on,
this era of the NBA under Adam Silver, Because there's
no way that you saw this game tonight and there
wasn't at least a opportunity for a dozen or more
free throws in this game. There wasn't this happened like this,
But that's NBA. And some will be quick to point out,
as you know, I did just anecdotically, anecdotally the number
(35:12):
of three point attempts, right, So all right, you're you're
just shooting jump shots, so you're not taking the ball
into the paint. Because that's part of the criticism slash
evaluation of where the NBA is anyway, Right, How many
times even guys on their own broadcasts and postgame comments, Ah,
just a three point shooting contest? Anymore black in my day?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
But to your point, Giannis ten point eight free throws
per game, Lillard seven point one, Tatum six point nine,
all top ten in said category. It would be curious
again with the where you're sitting with the Bucks with
a couple of teams hot on their trail for the
number two spot in seeding, that you would take that
(35:56):
game in a nationally televised game, maybe as your litmus test,
your your balloon, as it were. But if Doc already
has a statement ready for it, wow, cool on our
fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It's nice.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
It's nice and compartmentalized. What do people always cite is
one of the first reasons they love soccer. It's done
in two hours, it's done right, here's halftime, forty five
minute half. Yeah, you got some extra injury time and whatever.
But it's a nice, basically compartmentalized piece for television. And
that's where Major League Baseball and Rob Manford have tried
(36:32):
to do. And maybe some of the success that you've
seen there from a television and attendance standpoint, maybe the
NBA trying to follow suit.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
I mean, just think about it for a second. There's
no way. There's only one one play where a guy
goes to the free throw line. There's no way. There's
no way.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Now I can't say I got to watch it, you know,
and really scrutinize it. I mean, we had four games
on and we're getting ready for the show and all,
but it's still leads me.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
The incredulity is off the charts. I mean an NBA game.
You may never see this again unless this is a directive,
and this is how we see games being officiated from
now on. This is our way of doing it without
really doing it. If you didn't watch it, I mean,
you'd say, wow, was it a call your own there's
only twelve dollars. Oh so I thought you guys knew
that you had to call your own fellows. So we
decided to save money by eliminating referees altogether. My bet,
(37:23):
my bet exit out bout a Fresca exit swollen dome.
So just something to think about that sounds conspiracy theory,
but might not be coming up next. Reaction to the
college basketball story that still is resonating twenty four hours later.
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