May 10, 2024 • 37 mins
Jayson Tatum downplays how good the Celtics are after getting blown out. And the NBA suspends Patrick Beverley 4 games for his crazy shenanigans!
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
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Speaker 1 (00:51):
In the fourth quarter, Dallas has pushed the lead over
the Thunder out to one fourteen to one oh four.
It is been a big last couple of minutes for
Luca Donzic, who's now is up to twenty nine PJ.
Washington twenty seven and eleven rebounds for the Mavericks. He
has been an absolute fine because Kyrie Irving with just
(01:13):
seven points in thirty seven minutes and still the Mavericks
are about two and a half to go of tying
this series up at one game apiece. And look, it
didn't look good for a little bit. Didn't know if
the Mavericks are gonna have enough. But so far they've
been doing what they needed to do offensively, getting down load,
challenging chet Homer in the last couple of minutes, and
they're not holding on to this lead with hey, we're
(01:34):
gonna you can let the shot clock go down and
try a bad off balance three. You know, we are
trying to push our advantage, get down low, make plays,
and they've been able to have this ten point advantage
for the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, okay, See went absolutely ice cold for a good
four plus minutes or thereabouts, where Sga finally hit a
three his first make of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He'd been oh for three.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So you look, offensively gets stagnant, whereas the Mavericks still
pushing the issue, still working.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The ball around.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You just had a big, big block by Chat But
then just like on que, the ball hits out to
Hardaway who hits a big shot, So extending that lead
for the Thunder. It just looks like they've put a
lid on the rim.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, look, it's you know what, outside of Gildess Alexander,
it's been a bad shooting night for Oklahoma City. Nobody
is really coming through. It's been a very difficult night.
Sga has had it basically all by himself. He's two
us as short of a triple double. But look, it's
it's a case of eventually you need somebody else to
step up. This is just a bad game for Oklahoma
(02:41):
City that's had their really their first bad game of
the playoffs, right, guy, can't really say this is their
first bad game of the playoffs, and it's you know,
gonna wind up evening the series at one game apiece.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Going back to Dallas, Yeah, I mean, still shooting forty
seven percent from the field overall, but you've got Dallas
with eight more three point makes right?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, Remember, look, Kildris Alexander is thirteen for twenty four.
Nobody else is above fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, well but I mean look at Williams at seven
for seventeen.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
He's got twenty.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But otherwise, yeah, I mean it's it's been a struggle
and you've just seen between Washington had the hot first
half Donchis as well. I mean, they both really did
a lot of their damage early. And then Green and
Hardway have combined for twenty eight off the bench to
help pay some things. Uh, And you know what I
thought was going to become an issue was the Mavericks
have missed seven free throws. Right, much like we talked
(03:35):
about the Pacers having that streak in the fourth quarter yesterday.
I don't know that that showed up in the enumerated
seventy eight things. You know, the free throws they didn't make, Jason.
But you know, for the Mavericks, at least to this
point with two twelve remaining, that hasn't come back to
haunt them yet.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So we left more and this again a nine point
lead with two twelve left to go. Really, the thunder
have their work cut out for them if they're going
to try to get back into this one. Meanwhile, earlier
tonight we watch the Celtics lay a complete egg against
the Cleveland Cavaliers, right, a series that we all thought
was gonna be over and four we talked about it
last night. Hey, the Celtics, if they're not in the
(04:14):
NBA Finals, something's wrong. And I told you. I am
putting them on my never again list if they don't
win win the title this year, because this is the
year to do it. Everything is laid out for them.
It's the easiest possible road they can have.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And here there are.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
They come up with an absolute stinker against the Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Big night for Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah great, But what's the right way to break.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Down this game?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Because it look Celtics fans Knicks fans are the same.
It's either the best it could possibly be or the
sky is falling, right, Like that's the way it is, like, Oh,
things are unbelievable, or the sky is falling and it's awful,
and tonight is a sky is falling night. Oh here
are the Celtics. Jason Tatum stinks. He's not the real guy.
Like you know, a story that comes up like every
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round when the Celtics blow a game, same thing happened
in the last round against the Heat. They win game
one by fifty, they get blown out in game two
and it's, oh, look at this, how do they let
this happen? So and then the Celtics gave them a
clinic the rest of the series. So what's the right
way to bounce off of this game. For the Celtics tonight,
it's not about this round. The Celtics are a phenomenally
(05:19):
talented team. They're more talented than Cleveland. They'll win this
round in the playoffs, right, They'll win this This is
not a big deal. Will they be able to throw
the hammer down like they did the last round. Maybe
it might be a little bit more difficult, but Boston
is the better team. The way to look at this
is that for a team that everybody should be fearing,
you don't fear them because they will give you a
(05:40):
clunker like this when there's no reason for it, right,
They just have a propensity for it, and you can
sit back and tick off the ree say well, this
game we didn't shoot well, or this game we got
in foul jo. You can say anything you want if
you're the Celtics, But the bottom line is, for the
last few years they have a tendency towards games like this,
just an absolute state that comes out of nowhere for
(06:01):
no reason, and they have one of these at least
every round. So even though there's probably different you can give,
you point to different reasons out tonight. You know, White
wasn't great tonight. He didn't shoot well tonight. That was
a big He has been scoring a lot for them, okay,
But the bottom line is they have games like this
when there's no reason to. The Cavaliers should have been
coming into this game going, man, we just got to
(06:23):
hope to be competitive the way we got blown out
game one.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Here's game two.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But the Celtics again mentally, aren't strong enough to put
this game away when they should have. So when does
this come up? This becomes a bigger deal in the
next round and the NBA Finals. You want to know
why they haven't won, because when you need a team
to fear you to an extent, and no team as
good as the Celtics are, you look at the record
they have this year, no team fears them because they know, hey, eventually,
(06:49):
the Celtics are gonna give you something.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's like a quarterback in the NFL. That boy, he's
really good and if he's having a big first half,
but the defense tells himself the other in half time,
he's going to give us a couple in the second half.
Be ready, he's gonna give us a couple of stinker
bad passes.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Let's be ready. Let's be ready.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We know we can still beat this team because the
quarterback's gonna give it to us.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Just watch. And that's kind of where other teams are.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
With the Celtics, they know, hey, even if it looks
like they're great and they can do no wrong, the
next game, watch, even if it's at home, we can
come in and steal it. And eventually that's what's gonna
come back to kill you and bite you in the
as is where you do it against the team that
is too good for you to come back from that
in the series, because so far it's been against two teams.
(07:32):
They're better then, right, better than the Heat they win
the series, and better than the Cavaliers. They'll win this series.
But when it comes to next round, whether it's the
Knicks or the Pacers, or the finals against the Timberwolves
or the Thunder or whoever it winds up being, you
tell me, if they give away a game like that,
we're winning the title.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
They're not because the other team is gonna take advantage
of that and they're gonna go on the road and go,
oh wow, the other team protected home court, did everything
they wanted to do. Yeah, we lost focus. We did whatever.
But however you want to slice it up, this is
what the Celtic are prone to do. They've been doing
it for the last few years. They're going to continue
to do it. And that's the real takeaway. It's not
about now, it's about when they pull these next thinkers
coming up later onto the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Shot poorly, didn't turn the ball over much, only seven,
so took care of it from that angle. But you know,
eight to thirty five from three point range and allowed
the Cavaliers to shoot nearly fifty five percent. Donovan Mitchell
in the second half at twenty three points as a team,
thirteen of twenty eight from the three point range, so
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not closing out. You know, every player that went to
the podium or back in the locker room got asked
the variation of the same thing. It's like, what the
hell's wrong with you guys at home? Because they were
thirteen and a half point favorite tonight, Jason people expecting
the burial Perzingius out but still no Jared Allen. By
the way, Porzingis had a really sweet ass jacket on.
(08:50):
I don't know if you saw that in photo. Sure,
the old letterman's jacket was really cool. But Jalen Brown quote,
last year's last year right now, we shot the ball
both games that we lost here at home incredibly bad.
They shot the ball really well. We didn't play defense
to our level tonight. That seems to be the resounding theme. Well,
we can't account for last year, but right now at home,
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we don't. We don't seem to have an answer and
haven't played inspired basketball, is how I'm reading between the
lines between him, between Horford and some of the others
that spoke. So you've got some issues to address for Missoula.
And this was the kind of thing that at the
end of last season, Jason, as close as they got
to things right, was the Hey, Missoula didn't have him,
(09:35):
you know, to the same amped up level to take
advantage of the fact that they have this roster that
they have this I mean, he had, you know, Jason
Tatum kind of going well, I don't know, everybody.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Calls the super team.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We don't.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
We didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
We didn't have the MVP, we don't have Coach of
the Year. I mean, what do we got. We got
a couple of stars.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All of a sudden, Yeah, all of a sudden. The
Jason Tatum, What do you want from us? We're not
that great? Oh wait, wait, wait wait, I want to
go back and look at the standings. Jason, didn't didn't
you guys win the East by fifteen games? Didn't you
have the best record in the NBA by seven games?
Now suddenly, oh, we're not a super team. We're not
that great round Oh oh, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You're not great. You were great before, but now you're not.
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I understand, Yes, I understaid you you had the best
record in the NBA by seven games you ran away
with Okay, now I understand it's yes, you're not a
great team.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
All those all those other wins. Yeah, no, I get it,
I get it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I get Yeah, that's one of those. You gotta be
better about answering that question. Just feel like, you know,
we just didn't have it tonight. Something's going on. We
need to, you know, get behind the scenes, talk to
each other, talk with the coaching staff, the analysts, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
You know, give a a.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Political answer, if non answer, if there ever was one,
but just saying that, I mean, look, we don't have
the coach the year coaching I mean, there's only two
All Stars on this team.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
What don't we do?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I'm just I'm just a humble cave man in your
wacky world.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I mean, you will short sucked, That's true.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Danny Ainge just not walking through that door. No, Jerry
Seasting is not walking through that door. It is nice happening,
I'm telling you, man. But I mean, really, I love
it when when when when when people want to suddenly say, hey,
I'm only this humble basketball player, like we're only this this,
you know, this little little engine that could team from Boston.
I mean, you know, hey, we're we're overachieving right now,
(11:31):
and we're we're really not that great a team.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It's like, oh, okay, got it, got it. God.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Now suddenly, hey we're not the biggest, baddest guys on
the block. And I want to there's a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We're not. We're not as good as as everybody said. No,
I'm not saying anybody's saying.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You're great, but I look at the record and go,
you dominated the NBA this year. You guys one year
won the Eastern Conference by twelve games.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Suddenly suddenly you're not that good. Come on, man, I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I mean you just expect us to win every game
by twenty five. That that was literally a quote from
Jason Tatum, and he goes that it's not gonna be
that way. It's like, no, it doesn't have to be
twenty five. You were favored by thirteen against a team
that I think by all metrics you were decidedly better then,
except when it came to heart in game two.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm completely changing, moving the goalposts on what success is
for us. Like this is why when I say the
Celtics give you a stinker, is they're not mentally tough
like they need to be. They're not as mentally tough
all the way through like they need to be. And
if you're gonna win a championship, it's what you have
to be. You can't take games off. You can't say, hey,
we're good. Here, we're gonna do that. Okay, now we're
really throwing it down Eventually. If you don't have that
(12:39):
that day to day mindset, you're going home with an
L and your season's gonnaends gonna be we don't know
what happened.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, guess what you were. You weren't ready. You weren't ready,
weren't ready.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
For every game and ready for every challenge like there is,
because I'll guarantee you this right not to make it,
not to make it about the next but I guarantee
you this.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
They got game three tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
There's no og aoob, there's you know, maybe Jalen Brunson plays,
may he doesn't, but I guarantee you, no matter what
the score is, the Knicks are gonna go down scratching
and clawing for every bleeping point because that's.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Who they are.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's how focused you have to be to win. I
know the kind of effort that they're gonna give, regardless
to what the scoreboard says, because that's just who the
Knicks are. And also they can't sit too many guys
because they only play seven and now they're down to six,
so against like, so many guys are not gonna play.
I know what kind of effort they're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I get that from the Celtics all the time. I
don't get that effort from that. I don't get this, Hey,
we're gonna go out there with everything we need, with
the eye of the tiger and whatever other cliche you
want to use. I know we're not gonna get that
from the Celtics and eventually it comes back to bite you,
and it's gonna bite them later in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
You grab your paccino, then you circle back, grabbing all
your cliches like you're running a.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Pep rally for the Knicks. I know our team is
gonna keep fighting.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
They look out for you, the little man. They get
offensive rebounds like nobody else. That's how it goes.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
They fight people off like that pizza rat that we
all love.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
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series at one game apiece. We got the latest on
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Speaker 1 (15:10):
I really I don't understand why the Rob Parker Mets
go to the World Series is part of that.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
They have to come together.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Without the racism should stand on its own. But suddenly
the Mexico they want.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
They wanted equal time. It was like politics and talk shows.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You the World Series?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, not this year anyway. Listen, My plate is full
with the knicks right now. All right, I always say, Mets.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The jets of plates almost done. My plate is full
with the knicks, and that goes right into the jet.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Your plate's gonna be full of pumpkin at midnight in
a couple old days.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Look, this is gonna go as long as it goes right,
It's gonna go as long, much longer, maybe it goes
the rest of this series. Maybe it was a little
bit further, maybe goes all the way to the NBA title.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Maybe something you don't even know about.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I mean that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Maybe Adobe, we don't need Anoonobe. Maybe it's maybe he's
holding us back. What but he's a great defensive player
and Jason you said he transformed the team.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Maybe he's holding us back.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Maybe maybe we're gonna get something else to right three, No,
look obvious if the Pacers don't win tomorrow Night's game
by at least twenty like like, I don't know what
else to do. I don't know what else Rick Carlisle
can complain about. Oh, these calls aren't happening, dude. You
should win by twenty tomorrow and it should be a walk.
(16:35):
You should get whatever calls you think you're not getting.
The Knicks are playing that. Look, there's no O, Gano, Noby.
The only play seven guys anyway. And and now Jalen
Brunson's questionable. Who knows if he's gonna play Maybe, And
what I got to guess tomorrow night is that Brunson
will start, and if things get out of hand, his
limits will be limited.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
His minutes will be limited big way, yep.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But I mean because I don't think he's gonna not play,
you know, I don't think that's gonna happen. But like
if it gets out of hand, like even early, like
if it's a if it gets to be like middle
of the second quarter and the Pacers are up like
thirty six to fifteen, like that's gonna be it. Like
unless somehow the Nicks shoot their way back in it.
Jalen Brunson's gonna sit most of the most of the game.
I can't see that happening. So tomorrow, Look, tomorrow's a
(17:17):
free game for me. It's a free game. It's a
I expect the Pacers to win. And if they don't, boy,
I can't wait for the postgame press conference. Then suddenly
Rick Carlo's gotta blame.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What do you blame?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Everybody's against us, our governors, our senators, the White House,
the world, everybody justin Trudeau hates us.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I don't know even know who's in charge in Europe.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
They hate us. Everybody hates us. They don't want the
Indiana Pacers to win anything. That's what I'm waiting for.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I like that you got Trudeau in there, nicely done.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Not a ton of World Leaders roll off my tongue,
like I remember who they are and I want to
say the good ones.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You know, it's supposed to.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Be used to have Merkle and all these people.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know that they're in charge anymore. Yeah, no,
she's not charged anymore, No, Angel Merkle's no.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean like, I mean, like at one point, there
was a up set they do every year called Alan
and Ginter that has these weird little inserts that you get,
like one wanna pack and for one for one of
the years, they did World Leaders. So all of a sudden,
you're pulling a You're pulling a Trudeau or a Mercle
card in the middle. It's like, all right, there's uh,
(18:17):
all right, I got a Clayton Kerse shaw.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I got a uh David Ryot, I got hey, there's Merkle.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Sweet.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I'm closer to that World Leader set.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
This is another Boris Johnson. I have like twelve of him.
Come on, man, how come he keep me popping up?
I'm always supposed to get three of these in a box,
but I keep getting the same damn guy. It is
like when they did the when they did the cards
and Harry Potter and all the all the wizards.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I got a nine of him.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's doubled, Dolly, I got like nine to him, like
I got a World Leader card.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I keep waiting.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I'm gonna find it in the next break, and I'm
gonna show it you. I may actually have a Merkle
and not Fred Merkle. I think I have one of
those two.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'll give you two Boris John Onnsen's and one mrk
Okay Steve Merkle or c Steve?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Did I do that? Did I do? Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So we just watched the Dallas Mavericks really look, really
show me something here in the fourth quarter. Uh it
looked like the recipe for this game was the Mavericks
did all they could. Luca looks like he's banged up.
Here come the thunder. They're a little bit younger there
at home. But instead Dallas is able to hold off
(19:28):
the Thunder one nineteen to one ten. It was a
great effort in the fourth. Every time it looked like
the thunder was gonna creep closer, the Mavericks would make
a big shot.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Look.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Luca had twenty nine, but shockingly Uid PJ. Washington with
twenty nine points and Tim Hardaway off the bench had seventeen.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
He had a couple of threes. Look, they had eighteen
threes on the night.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It was a really big night for Dallas and they
needed this to beat the Thunder. I was surprised because
I thought, well, after game one, this is just gonna
be a walk right the Panssically Thunder and Minnesota. They're
on a collision course all all of these things. And
then I said, oh, okay, maybe the Mavericks have something here.
And you know, depending on how banged up Luka Dontich is.
As as I said, it changed from minute to minute.
(20:09):
In the fourth quarter, it looked like he was really
hurt and would have to come out. Then it looked
like he was fine. Then it looked like he's hurt,
then it looked like he's fine.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Like I get, I.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Get so full of of of conspiracy theory sometimes with
players where I I really think the best players they
know when the camera is on them and they know
when when when they can show something that makes it
look like I'm injured, whether it's it's it's whether it's
for the game itself to make the make the the
other team relax and think, oh, this guy can't do much.
(20:38):
Let's you know, let's uh, let let's see what he
can do when I am able to create more space
for myself or whether it's just for the strictly for
the cameras. And I don't like people saying bad stuff
about me, and if I'm hurt, they're not gonna say
bad things. But there's part of me goes, you know, I,
you know, seeing what Hey, look, here's Joelle andb limping
really badly right in front of the camera that's showing
his video. Right now, here's Luka Doncic bent over in
(21:01):
obvious pain when there's a camera right in his face.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Right, Like, I go, how like how dinged up is?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like I don't doubt for a second that Luca is
is dinged up a little bit, But you can't be
dinged up that bad? You know, you still, you know,
if you're Luca, you still played forty one minutes, you
score twenty nine points, You look good after it looked
like you couldn't walk, limping back down the floor.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So I wonder, I wonder how.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Much of this is Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm gonna
trying to get a foul call, or I'm trying to
do this, or I'm trying to do this, or I
just want to look like I'm hurt, because then people
were gonna say good things about me. Like I I
go back and forth between all three of those things.
For when I see a guy limping, hurt and playing
and still dominating.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, I mean he.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Certainly did battle the officials quite often tonight for calls,
which is I mean his norm. So I mean, nothing
out of the ordinary there. But when we look at
you know, his forty one minutes played, he's on the court,
you're a idea of, Hey, a little bit of a
rope adote, maybe give you an advantage here and there
on a possession when you need to get to the bucket.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Maybe there's something to that.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And certainly the naysayers and poison bends have been out
for him quite a bit, you know, when they went
into slumps over the course of the year, only winning
you know, fifty games, but certainly after the game one
lost to the thunder and immediately became the what if
Luca can't get them over dot dot dot and became
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an indictment of you know, starting to go back. Is
he in shape? Will he ever be in basketball shape.
All of these is it's the best punch they have.
I mean, Kyrie played forty one minutes tonight, had eleven assists,
only two of eight from the field, but plus nine
for his nine points. I gotta imagine he's more active
shooting the ball as well.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
But if PJ.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Washington's gonna be as hot as he was over the
course of the night seven of eleven from three point range,
I mean, you gotta dance with who brung you no
reason to go away from getting him the ball, and
those open looks as he finishes Ty and Luca the
twenty nine points and Hardaway was great off the bench.
All of those things to say that, you know, we
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may have ourselves and a little bit of a series here,
just like you know, we expected the walkover by the Celtics.
I didn't think they'd sweep the Calves, but nobody was
predicting more than a win, and even that would be
under strained circumstances. Instead, they kicked their ass today and
the Mavericks here thunder in the fourth quarter, couldn't find
a shot for anything. I mean, they went ice cold
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for a long stretch, and you saw Dallas take over.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
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Speaker 3 (23:38):
More on this game coming up in a couple minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Monty Belongs will have the details, more and more and
more detail with what's trending. But I said, in a
few minutes, we're gonna have we got a good guy
into the topic. Hey, Monty's got to make sure all
her bets cleared tonight, for she's got the the games
are all over.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's got to make sure her BET's leert. So we'll
get to what's trending in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But we saw a big decision by the NBA today
that showed you that Patrick Beverly got suspended for four
games for throwing a basketball at a fan. Look, the
Bucks went out in the clinching game. You threw a
basketball at a fan. We've seen the video by now,
and then Patrick Beverley made it worse by telling an
ESPN reporter, I'm not going to answer your questions unless
(24:19):
you subscribe to my podcast. And the NBA said, hey,
we're suspending you kind of for all of it, for
all of your conduct. So like it was throwing the basketball.
It was your conduct in the post game. So he
gets a four game suspension for.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
All of this.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Now, I really wanted the NBA to announce this in
a podcast, like an announcing the podcast that Patrick Beverley
would have had to subscribe to to find out what
is fate? You got a random caller, like nobody tells you. Hey, Patrick,
they I know what's gonna happen to you?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
What is it? Well? They said it? Well, what is it? Well?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Adam Silver said it in a podcast, but I don't know.
Subscribe to the podcast and you'll find out how long
you're suspended for. Nobody's supposed to tell you. I mean,
nobody's always allowed to tell you. So you got a
subscribe to the podcast to find out. I really would
have liked.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
His Basement podcast or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
A random one. It can't be, you know, one of
the big ones. It's gotta be, you know, some random thing.
High It's It's Adam from New York City and I
have some news.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
This is Pat.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Sorry, this is Beverly, and uh I really would like
to uh to know what the suspension was for. Uh
uh Pat Beverly, Pat bev. I'll hang up and listen,
I'll take your answer off the.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Air like that would have been great. That would have
been great. Well, I met a kind of situation, Jason.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He might not talk to himself if he doesn't subscribe
to his own podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, you might be right about that. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Voices in your own head to go.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
If it's something out now wait now, look at it
from this perspective. If it's something that's announced not on
his podcast, does he have to adhere to it? Like
does he show up to play going I'm next year?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
He didn't get the memo.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Sorry, Pat, you're out of this gate? What are you
talking about? Your I was a pretty big thing. It
wasn't on my podcast. Didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Let's go, ready to go, tip it off.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I'm ready, come on the discussion.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
He's a free agent, right, so they didn't tell me
that when I signed my new deal. I haven't worked
George George the return for Opening Night.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The big The big thing in this is that you
look at Okay, he gets four games for throwing a
basketball at a fan.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
There's video evidence of it. We all saw it.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
There's investigations as to whether they're going to be criminal prosecution.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He won't talk to.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The cops if they don't get me to his podcasts.
He's gonna clam up. He's gonna I plead the fifth.
I want a lawyer, right like they always do with
all the TV shows when they smarten up and go, oh,
I need a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Lawyer, lawyer. I'm lawyering up right now. I'm luring up Jason.
That's actually smart to do.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Of course I.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Always know he always asked for a lawyer. Yeah, never
don't don't. Don't think the cop is trying to be
your friend. Hey, I'm trying to help you out here,
like like, if you tell me the story, I'll let
you walk right out and go, oh, that's how it's
gonna work. But so he gets four games for that,
And there was obviously no suspension for Jamal Murray throwing
a heat pack on the floor during a game, which
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makes absolutely no sense. Now, Patrick Beverley, I guess I
guess he would have been better off had he thrown
or had he thrown a basketball at a player, and
then maybe they wouldn't suspend why he threw it a player.
I couldn't tell you. I didn't tell where it came from.
I didn't know if he threw it in frustration or
threw it at somebody, it might have worked out better
for But for Jamal Murray to not get anything other
(27:30):
than one hundred thousand dollars fine, Like, that's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's the NBA putting their.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Thumb on the scale, saying, if we suspend him, that's
gonna end the Nuggets season.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I also would have given him another one hundred grand
for refusing to answer questions.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah that's not a basketball question.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well yeah, oh, look, look at what happens a team.
And this will be a topic we get into tomorrow
night a little bit more. But look what happens a
team sometimes the first time they get punched in the face.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
And what is oh look what that is all bad?
I don't want to talk to the media.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I'm throwing you he'd pack up all of this, but like,
he throws a heat pack on the floor at the
direction of players while they were playing, and and and
for there to.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Be basically no and no real interest.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It seemed because the referees the officials were like, well,
if I knew he threw it, we would have given
him a technical we would have done something.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Did you even try I mean, it's like they didn't
even try it. Who threw it?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well, they came from Jowal Murray. Let's just keep playing.
It doesn't matter. Like the fact they did nothing to
try to adjudicate it in the moment is what made
it worse, right, because this is where, Okay, you can't
just let a heat pack be thrown on the floor
by a player and then just let it go. I
know the game, I know it's a twenty point game,
but you're there to referee the game. You're not just
to make you know, you're not a youth referee. Where
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it's like, okay, we gotta get everybody to lunch, So
where's do running clock for the last fifteen minutes? Right,
this is a blowout. Everybody's gotta go. We got we
gotta hit the next game on the field like like
this is this is a big deal. And and for
them to not even look like they wanted to do
anything in the beginning, and then to come back and say, yeah,
hundred gram and yet no, no find no suspension, no
not that that's all it is. The guy threw a
(29:01):
heat pack on the floor in the direction of players
while they were playing, right, I mean, you're not gonna
be a doom and gloom guy and say all the
worst thing of that. But somebody could have slipped on that.
Somebody could have slipped and fallen. Something could have happened.
They could have got hurt. Like the guy, the guy
you gotta be. You gotta be a professional man. You're
getting paid, he's got a huge contract.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You can't just take down and to throw a heat
pad onto the floor because I'm upset because the game's
not going because the first game in a year and
a half isn't going our way, and oh we're down
in the playoffs and that.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I mean, come on, man, be a pro and oh
one hundred thousand dollars fight. Yeah, I got that. That's
no big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I mean that's the that's the weak sauce the NBA
put all on this is that they didn't really see
interested at all in adjudicating this, not like taking it
by the bull by the horn said Okay, here's why
we're doing this, and here's what we're doing, and here's X,
Y and z's basically yeah, we want just to kind
of go away because again Adam Silver doesn't want to
do anything, and so yeah, I'm just gonna kind of
make this go away. Hopefully people stop talking about it,
(29:52):
and and and well, it's not gonna happen because there's
shows and there's people that will hold you accountable like
you and I. Uh so it's going to continue on,
and it's going to keep going into your image and
your reputation that you're a commissioner that doesn't want to
do anything. Yeah, don't want to rock the boat, don't
want to upset players, don't want to upset upset anybody.
Don't want to do my job as commissioner and say, hey,
I got to show you that you can't just get
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away with throwing a heat pack on the floor add
a bunch of players while they're playing.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
No, no, no, we're gonna let that go. Wait, way to
go out. I'm Silver a nice job.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean, it's safe to say he'll never be
a guest on the show given some of the things
that we said before and that I punctuate now. I
mean it's he's an empty suit and does whatever. The
will of the Players Association is not to rock the
boat at all. And you know, I get it. They're
in the middle of all these TV negotiations, and what
(30:42):
happens if you take Murray off the court, probably you know,
being the hand of fate. Instead of doing your job,
you just say, well, you know what, I'll abdicate here.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Nothing BIG's gonna happen, right, Nobody got hurt, They're no harm,
no files Like, no, it's kind of a big deal.
You've now said precedent that we're going to look the
other way. And then Beverly hits two people with basketballs
because remember he got the ball back and then hit
somebody else and he gets four games and a fine
for the undisclosed fine.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
As yet determined. I mean, come on, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Like, just give up and go home, put on a
ball cap and go sit in the fifth row and
just be.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Done with it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Uh. Speaking of challenge accepted.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
If you think the Pacers sent a note to the
NBA today saying they found seventy seven calls.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
In the first two games in the series with the
Knicks they didn't like.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You'd be wrong because they sent seventy eight calls to
the league that went against the Pacers. We break down
the craziness coming up next. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
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Speaker 1 (31:52):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon and something special coming up in a few minutes.
We'll have details on in the second but look NBA
action over tonight. We watched the Celtics gack a game
away to the Cavaliers. They won by twenty Mavericks hauled
off the thunder by n but still the big headline
(32:14):
of the day was the Indiana Pacers decided we're gonna
let the NBA know how much we think we've been
screwed by the officials the first.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Two games against the Knicks. Rick Carlisle kind of hinted
at it last night.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
They had a bunch of calls from Game one that
were gonna talk to the league about, but they decided
not to. But after tonight, we're definitely doing it. So
they sent seventy eight plays to the league that they
say were either calls that bad, calls that were made
that favored the Knicks, or non calls that were made that.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Favored the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
That's a hell of a video editing seventy.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm not worried about coaching. I'm not worried about coaching.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
My guys are getting out coached by Tom Tibodeau, which
I've been out coached the first two games. No, no, no,
I want to make sure that we have all these
bad calls made. I mean, really, this is it's just ridiculous.
You couldn't find a hundred. You found seventy eight. You could,
you couldn't make it really bad and find a hundred.
Like if I'm Tom TIBADAUA, I go, oh, he left
the door open for uce. I'm gonna say we found
one hundred the first two games. We found a hundred
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calls that could have gone our way and didn't go
our way the first two games. Like really, we're going
this and saying this is what the calls are. This
is where you're at if you're if you're Rick Carlisle,
I mean I.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Saw this, I said, seventy eight calls.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Really, So what he's saying is if the game was
called right Rick Carlyle's estimation, this would have been what
two thirty five point wins by the Pacers Game one
and Game two to be in control of the series
and on their way to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, well, yeah, are you're curious to see how
the league responds?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
He might not have been wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
What do you do with seventy eight calls? Look, here's
all you need to know.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The worst call, he says, Right, the worst call, he says,
was when Josh Hart pushed Halliburton in the back on
a fast break?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Right push? Was that a missed call?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Absolutely? Which should that have been a foul on Josh Hart? Yeah,
it should have been a foul. But the out the
outcome of that play was on a affected the Pacers
kept the ball on the fast break, Halliburton gathered himself
out of wide open three.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
So, if if you really want to focus on the
plays that screwed you, you know, you know you don't
make that. This is the one that was the most
at How do you guys getting hurt? That's all I
get it, And you don't call.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
That he is?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But but was this guy hurt and his guy go? No,
everything was fine. What I'm saying, I'm not saying it
wasn't a foul. I'm not saying it wasn't a foul.
It should have been called. But if you want to say, hey,
we're getting screwed, then it's got to have something with
a cause and effect.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
What was the effect of this?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Okay, we didn't call a foul on Josh Hart, Okay,
and what happened, Well, we still kept the ball and
Halliburton was opening.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
He took a three. Okay, So that's what you're hold
on to.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
At least if you're the Sixers, you were holding on
to Hey, you know Maxie got fouled on the inbounds,
right or man? That kickball call really should have gone
our way in Game one, at least focus on something
that potentially may have changed the score of the outcome
of the game. Because I look at this and I
just go, Okay, I mean I get it. I could
feel the desperation wh out of Rick Carlisle because he's
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got to do something because his team is getting out
physical because they're not as good as playing the physical
game as the Knicks are. And this is why he's
so upset about the officiating. But I get it, right,
He's he's desperate. He's down to zip going home. He's
been out coached. The Knicks are playing with two and
a half guys and they're still beating them. Yeah, I
get what he's trying to do. He wants all the
calls and everything to go his way because I know
(35:23):
he thinks, hey, we can get back in this series
if we win the next two games. And here's the thing,
they can with the Knicks being this banged up and
not knowing when andw nobody's gonna play and if Brunton
is hurt, Like, yeah, they can. I'm expecting the series
to be two to two going back to Game five.
I mean, this is this is desperation and him trying
to win over the reps. So I get it. I'm
not mad, but I know what it is. It's desperation.
(35:45):
And it's a bit ridiculous to say we have seventy
eight calls and it didn't go our way.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Really, nobody knows desperation more than Jason.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I got a doctor.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
I got a doctor and that thing PhD, no question
about it. Yeah, Like, look, our teams have been terrible,
so I mean, you know, we certainly know throwing up
the hail Mary as it were.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
But when you look at Carlisle.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
At this point, it's like, if you're gonna do the
bit lean into it, right, if he sent twelve calls,
do we care? No, he's saying seventy eight. In other words,
your official suck to that level that I really want
the eyeballs here and I can't wait to see if
and how the league responds. Again, owing to the conversation
we had about suspensions and penalties for guys doing obviously
(36:32):
dumb and dangerous things versus just speaking out because you
know he's gonna get fined for going after the officials,
although just does sending the list of seventy eight calls
get him out of that. It's like, I put my
money where my mouth is hair seventy eight. Here's a
nice edited video clip for you, complete with star wipes
after each one.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Mister Silver.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yes, Pat, I have a fax coming in from Indiana
and there's a lot of pages and they're all foul
calls that work, you know. I put it on my
desk when it's all done, make sure there's enough paper,
and if we run out of paper, I don't care.
I don't refill it. It's fine, it's whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It is kindling it is, uh, just make sure it
doesn't print both sides. Then we can use it as
scrap paper for when the kids come to color.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
My wife does that.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
She takes everything and turns into discrept it for scrap paper.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
What are you doing playing Tic tac toe?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Write in a grocery list, putting out the thoughts about
the word.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It's just ridiculous again, It's desperation game through tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Good luck? Hey, coming up next.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It's a must listen when press conferences go so wrong.
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In the fourth quarter, Dallas has pushed the lead over
the Thunder out to one fourteen to one oh four.
It is been a big last couple of minutes for
Luca Donzic, who's now is up to twenty nine PJ.
Washington twenty seven and eleven rebounds for the Mavericks. He
has been an absolute fine because Kyrie Irving with just
(01:13):
seven points in thirty seven minutes and still the Mavericks
are about two and a half to go of tying
this series up at one game apiece. And look, it
didn't look good for a little bit. Didn't know if
the Mavericks are gonna have enough. But so far they've
been doing what they needed to do offensively, getting down load,
challenging chet Homer in the last couple of minutes, and
they're not holding on to this lead with hey, we're
(01:34):
gonna you can let the shot clock go down and
try a bad off balance three. You know, we are
trying to push our advantage, get down low, make plays,
and they've been able to have this ten point advantage
for the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, okay, See went absolutely ice cold for a good
four plus minutes or thereabouts, where Sga finally hit a
three his first make of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He'd been oh for three.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
So you look, offensively gets stagnant, whereas the Mavericks still
pushing the issue, still working.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
The ball around.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You just had a big, big block by Chat But
then just like on que, the ball hits out to
Hardaway who hits a big shot, So extending that lead
for the Thunder. It just looks like they've put a
lid on the rim.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, look, it's you know what, outside of Gildess Alexander,
it's been a bad shooting night for Oklahoma City. Nobody
is really coming through. It's been a very difficult night.
Sga has had it basically all by himself. He's two
us as short of a triple double. But look, it's
it's a case of eventually you need somebody else to
step up. This is just a bad game for Oklahoma
(02:41):
City that's had their really their first bad game of
the playoffs, right, guy, can't really say this is their
first bad game of the playoffs, and it's you know,
gonna wind up evening the series at one game apiece.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Going back to Dallas, Yeah, I mean, still shooting forty
seven percent from the field overall, but you've got Dallas
with eight more three point makes right?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, Remember, look, Kildris Alexander is thirteen for twenty four.
Nobody else is above fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Yeah, well but I mean look at Williams at seven
for seventeen.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
He's got twenty.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
But otherwise, yeah, I mean it's it's been a struggle
and you've just seen between Washington had the hot first
half Donchis as well. I mean, they both really did
a lot of their damage early. And then Green and
Hardway have combined for twenty eight off the bench to
help pay some things. Uh, And you know what I
thought was going to become an issue was the Mavericks
have missed seven free throws. Right, much like we talked
(03:35):
about the Pacers having that streak in the fourth quarter yesterday.
I don't know that that showed up in the enumerated
seventy eight things. You know, the free throws they didn't make, Jason.
But you know, for the Mavericks, at least to this
point with two twelve remaining, that hasn't come back to
haunt them yet.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So we left more and this again a nine point
lead with two twelve left to go. Really, the thunder
have their work cut out for them if they're going
to try to get back into this one. Meanwhile, earlier
tonight we watch the Celtics lay a complete egg against
the Cleveland Cavaliers, right, a series that we all thought
was gonna be over and four we talked about it
last night. Hey, the Celtics, if they're not in the
(04:14):
NBA Finals, something's wrong. And I told you. I am
putting them on my never again list if they don't
win win the title this year, because this is the
year to do it. Everything is laid out for them.
It's the easiest possible road they can have.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
And here there are.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
They come up with an absolute stinker against the Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Big night for Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Yeah great, But what's the right way to break.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Down this game?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Because it look Celtics fans Knicks fans are the same.
It's either the best it could possibly be or the
sky is falling, right, Like that's the way it is, like, Oh,
things are unbelievable, or the sky is falling and it's awful,
and tonight is a sky is falling night. Oh here
are the Celtics. Jason Tatum stinks. He's not the real guy.
Like you know, a story that comes up like every
(04:58):
round when the Celtics blow a game, same thing happened
in the last round against the Heat. They win game
one by fifty, they get blown out in game two
and it's, oh, look at this, how do they let
this happen? So and then the Celtics gave them a
clinic the rest of the series. So what's the right
way to bounce off of this game. For the Celtics tonight,
it's not about this round. The Celtics are a phenomenally
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talented team. They're more talented than Cleveland. They'll win this
round in the playoffs, right, They'll win this This is
not a big deal. Will they be able to throw
the hammer down like they did the last round. Maybe
it might be a little bit more difficult, but Boston
is the better team. The way to look at this
is that for a team that everybody should be fearing,
you don't fear them because they will give you a
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clunker like this when there's no reason for it, right,
They just have a propensity for it, and you can
sit back and tick off the ree say well, this
game we didn't shoot well, or this game we got
in foul jo. You can say anything you want if
you're the Celtics, But the bottom line is, for the
last few years they have a tendency towards games like this,
just an absolute state that comes out of nowhere for
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no reason, and they have one of these at least
every round. So even though there's probably different you can give,
you point to different reasons out tonight. You know, White
wasn't great tonight. He didn't shoot well tonight. That was
a big He has been scoring a lot for them, okay,
But the bottom line is they have games like this
when there's no reason to. The Cavaliers should have been
coming into this game going, man, we just got to
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hope to be competitive the way we got blown out
game one.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Here's game two.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But the Celtics again mentally, aren't strong enough to put
this game away when they should have. So when does
this come up? This becomes a bigger deal in the
next round and the NBA Finals. You want to know
why they haven't won, because when you need a team
to fear you to an extent, and no team as
good as the Celtics are, you look at the record
they have this year, no team fears them because they know, hey, eventually,
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the Celtics are gonna give you something.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's like a quarterback in the NFL. That boy, he's
really good and if he's having a big first half,
but the defense tells himself the other in half time,
he's going to give us a couple in the second half.
Be ready, he's gonna give us a couple of stinker
bad passes.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Let's be ready. Let's be ready.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
We know we can still beat this team because the
quarterback's gonna give it to us.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Just watch. And that's kind of where other teams are.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
With the Celtics, they know, hey, even if it looks
like they're great and they can do no wrong, the
next game, watch, even if it's at home, we can
come in and steal it. And eventually that's what's gonna
come back to kill you and bite you in the
as is where you do it against the team that
is too good for you to come back from that
in the series, because so far it's been against two teams.
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They're better then, right, better than the Heat they win
the series, and better than the Cavaliers. They'll win this series.
But when it comes to next round, whether it's the
Knicks or the Pacers, or the finals against the Timberwolves
or the Thunder or whoever it winds up being, you
tell me, if they give away a game like that,
we're winning the title.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
They're not because the other team is gonna take advantage
of that and they're gonna go on the road and go,
oh wow, the other team protected home court, did everything
they wanted to do. Yeah, we lost focus. We did whatever.
But however you want to slice it up, this is
what the Celtic are prone to do. They've been doing
it for the last few years. They're going to continue
to do it. And that's the real takeaway. It's not
about now, it's about when they pull these next thinkers
coming up later onto the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Shot poorly, didn't turn the ball over much, only seven,
so took care of it from that angle. But you know,
eight to thirty five from three point range and allowed
the Cavaliers to shoot nearly fifty five percent. Donovan Mitchell
in the second half at twenty three points as a team,
thirteen of twenty eight from the three point range, so
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not closing out. You know, every player that went to
the podium or back in the locker room got asked
the variation of the same thing. It's like, what the
hell's wrong with you guys at home? Because they were
thirteen and a half point favorite tonight, Jason people expecting
the burial Perzingius out but still no Jared Allen. By
the way, Porzingis had a really sweet ass jacket on.
(08:50):
I don't know if you saw that in photo. Sure,
the old letterman's jacket was really cool. But Jalen Brown quote,
last year's last year right now, we shot the ball
both games that we lost here at home incredibly bad.
They shot the ball really well. We didn't play defense
to our level tonight. That seems to be the resounding theme. Well,
we can't account for last year, but right now at home,
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we don't. We don't seem to have an answer and
haven't played inspired basketball, is how I'm reading between the
lines between him, between Horford and some of the others
that spoke. So you've got some issues to address for Missoula.
And this was the kind of thing that at the
end of last season, Jason, as close as they got
to things right, was the Hey, Missoula didn't have him,
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you know, to the same amped up level to take
advantage of the fact that they have this roster that
they have this I mean, he had, you know, Jason
Tatum kind of going well, I don't know, everybody.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Calls the super team.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
We don't.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
We didn't.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
We didn't have the MVP, we don't have Coach of
the Year. I mean, what do we got. We got
a couple of stars.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
All of a sudden, Yeah, all of a sudden. The
Jason Tatum, What do you want from us? We're not
that great? Oh wait, wait, wait wait, I want to
go back and look at the standings. Jason, didn't didn't
you guys win the East by fifteen games? Didn't you
have the best record in the NBA by seven games?
Now suddenly, oh, we're not a super team. We're not
that great round Oh oh, got it, got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
You're not great. You were great before, but now you're not.
Got it? Got it?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I understand, Yes, I understaid you you had the best
record in the NBA by seven games you ran away
with Okay, now I understand it's yes, you're not a
great team.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
All those all those other wins. Yeah, no, I get it,
I get it.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I get Yeah, that's one of those. You gotta be
better about answering that question. Just feel like, you know,
we just didn't have it tonight. Something's going on. We
need to, you know, get behind the scenes, talk to
each other, talk with the coaching staff, the analysts, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
You know, give a a.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Political answer, if non answer, if there ever was one,
but just saying that, I mean, look, we don't have
the coach the year coaching I mean, there's only two
All Stars on this team.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
What don't we do?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I'm just I'm just a humble cave man in your
wacky world.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I mean, you will short sucked, That's true.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Danny Ainge just not walking through that door. No, Jerry
Seasting is not walking through that door. It is nice happening,
I'm telling you, man. But I mean, really, I love
it when when when when when people want to suddenly say, hey,
I'm only this humble basketball player, like we're only this this,
you know, this little little engine that could team from Boston.
I mean, you know, hey, we're we're overachieving right now,
(11:31):
and we're we're really not that great a team.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
It's like, oh, okay, got it, got it. God.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Now suddenly, hey we're not the biggest, baddest guys on
the block. And I want to there's a reason for that.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
We're not. We're not as good as as everybody said. No,
I'm not saying anybody's saying.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You're great, but I look at the record and go,
you dominated the NBA this year. You guys one year
won the Eastern Conference by twelve games.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Suddenly suddenly you're not that good. Come on, man, I mean.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I mean you just expect us to win every game
by twenty five. That that was literally a quote from
Jason Tatum, and he goes that it's not gonna be
that way. It's like, no, it doesn't have to be
twenty five. You were favored by thirteen against a team
that I think by all metrics you were decidedly better then,
except when it came to heart in game two.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm completely changing, moving the goalposts on what success is
for us. Like this is why when I say the
Celtics give you a stinker, is they're not mentally tough
like they need to be. They're not as mentally tough
all the way through like they need to be. And
if you're gonna win a championship, it's what you have
to be. You can't take games off. You can't say, hey,
we're good. Here, we're gonna do that. Okay, now we're
really throwing it down Eventually. If you don't have that
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that day to day mindset, you're going home with an
L and your season's gonnaends gonna be we don't know
what happened.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Yeah, guess what you were. You weren't ready. You weren't ready,
weren't ready.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
For every game and ready for every challenge like there is,
because I'll guarantee you this right not to make it,
not to make it about the next but I guarantee
you this.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
They got game three tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
There's no og aoob, there's you know, maybe Jalen Brunson plays,
may he doesn't, but I guarantee you, no matter what
the score is, the Knicks are gonna go down scratching
and clawing for every bleeping point because that's.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Who they are.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's how focused you have to be to win. I
know the kind of effort that they're gonna give, regardless
to what the scoreboard says, because that's just who the
Knicks are. And also they can't sit too many guys
because they only play seven and now they're down to six,
so against like, so many guys are not gonna play.
I know what kind of effort they're gonna get.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
I get that from the Celtics all the time. I
don't get that effort from that. I don't get this, Hey,
we're gonna go out there with everything we need, with
the eye of the tiger and whatever other cliche you
want to use. I know we're not gonna get that
from the Celtics and eventually it comes back to bite you,
and it's gonna bite them later in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
You grab your paccino, then you circle back, grabbing all
your cliches like you're running a.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Pep rally for the Knicks. I know our team is
gonna keep fighting.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
They look out for you, the little man. They get
offensive rebounds like nobody else. That's how it goes.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
They fight people off like that pizza rat that we
all love.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
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series at one game apiece. We got the latest on
Luca and the latest on a suspension that kind has
everybody scratching their heads.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
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Speaker 6 (14:41):
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Speaker 1 (15:10):
I really I don't understand why the Rob Parker Mets
go to the World Series is part of that.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
They have to come together.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Without the racism should stand on its own. But suddenly
the Mexico they want.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
They wanted equal time. It was like politics and talk shows.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You the World Series?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, not this year anyway. Listen, My plate is full
with the knicks right now. All right, I always say, Mets.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The jets of plates almost done. My plate is full
with the knicks, and that goes right into the jet.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Your plate's gonna be full of pumpkin at midnight in
a couple old days.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Look, this is gonna go as long as it goes right,
It's gonna go as long, much longer, maybe it goes
the rest of this series. Maybe it was a little
bit further, maybe goes all the way to the NBA title.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Maybe something you don't even know about.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I mean that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Maybe Adobe, we don't need Anoonobe. Maybe it's maybe he's
holding us back. What but he's a great defensive player
and Jason you said he transformed the team.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Maybe he's holding us back.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Maybe maybe we're gonna get something else to right three, No,
look obvious if the Pacers don't win tomorrow Night's game
by at least twenty like like, I don't know what
else to do. I don't know what else Rick Carlisle
can complain about. Oh, these calls aren't happening, dude. You
should win by twenty tomorrow and it should be a walk.
(16:35):
You should get whatever calls you think you're not getting.
The Knicks are playing that. Look, there's no O, Gano, Noby.
The only play seven guys anyway. And and now Jalen
Brunson's questionable. Who knows if he's gonna play Maybe, And
what I got to guess tomorrow night is that Brunson
will start, and if things get out of hand, his
limits will be limited.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
His minutes will be limited big way, yep.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
But I mean because I don't think he's gonna not play,
you know, I don't think that's gonna happen. But like
if it gets out of hand, like even early, like
if it's a if it gets to be like middle
of the second quarter and the Pacers are up like
thirty six to fifteen, like that's gonna be it. Like
unless somehow the Nicks shoot their way back in it.
Jalen Brunson's gonna sit most of the most of the game.
I can't see that happening. So tomorrow, Look, tomorrow's a
(17:17):
free game for me. It's a free game. It's a
I expect the Pacers to win. And if they don't, boy,
I can't wait for the postgame press conference. Then suddenly
Rick Carlo's gotta blame.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What do you blame?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Everybody's against us, our governors, our senators, the White House,
the world, everybody justin Trudeau hates us.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
I don't know even know who's in charge in Europe.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
They hate us. Everybody hates us. They don't want the
Indiana Pacers to win anything. That's what I'm waiting for.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I like that you got Trudeau in there, nicely done.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Not a ton of World Leaders roll off my tongue,
like I remember who they are and I want to
say the good ones.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You know, it's supposed to.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Be used to have Merkle and all these people.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know that they're in charge anymore. Yeah, no,
she's not charged anymore, No, Angel Merkle's no.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I mean like, I mean, like at one point, there
was a up set they do every year called Alan
and Ginter that has these weird little inserts that you get,
like one wanna pack and for one for one of
the years, they did World Leaders. So all of a sudden,
you're pulling a You're pulling a Trudeau or a Mercle
card in the middle. It's like, all right, there's uh,
(18:17):
all right, I got a Clayton Kerse shaw.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I got a uh David Ryot, I got hey, there's Merkle.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Sweet.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I'm closer to that World Leader set.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
This is another Boris Johnson. I have like twelve of him.
Come on, man, how come he keep me popping up?
I'm always supposed to get three of these in a box,
but I keep getting the same damn guy. It is
like when they did the when they did the cards
and Harry Potter and all the all the wizards.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I got a nine of him.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's doubled, Dolly, I got like nine to him, like
I got a World Leader card.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I keep waiting.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I'm gonna find it in the next break, and I'm
gonna show it you. I may actually have a Merkle
and not Fred Merkle. I think I have one of
those two.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I'll give you two Boris John Onnsen's and one mrk
Okay Steve Merkle or c Steve?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Did I do that? Did I do? Uh?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So we just watched the Dallas Mavericks really look, really
show me something here in the fourth quarter. Uh it
looked like the recipe for this game was the Mavericks
did all they could. Luca looks like he's banged up.
Here come the thunder. They're a little bit younger there
at home. But instead Dallas is able to hold off
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the Thunder one nineteen to one ten. It was a
great effort in the fourth. Every time it looked like
the thunder was gonna creep closer, the Mavericks would make
a big shot.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Look.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Luca had twenty nine, but shockingly Uid PJ. Washington with
twenty nine points and Tim Hardaway off the bench had seventeen.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
He had a couple of threes. Look, they had eighteen
threes on the night.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It was a really big night for Dallas and they
needed this to beat the Thunder. I was surprised because
I thought, well, after game one, this is just gonna
be a walk right the Panssically Thunder and Minnesota. They're
on a collision course all all of these things. And
then I said, oh, okay, maybe the Mavericks have something here.
And you know, depending on how banged up Luka Dontich is.
As as I said, it changed from minute to minute.
(20:09):
In the fourth quarter, it looked like he was really
hurt and would have to come out. Then it looked
like he was fine. Then it looked like he's hurt,
then it looked like he's fine.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Like I get, I.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Get so full of of of conspiracy theory sometimes with
players where I I really think the best players they
know when the camera is on them and they know
when when when they can show something that makes it
look like I'm injured, whether it's it's it's whether it's
for the game itself to make the make the the
other team relax and think, oh, this guy can't do much.
(20:38):
Let's you know, let's uh, let let's see what he
can do when I am able to create more space
for myself or whether it's just for the strictly for
the cameras. And I don't like people saying bad stuff
about me, and if I'm hurt, they're not gonna say
bad things. But there's part of me goes, you know, I,
you know, seeing what Hey, look, here's Joelle andb limping
really badly right in front of the camera that's showing
his video. Right now, here's Luka Doncic bent over in
(21:01):
obvious pain when there's a camera right in his face.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Right, Like, I go, how like how dinged up is?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Like I don't doubt for a second that Luca is
is dinged up a little bit, But you can't be
dinged up that bad? You know, you still, you know,
if you're Luca, you still played forty one minutes, you
score twenty nine points, You look good after it looked
like you couldn't walk, limping back down the floor.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So I wonder, I wonder how.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Much of this is Yeah, yeah, you know, I'm gonna
trying to get a foul call, or I'm trying to
do this, or I'm trying to do this, or I
just want to look like I'm hurt, because then people
were gonna say good things about me. Like I I
go back and forth between all three of those things.
For when I see a guy limping, hurt and playing
and still dominating.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yeah, I mean he.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Certainly did battle the officials quite often tonight for calls,
which is I mean his norm. So I mean, nothing
out of the ordinary there. But when we look at
you know, his forty one minutes played, he's on the court,
you're a idea of, Hey, a little bit of a
rope adote, maybe give you an advantage here and there
on a possession when you need to get to the bucket.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
Maybe there's something to that.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
And certainly the naysayers and poison bends have been out
for him quite a bit, you know, when they went
into slumps over the course of the year, only winning
you know, fifty games, but certainly after the game one
lost to the thunder and immediately became the what if
Luca can't get them over dot dot dot and became
(22:25):
an indictment of you know, starting to go back. Is
he in shape? Will he ever be in basketball shape.
All of these is it's the best punch they have.
I mean, Kyrie played forty one minutes tonight, had eleven assists,
only two of eight from the field, but plus nine
for his nine points. I gotta imagine he's more active
shooting the ball as well.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
But if PJ.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Washington's gonna be as hot as he was over the
course of the night seven of eleven from three point range,
I mean, you gotta dance with who brung you no
reason to go away from getting him the ball, and
those open looks as he finishes Ty and Luca the
twenty nine points and Hardaway was great off the bench.
All of those things to say that, you know, we
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may have ourselves and a little bit of a series here,
just like you know, we expected the walkover by the Celtics.
I didn't think they'd sweep the Calves, but nobody was
predicting more than a win, and even that would be
under strained circumstances. Instead, they kicked their ass today and
the Mavericks here thunder in the fourth quarter, couldn't find
a shot for anything. I mean, they went ice cold
(23:29):
for a long stretch, and you saw Dallas take over.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
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Speaker 3 (23:38):
More on this game coming up in a couple minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Monty Belongs will have the details, more and more and
more detail with what's trending. But I said, in a
few minutes, we're gonna have we got a good guy
into the topic. Hey, Monty's got to make sure all
her bets cleared tonight, for she's got the the games
are all over.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's got to make sure her BET's leert. So we'll
get to what's trending in a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
But we saw a big decision by the NBA today
that showed you that Patrick Beverly got suspended for four
games for throwing a basketball at a fan. Look, the
Bucks went out in the clinching game. You threw a
basketball at a fan. We've seen the video by now,
and then Patrick Beverley made it worse by telling an
ESPN reporter, I'm not going to answer your questions unless
(24:19):
you subscribe to my podcast. And the NBA said, hey,
we're suspending you kind of for all of it, for
all of your conduct. So like it was throwing the basketball.
It was your conduct in the post game. So he
gets a four game suspension for.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
All of this.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Now, I really wanted the NBA to announce this in
a podcast, like an announcing the podcast that Patrick Beverley
would have had to subscribe to to find out what
is fate? You got a random caller, like nobody tells you. Hey, Patrick,
they I know what's gonna happen to you?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
What is it? Well? They said it? Well, what is it? Well?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Adam Silver said it in a podcast, but I don't know.
Subscribe to the podcast and you'll find out how long
you're suspended for. Nobody's supposed to tell you. I mean,
nobody's always allowed to tell you. So you got a
subscribe to the podcast to find out. I really would
have liked.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
His Basement podcast or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
A random one. It can't be, you know, one of
the big ones. It's gotta be, you know, some random thing.
High It's It's Adam from New York City and I
have some news.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
This is Pat.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Sorry, this is Beverly, and uh I really would like
to uh to know what the suspension was for. Uh
uh Pat Beverly, Pat bev. I'll hang up and listen,
I'll take your answer off the.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Air like that would have been great. That would have
been great. Well, I met a kind of situation, Jason.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He might not talk to himself if he doesn't subscribe
to his own podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh, you might be right about that. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Voices in your own head to go.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
If it's something out now wait now, look at it
from this perspective. If it's something that's announced not on
his podcast, does he have to adhere to it? Like
does he show up to play going I'm next year?
Speaker 5 (25:54):
He didn't get the memo.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Sorry, Pat, you're out of this gate? What are you
talking about? Your I was a pretty big thing. It
wasn't on my podcast. Didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Let's go, ready to go, tip it off.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I'm ready, come on the discussion.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
He's a free agent, right, so they didn't tell me
that when I signed my new deal. I haven't worked
George George the return for Opening Night.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
The big The big thing in this is that you
look at Okay, he gets four games for throwing a
basketball at a fan.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
There's video evidence of it. We all saw it.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
There's investigations as to whether they're going to be criminal prosecution.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He won't talk to.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The cops if they don't get me to his podcasts.
He's gonna clam up. He's gonna I plead the fifth.
I want a lawyer, right like they always do with
all the TV shows when they smarten up and go, oh,
I need a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Lawyer, lawyer. I'm lawyering up right now. I'm luring up Jason.
That's actually smart to do.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Of course I.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Always know he always asked for a lawyer. Yeah, never
don't don't. Don't think the cop is trying to be
your friend. Hey, I'm trying to help you out here,
like like, if you tell me the story, I'll let
you walk right out and go, oh, that's how it's
gonna work. But so he gets four games for that,
And there was obviously no suspension for Jamal Murray throwing
a heat pack on the floor during a game, which
(27:09):
makes absolutely no sense. Now, Patrick Beverley, I guess I
guess he would have been better off had he thrown
or had he thrown a basketball at a player, and
then maybe they wouldn't suspend why he threw it a player.
I couldn't tell you. I didn't tell where it came from.
I didn't know if he threw it in frustration or
threw it at somebody, it might have worked out better
for But for Jamal Murray to not get anything other
(27:30):
than one hundred thousand dollars fine, Like, that's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
That's the NBA putting their.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Thumb on the scale, saying, if we suspend him, that's
gonna end the Nuggets season.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I also would have given him another one hundred grand
for refusing to answer questions.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah that's not a basketball question.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well yeah, oh, look, look at what happens a team.
And this will be a topic we get into tomorrow
night a little bit more. But look what happens a
team sometimes the first time they get punched in the face.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
And what is oh look what that is all bad?
I don't want to talk to the media.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I'm throwing you he'd pack up all of this, but like,
he throws a heat pack on the floor at the
direction of players while they were playing, and and and
for there to.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Be basically no and no real interest.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
It seemed because the referees the officials were like, well,
if I knew he threw it, we would have given
him a technical we would have done something.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Did you even try I mean, it's like they didn't
even try it. Who threw it?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Well, they came from Jowal Murray. Let's just keep playing.
It doesn't matter. Like the fact they did nothing to
try to adjudicate it in the moment is what made
it worse, right, because this is where, Okay, you can't
just let a heat pack be thrown on the floor
by a player and then just let it go. I
know the game, I know it's a twenty point game,
but you're there to referee the game. You're not just
to make you know, you're not a youth referee. Where
(28:41):
it's like, okay, we gotta get everybody to lunch, So
where's do running clock for the last fifteen minutes? Right,
this is a blowout. Everybody's gotta go. We got we
gotta hit the next game on the field like like
this is this is a big deal. And and for
them to not even look like they wanted to do
anything in the beginning, and then to come back and say, yeah,
hundred gram and yet no, no find no suspension, no
not that that's all it is. The guy threw a
(29:01):
heat pack on the floor in the direction of players
while they were playing, right, I mean, you're not gonna
be a doom and gloom guy and say all the
worst thing of that. But somebody could have slipped on that.
Somebody could have slipped and fallen. Something could have happened.
They could have got hurt. Like the guy, the guy
you gotta be. You gotta be a professional man. You're
getting paid, he's got a huge contract.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
You can't just take down and to throw a heat
pad onto the floor because I'm upset because the game's
not going because the first game in a year and
a half isn't going our way, and oh we're down
in the playoffs and that.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I mean, come on, man, be a pro and oh
one hundred thousand dollars fight. Yeah, I got that. That's
no big deal.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I mean that's the that's the weak sauce the NBA
put all on this is that they didn't really see
interested at all in adjudicating this, not like taking it
by the bull by the horn said Okay, here's why
we're doing this, and here's what we're doing, and here's X,
Y and z's basically yeah, we want just to kind
of go away because again Adam Silver doesn't want to
do anything, and so yeah, I'm just gonna kind of
make this go away. Hopefully people stop talking about it,
(29:52):
and and and well, it's not gonna happen because there's
shows and there's people that will hold you accountable like
you and I. Uh so it's going to continue on,
and it's going to keep going into your image and
your reputation that you're a commissioner that doesn't want to
do anything. Yeah, don't want to rock the boat, don't
want to upset players, don't want to upset upset anybody.
Don't want to do my job as commissioner and say, hey,
I got to show you that you can't just get
(30:14):
away with throwing a heat pack on the floor add
a bunch of players while they're playing.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
No, no, no, we're gonna let that go. Wait, way to
go out. I'm Silver a nice job.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, I mean, it's safe to say he'll never be
a guest on the show given some of the things
that we said before and that I punctuate now. I
mean it's he's an empty suit and does whatever. The
will of the Players Association is not to rock the
boat at all. And you know, I get it. They're
in the middle of all these TV negotiations, and what
(30:42):
happens if you take Murray off the court, probably you know,
being the hand of fate. Instead of doing your job,
you just say, well, you know what, I'll abdicate here.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Nothing BIG's gonna happen, right, Nobody got hurt, They're no harm,
no files Like, no, it's kind of a big deal.
You've now said precedent that we're going to look the
other way. And then Beverly hits two people with basketballs
because remember he got the ball back and then hit
somebody else and he gets four games and a fine
for the undisclosed fine.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
As yet determined. I mean, come on, are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Like, just give up and go home, put on a
ball cap and go sit in the fifth row and
just be.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Done with it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Uh. Speaking of challenge accepted.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
If you think the Pacers sent a note to the
NBA today saying they found seventy seven calls.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
In the first two games in the series with the
Knicks they didn't like.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
You'd be wrong because they sent seventy eight calls to
the league that went against the Pacers. We break down
the craziness coming up next. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon and something special coming up in a few minutes.
We'll have details on in the second but look NBA
action over tonight. We watched the Celtics gack a game
away to the Cavaliers. They won by twenty Mavericks hauled
off the thunder by n but still the big headline
(32:14):
of the day was the Indiana Pacers decided we're gonna
let the NBA know how much we think we've been
screwed by the officials the first.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Two games against the Knicks. Rick Carlisle kind of hinted
at it last night.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
They had a bunch of calls from Game one that
were gonna talk to the league about, but they decided
not to. But after tonight, we're definitely doing it. So
they sent seventy eight plays to the league that they
say were either calls that bad, calls that were made
that favored the Knicks, or non calls that were made that.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Favored the Knicks.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
That's a hell of a video editing seventy.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I'm not worried about coaching. I'm not worried about coaching.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
My guys are getting out coached by Tom Tibodeau, which
I've been out coached the first two games. No, no, no,
I want to make sure that we have all these
bad calls made. I mean, really, this is it's just ridiculous.
You couldn't find a hundred. You found seventy eight. You could,
you couldn't make it really bad and find a hundred.
Like if I'm Tom TIBADAUA, I go, oh, he left
the door open for uce. I'm gonna say we found
one hundred the first two games. We found a hundred
(33:11):
calls that could have gone our way and didn't go
our way the first two games. Like really, we're going
this and saying this is what the calls are. This
is where you're at if you're if you're Rick Carlisle,
I mean I.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Saw this, I said, seventy eight calls.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Really, So what he's saying is if the game was
called right Rick Carlyle's estimation, this would have been what
two thirty five point wins by the Pacers Game one
and Game two to be in control of the series
and on their way to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
I mean, well, yeah, are you're curious to see how
the league responds?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
He might not have been wrong.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
What do you do with seventy eight calls? Look, here's
all you need to know.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The worst call, he says, Right, the worst call, he says,
was when Josh Hart pushed Halliburton in the back on
a fast break?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Right push? Was that a missed call?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Absolutely? Which should that have been a foul on Josh Hart? Yeah,
it should have been a foul. But the out the
outcome of that play was on a affected the Pacers
kept the ball on the fast break, Halliburton gathered himself
out of wide open three.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
So, if if you really want to focus on the
plays that screwed you, you know, you know you don't
make that. This is the one that was the most
at How do you guys getting hurt? That's all I
get it, And you don't call.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
That he is?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But but was this guy hurt and his guy go? No,
everything was fine. What I'm saying, I'm not saying it
wasn't a foul. I'm not saying it wasn't a foul.
It should have been called. But if you want to say, hey,
we're getting screwed, then it's got to have something with
a cause and effect.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
What was the effect of this?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Okay, we didn't call a foul on Josh Hart, Okay,
and what happened, Well, we still kept the ball and
Halliburton was opening.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
He took a three. Okay, So that's what you're hold
on to.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
At least if you're the Sixers, you were holding on
to Hey, you know Maxie got fouled on the inbounds,
right or man? That kickball call really should have gone
our way in Game one, at least focus on something
that potentially may have changed the score of the outcome
of the game. Because I look at this and I
just go, Okay, I mean I get it. I could
feel the desperation wh out of Rick Carlisle because he's
(35:01):
got to do something because his team is getting out
physical because they're not as good as playing the physical
game as the Knicks are. And this is why he's
so upset about the officiating. But I get it, right,
He's he's desperate. He's down to zip going home. He's
been out coached. The Knicks are playing with two and
a half guys and they're still beating them. Yeah, I
get what he's trying to do. He wants all the
calls and everything to go his way because I know
(35:23):
he thinks, hey, we can get back in this series
if we win the next two games. And here's the thing,
they can with the Knicks being this banged up and
not knowing when andw nobody's gonna play and if Brunton
is hurt, Like, yeah, they can. I'm expecting the series
to be two to two going back to Game five.
I mean, this is this is desperation and him trying
to win over the reps. So I get it. I'm
not mad, but I know what it is. It's desperation.
(35:45):
And it's a bit ridiculous to say we have seventy
eight calls and it didn't go our way.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Really, nobody knows desperation more than Jason.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I got a doctor.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
I got a doctor and that thing PhD, no question
about it. Yeah, Like, look, our teams have been terrible,
so I mean, you know, we certainly know throwing up
the hail Mary as it were.
Speaker 5 (36:08):
But when you look at Carlisle.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
At this point, it's like, if you're gonna do the
bit lean into it, right, if he sent twelve calls,
do we care? No, he's saying seventy eight. In other words,
your official suck to that level that I really want
the eyeballs here and I can't wait to see if
and how the league responds. Again, owing to the conversation
we had about suspensions and penalties for guys doing obviously
(36:32):
dumb and dangerous things versus just speaking out because you
know he's gonna get fined for going after the officials,
although just does sending the list of seventy eight calls
get him out of that. It's like, I put my
money where my mouth is hair seventy eight. Here's a
nice edited video clip for you, complete with star wipes
after each one.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Mister Silver.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Yes, Pat, I have a fax coming in from Indiana
and there's a lot of pages and they're all foul
calls that work, you know. I put it on my
desk when it's all done, make sure there's enough paper,
and if we run out of paper, I don't care.
I don't refill it. It's fine, it's whatever it is.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It is kindling it is, uh, just make sure it
doesn't print both sides. Then we can use it as
scrap paper for when the kids come to color.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
My wife does that.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
She takes everything and turns into discrept it for scrap paper.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
What are you doing playing Tic tac toe?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Write in a grocery list, putting out the thoughts about
the word.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It's just ridiculous again, It's desperation game through tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Good luck? Hey, coming up next.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
It's a must listen when press conferences go so wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
This is fun.
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