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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Greetings, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. A lot of Hobo.
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
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And look in the f and the last oh in
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and then you have to have the stick with the
with the clothes in the in the in the in
the handkerchief like mucho hobo. Like, I'll have.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
This done by the end of the night.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Muchoo. What is that for? What do you mean? It's
muccho hobo? What is that? You don't know? What if
you don't either you know or you don't right? If
you know?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
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then on the back just like right under the top
of the collar. I y k, y k, that's a
that's the good that's the shirt. Mucho muccho hoo hobo.
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Buying should Jason can I deter the show real quick.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Why should now be any different? Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Why asked?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Oh? I asked, It's okay, right, because I asked, Oh, okay, yeah, sure, go.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Ahead, okay.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Way can I show off my trivia knowledge to my
Carmen that you asked me before the show?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Uh? You know what we'll do that. We'll do that
in fifteen minutes. Would definitely do that. Yes, the Alex
Tyscher trivia knowledge that I believe my my wife would
have won trivia had Alex tyschert been on her team.
Oh wow, yeah, okay, it would have won. They were
leading going to the final question, which is a thing
now with my wife's teams on Wednesday, Like, you can't finish, man,
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You're like the Knicks. She's we're leanning. We get to
the last question and we don't get it and it's
and we lose because the other team risked more. I'm like,
it's a thing. It's a thing, man, it's a thing.
You gotta finish.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You can't just go out there and be up by nine.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Go.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You gotta finish. But if Tysher was on the team,
I think they would have won. I think they would have.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Look, let's talk about this for a second, because it's time.
It's time for an appreciation moment for a team that
likely is gonna win the NBA Championship. The Thunder beat
the t Wolf tonight one eighteen, one oh three, and
you know, as more time goes on, I sit here
and go, Wow, the Nuggets. They took the took the
Thunder to seven. That's amazing. Well, the Hey, the Nuggets
and maybe David Adaman's maybe that's why David Adaman got
(03:37):
the interim tag taken off him today and he's now
the official new head coach of the of the Denver Nuggets. Uh.
But the Thunder win tonight in a game that it
seemed like they took the first half and what Minnesota
was trying to do, and you saw Shay Gilders Alexander
struggled a little bit out of the gate, and then
the third quarter said yeah, that's it, We're throwing the
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hammer down. And all of a sudden, the t Wolves
are looking up and it's a twenty point lead in
the fourth quarter, and you say, what the hell just
happened to us? And I'm you know, we talked about
this last hour on the show. They're up to zip
over the Timberwolves, the Knicks, and the Pacers. Hopefully it's
an entertaining series, but I'm telling you, I'm ready for
the Knicks to lose in four after last night. I mean,
I'm done. I'm not great, Bob, I'm not great. But like,
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are either of those teams gonna give the Thunder a series?
Like at this point, Like if I put the over
under of games, the Thunder lose the rest of the
season at two and a half, I'm taking the under
really because I don't know. I don't know if they
lose a game here against the t Wolves, either they
lose one, are they gonna lose two in the NBA
Finals to either the Knicks or the Pacers, Like, I
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don't I don't know that that's gonna happen. The Thunder
are terrific, and the thing about them is they are
an absolutely perfectly constructed team. Like this is a team
you go through on one of the big NBA video games.
You're the GM and you say, okay, and you put
this team together and you just sit back and go,
I just did it. This is absolute perfection because I
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just put together a team that nobody can beat that. Nobody.
I put together a perfect team because you're talking about
a Thunder team that has the NBA MVP and Shay
Gilgess Alexander two of the great young mega superstars in
the game. And chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams. Right, Jaylen
Williams and Night twenty six, ten and five. Chet Holmgren
had twenty two Tonight. I think all eight of his
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shots were dunks. Right. You have an All NBA Defensive
Player of the Year in loud Dort, your guy Lou Dort.
You have a couple of role players in Isaiah Hartenstein
and Alex Caruso that are NBA Championship caliber players that
you don't win without these support guys. And oh, by
the way, just in case things happen, right, guys make
too much money, Guys want to leave, Guys want to
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go someplace. After a couple of years, the Thunder are
gonna have between ten and fifteen first round picks in
the next seven drafts. Okay. Now, a lot of it
depends on how teams finish and protected drafts. But you're
talking about this Thunder team between ten and fifteen first
round picks in the next seven drafts, which is the
reason why that crazy story got floated a few weeks ago.
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Why wouldn't the Thunder just trade like seven first round
picks to get Cooper Flagg? Like wow, no, no, they
have the picks. They could trade seven picks and still
have enough, still have one first round pick per every
draft the next seven like this, this is a team
put together in absolute perfection by the Thunder. And you
sit back and go, I mean you, I mean this
is a video game. Like you do this in a
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video game and you sit back and go, oh, I'm
too powerful now, no one can beat me because I
just did all the right things. And this is actually
on the court in real life. This is a team
they've been able to put together. Man, I'm telling you
the Thunder this isn't This is an absolute perfect roster
with the future where you just sit back and go
there's nothing to do. There is nothing to do but
watch my team go play. But watch my team go
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play and win and take home the title. Like that's where.
That's how perfect the Thunder are.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Dynasty mode gone berserk as it sits right now, right
healthy ched Holmgrin lou Dort, that first team all defense
Wallace up. I mean, you've got guys for days, your
your guy former Nick, now good Hertstein and obviously SGA
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just starting to round into his format and he met
all the criteria. Now he'd get that three hundred and
fifty million dollars so he could pay for more rolexes
and he doesn't need to have the extra L or
double L like we were suggesting after that Nicks loss
yesterday for the rolexes that we won't be getting from you.
But all of that to say, yeah, I mean they've
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built an organization and the strategy and approach and it's worked.
You know, you've had some hiccups along the way, guys
missing time, Chet missed some time didn't matter because you
had enough depth to roll through and your boat racing team,
like the number of wins, you know, fifteen or more
points over the course of the year, and certainly now
in the playoffs. It's this distancing themselves from the pack.
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And it's now the morbid curiosity of seeing how this
continues to evolve. What Superstar decides, hey, I'd like to
go there, and what the packages look like there. I mean,
it is really an impressive run of what they've been
able to do thus far. Yeah, some of these guys
all need big contracts, but that's when you hit and
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reload mode instead of you know, reset, rebuild and all
of those things. So for the NBA right now, and
maybe not on Madison Avenue, right Adam Silver might not
be the happiest guy in the world given what the
ratings were for Game one, and can't imagine games to
game two was any better. And now that you've got
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to imply to odds of a ninety five percent win,
I think it's thirty four of the last thirty five
going up two oho of one in advance. So you
got that going for you. The Thunder minus two thousand
right now, oh, Wolves plus nine fifty At least on
your side, you still have a puncher's chance. You're at
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forty two percent entry Game two.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We gotta play tomorrow. Not great, Bob, not great. Uh,
you know. And the other part of this, when you
think about how good the Thunder are and here's Shay
Gildis Alexander and and this is it's a weird thing
because obviously you and I when we're you know, we're
doing the show, but we're also beholden to the games
going on. We're trying to we're trying to keep track
and do the show at the same time. But like
this is this is more of a thing that I
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have seen, not just not just nights like tonight, but
now this has happened a few times where it's it
shows more to the excellence that SGA has. Is that
he had thirty eight tonight, right, Like, yeah, he had
thirty eight tonight, right, And didn't it fit? And this
is not the first time I thought this, you know,
watching him in the playoffs with with this.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But oh say, and I know what you're gonna say, didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It feel like he had a quiet thirty eight? That's
it right? Like like it's a quat Like it didn't
feel like and and they're dominating, right, and it felt
like SGA still has like another level to get to
if they needed it, like in a tight game or
like it not. I don't mean a quiet thirty eight
where like, hey, you know, we scored a bunch of
his points in garbage time or it didn't matter. I
mean a quiet thirty eight in which the guy was
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this dominant and it and it still felt like there
was room between his head and the ceiling because he
wasn't doing the the you know, highlight reel plays.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Right, it's it's a layup. It's a mid range jumper,
and that was one of the things you look at
their shot chart. Takes a lot and it's a lot
of free throws. He gets to the free throw line, right,
so you so you get a little bit of anger
there because it's a stop. But it's not Hey, this
guy's doing a windmill dunk. Hey, he's lighted it up
from three. He doesn't take a ton of three point
shots like all those things that are splash plays and
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the ones that you remember. He may have set them up,
but it's all right. There's home grin with a dunk
off a miss or off of a lob the fast break,
and generally the guy that's that's dishing it doesn't get
a lot of the run, right. The highlight is on
the back end of it. But for for SGA, yeah,
thirty eight points and dare you say, a yeoman like
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thirty eight points because he just goes and grinds. It's
something you and I have been hammering on all throughout
these playoffs, is they're relentless, like he keeps attacking and
the way this squad comes at you, he's gonna get his.
But it's not an obvious thing. You look up at
the score sheet and maybe you've lamented the free throws
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because you're on the other side, right, you're a fan
of the opposition, Go damn it, make him play, make
him play through it. But for you and I I
mean you're watching, it's like, look, you go with what
brings you the best strategy, whatever job you do, whatever
gets you your best through whatever the output measurement is.
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And for SGA, it's setting other teammates up, hitting the
mid range and creating contact to go live at the foul.
I can't vault a good strategy. It won them an
MVP and got everybody rolexes, which he was able to
roll out and say, hey, I need seven more wins
out of you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And by the way, I mean, it's it's an absolutely
perfect roster put together. And when when you can win,
when your superstar, your MVP has a quiet thirty eight
and which is like, yes, he's affecting the game, he's dominating,
but it feels like we could really throw the hammer
down more if we needed to. Right like that, that's
kind of where I get from the thunder is that, yeah,
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we can turn them when we have to. Ian As
more time goes on, more he's like, hey, how the
hell did the Nuggets take them to seven?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like, how the hell did they well? But that's the
thing though, right as we talked about a lot, folks
can go back in the podcast, like, think about those games,
how much it was in reality Oklahoma City controlling pace, dominating,
and then they'd have a five minute spurt where everything
went to hell and then all of a sudden, Denver's
back in the game and you had the opportunity to
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go and win it. And it takes nothing away from
what the Nuggets did. Congratulations to Adelman getting the permanent
coaching job today, But you know, there were just times
in that series like are they just playing with them
and letting And now they've let them back in and
they've offered the opportunity, and that, I mean, to some degree,
I guess spoke to the pre playoffs discussion of are
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they too young and inexperienced playoff wise for their own
good to let a team come back in and a
team in Denver that had all a number of those
component parts from a recent NBA champion. But in the
end you get past that series, succeed and proceed the
old Caliperi line. And now they're just saying, all right,
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We're not playing around anymore. It's time to go to work.
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Speaker 4 (14:51):
You know, I had a thought of the Shake Gildess
Alexander and the Quiet thirty eight Again.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, that sounds like that sounds like goo, curious George Book,
Shake Illes Alexander and the Quiet thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, and then you decide what it's thirty eight of.
That's sure, okay, But in terms of his performance, yeah,
the only reason that it screams at you that he's
got thirty eight is because a lot of them come
from the foul line, which means the lower third graphic
is gonna tell you how many points he has and
how he's slowly but surely eviscerating your squad. No, okay, okay,
I'm with you know what I mean with it. It's like,
(15:26):
all right, he's back at the line again. Oh now
he's up to twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got thirty. Now he's
got thirty four, Now he's got thirty five.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know, it's funny, And I mentioned that because my
dad sent me a real funny thing today on a
message because Curious George, my daughter's felt like is Zoe's
favorite growing up. That was her favorite TV show to watch,
and she loved it, loved it, love We've seen all
of them, and my dad happened to find the one
on TV today that she was scared of when she
(15:55):
was a kid. Oh and it was a Curious George
and the scary noise and it was where there was
some kind of toy in the trunk in the basement.
It would make a noise like the battery was running out. Oh,
I remember that scary noise. And so uh uh and
so and and she never wanted to watch it because
it was really scary, but finally we got her to
watch it. It got her over. Curious George is such
(16:16):
a phenomenal TV show, and it got her over her
her fear. You know, she was afraid of this. Whatever
we saw. It's just a thing, just a thing. And
so he found the noise on something in his apartment
and he sent it to me and and and a text,
H'm going, what is this noise for? He goes, He goes,
you don't get it. I go, no, you just sent
me a video. That's just a noise.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
He okay, goes no. Doesn't it sound like Curious George
is the scary noise. I'm like, Okay, why don't you
say that in the thing, because you send me something
and I kind of get a vision of you, like
in your apartment and suddenly you fall down and you're
like trying to get to me and you did something.
You're just making noise going.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
That is pretty good though. I remember that though.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh man, so that's so that's why Curious George. I'd
be just thinking about that. We had a lot of
conversations about that today with our life, and it's just
a fantastic thing. So I've been thinking about.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So, uh, we need to show off Alex ty Shirt's
absolute trivia knowledge right now. That would have given my
wife first place and her team in trivia tonight. Now, Okay,
she plays in a pretty serious When Sunday Nights we
Go play trivia, it's pretty good. Wednesday is really serious, right,
Like I would say Sunday Nights we Go was like
the top level of triple A. Wednesday Nights every time
(17:36):
I go once in a while, like that's like the
major leagues and they were leading going to the final
round and the final question was in television and and
my wife, oh, we got it right, because you know,
she and I TV were TV savants, got it, got it,
got it. And it goes, okay, here's your question, and
it's an animated television's an animated animated screen. And we're like,
I'm sorry, what not tell it was movies? Sorry, movies? Movies?
(17:58):
And it was and it says okay, hey, uh in
animated movies. These two Studio Ghibli movies are the only
ones to win the Oscars for Best Animated Film. And
my wife said, they all looked at each other like,
what the hell, man, I don't know studio. Does anybody
(18:19):
here know Studio Ghibli? And I said, well, if you hear,
I could have told you because Tyson and I talk
about Studio Ghibli. And she was you could have gotten
the answer. I said, oh no, I wouldn have known
either of them. But I know it's Studio Ghibli. Is
it's that you know, it's that that Japanese anime that
is really popular. So she says, ah, I said, so
we didn't get it right, and the other team got
it right and they won, and you know, they won
(18:39):
the thing so I said, okay, let me see if
Tysher can get the answer. And I asked, Tyshaw, I
won't do it again live because I give me the
benefit that he did it. I said, Okay, here's the question, Alex,
I said, what are the two Studio Ghibli movies that
won Best Oscar for Best Animated Film? And within three
seconds he gave me both of the answers.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Go ahead, A to oh, it's simple.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Muzaki's best films ever made Spirited Away, and then The
Boy and the Hair and his first ever and then
his last ever.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I knew Spirited Away the Boy in the Hair, and
I would have gotten wrong, so.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I wouldn't have gotten either. I wouldn't have gotten that.
I was like, wow, nobody, I said, if Tysher was
on your team, you would have won. If he was abed,
you would have won.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
They were. They've been showing them back in the theater.
If you can catch it bit by bit, little U showcases.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, okay, I did not know that. I'd say that
it's a whole world that I don't know about it.
Not that I want to know a ton about it,
but I know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Those are some of the best animated films of I
mean of all time. I mean, well that was deep,
deep stuff man.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yeah, Jason's literally called the Disney of anime.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Okay, okay, okay, I mean doesn't Disney just do anime
in general or no.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
No, no, So like Disney kind of started to do
their own thing, you know, like with The Mouse on
the Boat and all that, which is a horror movie
by the way, Mike, I saw that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You see it, The mouse on the boat, The Mouse
on the boat.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, the steamboat one that's not a.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Steamboat, Willie? The take on that?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No, I think there's a horror movie steamboat Willie.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
No. Yeah, well, because you fell into the public domain, right,
so yeah, exactly part of that multiverse now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Wow one wow, okay, all right, I did not know that. Well,
look it's a big, big three minutes here for cartoons.
It's Curious George and Studio Ghibli and all these movies.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Well what about I mean, and then you've got Toto,
which is the classic with the cat bus. I mean,
come on, that's as good as I think you just
made that up?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Did you just made that up? They just made that up?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Princess mononok I think you made that up too. Howell's
moving castle that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I've heard of.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's a delivery service. What Kiki's delivery service?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Now, now you're just looking through the phone book. Yeah,
he was a kicker for the Cowboys in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Crispone do that. I knew that's when. This guy was
also a song from Blame Miserab.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
So there you go, Crimson Pig.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now, wasn't that Build You Castles in the Sky? That
was a song? Right now? That was the song build
you Castles in that?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
What song?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Who does that? That's a song build the Castles in
the sky. Oh, I don't think that's a song. What
you're doing. I think you're just going to.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Dress castles song?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Castle and skuy?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Okay, all right, good for the movie in nineteen eighty six,
when Anna Pack, when James Vanderbeek and Chloris Leachman in
nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Six, James Vanderbeek was in a movie well his voice
wow in eighty six Yeah, wow, okay? Then all right, hey, okay, and.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
It was a an anime movie all the way.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Back then, all right, I hear you. Uh so, now hey,
great moments. We'll get to Manci blanias and what's trending
in a second. So it makes sense we do great
moments in gambling history. So last night, you know, Mike
and I gave you our picture DraftKings, the over unders
that we thought come in here for tonight's game with
Minnesota and the Thunder. And I had two picks that
(22:05):
I liked the most that I was gonna make, and
I said, you know, I'm gonna stick with the one
that I believe in. Look, Anthony Edwards over under for
points was twenty three and a half. I go, he
had a really bad game one where he didn't do enough.
He's going to be more aggressive in game two. He's
going over twenty three and a half. He scored thirty one,
and he went over twenty four going to the fourth quarter. Right,
(22:25):
here's where great moments and gambling history come in. The
other advice I was going to give, but I did
not because who else did I like? I said, boy,
I think Devincenzo's gonna have a big night. It's only
nine and a half points for his over under. I said,
but it seems like he can do at anytime. But
he hasn't really played well. And I'm like, ah, you
(22:47):
know what, I'm going to back off that. I'm gonna
back off Devincenzo, I don't feel as great about it
as I do. And Edwards right, first quarter, Devincenzo scores eight,
and I'm like, oh, man, I should have I should
have went with that. What the hell mat I was gonna?
What did he finish with? Eight points? Yeah? Did not
make it great moments in gambling history. I could have
(23:07):
given that advice he say, would have been bad, and
I didn't, and I turned out to be Smart's.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That's pretty nice. I gave the Rudy Gobert six and
a half points he finished with five. Yeah. I was
also looking at his points plus rebounds was fourteen and
a half. What did he finish with fourteen?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Lou Dort over under ten points?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Nine?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
If you could, if you could have had a defensive
stat for lou Dort, you know, then made maybe well
that extra steel and lead.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I mean, we played the highlight earlier. It was almost
like it was cut to show love to me and
my appreciation society moment of lou Dort, lou edz Dort,
your guy, first team all defensive time.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports is someone who ripped up her ticket tonight
because she had the t Wolves taking a two none
lead in the Western Conference Finals. It's Manzi Belos.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
No, no, no, I'm not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh I thought you did.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
No, I'm not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You're wearing it. You were wearing a throwback t Wolves
hat and you're telling me how good Tom google Otto
was and Kevin Barnett and I'm like, Okay, they're not
playing in this game.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I mean, you're not wrong.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I would love like the og like Minnesota Timberwolves, like logo,
like I would rock that, not this new one.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I like the old ones better.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
But no, I did not say that, And the Oklahoma
City Thunder would have proven me wrong quickly. They're up
now to zero in this Western Conference Final series, beating
the Timberwolves one eighteen to one oh three.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Shake.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Gilles Alexander was presented the MVP Trophy ahead of this
game and then went on to play like one guys.
He had thirty eight points, he had eight assists, and
he led the way completely. Here's actually Chris Finch, head
coach of the Timberwolves, after the game.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
You know, Shay's a handful to contain.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You know, he's getting around us to you know, to
when there's contact, he's getting around us. And uh, you
know we gotta do better job of square on him.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
No, duh.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
When it comes to Minnesota, just like, yeah, no problem,
the series is over, No problem, We'll got three four,
five games.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Exact, get to that. We'll move our feet fast, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Anthony Edwards in the defeat at thirty two points on
nine rebounds. Julius Randall was the one who really struggled.
He was two of eleven and it was six points
and did not play in the fourth quarter. Other NBA
news that came out today is that the Nuggets and
interim head or interim coach, David Adelman will now be
the full time franchise next head coach for the for
(25:45):
the Nuggets, so David Adelman no longer the interim head
coach when it comes to the Denver Nuggets. In the
NHL Playoffs, it was the East Final Game two between
the Panthers and the Hurricanes. Panthers scored within one minute
and seventeen seconds. They never looked back. They shut up
the Hurricanes five zero. Florida now leads the series to zero.
(26:05):
In Major League Baseball, the game's wrapped up early in
the evening the Astros they defeated the Mariners nine to two.
Hose Aluve homer twice in this one. The Nationals walked
it off against the Braves eight seven after ten innings.
Brewers and Pirates were on a range delay, but actually
finished the game. Milwaukee won it eight to five. The
Guardians shut up the Tigers seven zero. The Angels have
(26:27):
won seven in a row Taylor Award with a Grand Slam.
They defeat the Ages ten to five. The Phillies shut
out the Rockies to zero. Rockies are on pace, by
the way, to have like the worst record of like
all time, not just in the modern era. I know
the White Sox did that last year. Sorry, Harmon. They're
supposed to like be on track to have just the
worst record of all time, not even just in the
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modern area.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
We're only gonna have it for one year. You are great,
it is actually you're right.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You're right.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
You're only gonna have it one year.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Thank Colorado for that one.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
We're the worst team ever. Hold my beer. Wait do
you see what we do?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Literally literally the blue he's the Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Deffeing of the Padres of eleven innings seven to six.
San Diego has lost six in a row. The Yages
did take down the Rangers one zero. And a little
NFL news for you. Like Detroit Lions defensive end Aiden Hutchinson.
He's been fully cleared for football activities after breaking his
leg last season. And the Giants did sign their third
overall pickup Del Carter to a four year, fully guaranteed
contract worth more than forty five point two million.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch of mon Yes,
Jason Smith Mike Carmon Live the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Okay,
so I've told you I'm not great tonight. I mean,
I'm pretty good. I can hide my emotions sometimes, and
but I'll tell you, ja, I'm not great. Still not great.
A day after the Knicks, the worst loss in the
history of the franchise. I'm still not great, right, I'm
(27:49):
still right. But I sold your on, right, I suck
it up. It's the playoffs, right, I suck it up,
Come in and do the show. I suck it up.
This is what got me out of bed this morning, right,
this is the only thing that sports got me out
of bed this morning, because look, I told you, I
don't see how the Knicks win a game. They're gonna
go out in four This is how I see it.
But here's the only silver lining to a man. Last night,
(28:13):
the Pacers, both right after the game, in the middle
of the game, and well after the game all seemed
really self satisfied and loved twisting the knife with the
win over the Knicks, whether it's Halliburton doing the choke
sign at the end of the game, the other players
doing their interviews and laughing in the postgame and Halliburton's laughing,
(28:35):
and even Rick Carlyle, who doesn't normally say anything bad
unless it's the officials, even went on to say, Hey,
what'd you think of Shake, Gil and Shake? What'd you
think of Tyrese Haliburton's celebration with the choke sign? And
he said, ah, you know, players do this. Tyrese has
earned the right to do whatever he wants to do,
Like like even he is saying, I'm sticking the knife
(28:56):
in the Knicks right now. The only silver lining I
have is, Man, if I'm the Knicks and I saw this,
I am just seeing blood waiting for Game two in
the rest of this series, not that they would suddenly
all of a sudden falter because it's the Eastern Conference Finals,
but any sort of will that they lost. You see
the Pacers celebrate and do what they did last night,
(29:18):
like they won Game seven and they went on to
the NBA Finals, Like you are making sure that we
are raising our level of intensity and attention to detail
because we're sending these blankety blanks home. We're gonna make
sure that's the last highlight they have in this series.
And you see the way we come out and the
intensity we play with and how we play as a
(29:39):
team tomorrow night, because I watch a team at the
end last night. Look, Ogano nob had a horrible last
three minutes. He's allowing Nie Smith to open faces for
threes and Josh Hart's falling down and they're fighting on
the sideline with Towns and og and it's like, come on.
But this is the one thing I will tell you
is that seeing the Pacers be so incredibly self sad
(30:00):
and even postgame not back away from it. I get
them in the moment on the court, I get it,
but I but even postgame where it's like, hey, it's
one game. We have a long series here. It's no, no, no,
we are gonna dance tonight on this. You won game one.
You won Game one, and yes, you did it in
a in a fashion in which none of the fourteen
hundred plus teams that had a lead like this in
(30:22):
the final minute and NBA history have done it before.
Everybody else has won. You found a way. But the
way they they appeared, the way they continued that over
on the Knicks, that is not That is something that's
burned in my brain at the front of my whatever
cortex is in the front of your head, the temporal
court to whatever whatever court that gets front of your
cortext whatever that is. That is absolutely what is spurring
(30:42):
me on the rest of the series. That that's what
got me out of bed today going, okay, maybe it
could turn out to be something where after Game one
the Knicks just had that next level that they got
to and the Pacers didn't know what hit them. Now
I say all this and I think back to how
awful that game was last night and how bad I feel.
I still think they're getting swept. But that's my silver lining. Yeah,
(31:03):
A couple of things.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Uh. First off, man. Obviously you have to contend with
with Indiana's depth and length and their their A billing,
the ability and willingness to uh keep their feet moving
close out on three point shooters, unlike Cat Uh one
step slow and ah you hit it last time. He
ain't gonna hit that again. Damnit he hit it again.
(31:25):
You did control the game for forty five and a
half minutes, so take some solace in that.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Okay, you are six point favorites tomorrow, playing at home
in front of all the celebrities. Larry David will be
there to cheer you on. Maybe Spike Leo may have
made it back from the can Film Festival to help along.
Maybe Shata I don't know, man, Chalamey was there. He was,
he was an odd factor.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Shatat Uh. I know, I know. It's it's buddy, It's
it's hard. I can't no, I know.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Every time I start to feel like over lining, it's.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Like when you have a hangover, and you know the
moments when you start feeling better and then you stand
up and you go, nope, gotta sit down, still not
feeling yet, not feeling it, Nope, Nope, not time yet.
That's kind of where I am right now with this.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
No, it's pretty good. No, I mean that's a good analogy,
and I think many people in our audience may have
experienced that once upon a time in their lives, or
maybe they're going through it right now, and maybe you
just offered some great support, like an emotional pet.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Okay, it's my.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
My You're like a support animal for our audience right now.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Hey, if Jason Smith seems calm, I'm calm, but the
dude's not calm. Yeah. I don't know what to do, man,
I don't know when your emotional support animals starts losing it,
there's not there's nowhere to go.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, No, they rent you out and you can go
on planes with people who's that. It's my emotional support Smith.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Nowhere to go? Man, you are you are? Good luck?
Good luck man, I'm losing it. Exit out out of Fresca,
Exit swollen Dome. Coming next, we get back into the
biggest football story of the day. If you like the
college football playoff, hey, you're gonna love the fact that
now it's changing again. Fox Fox Sports Radio The Jason
(33:20):
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon and I
hope you really like the college football Playoff this past year,
because now it's gonna change. Uh wide success twelve teams
in the playoff was terrific. We told you two changes
that had to happen, and this is while the playoff
was going on, and one of them came true. Today.
(33:44):
We are now going to have reseating for next year
as far as teams that are getting buys the top
four seeds overall because this year was the top teams
that won their conferences and clearly the weaker conferences, maybe
they don't deserve to be top four seeds. So what
the change is and we said, look, it should be
(34:04):
just like this. If you win your conference, you get in. Right,
that's a big thing. You win your conference, you're in
the playoff. But the seeding is gonna be done as
to what the committee thinks are the top seeds like
like they do it in the NCAA tournament. Right, Hey,
you won your conference, you're getting in. Doesn't mean you're
getting a top seed. Maybe you're the nine seed or
the ten seed. And the top four seeds the overall
(34:25):
are going to be the top four teams that the
CFP is going to say these are our top four.
These are getting buys in home games. Right, it's the
right thing to do because in theory, it will give
us closer games next year. Right. We had big blocks
in the first round because you had you know, Dev's
like Ohio State playing here. It's like, what's going on here?
So you're gonna see closer games in the first round
(34:46):
and the big boys get to sit for you know,
for a week. And it's a win, Like, it's an
absolute win for everybody. Like this change today. I don't
know why it took so long. I don't know why.
It was something that was really debated. Like I saw
a lot of insight, a saying, yeah, I know that
they're gonna get together on this. Who's not gonna get
together on this? Like this absolutely makes sense and it
came through today. Great change of the playoff.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
It's funny because wasn't that kind of what they were
trying to propose over with Detroit and everybody and they
bled it in the NFL. I mean, obviously it's not rankings,
but it's the same idea, Hey, you won more games,
you get to the front of the line in terms
of playoff seating. Yeah, I mean it's an obvious change.
But when you're trying to hold on to the areas
(35:31):
of your individual fiefdoms as the universe converges here, right,
you got the power players of the SEC in Big
ten and everybody else still staking their claim. Hey we're
still important. Yeah, you're not as important, so you don't
have quite the same juice. And I think that's where
the fights happen, right, because obviously you're looking at a second
(35:52):
SEC school or a second Big ten school. Add notre
dame to the mix when they have a big run
whatever that you know, those how our plays come into
the next level because they can come back with receipts.
Look at all the revenue we generate, right, that's the
Big ten and SEC's trump card to everything when you're
fighting about the future of the sports, like, well, look
(36:14):
at what we bring to the table in terms of eyeballs,
asses and seats, pack stadiums, television ratings, et cetera. So
that's the inevitable move to it. So any resistance you
would get to be it was, Hey, this is predicated
on that deal. Once upon a time where there was
a Power five and everybody decided to play nice sandbox
(36:38):
at least on the surface to sign off on that, Well,
the rules of engagement have changed for everybody involved, including
player acquisition and retention. So with that, you rip up
that deal and you'd build a new one now.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
The only change that needs to be made now because
this is a great change and it may wind up
happening in a year because this playoff was just okayed
for a couple of years, right, and obviously it's a
huge success. We're not going back to fewer teams. They're
gonna expand it, right, and they need to expand because
the biggest question out there is going to be how
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do you deal with teams that make their conference championship
game and lose, Because once you get to right around
the twelve mark, it's like, boy, we have a bunch
of two loss teams that aren't making it, and we
have a bunch of two loss teams that made their
conference championship. Well, you go to your conference championship and
let's say you lose by three touchdowns, you don't look
as great because you have three loss I mean, all
these other teams that have two losses look better, but
(37:36):
they didn't get to go play like they didn't make
their conference ship they could have gone to their conference
championship and lost anyway. So how do you value teams
that way? How do you say, well, a team that
made it to their conference championship but lost, even though
with three losses is still better than a two loss
team that didn't make it. The way to solve this
and it's better you go to sixteen teams, and you
(37:58):
need to do something where if you make your conference
championship game, you also get in the playoff, right like that.
That kind of sets it up as well, because now
you have sixteen teams and the conference. The team's making
the conference championship, they make it now, and they'll be
low seeds if you lose, obviously, your wine up gonna
be like, you know, fourteen fifteen seeds, fourteen, fifteen and
(38:18):
sixteen and something like that. But you let them make
it and then you still have the at large bids
for the teams that didn't make their conference championship games.
I think that's the way to settle it. And sixteen
teams is kind of that sweet spot for the playoff.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, that's great. I think you make it a reality
TV show for those final spots. Though, America, your vote
you got seventy two hours are gonna make off. You know,
the eighties are gonna go up, and they're gonna give
you their most compelling argument.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
They're gonna put.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Together a super clip of player sound bites and highlights
to sell you on their entry into those final spots.
You sell all sorts of advertising and spawn ship into
that television program. You whittle it down in the final four.
Those back end bids boom.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Here's my hey, vote right now, vote for me when
you call them the number, press two, keep hitting two
and get me there.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
You know your team captain has to go out and
sing we are the world. There's some crowd, all of it. Yeah,
and we talk about it being a TV show at
be one hell of a show, like.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
The old days of American Idol, where people would go
and then hold up the number because everybody had a
number assigned to them. In the final like sixteen, there
are four vote four seven.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Book in there with his thumb up and hold the
microphone in one hand and a sign with what his
number was and the other No, you pressed one four,
You voted for the Southern jerk.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
You stooge, exit out bout of Fresco, exit swellow Home
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Speaker 5 (02:29):
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Speaker 1 (02:34):
Uh? You know what we'll do that. We'll do that
in fifteen minutes. Would definitely do that. Yes, the Alex
Tyscher trivia knowledge that I believe my my wife would
have won trivia had Alex tyschert been on her team.
Oh wow, yeah, okay, it would have won. They were
leading going to the final question, which is a thing
now with my wife's teams on Wednesday, Like, you can't finish, man,
(02:56):
You're like the Knicks. She's we're leanning. We get to
the last question and we don't get it and it's
and we lose because the other team risked more. I'm like,
it's a thing. It's a thing, man, it's a thing.
You gotta finish.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You can't just go out there and be up by nine.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Go.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You gotta finish. But if Tysher was on the team,
I think they would have won. I think they would have.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Look, let's talk about this for a second, because it's time.
It's time for an appreciation moment for a team that
likely is gonna win the NBA Championship. The Thunder beat
the t Wolf tonight one eighteen, one oh three, and
you know, as more time goes on, I sit here
and go, Wow, the Nuggets. They took the took the
Thunder to seven. That's amazing. Well, the Hey, the Nuggets
and maybe David Adaman's maybe that's why David Adaman got
(03:37):
the interim tag taken off him today and he's now
the official new head coach of the of the Denver Nuggets. Uh.
But the Thunder win tonight in a game that it
seemed like they took the first half and what Minnesota
was trying to do, and you saw Shay Gilders Alexander
struggled a little bit out of the gate, and then
the third quarter said yeah, that's it, We're throwing the
(03:59):
hammer down. And all of a sudden, the t Wolves
are looking up and it's a twenty point lead in
the fourth quarter, and you say, what the hell just
happened to us? And I'm you know, we talked about
this last hour on the show. They're up to zip
over the Timberwolves, the Knicks, and the Pacers. Hopefully it's
an entertaining series, but I'm telling you, I'm ready for
the Knicks to lose in four after last night. I mean,
I'm done. I'm not great, Bob, I'm not great. But like,
(04:23):
are either of those teams gonna give the Thunder a series?
Like at this point, Like if I put the over
under of games, the Thunder lose the rest of the
season at two and a half, I'm taking the under
really because I don't know. I don't know if they
lose a game here against the t Wolves, either they
lose one, are they gonna lose two in the NBA
Finals to either the Knicks or the Pacers, Like, I
(04:44):
don't I don't know that that's gonna happen. The Thunder
are terrific, and the thing about them is they are
an absolutely perfectly constructed team. Like this is a team
you go through on one of the big NBA video games.
You're the GM and you say, okay, and you put
this team together and you just sit back and go,
I just did it. This is absolute perfection because I
(05:06):
just put together a team that nobody can beat that. Nobody.
I put together a perfect team because you're talking about
a Thunder team that has the NBA MVP and Shay
Gilgess Alexander two of the great young mega superstars in
the game. And chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams. Right, Jaylen
Williams and Night twenty six, ten and five. Chet Holmgren
had twenty two Tonight. I think all eight of his
(05:27):
shots were dunks. Right. You have an All NBA Defensive
Player of the Year in loud Dort, your guy Lou Dort.
You have a couple of role players in Isaiah Hartenstein
and Alex Caruso that are NBA Championship caliber players that
you don't win without these support guys. And oh, by
the way, just in case things happen, right, guys make
too much money, Guys want to leave, Guys want to
(05:50):
go someplace. After a couple of years, the Thunder are
gonna have between ten and fifteen first round picks in
the next seven drafts. Okay. Now, a lot of it
depends on how teams finish and protected drafts. But you're
talking about this Thunder team between ten and fifteen first
round picks in the next seven drafts, which is the
reason why that crazy story got floated a few weeks ago.
(06:11):
Why wouldn't the Thunder just trade like seven first round
picks to get Cooper Flagg? Like wow, no, no, they
have the picks. They could trade seven picks and still
have enough, still have one first round pick per every
draft the next seven like this, this is a team
put together in absolute perfection by the Thunder. And you
sit back and go, I mean you, I mean this
is a video game. Like you do this in a
(06:32):
video game and you sit back and go, oh, I'm
too powerful now, no one can beat me because I
just did all the right things. And this is actually
on the court in real life. This is a team
they've been able to put together. Man, I'm telling you
the Thunder this isn't This is an absolute perfect roster
with the future where you just sit back and go
there's nothing to do. There is nothing to do but
watch my team go play. But watch my team go
(06:54):
play and win and take home the title. Like that's where.
That's how perfect the Thunder are.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Dynasty mode gone berserk as it sits right now, right
healthy ched Holmgrin lou Dort, that first team all defense
Wallace up. I mean, you've got guys for days, your
your guy former Nick, now good Hertstein and obviously SGA
(07:19):
just starting to round into his format and he met
all the criteria. Now he'd get that three hundred and
fifty million dollars so he could pay for more rolexes
and he doesn't need to have the extra L or
double L like we were suggesting after that Nicks loss
yesterday for the rolexes that we won't be getting from you.
But all of that to say, yeah, I mean they've
(07:41):
built an organization and the strategy and approach and it's worked.
You know, you've had some hiccups along the way, guys
missing time, Chet missed some time didn't matter because you
had enough depth to roll through and your boat racing team,
like the number of wins, you know, fifteen or more
points over the course of the year, and certainly now
in the playoffs. It's this distancing themselves from the pack.
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And it's now the morbid curiosity of seeing how this
continues to evolve. What Superstar decides, hey, I'd like to
go there, and what the packages look like there. I mean,
it is really an impressive run of what they've been
able to do thus far. Yeah, some of these guys
all need big contracts, but that's when you hit and
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reload mode instead of you know, reset, rebuild and all
of those things. So for the NBA right now, and
maybe not on Madison Avenue, right Adam Silver might not
be the happiest guy in the world given what the
ratings were for Game one, and can't imagine games to
game two was any better. And now that you've got
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to imply to odds of a ninety five percent win,
I think it's thirty four of the last thirty five
going up two oho of one in advance. So you
got that going for you. The Thunder minus two thousand
right now, oh, Wolves plus nine fifty At least on
your side, you still have a puncher's chance. You're at
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forty two percent entry Game two.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
We gotta play tomorrow. Not great, Bob, not great. Uh,
you know. And the other part of this, when you
think about how good the Thunder are and here's Shay
Gildis Alexander and and this is it's a weird thing
because obviously you and I when we're you know, we're
doing the show, but we're also beholden to the games
going on. We're trying to we're trying to keep track
and do the show at the same time. But like
this is this is more of a thing that I
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have seen, not just not just nights like tonight, but
now this has happened a few times where it's it
shows more to the excellence that SGA has. Is that
he had thirty eight tonight, right, Like, yeah, he had
thirty eight tonight, right, And didn't it fit? And this
is not the first time I thought this, you know,
watching him in the playoffs with with this.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
But oh say, and I know what you're gonna say, didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
It feel like he had a quiet thirty eight? That's
it right? Like like it's a quat Like it didn't
feel like and and they're dominating, right, and it felt
like SGA still has like another level to get to
if they needed it, like in a tight game or
like it not. I don't mean a quiet thirty eight
where like, hey, you know, we scored a bunch of
his points in garbage time or it didn't matter. I
mean a quiet thirty eight in which the guy was
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this dominant and it and it still felt like there
was room between his head and the ceiling because he
wasn't doing the the you know, highlight reel plays.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Right, it's it's a layup. It's a mid range jumper,
and that was one of the things you look at
their shot chart. Takes a lot and it's a lot
of free throws. He gets to the free throw line, right,
so you so you get a little bit of anger
there because it's a stop. But it's not Hey, this
guy's doing a windmill dunk. Hey, he's lighted it up
from three. He doesn't take a ton of three point
shots like all those things that are splash plays and
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the ones that you remember. He may have set them up,
but it's all right. There's home grin with a dunk
off a miss or off of a lob the fast break,
and generally the guy that's that's dishing it doesn't get
a lot of the run, right. The highlight is on
the back end of it. But for for SGA, yeah,
thirty eight points and dare you say, a yeoman like
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thirty eight points because he just goes and grinds. It's
something you and I have been hammering on all throughout
these playoffs, is they're relentless, like he keeps attacking and
the way this squad comes at you, he's gonna get his.
But it's not an obvious thing. You look up at
the score sheet and maybe you've lamented the free throws
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because you're on the other side, right, you're a fan
of the opposition, Go damn it, make him play, make
him play through it. But for you and I I
mean you're watching, it's like, look, you go with what
brings you the best strategy, whatever job you do, whatever
gets you your best through whatever the output measurement is.
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And for SGA, it's setting other teammates up, hitting the
mid range and creating contact to go live at the foul.
I can't vault a good strategy. It won them an
MVP and got everybody rolexes, which he was able to
roll out and say, hey, I need seven more wins
out of you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
And by the way, I mean, it's it's an absolutely
perfect roster put together. And when when you can win,
when your superstar, your MVP has a quiet thirty eight
and which is like, yes, he's affecting the game, he's dominating,
but it feels like we could really throw the hammer
down more if we needed to. Right like that, that's
kind of where I get from the thunder is that, yeah,
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we can turn them when we have to. Ian As
more time goes on, more he's like, hey, how the
hell did the Nuggets take them to seven?
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Like, how the hell did they well? But that's the
thing though, right as we talked about a lot, folks
can go back in the podcast, like, think about those games,
how much it was in reality Oklahoma City controlling pace, dominating,
and then they'd have a five minute spurt where everything
went to hell and then all of a sudden, Denver's
back in the game and you had the opportunity to
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go and win it. And it takes nothing away from
what the Nuggets did. Congratulations to Adelman getting the permanent
coaching job today, But you know, there were just times
in that series like are they just playing with them
and letting And now they've let them back in and
they've offered the opportunity, and that, I mean, to some degree,
I guess spoke to the pre playoffs discussion of are
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they too young and inexperienced playoff wise for their own
good to let a team come back in and a
team in Denver that had all a number of those
component parts from a recent NBA champion. But in the
end you get past that series, succeed and proceed the
old Caliperi line. And now they're just saying, all right,
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We're not playing around anymore. It's time to go to work.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
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up next, Yes, Alex Tischer will show off his trivia
knowledge Great moments in gambling history, because we had a
great a great moment, A great moment tonight, great great,
great great moment, great great moment. Plus the only silver
lining that I could see today for the Knicks against
the Pacers, the only silver the only thing that got
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me out of bed this morning. That's coming up next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
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Speaker 1 (14:45):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 4 (14:51):
You know, I had a thought of the Shake Gildess
Alexander and the Quiet thirty eight Again.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Okay, that sounds like that sounds like goo, curious George Book,
Shake Illes Alexander and the Quiet thirty eight.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Well, and then you decide what it's thirty eight of.
That's sure, okay, But in terms of his performance, yeah,
the only reason that it screams at you that he's
got thirty eight is because a lot of them come
from the foul line, which means the lower third graphic
is gonna tell you how many points he has and
how he's slowly but surely eviscerating your squad. No, okay, okay,
I'm with you know what I mean with it. It's like,
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all right, he's back at the line again. Oh now
he's up to twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got thirty. Now he's
got thirty four, Now he's got thirty five.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
You know, it's funny, And I mentioned that because my
dad sent me a real funny thing today on a
message because Curious George, my daughter's felt like is Zoe's
favorite growing up. That was her favorite TV show to watch,
and she loved it, loved it, love We've seen all
of them, and my dad happened to find the one
on TV today that she was scared of when she
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was a kid. Oh and it was a Curious George
and the scary noise and it was where there was
some kind of toy in the trunk in the basement.
It would make a noise like the battery was running out. Oh,
I remember that scary noise. And so uh uh and
so and and she never wanted to watch it because
it was really scary, but finally we got her to
watch it. It got her over. Curious George is such
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a phenomenal TV show, and it got her over her
her fear. You know, she was afraid of this. Whatever
we saw. It's just a thing, just a thing. And
so he found the noise on something in his apartment
and he sent it to me and and and a text,
H'm going, what is this noise for? He goes, He goes,
you don't get it. I go, no, you just sent
me a video. That's just a noise.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
He goes.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
He okay, goes no. Doesn't it sound like Curious George
is the scary noise. I'm like, Okay, why don't you
say that in the thing, because you send me something
and I kind of get a vision of you, like
in your apartment and suddenly you fall down and you're
like trying to get to me and you did something.
You're just making noise going.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
That is pretty good though. I remember that though.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh man, so that's so that's why Curious George. I'd
be just thinking about that. We had a lot of
conversations about that today with our life, and it's just
a fantastic thing. So I've been thinking about.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So, uh, we need to show off Alex ty Shirt's
absolute trivia knowledge right now. That would have given my
wife first place and her team in trivia tonight. Now, Okay,
she plays in a pretty serious When Sunday Nights we
Go play trivia, it's pretty good. Wednesday is really serious, right,
Like I would say Sunday Nights we Go was like
the top level of triple A. Wednesday Nights every time
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I go once in a while, like that's like the
major leagues and they were leading going to the final
round and the final question was in television and and
my wife, oh, we got it right, because you know,
she and I TV were TV savants, got it, got it,
got it. And it goes, okay, here's your question, and
it's an animated television's an animated animated screen. And we're like,
I'm sorry, what not tell it was movies? Sorry, movies? Movies?
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And it was and it says okay, hey, uh in
animated movies. These two Studio Ghibli movies are the only
ones to win the Oscars for Best Animated Film. And
my wife said, they all looked at each other like,
what the hell, man, I don't know studio. Does anybody
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here know Studio Ghibli? And I said, well, if you hear,
I could have told you because Tyson and I talk
about Studio Ghibli. And she was you could have gotten
the answer. I said, oh no, I wouldn have known
either of them. But I know it's Studio Ghibli. Is
it's that you know, it's that that Japanese anime that
is really popular. So she says, ah, I said, so
we didn't get it right, and the other team got
it right and they won, and you know, they won
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the thing so I said, okay, let me see if
Tysher can get the answer. And I asked, Tyshaw, I
won't do it again live because I give me the
benefit that he did it. I said, Okay, here's the question, Alex,
I said, what are the two Studio Ghibli movies that
won Best Oscar for Best Animated Film? And within three
seconds he gave me both of the answers.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Go ahead, A to oh, it's simple.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Muzaki's best films ever made Spirited Away, and then The
Boy and the Hair and his first ever and then
his last ever.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I knew Spirited Away the Boy in the Hair, and
I would have gotten wrong, so.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I wouldn't have gotten either. I wouldn't have gotten that.
I was like, wow, nobody, I said, if Tysher was
on your team, you would have won. If he was abed,
you would have won.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
They were. They've been showing them back in the theater.
If you can catch it bit by bit, little U showcases.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
No, okay, I did not know that. I'd say that
it's a whole world that I don't know about it.
Not that I want to know a ton about it,
but I know a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Those are some of the best animated films of I
mean of all time. I mean, well that was deep,
deep stuff man.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yeah, Jason's literally called the Disney of anime.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Okay, okay, okay, I mean doesn't Disney just do anime
in general or no.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
No, no, So like Disney kind of started to do
their own thing, you know, like with The Mouse on
the Boat and all that, which is a horror movie
by the way, Mike, I saw that.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You see it, The mouse on the boat, The Mouse
on the boat.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, the steamboat one that's not a.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Steamboat, Willie? The take on that?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No, I think there's a horror movie steamboat Willie.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
No. Yeah, well, because you fell into the public domain, right,
so yeah, exactly part of that multiverse now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Wow one wow, okay, all right, I did not know that. Well,
look it's a big, big three minutes here for cartoons.
It's Curious George and Studio Ghibli and all these movies.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Well what about I mean, and then you've got Toto,
which is the classic with the cat bus. I mean,
come on, that's as good as I think you just
made that up?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Did you just made that up? They just made that up?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Princess mononok I think you made that up too. Howell's
moving castle that.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I've heard of.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's a delivery service. What Kiki's delivery service?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Now, now you're just looking through the phone book. Yeah,
he was a kicker for the Cowboys in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Crispone do that. I knew that's when. This guy was
also a song from Blame Miserab.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
So there you go, Crimson Pig.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Now, wasn't that Build You Castles in the Sky? That
was a song? Right now? That was the song build
you Castles in that?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
What song?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Who does that? That's a song build the Castles in
the sky. Oh, I don't think that's a song. What
you're doing. I think you're just going to.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Dress castles song?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Castle and skuy?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Okay, all right, good for the movie in nineteen eighty six,
when Anna Pack, when James Vanderbeek and Chloris Leachman in
nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Six, James Vanderbeek was in a movie well his voice
wow in eighty six Yeah, wow, okay? Then all right, hey, okay, and.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
It was a an anime movie all the way.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Back then, all right, I hear you. Uh so, now hey,
great moments. We'll get to Manci blanias and what's trending
in a second. So it makes sense we do great
moments in gambling history. So last night, you know, Mike
and I gave you our picture DraftKings, the over unders
that we thought come in here for tonight's game with
Minnesota and the Thunder. And I had two picks that
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I liked the most that I was gonna make, and
I said, you know, I'm gonna stick with the one
that I believe in. Look, Anthony Edwards over under for
points was twenty three and a half. I go, he
had a really bad game one where he didn't do enough.
He's going to be more aggressive in game two. He's
going over twenty three and a half. He scored thirty one,
and he went over twenty four going to the fourth quarter. Right,
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here's where great moments and gambling history come in. The
other advice I was going to give, but I did
not because who else did I like? I said, boy,
I think Devincenzo's gonna have a big night. It's only
nine and a half points for his over under. I said,
but it seems like he can do at anytime. But
he hasn't really played well. And I'm like, ah, you
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know what, I'm going to back off that. I'm gonna
back off Devincenzo, I don't feel as great about it
as I do. And Edwards right, first quarter, Devincenzo scores eight,
and I'm like, oh, man, I should have I should
have went with that. What the hell mat I was gonna?
What did he finish with? Eight points? Yeah? Did not
make it great moments in gambling history. I could have
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given that advice he say, would have been bad, and
I didn't, and I turned out to be Smart's.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That's pretty nice. I gave the Rudy Gobert six and
a half points he finished with five. Yeah. I was
also looking at his points plus rebounds was fourteen and
a half. What did he finish with fourteen?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Lou Dort over under ten points?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Nine?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yeah? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
If you could, if you could have had a defensive
stat for lou Dort, you know, then made maybe well
that extra steel and lead.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I mean, we played the highlight earlier. It was almost
like it was cut to show love to me and
my appreciation society moment of lou Dort, lou edz Dort,
your guy, first team all defensive time.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Now to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports is someone who ripped up her ticket tonight
because she had the t Wolves taking a two none
lead in the Western Conference Finals. It's Manzi Belos.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
No, no, no, I'm not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh I thought you did.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
No, I'm not that crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
You're wearing it. You were wearing a throwback t Wolves
hat and you're telling me how good Tom google Otto
was and Kevin Barnett and I'm like, Okay, they're not
playing in this game.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I mean, you're not wrong.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I would love like the og like Minnesota Timberwolves, like logo,
like I would rock that, not this new one.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I like the old ones better.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
But no, I did not say that, And the Oklahoma
City Thunder would have proven me wrong quickly. They're up
now to zero in this Western Conference Final series, beating
the Timberwolves one eighteen to one oh three.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Shake.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Gilles Alexander was presented the MVP Trophy ahead of this
game and then went on to play like one guys.
He had thirty eight points, he had eight assists, and
he led the way completely. Here's actually Chris Finch, head
coach of the Timberwolves, after the game.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, obviously.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
You know, Shay's a handful to contain.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
You know, he's getting around us to you know, to
when there's contact, he's getting around us. And uh, you
know we gotta do better job of square on him.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
No, duh.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
When it comes to Minnesota, just like, yeah, no problem,
the series is over, No problem, We'll got three four,
five games.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Exact, get to that. We'll move our feet fast, exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Anthony Edwards in the defeat at thirty two points on
nine rebounds. Julius Randall was the one who really struggled.
He was two of eleven and it was six points
and did not play in the fourth quarter. Other NBA
news that came out today is that the Nuggets and
interim head or interim coach, David Adelman will now be
the full time franchise next head coach for the for
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the Nuggets, so David Adelman no longer the interim head
coach when it comes to the Denver Nuggets. In the
NHL Playoffs, it was the East Final Game two between
the Panthers and the Hurricanes. Panthers scored within one minute
and seventeen seconds. They never looked back. They shut up
the Hurricanes five zero. Florida now leads the series to zero.
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In Major League Baseball, the game's wrapped up early in
the evening the Astros they defeated the Mariners nine to two.
Hose Aluve homer twice in this one. The Nationals walked
it off against the Braves eight seven after ten innings.
Brewers and Pirates were on a range delay, but actually
finished the game. Milwaukee won it eight to five. The
Guardians shut up the Tigers seven zero. The Angels have
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won seven in a row Taylor Award with a Grand Slam.
They defeat the Ages ten to five. The Phillies shut
out the Rockies to zero. Rockies are on pace, by
the way, to have like the worst record of like
all time, not just in the modern era. I know
the White Sox did that last year. Sorry, Harmon. They're
supposed to like be on track to have just the
worst record of all time, not even just in the
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modern area.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
We're only gonna have it for one year. You are great,
it is actually you're right.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You're right.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
You're only gonna have it one year.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Thank Colorado for that one.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
We're the worst team ever. Hold my beer. Wait do
you see what we do?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Literally literally the blue he's the Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Deffeing of the Padres of eleven innings seven to six.
San Diego has lost six in a row. The Yages
did take down the Rangers one zero. And a little
NFL news for you. Like Detroit Lions defensive end Aiden Hutchinson.
He's been fully cleared for football activities after breaking his
leg last season. And the Giants did sign their third
overall pickup Del Carter to a four year, fully guaranteed
contract worth more than forty five point two million.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch of mon Yes,
Jason Smith Mike Carmon Live the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Okay,
so I've told you I'm not great tonight. I mean,
I'm pretty good. I can hide my emotions sometimes, and
but I'll tell you, ja, I'm not great. Still not great.
A day after the Knicks, the worst loss in the
history of the franchise. I'm still not great, right, I'm
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still right. But I sold your on, right, I suck
it up. It's the playoffs, right, I suck it up,
Come in and do the show. I suck it up.
This is what got me out of bed this morning, right,
this is the only thing that sports got me out
of bed this morning, because look, I told you, I
don't see how the Knicks win a game. They're gonna
go out in four This is how I see it.
But here's the only silver lining to a man. Last night,
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the Pacers, both right after the game, in the middle
of the game, and well after the game all seemed
really self satisfied and loved twisting the knife with the
win over the Knicks, whether it's Halliburton doing the choke
sign at the end of the game, the other players
doing their interviews and laughing in the postgame and Halliburton's laughing,
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and even Rick Carlyle, who doesn't normally say anything bad
unless it's the officials, even went on to say, Hey,
what'd you think of Shake, Gil and Shake? What'd you
think of Tyrese Haliburton's celebration with the choke sign? And
he said, ah, you know, players do this. Tyrese has
earned the right to do whatever he wants to do,
Like like even he is saying, I'm sticking the knife
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in the Knicks right now. The only silver lining I
have is, Man, if I'm the Knicks and I saw this,
I am just seeing blood waiting for Game two in
the rest of this series, not that they would suddenly
all of a sudden falter because it's the Eastern Conference Finals,
but any sort of will that they lost. You see
the Pacers celebrate and do what they did last night,
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like they won Game seven and they went on to
the NBA Finals, Like you are making sure that we
are raising our level of intensity and attention to detail
because we're sending these blankety blanks home. We're gonna make
sure that's the last highlight they have in this series.
And you see the way we come out and the
intensity we play with and how we play as a
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team tomorrow night, because I watch a team at the
end last night. Look, Ogano nob had a horrible last
three minutes. He's allowing Nie Smith to open faces for
threes and Josh Hart's falling down and they're fighting on
the sideline with Towns and og and it's like, come on.
But this is the one thing I will tell you
is that seeing the Pacers be so incredibly self sad
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and even postgame not back away from it. I get
them in the moment on the court, I get it,
but I but even postgame where it's like, hey, it's
one game. We have a long series here. It's no, no, no,
we are gonna dance tonight on this. You won game one.
You won Game one, and yes, you did it in
a in a fashion in which none of the fourteen
hundred plus teams that had a lead like this in
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the final minute and NBA history have done it before.
Everybody else has won. You found a way. But the
way they they appeared, the way they continued that over
on the Knicks, that is not That is something that's
burned in my brain at the front of my whatever
cortex is in the front of your head, the temporal
court to whatever whatever court that gets front of your
cortext whatever that is. That is absolutely what is spurring
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me on the rest of the series. That that's what
got me out of bed today going, okay, maybe it
could turn out to be something where after Game one
the Knicks just had that next level that they got
to and the Pacers didn't know what hit them. Now
I say all this and I think back to how
awful that game was last night and how bad I feel.
I still think they're getting swept. But that's my silver lining. Yeah,
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A couple of things.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Uh. First off, man. Obviously you have to contend with
with Indiana's depth and length and their their A billing,
the ability and willingness to uh keep their feet moving
close out on three point shooters, unlike Cat Uh one
step slow and ah you hit it last time. He
ain't gonna hit that again. Damnit he hit it again.
(31:25):
You did control the game for forty five and a
half minutes, so take some solace in that.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Okay, just a little bit.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Okay, you are six point favorites tomorrow, playing at home
in front of all the celebrities. Larry David will be
there to cheer you on. Maybe Spike Leo may have
made it back from the can Film Festival to help along.
Maybe Shata I don't know, man, Chalamey was there. He was,
he was an odd factor.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Shatat Uh. I know, I know. It's it's buddy, It's
it's hard. I can't no, I know.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Every time I start to feel like over lining, it's.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Like when you have a hangover, and you know the
moments when you start feeling better and then you stand
up and you go, nope, gotta sit down, still not
feeling yet, not feeling it, Nope, Nope, not time yet.
That's kind of where I am right now with this.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
No, it's pretty good. No, I mean that's a good analogy,
and I think many people in our audience may have
experienced that once upon a time in their lives, or
maybe they're going through it right now, and maybe you
just offered some great support, like an emotional pet.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Okay, it's my.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
My You're like a support animal for our audience right now.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Hey, if Jason Smith seems calm, I'm calm, but the
dude's not calm. Yeah. I don't know what to do, man,
I don't know when your emotional support animals starts losing it,
there's not there's nowhere to go.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, No, they rent you out and you can go
on planes with people who's that. It's my emotional support Smith.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Nowhere to go? Man, you are you are? Good luck?
Good luck man, I'm losing it. Exit out out of Fresca,
Exit swollen Dome. Coming next, we get back into the
biggest football story of the day. If you like the
college football playoff, hey, you're gonna love the fact that
now it's changing again. Fox Fox Sports Radio The Jason
(33:20):
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon and I
hope you really like the college football Playoff this past year,
because now it's gonna change. Uh wide success twelve teams
in the playoff was terrific. We told you two changes
that had to happen, and this is while the playoff
was going on, and one of them came true. Today.
(33:44):
We are now going to have reseating for next year
as far as teams that are getting buys the top
four seeds overall because this year was the top teams
that won their conferences and clearly the weaker conferences, maybe
they don't deserve to be top four seeds. So what
the change is and we said, look, it should be
(34:04):
just like this. If you win your conference, you get in. Right,
that's a big thing. You win your conference, you're in
the playoff. But the seeding is gonna be done as
to what the committee thinks are the top seeds like
like they do it in the NCAA tournament. Right, Hey,
you won your conference, you're getting in. Doesn't mean you're
getting a top seed. Maybe you're the nine seed or
the ten seed. And the top four seeds the overall
(34:25):
are going to be the top four teams that the
CFP is going to say these are our top four.
These are getting buys in home games. Right, it's the
right thing to do because in theory, it will give
us closer games next year. Right. We had big blocks
in the first round because you had you know, Dev's
like Ohio State playing here. It's like, what's going on here?
So you're gonna see closer games in the first round
(34:46):
and the big boys get to sit for you know,
for a week. And it's a win, Like, it's an
absolute win for everybody. Like this change today. I don't
know why it took so long. I don't know why.
It was something that was really debated. Like I saw
a lot of insight, a saying, yeah, I know that
they're gonna get together on this. Who's not gonna get
together on this? Like this absolutely makes sense and it
came through today. Great change of the playoff.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
It's funny because wasn't that kind of what they were
trying to propose over with Detroit and everybody and they
bled it in the NFL. I mean, obviously it's not rankings,
but it's the same idea, Hey, you won more games,
you get to the front of the line in terms
of playoff seating. Yeah, I mean it's an obvious change.
But when you're trying to hold on to the areas
(35:31):
of your individual fiefdoms as the universe converges here, right,
you got the power players of the SEC in Big
ten and everybody else still staking their claim. Hey we're
still important. Yeah, you're not as important, so you don't
have quite the same juice. And I think that's where
the fights happen, right, because obviously you're looking at a second
(35:52):
SEC school or a second Big ten school. Add notre
dame to the mix when they have a big run
whatever that you know, those how our plays come into
the next level because they can come back with receipts.
Look at all the revenue we generate, right, that's the
Big ten and SEC's trump card to everything when you're
fighting about the future of the sports, like, well, look
(36:14):
at what we bring to the table in terms of eyeballs,
asses and seats, pack stadiums, television ratings, et cetera. So
that's the inevitable move to it. So any resistance you
would get to be it was, Hey, this is predicated
on that deal. Once upon a time where there was
a Power five and everybody decided to play nice sandbox
(36:38):
at least on the surface to sign off on that, Well,
the rules of engagement have changed for everybody involved, including
player acquisition and retention. So with that, you rip up
that deal and you'd build a new one now.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
The only change that needs to be made now because
this is a great change and it may wind up
happening in a year because this playoff was just okayed
for a couple of years, right, and obviously it's a
huge success. We're not going back to fewer teams. They're
gonna expand it, right, and they need to expand because
the biggest question out there is going to be how
(37:13):
do you deal with teams that make their conference championship
game and lose, Because once you get to right around
the twelve mark, it's like, boy, we have a bunch
of two loss teams that aren't making it, and we
have a bunch of two loss teams that made their
conference championship. Well, you go to your conference championship and
let's say you lose by three touchdowns, you don't look
as great because you have three loss I mean, all
these other teams that have two losses look better, but
(37:36):
they didn't get to go play like they didn't make
their conference ship they could have gone to their conference
championship and lost anyway. So how do you value teams
that way? How do you say, well, a team that
made it to their conference championship but lost, even though
with three losses is still better than a two loss
team that didn't make it. The way to solve this
and it's better you go to sixteen teams, and you
(37:58):
need to do something where if you make your conference
championship game, you also get in the playoff, right like that.
That kind of sets it up as well, because now
you have sixteen teams and the conference. The team's making
the conference championship, they make it now, and they'll be
low seeds if you lose, obviously, your wine up gonna
be like, you know, fourteen fifteen seeds, fourteen, fifteen and
(38:18):
sixteen and something like that. But you let them make
it and then you still have the at large bids
for the teams that didn't make their conference championship games.
I think that's the way to settle it. And sixteen
teams is kind of that sweet spot for the playoff.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Yeah, that's great. I think you make it a reality
TV show for those final spots. Though, America, your vote
you got seventy two hours are gonna make off. You know,
the eighties are gonna go up, and they're gonna give
you their most compelling argument.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
They're gonna put.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Together a super clip of player sound bites and highlights
to sell you on their entry into those final spots.
You sell all sorts of advertising and spawn ship into
that television program. You whittle it down in the final four.
Those back end bids boom.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Here's my hey, vote right now, vote for me when
you call them the number, press two, keep hitting two
and get me there.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
You know your team captain has to go out and
sing we are the world. There's some crowd, all of it. Yeah,
and we talk about it being a TV show at
be one hell of a show, like.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
The old days of American Idol, where people would go
and then hold up the number because everybody had a
number assigned to them. In the final like sixteen, there
are four vote four seven.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Book in there with his thumb up and hold the
microphone in one hand and a sign with what his
number was and the other No, you pressed one four,
You voted for the Southern jerk.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
You stooge, exit out bout of Fresco, exit swellow Home
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