May 3, 2025 • 41 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys react to Game 6 of the Rockets-Warriors NBA Playoffs matchup, as the Warriors drop their second straight game, forcing a Game 7. Then, they turn their attention to the NFL, taking a closer look at the Rams and questioning how much longer quarterback Matthew Stafford can keep going—and what the Rams need to do to stay competitive moving forward. All that and more in Hour 3 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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Eights out. That's what it was for the Golden State
Warriors moments ago. The big closeout game was not a
closeout game. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios one fifteen, one oh seven is the
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final be going back to Houston for Game seven. My
prediction last night comes true and I had all kinds
of hay, oh, you just hate the Warriors. What's wrong
with you? You just don't think? Yeah, I'm feeling pretty
good about that, right, I'm Kermit the Frog, sipping the
tee and the big jiff. I'm Kermit the Frog. I'm
feeling fine, feeling fine. Look, the game just went final.
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The Warriors never really made a run. It was a
six to four to six point lead for the Rockets
throughout the second half. In the fourth quarter, Golden State's
not able to get close. Steph has twenty nine, but
he shoots just nine for twenty three on the night.
Not a great night for him, still being bothered by
the thumb injury. Meanwhile, Fred van Vliet twenty nine, eight
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and eight for the Rockets. We'll get to Fred van
Vliet in a minute. But Mike, look, when I picked
the Rockets last night, everything I said is what came
out today, right, Because the Rockets spent the first few
games of the series getting yapped at by Draymond Green,
and we talked about how he's the MVP of the
series so far, getting them out to a three to
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one lead. Right, Draymond yaps very physical game. Dylan Brooks
is someone who responds, and the Rockets don't play their game.
The Warriors are able to draw them into the game.
They want to see them play. Rockets aren't focused. Warriors
are able to get out behind Steph and Jimmy Buckets
and get that three to one lead. But the Rockets
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get that home cooking game in Game five right away.
They get out to a big lead. Steve Kurt makes
the right call when saying, Okay, not our night. We're
gonna sit the veterans, come back and try to win
this thing on our home floor in Game six. But
the Rockets figured things out, right. They remembered why they
were the two seed they are. They're remembered why they
were such a good team throughout the season. And you
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haven't seen them get involved in any knuckleheaded stuff with
Draymond and the Warriors the last couple of nights, right,
This is why the series is now three to three.
I fully expect Game seven to be a different scenario
for the Warriors. I expect Draymond Green to be yapping
his head off and trying to really get under the
skin of Shngoon and Brooks and Thompson and Van Vliet
and Green and you know, taking on everybody. But they're
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able to stay cooler heads and it's tied three to three.
But mainly you can tell that it's just not the
same thing for Steph Curry, he's just not the same
guy right this thumb injury, he hasn't been shooting as much.
He tried to shoot his way out of things tonight,
did not make a lot, you know, missed a lot tonight.
Just doesn't look like he's quite the same right now,
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and you can tell that that's bothering. Look you see
the last couple of games when he's not I mean
one thing, Steph Curry doesn't shoot the basketball, not been
shooting the basketball all that much. Kind of had to tonight.
They were probably feeling, this is our night to close
it out, This is our time to have that closeout game,
and it doesn't happen. Not only that, I see the
Rockets in an absolute blowout in Game seven, like that'll
make this game look like it was a niptuck game
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down of a wire, like I think the Warriors may
have seen and may have peaked at three to one,
because when you rely on two players who were in
their mid thirties or three players in their mid thirties,
when it's Steph and it's and it's Jimmy Buckets and
it's Raymond, Yeah, eventually are going to hit that wall.
You don't hit that wall at a glide. You don't
hit that wall when you're kind of feeling. You hit
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that wall hard and it just stops. And that's basically
what's happened with the Golden State Warriors the last few
nights right, Jimmy Butler does not have a big night shooting.
The Rockets are younger, they're a little bit deeper, and
as good as Brandon Pazemski is not nearly enough. The
Rockets have taken control of this series and I expect
them to win Game seven in a big way.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Forty six trips to the foul line. They won by
eight points and missed thirteen free throws of course, eleven
offensive rebounds taking care of business. The Warriors with sixteen turnovers,
shooting forty one percent from the field. So, you know,
a lot to take in to your point about you
know the Draymond Green stuff, Well, he did his best
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to agitate, actually got called for a flagrant, continue to argue.
So that became a debate in the socials of have
you ever seen a guy get called for a flagrant
and continue to complain to the official in the way
Draymond greened it? Na, I think we've seen it, but
certainly Draymond is going to get his nickel tour with
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the officiating crew as it were. But for the Warriors,
they look gassed, they look gassed. They got out rebounded.
And this is where we talked about the size of
the and the differential doesn't look so much if you
go box score reading, but a lot of second possessions,
a lot of opportunities for the Rockets that just the
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expenditure of energy, you don't have a big right to
go and battle, much like we were talking about with
the Lakers. You just didn't have that guy and there
was no Jackson Hayes on the bench waiting for his
call here from the Warriors. That was not to be
the case. So great effort led by Van Vliet, good
balance all around, and yeah, we get to see a
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Game seven some of the best words that we have
in our sporting universe.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, no, I love Game seven. I think it's a
Houston Rockets blowout. Oh it's gonna be. And I think
the Rockets it's a blowout early they go out, they
sense it and it's gonna be what happened to the Warriors.
And honestly, look, it's not gonna be a It's not
doom and gloom for the Warriors because you know, the
whole thing we've talked about for the Warriors is that, look,
this is still a team that is one step away
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from being what they want to be. Right when they
got Jimmy Butler at the deadline, right, just think about
this for a second. When they got Jimmy Butler at
the deadline, it was a great move because Jimmy Butler
clearly has a couple more really good years left. But
Steph and Jimmy Butler, yeah, you're kind of two thirds
of the way there, right. They know they need another superstar. Look,
the Warriors have always won when they've had three superstars.
(06:41):
The beginning, it was Steph and Clay and Draymond, and
then it was Steph and Clay and Draymond and Kevin Durant, right,
and then it was Steph. So now it's okay, who's
our third guy? As things of you know, Clay has
gone and Kevin Durant has gone, Like who's our guy? Now?
Who's okay, Jimmy Butler's our guy. But they need something else, right,
they're still, you know, younger player. Then somebody else can
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help facilitate this offense that can help take pressure off.
And they have a pretty decent supporting cast now, right,
Buddy Healed is nice and like I said, Pazemski has
become a really good player. But you need that third star.
They've always won with a third star that's to come
this summer. And I fully believe all the different personnel
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people in the NBA who say, listen, there's gonna be
a lot of big star player movement this summer. Lots
like we've already talked about Embiid and Kevin Durant and
all these names out there. There's gonna be big time
player movement, and the Warriors will get that last piece
of the puzzle that then you say, Okay, now here's
our new big three. Now we go out and we
can be back at the top of the Western Conference
and a really really deep playoff threat.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, healed an eleven point scorer during the year, played
seventeen minutes, got in a foul trouble, he was over
four from the field, chucked up four to three point shots,
So a non factor there. But yeah, you need to
find a big to steal some minutes here. And Pazemski
he's been a nice fine for them. Twenty nine minutes,
only had ten mood he gave them thirteen. But you're
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not getting a bunch of bench scoring to try to
help support what Butler and Curry are doing. And when
they've got to play forty two minutes because you're chasing
the full night. It's a recipe for disaster. Again, I
don't want to keep hearkening back to what we watch
with the Lakers, but the formula is the same. Right,
you're relying on old legs or guys that aren't in shape.
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If we want to go down the whole Luca narrative
to try to will you to a victory, you're just
you don't have enough firepower in the sporting gast So
Draymond Green is gonna agitate, he's gonna make some plays,
he's gonna be a good passer, all of those things.
He's not gonna score. He's an eight point guy. So
you need to find more of an arsenal so curiosity
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as the wheelspins. Hey, maybe Lebron opts out and goes there.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know what, It's funny you say that because when
we did that story, and we'll do that and we'll
talk about Lebron like his future. We talked about his future.
He said, listen, if it's not the Lakers, his future
is one of two places. Cavaliers right or the Knicks right.
Always had the fascination with Madison Square gardens going back home.
I can be a kid from Akron one last time.
But you know, the Warriors also could be that itch
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to scratch to say, hey, I'm gonna go play. It's
gonna be the Lebron Traveling All Stars, right, just like yeah,
it's a Lebron Traveling All Stars. Lebron and Steph and
and Draymond and Jimmy Butler all these and they'll get
somebody else too. They'll get somebody else over the age
of thirty five. It'll be it'll be like I love
the nineties, right, It's I could Yeah, well I see
(09:40):
here the thing. I think Durant is coming to the
Lakers next year. That that's the movie. Look, I think
Durant's coming to the Lakers. I thought would be there
this year. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now you've got me wanting to go rent Bingo long
in the Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh you got a Bingo long line in there. That's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You made it the over thirty five All Stars.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So yeah, that is true. That is true. Uh come
to town, you know, And because the thing it's it's
and it's a great job by the Warriors, not reloading
on the fly, but just realizing we need to make
bigger moves. Right saying goodbye to Klay Thompson. That was
really tough, right you. They thought, Hey, we're gonna keep
winning games and we're gonna go all the way to
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the end. Well, now the the end is here and
we have to move on and we have to reload.
And getting Jimmy Butler is a great move. And again
still game seven coming for the Warriors. But right right, yeah,
look at the trouble they're having right now.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Hey, you know what spread is?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No matter what is the spread? Three? Oh the rockets,
easy rockets easy. Look, I was right. I told you
I was right. Today. We gave our big advice last night,
big DraftKings, I told you take the over for Jimmy
Buckets over twenty and a half boom hit. Uh. Well yeah,
Van Fleet is phenomenal. But like the thing is, it's
it's you know, the Warriors have done a really good job.
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Is as let's stay, Let's stay close and continue to win.
Now that we know that Steph wants to stay, because
I'm sure they were Elek I said for a long time,
Steph Curry's gotta leave. He's gotta leave Golden State. They're
not winning anymore, he's gotta go. He's got to go
someplace where he can win championships again, because it's just
be he'll be putting up empty stats for the next
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few years. But they made the tough decision. We're gonna
say goodbye to Klay Thompson, that make the big, gutsy
trade for Jimmy Butler. They'll make another big move this summer, right,
And we said at the time, Hey, Jimmy Butler's the
first of what's gonna be two big moves. And I
don't know, is it Joel Embiid, is it something else?
But it's something else gonna be there. And I give
the Warriors a lot of credit because hey, they're now
extending that window and keeping it open. And I'll tell
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you what a great place to go play if they
go and they get Joel Embiid.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I want a reality show Steve Kerr and Draymond Green
dealing with that. Oh yeah, maybe can you see can
you be.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The one to be on the fly in the wall
in the meeting where Steve Kerr meets with Steph and
Raymond and says, Okay, we're gonna go talk to MB
What do you guys think, what do you what do
you guys think we do?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Can we put him in bubble wrap and unwrap him
April first? Will they work?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean, remember, Joel hates me because I gave him
d n pcds in the Olympics. All right, so understanding, Hey,
do you think we can Can the three of us
make it work with him? Because boy, if he's motivated,
we can really be back at the top of the
West next year right.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Away time heals all wounds. Jason Smith, I mean, that
would just be insane. And then they get Joel and
b just so Steve Kirk could not play him there. Yeah, no,
you're gonna be a d NP. May maybe you play,
maybe get some games here and there, but that's about it. Wow,
relegated to bench Dudy that would be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well he isn't, but no, I mean really, look, I'm
not I'm not doom and gloom for the Warriors. It's
just more I'm realistic for what they are and where
they sit right now, what they can accomplish this year
with this roster. That's kind and anything else is but
just hey, it's a hangover from winning the championships and
Steph running around and getting open and hitting threes with
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his back to the basket and all the crazy ass
stuff we used to watch. Yeah, you're still caught up
on the memory of that, but this is twenty twenty five.
It's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, and since this game is just ended, and we
talk about the thumb and it's a gnarly looking thing, right,
it's like he's got hull cans going on the way
that thumb is protruding, or like.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
When you go and you can buy the hul cans
that are so much bigger, you can buy the hulk
fist and put them around and around your hands straight
out of step Brothers hull cans. Okay, sure, but it's
the see you gotta listen to the whole show every
damn night.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But even with all of that, he played forty two minutes. Right,
he may be in a lot of pain, maybe winsing,
But like we always say, or at least it's a
mantray hold, Like if you're that hurt and you're going,
you know, we get to the winds above replacements and
whatever else, and you're actually a detriment to your team,
than sit down or don't play. But if you're out
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there like Lebron and all these guys the other day,
like they played through. Like I hope they all heal
and we get full iterations and the full next best
versions of them all. But all we can evaluate is
what you put out on the court. And for Steph
Curry today it was a rough run. Finally put up
twenty three shots in the losing effort. Great defense, swarming defense,
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and work on the glass by the Rockets to take
them down.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So there you go. I feel I feel pretty good.
I feel pretty good about the Rockets in a blowout
on Sunday. Canbr ready for my interview whenever you want,
ready to go, whenever you want, I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, but you said too many nice things when Jimmy
Butler got to town. It might that might have taken
away from some of the hate and vitriol.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
No I did, You're right? I kind of did you
soften the blow? Well, all I could do is tell
you what I think. All I can tell you what
I think what I see. It's odd sometimes I see
sometimes I see great things. Sometimes I see challenging things.
Sometimes I see more challenging things than great things. Sometimes
I just watch Jalen Brunson hitting that three over and
over to. I see different things all the time. I'm unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I really thought that was gonna end with him. Sometimes
I see dead people.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I see dead people. I see the Rockets winning by
fifty on Sunday. I see the Rockets in a route
knbr call me. I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Pick up the phone and just call me.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
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Speaker 1 (17:08):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My bass
Friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Well,
we got another big story in the NBA coming up
in a couple of minutes, because wow, maybebe Lebron is
getting ready for his last year with the Lakers. But
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you know, we talked about the the Warriors side of
the loss of the Rockets tonight. Now three to three,
going back to Houston again, I expect Houston to roll
over the Warriors, and it's they're gonna smash them, win
big and move on to the next round of the playoffs.
But just for a second, right, the big guy for
the Warriors tonight is who always seems to be the
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big guy for whatever team he plays on, and he's
the most underrated player in the NBA, Fred Van Vliet.
Tonight goes for twenty nine eight and eight, six out
of nine from three pointe and you watch the guy
play and it's he's somewhat like, look the confidence I
have when I watch Jalen Brunson with the Knicks, Like
(18:09):
he's always gonna make the right play, He's always gonna
make the right decision, and whatever he decides at the
end of a game, I'm taking this last shot, okay,
Like all right, I'm not gonna question it. Like Lebron
always gets questioned should he have passed? Should he Whatever
Lebron does at the end of a game is wrong, right,
Oh he shouldn't have passed. Oh he shouldn't have taken
the shot. Like there's a lot of players where you
question what they do at the end of the game,
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but you don't with with Jalen Brunson. Okay, if he
missed that three, he missed it. He had a wide
open three. He's the best player, one of the top
ten players in the league. He's the knixt leader. He's
taking that shot. It's okay. Like Fred van Vliet is
that kind of guy too, but he doesn't nearly get
the attentions. Why I say he's the most underrated player.
He always feels like he makes the big shots. He
always feels like he's in control of every situation, Like
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he exudes that confidence on the court that his teammates go,
you know what, Fred's got this. I just got to
worry about me because Fred's got this right, I get it.
And Fred van he walks around, he just has that
aura about him. I always feel like he makes the
right decision. I feel like I never see him turn
the ball over or make or bad play. He's always
in the right spot Defensively, he's always in the right
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place making the offense move. Like he's someone that if
I didn't have Jalen Brunson, like, he's a guy I
would love to have running my team because if he
was on a team with let's say he in an
earlier NBA era, Let's say he was like the point
guard for the Spurs and the Tim Duncan era, or
Lebron's point guard with the Cavaliers or something like that,
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Like he'd play fifteen eighteen years and have five or
six rings, and you would hear punditson experts say, hey, yes,
this guy was a star, this guy scored thirty a game.
But Fred van Vliet was the MVP. He's absolutely the bet.
They don't do any of this without Fred van Vliet.
That's how underrated the guy is. Again, if I didn't
have Brunson, I'd want Fred van Vliet as my point guard.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Now, he's a guy that clearly NBA ownership Group and
GMS valued pretty nicely. Three years, won twenty eight, so
certainly making his cash along the way. But from the
fan perspective. You're right, it's it's not a guy that
fills up a huge box score. Right, he has a
night like tonight, but that's not the norm He's normally
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in that, you know, thirteen to fifteen point range, with
the opportunity now and again to have one of these
blowout performances, and of late, I mean, Houston's used him
a lot this series. He has come up huge time
and again. You look at the last four games. You know,
seventeen was the low. The three straight games over twenty
points tonight helping to fuel a huge victory and really
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to distance themselves where the Warriors were playing. We're chasing
the entire night second half got out of sorts to
where you know, we're looking at a fifteen fourteen point
margin for a chunk of it. But the veteran acumen.
When you bring a guy like Van Vliet into a
squad that's replete with young talent, right, you got a
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lot of guys that are just trying to figure this
stuff out. This guy's climbed to the mountaintop. So you know,
we talk about glue guys and veteran presence. It's it's
a guy that Fred Van Vlietz one of those those
NBA stars that is a little bit off the path. Right,
Certainly they know of me Houston and in Toronto, and
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we get these glimpses in the playoffs when he's on
a massive stage. But you know, one of those guys
behind the scenes, like if we took it to our
normal TV and movies, he's a guy, you know, he's
that character actor that helps make things go. Why was
that on for ten years? That guy? Who is that guy?
You know? I was the guy that was in this
movie that you know, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I don't know, Yeah, you know, you know, it's funny.
You know who he is, you know, Fred Van And
you're gonna think I'm crazy when I say, but I
understand he's Joey from Friends. He's okay, okay, And here's why.
Here's why. Right, So Friends comes out right, and Friends
is you look and Friends was kind of Pam and
I's show because and probably yours too. You were a
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couple of years, a couple of years younger than me,
but like when Friends came out, it was a big
old I was twenty four, you know, you were twenty
two and all the Friends were twenty four years old, right,
they were all new living in New York and and
that was it. So that was our show ten years
Like we were the same age as them as they
grew up. Like that's how you know how special Friends was.
And as you watch Friends, right, you go back and
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forth with who your favorite character is, right, like, oh,
my good, Matthew Perry is such a star, right, look
at him. He started doing tons of movies. He was
so funny. Chandler's character is great. Jennifer Andason then became
a huge breakout star. She became the last three years
she was doing all kinds of movies. Jennifer Anison huge,
huge breakout star. Courtney Cox was the big star when
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it started, and she became you know, was one that
sold the TV show. Hey Courtney Cox, Okay, great, she's
gonna be on. She's the big star. Lisa Kudro started
going off and doing movies and she was in a
lot of big rom coms and okay, all these stars,
and Joey was, Okay, he's the dumb one, right, He's
a dumbe. And this this is not how I'm comparing
him to Fred van Vliet. Don't not don't think about
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that for seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I told you, Fred vanvle it's a dummy who failed
up for.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You, jerk, Fred van Vleet. His basketball IQ is off
the charts, man, that's not But think about this, right,
But Joey, you just thought, Yeah, Joey's out there and
Joey's fun and Joey's all of this and you know,
but it's Joey, right, it's Joey. But the show goes on, right,
and then and then it ends and then everybody goes
on to do different things and who gets the next
big sitcom after Joey gets it? Right, Matt LeBlanc gets it.
(23:37):
Well wait a minute, Joe, yes, nobody else is doing anything,
but Joey gets a spin off and it goes It
doesn't go very far, but you know it's because spinoffs
don't really don't. Didn't always do it that way. But
Matt LeBlanc gets a spinf Like, what the hell is
Matt LeBlanc atty, I don't get it out of him?
Get it so now years later and I'm sorry now.
So Friends ended in two thousand and four, and Zoe
(23:58):
and Pam and I just binge watched Friends in the
last year. Okay, so we just binge watched this is
the first we've seen the reruns when it's on TBS.
It's on TBS every day, and you get the you know,
all the big funn you forget how funny it was,
and how funny the plot lines were and and all
the different crazy stuff. And watching it again the second time,
you go through all the ten seasons and at the
(24:19):
end you say, oh, Joey was the best one on
the show. There's no show without Joey. He's so incredibly
good in his role. He's the He makes instances funny.
He doesn't even have great punchlines, but he makes them funny.
His his facial expressions are what makes scenes sometimes just
like I gotta show you I don't understand what I'm
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talking about, and that makes the scene right. It's not
something fun that Chandler says, or where David Twimmer says, uh, Joey,
you know that David Trimmer's stuff. But like you, you
go and.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You cast no.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
No, I I had much more Yeah, I also had
a much more respect for David Swimmer. The second time
I saw I saw the show, I'm like, you know
what he he didn't you know the problem with with
his character. He didn't have as many good people to
bounce off of, right, because they kept giving him new
girlfriends or people throughout the show, and it's like, you know, nobody,
and you couldn't bring on anybody who was going to
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uh compete with the six of them for laughs and
for attention. So it's kind of tough because it was, Okay, well,
here comes somebody that's gonna be a romantic interest for
a couple of episodes, and then they're gone, and so
you need somebody that can kind of go back and
forth with Rod. Like when they brought Emily on, Oh
my goodness, she was so boring. I'm like, oh my god,
I remember this plotline being so wrapped into Is Ross
(25:39):
really gonna marry Emily's? Yeah? And then I watched second Time,
I go, oh my goodness, they couldn't get off this
fast enough. They couldn't get off of Ros's and Emily
fast enough. My goodness.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Right, yeh had a good run.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But then you watch second Time and you realize just how
funny Joey is and how his character and and and
his execution of that role carries itself throughout the entire
higher run. Right, like other characters had better storyline arcs,
like Jennifer Andison had the best storyline arc from where
she started in the beginning. As you know, here's a
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high society, entitled girl who you know, doesn't get married.
Then she has the whole big character arc if she
hits bottom rises back up. She has a kid, she
has a family, and you know, you see other characters
have big character arcs. And Chandler and I'm spoiling it.
Chandler and Monica Dary either and they wind up raising
a family. Joey stays the same. But there's no show
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without Joey. There's a because every single time the funniest
lines the second time around in the episode are all
around Joey right there. He is the glue that without that,
without this, without him, there's no show. And that's that's
Fred van Vliet. Without him with the Rockets, there's no Rockets.
Rockets were terrible. They were terrible, and Fred van Vliet
signs up big. It's like, why the hell are you
(26:51):
going to the Rockets? They think what are they gonna do?
All of a sudden, Wow, the Rockets are really good. Wow,
the Rockets are the second best team in the Western Conference.
Why how yes, Shngon is really good. They've signed, They've
gotten a couple other players who were well, yes, understandable,
but it's not happening without Fred van Vliet. He is
just that good.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The other is I mean, obviously give the respect to
Emo Udoka right, who is on his path before needing
to be excised from that situation in Boston. I don't
know that we'll ever know the full details on things,
but there's enough so they become the beneficiaries of that
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years later, young roster, a couple of veteran guys with
a guy like Van Vliet to help lead the charge
like another coach on the on the court. Because you
got a lot of young guys, you know where, it
would be easy to get sucked into the Draymond head
games and things of that nature. So you need you
need to have a guy like Van Vliet around to
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limit that and make it make make sense and push
them forward. I do like the Joey analogy Fred van Vliet.
Now I need to find a bunch of facial brush
and reaction shots for him that we can use as
gifts going forward.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I mean, you know, you watch the Rockets and you
realize just how much Fred van Vliet does for this team.
And you watch Friends and realize just how much Joey does.
You know, in every in every show, just one line
of Chandler like could be the biggest laugh of the
of the show. And it's like, how do you do
that with one line? How do you do that? Just
by staring and pointing? How do you? And he's able
(28:26):
to do that, and you realize just how good he
is at what he does, and you don't think about
it because you think about the other guys. There's nothing
without Fred van Vliet, nothing, absolutely not time out to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But guy who's been called the Ross Geller of Fox
Sports Radio keeps walking around the hallways at least once
a night, going we were on a break, it's Steve
(28:48):
de Sager with what's trending?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Or he does that little nod and if you say
that's true always, the end of the sentence would be
kind of like that. By the way, one of the
late ball games in Anaheim Detroit and the Angels were
tied one to one, Tiger scored eight times in the
top of the ninth to win nine to one. They
hit five home runs in the game. Riley Green did
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something that no major league player has ever done before.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
He hit two.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Home runs in the ninth inning. Tonight, again the loss
to the Halos, who've dropped seventh straight, and the loss
to closer Kenley Jansen in this one. San Francisco shut
out Colorado four nothing. Cubs won ten nothing at Milwaukee.
It was nine zip in the second inning, thirteen to one.
Seattle wins at Texas. The Mariners have won five straight.
The Dodgers won their sixth in a row two to
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one at Atlanta. White Sox and Mets each one. Boston
and the A's with win. Baltimore shutout Kansas City three nothing.
Bobby Witt Junior of the Royals winzer for four, ending
his twenty two game hitting streak. Victories for San Diego
and Philadelphia. For Cincinnati and the Yankees, who won three
nothing over Tampa Bay the win to Max Freed. He's
six and zero with his new team era of about
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one one hit allowed in his seven scoreless innings at
Yankee Stadium Tonight. The Houston Rockets did win at Golden
State one fifteen, one oh seven. Fred Van Vliet twenty
nine points, eight rebounds, eight assists, and Alprah and Shangun
had twenty one points fourteen rebounds In this one. Steph
Curry with twenty nine points, but it's a loss for
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the home team and Game seven of this first round
series will be at Houston on Sunday night. There is
a Saturday night Game seven Clippers at Denver in the
NHL Playoffs, a Saturday night Game seven with Colorado at Dallas.
There's now a Sunday night Game seven, and the first
round at Winnipeg is Saint Louis State alive, beating the
Jets five to two. The Blues scored four straight goals
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in the second period in five and a half minutes.
The New York Rangers new coach is Mike Sullivan, who
ran the Penguins the past ten years. Tampa Bay coach
John Cooper will return next season despite losing in the
first round three straight years. He has one year left
on his contract. Speaking of coaches, the NBA's Greg Popovich
has retired from coaching after twenty nine years with San
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Antonio on the sidelines. He will be team president of
the Spurs. Assistant Mitch Johnson becomes the Spurs head coach.
A former Stanford player, Popovich is seventy six. He missed
most of this past season after a stroke. The Grizzlies
new head coach officially is the injury man thwamas Isolo
from Finland. He used to coach in Paris and in Germany.
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The NBA invited seventy five players to this month's combine
in Chicago. The league had announced over one hundred players
filed for early entry to the draft. The deadline for
college players to withdraw from the draft is May twenty eighth.
The actual draft starts June twenty fifth. The Lakers Lebron
James reportedly has a sprained MCL and could have missed
about a month if his team was still alive. In
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the playoffs at liv Golf in South Korea, they're about
midway through the second round right now. Bryson Deshambo has
just taken a one stroke lead. Scottie Scheffler leads by
six strokes. In Texas after a second round sixty three today,
the Dallas Cowboys signed seven of their nine recent draft choices.
The Eagles signed four draft choices, including six round quarterback
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Kyle McCord. Brown's running back Jerome Ford agreed to a
pay cut, and Raiders first round running back Ashton Genty
will wear number two his number at Boise State. A reminder,
NASCAR's next three Sunday races will be on FS one,
including this Sunday from Texas three thirty pm Eastern time,
and IndyCar returns to Fox TV Sunday from Birmingham one
(32:31):
thirty pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Just really quick, you know you talked about Steve talked
about Ashton Genty wearing number two with the Raiders. Abdul
Carter may never take the field for the Giants because
he can't pick a number, all right. He first he
wanted fifty six. Lawrence Taylor said, no, get your own
number fifty six. Yeah, fine, okay. Then potentially he was
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going to wear number eleven, right, sim said, Hey, you
know I'd open her to unretiring my number eleven because
Phil Simms is Jersey retired by the Giants, So either
Abdul Carter or Jackson Dart could wear it. Hey, that's
pretty cool, okay, and then when Abdul Carter said it
would be an honor because Carter wore number eleven at
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Penn State. Hey, this is working, Phil phil Simms said,
oh wait a minute, I got out voted by my family.
Number eleven is gonna stay retired. Like if I'm Abdul Carter,
I say, all you Giants Legends blank you blank you
blank you blake? Could come on, man, you guys are done.
Like everybody that he want all these jerseys, I could
wear what I could do. The Giants Legends keep saying no, no, no, no, kid, you.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Got zero to ninety nine. You can strong arm virtually
any other member of that roster as it stands and
is put together right now. I mean who else could
tell you to beat it? Neighbors? I mean other than that.
It's like, you can have your pick. Here's the list
you can't have. You have no other numbers. You want
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to wear fifty three? No, that's Harry Carson. Man, die,
I can't believe that. I don't want to Okay, great,
I want to wear twenty. No that's Joe Morris. No, die,
I can't, man, I can argue you can go in
strong arm Joe Morris he was also small. But it's
just the it's just the idea of well, these guys
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who have had their jerseys retired.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I don't blame them for saying.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
No, it's a good part of their legacy and all
of them, let's face it, they've been retired a few years.
Not to be morbid about it, but that stands time.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
What happened? Nah, he took it out and gave it
to that guy who went on to a Hall of
Fame career, and it's now retired for him. Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
What do you want to I want to wear fourteen? No,
it's y a tittles.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Oh, come on, it gets ah. He also was a
forty nine er. That's fine, man.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh you know I want to wear sixteen. No, that's
Frank Giffort. Oh come on now, we're all these nutbirds.
What else can I wear?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
How do you feel you can't take it down from the.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Gift ex Double zero, Fresca Exit, Swallow Dove, Jason Smith,
Mike Carbon Coming up next, we'll get to Lebron.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
But how about this? How about next year might be
the final year for another Big LA superstar before he
is sort of shoved out the door. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. We were on a break.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Jockey Chicken Jockey, Lave a Chicken, Love a Chicken, Fox
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So we'll get to Lebron James coming up in a
few minutes because boy, big injury news on him. But
elsewhere it might not be the only Los Angeles area
athlete who may have one more year left with the team.
Sean McVay said in a podcast yesterday that's starting to
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get a lot of traction in the last few hours
that he hopes and expects that Matthew Stafford's time with
the Rams is another couple of years, right, I'm hoping
he's our guy for the next couple of years. Always
enjoy working with him and said all effusive stuff this
before he warned him in the beginning of the off season,
don't play around with all this crap. And but now
(36:35):
I hope it's another couple of years that the Rams
have Matthew Stafford. Despite what Sean McVay says, this is
the final year in Los Angeles for Stafford in the Rams,
Like this is it or you're talking no no, no,
this is this year coming, this is gonna be it. Right.
Every year is for Matthew Stafford. He sort of does.
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I don't want to say he does just enough, because
the first half of the year he's terrible. This is
the two years in a row. First half of the
year it looks like they need a new quarterback now,
like he can't get it there. And then he's so
good the back half of the season that you think, well,
they got their guy. You can't keep living that way,
and eventually the Rams have to get their next quarterback.
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They didn't obviously didn't like the guys this year. I thought,
for sure Shador Sanders that was a great landing spot
for him with the Rams win a great pick for
them somewhere around the fifth or sixth round, but I
don't think they had a fifth round pick would have
to be in the sixth round, and of course the
Browns took them. But Stafford has sort of been just
enough in the second half of the last two years
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to where every time the Rams go into the off
season the last few years, it's been okay, we have
other spots to improve, but quarterback is still okay. Don't
have to worry about improving court. You can only improve
so many things in every off season. Quarterbacks not at
the top of the list. Yeah, we'd like Stafford to
be a little bit better first half of the season,
but yeah, that way he closed great. Then last year,
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yeah we'd like to see him a little bit better
at first half, but boy, he closed great. We should
have beat the Eagles. Okay, still not at the very
top of the list they need to fix. But another
year like this, Look, Stafford's getting to be thirty seven,
thirty eight years old. That's gonna be it, you know,
year three of inconsistencies. As you near forty, the Rams
will do exactly what they've done for the last few years.
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After this year, they will say, Okay, Stafford's been terrific,
but we're still not getting as far as we need to,
and they will reload on the fly by getting a
high draft pick, because remember, they made some big moves
where they can be in position to do that next
year if someone shows up who's terrific, or they'll go
with a big free agent, or they'll make a trade
for a guy who suddenly is falling out of favor.
(38:45):
Maybe next year is the year where the Jaguars say yeah,
we can't do Oh really, Sean McVay, you want Trevor Lawrence?
All right, great, Hey, we'll give us Okay, hey, awesome,
all right, Trevor Lawrence. You got you guys got it.
There will be some kind of bold move the Rams
will make because you can only do it for so long.
Two years it's been all right for Stafford, but another
year where he's semi good or he's good for semi
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amounts of time, they realized we're gonna have to move on.
But the Rams don't rebuild. They reload on the fly,
and they will reload on the fly there, man.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I forget. It was about a month ago we got
into a very heated discussion where I was calling for
the ouster of Matthew Stafford, saying his season was overrated,
and you got really mad at me, like it was
a personal affront, like you were on his payroll. It
it was.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was Kelly Stafford's paid me a lot of money
to say good things about Matthew Stafford the last few months.
Why do you think I'm not in her podcast?
Speaker 3 (39:37):
I mean it was like the Shador Sanders stuff of
the last week, Like did you are you getting disinvited
from Sunday dinner if you say something negative. But for
the the Rams very much. Remember when we were talking about,
all right, is this guy gonna get traded after week five,
week six, whether it was Stafford, whether it was Cooper
Cup or anybody else that was healthy, what do you
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want from this roster? And then they have a phenomenal
second half. His numbers were pedestrian overall. Right, I mean,
there's nothing to write home about, much dischagrin of fantasy owners,
and obviously they played with hurt early on, missing time
from key components of that offense. But all that have
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to say is, yeah, you've had myriad injuries that have
afflicted him the last couple of years, and you play
through him, right, and that's great, but at some point
you don't want to have to go to hey, how
much treatment does he need to get on the field
this week? Which is where they've been with Matthew Stafford
these last two almost three years. At this point, slow starts,
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great finishes. Eventually the rest of the division is not
going to fail the same way. Look around, Look what
Arizona did defensively in the draft. They can only get better.
So yeah, You've got two years left before a void year.
But would I be shocked if he were gone after
this year? It could be Jimmy Garoppolo again. Dim man,
(41:07):
see what I did to you?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Coming up next. So this could be the last year
for Matthew Stafford. Is this the last year for Lebron
with the Lakers? Fox
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Everleys give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Eights out. That's what it was for the Golden State
Warriors moments ago. The big closeout game was not a
closeout game. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox
Sports Radio Studios one fifteen, one oh seven is the
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final be going back to Houston for Game seven. My
prediction last night comes true and I had all kinds
of hay, oh, you just hate the Warriors. What's wrong
with you? You just don't think? Yeah, I'm feeling pretty
good about that, right, I'm Kermit the Frog, sipping the
tee and the big jiff. I'm Kermit the Frog. I'm
feeling fine, feeling fine. Look, the game just went final.
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The Warriors never really made a run. It was a
six to four to six point lead for the Rockets
throughout the second half. In the fourth quarter, Golden State's
not able to get close. Steph has twenty nine, but
he shoots just nine for twenty three on the night.
Not a great night for him, still being bothered by
the thumb injury. Meanwhile, Fred van Vliet twenty nine, eight
(01:37):
and eight for the Rockets. We'll get to Fred van
Vliet in a minute. But Mike, look, when I picked
the Rockets last night, everything I said is what came
out today, right, Because the Rockets spent the first few
games of the series getting yapped at by Draymond Green,
and we talked about how he's the MVP of the
series so far, getting them out to a three to
(01:59):
one lead. Right, Draymond yaps very physical game. Dylan Brooks
is someone who responds, and the Rockets don't play their game.
The Warriors are able to draw them into the game.
They want to see them play. Rockets aren't focused. Warriors
are able to get out behind Steph and Jimmy Buckets
and get that three to one lead. But the Rockets
(02:19):
get that home cooking game in Game five right away.
They get out to a big lead. Steve Kurt makes
the right call when saying, Okay, not our night. We're
gonna sit the veterans, come back and try to win
this thing on our home floor in Game six. But
the Rockets figured things out, right. They remembered why they
were the two seed they are. They're remembered why they
were such a good team throughout the season. And you
(02:40):
haven't seen them get involved in any knuckleheaded stuff with
Draymond and the Warriors the last couple of nights, right,
This is why the series is now three to three.
I fully expect Game seven to be a different scenario
for the Warriors. I expect Draymond Green to be yapping
his head off and trying to really get under the
skin of Shngoon and Brooks and Thompson and Van Vliet
and Green and you know, taking on everybody. But they're
(03:02):
able to stay cooler heads and it's tied three to three.
But mainly you can tell that it's just not the
same thing for Steph Curry, he's just not the same
guy right this thumb injury, he hasn't been shooting as much.
He tried to shoot his way out of things tonight,
did not make a lot, you know, missed a lot tonight.
Just doesn't look like he's quite the same right now,
(03:24):
and you can tell that that's bothering. Look you see
the last couple of games when he's not I mean
one thing, Steph Curry doesn't shoot the basketball, not been
shooting the basketball all that much. Kind of had to tonight.
They were probably feeling, this is our night to close
it out, This is our time to have that closeout game,
and it doesn't happen. Not only that, I see the
Rockets in an absolute blowout in Game seven, like that'll
make this game look like it was a niptuck game
(03:46):
down of a wire, like I think the Warriors may
have seen and may have peaked at three to one,
because when you rely on two players who were in
their mid thirties or three players in their mid thirties,
when it's Steph and it's and it's Jimmy Buckets and
it's Raymond, Yeah, eventually are going to hit that wall.
You don't hit that wall at a glide. You don't
hit that wall when you're kind of feeling. You hit
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that wall hard and it just stops. And that's basically
what's happened with the Golden State Warriors the last few
nights right, Jimmy Butler does not have a big night shooting.
The Rockets are younger, they're a little bit deeper, and
as good as Brandon Pazemski is not nearly enough. The
Rockets have taken control of this series and I expect
them to win Game seven in a big way.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Forty six trips to the foul line. They won by
eight points and missed thirteen free throws of course, eleven
offensive rebounds taking care of business. The Warriors with sixteen turnovers,
shooting forty one percent from the field. So, you know,
a lot to take in to your point about you
know the Draymond Green stuff, Well, he did his best
(04:46):
to agitate, actually got called for a flagrant, continue to argue.
So that became a debate in the socials of have
you ever seen a guy get called for a flagrant
and continue to complain to the official in the way
Draymond greened it? Na, I think we've seen it, but
certainly Draymond is going to get his nickel tour with
(05:08):
the officiating crew as it were. But for the Warriors,
they look gassed, they look gassed. They got out rebounded.
And this is where we talked about the size of
the and the differential doesn't look so much if you
go box score reading, but a lot of second possessions,
a lot of opportunities for the Rockets that just the
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expenditure of energy, you don't have a big right to
go and battle, much like we were talking about with
the Lakers. You just didn't have that guy and there
was no Jackson Hayes on the bench waiting for his
call here from the Warriors. That was not to be
the case. So great effort led by Van Vliet, good
balance all around, and yeah, we get to see a
(05:52):
Game seven some of the best words that we have
in our sporting universe.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, no, I love Game seven. I think it's a
Houston Rockets blowout. Oh it's gonna be. And I think
the Rockets it's a blowout early they go out, they
sense it and it's gonna be what happened to the Warriors.
And honestly, look, it's not gonna be a It's not
doom and gloom for the Warriors because you know, the
whole thing we've talked about for the Warriors is that, look,
this is still a team that is one step away
(06:18):
from being what they want to be. Right when they
got Jimmy Butler at the deadline, right, just think about
this for a second. When they got Jimmy Butler at
the deadline, it was a great move because Jimmy Butler
clearly has a couple more really good years left. But
Steph and Jimmy Butler, yeah, you're kind of two thirds
of the way there, right. They know they need another superstar. Look,
the Warriors have always won when they've had three superstars.
(06:41):
The beginning, it was Steph and Clay and Draymond, and
then it was Steph and Clay and Draymond and Kevin Durant, right,
and then it was Steph. So now it's okay, who's
our third guy? As things of you know, Clay has
gone and Kevin Durant has gone, Like who's our guy? Now?
Who's okay, Jimmy Butler's our guy. But they need something else, right,
they're still, you know, younger player. Then somebody else can
(07:01):
help facilitate this offense that can help take pressure off.
And they have a pretty decent supporting cast now, right,
Buddy Healed is nice and like I said, Pazemski has
become a really good player. But you need that third star.
They've always won with a third star that's to come
this summer. And I fully believe all the different personnel
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people in the NBA who say, listen, there's gonna be
a lot of big star player movement this summer. Lots
like we've already talked about Embiid and Kevin Durant and
all these names out there. There's gonna be big time
player movement, and the Warriors will get that last piece
of the puzzle that then you say, Okay, now here's
our new big three. Now we go out and we
can be back at the top of the Western Conference
and a really really deep playoff threat.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah, healed an eleven point scorer during the year, played
seventeen minutes, got in a foul trouble, he was over
four from the field, chucked up four to three point shots,
So a non factor there. But yeah, you need to
find a big to steal some minutes here. And Pazemski
he's been a nice fine for them. Twenty nine minutes,
only had ten mood he gave them thirteen. But you're
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not getting a bunch of bench scoring to try to
help support what Butler and Curry are doing. And when
they've got to play forty two minutes because you're chasing
the full night. It's a recipe for disaster. Again, I
don't want to keep hearkening back to what we watch
with the Lakers, but the formula is the same. Right,
you're relying on old legs or guys that aren't in shape.
(08:28):
If we want to go down the whole Luca narrative
to try to will you to a victory, you're just
you don't have enough firepower in the sporting gast So
Draymond Green is gonna agitate, he's gonna make some plays,
he's gonna be a good passer, all of those things.
He's not gonna score. He's an eight point guy. So
you need to find more of an arsenal so curiosity
(08:50):
as the wheelspins. Hey, maybe Lebron opts out and goes there.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know what, It's funny you say that because when
we did that story, and we'll do that and we'll
talk about Lebron like his future. We talked about his future.
He said, listen, if it's not the Lakers, his future
is one of two places. Cavaliers right or the Knicks right.
Always had the fascination with Madison Square gardens going back home.
I can be a kid from Akron one last time.
But you know, the Warriors also could be that itch
(09:17):
to scratch to say, hey, I'm gonna go play. It's
gonna be the Lebron Traveling All Stars, right, just like yeah,
it's a Lebron Traveling All Stars. Lebron and Steph and
and Draymond and Jimmy Butler all these and they'll get
somebody else too. They'll get somebody else over the age
of thirty five. It'll be it'll be like I love
the nineties, right, It's I could Yeah, well I see
(09:40):
here the thing. I think Durant is coming to the
Lakers next year. That that's the movie. Look, I think
Durant's coming to the Lakers. I thought would be there
this year. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now you've got me wanting to go rent Bingo long
in the Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh you got a Bingo long line in there. That's nice.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
You made it the over thirty five All Stars.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So yeah, that is true. That is true. Uh come
to town, you know, And because the thing it's it's
and it's a great job by the Warriors, not reloading
on the fly, but just realizing we need to make
bigger moves. Right saying goodbye to Klay Thompson. That was
really tough, right you. They thought, Hey, we're gonna keep
winning games and we're gonna go all the way to
(10:21):
the end. Well, now the the end is here and
we have to move on and we have to reload.
And getting Jimmy Butler is a great move. And again
still game seven coming for the Warriors. But right right, yeah,
look at the trouble they're having right now.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Hey, you know what spread is?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
No matter what is the spread? Three? Oh the rockets,
easy rockets easy. Look, I was right. I told you
I was right. Today. We gave our big advice last night,
big DraftKings, I told you take the over for Jimmy
Buckets over twenty and a half boom hit. Uh. Well yeah,
Van Fleet is phenomenal. But like the thing is, it's
it's you know, the Warriors have done a really good job.
(10:56):
Is as let's stay, Let's stay close and continue to win.
Now that we know that Steph wants to stay, because
I'm sure they were Elek I said for a long time,
Steph Curry's gotta leave. He's gotta leave Golden State. They're
not winning anymore, he's gotta go. He's got to go
someplace where he can win championships again, because it's just
be he'll be putting up empty stats for the next
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few years. But they made the tough decision. We're gonna
say goodbye to Klay Thompson, that make the big, gutsy
trade for Jimmy Butler. They'll make another big move this summer, right,
And we said at the time, Hey, Jimmy Butler's the
first of what's gonna be two big moves. And I
don't know, is it Joel Embiid, is it something else?
But it's something else gonna be there. And I give
the Warriors a lot of credit because hey, they're now
extending that window and keeping it open. And I'll tell
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you what a great place to go play if they
go and they get Joel Embiid.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I want a reality show Steve Kerr and Draymond Green
dealing with that. Oh yeah, maybe can you see can
you be.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The one to be on the fly in the wall
in the meeting where Steve Kerr meets with Steph and
Raymond and says, Okay, we're gonna go talk to MB
What do you guys think, what do you what do
you guys think we do?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Can we put him in bubble wrap and unwrap him
April first? Will they work?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I mean, remember, Joel hates me because I gave him
d n pcds in the Olympics. All right, so understanding, Hey,
do you think we can Can the three of us
make it work with him? Because boy, if he's motivated,
we can really be back at the top of the
West next year right.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Away time heals all wounds. Jason Smith, I mean, that
would just be insane. And then they get Joel and
b just so Steve Kirk could not play him there. Yeah, no,
you're gonna be a d NP. May maybe you play,
maybe get some games here and there, but that's about it. Wow,
relegated to bench Dudy that would be fantastic.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well he isn't, but no, I mean really, look, I'm
not I'm not doom and gloom for the Warriors. It's
just more I'm realistic for what they are and where
they sit right now, what they can accomplish this year
with this roster. That's kind and anything else is but
just hey, it's a hangover from winning the championships and
Steph running around and getting open and hitting threes with
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his back to the basket and all the crazy ass
stuff we used to watch. Yeah, you're still caught up
on the memory of that, but this is twenty twenty five.
It's a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, and since this game is just ended, and we
talk about the thumb and it's a gnarly looking thing, right,
it's like he's got hull cans going on the way
that thumb is protruding, or like.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
When you go and you can buy the hul cans
that are so much bigger, you can buy the hulk
fist and put them around and around your hands straight
out of step Brothers hull cans. Okay, sure, but it's
the see you gotta listen to the whole show every
damn night.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But even with all of that, he played forty two minutes. Right,
he may be in a lot of pain, maybe winsing,
But like we always say, or at least it's a
mantray hold, Like if you're that hurt and you're going,
you know, we get to the winds above replacements and
whatever else, and you're actually a detriment to your team,
than sit down or don't play. But if you're out
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there like Lebron and all these guys the other day,
like they played through. Like I hope they all heal
and we get full iterations and the full next best
versions of them all. But all we can evaluate is
what you put out on the court. And for Steph
Curry today it was a rough run. Finally put up
twenty three shots in the losing effort. Great defense, swarming defense,
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and work on the glass by the Rockets to take
them down.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So there you go. I feel I feel pretty good.
I feel pretty good about the Rockets in a blowout
on Sunday. Canbr ready for my interview whenever you want,
ready to go, whenever you want, I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, but you said too many nice things when Jimmy
Butler got to town. It might that might have taken
away from some of the hate and vitriol.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
No I did, You're right? I kind of did you
soften the blow? Well, all I could do is tell
you what I think. All I can tell you what
I think what I see. It's odd sometimes I see
sometimes I see great things. Sometimes I see challenging things.
Sometimes I see more challenging things than great things. Sometimes
I just watch Jalen Brunson hitting that three over and
over to. I see different things all the time. I'm unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I really thought that was gonna end with him. Sometimes
I see dead people.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I see dead people. I see the Rockets winning by
fifty on Sunday. I see the Rockets in a route
knbr call me. I'm ready. I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Pick up the phone and just call me.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (17:08):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My bass
Friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Well,
we got another big story in the NBA coming up
in a couple of minutes, because wow, maybebe Lebron is
getting ready for his last year with the Lakers. But
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you know, we talked about the the Warriors side of
the loss of the Rockets tonight. Now three to three,
going back to Houston again, I expect Houston to roll
over the Warriors, and it's they're gonna smash them, win
big and move on to the next round of the playoffs.
But just for a second, right, the big guy for
the Warriors tonight is who always seems to be the
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big guy for whatever team he plays on, and he's
the most underrated player in the NBA, Fred Van Vliet.
Tonight goes for twenty nine eight and eight, six out
of nine from three pointe and you watch the guy
play and it's he's somewhat like, look the confidence I
have when I watch Jalen Brunson with the Knicks, Like
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he's always gonna make the right play, He's always gonna
make the right decision, and whatever he decides at the
end of a game, I'm taking this last shot, okay,
Like all right, I'm not gonna question it. Like Lebron
always gets questioned should he have passed? Should he Whatever
Lebron does at the end of a game is wrong, right,
Oh he shouldn't have passed. Oh he shouldn't have taken
the shot. Like there's a lot of players where you
question what they do at the end of the game,
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but you don't with with Jalen Brunson. Okay, if he
missed that three, he missed it. He had a wide
open three. He's the best player, one of the top
ten players in the league. He's the knixt leader. He's
taking that shot. It's okay. Like Fred van Vliet is
that kind of guy too, but he doesn't nearly get
the attentions. Why I say he's the most underrated player.
He always feels like he makes the big shots. He
always feels like he's in control of every situation, Like
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he exudes that confidence on the court that his teammates go,
you know what, Fred's got this. I just got to
worry about me because Fred's got this right, I get it.
And Fred van he walks around, he just has that
aura about him. I always feel like he makes the
right decision. I feel like I never see him turn
the ball over or make or bad play. He's always
in the right spot Defensively, he's always in the right
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place making the offense move. Like he's someone that if
I didn't have Jalen Brunson, like, he's a guy I
would love to have running my team because if he
was on a team with let's say he in an
earlier NBA era, Let's say he was like the point
guard for the Spurs and the Tim Duncan era, or
Lebron's point guard with the Cavaliers or something like that,
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Like he'd play fifteen eighteen years and have five or
six rings, and you would hear punditson experts say, hey, yes,
this guy was a star, this guy scored thirty a game.
But Fred van Vliet was the MVP. He's absolutely the bet.
They don't do any of this without Fred van Vliet.
That's how underrated the guy is. Again, if I didn't
have Brunson, I'd want Fred van Vliet as my point guard.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Now, he's a guy that clearly NBA ownership Group and
GMS valued pretty nicely. Three years, won twenty eight, so
certainly making his cash along the way. But from the
fan perspective. You're right, it's it's not a guy that
fills up a huge box score. Right, he has a
night like tonight, but that's not the norm He's normally
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in that, you know, thirteen to fifteen point range, with
the opportunity now and again to have one of these
blowout performances, and of late, I mean, Houston's used him
a lot this series. He has come up huge time
and again. You look at the last four games. You know,
seventeen was the low. The three straight games over twenty
points tonight helping to fuel a huge victory and really
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to distance themselves where the Warriors were playing. We're chasing
the entire night second half got out of sorts to
where you know, we're looking at a fifteen fourteen point
margin for a chunk of it. But the veteran acumen.
When you bring a guy like Van Vliet into a
squad that's replete with young talent, right, you got a
(21:00):
lot of guys that are just trying to figure this
stuff out. This guy's climbed to the mountaintop. So you know,
we talk about glue guys and veteran presence. It's it's
a guy that Fred Van Vlietz one of those those
NBA stars that is a little bit off the path. Right,
Certainly they know of me Houston and in Toronto, and
(21:23):
we get these glimpses in the playoffs when he's on
a massive stage. But you know, one of those guys
behind the scenes, like if we took it to our
normal TV and movies, he's a guy, you know, he's
that character actor that helps make things go. Why was
that on for ten years? That guy? Who is that guy?
You know? I was the guy that was in this
movie that you know, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I don't know, Yeah, you know, you know, it's funny.
You know who he is, you know, Fred Van And
you're gonna think I'm crazy when I say, but I
understand he's Joey from Friends. He's okay, okay, And here's why.
Here's why. Right, So Friends comes out right, and Friends
is you look and Friends was kind of Pam and
I's show because and probably yours too. You were a
(22:05):
couple of years, a couple of years younger than me,
but like when Friends came out, it was a big
old I was twenty four, you know, you were twenty
two and all the Friends were twenty four years old, right,
they were all new living in New York and and
that was it. So that was our show ten years
Like we were the same age as them as they
grew up. Like that's how you know how special Friends was.
And as you watch Friends, right, you go back and
(22:25):
forth with who your favorite character is, right, like, oh,
my good, Matthew Perry is such a star, right, look
at him. He started doing tons of movies. He was
so funny. Chandler's character is great. Jennifer Andason then became
a huge breakout star. She became the last three years
she was doing all kinds of movies. Jennifer Anison huge,
huge breakout star. Courtney Cox was the big star when
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it started, and she became you know, was one that
sold the TV show. Hey Courtney Cox, Okay, great, she's
gonna be on. She's the big star. Lisa Kudro started
going off and doing movies and she was in a
lot of big rom coms and okay, all these stars,
and Joey was, Okay, he's the dumb one, right, He's
a dumbe. And this this is not how I'm comparing
him to Fred van Vliet. Don't not don't think about
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that for seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I told you, Fred vanvle it's a dummy who failed
up for.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You, jerk, Fred van Vleet. His basketball IQ is off
the charts, man, that's not But think about this, right,
But Joey, you just thought, Yeah, Joey's out there and
Joey's fun and Joey's all of this and you know,
but it's Joey, right, it's Joey. But the show goes on, right,
and then and then it ends and then everybody goes
on to do different things and who gets the next
big sitcom after Joey gets it? Right, Matt LeBlanc gets it.
(23:37):
Well wait a minute, Joe, yes, nobody else is doing anything,
but Joey gets a spin off and it goes It
doesn't go very far, but you know it's because spinoffs
don't really don't. Didn't always do it that way. But
Matt LeBlanc gets a spinf Like, what the hell is
Matt LeBlanc atty, I don't get it out of him?
Get it so now years later and I'm sorry now.
So Friends ended in two thousand and four, and Zoe
(23:58):
and Pam and I just binge watched Friends in the
last year. Okay, so we just binge watched this is
the first we've seen the reruns when it's on TBS.
It's on TBS every day, and you get the you know,
all the big funn you forget how funny it was,
and how funny the plot lines were and and all
the different crazy stuff. And watching it again the second time,
you go through all the ten seasons and at the
(24:19):
end you say, oh, Joey was the best one on
the show. There's no show without Joey. He's so incredibly
good in his role. He's the He makes instances funny.
He doesn't even have great punchlines, but he makes them funny.
His his facial expressions are what makes scenes sometimes just
like I gotta show you I don't understand what I'm
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talking about, and that makes the scene right. It's not
something fun that Chandler says, or where David Twimmer says, uh, Joey,
you know that David Trimmer's stuff. But like you, you
go and.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You cast no.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
No, I I had much more Yeah, I also had
a much more respect for David Swimmer. The second time
I saw I saw the show, I'm like, you know
what he he didn't you know the problem with with
his character. He didn't have as many good people to
bounce off of, right, because they kept giving him new
girlfriends or people throughout the show, and it's like, you know, nobody,
and you couldn't bring on anybody who was going to
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uh compete with the six of them for laughs and
for attention. So it's kind of tough because it was, Okay, well,
here comes somebody that's gonna be a romantic interest for
a couple of episodes, and then they're gone, and so
you need somebody that can kind of go back and
forth with Rod. Like when they brought Emily on, Oh
my goodness, she was so boring. I'm like, oh my god,
I remember this plotline being so wrapped into Is Ross
(25:39):
really gonna marry Emily's? Yeah? And then I watched second Time,
I go, oh my goodness, they couldn't get off this
fast enough. They couldn't get off of Ros's and Emily
fast enough. My goodness.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Right, yeh had a good run.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But then you watch second Time and you realize just how
funny Joey is and how his character and and and
his execution of that role carries itself throughout the entire
higher run. Right, like other characters had better storyline arcs,
like Jennifer Andison had the best storyline arc from where
she started in the beginning. As you know, here's a
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high society, entitled girl who you know, doesn't get married.
Then she has the whole big character arc if she
hits bottom rises back up. She has a kid, she
has a family, and you know, you see other characters
have big character arcs. And Chandler and I'm spoiling it.
Chandler and Monica Dary either and they wind up raising
a family. Joey stays the same. But there's no show
(26:31):
without Joey. There's a because every single time the funniest
lines the second time around in the episode are all
around Joey right there. He is the glue that without that,
without this, without him, there's no show. And that's that's
Fred van Vliet. Without him with the Rockets, there's no Rockets.
Rockets were terrible. They were terrible, and Fred van Vliet
signs up big. It's like, why the hell are you
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going to the Rockets? They think what are they gonna do?
All of a sudden, Wow, the Rockets are really good. Wow,
the Rockets are the second best team in the Western Conference.
Why how yes, Shngon is really good. They've signed, They've
gotten a couple other players who were well, yes, understandable,
but it's not happening without Fred van Vliet. He is
just that good.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The other is I mean, obviously give the respect to
Emo Udoka right, who is on his path before needing
to be excised from that situation in Boston. I don't
know that we'll ever know the full details on things,
but there's enough so they become the beneficiaries of that
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years later, young roster, a couple of veteran guys with
a guy like Van Vliet to help lead the charge
like another coach on the on the court. Because you
got a lot of young guys, you know where, it
would be easy to get sucked into the Draymond head
games and things of that nature. So you need you
need to have a guy like Van Vliet around to
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limit that and make it make make sense and push
them forward. I do like the Joey analogy Fred van Vliet.
Now I need to find a bunch of facial brush
and reaction shots for him that we can use as
gifts going forward.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I mean, you know, you watch the Rockets and you
realize just how much Fred van Vliet does for this team.
And you watch Friends and realize just how much Joey does.
You know, in every in every show, just one line
of Chandler like could be the biggest laugh of the
of the show. And it's like, how do you do
that with one line? How do you do that? Just
by staring and pointing? How do you? And he's able
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to do that, and you realize just how good he
is at what he does, and you don't think about
it because you think about the other guys. There's nothing
without Fred van Vliet, nothing, absolutely not time out to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But guy who's been called the Ross Geller of Fox
Sports Radio keeps walking around the hallways at least once
a night, going we were on a break, it's Steve
(28:48):
de Sager with what's trending?
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Or he does that little nod and if you say
that's true always, the end of the sentence would be
kind of like that. By the way, one of the
late ball games in Anaheim Detroit and the Angels were
tied one to one, Tiger scored eight times in the
top of the ninth to win nine to one. They
hit five home runs in the game. Riley Green did
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something that no major league player has ever done before.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
He hit two.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Home runs in the ninth inning. Tonight, again the loss
to the Halos, who've dropped seventh straight, and the loss
to closer Kenley Jansen in this one. San Francisco shut
out Colorado four nothing. Cubs won ten nothing at Milwaukee.
It was nine zip in the second inning, thirteen to one.
Seattle wins at Texas. The Mariners have won five straight.
The Dodgers won their sixth in a row two to
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one at Atlanta. White Sox and Mets each one. Boston
and the A's with win. Baltimore shutout Kansas City three nothing.
Bobby Witt Junior of the Royals winzer for four, ending
his twenty two game hitting streak. Victories for San Diego
and Philadelphia. For Cincinnati and the Yankees, who won three
nothing over Tampa Bay the win to Max Freed. He's
six and zero with his new team era of about
(29:58):
one one hit allowed in his seven scoreless innings at
Yankee Stadium Tonight. The Houston Rockets did win at Golden
State one fifteen, one oh seven. Fred Van Vliet twenty
nine points, eight rebounds, eight assists, and Alprah and Shangun
had twenty one points fourteen rebounds In this one. Steph
Curry with twenty nine points, but it's a loss for
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the home team and Game seven of this first round
series will be at Houston on Sunday night. There is
a Saturday night Game seven Clippers at Denver in the
NHL Playoffs, a Saturday night Game seven with Colorado at Dallas.
There's now a Sunday night Game seven, and the first
round at Winnipeg is Saint Louis State alive, beating the
Jets five to two. The Blues scored four straight goals
(30:42):
in the second period in five and a half minutes.
The New York Rangers new coach is Mike Sullivan, who
ran the Penguins the past ten years. Tampa Bay coach
John Cooper will return next season despite losing in the
first round three straight years. He has one year left
on his contract. Speaking of coaches, the NBA's Greg Popovich
has retired from coaching after twenty nine years with San
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Antonio on the sidelines. He will be team president of
the Spurs. Assistant Mitch Johnson becomes the Spurs head coach.
A former Stanford player, Popovich is seventy six. He missed
most of this past season after a stroke. The Grizzlies
new head coach officially is the injury man thwamas Isolo
from Finland. He used to coach in Paris and in Germany.
(31:25):
The NBA invited seventy five players to this month's combine
in Chicago. The league had announced over one hundred players
filed for early entry to the draft. The deadline for
college players to withdraw from the draft is May twenty eighth.
The actual draft starts June twenty fifth. The Lakers Lebron
James reportedly has a sprained MCL and could have missed
about a month if his team was still alive. In
(31:46):
the playoffs at liv Golf in South Korea, they're about
midway through the second round right now. Bryson Deshambo has
just taken a one stroke lead. Scottie Scheffler leads by
six strokes. In Texas after a second round sixty three today,
the Dallas Cowboys signed seven of their nine recent draft choices.
The Eagles signed four draft choices, including six round quarterback
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Kyle McCord. Brown's running back Jerome Ford agreed to a
pay cut, and Raiders first round running back Ashton Genty
will wear number two his number at Boise State. A reminder,
NASCAR's next three Sunday races will be on FS one,
including this Sunday from Texas three thirty pm Eastern time,
and IndyCar returns to Fox TV Sunday from Birmingham one
(32:31):
thirty pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Just really quick, you know you talked about Steve talked
about Ashton Genty wearing number two with the Raiders. Abdul
Carter may never take the field for the Giants because
he can't pick a number, all right. He first he
wanted fifty six. Lawrence Taylor said, no, get your own
number fifty six. Yeah, fine, okay. Then potentially he was
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going to wear number eleven, right, sim said, Hey, you
know I'd open her to unretiring my number eleven because
Phil Simms is Jersey retired by the Giants, So either
Abdul Carter or Jackson Dart could wear it. Hey, that's
pretty cool, okay, and then when Abdul Carter said it
would be an honor because Carter wore number eleven at
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Penn State. Hey, this is working, Phil phil Simms said,
oh wait a minute, I got out voted by my family.
Number eleven is gonna stay retired. Like if I'm Abdul Carter,
I say, all you Giants Legends blank you blank you
blank you blake? Could come on, man, you guys are done.
Like everybody that he want all these jerseys, I could
wear what I could do. The Giants Legends keep saying no, no, no, no, kid, you.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Got zero to ninety nine. You can strong arm virtually
any other member of that roster as it stands and
is put together right now. I mean who else could
tell you to beat it? Neighbors? I mean other than that.
It's like, you can have your pick. Here's the list
you can't have. You have no other numbers. You want
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to wear fifty three? No, that's Harry Carson. Man, die,
I can't believe that. I don't want to Okay, great,
I want to wear twenty. No that's Joe Morris. No, die,
I can't, man, I can argue you can go in
strong arm Joe Morris he was also small. But it's
just the it's just the idea of well, these guys
(34:23):
who have had their jerseys retired.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
I don't blame them for saying.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
No, it's a good part of their legacy and all
of them, let's face it, they've been retired a few years.
Not to be morbid about it, but that stands time.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Man.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
What happened? Nah, he took it out and gave it
to that guy who went on to a Hall of
Fame career, and it's now retired for him. Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
What do you want to I want to wear fourteen? No,
it's y a tittles.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Oh, come on, it gets ah. He also was a
forty nine er. That's fine, man.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Oh you know I want to wear sixteen. No, that's
Frank Giffort. Oh come on now, we're all these nutbirds.
What else can I wear?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
How do you feel you can't take it down from the.
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Speaker 1 (35:16):
But how about this? How about next year might be
the final year for another Big LA superstar before he
is sort of shoved out the door. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. We were on a break.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
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Speaker 1 (35:51):
So we'll get to Lebron James coming up in a
few minutes because boy, big injury news on him. But
elsewhere it might not be the only Los Angeles area
athlete who may have one more year left with the team.
Sean McVay said in a podcast yesterday that's starting to
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get a lot of traction in the last few hours
that he hopes and expects that Matthew Stafford's time with
the Rams is another couple of years, right, I'm hoping
he's our guy for the next couple of years. Always
enjoy working with him and said all effusive stuff this
before he warned him in the beginning of the off season,
don't play around with all this crap. And but now
(36:35):
I hope it's another couple of years that the Rams
have Matthew Stafford. Despite what Sean McVay says, this is
the final year in Los Angeles for Stafford in the Rams,
Like this is it or you're talking no no, no,
this is this year coming, this is gonna be it. Right.
Every year is for Matthew Stafford. He sort of does.
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I don't want to say he does just enough, because
the first half of the year he's terrible. This is
the two years in a row. First half of the
year it looks like they need a new quarterback now,
like he can't get it there. And then he's so
good the back half of the season that you think, well,
they got their guy. You can't keep living that way,
and eventually the Rams have to get their next quarterback.
(37:20):
They didn't obviously didn't like the guys this year. I thought,
for sure Shador Sanders that was a great landing spot
for him with the Rams win a great pick for
them somewhere around the fifth or sixth round, but I
don't think they had a fifth round pick would have
to be in the sixth round, and of course the
Browns took them. But Stafford has sort of been just
enough in the second half of the last two years
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to where every time the Rams go into the off
season the last few years, it's been okay, we have
other spots to improve, but quarterback is still okay. Don't
have to worry about improving court. You can only improve
so many things in every off season. Quarterbacks not at
the top of the list. Yeah, we'd like Stafford to
be a little bit better first half of the season,
but yeah, that way he closed great. Then last year,
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yeah we'd like to see him a little bit better
at first half, but boy, he closed great. We should
have beat the Eagles. Okay, still not at the very
top of the list they need to fix. But another
year like this, Look, Stafford's getting to be thirty seven,
thirty eight years old. That's gonna be it, you know,
year three of inconsistencies. As you near forty, the Rams
will do exactly what they've done for the last few years.
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After this year, they will say, Okay, Stafford's been terrific,
but we're still not getting as far as we need to,
and they will reload on the fly by getting a
high draft pick, because remember, they made some big moves
where they can be in position to do that next
year if someone shows up who's terrific, or they'll go
with a big free agent, or they'll make a trade
for a guy who suddenly is falling out of favor.
(38:45):
Maybe next year is the year where the Jaguars say yeah,
we can't do Oh really, Sean McVay, you want Trevor Lawrence?
All right, great, Hey, we'll give us Okay, hey, awesome,
all right, Trevor Lawrence. You got you guys got it.
There will be some kind of bold move the Rams
will make because you can only do it for so long.
Two years it's been all right for Stafford, but another
year where he's semi good or he's good for semi
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amounts of time, they realized we're gonna have to move on.
But the Rams don't rebuild. They reload on the fly,
and they will reload on the fly there, man.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I forget. It was about a month ago we got
into a very heated discussion where I was calling for
the ouster of Matthew Stafford, saying his season was overrated,
and you got really mad at me, like it was
a personal affront, like you were on his payroll. It
it was.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was Kelly Stafford's paid me a lot of money
to say good things about Matthew Stafford the last few months.
Why do you think I'm not in her podcast?
Speaker 3 (39:37):
I mean it was like the Shador Sanders stuff of
the last week, Like did you are you getting disinvited
from Sunday dinner if you say something negative. But for
the the Rams very much. Remember when we were talking about,
all right, is this guy gonna get traded after week five,
week six, whether it was Stafford, whether it was Cooper
Cup or anybody else that was healthy, what do you
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want from this roster? And then they have a phenomenal
second half. His numbers were pedestrian overall. Right, I mean,
there's nothing to write home about, much dischagrin of fantasy owners,
and obviously they played with hurt early on, missing time
from key components of that offense. But all that have
(40:19):
to say is, yeah, you've had myriad injuries that have
afflicted him the last couple of years, and you play
through him, right, and that's great, but at some point
you don't want to have to go to hey, how
much treatment does he need to get on the field
this week? Which is where they've been with Matthew Stafford
these last two almost three years. At this point, slow starts,
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great finishes. Eventually the rest of the division is not
going to fail the same way. Look around, Look what
Arizona did defensively in the draft. They can only get better.
So yeah, You've got two years left before a void year.
But would I be shocked if he were gone after
this year? It could be Jimmy Garoppolo again. Dim man,
(41:07):
see what I did to you?
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Coming up next. So this could be the last year
for Matthew Stafford. Is this the last year for Lebron
with the Lakers? Fox
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