June 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Rob and Kelvin tell us who deserves the most blame for the Oklahoma City Thunder’s meltdown in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, and explain why Russell Westbrook to turn down a lucrative offer to play basketball overseas. FOX Sports Radio NBA insider Mark Medina swings by to discuss Tyrese Haliburton’s late-game heroics, the Thunder’s unusual lineup rotations, whether the results of Game 1 has changed his series-look outlook, and much more!
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
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Speaker 5 (01:12):
By the way, you mentioned YouTube, go to our YouTube page.
You can see two days in a row. You keep
staying in my closet and trying to figure out my
color schemes.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Come on, man, what we're doing here?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I know we talking about the vibe and then we
got this great relationship brewing and growing. But I'm just
getting dressed in the morning. Man, we start we're starting
to turn into that couple. Don't be going and when
you get back eating cheesecake. Don't go to the cheesecake.
We want to wear the same You want to match.
Don't beat that couple that goes to the carnival. We're
not doing matching shirts and all that.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I never did that.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Rob, you're doing that. I can see absolutely does that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh I know you and your wife when you were dating,
y'all wore the same clothes, the same clothes.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I'm in the same Like, we're gonna wear a T shirt. Yeah,
we're gonna wear Disneyland shirts. That's Disney doing that. Stillney
streets doing that.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah you are. Yep. Every birthday we got matching shirts
for the for the girls.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah. Oh yeah, I got to do that to you. Yeah,
I said, no, one's time like two birthdays ago. It
says like that of the brothers and no, I can
just give it a normal one.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You don't want to be a part of it too.
Almost called Rob, you gotta get on the couch exactly.
I met you.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
The same thing happens when Jay again was like, I
don't want to wear the MLB bro shirt.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes you are.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
When we go to the All Star Game and we're
five four or five, we all have it on and
people will always take notice. You can see whatever you want.
We five years strong on MLB bro branding is very
very it is. It really is to those events. You
got all these reporters around people, okay exactly, even if you.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Don't know what it is, and then you get a
white ladies stopping you in New Orleans, Rob, is that
MLB Bro? But I did, Robbie, I'm not nothing on
either that said it. I saw our handswipe and it
looked like it's some money exchange. I'm I don't know.
By the way, shout to everybody New Orleans. They really
showed us some love. That I mean, not that everybody
was from New Orleans. They could have just been coming
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from all except for that rat. Other than that, it
was good right. The rat was such a fan that
had a heart attack with ITAs. Oh my god, this's
ad couple and it just died on us. Hey, y'all,
watch out.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
For that rat.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Didn't be that big, though, She said, watch out for
that rat. Baby, and we and Rob she said, what what,
rat boy? You ain't never.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You did you look at it?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I didn't even see it. So I just saw a
tall you know, tap dancing across the street real fast.
He got to Emeralds. We all had another seven minute walk.
You got there in seven Wait for you. I was like,
I'm not sticking around for that.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
She didn't get to the tea and rat. She said, oh,
excuse me, baby, watch out for whatever, because I thought
it was still alive or something. I wanted to make
sure you know you were out. I'm not into the
rock twice tu time I've ever seen you run that fast.
When the bat flew in here and you jumped on
my lap and then that rat, I'm not gonna getybody
gonna bite me in the neck or something.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I would get off my lap. All right, Well, let's
talk about game one? Yeah? Game one?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Man?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
What again?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
What it ended up being an exciting game? You and
I were sitting here a little like this couldn't probably
should be more of a blowout, but it wasn't we
with three turnovers?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Cast we were like.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
First half, you gotta be up by twelve and had
twenty turnovers.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You gotta win by more than that or be up
at least.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Uh Mark Dagana, who is the coach of the Thunder,
switch the lineup. You and I are in the air
right before the game. Rob g goes, oh, lineup change right?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Wait? What what are they doing?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
And so the conversation becomes who is the blame and
is he to blame? Simply when you look at this
loss for the Thunder. For me, he is a part
of this blame. But I first have to go to
the players, and I'm gonna tell you why you just
said it. If I told you you have twenty turnovers
in the first half, you better be up.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
By twenty minimally. Minimally.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
If I told you that you averaged twenty something points
about twenty one to twenty two points a game all
points off turnover throughout the season, and you had eleven
with twenty five turnovers throughout the whole game.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That is terrible. What that does.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Number one, you continue to make them feel like they
can't compete because they look bad. We're sitting here me,
you Rob G MONTI I kept going turnover and we
start talking about new stuff there, I go turnover because
they kept happening.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, but they weren't capitalized. So that's to me.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The singular thing I'm gonna first point out is there's
no way you cannot have points off that because what
it does, rob and those are backbreakers. If I'm picking
your pocket, come down, wop hit a transition, three crowds
going crazy, that rim starts getting bigger for you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Turnaround.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
If you were gonna score the other round, it becomes five.
And my point here it kept them hanging around. You
didn't do what Baine did the Batman rob G because
I know you didn't see rob He broke Batman's baw.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You know I didn't see that movie. Which one was it?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I don't know, Okay, So he broke his back. Batman
always get beat up a little. Nobody ever picked him
up in the air and broke his back.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I watched Batman Adam West Oh got pow Pam.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Not that one, Okay, No, this was with the kidnapped.
The kid be back and he broke his back.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And my point is the thunder or twenty turnovers at
the first half of you sppot to break their back.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Rob g didn't see that movie either, he's too busy
with the kids. He saw that one. Did you see Batman?
He saw that one?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, look and see how he looked at you too,
offended that you would ask. So my point is that's
number one. Now, if it's going out of one hundred percent,
I'm gonna take seventy percent there, and now i'm gonna
take thirty to the coach. First of all, you switch
the lineup. But all right, if that's what you chose
to do for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And it is weird, I'm still thinking you leave yourself
open because normally, when you've had as much success as
the thunder six, why are you changing what you do?
You know we're going to do what we do and
force them to change, not the other way around. It's
just it is backwards. Avery Johnson did it with the
number one seed with Dalla.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Mavericks, the Warriors, Warriors, we believe Warriors, and they won,
they won the series.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, and I look at too. It's okay.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
If you chose to make that decision, you still have
to be nimble enough to say, all right, we're gonna
switch them things up. And Hartenstein, I'm not acting like he's,
you know, Rashid Wallace or something, but he had nine
to nine and seventeen minutes, so I'm gonna give him
a few more minutes. If simply for just the size,
it's simply for us to take advantage of some things.
And inside if simply the half some guys who can
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block shots. And lastly, Robin and I'll give the time
to you on this. They did not defend the three
ball well, which is what the Pacers do better than
anyone right now. And that second half that was that
was a big, big loss to me. In the second
half they let them get off. Was it sixty six
points in the second half, and a lot of that
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was three balls. And to me, the number is minus
twenty one, and you can't be minus twenty one and
the three balls. So those are the three factors for me.
Mug Gjorady goes to simply points off turnovers. If I
have twenty turnovers from you, I'm up twenty. Especially the
way they're playing, and they weren't scoring and capitalizing, so
it ends up being a mute point.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, I gave you the ball back. You didn't do
no with it, right, No, I get it. It's again.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, you can look at it and obviously halliburd
makes a big shot.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
If he misses the shot and they survive, you win,
and you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Just go forward and you got it exactly, But it
was a wasted opportunity. You can't lead the game the
entire way and give it up. And the three point
shooting you talked about. Even the lineup change is questionable.
Where you make people go.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Right before the game or maybe an announcement was maybe
they know what I mean. I'm still like, what's going
on here? Why are we changing what's been done all year?
And I think that that is.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Huge. But also and you just wonder, like and I'm
just thinking out loud in.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Late in the game, I'm not gonna let Halliburton get
the ball like like that.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
He's the He's That's the only thing that was the
advantage they didn't Rick Carlo not calling time out, but
you know what a ball We're all in scramble mode.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
But but you.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Get my point is even in a game that's that close,
that situation, I got a cheat.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I know, I know you don't want to anybody open,
anybody but him, anybody but him, and I just wonder
and I and I get it it one like you
could set it or whatever. I was there with Michael
Jordan against the Calves and and when they got the inbounds,
there's no time to pass it anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I was just like, dude, I'm sorry. I would have
to two guys like.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
On top of him, and they got to pass the
ball into somebody who's wide open. Because Michael is the
only one I'm worried about.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Didn't give him space. He was on top of.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Him without He's just hung in the air longer like oh,
you're back down on Earth.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay, watch this.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And he still made it. So I look at that
and I wonder about it. But again the game was
lost because I'm not capitalizing. I can't remember what the
exact number was, but they didn't take advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Just there wasn't twenty five turnovers. They only got eleven points.
That's embarrassing number. That's the number that's embarrassing, like cerually embarrassing.
Eleven points like that, that's that's nothing on twenty five
twenty five turnovers, and that's the game. If you score
on five more then that's potentially ten points at minimum,
could be more, and that should be regular. They average
around twenty two a game off turnover. You got eleven
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on twenty five, twenty six. That's that to me? Was
it another point from the fuck that is coming from
the Fox Sports radio guys Chad Holgren. You take them
out and understand they're playing threes, and he might've been
I mean, you know, their bigs are playing shooting threes
and they are hanging out on the arc, and maybe
he lost a little bit of what he does well,
you know, blocking shot, changing shots.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But he's also a scorer.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
He can shoot, he can hit three easy, can pump, fake,
get to the right, So I think he might have
overthought himself, uh, Mark Dagnel And I also think this
is the this is a disadvantage to blowing everybody out
all the time where you're not comfortable. You said the
Cardiac Cats with the Pacers last year, they get I
(11:19):
mean this postseason, they're getting used to these kind of games, right.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And they're never out of game, no matter what, no
matter what's going on, and never out of games, and
they play for these moments like they just make buckle down,
They make shots and not afraid and and that's what
makes them so so tough.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And I got the cut most clutch player of all time,
believe it or not.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Crazy the heck?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
How you change your name and you're overrated two months ago?
Most overrated, now you're clutch? This guy of all time,
most clutch player with the heck.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Bob g I got a question for y'all because I agree.
I think the turnovers.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Obviously, when you get that many turnovers eleven points is
not gotta do something with it. But you started the
conversation we started yesterday's conversation about Daggonall changing starting lineup
and tweaking something that had worked for.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Them all season.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
This might seem counterintuitive, but could you make an argument
after what we saw yesterday with the lineup change and
even the closing lineup where they bench both of their
big men are is okay? See almost too deep where
it's like we don't know who are five is to
either open a game or close a game. We don't
have a set group wherever we know, no matter what's
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going on, we are closing or opening with these guys
and we'll figure out the rest in the middle.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
N The story was just saying, and that could be
a problem in that you normally know on a team,
and they do have so many players that they can
count on, but normally you do know who's going to
be out there.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Here's it closing with this, right.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Because coming into last season's playoffs, where it's like, hey, yeah,
you guys having a really good year, maybe turn two
or three of these bench dudes into one marquee starter
or it's something like that that you can can like,
you know, hey, when it comes down to the last
three minutes, we're gonna go with Sga, J dubb Chet
Holmgren player.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Example, the death lineup with the Warriors exactly they had
They knew exactly who you're about to get this small
ball version if everybody can shoot past dribble and we're
gonna like their style and this is what we're gonna
do for the last five minutes. And that death lineup
was killing people.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
And on the flip side, last night, OKC pulls both
of their big men, which they only played forty minutes
combined anyways, but then they give up a couple of offensive
rebounds leads to them end up losing the game.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Right and rebounded what was it they got out rebounded
by seventeen, right, not the number I mean that.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And then you got you're not using your big guys
hard style.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, it was just a bunch of things that I
know they're sitting there like, how the heck did.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
We You might have to look at it and be
honest and think about the coach to be honest on
some of these things, more so than by Shay you're
having a terrible game.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
That wasn't the k or somebody he might have the
most quiet thirty We ain't even talking about thirty eight from.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Him or somebody somebody making a Who was the player
on the Bucks when the ball went.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Through his legs? Trent Junior? Remember he had he had
a great game too all and the ball comes to
him and.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It goes, it goes called him Gary Trent Junior Buckner.
That was I can't believe you do it?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That ball went right there was like, all right, who, well,
what deserves most of the play for the Thunders game
one meltdown. We'll continue that conversation next with you. It
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Who's to blame? Are you blaming Mark dagging Off for
this loss? For the Thunder? Somebody else? For me, the
number one thing was the turnovers, not accounting for points.
If you're the Thunder, maybe you've got some different eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox Who we got.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
John in California. You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. California is a big state.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Where are you at, John, I've been in Paradise, California.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
All right, Is it feeling like paradise?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Is it feeling like paradise?
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Now?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
We burned down a few years back.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right. That's right that
you're absolutely right about that. Hoping you all find a
way to uh continue to recover. Yeh was that twenty
Was that twenty eighteen?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah? Eighteen, yeah, yeah, yeah, appreciate it what you got.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Well, I'll tell you, you know, keep coming up all these
reasons and whose fault it was and everything else.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
How about giving a little.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Bit Dandyana for pete sake?
Speaker 8 (16:24):
You know what it wasn't you know Cleveland it was?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
It wasn't.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
It wasn't any of those guys. There wasn't any of
the consider the Knicks, it wasn't any of them. Keep
on believing it wasn't gone it it was Halliburn. Come on,
give the guys some.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Credit and give some credit or credits due.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Oh no, have you been listening to our show?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Because okay, I'm just saying I'm the biggest Halliburton guy
I've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I'm telling you, I told you I'd take him over Steph.
You know, like, yeah, I know I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Yes, you was going on my headphone, Alex, my headphones
acting Rob got a little when I'm talking a little
carried away.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Brandon in Riverside, California. You're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
What's up beat?
Speaker 8 (17:11):
What's up man? What's going on? Y'all?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What it do?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
I'm good, I'm good. Uh you know, I blamed the coach.
So he's young.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
That was a new experience for him in the finals.
And it's not like Indiana like they just decided to
do that this game. They've been doing that the whole postseason.
And you know, all coaches and players have been seeing
Oliverry just draining game winner, game winner. So the coach
should have he should have called the time out before
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when shake gilgers the shot before the game winner.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
I should have called the time out before that.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Bright set a play for him and then say if we.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Miss, fine, Uhli Barry, making.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Sure we don't leave him he doesn't get the ball,
making sure nobody else beat him. Because I was listening
to Dan Patrick this morning. He said the same thing.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
He said, don't let he'll beat you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's what I What did I say? I'm not I
mean the only thing it was just a rebound.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
No, it was a rebound, and wisely for Halliburton and
Rick Carlisle to not call the time out right.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
That they had nothing to loans if they would have lost.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
But you can't. It's like you got Michael Jordan, Now,
don't let Hill get the ball. I'm not talking him.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well, well, as you go forward, you're right on Brandon,
You're right on the shot. But it just still the
way you said it made my heart going forward.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You better save a time out for the end of
the game where you got to call and set your
defense because he is not He cannot beat you anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know what I mean? In this series, if you
want to win a champions what the Halle Burton is
going on? Who we got Tom.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Tom and San Antonio. You're in the couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
What's up Tom?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Hey, guys, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I'm going to blame the three point line, but I
think it's a good thing because the three point point
allows a team to be down fifteen to twenty like
the Knicks and last.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Night with the Tasters, and that means there's always a
game because it was a two point no three point line,
there's no.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Way to come back from fifteen down.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So it's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
But I'm blaming the three point line.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Okay, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
But also and I hear that, right, but there are
also a lot of blowouts and you talked about okay,
see they are also thanks Tom for the call. But
on the flip side, we've seen a lot of lopsided
games because of that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
And I would argue that the three point line, to
his point, is we got the Celtics in trouble focusing
on it.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
There you go. That's a great point, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And that was what we missed seventy five out of
one hundred three pointers in the first two games. Even
when you say it, it doesn't even sound right. They missed
seventy five out of one hundred.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Will Chamberlain roll around is great? Right now, if y'all
go produce you to the dunk or lap?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
All right?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
We got Mark what the Helly Burton, Mark Funky Comdina,
Fox Sports Radio, NBA Inside of getting ready to join
us here a little bit. But first we got to
get you set on what's train what Steve the secrete team.
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Speaker 4 (20:13):
Appreciate it. As always, it's the AACA. But he's Rob.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I'm Kelvin on a fucky flashback Friday, getting ready to
have a chat here in a little bit, talk some.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
More hoops on the way.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Uh no, as you just heard Steve me and you
were watching this uh red Sox Yankee game. My gosh,
Aaron Judge already this is third at bat and thirty,
So what.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Do they do today? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Oh no, he's still up there, He's still up at
bet He already has two hits, his averages up to
three ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
We're in June.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
We're in June, and I feel a home run coming
right here too. Yeah, it's just fitting for the night.
Sometimes it's like that, like when the Dodgers, when the Dodgers,
he got him when the Dodgers. It was an eighteen
to two last weekend. Uh So, sometimes it's like that
man getting ready again. Talk to Mark Funky Comadina here
talk some hoops. Man. By the way, you and I
were talking about this off off Mike. This all next
(21:00):
game is not till Sunday. Then it's like Wednesday. Then
can we get some flow going with the NBA.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, they want the weekend. That's why it stretched out
over two weeks and a seven. It should be every
other night, every other night. It's perfect, Man, get this
thing flowing.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
You want to you want to capitalize on the momentum
of a really good second half of game. You got
a buzzer beater. Now we gotta wait till Sunday. Man,
come on now. So yeah, well we'll have to wait
until then. But I'm still looking forward to to it
to see how the bounce back because the thunder or
four and oh four and o this postseason when they
have lost, coming back from a loss and rob the
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average margin of victory and I don't expect it to
be this with the well spread is eleven and a half. Yeah,
they win by twenty points. That's the average that they're
they're coming back from a loss.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I'm not taking I'm telling you put the ranch on
the Pacers plus eleven and a half.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's and and it's different.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's just different, just for all the marbles, and you
gotta experienced team. Everybody thought the Knicks were gonna bounce
back after they stole after the Pager's game one, right,
and that huge collapse.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I don't know who they are. They keep stilling the
game ones like that, and then they and then they
came back and what they do.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
And yeah, and another quick step before we get to Mark,
real quick, when you're talking about the thunder, I already
mentioned how they they get all the comebacks, what they've
been able to do four and oh on after a loss.
So we'll see if they have to get it done.
I'll come back with this other stad just a minute.
Let's get to Mark right now. Mark Funky called Madina,
Fox Sports Radio, NBA Insider, Mark g Underscore Madina our guest.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Now, Mark, what's up man?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Hold on, hold let it breathe, uh ah ah ah ah.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Fucky flashback Friday, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
How you Robin? I'm always hunger? When he got that
nice infro music? Hey man, did you actually watch an
NBA game that you finally like?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Robs finally, Oh well, I'm glad I was watching because
nobody else in America was watching. Did you see the
ratings for the first Game one, the lowest rating game
one of an NBA Finals since they started keeping.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Track eight in nineteen eighty eight. How about that?
Speaker 9 (23:10):
You know what I listened to, you know, Mark Stein,
and you hashed this out. I'm not going to say
it doesn't matter. I mean, yeah, they make a lot
of money, but you know what my attitude is, they're lost,
not ours game.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I get that, and I'm not that.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
But Mark, my only argument, and you know this, if
the ratings went through the roof last night, the league
would promote Okay, I would.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Have got today. Yes, yeah, a huge ratings. That's what
I doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
That's what I say. You can't have it both ways.
When it's no good, it doesn't matter. But if they're good,
let me tell you, let me tell you about it.
But anyway, let's go to Game one and again the
Pacers do what they've done all postseason. I mean, it
is an incredible thing. And Halliburton, he didn't have a
monster game. He finished with fourteen.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Only six assists. Two is not like he had fourteen.
What do you make of this dude in big moments?
Speaker 9 (24:04):
Yeah, I mean, this is what he does. This is
his fourth game winner. I think what's very interesting about
tyres Halbern is he has three different identities. He has
the clutch player gene. He has the very consistent, you know,
assist number machine because he's the best passing point guard
in the league. He led the NBA and assists, and
then he'll have games where he just has duds, doesn't
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shoot the ball. Well, you know, I asked, you know
some people around the league, different assistant coaches, different gms
about what they make of it, and they just think,
you know what, this is a product of a young player.
He's twenty five years old. He's still trying to find
his way in the league. His identity is always going
to be passed first. But they're encouraged that when it
comes to crunch time and clutch moments, his aggressiveness, his
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confidence will prevail. So he's not a perfect player, but
I think he much rather have a player delivering the
clutch and be inconsistent than a player that's steady but
then in crunch time suddenly shrinks.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I mean, it's been remarkable what he's able to do.
But I'm going to go to another guy who I
think was kind of the either unsung or maybe MVP
of the game, stands for that last second shot, nim Hard.
I mean, he has been able to be a pest defensively,
to be another ball handler that can create hit a
massive shot. Rob Gen and I were talking that shot
he hit with a couple of minutes left, that big
(25:21):
three that cut it was it cut it three, I believe.
I mean that might have been this obviously not the
game winner, but that kept them in it and had
them given like we got a chance to do this.
How great has he been for them on both sides
of the ball.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Oh, he's been very great. And I think that like
he was one of the key guys that really ignited
their comeback. And I think that that's what you need
against the Oklahoma City Thunder because everyone's gonna assume Shake Gildasalaxander,
whether it's efficient or not from three or at the
free throw line, mix of both, he's going to get
his numbers. And there's a feeling that you know, the
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Pacers X factors with Pascal Siakam, as great as he is,
isn't fully enough to offset what Shay, Gilges Alexander has.
So they're going to need another guy like Andrew Nevphard
making defensive plays. Same thing with an Aaron Nasmith basically
to cancel out Shay and Jalen Williams moving forward and
you know it obviously helps Jane Williams then shoot the
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ball well. Same thing with ched Holmgrin. But when you
look at the rosters top from bottom, on paper, the
Thunder have better depth, they have better chemistry. But you
know the Pacers aren't slouches. They they've, as Rob has
pointed out, have done this throughout the postseason with coming
back from behind, having clutch performances, playing well as a team.
(26:39):
So I'm not going to say series is over. The
Thunder is a great team, but I think that this
can very well set a tone on what to expect,
and it's going to start with not just being relyingt
on Tyrus Halburn making key boys. It involves the others
as well.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
What about Dagonall changing his lineup before a game one
of the finals. You want to all these games, you've
been incredible, you got all these statistics in your favor,
and you're acquiescent to them, rather than having them make
an adjustment you know what I mean, to stop you
or stop what you've been doing.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
I just thought that was weird.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It reminded me of Avery Johnson with the Mavericks doing
that when they played the number eight seed, the Golden
State Warriors and they wound up losing that series.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Yeah. I mean, Cason Wallace is a great defender, he
didn't shoot the ball well, especially from three. Isaiah Hartenstein
as a really good frontcore player. I think you know
what it came down to is Mark Vaginal was trying to,
you know, adapt to the modern NBA where sometimes it's
better to go small. But to your point, they've never
had that starting lineup to begin with. I think that
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the Thunder they've shown that chet Holmegren in Isaiah Hartenstein
can play well together. They're great pick and roll partners
with Shay. They compliment each other well because Sheett is
more of a stretch five, Isaiah is more of a
rebounder and so they can do the dry work. So
if I had to guess, I think that they go
back to that starting lineup because that's what's got them there.
(28:06):
But I will say in fairness. I don't think that's
what lost the game. I think I agree with tabre
do with the turnovers obviously, uh you know Halibert and
coming up with the clutch, but didn't help, right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
My point is I agree, okay, but it just was weird.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It gave people like a reason, you know what I mean,
to look at you even if you want, even if
you wanted to just change the minutes, right, you still
start your starting lineup, and you can still make that
move if you really believe. Do you know what I'm saying, Mark, Like,
you can still make that move and just change the minutes.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Yeah, I know one hundred percent what you're saying. I
think even the bigger point, which is a problem, is
they Harden say, only played seventeen.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Minutes, nine and nine and seventeen Mark, Yeah, and sometimes
he looked.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Down on the bench. You thought Frankenstein was.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
Scept your server, Well tonight, they're working really hard. Sometimes
it comes down to it. It doesn't matter who starts,
matters who finishes, how long our the rotations are. But
he didn't even fulfill that. He played again only seventeen minutes.
Case and Wallace played thirty three. I don't understand that
move at all. If you are going to make a move,
it's because you're traying from behind, You're trying to throw
the dice somewhere. But to go into a series already
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make an adjustment doesn't make any sense. And I think
it was one of those things that it went against
what he's usually thinking about, where you impose, you know
your will, you set the tone. I think that he
was kind of overthinking things a little bit, especially because
it was his first finals and.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Now we find ourselves in game two. Rob said it,
what is it up to now? Elen eleven and a
half the price? Yeah, I think it's in favor of
the thunder eleven and a half said I'm.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Taking eleven and a half all day. I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
So yeah, And again as robis said, it's it's not
what you should put your money down to what he
puts in exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Remember that, remember that what do you make is this?
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Is this? Because eyes to piggyback on what you're saying.
We were saying his moments ago, twenty turnovers in first half,
I'm up at least twenty, right, I have to be
at least twenty twenty five points, Like that's too big,
too many turnovers, and I should have a massive lead
from the Thunder. Are they feeling like same game plan
except we make these shots and we're okay?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Or do they feel a little shook it.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
I don't think they feel shook because of what you
just said, but I think that they too take the
Pacers seriously. I think the Pacers are also very mindful,
and I was telling the Tyres Alburn was saying after
the game that you know, this isn't sustainable to play
the way they did because they had twenty four turnovers,
they were still able to ever come this. So what
I'm getting at far from over. I would still pick
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the Thunder to win Game two as well as win
the series. But you know, if the Indiana Pacers win
the series, it should surprise absolutely no one. Any idea
that the Pacers got here only because the Boston Celtic
Center achieved and weren't fully healthy. Same thing with the
New York Nexts haven't been watching them. They've shown that
(30:59):
they're the real deal. They've overcome their early season struggles
and they played a fast pace. They have a lot
of great chemistry and Tyres Haliburn, he comes up in
the clutch. So, yeah, this is gonna be a fun
series and for everyone that decides, you know what, we're
going to continue to tune this out. You know, the
NBA should care about this, Rob, but I'm gonna say,
you know what, they're loss not ours, because this is
(31:21):
going to be a compelling series and actual fun basketball,
unlike some of the unwatchable games that Rob has been
a complaint about all season, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And I did change the name of the Pacers to
the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
There we are. I can't front. That's one of the
better ones. All right, we'll say.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Front all right for five percent cretuity tonight for Rob.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah you go, I'll tell you what to Thank you,
Mark Man. Appreciate your weekdays. Marks, I got you man, Rob,
pleasant surprise.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
Just like Indiana winning Game one. Your takes are on
the mark today.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Thank you, buddy, appreciate it. You must say he I mean, now,
was that Mark? Was that Mark Medina right there?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I know, I don't know. He is extra friendly on
this friendly Friday.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
We're looking at the two best teams since January first,
and so it's kind of no meaning. Maybe people thinking
the Pacers are slouched, they've been the second best team
in the NBA since then, so maybe we need to
put a little more respect on him.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Handy, I got them in six. I had to.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Respect losing in five. So I still look like I'm right,
but I looked wrong last night.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
For a minute. Rob G was.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Really wrong because rob G's the one who stepped all
the way out on the limb, and I like when
people are a little loft, you know, like the beating past.
Rob G did it because everybody had thunder and five,
like right, rob G?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Like every if you looked on most predictions, it was
thundering five.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Rob G goes, nah, I'm all you know, I'm getting
needles stuck in me all day and whatnot. He had
four needles that day, so he decided what rob G
thunder and four? Baby, there you go.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You said he stepped out here, He stepped out. He
stepping on scales right now every day. And then he
goes and then he goes on Twitter. He's all salty
about you know, in the app.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Point out something that Rob's wrong about. Now I'm salty,
It's okay, Alex.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
He was so salty. I was like, hey, you know
planners online one you know, there's.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
An NBA player, an NBA superstar who has to make
a decision. Rob, stay in the States or go abroad.
We'll tell you who it is. It's the hot couple
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gotta find something else to say other than set the table.
(34:16):
Russell sets the table. Russell, by the way, real quick,
real quick. The difference between working with you knuckleheads and
working in TV. I said that like kind of something
sortid that we would just say, Alex hit me.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
With the drop. That's gotta be racist.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
When I tell you, I said a little half like
one one hundredth of a joke. We would say here
they holding the studio when and I was like, oh,
this is the difference between radio TV. Boy, I said,
y'all would have a heart attack the stuff we say
the other show. They were just like, oh really, I
was like, not to start telling that's even the Golden
ager radio. I mean, walking up in Detroit, I used
(34:54):
to do uh ass slaping Monday Rush.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
Why is it when you say the golden age of radio?
Because I get sad whatever, I want to be racist?
Speaker 5 (35:02):
That was the gold that you didn't say it was
anything enlightening.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Rob went straight to slapping cheeks slapping Monday.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Could you imagine that was the instead of Magic City
Monday slapping Monday?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Oh right, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
As back in the day, who had a wife beater
night or beat your wife knight or something like that
at a racetrack.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Well no, well, Andy Furman had and night klu klux klan.
That have you showed up in the ship?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
You got in for free? That was the night he had?
All right, go ahead, yeah, the Golden Air real quick.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
I didn't think Rob was racist till he called me
today like at ten am, Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I got my lawn? Oh typical, real quick?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Oh, I'm right yeah, wow, all right, seriously he didn't
actually do tell us about Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
According to multiple reports, a euro Cup team, I want
to try to pronounce it. Give me some grace here,
uh Hopel tel Aviv is reportedly set to make a
historic contract offer to Russell Westbrook to come and play overseas.
Unconfirmed reports suggests the number is somewhere in the neighborhood
(36:14):
three years, one hundred.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And fifty million dollars.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Guys, Russell Westbrook is an NBA player, He's an icon.
He's an icon in his top seventy five.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Shit didn't you take the money in roun tho is
the question?
Speaker 5 (36:29):
We will be landing in five minutes. That's too much money.
I mean, I have to look at his contract right
now to see what he's making. I'm sure he's making
a lot of money. He's Russell Westbrook, but he's making
about four right now. He's on the I mean in
regular people's life, that's a lot of money NBA life
for him, Nah, A hundred million guaranteed, by the way,
probably don't have to pay taxes, might not even have
(36:49):
to pay you know.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Maybe I don't know. Maybe you have to get rid
of his agent. Yeah, but the only problem is you
have to live over there.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
And I say that in all sincerity because a lot
of the people play over in Europe, right and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
They're making money tax free, which is usually a part
of the deal and all that.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
But but everybody there wants to come back to United States,
like there is a thing that you still want to
come home one hundred mile though, No, I'm that, I'm
just saying in general, like that is that's the reason
why they have to try to entice him to even come.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Then guess what I'm doing, because that should be a
no brainer. He would have been there already a right.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
You know. This reminds me of Rob's Stefan Marbray and
what he became in China. Never was able to get
a championship in the NBA. All of a sudden, there's
a bunch of championships that they have statues. He is
be loved over there. I mean seriously, he's there all
the time. He became just an icon there. So Russ,
(37:46):
you know what I mean, just going over there, finished
up the career, become an icon over there. Another place
to have a market that knows you that you can
market your brand, whole new world. Your family of kids
get to grow up a little bit somewhere else for
a little bit. But obviously you could probably split its
time between here and there. One hundred million is a
ridiculous contract?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (38:05):
That's one hundred million in US, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Actually one fifty three years, one fift out. I gotta
go now get unconfirmed. We don't know if this is
just speculation, but the reporting is definitely going to be
a historic offer.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Okay, Well, that's a lot of money to say no to.
I'd welcome you to air somebody Air Europe. Welcome Russell Westbrook.
I'm out. That's too much running. If you'd have said
fifty like a you know I still got a chance.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Only think he had to think about can I perform
the same way if I'm wearing a bulletproof vest while
I'm playing no.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Er.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Wait, what country is he going to out there? I
don't know. I don't know what the country is. I
don't know, man, that you're doubling down on the race.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
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Speaker 4 (01:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
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Speaker 5 (01:12):
By the way, you mentioned YouTube, go to our YouTube page.
You can see two days in a row. You keep
staying in my closet and trying to figure out my
color schemes.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Come on, man, what we're doing here?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
I know we talking about the vibe and then we
got this great relationship brewing and growing. But I'm just
getting dressed in the morning. Man, we start we're starting
to turn into that couple. Don't be going and when
you get back eating cheesecake. Don't go to the cheesecake.
We want to wear the same You want to match.
Don't beat that couple that goes to the carnival. We're
not doing matching shirts and all that.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I never did that.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Rob, you're doing that. I can see absolutely does that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh I know you and your wife when you were dating,
y'all wore the same clothes, the same clothes.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
You know what.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
I'm in the same Like, we're gonna wear a T shirt. Yeah,
we're gonna wear Disneyland shirts. That's Disney doing that. Stillney
streets doing that.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah you are. Yep. Every birthday we got matching shirts
for the for the girls.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah. Oh yeah, I got to do that to you. Yeah,
I said, no, one's time like two birthdays ago. It
says like that of the brothers and no, I can
just give it a normal one.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You don't want to be a part of it too.
Almost called Rob, you gotta get on the couch exactly.
I met you.
Speaker 7 (02:19):
The same thing happens when Jay again was like, I
don't want to wear the MLB bro shirt.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yes you are.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
When we go to the All Star Game and we're
five four or five, we all have it on and
people will always take notice. You can see whatever you want.
We five years strong on MLB bro branding is very
very it is. It really is to those events. You
got all these reporters around people, okay exactly, even if you.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Don't know what it is, and then you get a
white ladies stopping you in New Orleans, Rob, is that
MLB Bro? But I did, Robbie, I'm not nothing on
either that said it. I saw our handswipe and it
looked like it's some money exchange. I'm I don't know.
By the way, shout to everybody New Orleans. They really
showed us some love. That I mean, not that everybody
was from New Orleans. They could have just been coming
(03:06):
from all except for that rat. Other than that, it
was good right. The rat was such a fan that
had a heart attack with ITAs. Oh my god, this's
ad couple and it just died on us. Hey, y'all,
watch out.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
For that rat.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Didn't be that big, though, She said, watch out for
that rat. Baby, and we and Rob she said, what what,
rat boy? You ain't never.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You did you look at it?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:25):
I didn't even see it. So I just saw a
tall you know, tap dancing across the street real fast.
He got to Emeralds. We all had another seven minute walk.
You got there in seven Wait for you. I was like,
I'm not sticking around for that.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
She didn't get to the tea and rat. She said, oh,
excuse me, baby, watch out for whatever, because I thought
it was still alive or something. I wanted to make
sure you know you were out. I'm not into the
rock twice tu time I've ever seen you run that fast.
When the bat flew in here and you jumped on
my lap and then that rat, I'm not gonna getybody
gonna bite me in the neck or something.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I would get off my lap. All right, Well, let's
talk about game one? Yeah? Game one?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Man?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
What again?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
What it ended up being an exciting game? You and
I were sitting here a little like this couldn't probably
should be more of a blowout, but it wasn't we
with three turnovers?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Cast we were like.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
First half, you gotta be up by twelve and had
twenty turnovers.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You gotta win by more than that or be up
at least.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Uh Mark Dagana, who is the coach of the Thunder,
switch the lineup. You and I are in the air
right before the game. Rob g goes, oh, lineup change right?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Wait? What what are they doing?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
And so the conversation becomes who is the blame and
is he to blame? Simply when you look at this
loss for the Thunder. For me, he is a part
of this blame. But I first have to go to
the players, and I'm gonna tell you why you just
said it. If I told you you have twenty turnovers
in the first half, you better be up.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
By twenty minimally. Minimally.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
If I told you that you averaged twenty something points
about twenty one to twenty two points a game all
points off turnover throughout the season, and you had eleven
with twenty five turnovers throughout the whole game.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That is terrible. What that does.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Number one, you continue to make them feel like they
can't compete because they look bad. We're sitting here me,
you Rob G MONTI I kept going turnover and we
start talking about new stuff there, I go turnover because
they kept happening.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, but they weren't capitalized. So that's to me.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The singular thing I'm gonna first point out is there's
no way you cannot have points off that because what
it does, rob and those are backbreakers. If I'm picking
your pocket, come down, wop hit a transition, three crowds
going crazy, that rim starts getting bigger for you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Turnaround.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
If you were gonna score the other round, it becomes five.
And my point here it kept them hanging around. You
didn't do what Baine did the Batman rob G because
I know you didn't see rob He broke Batman's baw.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
You know I didn't see that movie. Which one was it?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I don't know, Okay, So he broke his back. Batman
always get beat up a little. Nobody ever picked him
up in the air and broke his back.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I watched Batman Adam West Oh got pow Pam.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Not that one, Okay, No, this was with the kidnapped.
The kid be back and he broke his back.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And my point is the thunder or twenty turnovers at
the first half of you sppot to break their back.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Rob g didn't see that movie either, he's too busy
with the kids. He saw that one. Did you see Batman?
He saw that one?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah, look and see how he looked at you too,
offended that you would ask. So my point is that's
number one. Now, if it's going out of one hundred percent,
I'm gonna take seventy percent there, and now i'm gonna
take thirty to the coach. First of all, you switch
the lineup. But all right, if that's what you chose
to do for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And it is weird, I'm still thinking you leave yourself
open because normally, when you've had as much success as
the thunder six, why are you changing what you do?
You know we're going to do what we do and
force them to change, not the other way around. It's
just it is backwards. Avery Johnson did it with the
number one seed with Dalla.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Mavericks, the Warriors, Warriors, we believe Warriors, and they won,
they won the series.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, and I look at too. It's okay.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
If you chose to make that decision, you still have
to be nimble enough to say, all right, we're gonna
switch them things up. And Hartenstein, I'm not acting like he's,
you know, Rashid Wallace or something, but he had nine
to nine and seventeen minutes, so I'm gonna give him
a few more minutes. If simply for just the size,
it's simply for us to take advantage of some things.
And inside if simply the half some guys who can
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block shots. And lastly, Robin and I'll give the time
to you on this. They did not defend the three
ball well, which is what the Pacers do better than
anyone right now. And that second half that was that
was a big, big loss to me. In the second
half they let them get off. Was it sixty six
points in the second half, and a lot of that
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was three balls. And to me, the number is minus
twenty one, and you can't be minus twenty one and
the three balls. So those are the three factors for me.
Mug Gjorady goes to simply points off turnovers. If I
have twenty turnovers from you, I'm up twenty. Especially the
way they're playing, and they weren't scoring and capitalizing, so
it ends up being a mute point.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Okay, I gave you the ball back. You didn't do
no with it, right, No, I get it. It's again.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I mean, you can look at it and obviously halliburd
makes a big shot.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
If he misses the shot and they survive, you win,
and you.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Just go forward and you got it exactly, But it
was a wasted opportunity. You can't lead the game the
entire way and give it up. And the three point
shooting you talked about. Even the lineup change is questionable.
Where you make people go.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Right before the game or maybe an announcement was maybe
they know what I mean. I'm still like, what's going
on here? Why are we changing what's been done all year?
And I think that that is.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Huge. But also and you just wonder, like and I'm
just thinking out loud in.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Late in the game, I'm not gonna let Halliburton get
the ball like like that.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
He's the He's That's the only thing that was the
advantage they didn't Rick Carlo not calling time out, but
you know what a ball We're all in scramble mode.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
But but you.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Get my point is even in a game that's that close,
that situation, I got a cheat.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
I know, I know you don't want to anybody open,
anybody but him, anybody but him, and I just wonder
and I and I get it it one like you
could set it or whatever. I was there with Michael
Jordan against the Calves and and when they got the inbounds,
there's no time to pass it anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I was just like, dude, I'm sorry. I would have
to two guys like.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
On top of him, and they got to pass the
ball into somebody who's wide open. Because Michael is the
only one I'm worried about.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Didn't give him space. He was on top of.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Him without He's just hung in the air longer like oh,
you're back down on Earth.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay, watch this.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
And he still made it. So I look at that
and I wonder about it. But again the game was
lost because I'm not capitalizing. I can't remember what the
exact number was, but they didn't take advantage.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Just there wasn't twenty five turnovers. They only got eleven points.
That's embarrassing number. That's the number that's embarrassing, like cerually embarrassing.
Eleven points like that, that's that's nothing on twenty five
twenty five turnovers, and that's the game. If you score
on five more then that's potentially ten points at minimum,
could be more, and that should be regular. They average
around twenty two a game off turnover. You got eleven
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on twenty five, twenty six. That's that to me? Was
it another point from the fuck that is coming from
the Fox Sports radio guys Chad Holgren. You take them
out and understand they're playing threes, and he might've been
I mean, you know, their bigs are playing shooting threes
and they are hanging out on the arc, and maybe
he lost a little bit of what he does well,
you know, blocking shot, changing shots.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
But he's also a scorer.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
He can shoot, he can hit three easy, can pump, fake,
get to the right, So I think he might have
overthought himself, uh, Mark Dagnel And I also think this
is the this is a disadvantage to blowing everybody out
all the time where you're not comfortable. You said the
Cardiac Cats with the Pacers last year, they get I
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mean this postseason, they're getting used to these kind of games, right.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
And they're never out of game, no matter what, no
matter what's going on, and never out of games, and
they play for these moments like they just make buckle down,
They make shots and not afraid and and that's what
makes them so so tough.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And I got the cut most clutch player of all time,
believe it or not.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Crazy the heck?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
How you change your name and you're overrated two months ago?
Most overrated, now you're clutch? This guy of all time,
most clutch player with the heck.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Bob g I got a question for y'all because I agree.
I think the turnovers.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Obviously, when you get that many turnovers eleven points is
not gotta do something with it. But you started the
conversation we started yesterday's conversation about Daggonall changing starting lineup
and tweaking something that had worked for.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
Them all season.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
This might seem counterintuitive, but could you make an argument
after what we saw yesterday with the lineup change and
even the closing lineup where they bench both of their
big men are is okay? See almost too deep where
it's like we don't know who are five is to
either open a game or close a game. We don't
have a set group wherever we know, no matter what's
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going on, we are closing or opening with these guys
and we'll figure out the rest in the middle.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
N The story was just saying, and that could be
a problem in that you normally know on a team,
and they do have so many players that they can
count on, but normally you do know who's going to
be out there.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Here's it closing with this, right.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Because coming into last season's playoffs, where it's like, hey, yeah,
you guys having a really good year, maybe turn two
or three of these bench dudes into one marquee starter
or it's something like that that you can can like,
you know, hey, when it comes down to the last
three minutes, we're gonna go with Sga, J dubb Chet
Holmgren player.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Example, the death lineup with the Warriors exactly they had
They knew exactly who you're about to get this small
ball version if everybody can shoot past dribble and we're
gonna like their style and this is what we're gonna
do for the last five minutes. And that death lineup
was killing people.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
And on the flip side, last night, OKC pulls both
of their big men, which they only played forty minutes
combined anyways, but then they give up a couple of offensive
rebounds leads to them end up losing the game.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Right and rebounded what was it they got out rebounded
by seventeen, right, not the number I mean that.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And then you got you're not using your big guys
hard style.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yeah, it was just a bunch of things that I
know they're sitting there like, how the heck did.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
We You might have to look at it and be
honest and think about the coach to be honest on
some of these things, more so than by Shay you're
having a terrible game.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
That wasn't the k or somebody he might have the
most quiet thirty We ain't even talking about thirty eight from.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Him or somebody somebody making a Who was the player
on the Bucks when the ball went.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Through his legs? Trent Junior? Remember he had he had
a great game too all and the ball comes to
him and.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It goes, it goes called him Gary Trent Junior Buckner.
That was I can't believe you do it?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Man?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
That ball went right there was like, all right, who, well,
what deserves most of the play for the Thunders game
one meltdown. We'll continue that conversation next with you. It
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Who's to blame? Are you blaming Mark dagging Off for
this loss? For the Thunder? Somebody else? For me, the
number one thing was the turnovers, not accounting for points.
If you're the Thunder, maybe you've got some different eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox Who we got.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
John in California. You're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio. California is a big state.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Where are you at, John, I've been in Paradise, California.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
All right, Is it feeling like paradise?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Is it feeling like paradise?
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Now?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
We burned down a few years back.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right. That's right that
you're absolutely right about that. Hoping you all find a
way to uh continue to recover. Yeh was that twenty
Was that twenty eighteen?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah? Eighteen, yeah, yeah, yeah, appreciate it what you got.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Well, I'll tell you, you know, keep coming up all these
reasons and whose fault it was and everything else.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
How about giving a little.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Bit Dandyana for pete sake?
Speaker 8 (16:24):
You know what it wasn't you know Cleveland it was?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
It wasn't.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
It wasn't any of those guys. There wasn't any of
the consider the Knicks, it wasn't any of them. Keep
on believing it wasn't gone it it was Halliburn. Come on,
give the guys some.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Credit and give some credit or credits due.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Oh no, have you been listening to our show?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Because okay, I'm just saying I'm the biggest Halliburton guy
I've been talking about.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I'm telling you, I told you I'd take him over Steph.
You know, like, yeah, I know I couldn't hear you.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Yes, you was going on my headphone, Alex, my headphones
acting Rob got a little when I'm talking a little
carried away.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Brandon in Riverside, California. You're on the odd couple of
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
What's up beat?
Speaker 8 (17:11):
What's up man? What's going on? Y'all?
Speaker 4 (17:13):
What it do?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
I'm good, I'm good. Uh you know, I blamed the coach.
So he's young.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
That was a new experience for him in the finals.
And it's not like Indiana like they just decided to
do that this game. They've been doing that the whole postseason.
And you know, all coaches and players have been seeing
Oliverry just draining game winner, game winner. So the coach
should have he should have called the time out before
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when shake gilgers the shot before the game winner.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
I should have called the time out before that.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Bright set a play for him and then say if we.
Speaker 8 (17:49):
Miss, fine, Uhli Barry, making.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Sure we don't leave him he doesn't get the ball,
making sure nobody else beat him. Because I was listening
to Dan Patrick this morning. He said the same thing.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
He said, don't let he'll beat you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's what I What did I say? I'm not I
mean the only thing it was just a rebound.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
No, it was a rebound, and wisely for Halliburton and
Rick Carlisle to not call the time out right.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
That they had nothing to loans if they would have lost.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
But you can't. It's like you got Michael Jordan, Now,
don't let Hill get the ball. I'm not talking him.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Well, well, as you go forward, you're right on Brandon,
You're right on the shot. But it just still the
way you said it made my heart going forward.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
You better save a time out for the end of
the game where you got to call and set your
defense because he is not He cannot beat you anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know what I mean? In this series, if you
want to win a champions what the Halle Burton is
going on? Who we got Tom.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Tom and San Antonio. You're in the couple of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
What's up Tom?
Speaker 8 (18:56):
Hey, guys, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I'm going to blame the three point line, but I
think it's a good thing because the three point point
allows a team to be down fifteen to twenty like
the Knicks and last.
Speaker 9 (19:08):
Night with the Tasters, and that means there's always a
game because it was a two point no three point line,
there's no.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Way to come back from fifteen down.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So it's a good thing.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
But I'm blaming the three point line.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Okay, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
But also and I hear that, right, but there are
also a lot of blowouts and you talked about okay,
see they are also thanks Tom for the call. But
on the flip side, we've seen a lot of lopsided
games because of that.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
And I would argue that the three point line, to
his point, is we got the Celtics in trouble focusing
on it.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
There you go. That's a great point, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
And that was what we missed seventy five out of
one hundred three pointers in the first two games. Even
when you say it, it doesn't even sound right. They missed
seventy five out of one hundred.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Will Chamberlain roll around is great? Right now, if y'all
go produce you to the dunk or lap?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
All right?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
We got Mark what the Helly Burton, Mark Funky Comdina,
Fox Sports Radio, NBA Inside of getting ready to join
us here a little bit. But first we got to
get you set on what's train what Steve the secrete team.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
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Speaker 4 (20:13):
Appreciate it. As always, it's the AACA. But he's Rob.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I'm Kelvin on a fucky flashback Friday, getting ready to
have a chat here in a little bit, talk some.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
More hoops on the way.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Uh no, as you just heard Steve me and you
were watching this uh red Sox Yankee game. My gosh,
Aaron Judge already this is third at bat and thirty,
So what.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Do they do today? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Oh no, he's still up there, He's still up at
bet He already has two hits, his averages up to
three ninety seven.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
We're in June.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
We're in June, and I feel a home run coming
right here too. Yeah, it's just fitting for the night.
Sometimes it's like that, like when the Dodgers, when the Dodgers,
he got him when the Dodgers. It was an eighteen
to two last weekend. Uh So, sometimes it's like that
man getting ready again. Talk to Mark Funky Comadina here
talk some hoops. Man. By the way, you and I
were talking about this off off Mike. This all next
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game is not till Sunday. Then it's like Wednesday. Then
can we get some flow going with the NBA.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
No, they want the weekend. That's why it stretched out
over two weeks and a seven. It should be every
other night, every other night. It's perfect, Man, get this
thing flowing.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
You want to you want to capitalize on the momentum
of a really good second half of game. You got
a buzzer beater. Now we gotta wait till Sunday. Man,
come on now. So yeah, well we'll have to wait
until then. But I'm still looking forward to to it
to see how the bounce back because the thunder or
four and oh four and o this postseason when they
have lost, coming back from a loss and rob the
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average margin of victory and I don't expect it to
be this with the well spread is eleven and a half. Yeah,
they win by twenty points. That's the average that they're
they're coming back from a loss.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I'm not taking I'm telling you put the ranch on
the Pacers plus eleven and a half.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That's and and it's different.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's just different, just for all the marbles, and you
gotta experienced team. Everybody thought the Knicks were gonna bounce
back after they stole after the Pager's game one, right,
and that huge collapse.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I don't know who they are. They keep stilling the
game ones like that, and then they and then they
came back and what they do.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
And yeah, and another quick step before we get to Mark,
real quick, when you're talking about the thunder, I already
mentioned how they they get all the comebacks, what they've
been able to do four and oh on after a loss.
So we'll see if they have to get it done.
I'll come back with this other stad just a minute.
Let's get to Mark right now. Mark Funky called Madina,
Fox Sports Radio, NBA Insider, Mark g Underscore Madina our guest.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Now, Mark, what's up man?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Hold on, hold let it breathe, uh ah ah ah ah.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Fucky flashback Friday, what's up? Buddy?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
How you Robin? I'm always hunger? When he got that
nice infro music? Hey man, did you actually watch an
NBA game that you finally like?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Robs finally, Oh well, I'm glad I was watching because
nobody else in America was watching. Did you see the
ratings for the first Game one, the lowest rating game
one of an NBA Finals since they started keeping.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Track eight in nineteen eighty eight. How about that?
Speaker 9 (23:10):
You know what I listened to, you know, Mark Stein,
and you hashed this out. I'm not going to say
it doesn't matter. I mean, yeah, they make a lot
of money, but you know what my attitude is, they're lost,
not ours game.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I get that, and I'm not that.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
But Mark, my only argument, and you know this, if
the ratings went through the roof last night, the league
would promote Okay, I would.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Have got today. Yes, yeah, a huge ratings. That's what
I doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
That's what I say. You can't have it both ways.
When it's no good, it doesn't matter. But if they're good,
let me tell you, let me tell you about it.
But anyway, let's go to Game one and again the
Pacers do what they've done all postseason. I mean, it
is an incredible thing. And Halliburton, he didn't have a
monster game. He finished with fourteen.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Only six assists. Two is not like he had fourteen.
What do you make of this dude in big moments?
Speaker 9 (24:04):
Yeah, I mean, this is what he does. This is
his fourth game winner. I think what's very interesting about
tyres Halbern is he has three different identities. He has
the clutch player gene. He has the very consistent, you know,
assist number machine because he's the best passing point guard
in the league. He led the NBA and assists, and
then he'll have games where he just has duds, doesn't
(24:25):
shoot the ball. Well, you know, I asked, you know
some people around the league, different assistant coaches, different gms
about what they make of it, and they just think,
you know what, this is a product of a young player.
He's twenty five years old. He's still trying to find
his way in the league. His identity is always going
to be passed first. But they're encouraged that when it
comes to crunch time and clutch moments, his aggressiveness, his
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confidence will prevail. So he's not a perfect player, but
I think he much rather have a player delivering the
clutch and be inconsistent than a player that's steady but
then in crunch time suddenly shrinks.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I mean, it's been remarkable what he's able to do.
But I'm going to go to another guy who I
think was kind of the either unsung or maybe MVP
of the game, stands for that last second shot, nim Hard.
I mean, he has been able to be a pest defensively,
to be another ball handler that can create hit a
massive shot. Rob Gen and I were talking that shot
he hit with a couple of minutes left, that big
(25:21):
three that cut it was it cut it three, I believe.
I mean that might have been this obviously not the
game winner, but that kept them in it and had
them given like we got a chance to do this.
How great has he been for them on both sides
of the ball.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Oh, he's been very great. And I think that like
he was one of the key guys that really ignited
their comeback. And I think that that's what you need
against the Oklahoma City Thunder because everyone's gonna assume Shake Gildasalaxander,
whether it's efficient or not from three or at the
free throw line, mix of both, he's going to get
his numbers. And there's a feeling that you know, the
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Pacers X factors with Pascal Siakam, as great as he is,
isn't fully enough to offset what Shay, Gilges Alexander has.
So they're going to need another guy like Andrew Nevphard
making defensive plays. Same thing with an Aaron Nasmith basically
to cancel out Shay and Jalen Williams moving forward and
you know it obviously helps Jane Williams then shoot the
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ball well. Same thing with ched Holmgrin. But when you
look at the rosters top from bottom, on paper, the
Thunder have better depth, they have better chemistry. But you
know the Pacers aren't slouches. They they've, as Rob has
pointed out, have done this throughout the postseason with coming
back from behind, having clutch performances, playing well as a team.
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So I'm not going to say series is over. The
Thunder is a great team, but I think that this
can very well set a tone on what to expect,
and it's going to start with not just being relyingt
on Tyrus Halburn making key boys. It involves the others
as well.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
What about Dagonall changing his lineup before a game one
of the finals. You want to all these games, you've
been incredible, you got all these statistics in your favor,
and you're acquiescent to them, rather than having them make
an adjustment you know what I mean, to stop you
or stop what you've been doing.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
I just thought that was weird.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
It reminded me of Avery Johnson with the Mavericks doing
that when they played the number eight seed, the Golden
State Warriors and they wound up losing that series.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
Yeah. I mean, Cason Wallace is a great defender, he
didn't shoot the ball well, especially from three. Isaiah Hartenstein
as a really good frontcore player. I think you know
what it came down to is Mark Vaginal was trying to,
you know, adapt to the modern NBA where sometimes it's
better to go small. But to your point, they've never
had that starting lineup to begin with. I think that
(27:44):
the Thunder they've shown that chet Holmegren in Isaiah Hartenstein
can play well together. They're great pick and roll partners
with Shay. They compliment each other well because Sheett is
more of a stretch five, Isaiah is more of a
rebounder and so they can do the dry work. So
if I had to guess, I think that they go
back to that starting lineup because that's what's got them there.
(28:06):
But I will say in fairness. I don't think that's
what lost the game. I think I agree with tabre
do with the turnovers obviously, uh you know Halibert and
coming up with the clutch, but didn't help, right.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
My point is I agree, okay, but it just was weird.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
It gave people like a reason, you know what I mean,
to look at you even if you want, even if
you wanted to just change the minutes, right, you still
start your starting lineup, and you can still make that
move if you really believe. Do you know what I'm saying, Mark, Like,
you can still make that move and just change the minutes.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Yeah, I know one hundred percent what you're saying. I
think even the bigger point, which is a problem, is
they Harden say, only played seventeen.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Minutes, nine and nine and seventeen Mark, Yeah, and sometimes
he looked.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Down on the bench. You thought Frankenstein was.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
Scept your server, Well tonight, they're working really hard. Sometimes
it comes down to it. It doesn't matter who starts,
matters who finishes, how long our the rotations are. But
he didn't even fulfill that. He played again only seventeen minutes.
Case and Wallace played thirty three. I don't understand that
move at all. If you are going to make a move,
it's because you're traying from behind, You're trying to throw
the dice somewhere. But to go into a series already
(29:21):
make an adjustment doesn't make any sense. And I think
it was one of those things that it went against
what he's usually thinking about, where you impose, you know
your will, you set the tone. I think that he
was kind of overthinking things a little bit, especially because
it was his first finals and.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
Now we find ourselves in game two. Rob said it,
what is it up to now? Elen eleven and a
half the price? Yeah, I think it's in favor of
the thunder eleven and a half said I'm.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Taking eleven and a half all day. I'm sorry.
Speaker 9 (29:48):
So yeah, And again as robis said, it's it's not
what you should put your money down to what he
puts in exactly.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Remember that, remember that what do you make is this?
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Is this? Because eyes to piggyback on what you're saying.
We were saying his moments ago, twenty turnovers in first half,
I'm up at least twenty, right, I have to be
at least twenty twenty five points, Like that's too big,
too many turnovers, and I should have a massive lead
from the Thunder. Are they feeling like same game plan
except we make these shots and we're okay?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Or do they feel a little shook it.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
I don't think they feel shook because of what you
just said, but I think that they too take the
Pacers seriously. I think the Pacers are also very mindful,
and I was telling the Tyres Alburn was saying after
the game that you know, this isn't sustainable to play
the way they did because they had twenty four turnovers,
they were still able to ever come this. So what
I'm getting at far from over. I would still pick
(30:39):
the Thunder to win Game two as well as win
the series. But you know, if the Indiana Pacers win
the series, it should surprise absolutely no one. Any idea
that the Pacers got here only because the Boston Celtic
Center achieved and weren't fully healthy. Same thing with the
New York Nexts haven't been watching them. They've shown that
(30:59):
they're the real deal. They've overcome their early season struggles
and they played a fast pace. They have a lot
of great chemistry and Tyres Haliburn, he comes up in
the clutch. So, yeah, this is gonna be a fun
series and for everyone that decides, you know what, we're
going to continue to tune this out. You know, the
NBA should care about this, Rob, but I'm gonna say,
you know what, they're loss not ours, because this is
(31:21):
going to be a compelling series and actual fun basketball,
unlike some of the unwatchable games that Rob has been
a complaint about all season, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And I did change the name of the Pacers to
the Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
There we are. I can't front. That's one of the
better ones. All right, we'll say.
Speaker 9 (31:37):
Front all right for five percent cretuity tonight for Rob.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah you go, I'll tell you what to Thank you,
Mark Man. Appreciate your weekdays. Marks, I got you man, Rob,
pleasant surprise.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
Just like Indiana winning Game one. Your takes are on
the mark today.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Thank you, buddy, appreciate it. You must say he I mean, now,
was that Mark? Was that Mark Medina right there?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
I know, I don't know. He is extra friendly on
this friendly Friday.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
We're looking at the two best teams since January first,
and so it's kind of no meaning. Maybe people thinking
the Pacers are slouched, they've been the second best team
in the NBA since then, so maybe we need to
put a little more respect on him.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Handy, I got them in six. I had to.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Respect losing in five. So I still look like I'm right,
but I looked wrong last night.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
For a minute. Rob G was.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Really wrong because rob G's the one who stepped all
the way out on the limb, and I like when
people are a little loft, you know, like the beating past.
Rob G did it because everybody had thunder and five,
like right, rob G?
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Like every if you looked on most predictions, it was
thundering five.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Rob G goes, nah, I'm all you know, I'm getting
needles stuck in me all day and whatnot. He had
four needles that day, so he decided what rob G
thunder and four? Baby, there you go.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
You said he stepped out here, He stepped out. He
stepping on scales right now every day. And then he
goes and then he goes on Twitter. He's all salty
about you know, in the app.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Point out something that Rob's wrong about. Now I'm salty,
It's okay, Alex.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
He was so salty. I was like, hey, you know
planners online one you know, there's.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
An NBA player, an NBA superstar who has to make
a decision. Rob, stay in the States or go abroad.
We'll tell you who it is. It's the hot couple
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Speaker 5 (33:36):
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and be with your boys, all right, Rob g I
gotta find something else to say other than set the table.
(34:16):
Russell sets the table. Russell, by the way, real quick,
real quick. The difference between working with you knuckleheads and
working in TV. I said that like kind of something
sortid that we would just say, Alex hit me.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
With the drop. That's gotta be racist.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
When I tell you, I said a little half like
one one hundredth of a joke. We would say here
they holding the studio when and I was like, oh,
this is the difference between radio TV. Boy, I said,
y'all would have a heart attack the stuff we say
the other show. They were just like, oh really, I
was like, not to start telling that's even the Golden
ager radio. I mean, walking up in Detroit, I used
(34:54):
to do uh ass slaping Monday Rush.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
Why is it when you say the golden age of radio?
Because I get sad whatever, I want to be racist?
Speaker 5 (35:02):
That was the gold that you didn't say it was
anything enlightening.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Rob went straight to slapping cheeks slapping Monday.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Could you imagine that was the instead of Magic City
Monday slapping Monday?
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Oh right, go ahead.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
As back in the day, who had a wife beater
night or beat your wife knight or something like that
at a racetrack.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Well no, well, Andy Furman had and night klu klux klan.
That have you showed up in the ship?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
You got in for free? That was the night he had?
All right, go ahead, yeah, the Golden Air real quick.
Speaker 7 (35:34):
I didn't think Rob was racist till he called me
today like at ten am, Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
I got my lawn? Oh typical, real quick?
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Oh, I'm right yeah, wow, all right, seriously he didn't
actually do tell us about Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
According to multiple reports, a euro Cup team, I want
to try to pronounce it. Give me some grace here,
uh Hopel tel Aviv is reportedly set to make a
historic contract offer to Russell Westbrook to come and play overseas.
Unconfirmed reports suggests the number is somewhere in the neighborhood
(36:14):
three years, one hundred.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And fifty million dollars.
Speaker 7 (36:17):
Guys, Russell Westbrook is an NBA player, He's an icon.
He's an icon in his top seventy five.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Shit didn't you take the money in roun tho is
the question?
Speaker 5 (36:29):
We will be landing in five minutes. That's too much money.
I mean, I have to look at his contract right
now to see what he's making. I'm sure he's making
a lot of money. He's Russell Westbrook, but he's making
about four right now. He's on the I mean in
regular people's life, that's a lot of money NBA life
for him, Nah, A hundred million guaranteed, by the way,
probably don't have to pay taxes, might not even have
(36:49):
to pay you know.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Maybe I don't know. Maybe you have to get rid
of his agent. Yeah, but the only problem is you
have to live over there.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
And I say that in all sincerity because a lot
of the people play over in Europe, right and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
They're making money tax free, which is usually a part
of the deal and all that.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
But but everybody there wants to come back to United States,
like there is a thing that you still want to
come home one hundred mile though, No, I'm that, I'm
just saying in general, like that is that's the reason
why they have to try to entice him to even come.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Then guess what I'm doing, because that should be a
no brainer. He would have been there already a right.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
You know. This reminds me of Rob's Stefan Marbray and
what he became in China. Never was able to get
a championship in the NBA. All of a sudden, there's
a bunch of championships that they have statues. He is
be loved over there. I mean seriously, he's there all
the time. He became just an icon there. So Russ,
(37:46):
you know what I mean, just going over there, finished
up the career, become an icon over there. Another place
to have a market that knows you that you can
market your brand, whole new world. Your family of kids
get to grow up a little bit somewhere else for
a little bit. But obviously you could probably split its
time between here and there. One hundred million is a
ridiculous contract?
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (38:05):
That's one hundred million in US, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
Actually one fifty three years, one fift out. I gotta
go now get unconfirmed. We don't know if this is
just speculation, but the reporting is definitely going to be
a historic offer.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
Okay, Well, that's a lot of money to say no to.
I'd welcome you to air somebody Air Europe. Welcome Russell Westbrook.
I'm out. That's too much running. If you'd have said
fifty like a you know I still got a chance.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Only think he had to think about can I perform
the same way if I'm wearing a bulletproof vest while
I'm playing no.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Er.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Wait, what country is he going to out there? I
don't know. I don't know what the country is. I
don't know, man, that you're doubling down on the race.
Speaker 8 (38:43):
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