The Fanatics 4-19-26 HR2 SEG2: Upsets Brewing?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
We've got like pep Rally's going on Shane all over
San Antonio right now. We've got the the pop up
tense with the shirts. I love it. I love this
city so much. You have no idea, like I am
so confident in us being at home. It's crazy. It
should be crazy. You know, a lot of you guys
are on here. You know you're a little nervous. Danny

(00:26):
Renanda City, he was a little nervous, but he's still
confident going into this game. I don't know if we're
a little nervous just because we haven't been there in
six years. Nothing's changed, you know. Still, you gotta you
gotta win, You gotta play for forty eight minutes. I
told you that the Spur if I told you you're
uh not yours.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
If I told our listeners that the Spurs are an
eighty percent win percentage team, the second best in the
NBA this season, but they make them phony better about
the series knowing that they own the home stretch anyway,
Probably would it make them felny better known that we
have the second best away record as well, so when
we go to Portland not scared. Yeah, we also have
like seventy seven percent of my maps correct.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, and I'll be I'll be honest. I'd like to
see the numbers of the Big three on the road
during the playoff era. Which three tim tom oh? Oh,
that big three. There's like so many big threes? Man, Yeah, well,
I mean we got area fifty one now. Yeah, you know,
these guys are confident. Uh, you know, as far as
when I when I think about them at home, their
overall record over at home this year was thirty two

(01:27):
and eight. The Trailblazers away record eighteen and twenty three.
So they don't do well from home. They don't do
well at home, you know. And honestly, it's this is
gonna come down to depth, right, this is gonna come
down to what we saw the front office do by
getting the big men that we did. Right, You're gonna

(01:48):
have Luke Cornett out there. You know, there's gonna be
that switch Wimby still gets to perform. I don't think
we're ready to see Wimby forty minutes Jane right now.
I think it's again stay the same. I think that
that's where Spurs fans need to understand and I feel
the Spurs just need to play at the same level
they've been playing all season. Papovitch told it to the guys, right,

(02:11):
he was talking to some of them, like Castle, we
heard you know, I told you in the first hour
that he's telling Castle, don't change your game. They don't
have to change the game, Shane.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I wouldn't think so either, especially just because what they've
done so far has worked for him. But what I
would say that kind of reared its ugly head towards
the end of the season, which we kind of avoided for.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Most of April in March.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I don't love at towards the last week and a
half how they cover the three point again, because it
felt like for a while going back, it felt like
for a while it kind of reared its ugly head again.
Especially again, it's not just a one off instance, right,
It wasn't just like the game where Womy didn't play.
It wasn't just the Nuggets game, or it wasn't just
the Mavericks game, or it wasn't even the trouble Ledgers

(02:51):
that they played right before the season ended, because that
game was what a twelve point win for the Spurs.
I guess you can call that one comfortably close.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
I don't think Wimby has played against Treiblers this season.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
And in that game this see, the Blazers were thirty
three percent okay, so they are one out of three
from the fred point range, so that's about below average.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But Wimby didn't play against these guys at all in
the season. That's crazy to me. First time he gets
to see the Trailblazers is tonight. That's ironic. And the
Trailblazers have no idea how to stop them because they
haven't seen him.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well. To be fair, no one only knows how to
stop him. Dylan Brooks thought he did.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Dylan Brooks is the only reason why I'm watching the
first round game is so I can see Dylan Brooks
skinty Jack.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't really want I look forward. I usually don't
root against the interests of a team. I don't care
about no offense of suns. But because they have they
have my least favorite player on the planets playing for them.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Do you know who that is? Dylan Brooks. No, Grayson Allen.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Dylan brook my beef of Grace Allen goes back to
those days at Duke and I used to I'm not
one of those guys who hates Duke for no reason,
Like I don even hate Duke. I hate Grayson Allen.
He is my least favorite player. No, not Draymond, No,
not Dylan Brooks, no, not whoever you think it might be.
It's Grayson Allen. He's my least favorite player in the NBA.
Dylan Brooks, to me, is just the NBA's version of
Drake Wow, a Canadian who acts tougher than he actually is.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
But I think I.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Had a question that I think this I think I
heard on the radio, and I think this is a
good question we can ask each other. Do you think
among the series among this year's playoff series, is there
an upset in Browning? Let's take Nuggets t Wolves out,
because I feel like that's the best series in the
first round by far, because that that's that's a Western
Conference final series that we get in.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
The first first round. Nuggets Sea Wolves. Yeah, let's take
that one out for a second.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Is there is there a Is there an upset series
we could see because I leaned towards two. Okay, so
one I kind of leads toward could be Hawks Knicks
because the Hawks really did a good job of keeping
close to the next. Last night, the Nicks just they're
just maybe one of the fastest teams in the NBA.
They even though the Hawks I got it close many times,
the Knicks just outpaced them. And so I wondered if

(04:54):
the Hawks really could use their sides advantage in that one.
The other one I wonder about it's gonna come down
to a lot more about health. Rockets, Lakers now the
now the Houston is the favorite in that series. I
think I think they're a five or six game favorite
in this. In this series, it's very close. The issue
though with the Lakers comes down from injuries. No Auston Reeves,
no Luca. Last night, if you watch the game, those

(05:14):
that watched it saw that what Lakers did was they
played really good defense on the wings with guys like
Ruy Hashimoor and Marcus Smart. Lebron played solid. The Rockets,
though they missed that extra offensive owned without KD. You
saw a lot more in this night his fault, You
saw a lot more Reed Shepherd that I think you
would want to in that in that instance, right, So
I wonder in those series, could we see a flip

(05:35):
because the other ones down. I'm feeling pretty more confident
it'll be like chalk, It'll be consistent with what we
think is gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do you have like, maybe is there an upset in
any of these series? You think? The only one that
I could tell you for me is Nix Hawks, just
because I feel the same way you do. I don't
see it with the Lakers Rockets because honestly, with the
injuries and then even with Kevin Durant being out first
game and you know he is a game time decision
on Tuesday, you know, Yudoka was actually saying, like, you know,

(06:04):
thank god we play on Tuesday. We don't play on Monday,
you know, so they get some rest there. But the
Atlanta New York And the reason why I put you
out there, nick Fan, is because your team doesn't know
how to perform well in the playoffs. You really don't. Now,
you ran through the Cup Tournament, you got the Cup Tournament,
the title, you know, but I don't see them they

(06:24):
could possibly get beat in this one, Jane, to be honest,
everywhere else like the Nuggets, Tea Wolves, I honestly think
the Nuggets are gonna take care of him. For you
think it's a sweep. The Nuggets the Nuggets turned on
a switch towards the end of the set. They are
the hottest team in the league. I get that.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
But the Tea Wolves, I'll be honest, this is as
a pun. They are a different animal at home.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
True, they right, But at the same time, I always
feel like the Minnesota Timberwolves self implode. Yeah right, yeah,
they go off on each other. You know. You got
you know, Anthony Edwards, who's just like, I'm not the
face of the league. I'm not nothing. This ain't me.
This is blah blah blah. Right, you got Rudy Gobert,
who's gonna do something dumb, you know. But at the

(07:11):
same time, it's like even yesterday what's his name pushing Jokic,
like just pushing them for unnecessary reasons. I'm like, come on, dude, like,
don't don't do that. Don't try to take out a
player like that, you know. But when I see the
Nuggets te Wolves, yeah, like you said, he could the
Western Conference and everything else like that, But the Nuggets
have been there. Man. That's this scary part that leads

(07:33):
me to the Spurs and Blazers. You know, the Spurs
and Blazers, both teams haven't been there, you know, Are
the Spurs gonna take care of it? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
This should all right? You know, that's why I wish
they would be different in the final game. Yes, they
could have set themselves up very much. Yeah, I don't
think that they can't beat the Nuggets or the Tea Wolves.
But I would much rather play the Lakers and the
Rockets as of today than the t Wolves Nuggets as
of today. Like a month ago, I would have they're
played Nuggets, Tea Wolves because the Lakers and Rockets.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Are all hot at that point, right, But a month
ago two we were looking like the Trailblazers weren't even on.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Radar, no though, they were like what they they were trying.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
They were trying to get into the play, fighting to
get in and then they slipped in front of Kawhi's
clippers and then it helped it.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
The MAVs imploded, and the yeah, and then the Warriors
kept getting hurt.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
And I mean, I think, you know, to the first
round for the Spurs cool. I like it. I'm confident
about it. And you know how confident people are too.
By the way, they're giving out free tacos after a
Spurs win. Did you know that at Taco Polenke, they're
offering you a free breakfast taco which is one potato

(08:39):
and egg or a bean and cheese between the hours
of six am and nine am of the day after
the Spurs win. So you can just go there and
get a free taco. You know. Uh, I'm waiting for
a certain place that rhymes with Arero and circle that
k that maybe we get some free coffee back. I
love my free coffee, Shane. You're not a coffee drinker though.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
No, I mean I've I've drank. I'll drink it on occasion. Yeah,
I'm I don't really love it by by itself. I'm
more of.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
A tea you guys, and they like tea. You know,
there is some coffee like located on fourteen thirty two
South Saint Mary Street. Eight Ball Coffee eight am to
ten am the day after a playoff win. There's a
bonus offer at La Ponderia is offering a free Fiesta
colored mini Concha. Is that how you say it with
any purchase of for the first fifty customers after a win. Yeah,

(09:33):
so you know, it's it's great to have it back.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I want to get a sash from my daughter because
over the last couple of years we've collected a lot
more of these Fiesta metals to We have like eight
and they're just chilling. And my favorite one is we
have this waterburger one that has like a little sandwich,
little little sandwich toggle in the middle. That's my favorite one,
love one.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
But these are.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Obviously offer for the child, so I mean, there's no
point in her just like having these things where she
can just prick herself, just get a sack.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
No, it's just a good time. Like the vibe of
the city, dude is just phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
And the good thing is if you like to hear
us or if you want to talk crap to us
in person, there's gonna be instance dying over the last
couple weeks.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
They can do that. Yeah, I know. We'll be out
at uh where it goes on Thursday where you on Tuesday. Again, Tuesday,
I'll be at Hill Country Honda from six to seven
doing my pre game over there as the Spurs will
get ready for game two. Friday. I will be out
at the Rock, you know for the away game, So
we'll be out there for pre and posts for that

(10:34):
and again all away games and all times I am
doing post you know, so postgame will happen no matter
what the time start time is, you know. But I'll
be out for every location for every game. So when
the Spurs are on the road, I'm over at the Rock.
When the Spurs are at home, I'm either going to
be at the Frost Bank Center or you know, call
our sales team. I'll come out to you. That's what

(10:54):
I would say. You know, I'll be out at Frost
Bank Center today. I can't wait, dude. I'm so excited. Man.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
I might let my daughter stay up late just to
watch this game, but I would also might be that
might be responsible.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, I mean so you know, we'll see. But what
I want next, I want people to call in. I
want to feel how you're feeling. I want the city
vibe check. I do a vibe check on the countdown.
I want the city vibe check. Guys, text your friends,
tell them to call in. It's free two and zero
seven three, six nine, seven sixty. Light up my phone
lines because this segment for you is coming up next

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on the Fanatics on ticket seven sixty