Brian Noe and George Wrighster talk Lakers and Brooks Koepka!

Brian Noe and George Wrighster talk about the Lakers falling down 3-0 to the Nuggets, another edition of According to Monse, FSR NFL insider Adam Caplan joins the show, Brooks Koepka winning the PGA Championship, a preview of tonight’s Celtics – Heat game, and more!  

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
What is going on? Everybody?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hope you're enjoying your Sunday here.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
A three to oh lead means there will soon be
a three to one lead. That's how it works out.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Details on that.

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whisper around the Laker fans over here as the Lakers

(00:36):
fall into an O three hole, the Denver Nuggets up
three games to zilch, and this will mean soon to
be a three to one lead for yours truly, mister
Brian though, because the steak bets with one, George Reister,
I'm about to take a three to one lead. George

(00:58):
said last last round that the winner of the Warriors
Lakers series would go on to win a championship. I
quickly chimed in with I'd like to throw a steak
on that, and so I if all holds.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
True and we're what, what's the stat?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
One forty nine to oher is what we're looking at
here when a team goes up three to nothing in
the NBA playoffs, So no team has come back from
an O three deficit. So unless the Lakers are the
first team in NBA postseason history to come back from
a three to zero deficit, then I'm gonna take a

(01:34):
three to one steak bet lead over here. That's the
way it's gonna go, George and Georgia, how much do
these fancy stakes cost that you get over there at
the fancy market for?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
First of all, First of all, what are you talking about?
There are no counting chickens before they're hatched, Buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Really, okay, so let's see one forty nine and oh
that would be the record of the teams that have
a three to zero series lead and the best of
seven series obviously, So do you think the Lakers are
gonna make it one?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I got I got two words for you, Boston Red Sox.
Actually that's three, but yeah, I got three words for
Boston Red Sox, Buddy.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Okay, all right, Well that's that's another sport there, George.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
That's the thing doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
It's happened in hockey. It's happened in there's there's always
the first chance. However, though, right if the Lakers are
not going to win this series, I want them to
live in the next game because I do not, like,
I don't want to keep suffering through this like preliminary
hope phase right like to where I believe that there's

(02:44):
a little bit of a chance. I either just just
just cut it off. Either either win it or cut
it off, nothing in between.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
I'll tell you what, it's halfway impressive and halfway disgusting.
Your level of hope for the Lakers, Like I'll go
glass half full. You cannot be deterred. You're still like whoa, whoa, whoa,
settle down here. No, with your three to zero series
lead and a one forty nine to zero record for
teams that have such a lead in the best of

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seven series, don't count your chickens before they're hatch right,
there's real hope.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. It's not
about hope. It's just you can't count those chickens before
they're hatched. What happens if God forbid, Jokic ends up hurt.
What happens if if something along knows if Jamal Murray's
hurt something like, Bro, you cannot count these things out, dude.
Think about the Warriors versus the Toronto Raptors. What four

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years ago in the in the NBA Championship, stop it
Who who was going to win that championship?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, well, it certainly looks like it was gonna be
the Warriors. It certainly would have been if they were healthy.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
But we exactly exactly things things change. In an instance,
if even without Kevin Durant, with Clay in the game,
they still probably would have won or at least pushed
it to a game seven, and then yeah, won that one.
So that's the point is that even though things look

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like it and how many times have we seen those No,
have we seen those graphics where they're like this is
a ninety five percent this is a ninety nine point
nine win percentage and then they lose. How may have
you seen that happen?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
We have seen that happen, but more times than not,
that's a single game and there's a crazy comeback that
happens there.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
But there are each game is a single event. So like,
so let's say the Lakers can claw back and win
two straight injury or something something that happens now all
of a sudden, that you didn't need to win four
in a row versus a fully healthy team. And I'm
not wishing bad on any of the Nuggets players. I'm

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just illustrating the point that you can't count wins until
you actually get the win.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
George and I are like two sides of the same coin,
because I was saying the series was over, like in
the second quarter yesterday, when they.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Were going.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, that would be the other side of it.
And you're a diehard Laker fan. That's Bo Benson, our
trusted producer right there, and so he's resigned to the
fact that you guys gonna lose.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, it's likely over, dude, this is likely over. The
the number say it, the math say it. However, when
you're in that, if you're the Lakers, you can't worry
about what the series is. You're like, we gotta get
one game, the game tomorrow, that's it, and then we'll
worry about Wednesday on Wednesday, because there ain't no Wednesday.

(05:43):
We don't have no Monday.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Okay, let's play this game.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
George, what it would take for the Lakers to claw
back from a three to zero series deficit. I'm gonna say,
you know, Jokic has the flu for the next two weeks.
You know, you'll kitchens on the sideline for a good
two weeks. See, uh, Jamal Murray, let's see a toe
falls off.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Jamal Murray can't go.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
He had a toe fall up right, Yeah, so he's
out for at least a couple of games.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
You know, So would you not say that the Lakers?
See here's the here's the problem with with with the
Lakers in this series is that if you look back
on the first three games, Game two, they absolutely gave
away they they gifted them that and then and then

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game and game one, had they not come out playing
playing like the.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah there there's listen.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
This is I'm surprised that Laker fans here because, yeah,
there's some truth to this, but you can't sell me
on well, they could have won games one and two.
It's like, that's what teams that don't win series do.
They don't close the deal and they lose games that
they could have won. You know, like that's not something

(07:12):
that Hangier had on That to me makes me feel worse.
That makes me feel more pessimistic instead of optimistic. I
don't feel like and I never bought it. After games
one or two of Man, the Lakers were close. It
was a one possession game in the final minute of
both games. They were right there, and it's like, yeah,
and they still lost. Like that doesn't make me feel

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good about them reversing course and pulling those games out
going forward. So I never bought into that and that. Listen,
and when you're in a three to zero hole, I
just I don't see how you claw outed that. It's
one forty nine to zero for a reason, where no

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team has come back from a three to zero deficit
in a best of seven NBA series. It's never happened,
not never, and there are reasons for it. That is
just a significant hole to claw yourself out of. You know,
I will spare George right now. We'll get them back
here in a second. But you know, I think we

(08:15):
have to reevaluate to a degree, to a degree. Let's
not go full Hater eight over here. But the Bubble Championship,
I'm just saying, when travel is mixed in there, when
you're playing in Denver at altitude, that changes the equation.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
I know no Laker fan wants.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
To hear this We're not going to say it's a
complete sham.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
I'm not gonna go that far.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I'm just telling you we don't know if they win
a championship, if it's a normal postseason, that's all. That's
all the brief. We'll get back to that when George
is with us. But as far as this series goes
against Denver, it's a freaking rap. And the first two
games on the road in Denver, yeah, the Lakers were
right there. I think you have to read the fine

(09:00):
print a little bit there though, where Austin Reeves banked
in a three to cut it to a two point
Nuggets lead in Game two, you know, like there was
some shenanigans going on there. It's not as if the
Lakers had a lead and just gave it away or
some fluky Denver stuff happened.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Like those are both legitimate wins.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I don't know why the standards have sunk so far
so quickly for the Lakers. I mean, really, it was
the Lakers get to the Western Conference Finals, They've got
a chance to win it all. They dropped the first
two games on the road, and it really was like,
but boy, they gave it the old college try, right, there.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
They were really close. It's like, what happened.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
What happened to the standards for the Lakers and the expectations.
I didn't hear anybody say that's not good enough, that's
not gonna get it done.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
It was like, but.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Man, they were close. I get it partially. I think
this was what started the Like you'll notice this in
sports a lot. When you have a perspective that starts
in a certain area, sometimes you stay in that certain area.
So go back to Game one here real quickly, the

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Lakers were down by twenty one points and they make
this furious comeback. Lebron James has a three point attempt
in the final minute that would have tied it up.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Buddy missed.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
So I think that's what started this whole Laker you know,
lovey dovey. They tried really hard thought process. It was
Game one when they battled back from twenty one down
to make it a game late, and that just sort
of snowballed into Game two, where again it was close,

(10:53):
one possession game in the final minute.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
They didn't win.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
But that's all I heard was, but they were right there.
That sounds great.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
They were right there and they're down O two. After
those first two games, and that's a distant memory. After
Game three, Lakers got straight punked in Game three. Yolkicch
was ordinary for his standards in Game three, and the
Nuggets still won by eleven.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
It's just freaking over. It's over.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
It's a wrap.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
And I don't like that because I would like a
long series and I'd like some drama. But this is
just a matter of time. Now when the Nuggets move on.
Did they move on with a sweep or is it
a gentleman sweep? That really is the only question in
terms of well the Lakers battle back.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
Now, No, that will not be happening. I cannot see
that happening.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
We got to get to the other series here around
the corner. Can the Celtics get a win tonight and
make it a series?

Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's wild?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Man, most of us, I'll say this, most of us
did not envision Nuggets being up three to zero and
potentially the Miami Heat being up three to oho. It
has been shocker city in this postseason for the NBA.
Anybody who's like, oh, the better team wins every series,
you hear that a lot in the NBA. I've never
bought into that. There are plenty of times where the

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better team gets off to a bad start and it
just snowballs. They start to press. The better team doesn't
always win. More times than not, the better team does
win a best of seven series. But for anybody who
like bangs the table and says, oh the better team
always wins, that opinion is they get a big hit
in this postseason, a huge because there's been wacky stuff

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left and right that has been happening.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
A lot of fun, a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
All right, Feel free to hit us up at George
Reister on Twitter at the No Show is where you
can find me on Twitter, coming up next man.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
When poking the bear goes.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Wrong, and also there are a lot of instances where
it does go right. We'll point out both around the corner.
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(14:27):
I think he ran to the ATM. I think that's
what happened. He's got a payoffice soon to be lost.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Steak bets over here.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, I don't know where he goes again, but sixty
nine dollars per steak nice in the reister household right there, Chris, Yeah,
Chris Lemue, our trusted technical producer, sixty nine dollars. So
I'm doing uh yeah, Chris Purfett, I'm doing a quick

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math on the fly here because I'm soon to be
up three to one in this steak Beat showdown. So
let's see sixty nine plus times two carrying the one one,
one thirty eight, one hundred and thirty eight American dollars.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
You kidding me? Day in the neighborhood.

Speaker 11 (15:18):
I was gonna say, that'll probably get you like two
te bones these days.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
That's exactly what it is. It's two steaks from his
fancy gourmet.

Speaker 7 (15:27):
I don't know from his over there. Yeah, but your box.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I don't know what he's got going on, but I
think George ran to the ATM. I might take a
couple of trips. I take a couple of trips, because
you know, listen, it's not just chump change over here.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Huge steaks.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Now in the other series, shifting from the Western Conference Finals,
if you look out east, the Miami heat up to
nothing and Jimmy freaking Butler just doing absolute work. He
has been a flat out stud. He's been sensation the
first two games. And of course the reaction heading into

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game three tonight is what was Grant Williams thinking. What
exactly was Grant Williams thinking, there's a solid role player
with the Boston Celtics. But he was poking the bear.
This is when poking the bear goes wrong. He went
forehead to forehead with Jimmy Butler and it seemed to
awaken the beast of Jimmy Buckets over there. This is
how it sounded on TNT going back to game two, ms.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
The funds Butler bumping the ground in the fire. I agree,
this is the way it d you.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Hey, look man, it was great entertainment value. I agree
with Reggie Miller and stan Van Gundy. It was great
to see. I have no issue with it, but you
got to back it up. This is a rule trash
talking poking the bear with very similar they're kissing cousins.
If you engage and either act, you gotta back it up.

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It's gotta work. And when Grant Williams was matched up
on Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler was five for six from
the field. Grant Williams got one stop defensively against Jimmy Butler,
and so you can't rile him up and then not
be able to guard him. You can't rile him up,
and then Miami goes on to win the game and

(17:27):
take a two zero series lead.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
That just cannot be the case, but that is the case.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
This was a great question and answer with Jalen Brown
from the Celtics after Game two.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Check this out.

Speaker 12 (17:39):
Grant Williams making mistake poking the bear with Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 13 (17:45):
Next question.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Translation, Yes, yes, a big mistake.

Speaker 7 (17:53):
Right, there is a huge mistake.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
And look, I think that the takeaway has largely been come,
don't ever poke the bear. Why would you do that?
It doesn't make sense to do that, so forth and
so on.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I would disagree a bit with that.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I think there are plenty of times where athletes have
poked the bear and they've backed it up. There's a
team that caused me to change my thinking completely on
this whole thing. That team is the New York Jets,
and it goes all the way back to the twenty
ten season. They were about to face the Patriots in
the playoffs and they were talking smack all week. They

(18:34):
were allowed This is Rex Ryan coaching the team, so
they were very chatty, very chesty. You know, it's just like, what.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Are you doing.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
You're facing Tom Brady, You're facing the goat. Why would
you poke the bear? Why would you tug on Superman's cape?
Blah blah blah. And they went out, the Jets did,
and they backed it up and they won the game.
And that was the famous Bart Scott saying they can't
stop a nosebleed. And Sal Powell was like, we'll see
you next week against the Steelers, and he's like, can't wait.

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You remember the game They talked smack all week and
they backed it up and beat the Patriot.

Speaker 12 (19:11):
Can't wait.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, So I've changed over the years.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I used to be like, don't poke the bear, don't
do it, But there have been many instances where it's
worked where the player that's talked or the team that's talked,
they back it up. So there are certainly examples where
poking the bear goes wrong. You saw it earlier in
the NBA playoffs with Dylan Brooks. Dylan Brooks poked the

(19:39):
bear talking smack about Lebron saying he's old. I don't
respect anybody until he can go out and get me
forty and then Dylan Brooks could hardly hit a shot
in the series.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
He was awful.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
He got kicked out of a game for what I
thought was excessive. Some people thought it was a cup
check with Lebron. He's playing defense. It's unfortunate, but he
got the gate and then he went woe is me,
and oh the media pains me to be a villain.
And then it was just off and running. But he
poked the bear. Didn't work out. Elimination game Grizzlies lost

(20:13):
by forty. That's a more famous example of when poking
the bear goes wrong. Lance Stevenson would be on the list.
Remember when he blew in Lebron's ear almost whispered sweet nothings?

Speaker 1 (20:27):
That didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
There's also I love this football example Anthony Smith, the
Steelers safety. This goes back to the Patriots undefeated regular
season in seven. He was talking smack during the week,
wasn't impressed. He might even guarantee to win. Didn't work out.
It did not work out. Steelers lost by three touchdowns
and Tom Brady was trash talking him in the end

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zone after a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Didn't work.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
But on the other side, when poking the bear goes right.
There are examples. I mentioned the Jets against the Patriots.
What's crazy about that Jets? Example, the Jets lost in
Foxborough during that regular season forty five to three, and

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they were trash talking the Patriots leading up to that
playoff game. I'm like, what are they talking about? They
are out of their minds and they backed it up.
They backed it up and won that playoff game. A
lot of boxing examples when poking the bear goes right.
One of my favorite moments Antonio Tarvor trash talking Roy

(21:33):
Jones Junior.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
I got a question. You got an excuses to night, Roy.
That's about ask questions like that. Let's touch a love,
snow work, Let's gonna work.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I can't tell you how much I love that they're
touching up, they're getting their instructions, and right before they
touch gloves and start the first round of the fight
and he's smacked talking guy, excuses tonight, Roy, and they
went out and he whooped them.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
I love that example. Many boxing examples.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
You could go with Muhammad Ali trash talking George Foreman.
If you ever saw the movie Ali, they did a
great job capturing that Ali we all know he was
big time talker. He backed a lot of it up.
And that's a pretty famous example. If you're talking smack
about George Foreman, who was thought to be the baddest
man on the planet at the time. Many people thought

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Ali might die in that fight, right, and he's still
smack talking to him and he wins that fight. Also,
when poking the bear goes right, how about Joe Namath.
You had to go way back in the hot tub
time machine. But when you're nearly twenty point underdogs against
the Baltimore Colts and you guarantee a win and the
team backs it up. That's why I say I'm not

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always against poking the bear. Sometimes it does work out.
Did not work out for Grant Williams and the Celtics
two nights ago, and Jimmy Butler he talked about it
after the game. I thought that he put it very well.
That's a very fair way to say it. He did
give some flowers. And then there's the drop the mic

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moment at the end. Here he is Jimmy Buckets.

Speaker 13 (23:09):
Yes, it did, but that's just competition.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
That is finest.

Speaker 13 (23:13):
He hit a big shot started talking to me. I
like that I'm all for that. It makes me key
in a lot more, and it pushes that will that
I have to win a lot more, and it makes
me smile. It does when when people talk to me,
I'm like, Okay, I know I'm a decent player if

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you want to talk to me out of everybody that
you can talk to. But I don't know, it's just
it's just competition. I do respect him though. He's a
big part of what they try to do. He switches,
he can shoot the ball. I just don't know if
I'm the best person to talk to.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, probably not the best person. I actually be the worst.
Jimmy Butler might be the best competitor in the NBA
right now. That dude is all competition mode. And yeah,
I just look, if you hit an open three and
start talking smack to Jimmy Butler like you just did something,

(24:15):
it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
And Draymond Green, he put this out on social media.
He said, gotta know when to talk and to who.
That's true. I think the next realm of trash talking
is maybe a self evaluation of who am I and
who am I talking trash two? And maybe there's an
abort mission switch, you know what I mean? Like maybe

(24:39):
not Donovan Mitchell from the Caves, he put it out there,
don't poke the bear. The heat went on a twenty
four to nine run after Grant Williams and Jimmy Butler
went forehead to forehead.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
So it didn't work out. It didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
But as we flashed forward, if you look at the
cell tics here must must have game tonight. You can't
fall down three in the series and have really any
chance to win this thing.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
We'll get back to the odds.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
I can't believe the odds are what they are, at
least according to analytics. This this stat, it actually gives
analytics a bad name. What was it the bon Jovi
song You give love a bad name? Like this stat
gives analytics a bad name. I can't believe I'm gonna
read off what I'm about to read off to you

(25:33):
in a couple of minutes. First though, Manzy belangos with us,
she's got the latest.

Speaker 10 (25:37):
Go to Manzi, Brian.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
I'm having deja vu from when I first got hired
and I was working over night shifts and you had
like a seven hour show all by yourself.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (25:49):
This is what I'm thinking of, because wait.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
A minute, wait, it might have been like a two
hour show and it just felt like seven.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Maybe I was off my a game that night.

Speaker 10 (25:57):
I don't know, absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
You did have two that were less than twelve hours apart.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I was working those sh shit.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Yeah exactly, and then you came back and I was like,
he's he was just there.

Speaker 11 (26:09):
Oh you're talking about where he was with Andy? Yeah? Yeah,
So we get a four hour show and then back
with Andy so we could enjoy Andy and for three Oh,
I'm I'm an NFL pig.

Speaker 10 (26:20):
I'm always impressed. I love you, Brian, and I'm here.
I was just like, this is out. What's back? Then
in the middle of the night, he just himself, you
don't want me?

Speaker 3 (26:29):
What's crazy too? MONSI is? I'm in for Big Ben tonight?

Speaker 10 (26:33):
No, you're see what I mean? You overachiever? Who do
you think you are?

Speaker 6 (26:38):
The Nicola Jokic a Fox Sports radio and triple doubles?

Speaker 10 (26:41):
What are we doing?

Speaker 1 (26:42):
I eat my tag team partner and George Reister right now?

Speaker 6 (26:45):
I already yelled at him in Twitter our texts. I
told him, look, als, does he have that.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
What's going on.

Speaker 10 (26:51):
I know, I don't know what he's doing.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
He just doesn't want to deal with the Laker conversation
I think is what it is.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
You might be right, that's what I think it is.

Speaker 10 (26:59):
Brian So the.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
PGA Championship right underway final round, brooks Kepka at the
top of the leader board at eight under part Yeah,
blah blah blah.

Speaker 10 (27:07):
What about Michael Block.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Michael Block on the fifteenth le one hundred and fifty
one yards has a seven iron in hand.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
This takes off on an incredible line, tracking right out
of It's the right distance.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Holy go, oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
It flew right into the center of the hole for
a hold one for Michael Block, part of the Courtbridge
Financial PGA team.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
The crowd has gone absolutely.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Crazy serious ex MPGA Tour Championship Radio. You might not
know who he is. Yeah, you're not supposed to know
who he is. He is a forty six year old
club pro.

Speaker 10 (27:39):
Who teaches golf lessons.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
In California and here he is just hit a hole
in one at the fifteenth hole. But yeah, nobody's gonna
really talk about that at the end of it, because
it's gonna be the winner Brooks Kepka again at the
top eight under part, one shot ahead of Victor Hovlin
and two shots ahead of Scottie Scheffler, but in credit
A way to go, Michael Block, you go go take

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a shot.

Speaker 10 (28:03):
I don't think. Yeah, you know what I'm.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Thinking, though, bonci is. I don't know if I could
be a golf commentator.

Speaker 10 (28:09):
Oh no, I can't either. Absolutely.

Speaker 14 (28:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
I think you and I are wired very similarly, where
sometimes we're just too amped for certain things. You know,
I think golf announcing, those guys do a great job. Really, Yes,
certain things like tiger Woods where the ball was on
the lip and none just fall. I would have lost
my mind to think I would fit in with golf.

Speaker 10 (28:29):
No, no, no, we would have been fired right now. When
this guy hit that hole in line, we would have
been fired. They'd have been like, you know, guys, that
we're done with you, back of your backs.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Yeah, you know how the mics sounds super distorted sometimes
it just oh yeah, oh, our mics.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
We just we wouldn't fit in.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
No, no, no, we wouldn't have even made it. They would
have fired us already. We wouldn't have even finished the day.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
We're more or less soccer announcers.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
Yes, right, exactly exactly. We'd be good at those, yeah, yeah, yeah,
for sure.

Speaker 14 (28:55):
All right.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
We also got the Stanley Cup playoffs going on, Game
two between the Stars and the Golden Nights, and Dallas
is up two to one against Vegas with about five
minutes to go in the third period. A little baseball
action going on right now. The Giants are beating the
Marlins five to four, bottom of the sixth inning. The
Twins and the Angels are tied at win apiece top
of the six inning as well, and the Padres have
scored some more. They're all over the Red Sox. Final

(29:17):
score was six orf not final score. Six zero is
the score they're about to start the bottom of the
fifth inning. And the reason I was like final score,
it's because some teams did score a lot. The Cardinals
scored a lot against my Dodgers, ten to.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Five, what's the final score?

Speaker 10 (29:31):
I know you are going to be excited about that.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
And the Rangers scored a lot against the Rockies. Thirteen
to three? Was the final on that one? All right, Brian,
back to you. Where's Georgie?

Speaker 3 (29:41):
I don't know, I'm not sure. Maybe he went to
go buy a Cardinals T shirt. I'm not sure that's
what he was doing.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Stop by the ATM for the steak bets.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
He's like, look at a Saint Louis Cardinals T shirt
while I'm out here. Yeah, i'd tell agy that's the
thought process from George rad I'm not sure. Good stuff
Bonzi accluding to Bonzi coming up here. Yeah, in less
than ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh, looking forward to that very much.

Speaker 7 (30:04):
Looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Okay, So I can't believe I'm gonna tell you this
stat right here. Brian though and George Reister are with
you here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 14 (30:12):
This.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
You know, like, I think it's becoming fashionable to just
bash analytics as a whole. I think that analytics. Look, man,
it's a mixed bag. Not everything in terms of analytics
makes sense. Not everything in terms of analytics doesn't make sense.
You know, it's a mixed bag. For me, it's case

(30:35):
by case. But there's a tendency for a lot of
people to just make it one big thing. If you're
against all things analytics, this is probably something that you
want to hear because you might roll your eyes and see,
like see again again with these analytics.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
So, according to Sports Center.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
They put this on Instagram and it just says the
chances of advancing to the NBA Finals after Game two.
This is in the Celtics Heat series, so Miami has
a to nothing series lead, and according to ESPN Analytics,
even though the Celtics are down to nothing in the

(31:19):
series and they've got Game three at Miami tonight, according
to ESPN Analytics, the Celtics have a sixty five percent
chance to win the series, and Miami, the team that's
up to nothing who's at home the next two games,
they only have a thirty five percent chance to win

(31:40):
the series.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
That makes no sense. None.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
I can't believe. I just rattled off those numbers, and
again you go back to I'm not against all things analytics.
I don't think every single thing makes sense. There are
times where I raise my hand and I say I
wouldn't go for two in this particular situation. Whatever, Like,

(32:07):
there are times I just don't agree, but I don't
dismiss it at every turn. I'm not the guy that's like, oh,
anything analytically makes no sense whatsoever. I just go case
by case. But in this case, that makes no sense.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
None. I can't believe Jared Smith.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
We did a show yesterday morning, Jared Smith, FSR betting analyst.
He made a good point. If you look at the
betting odds right now, those are not the betting odds
at all, at all. There is no way you could
get the equivalent odds wise of the Heat having a

(32:47):
thirty five percent chance to win this series.

Speaker 11 (32:49):
To be fair, I do know some analytics people and
I talk to them about this, and they absolutely despise
ESPN's win win probabilities. Yes, they think it's they think
it's a bogus stat. They think it's not really like
they analytics are really good for certain things, but trying
to tell you who's going to winner a percentage to
win like is bogus. And you'll see it all the time,

(33:11):
right when like you get late in the game and
it's suddenly like, oh, this team had a ninety nine
percent chance to win and they lost, Like that's it's
total bs.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, sometimes I get that.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Look, there are games and George brought this up in
the first segment today where yeah, there are games where
a team leading has a ninety nine point nine percent
chance to win and they go on to lose, and
it could be a football game, they've got a huge lead,
and yeah, maybe that percentage is a little high, a
little high. There are times where there are just are

(33:43):
crazy comebacks and I can.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Look and be like, how in the world did.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
This team in baseball who was up by ten runs
in the eighth?

Speaker 1 (33:51):
How did they lose?

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Right?

Speaker 3 (33:52):
But it does happen from time to time. I just
think in a series, when we're talking about Celtic's heat,
there's no way you can convince me that Boston down
to nothing has a sixty five percent chance to still
win the series.

Speaker 7 (34:08):
They've got to win four or five games. They've got
they gotta.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Win four games.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
They only have five left if it goes seven. I
just don't see how there's no way you can convince
me those are what the odds should be. And like
Chris just said, yeah, sometimes these win probabilities they give
analytics a bad name. I just if those numbers, like
whatever your system is to pump out the numbers, the

(34:36):
analytics community might look at me sideways for this one.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
But really think about this.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Whatever formula you have that spits out these numbers and
gives you an analytical breakdown, I think you should have
a common sense, like diagnostic check after the numbers are
spat out right, and if you say, wait a minute,
the Celtics still have a sixty five percent chance to win.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
That that just that, No, that's not no, right.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Let's look at Vegas and think about that.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
You would have the Celtics at minus money to win
the series at this stage and the Heat at plus money.
You could get plus money on the Heat. I don't
know exactly what it'd be. Let's say it's like plus
one seventy, where you lay one hundred bucks you would
win one hundred and seventy. There's no way those would
be the odds when they have a two zero series

(35:30):
lead and they're going home right now. That that's that
makes zero sense whatsoever? What does make sense around the corner?
According to Monci, she's got some opinions. She might have
a hot take or two. We'll see what she thinks
about three separate categories. Can't wait for that. I'm Brian Nope.
George Reister should be back after he makes a run

(35:53):
to the ATM and picks up a Cardinals T shirt.
Keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm
Brian No, We'll have George reister here momentarily. I believe
he's making plans over here to rejoin the show here
on Fox Sports Radio. You got some technical difficulties that
happens from time to time. All good, by the way,

(36:14):
we're coming down to stretch the PGA Championship, Brooks Koepka
clinging to a one shot lead. We're going to overtime
in the NHL playoffs where the Vegas Golden Knights they
got a late goal going to ot Vegas trying to
take a two ozero series lead. But it's enough about that.
We gotta get to this with Moncey Milanos. Let's do

(36:36):
it Corn and now it's time.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
For absolutely it's like to.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Be according to Monsi, I love it.

Speaker 7 (36:45):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
According to Manzi, timeouts.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
Are there for a reason.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
Oh man, there's been so many times during these NBA
playoffshere I'm like, what is this coach doing?

Speaker 10 (36:54):
Why are we not calling a time out?

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Listen, there's a lot of coaching jobs that are opening
the NBA, and Joe Mizula doesn't figure it out, there's
gonna be one more. I know that in the NBA,
the coaching isn't really like coaching like you did when
you were a little kid. I get all that these
are grown ass men. They know how to play basketball.
But as a coach, you have to be able to
keep a high morale among your players. You have to
be able to change momentum when it's going against you,

(37:17):
and you have to set up your players for success.
In Game one, the Celtics were up by nine to
start the third quarter and Misula did not call a
time out until the heat tied the Celtics, and then
Miami went on to outscore Boston in that quarter forty
six to twenty five.

Speaker 10 (37:32):
Then to start the fourth.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Quarter, Miami was up I believe by eight or nine points.
Boston started with seven quick points and guess what Eric
Spolster did ninety seconds into the fourth quarter. He called
a time out. Call a damn timeout. Call a time out.
Change the momentum when it's going against you. Jason Tatum
did not make a shot in the fourth quarter of
either game one or two.

Speaker 10 (37:53):
He had free throws but no shots.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
In Game two, Misula did not call it time out
in the fourth quarter until three and a half minutes
left in the game. Why didn't you call a timeout
and draw a play for your superstar for your best
players so we could see the ball go in the basket.
Why did you not do that? I don't understand. The
timeouts are there for a reason.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's your job, according to Monsey.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Wow, according to Monsei, finally we can talk about someone
else besides the Lakers in the cellphone.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Oh my goodness, finally, Like, I don't even guys, how
are we not talking about the Miami and the Denver
Nuggets for not even the obvious reasons.

Speaker 10 (38:31):
All I kept hearing was how did the Lakers start
bow two and ten?

Speaker 5 (38:34):
What was it get to in ten?

Speaker 10 (38:35):
Okay, That's all I kept hearing. How are we not
talking about how Miami lost.

Speaker 6 (38:38):
Their first playing game and then still eliminated the Bucks.
Here they are in the finals against the Celtics with
four undrafted players, not one, not to count them, four
undrafted players, Kayleb Martin, Max Strus, Gave Vincent and Duncan Robinson,
and we're.

Speaker 10 (38:55):
Not talking about that.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
I'm not even say let's talk about Jimmy Butler, who
I said weeks ago was the.

Speaker 10 (38:59):
Best in the playoffs and he still is. I'm not
even saying that.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
I'm saying, let's talk about the other side of Miami
and what they're doing, and then there's a Denver Nuggets.
I'm not saying, let's talk about the you know, triple
double machine that is Nicola Jokic.

Speaker 10 (39:11):
How are we not talking about how Jamal.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Murray, who had an ACL injury, came back better than ever.
We've seen so many stars that have major injuries and
they've never been able to come back to what they
once were. Here, he is define all the odds and
he has like bad moments and then he gets out
of it like he's playing so well. He's playing crucial minutes,
crucial moments for the Denver Nuggets. It's not just about

(39:34):
Nicola Jokic, and we're not even talking about this stuff.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
It's frustrating according to Monsey, all right, according to Mansey,
if you don't say thank you when someone holds a
door open for you, then you deserve to be punched.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
Y'all.

Speaker 10 (39:46):
I cannot with this. I cannot. I just went through this.
I can't. I can't.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
If I hold a door open for you, I don't
care if you're on the phone. You don't have to
say verbally thank you, but make eye contact with me
that I held the door open for you. If you're
holding drinks and I hold Starbucks door open for you
and you're not on the phone and you don't say
thank you, I literally yell at you. You're welcome. This
isn't just Starbucks, this is anywhere. This is just my
most recent experience.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
Was that Starbucks.

Speaker 6 (40:11):
When somebody doesn't thank me when I hold the door
open for them, I swear like my horns come out,
like I just want to fight, I just want How
can you not say thank you?

Speaker 10 (40:20):
It's the smallest little gesture acknowledge me. I did something
nice for you.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
I don't have to hold the door open for you,
and I did, and then you ignore me.

Speaker 10 (40:27):
Oh, I hope you fall. I hope you scrape your
knee and rip your pants.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Awesome job, Bonzie. Hey coming up. Neck hate is a
great thing.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Oh what is going on?

Speaker 1 (40:38):
We got action?

Speaker 3 (40:39):
A lot going on over here, reaction to the latest. Also,
George is in Root. He's in Root to rejoin the
show over here. Some technical difficulties. He's got to run
to the ATM. Got to pick up a Saint Louis
Cardinals T shirt and some Elboile loco, and he'll be
back with us.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
He's on his way.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
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it's getting late in the BGA Championship. Here you got
brooks Kopko with a one shot lead, Victor Hovland hot

(41:23):
on the trails right now, hot pursuit. I as a
big Dukes of Hazzard fan when I was a kid.
I just loved the car in the air and the song.
That's all I knew about. And then they had reruns
not to take a complete left handed turn here, but
they had reruns on CMT, and I'm like, why don't
they have the Dukes of Hazzard on CMT. And then

(41:43):
I watched a little bit later in life and they're like,
crazy Cooder, you got your ears on, come out, and
I'm like, oh, I see why he'd be on CMT.
Nice approach shot by brooks Koepka on sixteen. As we
are getting down to the nitty gritty, and here's the thing,
We've got overtime in the NHL. By the way, Vegas
Golden Knights, the Stars over here, stars trying to even

(42:06):
the series at one apiece. You've got the the Golden
Knights trying to take a two oh series lead. Crazy
the amount of overtime games we've seen in the Stanley
Cup playoffs, it's been crazy. You think about the other series.
Right now, as we're down to the final four teams,
you have the Florida Panthers. They've won the first two

(42:28):
games on the road in overtime. The first one was
in four overtimes, which is insane. So now we get
another overtime game. So the NHL playoffs are on fire.
Now as far as golf goes, now, here's the thing.
This is not just a golf thing. Go by, I'll
get back to the golf. Vegas just scored the Vegas

(42:48):
Golden Knights. They take Game two, they fight back from
a two to one deficit and now they have a
two to oh series lead. There you go like going
on over here, and the golf is coming down toward
the end as well. Okay, so as far as golf goes,
not just a golf thought. This applies to all sports really,

(43:11):
But hate is not a good thing. It is a
great thing in sports. And when you look at Brooks Kopka,
he joined Live Golf, he went to Live and there
are some people that are bent out of shape about that.
And I would argue this, Hey, if you're bent out
of shape, I get it, no problem, but don't confuse

(43:35):
that with being bad for your entertainment value going forward.
If you dislike Brooks and you hate that he joined
Live and now he's got a one stroke lead in
a major, that's a great thing.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
For entertainment value.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
If you've got someone or something meaning a team to
root against.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
That's great. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Like I just popped into my head, LeVar Ball, of
all people popped into my head. There were a lot
of people that didn't like his approach, didn't like what
he was saying when Lonzo Ball was at UCLA. And
it's like, if that gave you a reason to root
against UCLA, great, that's better for your entertainment value. I

(44:23):
don't know why anyone would confuse hatred for a bad
thing in sports. That's like you try to create that
in pro wrestling, you know what I mean, Like you
have the face, you have the heel, you've got the
good guy, you've got the bad guy. You've got the
good girl wrestler, you've got the bad girl wrestler, right like,
they try to create that. There's a reason why it

(44:45):
helps for entertainment value. Not everybody is a good guy,
right like, there are heels. There are the bad dudes
that go out there and insult the crowd and say
everybody's overweight and jobless here and insert city here.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Right Wait, that's how it goes.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
So this live versus PGA thing, if you're riding with
the PGA tour and you're rooting against the live guys,
and that just gives you another reason to pay closer attention.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
That's a great thing.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
I don't know why anyone would take that as a
bad thing for their viewing experience. Victor Hovlin leaves it
short on sixteen. Not good, not good, not good right there,
so he is going to fall back. Wow, So he
went double bogie on sixty. Victor Hovelin goes double bogue

(45:41):
on sixteen. As now Brooks Koepka has a three stroke
lead as he is finishing up on the sixteenth toll,
so that that's a commanding lead, commanding lead with two
holes to go as Brooks for Birdie. He looks to
go up by four strokes, So yeah, that's uh, let's

(46:03):
say it's gonna be Old Brooksy over here unless he
puts one in the drink, you know, like.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Seven times from here on out.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
He did get the Birdies up by four strokes, kept
get minus ten Scheffler and Hovelin at minus six, So yeah,
this is gonna be Team Brooksy over here. And look,
I put the live BGA stuff to the side. What
a resurgence for Brooks. He had the bad knee injury,
he slipped and fell and had this whole knee thing

(46:33):
going on, slipped tremendously in the rankings, and now he's
back back with the major. But this would be I believe,
the first live guy to win a Major. And look
if that fires up for the next major going forward,
and it's BGA versus live.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
I think that's good for your entertainment value.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I wouldn't confuse that if I dislike an individual athlete
or I dislike a team, Like do you ever not
go out of your way to watch someone you dislike?
Think about that. Let's put it with football. Let's say
you just absolutely despise the Dallas Cowboys. There are a
lot of people who feel that way. If the Dallas
Cowboys are in the NFC Championship game, are you like,

(47:17):
oh gosh, I hate the Cowboys now I'm not gonna watch. No,
you watch the game and you root like crazy against them,
and that gets you more involved.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
It's a great thing.

Speaker 7 (47:30):
It always makes sports better. Always.

Speaker 3 (47:33):
I'm Brian Know here on Fox Sports Radio. George Reister
will rejoin us here momentarily. Adam Kaplan, FSR NFL Insider
will join us here in about ten minutes. Very much
looking forward to that. As on Jim Brown passing away,
it is amazing to me, it really is. Where if

(47:53):
you put what happened with Jim Brown in his football
career into modern day NFL, it blows my mind if
the same thing occurred. Where you go back to this
is nineteen sixty six. He's filming a movie, The Dirty

(48:13):
Dozen in London, and so there were production delays due
to bad weather. Shocker in London. I know they didn't
see that one coming either. But Art Modell, he said,
I'm gonna find you. I'm gonna suspend you if you
show up late to training camp. And Jim Brown said, well,

(48:34):
and I retire. He was thirty years old. He retired.
And what blows my mind is he rushed for in
his final season, Jim Brown rushed for fifteen hundred and
forty four yards and seventeen touchdowns, led the league in
both categories. He was the MVP of the league in
that year nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 10 (48:55):
Put that.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
In modern day NFL terms. Just think about that. Think
if we had a running back who rushed for over
fifteen hundred yards, scored seventeen touchdowns, one MVP, and then
he's filming a movie. He might be a little late
to training camp. The owner says, I'm gonna suspend you

(49:18):
if you show up late. And that star player, fresh
off of leading the league in rushing and touchdowns and
was the MVP at the league, just said I retire.
I just screw it. I'm not coming back at all.
How about that? That would be amazing. That would be
amazing in today's NFL, It's hard to even wrap your

(49:40):
mind around that. If I don't know, what would be
a good example. Derrick Henry. He leads then in rushing.
He had a solid season last year, and the same
thing plays out like that, that's an amazing story.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
I just do that.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Like sometimes you'll read these stories and you're like, wow,
that's crazy. But just stop and think what would be
the reaction if that literally happened again today, Like people
would lose their minds. Can you imagine what we would
say about the team owner that threatened to suspend the
reigning MVB and that guy just up and retired at

(50:20):
the age of thirty. Oh my gosh, that would be
an amazing, amazing story. By the way, let me go
back to a couple of things that Moncey hit on.
She absolutely crushed. According to Monsey Today, it was like,
you know, chi ching, chi ching, chi ching. It was
a trifecta right there, each leg of the triple Crown

(50:42):
she won. She won the Kentucky Derby, the Preak Diiss
and the Bellmont. It was outstanding. And the first thing
was timeouts are there for a reason. Yes, Joe Missoula
guilty of not calling time out to stop a run.
It looks way worse when the Celtics haven't even earned
a split.

Speaker 7 (50:59):
It looks really really bad.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
If he's like, you know what, let's just weather the storm.
You know, it's not like he's Phil Jackson. Phil Jackson
used to do that all the time. By the way,
it's not like he's Phil Jackson with numerous championships under
his belt and it's worked time and time again. He's
a first year head coach and the Celtics, fresh off
of a finals appearance last season against the Warriors, are

(51:22):
down two oh now and his lack of timeouts look
even worse as they are trailing the Miami Heat.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
So yes, absolutely agree with that.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
I do like the second one where she was talking
about now we can finally talk about someone other than
the Lakers and Celtics, and what's interesting about that.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
I'm on board with that as well.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
If you look at the Nuggets and the Heat, Miami
has gotten way more love, way more love than the
Denver Nuggets have.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
Really think about that.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
We have been as we should, giving the red carpet
treatment to Jimmy freaking Butler.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
He has been sensational.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
But it's just like Jimmy Butler, these undrafted free agents
of the Miami Heat, They've got seven of them, They've
got four major contributors. He's got guys get major minutes.
They're hitting big shots like they're not just end of
the bench guys. They are contributors, they are difference makers.
They've got that many undrafted guys, and so we've sung

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the praises of the Miami Heat a lot more than
the Denver Nuggets. Jamal Murray gets a little bit of run.
Jamal Murray hasn't gotten close to the run that Jimmy
Butler has, not close to the props, not close to
the five star treatment. Nicola jokicch the first two games.
Jokich was doing things on a historical level, and it

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was like, Eh, you get a little bit of love
here and there. De Jontay Murray might tweet out, Jokicic
is unbelievable. He should be the MVB. He got some love.
But in comparison, like just switch it around. If Anthony
Davis had put up the numbers that Nikola Jokic did

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the first two games and the Lakers won both of
those games, oh my gosh, that's all you would hear about.
But Jokic does it and it's just not the same treatment.
Jamal Murray goes nuts the last two games. He scored
twenty three points in the fourth quarter alone of Game
two and picked up where he left off in Game three.

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He's been outstanding and he's gotten some love some But
you know as well as I do, if there's a
Laker that goes off for the same amount of points,
if there's a Celtics player, if Jason Tatum goes off
for twenty three points in the fourth quarter, we're going
crazy about that. Jason Tatum has yet to score a
bucket in the fourth quarter of both of those first

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two games. That is astounding to me. But I think
Miami has gotten a whole lot more love than Denver.
I just think that when you go back to Game three,
it's the best way to look at it. Nikola Jokic
was ordinary in Game three last night, not exceptional, and
the Nuggets still won by eleven. It's a basketball crime

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to be sleeping on Denver in any capacity.

Speaker 7 (54:20):
Right now, I'll.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Play something real fast here and we'll get to Adam Kaplan.
This was Michael Malone. This was after the Nuggets won
Game two. He made a point about a lack of respect.

Speaker 7 (54:30):
Check this out.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Whatever we can use for motivation.

Speaker 14 (54:33):
I think a lot of our guys, to be honest,
they may not admit this or not. You know, you
win game one of the playoffs, and all everybody talked
about was a Lakers. Let's be honest. That was a
national narrative was, Hey, the Lakers are fined, they're down
one zero, but they figured something out. No one talked
about nicolea just had a historic performance. He's got thirteen

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Chipple doubles now third all time. What he's doing is
just incredible. But the narrative wasn't about the nugget scenarrative
wasn't about Nicola. The narrative is about the Lakers and
their adjustments.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
So you know, you put that in your pipe.

Speaker 14 (55:06):
You smoke it, and you come back and you know what,
We're gonna go up too.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Oh yeah, I think that's a powerful thing. I really do.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
When you're playing the underdog role, a lot of teams
try to create this of man, they're not giving us
our respect. Alabama one of the more famous examples. When
Alabama was about to play Cincinnati in the College Football
Playoff a couple of years ago. Bama was trying to
recreate the underdog role. It's like you're Alabama, they're Cincinnati.

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There are teams that try to create that out of
thin air. It's a real thing. For the Denver Nuggets.
Michael Malone was totally right. Nuggets win Game one. It's
all about the Lakers, and man, I would have come
back from twenty one down. They could have won. They've
made adjustments easily, like what about us?

Speaker 1 (55:52):
What about us?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
But Denver up three to nothing, and they got a
great chance, not just to move on, but to win
the whole freaking thing.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Absolutely deserve their love. Yeah, we will get to.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
If someone holds the door open for you, as Monsey said,
and you don't say thankful, you don't say thank you, you're.

Speaker 7 (56:09):
An awful person. That's just you're an awful person. Got change?
I do like that.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Yeah, it happened a few months ago. I held the
door open for someone. She's pushing her shopping cart. No
thank you, no nothing. My girl was with me, She's like,
you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
I don't go you're welcome.

Speaker 10 (56:27):
No, you're right. Yell, she was right, she was right.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
I feel like.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
There's something if you know, as a guy, I can't
go you're welcome, you know, to the girl that doesn't
say things, I just can't do it.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
You can do something there aggressive Yeah, like it just
kind of a you're welcome.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to take the base out
of your voice.

Speaker 10 (56:49):
Yes, yes, it does matter. It does matter.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
I do like the assist from my girl just picking
up like you know, she's running the anchor leg of
the four by one hundred.

Speaker 7 (56:58):
You're welcome.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
You know that that fits a lot better, right, And.

Speaker 10 (57:01):
Like I said, if you're on the phone or I
get it, but acknowledge it.

Speaker 7 (57:04):
Yeah, you gotta acknowledge it.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
You crushed it. Great job on.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
According to Manci Perry Walder, I learned from the best
you do from from George Reister.

Speaker 10 (57:14):
Yeah, no, I don't. I'm not gonna.

Speaker 8 (57:15):
I'm not going.

Speaker 10 (57:17):
I hope he's listening right now. I'm not giving them credit.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
There you go, no doubt. All right, So George will
be back with us. He had to if you're just
joining us, He had to run to the ATM. He
had to get a Saint Louis Cardinals T shirt. He
had to get some Lpoyo Loco and some Tacos l
pastoor and then he's gonna be with us. So he
had a checklist, and we'll be back and he's got
to get an icy as well. We're adding to the
list in each segment until he gets here. It's actually

(57:42):
what's going on? Okay, Adam Kaplan FSR NFL Insider does
an awesome job. Lots of NFL stuff to get into
with Adam right around the corner. I'm Brian Note. George
Reister on his way keep it locked right here on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
I'm Brian No.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
George Reister on his way back here on sports Radio.
We're coming to you live from the tire rack dot
Com studios want to welcome in Adam Kaplan FSR NFL
Insider joining us here, cat man, how's everything going on?
You enjoying hockey, golf, basketball, anything not NFL related right now?

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (58:18):
The hoop situation just baffles me. I cannot believe that
Miami Heat, it's it's just hard to understand. I gave
him credits. Bolster's done a great job, great job. Jimmy
Butler's been the playoff MVP. But their defense has been fantastic.
And Boston does this seemingly every series. They don't seem
to show up for one or two games that unfortunately
happened for the first two. Look if they don't get

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this one, I mean, it's it's cinar so it's it's
it's almost hard to believe. And look for television ratings.
I mean, obviously Boston LA would have been great, no question.
I grew up in the eighties, so I experienced the
Laker Celtic robbery, which was incredible, Magic versus Bird and
the other supporting players.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
But this playoffs has been very interesting, a little strange too.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Oh man, it's been crazy. It's been a lot of fun.
I'm thinking, who would you say would be the Miami
Heat of the NFL, right, just a grinder of a team.
I know the Lions haven't gotten to the same level
of success as the Miami Heat, but would they be
the best example or somebody else in your mind?

Speaker 15 (59:18):
Well, the expectations Brian for this season. In fact, I
do a power pole. I have the Lions, I think
at number eight. I have them going to the playoffs.
In fact, they're gonna They're gonna win the NFC North,
so probably i'd have to go. I would think you'd
have to go back to I don't even know when,
because I know they've only made the playoffs a couple
of times since the early nineties, So it's it's hard

(59:41):
to believe. But the Lions are certainly they've got everything
going for them, But who'd be that grinded out team
for the National Footballage comparably to the Miami Heat of
the NBA. It's a great question. See the other thing
is Miami remember now they were with I think the
eighth seed, and if in fact did.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
They not playing the play on game, playing the playing game?

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
Yeah, so think about the first one.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
They lost the first one bowls and then had to
win the next one to sneak in.

Speaker 15 (01:00:09):
It's that's the point. So so there's got to be
a team now. See again, this is the problem with
in the NFL. It's like, okay, yeah, you they expand
the playoffs three years ago, but is that one there
there was?

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
There?

Speaker 15 (01:00:20):
Is there that one team now that could could probably
could surprise people.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
See the Jaguars can't.

Speaker 8 (01:00:26):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Last year they shocked me.

Speaker 15 (01:00:27):
I got that one wrong, the over under for that
team with five and a half wins, and you blew
that out of the water. And as someone for another
team said to me this week, Doug Peterson's anti Urban Meyer.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
That's probably had something to do with how they rebound
as well as they did.

Speaker 15 (01:00:40):
But you're hard to find to answer your question, it's
really hard to find that one team.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Yeah, it is Adam Kaplan joining us here FSR NFL Insider.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
How about this?

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Also, I saw that Mitch Trubisky signed a three year
extension with the Steelers to be their backup, and I
just started thinking, if you look at this year's NFL draft,
the top three guys, right, Bryce Young number one overall,
Stroud number two, Anthony Richardson goes four overall. There at
least in the vicinity of Trubisky went two overall. Of

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those three, who do you think most likely ends up
if there is one like Mitch Trubisky who this points
was this first team and then is a journeyman.

Speaker 15 (01:01:20):
Well, basically, Mitch Trubisky was severely overdrafted. I've told people
this that if he would have been a second round pick,
we never would have been talking about him as being
a draft bust. But because he was severely overdrafted, he
was a shocker. I was at that draft in Philly
in seventeen and when they traded up, nobody could figure
out who were the Bears possibly trading up for. Then
we were shocked that was Minch Trubisky. And then don't

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forget though he did make the playoffs as they're starting
quarterback in twenty eighteen and then it was downhill. But
of the top three, the true boomer Bus pick would
be Anthony Richardson because nobody has any idea what.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
He's going to be at this next level.

Speaker 15 (01:01:56):
He the history of Brian of quarterbacks only starting for
one season at the Division one level. By the way,
Trubisky was that as well, it's very slim. The success
rate is very slim. It's not impossible, but it's slim.
But this kid is so talented, and they've got a
decent core around him and a good coaching with Shane
Steak and in his group. He's got a chance to
be more successful than you think. But he's a true

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boom er Bus pick.

Speaker 7 (01:02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
The lack of experience got to be probably the most
comparable thing to Trubisky, right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, And that's what I'm saying. So he basically started
just one year.

Speaker 15 (01:02:28):
I remember when I was at ESPN, I put it
out that he was going to put be a top
ten pick. I had no idea where he was going
to go, and I just remember people are like, you
got to be crazy, I said, Listen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
I'm not saying he should be.

Speaker 15 (01:02:39):
He shouldn't be, but he's going to be because it's
a quarterback driven league. And I use the Mark Sanchez
example is that, look, when you need a quarterback, you're
going to draft one. Now to this day, I'll never
know what Ryan Pace that the GM then of the Bears,
was thinking. But Mitch Trubisky, you know, getting back to
what happened there, it's actually a two year extension.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
He had one year left.

Speaker 15 (01:03:00):
So what they're going to do is, I haven't got
the final terms on the breakdown, but I suspect they're
going to take the eight million dollars in salary and
convert that to a signing bonus, just to spread the
peroration out over three years.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
And the thing is, from.

Speaker 15 (01:03:17):
His standpoints, Trubisky, he's just giving up the opportunity to
be a starting quarterback, and he's accepting that he's a
really good backup who's got good, good athleticism and a
good arm, and he's had got plenty of starts behind him.
But I think the league has kind of told him
he's really not a starting quarterback. We saw last year
that he came in he was their starter early on
and once they thought Kenny Pickett was ready, they went

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to Trubisky. But I thought it was the right move
for both parties and it's a win win, and they
like him. And by the way, they also resigned Mason
Rudolph's a pretty good three.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Yeah, it's hard to preface every one of your things
in a mock draft, Like, I'm not saying this is
what they should do.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
I just think this is what they will do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Exactly.

Speaker 15 (01:03:55):
When people ask me, Okay, what do you think they're
going to do, I'm like, this is what I from
what I'm hearing, they're.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Going to do this. I don't agree with it.

Speaker 15 (01:04:01):
Yeah, I think it's probably And I remember saying I
was on TV with Bill Paullie in the Hall of
Fame General Manager. Bill wasn't getting mad at me. He
just said, it's ridiculous, he's not ready. This is going
to be a mistake, and you know, we didn't want
it to be a mistake. But it just tells you
it's really hard, Brian, and anything you do in life,
if you've only done it once and you're asked to
do it in a bigger way, it's really hard. It's

(01:04:22):
really hard in the NFL where they're not patient. Eventually
they're going to pull the plug.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Yeah, Adam kaplan with us here on Fox Sports Radio.
The Joe Burrow extension is somewhere around the corner. Yeah,
if you're ballparking just years, dollars and cents, what are
you roughly guessing it's going to end up being?

Speaker 15 (01:04:41):
So it'll beat Lamar Jackson's fifty two million per year. Okay,
the total guarantees were one hundred and sixty million.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
It'll be. It should not be more than five years.

Speaker 15 (01:04:53):
The agent was pretty good, Brian Ayreroold, I'd be shocked
if you want for more than five years. I understand
Joe Burrow has been out in front of it very public.
When players get involved, they sometimes I'm not saying this
will be, but sometimes they become a little bit more
player friendly than they should be. But this contract to
me should be between fifty five and fifty five million,

(01:05:14):
fifty three to fifty five million per season over probably
five years. And you know, look the Bengals they did
an incredibly team friendly deal with their new left tackle
Orlando Brown Junior. It was a very unique structure on
a four year deal. There was no signing bonus. He
gets a ton of money in the first year. And

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then what it is is the base salaries are so
low and the cap numbers are are pretty reasonable because
of the structure of the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
It's just a lot of cash in year one.

Speaker 15 (01:05:47):
And I don't know that Burrow's willing to do it,
but he's been pretty out in front that he's he's sure,
he is willing to do certain things.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Does this feel like Burrow and Jamar Chase going forward
for the Bengals or do you see all three where
it's Burrow, Chase and also t Higgins.

Speaker 15 (01:06:03):
Yeah, they want Higgins. I mean they really want him.
They have a history of keeping their top players.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:06:11):
I know that they walked away from Jesse Bates, but
Jesse Bates is a good player. He's not a great player.
He's a nice player. He's nowhere near the hype based
on what I've been told, nowhere near the hype that
I think some people think. But listen, when you're a
free agent and the team doesn't use the tag on
you and you get to the free agency, you're gonna

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get a lot of money. He got a huge deal,
sixteen million a year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
That was a great deal.

Speaker 15 (01:06:35):
I'll give him credit for getting that in his agent.
But getting back to the Bengals, you know they really
want t Higgins. They're not entertaining trade offers and I'd
be surprised. And remember he's on the last year's deal.
They could tag him after the season and then they
don't have to do Chase early. But remember now Chases.
They could extend Chase this deal after this season, but
they don't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
They could wait a while.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Yeah, last thing for you here, Adam kaplan with us.
Jim Brown passes away, and what blows my mind is
the way his career ended. If you put that in
modern day terms, where he's filming a movie. It's going
to be delayed due to bad weather and Art med
Art Modell says, I'm gonna suspend you if you're late
to training camp, and he says, well, then I'm just

(01:07:19):
going to retire. You want MVP leading rusher most touchdowns.
If you had that same storyline play out today, we
would lose our minds. It's just it's amazing to me
how it ended with Jim Brown's career there.

Speaker 15 (01:07:34):
Yeah, and so it would just be it would never
stop because here's the thing that I think the young
people don't know. He was arguably the best player of
all time. And this is a guy that obviously I
never saw him play. He retired the u R was born,
so I never saw him play. I just heard when
I started coveringly Brian in nineteen ninety nine and subsequent
years how great he was. And he was a legend obviously,

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and his social causes have been great, and then the
when you get back to be an athlete. This is
the thing that just blows my mind. At Syracuse, not
only was he an All American obviously a football All American
at lacrosse, and also not an All American at basketball,
but their top scorer for a long time. That's incredible. Yeah, yeah,

(01:08:17):
it's just ridiculous. And I just I never met him.
I think i'd seen him from afar at Browns camp
over the years, but yeah, it's at eighty seven years old.
He lived a great life and he's just one of
these people that we Unfortunately I was not alive when
he was in his heyday, but the legend is just
ridiculously great, no.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
Doubt about that. Well, Hey, Cap, always good to visit
with you, man, Hope you have a good rest of
your Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Here, Sam, do you thank you?

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
There he is Adam Kaplan, FSR NFL Insider. Yeah, the
part about Jim Brown the athlete, like Kaplan was saying
right there, outstanding lacrosse player, they had to change the rules,
like he was like Wilt, like they're just changing the
rules based on his dominance. And then in basketball he

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averaged thirteen points at Syracuse.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
I read that.

Speaker 7 (01:09:07):
I was like, what he did, Like that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
In terms of the athlete side of the resume, it
was off the charts. And then a lot of good
work that he did civil rights activists. We all know
about that. Part of the resume too, is like he
violence against women multiple times. And that's the thing where
it's tricky to me where it's part of the resume,

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and it's it's hard to get it just right where
it's part of the story. I don't think we should
talk about the guys if he's a god, he's a
human being, and he made some mistakes, but he got
a lot right. He got a lot right and did
a lot of good for a lot of people. And
so rest in peace for Jim Brown.

Speaker 7 (01:09:50):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Absolutely we've got Mazi Belangos with us. She's got the
latest and we got some breaking news over here golf related.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
I'm excited to hear this.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
Bricks Kopka is three point one five million dollars richer.

Speaker 10 (01:10:04):
He just won the PGA Championship.

Speaker 6 (01:10:07):
Nine under par was his final score overall. Victor Hovelin
ended in second place, tied with Scotti Scheffler at seven
under par.

Speaker 10 (01:10:17):
So congratulations to Brooks Kopka and.

Speaker 6 (01:10:20):
Your three million dollars that you get to walk away with.
But Michael Block is really a huge story out of
this PGA Championship.

Speaker 10 (01:10:29):
He qualified for this PGA Championship.

Speaker 6 (01:10:31):
By finishing second last month in the twenty twenty three
PGA Professional Championship, which is a golf tournament for golf
club professionals and teachers who are members of the Professional
Golfers Association of America just to give them opportunities to play.
So this is how he qualified for this tournament. For
this championship, he had a hole in one on the

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fifteenth hole.

Speaker 10 (01:10:54):
He finished in.

Speaker 6 (01:10:55):
The top fifteen, so now he's qualified for next year's
PGA Championship. Michael Block, a forty six year old club
pro there's a really awesome video on Twitter going around.
He teaches somewhere here in California, and there's a video
of the people he teaches at this country club watching
it and they all go nuts when he hits that
hole in one, like incredible. Good for you, Michael Block,

(01:11:18):
good for you Brooks. Koepka winning the PGA Championship officially
almost look.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Like a sports bar time.

Speaker 10 (01:11:24):
Yes, it's confused. I was like, is this a b No,
this is where he teaches. That's pretty awesome. That's a
super exciting for him and for everybody at the championship
for sure.

Speaker 6 (01:11:35):
Super exciting for the Vegas Golden Knights because they rally
back to be the Dallas Stars three to two in overtime.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
They now leave the series to zero.

Speaker 6 (01:11:43):
Game three is on Tuesday, but for the first time
in NHL history, the first four games of the Conference
Finals have all gone to overtime. I think they're just
happy this one was only three minutes into overtime and
not four overtimes later like we just experienced with the Panthers.
Major League based two games going on, the padres all
over the Red Sox. They still are shutting them out.

(01:12:04):
Seven zero it's the top of the ninth inning. They
are playing in San Diego. The Twins and the Angels
were tied, but not anymore. The Angels are on top.

Speaker 10 (01:12:12):
Four to two. Is the final score or not? The
final score? Bottom of the eighth inning.

Speaker 6 (01:12:16):
I keep wanting to say final because there's so many
games today that there's so many final scores, and I
keep wanting to say final.

Speaker 10 (01:12:21):
But these two are currently going on. Four to two. Yes,
is the score bottom.

Speaker 6 (01:12:25):
Of the eighth inning, And we're almost there for Game
three between the Miami he and the Boston Celtics. Tip
Off is set for eight thirty pm Eastern Time, Miami
leading the series two to one. Jimmy Butler averaging thirty
one points, seven rebounds, and six assists during the playoffs.
Jason Tatum averaging twenty nine points, eleven rebounds and six assists,
but not scoring in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 10 (01:12:44):
Back to you, Brian, by.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
The way, Matsey, who you got tonight? Boston favored? Wow,
get this on the road the whole.

Speaker 10 (01:12:51):
Time, the entire time.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Boston's favored by four and a half on the road
against Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Here in Game.

Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
Three, I think the Heat are gonna pull it off.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
You got the heat.

Speaker 10 (01:13:02):
I got the heat.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Yeah, you got them keeping it close, you got them
taking it to a three to OHO series lead.

Speaker 6 (01:13:09):
They're gonna it's gonna be a close game. Miami is
gonna win and they'll be up three to OHO. Wouldn't
be a close game, but I have I would pull
my money on Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
By the way, I looked up the odds for the
series Monsei, uh huh, and Miami is favored. They're at
minus one.

Speaker 10 (01:13:24):
Seventy minus one seventy, so.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
Yeah, you have to risk yeah, one hundred and seventy
dollars just to win one hundred. So they're pretty decent
favorite being up two to oh in the series, which
makes a whole lot more sense than ESPN's analytics department,
who has Miami just a thirty five percent chance to
win the series even though.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
They're up to to oh.

Speaker 10 (01:13:45):
I'm with you. I hate analytics. I hate it so much, Like,
stop stop saying this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Just times it makes sense, other times makes no sense.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
Yeah this analytics don't always make sense and that's why
they suck.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
Yeah, this is one time makes zero sense. What forever
appreciate that?

Speaker 15 (01:14:02):
All Right?

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
We got a lot to get to over in here.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
George Reister on the way, he's he's a busy man,
you know, not just technical issues. Had to run to
the ATM. He owes me some steaks, all right, are
steak bets over here. Had to get a Saint Louis
Cardinals t shirt, had to get some help Boyle Loco
and some tacos El Pastor. He had to get an
icy He had to fix his back left tire was

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running a little low, a little low on air, and
then I'll be with us. He'll be with us here
momentarily very much looking forward to that coming up next.
The pressure to win it all? Where is it greatest
at We'll dive into that. I'm Brian No George Reister
on the way it is, Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian
up here on Fox Sports Radio, coming to you live

(01:14:50):
from the tire rack dot Com studios. So brooks Koepka
he wins the PGA Championship, won by two strokes over
Scottish efler Victor Hovlin. A few things that I think
are interesting about this. The first thing is this is
his fifth major. Brooks Kepka now has five major championships.

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He won the PGA Championship now three times, won the
US Open twice, so five time major winner. And what's
interesting is a lot of the reaction right now is
about this guy, Michael Block. It's an outstanding story. He's
a club pro, had a hole in one, and he

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qualifies for next year's PGA Championship because he finished in
the top fifteen of this year's PGA Championship. It's a
great story, it's cool, and so Twitter's just blowing up
with Michael Block, like what a story.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
This is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Now he's being recognized and interviewed and it's.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
This great story.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
And I feel like a lot more people are talking
about Michael Block than they are Brooks Kopka, and I
don't think that's wrong. I'm just pointing it out where
Brooks won his fifth major and he's really being upstaged
with the storyline that a lot of people are more
captivated by. And look, I don't think this is just

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a live thing. Let's just say Brooks Kopka was still
on the PGA Tour. I still think the same thing
could be taking place today. It's just a really cool
story with Michael Block.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
He's a club.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Pro, he finishes second in this NONPGA event is the
PGA Professional Championship. Never even heard of that, but he
finished second in that tournament to qualify for the BGA Championship.
He qualifies for this major as a whole. In one
top fifteen saw some story. It's a great story. I

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still think we would be captivated by Michael Block right
now even if brooks Koepka was on the PGA tour.
So I don't think this is just screw this live guy.
Let's talk about Michael Block over here, right. I don't
think it's just that, but it does strike me as
man brooks Kepka has to be sitting there like, you

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gotta be kidding me, right, he might like this story
with Michael Block, but you want your shine too. And
he finally battles all the way back. Had a significant
leg injury, his knee was all out of whack, and
he comes all the way back here long road after
many struggles due to mostly his health and struggling in

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tournaments and bad finishes and his world ranking dropping, and
then he goes to live and they hated me even
more because of that. He battles all the way back,
he wins this major and it's like, Michael Block, Michael Block,
Michael Block, this is amazing, Michael Block.

Speaker 7 (01:17:54):
He's gotta be like, you gotta be freaking gidding me.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Right here, you know. But I understand why it's unfolding
the way that it is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
The other thing that strikes me is the pressure to
come through where if you look at brooks Kaopka, you
had a two stroke lead on the final hole, and
I was just thinking, man, your t shot, your approach.
He could have two putted and still win the tournament,
which is what he did. He left a birdie just

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short and then just tapped it in, stab it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
It won it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
And I just started thinking, like, you have a two
stroke lead, and I think that's the toughest thing in sports.
I was thinking, sport to sport, what would be the
toughest thing to do when the pressure is really on you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
We're talking the eighteenth hole.

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
Maybe we're talking a couple of clutch free throws at
the end of a game, if it's football. I just
started going sport by sport, and I really do think
doing the simple things become way harder in the clutch
where it's like I'm expected to do this. I know
I can do it, and it just becomes this mental

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thing where maybe it's a ground ball and you're like,
I fielded a thousand ground balls, I should be able
to finish this. Get this one ah five hole, you
know what I mean. Like, the simple things I think
become much harder when the pressure is really really on.
You've seen some free throws be painfully short or way off,

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and it's due to the pressure. I don't know what
the top of the list would be. I really don't
in terms of what's the hardest to do when the
pressure is really on, whether it's a putt, it's a
free throw. I just think in general, the easy things
become harder if it's throwing to a wide open receiver.
Sometimes you show it, arm it, you just want to

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run over there and hand it to the guy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
You know it's catching the ball. When you're wide open, it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Just becomes difficult because it becomes a mental thing right there.
And sometimes it's easier when you're trailing. I go back
to Eli Manning when they beat the Patriots and they
had that clutch drive.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
In the locker room, he was talking to Peyton.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
They were both saying, that's why you want to be
down by four points instead of threes coming from behind.
Sometimes that eliminates a lot of pressure.

Speaker 7 (01:20:14):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
All right, come it up next. It is time for
this stud to start acting Studley. Oh, it is time
for this stud to start acting Studley.

Speaker 7 (01:20:24):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
That's on the way.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
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Game three. Got the Celtics got the Miami heat.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
In this thing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Miami up to nothing in the series and the series
shifts to Miami. Here, it is time for Jason Tatum
to stand up and start playing well. Like this is
the weird thing about Tatum. It's not as if he's
been bad. You go back in game two for Jason Tatum.

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Listen to his stat line in forty two minutes, thirty
four points, thirteen rebounds, eight assists. Would you sign up
for that? In game three?

Speaker 7 (01:21:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
Absolutely, If you could sign up for thirty four, thirteen
and eight, you would take that all day long. The
weird thing with Jason Tatum, even though he had a
lot of production in Game two, he didn't do anything
in the fourth quarter with all the money on the table.
In both fourth quarters, he has scored zero field goals.

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He hasn't made a bucket in the fourth quarter the
first two games, and he's had a couple of free
throws here and there, but no field goals. And so
if you look at Jason Tatum and he's talking about
being one of the best players in the game, he's
gotta start showing it because he's been upstaged by Jimmy

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Butler so far. This was Jason Tatum in the previous
round against the Sixers.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
This was the comment that really made headlines.

Speaker 12 (01:22:18):
I'm want to humbly one of the best basketball players
in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
He's right, he is one of the best basketball players
in the world. And so the humbly thing is taking
a life of its own. And actually, Jason Tatum he
warmed up before Game two wearing a T shirt that
said humbly. I don't think that that normally goes well,
right if you start thinking about these examples of remember

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the Houston Texans.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Where they wore the letterman's jackets and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Hey, we're gonna play the Patriots, let's wear our letterman's jackets,
and it's probably not gonna go well.

Speaker 1 (01:22:54):
Or there are teams that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Are like, hey, we're gonna dress it all black, let's
do it, and then it's like you got kicked in
the teeth.

Speaker 7 (01:23:01):
They lost by fifteen.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
A lot of times backfires.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
I'm not gonna make his fourth quarter no shows in
the first two games all about him wearing a Humbly
T shirt before Game two. But it's just one of
those things where it'd be like this. It'd be like
wearing the crazy outfit to the postgame press conference of

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a game you lost.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
Right If you win.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
The game and you wear something crazy, it's like, eh, whatever,
that's wild. But you wear something crazy after you lost,
it just lands differently, doesn't it. That's what I feel
about the Humbly T shirt. I'm not gonna blow that
out of proportion.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
But if you're.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Wearing Humbly and I'm one of the best players on
the planet, and it's like, okay, well, can I get
a bucket in the fourth quarter? Can we get that
they're down two zero in the series to Miami Now,
Charles Barkley on TNT, he made a point that was
pretty interesting. This was before Game two, two nights ago.

(01:24:09):
Here's what Barkley had to say about Jason Tatum, Jalen
Brown and comparing those guys to Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 12 (01:24:15):
I think the problem is they're just a bunch of
nice guy who are really good at basketball. They don't
have that Jimmy Butler dog like. I've seen guys who are.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Great go say that when they still listen. They don't.

Speaker 12 (01:24:32):
They a lot and they haven't won the Big One
either because they are missing that. Jason Tatum is a
great player, Jason Brown is a great player. They're just
nice guys. Now, that guy, you, Jimmy Butler, don't have
their talent. Let me tell you something you want Jimmy
Butler in that fox hole between Tatum and Brown and
Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler gonna take it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
I mean, I can't argue with him right now. There
is is a different, different mentality. There's just like a
ferociousness to Jimmy Butler, and he maximizes his talent and
then some it'd be like if Jimmy Butler's talent was
a credit card, it would be maxed out. He maxed

(01:25:17):
it out to the limit. It's like, no, dude, that's
as much. You can't go any further than that. He
rings every little droplet out of his talent level. And
props to him for doing that. But that's the difference,
and that's why Barkley was right on the money with that.
You're seeing Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown being upstaged by

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Jimmy Butler. So far, the more talented players have been
upstaged by the less talented guy.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
And I'm not making.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
Jimmy Butler out to be, you know, like Rudy from
the movie like the Notre Dame walk On. He's not
Rudy Rudiger out there. You're five foot nothing, one hundred
and nothing or what, hardly a spec of athletic talent.
That's not Jimmy Butler. He's more talented than that. But
he's not on a Jason Tatum level. He's not hitting

(01:26:06):
step back threes routinely. He doesn't have that in his bag.
But yet he's still out playing those guys. That speaks
to Jimmy's awesomeness and it speaks to Tatum and Brown's
lack of just getting it done.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
You can't be more talented and get outshined.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
That cannot happen, and it has two games in the
Other part of this is we've talked about Grant Williams
going forehead to forehead with Jimmy Butler, Folk of the Bear.
Didn't work out, did not work out. You gotta back
it up if you're talk, if you're trash talking, anybody
got to back it up. He didn't do that. That's
on him. But Game two was mostly about Grant Williams,

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What are you doing? Game two was about Jason Tatum again,
no buckets in the fourth quarter. Game two was not
about Jalen Brown, and he plays a major role here.
Jalen Brown scored sixteen points on twenty three shots.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
That's terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:27:08):
We used to say this all the time with certain
volume scorers, right, that was the nice way of saying,
he shoots a ton of shots and makes some of them.
You'd hear that with Carmelo Anthony. Well he's a volume shooter.

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
What does that mean.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
Well, he's just jacking up shots left and right, and
at the end of the game he might have a
shooting percentage where you're like, oh my gosh, that's obscene.
Look away, look away, like nightmare inducing type stuff. That's
what Jalen Brown just did in Game two, sixteen points
on twenty three shots. He was seven for twenty three

(01:27:45):
from the field, one for seven from three point range.
Even Lebron in what he's doing in the Nuggets series
thinks that sucks from three point range.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
One for seven, You kidding me? Like, Jalen Brown's got
to step up.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Also, this can just be about Grant Williams poking the bear,
which failed miserably. It can't just be about Jason Tatum
not scoring a bucket in the fourth quarter. It's also
got to be about Jalen Brown, and he really gets
lost in the shuffle. He's not gonna get the same
venom that a star player like Jason Tatum will if

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he doesn't show up, or a role player like Grant
Williams poking the Jimmy Butler bear. So it's really like
Jalen Brown got lost in the shuffle. If the Celtics
are gonna win Game three tonight, Jalen Brown has to
show up, has to. He is one of the major
factors in the game. This evening and so he can't

(01:28:41):
get lost in the shuffle. Man, he cannot. I'm Brian
know here on Fox Sports Radio. The other thing is
this when you start thinking about the Celtics and the
sound that we just heard from Charles Barclay and how
there was pushback from Kenny Smith, like, how can you
say that about Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown.

Speaker 1 (01:28:58):
They've been in the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:59):
Conference f finals five of the last seven seasons, They've
won a bunch of games, and Barkley's like, yeah, they
haven't won a title either. That's the trump card, right,
they haven't won it all. And the funny thing to
me is we are just one round removed from totally
clowning the Sixers. And don't get me wrong, Philly deserved

(01:29:22):
to be called out because of the process, and again
they cannot get out of the second round. Boston has
had more success than Philadelphia has. You look at Boston again,
getting to the conference finals five of the last seven years.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
They were in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Finals last season against the Warriors, nearly won the whole
freaking thing. The Celtics have been better than Philly. But
what's interesting now is it doesn't take long for the
perspective to shift and what was literally within a week
of saying, Ah the Sixers.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
The process taking doesn't work. The Celtics have done much
better job.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
And now all of a sudden you reevaluate and you say,
you know what, even though Boston has been better than Philly,
Boston hasn't won jack either. They haven't won a title.
So it's like, if you put this in NFL terms,
you could say, man, Cincinnati is better than Buffalo. They've

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gotten farther in the playoffs, they almost won a championship,
and it's like, well, yeah, they Cincinnati is better than Buffalo.
They fared better the last two years, but they haven't
won jack either. You know, like, at some point it's
just not about one team versus the other.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
It's the Celtics versus the league.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
And if they haven't won a championship, what does it
really matter that they've been better than Philadelphia?

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
Like, I don't know if I can paint the right picture, but.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
I just think that the person infective can change so quickly.
In the NBA playoffs, what really was Ah the Sixers.
They stik Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston. It took a matter
of days to realize, oh yeah, well Boston hasn't won
it all either. It is crazy how those two teams
are linked, though, if you really stop and think about it. Philadelphia,

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so they went with Markel Foltz with the first overall pick,
the same draft that Boston number three overall, got Jalen Brown.
Then the very next draft, the Sixers trade up to
the number one pick, they get Ben Simmons, and Boston
who moved down, they get Jason Tatum number three overall.

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Just let that sink in for a second. The Sixers
ended up with Markel Foltz and Ben Simmons instead of
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum. Even one of those guys
with the Sixers would be huge. You pair Tatum with
Embad or Jalen Brown and Embad, now you're cooking with grease.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
But that didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
And the thing with the Sixers two is I think
a lot of people just think of tanking as only
a Sixers thing, like the Sixers are the only team
that has tanked and it didn't work out for them, Therefore,
tanking never works like that's the simplistic way to look
at it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
It's often the inaccurate way to look at.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
It, because there have been other teams that tank and
it's worked out. I can think of one off the
top of my head. Just a couple of days ago. Uh,
the San Antonio Spurs chet it up with the number
one overall pick and they're gonna get this stud wem
Bin Yama. Like, just because the Sixers had this phrase
the process, and you're starting to think that they've hugged tanking.

(01:32:57):
They have fully embraced it. They are are making out
with tanking. You know, It's not like the Sixers are
are the only team that tanks. And don't think that
all things tanking fail miserably because it hasn't worked out
for the Sixers. There have been many teams that tank

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and sometimes it does work out. It didn't work out
for the Detroit Pistons just a couple of days ago,
where they have the best odds or they had the
worst record, and they ended up with the fifth overall pick.
That is a kick right in the groin right between
the boys, you know, very bad. So I'm just telling

(01:33:37):
you tanking doesn't always work out. I would never say
it does, but just don't fall into the trap of
thinking tanking never works just because the Sixers haven't won
a title or got into the Eastern Conference Finals. Sometimes
it does work for teams, but in any event, curious
to see what happens in Game three tonight. I'll be

(01:34:00):
watching three things in particular, Jason Tatum. Can he show
up in the fourth quarter? Jayleen Brown? Can he start
acting like the star player.

Speaker 7 (01:34:12):
That he is?

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
Seven for twenty three?

Speaker 7 (01:34:15):
Is hideous?

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
That can't happen again? And also does Grant Williams. Does
Grant Williams double down? It did not work at all?
Does he double down and just say you know what,
I think I was close. I think I was onto
something here. Let me go fourhead to forehead again with
Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 1 (01:34:33):
I'm guessing no. I'm guessing no.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
When your team doesn't give you the thumbs up, the
seal of approval, I think that's where you abandon ship
right there. This is Jalen Brown after Game two.

Speaker 12 (01:34:46):
Grant Williams making mistake, poking the bear with Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
Next question, He's like, I can't even give you play speak.
When we was talking about coach speak, I can't even
go play or speak of He couldn't even Derek Jeter.

Speaker 7 (01:35:06):
That one.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Derek Jeter was the master. He would just say a
bunch of words and never.

Speaker 7 (01:35:10):
Really answer the question.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
If someone asked Derek Jeter that he would have said, well,
you know, if you go back to the third quarter
and I thought we shot the three very well and
you know what I mean, it would be everything. But
answering the question, Jalen Brown just basically gave you. I
can't even sugarcoat how badly that went for us. So
let's just I'm not even gonna pretend. Let's just go

(01:35:32):
to the next question. I want to throw him under
the bus. It's only a game two that we just lost.
Still a long series, hopefully, let's just move on here.
But the point is when your own teammates, when they
don't say, hey, I like it. It backfired, but I
like it. We Hey, we're we're talking of confident bunch,

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you know, they're just like, yeah, that didn't work right there.
So I'm gonna say Grant Williams does not poke the
bear today, but very much looking forward to Game three,
hopefully you'd be a good one. Miami underdogs at home.
They're getting no love. They're four and a half point
underdogs at home with a two oh series lead.

Speaker 7 (01:36:12):
WHOA, that's unbelievable to me.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
All right, come it up next, we'll get to just awful,
awful numbers, although they are very very entertaining.

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
That is on the way.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
I'm Brian no keep it locked right here on Fox
Sports Radio. I'm Brian No here on Fox Sports Radio,
coming to you live from the Tireck dot Com studios.
George Reister a victim of technical mishaps. Yeah, or or
it was just that his Lakers have sucked then he
didn't want to face the music.

Speaker 7 (01:36:44):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Which it's too soon, bro, yeah,
which it was right there. I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
By the way, you're getting set for Game three of
the Heat and Celtics series tonight, and right now on
TNT they've got one of the Matrix movies. I don't
know if this is Matrix nine or Matrix thirteen. I'm
not sure which one this is. But I started a
discussion with uh the group over here, both Benson trusted

(01:37:12):
producer Alex ty Shirt, who is in against his will
on a Sunday.

Speaker 7 (01:37:17):
He is, He's a.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Weekday man, you know what I mean. I don't do
these weekend jobs?

Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
Right? Is that what's going on there?

Speaker 16 (01:37:25):
Alex's actually a pretty accurate description in Uh, that's how
I sound.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
Actually, that's pretty good. Oh it was great.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Yeah, Chris Purfett he tagged you in to begin this
final hour, and all I heard from Alex Alex normally
like very very upbeat.

Speaker 1 (01:37:42):
You know, if I do a fill in shift with him,
he's like, what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Man? Are you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
Show?

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
And then this hour is just like your Mike's hot.
I'm like, oh man, Alex is bent right now. He
is unhappy, but hey man, I'm happy you're here. It's
good to hear you. But we were talking about john
Wick or Matrix obviously Keanu Reeves and both franchises.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Which do you go with?

Speaker 7 (01:38:08):
Right there?

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
And there have been some very insightful breakdowns from both
Bo Benson and Alex Tye shirt you Bo, what's your
vote for john Wick or Matrix?

Speaker 14 (01:38:18):
There?

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
Oh, he's on his way, he's in it there he is.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Uh, the Matrix won overall, but I think john Wick
is a better series.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Yes, don't you love when the on air guy has
the worst timing ever?

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
To be like, hey, Bo, what do you think about that?

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
And Bo is like at the copy machine doing something
work related, you know what I mean, And You're like, oh, no,
I've got a.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
Matrix to the microphone.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
There was no.

Speaker 5 (01:38:45):
I was on the ESPN trade machine trying to figure
out how to make the Lakers better next year.

Speaker 1 (01:38:51):
You want Kyrie? Is that where you're signing up for?

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
No, I do not want Kyrie? Do I think it's
going to happen?

Speaker 7 (01:38:56):
Uh? Maybe maybe maybe?

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Alex's breakdown Wick v Matrix. So you put the original
matrix number one of all the movies, right, yes, and
then you put the original John Wick number two.

Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
Yes. I like the breakdown. It's pretty interesting.

Speaker 16 (01:39:14):
Because if you think about it, be we had this
off air, and I told you very simplistic wise, it's
incredibly hard, almost impossible for you to exceed expectations when
you have a first great flick. So for the matrix,
for example, there is no good matrix after the first one.
All of them go downhill. I know some people say
the second one's pretty good, the third one. I know
BO said he likes the new one. But for myself,

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after the first one, it's just been a downhill spiral.
Whereas on John Wicks side, The fourth one is by
far the most fun I've had at a movie theater
in a cool minute.

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Yeah, it was great. It's ascending right there. It's kind
of like a roller coaster, that's what you're saying. We're
ascending with John Wick each time. Have you ever been
to the Disney line out here, b when you come visit.

Speaker 1 (01:39:56):
Us in yeats? I did a long time ago.

Speaker 16 (01:39:58):
Yeah, so you remember how in I think it's now
what's the new one now?

Speaker 14 (01:40:01):
Bo?

Speaker 16 (01:40:01):
It's like the Marvel one that's at California Adventure. It
used to be the Tower of Terror. What is it now?

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
Guardians of the Galaxy?

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
Yes, okay, so did you ever ride the Tower of
Terror Guardians of the Galaxy.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
It's funny you bring this up because we were at
Disney World. We went to Orlando within the last month
and I wrote what you're talking about. I don't know
what the name of it was, but it just drops you. Hey, yeah, yeah,
you know what. They should call it the matrix because
that's what happens. It just drops. That's it.

Speaker 16 (01:40:26):
The start is great, you're at the top and then
you're like, all right, well we're back in the bottom.

Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
Oh man, that is funny.

Speaker 7 (01:40:32):
That's very funny right there, man, good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
I haven't seen john Wick four yet. You need to
and I will very soon, but very fond. John Wick
is of the like over the shoulder kind of hip throws.
He does that many times in each movie. I'm expecting
many in john Wick four. I just haven't seen it yet.
Right where the guy's running at him, approaching him, and

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he just kind of grabs him and throws him over
his shoulder.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
He loves that move.

Speaker 3 (01:40:59):
And then he'll like shoot nine other guys and then
shoot the original guy who he just shoulder through. You know,
that's how he gets eat.

Speaker 5 (01:41:07):
You think all the bad guys would have a meeting
and be like, hey, he's going to try to do this,
so don't let him do that to you. They are
not watching film at the bad guy meetings.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
Totally, right man. You gotta know better than that. You
gotta know tendencies of John Wick at this point. Good lord,
bad guys, what are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:41:24):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
So a couple of numbers and we'll get Monte Bolanos
in here in a second.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
So some good numbers. We'll start with the Miami Heat.
What a turnaround.

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
Some of these just astounding to me. The Athletic pointed
this out. So Christmas twenty twenty two, Miami's record was
sixteen and seventeen. They were ninth in the East. Then
the All Star Break rolls around. They're five games over
five hundred, seventh in the East. The playing tournament, they
lost to the Hawks in the number seven game. I'm sorry,

(01:41:57):
I apologize. I said they lost to the Bulls a
little bit. I got my teams mixed up. They lost
to the Hawks in the number seven game. They got
their way in, they earned the eight seed. Then they
lose Tyler Hero who's their third leading scorer, best three
point shooter, and they crush the Bucks. They move on
in the second round, and now they've got a two

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zero series lead against the Miami Heat. What a turnaround
it has been for the Miami Heat. It is crazy
where they are right now. And they still they still
can't get any love. They're four and a half point
dogs at home in Game three when they just won
two road games against Boston. Now we get to the
bad numbers. Jason Stark pointed this out. I just think

(01:42:43):
this is hilarious. The Oakland A's how bad has it been?
They're ten to thirty seven, So they have the worst
run differential after forty seven games of any team in
the history of the American League. Their minus won sixty six.
And he did a little comparison with the sixty two Mets,

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who were just awful, and through forty seven games, the
sixty two Mets had a minus ninety nine run differential,
So the A's are lapping them at minus one sixty six.
This might be my favorite nugget on the A's. They
still haven't had a one game losing streak. I let

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that sink in for a second. They've had many losing streaks,
just not a one game losing streak. It's always been
multiple games that they've lost in a row. And their
starting rotation, their rotation in general, the era would be
seven thirty seven is where they're at right now. So look,
I've had I spin all these numbers out at you.

(01:43:50):
I've had some bad NBA beats the last couple of days.
Bad like I've missed prop on lebron By. I needed
two more points. I needed this Celtics to score one
fewer point.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
You know, just just score one less.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
You know, that didn't work out, Like many bad beats,
just close razor thing. Last game with Jimmy Butler, I
needed twenty five, seven and seven. I got twenty seven,
eight and six. Just do one more assists then bad
beats left and right. I think I just need to
channel this in the direction of the Oakland A's and

(01:44:26):
just bet against them. You know, I problem solved right there.
I want to pass the baton right now to the
one and only Moncey Bolanos with us, and she's got
the latest.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
What's going on? Manzi?

Speaker 16 (01:44:40):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:44:40):
You know, just hanging out?

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
What do you say? John Wick or Matrix?

Speaker 10 (01:44:44):
Oh Sie? Actually never seen John Wick. I know I'm
missing now, I know I'm missing out.

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
Uh so very violent, very violent.

Speaker 6 (01:44:51):
But I also have heard that in one of the
movies he's like taking avengtions to somebody who killed his dog.

Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
Yeah that's right, So.

Speaker 6 (01:45:01):
Like I need to go I need to go watch
this because apparently his dog looks like my dog.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
Really yeah, what kind of dog do you have?

Speaker 10 (01:45:07):
I have a pit bull? Uh, probably mixed with something
because he's really tall. He's way tall for like a pity.
He's about eighty five pounds. He's a three legged.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Pity five pounds.

Speaker 6 (01:45:19):
Yeah, he used to be like ninety three and then
we had to take his leg off and so now
he's like eighty five.

Speaker 10 (01:45:24):
Yeah, he's a big he's a big boy. He's a
big boy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Because what's Pity's name over there, Dexter, Dexter what a
great stern.

Speaker 1 (01:45:32):
Yeah was that before the series.

Speaker 6 (01:45:34):
So it was right around the time that the series
was popular.

Speaker 10 (01:45:38):
I got him in twenty.

Speaker 6 (01:45:39):
Twelve and our family dog had passed away maybe like
three months prior to that, and his name was Rex.
So the show was popular, but the intention was like, oh,
we can call him dex short for Dexter, like Rex.

Speaker 10 (01:45:53):
It never happened. Nobody calls him.

Speaker 6 (01:45:55):
It's Dexter or a bunch of other names, Dexter, Reno, poop,
you know his other name.

Speaker 10 (01:46:00):
It's just not dex.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:03):
It's awesome though.

Speaker 10 (01:46:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's a good boy. He's a good boy.
But he's big. He's a big guy.

Speaker 6 (01:46:08):
I'm sure people see him and get a little bit scared,
you know, Like I'm walking him down the street.

Speaker 10 (01:46:12):
People will cross the street because I don't want to
walk by they do.

Speaker 7 (01:46:15):
Oh yeah that's that. Just just make.

Speaker 10 (01:46:17):
A move, justy, just And he's so sweet. He is
so so sweet.

Speaker 6 (01:46:22):
I don't know what would happen if some danger did
come upon us.

Speaker 10 (01:46:27):
I don't know what he would do because he's so sweet.

Speaker 6 (01:46:29):
Like I hope he would you know, attack and like
defend me, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:46:34):
You know, you gotta see.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
You gotta see the John Wick movies because I don't
want to spoil anything here. I don't think I am
the first dog. I don't know what breed it was,
but it's definitely not a pit bull. Okay, but the
next dog, I don't know what breed, but looks a
little pitied.

Speaker 6 (01:46:49):
That's what I've been told, right, That's what I've been told. Yes,
I mean I think he's a black dog, right, yep. Yeah,
Dexter is like a very dark gray. He's not black,
but it's what I've been told it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:00):
So I gotta get on it. No, I gotta get
away to see him dog.

Speaker 6 (01:47:03):
Yeah, I'm sure, but then I'm gonna cry and then
I'm gonna like, you know, want to.

Speaker 10 (01:47:07):
Kill people too, and yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course.

Speaker 6 (01:47:12):
Brooks Kepka has won the PGA Championship, ending nine under
par overall, two shots ahead of Victor Hovlin. And Scottie Scheffler,
but he's not the main story, which you mentioned. It's like, yeah,
good job Brooks Kopka your fifth major title.

Speaker 10 (01:47:26):
All right, good But Michael Block, who Everyone's like, who's that?

Speaker 6 (01:47:29):
Yeah, none of us are supposed to know who this
guy is, but now we all do. He is a
club bro who teaches golf lessons in California. Had a
whole on one on the fifteenth hole, finished in the
top fifteen, so he's qualified for next year's PGA Championship.
Has really been the talk of the town. I know
Brooks kept go one, but no, Michael Block is who
you're gonna be hearing a lot about following this PGA Championship.

(01:47:52):
Game two, Game three, I'm lying between the Miami he
and Boston Celtics tips off at eight thirty pm Eastern Time,
with Miami leading the series two to one. I think
they're gonna when this one. They're gonna go up three zero.
Vegas Golden Knights rallied back on the ice to beat
the Dallas Stars three to two in overtime. Vegas now
leads a series to zero. In the w NBA, Brianna
Stewart had forty five points and thirteen rebounds in just

(01:48:14):
three quarters, and the Liberty beat the Fever nineties to
seventy three, so she had half of the points in
three quarters for the Liberty.

Speaker 10 (01:48:23):
In Major League Baseball, one game going on. It's a
double header.

Speaker 6 (01:48:26):
So this is game two between the Guardians and the Mets,
and the Guardians are up one zero. It's the bottom
of the second inning. Earlier today, it was the Mets
who edged the Guardians five to four home runs from
Brandon Neimo and starlne Marte. The Astros beat the Ace
two to zero. Pitcher Franbur Valdez pitch the entire game,
the whole game, all of it. We never see that anymore.

(01:48:46):
He had four hits and seven strikeouts. The Angels beat
the Twins four to two. Show Heyo Tani pitched six innings.
He struck out nine. The Brewers with the six to
four victory over the very hot Rays, the Nationals took
down the Tigers at home six to four.

Speaker 10 (01:49:00):
The Braves top the Mariners three to two.

Speaker 6 (01:49:02):
The Phillies beat the Cubs to one, things to a
two run shot from Bryson Stott in the seventh inning.
And also victories for your Cardinals, who took down my
Dodgers tenth to five. The White Sox. I'm sure you're
not used to hearing the White Sox winning, but they
won today against the Royals five to two, the Giants,
the Diamondbacks, and the Rangers.

Speaker 10 (01:49:20):
Oh yeah, the Padres. Move back to you, Brian.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
It's been fun, always fun.

Speaker 10 (01:49:26):
It's always fun. And Georgie did such a good job today, Like, wow, man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
Georgia, solid one segment shift today when he turned in right.

Speaker 10 (01:49:35):
There, because he started the show he was here.

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
You know, I'm trying to think of the Lakers player
that he was the equivalent of today.

Speaker 1 (01:49:45):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 (01:49:46):
No, Di'angelo Russell, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
Maybe, or you know, I'm trying to think of someone
that barely gets on the floor, you know, like, okay,
maybe eight minutes for the series something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:49:59):
And I can't think if anyone off the top.

Speaker 6 (01:50:00):
Of no, no, yeah, he's better than Tristan Thompson.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Yeah, that's true, no doubt about that. Okay, a couple
of things on the top off the top of my head.
I'm thinking about this as we get set for Game
three tonight with the the Heat hosting the Celtics.

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
With Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
Jimmy Butler shows what John Morant should be, and the
Miami Heat show what the Memphis Grizzlies collectively should be.

Speaker 1 (01:50:34):
That's where my mind goes.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
Where if you think about Jimmy Butler mature, competitive, grinder,
leader like that, there are at least two adjectives of
those four that do not describe John Morant. I would
say he is a competitor. He is obviously incredibly talented,

(01:50:56):
but he is not mature and he is not a leader.
And that is a gigantic problem with the Memphis Grizzlies,
where if you look at Jimmy, he's done a great
job maximizing his talent and John Morant has done a
great job minimizing his talent. That's where it stands right now.
And I hope that changes. I really do, because John

(01:51:19):
Morant could be one of the brightest stars in the NBA,
not just now, but in the history of the game.
He's that talented, and I hope he doesn't wreck it
by doing stupid stuff because he already made two major
mistakes with showing guns on social media, got suspended for
eight games the first time. He's going to face a
lengthier suspension this time. And it's just I can't believe

(01:51:43):
the dude. After the first time, it was saying the
right thing, that I'll be more mature. After they lost
to the Lakers by forty in an elimination game, he
supposedly owned it and said, hey, the off the court distractions,
it hurt us this season.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
Can't be doing that. And then what a matter of.

Speaker 3 (01:52:03):
Weeks later he's making the same mistake. It's insane to me.
But look at the Miami Heat, and look at the
Memphis Grizzlies, and look who each team is led by.
Look how the role players follow the lead of the star,
and look how Miami has absolutely maximized their potential and

(01:52:27):
the Grizzlies have done the opposite of that. That's not
a coincidence at all. The Heat are what the Grizzlies
should be. But Joh is nowhere near the leader that
Jimmy Butler is. That's where it currently is, and that's
where it's headed. That's the scarier thing for Memphis. Unless

(01:52:48):
Joh changes things around, it's just going to continue down
this path.

Speaker 1 (01:52:52):
And I think this too.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
I don't know this incredibly fair, but think of this
something to throw out there.

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
Look at Dylan Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
I'm not gonna put everything that Dylan Brooks did saying
I don't care Lebron's old, I poke bears and then
it failed miserably. I'm not gonna put that all on
jahmm Rant because that's Dylan Brooks.

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
Dylan Brooks stirs the pot.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
He's a competitor, he's on the edge all the time,
and sometimes he goes over the line. That's not all
on jam Rant, but it does make me wonder if
Dylan Brooks is a teammate of Jimmy Butler's I know
things change somewhat. I don't think Jimmy Butler changes Dylan

(01:53:40):
Brooks to the nth degree and discourages.

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
All of that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
Maybe over the line, fiery talk and approach, but he's
not immature and he's not costing his team the same way.
I just don't believe that's the case. Something that I
know for sure. Remember Klay Thompson. Last year Warriors beat
the Celtics to win a championship, and Clay Thompson he

(01:54:05):
circled back to beating the Grizzlies in the playoffs, and
he talked about Jaron Jackson Junior tweeting out strengthened numbers.
So the whole story was after the Grizzlies beat the
Warriors last season in a regular season game, Jared Jackson
put strengthened numbers. That's the slogan of the Warriors, and

(01:54:27):
so it's basically like in your face, we beat you,
and Klay Thompson was like, I can't wait to retweet
that bum who just threw it in our face, like
strengthened numbers. I know, Jaron Jackson Junior, he's not doing
the same thing with the real leader in Jimmy Butler.
If those guys are teammates, it's just Memphis is very

(01:54:48):
immature and it's not a coincidence because they're following the
lead of an immature star. Miami doesn't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
It's the perfect fit for Jimmy Butler in Miami.

Speaker 7 (01:55:01):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
This happens sometimes in sports. There are great fits. There
are horrible fits. Like Westbrook with the Lakers. Just play
off ball and shoot threes. Horrible fit, you know, like
Jimmy Butler with the Miami Heat Heat culture grinders. We
play hard. They are a bunch of undrafted dudes. And
we are just giving full effort. It is the perfect

(01:55:24):
fit for Jimmy Butler, but it's also the perfect fit
for those role players and those teammates of Jimmy's because
that dude is all effort, all heart mixed with skill,
and they follow his lead. I'll put it this way,
good way to say it. Do you think the Miami

(01:55:45):
heat or where they are right now if John Morant
is the star player of Miami, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
I don't think you do either.

Speaker 3 (01:55:52):
Things gotta change because Jimmy Butler shows what Josh should
be doing in the NBA and the Heat Show with
the Grizzlies collectively should be doing. But you can't just
get in your own way, and that's what Memphis has
done more times than not. All right, plenty more to
get to before we close it on down over here.
Close doesn't count and uh, get ready for miked up footage.

(01:56:19):
A couple of things to throw your way before it's
all said and done.

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Speaker 7 (01:56:47):
Okay, so.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
Get ready for miked up footage in the PAC twelve.
Huh yeah, you excited about this. I'll give you a
reason why you should be at least subtly excited. Okay,
So the PAC twelve, they announced that they're gonna expand
their access in college football broadcasts where they're gonna have
some in game coach interviews. They're also gonna have some

(01:57:12):
halftime locker room access.

Speaker 1 (01:57:15):
I'm all for it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
Now, this doesn't automatically make it must see TV, but
there are moments that help where a lot of times
it's coach speak every now and then you'll get a
fiery like Nick Saban or you know, right, like, there
are times I'm not gonna drop everything I'm doing to watch,
but there are times during the game that it does

(01:57:36):
spruce it up a little bit, or there's something that's
said that it just becomes news. So I think it's
better when they give you more access. I do think
it's better. I would like to see more miked up
footage in college football in the NFL.

Speaker 7 (01:57:52):
I think the NBA does an exceptional job of that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Even little things like Jamal Murray was killing it last
night in the first half against the Lakers and Bruce
Brown was miked up and he was like.

Speaker 1 (01:58:04):
Find mall, he's hot.

Speaker 3 (01:58:06):
Give them the ball, give it the ball, right, Like
little stuff like that. I love if you had I'll
tell you this, if you had Grant Williams and Jimmy
Butler miked up as their forehead to forehead.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
I would have loved to hear that. It might not
have been great.

Speaker 3 (01:58:22):
It might have been like, yeah, yeah, bring it on, Yeah,
let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. It might
have just been that, but I would love to hear it.
I'm not gonna turn down more access. So for the
Pac twelve, they got to do something to differentiate themselves.
And if more access helps, then you do it. I'll
never forget Rick Scott. He's an old consultant. He's been

(01:58:45):
a sports radio veteran for a long time, and he
gave me advice one time and he said, Brian, you
just you make this tweak here on this radio station.
You add this, you add this, you keep tweaking, and
all of a sudden you got a great radio station.
It's the same thing with broadcasts like this. Isn't going
to change the PAC twelve to make it the conference,
but it's a little thing that can help. By the way,

(01:59:07):
close doesn't count. If we look at the Lakers here, Brandon,
I wanted to shout him out. He sent a tweet
to us and he said, being in it in the
last minute is not good enough for me. I'd demand
genuine attempts of greatness from my teams. And he said,
if I had to say, in the Lakers organization, I'd

(01:59:27):
find if he had to say, he'd find the players
as much as the CBA allows for conduct detrimental to
the team. That a little extreme, But I do like
the thought of this thought of the Lakers. But they
were really close in the first two games. They almost
got not good enough, not good enough. As my dad
used to say, close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

(01:59:49):
There's one of my dad's go to sayings right there,
and it's definitely true in the NBA playoffs. All right,
enjoy Game three to night we will catch you later.