Martin Weiss & Olden Polynice Talk NBA Playoffs Round 1, Preview the NFL Draft & More!

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right now, the Detroit Pistons, And you know, there's a
whole bunch of else I know. But honestly, though, when
I think of you, and I remember your career when
I was a kid watching the NBA, I think of
you as a Detroit Piston really the Clippers, not the Clippers.
I think of you as a Detroit Pistons. Okay, for
whatever reason, you do you good. I was a bad boy.
That's why. There you go, great on yourself, doing well,

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doing well. So there's nobody better to talk about. You know,
the quote unquote new bad boys of Detroit. There's a
few people that have tried to term them, honestly, not
even closed. They gotta win something first, But this team
is kind of a rough and tone Pistons team. They're
gonna hold you, they're gonna fail you, they're gonna make
the ref call fouls. And you put that up to

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another rough and topble Eastern Conference team in the Knicks,
and that's how you go end up with the score
where no one's scored eighty points with four minutes left
in the third quarter, which is a you know, closely
contested game. Two evenly matched teams were two stars kind
of struggling from the floor. And Brunton and in Kate Cunningham.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Oh definitely, and you know it's gonna be that way.
I mean, we can go back to the heydays of
Pistons and Knicks. As you mentioned, you know, guys were
a lot tougher and they were talented. So I don't
know if they trying to replicate that with the Pistons,
but they got a couple guys Isaiah's Stewart, Jal and Duran,

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those guys. But I'm still not buying too much, only
because the lack of experience from the Pistons. But I
think it's gonna be a really good series and the
Knicks should win it. But I wouldn't be shocked if
the Pistons won it.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Al I actually like the Pistons in this series. I
think that now it's not necessarily proving true today as
Kate Cunningham has taken more shots than points scored, but
he took a major step forward this year, I think
in terms of being the type of player that can
be the best player on a winning team, Kate Cunningham did,
and I'd like to see Maybe this is just a

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little bit of selfishness, because I'm ready to see some
new faces atop the mountaintop in the NBA, or you know,
necessarily just you know, some more people just as that
we can put up there as guys that we are
tuned into on a nightly basis. I hope Kate Cunningham
can show America that he should be one of those
guys in this series, which is why I think they'll

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win this thing.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well yeah, but the reason why you keep seeing the
same faces because they veteran teams, and that's the component
that is needed to win and sustain winning situations. Right,
you gotta have veteran leadership. You gotta have really good
older guys bottom line, not some old guy that just

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happens to be on the team. But you gotta have
solid players, you know, all stars that are veterans because
they know and they've been in those situations. And again,
it's gonna take time. And the only way to get
experience is through experience.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Now, you know, we talking about it. Guys who have
veteran playoff experience. Luca Doncics has quite a bit, and
he has an old guy that happens to be on
his team, Lebron James. That dude's still he's still playing.
He is at a pretty high level, uh at for
that fact. But the right let's talk about that game
one that's coming up in about half an hour, the

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Lakers and the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards in the in the
Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals last year made a
big trade, right trade a Karl Anthony Towns to the
to the New York Knicks. Uh and then you had
or got Julius Randall on the get back, and then
you had Luka Doncics in Western Conference Finals last year

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was part of the one of the biggest trades in
NBA history going to Los Angeles. So a team that's
very familiar with Luka Dancic, but Luka dancc on a
team that he's only been off for a few games,
not very familiar with in terms of the Tien versus the.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Mavericks, Oh definitely, you know, his first playoff series with
the Lakers. And one of the things that I've been
seeing and talking about is the fact that my apprehension
with the Lakers is that this is still relatively new.
It's one thing to deal with during the regular season.
You get traded. The shock was there, Luca was distraught,

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he got over it, he started putting in some good numbers,
but we in up seven game playoff series and my again,
my apprehension is will he reverted back to natural instincts
of coming down jacking up forty footers like he did
in Dallas where they allowed that to happen as opposed
to being on the Lakers with the Lebron Austin Reeves,

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Ruiyoshimura and of course JJ Reddick.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
James.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Reg's been trying to show that he's gonna be a
you know, a coach that goes at his players. So
it is that gonna be allowed, and that's what I'm
waiting to see, you know, when the pressure gets tough.
How they gonna respect.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Because you make a good point. JJ did say at
the introductory I believe press conference for Luca that you know,
he asked them, how do you want to be coached?
And Luke, you know, can I coach you hard? Essentially?
And Luca was like, yeah, I'm all for it. But
that was like game sixty or so of the regular season. Right,
You're at the fifty fifth game of the regular season, right,

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that's you know, that works when you're playing the Charlotte
Hornets and the Washington Wizards and the Portland Trail Plazers
and the like. But when you're up here and you're
looking at, you know, a star in his own right
Anthony Ewards on the other side of things, who is
just last postseason swept Kevin Durant and Devin Booker up
out of the postseason and then walked down on this

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Denver Nuggets team that a lot of people were really
high on last year walk them down in Game seven
in the second round of the playoffs to advance to
the Western Conference Finals. He is gaining his bona fides
in the postseason. Obviously flamed out in the Western Conference Finals,
but hell, like you said, the only way you get
experience is by getting experienced. That was his longest playoffront
of his career. He is not planning or losing in

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the first round.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, not at all, because he's so cocky and he
said it too, he's verbalized it, and to me that
that can go one or two ways. But I enjoyed it.
When a guy, especially a guy that's gonna get the ball.
It's one thing if you're that guy like Anthony Edwards
and you make those statements, you're gonna be put in
that position.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I don't want to hear from a guy that's not
playing all that he sets his teammates up or to
your point, Like even.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
If you're a guy, like if you're gonna set your
teammates up to the tune of thirteen assists or feel fifteen,
it says, all right, cool, I get what you're saying, though,
because there is something that let me think Anthony Edwards
when he says something to you and then comes down
in dunks on you or hits a three in your face,

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or does both seemingly at the same time, with the
way it's crazy athletics has EMSs. It hits a little
different than when Dylan Brooks is yepping at yes, because
he because Dylan Brooks, he might defend you or whatever, but
you know his game is not gonna be. There's not
gonna be He's not gonna take his game and beat you.
It's gonna be all the other stuff that all the

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mental stuff, grabbing at your jersey, stepping on your foot,
like just messing with you, trying to throw you off
your game. Anthony Edwards don't need to mess with you. You
just pop up op crossover behind the back, three in
your eye exactly.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
And that's what I was saying, because he's gonna have
the ball the majority of the time, and that's a
lot of pressure to put on people. The problem with
that the Lakers are gonna see is not only Anthony
Edwards coming at you being aggressive. And I think he
led the league in three point.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
He did, but it was kind of funny actor how
Anthony Edwards went about it. So it was game eighty
two of the season, but Leak Beasley had the lead
when the Pistons finished their last game. He was a
sixth man right believe he's coming up the bench, had
the lead in three pointers made, and I think was
second and percentage. Anthony Edwards, of course, called on video

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is petitioning the coach of Chris Finch, like I need
to go back and you see him holding up like
six is like six on his hands, like I need
six more pety five more to take the lead.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
You see what Malik Beasley said about it.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, he was like, if you want to tweeted it, yeah,
quote tweeted the video and he was like, man, you
can have it.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't care if you want.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
That's that's Anthony Awards to his to the to the
point he's he does stuff like that, but he's that guy.
He's gonna step it up.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Okay, he played that game and he got so you
still have to perform. But to me, the key, Martin,
It's gonna be Julius Randall.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
That's I was just about to say, because we have
three players that we can kind of set next level,
set expectation for. That's Lebron, James Luka, Doncis Anthony Edwards.
The fourth is Julius Randall. Julius Randall's going to be
the key for this series because it the only player

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that I think the Lakers want, would want to have
on the court. The whole time that could guard Julius
Randall would be Lebron. Right, Like, that's not gonna happen.
I know, I'm just saying, but would want to. They'll
put Ruey Hatchimore on them, They'll put the other guys
on him, but the only guy that they would want
at all moments of the game would be Lebron. If
Julius Rendall can play to a level where he's gonna

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like he has to play to a point where you
can't put Ruey Hotchimore on him or can't put Jackson
Hayes on him in down the stretch. That's what it's
gonna come down to for me, because I think Anthony Edwards,
when you look at the guys that are gonna guard him,
he we're looking at a smooth twenty seven to thirty
five points a game of range right there for Anthony

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Edwards and a like a four to one matchup if
Julius Rendle doesn't show.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh yeah, definitely. But you know there's one more, one
more guy too, and no one's talking about. In the
last two weeks he's put up some exceptional numbers and
that's Rudy Gobert. I mean, you talking about defense, play
of the Year, shot block and Champ all that stuff,
So he's gonna be an X factor as well. So
that's what I'm saying. It's not a four gun conclusion

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that the Lakers are gonna beat the Wolves. And I
don't know why people are thinking that. I get it,
you have Lebron and you have Luca, but the knock
on the Lakers have always been about defense, especially Luca Downtons,
and Lebron is picking his spots on when he decides
to play defense, so that's gonna be a problem.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
That's why I say, if Randall can force Lebron to
have to defend for extended periods of time, if they
let him pick their spot. What Shannon always say, Lakers
are five. You know what I'm saying, like the way
he always says it.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh, if the referees referee like they did the clip
of Denver game calling all those files on hardening Jo
Kics mine good.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Some of that was ridiculous. You know what series I'm
already preemptively upset about they're going to officiate it the
Rockets and the Warriors. When that, when that watching this
that already, I'm already gonna be like, what are we
doing here? How is this shaking out? Right now? Looking
at this game, Jalen Brunson seems to have a bothered ankle.
He keeps limping a bit. That's not a great sign

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before you even finish your first playoff game in the
first round of the playoffs with Jalen Brunson, who you
know got hurt last postseason again, you know, limping a
little bit. He's still out there. He's not not.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well, that's the ankle he hurt. Yeah, And now you
know why he came back right, Why to get those
sixty five games to be eligible?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
He well, Hey, you know, when you take that contract
discount like you did earlier, you gotta make sure you
hit the incentives. Right.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Hey man, I don't know about that one. I'm not
giving nothing back. I ain't no discounts.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
No, but I'm saying if you did, you might you
gotta get hit that cool, especially when you consider some
of the guys that don't qualify for the All NBA
Teams and all these awards just because they didn't hit
sixty five, where if they did it sixty five games,
they definitely would have qualified. Makes you think Piston's going
into the fourth quarter. Right now, with twenty and a

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half seconds left in the third quarter, with an eight
point lead on the Knicks, I tell you Detroit would
be hype to win this. We'll have all of this
coming up. We got all over the NBA playoffs. Saw
history made today. We saw history made today and the
worst way possible in the NBA playoffs. We'll do that

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at forty five. After that, we're coming up next. There's
rumors this rumors central in the NFL draft right now.
There's one rumor that just popped up about a week
and a half ago. I wouldn't bite with your money.
I'll tell you what it is and why you shouldn't
believe it. Coming up next, Martin Weis's Olden Polonies. Fox
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Speaker 2 (13:28):
I tell you what the NBA playoffs. I know we're
only what eight hours in thus far. Started out with
the stinker, but since then this has been great ball. Yes,
we have been watching some great ball. This game between
the Knicks and the Pistons remember I said it was
an eight point lead the last time you heard from me. Well,

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in that time period, the Knicks evaporated the a point lead,
and then the Pistons now went on a run themselves
in which I saw Thompson just Ali you dun't and
won't top of Josh Hart the playoffs, man, Like I swear,
there's something special about the NBA Playoffs, especially when you
are getting really intense good matchups. There's few things like it.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Oh, definitely, And you said the key word matchups. That's
a great matchup.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Pistons Nicks is a great matchup, Pacers Bucks great matchup.
Didn't show it today, But when Lila gets back is
gonna be fun. It's gonna be interesting now, and then
we have the Clippers and the Nuggets. Oh man, I'm
loving it. You know. All the matchups are perfectly situated

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that have a lot of drama.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
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Martin Weiss and old and Pollen nice one, Hey man,
Watch that It rhyme though, so well. I'm sorry old.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
My mother's turning over in her grave.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Right. I didn't mean to intend. It just rhymes so well.
It did, so if I were to do Olden, Polinice
and Martin Weese, there you go. That works a lot better,
by the way. I've been getting that back in the
day of telemarketers, a regulars we please click no you
can't actually that same click. No you can't. It's the

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same thing. I think it's happening in New Orleans right now.
I don't buy for one second the New Orleans Saints
are gonna draft your Door Sanders at the number ninth overall. Really,
I don't, just like I don't buy that they're gonna
Giants are gonna draft them at the third overall pick.
I think what we're seeing right now are two teams
that need a whole hell of a lot. The Giants

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got organization on uh.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
And before you continue huh, remember that's my team. I'm
not trying to knock them, so be gentle.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'll be gentle, but I'll be truthful. So it may
be hard to be gentle. But you see the Giants,
they have a lot of holes on their roster. But
if the bones are there, you got a good left
tackle defense is okay, If you got above average quarterback play,
not crazy to think that you could finish with like
a five hundred like I think, and I think that
everybody in New York kind of sees that. And that's

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why there's a lot of pressure right now because Joe
Shane and Brian day Ball they don't deliver for another year.
I think you could say all right, Sayonara, it's at
least one of the two. The Saints have been the
most mismanaged cap situation in the NFL. And if it
was a team like Dallas or San Francisco or Green Bay,
we would actually care about it. But because it's the Saints,
nobody does. I do. Being from New Orleans, they have

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mismanaged that cap to the point where they have it's
gonna be about two to three years before the Saints
will even be able to feel or like re sign
their own good players again. Like it's gonna be like that.
So like the idea that you're drafting a rookie quarterback, no, no, no,
you need rookie players that are gonna come in and impact.
We've seen no trades made in this first round, oh none.

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I think that what we see here is the Giants
and the Saints trying to convince somebody please come up
and get a quarterback one of these quarterback hungry teams.
If you want your Door Sanders, come get him. You
want Jackson Dart, you gotta come get it, because he's
not getting past nine. I think that's what we're she
in here. And I think that when we watched the
draft we'll watch your dors shandraws slide right on past

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those guys.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Well, that's part of the whole draft, you know. He's
put out rumors themselves, you know, to make you, oh, man, hey,
we got to make a move. But you're right, something's
gonna I think something's gonna happen. It always does. It
may not be happening right now. And one of the
teams that's been mentioned is the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
And so to me, you know these things, you know,
and the Saints had that ninth spot. That's a nice
position to be in, you know. But again going back
with my Giants, it's like, we need Jesus. And I
know we need Jesus. And like you mentioned, the Giants
are in the same situation that the Denver Nuggets in

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basketball are, and you know where something's gonna happen, and
it's gonna include involve both the general manager and the
head coach.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah. The only problem is, uh Giants didn't win that
championship that the Nuggets got under their belt. I will
say this, you need Jesus. I'm sorry that was that
was that was that was uncalled for. You said be
dental and that was not you said you need Jesus.
I don't know if he can walk on water, but
Travis Hunter has proven that he can play cornerback and
of our receiver, which might be the next closest thing
on a football field to being able to actually, So

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we were having this conversation when you walked in kind
of off the air. Number two overall pick. Let's assume
cam warts off the board. Tennessee Titans have picked him,
so that is gone. You have Hunter, you have Carter,
you have your giant fandom. Which one do you sit
there and say that's the right.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Move between Abdua Carter and Travis Hunter.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Or the field at the second overall pick you anybody
but the first one.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, Abdual Carter is a great player. The only reason
I pick Travis Hunter is because it's New York City
and I need to make a splash.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
And then so hope he can't walk on water. Then,
and the fact that flash they said will allow him
to play on both sides, because he's already said it.
I want to play both sides of the ball in
my NFL career. Good luck to you, young man, But
I don't know the last guy that's done it. I
have to go back and research mode.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
But then it might be his coach Dion to do
it at the most consistent level.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
But consistent, and he just he did it consistently at Colorado.
So those are my guys right now, should do it.
I honestly think Shador might drop like drop drop, like
Geno Smith, you think.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Your door's got to get a hotel room in Green Bay.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
He's not going to not go though. He's not going
through the draft. But if you, I'm too I'm too
large for that. I guess there's a lot of young
fellas a razy right man. Oh the play empowerments insane.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
I do know this if I had the opportunity to
get drafted, and maybe this is me looking back at
thirty five years old. You know, maybe if I was
that age, I wouldn't feel the same way. I want
to caalk across the stage and shake somebody's head. I
want to do it, of course I want to do it.
I feel like that's like doing a radio show, a
weekly radio show at not going to radio Row for

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the super Bowl, Like you want to get at least
do it once, right, I gotta at.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Least do it once and you only get drafted once
exactly something else that keeps coming. Yeah, I can see that.
Come on, man, this is the draft because I know
what the dumb quote's going to be. There's something I
dreamt of my whole life since I was a kid. Well,
this is your opportunity. And now you're saying you're not going.
Why mom, man, that's too much empowerment.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Too much empowerment. Indeed, let's go ahead now and kick
it over to Steve de Seger for what's trending in sports?
Steve the UFL So that's number one on your list today, right, Well.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
We do work for Fox, so yes, please patronize, but
we're gonna go ahead and lead with this NBA playoff game.
Under eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Pistons
at Knicks tied at ninety eight, Detroit shooting fifty percent
from the floor until a moment ago, fifty percent from
three point range as well, led by the twenty two
points of Tobias Harris for the Pistons. For the Knicks

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in scoring, twenty four points for Jalen Brunson, twenty three
for ogn and ob twenty one points for Carl Anthony
Towns again tie game in the fourth, coming out in
roughly fifteen minutes. The Lakers are hosting Minnesota in a
game one. Indiana opened things today with a home win
over Milwaukee. It was not close, one seventeen to ninety eight,

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despite thirty six points from Giannis Antenacumpo, and the Clippers
led most of their Game one at Denver, but the
Nuggets took it in overtime one twelve to one. Ten
to NHL playoff games to start the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
It's now Blues tied at Winnipeg three to three with
under seven minutes left in regulation. About to begin, Colorado

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at Dallas in Major League Baseball, currently bottom of the six.
The A's lead to one at Milwaukee, The Padres on
FS one, have a two tonzing lead at Houston top
of the fifth, and the Twins at Braves game is
tied two to two in the fourth. The late game
in an hour, we'll have the Angels hosting the Giants.
Everything else is final, including Tampa Bay beating the Yankees
on a walkoff homer in the tenth ten to eight.

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This after four runs bottom of the ninth of the
Rays at Boston and ten innings. Red Sox edge the
White Sox four to three in twelve innings. Seattle one
at Toronto, eight to four. Washington's win was twelve eleven
at Colorado, Texas in a Great Ball game on Fox TV,
edged the Dodgers four to three on a two run
homer bottom of the ninth from Adolas Garcia. The loss

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to reliever Kirby Yates, the former Rangers All Star closer.
It was Cleveland winning three to nothing at Pittsburgh. The
lost to Paul skeins Helfia one eleven ten over Miami.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Back to you, thanks Steve Martin Weiss and Old and
Polonies coming to you live from the tire iraq dot
com studios. As we sit here and watch this back
and forth Eastern Conference matchup between the Pistons and the Knicks,
Old and I got to ask you a question. This
is something that has changed in the NBA since the
time where you were through the league, and I want

(24:24):
to know how you feel about the concept of the
play in tournament in general, Like do you are you
in on that? Do you not like it? Dislike it?
Where do you land on the play in tournament in general?

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Well, it's the same as the in season tournament. I
thought it was all the money grab. You know, the
NBA is good at that, you know, figure out a
way to make something valuable, and that's what they did.
I personally don't like it because I came up in
that situation where you know, you work to you know,
the top eight seeds got in and that was it.

(24:58):
And I'm okay with that. But again, I can't be
the old guy form a player, as you know, boo
who about everything that's new and the game is supposed
to evolve, and this is another evolution of the game
to play in. It's added a lot more excitement for
two meaningless positions. So again I'm impressed with what the

(25:21):
NBA has done to make this seem more valuable for me.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
I anything that made the regular season matter more I
was in for. And so for the play in tournament.
The concept of avoiding the play in for the you
know that five six and even hell in the Western
Conference all the way up to the three seed, or
to avoid the play in in that last month of

(25:49):
the season, I'm all in. The thing that I wish
was a little different with it. I wish that there
was a trigger, like you should be. You should have
to be at least four games back from the sixth
seed to trigger a play in tournament. I don't need
to see like the lamellow ball Charlotte Hornets in the

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play I don't need, you know, I don't need that,
you know what I mean. I don't need some of
the some of these Eastern Conference ones that have been
really real that tenth team is scraping the bottom of
the barrel, Like could you imagine if we had seen
this year's Phoenix Son star Power Shore. But this year's
Phoenix Sons were a disaster. They did not deserve the
opportunity to knock to not even have a playoff game.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
No, I like that. I really do like that. That trigger.
That makes a lot of sense, And if you're nowhere
near it, you should not.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Then the teams just settle into those spots and it
would still be exciting because people are like trying to
get to that game that number that's the trigger, and
so it still has a lot of drama involved with
and I do like that.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
One one of the things that made me think of
this was watching last night's playoff game. Play in game
between the Mavericks and the Grizzlies, because as the Knicks
go on a fifteen to oh run in three minutes
to take a seven point lead, one to five to
ninety eight with six minutes left in the game. But

(27:16):
watching the Mavericks and Grizzlies last night, it mattered a
whole lot to those Mavericks players that were on the court.
It was important for them to go out there, important
for them to compete. It was important for them to
go beat like try the best, to go and earn
the right to get their heads kicked in by Oklahoma City,
because that's what was gonna happen, right, But I was

(27:39):
really for some guys who were put in terrible situations.
The like Anthony Davis is a Hall of Fame player,
He's an NBA champion. Klay Thompson is a Hall of
Fame player, He's an NBA champion. Right, these are guys
that have real life, bona fide pelts on the wall.
It meant something to me to watch them go out

(28:01):
there and compete in a game that like they have
no chance of winning the championship. But it was like,
I'm doing this to put this on my name, right,
because the way that people have been talking about my team,
the way that people have been talking about us as
an organization, I don't like it. And that's the way
it felt for me. And if that's we're watching Anthony

(28:21):
Davis go back out there, especially after you know, his
knee bothering him and he saw it was too much
for him to continue. But to go back out there
in that game, that meant something to me. And that's
why I like these single elimination playing games.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
I do like it. And again, I'm with you. I'm gonna,
you know, keep talking about that sugar that you mentioned.
But yeah, I was impressed with Dallas as well because
this might have been the most bizarre season ever or
mid season because that's when everything happened.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I feel bad for Niko Harrison because he's getting all
the blame right now, but people got to understand something.
He's not make that move unless ownership right say okay,
and there was a reason behind it. I'm still trying
to figure out what the actual reason is. But it's tough.
But you know, those guys went out, they went out fighting.

(29:15):
You know. I mean, we're not giving you know, trophies,
you know for close but it said a lot about
them though, as as people.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
That's you know, that's what it was. And we set
up exactly and we sit up here and we hear
people talk about the problems with the NBA and how
guys don't care and our guys want to sit out
and loads manament this and that. I think a lot
of it is overblown. I think a lot of it
was true maybe six seven years ago, but I think

(29:45):
a lot of it is overblown. I think it's disproven
by a lot of the younger players that we have
in this league, who play every game, who play defense.
But to me, watching that it was just a reminder
that like, sure, if you don't watch the end and
you just hear the talking points, so like, yeah, I
get it where you can sell it, but you can't
watch that game yesterday which was a not a close

(30:07):
matchup and tell me that those guys don't care. Yeah, no,
you're right, You're absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
So it's good, And I'm glad you brought that up
about the load management stuff because it's it's kind of
the overblown kind of thing. And we didn't have load
management because we all wanted to play. But again, we're
in this new era of the NBA. But the guy
that's mostly associated with load management is Kawhi Leonard. But
people forget that Kawhi Leonard was actually injured. So that's

(30:35):
why I give him a pass all the time because
he had some serious injuries. You know, there's some I
don't like when a guy is healthy and he sits out, you.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Know, And I would say, what would you say you
were drafted in nineteen eighty seven, what would you say
was the average length of NBA careers from that in
that time period?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh, we're all playing. Guys were playing. I'm saying about
eight ten minimum, eight to ten years, that's what.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I think that we missed that because I that's
what eight to ten years. I say, eight to twelve
years feels like a sweet spot for a professional athlete career.
And when you're we're looking at the guys who are
load managing, there are guys in your fifteen, in your sixteen, Like,
you're not supposed to be starting in the NBA in

(31:25):
year sixteen. Like if we go back twenty years ago,
the guys who were in year sixteen were not impact
players on roster, not close, not even close. They're essentially
holding clipboards just wearing shorts right like that, Like that's
we're So the league is different now and that's a

(31:47):
big part of the reason why guys have played for
a very long time. But I just think you can't
watch those games. And we saw John Moran taking two
injections in his ankle to then go out there and
then beat that Mavericks team that this doesn't matter to
these guys. Coming up next, we'll see if the Pistons
decide to score again, because it's been about four and
a half minutes and they are been stuck on ninety

(32:10):
eight one seven ninety eight to score five minutes left
in the game. As Josh Hart lays the ball in
uh Detroit, it's time to wake up. Coming up next, though,
we saw history and it's not just twenty almost twenty
to nothing run going on right now. We saw another
mark a futility in the history books. We'll get to that.
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Sunday playoffs have Saturday, rather, any of the playoffs have started,
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(33:02):
morning or this afternoon. In the first NBA playoff game
where the Indiana Pacers took the Milwaukee Bucks behind the
woodshed and said, wah wah wah wah wah. Giannis had
thirty six points let all scores. No other Milwaukee Buck
had more than fifteen points. No boy than milwalking by
the other fifteen points, including but not limited to Kyle Kuzma,

(33:26):
who put up a stat line of zero, zero, zero, zero,
and zero. The only stats that Kyle Kuzma had were
missed shots, minutes played twenty two missshots and fouls in
today's game.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
That he had the same exact stats as me outside
a minute played. I'm I'm impressed. I ain't played in
twenty years. Docs insane to me.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Doc Rivers after the game said, it's hard to score
when you don't touch the ball. Ok, I got two
shots in the first half, both with two seconds on
the shot clock. Who's looking play but we got to
involve them and make sure we keep them involved. My question, though,
my question know this ALDA, what play did they have
to call for you to get a rebound? Uh?

Speaker 3 (34:15):
None, I didn't want plays. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go get my own points, offensive rebound out. Everybody knew
when I got an office rebound, it was not coming out.
So don't even go clap, don't do nothing. It's going
back up. But Kyle was insaying that that last game
of the season when he played the first half before
he went into street clothes, when he came down and

(34:37):
just launched three pointers.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
So don't do it.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Now, you're a basketball player. You know how to play
this game. If you're not getting shots, create your own shots.
Like you said, go get a rebound, go do something.
You have zero in the all the major statistic statistical categories.
That's an insane stat that's insane to me at six.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Eight and you're looking at a guy who Damian Lillard
obviously mythed today's game, but expected to come back, per
Shan for Game two or three, so the series could
even up a bit. Right as we're sitting here talking
about a game in which was one, fifteenth and ninety
eight or something ridiculous like that. It was not even

(35:20):
that close when we were sitting there actually watching it.
But Kyle Kus was third on the Bucks and scoring.
You're looking at this for your next guy, right, you
have Giannis and Dame Lillard. Those are two guys you
pretty much have a good expectation of what they can
deliver in the playoffs. Dame you'll tamper it or temperate
a little bit saying he's probably out of shape, right
and see how he's able to deliver but at his best,

(35:42):
seeing him take and make huge playoff shots. You're looking
at another guy of Kuzma, Bobby Porters or Brook Lopez
to be your third option offensively for that Milwaukee Bucks team.
This they're dead men walking in my opinion, against the Pacers.
Against the Pacers, yeah, I believe so.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
And you know they got they got that guy sitting
on the bench, you know, whose track record is notorious
for choking and losing three.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
To one leads.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
So not that they're gonna get a three one lead,
but I just don't think they have you know enough,
and you're right when you look at who's my third score,
that's tough. You know, Bobby Porters, you know, he set
out all those games because suspension it Wow, Kuzma has
to be the guy. And what he did today actually

(36:34):
that might work in the Bucks favor because can he
play any worse?

Speaker 2 (36:41):
It's gonna be very hard.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Anything he does next game is a major improvement.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
It should. Guys.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Remember they traded Chris Middleton for Kuzma too, so oh yeah,
that's really they got rid of to bring him in.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, I mean this box score honestly, and
I don't mean this to sound disrespectful to the players
on the Bucks, but when you look at a high
school box score, you know, seriously, you look at a
high school box score of a guy, and where's like
a team that's got one guy that's like going to

(37:14):
Duke and everybody else is going to you know, college,
just four years of study, going to Microsoft right right
right there. Yet exactly you look at twenty three shots
for you, honest, thirty six points. The next closest scorer
was aj Green with fifteen who happened to hit five threes.
That's what I'm saying. It's like they're the guys who

(37:37):
also scored for them were not bucket getters. It was
Gary Trent Junior with fourteen because he hit two threes.
AJ Green hit five threes. That's who he gets your
fifteenth and the second highest score. They don't have guys
to break down off the dribble besides Kevin Porter Junior,
and good luck with that.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
But you know what really upset me watching that game
you mentioned AJ Green, He missed a couple of shots.
One of them in particular, I was like dumbfounded. He
was about thirty seven thirty eight feet from the basket
and no lift, nothing, and he missed it. And then
they come down he should misses another one on the
left side. But my point is this, he and the

(38:19):
rest of the Bucks, It's like, do you guys know
that there's other ways to score? They just kept jacking
up three pointers, And to me, that's where I'm just
dumbfounded by these people. Man, Like, who don't I hate
bad basketball? Get a layup.

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(40:44):
Detroit Pistons. I mean, how do you view that when
we just saw because I already have my framing of
it the way I saw it, but that's also heavily
influenced by the team I thought was going to win
the game ahead of time. Is that a Piston's melt
down or a Knicks comeback?

Speaker 3 (41:01):
In your eyes, meltdown? Pistons meltdown playing and simple bottom line.
I mean, the Knicks were not playing that great. And
the funny thing about it is the run they made
was nothing but layups, layups, layups, And so to me,
that's a meltdown of the Pistons because your defense just

(41:23):
let you down. So that's coaching right there. I'm gonna
get some guys in there, that's gonna do it. I
have an eleven point lead. I'm not gonna just you know,
sometimes they get so in love with guys and I'm like, dude,
why do you have the rest of the players on
your team?

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Right? Yeah, you know, it was a tough one to
watching this twenty one point run. The Pistons were out
scored in the fourth quarter forty to twenty one. That's nuts.
That's not gonna get it done. Forty to twenty one.
So Jalen Brunson, you know, ankle injury be damned. He
was lipping around there. Thirty four points on twenty seven shots.

(42:02):
Pretty decent night. Disappointed a bit, and I know it's
his first game out there, and he did have a
double double. I mean, twenty one, twelve and six, there
is nothing, nothing to sneeze at. But with the struggles
that Kate Cunningham had offensively in the first half, I
honestly would have liked to see a little a few
more than twenty one shots taken by him on this team,

(42:25):
with the with the offense that they have.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Well, again, it's his first playoff series, so it's gonna
he's gonna be affected a little bit. I mean, there's
some nerves, and right justified nerves because you've never been
in the playoffs. You don't know what to think. But
like we always used to say, the gettable game on
the road is game one, yep. So now adjustments are

(42:48):
gonna be made. So but Kate Cunningham, I mean, you
an All Star. You have to step up and show
why you were an All Star. But then again, I
could make the argument, yeah, you know, throughout the season
you are playing Toronto the Wizards. Now you're playing a
defensive juggernaut. Even though they didn't really play well, I mean,

(43:12):
they did enough to win, especially on that twenty one
old run.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I'm sorry old and I didn't mean to not hear
what you just said, But I just watched Anthony Edwards
put Ruey Hotchimoora on his butt. Oh my goodness, Hey,
oh my gosh. And then Gay Vincent was like, no, no, no,
don't worry. I got you. This is not going to
be a top ten player. I'm gonna foul him before

(43:38):
he can dunkle over everybody. Because that's what was headed forward.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
I thought it was halftime. I thought they were breakdancing.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
I mean, Ruey Hottimora all of a sudden, you know
when your hand listen, when your hand reaches back and
hits the ground pre butt, that's a bad one. And
that's exactly what happened there for Ruey Hotchama Band. But calves.
But it illustrates something that we talked about in the

(44:06):
first hour of this show. Who is supposed to stay
in front of Anthony Edwards in this series? Because we're
six minutes in and we've already seen one spill clean
up on our Hachimurra.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
We're gonna see a lot more because he's coming. But again,
you know, I think the Lakers should win this series.
But again, it's gonna be interesting.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
It is gonna be interesting right now, we're looking at us,
let's go through it real quick. Obviously just getting started.
But uh, interestingly enough, Minnesota already playing two people off
the band. I find that kind of fascinating that Niles
Reed's already seen minutes in this game for Rudy Gobert
and Dante DiVincenzo, a guy with playoff experience on this
Minnesota team out there now. But talking about that because

(44:53):
you've you've mentioned it a few times today, and I'm
sure you'll mention it a few times tomorrow, and I
know for a fact you'll mention it throughout the next
few weeks, the importance of playoff experience, the importance of
having been there before. We just saw a team that
hadn't made the playoffs since twenty nineteen give up a
twenty one to run twenty one to zero run at

(45:17):
the worst possible time that it could have, right, And
we were sitting here talking about it as it was happening,
and you said, this game can be tied in ninety seconds. Now.
Didn't end up that way, but we both knew that
because you have a lot of experience playing in the NBA. Meek,
I'm about thirty five years were watching it on TV,

(45:39):
so I knew that these games not over just quite yet.
But the Pistons weren't able to deliver there. How much
of that would you say? Like, and just in general,
how much is that experience when moments like that twenty
one to run run is occurring? His experience? What cuts

(45:59):
it from a twenty one run to ten to zero run?
You know what I'm saying is that, like, how is
it manifest itself in games?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
The thing people need to understand is this. When the
Pistons went on the offensive run, it had nothing to
do with coaching. It was just energy. They just went
on a run, built the lead. But when the Knicks
were going on the run and they ran it even
once it got to like ten twelve, coaching has to

(46:31):
come into play. Jamie bikersif has said, okay, all up, now,
let me look at my lineup, let me look.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
At my pad.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
What plays do I have? I need a basket right
about now? I need a basket. What play do I
have in my playbook that I could run that's gonna
guarantee us a basket? Or what can I say to
my plays? What player can I pull off my bench,
that's gonna give us a point. None of that happened,

(47:00):
That's what I'm saying. So it's some things to players
handle and other things the coaches have to handle, and
he didn't do any of that. Jamie Bickerstaff. It's just
as much as fault as the players, because at the
end of the day, you know, you out there playing
defense and you just getting lay up after lay up
after layup. But then I go back to my argument, well,
if these guys are not defending, let me get somebody

(47:21):
in that will defend.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I mean, everybody on the team is getting paid, you
know what I'm saying, everybody. And I think you know,
you made the point earlier about Steve Kerrn the Warriors,
and it's a team that you know, through the first
fifty games of the season probably cost them, will definitely
cost them some playoff positioning at this point. That's why
they got that series that they got coming up. But

(47:44):
have you favorites in the series much like the Lakers
are heavy favorites in the series here per your sportsbooks.
But they throughout the first fifty games of the season,
got guys with a ton of run. They got they
were running basically playing ten players almost you knowational minutes.
And now you see guys in big games like Quinton Post,

(48:07):
like Gee Santos, Yes, right, and most NBA franchise, most
NBA locker rooms, you're living and dying with Jonathan Kaminga
because those other guys never got on the court. They're
just practice players essentially. And Jonathan Kamena getting seeing d
npcds would not be happening, you know what I'm saying.

(48:29):
He would be getting tick out there if he was
playing for another team that did not have the early
season out record wise, didn't this rearly work out, but
development wise worked out big for the Warriors.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Oh definitely. And I love that about them. They will
play everybody in the regular season in meaningful games as well,
not just garbage time. No, Steve Kerr puts them in
on big games and it's like, hey, I need you
guys to experience this because if we lose, you're still
gaining experience. And a lot of these other coaches they

(49:04):
don't do that. You know, the Knicks are gonna have
a problem if they get in foul trouble because they
only play six guys only play Yeah, that's about it.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
And we saw last postseason, we're looking at guys like
Alec Burk's having twenty point playoff games for the Knicks,
and you're looking like, oh, I didn't even know he
played for the Knicks. I thought he was still in Utah.
What's happening here? Now?

Speaker 5 (49:28):
This?

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Right now, we're looking at an interesting lineup out there
for the Timberwolves in this Lakers matchup, because this is
kind of like their double big lineup out here that
I feel like has a little bit more shooting because
you have nas Reed out there and Rudy Gobert. Obviously
Gobert a non shooter, nas Reed can knock down outside
shots in a big way. We said Randall's the X

(49:49):
factor here. If Randal's the X factor, to me, nas
Reed's the wi fi at.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Oh yeah, definitely no. And that's another guy literally, I
honestly forgot about now let's read. And that's insane to
have a guy like that, and they can play him
with go bet because he's gonna stretch the floor out
and go back and still man the middle. And you know,
and this lineup has actually made the run. And so

(50:14):
to me, you know, if it wasn't for that Luca
three and in a mid range, you know, the Timberwolves
would be either tied or ahead.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, it's gonna be because I think that that's what's
gonna end up having to be the case. That's watsonasried
just throw on off the backboard. Three didn't exactly make
me sound great. Hate when they do that, but I
think like between those two guys, that's what's gonna be
the key for Minnesota. Extend this series, to make it long,

(50:44):
because that's the thing that the Lakers are lacking. It's
they have plenty of guys who are tall enough with
really long arms, but they don't really have big men
out there.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
No, they don't. And you know Jackson Hayes case in point,
But where is Jackson Hayes right now? Is he gonna
play in this series?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
So to me, the bench.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Yeah, And so again they're gonna ride out this kind
of lineup, you know, Lebronchimura, Dorrian Finney Smith and so
to me, it's I mean, they gotta do that. They
gotta make threes. If they're not making shots, they're gonna
have a problem. So again, I think this is gonna
be a long series. It's not gonna be four zero

(51:25):
four to one. Yeah, I saw that was a common pick.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
I also thought that this was gonna be at least
a six game series just off the strength that Anthony
Ewards is gonna have a forty five point output in
one of these things, probably Game three or four. And
they're just the Timber will have a lot of talent
and you know, not as much experience as a Lebron James. Sure,
but you know they did again acquit themselves very nicely

(51:53):
in last year's postseason.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
To that point, though about experience, how do you guys
quantify the guys who've been here before and how much
that means in the playoffs? Because you got, like, probably
the best team in the NBA right now is the Thunder,
who we can all agree are lacking an experience. So
what do you weigh more talent or experience when when
we get to playoff time? Because are the Thunder good

(52:15):
enough to win? Are they experience enough to win? They're
clearly good enough.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
They're definitely good enough to win. And then the experience
comes in in like certain situations. Okay, if I'm down ten,
what do I do now? Okay, because now all of
a sudden, the talent is not the issue. It's what
plays am I running, what schemes am I running? How
do I get cut into this lead? And that's where
the experience comes in. So again, talent, you know, talent

(52:42):
is talent. You know, it's like, if you have talent,
it will most likely beat everything else.

Speaker 4 (52:50):
There comes a point where you just have too much time.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah, and so to me, if you have a combination
of talent and experience, those are the championship teams to
that point.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Coming up at what are we gonna do this? Yeah,
at the top of next hour, I'm gonna tell you
a team that's more talented than experience that I think
is going to be able to take out a team
that has a ton of experience. We'll see if Olden
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(53:45):
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here by Olden Polonies, who is hooting and hollering at
the studio right now. You know, this is what I

(54:28):
can appreciate about you. You don't have a winning interest
in this series. No, you just want a good ball, right.
I want good basketball all day, every day. So that
was how my dad was watching games as well, and
I could appreciate the dueling. Oh and whenever somebody does anything,
do you know what I'm saying? Like sometimes you sit

(54:50):
there watching the game and it's like, oh man, nas
read hit a three. Damn, what are we gonna do now? No? No, no,
no no. It's every time it's like my dad was
a face in somebody's face.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
I love good basketball, man, and I hate bad basketball.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
I am with you, my friend, I am with you. Absolutely.
Let's take a turn to the upcoming NFL draft. It
is shortly approaching. I cannot wait for the draft for
if no other reason, we can stop saying who's gonna
get picked where it start actually talking about where guys
are gonna fit act. It's like the leaves changing on

(55:27):
the calendar. You know, we're getting closer and closer to football.
But Pooka Nakua, who has had a very busy offseason
in terms of just podcasting everywhere's you know, in fact,
Fox Sports Saturday, Pooki if you're available. But he was
on Julian Edelman's podcast Games with Names talking for some

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reason about the forty nine ers contract situation with their quarterback.
Is he gonna get a five? I don't think so.
Do you think he's gonna go with a four? It's
gonna start with a four? Yeah, high four? No, I
think mid for forty five. I think so.

Speaker 9 (56:07):
I mean, I think if he does that, that'd be
smart for him and them. Yeah, I mean, I think
he's he seems like a smart guy. I think he
like there's still they have a chance to still be
in their window. And I think if if he goes
for a five, that the window closes.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Now there's a lot here. My first thought was, that's
insanity to hear somebody like Phoknnakua is on this rookie deal.
He's gonna play the forty nine years at least five
more times in his career guaranteed before he reaes up again.
He's like, they're gonna see each other, They're gonna play

(56:43):
against each other. That's nuts. I feel like that's a
due podcast. The era guys were not talking about contracts
like that at your time.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Though not somebody else's right your own, sure, but I
don't know what what Brock Prody's gonna do. You don't
know anything, And I love who can the coop, but
it's like, no, that's that's overstepping a little bit. So
I don't know if that was more for clickbait or what,
but that that is to.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Me that professional athletes were kind of in this thing together.
You get paid more, then I can get paid more,
then we all can get paid more. Like the rising
different positions, two different positions.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Either if we start saying, like, hey, what do you
think Rob Parker's next contract is going to be?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Yeah, it's crazy, you know, you think not worth the
twenty five percent bump? Like what Rob gets a seven year,
twelve dollars deal. So taking but okay, So that's one
layer of the onion's appeal. But the next one is
do you agree with this assessment that if you pay
rock pretty a number that starts with a five average

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annual value in that contract, that for not his window
goes close, not at all.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
I mean, all these teams are over paying guys. Let
the young man get his money.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
You know.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
One think I've never done is pocket watch. You know,
I don't care. It's like, I've never understood why they
put all athletes dollar amounts publicly.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
You know, they don't do it. And I actually did that.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
I did research and I was putting all these media
people all day salaries, all their salaries, and they got
mad at me. I'm like, well you're doing it to athletes. Well, hey,
these days, all you gotta do is google Stephen A.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Smith's salary. You can see that he's making more than
your third string cornerback. But but I do wonder this, Okay, So,
and I fundamentally don't have an issue with guys getting
their money. Like, if somebody was to pay roperty, I'm
fine with it. I think it would be a bad
idea for the forty nine ers to do. So do
you feel like those two ideas can live mutually outside

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of themselves.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Yes, because I think he's earned it. Okay, he's earned it.
You know, people talk bad about block Party and all, well,
he's a system quarterback this but he kept them afloat.
He kept him, you know, relevant, and he did a
decent job. Is he the best quarterback for the Niners.
I don't think so, But he's at least earned the
right to get a contract.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
So I think of it like this because I agree
with what I agree with the Prentice. The problem is
the market rates a little too high for what I'm
looking for here, right, Like I agree that Brock Purdy
is an NFL starter. I agree he's above average NFL starter.
I think the idea that we're gonna pay him. Let

(59:33):
me rephrase this. I thought paying Trevor Lawrence fifty five
million dollars a year was nuts, right, I thought like,
and Trevor Lawrence was the number one pick in the draft,
had all of it. But I'm watching the games guys
like wanting, I get Okay, there's the price of a quarterback. Well,
maybe I'd be fine letting it go and trying to
find another one somewhere else. And you know what, it's

(59:54):
easy for me to do that because my job is
not on the line here.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Well, hmm, I can name a bunch of people that's
been overpaid. You know, there's a guy right now in
Cleveland that never should have got the contract he got.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
So it's actually interesting that you asked that question or
bringing that up, Deshaun Watson. And is guaranteed deal in
which the owner That's how you know it's a bad deal.
When the owner is like, yeah, this is a bad
deal and the GM still in place, the head coach
still in place, makes you know the owner was like, hey,
we want to get this deal done. But to me,

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if I'm the San Francisco forty nine ers with the
eleventh pick in the draft and I'm the opportunity to
either pay pay Brock Purty for four years fifty five
some odd million dollars guarantee. I think that's what he's
gonna get, or the opportunity to have four years plus

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franchise tag option, do options on Shad or sand on
this rookie deal? Which one would you take?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Well, before I answer that, chadors down to eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Now, I'm just in a world where in a world
where it's very feasible to get lower and lower.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
Well, I did say Gino Smith, So yeah, but I'm
not doing that only because, oh my god, and that
felt it's so weird. I like brock Party, you know,
I really do. I think he did just enough for
you to win. Because at the end of the day,

(01:01:34):
we all know what wins championships. Its defense. It's not offense.
I don't care what sport it is. And so to me,
I'm not gonna do that deal because I believe in
brock Party personally. But you know, we can hype up
shadeor all we want, but we haven't seen him play
in the NFL game. I feel you, So I'm not
gonna do that. I don't I'm not a prisoner of

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the moment, I look at the total body of work
and I I try to give a guy a chance. Okay,
let me see what you do your first year. Because
we talked about it off air Will Levis in college.
He looked like he was gonna come in and dominate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
But trash. Now, I'll say this in terms of your
body of work argument, I am taking in consideration the
entirety of the body of work of one person. It's
just not Brock Party. I'm taking in the entirety of
the body of work of Kyle Shanahan. And when you
show me a guy to me, honestly, the low I'm

(01:02:33):
saying low. And that's but I think a fair NFL comference,
Sir Door Sanders, if I'm being honest with myself, Okay,
Brock Party is in the neighborhood. I think that's very
fair that Brock Party. They compare favorably to each other. Sure,
some better at one thing better than whatever. They compare
further favorably to each other. To me, if I'm San
Francisco and I know that my window, like you said

(01:02:55):
it TI closing right, is slowly sliding down, I move.
I can move off of Rock Party. Maybe after Cleveland
takes Travis Hunter in the second round with the second
pick in the draft. I'll call you up, hey, I
know you got this handshake deal with Kirk Cousins, probably
in Atlanta. Can I interest you in a guy who's
won more than one playoff game? Can I interest you

(01:03:16):
in a guy that's won more than one playoff game
in his career? I can see that. You know what
I'm saying. You have to pay him a little bit.
You have to pay him. Maybe you get him at
forty five million dollars a year average annual value forty
seven something like that. You have to pay him. But
guess what you are. If you don't screwed, you're screwed.
Because you're not gonna get a quarterback in the second round.
You might as well come and take rock.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
If I'm New York, you really want to go with
Russell Wilson and Davis Winston as your two quarterbacks? Or
would you like a guy who's actually won a playoff
game in the last five years?

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Well you just s wait a minute now, you confusing me.
You just said earlier all you need is just a
quarterback that could just keep you afloat. Go after a
guy like Abduel Carda, Travis Unders. But I'm saying you would.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
You're not gonna get that third, second or third pick.
I'm saying you would move make Brock Party if you
could get a I think if the Niners could get
like a third round pick for what did Gino Smith
go for a third round pick?

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
So maybe if the Niners can get a second rounder
for Brock Party or a third this year and a
third next year, like I think that they're moving it.
The biggest thing is you're resetting the clock on your quarterback.
And we've seen Kyle Shannan have Super Bowl berths with
Jimmy Garoppolo and with Brock Party. I think he could

(01:04:39):
do it again with a quarterback of Rock Party's talent level.
And I think that's right about Roschad dor Sanders has
a good shot at landing landing.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Well, I'm you know what, I was kind of like
messing around with the whole He's gonna drop like Geno
and all that. I honestly believe because he's not going
to the draft and everything else in those private meetings
and workouts he's doing, I don't think he drops lower
than fifth. Okay, obviously if he's fifth and there's a

(01:05:06):
lot of hype over him and you know, with his
dad and everything else. But I'm just saying it's just weird.
But Okay, to your point, where do you send Purty
look to get what you need? Cleveland's quarterback?

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
All the teams that we have mocked quarterbacks too are
in the quarterback market. Right. Aaron Rodgers just on Tuesday
was talking about how I'll play for technical talking about Rogers.
But it's valid that the Pittsburgh Steelers have the door open,
praying he walks in it. Right? If you if you
called Pittsburgh today and said Brock Purty is available, do

(01:05:42):
you know who Aaron Rodgers goes on to the block list?

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Think about it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Yeah, no, I hear what you're saying. But I'm just
I'm I'm done with Aaron Rodgers man because he's diva personified.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
But think Pittsburgh's not. That's that's how desperate, that's how
devalued are these quarterbacks that are available are where you're
sitting up listening to Aaron Rodgers say, I may I
got a lot of personal stuff going on. I don't
even know if I want to do this sport and
Pittsburgh is sitting there as up today. That's the plan.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
The Steelers would love brock perty hold no, man, hold up?

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Could you do that some boys again? Oh man, let's
go ahead, and uh, you know, as I've been over
here pontificating, there's been a run going on in this
Timberwolves Lakers game. Let's go it over to Steve the
Segar to update us on everything going onto the world
of sports. Steve, you're up.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Yeah, the Lakers have fallen apart.

Speaker 8 (01:06:40):
And by the way, Rob's contract here has absolutely no
trickle down effect.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
No trickle down. That rising tide does not lift any vote.

Speaker 8 (01:06:48):
Minnesota with a twelve to two run to open the
second quarter in LA. This is the Lakers versus Timberwolves
playoff opener, first round, best of seven. It's now twenty
six to six run in the second period, forty seven
thirty four. Minnesota in the lead, shooting oh for fifty
percent from the floor over fifty percent from three. The
Lakers do have sixteen points from Luka Doncic, but the

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rest of the team is six for twenty two shooting.
Lakers have six points in six and a half minutes
of the second period. They've fallen behind double digits at
home in the first half. New York at home with
a twenty one nothing run in the fourth quarter to
put away Detroit one twenty three to one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Twelve.

Speaker 8 (01:07:28):
Nicks had trailed by eight with about nine minutes left.
Jalen Brunson thirty four points, eight assists. The day started
at Indiana with the Pacers walloping the Milwaukee Bucks one
seventeen to ninety eight. The Pacers led in fact in
the third quarter seventy seven forty nine. Denver trailed much
of the day at home, but still beat the Clippers
in overtime.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
In a game one won twelve one ten.

Speaker 8 (01:07:50):
Nikola Jokic twenty nine points, nine rebounds, twelve assists. Denver
trailed by fifteen and the first app but still got
the w. In the NHL playoffs. Two games tonight to
start the Stanley Cup postseason at Winnipeg, the Jets scored
three times in the third period and defeated Saint Louis
five to three. Right now at the end of one
it is scoreless Colorado at Dallas, the New York Rangers

(01:08:12):
fired coach Peter lavio Leed after missing the playoffs Anaheim
fired coach Greg Cronin in late night MLB action. Well,
the late games just getting underway at Anaheim, Angels hosting
the Giants on a FS one. Houston has taken the
lead on the Padres. It's three to two for the Stros,
bottom of the eighth inning at Atlanta, bottom of the
six the Braves ahead of the Twins four to three.

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Everything else is final. Tampa Bay won on a tenth
inning homer against the Yankees, ten to eight. Texas won
on a ninth inning homer against the Dodgers four to three.
Washington won twelve eleven at Colorado. At Philadelphia, it was
eleven ten the Phills edging Miami. Ten inning win for
Boston for to three over the White Sox, and a

(01:08:56):
twelve inning victory for Seattle eight four at Toronto. The
A's have won at Milwaukee three to one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Back to you, thanks, Steve. Be sure to check out
the Fox Sports Radios YouTube channel a ton of great
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Just search Fox Sports Radio on a YouTube and you
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Be sure to subscribe so you always have instant access
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(01:09:23):
let me ask you something. Do you answer unknown numbers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Hell? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Why keep forgetting to do that? I do only because
I don't care. Some days I just want to I
just want to have fun. Some days, some days I
want to telemarketer. I got time, They said, I got
time today.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
They said if I speak to Old and paula nice Actually,
actually no, it's nice. But what's up?

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
Yeah, I don't mind unknowns and all that. It's like
because I'm old school. I remember, you know, we didn't
have I call ID and all that stuff. All our
calls were unknown.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
So my dad used to have a friend of grandfather
used to say, you always answer the phone because you
never knew if money was calling. Right, answer the phone
because you never know when money is called exactly. And
we had an example of that in the NBA because
Rob Polinka answered the phone and congratulations, buddy, you just

(01:10:25):
got a new promotion president of the basketball operations and
a new salary, all because you answered Nico Harrison's phone call.
Way to go, Buddy, way to go. Congratulations around right
there getting that job security.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
But what was the craziest thing about that? What's that
no one knew about it. That's the first time in
NBA history there wasn't a leak, right, because there's always
a leak. Always somebody's telling somebody, that's telling somebody. This
was the first time nothing came out until it happened.
This was a total surprise at.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Least, like you might smell the gas a little bit
before I smell something something you heard? Do you hear
that back there? Like? What is that not series?

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Are they really thinking about trading Luca?

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
It was Luca doncas got traded.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
What the stop lying? Everybody thought it was a joke.
I mean, and I'm not a I'm not measuring any
man's pockets or leather jackets because that leather jacket he
had on it. Luca Donteon's' intro press conference was tight.
But I'm sitting there looking at this NBA dot com article,

(01:11:41):
he said. Polinka has notably swung two blockbuster trades in
the last six years. He acquired Anthony Davis from New
Orleans twenty nineteen, and then traded Davis in the package
for Dante's last February I just ask you, is there
a luckier man in sports? Nope? Is there a luckier
man in sports right now, and.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
He represented the great one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Kobe, Kobe, I'll say that that was where it happened for.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
And it turned into the Lakers man. That's insane. You're right,
there's not a luckier prayer, a luckier man sports, because
is it just opportunity me in preparation.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Okay, well that's what the definition of luck is to
your point. But that opportunity to go ahead and lock
in Kobe Bryant twenty five years ago, whoever long it was,
to then ingratiate yourself into the Laker organization so that
when Anthony David says, you know what, I'm gonna take
my one eyebrow off out of this town.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
I'm going.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
I'm out of here. And then when Nico Harrison says, hey,
my owner says, I'm they're not My owner says, we're
not cutting the check for the super Max rob What
can you give me? Anthony Davis? All right, here we go,
hang up the phone call, Shamps, Let's break the news.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Like I'm that was insane, man. That was insane. Head
up basically, well Max Christie, but it's had up you
head up. That was insane. So he flipped Anthony Davis
when he first got him, which.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Was a great movie. He flipped Lonzo ball Ingram Brandon
Ingram Yep. Oh wow, that's that's the te Luca Johnson.
That's congratulations. Rob. I got a text him. Congrats. I'm saying, man,
I wish, I wish my phone was jumping like this.
I answered the phone for everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
It's been doing that. You just don't answer. It's I
need call me, please, they've been calling.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Mark said, call me, Lord E Merged. I need to
Rob Polinka's contact book. Boy. Coming up next, We're gonna
try this for the first time. It's like our version
of Hot or Not. Old inn are old out Fox

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the same year. Joe Douglas. There you go. Actually maybe
the only guy. I'm not sure, but he definitely was

(01:14:42):
the last one. Work he signed Aaron Rodgers. That was
the problem. You know, he's talking about owner owner interference.
I don't think Joe, the guy who drafted the rookie
of the year defensive rookie of the year the same year,
he's not trading a third round pick or whatever for
Devionta Adams less, boss tells him. So take it from there.
Woodie Johnson be far away from this broadcast. LaVar Irington

(01:15:04):
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(01:15:25):
us up with your two cents on Twitter. He's old
and the polonies one. I'm at Martin Weiss and it's
time now we called it old in or Out. We're
actually stealing it from Arnie Spanier.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Andy Furman my fault.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
We're stealing it from Andy Furman, another vet in the game.
But we're blatantly everything this off and next week we'll
have a better name for it. Let's play the blame game.

Speaker 5 (01:15:54):
All right, the blame game. Shout out to Andy Furman
and Arnie Spanier for that matter. By uh, and not
to worry who you got will return next week. But
just wanted to try something new out this week. So
I'm gonna throw a few storylines at you guys, and
you're gonna tell me who you blame. So let's get
started here first. This is my favorite one, so we're
just gonna start off strong.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
At the top.

Speaker 5 (01:16:14):
Mike Leach rest in peace, the late, the late great
Mike Leach. He had a funny idea, and this came
out a few about a week ago, that he had
the idea a while ago to at the goal line
recruit a. I want to say the PC term here
a little person to the team for goal line situations

(01:16:35):
for the sole purpose of having them hike the ball
so that the team can then throw him over the
line of scrimmage for the touchdown. So we'll start with you, Martin,
Who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Who do I blame? Uh? Whoever came up with the
touch push? Because that was that was that that that
idea that is eventually evolved into the touch push. You
know what I'm saying. That was what we thought about.
We could just throw a guy over the line of
I don't know, let's find five people to push him
from behind. I blame that person, Olden, who do you blame?

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
I blame you for reading that out loud. I blame
the little person.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
Next up here Kadarius Tony. He was a first round
draft pick by the Giants. This was a few years ago,
but he just announced that he is retiring from football
because he's going to be pursuing a career in hip hop.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
So, Olden, we'll start with you this time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Who do you blame?

Speaker 3 (01:17:34):
I blame the Kansas City Chiefs. They got rid of him.
But I'm like, dude, he all hands are made of bricks.
I blame Leangelo ball.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
This is his fault, and everybody else who starts out
doing one thing fails at it and decides, you know what,
I'm going to be a rapper, because I would hate
to be a real rapper right now. He's got to
be hard to hear it. Almost better off stinking at
something else to become famous and then starting to rap,
all right.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
Next up, Bryce James, the other son of lebron James.
Brownie's very famous of course as we know. But Bryce
James his other son who recently won a high school
championship in basketball. Of course, he has committed to Arizona
and he officially signed. So who do you blame, Martin?

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
I blame Bronni for this. I blame Bronni for this.
If Bronny had come out Dame one of eighty two
and average fifteen points a game, five assists, and five rebounds,
they would have waived the college requirement in general by
this point and put the next son on the Lakers already,
and then we'd be the first, you know, we talked
about triple Big lineup, be the first triple James lineup

(01:18:45):
in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Who who do I blame? In this situation. I blame
college basketball and CAAA. That's who I blame.

Speaker 5 (01:19:01):
Next up, Bryce Underwood, who is a true freshman at Michigan.
He's their quarterback who if you remember a few months
ago he transferred or not transferred, he decommitted from LSU
committed to Michigan for twelve million dollars is the rumored
valuation of his nil. Anyway, a recent picture surface of
him and it looks like he has a little bit
of a gut. His belly is sticking out of his

(01:19:22):
jersey in a recent photo taking at Michigan.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
So who do you guys blame for this? We'll start
with Olden.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
I blame the cameraman not using the right filter.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
He's saying that right filter, you know, I blame. I
blame all of that haters who will sit there and
retweet like I saw you know where I saw this
from Ohio State fans. You just won a championship. Quit
worrying over here about what's going on, and I'll just
have you notice. Just google Patrick Mahomes shirtless and you
let me know what a good quarterback is supposed to
look like with no ebs. In fact, do this google

(01:19:55):
Will Levis and Patrick Mahomes shirtless side by side, and
you tell me what a quarterback is supposed to look like. Okay,
that's exactly right. Up next, we'll dive back in the
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joined with olden polonies and talking about the NBA playoffs
right now, the Lakers down at the half to the
Minnesota Timberwolves. We both said we felt that this series

(01:20:42):
was going to be a hard fought one where a
lot of people were picking Lakers and five or Lakers
and four, so on and so forth. We were not there. Now,
I'll give you ask you this, though we sit here
through the postseason, the only there has not been a
lower seed to be the higher sheed yet so far,

(01:21:04):
I believe. And but we're only in game one of
like the first four of the playoffs left, it's gonna happen.
Which of the lower seeded teams do you think has
the best chance to advance? Why is it through Orlando Magic.
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Uh, the Warriors. To me, that's you know, that's the one.
You know, a seventh seed, and they got a team
that they've beaten during the regular season and can beat
in a seven game series. And Jimmy Butler said it best.
I know we have a chance with me and playing,

(01:21:45):
but I know everybody has a chance with Steph and
so to me, as long as Steph Curry, now you
got playoff Jimmy and the supporting cast. And I think
I do believe Kaminga will play in this series, and
that's gonna be I think he's gonna bring energy because
you know, sometimes Steve does that crap too. You know,

(01:22:05):
he he'll bench him for a while to get him
real mad and upset, so when he goes out there,
he plays his best basketball. So not a fan of
stuff like that, but I know it's done all the time.
But yeah, the Warriors on my team, the one with
an outside look at Memphis against OKC.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
You know, I that team. Okay, So I want to
address it twofold. First, I disagree with you on the
Warriors side of things. If the referees allow Houston to
play like they're gonna play similar to the way that
like a detroital play, they're gonna grab you, They're gonna
be up in your jersey. If they're calling tickie tag fouls,

(01:22:49):
the Warriors will walk away with this thing. If this
becomes a more physical series. I like Houston's kind of
defensive metal defensive attitude and the way that they kind
of approach defending Steph Curry. And I don't know if
Jimmy Butler he's had playoff Jimmy, I know it's a thing,

(01:23:09):
all right. Well I'm gonna have it. It has been
in years past. I need to see it again to
believe it again, because there's there's too much going on
in the regular season REDI just ignore. I know he
steps his game up in the postseason, a great postseason performer.
Well at thirty six years old, I believe Jimmy is

(01:23:30):
thirty seven. Do it again? Do it again. I think
this is the one match up here where the relative
lack of experience might be able to be out to
be played out with that just overwhelmingly athleticism up and
down the court. And if they can make it like
a college basketball game where you're rebounding a lot, you

(01:23:52):
know what I'm saying, It comes down to your rebounding
your defense. As such, Houston Rockets White played like the
Houston Cougar is hopefully better than it did last five
seconds of National Championship. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:01):
Well, I'm gonna say this. You know my famous quote,
if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle. So
I'm just letting you know right now, all that if
throw that out the window, because the Warriors are a
veteran team with championship medal. The Houston Rockets most of
their players jailing green and all them casts stud they

(01:24:25):
don't know nothing about nothing. And so to me, it
has nothing due with referees. It has to do with
the approach of the game, bottom line, because Steph is
too smart to let Dylan Brooks get in him. As
the Timberwolves extend that lead. So about to say John
just is somewhere seething.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Anthony Edwards throws up dueling finger guns as he hits
a three pointer to extend the lead. Seventy to forty
eight Minnesota over the Lakers with ten minutes left in
the third third quarter. You mentioned this earlier today, if
you're going to steal a game on the road, game one,

(01:25:05):
game one, creeping like a thief in the night.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Yes, sir, because that's the one that's when they most vulnerable, because.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
They expected to win. I forgot. I looked this up
a few years ago, so I don't know how true
it holds exactly, but Lebron as a pretty bad record
in game ones of serieses. So today this is two
hundred and eighty eighth playoff game, which is insanity. But
he has a pretty bad record in game one of series,
so we'll see. Obviously, this game far from over. Hell,

(01:25:35):
if you looked at the Pistons next game with ten
minutes left in the fourth quarter, you thought that game
was going to go the way of the road team
until the next completely, well, no, the Pistons melted down.
That was melted. The youth showed. Is that something that
you can rebound from in a series?

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
A veteran team can not a youthful team A veteran team, Yeah,
you know, we lose, Like if Denver had lost that
game against the Clippers. They would have been like, Okay,
well we let one get away, but we can get
one in La.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Okay. Now you said, speaking of you are putting your
phrase to the test, and I'm not talking about the
one about your auntie. You're putting your phrase to the
test about over experience over talent. When you say your
seat that you think could be out early would be
the Oklahoma City Thunder in the one seat to the

(01:26:34):
Memphis Grizzlies. But I tend out of all all the
way Grouse. I think the Rockets got a better shot
against the war years. But I will say that Memphis
team was not the eighth seat all year, like they
had a much better start to the year, had a
little bit of floundering, and we all looked at those

(01:26:55):
teams that fired their coaches, the Grizzlies and the Nugget
it's going into the postseason as what on earth are
you doing now? I still lean that way, but to me,
there is a world where listen, we know it's bad now,
it's not gonna get any better, but we have a

(01:27:16):
really talented roster, and we like a guy back here
to be able to guide this really talented roster through
a lot of things, Memphis has a really talented roster.
To me, I know they do.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
That's why I say I could see them beating OKC.
And so to me, people forget, aside from the stupidity
of a lot of stuff that he's done, Ja Morant
is still Ja Morant, and they still have Jamon Jackson,
Julia Desmond band who can knock down shots. They got Lukenod.
I mean this day solid team.

Speaker 10 (01:27:47):
Zach Edy is a presence, and I think the addition
of Edie, while he's a rookie, has mitigated a bit
of some of Jaron Jackson's fouling, which was that team
one of that team's achilles heels in the year's past exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
And so to me, I like them. I think because Shae,
for all his greatness, you know, he's kind.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Of a liability.

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
You know they talk about Luca, Shae's a liability to
on defense and so who you gonna hide him on?
And you know, you gotta figure it out. And so
to me, I could see this series going six, possibly seven,
and if it goes seven, the pressures on ok.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
To your point about who you're gonna hide him on?
Bane really good shooter. Aldama really good shooter, Luke Canard
really good shooter. Jaron Jackson junior above average shooter. Right, Like,
you know what I'm saying. When you're looking at these guys,
they will spread you out. Yes. And the other thing
on the OKC side of things, as everybody's listening to

(01:28:48):
this is starting at their radio and okay, see really like,
don't you did you guys watch games this year? What
I did also watching those games this year is what
is OKAYC curveball? I know that they got one hundred
and five mile an hour fastball with late movement in
Shae Gilt of Alexander. What happens third time through the

(01:29:10):
order when you've got to get a little more creative.
You gotta have a curveball, slider or something off speed,
because once you keep throwing one oh five, they'll figure
out how to hit it after a while. The NBA
playoffs are like that. If this was a one game elimination,
if this was a play in oh OKC all day.
But I think that Memphis, if they're not calling fouls

(01:29:32):
for shake guilds Alexander, they find a way to corral him,
make him work for his point. If he's gonna score
twenty five points. Make it be on twenty three shots, right,
who else is putting the ball in the bucket with
seven seconds left on the shot clock late possession for OKC.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
I mean, they got a bunch of jail in Williams
as to choose from. But I mean, that's a good question.
It has to be one of the Williams is, I mean.
And that's that's to me, I said, Joe, I'm trying
to think of who else. It's like they've just they've
played really good basketball, you know, in the regular season.

(01:30:11):
And I keep saying this, it's way different in the
regular season than it is in the playoffs because you're
mixing it up with different You're getting wins off of
bum teams even though they are NBA players, but they
still bum teams, you know, in the grand schemes of
things of the NBA. But it's like, who's the who's

(01:30:32):
the next go to guy, you know after Shay if
he's having an off night. And that's what I'm thinking,
because again, Memphis was one of the top two. They
were picked to be up there, and so it's not
a four gun conclusion. No, it's not at all it's
not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
And while you know I'm not necessarily why did bet
the Grizzly series price had a small sprinkle that was
more of a lottery ticket than an actual investment, because
I do think it can happen, and I've had a
blind spot for the Grizzlies in the past. But when
we talk about the other shooters, the other players, man,
they got a lot of guys out there. If you're

(01:31:10):
hearing background noises that is old and dancing, my god,
I'm not dancing.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
I'm just like, I'm not even in shock because I
did say this could go this way in the first game,
so I'm not really shot.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
It's the way they're doing it. So what the they
and the doing is what we're talking about is the
B two A we're witnessing with the Minnesota Timberwolves and
the Los Angeles Lakers right now. Through the first I
mean through the first quarter was close, but through the
second and third quarters, the Timberwolves had stretched out to
just about amount to a twenty point lead.

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
And you're saying, what, my colleague just came down one
on four and shot a three pointer.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Yeah, that's kind of silly. That's how bad it is well,
it's knocking on the door of thirty. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
Okay, well, you talk about it being a championship quality team,
and this is what I talked about. What happens when
you're down. Everybody's gonna be vert back to natural instincts
and Luca perfect example, trying to do too much and
turn the ball over.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Oh my goodness, Julius Randall just annihilated Luca Dat's in
the open court. That was pretty funny. But look, it
looks like he's gonna be all right. But if you
watch the replay, you'll see he's just Randall missed the
shot and just stretched out and took Luca out. But
uh yeah, this one I think a surprising to most.

(01:32:35):
But when you look at it, we set it up
at the beginning of the show today, especially with that
knaves Read lineup out there. The Lakers don't have the
Timberwolf size.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Now, do the Lakers have the best, you know, two
of the best three players in the series. Probably so sure, right,
probably most definitely, But you'res looking at size and you
know that's gonna be a tough man up for Los Angeles.
Luka Doncic grabbing at his leg and pain.

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
But I know they're not even looking at this for
a flagrant.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
No, it's not a flagrant.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
There's nothing going for the defenders back.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Yeah, he was going for the ball on that one.
I don't like that one, trying to be a flake
and he lost his shoe, my shoe. So we're looking
at Luka doncics right now, and you're saying the reverting
back to old habits. Where does the team that he
left come? Where do they go from here? Will dive
into that in just a moment. Martin Weis's olden Polonies
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(01:35:28):
screen in Minnesota, Timberwolves may I believe the third most
actually four second most threes in franchise history. It was
tied for third and then there was a Nasried hit
another one. So that goes to show you as this
game has not been really in contention since halftime. It

(01:35:48):
also shows you, like probably not expecting a three point
output like this from the Timberwolves going forward.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
I'm trying to figure this thing as Anthony Edwards limps
to the locker room, and that's the thing, man. You know,
it can go either way. You know, you live by
the jump shot. You will die by the jump shot,
and you live by the three.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
You die out of three.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
Tonight, the Timberwolves are making threes, Lakers are making a couple.
But the defense is horrible. Right now, he's cramping up.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
Yeah that that's given a cramp because he landed squarely
on both feet too.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
Yeah, cramping up potassium in your body.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Dude, You know you joke about you say it with
a chuckle in your voice, but we are now in
I'll say it's Is it fair to say Anthony Edwards
arrived last season like at a at a bigger level
than he has been in the past. The knock that

(01:36:55):
was that, I mean he himself, not even a knock
just from people like me and you talking in my
but him himself acknowledged the fact that he just conditioning
wasn't all there. He didn't like, he was tired, he
ran out of gas. Yeah, cramping is another function of
diet hydration. I'm not blowing anything out of proportion here,

(01:37:16):
But Lakers come back and win this game, and they
get outscored fifteen to five. In the Anthony Edwards non
Anthony Edwards minutes, you could point one person at it,
but you could point to one person as to well,
two people I suppose, but one person answering the phone
really changing the course off the Western Conference. But you know,

(01:37:39):
watching Dallas this season mercifully ending last night, Anthony Davis,
limping off the court, tried and gave it his all.
Saw Klay Thompson asked afterwards, like if he knew that
everything was going to go the way it did. Now
if he would have still joined the Mavericks, which is
an incredibly I don't want to say it's an unfair
question because obviously if you could hop in your time machine,

(01:38:01):
you would, but it's one that there's no good answer
that he can say no, right, like, there's no good
answer that he can have it. I actually thought he
had a really really good answer, and that like, if
I could go back in a time machine, I probably
would have never gotten hurt, you know, like, but I
got better because of those things. I challenged myself through
those things, and that's why I am the guy I
am today. But there's gonna be a team in Dallas

(01:38:24):
next year. They're gonna have fifteen players on it or
so and they're gonna field the team that plays eighty
two games. Where do they go from here?

Speaker 3 (01:38:35):
They're gonna have to make some moves, you know, I
don't think they have enough. You can't replace Luca Daunteis
unless you get Luca Dauntets and so to me.

Speaker 2 (01:38:43):
It be hard to get him back. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
And Anthony Davis, you know, we know his history. He
tried to play through some stuff. But again, it's just
he's one of those guys. Man, the rest of his
career is gonna be you know, he's gonna sit out
some games due to injury. Clay is on the tail
end of his career, so he's not gonna be Clay
of old. He's not gonna give you extensive minutes. He'll

(01:39:06):
knock down some shots, He'll go on a heater every
now and then. Right, the biggest question mark for the
Dallas Mavericks is how healthy is Kyrie gonna be? But
at the same time, if Kyrie comes back ninety nine
point nine, because no one's ever one day, one hundred
ninety nine point nine, you still need help. You still

(01:39:29):
need a lot more.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Honestly, you know what that team needs a twenty six
year old superstar.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Well, I was about to say, like I am. You
know where they could get one.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
He needs a young wing who can't go out there.
You know the Max s Fists of the world and
not gonna do it. Those are spot guys. He's a
spot guy. You have a bunch of those, the Gafford
Lively lineup. You know they're gonna give you some minutes.
But but you know what, no one ever talks about
that those two guys getting injured at the same time

(01:40:00):
Billy decorated them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
It could not have broken worse for the Mavericks after
the trade in terms of the way their training table
just filled up with guys like guys were just everybody
was getting hurt and as a result, that's why the
team fell to where they were. It was not an
unpopular opinion that people were talking about how the Mavericks
won the trade for right now, you know, and I

(01:40:24):
didn't agree with it, but you could have found people
saying it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:27):
But no puts in this world the Mavericks won that trade.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
I listen, I agree with you. But Mike Harmon, who
does this show? What it was that ten to two
East doom? Yeah, swollen domes with Jason his best friend,
Jason Smith made a.

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
Great sorry seven to eleven Pacific time.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
I was trying to do it Eastern because, like you know,
half the country lives over there. But uh, anyway, he
made a great point that I never considered until I
heard him say it. Because of the way that Saquon
Barkley's free agency or whatever the last offseason was put
on television. As a collective, we never considered whether or

(01:41:14):
not it was a good or bad idea for the
Giants to keep Saquon Barkley. You know what I'm saying,
Like we never considered whether the Giants should have kept him.
It's but because of the way we saw it play out,
it was universally regarded as a bad move. If the
Giants had kept Saquon Barkley, they probably would have won
what at the best, three more games last year right

(01:41:36):
at the you know what I'm saying, that was going
to Philly it with the perfect storm, very much like
this was the perfect storm in Dallas. It may not
have like the if you go back and watch I'll
just say this, if you go back and watch the
Mavericks in the bubble, if you can win when Paul

(01:41:56):
George and Kawhi Leonard were at the height of their powers,
and you look at that version of Luka Doncics, and
you look at this version of Luka Dacis the seven
and seven on the back of his jersey got a
little bit bigger. You know, I'm saying, the athleticism is
not quite where. Again, I wouldn't have made the move,

(01:42:18):
all right, But when you've already got a guy who's
a couple of games away from winning an NBA Finals.
Who you seenes weight go up. You see he's already
not working off the court to the like that you'd
like him to. You give him a max contract, all
of a sudden, he's gonna work harder. But you know what,

(01:42:40):
it'll never matter because once you make the trade, now
he's motivated. Now he's with Lebron, now he's drinking green juices.
It'll never matter, the same way that whether or not
the Giants should or shouldn't have kept Taikwan won't matter
because the way that it was put on TV.

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
Well, you know, you upset me bringing up Saquan. You
know again, I'm a Giants and I was distraught over that.
But at the same time, you made a great point.
You know, we probably would have won two games you
said three, maybe one or two more. We just weren't
a really good team. So I'm happy for him he
got his championship ring. But with that being said, you right,

(01:43:19):
that weight game that's seventy seven getting larger played a
big part. But again, I'm not giving up on a
twenty five year old, twenty six year international superstar.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
I want to be clear, I wouldn't have done it either.
Oh my he could have been. He could have been,
he could have been all of a Miller size. And
if he's still putting the numbers that he's putting up, yes,
sign me up. All right.

Speaker 5 (01:43:46):
It's the fact that you know, if he is lacking
in motivation and he is gaining weight and despite all that,
he's still one of the three best players in the NBA,
and if.

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
He's lacking motivation, motivate him. You have seventeen coaches. Yeah, again,
somebody should be motivating. I would have tried my best
to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
All I'm saying is when you take away the drama
and the overnight of it all and you're waking up
to find out, Wait, what does happen? When you take
away all of that, it makes it a little a
slight bit more palatable. But coming up next, there's never
a good way to break up with somebody. And I
don't understand what one quarterback doesn't understand about that. But first,

(01:44:31):
Steve de Seger with the news.

Speaker 8 (01:44:34):
The Lakers at home were down twenty seven to the
Minnesota Timberwolves. It's now final seconds of the third quarter
of their NBA playoff first round opener. Timberwolves lead ninety
four to seventy five over La Luka Donsi's twenty eight
points for the Lakers. The New York Knicks defeated Detroit
one twenty three one twelve, Knicks with a twenty one

(01:44:54):
to zero run in the fourth quarter. Knicks, we're down
eight with about nine minutes left. Jalen Brunson's score thirty
four points. He had eight assists as well. Indiana Easiley
over Milwaukee won seventeen to ninety eight. In fact, Pacers
led in the third quarter seventy seven forty nine, and
Denver was down fifteen in the first half, but beat
the Clippers in overtime one twelve to one ten. The

(01:45:15):
Clips with twenty turnovers, seven by Kawhi Leonard to the
NHL Playoffs. Two games to open the postseason. Tonight, Winnipeg
scored three times in the third period to defeat Saint
Louis five to three. Colorado is now up two nothing
at Dallas as they closed the second period of play.
A late game in Major League Baseballs in the fifth
inning in Anaheim, Giants lead now three to one over

(01:45:38):
the Angels. Everything else is final. Atlanta edge Minnesota four
to three. A's got a three to one win at Milwaukee.
Luis Severinho, the winning pitcher for the Athletics eight innings
of work. Houston came back to beat the Padres three
to two, so the Pods are fifteen and six. The
Dodgers now fifteen and seven after losing at Texas four
to three on a two run homer in the bottom

(01:45:59):
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to Kirby Yates of La X Rangers. Closer by the
way Dodger Stars show Heeyo tani is on paternity leave
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Toronto eight to four in ten an comeback win for
the Rays over the Yankees ten to eight one and
on a walk off homer after Tampa Bay scored four

(01:46:20):
runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie it
against New York. Closer Devin Williams Boston and ten innings
edge the White Sox four to three. Red Sox have
won four in a row. White Sox have lost six
straight wins for the Mets and the Orioles wins for
the Cubs and the Tigers. Cleveland won three to nothing
at Pittsburgh. The loss to Paul Skens Philadelphia held on
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(01:46:43):
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takes his middle finger and his thumb and stretches him
out as far as he can, so if you can
envision that stress about as far as he can his
from his middle finger to thumb, reaches in a box
of Oreos and grabs the entire rower Oreo saved two, okay,

(01:48:29):
brings them out to his mouth and takes a bite
out of all of them like they're sandwich, and looks
at me. At six fifteen in the morning, a man
who I have never seen before in my life looks
at me and says with Oreo all through his teeth
and says, I always do something savage before seven am.
Oh god, oh, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:48:49):
Even know you are.

Speaker 2 (01:48:50):
That's on brand. Like, I know you're LaVar Arrington, right,
I know that, but we've never spoken you. Psycho like
literally took up every single Orio had a bite out
of it. It was like eighteen Oreos and I mean
he played linebacker. He called Football of Famers. Hand is
as big as my back, you know it's anyway. Jenny

(01:49:12):
Taff was also there, believe it or not, in a small,
small world. Uh, she's the Fox Sports lead college football reporter.
Should also be involved in the first round of the draft.
Coverage Thursday, eight pm Eastern Throughout the first round of
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Shave Club. No mention of Oreos, whether or not they'll

(01:49:34):
be a part of it, all right. So, Ian's favorite team,
the New York Jets, had a very public breakup with
Aaron Rodgers, and the reason why it was very public
because Aaron Rodgers told everybody exactly how it went down. Olden,
did you have any problem with Aaron Rodgers? Are said
Aaron Glenn seemingly quickly dismissing any possibility of Aaron Rodgers

(01:49:59):
playing for the New York Jets anyway, from the idea
that he did it to how it was done.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Well, Aaron Rodgers, I said before, it's a diva. And
so now Aaron Glenn just came from the Detroit Lions
and he had to make a statement as head coach,
and that statement was we're going in a different direction.
And you know, to Aaron Rodgers's point, you know, you
could have told me this over the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
So it was.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
Two guys trying to you know, the line was drawn
in the sand, and so it was just one of
these situations. But I do understand where Aaron Rodgers coming from,
only from the point of you could have told me
this over the phone. But at the same time, I
respect what Aaron Glenn did because I'm like, yo, I'm
setting it right now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
This is my team and.

Speaker 3 (01:50:53):
You're not welcome because we saw what you did. And
you know, they allowed Aaron Glen and to make that decision,
oh to you know, give him the bad news.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
I I really, honestly I thought that Aaron Glenn did
nothing wrong, nothing, So okay, Aaron Rodgers flew his own
way out there. Okay, I can get that. You know,
you'd rather probably have the team fly you out there.
I get that. But to call in a guy who
is a first ballot yellow jacket Hall of Famer, no

(01:51:27):
doubt about it, Aaron Rodgers, and say we're gonna move
off of you, but we want to let you like,
how do you want us to announce this?

Speaker 5 (01:51:37):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
I think that there's some like some validity to that.
I do, because it's not it's not just we're cutting
you back. Do you know what I'm saying? How do
you want we? We we see it all the time.
Now it's a mutually agreed parting of the ways. It
used to I remember it used to be guys just
got fired, right. No, now somebody if the phrasing is fired,

(01:52:02):
he means it really went ugly, right, like Joe Douglas
got fired. It wasn't no mutual parting of the ways, right,
But generally it to be like I don't want to
say I got fired, so on and so forth, plase blah.
I didn't have a problem with it. And to Rogers,
complaint of this could have been a phone call. The

(01:52:22):
reality of the situation is like you said, Aaron Rodgers, diva.
Had it been a phone call, he would have went
on Pat mckefee and said, don't you have to do
that with somebody face to face right now? And if
it had been if Aaron Glenn had flown to whoever
Aaron Rodgers was, I guess California. Probably, if Aaron Glenn

(01:52:44):
had crossed the country and flown and walked on the
beach in Malibu with Aaron Rodgers and his blue hoodie
and his plug in headphones, Aaron Rodgers would have said,
why are you disrupting my peace and quietude just to
tell me you're gonna fire? Exactly like, So, there was
never gonna be a good way to do this. There's
never a good way to break up. So send the text.
Just send the text, they'll say, if you want a ghost,

(01:53:05):
the ghost it was fine.

Speaker 5 (01:53:07):
There's also that that Colin Cowhard promo that's in circulation
right now, where Colin's talking a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
I disagree with that one, right right, Well.

Speaker 5 (01:53:15):
We're Collin's talking a little bit about about how like
you don't treat someone like that, And my point is
that's the only telling of the story we have is
from Aaron Rodgers' point of view, that's all we have.
Aaron Glenn hasn't come out and said this is how
it happened. All we have is the guy who came
out of the situation upset. So of course he's gonna
make the Jets look worse. Not saying the Jets are

(01:53:36):
blameless in all of this, but I'm saying, let's hold
off on passing judgment on Aaron Glenn when we don't
really know exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
Aaron Glenn was a top pick in the NFL draft,
the first round pick. I forget what number, I think
seven or eight, like a top fifteen pick in the
NFL draft. Definitely first round. Was a star, was a
old veteran. He worked his way up, got hired as
a scout for Parcels and the Jets, and as coached

(01:54:04):
all around. He's been in the NFL life for Aaron
Glyn's what forty or forty seven is in that range.
He's been in the NFL for twenty some plus years.

Speaker 4 (01:54:16):
He's fifty two, and he was the twelfth overall pick.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
Okay, so twelve overall pick, fifty two, So he's been
in the NFL for over thirty years in some capacity.
I think he's probably got a good handle and maybe
I know, never been a head coach, we probably got
a good handle on how things like this should go.
I'm with you. I think that we have a bias
narrator here.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
Yeah, but to the point we only get in aaron'side,
you know, like.

Speaker 8 (01:54:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
But again, I don't think Aaron Glenn himself did anything wrong.
And so you're right, no matter how it went down,
Aaron Rodgers would have flipped.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
It when I said earlier, Anthony Edwards are conditioning the cramp,
so on and so forth, that if the Timberwolves give
up a fifteen to five run in this next moment
in time, you could point at one person, Well, the
run was twenty to eight. To see how it ends
for the Minnesota Timberwolves in this Los Angeles Leakers game.

(01:55:14):
Will there be another miraculous comeback by a home team
in the postseason. We'll see Martin Weiss's olden Polonese. We'll
be right back. It was a twenty to eight run
in the non Anthony Edwards minutes when he was in
the back of the locker room getting that what we
presume to be a cramp worked on uh, you know,
didn't have much of an influence though, one eighty eight

(01:55:36):
the score with eight just under eight minutes left in
the game between the Timberwolves and the Lakers. The Timberwolves
up and old we saw something in this game, olden
polonies there, Martin Weiss here on Fox Sports Radio on
a Fox Sports Saturday. We saw two types of shots
we do not see in the regular season in this game.

(01:55:58):
And I wonder if they'll had the game of appens.
You have to get closer for it too. But we
saw both Luka Doncics hit a half court shot at
the end of the third quarter and Dante DiVincenzo hit
a forty footer about going into half. A lot of
times we're seeing guys give those up, right, give seeing

(01:56:20):
guys pass up those shots in terms of like shooting
percentage and not wanting to take their bad shots on Yeah,
take the shot, fellas, don't shoot they're shooting it after
the buzzer goes off. Take the shot. You're professional. Put
it up there.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
It might go in at worst case scenario, and I
think it goes in. That's the worst case scenario.

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
And we saw and what really triggered me to thinking
about this in a different way. Was last year with
Peyton Pritchard with Boston. Yeah, he was hitting so many
backbreaking three that felt like they were worth fifteen points

(01:57:03):
because you got to go there. And at the last
play of the game that y'all saw was Peyton Pritchard
off the bench hitting you from three from the other
logo and all of a sudden, you're.

Speaker 3 (01:57:14):
Like, damn total momentum.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
Shit. Were dealing with Tatum, we dealing with Brown, were
doing with Derek White, and who is who is this
guy just knocking out fifty foot jump shots?

Speaker 3 (01:57:27):
Yeah, no, you're right. It's it's so impressive. And he
became known for that, right like that was his thing,
you know. And I was like wow, because every game
you and to the point where I expected him to
make them right exactly like they were subbing him in
at the end of the half quarters just hit one.

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
Insane. I love it. That's that's every for real. It
was getting to the you know, not quite free throw
level for for Pritchard, but you know, it just shows
to show you, yo, there's points out there, you know.
And I if you're a player who's concerned about your
contract and so on. I kind of get that, Like
if you are a player who is like if I

(01:58:11):
shoot over sixty percent from the field or something like that,
then I get a kick up on my money. I
would just like it to be like if the clock
is expiring, right, you put a metric on it. If
there's you know, a tenth of a second or less
than a second left on shot clock er game clock,
when this shot released, it doesn't count for my contract. Man,

(01:58:33):
sign me up.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
Yeah, I don't know, man. I like Peyton, you know what.
The funny thing about Peyton Bridgett was like he's a
really good player. Oh, there's no doubt about it. He'll
start on twenty nine other teams I think a twenty eight,
twenty seven, twenty six, but he could stop right he
but it's like he's there right now. He's accepted his

(01:58:56):
role and he's done a hell of a job. I mean,
he's he's made himself so valuable absolutely, you know, and
again we all have the same twenty four. You know,
he's just making the most of it. We were just
talking about it. The ability.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
What's the difference between the level of talent that you
have Vergul I'm not a grind that you have, like Lebron,
incredibly talented, but you can't talent your way up to
six nine, two fifty. You know, that's just that's just
what God came down. Now did he maximize it? Oh?
Jay Z twenty two years in, I say, I think
Lebron probably got a lot out of it. Maybe not

(01:59:33):
all he could, but he's not leaving home sad about it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:37):
Geez.

Speaker 2 (01:59:37):
Nineteen points on sixteen shots not very efficient for Lebron' time,
not at all. Sixteen point, sixteen point game with six
minutes left. This was about the time though, when the
Fiftons decided we're just gonna not score again until the
two minutes left in the game, and that's how you
ended up losing. We'll see if ffty more championship level, Well,

(02:00:02):
I guess Lebron's a more experienced guy. You see how
this one breaks down. Aaron Torres and Jason Martin will
have the breakdown for you coming up next. Martin Wise,
Olden Polonies, see you see ya, Big Kerry

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