May 25, 2024 • 33 mins
Big Ben talks about the Minnesota Timberwolves eliminating the defending champion Denver Nuggets, the Knicks getting eliminated by the Pacers, Maller's Mountain of Money: Cher Edition, and much more!
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My man. Our lead comes out of Colorado. I'm old
enough to remember when the Nuggets were the reigning champions,
but they have been dethroned. Dethroned. That was the site
Game seven, Game seven Timmerwolves and Nuggets, with Alex Rodriguez
getting lots of television time making it all about him,
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but the winner would advance to the Final four of
the NBA Final four cut down. The Nets go to
the Final four. So if you didn't see it, I've
given you the outcome. You already know the outcome. But
Carl Anthony Towns and Jayden McDaniels each had twenty three
points and Mini Salta comes back from twenty down. They
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were on Life Sport down fifteen and a half time
down twenty early third quarter, and they eject the reigning
champions of pro bouncy ball, the Nuggets. As they're done
ninety eight to ninety the final, the Timberwolves have advanced.
Now they're in the Western Finals. They'll start with Dallas
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on Wednesday in the Twin Cities. But we will have
plenty of time to discuss the Western Conference Finals. But
instead we must do the ata on what just happened
here in Colorado with the Nuggets who seemingly had everything
cooking and then they had nothing cooking the rest of
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the way. So the question who's to blame for the
Rocky Mountain collapse in the NBA Playoffs in Game seven
at home? What an embarrassment? What an absolute embarrassment? Will
start with that. So a we focus in on the headlines.
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Right in the headlines here are all about the stars
not performing at the end. Now you look at the
stat line, I said, well, the only two Nuggets and
you know, double figures were the two stars. But Nikola
Jokich and Jamal Murray they had to have a higher
gear in this game, and they did not have a
higher gear in this game. They did not step up
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really from about three minutes in to the second half,
from that point forward, after going up at the ten
to fifty marks, So it wasn't even three minutes in
ten to fifty mark of the third quarter. So that's
a minute and ten seconds. My computer like brain tells
me from that point forward, the Nuggets, I wrote it down.
They were outscored by twenty eight points in their own gymnasium. There,
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Jokichen Murray combined to shoot ten of twenty five from
the floor the rest of the game forty percent. Michael
Porter Junior had one three point basket that was it,
which doesn't sound very impressive until you consider that Aaron
Gordon was shut out. He had a goose egg the
rest of the game. Now, I didn't play in the NBA.
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I don't think that's good. But what do I know.
I just do the overnight show here. So Minnesota, let's
not misconstrue the fact they were a good defensive team.
This was not because of lockdown timberwolve defense. This was
wide open shots, many of them that were missed in
cahoots with some good defensive possessions by Minnesota. But howell history,
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Remember Anthony Edwards' sninky performance. He got the postgame interview
and all that. Anthony adverags you didn't see the game here.
He's the headliner. I was told by my NBA media
elites that he is Michael Jordan two point oh and
I like Anthony Edwards. I have nothing against the guy,
but man, was he a ball of suck in this game?
Man did he stink? Anthony Edwards. To answer the question,
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how will history remember his performance? Is stinky performance in
this game. He picked up a presidential pardon, is what
he got. Because Edwards took twenty four shots. He only
made six of them twenty five percent. That's it. While
he was on the floor there just ineffective. He's the
offensive dynamo, but he wasn't the offensive dynamo in this game.
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And the idea that somehow he turned on the performance
in the second half. I've heard some pundits trying to
say that it's not true. Took in the second half
of the game. He took seventeen shots. He was five
of seventeen. That was slightly better, so still under thirty percent.
But the deal is, we know this from past examples.
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Here that victory is one hell of a wonderfully smelling cologne,
and he took a bath in cologne, Anthony Edwards. And
even though he's stunk, over time, we know how this works.
Over time, people will remember the fact that Minnesota won
the game. The turning point in the third quarter, comeback,
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and then the final score, and that's it, period. Stop.
That's what people were going to remember. History has shown
us that people suffer from amnesia, and even over time,
long term, you'll forget. You'll forget the turning point. You
just remember the final score. If you go back and
look and you go on like Basketball Reference dot Com,
you're like, Okay, what happened pro Basketball Reference dot Com?
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And that's it now page two here, What the heck
does this series win by Minneso to prove? So I
like this. I was thinking about it as I was
taking my long ride in from the north Woods here.
And what it proves to me is it debunks a
bunch of things. And I've been hiding out under the
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cover of darkness behind these microphones, and I have over
the years had some positions, some have been attacked by dufuses.
But this is confirmation. And that's why I was happy
with the outcome. I was because the first thing it debunks.
I'll go through not a list. I don't do list radio.
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But coach Michael Malone implied that his team was gassed.
That's the implication. He said, Ah, I played last year
deep into the summer and all that. That's embarrassing. And
I'll tell you why it's embarrassing. And this is what
it debunks. This is the franchise in Denver that likes
to be very braggadocious about how high up in the
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air they play. And they dominated home and all the
Colorado teams because of the altitude. And they had that
number even though the jerseys, the uniforms they were wearing
five eighty five to eight. Oh, it's on the court,
it's on the alternative uniforms for the Denver Nuggets. The altitude,
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the mile high city. They nobody comes in there and wins, right,
they have so great you can't handle. The team that's
gonna get tired. Is the road team, not the home
team because of the altitude, it's impossible to win there.
How many home games did the team from Denver that
plays at that high altitude losing the series? Not one,
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not to three? Wow? That's uh, it's almost like it
debunked the whole altitude thing. If you're good, it doesn't matter.
If you're bad, you use it as an excuse. Who goofed?
I've got to know now. The other thing that it debunked.
Here is Uncle Moe. The only Uncle Mo is a
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guy from Brooklyn that calls the show randomly. Uncle Mo
in sports does not does not exist here, period, hard stock.
That's it. It's just something uneducated fans, low information fans
like to grab onto and yap about. We now have
d and a evidence in this series does not exist.
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The Timberwolves won the first two games in Denver. They
had all the momentum. Oh they were right and high.
Oh man, they were looking great, all the momentum. So
then they went back home. Everyone's better at home. Surely
they were going to continue. What wait a minute, why
would Minnesota give up the momentum they had? They had
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the momentum. Did they lose it somewhere over Iowa? Did
it drop down into a cornfield on their way back
from Colorado? What happened to the momentum? Okay, So then
the Nuggets they had all the momentum, Oh, feeling good
about themselves. They won the three games in a row.
Oh my god. And then they went back to Minnesota.
And then wait a minute, the Nuggets lost by I
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mean forty five points. It says in my note forty
five points. They lost by but they Wait a minute,
the Nuggets had the momentum. I don't understand. How could
that happen? Explain that to me. I'm not that bright.
Explain it to me. You can't. And so okay, So
then wait a minute. Minnesota won by forty five points.
But back to Denver and Denver the altitude, the whole
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thing and all that stuff. But wait a minute, the
Nuggets had a twenty point lead. So they did they
got the momentum back. They had a twenty point lead.
They were up twenty at home. Oh my god, oh MG,
twenty point lead at home. Game seven, Championship pedigree. Michael
alone bragged the ambout it Championship pedigrade. They puked in
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their mouth. They all puked in their mouth, the Denver
Nuggets at the end there, Why would they do that?
Did they not want to win? See, there is no
such thing as momentum in sport. It does not exist.
This series a textbook example. You can also talk about
the Indiana Pacers on their performance on the road against
the New York Knickerbockers. The same situations like, well, they
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can't win on the road, the Knicks are at home.
They had all those acts celebrities there, Well what happened, Well,
we know what happened, but momentum is used after the
fact to explain the outcome, explain what happened now, and
it usually goes away when it doesn't fit the narrative.
All right, last word, So do you have any problem?
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This is a big talking point among the NBA hardos.
Do you have any problem with the wolves? Anthony Edwards
as the clock was running down, waving goodbye to the
people that bought tickets or got free tickets to the
Nuggets game, waving goodbye there as the game came to
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an end. So I only have a slight grumble. Generally,
I don't have a with this. The only issue I have.
Since it's a talk show, I have to have an issue.
I do have this issue. My pet, Peeve Edwards played
like manure most of the game. He's an offensive Mozarty,
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but it was it was just horrific. Okay, it was
absolutely horrific. And so don't when you go take twenty
four shots and you miss eighteen of them and you're
I don't know, it seems a little odd. It reminded
me of in football when you're and I don't miss
it a one, but it's like you get a sack
when you're you're not playing that well and the team's
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not doing any you celebrate and all that stuff. And
then I watched on the TNT post game there inside
the NBA. I believe, unless my TV was was not
working there, maybe it wasn't that Anthony Edwards was pointing
out that it was his defense in the second half
that shut down Jamal Murray. I didn't really see it
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that way either. Didn't see that the whole thing was
slightly awkward, slightly awkward, but I did see Murray miss
a number of open shots. I saw Naz Reid of
Minnesota play some pretty good defense at times. There the
ensemble group collectively got it done.
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That's how that works. But are lead this hour coming
from above Penn Station, the belly of the concrete beast,
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Midtown Manhattan, the Mecca. So it's called Game seven, Game
seven Pacers and the Knicks. It's the Knicks versus the Hicks, say,
date in the Eastern Final four on the line. And
this was the early game. Some thought it would be
the late game. Get that New York audience their primetime
on a Sunday night, But no, it was the afternoon game.
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And if you didn't watch, don't worry. We watched for you.
Why not, we have nothing else to do on a
lazy Sunday afternoon. So Tyrese Halliburton, pritt deep, pretty dee good,
Tyrese Saliburton twenty six points and the Pacers said an
NBA playoff record, they shot the lights out sixty seven
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percent from the floor, and they were better than that.
While the game was in the balance, it really was
never in the balance, as they beat the Knickerbockers. The
final score one thirty to one hundred and nine. They
put up one hundred and thirty points as the road team,
a team that traveled by horse drawn carriage. It would
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a peer the way they had played on the road.
But they've advanced out of the Eastern Finals a date
with Boston, first time in ten years that the Indiana
basketball team has advanced. How about that last time they
were in the conference finals, they had a player named
Lance Stevenson who blew into the ear of Lebron James
if I remember correctly. The better story, though, here is
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in the losing locker room, and we will wallow in
the mire with Jalen Brunson, who left Game seven in
the third quarter. Oh, my aching hand. He broke his hand,
his right hand, left hand, left hand, he broke his
left hand. So let us discuss the question when you
look at this wide angle lens, does this count as
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a Knickerbocker choke job? Or do do the Knicks get
a pass because Jalen Brunson was injured. So I've got
New York City Health Code, barcode, and Kellogg's and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to make a ghost Runner, which you only get
there in baseball, because if you see a ghost runner
outside of baseball, you probably panicking and say, oh my god,
I should call over to Coast to coast because there's
a there's a weird alien thing ghost thing like running
around anyway. So number one to answer the question, does
this count as a Knickerbocker choke job or do they
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get a pass because Jalen Brunton's injury. We don't give
out passes here. We do not give out passes. I
don't know if you're new to the show. We're not
the type of show that gives out passes. We don't.
This is black and white. We love the tenacity of
Jalen Brunson, and I've waxed poetic. I have massaged him,
given to the manny and the petty on the show
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about the way Jalen Brunson plays. However, you also have
to call a spade a spade, and he went from
dog to arf dog dog with fleas. Here he needed
a flea bat Jalen Brunson. In this game, Brunson six
of seventeen from the floor, which I don't think is
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that good If he takes seventeen shots and miss eleven
of them, and he was out played by the player
he was going against Tyrese Haliburton, who had the marvelous
real sexy stat line. There for Indiana, the entire Nick
roster went kerfloey, all of it, from top to bottom,
from A to Z alpha to omega. All that Indiana
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was really playing was house money here. They were underdogs.
They hadn't been able to play well on the road stuff,
and they were expected to lose. It was going to
be a coronation of the Knickerbockers. And all you had
to do show up. All the Knicks had to do
was show up, and they showed up, and then what happened.
Indiana had little pressure and the Knicks were surrounded by
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a who's who of elites, all the Manhattan celebrities who
got their free tickets to sit court side of the
garden to make it seem more important than it is,
the one percenters in New York. And they were there.
The Knicks, they were da dead on arrival. Cause of
death tight took his syndrome. That was the cause of
death on the autopsy report. This game was for all
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the marbles, and they choked on one of the marbles.
That's what happened. That's what happened there, and they really
what happened to the Knicks, and people goes said, well, Brunson
got her. You know you hear they would have won,
would have could have showed and they were gonna come back. No,
the Knickerbockers violated the New York City Health Code Section
one five to three point h nine public urination. They
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pittled down their line. That's what they did there. It's
an unclassified misdemeanor against the next Jalen Brunson also said
in his postgame commentary, he said that the next season
was not a success. He said, I fact, just to
prove I'm not making that up. Let's go do a
cut three. There's Jalen Brunson pointing out the Knickerbocker season
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was not successful. Pros and cons of how I played.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
The pros is, obviously I played well individually at some
points in time during the playoffs, and the cons or
that I didn't play well enough to help my team.
Before you can say I got hurt in Game seven,
I wasn't playing well. In Game seven. We had a
two to zero in the future lead, and so it's
just it's hard to look at things individually when you
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don't help your team.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
All right, that's actually not the one I wanted. Do
we have the right one? Do we have that? By chance?
Possibly we do. Okay, let's see we can find the
right one.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Here we go TV win the championship. Did we get close?
So now that's just that's my mindset. That's just how
it is.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Okay, So that's the one we were looking for. Jalen Ronson.
There you go. He says. The nixt season was not
a success. Do you agree? Yes, I'm nodding my head, Yes,
I do agree. And how could it have been a success.
They didn't even make the final four? The baseline is
the final four. Now you make the final four? He said, Okay,
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I'm doing okay, we're in the right direction. We're going
in the right direction. But you get blown out your pants,
ripped off, public humiliation at home in game seven, and
you played madador defense. Oleay oleyolayole. There. Indiana shot seventy
one point seven percent when Brunson left the game. Up
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until that point, Bruston left with an injury with the
hand injury. But at that point he left the game,
the Pacers were shooting seventy one point seven percent from
the floor, and Indiana was up by eighteens. But we're
supposed to go, well, if only Brunson hadn't gotten hurt
the next we're gonna come back and win the game. Yeah,
that's the ticket, unless it's not. Now page two here
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some people up in arms because of some postgame Shenanigan
was by the star of the Indiana basketball team. Did
the Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton cross the line in the sand?
Did he cross the line in the sand by taunting
the Knickerbockers in the postgame war draw. We wore a
Reggie Miller choke sweater and the famous if you're old,
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you remember this back in the nineties when the Pacers
had good teams and they played the Knickerbockers and Reggie
Miller he would go like this, Joe good to the
Knicks anyway. So the answer to that is absolutely not okay.
And the difference here. We talked earlier in the show
about what happened in Minnesota, and Anthony Edwards, who was
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a total stiff most of the game for Minnesota, was
waving goodbye to the Nuggets fans on a night he
played terribly well Tyrese Haliburton, though he was monster mashing
for Indiana. It's like, are you monster mash? You got
it done? You outplayed the Knick star Jalen Brunson. Good luck,
you do what you want. I had no issue with
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that at all. Show business. That was entertaining and Haliburton
going back that famous quote from a senator to named
William L. Marcy back in the eighteen hundreds, who said,
to the victor goes the spoil and Indiana won the game,
and they were all excited, right, They didn't puke. They
thought they were gonna puke. Everyone thought they were gonna pee.
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They didn't puke. There was no puke, and so they
celebrated with a nice sweater. Now, I will tell you
the only part of this that I would say, well
that's kind of bugeyzy, is if Indiana had gone out
there and the outcome had been different. Do you think
that Tyrese Haliburton had some other clothes to wear other
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than that? I mean thinks he did. Methinks he brought
a couple of other pieces of clothing to wear post game,
and that we would not have seen that. Reggie Miller
photo on the hoodie that he was wearing after the game.
We would not have seen that, but what do I know?
I would have been in mock balls. And then what
did you make of the Bristol, Connecticut coverage there of
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the Knickerboxers. One of our listeners in Indiana got all episodes.
Did you just see what they did? They were like
watching the Knick TV broadcast. I did not watch the
pregame show. I saw some clips online. I don't really
watch ESPN at halftime or pregame or postgame because they're
bad and my time is valuable, and I don't want
to be bored, so I just don't. I don't do
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anything for me. I'm not that content doesn't do anything
for me, so fine, But others did, and I watched
the clips online. It was fanboy like I would I
describe it as fanboy like, right, Spike Lee isn't as
biased as the broadcast was towards the Knickerbockers. And it
always blows me away because the Knicks. You think about
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teams that get a lot of covered like that, like
everyone sucks the toes of the Lakers and goes on
and on like that, But like the Knicks haven't had
a championship team since before the Barcode was invented. Think
about that, the Barcode. The Barcode was invented after the
Knicks won their last championship with walk Clyde Fraser, and
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yet they were being fonned and slabbered all over. Slapper, slaughter, slaughter.
Oh man, they were all over, which also made the
inevitable choke all that much more enjoyed. Final points. So dude,
Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers have a shot against the Celtics,
they have a shot in the Eastern Conference final. So
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I would classify this in the slim to none category.
These slim to none category for Indiana. You're talking about
slaying the dragon. And yet again things have opened up
for the Boston Celtics that you look series by series
here and everything lining up for the Celtics. And this
is another one of those David versus Goliath and the
Celtics of the Goliath. In this particular matchup, you got
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Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. The only scenario where Indiana
can come through here is if Jalen If Jalen Brown
and Jason Tatum get together, they have breakfast. They have
the Kellogg's rice crispies and snap crackle pop happens outside
of that, right, even with Perzingi's hobbling and on a
pogo stick, even with that, As the adage goes, the
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age old adage goes, You're only a few sprained ankles
and broken hands away from upset city. But would I
bet on Indiana? No? Could they win a game? Sure?
Could they win two games? Yeah, they can win two.
Are they gonna win three game? No, they shouldn't win three,
and not even forget forget about four, forget.
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Speaker 1 (27:10):
And right to the game we go. We have our
contestants all lined up here. You've got JJ, he's in
Seattle and he's matched up with me, and then Eddie
is with Jacob who is in Delaware, and Cooper. I
believe we're going to and JJ are going first. Yes,
that is correct, right, very excited? All right, the category
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you picked that there's a lot of ambient noise. There
may a lot of ambient noise that is not good.
That was on Jacob's line. We put them on home.
All right, here we go. The category you picked is believe.
Is that correct, JJ, because you believe we're gonna win?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
I do.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Okay, here we go. No one initially believed these athletes
as they went undrafted undrafted. Okay, are you ready? Forty
five seconds on the clock. Here we go. We're on
our way.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Go.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He's the lead commentator on the NFL on CBS. He
played for the Cowboys. Yes, quarterback for the Greatest Show
on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. Shirt Warner, Yes, fear
the fro from the Pistons of the early two thousands.
All right, quarterback for the Oilers. Number one African American.
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He also played Yes, that's correct, dog shooting guard for
the Knickerbockers in the nineties. He missed all eleven three
point shots in Game seven of the Game seven of
the nineteen ninety four NBA Finals, John Turf, Yes that
is correct. Vikings Hall of Fame defensive end number ninety
three in the nineties. He played mostly in the eighties
and the nineties. Hall of Famer. Also, he finished his
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career with the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
All right, start, Allen.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
John Randall was who we were looking for, and you
didn't get Ben Wallace. I don't think right, correct, all right, correct?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
So one hundred and thirty points, that's enough to win.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
We move over to Jacob and Eddie, and you guys
have strong enough. These are some of the strongest athletes
of all time. Forty seconds on the clock. Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Jacob? All right? Begin?
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Former NBA big man the Diesel he's on TNT NBA
star teamed up with John Stockton in Utah, recently retired
Rams defensive lineman who was a Defensive Player of the
Year several times. Yes, slugger for the Yankees, not Aaron
Judge came over from the Marlins. Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker,
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very angry looking all the time. Yes, Philly slugger. He
won a World Series with the Cubs. Former tight end
for the forty nine Ers and Redskins, Mike Singletary had
a ramp. Can't win with them? Yes, holy crap, Philly slugger. Now,
but he won a World Series with the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
No, you're close, though, didn't run the table.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Kyle Schwarver, but otherwise.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Not impressed that. I was not impressed, Davis. But you
didn't get the hardest one was tob two hundred and
sixty points first place, Smartlin. Now, all right, run up
the score here.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
We aren't going back JJ and Ben JJ. Would you
like if I could turn back time? Or I got
you babe?
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All right?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
These athletes are still at it despite being past their prime.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin, all right, cheating
astro pitcher. He's on the Atlanta Braves.
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He's forty years old, starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves,
all right. Won an MVP with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's
an outfielder. He's back with the Pirates. Now, yes, that
is correct. I won a Super Bowl with the Ravens,
got a huge contract, and then sucked. He was on
the Browns last year. Quarterback. Yes, a shooting guard for
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the Sixers. He was on the Clippers. Used to play
for the Portland Trailblazers and shoots a lot of three
point shots from France. I believe no. All right. Wide
receiver just signed with the Dolphins. Former Giant star played
with the Rams, won a Super Bowl with the Rams,
big diva. No, that's not going. Yeah, that is correct.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
You needed that to tie, not a baseball guy, huh.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Or basketball so we win, we don't. Let's the score though.
You missed, you missed Charlie Morton, the cheating a hole
Alan of Braves. You didn't get that one. That's the
one we needed. We needed that one. That's the one
we needed JJ and we needed that one there. You
didn't get that one.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Basketball player. Whenever he made a shot on the Blazers,
it was a blank shot of locker.
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That was my guy, Brian Wheeler. They Blazers fired his ass.
I love Wheeler. Nicholas Nicholas batoum yeah, Nicholas Batum. All right,
you should be doing play by play somewhere. Let's run
up the scar category. This is why Cooper's cheering for
Eddie to run up for the Yeah, Press, you're ready
for that. You've got I got you, baby, You've already won.
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But I'm not press. You didn't know, Kyle ShW.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
These sports figures all recently got married. What a great
clue that is forty five seconds on the clock. Begin
current Detroit Lions quarterback here, Yeah, Dodgers Japanese slugger may
or may not.
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Have gambled on baseball.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Current quarterback for the forty nine ers.
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Yes, I was gonna fail you.
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Yes, Oh my god, Oklahoma City Thunder's got a hyphenated.
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Name, former Clipper.
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You can't say that Atlanta Atlanta Hawks starred the h
Highlight Reel Human Highlight Reel. Yes, that's a boy question.
Clutch sports dating, Adele.
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You didn't run the time? You sucking this, Eddie Bens,
you were so bad at this your yead? What cheat there, Eddie?
The guys only one category. How embarrassing that you didn't
even know Kyle schwar You're in Delaware. I assume you're
not that far you don't. Philly was the Delaware River
the Phillies play. And this guy's in Delaware and he
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doesn't know Kyle Swarnst, who plays for the Phillies. We
win golden ticket for you, sir. Not impressive, though, what
did my god? My god, Charlie Moore loser you guys
zoom losers. But Tom's cousins don't even know you play.
That's a and sixty point answer for Come on, Dominique Wilkins,
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My man. Our lead comes out of Colorado. I'm old
enough to remember when the Nuggets were the reigning champions,
but they have been dethroned. Dethroned. That was the site
Game seven, Game seven Timmerwolves and Nuggets, with Alex Rodriguez
getting lots of television time making it all about him,
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but the winner would advance to the Final four of
the NBA Final four cut down. The Nets go to
the Final four. So if you didn't see it, I've
given you the outcome. You already know the outcome. But
Carl Anthony Towns and Jayden McDaniels each had twenty three
points and Mini Salta comes back from twenty down. They
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were on Life Sport down fifteen and a half time
down twenty early third quarter, and they eject the reigning
champions of pro bouncy ball, the Nuggets. As they're done
ninety eight to ninety the final, the Timberwolves have advanced.
Now they're in the Western Finals. They'll start with Dallas
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on Wednesday in the Twin Cities. But we will have
plenty of time to discuss the Western Conference Finals. But
instead we must do the ata on what just happened
here in Colorado with the Nuggets who seemingly had everything
cooking and then they had nothing cooking the rest of
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the way. So the question who's to blame for the
Rocky Mountain collapse in the NBA Playoffs in Game seven
at home? What an embarrassment? What an absolute embarrassment? Will
start with that. So a we focus in on the headlines.
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Right in the headlines here are all about the stars
not performing at the end. Now you look at the
stat line, I said, well, the only two Nuggets and
you know, double figures were the two stars. But Nikola
Jokich and Jamal Murray they had to have a higher
gear in this game, and they did not have a
higher gear in this game. They did not step up
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really from about three minutes in to the second half,
from that point forward, after going up at the ten
to fifty marks, So it wasn't even three minutes in
ten to fifty mark of the third quarter. So that's
a minute and ten seconds. My computer like brain tells
me from that point forward, the Nuggets, I wrote it down.
They were outscored by twenty eight points in their own gymnasium. There,
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Jokichen Murray combined to shoot ten of twenty five from
the floor the rest of the game forty percent. Michael
Porter Junior had one three point basket that was it,
which doesn't sound very impressive until you consider that Aaron
Gordon was shut out. He had a goose egg the
rest of the game. Now, I didn't play in the NBA.
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I don't think that's good. But what do I know.
I just do the overnight show here. So Minnesota, let's
not misconstrue the fact they were a good defensive team.
This was not because of lockdown timberwolve defense. This was
wide open shots, many of them that were missed in
cahoots with some good defensive possessions by Minnesota. But howell history,
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Remember Anthony Edwards' sninky performance. He got the postgame interview
and all that. Anthony adverags you didn't see the game here.
He's the headliner. I was told by my NBA media
elites that he is Michael Jordan two point oh and
I like Anthony Edwards. I have nothing against the guy,
but man, was he a ball of suck in this game?
Man did he stink? Anthony Edwards. To answer the question,
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how will history remember his performance? Is stinky performance in
this game. He picked up a presidential pardon, is what
he got. Because Edwards took twenty four shots. He only
made six of them twenty five percent. That's it. While
he was on the floor there just ineffective. He's the
offensive dynamo, but he wasn't the offensive dynamo in this game.
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And the idea that somehow he turned on the performance
in the second half. I've heard some pundits trying to
say that it's not true. Took in the second half
of the game. He took seventeen shots. He was five
of seventeen. That was slightly better, so still under thirty percent.
But the deal is, we know this from past examples.
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Here that victory is one hell of a wonderfully smelling cologne,
and he took a bath in cologne, Anthony Edwards. And
even though he's stunk, over time, we know how this works.
Over time, people will remember the fact that Minnesota won
the game. The turning point in the third quarter, comeback,
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and then the final score, and that's it, period. Stop.
That's what people were going to remember. History has shown
us that people suffer from amnesia, and even over time,
long term, you'll forget. You'll forget the turning point. You
just remember the final score. If you go back and
look and you go on like Basketball Reference dot Com,
you're like, Okay, what happened pro Basketball Reference dot Com?
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And that's it now page two here, What the heck
does this series win by Minneso to prove? So I
like this. I was thinking about it as I was
taking my long ride in from the north Woods here.
And what it proves to me is it debunks a
bunch of things. And I've been hiding out under the
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cover of darkness behind these microphones, and I have over
the years had some positions, some have been attacked by dufuses.
But this is confirmation. And that's why I was happy
with the outcome. I was because the first thing it debunks.
I'll go through not a list. I don't do list radio.
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But coach Michael Malone implied that his team was gassed.
That's the implication. He said, Ah, I played last year
deep into the summer and all that. That's embarrassing. And
I'll tell you why it's embarrassing. And this is what
it debunks. This is the franchise in Denver that likes
to be very braggadocious about how high up in the
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air they play. And they dominated home and all the
Colorado teams because of the altitude. And they had that
number even though the jerseys, the uniforms they were wearing
five eighty five to eight. Oh, it's on the court,
it's on the alternative uniforms for the Denver Nuggets. The altitude,
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the mile high city. They nobody comes in there and wins, right,
they have so great you can't handle. The team that's
gonna get tired. Is the road team, not the home
team because of the altitude, it's impossible to win there.
How many home games did the team from Denver that
plays at that high altitude losing the series? Not one,
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not to three? Wow? That's uh, it's almost like it
debunked the whole altitude thing. If you're good, it doesn't matter.
If you're bad, you use it as an excuse. Who goofed?
I've got to know now. The other thing that it debunked.
Here is Uncle Moe. The only Uncle Mo is a
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guy from Brooklyn that calls the show randomly. Uncle Mo
in sports does not does not exist here, period, hard stock.
That's it. It's just something uneducated fans, low information fans
like to grab onto and yap about. We now have
d and a evidence in this series does not exist.
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The Timberwolves won the first two games in Denver. They
had all the momentum. Oh they were right and high.
Oh man, they were looking great, all the momentum. So
then they went back home. Everyone's better at home. Surely
they were going to continue. What wait a minute, why
would Minnesota give up the momentum they had? They had
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the momentum. Did they lose it somewhere over Iowa? Did
it drop down into a cornfield on their way back
from Colorado? What happened to the momentum? Okay, So then
the Nuggets they had all the momentum, Oh, feeling good
about themselves. They won the three games in a row.
Oh my god. And then they went back to Minnesota.
And then wait a minute, the Nuggets lost by I
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mean forty five points. It says in my note forty
five points. They lost by but they Wait a minute,
the Nuggets had the momentum. I don't understand. How could
that happen? Explain that to me. I'm not that bright.
Explain it to me. You can't. And so okay, So
then wait a minute. Minnesota won by forty five points.
But back to Denver and Denver the altitude, the whole
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thing and all that stuff. But wait a minute, the
Nuggets had a twenty point lead. So they did they
got the momentum back. They had a twenty point lead.
They were up twenty at home. Oh my god, oh MG,
twenty point lead at home. Game seven, Championship pedigree. Michael
alone bragged the ambout it Championship pedigrade. They puked in
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their mouth. They all puked in their mouth, the Denver
Nuggets at the end there, Why would they do that?
Did they not want to win? See, there is no
such thing as momentum in sport. It does not exist.
This series a textbook example. You can also talk about
the Indiana Pacers on their performance on the road against
the New York Knickerbockers. The same situations like, well, they
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can't win on the road, the Knicks are at home.
They had all those acts celebrities there, Well what happened, Well,
we know what happened, but momentum is used after the
fact to explain the outcome, explain what happened now, and
it usually goes away when it doesn't fit the narrative.
All right, last word, So do you have any problem?
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This is a big talking point among the NBA hardos.
Do you have any problem with the wolves? Anthony Edwards
as the clock was running down, waving goodbye to the
people that bought tickets or got free tickets to the
Nuggets game, waving goodbye there as the game came to
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an end. So I only have a slight grumble. Generally,
I don't have a with this. The only issue I have.
Since it's a talk show, I have to have an issue.
I do have this issue. My pet, Peeve Edwards played
like manure most of the game. He's an offensive Mozarty,
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but it was it was just horrific. Okay, it was
absolutely horrific. And so don't when you go take twenty
four shots and you miss eighteen of them and you're
I don't know, it seems a little odd. It reminded
me of in football when you're and I don't miss
it a one, but it's like you get a sack
when you're you're not playing that well and the team's
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not doing any you celebrate and all that stuff. And
then I watched on the TNT post game there inside
the NBA. I believe, unless my TV was was not
working there, maybe it wasn't that Anthony Edwards was pointing
out that it was his defense in the second half
that shut down Jamal Murray. I didn't really see it
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that way either. Didn't see that the whole thing was
slightly awkward, slightly awkward, but I did see Murray miss
a number of open shots. I saw Naz Reid of
Minnesota play some pretty good defense at times. There the
ensemble group collectively got it done.
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That's how that works. But are lead this hour coming
from above Penn Station, the belly of the concrete beast,
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Midtown Manhattan, the Mecca. So it's called Game seven, Game
seven Pacers and the Knicks. It's the Knicks versus the Hicks, say,
date in the Eastern Final four on the line. And
this was the early game. Some thought it would be
the late game. Get that New York audience their primetime
on a Sunday night, But no, it was the afternoon game.
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And if you didn't watch, don't worry. We watched for you.
Why not, we have nothing else to do on a
lazy Sunday afternoon. So Tyrese Halliburton, pritt deep, pretty dee good,
Tyrese Saliburton twenty six points and the Pacers said an
NBA playoff record, they shot the lights out sixty seven
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percent from the floor, and they were better than that.
While the game was in the balance, it really was
never in the balance, as they beat the Knickerbockers. The
final score one thirty to one hundred and nine. They
put up one hundred and thirty points as the road team,
a team that traveled by horse drawn carriage. It would
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a peer the way they had played on the road.
But they've advanced out of the Eastern Finals a date
with Boston, first time in ten years that the Indiana
basketball team has advanced. How about that last time they
were in the conference finals, they had a player named
Lance Stevenson who blew into the ear of Lebron James
if I remember correctly. The better story, though, here is
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in the losing locker room, and we will wallow in
the mire with Jalen Brunson, who left Game seven in
the third quarter. Oh, my aching hand. He broke his hand,
his right hand, left hand, left hand, he broke his
left hand. So let us discuss the question when you
look at this wide angle lens, does this count as
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a Knickerbocker choke job? Or do do the Knicks get
a pass because Jalen Brunson was injured. So I've got
New York City Health Code, barcode, and Kellogg's and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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going to make a ghost Runner, which you only get
there in baseball, because if you see a ghost runner
outside of baseball, you probably panicking and say, oh my god,
I should call over to Coast to coast because there's
a there's a weird alien thing ghost thing like running
around anyway. So number one to answer the question, does
this count as a Knickerbocker choke job or do they
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get a pass because Jalen Brunton's injury. We don't give
out passes here. We do not give out passes. I
don't know if you're new to the show. We're not
the type of show that gives out passes. We don't.
This is black and white. We love the tenacity of
Jalen Brunson, and I've waxed poetic. I have massaged him,
given to the manny and the petty on the show
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about the way Jalen Brunson plays. However, you also have
to call a spade a spade, and he went from
dog to arf dog dog with fleas. Here he needed
a flea bat Jalen Brunson. In this game, Brunson six
of seventeen from the floor, which I don't think is
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that good If he takes seventeen shots and miss eleven
of them, and he was out played by the player
he was going against Tyrese Haliburton, who had the marvelous
real sexy stat line. There for Indiana, the entire Nick
roster went kerfloey, all of it, from top to bottom,
from A to Z alpha to omega. All that Indiana
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was really playing was house money here. They were underdogs.
They hadn't been able to play well on the road stuff,
and they were expected to lose. It was going to
be a coronation of the Knickerbockers. And all you had
to do show up. All the Knicks had to do
was show up, and they showed up, and then what happened.
Indiana had little pressure and the Knicks were surrounded by
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a who's who of elites, all the Manhattan celebrities who
got their free tickets to sit court side of the
garden to make it seem more important than it is,
the one percenters in New York. And they were there.
The Knicks, they were da dead on arrival. Cause of
death tight took his syndrome. That was the cause of
death on the autopsy report. This game was for all
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the marbles, and they choked on one of the marbles.
That's what happened. That's what happened there, and they really
what happened to the Knicks, and people goes said, well, Brunson
got her. You know you hear they would have won,
would have could have showed and they were gonna come back. No,
the Knickerbockers violated the New York City Health Code Section
one five to three point h nine public urination. They
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pittled down their line. That's what they did there. It's
an unclassified misdemeanor against the next Jalen Brunson also said
in his postgame commentary, he said that the next season
was not a success. He said, I fact, just to
prove I'm not making that up. Let's go do a
cut three. There's Jalen Brunson pointing out the Knickerbocker season
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was not successful. Pros and cons of how I played.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
The pros is, obviously I played well individually at some
points in time during the playoffs, and the cons or
that I didn't play well enough to help my team.
Before you can say I got hurt in Game seven,
I wasn't playing well. In Game seven. We had a
two to zero in the future lead, and so it's
just it's hard to look at things individually when you
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don't help your team.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
All right, that's actually not the one I wanted. Do
we have the right one? Do we have that? By chance?
Possibly we do. Okay, let's see we can find the
right one.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Here we go TV win the championship. Did we get close?
So now that's just that's my mindset. That's just how
it is.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Okay, So that's the one we were looking for. Jalen Ronson.
There you go. He says. The nixt season was not
a success. Do you agree? Yes, I'm nodding my head, Yes,
I do agree. And how could it have been a success.
They didn't even make the final four? The baseline is
the final four. Now you make the final four? He said, Okay,
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I'm doing okay, we're in the right direction. We're going
in the right direction. But you get blown out your pants,
ripped off, public humiliation at home in game seven, and
you played madador defense. Oleay oleyolayole. There. Indiana shot seventy
one point seven percent when Brunson left the game. Up
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until that point, Bruston left with an injury with the
hand injury. But at that point he left the game,
the Pacers were shooting seventy one point seven percent from
the floor, and Indiana was up by eighteens. But we're
supposed to go, well, if only Brunson hadn't gotten hurt
the next we're gonna come back and win the game. Yeah,
that's the ticket, unless it's not. Now page two here
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some people up in arms because of some postgame Shenanigan
was by the star of the Indiana basketball team. Did
the Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton cross the line in the sand?
Did he cross the line in the sand by taunting
the Knickerbockers in the postgame war draw. We wore a
Reggie Miller choke sweater and the famous if you're old,
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you remember this back in the nineties when the Pacers
had good teams and they played the Knickerbockers and Reggie
Miller he would go like this, Joe good to the
Knicks anyway. So the answer to that is absolutely not okay.
And the difference here. We talked earlier in the show
about what happened in Minnesota, and Anthony Edwards, who was
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a total stiff most of the game for Minnesota, was
waving goodbye to the Nuggets fans on a night he
played terribly well Tyrese Haliburton, though he was monster mashing
for Indiana. It's like, are you monster mash? You got
it done? You outplayed the Knick star Jalen Brunson. Good luck,
you do what you want. I had no issue with
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that at all. Show business. That was entertaining and Haliburton
going back that famous quote from a senator to named
William L. Marcy back in the eighteen hundreds, who said,
to the victor goes the spoil and Indiana won the game,
and they were all excited, right, They didn't puke. They
thought they were gonna puke. Everyone thought they were gonna pee.
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They didn't puke. There was no puke, and so they
celebrated with a nice sweater. Now, I will tell you
the only part of this that I would say, well
that's kind of bugeyzy, is if Indiana had gone out
there and the outcome had been different. Do you think
that Tyrese Haliburton had some other clothes to wear other
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than that? I mean thinks he did. Methinks he brought
a couple of other pieces of clothing to wear post game,
and that we would not have seen that. Reggie Miller
photo on the hoodie that he was wearing after the game.
We would not have seen that, but what do I know?
I would have been in mock balls. And then what
did you make of the Bristol, Connecticut coverage there of
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the Knickerboxers. One of our listeners in Indiana got all episodes.
Did you just see what they did? They were like
watching the Knick TV broadcast. I did not watch the
pregame show. I saw some clips online. I don't really
watch ESPN at halftime or pregame or postgame because they're
bad and my time is valuable, and I don't want
to be bored, so I just don't. I don't do
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anything for me. I'm not that content doesn't do anything
for me, so fine, But others did, and I watched
the clips online. It was fanboy like I would I
describe it as fanboy like, right, Spike Lee isn't as
biased as the broadcast was towards the Knickerbockers. And it
always blows me away because the Knicks. You think about
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teams that get a lot of covered like that, like
everyone sucks the toes of the Lakers and goes on
and on like that, But like the Knicks haven't had
a championship team since before the Barcode was invented. Think
about that, the Barcode. The Barcode was invented after the
Knicks won their last championship with walk Clyde Fraser, and
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yet they were being fonned and slabbered all over. Slapper, slaughter, slaughter.
Oh man, they were all over, which also made the
inevitable choke all that much more enjoyed. Final points. So dude,
Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers have a shot against the Celtics,
they have a shot in the Eastern Conference final. So
(25:47):
I would classify this in the slim to none category.
These slim to none category for Indiana. You're talking about
slaying the dragon. And yet again things have opened up
for the Boston Celtics that you look series by series
here and everything lining up for the Celtics. And this
is another one of those David versus Goliath and the
Celtics of the Goliath. In this particular matchup, you got
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Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. The only scenario where Indiana
can come through here is if Jalen If Jalen Brown
and Jason Tatum get together, they have breakfast. They have
the Kellogg's rice crispies and snap crackle pop happens outside
of that, right, even with Perzingi's hobbling and on a
pogo stick, even with that, As the adage goes, the
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age old adage goes, You're only a few sprained ankles
and broken hands away from upset city. But would I
bet on Indiana? No? Could they win a game? Sure?
Could they win two games? Yeah, they can win two.
Are they gonna win three game? No, they shouldn't win three,
and not even forget forget about four, forget.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
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Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what it takes
to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
And right to the game we go. We have our
contestants all lined up here. You've got JJ, he's in
Seattle and he's matched up with me, and then Eddie
is with Jacob who is in Delaware, and Cooper. I
believe we're going to and JJ are going first. Yes,
that is correct, right, very excited? All right, the category
(27:30):
you picked that there's a lot of ambient noise. There
may a lot of ambient noise that is not good.
That was on Jacob's line. We put them on home.
All right, here we go. The category you picked is believe.
Is that correct, JJ, because you believe we're gonna win?
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (27:43):
I do.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Okay, here we go. No one initially believed these athletes
as they went undrafted undrafted. Okay, are you ready? Forty
five seconds on the clock. Here we go. We're on
our way.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
Go.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
He's the lead commentator on the NFL on CBS. He
played for the Cowboys. Yes, quarterback for the Greatest Show
on turf, the Saint Louis Rams. Shirt Warner, Yes, fear
the fro from the Pistons of the early two thousands.
All right, quarterback for the Oilers. Number one African American.
(28:17):
He also played Yes, that's correct, dog shooting guard for
the Knickerbockers in the nineties. He missed all eleven three
point shots in Game seven of the Game seven of
the nineteen ninety four NBA Finals, John Turf, Yes that
is correct. Vikings Hall of Fame defensive end number ninety
three in the nineties. He played mostly in the eighties
and the nineties. Hall of Famer. Also, he finished his
(28:38):
career with the Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
All right, start, Allen.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
John Randall was who we were looking for, and you
didn't get Ben Wallace. I don't think right, correct, all right, correct?
Speaker 6 (28:50):
So one hundred and thirty points, that's enough to win.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
All right?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
We move over to Jacob and Eddie, and you guys
have strong enough. These are some of the strongest athletes
of all time. Forty seconds on the clock. Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Jacob? All right? Begin?
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Former NBA big man the Diesel he's on TNT NBA
star teamed up with John Stockton in Utah, recently retired
Rams defensive lineman who was a Defensive Player of the
Year several times. Yes, slugger for the Yankees, not Aaron
Judge came over from the Marlins. Former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker,
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very angry looking all the time. Yes, Philly slugger. He
won a World Series with the Cubs. Former tight end
for the forty nine Ers and Redskins, Mike Singletary had
a ramp. Can't win with them? Yes, holy crap, Philly slugger. Now,
but he won a World Series with the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
No, you're close, though, didn't run the table.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Kyle Schwarver, but otherwise.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Not impressed that. I was not impressed, Davis. But you
didn't get the hardest one was tob two hundred and
sixty points first place, Smartlin. Now, all right, run up
the score here.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
We aren't going back JJ and Ben JJ. Would you
like if I could turn back time? Or I got
you babe?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right?
Speaker 6 (30:24):
These athletes are still at it despite being past their prime.
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin, all right, cheating
astro pitcher. He's on the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
He's forty years old, starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves,
all right. Won an MVP with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's
an outfielder. He's back with the Pirates. Now, yes, that
is correct. I won a Super Bowl with the Ravens,
got a huge contract, and then sucked. He was on
the Browns last year. Quarterback. Yes, a shooting guard for
(30:55):
the Sixers. He was on the Clippers. Used to play
for the Portland Trailblazers and shoots a lot of three
point shots from France. I believe no. All right. Wide
receiver just signed with the Dolphins. Former Giant star played
with the Rams, won a Super Bowl with the Rams,
big diva. No, that's not going. Yeah, that is correct.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
You needed that to tie, not a baseball guy, huh.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Or basketball so we win, we don't. Let's the score though.
You missed, you missed Charlie Morton, the cheating a hole
Alan of Braves. You didn't get that one. That's the
one we needed. We needed that one. That's the one
we needed JJ and we needed that one there. You
didn't get that one.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
Basketball player. Whenever he made a shot on the Blazers,
it was a blank shot of locker.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That was my guy, Brian Wheeler. They Blazers fired his ass.
I love Wheeler. Nicholas Nicholas batoum yeah, Nicholas Batum. All right,
you should be doing play by play somewhere. Let's run
up the scar category. This is why Cooper's cheering for
Eddie to run up for the Yeah, Press, you're ready
for that. You've got I got you, baby, You've already won.
(32:07):
But I'm not press. You didn't know, Kyle ShW.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
These sports figures all recently got married. What a great
clue that is forty five seconds on the clock. Begin
current Detroit Lions quarterback here, Yeah, Dodgers Japanese slugger may
or may not.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Have gambled on baseball.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Current quarterback for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Yes, I was gonna fail you.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Yes, Oh my god, Oklahoma City Thunder's got a hyphenated.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Name, former Clipper.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
You can't say that Atlanta Atlanta Hawks starred the h
Highlight Reel Human Highlight Reel. Yes, that's a boy question.
Clutch sports dating, Adele.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You didn't run the time? You sucking this, Eddie Bens,
you were so bad at this your yead? What cheat there, Eddie?
The guys only one category. How embarrassing that you didn't
even know Kyle schwar You're in Delaware. I assume you're
not that far you don't. Philly was the Delaware River
the Phillies play. And this guy's in Delaware and he
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doesn't know Kyle Swarnst, who plays for the Phillies. We
win golden ticket for you, sir. Not impressive, though, what
did my god? My god, Charlie Moore loser you guys
zoom losers. But Tom's cousins don't even know you play.
That's a and sixty point answer for Come on, Dominique Wilkins,
(33:46):
that's an all times trying to blame you coup. It's
a bad job, lost, bad job. By Eddie
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