April 23, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about what happened to the Timberwolves in their Game 2 loss against the Lakers, if Luka and the Lakers have flipped a switch, what to expect going forward from the Wolves and the Lakers, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our number, what our number one of the
original Recipe podcast, Happy Wednesday. It is the day before
the twenty twenty five draft, here on this twenty third
day of April, and we start out with pro bouncy ball, the.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Late game in La La Land.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
How do you juxtapose what happened to the Timberwolves in
game two as opposed to Game one and have the
Luca Lakers flip the switch now that they've gotten in
the wind column? What do you expect going forward with
at least a few more games to go, at least
three more between the Wolves and the Lakers. We'll talk
about all that and more. Buckle up as we get
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you set for our number one.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
The Timberpuffs.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Welcome in the beginning, come another night of the Ben
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this hours from the pro bouncy Ball playoffs will start
at skid Row. Think of La, You think of Hollywood,
you think of glitz and glamour. The Lakers play on
skid Row? How appropriate is that? A total dump down
there in downtown La. Anthony Edwards in the Timberwolves looking
to take a two to zero lead, win another game
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on the road and take pretty much complete control of Houkah.
Luca and the Lakers. And I don't know if you're
watching this game or not, maybe maybe not, but Luca
he had a good stat line, a little misleading thirty
one points, twelve rebounds and nine assists. And the Lakers
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it wasn't anything they did the Minnesota team came out sluggish,
and the first round series now even up as it
was a game that should not have been that close,
and Minnesota played one of the worst games, and yet
they still ended up only losing.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
By nine points in this game.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
In game two, Lebron a non impressive twenty one points
Austin reeves at sixteen for the Lakers, who won a chippy,
chippy game here in game two. So let us discuss
the question, how do you explain the juxtaposition for the
Timberwolves between game one and game number two.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So I've got.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Lowercase wheel of fortune and the ruminators, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we're going to
make a big bucket of buttered popcorn, is what We're
going to make.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just a big giant bucket of buttered popcorn. So a.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Minnesota had a great opportunity, like they were given a
cash cow. And as long as you keep the cash
cow alive and you give the cash cow plenty of
food and make sure it's out of the elements, you're
gonna make a lot of money because the cash cow
is just gonna keep you cash. And they got the
cash cow, and they took it right to the butcher shop.
They said, here, let's drop it off right at the
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butcher shop and we'll make some ground beef out of
the cow. We're gonna take the cow, the cash cow,
and we're gonna just drop it off right there at
the butcher And that's what they did here. Mayet maybe
they were stuck in traffic. Maybe that was it. The
rush hour traffic there, gridlock and whatnot. It was a
very messy first quarter for Minnesota, and I think for
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most NBA fans it was disappointing. I don't want wants
the Lakers to win. Minnesota really the people's team in
this series here. But Anthony Edwards, who was fined fifty
thousand dollars but yet in this game for comments he
made that were recorded on a grainy cell phone. But
Anthony Edwards did not play with that big D energy.
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This was more lowercase D from Anthony Edwards in the
beginning of the game. And he was the word I
will use is be draggled at the start of the game,
mostly on the defensive set. It wasn't just just him,
but he's the two hundred million dollar player. He likes
to tell you about that he loves to tell how
big as Johnson is, and yet he went out there
and was very small early in the game. And it
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was a matador performance early on oh o o, a
matador defense had a minus nineteen while he was on
the court in the first quarter. Now, I didn't play
in the NBA. I don't think that's good. I just
do an overnight show. I don't think that's particularly good.
Talking about setting the tone, it was a slack job,
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slack job performance. Minnesota was lumbering the entire night for
the most part. I mean, there were a couple of
stretches halfway decent, but it was mostly a lumbering performance
by the Timberwolves. Here they failed to capitalize on. Yet
again was a lot of wide open looks. I mean,
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this is this is pretty crazy. An NBA team in
the playoffs is getting this many wide open opportunities as
the Lakers just are not a good defensive team. And
they've seen we've seen that now in the first two
games of the plas was a feeble effort by Minnesota
offensively considering how many open shots they had.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now turning the page. Number of you have pointed out.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
To me via social media and email, you've said, uh,
it's all over now the Lakers have turned things on.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So have Hookah Lucas Lakers flipped the switch? Have they
flipped the switch?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They won Game two at home and all that. And
so when you do a cross a cross benefit analysis
and you look at everything here, I'm gonna use the
wheel of fortune and I'm gonna I'm gonna I have
an end?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Can I buy an Oh? Can I buy? I have
an end? Can I buy?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
And?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That would be no. Uh no would be the answer because.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
When you look around here, you knew the Lakers were
gonna come out and play with more gusto.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Right they were.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They were panted in game one, absolutely embarrassed, looked like
they didn't even belong to the playoffs in game one.
Uh so they came out, they had more intensity and
all that stuff. Fine, Okay, that lasted a quarter, but
that was enough. The Lakers jumped out. They had a
twenty two point lead at the beginning of this game.
Here Luca sixteen points early on, and that was mostly
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taking advantage of multi time defensive Player of the Year
who becomes off in a liability in the playoffs in
Rudy Gobert. But yet when things calm down, I was
not impressed. I mean, I don't know that anyone that
knows ball thinks the Lakers looked all that good. So
I don't know how you can take that as a
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quality performance by the Lakers. The finger biting time has
arrived in La Laine, like La La Land, you look around.
I would argue that's a bad win for the Lakers
because it gives them false confidence to think that they've
somehow fixed something when they haven't.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
They haven't fixed anything.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Minnesota was frazzled on offense, it was not a case
where they were frazzled because of shut down defense by
the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Keep in mind, the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Lakers have only really played well in the first quarter
of both games. Outside of that, Minnesota has dominated the
rest of the game, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Even in Game two.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Even in Game two, Minnesota and we talked about it,
we've documented it here. They came out, they sold their
pants in the beginning of the game there and just dreadful.
And yet despite all those wide open misshots by the
ten rules, they still were within nine points midway through
the fourth quarter. How emasculating is that for the Lakers
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Minnesota played one of the worst games, and they were
within nine points, and the Lakers have some explaining to
do on their offense. You look around here. Now, what
is my supporting evidence to back that claim up that
the Lakers this is a misleading win. It's a bad
win because it gives the Lakers false confidence, which is
actually good for Minnesota, and people want to see the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think most people do.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The Lakers over the final thirty six minutes, as a
team shot forty one percent for the last three quarters
of this game, and they shot eleven percent. I had
to double check my malor math on that. I thought
maybe I had f that up. They attempted eighteen to
three point shots from the second quarter to the end
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of the game, and they made two of them.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I didn't even know that was possible. They were two
of eighteen.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's eleven point one percent over the final thirty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Luca shot thirty eight percent over the rest of the
game and Lebron was at thirty seven percent. So Minnesota's
defense when I'm trying to tell you, it's a very
worthy way of saying that Minnesota's defense was on point
the issues they had were early on. They just were
not quite there to start there. And despite Luca and
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the Wolves, they get the headline there, but the Wolves
boxed up the Lakers. There was a seven minute, seven
minute drought where the Lakers didn't score a field goal
seven minutes. They went seven minutes in the fourth quarter
at home in a playoff game. Holy crap, they blow
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seven minutes at home against Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
With out scoring a field goal.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And I know you're not supposed to say this part,
because you know it's protected interest and all that. Anyone
else think Lebron James is cooked. Lebron through two games
of this series right now, in this moment, looks absolutely
old man, old man Lebron. He's taken now thirty seven
shots in the first two games to score forty points.
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Thirty seven shots to score forty points. That's Lebron, that's
old man Lebron. Well, I guess he's got to get
some of that that good stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Whatever magic Pixie does Lebron can get his hands on,
that ain't gonna get it done. That is not gonna
get it done. Thirty seven shots for forty points. The
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Lakers are not winning this series. If that is how
this is going to go, they're doomed. It's over all
right now, last words, So what do you expect looking
at this again wide angle lens here, what do you
expect going forward? As we're one one is the best
of five series. Minnesota has home court advantage now and
so they'll go back to the twin season a couple
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days in this series will continue in the Wolves. As
long as this just win at home, they'll win the
series in advance to the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So here's what I expect.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I expect the extended dance remix is what I expect.
We do know that the league would like the Lakers
to win. Television would like the Lakers to win because
there's a lot of dumb people that like the Lakers
and the low information fans, so they want the Lakers
to win. And so if it's gonna be called fair,
everything's on the up and up. Minnesota should win. Do
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I think that's going to happen. I'd be surprised. I'd
be surprised. And it also comes down to the rather
manic behavior of the Timberwolves here. It's like the ruminators
tune mister Bubbles because the Minnesota Timberwolves are not in
the bubble of trust. They are the more talented team
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from top to bottom than the Lakers. Most people would
agree with that. Lebron's old Luca doesn't play defense, so
they've got more talent, but you don't trust them. You
don't trust them to perform there. They're a bipolar team.
There's extreme highs extreme lows. But the fact that they've
been able to completely lock down the Lakers and hold
them to ninety five and ninety four points on their
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own court, on their own.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Court through the first two games.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And we know that generally speaking, the role players perform
much better when they are at home, so that bodes
well for Minnesota. Guys like well, nas Reed actually played well,
and some of these other guys did play well in
game one, but I did not play well in Game two,
and Dante Evencenzo yeah, also another guy you circle there.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So going back to Minnesota, those guys should all play
better at home.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And you got Lebron looking old Lakers really only playing
well one quarter each game, and this is looking pretty
good for Minnesota. They've already done what they wanted to do,
which was still one game in LA and now they
just have to win the games at home.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We'll take your thoughts on that. Also the other games,
we'll get to those.
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As we go through a full Mallard monologue coverage, as
the Grizzly should have just lost to the Mavericks the
way they played in the first two games, as they.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Get blown out again.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And you also had the rest of the NBA card
which saw you, well you watched it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I would assume you watched it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The Indiana Pacers leading from soup to nuts and the
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Ferg Dog says, get out your tuxedos in brooms in Minnesota.
This series has gentlemen sweep written all over it. The
Timberwolves one of the classiest organizations in sports, so it's
not a shock they let the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Win Game number two.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Oh yeah, it's for television ratings purposes, is what it
is what else do we have that see? Charlie in
Wisconsin said three out of ten on that Malle monologue, Charlie,
my name is malor not Malley. Bad job by Charlie
in Wisconsin. His only I'm only saying that, Charlie says,
because you nearly made me fall asleep. He's upset. We
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discussed the Laker Timberwolve series. He says, get some other material.
Talk about the ufl or Marble one racing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I don't even know what that. I think you did.
You mean Formula one or Marble Racing. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I think Marble row, you know, like the cigarettes, Marble row.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We did talk about marble.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
We talked about marble racing back many years ago during
the pandemic. But Charlie, you were like a kid, and
I know you weren't listening. He says, everyone would listen
if we talked about that. Truck stop fungus is listening.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's a big night. Truck stop Fungus checks in from
the Highways and byways of America.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He says.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He's cooking up a little chicken and veggies in the
sleeper tonight. He's listening from a rest stop just outside Lubbock, Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Go Wolves. Now.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I love the fact that truck Stop Fungus keeps us updated,
like where he goes, the highways and byways of.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
America and all that. And I also like the fact.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That he claims to have taken a photo here of
his meal and there's a lot of potatoes, looks like
there's some grilled chicken there, and appears to be some
bell pepper. That's not a bad meal. That's actually somewhat healthy,
somewhat healthy, lot of protein in there. You got the greens,
you got the potato, you could go on, that got
the starch.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
The problem is it's a blurry photo.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Like if you're gonna bother to take a photo, like,
wouldn't you like try to square it up? I mean,
have these things called smartphones which pretty much do the
work for you. Very bizarre, but that's part of the
magic of truck Stop Fungus that he does. He's such
a an alpha as a truck drive he cannot be
bothered to not have a blurry photo at all.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All Right, what else do we Let's see page down
see here. Late night drug Tester says.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
You may not have played in the NBA, Ben, but
you have been coached by Bill Fitch, who gave you
an amazing analysis of the and that's correct. I got
my education the late great Bill Fitch, who did coach me, actually,
and it played an immedia basketball game for the Hall
of Fame coach Bill Fitch who said I was the
worst player he ever coached. And keep in mind Bill Fitch.
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You might not know who that is because he's long
gone and he's left this mortal coil. But Bill Fitch, well,
he was in the NBA for a long time. He
coached the likes of a Keem, Elijahwan and Larry Bird,
and so those are the top players, and I was
the worst. And I wear that as a badge of honor.
And I still run.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Into people, my people that I know in the media.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
A lot of them aren't in the media anymore because
of the media business blows. But the people that were there,
and they still remember when he called time out in
the middle of that event and he highlighted how terrible
I was. Appsolute, absolutely supermarket. Steeve says, great analysis on
the Lakers. You are absolutely correct. Good job by you
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holding them accountable. Absolutely on that. King Roy says, Cooper
Loop called it. Uh, he said, I said, it's right.
The Lakers did not play well. Did not play well.
That's absolutely what he meant to say.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
I called that. If you're going to change the twee,
better change the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It's that, it's called X.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's not called the tweet, it's called X. So it's
not that change the well. Again, these things are like art.
It's like going to the louver, and it's how what
the person you interpret, what they meant, like what they
were trying, the point they were trying to get across.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Uh, that's why these are so difficult.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Chip in the Q's right, so and says, hey, plus
on the Malay monologue, basically, I figured the Wolves simply
dropped the ball. They lost their focus, especially early on
No big mystery here. The Wolves let the Lakers off
the hook.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
He says, all right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Then this guy Josh who's in Nebraska, he's a Bears
fan and he's a Cubs fan, and he says, hey, Ben,
how about them Dodgers. Oh wait, they lost to the Cubbies. Now,
of course, so well, Listen said, I didn't see a
second of it. I'm sure it's like big biggest moment
in cub history. I don't know, beat the Dodgers on
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a random Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. I saw your
FEMI checking all my guys in Chicago, your trees. Happy
all you guys Chicago guy, I got you. It means something.
It means something when you beat the big bad Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
My opinion that shuck.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, well, I guess I give up. It looks like
they give up eleven runs. I don't think that's particularly good.
I don't well, that's okay. The Angels gave up nine
runs to the Pirates. Oh did they?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Wow? How many people.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Were an Angel Pirate game? How many people went to
that game? Holy craft? I mean that is a do
you talk about a tough sell?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Serious?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
That is a tough ticket to sell Angels and Pirates?
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh hey.
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go to the phones. I think I remember that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Let's see here. I think Andrea's online. Three. I don't know.
Let's see let's see if Andrea's online. Three. Hello, Andre,
what's going on? Andre?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Good to be with you on this early Wednesday, Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
And the Commonwealth right there, the great Andre?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yes, yeah, Ben, I And it's school vacation, Ben, I
have this.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh we got you all week. We got Andre. We'd
like to learn all the affiliates. Andre is in the
in the house all week, all week with Andre.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
We're coming down the home stretch here, Ben, you know,
so I'm I'm gearing up and gearing We haven't made
it across the press to betch. We haven't quite crossed
the bar into the summer months, okay, but where we're
slowly but surely moving in that direction. So it's a
good time here. Had marathon Monday yesterday. Essentially it was
a big deal in the Commonwealth. You know, all of
the effort and you know a lot of enthusiasm, you
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know for the people that are willing to do that.
You know, go to that girling that experience for Ben
specific to the Lakers in the Minnesota Timberwolves, that was impressed.
Night Lakers showing some fight, okay, and they had this
game in hand. Let the Timberwolves sneak in you know,
fourth quarter they cut it to nine, but they didn't
give themselves enough time to get over the top. So
they had the game in hand for the majority of it.
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And maybe we have ourselves series, you know, maybe Anthony
Edwards is feel a little bit of the pressure in
terms of the heat that he's gotten in the league,
in terms of how he's treating the fandom, you know,
and and then you know it's getting to him a
little bit. So bottom line, Timberwolf, the younger team, they
have the best player overall in the series. You know,
you would kind of lean towards them, but they opened
the door that gave the Lakers the opportunity. And so
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this thing can go seven games. It could be equivalent
of what we're seeing with the Clippers and the Nuggets.
Twe evenly matched teams. So I'm liking it, right JJ Reddick,
you know, first year coach, you know, showing a little
bit of moxie, showing that he's not gonna lay down,
so to speak, and he's got some uh you know,
put put players in position to be successful.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So on and fourth, did you actually watch the wait?
Did you actually watch the game? I watched the whole thing, though,
you did, and.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You your takeaway watching that you thought the Lakers looked good?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You did? You saw the whole the entire game. You
you think they actually played well? Well?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
When you when you win in by twenty of the
entire game. You don't get the Timberwolves a chance to
recover in the fourth quarter and come back, you know,
similar exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Be right, Andre, That's what that's called you using common sense.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Okay, I mean I maybe you're maybe I had a
different TV on because what I had.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
An NBA team to under ninety points?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, they went Lakers went seven minutes at home without
scoring in the fourth quarter. I mean, my god, that
is uh, I'd fire the coach. Let JJ read to
go to a podcast. My god, that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Jennie bust is a little bit different than mott Isia.
So Jeanie Bush is not going to be paying three
coaches not to coach and then having to pay a
fourth coach. They do things a little bit differently in LA.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But well, literally have a coach.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I mean he just kind of there and he says,
you know, he thinks he's the smartest guy in the
room and all that and whatever Lebron wants he does.
I mean, didn't we we've learned that that Who was it?
One of the former players said, oh, it was Jon
Rondo said that he wasn't getting enough playing time. So
it'll talk with Lebron and made sure you got more
playing time because Lebron's really the coach.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So yeah, it seemed to work out, you know, because
they won the championship in the bubble and when you
get the best way.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
When you get played, Well, that's not the conversation. Do
you agreeing Lebron as the coach? So whether it works
or not really not the conversation. The conversation is is
he the coach or not? And Rajon Rondo said that
he wasn't getting enough playing time, so they'll talk and
coach Lebron put him.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
In more so, if it was not broke, don't fix it. Ben.
I know you got a number of calls. Hey, listen,
I'm for all of it. Seven games series across the
board in the first round. Give the people what they
want to see. At the end of the day that
I am favoring Edwards and the Timberwolves, but respect to Luca
and Lebron were putting up a good fight.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Fritt, Yes, I'll be here all week.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Try the roast beef. We'll be here all week. Very
very exciting. So we did this thing a couple of
weeks ago, maybe was a couple of weeks ago. It
was a pro bouncy ball injury Bengo.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh, I love that game for the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, and I'm going back to look at my big
board here because I think this guy was picked although.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah he was yeah, yeah he was picked him?
Who picked him? Oh, I haven't even told the story yet.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So the Celtics Jayson Tatum, Hem, we came down in
the fourth quarter against Orlando in Game one. He fell
allow his risk there and the X rays were negative.
And but now they've announced the Celtics announced Tatum's got
a bone bruise and oh my god, they might have
to amputate bone bruise in his wrist. And as the
(29:23):
Celtics get ready to finally play Game two versus the
Orlando Magic, Jason Tatum is listed as doubtful. So we
are looking at the first points to be scored in
pro bouncy ball injury bingo for the playoffs here, And
it went back to the scorecard here to check out
and see, well, who had Jason Tatum and who's looking
(29:45):
like they're gonna get our first points?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And was it me? Was it me? That it was not?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It was not man Well and Guardena that would be
Chris in the Commonwealth. So, and the only reason it
was Chris and the conwell of is this because I
think he ran out of players to name and he
just started naming guys on the Celtics. I think he
just he couldn't think of any other NBA players. I
think most of who he picked were like Celtic players,
maybe one guy from Orland, but I don't have it
(30:12):
in from of it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But he did pick Jason Tatum. So Chris and the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh, it's gotta be an odd position because he wants
the Celtics to win.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But he picked them for his injury list. Yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So if Tatum misses the game, like the greatest scenario
would be Tatum misses the game and the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
End up winning, and then that's like a win win.
Let's go to Mike, who's in LA.
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Speaker 6 (30:50):
Mike, Hey Mallards, did you want did you see that
defensive clinic my lag show put on tonight? That was
a defensive masterpiece and the offense was slow and didn't
even need to be pretty. Because what the Lakers can
do is they show they can put down a lockdown defense.
And give credit to them t Wolves. They do got
a man who's uh a damn elite talent. But you
(31:12):
saw how did and Luca just put some Minnesota and
blender and see we're gonna win the series in six.
So I give respect to the t Walls. They're a
damn good team and they did make it to the
Western Conference final last year. But the Lakers are just
another level. So what they did is they got the
West game. Everybody's turnick mode, all the funnes's like, you
were ready to bear the team. What do they do?
They went back to the lab on their days off,
(31:34):
they went to practice, and what they do they played lockdown,
shut them down.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
See what's's gonna.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Happen is they're gonna go to Minnesota. They're gonna let
a man get and Luca is gonna put the old
little Frenchmen. The little Frenchman in a and he always
does embarrass his ass off the court. Lakers are gonna
win the series in six. And I'm not even worried
about this, but you and your your clippers, they give
them credit. The Claw played a hell of a game
last night, but if he lastes series, I still.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Think that win this series.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
I had him winning six, so I think they're going
to get the road split and win the next two.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
All right, I have a question.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Listen again.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I have a question.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
You're going to be a first round exit.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I got a question.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
When's your Netflix comedy special? Do we know what date
that is? I want to I want to make sure
I stream that. When's your comedy show?
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Right after? Right after Years and Chappelle's It's coming? But
here is going to be the.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Back Life back So just for the again, for the record,
this is this is an example of why why.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
People are hoping the Lakers lose.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
This is Mike in La is an example of why
America would like to see the Lakers lose.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
This is this is on brand.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So the Lakers, who were outscored the final three quarters,
scored thirty six points in the second half, at home
and when seven minutes without a field goal in the
fourth quarter, you thought dominated, you thought they dominated Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Blown up by again?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You're doing you're doing what you're doing. What about ism?
Which I appreciate, I like, what about ism? But that's
what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You're doing. What about his notice? We were talking about
the Lakers here.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I know you're not that bright, you're a Laker guy,
But we were talking about the Lakers, not the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I know the Clippers are more fun to talk about.
I get it. I get it's more for.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
They didn't even need to be that great. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So you admit the you admit the Lakers offense. So
you admit the Lakers offenses been.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Luca, who's not even a great defender. They can they
can just put you down at lock you down, stifle
in Minnesota, who's one of the highest scoring teams and
had the best records since March, had the low scoring
output of the season. They shut them down to eighty
five points. You know the team has even.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Okay, that's a great that's a great call.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Why, okay, you believe, if you believe, if I believe
in make if you believe in make believe.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I mean Ben's Ben's sitting here acting like he didn't
say on last night's show that the Lakers would lose
tonight and that they would get sweat.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I didn't say they were gonna get sweat. I say
they were gonna get sweat. And by the way, everything
I said was correct. The Lakers are in trouble. They
looked terrible.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
You also said they would lose, and that was not correct,
and I said they would lose tonight's game.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
This is a This is a bad win, and I
love win.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
There's no such thing as a good Lakers win. To you,
if they if the Lakers win, it's a bad win.
If the Lakers lose, their trash. If the Clippers win,
it's a great win. If the Clippers lose, it's a
great lot.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I know you're upset because your team didn't look good,
and that's fine. I mean, you don't have to take
it out of me. If you want to take it
out of me, I'll be your punching.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
This is my favorite part of the year.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Every every year, when you're wrong about the Lakers, wrong
about the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
The Lakers haven't worked, they haven't won championship since Kobe
Bryant was live. He's dead, so they haven't won anything. Nothing.
I've been celebrating. I'm like the old Boston hater, a
lot of celebrating. I thought you were off there. Why
are you still there? Why will you not leave me alone?
You're annoying me? Why are you annoying me?
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Funny? How funny is it going to be when the
disfunctional Nuggets who fired the coach are still going to
find a way this year is win? All the fun?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I know?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I know, yes, again, you're doing You're doing the Clippers.
I know it's more fun to talk about the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I got it. They got the better owner, they got
the better Areada, you got the better players. I understand.
But that's that's fine. I mean, it's just so great.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
And uh then of course what's gonna happen. Lakers will lose,
and it's been Oh, we'll get him next year, we're
gonna go out. Maybe the league will give us.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yanis will come to the Lakers. They'll trade Giannis for
you know, some of Jeanie Bruss's old the old photos
from play Playboy or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Anyway, all right. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
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Speaker 1 (35:26):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Chet Holmgren, Ma Hoomie, Chet Holmgren or the thunder at
twenty points, eleven rebounds and five blocks in game number two,
making him the first sophomore slash second year player with
those numbers in a playoff game since me who again?
Chet Holmegrin of OKC. He went out had twenty points,
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eleven rebounds, five blocks in game two, making him the
first sophomore with those numbers in a playoff game since me?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
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Speaker 2 (35:54):
That is the question? What is the answer. We'll get
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Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, and now back to it built time to pay
off the who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We'll get back to the pro bouncy ball talk. A
lot of historians are upset with me. I don't know
why they would be upsette with me. You can't handle
wu real commentary. You like the local LA media there
that gives you the knee pad coverage of the Lakers.
We actually call it like it is. Anyway, here's the
who am I?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Game?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Chet Holmgren of the Thunder looks like he's gonna break
in half, like he's a stick man. When I was
a little kid, I used to drew stick figures and
it looked like Chet Holmgren. Anyway, Chet Holmgrid on the
Thunder twenty points, eleven rebounds, five blocks in game two,
making him the first sophomore with those numbers in a
playoff game since me?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
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Late night drug tester is the answer, according to malaprop
guy Josh points out. He says, the Lakers have not
won a title since Kobe. Well that's one more than
the Clippers. Well, no, they have Neither teams won a
title since Kobe. Neither one.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Who else do we have a page down? The playmaker?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Michael Irvin from Scrooge in the Bay Area, Mark Chew from.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Rob the goat Man. That's not his name.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
You are William Shakespeare, who would have been four hundred
and sixty one years old today.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Wow, happy belated bird. They love William Shakespeare to be
or not to.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Be a lot of words we use today are Shakespearean
in nature. It's pretty crazy. He's been dead for a
long time, but yet we still use a lot of
his words. Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, says Herb R.
Tarlik from the Great WKRP in Cincinnati. Wesley Widener from
Alf the Alien Opiner. Interesting answer there. Trevor Lawrence from
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from Sean in Portland. That's his answer. Lard asked from
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Speaker 1 (39:50):
Do you have an answer? Hurry up?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
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Speaker 1 (39:52):
Doc ok Ben? What doc och No? It's Tim Duncan,
is the answer. Tim Duncan. Wow, I said he played
for the Spurs.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Late game in La La Land.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
How do you juxtapose what happened to the Timberwolves in
game two as opposed to Game one and have the
Luca Lakers flip the switch now that they've gotten in
the wind column? What do you expect going forward with
at least a few more games to go, at least
three more between the Wolves and the Lakers. We'll talk
about all that and more. Buckle up as we get
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Speaker 1 (00:52):
The Timberpuffs.
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this hours from the pro bouncy Ball playoffs will start
at skid Row. Think of La, You think of Hollywood,
you think of glitz and glamour. The Lakers play on
skid Row? How appropriate is that? A total dump down
there in downtown La. Anthony Edwards in the Timberwolves looking
to take a two to zero lead, win another game
(02:23):
on the road and take pretty much complete control of Houkah.
Luca and the Lakers. And I don't know if you're
watching this game or not, maybe maybe not, but Luca
he had a good stat line, a little misleading thirty
one points, twelve rebounds and nine assists. And the Lakers
(02:43):
it wasn't anything they did the Minnesota team came out sluggish,
and the first round series now even up as it
was a game that should not have been that close,
and Minnesota played one of the worst games, and yet
they still ended up only losing.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
By nine points in this game.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
In game two, Lebron a non impressive twenty one points
Austin reeves at sixteen for the Lakers, who won a chippy,
chippy game here in game two. So let us discuss
the question, how do you explain the juxtaposition for the
Timberwolves between game one and game number two.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So I've got.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Lowercase wheel of fortune and the ruminators, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we're going to
make a big bucket of buttered popcorn, is what We're
going to make.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Just a big giant bucket of buttered popcorn. So a.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Minnesota had a great opportunity, like they were given a
cash cow. And as long as you keep the cash
cow alive and you give the cash cow plenty of
food and make sure it's out of the elements, you're
gonna make a lot of money because the cash cow
is just gonna keep you cash. And they got the
cash cow, and they took it right to the butcher shop.
They said, here, let's drop it off right at the
(04:05):
butcher shop and we'll make some ground beef out of
the cow. We're gonna take the cow, the cash cow,
and we're gonna just drop it off right there at
the butcher And that's what they did here. Mayet maybe
they were stuck in traffic. Maybe that was it. The
rush hour traffic there, gridlock and whatnot. It was a
very messy first quarter for Minnesota, and I think for
(04:26):
most NBA fans it was disappointing. I don't want wants
the Lakers to win. Minnesota really the people's team in
this series here. But Anthony Edwards, who was fined fifty
thousand dollars but yet in this game for comments he
made that were recorded on a grainy cell phone. But
Anthony Edwards did not play with that big D energy.
(04:49):
This was more lowercase D from Anthony Edwards in the
beginning of the game. And he was the word I
will use is be draggled at the start of the game,
mostly on the defensive set. It wasn't just just him,
but he's the two hundred million dollar player. He likes
to tell you about that he loves to tell how
big as Johnson is, and yet he went out there
and was very small early in the game. And it
(05:11):
was a matador performance early on oh o o, a
matador defense had a minus nineteen while he was on
the court in the first quarter. Now, I didn't play
in the NBA. I don't think that's good. I just
do an overnight show. I don't think that's particularly good.
Talking about setting the tone, it was a slack job,
(05:32):
slack job performance. Minnesota was lumbering the entire night for
the most part. I mean, there were a couple of
stretches halfway decent, but it was mostly a lumbering performance
by the Timberwolves. Here they failed to capitalize on. Yet
again was a lot of wide open looks. I mean,
(05:52):
this is this is pretty crazy. An NBA team in
the playoffs is getting this many wide open opportunities as
the Lakers just are not a good defensive team. And
they've seen we've seen that now in the first two
games of the plas was a feeble effort by Minnesota
offensively considering how many open shots they had.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Now turning the page. Number of you have pointed out.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
To me via social media and email, you've said, uh,
it's all over now the Lakers have turned things on.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So have Hookah Lucas Lakers flipped the switch? Have they
flipped the switch?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They won Game two at home and all that. And
so when you do a cross a cross benefit analysis
and you look at everything here, I'm gonna use the
wheel of fortune and I'm gonna I'm gonna I have
an end?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Can I buy an Oh? Can I buy? I have
an end? Can I buy?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
And?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That would be no. Uh no would be the answer because.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
When you look around here, you knew the Lakers were
gonna come out and play with more gusto.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Right they were.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
They were panted in game one, absolutely embarrassed, looked like
they didn't even belong to the playoffs in game one.
Uh so they came out, they had more intensity and
all that stuff. Fine, Okay, that lasted a quarter, but
that was enough. The Lakers jumped out. They had a
twenty two point lead at the beginning of this game.
Here Luca sixteen points early on, and that was mostly
(07:14):
taking advantage of multi time defensive Player of the Year
who becomes off in a liability in the playoffs in
Rudy Gobert. But yet when things calm down, I was
not impressed. I mean, I don't know that anyone that
knows ball thinks the Lakers looked all that good. So
I don't know how you can take that as a
(07:34):
quality performance by the Lakers. The finger biting time has
arrived in La Laine, like La La Land, you look around.
I would argue that's a bad win for the Lakers
because it gives them false confidence to think that they've
somehow fixed something when they haven't.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
They haven't fixed anything.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Minnesota was frazzled on offense, it was not a case
where they were frazzled because of shut down defense by
the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Keep in mind, the.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Lakers have only really played well in the first quarter
of both games. Outside of that, Minnesota has dominated the
rest of the game, and.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Even in Game two.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Even in Game two, Minnesota and we talked about it,
we've documented it here. They came out, they sold their
pants in the beginning of the game there and just dreadful.
And yet despite all those wide open misshots by the
ten rules, they still were within nine points midway through
the fourth quarter. How emasculating is that for the Lakers
(08:38):
Minnesota played one of the worst games, and they were
within nine points, and the Lakers have some explaining to
do on their offense. You look around here. Now, what
is my supporting evidence to back that claim up that
the Lakers this is a misleading win. It's a bad
win because it gives the Lakers false confidence, which is
actually good for Minnesota, and people want to see the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I think most people do.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The Lakers over the final thirty six minutes, as a
team shot forty one percent for the last three quarters
of this game, and they shot eleven percent. I had
to double check my malor math on that. I thought
maybe I had f that up. They attempted eighteen to
three point shots from the second quarter to the end
(09:24):
of the game, and they made two of them.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I didn't even know that was possible. They were two
of eighteen.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's eleven point one percent over the final thirty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Luca shot thirty eight percent over the rest of the
game and Lebron was at thirty seven percent. So Minnesota's
defense when I'm trying to tell you, it's a very
worthy way of saying that Minnesota's defense was on point
the issues they had were early on. They just were
not quite there to start there. And despite Luca and
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the Wolves, they get the headline there, but the Wolves
boxed up the Lakers. There was a seven minute, seven
minute drought where the Lakers didn't score a field goal
seven minutes. They went seven minutes in the fourth quarter
at home in a playoff game. Holy crap, they blow
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seven minutes at home against Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
With out scoring a field goal.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And I know you're not supposed to say this part,
because you know it's protected interest and all that. Anyone
else think Lebron James is cooked. Lebron through two games
of this series right now, in this moment, looks absolutely
old man, old man Lebron. He's taken now thirty seven
shots in the first two games to score forty points.
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Thirty seven shots to score forty points. That's Lebron, that's
old man Lebron. Well, I guess he's got to get
some of that that good stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Whatever magic Pixie does Lebron can get his hands on,
that ain't gonna get it done. That is not gonna
get it done. Thirty seven shots for forty points. The
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Lakers are not winning this series. If that is how
this is going to go, they're doomed. It's over all
right now, last words, So what do you expect looking
at this again wide angle lens here, what do you
expect going forward? As we're one one is the best
of five series. Minnesota has home court advantage now and
so they'll go back to the twin season a couple
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days in this series will continue in the Wolves. As
long as this just win at home, they'll win the
series in advance to the second round of the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So here's what I expect.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I expect the extended dance remix is what I expect.
We do know that the league would like the Lakers
to win. Television would like the Lakers to win because
there's a lot of dumb people that like the Lakers
and the low information fans, so they want the Lakers
to win. And so if it's gonna be called fair,
everything's on the up and up. Minnesota should win. Do
(12:02):
I think that's going to happen. I'd be surprised. I'd
be surprised. And it also comes down to the rather
manic behavior of the Timberwolves here. It's like the ruminators
tune mister Bubbles because the Minnesota Timberwolves are not in
the bubble of trust. They are the more talented team
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from top to bottom than the Lakers. Most people would
agree with that. Lebron's old Luca doesn't play defense, so
they've got more talent, but you don't trust them. You
don't trust them to perform there. They're a bipolar team.
There's extreme highs extreme lows. But the fact that they've
been able to completely lock down the Lakers and hold
them to ninety five and ninety four points on their
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own court, on their own.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Court through the first two games.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
And we know that generally speaking, the role players perform
much better when they are at home, so that bodes
well for Minnesota. Guys like well, nas Reed actually played well,
and some of these other guys did play well in
game one, but I did not play well in Game two,
and Dante Evencenzo yeah, also another guy you circle there.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So going back to Minnesota, those guys should all play
better at home.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And you got Lebron looking old Lakers really only playing
well one quarter each game, and this is looking pretty
good for Minnesota. They've already done what they wanted to do,
which was still one game in LA and now they
just have to win the games at home.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We'll take your thoughts on that. Also the other games,
we'll get to those.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
As we go through a full Mallard monologue coverage, as
the Grizzly should have just lost to the Mavericks the
way they played in the first two games, as they.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Get blown out again.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
And you also had the rest of the NBA card
which saw you, well you watched it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I would assume you watched it.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
The Indiana Pacers leading from soup to nuts and the
Milwaukee Bucks got Dame Liver back. Unfortunately, they also still
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Ferg Dog says, get out your tuxedos in brooms in Minnesota.
This series has gentlemen sweep written all over it. The
Timberwolves one of the classiest organizations in sports, so it's
not a shock they let the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Win Game number two.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Oh yeah, it's for television ratings purposes, is what it
is what else do we have that see? Charlie in
Wisconsin said three out of ten on that Malle monologue, Charlie,
my name is malor not Malley. Bad job by Charlie
in Wisconsin. His only I'm only saying that, Charlie says,
because you nearly made me fall asleep. He's upset. We
(18:35):
discussed the Laker Timberwolve series. He says, get some other material.
Talk about the ufl or Marble one racing.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I don't even know what that. I think you did.
You mean Formula one or Marble Racing. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
I think Marble row, you know, like the cigarettes, Marble row.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
We did talk about marble.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
We talked about marble racing back many years ago during
the pandemic. But Charlie, you were like a kid, and
I know you weren't listening. He says, everyone would listen
if we talked about that. Truck stop fungus is listening.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
It's a big night. Truck stop Fungus checks in from
the Highways and byways of America.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He says.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He's cooking up a little chicken and veggies in the
sleeper tonight. He's listening from a rest stop just outside Lubbock, Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Go Wolves. Now.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I love the fact that truck Stop Fungus keeps us updated,
like where he goes, the highways and byways of.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
America and all that. And I also like the fact.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That he claims to have taken a photo here of
his meal and there's a lot of potatoes, looks like
there's some grilled chicken there, and appears to be some
bell pepper. That's not a bad meal. That's actually somewhat healthy,
somewhat healthy, lot of protein in there. You got the greens,
you got the potato, you could go on, that got
the starch.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
The problem is it's a blurry photo.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Like if you're gonna bother to take a photo, like,
wouldn't you like try to square it up? I mean,
have these things called smartphones which pretty much do the
work for you. Very bizarre, but that's part of the
magic of truck Stop Fungus that he does. He's such
a an alpha as a truck drive he cannot be
bothered to not have a blurry photo at all.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
All Right, what else do we Let's see page down
see here. Late night drug Tester says.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
You may not have played in the NBA, Ben, but
you have been coached by Bill Fitch, who gave you
an amazing analysis of the and that's correct. I got
my education the late great Bill Fitch, who did coach me, actually,
and it played an immedia basketball game for the Hall
of Fame coach Bill Fitch who said I was the
worst player he ever coached. And keep in mind Bill Fitch.
(20:47):
You might not know who that is because he's long
gone and he's left this mortal coil. But Bill Fitch, well,
he was in the NBA for a long time. He
coached the likes of a Keem, Elijahwan and Larry Bird,
and so those are the top players, and I was
the worst. And I wear that as a badge of honor.
And I still run.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Into people, my people that I know in the media.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
A lot of them aren't in the media anymore because
of the media business blows. But the people that were there,
and they still remember when he called time out in
the middle of that event and he highlighted how terrible
I was. Appsolute, absolutely supermarket. Steeve says, great analysis on
the Lakers. You are absolutely correct. Good job by you
(21:29):
holding them accountable. Absolutely on that. King Roy says, Cooper
Loop called it. Uh, he said, I said, it's right.
The Lakers did not play well. Did not play well.
That's absolutely what he meant to say.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
I called that. If you're going to change the twee,
better change the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
It's that, it's called X.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
It's not called the tweet, it's called X. So it's
not that change the well. Again, these things are like art.
It's like going to the louver, and it's how what
the person you interpret, what they meant, like what they
were trying, the point they were trying to get across.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Uh, that's why these are so difficult.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Chip in the Q's right, so and says, hey, plus
on the Malay monologue, basically, I figured the Wolves simply
dropped the ball. They lost their focus, especially early on
No big mystery here. The Wolves let the Lakers off
the hook.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
He says, all right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Then this guy Josh who's in Nebraska, he's a Bears
fan and he's a Cubs fan, and he says, hey, Ben,
how about them Dodgers. Oh wait, they lost to the Cubbies. Now,
of course, so well, Listen said, I didn't see a
second of it. I'm sure it's like big biggest moment
in cub history. I don't know, beat the Dodgers on
(22:45):
a random Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. I saw your
FEMI checking all my guys in Chicago, your trees. Happy
all you guys Chicago guy, I got you. It means something.
It means something when you beat the big bad Dodgers.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
My opinion that shuck.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, well, I guess I give up. It looks like
they give up eleven runs. I don't think that's particularly good.
I don't well, that's okay. The Angels gave up nine
runs to the Pirates. Oh did they?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Wow? How many people.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Were an Angel Pirate game? How many people went to
that game? Holy craft? I mean that is a do
you talk about a tough sell?
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Serious?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
That is a tough ticket to sell Angels and Pirates?
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh hey.
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go to the phones. I think I remember that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Let's see here. I think Andrea's online. Three. I don't know.
Let's see let's see if Andrea's online. Three. Hello, Andre,
what's going on? Andre?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Good to be with you on this early Wednesday, Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
And the Commonwealth right there, the great Andre?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yes, yeah, Ben, I And it's school vacation, Ben, I
have this.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Oh we got you all week. We got Andre. We'd
like to learn all the affiliates. Andre is in the
in the house all week, all week with Andre.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
We're coming down the home stretch here, Ben, you know,
so I'm I'm gearing up and gearing We haven't made
it across the press to betch. We haven't quite crossed
the bar into the summer months, okay, but where we're
slowly but surely moving in that direction. So it's a
good time here. Had marathon Monday yesterday. Essentially it was
a big deal in the Commonwealth. You know, all of
the effort and you know a lot of enthusiasm, you
(25:37):
know for the people that are willing to do that.
You know, go to that girling that experience for Ben
specific to the Lakers in the Minnesota Timberwolves, that was impressed.
Night Lakers showing some fight, okay, and they had this
game in hand. Let the Timberwolves sneak in you know,
fourth quarter they cut it to nine, but they didn't
give themselves enough time to get over the top. So
they had the game in hand for the majority of it.
(25:58):
And maybe we have ourselves series, you know, maybe Anthony
Edwards is feel a little bit of the pressure in
terms of the heat that he's gotten in the league,
in terms of how he's treating the fandom, you know,
and and then you know it's getting to him a
little bit. So bottom line, Timberwolf, the younger team, they
have the best player overall in the series. You know,
you would kind of lean towards them, but they opened
the door that gave the Lakers the opportunity. And so
(26:19):
this thing can go seven games. It could be equivalent
of what we're seeing with the Clippers and the Nuggets.
Twe evenly matched teams. So I'm liking it, right JJ Reddick,
you know, first year coach, you know, showing a little
bit of moxie, showing that he's not gonna lay down,
so to speak, and he's got some uh you know,
put put players in position to be successful.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
So on and fourth, did you actually watch the wait?
Did you actually watch the game? I watched the whole thing, though,
you did, and.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
You your takeaway watching that you thought the Lakers looked good?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
You did? You saw the whole the entire game. You
you think they actually played well? Well?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
When you when you win in by twenty of the
entire game. You don't get the Timberwolves a chance to
recover in the fourth quarter and come back, you know,
similar exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Be right, Andre, That's what that's called you using common sense.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Okay, I mean I maybe you're maybe I had a
different TV on because what I had.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
An NBA team to under ninety points?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Yeah, they went Lakers went seven minutes at home without
scoring in the fourth quarter. I mean, my god, that
is uh, I'd fire the coach. Let JJ read to
go to a podcast. My god, that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Jennie bust is a little bit different than mott Isia.
So Jeanie Bush is not going to be paying three
coaches not to coach and then having to pay a
fourth coach. They do things a little bit differently in LA.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
But well, literally have a coach.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I mean he just kind of there and he says,
you know, he thinks he's the smartest guy in the
room and all that and whatever Lebron wants he does.
I mean, didn't we we've learned that that Who was it?
One of the former players said, oh, it was Jon
Rondo said that he wasn't getting enough playing time. So
it'll talk with Lebron and made sure you got more
playing time because Lebron's really the coach.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So yeah, it seemed to work out, you know, because
they won the championship in the bubble and when you
get the best way.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
When you get played, Well, that's not the conversation. Do
you agreeing Lebron as the coach? So whether it works
or not really not the conversation. The conversation is is
he the coach or not? And Rajon Rondo said that
he wasn't getting enough playing time, so they'll talk and
coach Lebron put him.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
In more so, if it was not broke, don't fix it. Ben.
I know you got a number of calls. Hey, listen,
I'm for all of it. Seven games series across the
board in the first round. Give the people what they
want to see. At the end of the day that
I am favoring Edwards and the Timberwolves, but respect to Luca
and Lebron were putting up a good fight.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Fritt, Yes, I'll be here all week.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Try the roast beef. We'll be here all week. Very
very exciting. So we did this thing a couple of
weeks ago, maybe was a couple of weeks ago. It
was a pro bouncy ball injury Bengo.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Oh, I love that game for the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, and I'm going back to look at my big
board here because I think this guy was picked although.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, yeah he was yeah, yeah he was picked him?
Who picked him? Oh, I haven't even told the story yet.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So the Celtics Jayson Tatum, Hem, we came down in
the fourth quarter against Orlando in Game one. He fell
allow his risk there and the X rays were negative.
And but now they've announced the Celtics announced Tatum's got
a bone bruise and oh my god, they might have
to amputate bone bruise in his wrist. And as the
(29:23):
Celtics get ready to finally play Game two versus the
Orlando Magic, Jason Tatum is listed as doubtful. So we
are looking at the first points to be scored in
pro bouncy ball injury bingo for the playoffs here, And
it went back to the scorecard here to check out
and see, well, who had Jason Tatum and who's looking
(29:45):
like they're gonna get our first points?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
And was it me? Was it me? That it was not?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It was not man Well and Guardena that would be
Chris in the Commonwealth. So, and the only reason it
was Chris and the conwell of is this because I
think he ran out of players to name and he
just started naming guys on the Celtics. I think he
just he couldn't think of any other NBA players. I
think most of who he picked were like Celtic players,
maybe one guy from Orland, but I don't have it
(30:12):
in from of it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But he did pick Jason Tatum. So Chris and the Commonwealth.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh, it's gotta be an odd position because he wants
the Celtics to win.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
But he picked them for his injury list. Yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So if Tatum misses the game, like the greatest scenario
would be Tatum misses the game and the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
End up winning, and then that's like a win win.
Let's go to Mike, who's in LA.
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Speaker 1 (30:49):
What's going on?
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Mike, Hey Mallards, did you want did you see that
defensive clinic my lag show put on tonight? That was
a defensive masterpiece and the offense was slow and didn't
even need to be pretty. Because what the Lakers can
do is they show they can put down a lockdown defense.
And give credit to them t Wolves. They do got
a man who's uh a damn elite talent. But you
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saw how did and Luca just put some Minnesota and
blender and see we're gonna win the series in six.
So I give respect to the t Walls. They're a
damn good team and they did make it to the
Western Conference final last year. But the Lakers are just
another level. So what they did is they got the
West game. Everybody's turnick mode, all the funnes's like, you
were ready to bear the team. What do they do?
They went back to the lab on their days off,
(31:34):
they went to practice, and what they do they played lockdown,
shut them down.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
See what's's gonna.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Happen is they're gonna go to Minnesota. They're gonna let
a man get and Luca is gonna put the old
little Frenchmen. The little Frenchman in a and he always
does embarrass his ass off the court. Lakers are gonna
win the series in six. And I'm not even worried
about this, but you and your your clippers, they give
them credit. The Claw played a hell of a game
last night, but if he lastes series, I still.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Think that win this series.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
I had him winning six, so I think they're going
to get the road split and win the next two.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
All right, I have a question.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Listen again.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I have a question.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
You're going to be a first round exit.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
I got a question.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
When's your Netflix comedy special? Do we know what date
that is? I want to I want to make sure
I stream that. When's your comedy show?
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Right after? Right after Years and Chappelle's It's coming? But
here is going to be the.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Back Life back So just for the again, for the record,
this is this is an example of why why.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
People are hoping the Lakers lose.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
This is Mike in La is an example of why
America would like to see the Lakers lose.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
This is this is on brand.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So the Lakers, who were outscored the final three quarters,
scored thirty six points in the second half, at home
and when seven minutes without a field goal in the
fourth quarter, you thought dominated, you thought they dominated Minnesota?
Speaker 6 (32:53):
Is that correct?
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Blown up by again?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
You're doing you're doing what you're doing. What about ism?
Which I appreciate, I like, what about ism? But that's
what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
You're doing. What about his notice? We were talking about
the Lakers here.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
I know you're not that bright, you're a Laker guy,
But we were talking about the Lakers, not the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I know the Clippers are more fun to talk about.
I get it. I get it's more for.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
They didn't even need to be that great. That's okay.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So you admit the you admit the Lakers offense. So
you admit the Lakers offenses been.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Luca, who's not even a great defender. They can they
can just put you down at lock you down, stifle
in Minnesota, who's one of the highest scoring teams and
had the best records since March, had the low scoring
output of the season. They shut them down to eighty
five points. You know the team has even.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Okay, that's a great that's a great call.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Why, okay, you believe, if you believe, if I believe
in make if you believe in make believe.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
I mean Ben's Ben's sitting here acting like he didn't
say on last night's show that the Lakers would lose
tonight and that they would get sweat.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
I didn't say they were gonna get sweat. I say
they were gonna get sweat. And by the way, everything
I said was correct. The Lakers are in trouble. They
looked terrible.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
You also said they would lose, and that was not correct,
and I said they would lose tonight's game.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
This is a This is a bad win, and I
love win.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
There's no such thing as a good Lakers win. To you,
if they if the Lakers win, it's a bad win.
If the Lakers lose, their trash. If the Clippers win,
it's a great win. If the Clippers lose, it's a
great lot.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
I know you're upset because your team didn't look good,
and that's fine. I mean, you don't have to take
it out of me. If you want to take it
out of me, I'll be your punching.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
This is my favorite part of the year.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Every every year, when you're wrong about the Lakers, wrong
about the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
The Lakers haven't worked, they haven't won championship since Kobe
Bryant was live. He's dead, so they haven't won anything. Nothing.
I've been celebrating. I'm like the old Boston hater, a
lot of celebrating. I thought you were off there. Why
are you still there? Why will you not leave me alone?
You're annoying me? Why are you annoying me?
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Funny? How funny is it going to be when the
disfunctional Nuggets who fired the coach are still going to
find a way this year is win? All the fun?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I know?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I know, yes, again, you're doing You're doing the Clippers.
I know it's more fun to talk about the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I got it. They got the better owner, they got
the better Areada, you got the better players. I understand.
But that's that's fine. I mean, it's just so great.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
And uh then of course what's gonna happen. Lakers will lose,
and it's been Oh, we'll get him next year, we're
gonna go out. Maybe the league will give us.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yanis will come to the Lakers. They'll trade Giannis for
you know, some of Jeanie Bruss's old the old photos
from play Playboy or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Anyway, all right. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
If you'd like to be part, you can join us
here and say hello at eight seven, seven ninety nine
on Fox Time Now for the who Am I?
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Game?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Chet Holmgren, Ma Hoomie, Chet Holmgren or the thunder at
twenty points, eleven rebounds and five blocks in game number two,
making him the first sophomore slash second year player with
those numbers in a playoff game since me who again?
Chet Holmegrin of OKC. He went out had twenty points,
(35:47):
eleven rebounds, five blocks in game two, making him the
first sophomore with those numbers in a playoff game since me?
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
That is the question? What is the answer. We'll get
to it. We will do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show,
up all night every night.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Thanks for being our audio buddies. Here you can stream
this show. You never get covered up. Back in the
old days, when they played baseball games that went six
seven hours, this show would be covered up on the
West Coast by games and places like Seattle and back
when Oakland had a team.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
And San Diego and Arizona, LA.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
But every once in a while I might get a
public service announcement on Sunday night. Well, if that happens,
don't worry. You can still hear the show. Fox Sports
Radio streams live twenty four to seven the new and
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(36:56):
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Make those your presets, and just like the presets on
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Speaker 6 (37:16):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Well, and now back to it built time to pay
off the who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We'll get back to the pro bouncy ball talk. A
lot of historians are upset with me. I don't know
why they would be upsette with me. You can't handle
wu real commentary. You like the local LA media there
that gives you the knee pad coverage of the Lakers.
We actually call it like it is. Anyway, here's the
who am I?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Game?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Chet Holmgren of the Thunder looks like he's gonna break
in half, like he's a stick man. When I was
a little kid, I used to drew stick figures and
it looked like Chet Holmgren. Anyway, Chet Holmgrid on the
Thunder twenty points, eleven rebounds, five blocks in game two,
making him the first sophomore with those numbers in a
playoff game since me?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Who am I?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
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Speaker 2 (38:14):
Let's see if anybody knows the answer and see here
page down we go to the hoy paloy Here mister
Irrigation in Houston's going with Steve Stevie franchise Rockets Legend.
Stevie Meepall says, Peppermint Patty is the answer there? Who
else do we have page down. We'll skip over that one.
(38:36):
Late night drug tester is the answer, according to malaprop
guy Josh points out. He says, the Lakers have not
won a title since Kobe. Well that's one more than
the Clippers. Well, no, they have Neither teams won a
title since Kobe. Neither one.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Who else do we have a page down? The playmaker?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Michael Irvin from Scrooge in the Bay Area, Mark Chew from.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Rob the goat Man. That's not his name.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
You are William Shakespeare, who would have been four hundred
and sixty one years old today.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Wow, happy belated bird. They love William Shakespeare to be
or not to.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Be a lot of words we use today are Shakespearean
in nature. It's pretty crazy. He's been dead for a
long time, but yet we still use a lot of
his words. Andy in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, says Herb R.
Tarlik from the Great WKRP in Cincinnati. Wesley Widener from
Alf the Alien Opiner. Interesting answer there. Trevor Lawrence from
(39:37):
mister Knysky. Good photo of Trevor, very masculine. John Cena
from Sean in Portland. That's his answer. Lard asked from
the Motion Pictures Stand By Me and Tricia Toyota cbsw's
Legend from manwelland Guardia.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Do you have an answer? Hurry up?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
I need a name.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Doc ok Ben? What doc och No? It's Tim Duncan,
is the answer. Tim Duncan. Wow, I said he played
for the Spurs.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
He's looks like a Rastafarian guy now
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