April 23, 2024 • 34 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to a wild Game 2 win for the Nuggets over the Lakers with FSR NBA Insider Mark Medina. Jason explains why he believes the Knicks are the most likable team in the NBA Playoffs right now. Plus, the guys react to LeBron James ripping into officiating in his postgame press conference.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
I still really wanted to hear see you again.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, let it go, let it go, don't probably whiz
khalif it was gonna wrap?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh who knew all the things we threw the plate?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I mean, come on, I'll be standing right here talking
to you about another path.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We love to hit the road and left, but something
told me that it wouldn't last. So I had to
switch up, look at things different, see the bigger picture.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You're so offbeat. That's exactly how good you are. Here.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
On April twenty second, at ten pm Pacific, tys shirt,
make sure we record this. I'm gonna request one very
simple thing of you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What's that? Never blank? And do that again? Why not?
This was terrible? That was pretty good? Got that wasn't right?
Completely different song. That's fine.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
For it, it gets better. That's fine now right here
away for it. That's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Nice try.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I think that was fine. I think that worked out
absolutely fine. The falsetto. You've been working on it though,
And the.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Screen, Hey, I've been working on that. That scream right there,
that was my That was my scream. That was my
scream after de Vincenzo hit that three?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Is that the scream up? I have to get up
from this chair that I've been sitting in a while.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
No, that's Jason going up to the concession stand getting
a diet coke and they say we're out.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think we would do more angish. Don't even joke
about that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Don't even joke about that about going to a concession standing.
There's no diet coke. Don't even choke. Come on, man,
don't even joke about that. Don't put that out there.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Don't you put on me.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
An incredible night in the NBA, the Knicks beat the
Sixers first team or the third team in the last
twenty five years to overcome a five point defisit in
the final twenty seven seconds of a playoff game they win.
The Lakers blow a twenty point lead to the Nuggets
who get a buzzer beater from Jamal Murray. Oh and
the and the Cavaliers and the thunder in the Magic
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we still play two joining us now on the hot
line to break it all down. Nobody better than a
man who is already guaranteed to me. He's already guaranteed
me that Jalen Brunson will go for forty in the
next game. It is longtime NBA insider friend of the show.
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That's at
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Mark g Underscore Medean. It is Mark Mendina who has
guaranteed me forty points from Jalen Brunson in the next game.
What's happening to Mark?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Hey, Jason, I do have to concede. I did say
forty points from Jalen brunt I even said the next
you gets to the finals. I mean, look, congratulations on
the win. All a tuck was for the referees to
completely ignore Nick Nurse's time out. But he completely ignore,
you know, people tugging on Tyrese Maxey's jersey and completely
ignore the fact that your nixt put all the referee
(03:28):
profile notes on their game notes to try to shop
some conspiracy theories here. It's a great sequel to the
President envelopes.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, okay, well, first things first, I want to tell
you about the very president very nice. That's a good
nineteen eighty five reference. Very loose timely today, let me
tell you this. Yes, Nick Nurse tried to call a
time out for about a second and then he pulled
it back and then he said no.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, no, I don't want He pulled his hands away.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So this hole at the end of the game where
he goes, oh, I tried to call it him out.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They wouldn't give it to me.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, he tried to call and then he stopped and
he pulled his hands away, going no, I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So they didn't grant him the top out.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Then it's a loose ball, and then he tries to
call time There's no time out when there's.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
A loose balls.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
A load of.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Crap from Nick Nurse.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
This is him.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Look, I get it. He's trying to do gamesmanship.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So the officiating flips a little bit when they're back
in Philadelphia. But to say, oh, they wouldn't give me
a time out. No, you tried to call it for
about a second and then you pulled it back and said, no,
I didn't want it. So it's a little bit of
creative storytelling from Nick Nurse.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
You know what all we could say is this, Let's
just celebrate Tonde, Tavin Shencho's amazing three pointer. Let's just
celebrate the fact that Jalen Brunso is able to overcome
that eight to twenty nine mark with that really cheap
three at the end. I mean these were clutch plays,
the reverse Reggie Miller, if you will, where they just
prevailed in dramatic fashion in the final second. So really
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good win from top to bottom. And it shows the
resiliency overcoming Julius is Randall's injury. Even when shots aren't falling,
they still have a way to grind it out and
lean on their toughness and key clutch plays and yeah,
I mean Cherry on top of the Sunday they got
the tell him out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, you know, here's the thing, here's the thing away
from the number one. I think maybe what we really
have to look into is that that maybe Villanova is overrated.
They should have won more titles in college with the
three of them. But uh, you know, I'm really, this
is where I'm at right now after this unbelievable win tonight.
It was I don't even know the last thirty seconds
like a fever dream. But the Knicks are going nowhere.
(05:23):
If this is what they're getting from Jalen Brunson, clearly
he's going to be defended differently in the postseason, and
he has struggled mightily in the first two games, has
not had an answer for anything the Sixers have thrown
at him. And if this is what they get, yeah,
the knixt sporting cast is really good. But if Brunson's
not Brunson, I mean this is going to end quickly.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Buck Jason, Remember what I said forty point game. I
think that there's a reason to think this way because
when we're talking about superstar players, usually they come out
of a swamp. All it takes is one shot. They
usually have that dramatic performance that makes up for it all. Today,
you say Jalen Brunson is a superstar, I mean, have
faith in your guy, my friend, how.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Many the shots is it gonna take. It's like getting
to the center of the TUTSI roll pop while.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Three it'll only take twenty nine shots. He'll just make
a lot more of them.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Wow, maashm Allen iverson stat line he had forty on
twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Shy, you know what, but he would get there.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But legitimately, when we talk about officiating, because certainly that's
becoming the theme of the night as we start pulling
away from the Denver Lakers game as well, Mark, I mean,
how much of this actually resonates, you know, filing grievances,
here's our list, other than a two minute report and
a letter of apology for something they might have gotten wrong.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, I think that, you know, it's kind of the
modern NBA's version of what the nineties coaches used to
do of partiquing a you know, refereence to the press
and that would get the attention. I think that's really
what it is, staying up for the next game. You know,
there's genuine, obviously frustration and different perspectives from both teams. Incidentally,
you know, they always feel like each team doesn't get
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the foul coon they deserve, and the foul calls that
they do get they feel it is warranted. But I
think that the bigger thing in fairness, it comes down
to basketball plays. There's so many things that go into
a game that the say it's about officials, usually ninety
nine percent are wrong because there's always good plays that
are made, mistakes that are made. And I think with
the Lakers Nuggets, I mean, clearly, it came down to
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the fact that the Lakers squandered such an opportunity. The
best opportunity is steal a game in this series by
being up with commanding lead at halftime and then just
really wet in the bed in the fourth quarter. And
you know, this shows how damn good the Nuggets are,
but also shows that the Lakers not only have to
be perfect, but they can't mess around. And when you
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mess around like this, you get a loss like this.
And I think that, you know, I don't want to
be one of those guys that says series is over,
but series is over. I think that the Lakers can
win Game three, but if they were to have stolen
this series from the Nuggets, they had to have at
least split the first two game. You gotta win a
road game, and I think this is the closest they
(08:03):
can do. It's not lory lesson because I think that
they've exhausted so much energy and I just illustrated that
the Nuggets will always have ways to adjust.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey, look, Mark, I'm with you. We talked about this
that you could. Looks like you can stick a fork
in the Lakers after this game. This is such a
bad game to blow and to lose, and I get
the whole oh we're going home.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, but you just blew your best chance to win.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know, in Denver, I look at this game and go, okay,
A d and d Lo were phenomenal in the first half.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
The Lakers are out twenty point lead.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It was fantastic, and the two of them had to
combine three shots in the fourth quarter. Anthony Davis couldn't miss,
and he takes one shot in the fourth quarter. I'm
looking at this going unless the postgame press conference is
Darvin Ham saying doing a Doc River saying, Hey, it's
Lebron's fault. He took all the shots. I mean, I
don't know what to say at this point. Darvinham might
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not make it to the end of the series because
I don't know how. I don't know how the Lakers
execute the fourth quarter that way when you're two guys
who were absolutely red hot, only don't take any shots.
Delo's on the bench for the majority that for too
long in the fourth quarter when he was lighting it up.
I just don't get that from darmin In.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yeah, it was really mind boggling because even when you
put an account in the fact that, yes, Anthony Davis
hot foul trouble, you want to protect him for when
he's coming into crunch time and Lebron James made some
key shots that were warranted, made some cheap plays. You
gotta feature Anthony Davis a lot more. You gotta feature
Dangel Russell when he's making threes. If he's not making threes, yes,
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get the ball out of his hands, stone pass from
the ball. But when he's making them, usually he checks
are totally warranted. I think Anthony Davis, that's the common
denominator that he's always consistent. You gotta feature more. When
we're talking to Robert Rory earlier before the series started
that he felt like philosophically that they need to run
the offense through him and just try to wear Jokics
(09:52):
down by having looks in the paint, looks at the
elbow instead of all this pick and pop. And he thought,
and I agree with him, that this would result Anthony
Davis staining a lot more touches, a lot of easier baskets,
but also be a way of shutting down Jokic because
he can't shut him down when you're defending him, so
at least try to tire him out while he's on defense,
and they didn't do enough of that. Later on the
(10:12):
second half.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Mark, what'd you think of the now going viral and
debated shot by Lebron James. Defender goes to the court
and he takes the three instead of maybe driving to
the lane.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Yeah? I was initially torn, especially knowing the clock situation,
you go for the two, but he had a really
good look that it's hard to pass up. And knowing
how Lebron James has been shooting the ball from three,
f was late. I thought it was warranted. He went
three to six tonight. If we were having this conversation
during the Western Conference Finals last season when he was
shooting I think twenty eight percent from three, yeah, different conversation,
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But I had no problem with that shot. I think
generally you do want to go for the quick two
because of the clock situation the lead, but you know,
he had a wide open look. This wasn't like Tori,
I'm printed in a wide open look. We're talking about
Lebron James here.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You know, I when this series started, I felt this
is the time the Lakers have the best chance of
catching the Nuggets, now because it's early in the playoffs,
before the heavy legs hit with with Lebron and a
D and now that it looks like it's gonna be
a quick exit for the Lakers, I say, Okay, what like,
what what do they like?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What are we going to see?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And the first thing I think we're gonna see is
they're gonna have a new head coach and you're gonna
see some kind of way to bring in another star
player to be able to hit big shots, to do something,
because I mean, what, the Lakers are good And I
was just telling Ryan Perschinger, this are our producer is
a huge Lakers fan.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Look, the Lakers are good. This is a this is
a good team. But in this loaded Western conference, what
they have just isn't enough.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, I think in tern even though I don't think
the Lakers gonna win this series, I don't, I still
think I should win a game. I think that the
win Game three because they're on there. You know they
have their own core, they feel the urgency even more. Uh,
even though fatigue can be a concern short term, they
don't play till Thursday, so they will be able to
catch their wind. But how this pertains to the broader
(12:06):
questions that you outlined, I think, even though the Lakers
are about championship or BUSS, I think that there is
a value in how you exit the playoffs. If it's
an embarrassing fashion where you're just getting mopped up. Yeah,
maybe there are wholesale changes, but if it's one of
those things that they put up a good fight and competitive,
I would be surprised if Darvin Ham's replaced. I think
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what it will personalize, though, is that even though I
thought it was the right route to take, because the
alternative is Kyrie Irving and his unpredictable nature, as well
as gutting a roster, clearly the continuity route didn't work
because the Nuggets continuity route is a lot better. So
maybe you do the gamble as far as getting a
third star because it didn't work this time around, or
(12:48):
at least get other role players that can provide more
consistency than what they've had this season with D'Angelo and
Ruietcha Moore and Austin Reeves. No easy answers because we've
seen you know, the bat side, Uh, you know, only
two years ago when the Lakers have a third star,
i e. Russell Westbrook. But I think the lessons Lauren,
of these comed denominators is that there's not necessarily a
(13:10):
way or wrong answer of do you have Lebron James
Anthony Davis have a third star or a bunch of
role players. It's more of who is that third star?
Who are those role players? And it'll be very interesting
which laye they do and then how they execute moving forward.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Now, let's like we like talking history and gravity when
it comes to these series. Will these be the two
most competitive sweeps in NBA histories?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Well, it very well could be, But I'm not predicting
a sweep from the Lakers and Nuggets. I think the
Lakers get Game three and then everything else is up
in the air. Think Nuggets close out five or six.
As far as the nick Sixers go, look, I'm taking
the next, don't don't don't worry here, I'm taking the
next to win the series. But I think that the
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Sixers are showing that they can really hang here. And
even though I am predicting that forty point housing from
Jalen Brunson, it is a heavy task to be able
to sweep the Sixers with Joel Embiid and Tyres Batsey,
even if now there's one hundred percent when they don't
have Julius Randal. What I'm going at is the Knicks
are going to advance, but it might take five six
games to do so.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, here's the thing, here's honestly, here's what I'm worried about.
If I'm the six and yes, they're playing the whole
referee card right now, I get it. But does Joel
Embiid look like a guy that's going to make it
to the end of the series to you? I mean,
he's on one leg now and he's coming back, and
he's dinged up, and the Knicks are doing whatever they
want to him download the end of the game offensive rebounds.
I mean, he's just so banged up. I don't know
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that he makes it to the end.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Of the series.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Yeah, I mean it's a fair question. There's part to
me when I see him play where I think, man
Joe Embiid is dominant. Nothing can stop him. The fact
that he was out for two months really healed this injury,
you know, has shown that he can move a lot better,
and then he takes some bad falls and you're thinking,
man like, he is going to go to the locker
room for the rest of the game now. So I'm
with you. I have those concerns as well. His injury
(15:03):
istory is what it is. But I think from Joel
MB's perspective as well as a sixer perspective, they don't
feel they have any other choice, right, Like, it's the playoffs,
and I know he's a long term asset, but this
is what it's about. You know, they could be having
this conversation differently if it was the regular season, but
here there's their best chance to pull off an episode
because they have Joel Dude.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina that said
Mark G Underscore Medina NBA insider, who is guaranteed Jalen
Brunson with a forty point game in Game three and
if it doesn't happen, Mark, I can just blame you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So it's good.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, the radio, there's equivalent of the s I curse.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Right, Yeah, he didn't take it up shots, What are
you gonna do right. We'll talk to you soon, Bud,
jam Mark, don't you guys?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
There is Mark Medina. I mean, he guaranteed me a
forty point game. I'm good's really putting.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That in the universe.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I mean I didn't even ask him for it. Do
you think, Oh, Jason, how do you ask him for it?
He just said, can you get a forty point game
from it?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
If he doesn't go for forty, it's really on you.
It's his fault. It's his fault something happens. I can
blame him.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
But I really did have to ask the question. I mean,
how many shots is it gonna take to get there?
It's like, how many licks does it take to get
to the center?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
And I said, man, they could take twenty nine shots,
although I don't know, Man, he had twenty seven shots
that he only had twenty four.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
You know, he got to twenty nine shots.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Exit out, bout of Fresca. Exit swollen down the Jason
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The Lakers, the Nuggets, the Knicks, and the Sixers. One
of those teams it's easier to root for than the
other three balls? What no, there's one. There's only one
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thing holding the bulls back.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
What's that they stink?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's easy to root for one of those teams.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
More than the other three. Wait what No? They did
win to I want to give them. Let's go Congratulations Cleveland, Yo, baby,
let's good. That's all you get. You get nothing else.
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Tirac dot com Studios. Two incredible games tonight,
best night of the year in the NBA, plus Cleveland
with a big win. Okay, like I said, enough, it
still counts. That does it still does.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
If we're gonna do all this heype or whatever these were,
it might have been more important, better games for the
national audience.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But Cleveland's up two games today.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
These might have been more important, better games that were
more fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But hey, no, that's in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
U two. You've already spent way too much time on
Cleveland and Orlando. Yes, that's it, We're done. That's too much.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That's too much. Kara was pretty good. That's thirty less seconds.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We get to talk about Jalen Brunson and Devincenzo's three
and ever it's thirty less seconds in Hartenstein's block.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
That's thirty less.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Kind to bring in the Midwest too, just because you
like your East coast West coast. No, I gotta get
the heartland into.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We spent we spend enough time last week talking about
the bulls. And there's only one reason why we're not
talking about the bulls right now. Why because they stink.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
You know, we wouldn't talk about them either, No matter what,
we wouldn't talk about them either.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We have Tomorrow night, we got the Pacers play everything,
We got everything else talk about tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Week.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
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Harmon over here.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Let me just let me just say this, Yeah, because
well Thursday night, then there's noa.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Maybe you're lying, it'll help me. Nick, there's also a dress.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
For some reason, the Knicks are playing on Thursday, which
makes zero sense, but anyway, whatever, Yeah, let's take two
days off and then play thirty. Yeah, but look of
the four teams you watch tonight, right, you watch the Lakers, Nuggets,
the Knicks, and the Sixers. And this is not me
being a Knicks fan. Go New York, Go New York,
Go go New York. But the Knicks make it really
(20:01):
easy to root for them because I see from the
Knicks what I don't see from the O the other ten.
This doesn't mean that other teams have don't have the desire,
don't have the ability, but I see a team that
in a rock fight, these are the guys you want that.
They're never gonna quit. They're gonna be physical, they're gonna
do They're gonna fight you.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Tooth and nail. They're like the what was it?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Was it the Green Knight and Monty Python that gets
his arms cut off, his legs off, come on to.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Come on, you're running away. You're running away, come on.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Come on, and he's trying to get that. That's who
the Knicks are. You can tell that they're that team.
Whatever we have left, every ounce of what we have,
we are gonna fight you with. And that's something that
you don't normal that you don't get a lot. I
haven't seen that a lot from a lot of my teams.
Say hey, we're in it together, we're fighting for each other.
And I don't get all of that from all the
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other teams. And look, and the offshoot of it is
that boy. I think Villanova was probably overrated, but he
should have won more titles with those guys. Look, you
only get two with Heart and Brunson and Devencenzo.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You only get two titlesok you should have probably had
four titles with those guys, four titles those guys.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
But look, look how look how good they are looking.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You see a Knicks team and everybody wants to say,
I don't know Brunson, but this supporting cast. They got
something from everybody tonight. And I just don't mean the
individual plays where Devincenzo's three at the end, Hartenstein's block.
You got everything the entire night from Anonobe even had
a couple of huge threes from Bogdanovitch that gave the
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the Knicks their biggest lead. They couldn't stop and the
Sixers had to call time out to figure out. Okay,
now with Jalen Brunson off the floor, the Knicks lead
is increasing. Like they got their their supporting cast is tremendous.
And and that's that, you know. Seeing that tonight, you say, Okay,
everything we get from all the other teams and their
supporting cast, I get it. But you don't get anything
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as deep and full of that much commitment to each
other as you get with the Knicks. No it's it's
been fun to watch and throughout the regular season, right,
But I think just the history of Thibodeau, that's kind
of the what he's trying to foster.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Now, how much buying you get in like each other
because they hate him. Common enemy is a good thing.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Yeah, Common enemy is is a real real I mean,
it's a coaching trick. It's a managerial trick. It's whatever
you know less infighting with the people working well, they're
going to fight to be better, so I leave them alone.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
As a manager.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
All of that comes in and I talk about how
much we hate you all the time, and we've become
really good friends.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
As long as that works for you, guys, I don't whatever.
I still have my ass in the seat comes in.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Every day. You get with a list of things that
you have done, or.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Something about the litany of texts that I said, with
interesting stories that you ignore.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Dude, you send a lot of texts. Sometimes you send
me a link to something that doesn't open or I
can't get on antiquated systems.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It's up. My iPhone is a fourteen. It gets it
gets stuff. Listen.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Every day you send me at least one story about McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Wow, it is your it is your.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Most Your big forward to me today was sixty nine
year old man celebrates fifty years of working at McDonald
Thought it was really cool because the guy seemingly had
lifted at least one of every Happy Meal toy that
they've ever had. Yeah, yeh yeah, yeah, well that part
of his employment.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I think.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I think when you work at the McDonald's for fifty years,
you should be eating every meal for free, like you like.
The employee discount's got to be off the hook.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I gotta I gotta think you just gotta take the uh,
the burger and just be done with it.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, I think you get whatever you want. I'm gonna
have nuggets. I'm gonna have uh jot one hundred nuggets.
I'm gonna have one hundred nuggets. I'm gonna have a
shamrock shake. But it's but it's September. I want a
shamrock shake.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Okay, they're telling me we don't have that stuff still
in the back to turning green, you're lying, no.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But the point people that it require the ice cream
machine to be working at McDonald's, which which it never
That's a whole other system systematic thing to to work through.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
But watching the Knicks throughout the year, and certainly going
back to Thibadeau's time with the Bulls, like that was
always the push. We're gonna outwork, you were gonna fight
you through the end, and then it's a battle of attrition,
and unfortunately he's always lost that battle where the guys
are not healthy when it matters. He's also usually been
missing that three point specialist or one of those things
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really kind of or a guy that could take over
a game as a singular scorer.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
To get you over here, You've.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Got a nice blend of players, including you know, the
great bench player Hartenstein. And don't how do you mention
Quentin Grinds and how good we've really left him off
to the wayside tonight? We we really should do a
feature on him.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Where is he now? In what we're doing?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
But but I think you're right, Like we look at
there's a lot of finger pointing. There's a great gift
from early in the game, right when the Lakers were
beating the hell out of the Nuggets, and there's a
rebound that comes off and Ad makes absolutely no effort
for it. So the guy has an easy put back.
And you see Lebron He's standing about five feet away
(25:17):
and he just puts his arms up like what the hell? Man?
So you have even that when things are going well,
you got guys looking at each other's side, I et cetera.
Go team by team, you can find the same thing.
So yeah, I will give that. You know, if you
want that workman like lunch paale, We're all in this together.
Sing the high school musical song if you will. Yeah,
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the Knicks could be that team.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Now.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I want to do an AI version of that with
them singing and dancing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Leading it.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And what did I tell you? The entire theme would
be for the Nix this postseason. All Look how good
they are without Julius Randall. Look how good they are
without Julius Randall.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Now, to be fair, for the first six and a
half minutes of tonight's show, sky was falling, everything was.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The river were down twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Dump seven seconds left to go, and then Brunson hits
a miracle three and they turn it over and Devin
Chenze it to three.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
It was insane. Ignored everything.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
They didn't ignore anything they ignore Okay, they ignored Tyrese
Maxey pushing Josh hard away to get the ball out.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
He was being tugged from behind. He was trying to
fight through, took him with him.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, and they ignored Nick nurse calling time out even
though he pulled the time out back didn't want it,
called time out once and said, oh no, no, I
don't want it now. Well, but now you're you're ignoring
my time out. But then he didn't want it. If
I go into McDonald's say hey, I'd like a big Mac. No,
you know what, scratch that, I want a double big Matt,
I'm sorry you already asked for the big Mac. No,
but I said right away I wanted to can't. No,
(26:46):
I'm sorry already put it in. I'm sorry you can't.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You can't have it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
No.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
The response from the person that McDonald's should be, you
always go with your gun.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Listen. I want to order. I want to order. I
don't want you to tell me what I want.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
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Speaker 1 (27:11):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Mike and I finishing off polishing off
the twelve inch chocolate chip cookie from my subway tonight?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
What did you do? Why'd you have to pause? Twelve
inch chocolate chip cookie from subway? How you pause?
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Go back and pause?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
We're polishing off the twelve in chocolate chip cookie from subway.
Definitely not what I heard.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Celebratory, celebratory cookie of victory with the Knicks win over
the Sixers tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I lamented the fifth ring of hell. We'll get to
Lebron in a second.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You were going to hear from him and his opinion
of the officials after tonight's loss to the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By polishing off the twelve inch, where were we to say? Cookie?
I don't know that was a lot. I said, cookie.
I think you're editing things already.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm not editing anything. You're editing things that you just
cut out. You just cut out what I said right
after polishing off the twelve inch whoa, whoa?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
What this is your words?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh man, Jason, you're a little loose when it gets
to the.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
TV fun house, TV fun house, give me back my show.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
After the Knicks win, Joel Embiid said following the game,
we're gonna win this series. We know we gotta fix
we're the better team, and again we're going to win
this series.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Good for him. I really thought it was going to
be Paul Reid.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, Hey, we're lucky. We got the Knicks and they're
the easier team so far. You're down to zip going home.
You're down to zip. You're down to you're gonna collapse.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
You're down associating a side and a point that that
I brought up earlier, reiterate here. It's like, normally you
get the give give up foul. Right, you're down five,
all right, you're conceding. You want to send them the line.
The officials decided not to call them right because they've
been letting a lot of contact go. Should they just
stayed consistent to that point and the Sixers gagged it away.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You know what help, Joel mbiid not missing four free
throws now, that would helped. That would help.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
That's a being able to rely on your bench for
a little more. Fix that production, fix that, steal an
extra minute, or fix.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
It, fix that.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Uh So there we go. Good luck, good luck Philadelphia
winning this their good luck. I want to say good luck. Meanwhile,
Lebron James the Lakers blow a twenty point lead in
the second half. How big twenty point lead? And it
was shocking. They it was their best chance to win
a game. They had to have this game tonight, and
(29:51):
now their season is over. You can put a fork
in their season. They couldn't win in there tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't know if they they even get within ten
points the next two games they play against the Nuggets.
They give away this lead and for Anthony Davis to
have one field goal attempt in the fourth quarter, and
for D'Angelo Russell to sit as long as he did
in the fourth quarter when these were the two guys
having their.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Way with the Nuggets? Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If you're Darvinham, what are you doing? You gotta call
more place for aid? Ad started out fourteen out of fifteen.
Come on, man, d lo is phenomenal. As bad as
he played in game one, he was there in game two.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
What are you doing? Like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
If Darvin Ham makes it to the end of the
series at this point, then maybe Bluke Walton may come
in to coach the rest of the series. At this point,
because I'm like, what is happening? What is going on here?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
But that aside, because that really is a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The first thing that happens after the season is the
Lakers are gonna fire Darvinham. This was such a gag
fest tonight. Lebron James not happy with the officiating, and
apparently he had a chance following the game to hear
about what went on with the Knicks and the Sixers,
because that was part of his explanation. Is to what
needs to happen with the NBA following tonight's game polishing
(31:05):
off the twelve inch I'm sorry, wrong button that that
is the wrong button.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You please play, Lebron Jay. That is a deep exploit.
Not happy with un officiating.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I understand what's going on in replay center. To be honest,
I said it. I think I said it this year
or last year, whatever. Delo clearly gets hit in a
face on a drive. Do we have a replay center?
Is gonna go? That doesn't It doesn't make sense to me,
makes no sense to me. It bothers me. Sorry to
ask your question, but that is like and then I
(31:38):
just saw what happened with the Sixers nickname too. What
are we what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Oh? I'm glad that I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
In the post game after losing, Lebron has had a
chance to catch up on the Knicks and the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Everybody's in the locker room, Yes, man, what do we
do to lose this game? What do we gotta work on?
Let's talk right now. Oh hey, you guys, see what
just happened at the end of the next game.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I appreciate that Nick Hurs wanted to call time out
and then he called it back, but wow, can you
imagine that?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Look at that? Hey, guys, big is the fine?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
This is bigically mine.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
This is where the NBA has to make a decision, Okay,
because I'll tell you what this means. The NBA has
to decide right now, are we going to are we
going to stand up, which is what they normally do,
and say here's a fine, you don't question officiated, you
don't do this, you don't do this, or do they
do they actually understand it. Look, there was a couple
of calls that they could have called against the Knicks
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tonight they didn't. A couple of calls that could have
called went against the Nuggets. They could have called. But again,
I always default to, Hey, don't blow a five point
lead with twenty five seconds left. Don't blow a twenty
point lead in the fourth quarter when your two best
players don't touch a basketball. So I can always go
back to that, But the NBA really where it's getting
to more and more of that saturation point, where really
the NBA has got to understand, all right, we're missing
(32:57):
too many calls, we're missing stuff that we have to
get right and and we don't.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
And when you can look back and it's not a
question of ah, I could see this either way, when
it's wow, how do you miss that? Wow?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
How has that missed? How the NBA's got to do
something like I don't want to see them. Turtle and
Adam silver Bee not found anywhere. But here comes a
fine for Lebron, here's a fine for Joel Embi, here's
a fine for Nick Nurse because the Sixers want to
file a grievance against the league. Yes, they're gonna give
you the two wins and you're gonna suddenly up too
zip in the series. But I really feel across sports, baseball, basketball,
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there needs to be some kind of at least, hey,
we understand your concerns and we're gonna work on it
because that would go a long way just saying hey,
we get it, and I know the two minute report
doesn't always help everybody, but we understand your concerns and
that would go a long way in stemming the tide
and lowering the temperature on this.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Well, the hardest part is that you now have a
different microscope on you know, I mean, look at what
happened with Jontay Porter, and you've seen other alley gage
to have seen it at the collegiate level, when you've
got legalized gambling involved in every play, including every move
the referees make. Why is that a fall here and
not here? Why is that whistle not get blown? Why
(34:12):
did the you know inbound play is not constitute files
Whether it was the push off or the Jersey tugs,
all of that comes together to where you're gonna get scrutinized,
and you want to make sure you get ahold of that.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I still really wanted to hear see you again.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
No, let it go, let it go, don't probably whiz
khalif it was gonna wrap?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Oh who knew all the things we threw the plate?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I mean, come on, I'll be standing right here talking
to you about another path.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I know.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We love to hit the road and left, but something
told me that it wouldn't last. So I had to
switch up, look at things different, see the bigger picture.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You're so offbeat. That's exactly how good you are. Here.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
On April twenty second, at ten pm Pacific, tys shirt,
make sure we record this. I'm gonna request one very
simple thing of you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What's that? Never blank? And do that again? Why not?
This was terrible? That was pretty good? Got that wasn't right?
Completely different song. That's fine.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
For it, it gets better. That's fine now right here
away for it. That's fine.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Nice try.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
I think that was fine. I think that worked out
absolutely fine. The falsetto. You've been working on it though,
And the.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Screen, Hey, I've been working on that. That scream right there,
that was my That was my scream. That was my
scream after de Vincenzo hit that three?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Is that the scream up? I have to get up
from this chair that I've been sitting in a while.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
No, that's Jason going up to the concession stand getting
a diet coke and they say we're out.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think we would do more angish. Don't even joke
about that.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Don't even joke about that about going to a concession standing.
There's no diet coke. Don't even choke. Come on, man,
don't even joke about that. Don't put that out there.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Don't you put on me.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
An incredible night in the NBA, the Knicks beat the
Sixers first team or the third team in the last
twenty five years to overcome a five point defisit in
the final twenty seven seconds of a playoff game they win.
The Lakers blow a twenty point lead to the Nuggets
who get a buzzer beater from Jamal Murray. Oh and
the and the Cavaliers and the thunder in the Magic
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we still play two joining us now on the hot
line to break it all down. Nobody better than a
man who is already guaranteed to me. He's already guaranteed
me that Jalen Brunson will go for forty in the
next game. It is longtime NBA insider friend of the show.
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina. That's at
(02:58):
Mark g Underscore Medean. It is Mark Mendina who has
guaranteed me forty points from Jalen Brunson in the next game.
What's happening to Mark?
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Hey, Jason, I do have to concede. I did say
forty points from Jalen brunt I even said the next
you gets to the finals. I mean, look, congratulations on
the win. All a tuck was for the referees to
completely ignore Nick Nurse's time out. But he completely ignore,
you know, people tugging on Tyrese Maxey's jersey and completely
ignore the fact that your nixt put all the referee
(03:28):
profile notes on their game notes to try to shop
some conspiracy theories here. It's a great sequel to the
President envelopes.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, okay, well, first things first, I want to tell
you about the very president very nice. That's a good
nineteen eighty five reference. Very loose timely today, let me
tell you this. Yes, Nick Nurse tried to call a
time out for about a second and then he pulled
it back and then he said no.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, no, I don't want He pulled his hands away.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So this hole at the end of the game where
he goes, oh, I tried to call it him out.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
They wouldn't give it to me.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, he tried to call and then he stopped and
he pulled his hands away, going no, I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So they didn't grant him the top out.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Then it's a loose ball, and then he tries to
call time There's no time out when there's.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
A loose balls.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
A load of.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Crap from Nick Nurse.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
This is him.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Look, I get it. He's trying to do gamesmanship.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So the officiating flips a little bit when they're back
in Philadelphia. But to say, oh, they wouldn't give me
a time out. No, you tried to call it for
about a second and then you pulled it back and said, no,
I didn't want it. So it's a little bit of
creative storytelling from Nick Nurse.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
You know what all we could say is this, Let's
just celebrate Tonde, Tavin Shencho's amazing three pointer. Let's just
celebrate the fact that Jalen Brunso is able to overcome
that eight to twenty nine mark with that really cheap
three at the end. I mean these were clutch plays,
the reverse Reggie Miller, if you will, where they just
prevailed in dramatic fashion in the final second. So really
(04:43):
good win from top to bottom. And it shows the
resiliency overcoming Julius is Randall's injury. Even when shots aren't falling,
they still have a way to grind it out and
lean on their toughness and key clutch plays and yeah,
I mean Cherry on top of the Sunday they got
the tell him out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, you know, here's the thing, here's the thing away
from the number one. I think maybe what we really
have to look into is that that maybe Villanova is overrated.
They should have won more titles in college with the
three of them. But uh, you know, I'm really, this
is where I'm at right now after this unbelievable win tonight.
It was I don't even know the last thirty seconds
like a fever dream. But the Knicks are going nowhere.
(05:23):
If this is what they're getting from Jalen Brunson, clearly
he's going to be defended differently in the postseason, and
he has struggled mightily in the first two games, has
not had an answer for anything the Sixers have thrown
at him. And if this is what they get, yeah,
the knixt sporting cast is really good. But if Brunson's
not Brunson, I mean this is going to end quickly.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Buck Jason, Remember what I said forty point game. I
think that there's a reason to think this way because
when we're talking about superstar players, usually they come out
of a swamp. All it takes is one shot. They
usually have that dramatic performance that makes up for it all. Today,
you say Jalen Brunson is a superstar, I mean, have
faith in your guy, my friend, how.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Many the shots is it gonna take. It's like getting
to the center of the TUTSI roll pop while.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Three it'll only take twenty nine shots. He'll just make
a lot more of them.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Wow, maashm Allen iverson stat line he had forty on
twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Shy, you know what, but he would get there.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But legitimately, when we talk about officiating, because certainly that's
becoming the theme of the night as we start pulling
away from the Denver Lakers game as well, Mark, I mean,
how much of this actually resonates, you know, filing grievances,
here's our list, other than a two minute report and
a letter of apology for something they might have gotten wrong.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, I think that, you know, it's kind of the
modern NBA's version of what the nineties coaches used to
do of partiquing a you know, refereence to the press
and that would get the attention. I think that's really
what it is, staying up for the next game. You know,
there's genuine, obviously frustration and different perspectives from both teams. Incidentally,
you know, they always feel like each team doesn't get
(06:59):
the foul coon they deserve, and the foul calls that
they do get they feel it is warranted. But I
think that the bigger thing in fairness, it comes down
to basketball plays. There's so many things that go into
a game that the say it's about officials, usually ninety
nine percent are wrong because there's always good plays that
are made, mistakes that are made. And I think with
the Lakers Nuggets, I mean, clearly, it came down to
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the fact that the Lakers squandered such an opportunity. The
best opportunity is steal a game in this series by
being up with commanding lead at halftime and then just
really wet in the bed in the fourth quarter. And
you know, this shows how damn good the Nuggets are,
but also shows that the Lakers not only have to
be perfect, but they can't mess around. And when you
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mess around like this, you get a loss like this.
And I think that, you know, I don't want to
be one of those guys that says series is over,
but series is over. I think that the Lakers can
win Game three, but if they were to have stolen
this series from the Nuggets, they had to have at
least split the first two game. You gotta win a
road game, and I think this is the closest they
(08:03):
can do. It's not lory lesson because I think that
they've exhausted so much energy and I just illustrated that
the Nuggets will always have ways to adjust.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Hey, look, Mark, I'm with you. We talked about this
that you could. Looks like you can stick a fork
in the Lakers after this game. This is such a
bad game to blow and to lose, and I get
the whole oh we're going home.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Yeah, but you just blew your best chance to win.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You know, in Denver, I look at this game and go, okay,
A d and d Lo were phenomenal in the first half.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
The Lakers are out twenty point lead.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
It was fantastic, and the two of them had to
combine three shots in the fourth quarter. Anthony Davis couldn't miss,
and he takes one shot in the fourth quarter. I'm
looking at this going unless the postgame press conference is
Darvin Ham saying doing a Doc River saying, Hey, it's
Lebron's fault. He took all the shots. I mean, I
don't know what to say at this point. Darvinham might
(08:53):
not make it to the end of the series because
I don't know how. I don't know how the Lakers
execute the fourth quarter that way when you're two guys
who were absolutely red hot, only don't take any shots.
Delo's on the bench for the majority that for too
long in the fourth quarter when he was lighting it up.
I just don't get that from darmin In.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yeah, it was really mind boggling because even when you
put an account in the fact that, yes, Anthony Davis
hot foul trouble, you want to protect him for when
he's coming into crunch time and Lebron James made some
key shots that were warranted, made some cheap plays. You
gotta feature Anthony Davis a lot more. You gotta feature
Dangel Russell when he's making threes. If he's not making threes, yes,
(09:30):
get the ball out of his hands, stone pass from
the ball. But when he's making them, usually he checks
are totally warranted. I think Anthony Davis, that's the common
denominator that he's always consistent. You gotta feature more. When
we're talking to Robert Rory earlier before the series started
that he felt like philosophically that they need to run
the offense through him and just try to wear Jokics
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down by having looks in the paint, looks at the
elbow instead of all this pick and pop. And he thought,
and I agree with him, that this would result Anthony
Davis staining a lot more touches, a lot of easier baskets,
but also be a way of shutting down Jokic because
he can't shut him down when you're defending him, so
at least try to tire him out while he's on defense,
and they didn't do enough of that. Later on the
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second half.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Mark, what'd you think of the now going viral and
debated shot by Lebron James. Defender goes to the court
and he takes the three instead of maybe driving to
the lane.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Yeah? I was initially torn, especially knowing the clock situation,
you go for the two, but he had a really
good look that it's hard to pass up. And knowing
how Lebron James has been shooting the ball from three,
f was late. I thought it was warranted. He went
three to six tonight. If we were having this conversation
during the Western Conference Finals last season when he was
shooting I think twenty eight percent from three, yeah, different conversation,
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But I had no problem with that shot. I think
generally you do want to go for the quick two
because of the clock situation the lead, but you know,
he had a wide open look. This wasn't like Tori,
I'm printed in a wide open look. We're talking about
Lebron James here.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You know, I when this series started, I felt this
is the time the Lakers have the best chance of
catching the Nuggets, now because it's early in the playoffs,
before the heavy legs hit with with Lebron and a
D and now that it looks like it's gonna be
a quick exit for the Lakers, I say, Okay, what like,
what what do they like?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
What are we going to see?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And the first thing I think we're gonna see is
they're gonna have a new head coach and you're gonna
see some kind of way to bring in another star
player to be able to hit big shots, to do something,
because I mean, what, the Lakers are good And I
was just telling Ryan Perschinger, this are our producer is
a huge Lakers fan.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Look, the Lakers are good. This is a this is
a good team. But in this loaded Western conference, what
they have just isn't enough.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, I think in tern even though I don't think
the Lakers gonna win this series, I don't, I still
think I should win a game. I think that the
win Game three because they're on there. You know they
have their own core, they feel the urgency even more. Uh,
even though fatigue can be a concern short term, they
don't play till Thursday, so they will be able to
catch their wind. But how this pertains to the broader
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questions that you outlined, I think, even though the Lakers
are about championship or BUSS, I think that there is
a value in how you exit the playoffs. If it's
an embarrassing fashion where you're just getting mopped up. Yeah,
maybe there are wholesale changes, but if it's one of
those things that they put up a good fight and competitive,
I would be surprised if Darvin Ham's replaced. I think
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what it will personalize, though, is that even though I
thought it was the right route to take, because the
alternative is Kyrie Irving and his unpredictable nature, as well
as gutting a roster, clearly the continuity route didn't work
because the Nuggets continuity route is a lot better. So
maybe you do the gamble as far as getting a
third star because it didn't work this time around, or
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at least get other role players that can provide more
consistency than what they've had this season with D'Angelo and
Ruietcha Moore and Austin Reeves. No easy answers because we've
seen you know, the bat side, Uh, you know, only
two years ago when the Lakers have a third star,
i e. Russell Westbrook. But I think the lessons Lauren,
of these comed denominators is that there's not necessarily a
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way or wrong answer of do you have Lebron James
Anthony Davis have a third star or a bunch of
role players. It's more of who is that third star?
Who are those role players? And it'll be very interesting
which laye they do and then how they execute moving forward.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Now, let's like we like talking history and gravity when
it comes to these series. Will these be the two
most competitive sweeps in NBA histories?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Well, it very well could be, But I'm not predicting
a sweep from the Lakers and Nuggets. I think the
Lakers get Game three and then everything else is up
in the air. Think Nuggets close out five or six.
As far as the nick Sixers go, look, I'm taking
the next, don't don't don't worry here, I'm taking the
next to win the series. But I think that the
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Sixers are showing that they can really hang here. And
even though I am predicting that forty point housing from
Jalen Brunson, it is a heavy task to be able
to sweep the Sixers with Joel Embiid and Tyres Batsey,
even if now there's one hundred percent when they don't
have Julius Randal. What I'm going at is the Knicks
are going to advance, but it might take five six
games to do so.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, here's the thing, here's honestly, here's what I'm worried about.
If I'm the six and yes, they're playing the whole
referee card right now, I get it. But does Joel
Embiid look like a guy that's going to make it
to the end of the series to you? I mean,
he's on one leg now and he's coming back, and
he's dinged up, and the Knicks are doing whatever they
want to him download the end of the game offensive rebounds.
I mean, he's just so banged up. I don't know
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that he makes it to the end.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Of the series.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Yeah, I mean it's a fair question. There's part to
me when I see him play where I think, man
Joe Embiid is dominant. Nothing can stop him. The fact
that he was out for two months really healed this injury,
you know, has shown that he can move a lot better,
and then he takes some bad falls and you're thinking,
man like, he is going to go to the locker
room for the rest of the game now. So I'm
with you. I have those concerns as well. His injury
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istory is what it is. But I think from Joel
MB's perspective as well as a sixer perspective, they don't
feel they have any other choice, right, Like, it's the playoffs,
and I know he's a long term asset, but this
is what it's about. You know, they could be having
this conversation differently if it was the regular season, but
here there's their best chance to pull off an episode
because they have Joel Dude.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He's on Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina that said
Mark G Underscore Medina NBA insider, who is guaranteed Jalen
Brunson with a forty point game in Game three and
if it doesn't happen, Mark, I can just blame you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
So it's good.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, the radio, there's equivalent of the s I curse.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Right, Yeah, he didn't take it up shots, What are
you gonna do right. We'll talk to you soon, Bud,
jam Mark, don't you guys?
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
There is Mark Medina. I mean, he guaranteed me a
forty point game. I'm good's really putting.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
That in the universe.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I mean I didn't even ask him for it. Do
you think, Oh, Jason, how do you ask him for it?
He just said, can you get a forty point game
from it?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
If he doesn't go for forty, it's really on you.
It's his fault. It's his fault something happens. I can
blame him.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
But I really did have to ask the question. I mean,
how many shots is it gonna take to get there?
It's like, how many licks does it take to get
to the center?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
And I said, man, they could take twenty nine shots,
although I don't know, Man, he had twenty seven shots
that he only had twenty four.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
You know, he got to twenty nine shots.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Exit out, bout of Fresca. Exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon. We have
more on the incredible night of the NBA coming up next.
The Lakers, the Nuggets, the Knicks, and the Sixers. One
of those teams it's easier to root for than the
other three balls? What no, there's one. There's only one
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thing holding the bulls back.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
What's that they stink?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's easy to root for one of those teams.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
More than the other three. Wait what No? They did
win to I want to give them. Let's go Congratulations Cleveland, Yo, baby,
let's good. That's all you get. You get nothing else.
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
We have no time for that game. Come on, man,
but which team isn't why? We'll tell you next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (17:25):
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Speaker 3 (17:33):
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Speaker 3 (18:06):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Tirac dot com Studios. Two incredible games tonight,
best night of the year in the NBA, plus Cleveland
with a big win. Okay, like I said, enough, it
still counts. That does it still does.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
If we're gonna do all this heype or whatever these were,
it might have been more important, better games for the
national audience.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But Cleveland's up two games today.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
These might have been more important, better games that were
more fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But hey, no, that's in Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
U two. You've already spent way too much time on
Cleveland and Orlando. Yes, that's it, We're done. That's too much.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That's too much. Kara was pretty good. That's thirty less seconds.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We get to talk about Jalen Brunson and Devincenzo's three
and ever it's thirty less seconds in Hartenstein's block.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
That's thirty less.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Kind to bring in the Midwest too, just because you
like your East coast West coast. No, I gotta get
the heartland into.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We spent we spend enough time last week talking about
the bulls. And there's only one reason why we're not
talking about the bulls right now. Why because they stink.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
You know, we wouldn't talk about them either, No matter what,
we wouldn't talk about them either.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
We have Tomorrow night, we got the Pacers play everything,
We got everything else talk about tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Week.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Man, we got positive finally gonna happen for young Mikey
Harmon over here.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Let me just let me just say this, Yeah, because
well Thursday night, then there's noa.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Maybe you're lying, it'll help me. Nick, there's also a dress.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
For some reason, the Knicks are playing on Thursday, which
makes zero sense, but anyway, whatever, Yeah, let's take two
days off and then play thirty. Yeah, but look of
the four teams you watch tonight, right, you watch the Lakers, Nuggets,
the Knicks, and the Sixers. And this is not me
being a Knicks fan. Go New York, Go New York,
Go go New York. But the Knicks make it really
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easy to root for them because I see from the
Knicks what I don't see from the O the other ten.
This doesn't mean that other teams have don't have the desire,
don't have the ability, but I see a team that
in a rock fight, these are the guys you want that.
They're never gonna quit. They're gonna be physical, they're gonna
do They're gonna fight you.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Tooth and nail. They're like the what was it?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Was it the Green Knight and Monty Python that gets
his arms cut off, his legs off, come on to.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Come on, you're running away. You're running away, come on.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Come on, and he's trying to get that. That's who
the Knicks are. You can tell that they're that team.
Whatever we have left, every ounce of what we have,
we are gonna fight you with. And that's something that
you don't normal that you don't get a lot. I
haven't seen that a lot from a lot of my teams.
Say hey, we're in it together, we're fighting for each other.
And I don't get all of that from all the
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other teams. And look, and the offshoot of it is
that boy. I think Villanova was probably overrated, but he
should have won more titles with those guys. Look, you
only get two with Heart and Brunson and Devencenzo.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You only get two titlesok you should have probably had
four titles with those guys, four titles those guys.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
But look, look how look how good they are looking.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You see a Knicks team and everybody wants to say,
I don't know Brunson, but this supporting cast. They got
something from everybody tonight. And I just don't mean the
individual plays where Devincenzo's three at the end, Hartenstein's block.
You got everything the entire night from Anonobe even had
a couple of huge threes from Bogdanovitch that gave the
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the Knicks their biggest lead. They couldn't stop and the
Sixers had to call time out to figure out. Okay,
now with Jalen Brunson off the floor, the Knicks lead
is increasing. Like they got their their supporting cast is tremendous.
And and that's that, you know. Seeing that tonight, you say, Okay,
everything we get from all the other teams and their
supporting cast, I get it. But you don't get anything
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as deep and full of that much commitment to each
other as you get with the Knicks. No it's it's
been fun to watch and throughout the regular season, right,
But I think just the history of Thibodeau, that's kind
of the what he's trying to foster.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Now, how much buying you get in like each other
because they hate him. Common enemy is a good thing.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Yeah, Common enemy is is a real real I mean,
it's a coaching trick. It's a managerial trick. It's whatever
you know less infighting with the people working well, they're
going to fight to be better, so I leave them alone.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
As a manager.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
All of that comes in and I talk about how
much we hate you all the time, and we've become
really good friends.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
As long as that works for you, guys, I don't whatever.
I still have my ass in the seat comes in.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Every day. You get with a list of things that
you have done, or.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Something about the litany of texts that I said, with
interesting stories that you ignore.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Dude, you send a lot of texts. Sometimes you send
me a link to something that doesn't open or I
can't get on antiquated systems.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
It's up. My iPhone is a fourteen. It gets it
gets stuff. Listen.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Every day you send me at least one story about McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Wow, it is your it is your.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Most Your big forward to me today was sixty nine
year old man celebrates fifty years of working at McDonald
Thought it was really cool because the guy seemingly had
lifted at least one of every Happy Meal toy that
they've ever had. Yeah, yeh yeah, yeah, well that part
of his employment.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I think.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I think when you work at the McDonald's for fifty years,
you should be eating every meal for free, like you like.
The employee discount's got to be off the hook.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I gotta I gotta think you just gotta take the uh,
the burger and just be done with it.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
No, I think you get whatever you want. I'm gonna
have nuggets. I'm gonna have uh jot one hundred nuggets.
I'm gonna have one hundred nuggets. I'm gonna have a
shamrock shake. But it's but it's September. I want a
shamrock shake.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Okay, they're telling me we don't have that stuff still
in the back to turning green, you're lying, no.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
But the point people that it require the ice cream
machine to be working at McDonald's, which which it never
That's a whole other system systematic thing to to work through.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
But watching the Knicks throughout the year, and certainly going
back to Thibadeau's time with the Bulls, like that was
always the push. We're gonna outwork, you were gonna fight
you through the end, and then it's a battle of attrition,
and unfortunately he's always lost that battle where the guys
are not healthy when it matters. He's also usually been
missing that three point specialist or one of those things
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really kind of or a guy that could take over
a game as a singular scorer.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
To get you over here, You've.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Got a nice blend of players, including you know, the
great bench player Hartenstein. And don't how do you mention
Quentin Grinds and how good we've really left him off
to the wayside tonight? We we really should do a
feature on him.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Where is he now? In what we're doing?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
But but I think you're right, Like we look at
there's a lot of finger pointing. There's a great gift
from early in the game, right when the Lakers were
beating the hell out of the Nuggets, and there's a
rebound that comes off and Ad makes absolutely no effort
for it. So the guy has an easy put back.
And you see Lebron He's standing about five feet away
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and he just puts his arms up like what the hell? Man?
So you have even that when things are going well,
you got guys looking at each other's side, I et cetera.
Go team by team, you can find the same thing.
So yeah, I will give that. You know, if you
want that workman like lunch paale, We're all in this together.
Sing the high school musical song if you will. Yeah,
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the Knicks could be that team.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Now.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I want to do an AI version of that with
them singing and dancing.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Leading it.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And what did I tell you? The entire theme would
be for the Nix this postseason. All Look how good
they are without Julius Randall. Look how good they are
without Julius Randall.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Now, to be fair, for the first six and a
half minutes of tonight's show, sky was falling, everything was.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The river were down twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Dump seven seconds left to go, and then Brunson hits
a miracle three and they turn it over and Devin
Chenze it to three.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
It was insane. Ignored everything.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
They didn't ignore anything they ignore Okay, they ignored Tyrese
Maxey pushing Josh hard away to get the ball out.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
He was being tugged from behind. He was trying to
fight through, took him with him.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Yeah, and they ignored Nick nurse calling time out even
though he pulled the time out back didn't want it,
called time out once and said, oh no, no, I
don't want it now. Well, but now you're you're ignoring
my time out. But then he didn't want it. If
I go into McDonald's say hey, I'd like a big Mac. No,
you know what, scratch that, I want a double big Matt,
I'm sorry you already asked for the big Mac. No,
but I said right away I wanted to can't. No,
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I'm sorry already put it in. I'm sorry you can't.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
You can't have it.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
No.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
The response from the person that McDonald's should be, you
always go with your gun.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Listen. I want to order. I want to order. I
don't want you to tell me what I want.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Mike and I finishing off polishing off
the twelve inch chocolate chip cookie from my subway tonight?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
What did you do? Why'd you have to pause? Twelve
inch chocolate chip cookie from subway? How you pause?
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Go back and pause?
Speaker 3 (27:31):
We're polishing off the twelve in chocolate chip cookie from subway.
Definitely not what I heard.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Celebratory, celebratory cookie of victory with the Knicks win over
the Sixers tonight.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I lamented the fifth ring of hell. We'll get to
Lebron in a second.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You were going to hear from him and his opinion
of the officials after tonight's loss to the Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
By polishing off the twelve inch, where were we to say? Cookie?
I don't know that was a lot. I said, cookie.
I think you're editing things already.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
I'm not editing anything. You're editing things that you just
cut out. You just cut out what I said right
after polishing off the twelve inch whoa, whoa?
Speaker 3 (28:19):
What this is your words?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
I didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh man, Jason, you're a little loose when it gets
to the.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
TV fun house, TV fun house, give me back my show.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
After the Knicks win, Joel Embiid said following the game,
we're gonna win this series. We know we gotta fix
we're the better team, and again we're going to win
this series.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Good for him. I really thought it was going to
be Paul Reid.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, Hey, we're lucky. We got the Knicks and they're
the easier team so far. You're down to zip going home.
You're down to zip. You're down to you're gonna collapse.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
You're down associating a side and a point that that
I brought up earlier, reiterate here. It's like, normally you
get the give give up foul. Right, you're down five,
all right, you're conceding. You want to send them the line.
The officials decided not to call them right because they've
been letting a lot of contact go. Should they just
stayed consistent to that point and the Sixers gagged it away.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You know what help, Joel mbiid not missing four free
throws now, that would helped. That would help.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
That's a being able to rely on your bench for
a little more. Fix that production, fix that, steal an
extra minute, or fix.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
It, fix that.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Uh So there we go. Good luck, good luck Philadelphia
winning this their good luck. I want to say good luck. Meanwhile,
Lebron James the Lakers blow a twenty point lead in
the second half. How big twenty point lead? And it
was shocking. They it was their best chance to win
a game. They had to have this game tonight, and
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now their season is over. You can put a fork
in their season. They couldn't win in there tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't know if they they even get within ten
points the next two games they play against the Nuggets.
They give away this lead and for Anthony Davis to
have one field goal attempt in the fourth quarter, and
for D'Angelo Russell to sit as long as he did
in the fourth quarter when these were the two guys
having their.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Way with the Nuggets? Like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If you're Darvinham, what are you doing? You gotta call
more place for aid? Ad started out fourteen out of fifteen.
Come on, man, d lo is phenomenal. As bad as
he played in game one, he was there in game two.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
What are you doing? Like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
If Darvin Ham makes it to the end of the
series at this point, then maybe Bluke Walton may come
in to coach the rest of the series. At this point,
because I'm like, what is happening? What is going on here?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
But that aside, because that really is a huge deal.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The first thing that happens after the season is the
Lakers are gonna fire Darvinham. This was such a gag
fest tonight. Lebron James not happy with the officiating, and
apparently he had a chance following the game to hear
about what went on with the Knicks and the Sixers,
because that was part of his explanation. Is to what
needs to happen with the NBA following tonight's game polishing
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off the twelve inch I'm sorry, wrong button that that
is the wrong button.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
You please play, Lebron Jay. That is a deep exploit.
Not happy with un officiating.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I understand what's going on in replay center. To be honest,
I said it. I think I said it this year
or last year, whatever. Delo clearly gets hit in a
face on a drive. Do we have a replay center?
Is gonna go? That doesn't It doesn't make sense to me,
makes no sense to me. It bothers me. Sorry to
ask your question, but that is like and then I
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just saw what happened with the Sixers nickname too. What
are we what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Oh? I'm glad that I'm glad.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
In the post game after losing, Lebron has had a
chance to catch up on the Knicks and the Sixers.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Everybody's in the locker room, Yes, man, what do we
do to lose this game? What do we gotta work on?
Let's talk right now. Oh hey, you guys, see what
just happened at the end of the next game.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I appreciate that Nick Hurs wanted to call time out
and then he called it back, but wow, can you
imagine that?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Look at that? Hey, guys, big is the fine?
Speaker 5 (32:11):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (32:12):
This is bigically mine.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
This is where the NBA has to make a decision, Okay,
because I'll tell you what this means. The NBA has
to decide right now, are we going to are we
going to stand up, which is what they normally do,
and say here's a fine, you don't question officiated, you
don't do this, you don't do this, or do they
do they actually understand it. Look, there was a couple
of calls that they could have called against the Knicks
(32:34):
tonight they didn't. A couple of calls that could have
called went against the Nuggets. They could have called. But again,
I always default to, Hey, don't blow a five point
lead with twenty five seconds left. Don't blow a twenty
point lead in the fourth quarter when your two best
players don't touch a basketball. So I can always go
back to that, But the NBA really where it's getting
to more and more of that saturation point, where really
the NBA has got to understand, all right, we're missing
(32:57):
too many calls, we're missing stuff that we have to
get right and and we don't.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
And when you can look back and it's not a
question of ah, I could see this either way, when
it's wow, how do you miss that? Wow?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
How has that missed? How the NBA's got to do
something like I don't want to see them. Turtle and
Adam silver Bee not found anywhere. But here comes a
fine for Lebron, here's a fine for Joel Embi, here's
a fine for Nick Nurse because the Sixers want to
file a grievance against the league. Yes, they're gonna give
you the two wins and you're gonna suddenly up too
zip in the series. But I really feel across sports, baseball, basketball,
(33:33):
there needs to be some kind of at least, hey,
we understand your concerns and we're gonna work on it
because that would go a long way just saying hey,
we get it, and I know the two minute report
doesn't always help everybody, but we understand your concerns and
that would go a long way in stemming the tide
and lowering the temperature on this.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Well, the hardest part is that you now have a
different microscope on you know, I mean, look at what
happened with Jontay Porter, and you've seen other alley gage
to have seen it at the collegiate level, when you've
got legalized gambling involved in every play, including every move
the referees make. Why is that a fall here and
not here? Why is that whistle not get blown? Why
(34:12):
did the you know inbound play is not constitute files
Whether it was the push off or the Jersey tugs,
all of that comes together to where you're gonna get scrutinized,
and you want to make sure you get ahold of that.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Early exit up about a Fresca exit swollen dome. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen Best
of podcast goes up in about ten minutes off of iTunes.
Grab it it is there where ever you listen to podcasts,
all the big content we have tonight about the Lakers
game against the Sixers, the Nuggets, and the Lakers coming
up next to my buddy Ben Maller. This is Fox
(34:44):
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