May 22, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike recap Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Justin Fields says that he is competing for the Steelers starting QB job with Russell Wilson. And it's just a matter of time before the Lakers hire J.J. Redick as their head coach.
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twenty minutes. Someone has spoken for the first times. It's
a big trade. Is he really happy in his new surroundings?
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But obviously the number one story of the night, the
Celtics in overtime take care of the Pacers one thirty
three to one twenty eight. Numerous mistakes by the Pacers
at the end of the fourth quarter in overtime contribute
to this loss. And look, this is a game where
for either team to lose, you would say it's devastating
because the Celtics got up twelve nothing and still the
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Pacers wound up time in the game. At halftime, they're
up by twelve, and the third quarter Pacers tied it.
Going to the fourth quarter, the Pacers took the lead.
They were up by three and had the ball with
ten seconds left to go, and they lost because they
turned the ball over on the inbounds and they allowed
Jalen Brown to shoot a three that sent the game
to overtime. When they were down by a point and overtime,
Tyre's Halliburton dribbled the ball out of bounds right, not
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under durest On, under pressure.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Just dribbled the ball out of bounds, a huge turnover.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Jason Tatum hits a three to put the Celtics up four,
and that was really the end of the game. So
really it's crazy for both sides. Boy what a heartbreaker
it is. But if I'm breaking this down, honestly, the
first thing I'm gonna say this, I actually feel better
about the Celtics after this even though it's a game
the Pacers gave away. This was the first time the
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Celtics faced the Pacers. This invention of the team with
Pascal Siakam who had an outside of the turnover late
and and not guarding Jalen Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Uh, he had outside. It was great.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Wow, Why I have to bring up somebody who's dead?
I mean, I know it's imus ask about a play
three hundred and fifty years, but I mean, come in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
What play? What other player are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
You kid? I didn't says play then right now? Tell
me what pla going back to from yesterday? It what happened?
Lame a rob What happened? What people died? What happened?
Did they really? And I never saw them? It was?
Was it a horror play? No, it's just like people
get killed like it was Jason. It's not the demon
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Barber of Fleet Street? Was it was it? There is
a warground Jason val Jason? Was he the main character? Well,
I mean of bread, he's getting chased by the I
mean it's basically no, that's how Aladdin starts. This is
same Dave Russell Crow getting after it. One jump out
of the red line. Once we got a Laddin end
of the show yesterday, I say it all ties back together.
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These guys don't appreciate unboard. Yeah, Rick Carlisle fails, didn't
call the time out. Riff raff street rat. I don't
buy that. Just a little snack. Guys break him open,
take it back.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Guys got gotta steal to live otherwise we get along.
Oh okay, So I'm feeling better about them, because, yes,
Siakam was terrific, right. He was the big difference maker.
He was a guy making those the teardrops from the
free throw line that would be big buckets when the
Pacers needed them. He filled the stat sheet. He was
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a big problem.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And the fact that the Celtics, you know, they had
to go through this and say okay, because you can
take a look and be familiar with the guy's game
because they played him plenty of times with the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They know exactly what he does. But here he is
on a team now that offensive lea can really fill
it up, right, great offensive team, and he was the
difference maker. You knew Halliburton was gonna do Halliburton things.
You had a little bit more offense match for Miles
Turner in the first half, but Siakam was the big guy,
the boy we need an answer for him. But now
going through this, I think they understand a little bit
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more about how better to defend the Pacers because honestly,
the Celtics defense is way better than they showed tonight. Right, Like,
the Pacers still shot not quite the sixty seven percent
shot against. They shot pretty well. Halliburton had a big game,
but when Drew Holliday was guarding him, he didn't make
a shot.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He was wat him a five yep.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So I have to think that coming off of this game,
and look, the Celtics are the better team. You're gonna
see Drew Holliday on Halliburton and they're gonna have a
better plan for how to attack Pascal Siaka. Maybe it's
gonna throw different guys at him, because the Celtics like
to do that a lot, to like to trade off
defensive leagu because they have a lot of guys that
can have similar skill sets, which is which is a
great thing that you're able to do. But I have
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to think the coming off of this game, the Celtics
learned a lot and the Pacers are still not as
good as they are, and I expect the Celtics to
win Game two pretty big, and suddenly it's hey, man,
I know we saw this Pacers do this against the Knicks,
but this is a completely different animal and they're going
back game three trying to save their season.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I just wonder how much with the Celtics for the
last two years, we've just had a ton of instances
at home where they sleep walked through a game, and
in this case, there were times where they slept walk through.
This game still generated twenty two turnovers, many of them unforced,
a couple just my numbingly bad by the Pacers down
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the stretch, some coaching decisions that Rick Carlisle took credit
or blame for, however you want to ascribe your verbiage there.
But this was a game that they did everything they
could to lose it and walked away with a win.
Tatum was great in the overtime period. He made a
couple of terrible plays, as we've talked about over the
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course of the night. You can get the entire podcast,
including the immediate reaction and the visceral reaction from Jason
as you watch watches the Pacers lose I'm not saying
he was gleeful, but maybe there was a little bit
of happiness.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I'll be real because going into the series, I didn't
know who I would be pulling for anyway, because normally
when my teams are out, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Man, now you're not invested. You just put a fan
in a student of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It took me just because I didn't say I don't
want to put in any preconceived idea of how I'm
gonna feel about this series. I want to let this unfold.
But like five minutes into the game and the Celtics
were up twelve nothing, I was like, good, I'm like,
oh my god, I'm rooting for this.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's what you did.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I'm rooting for the Celtic because I'm still mad about
the I'm still mad about the Pacers moving on and
still see that Nemhart three.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh my goodness. Look I made it three of them,
so I realize very quill. Okay, No, I'm rooting for
the Celtics. You know you've already spoken it into the
afterlife your hell, and we'll beat them hard, hitting that
check for all of eternity. I gonna watch.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's gonna happen again. It's gonna happen. But I'm excited
about Porzingis coming back, and come on, man, this is
where I'm excited coming back as a Knicks fan, and
I don't want to see Porzingis do anything good. I
got a root for Pormcite when's Porzinga's coming back?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
This is where I'm at. Man, looks like he's coming
back in here. But certainly I get some good minutes
from Toppen and McConnell off the bench. Uh, they contributed
what thirty, well, twenty eight points between the two of them,
So you got good balance and that's you expect. Pacers
one of the highest scoring squads in the game. But
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for for the Celtics, what did we see all season long?
In the Eastern Conference they ran away and hid double
digit but at home, we we watched them giveaway games
in the playoffs. We've watched them do that during the
regular season, some again head scratching efforts in games that
should have been sleepwalk to a victory. Well they slept
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walk the losses and in this one it looked like
they were going to. Instead, they took advantage of the
opportunities afforded by the brain freezes of the Indiana Pacers
twenty two turnovers. Again no matter how well you shoot.
And I know there's going to be some discussion as
we move on here about the discrepancy and free throw shooting,
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because they had ten, three of which came on the
attempt from behind to close out of Haliburton three and
you got all of Haliburton and no ball, So three
free throws there, But after three quarters they'd shot two
free throws two. Look, so that's a little bit of
a curiosity here. You will see whether there's some balance there.
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But no, but I hear.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But here's the thing is, just like I would say,
and I have said, so you know, I'm consistent with
the Knicks when I said, look, when there's a game
and it happened a couple of times, obviously the Knicks
where the beneficiaries are of a couple of calls against
the Sixers and in one of the games against the Pacers.
But when it comes down to it, when it happened
to the Knicks, hey boy, that call that really hurt them,
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That really hurt them. What did I say, Hey, when
I can look at mistakes that my team made, that's
what I think. I don't think about a call that's
not made. I think about how did we make that mistake?
How do we miss that free throw? How do we
dribble the ball? How do we step out of bound?
One hundred percent that's what I think of. So when
I look at the play.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The close out or lack thereof by Siakam Haliburton, dribbling
out about all of that, I agree with you them
tonight and I And it comes down to this.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I can say, you can say whatever you want
about the fouls and the free throws, but you had
a three point lead with ten seconds left, and you
had the basketball and you lost the game.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It comes down to that, Oh yeah, I was just
three point leads. Everything you did wrong, you still had
a three point right and you lost.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So don't don't sit here and say, oh, well it
wasn't fish because the Pacers are whining for every single call.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They didn't today.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Come on, what about the one call when you could
when you could see who was it was a turnio?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He pushed me on the replay. There there was no point.
I mean, they want to get every single call, and
they put their arms they go are you kidding with that?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Call.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's like now it's like an art form with the pacers.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But no matter what it comes down to, the Okay,
take all that away, because all your classic Nicks did
it instead of the guys on the court. You're up
three ten seconds to job and you have the basketball
and you lost.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's on you. Well, you didn't call time out, he
didn't step in the lane for a pass and deflect
it to somebody. That didn't happen. But yeah, I mean
on two horrible decisions on the same play. One not
to call the time out and set up a play,
set up a proper inbound to where it's either a
hand off just along the sideline or you push it
to the front court to where they at least have
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to bring it back to ninety four feet right as
opposed to here's Siakam coming back to your own batsket
and then it's off him. Yeah, you know. So so
that that sequence to me was kind of oh that
was it. That was made Alibert and.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Dribbling the ball out of bounds is just what the
hell was that? But when you talk about things you
could have stopped, you could have fouled on the floor,
which we talked about that a lot tonight with.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All time out.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and you could have called time out to advance
the ball, and it happened sometimes, and it's and even
the best coaches get caught up and watching the game
and they get caught up in and I see it.
And it's hard for me to explain this, but when
a game, when you're in control of the game and
there's not a lot of time left, sometimes you feel like, okay,
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let's just hit the fast forward button. Let's just execute.
Let's just let's focus on this play right here. All
we got to do is this and we win. And
you don't think, Okay, I got to help my team
here for a second. Well, we can't do it. Let's
call time out, let's advance the ball up the floor,
and let's hit free throws and let's win. You think, no,
we just have to inbound the ball here. We're gonna
get foul, we're gonna go to the free throw line.
(11:52):
And you lose that. And I know that's what Rick
Carlisle's man about, is that he got caught watching and
he didn't get and you just thought, we're gonna inbound it,
We're gonna get it. They're gonna foul us, we're gonna
shoot free throws instead of, hey, here's a problem, call
time out, advance the ball at the floor. He got
caught watching the game and not coaching.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
This reminds me a lot of your series against Philadelphia. Right,
we were watching towards the end of the game. Physical
game all the way through. But what happens when you're
up a couple of buckets, Right, you're up five points
down the stretch, you're assuming it's a follow, Right, they're
gonna follow us on the inbound? Yeah, guess what physicality
of an NBA playoff game referee might just keep the.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Whistle in his pocket on that. It's been that happened
a couple of times on inbounds, and especially when you're
a team when your team is not a physical team.
The Pacers are not a physical team. The Celtics are
a physical team, and so in the play if you
know how to play physical, that's gonna give you an advantage.
It gave the Nicks an advantage, so they just ran
out of players. But that's gonna give the Celtics an
advantage because they could play a little bit more physically
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than the Pacers can. This is it I'm telling you, man,
I feel better about the Celtics after get my Celtics.
Now where my Knicks Porzinga shirts.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Let's go back Game four?
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quick before we get to that big NFL story. Uh,
today you're talking about jurisprudence. The ACC has now joined
the Big Twelve Conference as the second name party in
the House versus n c A to vote to settle
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cases that relate anti trust cases. These are all things
that are going to now push the era of college
football into the post nil transfer area.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I feel like we just.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Started, but now we're going to be in the post
nil transfer era. Look, they're going to chart a new
course for college sports. This is going to establish a
framework for schools to share money and athletes. It's just basically,
it's a lawsuit that you're seeing. The ACC and the
Big Twelve joined together to try to figure out this
level and balance the playing field of nil and transfers
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and everything else going on.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh meanwhile, you've got a player charging Florida with fraud. Yeah,
we got that going on too. So you know, hey,
you owe me money?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now is this what I want to talk about? No,
but this is seeing this. I'll give you a big,
bold prediction for college football. We have seen the Big
Ten and the SEC jump ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of sixty million dollars per school, right, fifty million dollars school.
The better teams are, the better teams are there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Eventually, you know, they could wind up saying, hey, we
should be playing in a higher level of college football
than all the other D one schools.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, they'll just do.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah within the next couple of years, maybe even sooner,
the ACC and the Big Twelve will merge the Big
Twelve has lost all their high profile schools. They're looking
at being irrelevant. The ACC is afraid of losing their
high profile schools clems in Florida State Land, which already
getting Hansy about, Hey, we should leave the ACC. They're
going to merge and I don't know what the conference
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will be called. It'll be the Big ACC whatever it is.
But you're gonna see a big super conference there with
the ACC and the Big Twelve, and then that that's
where the level of college football is gonna sit for
a while. With the three big conferences. You have twenty
teams in the Big Ten. You're gonna have twenty teams
in the SEC. You'll have more than that in the
in the in the whatever, the AEC and the twelve verch.
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But you're gonna see them merging.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Football sometime the next couple Well, what's been interesting to
watch though, is it all comes back to rights and
rights management of it all. Right, just as we're looking
at the NBA and where they end up, is NBC
getting back in the mix. Evidently they're talking to John
Tash about round Ball Rock, which was sold or at
least licensed to Fox for college buckets. This year. But
(18:24):
go on down the line. It's all about the television deals. Right.
We're looking at the WNBA and looking how they're going
through the women's soccer league and the attendance and how
that is being parsed out on television and drawing more eyeballs. Likewise,
college football. You know a lot of the Florida state
rumblings that you and I covered a couple times this
(18:45):
year was about wait, the rights are up until twenty
thirty five, what does that mean in terms of trying
to get out? What's the buyout? How do we get
a real cash value? Right now? Clems and the same idea.
So yeah, that's where we follow the money. The old Watergate,
all the President's men. For those who haven't seen it,
(19:05):
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And even though we like to watch the sequel of
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kind of things. But yeah, it's it's that next phase
in these super leagues are certainly coming.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
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All right, now, let's get to the quarterback news of
the day, because for the first time Justin Fields has
spoken publicly since his trade of the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You went down that highway. Yeah, I really thought you
were going to.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Go to that other day.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Just when you just when you start changing the answers,
I start changing the question.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Just when you think you know the answers, I change
the questions. There you go, a little hot rod for
you Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So Justin Field speaks, and now backing up Russell Wilson,
who's in pole position for the starting quarterback job with Pittsburgh.
And we've heard reports and all the job is Wilson's
and we already saw the Steelers decline the option of
Justin Fields. Justin Field says today for next year, sure,
Justin Field says today, No.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
No, this is where I've wanted to be. This is
where I've always wanted to be. I'm taking a day
by day.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I'm definitely, you know, competing, I think you know, Bruss
knows that. And we're competing against each other every day.
Him being out there for me that you know has
to be getting better. I was pushing each other. So
I mean, I definitely don't have the mindset of, you know,
me just you know, sitting all year. So you know,
I'm coming in every day giving it all I got
and you know, pushing them to be his best and he's,
you know, pushing me to be my best each and
every day.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Okay, so I have the mindset I'm going to play
at some point I'm pushing Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's pushing me.
It's a great relationship. And yeah, of course everything's great
right now because it's May Well. He also spoke a little.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Bit more to give some clarity on you know what
the Bears had said. You know, we were going to
do right by Justin Fields. So some of that was
was the secondary part of this. So well, this is
where he wanted to go, This is where he wanted
to be, and we did right by him. Now here's
my thing. Here's my thing.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I've told you from the beginning, Justin Fields is going
to start. By week five, he's going to start. They
didn't trade for him to have him just sit and
be some kind of insurance policy and then they're gonna let.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Him go after this year.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
They are bending over backwards right now because they want
Russell Wilson to be in a positive frame of mind.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I'm sure they're hoping Russell Wilson recaptures his form and
they have him on their hand right, but they are
bending over their back, bending over backwards right now. So
Russell Wilson knows it's my job. Right now, they decline
the option on Justin Fields, which may be something they're
going to regret it because it's not a lot of money,
but you don't know about it. And if you pick
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up the option, that tells Russell Wilson, I have no
future here, right. So this is what they're doing. They're
hedging that Pittsburgh wants to hedge their bets, right, this
is what they want hedge their bets. But I know
something that's gonna make this a situation where Justin Field
is going to be starting by week five. And you
can sit here and tell me till you blue in
the face. Yes we like Russ and Justin's our back up,
(22:11):
and they'll push your no, no, no. I know something that
is going to make Justin Field start by week five.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
It's only one thing. I know one thing. One thing.
I know one thing now, oh is this to our
prior conversation. It's about one thing. I will tell you
that no we go in city slickers again. I'll tell
you this one thing. One show.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Now, you know, normally I make it very simple and
I go brass tacks. It's because Russell Wilson stinks. But
it's actually more complicated than that.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It is you've got this is not okay, Now you
gotta follow me here, all right, get out a pen
in the piece of paper I do, I've got one
right here. This is no step one. Yeah, here's our
deal underpants, step two, question mark, step three, profit okay,
always buy him out.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Uh, this is it's a little more complicated. Just Russell
Wilson stinks, which is my normal, right normal, That is true. Yeah,
it's a little more complex than that. So you gotta follow,
and I hope you can follow. If you're driving, just listen,
try to follow and get complicated, but stay with yes,
but stay stay with it, stay with it. This is
how I know that you're gonna get Justin Fields. I
gave you some of the arguments before that. You know
(23:22):
they didn't get him for no reason, all this stuff.
But here's the thing, because it's not like Russell Wilson
was absolutely terrible last year, right he was? He wasn't great,
but he wasn't absolutely fall off the face of the earthbed.
Now Rocco still wanted to move them on. Okay, so
here's the reason why. Now, this is why it gets
more complicated. The reason why I know Justin Fields going
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to start by week five is because most likely Russell
Wilson will stink.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
That's how I know emotion likely. Most likely he will stink,
so he would be in the yearbook as boy most
likely to because stink. There's no way he's gonna lose
his job in the summer because the quarterbacks don't play
in the games. Maybe Justin Fields will play a little
bit in the preseason, but I can't really see it.
(24:11):
I mean, well, they want to get him reps and
see how he looks, but guys don't usually play in
the preseason. You're talking about practice. Russell Wilson will look fine.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
If you lose your job in practice when you're not
playing games, I'm talking about practice, not a game, not
a game, not a game. But he use your job
in practice, you should leave the league. So Russell Wilson's
gonna keep this job throughout the summer. But he's also
another year older. He got kicked out of Denver because
they would rather pay all that money in him to
go away than to have him be the quarterback he
signed for one point two million dollars. Is he really
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going to light the world on fire at the beginning
of the year with the Steelers or is it gonna
be an even lesser version of Russell Wilson than we
saw in last year?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I say most likely gonna stink because it wasn't like
he completely fell off the face of the earth and
he's just a reclamation project. No, he was still okay
at times, so I got to leave a little bit
of that open. But most likely he's gonna stink. And
if he stinks in the first month, gets who's the
quarterback for Week five? It's justin fields because I know
the kid is talented, I know the skill set he
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can bring, and I told you if he winds up
starting for that team the majority of the season, I
can see the Steelers in the AFC title game because
that his skill set works with what they're trying to
do in Pittsburgh. They have two running backs who are
terrific that he's gonna open up the field for right,
He's got receivers he can go to that are really
good broken plays. George Pickens is phenomenal broken plays like,
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that's what you want to do with the guy. Friarmuth
as well. He's you know, tight ends are always guys
that can find the seams. And that's what Justin Fields
will do, will keep the plays alive with his feet.
He's on the best team he's ever been on. Their
defense is really good. But Russell Wilson has not been great,
and he's and he's on the decline, and he's old,
so most likely he is gonna stink. And that's why
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Justin Fields takes over like that. Steelers get it out
before you for you saying do you understand? And I
saw you jotting stuff down docos down?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Do you understand? Steel underpants? Was question? It was a
little it was a little bit more complex. Wilson sticks
more more likely than not, will stink, Yes, all right?
At Falcons at Broncos versus the Chargers at Colts week five,
October sixth, home night on NBC against the Cowboys. Now
(26:24):
the Steelers and the Bears, the former Justin Fields squad
have the same thing in common. They don't play any
division games until the final third of the season. So uh,
chaos there. Uh. And certainly Ryan Pace could have done
much more for justin Fields uh than he did. It's
too bad. I guess Poles didn't have the job an
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extra year earlier. Maybe maybe you'd have a different outcome.
Uh in the process there, And but seven wins a
year ago, and there's a lot to like about Fields games.
Still holds the ball too long, puts himself in harm's way.
Accuracy has some issues. We'll see if Arthur Smith can
fix that, right, A guy that has certainly gotten his
(27:06):
share of press clippings through the years for his aptitude
as a coordinator. You got a run game, as you said,
two backs that you could potentially work and get that
balance with a good defense if you get a full
season of health out of TJ. Watt. You know how
important he is wins losses and how their games flow.
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But yeah, I have no confidence in Russell Wilson. I
didn't two years ago. I'm sure as hell did last year.
We called it before the season as soon as Sean
Payton started talking as like, ooh, he's already set it up.
When this goes bad. Common denominator is Russell Wilson. Right,
remember when Hackett when he was talking about how amateurish
(27:47):
everything was there, It was set up as all right,
I'll prop Russ up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I e.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
When this goes bad, it's all his fault because clearly
I'm super genius. It's not on me. He's a bit older,
not as mobile, not as accurate. All of those things
come to play. So yeah, he gets first crack at it.
Fields eventually takes the job, or at least they've got
enough to play with where you get a little bit
of a hybrid quarterback physician, which I think is the uh,
(28:17):
the worst of all evils. But let's face it, it'll be
fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean, look, justin Fields doesn't as much as you
might like Pittsburgh, as much as you might like going there.
He knows that if Russell Wilson's really going to be
the guy, I don't want to go there. I'm not
going there as much as you may like Mike Tomas,
I'm not going there if he's really gonna be the guy.
But I still wanted to go. That's still where I
(28:43):
was okay with going. I mean, what was the story
tell he found out when he was in Italy on vacation.
They said, we can get you the Steelers, and he said, yes,
that's where we're a I mean, but he knows that
I'm going to beat out Russell Wilson at some point.
He knows that I want to be in Pittsburgh. That's
where I want to play. I know I'm gonna beat
this guy. I know I'm going to get a chance
to play, and so I want to go there. There's
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no way he puts his career at risk by going
someplace that he's not going to play, because you can
easily have just said, hey, look, I know you're trying
to make it work for me, you know, because he
said shout out polls right, shout out.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
But he would have said, hey, you know what, that's
no longer going to work for me.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Here's where I want to go because he knows I
got to go someplace I got to play at some point.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I can't be forgotten.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I want to go where I can play as soon
as possible and I can be in a good situation.
And the fact that he still wanted to go there
and that was still where his destination was. Because you
get a sixth seventh round pick from anybody for justin Fields.
That tells me he knows that he's going to play.
Everybody knows Pittsburgh just Hey, we got Wilson first, we
didn't know now and now it's kind of like a
mini Falcon situation, but it's a little bit more defined. Hey,
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Russell's the guy. But clearly you know, Russ, if you
don't play well, it's going to be justin Fields. And
what they're not saying out loud is we know that
most likely Russell Wilson will stink. So we have a
well but.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You also have the best just like you know, if
you really wanted to go down that road with Atlanta,
is if Russell Wilson does play well and you get
out of the gate pretty well, that's what great problem.
Guys are gonna get hurt, right, yep, that guys are
gonna get hurt along the way.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But the great problem to have he is great that
the Steelers will say, I'll take that great problem to have.
And in the end, if Wilson's terrific, right, and it's awesome,
and then by the time next year comes up, not
as many great quarterbacks people want. People be looking for
a quarterback. Hey, we'll trade you justin fields in season.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
As the the goes on, the opportunity goes there, so
you're you're operating with a a squad and an organization.
Is one of the few that we haul hold up
as examples of stability that you know, you go there
and you at least try to get some steady footing
after what were a few uneven years in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
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Speaker 3 (30:55):
Uh, just really quick.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right because as we say, we get a new w
NBA star every night, right, the great Caitlyn Clark effect.
We're talking about different players. We're playing well tonight, great
ending for the Sparks and the Mystics where it's a
seventy sixty eight Sparks lead with a few seconds left
to go and Shakira Austin has the ball in the
(31:18):
paint for the Mystics and Cameron Brink blocks her twice
on game tying shots, the ball goes out of bounds,
the clock hit zero, and the Sparks wind up winning
it for you know, we talk about Angel Reese who
bought a soccer team today and all these new play
that all these players now are starting to become household names.
Don't forget Cameron Brink throughout the first ball last night
(31:39):
at the Dodger game. Big two blocks in the final seconds,
didn't get called for a foul down low the Sparks
win their game. I'll tell you it's awesome that these
WNBA players now, because of Caitlin Clark's entry, we're now
learning who they all are, and they're all really good
and they're giving us nightly highlights and this is just
part of the sports landscape now.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
He had recent Cardoso in Chicago from the sky throwing
out the first pitch at Wrigley Field, hanging out with
their new Japanese pitching sensation last night, Brinking Jackson there
alongside show Heyo Tani and everybody wants to transcript because
show Hey was there chatting them up. I'm wondering, Hey,
what the hell's going on? He won't talk to the media,
(32:20):
but he's hanging out talking to them. What am I
messing here? But yeah, she was averaging three point five
blocks a game coming in tonight, not lighting it up
from a scoring perspective whatever, but defensively holding her own
and then.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Something and speaking of this, say, hey, the Sparks one.
That's great Friday night they play the Knicks. Right, No,
I'll take the Sparks favorite by four. Caitlin Clark and
the Fever come to La.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Let's go. I really should go. Next it up. We
have a show to do. We have a show to do.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We can't do it from the third level there, you jerk.
We got a show to do. Make it talk about
we can do it live. We got a show to do.
When you retire, go to any games you want to
during the week. But here you got You made it.
You made a decision, you made it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I'm in this spot for life. This is that what
you just said. Exit. I'm bouta fresca exit swollen down.
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
After tonight, and especially after the Celtics win tonight, I
know who the Lakers next head coach is gonna be.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Wait what Trust me, it makes sense. It's next Fox Jmore.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
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 1 (33:38):
The Jason Smith Show with My Best Friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire rack dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
And it's weird.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
But after tonight's game, after the Celtics win over the Pacers, Yeah,
do you like her?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Hey, Rick Carlisle Moore, I have no doubt the same.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I have no doubt that JJ Reddick is going to
be the next head coach of the Lakers. That's it, now,
Here's here's the thing, Doc Rivers, here's you really want
to fight?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Is gonna kick your ass? Man? You want to fight
me one on one, Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Look after the game tonight, we talked about Pascal Siakam
and the bad decision to not foul with a three
point lead when the Celtics have the ball with ten
seconds left to go. You can't let Jalen Brown shoot a.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Three at that point.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Because the players nowadays are too good, The stars are
too good. They make threes from bad positions. It's not
like you're giving the ball to just some guy there.
Everybody makes threes, and the best players make threes with
guys draped on them, from bad angles, from bad positions.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
They're too good now. They make threes. You have to foul.
You have to fowl on the on the down dribble,
like Lebron, James talks about, you have to found the
down dribble, but.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
The players are too good. You can't. You can't let
that happen.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Lebron talked about that on a podcast with JJ Reddick
that started to gain more attention virally after this game tonight,
because he recorded with JJ Redick a few days ago,
and obviously the discussion of hey, do you foul when
you're up three and the other team has the ball
in the final seconds, because that's become a very common
situation these playoffs. Seeing the ease with which Lebron talks
(35:24):
with JJ Reddick on his podcast, he's the only name
you've really heard in connection for the Lakers. Yeah, for
a long while, it's gonna be JJ Reddick, all right.
And now the possibly two things are happening. Maybe the
Lakers are waiting and say, hey, maybe someone we're not
even thinking of is going to free him themselves up,
and hey, that's our big choice because hiring JJ Reddick
(35:45):
is a risk, But hiring Kenny Atkinson is a risk.
Hiring Sam Cassell is a risk. Like there's nobody out
there outside of a outside of reuniting with Frank Vogel,
I know would make them better defensively so much, well,
they should put their put there, whatever difference they have
to the side, because we know it worked. They want
to title before. I know they'd be better defensively. Outside
of that, there's nobody out there that's not a risk.
(36:07):
So the fact that you keep hearing Reddick's name and
reports how the Lakers are enamored with JJ Reddick, Lebron
gets along with JJ Reddick, you would get the Lebron's
seal of approval. It doesn't mean that suddenly Lebron's gonna
listen to JJ Redick. He's going to do his thing.
Oh yeah, Reddick on my podcast. That's great. Him and
ad are always going to do their thing. So it
doesn't matter. But do you talk about the hiring. The
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Lakers want a little bit of sizzle. They want something
that's going to bring a new type of energy to
the team, because at least if you're not going to
get a great teacher, you might get a different combination
of energy and the players out there will play it.
It'll be a different combination of how they interact with
each other on the court. Maybe JJ Reddick will bring
a little bit different energy to the team. For right
(36:52):
that it's all you're hoping for. All that was truth.
There's only one reason why they want him as a coach,
because he reminds them.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Of turned back to Claude, especially as played by Adrian Accurate.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Hey, Lakers owner Jay Moore is really gonna enjoy when
he hires JJ Reddick.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
That's he gonna does. Look, I jokingly said to bring
pat Riley back. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. God,
it's gonna fly to a bunch of differences. He just
need he doesn't need to not gonna coach. I'm gonna
coach use the goat pro why not?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Look, but Reddick is he He fits that bill of
splashy of maybe a different kind of energy. And really
they know that Lebron and they are gonna do their
own thing, right. They know they're not gonna listen. Lebron's
not gonna say, hey, listen to coach.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They know that.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
But for everything else, all right, why not we need
some kind of bit of change. There's nobody else out
there they've talked to, so they're waiting just in case
somebody becomes available. And I think ESPN would like to
have JJ Reddick work through the NBA finals. I'm just saying.
I mean, I think they would like to have work
through the NBA. That's why it's day nineteen or twenty
or whatever. It is not something that's gonna happen now.
(38:02):
Within the next ten days, two weeks in Fine, you're
gonna find.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Out the Lakers are gonna hire JJ. Yah. So you
got Reddick as a minus one forty favorite, Barrego at
plus four to twenty five, and then Kassel at plus
five hundred. They're the leaders. Boutenolzer was briefly before taking
the Sun's job that he was going to go to
the moon for whatever the quote was, and certainly all
all of those splashy things right coming out of the
(38:27):
broadcast arena and everything else to be former player, great respect.
I mean, you've seen how many guys line up. I
don't know how many of them have ties to clutch
sports or not. Oh the thing you got to be
clutch sports. No, but but just keep going on down
the line, right is you know the insiders, Hey, Lebron's
not doing anything with the coaching search. But if he
(38:48):
would have, he would have done this, or if he
was the GM, he would have made this move or
he would have done that. Like you've just heard that
time and time again from Shams and Shams and from
what's his name, win Her Windhorse, same thing that you've had,
the same kind of thing. He's like, well, he's out
of it, is he really? Does anybody buy that? No,
(39:08):
he's the invisible hand, right, He's like, you know Adam
Smith Economics, Adam Smith's Money World. You see what I
did there?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah? Maybe history come on now always on Saturday morning
on Adam Smith's Money World. Wow, it's on like every
every hour on PBS. Okay, then they want you to
learn something. It's true, you to learn about money.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I look, if I thought there were somebody else there,
but there's nobody unless somebody that were not that we
haven't talked about at all.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Greg Popovich says, hey, I want to come coach there.
You saw what happened. Jason Kidd was rumored for about
a hot minute. What happened? Contract extension? Yeah, tyl Lou,
he's got one year left. Clippers aren't letting him walk
across the street unless it's gonna be reddick. Just seeing
Lebron and Reddick talk, Yeah, that's the way the world is.
And Mike Krzyzewski got a half a million dollars just
say hire this man.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
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twenty minutes. Someone has spoken for the first times. It's
a big trade. Is he really happy in his new surroundings?
(00:58):
But obviously the number one story of the night, the
Celtics in overtime take care of the Pacers one thirty
three to one twenty eight. Numerous mistakes by the Pacers
at the end of the fourth quarter in overtime contribute
to this loss. And look, this is a game where
for either team to lose, you would say it's devastating
because the Celtics got up twelve nothing and still the
(01:21):
Pacers wound up time in the game. At halftime, they're
up by twelve, and the third quarter Pacers tied it.
Going to the fourth quarter, the Pacers took the lead.
They were up by three and had the ball with
ten seconds left to go, and they lost because they
turned the ball over on the inbounds and they allowed
Jalen Brown to shoot a three that sent the game
to overtime. When they were down by a point and overtime,
Tyre's Halliburton dribbled the ball out of bounds right, not
(01:42):
under durest On, under pressure.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Just dribbled the ball out of bounds, a huge turnover.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Jason Tatum hits a three to put the Celtics up four,
and that was really the end of the game. So
really it's crazy for both sides. Boy what a heartbreaker
it is. But if I'm breaking this down, honestly, the
first thing I'm gonna say this, I actually feel better
about the Celtics after this even though it's a game
the Pacers gave away. This was the first time the
(02:08):
Celtics faced the Pacers. This invention of the team with
Pascal Siakam who had an outside of the turnover late
and and not guarding Jalen Brown.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Uh, he had outside. It was great.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Wow, Why I have to bring up somebody who's dead?
I mean, I know it's imus ask about a play
three hundred and fifty years, but I mean, come in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
What play? What other player are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
You kid? I didn't says play then right now? Tell
me what pla going back to from yesterday? It what happened?
Lame a rob What happened? What people died? What happened?
Did they really? And I never saw them? It was?
Was it a horror play? No, it's just like people
get killed like it was Jason. It's not the demon
(02:50):
Barber of Fleet Street? Was it was it? There is
a warground Jason val Jason? Was he the main character? Well,
I mean of bread, he's getting chased by the I
mean it's basically no, that's how Aladdin starts. This is
same Dave Russell Crow getting after it. One jump out
of the red line. Once we got a Laddin end
of the show yesterday, I say it all ties back together.
(03:10):
These guys don't appreciate unboard. Yeah, Rick Carlisle fails, didn't
call the time out. Riff raff street rat. I don't
buy that. Just a little snack. Guys break him open,
take it back.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Guys got gotta steal to live otherwise we get along.
Oh okay, So I'm feeling better about them, because, yes,
Siakam was terrific, right. He was the big difference maker.
He was a guy making those the teardrops from the
free throw line that would be big buckets when the
Pacers needed them. He filled the stat sheet. He was
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a big problem.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
And the fact that the Celtics, you know, they had
to go through this and say okay, because you can
take a look and be familiar with the guy's game
because they played him plenty of times with the Raptors.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They know exactly what he does. But here he is
on a team now that offensive lea can really fill
it up, right, great offensive team, and he was the
difference maker. You knew Halliburton was gonna do Halliburton things.
You had a little bit more offense match for Miles
Turner in the first half, but Siakam was the big guy,
the boy we need an answer for him. But now
going through this, I think they understand a little bit
(04:22):
more about how better to defend the Pacers because honestly,
the Celtics defense is way better than they showed tonight. Right, Like,
the Pacers still shot not quite the sixty seven percent
shot against. They shot pretty well. Halliburton had a big game,
but when Drew Holliday was guarding him, he didn't make
a shot.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He was wat him a five yep.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So I have to think that coming off of this game,
and look, the Celtics are the better team. You're gonna
see Drew Holliday on Halliburton and they're gonna have a
better plan for how to attack Pascal Siaka. Maybe it's
gonna throw different guys at him, because the Celtics like
to do that a lot, to like to trade off
defensive leagu because they have a lot of guys that
can have similar skill sets, which is which is a
great thing that you're able to do. But I have
(05:02):
to think the coming off of this game, the Celtics
learned a lot and the Pacers are still not as
good as they are, and I expect the Celtics to
win Game two pretty big, and suddenly it's hey, man,
I know we saw this Pacers do this against the Knicks,
but this is a completely different animal and they're going
back game three trying to save their season.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I just wonder how much with the Celtics for the
last two years, we've just had a ton of instances
at home where they sleep walked through a game, and
in this case, there were times where they slept walk through.
This game still generated twenty two turnovers, many of them unforced,
a couple just my numbingly bad by the Pacers down
(05:41):
the stretch, some coaching decisions that Rick Carlisle took credit
or blame for, however you want to ascribe your verbiage there.
But this was a game that they did everything they
could to lose it and walked away with a win.
Tatum was great in the overtime period. He made a
couple of terrible plays, as we've talked about over the
(06:02):
course of the night. You can get the entire podcast,
including the immediate reaction and the visceral reaction from Jason
as you watch watches the Pacers lose I'm not saying
he was gleeful, but maybe there was a little bit
of happiness.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I'll be real because going into the series, I didn't
know who I would be pulling for anyway, because normally
when my teams are out, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Man, now you're not invested. You just put a fan
in a student of the game.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
It took me just because I didn't say I don't
want to put in any preconceived idea of how I'm
gonna feel about this series. I want to let this unfold.
But like five minutes into the game and the Celtics
were up twelve nothing, I was like, good, I'm like,
oh my god, I'm rooting for this.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's what you did.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I'm rooting for the Celtic because I'm still mad about
the I'm still mad about the Pacers moving on and
still see that Nemhart three.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Oh my goodness. Look I made it three of them,
so I realize very quill. Okay, No, I'm rooting for
the Celtics. You know you've already spoken it into the
afterlife your hell, and we'll beat them hard, hitting that
check for all of eternity. I gonna watch.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's gonna happen again. It's gonna happen. But I'm excited
about Porzingis coming back, and come on, man, this is
where I'm excited coming back as a Knicks fan, and
I don't want to see Porzingis do anything good. I
got a root for Pormcite when's Porzinga's coming back?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
This is where I'm at. Man, looks like he's coming
back in here. But certainly I get some good minutes
from Toppen and McConnell off the bench. Uh, they contributed
what thirty, well, twenty eight points between the two of them,
So you got good balance and that's you expect. Pacers
one of the highest scoring squads in the game. But
(07:40):
for for the Celtics, what did we see all season long?
In the Eastern Conference they ran away and hid double
digit but at home, we we watched them giveaway games
in the playoffs. We've watched them do that during the
regular season, some again head scratching efforts in games that
should have been sleepwalk to a victory. Well they slept
(08:02):
walk the losses and in this one it looked like
they were going to. Instead, they took advantage of the
opportunities afforded by the brain freezes of the Indiana Pacers
twenty two turnovers. Again no matter how well you shoot.
And I know there's going to be some discussion as
we move on here about the discrepancy and free throw shooting,
(08:24):
because they had ten, three of which came on the
attempt from behind to close out of Haliburton three and
you got all of Haliburton and no ball, So three
free throws there, But after three quarters they'd shot two
free throws two. Look, so that's a little bit of
a curiosity here. You will see whether there's some balance there.
(08:45):
But no, but I hear.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But here's the thing is, just like I would say,
and I have said, so you know, I'm consistent with
the Knicks when I said, look, when there's a game
and it happened a couple of times, obviously the Knicks
where the beneficiaries are of a couple of calls against
the Sixers and in one of the games against the Pacers.
But when it comes down to it, when it happened
to the Knicks, hey boy, that call that really hurt them,
(09:06):
That really hurt them. What did I say, Hey, when
I can look at mistakes that my team made, that's
what I think. I don't think about a call that's
not made. I think about how did we make that mistake?
How do we miss that free throw? How do we
dribble the ball? How do we step out of bound?
One hundred percent that's what I think of. So when
I look at the play.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
The close out or lack thereof by Siakam Haliburton, dribbling
out about all of that, I agree with you them
tonight and I And it comes down to this.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And I can say, you can say whatever you want
about the fouls and the free throws, but you had
a three point lead with ten seconds left, and you
had the basketball and you lost the game.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It comes down to that, Oh yeah, I was just
three point leads. Everything you did wrong, you still had
a three point right and you lost.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
So don't don't sit here and say, oh, well it
wasn't fish because the Pacers are whining for every single call.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
They didn't today.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Come on, what about the one call when you could
when you could see who was it was a turnio?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
He pushed me on the replay. There there was no point.
I mean, they want to get every single call, and
they put their arms they go are you kidding with that?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Call.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's like now it's like an art form with the pacers.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
But no matter what it comes down to, the Okay,
take all that away, because all your classic Nicks did
it instead of the guys on the court. You're up
three ten seconds to job and you have the basketball
and you lost.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's on you. Well, you didn't call time out, he
didn't step in the lane for a pass and deflect
it to somebody. That didn't happen. But yeah, I mean
on two horrible decisions on the same play. One not
to call the time out and set up a play,
set up a proper inbound to where it's either a
hand off just along the sideline or you push it
to the front court to where they at least have
(10:46):
to bring it back to ninety four feet right as
opposed to here's Siakam coming back to your own batsket
and then it's off him. Yeah, you know. So so
that that sequence to me was kind of oh that
was it. That was made Alibert and.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Dribbling the ball out of bounds is just what the
hell was that? But when you talk about things you
could have stopped, you could have fouled on the floor,
which we talked about that a lot tonight with.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All time out.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, and you could have called time out to advance
the ball, and it happened sometimes, and it's and even
the best coaches get caught up and watching the game
and they get caught up in and I see it.
And it's hard for me to explain this, but when
a game, when you're in control of the game and
there's not a lot of time left, sometimes you feel like, okay,
(11:31):
let's just hit the fast forward button. Let's just execute.
Let's just let's focus on this play right here. All
we got to do is this and we win. And
you don't think, Okay, I got to help my team
here for a second. Well, we can't do it. Let's
call time out, let's advance the ball up the floor,
and let's hit free throws and let's win. You think, no,
we just have to inbound the ball here. We're gonna
get foul, we're gonna go to the free throw line.
(11:52):
And you lose that. And I know that's what Rick
Carlisle's man about, is that he got caught watching and
he didn't get and you just thought, we're gonna inbound it,
We're gonna get it. They're gonna foul us, we're gonna
shoot free throws instead of, hey, here's a problem, call
time out, advance the ball at the floor. He got
caught watching the game and not coaching.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
This reminds me a lot of your series against Philadelphia. Right,
we were watching towards the end of the game. Physical
game all the way through. But what happens when you're
up a couple of buckets, Right, you're up five points
down the stretch, you're assuming it's a follow, Right, they're
gonna follow us on the inbound? Yeah, guess what physicality
of an NBA playoff game referee might just keep the.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Whistle in his pocket on that. It's been that happened
a couple of times on inbounds, and especially when you're
a team when your team is not a physical team.
The Pacers are not a physical team. The Celtics are
a physical team, and so in the play if you
know how to play physical, that's gonna give you an advantage.
It gave the Nicks an advantage, so they just ran
out of players. But that's gonna give the Celtics an
advantage because they could play a little bit more physically
(12:49):
than the Pacers can. This is it I'm telling you, man,
I feel better about the Celtics after get my Celtics.
Now where my Knicks Porzinga shirts.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Let's go back Game four?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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The Jason Smith Show is my best friend. Mike Carmen
live from the Tirack dot Com studios. Now, just really
quick before we get to that big NFL story. Uh,
today you're talking about jurisprudence. The ACC has now joined
the Big Twelve Conference as the second name party in
the House versus n c A to vote to settle
(16:00):
cases that relate anti trust cases. These are all things
that are going to now push the era of college
football into the post nil transfer area.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I feel like we just.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Started, but now we're going to be in the post
nil transfer era. Look, they're going to chart a new
course for college sports. This is going to establish a
framework for schools to share money and athletes. It's just basically,
it's a lawsuit that you're seeing. The ACC and the
Big Twelve joined together to try to figure out this
level and balance the playing field of nil and transfers
(16:36):
and everything else going on.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh meanwhile, you've got a player charging Florida with fraud. Yeah,
we got that going on too. So you know, hey,
you owe me money?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now is this what I want to talk about? No,
but this is seeing this. I'll give you a big,
bold prediction for college football. We have seen the Big
Ten and the SEC jump ahead.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of sixty million dollars per school, right, fifty million dollars school.
The better teams are, the better teams are there.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Eventually, you know, they could wind up saying, hey, we
should be playing in a higher level of college football
than all the other D one schools.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, they'll just do.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah within the next couple of years, maybe even sooner,
the ACC and the Big Twelve will merge the Big
Twelve has lost all their high profile schools. They're looking
at being irrelevant. The ACC is afraid of losing their
high profile schools clems in Florida State Land, which already
getting Hansy about, Hey, we should leave the ACC. They're
going to merge and I don't know what the conference
(17:40):
will be called. It'll be the Big ACC whatever it is.
But you're gonna see a big super conference there with
the ACC and the Big Twelve, and then that that's
where the level of college football is gonna sit for
a while. With the three big conferences. You have twenty
teams in the Big Ten. You're gonna have twenty teams
in the SEC. You'll have more than that in the
in the in the whatever, the AEC and the twelve verch.
(18:00):
But you're gonna see them merging.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Football sometime the next couple Well, what's been interesting to
watch though, is it all comes back to rights and
rights management of it all. Right, just as we're looking
at the NBA and where they end up, is NBC
getting back in the mix. Evidently they're talking to John
Tash about round Ball Rock, which was sold or at
least licensed to Fox for college buckets. This year. But
(18:24):
go on down the line. It's all about the television deals. Right.
We're looking at the WNBA and looking how they're going
through the women's soccer league and the attendance and how
that is being parsed out on television and drawing more eyeballs. Likewise,
college football. You know a lot of the Florida state
rumblings that you and I covered a couple times this
(18:45):
year was about wait, the rights are up until twenty
thirty five, what does that mean in terms of trying
to get out? What's the buyout? How do we get
a real cash value? Right now? Clems and the same idea.
So yeah, that's where we follow the money. The old Watergate,
all the President's men. For those who haven't seen it,
(19:05):
go back in and go back in your film history.
And even though we like to watch the sequel of
Whatever's Next, go back and watch some of these historical
kind of things. But yeah, it's it's that next phase
in these super leagues are certainly coming.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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All right, now, let's get to the quarterback news of
the day, because for the first time Justin Fields has
spoken publicly since his trade of the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
You went down that highway. Yeah, I really thought you
were going to.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Go to that other day.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Just when you just when you start changing the answers,
I start changing the question.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Just when you think you know the answers, I change
the questions. There you go, a little hot rod for
you Tuesday night.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So Justin Field speaks, and now backing up Russell Wilson,
who's in pole position for the starting quarterback job with Pittsburgh.
And we've heard reports and all the job is Wilson's
and we already saw the Steelers decline the option of
Justin Fields. Justin Field says today for next year, sure,
Justin Field says today, No.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
No, this is where I've wanted to be. This is
where I've always wanted to be. I'm taking a day
by day.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I'm definitely, you know, competing, I think you know, Bruss
knows that. And we're competing against each other every day.
Him being out there for me that you know has
to be getting better. I was pushing each other. So
I mean, I definitely don't have the mindset of, you know,
me just you know, sitting all year. So you know,
I'm coming in every day giving it all I got
and you know, pushing them to be his best and he's,
you know, pushing me to be my best each and
every day.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Okay, so I have the mindset I'm going to play
at some point I'm pushing Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson's pushing me.
It's a great relationship. And yeah, of course everything's great
right now because it's May Well. He also spoke a little.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Bit more to give some clarity on you know what
the Bears had said. You know, we were going to
do right by Justin Fields. So some of that was
was the secondary part of this. So well, this is
where he wanted to go, This is where he wanted
to be, and we did right by him. Now here's
my thing. Here's my thing.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I've told you from the beginning, Justin Fields is going
to start. By week five, he's going to start. They
didn't trade for him to have him just sit and
be some kind of insurance policy and then they're gonna let.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Him go after this year.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
They are bending over backwards right now because they want
Russell Wilson to be in a positive frame of mind.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I'm sure they're hoping Russell Wilson recaptures his form and
they have him on their hand right, but they are
bending over their back, bending over backwards right now. So
Russell Wilson knows it's my job. Right now, they decline
the option on Justin Fields, which may be something they're
going to regret it because it's not a lot of money,
but you don't know about it. And if you pick
(21:50):
up the option, that tells Russell Wilson, I have no
future here, right. So this is what they're doing. They're
hedging that Pittsburgh wants to hedge their bets, right, this
is what they want hedge their bets. But I know
something that's gonna make this a situation where Justin Field
is going to be starting by week five. And you
can sit here and tell me till you blue in
the face. Yes we like Russ and Justin's our back up,
(22:11):
and they'll push your no, no, no. I know something that
is going to make Justin Field start by week five.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
It's only one thing. I know one thing. One thing.
I know one thing now, oh is this to our
prior conversation. It's about one thing. I will tell you
that no we go in city slickers again. I'll tell
you this one thing. One show.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Now, you know, normally I make it very simple and
I go brass tacks. It's because Russell Wilson stinks. But
it's actually more complicated than that.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It is you've got this is not okay, Now you
gotta follow me here, all right, get out a pen
in the piece of paper I do, I've got one
right here. This is no step one. Yeah, here's our
deal underpants, step two, question mark, step three, profit okay,
always buy him out.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Uh, this is it's a little more complicated. Just Russell
Wilson stinks, which is my normal, right normal, That is true. Yeah,
it's a little more complex than that. So you gotta follow,
and I hope you can follow. If you're driving, just listen,
try to follow and get complicated, but stay with yes,
but stay stay with it, stay with it. This is
how I know that you're gonna get Justin Fields. I
gave you some of the arguments before that. You know
(23:22):
they didn't get him for no reason, all this stuff.
But here's the thing, because it's not like Russell Wilson
was absolutely terrible last year, right he was? He wasn't great,
but he wasn't absolutely fall off the face of the earthbed.
Now Rocco still wanted to move them on. Okay, so
here's the reason why. Now, this is why it gets
more complicated. The reason why I know Justin Fields going
(23:43):
to start by week five is because most likely Russell
Wilson will stink.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
That's how I know emotion likely. Most likely he will stink,
so he would be in the yearbook as boy most
likely to because stink. There's no way he's gonna lose
his job in the summer because the quarterbacks don't play
in the games. Maybe Justin Fields will play a little
bit in the preseason, but I can't really see it.
(24:11):
I mean, well, they want to get him reps and
see how he looks, but guys don't usually play in
the preseason. You're talking about practice. Russell Wilson will look fine.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
If you lose your job in practice when you're not
playing games, I'm talking about practice, not a game, not
a game, not a game. But he use your job
in practice, you should leave the league. So Russell Wilson's
gonna keep this job throughout the summer. But he's also
another year older. He got kicked out of Denver because
they would rather pay all that money in him to
go away than to have him be the quarterback he
signed for one point two million dollars. Is he really
(24:41):
going to light the world on fire at the beginning
of the year with the Steelers or is it gonna
be an even lesser version of Russell Wilson than we
saw in last year?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
I say most likely gonna stink because it wasn't like
he completely fell off the face of the earth and
he's just a reclamation project. No, he was still okay
at times, so I got to leave a little bit
of that open. But most likely he's gonna stink. And
if he stinks in the first month, gets who's the
quarterback for Week five? It's justin fields because I know
the kid is talented, I know the skill set he
(25:11):
can bring, and I told you if he winds up
starting for that team the majority of the season, I
can see the Steelers in the AFC title game because
that his skill set works with what they're trying to
do in Pittsburgh. They have two running backs who are
terrific that he's gonna open up the field for right,
He's got receivers he can go to that are really
good broken plays. George Pickens is phenomenal broken plays like,
(25:32):
that's what you want to do with the guy. Friarmuth
as well. He's you know, tight ends are always guys
that can find the seams. And that's what Justin Fields
will do, will keep the plays alive with his feet.
He's on the best team he's ever been on. Their
defense is really good. But Russell Wilson has not been great,
and he's and he's on the decline, and he's old,
so most likely he is gonna stink. And that's why
(25:55):
Justin Fields takes over like that. Steelers get it out
before you for you saying do you understand? And I
saw you jotting stuff down docos down?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Do you understand? Steel underpants? Was question? It was a
little it was a little bit more complex. Wilson sticks
more more likely than not, will stink, Yes, all right?
At Falcons at Broncos versus the Chargers at Colts week five,
October sixth, home night on NBC against the Cowboys. Now
(26:24):
the Steelers and the Bears, the former Justin Fields squad
have the same thing in common. They don't play any
division games until the final third of the season. So uh,
chaos there. Uh. And certainly Ryan Pace could have done
much more for justin Fields uh than he did. It's
too bad. I guess Poles didn't have the job an
(26:44):
extra year earlier. Maybe maybe you'd have a different outcome.
Uh in the process there, And but seven wins a
year ago, and there's a lot to like about Fields games.
Still holds the ball too long, puts himself in harm's way.
Accuracy has some issues. We'll see if Arthur Smith can
fix that, right, A guy that has certainly gotten his
(27:06):
share of press clippings through the years for his aptitude
as a coordinator. You got a run game, as you said,
two backs that you could potentially work and get that
balance with a good defense if you get a full
season of health out of TJ. Watt. You know how
important he is wins losses and how their games flow.
(27:27):
But yeah, I have no confidence in Russell Wilson. I
didn't two years ago. I'm sure as hell did last year.
We called it before the season as soon as Sean
Payton started talking as like, ooh, he's already set it up.
When this goes bad. Common denominator is Russell Wilson. Right,
remember when Hackett when he was talking about how amateurish
(27:47):
everything was there, It was set up as all right,
I'll prop Russ up a little bit.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
I e.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
When this goes bad, it's all his fault because clearly
I'm super genius. It's not on me. He's a bit older,
not as mobile, not as accurate. All of those things
come to play. So yeah, he gets first crack at it.
Fields eventually takes the job, or at least they've got
enough to play with where you get a little bit
of a hybrid quarterback physician, which I think is the uh,
(28:17):
the worst of all evils. But let's face it, it'll be
fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I mean, look, justin Fields doesn't as much as you
might like Pittsburgh, as much as you might like going there.
He knows that if Russell Wilson's really going to be
the guy, I don't want to go there. I'm not
going there as much as you may like Mike Tomas,
I'm not going there if he's really gonna be the guy.
But I still wanted to go. That's still where I
(28:43):
was okay with going. I mean, what was the story
tell he found out when he was in Italy on vacation.
They said, we can get you the Steelers, and he said, yes,
that's where we're a I mean, but he knows that
I'm going to beat out Russell Wilson at some point.
He knows that I want to be in Pittsburgh. That's
where I want to play. I know I'm gonna beat
this guy. I know I'm going to get a chance
to play, and so I want to go there. There's
(29:03):
no way he puts his career at risk by going
someplace that he's not going to play, because you can
easily have just said, hey, look, I know you're trying
to make it work for me, you know, because he
said shout out polls right, shout out.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
But he would have said, hey, you know what, that's
no longer going to work for me.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Here's where I want to go because he knows I
got to go someplace I got to play at some point.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I can't be forgotten.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I want to go where I can play as soon
as possible and I can be in a good situation.
And the fact that he still wanted to go there
and that was still where his destination was. Because you
get a sixth seventh round pick from anybody for justin Fields.
That tells me he knows that he's going to play.
Everybody knows Pittsburgh just Hey, we got Wilson first, we
didn't know now and now it's kind of like a
mini Falcon situation, but it's a little bit more defined. Hey,
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Russell's the guy. But clearly you know, Russ, if you
don't play well, it's going to be justin Fields. And
what they're not saying out loud is we know that
most likely Russell Wilson will stink. So we have a
well but.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You also have the best just like you know, if
you really wanted to go down that road with Atlanta,
is if Russell Wilson does play well and you get
out of the gate pretty well, that's what great problem.
Guys are gonna get hurt, right, yep, that guys are
gonna get hurt along the way.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
But the great problem to have he is great that
the Steelers will say, I'll take that great problem to have.
And in the end, if Wilson's terrific, right, and it's awesome,
and then by the time next year comes up, not
as many great quarterbacks people want. People be looking for
a quarterback. Hey, we'll trade you justin fields in season.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
As the the goes on, the opportunity goes there, so
you're you're operating with a a squad and an organization.
Is one of the few that we haul hold up
as examples of stability that you know, you go there
and you at least try to get some steady footing
after what were a few uneven years in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
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Speaker 3 (30:55):
Uh, just really quick.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Right because as we say, we get a new w
NBA star every night, right, the great Caitlyn Clark effect.
We're talking about different players. We're playing well tonight, great
ending for the Sparks and the Mystics where it's a
seventy sixty eight Sparks lead with a few seconds left
to go and Shakira Austin has the ball in the
(31:18):
paint for the Mystics and Cameron Brink blocks her twice
on game tying shots, the ball goes out of bounds,
the clock hit zero, and the Sparks wind up winning
it for you know, we talk about Angel Reese who
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that all these players now are starting to become household names.
Don't forget Cameron Brink throughout the first ball last night
(31:39):
at the Dodger game. Big two blocks in the final seconds,
didn't get called for a foul down low the Sparks
win their game. I'll tell you it's awesome that these
WNBA players now, because of Caitlin Clark's entry, we're now
learning who they all are, and they're all really good
and they're giving us nightly highlights and this is just
part of the sports landscape now.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
He had recent Cardoso in Chicago from the sky throwing
out the first pitch at Wrigley Field, hanging out with
their new Japanese pitching sensation last night, Brinking Jackson there
alongside show Heyo Tani and everybody wants to transcript because
show Hey was there chatting them up. I'm wondering, Hey,
what the hell's going on? He won't talk to the media,
(32:20):
but he's hanging out talking to them. What am I
messing here? But yeah, she was averaging three point five
blocks a game coming in tonight, not lighting it up
from a scoring perspective whatever, but defensively holding her own
and then.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Something and speaking of this, say, hey, the Sparks one.
That's great Friday night they play the Knicks. Right, No,
I'll take the Sparks favorite by four. Caitlin Clark and
the Fever come to La.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Let's go. I really should go. Next it up. We
have a show to do. We have a show to do.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
We can't do it from the third level there, you jerk.
We got a show to do. Make it talk about
we can do it live. We got a show to do.
When you retire, go to any games you want to
during the week. But here you got You made it.
You made a decision, you made it.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I'm in this spot for life. This is that what
you just said. Exit. I'm bouta fresca exit swollen down.
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Speaker 1 (33:15):
After tonight, and especially after the Celtics win tonight, I
know who the Lakers next head coach is gonna be.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Wait what Trust me, it makes sense. It's next Fox Jmore.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
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Speaker 1 (33:38):
The Jason Smith Show with My Best Friend Mike Harmon
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Speaker 3 (33:46):
And it's weird.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
But after tonight's game, after the Celtics win over the Pacers, Yeah,
do you like her?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Hey, Rick Carlisle Moore, I have no doubt the same.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I have no doubt that JJ Reddick is going to
be the next head coach of the Lakers. That's it, now,
Here's here's the thing, Doc Rivers, here's you really want
to fight?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Is gonna kick your ass? Man? You want to fight
me one on one, Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Look after the game tonight, we talked about Pascal Siakam
and the bad decision to not foul with a three
point lead when the Celtics have the ball with ten
seconds left to go. You can't let Jalen Brown shoot a.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Three at that point.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Because the players nowadays are too good, The stars are
too good. They make threes from bad positions. It's not
like you're giving the ball to just some guy there.
Everybody makes threes, and the best players make threes with
guys draped on them, from bad angles, from bad positions.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
It happens.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
They're too good now. They make threes. You have to foul.
You have to fowl on the on the down dribble,
like Lebron, James talks about, you have to found the
down dribble, but.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
The players are too good. You can't. You can't let
that happen.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Lebron talked about that on a podcast with JJ Reddick
that started to gain more attention virally after this game tonight,
because he recorded with JJ Redick a few days ago,
and obviously the discussion of hey, do you foul when
you're up three and the other team has the ball
in the final seconds, because that's become a very common
situation these playoffs. Seeing the ease with which Lebron talks
(35:24):
with JJ Reddick on his podcast, he's the only name
you've really heard in connection for the Lakers. Yeah, for
a long while, it's gonna be JJ Reddick, all right.
And now the possibly two things are happening. Maybe the
Lakers are waiting and say, hey, maybe someone we're not
even thinking of is going to free him themselves up,
and hey, that's our big choice because hiring JJ Reddick
(35:45):
is a risk, But hiring Kenny Atkinson is a risk.
Hiring Sam Cassell is a risk. Like there's nobody out
there outside of a outside of reuniting with Frank Vogel,
I know would make them better defensively so much, well,
they should put their put there, whatever difference they have
to the side, because we know it worked. They want
to title before. I know they'd be better defensively. Outside
of that, there's nobody out there that's not a risk.
(36:07):
So the fact that you keep hearing Reddick's name and
reports how the Lakers are enamored with JJ Reddick, Lebron
gets along with JJ Reddick, you would get the Lebron's
seal of approval. It doesn't mean that suddenly Lebron's gonna
listen to JJ Redick. He's going to do his thing.
Oh yeah, Reddick on my podcast. That's great. Him and
ad are always going to do their thing. So it
doesn't matter. But do you talk about the hiring. The
(36:31):
Lakers want a little bit of sizzle. They want something
that's going to bring a new type of energy to
the team, because at least if you're not going to
get a great teacher, you might get a different combination
of energy and the players out there will play it.
It'll be a different combination of how they interact with
each other on the court. Maybe JJ Reddick will bring
a little bit different energy to the team. For right
(36:52):
that it's all you're hoping for. All that was truth.
There's only one reason why they want him as a coach,
because he reminds them.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Of turned back to Claude, especially as played by Adrian Accurate.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Hey, Lakers owner Jay Moore is really gonna enjoy when
he hires JJ Reddick.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
That's he gonna does. Look, I jokingly said to bring
pat Riley back. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. God,
it's gonna fly to a bunch of differences. He just
need he doesn't need to not gonna coach. I'm gonna
coach use the goat pro why not?
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Look, but Reddick is he He fits that bill of
splashy of maybe a different kind of energy. And really
they know that Lebron and they are gonna do their
own thing, right. They know they're not gonna listen. Lebron's
not gonna say, hey, listen to coach.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
They know that.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
But for everything else, all right, why not we need
some kind of bit of change. There's nobody else out
there they've talked to, so they're waiting just in case
somebody becomes available. And I think ESPN would like to
have JJ Reddick work through the NBA finals. I'm just saying.
I mean, I think they would like to have work
through the NBA. That's why it's day nineteen or twenty
or whatever. It is not something that's gonna happen now.
(38:02):
Within the next ten days, two weeks in Fine, you're
gonna find.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Out the Lakers are gonna hire JJ. Yah. So you
got Reddick as a minus one forty favorite, Barrego at
plus four to twenty five, and then Kassel at plus
five hundred. They're the leaders. Boutenolzer was briefly before taking
the Sun's job that he was going to go to
the moon for whatever the quote was, and certainly all
all of those splashy things right coming out of the
(38:27):
broadcast arena and everything else to be former player, great respect.
I mean, you've seen how many guys line up. I
don't know how many of them have ties to clutch
sports or not. Oh the thing you got to be
clutch sports. No, but but just keep going on down
the line, right is you know the insiders, Hey, Lebron's
not doing anything with the coaching search. But if he
(38:48):
would have, he would have done this, or if he
was the GM, he would have made this move or
he would have done that. Like you've just heard that
time and time again from Shams and Shams and from
what's his name, win Her Windhorse, same thing that you've had,
the same kind of thing. He's like, well, he's out
of it, is he really? Does anybody buy that? No,
(39:08):
he's the invisible hand, right, He's like, you know Adam
Smith Economics, Adam Smith's Money World. You see what I
did there?
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah? Maybe history come on now always on Saturday morning
on Adam Smith's Money World. Wow, it's on like every
every hour on PBS. Okay, then they want you to
learn something. It's true, you to learn about money.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I look, if I thought there were somebody else there,
but there's nobody unless somebody that were not that we
haven't talked about at all.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Greg Popovich says, hey, I want to come coach there.
You saw what happened. Jason Kidd was rumored for about
a hot minute. What happened? Contract extension? Yeah, tyl Lou,
he's got one year left. Clippers aren't letting him walk
across the street unless it's gonna be reddick. Just seeing
Lebron and Reddick talk, Yeah, that's the way the world is.
And Mike Krzyzewski got a half a million dollars just
say hire this man.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Oh kay, exit out about a for RISCA exit swollen
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