November 9, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain how the Lakers might have stumbled onto something really special. Karl-Anthony Towns has been exactly what the Knicks need. And a couple stories out of Major League Baseball.
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we'll have more NFL, more college football coming up in
a little bit. Big football Fridays. We look at all
the big action this weekend. But two big stories out
of the NBA here for a few minutes, and number
one involves the Lakers right now, who are thumping the
seventy six ers one two to eighty four. And why
do you think that is? Well, you have to take one.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Guess this is if you had to choose, If you
had to choose.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's a tie. Uh, it's up to the delegates. Uh,
this is why this is big. Look are the Sixers
a really good team right now? Know they're dinged up,
they're injured, Joel Embiid is still waiting to play. Look,
it's it's a Sixers team that's just not good, right.
I mean, you know Paul George is playing Tonight's played
a handful of minutes, he hasn't hit a three. Maxie
is hurt, he's not playing tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But Smith, I have a thought for you. But good,
give me a thought before I give him. Right, go ahead, Frostburg.
Why is this result going this way? Well, first of all,
they're back, okay. Second of all, eight they are back
from the road trip.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That is true. Yeah, eighty plays. The Lakers are really good. Yes,
that is true. And he's got twenty six tonight. But
this gets into where sometimes you hit on something and
it's not that you get lucky about it, but certainly
circumstances have surrounded the Lakers the last few days. They
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made a big lineup change tonight, and boy has it worked. Right.
We'll take you back to the other night when JJ
Reddick was really mad at D'Angelo Russell, right point guard
who handles a ball a ton not happy with his
decision making and was banging a chair on the ground
during the game. Took him out of the game, didn't
put him back and he played twenty two minutes. After
the game the press conference talked about how upset he
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was and oh, it's not a punishment. I just didn't
put him back in the game. Then he had asked
about di'angelo Russell again, JJ Reddick dropped the mike and
walked away. Change in the starting lineup tonight where Cam Reddish,
who is the well traveled Cam Reddish, who I think
is still only twenty one years old, in his eighth
year in the league, in his fifteen Cam Reddish starts
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with the Lakers. He only has three points tonight and
he's played twenty minutes and di'angelo Russell has come off
the bench to play about twenty minutes for the Lakers.
But the offense has been flowing, it's been moving, it's
been Lebron of course, playing a lot of point guard.
He's got a triple double right now with sixteen thirteen
and eleven, and look, AD's got twenty six. Austin Reeves
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has found himself wide open for threes a bunch. He
has six threes tonight, and Russell has played okay off
the bench with sixteen and twenty minutes. And I look
at what's going on with the Lakers tonight, and this
is one of those nights. I mean, this is one
of those nights where I go, WHOA, maybe we really
just kind of lucked into something because they had they
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made the move because they didn't want D'Angelo Russell in
the starting lineup and send him a message. Now, obviously
Dangel Russell is one of their better players, and they figure, oh,
we need him to play well if we're going to
do well. Instead, look at what they've got tonight. They
got twenty five assists, and they're moving the ball well.
And if Lebron like he did a couple of years
ago when he went to center for a while and
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put up all these big numbers, if you take the
ball out of the hands of D'Angelo Russell over the
course of a game, and you take it out of
his hands a lot where other guys are making decisions,
and you like the decisions that the other guys are making,
that's going to be better for the team. And the
less did Angelo Russell has to make decisions that aren't good, well,
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the better that's gonna be for the team. If he's
someone that comes off the bench and gives you some
kind of instant offense. He's got a couple of threes tonight.
Maybe that's the right thing for Russell, and they've been
trying to make him work. They've been trying to make
him work because their third best player for the last
year plus and it just hasn't gelled right. It just
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does not gel with D'Angel Russell being their third best guy.
So now maybe coming off the bench and being an
instant offense guy where you can live with a little
bit of of his loose play because he's not doing
it every time down the floor, this might be a
little bit of a better fit if the other guys
on the floor are handling the ball more. And obviously
that's Lebron, who look as great a player as he is.
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You can say, oh, Lebron is for a guy who's
gonna be forty years old with a triple double still
playing at this level, it's inhuman can he go and
play point guard like this like he did a couple
of years ago and be really successful. Maybe that's what
he does and gives up a little bit of scoring
and the and this is how it goes for the
team one hundred percent. Like I think the Lakers saw
something like if I'm walking away from this game, they
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hold on to this winning, they're winning by by eighteen.
I you know, I'm JJ Reddick, I'm looking at I'm
looking at at Rob Polink, I'm looking at Lebron and
Ad and I'm going, hey, I think we might have
hit on something here. I really think so. Not that
Cam Reddish is the answer, but you're taking the ball
out of a guy's hands, so you can't trust, and
you're putting it in the hands of guys who are
gonna make better decisions. That's gonna be better for the team.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And you look, you.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Still might try to try to figure out, Okay, what's
our best starting lineup? Is Cam Reddish in the lineup
gonna be best? Something else out there. But when you have,
if you've if you have to say, well, less of
di'angelo Russell and off the bench is better for him,
and it's better for us they I mean the Lakers
really may have found something tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, clearly you wonder how much is a short term,
as you like to termin it, a bump, I how
positive or negative? Right, something happens either spurs greatness or
someone goes into the tank. You know, team has a
big high comeback victory and then the next week they're flat.
They can't get back to that level. For D'Angelo Russell
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being mocked, I mean, look, it's nothing new. He's been
in the league a long time and there have been
plenty of moments in his well traveled career. Because like
Cam Reddish, you can put up a wall of jerseys
for him at this point. But with Russell, there's one
or two plays that are gonna stand out from the negative,
and I've already seen those making their rounds on social media.
They've been a couple of hustle plays where clearly you
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can almost see him looking over at JJ Rednick going
see I could do this blank two pal. You know,
it's like call me out, but you also have the
opponent it right, So I want to get excited of
This is the iteration that we have for the show
tonight on a Friday, This is a terrible Philadelphia team, right,
it is?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It is, But I'm still the time that you know
it's it's it's one thing to say, hey, we're gonna
beat a team that's really bad, and it's another team
to say we're gonna beat a team that's really bad,
along with a game plan and and and and a
and an ideal that works. Okay, a little bit more
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of it. This is not just hey, we we threw
these guys out there and they're beating the Sixers because
they stink. No, this is Lebron finding guys. This is
the Lakers moving the basketball. It's Anthony Davis winning without
having to worry about hey, I got I need the
ball every single time down the floor. It's opening things
up for Austin Reeves to hit threes like I need
Like this is one of those nights where the Lakers
might say, hey, this might be how we have to
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go forward. And it's not to mean it's gonna win
every night, but you want a team that can can
really do some damage here and not waste another year
of Lebron and you know, maybe at thirty nine, if
you get other players who can step up, this might
be how you have to go. And sometimes this is
how it works. You stumble onto something because you want
to prove a point by benching your point guard because
you can't deal with bad decision making, and when you
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see good decision making as a result, you have to
stick with that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, I will say this. We've mentioned quite often the
lazy Yankees, and maybe we'll get to it before the
end of the night. The rotations by this sixer squad
have been horrible the whole night. Reeves is hitting the
shots and he's getting to pose and it's not even
a quick all right, I gotta get back on defense.
This is a full on here's my follow through. Everybody
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watch me and get a picture. And that's how much
space he has between release and the nearest defender. So, yeah,
a lack of effort in closing out with some frequency,
but yeah, for now, go running the ball through Lebron.
Maybe it also gives him some fewer stressful minutes where
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he's got to battle down on the block and fight
down there, and maybe that saves his legs a little bit.
All of that to say, you know, you take advantage
of the schedule, the matchups, and this gives you an
opportunity to tank her a little bit and see what works.
Still very early in the season and you're coming back
off a long road trip. We still have what another
seventy games to go? Smith, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's a lot anywhere one eighth of the way through
this season. No, there is a lot, and it is
and it is a long way to go. But certain
nights are different than others, like, hey, hey, we figured
something out tonight. We think maybe this is a way
going forward. And like I said, it might not be
as easy as well. Cam Reddish is gonna start and
he's gonna be a hole in the lineup every week,
but we know he's not gonna turn the ball over,
so it might eventually be someone else into the starting lineup.
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But if this is how it's got to be going forward,
you get a better, more efficient team, because that's the
one thing the Lakers need more of it. Look, lots
of teams can use more efficiency, obviously, but older teams
where you're relying on guys who are who are older,
you need more efficiency because you need need more of
those easier baskets. Yeah, every time down the floor can't
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be a fight for a basket. You need some easy
baskets in transition, guys opening things up and if suddenly
this is how it works, and Austin Reeves is gonna score,
you know, gonna be able to be open and hit
these threes every night. Like going forward, I would say, Okay,
we're gonna we're gonna run with this lineup for a
while and see how it goes. And yeah, you'll wait
and get more tests when you play better teams. But
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I'm saying right here, going, okay, this is our lineup
going forward. Now, this is what we're doing, and Lebron
taking and you're doing all these things. Lebron taking a
step back as the as the alpha scorer instead becoming
more of a dual threat point guard, right, Because when
he first became a point guard a couple of years
ago and they had him playing it a lot, he
was still a shoot first point guard who could dish, right.
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He was kind of like James Harden right led the
league and assists, but he was still a guy getting
all his shots right. We talked to Rick Buker about
this last night, that Lebron is still a guy that
gets his numbers, but he doesn't make anybody better if
he could take a step back as a primary scorer
type and instead be kind of a dual option. I'll
score and I'll dish. That opens things up for Ad
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a little bit more. It's more shots for him. It's
probably better shots for Austin Reeves because you agree with
Lebron James's decision making more than D'Angelo Russell's. And then honestly,
coming off the bench, yeah, you can let Russell play
that way. You can let him go up and down
the floor and make some mistakes. If he's gonna go
come in and play twenty minutes and score fourteen points. Okay,
that's what you want off a guy coming off the bench.
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And I think this is a challenge that Lebron will handle.
I think this is something that will energize the Lakers
a little bit because coming off of a three and
oh start, when you find yourself at four and four,
you go, what just happened? We're losing the better teams.
Ad is banged up. This might be a little bit
better of a way forward and things become a little
bit easier overall for everyone. And that takes a lot
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of pressure off and it allows you to get better
as a team.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now obvious question that needs to be asked on a
celebratory night right now for the Lakers, they look to
finish this seven minutes remaining.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yes, they're back.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Mind more so Lebron James. How much energy did he
steal from the youthful, resplendent, victorious Dodgers in attendance and
the soul of that World series trophy? See what what you.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Don't know is that is that Mookie Bets actually has
been playing for the Lakers tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Whoa have you know that he's actually been on the floor?
You know he was what did he finish second in
that bowling tournament? He the other day?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
There's nothing he can't do. And I watched Freddy Freeman
play a little bit, but he was limping too much
down the floor, so had to take him out. It
Happensie be cued by a guy standing on seven phone book.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Freeman play designated point guard like you would play on
the blacktop. Look, I can't run, but I can pass.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm the point guard, all right. I don't go any
further than here on one side, and the others distribute
from here.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You guys work against each other, and I'll just distribute.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Lebron is off the floor. Now it's a fifteen point
lead for the Lakers with about six minutes left. I'm
telling you this might be one of those nights where
the Lakers might have stumbled into something. And sometimes that's
how it goes. You can make all kinds of plans
and say we wouldn't do X, Y and Z, and
then hey, that's why necessity is the mother of invention, Right, Hey,
we need something. Oh, I thought.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You were quoting John Lennon there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
First or the court. Uh, yeah, that could be boil
it down. It always when that plays, it always helps
when he plays. I mean, come on, man, we were
trying to take that as a given. I think justin
all right, Davis plays. Other stuff works. But since we
can't presume going forward that he's going to be available
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It is a loser leave town playoff.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Matches go all rights.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Is it time for one high profile NBA team to
replace their coach before they lose their star. It's not Cleveland.
Cleveland's fine, They're undefeated Titans.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah yeah, define.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That story's coming up next Jason and Mike Fox.
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Coming up in a couple minutes, We're gonna take a
look at the game of the week in college football tomorrow.
Always great for a loser leaves town match, and in
this case, it's a loser leaves the playoff likely that
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sounds all right, yeah, But first it's time for the
Express pros Pro of the Week. The Pro of the
Week goes to somebody who not only has the best
this new nickname in the NBA, he's had some kind
of week behind it. The Express pros Pro of the
Week none other than the Big Bodega.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
They just cannot five and range one for seven towns.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
He can find the range that's three. There was Nicks
TV Mike Breed on the call. Another huge night for
Big Bodega. The Knicks beat the Bucks going away in
the game. The Bucks never really threatened, Like I know,
they're playing the second night of back to back, but wow,
they never really threatened. The Knicks were up by eighteen
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and a halftime. They continue to roll through to a
one sixteen ninety four victory, and Karl Anthony Towns, who
has so far has been everything the Knicks hoped he
would be when they traded for him in the offseason.
Tonight he goes for thirty two, eleven rebounds, and five
assists in the win. Look for Karl Anthony Towns, this
is it's It's not a case of replacing Jalen Brunson,
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because obviously, look the guys the king of New York.
There's a reason why look at me, I'm the king
in New York. But you knew that coming off of
last year, Jalen Brunson hit the next level in his
development in the NBA. Okay, he is now a superstar
and he's a great, great player who sees the floor
maybe better than anybody in the game. He's incredibly smart,
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he's deaft, he is he is able to faint and
make moves and get you going the wrong way, and
just what he can do is just insane. Look, you
even heard his You even heard right in college say,
I didn't know he's gonna be that good. I knew
he's gonna be good, didn't know he's gonna be that good.
He hit the next level of his development. But Brunson's
not a guy who's going to bring the ball down
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the floor and by himself be able to score you
twelve points in a row. Right. He's not Kevin Durant,
He's not Jason Tatum that can rise up over guys
at jumpers all the time. He needs a little bit
of help. And since he's become the one the Knicks
one a needed to be somebody who was better than
Julius randall right, or better than a hot Dante DiVincenzo
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coming off the bench or Josh Hart. And that's why
this trade for Karl Anthony Towns has been so huge,
because he is that guy, like, he's gonna be someone
that's gonna be able to score thirty points every night,
and not someone who is gonna wind up taking a
lot of bad shots from fifteen feet and out. Like
Julius Randall did, everything's gonna be in close. He can
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step out and hit threes. He does it every night.
He hits between three and five threes a night. This
is exactly what they needed. And eventually this two man
game with Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns is gonna be
absolutely unstoppable. But you're starting to see right now the
reliance on Carl Anthony Towns, and wow, he is. He's
the look the best big man the Knicks have had
since youing, most likely, and you know you're seeing him
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start to take on that big focal point of the
Knicks offense already. There's no there's been no Hey, let's
slide him in. Let's see how things go. No, it's
gonna be okay, big Bodega. We're gonna rely on you
right out of the gate. And he is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah. I like the audio clip. I thought you were
being trolled one for seven from Oh I miss it
again before the eventual Carl Anthony Towns make But you
know all of it to say, you know, lazy Bucks
on the second night of Back to Bax after throttling
a hapless jazz squad yesterday, but For Karl Anthony Towns,
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the big question is, over the course of the season,
can he play heavy minutes? Does he still buy in?
He and Thibodeau eventually get it odds. I don't know,
Maybe maybe not, but certainly the stage for the moment
is not too big, Jalen Brun said. I'd say to
Jay Wright, it's like, maybe you just didn't get enough
out of him, You didn't push the right buttons. How
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about that. Maybe you failed in your exercise to try
to get the best out of the player, and you
owe him an apology. How about that?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Okay, Okay, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Hey, I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But for your Nicks, all is good. You're at five
hundred yay, so there's only room for going up right now.
I mean, the Sixers are terrible, the Bucks are imploding,
the Celtics just keep moving along. Otherwise, you got an
Eastern Conference that's got a lot of giant question marks
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next to squads, so take advantage of it while you're
rounding into shape now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Meantime, the big story of this game actually is not
the Knicks. It is, in fact, the Milwaukee Bucks. Bucks
show who lose again to fall to two in And
yes they're coming off the game last night against Utah,
you're flying across country. I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
But yeah, this game was Oaks that wanted to talk
about positivity. Hey, you know who else is two and seven?
The Saints.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, but the Saints actually had one great moment this year.
The Bucks have not had a great moment.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The Saints have had a big resounding with you and everybody.
When when the Saints, when the.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
S have their end of year video NFL Films video
and they show you the highlights of the year, everything
is coming from that game against the Cowboys, there'd be
no video that's not the Saints dominating the Cowboys because
everything else cowboys stink now too, it doesn't matter. It's
the Cowboys. When you when you're beating up on the
Cowboys on film, it looks good, like, wow, look at
that we beat up the cowboys. Jones put the Panthers
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out there and say that was great. But yes, they
beat up on the Jazz last night, so they should
be as it should be, as rested as you could
be playing the second night of back to backs. But
this was still a Bucks team that never threatened and honestly,
tonight just looked like they were out there playing like
they were just said they were going through the motions,
were out here playing. I never saw any moment where
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they felt like they pushed an advantage, they found something
on the floor that was going to help them. They
were just going through the motions. And and look at
two and seven. You don't want to risk upsetting Yannis
so much. And he says, it's time for me to
want out, and it's for me to get traded.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
He got his money, so he's not gonna opt out
at any point. He's got three more years. But you
don't want to upset him because he wants to compete,
He wants to win. He knows his legacy. And with
Damian Lillard, you thought these guys are gonna come in
and just own the league, and instead Doc Rivers says,
come on to be the guy that's gonna get them
to the next level. And all they've done with Doc
Rivers is underachieve. I mean, I'm sorry, but that's all
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they've done. And it's not all anti Doc Rivers. You're
anti do No, I'm just being realistic that Doc Rivers
all his stops after Boston. He's underachieved. He underachieved with
the Clippers, underachieved with the Sixers, underachieving. Here, he said,
some of the best players in the NBA, and he
is underachieved. And we told you about a week ago
when they started out one and four. Man, this is
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not going well. They don't look like they're having fun.
They don't look like they have a lot of answers.
Doc Rivers may not make it to Christmas.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I gotta go forward on that. Mic I can't. I
can't rest my laurels on that right now. He might
not make it to Thanksgiving, mainly because Thanksgiving is later
this year. It's on the twenty eighth, right, it's a
week later, so there's twenty more days. But twenty more
days of this? How long are the Bucks gonna go? Right?
How long are you to go before you make a move.
You're not trading Lillard? Right? You want Joannis to be happy?
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So what else are you gonna do? You gotta find
somewhere else to go. Right now, there's gotta be some
kind of exploratory committee going. Who's the guy to come
in and take over here?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Hey, you know Mike Buttonholes Oh wait a minute. I
mean you gotta find you gotta find a way to
change the energy. And sometimes it's not always about bringing
in someone with a great system or a great rapport,
but changing the energy certainly is something that works. That
might be the case here, but I mean it. Doc
is not going to make it to Thanksgiving with this team.
Forget about Christmas. That's Christmas is hell and gone. Now,
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man know that he might not make it to Thanksgiving
as head coach of the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Look at the way you accelerated this oh so fast.
We look at their schedule coming up for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Oh what do they get as a reward for this beatdown?
They get the host the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, good luck, that's a loss.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Then you got the raptors.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That lightens up. Okay, so you're okay, you got the
right and you.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Get Detroit, then Charlotte, than the planet Houston.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
See that's where things can get dangerous. This is this
is why I say he could be gone by Thanksgiving.
If it was a case of the Bucks and they
had a really difficult schedule coming up, and it's well,
we play the Knicks three times, you know what, We
play the Cavaliers, we play, you know, we have a
really tough swing. We're playing Cleveland, then we're going into Boston.
We have back to backs with Boston, then we have
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Oklahoma City, we have Minnesota. Then I kind of understand that, Okay,
these are really great teams and the Bucks are still
trying to but this is why those should be three
wins that are coming up. And they are not playing
well at all, and now you talk about giving them
the loss to Boston when they play if they come
out of those three games with one win, like like,
what what games are you really going to get a
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w at if you're not beating those teams that are
not as bad as they've been in years past, But
there's still teams you should walk on the floor and beat.
With Giannis, That's that's what's gonna cause that that decision
to happen to Doc Rivers by Thanksgiving, when the schedule
is easier and you don't win games and you don't
make hay when you're playing the really the real, the
the easy teams and ones you should beat, that's when
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coaches get fired.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
The other is you've got a very flawed roster. You
basically have a two man act out there and the
occasional appearance by a Bobby Portis otherwise there's they're they're thin.
So you're already looking at let's talk about the trade market.
Let's talk she's a start, Let's talk about the trades.
How do you help? We just got past the NFL
trade dead live. We're already looking at the bucks are desperate.
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How do they make a trade to keep you honest happy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, yeah, that'll work out. Uh, the new head coach
and a trade that that's exactly what'll go.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
When does he get the term coach killer? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, I don't know coach, because are you really gonna say, wow,
Doc didn't get a chance, like when they get when
when they move on, are they gonna say, boy he
killed it? Not gonna say dude, Doc killed himself? Man
dot Doc that locked at himself.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
But it's still the noe's opportunity. When you go through
a number of coaches, it's you know, there's one common
denominator through it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh talk didn't get a chance, man tug did not
going to.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
You know what the highlight of their season to date
has been though. What he got was Damian Lillard got
everybody their size of his latest signature shoe. Oh that yeah,
that is cool no matter what their affiliation is, whatever,
their contracts were sponsored and business deals are. And that
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was the happiest I've seen you, Honis this entre season?
That clip going around?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Can you sum up the Buck season so far in
two sentences? Yeah, they stink, but they got free shoes,
all right, thank you, there's your Buck season.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
That not bad. Hey, the shoes were a highlight. A
nice gift from Damian Lilly.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Game of the Week in college football coming up in
ninety seconds, but first special delivery. Steve de Sager has
what's trending in the wall world of sports. I just
found out Steve is actually related to Austin Reeves, who
had twenty points to night six out of ten to
three point shooting for the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
If only he started six to seven from long distance
had twenty points. Lebron James twenty one and this Laker
home win over Philadelphia won sixteen to one oh six.
Anthony Davis with thirty one points. Just for the record,
Bronnie James played the final minutes and uh, let's see,
he had no shots, no points, no assists, no steals,
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no blocks.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
That's a success for Bronnie James. That's a good game.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
And he was a next minus four on the court
for the last minute.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
So well, that will be in the G League. We're
tickets tomorrow for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Because there's only four rows of seats, sure.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Clippers.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh well.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
There, this is like one of those power of positive
thinking seminars. Seating is extremely limited, so there's not a
lot of people that want to come, but we're gonna
make it seem like a lot of people want to
come because we're gonn to charge a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Right if there were ten thousand seats, who would want
to come instead there's ten seats exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I actually have the seating chart up right now as
we speak. Guess and it's three rows. Oh yeah, I
oversold it. Yeah. No, the ticket is like this, They
just give you. You are where you seat one? Well,
what's that? No, there's twenty seats. Your seat one, C, two, three,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I just walk right over there walk sometimes the Yeah,
it's like the new neighborhoods. But that's the addresses. The
first one on the corner is one.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The other one is two. If you road double fad
road W section seventy. No just c one, just one,
just get a one. Oh, I'm sit se ten. That's
pretty good, all right.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
The Lakers channel shows some of the G League games
of theirs, of course, because it's at the Lakers practice facility.
Being a practice facility, it's not created to be an
arena four games. There is no space there. So okay,
the tickets are very expensive for some ungodly reason and
I think I use that adverb correctly, and so we've
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got three rows of seats there.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
You can see actually Lebron James for five hundred bucks
in awesome seats that you'll talk about the rest of
your life. Or you could spend five bucks to seat
to see what exactly what are they spending there?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Waiting?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Way do you see? You think Madison Square Gardener's great? Wait?
You see the lighting for this game tomorrow night? Way
down behind everybody. The ball could go into the stands.
I can't even see it.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I know where it is. Put it this way.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
When they play the pregame music and then turn it off.
You could probably hear the click from the index figure
of the guy turning it off over in the corner.
Clippers won in Sacramento tonight one oh seven to ninety eight.
Phoenix is eight and one after a one point win
at Dallas on a last second free throw. Oklahoma City
eight and one after beating Houston, Nick's Meat, Milwaukee and
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Yes the Bucks are two and seven this year. Boston
eight and two after its overtime victory over Brooklyn. Cleveland
ten and oh after ripping Golden State one thirty six
one seventeen. Here, the Warrior entered with a seven to
one record and Golden State was down at the half
eighty three forty two against the Cavs Detroit edged Atlanta
(29:08):
won twenty two to one to twenty one. Cad Cunningham
the last second block in college hoops. Number one Kansas
survived at home to beat number nine North Carolina ninety
two eighty nine. Kansas had blown a twenty point lead
late first half. Currently, in Vegas, New Mexico leads number
twenty two UCLA fifty two to thirty nine with about
twelve minutes to play. Florida Gators basketball coach Todd Golden
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is being investigated for sexual harassment and stalking. He has
signed there through twenty thirty. Among the four NHL games
Pittsburgh defeated Washington four to two in college football on
Fox TV tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
At the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
UCLA was down ten to nothing after the first quarter
and still beat Iowa twenty to seventeen. Cow was zero
to four in the ACC but got to win at
Wake Forest forty six to thirty six. Currently final two minutes,
Memphis holding on twenty seven to twenty over Rice, and
on FS one early third quarter, New Mexico State leads
at San Diego State fourteen thirteen. The forty nine ers
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say they plan to activate running back Christian McCaffrey tomorrow.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O the Jason smithser
with Mike Carmen Lifethtirac dot Com Studios. All right, so
the loser leave town match tomorrow in college football, Alabama
and LSU, both teams with two losses, likely three losses,
is going to leave you on the outside looking And
it's the first year of the new playoff with twelve teams,
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so maybe a really good team with three losses could
get in, but you're kind of looking at right now, Hey,
outside of two, it's going to be tough to get in.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So basically this is a you win you're alive. If not,
you may be looking at a lower Bowl and what's
going to happen next year. If I had any confidence
that Brian Kelly could win this game, I would pick LSU.
But I don't because I haven't seen him do it.
I've seen him lose more big games and I've seen
him win big games. Conversely, I've seen Jalen Milroe win
(30:56):
more big games than i've seen him lose big games.
They're gonna have a tough time containing him. It's not
quite what LSU's defense does well, and it's gonna wind
up being close. There's gonna be a lot of points.
But I'm gonna trust a guy that I have seen
win big games before, and I'm a big believer in
that he might. He might wind up being the next
Lamar Jackson to the NFL. Give me Jalen mill Row Tomorrow.
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Alabama wins, they stay alive, Kleen de Bor gets a
big franchise win or a big moment, and Brian Kelly
gets another loss of Hey man, are we ever gonna
really turn the corner here? I'll take Alabama. I'll take
Jalen mill Row.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Just looking at Alabama and how they they win this matchup.
I mean LSU doesn't run the ball for anything. All
the stats on great protection are all fine and dandy
for LSU, and that offensive line is great, but Neussmart
puts the ball on Harm's way repeatedly, and that's that's
where they lose this. Even if they're close, the big
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play goes to the Alabama defense, your guy Milrow and
what he's shown on tape, and where this offense can explosive.
I just look at the I'd hate to agree with you.
I do, but with Brian Kelly, we've seen it time
and time again. And and I know Pete Futech, who
was on with us earlier, is like, well, you don't
(32:13):
get a lie. You know nobody's got a great record
against these but you know we're going with where we're
at in the calendar now and in games that you
need to find that extra And I just don't know
that LSU does. Every time I backed them, they've let
me down. I tried to.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
This year.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
How many times you do it before you got I'm sorry.
I got to walk away from you.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I can't do it anymore. I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I can't do it like Paulie and goodfellows. Right when
Paulie says it, here's here's here's five down. But now
I'm gonna turn my back on you.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I can't do it anymore, can't do three thousand bucks
for a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swallow down. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carbon Live the Tirec dot com Studios.
We got more NFL more college football on the way,
but straight ahead, we have two big stories out of
Major League Baseball. One involves the Aankees. One involves a
big time free agent. I am now certain is going
to find a new destination than his old team. That's next,
(33:08):
Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Sugar Ray
livetheti rack dot Com Studios. We got more football coming
up in a bit and and well we also have
a fight on a plane. I'm in a fight on
a plane. They may be snakes, they may be snakes
may playing. But two big stories out of baseball today.
(33:41):
The first one the Yankees are keeping Aaron Boone for
another year. Kind of shocking since you know, they made
it to the World Series in all, but just the
fact that here we are, you know, a week plus
later and the Yankees say, oh yeah, we're gonna pick
up your option Aaron, and nope, flee, We're gonna figure
out a new contract with you. But wow, I mean,
this shows you the how the Yankees have taken a
(34:02):
hit in the last week since the World Series, that
it takes this long to say we're gonna pick up
your option. Ever it got unto the World Series. But no, no,
things are so bad because that whole lazy Yankees moniker
is just gonna stick to them in the off season
into the regular season until they get rid of it.
The last week of Joe Kelly and Miguel Rojas saying, Hey,
(34:24):
we knew we're gonna beat the Yankees because their stars
are lazy. Tell you it's not that accurate, because I
think it's a bad It's it's the wrong way to
to characterize the Yankees play in the playoffs. But lazy Yankees, boy,
that's gonna stick with them. Mike, that's gonna stick with
Aaron Boone. It's gonna stick with the organization lazy Yankees
as a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well that's you get stuck with it and it doesn't matter,
and we talk about it. You can get into semantics
and get into the nuance of it all. The fact
that that was Aaron Judge's first error of the season
when he dropped that fly ball, It doesn't matter. That
kind of thing stick sonya, like you know, a stink
and you're washing, like like you gets sprayed by a
(35:05):
you know, a skunk when you go out to take
out the trash, and that that's not coming off. It's
just not a lot of washing. A lot of problems.
Old factory senses are gonna be off the charts. But
for Aaron Boone, I think you you had the key
point there is it took you a week and a
half to do what seemed obvious, Like was he really
on the hot seat?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I mean bring him back? I mean he went to
the World Series. You gotta give hey. The Yankees may
play and run the bases like a bunch of drunks,
and they may play horrible defensively, but still he got
to the World Series. You would think that would be
all right, We're gonna bring the manager back but we're
gonna wait, make you sweat a week and then say yeah,
you're coming back work on a new deal.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But but ahead of the World series all of that, Like,
here's the positivity. What a great run for these Yankees.
Obviously this is working. If nothing else, it's also the
or maybe this is all contingent of Hey, Wan Sodo
was like, it's him or me. He's like, it was
the I'm staying around and uh, all right, I want
(36:05):
to see what you're gonna do at manager and Cashman said, well,
we really like Aaron and then Soda said it, well,
I'm out him or me?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait. This is why the
Yankees saying we're gonna keep traveling to wherever Wan Sota
is to talk to him. Hey wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Why not we love you. We gotta don't shut us
out yet. But but yeah, I just I just don't
get it, like a week and a half. Let it's like, oh,
by the way, yeah he's gonna stay our manager.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
What an afterthought on a moment. Yeah, you have this
great run, And obviously it ends in crushing fashion that
fifth Inning will be something that documentaries are gonna be
made on and we're gonna watch every at bat, every
fielding play by those principal players forever. Anthony Rizzo, the
fall guy who did at least for the moment, get
(36:50):
shipped out of town like all of that to say,
you know, yeah, now a week and a half later,
he's like, yay, yeah, we're picking up the opption.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
It'll be he'll he'll be around for another Year's like,
what else does he have to do? Like he's either
your guy or he's not. I mean, there's plenty of
sample size here.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
The other big story today and and there's there was
a differing amount of the interest level of that because look,
moon Soto is clearly going to be the prize of
the offseason every day is a Mets Yankees headline who
was talking to him was not. But reports came out
today and this is documented that the Mets have checked
in on Willia domas shortstop for the Brewers, who has said, hey,
(37:28):
free agency, I'm willing to move to third base, right
which is a big thing. Other players I said they'll move,
like Alex Bregman said I'll move to second base, and
I have to because look, these guys want to get paid,
right then, Okay, you don't see me as playing here.
I could play here, come on, I now now.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
But also I look really good and stats wise, and
they can do great comps to guys that play second. Yeah,
I look, I look so much better here, don't I
Mike im out here crushing the Mets.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
What are you doing? But look, Adamas is a really
good shortstop. He'd be a great third Baseman's twenty nine
years old, and they were just varying reports. All the
Mets offered a big deal. He offered them money. I
don't know that they've done that, but I know they
checked in on him. Now here's a big takeaway. Just
the fact they're going after and they're talking to Willie
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Damas tells me that he's gonna come in and play third.
Mark Vientos, who has become a great player in one year,
is a Mets best player throughout the entire postseason. He'll
probably go over to play first base, right because hes
gonna play third base or first base. Just the fact
they're going out talking to Adamas, who knows he's gonna
have to move to third base if they sign him,
tells me the Mets are saying Pete Alonzo thank you.
(38:33):
We're moving on. I mean, I know that they're talking
to Boris about Juan Soda, and SODA's gonna be a
guy that go after. But just seeing the fact that
they were going out after a guy who is gonna
play third base and force another great young player to
move across the diamond. Alonzo's a first basement and I
think the Mets are saying goodbye. They're saying, you know what,
I know, you're gonna want to give give us, you know,
(38:56):
put us over a barrel for a lot of money.
But he is a power hitter who's thirty years old.
He's had a great career with us. We're not gonna overpay.
It was a down year for him this year. Yes,
he had the big home run against the Brewers that
that's gonna live in Mets lore forever. But just the
fact the way the Mets are approaching things tells me
ped Alonzo's out there for whoever wants them. The Mets
are gonna let him go.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Honestly, what do I say anytimes someone has Scott Boris
as an agent, I say goodbye to them. Not that's
because I say, you know what, I know you're probably
gonna leave, You're not gonna come back, And lots of
teams went, hey, I know we're gonna lose Scott Boris
is gonna make some kind of bidding war. He's gonna
take it down to the end. We're not gonna wait
and potentially lose a guy. So yeah, the Mets know
(39:39):
with with with with Boris and with whoever he has,
he's gonna keep him out late. Now, for an outfielder,
you can do that, say well, we can always go
out to another outfielder if we lose at won Soto,
But in field you want to make sure you have
that taken care of. And the fact they're going out
saying this we want to do infield wise tells me
pine A Lonzo's gonna be on a different team.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Any of those guys from last year that waited around
sitting there like the little old man the Woods in
the horror movie, going hey, man, don't go down this path.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Exit out Vuna fresca, exit swollen down. Yes, I've already
waved goodbye to Peter Alonzo. Coming up next, we check
in and give a Big Bowl prediction about one of
the hottest teams in college football, and yeah, one college
team got in a fight on a plane. What's next,
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we'll have more NFL, more college football coming up in
a little bit. Big football Fridays. We look at all
the big action this weekend. But two big stories out
of the NBA here for a few minutes, and number
one involves the Lakers right now, who are thumping the
seventy six ers one two to eighty four. And why
do you think that is? Well, you have to take one.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Guess this is if you had to choose, If you
had to choose.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's a tie. Uh, it's up to the delegates. Uh,
this is why this is big. Look are the Sixers
a really good team right now? Know they're dinged up,
they're injured, Joel Embiid is still waiting to play. Look,
it's it's a Sixers team that's just not good, right.
I mean, you know Paul George is playing Tonight's played
a handful of minutes, he hasn't hit a three. Maxie
is hurt, he's not playing tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But Smith, I have a thought for you. But good,
give me a thought before I give him. Right, go ahead, Frostburg.
Why is this result going this way? Well, first of all,
they're back, okay. Second of all, eight they are back
from the road trip.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
That is true. Yeah, eighty plays. The Lakers are really good. Yes,
that is true. And he's got twenty six tonight. But
this gets into where sometimes you hit on something and
it's not that you get lucky about it, but certainly
circumstances have surrounded the Lakers the last few days. They
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made a big lineup change tonight, and boy has it worked. Right.
We'll take you back to the other night when JJ
Reddick was really mad at D'Angelo Russell, right point guard
who handles a ball a ton not happy with his
decision making and was banging a chair on the ground
during the game. Took him out of the game, didn't
put him back and he played twenty two minutes. After
the game the press conference talked about how upset he
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was and oh, it's not a punishment. I just didn't
put him back in the game. Then he had asked
about di'angelo Russell again, JJ Reddick dropped the mike and
walked away. Change in the starting lineup tonight where Cam Reddish,
who is the well traveled Cam Reddish, who I think
is still only twenty one years old, in his eighth
year in the league, in his fifteen Cam Reddish starts
(02:53):
with the Lakers. He only has three points tonight and
he's played twenty minutes and di'angelo Russell has come off
the bench to play about twenty minutes for the Lakers.
But the offense has been flowing, it's been moving, it's
been Lebron of course, playing a lot of point guard.
He's got a triple double right now with sixteen thirteen
and eleven, and look, AD's got twenty six. Austin Reeves
(03:16):
has found himself wide open for threes a bunch. He
has six threes tonight, and Russell has played okay off
the bench with sixteen and twenty minutes. And I look
at what's going on with the Lakers tonight, and this
is one of those nights. I mean, this is one
of those nights where I go, WHOA, maybe we really
just kind of lucked into something because they had they
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made the move because they didn't want D'Angelo Russell in
the starting lineup and send him a message. Now, obviously
Dangel Russell is one of their better players, and they figure, oh,
we need him to play well if we're going to
do well. Instead, look at what they've got tonight. They
got twenty five assists, and they're moving the ball well.
And if Lebron like he did a couple of years
ago when he went to center for a while and
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put up all these big numbers, if you take the
ball out of the hands of D'Angelo Russell over the
course of a game, and you take it out of
his hands a lot where other guys are making decisions,
and you like the decisions that the other guys are making,
that's going to be better for the team. And the
less did Angelo Russell has to make decisions that aren't good, well,
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the better that's gonna be for the team. If he's
someone that comes off the bench and gives you some
kind of instant offense. He's got a couple of threes tonight.
Maybe that's the right thing for Russell, and they've been
trying to make him work. They've been trying to make
him work because their third best player for the last
year plus and it just hasn't gelled right. It just
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does not gel with D'Angel Russell being their third best guy.
So now maybe coming off the bench and being an
instant offense guy where you can live with a little
bit of of his loose play because he's not doing
it every time down the floor, this might be a
little bit of a better fit if the other guys
on the floor are handling the ball more. And obviously
that's Lebron, who look as great a player as he is.
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You can say, oh, Lebron is for a guy who's
gonna be forty years old with a triple double still
playing at this level, it's inhuman can he go and
play point guard like this like he did a couple
of years ago and be really successful. Maybe that's what
he does and gives up a little bit of scoring
and the and this is how it goes for the
team one hundred percent. Like I think the Lakers saw
something like if I'm walking away from this game, they
(05:23):
hold on to this winning, they're winning by by eighteen.
I you know, I'm JJ Reddick, I'm looking at I'm
looking at at Rob Polink, I'm looking at Lebron and
Ad and I'm going, hey, I think we might have
hit on something here. I really think so. Not that
Cam Reddish is the answer, but you're taking the ball
out of a guy's hands, so you can't trust, and
you're putting it in the hands of guys who are
gonna make better decisions. That's gonna be better for the team.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And you look, you.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Still might try to try to figure out, Okay, what's
our best starting lineup? Is Cam Reddish in the lineup
gonna be best? Something else out there. But when you have,
if you've if you have to say, well, less of
di'angelo Russell and off the bench is better for him,
and it's better for us they I mean the Lakers
really may have found something tonight.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, clearly you wonder how much is a short term,
as you like to termin it, a bump, I how
positive or negative? Right, something happens either spurs greatness or
someone goes into the tank. You know, team has a
big high comeback victory and then the next week they're flat.
They can't get back to that level. For D'Angelo Russell
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being mocked, I mean, look, it's nothing new. He's been
in the league a long time and there have been
plenty of moments in his well traveled career. Because like
Cam Reddish, you can put up a wall of jerseys
for him at this point. But with Russell, there's one
or two plays that are gonna stand out from the negative,
and I've already seen those making their rounds on social media.
They've been a couple of hustle plays where clearly you
(06:49):
can almost see him looking over at JJ Rednick going
see I could do this blank two pal. You know,
it's like call me out, but you also have the
opponent it right, So I want to get excited of
This is the iteration that we have for the show
tonight on a Friday, This is a terrible Philadelphia team, right,
it is?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It is, But I'm still the time that you know
it's it's it's one thing to say, hey, we're gonna
beat a team that's really bad, and it's another team
to say we're gonna beat a team that's really bad,
along with a game plan and and and and a
and an ideal that works. Okay, a little bit more
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of it. This is not just hey, we we threw
these guys out there and they're beating the Sixers because
they stink. No, this is Lebron finding guys. This is
the Lakers moving the basketball. It's Anthony Davis winning without
having to worry about hey, I got I need the
ball every single time down the floor. It's opening things
up for Austin Reeves to hit threes like I need
Like this is one of those nights where the Lakers
might say, hey, this might be how we have to
(07:52):
go forward. And it's not to mean it's gonna win
every night, but you want a team that can can
really do some damage here and not waste another year
of Lebron and you know, maybe at thirty nine, if
you get other players who can step up, this might
be how you have to go. And sometimes this is
how it works. You stumble onto something because you want
to prove a point by benching your point guard because
you can't deal with bad decision making, and when you
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see good decision making as a result, you have to
stick with that.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, I will say this. We've mentioned quite often the
lazy Yankees, and maybe we'll get to it before the
end of the night. The rotations by this sixer squad
have been horrible the whole night. Reeves is hitting the
shots and he's getting to pose and it's not even
a quick all right, I gotta get back on defense.
This is a full on here's my follow through. Everybody
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watch me and get a picture. And that's how much
space he has between release and the nearest defender. So, yeah,
a lack of effort in closing out with some frequency,
but yeah, for now, go running the ball through Lebron.
Maybe it also gives him some fewer stressful minutes where
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he's got to battle down on the block and fight
down there, and maybe that saves his legs a little bit.
All of that to say, you know, you take advantage
of the schedule, the matchups, and this gives you an
opportunity to tank her a little bit and see what works.
Still very early in the season and you're coming back
off a long road trip. We still have what another
seventy games to go? Smith, it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It's a lot anywhere one eighth of the way through
this season. No, there is a lot, and it is
and it is a long way to go. But certain
nights are different than others, like, hey, hey, we figured
something out tonight. We think maybe this is a way
going forward. And like I said, it might not be
as easy as well. Cam Reddish is gonna start and
he's gonna be a hole in the lineup every week,
but we know he's not gonna turn the ball over,
so it might eventually be someone else into the starting lineup.
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But if this is how it's got to be going forward,
you get a better, more efficient team, because that's the
one thing the Lakers need more of it. Look, lots
of teams can use more efficiency, obviously, but older teams
where you're relying on guys who are who are older,
you need more efficiency because you need need more of
those easier baskets. Yeah, every time down the floor can't
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be a fight for a basket. You need some easy
baskets in transition, guys opening things up and if suddenly
this is how it works, and Austin Reeves is gonna score,
you know, gonna be able to be open and hit
these threes every night. Like going forward, I would say, Okay,
we're gonna we're gonna run with this lineup for a
while and see how it goes. And yeah, you'll wait
and get more tests when you play better teams. But
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I'm saying right here, going, okay, this is our lineup
going forward. Now, this is what we're doing, and Lebron
taking and you're doing all these things. Lebron taking a
step back as the as the alpha scorer instead becoming
more of a dual threat point guard, right, Because when
he first became a point guard a couple of years
ago and they had him playing it a lot, he
was still a shoot first point guard who could dish, right.
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He was kind of like James Harden right led the
league and assists, but he was still a guy getting
all his shots right. We talked to Rick Buker about
this last night, that Lebron is still a guy that
gets his numbers, but he doesn't make anybody better if
he could take a step back as a primary scorer
type and instead be kind of a dual option. I'll
score and I'll dish. That opens things up for Ad
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a little bit more. It's more shots for him. It's
probably better shots for Austin Reeves because you agree with
Lebron James's decision making more than D'Angelo Russell's. And then honestly,
coming off the bench, yeah, you can let Russell play
that way. You can let him go up and down
the floor and make some mistakes. If he's gonna go
come in and play twenty minutes and score fourteen points. Okay,
that's what you want off a guy coming off the bench.
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And I think this is a challenge that Lebron will handle.
I think this is something that will energize the Lakers
a little bit because coming off of a three and
oh start, when you find yourself at four and four,
you go, what just happened? We're losing the better teams.
Ad is banged up. This might be a little bit
better of a way forward and things become a little
bit easier overall for everyone. And that takes a lot
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of pressure off and it allows you to get better
as a team.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now obvious question that needs to be asked on a
celebratory night right now for the Lakers, they look to
finish this seven minutes remaining.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yes, they're back.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Mind more so Lebron James. How much energy did he
steal from the youthful, resplendent, victorious Dodgers in attendance and
the soul of that World series trophy? See what what you.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Don't know is that is that Mookie Bets actually has
been playing for the Lakers tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Whoa have you know that he's actually been on the floor?
You know he was what did he finish second in
that bowling tournament? He the other day?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
There's nothing he can't do. And I watched Freddy Freeman
play a little bit, but he was limping too much
down the floor, so had to take him out. It
Happensie be cued by a guy standing on seven phone book.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Freeman play designated point guard like you would play on
the blacktop. Look, I can't run, but I can pass.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm the point guard, all right. I don't go any
further than here on one side, and the others distribute
from here.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You guys work against each other, and I'll just distribute.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Lebron is off the floor. Now it's a fifteen point
lead for the Lakers with about six minutes left. I'm
telling you this might be one of those nights where
the Lakers might have stumbled into something. And sometimes that's
how it goes. You can make all kinds of plans
and say we wouldn't do X, Y and Z, and
then hey, that's why necessity is the mother of invention, Right, Hey,
we need something. Oh, I thought.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You were quoting John Lennon there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
First or the court. Uh, yeah, that could be boil
it down. It always when that plays, it always helps
when he plays. I mean, come on, man, we were
trying to take that as a given. I think justin
all right, Davis plays. Other stuff works. But since we
can't presume going forward that he's going to be available
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every night, we we have to deal with what we
got around him. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmon Live from the Tirack
dot Com Studios. Coming up next, we'll take a look
at the game of the week in college football Tomorrow.
It is a loser leave town playoff.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Matches go all rights.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Is it time for one high profile NBA team to
replace their coach before they lose their star. It's not Cleveland.
Cleveland's fine, They're undefeated Titans.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah yeah, define.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
That story's coming up next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
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 (14:31):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live fromth tire rack dot Com studios.
Coming up in a couple minutes, We're gonna take a
look at the game of the week in college football tomorrow.
Always great for a loser leaves town match, and in
this case, it's a loser leaves the playoff likely that
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sounds all right, yeah, But first it's time for the
Express pros Pro of the Week. The Pro of the
Week goes to somebody who not only has the best
this new nickname in the NBA, he's had some kind
of week behind it. The Express pros Pro of the
Week none other than the Big Bodega.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
They just cannot five and range one for seven towns.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
He can find the range that's three. There was Nicks
TV Mike Breed on the call. Another huge night for
Big Bodega. The Knicks beat the Bucks going away in
the game. The Bucks never really threatened, Like I know,
they're playing the second night of back to back, but wow,
they never really threatened. The Knicks were up by eighteen
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and a halftime. They continue to roll through to a
one sixteen ninety four victory, and Karl Anthony Towns, who
has so far has been everything the Knicks hoped he
would be when they traded for him in the offseason.
Tonight he goes for thirty two, eleven rebounds, and five
assists in the win. Look for Karl Anthony Towns, this
is it's It's not a case of replacing Jalen Brunson,
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because obviously, look the guys the king of New York.
There's a reason why look at me, I'm the king
in New York. But you knew that coming off of
last year, Jalen Brunson hit the next level in his
development in the NBA. Okay, he is now a superstar
and he's a great, great player who sees the floor
maybe better than anybody in the game. He's incredibly smart,
(16:24):
he's deaft, he is he is able to faint and
make moves and get you going the wrong way, and
just what he can do is just insane. Look, you
even heard his You even heard right in college say,
I didn't know he's gonna be that good. I knew
he's gonna be good, didn't know he's gonna be that good.
He hit the next level of his development. But Brunson's
not a guy who's going to bring the ball down
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the floor and by himself be able to score you
twelve points in a row. Right. He's not Kevin Durant,
He's not Jason Tatum that can rise up over guys
at jumpers all the time. He needs a little bit
of help. And since he's become the one the Knicks
one a needed to be somebody who was better than
Julius randall right, or better than a hot Dante DiVincenzo
(17:05):
coming off the bench or Josh Hart. And that's why
this trade for Karl Anthony Towns has been so huge,
because he is that guy, like, he's gonna be someone
that's gonna be able to score thirty points every night,
and not someone who is gonna wind up taking a
lot of bad shots from fifteen feet and out. Like
Julius Randall did, everything's gonna be in close. He can
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step out and hit threes. He does it every night.
He hits between three and five threes a night. This
is exactly what they needed. And eventually this two man
game with Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns is gonna be
absolutely unstoppable. But you're starting to see right now the
reliance on Carl Anthony Towns, and wow, he is. He's
the look the best big man the Knicks have had
since youing, most likely, and you know you're seeing him
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start to take on that big focal point of the
Knicks offense already. There's no there's been no Hey, let's
slide him in. Let's see how things go. No, it's
gonna be okay, big Bodega. We're gonna rely on you
right out of the gate. And he is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah. I like the audio clip. I thought you were
being trolled one for seven from Oh I miss it
again before the eventual Carl Anthony Towns make But you
know all of it to say, you know, lazy Bucks
on the second night of Back to Bax after throttling
a hapless jazz squad yesterday, but For Karl Anthony Towns,
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the big question is, over the course of the season,
can he play heavy minutes? Does he still buy in?
He and Thibodeau eventually get it odds. I don't know,
Maybe maybe not, but certainly the stage for the moment
is not too big, Jalen Brun said. I'd say to
Jay Wright, it's like, maybe you just didn't get enough
out of him, You didn't push the right buttons. How
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about that. Maybe you failed in your exercise to try
to get the best out of the player, and you
owe him an apology. How about that?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Okay, Okay, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Hey, I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's okay.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
But for your Nicks, all is good. You're at five
hundred yay, so there's only room for going up right now.
I mean, the Sixers are terrible, the Bucks are imploding,
the Celtics just keep moving along. Otherwise, you got an
Eastern Conference that's got a lot of giant question marks
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next to squads, so take advantage of it while you're
rounding into shape now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Meantime, the big story of this game actually is not
the Knicks. It is, in fact, the Milwaukee Bucks. Bucks
show who lose again to fall to two in And
yes they're coming off the game last night against Utah,
you're flying across country. I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
But yeah, this game was Oaks that wanted to talk
about positivity. Hey, you know who else is two and seven?
The Saints.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, but the Saints actually had one great moment this year.
The Bucks have not had a great moment.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The Saints have had a big resounding with you and everybody.
When when the Saints, when the.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
S have their end of year video NFL Films video
and they show you the highlights of the year, everything
is coming from that game against the Cowboys, there'd be
no video that's not the Saints dominating the Cowboys because
everything else cowboys stink now too, it doesn't matter. It's
the Cowboys. When you when you're beating up on the
Cowboys on film, it looks good, like, wow, look at
that we beat up the cowboys. Jones put the Panthers
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out there and say that was great. But yes, they
beat up on the Jazz last night, so they should
be as it should be, as rested as you could
be playing the second night of back to backs. But
this was still a Bucks team that never threatened and honestly,
tonight just looked like they were out there playing like
they were just said they were going through the motions,
were out here playing. I never saw any moment where
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they felt like they pushed an advantage, they found something
on the floor that was going to help them. They
were just going through the motions. And and look at
two and seven. You don't want to risk upsetting Yannis
so much. And he says, it's time for me to
want out, and it's for me to get traded.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
He got his money, so he's not gonna opt out
at any point. He's got three more years. But you
don't want to upset him because he wants to compete,
He wants to win. He knows his legacy. And with
Damian Lillard, you thought these guys are gonna come in
and just own the league, and instead Doc Rivers says,
come on to be the guy that's gonna get them
to the next level. And all they've done with Doc
Rivers is underachieve. I mean, I'm sorry, but that's all
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they've done. And it's not all anti Doc Rivers. You're
anti do No, I'm just being realistic that Doc Rivers
all his stops after Boston. He's underachieved. He underachieved with
the Clippers, underachieved with the Sixers, underachieving. Here, he said,
some of the best players in the NBA, and he
is underachieved. And we told you about a week ago
when they started out one and four. Man, this is
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not going well. They don't look like they're having fun.
They don't look like they have a lot of answers.
Doc Rivers may not make it to Christmas.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I gotta go forward on that. Mic I can't. I
can't rest my laurels on that right now. He might
not make it to Thanksgiving, mainly because Thanksgiving is later
this year. It's on the twenty eighth, right, it's a
week later, so there's twenty more days. But twenty more
days of this? How long are the Bucks gonna go? Right?
How long are you to go before you make a move.
You're not trading Lillard? Right? You want Joannis to be happy?
(22:14):
So what else are you gonna do? You gotta find
somewhere else to go. Right now, there's gotta be some
kind of exploratory committee going. Who's the guy to come
in and take over here?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Hey, you know Mike Buttonholes Oh wait a minute. I
mean you gotta find you gotta find a way to
change the energy. And sometimes it's not always about bringing
in someone with a great system or a great rapport,
but changing the energy certainly is something that works. That
might be the case here, but I mean it. Doc
is not going to make it to Thanksgiving with this team.
Forget about Christmas. That's Christmas is hell and gone. Now,
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man know that he might not make it to Thanksgiving
as head coach of the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Look at the way you accelerated this oh so fast.
We look at their schedule coming up for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Oh what do they get as a reward for this beatdown?
They get the host the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, good luck, that's a loss.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Then you got the raptors.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That lightens up. Okay, so you're okay, you got the
right and you.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Get Detroit, then Charlotte, than the planet Houston.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
See that's where things can get dangerous. This is this
is why I say he could be gone by Thanksgiving.
If it was a case of the Bucks and they
had a really difficult schedule coming up, and it's well,
we play the Knicks three times, you know what, We
play the Cavaliers, we play, you know, we have a
really tough swing. We're playing Cleveland, then we're going into Boston.
We have back to backs with Boston, then we have
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Oklahoma City, we have Minnesota. Then I kind of understand that, Okay,
these are really great teams and the Bucks are still
trying to but this is why those should be three
wins that are coming up. And they are not playing
well at all, and now you talk about giving them
the loss to Boston when they play if they come
out of those three games with one win, like like,
what what games are you really going to get a
(23:52):
w at if you're not beating those teams that are
not as bad as they've been in years past, But
there's still teams you should walk on the floor and beat.
With Giannis, That's that's what's gonna cause that that decision
to happen to Doc Rivers by Thanksgiving, when the schedule
is easier and you don't win games and you don't
make hay when you're playing the really the real, the
the easy teams and ones you should beat, that's when
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coaches get fired.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
The other is you've got a very flawed roster. You
basically have a two man act out there and the
occasional appearance by a Bobby Portis otherwise there's they're they're thin.
So you're already looking at let's talk about the trade market.
Let's talk she's a start, Let's talk about the trades.
How do you help? We just got past the NFL
trade dead live. We're already looking at the bucks are desperate.
(24:36):
How do they make a trade to keep you honest happy? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah, yeah, that'll work out. Uh, the new head coach
and a trade that that's exactly what'll go.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
When does he get the term coach killer? Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Well, I don't know coach, because are you really gonna say, wow,
Doc didn't get a chance, like when they get when
when they move on, are they gonna say, boy he
killed it? Not gonna say dude, Doc killed himself? Man
dot Doc that locked at himself.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
But it's still the noe's opportunity. When you go through
a number of coaches, it's you know, there's one common
denominator through it.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Oh talk didn't get a chance, man tug did not
going to.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
You know what the highlight of their season to date
has been though. What he got was Damian Lillard got
everybody their size of his latest signature shoe. Oh that yeah,
that is cool no matter what their affiliation is, whatever,
their contracts were sponsored and business deals are. And that
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was the happiest I've seen you, Honis this entre season?
That clip going around?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Can you sum up the Buck season so far in
two sentences? Yeah, they stink, but they got free shoes,
all right, thank you, there's your Buck season.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
That not bad. Hey, the shoes were a highlight. A
nice gift from Damian Lilly.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Game of the Week in college football coming up in
ninety seconds, but first special delivery. Steve de Sager has
what's trending in the wall world of sports. I just
found out Steve is actually related to Austin Reeves, who
had twenty points to night six out of ten to
three point shooting for the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
If only he started six to seven from long distance
had twenty points. Lebron James twenty one and this Laker
home win over Philadelphia won sixteen to one oh six.
Anthony Davis with thirty one points. Just for the record,
Bronnie James played the final minutes and uh, let's see,
he had no shots, no points, no assists, no steals,
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no blocks.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
That's a success for Bronnie James. That's a good game.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
And he was a next minus four on the court
for the last minute.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
So well, that will be in the G League. We're
tickets tomorrow for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Because there's only four rows of seats, sure.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Clippers.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Oh well.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
There, this is like one of those power of positive
thinking seminars. Seating is extremely limited, so there's not a
lot of people that want to come, but we're gonna
make it seem like a lot of people want to
come because we're gonn to charge a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Right if there were ten thousand seats, who would want
to come instead there's ten seats exactly.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
I actually have the seating chart up right now as
we speak. Guess and it's three rows. Oh yeah, I
oversold it. Yeah. No, the ticket is like this, They
just give you. You are where you seat one? Well,
what's that? No, there's twenty seats. Your seat one, C, two, three,
that's all.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
I just walk right over there walk sometimes the Yeah,
it's like the new neighborhoods. But that's the addresses. The
first one on the corner is one.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The other one is two. If you road double fad
road W section seventy. No just c one, just one,
just get a one. Oh, I'm sit se ten. That's
pretty good, all right.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
The Lakers channel shows some of the G League games
of theirs, of course, because it's at the Lakers practice facility.
Being a practice facility, it's not created to be an
arena four games. There is no space there. So okay,
the tickets are very expensive for some ungodly reason and
I think I use that adverb correctly, and so we've
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got three rows of seats there.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
You can see actually Lebron James for five hundred bucks
in awesome seats that you'll talk about the rest of
your life. Or you could spend five bucks to seat
to see what exactly what are they spending there?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Waiting?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Way do you see? You think Madison Square Gardener's great? Wait?
You see the lighting for this game tomorrow night? Way
down behind everybody. The ball could go into the stands.
I can't even see it.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I know where it is. Put it this way.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
When they play the pregame music and then turn it off.
You could probably hear the click from the index figure
of the guy turning it off over in the corner.
Clippers won in Sacramento tonight one oh seven to ninety eight.
Phoenix is eight and one after a one point win
at Dallas on a last second free throw. Oklahoma City
eight and one after beating Houston, Nick's Meat, Milwaukee and
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Yes the Bucks are two and seven this year. Boston
eight and two after its overtime victory over Brooklyn. Cleveland
ten and oh after ripping Golden State one thirty six
one seventeen. Here, the Warrior entered with a seven to
one record and Golden State was down at the half
eighty three forty two against the Cavs Detroit edged Atlanta
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won twenty two to one to twenty one. Cad Cunningham
the last second block in college hoops. Number one Kansas
survived at home to beat number nine North Carolina ninety
two eighty nine. Kansas had blown a twenty point lead
late first half. Currently, in Vegas, New Mexico leads number
twenty two UCLA fifty two to thirty nine with about
twelve minutes to play. Florida Gators basketball coach Todd Golden
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is being investigated for sexual harassment and stalking. He has
signed there through twenty thirty. Among the four NHL games
Pittsburgh defeated Washington four to two in college football on
Fox TV tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
At the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
UCLA was down ten to nothing after the first quarter
and still beat Iowa twenty to seventeen. Cow was zero
to four in the ACC but got to win at
Wake Forest forty six to thirty six. Currently final two minutes,
Memphis holding on twenty seven to twenty over Rice, and
on FS one early third quarter, New Mexico State leads
at San Diego State fourteen thirteen. The forty nine ers
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say they plan to activate running back Christian McCaffrey tomorrow.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O the Jason smithser
with Mike Carmen Lifethtirac dot Com Studios. All right, so
the loser leave town match tomorrow in college football, Alabama
and LSU, both teams with two losses, likely three losses,
is going to leave you on the outside looking And
it's the first year of the new playoff with twelve teams,
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so maybe a really good team with three losses could
get in, but you're kind of looking at right now, Hey,
outside of two, it's going to be tough to get in.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So basically this is a you win you're alive. If not,
you may be looking at a lower Bowl and what's
going to happen next year. If I had any confidence
that Brian Kelly could win this game, I would pick LSU.
But I don't because I haven't seen him do it.
I've seen him lose more big games and I've seen
him win big games. Conversely, I've seen Jalen Milroe win
(30:56):
more big games than i've seen him lose big games.
They're gonna have a tough time containing him. It's not
quite what LSU's defense does well, and it's gonna wind
up being close. There's gonna be a lot of points.
But I'm gonna trust a guy that I have seen
win big games before, and I'm a big believer in
that he might. He might wind up being the next
Lamar Jackson to the NFL. Give me Jalen mill Row Tomorrow.
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Alabama wins, they stay alive, Kleen de Bor gets a
big franchise win or a big moment, and Brian Kelly
gets another loss of Hey man, are we ever gonna
really turn the corner here? I'll take Alabama. I'll take
Jalen mill Row.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Just looking at Alabama and how they they win this matchup.
I mean LSU doesn't run the ball for anything. All
the stats on great protection are all fine and dandy
for LSU, and that offensive line is great, but Neussmart
puts the ball on Harm's way repeatedly, and that's that's
where they lose this. Even if they're close, the big
(31:52):
play goes to the Alabama defense, your guy Milrow and
what he's shown on tape, and where this offense can explosive.
I just look at the I'd hate to agree with you.
I do, but with Brian Kelly, we've seen it time
and time again. And and I know Pete Futech, who
was on with us earlier, is like, well, you don't
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get a lie. You know nobody's got a great record
against these but you know we're going with where we're
at in the calendar now and in games that you
need to find that extra And I just don't know
that LSU does. Every time I backed them, they've let
me down. I tried to.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
This year.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
How many times you do it before you got I'm sorry.
I got to walk away from you.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I can't do it anymore. I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I can't do it like Paulie and goodfellows. Right when
Paulie says it, here's here's here's five down. But now
I'm gonna turn my back on you.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I can't do it anymore, can't do three thousand bucks
for a lifetime.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
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Speaker 2 (33:10):
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Speaker 1 (33:19):
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a fight on a plane. I'm in a fight on
a plane. They may be snakes, they may be snakes
may playing. But two big stories out of baseball today.
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The first one the Yankees are keeping Aaron Boone for
another year. Kind of shocking since you know, they made
it to the World Series in all, but just the
fact that here we are, you know, a week plus
later and the Yankees say, oh yeah, we're gonna pick
up your option Aaron, and nope, flee, We're gonna figure
out a new contract with you. But wow, I mean,
this shows you the how the Yankees have taken a
(34:02):
hit in the last week since the World Series, that
it takes this long to say we're gonna pick up
your option. Ever it got unto the World Series. But no, no,
things are so bad because that whole lazy Yankees moniker
is just gonna stick to them in the off season
into the regular season until they get rid of it.
The last week of Joe Kelly and Miguel Rojas saying, Hey,
(34:24):
we knew we're gonna beat the Yankees because their stars
are lazy. Tell you it's not that accurate, because I
think it's a bad It's it's the wrong way to
to characterize the Yankees play in the playoffs. But lazy Yankees, boy,
that's gonna stick with them. Mike, that's gonna stick with
Aaron Boone. It's gonna stick with the organization lazy Yankees
as a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well that's you get stuck with it and it doesn't matter,
and we talk about it. You can get into semantics
and get into the nuance of it all. The fact
that that was Aaron Judge's first error of the season
when he dropped that fly ball, It doesn't matter. That
kind of thing stick sonya, like you know, a stink
and you're washing, like like you gets sprayed by a
(35:05):
you know, a skunk when you go out to take
out the trash, and that that's not coming off. It's
just not a lot of washing. A lot of problems.
Old factory senses are gonna be off the charts. But
for Aaron Boone, I think you you had the key
point there is it took you a week and a
half to do what seemed obvious, Like was he really
on the hot seat?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
I mean bring him back? I mean he went to
the World Series. You gotta give hey. The Yankees may
play and run the bases like a bunch of drunks,
and they may play horrible defensively, but still he got
to the World Series. You would think that would be
all right, We're gonna bring the manager back but we're
gonna wait, make you sweat a week and then say yeah,
you're coming back work on a new deal.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
But but ahead of the World series all of that, Like,
here's the positivity. What a great run for these Yankees.
Obviously this is working. If nothing else, it's also the
or maybe this is all contingent of Hey, Wan Sodo
was like, it's him or me. He's like, it was
the I'm staying around and uh, all right, I want
(36:05):
to see what you're gonna do at manager and Cashman said, well,
we really like Aaron and then Soda said it, well,
I'm out him or me?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Wait wait wait, wait, wait wait. This is why the
Yankees saying we're gonna keep traveling to wherever Wan Sota
is to talk to him. Hey wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Why not we love you. We gotta don't shut us
out yet. But but yeah, I just I just don't
get it, like a week and a half. Let it's like, oh,
by the way, yeah he's gonna stay our manager.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
What an afterthought on a moment. Yeah, you have this
great run, And obviously it ends in crushing fashion that
fifth Inning will be something that documentaries are gonna be
made on and we're gonna watch every at bat, every
fielding play by those principal players forever. Anthony Rizzo, the
fall guy who did at least for the moment, get
(36:50):
shipped out of town like all of that to say,
you know, yeah, now a week and a half later,
he's like, yay, yeah, we're picking up the opption.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
It'll be he'll he'll be around for another Year's like,
what else does he have to do? Like he's either
your guy or he's not. I mean, there's plenty of
sample size here.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
The other big story today and and there's there was
a differing amount of the interest level of that because look,
moon Soto is clearly going to be the prize of
the offseason every day is a Mets Yankees headline who
was talking to him was not. But reports came out
today and this is documented that the Mets have checked
in on Willia domas shortstop for the Brewers, who has said, hey,
(37:28):
free agency, I'm willing to move to third base, right
which is a big thing. Other players I said they'll move,
like Alex Bregman said I'll move to second base, and
I have to because look, these guys want to get paid,
right then, Okay, you don't see me as playing here.
I could play here, come on, I now now.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
But also I look really good and stats wise, and
they can do great comps to guys that play second. Yeah,
I look, I look so much better here, don't I
Mike im out here crushing the Mets.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
What are you doing? But look, Adamas is a really
good shortstop. He'd be a great third Baseman's twenty nine
years old, and they were just varying reports. All the
Mets offered a big deal. He offered them money. I
don't know that they've done that, but I know they
checked in on him. Now here's a big takeaway. Just
the fact they're going after and they're talking to Willie
(38:11):
Damas tells me that he's gonna come in and play third.
Mark Vientos, who has become a great player in one year,
is a Mets best player throughout the entire postseason. He'll
probably go over to play first base, right because hes
gonna play third base or first base. Just the fact
they're going out talking to Adamas, who knows he's gonna
have to move to third base if they sign him,
tells me the Mets are saying Pete Alonzo thank you.
(38:33):
We're moving on. I mean, I know that they're talking
to Boris about Juan Soda, and SODA's gonna be a
guy that go after. But just seeing the fact that
they were going out after a guy who is gonna
play third base and force another great young player to
move across the diamond. Alonzo's a first basement and I
think the Mets are saying goodbye. They're saying, you know what,
I know, you're gonna want to give give us, you know,
(38:56):
put us over a barrel for a lot of money.
But he is a power hitter who's thirty years old.
He's had a great career with us. We're not gonna overpay.
It was a down year for him this year. Yes,
he had the big home run against the Brewers that
that's gonna live in Mets lore forever. But just the
fact the way the Mets are approaching things tells me
ped Alonzo's out there for whoever wants them. The Mets
are gonna let him go.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
How does that make you feel?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Honestly, what do I say anytimes someone has Scott Boris
as an agent, I say goodbye to them. Not that's
because I say, you know what, I know you're probably
gonna leave, You're not gonna come back, And lots of
teams went, hey, I know we're gonna lose Scott Boris
is gonna make some kind of bidding war. He's gonna
take it down to the end. We're not gonna wait
and potentially lose a guy. So yeah, the Mets know
(39:39):
with with with with Boris and with whoever he has,
he's gonna keep him out late. Now, for an outfielder,
you can do that, say well, we can always go
out to another outfielder if we lose at won Soto,
But in field you want to make sure you have
that taken care of. And the fact they're going out
saying this we want to do infield wise tells me
pine A Lonzo's gonna be on a different team.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Any of those guys from last year that waited around
sitting there like the little old man the Woods in
the horror movie, going hey, man, don't go down this path.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Exit out Vuna fresca, exit swollen down. Yes, I've already
waved goodbye to Peter Alonzo. Coming up next, we check
in and give a Big Bowl prediction about one of
the hottest teams in college football, and yeah, one college
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