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the big drama tonight, Clay's return to Golden State, Eric
Spolster's time out. He's got some bits on JJ Redick
and the Lakers too. Remember under he's undermining JJ Reddick
so he can become the head coach. But not one,
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but two big football stories for you over the course
of the next few minutes. How about that? Okay, tonight
first to start with college and we'll get to the pros.
College football. The latest playoff poll comes out earlier tonight
to no one's surprise. Oregon, Ohio State, Texas, and Penn
State are the top four teams. Penn State proven that
hell wow, that really bad lost James Franklin. How we
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can forget about that in a week. So that is
your top four BYU Tennessee. Notre Dame, Miami, Alabama, Ole Miss,
and Georgia are teams six through twelve, with Indiana sitting
at number five. The Hoosiers with Michael Pennix watching this
weekend and Antoine Randelel and Anthony Thompson. Okay, Na, I'm
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just saying, the most famous people that's ever gone to
Dianna played football. Ah, they beat Michigan and here they
are sitting at number five. The Indiana Hoosiers. Bigger fight
with Michigan than a lot of folks believed.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You and I talked about it Friday with Pete Futech,
and I think we were spot on with this one,
that they were good enough to win, but that Michigan
would hang around and make it interesting either way, Indiana
moves up to number five. We had enough chaos at
the top of the board to create some shuffling. But
where it gets interesting are those teams just on the
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outside looking in as to whether they'll get a quote
fair shake to get in if they went out, Because
that's like, we have to assume the board holds. We
do have a little bit of cannibalization when it comes
to the conference titles and stuff. But yeah, Indiana at
number five, they had better odds before this last week.
They had better odds before for the win against Michigan,
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better odds to win the College Football Championship than Indiana
basketball had for the Ncaflol. The football like football stool
that would graphic popped up in my in the Twitter verse,
and I just had to pause for a moment, going wow,
seeing wonderful things in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Football school, Indiana's football school. Now everything is fine. There's
still a long way to go. You still talk about
most teams having three games left in the conference championships,
but I can already tell you where the one big
piece of drama is going to be Right now. Boise
State is thirteenth. Why is this a big deal. This
is where things change because the top four teams, the
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four highest rated conference champions, get a bye and the
top five conference champions make it. Boise State in the
Mountain West right now would be the champion of the
Mountain West. They would be included no matter what.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They would be the fifth finger up in the King
Kong Monday five count.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And I will tell you this, this is where all
the controversy is gonna come from at the end of
the year with Boise State getting in. It's going to
be how does Boise State get in? They don't really
play in a real conference? How does Boise I mean really?
And you think about it, should Boise Sta get in?
The Mountain West is terrible. It's not the same as
the Big Ten or the SEC, even the ACC. But
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you're letting the conference champion in. And the reason it's
going to be big is because you look at where
Boise State is. Will they get in is probably the
twelve seed. Yeah, they'll probably sneak in as well, but
right now, well, it's a conference champion who were knocked out.
Yeah's conference champion? Maybe? Yeah. Top four conference champions are
the top four SI, yes, but you're looking at the
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teams right around twelve who could get left out Georgia, Texas,
A and M Colorado. They're all twelve through seventeen. If
one of those teams gets left out for Boise State,
which is probably gonna happen, what do you think the
reaction is going to be after the season? What the
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hell are we doing?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Can San Jose State? Can Wyoming or can Oregon State?
Can the Beavers upset the Apple car We cannot have this?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, no, no, no no. This is absolutely awful. The
Mountain West champion, No, no, no, no no. And George
is gonna say all the money we make for college football,
all the interest, the schedule that we play, which, yes,
you're playing the SEC schedule. It's just like I feel
about mid major teams in college basketball. If you take
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a team from the Horizon or the Sun Belt and
put them in the ACC, the best teams are maybe
five hundred. If you take Boise State out of the
Mountain West put them in the SEC, what are they
They're maybe five hundred. They're not going to a They're
not gonna be going to the playoff. So yeah, I
get it. But boy, if one of those big, high
profile teams gets left out, and you're gonna have to
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leave somebody out. That's gonna be the first thing that's
looked at. Mountain West, Mountain West, How is the Mountain West?
Get this berth here? No no, no, no, no, no no,
Mike car We're gonna be all no, no, no, all
the way up and down the road.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
No, it's great, you get the big fight that'll happen.
I immediately start thinking about the meaning of life when they're
in the hospital room and the administrators come in and
they're showing them all their fancy machines. Oh, and that
one's the one that goes bing. It's like, well, what
do I do? Well, nothing, You're not qualified. And that's
kind of what you're telling little Boise State over there,
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Jason Smith. And what might become the resounding reaction in
the PostScript and saying, damn it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
All I can do is tell you what's going to happen,
because everybody's already kept going to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Everybody's already complaining about Georgia's strength of schedule, Like all right,
we're not at the end game yet and they're still
in by these accounts, right, but.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's gonna change because boys, they again, you know, Miami
would move up right because their conference said they'd move
up a little bit, even though they loved them move
up to number four.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So there's gonna be some changes dangerously. Yeah, I mean
there's plenty of judging going to house. Don't stumble a
fourth time? How about that it's gonna happen. It used
to be don't lose a second game, don't lose a
first game, then don't lose a second game. Now it's like,
well maybe at three losses, and now we're looking, No, Georgia,
don't lose.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We're seven and five in the toughest conference in America.
You can't leave us out again.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I saw the algorithm and it says we played the
hardest schedule ever, so we should get Actually it's like
weighted GPAs nonsense. You know, well, you know, let's let's
keep adding more ways, Like, well, what did you actually
get on the test? It doesn't matter, I have a
four point eight. Do you actually know anything?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, from one thing that's gonna happen in college football
to one thing that's gonna happen in the NFL. Okay,
another team, high profile team and all day yesterday you
saw the plaudits and the flowers that the Lions got
following their big win over the Texans. Right, we've done
that for the last few weeks. We've told you how
great the Lions are, that the best team in the NFL.
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Everybody's coming around to that. Now, Okay, fine, it's going
to be late. It's good to be the party, even
if you're really really late. Oh I like to show
up early.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Us a better assortment of food and sharkuterie.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, there's alway. The charcootery is always gone, always better.
Why is there like one cracker and like half of
a half a little bit? Yeah, I don't want that.
But look, we told you about the line, so so
we'll give you. We'll be ahead of the curve and
tell you something different about Detroit. I told you for
a while the only fear I had for Detroit because
they're playing so well, is that they're peaking too early. Right,
they're peaking now and and and you know what, teams
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are going to figure stuff out by the middle of December.
It's hard to stay that hot for that long. But
now I got something else, And this is this is
this is a this is a really big deal. And
it comes off of what we saw Sunday night. Amazing
that they can overcome Jared Goff throwing five picks and
winning the game. Amazed they can overcome a really bad
performance and win the game. Dan Campbell makes an awful
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decision on the final drive to settle for a fifty
two yard field goal. You have third down, you have
time left, you have timeouts. Fifty two yards. Yeah, I
get you like your kicker, but fifty two yards is
not a gimme. And Dan Campbell decides, this is how
we do it, So I'm gonna let it go all
the way down and they kick a field goal on
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the final play and it just whispers through and they win.
That was a horrendous decision, but it worked out because
Detroit's been rolling seven since the beginning of the season.
They've been red hot. It doesn't matter strategy, no strategy,
they've been winning games. And because they're just so good,
their offense is so good, they're finding a way to win.
And like I said, they're just hot right now and
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they're rolling. But that was a really bad decision, and
he is a risky coach when it comes to making decisions,
whether you agree or disagree with how he coached in
the NFC Championship game last year. I don't like they
went for it on fourth down a couple of times
in the second half because it's different doing it there
on the road in the NFC title game than it
is Week ten against the Bears. And still you saw
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they weren't ready for the pressure, they didn't convert first downs,
and they lost the game. But it doesn't matter because
that's who Dan Campbell is. He is a risky coach
and he didn't see the downside. Oh we always do it,
so why not? Well, dude, not every situation is created equal.
He likes to take risks. This is a risk. Why
would you not want to risk it? Yeah, Jared Goff
throwing five touchdowns. He also threw you back into the game.
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Do you believe in your quarterback or not? He got
you back in. You score, you got a ten zero run,
you're moving the football really well. You don't settle for
a fifty two yard field goal when you make these
risky decisions. Risky decisions don't have any more than a
fifty percent success, right, That's why they're risks. And eventually,
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what's gonna happen is he's gonna make a call and
it's gonna come back, and it's gonna bite them in
the ass at the absolute worst time, and Detroit's gonna
get caught cambeling, because right, cambling's pretty good. Hashtag cambeling, hashtag,
hashtag patent pending, because that's what he does. He makes
these risky calls thinking we can do it, and they
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don't always come through. And it came through here this time, right,
another six inches one way and the ball bounces off
and you go to overtime and who knows, but it
went through him not saying, look, they won the game,
but these risky calls are gonna backfire at the absolute
worst time. And you could see the Lions going home
in the playoffs because hey, we made this crazy ass
decision that backfired on us and now we lost because
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because what if that that happens again, or I'm gonna
settle for a fifty yard field goal, our guy misses it,
we go to overtime and we lose in overtime. I
had chance to get really close kick a field goal
with ten seconds left, but no, no, no, I settled
for a fifty two yarder. He makes risky decisions, and
risky decisions never pan out. You can't be that risky.
Even Andy Reid, he knows when to gamble and when
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not to that that's what that's what makes a great coach.
And Campbell is too risky. And I'll tell you that's
my biggest fear. The Lions are gonna be caught in
a big game. Maybe it's the NFC title game, maybe
it's a playoff game, maybe it's a Super Bowl against
the Jets. Man who knows, but they're gonna get caught
and he's gonna make a decision that backfires and the
lines are gonna go home because of it.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Well, i'd like to think your guys are ready and
battle tested for those big moments. And that's what Dan Campbell,
that's how he operates. And certainly to your your point,
I mean, you're just channeling, you're enter Kenny Rodgers on
your super Sounds of the seventies with your You got
to know when to hold them, no, when to fold them.
In this particular case, I may agree with the aggressiveness,
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I'm still gonna abhord the clock management and this decision
as he had opportunities here with two timeouts remaining. You
get a pass to Saint Brown for eleven yards, gets
you to the thirty seven. That's at a minute thirty three.
Gibbs runs up the middle, still forty nine seconds left.
You still have two timeouts in your pocket. And then
after the the second and eight you call the time
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out with four seconds left, setup field goal. It's like,
all right, I get it to your point five interceptions
from golf, give it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
To Gibbs again, let him run the ball, let gives
stay in bounds. Get another five y'all cards. If you
can right get to the five five yard makes the
forty seven yard field goals a lot easier mistake.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's it's some of that, you know, trying to take
away some of the the potential variability of it all.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But you know what, in an NFL that's pretty boring.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And most of the time guys go by the script
and they do it and they can't execute it for
for anything. Dan Campbell's a breadth of fresh air and
he injects a little bit of chaos into our lives.
Cambling cambling could vary. When I get caught cambling and
watch what happens. The official theme song, Iggy pop. If
I don't crap.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Out exit out about a Fresco exit swallowed dome again,
that's what we call the show ahead of the curve
clip and save that for when that happens and bites
the lines in the ass. Yeah, now all your family
hates you. No, no, no, that not just made them worried, like, oh,
gret I gotta worry about.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Hm kere giving him stress.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Holiday. No, it's not gonna be till the playoffs. That's fine.
But now it's build up. They go playoffs and that's
till play Its fine, it's not till the middle of January.
You guys are fine. We'll love the holidays. It'll be great.
We have a holiday, we'll have New Year. It's fine.
Don't worry about that. The holiday season and Whoop de
do and hickoried doc Uh coming up next. NBA insider
(14:13):
Mark Medina stops by all the latest on Clay's return
to Golden State. Are they really that much better without him?
What does he have on the Lakers? And JJ Reddick
Eric Spolster calling time out in the situation we've never
seen it happen before. Big heavy drama to break down
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Speaker 1 (15:43):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the tire rack dot Com studios. A big
night in the NBA. Klay Thompson's return to Golden State
goes great for the Warriors, Joel Ebad's return, It was
great for the Knicks. Eric Spolse's return the calling time
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out goes great for the Pistons. Joining us now on
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at Mark g Underscore Medina. That said, Mark g Underscore Medina, Mark,
what's happening about? How are you?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I am doing well? I was curious to are you?
Have you already made parade plans already for the sid
season tournament? A You're gonna wait?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Well, I'm gonna have to wait a little bit because
you know I I don't want to put the cart
before the horse. I don't want to celebrate early. Even
though with Big Bodega, I think as the season goes on,
the Knicks will have less and less problems because boy,
he has been something so far.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well, look, Karl Anthony Town's making a statement win even
though Joel Embiid is not Joel Embiid right now. But
I think this is just saying itself up for them
to play the Lakers, and I will do my best
to prepare the Lakers to get to that point and
then when you know it's the Grand State, I'll do
my best at an undermine JJ Reddick.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
So the next winning air forver Saboteur Saboteur.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I mean, look, JJ Reddick already recruiting for next year's draft,
showing up at that Duke Kentucky game, so I mean
he already tapped out.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
But you know what, he can avoid tampering rules because
he can say he's just a support of alum.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's really brilliant kind of thing. It also gets us
to talk about that instead of you know, the inane
conversations that continue to surround Browny James, who's now planted
in the G League. But you know, Smith's still celebrating
his victory here Joel Embiide in his return. I mean,
Philadelphia has got all Max. He's not coming back for
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a month. I mean, what are they at.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
This point, Well, they're almost last I think in the
Eastern Conference at this point. Now, what's fascinating is when
he talked to the Sixers there town in La last week,
they're whols a cucumber. I mean, they are leaning on
to the fact that they're in this predicament because Joel
Embiid hadn't played a game yet until tonight, Paula George
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was nursing preseason injury and didn't come back until last week,
and then Tyree maxtently got hurt. And to your point,
he's technically going to be a reevaluated this week, but
that's reevaluation to clear him to start doing work, so
he'll probably be out longer. But their whole m on
it is, you know what, this is giving us adversity
at the beginning of the season as opposed to the end.
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This really forces us to lean into our depth. And
I'm not dismissing it outright, like they do have a
depthful roster, but the reality is you can't play catch
up too much in the NBA. Or it just becomes
a slog the rest of the season. So I'm not
surprised that the outcome. Joel Embiid was going to be
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out of shape. First came back on a minute's restriction.
I think Paul George, you know, turned a corner with
his minute restriction in his play. But look, the Sixers
have no match for the Knicks. Jason Smith will like
hearing that caring Anthony Towns is the real deal with
changing how their complexion is offensively, and I think that
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when you're looking at the next early season struggles, one
of it was their permer defense, and they really improved tonight.
So huge step in the right direction. That goes without saying,
you know, Jalen Brunson's playing a high level. He didn't
shoot well from three tonight, but it is a testament
that he can still get other guys involved and still
ensure a well balanced offense because of how great of
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a leader he is.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, you talked about some things you can't do in
the NBA and succeed, and I get that, but you
know one thing we found out tonight you really can't
do is you can't call timeouts and you don't have
well that's a.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Big no no, Mark, that is all about this.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I mean, really, if you said to me, who's the
last coach in the NBA that's going to call a
timeout he doesn't have at the end of a game
and they lose because of it, I would have told
you Eric Spolster.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, and I'm sure the first would have been kJ
Reddick because Mark Mandina told him to do it and
he had enough for it. Sabatur didn't work this time. Yeah,
that was wild that Eric Spolster did that because he's
been in the game for a while. You could tell
that he immediately recognized that he didn't have timeouts left.
He owned it at the press conferce. So that's all
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well and good. You know when a coach takes ownership
and acknowledges the obvious. But you know, the heat resilient team.
But these are these kind of games that he wondered
as it bite you in the end, is when it
comes down to the standings race and then technically, you know,
do you wonder if it bites you in the end
with the n season torment or the Emirates Cup Because
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his group play and every game makes a difference as
far as whether you advance the next stage or not.
So yeah, weird gaff across the board. I would not
have picked that on the Bingo car because of how
great of a coach Spolsure is and how the Miami
Heat always find a way to improve on the margins
because of good tactical decisions, unlike what we saw the
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night against Detroit.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So we talked a little bit about Reddick taking in
is Alma Maters game tonight six and four. Are the
Lakers point differential sitting at point three for the season,
not running ahead, not falling behind, but as they look
into this next phase of the rotation, between how Lebron's
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handling the ball and what they've done with the rotation,
how does it know forge forward this next quarter of
the season.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Or so yeah. Well, I asked JJ Reddick kind of
like the ten game check in sample size, what do
you make of the progress? And he acknowledged, Look, the offense,
defense has a ways to go. I mean, it's very early.
But the thing that he was very encouraged on is
that there's a really good buy in from the players
and their attitude in regards to just everything. How they
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are practice, they shoot around, film sessions, I think the
early versity of how the team handled the lineup switch
with Cam Reddish coming in to start because he's a
better perimeter defender and Russell coming off the bench partly
because of his struggles for partly because he could give
some secondary scoring to a bench unit that's really struggled.
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It paid dividends from a production standpoint. They've gotten to
wins since then, and also there hasn't been any sulking D'Angel.
Russell is a player that's known to not react accordingly
when he doesn't see eye to eye with a head coach.
I mean that happened with Byron Scott his rookie season
ten games in lost the starting role last season, Darvin
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Ham made a lionup switch even sooner than that, and
he didn't always react how the head coaches wanted in here.
He and JJ Reddick have a really good relationship. They
bonded over the summer. But I think it's not just
about the fact that they get along or have personality
similarities or like golf. There's a respect level that Dangeli
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had as for JJ, because he knows is his x's
and o's and he's a former player. But the reality
is it's an early season, and so while more encouraged
than discouraged about how the Lakers are, there are a
lot of ups and downs as far as the fact
that their role players are inconsistent. Lebron James is still
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playing well, but he's not the number one option. Anthony
Davis is durable so far gaining MVP buzz, but you
never know if that'll change. So very much will work
in progress. But you know what, I might have to
detag myself with this underminorick game that I have because
I think JJ has actually been doing really good job,
you know.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And here's the thing is that I really think they
hit on something. When the benching of D'Angelo Russell came about,
he was upset with how he was how things were going,
so he benches him. And then what happens with the Lakers, Well,
you take the ball out of the hands of a
guy making bad decisions. He comes off the bench the
last couple of games able to do his thing. Great.
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Now that Lebron James is playing point guard, no he's
not taking the shots, but he is now playing this
kind of like when he moved to center a couple
of years ago. On look out. Domedy is at the five,
like he's not taking all the shots and he's setting
up his teammates. Austin Reeves is hitting shots ads the
number one. I think the Lakers might have hit on
something here with Lebron playing point guard and being more
of a pass first guy and getting his buckets complimentary
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wise than just being an attack to basket and try
to be a triple double threat all the time. Lakers
might have hit on something here.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Mark, Yeah, I really think so too. Now, I think,
in fairness, it is fluid. It's not like this is
this sorry lamp's going to stay permanent forever.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
JJ has made it clear that he is going to
be someone that's going to chase matchups accordingly. But I
think the bottom line is if a starting unit is
playing really well, you don't fix what isn't broke. So
I'm encouraged with all that for all the things that
you hit on the one thing I am curious about
with JJ, and maybe I put my owner mind hat
back on here. As much as I'm impressed with how
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he's built relationships with players, he obviously knows his stuff.
He knows his his x as and O's especially for
a first year head coach, his emotions can be a
strength and also detriment. I think, on one hand, it's
good that he shows that he cares. He's very obsessive
about his craft. He loves what he does. He's putting
in the work. But it's a long season, and for
you to get so emotional through a course of an
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eighty two game season, I think it can do two things.
One it can worry you out and wage age you
really fast. And two it's one thing for players to
be responsive in the short term about that, but if
you're always being that reactive and that intense through the
course of the season, at some point, it'll burn everyone out.
So I am curious how well he can kind of
temper those lows, because he even acknowledged when I asked
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him about that before the season started, about challenges, and
he said, that's going to be something that's going to
be a challenge for him, handling the lows of the season.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I have a two part question for you, Lynn Manuel.
Miranda's working on a musical addaptation of the Warriors, the
classic film One will you watch that be? If you
were to write a song to describe the early returns
of these Warriors. For Steve Kerr, how should he penate
aggressively that they're ready to win and dominate, or that
(26:17):
it's a cautionary tale that will fall apart in the
third act.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
No, I think it's the slogan's strengthen numbers. I mean
they can just adopt what they had in twenty fourteen
to fifteen and apply it to this group now. I
don't think onlike that season it's a championship contending team
quite yet. But this is a team I'm penciling in
to make the playoffs, presuming you know, good health. Steph's
Steph Curry playing a high level. Draymond Green's great defender.
(26:43):
I think he'll be more available this season. He'll still
get technicals that he won't get suspensions, and they're supporting cast.
I think clearly we've seen that that formula of a
collection of good, serviceable players and younger players with Jonathan
kaminga Branton Ponzims, that's a better play than Klay Thompson
is at this point of his career. Klay Thompson still
(27:05):
showed with Dallas he still can be great. It's a
good fit there. I think they're a good team. Their
chemistry is going to continue to improve. But the Warriors
I think clearly showed not just with the performance tonight,
but big picture that they're in a better direction this season.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So better direction without Klay Thompson.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean here's the reality. I mean,
if they brought back Clay at a more manageable cap number,
they would have been fine with that, but his role
wouldn't have been the same because they're trying to get
Brydon Ponzimski to really grow into a bigger role because
he's a younger player. I think the other thing is
that Clay is still a great shooter. We saw that tonight,
(27:44):
but he's not the same kind of defender that we
saw during his prime year. So yeah, I think even
with cap restrictions, aside from an ex as an O standpoint,
the personnel that they have right now this season is
better than last season.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
One. For me, why is everybody hurt?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's part of
the game. Number one. Number two, the speed of the game,
and number three, Uh, some of these players have had
recurring injuries, so and that's what happens. Kawhi, Leonard, Kevin
Durant are the most notable examples. It's obviously not good
for the NBA because when we have star players out
(28:26):
that really dampens the fan experience from both fans in
the stands and ones on TV. But I think in
this case most of them are fairly unavoidable.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You can follow them on Twitter at Mark g underscore Medina.
That's had Mark g underscore Medina, where he is detailing
his plans to undermine JJ red as head coach of
the Lakers. Mark is always buddy appreciated, my friend, we'll
talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Just just preview this Knicks Lakers and the championship game
in the Emirates coping time at But he doesn't have
enough left, you know who to credit for.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The Somebody kept yelling to me from the scores to
hey call a timeout, and look at it's Mark Medina.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He's yelling time out. Oh diabolical.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I didn't call for a timeout, but Mark, who can
mimic JJ Reddick's voice? Oh nice? Makes it sound like
his voice like he wants a time out? Nicks win,
nix wainn how about that?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Time out? To find out what's trending in the wide
World of Sports fro Isaac Lowencron, I love what do
you got for us tonight?
Speaker 5 (29:28):
The Cup, not the Stanley Cup, not the Protective Cup,
but indeed the NBA Cup. It got underway on Tuesday night,
headlined by Klay Thompson's return to Golden State. He scored
twenty two points with six three pointers for his new team,
the Dallas Mavericks, but to me, his old team, the Warriors,
prevailing one twenty to one seventeen because of the exploits
(29:49):
of Steph Curry, who closed the game out scoring the
Mavericks twelve to three by himself over the final three
minutes and ten seconds to finish with thirty seven points.
The Detroit Pistons defeated the My I Am a heat
and overtime one twenty three to one twenty one, and
again the Heat were up by one point. Excuse me,
the Heat were up by two points with one point
(30:11):
eight left in overtime, with Detroit inbounding the ball. Eric
Reid and John Crowdyon Heat TV pick up the insanity
from there, the turning in Nobody's guarding him in it
Connastir and ducks it Oh Mine unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
In seven tenths of a second.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They tie the game in one twenty.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
One the Pistols. You're walking off the court full timeout.
Oh no, but referee is saying that Coach Poe is
called a timeout and that's a technical foul. Is the
heater out of timeouts? Oh boy? Oh boy?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Is right?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Say it ain't spo leading to a game winning free
throw by Malik Beasley. And here was Spolstra after the game.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
I just made up just a serious mental error, you
know there at the end.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's on me. I feel horrible about it.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
There's really no excuse for that. I'm seventeen years in
and we had talked about it in the huddle. I
knew that we didn't have anything.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I just got.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Emotional and reactive on that, and I just made up
just a horrendous mistake.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
College hoops Tuesday night, nineteenth rank Kentucky knocked off number
six Dukes seventy seven to seventy two. In the new
college football playoff rankings release Tuesday evening, Oregon remained number one,
followed by Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, Indiana was number five,
and byu number six finally fell as TMZ reported Tuesday,
the last month, the homes of both Patrick Mahomes and
(31:36):
Travis Kelcey were burglarized within one day of each other.
Twenty thousand dollars in cash was taken from Kelsey's home,
which was broken into while he was playing in a
Monday night football game against the Saints at Arrowhead. Mahomes
house had been broken into one day before. TMZ also
reports that the FBI is now assisting in the investigation.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
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You can get it. But coming up next, why tonight
was the biggest night of the year for a sport
that just began. That's next right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
This be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
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Speaker 1 (32:48):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Beach hob Now, before we get to a
night that one sport is never going to forget. A
big announcement just came in not too long ago. People
Magazine just named their sexiest Man of the Year. And
there's a big rumor today it was gonna be Glenn Powell.
(33:09):
All these pictures of Glenn Palell, Glenn Powell, Glenn Powell,
Glenn Powell, People Sexiest Man of the Year.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I must have won. If you're bringing it up on
the show. You came in, you came in second, You
came in second. Okay, People's Sexiest Man of the Year again.
Did not see this coming, So.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
John Cena, No, but it is John not John Sena,
not John Stamos. This list is rigged. John Ramos not
John ra Ramoss, Nope, johns John Wick No, how great
would that be. I'm not into list. I'm going to
(33:45):
kill all of you who put me in a magazine.
John tell me what is sexy? John Cusack not John
kill in nineteen eighty nine. Maybe John Cusack could have
been a world sexiest man.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And then he went and begged for tickets on letter
Man and let Himan put him in his place. John Malta, No,
nineteen seventy seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
So that would be a big pick for a sexiest man.
John Carlos, not John Carlos. No. John David Boody not
John David. There's a name, Mary. He was a football
player in two thousand and five.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
John John No Jacob Jingle Heimersmith.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
His name is mine and TJ. Whenever we go out,
the people always shout John Jacob Jingo Heimerchmid No, no, no, no, no,
no John, not Jon's cell of fame. Miss just no
John not Jo All come on too soon.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Rocky Mountain, Well, I mean we could be thinking of
the memory of John.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Swade the voters, Rocky Mountain. I know John Malkovich, not
nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Mates.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, John John Krasinski is your sexiest man of the
That's the winner. John Krasinski is the winner. He's the winner.
From the office. Why from never heard and you've never
heard of him from a choir Johnny Pam, Yes, over
Jim and Pan. Did you say Pam or Pam? It's
Jim and Pam, he said, John and right Pam? No, no, no, no, yes,
(35:24):
Peter Pan and Wendy. Sure Peter Pan, Pan's Labyrinth. No
John Krasinski sexiest, sexiest man alive? Who knew? I did
not see that coming from the office. We feel really
bad that, you know, the Office may be looking for
a reboot. So well, maybe it was really good. Why
did he Why did he win? He won for a
(35:47):
quiet place? Why? What part one and two and three? Why?
Because choiir place is pretty good? Okay, it's pretty good.
I'll disagree. You don't like it, I'm sorry. What a surprise?
I hate everything, Mike Carbage all I'd enambered with a
lot of right, I weren't like that movie. You were
(36:07):
bored with a post apocalyptic movie in which aliens came
from above and they take over and and they kill
you if they hear you make a sound. You were bored? Yeah, okay,
you write that, then you were bored. I was bored
about that. Did you know? It was not enough of action?
It was kind of done with it was there not
enough action in the spendables for you didn't That was fun.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Because you never knew which eighties action start was going
to show up next. So it was more the anticipatory
thing and there when it came to the quiet place
once the aliens you know, announced themselves, I was kind
of done with it because I.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Was assuming that the humans would win. Well, not to
be spoiler, humans don't always win. Maybe we lose. That
was one for a while. He did it been wait
five years, come back, maybe he wins again. For your things,
that's why they're doing a reboot now. It's the middle
of November and we had an incredible college basketball game
(37:02):
tonight between Kentucky and Duke, decided in the final thirty
seconds by a player who is the biggest star this
game has seen since Zion Williamson was playing at Duke
a few years ago. Cooper Flagg has been everywhere. The
desire to see this superstar freshman play at Duke has
been off the charts. We've seen him already make some
(37:24):
plays that make your jaw drop. There's already NBA teams jostling, Hey,
we're gonna take just to get this guy. Rob Polinka
was at the game tonight scouting, and he had an
incredible game, big man with great handles. He's fantastic twenty
six and twelve. However, he absolutely cost them the game
with three horrendous plays in the final thirty seconds. I
(37:47):
don't know that you could have a worse thirty seconds
in a game than Cooper Flagg with the Jamar Smith
with a game tied. That was only one thing j R.
Smith did. Yeah, it was enough. With the game tied
at seventy two, under thirty seven seconds left to go,
Cooper Flagg going in for the go ahead bucket and
he gets it stripped away. Kentucky gets it, hits a
couple of free throws. Okay, Cooper Flag gets a chance again,
(38:09):
comes down, dribbles to the baseline, gets in trouble defended
one on one, goes out of bounds, dribbles, the ball
falls down, tries to pick himself up, puts his hand
on the end line, not once, but twice, is ruled
out of bounds. Kentucky gets the ball, They hit one
free throw, they're up by three. They missed the second,
so it's a three point game, and Cooper Flag is
(38:30):
underneath to get the rebound, and Duke still has five
seconds to get up court and get a shot off,
except the ball bounces around his hands, bounces through. Kentucky
is able to grab the rebound, get fouled, hit a
couple of free throws with one second left, and Kentucky
wins the game seventy seven to seventy two. The final
thirty seconds for Cooper Flag two bad turnovers and a
(38:53):
lack of corralling a rebound at which he wasn't really
challenged for it. So it's a bad night for Cooper Flag, right,
even though he had great game up until the final
thirty sex.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, a lot of defense, because let's attribute it all
the great defense. Thirty nine percent shooting for Duke, forty
percent shooting from Kentucky. They were better from three point range,
five more free throws. Hey, margin of victory five, but
that's better at distributing the ball.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But this is an incredible night for college basketball because
for a sport that has been looking for relevancy the
last few years, without the big superstar team to sink
our teeth into. Look, it's fun that Yukon's winning, and
Danny Hurley is fun to a point, But they've been
missing star power and now they have it. And it's
with the evil Empire Duke, which has kind of been asleep.
It's been an evil empire that's been dormant the last
(39:38):
few years because Mike Krzewski retires. They don't really have
star players. And you know, hating Duke is not really
in vogue. But now here's Duke play in this big,
high profile game. They lose, there's big mistakes, there's a
lot of drama. There's great play by Cooper Flagg, who
is the big, super duper star in college basketball. Tonight
really began the college basketball season and it will be
(40:00):
the best college basketball season the last few years because
they have relevancy, they have attention, they have eyeballs because
of Cooper flag and because of Duke. This is this
is what college basketball is needed, and they need a
star and a star team every single year and they haven't.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
No, yeah, we really haven't had it since all those
old school guys, you know, Latner and Wojo and Cherokee
Parks and all those guys roll legends as it were.
I want to know, though, why would they schedule it
on the opening of the the Emirates Cup.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I mean, come on, plays returns. Hey, when can we
play it? Well, it's either we play Thursday night football
against other football or the Emirates Emert Cup Emerts Cu
Emerts Cup. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I decided to go head tohead with the NBA rush him.
But yeah, this is great because perhaps we can get
some villainy back properly.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
They need the Duke Villa and you have the great
player in Cooper Flag. I mean, this is what college
basketball is mean, let's go. Coming up next, my buddy
Ben Mallard. This as Fox
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Medina coming up at about twenty minutes. NBA Insider all
the big drama tonight, Clay's return to Golden State, Eric
Spolster's time out. He's got some bits on JJ Redick
and the Lakers too. Remember under he's undermining JJ Reddick
so he can become the head coach. But not one,
(01:12):
but two big football stories for you over the course
of the next few minutes. How about that? Okay, tonight
first to start with college and we'll get to the pros.
College football. The latest playoff poll comes out earlier tonight
to no one's surprise. Oregon, Ohio State, Texas, and Penn
State are the top four teams. Penn State proven that
hell wow, that really bad lost James Franklin. How we
(01:34):
can forget about that in a week. So that is
your top four BYU Tennessee. Notre Dame, Miami, Alabama, Ole Miss,
and Georgia are teams six through twelve, with Indiana sitting
at number five. The Hoosiers with Michael Pennix watching this
weekend and Antoine Randelel and Anthony Thompson. Okay, Na, I'm
(01:57):
just saying, the most famous people that's ever gone to
Dianna played football. Ah, they beat Michigan and here they
are sitting at number five. The Indiana Hoosiers. Bigger fight
with Michigan than a lot of folks believed.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You and I talked about it Friday with Pete Futech,
and I think we were spot on with this one,
that they were good enough to win, but that Michigan
would hang around and make it interesting either way, Indiana
moves up to number five. We had enough chaos at
the top of the board to create some shuffling. But
where it gets interesting are those teams just on the
(02:30):
outside looking in as to whether they'll get a quote
fair shake to get in if they went out, Because
that's like, we have to assume the board holds. We
do have a little bit of cannibalization when it comes
to the conference titles and stuff. But yeah, Indiana at
number five, they had better odds before this last week.
They had better odds before for the win against Michigan,
(02:51):
better odds to win the College Football Championship than Indiana
basketball had for the Ncaflol. The football like football stool
that would graphic popped up in my in the Twitter verse,
and I just had to pause for a moment, going wow,
seeing wonderful things in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Football school, Indiana's football school. Now everything is fine. There's
still a long way to go. You still talk about
most teams having three games left in the conference championships,
but I can already tell you where the one big
piece of drama is going to be Right now. Boise
State is thirteenth. Why is this a big deal. This
is where things change because the top four teams, the
(03:32):
four highest rated conference champions, get a bye and the
top five conference champions make it. Boise State in the
Mountain West right now would be the champion of the
Mountain West. They would be included no matter what.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They would be the fifth finger up in the King
Kong Monday five count.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And I will tell you this, this is where all
the controversy is gonna come from at the end of
the year with Boise State getting in. It's going to
be how does Boise State get in? They don't really
play in a real conference? How does Boise I mean really?
And you think about it, should Boise Sta get in?
The Mountain West is terrible. It's not the same as
the Big Ten or the SEC, even the ACC. But
(04:16):
you're letting the conference champion in. And the reason it's
going to be big is because you look at where
Boise State is. Will they get in is probably the
twelve seed. Yeah, they'll probably sneak in as well, but
right now, well, it's a conference champion who were knocked out.
Yeah's conference champion? Maybe? Yeah. Top four conference champions are
the top four SI, yes, but you're looking at the
(04:37):
teams right around twelve who could get left out Georgia, Texas,
A and M Colorado. They're all twelve through seventeen. If
one of those teams gets left out for Boise State,
which is probably gonna happen, what do you think the
reaction is going to be after the season? What the
(04:57):
hell are we doing?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Can San Jose State? Can Wyoming or can Oregon State?
Can the Beavers upset the Apple car We cannot have this?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, no, no, no no. This is absolutely awful. The
Mountain West champion, No, no, no, no no. And George
is gonna say all the money we make for college football,
all the interest, the schedule that we play, which, yes,
you're playing the SEC schedule. It's just like I feel
about mid major teams in college basketball. If you take
(05:27):
a team from the Horizon or the Sun Belt and
put them in the ACC, the best teams are maybe
five hundred. If you take Boise State out of the
Mountain West put them in the SEC, what are they
They're maybe five hundred. They're not going to a They're
not gonna be going to the playoff. So yeah, I
get it. But boy, if one of those big, high
profile teams gets left out, and you're gonna have to
(05:48):
leave somebody out. That's gonna be the first thing that's
looked at. Mountain West, Mountain West, How is the Mountain West?
Get this berth here? No no, no, no, no, no no,
Mike car We're gonna be all no, no, no, all
the way up and down the road.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
No, it's great, you get the big fight that'll happen.
I immediately start thinking about the meaning of life when they're
in the hospital room and the administrators come in and
they're showing them all their fancy machines. Oh, and that
one's the one that goes bing. It's like, well, what
do I do? Well, nothing, You're not qualified. And that's
kind of what you're telling little Boise State over there,
(06:21):
Jason Smith. And what might become the resounding reaction in
the PostScript and saying, damn it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
All I can do is tell you what's going to happen,
because everybody's already kept going to happen.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Everybody's already complaining about Georgia's strength of schedule, Like all right,
we're not at the end game yet and they're still
in by these accounts, right, but.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's gonna change because boys, they again, you know, Miami
would move up right because their conference said they'd move
up a little bit, even though they loved them move
up to number four.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
So there's gonna be some changes dangerously. Yeah, I mean
there's plenty of judging going to house. Don't stumble a
fourth time? How about that it's gonna happen. It used
to be don't lose a second game, don't lose a
first game, then don't lose a second game. Now it's like,
well maybe at three losses, and now we're looking, No, Georgia,
don't lose.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
We're seven and five in the toughest conference in America.
You can't leave us out again.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I saw the algorithm and it says we played the
hardest schedule ever, so we should get Actually it's like
weighted GPAs nonsense. You know, well, you know, let's let's
keep adding more ways, Like, well, what did you actually
get on the test? It doesn't matter, I have a
four point eight. Do you actually know anything?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
No, from one thing that's gonna happen in college football
to one thing that's gonna happen in the NFL. Okay,
another team, high profile team and all day yesterday you
saw the plaudits and the flowers that the Lions got
following their big win over the Texans. Right, we've done
that for the last few weeks. We've told you how
great the Lions are, that the best team in the NFL.
(07:52):
Everybody's coming around to that. Now, Okay, fine, it's going
to be late. It's good to be the party, even
if you're really really late. Oh I like to show
up early.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Us a better assortment of food and sharkuterie.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, yeah, there's alway. The charcootery is always gone, always better.
Why is there like one cracker and like half of
a half a little bit? Yeah, I don't want that.
But look, we told you about the line, so so
we'll give you. We'll be ahead of the curve and
tell you something different about Detroit. I told you for
a while the only fear I had for Detroit because
they're playing so well, is that they're peaking too early. Right,
they're peaking now and and and you know what, teams
(08:25):
are going to figure stuff out by the middle of December.
It's hard to stay that hot for that long. But
now I got something else, And this is this is
this is a this is a really big deal. And
it comes off of what we saw Sunday night. Amazing
that they can overcome Jared Goff throwing five picks and
winning the game. Amazed they can overcome a really bad
performance and win the game. Dan Campbell makes an awful
(08:48):
decision on the final drive to settle for a fifty
two yard field goal. You have third down, you have
time left, you have timeouts. Fifty two yards. Yeah, I
get you like your kicker, but fifty two yards is
not a gimme. And Dan Campbell decides, this is how
we do it, So I'm gonna let it go all
the way down and they kick a field goal on
(09:09):
the final play and it just whispers through and they win.
That was a horrendous decision, but it worked out because
Detroit's been rolling seven since the beginning of the season.
They've been red hot. It doesn't matter strategy, no strategy,
they've been winning games. And because they're just so good,
their offense is so good, they're finding a way to win.
And like I said, they're just hot right now and
(09:29):
they're rolling. But that was a really bad decision, and
he is a risky coach when it comes to making decisions,
whether you agree or disagree with how he coached in
the NFC Championship game last year. I don't like they
went for it on fourth down a couple of times
in the second half because it's different doing it there
on the road in the NFC title game than it
is Week ten against the Bears. And still you saw
(09:51):
they weren't ready for the pressure, they didn't convert first downs,
and they lost the game. But it doesn't matter because
that's who Dan Campbell is. He is a risky coach
and he didn't see the downside. Oh we always do it,
so why not? Well, dude, not every situation is created equal.
He likes to take risks. This is a risk. Why
would you not want to risk it? Yeah, Jared Goff
throwing five touchdowns. He also threw you back into the game.
(10:13):
Do you believe in your quarterback or not? He got
you back in. You score, you got a ten zero run,
you're moving the football really well. You don't settle for
a fifty two yard field goal when you make these
risky decisions. Risky decisions don't have any more than a
fifty percent success, right, That's why they're risks. And eventually,
(10:34):
what's gonna happen is he's gonna make a call and
it's gonna come back, and it's gonna bite them in
the ass at the absolute worst time, and Detroit's gonna
get caught cambeling, because right, cambling's pretty good. Hashtag cambeling, hashtag,
hashtag patent pending, because that's what he does. He makes
these risky calls thinking we can do it, and they
(10:58):
don't always come through. And it came through here this time, right,
another six inches one way and the ball bounces off
and you go to overtime and who knows, but it
went through him not saying, look, they won the game,
but these risky calls are gonna backfire at the absolute
worst time. And you could see the Lions going home
in the playoffs because hey, we made this crazy ass
decision that backfired on us and now we lost because
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because what if that that happens again, or I'm gonna
settle for a fifty yard field goal, our guy misses it,
we go to overtime and we lose in overtime. I
had chance to get really close kick a field goal
with ten seconds left, but no, no, no, I settled
for a fifty two yarder. He makes risky decisions, and
risky decisions never pan out. You can't be that risky.
Even Andy Reid, he knows when to gamble and when
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not to that that's what that's what makes a great coach.
And Campbell is too risky. And I'll tell you that's
my biggest fear. The Lions are gonna be caught in
a big game. Maybe it's the NFC title game, maybe
it's a playoff game, maybe it's a Super Bowl against
the Jets. Man who knows, but they're gonna get caught
and he's gonna make a decision that backfires and the
lines are gonna go home because of it.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Well, i'd like to think your guys are ready and
battle tested for those big moments. And that's what Dan Campbell,
that's how he operates. And certainly to your your point,
I mean, you're just channeling, you're enter Kenny Rodgers on
your super Sounds of the seventies with your You got
to know when to hold them, no, when to fold them.
In this particular case, I may agree with the aggressiveness,
(12:24):
I'm still gonna abhord the clock management and this decision
as he had opportunities here with two timeouts remaining. You
get a pass to Saint Brown for eleven yards, gets
you to the thirty seven. That's at a minute thirty three.
Gibbs runs up the middle, still forty nine seconds left.
You still have two timeouts in your pocket. And then
after the the second and eight you call the time
(12:47):
out with four seconds left, setup field goal. It's like,
all right, I get it to your point five interceptions
from golf, give it.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
To Gibbs again, let him run the ball, let gives
stay in bounds. Get another five y'all cards. If you
can right get to the five five yard makes the
forty seven yard field goals a lot easier mistake.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It's it's some of that, you know, trying to take
away some of the the potential variability of it all.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
But you know what, in an NFL that's pretty boring.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And most of the time guys go by the script
and they do it and they can't execute it for
for anything. Dan Campbell's a breadth of fresh air and
he injects a little bit of chaos into our lives.
Cambling cambling could vary. When I get caught cambling and
watch what happens. The official theme song, Iggy pop. If
I don't crap.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Out exit out about a Fresco exit swallowed dome again,
that's what we call the show ahead of the curve
clip and save that for when that happens and bites
the lines in the ass. Yeah, now all your family
hates you. No, no, no, that not just made them worried, like, oh,
gret I gotta worry about.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Hm kere giving him stress.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Holiday. No, it's not gonna be till the playoffs. That's fine.
But now it's build up. They go playoffs and that's
till play Its fine, it's not till the middle of January.
You guys are fine. We'll love the holidays. It'll be great.
We have a holiday, we'll have New Year. It's fine.
Don't worry about that. The holiday season and Whoop de
do and hickoried doc Uh coming up next. NBA insider
(14:13):
Mark Medina stops by all the latest on Clay's return
to Golden State. Are they really that much better without him?
What does he have on the Lakers? And JJ Reddick
Eric Spolster calling time out in the situation we've never
seen it happen before. Big heavy drama to break down
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Speaker 1 (15:43):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the tire rack dot Com studios. A big
night in the NBA. Klay Thompson's return to Golden State
goes great for the Warriors, Joel Ebad's return, It was
great for the Knicks. Eric Spolse's return the calling time
(16:05):
out goes great for the Pistons. Joining us now on
the hotline, longtime NBA insider. Check him out on Twitter
at Mark g Underscore Medina. That said, Mark g Underscore Medina, Mark,
what's happening about? How are you?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I am doing well? I was curious to are you?
Have you already made parade plans already for the sid
season tournament? A You're gonna wait?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Well, I'm gonna have to wait a little bit because
you know I I don't want to put the cart
before the horse. I don't want to celebrate early. Even
though with Big Bodega, I think as the season goes on,
the Knicks will have less and less problems because boy,
he has been something so far.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well, look, Karl Anthony Town's making a statement win even
though Joel Embiid is not Joel Embiid right now. But
I think this is just saying itself up for them
to play the Lakers, and I will do my best
to prepare the Lakers to get to that point and
then when you know it's the Grand State, I'll do
my best at an undermine JJ Reddick.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
So the next winning air forver Saboteur Saboteur.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I mean, look, JJ Reddick already recruiting for next year's draft,
showing up at that Duke Kentucky game, so I mean
he already tapped out.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
But you know what, he can avoid tampering rules because
he can say he's just a support of alum.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
It's really brilliant kind of thing. It also gets us
to talk about that instead of you know, the inane
conversations that continue to surround Browny James, who's now planted
in the G League. But you know, Smith's still celebrating
his victory here Joel Embiide in his return. I mean,
Philadelphia has got all Max. He's not coming back for
(17:41):
a month. I mean, what are they at.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
This point, Well, they're almost last I think in the
Eastern Conference at this point. Now, what's fascinating is when
he talked to the Sixers there town in La last week,
they're whols a cucumber. I mean, they are leaning on
to the fact that they're in this predicament because Joel
Embiid hadn't played a game yet until tonight, Paula George
(18:05):
was nursing preseason injury and didn't come back until last week,
and then Tyree maxtently got hurt. And to your point,
he's technically going to be a reevaluated this week, but
that's reevaluation to clear him to start doing work, so
he'll probably be out longer. But their whole m on
it is, you know what, this is giving us adversity
at the beginning of the season as opposed to the end.
(18:28):
This really forces us to lean into our depth. And
I'm not dismissing it outright, like they do have a
depthful roster, but the reality is you can't play catch
up too much in the NBA. Or it just becomes
a slog the rest of the season. So I'm not
surprised that the outcome. Joel Embiid was going to be
(18:48):
out of shape. First came back on a minute's restriction.
I think Paul George, you know, turned a corner with
his minute restriction in his play. But look, the Sixers
have no match for the Knicks. Jason Smith will like
hearing that caring Anthony Towns is the real deal with
changing how their complexion is offensively, and I think that
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when you're looking at the next early season struggles, one
of it was their permer defense, and they really improved tonight.
So huge step in the right direction. That goes without saying,
you know, Jalen Brunson's playing a high level. He didn't
shoot well from three tonight, but it is a testament
that he can still get other guys involved and still
ensure a well balanced offense because of how great of
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a leader he is.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, you talked about some things you can't do in
the NBA and succeed, and I get that, but you
know one thing we found out tonight you really can't
do is you can't call timeouts and you don't have
well that's a.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Big no no, Mark, that is all about this.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I mean, really, if you said to me, who's the
last coach in the NBA that's going to call a
timeout he doesn't have at the end of a game
and they lose because of it, I would have told
you Eric Spolster.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, and I'm sure the first would have been kJ
Reddick because Mark Mandina told him to do it and
he had enough for it. Sabatur didn't work this time. Yeah,
that was wild that Eric Spolster did that because he's
been in the game for a while. You could tell
that he immediately recognized that he didn't have timeouts left.
He owned it at the press conferce. So that's all
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well and good. You know when a coach takes ownership
and acknowledges the obvious. But you know, the heat resilient team.
But these are these kind of games that he wondered
as it bite you in the end, is when it
comes down to the standings race and then technically, you know,
do you wonder if it bites you in the end
with the n season torment or the Emirates Cup Because
(20:43):
his group play and every game makes a difference as
far as whether you advance the next stage or not.
So yeah, weird gaff across the board. I would not
have picked that on the Bingo car because of how
great of a coach Spolsure is and how the Miami
Heat always find a way to improve on the margins
because of good tactical decisions, unlike what we saw the
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night against Detroit.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So we talked a little bit about Reddick taking in
is Alma Maters game tonight six and four. Are the
Lakers point differential sitting at point three for the season,
not running ahead, not falling behind, but as they look
into this next phase of the rotation, between how Lebron's
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handling the ball and what they've done with the rotation,
how does it know forge forward this next quarter of
the season.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Or so yeah. Well, I asked JJ Reddick kind of
like the ten game check in sample size, what do
you make of the progress? And he acknowledged, Look, the offense,
defense has a ways to go. I mean, it's very early.
But the thing that he was very encouraged on is
that there's a really good buy in from the players
and their attitude in regards to just everything. How they
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are practice, they shoot around, film sessions, I think the
early versity of how the team handled the lineup switch
with Cam Reddish coming in to start because he's a
better perimeter defender and Russell coming off the bench partly
because of his struggles for partly because he could give
some secondary scoring to a bench unit that's really struggled.
(22:17):
It paid dividends from a production standpoint. They've gotten to
wins since then, and also there hasn't been any sulking D'Angel.
Russell is a player that's known to not react accordingly
when he doesn't see eye to eye with a head coach.
I mean that happened with Byron Scott his rookie season
ten games in lost the starting role last season, Darvin
(22:39):
Ham made a lionup switch even sooner than that, and
he didn't always react how the head coaches wanted in here.
He and JJ Reddick have a really good relationship. They
bonded over the summer. But I think it's not just
about the fact that they get along or have personality
similarities or like golf. There's a respect level that Dangeli
(22:59):
had as for JJ, because he knows is his x's
and o's and he's a former player. But the reality
is it's an early season, and so while more encouraged
than discouraged about how the Lakers are, there are a
lot of ups and downs as far as the fact
that their role players are inconsistent. Lebron James is still
(23:21):
playing well, but he's not the number one option. Anthony
Davis is durable so far gaining MVP buzz, but you
never know if that'll change. So very much will work
in progress. But you know what, I might have to
detag myself with this underminorick game that I have because
I think JJ has actually been doing really good job,
you know.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
And here's the thing is that I really think they
hit on something. When the benching of D'Angelo Russell came about,
he was upset with how he was how things were going,
so he benches him. And then what happens with the Lakers, Well,
you take the ball out of the hands of a
guy making bad decisions. He comes off the bench the
last couple of games able to do his thing. Great.
(24:01):
Now that Lebron James is playing point guard, no he's
not taking the shots, but he is now playing this
kind of like when he moved to center a couple
of years ago. On look out. Domedy is at the five,
like he's not taking all the shots and he's setting
up his teammates. Austin Reeves is hitting shots ads the
number one. I think the Lakers might have hit on
something here with Lebron playing point guard and being more
of a pass first guy and getting his buckets complimentary
(24:25):
wise than just being an attack to basket and try
to be a triple double threat all the time. Lakers
might have hit on something here.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Mark, Yeah, I really think so too. Now, I think,
in fairness, it is fluid. It's not like this is
this sorry lamp's going to stay permanent forever.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
JJ has made it clear that he is going to
be someone that's going to chase matchups accordingly. But I
think the bottom line is if a starting unit is
playing really well, you don't fix what isn't broke. So
I'm encouraged with all that for all the things that
you hit on the one thing I am curious about
with JJ, and maybe I put my owner mind hat
back on here. As much as I'm impressed with how
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he's built relationships with players, he obviously knows his stuff.
He knows his his x as and O's especially for
a first year head coach, his emotions can be a
strength and also detriment. I think, on one hand, it's
good that he shows that he cares. He's very obsessive
about his craft. He loves what he does. He's putting
in the work. But it's a long season, and for
you to get so emotional through a course of an
(25:25):
eighty two game season, I think it can do two things.
One it can worry you out and wage age you
really fast. And two it's one thing for players to
be responsive in the short term about that, but if
you're always being that reactive and that intense through the
course of the season, at some point, it'll burn everyone out.
So I am curious how well he can kind of
temper those lows, because he even acknowledged when I asked
(25:48):
him about that before the season started, about challenges, and
he said, that's going to be something that's going to
be a challenge for him, handling the lows of the season.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Mark.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I have a two part question for you, Lynn Manuel.
Miranda's working on a musical addaptation of the Warriors, the
classic film One will you watch that be? If you
were to write a song to describe the early returns
of these Warriors. For Steve Kerr, how should he penate
aggressively that they're ready to win and dominate, or that
(26:17):
it's a cautionary tale that will fall apart in the
third act.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
No, I think it's the slogan's strengthen numbers. I mean
they can just adopt what they had in twenty fourteen
to fifteen and apply it to this group now. I
don't think onlike that season it's a championship contending team
quite yet. But this is a team I'm penciling in
to make the playoffs, presuming you know, good health. Steph's
Steph Curry playing a high level. Draymond Green's great defender.
(26:43):
I think he'll be more available this season. He'll still
get technicals that he won't get suspensions, and they're supporting cast.
I think clearly we've seen that that formula of a
collection of good, serviceable players and younger players with Jonathan
kaminga Branton Ponzims, that's a better play than Klay Thompson
is at this point of his career. Klay Thompson still
(27:05):
showed with Dallas he still can be great. It's a
good fit there. I think they're a good team. Their
chemistry is going to continue to improve. But the Warriors
I think clearly showed not just with the performance tonight,
but big picture that they're in a better direction this season.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
So better direction without Klay Thompson.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yeah, oh yeah, I mean here's the reality. I mean,
if they brought back Clay at a more manageable cap number,
they would have been fine with that, but his role
wouldn't have been the same because they're trying to get
Brydon Ponzimski to really grow into a bigger role because
he's a younger player. I think the other thing is
that Clay is still a great shooter. We saw that tonight,
(27:44):
but he's not the same kind of defender that we
saw during his prime year. So yeah, I think even
with cap restrictions, aside from an ex as an O standpoint,
the personnel that they have right now this season is
better than last season.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
One. For me, why is everybody hurt?
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, that's a good question. I think it's part of
the game. Number one. Number two, the speed of the game,
and number three, Uh, some of these players have had
recurring injuries, so and that's what happens. Kawhi, Leonard, Kevin
Durant are the most notable examples. It's obviously not good
for the NBA because when we have star players out
(28:26):
that really dampens the fan experience from both fans in
the stands and ones on TV. But I think in
this case most of them are fairly unavoidable.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
You can follow them on Twitter at Mark g underscore Medina.
That's had Mark g underscore Medina, where he is detailing
his plans to undermine JJ red as head coach of
the Lakers. Mark is always buddy appreciated, my friend, we'll
talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Just just preview this Knicks Lakers and the championship game
in the Emirates coping time at But he doesn't have
enough left, you know who to credit for.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
The Somebody kept yelling to me from the scores to
hey call a timeout, and look at it's Mark Medina.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
He's yelling time out. Oh diabolical.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I didn't call for a timeout, but Mark, who can
mimic JJ Reddick's voice? Oh nice? Makes it sound like
his voice like he wants a time out? Nicks win,
nix wainn how about that?
Speaker 4 (29:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Time out? To find out what's trending in the wide
World of Sports fro Isaac Lowencron, I love what do
you got for us tonight?
Speaker 5 (29:28):
The Cup, not the Stanley Cup, not the Protective Cup,
but indeed the NBA Cup. It got underway on Tuesday night,
headlined by Klay Thompson's return to Golden State. He scored
twenty two points with six three pointers for his new team,
the Dallas Mavericks, but to me, his old team, the Warriors,
prevailing one twenty to one seventeen because of the exploits
(29:49):
of Steph Curry, who closed the game out scoring the
Mavericks twelve to three by himself over the final three
minutes and ten seconds to finish with thirty seven points.
The Detroit Pistons defeated the My I Am a heat
and overtime one twenty three to one twenty one, and
again the Heat were up by one point. Excuse me,
the Heat were up by two points with one point
(30:11):
eight left in overtime, with Detroit inbounding the ball. Eric
Reid and John Crowdyon Heat TV pick up the insanity
from there, the turning in Nobody's guarding him in it
Connastir and ducks it Oh Mine unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
In seven tenths of a second.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
They tie the game in one twenty.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
One the Pistols. You're walking off the court full timeout.
Oh no, but referee is saying that Coach Poe is
called a timeout and that's a technical foul. Is the
heater out of timeouts? Oh boy? Oh boy?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Is right?
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Say it ain't spo leading to a game winning free
throw by Malik Beasley. And here was Spolstra after the game.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
I just made up just a serious mental error, you
know there at the end.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's on me. I feel horrible about it.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
There's really no excuse for that. I'm seventeen years in
and we had talked about it in the huddle. I
knew that we didn't have anything.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
I just got.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
Emotional and reactive on that, and I just made up
just a horrendous mistake.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
College hoops Tuesday night, nineteenth rank Kentucky knocked off number
six Dukes seventy seven to seventy two. In the new
college football playoff rankings release Tuesday evening, Oregon remained number one,
followed by Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, Indiana was number five,
and byu number six finally fell as TMZ reported Tuesday,
the last month, the homes of both Patrick Mahomes and
(31:36):
Travis Kelcey were burglarized within one day of each other.
Twenty thousand dollars in cash was taken from Kelsey's home,
which was broken into while he was playing in a
Monday night football game against the Saints at Arrowhead. Mahomes
house had been broken into one day before. TMZ also
reports that the FBI is now assisting in the investigation.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
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Our best of podcast is up there. Everything we've done tonight,
whatever you missed, whether it was our reaction to Golden State,
the Lions, now campbelling, whatever it is, it will be there.
You can get it. But coming up next, why tonight
was the biggest night of the year for a sport
that just began. That's next right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
This be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Beach hob Now, before we get to a
night that one sport is never going to forget. A
big announcement just came in not too long ago. People
Magazine just named their sexiest Man of the Year. And
there's a big rumor today it was gonna be Glenn Powell.
(33:09):
All these pictures of Glenn Palell, Glenn Powell, Glenn Powell,
Glenn Powell, People Sexiest Man of the Year.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I must have won. If you're bringing it up on
the show. You came in, you came in second, You
came in second. Okay, People's Sexiest Man of the Year again.
Did not see this coming, So.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
John Cena, No, but it is John not John Sena,
not John Stamos. This list is rigged. John Ramos not
John ra Ramoss, Nope, johns John Wick No, how great
would that be. I'm not into list. I'm going to
(33:45):
kill all of you who put me in a magazine.
John tell me what is sexy? John Cusack not John
kill in nineteen eighty nine. Maybe John Cusack could have
been a world sexiest man.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
And then he went and begged for tickets on letter
Man and let Himan put him in his place. John Malta, No,
nineteen seventy seventy seven.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
So that would be a big pick for a sexiest man.
John Carlos, not John Carlos. No. John David Boody not
John David. There's a name, Mary. He was a football
player in two thousand and five.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
John John No Jacob Jingle Heimersmith.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
His name is mine and TJ. Whenever we go out,
the people always shout John Jacob Jingo Heimerchmid No, no, no, no, no,
no John, not Jon's cell of fame. Miss just no
John not Jo All come on too soon.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Rocky Mountain, Well, I mean we could be thinking of
the memory of John.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Swade the voters, Rocky Mountain. I know John Malkovich, not
nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Mates.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Yeah, John John Krasinski is your sexiest man of the
That's the winner. John Krasinski is the winner. He's the winner.
From the office. Why from never heard and you've never
heard of him from a choir Johnny Pam, Yes, over
Jim and Pan. Did you say Pam or Pam? It's
Jim and Pam, he said, John and right Pam? No, no, no, no, yes,
(35:24):
Peter Pan and Wendy. Sure Peter Pan, Pan's Labyrinth. No
John Krasinski sexiest, sexiest man alive? Who knew? I did
not see that coming from the office. We feel really
bad that, you know, the Office may be looking for
a reboot. So well, maybe it was really good. Why
did he Why did he win? He won for a
(35:47):
quiet place? Why? What part one and two and three? Why?
Because choiir place is pretty good? Okay, it's pretty good.
I'll disagree. You don't like it, I'm sorry. What a surprise?
I hate everything, Mike Carbage all I'd enambered with a
lot of right, I weren't like that movie. You were
(36:07):
bored with a post apocalyptic movie in which aliens came
from above and they take over and and they kill
you if they hear you make a sound. You were bored? Yeah, okay,
you write that, then you were bored. I was bored
about that. Did you know? It was not enough of action?
It was kind of done with it was there not
enough action in the spendables for you didn't That was fun.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Because you never knew which eighties action start was going
to show up next. So it was more the anticipatory
thing and there when it came to the quiet place
once the aliens you know, announced themselves, I was kind
of done with it because I.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Was assuming that the humans would win. Well, not to
be spoiler, humans don't always win. Maybe we lose. That
was one for a while. He did it been wait
five years, come back, maybe he wins again. For your things,
that's why they're doing a reboot now. It's the middle
of November and we had an incredible college basketball game
(37:02):
tonight between Kentucky and Duke, decided in the final thirty
seconds by a player who is the biggest star this
game has seen since Zion Williamson was playing at Duke
a few years ago. Cooper Flagg has been everywhere. The
desire to see this superstar freshman play at Duke has
been off the charts. We've seen him already make some
(37:24):
plays that make your jaw drop. There's already NBA teams jostling, Hey,
we're gonna take just to get this guy. Rob Polinka
was at the game tonight scouting, and he had an
incredible game, big man with great handles. He's fantastic twenty
six and twelve. However, he absolutely cost them the game
with three horrendous plays in the final thirty seconds. I
(37:47):
don't know that you could have a worse thirty seconds
in a game than Cooper Flagg with the Jamar Smith
with a game tied. That was only one thing j R.
Smith did. Yeah, it was enough. With the game tied
at seventy two, under thirty seven seconds left to go,
Cooper Flagg going in for the go ahead bucket and
he gets it stripped away. Kentucky gets it, hits a
couple of free throws. Okay, Cooper Flag gets a chance again,
(38:09):
comes down, dribbles to the baseline, gets in trouble defended
one on one, goes out of bounds, dribbles, the ball
falls down, tries to pick himself up, puts his hand
on the end line, not once, but twice, is ruled
out of bounds. Kentucky gets the ball, They hit one
free throw, they're up by three. They missed the second,
so it's a three point game, and Cooper Flag is
(38:30):
underneath to get the rebound, and Duke still has five
seconds to get up court and get a shot off,
except the ball bounces around his hands, bounces through. Kentucky
is able to grab the rebound, get fouled, hit a
couple of free throws with one second left, and Kentucky
wins the game seventy seven to seventy two. The final
thirty seconds for Cooper Flag two bad turnovers and a
(38:53):
lack of corralling a rebound at which he wasn't really
challenged for it. So it's a bad night for Cooper Flag, right,
even though he had great game up until the final
thirty sex.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, a lot of defense, because let's attribute it all
the great defense. Thirty nine percent shooting for Duke, forty
percent shooting from Kentucky. They were better from three point range,
five more free throws. Hey, margin of victory five, but
that's better at distributing the ball.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But this is an incredible night for college basketball because
for a sport that has been looking for relevancy the
last few years, without the big superstar team to sink
our teeth into. Look, it's fun that Yukon's winning, and
Danny Hurley is fun to a point, But they've been
missing star power and now they have it. And it's
with the evil Empire Duke, which has kind of been asleep.
It's been an evil empire that's been dormant the last
(39:38):
few years because Mike Krzewski retires. They don't really have
star players. And you know, hating Duke is not really
in vogue. But now here's Duke play in this big,
high profile game. They lose, there's big mistakes, there's a
lot of drama. There's great play by Cooper Flagg, who
is the big, super duper star in college basketball. Tonight
really began the college basketball season and it will be
(40:00):
the best college basketball season the last few years because
they have relevancy, they have attention, they have eyeballs because
of Cooper flag and because of Duke. This is this
is what college basketball is needed, and they need a
star and a star team every single year and they haven't.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
No, yeah, we really haven't had it since all those
old school guys, you know, Latner and Wojo and Cherokee
Parks and all those guys roll legends as it were.
I want to know, though, why would they schedule it
on the opening of the the Emirates Cup.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I mean, come on, plays returns. Hey, when can we
play it? Well, it's either we play Thursday night football
against other football or the Emirates Emert Cup Emerts Cu
Emerts Cup. That's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I decided to go head tohead with the NBA rush him.
But yeah, this is great because perhaps we can get
some villainy back properly.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
They need the Duke Villa and you have the great
player in Cooper Flag. I mean, this is what college
basketball is mean, let's go. Coming up next, my buddy
Ben Mallard. This as Fox
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