February 20, 2025 • 41 mins
The guys remember and pay their respects to the great Mike Lange. Ric Bucher joins the show for all the latest on fixing the All-Star game and the Ja Morant trade rumors. Plus, the Lakers get humbled at home by the Charlotte Hornets!
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it looked like it was gonna be a Laker runaway.
Then Austin Reeves gets ejected. He got what the Hornets tacking.
Jess got ejected, dude. Then the Hornets roared back to
take the lead. But now it is the Lakers who
have a three point lead over the Hornets with just
under six minutes left to go in the fourth quarter
eighty six eighty three, The Hornets went on an eighteen
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to one run after Austin Reeves got ejected. So maybe
Austin Reeves is the NBA MVP. Forget about SGA. SGA, congratulations,
you just saved a lot of money fying your raging
to get that Mexican.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh brilliant. Yeah, I got a Maxicum. I'll see you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, so you're not gonna do any negotiating, So I
could just have a lawyer look at this for like
a couple of grand Oh yeah, great, that's all we'll do.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I got wait, I saved that three percent.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Forget about SGA. Forget about yo kitchen. The triple doubles
eighteen to one run without Austin Reeves. The Austin Reeves
is your NBA MVP. Next level stuff right there. You
saw this. Charlotte Hornets take full advantage of the emotion
that came over. I mean there's Austin Reeves. Yeah, maybe
he felt he didn't get enough love and all of
this welcome Luka. Doncis right because don't connect. Everybody needed
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to you know, had him on the back, and Rubby
shows sorry that trade didn't go through their big guy Lebron.
I don't know if he's hurt whenever. I mean he
needed tell everybody needs a little time away. I mean
we learned it in song, and then Luca came in
and needed to work his way into you know, proper shape,
to where JJ Reddick was no longer going to coddle him. Meanwhile,
Austin Reeves is over here going what about me? This
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isn't fair? Wow? Nice, two big song references in a row. Ryeah,
I'm on fire. But look, and this goes into what
I said was gonna wind up being the big effect
of Luca to the Lakers, and so far tonight Luca
donches twenty eight minutes. I told he's got to play
at least thirty minutes. Yeah, hey, JJ, hey JJ, I
thought you said no minutes restriction. Why is Luca not
even playing thirty minutes? Tonight? Luca bounced back really poor
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start shooting the basketball, but on pace, potentially for a
triple double tonight with twelve points, nine rebounds, eight assists.
He also has five fouls and five turnovers. Well six turnovers,
so five of them, and we could first four minutes
he could have a five by five by five by
five by five game. Points, rebounds, assists, thousand turnovers.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Anybody you need a burger, The Knicks would hang a
banner for that.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We might. I'll tell you, five by five by five
by five by five games don't happen that often. No, now,
it don't happen. Yeah, you think you're gonna get your
over on minutes because he's handling the ball here five
and a half minutes. It's a close game, it's a
one point game. But the big, the big effect of
Luca to the Lakers. Yes, Luca is going to turn
the Lakers. This is now his team, most likely for
the next decade. He and Lebron working together. We talked
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last hour. This is an offense's gonna start scoring one
hundred and thirty points in a game because the offense
is that loaded now. But it's gonna be guys like
Austin Reeves and Ruey hotchimoora Finney Smith has stepped in tonight.
He's got four threes with Austin Reeves getting ejected. Is
that Lebron's always said I need shooters, I need shooters,
I need shooters. Well, Ad and Lebron don't open up
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the floor as much as Luca and Lebron open up
the floor. So the shooters what they got Hotchimora and
what they're paying Austin Reeves to do. And if you
get Finny Smith off the beat, these guys are gonna
find themselves. I'm I'm more open than I've ever been.
I'm because what are you gonna do? You can't roll
cover just to Austin Reeves can't do it right? You
got Hey, Luca's here, Lebron is here.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What do we have?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You're gonna see the shooters that Lebron has said he's
needed for the longest time. These are gonna be the
guys that are gonna be give you the absolute daggers
and it's and you're gonna throw teams are gonna throw
their hands up in the air, going, what the hell
do you really want us to do? What can we do?
It's Luca, it's Lebron, Austin Reeves hits a thirty foot
or what the hell do you really want? We had
Reeves covered on that and somehow Hatchamura hits a three?
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What do you really want us to do? People are
really sleeping on what the potential this Lakers' offense is
gonna be? Oh, and you're seeing the court open up,
and again it's Charlotte's and the other games against Utah
would take it all with a grain of salt, but
it's all, you know, like the iterative process and learning
and spacing and and the team becoming more efficient and
learning each other's rhythms and spacing and all. But you're
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seeing this floor spreading out right now. Just as they
go to break, Lebron James with another lob to a
wide open Jackson Hayes for a flush. That's the other
thing that Finny Smith and others hitting a three point shot.
All of a sudden, you got a lot more room
for the drive, the dish, the lob, everything that they
were envisioning Mark Mark Williams. Yes, yet we come in
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to me, Hey, we don't need that guy. I'm glad
that trade didn't go. We got other guys we could
do it with. They're just gonna need Jackson Hayes to
do that an awful lot. But but that play was
precisely what they were envisioning, Mark Williams showing up and
being part of here's all the shooters, So you're spacing
out right, gotta play them, honestly, Lebron with a little
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bit of a drive and he looks and there's Hayes
like hi and Mark Lilla. The night is going, well.
I could have been a part of this. I could
I could have been the one getting that getting that
alley loop. I could have been that guy. Come on, man,
I gotta wait for LaMelo Ball to sit there and
be done dribbling before he tries to throw some pass
that no one's ready for. And he looks at me like,
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why aren't you ready for that? Now? I gonna ways say,
is just the end of Jerry Maguire to Williams is
looking over at LaMelo Ball going why don't we have that?
They try to hug and it doesn't really work.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, uh so again Laker's up by three five minutes
ago in the fourth quarter. We'll have more on this
coming up in a few minutes. Rick Bucker stopping buying
about ten minutes to break down the game and all
the big storylines heading forward.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I hope he's not hate watching it like you two.
I'm not, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Are especially every turnover. I gotta say, what's I had
him at five? Harmon's the one that said no, it's
at six. Now, I was trying to be nice to
you by not adding that I had him a fine. No,
I should have bet and I went the over in
the first quarter for turnovers for Luca. What's the over.
I'll take the over. That's good. Uh. But uh, look,
big story tonight and you can tell and it's it's
it's really, it's really something to see the fact that
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this is the most trending topic on Twitter, the number
one name out there, because there's play by play guys
and then there's Penguins play by play man Mike Lang. Uh.
He passed away today at the age of seventy six
at last broadcast Pittsburgh Penguins games in twenty twenty one.
In a in a where there are so many great
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play by play men and women who do a phenomenal job,
Mike Lang was the best. I can't tell you how
much fun it was to listen to him, all his calls,
all his all his great personalizations. I mean, there was
nobody like him, and I'm telling you he was the best.
And I didn't even grow up with him. He wasn't
even my guy. I didn't even listen to Mike Lang.
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I didn't grow up in Pittsburgh, but I got Mike
Lang in the playoffs in other assorted big games that
were on you would get when when you when the
big regional sports network started in the nineties, you would
get more. You'd get Pittsburgh Penguins games. You get Mike
Lang on the call, like and he was incredible. His
calls after goals are amazing. And the best part about
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Mike Lang is that usually in sports, after there's a
big play, whether it's a three pointer or a game
winning field goal, or a touchdown pass or a goal
in hockey, you celebrate, right, you celebrate and you stand
up yell something great. You're not really paying attention to
being what said, You're into the celebration. But with Mike Lang,
it was always, you know, goal and it was what's
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Mike Lang gonna say? Right? Is he Is he gonna say,
scratch my back with a hacksaw. Is he gonna say,
buy Sam a drink and buy his dog one too?
Is he gonna say that goalie just lost his liquor license?
Lamute with the goal, call him slick from Turtle Crick
Lemuda Stevens. He's got Patrick Like, there were so many
that Mike Lang had that just seems so natural. They
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didn't seem forced, they didn't seem like I'm looking for it.
They were non sequiturs. You had to understand what he's
talking about. Buy Sama drink, and buy his dog. One.
Two he's smiling like a butcher's dog. I mean, I
kind of like that one that's like a butcher's dog.
And then and then my favorite, No getting a fast
Lang Grandma. The bingo game is ready to roll. Like
he had so many. Like you could say, what do
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your list to your top twenty favorite Mike Lang calls,
you would say, you miss so many of them, like like,
that's how good he was. And again he stopped broadcasting
in twenty twenty one. He was the best he was.
He was my favorite. And again I didn't even grow
up with him. I can't imagine what it's like for
for people who grew up, the generations that grew up
listening to him broadcast games and Penguins games. And you
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see him. He's a number one trending topic on Twitter.
People are saying glowing things about him because he meant
so much to you, And it's one It's one thing
when we pay an homage to someone who passes away
about what their impact was on the floor, on the ice,
on the football field, on on the diamond, and it's
one thing, Boy, this person was great. We talk about
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parts of their career and then then there's the parts
that you talk about that when when people say, this
is the effect he had on me as a kid,
when I listened to the games when I was growing up,
and and it was a lifelong relationship that I then
had with this team because of it. Chick Hern was
the same way for so long in LA It was
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like a religious movement for chick Kurr's the thing. Right,
you think about Los Angeles, You've got Vin Scully Institution,
Jimi Hereen on the Spanish language institution, chick Hern. In
Pittsburgh you had Lang and you had Myron Cope for
all those. Don't forget Bob Miller certainly, right. I mean
(10:17):
so like you look at city to city and obviously
me growing up in Chicago, I have uh plenty of
broadcasters that areos well. Sipplewitz was kind of a big deal.
I need him back in the acting range. By the way,
I need a Dennis Franz here. I think he's done, man,
I think he done. Yeah, that's okay, he's done. But
like so many of those legends, and then Pittsburgh obviously
my friends the late tunch Ilkind and Craig Wolfy. Now
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they're radio guys all these years that uh, you embraced
all those years. But but they're institutions. They're part of
the fabric of those squads. And and Mike Lang, I
found you the soundboard. I'm gonna send it. Yeah, there's
a Mike Lang sound Yeah, there's a sound board. So
you don't have that to torment fah. Oh yeah them.
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But it's it's just that kind of thing. There's just
such a part of your fandom, your history. I mean,
we were talking forty six years for Lang, thirty five
years from Iron Cope to keep it Pittsburgh it right,
I mean that kind of longevity. So they're they're part
of generations. Right, Hey, listen to this guy. Growing up,
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it was on the radio. It's kind of like you
and me at this point with some folks on the radio.
We've been doing this while Oh, let's get a little
bit tighter. We got we got the Bengo, uh getting
the fast lane grammar.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Let's hear that one Garren's got the fuck the Crosby
Rich shot.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
To such card, Oh, getting my fast laying Grandma. The
Bengo game is ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's just so great.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like I say that, I would say that, like if
we're playing cards, we're playing Yuker and I set somebody
or you or somebody I'm playing pitch, and I'd say, oh,
how did it happen? Getting a fast laying Grandma? The
Bengo game is ready to roll. See, you should have
a box of mood moves right there. It's like here
you got grandma. H absolutely best to ever do it? Man,
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Mike Lang, absolutely phenomenal. Rest in peace? Uh The Jason
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we have NBA insider Rick Buker. What does he see
for the Lakers the rest of the season? Does he
really want an All Star game after this? Could Ja
Morant really get traded? Why doesn't Mac McClung play more
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. LaMelo ball, Wow, the one thing he
could do his finger roll? Uh Hornets with a ninety
six ninety four lead inside thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Who LaMelo?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I takes it to the rack goes in with a
finger roll to give the Hornets a four point lead
with just under fifteen seconds left to go. This would
be an extremely embarrassing loss for the Lakers, and they
were doing great right up until I said, hey, they
can they can finish second in the West. I see
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this offense is gonna start roll the minute I said that.
Austin Reeves gets ejected. The Hornets go on to run.
It's my fault, JJ, It is your fault.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
JJ.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Reddick's gonna be even madder at me than he was
last Yeah, upset Flo joining us now the hotline for
more on this Fox Sports won NBA Insider Extraordinaire. Also
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Rick Buker. It is Rick Buker. What's happening?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Man?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Well, first, because right after or right before that, I
put out there on social media that that LaMelo ball
is the most I don't give a bleep player in
NBA history. He takes the most nonsensical shock and then
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he does that, which still hasn't ice the game because
we just had Lebron James Barry Barr a three. But
we'll see. There's still the great possibilities to Charlotte Hornets
being Charlotte Hornets, so they could give this game back.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah. Well, look they're four and seventeen away from home.
This will be an embarrassing loss of biblical proportions for
the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Yeah. Yeah. You know what's interesting it is just listening.
I'm listening to the Lakers broadcast, and man, they are
trying to hype the Lebron Luca to the ancestry. And
I just have a question, now, is there is anybody
put anything out on the books yet on who will
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shoot the higher three point percentage Bronnie James or Luca
Dantic Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Wow? Wow? What No, I'm just what what? No? Jj
Reddick's gonna be as mad as you as he isn't
me that's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Many after the question, I think it's I think. I mean,
right now, we got a one for nine. We we
got Luca on a hot one for nine.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Right now he's on a heater and most of them
are not close.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
There were the shots I would be putting up right.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I mean, Rick, it was like you know in the
when you say, remember that highlight in college basketball of
Caitlyn Clark leaving that one player open to take a
three and she kind of dismissed her with her hand
like you're not gonna make this, Like that's how open
the Hornets were leaving Luca tonight to take these threes
that he was missing. I'm like, hey, go ahead, look
at you shoot it. We know you're not gonna make it.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, and the thing is like
nine of them. Dude, if you don't have going on
and you're as great a player as Luca is, then
go and get something else. But but that's one of
my my big concerns with this combin combination of Lebron
and Luca is that Lebron because of age and Luca
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because of conditioning, Like they're settling for threes. Threes and
trying to make an impact from a scoring standpoint is
the easiest, is the easiest and light least demanding way
to get to get buckets. And you don't have to
run very far. You run into three point line.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm in shape because i could just go from three
point line to three point line. I'm good.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, that was deal. Curry would run from three
point line to three point lining. When he would run
from offense to defense to three point line. As soon
as he got to the three point line, you would
yell help, and so he was he was covered and
uh yeah. So I just and it's really hard to
kind of get into shape during the course of the season,
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and especially if you've been dealing with with some injuries.
So I am just again, I'm looking at the age
of Lebron, I'm looking at this the physical state of
Luka Doncic, and I'm not you know, I'm not sold
as seemingly so many people are, including our man Jason,
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that this team is going somewhere and and and the
the Hornets have any actually played very fast in this
game because LaMelo will dribble the ball the you know,
the air out of the ball. But that would be
my plan whatever team I have, I am running at
every opportunity because I'm making Luca and Lebron play transition
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defense at every turn and and let's see if they
can maintain I don't even have to shoot that. Well,
if I can get those guys, forced those those guys
to get up and down the court, then I've I've
got a good chance at continuing to make them take
long threes while they are fatigued.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, we do get the rare occasion where the globe
gets to watch LaMelo ball in a showcase game.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
So you got that going for you.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But coming out of All Star Weekend, I mean, what's
the ultimate takeaway of it all?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Rick, Well, look, I'm not I'm not of the minds
that everybody else is. I mean, everybody has baged really
hard on the All Star Weekend, the All Star Games,
even even players who once played in it, like Draymond Green.
And this is my thing. You know, the things that
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I don't care about, I don't pay attention to. And
if they're falling off, I'm really not that aware of it.
That's the great lie for me. People are complaining about
the All Star Game and saying this is the demise
of the NBA. Why is that what you want to
have happened? Because I don't know of any sport that
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we judge the health of the league based on its
all star games? Do we do that with Major League Baseball?
Do we do that with the NFL? Do we do
that with the NHL? I mean, so why are we
Why are we looking at this weekend and the game?
And the fact is, you know what with the new format? Okay,
so we're kind of up and down. I was curious,
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but it's almost like that, It's almost like the trick
your buddy pulls on you just made you look. The
NBA made people like we were all interested. We were
all curious, how's it going to work? And whether you
thought it worked or not. The fact is I tuned
in and watched because I've paid attention to it as
I never have before. And if I look at Saturday night,
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Mac McClung and Stefan Castle ended up giving us a
donk contest that was memorable, a long way from Obi
top and winning it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So that's Nick's legend, Obie topping Okay, Rick just right yet? Right?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah? You know, I mean we even had a few
guys in the first round who were joining the Chris
Bird Anderson wing of the dun unable to our Mattie Zealous, like, dude,
just do a dunk. You can actually convert. Right, You
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don't get choice for degree of difficulty if you can't dunk.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
We need to see the dunk.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Look. I just I look at it as a whole.
And you had Steph Curry on his home floor winning MVP.
You had a a a fun and memorable dunk contest.
You had the Skills Challenge get more attention than it
ever has. Okay, so it was because the first tried
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to seat more president ever has. And we're about to
add two new broadcast partners who paid the gazillion dollars
in order to broadcast games. So I just I don't
get where people are looking at it and saying, you know,
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the NBA is in pre fall because what because you
didn't like the format of the All Star Game. I
just I can't look at it that way.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Rick Buker with us, Jason Smith, Mike Carmon live from
the tirec dot Com studios. All right, now, you got
into a big topic that we talked about the other
night that I'm scratching my head going, I don't get this.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Mac McClung has won three Slam Dunk Championships and he's
played in five NBA games. Okay, now I get that.
He's a guy gotta come up playing the G League.
He's a G League MVP. How can he not get
on the floor, not only how can he knocke it
on the floor at the Magic. How does nobody trade him?
How does the NBA not say, hey, this guy really
should should get a little bit more attention. I don't
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understand how he can be this level of star, be
a G League MVP and not get more minutes.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, I would say, number one, it's first of all,
he is with the Magic, and the Magic is one
of the better young teams in the league, and they
pride themselves on what on their defense first and foremost.
And so he would have to be a three and
D player if he was going to get minutes with
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the Orlando Magic. And the fact is they've got pretty
good three and D players to play that role. He's
not going to. You see college players who when they're
the central player, when they're the primary player, they can
do amazing things. They can have triple doubles, but when
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they get to the NBA, they're not going to be
given that role and they've got to be a complimentary player.
And so then it becomes a question of what does
mac McClung do that in a complimentary role that he
does it incredibly well, does he shoot the three incredibly well?
Does he defend incredibly well? Like that's the avenue that
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he has to play. And just because we have the
Make a Wish program with Bronnie James does not mean
I mean it really tells it. This is this, This
is what makes that such a farce that a guy
like Max m clung normally in the NBA, for all
that he's done at the G League level, at you know,
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in the dunk contest all of that, if you look
at him and go wow, but he's not he can't
play an NBA role. It's not that he's not a
great guy, not that he doesn't work hard. It's just
you got to have that fit and uh and otherwise
it's really hard for a guy to get on an
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NBA roster. So you know, from a you know, a
heartfelt standpoint, you see a guy who has meant so
much to the Dunk Contest and thereby All Star Weekend.
You'd love to see him be rewarded for that, but
the bottom line is NBA minutes. Being on an NBA roster.
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You don't get that for being a good like for
anything other than you can contribute to a team winning games.
And there are dozens and dozens of guys that are
not in the NBA who are fighting for one of
those spots, who are pretty damn good players who have
accomplished an awful lot outside of it. But it just
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tells you how difficult it is to be on an
NBA roster. And so I get it. I mean, there's
a part of me that wishes, you know, there was somehow,
some way he finds his spot, but I understand why
he hasn't to this point, in spite of everything else.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Time to trade him to the Wizards. Rick from the
Magic to the Wizards.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
We did there, but on the would say I'm good
in Ostiola.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm a hero down here and I come out once
a year. That's it, and everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
What I can do.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I don't want to like, I don't want to go
and watch Jordan Poole do crazy stuff, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
One thing that did go around all Star weekend some
rumors about a potential trade of John Morant by the
Grizz this off season. Zach Kleman put out the statement saying,
we're gonna let our performance on the floor speak for itself.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Does he protest too much?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah? Yeah, I looked. Charles Barkley was the one who
said it only a hit dog hollers. In most cases,
there wouldn't even be reason to address this. They have
to address it because I I assure you, jaw or
his representation went, uh, what are you guys doing? Are
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you are you talking to people? What's what? What is
this about? And so they've got to put out the fire.
But you know, if they're where there's smoke, there's there's
something going on. And and I'll say this too, like
from the report that I saw, Uh, there is a
(27:27):
habit in the League of executives trading other teams players.
Some of it is we will think, some of it
is we're like we're preparing for the possibility. I mean,
I've been hearing for I've been hearing for years that
Janni Santampo is is going to be on the block
at some point and at some point.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
True, just keep saying it. Eventually, you'll be right. For
years it was going to happen, right.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
And this one the the you know, the caveat was
depending on how the season ends up, he could potentially
be on the block. Okay, well, what does that mean.
We're not at the end of the season. There's no indication.
Are the Grizzlies like in last place. No, like, Grizzlies
look like they're in They're they're in pretty good shape.
(28:17):
And and what I find I find the most interesting
about this subject is watching the Grizzlies this year since
Jah came back, they've really de emphasized his role. It's
not the John Morant show like he plays off the ball.
He has played off the ball more this year than
I've ever seen, and he's been effective as a result,
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and he stayed relatively healthy as a result. So now
maybe he has an issue with that, uh but and
and maybe that inspires a change, But as of right now,
I think he had I think I think the Grizzlies
had to say something to a sure job, that's not
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what they're thinking. Even if that's what they're thinking.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He's on Twitter at Rick Puker, That is at Rick Puker.
Make sure to check out the latest on the Ball
podcast all on how the Nick starting five might be
the best starting five in NBA history. Rick, that's what
an hour and a half on that podcast?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Is that what it is? Oh? No, that's that's the
four part series right there.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Bro Oh great, it's so long. I'll have to watch
a TikTok video summing it up. All right, great, take
it easy, buddy, We'll talk to you next week, see you, Rick.
Al Right, great stuff there from Rick Puker. I had
a couple of one really good one liners. Oh sure
he was bringing out Keno Stin. He was in the
WWE and no holds barred kind of mat I like
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the LaMelo ball. He is the greatest. I don't give
a blank player an NBA And here he is with
a big hoop.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
When we last left you, big conversation with Rick Puker,
the Lakers had a chance to potentially tie this game.
They were down by three with six seconds left with
the basketball. How did it go? Martin Weiss has the
happy recap for one of the two teams right now
with What's Trending I'm dub well that.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
LaMelo ball, you know it came down, hit a two point,
hit a two point jumps out, Lebron hit a three,
then lamellow ball ice the game from the free throw line.
The Charlotte Hornets winners over the Los Angeles Lakers one
hundred to ninety seven, saying look at the box score.
Miles Bridges lot all scores with twenty nine, LaMelo Ball
had twenty seven and the last two points two ice
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at four Charlotte, as I just said, Seth Curry with
ten off the bench. Lebron James twenty six points, ten
for twenty two from the floor, four to eleven from
three hit, eleven rebounds, two blocks and two turnovers, had
a steal. Luca Doncics in thirty three minutes of action
at fourteen points, five for eighteen from three, eleven rebounds,
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eight assists, and six turnovers.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Five fouls for Luca.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Rick Buker one of his one liners was saying, who's
gonna have the better three point percentage? Luka Doncic or
Bronnie James. Well, I had time Bronni right now to
twenty three point one percent from three In seventeen regular
season games Luka Doncic and three. He's hit five to
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three pointers seventeen five for twenty four, so right around
the same.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
You know, not looking great for for that push.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
It's just about a push Bronnie getting him by a
percentage point. But you know they didn't trade Anthony Davis
for Bronnie.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Hey, still a lot of golf left, still still lay
to make this change, way to change it up.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
That's true. Luca was a plus thirteen, so that's a positive.
But again Lakers losers tonight to the Charlotte Hornets, one hundred.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
To ninety seven.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Some college basketball games Missouri, the fifteenth Missouri Tigers upset
the Alabama Crimson Tide one ten to ninety eight. This
was the Missouri's coach at the end of the game,
as he said, you know what, We're about to win
this thing.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
This is what it sounded like.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Anthony Robinson holds the ball. When the Tigers win the game,
Knnis Skates takes the time out. He's going to try
to get Alabama off of the court.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Please do not rush the now.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Missouri has been fined several times by the SEC for
court storming and so on.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
They're really trying to hamper it down. Second time.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Missouri has taken a time out as time was expiring
to tell fans stay seated, please, guys, we don't want
to pay this fine. But they victorious over the Alabama's
Crimson tied one ten to ninety eight. Auburn hung on
today against Arkansas not sixty seven to sixty.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Remaining the number one team in the nation.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Seventeenth rank Kentucky beat Vanderbilt eighty two to sixty one,
and tenth th ranks Saint John's beat to Paul eighty
two to fifty eight.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Jason and Mike, you're.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Up, Red Storm continuing to rise. My Red Storm tump
taking him to win, to win it all. I've already
made my pick. Can't get me away from it. They're screwed.
I beat De Paul from my chair. Doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Can only beat who's on the schedule. They're running. They're
beating everybody in the Big East.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They're beating everybody, crushing everybody. And now he's got a
TV show recruiting will.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Never be hot.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Sure Red Storm rise?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Did they start blinking the donate now for the rest?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
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Coming up next? Yes, this is one of the worst
losses for the Lakers of the season. And absolutely. I
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mean you're four and nineteen away from home and you
go into La Luca rest off the All Star break
and the Hornets win this game by three. There's evidence
coming up next that it might actually be my fault,
and JJ Reddick will hate me even more. Oh, it
might be my fault. We'll tell you why next Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
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Speaker 1 (34:08):
Welcome back in Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon
live fromthetire Raq dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Standalone
game in the NBA, The Makeup from the Fires. The
Hornets come in and take down the Lakers. Lakers inexplicably
shoot fifty one to three point shots. No matter that
nobody's hitting a shot. Let's all just keep firing them up.
(34:31):
Eventually the law of averages say, we have to hit something. Well,
some of them hit shots, not all of them hit shots.
Like some players were good at you made the rod
shot two of them in the final six point seven seconds.
Other players were not good at shooting three Luka donta.
A lot of people were not.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
U.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, look, there's no way to cut this up right.
First NBA game following the All Star Break, the game
was a makeup from the La Fires earlier this month.
This is just the embarrassing loss for the Lakers, like
the Hornets, to come out of the All Star Break
rested Luca with a chance to you know, okay, now
I can put my stamp on this team a little bit.
And they came out and they had a C plus
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game in the first half and they were still up
by eleven. And you can only play C plus for
so long. This is just embarrassing, Like like this is
this is not hey. Our first game of the second
half was against the Celtics and they came in and
they worked us, or the Knicks came in, or a
really good team came in. This is a team that's
a bottom feeder. They're waiting for the next season to start,
and they come in here and beat the Lakers like
(35:34):
this and come from behind to win a game where
they could have and should have quit like this is
Look and you go back when I said doing our
second half predictions for the NBA season earlier tonight, and
I said, hey, Lakers are gonna finish second in the
Western Conference, right. Their offense is gonna be phenomenal, and
it's going to happen. It's gonna take a little bit longer.
It's gonna take Luke a little bit of time to
(35:54):
get in shape and keep playing. But their offense is
gonna put up so many points it's gonna be fantastic.
When I said that on the show tonight, yeah, they
led this game by eleven.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
They did.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
After I said that, the Hornets outscored him forty six
thirty two to win this game one hundred and ninety seven.
So it's my fault. JJ Reddick is gonna hate me
even more than he already does. Is he surpassed Oral Hershcheizer?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, so we've gone that far
because I don't think Herscheizer's given you any false monikers.
(36:25):
And sure, Herscheizer's playing day was over, and this is like, hey,
this is embarrassing man, Hey JJ Reddick, what the hell
happened to you guys tonight? Yeah, Lakers score eighteen points
in the third quarter. The thing that shouldn't be lost
either is going into the break. They played those back
to backs with Utah right to home and home, I
should say, and obliterated them in the first and then
(36:47):
lose the second one. Well, where's Utah in the standys? No,
you've lost.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
You're awful.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
You just games in a row. Yeah, that are absolutely awful. Right,
you had a week off and this is the effort
you get through Now. Obviously reve getting thrown out does
not help your cause, but again, it's the Hornets and
LaMelo Ball is a fantastic player. You should be able
to overcome. Is that like the highlight of the game
and this is where it's gonna get spun at. Did
(37:13):
you see the dunk that Lebron did on Mark Williams?
Did you see what he did to the guy who
would have been his teammate? He murdered him like he lost.
And then you saw the shot and I watched your reaction,
I watched your facial expression. Lebron misses a three six
point seven seconds left. They get the ball back to
(37:34):
him and he does a second shot and he's starting
to get contested. But what does he do. He does
the full follow through with the hand and everything else,
and I watched you shift in your chair. He's like,
there it is the pretty. It had to look pretty.
And at least that point he had to take a
three because they were downfield. You winced off the posture.
(37:57):
I hit this and it's gonna be tied.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Oh no, it's tie.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
So when the camera gets to me after I got
my hand up and I look triumphant and I'm walking
off the court and instead just hey Bridges, good game, man,
I'm walking off. I mean, like I said, it's embarrassing
and for all of the future of the Lakers, how
well they've played again, you just lost back to back games.
The team with a combined record of twenty seven and
eighty this year. I mean, the Jazz and the Hornets
(38:22):
are both terrible. And talk about well the Jazz on
the road. No, the Jazz are terrible at home too.
They're not like they're good, No, they're both. These teams
are terrible everywhere doesn't matter like that.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
This is where I go.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Is it really the same? Like, are the Lakers really
going to Like I keep going back and forth, line going, no,
this team offensively, they're gonna get it. They're gonna wind
up rolling. But then I look at the Lakers last
four years. No matter what they did, it was hey,
a few games or they look really good, and then
it was a couple of games like this where you
say to yourself, it doesn't make any sense they lose
these games. Yet they still do. But that's the thing
in the in the balance, it's one of eighty two,
(38:58):
all right, so two of eight. There you go, between
the Utah loss and this one. He can't do this,
you know, and sustain any level of momentum, because they
were running really well towards the end of whatever we
call it constitutes the first half of a season anymore.
It's it's a fuzzy math. But the point being that
(39:20):
this is fine, right you You could have a blip
or two, but you see the number of turnovers, some
lazy passing, opening fast break opportunities, eighteen turnovers on the game,
and that's just deplorable. Maybe Austin Reeves is the real
MVP because he got thrown out of the game for
arguing a falcon and from that point on the Lakers
(39:43):
got outscored eighteen to one and the Hornets took the lead.
Maybe Austin Reeves is the MVPG. That's what about jokicch
forget about Big Bodega, No, no, no, no, going to
the locker room and as you can get the reddick eventually.
But asked Lebron or Luca that in terms of flow
and what losing Austin Reeves meant, did that really take
(40:03):
the air out of out of the sales for the
squad when he got ejected. Yeah, that killed us tonight.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
We can't lose a guy like Austin Reeves and expect
to be a team that that the fourteen and fifty
on the season can't do that. Well, yeah, you shoot
one of eight, right, Hatchamorrow, who's a forty three three
point shooter on the year. So yes, bad night, off night, Lebron,
four of eleven, Luca, they weren't even close. So like
that's that's one of the things you're monitoring because some
of them were. I dare you to take this shot,
(40:31):
you know, like when you were tired against your your
kid brother or whatever, and then you realize, wow, your
kid brother can really shoot. That's me where you would
run me ragged. And then it become three point marksman
times like watch this.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Well, what hurt me?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Because you're not very tall. You'd have to be able
to find, you know, create some space. But at that time,
you know, like you could play, but he'd gas you.
You were five when he was five?
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Five? Wow?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Veritables giant?
Speaker 1 (40:56):
How many phone books? Wow? Harm taking shots off of Foma.
I'll get the stand of these phone books and shoot
right so I can make one. Well, I mean you
could do that in the dunk contest. Then to have
a guy spinning around and all those other things too, well,
I forget about leaping over a car. I'm going to
leap over two phone books and dunk this basketball. Yeah,
you can't cut it up as embarrassing a loss of
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Lakers as they've had. Well, boy, coming up next your fault,
we get you set for the biggest sporting event of
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it looked like it was gonna be a Laker runaway.
Then Austin Reeves gets ejected. He got what the Hornets tacking.
Jess got ejected, dude. Then the Hornets roared back to
take the lead. But now it is the Lakers who
have a three point lead over the Hornets with just
under six minutes left to go in the fourth quarter
eighty six eighty three, The Hornets went on an eighteen
(01:14):
to one run after Austin Reeves got ejected. So maybe
Austin Reeves is the NBA MVP. Forget about SGA. SGA, congratulations,
you just saved a lot of money fying your raging
to get that Mexican.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Oh brilliant. Yeah, I got a Maxicum. I'll see you.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah, so you're not gonna do any negotiating, So I
could just have a lawyer look at this for like
a couple of grand Oh yeah, great, that's all we'll do.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I got wait, I saved that three percent.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Forget about SGA. Forget about yo kitchen. The triple doubles
eighteen to one run without Austin Reeves. The Austin Reeves
is your NBA MVP. Next level stuff right there. You
saw this. Charlotte Hornets take full advantage of the emotion
that came over. I mean there's Austin Reeves. Yeah, maybe
he felt he didn't get enough love and all of
this welcome Luka. Doncis right because don't connect. Everybody needed
(01:59):
to you know, had him on the back, and Rubby
shows sorry that trade didn't go through their big guy Lebron.
I don't know if he's hurt whenever. I mean he
needed tell everybody needs a little time away. I mean
we learned it in song, and then Luca came in
and needed to work his way into you know, proper shape,
to where JJ Reddick was no longer going to coddle him. Meanwhile,
Austin Reeves is over here going what about me? This
(02:22):
isn't fair? Wow? Nice, two big song references in a row. Ryeah,
I'm on fire. But look, and this goes into what
I said was gonna wind up being the big effect
of Luca to the Lakers, and so far tonight Luca
donches twenty eight minutes. I told he's got to play
at least thirty minutes. Yeah, hey, JJ, hey JJ, I
thought you said no minutes restriction. Why is Luca not
even playing thirty minutes? Tonight? Luca bounced back really poor
(02:45):
start shooting the basketball, but on pace, potentially for a
triple double tonight with twelve points, nine rebounds, eight assists.
He also has five fouls and five turnovers. Well six turnovers,
so five of them, and we could first four minutes
he could have a five by five by five by
five by five game. Points, rebounds, assists, thousand turnovers.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Anybody you need a burger, The Knicks would hang a
banner for that.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We might. I'll tell you, five by five by five
by five by five games don't happen that often. No, now,
it don't happen. Yeah, you think you're gonna get your
over on minutes because he's handling the ball here five
and a half minutes. It's a close game, it's a
one point game. But the big, the big effect of
Luca to the Lakers. Yes, Luca is going to turn
the Lakers. This is now his team, most likely for
the next decade. He and Lebron working together. We talked
(03:30):
last hour. This is an offense's gonna start scoring one
hundred and thirty points in a game because the offense
is that loaded now. But it's gonna be guys like
Austin Reeves and Ruey hotchimoora Finney Smith has stepped in tonight.
He's got four threes with Austin Reeves getting ejected. Is
that Lebron's always said I need shooters, I need shooters,
I need shooters. Well, Ad and Lebron don't open up
(03:50):
the floor as much as Luca and Lebron open up
the floor. So the shooters what they got Hotchimora and
what they're paying Austin Reeves to do. And if you
get Finny Smith off the beat, these guys are gonna
find themselves. I'm I'm more open than I've ever been.
I'm because what are you gonna do? You can't roll
cover just to Austin Reeves can't do it right? You
got Hey, Luca's here, Lebron is here.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
What do we have?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
You're gonna see the shooters that Lebron has said he's
needed for the longest time. These are gonna be the
guys that are gonna be give you the absolute daggers
and it's and you're gonna throw teams are gonna throw
their hands up in the air, going, what the hell
do you really want us to do? What can we do?
It's Luca, it's Lebron, Austin Reeves hits a thirty foot
or what the hell do you really want? We had
Reeves covered on that and somehow Hatchamura hits a three?
(04:31):
What do you really want us to do? People are
really sleeping on what the potential this Lakers' offense is
gonna be? Oh, and you're seeing the court open up,
and again it's Charlotte's and the other games against Utah
would take it all with a grain of salt, but
it's all, you know, like the iterative process and learning
and spacing and and the team becoming more efficient and
learning each other's rhythms and spacing and all. But you're
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seeing this floor spreading out right now. Just as they
go to break, Lebron James with another lob to a
wide open Jackson Hayes for a flush. That's the other
thing that Finny Smith and others hitting a three point shot.
All of a sudden, you got a lot more room
for the drive, the dish, the lob, everything that they
were envisioning Mark Mark Williams. Yes, yet we come in
(05:14):
to me, Hey, we don't need that guy. I'm glad
that trade didn't go. We got other guys we could
do it with. They're just gonna need Jackson Hayes to
do that an awful lot. But but that play was
precisely what they were envisioning, Mark Williams showing up and
being part of here's all the shooters, So you're spacing
out right, gotta play them, honestly, Lebron with a little
(05:36):
bit of a drive and he looks and there's Hayes
like hi and Mark Lilla. The night is going, well.
I could have been a part of this. I could
I could have been the one getting that getting that
alley loop. I could have been that guy. Come on, man,
I gotta wait for LaMelo Ball to sit there and
be done dribbling before he tries to throw some pass
that no one's ready for. And he looks at me like,
(05:58):
why aren't you ready for that? Now? I gonna ways say,
is just the end of Jerry Maguire to Williams is
looking over at LaMelo Ball going why don't we have that?
They try to hug and it doesn't really work.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, uh so again Laker's up by three five minutes
ago in the fourth quarter. We'll have more on this
coming up in a few minutes. Rick Bucker stopping buying
about ten minutes to break down the game and all
the big storylines heading forward.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I hope he's not hate watching it like you two.
I'm not, dude.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Are especially every turnover. I gotta say, what's I had
him at five? Harmon's the one that said no, it's
at six. Now, I was trying to be nice to
you by not adding that I had him a fine. No,
I should have bet and I went the over in
the first quarter for turnovers for Luca. What's the over.
I'll take the over. That's good. Uh. But uh, look,
big story tonight and you can tell and it's it's
it's really, it's really something to see the fact that
(06:48):
this is the most trending topic on Twitter, the number
one name out there, because there's play by play guys
and then there's Penguins play by play man Mike Lang. Uh.
He passed away today at the age of seventy six
at last broadcast Pittsburgh Penguins games in twenty twenty one.
In a in a where there are so many great
(07:08):
play by play men and women who do a phenomenal job,
Mike Lang was the best. I can't tell you how
much fun it was to listen to him, all his calls,
all his all his great personalizations. I mean, there was
nobody like him, and I'm telling you he was the best.
And I didn't even grow up with him. He wasn't
even my guy. I didn't even listen to Mike Lang.
(07:30):
I didn't grow up in Pittsburgh, but I got Mike
Lang in the playoffs in other assorted big games that
were on you would get when when you when the
big regional sports network started in the nineties, you would
get more. You'd get Pittsburgh Penguins games. You get Mike
Lang on the call, like and he was incredible. His
calls after goals are amazing. And the best part about
(07:51):
Mike Lang is that usually in sports, after there's a
big play, whether it's a three pointer or a game
winning field goal, or a touchdown pass or a goal
in hockey, you celebrate, right, you celebrate and you stand
up yell something great. You're not really paying attention to
being what said, You're into the celebration. But with Mike Lang,
it was always, you know, goal and it was what's
(08:11):
Mike Lang gonna say? Right? Is he Is he gonna say,
scratch my back with a hacksaw. Is he gonna say,
buy Sam a drink and buy his dog one too?
Is he gonna say that goalie just lost his liquor license?
Lamute with the goal, call him slick from Turtle Crick
Lemuda Stevens. He's got Patrick Like, there were so many
that Mike Lang had that just seems so natural. They
(08:32):
didn't seem forced, they didn't seem like I'm looking for it.
They were non sequiturs. You had to understand what he's
talking about. Buy Sama drink, and buy his dog. One.
Two he's smiling like a butcher's dog. I mean, I
kind of like that one that's like a butcher's dog.
And then and then my favorite, No getting a fast
Lang Grandma. The bingo game is ready to roll. Like
he had so many. Like you could say, what do
(08:54):
your list to your top twenty favorite Mike Lang calls,
you would say, you miss so many of them, like like,
that's how good he was. And again he stopped broadcasting
in twenty twenty one. He was the best he was.
He was my favorite. And again I didn't even grow
up with him. I can't imagine what it's like for
for people who grew up, the generations that grew up
listening to him broadcast games and Penguins games. And you
(09:15):
see him. He's a number one trending topic on Twitter.
People are saying glowing things about him because he meant
so much to you, And it's one It's one thing
when we pay an homage to someone who passes away
about what their impact was on the floor, on the ice,
on the football field, on on the diamond, and it's
one thing, Boy, this person was great. We talk about
(09:37):
parts of their career and then then there's the parts
that you talk about that when when people say, this
is the effect he had on me as a kid,
when I listened to the games when I was growing up,
and and it was a lifelong relationship that I then
had with this team because of it. Chick Hern was
the same way for so long in LA It was
(09:57):
like a religious movement for chick Kurr's the thing. Right,
you think about Los Angeles, You've got Vin Scully Institution,
Jimi Hereen on the Spanish language institution, chick Hern. In
Pittsburgh you had Lang and you had Myron Cope for
all those. Don't forget Bob Miller certainly, right. I mean
(10:17):
so like you look at city to city and obviously
me growing up in Chicago, I have uh plenty of
broadcasters that areos well. Sipplewitz was kind of a big deal.
I need him back in the acting range. By the way,
I need a Dennis Franz here. I think he's done, man,
I think he done. Yeah, that's okay, he's done. But
like so many of those legends, and then Pittsburgh obviously
my friends the late tunch Ilkind and Craig Wolfy. Now
(10:41):
they're radio guys all these years that uh, you embraced
all those years. But but they're institutions. They're part of
the fabric of those squads. And and Mike Lang, I
found you the soundboard. I'm gonna send it. Yeah, there's
a Mike Lang sound Yeah, there's a sound board. So
you don't have that to torment fah. Oh yeah them.
(11:02):
But it's it's just that kind of thing. There's just
such a part of your fandom, your history. I mean,
we were talking forty six years for Lang, thirty five
years from Iron Cope to keep it Pittsburgh it right,
I mean that kind of longevity. So they're they're part
of generations. Right, Hey, listen to this guy. Growing up,
(11:22):
it was on the radio. It's kind of like you
and me at this point with some folks on the radio.
We've been doing this while Oh, let's get a little
bit tighter. We got we got the Bengo, uh getting
the fast lane grammar.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Let's hear that one Garren's got the fuck the Crosby
Rich shot.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
To such card, Oh, getting my fast laying Grandma. The
Bengo game is ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's just so great.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Like I say that, I would say that, like if
we're playing cards, we're playing Yuker and I set somebody
or you or somebody I'm playing pitch, and I'd say, oh,
how did it happen? Getting a fast laying Grandma? The
Bengo game is ready to roll. See, you should have
a box of mood moves right there. It's like here
you got grandma. H absolutely best to ever do it? Man,
(12:05):
Mike Lang, absolutely phenomenal. Rest in peace? Uh The Jason
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really want an All Star game after this? Could Ja
Morant really get traded? Why doesn't Mac McClung play more
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Speaker 1 (13:42):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. LaMelo ball, Wow, the one thing he
could do his finger roll? Uh Hornets with a ninety
six ninety four lead inside thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Who LaMelo?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I takes it to the rack goes in with a
finger roll to give the Hornets a four point lead
with just under fifteen seconds left to go. This would
be an extremely embarrassing loss for the Lakers, and they
were doing great right up until I said, hey, they
can they can finish second in the West. I see
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this offense is gonna start roll the minute I said that.
Austin Reeves gets ejected. The Hornets go on to run.
It's my fault, JJ, It is your fault.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
JJ.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Reddick's gonna be even madder at me than he was
last Yeah, upset Flo joining us now the hotline for
more on this Fox Sports won NBA Insider Extraordinaire. Also
check out the Amba Ball Podcast. He's on Twitter at
Rick Buker. It is Rick Buker. What's happening?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Man?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Well, first, because right after or right before that, I
put out there on social media that that LaMelo ball
is the most I don't give a bleep player in
NBA history. He takes the most nonsensical shock and then
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he does that, which still hasn't ice the game because
we just had Lebron James Barry Barr a three. But
we'll see. There's still the great possibilities to Charlotte Hornets
being Charlotte Hornets, so they could give this game back.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah. Well, look they're four and seventeen away from home.
This will be an embarrassing loss of biblical proportions for
the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Yeah. Yeah. You know what's interesting it is just listening.
I'm listening to the Lakers broadcast, and man, they are
trying to hype the Lebron Luca to the ancestry. And
I just have a question, now, is there is anybody
put anything out on the books yet on who will
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shoot the higher three point percentage Bronnie James or Luca
Dantic Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Wow? Wow? What No, I'm just what what? No? Jj
Reddick's gonna be as mad as you as he isn't
me that's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Many after the question, I think it's I think. I mean,
right now, we got a one for nine. We we
got Luca on a hot one for nine.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Right now he's on a heater and most of them
are not close.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
There were the shots I would be putting up right.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I mean, Rick, it was like you know in the
when you say, remember that highlight in college basketball of
Caitlyn Clark leaving that one player open to take a
three and she kind of dismissed her with her hand
like you're not gonna make this, Like that's how open
the Hornets were leaving Luca tonight to take these threes
that he was missing. I'm like, hey, go ahead, look
at you shoot it. We know you're not gonna make it.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, and the thing is like
nine of them. Dude, if you don't have going on
and you're as great a player as Luca is, then
go and get something else. But but that's one of
my my big concerns with this combin combination of Lebron
and Luca is that Lebron because of age and Luca
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because of conditioning, Like they're settling for threes. Threes and
trying to make an impact from a scoring standpoint is
the easiest, is the easiest and light least demanding way
to get to get buckets. And you don't have to
run very far. You run into three point line.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I'm in shape because i could just go from three
point line to three point line. I'm good.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, that was deal. Curry would run from three
point line to three point lining. When he would run
from offense to defense to three point line. As soon
as he got to the three point line, you would
yell help, and so he was he was covered and
uh yeah. So I just and it's really hard to
kind of get into shape during the course of the season,
(18:02):
and especially if you've been dealing with with some injuries.
So I am just again, I'm looking at the age
of Lebron, I'm looking at this the physical state of
Luka Doncic, and I'm not you know, I'm not sold
as seemingly so many people are, including our man Jason,
(18:23):
that this team is going somewhere and and and the
the Hornets have any actually played very fast in this
game because LaMelo will dribble the ball the you know,
the air out of the ball. But that would be
my plan whatever team I have, I am running at
every opportunity because I'm making Luca and Lebron play transition
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defense at every turn and and let's see if they
can maintain I don't even have to shoot that. Well,
if I can get those guys, forced those those guys
to get up and down the court, then I've I've
got a good chance at continuing to make them take
long threes while they are fatigued.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, we do get the rare occasion where the globe
gets to watch LaMelo ball in a showcase game.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
So you got that going for you.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But coming out of All Star Weekend, I mean, what's
the ultimate takeaway of it all?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Rick, Well, look, I'm not I'm not of the minds
that everybody else is. I mean, everybody has baged really
hard on the All Star Weekend, the All Star Games,
even even players who once played in it, like Draymond Green.
And this is my thing. You know, the things that
(19:38):
I don't care about, I don't pay attention to. And
if they're falling off, I'm really not that aware of it.
That's the great lie for me. People are complaining about
the All Star Game and saying this is the demise
of the NBA. Why is that what you want to
have happened? Because I don't know of any sport that
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we judge the health of the league based on its
all star games? Do we do that with Major League Baseball?
Do we do that with the NFL? Do we do
that with the NHL? I mean, so why are we
Why are we looking at this weekend and the game?
And the fact is, you know what with the new format? Okay,
so we're kind of up and down. I was curious,
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but it's almost like that, It's almost like the trick
your buddy pulls on you just made you look. The
NBA made people like we were all interested. We were
all curious, how's it going to work? And whether you
thought it worked or not. The fact is I tuned
in and watched because I've paid attention to it as
I never have before. And if I look at Saturday night,
(20:48):
Mac McClung and Stefan Castle ended up giving us a
donk contest that was memorable, a long way from Obi
top and winning it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
So that's Nick's legend, Obie topping Okay, Rick just right yet? Right?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Yeah? You know, I mean we even had a few
guys in the first round who were joining the Chris
Bird Anderson wing of the dun unable to our Mattie Zealous, like, dude,
just do a dunk. You can actually convert. Right, You
(21:25):
don't get choice for degree of difficulty if you can't dunk.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
We need to see the dunk.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Look. I just I look at it as a whole.
And you had Steph Curry on his home floor winning MVP.
You had a a a fun and memorable dunk contest.
You had the Skills Challenge get more attention than it
ever has. Okay, so it was because the first tried
(21:53):
to seat more president ever has. And we're about to
add two new broadcast partners who paid the gazillion dollars
in order to broadcast games. So I just I don't
get where people are looking at it and saying, you know,
(22:14):
the NBA is in pre fall because what because you
didn't like the format of the All Star Game. I
just I can't look at it that way.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Rick Buker with us, Jason Smith, Mike Carmon live from
the tirec dot Com studios. All right, now, you got
into a big topic that we talked about the other
night that I'm scratching my head going, I don't get this.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Mac McClung has won three Slam Dunk Championships and he's
played in five NBA games. Okay, now I get that.
He's a guy gotta come up playing the G League.
He's a G League MVP. How can he not get
on the floor, not only how can he knocke it
on the floor at the Magic. How does nobody trade him?
How does the NBA not say, hey, this guy really
should should get a little bit more attention. I don't
(22:56):
understand how he can be this level of star, be
a G League MVP and not get more minutes.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, I would say, number one, it's first of all,
he is with the Magic, and the Magic is one
of the better young teams in the league, and they
pride themselves on what on their defense first and foremost.
And so he would have to be a three and
D player if he was going to get minutes with
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the Orlando Magic. And the fact is they've got pretty
good three and D players to play that role. He's
not going to. You see college players who when they're
the central player, when they're the primary player, they can
do amazing things. They can have triple doubles, but when
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they get to the NBA, they're not going to be
given that role and they've got to be a complimentary player.
And so then it becomes a question of what does
mac McClung do that in a complimentary role that he
does it incredibly well, does he shoot the three incredibly well?
Does he defend incredibly well? Like that's the avenue that
(24:14):
he has to play. And just because we have the
Make a Wish program with Bronnie James does not mean
I mean it really tells it. This is this, This
is what makes that such a farce that a guy
like Max m clung normally in the NBA, for all
that he's done at the G League level, at you know,
(24:38):
in the dunk contest all of that, if you look
at him and go wow, but he's not he can't
play an NBA role. It's not that he's not a
great guy, not that he doesn't work hard. It's just
you got to have that fit and uh and otherwise
it's really hard for a guy to get on an
(24:59):
NBA roster. So you know, from a you know, a
heartfelt standpoint, you see a guy who has meant so
much to the Dunk Contest and thereby All Star Weekend.
You'd love to see him be rewarded for that, but
the bottom line is NBA minutes. Being on an NBA roster.
(25:23):
You don't get that for being a good like for
anything other than you can contribute to a team winning games.
And there are dozens and dozens of guys that are
not in the NBA who are fighting for one of
those spots, who are pretty damn good players who have
accomplished an awful lot outside of it. But it just
(25:46):
tells you how difficult it is to be on an
NBA roster. And so I get it. I mean, there's
a part of me that wishes, you know, there was somehow,
some way he finds his spot, but I understand why
he hasn't to this point, in spite of everything else.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Time to trade him to the Wizards. Rick from the
Magic to the Wizards.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
We did there, but on the would say I'm good
in Ostiola.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm a hero down here and I come out once
a year. That's it, and everybody knows.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
What I can do.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I don't want to like, I don't want to go
and watch Jordan Poole do crazy stuff, all right.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
One thing that did go around all Star weekend some
rumors about a potential trade of John Morant by the
Grizz this off season. Zach Kleman put out the statement saying,
we're gonna let our performance on the floor speak for itself.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Does he protest too much?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Yeah? Yeah, I looked. Charles Barkley was the one who
said it only a hit dog hollers. In most cases,
there wouldn't even be reason to address this. They have
to address it because I I assure you, jaw or
his representation went, uh, what are you guys doing? Are
(27:06):
you are you talking to people? What's what? What is
this about? And so they've got to put out the fire.
But you know, if they're where there's smoke, there's there's
something going on. And and I'll say this too, like
from the report that I saw, Uh, there is a
(27:27):
habit in the League of executives trading other teams players.
Some of it is we will think, some of it
is we're like we're preparing for the possibility. I mean,
I've been hearing for I've been hearing for years that
Janni Santampo is is going to be on the block
at some point and at some point.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
True, just keep saying it. Eventually, you'll be right. For
years it was going to happen, right.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
And this one the the you know, the caveat was
depending on how the season ends up, he could potentially
be on the block. Okay, well, what does that mean.
We're not at the end of the season. There's no indication.
Are the Grizzlies like in last place. No, like, Grizzlies
look like they're in They're they're in pretty good shape.
(28:17):
And and what I find I find the most interesting
about this subject is watching the Grizzlies this year since
Jah came back, they've really de emphasized his role. It's
not the John Morant show like he plays off the ball.
He has played off the ball more this year than
I've ever seen, and he's been effective as a result,
(28:39):
and he stayed relatively healthy as a result. So now
maybe he has an issue with that, uh but and
and maybe that inspires a change, But as of right now,
I think he had I think I think the Grizzlies
had to say something to a sure job, that's not
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what they're thinking. Even if that's what they're thinking.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
He's on Twitter at Rick Puker, That is at Rick Puker.
Make sure to check out the latest on the Ball
podcast all on how the Nick starting five might be
the best starting five in NBA history. Rick, that's what
an hour and a half on that podcast?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Is that what it is? Oh? No, that's that's the
four part series right there.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Bro Oh great, it's so long. I'll have to watch
a TikTok video summing it up. All right, great, take
it easy, buddy, We'll talk to you next week, see you, Rick.
Al Right, great stuff there from Rick Puker. I had
a couple of one really good one liners. Oh sure
he was bringing out Keno Stin. He was in the
WWE and no holds barred kind of mat I like
(29:45):
the LaMelo ball. He is the greatest. I don't give
a blank player an NBA And here he is with
a big hoop.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Now.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
When we last left you, big conversation with Rick Puker,
the Lakers had a chance to potentially tie this game.
They were down by three with six seconds left with
the basketball. How did it go? Martin Weiss has the
happy recap for one of the two teams right now
with What's Trending I'm dub well that.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
LaMelo ball, you know it came down, hit a two point,
hit a two point jumps out, Lebron hit a three,
then lamellow ball ice the game from the free throw line.
The Charlotte Hornets winners over the Los Angeles Lakers one
hundred to ninety seven, saying look at the box score.
Miles Bridges lot all scores with twenty nine, LaMelo Ball
had twenty seven and the last two points two ice
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at four Charlotte, as I just said, Seth Curry with
ten off the bench. Lebron James twenty six points, ten
for twenty two from the floor, four to eleven from
three hit, eleven rebounds, two blocks and two turnovers, had
a steal. Luca Doncics in thirty three minutes of action
at fourteen points, five for eighteen from three, eleven rebounds,
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eight assists, and six turnovers.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Five fouls for Luca.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Rick Buker one of his one liners was saying, who's
gonna have the better three point percentage? Luka Doncic or
Bronnie James. Well, I had time Bronni right now to
twenty three point one percent from three In seventeen regular
season games Luka Doncic and three. He's hit five to
(31:17):
three pointers seventeen five for twenty four, so right around
the same.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
You know, not looking great for for that push.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
It's just about a push Bronnie getting him by a
percentage point. But you know they didn't trade Anthony Davis
for Bronnie.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Hey, still a lot of golf left, still still lay
to make this change, way to change it up.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
That's true. Luca was a plus thirteen, so that's a positive.
But again Lakers losers tonight to the Charlotte Hornets, one hundred.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
To ninety seven.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Some college basketball games Missouri, the fifteenth Missouri Tigers upset
the Alabama Crimson Tide one ten to ninety eight. This
was the Missouri's coach at the end of the game,
as he said, you know what, We're about to win
this thing.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
This is what it sounded like.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Anthony Robinson holds the ball. When the Tigers win the game,
Knnis Skates takes the time out. He's going to try
to get Alabama off of the court.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Please do not rush the now.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Missouri has been fined several times by the SEC for
court storming and so on.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
They're really trying to hamper it down. Second time.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Missouri has taken a time out as time was expiring
to tell fans stay seated, please, guys, we don't want
to pay this fine. But they victorious over the Alabama's
Crimson tied one ten to ninety eight. Auburn hung on
today against Arkansas not sixty seven to sixty.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Remaining the number one team in the nation.
Speaker 6 (32:42):
Seventeenth rank Kentucky beat Vanderbilt eighty two to sixty one,
and tenth th ranks Saint John's beat to Paul eighty
two to fifty eight.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Jason and Mike, you're.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Up, Red Storm continuing to rise. My Red Storm tump
taking him to win, to win it all. I've already
made my pick. Can't get me away from it. They're screwed.
I beat De Paul from my chair. Doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Can only beat who's on the schedule. They're running. They're
beating everybody in the Big East.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
They're beating everybody, crushing everybody. And now he's got a
TV show recruiting will.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Never be hot.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Sure Red Storm rise?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Did they start blinking the donate now for the rest?
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Coming up next? Yes, this is one of the worst
losses for the Lakers of the season. And absolutely. I
(33:37):
mean you're four and nineteen away from home and you
go into La Luca rest off the All Star break
and the Hornets win this game by three. There's evidence
coming up next that it might actually be my fault,
and JJ Reddick will hate me even more. Oh, it
might be my fault. We'll tell you why next Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
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Speaker 1 (34:08):
Welcome back in Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon
live fromthetire Raq dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Standalone
game in the NBA, The Makeup from the Fires. The
Hornets come in and take down the Lakers. Lakers inexplicably
shoot fifty one to three point shots. No matter that
nobody's hitting a shot. Let's all just keep firing them up.
(34:31):
Eventually the law of averages say, we have to hit something. Well,
some of them hit shots, not all of them hit shots.
Like some players were good at you made the rod
shot two of them in the final six point seven seconds.
Other players were not good at shooting three Luka donta.
A lot of people were not.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
U.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, look, there's no way to cut this up right.
First NBA game following the All Star Break, the game
was a makeup from the La Fires earlier this month.
This is just the embarrassing loss for the Lakers, like
the Hornets, to come out of the All Star Break
rested Luca with a chance to you know, okay, now
I can put my stamp on this team a little bit.
And they came out and they had a C plus
(35:12):
game in the first half and they were still up
by eleven. And you can only play C plus for
so long. This is just embarrassing, Like like this is
this is not hey. Our first game of the second
half was against the Celtics and they came in and
they worked us, or the Knicks came in, or a
really good team came in. This is a team that's
a bottom feeder. They're waiting for the next season to start,
and they come in here and beat the Lakers like
(35:34):
this and come from behind to win a game where
they could have and should have quit like this is
Look and you go back when I said doing our
second half predictions for the NBA season earlier tonight, and
I said, hey, Lakers are gonna finish second in the
Western Conference, right. Their offense is gonna be phenomenal, and
it's going to happen. It's gonna take a little bit longer.
It's gonna take Luke a little bit of time to
(35:54):
get in shape and keep playing. But their offense is
gonna put up so many points it's gonna be fantastic.
When I said that on the show tonight, yeah, they
led this game by eleven.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
They did.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
After I said that, the Hornets outscored him forty six
thirty two to win this game one hundred and ninety seven.
So it's my fault. JJ Reddick is gonna hate me
even more than he already does. Is he surpassed Oral Hershcheizer?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, so we've gone that far
because I don't think Herscheizer's given you any false monikers.
(36:25):
And sure, Herscheizer's playing day was over, and this is like, hey,
this is embarrassing man, Hey JJ Reddick, what the hell
happened to you guys tonight? Yeah, Lakers score eighteen points
in the third quarter. The thing that shouldn't be lost
either is going into the break. They played those back
to backs with Utah right to home and home, I
should say, and obliterated them in the first and then
(36:47):
lose the second one. Well, where's Utah in the standys? No,
you've lost.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
You're awful.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
You just games in a row. Yeah, that are absolutely awful. Right,
you had a week off and this is the effort
you get through Now. Obviously reve getting thrown out does
not help your cause, but again, it's the Hornets and
LaMelo Ball is a fantastic player. You should be able
to overcome. Is that like the highlight of the game
and this is where it's gonna get spun at. Did
(37:13):
you see the dunk that Lebron did on Mark Williams?
Did you see what he did to the guy who
would have been his teammate? He murdered him like he lost.
And then you saw the shot and I watched your reaction,
I watched your facial expression. Lebron misses a three six
point seven seconds left. They get the ball back to
(37:34):
him and he does a second shot and he's starting
to get contested. But what does he do. He does
the full follow through with the hand and everything else,
and I watched you shift in your chair. He's like,
there it is the pretty. It had to look pretty.
And at least that point he had to take a
three because they were downfield. You winced off the posture.
(37:57):
I hit this and it's gonna be tied.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Oh no, it's tie.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
So when the camera gets to me after I got
my hand up and I look triumphant and I'm walking
off the court and instead just hey Bridges, good game, man,
I'm walking off. I mean, like I said, it's embarrassing
and for all of the future of the Lakers, how
well they've played again, you just lost back to back games.
The team with a combined record of twenty seven and
eighty this year. I mean, the Jazz and the Hornets
(38:22):
are both terrible. And talk about well the Jazz on
the road. No, the Jazz are terrible at home too.
They're not like they're good, No, they're both. These teams
are terrible everywhere doesn't matter like that.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
This is where I go.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Is it really the same? Like, are the Lakers really
going to Like I keep going back and forth, line going, no,
this team offensively, they're gonna get it. They're gonna wind
up rolling. But then I look at the Lakers last
four years. No matter what they did, it was hey,
a few games or they look really good, and then
it was a couple of games like this where you
say to yourself, it doesn't make any sense they lose
these games. Yet they still do. But that's the thing
in the in the balance, it's one of eighty two,
(38:58):
all right, so two of eight. There you go, between
the Utah loss and this one. He can't do this,
you know, and sustain any level of momentum, because they
were running really well towards the end of whatever we
call it constitutes the first half of a season anymore.
It's it's a fuzzy math. But the point being that
(39:20):
this is fine, right you You could have a blip
or two, but you see the number of turnovers, some
lazy passing, opening fast break opportunities, eighteen turnovers on the game,
and that's just deplorable. Maybe Austin Reeves is the real
MVP because he got thrown out of the game for
arguing a falcon and from that point on the Lakers
(39:43):
got outscored eighteen to one and the Hornets took the lead.
Maybe Austin Reeves is the MVPG. That's what about jokicch
forget about Big Bodega, No, no, no, no, going to
the locker room and as you can get the reddick eventually.
But asked Lebron or Luca that in terms of flow
and what losing Austin Reeves meant, did that really take
(40:03):
the air out of out of the sales for the
squad when he got ejected. Yeah, that killed us tonight.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
Man.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
We can't lose a guy like Austin Reeves and expect
to be a team that that the fourteen and fifty
on the season can't do that. Well, yeah, you shoot
one of eight, right, Hatchamorrow, who's a forty three three
point shooter on the year. So yes, bad night, off night, Lebron,
four of eleven, Luca, they weren't even close. So like
that's that's one of the things you're monitoring because some
of them were. I dare you to take this shot,
(40:31):
you know, like when you were tired against your your
kid brother or whatever, and then you realize, wow, your
kid brother can really shoot. That's me where you would
run me ragged. And then it become three point marksman
times like watch this.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Well, what hurt me?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Because you're not very tall. You'd have to be able
to find, you know, create some space. But at that time,
you know, like you could play, but he'd gas you.
You were five when he was five?
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Five? Wow?
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Veritables giant?
Speaker 1 (40:56):
How many phone books? Wow? Harm taking shots off of Foma.
I'll get the stand of these phone books and shoot
right so I can make one. Well, I mean you
could do that in the dunk contest. Then to have
a guy spinning around and all those other things too, well,
I forget about leaping over a car. I'm going to
leap over two phone books and dunk this basketball. Yeah,
you can't cut it up as embarrassing a loss of
(41:17):
Lakers as they've had. Well, boy, coming up next your fault,
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