5-4-26 - The Mo Egger Radio Show Hr 2

5-4-26 - The Mo Egger Radio Show Hr 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What we were doing about a year ago, not like specifically
like May fourth, twenty twenty five, what were you doing,
but about this time last year, remember what we were doing.
We were asking, like, are you worried about Matt McClain.
He's off to a slow start. And there was this
knee jerk response to that question, of course not. He's

(00:20):
Matt McClain. He'll be fine. It's taken him a little
time maybe to get going because he just had surgery.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
He missed an entire season.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It was a complicated surgery. But but just give it
some time and he'll be back to his twenty twenty
three form. We were doing that a year ago. Quite literally.
There it is, believe it or not, as disorganized as
I am. I keep stuff from every show there. It
is May sixth of last year. Time to worry about

(00:52):
mcclan question mark. So almost a year ago, time to
worry about Matt McClain. Question mark still a thing. Matt
McLain is not in the Red starting lineup tonight. Sal
Stewart is starting at second base for the fourth time
this season and for the second time in free days.
Reds and Cubs. By the way, the games a half
hour earlier than originally scheduled, so seven to ten tonight.

(01:15):
Chase Petty is going to make his first big league
start of the season for the Reds, a guy who
was either really good or really awful in the starts
he was making for Louisville. But anyway, low Is Dhing,
Spencer Steer, gold Glove finalist at first base is playing
first base. Sal Stewart is going to start at second.
JJ Bleday isn't left I guess I could just give

(01:37):
you the whole starting lineup Friedel, Bledet, De la Cruz,
Stuart second base, Low Dhing, Steers at first, Stevenson Benson, Hayes,
JJ Bleday and left field. A year later, we're still
talking about Matt McClain's lack of production three for thirty
one since the two home run game. We talked about

(01:59):
what the Reds are getting from their second baseman close
to league average I'm sorry, close to league worst production
twenty fifth from the two hole hitter twentieth. That's using ops.
It sounds like we're picking on Matt McClain. We don't
mean to, but we've we've talked about what the Reds
are doing at third base, which is good field no hit, right,

(02:24):
it's not even glove first, it's glove only. And I
stole that from Redreporter dot com. And I've asked this
question a bunch and others have as well. Can you
really afford to have good field no hit at third base?
And I'm not convinced the answer is yes, but the
answer is definitively not yes. If you have good field

(02:44):
no hit at second base, you can only have so
many of those guys. And with Keith Ryan Hayes, all right,
you acknowledge what he's not. He's not a good hitter,
but he's great with the glove. Matt McClain has been
steady and reliable with the glove. Also not hitting. That's
a problem because this team is built around him hitting. Now,
maybe not the way they're built around Elie Delacruz being

(03:05):
a star and salth Stewart doing what he has done
for most of the season. Obviously he's hit a little
bit of a speedbump here, but they have had Matt
McClain penned in black magic marker in the two hole
playing second base for a long time.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's what he was an opening day last year. It's
what he was for a while last season before they
finally moved him down to the batting order this offseason.
It was all right for a variety of reasons. He's
going to be better. He's our second baseman, he's hitting second.
Matt McClain was our best player in twenty twenty three,
And yet here we are twelve months later, twelve months

(03:42):
since we first started asking is it time to worry
about Matt McLain Should we be worried about Matt McClain,
we're still talking about the guy not hitting, and tonight
he's not even in the starting lineup. He has gone
from batting second to being moved down in the batting
order tonight to tonight not even playing, or at least
not even starting. Maybe it's a bad start, players have

(04:03):
bad starts. Maybe by the end of the season, in
whatever role they have him in, Matt McClain's gonna put
up numbers that make us look back and laugh at
the period of time that we were talking about how
much we should or shouldn't be worried about him. But
come on, dude, First of all, twenty twenty three was
forever ago. Second, it ain't like we've just been talking
about Matt McLain's offensive issues for the last four or

(04:25):
five weeks. These discussions go back a year. Also, Matt
McClain is closing in on his twenty seventh birthday. He
turns twenty seven in early August. This is not a
twenty two year old guy. This isn't the guy who
played in twenty twenty three and was among that long
list of dudes who got to the big leagues and

(04:46):
were electrifying.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Helped this team almost immediately.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
So in the short term, especially because we have decided
you can't do anything but play key Brian Hayes, certainly
while Auhanio Suarez is on the injured list. You've got
to find off from somewhere. Unfortunately, the next place you
look is second base. In the short term. Sal Stewart
obviously has experience playing second base. Sal Stewart might not

(05:12):
be Matt mcclan at first base, but Spencer Stewart first
base is better than Sal Stewart. But like that's so
in the short tournaments, we're trying to find offense from somewhere.
We're not taking our goal glove winning third basement out
of the lineup. Our options in the outfield are limited.
And let's face it, they are. You know, they called

(05:32):
Blake done up yesterday, and Blake done it. It's I
did this on social media. It's it's spin the wheel Man.
It's like Will Benson, Blake Dunn resigns, Jacob herd Be.
I mean, just this endless churn of like these randos
they try in the outfield, They're not going to get
very good production from the outfield this season. Maybe TJ.

(05:53):
Friedel hits a little bit more, maybe J J. Blda
hits a bunch. Chances are this team's outfield production, which
right field this year worst in the sport. Left field
kind of middle of the pack, center field kind of
middle of the pack. Gotta find an offense from somewhere.
We're not moving the third baseman now, it's the second baseman.
Big picture, you wonder moving forward. And this is not

(06:15):
so much a response to Matt McClain not being in
tonight's starting lineup. It's a response to the fact that
since twenty twenty three he's done one of two things.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
He's either not played at all or he's not hit
at all.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
The Reds get pretty much the same offensive production for
Matt McLain when he does play as they did for
an entire year when he didn't. Big picture, what's this
going to mean for him? Red's having the farm system,
Edwin Arroyo, Edwin Arroyo, as has been pointed out, like
Matt McClain two years ago, season ending injury, didn't play
at all. Yet he's performing now, he's performing a triple A.

(06:52):
A little bit of a difference between performing a triple
A and the major leagues. But still, how much longer
are you going to do with this guy? Plus Matt McLain,
this is his last non arbitration year, so there's some
very legitimate questions, not just about the short term, and
it feels like it makes sense to not have too
all field, no hit guys in the lineup, and especially

(07:14):
again without au haaneos Morrez. You're not moving the third baseman,
gonna have to move the second baseman and play the
first basement at second and play the left field or
at first base, which, to be fair, is his best position.
Hope you get something out of the outfield, Hope you
get something from your newly constructed infield. What they are

(07:34):
doing tonight should be what they do in the short term.
Big picture, how many more shots. Is Matt McLain gonna
get from the Cincinnati Reds. A year later, we're still
talking about a lack of production. This is not a
five or six week thing. A year later, when you

(07:55):
heard folks say, look, he was their best player in
twenty twenty three, we're a year removed from that, and
a year ago we were a year and a half
removed from that. Been two and a half years since
Matt McClain was the best player on the team. Big picture,
what's Matt McLain's role in this organization? It's not that
there's no conceivable role for him. He is good with

(08:19):
the glove. He has some positional versatility because he obviously
has a background playing shortstop too. But with each passing day,
with each passing slump, and the further we get from
twenty twenty three, the more you wonder could a position
that seemed to be reasonably settled for most of the
rest of the decade a couple of years ago now

(08:41):
be up for grabs. They have been largely built around
Matt McClain now for a while, and you don't pin
all of their offensive issues on him, but you pin
a lot of them on him. Two whole production last
year was close to the bottom of the barrel in
the league. Combine that with the fact that Friedel doesn't

(09:02):
get on base nearly enough, they're not getting anything from
the top two spots in the batting order. JJ Bleda
is batting second tonight. Question I started the show with
was and is where is the offense gonna come from?
And unfortunately, like Matt McLean is supposed to be able
to help you answer that question. By now, you got
a third base who you know is not gonna hit.

(09:23):
You got dudes in the outfield. Let's be honest, man,
we know what those guys are. The wild card in
the whole thing was gonna be Matt McLain and if
the twenty twenty three version showed up, this offense was
gonna benefit.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
But it hasn't.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
He hasn't, and we're getting with each passing day further
and further away from twenty twenty three. So you know,
I think Tito's hand has been forced. And how much
of this is him versus others in the organization who
weigh in on who should play and who should bat where. Man,
your guess is as good as mine, But I don't

(09:59):
know how you put him out there, and this, this
does not this isn't meant to come across as picking
on him, because I know what it sounds like. Now
we're picking on Matt McLain. Now it's Matt McClain's fault.
Like you're kind of hamstrung with the dude you have
out there in the outfield. You're hamstrong because you've got
a guy at third base that you don't want to
move because you love his glove. You're hamstrung because your
catching position isn't giving you much offensively. There's not a

(10:22):
lot you could do there. Really, the only place you
could do something is second base. So maybe this marks
the end of wondering when's the old Matt McClain going
to show up? And now the question becomes what is
his role in the organization long term and big picture?
And then the other question is where's the offense come
from if this doesn't work, Because really it's as much

(10:47):
about like adding JJ Bleday and subtracting Matt McClain than
anything else. JJ Bleday had a very good spring, but
the Reds loved him so much after signing him thus offseason,
they didn't make him a part of the opening day roster,
so you know it's it's and then you know when
JJ Bleday got signed this offseason, not a terrible signing

(11:08):
by any stretch, not a guy you don't want on
your team, but you know, for a while that was
kind of the centerpiece offseason move until they acquired a
Uhaneosuarez And he didn't gather that when JAJ Bleday was
signed by the Reds that he was gonna solve this
you know, long lasting offensive issue the Reds have had
with their outfielders. So I don't know, there's something limiting
about this. There's something frustrating about this. Matt McClain, not

(11:33):
that long ago viewed as a centerpiece, viewed as like
one of the foundational pieces the Reds have, and he's
being swapped out for JJ Bleday. You were not getting
much production from Matt McLain. Are you gonna get that
much more from j J.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Bleday?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Because that's effectively the move they're making, at least for tonight.
Maybe it's big picture, maybe it's long term. I haven't
seen or heard any quotes from Tito from field, but
the McClain thing a year ago, that was the question, like,
all right, it is it time to worry? And you
got patted on the head a lot last year around
this time of year. Oh he'll be fine, Ok, okay, cool.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Here we are year later.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
So maybe this works, and maybe JJ Bleday is exactly
what they need, and there's this infusion of offense that
this team badly needs, and maybe Sal Stewart starts to
hit again, which would be awesome. But oh, it does
feel like they're choosing from a whole series of flawed choices,

(12:38):
and it certainly does feel like Matt McLean's long term
future with the organization is tenuous at best. Seventeen after four,
more of your phone calls are welcome at five point
three seven four nine, fifteen thirty On Twitter, that works too.
At moegar, we have to get to our poll question
on Twitter coming up here in a bit. And when

(12:59):
I said get to it, I've got to post it.
By the way, we've done this. We did this like
two weeks ago. We did this with a red who
I don't know if he's getting another shot. We'll talk
about him next on ESPN fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
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Almost so damn important. It's all available on the iHeartRadio app.
We talked with landon Robinson's position coach a Navy, which
was a lot of fun. That might have been my
favorite thing we did last week. That and so much
more as it relates to the Bengals and the draft,
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(13:44):
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(14:05):
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We love long Necks. Kind of a quiet time for

(14:25):
the Bengals. I guess the two big stories from over
the weekend were a DeAndre Hopkins telling an interview at
the Kentucky Derby that he wants to play with Joe Burrow.
What that might mean, Your guess is as good as mine.
I do agree with something that I read. I believe
a't Cincyjungle dot com that in the Dexter Lawrence era,
nothing seems far fetched, nothing seems out of bounds.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
For the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
We are, at least for a while, we're out of
we're out of the game, saying like, you know, that's
not what they do. That's just not what they do.
Things that used to seem far fetched now seem fatch,
even if this still doesn't seem that fetched. And the
other story was that Joe Burrow went to the Kentucky

(15:07):
Derby and people on the internet did not like his outfit.
I don't know that if you are looking for validation
of what you are wearing, that going to the internet,
and not that Joe was going to the internet. He
was photographed, he was on video, and folks had something

(15:27):
to say about the fit. Because when you go to
the Kentucky Derby, there's a dress code. You have this
specific sort of a tire that you're expected to wear,
which is why I will never go to a Kentucky Derby,
although I love Derby Day. But it's rare that anybody
says like on the internet, like oh so and So's
outfit was awesome.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
The consensus is, boy, what a great outfit.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Also, I never want to have to go to a
place where I am expected to wear an outfit. Anyway,
the Internet didn't like Joe's outfit, said it was too casual.
There are your two Bengals nuggets from over the weekend.
Not a ton going on twenty six after four o'clock
Brendan Ban and Jones on Baseball is about twenty five

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minutes away on ESPN fifteen thirty five point three seven
four nine fifteen thirty is our number and eight six
six seven h two three seven seven six. When Sal
Stewart was on a roll, which he has spent much
of the season on a roll, there was so much
that was impressive about that. There was the raw production.

(16:33):
There was the ease with which he hit the ball
out of the ballpark at times. There the fact that
this guy was I think we expected him to make
the team, but he wasn't guaranteed a spot on the team,
and he had to have a great spring to earn it.
The fact that he took on the responsibility of batting
foth the fact that he took on the responsibility of
batting fourth without a lot of pressure, without a lot

(16:54):
of guys getting on in front of him, or without
a lot of protection behind him. Although things combined to
make salth stewart start to the season extraordinarily impressive, and
he is the Rookie of the Month for April. Last
I checked, he is still the betting favorite to be
the National League Rookie of the Year. But the thing
that stood out most about salth Stewart was he was

(17:16):
doing what he was doing on a team that basically
demanded it.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
He was carrying the offense.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
And that's awesome, and I'm willing to bet that there
will be other times during this season where sal Stewart
is asked to carry the offense. That's the responsibility that
comes with hitting cleanup. The questions have always been about
what this offense looks like when sal Stewart's production dries

(17:45):
up a little bit, maybe just goes through a batting slump,
maybe just has a series where he doesn't hit. And
by the way, they lost games this weekend. This is
not so much of a reaction to losing three games.
It's a statement about what they have been and what
they haven't been all season long. So, like, you know,
Sal's two for his last twenty eight, it might be

(18:07):
his first real bit of statistical adversity that he has
gone through. Completely reasonable to expect, especially during his first
full season, there to be rough patches. But when he
goes through a rough patch, who picks up the slack? Now,
when Sal was hitting and the Reds were winning, I

(18:30):
know how it works. A whole lot of folks didn't
want to talk about what it was going to look
like when Sal wasn't hitting. But if you assume that
there was going to be invariably some sort of production
dip even when he was at his best, you couldn't
help but wonder, like, all right, who's going to make
up for it?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Who's going to pick up the slack?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
And that's a question we're dealing with now with Sao
and the throws, as we say, have a little bit
of a batting slump, the team going through its first
real collective rough stretch of the season, and the team
offensively gasping for more. Sports headlines are next twenty nine
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for Life, Kelseysheve, dot Com, Reds and Cubs square all Tonight,
first to four at Wrigley Feel. Chase Petty will make
his first big league start of twenty twenty six against

(19:45):
Edward Cabrera. Tonight's first pitch moved up thirty minutes to
sevent ten because of storms expected in Chicago later on tonight,
seven to ten, first pitch on seven hundred WLW Yours
starting lineup for cincinnat tonight stand by, Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I know you are get excited?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Here it comes whatever I do that it's me trying
to find the correct tab because I've given up on
writing stuff down. My handwriting is so unforgivably bad. TJ
friedl is leading off in centerfield, JJ Blay and left field,
hitting second, Li Da La Cruise is at shortstop. Sal
Stewart's at second base, the current National League Rookie of
the Month for April. He is playing second base tonight

(20:27):
in batting fourth, Nathaniel low DH's Spencer Steer plays first,
Stevenson catches, Will Benson, and Wright Kee Brian Hayes playing
third base and betting night they mentioned Sal Stewart, the
National League Rookie of the Month for the month of April.
Chase Petty up to make tonight start. Zach Maxwell sent
out to tripa A Louisville. One other n L Central
game tonight, Brewers and Cardinals hooking up in Saint Louis.

(20:50):
The UC baseball team up to twentieth in Baseball America's
national rankings. NBA tonight, Sixers and Knicks in New York's
Eastern Conference Finals game Eastern Conference Sevenemifinals Game one, Cavs
and Magic in the other, and San Antonio hosting Minnesota
game one of that Western Conference semifinal series. Hockey tonight

(21:11):
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Philly and Carolina, with the Hurricanes
up one game, then game two, Game one tonight between
Anaheim and Las Vegas. Former UC quarterback Brendan Sorosby has
hired an attorney to regain his NCAA eligibility. Now, unless
there is something that I have missed, and that possibility

(21:34):
does always exist, I don't know that Brendan Soresby has
been declared ineligible yet.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
He maybe certainly feels like that'll.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Be the outcome here, but I don't think that has
actually happened yet. Evander, who had a hat trick n
FC Cincinnati's three come three two comeback win on the
road against Chicago on Saturday, has been named to the
MLS Team of the Match Day for match Day number eleven. Roman,
who had a career high eight saves, including his most
vital one that occurred on a penalty kick just prior

(22:06):
to a Vanders game winning goal, has been named to
the Team of the Match Day bench for a second
consecutive week. That's Roman, Celentano friend, friend of the show.
Five point three seven four nine fifteen thirty eight six
six seven oh two three seven seven six Lots of

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room for you. We have the Reds getting swept over
the weekend in Pittsburgh, a series against the Chicago Cubs
that begins tonight, and it'll be interesting. I think from
a few different perspectives to see how tonight's lineup fairs.
Also will be interesting to see if the Pirates series,
the three consecutive losses sort of set us up for,

(22:50):
you know, a stretch where the Reds they've already come
back to the pack two games at a first place.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
But do the three games.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Against Pittsburgh prove to be just a little speed bump
or are they the start of something opposite of what
we saw when the Reds won twenty of their first
thirty one games. We will see one more thing on
the Brendan Soresby thing, which we talked about. He obviously

(23:20):
under NCBA investigation. We first found out about this story
last week Texas Tech Today announced that Brendan is checking
into a residential rehab program for a gambling addiction, and
so Brendan Soresby is lawyered up. He has hired this
prominent anti trust attorney who's got a strong record of
success against the nc double A as one of the
attorneys in the plaintiffs for the plaintiffs in the House

(23:41):
versus NCUBLEA case. That's Brendan Sorosby's lawyer. If he's declared ineligible,
he could obviously jump to the NFL by putting his
name into the supplemental draft. Of all of the different
outcomes here, that's the most interest. I read the thing

(24:02):
from Albert Breer last week SI dot Com, who quoted
a couple of different assistant coaches who make Brendan Sorosby
out to be a generational quarterback talent, used Brendan Soresby's
name and the same paragraph as the name of Patrick Mahomes.
Another used the name Matthew Stafford and not making direct comparisons,

(24:27):
not saying that one is as good as the other
or one is going to accomplish as much as the other,
but in terms of raw skill set, those are the
sorts of dudes that Brendan Sorosby is a listening comparisons to.
For what it's worth, you didn't hear a ton of
that with Fernando Mendozo, the number one overall pick in
the draft. There's favorable comparisons to other quarterbacks in the league,

(24:48):
but nobody was putting him in the same breath or
same sentence as Patrick Mahomes. If this ends up with
Brendan Soresby going into the NFL via the supplemental trap,
it will be fascinating to see what the NFL's real
opinion of him is, because it's easy to say nice

(25:09):
things about the guy when he's still in college and
we are ways away from even having a chance to
draft him something else entirely. If, okay, you teams have
said that you have a high opinion of the dude
here he is, you could take him, do you? I
like Brendan. I hope his demons, if you will, off
the field, get rectified. I hope he gets the help

(25:30):
that he needs. Takes it seriously. I have no reason
to root against that guy as a human being. I
just it makes sense why this story is getting a
lot of run. He's high profile, He's going to a
high profile school. It's sports wagering, which is obviously a
hot topic right now, Like it's an interesting discussion. But

(25:52):
watching Brendan Soresby play every snap of his UC career,
I can't tell you that. And I'm the quarterback of Vater,
but I can't say that. I thought, Man, I'm watching
a surefire NFL star. I'm watching a guy that could
lead a team for four or five years. I'm watching
a guy who should have his name called in round one,
that player never consistently materialized. We'll see if NFL teams

(26:17):
really do feel the same way if he ends up
putting his name into the supplemental draft. And the more
and more you see about this, and the more and
more you know about it, it feels unlikely that he
is going to be eligible to play college football without
going to court. In twenty twenty six, Reds get swept,
a frustrating weekend, a long Saturday, a painful loss yesterday,

(26:40):
and now some lingering questions that really are the same
as the lingering questions we had when the team was
winning that Coming up at five oh five on ESPN
fifteen thirty, Cincinnati Sports Station.

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Speaker 1 (26:55):
What Chase Petty did? He's up going to pitch for
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This is ESPN fifteen thirty. Thanks for listening. Took a
phone caller two.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
It is a call in show after all, John and Finley, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
You're on ESPN fifteen thirty. John, good afternoon, how are you.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
Doing wonderful? Moh hey, Rare is the Day that I
get a chance to talk about NBA basketball, and I
am like Mike, like Mike, like Mike in California. I
am also a Sixer fan.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh no, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah, I grew up in the I grew up in
the late seventies, early eighties, So I'm Doctor Day, Moses Malone,
Charles Barkley, all those guys. So yeah, I honestly I
would have bet. I don't I'm not a betting person,
but if I was, I would have bet a significant

(27:53):
amount of money that the Sixers would have got swept
into Boston series. The first didn't give them a chance.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I was gonna say. Tarn and I were talking about
that before the show today. The first quarter and a
half of Game one of Philly versus Boston made any
objective or even non objective viewer believe that series had
no chance to go beyond five games.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
And the weird part is is not only did the
Sixers win the series, they won they won three games
in Boston. Yes, And I mean you remember back in
those six or Celviics days, It's like the Garden mystique
and all that. You just you just didn't win there.
I mean, if if you won one game there, you

(28:39):
were you were very very portunate. And to win to
win three games there is just blowing.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, to win, to win three games there, to win
games five. In game seven, Game five, Boston had a
double digit lead in the second half, I thought, Okay,
like Embiid was terrific in that game, He's not gonna
come back and play that well in game six. Comes
back and he plays, you know, very well. In game
six they got thirty from Tyreek Maxi or Tyrese Maxey.

(29:08):
And then you know, the way the way that the
game seven unfolded, it kind of felt like from the jump,
Philly had some juice early in that game, and I'm
thinking it's gonna be surprising if Boston comes back. Boston
led for like thirty one seconds in the entire game.
Philly led pretty much wire to wire right that there
wasn't like a fluky you know, Boston let him hang around,

(29:31):
and Philly won it in the final three or four minutes.
They were really good from the opening tip and yeah, man.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
After game one, I thought, there's no way that that
thing goes past five.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
And yet here we are Philly and the Knicks.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Well, and even a winning game too. It was kind
of one of those games. Okay, in the NBA every
once in a while, one team just in Philly just
scorched the nets from three point lay in that game,
and that happens, and but here's you're thinking at that point, Okay,
it's gonna be a gentleman sweep. That's gonna be four
to one, and that'll be it. But the even that
game seven, the Sixers had two different eighteen point leads

(30:10):
in that game, and you just you, I mean, you
know how NBA games go. Every game's closed at the end,
so you're just thinking, Okay, we're gonna get set up
and our hearts are gonna get ripped out in the
last minute. And Boston had every I mean, they had
what in the last I think with me about two
minutes to go. I think Peyton Pritchard, who's a great shooter,

(30:31):
had a wide open three from the corner he missed.
Derek White had a couple of wide old I mean,
and that whole series when you will end it. It's
funny how with NBA basketball, we we we can make
sports really complicated, but really, in the NBA basketball it's
really come down to if you make your three point shots,
you're gonna win, and that's really what the game's boiled

(30:54):
down to. And the Celtics, for some reason, they just
couldn't shoot in that series. They were they were awful
from three point land in that series.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Everybody lives and dies by the three. But I feel
like Boston takes it too extreme lengths and you're right.
In that series, the three games they won, I think
they shot over forty percent from behind the arc, and
the four games they lost, including on Saturday when they
shot twenty seven percent, they shot less than forty percent.
It just, you know, the three point ball drives up.
I just thought, with a coach who was who is

(31:25):
regarded to be really imaginative offensively, that Joe Mizzula would
have come up with something and that did not happen
in the final three games of the series.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I wish your team limited luck starting tonight.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Obviously, on Sunday when Tatum couldn't go, that was huge.
I mean that just kind of at least opened the
door on Sunday. Okay, we might have a chance today. Yeah,
thanks Mo, good luck to your.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Next likewise, should be should be a lot of fun.
Nine away from five o'clock fun NBA conversation five point
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