November 26, 2025 • 32 mins
Softy in Seattle kicks off the hour, before a Finch playback from earlier and a wrap on the show!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cuban. Y'all don't know football.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Y'all don't know football. All right, we're about ready to
get the gizzard. But get the gizzard in loving fashion.
The day before Thanksgiving, he was coming in hot when
I called him. When is he not hot? He's Softy
in Seattle at Softy KJR V the X machine follow
him if you are so inclined. At nine in the morning,
he's screaming at Softy k JR. Now Softy in Seattle
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is on the audio as they're making us say. But
on the radio three to seven Pacific ninety three to
three KJR out of Seattle Way, it's an iHeart juggernaut
and Softy is the flame thrower. Hey, Softy, good morning?
How are you, Paul?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't understand how anybody doesn't get fat as the
house this time of the year. I'm sitting around my
house and I'm telling myself, I'm gonna fast until Thanksgiving
so I can stuff my face like a pig on Thursday.
And all I end up doing is eating everything in
the house that I'm saving to cook for Thursday. Great,
how do people not get through the holidays just putting
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on massive amounts of weight?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I don't understand it, well, David, Softy, love it Softy.
You're talking to somebody who has not felt his ribs
in thirty years. So therefore I'm hey.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, I didn't want to be the one to tell you. Yeah,
you might want to call you might want to call
weight launchers if they're still around. No, I'm kidding. You're
a You're a you know, you're a spelt but sexy man.
You are a good looking individual, Paul. Don't you think otherwise?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Honey? You got to stop that. If somebody like after
a Viking's loss or losses, uh, all seven of them.
If if they're with me and they sense that I'm
a little down, and uh, they'll be like, come on, Paul,
pick up your chin. Well my response is which one?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, the best way to a man's heart is through
his mouth, man, there's no question about that. But yeah,
let's get to it, dude. I don't know what you
guys are doing out there with a man football team,
and I want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So let's go softy. Before we talk about that. Here's
a question I've never asked you, and I legitimately have
wonderment with it. Now your name is Dave Mahler M
A H L E R Right, Yes, sir, okay, So
how did you get the nickname Softy?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I used to look like you, Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Really, because you were ponchy. Somebody actually called you softy.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You're the one that's set it up, man, I mean
you put it right there on a tee for me.
For God's sake, no, man, I used to weigh two
hundred and seventy pounds. I used to have bigger boobs
than my wife. For crying out loud, are you kidding me?
When my wife would go bra shopping, she would shop
for two and not just for one. And then I
lost the bunch your way. I went to an organization
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called thirty ten Weight Loss for Life, which is now
out of business thanks to a Zevich by the way,
and I lost almost eighty pounds about ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So got it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, I used to be I used to be gigantic. Man.
When I go to the DMV to get my license
ree nude, they had to take two pictures and put
him side by side to fit my faith on it.
That's how bad I used to be. So that's how
I got the nickname softie.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, you much know, you gotta be kidding me with
that prattle. That was second to none. All Right, we
will satisfy your desires. Now, your nickname being softy? Is
that what they call Seahawks quarterback Sam Donald when he
plays in pressure film games, like a couple of weeks
ago against the Rams.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
No, they call Sam Donald eight and three. They called
Sam Donald the magic man for what he's been able
to do here in Seattle, and they called Sam Donald
the mistake in Minnesota because they let him walk for nothing.
I don't get what you guys are doing out there, honestly.
I see a football team that three years ago had
Nick Mullins, they got rid of him, they brought in
Sam Darnold, he wins fourteen games, they get rid of him,
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and now you're four and seven with JJ Carson and company.
So really, the question needs to be asked. And I'm
not trying to criticize. I'm not trying to slam. I'm
not trying to make you feel bad or insult anybody.
I'm honestly wondering what the heck the Vikings are doing
out there at the quarterback position. I mean, look, I
realized that you draft the kid in the first round.
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You want to see what he's all about. But the
Green Bay Packers rafted a couple of guys in the
first round. They had him sit for a couple of
years until they were certain that they were ready. The
San Francisco forty nine ers had a guy named Steve
Young that sat behind Joe Montana and didn't play until
it was obvious that Joe Montenna's career was coming to
an end. The Arizona Cardinals drafted a kid named Josh
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Rosen in the first round, realized he wasn't what they
thought he was, and then went out and got Kyler
Murray the next year at number one. So when you've
got the bird in hand, when you've got the thing
that is a known commodity at fourteen and three, letting
him walk for nothing seems like a really, really bad idea.
Pall at the most important position in sports. And look,
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I realized that Sam Donald did not play well, and
the de facto NFC North Championship game a year ago
and the playoff game against the Rams, I understand all that.
First of all, a couple of things. Number One, Sam
Donald does not have a lot of data in big
time games at which to look at because he hasn't
played in a lot of big time games, right, and
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people talk about the RAM game, they talk about the
Lion game. How about the way Sam Donald played in
the two games against Green Bay a year ago? Were
you happy with those performances from Sam Donald? Did you
not like winning fourteen games and going to the playoffs
last season? Was that an issue? Did you think that
you could do better? Is that why you let the
guy walk? I mean, if Sam Donald had played well
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in the RAM game, if he had played well in
the Lion Game, he's probably making fifty five million dollars
a year. I'm thirty five billion dollars a year. So
either way, the Vikings lose by letting him walk. You
do not let guys go that win fourteen games. You
do not let guys go that are in the MVP
conversation for a majority of the year. So the Vikings
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mistake is the Seahawk gain. Here we are at eight
and three, you're four and seven, and by the way,
you know who else stakes right now, Geno Smith and
the Las Vegas Raiders with Pete Carroll. This is another
example of John Schneider pulling the plug at the exact
right time at the most important position in sports. He
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did it with Russell Wilson, and he did it again
with Geno Smith, and they're in the playoff hunt and
the NFC West hunt because of it.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Okay, look here, hes not no softy. We called you
to talk about your team. I recorded with you for
twenty five minutes yesterday to talk about my team. Why
have we turned the tables? And the day before Thanksgiving
we're catching all the Hey, we.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Can get thirty five minutes if you want. I'm not
on a time limit. We can do whatever you want.
I'm just telling you that this game has that theme
on Sunday. It's not just Sam Darnald against Minnesota. It's
Sam Donald against this former football team. And am I
concerned about the way Sam Donald's going to play? To
answer your question, because you're getting impatient, I can hear you.
I can hear you breathe, and I can hear the
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nostrils opening up in your nose. I can hear your
brain starting to twist and gather some steam. You're getting
annoyed at me. I don't want to do that, especially
on the day before Thanksgiving. Am I concerned about Sam
Darnald blowing it and playing poorly in big games, sure,
I know, but I'm also loving what I'm seeing from
Sam Darnald the rest of the way. And here's the thing, man, Really,
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the poor football that we've seen from Sam Donald, when
has it occurred. It's occurred in the last two games
against Arizona and against the Rams, and he's got seven
combined turnovers in those two games. Yet the Seahawks have
also scored sixty three points and they were a sixty
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one yard field goal from Jason Myers away from actually
beating the Rams and going to and zero in those
games despite Sam Darnald turning the ball over seven times.
I'd rather have Sam Darnald do this now in mid
to late November than in late December early January. So
let's hope he's coughing up this hairball right now and
he's figuring it out before the games get really big
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later in the year.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's very very fair analysis. And I caught the tail
end of that game after the four picks, and I
thought Sam, the man who used to be on the fan,
look cold blooded that on that possession that got them
close for Myers to have an opportunity. Very fair. Now
your coach Mike McDonald twelve and two on the road,
six and eight, allumin, what's the read on that.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, it just hasn't been the same place for the Seahawks, man,
you know, and I don't know even though, honestly, Paul,
if the national media has picked up on it. You know,
you go to luman Field, you turn on the broadcast, CBS, Fox, whatever,
and you hear people like my buddy Kevin Harlan, you
know Kenny Albert, you know Coogler whoever. Oh, this is
a house of horror. This is one of the hardest
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places to play in the NFL. It really isn't anymore.
You gotta look at what they've done in the last
four or five years. And this was a problem for
Pete Carroll. This is not just Mike McDonald. Part of
the issue is the Hawks have been fairly mediocre in
the last three or four years, so that kind of
stuff's gonna happen. And then number two, it's also been
kind of an invasion of visiting fans the last few years.
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Man Niner fans, Cardinal fan, Buffalo Bill fans. We'll see
how many Viking fans show up for this game on Sunday.
It has not had the same hometown feel that it's
had in the last few seasons. Man, So it's got
to stop. I mean, he's twelve and two on the road, McDonald,
he's six and eight at luman Field. So they lose
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this game to you guys on Sunday and they go
six and nine and they lose. Is a big favorite
favorite at home. We're going to have a real problem
because this is kind of a thing right now for McDonald.
You lose on Sunday, it's a real thing at for McDonald.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Ten and a half point favorites. Would you give it?
Would you give it? Take it? Or pass ah?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think this weekend I probably would take it. After
what happened with the Seahawks and Tennessee, I think they're
pissed off about the fact they let Tennessee back in
the game on Sunday. They were heavy favorites on the road,
given thirteen and a half. It was the biggest road
spread the Hawks have ever had as a favorite, by
the way, in franchise history, and I just don't think
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those come through very often. But at home this weekend
against Minnesota and your buddy Broseemur, not Brasmer. They give Brosemer.
I would say take the Hawks and give the points.
I think I'd probably parlay it with the under to
be honest with you on Sunday, but I think this
is a game where, just like the Arizona game and
just like the Saint game, expect the Hawks to run
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the Bikings out of the building. I would not say that,
by the way, if the Seahawks had destroyed Tennessee last Sunday,
But I think that game is stuck in their crawl.
I know a part return really pissed off Mike McDonald
on Sunday, So I would think the Hawks come out
looking for blood this weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Would you make it a three team parlay and include
your beloved Huskies on the money line against the Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No, but I would take the six and a half
for sure. Oregon's not that good, Paul, They're just not.
This is a team that needed double overtime to beat
a really bad Penn State team on the road earlier
this year. They got a bunch of offensive linemen that
are hurt. They got wide receivers that are hurt. Washington
might be as healthy as they've been the entire season
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with guys like Jonah Coman and Denzel Boston and the
freshman raiding Binds Bright coming back for this game on Saturday,
so rivalry game. Damon Williams is a totally different quarterback
at home than he is on the road. He's thrown
six interceptions and all of them have come a from
Husky Stadium. So yeah, you want to parlay, you want
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to get really creative, you want to hang her. You
know what's out there that's your balls. By the way,
give me a three teamer on the under the Hawks
and the Dogs plus the six and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Let's go Softy from Seattle Kjar. The station is an
iHeart Juggernaut and the blowtorch is Softy Softy from three
to seven Pacific on a kjar part of the vast
and never expanding iHeart Audio family. After the Mariners went down,
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did you even watch the epic World Series?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I watched the World Series. I did not watch the
Seahawks Texans game that night. How about that it was
the same night as Game seven. I was at Jimmy's.
You're fully aware of the magic of Jimmy's on First
across the street, from Lumenfield. Love it watching Game seven,
watching the baseball game, distraught, broken hearted, had no desire
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to go across the street to loom Field and watch
the Seahawks and Texans. So I went home. Didn't even
bother to watch a minute of that football game. Man,
that's how bummed out I was about what happened to
my beloved Mariner baseball team. But yeah, I watched the
World Series for one reason, the root against Toronto. Worst
fans in sports, absolute biggest keyboard cowards in professional sports,
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really in North America. Yeah, I used to think that
Oregon fans were the worst, but Toronto takes the cake.
These people are bad. They're bad people, and they mobilize
and they come after you wherever you are. They hunt
you down, they most organize, all right, Yeah yeah, those Canadians, man,
they're sneaky bad people. So I was not sad at
all to see Miguel Rojas pop that home run to
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left field and give the Dodgers that chance to win
it in Game seven and extra innings. I know we're
not supposed to root for la as the evil Empire,
but once you've experienced what Toronto fans really have to offer,
you could never go back. I hope you people in
Minnesota to find people of Minneapolis never have to experience
what I did, because as it's scarring, it leaves you
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in shambles, and it's not something I would ever want
anyone to have to go through.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
On behalf of iHeart Audio and Radio and FM one
hundred point three Kfan and the nine to Noon production,
we would like to apologize to everybody in Winnipeg as
part of one of our affiliates, and the views voiced
by Softy do not necessarily recognize or are acknowledged by
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Nine to Noon or ihearder kfam. All right, hey, are
you a Gonzaga basketball fan? And if not, why not?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Absolutely not? Why because they're three hundred miles away. Oh
they're in Spokane. They're not even in Seattle. They may
as well be in freaking Idaho, for God's sake, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Grow up in Seattle, your root for one team and
one team only, and that's Washington. Okay, I got your
parents may have gone to Washington State.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We love you, Softy, and I look forward to seeing
you this weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
All right, Bud, I'll see you, man Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, welcome back nine to noon. Chris Finch, head coach
of the Minnesota Timberwolves. He joined PA to kick off
the show today. Wolves at the OKC Thunder this evening.
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I believe tip offs right around six thirty pm and
you'll get to hear it on the free iHeart radio app.
But PA chatted with the head coach. We're going to
play that interview back now. And PA kind of started
things off like, Hey, you know I noticed shake Gil
just Alexander kind of popped up on the injury report
maybe questionable with an illness.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What's good?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Are we paying attention to that?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Hey, good morning, Pa. We listed as having some illness,
so we'll see. We fully expect him to play though
he doesn't miss many games. And that's one of the
great things that you know, we love about him in
the league is he plays plays every night.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is is that a procedural thing as the NBA goes, Like,
I mean, if he has the sniffles, got to make
him questionable in case he gets worse, then we have
to scratch him. And he wasn't on the injury report.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, absolutely, there's there's a protocol to it all. And
you know, it starts the day before. I think at
four o'clock everybody's got to kind of give a status
update on their roster, and then throughout the day on
game day. You know, this is for transparencies purposes and
and so yeah, it's just just all part of what's
normal protocol.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
These uh, these thunder do do. I mean, I think
we're eighteen to twenty ish into it something like that.
Do they play any differently without Jail and Williams?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I mean no, not, I mean largely the same. And
they just they look they're just another year into their connectivity,
their chemistry, their understanding and reading of each other. I
feel they have a little better ball movement. But I
don't think that's to do with not having Jail in
the lineup. I just think that's you know, I think
Shay is moving the ball a little quicker. That's creating
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even more you know, shot opportunities for his teammates. Uh,
you know, because it Shade's obviously facing you know a
lot more double teams and multiple defenders, looks uh, and
they're doing a really good job. So they're they're they're
just doing more of the same but even better.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, you you mentioned the word connectivity, and and I
mean they from the championship season last year when they
beat the Pacers. They they're pretty much rolling back everybody
from that team, and in all sports, I would imagine
it's it's key to be able to keep stuff like
that together year after year.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Right, Oh for sure, Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean,
they have a great roster situation here. They're they're still
under the tax. They have a lot of players on
the similar timeline who's whose new contracts don't kick in
until I believe next year, and and then then they'll
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face some some financial questions on how they go forward,
you know, how deep they want to be in the
tax and how long they want to stay there, And
these are things that we all have to deal with
as a reality of roster building. But for right now,
they're in a little bit of a purple patch, as
the British would say, where things are really lined up
well for them.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And with you guys, Phoenix and Sacramento were there or
or in your estimation, you know, absorbing it, taking it
in and getting past it were What were some common
threads to the late game defeats.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, I mean, obviously execution down the stretch, you know,
game management stuff, you know, those those little small pieces
of the game that are not small at all, but
the things you got to do to win the game.
You know, we we they listened. We two losses that
should have been wins. You know, all credit to our
opponents for making the place to beat us. We didn't
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make the plays that we needed to make. You know,
those losses are are are largely on me as well
for you know, not handling the end of the games
in the way that I could have done or should
have done. So, you know, but there's none less to
do but move on. We got, you know, sixty more
games to play, sixty plus more games to play. And
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as I said the other night, you know, we we
got it. You can't let one loss become two and
I do think we fell victim to that a little
bit the other night. And that's you know, certainly not
the mindset you need to be and as you move forward.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So Chris Bench, coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves weekly nine
to noon courtesy of Second Harvest Heartland and a two
Harvested dot Org and man Anthony Edwards, has taken the
scoring to a new level at least the last couple.
What's what's the raid with his game of late?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And I mean what I'm enjoying about his game of
late has been really efficient. You know, has shut the
ball well as a three point volume is back up
where it was last year. He's getting to the rim,
getting to the free throw line, He's doing a lot
of those things. Well, you know, we got to continue
to find ways to get the cleaner looks at times
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with all the double teams he's facing, and you know
he's but he's in a little bit of a kind
of a vein right now, which is good to see.
I mean, he went through a couple of games I
know where he was frustrated his three didn't fall for him.
But as we said at the time, it was always
ever going to be a blip, and he usually responds
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to those moments with big numbers.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
As as as a coach with a high, high end
superstar like that in close games, say against Phoenix, maybe
more so against Sacramento, how do you balance this is
the best guy on the team, which subsequently probably gives
us the best one on one chance to win as
opposed to ball movement. When he does get double teams.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, I think you know it's we did get a
little dagging him down the stretch in both games, but
you know, he's a guy that we want the ball
in his hands and from that we're gonna create good offense.
I mean, he surprisingly of all these high end superstars
in the league, like his shot percentage basically the number
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of times he actually takes the shot and those situations
is a lot lower than some guys. And that is
a result of all the double teams that he does face.
So we got to make them pay when when the
people double.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Hey, do you guys do anything as a team for
Thanksgiving or do you kind of scatter before the Celtics
game on Friday.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, we're head home tonight, so we'll be able to
everyone will be able to spend Thanksgiving with their family
and which is great. You know, we're back in town
for a couple of days for the weekend and play
a big, big, back to back doubleheader coming up, so
it'll be nice to be in town for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Are there are there any recommendations or any mandates on
amounts of food people can eat day before a game
that includes coaches.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
As much as you want enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You want enjoy it and give thanks, and and your
your Eagles host the Bears Friday, I have and that's
before your Celtics game. Have you warmed up to Black
Friday football? Because I know you love the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, No, I didn't really realize they were playing on
Friday until somebody said it yesterday. So you know, Friday,
we'll have practice in the morning and then be able
to enjoy enjoy some football and then got a big
game Ohio State Michigan on Saturday. So you know, really good,
good weekend of sports as it always is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And your your media relations can do it. And dear
friend Aaron Freeman, big Bears fan, Chris Finch, big Eagles fan,
How's how's how's that relationship working out right now?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Well, we have a great relationship, but we'll see what
ends up on Friday and into Saturday. So but fully
expect to bounce back. Win by the Birds, yeah, and
and also won by the bike.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah Winter Winter a free as an Aaron Freeman has
a little bleep talking to him, and I didn't realize
that until his Bears beat my Vikings and I had
looked at like six texts and then finally was like,
holy col Winter a free We got to slow down
with this stuff. But his squad's doing great and hopefully
yours does tonight. Let me let me ask you this.
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Do Hartenstein and Holme Grin play together a bunch? And
like overall, how do they compliment each other?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, they're a great duol, you know, it's they They're
both really skilled, hard and signs an unbelievable pass. There
is a great feel for the game, can make tricky
shots around the rim. Excellent defender, you know, as we
know Check can really he can really protect the rim
on defense as well, So they have great interchangeability there
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defensively then offensively, which you know, he's gonna stretch the floor.
He's he's a guy who's gonna put traditional centers under
pressure with his skill set. And you know, they do
a great job of playing together. It gives them unbelievable
size at the rim, but also they create problems at
the other end of the floor. So it's a it's
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almost a perfect pairing, uh, in many ways.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
This tonight, Chris, this is an NBA Cup game.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right it is. It's the final NBA Cup game, So
still alive and well in the Cup. With a win tonight,
I believe we clinched going through, but I'm not showing that.
But I do feel like I haven't done the mathematic
on the tiebreakers, but I think it gives us a
great chance to go through for that win.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I laughed because I tried to this morning, and it's
like Minnesota lost Sacramento. This Minnesota win point differential that. So,
do you guys need to win tonight to keep the
the NBA Cup dream alive?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well the the half what what do the players get
if they win the It's a half million?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Right? Uh, I'm not sure what the what it is?
Uh honestly, I thought it was more towards a million,
but I'm not sure that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And that I mean that of course matters to two players.
I'm not in locker rooms, and of course you only
monitor one locker room. But you know what I mean.
I mean that they they they circle their wagons, you know,
around things like this, Right.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah. I think it's been a great product for the league.
You know, creates early season interest, it gives you know,
it's it's it's another platform for for them to be
able to promote the game and and link up with
the media partner to do so, you guys have taken
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taken to it in the league. They understand that they
feel that little extra motivation there on sold like do
or die games, which you don't play many of those
in the league, even though you know at the end
of the day they kind of all are or don't
they don't all have that feeling.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Have you. Have you seen some of the scores in
these NBA Cup games, Allly Cow just astronomically high.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, well, points differential matters, So when you have a
chance to pour it on, you're pouring it on. I
think that's the one thing that's a little different. You know,
havn't touched in Europe for a long time, and you'll
play like two leged affairs like a home and away
and then points differential matters at the end of it.
A those types of different tournament settings that they have overseas.
You know, that's just part of the equation. But for
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here in American sports, we don't really stress that. It's
not something that we we kind of build our competition around.
So it is an odd dynamic. It feels a little unnatural,
unsportsmanlike even at times. But you know, when you're up
thirty five, thirty six points and you got to keep
going for it because you're just going to you never
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know when to tie break the situation. What it's going
to come down to.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Dude, Dude, I mean coaches and players just kind of
have to handle that, right. I mean, you got a
little more than a half million mistake per player. And
you know, I shared this example yesterday. It was recently
with the Orlando Magic. They're killing somebody. Man, they're by
like seventeen nineteen with a minute to go, and Suggs
hits a three and then the other team goes the
other way and Franz Wagner blocks the shot like up
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to twenty one. I'm like, are you kidding me with this?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, I mean some in some ways in how you
want it to be played all the time, but yeah,
you know, it's it's professional sports. Like if you don't
want to be beat by thirty five, don't don't be
beat by thirty five. You know, it's you're not here
to protect each other's feelings. So it's never bothered me
no matter what the competition is. If you're not if
you don't want to, if you don't want to get
your butt but whipped like that and then do things
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to prevent.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It all right, lastly too, and then happy Thanksgiving with tonight.
What's what's key with go Bear's game this seven name?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Oh yeah, it was, you know, he's his defense against
the two bigs, of course, you know, just they're just
countering obviously what they're doing. We'll have to play some
on the perimeter, you know, being early in his help
to try to bother Shay. Uh, you know, Shay said,
one of the best attackers in the league, as we know,
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and he gets kind of gets wherever he wants to
go past the first line of defense pretty seamlessly, so
just presenting himself there. And I think, uh, you know,
smart offense spacing is huge against these guys. They generate
a ton of turnovers. They will really, you know, be
big at the rim. So Rudy kind of reading space
around that was gonna be also big.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And lastly, what about Jalen Clark? What what are you
thinking of him lately? I noticed I didn't I didn't
get a chance to see a lot of the Sacramento game,
but but I noticed his minutes were cut a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, I mean we got TJ back, so we're trying
to work him into the lineup. Jalen's fine is a
big part of what we're gonna do. You know, we
said from the beginning that these young guys, the situations
that they're in this year, their roles will be consistently
inconsistent and we're gonna we're in a discovery phase. Sometimes
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you got to go through these periods where you got
to figure out what you got, who can do what.
You got to give them extended games to do it,
and you know, sometimes they're gonna play more minutes than others,
and you know, sometimes that might be the right decision,
and sometimes I might not be the right decision, but
it is what it is. And at the end of
the end of the day, we're trying to get them
all seasoned up so they can help us over a
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long season into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Happy Thanksgiving, my brother, and I'll call you next.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Week you too, PA, have a good one.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Thanks as head coach Chris Finch with PA to open
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Speaker 3 (31:19):
The game is.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ov good stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Now what did I do wrong? For two more.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Not to noon In the Land of the Living, we
want to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving and
all the sports things that are boggling our minds, we
have decided to focus some being kind, like, yeah, we
can hammer on JJ, but I'd rather think about Riiker
having perfect days the injuries adding up much to our dismay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But how about Jalen Redman? I mean, what else can
you say? Rather thinking of something Rudy can't do?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Celebrate forty point nights from ant versus sweating, not hitting
the dump button, think about tomorrow or feasting him being
a glutton.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Have an amazing Thanksfield holiday. Back on Friday at BWSMA
three hours of frivolity, purple Bias, facts and pumping up
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Speaker 1 (32:19):
Podcast?
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Today's Paul Allen Show, or listening back to previous show
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Speaker 3 (32:23):
I go into the iHeartRadio app or kfan dot com
Cuban. Y'all don't know football.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Y'all don't know football. All right, we're about ready to
get the gizzard. But get the gizzard in loving fashion.
The day before Thanksgiving, he was coming in hot when
I called him. When is he not hot? He's Softy
in Seattle at Softy KJR V the X machine follow
him if you are so inclined. At nine in the morning,
he's screaming at Softy k JR. Now Softy in Seattle
(00:40):
is on the audio as they're making us say. But
on the radio three to seven Pacific ninety three to
three KJR out of Seattle Way, it's an iHeart juggernaut
and Softy is the flame thrower. Hey, Softy, good morning?
How are you, Paul?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't understand how anybody doesn't get fat as the
house this time of the year. I'm sitting around my
house and I'm telling myself, I'm gonna fast until Thanksgiving
so I can stuff my face like a pig on Thursday.
And all I end up doing is eating everything in
the house that I'm saving to cook for Thursday. Great,
how do people not get through the holidays just putting
(01:19):
on massive amounts of weight?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I don't understand it, well, David, Softy, love it Softy.
You're talking to somebody who has not felt his ribs
in thirty years. So therefore I'm hey.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know what.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well, I didn't want to be the one to tell you. Yeah,
you might want to call you might want to call
weight launchers if they're still around. No, I'm kidding. You're
a You're a you know, you're a spelt but sexy man.
You are a good looking individual, Paul. Don't you think otherwise?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Honey? You got to stop that. If somebody like after
a Viking's loss or losses, uh, all seven of them.
If if they're with me and they sense that I'm
a little down, and uh, they'll be like, come on, Paul,
pick up your chin. Well my response is which one?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, the best way to a man's heart is through
his mouth, man, there's no question about that. But yeah,
let's get to it, dude. I don't know what you
guys are doing out there with a man football team,
and I want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So let's go softy. Before we talk about that. Here's
a question I've never asked you, and I legitimately have
wonderment with it. Now your name is Dave Mahler M
A H L E R Right, Yes, sir, okay, So
how did you get the nickname Softy?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I used to look like you, Oh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Really, because you were ponchy. Somebody actually called you softy.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
You're the one that's set it up, man, I mean
you put it right there on a tee for me.
For God's sake, no, man, I used to weigh two
hundred and seventy pounds. I used to have bigger boobs
than my wife. For crying out loud, are you kidding me?
When my wife would go bra shopping, she would shop
for two and not just for one. And then I
lost the bunch your way. I went to an organization
(03:02):
called thirty ten Weight Loss for Life, which is now
out of business thanks to a Zevich by the way,
and I lost almost eighty pounds about ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So got it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, I used to be I used to be gigantic. Man.
When I go to the DMV to get my license
ree nude, they had to take two pictures and put
him side by side to fit my faith on it.
That's how bad I used to be. So that's how
I got the nickname softie.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, you much know, you gotta be kidding me with
that prattle. That was second to none. All Right, we
will satisfy your desires. Now, your nickname being softy? Is
that what they call Seahawks quarterback Sam Donald when he
plays in pressure film games, like a couple of weeks
ago against the Rams.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
No, they call Sam Donald eight and three. They called
Sam Donald the magic man for what he's been able
to do here in Seattle, and they called Sam Donald
the mistake in Minnesota because they let him walk for nothing.
I don't get what you guys are doing out there, honestly.
I see a football team that three years ago had
Nick Mullins, they got rid of him, they brought in
Sam Darnold, he wins fourteen games, they get rid of him,
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and now you're four and seven with JJ Carson and company.
So really, the question needs to be asked. And I'm
not trying to criticize. I'm not trying to slam. I'm
not trying to make you feel bad or insult anybody.
I'm honestly wondering what the heck the Vikings are doing
out there at the quarterback position. I mean, look, I
realized that you draft the kid in the first round.
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You want to see what he's all about. But the
Green Bay Packers rafted a couple of guys in the
first round. They had him sit for a couple of
years until they were certain that they were ready. The
San Francisco forty nine ers had a guy named Steve
Young that sat behind Joe Montana and didn't play until
it was obvious that Joe Montenna's career was coming to
an end. The Arizona Cardinals drafted a kid named Josh
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Rosen in the first round, realized he wasn't what they
thought he was, and then went out and got Kyler
Murray the next year at number one. So when you've
got the bird in hand, when you've got the thing
that is a known commodity at fourteen and three, letting
him walk for nothing seems like a really, really bad idea.
Pall at the most important position in sports. And look,
(05:11):
I realized that Sam Donald did not play well, and
the de facto NFC North Championship game a year ago
and the playoff game against the Rams, I understand all that.
First of all, a couple of things. Number One, Sam
Donald does not have a lot of data in big
time games at which to look at because he hasn't
played in a lot of big time games, right, and
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people talk about the RAM game, they talk about the
Lion game. How about the way Sam Donald played in
the two games against Green Bay a year ago? Were
you happy with those performances from Sam Donald? Did you
not like winning fourteen games and going to the playoffs
last season? Was that an issue? Did you think that
you could do better? Is that why you let the
guy walk? I mean, if Sam Donald had played well
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in the RAM game, if he had played well in
the Lion Game, he's probably making fifty five million dollars
a year. I'm thirty five billion dollars a year. So
either way, the Vikings lose by letting him walk. You
do not let guys go that win fourteen games. You
do not let guys go that are in the MVP
conversation for a majority of the year. So the Vikings
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mistake is the Seahawk gain. Here we are at eight
and three, you're four and seven, and by the way,
you know who else stakes right now, Geno Smith and
the Las Vegas Raiders with Pete Carroll. This is another
example of John Schneider pulling the plug at the exact
right time at the most important position in sports. He
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did it with Russell Wilson, and he did it again
with Geno Smith, and they're in the playoff hunt and
the NFC West hunt because of it.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Okay, look here, hes not no softy. We called you
to talk about your team. I recorded with you for
twenty five minutes yesterday to talk about my team. Why
have we turned the tables? And the day before Thanksgiving
we're catching all the Hey, we.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Can get thirty five minutes if you want. I'm not
on a time limit. We can do whatever you want.
I'm just telling you that this game has that theme
on Sunday. It's not just Sam Darnald against Minnesota. It's
Sam Donald against this former football team. And am I
concerned about the way Sam Donald's going to play? To
answer your question, because you're getting impatient, I can hear you.
I can hear you breathe, and I can hear the
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nostrils opening up in your nose. I can hear your
brain starting to twist and gather some steam. You're getting
annoyed at me. I don't want to do that, especially
on the day before Thanksgiving. Am I concerned about Sam
Darnald blowing it and playing poorly in big games, sure,
I know, but I'm also loving what I'm seeing from
Sam Darnald the rest of the way. And here's the thing, man, Really,
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the poor football that we've seen from Sam Donald, when
has it occurred. It's occurred in the last two games
against Arizona and against the Rams, and he's got seven
combined turnovers in those two games. Yet the Seahawks have
also scored sixty three points and they were a sixty
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one yard field goal from Jason Myers away from actually
beating the Rams and going to and zero in those
games despite Sam Darnald turning the ball over seven times.
I'd rather have Sam Darnald do this now in mid
to late November than in late December early January. So
let's hope he's coughing up this hairball right now and
he's figuring it out before the games get really big
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later in the year.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's very very fair analysis. And I caught the tail
end of that game after the four picks, and I
thought Sam, the man who used to be on the fan,
look cold blooded that on that possession that got them
close for Myers to have an opportunity. Very fair. Now
your coach Mike McDonald twelve and two on the road,
six and eight, allumin, what's the read on that.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, it just hasn't been the same place for the Seahawks, man,
you know, and I don't know even though, honestly, Paul,
if the national media has picked up on it. You know,
you go to luman Field, you turn on the broadcast, CBS, Fox, whatever,
and you hear people like my buddy Kevin Harlan, you
know Kenny Albert, you know Coogler whoever. Oh, this is
a house of horror. This is one of the hardest
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places to play in the NFL. It really isn't anymore.
You gotta look at what they've done in the last
four or five years. And this was a problem for
Pete Carroll. This is not just Mike McDonald. Part of
the issue is the Hawks have been fairly mediocre in
the last three or four years, so that kind of
stuff's gonna happen. And then number two, it's also been
kind of an invasion of visiting fans the last few years.
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Man Niner fans, Cardinal fan, Buffalo Bill fans. We'll see
how many Viking fans show up for this game on Sunday.
It has not had the same hometown feel that it's
had in the last few seasons. Man, So it's got
to stop. I mean, he's twelve and two on the road, McDonald,
he's six and eight at luman Field. So they lose
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this game to you guys on Sunday and they go
six and nine and they lose. Is a big favorite
favorite at home. We're going to have a real problem
because this is kind of a thing right now for McDonald.
You lose on Sunday, it's a real thing at for McDonald.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Ten and a half point favorites. Would you give it?
Would you give it? Take it? Or pass ah?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think this weekend I probably would take it. After
what happened with the Seahawks and Tennessee, I think they're
pissed off about the fact they let Tennessee back in
the game on Sunday. They were heavy favorites on the road,
given thirteen and a half. It was the biggest road
spread the Hawks have ever had as a favorite, by
the way, in franchise history, and I just don't think
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those come through very often. But at home this weekend
against Minnesota and your buddy Broseemur, not Brasmer. They give Brosemer.
I would say take the Hawks and give the points.
I think I'd probably parlay it with the under to
be honest with you on Sunday, but I think this
is a game where, just like the Arizona game and
just like the Saint game, expect the Hawks to run
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the Bikings out of the building. I would not say that,
by the way, if the Seahawks had destroyed Tennessee last Sunday,
But I think that game is stuck in their crawl.
I know a part return really pissed off Mike McDonald
on Sunday, So I would think the Hawks come out
looking for blood this weekend.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Would you make it a three team parlay and include
your beloved Huskies on the money line against the Oregon Ducks.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
No, but I would take the six and a half
for sure. Oregon's not that good, Paul, They're just not.
This is a team that needed double overtime to beat
a really bad Penn State team on the road earlier
this year. They got a bunch of offensive linemen that
are hurt. They got wide receivers that are hurt. Washington
might be as healthy as they've been the entire season
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with guys like Jonah Coman and Denzel Boston and the
freshman raiding Binds Bright coming back for this game on Saturday,
so rivalry game. Damon Williams is a totally different quarterback
at home than he is on the road. He's thrown
six interceptions and all of them have come a from
Husky Stadium. So yeah, you want to parlay, you want
(12:03):
to get really creative, you want to hang her. You
know what's out there that's your balls. By the way,
give me a three teamer on the under the Hawks
and the Dogs plus the six and a half.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Let's go Softy from Seattle Kjar. The station is an
iHeart Juggernaut and the blowtorch is Softy Softy from three
to seven Pacific on a kjar part of the vast
and never expanding iHeart Audio family. After the Mariners went down,
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did you even watch the epic World Series?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I watched the World Series. I did not watch the
Seahawks Texans game that night. How about that it was
the same night as Game seven. I was at Jimmy's.
You're fully aware of the magic of Jimmy's on First
across the street, from Lumenfield. Love it watching Game seven,
watching the baseball game, distraught, broken hearted, had no desire
(12:58):
to go across the street to loom Field and watch
the Seahawks and Texans. So I went home. Didn't even
bother to watch a minute of that football game. Man,
that's how bummed out I was about what happened to
my beloved Mariner baseball team. But yeah, I watched the
World Series for one reason, the root against Toronto. Worst
fans in sports, absolute biggest keyboard cowards in professional sports,
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really in North America. Yeah, I used to think that
Oregon fans were the worst, but Toronto takes the cake.
These people are bad. They're bad people, and they mobilize
and they come after you wherever you are. They hunt
you down, they most organize, all right, Yeah yeah, those Canadians, man,
they're sneaky bad people. So I was not sad at
all to see Miguel Rojas pop that home run to
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left field and give the Dodgers that chance to win
it in Game seven and extra innings. I know we're
not supposed to root for la as the evil Empire,
but once you've experienced what Toronto fans really have to offer,
you could never go back. I hope you people in
Minnesota to find people of Minneapolis never have to experience
what I did, because as it's scarring, it leaves you
(14:01):
in shambles, and it's not something I would ever want
anyone to have to go through.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
On behalf of iHeart Audio and Radio and FM one
hundred point three Kfan and the nine to Noon production,
we would like to apologize to everybody in Winnipeg as
part of one of our affiliates, and the views voiced
by Softy do not necessarily recognize or are acknowledged by
(14:26):
Nine to Noon or ihearder kfam. All right, hey, are
you a Gonzaga basketball fan? And if not, why not?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Absolutely not? Why because they're three hundred miles away. Oh
they're in Spokane. They're not even in Seattle. They may
as well be in freaking Idaho, for God's sake, are
you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's great?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Grow up in Seattle, your root for one team and
one team only, and that's Washington. Okay, I got your
parents may have gone to Washington State.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We love you, Softy, and I look forward to seeing
you this weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
All right, Bud, I'll see you, man Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, welcome back nine to noon. Chris Finch, head coach
of the Minnesota Timberwolves. He joined PA to kick off
the show today. Wolves at the OKC Thunder this evening.
(15:20):
I believe tip offs right around six thirty pm and
you'll get to hear it on the free iHeart radio app.
But PA chatted with the head coach. We're going to
play that interview back now. And PA kind of started
things off like, Hey, you know I noticed shake Gil
just Alexander kind of popped up on the injury report
maybe questionable with an illness.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
What's good?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Are we paying attention to that?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Hey, good morning, Pa. We listed as having some illness,
so we'll see. We fully expect him to play though
he doesn't miss many games. And that's one of the
great things that you know, we love about him in
the league is he plays plays every night.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Is is that a procedural thing as the NBA goes, Like,
I mean, if he has the sniffles, got to make
him questionable in case he gets worse, then we have
to scratch him. And he wasn't on the injury report.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Yeah, absolutely, there's there's a protocol to it all. And
you know, it starts the day before. I think at
four o'clock everybody's got to kind of give a status
update on their roster, and then throughout the day on
game day. You know, this is for transparencies purposes and
and so yeah, it's just just all part of what's
normal protocol.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
These uh, these thunder do do. I mean, I think
we're eighteen to twenty ish into it something like that.
Do they play any differently without Jail and Williams?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
I mean no, not, I mean largely the same. And
they just they look they're just another year into their connectivity,
their chemistry, their understanding and reading of each other. I
feel they have a little better ball movement. But I
don't think that's to do with not having Jail in
the lineup. I just think that's you know, I think
Shay is moving the ball a little quicker. That's creating
(17:03):
even more you know, shot opportunities for his teammates. Uh,
you know, because it Shade's obviously facing you know a
lot more double teams and multiple defenders, looks uh, and
they're doing a really good job. So they're they're they're
just doing more of the same but even better.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, you you mentioned the word connectivity, and and I
mean they from the championship season last year when they
beat the Pacers. They they're pretty much rolling back everybody
from that team, and in all sports, I would imagine
it's it's key to be able to keep stuff like
that together year after year.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Right, Oh for sure, Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean,
they have a great roster situation here. They're they're still
under the tax. They have a lot of players on
the similar timeline who's whose new contracts don't kick in
until I believe next year, and and then then they'll
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face some some financial questions on how they go forward,
you know, how deep they want to be in the
tax and how long they want to stay there, And
these are things that we all have to deal with
as a reality of roster building. But for right now,
they're in a little bit of a purple patch, as
the British would say, where things are really lined up
well for them.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And with you guys, Phoenix and Sacramento were there or
or in your estimation, you know, absorbing it, taking it
in and getting past it were What were some common
threads to the late game defeats.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, I mean, obviously execution down the stretch, you know,
game management stuff, you know, those those little small pieces
of the game that are not small at all, but
the things you got to do to win the game.
You know, we we they listened. We two losses that
should have been wins. You know, all credit to our
opponents for making the place to beat us. We didn't
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make the plays that we needed to make. You know,
those losses are are are largely on me as well
for you know, not handling the end of the games
in the way that I could have done or should
have done. So, you know, but there's none less to
do but move on. We got, you know, sixty more
games to play, sixty plus more games to play. And
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as I said the other night, you know, we we
got it. You can't let one loss become two and
I do think we fell victim to that a little
bit the other night. And that's you know, certainly not
the mindset you need to be and as you move forward.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So Chris Bench, coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves weekly nine
to noon courtesy of Second Harvest Heartland and a two
Harvested dot Org and man Anthony Edwards, has taken the
scoring to a new level at least the last couple.
What's what's the raid with his game of late?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And I mean what I'm enjoying about his game of
late has been really efficient. You know, has shut the
ball well as a three point volume is back up
where it was last year. He's getting to the rim,
getting to the free throw line, He's doing a lot
of those things. Well, you know, we got to continue
to find ways to get the cleaner looks at times
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with all the double teams he's facing, and you know
he's but he's in a little bit of a kind
of a vein right now, which is good to see.
I mean, he went through a couple of games I
know where he was frustrated his three didn't fall for him.
But as we said at the time, it was always
ever going to be a blip, and he usually responds
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to those moments with big numbers.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
As as as a coach with a high, high end
superstar like that in close games, say against Phoenix, maybe
more so against Sacramento, how do you balance this is
the best guy on the team, which subsequently probably gives
us the best one on one chance to win as
opposed to ball movement. When he does get double teams.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, I think you know it's we did get a
little dagging him down the stretch in both games, but
you know, he's a guy that we want the ball
in his hands and from that we're gonna create good offense.
I mean, he surprisingly of all these high end superstars
in the league, like his shot percentage basically the number
(21:18):
of times he actually takes the shot and those situations
is a lot lower than some guys. And that is
a result of all the double teams that he does face.
So we got to make them pay when when the
people double.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Hey, do you guys do anything as a team for
Thanksgiving or do you kind of scatter before the Celtics
game on Friday.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Well, we're head home tonight, so we'll be able to
everyone will be able to spend Thanksgiving with their family
and which is great. You know, we're back in town
for a couple of days for the weekend and play
a big, big, back to back doubleheader coming up, so
it'll be nice to be in town for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Are there are there any recommendations or any mandates on
amounts of food people can eat day before a game
that includes coaches.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
As much as you want enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You want enjoy it and give thanks, and and your
your Eagles host the Bears Friday, I have and that's
before your Celtics game. Have you warmed up to Black
Friday football? Because I know you love the NFL.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Yeah, No, I didn't really realize they were playing on
Friday until somebody said it yesterday. So you know, Friday,
we'll have practice in the morning and then be able
to enjoy enjoy some football and then got a big
game Ohio State Michigan on Saturday. So you know, really good,
good weekend of sports as it always is.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
And your your media relations can do it. And dear
friend Aaron Freeman, big Bears fan, Chris Finch, big Eagles fan,
How's how's how's that relationship working out right now?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Well, we have a great relationship, but we'll see what
ends up on Friday and into Saturday. So but fully
expect to bounce back. Win by the Birds, yeah, and
and also won by the bike.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Yeah Winter Winter a free as an Aaron Freeman has
a little bleep talking to him, and I didn't realize
that until his Bears beat my Vikings and I had
looked at like six texts and then finally was like,
holy col Winter a free We got to slow down
with this stuff. But his squad's doing great and hopefully
yours does tonight. Let me let me ask you this.
(23:28):
Do Hartenstein and Holme Grin play together a bunch? And
like overall, how do they compliment each other?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Well, they're a great duol, you know, it's they They're
both really skilled, hard and signs an unbelievable pass. There
is a great feel for the game, can make tricky
shots around the rim. Excellent defender, you know, as we
know Check can really he can really protect the rim
on defense as well, So they have great interchangeability there
(23:58):
defensively then offensively, which you know, he's gonna stretch the floor.
He's he's a guy who's gonna put traditional centers under
pressure with his skill set. And you know, they do
a great job of playing together. It gives them unbelievable
size at the rim, but also they create problems at
the other end of the floor. So it's a it's
(24:20):
almost a perfect pairing, uh, in many ways.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
This tonight, Chris, this is an NBA Cup game.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Right it is. It's the final NBA Cup game, So
still alive and well in the Cup. With a win tonight,
I believe we clinched going through, but I'm not showing that.
But I do feel like I haven't done the mathematic
on the tiebreakers, but I think it gives us a
great chance to go through for that win.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I laughed because I tried to this morning, and it's
like Minnesota lost Sacramento. This Minnesota win point differential that. So,
do you guys need to win tonight to keep the
the NBA Cup dream alive?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Absolutely? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well the the half what what do the players get
if they win the It's a half million?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Right? Uh, I'm not sure what the what it is?
Uh honestly, I thought it was more towards a million,
but I'm not sure that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
And that I mean that of course matters to two players.
I'm not in locker rooms, and of course you only
monitor one locker room. But you know what I mean.
I mean that they they they circle their wagons, you know,
around things like this, Right.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah. I think it's been a great product for the league.
You know, creates early season interest, it gives you know,
it's it's it's another platform for for them to be
able to promote the game and and link up with
the media partner to do so, you guys have taken
(25:53):
taken to it in the league. They understand that they
feel that little extra motivation there on sold like do
or die games, which you don't play many of those
in the league, even though you know at the end
of the day they kind of all are or don't
they don't all have that feeling.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Have you. Have you seen some of the scores in
these NBA Cup games, Allly Cow just astronomically high.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Yeah, well, points differential matters, So when you have a
chance to pour it on, you're pouring it on. I
think that's the one thing that's a little different. You know,
havn't touched in Europe for a long time, and you'll
play like two leged affairs like a home and away
and then points differential matters at the end of it.
A those types of different tournament settings that they have overseas.
You know, that's just part of the equation. But for
(26:40):
here in American sports, we don't really stress that. It's
not something that we we kind of build our competition around.
So it is an odd dynamic. It feels a little unnatural,
unsportsmanlike even at times. But you know, when you're up
thirty five, thirty six points and you got to keep
going for it because you're just going to you never
(27:00):
know when to tie break the situation. What it's going
to come down to.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Dude, Dude, I mean coaches and players just kind of
have to handle that, right. I mean, you got a
little more than a half million mistake per player. And
you know, I shared this example yesterday. It was recently
with the Orlando Magic. They're killing somebody. Man, they're by
like seventeen nineteen with a minute to go, and Suggs
hits a three and then the other team goes the
other way and Franz Wagner blocks the shot like up
(27:26):
to twenty one. I'm like, are you kidding me with this?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Well, I mean some in some ways in how you
want it to be played all the time, but yeah,
you know, it's it's professional sports. Like if you don't
want to be beat by thirty five, don't don't be
beat by thirty five. You know, it's you're not here
to protect each other's feelings. So it's never bothered me
no matter what the competition is. If you're not if
you don't want to, if you don't want to get
your butt but whipped like that and then do things
(27:51):
to prevent.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It all right, lastly too, and then happy Thanksgiving with tonight.
What's what's key with go Bear's game this seven name?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Oh yeah, it was, you know, he's his defense against
the two bigs, of course, you know, just they're just
countering obviously what they're doing. We'll have to play some
on the perimeter, you know, being early in his help
to try to bother Shay. Uh, you know, Shay said,
one of the best attackers in the league, as we know,
(28:23):
and he gets kind of gets wherever he wants to
go past the first line of defense pretty seamlessly, so
just presenting himself there. And I think, uh, you know,
smart offense spacing is huge against these guys. They generate
a ton of turnovers. They will really, you know, be
big at the rim. So Rudy kind of reading space
around that was gonna be also big.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
And lastly, what about Jalen Clark? What what are you
thinking of him lately? I noticed I didn't I didn't
get a chance to see a lot of the Sacramento game,
but but I noticed his minutes were cut a little bit.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, I mean we got TJ back, so we're trying
to work him into the lineup. Jalen's fine is a
big part of what we're gonna do. You know, we
said from the beginning that these young guys, the situations
that they're in this year, their roles will be consistently
inconsistent and we're gonna we're in a discovery phase. Sometimes
(29:17):
you got to go through these periods where you got
to figure out what you got, who can do what.
You got to give them extended games to do it,
and you know, sometimes they're gonna play more minutes than others,
and you know, sometimes that might be the right decision,
and sometimes I might not be the right decision, but
it is what it is. And at the end of
the end of the day, we're trying to get them
all seasoned up so they can help us over a
(29:41):
long season into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Happy Thanksgiving, my brother, and I'll call you next.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Week you too, PA, have a good one.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Thanks as head coach Chris Finch with PA to open
up nine to Noon Today podcastable of course after the
show if you missed any part of it, and once
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to noon.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Isn't that lock? Everybody have a great blessed, warm, peaceful
and wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow on behalf of nine to noon
and all of us here at KFAM yours truly would
like to give thanks to Steve's Appliances for the marathon
segments and much more and Brian and Sarah the marathons,
the feast, the Christian Fellowship. This is a small business
(30:28):
and its small business Saturday, standalone small business for seventy
years awesome. People ask about the free two year warranty
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behalf of nordo En yours truly, Yeah, They're terrific. We
will be at Buffalo Wild Wings all of America Friday.
We follow the Power Trip. They're going to be at
(30:49):
the Rotunda, which means they'll be hanging from the rafters
seven to nine I believe for the Power Trip YEP
seven to nine am and the rotunda hanging from the rafters,
big silver Christmas trees, big stage, big crowd. Then nine
to Noon Buffalo Wild Wings MOA for the Friday football
feast that'll take place this Friday. Can't wait to see
(31:10):
everybody and chat some ball. Have a great Thanksgiving. Thanks
for listening to nine to noon. I'm Paul Allen, Big
Daddy CON's here to put a rap on the show.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
The game is.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Ov good stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Now what did I do wrong? For two more.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Not to noon In the Land of the Living, we
want to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving and
all the sports things that are boggling our minds, we
have decided to focus some being kind, like, yeah, we
can hammer on JJ, but I'd rather think about Riiker
having perfect days the injuries adding up much to our dismay.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But how about Jalen Redman? I mean, what else can
you say? Rather thinking of something Rudy can't do?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Celebrate forty point nights from ant versus sweating, not hitting
the dump button, think about tomorrow or feasting him being
a glutton.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Have an amazing Thanksfield holiday. Back on Friday at BWSMA
three hours of frivolity, purple Bias, facts and pumping up
the Big Lake debut. Well Max, What What Ho Kay?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
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