1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR give this you're. 8 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: Listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,920 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in Side hour three The Jason Smith Show 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah. 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It's 19 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: Brad Pitt in a racing movie. 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 3: Yes, good smack talk, a lot of stark bar Damn 21 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 3: Carrie Condon, Who's now up the rankings. The band Cheese. 22 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 3: Uh you might know her from there, and now take 23 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 3: it to another level. 24 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: She's in Susie in the Banshees. No, oh okay, sorry, 25 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: she's in the band Shee's of an Issuant. Yes, she's 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: Banshee from the X Men. WHOA, Now we're going I'm 27 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: out of Bansheees. Now I'm yeah, I'm out. I'm out. 28 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Nobody go free deep on Banshee. 29 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 3: I think I probably have a couple of jet throw 30 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 3: tall lyrics I can fire off from back in the day, 31 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 3: feeling like a dead Banshee. 32 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: Dude, dude, how dare you so? The Jalen Williams game, 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: which was the TJ McConnell game until jan Williams decided 34 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: I'm going for forty forty from the thunderstud one twenty 35 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: to one oh nine is your final Oklahoma City now 36 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: one game away from winning the Larry O'Brien Trophy, wanting 37 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: us now on the hot line to break it all down. 38 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: Nobody better, nobody happier, because it's going to be a 39 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: conversation about something that does not include who the Knicks 40 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 1: head coach is going to do? Unless he has something 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: now you never know. It's f S one Insider Extraordinaries 42 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: on Twitter at Rick Buker. Check out the On the 43 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: Ball podcast as well. Maybe the On the Ball podcast 44 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: has to do with that, but Rick joins us right now, 45 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 1: what's happening. 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 4: Man, oh live in the dream looking for well, I 47 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 4: don't think that the Pace is going to win in 48 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 4: six now, So that's take breakdown. There's simulating insider news. 49 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 1: Wow, okay, I thought there was still. 50 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 4: I thought that they blew their their opportunity in game four. 51 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 4: We haven't talked since since Friday night's game. I thought 52 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 4: that that was their window, but I held out the possibilities. 53 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 4: Still not not one thousand percent sold on the Oklahoma 54 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 4: City Thunder, maybe nine hundred and ninety nine percent. I'm 55 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 4: now a thousand percent sold. They've taken me over the thresholder. 56 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 4: It's there there. Their stars are coming through at the 57 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 4: right time and the collective efforts. Ultimately, when you win 58 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 4: a championship, you know we've we've gone away from the 59 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 4: Big three, but you still need when it comes to 60 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 4: this point in the playoffs, in the finals, when the 61 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 4: teams are so familiar with each other, you need guys. 62 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 4: You could just go get a bucket, and the Oklahoma 63 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 4: City Thunder have two guys who are capable of doing that. 64 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 4: And I would say that the Indiana Pacers have won, 65 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 4: but for some reason they don't. They neglect getting him 66 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 4: the ball on a regular basis, and that's pass and 67 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 4: so they ultimately have none. And then so you get 68 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 4: results like you got tonight. 69 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously Rick will start with Tyre's Halliburton, who didn't 70 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: look good before he dinged up his calf, came back 71 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: in the game, still played thirty four minutes and really 72 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: could not get in this game. Now. We talked about 73 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: it last hour and I said, you know what's kind 74 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: of becoming from me with Haliburt. And I get he's 75 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: not one hundred percent, but there's lots of players that 76 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: aren't one hundred percent. And already Rick Carlisle has said 77 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: he's gonna play the next game. I feel like Halliburton 78 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:33,679 Speaker 1: is a great front runner when he gets out early 79 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: in the game, when he's motivated, and when he can 80 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: get out early, he plays fantastic. And this even games 81 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: where as long as he's not completely shut down early, 82 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: he can still affect the game like game one, hits 83 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: the game winning shot, but when he can't do anything, 84 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,559 Speaker 1: or when he gets shut down that first eight minutes 85 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: of the game, like he's done, like he has cooked, 86 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: and we see a shell of what we normally get, 87 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: like he's a great front runner, but when it really 88 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: hits adversity that he can't get past in the first 89 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: few minutes of a game, like the other the team 90 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: has won because suddenly it's you know, you're not worried 91 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: about him the rest. 92 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 4: Of the night, Yeah, whatever, whatever it may be. I 93 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 4: don't like that he concedes so easily, and for a 94 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 4: point guard, he picks up his dribble in some of 95 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 4: the worst places before he knows where he's going to 96 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 4: go with the ball, and a lot of his turnovers 97 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 4: are a result of that. I also was completely and 98 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 4: and it was it was evident tonight. But you know, 99 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 4: you set picks in order to get switches to get 100 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 4: the matchup you want, and multiple times he got the 101 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 4: matchup that he wanted. He got switched on to Isaiah 102 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 4: Hartenstein or Chet Holmes, and he got switched on to 103 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 4: a big and then he didn't attack it, and it's 104 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 4: it's like, so, what are we doing? 105 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: Here. 106 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 4: Why do we go through all the like the effort 107 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 4: to get the switch if you're not going to attack 108 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 4: it once you get it. And the difference in the 109 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 4: in the end Indiana Pacers when he's getting two feet 110 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 4: in the paint. I'm not sharing anything that I don't 111 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 4: think anybody doesn't know at this point, including Tyres, including 112 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 4: the Oklahoma City Thunder is it's not necessarily scoring, but 113 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 4: it's simply attacking and getting to the paint. And yes, 114 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 4: I'm taking anything away from Oklahoma City's defense, but we've 115 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 4: seen him. He's demonstrated he has the capability of doing that. 116 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 4: And yet there are times where he picks up his 117 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 4: dribble without ever attempting to get there. And I can't 118 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 4: explain to you why that is, but it undercuts the 119 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,839 Speaker 4: Indiana Pacers in a massive way. You just and what's 120 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 4: baffling and what kind of exposes it is. On the 121 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 4: flip side, you have a guy like TJ. McConnell who 122 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 4: just continually is attacking the paint and as a result, 123 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 4: more often than not, is very productive with that second 124 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 4: you And so I don't I'm not giving up on 125 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 4: Tyree because he has made strides, certainly since the beginning 126 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 4: of the year, but until he realizes that he needs 127 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 4: to be in attack mode all the time or there's 128 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 4: really no point in this because it's the worst thing 129 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 4: for a team when the guy with voll in his 130 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 4: hands and arguably one of your two best players, you 131 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 4: don't know whether he's going to bring the lumber or 132 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 4: not on a given night. That's a very treacherous place 133 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 4: for a team to be. 134 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 1: Watch the Thunder. 135 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 3: You get out to a big halftime lead, but because 136 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 3: of McConnell, they get back in the game, does Indiana, 137 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 3: and then Jalen Williams with the takeover game twenty five attempts. 138 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 3: I think I have to go back to the game 139 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 3: log to see when he ever had that rick and 140 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 3: the quiet SGA something we've talked about before, bleeding you 141 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: for another thirty one when it mattered. So for the Thunder, 142 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 3: not eight games from their their top guys, but far 143 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 3: more than enough to take care of business. 144 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, no question. And I think what they've done is, 145 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 4: you know, over the course of this series, I thought 146 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 4: Andrew Nemhart and aaron Ne Smith initially were doing really 147 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,119 Speaker 4: good jobs on them and making the game hard on them, 148 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 4: and as the series has gone on, these guys have 149 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 4: figured out how to get to their spot and how 150 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 4: to get a step on them. And Nemhart to me 151 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 4: was he has been the bellweather for the Pacers throughout 152 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 4: these playoffs. When he's a plus, they win, and when 153 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 4: he's a minus, they lose. He was a minus twelve 154 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 4: tonight and I was stocked. And Rick Carlisle has done 155 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 4: this a couple of times in the last two games now, 156 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 4: where he stayed with guys who are clearly not effective, 157 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 4: and Nemhart was afraid. I was just stunned, and having 158 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 4: seen the way he's played for the better part of 159 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,599 Speaker 4: this year and earlier on in this series and in 160 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 4: these playoffs, he was afraid to shoot the ball. He 161 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 4: would get the spot. And there's when you're playing against 162 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 4: a defense like Oklahoma City and in the finals like this, 163 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 4: when you get a look, you need to take that shot. 164 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 4: Everybody knows, like, oh, that's the chants. If you pass 165 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 4: it up, you may not get another opportunity to shoot 166 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 4: unless it's under severe duress on that possession. And he 167 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 4: did that. Not only did he not take the shot, 168 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 4: but then he would pick up his dribble and try 169 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 4: to pass it and as a result, the Oklahoma citys 170 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 4: under were swarming and his turnovers were live turnovers, not 171 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:48,439 Speaker 4: only resulting in him not shooting and scoring, but Oklahoma 172 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 4: City getting an easy bucket the other way, you know. 173 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: I can look at it this way, Rick, when you 174 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: see the confidence level. The Pacers obviously played with a 175 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: much different confidence level against a less team defensively in 176 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: the Knicks, and now things have gotten a little bit 177 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: more difficult for him now, and I feel like I 178 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: question themselves and it's like, wait, this is not as 179 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: easy as you thought. Of course it's not going to be. 180 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:08,599 Speaker 1: Is he one of the best defensive teams in the 181 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: league versus the next of course it's going to be harder. 182 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Well and it's nice of you to slide 183 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 4: into New York Knick shade. 184 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: Well yeah, but you know it was. 185 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 4: As I've watched this series, what has what they've struggled 186 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 4: with is obviously turnovers were a big huge issue tonight 187 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 4: and have been for them throughout the series. When they've 188 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 4: been able to maintain, like lower their turnovers, they've been successful, 189 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 4: but they they struggle to play at the pace they 190 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 4: want to play at against this thunder defense and not 191 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 4: turn the ball over. And that's the next step for them, 192 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 4: which is being you know, finding a way to be aggressive, 193 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 4: but to be aggressive under control. And a lot of 194 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 4: it just is when you don't have guys that can 195 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 4: break down the defense, it makes everything hard. When everybody 196 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 4: when everybody can kind of stay at home and you 197 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 4: don't have to come over, you don't have to slide 198 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 4: over to help on a guy, then it makes everything hard. 199 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 4: And Tyreek Caliburton is one of those guys who he's 200 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 4: capable of that, and the Pacers are a completely different 201 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 4: team when he does that. But when he doesn't against 202 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 4: a team like Oklahoma City, you really just don't have 203 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 4: a chance. 204 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 3: Rick, we got the draft just over the horizon, starting 205 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 3: to see trades. Desmond Bain gets dealt and now we 206 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 3: have the preferred destinations for Kevin Durant. And look, so 207 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,679 Speaker 3: san Antonio in the leading leader in the clubhouse, does 208 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 3: he get what he wants? 209 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 4: Well, the question of if he like with a star 210 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 4: like KD and with his contract coming up, the particulars 211 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 4: are are they going to extend him? He's a little 212 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,719 Speaker 4: bit like in the Jimmy Butler situation. Does he want 213 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 4: to be extended and and what is that team willing 214 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:13,079 Speaker 4: or capable of giving up? And is he going to 215 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 4: work with the Phoenix Suns in terms of making sure 216 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:18,599 Speaker 4: they get something back for him, because I think ultimately 217 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 4: the best spot for him would be the Miami Heat. 218 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 4: That's a team that they desperately need exactly what he gives. 219 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 4: I think if he goes there, there are a lot 220 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 4: to be a playoff team. He can be a difference 221 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,199 Speaker 4: maker there. It's a culture that's already set. He doesn't 222 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 4: have to be a leader. He's got a coach who 223 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 4: is not going to take any guff. I don't like 224 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 4: with Mit Mitch Johnson and the San Antonio Spurs. I 225 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 4: don't think they're close enough for him to be that 226 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 4: difference maker that's going to take them to the next level. 227 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 4: I like what they have there, but the fact of 228 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 4: the matter is, you know, having the Rookie of the 229 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 4: Year and having Victor winmbin Yama and and all that 230 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 4: they had, you know, they still were thirteenth in the 231 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 4: Western Conference. Is is kd at this stage of his career? 232 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 4: Is he going to elevate them into where I mean? 233 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 4: Is he gonna be a fourteen win difference because that's 234 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 4: that's what he'd has to be in order for them 235 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 4: to be a factor. And meanwhile, you know with Miami 236 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 4: in the Eastern Conference, you have a winning record, your 237 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 4: your golden So you know it really comes down to 238 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 4: can San Antonio probably put together the best package. Can 239 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 4: Houston put a better package than Miami? Yeah, I'm fairly easily. 240 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 4: I would think depending on what Phoenix wants. If they 241 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 4: want a starter kit, I think if you if you 242 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 4: didn't have those three preference places, and I got to 243 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 4: ask like is there like did he pick the states 244 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 4: that have no state tax? 245 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's getting getting down from that two point five 246 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 3: flat tax in Arizona. 247 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 1: He wants out. I wanted to zero. 248 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 4: That was too that was too much there. We got 249 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 4: to go to zero because I think ultimately the best 250 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,760 Speaker 4: place for him, if Phoenix were willing to do it, 251 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 4: is to send him to the Denver Nuggets. And I 252 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 4: would even say Jamal Murray to make that happen. If 253 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 4: I if I have Aaron Gordon and Kevin Durant, I 254 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 4: would I first like try to see if I could 255 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 4: make a deal built around Michael Porter Jr. But if 256 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 4: they don't go for that I would. I would deal 257 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 4: Jamal Murray if I could get KD, Aaron Gordon and Joki, 258 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 4: because Jokic is my He's my He's kind of my 259 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 4: point center anyway, right, I can play through him and 260 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,560 Speaker 4: the idea of having KD and Aaron Gordon working on 261 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 4: on on both sides of the floor. Off of that, 262 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 4: I can fill the rest of the blanks. And I 263 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 4: would if you put KD there. I look at that 264 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 4: team and I think they can contend with the Oklahoma 265 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 4: City right now? 266 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: Who Twitter at Rick Buker. That is at Rick Buker. 267 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: Check out the on the Ball podcast as well, throwing 268 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: absolute fire. All right, really quick, Rick, When we talk 269 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: to you Thursday night, are we previewing Game seven or 270 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: are we talking about the Thunder winning the title? 271 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 4: We are talking about the Oklahoma City Thunder winning the 272 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 4: first championship in the franchisees history in Oklahoma City. 273 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: There we go talk to you on Thursday. Maybe the 274 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: Necks have a coach that night. Who knows. You never know, 275 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: Rick is always buddy appreciated. Man, enjoy the games. We'll 276 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: talk to you then you got it, Throve Yoe, KD, 277 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon. I like that jok to the Nuggets. That's tasty. Wow. Yeah, 278 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: I mean we had a lot more. I mean obviously 279 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: from this match. 280 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 3: A matheriin outside of a block shot was a no show, right, 281 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 3: Just seven points two of eleven from the field for Indiana, 282 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 3: all those turnovers, but that just gets wiped away by 283 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 3: thinking of Kevin Durank going a mile high working with 284 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 3: Nikola Jokic. 285 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: Wow, exit out by to Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome. The 286 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the Fox 287 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,160 Speaker 1: Sports Radio Studios. Great stuff there from Rick Buker coming 288 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: up next. 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Be sure to catch live 317 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 2: editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays 318 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 2: at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports 319 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 2: Radio and the iHeartRadio app In sixteen. 320 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 1: Eighty one, Wolfgamadas Mozart becomes a free Mason. In twenty 321 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: twenty five, Tyre's Holliburton doesn't score in the first half 322 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: of a playoff game. The Pacers would lose that game. 323 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: Forty years ago today, rock Me Amadeus. You know, we 324 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: had a teacher in high school. Okay, just take it back. 325 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: I had a teacher. He was He was doctor Amendola 326 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: was his name. And his first name was Amideo, so 327 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: he was Amideo Amendola. I can't tell you how many 328 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 1: people had a different version of rock Me Amadeus. They 329 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:38,680 Speaker 1: would sing when he was around there, go Amideo a Mondola, 330 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: Amideo Amidla, Amideo, rock me Amideo. They would do all 331 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: the time, all the time. That was his name, Amideo 332 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: Amadeo Amendola's it. I think that some people called him 333 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: a Mendola, But but I remember I knew him as Amidola. 334 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Amidola was the you know, famous slot receiver. 335 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: Rock me a Mondola, Amideo a Mondola, doctor Amadeo Amandola. 336 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,480 Speaker 1: About that, I'mideo. I ha gotten to rock me Almada's 337 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: forty years ago. 338 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 3: This day in Germany would not become a single in 339 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 3: the US till the following March. But because we love 340 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 3: history and we love that song, uh, and it gave 341 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,879 Speaker 3: you an opportunity to rip and bring up a man's 342 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 3: name that I what, what's the etymology? 343 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know abid. I don't know a Medeo. 344 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: He's probably he's probably some sort of long lost relative 345 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: to add his name is his name was the first 346 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: name was Amadeo. Yeah, rock me Amadeo, i'mideo I Mondola, 347 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,959 Speaker 1: i'm Adeo, i'm Adeo Amendola. Do you think he encouraged 348 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: people to say that? I don't if I remember rock 349 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,919 Speaker 1: Me Amadeo, I don't think he encouraged people. But I 350 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: don't think it was one of those I already stop 351 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: that right now. It wasn't. It wasn't like that either. 352 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,199 Speaker 1: If you just walk by him in the hallway and 353 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 1: go i'mido and someone would go Avandola arvendel iman, I 354 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: would make them stop. 355 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 3: You got to give me a history and a factoid 356 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 3: out of Amadeus. 357 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 1: In seventeen forty one, Mozart composed the Magic Flute. In 358 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, show he O Tani returned to the 359 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 1: man for the first time in two years. Susu Susu Superstar, 360 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: Susu su Su Superstar. You know. The magic flute later 361 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: became a device for the Smurfs. Jason, don't put Otani's 362 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: name on this garbage. Maddie Machado should have been called 363 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: out in a check swing in the first inning, but 364 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: was allowed to continue to bower. You hit a sacrifice 365 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 1: fly's name back? Since you're doing that, can you do 366 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,479 Speaker 1: like an airplane call? What do you mean, like an 367 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:31,959 Speaker 1: airplane call? 368 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 5: Like you know how like the fights, like we the 369 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 5: flight attendants, like you've knows or like you know it's 370 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 5: the pilot. 371 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: You've now reached Los Angeles. Tonight's in flight movie is 372 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 1: Top Gun Maverick. Although now you can just watch anything 373 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: you want to on your seats because it's twenty twenty 374 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: five not nineteen eighty eight. Thank you and have a 375 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: great flight. And we will have you on the ground shortly, 376 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: not categorically true. Notice how they say they always say 377 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 1: will we'll we'll have you on the ground shortly, Like 378 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: how about just we'll be landing shortly on the ground, 379 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: on the ground. I like the ambiguity or when they 380 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: say we'll be making our final approach. Well, I want 381 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,400 Speaker 1: to think there's another one out there, just in case 382 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: I don't know, is there another one? I want to 383 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: be my last one. I don't know there's another one, 384 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: another one. It's the last time wants to make it 385 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: a good one. And now you just hit bing seat 386 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: belts a man rough eras coming seat belts. And I 387 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: don't like that. I don't like when they just say 388 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:27,920 Speaker 1: seat belts because it makes me think like they're dealing 389 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of crap that might be. And 390 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: I don't want no, I want them to be cool 391 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: and then keeping and argument about what they're doing in 392 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: the videos. I just I just picture like stuff from 393 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: airplane with the automatic pilot popping out and just get it, 394 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: pulling Kareem out in his Laker jersey. This is actually 395 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,679 Speaker 1: not a puff for pilots or airplanes at all. This 396 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: is actually an introduction to Mett's baseball. This says Roger 397 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: on before the game start. That's uh, that's that's best 398 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: team in the National League. Oh, by the way, you 399 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 1: make sure you put that walk best team in the 400 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: National league. Make sure you say which national league. There's 401 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: one National League. Not what do you mean? What do 402 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: you mean? There's not and the Mets is the best 403 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: the Mets. 404 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 3: Mary doesn't recognize that league in Mary's an American League purist. 405 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: She's a junior circuit purist. Mets have the best record 406 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,320 Speaker 1: in the National League. Well, then look show. But the 407 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 1: National League recognized the futility which one the National League 408 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: of Baseball. 409 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 3: The National League recognized the futility of their ways by 410 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 3: adopting the d H and getting rid of the wave 411 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 3: batwaving competition. 412 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: That was pitcher's hitting best record in the National Mary, 413 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: look it up. Look it up. My phone's gonna blow up. 414 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 1: If I do that, I'm gonna start getting spammed by 415 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: MLB dot com. 416 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 3: Well, it's already happening. We've already spoken into existence. Follow 417 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 3: Mary's phone. 418 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: The big news out of baseball tonight, right currently, the 419 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 1: other big story besides the NBA Playoffs. In Game five 420 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals, sho Hao Tani return to pitching 421 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: tonight for the first time in nearly two years. Pitched 422 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: the first thing against the Padres twenty eight pitches, gave 423 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: up a couple of hits. He know a leadoff batter 424 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: for Nando Tatis a little bit of a looper. Arias 425 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: with a looper. Machado should have been called out on strikes, 426 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: went way too far with his swing, but the first 427 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: base umpire bailed him out. He's able to hit a 428 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 1: sacrifice fly. So Otani goes one inning, gives up a 429 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: run twenty eight pitches. Now he's two for four with 430 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: two RBI. So if you're doing Otani versus the Padres, 431 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: Otani two Padres one, it's actually six three Dodgers in 432 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: the bottom of the seventh. But everything we saw on 433 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,239 Speaker 1: what I saw from Otani tonight. He hit ninety eight 434 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 1: ninety nine on the gun his first few pitches of 435 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: the game right now. Obviously you're getting a little bit 436 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: of adrenaline in that when it's your first time pitching. 437 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised if boy, he was hitting 438 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: ninety five ninety six up until tonight. Now you get 439 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: those extra couple miles an hour, But the bottom line 440 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,479 Speaker 1: is ninety eight ninety nine. His breaking pitches look good. 441 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: You know, he threw a wild pitch on one because 442 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: it broke so sharply nearly hit Ariaz. Yes, he gave 443 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: up a run but I did not see anything tonight 444 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: that made me think, oh boy, Otani is anything more 445 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: than just hey, getting some reps and knocking off the 446 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: rust and seeing him again in five days, even if 447 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,920 Speaker 1: it's just for an inning or an inning plus, Otani 448 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: is absolutely fine. It's exactly what the Dodgers need, considering 449 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 1: every other pitcher they've signed the last five years is 450 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: on the injured list, and no matter what happens, you 451 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: still get back to well Kershaw to be starting Game 452 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: two of the NLC as if we had it right now, 453 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: which is where the Dodgers are. But everything from Otani tonight, 454 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: he looked good. He looked confident. Yes, was he a 455 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,640 Speaker 1: little rusty, Yeah, but this has happens when you don't 456 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: pitch for the first time in two years, and you'd 457 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 1: expect to maybe if you wouldn't be surprised. He was 458 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: a little bit rustier, but he didn't walk anybody. He 459 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: was able to get out of the jam with first 460 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: and third and nobody out and only allowing run run 461 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: and that was on a sacrifice fly. Nothing bad tonight. 462 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 1: Everything look good for Otani. I feel great if I'm 463 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 1: the Dodgers. I feel great if I'm Otani. I feel 464 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: great if I'm a baseball fan, because now it looks 465 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: like we'll get more of what's made Otani Otani, which 466 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: we haven't seen in nearly two years. Yeah. 467 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 3: I mean the base hits were bloopers, right, nothing hard 468 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 3: hit coming out of those. You look at the movement 469 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 3: on his pitches, fine and the extra juice, the overthrow 470 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 3: early right with the wild pitch, just amped up to 471 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 3: be out there. But twenty eight pitches nice and easy, 472 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 3: get out of the inning, and then obviously helping himself 473 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,280 Speaker 3: at the plate. But for baseball, you know, to take 474 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 3: this pilot thing a little bit further. You got Dave 475 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 3: Roberts show Aotani will return to the mound. 476 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 1: We're never gonna see Rokiaki getive? What was that? 477 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 3: Dave Sasaki may not no, but we got Otani back. 478 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 3: That's what we need to focus on. The positivity there. 479 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 3: Blake Snell throwing bullpen sessions, all of that great news 480 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 3: on his bibblehead night with Blake Snell tonight first, forty 481 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 3: thousand and they let him in an hour early. The 482 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 3: anticipation with the announcement of Otani's return. But for those 483 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 3: twenty eight pitches, I don't know. I said at the 484 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 3: edge of my seat. Well, we got the NBA Finals 485 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: game on, and that's all fine. 486 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: The playoff game, you saw the equal They showed the 487 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: shots of all the fans who were there. They're all 488 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: there there early, and the media that was there covering it. 489 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: It wasn't just another Otani game like you could see that. 490 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: The tonight was special and Ota again, Otani looked good. 491 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: There was nothing bad tonight. There was nothing where I thought, 492 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,560 Speaker 1: well he was doing this, or his his motion was 493 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: a little different, he was pulling off the nut. It 494 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: was just he has a pitch in two years. He 495 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:27,880 Speaker 1: looked pretty good. 496 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're hitting that level on the radar gun. You're 497 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 3: feeling pretty good about it. You're feeling watching him work 498 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 3: in other pitches, which is great. And again the two 499 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 3: hits were bloops. All right, guess right, but didn't get 500 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 3: all of it because that's the thing, right, is he 501 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,919 Speaker 3: gonna be throwing dead red fastballs just trying to figure 502 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 3: out his space. No, I mean playing the work, work, 503 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 3: the plan, and those twenty eight pitches reverberate around baseball 504 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 3: because it's an exciting day for the game. You see 505 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 3: the crowd in attendance. Obviously, have the pot, you have 506 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 3: the bobble ahead night. You got a lot of factors. 507 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: But it's a. 508 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 3: Monday night on early summer, and folks asses in seats 509 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 3: long before that seven to ten pitch in anticipation. Again, 510 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 3: we had the NBA Finals game on where were your eyes? 511 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 3: Mine were on every pitch that the guy threw. 512 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean because look because well actually I was 513 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: playing Solitaire, and then I would watch the game when 514 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: I had a chance. So you are you were multitask Yeah, 515 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: you know, I'd watch a multi multitasking Otani would throw 516 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: a pitch, I would check the score, I would make 517 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,879 Speaker 1: a play on you know, you put the red seven 518 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: on the black eight, and then I would realize, okay, 519 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: maybe that's our whole line. Yeah, I didn't know you 520 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: gotta put you got an alternate red and black cars. 521 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: I did not know that. Who knew? I did not? 522 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: It's crazy about that. But I'll also tell you this now, 523 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: and Otani is opening now because I'm going to go 524 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: back to what I've said from the beginning, is that 525 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: eventually the best thing for him is to be a closer. Right. 526 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: The opener is great for now because Obviously you want 527 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: him in there with less pressure situations, and he hasn't 528 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: pitched in a couple of years. You know, look, I'm 529 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: not saying, hey throw him right out there in the ninth, 530 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: but once he gets back, what's gonna be the better 531 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: strategy of keeping him healthy and throwing for you every 532 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: single season? Is it gonna be starting? No, we've seen 533 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: him already, two big arm surgeries before he was thirty 534 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: years old. Do you really think he's gonna be able 535 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 1: to withstand and pitch one hundred and fifty innings now, 536 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 1: Dannevin two or one hundred and fifty? No, he's not. 537 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 1: We've shown you he can't do it, and he's and 538 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: again now that he's thirty one, you want to make 539 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: sure you sign him with that big contract. You're getting 540 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: the most out of him. And while he still has 541 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 1: stuff that's filthy, he'd be great to have him every 542 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 1: fifth day. But you know, you want to think, at 543 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: some point, well we have our starting pitches coming back, 544 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: think about what it would mean to make him a closer. 545 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: He's got the stuff to close, he's got the mentality 546 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: to close. You don't have to worry about the pitching 547 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: and the lineup all game. Well, you have a DH, 548 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: you lose a DH. If you're putting him in there 549 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: the ninth inning to close, you have the lead. This 550 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: is what works, and you think about what it would 551 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: mean for the team, the bolt of energy, what would 552 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: mean closing at home when you're putting him on the 553 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: mount of the night thinning. It's a big, big advantage 554 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: the Dodger would have and that's gonna keep him in 555 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: the in the pitching orbit for the next few years. 556 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: We've seen that happen at pitchers before, whether it's Dennis 557 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 1: Eckersley or John Smoltz, when the stress on their arms 558 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: became too much, or maybe as a we couldn't they 559 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: couldn't start anymore, they went and had Hall of Fame 560 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: careers as closures, and they closed until they were thirty 561 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: nine forty years old. Like Otani could have a five 562 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: six seven year careers an elite closer, because he can 563 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: do it for an inning every three or four days, 564 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 1: you could do he can. He can give you sixty 565 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 1: some Aditningszy, I feel really good about Otani sixty sixty 566 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 1: five innings a year pitching in you know every three 567 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: or four games that I would feel about anything else. Really, Okay, 568 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: then we'll keep them on the mountain. You've taken care 569 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 1: of the ninth inning. 570 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 3: I like the theory, right, and certainly you still get 571 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 3: the unicorn aspect of it. And he'll have to pick 572 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 3: a really killer closer song. So I'd love to see 573 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 3: what that contest becomes. 574 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: I love la that would be a song Wow finishes 575 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,960 Speaker 1: and dunk dude. But he played it at four and 576 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: they play it after they play it before. 577 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 3: And a does he have it in his contract that 578 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 3: Randy Newman has to show up and deliver it personally? 579 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like Timmy Trumpet playing yeah, playing Edward Yeah, yeah, yeah. 580 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: It's just no, we have the best wreck in the 581 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: National League. It's just Timmy Trumpet, just Timmy Trumpet, Timmy Trumpet, 582 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: Jimmy Timpy, Timmy Timpy, tim be to b Il Trumpet, 583 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: tim bil Trumpet, Timmy Trumpet. Uh no, there you go, 584 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,440 Speaker 1: there you play, you play Rady Newman after every strikeout, dude. 585 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 3: The curiosity it just becomes with it, right of how 586 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 3: much he wants to push versus right, you know. And 587 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 3: Dave Roberts, who's usually on the cautious side with his 588 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 3: pictures and and let's face it, you know, Tim Fay, 589 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 3: you mentioned the fact that he's already had two surgeries, 590 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 3: and yeah, the last pitching appearance was you know, on 591 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 3: the twenty third of August and twenty twenty three. He 592 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 3: got it out for another week and then he had 593 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 3: to go on the shelf. So while we have proof 594 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 3: of concept while covering he can hit and run. That 595 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 3: was also with a full off season recovery. So you 596 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 3: don't want to tempt fate with a team that's destined 597 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 3: to me playing meaningful baseball in October. So trying to 598 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 3: figure out where the metrics are. And look, this is 599 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 3: where you have to have some outside consultants as well. 600 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 1: I'll just track record with pictures. The less you can pitched, 601 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: the better off you're gonna be. Telling you again, Osaki 602 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: may not preturn time now to find out what's trending 603 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports. Man has been called 604 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: the Randy Newman of Fox Sports Radio. 605 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 2: Hello Newman. 606 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: He has deep feelings about the Imperial Highway. If Steve 607 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: Disager that is one of the lines. 608 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 6: For those who are unaware, Imperial Highway is simply a 609 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 6: long street, not at all notable Aside from the songs. 610 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,560 Speaker 1: Stormers are on either side if they stand there as 611 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: you go buy Darth Vader. 612 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 6: Lanes had the right syllables compared to what roadscrans. 613 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: I can't say one oh five. Instead, I'll just say 614 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 1: Imperial Highway. That looks better. I don't know. 615 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 6: It's like the Missus Robinson saw that. That is what 616 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 6: Paul Simon said. One picky mandles have come. I Hi, 617 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 6: how come you can get tomasho in there? I didn't 618 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 6: get a syllablesmith, Sorry. 619 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: Four O five, one oh one, west Man, I'm getting 620 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: all the way to Universal Studios. Get on the five, 621 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: get off on that south exit, make that turning. Then 622 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: you want to look it. 623 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 6: This could be an episode of the California. 624 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: Well the. 625 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: No. 626 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 6: Just for the record, there's a reason why people who 627 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 6: live in southern California talk freeways. I went to a 628 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,720 Speaker 6: March Madness game driving from La to Anaheim. One's literally 629 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 6: took eleven different freeways to get Yeah, Steve. 630 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: I totally thought you were gonna say it took you 631 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: eleven hours. 632 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 7: Well that too, eleven hours, eleven freeways, eleven hours, eleven 633 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 7: three with Dodgers are onto their sixth pitcher of the night, 634 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 7: and they'll use the rest of the staff no doubt 635 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 7: tomorrow night, because yet again it'll be a bullpen game show. 636 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 6: Hey O'tani opened tonight's game in the first inning against 637 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 6: the Padres, allowed one run on a sack fly. 638 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 1: It's now LA six y three in the lead. 639 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 6: Over San Diego. In the top of the eighth, Otani 640 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 6: as a hitter, and yes he's still DH still leading 641 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 6: off in the order. Hit an RBI double in the third, 642 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 6: RBI single in the fourth. Everything else is final. The 643 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 6: A's have just hit a walk off homer. Beat Houston 644 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 6: three to one. Nick Kurtz the hero, the loss to 645 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 6: reliever Brian abra You. Houston had won five in a row. 646 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 6: Boston won at six straight game two nothing at Seattle. 647 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 6: Lucas Giolito the winning pitcher, six scoreless innings, ten strikeouts, rookie. 648 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: Roman Anthony with a home run. 649 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 6: Each team's offense went just four for thirty at Seattle. 650 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 6: Tampa Bay seven to one over Baltimore. The winner Ryan Pepio, 651 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 6: former Dodger, eight innings, eleven strikeouts for the Red High 652 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 6: Rays Angels in eleven innings, won one nothing over the Yankees. 653 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: In New York. 654 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 6: The Yanks left bases loaded in the bottom of the eleven. 655 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,120 Speaker 6: In fact, the Yankee lineup with runners in scoring position 656 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 6: one for eighteen. Tonight, Colorado hit two homers in the 657 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,040 Speaker 6: top of the ninth and won six to four at Washington. 658 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 6: Nationals have lost nine straight. Philadelphia won its fifth straight game, 659 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 6: five to two at Miami. In Game five in the 660 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,240 Speaker 6: NBA Finals, Oklahoma City, a winner over Indiana, won twenty 661 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 6: to one oh nine forty points for Jalen Williams, three 662 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 6: games to two lead for the Thunder Game six at Indiana. 663 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 6: On Thursday. At the FIFA Club World Cup, Chelsea beat 664 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 6: LAFC two to nothing in Atlanta. LAFC had won a 665 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 6: playoff recently for the final spot in this big tournament. 666 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 6: The playoff winner, just by getting into this tourney gets 667 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 6: at least nine and a half million dollars in guaranteed 668 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 6: prize money in a tournament that is shared by the 669 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 6: big clubs like Real Madrid, who opens this week. Manchester City. 670 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 6: Bayern Munich won ten to nothing today yesterday in Cincinnati. 671 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 6: Turns out they were playing a completely amateur side in 672 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 6: Auckland City, but hey, a win's a win. 673 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,360 Speaker 1: Back to you. Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon 674 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios coming up next. Yeah, 675 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: we get into a guy that's going to dominate the 676 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: conversation in sports. The next twenty four hours, you will 677 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,800 Speaker 1: hear from the man who didn't bring us enough, Tyre's Halliburton. 678 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,280 Speaker 1: That's next, Jason and Mike Fuffa Fuff of Fox Sports 679 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio not a Superstar. 680 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 681 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 682 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 683 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best 684 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:44,920 Speaker 1: friend Mike Carmon. Thunderbeat the Pacers tonight, one twenty to 685 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: one oh nine. Oklahoma City is one game away from 686 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: the NBA title and while yes, big stuff to talk 687 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: about with Jalen Williams and SGA, the conversation surrounds Tyres Halliburton, 688 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: who had one of the worst NBA Finals game a 689 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 1: quote star has ever had. Was bad tonight, dinged up 690 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: his calf, came back into the game still played the 691 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 1: second most minutes of anyone on the Pacers oh for 692 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,479 Speaker 1: six from the floor, four points, seven rebounds, and six 693 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: assists as the Pacers fall one game away from elimination. 694 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: So what was at the core and the root of 695 00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,000 Speaker 1: his game? What's his status like for game six? Here 696 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,760 Speaker 1: was Haliburton just a few moments ago. I mean's NBA Finals. 697 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 8: It's the finals, man, I've worked my whole life to 698 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,280 Speaker 8: be here, and I want to be out there to compete, 699 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 8: you know how my teammates anyway, I can you know, 700 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 8: I was not great tonight by any means, but uh, 701 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:46,879 Speaker 8: you know, it's not really a. 702 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,400 Speaker 5: Thought of mine to to not play here. You know, 703 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,279 Speaker 5: if I fucking uh you know, walk and then I 704 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 5: want to play, so you know they understand that, and uh, 705 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 5: you know is what it is, and uh you know, 706 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 5: I'll be ready to go Game six. 707 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: All right. I would say, I mean play or or 708 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,919 Speaker 1: like really try to affect the game, like like because 709 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,439 Speaker 1: you played tonight, but you didn't really affect the game 710 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 1: you played. I saw you it was a decoy. No, 711 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 1: I think show it decoy was the better decoy tonight 712 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,279 Speaker 1: than Halliburton, who was a decoy. And you take that back. 713 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: I said decoy was the better decoy tonight. I just 714 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,359 Speaker 1: threw it up. 715 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 3: As an option in a Okay, you guys want to 716 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 3: bludgeon me with the baseball bat, have at it in 717 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:28,439 Speaker 3: the pit. 718 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: Oh okay, he's just giving us permission to hitim with 719 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: a baseball back, all right, I want ahead. This is 720 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 1: this is like, that's that's a face. This is like, 721 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,399 Speaker 1: that's what are you doing? That's seen from airplane touching 722 00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,959 Speaker 1: the hair where the woman was hysterical. They all waited 723 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,839 Speaker 1: in line with all different things that all the different implements. Yeah, 724 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 1: I'm distracted pipe the Uh yeah, look, here's the deal. 725 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: Halliburton was awful tonight and there's no way through it. Yeah, 726 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 1: it's yet another game in which Haliburton shows up and 727 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,279 Speaker 1: plays tentative, which we saw from anthonyards right, very very 728 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,040 Speaker 1: similar couple of games a series where Anthony Edwards is 729 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: tentative and all of a sudden the Tea Wolves find 730 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,920 Speaker 1: themselves on the losing end and they go home. Because 731 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 1: when you're a superstar, you can't have games like that. 732 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 1: You can't he tentative, and Halliburton is the same guy, 733 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 1: and stars can't have games like this. He's tended to. Look, 734 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 1: you heard Rick Buker talk about it earlier this hour 735 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,800 Speaker 1: where he said, you know he picks up his dribble 736 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:25,359 Speaker 1: too much. He doesn't get in. I don't know what 737 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: he's doing. I don't know why, but this is what 738 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,440 Speaker 1: Halliburton is doing. He doesn't get aggressive. TJ McConnell pushes 739 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: the ball. That's why it such a big night tonight. 740 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,720 Speaker 1: He pushes the ball into the paint. And I'm telling 741 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: you watch Tyres Halliburton play. He is a front running player. 742 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: When he can start out well and affect the game, 743 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,839 Speaker 1: he has an incredible game when he can start out 744 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: okay enough. Maybe won't have a great game, but he 745 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 1: still can have games like Game one where I'll hit 746 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,839 Speaker 1: the game winning shot at the endzill a pretty good 747 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 1: all around game, like a fourteen ten and six game. 748 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,919 Speaker 1: I'll still love that kind of night, right. But when 749 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 1: he gets stopped early and all, he starts out zero 750 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 1: for four and there's no points the first five or 751 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: six minutes, he's done. He's done for the game. He 752 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 1: is in the tank. He doesn't come back from that. 753 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,239 Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, if I'm the thunder, I 754 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 1: go oh boom. You could just shut him down the 755 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 1: first five six minutes when he can't overcome adversity This 756 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,560 Speaker 1: is when he has games like this tonight where he 757 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,000 Speaker 1: doesn't affect the game, he doesn't get in, he doesn't 758 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,120 Speaker 1: find a way. SGA always finds a way if it's 759 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,480 Speaker 1: not my night. He gets his teammates involved, he gets 760 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,839 Speaker 1: the free throw line. This is what superstars do. It's 761 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 1: why he still scores thirty points a night even when 762 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: it's not his night. Tonight with Jalen Williams Knight still 763 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 1: SGA had thirty and ten because he's that good. But 764 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,600 Speaker 1: Haliburton is someone who just has games where if you can, 765 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 1: if you stop him in the beginning, he just completely 766 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,840 Speaker 1: goes into a mode where it's almost like shutdown, like 767 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: when your battery goes in a low power mode. Hey, 768 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,479 Speaker 1: we're gonna shut down and go to low power mode. 769 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: Because that's how and it happens to him at least 770 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: a couple times a series. And if you're a superstar player, 771 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 1: you don't have that happen, but it still happens him 772 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: because he's a front runner. 773 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,600 Speaker 3: What's funny is we did get to the the point 774 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,680 Speaker 3: where down towards the eight and a half minute mark, 775 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,520 Speaker 3: you have the three point make from Pascal Siakam and 776 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 3: party is like, all right, is does he have anything 777 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 3: in him? 778 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 1: Right? 779 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 3: Are we going to get one of those where he's 780 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:17,360 Speaker 3: been ineffective, invisible much of the night, but then suddenly 781 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,800 Speaker 3: in the two minutes you get a burst. And the 782 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 3: answer was a resounding no. Quite obviously, But but you 783 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 3: just open the door because we've seen it before, or 784 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 3: we've seen him passive, we've seen the teammates pick him up, 785 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:33,239 Speaker 3: whether it's McConnell or we've seen Mathn with his heroics 786 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,720 Speaker 3: throughout the playoffs, Pascal Siakam again hitting that three point shot. 787 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,520 Speaker 3: He had three on the night and they made it 788 00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 3: a two point game. To all of a sudden, you're 789 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 3: all right, the door is open for him to have 790 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,360 Speaker 3: one of these, put the cape on and get it done. 791 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,480 Speaker 3: But a couple of turnovers made, a couple of free throws, 792 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:53,200 Speaker 3: had to assist, but overall ineffective and down the stretch. 793 00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,320 Speaker 3: Nobody that could count on a bunch of bad passes. 794 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,799 Speaker 3: And even though Alex Caruso, the guy we've seen offensively 795 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,720 Speaker 3: for the Thunder, has been huge. He neutralized these guys 796 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,759 Speaker 3: on the defensive end every fifty to fifty ball his way. 797 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,640 Speaker 1: If you really want to be a star. You find 798 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: a way to stay aggressive, you find a way to 799 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,040 Speaker 1: affect the game and not just basically pack it in 800 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,600 Speaker 1: for the game, which is what he did well back 801 00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,359 Speaker 1: to back third All NBA teams. You're expecting more come 802 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,840 Speaker 1: up next, a big hot take on NBA Finals ratings 803 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,359 Speaker 1: and the word that might really come back to haunt 804 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:25,760 Speaker 1: the pacer.