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Speaker 1: happen often, but sometimes the defensive play is the highlight
Speaker 1: of a game, whether it's football, baseball, basketball, any sport,
Speaker 1: and this could be the highlight of the series. And
Speaker 1: last night in crunch Time, Jannis had one of those
Speaker 1: plays as DeAndre Eton peeled off for what looked like
Speaker 1: an easy allie, and the Greek freak is guarding Devin Booker.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's guarding Devin Booker and then he's
Speaker 1: going to go back on DeAndre eighton. Very few players
Speaker 1: in the history of the sport could be guarding a
Speaker 1: guard like Devin Booker then go back and then go
Speaker 1: up and challenge a dunk. Now we have Lebron's chase
Speaker 1: down block of Andrea Gudala that was in the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals that wanted championship. That's like Malcolm Butler's interception against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks that was the twenty sixteen finals. So the
Speaker 1: series is tied at two games apiece, and ultimately the
Speaker 1: historical importance of that block is really going to be
Speaker 1: determined by who wins this series. If the Bucks come
Speaker 1: out on top, then this will be the defining moment
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. If the Sun's win, will think back
Speaker 1: and go, oh, that's right, that was an incredible block.
Speaker 1: It might get lost in history. I like to bring
Speaker 1: up Julio Jones's catch against the Patriots in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl loss. The Falcons blew the twenty eight to three league.
Speaker 1: Julio Jones had this unbelievable catch put the Falcons in
Speaker 1: prime position to kick a field goal. They would have
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. But it gets lost because they
Speaker 1: didn't win the Super Bowl. You know, if the Giants
Speaker 1: don't have that touchdown pass to Plexico Burst, then David
Speaker 1: Tyree's catches. Wow, that was a fascinating catch. But that catch,
Speaker 1: make a case, is greatest catch we've ever seen Super
Speaker 1: Bowl history, or certainly on the short list as far
Speaker 1: as the importance goes. Anybody who was complaining about this
Speaker 1: finals matchup isn't watching because there's some great basketball being played.
Speaker 1: There's some really stellar performances. Devin Booker was great last night.
Speaker 1: Some questionable officiating that allowed him to stay in the game,
Speaker 1: but he scored forty two. Unfortunately, he had thirty eight
Speaker 1: in the first three quarters, got into foul trouble and
Speaker 1: should have fouled out. But Jannis's block one of the
Speaker 1: more dramatic defensive plays that we've ever seen. Mcleven got
Speaker 1: a pull question today, Well, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: doing this one. Which was greater Janie's block or Lebron's block.
Speaker 1: I guess it depends how you define greater. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Janis is maybe more athletic in a way.
Speaker 1: I think Lebronze is easier because it's a chase down block.
Speaker 1: This is Jannis guarding one player and then sort of
Speaker 1: pivoting and then going up against a seven foot or
Speaker 1: a Fellows seven footer. And I just think the athleticism,
Speaker 1: really the creativity of this. And I'm going to bring
Speaker 1: this up to Mannix. Just the thought of I'm going
Speaker 1: to go up there and try to block this, just
Speaker 1: that thought and then to go up there and block it.
Speaker 1: That to me, it goes back to what Pete Sampras
Speaker 1: said to me many many years ago, and we were
Speaker 1: talking about the greatness of Roger Federer, and I said,
Speaker 1: how great is Federer? He said, he thinks of shots
Speaker 1: that I never thought and he completes those shots like
Speaker 1: having the imagination, and it's something that you normally don't
Speaker 1: hear about with athletes, your imagination, because Gretzky had to
Speaker 1: have imagination. You have to think, Okay, how can I
Speaker 1: do something like this? All the great players know, whether
Speaker 1: it's you know, Jordan Magic, like, they had this ability
Speaker 1: to go, I'm thinking of something you're not thinking, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to do something that you're not even thinking about.
Speaker 1: And I think what you saw with the honest and
Speaker 1: I got to factor this in. Keep in mind the
Speaker 1: hyper extended knee that was probably going to end his
Speaker 1: playoff run. So if I factored degree of difficulty of
Speaker 1: trying to block a seven footer or while pivoting and
Speaker 1: you know, it's not one of those running starts. Lebron
Speaker 1: had a running start and Igudala didn't know he was there.
Speaker 1: But that did win a championship. You know, Malcolm Butler's
Speaker 1: play against Russell Wilson that won a Super Bowl. He
Speaker 1: turned a loss into a win with that play. And
Speaker 1: you could make a case that's as great a play
Speaker 1: as we've ever seen in the Super Bowl in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl history because the importance of it and you look
Speaker 1: at the time of it. This wasn't a third quarter interception.
Speaker 1: This is game on the line. There's a talking hair
Speaker 1: due right under the goal post, ready to go out
Speaker 1: there and hand out the Super Bowl Trophy, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking I'm handing it to the Seattle Seahawks, and then
Speaker 1: that happens and you realize, like it takes the breath
Speaker 1: out of you. I don't know what that did to
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, but Dame Lillard tweeted in real time,
Speaker 1: Jannis just won the game and there was over a
Speaker 1: minute to play. But what that did to Phoenix, it's
Speaker 1: not just hey, denied you two points and you were
Speaker 1: going to tie the game. That's something that just sort
Speaker 1: of hangs there. That's almost like a hangover the next day.
Speaker 1: But it's happening right now. You're going, WHOA, what just
Speaker 1: happened here? And I think give the Greek free credit.
Speaker 1: He thought he had the imagination to think, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: back pedal. I'm gonna go yeah, I'll go up and
Speaker 1: try to block. Now I'm going to block it and
Speaker 1: block it cleanly. But win a championship, we'll think back
Speaker 1: that'll be the signature play and maybe the signature play
Speaker 1: of Jannis's career, even though it's still very bright and
Speaker 1: a big future ahead. But that last night I have
Speaker 1: a special yes here. And to say that the block
Speaker 1: Lebron had is easier isn't to say that it's an
Speaker 1: easy play to make. I mean, Lebron's block was incredible, right,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's not as difficult as the one
Speaker 1: Jannis made, is that right? Yeah? Yeah, But the importance
Speaker 1: of Lebron's is winning a championship. And Richard Jefferson was
Speaker 1: Lebron's teammate with Cleveland back then, so he'll have a
Speaker 1: better opinion on this. But you know, a chase down
Speaker 1: block where somebody doesn't see you, and then what Jannis did, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to get dunked on. And
Speaker 1: I thought, you get dunked, you dunk on the Greek freak.
Speaker 1: I thought it could have gone really bad for Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: that Aton has a dunk, survived a bad call, that
Speaker 1: Booker stayed in the game and he should have fouled out.
Speaker 1: Chris Paul hasn't played well. You win this game, You're
Speaker 1: gonna win the series. I mean, the importance of that play,
Speaker 1: I don't think can be understated, because I do think
Speaker 1: that could have been You're dunking on the Greek freak,
Speaker 1: and I think momentum wise, boy, it changed. It was
Speaker 1: a seismic shift there with what happened. But Mannox will
Speaker 1: join us coming up a little bit later on Richard
Speaker 1: Jefferson from the Mothership will join us as well. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I'm rewatching the Warriors game with Igodala and Lebron going
Speaker 1: for the block. If you watch it from behind, Igodala's
Speaker 1: about four feet five feet from the bass. He's about
Speaker 1: to go in. Lebron is on the other side of
Speaker 1: the court. He's on the left side of the court.
Speaker 1: Igodoala's on the right. It doesn't appear like if you
Speaker 1: freeze frame it that Lebron could get there. And the
Speaker 1: same thing if you rewatched Jannis as he's turning in,
Speaker 1: his back is to eight and you're like, how does
Speaker 1: he get there? It doesn't make sense? All right? Age
Speaker 1: seven seven three D P show email addrestp A Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick dot com. McLevin, what kind of pulled question do
Speaker 1: you have? Do you want to do greatest defense to
Speaker 1: play in a championship series or a game? We could
Speaker 1: know Malcolm Butler probably brought up the Mike Jones tackle
Speaker 1: in the Rams Titan Super Bowl. Uh, you certainly have
Speaker 1: the Jannis block, the Lebron block. Uh, there's probably some
Speaker 1: other sports. There's nothing baseball is there. Willie May's over
Speaker 1: the over the shoulder ktch Was that catch that great?
Speaker 1: I've always wondered that. Well, you know, the center field
Speaker 1: I think the center field wall was four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four feet. I mean it was he had so
Speaker 1: much room to run, but he had to cover all
Speaker 1: of that ground and it was an over the shoulder catch. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think so, I mean check on that.
Speaker 1: I think center field was cavernous back then in uh
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Yeah, Pa, here's one. I don't know if
Speaker 1: makes it because if it's earlier in the game Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Arizona super Bowl, Kurt Warner is about to take the
Speaker 1: team in for a touchdown to end the first half,
Speaker 1: they would have gone up fourteen ten a half, said
Speaker 1: James Harrison gets that interception and takes it all the
Speaker 1: way back. That was again earlier in the game, probably
Speaker 1: doesn't belong in this poll question. But before did that
Speaker 1: change that game? Well? I think now had that been
Speaker 1: in the second half, in the fourth quarter, then we
Speaker 1: would look at it differently because it's one thing that
Speaker 1: you stopped them from scoring, but you also scored in
Speaker 1: the process, and you stayed inbounds and you scored right
Speaker 1: before the end of the first half. I mean, I
Speaker 1: actually think it's an underrated play in Super Bowl history.
Speaker 1: And they know what the play is. They knew the play,
Speaker 1: they scouted the play, they knew what Kurt Warner was
Speaker 1: going to do in that moment, and Harrison backed up
Speaker 1: instead of you went in to try to sack Kurt Warner.
Speaker 1: He just fell back in coverage and you make the
Speaker 1: interceptions one thing, and then he avoids like six or
Speaker 1: seven tackles and stays inbounds and then scores. But that
Speaker 1: was at the end of the first half. That's one
Speaker 1: of those where you're going into halftime and I'm watching
Speaker 1: from the sidelines, and all of a sudden, you're thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go up fourteen ten, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking this is Arizona, that this is their night. And
Speaker 1: then you watch it and you go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Warner just got picked James Harrison stool He's still run. Wait,
Speaker 1: he's gonna James Harrison just scored a ton what like,
Speaker 1: It's just one of those crazy, crazy moments. And then
Speaker 1: you had Larry Fitzgerald scoring a touchdown and I thought
Speaker 1: the Arizona is going to win. All they have to
Speaker 1: do is shut down Roethlisburg this two minute drive and
Speaker 1: they couldn't do it. But you're right the moment. When
Speaker 1: you have a play like that, you know history's kind
Speaker 1: to you when you do it towards the end of
Speaker 1: the game. We forget sometimes you can have great plays
Speaker 1: in the first quarter or the second quarter, at the
Speaker 1: end of the first half. What else mclovin. By the way,
Speaker 1: just to confirm what you're saying, the center field was
Speaker 1: about four hundred and fifty feet with a little part
Speaker 1: that jutted out to four hundred and eighty three feet. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Willie Mays was four hundred and twenty feet from home plate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that that makes it even more incredible. I had
Speaker 1: to cover a lot of ground out there in center field.
Speaker 1: Did Oddie Smith ever do anything in the world. I
Speaker 1: feel like he had a home run in the World's here. Ye.
Speaker 1: But Craig Nettles, Brooks Robinson, well Brooks Robinson. But that
Speaker 1: was an entire World Series in nineteen seventy against the Reds.
Speaker 1: Like I think he took took the heart out of
Speaker 1: the Big Red machine. He took the engine out of
Speaker 1: the Big Red machine. Absolutely, that's the only case where
Speaker 1: I could ever remember a defensive storyline to a series
Speaker 1: like that was the storyline growing up. Brooks Robinson win
Speaker 1: the World Series in my opinion, yes, and those were
Speaker 1: my Cincinnati Reds, but absolutely because he caught everything and
Speaker 1: you could tell where the Reds just felt like we
Speaker 1: can't hit to the left side of the endfield because
Speaker 1: Brooks Robinson is going to scoop it up and he
Speaker 1: demoralized the Cincinnati Reds. Yeah, mcclun just to satisfy our
Speaker 1: hockey friends. Is there any like goalie performance, Well, it
Speaker 1: feels like that's every other Stanley Cup final where you go,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like Patrick Waugh. I'm sure Marty Brodore,
Speaker 1: there's been goalies down through the years that you probably
Speaker 1: say that the team won because as they would always say, hey,
Speaker 1: Steve standing on his head, and my favorite hockey term, hey,
Speaker 1: he's standing on his it's always this goalie is gonna win.
Speaker 1: He's standing on his head. Which I never quite understand understood,
Speaker 1: but it's like he's standing on his head and he
Speaker 1: can stop everything. There five hole in peanut butter shelf
Speaker 1: and all those things. Yes, I remember one time we
Speaker 1: had the Bruins goalie on the show. I think his
Speaker 1: say was Tim Thomas, and you asked him, what standing
Speaker 1: on your head? Is he at? What are those? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yes he did. Yeah, but those guys know it, you
Speaker 1: know when you say, hey, you're standing on your head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, you know. All right, we'll come up with
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Speaker 1: Richard jeffre person from the Mothership covering the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: as is Chris Mannix. He's the senior NBA writer for
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated. He joins us on the program. What would
Speaker 1: the storyline be today if Phoenix had won last night?
Speaker 1: Chris Oh, referee's gone wild would have to be have
Speaker 1: to be right? I mean, that was one of the
Speaker 1: more egregious non calls that I've ever seen. In the
Speaker 1: explanation to the pool reporter after which is probably worse,
Speaker 1: I mean to paraphrase it. It was. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought there was a clean swipe, which there wasn't that
Speaker 1: I saw the hand on the back, which there was.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dan, it's hard not to look at that
Speaker 1: play and not see a referee that was determined to
Speaker 1: keep Devin Booker in the game had five fouls, So
Speaker 1: if they had, if Phoenix had won that game, all
Speaker 1: we would be talking about today would be a referee
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory for the Suns to win. So what should
Speaker 1: the headline be today? You know, to me, it's the
Speaker 1: ascent of Chris Middleton continues. Like I was writing this
Speaker 1: last night, Like there was a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: when Chris Middleton made his first All Star team when
Speaker 1: you looked at Chris Middleton and he said, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll put him on the All Star team. But it's
Speaker 1: mostly because the Bucks are really good, and you can't
Speaker 1: have just one All Star on a team that in
Speaker 1: mid season is sitting at or near the top of
Speaker 1: the conference. He almost benefited from the success of the Bucks.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's had some good Finals games. Game
Speaker 1: one was his best prior to Game four. But that
Speaker 1: forty point performance in Game four, I think that really
Speaker 1: cemented Chris Middleton as a true top twenty type player
Speaker 1: in this league. So his breakthrough, to me was the
Speaker 1: biggest story of that game for those who didn't see
Speaker 1: the Greek freak's block on DeAndre Ayton. You, being a
Speaker 1: word smith, how would you describe it? Unique? You know,
Speaker 1: what Lebron did in twenty sixteen was remarkable, Like the
Speaker 1: the sheer athleticism of Lebron to get back and block
Speaker 1: Iguidala was remarkable. I don't know that there's any player
Speaker 1: in league history that can do what Jana's did on
Speaker 1: that play. To be defending the ball handler on the screen,
Speaker 1: Devin Booker, and then have the athleticism and instincts to
Speaker 1: get back and then have the strength and timing to
Speaker 1: block a seven footer at the rim. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't think of too many guys that
Speaker 1: could do it. Like I guess, go all the way
Speaker 1: back in time and think of Bill Russell, one of
Speaker 1: the great defensive players in NBA history. But players in
Speaker 1: that day weren't anywhere near as athletic as the players
Speaker 1: of today. So that's the kind of block like we
Speaker 1: might see, and frankly, Lebron's done it multiple times we
Speaker 1: have seen it. We might see it a block like Lebrons. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know that we ever see a block shot
Speaker 1: in that situation like Jannis. Two things that stood out.
Speaker 1: You got to reflect back on the injury that he suffered, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you got to factor that in. The Other thing
Speaker 1: is I think just the thought of trying to block
Speaker 1: it fascinated me. Not that he blocked it, just that
Speaker 1: he was going to think about going up to block
Speaker 1: it and then like you would go, okay, I'll just
Speaker 1: let him have that slam dunk. That to me was
Speaker 1: that's the fascinating part of it. You just go, oh
Speaker 1: my god, oh my, you know, like he's going up
Speaker 1: to block. Oh he did block it. And Dame Lillard
Speaker 1: tweeted in real time he said, Yannis just won the game,
Speaker 1: and you know there was a little over a minute
Speaker 1: to go, so I give him credit that what that
Speaker 1: didn't to the rest you know, the next ninety seconds
Speaker 1: he I mean, he took away Phoenix, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: it was, he took it away in one play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was about one fourteen left to play, and if
Speaker 1: Aiden converts that dunk, it's a tie game. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden Phoenix had a little bit of momentum there.
Speaker 1: They get one stop, and you know, Devin Book or
Speaker 1: Chris Paul, however, can erase any of the issues of
Speaker 1: the previous quarter. I'm with you the like I think
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert is the best defensive player in the game,
Speaker 1: you know, fundamentally day to day. I think Gobert deserved
Speaker 1: that Defensive Player of the Year. There's no way Gobert
Speaker 1: even considers blocking that shot. Doesn't get back there in
Speaker 1: time to do something like that. Guys like Janis and
Speaker 1: Lebron have such confidence in in their athleticism and in
Speaker 1: their timing and all the things that make them so
Speaker 1: physically great that they might be the only two players
Speaker 1: in the league that would believe that on that play
Speaker 1: they can finish it with a block shot. Chris Mannix
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated NBA senior writer, Should we be concer learned
Speaker 1: about Chris Paul? If you're a Phoenix Suns fan, I
Speaker 1: think a little bit, and not because I think there's
Speaker 1: anything wrong with Chris Paul. I think that Drew Holliday
Speaker 1: has had his number the last couple of games. And
Speaker 1: you go back to Game three and Paul's numbers were fine.
Speaker 1: I think it was eight to fourteen nineteen points nine assists.
Speaker 1: It'd be a good game, but not. It wasn't the
Speaker 1: takeover type games he's had in the previous two games
Speaker 1: and in previous series of these playoffs. Holiday did something
Speaker 1: in that Game three, picking Chris Paul up at about
Speaker 1: three quarter quart or more, and I think that put
Speaker 1: a lot of strain on Chris Paul. I mean, Holiday
Speaker 1: is a big, long, sturdy defender. I mean he's really
Speaker 1: good at that position. I think the pressure he's put
Speaker 1: on Chris Paul has generated some fatigue in him at
Speaker 1: this point. And if you're in Milwaukee, you've got to
Speaker 1: feel like that matchup is working for you. So I
Speaker 1: don't know that it's an adjustment Chris Paul necessarily can make.
Speaker 1: But if I'm Monty Williams, one of the things I'm
Speaker 1: doing going into game five is finding a way, whether
Speaker 1: it's through early screens, bad movement, of getting Drew Holiday
Speaker 1: off Chris Paul to get him back into a rhythm.
Speaker 1: Ending update on the Ben Simmons trade market, not really,
Speaker 1: you know, the Sixers. I think we talked about this specifically,
Speaker 1: but predictably are valuing Ben Simmons like he's basically like
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year did this year didn't happen like that.
Speaker 1: He is the All Star, two time All Star defense,
Speaker 1: highly Ray defensive player, elite guy. And from what I
Speaker 1: was told by one team that talked to Philadelphia, they're
Speaker 1: not looking to take any steps back like they want
Speaker 1: dollar for dollar value or better on Ben Simmons in
Speaker 1: a trade because justifiably, I mean, Philly looks at itself
Speaker 1: and says, look, we got MB at the peak of
Speaker 1: his powers, Tobias Harris had a great year. We got
Speaker 1: enough shooting to help us win. They don't want to
Speaker 1: trade for you know, younger players and draft picks. They
Speaker 1: want a guy back in return that will help them
Speaker 1: win a championship next season. And honestly, even though even
Speaker 1: though Houston or Philadelphia is really able to deal with
Speaker 1: twenty nine other teams because of Ben Simmons contract, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that's available to them right now. And I've
Speaker 1: said this to you before and it bears repeating. If
Speaker 1: I'm Philadelphia, I'm just circling Portland like a vulture. I'm
Speaker 1: just even if it takes you into next season, like
Speaker 1: I want to see what the Portland Trailblazers do with
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard and CJ. McCollum, because it feels to me,
Speaker 1: Dan like Portland is like one eleven and fifteen. Start
Speaker 1: from saying, you know what, screw this, We're not good.
Speaker 1: We gotta blow this thing up. We got to take
Speaker 1: advantage of our stars having good contracts to trade while
Speaker 1: we can. I'm if I'm Darryl Moorey, I'd hate to
Speaker 1: deal Ben Simmons and then get to December and see
Speaker 1: Portland put like an auction sign in front of their
Speaker 1: office and say we're open for business. Thank you. Chris
Speaker 1: is always safe travels, You got it. Dan Chris Mannox,
Speaker 1: senior writer for Sports Illustrated covering the NBA Finals. Here
Speaker 1: is the Greek freak talking about his great block last night.
Speaker 1: Just hustle play. I thought I'm gonna get ducked one,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but going down the stretch,
Speaker 1: just do whatever you know it takes to win the game.
Speaker 1: Saw the play coming, so that Chris Chris pos trying
Speaker 1: to love So I just I'm just gonna jump Vertico,
Speaker 1: you know, towards that him. Hopefully I can beat that
Speaker 1: in time. How was that in time? And I was
Speaker 1: able to get a good block and go down and
Speaker 1: get two points. Now I know that. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton scored forty points and it shouldn't be an
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, he had ten straight down the
Speaker 1: stretch and helped lead the Box to that win last
Speaker 1: night to even the series of two games apiece. McLevin,
Speaker 1: did we settle on the poll question? Yeah, we put
Speaker 1: up for fun, the greatest defensive play in a championship
Speaker 1: series or a game. Now, the choices we put up
Speaker 1: so far were the Mike Jones tackle and the Rams Titans,
Speaker 1: the Malcolm Butler pick, the Jannis block, the Brombach. But
Speaker 1: people are sending us a lot of nominations too. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jordan's stealing the ball from Malone in the NBA Finals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if that got lost because Mike hit the shot.
Speaker 1: But to come up with the steal on Karl Malone
Speaker 1: and then take it to the other end and score
Speaker 1: and win a championship. That whole that the series of
Speaker 1: plays they're defensively and offensively, we got a bunch of
Speaker 1: and it's not a championship cap Jeter against the A's
Speaker 1: people love that play. Wait, but that was playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: it was playoffs? Yeah, I mean it was remarkable. First
Speaker 1: of all, it was a stupid play by Jeremy Giambi
Speaker 1: because he didn't slide and he's probably thinking, well, Jeter's
Speaker 1: not going to get to the ball. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: backhand the ball to home plate and then you get
Speaker 1: tagged out. So I I'll give Jeter credit because he
Speaker 1: thought of making the play, but I got to put
Speaker 1: a lot of blame on Jeremy Giombi. Yeah, poem. I've
Speaker 1: always wondered if Jeter actually helped that play at all,
Speaker 1: or just helped himself, because that ball is going right
Speaker 1: towards home plays, and I know he grabbed it and
Speaker 1: threw it and he looks like a hero. But that ball,
Speaker 1: if you want, I've watched the fifty times. It looks
Speaker 1: like that ball was going to go to home play
Speaker 1: all on its own. And I don't know if he
Speaker 1: made it any faster by catching and throwing, but it's
Speaker 1: sure worked out well for Jeets. Of course you did watch.
Speaker 1: I want to get on YouTube. A lot of people
Speaker 1: sent in multiple Tayshaun Prince blocking Reggie Miller not in
Speaker 1: the Finals with I think there's like twenty seconds left
Speaker 1: in a big playoff game. Yeah, I can't do that
Speaker 1: to Rede. I know I've watched the highlight Reggie called
Speaker 1: for the foul. Of course, very Adamilly, I might add,
Speaker 1: but actually, yeah, there are a lot a lot for
Speaker 1: the Rams Titans game, more than I expected. On Twitter.
Speaker 1: We'll see what the poll results are. Well, and the
Speaker 1: Mike Jones play, I don't think he's He's not. He's
Speaker 1: a yard away, they said, but he's not really a
Speaker 1: yard away. But you know, okay, that was That was
Speaker 1: a great an unpredictable super Bowl. But Mike Jones with
Speaker 1: the stop, Okay, nothing compares to Malcolm Butler. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't because you had practiced this on Wednesday. Imagine Belichick
Speaker 1: says to Malcolm Butler, when you see this, because earlier
Speaker 1: in the week he got burned in practice as they're
Speaker 1: as they're preparing for the Seahawks, and he said, if
Speaker 1: you see this in the game, goes straight for the ball.
Speaker 1: And when we talked to Butler after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you know, two days later, he said that they practiced
Speaker 1: this and he went right towards the ball, and it's
Speaker 1: not one of those where you knocked the ball down.
Speaker 1: He intercepted the ball and they ran out the clock
Speaker 1: and they won the Super Bowl. But I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: Belichick a lot of credit for that because he said,
Speaker 1: if you see it, you know exactly what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. You don't have time to read the quarterbacks eyes,
Speaker 1: you don't have time to look at the wider. It's
Speaker 1: just go right towards this spot. And it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's been a better defensive play
Speaker 1: because what's at stake a Super Bowl and you go
Speaker 1: back and you take inventory of Brady's super bowls, it
Speaker 1: could have gone either way, like very easily could have
Speaker 1: won two more against the Giants, or he could have
Speaker 1: two less. You know, Vin Terry, Malcolm Butler. Gotta have
Speaker 1: those moments where somebody helps you out, and Brady is
Speaker 1: certainly benefited from that. Yeah, point, there's a still pick
Speaker 1: when Butler's making the pick. Is it curse on the
Speaker 1: catch trying to make the catch? Who was it? I
Speaker 1: think it was. I think it was curse. They both
Speaker 1: have their hands right there like it looks like a
Speaker 1: jump ball, and then you see Butler snags it, pulls
Speaker 1: it and twists. It's fascinating. Curse is so surprised, like
Speaker 1: he's he's thinking like is this another teammate like he
Speaker 1: I don't think he can process this of what just
Speaker 1: happened because it was such a bang bang play, Is it, Curse? PAULI, Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah it is. And uh, Malcolm Butler actually has a
Speaker 1: little side business where he signs autographs for that play.
Speaker 1: Oh they have a picture of him with the ball
Speaker 1: and hey, I don't know what happened. And you know,
Speaker 1: after that Super Bowl in another Super Bowl with him,
Speaker 1: but against Philadelphia, but that moment and that stands, that'll
Speaker 1: stand the test at time. And to be there underneath
Speaker 1: the goal post because I think Seattle's winning. And then
Speaker 1: that's when they bring out the you know, the platform
Speaker 1: where you're gonna go up there and you're gonna hand
Speaker 1: out the trophy. I'm thinking, Okay, is Marshawn Lynch gonna
Speaker 1: score touchdown? Is who's going to be the MVP? Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll's going to be on the stand. Is Paul Allen
Speaker 1: the owner actually going to come down to the podium
Speaker 1: like all these things I'm thinking because I'm watching Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lynch right underneath the goal post, and I look and
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping my eye on more Shan Lynch. And
Speaker 1: then the ball is snapped and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Rusk gets ready to throw and I say, in real time, oh, bleep,
Speaker 1: because I'm thinking, you don't want to throw it over
Speaker 1: the middle because it could get tipped. That's the only
Speaker 1: thing I thought of. And then you see it, and
Speaker 1: I thought Malcolm Butler just knocked the ball down, and
Speaker 1: then I realized Malcolm Butler has the ball. And then
Speaker 1: there was chaos because the Seahawks, I remember Gront nearly
Speaker 1: got into a fight like it was wild in the
Speaker 1: end zone there and You're going, oh my god. And
Speaker 1: then I start to now go, okay, now I got Brady,
Speaker 1: is Malcolm Butler, the MVP, Robert Kraft, Belichick will be there?
Speaker 1: Who else is going to be up here? Like you
Speaker 1: start to do that because I've only got about a
Speaker 1: minute of game time before you're ready, and then you
Speaker 1: have to do these interviews. Yeampo the receiver is actually Riccardo.
Speaker 1: Lockett was on the goal line play, but to a
Speaker 1: couple of plays before had a great play. First had
Speaker 1: a great play, you know how you're saying, great plays
Speaker 1: get wiped away. But Butler tipped along thirty five yard
Speaker 1: pass and first caught it, picked up and kept running yep,
Speaker 1: And we would remember. That's almost like Julio Jones. You
Speaker 1: would remember there was an unbelievable catch because he's down
Speaker 1: on the ground and if tyree, if the Giants don't
Speaker 1: score that touchdown, then that would be one of those Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, well that was incredible. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: guy caught the ball with his helmet. There, Paul, and
Speaker 1: Wisconsin leads his song. Hi, Paul, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey? Hey, first time caller five to
Speaker 1: eleven three Bill, but you're there, Yeah, Hello, Hey Paul. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, DP, it's an honor talking
Speaker 1: to you. I grew up with you, Stuart Scott, Linda Zone,
Speaker 1: Chris Berman, all those guys. But hey, I just want
Speaker 1: to say that block with Jannis was. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it'll I don't know if it'll be as pivotable
Speaker 1: pivotable as Lebrons, but I think it was huge. I
Speaker 1: think it was big, big, big, because I think the
Speaker 1: Bucks got it. I I really do for a long time.
Speaker 1: I thought that the Suns had it, but I think
Speaker 1: it's the Bucks now. All right, well, thank you Paul.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that summary there, but yeah, it was a big,
Speaker 1: big play by Pivotal Pivot Spotle. It's all right, I've
Speaker 1: been making his way home stuff, and hopefully Paul can
Speaker 1: join us to recap game five of the Suns in
Speaker 1: the Bucks. Yes, Toime, I don't know how you do matter.
Speaker 1: Thank you to by accident at that moment. Thank you, Paul. Yes,
Speaker 1: somehow the twitterers have taken over this topic and expanded
Speaker 1: it beyond championships, tall playoffs and one being sent in
Speaker 1: that is greater as great as all of these, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tease it. It's so good that you're not
Speaker 1: thinking of Okay, now, are we factoring in a championship
Speaker 1: titles at stake? And no, it was not a championship series,
Speaker 1: but a title was determined by this play. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so it's it's a series before they got to the championship. Yes, wow,
Speaker 1: well that's it's a good one. And I don't think
Speaker 1: because it's not championship you probably hadn't thought of it.
Speaker 1: But of course, you know, the play very well. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I might overhyped parts of it. You always do. I know, well,
Speaker 1: I remember it completely different thoast. How about Larry Bird
Speaker 1: steals the inbounds pass against the Piston. That was that
Speaker 1: was pretty special. I thought it was Game seven. I
Speaker 1: guess it was. It was not Game seven, but the
Speaker 1: Celtics went on to win the series. Then they lost
Speaker 1: to the Lakers in the finals. So well, the play
Speaker 1: is great. You didn't think Bird would be able to
Speaker 1: do it. You're gonna lose it home and the call
Speaker 1: was great, and and it's Larry Bird in the Boston
Speaker 1: Garden a DJ and and having been there and covering
Speaker 1: that and then gone into the locker room. And then
Speaker 1: that's when you had the controversy after the Celtics won
Speaker 1: with Dennis Rodman and Isaiah Thomas, and uh, that's where
Speaker 1: you had the awkward moment where Bird has to like
Speaker 1: a hastily called press conference starting the NBA Finals where
Speaker 1: he has to say he's okay with Rodman and Isaiah
Speaker 1: saying that if if Bird was black, he'd be just
Speaker 1: another basketball player or whatever. Uh, just awkward everything about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mclovin a similar one that we're getting a lot of
Speaker 1: tweets about Havlizech stole the ball. That's all the call though,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at he just tipped it. That wasn't that.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a great defensive player. I mean he tipped
Speaker 1: the ball, but I don't know who got the ball,
Speaker 1: Like Sam Jones got it. The person who got the ball.
Speaker 1: You can tip the ball if nobody gets it. Or
Speaker 1: the you know, the opposition gets it. Then the ball,
Speaker 1: all right, he didn't really steal the ball, he tipped it,
Speaker 1: but it's Celtic lore. You know, it's Johnny Mose. Therefore
Speaker 1: it's a bigger deal. Yes, I mean, I guess if
Speaker 1: we're just taking to account the era, that's a hell
Speaker 1: of an athletic play. Yes, boy, here's one that I
Speaker 1: don't think history is gonna be great to people that
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be remembered locally. Brandon Graham strip
Speaker 1: sack of Brady in the Super Bowl. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much time was on the clock, but Brady had
Speaker 1: the ball and they were going to run down and
Speaker 1: try to beat the Eagles. Brandon Graham reached in strip
Speaker 1: sack Brady and basically ended that game. Um, how about
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Mayer? How good was that defensive play? Clutch? Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: like he would have been Bartman. Is that a defensive player?
Speaker 1: Offensive play? They counted the home runner? Right? Yeah, Well
Speaker 1: he had to play defense for an offensive moment and
Speaker 1: he had admit too, a typical two hundred yard, two
Speaker 1: hundred foot Derek Jeter home rinning Yankees style. But imagine
Speaker 1: you're the umpire. Who is it, Rich Garcia see the
Speaker 1: umpire where you're right there, like you're down the right
Speaker 1: field line and you somehow miss that call. By the way,
Speaker 1: and I'm hearing from Phoenix Suns fans about the so
Speaker 1: called egregious foul on Devin Booker. I think if that
Speaker 1: had been turned around, let's say Drew Holiday did that
Speaker 1: to Devin Booker. Do I think Drew Holiday gets called
Speaker 1: for a foul in The answer is yes, I do.
Speaker 1: You know the reps don't want to foul out star players,
Speaker 1: and Devin Booker had five fouls. It is it a
Speaker 1: an egregious act by him? No, it's not. But if
Speaker 1: Phoenix had won, that would be the story. That would
Speaker 1: be the story today that somehow Phoenix Suns got away
Speaker 1: with one Devon book Or got to stay in the game.
Speaker 1: And now I didn't do anything in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but part of that was due to foul trouble. And
Speaker 1: he was shooting mid range jumpers. I know, these are
Speaker 1: little small things that probably you go, yeah, who cares
Speaker 1: I do? Because he didn't. He wasn't taking threes, he
Speaker 1: was taking mid range jumpers. And this is what Chris
Speaker 1: Paul has been able to do his entire career. Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: that mid range jumper. It's weird how we don't defend
Speaker 1: the mid range jumper. You go, you're not getting to
Speaker 1: the hoop and you're not shooting the three. Oh you
Speaker 1: want to take a mid range jumper, Well, I'll take
Speaker 1: two right. It's it's like a wide receiver who's gonna
Speaker 1: get a like a seven yard catch, and you go, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have that all day. But then after a
Speaker 1: while you go, oh my god, how many catches does
Speaker 1: he have? And they keep moving the ball. Devin Booker
Speaker 1: was shooting mid range jumpers last night. Thirty eight of
Speaker 1: his forty two in the first three quarters. Ysked me club.
Speaker 1: But it's not like they're easy midrange jumpers. But it
Speaker 1: feels like the defense does relax a little bit. He floats.
Speaker 1: He floats a lot. Chris Paul, It always feels like
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, go ahead and take those little nine footers,
Speaker 1: Go ahead and take those, And then you look up
Speaker 1: and you go, oh my god, he's got X number
Speaker 1: of points here. Now it's the mid range jumper. There's
Speaker 1: a bias against the mid range jumper. Fritzie is sending
Speaker 1: me the note that it was rich Garcia. The right
Speaker 1: field umpire immediately ruled a home run that tied the game,
Speaker 1: despite the protest of the Orioles, and then Davy Johnson,
Speaker 1: the Oils manager, was later ejected from that Tony Tarasco
Speaker 1: was the right fielder. This is nineteen ninety six. The
Speaker 1: Yankees and Jets were trailing four to three in the
Speaker 1: bottom of the eighth fitting and then Derek Kjeta hit
Speaker 1: a deep flyball. Well, it's not a deep flyball to
Speaker 1: right field. It was flyball to right field. And then
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Mayer he reached over the fence, and he did
Speaker 1: reach over. He does I beholder? Yes? True. While baseball
Speaker 1: fans are permitted to catch and keep balls hid into
Speaker 1: the stands, major League Baseball rule Book states that spectator
Speaker 1: interference is to be called if a spectator reaches out
Speaker 1: of the stands or goes onto the playing field and
Speaker 1: touches a live ball. I think we could all agree
Speaker 1: that he didn't reach over. That doesn't the storyline, do No,
Speaker 1: it does not. H didn't Jeffrey Mayor play high school baseball?
Speaker 1: I got an autograph picture of that play. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I got it from Jeffrey Mayor. I don't
Speaker 1: even know where it is in the man cave, but
Speaker 1: that's one of those crazy plays. James in Virginia, James,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Good morning? Brella
Speaker 1: had Thursday. Man, what a great game last night, man,
Speaker 1: But I gotta say this man a book and doesn't
Speaker 1: getting bounce. But I don't know if the Bucks win,
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna go seven for sure, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Sons in five. That played by
Speaker 1: Jannis Man. It was a great play, but I still
Speaker 1: taking lebron James block and I think it's like the
Speaker 1: sixteen finals against if you're barely on that break, because
Speaker 1: that definitely sayed the game for them. Man, hands down,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest plays I've ever seen. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be exciting going forth. Oh and he had a
Speaker 1: great bounce pass, so that bounce passed for the three
Speaker 1: was beautiful, I think on the break. But hey, man,
Speaker 1: I'm taking off there. I can't wait to see what happens. Man.
Speaker 1: Y'all have a great day. Man, Thank you always great
Speaker 1: to hear from you. James. Nobody's more excited than James
Speaker 1: from Virginia. Nobody. Terry in New York joines, hy, Terry,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey, how are you doing the day? Good?
Speaker 1: Sir good Man like to let you know, man, when
Speaker 1: you guys are on vacation, my work week as long anyway,
Speaker 1: I Devin Booker man as good as he played last night,
Speaker 1: he nunified his game when he got that stupid frustration
Speaker 1: foul because they didn't get the out of bounds call
Speaker 1: on Tucker. Yeah, and it totally threw him off. Then, well,
Speaker 1: I remember when he had thirty eight the end of
Speaker 1: that court, I said, well, Devin Booker is going to
Speaker 1: get fifty, and he ended up with forty two. I
Speaker 1: believe it would have won by six or eight points
Speaker 1: if he didn't do that. Man. Yeah, well you know
Speaker 1: he had to come out of the game and thank you, Terry.
Speaker 1: And it makes you played differently. You played defensively because
Speaker 1: you don't want to get that that sixth foul, and
Speaker 1: even the foul that you had, it was a bad
Speaker 1: foul that that was not called. Uh, let me see,
Speaker 1: can we get a nap? I don't. I don't have
Speaker 1: time up against the break. We'll get some more phone
Speaker 1: calls coming up. Also, we'll talk to Trey man Cini.
Speaker 1: It's a great story, you know, the Orioles first baseman
Speaker 1: came back from cancer cancer surve in the home run
Speaker 1: Derby and finished runner up to Petlanza. Richard Jefferson from
Speaker 1: the Mothership. He was there when Lebron had that block,
Speaker 1: that rundown block on. Andrea Gudala and Richard will join
Speaker 1: us coming up a little bit later on as well.
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