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Speaker 2: From the listening audience may or may not know this

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Speaker 2: by now, they're listening to two people who, at least

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Speaker 2: at this point in their lives, and maybe this was

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Speaker 2: true all along.

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Speaker 3: We're not really.

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Speaker 2: or two about it. I'm told most of it happens

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Speaker 2: on Friday and Saturday nights, but this is Sunday night

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Speaker 2: and it's about to happen.

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Speaker 3: Here's what I mean. This series is on drugs.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna hear a prediction from me at all

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Speaker 2: at any point now or into the next three hours

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Speaker 2: as the Nuggets and Timberwolves get together, because I and

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Speaker 2: many others have already sounded too ridiculous. Too many times.

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Speaker 2: This series has been I've never done this before. I've

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Speaker 2: never seen this before.

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Speaker 3: Have you.

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Speaker 2: The series has been declared over twice, once in each direction,

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Speaker 2: yet both times it was categorically false. Here we go

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Speaker 2: into Game seven and I hear a lot of people going, well,

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Speaker 2: I just can't see Denver losing at home, and every

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Speaker 2: time I go, you haven't been able to see anything

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Speaker 2: that's happened in this series before it's happened.

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Speaker 3: Why are we going to start now? Good evening to you.

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Speaker 2: That's my way of saying, I got no idea about

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Speaker 3: Nina, and I'm right along with you. I I Hey, man,

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Speaker 3: your guess is as good as mine. I guess people

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Speaker 3: tune in to us for that, uh you know that

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Speaker 3: guest and the information, But I got nothing for you,

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Speaker 3: not this one. All right, show's over there.

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Speaker 2: It is really appreciate the interaction tonight was great. Want

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Speaker 2: to remember No, I just look, I have a rule.

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Speaker 2: We're radio hosts. Therefore we sound like idiots more often

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Speaker 2: than most because we talk more than most.

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Speaker 3: So that's fine.

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Speaker 2: I have no issue with being wrong, but I don't

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Speaker 2: want to sound like a fool more than twice in

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Speaker 3: That's my limit.

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Speaker 2: And when the Wolves were up to nothing in Denver,

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Speaker 2: this thing was over. And then Denver adjusted in one

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Speaker 2: three in a row, and this thing was over. And

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Speaker 2: if Minnesota had eked out Game six, I might still

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Speaker 2: feel a certain way about Denver, but they didn't eke

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Speaker 3: They won by.

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Speaker 2: Two thousand points in Game six, and so, sure, conventional

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Speaker 2: wisdom tells us Denver should win tonight. But how often

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Speaker 2: has conventional wisdom been right in this series?

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Speaker 3: Not very much. And you said that you've reached your quota,

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Speaker 3: you must not be married anymore. How'd you know?

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Speaker 2: Goodness, well, that's amazing.

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Speaker 3: That's the first thing that popped into my head. I

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Speaker 3: was just like, I wonder what that feels like. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: not bad. Sometimes we all got to answer to somebody.

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Speaker 2: great NFL stuff to get to tonight. The schedules are out,

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Speaker 2: there's great w NBA stuff to get to. We're overreacting

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Speaker 2: to someone setting a screen on Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get to all of this.

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Speaker 2: Plus, we had a Game seven earlier this afternoon that

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Speaker 2: some including Stephen A. Smith, might might find embarrassing. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get to all of that. But but let's

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Speaker 2: stay right here for a minute. We've established that you

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Speaker 2: and I don't feel like making a prediction right now,

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Speaker 2: But I tell you what I do feel like.

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Speaker 3: I feel like watching this one.

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Speaker 2: Because I think I think it's probably Ah, this might

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Speaker 2: if a Vegas insider an odds maker was looking at

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Speaker 2: this game tonight, fair or foul to say the winner

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Speaker 2: win the title.

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Speaker 3: H M Okay, yeah, what do you think? I yeah,

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Speaker 2: And do you like either of these teams whoever is

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Speaker 3: moved on from that O. I'm okay with it. I

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Speaker 3: love the energy of Anthony Edwards. I think he's amazing.

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Speaker 3: I think he's he loves this arena. I think he

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Speaker 3: fits this arena. I can't wait to see him in

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Speaker 3: this arena more and more every year. Yep. And I

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Speaker 3: love the IQ and the flat out dominance of Nikola Jokic.

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Speaker 3: It's nothing like it in the league. He has the

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Speaker 3: highest basketball IQ of any player in the league. And

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Speaker 3: it's evident, and it's a beautiful thing to watch for

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Speaker 3: someone who doesn't look like they're trying very hard to

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Speaker 3: the way, are the greatest athletes in the world look

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Speaker 2: he's wonderful. You're right, he's the highest IQ player in

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Speaker 2: the league. He's got multiple MVPs, he's already got a ring.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not one hundred percent sure. This is gonna

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Speaker 3: But you just said it.

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Speaker 2: He literally looks like he doesn't care and if you

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Speaker 2: I can't necessarily quantify why that's a problem.

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Speaker 3: I just know it's not what we're used to.

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and today you just brought up

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Speaker 2: I don't know that he'll have any career anywhere near

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Speaker 2: Fans obviously eat it up to the point where we're

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Speaker 3: How we doing? If the face of the league is.

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Speaker 2: Like, I really just work here, and that's the vibe

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Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what it is. I think that

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Speaker 3: you may not hear it from him like a Jordan

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Speaker 3: But if you turn on a game, if you didn't

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Speaker 3: that's that's something different. That's special. So the way he

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Speaker 3: can control the game from a position that the lead

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Speaker 3: He's the best rebounder, the best score, the best assist,

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Speaker 3: like all of the things you want your general, your

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Speaker 3: And you know, the form of seven foot two ninety

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Speaker 3: as you know, that's not the case.

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Speaker 2: Fair point, You don't do this if you're not working

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Speaker 3: You can't. You can't. In that package, you can't.

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Speaker 2: You certainly cannot. So I'm gonna agree with you there.

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Speaker 2: But the packaging is the packaging.

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Speaker 3: The packaging is it? You do you get have the

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Speaker 2: If you just mentioned your wife, if you get a

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Speaker 3: For it, paper bag, what's she gonna say? These are

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Speaker 3: would recommend that as a test, right, because it's it's

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Speaker 2: Well, but in entertainment, you're you're you're an entertainer. You're

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Speaker 3: Yes, like the packaging, the packaging, there is a lot.

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Speaker 3: It matters. It's a lot, right, it matters. You got

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Speaker 3: I get it, and I understand.

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Speaker 2: When right when Simon is sitting there in the old

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Speaker 3: But look look looking at the young European players around

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Speaker 3: Nicoleakic that now is becoming a thing. That's that's right.

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Speaker 3: Remember that. Oh he's the next MJ. Oh, he's the

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Speaker 3: that's the heck of a compliment for Young It's a

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to disagree with that, but yeah, the

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Speaker 2: next MJ, the next Kobe, and the next Nicola.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, that's a little bit of a different ring to it.

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Speaker 3: Does it does? Know?

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Speaker 2: You're like, all your points are completely fair. The game

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Speaker 2: because they do want to get to the Anthony Edwards.

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Speaker 2: He said something before the game tonight that I think

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Speaker 2: All right, we're Livingthetirack dot com studios. Mark Willardy from

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Speaker 2: salam Sometimes that Game seven vibe like you going up

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Speaker 2: against the home energy. It can get away from you quickly.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota has at least weathered that. We're inside of four

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Speaker 2: first quarter, it's twelve to twelve. That tells the whole story.

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Speaker 2: They are right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those in your mind as an athlete,

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Speaker 3: It'll just be flowing and there'll be ebbs and flows,

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Speaker 3: they'll be you know, runs and stops. But that's what

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Speaker 3: makes for a good game seven unlike what we had earlier.

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Speaker 2: Hey hey, yeah exactly, although sometimes sometimes it doesn't, you know,

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Speaker 2: like I hear what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: But if the thing is still close in the.

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Speaker 2: Fourth quarter, then it just it becomes unbelievably tight. The

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Speaker 3: And you can see it now.

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Speaker 2: Granted this is only the conference semi finals, but the

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Speaker 2: that's what it was like has that They're just gonna

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Speaker 3: And then that's the end of the game.

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Speaker 3: It's funny we talk about that because sorry about my voices.

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Speaker 3: Was two things, Uh, for whatever reason, I want with

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm like, you can't be an idiot in Vegas,

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Speaker 3: We are in our first you're fifty, Well happens if

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Speaker 2: Okay, wait a minute, did you fly back this morning

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Speaker 3: Drove to the game? Oh and YouTube playoff, must win

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Speaker 3: playoff game? Did you win? So I understand when we're

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Speaker 3: talking about the tightness close game. It's the sixth inning, right,

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Speaker 3: a second, bottom of the seventh, bottom of the seventh. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to know the faces on these nine

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Speaker 3: the NBA players. Oh god, yeah. The moment is the moment,

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Speaker 3: They got it. We're doing breathing exercises as they're out

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Speaker 3: We come out man one two three boom, game over blouses,

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Speaker 2: So well first, okay, so first off, congratulations, thank you

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Speaker 3: And you're like, it's little leak, but this is. But

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Speaker 2: They don't know in their sphere there's nothing bigger. There's

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Speaker 2: about this flight though. Oh goodness, Grace. Wait so wait

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Speaker 2: a minute, man, I mean, but you're blaming your brother.

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Speaker 3: I am up though, But you set this up. No

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Speaker 3: It doesn't work like that. What do you mean? We

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Speaker 3: We're gonna listen to eat and we're gonna go here

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Speaker 2: They're the three best friends that anyone could ever have.

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Speaker 2: why don't you just break off? I know, I know

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Speaker 3: No, your family. You gotta protect your people. Are we

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Speaker 3: but you but you sound sexy? Gossh you sound smoky

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Speaker 2: When I hear when I hear vocal tones like that,

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Speaker 3: The only person you can think about sexy undertones.

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Speaker 2: Right, like like the smoky vibe of a bottom of

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Speaker 3: Hey is right, that's kind of that's my thing.

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Speaker 5: Hi, Steve, Hello, I don't know about the word smoky,

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Speaker 5: but hello, you're right about the jitters for this game seven,

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Speaker 5: Minnesota is visiting Denver to finish the NBA second Round

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Speaker 5: of the playoffs tonight. In the first six minutes, there

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Speaker 5: were six baskets combined, six of twenty four from the floor.

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Speaker 5: They've now finished the first quarter. It's the Nuggets, two

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Speaker 5: Indiana Pacers today. They had the best offense regular season,

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Speaker 5: a Game seven at the two seed Nicks, one thirty

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Speaker 3: Nothing against them.

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Speaker 2: There's never been anything against the players, certainly, never anything

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Speaker 5: I say the White Sox lost again. Yankees beat the

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Speaker 5: White Sox seven to two. The White Sox here we

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Speaker 5: are past mid May. They've won four road games this year,

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Speaker 5: four and nineteen in the away games, and the Red

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Speaker 5: Sox won at Saint Louis eleven to three. Programming note

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Speaker 5: on FS one, NASCAR's All Star Race is just underway.

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Speaker 5: In fact, there's already a caution on lap three out

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Speaker 5: of the two hundred scheduled. And yes, we did get

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Speaker 5: some golf news today. It's one to day for Xander Schaffley.

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Speaker 5: Wasn't he the guy that would always get named you know,

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Speaker 5: the best golfer that's never won a Major's probably well,

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Speaker 5: he's won a major enough. His first major victory comes

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Speaker 5: at Vauhalla Golf Club. It's the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky,

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Speaker 5: and he wins it by one stroke over Bryson de'shambo.

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Speaker 5: And he wins it with the lowest seventy two hole

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Speaker 5: scoring total in major championship history to sixty three, just

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Speaker 5: for the record, and yeah, lowest to par as well.

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Speaker 5: In fact, I was seeing I mentioned this on last

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Speaker 5: night's show. Just through the first couple rounds this weekend,

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Speaker 5: there there were so many great scores. Through two rounds

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Speaker 5: that were seventy eight players under par, the most ever

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Speaker 5: in the history of any major, and heading into today

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Speaker 5: there were fifteen players already double digits under par, over

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Speaker 5: twice as many as ever.

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Speaker 3: Did you see anything about this?

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Speaker 2: Like this thing played like a like a Palm Springs

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Speaker 2: weekend PGA Tour stop. Like you're right, I'm looking at

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Speaker 2: the final leaderboard now seventy two players broke par.

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Speaker 3: What the hell is that? That's not a major championship.

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Speaker 5: It's I don't know. It's not the US Open, that's

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Speaker 5: for sure. So PGA Championship victory for Saffley, and congratulations.

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Speaker 5: I mean, everybody was playing the same course. I certainly

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Speaker 5: don't mean to take away anything, but I heard, for example,

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Speaker 5: after CBS left the airways yesterday, they had a local

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Speaker 5: sports show in LA and they were talking golf heavily,

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Speaker 5: and the analyst, a former player, was talking about Tiger Woods,

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Speaker 5: and he actually started a paragraph with, well, it's a

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Speaker 5: tough course.

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Speaker 6: Tough course. Have you not been watching golf this weekend?

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Speaker 6: Tiger was seven over par for two rounds. Again, through

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Speaker 6: two rounds, seventy eight players were under par, the most

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Speaker 6: ever in the history of any major.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, Shaffley from San Diego State and ASTEC wins a

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Speaker 5: major everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, Noaners, Xander's a hal of a player. Xander's

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Speaker 2: a hell of a Player's got a six. Fife had

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Speaker 2: a sixty five on the card. Yeah, good dude, congrats

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Speaker 2: to him. Oh and Steve, before you go, I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: of something tonight that I bet you'll remember off the

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Speaker 2: top of your head. Oh, last day of the NBA

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Speaker 2: regular season. The jockeying for seeding in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Denver could have been the one seed.

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Speaker 2: Right right, But they lose and SODA's Minnesota on their

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Speaker 2: home floor, blown out by the Phoenix Suns. Played a

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Speaker 2: full complement of starters, thirty five minutes that night for

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards, twenty nine minutes for Karl Anthony Towns, and

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Speaker 2: thirty two for Rudy Gobert, blown out by the Phoenix Suns.

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Speaker 2: That result, if it goes the other way, correct me

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Speaker 2: if I'm wrong. They're the one seed and this game

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Speaker 2: to night's being played on their floor.

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Speaker 5: It's that right, just last night. Now, I think Denver

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Speaker 5: would have had a couple of things have to happen,

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Speaker 5: not just their win on the last day to get

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Speaker 5: the one seed, but with Dallas advancing last night. It

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Speaker 5: was pointed out by ap that it was a year

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Speaker 5: ago at the end of the regular season. Dallas tanked

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Speaker 5: at the end, even though they had a chance for

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Speaker 5: the playing because they wanted to keep the draft choice,

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Speaker 5: and the draft choice wound up being Derek Lively, who

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Speaker 5: at fifteen rebounds off the bench yesterday, and the draft

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Speaker 5: choice came from the team they beat yesterday, Oklahoma City Odd.

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Speaker 3: So tanking works, is what you're saying.

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Speaker 5: I'm saying tanking has certainly worked in NBA history.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 5: Can you imagine if Cleveland had won one or two

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Speaker 5: games the year before they drafted Lebron and played themselves

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Speaker 5: out of that number one pack, they'd still be the

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Speaker 5: Calves that we knew and loved for decades.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes they would.

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Speaker 2: Well, they'll always have Craig Elow, so they would have

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Speaker 2: still had that. But anyway, Okay, interesting stuff. Steve, thank

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Speaker 2: you as always talked to you. Next hour, the smoky

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Speaker 2: sounds of Steve de seg only thank you only to

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Speaker 2: be found in one place, and it's Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 2: ephrom Just here.

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Speaker 3: Is this what it's?

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Speaker 2: Is this what your AirPod sounded like like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: eleven hours ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it sounded like on your way to the airport.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I was. He was sitting there with

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Speaker 3: his eyes closed, and I said, oh no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: you don't get to close your eyes on the right

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Speaker 3: to the airport. No no, no no, you're going to

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Speaker 3: stay up and you're going to be in this with me.

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Speaker 3: I'm impressed by you. Oh man, hey, wait a minute,

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Speaker 3: when was the little league game. It was what time

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Speaker 3: this morning? At eleven o'clock, so it was over what one? No,

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Speaker 3: we went into extra innings, I know, and a half

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Speaker 3: hours had right and then so the team we play

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Speaker 3: next played after us. One of the two teams had

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Speaker 3: a scout, so we did a little scouting.

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Speaker 2: I thought, I thought, you know, maybe you could take

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Speaker 2: a nap.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Knicks game was also on, and I have

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Speaker 3: a job to talk about said game. You do, so,

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Speaker 3: uh don't know when any of that was gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: So here we are. I'm impressed. I'm very very impressed.

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Speaker 2: We are live in the Tirak dot com studios, and

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Speaker 2: a bright eyed and bushy tailed Ephram Salam is here,

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Speaker 2: and a very well rested Mark Willard is also here.

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Speaker 2: And we have more to say about Anthony Edwards and

543
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 2: Nicola Jokicic as this game continues to unfold. Nuggets have

544
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Speaker 2: opened up an eleven point lead here in the second quarter,

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Speaker 2: so we'll keep hacking it out right here on Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Live Okay Live ty Rak dot Com Studios, Mark Willand

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Speaker 2: and Barry White with you on Fox Sports Radio. We

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Speaker 2: got some we got some Caitlin Clark stuff for you

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Speaker 2: here at the top of the oltun Oh yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: But Anthony Edwards is becoming a more and more interesting

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Speaker 2: television character as well. And by the way, he is

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Speaker 2: one for six with two points so far in this

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Speaker 2: basketball game Denver by nine in.

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Speaker 3: The second quarter. Did you catch his comments earlier when

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Speaker 3: they asked him, like.

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Speaker 2: Mike Conley, I guess is zero for four in game

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Speaker 2: seven's in his career.

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Speaker 3: And so they asked Anthony.

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Speaker 2: They said, you guys want to win this one for Mike,

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Speaker 2: and Anthony goes, I'd like to win it for me.

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Speaker 2: He's like, when Mike lost those four to seven games,

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Speaker 2: I wasn't on the team. Anthony is starting to answer

567
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Speaker 2: questions and he's welcoming this. He's starting to answer questions

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Speaker 2: as if he is or wants to be the next

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Speaker 2: big thing. He has brought up Michael Jordan's name in

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Speaker 2: interviews recently, and I wonder how that grabs people. He's

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Speaker 2: clearly a phenomenal player. You and I have talked even

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Speaker 2: recently about how this guy he's got a chance as

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Speaker 2: far as a guard or a wing player, he's got

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Speaker 2: a chance to maybe be the.

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Speaker 3: Next big thing.

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Speaker 2: But ah, I always struggle when the words come first,

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Speaker 2: because it's not that I have an issue with it.

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Speaker 2: I think it's great, it's wonderful content do it, tell

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Speaker 2: us who you are, say it, it's great. I just

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Speaker 2: think sometimes it makes it a little harder on people.

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking of Jason Tatum of the Boston Celtics going

582
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Speaker 2: into some of the major series situations He's gone into

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Speaker 2: and openly saying I'm channeling Kobe for this game, and.

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Speaker 3: Then you go out and lay an a. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's like that didn't work.

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Speaker 2: So you know, got a lot of eyes on him tonight,

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Speaker 2: that's for sure, got a lot of eyes the world.

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Speaker 2: I wonder though, you know, I like, I'm always reminded

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Speaker 2: I won't I won't share who the player was. But

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Speaker 2: I had a conversation once upon a time with agent

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Speaker 2: Lee Steinberg, and he was there was a player that

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Speaker 2: he had brought through the draft, and then that.

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Speaker 3: Player in Lee broke up and.

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Speaker 2: Lee just kind of off air conversation was like the

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Speaker 2: player wanted to put the cart before the horse. The

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Speaker 2: player wanted ad campaigns, the player wanted to talk a lot.

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Speaker 3: The player wanted to be in the media.

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Speaker 2: And I kept suggesting to the player that why don't

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Speaker 2: we go do football first and and and then then

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Speaker 2: we can when that goes well, then we can do media.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Sometimes, especially I mean with the access that people

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Speaker 3: have now, sometimes you can put the cart before the horse. Right,

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Speaker 3: Being great and having something to say and having something

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Speaker 3: people you know, want to hear comes with the work first. Now, look,

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Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards has been putting in work, for sure. He

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Speaker 3: just in Minnesota. I gotta keep trying to tell you, right, like,

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Speaker 3: it's just what it is. But that can't be your

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Speaker 3: catch all. It's not my catch all. But what I'm

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Speaker 3: saying is Minnesota doesn't get a lot of national games. Right.

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Speaker 3: So case in point, watching the Orlando Magic Cleveland series,

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Speaker 3: right when you watch the Orlando Magic play and I

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Speaker 3: watched a lot of basketball, were you familiar and locked

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Speaker 3: in on that team that roster? What was going like

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Speaker 3: I was? I really sat there and found myself going like, oh, snap,

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Speaker 3: hum hmm, this player is really good this play. Oh

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Speaker 3: I was surprised. And this is someone who's in the

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Speaker 3: sports business. So when I'm talking about that, I'm not Look,

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Speaker 3: I'm just letting you know in terms of that's why

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Speaker 3: the playoffs are so important because everybody's watching and people

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Speaker 3: barely watched that series because it was mostly on NBA TV.

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Speaker 3: But that's the point. Look at those two markets, Orlando Cleveland, right,

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Speaker 3: they would come on the same time, the tn T

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Speaker 3: game would come, the early game would come on. But

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Speaker 3: on NBA T that's all I'm talking. They would never

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Speaker 3: put the Lakers the Celtics or they would never put

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Speaker 3: them on like that. That's what I mean by that.

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Speaker 3: And it's it's a tangible it's a real thing, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: Like Paulo ben Benero is a monster. He's a monster.

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Speaker 3: He can go get it. And most people, most people

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Speaker 3: don't know that because they're stuck on regional television or

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Speaker 3: NBA TV. Right, That's that's I get. That's all the

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Speaker 3: side of it. Yeah, I get I get that side

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Speaker 3: of it. I I get that side of it.

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Speaker 2: I just mean even with like I guess, okay, I'll

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Speaker 2: ask it as a question, are you saying that Anthony

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Speaker 2: is now by design kind of going over the top

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Speaker 2: because he's in Minnesota.

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Speaker 3: No, I think people are even with them, jocking all

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Speaker 3: year for first or second or third this third seed.

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Speaker 3: Nobody was talking about it, sure, not sure, Sure, No

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Speaker 3: one believed it. Nobody. They were just like, all right, no, cool,

642
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 3: what that's what I mean by something like that? Right,

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00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 3: Because the fact of the matter is if Anthony Edwards

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Speaker 3: had come to the Knicks or Boston or LA or

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Speaker 3: even Chicago from the outset, that more people would be

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Speaker 3: enthralled and just how good this young man is.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you completely, although I still think I

648
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 2: think it can be done.

649
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta be, you got like you gotta mean him,

650
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 3: duncan you gotta be in San Antonio. Well, you got

651
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 3: to do it in games like tonight. Yeah, this is

652
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 3: this is your stage. You're absolutely right, this is your stage.

653
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 2: Right now, Jamal and Jamal Murray is out playing him significantly.

654
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but this takes us back to Jamal Murray's

655
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 3: younger days in him and Spider were going at it

656
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 3: in the bubble. Remember that Dovin mention you to put

657
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 3: those two guys on the map. Now, Jamal got hurt

658
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 3: and couldn't follow up on that yet, but now we're

659
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 3: seeing a different guy. All right.

660
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 2: We'll get to the Caitlin Clark stuff here in just

661
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 2: a second on Fox Sports Radio. Who social media is

662
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: alive in the Game seven, that is for sure, and

663
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: so the takes are flying and we'll follow along as

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Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets have the early advantage first half against

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Timberwolves.

666
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Speaker 3: That and much more.

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673
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Speaker 2: But you got to help me with something Caitlin Clark related.

674
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 2: I am very clearly on one side of the fence

675
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 2: when it comes to the conversation around this young budding star,

676
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 2: and you and I have had the talk already. I

677
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 2: get the hurt feelings, I get all of the different

678
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 2: pieces to this puzzle, and people definitely have points. Is

679
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 2: it fair that Caitlin has been dubbed the face when

680
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: she hasn't even played a game. Is there jealousy, There

681
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: is there a race factor. I get all of it,

682
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 2: and it's acknowledged. I also know, though, that when it

683
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 2: comes to the established players in the w n b A,

684
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: it is my opinion that they are kicking themselves in

685
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 2: the shin if if they try to keep her and

686
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: her stardom at bay, because, as I said to you,

687
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 2: I think just last week, she has the opportunity to

688
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 2: be the.

689
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 3: W NBA's Tiger Woods.

690
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 2: She has the opportunity to change everyone's bank account. So

691
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 2: let her. That's that's number one. And cow Hurt had

692
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 2: an interesting take on that that I want to sort

693
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 2: of roll around with you on that one. However, I

694
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: brought up social media for this reason. Have you seen

695
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: the the really hard screen she took the other night?

696
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, who was that? Superb? Who said? Who said

697
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 3: the screen that was? I actually, I'm not even straight honest,

698
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'm not sure was it super Bird? Okay?

699
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 3: So it's been captured on social media and used as

700
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,760
Speaker 3: an example of like ooh.

701
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 2: WNBA is like right, it's almost like they got a

702
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 2: bounty on on her. They're they're look at the way

703
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 2: they're shoving her around. I'm like, that was a screen.

704
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 2: It was a completely legal screen. There was absolutely nothing

705
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 2: vicious which with it whatsoever. So that's something else I'm

706
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 2: watching out for. There is controversy around Caitlin Clark, and

707
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 2: when there's controversy surrounding something.

708
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 3: People like to make it even bigger than it is.

709
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 2: And so like the fact that she might have hard

710
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 2: moments as a rookie, Duh, that's sports.

711
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,919
Speaker 3: Brianna Stewart, who was at the screen, that's right, thank

712
00:43:52,920 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 3: you there, Brianna Stewart. Look, man, professional basketball is completely

713
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 3: are professional sports are completely different than collegiate sports. When

714
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 3: you remember when Alonso Ball got drafted to the Lakers

715
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 3: and all the hype was around him, the ball, the

716
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 3: you know big ball of brand Dad on TV the

717
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 3: whole time, and you know, guys were like, I remember

718
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 3: that first game. I can't remember who they were playing,

719
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 3: but Pat Beverly was on that team and he told

720
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 3: him right, I mean he laid into him and he

721
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 3: was like, your dad got you this one, right, Like

722
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 3: these professional athletes are coming for your neck, okay, because

723
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 3: you're stepping into their world. Now. Yeah, you will earn

724
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 3: your stripes and you will become one of them. She's

725
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 3: a tremendous player. She's too great to not continue to

726
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 3: be great. It's a learning process and an adjustment. But

727
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 3: I get the point of y'all tripping trying to make

728
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 3: it out to be personal or whatever that is. It's

729
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 3: crazy because she's literally one of the reasons why you know,

730
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 3: you guys are now chartered flight attention all of these things.

731
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 3: And so you know, I don't want to say it's

732
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 3: a bounty or is it anything like that, like and granted, look,

733
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 3: they're gonna make her own earn her stripe, just like

734
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 3: everybody else had to earn her. Sure, I get it,

735
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 3: but yeah, you can tell just by watching they like, yeah,

736
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 3: it ain't gonna be you. And that's okay because she's

737
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 3: got to learn how to fight and push through that.

738
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 3: She's not on a very good team. There's that. And

739
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 3: we talked about this. This is the same team that

740
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 3: had the number one pick in the draft last year.

741
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 3: So she's now on two number one draft picks playing together.

742
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 3: And they were rivals in college as well, Iowa eliminating

743
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 3: South Carolina and what was at the final four I

744
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 3: believe the year before last, And so you're watching I

745
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 3: said this, I said, is the hype going to survive

746
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 3: a couple of twelve point games, high turnover games and

747
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 3: the team being three and twelve when you look up?

748
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 3: Is the hype going to survive that? And that's a

749
00:46:54,840 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 3: difficult thing to do unless she's going what Jordan was

750
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 3: doing is remember what Jordan came into the league was doing. Sure,

751
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 3: everybody was like, oh, I mean they're not winning, but

752
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 3: goodness gracious, so it's got it's too much pressure on

753
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 3: her to to try to carry the league. And now

754
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 3: the players will be like, well, she's not carrying the league.

755
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: We understand that, ladies, We're not. We're just saying in

756
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 3: terms of the notoriety she shined on in TAA basketball

757
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 3: and now the WNBA, which is what was needed because

758
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 3: the world needs to see how talented you guys are

759
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: in the masses like we do for men's sports. That

760
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 3: makes sense, like it's it's one hundred percent.

761
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 2: And what I would I encourage the entire WNBA to do.

762
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 2: And I you're right, you can't do this all the

763
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 2: way down at the player level. The players are going

764
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 2: to play and this is the way athletes are. They're

765
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: going to make people earn it. They're competitive, They're going

766
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 2: to try to win. I'm not asking anyone to do

767
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,240
Speaker 2: anything other than that, but the league as a whole,

768
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: and this does go even to the media covering it.

769
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 3: You have to cheat a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I mean, in my opinion, you do, and it's not

771
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 2: really cheating, but like create landing spots, think of all

772
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 2: the people out there who have achieved major fame and

773
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: think about how they got started.

774
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 3: How did they first get their name out there.

775
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: I'm not going to bring any specific people up because

776
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 2: I don't want to get everyone's feathers all ruffled, but

777
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 2: think hard. Some of the biggest names out there go

778
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: even beyond sports, and how did you first hear about

779
00:48:53,719 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 2: their name? And the likelihood is is that doesn't matter

780
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,760
Speaker 2: anymore now, even if it was not for the most

781
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 2: savory reasons. And so what I'm saying about that is

782
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 2: is if I'm running the w NBA lean into this.

783
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 2: That's what Cowherd's point was earlier this week when he

784
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 2: said this was dumb to give Caitlin Clark's team. Her

785
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 2: first four games of her career are against two of

786
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 2: the absolute best teams in the league who play the

787
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 2: hardest defense.

788
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:31,240
Speaker 3: Why would you do that? Put a cream puff out there.

789
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 2: Look at the way college basketball and college football teams

790
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 2: their schedule.

791
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 3: That I'm sure the ladies will take offense. I don't

792
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 3: believe that any of them think they're cream buffs. You

793
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. No, it's not.

794
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 2: But they're they're they're the players, They're not the ones

795
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 2: making the schedule.

796
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 3: Got you do you know what I mean?

797
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 2: The NFL is not going to have their Thursday night

798
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,879
Speaker 2: opener with the Chiefs hosting it, and they're gonna be like, well,

799
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna give the Chiefs the Tennessee Titans.

800
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,360
Speaker 3: Why would you do that?

801
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 2: They play rock fight football and they're not interesting.

802
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 3: No glitz it up, glamour it up.

803
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 2: Give us something that's gonna get everybody all excited about

804
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 2: the season, because that's entertainment. So, whether that's the perfect

805
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 2: example or not, like the first four games of her schedule,

806
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 2: the whole thing. And again, I'm not even asking any

807
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 2: media member to not be real, be real with your opinion,

808
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:40,440
Speaker 2: that's fine. But anything that sounds like jealousy, anything that

809
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:44,719
Speaker 2: sounds like, well, we're gonna shove her all over the

810
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 2: place until she's you know, got bruises everywhere, and then

811
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 2: we'll see how she reacts.

812
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 3: What are you doing?

813
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:55,919
Speaker 2: This isn't like, this isn't about fairness, This isn't about

814
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 2: any of the things that you want it to be.

815
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 3: This is about your league. It's entertainment.

816
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 2: Make it that and UH and sometimes you have to

817
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 2: take a back seat to UH to get an effective

818
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: ride somewhere.

819
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's definitely. I was watching my brother and

820
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 3: I were having this conversation. We were like, he flat.

821
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 3: I was like, man, they tripping right, like, this is

822
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:30,479
Speaker 3: not and I will We did also notice that it's

823
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 3: also the scheme she's in as well, so all of

824
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 3: that plays into it. She's a ball dominant guard. That's

825
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 3: what she was in college, right, She's a ball dominant guard.

826
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 3: Now if she's at a place where that's not conducive

827
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 3: for they have something else that they want to do

828
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 3: that doesn't fit into you know, her willhouse and how

829
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 3: special she is. You got to remember this is not

830
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 3: a very good team. So I equate it to a

831
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 3: team drafting a quarterback and not developing or designing an

832
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 3: offense that accentuates that quarterback's abilities. If you have a

833
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 3: dual threat quarterback and you have an offense just purely

834
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 3: effective with a pocket passer and you refuse and is

835
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 3: this out used to be? You refuse to make concessions

836
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 3: to take advantage of the talent that you drafted first,

837
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 3: then that's an ego thing. Kyle Shanahan, Mike Shanahan did

838
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 3: it in Washington when they drafted RG three. The read

839
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 3: option or any of that was never in the Shanahan playbook.

840
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 3: I played a lot of years in that offense, and

841
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 3: knowing the talent that they they had an RG three,

842
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 3: they you know, at a time where this is not

843
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,760
Speaker 3: what happened. They threw all of that out and designed

844
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 3: an offense around the type of quarterback they had got it.

845
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 3: And that's how you get the best out of that player.

846
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 3: Don't bring a super beyond talented player in and that's

847
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 3: what Caitlyn Clark is and relegate her to trying to

848
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 3: fit in a system that may not be conducive to

849
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 3: her talent. Now we've seen her run the show, get

850
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 3: everybody involved, score point like we've seen her do her

851
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 3: think right, that's the one thing Cleveland didn't do. They

852
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 3: didn't get Lebron and was like, Okay, well, look, Lebron,

853
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 3: look the point guard, bring the ball up the court.

854
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 3: You not the point guard, So give it to the

855
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 3: point guard. Want you to go at the high poles.

856
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 3: I want you to set the screen. They didn't do that.

857
00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 3: They just gave a dude the ball and was like,

858
00:53:59,160 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 3: hey man, let's go.

859
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 2: Kid.

860
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 3: What we got came out against the Kings twenty five,

861
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 3: eight and eight or something like that as a kid.

862
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 3: So sometimes coaches gms, they just got to get out

863
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 3: of the way and let the talent be the talent.

864
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 2: Listening to you say that brings one specific NFL team

865
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 2: to mind. I wasn't even thinking of this until just

866
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 2: listening to you talk about that, And there's one specific

867
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 2: NFL team in mind that I think this year is

868
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 2: going into an absolutely critical season for the parties in place,

869
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 2: and I want to ask you how you would play

870
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 2: out that season if you were that coach and that quarterback.

871
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 2: I'll tell you who we're talking about in just a

872
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 2: second with Ebram Salama, Mark Willard.

873
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 3: It's Fox Sports Radio.

874
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 2: Okay, we're live tyrack dot Com Studios, second half on

875
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 2: away in Denver, Denver, up by seventeen already, come on.

876
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 3: Make it a good game. I wouldn't love to see one.

877
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 2: Minnesota thirty eight points in the third quarter. Get out

878
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 2: of here anyway, we'll see.

879
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 3: Can I share something with you? Of course? Do you

880
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 3: have to do your read? You want to do your

881
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 3: read first, and then I share.

882
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,839
Speaker 2: Didn't already do it? I think I already did it. Okay,

883
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 2: I can't even remember what I said twenty two seconds ago.

884
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 2: I think I already did it. But Retireck dot Com

885
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 2: Studios did it again. They had double plug. So I've

886
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 2: been in this business over twenty five years. I've been

887
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 2: doing it for a long time, and something happened to me.

888
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 2: It's happening to me right now that's never happened before.

889
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 2: Told them me paint a picture.

890
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 3: I'm sitting in my chair in the studios, you know where,

891
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 3: I got all the TVs on, watching the game, set

892
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 3: my leg up on the on the on the table

893
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 3: right in here by myself. I got the it's off.

894
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 3: I create a mood when I'm on the air, goes

895
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 3: with the timber of the voice. You know what I'm yelling,

896
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:15,839
Speaker 3: timber go ahead. So I'm sitting in here, Minnesota down

897
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 3: by twenty now, and I'm like, oh wait, a minute

898
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 3: and not pop up. I jump up, and I have

899
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 3: a Charlie horse. Have you ever you caught in the

900
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 3: Charlie horse before? Of course yes. So all through the break,

901
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh god, don't move, don't just nope. I

902
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 3: got some water here, I'm drinking the water. I'm like, no, no, no, no,

903
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 3: just breathe and let it go. Oh, don't sit down, don't,

904
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,959
Speaker 3: can't sit down, it's gonna lock up again. Bend over

905
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,840
Speaker 3: and just slightly bend and try to touch your toes

906
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 3: and just breathing and take your time. Well, it's taken

907
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 3: a little longer than I anticipated. Yeah, man, let me

908
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 3: mm hmm. Okay, if you could see this now, I'm

909
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 3: hunched over the right now. Oh, I'm just lightly stretching. Okay, look,

910
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stand up. I'mt me see if I'm gonna

911
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 3: stand all away, I'm to stand up. Okay, we're good.

912
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: I mean, from everybody listening, especially if they've listened to

913
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 2: the majority of the show tonight, ooh no, not ready yet. Yeah,

914
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 2: they're all sitting there saying the same thing. I know

915
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,600
Speaker 2: what I'm thinking. You know, did we decide that you're

916
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 2: forty eight years old?

917
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 3: Is that right?

918
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 7: Yes, man, okay, and we'll be next month, and okay,

919
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 7: not to be forty eight years old, and just a

920
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 7: couple of resume items if I may thirteen years of

921
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 7: NFL football.

922
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, correct, Yes, I know you're not at playing weight,

923
00:57:55,400 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 3: but you remain a large man. Yes, yes, height, and

924
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 3: wait please if you if your ego will allow, Yeah,

925
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 3: that's so.

926
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 2: And then did I hear correctly that you have not

927
00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 2: slept since the calendar date of Friday?

928
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 3: Is that right? Yes? Okay.

929
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 2: In addition to an all night bender in Vegas, we

930
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 2: also have spent two times in the last three days

931
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 2: on a plane flight all tucked in.

932
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 3: Under your little cabin there, and.

933
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 2: A stressful trip to the youth ballpark. All right, So

934
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 2: let's just put all that into our little bucket and

935
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 2: shake it up and pour it out on the floor.

936
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 2: And I am shocked that it's taken this law for

937
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 2: your body to say, you know.

938
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 3: No, no, we're not doing this. And the crazy I

939
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 3: don't like, so I don't even drink like, I don't

940
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 3: drink alcohol, never have.

941
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 2: Like when when you're rolling in the casino, what is

942
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 2: it You're just hitting sparkling waters?

943
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 3: What are you doing? You know, I get some water,

944
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 3: I if I need a little cake bright, you know,

945
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 3: but it's I don't drink. I don't drink alcohol. I

946
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 3: never have. So it's not even like, oh, you know, no,

947
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 3: it's my body saying, hey, you fool, that's right, that's right.

948
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 3: If you're not going to do it, we're going to

949
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 3: make you do it. What's the what's the line from

950
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 3: the song?

951
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 2: Uh, my mind is saying no, but my body's saying yes.

952
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 2: You're the other way around telling me your mind is

953
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 2: mind saying sitting back down.

954
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 3: We've got bodies saying no, I think we got past it. No, okay,

955
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 3: good and just you know, so you know, you know

956
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 3: we have the we have the windows here and you know,

957
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 3: you know, crew can look in at me. They're just

958
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 3: they're just chuckling. They're giggling. They're having a good old time.

959
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't that Yeah, well all of them are in

960
01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 3: their twenties. They don't just chuckle away. Go ahead, you can,

961
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 3: I know you want to say. Sound it's hilarious. It's hilarious.

962
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:29,920
Speaker 3: Oh my god, got you take a take a picture

963
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 3: of the beause you can't even see through the glass

964
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:36,480
Speaker 3: because remember the studio is dark, so you got a

965
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 3: light off in there. Yeah, you're here, so we don't

966
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 3: even know he's in pain right now, we're we're just

967
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 3: chilling in the back. You were here to me flip

968
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:48,040
Speaker 3: over the table. Then just remember everything is everything is

969
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 3: sound proof, so we can't even we can't even hear

970
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be in here on air. You could scream

971
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 3: and we really need for help. They have no proof

972
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 3: that you're even there. I know that's true.

973
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 2: They're just like, I mean, right us hosted Fox Sports Radio.

974
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 3: I think the audience knows this. We're all over the

975
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 3: damn country, all over the mess. We're all over the country.

976
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 2: They have no proof that you keep saying you're there,

977
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 2: I am here.

978
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:18,040
Speaker 3: Like we don't see him, we don't hear him. He

979
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,479
Speaker 3: says he's there. Okay, Okay, I can breathe. I'm good,

980
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 3: I'm good. Okay, man, that was crazy, Listen.

981
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 2: I was about to unveil me because now like we

982
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 2: you know, I had a big fancy tease and then

983
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 2: uh sorry, I had to come No, it's okay, it's okay,

984
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 2: it's okay.

985
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 3: We're just hanging out there. You know, you know why

986
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 3: I needed to say that because if you heard me scream,

987
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 3: then you I wanted to give some context on what

988
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 3: was going on.

989
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 2: Look, that's why we we always have everything covered here

990
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 2: at Fox Sports Radio.

991
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 3: I can't remember if it was.

992
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 2: You or Kyle Rudolph or Kerry Rhoades or whoever I've

993
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 2: been hanging out with for the majority of the last

994
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 2: six months. But we had unprecedented storms that rolled through

995
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 2: the area maybe a couple three months ago, and Wi

996
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 2: Fi explosion out. I had to hop in the car,

997
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 2: drive down the street to where my lovely lady lives,

998
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:31,479
Speaker 2: and I hopped into her house and I was able

999
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 2: to get back on the air. I tell the story though,

1000
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 2: because for a segment or two I was out, and

1001
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 2: you know what happens when we do that, we go

1002
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 2: to Steve de Sager and so Aphraim if you need

1003
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 2: a minute, You've always got the smoky sounds take it away.

1004
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:53,480
Speaker 5: So, I mean, you're reported, he's questionable, but he did

1005
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 5: participate fully.

1006
01:02:55,160 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 2: It's basically that's a practiced in FULLTD GTD.

1007
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 5: You know we're going on about this in part because

1008
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 5: for crying out loud, we got another NBA playoff blowout

1009
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 5: happening here. And you properly reference this. We'll get to

1010
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 5: the Knicks loss in just a moment, but here it

1011
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 5: was a fifteen point Denver lead at the half against Minnesota.

1012
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 5: They're still up fifteen in the third fifty eight forty three,

1013
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 5: about nine minutes to go in the third quarter of

1014
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 5: this game seven. According to statues, teams that in a

1015
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 5: game seven are leading by fifteen or more at the

1016
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 5: half are undefeated all time. Oh yeah, you think twenty

1017
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 5: one to zero? Okay, so still up fifteen? Make it

1018
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 5: sixteen now? Ap points out, and this game isn't even

1019
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 5: finished yet, but they point out the record for most

1020
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 5: playoff games decided by twenty or more in a single

1021
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:54,919
Speaker 5: NBA postseason is twenty four games. This would be game

1022
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 5: number twenty one already this postseason decided by twenty points

1023
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 5: or For the Minnesota Timberwolves, they are one step away

1024
01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 5: from a conference final, and yet it looks so far

1025
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 5: away now as Anthony Edwards is one of eight shooting

1026
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 5: from the floor.

1027
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 3: Yes, air bolts of fifteen three, that's one of nine.

1028
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 2: I'm giving him two misses for that because he missed

1029
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:18,680
Speaker 2: a shot and then he missed everything else.

1030
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 5: Too, So he has four points and the other starting guard,

1031
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 5: Mike Conley, is one of seven shooting for three points. Meanwhile,

1032
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 5: Jamal Murray, to say the least, has shown for this

1033
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 5: game twenty nine points for the Denver Nuggets, the two

1034
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 5: seeds winning at home, and Nikola Jokic had fifteen boards

1035
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 5: at the break. He's up to fourteen points sixteen rebounds

1036
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 5: in this game, a lead for the Nuggets in the third,

1037
01:04:41,960 --> 01:04:45,200
Speaker 5: looking to take on Dallas in the Western Conference Final,

1038
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 5: which Denver is a two seed, would start as host

1039
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 5: on Wednesday. In the Eastern Conference, the Pacers go to

1040
01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 5: Boston to begin that series on Tuesday. Indiana starters at

1041
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 5: New York today. From three point range, We're thirteen of

1042
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 5: twenty two. They were just great shoes. Foing All told

1043
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 5: one thirty to one oh nine. The final score. Nixer

1044
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 5: out Pacer shot sixty seven percent from the floor. In

1045
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:11,440
Speaker 5: NBA playoff record, Nick shot forty two percent. Tyrese Haliburton

1046
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 5: with twenty six points. Indiana's in the conference finals for

1047
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 5: the first time in ten years. The franchise hadn't won

1048
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 5: any series in the playoffs in ten years until this year.

1049
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 5: In the WNBA just one game Seattle won at Washington

1050
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 5: eighty four to seventy five. Each team had started oh

1051
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 5: to two Indiana's oh to three at host Connecticut tomorrow.

1052
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 5: The NHL Playoffs resumed tomorrow with a Game seven and the

1053
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 5: second round Edmonton at Vancouver. Xander Schaffley won the PGA Championship,

1054
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:42,120
Speaker 5: his first major victory, by one stroke over Bryson Deshambeau,

1055
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 5: who shot sixty four. Colin Morikawa fell to a tie

1056
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 5: for fourth place, six shots back after starting the day

1057
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 5: tied for the lead. He shot seventy one in Louisville,

1058
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 5: which sounds sounds like a bad score the way that

1059
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,439
Speaker 5: it's have been scoring this weekend. At Valhall at number

1060
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 5: one ranks, Scottie Scheffler tied for eighth place, which Thomas

1061
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 5: and others number three ranked. Rory McElroy tied for twelfth

1062
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 5: plays showtly by the way now number two, and Nellie

1063
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 5: Corda took LPGA event in Jersey City by one stroke.

1064
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,400
Speaker 5: She's won six of her last seven tournaments she's ranked

1065
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 5: number one. Corda is the first LPGA player in over

1066
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 5: a decade to win six times in a single season.

1067
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 5: Needless to say, in May, the season is not over.

1068
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 5: She's the first American to do so since nineteen ninety,

1069
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 5: when Beth Daniel had won seven in a season. NASCAR's

1070
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 5: All Star Race is well underway on FS one. Joey

1071
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 5: Logano is in the lead to Major League Baseball. The

1072
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 5: Padres are destroying the Atlanta Braves, you Darvish on the

1073
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 5: mound and at San Diego nine to nothing in the

1074
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 5: lead in the bottom of the seventh. The Dodgers in

1075
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 5: ten edged the Reds three to two, Shoeyo Tani the

1076
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 5: game winning single. The Giants won their fourth game in

1077
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 5: a row, four to one over Colorado. Winning pitcher Jordan

1078
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 5: Hicks now four and one victories for Arizona and the Angels.

1079
01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 5: Yankees won their seventh in a Baltimore won again Philadelphia

1080
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 5: one again. The Phillies have the best record in the

1081
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 5: Major leagues thirty four and fourteen. They beat Washington again

1082
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 5: eleven to five. Washington's loss five straight twins, have lost

1083
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 5: six in a row, lost at Cleveland five to two,

1084
01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 5: Kansas City said Oakland to an eighth straight loss eight

1085
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 5: to four victories for Houston and Pittsburgh, And sometimes when

1086
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 5: there's a live golf event, you know, we talk about

1087
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 5: prize money. I hesitate to bring it up here because

1088
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 5: Xander Schaffley is going to remember today literally for the

1089
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 5: rest of his life, his first major victory, and congratulations.

1090
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 5: He wins three point three three million dollars. Bryson Deshambo

1091
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 5: does not get into that three hole playoff at the

1092
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:46,439
Speaker 5: end because Schaffley birdied the final hole of the day

1093
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 5: and took the title. Shaffley wins nearly two million dollars

1094
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 5: as the runner up. Brooks Koepka won four million dollars

1095
01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 5: at the last live golf event in Singapore. Just for

1096
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 5: the record, there is no major that's scheduled to give

1097
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 5: out four million dollars. Just for the record, the Master's

1098
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,080
Speaker 5: winner that prize check for first was up to three

1099
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 5: point six million. I mentioned three point three mil for

1100
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 5: taking the PGA. Last year's US Open winner took three

1101
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 5: point six mil. It was about three million for the

1102
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 5: Open champion winner last summer. Every live golf tournament gives

1103
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 5: four million dollars to the winner, and it's not four

1104
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 5: rounds of golf and they don't play every weekend.

1105
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 2: Back to you, okay, yep If money is what you're after,

1106
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 2: and most of us are, then then live golf is

1107
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 2: for you more money, less work what yep. Yes, but

1108
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 2: no one will remember anything you did ever, which is

1109
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:41,600
Speaker 2: part of sports.

1110
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 3: It is part of sports.

1111
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 2: It is absolutely I'm not again, there's no criticism here,

1112
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 2: but go ahead and give me your favorite live golf moment.

1113
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 3: My favorite is every week hearing right, who's changed their

1114
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:05,040
Speaker 3: fortune right? And who's grind it on the PGA Tour

1115
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 3: for decades. You're not wrong now, all of that. That's

1116
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 3: my favorite part of.

1117
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 2: I can't feel like Live Golf and Greg Norman sat

1118
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:15,719
Speaker 2: in a boardroom and then when they put this whole

1119
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 2: thing together, Mickelson raises his hand and goes listen. The

1120
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 2: other thing is every week Steve de Sager will make

1121
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,720
Speaker 2: fun of us at the bottom of the hour on

1122
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and people will love it and people

1123
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 2: will remember it like nobody knows what the hell happened

1124
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:34,160
Speaker 2: out there other than making money.

1125
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 5: Or you can be like a Bryson de Shamba and

1126
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:37,799
Speaker 5: have the best of both worlds.

1127
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 3: Yes, you could do that. That could do that.

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Speaker 2: Steve awesome as always, Thank you very much, tyrack dot

1129
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:45,919
Speaker 2: Com Studios.

1130
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,440
Speaker 3: Mark Willardy from salam.

1131
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 2: Okay At long last, I do I have to say

1132
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 2: this football team out loud, because you were talking earlier

1133
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 2: about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA, and you started making

1134
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 2: comparisons with the idea of tailoring your approach, your offensive approach,

1135
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 2: what you do as a coach to your players and

1136
01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,840
Speaker 2: who you have out there, and the good ones obviously

1137
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 2: do that. And I've got my eyes so squarely on

1138
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 2: one NFL team this year because I can't wait to

1139
01:10:22,479 --> 01:10:25,880
Speaker 2: see if they finally do it. I think one of

1140
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:30,240
Speaker 2: the most head scratching starts to a career that I

1141
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:35,439
Speaker 2: can remember in recent memory is happening right now, and

1142
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:41,040
Speaker 2: it's happening with the Los Angeles Chargers because you cannot

1143
01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 2: find anyone in this league who doesn't think Justin Herbert

1144
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 2: is elite.

1145
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 3: Elite.

1146
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 2: If you wanted to draft five quarterbacks, he'd be one

1147
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 2: of them, says every analyst, every coach, everyone I talk to, They.

1148
01:10:57,080 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 3: All agree, and I'm who the hell am I to disagree?

1149
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 2: I think he looks fantastic, But it's not normal in

1150
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 2: sports for us to do that when a player this

1151
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:09,439
Speaker 2: many years into his career has a sum total of.

1152
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 3: Hang on, let me count them, carry the three zero

1153
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:20,719
Speaker 3: playoff wins. Yeah, none, none, and then Jim Harbaugh gets

1154
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 3: hired and he's fantastic. But what does Jim love to do?

1155
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:31,160
Speaker 2: He loves to go four yards and a cloud of dust.

1156
01:11:32,400 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 3: Oh well, just before that, Yes, I got six point game.

1157
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:41,839
Speaker 3: Mannesota is roaring back fift.

1158
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:44,880
Speaker 2: What did we say off the top of the show,

1159
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:48,160
Speaker 2: he from like, just as soon as Steve de Seger says,

1160
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 2: any game seven where there's been a fifteen point lead,

1161
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 2: no one's ever won before. The first thing that went

1162
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:59,360
Speaker 2: through my head was one because because every time you

1163
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,479
Speaker 2: count someone out in this series, they come back.

1164
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 3: That's the series.

1165
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 2: So it wouldn't surprise me at all. But anyway, let's

1166
01:12:07,439 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 2: get into that. Coming up next. Is Jim Harbaugh going

1167
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 2: to change his ways and tailor his team to supposedly

1168
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 2: an elite player who many of us feel we really

1169
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 2: haven't gotten a chance to see him get going yet,

1170
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:27,519
Speaker 2: even though it's years into his career. So we can

1171
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 2: get into that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio

1172
01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 2: Tyrack dot Com Studios. Four point game, four point game,

1173
01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 2: going to the free throat line to make it a

1174
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 2: two point We asked for it, we got action.

1175
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 3: Just give me a game.

1176
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,879
Speaker 2: I don't even care if It looks like a Yukon

1177
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,280
Speaker 2: Final where both teams are struggling to get to eighty.

1178
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 3: I don't care.

1179
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:59,880
Speaker 2: Just give me a close game seven and the timber

1180
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 2: have responded and the Nuggets have got the lemon booty

1181
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 2: in full of fact.

1182
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 3: Clinchet. Tighten it up, Clinchet.

1183
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 2: Three point game. Keep you up to date. The Timberwolves

1184
01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 2: are back in this thing. Late third quarter, Nuggets by three,

1185
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:25,479
Speaker 2: cat at the line for one more. Definitely keep you

1186
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,880
Speaker 2: up to date as that's unfolding.

1187
01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 3: Though. What do you think the career of Justin Herbert?

1188
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 2: This is a little random, but I like this guy

1189
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 2: has everyone's attention. One of the tops in the league,

1190
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 2: but not even the best in his own division.

1191
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:44,880
Speaker 3: And that's part of this.

1192
01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 2: Like did he show up in a division at a

1193
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,120
Speaker 2: time where you're just not allowed to ever win it

1194
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 2: for ten years?

1195
01:13:50,479 --> 01:13:50,879
Speaker 3: Maybe?

1196
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 2: But the Jim Harbaugh hire is an interesting one. It's

1197
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:58,240
Speaker 2: high profile. I think he's a fantastic coach. He's proven

1198
01:13:58,280 --> 01:14:00,760
Speaker 2: that he knows how to change a cult culture. He's

1199
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:04,799
Speaker 2: done that a couple of times, few times in his career.

1200
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:10,760
Speaker 2: But he loves to ram things down the throat of

1201
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 2: the defense, even as a quarterback, a former quarterback, So

1202
01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 2: that's interesting. But with Justin Herbert as your quarterback, how's

1203
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 2: this going to look? Is that guy going to get

1204
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 2: the offense that he needs Taylor to him?

1205
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:36,720
Speaker 3: I bet he will, look, I don't think Jim Harbaugh

1206
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:48,559
Speaker 3: has had a quarterback quite like Justin Herbert, someone who

1207
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 3: in four seasons has seventeen thousand passing yards, one hundred

1208
01:14:55,520 --> 01:15:03,120
Speaker 3: and fourteen touchdowns, nine passing nine passing rating to forty

1209
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 3: two intercept Like, I don't know if he's ever had

1210
01:15:06,400 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 3: this quarterback. Yeah, probably not, So you'd be more advantageous

1211
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:19,600
Speaker 3: to try to take advantage of that because in a

1212
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 3: quarterback driven league, I mean, we saw what it did

1213
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 3: in the draft with the with the receivers and like

1214
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 3: they're they're trying to put these pieces around him to

1215
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 3: give him an opportunity to take that knee, and he is.

1216
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:38,759
Speaker 3: He's in a division where hey man, you're just happen

1217
01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:41,639
Speaker 3: to have the goat in the next goat in it.

1218
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,800
Speaker 3: What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?

1219
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:48,600
Speaker 3: And you gotta step up and you gotta fight, you

1220
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:53,960
Speaker 3: gotta you know, you gotta put yourself in position to

1221
01:15:56,600 --> 01:15:58,679
Speaker 3: go out there and you gotta slang and you catch

1222
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 3: him on it. You know, remember that although they weren't

1223
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 3: in the same division, in the same conference, there was

1224
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 3: a couple of times Peyton got Tom right. So you

1225
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 3: got you gotta start building that into your your resume.

1226
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:20,719
Speaker 3: And you know, I think in this case in point,

1227
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 3: he hasn't had a coach since he's been in the league.

1228
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:26,600
Speaker 3: Let's just be clear. No, let's got players, but he

1229
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 3: has not had a coach because that disaster that was

1230
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 3: Brandon Staley. I mean, hey man, we talked about it

1231
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 3: every year. Yep, every single year with the same every

1232
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 3: week every week. You can't possibly be a defensive coach

1233
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 3: and you can't stop anybody. And so now we're at

1234
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:50,120
Speaker 3: sit Look, I knew this kid had it when his

1235
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 3: first game he wasn't supposed to start, he came up Patrick.

1236
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 3: It just it took Patrick Mahome this year, this past

1237
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 3: season to beat him for the first time. Most people

1238
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:02,680
Speaker 3: don't know that. So you're going head to head with

1239
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 3: our new goat, our eventual goat, and he couldn't even

1240
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:14,639
Speaker 3: do anything with you, not that they play against each other,

1241
01:17:14,680 --> 01:17:17,600
Speaker 3: but you know how we set this thing up. So

1242
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 3: now you have a coach that is going to do

1243
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 3: his darnedest to give you a fighting chance. And Garners

1244
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 3: the respect of the locker room and and and and

1245
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 3: his peers around the league. That's the whole thing. Nobody

1246
01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 3: respect to Brandon State. And look, I don't want to

1247
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:41,200
Speaker 3: be disparaging to him as a coach. I don't. This

1248
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 3: is not what this is about. We're talking about Justin Herbert,

1249
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 3: his development and can he take that next step? And

1250
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 3: that matters. It matters who's on that sideline with you. Yeah.

1251
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 2: Look, I think that who he is is evident, and

1252
01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 2: I don't think that I don't think it's fair to

1253
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:03,439
Speaker 2: go overboard on the he hasn't won a playoff game.

1254
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,120
Speaker 2: We get a little bit too black and white with

1255
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 2: our thinking sometimes in sports, in the age of social media.

1256
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 2: I think Justin Herbert is every bit of what Matt

1257
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:17,400
Speaker 2: Stafford was before him, You know what I mean. Matt

1258
01:18:17,439 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 2: Stafford was always he was always a walking stat machine

1259
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,759
Speaker 2: and could never win in the playoffs. And for years

1260
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:29,400
Speaker 2: we went is it Stafford or is it Lions?

1261
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 3: And our friend Rob.

1262
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 2: Parker named him and nicknamed him stat Padford. And I

1263
01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,400
Speaker 2: don't know if we've heard have we heard a national

1264
01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 2: apology for that nickname. Yet I don't think we have

1265
01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 2: all text Rob and ask him because Matt was all

1266
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 2: made of stats and had wonderful skill position players around

1267
01:18:48,640 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 2: him and could never win. And then he got out

1268
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 2: of there and what happened super Bowl Championship bang right away.

1269
01:18:57,240 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 2: I do I agree with you. I do think that's

1270
01:18:59,600 --> 01:19:07,560
Speaker 2: who j Herbert is. He's He's that guy. I'm excited.

1271
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:09,720
Speaker 2: That's one of the most things, especially being in LA,

1272
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 2: I'm excited about it. I'm gonna take my kids, not

1273
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:18,519
Speaker 2: that they follow football much, to a couple of games,

1274
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 2: and because the energy you go to the ballpark, man,

1275
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,680
Speaker 2: the energy is unmatched. We go to a lot of

1276
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 2: Laker games and stuff like that, but when you go

1277
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 2: to a football game, it's like it's a thing thing.

1278
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna take him down there, let him

1279
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:37,519
Speaker 2: run around on the field, you know, and just enjoy

1280
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 2: themselves and bring them into part of my world they

1281
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 2: never got to see. This will be the first year

1282
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 2: I'm doing that, and they'll be you know, when the

1283
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 2: season starts, they'll be ten and thirteen.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited about that. But I'm really pulling for

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Speaker 3: the Chargers, although they were my enemy for quite some time.

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01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 3: But I'm pulling for him because I do like Justin,

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01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 3: I do like hardball, and I do like what they're

1288
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 3: trying to get accomplished.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. To me, I squarely on them

1290
01:20:10,960 --> 01:20:13,719
Speaker 2: one of the more interesting teams. The skill position players

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01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 2: you've heard of are mostly all gone and replaced with

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Speaker 2: a very high profile coach, but a better coach, no

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Speaker 2: two ways about it.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're heading into the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 2: a delicious Game seven. We're not done with the Caitlin

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Speaker 2: Clark conversation yet either. With Ephraim Salaam Mark Willard. That's

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Speaker 2: ahead on Fox Sports Radio from I don't always get

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Speaker 2: it right, I really don't. But when I told everybody

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Speaker 2: to throw their Bingo cards away before the night even started,

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Speaker 2: I think I got it right because nobody had Minnesota

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01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 2: falling down by twenty on the road.

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Speaker 3: In Game seven, we got action and roaring back to

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Speaker 3: take a five point lead fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is good. You did not have that on

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Speaker 2: We're getting to the point on this one where it

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Speaker 2: does feel like big time legacy stuff is on the line.

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Speaker 3: But I also I also feel.

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01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 2: A like this is one of those series where you

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01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 2: start to wonder about what the winner has left in

1317
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 2: the next round.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I you know what is? These teams aren't

1319
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 3: particularly old, that's true, So yeah, I'm not there like

1320
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:54,759
Speaker 3: if this is a brutal series with an older team,

1321
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 3: and because the playoffs are NonStop like they I think

1322
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 3: the big the first game of this of the Western

1323
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 3: Conference Finals, I believe it's Wednesdayday or Wednesday, Yeah, right,

1324
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:12,720
Speaker 3: either one, right, but once like these teams they can go,

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01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:19,600
Speaker 3: all right, they can go. Just think about this Minnesota, Yes, Wednesday, Minnesota.

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01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:21,559
Speaker 3: I know what I'm doing here, Okay, I just want

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01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:29,439
Speaker 3: to I do. But but look how Minnesota has been

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01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 3: able to perform at the altitude in Denver, we watched

1329
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Speaker 3: the Lakers run completely out of gas in the in

1330
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 3: the fourth. Right, can control the whole game in the

1331
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:41,360
Speaker 3: fourth they run out of gas. It's hard to play

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01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 3: up there. Minnesota's they're they're going right. So when you

1333
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:47,920
Speaker 3: talk about, you know, is this gonna take it out

1334
01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 3: of them? I think they're young enough, uh to be okay.

1335
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 3: And and if Denver is the one that makes it through.

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01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:59,639
Speaker 3: You look at Nicola Joki. When things get hectic, they

1337
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 3: give them the ball. He controls the pace of the game.

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01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:06,320
Speaker 3: It now flows through his pace, which is a slower,

1339
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 3: more methodical pace. So I think moving forward, either one

1340
01:23:11,040 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 3: of these teams will be aok going on and still

1341
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 3: playing at this level of intensity. I hope you're right.

1342
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 3: I think you're right.

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01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 2: I get it, but starting to wonder just because of

1344
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:37,000
Speaker 2: the nature of it's not just seven games, it almost

1345
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,040
Speaker 2: does feel like two. When you do the let's fall

1346
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 2: down by twenty, let's claw back now you're starting, you're

1347
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 2: ramping the whole thing back up again.

1348
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 3: And there's been a bunch of this, you know, Like

1349
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:49,040
Speaker 3: I said, the.

1350
01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 2: Emotions of this series absolutely feel like two because Minnesota

1351
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,639
Speaker 2: had it and then they lost it, and then Denver

1352
01:23:57,760 --> 01:23:58,880
Speaker 2: had it and then.

1353
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 3: They lost it, and so.

1354
01:24:00,320 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 2: There's all of this, like the mental gymnastics and warfare

1355
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 2: that's happening within these players is both difficult and and

1356
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,640
Speaker 2: kind of impressive, Like I want to I want to

1357
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 2: shout out in a way both of these teams and

1358
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 2: this will serve them well going forward if they've got

1359
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:23,839
Speaker 2: anything left. But the wherewithal it takes to lose games

1360
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 2: one and two on your home floor and just brush

1361
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:31,479
Speaker 2: it off like that's fine, Well, just go win the

1362
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 2: next three in a row unbelievable, and then the wherewithal

1363
01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:39,599
Speaker 2: to have the champs do that to you come back

1364
01:24:39,640 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 2: and win the next one by a billion and then

1365
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 2: fall down in their building by twenty in Game seven

1366
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:52,280
Speaker 2: and come back and take like wow, wow, like Draymond's

1367
01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:56,600
Speaker 2: been on inside the NBA taking shots at Minnesota's you know,

1368
01:24:56,720 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 2: mental toughness. Drey was wrong, Like wow, Yeah, what these

1369
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 2: guys are doing.

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Speaker 3: This is high level basketball. But this is what you

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01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:08,559
Speaker 3: want in the playoffs. You don't want what we just

1372
01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:12,400
Speaker 3: had earlier today. Right that that and the look, granted,

1373
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 3: the Knicks are walking wounded, they're tired, they ran out

1374
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,479
Speaker 3: of gas. Yes, they only play about six players. Gee,

1375
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 3: I wonder why they ran out of gas. But anyway, go, yeah,

1376
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 3: we'll get to it. They only play up us and

1377
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 3: you got to og. I don't know. We came in,

1378
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 3: he hit his first two shots, and then five minutes

1379
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:33,800
Speaker 3: he's done. He wasn't back. You could tell by the

1380
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 3: way he was running down the court that his hamstring

1381
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 3: wasn't right. And so now you're in a situation where

1382
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 3: Josh Hart was hurt. Right, he fought through it. Brunting

1383
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:51,880
Speaker 3: hand foot, they just wore down. We get it right.

1384
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:58,440
Speaker 3: And guess what I talked about it in the Minnesota series, Indiana,

1385
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 3: they up and down. They're gonna put the ball in

1386
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 3: the air. They are going to shoot, shoot and shoot,

1387
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 3: and so that puts a lot of pressure on you.

1388
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 3: And when you don't have an adequate bench, then you

1389
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 3: get one of those games right at home, Game seven,

1390
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 3: everything on the line and you just physically don't have it.

1391
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 3: I don't see that in this series. I see two

1392
01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:31,200
Speaker 3: teams that are heavyweight fighters and they're punching each other

1393
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:35,000
Speaker 3: in the face over and over again. They are a

1394
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 3: heck of a chin, and it's I mean, this is exciting.

1395
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 3: I'm so happy that this turned around because I was like,

1396
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 3: oh goodness, gracious.

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Speaker 2: All right, I got another take though, and this is

1398
01:26:49,640 --> 01:26:52,000
Speaker 2: going to go back to what we discussed this in

1399
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 2: the first hour, the difference between Yokich as the best

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01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 2: player in the NBA versus the guys who have held

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01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,839
Speaker 2: that title in our lifetime. I'm the MJ's, the Kobe's,

1402
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:07,040
Speaker 2: the Lebron's. Okay, I don't know who's going to win

1403
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 2: this basketball game, but if it's with them, but if

1404
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:16,200
Speaker 2: it's the Minnesota Timberwolves. If the Timberwolves win this game

1405
01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:21,879
Speaker 2: on Denver's floor in Game seven having been down by twenty,

1406
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 2: what would we have said if Lebron James did that.

1407
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:33,920
Speaker 2: I wanted to think about that for a second. What

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01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 2: does Twitter look like that night? Sunday night at eight

1409
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,759
Speaker 2: Pacific and eleven pm Eastern?

1410
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 3: What does Twitter look like that night?

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01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 2: If a Lebron James team, when he's in his absolute prime,

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01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 2: he's just won MVP, he's got a three to two

1413
01:27:55,479 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 2: series lead on whoever, and in Game seven on his

1414
01:28:01,320 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 2: home floor, is up by twenty.

1415
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 3: And loses the basketball game, what are we doing? Going

1416
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 3: at his neck? Okay, going that happened?

1417
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:21,599
Speaker 2: That happened tonight to Nicola Jokics Minnesota. Now, look they're

1418
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 2: only up by three. Yeah, but no, it does this

1419
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 2: game go either way? They nobody's going at his neck.

1420
01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 2: Nobody's saying anything.

1421
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,439
Speaker 3: No, because they don't even they don't, They're not even

1422
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 3: viewed with the same lens. Gotta remember Lebron James, as

1423
01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:41,600
Speaker 3: great as he has been for twenty one years, his

1424
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 3: greatness started far earlier. For sure, This, of course, flight

1425
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 3: has been on him. No one even knew who Nicola

1426
01:28:52,080 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 3: Jokic was when he came into the league, so most

1427
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 3: people outside of his first MVP still didn't know who

1428
01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 3: he was. This is fair. So the the expectation and

1429
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 3: the scrutiny and critic uh being critical of him, it's

1430
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 3: just not there. This has been brewing since Lebron was

1431
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:24,880
Speaker 3: on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the Chosen One

1432
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:33,599
Speaker 3: as a teenager. So that's why that's so. Nobody's comparing

1433
01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 3: Nicola Jokic to Michael Jordan. No, but that's not what

1434
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 3: I'm saying.

1435
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 2: But if you're gonna be the best player in the league,

1436
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:42,560
Speaker 2: if you're gonna be the defending champion, you're gonna be

1437
01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:46,400
Speaker 2: the multi time MVP. That Like, No, no one's saying

1438
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:50,320
Speaker 2: Nicola is is Lebron or or or MJ.

1439
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 3: But that's your logo right now, that's your label.

1440
01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:57,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're's what it is. You're the best player in

1441
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 2: the league. And I just I know what that what

1442
01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,479
Speaker 2: that looks like. Forget if it was Lebron or or

1443
01:30:04,600 --> 01:30:08,519
Speaker 2: or MJ. But like, what would we even say if

1444
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 2: Jason Tatum did this? And Tatum hasn't one squat, Like.

1445
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:19,759
Speaker 8: Well, I know it, say'd my My My point is

1446
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 8: is kind of what I was talking about off the

1447
01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 8: off the top of the show when I'm like, I

1448
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 8: don't know how great Nicola.

1449
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 2: Is for the NBA because he he acts like he just.

1450
01:30:30,479 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 3: Works here and and and whenever.

1451
01:30:32,840 --> 01:30:35,799
Speaker 2: It's like, dude, the MVP, and he's like, yeah, whatever,

1452
01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:38,920
Speaker 2: piece of hardware, is this over yet so I can

1453
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 2: go home and sit down on my couch. Maybe he's kidding,

1454
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 2: but there. Maybe it's because he's not from here. Whatever

1455
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 2: the reasons you want to think of, his connectivity with

1456
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,439
Speaker 2: the fans of the NBA is.

1457
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 3: Is not much. No, it's not it's not much.

1458
01:30:56,760 --> 01:31:00,280
Speaker 2: And that's why because if he loses this game, there

1459
01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:03,439
Speaker 2: won't be there because quite frankly, nobody really cares exactly.

1460
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 3: So let me tell you this, who's the face of

1461
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:17,320
Speaker 3: baseball Aaron similar situation, right, great player, unbelievable player, unbelievable talent.

1462
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 3: There's no connectivity, you think you know why.

1463
01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 2: I think the fans are so much more connected to

1464
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 2: him than it's.

1465
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:29,240
Speaker 3: So you got to look at the arena, right, number one.

1466
01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:35,080
Speaker 3: But in terms of let's just say, right, take out

1467
01:31:35,320 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 3: your upper your older middle American fans, right, you know

1468
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, and let's go to the youth. Right,

1469
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:54,680
Speaker 3: Let's go to the up and coming youth. Relatability is

1470
01:31:55,320 --> 01:32:01,600
Speaker 3: what marketing is, correct, Sho Hay has really one or

1471
01:32:01,600 --> 01:32:06,080
Speaker 3: two commercials New Balance with a whole bunch of other people.

1472
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 3: Most people watching the commercial don't know who they are, right.

1473
01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:12,360
Speaker 3: I do want to say that's in this country, right,

1474
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:15,839
Speaker 3: but I'm only talking about this country, Okay, I'm marketing.

1475
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 3: Is marketing dollars actually dwarf any other player. But you

1476
01:32:19,400 --> 01:32:22,439
Speaker 3: get it because that's you know, and you got to

1477
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:29,599
Speaker 3: understand this as well. Basketball is a global enterprise. If

1478
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:35,920
Speaker 3: basketball weren't as popular as it was overseas, because we

1479
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 3: know what the ratings are, we talk about them on

1480
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 3: this show all the time. A lot of people here

1481
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:45,799
Speaker 3: aren't watching these games like that until around this time,

1482
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:48,960
Speaker 3: right right after March Madden is then you get into

1483
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 3: but everywhere else. Why do you think that the the

1484
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:57,880
Speaker 3: the these TV deals are about to get crazy because now

1485
01:32:57,920 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 3: the streamers and and that's that's universal. It's worldwide, millions

1486
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:08,759
Speaker 3: and millions of eyeballs. So whether nine hundred thousand people

1487
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:12,080
Speaker 3: are watching an NBA game, just think about what's going

1488
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 3: on all over the world, similar to baseball. Right, Baseball

1489
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:21,439
Speaker 3: is just global phenomena. They play it everywhere, all right,

1490
01:33:21,479 --> 01:33:25,120
Speaker 3: Football has a stronghold here in this country. So you

1491
01:33:25,240 --> 01:33:27,479
Speaker 3: got to just take that out of the equation. But

1492
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:30,400
Speaker 3: I say that to say show hey, with the gambling

1493
01:33:30,439 --> 01:33:32,679
Speaker 3: thing and all of that, it was like, oh oh

1494
01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:37,640
Speaker 3: this oo, guess what it went away? Nobody talking about that.

1495
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 3: It's gone. But if that was an American player and

1496
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 3: people have more connectivity to him, right then it would

1497
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:53,759
Speaker 3: be a different situation. It's so hey, they're just talking

1498
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 3: it up, like, oh, he probably doesn't even know you

1499
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 3: get what I'm saying, Well, they can't even nobody can

1500
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:00,800
Speaker 3: even hear what he has to say. That's what I'm

1501
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 3: talking about. We're not wrong, We're not wrong.

1502
01:34:03,560 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 2: But hoops is also different than baseball when it comes

1503
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 2: to how an individual wears a loss.

1504
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:13,639
Speaker 3: Yes, you know what I mean, yes, yeah, yes, yeah.

1505
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:18,160
Speaker 3: And so with Nicola Jokic, people have fallen in love

1506
01:34:18,320 --> 01:34:25,000
Speaker 3: with his lasz fair approach. They think it's endearing. Oh

1507
01:34:25,080 --> 01:34:28,000
Speaker 3: look at this. He doesn't look he's just like, he's

1508
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:30,720
Speaker 3: just like, ah, whatever, I'm just gonna do my thing, right,

1509
01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:33,160
Speaker 3: care right, He's just like yeah, but of course we

1510
01:34:33,280 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 3: know he cares. Right. That's why if you've watched these

1511
01:34:36,920 --> 01:34:41,160
Speaker 3: last few minutes, he's picked it up.

1512
01:34:41,640 --> 01:34:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's getting intense, right, He's picked it because

1513
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:45,960
Speaker 2: it does matter.

1514
01:34:46,560 --> 01:34:49,040
Speaker 3: He does. He does know what this means.

1515
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:52,880
Speaker 2: You can't succeed at this level if you don't care, right,

1516
01:34:53,000 --> 01:34:57,720
Speaker 2: But it's just not as relatable as the other superstars

1517
01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:00,479
Speaker 2: and an American league.

1518
01:35:01,080 --> 01:35:04,080
Speaker 3: That's the word. That is absolutely the word.

1519
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:08,639
Speaker 2: So look, y'all, gits five minutes to go down by five.

1520
01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:13,200
Speaker 2: So we're gonna keep watching this unfold and talking this out.

1521
01:35:13,560 --> 01:35:16,480
Speaker 2: Coming up next Also shortly after the show, the podcast

1522
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:18,720
Speaker 2: goes up. If you missed any of today's show, be

1523
01:35:18,840 --> 01:35:21,799
Speaker 2: sure to check out the podcast just search Fox Sports

1524
01:35:21,880 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 2: Radio wherever you get your podcast, and then also be

1525
01:35:24,320 --> 01:35:26,760
Speaker 2: sure to follow and rate and review the podcast. If

1526
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:29,840
Speaker 2: you please again to search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

1527
01:35:29,880 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 2: get your podcast, you'll see the show posted right after

1528
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:34,920
Speaker 2: we get off the air. But we're not done yet.

1529
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 2: That's e from Salama Mark Willard. It's Fox Sports Radio.

1530
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 2: All right, brother, I just drafted the tweet. I'm not

1531
01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:46,080
Speaker 2: gonna hit send yet, not gonna hit send. We're live

1532
01:35:46,120 --> 01:35:48,840
Speaker 2: on the tie rack dot com studios. There's still over

1533
01:35:48,880 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 2: two minutes left to go in the game. But the

1534
01:35:51,439 --> 01:35:56,880
Speaker 2: Timberwolves are up by ten. They're up by ten, So

1535
01:35:57,040 --> 01:36:00,599
Speaker 2: here's the tweet that's gonna go out. The best player

1536
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:03,200
Speaker 2: in the NBA just blew a three to two series

1537
01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:07,559
Speaker 2: lead at a twenty point lead on his home floor

1538
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:08,439
Speaker 2: in Game seven.

1539
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 3: Oh, here's a pre tweet. Haven't hit sinn yet, Okay'

1540
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:15,679
Speaker 3: is the pre tweet. The best player in the NBA

1541
01:36:15,960 --> 01:36:18,160
Speaker 3: just blew a three to two series lead and a

1542
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:22,040
Speaker 3: twenty point lead on his home floor in Game seven.

1543
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:27,439
Speaker 3: If his name was Michael Kobe, Lebron or Steph what

1544
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:34,280
Speaker 3: would Twitter look like tonight? Man? That's a good tweet.

1545
01:36:34,840 --> 01:36:42,240
Speaker 2: Just checking checking in on America. See how everybody is doing.

1546
01:36:43,240 --> 01:36:47,600
Speaker 2: Woh eight point Game two five to go. Oh, obviously

1547
01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 2: we will uh, we'll be all over this as it

1548
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:50,800
Speaker 2: unfolds here.

1549
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:52,720
Speaker 3: But they've got it.

1550
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 2: Man, if they just execute in these final two minutes,

1551
01:36:56,439 --> 01:36:59,560
Speaker 2: it's gonna be pretty hard to uh, it's gonna be

1552
01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 2: pretty hard to get him.

1553
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 3: Well, these officials they trying, you know, they trying to

1554
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:09,840
Speaker 3: do something else. I don't know what is I'm watching

1555
01:37:09,840 --> 01:37:11,840
Speaker 3: this game, like, how is that not a foule? And

1556
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:15,840
Speaker 3: how is that this? This last two minutes have been

1557
01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:17,160
Speaker 3: kind of weird.

1558
01:37:17,600 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 2: They're gonna swallow They're like they're gonna swallow it.

1559
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:23,920
Speaker 3: This this this is I mean, they just joker reached

1560
01:37:23,960 --> 01:37:27,960
Speaker 3: across yes, Mike Conley to tap the BA. Really, you

1561
01:37:28,040 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 3: can get your arm all the way across a small

1562
01:37:30,280 --> 01:37:33,719
Speaker 3: guard and tap the ball without fouling him. No, you can't.

1563
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:40,800
Speaker 3: It's impossible. You can't. Bert did not initiate the contact

1564
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 3: and look down the call another jump ball, Ben. This

1565
01:37:46,040 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 3: is crazy. They just fil I mean, they filed Rudy

1566
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:52,519
Speaker 3: out right like it's it's this. This is weird. A

1567
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 3: lot of weird energy going on right now.

1568
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 2: It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah, second jump all

1569
01:37:57,320 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 2: a row jump. All the leads to a jump off,

1570
01:37:59,160 --> 01:37:59,320
Speaker 2: you know.

1571
01:38:00,200 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 3: But what I like is I like the eff you

1572
01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 3: look at these guys, Man, look at you crazy here? Yep, yep, guys,

1573
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:09,000
Speaker 3: a dive in. I mean, this is what it is.

1574
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 3: It means something, I'm telling you.

1575
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:15,479
Speaker 2: If Minnesota wins this series, ifrom I'm not kidding. I mean, look,

1576
01:38:15,560 --> 01:38:17,920
Speaker 2: I have to sit here on the internet for the

1577
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:20,479
Speaker 2: next few hours to go back and remember every series

1578
01:38:20,520 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 2: that's unfolded in my lifetime. I can't remember a more

1579
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:26,400
Speaker 2: mentally tough series than this.

1580
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:28,800
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, if you like.

1581
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 2: To even waltz into Denver and have the gall to

1582
01:38:32,479 --> 01:38:35,439
Speaker 2: win those two games to start the series is one thing.

1583
01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:38,320
Speaker 2: But then to get smacked in the mouth three times

1584
01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:41,760
Speaker 2: in a row, not give up, come back, win a

1585
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:44,519
Speaker 2: game by a lot, then be down by twenty in

1586
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:49,479
Speaker 2: game seven at altitude against the MVP, and have the

1587
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 2: snootiness that it would take to be able to do

1588
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:56,160
Speaker 2: what they've done here. This is all time stuff in

1589
01:38:56,280 --> 01:39:00,720
Speaker 2: terms of collective mental toughness, especially for a team that

1590
01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:04,080
Speaker 2: has had that questioned by many.

1591
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:10,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is a woof man. Oh that's

1592
01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:13,639
Speaker 3: a foul. Oh this is good. I'm sorry, I'm caught

1593
01:39:13,720 --> 01:39:18,160
Speaker 3: up in it just like everybody else. I'm sure if

1594
01:39:18,160 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 3: you're listening to the show, you're watching the game with

1595
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:23,680
Speaker 3: the with the volume down. But thank you for for

1596
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:25,439
Speaker 3: you know, listening to it as if you're catching this

1597
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:27,920
Speaker 3: on the podcast after the show. Thank you again for

1598
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:30,559
Speaker 3: checking in on on how we react to to these

1599
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:35,080
Speaker 3: things live. But Mark and I are fans, right, We're

1600
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:37,439
Speaker 3: fans of all sports. We get caught up in it

1601
01:39:37,640 --> 01:39:40,519
Speaker 3: when our teams are playing and we're watching what we're

1602
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:43,880
Speaker 3: just like you guys, right, We're invested with with there,

1603
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:45,800
Speaker 3: We're part of it. And when we see a good

1604
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:47,800
Speaker 3: game like this a game seven, come on, Mike Cony,

1605
01:39:47,800 --> 01:39:50,160
Speaker 3: gotta make the free throws, man, Well now these free

1606
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:54,599
Speaker 3: throws matter, yep. Here Game seven, mic hey man, this

1607
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 3: is it. Don't do it. The only way to break

1608
01:39:57,280 --> 01:40:00,599
Speaker 3: the curse is to break the curse, all right, So

1609
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:05,479
Speaker 3: you know a lot on the line there we go,

1610
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:11,280
Speaker 3: got one right back to nine, three possession game right,

1611
01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 3: gotta play ball. Minute seventeen left, ninety three eighty four Minnesota.

1612
01:40:17,360 --> 01:40:19,479
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard for them to lose this game. Now.

1613
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:22,000
Speaker 2: Well, look, hey man, that's that'd be a hell of

1614
01:40:22,040 --> 01:40:25,960
Speaker 2: a minute seventeen if they overcome a nine point deficit.

1615
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:27,719
Speaker 3: Well, it's off seven point deficit.

1616
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:35,080
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, Minnesota's just gonna have to make some freaking

1617
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 2: and then.

1618
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:37,880
Speaker 3: Then just throw the ball away. So now it has

1619
01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:41,600
Speaker 3: an opportunity to be a four point deficit, all in

1620
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:48,160
Speaker 3: the span of three seconds, just like that, Like I said, right,

1621
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:49,760
Speaker 3: like I said.

1622
01:40:49,880 --> 01:40:55,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well again, every time this series looks over, it's not.

1623
01:40:56,439 --> 01:41:07,479
Speaker 3: Guess what, no longer nine point four quick points? Yeah, yeah, no,

1624
01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 3: it's good.

1625
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:10,759
Speaker 2: So, by the way, as we get into the final

1626
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:14,560
Speaker 2: minute of this one, to see how it all plays out,

1627
01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:19,120
Speaker 2: we are we are flying through the show without having

1628
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:19,600
Speaker 2: spent a.

1629
01:41:19,600 --> 01:41:20,360
Speaker 3: Whole lot of time.

1630
01:41:21,479 --> 01:41:23,559
Speaker 2: We have not spent a whole lot of time on

1631
01:41:23,600 --> 01:41:28,680
Speaker 2: the other game seven today. Well yeah, no, but no, no, no,

1632
01:41:28,880 --> 01:41:31,640
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, because this one's coming down the stretch's

1633
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:34,519
Speaker 2: gonna Seger's gonna jump in here in about thirty seconds.

1634
01:41:34,560 --> 01:41:36,439
Speaker 3: No, right now, get him in right now so we

1635
01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:37,640
Speaker 3: can get in.

1636
01:41:37,720 --> 01:41:44,559
Speaker 2: Okay, take it away, it's smoky, Steve. Hit the music, Ah, Steve,

1637
01:41:44,880 --> 01:41:45,280
Speaker 2: there you go.

1638
01:41:45,360 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 5: Okay, foul committed with twenty seconds left. It looks like

1639
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:52,639
Speaker 5: Minnesota is going to the Western Conference Finals. Oh good

1640
01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 5: Lord Dallas awaits that series starts Wednesday. Keep in mind

1641
01:41:57,200 --> 01:42:00,280
Speaker 5: Anthony Edwards did not shoot well for much of the

1642
01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:02,320
Speaker 5: night this evening and then late third.

1643
01:42:02,240 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 4: Pull up for the Loring and Brandon was seven tenths

1644
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,719
Speaker 4: of a second left to play in the third quarter,

1645
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 4: three quarter court shot at the buzzer is no good

1646
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:13,639
Speaker 4: by Jokis, and the Timberwolves storm toward their bets.

1647
01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:16,960
Speaker 5: They are fired up Timberwolves Radio. They're k fan one

1648
01:42:17,080 --> 01:42:20,679
Speaker 5: hundred point three, and my goodness, that got things going.

1649
01:42:20,720 --> 01:42:23,200
Speaker 5: We can update the stat we brought up an hour

1650
01:42:23,280 --> 01:42:28,560
Speaker 5: ago in Game seven. History in the NBA, any team

1651
01:42:28,760 --> 01:42:31,559
Speaker 5: leading by more than eleven at the half always won.

1652
01:42:31,640 --> 01:42:34,880
Speaker 5: It was a fifteen point halftime lead for Denver, in fact,

1653
01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:38,400
Speaker 5: a twenty point advantage. Early in the third fifty eight

1654
01:42:38,880 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 5: thirty eight back came Minnesota, and in fact they were

1655
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 5: about to take the lead in the fourth greed parachute

1656
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:53,960
Speaker 5: and check Emmonds at town Kevin Harlan on TNT with

1657
01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:56,639
Speaker 5: that call, and then with about three minutes to go,

1658
01:42:56,880 --> 01:43:04,320
Speaker 5: corner Edwards and shoots that made it a ten point

1659
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:07,960
Speaker 5: Minnesota advantage with three to zero five to go right now,

1660
01:43:08,120 --> 01:43:11,680
Speaker 5: nine seconds left, Minnesota at the line and in the

1661
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:15,360
Speaker 5: league ninety six ninety these Minnesota teammates have talked about

1662
01:43:15,360 --> 01:43:18,439
Speaker 5: the fact that when Jade McDaniels is on, they go.

1663
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:21,639
Speaker 5: And he's got twenty one points in this game, twenty

1664
01:43:21,680 --> 01:43:25,519
Speaker 5: three for Karl Anthony Towns. Anthony Edwards six of twenty

1665
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 5: four shooting for his sixteen points for the Denver Nuggets.

1666
01:43:29,240 --> 01:43:31,800
Speaker 5: A hot first half for Jamal Murray in fact, he's

1667
01:43:31,880 --> 01:43:35,040
Speaker 5: up to thirty five points, Nikola Jokic with thirty four.

1668
01:43:35,520 --> 01:43:39,360
Speaker 5: Jokich also with nineteen rebounds. But it's a final. The

1669
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 5: Minnesota Timberwolves are headed to the Western Conference Finals. They

1670
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:47,000
Speaker 5: have won at Denver ninety eight to ninety coming from

1671
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 5: twenty points down early in the third quarter. In the East,

1672
01:43:51,240 --> 01:43:54,160
Speaker 5: the top seed Boston will be hosting the Pacers to

1673
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:58,080
Speaker 5: start a best of seven. On Tuesday, Indiana, sixth seed,

1674
01:43:58,200 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 5: eliminated the Knicks in New York, one thirty to one

1675
01:44:01,240 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 5: oh nine. The Pacers shot sixty seven percent from the

1676
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:08,000
Speaker 5: floor and NBA playoff record Nicks forty two percent. The

1677
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:12,920
Speaker 5: NHL playoffs resumed tomorrow. Xander Schoffley won the PGA Championship,

1678
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:16,320
Speaker 5: his first major victory. Nellie Corda took the PGA event

1679
01:44:16,439 --> 01:44:19,760
Speaker 5: in Jersey City by one stroke. NASCAR's All Star Race

1680
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 5: on FS one went to Joey Logano. Denny Hamlin finished

1681
01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:25,880
Speaker 5: second after the race of fight between Ricky Stenhouse and

1682
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:29,840
Speaker 5: Kyle Busch. Baseball Sunday night game was no contest. Padres

1683
01:44:29,920 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 5: nine to one winners at Atlanta. Another great outing for you.

1684
01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:36,800
Speaker 5: Darvis seven scoreless innings, nine strikeouts and the Dodgers beat

1685
01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:40,040
Speaker 5: Cincinnati in ten three to two. Sho Hey Otani game

1686
01:44:40,040 --> 01:44:42,680
Speaker 5: winning single. He had two hits. He's betting three point

1687
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:46,519
Speaker 5: fifty three, believe it or not. The Minnesota Timberwolves, not

1688
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:48,760
Speaker 5: often you say this out loud, are going to the

1689
01:44:48,800 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 5: Western Conference Finals after the comeback win at Denver ninety

1690
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:54,680
Speaker 5: eight ninety Back to you.

1691
01:44:55,960 --> 01:44:59,320
Speaker 2: Steve, thank you for having tonight awesome stuff live in

1692
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:02,240
Speaker 2: the tyrec dot com studios. Mark Wiarty from salam We

1693
01:45:02,360 --> 01:45:05,920
Speaker 2: got a lot to unpack here, man. And by the way, Steve,

1694
01:45:05,960 --> 01:45:09,479
Speaker 2: you could I wonder if in all your research you

1695
01:45:09,520 --> 01:45:11,280
Speaker 2: saw this. How many times in the history of the

1696
01:45:11,360 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 2: league have we had two road game seven victories on

1697
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:18,120
Speaker 2: the same day. I wonder if that's I wonder if

1698
01:45:18,160 --> 01:45:22,920
Speaker 2: that's ever happened before. You don't see that a lot

1699
01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 2: like the whole game seven at home thing is supposed

1700
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:25,960
Speaker 2: to be a thing.

1701
01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:26,759
Speaker 3: Not today.

1702
01:45:27,160 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 5: No, it is more likely that we would have the

1703
01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:31,439
Speaker 5: two blowouts we were talking about early in this night.

1704
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, and especially with one of them being down

1705
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:38,519
Speaker 2: by twenty in the second half.

1706
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 3: Could lord, could lord?

1707
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:46,760
Speaker 2: What an absolute collapse by the Denver Nuggets.

1708
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:49,880
Speaker 3: Did you hit? Did you hit sand? I hit send?

1709
01:45:51,200 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 3: I hit send.

1710
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:55,559
Speaker 2: Actually I hit send before the buzzer went off. I

1711
01:45:55,640 --> 01:45:58,759
Speaker 2: hit send once they were up by eight with twenty two.

1712
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:01,960
Speaker 3: Seconds to go. That's it. That's it.

1713
01:46:03,439 --> 01:46:06,000
Speaker 2: This is one to remember, man, This is this is

1714
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,000
Speaker 2: this is a game to remember in the NBA.

1715
01:46:10,439 --> 01:46:13,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was exciting. I mean, I'm glad we got

1716
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,160
Speaker 3: to watch it together. I'm glad we got to watch

1717
01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:15,720
Speaker 3: it on the air.

1718
01:46:15,880 --> 01:46:18,080
Speaker 5: You'll remember the last time the Timberwolves were in a

1719
01:46:18,120 --> 01:46:22,840
Speaker 5: conference final with Kevin Garnet twenty years ago, Lakers twenty

1720
01:46:23,240 --> 01:46:25,800
Speaker 5: years ago, and so now it's still the Knicks. It's

1721
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 5: been over twenty years since they were at a conference

1722
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:32,200
Speaker 5: final Philly, since Iverson Sacramento, since they were playing the Lakers,

1723
01:46:32,760 --> 01:46:34,599
Speaker 5: not Minnesota on that list, anymore.

1724
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 3: No, they did that. Man, here's a here's a fun stat.

1725
01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:44,479
Speaker 2: With Denver's elimination, there will be a new NBA champion for.

1726
01:46:44,400 --> 01:46:46,040
Speaker 3: The sixth straight year.

1727
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:51,000
Speaker 2: The last time we had six different champions in six

1728
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:57,799
Speaker 2: straight years were my first six years of life, nineteen

1729
01:46:58,000 --> 01:47:01,080
Speaker 2: seventy five to nineteen eighty is the last time that

1730
01:47:01,280 --> 01:47:04,720
Speaker 2: happened in the NBA. And it happens again here in

1731
01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:05,559
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.

1732
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:10,640
Speaker 3: That's that's crazy. Now, Look how about that. I've always

1733
01:47:10,920 --> 01:47:17,200
Speaker 3: asserted the last few years about to me what the

1734
01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:23,599
Speaker 3: most important piece of the Denver Nuggets team and road

1735
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:27,439
Speaker 3: to victory is. Now we know Nicola Jokic and what

1736
01:47:27,520 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 3: he brings. That's an expectation to play at that level

1737
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 3: triple double, high you know, high point, triple double.

1738
01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:38,360
Speaker 5: All of that, and sometimes Jimal Murray.

1739
01:47:37,080 --> 01:47:39,960
Speaker 3: Jim Jamal Murray in the playoffs. We know he's a

1740
01:47:40,040 --> 01:47:40,719
Speaker 3: shot maker.

1741
01:47:40,800 --> 01:47:43,160
Speaker 5: Mark, you are correct, by the way AP says today

1742
01:47:43,240 --> 01:47:46,080
Speaker 5: is the first time in NBA history. Wow, two teams

1743
01:47:46,120 --> 01:47:48,479
Speaker 5: won a Game seven on the road on the same day.

1744
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:50,000
Speaker 3: Look at that. That was just a guess.

1745
01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 2: But I mean, like I have we know Game seven's

1746
01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:56,559
Speaker 2: on the road, Like that's rare enough to have them

1747
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:58,559
Speaker 2: happen twice from lunch to dinner.

1748
01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 5: Good God, and memory any team up by more than

1749
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:03,679
Speaker 5: eleven at the half in a game since.

1750
01:48:03,520 --> 01:48:06,360
Speaker 3: It over, it's right been twenty and oh yep, and

1751
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:12,320
Speaker 3: look watching this game, and Joki was doing this thing

1752
01:48:12,640 --> 01:48:15,080
Speaker 3: and Murray was doing especially in the first half. Murray

1753
01:48:15,080 --> 01:48:17,639
Speaker 3: was on fire. Right, So they end with thirty four

1754
01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:21,160
Speaker 3: at thirty five, respectively. They both almost took the same

1755
01:48:21,160 --> 01:48:23,640
Speaker 3: amount of shots. They almost shot for the same percentage

1756
01:48:23,920 --> 01:48:26,719
Speaker 3: from the field, thirteen for twenty eight for the Joker,

1757
01:48:26,960 --> 01:48:32,080
Speaker 3: thirteenth for twenty seven for Murray. I've always asserted that

1758
01:48:32,760 --> 01:48:38,760
Speaker 3: if Michael Porter Junior doesn't show up, there's gonna be

1759
01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 3: a problem because he's the real matchup nightmare for teams

1760
01:48:44,439 --> 01:48:49,360
Speaker 3: at six ' ten. His ability to shoot, it's a

1761
01:48:49,520 --> 01:48:55,720
Speaker 3: it's a hard matchup, yeah, because you can't affect the shot.

1762
01:48:56,040 --> 01:48:59,840
Speaker 3: And so looking at him play thirty four minutes, go

1763
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 3: three for twelve, one for six for seven points. We

1764
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:07,120
Speaker 3: understand why the tide shifted in this game.

1765
01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:10,120
Speaker 5: And even Aaron Gordon has had some twenty point games.

1766
01:49:10,160 --> 01:49:13,599
Speaker 2: But that's exactly what I was just going to bring up,

1767
01:49:13,640 --> 01:49:17,360
Speaker 2: is there's a similar aspect of those two players. If

1768
01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:20,559
Speaker 2: they go off, the Nuggets become unbeatable. But you're looking

1769
01:49:20,640 --> 01:49:24,599
Speaker 2: at this right now, Ephraim. The unbelievable number here, Yo,

1770
01:49:24,720 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 2: Kitchen Murray today combined for sixty nine points. The rest

1771
01:49:30,200 --> 01:49:35,080
Speaker 2: of the team, whole team had twenty one point five

1772
01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:43,880
Speaker 2: points from the bench. Good god, wow, that's unbelievable. That's unbelievable.

1773
01:49:43,920 --> 01:49:46,960
Speaker 2: Twenty one points from the rest of the team.

1774
01:49:47,040 --> 01:49:49,760
Speaker 5: And by the way, the previous record for coming back

1775
01:49:49,800 --> 01:49:52,600
Speaker 5: from biggest halftime deficit to win a game seven was

1776
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:56,839
Speaker 5: Golden State against Houston twenty eighteen. They were down eleven

1777
01:49:56,880 --> 01:49:58,200
Speaker 5: at the half and still one.

1778
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:04,200
Speaker 2: When the Rockets went oher for from three and all three.

1779
01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:07,040
Speaker 5: Golden State with Rick Berry nineteen seventy five had a

1780
01:50:07,080 --> 01:50:10,120
Speaker 5: similar halftime game seven comeback. This is the new record.

1781
01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:13,040
Speaker 5: Down fifteen at a half, down twenty early third quarter.

1782
01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man, this is this is a memorable day.

1783
01:50:17,880 --> 01:50:21,800
Speaker 2: May nineteenth, twenty twenty four. This is a memorable day

1784
01:50:22,040 --> 01:50:22,799
Speaker 2: in the NBA.

1785
01:50:23,920 --> 01:50:27,240
Speaker 3: Oh, this is great. This was a great game. Yeah yeah, Well,

1786
01:50:27,360 --> 01:50:29,280
Speaker 3: I tell you what coming up next.

1787
01:50:29,360 --> 01:50:32,840
Speaker 2: We got to handicap a whole new damn NBA this

1788
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:35,880
Speaker 2: is not the final four I think most people thought

1789
01:50:36,000 --> 01:50:39,120
Speaker 2: was coming. No, but but here we are. The Timberwolves

1790
01:50:39,160 --> 01:50:42,320
Speaker 2: will host the Mavericks. The Celtics will host the Pacers.

1791
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:47,120
Speaker 2: What holy smoke. So yeah, let's let's get into it

1792
01:50:47,160 --> 01:50:48,879
Speaker 2: with eat from Salama Mark Willard.

1793
01:50:48,880 --> 01:50:55,400
Speaker 3: That's coming up next on Fox Sports Radio. So these

1794
01:50:55,400 --> 01:50:55,600
Speaker 3: are the.

1795
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:59,799
Speaker 2: Tirag dot com studios. That's e from Salama Mark Willard.

1796
01:51:00,960 --> 01:51:05,320
Speaker 2: And the Denver Nuggets are out. The Minnesota Timberwolves will

1797
01:51:05,320 --> 01:51:13,559
Speaker 2: host the Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Mavericks. And

1798
01:51:13,760 --> 01:51:17,880
Speaker 2: uh oh, by the way, the Celtics have the Indiana

1799
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,360
Speaker 2: Pacers coming to town.

1800
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:28,280
Speaker 3: All right, so rehandicap this thing for me. Now, the

1801
01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:32,080
Speaker 3: Porzingis injury is going to be huge in this series,

1802
01:51:32,160 --> 01:51:38,400
Speaker 3: I know, because you know, stretch centers cancel each other

1803
01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:43,080
Speaker 3: out with uh you know, Porzingis is a stretch center

1804
01:51:44,520 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 3: and so is Miles Turner. So they're both comfortable playing

1805
01:51:49,439 --> 01:51:52,840
Speaker 3: away from the basket, which opens up the lane for

1806
01:51:52,920 --> 01:51:55,040
Speaker 3: people who can you know, attack the rim and so

1807
01:51:55,080 --> 01:52:01,040
Speaker 3: on and so forth. So that to me, uh leans

1808
01:52:01,200 --> 01:52:05,840
Speaker 3: in Indiana's favor because they're fast paced, they're up and down,

1809
01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:10,240
Speaker 3: they're going to get shots up on makes on missus. Uh.

1810
01:52:10,439 --> 01:52:14,200
Speaker 3: So this will be interesting because you know, the Celtics

1811
01:52:14,240 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 3: have two bucket getters. They can get to the rim,

1812
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:23,040
Speaker 3: they can shoot, and their defensive intensity with with Holiday

1813
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:27,759
Speaker 3: didn't slip when they you know, let their previous glue

1814
01:52:27,800 --> 01:52:34,639
Speaker 3: guy go and smart. So Al Horford is the old

1815
01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:36,679
Speaker 3: man is gonna have to He's gonna have to play

1816
01:52:38,040 --> 01:52:42,400
Speaker 3: long and hard, which you know, the way Indiana gets

1817
01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:45,840
Speaker 3: up and down the court, it's gonna be tough over

1818
01:52:46,280 --> 01:52:50,160
Speaker 3: you know, a series. Yep. So I think Prazenkis is

1819
01:52:50,200 --> 01:52:54,280
Speaker 3: out for sure the first two games. Uh, and then

1820
01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:57,360
Speaker 3: we'll see. But like I said, I mean, I said

1821
01:52:57,400 --> 01:53:00,599
Speaker 3: it when I saw the injury happen. Oof. When you

1822
01:53:00,640 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 3: grab that that that calf and sit down right, you

1823
01:53:06,280 --> 01:53:09,200
Speaker 3: can have a calve strain. But we we've heard what

1824
01:53:09,280 --> 01:53:11,960
Speaker 3: calve strains turned into when you come back too early

1825
01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 3: as KD right, that thing's super connected and and so

1826
01:53:20,280 --> 01:53:24,120
Speaker 3: look we're asking honest he we would well you know,

1827
01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:28,760
Speaker 3: Will said no he didn't come back. So that that

1828
01:53:28,760 --> 01:53:31,960
Speaker 3: that'll be really interesting, uh, coming down the stretch. But

1829
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:34,400
Speaker 3: Minnesota's got to shoot a chance because that's what they do.

1830
01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:36,839
Speaker 3: They gotta They let the league in in scoring.

1831
01:53:37,360 --> 01:53:42,439
Speaker 2: I'm trying to actually pull up right now, Uh what

1832
01:53:42,640 --> 01:53:47,680
Speaker 2: Vegas actually favors up up up to the second Let

1833
01:53:47,720 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 2: me see if I can, if I can find this

1834
01:53:50,040 --> 01:53:52,240
Speaker 2: right now, do.

1835
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:55,679
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1836
01:53:55,880 --> 01:53:56,719
Speaker 3: Game lines.

1837
01:53:57,320 --> 01:54:00,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll keep looking for this to Vegas has this's

1838
01:54:00,720 --> 01:54:04,240
Speaker 2: the favorite because I sort of feel and maybe this

1839
01:54:04,439 --> 01:54:07,960
Speaker 2: is just going to be reflective of the moment, because

1840
01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:12,160
Speaker 2: right now I think that the NBA fandom is going

1841
01:54:12,240 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 2: to be a little bit inspired in this moment, if

1842
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:19,360
Speaker 2: you will. But I feel like the Minnesota Timberwolves might

1843
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:20,800
Speaker 2: be the favorite to win this thing right now.

1844
01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:23,560
Speaker 3: I would think so, Yeah, I would think so. I

1845
01:54:23,600 --> 01:54:26,760
Speaker 3: mean going through Denver and fighting the way they were,

1846
01:54:26,880 --> 01:54:30,320
Speaker 3: winning three games on the road, the defending champions. We

1847
01:54:30,400 --> 01:54:32,720
Speaker 3: get the Denver was ten and one last year at

1848
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:36,560
Speaker 3: home in the playoffs, so going up there, like, look,

1849
01:54:37,240 --> 01:54:40,200
Speaker 3: I keep mentioning it because I know what it feels like.

1850
01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:44,760
Speaker 3: I've been there. I've played there, and I've played, you know,

1851
01:54:44,840 --> 01:54:48,840
Speaker 3: for the Broncos, and I've played against the Broncos. Being

1852
01:54:48,880 --> 01:54:52,920
Speaker 3: in that altitude, at that level, playing that hard, it

1853
01:54:53,320 --> 01:54:56,640
Speaker 3: literally makes you feel like your inside are on the

1854
01:54:56,720 --> 01:55:00,680
Speaker 3: outside of your buyer. And they have this team go

1855
01:55:00,840 --> 01:55:05,040
Speaker 3: up there and play at that clip, that style of defense,

1856
01:55:05,200 --> 01:55:08,560
Speaker 3: especially late in the games, that means something. They're going

1857
01:55:08,600 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 3: to sea level. They're going to sea level. They're going home.

1858
01:55:13,880 --> 01:55:15,800
Speaker 3: They're going home. They're going home.

1859
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:20,520
Speaker 2: By the way, I found them, the favorite to win

1860
01:55:20,560 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 2: the NBA Championship right now at minus one fifty five.

1861
01:55:25,840 --> 01:55:27,120
Speaker 3: Is the Boston Celtics.

1862
01:55:27,240 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 2: I figured that the second favorite is obviously the Minnesota

1863
01:55:31,040 --> 01:55:35,920
Speaker 2: Timberwolves at plus two forty. Next the Dallas Mavericks at

1864
01:55:35,920 --> 01:55:40,600
Speaker 2: plus for eighty five, and the Indiana Pacers are plus

1865
01:55:40,920 --> 01:55:42,160
Speaker 2: three thousand.

1866
01:55:42,280 --> 01:55:44,120
Speaker 3: Man put something on that wolf.

1867
01:55:44,920 --> 01:55:50,400
Speaker 2: Hundred bucks gets you three gees, three g's if the

1868
01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:53,160
Speaker 2: Pacers win it all. I mean, I think that's actually,

1869
01:55:53,200 --> 01:55:57,240
Speaker 2: in this moment, a little bit more reflective of two things.

1870
01:55:57,280 --> 01:56:01,400
Speaker 2: It's more reflective of who the opponent is next, because

1871
01:56:01,400 --> 01:56:02,520
Speaker 2: Minnesota's got to deal.

1872
01:56:02,440 --> 01:56:04,080
Speaker 3: With Dallas and that's a squad now.

1873
01:56:04,120 --> 01:56:06,360
Speaker 2: And I'm not taking anything away from Indiana, but no

1874
01:56:06,400 --> 01:56:07,720
Speaker 2: one expected them to be here.

1875
01:56:08,560 --> 01:56:09,720
Speaker 3: That's number one and number two.

1876
01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:13,080
Speaker 2: It's also just reflected Boston's got a home court advantage

1877
01:56:13,080 --> 01:56:15,040
Speaker 2: throughout the playoffs, including the finals.

1878
01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:20,040
Speaker 3: So but boy, you look at that board, I can tell.

1879
01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:23,160
Speaker 2: You if I if I had a couple of C

1880
01:56:23,360 --> 01:56:27,280
Speaker 2: notes to throw around, I'd be putting them on Minnesota

1881
01:56:27,640 --> 01:56:28,640
Speaker 2: at plus two forty.

1882
01:56:28,760 --> 01:56:28,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1883
01:56:29,200 --> 01:56:31,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good bet. Yeah, that's a good bet.

1884
01:56:32,080 --> 01:56:33,800
Speaker 2: I think that's where I would put them. Yeah, I

1885
01:56:34,800 --> 01:56:36,400
Speaker 2: wish I had I wish I had done it four

1886
01:56:36,480 --> 01:56:39,120
Speaker 2: days ago. But good god.

1887
01:56:39,680 --> 01:56:43,000
Speaker 3: Well look man, look we didn't know which Minnesota team

1888
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:45,520
Speaker 3: was gonna show up because in this series we saw

1889
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:50,640
Speaker 3: the jekal and hide of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Sure, we

1890
01:56:50,760 --> 01:56:56,960
Speaker 3: saw their youth shine through in some parts, and then

1891
01:56:57,240 --> 01:57:00,480
Speaker 3: we saw their erratic play on the defensive in on

1892
01:57:00,520 --> 01:57:05,200
Speaker 3: some parts between Cat and Rudy Gobert, like dumb fouls

1893
01:57:05,280 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 3: and just not stepping up and and and and stepping

1894
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:14,360
Speaker 3: up to the challenge. But look, this this series will

1895
01:57:14,400 --> 01:57:18,920
Speaker 3: season you real fast. So going into the next series,

1896
01:57:19,880 --> 01:57:22,560
Speaker 3: you now, it's just not playing chicken in the pot.

1897
01:57:22,680 --> 01:57:26,440
Speaker 3: You gonna put some seasoning on it, some Lorry's right,

1898
01:57:28,720 --> 01:57:32,760
Speaker 3: everything you don't know lorryes, you ain't cooking. But I'm

1899
01:57:32,800 --> 01:57:36,000
Speaker 3: just gonna throw that out. If I run out of Lowry's,

1900
01:57:36,600 --> 01:57:39,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, are we gonna hating out? Cancel the day

1901
01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:47,839
Speaker 3: I forgot that's my bad if I can't go exactly.

1902
01:57:48,160 --> 01:57:49,720
Speaker 3: But look, this is this is a this is a

1903
01:57:49,760 --> 01:57:53,160
Speaker 3: fun time, man, this is great. We got two teams

1904
01:57:53,280 --> 01:58:00,600
Speaker 3: in each of the conference finals that nobody really saw coming. Right.

1905
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:04,200
Speaker 3: They felt like whoever was going up against Denver and

1906
01:58:04,240 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 3: the Semis were going to struggle and probably lose that series.

1907
01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:14,680
Speaker 3: Rightfully so, but somebody forgot to tell Minnesota that. And

1908
01:58:15,120 --> 01:58:18,880
Speaker 3: I think the edge that they took from winning the

1909
01:58:18,960 --> 01:58:22,520
Speaker 3: first two games played a big part in this game.

1910
01:58:23,360 --> 01:58:28,320
Speaker 3: They didn't have any fear coming into Denver and playing now.

1911
01:58:28,360 --> 01:58:32,000
Speaker 3: The game started out going back and forth, and then

1912
01:58:32,080 --> 01:58:36,240
Speaker 3: Denver stretched their legs on them. Third quarter, up by twenty,

1913
01:58:36,840 --> 01:58:42,480
Speaker 3: and we saw something happen. We saw the call of

1914
01:58:42,560 --> 01:58:46,320
Speaker 3: time out go over and they picked up their defensive

1915
01:58:46,360 --> 01:58:51,640
Speaker 3: intensity and Edwards got on the attack. I think he

1916
01:58:51,680 --> 01:58:54,960
Speaker 3: had you know, he was one for whatever in the

1917
01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:59,480
Speaker 3: first half, and he just got on the attack and

1918
01:58:59,560 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 3: put invert on their heels and that was you know,

1919
01:59:04,760 --> 01:59:08,040
Speaker 3: that was everything before you knew it. You know, remember

1920
01:59:08,120 --> 01:59:10,320
Speaker 3: they were climbing in order. They only down by five,

1921
01:59:10,360 --> 01:59:12,280
Speaker 3: and then you turn around up by ten. It's like, whoa,

1922
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Speaker 3: what just happened? No doubt, no doubt Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, you know who was really excited

1924
01:59:19,200 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 2: about what Minnesota just did.

1925
01:59:21,840 --> 01:59:22,720
Speaker 3: The Knicks.

1926
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:27,880
Speaker 2: Kind of kind of saved him from getting towards here

1927
01:59:27,960 --> 01:59:29,480
Speaker 2: for a minute. I think people are going to be

1928
01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:33,120
Speaker 2: talking about Minnesota more than they're going to be talking about.

1929
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Speaker 3: New York except for in New York. I mean people

1930
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Speaker 3: except in New York.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, stephen A might might might

1932
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Speaker 2: put up a rating tomorrow's ability.

1933
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, that was fun, brother, that was fine.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yep, we'll talk from salam Ma, Mark Wllard Plank

1935
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Speaker 2: and spend your next Fox Sports Radio