Minnesota Tim discusses the Minnesota Timberwolves' playoff journey, their matchup against the Lakers, and the challenges they face, particularly in handling adversity and leadership. He also reflects on Rory McIlroy's remarkable victory at the Masters, highlighting his performance and the significance of completing the career grand slam.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Minnesota Timberwolves are officially in to the playoffs, and
not as a play in team. The Red Hot Golden
State Warriors after they'd traded for Jimmy Butler could not
finish off the deal versus the Clippers, and now the
Timberwolves are the sixth seed. They're not the four, which
(00:30):
is a possibility. They're not the five, which was a possibility.
They're the sixth because they beat the Utah Jazz at home,
which was a little closer than I think we would
have liked, especially at halftime fifty to forty nine, but
they were able to come away with the victory after
Edwards went off in that second half. So we're gonna
(00:52):
talk about this playoff matchup with the Lakers, but first
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(02:46):
so the Timberwolves they're facing Lebron James, Lebron James, look
at Doncic, look at Doncic, Austin Reeves, Austin Reeves, who else?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The Lakers go? Jj reddick jj reddick. I don't know
what else they got. They got like raw rj Achuma.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What else they got, They got some other talent, they
got players because the Lakers are the third seed, which
is one of the highest seeds that they've been for
a long time. And if you remember last year's playoffs,
the Timberwolves met the Dallas Mavericks and the Western Conference Finals, and.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The Timberwolves could not slow.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Down Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. He ate the Timberwolves alive
in crunch time. And the most frustrating part of last
year's playoffs was not even Luka Donc's clutch time performances,
because the dude's gonna score. He is an amazing talent,
(04:01):
probably a top five player.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And what was so frustrating about it was that the
dude was hurt and had foot or ankle or leg
problems and the Timberwolves instead of attacking him defensively, because
what the Mavericks did last year is they switched every
pick and roll. If someone set a pick for Anthony Edwards.
(04:31):
Let's say Jaden McDaniels does that, Luka Doncic switched or
would have switched onto Anthony Edwards. And what the Timberwls
did offensively was absurd. Luca was guarding Jaden McDaniels, and
what they did offensively was they threw jad and McDaniels
(04:53):
in the corner and he just sat there didn't move,
while Anthony Edwards received a pick and roll or pick
and pop from Karl, Anthony Towns or Rudy Gobert. So
what Luca did was rest defensively, He didn't put any
(05:16):
effort on that side of the floor, which meant that
at the end of the game, during clutch time, he
conserved and used all the energy he had left, which
was a lot because he was not demanded to do
anything defensively from the Timberwolves side. So what needs to
(05:39):
change in this series is, regardless of Luca Dunches his health,
the Timberwolves need to attack him because as good as
he is offensively, the dude is slow and lethargic defensively,
and you cannot allow him to sit in the corner
(06:00):
and do absolutely nothing. You need to attack him or
run plays against him, get him in foul trouble, set
screens so that he's matched up with Edwards or even
Julius Randall, something so that you have to make him work.
If you don't do that the series is over. The
(06:21):
series is going to be over if you do the
exact same strategy as last year, where you're just throwing
the corner and you can just sit there, just sit there, nothing,
nothing happens. So that needs to change in this series.
But my biggest concern going into the Lakers series has
(06:43):
nothing to do with Luka, Doncic, Lebron, James Lebron, James
Austin Reeves. It has everything to do with how the
Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team handles adversity because they don't handle
(07:05):
it well and they have not handled handled it well
all season long, which is concerning because when you face
a team like the Lakers that have their superstars, you
are going to face adversity. Plus it brings into the
(07:29):
conversation of the NBA rigging it, whether it's true or
untrue for the Lakers to win this series.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So as soon as.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Adversity hits, meaning the ref doesn't call a file that
should have been a foul, or you missed a bunch
of three point shots in a row, and the Lakers
get off to a big lead, or they come back,
Wolves players, fans especially, but it's going to be in
(08:05):
the back of the mind of players too, are going
to point to the league and say, you wanted the
Lakers to win, We had no chance.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Woe is me. The NBA is rigged.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And you've seen Edwards say things like that this year
where he picked up a technical, he said, it's you
guys are cheating.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
They got teed up jected.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Probably, so the problem that the Timberwolves have had all
year is that one Anthony Edwards is an immature leader.
Is no composure, none, has no ability to calm himself
down or calm his teammates down.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Take a breath, figure it out.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Quit blaming the officials after every play, because that actually works.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Against him in the long run.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
If you can plain it after every every single possession
that you think you should have been fouled, it actually
discredits you more.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So he needs to stop.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
In what right mind do you think complaining after every
call is actually an advantage because the officials watch tape
two after their games, they watch tape and are graded
by a superintendent official, and they'll look at the play,
They'll look at Edwards's reaction and they'll be like, that
wasn't a foul. There's no foul there, And he's still complaining.
(09:36):
We're going to use this in the future. If he's complaining,
it doesn't always mean.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's a foul.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So my biggest concern is that the Timberwolves do not
have a leader on the team that can get everybody
back in the right mindset or that can lead the
team through adversity through trials. Because as good as Mike
Conley is, I love Mike Conley, and he's aging, he's
(10:04):
getting older. As much as I love Mike Conley, he
is a calming presence, but he's not a guy that's
gonna take over a huddle and tell everyone to shut
the f up and play basketball. He's not a guy
that's gonna huddle the guys and say quit complaining, get
your head out your ass, and play basketball.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That's not the personality that he is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Although he is a quiet, calming presence on the team,
Rudy Gobert certainly is not that. Neither is Julius Randall
and Jaden McDaniels hasn't said five words all season long.
So that's my biggest concern. It has nothing to do
with matchups. It has nothing to do with how Edwards
(10:50):
is going to play, because in these moments, he typically
arises to the occasion. The Timberwls have been playing very
good basketball with these last month and a half, a
few winning streaks, few bad losses, but all in all,
a lot of ws. And I don't know how they're
(11:12):
gonna handle playoff basketball, specifically against the Lakers. And let's
be honest about it. It is better for the NBA
if the Lakers win the series. It's better, bigger market,
bigger superstars, Luka, Doncic, Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
If they advance, it's better for the league.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And the Timberwolves know that, and Timberwolves fans know that.
So as soon as adversity hits, they're not gonna point
to the Timberwolves making poor decisions, which often times they do.
They're not gonna point at a bad pass or a
bad shot or a poor defensive rotation. The finger is
(11:55):
gonna go directly at the NBA and at the officials
for wanting the Lakers to win. And I hate that attitude.
That attitude is so weak. W Ea, k week, that's soft.
(12:16):
There's another word that I want to use in there
that I'm not.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Going to say.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That is a soft attitude. And the Timberwolves are a
soft team, which is something we could fully expect. I
don't think the Lakers are going to sweep the Timberwolves,
and I actually like the matchup head to head with
the players and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The Nuggets probably would have been a.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
More favorable series for the basketball team. I think Jamal
Mary's hurt and the Timberwolves have played the Nuggets really
well this year. But I would rather play the Lakers
than the Clippers, who have been red hot. I would
rather play the Lakers than even the Golden State Warriors.
And this comment might come back to bite me in
(13:03):
the butt, but Luca is slow, although he's tremendous offensively.
Lebron James is forty and it takes one play for
anybody to get injured, but especially Lebron James's forty one
wrong landing on his groin, which he already hurt this year,
(13:25):
and he's out for a few games. Not that you
should root for Lebron James to get hurt, but when
you're forty years old playing the highest level of competition,
those things come into play. So it'll be an interesting
series and I think it could go at least six games,
(13:46):
and I do think the Timberwolves could compete with the
Lakers to win this series. But the biggest concern is
the Timberwolves' ability to be composed and be okay down
the stretch of the game, because that's the problem. That's
(14:11):
the problem that they've had all season long. Okay Masters,
Rory Masters, Rory McRoy wins the Masters in extra holes
and like hold ten, I.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Sent out a tweet.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And if I had enough followers on x I would
have been completely roasted for this tweet. But I wasn't
the only one that was feeling this way.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I said the.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Twenty nineteen Masters has ruined every Masters since. Every Master
since has been about one player getting out to a
big lead and the tournament has been over by the turn,
which has been true the Masters that Scotti Scheffler has
won twice blowouts. I think Dustin Johnson won one blowout.
(15:01):
There hasn't been a close Master since twenty nineteen, the
one that Tiger Woods won and at hold ten, Roy
McElroy was up by four and was looking in complete control,
and then he double bogies, and then he bogies and
then he loses the lead to Justin Rose, who got
(15:26):
red hot on that back night, and then Rory, I'm fifteen,
puts the ball his second shot, hooks it around the tree.
Par five gets within four to five feet for eagle,
misses the eagle, but makes the tabs in the birdie
putt and he's back in the lead because Justin Rose
(15:49):
bogied I'm like sixteen or seventeen, and then Roy McElroy
par parr gets to eighteen, hits his second in the
bunker as about five feet for par to win the Masters,
and he doesn't even touch the hole. This Masters tournament
(16:11):
was a tournament filled with sensational shots from Rory. That
final round had about like four or five shots from
Rory where you look back on it in years past
and say that shot won him the tournament. He had
(16:33):
a shot on six or seven where he was in
the pine shot and he he hooked it between the
trees and got it between the small gap and put
it right next to the hole.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Hey miss the.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Birdie, but that's a shot that gets played back years
and years down the road. Did the same thing on fifteen,
did the same thing. I think he did it one
more time in that round too, where it was a
tough shot and he played it perfectly. Between this gap
(17:07):
number five, he did it, and then he would have
these outrageous shots where it's like, was this not the
same guy that hooked it between the trees and landed
it on the green within five feet of the pin
for Bertie thirteen, easy shot played off the hill, landed
(17:29):
there and then the ball will gravitate towards the hole.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He puts it in the water.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Crazy number one double bogies, Number thirteen double bogies. What
is so remarkable about Rory McElroy's Master's victory was that
he played so good, so good, like you can't even
believe how good Rory played two overcome all of the
(18:02):
double bogies that he put on the scorecard. You do
not typically win Masters tournaments with two double bogies in.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The final round. That never happens.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
He double bogied won and lost the lead immediately to Bryson,
and then he double bogeed thirteen and then only had
a one shot lead against Justin Rose, not to mention
the two double bogies that he had in the first
round of his tournament.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
What that tells me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Is that his play outside of the double bogies and
maybe a bogey.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Here and there was so outrageously good.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That if he doesn't double bogie, he wins the Masters
by ten and it's not even a close call.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But it was cool to see Rory McElroy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Celebrate after his win because this has been hanging over
his head for eleven years, really even longer than that
because of his twenty eleven or twenty twelve debacle on
ten where he hid it into the cabins, So it's
really been thirteen fourteen years of can I ever win
(19:36):
a Master's? Can I ever fight off these deamons incomplete
the career Grand Slam? Because not many players complete the
career Grand Slam. Phil Mickelson has never done it, Jordan
Speith has not done it yet and isn't.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Really looking like he's going to.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's only like five players that have completed the career
Grand Slam, and now Rory McElroy joins that list of
greats to do it. And when he knocked down that
final putt in the playoff, all of the emotion Jim
Nott nance says he falls to the sacred sod just
(20:16):
knocked Rory down, and all of the questions.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
About is this your year? Do you feel good about it? Like?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Are you gonna complete the career Grand Slam? Do you
think you have it in you? How can you overcome
these demons? All those questions are now gone, and he's
been answering those questions for thirteen.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Years, And how annoying would that be?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And he walks off the golf course gets as his
wife and daughter, and it's really a story of a
dude persevering. And I'm not a big fan of Rory personally.
I can't really explain why he makes a shot, and
I don't like his reactions to shots for some reason.
(20:58):
It is not my style. He's almost like it's almost
like he's laughing. He did this on six or seven,
He's laughing at how good his shot was.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I don't really like that.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I guess it's not my favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So like most tournaments, I'm kind of cheering for the meltdown,
not even necessarily from Rory but from anybody, Like I
want the leader to come back to the pack. So
it's close, and you probably do too if you're being honest,
Like who wants a tournament won by six shots or
four shots? It's fun to come down the stretch on
(21:41):
eighteen and have a close competition. So it could have
been Jordan Speith or any other golfer on tour, and
I would have said come back to the pack because
it's boring when you have a four shot lead.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But finally the Masters gave us a most competition down
the stretch because these last five years it has not
been my favorite major. It has not performed the best
out of all the majors because other majors had more
(22:18):
drama and better anticipation down the stretch than a guy
winning by five strokes on eighteen and he could quadruple
bogie and still win. But this Master is in twenty
twenty five, delivered and Rory now has the Queer Grand Slam.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Good for him. Thank you for watching this episode.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are officially in to the playoffs, and
not as a play in team. The Red Hot Golden
State Warriors after they'd traded for Jimmy Butler could not
finish off the deal versus the Clippers, and now the
Timberwolves are the sixth seed. They're not the four, which
(00:30):
is a possibility. They're not the five, which was a possibility.
They're the sixth because they beat the Utah Jazz at home,
which was a little closer than I think we would
have liked, especially at halftime fifty to forty nine, but
they were able to come away with the victory after
Edwards went off in that second half. So we're gonna
(00:52):
talk about this playoff matchup with the Lakers, but first
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Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'll be looking forward in the hour.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Really disliked it. Made the bathroom feel tiny, handrails everywhere,
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Bathroom remodeled, new shower, new bath tub, new vanity, double sinks,
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Speaker 2 (02:24):
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(02:46):
so the Timberwolves they're facing Lebron James, Lebron James, look
at Doncic, look at Doncic, Austin Reeves, Austin Reeves, who else?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
The Lakers go? Jj reddick jj reddick. I don't know
what else they got. They got like raw rj Achuma.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What else they got, They got some other talent, they
got players because the Lakers are the third seed, which
is one of the highest seeds that they've been for
a long time. And if you remember last year's playoffs,
the Timberwolves met the Dallas Mavericks and the Western Conference Finals, and.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The Timberwolves could not slow.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Down Luka Doncic. Luka Doncic. He ate the Timberwolves alive
in crunch time. And the most frustrating part of last
year's playoffs was not even Luka Donc's clutch time performances,
because the dude's gonna score. He is an amazing talent,
(04:01):
probably a top five player.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
In the NBA.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And what was so frustrating about it was that the
dude was hurt and had foot or ankle or leg
problems and the Timberwolves instead of attacking him defensively, because
what the Mavericks did last year is they switched every
pick and roll. If someone set a pick for Anthony Edwards.
(04:31):
Let's say Jaden McDaniels does that, Luka Doncic switched or
would have switched onto Anthony Edwards. And what the Timberwls
did offensively was absurd. Luca was guarding Jaden McDaniels, and
what they did offensively was they threw jad and McDaniels
(04:53):
in the corner and he just sat there didn't move,
while Anthony Edwards received a pick and roll or pick
and pop from Karl, Anthony Towns or Rudy Gobert. So
what Luca did was rest defensively, He didn't put any
(05:16):
effort on that side of the floor, which meant that
at the end of the game, during clutch time, he
conserved and used all the energy he had left, which
was a lot because he was not demanded to do
anything defensively from the Timberwolves side. So what needs to
(05:39):
change in this series is, regardless of Luca Dunches his health,
the Timberwolves need to attack him because as good as
he is offensively, the dude is slow and lethargic defensively,
and you cannot allow him to sit in the corner
(06:00):
and do absolutely nothing. You need to attack him or
run plays against him, get him in foul trouble, set
screens so that he's matched up with Edwards or even
Julius Randall, something so that you have to make him work.
If you don't do that the series is over. The
(06:21):
series is going to be over if you do the
exact same strategy as last year, where you're just throwing
the corner and you can just sit there, just sit there, nothing,
nothing happens. So that needs to change in this series.
But my biggest concern going into the Lakers series has
(06:43):
nothing to do with Luka, Doncic, Lebron, James Lebron, James
Austin Reeves. It has everything to do with how the
Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team handles adversity because they don't handle
(07:05):
it well and they have not handled handled it well
all season long, which is concerning because when you face
a team like the Lakers that have their superstars, you
are going to face adversity. Plus it brings into the
(07:29):
conversation of the NBA rigging it, whether it's true or
untrue for the Lakers to win this series.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So as soon as.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Adversity hits, meaning the ref doesn't call a file that
should have been a foul, or you missed a bunch
of three point shots in a row, and the Lakers
get off to a big lead, or they come back,
Wolves players, fans especially, but it's going to be in
(08:05):
the back of the mind of players too, are going
to point to the league and say, you wanted the
Lakers to win, We had no chance.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Woe is me. The NBA is rigged.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And you've seen Edwards say things like that this year
where he picked up a technical, he said, it's you
guys are cheating.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
They got teed up jected.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Probably, so the problem that the Timberwolves have had all
year is that one Anthony Edwards is an immature leader.
Is no composure, none, has no ability to calm himself
down or calm his teammates down.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Take a breath, figure it out.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Quit blaming the officials after every play, because that actually works.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Against him in the long run.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
If you can plain it after every every single possession
that you think you should have been fouled, it actually
discredits you more.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So he needs to stop.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
In what right mind do you think complaining after every
call is actually an advantage because the officials watch tape
two after their games, they watch tape and are graded
by a superintendent official, and they'll look at the play,
They'll look at Edwards's reaction and they'll be like, that
wasn't a foul. There's no foul there, And he's still complaining.
(09:36):
We're going to use this in the future. If he's complaining,
it doesn't always mean.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's a foul.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So my biggest concern is that the Timberwolves do not
have a leader on the team that can get everybody
back in the right mindset or that can lead the
team through adversity through trials. Because as good as Mike
Conley is, I love Mike Conley, and he's aging, he's
(10:04):
getting older. As much as I love Mike Conley, he
is a calming presence, but he's not a guy that's
gonna take over a huddle and tell everyone to shut
the f up and play basketball. He's not a guy
that's gonna huddle the guys and say quit complaining, get
your head out your ass, and play basketball.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That's not the personality that he is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Although he is a quiet, calming presence on the team,
Rudy Gobert certainly is not that. Neither is Julius Randall
and Jaden McDaniels hasn't said five words all season long.
So that's my biggest concern. It has nothing to do
with matchups. It has nothing to do with how Edwards
(10:50):
is going to play, because in these moments, he typically
arises to the occasion. The Timberwls have been playing very
good basketball with these last month and a half, a
few winning streaks, few bad losses, but all in all,
a lot of ws. And I don't know how they're
(11:12):
gonna handle playoff basketball, specifically against the Lakers. And let's
be honest about it. It is better for the NBA
if the Lakers win the series. It's better, bigger market,
bigger superstars, Luka, Doncic, Lebron James.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
If they advance, it's better for the league.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And the Timberwolves know that, and Timberwolves fans know that.
So as soon as adversity hits, they're not gonna point
to the Timberwolves making poor decisions, which often times they do.
They're not gonna point at a bad pass or a
bad shot or a poor defensive rotation. The finger is
(11:55):
gonna go directly at the NBA and at the officials
for wanting the Lakers to win. And I hate that attitude.
That attitude is so weak. W Ea, k week, that's soft.
(12:16):
There's another word that I want to use in there
that I'm not.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Going to say.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
That is a soft attitude. And the Timberwolves are a
soft team, which is something we could fully expect. I
don't think the Lakers are going to sweep the Timberwolves,
and I actually like the matchup head to head with
the players and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
The Nuggets probably would have been a.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
More favorable series for the basketball team. I think Jamal
Mary's hurt and the Timberwolves have played the Nuggets really
well this year. But I would rather play the Lakers
than the Clippers, who have been red hot. I would
rather play the Lakers than even the Golden State Warriors.
And this comment might come back to bite me in
(13:03):
the butt, but Luca is slow, although he's tremendous offensively.
Lebron James is forty and it takes one play for
anybody to get injured, but especially Lebron James's forty one
wrong landing on his groin, which he already hurt this year,
(13:25):
and he's out for a few games. Not that you
should root for Lebron James to get hurt, but when
you're forty years old playing the highest level of competition,
those things come into play. So it'll be an interesting
series and I think it could go at least six games,
(13:46):
and I do think the Timberwolves could compete with the
Lakers to win this series. But the biggest concern is
the Timberwolves' ability to be composed and be okay down
the stretch of the game, because that's the problem. That's
(14:11):
the problem that they've had all season long. Okay Masters,
Rory Masters, Rory McRoy wins the Masters in extra holes
and like hold ten, I.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Sent out a tweet.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And if I had enough followers on x I would
have been completely roasted for this tweet. But I wasn't
the only one that was feeling this way.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I said the.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Twenty nineteen Masters has ruined every Masters since. Every Master
since has been about one player getting out to a
big lead and the tournament has been over by the turn,
which has been true the Masters that Scotti Scheffler has
won twice blowouts. I think Dustin Johnson won one blowout.
(15:01):
There hasn't been a close Master since twenty nineteen, the
one that Tiger Woods won and at hold ten, Roy
McElroy was up by four and was looking in complete control,
and then he double bogies, and then he bogies and
then he loses the lead to Justin Rose, who got
(15:26):
red hot on that back night, and then Rory, I'm fifteen,
puts the ball his second shot, hooks it around the tree.
Par five gets within four to five feet for eagle,
misses the eagle, but makes the tabs in the birdie
putt and he's back in the lead because Justin Rose
(15:49):
bogied I'm like sixteen or seventeen, and then Roy McElroy
par parr gets to eighteen, hits his second in the
bunker as about five feet for par to win the Masters,
and he doesn't even touch the hole. This Masters tournament
(16:11):
was a tournament filled with sensational shots from Rory. That
final round had about like four or five shots from
Rory where you look back on it in years past
and say that shot won him the tournament. He had
(16:33):
a shot on six or seven where he was in
the pine shot and he he hooked it between the
trees and got it between the small gap and put
it right next to the hole.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Hey miss the.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Birdie, but that's a shot that gets played back years
and years down the road. Did the same thing on fifteen,
did the same thing. I think he did it one
more time in that round too, where it was a
tough shot and he played it perfectly. Between this gap
(17:07):
number five, he did it, and then he would have
these outrageous shots where it's like, was this not the
same guy that hooked it between the trees and landed
it on the green within five feet of the pin
for Bertie thirteen, easy shot played off the hill, landed
(17:29):
there and then the ball will gravitate towards the hole.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He puts it in the water.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Crazy number one double bogies, Number thirteen double bogies. What
is so remarkable about Rory McElroy's Master's victory was that
he played so good, so good, like you can't even
believe how good Rory played two overcome all of the
(18:02):
double bogies that he put on the scorecard. You do
not typically win Masters tournaments with two double bogies in.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The final round. That never happens.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
He double bogied won and lost the lead immediately to Bryson,
and then he double bogeed thirteen and then only had
a one shot lead against Justin Rose, not to mention
the two double bogies that he had in the first
round of his tournament.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
What that tells me.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Is that his play outside of the double bogies and
maybe a bogey.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Here and there was so outrageously good.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
That if he doesn't double bogie, he wins the Masters
by ten and it's not even a close call.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But it was cool to see Rory McElroy.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Celebrate after his win because this has been hanging over
his head for eleven years, really even longer than that
because of his twenty eleven or twenty twelve debacle on
ten where he hid it into the cabins, So it's
really been thirteen fourteen years of can I ever win
(19:36):
a Master's? Can I ever fight off these deamons incomplete
the career Grand Slam? Because not many players complete the
career Grand Slam. Phil Mickelson has never done it, Jordan
Speith has not done it yet and isn't.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Really looking like he's going to.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's only like five players that have completed the career
Grand Slam, and now Rory McElroy joins that list of
greats to do it. And when he knocked down that
final putt in the playoff, all of the emotion Jim
Nott nance says he falls to the sacred sod just
(20:16):
knocked Rory down, and all of the questions.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
About is this your year? Do you feel good about it? Like?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Are you gonna complete the career Grand Slam? Do you
think you have it in you? How can you overcome
these demons? All those questions are now gone, and he's
been answering those questions for thirteen.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Years, And how annoying would that be?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
And he walks off the golf course gets as his
wife and daughter, and it's really a story of a
dude persevering. And I'm not a big fan of Rory personally.
I can't really explain why he makes a shot, and
I don't like his reactions to shots for some reason.
(20:58):
It is not my style. He's almost like it's almost
like he's laughing. He did this on six or seven,
He's laughing at how good his shot was.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I don't really like that.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I guess it's not my favorite thing.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
So like most tournaments, I'm kind of cheering for the meltdown,
not even necessarily from Rory but from anybody, Like I
want the leader to come back to the pack. So
it's close, and you probably do too if you're being honest,
Like who wants a tournament won by six shots or
four shots? It's fun to come down the stretch on
(21:41):
eighteen and have a close competition. So it could have
been Jordan Speith or any other golfer on tour, and
I would have said come back to the pack because
it's boring when you have a four shot lead.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Down the stretch.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
But finally the Masters gave us a most competition down
the stretch because these last five years it has not
been my favorite major. It has not performed the best
out of all the majors because other majors had more
(22:18):
drama and better anticipation down the stretch than a guy
winning by five strokes on eighteen and he could quadruple
bogie and still win. But this Master is in twenty
twenty five, delivered and Rory now has the Queer Grand Slam.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Good for him. Thank you for watching this episode.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
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