April 21, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about how much trouble Luka Doncic and the Lakers are in after their Game 1 loss to the Timberwolves, the vibe for the Clippers after their OT loss to the Nuggets, if Cade Cunningham's Pistons lost to the Knicks due to lack of playoff experience, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's our number two, our number two, ready to go,
and it's all about the playoffs and the NBA.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yet again, how much.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Trouble are the Luka don sick Lakers in after getting
thumped in Game one by Minnesota. Looked like they were
playing a different sport. Also, mind sharing your point of
view on the Kawhi Leonard Clippers vibe after they lost
a heartbreaker in overtime in Denver and Caid Cunningham's Pistons
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lost because of the lack of experience or did they
that's the popular story going around. We'll examine that and
more right now here. It is our number two, all
dressed up for a dud. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mather Show. We are in
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from the bell as we ring the bell all night
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JJ in Renton loves to ring bells unless he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But here we are.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Hanging out together again this hour and our lead to
begin the hour, we continue our in depth team coverage
from Pro bouncy Ball, Round and round and round. Now
we talked about the games that were played on Sunday.
Not too much to dissect there. Lopsided everywhere pretty much,
I mean nothing. They came down to the bitter end
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in that. But we're gonna turn our focus what happened
on Saturday over the week, and we'll pick apart the
games on Saturday. Get back to the conversation here. We'll
start out on skid row. That's where the Lakers found themselves,
appropriately enough, because they played like they were on skid
row as the Minnesota tim.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Wolves mollywopped.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That was a mollywopping is what it was by Minnesota
against the Lakers. A beat down in La La Land.
How great was that to watch? How sweet was that?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
God? I loved it? Man was at a great game? Beautiful?
Need to package that, need that every day.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can we get three more of those for Minnesota? Three
more of those games? Anthony Edwards did not lead the way.
He was not the person driving the train, the locomotive. No, no, no,
he was in the middle. It wasn't like a box car.
He wasn't leading the way he did flirt with a triple.
W had twenty two points and Jaden McDaniels mckmagic for
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minunol so to twenty five points eleven of thirteen. He
took thirteen shots in a playoff game on the road,
a hostile environment with all those Hollywood celebrities there ready
to boo him, and he only missed two shots eleven
of thirteen, nine rebounds for the Minnesota basketball team. The
Lakers were completely emasculated. How masculated was it for the
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pathetic Lakers on their home floor in game one of
a playoff series? Even Magic Johnson, by his standards, unloaded.
Magic took to social media. Of course, he doesn't actually
use social media. What he does is he calls someone
who does know how to use social media and then
they put the message out verbatim. So he'll like say, hey,
here's here's the deal. It's kind of like in court,
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you know, have that person with the typewriter. They're typing
out everything right there is, Magic calls some what up
and they type it all out. So Magic ripped in
to the Lakers there they were the only home team
to lose on Saturday in the playoffs, and they end
up losing that game by twenty something points. But Magic
said it was one of the Lakers' worst performances this season.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, that's a bull take. Nobody else has that take.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He said they were flat, they had no energy, and
they played like it was a regular season game.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
W Actually, if they played like a regular season.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Game, they would have won, because that's usually what they
did in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Magic also took shots at podcaster JJ Reddick, who's pretending
to be a basketball coach. Where's all those basketball media
guys that were licking Reddick's toes now after that game,
that's my commentary, not Magic's. Magic said, coach JJ Reddick
did a great job all season, but he didn't do
a good job in Game one.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh, that's that's harsh.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Magic wrote, the Lakers stood around on offense, played too
much one on one basketball, and he meeting Reddick, did
not did not make any necessary adjustments.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, let us discuss the.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Question how much trouble are the Luca Huka Luka Doncik
Lakers in after Game one of the playoffs. So I've
got nineteen nineties rock monster truck and torts, not torta torts,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we're going to make a giant cookie. There's a box
full of giant cookies. This is a lemon lemon. We're
gonna make a lemon.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Cake cookie because that looks really good. All right, So
numb ber, I get a number.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, Malar scale of concern, which is the measurement that
matters more than all other measurements.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Now it goes one to ten the Malar scale of concern.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I'm not gonna sit here and be some kind
of shock jock and say it's like a thousand.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But on the Malar scale of concern, one to ten,
with ten being you're cooked.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're cooked.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Seven point five seven point five for the Lakers. On
the Mallard scale of concern, put that in your pipe
and smoke it. Seven point five seven point five for
the Lakers, you've already lost home court. Check all right,
Minnesota set the mood. It was like a nice candlelight dinner,
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and they enjoyed themselves in your own arena.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
There for all the hype all the build up everything.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You went out there and you pitdled down your leg
is what you did. You were flaccid, and the whole
world saw the whole world saw it right. It was
a surgical takedown. You should have stopped the game when
it was six to nothing. After that, all downhill, all downhill. Uh,
And it did appear. Now maybe this is just my interpretation.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What do I know?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It looked like Minnesota was playing at a different speed.
You know, it's like the varsity versus the junior varsity.
Minnesota was just quicker. They were all over the place,
and it appeared they had extra players on the court
at certain points, like it's like there's just moving around
and the yin and the yang was poetry in motion
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to watch that. And then you had Lebron James out
there lumbering around. He took eighteen shots to get nineteen points.
So I didn't play in the NBA, but that blows
eighteen shots to get nineteen points. And the combo of
Lebron and Luca turned the ball over nine times combined.
And that was really one of the stories here, the
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points off turnovers giving Minnesota easy opportunities.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But all those pointing out that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Hukah Luca Luka Dan took his first playoff game here
his kryptonite. When we talked about this during the course
of the season, all the Lakers are not a very
good defensive teams. Oh, everything's fine. They won I think
twenty of twenty four at one point. But here we are,
playoff game, game one, and all of those critiques that
you said.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh, you're just you're a hater, you know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it's like nineteen nineties rock out their limp biscuit.
They were limp. They were limp out there on the court.
And the most staggering of all, most staggering of all statistics,
Minnesota was twenty one of forty two on three point
shots in game one.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So, well, let's look down. It's not gradman there, Chuck well,
but fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But when you dig even deeper, the nerds listen to
the nerds.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So the nerds broke it down.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Of the forty two three point shots that Minnesota attempted,
how many of them were classified as wide open shots.
You gotta guess, how about twenty seven of the forty
two wide open.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Meaning the only thing that will likely stop that shot?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
From going in is the air conditioning in the gymnasium.
There's no defender in sight. It's you versus the man
versus ritten twenty seven wide open three point shots white open.
A professional basketball team allowed another team to have twenty
seven wide open shots. All right, well, so well that's
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a lot, okay, right? How many were classified as open?
How about fifteen classified as wide open? So you do
the math on that, that gets you to forty two.
That means that there were There was not a single
three point attempt that Minnesota took that came against a
tight defensive presence by the Lakers. This is what we
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were talking about. They blow, They're done, they are so
screwed the Lakers. Oh my god, that is a stagnation situation.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And the Lakers had it was playing eight on five.
They had the referees yet again as they always do, right,
the NBA always looks out for the.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Lakers, and that couldn't even help them. It was eight
on five.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Minnesota won a game a on five eight on five, unbelieve,
Outside of taking the fouls late garbage time game over,
Minnesota was whistled for twenty one personal fouls. The Lakers
had six a plus fifteen foul advantage and a team
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got blown out in their own gym. How much the
Lakers sucks so much more? I mean, I can't put
into words how bad this team.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Is right now. Horrible. All right, I'll pitch you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I will address the Komodo dragon of the room in
the Mile High City, the Denver Nuggets, who barely came back,
had to go to over time. The Nuggets sucked so
much they couldn't even get a shot up at the
end of regulation. They could have won it in regulation.
They're so inept the Nuggets. They couldn't get a shot
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up at the end of regulation, but in the end
they did pull it out in over Zion. I mean,
it really wasn't a case where the Nuggets played all
that well, we'll get to that in a second. But
the Nuggets of some people pointing out, well, Russell Westbrook
in a big three point shot, and of course I
guess they overlooked the fact that he didn't even get
a shot up at the end of regulation and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
But would you mind.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Sharing your point of view on the Kawhi Leonard Clippers
vibe as they lose Game one on the road in Denver.
So surprisingly, the Clippers are actually in much better shape
than the Lakers are for multiple reasons. I can break
this down for you. I don't know if you know
ball or not, but I know ball, and we can
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break this down. But if you think that the one
thing here the Clippers did and the Nuggets didn't really
beat them. The Clippers beat themselves. And when you beat yourself,
that's easy to clean up. It's not like there's like
the Lakers cannot think they're in good shape because Minnesota
just clocked them.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
The Timberwolves looked like they were playing a different sport
than the Lake.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The Clippers. The Nuggets aren't even that good.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It was because of self inflicted They did the old
plexical Buris thing here. They stopped driving the monster truck.
They were driving the monster truck the grave digger. They
dug their own grave.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
In this game. And it wasn't because of a great
Denver defense.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
If you know ball, you know that the Clippers gave
the game away and just don't give the game all
you win. You're better than the Nuggets. Everyone knows that
you're better than the Nuggets. They're gonna win the next game,
Denver outscored the People's team by plus twenty because of
Clipper mistakes Clipper turnovers. Kawhi Leonard had an egregious mistake
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late in this game, but seven turnovers by him. He
hasn't had that many in four years, which is probably
seven games because he doesn't played that much. But you
take away the fact that the Clippers were eighteen points
better head on, meaning not points off turnt, straight up
without the turnt. With the self inflicted mistakes by the Clippers,
the Clippers outscored the Douggets by eighteen points.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Holy crap, they suck.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Then I just blow plus eighteen belly to belly, shoulders shoulder,
face to face and ask for Russell Westbrook. Let Russ Cook,
as they say in the NFL. I know this is basketball,
but that's the guy you want. You want Russell Westbrook.
You leave him wide open. And if this guy makes
more shots at the end of games, fine. The guy
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sucks and everyone knows it. He's not a clutch player,
Russell Westbrook. If he beats it, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He is the.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Worst volume three point shooter in NBA history. Russell Westbrook
and it's really not close. We saw him fail to
even get a shot up at the end of regulation,
and we'll see how this goes. But love the clips.
Bet your mortgage, Bet your mortgage. Clips coming back Game two,
that'll be going to the clips. Now, final point to
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New York we go where Jalen Brunson scored thirty four
points and he was hobbling. Oh the drama. These guys
are all Thespians. Oh my leg's gonna fall off, My
arm's gonna fall off. Jaylen Russon had thirty four points,
campaign had eleven of his fourteen in the fourth quarter.
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The Knickerbockers storm back down big. They come back twenty
one nothing run. How do you do? Twenty one nothing run?
And they rally get an eleven point win at the Mecca.
There the crowd forming a mosh pit in Manhattan after
the game. The long suffering nick fans do not know
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that it's only the first round of the playoffs. Rather embarrassing.
There you go, so first round. The Pistons. Their NBA
record losing streak goes.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
On and on and on.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Now, at fifteen games in a row, the Pistons have
lost in the plus last time they won a playoff
game was seventeen years ago, Game four of the Eastern
Conference five Finals in eight So it's been a minute
since the Pistons won. Now there are factions of the
basketball media that have to write these nice little stories
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on these pay websites, and then the general theme is
that the reason the Pistons lost that game was because
of inexperience.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That they're not an experienced playoff.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Team and that's why they lost the game. And that
is to that, I say, nonsense. Did Cade Cunningham and
the Pistons lose because they lacked playoff experience? I say,
phoeye is what I say. Phoeie poey, foey fooy fooey
poey is what I say. Absolutely not Detroit. What they
did here, it had nothing to do with experience and
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any of that stuff. They pulled the torts, not a torta.
They pulled the torts. They sucked from head to toe
in the fourth quarter of that game. But it wasn't
because the Knicks were this amazing lockdown team. It was
not because of a lack of experience. The Knicks don't
have that much experience either. What do we do not
success When I think of kat Karl Anthony Towns from
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his days in Minnesota, I think of him flopping around
the court as a loser in many big situations where
he vanished, for example and Detroit. One of the players
that was the worst of the worst, the most egregious
for the Pistons was Tobias Harris, who had a big
first half you saw the game, and then did almost
nothing after that. And that guy's played in over sixty
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playoff games. So what's his excuse when he wrote the
vomit comet at the end of that game. So we'll
see what happens in that. But the Knicks twenty one
nothing run. Just don't check out for six seven minutes
and you're you're in fighting ship there right.
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began with some hot pro bouncy ball talk. Ferd Doc says,
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if you're a broom seller in the Minnesota area, start
increasing your price is right now. Don't wait for the
Lakers to get blown out again in game two. The
series is going to be over before it even begins.
Says for a dog absolutely, ab sosolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
King Roy says, I love the breakdown on the LA
basketball team's performances in Game one. I would love to
hear an average LA sports fans perspective and their level
of concern. So what does Lorraine now think of the
Clippers loss and will they bounce back?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
No, you're not really worried about that, Loraina.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
And I didn't watch the Clippers game.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You did not watch the Clipper games. He's not worried
about that at all.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
But if you ask me about the other.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Game, they're done right, They're cooked.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Cooked, nobody watches the Clippers games. Loraino, oh please, everyone's watching, man,
mister irrigate. Coop's panicking, by the way. He is so
freaked out.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Worried everyone's going to leave the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Clipper Yeah, he's like, this is so bad. Luca might
not even sign with the Lakers and extension. He might
just demand a trade. I can't I can't win with
these losers.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yes, I'm sure the Timberwolves is gonna shoot fifty three
percent from.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Three point believe them, wide open.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Why would they not make say that one shot.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
He was past the three point line right now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We we're talking sports here.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
The Wolves are Holland, mister irrigation says, was that James
Harden's greatest playoff performance ever? And it got wasted? He
still lost, just like he did in Houston.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Wall.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
You worry about your rock Cats there, mister irrigation. You
stay stay in your lane. You're worried about James Harden
and the Clippers. You got you worry about the the Rockets.
They're lost at home and didn't show up in the
first half.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Of that game.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Let's call the phones Lasela. Andre, who's in the Commonwealth?
Hello Andre, welcome, yes man, it's good.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
To be with you on this Sunday morning. Now listen here.
Uh we had a situation with the Houston Rocket spend
none too pleased with how they how they comported themselves,
if I can use that word. How they came out,
went on the run to start the game in the
first quarter. Then it's all downhill from there. How do
you score thirty five points and a half in an
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NBA game? What is it high school basketball?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
And then you're down twenty plus in the second half.
You store them all the way back and then you
let playoff. Jimmy, all right, steal your hootzbut steal your confidence.
The Houston Rocket. I'm looking at this team, young Lions.
All of these draft picks are going to come out
show the Warriors whose boss. The Warriors didn't even bother
to start a center. They're out there with five guards
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and forwards like Houston Rockets don't have an all star
center and stan goons.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay, well, the Wars don't really have a center anyway.
I don't think they have anyone that's halfway decent. But
you score and he scored thirty four points. By the way,
Andre not even thirty five thirty four points in the
first half, and you do that by shooting two of
twelve from three point range.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
That's how you do that, of course, Ben Okay, But
you know, again, we can talk about Oklahoma City and
mister Draymond Green, who I'm gonna get to in a second,
but talking about nobody respects Oklahoma City, Jay Gilgis Alexander
who's going to be the MVP of the NBA very soon,
just completely sidestep that, you know what I mean? Where
about the culture. We're about doing what we're supposed to
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be doing. Then they go ahead and put a fifty
piece on the Memphis Grizzlies. But back to the Houston Rockets,
all right, the Memphis Grizzlies before they decided to scuttle
themselves and fire a capable head coach, they were the
number two ranked team in the West for a majority
of the years that it was one, two, three, Houston, Memphis,
and ok see, who's the clear cut number one. I'm
just I'm very disappointed in Houston with m a Udoka
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and how they just came, you know, and all the
people saying that the Warriors, you know, and they're going
to turn things around. You know, championship team. I don't
buy that for one bit, but after what I saw
in that Game one, they can completely steal this series.
Put themselves in the second round matchup against who knows
the Clippers, the Denver Nuggets. Two teams that are Nuggets
again got rid of a good coach. Clippers. They're together,
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but they're not very talent.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You could be looking at.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Way, not very talented. What are you talking.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
We're talking about the LA Clippers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Not very talented.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Ben, Here's where it comes down.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Two Hall of famers in their starting lineup. They're not
very talent. And what do you know ball two hall
of famers in the starting lineup, James Harden and Kawhi
Leonard are both going to Hall of Fame and they were.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
They were on an absolute burner at the end of
the year.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yes, and here's why the Clippers aren't talented. I have
to explain it to people. I want Kawhi Leonard to
be healthy for this entire postseason.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
No, you don't, that's a lie. You don't want them
to be healthy. No, I do, and I don't believe
you want.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
I want to see this team be successful, but I
know you got other callers. Here's what it comes down
to with the Clippers, and yet we haven't seen Kawhi
be healthy in the playoffs since the bubble. That's why
I can't trust this team. Do I want them to
make a run and do I believe in their culture?
Do I love to into a dome?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:49):
But Kawhi, I'm hoping this is the postseason since you've
been with Toronto, that you're healthy, but since we haven't
seen it since the bubble, I can't trust you. Back
to the Rockets and Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, you're all you're bouncing around here, do you all
all the play This is a bounds bouncy ball with Andre.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We're bouncing around Andre.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Th conclusion, because you got you got people were waiting
to go here. Okay, the Rockets, it could have been okay,
see and the and the Rockets that we were looking for,
the two teams with young lions, young stars ready to go.
You're completely laid it done in the first round. You
pull me one, Shame on you. You pull me twice,
shame on me. I've lost trust for the Rocket and
that's just disappointing. And that's the spirit of this call Kawhi,
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stay healthy. We'd love to see that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
All right, just for the right there were somebody there
was like a Nugget fan, but your typical Nugget fan.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
He ran away, couldn't take the heat, so he was
on hold. But that's you know, what do you expect?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Thank you, Andre nature Boy Rights Since says the Lakers
loss was more more devastating than hearing about Lauren Sanchez
in the space.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
But I saw that at the end of the week.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Man.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Man, it's like, let's send Barbie Dolls up to space
and we're going to their astronauts.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And it's what.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
It was so bad, such a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I was trends worthy.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
And I just want to say, yes, she's up to
space for eleven minutes, and each takes time in front
of a camera looking at a camera.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh they look good, Lennies did look good.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
But why aren't you looking out the window at Earth?
Why are you making social media?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You have ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Ten minutes, bro, It's all about It's all about the engagement.
It's all about the engagement. Glenn writes and says he's upset.
He's in Seattle. He says, kjar they put a public
awareness like the PSA stuff on Sunday night in the Monday.
That happens, Glenn, that's all right. You have the iHeartRadio app.
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You can always hear this show. There are no we're
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At shipstation dot com at shipstation dot com Sports. Let's
go to Bill in Koreatown in southern California. Hello, Bill, Welcome,
I Ben.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Ben that that dude, Andre, he really broke it down,
good man.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, it was not good. That was not one. It
was better calls.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I'm saying that the Lakers are gonna bounce back, and.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You know they're not. The Lakers are done. They might
want to just give up at this point, Bill, it's
all over there. They're cooked. How about the Clippers, Oh,
Clippers are in good shape. That was a solid loss.
They blew the game. They gave the game away. The
Nuggets were not very impressive. Do you see the game?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Bill heard about it?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You heard it bout.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You didn't even see the game. You know, you know
what you're talking about. You didn't see the game? Are
you yelling out? Zubats was bots?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
What about bots? He's the MVP. Was he the mv
P of MVP of the league?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You want zoobots to be the m v P of league?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I played ball? I played Yo.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Congratulations, What number did you What number did you wear? Zero?
Number zero? Okay? Interesting?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
But I scored double bidgets?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, in the game, and you were fascinated. What position
did you play? What position did you play?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Bill? You know, you know it's a hard question.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That's a difficult question to ask a question. I mean,
I asked you the question. That's a difficult.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Barber is and we want to see YO champions And
I scored ten points?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And what position did you play?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I played ball?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Man, I know, but what position did you just played? Ball?
Guys are balling this guy Bills build a baller. They
call them build the ballard. They don't mess with Bill,
build the baller.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, you know, okay? And then yeah, four points from
the feline and six points from the field. Yeah, double.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well, there's nothing better for the ratings than hearing about
your basketball career. Bill, you really are on the pulse
and Keebo, let me tell you something. I was a
back in the north Woods domination situation. Okay, do you
understand that I would take I would take the ball
and shove it in your mouth is what I would do?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, I was, You had no chance I would. I would.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You couldn't postalize me. You couldn't even look at a poster.
If you're in the room with me. Do you understand that, Bill,
I would take the ball and hammered dunk right in
your in your face.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Right in your face.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
That's a technical It's.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Not a technical foul. It's in the course of the game.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
You just happen to be the wrong place of the
wrong time because you thought you could interfere with my
hammer dunk.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You can't do it, all right? Thank you? Bill? Go away.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
There's a Bill score ten points playing basketball but doesn't
know what position he played.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Wow, there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Of good basketball knowledge right there. That's good basketball knowledge.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Yes, La, technical foul when you like, like, if you
like hit like yell at someone.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
What could be if you could get a technical foul
for yelling at someone? You could do that you could.
You can technical foul if you there's different layers to it.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
There's yours or your shoes on the course.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
If I was the official, I'll give you a technical foul.
You'd be done. You'd be cooked, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Anyway, So this this wild story, I don't I don't
know if we have enough time for it.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
We'll do it right now.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So years ago, if you're depends how old you are,
there was a wide receiver coming out of Oklahoma State
named Justin Blackman. And this is one of those guys
built like a Donnas and was just like this.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Gonna be a great NFL player. And everyone's like, oh man,
this guy's gonna be crazy, crazy good, crazy good.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So Justin Blackman ended up getting drafted by Jacksonville and
he did not last long.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
In the NFL. He did not had had a few issues,
had a few issues.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
In fact, despite being picked at the fifth overall size,
they're going back a number of years to twenty twenty twelve.
He only played twenty games in the NFL. He broke
into the league and was pretty good, not great, but
pretty good, and the expectation was he was going to
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become a dominant figure and then he got in trouble
with substance abuse and he was done. He only played
twenty games parts of two years, and there was always
this great mystery around Justin Blackman, like what happened to him?
Why didn't he come back and play football? What's going on?
It makes no sense. And then randomly recently there was
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a mug shot that made the rounds that was released
of a person named Justin Blackman who was in some
trouble there in the state of Oklahoma. A mugshot got out,
and it appears, unless this is a tremendous deep fake,
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Justin Blackman has let himself go a little bit, let
himself go a little bit. The mugshot bearing the name
Justin Carl Blackman has been making the rounds here and
it claims the player that played in the NFL was
apprehended for public intoxication. Okay, but he looks now like
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he's ready to play on the offensive line or defensive
as he's let himself go a little bit, a little.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Bit, just a little bit there.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And it's it's rather shocking when you remember him playing
in the NFL and he was in shape and all
that stuff, and now he's kind of doing the Pillsbury
the dull boy thing.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You know what I'm saying. It's nice.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Maybe he's the opera of NFL.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, it's not a great look, but it's rather shocking.
Rus you of the kid Goldberg from Mighty Ducks when
you saw a photo of Goldberg and he was like
on crack and you're like, dude, what happened to Goldberg?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
But this is the opposite. This is like eating too
many donuts, you know, and the whole thing. Have you
seen the mugshot Cooper Loop of Justin Blackman? Have you
found the mugshot?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I have not, okay, but I do know that the
dude for the Mighty Ducks he's doing better now, Oh
good good.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Goldberg he was in Sacramento, right, he was on the
streets of Sacramento or something like that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, that much shot was bad.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, But I am now looking at the Blackman mugshot.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, he looks like Collaring James, right, he looks nothing.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
That's not the same person.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, I think it is. Yeah, definitely, the eyes are
the same. It's just he's got a lot more stuff
going on there.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, look at look at the shape of his ead
and the nose and the eyes are the same, but
the chin is definitely different.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
And yeah, we're looking at the left to right photo.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Right, Yeah, no, that's the same. I'm telling you shocking.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
The photo on the right, it's probably like ten plus
years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, he didn't. He hasn't played in the NFL in
over a decade, so it's it's been Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And this picture that we're comparing at is from his
college days.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
No, it is, that's the before and after. That's uh, well,
that's that's the after and the before. Actually it's with it.
That's that is unfortunate. It is the Ben Malors Show.
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player since the merger to score forty or more points
in a winner take all, play in or playoff game,
only to see his team lose by double digits again.
Anthony Davis recently joined Blank as the second player since
the merger to score forty or more points in a
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winner take all, play in or playoff game, only to
see his team lose by double digits.
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Do you have an answer the radar?
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Uh Yeah, it was gonna be Harley Quinn.
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Believe that was against the Clippers, by the way, all right,
here we.
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Speaker 3 (36:51):
Right, cooplo So ahead of the Pistons series against the Knicks,
longtime Pistons announcer George Blaha fla, yeah, I had nothing
but praise for the form number one pick Kad Cunningham,
saying that the Pistons have a chance down the road
to win a championship. Now, Ben, despite losing game one,
do you think that Detroit has finally entered a new
era of legit competitiveness?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Do I think they're gonna win a championship anytime soon?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Do I think they could be a playoff team in
the East every year for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Absolutely, But Blaha's on the payroll. What do you expect
Blaha to say? He's literally in the tank for the
Pistons next.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
With Arch Manning set to take over for the Longhorns
next season, coach Sarkisian said over the weekend that Manning
takes after his grandfather more so than his uncles. And
that he has surprising athleticism for his size. Ben, do
you expect arch to lead Texas back into the college
football playoffs?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
No, here's what I expect.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I expect the hype for the twenty twenty six NFL
Draft Arch Manning top pick in the draft. They'll be
teams tanking right and left. That's what I Don't think
Texas is going to be back in the playoffs, but
Arch Manning. You can hear nothing but Arch Manning stories
from college football for the next you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
The season begins here in the fall. Next.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
The latest hot draft prediction has the Raiders taken Ashtroon
genty with the number six overall pick in the draft. However,
some analysts are saying that this would be a bad
move for Vegas. Yeah, Ben, do you agree?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm I'm not taking a running back in the top
ten of the draft.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I'm not. I mean, this guy just looks like a
good player. I just wouldn't do it. I would about
squad barks for you, Okay, I got you. I still
wouldn't do it. It's a replaceable position. I wouldn't do it.
How do we know he passes? That is put on?
I won the do I won. He dog eat dog.
I won the game.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
He dog goo
Ding dong. Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's our number two, our number two, ready to go,
and it's all about the playoffs and the NBA.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yet again, how much.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Trouble are the Luka don sick Lakers in after getting
thumped in Game one by Minnesota. Looked like they were
playing a different sport. Also, mind sharing your point of
view on the Kawhi Leonard Clippers vibe after they lost
a heartbreaker in overtime in Denver and Caid Cunningham's Pistons
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lost because of the lack of experience or did they
that's the popular story going around. We'll examine that and
more right now here. It is our number two, all
dressed up for a dud. Welcome in the beginning of
another hour of the Ben Mather Show. We are in
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JJ in Renton loves to ring bells unless he doesn't.
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But here we are.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Hanging out together again this hour and our lead to
begin the hour, we continue our in depth team coverage
from Pro bouncy Ball, Round and round and round. Now
we talked about the games that were played on Sunday.
Not too much to dissect there. Lopsided everywhere pretty much,
I mean nothing. They came down to the bitter end
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in that. But we're gonna turn our focus what happened
on Saturday over the week, and we'll pick apart the
games on Saturday. Get back to the conversation here. We'll
start out on skid row. That's where the Lakers found themselves,
appropriately enough, because they played like they were on skid
row as the Minnesota tim.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Wolves mollywopped.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That was a mollywopping is what it was by Minnesota
against the Lakers. A beat down in La La Land.
How great was that to watch? How sweet was that?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
God? I loved it? Man was at a great game? Beautiful?
Need to package that, need that every day.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can we get three more of those for Minnesota? Three
more of those games? Anthony Edwards did not lead the way.
He was not the person driving the train, the locomotive. No, no, no,
he was in the middle. It wasn't like a box car.
He wasn't leading the way he did flirt with a triple.
W had twenty two points and Jaden McDaniels mckmagic for
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minunol so to twenty five points eleven of thirteen. He
took thirteen shots in a playoff game on the road,
a hostile environment with all those Hollywood celebrities there ready
to boo him, and he only missed two shots eleven
of thirteen, nine rebounds for the Minnesota basketball team. The
Lakers were completely emasculated. How masculated was it for the
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pathetic Lakers on their home floor in game one of
a playoff series? Even Magic Johnson, by his standards, unloaded.
Magic took to social media. Of course, he doesn't actually
use social media. What he does is he calls someone
who does know how to use social media and then
they put the message out verbatim. So he'll like say, hey,
here's here's the deal. It's kind of like in court,
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you know, have that person with the typewriter. They're typing
out everything right there is, Magic calls some what up
and they type it all out. So Magic ripped in
to the Lakers there they were the only home team
to lose on Saturday in the playoffs, and they end
up losing that game by twenty something points. But Magic
said it was one of the Lakers' worst performances this season.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, that's a bull take. Nobody else has that take.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He said they were flat, they had no energy, and
they played like it was a regular season game.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
W Actually, if they played like a regular season.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Game, they would have won, because that's usually what they
did in the regular season.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But wait, there's more.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Magic also took shots at podcaster JJ Reddick, who's pretending
to be a basketball coach. Where's all those basketball media
guys that were licking Reddick's toes now after that game,
that's my commentary, not Magic's. Magic said, coach JJ Reddick
did a great job all season, but he didn't do
a good job in Game one.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh, that's that's harsh.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Magic wrote, the Lakers stood around on offense, played too
much one on one basketball, and he meeting Reddick, did
not did not make any necessary adjustments.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right, let us discuss the.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Question how much trouble are the Luca Huka Luka Doncik
Lakers in after Game one of the playoffs. So I've
got nineteen nineties rock monster truck and torts, not torta torts,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we're going to make a giant cookie. There's a box
full of giant cookies. This is a lemon lemon. We're
gonna make a lemon.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Cake cookie because that looks really good. All right, So
numb ber, I get a number.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, Malar scale of concern, which is the measurement that
matters more than all other measurements.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Now it goes one to ten the Malar scale of concern.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I'm not gonna sit here and be some kind
of shock jock and say it's like a thousand.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
But on the Malar scale of concern, one to ten,
with ten being you're cooked.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
You're cooked.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Seven point five seven point five for the Lakers. On
the Mallard scale of concern, put that in your pipe
and smoke it. Seven point five seven point five for
the Lakers, you've already lost home court. Check all right,
Minnesota set the mood. It was like a nice candlelight dinner,
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and they enjoyed themselves in your own arena.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
There for all the hype all the build up everything.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You went out there and you pitdled down your leg
is what you did. You were flaccid, and the whole
world saw the whole world saw it right. It was
a surgical takedown. You should have stopped the game when
it was six to nothing. After that, all downhill, all downhill. Uh,
And it did appear. Now maybe this is just my interpretation.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
What do I know?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It looked like Minnesota was playing at a different speed.
You know, it's like the varsity versus the junior varsity.
Minnesota was just quicker. They were all over the place,
and it appeared they had extra players on the court
at certain points, like it's like there's just moving around
and the yin and the yang was poetry in motion
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to watch that. And then you had Lebron James out
there lumbering around. He took eighteen shots to get nineteen points.
So I didn't play in the NBA, but that blows
eighteen shots to get nineteen points. And the combo of
Lebron and Luca turned the ball over nine times combined.
And that was really one of the stories here, the
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points off turnovers giving Minnesota easy opportunities.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But all those pointing out that.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Hukah Luca Luka Dan took his first playoff game here
his kryptonite. When we talked about this during the course
of the season, all the Lakers are not a very
good defensive teams. Oh, everything's fine. They won I think
twenty of twenty four at one point. But here we are,
playoff game, game one, and all of those critiques that
you said.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Oh, you're just you're a hater, you know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, it's like nineteen nineties rock out their limp biscuit.
They were limp. They were limp out there on the court.
And the most staggering of all, most staggering of all statistics,
Minnesota was twenty one of forty two on three point
shots in game one.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So, well, let's look down. It's not gradman there, Chuck well,
but fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But when you dig even deeper, the nerds listen to
the nerds.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So the nerds broke it down.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Of the forty two three point shots that Minnesota attempted,
how many of them were classified as wide open shots.
You gotta guess, how about twenty seven of the forty
two wide open.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Meaning the only thing that will likely stop that shot?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
From going in is the air conditioning in the gymnasium.
There's no defender in sight. It's you versus the man
versus ritten twenty seven wide open three point shots white open.
A professional basketball team allowed another team to have twenty
seven wide open shots. All right, well, so well that's
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a lot, okay, right? How many were classified as open?
How about fifteen classified as wide open? So you do
the math on that, that gets you to forty two.
That means that there were There was not a single
three point attempt that Minnesota took that came against a
tight defensive presence by the Lakers. This is what we
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were talking about. They blow, They're done, they are so
screwed the Lakers. Oh my god, that is a stagnation situation.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
And the Lakers had it was playing eight on five.
They had the referees yet again as they always do, right,
the NBA always looks out for the.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Lakers, and that couldn't even help them. It was eight
on five.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Minnesota won a game a on five eight on five, unbelieve,
Outside of taking the fouls late garbage time game over,
Minnesota was whistled for twenty one personal fouls. The Lakers
had six a plus fifteen foul advantage and a team
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got blown out in their own gym. How much the
Lakers sucks so much more? I mean, I can't put
into words how bad this team.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Is right now. Horrible. All right, I'll pitch you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I will address the Komodo dragon of the room in
the Mile High City, the Denver Nuggets, who barely came back,
had to go to over time. The Nuggets sucked so
much they couldn't even get a shot up at the
end of regulation. They could have won it in regulation.
They're so inept the Nuggets. They couldn't get a shot
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up at the end of regulation, but in the end
they did pull it out in over Zion. I mean,
it really wasn't a case where the Nuggets played all
that well, we'll get to that in a second. But
the Nuggets of some people pointing out, well, Russell Westbrook
in a big three point shot, and of course I
guess they overlooked the fact that he didn't even get
a shot up at the end of regulation and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
But would you mind.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Sharing your point of view on the Kawhi Leonard Clippers
vibe as they lose Game one on the road in Denver.
So surprisingly, the Clippers are actually in much better shape
than the Lakers are for multiple reasons. I can break
this down for you. I don't know if you know
ball or not, but I know ball, and we can
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break this down. But if you think that the one
thing here the Clippers did and the Nuggets didn't really
beat them. The Clippers beat themselves. And when you beat yourself,
that's easy to clean up. It's not like there's like
the Lakers cannot think they're in good shape because Minnesota
just clocked them.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
The Timberwolves looked like they were playing a different sport
than the Lake.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The Clippers. The Nuggets aren't even that good.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It was because of self inflicted They did the old
plexical Buris thing here. They stopped driving the monster truck.
They were driving the monster truck the grave digger. They
dug their own grave.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
In this game. And it wasn't because of a great
Denver defense.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
If you know ball, you know that the Clippers gave
the game away and just don't give the game all
you win. You're better than the Nuggets. Everyone knows that
you're better than the Nuggets. They're gonna win the next game,
Denver outscored the People's team by plus twenty because of
Clipper mistakes Clipper turnovers. Kawhi Leonard had an egregious mistake
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late in this game, but seven turnovers by him. He
hasn't had that many in four years, which is probably
seven games because he doesn't played that much. But you
take away the fact that the Clippers were eighteen points
better head on, meaning not points off turnt, straight up
without the turnt. With the self inflicted mistakes by the Clippers,
the Clippers outscored the Douggets by eighteen points.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Holy crap, they suck.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Then I just blow plus eighteen belly to belly, shoulders shoulder,
face to face and ask for Russell Westbrook. Let Russ Cook,
as they say in the NFL. I know this is basketball,
but that's the guy you want. You want Russell Westbrook.
You leave him wide open. And if this guy makes
more shots at the end of games, fine. The guy
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sucks and everyone knows it. He's not a clutch player,
Russell Westbrook. If he beats it, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He is the.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Worst volume three point shooter in NBA history. Russell Westbrook
and it's really not close. We saw him fail to
even get a shot up at the end of regulation,
and we'll see how this goes. But love the clips.
Bet your mortgage, Bet your mortgage. Clips coming back Game two,
that'll be going to the clips. Now, final point to
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New York we go where Jalen Brunson scored thirty four
points and he was hobbling. Oh the drama. These guys
are all Thespians. Oh my leg's gonna fall off, My
arm's gonna fall off. Jaylen Russon had thirty four points,
campaign had eleven of his fourteen in the fourth quarter.
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The Knickerbockers storm back down big. They come back twenty
one nothing run. How do you do? Twenty one nothing run?
And they rally get an eleven point win at the Mecca.
There the crowd forming a mosh pit in Manhattan after
the game. The long suffering nick fans do not know
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that it's only the first round of the playoffs. Rather embarrassing.
There you go, so first round. The Pistons. Their NBA
record losing streak goes.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
On and on and on.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Now, at fifteen games in a row, the Pistons have
lost in the plus last time they won a playoff
game was seventeen years ago, Game four of the Eastern
Conference five Finals in eight So it's been a minute
since the Pistons won. Now there are factions of the
basketball media that have to write these nice little stories
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on these pay websites, and then the general theme is
that the reason the Pistons lost that game was because
of inexperience.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That they're not an experienced playoff.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Team and that's why they lost the game. And that
is to that, I say, nonsense. Did Cade Cunningham and
the Pistons lose because they lacked playoff experience? I say,
phoeye is what I say. Phoeie poey, foey fooy fooey
poey is what I say. Absolutely not Detroit. What they
did here, it had nothing to do with experience and
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any of that stuff. They pulled the torts, not a torta.
They pulled the torts. They sucked from head to toe
in the fourth quarter of that game. But it wasn't
because the Knicks were this amazing lockdown team. It was
not because of a lack of experience. The Knicks don't
have that much experience either. What do we do not
success When I think of kat Karl Anthony Towns from
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his days in Minnesota, I think of him flopping around
the court as a loser in many big situations where
he vanished, for example and Detroit. One of the players
that was the worst of the worst, the most egregious
for the Pistons was Tobias Harris, who had a big
first half you saw the game, and then did almost
nothing after that. And that guy's played in over sixty
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playoff games. So what's his excuse when he wrote the
vomit comet at the end of that game. So we'll
see what happens in that. But the Knicks twenty one
nothing run. Just don't check out for six seven minutes
and you're you're in fighting ship there right.
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are you Smarter than the FSR Tech Queen? But we
began with some hot pro bouncy ball talk. Ferd Doc says,
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if you're a broom seller in the Minnesota area, start
increasing your price is right now. Don't wait for the
Lakers to get blown out again in game two. The
series is going to be over before it even begins.
Says for a dog absolutely, ab sosolutely.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
King Roy says, I love the breakdown on the LA
basketball team's performances in Game one. I would love to
hear an average LA sports fans perspective and their level
of concern. So what does Lorraine now think of the
Clippers loss and will they bounce back?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
No, you're not really worried about that, Loraina.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
And I didn't watch the Clippers game.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You did not watch the Clipper games. He's not worried
about that at all.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
But if you ask me about the other.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Game, they're done right, They're cooked.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Cooked, nobody watches the Clippers games. Loraino, oh please, everyone's watching, man,
mister irrigate. Coop's panicking, by the way. He is so
freaked out.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Worried everyone's going to leave the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Clipper Yeah, he's like, this is so bad. Luca might
not even sign with the Lakers and extension. He might
just demand a trade. I can't I can't win with
these losers.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yes, I'm sure the Timberwolves is gonna shoot fifty three
percent from.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Three point believe them, wide open.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Why would they not make say that one shot.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
He was past the three point line right now.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
We we're talking sports here.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
The Wolves are Holland, mister irrigation says, was that James
Harden's greatest playoff performance ever? And it got wasted? He
still lost, just like he did in Houston.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Wall.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
You worry about your rock Cats there, mister irrigation. You
stay stay in your lane. You're worried about James Harden
and the Clippers. You got you worry about the the Rockets.
They're lost at home and didn't show up in the
first half.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Of that game.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Let's call the phones Lasela. Andre, who's in the Commonwealth?
Hello Andre, welcome, yes man, it's good.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
To be with you on this Sunday morning. Now listen here.
Uh we had a situation with the Houston Rocket spend
none too pleased with how they how they comported themselves,
if I can use that word. How they came out,
went on the run to start the game in the
first quarter. Then it's all downhill from there. How do
you score thirty five points and a half in an
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NBA game? What is it high school basketball?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Okay?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
And then you're down twenty plus in the second half.
You store them all the way back and then you
let playoff. Jimmy, all right, steal your hootzbut steal your confidence.
The Houston Rocket. I'm looking at this team, young Lions.
All of these draft picks are going to come out
show the Warriors whose boss. The Warriors didn't even bother
to start a center. They're out there with five guards
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and forwards like Houston Rockets don't have an all star
center and stan goons.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay, well, the Wars don't really have a center anyway.
I don't think they have anyone that's halfway decent. But
you score and he scored thirty four points. By the way,
Andre not even thirty five thirty four points in the
first half, and you do that by shooting two of
twelve from three point range.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
That's how you do that, of course, Ben Okay, But
you know, again, we can talk about Oklahoma City and
mister Draymond Green, who I'm gonna get to in a second,
but talking about nobody respects Oklahoma City, Jay Gilgis Alexander
who's going to be the MVP of the NBA very soon,
just completely sidestep that, you know what I mean? Where
about the culture. We're about doing what we're supposed to
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be doing. Then they go ahead and put a fifty
piece on the Memphis Grizzlies. But back to the Houston Rockets,
all right, the Memphis Grizzlies before they decided to scuttle
themselves and fire a capable head coach, they were the
number two ranked team in the West for a majority
of the years that it was one, two, three, Houston, Memphis,
and ok see, who's the clear cut number one. I'm
just I'm very disappointed in Houston with m a Udoka
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and how they just came, you know, and all the
people saying that the Warriors, you know, and they're going
to turn things around. You know, championship team. I don't
buy that for one bit, but after what I saw
in that Game one, they can completely steal this series.
Put themselves in the second round matchup against who knows
the Clippers, the Denver Nuggets. Two teams that are Nuggets
again got rid of a good coach. Clippers. They're together,
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but they're not very talent.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
You could be looking at.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Way, not very talented. What are you talking.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
We're talking about the LA Clippers.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Not very talented.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
Ben, Here's where it comes down.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Two Hall of famers in their starting lineup. They're not
very talent. And what do you know ball two hall
of famers in the starting lineup, James Harden and Kawhi
Leonard are both going to Hall of Fame and they were.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
They were on an absolute burner at the end of
the year.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yes, and here's why the Clippers aren't talented. I have
to explain it to people. I want Kawhi Leonard to
be healthy for this entire postseason.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
No, you don't, that's a lie. You don't want them
to be healthy. No, I do, and I don't believe
you want.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
I want to see this team be successful, but I
know you got other callers. Here's what it comes down
to with the Clippers, and yet we haven't seen Kawhi
be healthy in the playoffs since the bubble. That's why
I can't trust this team. Do I want them to
make a run and do I believe in their culture?
Do I love to into a dome?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (23:49):
But Kawhi, I'm hoping this is the postseason since you've
been with Toronto, that you're healthy, but since we haven't
seen it since the bubble, I can't trust you. Back
to the Rockets and Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Well, you're all you're bouncing around here, do you all
all the play This is a bounds bouncy ball with Andre.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
We're bouncing around Andre.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Th conclusion, because you got you got people were waiting
to go here. Okay, the Rockets, it could have been okay,
see and the and the Rockets that we were looking for,
the two teams with young lions, young stars ready to go.
You're completely laid it done in the first round. You
pull me one, Shame on you. You pull me twice,
shame on me. I've lost trust for the Rocket and
that's just disappointing. And that's the spirit of this call Kawhi,
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stay healthy. We'd love to see that.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
All right, just for the right there were somebody there
was like a Nugget fan, but your typical Nugget fan.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
He ran away, couldn't take the heat, so he was
on hold. But that's you know, what do you expect?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Thank you, Andre nature Boy Rights Since says the Lakers
loss was more more devastating than hearing about Lauren Sanchez
in the space.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
But I saw that at the end of the week.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Man.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Man, it's like, let's send Barbie Dolls up to space
and we're going to their astronauts.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And it's what.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
It was so bad, such a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
I was trends worthy.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
And I just want to say, yes, she's up to
space for eleven minutes, and each takes time in front
of a camera looking at a camera.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh they look good, Lennies did look good.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
But why aren't you looking out the window at Earth?
Why are you making social media?
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You have ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Ten minutes, bro, It's all about It's all about the engagement.
It's all about the engagement. Glenn writes and says he's upset.
He's in Seattle. He says, kjar they put a public
awareness like the PSA stuff on Sunday night in the Monday.
That happens, Glenn, that's all right. You have the iHeartRadio app.
(25:38):
You can always hear this show. There are no we're
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So you can that's a backup. Now, you should listen
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At shipstation dot com at shipstation dot com Sports. Let's
go to Bill in Koreatown in southern California. Hello, Bill, Welcome,
I Ben.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Ben that that dude, Andre, he really broke it down,
good man.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, it was not good. That was not one. It
was better calls.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I'm saying that the Lakers are gonna bounce back, and.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
You know they're not. The Lakers are done. They might
want to just give up at this point, Bill, it's
all over there. They're cooked. How about the Clippers, Oh,
Clippers are in good shape. That was a solid loss.
They blew the game. They gave the game away. The
Nuggets were not very impressive. Do you see the game?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Bill heard about it?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
You heard it bout.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You didn't even see the game. You know, you know
what you're talking about. You didn't see the game? Are
you yelling out? Zubats was bots?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
What about bots? He's the MVP. Was he the mv
P of MVP of the league?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You want zoobots to be the m v P of league?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
I played ball? I played Yo.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Congratulations, What number did you What number did you wear? Zero?
Number zero? Okay? Interesting?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
But I scored double bidgets?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, in the game, and you were fascinated. What position
did you play? What position did you play?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Bill? You know, you know it's a hard question.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That's a difficult question to ask a question. I mean,
I asked you the question. That's a difficult.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Barber is and we want to see YO champions And
I scored ten points?
Speaker 1 (27:51):
And what position did you play?
Speaker 4 (27:52):
I played ball?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Man, I know, but what position did you just played? Ball?
Guys are balling this guy Bills build a baller. They
call them build the ballard. They don't mess with Bill,
build the baller.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, you know, okay? And then yeah, four points from
the feline and six points from the field. Yeah, double.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Well, there's nothing better for the ratings than hearing about
your basketball career. Bill, you really are on the pulse
and Keebo, let me tell you something. I was a
back in the north Woods domination situation. Okay, do you
understand that I would take I would take the ball
and shove it in your mouth is what I would do?
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay, I was, You had no chance I would. I would.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You couldn't postalize me. You couldn't even look at a poster.
If you're in the room with me. Do you understand that, Bill,
I would take the ball and hammered dunk right in
your in your face.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Right in your face.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
That's a technical It's.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Not a technical foul. It's in the course of the game.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
You just happen to be the wrong place of the
wrong time because you thought you could interfere with my
hammer dunk.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You can't do it, all right? Thank you? Bill? Go away.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
There's a Bill score ten points playing basketball but doesn't
know what position he played.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Wow, there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Of good basketball knowledge right there. That's good basketball knowledge.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
Yes, La, technical foul when you like, like, if you
like hit like yell at someone.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
What could be if you could get a technical foul
for yelling at someone? You could do that you could.
You can technical foul if you there's different layers to it.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
There's yours or your shoes on the course.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
If I was the official, I'll give you a technical foul.
You'd be done. You'd be cooked, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Anyway, So this this wild story, I don't I don't
know if we have enough time for it.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
We'll do it right now.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So years ago, if you're depends how old you are,
there was a wide receiver coming out of Oklahoma State
named Justin Blackman. And this is one of those guys
built like a Donnas and was just like this.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Gonna be a great NFL player. And everyone's like, oh man,
this guy's gonna be crazy, crazy good, crazy good.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So Justin Blackman ended up getting drafted by Jacksonville and
he did not last long.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
In the NFL. He did not had had a few issues,
had a few issues.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
In fact, despite being picked at the fifth overall size,
they're going back a number of years to twenty twenty twelve.
He only played twenty games in the NFL. He broke
into the league and was pretty good, not great, but
pretty good, and the expectation was he was going to
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become a dominant figure and then he got in trouble
with substance abuse and he was done. He only played
twenty games parts of two years, and there was always
this great mystery around Justin Blackman, like what happened to him?
Why didn't he come back and play football? What's going on?
It makes no sense. And then randomly recently there was
(31:11):
a mug shot that made the rounds that was released
of a person named Justin Blackman who was in some
trouble there in the state of Oklahoma. A mugshot got out,
and it appears, unless this is a tremendous deep fake,
(31:33):
Justin Blackman has let himself go a little bit, let
himself go a little bit. The mugshot bearing the name
Justin Carl Blackman has been making the rounds here and
it claims the player that played in the NFL was
apprehended for public intoxication. Okay, but he looks now like
(31:55):
he's ready to play on the offensive line or defensive
as he's let himself go a little bit, a little.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Bit, just a little bit there.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And it's it's rather shocking when you remember him playing
in the NFL and he was in shape and all
that stuff, and now he's kind of doing the Pillsbury
the dull boy thing.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
You know what I'm saying. It's nice.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Maybe he's the opera of NFL.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, it's not a great look, but it's rather shocking.
Rus you of the kid Goldberg from Mighty Ducks when
you saw a photo of Goldberg and he was like
on crack and you're like, dude, what happened to Goldberg?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
You know?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
But this is the opposite. This is like eating too
many donuts, you know, and the whole thing. Have you
seen the mugshot Cooper Loop of Justin Blackman? Have you
found the mugshot?
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I have not, okay, but I do know that the
dude for the Mighty Ducks he's doing better now, Oh
good good.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Goldberg he was in Sacramento, right, he was on the
streets of Sacramento or something like that.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Yeah, that much shot was bad.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yes, But I am now looking at the Blackman mugshot.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, he looks like Collaring James, right, he looks nothing.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
That's not the same person.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, I think it is. Yeah, definitely, the eyes are
the same. It's just he's got a lot more stuff
going on there.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah, look at look at the shape of his ead
and the nose and the eyes are the same, but
the chin is definitely different.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
And yeah, we're looking at the left to right photo.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Right, Yeah, no, that's the same. I'm telling you shocking.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
The photo on the right, it's probably like ten plus
years ago.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, he didn't. He hasn't played in the NFL in
over a decade, so it's it's been Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And this picture that we're comparing at is from his
college days.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
No, it is, that's the before and after. That's uh, well,
that's that's the after and the before. Actually it's with it.
That's that is unfortunate. It is the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
As we are working our way through the overnight hours,
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Speaker 1 (33:58):
Time now for the inch to Trivia.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Mavericks center Anthony Davis recently joined Blank as the second
player since the merger to score forty or more points
in a winner take all, play in or playoff game,
only to see his team lose by double digits again.
Anthony Davis recently joined Blank as the second player since
the merger to score forty or more points in a
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winner take all, play in or playoff game, only to
see his team lose by double digits.
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That is the Insta trivia. The answer, We'll get to it.
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Thank God for the Internet.
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All right, as I been.
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Time Now for the Insta trivia. That's right the install trivia.
How exciting is that? And here we go, Here we go,
Maverick Center. Anthony Davis recently joined Blank as the second
player since the NBA ABA merger to score forty or
more points in a winner take all play in the
game or playoff game. And see his team lose by
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double digits. And let's see as anyone on the answer.
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Speaker 1 (36:08):
Know the answer?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
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zip good to hear from the Roastmaster General Tilman for
Tita from Mister Irrigation page down, John Snow from Scrooge
Uh right Iron Mike Tyson guessed by Alf the Alien
ou Putter Bill Laimbeer from Eke JT The Wingman going
with Jose Sombrero as his answer.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Do you have an answer the radar?
Speaker 6 (36:32):
Uh Yeah, it was gonna be Harley Quinn.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
No it's Luca back with the Mavericks in twenty twenty one.
Believe that was against the Clippers, by the way, all right,
here we.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Go go, it's here we go to third degree. This
is one big Ben gets grill, all.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Right, cooplo So ahead of the Pistons series against the Knicks,
longtime Pistons announcer George Blaha fla, yeah, I had nothing
but praise for the form number one pick Kad Cunningham,
saying that the Pistons have a chance down the road
to win a championship. Now, Ben, despite losing game one,
do you think that Detroit has finally entered a new
era of legit competitiveness?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Do I think they're gonna win a championship anytime soon?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Do I think they could be a playoff team in
the East every year for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Absolutely, But Blaha's on the payroll. What do you expect
Blaha to say? He's literally in the tank for the
Pistons next.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
With Arch Manning set to take over for the Longhorns
next season, coach Sarkisian said over the weekend that Manning
takes after his grandfather more so than his uncles. And
that he has surprising athleticism for his size. Ben, do
you expect arch to lead Texas back into the college
football playoffs?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
No, here's what I expect.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I expect the hype for the twenty twenty six NFL
Draft Arch Manning top pick in the draft. They'll be
teams tanking right and left. That's what I Don't think
Texas is going to be back in the playoffs, but
Arch Manning. You can hear nothing but Arch Manning stories
from college football for the next you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
The season begins here in the fall. Next.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
The latest hot draft prediction has the Raiders taken Ashtroon
genty with the number six overall pick in the draft. However,
some analysts are saying that this would be a bad
move for Vegas. Yeah, Ben, do you agree?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm I'm not taking a running back in the top
ten of the draft.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I'm not. I mean, this guy just looks like a
good player. I just wouldn't do it. I would about
squad barks for you, Okay, I got you. I still
wouldn't do it. It's a replaceable position. I wouldn't do it.
How do we know he passes? That is put on?
I won the do I won. He dog eat dog.
I won the game.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
He dog goo
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