April 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about who is to blame for the Bucks digging a giant hole in their series against the Pacers, NBA players voting Tyrese Haliburton as the most overrated player in the league, if SGA's Thunder should be getting more credit for their beatdown of the Grizzlies, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our du two, our number two, ready to go,
and a happy Wednesday to you and pro bouncy ball
the flavor of the hour. And we start out with
the Bucks. They didn't do much, didn't have a lead
in Game two of their series. As Milwaukee goes down
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in Indianapolis. Who do you blame for the Greek freaks
Bucks digging a giant hole with the Pacers. We'll talk
about that. Also, NBA players voted Tyrese Haliburton as most
overrated player in the league. What does that mean? We'll
discuss and should shake gilgos Alexander's thunder? Who are plus
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seventy be getting more credit for these beatdowns of the Grizzlies.
We'll discuss that as well. It is all coming your
way right now here. It is our number two. A
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all right, So our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball.
We'll get back to the Lakers and the Timberwolves. Bad
win for the Lakers. Talk more about that later, but
our lead this hour from the Eastern Conference side of
the bracket. The early game. This was the game that
where the Dunce cap. It was on NBA TV, which
is where you do not want to be. You don't
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want to be on NBA TV. That's the Hey, you're
the ugly redheaded stepchild of the playoff schedule. We'll put
your game on there. So it was opening around action.
We'll start out in Indianapolis where Dame Lillard, Dame Time,
all those big shots with the Trailblazers back in the day.
So Dame Lillard returning to the Bucks and they were
looking to even things up in game two and steal
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home court advantage away from the Pacers. So I'm sure
if you were a witness to this, let me tell
you something I care about you. Okay, I could have
gone out and done stuff. I could have had a life.
I sat on my ass. I risked getting hemorrhoids to
watch all these stupid games. Here we are, all right.
So Pascal Siakam, who as long as he plays, I
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will smile when I hear the man's name. And if
you're a real p one of this show, you know
why we love Pascal Siakam. It's our friend Marcel and Brooklyn.
But anyway, Pascal Siakam, I make sure I say that right.
Twenty four points, eleven rebounds, and a crucial three pointer
in the late stages of that game, and that was
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the thing that sparked that final flurry, if you will,
for the Pacers. While tyresee Halliburton more on him in
a minute. Twenty one points twelve assists as Indiana gets
past Milwaukee twenty three to one fifteen the final. The
Pacers are now just two wins away from ousting the
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Bucks and doing that again. If you've seen this before,
you have, you're not imagining that you have seen this before.
Indiana has now won five of the last six playoff
games between these teams, and they led this one wire
to wire, from zero zero to end of game, from
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beginning to end the whole thing. There. Now the better story.
You know where the better story is. That's right, the
losing locker room. So that is where we go the
better story. So let's discuss who do you blame for
the Greek freaks Bucks digging a giant hole in this
series with the Pacers. Who you blame? Who you blame?
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So I've got jukebox, Headliner and rubber Ducky and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make cotton candy, which is what the Milwaukee
Bucks defense was like cotton candy in this particular game.
So numb burn? Can I get a numb burn? A
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lot of blame cheese curds to go around, and it's
not so bad when you play Milwaukee and you lose
because cheese curds are delicious, So a lot of blame
cheese curds. Now, this Milwaukee team was man handled in
the early part of the game. They were absolutely manhattle.
Now they got back into the game, but they never
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fully recovered, similar to what happened in that Laker Minnesota game.
Similar situation, like the Lakers came out, jumped out, and
Minnesota didn't play all that well, yet they worked their
way back in Milwaukee didn't play all that well. They
were better offensively, and they worked their way back into
the game, but for the most part, the defensive side
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of things bad to the bone. Bad to the bone.
And if you were to crank up the jukebox, which
some places still have, you don't really need it now
because you got that on your phone. But if you
crank up the old music box there, the pure rock
tune would be Robert Palmers back of the day, Doctor Doctor,
give me the news that got a bad case of
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loving hating you, and that would be Doc Rivers, What up, Doc? Yeah? Oh,
it's so great. The fact that Doc Rivers has been
able to bounce around the NBA as a carpetbagger is
wild considering how terrible his teams perform in the playoffs.
The most improbable championship of my lifetime. A lot of
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people say it's the Detroit Pistons when they didn't have
a superstar and they beat the Lakers in the NBA
Finals back in the early two thousands. No, the Doc
Rivers coached Celtics that Paul Pierce and Ray Allen and
Garnett and those guys could win with this dead rate,
this absolute deadweight. Doc Rivers on the sidelines is fascinating.
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Is a maestro of strategic missteps in the playoffs, and
yet again we saw Milwaukee was dazed and confused.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Doc is the seasoned, veteran coach who's supposed to have
all the answers.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
He had none. He had none, right, no way to
control that. The Pacers coming out, you know how they're
gonna play. Eve and I who never played in the
NBA and just sit here behind microphones and criticize people.
I knew how the Pacers were going to play, fast paced,
in your face and transition offense. All of that, right,
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they transitioned offense the whole the whole shebang and Indiana
capitalizing on the Sleepy D, the Sleepy D of Milwaukee.
Doc Rivers' rotations now they always blow and I know
this first hand as Doc Rivers killed the Great Lob
City Clippers, most exciting team, most popular team in the NBA.
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They didn't win, and there are multiple reasons to Chris Paul,
choke artist Blake Griffin didn't come up big and big
games with Doc Rivers the common denominator in those teams
and and really most of the teams that blow it.
So Doc's rotations have always been an issue and what
he has always been consistent about. He falls in love
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with certain players who are his favorites, like the teacher's pet.
You know you're in school right at that one little
useless little girl, annoying girl. It sucks up to the
teacher and very annoy everyone. Everyone hated her anyway, So
that teacher's pet. In basketball with Doc Rivers, there's a
certain starters. They're not playing well, they're underperforming, but yet
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Doc likes them, so Doc continues to leave them in.
He insists on giving them a high volume of minutes
and does not give other people the opportunity who are
in this in this is you look around here, uh,
players that you leave on the bench to who do
you play? Is it? You know you like Kevin Porter Junior,
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Bobby Portius, Guys like that you can mix in. And
as for the other blame factors in this game for
the Milwaukee Bucks, he got Dame Lillard, who did return
from a blood caught issue. And Dame time was not
game time. No, he was not. This was not vintage
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Damian Lillard. He was forcing tough shots, even the Greek
freak who did have good sexy stats. If you're just
a box score reader and you're just observing the box
score like you're looking at birds out in the wild,
and you look at the boxer, Oh the stats are good.
I'm not gonna go full on hero ball, but it
did appear for stretches of this game for the Milwaukee
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Bucks that it was pretty much get the ball to
jannisident to Coombo and whatever he does, that's great. And
you'll freeze out Dame Lillard and it's all about him.
You're not facilitating the offense and you're not getting everyone
involved in that. And you also struggled, yeah, and it's
struggling to contain Pascal Siakam there as well. We have
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some Doc Rivers audio. Let's go to the audio tip.
So we have Doc Rivers here. And one thing Doc
has been very good at over the years is knowing
exactly what to say when his teams lose, because they
always lose. They always lose playoff games. Listen up, Buck fans,
what Doc's about to say? We've heard a million times
over the years. Here's Doc Rivers on his team falling
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behind and everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Let's see, I'll look at it as a long stairs.
You know, we haven't played a home game. Yeah, so
it's almost like two and eight. And someone said, you know,
no one makes the playoffs within the two and eight,
but you know it's the same thing to me, right,
we have to go home and take care of business
and then then we giton.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He recorded that with a mister microphone, by the way,
mister microphone from the nineteen eighties or seventies anyway. So
there's Doc haven't played a home game. Neverber, Doc wanted
credit for his team's blowing three games to one leads. Now,
the good news is that the Bucks will not be
blowing in three games to one lead in this series.
Here's more for from the From the Bucks coach, here
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is Doc Rivers pointing out, believe it or not, there's
actually a lot of good stuff for Milwaukee losing and
never having the lead. Take a list. I liked how
we'd played tonight overall.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ithould have shout the ball better, could have moved the
ball even better. So I like where we're tracking.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I like how we bet we didn't have a
lead for a second. Man, that's good basketball. Oh God,
the fact that this guy keeps getting gigs these How
dumb are these billionaire owners of these basketball teams, Mike
get These are some of the stupidest people out there.
They want they buy a basketball team because they want
everyone to talk about them. Right, Why else would you
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buy a sports team If you're rich, you can be
rich and not have people talk about you. There's a
lot of rich people no one talks about. They just
hang out in you know, West Palm, or they hang
out in Beverly Hills or on Long Island. Nobody even
knows who they are. You buy a sports team because
you want to be talked about, and then you hire
the I can't even say what I want to say,
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is the coach, oh my god, all right now turning
the pager. So the Pacers won and the finally led
from beginning to end and all that. So the story
here is not so much about the game. It's a
survey that was done where NBA players voted Tyrese Halliburton
as the most overraded, over raided player in the entire league. Now,
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I did see a spicy SoundBite from Rick Carlisle, the
coach of the team there in Indiana, who is defending
his guy, cursing and getting all worked up. He was
worked into a lather and there were other people running
to defend Tyree Saliburton. So question is you're the voted
by your peers, by the This is NBA players, This
is not the media, this is not fanboys, this is
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the actual contemporaries of you. It's like if I was
voted the largest gas bag by radio people, that would
be amazing. So this led to a lot of anger.
In fact that we have that audio, here's Rick Carlyle.
Listen to Rick Carlisle, stand by your man. Here take
a list.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I heard about this, and the other guys on the
list were Jimmy Butler, and Giannis, right, and I want
to see I want to see the guys faces that
voted those guys. I want to see the faces of
those guys. Right, this is a poll. Not everybody even
answered in the poll. Guys were able to answer if
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they wanted to. They were asked on camera or with
a microphone. The whole thing is okay, and it's just
it's really it's really.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
A shameful thing.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
It's just a shameful thing.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, all right, So keep in mind that in the survey,
there are roughly four hundred and fifty players in the NBA.
Ninety people respond. That is twenty percent. You know, when
they do presidential polling and they're like, hey, who do
you think is going to be the president? Team Red,
team Blue, they don't survey twenty percent of the United
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States to decide who's going to win the election. So
in many ways, Rick Carlile is completely wrong. Now, listen,
he's got skin in the game. He's paid by the Pacers,
that's his guy. I totally get that he would defend
Tyreese Sliburton. But in terms of the actual polling, it
is really good, Like twenty percent is a massive number,
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a massive number when you think about what other surveys
are done. But in terms of what does it mean,
it means that Tyreevese. Haliburton is the headliner at the
bitterness ball of other NBA players like the players believe
that Haliburton is the hype that this cat gets exceeds
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his production. It's kind of obviously. Now, remember I've said
this for overrated does not mean bad. It just means
you're not as good as people think you are. Derek
Jeter overrated in Major League Baseball, right, Peyton Manning overrated
in the NFL. There's a lot of players that are
perceived to be great, but they're overrated. Now, I'm not
comparing Tyree Saliburton to Derek Jeter and Peyton Manning. I'm
just merely using that as an example that you can
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be productive and be considered good, but you're still overrated.
So the players think he's a tiger, a paper tiger.
Tyree Saliburton Indiana last year won on a playoff run,
and a lot of people believe that's counterfeit. The players
think that the Pacers got too much credit. Haliburton got
too much credit. Remember last year in the playoffs, they
beat the Bucks g honest was out if I remember correctly,
they beat the Knicks. A bunch of guys in the
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Knicks were hurt in that playoff run. So it's not authentic.
And the bigger problem is Halliburton is a mosquito. He
is a pest. He is kind of a goofy dude.
He talks trash, memory taunted Dame Lillard used the Dame
Lived celebration in the playoffs, and so that annoyed dam Lillard,
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and he irritates people. He's seemed like he's kind of corny.
You know, guys don't like that. He's like, it's just
there's a lot of stuff going on all right. Now,
final point. We quickly we go to Oklahoma, Oh Oklahoma
the dust Bowl where Kyrie's ok C Thunder, not Kyrie Irving,
the other Kyrie. He's a p one and my gut, Kyrie,
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he's the only guy that regularly corresponds with this show
who loves the Thunder. So we have one guy who's
a Thunder fan that regularly corresponds with the show, Kyrie.
So Shay gilgis Alexander twenty seven points and Oh Oklahoma
City domination situation. They win one, eighteen to ninety nine.
They have a two to nothing lead over the grizz
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in that series one versus eight. Oklahoma City opened up
on a nine to oh run and held Memphis without
a point for the first three and a half minutes
of the game, the Grizzlies proving that Game one was
not a full as they came into this game fourteen
and a half point underdogs, and they missed their first
ten shots. Clankety clank. It was a brick house, it was.
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And so that's if you're keeping track here, that means
Memphis has been outscored by seventy or if you look
at it from the other perspective, Oklahoma City is plus
seventy plus seventy in these first two games. So with
that being said, some have pointed out, wait a minute,
you're talking about the Lakers. The Clippers would.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
About shake Gilgers Alexander, So should shake gilgis Alexander's thunder
be getting more credit for the epic historical beatdown of
the Grizzlies.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So my response on that is two words, no way,
no way. And here's why the Grizzlies and I did
watch some of this game, not much, because why would
I but when I was watching early on in this game,
the Grizzlies have already checked out. It's one, two three,
can kun is what it is here? They're in zombie mode.
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John Morant right now is going to He's getting ready
when they get back to Memphis. Jaw's going to get
out his imaginary air pump and he's going to blow
up his imaginary rubber ducky. Because the Memphis Grizzlies are
floating on the lazy river, is what they're doing at Wowsers.
They do not have the competitive spirit, They do not
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have the fighting spirit here. If you put an honest
effort in, you don't get blown out. Now, as far
as shay Yogus Alexander is concerned, he hasn't been good.
That's the shocking thing about this. The Thunder have won
by seventy points in these first two games combined, and
Shayyogus Alexander is shooting thirty three point three percent that's
the sign of the devil from the floor and twenty
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three and a half percent from three point range. So
he has not been good at all. But the Thunder
are up to oh and they better enjoy all these
wins because they'll be losing to the Clippers in the
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Another tradition in sports has come to an end. The
Final Sunset, The final Sunset? What is that all about.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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It is Ben. Here, we're hanging out side by side
a lot of pro bouncy ball to begin the night.
Late night drug tester says, I thought you would have
cheered up the Minnesota fans in hour two and talk
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about the wild win over the Vegas Golden Knights to
forget the t Wolves loss last night. Well, clearly an oversight,
bad job by us. King Ry writes since says, as
a Bucks fan, I agree with you one hundred percent
on how horrible Doc is as a coach. Kyle Kuzma
isn't helping either unless he turns back the clock and
the Bucks get bubble Cou's bubble a Kuzma it's not
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looking good. Lastly, Caitlin Clark is a bigger name than
Tyrese Haliburton in Indianapolis, Chaine, in Des Moines, right, Sin
says Ben Mike the leprecom thinks these are three hundred
and sixty baseball names. I'm not sure there's a word.
I think it's misspelled there. Can you educate the clown?
(21:45):
Blah blahlah. I don't know what you mean by that.
I'm sure there's a word missing, or I'm not reading
it right. Maybe that's it. No idea there, but not
working out at all. Let's hear truck or Joe writes
and says, there are three things that are certain to
happen every year, death taxes and doc rivers losing in
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the playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, not going so well?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
There?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Who else? Page down? Let's see here. I can't read
that on the air, Larry Di says, Pascal is coming. Yeah,
that's pre Lorraina. She doesn't know about that SoundBite, but
it's one of the all time great soundbites and we
should pull that out of the archives. But Marcel, when
Toronto was playing Golden State in the NBA Finals, it
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was one of the magical moments in the history of
the show, and people get upset with Marcel. Marcel drop. Yeah.
Marcel was describing who he thought was the player of
the night for the Toronto Raptors, and he described the player.
He attempted to pronounce the name of the player, Pascal Siakam,
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and the way he pronounced Pascal siak I was was
next level. But apparently we do not have that sound bite.
So we're efforting to find that sound bite. And I'll
just keep talking here until we find it. But you
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John is in Seattle. What's going on? John? Welcome? Patcal Come,
there's the there's the droft right there with the all
time great pronunciations. Hello, come, yes, John, Oh, there is
is John. I remember John? I know this guy.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Hey, what's that big Ben? I know you guys are
doing good.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What's going on? John? Did you make up with your booty?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Call?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Everything good with the side check? Everything all right?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Hey, bro, take it easy, Bro.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I want to know you. Last time we talked to you.
She was upset because of our show.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yeah, she was. She's mad because I call you guys.
And she got even madder when I told her that
I talked about you guys. And then now she sent
me a text I don't know a couple hours. I
didn't respond to them.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh, well you can't, you can't. Oh, she misses you. See.
Look we're helping you out. See she misses you. See
that's it. You don't. You don't want to. You got
to act like you've been there before, right, You can't
act desperate.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, you know how it does.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Brother. You know so in many ways, John, what you're
saying is staying on hold to call into overnight talk
radio makes women desire you more.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
I'm going to at least this one.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay. Just can't you just agree with me, John? Yes,
I mean we could. We could promote that, like that's
the way you should stay on hold because you won't
be texting your your woman and she'll be jealous.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah, And you can have me in a commercial absolutely
just waiting on the phone and uh and crying because
I'm arguing with the side chick.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, okay on that. No, you didn't call about your
side check. Not that we don't love hearing about your
your love life and how fascinating that is, John.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
But oh yeah, But what I want'm to say is
I think I used to when I was a kid,
I used to love the nineties basketball. But it's not
the nineties anymore. And the last two games of the
Lakers that looked like the nineties, terrible officiating. I don't
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know what was going on. I think the NBA needs
to review this crap and figure something out, as it's
going to be twenty twenty five basketball or nineties basketball,
and that's how they need to play from there on that.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well, remember, like twenty twenty five basketball is just Papa shot.
It's just go out and shoot three point shots. Oh
that's he That's all right, that's all it is. I mean,
it's just just passed the ball a couple of times.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
It's it's you know, it's if you if you have
if you have a three on the one, if you
have a three on one fast break and you can
get a hammer dunk, throw it back out for a
twenty seven point shot.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Come on, you gotta realize, like this this is basketball.
Is embarrassing. Yeah, like that is not great basketball watching
that those last two Lakers games. No, it's not its
owls and the no call no calls.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They are there.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
They're letting him play though.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
It's not just embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Okay, So you would like to see nothing, You want
to see nothing but foul shots? Is that what you'd
like to see. No, we'll make your mind up. Make
your mind up.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
No, big, big, they're reacting because the reps aren't calling fowls. Okay, reps,
they're gonna call fouls and it's going to get uglier
and uglier and uglier.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Perfect.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Do you really want to go backwards up back? Yes,
you're big man. We don't want to go back to
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yes we do. Yeah. I was a lot younger in
the nineties. Yeah, the nineties was the best. I have
my whole life ahead of me. In the nineties, that
was like in the prime of my life. That's what
I pad. Really.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
People want to see Charles Barkley, And as to the uniform,
we don't want to go back to Charles Barkley back then.
We don't want to.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I like watching Barkley, but Barkley was a great player.
People think he's just a clown on TV. But he
was a hell of a player.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
He was he was, Yeah, but he was still a
big old player, and nobody wants to see him hacking people.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh, you're repeating yourself. I've been over and over the
same thing. Changed the topic, nobody. I got your point.
I understand you. Okay, I got the point. Yes I do.
I go call your side, chick, get out of here,
go away. What's wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Me?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So another tradition in sports has bit the dust. The
final sunset now one of the traditions my entire life
on New Year's Day, the Rose Bowl and the Royal
Seka right there the mountains over Pasadena, and you get
that shot of the sun setting the iconic Rose Bowl
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and the beautiful mountains in the backdrop, and its picture perfect.
While people in Michigan and Illinois and Iowa are freezing
their balls off and they're right there, beautiful, just wonderful.
Everyone in Minnesota's like, I gotta go to La I
gotta go to Pasadena because the Rose Bowl, well that
is not going to be happening, at least not upcoming here.
(28:24):
The Rose Ball going to change the kickoff time to
accommodate television. That's right, the Rose Bowl will no longer
have the iconic sunset on television. The tradition is going away,
bye bye, the first sunset of the year, which is
always captured on TV. And you see the lights taking
(28:48):
effect in those beautiful college football uniforms in the helmets,
sparkling as the sun sets and the shadows on the mountains,
and it's just a it's like a painting from an
iconic Bob Ross episode on PBS back in the day.
Just amazing. And that is Dunskees, the iconic Rose Bowl
sunset over those San Gabriel Mountains on New Year's Day. Well,
(29:13):
don't expect to see that up coming. They're moving. The
Rose Bowl twenty twenty six game will kick off an
hour earlier at one pm local time, the earliest kickoff
time in the history of the Rose Bowl. So it's
been it's been a while. It's been in a while.
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Let's go to gym in Vicelia there near there he is,
there's Jim right right near that beautiful forest with all
the giant trees. Right down the hill from that beautiful forest.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
By the giant Ben Mallard.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I love. That's one of my favorite places.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
If I lived in Vice. I just keep going. I
go up to those those giant redwood I have been
been there. Dude.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
You got to come here and play my game. I
created pig ball.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
What is pigball?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
You played disc golf?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I played golf. I played miniature golf. I don't I
don't know. I've plays. We don't use the dis use
the football using football?
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Change?
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Is this the number? Is this the number one activity
in Visalia?
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No? Drinking?
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Probably is?
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Yeah?
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Speaker 7 (30:56):
Sir, your family, your funny boat.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Okay, we'll go with that, all right. The funny bone.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Do you remember the first time I called you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I remember every first time?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You never forget your first time?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
When was it?
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That was twenty twelve?
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You smart ass?
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Why would you say you.
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Got it right?
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Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Yeah, yeah? Yeah, my gosh.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You thought I was getting get it wrong. I told
you I remember every first call twenty twelve. Of course,
how would I forget that? It was an iconic moment.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
I'm giving you a yeah. I passed out and you
were yelling at me.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's normally what happens when people passed out. I just, yeah,
I just my default position is to scream. That's my
default position.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Hey. I disagree with you on almost everything there is.
But really I love your show.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh well, God bless you. That's good see me?
Speaker 7 (31:53):
I mean teens team wise, okay, I agree with you
on most suff I just disagree on who you cheer
for work.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I don't know if cheering is the right word. I
have allegiances to certain teams I would like to see
win more than other teams. But I'm the number one
goal I have every day is to.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, Clippers win. That's your number one.
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No, that's not true. You're making that up. How dare you? No,
My goal every day is to find stories that are
good talk radio. So whatever that provides, that's what I'm
all about.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
You're absolutely correct. Paying Uh, since you took so long
to get to me.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh you're complaining. Here we go a guy. He's complaining.
Jim the complainer. Strike one, Jim, Jim. You I get
a golden ticket because I got to You didn't think
I was. You didn't believe in me. You didn't think
I would get the year right. You thought I would
just I was just making that, but I got it right.
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I win.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
I figured you would wait until the very end to
make me wait longer.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Well, I was considering that, but anyway, I bet you were.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
I were thinking this same lines. So I'm gonna call
it you again tomorrow night too.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Okay, got those all right? Yes? Can I hang up
in you? I gotta go. You have other things I do.
I gotta I gotta, I gotta do. I got seven
million commercials I gotta do here, I gotta go go.
I thank you. It is the Ben Mahler Show. As
we are rolling on through the overnight here and straight ahead,
we're gonna have mallor to the third degree, Mallor to
(33:23):
the third degree. Time now for the insta trivia, and
here it is. Randy Johnson and Blank are the only
starters in Major League baseball history to have a start
of fourteen strikeouts and no walks in only six innings
or fewer. Again, history of baseball, going back to the
eighteen sixties eighteen seventies, Randy Johnson and Blank the only
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starters in Major League baseball history that have a start
of fourteen strikeouts no walks in only six or fewer innings.
That is the install trivia, the answer and Mallor to
the third degree. We'll get to it and we will.
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Do it.
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am I game or the it's a trivia. Rather, it's
a trivia. Randy Johnson and Blank the only starters in
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baseball history to have a start of fourteen strikeouts, no
walks in only six or fewer innings. That is the question.
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Al Felon Opiner going with Sid Fernandez, Good job by you, Alf,
good old Sid large Sid Fernandaz. I wonder if he's
bigger now than Bernard King at this point? Who knows?
(36:25):
Tony Stark from Scrooge in the Bay Area. Bernie Brewer
tossed out by King, Rory Justin and Cincinnati said, who
who else do we have? Lee Smith guessed by Sean
and Portland. JJ Putts from William that's his answer, black
Jack Morris from Andy and Lion o' Lakes Minnesota. Shane
in the Morning going with my favorite President William Howard
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Taft as his answer. Danny in Nashville, guests by Robbie
the Mariner fan Old hass Radbourne also from Robbie who Else?
Page down? Rick Honeycut who I got a hit off
of in a media baseball game? From Steve the Misplaced
San Diego page down, Sid Bigfoot Finch from Mister Irrigation
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in Houston, Robin Roberts from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Pete
Bukovich from j T the Wingman. Dilly Dean from Robin
Minnesota Arts said what's that you? The writer Princess Diana?
Okay too soon? No, The correct answer is someone from
the Miami Marlins named Max Meyer this week. Max Meyer.
I don't even know who that is. If he's that good,
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he'll be playing for the Yankees and the Red Sox
or the Dodgers soon. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
To your week ago.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Gets grilled?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
All right, cool bloot? What do we got? Colts?
Speaker 9 (37:46):
GM Chris Ballard indicated on Monday that the team isn't
opposed to drafting a quarterback this year and even added
he quote absolutely could take a quarterback at pick number
fourteen if there's a player we deem is worthy of it. Ben,
do you believe him?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I think the GM of the Colts is trying to
star in a remake of a movie you were in. Liar, Liar, Okay, listen,
I don't believe in the first of all, you look
at the draft, there's like no quarterbacks that should even
be drafted in the first round. There will be, but
look at the talent coming in. They're not first round quarterbacks.
So why would the They already have two suck back
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quarterbacks in Richardson and Daniel Jones, So I don't believe him.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
Next, Adam Schefter reported on Monday that the Denver Broncos
are one of only a few teams that are willing
to trade up in this draft. Some speculate they could
go for the Cowboys number twelve pick to secure Texas
wide receiver Matthew Golden.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, bend, you think Golden is a talent worth trading
up for, but he is projected as a first round pick.
Although he's one of these guys he didn't do anything
that great until his final year at Texas, and he
is a product of the Steve Sarkisium seasion Sark system there.
So yeah, I mean, it wouldn't shock me if the
Broncos end up getting him. How good he's going to
(38:59):
be is Yeah, it's It's pot Lucket wide receiver next.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
Duke star Cooper Flagg took to social media on Monday
morning to announce that he'll enter the twenty twenty five
NBA Draft, Ben, how high are you on Flag?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Is he a franchise changer? He's good. I don't have
him as the generational you get it? Like, if the
Washington Wizard's got Cooper Flag, are they all of a
sudden going to be the playoff team? No? Like, he's good,
but I'm not convinced. I'm not overwhelming. We confissed. How
do we know how we pass? I got I've won
(39:32):
Blind Scott. I won Blind Scott. On hold I won
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our du two, our number two, ready to go,
and a happy Wednesday to you and pro bouncy ball
the flavor of the hour. And we start out with
the Bucks. They didn't do much, didn't have a lead
in Game two of their series. As Milwaukee goes down
(00:23):
in Indianapolis. Who do you blame for the Greek freaks
Bucks digging a giant hole with the Pacers. We'll talk
about that. Also, NBA players voted Tyrese Haliburton as most
overrated player in the league. What does that mean? We'll
discuss and should shake gilgos Alexander's thunder? Who are plus
(00:45):
seventy be getting more credit for these beatdowns of the Grizzlies.
We'll discuss that as well. It is all coming your
way right now here. It is our number two. A
couple of years back, they had fear the deer. Now
they're just roadkill, is all they are. Welome, in the
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all right, So our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball.
We'll get back to the Lakers and the Timberwolves. Bad
win for the Lakers. Talk more about that later, but
our lead this hour from the Eastern Conference side of
the bracket. The early game. This was the game that
where the Dunce cap. It was on NBA TV, which
is where you do not want to be. You don't
(02:36):
want to be on NBA TV. That's the Hey, you're
the ugly redheaded stepchild of the playoff schedule. We'll put
your game on there. So it was opening around action.
We'll start out in Indianapolis where Dame Lillard, Dame Time,
all those big shots with the Trailblazers back in the day.
So Dame Lillard returning to the Bucks and they were
looking to even things up in game two and steal
(03:00):
home court advantage away from the Pacers. So I'm sure
if you were a witness to this, let me tell
you something I care about you. Okay, I could have
gone out and done stuff. I could have had a life.
I sat on my ass. I risked getting hemorrhoids to
watch all these stupid games. Here we are, all right.
So Pascal Siakam, who as long as he plays, I
(03:23):
will smile when I hear the man's name. And if
you're a real p one of this show, you know
why we love Pascal Siakam. It's our friend Marcel and Brooklyn.
But anyway, Pascal Siakam, I make sure I say that right.
Twenty four points, eleven rebounds, and a crucial three pointer
in the late stages of that game, and that was
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the thing that sparked that final flurry, if you will,
for the Pacers. While tyresee Halliburton more on him in
a minute. Twenty one points twelve assists as Indiana gets
past Milwaukee twenty three to one fifteen the final. The
Pacers are now just two wins away from ousting the
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Bucks and doing that again. If you've seen this before,
you have, you're not imagining that you have seen this before.
Indiana has now won five of the last six playoff
games between these teams, and they led this one wire
to wire, from zero zero to end of game, from
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beginning to end the whole thing. There. Now the better story.
You know where the better story is. That's right, the
losing locker room. So that is where we go the
better story. So let's discuss who do you blame for
the Greek freaks Bucks digging a giant hole in this
series with the Pacers. Who you blame? Who you blame?
(04:48):
So I've got jukebox, Headliner and rubber Ducky and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make cotton candy, which is what the Milwaukee
Bucks defense was like cotton candy in this particular game.
So numb burn? Can I get a numb burn? A
(05:09):
lot of blame cheese curds to go around, and it's
not so bad when you play Milwaukee and you lose
because cheese curds are delicious, So a lot of blame
cheese curds. Now, this Milwaukee team was man handled in
the early part of the game. They were absolutely manhattle.
Now they got back into the game, but they never
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fully recovered, similar to what happened in that Laker Minnesota game.
Similar situation, like the Lakers came out, jumped out, and
Minnesota didn't play all that well, yet they worked their
way back in Milwaukee didn't play all that well. They
were better offensively, and they worked their way back into
the game, but for the most part, the defensive side
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of things bad to the bone. Bad to the bone.
And if you were to crank up the jukebox, which
some places still have, you don't really need it now
because you got that on your phone. But if you
crank up the old music box there, the pure rock
tune would be Robert Palmers back of the day, Doctor Doctor,
give me the news that got a bad case of
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loving hating you, and that would be Doc Rivers, What up, Doc? Yeah? Oh,
it's so great. The fact that Doc Rivers has been
able to bounce around the NBA as a carpetbagger is
wild considering how terrible his teams perform in the playoffs.
The most improbable championship of my lifetime. A lot of
(06:37):
people say it's the Detroit Pistons when they didn't have
a superstar and they beat the Lakers in the NBA
Finals back in the early two thousands. No, the Doc
Rivers coached Celtics that Paul Pierce and Ray Allen and
Garnett and those guys could win with this dead rate,
this absolute deadweight. Doc Rivers on the sidelines is fascinating.
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Is a maestro of strategic missteps in the playoffs, and
yet again we saw Milwaukee was dazed and confused.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Doc is the seasoned, veteran coach who's supposed to have
all the answers.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
He had none. He had none, right, no way to
control that. The Pacers coming out, you know how they're
gonna play. Eve and I who never played in the
NBA and just sit here behind microphones and criticize people.
I knew how the Pacers were going to play, fast paced,
in your face and transition offense. All of that, right,
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they transitioned offense the whole the whole shebang and Indiana
capitalizing on the Sleepy D, the Sleepy D of Milwaukee.
Doc Rivers' rotations now they always blow and I know
this first hand as Doc Rivers killed the Great Lob
City Clippers, most exciting team, most popular team in the NBA.
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They didn't win, and there are multiple reasons to Chris Paul,
choke artist Blake Griffin didn't come up big and big
games with Doc Rivers the common denominator in those teams
and and really most of the teams that blow it.
So Doc's rotations have always been an issue and what
he has always been consistent about. He falls in love
(08:16):
with certain players who are his favorites, like the teacher's pet.
You know you're in school right at that one little
useless little girl, annoying girl. It sucks up to the
teacher and very annoy everyone. Everyone hated her anyway, So
that teacher's pet. In basketball with Doc Rivers, there's a
certain starters. They're not playing well, they're underperforming, but yet
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Doc likes them, so Doc continues to leave them in.
He insists on giving them a high volume of minutes
and does not give other people the opportunity who are
in this in this is you look around here, uh,
players that you leave on the bench to who do
you play? Is it? You know you like Kevin Porter Junior,
(09:01):
Bobby Portius, Guys like that you can mix in. And
as for the other blame factors in this game for
the Milwaukee Bucks, he got Dame Lillard, who did return
from a blood caught issue. And Dame time was not
game time. No, he was not. This was not vintage
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Damian Lillard. He was forcing tough shots, even the Greek
freak who did have good sexy stats. If you're just
a box score reader and you're just observing the box
score like you're looking at birds out in the wild,
and you look at the boxer, Oh the stats are good.
I'm not gonna go full on hero ball, but it
did appear for stretches of this game for the Milwaukee
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Bucks that it was pretty much get the ball to
jannisident to Coombo and whatever he does, that's great. And
you'll freeze out Dame Lillard and it's all about him.
You're not facilitating the offense and you're not getting everyone
involved in that. And you also struggled, yeah, and it's
struggling to contain Pascal Siakam there as well. We have
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some Doc Rivers audio. Let's go to the audio tip.
So we have Doc Rivers here. And one thing Doc
has been very good at over the years is knowing
exactly what to say when his teams lose, because they
always lose. They always lose playoff games. Listen up, Buck fans,
what Doc's about to say? We've heard a million times
over the years. Here's Doc Rivers on his team falling
(10:30):
behind and everything's going to be okay.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Let's see, I'll look at it as a long stairs.
You know, we haven't played a home game. Yeah, so
it's almost like two and eight. And someone said, you know,
no one makes the playoffs within the two and eight,
but you know it's the same thing to me, right,
we have to go home and take care of business
and then then we giton.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
He recorded that with a mister microphone, by the way,
mister microphone from the nineteen eighties or seventies anyway. So
there's Doc haven't played a home game. Neverber, Doc wanted
credit for his team's blowing three games to one leads. Now,
the good news is that the Bucks will not be
blowing in three games to one lead in this series.
Here's more for from the From the Bucks coach, here
(11:11):
is Doc Rivers pointing out, believe it or not, there's
actually a lot of good stuff for Milwaukee losing and
never having the lead. Take a list. I liked how
we'd played tonight overall.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Ithould have shout the ball better, could have moved the
ball even better. So I like where we're tracking.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah, I like how we bet we didn't have a
lead for a second. Man, that's good basketball. Oh God,
the fact that this guy keeps getting gigs these How
dumb are these billionaire owners of these basketball teams, Mike
get These are some of the stupidest people out there.
They want they buy a basketball team because they want
everyone to talk about them. Right, Why else would you
(11:51):
buy a sports team If you're rich, you can be
rich and not have people talk about you. There's a
lot of rich people no one talks about. They just
hang out in you know, West Palm, or they hang
out in Beverly Hills or on Long Island. Nobody even
knows who they are. You buy a sports team because
you want to be talked about, and then you hire
the I can't even say what I want to say,
(12:11):
is the coach, oh my god, all right now turning
the pager. So the Pacers won and the finally led
from beginning to end and all that. So the story
here is not so much about the game. It's a
survey that was done where NBA players voted Tyrese Halliburton
as the most overraded, over raided player in the entire league. Now,
(12:35):
I did see a spicy SoundBite from Rick Carlisle, the
coach of the team there in Indiana, who is defending
his guy, cursing and getting all worked up. He was
worked into a lather and there were other people running
to defend Tyree Saliburton. So question is you're the voted
by your peers, by the This is NBA players, This
is not the media, this is not fanboys, this is
(12:58):
the actual contemporaries of you. It's like if I was
voted the largest gas bag by radio people, that would
be amazing. So this led to a lot of anger.
In fact that we have that audio, here's Rick Carlyle.
Listen to Rick Carlisle, stand by your man. Here take
a list.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I heard about this, and the other guys on the
list were Jimmy Butler, and Giannis, right, and I want
to see I want to see the guys faces that
voted those guys. I want to see the faces of
those guys. Right, this is a poll. Not everybody even
answered in the poll. Guys were able to answer if
(13:38):
they wanted to. They were asked on camera or with
a microphone. The whole thing is okay, and it's just
it's really it's really.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
A shameful thing.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
It's just a shameful thing.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, all right, So keep in mind that in the survey,
there are roughly four hundred and fifty players in the NBA.
Ninety people respond. That is twenty percent. You know, when
they do presidential polling and they're like, hey, who do
you think is going to be the president? Team Red,
team Blue, they don't survey twenty percent of the United
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States to decide who's going to win the election. So
in many ways, Rick Carlile is completely wrong. Now, listen,
he's got skin in the game. He's paid by the Pacers,
that's his guy. I totally get that he would defend
Tyreese Sliburton. But in terms of the actual polling, it
is really good, Like twenty percent is a massive number,
(14:34):
a massive number when you think about what other surveys
are done. But in terms of what does it mean,
it means that Tyreevese. Haliburton is the headliner at the
bitterness ball of other NBA players like the players believe
that Haliburton is the hype that this cat gets exceeds
(14:57):
his production. It's kind of obviously. Now, remember I've said
this for overrated does not mean bad. It just means
you're not as good as people think you are. Derek
Jeter overrated in Major League Baseball, right, Peyton Manning overrated
in the NFL. There's a lot of players that are
perceived to be great, but they're overrated. Now, I'm not
comparing Tyree Saliburton to Derek Jeter and Peyton Manning. I'm
just merely using that as an example that you can
(15:19):
be productive and be considered good, but you're still overrated.
So the players think he's a tiger, a paper tiger.
Tyree Saliburton Indiana last year won on a playoff run,
and a lot of people believe that's counterfeit. The players
think that the Pacers got too much credit. Haliburton got
too much credit. Remember last year in the playoffs, they
beat the Bucks g honest was out if I remember correctly,
they beat the Knicks. A bunch of guys in the
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Knicks were hurt in that playoff run. So it's not authentic.
And the bigger problem is Halliburton is a mosquito. He
is a pest. He is kind of a goofy dude.
He talks trash, memory taunted Dame Lillard used the Dame
Lived celebration in the playoffs, and so that annoyed dam Lillard,
(16:02):
and he irritates people. He's seemed like he's kind of corny.
You know, guys don't like that. He's like, it's just
there's a lot of stuff going on all right. Now,
final point. We quickly we go to Oklahoma, Oh Oklahoma
the dust Bowl where Kyrie's ok C Thunder, not Kyrie Irving,
the other Kyrie. He's a p one and my gut, Kyrie,
(16:23):
he's the only guy that regularly corresponds with this show
who loves the Thunder. So we have one guy who's
a Thunder fan that regularly corresponds with the show, Kyrie.
So Shay gilgis Alexander twenty seven points and Oh Oklahoma
City domination situation. They win one, eighteen to ninety nine.
They have a two to nothing lead over the grizz
(16:45):
in that series one versus eight. Oklahoma City opened up
on a nine to oh run and held Memphis without
a point for the first three and a half minutes
of the game, the Grizzlies proving that Game one was
not a full as they came into this game fourteen
and a half point underdogs, and they missed their first
ten shots. Clankety clank. It was a brick house, it was.
(17:10):
And so that's if you're keeping track here, that means
Memphis has been outscored by seventy or if you look
at it from the other perspective, Oklahoma City is plus
seventy plus seventy in these first two games. So with
that being said, some have pointed out, wait a minute,
you're talking about the Lakers. The Clippers would.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
About shake Gilgers Alexander, So should shake gilgis Alexander's thunder
be getting more credit for the epic historical beatdown of
the Grizzlies.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
So my response on that is two words, no way,
no way. And here's why the Grizzlies and I did
watch some of this game, not much, because why would
I but when I was watching early on in this game,
the Grizzlies have already checked out. It's one, two three,
can kun is what it is here? They're in zombie mode.
(18:02):
John Morant right now is going to He's getting ready
when they get back to Memphis. Jaw's going to get
out his imaginary air pump and he's going to blow
up his imaginary rubber ducky. Because the Memphis Grizzlies are
floating on the lazy river, is what they're doing at Wowsers.
They do not have the competitive spirit, They do not
(18:24):
have the fighting spirit here. If you put an honest
effort in, you don't get blown out. Now, as far
as shay Yogus Alexander is concerned, he hasn't been good.
That's the shocking thing about this. The Thunder have won
by seventy points in these first two games combined, and
Shayyogus Alexander is shooting thirty three point three percent that's
the sign of the devil from the floor and twenty
(18:45):
three and a half percent from three point range. So
he has not been good at all. But the Thunder
are up to oh and they better enjoy all these
wins because they'll be losing to the Clippers in the
second round of the playoffs. It is the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Another tradition in sports has come to an end. The
Final Sunset, The final Sunset? What is that all about.
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
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And now back to the talk, Well back to me.
It is Ben. Here, we're hanging out side by side
a lot of pro bouncy ball to begin the night.
Late night drug tester says, I thought you would have
cheered up the Minnesota fans in hour two and talk
(21:00):
about the wild win over the Vegas Golden Knights to
forget the t Wolves loss last night. Well, clearly an oversight,
bad job by us. King Ry writes since says, as
a Bucks fan, I agree with you one hundred percent
on how horrible Doc is as a coach. Kyle Kuzma
isn't helping either unless he turns back the clock and
the Bucks get bubble Cou's bubble a Kuzma it's not
(21:24):
looking good. Lastly, Caitlin Clark is a bigger name than
Tyrese Haliburton in Indianapolis, Chaine, in Des Moines, right, Sin
says Ben Mike the leprecom thinks these are three hundred
and sixty baseball names. I'm not sure there's a word.
I think it's misspelled there. Can you educate the clown?
(21:45):
Blah blahlah. I don't know what you mean by that.
I'm sure there's a word missing, or I'm not reading
it right. Maybe that's it. No idea there, but not
working out at all. Let's hear truck or Joe writes
and says, there are three things that are certain to
happen every year, death taxes and doc rivers losing in
(22:06):
the playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, not going so well?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
There?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Who else? Page down? Let's see here. I can't read
that on the air, Larry Di says, Pascal is coming. Yeah,
that's pre Lorraina. She doesn't know about that SoundBite, but
it's one of the all time great soundbites and we
should pull that out of the archives. But Marcel, when
Toronto was playing Golden State in the NBA Finals, it
(22:34):
was one of the magical moments in the history of
the show, and people get upset with Marcel. Marcel drop. Yeah.
Marcel was describing who he thought was the player of
the night for the Toronto Raptors, and he described the player.
He attempted to pronounce the name of the player, Pascal Siakam,
(22:56):
and the way he pronounced Pascal siak I was was
next level. But apparently we do not have that sound bite.
So we're efforting to find that sound bite. And I'll
just keep talking here until we find it. But you
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At shipstation dot com code Sports. Let's go to the phones.
(23:19):
John is in Seattle. What's going on? John? Welcome? Patcal Come,
there's the there's the droft right there with the all
time great pronunciations. Hello, come, yes, John, Oh, there is
is John. I remember John? I know this guy.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Hey, what's that big Ben? I know you guys are
doing good.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What's going on? John? Did you make up with your booty?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Call?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Everything good with the side check? Everything all right?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Hey, bro, take it easy, Bro.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I want to know you. Last time we talked to you.
She was upset because of our show.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Yeah, she was. She's mad because I call you guys.
And she got even madder when I told her that
I talked about you guys. And then now she sent
me a text I don't know a couple hours. I
didn't respond to them.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Oh, well you can't, you can't. Oh, she misses you. See.
Look we're helping you out. See she misses you. See
that's it. You don't. You don't want to. You got
to act like you've been there before, right, You can't
act desperate.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Yeah, you know how it does.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Brother. You know so in many ways, John, what you're
saying is staying on hold to call into overnight talk
radio makes women desire you more.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
I'm going to at least this one.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay. Just can't you just agree with me, John? Yes,
I mean we could. We could promote that, like that's
the way you should stay on hold because you won't
be texting your your woman and she'll be jealous.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah, And you can have me in a commercial absolutely
just waiting on the phone and uh and crying because
I'm arguing with the side chick.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, okay on that. No, you didn't call about your
side check. Not that we don't love hearing about your
your love life and how fascinating that is, John.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
But oh yeah, But what I want'm to say is
I think I used to when I was a kid,
I used to love the nineties basketball. But it's not
the nineties anymore. And the last two games of the
Lakers that looked like the nineties, terrible officiating. I don't
(25:25):
know what was going on. I think the NBA needs
to review this crap and figure something out, as it's
going to be twenty twenty five basketball or nineties basketball,
and that's how they need to play from there on that.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well, remember, like twenty twenty five basketball is just Papa shot.
It's just go out and shoot three point shots. Oh
that's he That's all right, that's all it is. I mean,
it's just just passed the ball a couple of times.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
It's it's you know, it's if you if you have
if you have a three on the one, if you
have a three on one fast break and you can
get a hammer dunk, throw it back out for a
twenty seven point shot.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Come on, you gotta realize, like this this is basketball.
Is embarrassing. Yeah, like that is not great basketball watching
that those last two Lakers games. No, it's not its
owls and the no call no calls.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
They are there.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
They're letting him play though.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
It's not just embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Okay, So you would like to see nothing, You want
to see nothing but foul shots? Is that what you'd
like to see. No, we'll make your mind up. Make
your mind up.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
No, big, big, they're reacting because the reps aren't calling fowls. Okay, reps,
they're gonna call fouls and it's going to get uglier
and uglier and uglier.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Perfect.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
Do you really want to go backwards up back? Yes,
you're big man. We don't want to go back to
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yes we do. Yeah. I was a lot younger in
the nineties. Yeah, the nineties was the best. I have
my whole life ahead of me. In the nineties, that
was like in the prime of my life. That's what
I pad. Really.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
People want to see Charles Barkley, And as to the uniform,
we don't want to go back to Charles Barkley back then.
We don't want to.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I like watching Barkley, but Barkley was a great player.
People think he's just a clown on TV. But he
was a hell of a player.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
He was he was, Yeah, but he was still a
big old player, and nobody wants to see him hacking people.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh, you're repeating yourself. I've been over and over the
same thing. Changed the topic, nobody. I got your point.
I understand you. Okay, I got the point. Yes I do.
I go call your side, chick, get out of here,
go away. What's wrong with you.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Me?
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So another tradition in sports has bit the dust. The
final sunset now one of the traditions my entire life
on New Year's Day, the Rose Bowl and the Royal
Seka right there the mountains over Pasadena, and you get
that shot of the sun setting the iconic Rose Bowl
(28:03):
and the beautiful mountains in the backdrop, and its picture perfect.
While people in Michigan and Illinois and Iowa are freezing
their balls off and they're right there, beautiful, just wonderful.
Everyone in Minnesota's like, I gotta go to La I
gotta go to Pasadena because the Rose Bowl, well that
is not going to be happening, at least not upcoming here.
(28:24):
The Rose Ball going to change the kickoff time to
accommodate television. That's right, the Rose Bowl will no longer
have the iconic sunset on television. The tradition is going away,
bye bye, the first sunset of the year, which is
always captured on TV. And you see the lights taking
(28:48):
effect in those beautiful college football uniforms in the helmets,
sparkling as the sun sets and the shadows on the mountains,
and it's just a it's like a painting from an
iconic Bob Ross episode on PBS back in the day.
Just amazing. And that is Dunskees, the iconic Rose Bowl
sunset over those San Gabriel Mountains on New Year's Day. Well,
(29:13):
don't expect to see that up coming. They're moving. The
Rose Bowl twenty twenty six game will kick off an
hour earlier at one pm local time, the earliest kickoff
time in the history of the Rose Bowl. So it's
been it's been a while. It's been in a while.
(29:33):
Let's go to gym in Vicelia there near there he is,
there's Jim right right near that beautiful forest with all
the giant trees. Right down the hill from that beautiful forest.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
By the giant Ben Mallard.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I love. That's one of my favorite places.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
If I lived in Vice. I just keep going. I
go up to those those giant redwood I have been
been there. Dude.
Speaker 7 (29:59):
You got to come here and play my game. I
created pig ball.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
What is pigball?
Speaker 7 (30:04):
You played disc golf?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I played golf. I played miniature golf. I don't I
don't know. I've plays. We don't use the dis use
the football using football?
Speaker 7 (30:16):
Change?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Is this the number? Is this the number one activity
in Visalia?
Speaker 7 (30:21):
No? Drinking?
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Probably is?
Speaker 7 (30:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Drinking one of the two us. Well, that's it. They
go side by side, right, you can't have one without
the other. Yeah. Anyway, By the way, let me point
out now, Jim, before you get going on your call,
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bond should be. Go ahead there, jimbo, I have a
couple of bones to pick. Which bone would you like
to pick? It's a family show.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
Sir, your family, your funny boat.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Okay, we'll go with that, all right. The funny bone.
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Do you remember the first time I called you? Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I remember every first time?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You never forget your first time?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
When was it?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That was twenty twelve?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
You smart ass?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Why would you say you.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Got it right?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Yeah, yeah? Yeah, my gosh.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You thought I was getting get it wrong. I told
you I remember every first call twenty twelve. Of course,
how would I forget that? It was an iconic moment.
Speaker 7 (31:34):
I'm giving you a yeah. I passed out and you
were yelling at me.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
That's normally what happens when people passed out. I just, yeah,
I just my default position is to scream. That's my
default position.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
Hey. I disagree with you on almost everything there is.
But really I love your show.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh well, God bless you. That's good see me?
Speaker 7 (31:53):
I mean teens team wise, okay, I agree with you
on most suff I just disagree on who you cheer
for work.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
I don't know if cheering is the right word. I
have allegiances to certain teams I would like to see
win more than other teams. But I'm the number one
goal I have every day is to.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, Clippers win. That's your number one.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
No, that's not true. You're making that up. How dare you? No,
My goal every day is to find stories that are
good talk radio. So whatever that provides, that's what I'm
all about.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
You're absolutely correct. Paying Uh, since you took so long
to get to me.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh you're complaining. Here we go a guy. He's complaining.
Jim the complainer. Strike one, Jim, Jim. You I get
a golden ticket because I got to You didn't think
I was. You didn't believe in me. You didn't think
I would get the year right. You thought I would
just I was just making that, but I got it right.
(32:49):
I win.
Speaker 7 (32:51):
I figured you would wait until the very end to
make me wait longer.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Well, I was considering that, but anyway, I bet you were.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
I were thinking this same lines. So I'm gonna call
it you again tomorrow night too.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Okay, got those all right? Yes? Can I hang up
in you? I gotta go. You have other things I do.
I gotta I gotta, I gotta do. I got seven
million commercials I gotta do here, I gotta go go.
I thank you. It is the Ben Mahler Show. As
we are rolling on through the overnight here and straight ahead,
we're gonna have mallor to the third degree, Mallor to
(33:23):
the third degree. Time now for the insta trivia, and
here it is. Randy Johnson and Blank are the only
starters in Major League baseball history to have a start
of fourteen strikeouts and no walks in only six innings
or fewer. Again, history of baseball, going back to the
eighteen sixties eighteen seventies, Randy Johnson and Blank the only
(33:47):
starters in Major League baseball history that have a start
of fourteen strikeouts no walks in only six or fewer innings.
That is the install trivia, the answer and Mallor to
the third degree. We'll get to it and we will.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Do it.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Next.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
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(35:01):
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(35:21):
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(35:42):
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by ship Station. That's right now. The answer to who
am I game or the it's a trivia. Rather, it's
a trivia. Randy Johnson and Blank the only starters in
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baseball history to have a start of fourteen strikeouts, no
walks in only six or fewer innings. That is the question.
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Al Felon Opiner going with Sid Fernandez, Good job by you, Alf,
good old Sid large Sid Fernandaz. I wonder if he's
bigger now than Bernard King at this point? Who knows?
(36:25):
Tony Stark from Scrooge in the Bay Area. Bernie Brewer
tossed out by King, Rory Justin and Cincinnati said, who
who else do we have? Lee Smith guessed by Sean
and Portland. JJ Putts from William that's his answer, black
Jack Morris from Andy and Lion o' Lakes Minnesota. Shane
in the Morning going with my favorite President William Howard
(36:46):
Taft as his answer. Danny in Nashville, guests by Robbie
the Mariner fan Old hass Radbourne also from Robbie who Else?
Page down? Rick Honeycut who I got a hit off
of in a media baseball game? From Steve the Misplaced
San Diego page down, Sid Bigfoot Finch from Mister Irrigation
(37:08):
in Houston, Robin Roberts from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Pete
Bukovich from j T the Wingman. Dilly Dean from Robin
Minnesota Arts said what's that you? The writer Princess Diana?
Okay too soon? No, The correct answer is someone from
the Miami Marlins named Max Meyer this week. Max Meyer.
I don't even know who that is. If he's that good,
(37:31):
he'll be playing for the Yankees and the Red Sox
or the Dodgers soon. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go.
Speaker 7 (37:37):
To your week ago.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Gets grilled?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
All right, cool bloot? What do we got? Colts?
Speaker 9 (37:46):
GM Chris Ballard indicated on Monday that the team isn't
opposed to drafting a quarterback this year and even added
he quote absolutely could take a quarterback at pick number
fourteen if there's a player we deem is worthy of it. Ben,
do you believe him?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
I think the GM of the Colts is trying to
star in a remake of a movie you were in. Liar, Liar, Okay, listen,
I don't believe in the first of all, you look
at the draft, there's like no quarterbacks that should even
be drafted in the first round. There will be, but
look at the talent coming in. They're not first round quarterbacks.
So why would the They already have two suck back
(38:21):
quarterbacks in Richardson and Daniel Jones, So I don't believe him.
Speaker 9 (38:25):
Next, Adam Schefter reported on Monday that the Denver Broncos
are one of only a few teams that are willing
to trade up in this draft. Some speculate they could
go for the Cowboys number twelve pick to secure Texas
wide receiver Matthew Golden.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, bend, you think Golden is a talent worth trading
up for, but he is projected as a first round pick.
Although he's one of these guys he didn't do anything
that great until his final year at Texas, and he
is a product of the Steve Sarkisium seasion Sark system there.
So yeah, I mean, it wouldn't shock me if the
Broncos end up getting him. How good he's going to
(38:59):
be is Yeah, it's It's pot Lucket wide receiver next.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
Duke star Cooper Flagg took to social media on Monday
morning to announce that he'll enter the twenty twenty five
NBA Draft, Ben, how high are you on Flag?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Is he a franchise changer? He's good. I don't have
him as the generational you get it? Like, if the
Washington Wizard's got Cooper Flag, are they all of a
sudden going to be the playoff team? No? Like, he's good,
but I'm not convinced. I'm not overwhelming. We confissed. How
do we know how we pass? I got I've won
(39:32):
Blind Scott. I won Blind Scott. On hold I won
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