The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonJason Smith and Mike Harmon open this 'Best of' edition of the show reacting to recent notable comments from Dak Prescott. Then they react to the candidates the Knicks are set to interview for their head coaching vacancy... Does Jason have a personal favorite? The guys are joined by NBA insider Mark Medina to weigh in and discuss all of the biggest storylines coming out of Game 4 of the NBA Finals!
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If Indiana now wins? You say we were beaten by the best? Okay, you're stealing that Jim Varney Stone. Oh no, I don't really care from he was a Carnie on the Simpsons. See today, we were beaten by the best, so you know we're second best?
Yeah? No, see, I don't and I don't like that. I'd rather I'd rather my team. I don't want my I'd rather my team feel like, no, we're farther away than that, because I don't want to. I don't want the heartbreakup. Boy, we got so close and we blew it, because that's something I'll just think about forever, like I want to think like, oh, okay, we lost to a team that lost to a team like okay, even if we won, we're really that close. I don't want to obsess them. But I don't want to be Seahawks fans who wake up every day and go, why did we give the ball to margin on the goal wide? Okay? I thought about that. Now it can go on, it can have coffee and go out my day. Like, I don't want that. I'd rather lose to a team that lost to a team that lost to a team.
Okay, yeah, I think some of that. I mean it's probably helped by the fact that they fired the coach.
Yeah, well that it does help. It does help, but I realize.
That they were needing to make some move there.
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That's not funny. Okay, that's not the same one. That's not a big now, I know. That's my favorite. That's my that Of all the Jason Voorhees kills, my favorite one is the guy in the field char in part two, because he's at the very top of this really big cabin with like a thousand steps and he just goes down all the steps. Jason fits him with a machetti and he just rowed him down forever. Yeah.
I mean it's gratuitous, but it's you know, it gives you an extra I don't know, uh, twenty five seconds of movie run time.
Yeah, oh of course, of course. Yeah. In fact, it happened went on so long. If you watch that in Friday the Thirteenth Part two, they just go to a freeze frame, like it's like, okay, the guy, we can't get him all the way to the bottom. It's just it's just going way too long. It's just what we got to stop. Yeah, he's like, okay, you know what, get out of this. The guy's dead. He's still going down the set. We have no more cut cut. Let's go to the next cabin, Go to the next cabin. There we go, There we go. Although I will say this in the Friday the thirteenth, you know when these movies first started coming out, right Halloween, Friday the thirteenth, all that's like, like, what was the lesson they wanted to tell everybody. We're going to teach the youth of America, you know, bad things like sex and drinking and drugs and all this and partying and having a good time and being teenagers. We don't like that because there's a guy with a mask. It's going to kill you. But you know, here's the part about Friday the thirteenth Part two, right that people don't get and it's like, oh, so you're teaching me alcohol could be good, right, because the one guy, there's one guy who makes it that you don't see him after the middle of the movie. Because in Friday thirteenth, part two, there's some people who stay behind, the ones who want to have sex, and then the ones that want to go to the bar and drink and hang out, and then they back late. Right, So but there's a whole group. So you know, the group gets ready, they're leaving the bar to go back, and they say, hey, let's go back, let's go back, and the one kid and the one guy goes eh, and they're getting ready to leave, and he sidles up to somebody else goes, hey, any other places open up open later than this, And that's the last time you see in the movie. So it's like this guy, Hey, I went out, I closed the bar, and I made it all right. I showed you I made it. Man. I stayed out all night and I was at a bar, probably underage, which is not a good thing. Do not do that, I am not saying. I mean, what were the laws of the time, though, and what it's a movie? I mean that was that was the time. That was the time. It was a thing with the time, that is what we did. It was nineteen eighty so, I mean it was a long time ago.
But in today's you know, run of police shows and investigative reports, wouldn't you be putting this guy up as a potential coke conspirator of the varhe's family.
Oh oh, that would have been a great That would have been a great hook, right, I mean, hey, I don't need to go back.
I don't want to go back because then I you know, I need my uhl ausible deniability because I'm here drinking with you.
What was that? That was freebird on the on the that just blade on the juke. But if tonight, would you used to cut my head off and put it on a spike and show it whoa as they walked in? Well, after they die, you walk in. So that's well, that's well, that's how part two open. He opens up the refrigerator in the mother's head is right there, So okay, it's kind of what he does, you know, But I think it would have been boiler. It would have been too much of a double twist because you know, the big twist obviously is you know, it's his mom killing everybody in the first one. Like, boy, and now you feel really embarrassed those teenagers. You got killed by a sixty year old woman who just just living in the woods. Really, this country strong, what do you want? That's who killed you? Really wearing that sweater the whole time, that's who killed you. She weighs about ninety five pounds and she was overpowered. You go, Okay, that's great, But that would have been a double twist, say, oh, it's the mother. Oh, and like, oh, by the way, this is Jason's younger brother that wound up doing it. I think that's too much of it. I think that's too twisty. You had one good twist with the mom. Hey, that's pretty cool, and then Jason takes Overpotism goes all the way back to the forget about nepotism now in Hollywood with you know, Ethan Hawk's kids and Tom Hanks's kids. Nepotism goes back to Friday the thirteenth.
See, I was watching a little Jack Quaid Novacaine today. Boy, you want to talk about a fun, silly uh, I can turn my brain off.
For two hour movie.
Boy, that was fantastic, But nepotism Jack Quaid also Friday the Thirteenth and Scream veteran of the Jar movies. But also remember it doesn't necessarily mean you have to have the same surname or be in the same bloodline.
Hello, no it doesn't. That's fun to grow on. Just like we talked people about the Albatross yesterday. I was actually explaining that to somebody today. It's like, oh, good is that all about.
I'm like, oh, we actually did a bit on the show when I started talking about the poem, and all of a sudden, I was talking to like seven people. They were absolutely enraptured, and I'm like, you could learn all this by tuning in to the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmet every night on Fox More Tradio.
It became an inflmercial. It was great. See, that's the thing is I like most. I like opinionizing and I love entertaining, and once in a great while, okay, we'll educate. I mean once in a great while, we'll do it. And that was fair what Albatross was. Yeah, maybe maybe you looked up Kestrel because you were like, hey, and I'm feeling it now. I want to I want to dive down the albatross rabbit hole. That's what I'm gonna do.
And krill was more than just something nemo.
I've always known that's what whales eat like since I was like seven years That's what we are. They just it's filled by the thousands. Yeah, you know, I really want you know, how about that on fourth of July a whale krill eating competitive eating contest and let's say in the last three seconds that whale is eating three thousand, four hundred and seventy one krill. Oh wait a minute, add another five thousand. That was a big gulp right there. I mean that would be really forget about Joey Chuck sixty five hot dogs come out.
But trying to estimate that though amateur, I mean, what's the margin of error? I mean is several thousand?
Well, I think you have to be able to like if you put like little tiny microchips and all the little tiny baby crill in little play microchips, a little tiny baby crill.
No, you just just antagonize some krill defense league.
It would look like Dorothy from Twister where they had all the cans and it'll put them up all look at all that you woul put abou a little tut chips and the Criller chips and the Crilla chips. Since it is Friday the thirteenth and ed listen obviously, you know, hey, good luck if you're out in the woods tonight, hanging out, you know, in any kind of situation. But because you never know, keep your pants on whether well, I want to say it could be a guy in a machete, could be a guy's mom. You never know. Family members. Never trust family member one thing in a horror movie. Never trust family members.
One hundred percent otherwise either way, I mean someone walking up with a machete unless you're trying to uh get the fire started, the bad thing.
We got some big positivity Friday stuff out of the NFL coming your way in ninety second. But first, let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. But guy who's been called the Jason four, he's of Fox Sports Radios. Excuse me, his career really took off when he started wearing a hockey mask to work. It's Steve de Staga.
Yeah, in radio.
That happens all the time, your selfish bastard. Late in the third corner in Indiana.
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Back Back to you, Thank you, STEVEO. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the Fox Sports radio studios. Now, hey, it is Friday the thirteenth. We are spending time talking about camp. Okay, sis, every time I say that Tyro is gonna play that that it's a doozy speaking of camp, right, mini camps are finishing up over the NFL over the course lead the days this week, and we're getting ready for the NFL to go on vacation before we get to come back in about four or five weeks. And we got this gem from Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott earlier today. Now, Befreid thing, oh my god, it's gonna make fun of the cut. Now I'm actually okay, I'm to make fun of the Cowboys. But then I'm really not right. I'm gonna give you a little bit of a curve ball. Dak Prescott was asked what he wants to accomplish here he is now going into this season, how he feels about the roster in twenty twenty five, Oh, you know all the big Hey, let's take state of the Dallas Cowboys and state of your career questions right now before we don't see it for a month. And here's Dak Prescott with what he wants to accomplish with the Cowboys. I want to win a championship.
The legacy, the things, whatever comes after I've finished plan, we'll take care of itself.
Be damned.
If it's just for my legacy or for it's for this teams, for my personal being, for my sanity.
Yeah, the legacy will take care of itself. I have to stay with my FETA. Okay, So I don't know what any of that meant. First of all, I want to say this. I still don't understand it, and I've heard it like three or four times.
It's not trigonometry.
No, it's more than that. Like this is like calculus, like AP calculus, like without even getting taught it and having to execute it on an AP test. I assume what he's trying to say, right, because you don't really say something, be damned, And because basically you say, well, I don't care about that, and then say that be Danz and then talk about winning a championship because it's supposed to be what you want to do, but I'm not. Again, the whole thing, I think the message he wanted to get out there is I don't care about my legacy. I want to win a championship. Now, he certainly arrived at it really weird, and I don't know that. I don't know that the quite the phrasing was what he wanted to be or was it, because again, I really it's hard to kind of parse that out and go, Okay, this is what he meant. But I'm pretty sure that was his message that Hey, I don't care about my legacy. I want to win a championship. Agree or disagree, because I think I think that part of it I get. I'm not going to make up something that he didn't say.
I'm struggling to comprehend if he understands what legacy means, because the winning a title kind of changes.
That people will to starve himself. Yeah, yeah, so, but that there was.
A long, convoluted way to get there. But the idea that he wants to win a title is still admirable. Whether he really believes that can happen there, I'm not so sure, which is.
How we got into the long talk about legacy. Yeah that's out.
Yeah, yeah, I think I think if we win and be damned, uh and then no, it's not good because or Haliburton.
I keep going back to Haliburton. No, Halib Haliburton is just ridiculous because he using for fuel the fact that people didn't pick the pacers and then say, how dare you do that? Like, dude, you wouldn't even be in the NBA finals of people picked against you. If people told you were great, you would just be sliding through like you'd be dancing through life like Fierro and Wicked. But instead, now I got a chip on my shoulder. Man, I'm gonna go down, not going down to the oz dust ballroom. No, I'm not gonna I'm gonna go I'm gonna beat everybody like you use that as fuel, and now you say not to say it.
Pick a look at you getting some Jonathan Bailey and oz dust in there.
Good for you? So dancing through Now here's few bars to it, but yeah, it's positivity Friday here right about. And the Cowboys are you know the Cowboys NFL teams are going on vacation. I just want to say this, right this is my big message. All what are you gonna say, Dak stinks, he's they don't need him as much as you think they do. No, all of those things are true, But I just want to say because maybe it's we're at the end of the school year and schools are graduating and people are going on, and everybody's wishing everybody good luck, and I just want to say this Dak and the Cowboys. You know, sometimes I just want to say thank you for the content and have a happy and healthy summer and a happy rest of twenty twenty five. And I look forward to seeing all you accomplish over the course of the rest of this year. Like people write in your in your yearbook where they say, Hey, I can't wait to see what you do next year, can't wait to see what you do in your life, Like hey, thank you, thank you for what you've done, thank you for all the content you provide us. The Cowboy you know, we get we could have the most interesting story involving the Saints and no one cares. But we have something that's not even impressive at all. But you just say the word cowboys. Oh, I can't believe it. Thank you for providing that content, and I look forward to everything you have for us in twenty twenty five.
All the folks that wrote ki T never heard from them again.
So I didn't do it.
I wasn't gonna pretend I didn't want to have their hopes up that you know, this guy would still be howling around your kitchen door.
No, I was going, it's always it's always a thing. If they write keep in touch and then they don't put their phone number, like I think that's the sign.
I think I had a lot of their phone numbers. I didn't want to use them.
Cowboys are projected to win seven and a half games this year? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got in road.
Man, you want to talk about legacy? If Dak and A stay healthy, b keep George Pickens in line, see, get this team to the winning winner circle? You get when we get what? What are you gonna be an x? If the Cowboys are able to win Week four? Why if they can keep Jerry Jones out? How far are you gonna go? I I was only going three year, I was going only three or four things. But I mean I was thinking that it would just be absolute bleeping goal if Jerry Jones is actually winning again?
Think about that?
What what those soundbites sound like in November and December as opposed to what we normally get?
Okay, gee, we pay Micah Parsons, h we stop Jerry from making a bad trade, trading a third round Pia roster. I could have done that to you. I did. I we look for we look for a veteran running back that's going to get cut sometime near the end of training cam in the Williams. Yeah, Ja, we got like that and my way is terrible.
Uh.
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Greetings, Welcome inside hour two The Jason Smith Show with my biss friend Mike Harmon. I'm an ass man, true Indiana. Let's Oklahoma City right now, ninety five ninety one, still six minutes to go in the fourth quarter. And look, we spent a lot of time last hour talking about the Pacers and what they're doing, and you know, look, it's really been something to watch. But I gotta say this for Oklahoma City. Right when we started the show, I didn't like the way the game was going for the Thunder because they just didn't seem like they were they were all on the same page. I felt like they were struggling and the Pacers were just waiting to really kick it up a notch. And I said, the way they're staying in this game, the only way the Thunder in this game is if suddenly Sga just I'm putting the team on my back and this is how we're gonna win, and I'm gonna score forty points and they're somehow in it. It's a four point game. Despite the fact that Sga is having a horrendous game, a horrendous game, he has been a ball stopper for the most for most of the second half. All this isole ball that he's playing. He's nine out of twenty one from the floor. He's got twenty points on twenty one shots, right like, that's that's not gonna do it, man, That doesn't get it done. He's not getting anybody involved. He's got zero assists on the game. He's been to the free throw line twice. Like he is just he is. He is ball stopping for the Thunder, and the Pacers are basically saying, hey, okay, great, thanks, but and I thought, Okay, I tell you this, how are the Thunder staying in this because Alex Caruso is Benedict Mathern off the bench with twenty and Jalen Williams has twenty five, including a perfect eleven for eleven from the free throw line. This game makes no sense now, I thought that it just did fifteen minutes. Go buy Mike Carmon in the game makes no sense.
Well, get good balance with Williams and Caruso and home girns at fourteen and twelve.
Still not moving the ball well.
Like we talked about earlier in the show, when you look at the assists against the field goals made you know, going back to your ball stopping eight assists on thirty two makes there's got to be some stat to go through that. I don't know who the Sarah Langs of the NBA stats people are, but that just seems kind of odd to me. They're just two of sixteen from three point range are the Thunder Yet we're still talking about a game in the balance, So what's curious. Also for Indiana, tonight, Halliburton shot his first free throws of the series, so he finally got that into the scoring column, but giving you a little bit of balance as he does on what he's up to fourteen points seven assists, So giving you that, and you've got five guys in double figures for the pacers. But yeah, Thunder have been able to hang around. It ain't clean, it ain't pretty. The referees making a nuisance of themselves with some of their calls and the historyonics they're giving Frank Drevin a little bit of a run with some of the theatrics on falls at the baseline.
Now, now that was a great point you made, but I want to ask you a very important question. Do you think we get the Enrico Palazzo in the Liam Neeson remake that's coming out soon?
We got add something similar, don't we. Okay, And I've seen that commercial a couple of times tonight. A nice reminder that that's there for you because the other day we did talk about all of those people on the panel when we got to Dick Enburg and and Jim Palmer, Joyce Brothers and.
Kurt Bimer and we did them all. Yeah. Uh So we'll keep you updated here again. Just over just under five minutes left to go. It's a one point game. Indiana leading Oklahoma City. SGA is playing terribly and it's it's a one point game.
They're beating the hell out of him too. I mean that can't be understated. Like you know, he's he's looked at the officials. If you had enough to added up the stare time, stared down time. See I gave away the joke tear downtime from SGA. It might be longer than the guy rolling down the stairs in Friday the thirteenth.
Part two. Meanwhile, last night we proved that basically I could be the GM of the Knicks and you can pay me a lot less money than you're paying Leon Rose and everybody else to run things right, because I told you, hey, if you if I could have called James Dole and said, hey, fifty give me pay me fifty grand, and I'll say an hour, even though I'd only need three minutes, I'll tell you who to go talk to be the Knicks head coach. Right, Who did I say? Mike Brown? Right? First guy I said when when they fired Tibbs's Mike Brown's the guy, the offensive system, the defensive system. He's coached big markets, He's coached big superstars, He's basically done everything that Jason Kidd has done. Right, He's done everything Jason Kidd has done. Mike Brown is your guy, right, Mike Brown is the guy. And we found out last night. Hey, potentially the Knicks would be talking to Mike Brown. Okay, great. Then you said, hey, remember on that first night, I said, Mike Brown, you said, Taylor Jenkins, right, Hey, Taylor Jenkins got you gotta go get him right, He's got to be the guy. Gotta go talk to him, right, Okay, okay, uh shams. Trania puts this out a little bit less than an hour ago. Next week, the New York Knicks are planning to meet with Taylor Jenkins and Mike Brown for their head coaching job together. These are yes, Listen, we don't want to talk to you guys separately. Maybe you guys can tag team this and like coach.
You got offense, you got defench go and now switch now we switch rolls right like it's an improv game.
We're gonna do yes end Okay, Yes, and I want to trade Karl Anthony Towns okay, Taylor Jenkins, yes, and I want to trade Oganno Noby Okay, back to you Mike Brown. Yes, and who's Ogano Noby? Oh you stopped it there? Uh more could come. But these are the first formal interviews for the Knicks vacancy. So now we know we could be running the Knicks. And they listen to the show because after last night, Hey today, Hey, look we're talking to Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins. Like we do a lot of good for society.
We program a lot of shows and writers. The aggregators love us. I mean, we might be the source of all of those AI powered Yahoo Sports articles.
Oh yes, we're running the Knicks. Come on, running the Knicks from three thousand miles away, working on it, not nearly as much real because really you they fire TIBs. Okay, who do you want? All in the No Mike Brown, Mike Brown, Taylor Jenkins. Right. I like Sam Cassell, who doesn't thank he's gonna get any interviews because he's always up and coming, but he's never on anybody's list. So I'm like, Okay, that's fine, but like these are these are the guys, right, these are the guys you should have been talking to first or waiting to reach out to. Because this ridiculous. Let's go out and ask permission, and the guys you should ask if you're being told, why not ask Spolstra? Why not ask the Warriors for Steve Kerr? What's what are they gonna tell you anything worse you've been told so far when you reached out to the Hawks and he told you know and the Bulls told you no. Come on, man, it's embarrassing the Knicks. You want to that sense? I mean like they went from a destination to now you really don't know what the hell you do it now everybody knows. Oh, I see, you don't know what you're doing, Like Mike Brown and Taylor Jenkins should clearly have been at the top of the list, Like if you talk to Brown and Jenkins and Mike Malone, even though hiring Malone is kind of like getting Tibbs again, so that's kind of weird. And the fact that he was just fired by a team and that because he lost the team. Okay, yeah, not my uh not my first choice to jump in. I want to I want to get in there. Yeah, same guy, just a little louder at the microphone. Yeah, you need something a little bit. You need to make sure you change, you change the energy and right and this is why teams always go from a disciplinarian to a player's coach, and then you get back to a disciplinarian because eventually each of their messages wear thin, right, and it wore thin with Tibbs, and Tibbs had to Like there's there's no doubt in my mind, the Knicks had to let TIBs go, right. The players didn't want to play for him anymore. Clearly they had. They had gone as far as they were going to under him. He was out coaching the playoffs. No, the Knicks had to do this, but what they should have done. And we said, look, it's okay if you take some time, it is okay. It's a big thing that just happened. We don't need to hear. Just because people are talking about it, doesn't mean we need to hear that you're going forward. Let's let let's let things settle for a little bit, figure out the direction you want to go, because I know you had to let them go when you did because you wanted to move on. Right. We know we're not we're not bringing him back. We're gonna we're gonna rip the band aid off now. And that's how we're gonna go forward, and there's no timeline. We don't need to. You really want your your coach in by the draft, which you still have a few days for that, or at the very least by free agency. Right, that's you have time. But instead the Knicks panic with this stupid ass like I really think, I honestly think the Knicks, Leon Rose, they thought we're the Knicks, we're great, And the first couple of teams we reach out to, we're gonna poach a coach from somebody. We're gonna poach a coach, right, well, I like that to you. Put that on a T shirt, poach you coach, like we are gonna do it when somebody's gonna say yes, because we're the bleep and Nicks and we're back. And and suddenly, oh boy, this really didn't turn out the way we thought. We thought coaches would be dying to get to the Knicks. They would stand up and say, no, free me up so I can interview with this job. And nobody is. The coaches aren't saying anything, the teams aren't letting him do it, and this is the Knicks, right, Just sit back, don't panic, right or talk to Mike Brown talk to Taylor Jenkins, talk to Mike Malone, right, no reason, and bring guys back for a second. These are the guys you should be talking to, right, It's absolutely fine. And then Hey, throw stuff out there back channel the hell out of it, where it's hey, you know, we really hey, Jason Kidd, we really would you know, if you wanted to come here, we'd really like you, man, we really like you to come. And then Jason Kidd tells the Mavericks, Hey, I want to go coach the Knicks. And what happens They have to give him permission because they have to fire him anyway, because you don't come back and coach a team when you say you want to leave and go coach someone else. So the Knicks completely mismanages from the beginning because you know Knicks, but like this was the way they should have done it, and these are the guys should have been talking to in the very first place.
Well, if you love someone, you let him go. If they return their years, if they don't, they never were there.
You go.
It sounds better in Spanish, but we'll we'll leave that for another time because you need some cool guitar underneath. But it's the Look, the firing of TIV was the same as the Nuggets when they fired Michael Malone. So they're tied forever at the hip of yeah, we know we're getting getting rid of you, and we don't need to know what's behind door number two. We just gotta go and and for the Nuggets, happily they had Adelman there and he just picks up and he'll coach next year. For the Knicks, they made that decision. The fact that it became so public with all of these dalliance's mind, if I dance with your date kind of things is not good and it just makes you look foolish when you had what was it eighteen different coaches or something like that with experience some coaches of the year. I'm not even gonna include Malone in that, but like, go to Boudenholzer and all these other guys that you don't bother to reach out and get in the pipeline.
At least make those the first that you're talking to, so when you are back channeling the rest of these guys, it doesn't look as foolish.
But the Knicks, you're a giant franchise, you're a power broker. You think you got everybody just because they want tickets to the Sphere, They're gonna do what you want. That's the James Dolan way.
Yeah, but I look at this point, I used to be worried about the Sphere more than the NIXT. Now it's kind of equal. Oh yeah, right, yeah, Oh man, the tour is amazing, the tours. Should we go see the Wizard of Oz there? It's oh man, I'll tell I saw the Wizard of Oz. I talked to Rope, I talked to AI robots, and I feel like, Okay, they're either going to save the world or they're gonna ultimately destroy us. Like oh that that was the best part. Look, the best part of the Sphere, like the the look sitting in that in that atmosphere and watching the movie that I did, it was I can't say it's a bucket list thing, like it is so incredibly impressive. I can't put into words. But before you go in there, you meet AI robots who are made up and they have conversations with you, and they ask you questions. They do impressions and and that, and it's they do impressions. Yeah, like they did. They didn't prejudice rich little no, like they would say oh, and they would look over at someone, Oh where are you from and they would say, oh, we're from uh Leads in London, And then the robot would would would take like half a second and it looks like a you know, shaped like what you think a humanoid robot would look like. And the robot says, oh, it's Do I sound like someone who speaks like they're from Leads from the from the district section on on you know, on Canterbury Avenue like at all because they have all the info at their their displays, like, yes, you sound just like that person. Have you ever gone to the fish market on here? Yes, we go to the fish market once a week. It's like, oh my good And then they're cracking jokes like when and they then the people would leave and they would say goodbye, and so you say goodbye see you at the fish market. I'm going, oh, wow, AI really is the best of us or they're going to completely take over and and and and we're gonna wind up having to live under round and fighting the robots like a terminator. You know.
There's a song called Shipyard from the Last ship by Staying that talks about getting on a train when you think you're going to Sunderland, but you found yourself in leads. See what I did? I pull it all the way back. You got to listen to the whole show, weeks of the show at a time. You never know when something's gonna find its way back in. I was always big on leads because I had the who live at leads? When I was a kid leads. I had no idea what leads was? Who live at leads? Yes, leads, leads, leads? Where's leads? Who's doesn't matter? It was live, doesn't matter, it was lot.
They were there. Do you have the album? Yes, I have the album. Oh you have the album. That's great. Uh So, just when I say Sga is having a horrible game and I can't believe the Thunder is staying in it, he has just reeled off nine points in the last two and a half minutes and the Thunder have taken a one oh four to one oh three lead over the Pacers with two minutes to go in the fourth quarter. He now has twenty nine on the night to lead the Thunder. We are coming down to it with an incredible finished. Look. It's been a great final so far and look all I can hope for in both the NBA and the NHL. We go seven, right that, let's us go seven man, we go seven.
Find all these games are close late and they give us some thrillers. The funny thing in SGA another one where he thought he was getting the fall but he's like, i'ven't been getting that call, so I'm just gonna play through it. And then he hits the jump shot from the side of the basket.
Pretty crazy exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen dome. Your guy lou Dort just got away with a huge foul uh Indiana looking to dish the ball to Tyre's Halliburton and loud Dort just pushes Halliburton out of the way, grabs the ball, gets up court, goes in for the layup and gets fouled. I mean, cant Halliburton is just standing there waiting for the ball that lud Dort just shoves him out of the way. But that's the way they've officiated this game. It makes no sense whatsoever.
It's like you didn't see that where they looking at the guys dressed like dumb and dumber on the sideline or what.
Oh, my god. Oh that's that's the best.
That's that might be the best emblematic of the NBA Playoffs this year.
What constitutes a foul?
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Scott Fass for everybody? The extender? Hey, sometimes I extend games by not calling fouls this I know. Just wait till I extend this game by not sending guys the free throw?
Where does this stand on the metal stand of his calls? Non calls to extend games of all time? Eight seven, seven ninety.
Nine, one point lead for the Thunder, one thirty seven left to go coming up next? Are we breaking down a stranglehold three to one lead for the Pacers? Or are we all even going back to Oklahoma City?
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Greetings, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, where we just watched the NBA Finals. Get a whole heck of a lot more interesting the thunder pull out Game four thanks to two things, SGA turning into the MVP and Scott Foster extending the series with various calls and non calls in the final two minutes of this game that really I did my job helped usher the Thunder along to win this one.
He's doing the full Jack Nicholson. I did my job. I'll do it again.
I mean look, just to recap here, we got Mark Medina, stop and buy in a minute. This is a this is a nip tuck game in the final two minutes, and you saw lou Dort get away with a clear foul when he shoves Tyrese Halliburton out of the way so we can step in and pick off a pass. You got two non calls on SGA who clearly just absolutely pushed off with his entire off arm and hit two jumpers and then the two fouls away from the ball as the Thunder, we're inbounding two free three throws at different times in the final two minutes for the Thunder. That's eight points, right, eight points and up the Thunder to their seven point victory. One eleven, one oh four. Joining us now in the hotline a man who was called this morning to say, hey, can you officiate this game? Mark Medina? They see he said no, no, no, call Scott Foster instead. It is sports Keita Athlon CBSTV, NBA Insider, longtime front of the show, Mark Medina, what's happening.
Man, how are you hey, Jason? Look, let's let's just throw this out here. Shay goes Alexander showing signs of Michael Jordan both first scoring brilliance then getting away with a push off.
I'll tell you getting away with more than that. I mean, this is the two biggest performances in this game, Mark shake Gildess Alexander the final five minutes and Scott Foster the final five minutes.
Oh, look, you want to extend the series. Maybe it increases the ratings even more. Get some less talk on the knicks and they're terrible coaching search, so they got to pull out, all out, all the stops when the sticks are high, all right.
So look this game, it looked like it would look he was going the Pacers way in the final five and a half minutes. Look, this is where SGA shows everybody, I'm the best player in the league right now, I'm the MVP. Like, they were not gonna win this game unless he steps up in the final five and a half minutes. To be able to do that in a night that is not your night is so what's incredibly impressive because he was having a bad night where he's twenty points on twenty one shots, whatever it was, and all of a sudden, yeah, no, I got this fourteen to the last sixteen, Like that's what MVPs do.
Yeah, that's what MVP is doing. Look, he did get away with some calls. But I think the bigger thing about Shay Gildess Alexander is he's really talented and most of his free throws are earned of, you know, knowing how to be aggressive, knowing how to play the angles, and when you look in the first half, he was not doing that at all. He had literally zero free throws in the first half, and a lot of that has been Andrew Imphart's great defense on him. Also Shae not being aggressive enough. But you know, to your point, he almost pulled the Tyrese Haliburton that he's been pulling during this playoff run for you know, when the goaling gets tough, when they need to make a late game comeback, the ball is in his hands. But it's a different context because Shae is the MVP. He's a better player, and he's known for scoring, and they really need it because we've seen time and time again the Pacers are not a joke. They're a legitimate team. They've they've earned their appearance here, even if it's been at the expense of your beloved Knicks, and they play as well as as any team would hope for in terms of depth. So the Thunder have to match that. But when they don't have that consistently, you got to have your best player just elevate your game, and that's what Shaye did. It wasn't technically must win because it's two to one, but I would say it was must win. As he said after the game, a two to two series tie is much different than mid down three one.
Yeah, So let's go into the officiating part of things here, Mark, how many bullet points do you have for the final two minute review? That feeling that the SGA thing is part of what offensive players when you were one of the quote greats, you're going to get away with that stuff. The lou dort one, to me, still just doesn't pass a whole lot of muster at mid court when he took Haliburton into the fourth row.
Yeah, especially loud Dort to that at the beginning of the game, Ian BT or call Tyris Alibert was complaining about that. I think mission accomplished because it was rattling tyres. But yeah, the officials have to see everything. But I think I think from a procedural standpoint, the Pacers will certainly submit their issues. That's what teams always do after every single game. But I think Rick Carlisle is one of many coaches that preach to his team about playing through the whistle and understanding that, especially in a playoff game, things aren't going your way and so you have to be very president. I think a bigger thing that Rick Carlisle has leaned onto is this court from Steve Nash in his playing career, where he said something along the lines of when you win, you feel like you'll never stop winning. When you lose, you feel like you can never stop losing in the playoffs, And he was talking about, you know, the other day, how he's talked to his team about guarding against that feeling of both invincibility after win and hopelessness after a loss, because things can very much change in a playoff game, and same thing applies to the officiated.
Oh no, that's my whole life is a Knicks fan, except the first part. You never feel like you're going to lose when you're winning. I don't feel that first part. It's just why I never feel like we're going to win again.
Hey, if you don't mind me, Jason, I have to ask you a question. Being a reporter, can you confirm or deny that the Knicks asked are friends and boss of Fox Sports Radio for permission to interview for the job this week.
Well, listen, Mark, when Tims got fired that first night, I said, Mike Brown. Mike Brown's the guy. The offensive system fits the defensive system he has. You're going to get the play better defense. He's coached in big markets, He's coached big stars. He fits with everything the Knicks want to do. I could have called James Dolan and say, hey, dude, fifty just send me a check for fifty grand. I'll tell you who to talk to. Right, what do we get the first two guys? If get free and we get the whole week, the whole week, and we're gonna call for permission of teams that are going to say no. And what do we find out today, Hey, they're going to officially talk to Mike Brown next week. Like I could run the Knicks. I could have run this entire coaching search for fifty grand and they would have zero embarrassment. I think I need to be forget about head coach Mark, I gotta stay higher than that. I got to start thinking, hey, Leon Roase, you gotta step aside because I could run this thing better than you.
Yeah. So I guess that it was denied though the request.
Well, no, but Mike Brown, they'll get to talk to Oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, talking to him. I'm up with you. I mean, it's one thing to do due diligence, but the way they're going after coaches that are either still in the playoffs or have had a lot of success that just rereaked of someone death for on the dating apps, So right on all the supermodels and open one of them. So, yeah, it didn't make any sense. And I agree that when you're looking at coaches that are actually available that would actually fit this criteria of helping the next gets championship level, Mike Brown's at the top of the list. People might say Michael Malone because he won a championship two years ago. But one, he is very similar with Tom Thibodeau his coaching style, So if you have a problem with Tibbs, you'd have a problem with Michael Malone. And two, I want to be surprised, given the nature of his firing with the Nuggets, that he would clash with Knicks management. Mike Brown. He's a really good coach. He's very assertive, but he is a very good team player. But I think as far as his coaching shops go, you know, he's been experienced, he's been championship tested, and I think that knowing how Mike operates, when he's looked at coaching vacancies, it hasn't just been anything. It's always been about, will this, you know, opportunity give me a chance to compete for a championship, And obviously it does. And he's known for being a defensive oriented coach, so that's good. But I think the very underrated thing is that he's really innovated offensively during his time with the Sacramento Kings because of the personnel that they have, and so I think because of the time that he was with Golden State, he's been able to refine his coaching style a little bit more where it's not just defensive heavy, it's not all these prolonged film studies and practices. He's been able to find a good blend of knowing when to dial it back and also be a little bit more creative on offense that I think that he can hit both buttons there.
That's good because I had Taylor Jenkins in the betting pool here for the fact that I can't put anything on Cat or Brunson's legs to make them play defense. So let's just go full in on the offensive side of the ball.
Yeah, and you know what, that's very well might what might happen. But I think that even if it's incremental improvement defensively, that can go a long way. I know that Jason Smith is trying to figure out all the different scenarios to get Nathanta Decompo. I don't know if that's going to happen, But even if the Knicks just improve on the more margins with supporting casts, all those little things add up. And I think that when you're looking at this playoff front, specifically with the Pacers, that's the best example. You need to have role players that can elevate their game on a consistent night. You need your you know, kind of tear rotation guys that you know what you're going to get on a nice to night basis, and then maybe some surprise wild cards and you know, that's a factor in this series. Obviously to Jason's disappointment, that was a factor in the Pacers next series. So we'll see what happens this summer.
You know, Mark, one of the things, just going back to the initial search, I would want to know did they do it internally or did they hire a head hunting firm, because the head hunting firm is always going to go to people that have jobs because they would seem to be better than those.
On the unemployment line, right, So that that might have been.
Where they went, or they were just trying to sow the seeds of malcontentedness within these other organizations that maybe someone had a wandering eye and it would cause a rift and fall to and make them fall away.
I guess. But you have to know the landscape. I mean, there's a difference between doing due diligence than just throwing shots in the dark, right, And when you throw shots in the dark and you're asking for permission for permission from teams that you know don't seem like they would actually give permission, it can rub those teams the wrong way and that can hurt in trade negotiations moving forward. So I know that there is a process when it comes to finding the right candids, but at least the initial week, it did not look good for the next for how they handled the beginning of the coaching search, especially considering they fire Thibodeaux whether you liked his coaching or not, after being in an Eastern Conference finals for the first time in twenty five years.
Again, mark for fifty grand, I could have called Dolan a week ago from Mike Brown and none of this happens. Fifty grand for three minutes worth of work. I'm not overtrying it. I mean it would have been easy.
Yeah, but they would have probably forced you to be the head coach, and then that would have prevented you from me being able to do your usual uh routine of rooting for the next one far and also taking shots at JJ Reddick on the radio. But you know, no, I could coach to try it out, coach him.
No.
I could coach the Knicks via surrogate. I can. Yeah, Like I could coach the Knicks early and then do the show right out. I could do that. Hey, Gottla coaches and does a show every day. I could coach the Knicks from you know, three thousand miles away, I can win. He pauses.
I just fill the air for the rest of that segment when he needs to go yell at a guy for loafing on defense thout.
Then you know, we could just cut this segment, send it to James Doonon. Could help with recruiting pitches. People listen the Fox Sports tray, especially the NBA players. So jj Reddick United, Jason Smith, a lot of players that Jason Smith. It would help the negotiations because players would want to play for you.
Reference to by name yesterday, yeah, and say, hey, I love that guy.
Oh I hate that guy. I mean, I get it. Not everybody's cup of tea, but I'll get enough people that want to come play for me. Mark. You know, I think you're right another life, maybe that could happen for me. Now, look, now you mentioned Yannis, and we saw reports today that it seems like Yannis may stay in Milwaukee for now. I look at this as saying, you know, I don't know that big stars are generally going to hit free agency or demand a trade before free agency begins. Like I like, looking at the landscape, I see someone like Yannis or whoever else, but Yannis today obviously is like he wants to see what are the teams doing and when they if they figure out, figure things out, if they're a finished product. Yes, now I can say I want to get dealt and that's team I want to go to. Because the beginning of free agency it sort of makes it more difficult. Okay, we're going to make the move for you, but now you have to fill in around you, and that might not work, and you know, all of a sudden, you're you're on a team that may not have the supporting cast you need. I think players like Yannis might wait now and then forget about the beginning of free agent. Let's wait till the very end when I see what teams do as teams position to be able to get me to have a complete team. Like that's when you see someone like Yanna say, Okay, now I want to get traded.
Yeah.
I mean it's a tough it's a tough, delicate thing here because in Gianni's case, he could be the domino that changes the whole course of free agency, and so waiting it out almost contradicts that I do understand and agree generally with what you're outlining on Why would it would make sense for both parties to wait, and I think you know this is this is just me. The Bucks will tell you and Yannis will tell you they want to keep it going that you know, it's just about improving on the margins. I'm just saying this with logic. Here. They've lost in the first round three years in a row. Damian Lillard is probably not playing next season. If he is, he's not going to be the same player because that's just what achilles injuries are, and so this idea of improving on the margins isn't going to do anything. But I think it's just it's just tough to say for Giannis because of what he's done for the franchise, who he is as a person, to just be like, you know what, trade me, and I think for the Bucks, same thing, because he's a franchise player, he drives a lot of revenue, the feeling of okay starting over. But I think logically they should and will make the decision. You know what, This is better off for both parties, both in the short and long term, and therefore this conversation I think will change on Draft night and then leading into free agency. I would understand your point waiting for the dominoes to fall in July under normal circumstances. But because of the context with the Bucks these last three years, and because he could be the main person that changes a landscape, I think that's going to be the first order of business with free agency. But you know what we'll see, Jason, you were a coveted Knicks coach for a reason, so you might be onto something.
Let me tweet this out. Mark Medina says night one a free agency Yannis for kat and a first round. He's at Mark g Underscore Madina interview.
What he got in the job?
I got you a head coach and I got you Yannis. Come on, what else can do I do? On Twitter at Mark g Underscore Medina again Sports Keyna Athlon, CBSTV. Mark is always buddy. Appreciate it man, we'll talk to you next week. Appreciate you guys Today Mark bigs Mark madeena at great stuff from him. Yeah. I mean, look, people know me, Mike, I can call I could be the pied piper. I can bring the right people to coach. JJ Reddick would never be my assistant, but I could bring people.
No, but think about all the guys that we've now ferreted out over time, not just counting you know, radio people and their producers, uh, but coaches, front office people. I mean, we've expanded, we are a global enterprise, and now we just need uh, you know, the the recognition of such, you know, with all those fancy awards up on the wall. So let's make that happen, even if you have to print them yourself or like ty sure it's figured out the spacing and all that. We could have him do it.
Oh I like that. I like that idea. Let's let's tye. That'll give Tyson a reason to pay attention to the show. Hi waitch? So oh it's Friday thirteenth, Hey, Exit Ubuta, Fresca, Exit, Swallow Dough, the Jason Special and Mike Garment. Yes, Happy Friday the thirteenth for those who celebrate. But coming up next, Rick Carlyle is speaking. I told you before the post game he was gonna lose his mind? Did he? We'll find out together. That's coming up next. Right here, we'll hear from Rick Carlyle, Jason and Mike as we break down Game four of the NBA Finals. This is Fox Sports Radio. Hey, from searching online to asking your friends and family. There's lots of ways to look for jobs, but what if you had one team that could help you find the right role. That's where Express Employment Professionals comes in. Your local Express Sumployment Professional's office is your one connection to endless job opportunities. With just one application, they can help you find a job at a company that fits your needs. So visit expresspros dot com and, as always, Expressed never charges job seekers a fee. Express knows when companies are hiring, offers benefits and competitive pay, and in just one interview, they're prepared to present you to multiple companies that fit your needs. Go to Expresspros dot com to get started, find your nearest location, and discover for yourself what it's like to have support in your job search. You can also start your job search through the Express Jobs at Download it today to search jobs, apply and contact your local Express team. That's Expresspros dot com to start your job search today.
