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Now, we'll get back into the NBA Playoffs in a second. But I want to say this because you know, I was thinking about this today. Went to go see Mission Impossible. Yeah, I have no spoilers. No, no, there'd be no spoilers Mission Impossible, no spoilers. Know, I'm not spoiling. I'm not spoiling the title of it, I would say, because I went in with very little expectation because the last one, you know, much as how great this this movie franchise has been, like the last one was just really disappointing. Yeah you were not a fan. No, it was really convoluted and it was confusing. And I said I'm going with no expectation because I got a feeling it's going to be a big mess. But I think after seeing it, I can say this that the title should be Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning Part two not as confusing as you think it's going to be. That's a hell of a sub title. I was not as confusing as you think it was going to be. It was. It was enjoyable. It was it was long, it was a little long, but it was enjoyable. And the stunts, I mean, the the one stunt at the end of the movie. I'm not saying, of course, there's a big stunt. I'm not not not selling anything. I'm not splaying anything. The big stunt at the end of the movie. Your jaw will drop as you're watching it, Like my jaw was dropping. I'm like, how how did the how are they doing this? How are they doing this? I'm saying, this is is I could just watch this for it was like and it was like twenty minutes long, but this is this is insanely good. I don't know how they're doing this, how he's doing this. It was. It really was impressive. Great way to if this is the end, I mean maybe they bring him back for something. But I mean he is getting all he's sixty three now, Like at some point it's like, okay, I like, what's Tom Cruise gonna do when he's seventy? Like said, he wants to keep doing all this stuff till he's one hundred. Okay, that's gonna be tough. Man, lying age, defying gravity, all that stuff. I mean, could he do? I mean could he? I guess he could do stuff like Equalizer or like Liam Neeson, like taking movies. I guess, But I got cause I does he really need the money? I don't know. He loves making movies, man, He let movies. That's the thing, right, thing of selling a movie. Is there any other actor or actress that looks happier being in front of people talking about making a movie? Oh no, than him as an A plus actor? And he does? You think the movie really sucked? That? All the rounds he's doing, You know, it's it's you know you think about, yeah, you're right, because that he was old boy? How good is this? But like I think about the you know, when when George went died last week? Yeah, I know, right, Like I'm okay, when George went died, right they you saw all over social media. The final scene from Cheers, sorry spoiler. The final scene from Cheers when Sam had left UH to go to potentially be with Diane one time, but he comes back to run Cheers and and and George Wentz says, well, you always come back to your to your to your love, and he goes, well, I left Diane there, and and George Wentz says, think about it, Sam, think about it, and he leaves, and like that's the len. Then Sam goes back, you come back. He comes back because he loves the ball and he loves running the bar, right yeah, he loves running the bar like Tom Cruise, loves movies like more than anything else, and making movies like he is. He is the guy standing up holding up the entire movie. And I remember during COVID when that gets out, he was screaming saying, we're trying to keep the movie industry alive, so you gotta wear mats, you gotta do all this stuff. We're trying to keep movies going, just screaming at everybody one of the mission impossible sets. Right, here's the rules, here's the protocol, whether you agreed with it or not, that was the protocol that was set yep. So he wanted to make sure that nothing got shut down. There is nobody happier doing what we hap to be in that and it really is something. But like all the pop ins to theaters, the shot of him talking with the the AMC crew that was there, yeah, and standing in the city was there for like twenty minutes, asking movies and whatever else. Like, I don't know, we should all be so lucky. I mean, you and I love coming in and doing what we do and we're blessed to do it. For him, he ain't gonna do it till he's done. Oh yeah, and then probably twenty years after. Yeah, well he still got that movie's supposed to do where he goes out. He's gonna actually do it on the International Space Station, Like he's actually gonna go up there and be there like that. You can always take an l and a knick kid. That's the Challa maye. Who do you think they would cheer four more Tom Cruise or shallow mate? Well, Cruise would be more enthusiastic, Oh shalam, He's pretty enthusiastic and showed up with some timberlands. He's just up with Nady Armis and don't forget the battle arena is uh Charles Hey, he may be coming back Oakley. There was a big story that Oakley coming back. Well condition his condition was it's not like it's not like a lifetime band for Charles Oakley, like put him in a glass. Caliburton's dad is back and his his lifetime band left in like ten no indefinite, indefinite suspension. But as far as like a plus actors, you don't ever see them make the rounds for a movie like that like this for everything he does. Yeah, I mean really, I mean to get people out and it's one of those movies and that it's a spoiler. But you know how sometimes movies open and the actor thanks you for coming to the theater, Like that's how the movie opens, like you go, you do the Nicole Kidman, we all show up here. It's kind of funny. Nicole Kidman. Then Tum Chris, you know, we all show up looking for magic and the whole AMC thing whatever. And then the first thing is Cruz come on going, thank you for coming to the theater to see Mission Impossible. Uh, I hope you enjoyed this. No, it's just him. No, it's just what I'm saying. I enjoy the movie. Yeah, it's not really me. Shut him, shut him. But he was the elastica. He's the only other guy that has done the same thing because he he toured for for the Dylan movie for months yea, as it opened in every country. So I mean that embrace it. Look, and he says, you know, look, I hope you enjoy it. We made it for you. Uh it. It's been a great run for this, you know, thanking everybody that did the movie, and Christopher McQuary to and my producing partner, and you know, hope you have much fun watching it. We really enjoyed making these films and everything, so thank you for coming scenes. This is the before the This is not part of the movie. You said it was the first scene. Well, no, this is the first thing you see, is this and then the movie starts. You think about in the scene. No, no, no, this is this is separate from the movies before the views starts burning in you hear it. It was about the fighting. But I mean, this is thirty years of a franchise though. Yeah the first was ninety six. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's all the same people, right, it's some of the same rames. Still, Yeah, you have ving rains, Benji. You know, wait kind a question.

Now, we'll get back into the NBA Playoffs in a second. But I want to say this because you know, I was thinking about this today. Went to go see Mission Impossible. Yeah, I have no spoilers. No, no, there'd be no spoilers Mission Impossible, no spoilers. Know, I'm not spoiling. I'm not spoiling the title of it, I would say, because I went in with very little expectation because the last one, you know, much as how great this this movie franchise has been, like the last one was just really disappointing. Yeah you were not a fan. No, it was really convoluted and it was confusing. And I said I'm going with no expectation because I got a feeling it's going to be a big mess. But I think after seeing it, I can say this that the title should be Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning Part two not as confusing as you think it's going to be. That's a hell of a sub title. I was not as confusing as you think it was going to be. It was. It was enjoyable. It was it was long, it was a little long, but it was enjoyable. And the stunts, I mean, the the one stunt at the end of the movie. I'm not saying, of course, there's a big stunt. I'm not not not selling anything. I'm not splaying anything. The big stunt at the end of the movie. Your jaw will drop as you're watching it, Like my jaw was dropping. I'm like, how how did the how are they doing this? How are they doing this? I'm saying, this is is I could just watch this for it was like and it was like twenty minutes long, but this is this is insanely good. I don't know how they're doing this, how he's doing this. It was. It really was impressive. Great way to if this is the end, I mean maybe they bring him back for something. But I mean he is getting all he's sixty three now, Like at some point it's like, okay, I like, what's Tom Cruise gonna do when he's seventy? Like said, he wants to keep doing all this stuff till he's one hundred. Okay, that's gonna be tough. Man, lying age, defying gravity, all that stuff. I mean, could he do? I mean could he? I guess he could do stuff like Equalizer or like Liam Neeson, like taking movies. I guess, But I got cause I does he really need the money? I don't know. He loves making movies, man, He let movies. That's the thing, right, thing of selling a movie. Is there any other actor or actress that looks happier being in front of people talking about making a movie? Oh no, than him as an A plus actor? And he does? You think the movie really sucked? That? All the rounds he's doing, You know, it's it's you know you think about, yeah, you're right, because that he was old boy? How good is this? But like I think about the you know, when when George went died last week? Yeah, I know, right, Like I'm okay, when George went died, right they you saw all over social media. The final scene from Cheers, sorry spoiler. The final scene from Cheers when Sam had left UH to go to potentially be with Diane one time, but he comes back to run Cheers and and and George Wentz says, well, you always come back to your to your to your love, and he goes, well, I left Diane there, and and George Wentz says, think about it, Sam, think about it, and he leaves, and like that's the len. Then Sam goes back, you come back. He comes back because he loves the ball and he loves running the bar, right yeah, he loves running the bar like Tom Cruise, loves movies like more than anything else, and making movies like he is. He is the guy standing up holding up the entire movie. And I remember during COVID when that gets out, he was screaming saying, we're trying to keep the movie industry alive, so you gotta wear mats, you gotta do all this stuff. We're trying to keep movies going, just screaming at everybody one of the mission impossible sets. Right, here's the rules, here's the protocol, whether you agreed with it or not, that was the protocol that was set yep. So he wanted to make sure that nothing got shut down. There is nobody happier doing what we hap to be in that and it really is something. But like all the pop ins to theaters, the shot of him talking with the the AMC crew that was there, yeah, and standing in the city was there for like twenty minutes, asking movies and whatever else. Like, I don't know, we should all be so lucky. I mean, you and I love coming in and doing what we do and we're blessed to do it. For him, he ain't gonna do it till he's done. Oh yeah, and then probably twenty years after. Yeah, well he still got that movie's supposed to do where he goes out. He's gonna actually do it on the International Space Station, Like he's actually gonna go up there and be there like that. You can always take an l and a knick kid. That's the Challa maye. Who do you think they would cheer four more Tom Cruise or shallow mate? Well, Cruise would be more enthusiastic, Oh shalam, He's pretty enthusiastic and showed up with some timberlands. He's just up with Nady Armis and don't forget the battle arena is uh Charles Hey, he may be coming back Oakley. There was a big story that Oakley coming back. Well condition his condition was it's not like it's not like a lifetime band for Charles Oakley, like put him in a glass. Caliburton's dad is back and his his lifetime band left in like ten no indefinite, indefinite suspension. But as far as like a plus actors, you don't ever see them make the rounds for a movie like that like this for everything he does. Yeah, I mean really, I mean to get people out and it's one of those movies and that it's a spoiler. But you know how sometimes movies open and the actor thanks you for coming to the theater, Like that's how the movie opens, like you go, you do the Nicole Kidman, we all show up here. It's kind of funny. Nicole Kidman. Then Tum Chris, you know, we all show up looking for magic and the whole AMC thing whatever. And then the first thing is Cruz come on going, thank you for coming to the theater to see Mission Impossible. Uh, I hope you enjoyed this. No, it's just him. No, it's just what I'm saying. I enjoy the movie. Yeah, it's not really me. Shut him, shut him. But he was the elastica. He's the only other guy that has done the same thing because he he toured for for the Dylan movie for months yea, as it opened in every country. So I mean that embrace it. Look, and he says, you know, look, I hope you enjoy it. We made it for you. Uh it. It's been a great run for this, you know, thanking everybody that did the movie, and Christopher McQuary to and my producing partner, and you know, hope you have much fun watching it. We really enjoyed making these films and everything, so thank you for coming scenes. This is the before the This is not part of the movie. You said it was the first scene. Well, no, this is the first thing you see, is this and then the movie starts. You think about in the scene. No, no, no, this is this is separate from the movies before the views starts burning in you hear it. It was about the fighting. But I mean, this is thirty years of a franchise though. Yeah the first was ninety six. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's all the same people, right, it's some of the same rames. Still, Yeah, you have ving rains, Benji. You know, wait kind a question.

Yeah, what's the point of making how many movies up?

Yeah, what's the point of making how many movies up?

There?

There?

Is there a mission impossible?

Is there a mission impossible?

Technically seven? Final Reckoning was in two movies.

Technically seven? Final Reckoning was in two movies.

So there's basically eight, I guess theoretically, and again it's an impossible mission. So what's the point of keep what's the point of making seven movies of that?

So there's basically eight, I guess theoretically, and again it's an impossible mission. So what's the point of keep what's the point of making seven movies of that?

Because eventually you might get to a mission that's impossible that he can't do, that he can't pull off. Maybe this is the one that's impossible. It can you pull this off? Maybe? Maybe not? You know, you said he's been going since ninety six, Mike, ninety six was the first. How many championships have the next one? In that time? Mission impossible? We went to one finals and lost because you ain't got hurt, wasn't the question? And we're gonna win this year, okay, zero? Okay, zero zero zero.

Because eventually you might get to a mission that's impossible that he can't do, that he can't pull off. Maybe this is the one that's impossible. It can you pull this off? Maybe? Maybe not? You know, you said he's been going since ninety six, Mike, ninety six was the first. How many championships have the next one? In that time? Mission impossible? We went to one finals and lost because you ain't got hurt, wasn't the question? And we're gonna win this year, okay, zero? Okay, zero zero zero.

So they're trying to beat the mission that's impossible.

So they're trying to beat the mission that's impossible.

Zero. Hey, all I know is it's impossible. Came out the Mets beat the Dodgers two out of three. Well, I know, three games, White Sox to one. How about that? Yeah, a couple of walk off Sacra barely beat the White Sox. It's okay, okay, eight one and one doesn't matter. I don't care. Okay, we just beat you two out of three. That's everything. Okay, Well next week when you guys come next week, we hang the banner for beating the Dodgers too out of just there. Yeah, that's what we Yeah that what next time? You got next year? Sorry, we're out here. Next week, maybe we hang the banner out here. I'd hang it out the series. Where's Jason's arms? Uh? Middle weekday next week, so it's like Monday through Thursday. Next week it's useless. Yea, we'll go Thursday. Yeah, there's a day game on Thursday. Yeah, day game Thursday. Yeah, let's go. Uh unless the Knicks are playing in the finals, so you're playing the final, Mets are there, so it might be as easy as getting into an Angel gamey Oh, I don't know, man, Nick, Mets Mets Dodgers draws really a lot of after Wait, we had a lot of people. We can uh one in the afternoon. I guarantee you there will be the biggest population of Mets fans there for that game. Well, because they don't have jobs and lives. No, because it's easier to get games because Dodger fans don't go to day. Look at June fifth, June eighth, June eleventh, going to the uh the NLCS games last year, right, I went to Game two, in game six, Game two, which was during the day, it's a little different. Way more Mets fans right, way more Mets fans there. But then Game six, which was at night, way more Dodgers fans. Right there were hard There weren't that many Mets fans there, but the Mets fans it was almost split permission slips from their parents, all of them. All of them said they could come to the game. All right, so we have Thursday Sunday Wednesday or games one through three of the finals, Okay, Thursday Sunday Wednesday, so Thursday, okay, but it's Thursday night, so we'd be okay, Thursday night, be fine. Yeah for Nick's thunder, be fine. Thunder. Now, hey, you talk about the Pacers, you know, after today, I think the pacers are running scared. And I'm serious about this, Like, why am I even singing Roy Orbison Because Pop's Halliburton gets reinstated, right, Tyre's Halliburton's dad, Well, they call him Pops Halliburton on the un mess. I'm okay call him Pops. So Tyre's Halliburton's dad is now allowed to go to Game four, yeah, where he had been temporarily banned from going to Pacers game since earlier in the playoffs. When the Pacers eliminated the Bucks. Right after the final horn of the final game, Halliburton's dad comes out onto the court holding up a towel with Tyresee's picture on it, taunting Yannis bad luck, bad optic. Uh. Jannis has a lot of class and listen, everything seemed fine after everything is good, but Halliburton's dad gets banned from the game. But he also didn't know it was his dad right away, right right, crazy guy. By the way, where's his brothers? I mean, look, I know they've been hurt and whatever else. Those guys should have been on the end of the bench. Those are your protectors. Yeah, they getting paid to do They're not getting paid to play basketball. I'm not running on the floor. Man. You're dealing with that crazy guy yourself. It's all good, So fired you're off family payroll. So he was banned from the games, couldn't come to the arenas. But now the band was lifted and he can come to the home games. Now he's not gonna be able to sit court side, he's gonna have to watch the game from a suite. And he still can't go to the road games. So he said, yes, all of a sudden, my band has left. I have to sit in the suite. Oh and get free food and have a bathroom and all poor game for you. Let me tell you right now, if I'm the Knicks, I'm saying the Pacers are scared because they could have easily reinstated him for Game three, but they didn't, and they lose Game three and they blow a twenty point lead. The Knicks don't play well. Good luck trying to make sense of this series, because it doesn't. Karl Anthony towns four points in the first three quarters and then he goes off for twenty in the fourth quarter, Like where did that come from? But they could have put him in after for Game three, but no, no, no, there's no no coincidence that after Game three they go, hey, we're gonna let let Halliburton's dad come back to the games. They're looking for some kind of spark coming off of this game. They want to get maybe get Tyrese Haliburton back to being the dominant guy he was in game one in game two. There is no coincidence they did this between game three and game four. They are looking for a spark. If I'm the Nicks, I'm saying we got them scared right now. We got them scared whatever happened there, whether it was we won and Jalen Brunson didn't have a dominant game, or we won despite the fact we played terribly and we had a good fourth quarter. But I look at this and I go, paces are running scared now for this game, because why is Halliburton's dad back for this instead of what he could have been back for it simply could have easily been back for game three. But no, no, no, They're looking for some kind of trump card, something to get the Pacers back in a positive frame of mind for game four. Does Mellencamp introduce him like with a song or something. I mean, I'm trying to think of Indiana he would do small town. I was born in a small tailors ladies and gentlemen beat the Knicks in a small back Yeah, Pops Haliber and John mellancn And there he is up in the up in the booth with special guest Caitlyn Clark. The Caitlyn Clark kind of lips out a little bit waves everybody does this long. See, that's what I would do. Forget about Pop's Halibur. Caitlyn can't play it. Tell you what you don't travel? You come out for game four? Will you give us a lift? You're missing a big one. Who I'm missing? Axel Rose Man he's on tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And well he's from Indiana. Yeah, oh you remember that? I think, Yeah, he's got to remember I came from somewhere. I forget. Like he's like in the Lord of the Rings movie. I've been alive for so long, I forget where I came from. Well, some people want to forget and they do their best to. Uh. Here's Axel Rose and Larry Bird doing free falling And you say he's on tour. That was That's been a hologram for years, Mike, Yeah, I mean the guns and Roses. Guns and Rose have been like the dead. They've been on tour since like twenty sixteen, he took some time off. They just get the back out. I think, right back on the road, you know, while everybody's loving each other and getting along, Go go make your money. But all of that to say, yeah, I have to agree to an extent with you, and and it pains me to do so. In terms of desperation, we always say it it's stinky cano, but it's also just that, all right, how do we get an edge back? Because we just had a game where we blew a lead just like they did, and we we thought we'd taken their souls. Now they've taken aback. You went full death eater on us in the fourth quarter and it was all cat, let's bring him back, and he looked like he was full up. Wow. It's like wow, Now now you decide we got to bring him back. Okay, I'm telling you. If I'm the next I'm feeling pretty I'm like, now they're bringing back his dad, think tims us that as bulletin boards, look at this. Yeah. He stands with his arms folded in front of the bullet and board says, look us here, tonight, look us here, tonight. Hey guys, watch out because someone could be running on the floor for you. Watch out, Pops Haliburton, look Out. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Dizzy Reid coming coming up next. What does he read? Still a member of Guns and Roses somewhat? Wow? I take you're feeling like a space brain one more time tonight, I mean, coming up next, we get back into the biggest story of the night, the NBA. Fox.

Zero. Hey, all I know is it's impossible. Came out the Mets beat the Dodgers two out of three. Well, I know, three games, White Sox to one. How about that? Yeah, a couple of walk off Sacra barely beat the White Sox. It's okay, okay, eight one and one doesn't matter. I don't care. Okay, we just beat you two out of three. That's everything. Okay, Well next week when you guys come next week, we hang the banner for beating the Dodgers too out of just there. Yeah, that's what we Yeah that what next time? You got next year? Sorry, we're out here. Next week, maybe we hang the banner out here. I'd hang it out the series. Where's Jason's arms? Uh? Middle weekday next week, so it's like Monday through Thursday. Next week it's useless. Yea, we'll go Thursday. Yeah, there's a day game on Thursday. Yeah, day game Thursday. Yeah, let's go. Uh unless the Knicks are playing in the finals, so you're playing the final, Mets are there, so it might be as easy as getting into an Angel gamey Oh, I don't know, man, Nick, Mets Mets Dodgers draws really a lot of after Wait, we had a lot of people. We can uh one in the afternoon. I guarantee you there will be the biggest population of Mets fans there for that game. Well, because they don't have jobs and lives. No, because it's easier to get games because Dodger fans don't go to day. Look at June fifth, June eighth, June eleventh, going to the uh the NLCS games last year, right, I went to Game two, in game six, Game two, which was during the day, it's a little different. Way more Mets fans right, way more Mets fans there. But then Game six, which was at night, way more Dodgers fans. Right there were hard There weren't that many Mets fans there, but the Mets fans it was almost split permission slips from their parents, all of them. All of them said they could come to the game. All right, so we have Thursday Sunday Wednesday or games one through three of the finals, Okay, Thursday Sunday Wednesday, so Thursday, okay, but it's Thursday night, so we'd be okay, Thursday night, be fine. Yeah for Nick's thunder, be fine. Thunder. Now, hey, you talk about the Pacers, you know, after today, I think the pacers are running scared. And I'm serious about this, Like, why am I even singing Roy Orbison Because Pop's Halliburton gets reinstated, right, Tyre's Halliburton's dad, Well, they call him Pops Halliburton on the un mess. I'm okay call him Pops. So Tyre's Halliburton's dad is now allowed to go to Game four, yeah, where he had been temporarily banned from going to Pacers game since earlier in the playoffs. When the Pacers eliminated the Bucks. Right after the final horn of the final game, Halliburton's dad comes out onto the court holding up a towel with Tyresee's picture on it, taunting Yannis bad luck, bad optic. Uh. Jannis has a lot of class and listen, everything seemed fine after everything is good, but Halliburton's dad gets banned from the game. But he also didn't know it was his dad right away, right right, crazy guy. By the way, where's his brothers? I mean, look, I know they've been hurt and whatever else. Those guys should have been on the end of the bench. Those are your protectors. Yeah, they getting paid to do They're not getting paid to play basketball. I'm not running on the floor. Man. You're dealing with that crazy guy yourself. It's all good, So fired you're off family payroll. So he was banned from the games, couldn't come to the arenas. But now the band was lifted and he can come to the home games. Now he's not gonna be able to sit court side, he's gonna have to watch the game from a suite. And he still can't go to the road games. So he said, yes, all of a sudden, my band has left. I have to sit in the suite. Oh and get free food and have a bathroom and all poor game for you. Let me tell you right now, if I'm the Knicks, I'm saying the Pacers are scared because they could have easily reinstated him for Game three, but they didn't, and they lose Game three and they blow a twenty point lead. The Knicks don't play well. Good luck trying to make sense of this series, because it doesn't. Karl Anthony towns four points in the first three quarters and then he goes off for twenty in the fourth quarter, Like where did that come from? But they could have put him in after for Game three, but no, no, no, there's no no coincidence that after Game three they go, hey, we're gonna let let Halliburton's dad come back to the games. They're looking for some kind of spark coming off of this game. They want to get maybe get Tyrese Haliburton back to being the dominant guy he was in game one in game two. There is no coincidence they did this between game three and game four. They are looking for a spark. If I'm the Nicks, I'm saying we got them scared right now. We got them scared whatever happened there, whether it was we won and Jalen Brunson didn't have a dominant game, or we won despite the fact we played terribly and we had a good fourth quarter. But I look at this and I go, paces are running scared now for this game, because why is Halliburton's dad back for this instead of what he could have been back for it simply could have easily been back for game three. But no, no, no, They're looking for some kind of trump card, something to get the Pacers back in a positive frame of mind for game four. Does Mellencamp introduce him like with a song or something. I mean, I'm trying to think of Indiana he would do small town. I was born in a small tailors ladies and gentlemen beat the Knicks in a small back Yeah, Pops Haliber and John mellancn And there he is up in the up in the booth with special guest Caitlyn Clark. The Caitlyn Clark kind of lips out a little bit waves everybody does this long. See, that's what I would do. Forget about Pop's Halibur. Caitlyn can't play it. Tell you what you don't travel? You come out for game four? Will you give us a lift? You're missing a big one. Who I'm missing? Axel Rose Man he's on tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And well he's from Indiana. Yeah, oh you remember that? I think, Yeah, he's got to remember I came from somewhere. I forget. Like he's like in the Lord of the Rings movie. I've been alive for so long, I forget where I came from. Well, some people want to forget and they do their best to. Uh. Here's Axel Rose and Larry Bird doing free falling And you say he's on tour. That was That's been a hologram for years, Mike, Yeah, I mean the guns and Roses. Guns and Rose have been like the dead. They've been on tour since like twenty sixteen, he took some time off. They just get the back out. I think, right back on the road, you know, while everybody's loving each other and getting along, Go go make your money. But all of that to say, yeah, I have to agree to an extent with you, and and it pains me to do so. In terms of desperation, we always say it it's stinky cano, but it's also just that, all right, how do we get an edge back? Because we just had a game where we blew a lead just like they did, and we we thought we'd taken their souls. Now they've taken aback. You went full death eater on us in the fourth quarter and it was all cat, let's bring him back, and he looked like he was full up. Wow. It's like wow, Now now you decide we got to bring him back. Okay, I'm telling you. If I'm the next I'm feeling pretty I'm like, now they're bringing back his dad, think tims us that as bulletin boards, look at this. Yeah. He stands with his arms folded in front of the bullet and board says, look us here, tonight, look us here, tonight. Hey guys, watch out because someone could be running on the floor for you. Watch out, Pops Haliburton, look Out. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Dizzy Reid coming coming up next. What does he read? Still a member of Guns and Roses somewhat? Wow? I take you're feeling like a space brain one more time tonight, I mean, coming up next, we get back into the biggest story of the night, the NBA. Fox.

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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. So we'll get back into the Thunder and the Tea Wolves in a second. I didn't know if I was going to mention this tonight, but I will because I want to give you guys a chance at this. Yeah. So you know Sunday Night Trivia night, right, We go for trivia, yep, and it's all about hairstyles Robert Head. Yeah. God, this is the whole show. Uh. And we didn't win. And for the first time I missed a sports question. Really, not only did I miss one, I missed too. Where was your head. Here's the thing, because here's the thing. Well, here's here's the thing, is that they weren't really sports question. They were very loose sports questions, right, he was doing the whole air quotes. Yeah, so here's the first I'll give you, guys. So here's the first. They go sports like, all right, great sports, OK. But there are actually four sports questions. I got the other two because they were really sports. These were like tangentially sports. This is what I mean. So here's the first one. He says the word steiny, which means to stop or to halt something initially came from an obscure rule in this sport hockey, right, what was the sport? And I'm going, oh my god, I have no idea. I was going to say, the little rascals, that's right. I'm sitting there going and they're looking at me. I go, I don't know, stop what, I have no idea? Why would I even know? I'm going, Steinny, what could be? And it was like it could have been anything. We're like, it could have been yeah, sure, what do you think Mary?

Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. So we'll get back into the Thunder and the Tea Wolves in a second. I didn't know if I was going to mention this tonight, but I will because I want to give you guys a chance at this. Yeah. So you know Sunday Night Trivia night, right, We go for trivia, yep, and it's all about hairstyles Robert Head. Yeah. God, this is the whole show. Uh. And we didn't win. And for the first time I missed a sports question. Really, not only did I miss one, I missed too. Where was your head. Here's the thing, because here's the thing. Well, here's here's the thing, is that they weren't really sports question. They were very loose sports questions, right, he was doing the whole air quotes. Yeah, so here's the first I'll give you, guys. So here's the first. They go sports like, all right, great sports, OK. But there are actually four sports questions. I got the other two because they were really sports. These were like tangentially sports. This is what I mean. So here's the first one. He says the word steiny, which means to stop or to halt something initially came from an obscure rule in this sport hockey, right, what was the sport? And I'm going, oh my god, I have no idea. I was going to say, the little rascals, that's right. I'm sitting there going and they're looking at me. I go, I don't know, stop what, I have no idea? Why would I even know? I'm going, Steinny, what could be? And it was like it could have been anything. We're like, it could have been yeah, sure, what do you think Mary?

Tennis?

Tennis?

No, not tennis. We went through all these different things and we settled on on cricket. Like okay, okay, steymy sounds like something from cricket. Okay, Like I mean, I had no idea it was. It was. It was named for something. It was an obsolete rule in this sport. And we're like, okay, cricket, but let's risk zero. And everybody was. We were like because usually we say, you know, we risked, we risk all our stuff on sports, like because I'm going to get it right. And I was like, let's risk like one on this. We can't risk anything, can't risk anything. And of course we got it wrong because it was it was it here in like the British Open, right, well, because you looked it up. I'm sure, yes, you look you looked it up for us. You looked up the answer. The steymy used to be a situation in golf where one player's ball blocked the path of another's to the cup. You couldn't put like no, the you know, the person didn't move their ball, like if you had to putt to the cup and the other person's ball was there, they didn't let you mark the ball. So you were stymied because you couldn't you couldn't get so you had to put find a way to put around it and and go it. But now they got rid of that rule a long long time ago and let you mark the balls you could put right for it. So the steymy, you were not afforded relief and you had to chip or chip over it or put around it. And I'm going, I I didn't know that, Like I know that. How did I not know that? One of my favorite, my favorite lines of all time. I know they made choke Lardie, but they ain't gonna choke Stymy. Okay, one of his classic So so that was the first when we got wrong. I'm like, okay, and then we got the last one wrong, which was the finale. We risked everything on it. We didn't get it right. It wasn't part, but it was tangentially sports. It was. This is the only group or person to perform at halftime of the Super Bowl and only do their number one hits all songs that reach number one on the Billboard Top one hundred chart. Okay, only one? Yeah, well explain again, only one person or group who got to perform halftime in the Super Bowl and only did their number one hits. That's all they did. No other songs. Okay, Mary go ahead, guess.

No, not tennis. We went through all these different things and we settled on on cricket. Like okay, okay, steymy sounds like something from cricket. Okay, Like I mean, I had no idea it was. It was. It was named for something. It was an obsolete rule in this sport. And we're like, okay, cricket, but let's risk zero. And everybody was. We were like because usually we say, you know, we risked, we risk all our stuff on sports, like because I'm going to get it right. And I was like, let's risk like one on this. We can't risk anything, can't risk anything. And of course we got it wrong because it was it was it here in like the British Open, right, well, because you looked it up. I'm sure, yes, you look you looked it up for us. You looked up the answer. The steymy used to be a situation in golf where one player's ball blocked the path of another's to the cup. You couldn't put like no, the you know, the person didn't move their ball, like if you had to putt to the cup and the other person's ball was there, they didn't let you mark the ball. So you were stymied because you couldn't you couldn't get so you had to put find a way to put around it and and go it. But now they got rid of that rule a long long time ago and let you mark the balls you could put right for it. So the steymy, you were not afforded relief and you had to chip or chip over it or put around it. And I'm going, I I didn't know that, Like I know that. How did I not know that? One of my favorite, my favorite lines of all time. I know they made choke Lardie, but they ain't gonna choke Stymy. Okay, one of his classic So so that was the first when we got wrong. I'm like, okay, and then we got the last one wrong, which was the finale. We risked everything on it. We didn't get it right. It wasn't part, but it was tangentially sports. It was. This is the only group or person to perform at halftime of the Super Bowl and only do their number one hits all songs that reach number one on the Billboard Top one hundred chart. Okay, only one? Yeah, well explain again, only one person or group who got to perform halftime in the Super Bowl and only did their number one hits. That's all they did. No other songs. Okay, Mary go ahead, guess.

My guess is either between Michael's accident and Coldplay.

My guess is either between Michael's accident and Coldplay.

Okay, not Michael Jackson and Coldplay, Chili Peppers and not the Chili Peppers. Now I had a great guess. I had a great Guestamala's. They gave us a music clue for it is. Okay, here's your music clue. Was it up with people? Okay? And they played Mama's and the Papas California Dreaming, And now I'm like, wait a minute. Madonna did halftime of the super Bowl about ten years ago. She has twelve or thirteen number one hit. I know she had like a dozen or ten in the eighties. I go and Mama's and the Papas, here's your clue, because that's what it is, like, it's usually the name of the group or the song is a clue for who it was. And I said, Okay, Mama's Madonna, that's it. And they were like, yes, Madonna, risk at all risk, twenty We've bit twenty was not Madonna? Wait? Wait, can I guess again? Yeah? Go ahead, Prince, no pristin. I knew it wasn't Prince because Prince didn't have enough number one hit. He only had like four number one hits. Surprisingly, right, you only had like four number like top ten hits. He had a million of them, but number one hits he only had four. Doctors Ray No, remember Doctor Drey had a whole bunch of people with him. That was a fun show to see though he didn't do it. He didn't do enough songs. But like all they did all number and this is not something you could look up right, like like was it Katy Perry. It was Katy Perry. Wow, very good Frostburg. Yeah, it was Katy Perry. Looking up, that was a pretty good halftimes. I'm like, yeah, okay, remember that Katy Perry. Yeah. I didn't think Katy Perry had enough songs because everybody does like an amalgam of it and and everything. That's like, but Katy Perry has like seven number one hits. Yeah. The Roarers are last one she did, and I think she only did like five or so year did she do was usually do a halftime probably about yeah, about ten years ago, yeah, twenty fifteen, because like that was the one where it was like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry Lady Gaga like three years in a row. Those were the those were the people, and I'm like, oh my god. And the clue was California Dreaming because Katy Perry's from California. I'm like, Okay, that's a real weak clue. But Donna mom Is in the pop was as better. But I'm like, yeah, okay, so yeah, yeah, so they did so and the team that won got Katy Perry. I'm like, I can't believe that even if we got it, we probably wouldn't have won. We would have come in second. So I mean, also you'd take that question because she's recently been in the uh twitter verse and across social media for a series of really curious performances. Yeah, and uh boy, you didn't think that someone could go from a lister to wow like that fast, but there's plenty. I mean, how does that? I don't know, man, Like you know, I always say, like, boy, how did the Dolphins in a year go from a team on the rise and they're gonna be the next thing in the NFL? Everybody's fast and they got they got the right coach in there, and then a year later it's like we got to blow it up. Like Katy Perry went from a lister a lister is she nearly as popular as Taylor Swift? And now it's like, boy, that album and I've heard Vegas she's like banned from Well they lost, yeah they yeah her. No, it is like Katy Perry is. It's like what happened just that short amount of time to Katy Perry? But she was answered Katy Perry. She had a good run. So two sports questions, but they were kind of tangible. Well, I mean the stemy question of sports. But I'm like, I was, okay, it was easy. Now I'm gonna go home and watch the little rascals. The mayor may not have been called spanky for a long time in my youth. What I what I wish the question was was, Hey, who do you hold most responsible for the TA was losing tonight? Anthony Edwards? Bet at all? Uh tonight? I don't know. You might have had a guy or two us right, Oh, yes, show. But look the thunder win tonight and it's almost a foregone conclusion they're going to win this series. They're up three games to one likelihood and according to the implied odds, on six is the final. And you know, not that I like to say I told you so, but I kind of do uh is that the reason I picked the Thunder before the series is playing itself out right now over the entire series. Right. SGA is a much better, more consistent superstar, right the reason why he's the MVP. And Edwards is a guy that I think everybody wanted to jump on, somebody knew who could be the next face of the league. He had a big playoff last year. And oh, he's athletic, and you know, he certainly seems comfortable being compared to Jordan. Oh, he's the closest thing to Jordan because he's got the sweat band that he wears around his elbow. And Edwards is a fantastic player. But I'm going with the Thunder over the Tea Wolves because I know I'm gonna get a great series out of SGA, and and Edwards still is a guy who is going to have at least two games in a series where he's not going to show up. And that's clearly what we've gotten so far in the first four games. Game one, he's a no show. Tonight, he's a no show thirteen shots in each of these games. That's not even trying to get into the game. That's being okay with being taken away. Right. This is the second time that this has happened, and I knew was gonna happen because this is kind of who Ann Edwards is. And I don't know if it's just he doesn't get it, or if he needs a conversation with a Hall of fameer or tell him, dude, when it's the Western Conference Finals, you gotta show up for every game and if you can't find a way to affect the game in your normal way, you have to find a way around it. We talk about Giljess Alexander who, Hey, he'll get to the free throw line, he'll slow the game down, he'll figure out away. This is guys who win the Mvpat's why he's the MVP, and Ann Edwards is just content to okay, I'll dish the ball off, like if there's a couple of guys on me, I'll dish the ball off. And that's kind of who he's been. Chris Finch talked about it earlier in the playoffs when he said when he had a bad game in Game one of the last series, and he said, listen, we need you to come set the tone and be a leader, right, it's not just about scoring and taking shots, although that would show me you're trying to get into the game. If you are five for twenty two, okay, you tried again in the game. You tried everything and it didn't work. If you're five for thirteen, dude, you're the best player on the court. You can't be third on the team in shots. You can't happen, right and you get But that's what happened to Ann Edwards tonight, and you're gonna hear from him coming up in a second what he said after the game, which which is even more damning for him. But like this, this is who Ann Edwards is. He's not ready to be the face lift face the league. Doesn't take two shots in the first half like he did tonight. Two shots from Ann Edwards in the first half of the game tonight, not what two shots is all? He took thirteen for the game. Dude. You have to come into a game and when you need this is win or basically you know you're going home. And still it was yeah, ah, they took me out of the game. They're able to take me out of the game. That's not how it works, man. Yeah, we'll get we'll get to his comments in a second, because they're distressing if you're a Timberwolves fan and you're banking on long term success and he is only twenty three, so there's learning to all of this. But you think the sting of last year would still be there right at the opportunities that they had, and then you're coming back. You make some substantive changes to your squad, and you're getting that level of support from your secondary players, but you can't get to the fall one look sga. We can argue about it all we want, and you watch it and at times it's laughable. The forearms shiver, and he gets the call, okay, fine. A couple of times tonight he tried it and the referee either looked the other way or once it was actually an offensive file call, like how is that not more consistent again, rather less fewer whistles, But let's be consistent and actually recognize what we're seeing in those moments. But Edwards did nothing that to try to slow the game down, to get into the game, to affect it at the foul line and give the other players a bit of a lift. Right. Offensively, we could criticize guys like Harden and so many other wow volume shooters. Well and Edwards was a twenty eight a game scorer this year on forty four percent shooting, not exactly the model of operational efficiency, but showing that in most games. And if you go back into his game log for the year, there's a lot of eleven to thirteen field goal games. Guess what they were against Charlotte when you were up twenty And this is not it. And it's not as if hey because he couldn't he couldn't get to the hoop, he couldn't get his shots off. He had fifteen assists, He had six assists and five turnovers. Yeah right, he didn't have that night. He just was incredibly passive, which happens to him now. Listen to his comments after the game when he's asked about his before Julius Randall also out of the barnments, when he's asked about his performance tonight. Listen to him not take responsibility for the Wolf for him in a night where he goes five out of thirteen and the second time he's a no show and the t Wolves lose. Here's the questions about forty five seconds long. Listen to his answers.

Okay, not Michael Jackson and Coldplay, Chili Peppers and not the Chili Peppers. Now I had a great guess. I had a great Guestamala's. They gave us a music clue for it is. Okay, here's your music clue. Was it up with people? Okay? And they played Mama's and the Papas California Dreaming, And now I'm like, wait a minute. Madonna did halftime of the super Bowl about ten years ago. She has twelve or thirteen number one hit. I know she had like a dozen or ten in the eighties. I go and Mama's and the Papas, here's your clue, because that's what it is, like, it's usually the name of the group or the song is a clue for who it was. And I said, Okay, Mama's Madonna, that's it. And they were like, yes, Madonna, risk at all risk, twenty We've bit twenty was not Madonna? Wait? Wait, can I guess again? Yeah? Go ahead, Prince, no pristin. I knew it wasn't Prince because Prince didn't have enough number one hit. He only had like four number one hits. Surprisingly, right, you only had like four number like top ten hits. He had a million of them, but number one hits he only had four. Doctors Ray No, remember Doctor Drey had a whole bunch of people with him. That was a fun show to see though he didn't do it. He didn't do enough songs. But like all they did all number and this is not something you could look up right, like like was it Katy Perry. It was Katy Perry. Wow, very good Frostburg. Yeah, it was Katy Perry. Looking up, that was a pretty good halftimes. I'm like, yeah, okay, remember that Katy Perry. Yeah. I didn't think Katy Perry had enough songs because everybody does like an amalgam of it and and everything. That's like, but Katy Perry has like seven number one hits. Yeah. The Roarers are last one she did, and I think she only did like five or so year did she do was usually do a halftime probably about yeah, about ten years ago, yeah, twenty fifteen, because like that was the one where it was like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry Lady Gaga like three years in a row. Those were the those were the people, and I'm like, oh my god. And the clue was California Dreaming because Katy Perry's from California. I'm like, Okay, that's a real weak clue. But Donna mom Is in the pop was as better. But I'm like, yeah, okay, so yeah, yeah, so they did so and the team that won got Katy Perry. I'm like, I can't believe that even if we got it, we probably wouldn't have won. We would have come in second. So I mean, also you'd take that question because she's recently been in the uh twitter verse and across social media for a series of really curious performances. Yeah, and uh boy, you didn't think that someone could go from a lister to wow like that fast, but there's plenty. I mean, how does that? I don't know, man, Like you know, I always say, like, boy, how did the Dolphins in a year go from a team on the rise and they're gonna be the next thing in the NFL? Everybody's fast and they got they got the right coach in there, and then a year later it's like we got to blow it up. Like Katy Perry went from a lister a lister is she nearly as popular as Taylor Swift? And now it's like, boy, that album and I've heard Vegas she's like banned from Well they lost, yeah they yeah her. No, it is like Katy Perry is. It's like what happened just that short amount of time to Katy Perry? But she was answered Katy Perry. She had a good run. So two sports questions, but they were kind of tangible. Well, I mean the stemy question of sports. But I'm like, I was, okay, it was easy. Now I'm gonna go home and watch the little rascals. The mayor may not have been called spanky for a long time in my youth. What I what I wish the question was was, Hey, who do you hold most responsible for the TA was losing tonight? Anthony Edwards? Bet at all? Uh tonight? I don't know. You might have had a guy or two us right, Oh, yes, show. But look the thunder win tonight and it's almost a foregone conclusion they're going to win this series. They're up three games to one likelihood and according to the implied odds, on six is the final. And you know, not that I like to say I told you so, but I kind of do uh is that the reason I picked the Thunder before the series is playing itself out right now over the entire series. Right. SGA is a much better, more consistent superstar, right the reason why he's the MVP. And Edwards is a guy that I think everybody wanted to jump on, somebody knew who could be the next face of the league. He had a big playoff last year. And oh, he's athletic, and you know, he certainly seems comfortable being compared to Jordan. Oh, he's the closest thing to Jordan because he's got the sweat band that he wears around his elbow. And Edwards is a fantastic player. But I'm going with the Thunder over the Tea Wolves because I know I'm gonna get a great series out of SGA, and and Edwards still is a guy who is going to have at least two games in a series where he's not going to show up. And that's clearly what we've gotten so far in the first four games. Game one, he's a no show. Tonight, he's a no show thirteen shots in each of these games. That's not even trying to get into the game. That's being okay with being taken away. Right. This is the second time that this has happened, and I knew was gonna happen because this is kind of who Ann Edwards is. And I don't know if it's just he doesn't get it, or if he needs a conversation with a Hall of fameer or tell him, dude, when it's the Western Conference Finals, you gotta show up for every game and if you can't find a way to affect the game in your normal way, you have to find a way around it. We talk about Giljess Alexander who, Hey, he'll get to the free throw line, he'll slow the game down, he'll figure out away. This is guys who win the Mvpat's why he's the MVP, and Ann Edwards is just content to okay, I'll dish the ball off, like if there's a couple of guys on me, I'll dish the ball off. And that's kind of who he's been. Chris Finch talked about it earlier in the playoffs when he said when he had a bad game in Game one of the last series, and he said, listen, we need you to come set the tone and be a leader, right, it's not just about scoring and taking shots, although that would show me you're trying to get into the game. If you are five for twenty two, okay, you tried again in the game. You tried everything and it didn't work. If you're five for thirteen, dude, you're the best player on the court. You can't be third on the team in shots. You can't happen, right and you get But that's what happened to Ann Edwards tonight, and you're gonna hear from him coming up in a second what he said after the game, which which is even more damning for him. But like this, this is who Ann Edwards is. He's not ready to be the face lift face the league. Doesn't take two shots in the first half like he did tonight. Two shots from Ann Edwards in the first half of the game tonight, not what two shots is all? He took thirteen for the game. Dude. You have to come into a game and when you need this is win or basically you know you're going home. And still it was yeah, ah, they took me out of the game. They're able to take me out of the game. That's not how it works, man. Yeah, we'll get we'll get to his comments in a second, because they're distressing if you're a Timberwolves fan and you're banking on long term success and he is only twenty three, so there's learning to all of this. But you think the sting of last year would still be there right at the opportunities that they had, and then you're coming back. You make some substantive changes to your squad, and you're getting that level of support from your secondary players, but you can't get to the fall one look sga. We can argue about it all we want, and you watch it and at times it's laughable. The forearms shiver, and he gets the call, okay, fine. A couple of times tonight he tried it and the referee either looked the other way or once it was actually an offensive file call, like how is that not more consistent again, rather less fewer whistles, But let's be consistent and actually recognize what we're seeing in those moments. But Edwards did nothing that to try to slow the game down, to get into the game, to affect it at the foul line and give the other players a bit of a lift. Right. Offensively, we could criticize guys like Harden and so many other wow volume shooters. Well and Edwards was a twenty eight a game scorer this year on forty four percent shooting, not exactly the model of operational efficiency, but showing that in most games. And if you go back into his game log for the year, there's a lot of eleven to thirteen field goal games. Guess what they were against Charlotte when you were up twenty And this is not it. And it's not as if hey because he couldn't he couldn't get to the hoop, he couldn't get his shots off. He had fifteen assists, He had six assists and five turnovers. Yeah right, he didn't have that night. He just was incredibly passive, which happens to him now. Listen to his comments after the game when he's asked about his before Julius Randall also out of the barnments, when he's asked about his performance tonight. Listen to him not take responsibility for the Wolf for him in a night where he goes five out of thirteen and the second time he's a no show and the t Wolves lose. Here's the questions about forty five seconds long. Listen to his answers.

Definitely not the.

Definitely not the.

I guess the points I wanted to get, but I mean they didn't really let me get too many shots off. They did a good job of debt. Every time I had the ball, they showed me a pure brow. So just making the right play getting off of it. And I guys hit shots tonight, so we shout out to ten.

I guess the points I wanted to get, but I mean they didn't really let me get too many shots off. They did a good job of debt. Every time I had the ball, they showed me a pure brow. So just making the right play getting off of it. And I guys hit shots tonight, so we shout out to ten.

So munch of you guys playffront the tho.

So munch of you guys playffront the tho.

It was a big nice from you and random and how to kind of hit you for the fact that you got to close.

It was a big nice from you and random and how to kind of hit you for the fact that you got to close.

Struggle at the same time that I.

Struggle at the same time that I.

Don't look at it like I struggled or he struggled. They just they had a good game plan making us get off the ball. Especially for me. Man, it was super gaps. I made the right play all tonight, so I don't really look at it like a struggle. I didn't get enough shots to say our struggled. So that's my thing might be how you guys look at it, Bok, Yeah, I haven't struggled.

Don't look at it like I struggled or he struggled. They just they had a good game plan making us get off the ball. Especially for me. Man, it was super gaps. I made the right play all tonight, so I don't really look at it like a struggle. I didn't get enough shots to say our struggled. So that's my thing might be how you guys look at it, Bok, Yeah, I haven't struggled.

Oh, I just I made the right way. I didn't struggle at all. I just made the right play. So the right play is you When you can't get to the hoop with sixteen seconds left in the shot clock to give it back to somebody else, or we're ten seconds left in the shot clock to get it back to somebody else. That's the right play. I didn't struggle, dude. Come on, man, you got to take some kind of responsibility for this, like that. This is the thing. This has been a thing for the playoffs. Not my fault, right, He's like, this is like Doc Rivers, except he's playing instead of coaching. He's been walking around going, oh, you can't blame me, it's not my fault. I didn't have enough shots to say I struggled. No, you not getting enough shots, dude, that's struggling. Like I think he needs he needs to like sit down with Shock or somebody big to tell him, Hey, you understand that you've been bad, right, and your team is losing because you've been passive and you've been okay with just passing the ball off. And it's not like you pass the ball off and do all all kinds of crazy things try to get open again, right, And just like they even needed a great game for him, They just needed him to have no but that score twenty five. If you had a twenty five point night, they wind up winning. He needed to be a B to B plus player tonight didn't need to bring because look, the bench was ridiculously effective, right Alexander Walker de Vincenzo lightened it up from three point range as a bench, You're you're at sixty point score, right when when you look at their cult of the fact they picked up for him, they picked up for Julius Randall, who was one of seven or you want to talk about shot charts, at least you had more than one circle for for Aunt in a couple of the quarters, uh, for Julius, Like I think that's I think that's a faint empty circle, right yeah, right there. So, but like that's the thing is that you got more than enough from everybody else. They missed a number of free throws, three of those from Rudy Go bear what you're expecting. You're not looking for him to be a free throw merchant, uh and go one hundred percent when he's at the line. But to basically just shrug and say, ah, you know what I did, all the other things I did the right basketball plays, Like that's not something that you're the face of a team, let alone a league. You can't know after these comments. He's not. He's out of the physical he is out of the face of the conversation. Shirker, You're a shirker, abdicating abdicator. You're who was the prince who abdicated? That was a big abdicator. Who's the abdicator for the crown? Who is the abdicator Wallace Simpson and everything? And who is that? The prince? Prince, Prince Fielder, Prince uh Prince, Prince of Mukamara, Prince uh Prince. There's there's a good poll right there, uh King Edward, King Edward. There yea Barry Wallace Simpson a member. Yes, excellent. I really, I don't know. He sounds to me like he just doesn't get it to very matter of fact. It's good. He's he answers the questions, right, he's sitting in front of his locker, he's answering the questions. He's he's looking at the at the reporters, answering and answering very factually. But boy, I want you to seem a little upset that you're losing. I want you to seem like you're taking a little bit of responsibility as the best player on the team. But instead this is like the third time. Hey, not my fault. I didn't struggle tonight. You know I paid the right basketball. You know what? Really this is did we learn this from Lebron early in his career when he decided to play hot potato in the NBA Finals with the heat, like, dude, you need to take you need you with the basketball and doing something is a bigger impact on the game. And he realized that, you know, well, even Kers got eliminated this year. Look at all the rest of the guys on this roster and Edwards, he just doesn't get it.

Oh, I just I made the right way. I didn't struggle at all. I just made the right play. So the right play is you When you can't get to the hoop with sixteen seconds left in the shot clock to give it back to somebody else, or we're ten seconds left in the shot clock to get it back to somebody else. That's the right play. I didn't struggle, dude. Come on, man, you got to take some kind of responsibility for this, like that. This is the thing. This has been a thing for the playoffs. Not my fault, right, He's like, this is like Doc Rivers, except he's playing instead of coaching. He's been walking around going, oh, you can't blame me, it's not my fault. I didn't have enough shots to say I struggled. No, you not getting enough shots, dude, that's struggling. Like I think he needs he needs to like sit down with Shock or somebody big to tell him, Hey, you understand that you've been bad, right, and your team is losing because you've been passive and you've been okay with just passing the ball off. And it's not like you pass the ball off and do all all kinds of crazy things try to get open again, right, And just like they even needed a great game for him, They just needed him to have no but that score twenty five. If you had a twenty five point night, they wind up winning. He needed to be a B to B plus player tonight didn't need to bring because look, the bench was ridiculously effective, right Alexander Walker de Vincenzo lightened it up from three point range as a bench, You're you're at sixty point score, right when when you look at their cult of the fact they picked up for him, they picked up for Julius Randall, who was one of seven or you want to talk about shot charts, at least you had more than one circle for for Aunt in a couple of the quarters, uh, for Julius, Like I think that's I think that's a faint empty circle, right yeah, right there. So, but like that's the thing is that you got more than enough from everybody else. They missed a number of free throws, three of those from Rudy Go bear what you're expecting. You're not looking for him to be a free throw merchant, uh and go one hundred percent when he's at the line. But to basically just shrug and say, ah, you know what I did, all the other things I did the right basketball plays, Like that's not something that you're the face of a team, let alone a league. You can't know after these comments. He's not. He's out of the physical he is out of the face of the conversation. Shirker, You're a shirker, abdicating abdicator. You're who was the prince who abdicated? That was a big abdicator. Who's the abdicator for the crown? Who is the abdicator Wallace Simpson and everything? And who is that? The prince? Prince, Prince Fielder, Prince uh Prince, Prince of Mukamara, Prince uh Prince. There's there's a good poll right there, uh King Edward, King Edward. There yea Barry Wallace Simpson a member. Yes, excellent. I really, I don't know. He sounds to me like he just doesn't get it to very matter of fact. It's good. He's he answers the questions, right, he's sitting in front of his locker, he's answering the questions. He's he's looking at the at the reporters, answering and answering very factually. But boy, I want you to seem a little upset that you're losing. I want you to seem like you're taking a little bit of responsibility as the best player on the team. But instead this is like the third time. Hey, not my fault. I didn't struggle tonight. You know I paid the right basketball. You know what? Really this is did we learn this from Lebron early in his career when he decided to play hot potato in the NBA Finals with the heat, like, dude, you need to take you need you with the basketball and doing something is a bigger impact on the game. And he realized that, you know, well, even Kers got eliminated this year. Look at all the rest of the guys on this roster and Edwards, he just doesn't get it.

In the middle of all the Q and A.

In the middle of all the Q and A.

Since he's being so factual, I would ask, what the color is the sky in your world? Huh? See what kind of answer you get? Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. We got more basketball coming up next. We break down an absolutely stunning basketball injury from today. That's next. Fox Sports Radio.

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Is this Miley's Hearts? Fox Sports Radio. This is a number one hen party to the USA Dance Jason Smith, Mike Harmon gotta listen to the whole show. So, if you were like me, you woke up today and you saw the big injury news in basketball, and you know, I could point to TV ratings and relevancy and money and all kinds of different things. You mean the Nie Smith ankle injury. Yes, very devastating. But all I have to do to illustrate that Caitlin Clark is the most popular athlete in sports right now, not in basketball, not in the WNBA, the most popular athlete in sports is to direct you to the response after the breaking news story earlier today that she's gonna be out a couple weeks with the quad injury suffered during the loss to the Liberty on Saturday. And okay, this was met with reaction all over social media like she was done for the year. It was all this awful news. I'm going, wow, Like, I haven't seen reaction like I remember seeing reaction like this, like when Brady had his ACL snapped in two thousand and eight by Bernard Pollard right on that big, dirty low hit, Like, Wow, Brady's out for them. My god, I've never seen that. This is kind of the reaction to Caitlin Clark being out missing these games. She's gonna miss it. We don't react like this when Lebron is out or when Jiannie is out or anybody else. But yet Caitlyn Clark out and it's like, oh my good, she's gonna be out of It's a quad injury. The didn't even know she was hurt after the game. It's gonna be fine, she'd be back in a couple of weeks. Everything's gonna be okay. But this reaction to her. If this doesn't tell you she's the most popular athlete in sports right now, nothing else will. Yeah. I mean, we look at just the gravity of it, right, because you have all these other reports trying to figure out economic impact for the year and where the WNBA is headed. Obviously we've already seen expansion room for more moving games to larger venues when the fever come to town. All of those things are full of effect, right, some estimate. You know that it's the billion dollar golden goose. Right, that's the talk of the town. And when you talk about television deals and expansion and everything else that you know they're they're moving into a whole other sector and territory. But then there's a void. You know, you got a lot of great players, Wilson and Plumb and plenty of star power, no watch it about it, but they don't burn as brightly, uh, and don't light up Madison Avenue quite the same way. And there's a lot of go to Beckers and everybody else, like there's a lot of names. Uh that that certainly film, but for this it became the subruner film. I thought, wow, we saw her at a time out where she had a heating pad on her quad, so clearly something like but you don't know what that is? And now it's the at least two weeks. What does that mean? Does that mean three weeks? Does that mean like she can't be done? Please, don't be done because you have at television back at what was all of it? One or two of their games, we're going to be nationally televised, but Mike to carry the league, the the the memes tonight of like Angel Reeves and a tee Wolves uniforms. So now, man, wow, But look there's another there's another angle of this too now, which is, yes, she's out a couple of weeks, so I gotta I think my timeline is going to be pushed to it, but I would say by a round game okay, by around game thirty, Indiana's gonna be viewed as the best team in the WNBA. They may have the best record, but by game thirty will be they're the best team, right because look, they brought in a lot of new players. They only had five players back from last year. It's gonna take a while when Natasha Howard Dwana Bonner need to get into the the you know what it's like on the new team. And now with Kitlyn Clark out for a couple of weeks, that's gonna pushed a little bit. But let's say she gets back around the ten game mark or so like that, I would say twenty games after that. By game thirty, watch out because these are star players. They brought in. Kitlyn Clark's an all WNBA player and already she started out more dynamic than she was last year. They're a terrific team. They should have blown the Liberty out Saturday, and they were blowing them out, but the Liberty of the champs. They know how to come back and close games, and the Fever are still figuring that part of it out now. They won the end of the game that they were complaining about fouls. I'm like, come on, Katelyn Clark had the ball stolen and knocked out of her hands. Was not a foul, right, I get it, But they were using the liberty. But like I said, when you're the champs, these are certain times we know how to come back from this, and they were able to reel them back in and win the game. Right watching it, I was like, boy, I felt so Bags were the Fever, this would be a huge you know, hey, plant our flag on this win. But they need a little bit more time to figure it out. But you see how talented they are middle of the season, by more, maybe the last third of the season, like right around game because they play more game this year, right around game thirty, Fever will be the best team of the WNBA. Yeah. It's also the idea of getting used to the ramped up physicality which was always there. But I think we can say for both the w NBA from the early returns and for what the NBA has been seeing a little more bodying up. And for Caitlin Clark that meant some force passes into contested areas and she finished with a double digit total in turnovers this last game as well, averaging about ten assists per game. Collier the Links jumps to the status of number one contender for the MVP Trophy and the Fever and the Links are just behind the Liberty in terms of championship contenders. But I think to your point, the number of changes they made, including a new coach, it's a lot right in the fact they had a long ramp up between showing up for training camp in game one. So here here we are a couple of weeks in and we'll see it as it evolves. And the fact that they look good enough so far to you know, look, they blow out the Sky but nearly pull up, nearly beating, you know, beating the Liberty, that you could tell her it might come together a little bit sooner rather than that battle with the Dream Though those two games were fun to watch, highly highly contested, a lot of physicality and uh, let's just say everybody, uh and Caitlin Clark, they all have problems with each other's great it's good for business exit ab out a fresca exit swallowing do our best of podcasts goes up in about ten minutes. 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