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The crown is yours today is Wednesday, May 7th and Tyreese. Big balls, Halliburton. What a fucking comeback by the Indiana Pacers. They're up to on the Cavs.
PFT the last two days of its may badness. I'm sorry. I feel bad for John Ross. Because he's been sleeping this entire month.
It's been insane. And we thought we couldn't top it from Monday night, which we're going to get to when we're back in studio and then tonight happens where the Pacers are down 20, you know, six minutes into the third quarter. They're down seven under a minute. That's the second time in three games.
They've come back down seven and under a minute to win a game in saying. And not only that, but it's the second time that Halliburton's done it in the final two seconds of a postseason game. So that means I was reading about this earlier. It said that LeBron James is the only other player since 1997, 98.
That's when they started keeping track of play by play. That is multiple go ahead field goals in the final two seconds in a single post season, pretty insane. Absolutely nuts ending in terms of boxing out on free throws. I feel like that's one thing that the Cavs need to work on a little bit.
One of them, I'll give you one of them with a decently came in with that dunk. Awesome. It was an awesome dunk. He was definitely like inside the three point arc, but who cares that happens on every shot?
You got to learn how to box out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, listen, Tony Brothers ref game, you can't expect anything to make sense whatsoever. I know people were complaining about that. Cavs fans, listen, the Cavs should have won that game and the Pacers prove again that they, you have to beat them for all 48 minutes. I honestly think with the way they play pace wise, with the way Rick Carlisle basically plays every single guy on their team, he'll just be like, Ben Shepherd of your time.
You get a few minutes here. Like he, that doesn't happen in the playoffs. You don't play. I let me look up how many guys played for the Pacers tonight.
You don't play the amount of guys that he plays. He played 11 guys tonight. That's pretty crazy for an NBA playoff game. And so the Pacers with the pace they play, the conditioning they have, I really think that it's like, like they are built for this type of situation where it's like, you've seen it two times in the last three games where they're just going to keep going at you and they're not going to give up and Kenny Atkinson even admitted it.
He was like, we ran out of gas, which I don't understand that either because the Cavs didn't have a guy over 40 minutes, but it's all credits. The Pacers, I know that the Cavs fans can, can, you know, say, oh, we missed this call, this call that call. The Pacers are just, they have alligator blood. They do not die and they have a belief in Tyree's, Albert, even set after.
He's like, there was no way I was passing that up. He's the step back three to win the game, silence the crowd. What a stud. And then you poke the bear and start the game.
That was the dumbest move that the Cavs fans could have done as a chant overrated at Halliburton before it got started. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? He already knows that his fellow players talk about him being overrated.
You don't have to like remind him of it. That's going to piss him off a little bit. So don't move by Cavs fans. But when you say that they ran out of gas, I think they're just talking about Don the Mitchell.
I think I got the whole team. I got the whole team. Yeah. Don Mitchell was the whole team.
He scored 48 points. And then at the end, it was like every time he got, he got banged around a little bit, he would take an extra 30 seconds on the ground because yeah, he's he's fucking tired. Made he scored 48 points. Yeah.
He was great. And we should mention, obviously the Cavs were very banged up. Evan Mobley didn't play DeAndre Hunter didn't play. Darius Garland didn't play.
Those are three significant pieces to the Cavs. And they needed Don the Mitchell to just be 48 points. Was it 48 points? Did he finish with 48?
Yeah. I mean, they needed every single bit of that and more. But again, I think it's more about the Pacers just like they just never quit. And Rick Carlisle is a very underrated coach and the Pacers team is fun.
And I don't know what like if the Cavs don't get healthy, they're in serious trouble. And again, it's similar to Monday night where it's like, I thought the Cavs would win this game because you have the pressure of going down potentially O2 as a home team as a one seed. And for, I don't know, the first 30 minutes of this game, it looked like that was going to be the case where it's like the Pacers are happy to have their one win on the road. They're down 20 and then just shit started happening.
Cavs couldn't get the ball and downs. Couldn't like the Pacers pressing them just flustered them so much. And Tyree's Albert, big balls. I love the big balls dances back.
That was awesome. The big balls, the major league. It's awesome. It's really good.
So I'm glad that I get it. I hope he I hope he gets fine. And I hope he's like, that's fine. You know, I'm going to keep doing it.
I like what players do that deal. The old chamaran. Nothing. Yeah, it is.
Yeah, it is. What's more dangerous? Your balls are your guns. I mean, Tyree's Halberton has the most dangerous balls in the game right now.
Yeah, don't point it's loaded. Don't point that thing to anybody. It was, yeah, it was a crazy thing. There's no such thing as a lead in the NBA.
No, no, not in these playoffs. It's been insane to watch how crazy. And we're going to talk more about this series and actually credit Kirk Goldsberg when we talked to him because he had a good Tyree's Halberton take that looks even better and we taped it in the afternoon. So it's always fun when that works out because you don't want to have like the knee jerk reaction of one game change your take.
Yeah, I like that though, May Madness. I feel like that could catch on the NBA. You know, maybe not this is better. Maybe I just and again, we should call John Ross and be like, dude, he's I imagine he's just he's like hibernating right now.
And then anytime there's like, you know, if there's a war breaking out in Europe or the Middle East or if there's celebrity death celebrity death, he's going to be like too late has a non-conference game against Chattanooga. Mark your calendars December 2nd. Today he was all over the fact that St. John's in Kentucky is going to be the highest rated non-conference basketball of the entire season.
Call under shot right now. Well, Hank, do you take the pace? Just for real. Paces are good.
That was a scrappy win. They were scrappy last year in the Easter Conference finals. You're so dismissive. What's the matter?
But they're a year like they do. That's cool. That was a little patronized. Oh, scrap.
I'm giving them credit. But it is a compliment, but that is a good quality to have. Here's the thing. They went their way back.
They went through the wars last year and they got a little bit of scars. And now it does feel like they're a different team making these big time plays and never being out of it and kind of like, because remember the it was Easter Conference finals, right? That you played them? They they they look like like they they look like the team in that Easter Conference finals that what the Pacers are making everyone look like, you know, where they make mistakes down at the end of the game.
The Pacers are forcing other teams to make mistakes. They're making these crazy errors, games that they could win. They're the Pacers are stealing from them. So I feel like they're they're definitely a better version.
And then he's with dunk that like took the soul of the gas. It was crazy. And then they just forgot how to play after that. The cast also are like not playing three of their most important players.
Yeah, Ty Jerome should. Nice guy. He shouldn't be playing as many. I mean, I think he went one for 15 and he was the one who was guarding Tyree Salberg at the end of the game was that let me look up.
I don't want to slander. I think it was 14. Sorry. My apologies.
He went one for 14. He's it's a bad deal when you have tired. Jerome taking 14 shots in a playoff game. Yeah.
And just they forgot how to bring the ball up the court without committing offensive fouls. They forgot how to throw a normal inbound pass without it getting picked off. It was it was just comedy of errors in the last minute. It was crazy.
But I just love that feel of a team. Like the Pacers now have that feel where it doesn't matter. These moments are not too big for them where maybe last year they were. And this year just it doesn't matter what the lead is.
I mean, two two game two out of the last three games in a playoff setting to come back down seven and under a minute is insane. That's an absolutely insane thing to be able to pull off. And I think it starts with Tyree's Albert and just being like, I'm that guy. He's got that irrational confidence going.
I think it might be rational now, though. Yeah, it could be rational. It could be rational. I want it to be irrational.
Yeah, I like him to get a little bit crazier. But I'm looking up the stats right now with teams that have a two lead. I believe this is teams with two lead as the as the away team. They win the series.
I'm seeing 92.7 percent of the time. Are we ready to call it? No, I want to see if the Cavs get healthy. Like if they get their guys back, I still think the Cavs are a good team.
So I'm not going to fully call it. But I paces are fun watch. They're very fun watch and they're scrappy as fuck. And Tyree's happened there.
There you go. Hank scrappy as fuck. And Tyree's Albert and is that guy. But the way you say this way different from the way.
Hang on. I was saying it's a mock hank. Yeah. Yeah, I mean scrappy scrappy.
They're scrappy. You're like pat him on the head. Yeah, like they're adorable. Yeah, they're scrappy.
I find a little story. That was a scrappy win. I was watching that game and being like, damn, I'm not like I'm not. There's no, there's no, I'm not dissing them at all.
Yeah, it was a good win. Hunter up in the loss. He is scrappy. David Eck's side scrappy.
Very scrappy. Scrappy. Gritty. No, he's gritty.
There's a big that's scrappy is scrappy is like the teenage. Spencer on the words. Teenage boy version of gritty. Gritty, you grow up to a man.
You become a scrappy boy. You can become a gritty man, but it's not necessarily going to happen. Yes, scrappy is like you do some small things. OK, but there's a reason why you're not using a nicer word for it.
Gritty is like you respect gritty. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's scrappy is a patronize.
You're being a little scrappy guy, huh? You're a little scrappy guy, huh? You can do your little thing where you come back. That's cute.
It's cute little win. They did it twice. That's awesome. Good for them.
It's a scrappy is basically like a 20 pound dog at your heels. That's right. But you know, a championship team is, you know, a full grown 125 pounds. Championship team like there's their fun little story.
Like yeah, I guess I guess that gets hyped up on them for a couple more games. I enjoy watching them play. I don't want to say I love ball ball. All right.
The other game, speaking of bad takes, it'd be funny if the Pacers won, because we just if they wanted all Hank, that would be an all time clip. But I had a clip, which I cop to when we're back in studio talking about the nuggets under. Either words are scheduled loss again. And guess what?
The Warriors did not lose. And they had they did lose Steph Curry. I'm a moron, but the Warriors, I don't know. I don't know what Steph Curry's injury status is going to be.
I feel like he's going to be out for a game or two, especially now that they stole this game. But the Warriors did not look like the team that played a game seven two days ago. They looked like the rest of the team. They were running everywhere so much more energy.
And God damn it, the Tim Roles could not hit a shot. That was a trotous to watch. It was a lot of that it was partly buddy healed. Like he kicked in big time.
Steph Curry didn't they didn't even really miss him after he left. It was a small comeback in the fourth quarter that made it, I think within nine at one point, but even without Steph Curry, they just kind of kept their foot on the gas and held them off off. But yeah, a tough break for the Timberwolves. I think what Anthony Edwards didn't hit a jump shot until like three minutes left in the fourth quarter, Stan Van Gundy kept reminding America about that.
He was over eight in the first half. They couldn't shoot a three pointer to save their life. It was crazy. They got a standing ovation when Nas Reed hit a three pointer in the third quarter because thank God, okay, we're not going to go over for the entire game.
But yeah, that it makes no sense to me whatsoever. The old team that's banged up the Warriors. They somehow looked like they had more energy than the younger team that's ever wolves who had all the rest of the world. It was it was very, very strange.
And I didn't see it coming either. No, and the Steph Curry thing, I hope he's OK, because I want to see him play in the series. I do what do you think? I think the first five games are every other day.
So it does feel like they might sit him. I feel like he's guaranteed to sit on Thursday as a 40 year old who's dealing with his own hamstring injury right now from softball. I'll just say I took a week off in between softball games and I came back and instantly tweaked it again when I started to run. So be careful.
I think Steph shouldn't play softball for the next week. Yeah, or at least if he does, just make sure someone else is running for you. Yeah, thanks runner. Yeah, thanks runner.
I'm going to sit him though, probably game two and three and then be like load up the clip for game four because that's crazy that they stole this game. Like that was imagine imagine the mood for the Warriors right now. If they lost this game and stuff was out, you'd feel like the series was completely over. But I don't know.
Timbels can hit a shot is a couple games in a row now. Like remember the closeout game against Lakers, they were just as bad from three. They shot 17% from three tonight. There's absolutely nothing about this game that makes any sense at all.
The Warriors, they're so much smaller than the Timberwolves are. And it felt like the Timberwolves could just big body him if they wanted to. And they didn't. They kept trying to shoot from the outside.
And I guess it's just, you know, live by the jump shot, die by the jump shot. They're probably not going to be as bad in game two as they are in game one. And so I have to imagine that Minnesota comes out game two and beats the Warriors by a good amount. Actually, I would think so.
I would think so. But then you thought the Cavs were to the same. Nothing makes sense right now. I didn't.
The I misspoke. They shot significantly better from three tonight than they did against the Lakers. The closeout game, they shot 17% tonight in the Lakers closeout game. They shot 14%.
So that's a problem. Guys, make or mislead PFT. That's true. People forget that.
And I think that if you just take the three quarters of this game, I want to say that was more like 10% from three until the very, very end of the game. Yeah, it was it was ugly. Very ugly, very ugly. And I, man, if the Warriors, I don't even want to like what if Steph, if Steph comes back to the Warriors when another title is where well, that's what I'm saying.
Like that was when we did the list of guys, the narrative guys, I think that Steph would definitely be in the conversation for top three of all time, especially if he was like incredible in the finals, we're getting ahead of ourselves. But that's what we like to do. We watch ball, then we come on zoom, then we get ahead of ourselves, then we do a zoom two days later and we say, hey, remember that thing? I said that was stupid.
If Steph Curry wins NBA finals MVP, by the way, with a torn hamstring. He has a hamstring. I think you got to put him ahead of LeBron. I agree.
I agree. So number, do you think MJ is watching this series in the crowd like Donna Kelsey with a split jersey for Butler and Anthony Edwards? Yeah, he's got to be. Yeah.
It's got to be. Jimmy, but that was when he knew there was the Warriors night when the Wolves were making a little run and then Jimmy Butler did the foul bait three where he just threw it up and it went off the backboard. Yeah. Okay.
This is not this is the Warriors are winning this game no matter what. Yeah. Felt like that. All right.
Let's talk some hockey and we're going to talk more basketball with Kirk Oldsbury and we obviously have the recap of the back gallon, Nick Celtics and Thunder nuggets. PFT, not the best experience I would assume tonight. Bad game, bad game. We had no juice.
I don't know if you watch the game. We were just no one out there. There was there was some issues from the back end. We just didn't we couldn't possess the puck.
We just every time. Here's the thing about the hurricanes is they take a million shots. That's kind of their MO. They will they will shoot as many times as they can, which isn't the worst strategy in playoff hockey, but the downside to that is sometimes if you take a lot of low percent shots, then you let it go to get hot and then it becomes one of these things where you just can't win because the goalie is so confident and he's seeing everything.
And that to a certain extent happens tonight. Logan Thompson had a great game for the caps, but every minute that they'd have, we would get the puck and then we would turn it over to the neutral zone. We wouldn't be able to get it into their third. And yeah, if you look at the stats in terms of like where the puck was from most of the game, I think it was in the hurricanes attacking end, something like 20 minutes of the game.
I think the capitals, it was only down there like eight minutes of the game. Yeah, there's no energy. No juice. Tom Wilson had the lone highlight of the game.
Actually, I'd say the caps had two highlights today. One over hit a one timer and Wilson was standing directly in front of the goal and it hit him right in the stick and just broke his stick in two. That was cool. That was fun to look at.
The other highlight was Tom Wilson took another man's mouth piece out of his mouth. I love that. And then gave it back to him and said, here you go. And it's so different when Tom Wilson does it versus some like, you know, when it's like a pest doing it, you can't, what are you supposed to say to Tom Wilson?
Just kick your ass. He just looked out. It's like when I take a toy out of Blake's mouth because I'm the owner and he's the dog, he just kind of looks down at the ground. He's like, Oh, you got me again.
And then I give it back to him because I'm a guy. But yeah, there was there was nothing, nothing redeemable about this game outside of Logan Thompson. All time sport sound is the road playoff hockey overtime winner where it's not like a clean goal, where it's like, you know, there's, there's kind of like, there's a bunch of people in front of the net. I think I don't think it got tipped, but still it was one of those goals where you kind of see, you kind of see it, but you don't really see it.
And then all of a sudden the hurricanes are just celebrating and the air coming out of a building on one of those moments because the finale of it is just like, wait, what the fuck just happened? Turn it back on. Yeah, you keep waiting for a replay. Like maybe you hit the goalie.
Maybe it's, maybe it's interference. And then you see the guys on the bench always know, so Ovi was like the first guy there. He's like, that's game over. I can get in the tunnel and start having my clock and chicken par now.
And it was, it was bad. I don't want to call out the DC crowd, but I feel like I got to say something. There was no juice in the crowd or juice. No juice in the crowd.
Where's all the juice in DC right now? I have no idea. Game two must win or can't lose. I said tonight was a must win.
Oh no. But I'm doing must win again. Back to back. Never been done.
Have you thought about switching it up to a can't lose? Not some must win. This was a must win for sure. All right.
But it was the only person in the crowd that did have to tonight was Stanford Steve. Yeah, I got to question that. Yeah. They put Stanford Steve and SVP on the on the Jumbotron.
And then of course, SVP, you know, he's a class act classy guy, a very demure. He just sat there and he looked at Steve. He's like, OK, here you go, Steve. You're my resident.
You're my designated beer chugger. Good job by Stanford Steve. We needed like seven more beer trucks from Steve to get any juice tonight. Oh, and he could do it.
Listen, I've I've been out with Steve a bunch. You have two PFT. You have two Hank. I've seen just in the most casual.
I remember I went to a Cubs game with him like eight years ago and we were sitting at a bar. He asked how early we could get to a bar. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And my buddy was like, yeah, we can open a little earlier. We'll get in there and then he's like, I bring my bags again. No problem.
I'll get them. I know the owner. He'll put him behind. Steve had like four beers before I finished my first and it wasn't like he was chugging.
He was just drinking regularly. He just has a hollow leg. So that's a man. It's like he's not scrupe.
Would you ever call Steve scrappy? Hank? No, no, fuck. Exactly.
So there you go. Yeah. It was like that scene in the wire where the bar and they're just cracking eggs into their beer and chugging it. That's what that's what Steve.
In fact, I don't even think Steve knew he was on the Jumbotron. You know, I think it was just I think it was just slamming a beer. He just caught him in the every if you just have a camera on him every time then she'll get that. I'm starting to think it might be a leaf she here.
It might be Canada's year because we also had the Oilers win tonight, Game One against the Knights and we have so the Oilers are up one out. The Leafs are up one out and the Jets are still there. It might be Canada's year. I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but that Leafs game was was electric and I I thought going into the game.
I was like, man, the Panthers are going to be way better than Leafs. Like we've seen this before. Leafs fans getting really cocky. It's obviously only one game, but winning Game One is massive.
So there's some bad blood too. Some very bad blood in the Panthers leave series already. Paul Maris was saying that it was an intentional, filthy, dirty kick to the back of the leg. He could have ended the man's career.
He was talking about Matthew Kachuk. Oh, so they're they're pissed off. I don't think that there's going to be any sussies though. I think.
Well, and March on in the Leafs, like the Leafs, Leafs fans fucking hate him. Yeah, I like the bad blood. I feel like the I feel like the Panthers just bring bad blood everywhere they go, which is fun. That's Florida.
Lot of tennis. So very fun. Yeah, the Oilers, I mean, I was a great game by the Oilers. They scored three goals in the third to beat the Knights sound.
They could be the year for we should we should we should talk about this plan real quick. If the Oilers did win, we just can't have Whitney on again. Hmm. Well, it depends.
Now you would have to win MVP. You'd have to win MVP. Otherwise we'd have a we would just debate him to death on who's the best player. It would be Jason Tatum all over again.
Yeah. Um, I mean, we got a lot of rounds. I'm actually rooting for the Oilers. I do love watching Conrad David.
I hope no one tells Whitney this, but like we have fun with him, but he's so much fun to watch. He is really good. The one thing that we can't have is an all Canada Stanley Cup. Can't.
Why? Why? I like that. Me too.
Would they play both national anthem before the game? I don't think so or just so Canada. It's just okay. We can't have that.
We got to, you know what? I don't even count that as Canada winning a Stanley Cup if it's two Canadian teams playing against each other. I would actually see the man. You got to beat the man, right?
I would prefer two Canadian teams in one Canadian team because it's like if it's been so long, so they've gotten a cup and have one of the stakes for both Canadian teams. We'd be like, can we be the first team and the other teams and be just forgotten in history? Oh, man. Would that be awesome?
Need it. See, I think if it's if it's leafs, oilers, which actually would be great just wet and biz go at each other. That would be fun. It would be incredible.
We could also call Mickey Mouse, no matter who won. And it's like, well, you didn't just be to another Canadian team and they have it in 40 years. Easy mode, easy mode. Also means congratulations, you the Islanders won the lottery.
Still don't understand how the lottery worked. It felt like they made that way more complicated than it had to be. I still don't know how it works either. I didn't even know what's happening.
This is I just looked at Twitter. I saw a chief's tweet that just said what is going on followed by an islander's tweet of the eyeball emoji. And then all of a sudden I just saw Islanders shot the first pick. And I was like, this is the greatest thing that ever happened.
Because you guys had the 10th best odds to get it. 10 best odds, 3% chance of getting it. Wow, that's crazy. Now we have people just arguing over who we're going to pick where it's just like, it doesn't matter.
You're going to get somebody good. Yeah. And you're going to get someone good who then will probably end up going to the leafs free agency. So a lot of people are saying that.
Just check check the kids Instagram. There's also a long island kid. Yeah, make sure he doesn't have any. Yeah, yeah, at least, you know, betting that he was in when he was seven years old.
You got to make sure you got to make sure that doesn't happen. Yes, yeah, we're the Internet. There's also a hot pocket who is a long island fan and I understand that that could be the just from one island from one island. I wonder fan.
Hey, again, see place for Boston College Center. And is he worthy of the number one pick? A lot of people saying it's a reach, but you could trade down, get more picks. But he's not five.
He's not five. You're like, yeah, but this is in the neighborhood. So it's pretty much just a wrap them still and never leave. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That that that lottery made no sense. I watch it back and I was just like what it was like two numbers and then just fucking tell us just reveal it.
He's saying that there's there's like three guys that are standing out at the top of this draft. So and I think the Black Hawk's pick third. Yeah. We fall the fourth.
I think we could have fallen to fourth. I think we're third Utah also jumped up there for. Yeah, we're three because I know the Black Hawk's had the second best chance to get the number one pick. So they got kind of screwed there, but whatever three, but I guess we're gonna be good at like another couple years.
I think so. I'm selling me. So I mean, I don't know how to auto. I don't know how to get.
I don't know how to get off of auto renew on my season tickets. So those are generational. Yeah, kids are going to have them there. Kids are going to have them.
That's something I got inside of my hands. Like the season we get to like late March and I just get an email that says, thank you for your first installment for your Black Hawk's tickets renewal. You think that's bad? My grandkids are going to have any Napa's cold season tickets because I can't figure out how to subscribe from that.
So this is going to be three seasons in a row. Yeah. That was, I made the smart choice with those doing the game by game. Yeah, when we did it because I knew I was going to get stuck in an auto renew again.
And that's where I'm at. But I get a nice gift from Mr. Rose say once a year. So that's cool.
Yeah. All right. Do we have anything else before we kick into ourselves and we have a special guest Jario Connell and then Kirk Goldsbury. Let's let's hop back in the studio.
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Okay. Monday night was an incredible night of basketball. I think it might have been the best night of basketball in the last couple of years. It was it was insane.
We had two road teams, big underdogs come back in very dramatic fashion and we'll start Hank with your Celtics. Forty five mysteries. Jalen Brunson was insane down the stretch. There was a stretch there where it was 75 55.
The cells were up by 20 with five 34 left in the third quarter and they were on cruise control. I think you thought the same thing. I think the same thing. Watch the game was like, I said, it was over half time.
This is it. This is going to be a four game series. The Celtics are just so much better than the next. And then in the next, whatever it is, I think it's I can't do my math real quick.
It's like 14 minutes of game. So it's five 34 in the third to three 28 in the in the fourth. The next one on a 42 to 16 run 14 minutes of gameplay and Jalen Brunson outscored the Celtics 18 to six. Oh, Jan and nobody was unbelievable as well.
This was a game I just I was shocked. I was like, this is the Celtics are going to win this game so easily. And then it just all flipped and Jalen Brunson, I know they'll be next to me. Like the new trash.
I don't like the Jalen Brunson, the elevator. I did say in that statement when we talked about it two weeks ago that I think he's a phenomenal player and very fun to watch when he's not validating. And this was phenomenal. Jail of Runts.
I have a stat for you. PFT ready for this. Sure. The NBA put this out.
There's only been three players to score 75 plus fourth quarter points through their first seven games of a postseason run in the play by play era. Can anyone name the other two? The first time in games first seven games of a playoff of a postseason run. There's only three players to score 75 plus fourth quarter points.
Colli. And nope. I'm going to go with Alan Iverson. Nope.
It is Jalen Brunson. Steph Curry ever heard of him in 2023. Kobe Bryant ever heard of him. Oh, first seven games first seven game of a postseason.
I suppose he's scored 75 plus he's in the sentence with Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant. It's insane. Now Hank, you had to watch this game with Jericho. Yep.
I think you said afterwards that it was the worst experience of your life. Oh, that's what it is. What? I've been complaining.
We were recording this in the morning and I've been complaining about how I can't hear it on my left ear. My ear hasn't popped. It was Jerry Jerry was screaming. I don't know if he was screaming.
No, he was because I was talking about him. I'm like, Hey, I can't fucking hear him. I left here. I had to start covering up my ear.
Jerry, what did it sound like? What was he saying? Let's go next. Let's go next.
Jalen Brunson, but like not, you know, Jalen Brunson one time. Jalen Brunson two times. He when he would do a Jalen Brunson, he did it for 30 straight times in a row. Yeah, but I also saw.
You would just sing Jalen Brunson until the commercial break. I want to saw a lot of Jerry whispering in your ear. Yeah, I saw him whispering ping pong ping pong. So it's not like you got to make up your mind.
No, that's what I actually think I have. I'm actually I'm actually. Jerry did your damage to you. Jerry's in your head.
He's he's firmly in your head. Yeah. And in what because I was sitting, I was all over the place. I live streamed you for the overtime, but I wasn't sitting with you guys for the majority of the second half.
He was just screaming bing bong over and over. It was a little bit of that. Not even bing bong. It was the defense and then just whatever, whatever player was.
A passionate fan. He was throwing his leg over my leg. The leg placement was crazy. You at one point Jerry was getting hank of lap dance and whispering bing bong into his ears.
I gained a newfound respect for memes last night and sometimes for. Yeah, my ears fucked. I actually I want to know. I want to record that shit and watch the game at the same time.
That's that's very hard to do credit to memes. I want to know what exactly exactly what it sounded like when he was just screaming in your ear. I mean, you can see the clips I had to like it was, you know, all fun and games. We knew that that's what we were there for.
But he was yelling so loud I had to start like putting my my finger in my ear to block it. Because like my my ear hurt. And then I woke up and I was like, damn, my ear has some pop my left ear. I don't think that's the problem.
So you woke up with Jerry O'Connell in your ear. Yeah, permanent damage. He's in your head. How does that work?
What do you mean? What's going to happen? I don't know. I just def would maybe you know what it might be like this.
I can't do it like this. Things where the rest of my life, like you hear a song and get stuck in your head, you need to hear it again to get it out of your head. Yeah, I brought it. Is that what it's like?
Hey, I brought it. So I brought it. Yeah, this is the problem. It doesn't stop.
He won't stop, and he's not going to stop. Like one or two or three times. All right, so. Jerry, Jerry, yeah, tell us from your perspective how the night was because you haven't changed.
I don't know if you slept for people watching the YouTube to the YouTube because he's he's back in his mesh. Green tank top in front of his car. Is it a car? Yeah, he's got the hat on.
Yeah, he's got the hat on. Yeah. And he's popping. Hey, thank you for this.
Yeah, Josh, this is our this is our broke back mountain hat. Hey. Yeah, first of all, my clothes, I do want to say a lot of people are like saying, like, what is he wearing? Why is he wearing that?
It was the bet, Calla. I was making a joke about the fashion at the Met Gala, and I wore this and I thought it was like all fun and everything until I had to meet Larry Fitzgerald and Stephen Nash. The party. It was so much fun there at the DraftKings Sportsbook in Scottsdale.
Larry Fitzgerald was like, the fuck are you wearing, man? Like, what is it? Sat tire. And I was like, it's like, oh, Larry, it's a joke.
It's like the back allah, the Met Gala. Then I had to meet Stephen Nash and like someone was like, oh, Jerry, this is Stephen Nash and Stephen Nash is like, what the? Are you like a dancer here? And I was like, no, no, no, I'm actor.
Angry Jack. I'm wearing this with a back allah. It's a joke. So that was a little embarrassing.
I was embarrassing where you got put man getting. I totally forgot about the game. Like in the third quarter, I stopped watching game. I was sitting at chicken prize table.
I was sitting with kicks in the office. Casey, everybody looked pretty. It was fun. I was like, I'm giving up on this game.
And then it happened. And I got to tell you, I'm a little older than you guys. Very reminiscent of the 86 Mets. And how they and how they beat the Boston Red Sox.