Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Welcome back to the pod, guys.
So we're calling this the Lost Pod because it literally disappeared and I couldn't edit it for whatever reason until we recorded another podcast earlier tonight a month later. We haven't recorded a pod in a month.
I just moved into a new place we had. I was streaming some shitty WI fi those bad signal when we recorded this episode about a month ago.
Beginning of May was right after Miami Grand Prix round one of the NBA Finals just wrapped up. And then we're going to like game one, Game two and round two or not. NBA Finals, NBA Playoffs. We're going to Game 2 for Round 2 in the NHL and NBA. It's just this podcast just disappeared and I couldn't edit it for.
So as I was going back to do a quick edit on the new pod, this finally uploaded and finally got to listen to it four weeks out. So I said it. Why not?
It was fun listening to Jason's predictions.
Jason and Aaron's predictions for the NHL playoffs and the NBA Finals.
It's a fun pod and these guys give me a hard time for the Lakers going on the in round one.
You know, it is what it is. I guess.
So without further ado, check out the last pod from the beginning of May before you check out the next one.
Source from the sofa.
We're back, baby.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Foreign.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Yo, what's up everybody? We were recording Thursday night, 9pm Pacific Time.
We haven't been on in more than a week, which is a rarity for us. But I was in the middle of a move starting last week and it just seemed like it kept on going and going and going and going because I was moving throughout the weekend. It was complete utter bullshit.
But still watched the game, still caught up with everything. The Warriors Timberwolves game just ended not too long ago. It was the blowout. 11793 timberwolves even up the series one to one. They blew game one.
And I say they blew it because Stephen Curry went out in the second quarter and they couldn't capitalize. Just no one was making shots.
Finch was calling out Edwards saying like all the effort was gone. I thought they played okay. They just couldn't make any shots. And today was just totally different. There was a slight scare when Edwards went down. I think it was the third quarter, early in the third quarter.
[00:02:55] Speaker B: Second. Second quarter there. Second quarter, midway second quarter. Yeah.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: He was down for a long time. Usually you don't see him down like that. So must have been hurting. And maybe he's trying to see whether, you know, it Was more serious.
I know on the TNT broadcast they were saying he pulled a Paul Pierce pretty funny.
Almost missing was a wheelchair.
But it was an ass whooping though. I thought the whole team played pretty well.
DiVincenzo finally made some threes. He's been kind of cold in this playoff so far. If you don't remember, he was hot last year when he was with the New York Knicks. Randle had a bounce back game. So he's continuing another career playoff moment for himself.
And warriors just didn't have enough. They were. They had to depend on playoff Jimmy and that's what it is, guys. Reactions from this series so far, especially game two.
[00:03:57] Speaker C: Oh, before we get started here, you're. We haven't been on the air and 10 days. Aaron hasn't been on the pod in two weeks or so. My sources were telling me all this moving stuff was just, you know, a kind of a distraction to gloss over the fact that the Lakers, who were so heralded by you to make a run to the NBA Finals, pretty well dismantled in the first round and gone. And Aaron hadn't been seen since. And then now we're just talking about game two of another series here. Just out of nowhere, you know, I, I don't know.
He just leaves.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: Hey, Rome. Jason. Yeah, I agree. The sources were telling me the same.
You know, basically they were asking me, hey, is Rome okay? Is he all right? Like, he hasn't been on since the Lakers disappeared in the playoffs.
So, yeah. And as soon as you call him out on it, bam, he's automatically gone again.
[00:05:00] Speaker C: I'm just saying we recorded a pod a week ago, went through a lot of stuff. I kind of threw out there. Like, you know, Aaron's not on. Aaron's never not on. Usually I'm the one who misses the show here and there, but, you know, the Lakers.
[00:05:11] Speaker B: There he is.
[00:05:12] Speaker C: He's back.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: His video feed is in.
Rome, are you there?
[00:05:20] Speaker A: I'm sorry, my feet didn't like what you're saying. Jason.
[00:05:24] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, we're basically, Aaron and I maybe the same or different sources, but, you know, we feel you're just really glossing over the fact that the Lakers are out and Aaron really hasn't had the forum to talk through what, you know, some of us were trying to tell you for a couple months here.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: You know, Jason, I tried to get on the pod you mentioned last week, but like Rome, he did me like JJ Redick did not let me off the bench in the second half. So I was not able to get on the Show. So that's a true story.
I got blocked kind of like you were getting blocked here for the first 45 minutes. I, I couldn't get on. I was, you know, he just wanted to give me access to get on. It's just I'm on tonight. I'm on tonight.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: It's just such a Jason move to change topics right away.
You're watching a lot of F1 man and blocking the roadway. Let everyone else win the race.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: You know, I'm just pass blocking for my guy Aaron here, you know, he has yet he had pole position. I'm just playing number two on the team, just making sure no one gets behind him. You know, tons of F1 to talk about. I mean you're talking game two of you know, whatever series right now. So much in the world of sports has happened and you didn't let Aaron, you know, talk about the Lakers. I mean just in the group text. But that's not, you know, publicly thing here.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Well, we can get to it. But the most important thing right now is game two because that's like fresh and Timberwolves look really good.
[00:06:46] Speaker C: I mean you would talk about game two. We talk about game two Oilers nights. That's on right now. I mean that's a heck of a game going on right here. You got four or three Oilers, Leon dry sidling them boys, man.
[00:06:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I got that game on right now. Oh, Edmonton on the now power play. So look at that. They've already scored a couple here on the power play. But yeah, that's been a good game, Rome. I mean if you want to touch base on Game 2.
Minnesota basically dominated this one from start to finish. Jumped out to what, a 13, 0 lead. You mentioned Edwards getting hurt. That was a bit of a scare. But they actually increased the lead similar to what the warriors did when Curry went down in game one. They actually increased the lead in that half.
I mean the stats that I'm looking at game one, the warriors were plus 39 points, three pointers. They hit 13 more three pointers tonight. Minnesota reversed that trend. They were plus 21.
So I mean if you're going to play the warriors, you got to win the three point battle. At least keep it close.
I know we're jumping ahead, but if you go to game seven warriors against the Rockets, you were plus 36 at the three point line. That was a difference in that series in game seven and that was on the second half. Yeah, Minnesota I feel has more offense than the Rockets. Maybe not as good as defensively, but they got Better depth, more scores. So we'll see how this series plays out. We know Curry's going to be out at least games three and four maybe possible return a week from tonight, Game five, which would be in Minnesota. But yeah, I mean the T W's got a golden opportunity right now. Warriors are going to be searching for offense.
Minnesota, I mean, still hasn't looked really good. I mean, I don't know. That's just indicative of how bad the Lakers really were. I mean I know you kind of glossing over how that that number one defense when I told you they're playing Cupcake City USA in the NBA. But good win for the T Wolves. Both. Both matchups in the west are 1:1. I know we'll probably touch up on the other matchups worth the east teams being up 20 road teams winning all those games. So it's nice to see some home teams win some games since the road teams were at 6 and 0 to start the playoffs here in the second round.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: Yeah, this is a really good second round for the it was just a really good playoff so far for the, for the NBA. So it's been really awesome. Pretty tough.
First of all, the Lakers didn't play that badly, man. Just the Timberwolves were the worst possible matchup. They are peaking at the right time. They were on fire in the last 20 games of the year.
They've been playing like the number 23 seed, you know, during that span. And Anthony Edwards is taking it up to another level, a level that we've been all been talking about. So I'm not really too upset about the Timberwolves moving on. It's just Ant man, you know, he had all the answers and he took them out. And Lakers were up in every game except for the fifth game.
So they were up going to the fourth quarter. They just kind of closed it out. Those the same issue with the Dallas Mavericks. But that was a fun series nonetheless. I really enjoyed it.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a good series. I mean it was what I I mean I said Minnesota was going to win that series. I didn't think they'd take them out in five. Obviously when they went up three one, I thought they were going to win game five and they did outside, outside of game one, which Minnesota kind of really dominated when they hit what a record, what 21, 22, three pointers, whatever.
[00:10:04] Speaker A: It was, it was ridiculous.
[00:10:06] Speaker B: I mean Lakers and them are pretty much neck and neck games three and four till the final four or five minutes where you mentioned Ant man turned it on, took Over Randall was huge in that series as well. And then game five, I don't know, we probably didn't touch on it because we weren't on the air. But what Rudy Gobert did to the Lakers was just a complete dismantle and a joke, I think for, you know, I know Rome, we talked about it, But I mean, J.J. redick deserves a lot of slack for that Game 5 loss.
I thought he did a pretty good job in his first year. I thought he did a good job really early in the series.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: But game four, no bench used in the second half, his team wore down. And then game five, just. They didn't look like they had the juice. They didn't have the energy and you know, not to come back and pit any bigs. Jackson Hayes, not play him in Game 5. When you're just getting destroyed by Rudy Gobert with 24 rebounds, 27 points, that was inexcusable. I think JJ's got to look himself in the mirror. But overall, I think the Lakers know what they need. They need a big man. We talked about it. They tried to make the trade for Mark Williams at the trade deadline.
[00:11:07] Speaker A: They probably should have went through with it. Honestly, those are glaring hole.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, I don't. We don't know the physical sets. I mean, we're hearing maybe he has a two, three year window, but considering that's all LeBron James maybe has left, do you risk it all for Dalton connect who did not even play a minute? I think in that playoff series. I think he's got a decent future. But JJ lost faith in him down the last month of the year and in that playoff series and I feel.
[00:11:33] Speaker A: Like he overthought it.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: We talked about what. I mean, he brought in Maxi Cleaver. I mean, that dude hasn't played since, you know, 2024. He brought him in, you know, not a good look. I think JJ lost faith in the bench. They're gonna have to do a revamp job there of that bench.
A lot of guys are probably gonna be, man, they're going to want out, you know, privately, given the fact that, you know, they'd been with the team, got the team there. And then you get overlooked by a guy who's was afterthought of throwing in the trade for Luca.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: Yeah, J.J. finally looked like a rookie coach at the end. Probably overthought it over Analytic did and kind of himself at the end. But by the way, man, let's talk about the other series real quick because I think Timberwolves, Golden State the this will probably go six games in the Timberwolves favor. They return to the finals. Conference finals for the West.
On the east though, man, it's crazy happening. I did not see the Cavs dropping both to the Indiana Pacers. They were up with like what, a minute and a half to go in both games and then Indiana just comes back with a flurry all on Halliburton shoulders. And then you got Boston Celtics on the ropes, man, they were up by 20 in both games. I couldn't believe that. They just kept on shooting threes and threes and threes. Not going for any drives. They could have got some points definitely, but they just really lived and died by the three and just let New York come back in both games and gave it away. And Tatum just didn't look like he had much in him.
I know like Instagram was going kind of crazy. Like, man, is this what Kerr was saving the team USA from?
So he's gonna get like a lot of slack. But no more face of the league talk from Tatum. Man, that goes to Ant man. I, I think he, he, he's wrestling away from everybody outside of Jokic.
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean Boston going down two zero.
Shocking. I mean they had 20 point leads and both games in the second half.
Pozing is getting, I, I guess, what are they calling it, an illness or something? You know, respiratory illness where he's, he's having trouble breathing. He, you know, he disappeared there in the first half of game one. Really didn't play much in game two. Didn't really look like they needed him. But fourth quarter, I mean, New York's gone ice cold. I mean Boston's gone ice cold and Brunson has just really picked it up.
Towns has gotten it going. I mean, Bridges had zero points for his in the first three quarters and then the fourth quarter he goes off again not only on the offensive end.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: But defensively, defense and money, you know.
[00:14:16] Speaker B: And New York is five and oh, in these playoffs with what I, I'm not sure what the margin of victory total is in those five games, but it can't be more than like 12 or 14 points total that they've won those five games here on the.
[00:14:32] Speaker C: I find I, I find it interesting you saying ant face of the league over Tatum.
I, I'm not gonna say it's like a scorching hot take, but like so far like Tatum won a title last year, let a team win the title. You got ants antic a heck of a show. And he's getting all these Jordan comparison Last year that kind of went away as soon as he lost.
Had a great regular season but, you know, led a team to the sick, you know, the six seat or whatever in the West. And you know, I, so I, I get what you're saying, Rome, but at the same time, like, I think before you say like and space of the league, like what kind of winning is he going to be doing out here in the West?
[00:15:15] Speaker A: We're looking at it right now. To be determined still. Just like Jordan when he was already facing the league. That's how you do it.
And Tatum, he had Brown win that championship last year. He was the mvp Last year was.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Yeah, it was Brown's finals mvp. I mean, yeah, I mean there's kind of the debate on who's. Whose team is it? Is it Brown or Tatum's? I, I believe it is Tatum.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Tatum's now. Yeah.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: Do I think Tatum's the face of the NBA? No, I would say no. Do I think Edwards is there yet? Probably not. I mean the face of the NBA is really in reality probably still LeBron and Curry, I mean they've get into the playoffs until they're really like knock knocked off. I mean until there's like this young superstar like a Tatum and Edwards that can go on a run and win two out of three or three out of five here in the next few years. We'll see.
But you know, Curry's one four, LeBron's won four.
They've each been in, you know, six or more NBA Finals. I think LeBron's been in what, 10 NBA Finals.
Curry's been what, maybe six.
So yeah, those guys are still the face. I mean you could, I mean Joker's obviously not the face of league. He doesn't want to be the face of the league. And then he's just the best player.
[00:16:26] Speaker C: He's the best player in the league.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: And don't count on sga. I mean he sees quiet every time they do team, you know, interviews. It's like a team, not an individual. That's what they are. But you know, we'll touch base on the Thunder here, but the Thunder first game they lost against Denver, but they're going to win that series. I, I don't, I'm not thinking they're going to lose.
[00:16:46] Speaker A: That was a really cool comeback in game one from Denver. That was pretty surprising. That's pretty exciting.
[00:16:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean Denver basically Aaron Corden, I thought it was like watching NBA tv, a replay of that game four against the Clippers where he basically hits that alley OOP at the buzzard there to win that game. So Gordon's had a great playoff.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Yeah, he's been really good.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: I mean, he doesn't make that shot. That game goes over time. The Clippers probably win and Denver's not even advancing here. But yeah, I mean, there's still. The face of the league is still, it's open and you got, you know, Cooper Flag and a couple other good American players coming in next year that, you know, depending on what kind of stardom they can bring, where they end up, it's debatable who can be the face of the league. But yeah, I mean, Boston right now is the team that probably still to be in the east. Even down too well, they're still favored by odds to win that series against New York.
I still like Boston to win it, but they got to get their act together. They got to win game three, that's for sure.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: Yeah, that's a must.
Crazy must.
Yeah. Let's talk about the Denver Thunder real quick.
I guess how surprised were you that Denver took away game one and then Thunder responded with another 40 point victory? Second time in this playoffs. I think this is the first time it's ever happened in NBA history. I, I can't remember if that's right or not, but another blowout.
But I imagine there'll be like a few more tough games like, like it was in game one.
You think this thing goes six, seven games?
[00:18:19] Speaker C: I think it probably goes six, I don't know, about seven. The Thunder far and away have been the best team in the west, probably best team in the league all season.
But I don't think you're ever surprised in game one where, you know, Jokic just kind of can take things over and really win when counting. He needs to win and, and I think you'll see that once or twice in the series. I just don't know if they have the overall, you know, depth that the Thunder do. And you know, Jokic versus sga, man, it's a pretty, is a pretty enticing, you know, top guy versus top guy matchup. But you know, Hartenstein and some of these other guys that the Thunder got there from a depth perspective. I mean, I think, I think we're a couple of weeks removed from the Nuggets just firing everybody and just letting Jokic just be the general manager, coach and whatever on the floor here right now too. So, I mean, that experiment is still kind of out there where I think the Thunder have had, you know, they've had this whole dominant season, but Proven in the NBA there's always, I mean, you brought Jordan a little more, you know, wasn't a winner until he was. It was those battles versus the Pistons that the Bulls lost and got pass. And you saw LeBron's struggles with, you know, certain teams, you know, lost to the spurs in the Finals, the Cavaliers, he joins the Heat, he gets over the hump with it. So there's those things about, hey, you gotta lose a little bit in the playoffs to eventually win. The Celtics, great example as far as what Tatum and them were. And then they have the most boring, dominant run to the NBA Finals last year. So it'd be interesting where the Thunder, like, you know, not that they haven't been tested the seasons prior, but you know, what's going to go up against, you know, a former champion right now in yic. Depending the result of the other series, could they be facing, you know, the end of the warriors dynasty potentially in the Finals or hey, you have both new kids going at it again and somebody's going to have to step up in the West. But I, I still think goes six and probably the Thunder.
[00:20:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd agree. I mean, I, I don't see it going seven. I mean, you, you got to figure Jokic can get another win. You know, he dropped what I think 42, 25, whatever it was that. And you know, only the fourth or fifth guy ever to do that in a playoff game. I mean, the playoff run he's been on, he's averaging basically a triple double here in these playoffs. And he's going against really, I mean, Zubak is a really good defender. In fact, you know, based off the stats, was the best one on one defender against him in the NBA and they averaged a triple double in that series. He's coming back again here, basically put his team on the back game one with 42 points, won that game.
I mean, Rome, I'm not surprised. You know, we've looked at all the teams with long layoffs coming into game one. Cavs, Thunder, T, Wolves, they all looked rusty, all kind of look slow in game two. They looked really, really good and they basically stepped it up. I mean, obviously the Cavs got beat, but they were up without, you know, three guys, main guys in their rotation out and they were up 20 points in that game. That's just one of those things where they just ran out of gas. But yeah, Denver probably going to win one more game in the series.
The Thunder, I mean, like Jason said, they've been the most consistent team, best team in the NBA depth wise, they got eight, nine, 10 guys deep. They got guys that can score.
They got the two big guys with Chad, I mean Thunder reality, man. I mean if Chad Holmgren makes maybe one or two of those three throws at the end and then I don't know what they were doing Fallon so early, I thought the coach probably has a lot to do with lame in that game. I mean they were just foul when the ball got inbound. They didn't even let him come across half court and burn three or four seconds here. And then, you know, Chad misses the two, three throws and then Gordon as you mentioned, hits that three pointer in the corner like for replay of, you know, his winner. Similar fashion against the Clippers. But yeah, six games tops. I like the Thunder to win.
Just too much depth.
Nuggets really only got a six maybe seven man rotation.
It's, it's tough to beat a team like the Thunder when you only got those guys and they're not as good defensively as they were the year they won the championship. They, they had players, veterans that could come off the bench. Russell Westbrook's been playing out of his mind too.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Really good.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: I mean he's, he's looked really, really good in these playoffs. So given them, I think that's really helped him out and I, I think David Aliman is going to end up getting that job permanently. We'll see what happens. But he comes from a good, you know, coaching tree. His father was a really good NBA coach. Took the Blazers to the NBA finals. He got beat by Jordan. He had the Kings in the mix there every year against the Lakers, unfortunately there was Shaq and Kobe.
But yeah, he's been an assistant for a while.
I, I think eventually he's going to get that job. If not, he's going to get a look somewhere else for sure.
[00:23:16] Speaker A: Sweet. Yeah man, I'm really digging the NBA playoffs this year. It's pretty competitive. Really tough old school and new school basketball. Except for all those threes. I, I can't believe what the Boston Celtics are doing over there.
Rudy Gay had like a really funny post on Instagram. He's like, I'm convinced that no one knows how to play basketball inside the three point line now.
And he just had like a whole bunch of clips from the Boston game. It was pretty ugly in the second half. Was this opposed to that Rudy Gay?
If remember he had like a really nice mid range game.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: I mean he was in the league for 15 years.
[00:24:01] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty good.
Any predictions or like how do you guys think I, I think you guys already kind of expounded on that, like how the rest is going to go for the second round.
Right.
Do you guys like Indiana's chances of taking all the Cavs out west or.
[00:24:25] Speaker C: At this point them being up? Oh, two. I, I agree with Aaron. I think the Celtics and the other side more likely to bounce back. Both of those games have been tied to the Celtics, you know, arguably gave the games away that they could bounce back and win these. The, the Cavs, while they have were impressive all season, got off the hottest start in NBA. I think they had a ton of improvement in the roster as far as a development standpoint.
The Pacers, I feel, have just been kind of doubted and they, you know, they dismantled the Bucks fairly pretty easily. I know that the Cavaliers played a terrible Heat team, but the Pacers aren't bad and up to all right now. Now they get to go back home.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: That's.
[00:25:04] Speaker C: It's a pretty insurmountable thing for. I don't know how much better Cleveland really is compared to them right now. And Halliburton, you know, he can kind of take over the game here and really taking over the series.
I would say I'd be much likely that the Pacers finish off after the jumps, the otb, but the Knicks eventually fall.
[00:25:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, The Cavs being down 02, basically, of all the players that they've got hurt, who knows if they're coming back or not. I mean, I know Garland's supposed to be back. Maybe Hunter's hurt. Mobley, defensive player of the year is down.
They put up a fight. They should have won Game 2. Mitchell gave it all he had when he dropped like 45 in that game, but he ran out of gas. They didn't have a point guard really to relieve that pressure. And the Pacers, Pacers are really good team. They got a lot of depth too. I mean, they remind me a lot, the Pacers, of the Thunder in the west with how many guys and bodies and wing players and big guys and just different lineups they can throw at you. It's gonna be awfully tough for Cleveland, I think, to win four out of five with Boston. I'll grieve. Jason, I think we said this. I mean, they're down 2 0, but they feel like they're still the better team given the fact that they were up 20 points both games and really gave it away. Wasn't so much what New York did. It was just like bad shot selection or just really can't make a shot. I Mean, I mean, Tatum, Brown, I saw open threes for them that if they even hit, you know, two out of seven of those shots and regularly would hit 50%, they win.
[00:26:36] Speaker A: So Brown's not having.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: New York's not played well at home in these playoffs. I mean, we talked about they're 5 and O on the road, but they've not been good at home. The Pistons won two out of three there and Rome, we talked about it before. You know, two weeks ago, Detroit gave away that game one where they were up like 10 points and New York went on again another 200 run. So the Knicks have been going on some famous 20 oh runs here in this fourth quarter. We'll see if that keeps going.
Like I said, Boston still favor to win the series even down 20 on most betting sites. I think they came in like almost like 30 to 1 to win the series to begin with. So the fact that they're down in Boston, we didn't even mention it. But you know, Boston's come back down 304 against a Miami Heat team that I think is better than this Knicks team and forced a game seven. And this is a better Boston team than that team there. So we'll see what happens.
But I'll take Boston to win that series. I got the Cavs and then I'll go. I'll go Thunder in t Wolves right now. I just. Hard to imagine Golden State winning without Curry.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: Yeah, no kind of agreement. I. I'm kind of. Indiana is like sneaky good. The Cavs, in my opinion, they were probably like the second best team in the NBA behind the Thunder. They're really solid. But those injuries, which just might be a little bit too much because they really do go pretty deep. They have a pretty deep rotation there, but Garland's looking like the missing piece for that.
Yeah, man, really liking the playoffs. Can't wait for the rest of the second round to kind of develop. It's unfortunate that on my only day off, the only time I had some time to watch some video, there's only one game on, so I'm gonna like, you know, catch peace and hit, you know, pieces here and there for the rest of the time.
[00:28:25] Speaker B: All right, well, you all, you are off Saturday and you are. Are you going to the Chase Center? Are you going to that game.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Working all weekend? Unless it's a day game.
[00:28:37] Speaker B: Okay.
I don't think there's gonna be day NBA playoff game.
[00:28:43] Speaker A: But yeah, these two little, little Sunday game always put the lakers on a 12 o' clock Sunday playoff game.
[00:28:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I think for first round they do. But now that there's only what, one or two games.
Yeah, but that's. Well, I don't think we have a Sunday game seven yet. So maybe later that'll be a 1:30 or 2:30 start or something.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: Down the window.
We don't. We. We want these Sunday starts to be late, but. Because we got F1. But the next F1s are 6am anyway. So you know what, Go ahead and start them at noon. We're all good. I. I like that. Miami Grand Prix time. That was a good start. It was raining here, so it felt great. It felt great.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: Ah, it was a good Sunday. It was a good racing Sunday overall. I mean, if you're up for all the. The gear heads out there, we had. We had Indy car racing out at Barber Motorsport parked at 10:30. Then you had Formula One and NASCAR on at the same time at. At noon and 1. So, man, it was. That's a killer Sunday lineup right there.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: That's. That's a lot of exhaust right there. Hanging.
[00:29:41] Speaker C: Tons of exhaust.
[00:29:43] Speaker B: A lot of dirty air, as they say in F1. A lot of dirty air.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: I personally did not like the time of the Sunday Miami Grand Prix. I was ready to watch in the morning and then I had to do. And I didn't like watching peace here and there and then watching highlights afterwards.
[00:30:03] Speaker C: It was. It was down here. It was the typo, you know, lazy Sunday where we had the rain in southern California. So it was a perfect way to, you know, kind of have a whole afternoon of racing. But it's okay. As. As Aaron said, Rome, we're going to get the European kind of triple header here coming up where we got Italy, Monaco and Spain. You know, so we'll get some nice early starts in Italy and in Monaco and Spain. All 6am start times out here in the west.
[00:30:29] Speaker B: I'll be up, man. Mark it down. I will be up.
And I don't say that often on A Sunday at 6am I'm not even up that early for football.
[00:30:38] Speaker A: No. Yeah. You never watch those London games. Well, speaking of which, since we're talking about racing games, what are you guys thoughts on the Miami grand Prix of how that whole thing went down? A lot of people saying that's the best race of the year. Pretty exciting.
Lots of movement, lots of ex. You know, just lots of things happening.
[00:31:08] Speaker C: Best race of the year. I. I don't know. I think back to Bahrain, you know, had the different pit strategies and that was pretty good. First race in Australia was Pretty good just because of the rain as well. But yeah, I would say it was a pretty good race. McLaren head and shoulders above. I mean they might have started to lap the field there at a certain point.
I think it was unfortunate for Lando again on lap one.
Really getting kind of getting pushed off the track. Kind of a.
I don't know, 50, 50 call between him and Verstappen or. Verstappen basically pushed him off the track.
I think it was like a turn two or three after, after they kind of went into turn one kind of aggressive. And then Piastri basically just took it from there. So tough race for Lando I think because now you're just looking at Piastri's is going to methodically, you know, have the better car. And even, even when Lando out qualifies him, you know, a small mistake or you know, figure out a way to get past Math. Piastri made some. An incredible pass around Verstappen to take the lead from the beginning point. So I don't know man. I mean you, you kept calling me out Rome for being too, too down on Lando. But like you know, continually giving away points to his teammate like this.
I think in the post race he looked, he looked kind of just like overwhelmed and kind of frustrated I guess would be a better terms of where things are at. Because this should have been his race win.
And I don't know if he, he was trying to get too aggressive just to take over Max in the beginning. But they had the better car. And I don't know if that pass is really necessary. You know, he could have just snuck up and found a better time to pass it because it was super costly for him to go from first or tie for first to fifth. And then you know, it was really just making it up from there. So I think overall it was a good race for most teams. Williams I think was like kind of. I don't think I say the shock but like they qualified great. They were up there. They outperformed the Ferraris which was. Was crazy to see.
And you know, Aaron and I both have been saying like this is, this is the number five team. They're the king of the mid tier teams right now. And they got, they got a really good car.
I do think of his flip side. Ferrari is a freaking disaster right now.
You know, this was the most vocal. I think Lewis Hamilton had been on the radio the entire weekend.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: It was, it was entertainment on the radio. I think. I think when we talk about the race in general between the radio and the race. This was the most entertaining for sure. Jason.
[00:33:38] Speaker C: Oh, 100% was because I don't know what the hell Ferrari was doing. I got, I got Lewis's like, point, like they ran probably the right tire strategy to start. Lewis was back, you know, he was in, I think it started 12th. So they put him on the hards to start the race because, hey, we're going to get more life out of this, out of this run. And then if something happens, we're a position with the faster tire to end the race if we can get ahead on the longer run. And so, yeah, they, they happen to look out with a safety car at a certain point, they're on the hard tire. You know, Lewis is able to get up a few places right behind LeClaire. And now Lewis has got the medium, LeClaire's got the hard, Lewis has got the faster tire. And Ferrari was just diddling around for several laps when Lewis is probably the faster car, just burning through, you know, a tire that's going to degrade a little bit faster and probably lost some speed and really gave up a chance from a team perspective to catch up to Kimi Antonelli just to get overall team points. And then by the time they made the fricking decision three, four laps later, you know, Lewis couldn't get away, degrade a little bit of the tire. Then Charles like, okay, you're going to give the pass back. They finally gave it back. But yeah, the radio communication was the best when they told Lewis to get the place back to Leclair. And then the, the, the engineer goes, signs is 1.7 behind. And Lewis just says, do you want me to get past two? And I was just dying at that one.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: So between that line and have a cup of tea, guys. I mean, that, that, that shit was hilarious, dude. Like, Hamilton was not fucking around. He was pissed. He was mad.
[00:35:11] Speaker C: He was.
I, I think there's a lot of conversation. I mean, you know, Rome gives me crap. You know, Lewis Hamilton's my guy. Great, greatest of all time, seven time world champion, you know, went to Ferrari. Ferrari is the. Ferrari is the dream for majority of racing drivers. That's where you want to go. That's the, that's the Yankees. That's the brand. It's the, it's the long, it's, it's everything. Formula one is about driving for Ferrari. So everyone talks about the dream farm. So that's where he wanted to end his career. And last year this is a team that was competing for the constructors Championship in the final race of the season versus McLaren. So they should have had a good car. And this car has just been not great all year.
The China race was the interesting portion to me. I don't know what they've done to the car since china, but if you remember, Lewis wins the sprint in china. Okay, cool. Yo. Hey, we're bouncing back from this after you're kind of the bad showing in Australia. Then they get the double disqualification and two different reasons, but really went to that kind of the lowness of the car, Whether it was, you know, the degradation of the floorboards and things like that. And I don't know if the adjustment they made because the car is too low has really, you know, scared them off from getting disqualified again. And now just made the car just kind of, like, uncompetitive compared to the McLaren and even the Mercedes, because it just has no.
Just no pace whatsoever, which is kind of shocking because it should. So, yeah, Rome, you didn't see it. You said this was YouTube being around, right?
Do we. Errands going out on a Sunday at 1:00?
[00:36:38] Speaker A: No, I was in and out. I had on the phone. But also.
Yeah, I was just watching it or listening to it, rather, While I was packing up stuff, so. Watched highlights, though. Highlights are not the same, though, for F1. I don't know. It just doesn't do it.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it was like Jason mentioned.
[00:36:59] Speaker C: What, the phone.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: And just the.
[00:37:03] Speaker C: Highlights that watch it on the phone.
[00:37:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:08] Speaker C: No, I mean, you got to be kind of in it where things are going. Because you could sum it up to, okay, there's these two passes. And that really was the race. But there was some strategy mixed in, some, you know, safety cautions here and there. The. The radio calls, as Aaron's talking about, Was the comedy of it. And then, yeah, there was a lot of different things at play in that race.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, the radio calls were great from Ferrari, their team, even, you know, guys trying to get guys set up for penalties. Like, hey, hey, he didn't let up. He didn't let up. You know, Verstappen on Mercedes team, hey, they didn't let up. They didn't let up on Russell. So obviously, he did not lose that spot. But me. And, yeah, I mean, I thought the race, the first.
First half was really entertaining. Obviously, that's when piastri passed and lando passed Verstappen.
He had kind of a rough race.
Mercedes, you know, they've been running pretty well.
Antonelli, he won the sprint race, Right? I Believe and he was looking pretty good early.
But yeah, Ferrari like a mess. I mean Williams did really good too. Top where they get fifth and ninth I think in this race is what they finished.
So that was good for. So that's good for them. Yeah.
[00:38:21] Speaker C: Yep, yep.
[00:38:23] Speaker B: And then you got your boy Rome's guy. What do han he's now been removed or whatever. He's out.
[00:38:30] Speaker C: Yeah. That was breaking news today. Yeah. Jack do on and the team principal of Alpine at the same time too was kind of resigned. So a little bit of a power struggle I think over at Alpine. So do on goes out, they bring in Kylo Pinto who was kind of following him for last year for Williams as he's kind of go. So you know that was kind of the threat all year was was doing it actually, you know, get a chance beyond, you know, half the season. But he didn't even make half the season and Calipinto is going to go in. So Calipinto had a ton of hype last year with Williams when he took over halfway through the season. You know, had a good finish here and there, but then there wasn't finishing races towards the end of the year. So. But I think Alpine, I don't know. There is a, there's an interesting, interesting behind the scenes working at Alpine right now. So I think that'll be an interesting drive to survive moment if we go into the Netflix special next year.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: Yeah, so we'll see, we'll see how that pans out for them. But they've been struggling, I think Jackie Juan didn't he. He got, you know, he didn't even finish that race because it's tire blew out there when he collided with Sonodo. I believe so. So yeah, I think it was Lawson. I believe.
[00:39:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it was Lawson and Lawson.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: Lawson. That guy's crazy, man. He hits everybody, dude.
[00:39:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I. There's another interesting team radio call where he's blaming Dohan after Lawson just sends it into the corner, puts his car in between two cars, there's no place to turn. He's like, ah, this freaking Alpine. What's he doing? It's like he was inside the entire time. You over drove the first corner and just friggin got up on him. But yeah, Lawson, man, that I don't know if anyone, I mean Formula one drivers are pretty confident. I think you gotta be. But the way that guy has kind of just had a level of like, you know, confidence or arrogance where you want to put it. Like last year when he got into the rb then into like his whole offseason going into Red Bull. And he has just been, man, it's been super disappointing because I don't think Ali's had a really successful race so far from Lawson perspective. And you're looking at drivers that, you know, quick fall from grace. I mean, this guy could be out of Formula one by, you know, next year.
[00:40:48] Speaker B: If not sooner, man. If not sooner. Yeah.
[00:40:51] Speaker A: Crazy.
Did you guys want to talk about hockey playoffs?
[00:41:03] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, little, little going into hockey right now, we were talking about, I mean, right now you got the Knights and the Oilers just going to overtime. I think, Aaron, if you're watching the game live right now, 4, 4. I think that's a heck of a series. Oilers, man, I just, I've had a feeling about them this whole playoffs. The jets, that was an interesting series too for the jets and Blues.
[00:41:27] Speaker B: You see game seven.
[00:41:29] Speaker C: Saw game seven, man. I, I, I was, I was texting with a friend on this yo, because really goaltending as you kind of get into these Stanley cup playoffs, like history tells you, like you get the hot goaltender during the playoffs, hey, you can, you can steal a series, take your way, you know, take, you can steal the Stanley cup for us. That's what you need.
And Connor Hellebock has had one of the best seasons and really put the jets into that number one overall seed in the West. And you know, I, whatever reason was, St. Louis did not just wasn't as Chris St. Louis had a heck of a goalie too. I mean, I think both of these goalies I'm pretty sure played for Canada and the U.S. in the Four Nations Cup. So I mean, it was, it was a goalie showdown. But the game seven was incredible. I think there was several moments where St. Louis could have won that game.
I mean, but yeah, there's nothing beats a Game 7 overtime, NHL playoffs. Just waiting for, like, you know, waiting for a puck to go this way and that way. It was a heck of a deflection there to end that game. I mean, just impossible stop, basically. But as good as Rome is taught in the NBA playoffs, the NHL, I think they're always better and I think this year they've been, they've been really great too.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, the NHL playoffs have been good. I mean, he had that Game 7, I mean, Winnipeg with the tying goal of what, like 1.7 seconds? Whatever it was, man, just crazy, crazy. I didn't think there's any chance they were going to come back and win. They do.
And now you got like you mentioned you got Golden Knights, Edmonton. I mean Edmonton was dead against the Kings. I mean the King should have, the Kings should have swept them. I'll be honest, I watched a lot of those games.
The Kings dominated games one and two, were up in game three, gave that one away. And then in game four, like they challenged a stupid penalty that led to another delayed penalty to some stupid stuff they did and cost himself that. And then Edmonton got hot and beat him for what, the fourth straight year in round one.
So that's tough if you're a Kings fan. Then they go and fire their gm. I think Edmonton's going to end up beating the Vegas Knights in the series.
I actually like the Dallas Stars to beat Winnipeg. I know they're already up 10 there and I think the Dallas Stars are going to come out of the West. I think they're going to be the team that comes out of the west and represents. And then in the East, Capital's got even and Hurricane. I'm going to take Carolina, I think so. I think it's going to be Carolina, Dallas when it's all said and done in the final.
[00:44:00] Speaker C: Interesting. Yeah. For me in the West, I'm. To me, whoever wins the Vegas Oiler series, to me is coming out of the West. I think both of those teams, I think have some favorable matchups and I agree with you. Probably Dallas getting past the Jets. I expected more from the jets, to be honest with you. But you know how tight that series with the Blues, how they looked in game one versus Dallas. Not real chance. But I really think Edmonton is on a mission this year. Losing the cup final last year, you know, I, I think Leon Draisaitl, you know, has something to prove after his terrible performance in the NHL in finals last year. McDavid, best player in the world, continues to go there. Jack Eichel, no slouch for the Golden Knights. I think he's, you know, he's been incredible really in this game tonight too. It was great too. Out of the East.
I'll flip. I think, I think the Capitals beat the Carolina, but I mean, I think that can go either way. Really interesting. I think Toronto being up two on the Panthers. The Panthers were playing the, the old NHL salary cap game, which is one of my favorites, where you just stash dudes on injured reserve and they don't go against the cap. And then in the playoffs it doesn't matter and you activate everybody. So, you know, they, they took, they. They had Kachuk and some other people sit out the rest of the Regular season at the trade deadline, able to get Maran from the, the Bruins and a bunch of other high priced people and now they activate everyone. So that's the old Tampa Bay Lightning formula that when they were running some win some Stanley Cups but they just. The Panthers dismantled the Lightning in round one. But man, I, I don't, I know it's not, they're, they're not under the radar because Toronto is, you know, probably Canada's team. And you talk about, you know, who's going to win the Stanley cup. Like hey, like Canada really probably wants Toronto. But you look in the final eight right now, I could be like prisoner of the moment right now. Like Canada's got three legit teams that potentially could win the cup. And we talked about this I think in the past, like Canada hasn't won a Stanley cup since 93 out of any of the things so. And the Maple leafs in the 40s. So they're super hungry in Toronto as this is supposed to be kind of that. I mean, I mean they're almost kind of like the Boston Red Sox, you know, pre all these World Series of just like hey, this is supposed to be like this dynastic team that everybody loves in Canada but just hasn't been able to do it. And you know, this team's up 2 0. Austin matthews, they got some really good players in the team that they're taking it to the defending Stanley cup champions.
That'll be an interesting. They're already up to 2 0. I just, I, it's hard to see Toronto not getting it to the Stanley cup finals right now.
Toronto and a Toronto Edmonton would do terrible ratings in the U.S. but man, it might get 100% your watch in Canada.
[00:46:52] Speaker A: I actually like that matchup. I would watch it.
[00:46:55] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, Toronto's played well. I, I think Florida's going back home, see if they can make it a series. I think it'll be key there. I mean Toronto's looked really good. Florida, they blew him out with game one. Florida kind of looked better in game two. I agree. Toronto's dangerous. They are dangerous right now. They're playing good. They're confident Florida's the defending champs. We'll see if they can bounce back.
So yeah, I mean Toronto makes a lot of sense. I think Toronto's gonna end up winning that series. But Florida, I wouldn't be surprised if Florida wins games three and four to get that thing back to two two.
[00:47:29] Speaker A: All right.
I'm pretty much burnt out guys. Any, any last words? You guys want to Say. Or anything else, you know, you guys want.
[00:47:44] Speaker C: Think we're good. We'll kick the MLB preview show another week. I see. So we'll. We'll get to it at some point this season.
But.
[00:47:55] Speaker B: Does anybody even want the MLB preview show?
[00:47:58] Speaker A: I mean, I don't think so anymore.
[00:48:01] Speaker C: I don't know. I. I think the biggest baseball headlines today was, you know, we have a new pope, the first American Pope from the great city of Chicago.
Also White Sox fan. White Sox fan was at the 2005 World Series, and the White Sox beat the Astros.
But. But a little controversy that the Cubs put out there that he's a Cubs fan. But we got visual proof from the. I believe the Chicago Sutton Times of our new pope was at the White. Is a White Sox fan confirmed by his brothers in the suburbs of Chicago in some local news out there, too. So I think that was the biggest baseball story of the day, that we. The. We have a pope that is a White Sox fan.
[00:48:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I did see that. So. And, yeah, the Cubs tried to take credit saying he was, but, no, he is a White Sox fan. And then on hockey. Go back to that.
The Ducks did hire a new coach.
Blackhawks coach there. Jason, you think that's a good hire for them?
[00:49:08] Speaker C: Which ex Blackhawks coach? I'm gonna be honest. I missed this.
[00:49:11] Speaker A: It just happened just a few hours ago.
[00:49:15] Speaker C: Oh, Joe Quinville.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: Yeah, Quinnville.
[00:49:17] Speaker C: Yeah, Quinnville. Okay. I mean, man, Quinnville, man, he was a great coach.
I know. I mean, he should be with the Panthers right now, to be honest with you. He got dismissed because of kind of the investigation and some of the stuff that went on within the Blackhawks organization.
You know, I mean, it was kind of back from 2010 and just kind of the weird, you know, the way that some of those. That situation was handled, but, man, yeah, it was. It was considered as a different organization and everything. He ran his course in Chicago after. You know, honestly, it wasn't even really his fault. It was just bad.
Bad player magic for the Blackhawks. The end of their diamonds. But, I mean, Joe Quinnville, I think he's. I think he's the second winningest coach of all time. I mean, he's top three.
Yeah. So he's top three.
I think he gets another shot down the road from us. You know, Duck's got a young core.
You know, he's great with kind of these young teams. He took the Blackhawks with the. With the cane. Yeah. So that's. I think that's a good hire for them.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: Yeah. I do, too.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: All right, this might be our.
[00:50:23] Speaker B: T has kicked off in Vegas. It's underway.
[00:50:28] Speaker A: This might be our quickest pod.
[00:50:32] Speaker B: Rome, I think. I think the main thing is the audience just wanted to know you were okay with the Lakers being dismantled as quickly as they were. Because as you jumped off the air, me and Jason were talking, you know, a lot of sources, a lot of fans were reaching out to us. Hey, where's Dismantle? Is he okay? Is he on suicide watch? And we let him know, hey, no, he's good. Don't worry about it. He's just. He's hanging with his daughter. He's moving, you know, trying to get a breath of fresh air because he just. He can't. He can't stand the warriors success and the Lakers not success, so he had to get out of that San Francisco.
[00:51:02] Speaker A: You're crazy, man.
No, the only thing about the Lakers being out in the first round is they. They were one of the better teams. So now you could possibly have, like, a Warriors team moving on further, but hopefully the Timberwolves could take care of them, too. And I'll be really happy.
Ant man, face of the NBA.
Soak it up, guys.
