You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one. The Freak did a local barbecue war happening and over in Fort Worth of a first tan account of someone who's at the messy game last night as well, and much more. But uh, let's go ahead and do right now Sports at seven, because the MAVs do do the bed last night and now the Sports at seven.
It's kind of a wild NBA night last night. Michael had some more on that in just a second, but first let's do the MAVs portion of this is they got beat one nineteen to one, ten, and yes it's a kind of a nine point game, and it was really double digit trailing for a lot of this game. So that's ah, it was not a good one last night. I don't know how much you guys got to catch the game, but I watched most of it. I did keep switching over to
the Minnesota game because Karl Anthony Towns was going nuts. And I do want to talk about the NBA as a whole on the moment. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, Celtics just better team even without yeah Chris STAPs. It kept reminding myself the Celtics were one of the best teams in the league. I think as it was all going down, and I'm like, yeah, I think they're the best, right, Uh, maybe they're thirty
four and ten. Yeah, Mavericks twenty four to nineteen. It's it's we're just like Luca had thirty three, but it felt like he was working for every bit of it. He takes a beating, he does take a beating, and he also had to go and get eighteen rebounds for the team last night too. Kyrie had twenty three, and it felt like he was having to earn everything. And they're, you know, Boston's they said they're a really good team. Last night. The Mats got a lot from Tim Hardaway
Junior, which is good, except he's not like a great defender. And if you were getting any offense out of the Grant Williams or Derreck Jones, then you could kind of, you know, feel like you're playing a little bit better team defense. But they're just not getting much out of those guys. Yeah, the inconsistency across the board, across their roster, aside from from uh, Luca and Kyrie, that's why they don't win consistently, because not only do you have to have Luca and Kyrie show up and put up,
you know, fairly decent numbers. Man, they got to have a guy that is kind of consistent with them, and they don't have that third that night and night out you can count on to give you nineteen. They just don't. Tim Hardaway disappears and then it'll streak, and then he'll disappear. You looked at that that Celtics lineup, and they pointed this out. I don't know if you guys saw this graphic. Later in the game,
they showed their starting five. I mean, the the thick ass puction you get from every dude in that starting five, the contributions that you get. You don't put up those kind of season numbers being inconsistent. Mavericks don't have that. They got Luca and Kyrie, and dudes that might show up might not, and god forbid if Luca or Kyrie have a rough night. Yeah, it's the thing. It's a flawed team, man, it is flawed,
and the problem is mainly on defense for the most harm. Buttu're right, if Luca and Kyrie are not giving you thirty plus every single night, you're kind of like, Okay, who else is gonna do it, and they get a little help from Tim last night, but no one else said Grant Williams and he's did a big interview. He's hurt, he's playing through it. Yeah, and you get healthy then who knows. You have production from Josh Green early. But yeah, middle of that second quarter, the
game was over those guys. Boston gets a fourteen point lead. That's that's the thing. They are so consistent even without KP. They got production from everybody. Everybody that they needed to produce. They did. The Mavericks just don't even Al Horford's out there on the elbow knocking down threes. Yahnk. He has been for our whole lives. So it's crazy. Yeah, I mean they're just a really good team. They were still shorthanded, and I'm
pretty sure Celtics were on the back half of back to back. Yeah, they didn't have KP. Yeah it's not either, yeah, right, and they got off to a slow start, so the maps were good early. I mean, males are like hit threes, win, miss threes, lose, yeah, miss, it's it's not get stops, Like, it's just not gonna be that yeah, because they're not They're not gonna suddenly have that
ability. Really, I mean, they can have good nights defensively, and since Christmas, they're not a bad defensive team when you talk about like points per possession on defense and everything. But yeah, if they hit threes, they win. If they get over like fifteen threes, they win almost every game. And they were I mean I think that thirteen or fourteen yesterday they weren't. It wasn't nightmare. But that's it. Yea. They get shooters,
the ball a hook it. If it goes in, the MAVs win, then it's too volatile of a thing to rely on for winning in the postseason. True, you know, yeah, they missed the MAVs. I'm sure you guys saw this too. So many layups and shots right at the rim. Oh yeah, but Luca missed a but yep, lots lots of sad bunnies floating off the front of the rim. Phoenix Tomorrow night rivalry week, so it could be fun. Phoenix is I think fifth of the West.
The MAVs are out of the top six in the West. But all it takes is one or two wins and then you're back into You know, it's weird because the West is like still kind of they're like Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Minnesota second Oklahoma City. Denver is not as dominant as they were last year. The Clippers might be the team to watch because they're all gelling right now and they will do they'll make trades and try whatever. And I
think that's where you get to average. Gonna have to do something. You're gonna have to add to this otherwise it's just not gonna be enough to even talk about being competitive with those top teams. And how much are you willing to give up? You don't have a lot of draft inventory. These are
some out who's available and things like that. Like, dude, it's not like Dorian Phitty Smith has been thrown out there getting him back, which would be great, but not at the price the Nets are wanting you to give. So I don't know how much you're gonna be able to help this thing. Like I think he would help a lot. Oh, Luca loves him. Yeah, he's defense. Well, imagine him starting and bring Josh Green off the bench. You have to give up Josh Green in that deal too,
right, Yeah, which you know. So I was watching a bunch of NBA last night actually because there was Twitter was blowing up and there's strange things afoot. So yesterday was the eighteenth anniversary of Kobe Bryant's eighty one point game, and there was some weird stuff that happened in the NBA, and it'll lead to I guess, part of a different discussion. But Joel Embiid scored seventy points yesterday. That dude is out of his brain right now.
He's averaging forty for the month. He averaged forty all of January or all of last month. He is, yeah, seventy and then bad games points wise, thirty three, thirty six, but forty one, forty one. He scored fifty one a few days ago, fifty last month. I mean he's just hanging massive numbers. He scored seventy last night. Was he doing this? Just dominates dude? Eighteen rebounds due, Yeah, it gets a
lot of free throws. He sure shot twenty one of twenty three from the line, but he got no accident to average forty since the beginning of December. Yeah, him and Luke Ara like some of them, the sure thing thirty plus point guys. Yeah, and then the other one, Karl Anthony Towns from Minnesota was lighting up, you end up scoring sixty two last night, So I kind of do you think that they have this discuss. I mean, probably not Embiid, but maybe Karl Anthony Towns and they realize what
day it is. It's Kobe eighty one day, and it would be kind of a fun thing that I didn't really tell your coaches and be like, all right, today's the day one of us goes for it. And it probably not eighty one, but you go for fifty. Like time to go individual effort. Because Anthony Edwards, the other leading scorer for Minnesota, basically didn't shoot the ball in the first half and Karl Anthony Towns shot everything. I almost just picture them rock paper scissoring before the game, like, all
right, whose night is it? You know who's going for this tonight. I know those guys pay attention to stats and things like that during the games, so yeah, it wouldn't surprise me. I think it's the support where they think about those things the most, too, like basketball, like, yes, a tribute to Kobe or something like that. Screw tonight. So here's audio real quick. Minnesota was playing Charlotte and Karl Anthony Towns had forty
four at halftime. So every you know, that's why I switched over and missed some of the mass games, so I wanted to see the end of that. And boy, they just kept handing him the ball and hugging it. And Minnesota, by the way, blew an eighteen point lead in the
fourth quarter and lost the game. Oh wow, Yes, because when he dropped sixty two and they lost and they lost him comeback fashion, and their coach is like irresponsible, He called it, I think because he's like, look, you gotta play defense, not just try to find this guy and have him keep hucking it. But anyway, he made his Uh. Karl Anthony Towns made his eight three point right at the end of the first half, and the Charlotte Hornets announcer was all worked up. That's the Hornets announcer.
The Hornets announcer too, that's the opposing announcer. Was he scared? Was he calling a three? Or did he see a ghost? Howard Dean, Charlotte Hornetson anytime Carling any Town has comes up, I can't help but think of the voice changing situation. Guys heard of that? No, and you know, hey, I'm not saying anything but he does change his voice drastically depending on where he's talking. So here's just the thing. This is
him. The first half is him doing a postgame on court interview where it's you know, in full basketball mode, and then the second half is him as part of like a podcast type thing. So get him, So get him? Yes, uh, well, good practice. Just go get him. I really don't know another way to explain, and just take the shots being super aggressive, altra aggressive, and be willing to make a mistake in
the aggression. Right, okay, pretty normal? Yeah, all right, And this was him in a podcast setting crazy because after all that, they took him off the court to put him even locker. So I was like, whoa. I mean, hey, you can have your game day voice and your uh your chill voice, chill voice. Huh. I just can't. I hate it because I love Carl. Town's really good and he is probably with Dirk in the argument of best shooting big man of all time and
something passed. I'm gonna be honest, that's not what I expected to hear. Really know, what I expected to hear is, you know, media voice. I'm going to speak very neutral, but when I'm comfortable with my friends. Oh, like, play it up a little bit, you know, talk like you would around people that you're close to. I didn't expect, Hi, guys, it's me. I don't know Krusty the clown or after all that they took him off the court to put him even closer locker.
I mean, you went from measured media man to rupe Paul. Well you practice, go get him, Go get him. It's different, way different. Sixty two points, big night for Crawl Anthony Town, despite the crumbling loss to the Charlotte Hornet. The disgusting performance of immature playing. Yeah, yeah, exactly. The coach discussed, and he basically was mad. He was kind of saying that without exactly saying, Okay, you guys are just trying to get him to score what fifty sixties the game? Yeah,
you guys cause us a game. I hope that was worth it for you because we just lost. Yeah. Fishes, fishes, God, that's wild. Okay, Well that is some basketball stuff. Kind to catch you up on basketball swears. Let's switch gears wrong. How about a zesty barbecue war here in the Metroplex. I think I saw this song like Dallas, Dallas, Texas TV. Yeah, well, it's he's kind of all over the place. I saw it in the Forward Star Telegram or the Dallas Morning News.
It should probably be. Yeah, I saw in the Telegram. Mm hmm. Panther City Barbecue is the place. They had an Instagram post on Sunday it said, over the past three weeks, we discovered a good old fashioned crime ring which involves another local Fort Worth business slash restaurant owner. And in the post, I don't know if I've seen the post, get pictures of a white van. It's parked and the Telegram's naming the diner, but does sound like they might know, but they said they're not naming it because
charges have not been filed. The same white van was seen leaving the scene of a theft in Arlington back in December. The owner of Panther City Barbecue, Chris mag Magalon Magalaniso's because then we would know magillanis Magalanis. He shared security footage of the van driving near his restaurant days before some of the smokers were stolen, and then police trace the stolen smokers to a field near the diner through trackers that were attached to the smokers. Yes, those ain't cheap
man smokers. Yeah, like the big industrial ones. A lot of them are custom made for your specs. They ain't cheap. I thought you meant the trackers cheap too, not super cheap. I mean you just get one of those little you know, eh tags or whatever, and you get the one fargo that he put under the car with a one button. No, that's all. That's all it had, the one like a little lever. How much sweaty breaking Bad would get when Walt would have to go put the
GPS on gusses underneath gusses. Yeah, you know, trying not to be seen at the chicken restaurant. We've advanced past the shoe box sized transponder. You just have like a little disc, kind of like the little plastic donut from Doo Dooo Kangaroo. They're about that size, tiny edible disc. You should get Malcolm a bunch of tracking discs for his birthday this year, the smallest ones available, and paint him up like a glazed donuts. That's showing
that it's inside a boy a better way to say that. Yeah, the Magalon is the Panther City Barbecue said he saw the van numerous times outside the dinery. He tracked it to a property in South fort Worth and he observed the driver unloading three oven ranges, so he caught him. Police confiscated the van on Saturday because he reported seeing it outside the diner. The diner owner
told this the Telegram yesterday that he had no knowledge of the theft. He said, people come in and out of his diner all the time, and it's not his job whether their thieves are carrying stolen property. It's not his job to check to see if their thieves or their carrying stolen property. That's kind of fair, Yeah, because anyone could come in my place. It's I don't do a background check on every person that comes to my restaurant. Well, you did just say that they found one of the smokers in a
field behind the restaurant. Explain that. Yeah, he's threatened. Yeah, but he's threatening to sue Panther City Barbecue over their post over alleging that he stole their equipment. Yeah. Now he hasn't said the name of them, probably on purpose because he's probably trying to figure out if I'm going to press charges or not. But the white van is an independent it's not owned by the guy who owns the diner doesn't sound like it, okay, but it's
consistently at that diner, at that diner. Magalanas said he has hours of surveillance footage connecting the diner to the thefts. He has turned it over to the police, and police and letting them do the investigators love the idea of amateurs loots conducting surveillance on their own and following a vehicle that you put your little Amazon tracker on. Exciting. It is a little exciting. Also on Kevin's car and track him barbecue home. They they they've always considered themselves a
family, local barbecue. All rest the local barbecue. The local barbecue considers themselves the local barbecue community. They're connected. So who let me talk out your accusations? Now, who did it? I'm not gonna I'm gonna play this game with you. I'd like to clear the name of Travis him. How can you do that? Yeah, you can't do that. It's best not to say any time time. My guess is this isn't somebody from that connected barbecue community. This is probably an outlier, right, you know,
so someone though this is the Hurtado bandits. I don't think there areta bandits, the wild family of barbecue. There's out of barbecue bands. Uh, boy, have you put something that's worth ten g's or twenty g's or whatever. These smokers are out back. You gotta think that thing's chained up, and I guess they cut to the chain. So do most barbecue places have uh because they're outside? I mean do they have a little shed that they've built a security shed? That's usually how it looks. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, like the one in Deep element Pecan Lodge. I mean you can see them, but they're kind of contained. It would be really difficult to steal those without, you know, raising some type of suspicion. There's no way this is the hard eight hijackers right here we go. All right, let the alliteration comedy begin, because it's good. It's better that way. What else do you get? Uh, the Cooper's capers. Okay, barbecue. Now they need to get the Dickies detectives on this, like hold on
national chain here, less stuff. We have the resources to do the proper s advan. It's kind of like bringing in the FBI, you know, Dickies. Go ahead, Mikey. I've been working on a few but nothing's ready. This water ain't boiling us slow bo but already used sleuths. I bet okay, And I don't know if it's sort of like the beer community, you know, because you know, our Rollertown friends s Ben Skin are always saying how the beer community supports itself, and there is definitely some level
of that. Yeah, and I bet Barbecues is kind of the same. But I bet, real deep down, when you're alone in the darkest of the night, wish success on the person right across the street front you. Yeah, probably, I bet barbecue because it's so competitive. Yeah, they're both very competitive, but like everybody wants to claim that they have the best, you know. Yeah, I bet there's some gritted teeth and just jealousy of oh my god, a third store. Yeah, you're right, but
you know, if everyone's doing well too, that's the whole thing. Like they're on FM now, our friends. I truly mean this is I have friends at the ticket and the fan. You guys have friends over at the ticket. Of course I want them to do well as long as we're doing well too, And that's just not the case right now. No, we need some listeners to come try our barbecue. God, please try our radio barbecue. It's really good. Give it a chance. We have breakfast barbecue.
Yeah, right, breakfast, It's so true, that's what we want them to do. There is a tipping point to even barbecue in Dallas, right like, there can't. It can't. Everyone can't succeed, you know, And the levels of success are determining how well you're doing, how famous you get, and how much you're selling. Articles written about you and people talking about in the radio. I mean, that's how it all works. Yeah, I mean, just like any of the restaurant imagine hundreds of barbecue
joints of open and closed just because you can't make it work well. And nowadays, dude, I can't even imagine. I can only imagine what it would be to try to do a startup barbecue spot because when we've heard this from the Hurtado guys that we've talked to, man, the cost of what of the goods that it takes to make this stuff is basically doubled from what it was five six years ago. It is so expensive to do barbecue and the labor that's involved in that, I mean, think about it. You
know, we've all got friends that have. Hey man, I'm doing a brisket and they're up all night setting alarms every two hours to go out and check the temperature and all of that. You know, it's a time consuming task, chaotic, and it's art as is I suppose all totally, but it's a perfected art. I mean, you know, Travis Heimes started just doing it and then it got a little trailer and he's like, this is
good. We might want to sell some of this. And then I mean it's a really cool, like Texas success story, and there's so much nuance involved in every little every little ingredient in every little technique matters. And then to figure out how you turn what you did at your house, like, oh my god, to mass produce it, to mass produce it and somebody else do it and have it happening twenty four and not maybe about twenty four, but and retain the same quality that you created exactly in your house.
Yeah, no, thank you. Yeah. Keep an eye on the Goldies gangsters. Yeah, I was thinking, as we try to solve this case, you may want to keep a close eye on the Ferris Wheelers Steelers. Oh my god, you know. Yeah, yeah, as far as that peep, please tell me you have more stories in the scuttle Buck, Kevin, I have so many more stories. Let's get to them next. And a first hand account of what happened last night at the Cotton Bowl with Messi intown next to ninety seven to one the Freak