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big win. You know, it was too mass first that Troy Aiateman Audio, Troy Aateman was pissed on the broadcast last night for Monday Night Football for a number of reasons. And I got that for you in a second. How about the Derek Lively line? Do you like that? Dude? I
was thinking about it. When's the last time like a Mavericks player has done something like that, Like a MAVs big man has done something like that, Like a week ago, didn't he have like it was twelve and fourteen, Well he follows that up this week sixteen sixteen and two, eight for nine from the field. I mean at the half he was close to sixteen and sixteen. Yeah, when I checked, it was late third quarter and Luca already had like twenty nine points. But yeah, Derek Lively had already was
in double digits and points and rebounds by the half, I believe. Yeah, And there's something also speaking of Luca, who was just playing. I don't know. I feel like it did when Dirk was in his prime, that every every game, you'd come in here and talk about something that you shouldn't be getting used to. Yeah, you know, we're gonna take this kid for granted, and we shouldn't because he's playing at such an elevated level.
Since he added the headband, he's become even more trolling. He did you see him do a step back on the defensive Player of the Year and when the and when Homie hit the ground right before Luca took the shot, he just kind of glanced down at him and went, he's gotten super he's swagger. Yeah, he's right, he's got It's like, yeah, that's that's the word for it. But he's different than like in the middle of
a play. Yeah, it's different than like even when he's a rookie in a second year, like I'm really good and uh, I act like I'm good. It's way different than that. Now it's like purposefully like he getting mean yeah, which you know I like because that doesn't need to be taken out of the refs all the time where we have suspensions because we have too many technicals right it's now like I'm not taking s from anyone. And on
nightside last night, it's tough to win in Memphis sometimes. But they're not a very good team right now, and won't mean to get John Rant back to have Tim Hardaway out and learning of that ten minutes before the game starts. They might have known, but we didn't know. Kyrie get stepped on the other night. He heard his foot. It doesn't seem serious, so he'll be back soon. Grant Williams has been out for a while. He's been out for a while. Josh Green's been out for a while. So
it's like, okay, well who's how you get points tonight? It needs to be Luca and then maybe someone else because usually that's gonna fold to Tim Hardaway Junior if Kyrie's out and then Tim can't go, so Luca goes and the Mavericks have a just a killer first half and put the game away. I get close at the end because and the Mavericks are letting laws and play a lot. When Morris gets into a game, you're like, aah, man, that's good. That means the Mavericks are destroying someone or maybe they're
getting destroyed. Rookie Omax prospers starting to get playing tim but you're rookie Derek Lively. To me, that's the story last night. Outside of Luca just being traditional Luca with thirty five points, I mean to have someone who can go do what he's doing every night. He's a double double candidate. And finally, you know, and Black Powell was actually okay as a room runner until he tore his achilles. Yeah, and it's like that that explosion is
not there, but we just throw it up there. And Derek Clively's got you, and he's got good hands. And it's really those comparisons to Tyson Chandler. I always kind of I saw those and I was like, I don't know, I don't like that, Like oh, hearing that's cool, but like Phil Early and you watch it and go, he's doing the things that Tyson Chandler did a little bit different level, different body type, and not as you know, at that level yet playing good defense, like wrote
in an average are not a good defensive team. They're near the back of the league in defense, but it ain't nothing like having a Christian Wood on the floor over everything is thrown off because you have one guy not doing his job, but Derek Clively is doing his job. Yeah, I don't love. I love. I was seeing on that line of sixteen sixteen just a
shocking big number. I was like, you have to go back years probably to find a big man who's done that for them for that and maybe DeAndre Jordan did that a couple of times as a big rebounder, yeah, but not consistently, but I don't know the last Maverick like big man to go get sixteen and sixteen ridiculous. So big win last night, and good that you could let some other guys play because it was also a travel day, Danning. We gotta travel, we gotta get home. We got an early
start tonight National TV. And you can hear it, of course here on the Freak. It is the Lakers in town and what is one of, if not the biggest ticket of the year, right, I mean this is especially now he's getting older, go see Lebron. Yeah those last few years of Jordan. Oh yeah, it was like, am I gonna go get tickets for this thing? Now? I was a kid. Did you ever see Jordan play. No. I didn't either, No, and I regret it. Man, I never did. As many times as he rolled through
here, What wasn't a tone? You know? Yeah? Never got to, never got to. And I was a big fan. Loved him, absolutely loved him. Lakers are pretty good, you know. They obviously just went to to the end season turney, you know, but uh, you know the Mavericks are I mean, oh yeah, Mavers fourteen and eighth. The Lakers are fourteen and nine. Is there any chance Kyrie placed tonight or no? I don't. I don't think so. I haven't seen that from a MAVs reporter type, but I do not think so. I don't think.
I don't think it. I think we're talking like maybe next week. I think that if he were able to play tonight, he would, so if he's not on the in the lineup, then it's I think it's a maybe not a serious energy, but one where he obviously can't go on. And I think I think they gave I think they gave Tim Hardaway Junior the night off because because they're gonna need him, need him tonight, you know, against the Lakers, more than you'd need him last night against the Grizzlies.
What I don't is Luca getting a technical late in the game, one seconds left, absolutely pointless. Now you got the one. I guess that happened a number of days ago. He got that one rescinded. Did you see that? Yes? What you should have when he got poked on the nose by Chris Dunn. Uh Luca when he got a technical, here's what he said. He's Vince Williams Junior, was the guy for the Grizzlies who he was getting into it with. He said he was just talking s the
whole time. I look back and I told him I wish they'd let me play h one on one. And that's when I got to tack. The rest have got to let us just talk. It's part of the game. I love it. I think he's a great defender. But the refs the last game, I didn't do nothing. We both got text this game, we both talked, and I got into a tech only or I got a tech only. The rest have just got a chill on that part. He's
right, he is right. They trash talk needs to happen unless the unless it's getting unless it's escalating to a point where you're you're trying to stop an actual confrontation or you know, chest to chest kind of kind of thing. If they're just jawn at one another and it's not like super profane or personal or hateful, leave them alone. Man. It is part of the game, especially in the modern NBA, and I love it. I want that from Luca. But this is also his reputation. Now, like the refs
do view Luca in a certain way. They know he's great, but like you know, he ain't getting any benefit of the doubt. If there's anything, If a ref's even thinking about should I teck this give this guy a technical, they're being Yeah, I guess I have to give this guy technical just because the reputation's following. It's unfortunate, but it's what it is. So big win Lakers tonight here on the Freak. How about that six thirty tip six thirty tip TNT I get to watch, Yeah, Danny gets to
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do the are you YouTube TV? Man YouTube TV if you watch them both where they give you that option this season to watch two games at once. I watched, you know, for me as a Packers fan. I had Packers on my big one. I've got a little tiny TV and I threw up the Titans and Giants on that, and I had HAVES on my phone, so a lot going on, but the matter up so much that had it fuck. I had to follow them too closely because they were at by twenty do ole game Titans Dolphins, Titans Dolphin. Sorry. Yeah, So
how did your dang Packers get beat by New York? Well, the Packers aren't very good and there's you know, Joe and Trolly were like, this is a shocking performance by the Packers, Like you guys haven't seen him play. Like September and October, the Packers were really bad. They were trading players for draft picks and then in November. They won pretty much all their games, including being the Lions on Thanksgiving Day and then beating the Chiefs last
Sunday night. So you win two games and get some big teams and everyone thinks you're good. All of a sudden, Packer's not a good team. They're young, youngest team in the league. Building they're horrible. Boy, there was some Tommy DeVito magic last night. I can't believe it. He was awesome, he was really good. I don't know. I just I don't do that game should not have been close. The Packers got smoked and they lose twenty four to twenty two. But they got outplayed the entire higher
game. Are you about to tell me that Tommy DeVito reminds you of a young Romo? Dude, there's a little bit there. I think he's worse, but he's worse for sure, But there's that, I mean little bit. They have no weapons. Say, at one point in the fourth quarter, Sakuon Barkley had fifteen carries for thirty yards. They broke a fifty yard run later got the yards to that and fumbled on that play. But like he ended up with his eighty six yard line. But like they don't have
anyone and somehow they go get the win. But there's a moment at the end of the first half. No, the refs are a big part of the NFL discourse right now, have been for a few weeks, even more so with the Chiefs thing and Patrick Mahomes crying about Cadarius Toney being off sides. So there's thirteen seconds left in the first half. The game has already been at an excruciating pace because this by now famous referee crew Land Clark is
the guy's name. We've had him. We've had to deal with him in a couple of Cowboys games this year where it's like, put the flag back in your pants. I don't understand this crew call. Throws so many flags and they're slow, and there's just question marks on everything every call. The refs have to get together and discuss it's they're bad. They're just not a good crew. So it's thirteen seconds left and a half, and you can
imagine if you're Joe and Troy, you have an eleven minute halftime. You might get some food to re energize real quick, and the next break, I'm gonna take a bite of this protein bar. We all do it. So I think that Troy and Joe at thirteen seconds left, the Packers are gonna kick off and the Giants are gonna take a knee, and I think they're probably had some food sat down for him, right, Maybe some meatballs, Maybe some meatballs that's something warm, you know, warm on a cold
night in New York. Yeah, maybe a nice plate of sliced John's ham Man, maybe fresh hot ham from Klein Swines. The kickoff goes off a Giants player's leg and goes out of bounds, but the ref those the flag like it's a legal procedure, so they're trying to see if the Giant's gonna get the ball at the forty and the refs get together to talk about it. This should not take this long. And this is Troy Aikman on Monday Night football, and he is pissed. I'm not plugged in. Sorry,
here we go. Here it is on the free all, you know. I mean, there's thirteen seconds in the half. They're gonna get, you know, just make a decision. And this is what stops all these games. And the officials, I know they've been they've been talked about every week, but this is ridiculous that we're watching right now. I mean, we see something, it takes five seconds, it takes them five minutes to discussion. Now stick around here. The ref's gonna explain. It doesn't matter listening
to Joe Bucks. Come about the food. The ball hit the receiving team player and went out abound. The ball will be placed at that spot first out. So they pick up the flag. And I'd like to know how you really feel about them. Tell me at halftime, will you o man over a cold meatball? There you go. The Grinches could just call timeout. That says it all. The mask is up now the Grinch looks like that person. I mean they're just calling out their camera shots. Uh huh,
they're calling out the crew. They don't want to be there. They do not they don't want to be on a Monday night game. Packers and Giants two ding dong teams. When they're used to the premiere game of the week on box and there's a what was a hot, steaming pile of meatballs just right next to them in their booth, They're like, dude, there's thirteen seconds until halftime. We've been sitting here for five minutes. That's why Joe said cold meat balls because he knew that's what this was. They were
hungry. They were hungry and they're just tired. And even in the first quarter, they were already making comments about the game not being good. They made a comment, Joe Bucks, It's like, what do you think Tom Brady thinks about this? Because Tom Brady's made comments about the NFL being mediocre by the way, like eight starting quarterbacks are hurt not playing too which that's
the fastest start your league, sock. You've started more rookie quarterbacks this season than any time in history, So, like, you know, that doesn't help. I still think it's a pretty good product, right. I think they're having that stark realization of we used to get the best game in the NFC each week, and now we are at the hands of whatever the schedule is at the beginning of the year. We're not getting to choose. Watch
this change. Well, they're already getting some like late seasons, some good games, but watch this change to where Monday nights are consistently maybe not as premiere as Sunday night football. But this ain't gonna fly with Troy and that dude wields a ton of power. It already did so last year. Before year one, it was like a thing. Hey, the NFL is making a conscious effort to spice up Monday Night. They have, and I'm just
saying, watch that trend continue. I think maybe it's just different than when I was a kid, when I loved Monday Night football. As an adult, I'm like, it's on, man, But I've watched so much of this yesterday. I love it, dude, I love it. It's a tick above Thursday night football now in a lot of instances. Yeah, a tick above thirty. Yeah, which is and Thursday Night's bad. It's garbage. I like that we have it, but it's bad. I didn't understand
why we had two Monday night games last night. I know the ESPN's experimenting and all that stuff, but we have this get day every year Saturday in college football, where it's the Heisman at night and it's the Army Navy game in the afternoon. And I'm like, dude, put one of these NFL games on Saturday night just to have it there. And instead of that, we're we got a triple header next Saturday. Okay, so like they did they do this, but the one day where there's nothing. There's Army Navy,
which is not a fun game ever. Okay, it's a traditional game, but it's not a fun game. Maybe not since like the thirties and the Heisman ceremony that no one cares about. Okay, you're just gonna watch that on YouTube the next morning. You're not gonna watch it at all. If you're me, you're not gonna care. Give me an NFL game. I don't know. I just thought that's strange that we had two Monday night games last night. But so well, the NFL have NFL meetings in Dallas.
I think this week they have their winter meetings. I think this week, and topic A is referees. It's going to be discussed real quick. No, you're getting behind it. Let me read this comment. So a couple things out of the Chiefs offensive offsides, call that whole conundrum that got old Patrick Mahomes his knickers in a twist, and Andy Reid kind of followed
suit with that. I guess I think they were just mad because it was such a kick ass play that got called back, and it would have been just such a defining play of the NFL season, and they're just bummed out that that flashy, badass lateral play didn't result in them winning the game, and their wide receivers are costing them again. Yeah, they just didn't manage their disappointment in what should have been in disappointment in themselves and kind of used
the referees as Patsy's. Mahomes has come out and said that he regrets the way he acted. He said, obviously you don't want to react that way. I care, man, I love this game, I love my teammates. I want to go out there and put everything on the line to win. But obviously can't do that. Can't be that way toward officials or really anybody in life. So yeah, I probably regret acting like that. More than anything. I regretted the way I acted toward Josh after the game because
he had nothing to do with it. I was still hot and emotional, But you can't do that, man. Not a great example for kids watching the game. Patrick's just a fiery dude, though we saw him the quarterback when he goes after Max Crosby well on that TV show The Quarterback that was on Netflix. I said, the chiefs for a team that wins a lot, still relatively likable because of Patrick. I think everyone kind of likes Andy Ree. Dude, they're losing a lot because I'm sick of Taylor Swift headlines.
I'm sick of Travis Kelsey commercials. Yeah, and I just do not accept the One of the things I hated the most, it's Dak Prescott's lowest moment as a player is when after the forty nine Ers game two years ago, Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott walk into their postgame press conference in the playoffs and blame the game on the refs when the Cowboys had like twelve penalties. They both did it, and I was like, no, that is not you guys didn't play good enough. The referees had a chance to respond to
all of the consternation about that call. They had a pool report with NFL SVP. I don't know what that is. I like to say, NFL Scott van Pelt, Okay, that's Walt Anderson and referee Carl Scheffer's or Cheffer's and they said yes, ultimately talking about if receivers look to them for alignment advice, Hey, are we cool or am I lined up properly? And
they asked for it, and they freely give it. He said, Yes, we certainly are going to give it to them, but ultimately they are responsible for wherever they line up, and certainly no warning is required from us, especially if they are lined up so far off sides where they're actually blocking
our view of the ball. Yes, describing what Tony, Yeah, he did, so we would give them some sort of warning if it was anywhere close, like if his foot had just maybe been a little bit on the ball to been like, hey, dude, I'm not gonna call this, but you're getting you're getting into that no man's land, or you're in that no man's land. You're going to commit a penalty if you get any closer. They're like, dude, this is so egregious. I gotta throw the
flag. Yeah, And that's that's exactly. I mean, this is the thing that is happening now. And had they not thrown that flag, I think the outrage would have been tenfold from from Bill's nation and it would have been absolutely justified. And the flag was thrown before Travis Kelcey ever threw the lateral the other way, Yeah, exactly the beginning of the play, and a lot of people could want to make the argument you know, well it didn't even affect the play. Well you can say that, but the guy
that committed the penalty ultimately scored the damn touchdown. So shut up, Chiefs, shut up, you start hating. Coming up next, I've got details on the MAVs sale when it's happening, and also a new brewery in Delhi in Oak Cliff that's kind of interesting. Next in ninety seven one, the Free