This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. It's kind a very fun Friday morning so far. Golf Jeopardy today, dude, International Women's Day. Yeah, it's been a fun day. Yes, fun week. I told you Monday, we're gonna punt that football. We're gonna kick this week right in the ball. So what do we do? Punted it? Yeah? And our week. Let's be honest, great guy, Our weekends at ten o'clock am on Wednesday, and then we mail in Thursday and Friday.
But we didn't do that this week. Why did we keep to show up and be good? We intended to Thursday and Friday's let's dial it back next week. Okay, who are some of your favorite international women? I want you first of all. I got a lot of answers for you there. But address him. He's being a problem. Yeah, dial it back next week. Next week. You're already loaded. We're cranking it up next week. We're just talking to out on Thursday and Friday. Certain some other
people are off next week. Oh it doesn't matter. You could put a hamster and a bicycle on microphones over there and people will listen because it has the logo brand loyalist. That is true, but we're gonna kill it next week. We are very condensed and loaded entertainment. Next week question, just considering, let's make next week you're our big tryout. I'll say that we didn't order as many as we normally do, but we did order a few
because we're very seasonal. We'll see the singing pot of gold if there's interest from the consumer. Because they've given us until Saturday, we can cut it off. A singing pot of gold or is it a singing shamrock? Is it a singing leprechaun, singing rainbow? Little pot of gold? We'll figure it out. They're singing four leaf clover, Okay, a singing box of lucky charms. We'll figure it out. If the consumer is interested, we'll
do it. If they're not, they don't want us to do it, we won't singing Guinness a singing green shirt at the corner of your closet that you only wear once a year. That's so true. Who has a green shirt all together? The green shirt with a zinger? Yeah? Should we just have? Oh? Maybe we should do t shirt sales and we sell t shirts with new zingers for Saint Patti today, but then we don't sing,
all right, I don't care. All right, I'm either okay, let's before we talk MAVs and little Oscar stuff, because Sunday that's the Oscars Daylight Savings time too. That's right. Don't forget an hour Sunday morning. Don't forget it's going to be real dark all morning come Monday. Ben Rogers returned from vacation in Mexico. We played earlier in the week him cuss cursing on the air, but he had a little bit of a stomach issue and uh, here's what happened live on the Ben and Skin Show a little bit
earlier in the week. Yeah, so it's this is a very dangerous situation. Do you want me to sit a text and see if Maddie can come in and fill in for you for the final two hours of the show. Don't make me laugh. I'm telling you I'm full clench right now. In fact, I'm just gonna go to the restroom. Seriously. Yeah, Steve locked that door. He locked the door. Ben has butter all over his thumbs and can't unlock the door. Steve is standing in front of the door.
Dude, you need to go kick Steve's that's like get him out of the way, like placing a diet coke can in my path. Oh no, I'm trapped in here. That diet coke cans in the way, dude, So seriously, are you gonna go poop? I probably could go poop. Steve follow him in there with this. We want to get this social Yeah, we do need more social media. It's turning into a Mount Saint Helen's situation Toda, yeah, yeah, yeah, where you are all in danger. This feels a little more Mount Vesuvius. If you ask me,
Christina, what do you think. I'm just so glad I'm in here right now. Well, different room from you, guys. I'm telling you there's no uh you know, it's not like when you call the fire department. There's been no gas leak. All right, you have nothing to worry about in that regard. But if you make me laugh too much, it could be bad. Are you saying that so we can't sue you? It's a fourth worst hotel. But yeah, well, uh, tune in for the
final two hours of the show. We'll ben and spray the windows. Oh he just got it. Oh he's look at how he's walking. I've never seen him lean forward so hard. I think that's because his ass is clinched though, huh, man have to do that's terrible. Steve's not very confident. Joke of fort Worth Hotel, but it was funny. Oh my god, that the hotel. But I don't know, jeez, Benskin show ten to two, that's what you're missing. It's like there's a pause and Ben
says, Christina, what do you think? Like, I don't know, just I have no thoughts on it. Don't bring me into this. Continue. They are an open book. They are from Tending to Hell from two to six. They're an open book as well. Two football nuggets before we get to MAVs real quick. Uh, The Cows are reworking Zach Martin's contract to create money. Did he knew that was gonna happen? Russell Wilson is meeting with the Steelers. And you called this the other day, did Mike?
Mike so football smart? Yeah, people don't think of that when they think of me. Wilson's better than Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, the other garbage they're running out there. MAVs might have saved their season last night, and it did not start off good. It was really bad early and I was really nervous early. But they end up getting the win the heat one
fourteen one eight, and they needed it so bad. Yeah, yeah, they did what they get down by They were down double dishes, down fifteen fifteen, so there was like a twenty five point swing at one point when they took the lead. Yeah, I don't know. I mean they the offense saves them again, because the defense did look poor for most of that, but then they were okay in the second half. One thing that was
funny. I was listening to the Reggie in the national broadcast, you know, and the defense was bad in the first half, and they talked to it whatever. The girl talked to one of the mass coach. He said, we can't let Duncan Robinson have these open threes, like that's the key, And like while the sentence was happening, they kick it to Duncan Robinson
who shoots a wide open three. I think it was the first possession, and it's like, that is what you just talked about, Right in the first possession, he's shooting an open three, like his fifth Yeah, his fifth made three. He Regie was like, that's now what they just talked about. That's the very first play. And this sort of hit me more when they were losing. When they won, it's less applicable because you don't
really talk about it right now. But like, let's say they were a terrible offensive team, right they just don't score much, they don't make baskets, they don't shoot well, and what would we just be yelling, come on, be a better shooter. Maybe maybe, but we don't do that that much. Please shoot better? Like maybe they're just not that good defensively.
Sometimes they can go full throttle and max energy and look good for a quarter or a few series, but I mean, Luka and Kyrie are the lynchpins of this team, and it's like they're just not outstanding defenders across the board. So all we do is keep yelling, come on, try harder, play better defense. If it was offense, you could yell at at all day, it won't just make it happen. That's why I really think
when they shifted to We're Gonna run. Remember Jason Kid's first year here, it was slow down yeah, like and they went to the Western Conference finals that year, but turned into run. I think that was almost an admission of we're not going to be a very good defensive team. Right, stop and outscore you. Right, And Dante Exim might have saved the game for him last night. And he does play much, and he can't play much. He's on a minite restriction and playing him too much in the first part
of the season might be why. Yet he was hurt for the last couple weeks, so you have to deal with that. But he was huge last night, knocking down a huge three, making a couple of smart basketball plays. Gafford was great last night. Luke and Kyrie were wonderful again. I mean, it's never it's never on them. It's just not. I'm sorry, it's easy to look at them, it's not. The questions about the coach are fair in my opinion. The way that game started, it was
funny how it. I was surprised, like how did they win that game? And then you look at the box scores like, oh, okay, Luca did what Luca does and Kyrie, like you said, is always great. But yeah, defenses, I think that is such a really well constructed point because that Mikey just made that. If you see a team that isn't particularly good offensively, you don't scream at your TV try harder on offense. You start saying we need to get better players that are good at offense.
But if it's defense, you don't say we need better players that are good at defense. You just scream at the TV and say, well, they're not given. This is Jason Kidds's fault. They're not prepared enough, they're not energetic enough on defense. And I brought this up to you guys off the year earlier. Reggie Miller made an interesting point, and I'm sure it's
not a unique thought, but I hadn't thought about it. Is that he broke down one offensive possession that was pretty much Luca with the ball the whole time, which happens a lot because they play a lot of isolation basketball with him and Kyrie, especially when they're on the court together. It was Luca handling the ball and navigating his way within about fifteen seconds from bringing the ball all the way up the court, being beyond the three point line, dribbling
around, carrying a dude on his hip all the way. You know how he does that kind of ropid ope thing where he gets into the lane, makes a couple of moves, spins around, makes another move, and then has to do a fade away max effort jump shot over a dude with another dude hanging on him, and it probably should have been called a foul. After all of that effort get you expect him to race down court and then put that same effort on defense, which he already doesn't have a great defensive
skill set. You're gonna combine with the minutes that the guy is already playing. You're going to kill him if you expect him to max effort on defense every every night, Like what would you be willing to trade offensively for a ten percent increase in defense? And it might be worth it considering offensively because you have Kyrie, Yeah, because you have Kyrie. Earlier, when Kyrie was gone, you couldn't write. But yeah, maybe he has got it.
He's gotten better at longer, longer passes, you know, finding the open man way down court without having to just to bring the ball. If we've seen him do that a lot. I mean he assists. Is that guy had this year where he's made assists that are like fifty foot passes quite a few mm hm, So that's been a difference in his game. But yeah, man, I don't know what more you can ask of him.
I really don't. And when he does play defense, when he seems like he's got a little energy, he's not a He's not a liability when he's into it. No, and he's got the energy for it. Like we always say, I mean, he top ten and steals top ten in defensive rebounds, like there are parts defensively statistically he fills up too, absolutely top ten in the NBA for defensive rebounds. That he's weird for a dude who plays his position, and he's not going to be a liability on defense basically
just because I mean he's six' eight. You know, he's a tall dude. But people do go right past him. They do. Are they trying as hard as they can? Are they conditioned enough? Those are all fair questions. But if we all are already predisposed to think we might need to get rid of Jason Kidd, and then Luca gets blown by, and then the defense kind of looks like it sucks, and we're already like, see, they don't care, they don't care because they don't respect kid.
And then in your head you can kind of twist into what might not actually be the truth. I don't know now if they don't make the playoffs or if they go one and done. I think Jason Kid is instantly fired. But what, there's eighteen ninety eighteen nineteen games left this season. Little firing him this week makes zero sense. And that's just radio radio yelling do you have skin with Tyrone? I'd love to hear this in ninety second, Joe want it. Yeah, this was a really important game for you guys.
What did it take? Oh my gosh, it took a lot of discipline. There's a lot of perseverance and uh, just being locked into the game played for forty eight minutes. It's crazy to think that we've been a worst team defensively in the league since All Star Breaking. We got to take that accountability on ourselves. And our effort from the start of the game into the end game has not been great. So we got to throw away all those negatives in truly stopped that. Our effort for the start of the game in
the end of the game has not been you. Yeah, and what I just said might be false, Like it might be that Kid is lax on them, and Kid does not inspire them to give it their all and maybe they do have something left in the tank that they could expand on the defensive side of the of the of the floor. And it seems like it does
happen sometimes, like it can't be done, be true. And he said if he says it, and he said that basically after watching tonight's game, it's hard to believe that we were we've been the worst defensive team in the NBA since the All Star break, because we clearly can do it. We just have to do it for forty eight minutes. Okay, that seems like a pretty obvious thing to me. Why aren't you? And it could easily go to it's so easy to go to, well Jason can if he's been
easy on them, he's been easy on them to keep Luca happy. It's just easy to jump to that Lily bad when it's true or not. And I hate that. I hate that concept that or the thought that this this organization, the organization treat Luca as the eggshells on the floor. You know, they're just walking on eggshells with everything with that guy, I don't know if I even believe that. No, it's easy to say, oh, we don't want to miss off Luca. He's gonna leave that the constant.
I don't know if they I don't know if that organization that they live with, that that fear in the back of their mind that is motivating everything they do is to coddle this young man. I don't know if I believe. I think it's more the fear of wasting his prime. Yeah, you know which, you're coming up, probably, So we gotta throw away all those negatives and continue to positively reinforce all the good habits that we have built for
most part of season. So we know we're in the deep part of the season right now, getting ready for the playoff, So we gotta do the little things to get us over as hemp, you've won a championship, You've been on some teams that didn't do what you wanted to do, had some long, tough runs. What do you see with this roster, this group of guys of what you guys need to do in the final nine team. We're learning how to battle the adversity with each other right now, and that
takes time sometimes throughout the process. Going look ugly, he's not gonna look pretty, And I think tonight was one of those nights, and the other few nights have been some of those nice two. Even on the road, we've been down four, down six, cut the lead from fifteen, and we just haven't been able to get about Hume tonight. I feel like there's a good testament of our character. Do you guys have the right kind of
connectiveness and energy that it takes? Absolutely? Absolutely, I believe this tea one undred percent. That's never gonna change. All right. I want to congratulate you too. Last night the kaiw's the big ant event down in Deep Elum over at Sneaker Politics are really nice event. Congratulations, Hi you brother. I appreciate that man set out to Dallas. Call of love man, real talk, that's love. He's awesome, He's love and he's pretty great.
You see. I heard this number that and this is another thing to appreciate right now that Kyrie I think has played fourteen straight games, and they said the national broadcast that's his longest streak of consecutive starts since twenty nineteen, six years. I think they said eighteen eighteen. I think so either way five or six years. Fourteen the most consecutive games he's played in half a decade is fourteen games, Like if you hold actuary tables, who will be
missing games soon in the stretch towards the end. Now, let's hope he does not miss a minute. Yeah, but realistically that's a long timetable, you know, to clean your information from. But I love that he's happy and playing. He is right though, about how many games have they had where they've been down big and get to within four or five six and it's
just not they don't have that extras? What'd you tell me? I'm sorry, I just I was wondering if it has to do with you know, we kind of have that honeymoon period with bringing the new guys in and they went on that wonderful streak after the trade, and now it's like the things are kind of settled in and you've had an incredibly tough schedule up to up to last night, and it is about learning to play together, and it's
learning about what these guys that you didn't start training camp with, what they're made of, and how to work together. So there's a bit of a learning curve. So I don't think it's, you know, time to drop the lifeboats or anything like that. And last night was a great opportunity for them to write the ship. You know what I think will matter more than anything I like and if assuming we make the playoffs. Now at this point
you're right by the two games out of the six. But Tim Hardaway Junior, Maxie, I'm gonna throw in Dante exhim in case he stays healthy. And PJ. Washington knocking down open shots. It was when Luke and Kyrie are getting the you know, the attention that they get. Those guys are gonna get their looks. Dude. Even last night there was three threes at least that were great looks, rattled in and out inches millimeters from going in. There was also three dunks that didn't go in. Eric Jones, Eric
Jones almost murdered someone last television, and I think ExHAM had one. Yep, he did. There was three dunks that are that go in. Yeah, I mean that's what fifteen points right there. I mean, you know they're not all going to go, but it's millimeters man, right and then suddenly, oh my god, MAVs killed him. We're great. I don't know if it was the same on the the Bally's broadcast, but on T and T did it sound like the MAVs Rims were like extra mic last night
to sound triple triple Rattley. I've noticed their almost like any other like they have. It's very loud, even on the MAVs podcast. I've noticed that. But yeah, I hear it. I mean, I don't. It's just a lot of other NBA games that aren't the MAVs. My point is the clanged dunks and bricked threes just sounds so much worse on you hear guy go oh no. When Hardaway got hit in the head, they showed that. They showed the full speed replay, and you hear him clearly when he
gets hit in the head going up for the layout. He goes ow, he said out, all right, how about this. I think Lucas should not be shooting his first free throw at six six point fifty one left in the third quarter. Yeah, I don't care, he's leading, he's what second in the league in free throw attempts. Dude, never should be in halfway through the third quarter when he's shooting his first free throw of the game. That's him. I think if you stop bitching at him just a little
bit, they'll start calling it a little more. And it's I do believe you don't think that that stat in the gates. Luca's bitching a little bit that you were damn near leading the league and free throw attempt he said. He held his arms up to this guy and said, I got it. I finally got a call. Yayven read his lips. It's just smart. It's so good. Imagine how good the mouths are going to be when Alex Fudge gets some plate through. Yes, they signed Fudge. It's on.
I got the email few days ago I have signed Alex Fudge. We all went huh. I was like click, yeah, of course, but more about this guy. Okay, let's learn a little more about the oscars on Sunday. Take a look at you know, the big main categories. You didn't do birthdays yet me get your talkbacks from the red microphone button on the iHeartRadio app. We'll close out the week strong with the super segment next to ninety seven won the free