Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same
thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You play to win the game. You don't play to just play it. That's a great thing about sports. You play to win. I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling me it doesn't matter to retire, get out for the matters, damn right, it does herm And you could tell that to the Philadelphia seventy six ers and the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Bruins to a certain excent. Boston
still alive, the other two not so much. Welcome on a Friday, We've made it through the week. Well done. Hope you have great plans for the weekend as well. The Meyer Hotline is eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. This is ex'es and Bros. Monday through Friday from six until nine on Matt Shepard. Ben is our producer. Give him a shout if you want, send us a text Sports Radio to twenty one thousand and we'll get your thoughts on the air. As always, Tigers
had the night off. They're in New York to start a weekend series with the Yankees tonight. New York blown out in Baltimore last night, seven to two. By the way, Carlos Rodin humbled in that loss, it will be Casey, It'll be a ree Oulsen, Casey Mys tomorrow, reeese Olsen today against Marcus Stroman, who's coming off, by the way, his shortest start of his season, just four innings. Mise against Clark Schmidt tomorrow. NHL last night, Man, what a game it was. That was awesome
stuff. I don't know if you had a chance to watch it, I hope you did. If not, do whatever you can whatever you can to try and find out or at least watch some of it, because it was up and down, action, physical, golden chances, great saves at both ends. It was phenomenal stuff. Toronto will be Boston two to one to force a Game seven. William Ninhlander had both goals. His second goal was the pass from Matthew Knight's was so cool. Morgan Riley had a couple of
assists. Joseph Wall made twenty two saves. Game seven is in Boston tomorrow night. While the first goalie in NHL history to have each of his first four career playoffs starts in elimination games, It's what a time, What a time for him to come through for his team. Everybody outside of that locker room thought they were done, and how could you not. We said it not too long ago. Earlier in the week, they were arguing with one another. That's bound to happen. Still. Just because the camera shows a
couple of guys yelling at one another doesn't mean that all is bad. What they do is, and these guys said it afterwards. It's not like we're yelling at each other because we hate each other. They've got expectations for one another, they've got expectations for a team, expectations for themselves. They regrouped, incredible win in Game four five in Boston and then to win last night. Really interesting point was it Ryan Callahan who was calling the game last night.
I believe it was anyway. Either way, the analyst said, these are the games Toronto. This is how they have to play against Boston, low scoring to beat them, which is kind of interesting to me because the Maple Leafs offense. I mean, when you think of the Toronto Maple Leafs, what do you think of. I think of high octane offense. I think of Neilander, and I think of Austin Matthews, although he's been hurt the last couple of games. I think of Mitch Marner. I think of
their captain, John Tavares. I think it's a team that's going to outscore you more oftentimes than not. But they brought they brought up a great point. I mean, in order to be Boston, this is what you have to do. Remember this, Toronto was the second highest scoring team in the NHL this year. It's not like Boston was. But maybe it's more about being disciplined. Maybe low scoring is an unfair way to describe how they have to win. They have to play discipline hockey, and they did last night.
It's been a fun series to follow. I'm excited for Game seven. I give Toronto a ton of credit for battling back. How much does it mean if you don't complete the deal? I don't know. Remember this, I mean Boston what pressure self induced? You probably already know that. But Boston's a team that last year set an NHL record and was dumped in the
first round of the playoffs. This year, the regular season not as good, but still damn good at one hundred and nine points, second to Florida in the Atlantic, fourth overall in the Eastern Conference because the Rangers and the Hurricanes excuse me, also had more points than Boston did, but still high expectations for sure. Really good game also good games, well, I would say not games. I would say one game, the Sixers and Knicks game
was fantastic. The Bucks Pacers game stunk. Milwaukee looked defeated almost before they even took the floor. Now they jumped out to a seven point leader Lyon Damian Lillard had a big three in the end, Indiana blows him out one twenty to ninety eight. Milwaukee finished nineteen and twenty two at Doc Rivers and it's the second straight year they've lost in the first round. Pacers, now
get the Knicks. Rick Carlisle, the head coach of Indiana who won a championship in Dallas, finally wins a playoff series after going six consecutive series without winning one. The last time he had won a playoff series was the NBA Finals with Dallas. Here's the biggest thing that jumped out at you. Indiana's bench outscored Milwaukee's fifty to ten. A little skewed because Milwaukee was dealing with
injuries. You know, Attata Compo is usually a starter. He's not out there, so that takes bench points off their bench or away from their bench. But still Milwaukee still had guys. They still had guys who should have been good enough to handle this series. I think major disappointment number one. And now what do the Bucks do with Attatakempo and Lopez and Lillard and so many others. Middleton. It's a bad loss. It's a bad series loss
for Milwaukee. TJ McConnell had twenty obi up in a twenty one. It's the first playoff series win for Indiana in ten years. But it's a massive, massive upset as far as i'm concerned. I know on to t Compo didn't play in the series because of calf injury. They're supposed to be better than that they were at one point people consider them the best team in the East. Of course, they did the same thing with Philadelphia. Injuries have
come back and hurt you. You got to have depth. Speaking of Nick and Sixers, we'll talk about that on the other side, and a few things coming your way as well. Bottom of the hour, we will talk with Well, we spoke with James Edwards yesterday about the NBA. We'll replay that conversation in case you missed it because it was in the eight o'clock hour yesterday. It'll be at six thirty five here on X's and Bros. On the Great State of Michigan, across the Great State of Michigan on the Michigan
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The Knicks are through the first round for the second straight year, for the first time since two thousand. So ninety nine and two thousand they reached the second round. Same thing these past two seasons. Brunson is the first player since Michael Jordan in nineteen eighty nine to score forty or more in a closeout game. Now at seven o'clock, I want to talk about some of these underrated players, these less known players, and how they have well,
they have forced me to alter my beliefs in the NBA draft. We'll talk about that coming up. What I thought was interesting, if you remember in was it game four? It was Game four where the Knicks won, Jaylen Brunson went crazy. He had forty six first player to do that, I think since Jordan. Anyway, there was a ton and I mean a ton of Knicks fans and Joel Embiid came back and was really disappointed. He was really was to a certain extent calling out Sixers fans because of the allowment of
Knicks fans in the building. Now you and I have experienced this, I'm sure by rivals. It's frustrating. You don't understand it. People buy tickets, or people have tickets, and then what do they end up doing selling them? Oftentimes, if you're selling them online, you don't know who they're going to. Instead of a home fan getting that and cheering for the home team, you're getting visitors fans coming in and taking care of business and to
a certain extent, overthrowing the hometown fans. Well, that's exactly what happened in Philadelphia in Game four, and Joel EMBII called them out. So the Sixers, the owners of the Sixers and they're former minority owner Michael Rubin, purchased a ton of tickets for Game six there at the Wells Fargo Center.
They were trying to block Knicks fans from an over boisterous presence there. If you will, I believe they said two thousand, more than two thousand of those tickets for Game six were going to First Responders Healthcare professionals and some Philadelphia based organizations, which is great. I don't know how much it mattered last
night. It helped a little bit, but there is no question there were plenty of Knicks fans in attendance, so much so that when the game was over and the Knicks were walking off the floor, that huge contingent was there giving them high fives and slapping fives and telling them way to go and congratulations and all those things. Look either way, that series was a hell of a series. That series. You look at it and I think I read
somewhere it was two hundred and ninety three points scored. The difference was one point between the two teams. That to me is you talk about balance, you talk about competitiveness. That's how close it was, and they did it. Now, remember Philadelphia earlier this year was one of the better teams in all of basketball. And then Joel Embiid gets hurt. And then that makes me wonder this. We always say you got to have three stars. I shouldn't say we always say, but a lot of people will say, you've
got to have three superstars. I've kind of fallen into that trap. I don't know who the three superstars are for Philadelphia. Joel Embiid, there's no doubt as one of them, his former MVP for Grant Outloud. How do they have so much success without those quote unquote three superstars? Maybe you still have to have that one big guy and a few others. How does Indiana get through Round one without three superstars? Well, they were able to do
it. It leaves me a little bit a little bit of hope. Remember we talked with James Edwards yesterday and we'll replay that conversation at the bottom of the hour. They feel like they've got a star in Kate Cunningham. Maybe some of these young guys have that potential and just need to find it and are learning to become that. I don't believe that's necessary the case right now, but maybe it's the possibility of turning things around a little bit quicker than
you might have thought. I'm not saying next year, don't get me wrong. I'm just telling you that when I see some of these teams play, they have good players throughout. They have really good players throughout on their teams, and maybe it doesn't win him a championship. So you're if that's what you're saying right now, you're probably right here. You're probably going Hold on a second, man, I mean you're not going to be Boston. You're
not beating Denver. No, you're probably right. Is Pascal Siakam a superstar? No, he's not. Is Miles Turner no? Is Tyre's Halburn is really good? Good balance. Right, They've just got some depth on Indiana. I don't think it's enough to beat New York, but I didn't think they could beat Milwaukee. Who knows who is when you look at New York, I mean they've won. They've done a really nice job the Knicks have of taking care of business without one of their stars. If you think about
it. No, I'm not talking about Bojan Bozanovitch, the former Piston. I'm talking about Julius Randall. Oh Giannaoboy's not a star, the hell of a player. Jalen Brunson is probably not a star. Dante Devint Devincenzo's not a star. Josh Hart isn't necessarily a star. Isaiah Hartenstein sure as hell isn't. But it works. They're good players, they work together, and
they're coached well. Top of the hour, we'll talk about some of these unknown guys, how they were required and why it might leave you a little bit of hope if you're a Pistons fan. Speaking, if you're a Pistons fan, you're going to want to listen to the conversation we had with James Edward yesterday. He have the athletic we'll replay it for you when we come back on ex'es and Bros. Here throughout the Great State of Michigan on the
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