The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Amen Thompson Scores Game-Winner For Rockets W, Texans OC Search, Astros GM Talks Bregman

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Houston Rockets securing Monday's 114-112 victory over the Boston Celtics with Amen Thompson's game-winning layup. The Rockets took down the defending champions and improved to 31-14 on the season. Matt and Ross also:review who the Texans are interviewing for the offensive coordinator positiondiscuss Astros general manager Dana Brown's latest comments regarding Jose Altuve playing left field and Alex Bregman's free agencytalk with Rockets play-by-play announcer Craig Ackermangive their latest "Gut Feelings" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 104 in H-town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross from Atlanta. This is Sports Talk 790. Thompson with the baseline right. Bamblee to his left.

Dylan, three-pointer. He's trying to one-man gang this basketball game for the Rockets. 101. 91-92. Dylan with 33. Nine three-pointers. Career high for him in the NBA is 37. He might have to get that here,

and if the Rockets are going to pull this game out. Pritchard out, left side of three-pointer. Blarked by Amman Thompson, and he saved it on the sideline to Jalen Green. Right side of the floor waiting for teammates. Now he may take it himself. Kicks it out. Left side to Brooks, straight away to Oman.

A man, slides it into Schengoon, lost a ball between his legs, hands it back to a man for reverse layup. Oh my God. goodness he flipped it over the right shoulder and the rockets have the lead thank you oman thompson 13 straight for the rockets my goodness bamble to leanbound the basketball 11.8 seconds remaining bambley give to the shankoon who jams it down what a pass in the middle of the lane and he'll be with the right hand and houston takes the lead 12 to 110 10. 10.3 seconds left to go

rebound for Mambly. To a man, Thompson, down the lane. Eurostap for the win. Second. Richard launches to end the tickets win it in Boston. And Boston for sports fans of Houston teams. As your local basketball squad has put together quite a resume of victory. 10-07 Sports Talk 790.

It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Rossie is back in Houston. Please tell me you had people call your show last night. Please tell me they were excited about it. Are you talking about the Rockets wrap here on Sports Talk 790? I like to call it the Ross Villarreal Show Plus. You know, Dan Matthews has a fair amount of them. We appreciate him for that.

I don't know. Adam don't pitch him and that's fine. You're calling the game, so that's okay. And, you know, the morning guys got to get up. But I do a fair amount of them and I enjoy doing them. And at one point, Matt, we had what we call in the biz, a full board of calls. Yes. No way. Interest is up, folks.

Rockets' Twitter is humming. People are buying in. The league is on notice. Houston is starting to garner more interest because the rockets are legit. Look, and again, we're not going to oversell something, but all we're going to do is, you know, we're going to do, we always do properly rated,

overrated, underrated, we're going to properly sell this team. I would say Go ahead I just don't want I mean I don't want to be like other people and with other teams in this town

oh the Texas beat the dolphins let's get into a five-day conversation about that I mean look NBA basketball is different than football you don't live on one game for a week

tonight the Rockets could play Atlanta lose by 25 would be like there we go again so we're going to properly love on the team which is put together

an amazing January with one high quality win after the number on the road at Denver. Now, granted a number is known Nicola Yoker, you know Aaron Gordon. You beat up on

trying to think who we've played on the road forever here. Cleveland Cavaliers. You beat Boston yesterday. You've beaten Memphis 3-0 in the season. That's right. You got them coming up on Thursday. This team is the second best record in the

West and the third best record in the NBA. Or fourth, whatever. I'm a little... It's third best. the NBA now that they beat the Celtics. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Every team in the top four, they've beaten.

Well, you know, every other team in the top four. I mean, it's not like it's loaded full of wizards and wins against you know, the second tier groups. It's not, you know, granted, they have beaten the Wizards. They have beaten the Wizards. Everybody beats the Wiz. That's true. But that's what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to beat the bad teams and then

play pretty well against the good teams and they're doing it. Yeah, it's been good. And it was fun last night. Jason Tainham and Jalen Brown were out there. Peyton Pritchard tried to win the game by himself on a couple different occasions. Luke Cornet was unstoppable. Luke Cornet, and it's funny, I kind of haphazily threw him into our pregame visit with Ema Adoka talking about some of the bench players, and he was, I said, look, you know, guys like Luke Cornett and Peyton Pritcher can cause some issues. You know, Eme knew Peyton Pritchard as a kid because he grew from in Oregon, and E.

He was involved, obviously, in the high school scene in Portland where he's from. He didn't bring up Lou Cornett. Luke Cornett, first of all, is seven-foot, I don't know how it is. He's a monster. 7-1 is what is listed as. And then Porzingis is 7-2. Yes. And Porzengis is like flipping three-pointers in the first quarter like their layups.

Thankfully, he got in foul trouble. Thankfully, he did. But I felt like he was going to score 50 points in the first quarter. He took two, his first two-three-pointers, Rossi, he took off on the other end of the floor before the ball went through the net. That's how common. Yeah, they're running pick and pops with him, and our good friend Alperin Shungoon isn't great in getting out on the perimeter on picking pops.

No, it's, no. There's some work defensively for Alpi still in his career. If he can get to... He's improved. Yeah, as I'm saying, keep improving. How about that? Is that fair to say? I mean, early on his career was frankly a sieve, and

everybody scored on him, but he's getting better. He's still on the ball a little bit more. He's getting better. there's the pick and pops are still an issue at this point. But you know what? Then you have Dylan Brooks. I mean, no one would put Dylan Brooks and Steph Curry in the same conversation until yesterday. I mean, my goodness, 10 three-pointers? That was awesome.

And the Rocket, I mean, we made him MVP of the game. Most what we call a player of the game last night, Matt, because Rockets aren't anywhere close to that game without, a man, Thompson was spectacular, but without that performance from Dylan Brooks, Rockets might lose by 15. Yeah. He was hitting just about everything on the floor. It was a lot of fun. I personally had a great time calling it.

Boston's a great place, friends, and I know that we hate the established teams and we hate the northeastern bias and whatnot. That Boston crowd was alive. It was shell-shocked from much of the game because the game was going back and forth so many different directions. But that's loud. They get into it. They're in their seats before tip time.

They've got banners galore over the place. the number is retired by that organization. That was a quality win yesterday. I mean, you have beaten three, you get three wins against two of the five best teams in the NBA just in the last week. Yeah, I think they're making a statement

to everyone, and the league is on watch. A lot of the NBA writers and pundits that I follow, they're all in and talking about it, mostly I'm in Thompson, and this is Rockets team and Coach Udoke and the job that he's done. I would say right now, just from what I'm seeing, Coach Udoke is the favor for Coach of the year.

Yeah, I mean, maybe Degnell gets it in Oklahoma City because they're going to probably win 65 games. Kenny Ackinson. Kenny Ackinson's had a nice job in Cleveland for sure. But you're going to go from... He got swept by Emi Adoka, though. Yeah, he did. You might go from 41 wins of a year ago to maybe mid-50s, mid-to-upper 50s, which I can't believe. I mean, I literally can't believe this.

And we talked about this yesterday. You know when Adam Clinton goes to buy a jersey of a particular player. know that player is hot. Or they just exist. Adam's the bandwagonist of bandwagoning people we know, right? I was going to say, they might just have a professional contract, and then Clinton goes and gets their jersey. Oh, that felt personal.

Of course, Carson won't be able to pay for college now because of all the jerseys his dad buys, but that's not here nor there. That could be his high school graduation gift. See what you can get for these. Yeah, he should will them to his son and say, hey, whatever money you get off of these bad businesses. Now, granted, he won't be getting a lot of money. off of his Damien Pierce jersey, but he's working on it.

That's okay. But a man, Thomas, by God. Maybe there'll be a niche market for it. A man Thompson is so fricously athletic. He's such a good kid. He doesn't even turn 22 until this week. I mean, it's, I mean, my gosh. The only thing he doesn't do is hit from the perimeter on a regular basis,

but everything else Rossi does is fantastic. What do you mean, Matt? 50% from three last night. What, one or two? Yes. All right. I literally don't have the box score. We didn't get here to the hotel at 3.15 this morning. I'm a little just trying to literally wake up and get everything set up.

Maybe fine. Get some coffee. I've already had three cups this morning. Really? I had a non-decaf tea. English breakfast? Earl Grey. I had decaf tea on the plane from Boston to Atlanta yesterday because I was like, if I drink one more cup of caffeine, I'll never sleep.

And I had a terrible night's sleeping. I'm about a little bit of a cold, but it's all right. It's fun. This is a great thing. I'm loving life. It's great that people are having a buzz about the team. And we're here for it. Now, again, we've got other things to get to.

Rossi, when we come back, we also got to get into, is this $30 million year a bit? Is that what I'm hearing back home? I don't know. We can get into that. Okay. One more quick thing on the Rockets. Yeah, please.

Shingoon 4 of 10, Jalen Green, 3 of 13, Fred Van Vleet, 2 of 9, and they beat the Celtics on the road. Yeah. Insane. Yeah. I mean, and Jalen Green, when he had that compression tape on his eye, I thought something was really wrong with his face. Like, that looks odd. It's like the dog shooting black on his face.

Thankfully, it was okay. Now, shooting touch wasn't there. So now it's up to Shangoon and for Jalen to each score 35. Because I'm sure Dillon's tired. Yeah. I've been carrying y'all the last couple of games. Can y'all help out a little bit? Yeah, men Thompson played 42 minutes.

Let's go let him rest. Everybody's taking a deep rest. Except Tariessen. he ordered some wings last and I'm like, damn, dude, it's like 2 o'clock in the morning It was 3 o'clock in the morning He'll be fine. He's young. The wings here are pretty good in town, actually.

All right. 1015, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-7-9. Quick text in from my buddy, Ross. Does Clinton own more jackets, leather jackets, or sports jerseys? He's got more leather jackets than there are cold days in a year in Houston.

Yeah, yeah. It's like he's an old. older bro, bro, bro. You know what I mean? We love him for it, though. He's a senior bra. This one he is. Ted 15th, Sports Talk, 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. Come in and join us today at 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

On Sports Talk 790. 1020 Sports Talk 790, the Matt Thomas Show today from Atlanta, where the Rockets will take on the Hawks. They played in Atlanta last night in Minneapolis and lost the Wolbs. So both teams coming off the back to back. This was a game that was originally scheduled for a couple weeks back, but we had to snow here in Atlanta. So we're back here for that. Rockets will be off tomorrow and then take on the Grizzlies on Thursday. Home back for a Saturday night game against the Brooklyn Nets. 713-212-570 is how you reach our show today. 713-212-5-790. I am more and more convinced Rossi before we start taking some phone calls and

talking to people. The Rockets can't mess this up. I don't think going after anybody at this point would, and you could certainly improve the team, but there'd be a huge chemistry issue. Are there spots of this team that concern you? I mean, you still want to shoot better, but they've been shooting better this month in January. And if you're getting somebody from the outside,

whether it's Van Bleet, one night, Brooks the next, or Jalen Green, the perimeter game has been significantly better this month, and it has been probably in the first two months of the year. Yeah, it hasn't been an accident. They started making more threes, and they've been winning games and beating top competition now. How much, obviously we know we're not going to get 10 threes a game from Dylan Brooks, but as you said, it could be anybody.

Fred Van Vleet's been shooting a lot better. Jalen Green, unfortunately, after that nine straight 20 plus point performance is kind of bit up and down. And then he took the hit in the eye last night. As you mentioned, he was wearing compression tape under his eye. It looked like it was hampering his vision. So I'm really not going to crush him for that performance last night. He was gutting it out. So we'll see what happens with that going along.

But, yeah, if one or two guys can make a thing. 3s on a given night, rockets are going to be fine because the defense is normally still there. It is, yeah. And even though the scores may not indicate it, I mean, today's NBA in terms of defense is a lot different than it was, you know, 20 years ago, Ross, where if you're in that 110, 112 range, that's kind of average night. I mean, that's, you start getting into 120s, you're going to be in a tough spot defensively, but the rockets don't do that a whole lot. Yeah, and look, there's no defense for great offense in the NBA. It's been like that forever. with Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, you know, whoever.

And so, yeah, there were some times where Jalen Brown, he went off for 28 points last night, but there was times where he was just making tough, contested shots. And you're like, you know what? Jalen Brown is just a special player. That just is what it is. They did a good job of limiting Jason Tatum against the Cavaliers. They went off for a lot of points as well.

There were some defensive lapses there, but also there was just sometimes it's like, especially, like, remember the beginning of that game? It was like Donovan Mitchell had eight points and like the first three trips down the floor. and he was just hot. And then Darius Garland just couldn't miss. It just happens.

There's special players on the better teams of the NBA, and it is what it is. Strange night for Jason Tainham. He doesn't score in the first half, with only the second time in his NBA career, doesn't score in a half. Then he scores 15 by himself in the third quarter, and then scores four in the fourth.

He played almost 42 minutes. He had very little rest time. Yeah, he didn't muscle up him in, Thompson, on that last drive of the game to tie it at 112. Yeah. but how about that dunk from Shangoon late after they overcompensated on that

allowing him to go one-on-a-law and that was fun to watch. That was great. You wanted him to run some clock, but when you get a free run at the basket, you go ahead and take it. All right, let's talk to some people of Houston, Texas, about a variety of things, whether it be about the Rockets game last night, the state of NBA basketball in our community, which is excellent right now. They're now 31 and

14. We have a little bit of a Bregman chatter to get to. We certainly have still looking for a Texans offensive coordinator as they start looking at some college prospects for that position. And we got NFL rewind today at 1230.

We have the, oh, we have gut feelings at 1130 today and the news at news. So we've got a lot to get to today as we come to here from Atlanta. 713-212-5-790. Let's talk to Richard in League City. First up on the Matt Thomas show Ross. Richard, thank you for holding and good

morning. Good morning. Good morning. Wow, what a game. So I'm a man of a certain age. I've been a Rockets fan since. Akeem spelled his name with an A. Okay. And I've got to say, like, one thing I love about this team,

and this is kind of, you know, I think I want to make my realistic pitch to those who still haven't come back yet, who listen to Sports Talk Radio, but haven't really taken on the Rockets as a team yet, or maybe a bunch of Rockets fans haven't been back yet. this team just their play style and as a team and individually they have more personality

I got to say than any team since the championship years it's like with that team something I love about the championship year teams was each each of the players kind of added something unique in their play to the overall product I mean Hakeem was the cornerstone

but you know you had Kassel you had sick you had Otis sort if you had those guys. And this team, and I've loved every Rockets team since. I mean, I've got hardened jerseys. I've got the T-shirts. But that kind of three is more than two, you know, looking back is pretty kind of boring. And we liked it when we won.

But this team, something I really love about this team is each one of these players, besides having their own individual personalities, their own play styles and the way they mesh together and the way Inme has created this identity with this team. It's just fun to watch every night. And one more thing. I'm so happy a man has broken the 30-point ceiling. Because with young players, I'm always kind of afraid that they're going to be too humble. They're going to kind of play the role player.

They're going to get used to kind of play in their role. And you want the really talented ones to learn what it feels like to taste like just to like take over and get after it and just gobble up as many points as you could. and I was glad to see I'm in cross that 30-point threshold and just the way he did it was so quiet. It was like, I didn't even realize he had that many points until he did.

I mean, he was everywhere, but it wasn't like Jason Tatum where you're kind of keeping a ticker on how many points he's scoring in the third. So just, if you haven't gotten on the wagon, you've got to get on the wagon. Thank you, Richard, for the phone call. I appreciate it.

And to the point of wagon, look, we are a finicky sports market, Rossi. I mean, I've lived here Head wagon, front runners. I mean, we're tough here. We don't naturally embrace a team and in good times and bad. When themes are bad, we check out. That's okay.

And I don't necessarily blame people for it. No, I don't either. Oh, no, this team is losing 100. You know, people did that. Although the Astros are losing 120 games. You guys weren't there. Yeah, I wasn't there? Why was I going to watch Brandon Barnes and the boys go lose 11 to 1?

I'm going to go do something else with my time. If Bud Norris is my name. number one picture. I think we're going to be in trouble. Yeah, I'm going to do something else with my summer. I'm going to go to Italy. I'm not going to be sitting in Minamay Park. I'm sorry, Dyken Park now. Yeah. Yeah. But the only difference is that some other established cities, again, with generations of fans, like if the Celtics were to lose 50 games in a row four or five years, it's still a full house.

They'd be pissed off and screaming at you and saying, this place is not wicked awesome. But, yeah, we're definitely a, you have to prove it over the long term. And we've had, look, 360 lost seasons followed by a 41 and 41 campaign, and it's going to take a while. So as much as I'm loving this, and I can only do so much as a radio broadcaster, a talk show host,

and so, but I can't, I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money, I'm not going to tell you how to watch. But if you have been a basketball fan, and in particular a Rockets fan or over any point in the last, I don't know, 30 years, they're worth coming back for. This is legit. They're young, they're nice kids, rich kids, but they're nice kids, and they're playing their asses off.

And it's very fun because they're just not beating up on, you know, like you always, you know, in the NFL when a certain team wins like 11 or 12 games, you go, oh man, they play a soft schedule. You can't play a soft schedule in the NBA. You play everybody the same amount of times, generally speaking, every year. And this was going to be a very difficult slate of games, two games against Cleveland, who had the best record in the NBA for a while. Then you had to go to Boston where you had one in four previous years.

and you got your ass beat by the Celtics in Toyota Center a couple weeks back. This was not supposed to be what I think people thought it was going to be with three of the most impressive wins all coming in the last six days. Yeah, exceeding expectations, even mine. I was expecting them to compete in all these games. Win them all? Impressive. Yep.

All right. Let's take a short time out. We'll come back with more. Your phone calls, 10.30 is the time. We have gut feelings at 1130 today. That's where you make sports predictions will happen for you. At 12 o'clock the news at noon, 12.30. of Ross's NFL rewind.

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That's a radio show right there. What do you feel like if we're going to talk Kansas City football, we should have like a Taylor Swift song in the background constantly? No. I didn't think so. I'm more worried about the football. Not somebody that's just going to be sitting in a luxury suite and get shown on TV three times. What are the suites like in the Superdome?

I've ever been in one before. I don't know. Didn't they refit that bad boy recently? It's probably decent. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe she'll have an impromptu concert on Bourbon Street one night. Probably not.

Maybe you throw her on 30. I don't know there's a venue that could hold her on Bourbon Street. Yeah. Yeah, it would be mass chaos. Literally the Superdome, it might be even too small for her. Well, you know, she played the Superdome three straight nights in November. I know. You've been funding all of her jumbo jet trips.

Frankly, if I was to own stock in Taylor Swift, I would probably own a couple of shares. I bought enough from her tickets and whatnot. I'm glad you could support her career, Matt. Well, that's what I'm here for. Carly's room is full of Taylor Swift stuff. She's got Taylor Swift gear, Taylor Swift songs, two concerts under her belt, two religiously expensive hotel stays. Actually, one.

She was, and she's proud of her daddy. Yes, she is. That was so sweet. Yeah. Good kid. I've raised some good children. Well, Kim's raised some good children. Yeah, one still better about his act.

He's dropping a 22-point leave, but that's not the hearing. Oh, man. So I shouldn't text him? He's still not over it? Oh, God, no. Ross, no, no, no. I forbid you. There's a lot of...

Don't do it. Oh, you're going to do it, aren't you? I'm just saying, hey, what's up? I don't think I have it. I didn't save his number. Never mind. Okay, good. I'm not giving it to you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Biscuit with us on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Biscuit, good morning. Top of the morning to you, my brothers. Hi. Hey, Matt. Hey, Matt and Ross, man. It's just things that have. happened in an organization that you have to be a little lucky, Matt. And this is where I'm going.

And first of all, we're lucky that the Celtics did what they did with the coach. That was a big move and turning this organization around. Edoca plays a big part of him. Number two, no one could think Sangoon was going to be this good. You just can't tell me that they scouted and then, man, it's just going to. And then the third one. Well, hold on. To be fair, Biscuit, he was the 16th pick in the draft.

I mean, after about the top three or four. If you redrafted it, Matt, if you redraft it, he'd probably be the third pick. Yeah. But 16s do survive, but most 16s in the NBA don't necessarily have a longer distinguished career. I mean, he's playing above his draft position, that's for sure. And that's what I'm my point. And then this Thompson guy, man, this dude here, Matt, man, this dude is the real, man, two years from now, Thompson is going to be, oh, my goodness, this dude, it's just his basketball IQ is through the roof.

Yep. There's a reason why he's always around the ball. He's always in the right spot. And for the coach to design the plays for him for the last shot, that shows a lot right there. I'm going to pose this question to you, man. And I'm opposed to your listeners. I think the rockets are going to be the next thing to have a parade in Houston. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

I'm not saying it's going to be this year. You better not tell Hannah that. You better not tell Hannah. She won't not be here. Happy to hear that. I'm sorry, Hannah. It's going to be the Rockers. Man, they got talent over there, man.

And then let me ask you this, man, what happened to Whitmore? What's the deal on Whitmore? He's sick. Matter of fact, he didn't even leave the hotel yesterday. He was, uh, illness. He stayed here. Yeah, he's got a virus of some sort, which I don't need to be around. so you just, I'm going to let him rest.

I'm asking a question, Matt. Who you think? I think it's the Rockets. Well, I'm totally biased, so I can say that. I would agree with you on it. Next parade. I was actually thinking about putting a Twitter poll out on this, Matt. Oh, oh.

Who the best team in Houston is. But, you know, with the recency bias, the Rockets would easily win the poll. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If they lose tonight to the Hawks and then, like, lose another game and I put the poll out, it would be a completely different answer. Right, right.

is Ahmed Thompson the greatest player on earth? Yes. You know, he goes through two for 11 and scores four points and there's five, four turnovers. Yeah, it's one of those things. And I'm sure that's one of the conversations that you guys have at bars and whatnot about, you know, who's the next one to have it. And remember, we don't get them very often around these. We've had four in my lifetime. It's not a great ratio, Rossi.

Don't be, didn't the hot shots get one? No. Oh. Dynamo did. Actually, that's true. The comments, they had some... Four? All right. I'm just kidding. I'm sorry. Four real, yes. Real major sports championships. Yeah.

We'll say the big three that are in our town. A franchise that still exist. We don't have a college football national championship. We don't have a final... We don't have a final four title. Excuse me? I'm sorry. I've been a little choked up these last week and a half. Yeah, I've been taking some medicine. By the way, have you checked out

Lenardi's Bracketology? No, I have not. Did he finally put them in a one? Well, he just put them as a one seed. They're going to be a one seed. Joe Lari, shut your bum ass up. Come on, Joe Lennardi. Where does he have them?

I don't know. I haven't even looked. Oh, okay. You know what? I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you for not having looked. I'm going to look during the break. Well, I got to see if you're a long-or's game.

Yeah, I don't care. So they can lose as an 8-9 or then win and then get smashed by a one-seed. I'm good. I hear Dayton in early March is lovely. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, he has them as a three seed right now. But that was as of last week, I think. Okay, yeah, I don't know when this date is updated.

He doesn't Tuesdays and Friday. No, this says updated 128. What? Jolena, you shut your bum ass up. Man, don't even worry about it. I got zero. I will hound people. They're going to be a one seed.

Don't even worry about it. The one is he doing for the damn three on that? That's ridiculous. He's going based on the resume, I guess. The resume, you just beat Kansas At Kansas. What else do you want? Well, it was the luckiest win in college basketball. Oh, my God. No, don't even.

You're feeling the fury. What? It was. It was called stealing the basketball and hitting two big threes. Yeah, it was lucky. That was extremely lucky. What are you talking about? Oh, great free throw defense, too, on the road? Googers didn't make any free throw. It was

lucky, but it was, okay, how about this? It was handed to them and they took it. They also had to take it. They had to make those shots. But Kansas choked. Come on. Don't be that blind of a homer. Well, you know what?

I know that the cougar stifling defense came to play. I mean, they did lose to Auburn and Alabama. Yeah, it was like two months ago. Things happened. Who's the best wins? Okay, before the best, you know what? You know what I'm looking at this resume? Maybe Leonard already's got it right.

What was the best win before winning at Kansas? every one of them Jackson State the games I did with Toledo were good and that was a good win yeah seriously what's the

I mean look they're gonna be a one seed in my I will take a look Utah not a quad one I like a quad ones Oklahoma State not a quad one BYU's been terrible this year

yeah you know what maybe Lernardi's got this right on the resume they're gonna be a one seat though okay they're gonna continue to win it'll be fine

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for more details about this great company at Uptown Appliance Repair.com. Matt and Ross returned. Return on Sports Talk 790. The time is 1050. There's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, is the name Hugh Downs bring a bell to you at all? He was like on evening news or something back in the day? Yeah, way back.

And he was also the host of 2020 for a long time. I don't know what that is. Oh, was that the Barbara Walter show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. He and Barbara did it. He was known for taking small naps in between new segments. Yeah, I used to do that when I was an overnight board operator.

I might be taking four minute naps here during the show. All right. I had this really comfy couch and I have this nice pillow and I'm just like, Daddy needs sleepy. You're going to be fine. Rockets win. Yeah, just get up and do some high knees in between the brakes or something. Really?

Yeah, not got some. push-ups, how to get the blood flowing? Is that what you want me? Do you want me to get a good get a good to sweat? Don't get the blood flow like you normally do in the hotel room. I'm just talking about like calisthenics. Oh, that kind of blood flow. You don't want that going on. No. All right. I guess that's you're probably right about that. That's not the greatest

blood flow work. It takes a lot of work sometimes to get that. Oh, no, right. Stop. All right. Let's do it quickly. 1052. Time now. For an Alex, Bregman Update. The bit's never going away, much to the chagrin of some. All right, so there is a little bit more of financial freedom for the Astros now that Alex, the Ryan Presley trade, has officially been consummated between the Astros and the Cubs. But man, I continue Rossi to not put those two deals together in an if-then statement. Add on that that, that Mr. Bregman, some...

The Twitter streets are saying he wants 30 million a year. I think he's been looking for 30 million a year since the day he declared for free agency. Which Twitter streets were those? Every one of them. Like, you know, again, some of these are fanboy stuff. Oh. But the last I've read was this morning was Nightingale reporting a day and a half ago about that he's looking for a multi-year deal. He's got three teams that are willing to offer the multi-year deal.

The Boston Red Sox are a team that's not willing to give the five-year deal that they're in more inclined to give a four-year deal. I'm going to be getting a free lunch out of this. You might be. I'm feeling real good. Scott Boris really screwed this up for me. Oh, it's his fault. And Alex Brighman's ego.

And possibly the tax situation in Canada. I'm blaming Justin Trudeau for me losing this lunch. You know, in honor of that, let's go get some Poonteen. No, Matt, it's Poutine. Well, I mean, that too will get some Poutine and some Poonteen. No, no. It's Poutine. Where do you get the best Poonteen and

Matt? Poole-Y I guess By the P-I Right You know what I'm embarrassed I'm embarrassed for you

To take another loss on one of my sports bets I took the bait Oh whatever And we have a dollar bet on the $175 million Right? $175 million I don't remember Yeah

I'm okay with losing that one I didn't know Just keep taking those else baby Oh whatever I mean Is Alex and real quick, before I go back to the phones,

is Alex just afraid to come back because he feels like that he overvalued himself? I mean, I don't think we, we, I mean, there may be,

that may be a storyline, but it's not one that we particularly care about. Because the Astros, again, here's the definitive statement. The Astros are better in 20205

if Alex Spragman's in the lineup, period of the story. Yeah. Inarguable. Where's, is Jorge Polanco? Is he going to play outfield? I don't know,

but now they're kicking the tires on him too. It's like Dana Brown's like, man, if Bregman, if you and Boris and Jim Crane won't have your own text thread, that's fine. I don't want to be part of it. I'm not going to go trying to get this team better by myself. Are they going to put El Tuvae and left

with Jorge Polanco at second? Polanco played 112 games at second last year, nowhere else. What is his pass had in terms of infill work? His what? Oh, passed? Yeah. Shortstop, second base, third base.

It's always ever played as a major leaguer in 11 years. So, Dan, maybe I'll do is going to left field regardless of what happens with Bregman. Dana Brown's like, man, I'm just going to keep doing my 9 to 5 job. Y'all leave me alone. And then Jim calls him and says, I need to talk. Jim's like, Dana, what you've been working on? Polanco, cool that off. I got Bregman signed here.

Yeah, the Bregman thing just doesn't seem like it's going to happen. And I don't think Scott Boris, I mean, I know that he and Dana have. apparently have had some conversations. Scott Boris is, what do you call it when you have somebody you work with that goes around you just to get to your boss? What would that kind of person? Yeah, Matt Thomas? No, I don't go around you.

No, it's known as a Matt Thomas around here. It's not. No, I respect my people on. They call it pulling an old MT. Oh, my God. You are the worst. I hate you. No wonder, I haven't seen you in two weeks.

It's been two weeks too little. Oh, man. I'll do the show permanently in the road. I'll just start inventing games on Matt. I'm here in Charlotte tonight for the 76ers and the Hornets. You just start calling other teams? Yeah. Hey, is there somebody needs a game call?

There's somebody that's a day break. I'll go up there and do the show from somewhere else. Travel cost might rack up. That's true. Kso, before the top of the hour on 7.90. K, so which are Chiliken question today, your comment? Hey, yeah, the Poon team on position at is A-plus, fellas. But, yeah, first thing, good to be on the Mark Thomas show with Ralph.

I just kind of wanted to talk about how this team, this iteration of the Rockets, is so far ahead of anything that I feel like real through Rocket fans thought we've been at right now. And if there's anyone in Houston that is kind of skeptical on this team, because given the last three years and even in the Hardin era, it's completely different. I mean, I love James Hardin and that whole team that they brought. But they did not play Dixon. They thought they could out for everyone, and that brand of basketball is,

it was fun for a rocket fan, but I could see how it was off-putting for anyone who was a casual fan or just a local, you know, a local observer. This team led by our head coach, EMA and the guys that they have drafted, it's nothing like, I feel like current Rocket fans have seen in a very long time. I don't know when it will transcribe into a championship, but the writing is there, and I feel like the coaching staff is there. And I just feel like they have a really good problem on their hand with when Jabari comes back.

Who do you think out of Star-in-Lylinus? And if you don't, you know, I don't fault in court because everyone is playing their role to a seat. So I just kind of wanted to echo that what you guys thought. Thank you very much with a phone call. From the future. From the future. By the way, was he swimming when he was calling him?

I don't know. Was he in a submarine? I mean, we have terrible phone lines at our station. I'm not going to blame him. I'm blaming Koso. Yeah, that was a, that was a chilly combat phone. That was a Mark Thomas and we got a call last night talking about Mark Thomas and Alex Wexler, but the guy was trolling anyways. That was a lot of the reference was.

No, what do you mean, man? Everybody loves you. No, I mean, people hate me. I'm fully aware of that. I don't hate you. I know you're the only one that does. A lot of hate out there. I was kind of, I mean, the whole swimming in the pool during the phone call threw me up.

What was this general point again? Well, first of all, I disagree with the point that the Rockets Hardin regime. Okay, they didn't, he said they didn't play any defense. They certainly did in 2018. I mean, they had, what was it on that team was Chris Paul, Trevor Reza, Clint Capella, P.J. Tucker. And then, well, James Hardin's starting. But that was a good defensive team. But he's just talking about how he enjoys this brand of basketball more

than the hardened rockets, I believe, was his overall point. Which is fun, to each his own. Yeah, I mean, that rocket-hardened team went to the playoffs on a regular basis and was two steps away from an NBA Western championship. So we haven't seen what this team could do for one round of the playoffs.

So I would say, to Koso's point, let's hold off a year before that. They made two Western Finals or three? Two, I know, for sure. Yeah, maybe it was just two. but either way, this Rockets team needs to get to that level. Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you, this will be the most,

it's the most intrigued I'm about a playoff because I don't know how good this playoff team is. First of all, playoffs are so much different because you play the same team at minimum four times in a series and maximum seven. Well, the good thing is you've got a good playoff coach, in my opinion, so. Yeah. Well, I mean, hell, the first year he won the playoffs took the Celtics to the NBA finals. So, I mean, there's a pretty good track record there.

Mm-hmm. All right. Let's get the second hour started at the Matt, Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-7-90. We've got gut feelings coming up in one half hour from now here on sports talk. 7-9.

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game day, men's health.com slash Houston. Lunch timers, this is the Matt Thomas show. 1104, Sports Talk 790, second hour of four here on these airwaves that we call Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. Ross Dan Matthews just texted and said how much he enjoys the Sarah Spain Women's Sports Update. Thank you, Dan, for listening to show this morning. A huge win by whoever won on that update. He always shows talks about leagues I've never heard of before.

the NWSL I think there's something on T&T where they have three on through men's hoops too Okay I think the Houston DASH are for sale I don't know that's a good question You said the DASH is a good party right Yeah dash is a good time Those girls are really good

And you can get really cheap tickets And you can get cheap all you can eat all you can drink tickets If you wait to the last second And then you'll get harassed via email for them to buy season tickets But that's every league By the way, we had a listener upset with us. We didn't mention the two Houston 1836 championships. No, it's the Dynamo, Matt.

So I wasn't here when they named the team Houston 1836. Were people like, what the hell does that mean? Or were they like, oh, cool with that? I think it was confusing, but then you would explain it was the Independence Day for Texas. And then I believe they thought it would upset some of the Hispanic fan base, which if you're having a soccer team in Houston, there's going to be a big Hispanic fan base. right or mexican i guess i don't know well i've told you this for the 5 000 time and i'll say it for 5 0001 uh bob mclair and i loved the name toros for the texans and it failed miserably

in the hispanic focus groups okay and so um i'm my first ever gut feeling this had to have been what 2000 2001 as i told my radio partner at the time i said they're gonna there's going to be something Toro related with the Texans. I don't know what it's going to be, but there's going to be something, whether it's the logo, whether it's the helmet,

whether it's the mascot, and guess what? It was all the above. Wow, you got it right, man. Congratulations. Great job. I mean, I got, let me take some. I'm so proud of you.

I got a lot of things wrong in my life. Don't worry about that. I'm here to bring them up. I do know. I know. If there's anybody that Corriek that chronicles my life in terms of my misses,

it's my radio party. I've got the Nostarongest file up right now. Uh-uh. Don't worry. My greatest one was Dallas beat in Miami for the NBA championship. That's what started all this whole thing of you thinking you were some kind of genius. You pulled that out of your, you know what. And then we're sitting there in Vegas.

You get the stones to say it. Let's go. Say what you mean. You know what. I don't even need to say it. I pulled out of my analytical, thoughtful sports analysis mind. Yes. Thank you.

Thank you very much. All right. Let's go to the phones. It's ridiculous. Gut feeling coming up at the bottom. on Sports Talk 790. Vince and Midtowns with us on 790-11-07. Vince, thank you for holding and good morning to you.

Good morning to you guys, too. Hey, I called about a couple of weeks ago and was asking about what you thought when Smith is ready to play, whether he'd get back in the starting lineup. My opinion back then was that you shouldn't lose your starting assignment because of an injury. But now, five games later.

So with that in mind, How do you think Smith is going to fit in now, his role? Also, do you think he's maybe trade bait? Personally, I still think we need a solid score. Someone like a Devin Booker, but I don't know if that's possible. You think you need Devin Booker for Jabari Smith Jr.? I mean, that would have to throw in more than that. No, no, I realize that.

Right, right, right. The main chips. I'm just kidding you. No, I think... What's your thoughts on that? Yeah, I knew the moment that Amend Thompson was going to get in the starting lineup that he was not leaving it.

And I think I think they were trying to figure out a way to get a men in there anyway and that the Jabari situation, look, Jabari is missed defensively. That is for sure. Jabari is missed rebounding-wise, and he can hit the occasional three.

But Amad Thompson was built to be in the starting line up for this team because he plays so many different positions, and he just becomes very difficult to guard to matter if you're a big power forward or you're playing on the wing. So, Jabari's not leaving the line. I mean, excuse me, a man's not leaving the starting lineup.

Jabari, my guess, will be coming off the bench. Right. So that's the one thing. Two, I really, Vince, don't think they're going to do anything super spicy at the deadline. I think they want to see what this is at least for one playoff run.

And then if people are disgruntled in the offseason, if there is a deal they can't refuse, and I'm not saying that they wouldn't refuse an offer if there was something for a Booker at this point at the trade deadline. Let's say the sun's even fall further out of favor in the West. They will listen. But my leaning is,

and things obviously can turn daily because of a phone call that takes place. But my lean would be they will not involve themselves, in a major deal with recognizable players. It will probably get some sort of fringe player, whether it's perhaps getting a different backup center, whether it's getting a third center, whether it's getting another backup powerful.

I don't know. It just will be something that you will go, oh, that's nice, but it's not going to be one of those things. It's going to be a real head turner in the NBA. Right, well, it's a great time to be a basketball fan here in Houston. I've always loved basketball. It's my favorite sport, but I really like the style of play that both the Cougars and the Rockets play.

That's just right up my alley, and it's just I still can't believe the Coopers pulled that game off the other day. It's just unbelievable. So I just love the style of basketball. I look forward to turn the TV on when either team is playing nowadays. So thanks for the take my call, guys.

Thank you, Vince. Nice to hear from you. You know, I don't know, Rosson. I lived here, let's see, I'm 52. I've lived here 40 years of my life. And look, the NBA championships were the pinnacle. 94-95 and there have been a lot of playoff teams for the rockets over the year so it's been a good basketball city and we have been such inundated with all this aster greatness i'll be curious if we get to a final four stage now

the cougars went to the final four but it was a covid year so people were still not coming out and playing and hanging out and going to watch parties and doing that kind of thing there wasn't a huge contingent it went to indianapolis because again it was hard to travel and whatnot if we can get both the local basketball teams in this town to do some serious damage, how much does that change the overall culture of this town, especially because the Texans remain in neutral come playoff-wise, and the Astros might find themselves, you know, not with a cakewalk towards a playoff spot this year.

I don't think they're going to, I think they're going to be a contender for a playoff spot, but I wouldn't think if anything, they're going to be a small favorite to win the West, but not nearly as dominant as they have been in years past. Yeah, I mean, you're what example? exactly is the question. It's the, what's going to take from the Rockets to... You know, where can basketball move up the interest level? Just when.

If the college and pro teams really make a magical right now, the Cougar. Now, the biggest frauds are people that say, oh, I love this Cougar basketball. You haven't been around for five or six years. And I get it, because before Samson, it was, Ross, what's the opposite of dormant? Awake? Okay, that wouldn't be it. Wively? What's worse than dormant?

Oh, worse than dormant? Good, give a damn. Hybernating? Dead? Yeah. Life support? Yeah. I'll stick with hibernating.

I don't know. I mean, dormant means it's going to wake back up, right? Yeah. That's true. It's like your phone when it's on notifications are silenced. Cougar basketballs have been a notification has been silenced for like 25 years. Bring them back, Betty. Let's get the people going.

So we have to watch parties wrong. Got to win one before Calvin Samson retires. seriously. I'm going to be like, I'm going to have to take a couple days off just to mourn if we don't want to make go the final four. That'd be real shame. They're deserving. Very good team. I feel like you're clenching your teeth as you're saying these things. What do you mean? I mean, again, I'm about 800 miles from me, but I feel like you're just not authentic when you mention these comments. The Cougars are a great team and they should be at one seed. What else you want me to say?

Yeah, but I was like, I still don't hear it. I don't hear it in your voice as being authentic. Like, I want to, look at your tech, here's it between me and you. With the longhorns We're playing for the semifinals. I wanted your team to win. Yeah, right. You were with your family, all rooting against the Longhorns.

No chance. Don't believe you. Now, I was rooting for the Aggies to beat the Longhorns on Saturday in college basketball. I'll tell you that straight up, but it wasn't because I was anti-Texas. It was just pro A&M. And it almost happened until they gaffed the 24th of our lead.

Now my son's in therapy twice a week over it. Poor guy. It's going to happen. He hasn't responded to my text. Oh, you did find his number? No, I didn't text on him. I'm just kidding. I'm not going to do it.

I'm not that kind of guy. You didn't text? I'm sorry for your loss. Thoughts and prayers. No. No, I'm not going to pull a real D move like that. Who would do such a thing? That's terrible.

1114. Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in Atlanta for Rockets and Hawks tonight. Also a reminder that we've got gut feelings coming up in 15 minutes. That's where you make your ultimate sports predictions. 713-212-5-790. That's 7-13-212-2-1-2.

5.790. If you want to reach out to us on Twitter, we'd love that. It's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern. 1114, gut feelings, 50 minutes away on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. Ross, while I begrudgingly hang out with you daily, my friend Craig Ackerman is like, I brought you breakfast yesterday, a mid-snack in between your show yesterday, and we won. He's bringing me more food today. Oh, is he superstitious like that? Yes.

Now, the problem is he's on a different floor than I am, so I don't know if he can get up to this floor. Oh, great. Are you going to get up in the middle of a segment again? Well, I mean, he's bringing me food. I have to be polite, right? I guess. Just tell him to time it out.

Tell him to listen to the show, and when he hears you break, head down. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to see if he comes in the room. I'll put him on headset for a minute. Don't you want to get a good quality analysis in the voice of the television rockets? Absolutely.

It's going to be better than the analysis. as I'm getting from the radio voice. God, that feels personal again. Yikes. You know what? I feel like I get like 20% meaner when you're on the road, and I'm going to apologize right now. Maybe I'm just bitter.

And you know what? I'm sorry, Matt. I love you. You do a great job on the call. You have a storied Houston radio career. I respect everything you've done, and you've done a great job raising your children. And I hope you have a great day. I just want to apologize.

Can I be honest with you? I don't want you to change. I just don't. Because if you change, it became nice, I would not. wouldn't even know you. I'm like, I am nice. Are you undergoing some medical treatments of some sort I don't know about it? Yeah.

Is your life short-lived? Yeah, I'm making amends. Yeah. No. Like, at the, at my eulogy, you're going to say, you know, I was rude to Matt a lot. I'm going to crush you. I'm going to, it's going to be a roast.

It's going to be a roast, 30-minute roast. I got material all written up. You'd be like the, you'd be like the Jeff Ross of my eulogy. Yes. Oh, man. All right. But, yeah, I don't want you changing. That's the best part is you just stay who you are.

You've been this way for 15 years. Why change now? Let's talk to some people. Let's go to David Spring at 1121 of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Dave, good morning. Hey, guys. Enjoy the show, as always. Lots of basketball talk.

Let me say some of the things I was going to talk about, I've already been talked about. I was going to ask about Jabari and where he fits in. That's been covered. Let me say this. Craig Ackerman is great. I watched that game last night, and I know he's a friend of yours. I can understand why you guys have sort of the same sense of humor and everything else,

but he's terrific on the broadcast. And last night, he dropped the Vaughn Waifer in there, kind of in the middle of the game. That was perfect. And I just like listening to Craig. I like listening to you guys, and I really like listening to Craig as well. Let me say this about Amen Thompson. Everyone's loving Amen Thompson, understandably. I'm trying to think of who he reminds me of.

And I'll ask Matt if he agrees with this. six seven rangey super athletic floats to the rim effortlessly he reminds me of a young Clyde uh that's the old that's the best analogy I can come on it's not perfect but reminds me of a better Clyde was a better shooter um and probably will always be a better shooter uh yeah Clyde had that flat trajectory though you know yeah and Clyde was more of a showman but Clyde let me see what a men could do that Clyde it's not a bad comp because they're both six, seven, and they're both about the same weight when they were playing the league. A men can play four different positions.

Clyde was not going against power forwards and going in against centers and blocking shots. He would get one occasionally because he was still super shilly, freakish athletic. But Clyde was more of a, I mean, as his definition, glide, he was a ball high in the air. Oh, oh my God, you scared me, sir. The Belmont brought me my documents. No, it was a great. sir that's for you sir that's for you take that money right there that yeah close it please oh my god what is happening the bellman brought me my sports documents and he's completely

scared me sorry about that oh geez i thought i was getting i thought i was getting uh you're gonna toss you out of there sorry about that i was in this deep conversation about clyde director okay uh yeah uh a man can guard four spots uh Clyde couldn't do that Clyde's a better outside shooter, but there's a lot of things. I'm going to give you a more of a better comp of another player, didn't play for the Rockets, who, by the way, is getting his jersey retired. Andre Aguadala, but a more complete score than Andre was with the Golden State Warriors. If you remember him in all the last few years.

I remember Angu, yeah, he was with the Sixers for a long time. He was thicker. He was a bigger, more muscular guy. Now maybe Amin's going to fill out it. Yeah, yeah. Those are the comments. Let me make one more comment. one more comment about the Cougars, because I couldn't listen at all yesterday, which killed me because I knew Matt was going to go big on the Cougars yesterday.

That game on Saturday night was a game where, I tell you what, they may win the national championship this year. And if they do, and Ross, I don't want to hear from you right now. But if they do, I think you're going to hear Kelvin Sampson on that Monday night in the presser talking about the Kansas game that turned the season, not turned it around, but made them believe that this year might be the year. that was an amazing game. They had a 0.4 chance, win probability at the 18th second mark. I read that in the paper this morning. A 99.6% chance they were going to lose that game, and they won it. That's pretty incredible.

Anyway, love your show. Thank you very much. Appreciate the phone call. Appreciate the phone call. Yeah. And Ross, you're going to get mad at me. Don't be mad at me for this, but I don't even look at those things ever. because it's

do I need a 99.7% chance to go well there's at least a point three that we win I mean I'm watching. Don't look at them Matt, it's okay. I'm not going to look. I'm not going to look. Don't. It's just a little bit of information. It gives you a little context for how incredible the comeback was.

Yeah. It was an incredible comeback. And here's the thing, you know what? It's funny. When you win a big game, you can't, then you, if you lose a game, you're not supposed to lose, then it becomes like an ultimate letdown. Like, they play West Virginia. it tomorrow. Western is okay, but they should win

that game. It's like the Rockets tonight are playing Atlanta team here in Atlanta. They're 500. You just beat Cleveland, Cleveland, and Boston in three straight games. I don't want them losing the Hawks. The Hawks are tough, Matt. It's a second half of back to back. Hawks are tough.

It's fine. Third game in four nights. Yeah. And by the way, on the Min Thompson comp thing, I just haven't heard one that really rings true to me. He's just such a unique talent. And that's okay. We always want to run to the comp card. I do it too. Everybody does it. Yeah, it's very

natural for us, but to me, I'm in Thompson's looking like one of one to me. And here's the thing. If he, look, he hit a three yesterday. He's never going to be a deep bomber, but if he can hit the mid-range in an occasional three, are you kidding me?

And then you're talking about a top 20 player in the league. Yeah. Minimum. Minimum. Who's frequently athletic has innate ability at 6-7 to block a lot of shots. He's blocking Evan Mowgli, the seven-footer. And Ross, he's a freaking point guard.

He grew up as a point guard. He's playing power forward in the NBA. He can wreck the game on both sides of the ball. He seems to just have unlimited energy. He plays with a high motor, if you will. Oh, man, high motor. You dropped it in. He does.

He's got a high motor. All right, I got you. Let's go to Tony and New Caney before we get to a little gut feeling some more phone calls. Hi, Tony. You're on 790. Good morning. I just haven't listened all day to day, but I don't know if you'll talk anything about the Astros. But what do you guys think about Altuve?

If that happened, going to left field, think he would become a defensive liability? I don't think he's got the arm to play the outfield. What do you guys think? He would be a defensive liability. He at 100% would be a defensive liability. He would be a minus defensive player. Unfortunately, and Ross brings out the metrics, but they're accurate. He's a minus second baseman right now.

Yeah. I mean, his arm has shown signs of deterioration in the last couple of years, making that throw going to his right, and then either having to plant or throw the first, you can tell he's gutting out. Okay, anyway, I don't think that's going to happen because Bregman's not going to come here. After a big money, so I hope he gets what he wants and gets what he deserves.

See if he gets booed when he comes back. Bye. I don't think. That would be awfully short-sighted if he got booed. Among the beloved Ross, former Astros, if Bregman becomes one, isn't he like number one in the list? He would overtake Correa, right? Yeah, I would think just because of how long he's been there. If you switched him and Correa was here this long, it'd probably be Correa, but yeah, Breggman was here longer.

All right, we got a lot of folks that want to talk some other sports. Basketball. Look at these basketball calls Rossi. Let's go. This is making me cry. By the way, Craig is going to, when he comes and brings me lunch, he's going to come on for a little bit of a good to do. Oh, thank God. you so apparently they had said they said some catchphrase last night that is taken over the

twitter streets hmm okay so you don't even know what i'm talking about do you i don't recall what they said i listened to the broadcast yeah it's something about aura oh yeah what was he was uh ryan hollins was talking about dylan brooks or i can't remember what he said but yeah i'll remember when i hear it all right so just give him a little love you know because craig krague's a little us that he doesn't come on the 790 very much i'm like crank you're always welcome to come on the show or a maxing was that it yeah or a maxing okay you got to ask him about that okay it's very popular it was it was quite the buzz on the plane yesterday meanwhile my daughter sent him me a nice tweet yesterday was the was the buzz in my small section meaning my own chair that's great all right

1120 she's a good kid i'm proud of her she was raised right thanks kimberly thomas for her your hard work. 713, 212, 5790, 713, 212 5790. More phone calls.

We'll get to gut feelings eventually, but we've got a lot of folks that want to talk, and so I'm going to get out the way and let you all visit with us here. We appreciate you spending

some time with us this morning on Sports Talk 790. All right, the Astros announced the trade with Ryan Presley, and then shortly after they had a media availability,

and Rossi, I don't want to editorialize your news at noon, but we should probably play some of those cuts with Dana Brown that he just spoke to the media during the news and new,

maybe a couple of them is in fact. All right. Situation. So that will dominate our news at noon. Because it's kind of, again, I have not heard them yet. I've seen them on the Twitter.

But going back to what you said yesterday, I think Dana's interest in Bregman may not be the same that maybe Astro fans and maybe even Scott Boris has in the Astros and going, and the Breggman coming back to the Astros. So I don't want to misinterpret. So I don't, hear it right from his voice and we'll have it for you coming up in about to 25 minutes from now.

7132-1-2-5-790. Easy with us at 1135 on the Matt Thomas show. With Ross, Easy. Good morning to you. Good morning, gentlemen. Just three quick points. What do you guys think about Bergman signing a short-term contract, maybe a two-year-50 mill? I know the market isn't where it needs to be for him. So, I mean, it still gives him some time, you know, where he can get there with a long-term contract. Second one I was going to bring up DeFox from Sacramento. I know they were kicking the tires on that for a while.

How legit is that? And Rossi, what do you think about your boy from Texas coming out and where is he going in the draft? And I'll hang up and listen, guys. Thank you for the call. Thank you. I don't believe that the rockets were kicking the tires into Aaron Fox. I think that was completely, there's,

people were bringing them up, but I don't think the rockets were. Because, again, I think if you're Sacramento, you want a king's ransom for that. And they're not, and they're not going to ruin

what is being built here for a guy that's going to be testing frames in a year. It's not going to happen. Doesn't mean that Deeran Fox couldn't eventually become a rocket down the road, but they're not going to do it to sacrifice this year. Bregman, Ross,

it sounds like to me he doesn't love this 25, what would they call it 6156? If he's not happy with 6156, why would he be happy with 250? He'd be making less money. I would imagine he wouldn't do that. He's not, he's too old to sign a short-term deal. He needs to, this was supposed to be the off-season.

Yeah, this was supposed to be it. So, yeah, I don't envision. If he signs a short-term deal, it would be a huge loss for Scott Boris in terms of what kind of cachet he has in the baseball world, not name Juan Soto. And I would probably think he'd go,

I don't know. If there are multi-year deals out there, he's going to have to take one. Because 31, 32-year-old guys that still think they're in the prime of their major league baseball career don't take the short-term deals. So I'd be completely stunned by that.

I mean, it wouldn't happen, but I'd be super, super stunned. I'd be shocked. All right. And then he asked you about a Texas player. He didn't mention his name. I assume he meant Quinn Ewers. We're going to play Gat.

You blipped out there. What? Oh, guess that draft spot? Guess the draft spot? I'll say second or third round. But some people think that there are so few quarterback prospects. He would certainly be way back in the draft, people think, if he went last year. Yeah.

But this year, since some of these guys, some people are saying that Cam Ward would be QB7 next year and he's QB1. I mean, sorry, last year. and he's QB1 this year. And same thing with Shardor Sanders. So because of the lack of quarterback prospects, there could be a scenario where somebody reaches for, reaches for coin viewers. But I just guess second or third round at this point.

Yeah, that feels about right. I can't imagine him going into the combine or having an individual workouts that would take a guy that had a second or third round green and all of a sudden moving up 30 draft spots. Yeah, it can happen just because teams get desperate for quarterbacks and try to convince themselves it can work out. And maybe that's part of the reason why Quinn came out is he said,

look, this is in a great quarterback draft. Might as well go in now and maybe get myself drafted higher than I would be if I waited a year or so. Yeah. Let's talk to Robert on 790, 1138. Robert, good morning to you. Good morning, gentlemen. Appreciate y'all.

I grew up near Austin and a junior high high school, huge Cowboys fan when they went to the three Super Bowl. and then and then was a like everybody in the country a big Michael Jordan fan so I missed the Rockets Championships really experiencing them as a fan um I moved here in like 2018 jumped hard on the Astros bandwagon one of the greatest sports things I've ever done I want to jump on this rockets bandwagon but I have a question what was what was bigger in y'all's experience and memory was it the Rockets championships when the NBA was really kind of of at a peak popularity or the Astros run and I'll hang up to listen.

Oh, that's a great question. It's hard for me to say because, let me give you the argument for the Rockets. It was the first championship we ever had. And there can only be one first, right? Yes. The argument for baseball is that baseball, by and large, is a more popular sport than basketball is in Houston. Yeah, the Rock.

The Rockets took over this town, though, in those days, as you know. For about a four or five-year stretch, for sure. I mean, the Rockets were always bragging about their sellout streak. Hell, they even opened up a gift shop at the town and country mall, or in the World City, one of the two. Yeah. It just sold gear all day long. Yeah, I remember that was a big deal.

We went there, like, it was like a family trip. It was like, Dad, you got to take it to the rocket shop. The rocket shop? Yeah. You come back and buy a rocket gear at the mall? Let's go. Yeah, exactly. That was a big deal when I was a kid.

And let's go over to Foot Locker and see if there's any hot honey is selling me shoes. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dad's like, yeah, right, son. We're going to pay less. Boy, you're talking about 1994-95 compared to 2017. It feels like it's a different...

It is a different generation. Yeah. And I want to say the Astros kind of took over the town kind of after that. You know what I'm saying? I would lean a very small lean towards the rockets because it was the first time we ever had a championship. It was the first downtown parade.

It was the first, Houston is the best. And it was during the heyday. Well, I mean, obviously Jordan retired the first go-around, but he was around the second go-round for sure. Yeah, he was. People forget. But he was. He was dropping 50 in the garden. He was just fine.

Just fine. Yeah, I would say Rossi, a very, very slight. lean towards the rockets. But it doesn't mean the Asteros sustained success has been, is more well documented and glorified because of this run between 17 and today as compared to the rockets where they,

you know, they tried to go get Pippin, they try to get Barkley, they try old. That team turned old super fast. Yeah. They got old and cranky really quick. Yes.

Real cranky, especially when it came to Charles Barkley in relationship with Clyde and Sky. Scottie. All right, let's go to Philip on 790 and Pearland at 1142. Scotty, good morning. Excuse me, Philip. Good morning, do you? Hey, good morning. Yeah, with Bregman, I guess he's, Correys, he's a Boris Klein.

He signed a short-term deal. He was younger, though. Wasn't he Correa? Significantly younger. Yes, absolutely, yeah. Okay. Matt, I heard your call last night. You have huge lungs, dude. my goodness. That was a great ending to that. The Rockets game I'm talking about now.

Ross, I listened to your show, but I ran out of gas. I had nothing to call in or anything. But, yeah, that was a great win. You know, regarding what was my next thing here? Oh, I think with Ryan, I heard him, too. I think he was first saying, what was it? Or maxing. Or maxing. I have no idea what they're talking about because I was calling the game,

so I don't even know what it's all that. Yeah, of course. You wouldn't have heard it, Matt. But then it changed to Max Har. I don't know. Yeah, it was funny. I didn't know what he was talking about it first. Regarding Amen Thompson, you know,

I think he's more athletic than Clyde was. And I think he's more athletic than Igadala was, too. I tell you, I lived in Chicago for 15 years, partly in the 90s, a lot in the 90s. And I compare him to Michael Jordan. I don't know if he's as competitive, but that, Man Thompson is a disruptor. He seems to be playing in a different time dimension. He's a marvel. I love watching them.

Love watching the Rockets. Thank you, Philip, for the phone call. Yeah, I, Michael Jordan's a second-gradest or first-greatest player of all time, depending on how old you are and what your values are. I'm going to slow a men down a little bit. Let's let him in become his own guy. He is his own guy. He is his own guy.

He might be, and again, he's got a long way to go, but is he the most versatile rocket maybe of all time? Okay. Well, I'm just saying, don't it. there's a possibility. I'm going to go with Akeem Olajian, most versatile. Well, he redefined a position, but but Akimna never played small forward.

No, but he could guard it. That he could. But he couldn't dribble up for. I like Coach Udoka's comparison. His twin brother. Oh, Osser? He's not bad. I'd tell you, Osser's pretty good, too. Now, is it, Osir? I thought, I've heard of Saar as well.

Assar, yeah, it's Ossaar. That's it. Okay. Yeah. But he's also, he's pretty good. He's a little, he's a little bigger in terms of weight-wise than a man, but not by much. Yeah, men can bulk up. He's young, though. For sure. All right, let's get some gut feelings in next, 1145 on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Listen up, girls and boys. This has been so appealing. Because Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a good feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show.

All right, we've got to make this a very quick segment here because of the news at noon with some Dana Brown audio from today's media availability. Ross, how do we do last week? Yes, Matthew, looking at last week's gut feelings. You had Bregman back on a short-term deal. So we'll see. I put, but would be utterly shocked if Bregman comes back. And utterly can still happen. You can still be utterly shocked.

I can still be utterly shocked, but I still would be utterly shocked. I'm going to stick with that. You had a Wimby as an All-Star. That feels about right. Yep. You had the Rockets and Cavs play on Wednesday. They will not be postponed. They weren't.

That's right. Okay. I forgot about. We were snow coverage last week. Yes, we were. Okay. I said Bobby Sloick stays. Me too.

That's a loss for me. Whoops. Yeah. I said not, Sam, Donald, not a Viking by the end of the offseason or by the the start of week one. We'll see. And I said, Bills and Eagles in the Super Bowl. I got a half right. Dan Matthews was here. He said

both road teams win for the Super Bowl. Neither road team won. And he had the Rockets splitting with the Cavs and Jerry Jones hiring Marcus Freeman as his head coach. That was weird. That's Dan. Come on, Dan. You'll be better than that.

Which, by the way, before Min Thompson was a full-time start, or right when he was a full-time starter, I had a gut feeling. I'm in Thompson. Has the best career of the Young Rocket's core. I'm feeling pretty good at three weeks ahead of that one. I think you're very good.

That's an excellent calling to your part. Excellent work. All right. Is that it? Yes. Connor, you were not with us last week because you were in Snowm again, so we'll let you go first with some gut feelings.

What do you got? I'll say the Rockets win their next three to go on a six-game winning streak. Oh, hell's yeah. But they're going to lose on Monday. Oh. They're not going to win every game the rest of the season, Matt. Relax.

Come on. The Rockets are perfect. They make no mistakes. 68 and 14. They win every game. They're going to win 65 games. You're the number one team in the playoffs when the NBA championship. Why did you go Catholic priests at the end there?

I always feel like I do that. And I'll go draw Johnson next Texans offensive coordinator. Ooh. Okay. See, I'm cooling on that because wouldn't it have been done by now? No, I think they're doing due diligence. Okay. I think Hannah told

D'emico to have due diligence. Hannah's like, come on now, D'Amico. Yeah. Are there certain, well, Gerard Johnson would fit Rooney requirements. I don't know what it is with coordinators. No, I don't think they have to worry about that, do they? I don't know, I'm asking.

By the way, I don't think we'll ever have mentioned Cal's name again. Everything is being done by Hannah. Let's just make sure we're very clear about that. Cal's doing a great job. Cal's doing a great job staying out of Hannah's way. She's not mandating how many OC interviews there are. No.

But if Cal does, Hannah's like, go sit in your chair. Let Dimeco and I handle this. All right, anything else from you, Connor? I think that's it. All right. Cougars beat West Virginia and Texas Tech this week. Boom, shakalaka. No, they'll be heavily favored in both games, right? I don't know.

West Virginia. can be kind of a tough spot to play in. Literally? It's hard. You've got to drive up some mountains or something? You're going to drive up a mountain. You're apparently have to smoke cigarettes while you're playing the game for some reason. The shoes not allowed also. It's weird. No, yeah. And I believe teeth are optional in when you walk inside the building.

That's what we stereotype here on the show. Never. What other gut feelings do I have? I'm going to go with, we'll hold the gut feeling on the Super Bowl till next week. I will say top five Super Bowl. Bowl watched ever this Top 5 ever. It was boring and not interesting.

To me, but not to Taylor Swifties. Are you kidding me? A chance to catch Swifty and Kendrick Lamar in one city? Oh man, you're right. Actually, might be top one. I'll go with a guy. I got my gut feeling is the Eagles win.

Upset. What's up? I got a gut feeling that the officials we talked about at nauseam during the game. Oh, God. These officials better have a clean game. It was minor in the Bills game, and still people made a whole thing out of it. All right, let's get to a couple calls here. 713-212-5-790.

Let's go to East Texas. Peter, what is in your gut at 1155? Hey, Matt, hey, Ross. My gut feeling is within the next five years, the Houston Rockets will win, not one, but multiple championships. Oh, my gosh. Rosh, you have a kiss. However, it pans out just within the next five years. Okay.

I love the optimism. It could happen. Thunder are going to be good for a while. Celtics. Caves are relatively young. Is Oklahoma City built for a title? Yes. They're filthy.

They're really, really, really good. Shake Gildes Alexander is, just immune from having an off game. Now Hartensheim can get into foul trouble. Yeah, but Chit Holmgren's going to get hurt in and out so that could impair things a little bit. Janlon Williams is really good. Blue Dorts, one of the best perimeter

defenders on the planet and he can knock down three-point shooter. He's not a great shooter. I thought he was knocking down the threes earlier this year. Not against the rockets he hasn't. Maybe against everybody else he has, but I'm not, I respect the hell off. He's shooting 41% from three this year. He was 30,

39% last year. I'm going to go with knock down shooter. That's a fair assessment. I just haven't seen it myself, personally. Memphis, I think, I still think I'm holding off on that because I don't know

if I trust John Morant to lead a team. As good as he is. Why not? Because I think John Morant's got a few screws loose, honestly. I don't want my alpha dog having a screws loose. Hmm. Look at that insight.

You can't get that insight from any other sportscaster in this marketplace. Okay. All right. Last call. Anything else? Anybody else? Any of the three of us?

Alprin-Shangoon All-Star. I will stick with Al-Pren, Schengoon, All-Star. Can we sneak a man of the All-Star game, or is it too late? It's probably too late. Okay.

I'm going to say Rockets don't have an All-Star. Selected. They might get an injury replacement or something. I'm going to go Bregman doesn't sign with the Astros. I'm sticking with that. So you're flipping from last week.

Did I really? I'm seriously. Am I flipping that much? That's okay. It's gut feelings. I apologize if I'm flipping. You try to shame me when I change my gut feelings. I'm not going to shame you, Matt,

because it's just a gut feeling. Gut feeling is that you're going to hear from Dana Brown here and you're going to be like, huh? I'm sticking with my Breggman, not an astro. I don't know, man. might come crawling back. But I don't want him to think it's a crawl. Oh, yeah, it's a crawl.

I want it to be a gallop. He told him to shut their bum ass up, 6-156, and he may have to come back and take that or less, or a short-term deal. Okay, that's it, but all right. All right, let's get to those Dana Brown cuts. They'll be the lead story on the news at noon next here on Sports Talks. I'm sorry, I'll go back to you in the studio.

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CinergenicsHealth.com. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 12-03 and H-Town. What's happening at lunch timers? Good afternoon to you. and welcome to hour number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in Atlanta where tonight the rockets are taking on the Atlanta Hawks after last night's big win over the Celtics.

That will be part of, but not the lead to. Today's news at noon with some fresh Dana Brown audio coming in the last hour here on Sports Talk 790. Yes, Matthew, a lot of different stuff to get to here. All the news at noon. But hot off the presses, as you mentioned, Dana Brown speaking with the media. after the trade involving Ryan Presley. First up, what would it take for Jose Al Tuve to be in left field? For the most part, it would be with an addition.

But look, if we put him in left and he starts to work out there and it looks good, it may give us some flexibility and versatility in our lineup. But, you know, initially I would say, you know, look, if we have a chance to, make some additions. You know, it's nice to see what he looks like in left field. So I think that's probably more of the thought process. But, you know, if he looks good out there, you know, we could actually leave him out there and improve second base as well.

But I think more so it's, you know, based on some of our thought process when it comes to additions. Is Jose O2A left field going to happen now? Maybe that wasn't a AI out there And left field yesterday You never know Hmm

No is an Altovae Matt It's different Was there a Wasn't there a comment I want to hear Oh go Dana Brown cut 5 This is a good one

I think this is going to be interesting Now you've not heard this I have not heard this But I'm trying to read Between the Twitter streets What people are interpreting So here's Dana Brown on still having conversations about Alex Bregman

involving Scott Boris in the conversation as well. We've talked internally about, you know, him still being available. And so we are definitely having conversations within our front office. We haven't reached back out to Boris. At some point, it could turn to that. I know that we're,

taking a deep look at what it would look like if we acquired him and, you know, how would it look for us financially? Does it make sense to do it? You know, we know that he's a talented player. We'd love to have him. But I would mostly say it's all internal conversations as to, you know, what we would like to do in terms of breadmen. Well, I owe Boris a call.

He sent me a text, you know, today. so I'll probably end up getting back to him. But I would leave it at that. We've talked. Oh, sorry. Sorry, there's a loop issue. Go ahead, Matt. So, I love Dana.

He ain't happening. He owes Scott a phone call because Scott texted him. And he might get back to him today. See you later. Alex Bregman. There's no way. There's no way he can be saying we're not even calling the dude back. We haven't re-engage with Scott

Boris. There's been only internal discussions and it only makes sense if it makes sense financially. No. They dumped Ryan Presley to get under a certain threshold. They're going to maybe sign Horacea Polanco to a cheap deal and that's going to be that. Again, I would

be utterly shocked if they re-sign Bregman. He doesn't get the vibe off of what you had at Fan Fest and what you just said right there that makes people sound encouraged by it, right? It was the same vibe. He said, yeah, he said they hadn't even, the discussions have only been internal. If you're really, wouldn't you really be negotiating and talking?

I think he's saying that it's kind of, it's like a, he's putting out a signal. He's saying, yeah, we haven't talked to Scott Boris. Don't you think if we were going to re-sign him, we'd have talked to Scott Boris? Let me ask you this. If Scott Boris text you, don't you like, because you're going to have a relationship with him the rest of your life. Jim Crane might not. And it may not be on Alex. but you may have a client

like Hunter Brown's signed with Scott Boris, right? Yes. And do you want to have a I'll try to get back to him today? Yeah. When you'd be having this conversation about Hunter Brown

a couple of years from now? It's kind of weird. Scott Boris said, what was Hunter Brown's second half ERA? Okay, yeah, let's get that guy signed up. Remember, could Hunter be like, not Hunter? Scott Boris

gets a text from Dan. Hey, it's me, Remember we talked about, Bragg him a couple years ago? Would Scott Boris want to respond back? New phone, who is? No. I'll get back to him later today.

Maybe I owe my phone call. If there's money to be made, Scott Boris is going to make it. But don't you, don't you... My point is, don't you, like, call him right away? I mean, some middle manager. He's the most powerful sports agent in Major League Baseball.

Now, he's had some better times in the last few years, and he's had the last two off seasons, but still damn powerful. I mean, did sign Juan Soto to a $6 a zillion dollar contract. Dana's not being flippant. I just think he's saying, please read what I'm trying to tell you. We're not moving off of 6156, even if we're, and maybe we can't even confirm that we're still on 6.156. Probably can't even do that now with after the Walker signing and everything.

Yeah. I don't know. All right. Anything else in the news at noon? Yeah, Matt. We can go some more on the news. at noon. How about let's just make you happy with some more of yourself.

Oh, yeah, for sure. Another rebound for Van Bleet to a man Thompson down the lane. He'll step for the win. He got it with seven-tenths of a second. He hit the father. And Pritchard launches to end the game. It's no good. Off the top of the back, it's win it in Boston.

Right down the middle of the lane. It's a game winner for a, oh my goodness. You hear the P&A announced from the background promoting the next game coming up? He's like, he can't move fast enough away from this game. Buy your tickets, folks, immediately. That's crazy. If you can't, that was me being purely organic me. I mean, there are some people that intentionally downplay a big call like that,

which I'm like, man, why are you in the business? You're in the business to create some emotion and excitement for your audience, and that was as exciting as it got. Back and forth game. super big heavyweight defending world champions, a title contender again in the east. And you've had a great week. And Amanda Thompson's, I mean, basically becoming a star rip before our eyes. Yeah, he's getting a lot of national recognition, Matt.

Would you like to hear from, let's say, formerly of ESPN, Zach Lowe. A men Thompson's combination of athleticism, size, and strength is absolutely overwhelming. Houston can put out some lineups, especially with both Terror Twins with the mix of speed, strength, and fight. Just feels suffocating. Yep. He compares them to the young Russ Ibaka, Kevin Durant, Thunder. In terms of sheer force and speed.

Sam Vassini also saying, Amen Thompson is like laughably good already. Top five defender in the league can basically play the entire game because he never gets tired. elite in transition, elite rebounder, great passer, great finisher, just helps your team in so many different ways. He's like, he's getting five-star Google reviews every day. By, yeah, by guys whose job it is to watch NBA basketball.

Yeah. It's great. It feels good. By my, our friend of the show, Cleezell, who wants a shout-on on the show. You get one, by the way, Cleezell. He also says, you know, we're always trying to find the comp. Today's this hour's comp of the day to a man, Thompson, a young Magic Johnson. All right. Just throwing it, I'm just,

Cliselle wanted a shout out so he got it, and he wanted me to mention him. You know what, I think he's more of a mix of Magic Johnson with Michael Jordan. And he's got a little bit of Cream and Wilton in his way. Yeah, I would say some Kobe and, like, young LeBron as well. Yeah.

A lot of LeBron, a lot of Oscar Robertson for old school, and he's got a small tinge of Jerry West. In fact, I believe the logo is going to be a man in time. Thompson over Jerry West before you know it. Yeah, actually, I'll compare him to Iron Man with a full iron suit. He's more like Shazam. Really? Yeah.

The Shaquille O'Neal one? No, Shazam isn't like the superhero. Oh, okay. He's also part Aquaman, and I believe he's also won half of the Wonder Twins. Actually, he literally is a Wonder Twin. He really is. You know what I, you know what is funny? Is that I love him.

He's such a nice young man. He's nice and he's hilarious. He's very funny. He's very funny. He's just, I mean, and look, I'm closer to these guys, because I mean, I'm with him every single game on the road. They're like, they really are likable. Now, they're not going to go out and host a variety hour, but they're utterly likable.

And Dylan brings out a little bit of that, you know, like when Porzingis slammed over Dylan Brooks and then they've got the technical foul for taunting him. Dylan's like, mission accomplished, Biatch. And a man will throw hands, and a man will also take down Tyler Hero. And he will hip toss Tyler Hero. He will hit toss you like a mutter. Like he's a rag doll.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And that's your news at noon. All right, 713-212. 5790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. 1214. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We can return on your phone calls.

Bottom of the hour, NFL Rewind. Is there anything going on rewindable? It's got to be right. It's always NFL season. Yes. Nothing to be very long. You can do a snack-sized edition to Rewan if you'd like. We'll play some more Dana Brown cuts.

We'll talk some more about the Rockets. Talk about more about Bregman and his perceived value. All that coming up here on Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal. On Sports Talk 790. You know, I was thinking during the break, Rossi. Winning is fun. Winning gets people excited.

And we've had a really good show today. with lots of car interaction, which means less of you, which is always a good thing. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. So come on in. Don't be afraid.

We got a lot of little interesting nuggets to get to in terms of topic conversations, whether it be about the Rockets' huge win against Celtics last night. They'll play Atlanta here tonight. We'll have this show. Who's got the launch pad at 530? Was it one of the Adams?

I think, I thought it was Dan Matthews. What times the game? 6.30? Maybe he's on post. I think he's Dan on post and one of the Adams on pregame. I don't know. So one of the Adams will not be on the post game. I just know I'm out here at 2 o'clock and I'm never coming back for the rest of the day.

You'll be back tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Yeah, you know what? Yeah, because tomorrow I'm off tomorrow. Oh, what? We are leaving in the middle of the day, sadly. Jeez. I got serious nasal drainage here, too. I'm sorry.

Yeah. It's like flowing out of my nose. All right. We don't need to know this. Well, I mean, I'm trying to give you. It's a time of year. I've been, I've had a bad cough the last few days as well.

Well, I mean, I... I've been trying to wipe everything down for Adam Wexler. Oh, don't get him sick. That means like... He's going to get mad. Yeah. Oh, he will look at you side eye too. Yeah.

You don't want to see Surly Wex, even though we see it every day. Yeah, I was going to say, Surly Wex is like the sun rising in the morning. That's true. 713-212, 5-190, 1290, 1220 here on the program. We call the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. Let's talk to some more people and we'll start today in line number one as I pot up the call here with Mike in Cyprus.

Mike, good afternoon. Thanks for waiting. Good afternoon, guys. A couple things. First off, Matt, I grew up listening to Gene Peterson radio before you can watch home games. Last night's call was one of the more exciting calls I've heard in quite a while. That was a great ending to the game. He did a fantastic job. Thank you very much. It was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun. It's making me really want to start listening to the Rockets more often again. That's great. Thank you for saying that. You're welcome. And I want to also comment on the Scott Morris comment from earlier. I absolutely love what Dana Brown did there. And I know me you have to deal and have a relationship with

with Boris, but man, it's kind of getting to a point to where, you know, he, he does this over and over, and it's just there's a very little pushback. I think that, oh, no, I would like to take it clued and, you know, get together, but it's about time that, you know, he's sitting there, he's got a reputation for it, and that's great for his clients. I can get that. But these contracts never seem to work out for the team, only be individual. and, you know, I don't respect Dana Brown's negotiating tactics. It's just, you play a little hardball, I think. And, yeah, I don't know.

I got kind of like that. William Ross responded to him. I was laughing, you know, at the comment of it was hilarious. Well, you know, the funny thing is that, Mike, he's talking about it being internally. I mean, is Dana waiting for him to change his own mind or is he waiting for somebody internally within the organization to change their mind?

Because it feels like to me, they probably sat around a lot when Frasancy first began and said, what are we willing to pay to keep Alex here? And I don't know if all of a sudden out of the middle of nowhere, someone wakes up and says, hey, I'm going to go to our next meeting with all the baseball operations, folks. I think we should bump up Bregman of 6181. I'm curious what that means by internal negotiations.

Well, I think, you know, Jim Craig's probably done a little bit of negotiating in this lifetime He might just, you know, that he possibly, as he has your upper hand here, I mean, believe he does. And maybe he's going to get a little bit closer to where Alex, yeah. He's going to get where he was willing to go versus what Boris and Alex thought they were going to possibly get into the beginning of all free agency stuff. So we'll see, but it's interesting. It's definitely different, you know. So we appreciate it.

Let me call. Thank you very much. I'm going to get your special guest here. Hang on one second, Ross. Talk for a second. Okay. Okay. Great.

I believe that would be Craig Ackerman, the TV voice of your Houston Rockets, who I believe is coining new terms that are just going everywhere and going viral in the NBA world with the Rockets winning last night against the Boston Celtics after back-to-back wins over the Cleveland Cavaliers. So I can hear Craig Ackerman also has the oddest preferences of random things, I think he's putting on the headset right now. Oh my gosh, we're on right now. Yes. Okay.

This segment brought to you by ranch dressing. Oh, please not. Please no. Hey, Craig, how's it going? Great job on the call, as always. Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. I'm a little sleepy, to be honest with you.

Yeah, I know. At least you're not whining about it on Twitter like Matt. Well, you know, he is fancy Matt, and I did fulfill his request, gave him some bonus bacon. He asked for croissant, and I didn't see any, so I got him toast. I didn't know what kind of toast, so I got him a piece of white. I got him a piece of white and wheat toast with strawberry and grape jelly. And has he? And bonus bacon.

How many times has he complained about what you picked up or something you've done? No, not at all. He seems very happy. That's great. Yeah. So you are bringing this. Do I have this correct? You're bringing this because you are superstitious and you think this is going to help the rockets win?

Not necessarily. He did ask me yesterday. Hey, if you wouldn't mind, would you grab me this and this? Because obviously the team brunch is going on during the middle of the show most of the time. And I said, sure, I'll bring you something yesterday. And then I was actually the one just because I'm a nice guy. I reached out to Matt. I texted him and said, hey, do you want me to bring you something again?

He said, yeah, that'd be great. Thank you. Okay. Now, since you are on here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790, I want to ask you since you travel with Matt, is there any sort of like, you know, people, everybody has their travel quirks. Like something they do, I don't know, with their luggage or something as they go along. Is there any travel quirks you can tell us about that Matt Thomas has? I mean, I guess the biggest travel quirk is that he's a degenerate gambler.

Yeah, that's true. He goes to the casino everywhere you'll go. You're not a gambling man, are you? No, I am not. Now, he doesn't go to as many casinos as he used to because his gambling buddies are no longer a part of a traveling party. But he does partake. He did go in Boston. And then he did go in, we're in Cleveland, too.

He's gone to two different places on this trip so far. Are you going, Matt, are you going to go to Tunica? No, he's not going to Tunica when we get to Memphis. I'm not going to Memphis, but he is. Do you ever go to the casino with him? I have gone a couple of times. I've been to one with him in Miami, and then, actually, it's Hollywood, Florida, actually.

And then I've, obviously, New Orleans. I think there might have been another casino or two. I mean, if I do go with him, it's because I really have nothing else to do, and I just kind of want to hang out to be alone, so I just kind of watch him gamble. Okay, let's actually quickly talk to Rockets basketball. To me, Craig, and I just tweeted this out, at Sports RV, see I'm learning from Matt.

Everybody tries to come up with a cop for Amin Thompson. I've heard Beanpole Zion Williamson. I've heard Andre Aguadala but score. To me, none of them fit. None of them were close. He's like a one-of-one what we're seeing right now on the floor from Amin Thompson. Yeah, I will say this.

I think Ryan has brought up Sean Marion quite a bit. And John Marion was a... His shot's not that ugly, is it? He was a basketball player who was very, very athletic, built similarly to that. But I think a man ultimately is sort of a one-of-one, especially in the modern age to affect the game as positively as he does when he just does not have a reliable jumper is pretty amazing. I mean, it just doesn't happen very often unless, you know,

you're a guy like Shin Goon who can play with his back to the basket and you've got counters to counters and things like that. So he has a very unusual talent, but obviously he's a very high-end one. And he's a great, great young man. Yeah, he's great. He's funny. We've had him on interviews and he's really fun to watch. And obviously, I mean, it's just it's chalk at this point that he's going to stay in the starting lineup. But what do you think that means for Jabari Smith Jr. who does have value as someone who can knock down threes, can guard one through five.

and Aime Adoka likes to use switchable defenders, which Jabari Smith Jr. is. Well, the Rockets love Jabari Smith Jr. When he gets healthy, obviously, that's something they'll address once he gets back from the broken hand. But he helps them out with rebounding and weak side, helpside defense, and obviously his ability to stretch the floor. There's a place for Jabari on this roster. I still wish you were healthy in playing right now. It's unfortunate that he is not. But he is definitely, you know, somebody that the coaches want to have on the.

the floor and he's got terrific size and again he does bring some things to this team that some other guys on this roster don't so once he does get healthy then this roster will get even you know potentially more dangerous because you're going to add again another young guy and he was just kind of rounding into form too before he had that freak accident at shoot around before the last bossing game um at home but i like him he's another great great young man too and um again uh it's it's a good problem to have when you have a lot of talent out there and you got to try to find a way to get them all on the floor. 45 games in, Rockets and two Csies in the West. How does it feel?

It feels great. I mean, I don't, I knew this team would be better this year, but I don't think even the best of optimists would have thought that the Rockets would be where they are. Now, look, this is one of the best records this franchise has had ever, you know, through 45 games. So this is, not only are they good for this group and where they have come from, but historically speaking, they're really, really playing well. And again, I thought they would be better. this year, but I don't think anybody saw this coming. It's been a lot of fun. Obviously, there's still

another half of the season to go, and whatever happens to that, the playoffs are a process, and that will be, you know, that will be a learning curve for these young guys, but I guess we'll tackle that, when and if they ultimately get there, but so far, so good, they're,

they're winning games on a lot of nights. Obviously, last night they were able to out-shoot Boston because of Dylan Brooks, but they've won so many games this year, and Again, in the modern game, if you can't beat teams from the three-point line, it's so hard to win. But they have won so many games this season where they have been so badly outshot from three. It's just a testament to how hard they play, how they've managed to develop other ways to win games, how they defend, how they rebound, how they crash the offensive glass. It's been fun.

Craig Ackerman, your TV voice for your Houston Rockets, special guests on the Matt Thomas show. We've got to kick you off now, Craig, before Matt starts getting jealous. Plus, I've been in his room far too long. Oh, I know. I hope he's fully clothed. He is, trust me. Oh, thank God. And he is eating his bacon.

All right, Craig, great job on the call. As always, we'll let... Well, keep talking to you down the road. All right, appreciate it. Take care. There we go. Matt Thomas has to come back now. I don't even know how we're doing this.

We've never done a guest on the same headset as Matt Thomas when he's with the rocket. So I don't know if we're going to break here if Matt's coming back. I think he is. Okay, actually, I'm being told the break. So let's go ahead and do that. Well, while we do that, I need to tell you, where you need to go to get your energy up.

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On the show Actually I didn't surprise When I said you come in You can do a segment with Ross How was the segment Was it a ratings grabber for the audience Did you walk out? No, I was eating bacon and toast

You were eating the whole The whole time? Yeah Oh, okay Huh I'm I always feel like we should get a midday snack in between segments. So like you would take a segment off to eat.

I would take a second off. Oh, yeah, because it's like a four hour show. Yeah, during the time we get. I got you. We can't eat in the middle of the day. Who doesn't eat between 10 and 2? I know. I'm trying to figure out a whole routine.

Maybe breakfast is four, mid-show snack. Because I'm starving usually by 2 o'clock. Not anybody's shedding tears for us, Matt. I mean, this is a new trend now. Craig's brought me two straight mid-show. day snacks. Wow. And look what happened last night. Maybe we'll get a good

fortune tonight. So I sent a text out to Vanessa and to Ryan. They're going to rotate bringing me food on the next trip. Okay. I don't know how it's going to be received by them, but I just want to put that out there. Okay, Matt. Well, we can get to a quick NFL rewind. We'll talk

about... Let's go. And we do have a lot of news and notes to get to on the NFL, but of course the games over the weekend. Commanders give up 55 points to the Philadelphia Eagles, 23 just scored by them. Jane Daniels was good, but not great.

They lost too many fumbles. That was the story in this one. I mean, it kind of hurts if you're the commanders, if you're this big underdog and you're supposed to go in there and give them your best, four turnovers to zero. And I think that's been the discussion point in a lot of these playoff games, Matt.

It's been generally the team that's won the turnover battle has won. Yep. I don't anticipate there being a high turnover, game in the Super Bowl. Matter of fact, I'm going to set the over under on turnovers at one and a half. What do you want? I'll go over. You've taken over one and a half. Yeah, sure. Two and a half, we'll maybe have a discussion.

It just feels like somebody can throw a pick. You can get a fumble. It can happen. Or like I have a deflection or something like that. Yeah. I get you. Only one turnover in the Bill's Chiefs game. One turnover committed by the Kansas City Chiefs. They also did get out gained by the Buffalo Bills

though. Josh Allen, apparently the news coming out that he had had that hurt wrist all season long, probably not going to participate in the Pro Bowl after suffering the injury, well, in the middle of the season and dealing with it. It was on his non-throwing hand, but probably going to keep him out of the Pro Bowl. Oh, you know what we say here on Sports Talk 7-9, Rossi. We love the Pro Bowl?

Just say no to the Pro Bowl. Why? It sucks. What sucks about it? Everything. It's fine. I'll flip it on. I'm not going to tell you right now.

What are you going to tell me right now? As God is my witness, I'm not watching one iota of it at all. Zero Zil Shatta. Okay. You don't say out of very much on a radio show. I just did. Yeah, you're not a high iota guy. But that's okay, Matt.

We still appreciate you. All right, let's move it along here with some other news going on in the NFL. The Dallas Cowboys, Matt, have hired their defensive coordinator. Do you see who it was? No. Matt Eberflus. Oh, no. The ex-Bares head coach.

This is a good formula. We talked about this. You get a head coach to run the offense. You get some fired defensive coach who's not necessarily going to get hired away immediately. Have them as your defensive coordinator. I think, I mean, Matt Iber Fluse was a highly thought of defensive coordinator before getting the Chicago Bears job. So Brian Schottenheimer, offense, Matt Iber Flues, defense for the Dallas Cowboys. Look, I'm okay with Phil head coaches getting their second chances as coordinators.

I think that I think you get to rebuild yourself and, you know, You were a hot-com-out-dates-on-point because you were an excellent coordinator. So I don't think it's a bad decision at all. All right. Let's keep it moving along. Matt, did you see the introductory press conference for Liam Cohen? I am so happy you found this sign button. Liam Cohen introduced as the Jaguars head coach, and the guy just has swag for days, Matt.

Jacksonville, the community. Duval. Give me a one to 10 on the swag meter, Matt. On that one, about 0.3? I think if you were going to, I've never been to Jacksonville before. I'm going to ask you. But I think you're supposed to go Duval. Can you guess the first thing I thought of when I heard that bit of audio?

I'll give you a hint. It relates to this show and a segment on this show. I just don't get it. Moss is Motten 5. Oh, you're going to play that over. If they're in the rotten 5, you know what you're going to hear. Jacksonville, the community. Duval.

The second there on the Rod 5, you're going to hear that soundbite. Now, is Duval, is that a high-end part of town? They're in Duval County, I believe. Oh, is it? I don't even know. I'd be like if everybody was like, Harris. You know what we got to do, Ross? What?

There's your Google, believe it or not, today. Oh, Duval County? No. Oh, what county is there every team in? No, yeah, that's a good. Yeah. So don't go looking at it now. Don't spend your time on Wikipedia doing that.

Oh, yeah, man. You're very, very Google. That's okay. Nobody's, it'll be in an hour. All right. We did Atlanta, I think, when you were there last time. Yeah. So I think county, believe it or not, is all good.

I'm on for that. Okay, quick rider to the Liam Cohen press conference. Owner Shod Khan says the Jaguars will have a general manager by the end of February. That's like a full month. It takes a month to get a general manager? Yes. That's odd. A whole month to figure out a general.

The most important front office position, your team, and you're going to take another extra 30 days to make that happen? Yes. They're just a trash organization. They have a bad wrestling. His son spends a lot of money on bad wrestling, and his team plays in a sucky city in a terrible stadium in a winnable division that they can't win.

And their quarterback is not generational. None of that. That's great. Two interviews for the Texans for their offensive coordinator position. Yep. Syracuse offensive coordinator, Jeff Nick. Nixon interviewed. Syracuse offense had been very good this year.

Kyle McCord, the Orange Quarterback, leading the NCAA in passing yards. Is he going to be as smarmy as most Syracuse grads are? I don't think Jeff Nixon is a Syracuse grad, but he was coaching there. So he gets a shot. And then the internal candidate, Gerard Johnson, also. You ready to gut feeling on the offensive coordinator?

Sure. I mean, Gerard Johnson. We already made a bet. You gave me, we bet a dollar. I took Gerard Johnson, you got the field. Okay, that's our bet then. Which felt like fits, no. Eh, maybe.

We'll see. That seems like fair value on both sides. Sure, why not? I'm trying to look up where, yeah, Jeff Nixon played college football at West Virginia in Penn State. So he smoked cigarettes while playing on the offensive line. No, he wasn't an offensive lineman. What was he?

I don't think. I just said he played college football at West Virginia in Penn State. He was on the Dean's List in the Big Ten All-academic Conference Recognition. So we never played. He got a degree in Penn State in elementary education. Definitely never played. Well, maybe. All right.

And that's your NFL Rewind. I love it. It's a great part of our Tuesday segment. That's going to be 52 weeks here, except for the weeks that you're gone. Let's go. Although, you know, we'll let Connor do the NFL rewind. Yeah, let him do it. And then if Connor's gone, then Dan,

do it. And if Dan's gone, then we'll do it. We'll skip it. All right. Okay. There you go. 1243. Sports Talks every night. We have an hour and 15 minutes left to go on the show today. We've had an action-packed show. We've had a lot of fun. A lot of rocket chatter to get to.

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is that where you read tea leaves? Yes. Okay. Are you a good tea leave reader? I think I'm pretty good at it

reading between the lines. Yeah. Give me some more cliche terms for trying to interpret things. Let's see

reading the three leaves. We're in between the lines. Yeah. Sizing it up. Ooh, okay. We'll think of some more. Discerning one from another, one thing from another, the truth from the wheat from the chaff? That's, I believe, a song from Donna Summer back in the early 70s.

Oh, really? Yeah. Discerning the wheat from the chaff? It was not one of a better hit. Okay. Did not reach the American top 40. 713-212-5-790. You rocket fans that have been dormant, out of touch, not available,

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713-526E-713-526 EYES, B-E-C-LASIC.com for Berkeley Eye Center. Matt Thomas, Ross Villariel. It's the Matt Thomas Show. With Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1252 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Oh, don't you ever hate it when you spill grape jelly on your bed? I don't believe once in my entire life have I ever spilled grape jelly on my bed. Nor has it happened to me until about two minutes ago.

You doing all right? Oh, it's fine. It's got a stain on it, but that's fine. Yeah. Are you going to tip your chambermaid extra now? Why? She's going to pull the sheets in it. I'll see with jelly For everyone Was that?

That's probably extra work Not really When your nasty jelly stains Out of the sheets When she strips the bed When I leave the hotel It doesn't matter if there was a stain on it or not I mean there's been stained on it

Okay Why don't you throw up on it And then throw a bunch of feces and stuff on there It'll be the same thing Right? She's going to strip it anyways Then I'll tip her But I think jelly's not that big of a deal

No, you made a big jelly mess Give her an extra Do you even tip the chambermaids Oh, who calls him chambermaids? What do you call them? I don't know. Housekeeping. And yes, I do. Every single time. They call me Mr. Generous on the road.

I thought they called you Titan screws. Not at all. All right, let's go to the phones. We have some great listeners. I heard Ackerman said you, they call you alligator arms. No. There's somebody on our trip that's alligator arms, but it ain't me. I'm not telling you who it is either.

No chance. You got to tell me off air. I will tell you off air, for sure. Definitely not on air. I don't mean they're getting back to that person. It's not Craig, by the way. Let's talk to Michael on 7.90 at 1254. Michael, good afternoon.

Thanks for holding. Hey, what's up, guys? A big fan of the show. I really liked that call last night on the game. I was leaving work, and I was about to walk in the gym, and you were electrifying, man. I wanted to hear your call. It was good. Bless you.

Thank you. It's nice you to say that. Thank you very much. I really have a great life. I get to talk to you guys every day. I get to bust you know what with Ross and I get to do the Rockets at night. So it's a pretty good. Oh, that is a cool job, man.

I work in the day and the night, so I hear you guys in the day and then hear you at night when I'm coming home. So I'm like, man, these guys are, they got it going on, man. It's a cool gig. Thank you. What's on your mind? Oh, but yeah, so I originally had a good feeling about Bregman coming back. But, you know, after all, you know, hearing Dana talk and just, you know, everything going on. I don't think he's coming back, man.

I don't think he's worth the money that, you know, we originally all. offered. And I think maybe Dana's kind of, you know, inching it back. And maybe he's saying that's not the big deal anymore. So I don't think he's coming back, man. I think that's my original gut feeling. But I also think everyone's talking about if he did come back, Altuvae go into left field. But I say, why not Pena? I mean, the guy can run like a gazelle. He's got a decent arm. I mean, I think he would be a better left fielder than Altuva if that were the situation. The reason why I don't think you do that, Michael, is because then you would be deficient at two different spots in your defense because Al-Tube is no longer considered an elite second baseman. So if you're moving from one subpar spot to another, that's just a lateral move. If you were to take Pena out of his shortstop spot in the left field where he's not acclimated to it, and he was built to be a shortstop. That's what he's been doing all his life.

Why would you hurt yourself at two spots as compared to just one? Yeah, I was just thinking maybe they would put Bregmanette short and maybe that could be an option if he came back. That's the whole hypothetical. But another thing, I wanted to chime in on that play by Aman last night. Like just breaking down that final shot, you know, the athleticism to, you know, come off of one leg, you know, lunge back and jump vertically to make that shot. You know, from a trainer's perspective, I train athletes, I'm like, wow. Like, this dude is gifted. And the fact that he's only, what, 21.

one or whatever. He's going to grow. That guy is going to blossom. And I think easily, I love Jalen, I love Alpe, those are my guys. But I think this guy could be the best player on the team right now, just the way he's taken over when given the opportunity. And I think Ume is giving him that opportunity with giving him the last shot last night because he was on. You know, I like where our team's going.

Yeah, that's a good point. Thank you, Michael, for listening to show. We appreciate you dialing in and getting in on that. let me ask you this ross and i i mean i'm asking this in all seriousness you know i i'm watching more euro step and the winning shot was for a man on a euro did we did the NBA even have euro steps 20 years ago what what what did guys do in 1999 huh did they just go right down the heart of the line like they just went straight in the basket like like gentlemen

none of this witchery these euro steps but a man does it beautifully it's side to side It doesn't cause it travel. It's like he, I mean, you know, clearly he works on it. I remember, I mean, Man of Genoblee was big on the Euro step. That was the first guy that I really remember doing it. James Hardin was after. James Hardin was the king of it, yeah. After Man of Genoble, yes.

But did Michael Jordan ever Euro stepped? No. Who else? Dominique Wilkins here in Atlanta. He never Euro stepped. Okay, Wikipedia says the term was coined in 2007. First player to really do it was Sarunus Marcionis, Matt. Marciolianis, yes.

Yeah. Lithuanian. He was on that Lithuanian team with the... That was really good back in the day. The Yugoslavian game, the Yugoslavian team, yeah. I think Ross, and if we sat down one night and put NBA TV game on, like, you know, those greatest game things, and put a game on from 1992,

we'd be shell-shocked to what we watched. I watch a lot of hardwood classics. Do you just, I shake, I looked at one last year. We were on the road somewhere, and I was like, why is he taking a top of the key jumper? That's only worth two. Yeah, foot on the line, a lot of 20-foot jumpers. Yes, yes.

A lot of everybody's like, well, the old days, they played the game the right way. If you go back and watch you're like, they took terrible shots and didn't count as much. Oh, this is a slug of a lot. and ugly and we always remember things better than they were. It's like download O'Igloin.

Langevin kicks it back out to Kenny Smith. Kenny Smith for three. That's good. That's the ninth three-point attempt of the game for the Rockets as a team. Yeah. I mean, the players are very skilled. Meanwhile, the Celtic shooting nine three-pointers in three minutes. Yeah. Which is part of the reason why people have criticized the Lienbe

in the style of play. Is it maybe there are, there is too much reliance on the three-point shot? Yeah. You're sitting on your couch like, man, This game's kind of ugly, but Hersey Hawkinskin's ball. Mitch Richmond, he's damn good. Moe cheeks. He's got moves.

It's fun to me to watch those old hardware classics. I wouldn't want to do it on a regular, but to watch it once in a while to kind of go look at the old school arenas and the uniforms and some of the stars you grew up watching. Oh, yeah. I was confused because way back in the day, didn't you get three free throws to make two or something like that? That's before my time.

I had to ask Charlie Polillo about it. I was like, what the heck's going on here, Charlie? Well, you used to get three to make two. It was a different time. Boy, I don't ever remember seeing that live. I think they changed in like the 80s or something. The only thing I remember, the massive, let's see the big rules changes since I've been around.

Used to give you 10 seconds across the line. They only give you eight now. The three point line has it. got moved around a little bit. It used to be none. Yeah. It got moved for a year and all the percentages went up and then they moved

to back. It's like, oh, this is a bad thing? I'm trying to think what else has been massively a change since I've been watching basketball. Yeah, three to make two was done away with in the 81-82 season.

Wow. So, okay, wow, that I can't believe it's been, it was that soon. I mean, I just remember that at all. All right, let's get the final hour start of the Matt Thomas show with Roll. Alex and Stephen will get to you. We'll get to some more Dana Brown cuts.

And we will put to music, the great plays of last night's game between the Rockets and Celtics next. 1 o'clock on 7.90. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Thompson with the baseline right. Bambleek to his left.

Dylan, three-pointer. He's trying to one-man gang this basketball game for the Rockets. 101-92. Dylan with 33. Nine three-pointers. Career high for him in the NBA is 37. He might have to get that here to the Rockets are going to pull this game out. Pritchard out left side of three-pointer block by a man Tempton,

and he saved it on the sideline to Chalin Green. Right side of the floor waiting for teammates. Now he may take it himself, kicks it out, left side to Brooks, straight away to a man. A man, slides it into Schengoon, lost the ball between his legs, hands it back to a man for reverse layer. Oh my goodness he flipped it over the right shoulder and the Rockets have the lead Thank you Obed Thompson 13 straight for the Rockets my goodness

Van Vlito will inbound the basketball 11.8 seconds remaining Van Blee gives it a shankoon who jams it down one of the past in the middle of the lane Cornett got behind him Alfie with the right hand throw down and Houston takes the lead one 12 to one 10.3 seconds left to go. Another rebound for Manbley. To a man Thompson, down the lane. Uralstead for the win.

He got it with 7 tenths of a second. He hit the five-footer. Gathering Pritchard launches to end the game. It's no good. Off the top of the backboard. And the Rockets win it in Boston. Right down the middle of the lane. It's a game winner for a man.

and another huge road rockets win oh my goodness queen rossie rock and roll one of the old timers

great good for you good for me good for them good for them and Freddie Mercury top three frontman all time yeah for sure songwriter

Lyruses Entertainer And the guy that Adam Levine Is that who was it Who replaced him? I guess so Really good

I'm not a big fan of League guys replacing guys Like the guy From Journey sucks But Adam Levine Crush when Queen came to Houston A couple years back

Crush Adam Lambert Oh Adam Lambert Whatever Adam Levine Lambert same thing Robert Plant Mick Jagger Freddie Mercury

Top three What's up? Robert Plant Huh Makes the Charlotte list, huh? You know, I got to throw Led Zeppelin in there for you.

You know how I feel about that? Don't even say it. I won't. Man, I'm counting down the hours until Kendrick Lamar entertains us at halftime, baby. Man, man, I cannot wait. I think he's still 16 Grammys up on Barry Manilow?

We'll see you in another week. How many that goes to? Okay, well, we'll see how America feels about him in about 11, 12 days. Okay. It doesn't matter. It's all, it's all.

as you enjoy it, Ross. Yeah. And while others hate it, you want to? That might be a bad show. I don't know. We'll see. No, there's no chance. You can't have a bad halftime show.

What do you mean? The Who was terrible. That's when they went away from the old acts because they're all old. Yeah. 50% of American members are going to hate it. 50% is going to love it. What was the most roundly beloved one ever? Probably Prince?

Was that 20 years ago at this point? No, probably 10 years ago? Yeah, when he did the phallic thing on the screen? Oh, that was 2007. That was 18 years ago. Oh, God, I feel old now. There's no way. University of law.

I don't have a great memory of halftime acts. All right, let's go through it. I will say this. Beyonce, for me, back about 10 years ago. We know you love that one. That was a good one. That was strong. Yeah, they went away from the younger acts because of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake showing nipple.

Well, just Janet did. I don't think Justin did. Yeah, I think Beyonce, the Bruno Mars one was good. Cold play was terrible. Lady Gaga and Houston was decent. Don't remember. She jumped out of the stadium. Who was 30 years ago today?

30 years ago. 95. Hold on. Let me pull it up. scrolling. Scrolling. Joe, Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden. Patty LaBelle and Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood? What? That's a weird trio right there.

Teddy Pinder. grass? Tony Bennett? The Miami sound machine? Michael Jackson's was 93. It's like a 12-minute show and he just stood there for like three minutes. He mailed it in, didn't he? Nah, I think he, it was kind of, as the kids call it, Aura. He was just standing there still and the crowd was going nuts.

That's all I had to do because he was that popular. Yeah. After that was Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Trit in the Judds. Hmm. Oh, is this hard, believe it or not? Diana Ross in 96. Billy Joel ever? Billy Joel? Elton John?

Nope. No Billy Joel. That's right. Kendrick Lamar's got that over, Billy Joel. Yeah, okay. Just saying. Seriously, I want everyone for the Super Bowl to get around their televisions, and we can do like a live, what are they calling on Twitter when you do a live,

spaces of how great it is. Some will like it, some might not. Maroon 5 kind of sucked. They always suck. Oh, I'll tell you the one that everybody loved. Shakira and Jennifer Lopez in 2020, that was spectacular. I can't even name one Gelo's song, but it doesn't really matter.

It didn't matter. Oh, the weekend was decent after that. Okay. Let's go the phone. Alex League City 112 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Alex, good afternoon. Thank you for holding. Yeah, no problem. Thanks for having me on. Ross, I think I need your help on this one.

But Matt, didn't you say that you'd pour clam chowder on your head if the Rockets beat the Celtics? That's true. No England clam chowder. Let's go. Let's get the video up. I know you've already left Boston, but where can we witness this? Just head to the grocery store, Matt. Come on now.

I can't pour cream soup on my head. You said you were going to do it. So you're telling us that folks, you're a liar? They already knew that Come on Mr. Generous Can I do like a chicken broth instead? Why? What's the difference?

Easier to clean? Oh, just put it on your sheet for the maid. You don't seem to care what she has to clean? How about chili with beans? Can I do chili with beans instead? Oh, my God, without beans. Like a real Texan. Yeah, it's got to be without beans.

Isn't that what we discovered? Well, I like it either way. I'm not a, I'm not a chili snob. I like it with beans, but I didn't grow up in Texas either. All right, Alex, you have outed me, and for that, I thank you, I think. That's great. I'd forgotten about that. I did.

I certainly forgot about it. Thanks, Alex, for the phone call. I'm not putting clam chattered on my body. Well, then why'd you lie to the people? How about this? If the Rockets win the NBA finals, I will pour a soup of your choice on my head. Okay. I swear to God, I'll do it.

I'm going to go scalding hot, matzo ball soup. No, it has to be room temperature. Why not scalding hot? Because I don't want third-degree burns, Ross. fine we won't burn you I mean do you really want me to be going to like an ER right after I put the soup on my head no I don't

you hear that folks I offer to put soup down my body he wants it scalding hot can you listen to yourself what is happening what is happening with you you're talking about putting soup all over yourself yeah what is this show

like the least popular would be like a split pee with bacon I'm going on a cream of mushroom cream mushroom would be good. I'd actually enjoy that. You haven't lived until you've had your body soaked in cream and mushroom soup. Actually, it might be therapeutic. I'm moisturizing. Correct. All right, we'll go back

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up in about 35 minutes from now. We have more your phone calls to get to. We're going to hear from our friend Stephen in Los Angeles, so about the Rockets game. And I do want to play some more of that Dana Brown sound that came away from today's media availability after the deal with the Cubs and the Astros was finalizes and Ryan Presley to Chicago.

114 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Now, Felipe may have a better idea, Ross. Maybe I'll pour jelly all over myself. Nobody ever serves a hot jelly. I got a crazy idea.

Go ahead. Don't put any food on yourself. That's true. How will we just celebrate any Western Conference Championship in Belmont? Potentially. It's not waste soup. You know, Matt, there's people starving all over the world. Yeah.

Yeah. Just lather me up with, like, soap. How would we donate some Kansas soup to the first? food bank. I think it's a great idea. By the way, the worst fantasy five you say was ever was favorite soups.

Soups was bad. Horrible. By the way, I'm taking a bean and bacon. Like what? Do you think we should do a redo of the Fantasy 5 best SNL actor slash actresses?

No, because I'm still pissed off that you won with Keenan Thompson. I had like Will Ferrell. I can't even remember. I'm just going to get upset. The show's been on 50 years. I think Kenan's been on it 47 of them. Seriously.

You know why? Because he can get a better career because he's not that good. I disagree. I think he's just such a veteran member. He's so mid. Oh, stop. If he were that dynamic of a personality, he would have got a big movie deal somewhere.

He does Steve Harvey. He does what up with that. He does Celebrity Jeopardy, a Black Jeopardy, which is hysterical. The show has been a disaster, basically, the entire time he's been on there. There's some funny things I mean, good for him and carving out the career that he did, but

But when you think if you're like If you're him, aren't you like the oldest kid in college? He's 46 years old. It's for up and coming actors. You have all these 26-year-olds he's working with And he's like almost their size of age of their dad. Yeah, he looks young though. Yeah.

He didn't look 46. So he's a game. His A-game is Mendoza. a level. One of the all-time great characters. Oh, stop. You're so ridiculous. I'm still upset. I know you were. I got robbed on that one. Stephen

at 123 on Sports Talk 790. Stephen, good afternoon. Hey guys, how's it going? Good. What's going on? A couple points and comments. Well, first of all, a great call last night, Matt. I mean, watching the broadcast, but one of the few good things

about social media is that you can find stuff like that once it happened. So I was able to listen to it a few times and really good stuff. But I just wanted to kind of get your guys' thoughts on, I mean, Emia Doka's got to be on the short list for Coach of the Year, right? I know, you know, obviously there's a couple of teams that are ahead with better records, but, you know, I mean, those were good teams last year and playoff teams. I don't think anybody saw the jump that the Rockets would make.

And I know there's a lot of seasons still left. But to me, he just has the strongest case for Coach of Year because, man, he just got these guys ready to. I mean, they just don't give up. You know, I think it was in the fourth quarter when Boston made that 10-0 run. I was like, okay, well, you know, they had a good fight. It's probably the game's over or close to getting over. But they just fought. and that was just like a, that felt like a heavyweight fight last night

where just haymakers were being exchanged. And I think the best compliment I saw somebody make about that game last night was that for a Monday night game in late January, that game had no business being as good if it was. But just wanted to hear your thoughts, and I'll hang up and listen. So appreciate the time as always, guys. Thank you for the phone call. Appreciate it, Stephen.

Yeah, I mean, will there? this spark. I know that the New York Times had a story on Alper and Shingoon. I know the athletic did his story about Alpi. I think a men's about to get down the cover of some magazines pretty quick here, at least it be front cover of

some stories on online stuff. I think his startup is about to really burst here in the next couple of months if the progression continues. Yeah, we've been talking about the NBA needing to invest in new charismatic young stars. I'm in Thompson's here. Let's go.

Yeah. yeah he's here and he's and he's very likable yes not not real comfortable on the mic or doesn't have a lot to say well i think he's pretty naturally funny i think he's okay he he doesn't speak in long spurts but what he says stuff it's pretty good like how about him refer uh we're talking with venez on tv last night that when he thought about that game when he shard he thought he was coby that that's something that coby would have done yeah he said he felt like coby is i think and i and we wouldn't have necessarily have to do a poll question with today's NBA players, but if people, if today's NBA players want to be somebody, they don't want to be LeBron. They want to be Kobe. And I think part of that

is because, obviously, Kobe's legacy is amazing. Also, these kids that are 21, 22, were enjoying Kobe when they, still playing when they were seven or eight years old. Yeah. And you're still going against LeBron at age 40, where you never had a chance to go again. You never had a chance to go against a childhood hero. Oh, yeah, and Kobe died in a helicopter crash, and we know that you kind of... I mean, let's be honest, we lionize people who die prematurely.

Yeah, that's fair. It adds kind of to the lore and the aura of it and the mystique. Yeah. But even if he had not passed, I think there would have... When he was alive and we were talking about Kobe, we put him on the house.

We put him on the outside of the top ten, just inside the top ten, right? I have him just outside still. Okay. I just think if you look at the efficiency, I mean, he... I want to speak ill as dead, Matt. No, no, you're not. No, this is about just...

A basketball. Yeah. He's kind of a chucker. I mean, come on. He scored a lot of points, but he got up a lot of shots. Yeah. Part of what I think makes a great basketball player alive or dead for that matter, and looking at the history is how efficient they were.

And that to me is a lot. because again, I don't care that you score 29 points a game if it took you 26 shots to get there. And that's one of the things I think that Jalen's going to need to do if he wants to take his game in the next level is to be much more of an efficient shooter. Yeah, 06, Kobe, I'm pulling it up, average 35 points per game. It was on 27 shots per game.

What was a shooting percentage? 45. It's pretty good. It's good, but it's not as good as Jordan. It's not as good as LeBron's. Is career three-point shooter, 32-point. 9%? Just put things in perspective. Jaylin is at 43% from the floor, 36 from 3, which is improvement.

A men is at 56%. He went 13 of 19 last night against the Celtics. God, that's efficient. Now, it's also knowing where he's comfortable on the floor. And the only three is I ever really see him taking nothing that everyone is. But usually to me, the three that he does take when he wants to take them are usually on the baselines. he doesn't take the corner threes and doesn't take the straight-down threes

very often I shouldn't say never but I would think if you looked at a shot chart of where a man's longer shots that are being made from that distance are probably on the baseline and I would also like to say I have Kobe top 15-ish all-time I don't know I mean certainly top 15 I don't know where

probably somewhere between 10 and 15 he's one of the all-time all-time grades yeah I could put in between 8 and 14 18 15 and be very comfortable with that very very comfortable All right, 128 Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're going to talk to Joe about the Rockets, and we're going to get also some of the Dana Brown cuts from earlier today.

He met with the media via conference call to discuss where the team is on a variety of things. We'll hear from him next. And believe it or not, coming up in 20 minutes. It is the Matt Thomas, Ross, 128 Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. I was just looking at Ryan Hollins's

Instagram Rossi Charles Barkley's at our hotel You guys go into the casino? They don't know if casinos in Atlanta side of it. Dang. Fascists? I know. Yeah, I wonder, he must be,

there's a TNT double-headed and I wonder he must be working it because it's Lakers, Sixers, followed by Bucks Blazers. Ugh, yuck. Not good. Did you see the Golden State Warriors are retiring Andre Igwadal's number?

Yeah, I brought that up on the show earlier today. Okay, I missed it. You, um... I must have stepped out. No, you were there. We were talking about it. No, I was saying, we were talking about Comson of Men Thompson.

No, I stepped out. Okay. So you're not thrown by that. I don't like that. I don't like that, uh, I don't like that comp either. Okay. Yeah. He was there for six years.

I mean, they won a bunch of championships, I guess. Yeah. He did win more finals. He got more finals MVP's and Steph Curry. Does Steph Curry still have zero or did you finally get one? We're losing the value of retired jerseys in Hall of Fame. We're softening it up in all the sports, not just basketball. Oh, no, yes.

Steph Curry did get the one finals MVP finally in 2022. Good for him. Yeah. All right, 713212. If I don't know, Charles, he'd come up to the room. He brought me some lunch. Why? He's not going to bring you lunch.

Why not? He didn't do anything. They don't go on the year until 730 at local time tonight, so what are they worried about. Okay, I sit the over and under and three and a half rockets. How many can he name? Over under.

Who could he name? Jalen Green. He would try to say Alper and Schengu, but he would butcher the name. He would forget it, so that doesn't count. He's got to get the name right.

Man, could he get? He would call him Amen, Thompson. Does that count? Yeah, he might get Fred Van Fleet. Ooh. He might get Dylan Brooks. I think three and a half's a good number. That's a great number.

That's a great number. number. That is a great, great number. You and him share the same love for Galveston, which is sad. No, he hates Galveston. No, that's not true. He just said the water's dirty and brown, and it's not wrong. It's not being polite.

It's our little island getaway. Nice people. Yes. Excellent restaurants. Uh-huh. Good shopping. There's nobody across the country going, I can't wait to get to Galveston, Texas. You know why?

Because it's our little secret hideaway. We don't need to be telling the world about it's not about secret hideaway. Panama Beach is in a secret hideaway. Oh, is that what you want? You want 19 putt-putt courses and stuff like that? I'm not saying it's what I want. I'm saying it's not desirable. I'd rather spend my time in Galveston in Panama City.

There I said it. It's your little five-and-half side piece you can get away with for an hour. City's as cheesy as hell. I got another one hot take-free. Golf shores is cheesy as hell too. I've never been there. If you're going to do that area of the country, give me Destin for the win and call today. Sandestine, if you will.

A rosemary beach. Let me try to find the top 100 beaches. Would they even make the top 100? Jalbiston? Oh, yeah. They've got to be in like the 9 to 10 range. In Texas? Joe, on 790.

Joe, good afternoon. Matt, they've got to be there. I have a place in Galveston, Matt, so yes, yes, I'd agree with you. Yeah, that's my boy. Gallison is nice. I was going to ask you, Matt, because I was out beaten. But what is, is Kim playing? Is he okay?

He is still questionable. He's battling flu-viracy type things, so it's in it pretty hard. Oh, yeah, and then I was, that was a great game yesterday, and then I was listening to Vanessa after we're talking to Dylan and amen. And Dylan kind of let out a little four words. out there, huh? Yeah, and obviously that's not what they would like, but in the moment. It wasn't like the intentionally, it wasn't like the message.

Hey, give me a swear word that gives you your emotions right now. But you were excited. That was his first win there in a while, huh? Yeah, he says he never wins in Boston, so I understand that. Exactly, exactly. Now, he only goes there once a year because he's only been the Western Conference, but yeah, it's a tough place to play. 19,000 people, they're in it from the start.

They boo the hell out of you from start to finish. And they've got every, as I mentioned earlier today, they've got 95 banners up there in every retired jersey number you could possibly think of. Where were you at? I know you were talking to Ross yesterday about where you're going to be sitting when you were doing your... So, I want you to, are you driving right now? No, no, I'm good. Okay, I want you to close your eyes. Okay.

I don't want you to pretend you're in a mid-court. Okay. I want you to turn your body to the right. Mm-hmm. And I want you to go all the way to the baseline. Oh, Lord. I get the baseline yet? Yeah.

Okay, now I want you to go past the baseline about another 10 feet. So you're off the court at this point. Right. And I want you to go another 10 feet. Then I want you to turn right again. And I want you to go another 15 feet. What the hell's going on? I have no idea, Ross.

And now he's in the popcorn line. Then I want you to go four rows. upstairs. Four rows. Oh, my goodness. Yep. Wow. It's embarrassingly bad.

That's why, frankly, thank you, Joe, for the phone call. Ross, I was scared about the Amend Thompson final play because I didn't want to butcher the call, but that was about, let's see, 15, that was about 100 feet from me, way on the other side of the floor.

Hmm. It's embarrassing. And look, I'm not going to bitch about it too much, but it's worthy of a bitch once per year. Yeah, but you keep bringing it up and posting it. Yeah. It's bad. It's embarrassing. 71st Beach in America.

Galveston? Yeah, I was wondering if there's going to be the top 100. Okay. Well, then, you know, you owe Galveston an apology then. Yeah, 71. Top 71. Okay. Where is Panama City in this group?

Oh, man. I close that tab. Do you want to go get it back? Sure, want to. Oh, Jesus. How are you doing, Matt? This is from Housley.com. Would you want Panama?

Panama City Beach, they have ninth. Really? Number of cheeseball restaurants? Number one. Hmm. You can find a booby Tuesdays there like four different locations. Oh, this includes Hawaii. That's not fair.

Oh, see, now that's a bad poll then. Because Hawaii isn't the first ten spots. Do you want to read you what it says about Galveston? I'm afraid to, I open the box, go ahead, let's do it, get it out of the way. I'm not a super big fan of Texas Beachage. It's standard stuff for a beach. That's not terrible. I thought it'll be way worse.

That's good. That's all he says about Galveston is that? Basically. Okay. Well, if I get a beach house, I'd bunch of buying one at Galveston. You're always invited to stay there. Okay. Yeah, I'll go. It's fine. You need a quick five out of ten getaway. It's fine.

Name the next five out of ten getaway besides Galveston, if that's what you're calling Galveston. Fredrickspurg? Ooh, don't tell women that. They'll hunt you down like a rabid dog. Oh, yeah, let's go get wine drunk on terrible Texas wine. Oh, my God. Women love Fredericksburg. Ugh. Huntsville State Park, five out of ten.

gets the job done. I'd rather go to Galveston than Huntsville. Livingston State Park. Livingston State Park is a little better. Five and a half. I like Lake Livingston. Yeah. Look, I'll go there.

I'm not saying it's bad. Yeah. I'm saying it's close. It's an hour away. Yeah. We don't live in the most scenic part of the country. Sure. Gets the job done.

You'll get away. Go to Galveston. There you go. He's a golf shrimp. With that dirty-ass wall to be washed up on the show. You people think they're in the beach. That's funny. He is funny.

He really is. We've all been there. It's not act like it's since pristine crystal clear waters. I mean, I'm not looking. When I watch that inside the NBA show, I'm not looking for analytical breakdown of the game I just watched. I'm looking for being entertained, and he entertains me. Corpus Christi, 6 out of 10.

What's up? Okay, let me give you Lake Travis. Oof. I hate Lake Travis, actually. Give it a great. I don't like lakes just because it only reminds me getting hammered. It was bad times. How about floating the river?

that's a good seven out of ten yeah i've never done it but people love it you're not a real texan but i'm not hating on it you hear that i'm not hating on it i'm not hating either that's fine hard time for not fall in the river no that's fine whatever i don't care i don't want to urinate myself and drink

drink cheap beer why not because i'd rather do it in a five-star resort yeah oh that's right you're not mr you're mr indoors you're fancy mat yeah get a deep tissue massage hot rocks glass of champagne Yeah, fancy Matt. Yeah.

Hates the outdoors. Tolerate the outdoors. When's the last time you spent a night somewhere outdoors? Well, guess what I'm doing with the family next month? Oh, okay. That's because it ain't costing you nothing. You don't know that. It's not going to cost you much.

You go to Two Creeks Crossing Resort. Look at this perfectly did. Lake Livingston. That's where you find the awesome looking waterfront cabins. If you want to breathe the fresh air, deep breathe. You want to get a glamping tent, really spacious. The yurts are very spacious, too. Can I go?

I mean, yeah, because I would bring you along as kind of an expert. Go for a walk along Lake Livingston. Yeah, I'd do it. You can come for sure. All right, let's go. And if you want to join us, just in general, 40% off of those waterfront cabins right now at 2Creekscrising Resort.com. That's the website, 2TWO, Creekscrossing Resort.com.

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They've got an ice house they were on on the weekends as well. It's a nice place to get away for one or two days to relax, not too far from the city. In fact, 90 minutes from downtown Houston. And it's up along Lake Livingston, and it's a really nice place. If you have your own RV, you get 20% off an RV site drop today at Two Creeks Crossing Resort. If you want a waterfront cabin, and one of them is so nice, you can basically put two families in it, and it's got a hot tub right in that cabin. It is spectacular.

Two Creek's Crossing Resort.com is a website to TW.cruxcrossingresort.com. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. All right. The NBA Rising Stars Challenge will be announced in 11 minutes. I would assume a man would be a part of that for sure, right? That's a fun little game. Better than the All-Star game, for sure.

Didn't Brony turn it down? Already he did? Yeah, I thought I read that. Why would he hardly plays? that's probably why he turned it down. Oh, Chris Tapp's Porzingis technical file last night. Got rescinded by the league office today. Oh, really?

Was there not enough contact? Maybe they said, you know what? You're a seven-foot-two guy who can flex on Dylan Brooks because he's got a reputation. No worries on that. Hmm, interesting. You know, you get a certain number of technical files you want to have having to miss a game, so.

I think Dylan's always on the top three in technical foul. per year. How's Coach you don't get doing these days? He's fine. Can you write that off on your taxes? It goes to the NBA whatever fund, right? What do you say? When the IRS says, why are you taking this as a deduction? Because I told a referee that he needed some effing glasses.

It felt kind of personal. Yeah, it was a little much, but it was great. But when EMA gets one, he wants to get you the best dollar value. You know what? Because Dan Tony used to always tell me, I, man, I never swear. I never swear. email has never told me that no

when a referee walks by and says I'm gonna wash your mouth out with soap next time you talked to me like that you know there's something going on I was a little strongly worded I felt yeah all right five minutes left to go on the show what should we do

we could play America's fastest-scoring sports radio game show we simply called it be leaving or not here's how it you call 713-212-5-790 713-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe it or Not is, I don't know what the category is.

What is the category, Ross? Retired numbers. What made you think of, oh, because of Henri Guadala? Yes. All right, I'm going to give you a player in his number. If it's been retired by a certain team, you'll say this. Believe it. If it hasn't been, you'll say this.

Not. Two believe it or not in a row when you're a prize. What are you playing for today, Conardee? A pair of tickets to see Reba McIntyre live on March 4th opening night at Rodeo Houston presented by Shell Federal Credit Union and some $790 t-shirts. Ross' favorite Reba McIntyre song. I come from the Land Down Under? That's not her.

Mine would have to be. I'm going to go with a remake of Nights Went Out in Georgia. Kind of old school, rebates. I think Midnight Train to Georgia. I'll go with that one. That's Gladys and the Pips. Joe on 790. Joe, you're ready to play Believe it or not?

Believe it, Matt. Joe, you just called. You can't call twice in the same show, but we love you, so we'll let you do it. Okay, thank you. Ray Allen, number 34, Milwaukee Box. Believe it or not? Believe it. Not.

All-time prize, get out of here. Oh, man, we love you, Joe. Frank on 790. Frank, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Howdy, believe it. Steve Nash, number 13. by the Dallas Mavericks, believe it or not? Not.

That is correct. Name number two for the win. Jason Terry, the Jet. Number 31, Dallas Mavericks. Believe it or not? Not. That is also correct. Congratulations.

Let's go to Eddie on 790. Eddie, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Do believe you're not? Vinnie Johnson, number 15, by the Detroit Pist. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win.

Blotty DeVots, number 21 by the Sacramento Kings. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. That is also correct. Roger on 790, Roger. You ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it.

Nick Collison, number four, Oklahoma City Thunder. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. Name number two for the wind. Dennis Roddyvats. Rodman's number 91 by the Chicago Bulls. Believe it or not.

Believe it? No. Although my guess is Ross, no one's number one 91 again by the Chicago Bull. Probably not. Let's try one more. Let's go to Loretta on 790. Loretta, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it.

Loretta, Zach Randolph's number 50 by the Memphis Grizzlies. Believe it or not? Believe it. That is correct. Congratulations. You're going to see what you. Ross, I'm not going to be around tomorrow for Shut Your Bumass up. Can I tell Nate Burson to shut his bum ass up?

Yeah, we're getting word from him. He says for you to shut your bum ass up. Let me tell you something, Nate. You ruined Hollywood Squares. And you told me who to fan boy and who not to fan boy at Super Bowl. Shut your bum ass up. We're getting more word. He says, I'm hosting a major game show and you're not suck it.

Nate Burson, you're the one that best at, got sideways with no one because you're a nice guy, that you were best friends with Drew Barrymore, and she sucks as the center square, so you can suck it. Wow. Although I'm a big fan of Drew Barrymore. Just put in the lower middle category. They get asked like one question per show.

Even Triumph, the comic insult dog is so funny, but he's not even funny on that show because he can't swear. Yeah. He was on the old one, right? No. Yeah, he was. No. Tom Bergeron?

No. I think he was. Okay, you know what? It's bet a dollar on it. Let's bet a dollar on it. But triumph is hysterical, but now he's been neutered. Play on words. For his, on the Hollywood scores now.

Sucks. All right. Oh, by the way, what is Clint wearing today? Does he have a men in Thompson jersey on? Tune in to Space City Home Network to find out. I can't get Space City Homework Network here in Atlanta. I won't be able to see it. Sounds like you can't find out.

Damn. Maybe you should work, he says. I am working. I just finish a four-hour show. What happens tomorrow? Uh-huh. I'm traveling. I can't control the schedule.

They don't look, they don't ask for my time schedule. They don't work six days this year. Glenn will recap his time on the Astro Fan Fest broadcast next. With the team right here on Sports Talk, 790. Thank you.