The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Rockets Fall to Hornets, Ime Udoka Joins

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets Fall to Hornets, Ime Udoka Joins

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. To a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show and Ross, this is Sports Talk 790. On you wait in line for jerkeys. It's really pretty quick. I'm looking for offense and rebounding. Size and girth? No, I don't look for size and girth in guys. Why not?

Stephen Adams has a lot. How would you know that? You don't? You haven't seen them out there? I mean, he's probably the strongest guy in the NBA. The girth? Yeah, he's girthy. I didn't even wear mine.

It was just, it wasn't. Because you said you had a neck, you had a sweaty neck, and we can't have a sweaty neck. Yeah, exactly. It's too functional. It's too good. A sweaty what? Yeah. He's anti-sorty neck.

Do you like having a sweaty neck? Depends on what you're doing. We're going to curse and discuss a lot of Seahawks and Patriots for four hours. That's what we're going to do. We're going to get into the linebacker versus tight-in. we're going to get into whether C.J. Stroud's a good quarterback or not. We're going to get into a bunch of stuff because we're going to cuss and two o'clock. All right. That sounds great, Matt.

Yeah, it's fine. We're going to pass on that. I love talking football. I love talking football too. It's America's pastime. Yeah. With people, yeah, we need, we got nothing on this. We got zero sexiness in this game. What? Yeah. What do you mean? How many calls that we had about the Patriots Seahawks this week? Second MVP candidate. Yes. Finish number two, Drake May.

Yes. Sam Donald Reclamation Project. He's looking for redemption. He'll say, shut your bum ass up, Minnesota Vikings. They're not saying that at all. Kenneth Walker, ascending as the RB1, Jackson Smith and Jigma. Can he be locked down? Or is that his name?

Yeah, that's his name. What do you mean? Oh, you didn't catch the old NFL awards last night, did you? No, I didn't. We'll be playing some of that today. Didn't catch one second of it. Yeah, there were some name mispronunciation. I saw Mike verbal.

Yeah, that didn't turn out. I saw that one. Not a whole lot of... I mean, can we not get pronunciation guides literally on the iPads they're reading? Well, the reality is this. And this is the number one rule. You always write things down phonetically.

Yes. When somebody says, like, when I get the stat person's name in a different city and I get some strange names, he's like, I'm starting to write it down like, it sounds. And he's like, no, there's a T in there. I'm like, no, I don't care. I want to do it so I don't butcher your name there. And that's how I do it in my launch pad

in scripts. Really? Write it down phonetically. Like you're like Nemeas Keta, which would be K-A-Y, but it's Q-U-E. Well, I read a basketball reference because he's Portuguese. It's Nemeish. Okay, well. Well, I look at the pronunciation guy.

Oh, they didn't have it in there? Okay. No, they did not. They did not. But it is, I know a lot of Portuguese people in Brazil. I believe we're number one in the Portugal market. Like they say, Bruno Fernanche. Okay.

But that, we're not doing Portuguese basketball. Not the NBA and NBC Portugal. In Portugal. Portugal. Why not, Matt? You've been to Portugal? I would love to go. I would love to see the Iberian Peninsula.

So you're way more of an international travel than I am. I have some parts in the USA I want to still go. Well, if you've noticed there's one place. You know like because I'm Mr. America. No, you're not. I've been called Mr. America. Thank you. By K, so I didn't self-gloss myself something.

Who would do that? Yeah, that would be weird. Well, if you notice, one place I haven't traveled extensively would also be the most expensive place to go and that would be Europe. I would love to go to Europe. I want to go to Italy. I mean, all of it. Portugal, Spain.

England. England is kind of lower on the list. Is that wrong? Yeah, because I went once and I granted it was, I'm miserable, but it was terrible. The people were rude. The food sucked. It was cold. It was, it. The beaches aren't good. The food doesn't have a good reputation, but I'm sure you can

find good food. And the weather is supposed to be miserable. I don't care about people's teeth and they do have bad teeth. Who cares? When you're staring at somebody and they call you an F and A hole, yeah, it matters. I was on a double-decker.

Nobody called you that. Did they? Absolutely did. I was on a double-decker bus. What were you doing? I was one day of sightseeing. You stepped on some guy's toes. No, and apparently I got up earlier or later or whatever, and the guy just turned around and goes, effing.

I don't want to swear. Fing a-hole. Did he use the word arse instead of ass? So I told my girlfriend at the time, who was now my wife. Okay. I said, did I do something wrong? She goes, you did absolutely nothing wrong because Kim will tell you when I'm doing something wrong. Why didn't you kick his ass?

Ars, you mean? Yeah. No, okay, that's it. Yeah. There's too many parts of this country I've never been. I want to go. I know. Further up New England. From C to Signing Shee?

I want to go to Charleston Hilton Head. Yeah. See the Shining Shee? I can't speak. That's fine. I was in the same mistake. It's not like I do it for a living. That's fine.

Hey, it is. I'm tired. It is amazing. Post game shows. I know. I listen to most of it. Thank you. I didn't hear Gerard.

Oh, Geron was actually, I got stopped dead in my tracks because as you know, Gerard normally monologues for three to four minutes. Right. One minute into his, his, and normally kind of like, I don't want to say mentally check out, but you kind of mentally relax. You put your guard down because there's not going to be much back and forth with Gerard. So I started to relax and he asked me what I thought about Cam Thomas, like very beginning of his. I was like, what? Oh, you stop talking?

And then, yeah, I think the rocket should pursue Cam Thomas and then he went on his model. Yeah, I'll say this. And we will get to a little bit throughout the course of show. I don't think it's going to be a deep dive into the show. but there are lots of veteran buyout players out there that all look great. Yeah. And Tamara was upset. It was her first Rockets game and they played like ass.

Oh, God. She was like, are they going to play? Like, it's my first Rockets game ever. I was excited to go. And then they didn't play well. Which we can get to. We have to? But I appreciate y'all calling me on the post game show.

I love it. Even though I've been sick and tired. And then that's the, it was two horrible games and I was sick and tired. And then, of course, there are longer post games because people want to call to complain. But I still appreciate it. No, we do the show. We do the show for complaining. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you for calling in. I love y'all. We'd love it. Call in if they win, but, you know. You know what? I love every single one of you listening right now. You're awesome.

I love about 70% of you. Okay. I love you all. Thank you for listening. All right. So, on the radio show today, E. May and Doka, this ought to be a real chummy conversation. He's going viral, by the way.

I mean, we have to talk about that. About Alperin's defense? He was asked about Alperin's shinggoon getting attacked and picking rolls. And I thought, thought, I think it's for people outside of Houston are shocked by this. This is E. Meadeoca. This is who he is. If you listen to the interviews we have on this show, you listen to pregame

audio, postgame, he doesn't pull punches. He doesn't mince words. He didn't call any, he didn't say, yeah, the guy's terrible. He said, yeah, Alper Nshingon gets attacked and pick and rolls. That's how it's been since I've been here. And that's a fact. You meant doca, this, people are like, oh my God, there's a locker room troubles in Houston.

Oh my God, Emaudoka's calling out his team. Oh my God, this is like, this is who I mean, Adoka is, he's going to be, I mean, straightforward. Yeah. Let me just tell you what I think I'm seeing. And if you want to call excuses, I can live with that. That's fine. Because when things don't go well at your office or at school or your kids' grades,

there are excuses, whether they are excuses just to give lip service or their excuses because they're valid. I think the rockets are tired. I think they are looking at that calendar going, or our last game until the All-Star break is next Wednesday. We have three games left. Can we hold on for dear life? And sometimes you just get to a sluggish part of the year.

I'm going to check this out before EMA joins us. I believe this happened about the same time last year for the Rockets. Yes. They wanted a five or six-game losing streak around this time. And that's not a good excuse. It's just the reality of it. You had two days off in between. You had a long break because of the end-game in-season tournament.

You've been playing a lot of back-to-backs. I mean, Thompson is playing the second most minutes. in the NBA behind Tyrese Maxie. Kevin Durand has been either third or fourth. They're plum-tuckered out. They just don't look fresh. And I agree with you. And it's a number of things.

It is kind of the words that we were using early on the season, they got in a better flow offensively, and they were knocking down threes. But it is those, they're not knocking down open threes. Makes me think of tired legs. Clunky offense. Not going after 50-50 balls the way they were earlier in the season. More ball-wise.

watching, not getting back as much in transition. Like a lot of those little things that would make you believe the legs are a little bit tired, I'm seeing on the floor. Yeah. So we'll get to some of that. We will be gentle, but we'll ask... And coach is going to say that that's not an excuse. He said that

a post game is like, yeah, everybody else plays a tough schedule. It's the NBA. Yeah. And I think there's still seven more back-to-backs between now and the end of the year. What, seven? Yeah. They've only got like 32 games left or whatever. What is it? 31, whatever games left. Yeah, that's why I've been crankier.

working these games. I know. I know. I'm having to deal with it. You know, you're doing great. I haven't brought you coffee today. I know. I know. I know. Jonathan, I didn't know if you were coming or not, so I didn't bring you any coffee, but I don't think, you're not a coffee drink. Are you John? Yeah, he is. Is he? He has got me a cafe all the time. Oh, God, Jonathan. I feel like asked. Matt lives in his own world, Jonathan. I got some more gifts for you coming next to by the way. Don't worry. I was trying to get out of him back. Jonathan, I know you were busy doing some stuff with a family yesterday. Uh, the producer who filled in for us. What's the name Nate? Nicholas. Nicholas. Nicholas.

and it was something with an end. He opened up his library of music. We had the most bizarre bump music in the history of the Matt Tomas show. It was a little five-finger. 16 years. Death punch. He played Ain't No Mountain High enough,

Marvin Gay and Tammy Terrell. That's a good one. Yeah, I mean, he was playing some jams. Now, I'm going to tell you this, Matt. I guess Nicholas is young in the producing game because I used to do this. When I first became a producer, I was like, oh, my God, I get to pick the music.

This is the greatest thing ever. And I got super into picking what I thought we're creative and good choices. And at the end of the day, as you go along in radio, nobody cares about bump music. That's right. Just make good content. The only reason why you,

we'll build it Kurt Mechle of Radio 101, the only reason why you want bump music, you need bump music to set the segment up. Why can we do our opening show with some highlights? I usually pick a song that has something that relevant to the game or the city they played or the corner or how it went. From 1976 or before, yes. That might be fair.

And I'm trying to get better, I don't think I'm going to. That's okay. You know what? You're a tiger. I'm just going to tell you. I don't want to ever change because you're going to expect something different. You're like, that's not the Matt we know.

You're right. By the way, I had to go. If you showed up in like a toupee and a Hawaiian shirt, I'd be like, what the heck's going on here? Be yourself, Maddie. So yesterday, it was a little bit of a blank storm with Matt Thomas getting the job in Minnesota. Yeah, people, well, first, no, hold on. It's my fault. You, yes, thank you.

You leaned into it. You changed your avatar to the Minnesota Vikings helmet. I did. And then you're like, man, I can't believe these people think it's me. So I got congratulations. I got a phone call from a great friend of mine in Minneapolis. You're moving back. All this.

It was a lot. So I'm never doing that again. I lost some Houston followers because I'm like, I'm not going to follow a guy talking Minnesota sports. Oh, wow, you did? Yeah, that's fine. That's funny. It is what it is.

I lost like Rocket fans. I'm like, do you realize I didn't call? I called the game last night. No, Matt, they didn't realize. Yeah. Unfortunately. So yeah, the Rockets were terrible again against Charlotte. Lamello ball.

I don't know if y'all know this and I don't know if you watch or not. Shoots the ball from his belly button. Falling away. Like he was making tough shots, man. Tough, tough shots. Rockets did not make tough shots. No, they did not. They shot okay, but they just.

The pick and roll got killed by that. Another Diambate, Musa Diabate, before that it was Nemeas Keita. I mean, we're not having fun against Athletic Fives. No. No. Yeah, Kevin Durant, 31 points? Nice. Jabari Smith, I went 18, 17?

17. Very nice. No one else in double figures on the whole team. That's not great. All right. There was some butchering of some names at the NFL awards last night. Yes. How bad were they?

You'll hear them next. 1015. The Matt Thomas Show at Ross 713-212-5-790. It is an anything goes Friday. That means anything. We give you a long leash usually Monday through Thursday. The leash is especially long on Friday. So if you want to talk about what you're having for Super Bowl, who's hosting, are you

going to somebody's house? You're going to Big City Wings? Are you going to just sit at home at loan? What are you going to do for Super Bowl Sunday? What's the spread? And then the game itself, you want to make a prediction. Rockets lost last night, which was not very good. Two straight home lost to two Eastern Conference teams.

And a variety of other things to get to. Between now and two o'clock. EMA I doke at 11 o'clock. I'm sorry, is at 1130. And on Florida stories at 1.30. Less than 2 million people watched the Pro Bowl the other day, which was excellent. For anything, the NFL usually turns on. There's millions and millions of millions to get 1.1.

Nine. Oh, such a positive sign. Why is that great news? Because they'll get rid of it. It's stupid. Why do you care? Because I really have something else on. Play a real pro bowl game. Like what? You wanted to play real football and risk injury. Why not? After the season. Why not? And the most violent sport in major American sports. They did it for 50 years in Hawaii. They can do it. Yeah, because they weren't making $50 million a year. All right. They just abolish it then. Yeah. Because I don't want to hear, oh, it's so great. We have nine pro bowlers in our team. Well, you get to play nine people. Get to play nine people. Get to play. a ring toss. Yeah, ring toss is fun. It is not fun. What? No chance.

Okay. Ring, no. What's the other game when you play with the bean bags? Cornhole. Cornhole. You should know that. You're white, Matt. Come on. This is your area. Why are you dropping the white card on there? I'm so disappointed. Come on.

I knew what I was talking. He just didn't forgot the name of it called. Cornhole. Yeah. Cornhole. But that's not, it's a regional name. I think they call it bags in the Midwest. Do they? Okay. Maybe when we go up to the...

That's what I heard from Shmo Shmourge. Oh yeah, is that right? Okay. Bags. You gotta say it like the bags. Yeah, bags. Let's play some bags and have a cold pint. Polish sausage.

All right. So yeah, let's get rid of the Pro Bowl, and I will have something accomplished in my life. When I went on my deathbed, father, husband, and helped get rid of the Pro Bowl. I've been saying no to the Pro Bowl for years. It could be going away. I mean, nobody watched it. It's not interesting. should just be named to the Pro Bowl.

And that would help out where my issue of people getting pro bowl selections rather than Pro Bowl replacements and then being calling a pro bowler. Like Cedore Sanders, I'm a Pro Bowl. Not that he's saying that. Anything that Cedor...

Come on. Samar Sanders is competing in in 2026 in January is not a Pro Bowl. They got turned down by Justin Fields. Oof. What was Malik Willis doing? He'd go, I'll go, hell yeah. He should have. Hey, he's going to be a highly sought after free agent.

Highly sought after is a strong term. Highly sought after. For what? I saw that. For one half of football he had? That'd be a put your name on it. Miss, hopefully he can have a resurgent in his career. He is never going to be a good NFL quarterback.

Let me tell you, I am the NFL analyst. I am the NFL mind. Okay. I am an insider. I know these things. Malik Willis cannot play at the NFL level. He's done it before and every time he does it except for one half he sucks. Just saying.

Okay. I'm putting my name on it. Yeah, I know. I got it written down somewhere. I'm sure you do. It's funny. All the things that I have on you, you've lost somehow. No, yeah.

Hey, it's not my job. It is my fault. Yeah, exactly. I should be doing that for sure. It's not my job to tell you all my misses. All right. Yeah. My memory was better.

All right. So last night was the NFL Awards. I did not watch it either because I was busy the Rockets game. Yes. I'm assuming you did not watch it. I was watching the Rockets and doing pre-and-posts. game show. Yeah. Okay. And well, I probably would have rather been clawing my own

eyes out than watching the Rockets offense, but it's okay. All right. I believe this is offensive player of the year in the NFL? Is that the award we're talking about next? I believe so. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that they split them up by conferences, right? No. No. Offensive player of the year. What happened?

Well, this happened. Play it. Well, uh, the winner decided not to pull up tonight, so I guess on his behalf, uh, Jackson Smith, Nijiba. Nigibah. Nigibah. Nijiba. J.S.N. Mm.

I'm not a fan of any of the mispronouncing. Okay, was that Drusky? Yes. Okay, that was probably... Now, how do you feel about that? I was probably on purpose. Really? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a comedian. He's a comedian. He's a tasteful, though. I don't know.

Yeah, that's... I didn't realize that. I didn't realize who did that because I didn't watch it. Now, is he funny? Yeah, he's been pretty funny. He's got some good skits. He's been on, like, he's on prize picks. He's all over the place.

He's a viral, like, internet skits person. I don't know. He's off on Twitter. What do you call that? Content creator or whatever. Influencer, I guess. Comedy influencer. I mean, I know who he is.

What's the name again? Drewski. Oh, D-R-E-W-S-K-Y. I've seen the name out there. Yeah. No, D-R-U-S-K-I. Okay, maybe somebody else. he's got let's see

1.6 million followers on Twitter probably more on Instagram so he embarrassed himself and the dude out there with him also embarrassed himself right I mean he did that on purpose

he's trying to be funny he's got 11 million followers on Instagram why are we doing this why are we taking the NFL awards and putting up celebrities to make them have their bits I don't know that was yeah

all right number two unfortunate someone called Tiffany Haddish. She's a comedian actress. She's also a comedian, yes. Her breakthrough role was in the comedy girls' trip. Sounds like fun. Here's her responsibility. She was to name the coach of the year in the NFL. A 2025 AP coach of the year is Mike Verbal. She threw an R in there.

She's like, She's like, Verbal is busy preparing for the Super Bowl. It's Michael Verbal. She threw an R in there at least with the verbal. Now, Verbal. Let me tell you something.

Tell me something, Matt. In fairness, there are names that are difficult. Yes. But if you do one little bit of homework, just a little bit. And you get one shot at this. Yes. You can't make that mistake.

mistake. Now, someone should have said, you're going to announce this person's name. Here has, here's how it's pronounced. And again, they should have definitely done a pronunciation on the card. V-R-A-Y. Yeah, like an iPad. They're reading. V-U-L-L. Whatever it was. You can't do that. That's pretty bad. Embarrassing. So that's the NFL Awards. By the way, Matthew Stafford, probably got the cutest thing in the whole night. He wins the MVP. he brings his four daughters up there and they're all matching dresses. It was, as the kids would say, adorbs.

Was it Toots adorbs? Or just adorbs? Just regular dorbs. Okay. Because I don't know what the first one is. Okay. So, congratulations to him. First ballot hall of fame, yes or no?

With an MVP now? Super Bowl? I say yes. Yeah. He said, well, yeah. Do you remember back in the first week of the season when we were even worried about whether or not Matthew Stafford was going to play this year

or that week because of the injury? Yeah, I thought his back was broken. It's spinal. And then he kept throwing it to Puganakua like 41 times. Pooka Nukuwa wants to get paid, by the way. You can pay it paid in Houston, right? Have you seen the cap space in Houston? I was just trying to bring something positive.

They can't pay Cade Stover. I'm going to pay Puganikua. Why are you bringing him in here? Why is he catching strays? We love Cades over. We do. We're a big Cade Stover fans. Yeah.

All right. Kyle wants to talk about the Rockets. Do we have to? All right, fine. Hold on, Kyle. Okay, what is it good? We're going to come back with a song for how the game was last night. I don't know.

Is there any songs about Charlotte? And there's unfortunately too many Charlotte highlights in the old audio bank. Yeah, we have more Charlotte highlights. There's more lamello ball and Musa Diabate. Musa Diabate. There's more Musa Diabate highlights than Albert Shinggoo. Culk Brenner. Who?

That guy's second round pick out of... Colk Briner. Culk. So I went to go ask how it was pronounced. You better watch out. I looked at it and I'm like, this could be weird. And so I went and talked to the television announcer for the Hornets. And he said, it's like Hulk, but just Hulk.

Okay. Culk and Brenner. Concaniple's a ball or two. Boy, he's good. How about two dukies that are stars? They're going to finish one, two in the rookie of the year. I know. They lost a U of H.

That they did. So suck it, con cannipple. con canipal sounds like what would that be like what kind of name is con he wouldn't be an accountant well it's german i believe would he be like a i had a principal may he rest uh kin canipal really yeah in the sixth grade and then in high school are they related at all no it's spelled differently okay can you can you imagine though being a middle school principal and your name is connipal it probably doesn't work well but when you're the like the number of four picking the draft it's okay i mean he was nice great i met him a few times as principal I only met one of my, well, I knew all my assistant principals, but I only got sent to the office one time.

You do be by first name. You did not get in trouble that much. I'm just trying to oversell it. Okay. Mine was legit. You know mine. I've told you that before. Okay.

Yes, Matt. You win, Matt. No, I'm just saying, but mine was the most bizarre. This is better. No, you're, yeah, good job. I guarantee you, your story will not be as bizarre as mine. You're right. You win, Matt.

No, I don't know. I'm with you. No, yeah, you're the greatest. Well, I mean, that's true, but that's a different issue for a different time. mine was the most bizarre way to get sent to principal's office and involved basketball 1031 on sports talk 790 713 212-5-790

Don't want to be sure Sometimes I feel so insecure So distant Well we were going to play some Charlotte highlights But Wex didn't play me so Oh well I'm team Wex I don't need to hear these Hornets highlights

Selene Dion We got some J.D. Davidson highlights. We do not. We got a Jeff Green poster. What? Baseline right, three point try, back iron missed that time off the hands of bridges. Rockets going to rebound from Capella. Holiday, right side to Jeff Green.

Going to go up and jam it down with the right hand as he beats the man Ryan Cole Brinner and with a foul on top of it. That was a nice poster dunk. Yeah. Of course, you couldn't make a big call on it because it was Rockets are down 24 or something like that. That would have been really artificial. Yeah. Oh, man, that's tough. Yeah, and then we're going to Oklahoma City today.

I mean, that's fine. Granted, SGA's not playing. Yeah, you got a fighting chance. They lost to the Spurs. Hey, we, we, uh. How many times they played the Spurs? Like five or six? Oh, the Thunder?

Yeah, that's because I think there was a extra game. Yeah, there was NBA Cup game in there somewhere. Yep. Hey, we went to double over. time in game one of the season there. And I think we lost the them, what, in the fourth quarter was a difference in that Oklahoma City game, I forgot.

At least there will be an early afternoon game. Then they get two days off. They can whip up on the, on the clippers for two-street games. No shit bots and no James Hardin. No, I'm calling it right now. Two-game winning streak, minimum, heading into the All-Star break. By the way, did that Jonathan predict like six in a row?

Yeah, it was they won five out of six or four out of two, and then they lost two. They won eight out of ten before these last two. People pretend to forget about that. The last we forget. The last good feeling I did was just, okay, see, they be, okay, see, Saturday. Okay. Tomorrow.

I said one and two. Hey, I said one and two in these three games. They're owed two, so they're new. Let's go, man. Kyle on 790, good morning. Mr. Texas and Ross, how are you guys doing? We're doing great. What's up?

I have a question for you, Matt. You're pretty much know everything. Thank you. The Rockets have really disappointed me in the last couple of days. Do you think it's because the league is catching up with them, or is the effort, are they ready to get to the All-Star break? What is the deal? They look like watching James Hardin back in the day.

The answer that is, and Kyle, thank you with the phone call. We brought this up at the very beginning of the show. They're pooped, and you have to fight through that because the NBA schedule is frankly relentless. A lot of back-to-backs, a lot of three games in four days. We just finished one. We're now in the midst of another one. They have seven more back-to-backs, you said? I think so, yeah.

14 of the remaining 31 games are going to be back. Would you allow me to count real fast? That makes me sad. How do you think I feel about the whole thing? Oh, man. It was a nice leisurely stroll at the first two months of the season. I was refreshed alive. It was feeling good.

Yeah. Here are the back-to-backs The rest the way. L-A. Okay, that's both at home. Sacramento at Orlando. What? Oh, gosh.

Then Golden State Portland back-to-back. Toronto and then an at Denver back-to-back. Atlanta, Miami back-to-back, a New York, Milwaukee back-to-back, and then a Philadelphia-Minnesota back. I mean, as I'm saying, this stuff's piling up here, my friend. Fantastic. All right. Well, we'll see how it goes.

I don't even dare I look. They're still in fourth, right? Okay. But they're tied with the Lakers and the Timberwolves. Yeah, the- Five and Sixth. The Lakers last night came back to beat the Sixers after the Sixers were up. We did get some help the Warriors to beat the Suns last night. Spurs won at Dallas, so there's a little separation there. Yeah, this was... Yeah, Wimby had like 29 and 11.

What happened, Matt? It's fine. What happened to our beautiful Houston... Earlier earlier. You're right. Okay, okay, okay. Sky's not falling. It's not known.

The sky's not falling. Rocket Twitter believes it's falling. And by the way, yes, can we address that? Sure, we got plenty of time. I mean, if you think Raffel Stone needs to be fired because he didn't make any moves, you're not paying attention. They, they, they, they, you know what, listen to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt Thomas said there weren't going to be any moves. I thought if there was going to be a move, it'd be a small one like literally Jeff Green sending a second round picked for a little cap relief to try to make somebody, sign somebody in the buyout market.

You should not be shocked. surprised that there were no big moves made or any moves made. The favorite was no moves made. Calling for Rafael Stone to be fired because he didn't improve the theme of the deadline means to me you were not paying attention. I mean, unless you believe that Cody White was going to be the difference, Kobe White was the difference between where they are now and winning 60 games. They're a million and change from a hard cap. What hurt this team, variety of things.

one, the schedule's relentless right now. Number two, they still continue to miss Fred Van Blit. They're always going to miss Fred Van Bleet. And three, a very small, intangible, but it nevertheless is an intangible. There was a little blank in the blood of one Dylan Brooks that the rockets just don't have right now. Yeah. And I mean, Alperyn Goon, on the difference between last season and this season, this is from Kelly Eco. The difference is Fred.

That's, yeah. And I know we don't want to hear the same old excuse, 50. games in, but it does matter. Stephen Adam's going down, does matter. I mean, you're missing two major rotation pieces for the year. It's hard to continue to win when a team is constructed

in a certain way. And this is the way this team is constructed, the chips were basically pushed all in. They knew they're going to be up against the cap. They're like, well, hopefully this works out. Because the CBA's different. It's not like the old days where you could pay everybody and go way over the cap and just pay a little luxury tax and move on.

You get hard capped a lot faster in the new CBA. And when you have, I don't know what Adam's money is, but Fred's north of 30 million, right? I think 20, was it two years 50? So 25 a year?

Something like that. Somewhere around there. So that's a lot of money that's not contributing. Yes. And Tari doesn't play back-to-backs yet. He was trying to play. Dorian Finney Smith doesn't play back-to-backs.

And he hasn't played well. And Tari doesn't play back-to-back. So you're missing him. You're having to play a 37-year-old, a ton of minutes. And I'm in Thompson. And it's not only the minutes he racks up. It's the one he's out there.

He is your best perimeter defender, so he's running around everywhere. And then you run a lot of your offense through him. So, yeah, he's going to get tired. He's young, but you ask a lot of him. Yeah. And Alperyn Gungon's dealing, I don't know if the 39 points didn't seem like he had a bum ankle on Monday, but he just has not been moving well the last couple of weeks it feels like overall. And the shot has gone up and down.

There are nights where Ed Ball is going in from five feet off the window with a nice soft touch. and another time it leaves his hands and it's just it doesn't have any movement to it, no rotation. You can't have a big man going three of 11. No. You just can't. No. All right, 1044 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

713-212-570. And as anything goes far as you guys have been very active so far in the early portion. We love our 10 o'clockers. So you are more than welcome to join us here on the show. 7132-1-790. We have EMAID docket coming up at 11 o'clock. I'm sorry's at 1130. And then coming up today at 12.

1230, I'm going to ask a question for all of you men that don't have sports wives. Hmm. That's at 1230 today. So you're going to want to listen for that. Oh, I'm intrigued. Well, you should because it's really, it's more of an answer for people like, you've got friends that are female that are not sports fans. Yes. My wife is a sports fan, so she will easily watch the game with me and have zero issue with it.

Yeah. But there are men out there right now that do not have sports wives. So I want to throw that question out for you today at 1230 about how you'll spend your Super Bowl Sunday. That's appointment setting radio. I would hope so. Let's go. 713-212-5-790. And we are with you on anything goes Friday.

7-13-212-5-790. Ross, did you know the pre-game coverage for the Super Bowl starts at 11 o'clock our time on Sunday? Oh, really? I was hoping for 8. I was going to get up at 8 a.m. Well, I guarantee you if you put ESPN on it. I'm going to get on my velvet robe and just, yeah, well, walk out in my fuzzy slippers and watch some pre-game coverage.

It's an interesting conundrum that the networks have because they pay literally billions of dollars for this game and they'll make it back. I mean, they put the ancillary programming in front of it and behind, well, mostly in front of it. Plus, I'll also put a great new show they want to promote after. So when you don't have two teams that have any national cachet, like there's no blank talking between the two teams. We said there's maybe four or five recommendations.

as well players at the end of the day combined between the two teams who I think the I think NBC is in a tough spot because I think you probably have to open it up for a variety of things that are not overly related to new England and San Francisco because or between New England and Seattle because if you sit there and spend a lot of time talking about those two teams that could get pretty damn boring pretty quick and they'll figure it out they get paid a lot of money well they're like you can find storylines they're putting a crew out at Alcatraz to do part of the pregame show Why are they doing that? Because, again, they want us to catch a glimpse of it.

And this is Al Capone's old cell? Like, what are they going to do out there? Have you been to Alcatrazia before? I've never been to Alcatrazia. I would go. It's worth going once. I wouldn't go back again. Okay.

But it's what you kind of think it is. Okay. Just an old decrepit prison and to talk about escaping and where it is. The boat rides nice. The weather's nice. Now, if it's cold, it's really brutal. You've got to really got to bundle up. But it's definitely worth.

It's like going to go with Craig Ackerman? No, I'm with Cameron and my wife. Oh, okay. That's what I meant. Yeah, but it's like going to Graceland. Everybody has to go to Graceland once in our life. Just to see it. For its time, it was an incredible area.

They don't have the toilet there, do they? Yes, they've got bathrooms. They don't have the one that Elvis died on. Do they? No, I don't think they picked it up out of the hospital and dropped it off. They don't have like any of his old pill bottles. Wow, this got dark quick. I'm just asking.

It is funny, though. When I was, you know, you didn't tell the whole story. I went in 1996. And Elvis's... I mean, they got a replica of the rifle that John Kennedy was killed with in the six-floor museum. It's been 30 years. I want to go back. But I remember seeing Elvis's grave.

Yeah. And the most bizarre thing about it was somebody had brought him a canned ham and put on top of the grave. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, that's what, they didn't bring them out. What was it? Peanut and peanut butter sandwiches? Yeah.

And Quailudes. If you're going to bring me something back and put on my grave stone, you're going to visit me. Loopy tortilla fajitas. maybe some wings from big city. Of course, a McRib. A McRib would be fantastic. I mean, it'll stay there forever. It's not going to decompose because it's not real meat.

No, no, no, no. That McRib, it will petrify like petrified wood. It'll be there for 30 seconds tops. That gristled pork. People are like, is that a McRib, let's grab it. Yeah, that pork gristle is not going to break down easily. Uh-uh. But, yeah.

So I would say you have to go to Alcatraz if you go to the Bay Area. Yes? I mean, it's probably. I went to San Francisco. I didn't go to the Alcatrazement. Yeah, it's worth it. I went to Wine Country. I'm sure that was worth it.

I was wine drunk by 9 a.m. in Sonoma. Was that just off of samples or stuff you bought? Samples. Okay. Come on now. Basically, the thing to do is I guess you have to take you, you shouldn't drive out there because. Oh, it was a party bus we were on. Yeah.

Well, good for you. And then you got to go to Graceland in Memphis. Just say that you did. I'd rather go to Dollywood. That's in Nashville. You can do both. Wait, Graceland's in Memphis? Yes.

That's where Elvis is from. I got to tell my grandma. I think she thinks it's in Nashville. She said she's going with her friend. You better tell her quick when they're leaving today. No, I get a couple of weeks. No, it's about three hours from there. Oh, I like, get your bus.

You're going to make Grandma go out and take a bus? I'm not making her do anything. I didn't plan her trip. Nobody wants to go on buses. Grandma's on the bus all the time. She's old school, baby. She's born in 1941. You think she ain't never out of a bus?

I have not been on a bus for distance. Okay. And paid for her since 19. 78. I was six years old. Okay. And we took a bus from the Tampa airport. I used to take a bus to the Alamo Bowl every year. That's different. I'm talking about like bus bus. Like if you grayhounded somewhere before in your life?

Yes, absolutely. Forget what I said. Stop. I'm wrong. Yeah. I flew in Denver one time. I had a game in Oh, it was in Omaha. Yeah. I had a game in Vermillion, South Dakota. And I took a bus from Omaha to Vermillion. Okay. Yeah. That wasn't grayhound. I don't think the big deal is. The buses are nice. The people aren't, though. Ooh, sketch.

You're fine. You know what? Sketch. You're just a whiner. Sketch. I take a bus to Austin to go to, they drop off on campus, the rega Russ. But that's different. That's not different.

I'm talking about OG Greyhound. Yeah, but it's a Greyhound. It's the same people on there. I told you the girl sitting next to me had a bottle of rum in a water bottle. It was asking me if I wanted any. Mm-hmm. And then she asked me if I wanted some rum. Emad Doke is going to join us.

I bet you you could find love stories on a Greyhound bus trip. Yeah, there's another part of that story. I guess I could tell it real quick. Yeah, you got a minute. Her sister picked us up, and she was going to take me somewhere on campus, and then her sister took a chug of the bottle of the rum bottle and started driving. I was like, oh, these are the people you meet on the bus. So you just told the audience two minutes ago, oh, it's fine.

The people are great on there. I'm here. She got rum drunk. I'm here and I got a great story out of it. Check and check, pal. It was all fine. She just took me like 10 blocks. It took me from the drop-off spot to the stadium.

You're not fair for your life at any point during this. I wasn't fearing for my life, but I mean, it was a little scary. You were slightly concerned. All right. I'm gonna'em adoka. After I, if you think I'm asking him about his Greyhound story, not gonna happen. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1101, Sports Talk, 790.

We're gonna spend 10 minutes with our friend, Emma, Doca. Rockets will be taken on the old. Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow and OKC. We'll visit with Coach about what has happened so far. The last couple nights, disappointing performances, obviously against Boston and against Charlie. Coach, thank you for the time. It feels like, and this happens with every NBA team, you certainly have been to link long enough. Maybe there's sometimes a race to the All-Star break.

And you guys, especially your stars, have played a lot of minutes. And I know that's an excuse, but how much does that play a factor with the way that maybe you think your squads play the last couple nights? I mean, it looks like our energy isn't there, no doubt. And so for us, you know, before the Boston game, we talked about our last five games, with Boston Charlotte going to O'KC and then the clippers on the back-to-back. We want to finish on a good note. A lot of teams in the league is struggling are struggling right now, and we don't want to be one of those.

We want to go the opposite way and obviously haven't had the right energy or competitiveness in the last two games. And one of the things that has been such a trademark of your team while you've been in charge is winning the 50-50 balls. And I'm sure there's a metrics that's determined that the last couple of games. And it feels like those have not been a part of the Rockets' repertoire the last couple nights. Yeah, that's stood out for sure. That lack of rebounding, I think, you know, you can count 50-50 balls, loose balls, or offensive rebounds for other teams. And, you know, to give up 20 against Boston and then be out rebounding last night on offensive glass. Charlotte, you know, a team that's playing more small than, you know, one or two bigs at a time.

Shows that the competitiveness on the glass is not there. The race to those balls is not there in areas that we usually dominated. We're getting beaten. There was a comment that you were responding to about the pick and roll with Alpy, and there was some defensive issues again last night. That's got to be something that, you know, that Alpi's got to feel bad about. Obviously, that he got used a couple of times on baskets. he was so fluid offensively and then the last couple of the games.

Is that ankle causing maybe perhaps more issues that he's one of the lead on to be at this point? I mean, there's fatigue, no doubt, and you know, you tweak it a few times, you're going to be a little limited with your movement, but I don't think Alperin was going to use as an excuse. You know, obviously played through it and had a great game in Indiana, and it's going to be up and down until you can kind of rest it. But, you know, I think just in general, it's not just on Alpy, pick and roll of the two, Two men defense, two people left the guard, and our guards are getting clipped way too easily on screens and not really fighting through.

So it's tough when guys are coming downhill. You've got a lot of threat behind you. And we just need to do a better job overall, being up at the level initially to take them off the jump shot and then keeping the roller in front of you. On that, you're not teaching this. I mean, these are grown men that have been playing basketball a long time. They've been around picking roles all their life. But what kind of adjustments can you make? Is it simply showing Alpi or anybody else involved in that?

that here's what's happening on videos. You've got to fight through these things. You've got to be able to get a step ahead. What do you all of a sudden in the middle of the season when you're trying to play three games and four nights to say, hey, if this is on tape, other teams are going to try to do this against you? No, you definitely can teach it and still walk through it

and shoot-arounds and get our technique back to where we were. Obviously, training campus for those reasons. And when you're one of the best in the league at it, you know, the technique starts to slip, obviously. And so for us, like I said, it's not just Alperin. that guys impacting the ball, getting into the ball when the screen's there and kind of fighting over and blowing it up. But that's the first point of it. And so, you know, we're taking a circular route to try to get back in front or running right into the screen, which leads that two on one.

And so it starts with the ball handler. We always put the onus on them to get through and contest guys and get back in their rearview. But if not, Alpsa, you know, play two for a second, hold it up for a little bit and let guys get back in front without giving up the lob. like I said. A similar bad stretch last year heading into the All-Star break and then of course we know in December with a lot of traveling games on the road

there were some losses that you guys would have liked to not have. What do you take away from that as far as trying to get out of this funk? The shooting will come back around eventually and that was the case in December so it's a little bit different here where you know, yeah guys aren't playing at their best

no doubt but the energy and the competitiveness was there in December. It was just a case of missed shots. And if you don't compete at the level we did and you miss the shots like we did, there would have been a lot of blowouts, but there were very close games, there's some overtime losses. And so that's what we've got to get back to, the edge and just the competitiveness on the defensive side, offensively being aggressive and confident still.

And that's the main thing now. You know, it's just missing shots before. And we're still in games when now we've got to bring the juice and energy that we didn't have in these last two games. Rocket head coach Ime Adoka with us here on Sports Talk 790. No moves made at the trade deadline. Was there anything that as far as discussions you were involved in, where there were some moves that were possibly close? And I guess it seems like the shock topic is that you guys might be active

in trying to find some buyout moves. Yeah, no doubt. People called. We have a lot of young, talented players and a deep team. So teams are definitely calling about our guys. We like where we're at, I think, with our group. You know, you have Fred out, you have Stephen out. So some of our depth has gone there and some of our, you know, veteran leadership and IQ in those things.

But the team that we have now has got us to fourth place in the West right now, not playing our best right now. And we know we have a much higher ceiling that we can get to. And so what we want to see is get back to who we've been. You know, a lot of teams are struggling right now. If you look at the standings or the streaks right now, we're seven and three in our last 10. even with those two losses and a bunch of teams are five and five, four and six, you know, kind of going through it right now. And that's when you look at OKC or Minnesota or the teams right around us.

A lot of teams are going through this right for all-star break. So what we're going to do is stay at the course with our guys, seek growth and improvement with our young guys throughout the rest of this season. And that was our mindset with it right now. As far as a buyout, you know, there will be guys out there and there will be opportunities to look. And we obviously can do something then, but it has to fit, has to kind of go with our plan of improving with our young guys through the rest of the season and seeing if anything we can add will help us like really really jump into this into that

lineup you know it's tough to beat out some of the guys that we have now and so we'll look at that when the time comes hey uh when i don't know if rafel and you were on conference calls or rafel came to you but were there some calls you took that were like are you kidding me or are as you're too late in the game to be doing silly kind of uh trade proposals I mean, there always are. Guys will throw out names of the guys they like and, you know, throw out scenarios. And it's just really exploratory things. And I think for the most part, we shut those down pretty quickly.

But no, when you have the amount of talent that we have and guys that, some of the guys aren't starters, that would be starters in other teams, teams who are definitely going to call about them and throw out some ridiculous trades and stuff like that. But obviously, we love our crew. We love the core of our team. Like I said, it's all about getting back to doing what we were doing previously before these few games. And when it comes to buyout guys and maybe grabbing somebody late, is that an agent to GM call? Can a player call you?

Can you speak to them? What are the rules about that kind of stuff? No, I mean, once guys get bought out, their agents look for the best situation for them and, you know, kind of canvas the league and rosters for situations that might be a good fit. And, you know, it's got to be a mutual thing. But, you know, for us, like I said, it's going to take something. incredible to crack our rotation and, you know, kind of displaced some of the guys that are playing really well for us. And so we're more focused on ourselves, no doubt. There will be some things that will probably be appealing, but we'll see when the time comes. It's definitely a two-way street

as far as that. Let's go to read real quick for a let you run. There have been some magical games for him, and obviously he's playing much more than he ever played last year, and it's given you much more production, but there has been a slump of him about the last five or six games. I don't know if you want to chalk it up to additional minutes going against the greatest players in the world, ball doesn't leave his hands well, angles. Where have you seen the down production from Reed, say, in the last two weeks or so? Yeah, definitely just the main shots, I think, you know, similar to Jabari going through it earlier, and I'll be going through it at times.

Young guys specifically are going to have these throughout their career, especially early on. And so it's mentally staying confident, continuing to be aggressive, you know, and slowing down and making the same shots you got. You know, you can't get better looks than we are with a lot of guys. And for us, it's not rushing the shot or getting anxious with misses. But also, you don't want to just determine a great game on made shots only. And so that's what we reiterate the point to the guys, if you're missing shots, there's still other ways to impact the game.

And we've seen guys do that without scoring a ton. But obviously, for scorers and shooters, it can get into your head a little bit when you're missing these open shots. You start to press a little bit. but we want guys to stay confident and aggressive knowing that it just takes one game to kind of get out of that shooting slump but it sucks that

it does happen to everybody and then the worst part is when it's a bunch of guys at the same time. You know, it's a kind of snowball effect there and we've seen games this year that would that happen and right now a few guys are going through it. Well, let's end on a positive note. Jabari Smith Jr. was 17 points

last night. Nice to see him bouncing back and the three-point shooting has been better from that slump that he went to in the middle of January, just your overall thoughts on him on both ends of the floor and specifically that kind of pet go-to bread and buttershot of his, that pull-up mid-range

is really going down nicely. Yeah, like I said, it's just continue to stay the course. You know, trust the work that you put in. We have faith that guys will continue to work their way out of these shooting slumps and he did that. And so it was great to see him back, you know, making the shots

that he was making at a high clip early in the year. And we know that's always going to happen. to come back around. But, you know, as you're going through it, it's hard. But guys understand that they have to continue to be aggressive, continue to not shy away from things. And then, like I said, impact the game in other ways. But Jabari, with this size and versatility, you can get to that spot and pretty

much shoot it over anybody. And so good to see him, obviously, knocking down the threes, getting back to his mid-range pull-up, which he's very confident, comfortable in. And like I said, once he starts to make his like he has, and Alpy gets his touch back around the basket, and Reed makes these shots. you'll see it start to flip for us again. EMA, thanks for the time. Good luck, In O'KC. We'll see you on the plane this afternoon, and we appreciate you joining us as always.

Thank you. All right. EMA, Doka, joining us here on the program, 1112 here on the Matt Thomas show. Ross Rockets trying to snap a two-game skid in OKC. The game is tomorrow at 2.30, and we'll have it for you right here on Sports Talk 790, and then something called two days off in a row, Ross. It's been not much of that in the last month or so. It would be nice, Matt.

It would be nice for you, too. I know. rest those pipes. I know. Hey. Try not to get you sick. I know. You sound better today. I feel better. Did you take something? I've been taking a lot of everything. Dayquil, Eucinex, NyQuil, I'm not a huge fan of

over-the-counter stuff, but sometimes you just have to because you can't go to the doctor every single time. I'm throwing everything at it. I'm throwing the kitchen sink. A lot of broth, chicken and rice soup, chicken and noodle soup. You don't run in a fever? Cornbread. No fever. That's good. Because I have to leave. 1113. We got I'm sorry.

coming up in 15 minutes. What do you have to apologize for? I got a lot to apologize for, Matt. I feel like you always do. This is kind of like it's your most cathartic time. It's not true. I'll come up with something. I know you will. 713-212-5-790. 7-13. 2-1-2-790.

11-13. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross with Amsari's at 1130 on 790. All right, we've got Amsari's coming up at the bottom of the hour. Thanks again to E-May for joining us. And look, E-May is pretty level-headed throughout all this. He's probably not thrilled about talking about two home losses in a row, two non-competitive games.

That's not what the Rockets are about. The Rockets have been one of the best teams at home this year. They've been awesome against the East. But these were two that were gut punches a little bit. One, because Boston wasn't at full strength. And Charlotte, good, but it's still Charlotte. Vegas isn't everything, Matt. Uh-oh.

I love when you drop that Vegas isn't everything card. You were eight and a half point favorites and then three and a half point favorites and you lost both games. I mean, it's disappointing. And it's not only that they lost. You know what? Hey, you're back and forth. They're getting loose balls. They climb back into a game and they fall short or something like that.

It's easier to take. The Celtics game in the third quarter, they just get completely blown out and they just look listless and without energy. And then, yeah, the game last night, again, the offense just was not good. Three of 11 from Outbrinch and Goom. Three of seven from them in Thompson. Kevin Durant. I mean, he's battling out there, Matt.

You look at just the box score. You're like 11 to 21, 3 or 4 from 3, 31 points. Man, he was bawling. Like, even he is looking like he's having a fight through some lack of energy. But thankfully, he's just so gifted and worked so hard. He's one of the greatest shooters to ever walk the planet. And he can knock down those tough shots and battle through that fatigue. Just the rest of the team wasn't able to do it.

that's why and maybe this is just compounded by the fact that I don't like the formats or anything about All-Star Games. If there's any basketball, if there's anybody on the Rockets team that could use three days away lying on a beach or sitting in his apartment with the doors shut and all the shades down, it's Kevin Durant. And he's going to go to L.A. for All-Star Week weekend because that's what the greatest of the grades do. Yeah. And also, though, Kevin Duran is such a psychopath. Like he's probably, even if he didn't make the All-Star weekend, because he's probably, even if he didn't make the All-Star weekend. Star team. He'd go to the gym and get up a thousand shots because he's just a workaholic and that's why he's as great as he is.

And one of the all-time great players. And what does he know on the all-time scoring list? Sixth. Yeah. Michael Jeffrey's in front of him. Michael Jeffrey's going down this year. Michael Jeffrey's going down and then I think it's Kobe after that and that's going to take some worries. That'll be next year. Somebody in a Houston Rocket uniform is going to pass Michael Jordan on the all-time

scoring list. That is right. That's awesome. And you're going to be on the call. Yeah, that's why I don't I don't write them out But I definitely think about what I'm going to say Well And I thought

And my philosophy has been keep it simple stupid Don't try to be cliche or some goofy rhyme Or stuff like that like John Sterling of Yankees Uh huh A dinger for the ringer You know stupid stuff like that They get a space jam reference in there Yeah

I believe Kevin Durant can fly I like that No I'm not doing that I'm not doing that at all. 713-212-1-2-5-7-90. This Santa Clara Stadium looks awesome, by the way. It's beautiful. Yeah, now those that do, and this is...

Levi? Is it Levi? Yeah, and they started the trend. San Francisco, real estate, ridiculous, expensive. Oh, my God. It's like a million dollars of square foot over there. Oakland, there's no chance that we're going over there. So they went, as the crows fly, what? It's got to be an hour south of San Francisco downtown?

I don't know. maybe 45 minutes. I don't know. I only know where Pacifica is. Their boy softie is. Yeah. Well, I'll say this. When you actually,

if you're going to ever go see a Niners game, it's actually easier to fly into San Jose than it would be to fly into San Francisco. Okay. Yeah. So southeast, it's about 45 miles. And it has no traffic. You're, ooh.

53 minutes, it says right now. You can take the train. Point being, they kind of started the trend of these suburban stadiums. Oh, okay. Isn't it crazy that, 30 years ago. Now, you weren't in the business at the time, but I was just starting out.

He was, man, you've got to go revitalize these downtowns. And it did work for some places. It was a big deal for Toyota Center to be built downtown proper. Even the summit was thought of is not in town as much. Correct. And obviously when Minutemade was, or Ron, whatever was created, that was, are you kidding me? We're putting a 40,000 seat stadium in the smack of downtown Houston. Man, downtown Houston's going to be happening.

Oh, yeah. We're not. And then it didn't happen. Why not? I guess we're just too spread out. Everybody just heads home to Katie and Woodlands and Baytown and Sugarlands. We are too spread out. Now, Chicago's spread out, but Chicago also has 75 years of history.

I mean, think about this. How many people... Well, they're trying to move out. Yeah, the bears are going to move out, it sounds like. They're going to be out of there. But let me ask you this. Forgetting about sports, there are people that grew up and lived and went to school and that lived in downtown Chicago.

How many people lived in downtown Houston? Live in downtown Houston. Grew up there? No. Went to school? Zero. So there's no history to begin with. You grow up and live in New York.

Manhattan. You know, even Brooklyn's not downtown, but it's still a big metropolis area. They didn't go out to like East Rutherford in the neighborhoods. They didn't take the train everywhere. Yeah. So I don't think it's our fault. It's just how we were built as a community. That's true.

Have you ever ran into somebody ever in your life and were like, hey, well, part? Oh, you're from Houston? What part? Downtown? I grew up off a Bagby. What? You did what? Nobody ever says that.

Caroline, I was right there. Yeah, I lived the corner of Caroline and Rusk. Why? You did what? No percent chance. No percent chance of that. My mom worked downtown for all of her life here in Houston, and she would drive in and would drive out.

There was no happy hour with the girls of the office. There was no. Well, maybe I went aware of it. But you get my drift in this is that you literally, drive in and drive out because the drive itself is a pain. And if you wind up staying a couple of hours and then you live out in say even Jersey Village, which is a close

suburb, you're still looking at, you know, if you go out and have a pop or two at 7 o'clock at night after work, you're not 9, 30, 10 o'clock, you get up the next morning and go back to work. Yeah. It's just, we're just not conducive to it. But it is interesting that the Bay Area moved their football team. Now, now the Niners played a

candlestick, and they were never in downtown in San Francisco. It was close, but it was close to the airport. There was anything else. but we are seeing this trend of teams moving outside of downtown metropolis. I don't know if it's because of our issues, it's because the cost of land is so ridiculous, expensive. And when teams are, in theory, paying more than they ever had before, hell, the Cowboys have never, well, the Cowboys put the Cotton Bowl in the 60s.

But that's it. They've spent all their life in Irving and in Arlington. And I'm, to be curious, I really in my gut tells me if the city of Houston or in Harris County does not want a pony up for any sort of enhancements to energy, which they probably show. It would be in their best interest to do it. Oh, for them to pony up. I was going to the public. I don't want, I'm not voting for that.

But my point is, I think there is a tangible help with big events coming. I mean, the World Cup coming here is going to help. It's going to fill up restaurants and hotels for at least a few days when I remember it's. Yeah. But the question is, are you going to take 10 days of that and say, well, that's worthy of spending hundreds of millions of dollars? It normally doesn't. Probably not. But think about this.

We're never getting a Super Bowl again. My guess is we're not going to get a Final Four again. We're going to be out of everything except for, frankly, Spanish soccer exhibitions in this world. Oh, those are nice. Those are nice. Manchester City's coming to town a couple times. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, they want playoff games.

They want everything. They want college football playoff. They want the final four. They want regionals. They want money. Well, but I mean, that's what you build it for. Yeah, I know. and you might as well have as nice.

I mean, we're not a poor, we're not a poor community. We should have a nice facility. It's just going to be who wants to build it. And if the city has to come up and spread some of that money, where do the profits go? Does it come back to the city or does it go into the pockets of the McNair family or the Rodeo for them? Does that ever change? Because Houston, people are flooding here. The population has gotten bigger.

We're getting people from California, from Philadelphia, from colder state, Chicago. I've run into a lot of people moving from here. Canaan and Louisiana. Yeah, Louisiana. I mean, the population is exploding. Is it in 20 years from now, will we have more of a centralized population or no? No, we're getting further spread out. Yeah.

Look at Cyprus in the last 10 years. 99, everything off of that. Grand Parkway is busy. I used to be like, you know, see cows and cowouts out there. Now it's Rome Repros. Yes. All right. Five belows.

I've never been in one of those. They're everywhere in the suburbs. Do you like them? It's fine. Hey, you can get some candy. Get some books are cheap for your kids. I'm more of a RERAX. They have a good snacks when you walk out.

Hey, you can do both. Oh, the little impulse buys? Oh, yeah. It's like, do I need six pounds of nerds gummy clusters? Let me tell you what Rie Rax, Rack, Rewracks has. They had a candy where, you know how you and you had those dreamstick ice cream cones? Yes. The orange flavor one?

Drumstick. No, the drums. No, the ones that have like the dreamticles or drumsticks? drumsticks. The ice cream cones. You know in the bottom of the cone? They have it covered in fudge around the cone. Yeah, dipped. They sell snacks that just

had that part of the cone in a bag. Okay. You bought some. Oh, hell yeah, I did. Are you kidding me? I spent more money on RERA racks snacks and it did on the clothes there. Interesting. I know. You can get luggage there too. Yeah, by the way, though, don't get fooled. Even though it says

Ramps on there, they make luggage specifically for that place. That's not as quality. Yep. I know. You're looking at me like I'm crazy. Well, I'm disappointed that I'm hearing this for the first time. Yeah. You used to be like, oh, yeah. That's what they got smart. Because everybody knows we want to go to Darshals and Rie racks and Moss and try to get a deal. Well, a lot of that stuff, they're like, oh, this came from Macy's or wherever, Millard's. Well, now they make it specifically for those. So it is cheaper. You're like, I'm getting a great deal.

They make it cheaper. They make it cheaper. It's less quality. Is anything with lingerie too? I don't know about that, man. Okay. All right, let's apologize. Those snaps are breaking. That's, you're being too rough. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you need to apologize for something you've said or done this week. I'm sorry. I'm staring at you, RV. The next half hour is cathartic for you. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross.

This is Sports Talk 790. I'm sorry. Yeah, you are. So sorry. And I was a fool yesterday, and I'm ready to apologize. Now, you were not with this yesterday, Jonathan, but the Minnesota Vikings hired a new consultant. Okay. Who worked for the last 11 years of the Seattle Seahawks.

Yes. And his name is, not was, is, he's still alive. Matt Thomas. So like the cheeseball that I am, I embellished it and said, I'm leaving. go to Minnesota and can't wait. I even changed the avatar on my Twitter account to a Vikings logo. Oh my gosh. I put it on my IG.

I put it on my Facebook. And I had a variety of my friends either calling me going, what are you doing, leaving, you've got a great life here. Why would you go back to Minnesota? I have one of my dear friends in Minnesota. She called me and congratulations. I can't wait to get you back. I have listeners that were confused, sending me random DMs like, what's going on?

and I said, just look at the previous tweets. You know, that's one thing that people don't do is people will not see consecutive tweets so they don't understand what is going on. So I want to say, for those of you that I confused, it was just a very, very, I guess, poor attempted humor. I was kidding. I was joking. It's not me. It's a different Matt Thomas. And there is a Matt Thomas movement in Minneapolis, but it's not me.

So for those people that thought I was moving to Minnesota, I would sincerely say, I'm sorry. and I won't do it again until the next time Matt Thomas gets a bigger role. Now, if Matt Thomas becomes the general manager of an NFL team, I'm going to probably do it. What about if Matt Thomas gets fired in disgrace? Then I'll never bring up the subject again. Okay. How's Matt Thomas the basketball player doing? Not doing well.

I believe he's probably playing, I believe he's in Outer Mongolia. Outer? You can't even get inner? I don't know. I always think when I think of Mongolia, I think of Outer Mongolia. Okay. So that's my sorry for the week. Oh, let's see.

Oh, he's playing with Besitkish. Bersh, Bessitkish. Yeah. He's out there bawling. What's his numbers? I don't have them. You made that up, didn't you? I don't have the Bishikish numbers, no.

All right. You want to pull them up? Really? By the way, a quick question. How do you feel about StapMuse? Do you ever use Stapmuse? I love Stap. I've been using it for years. Because there are the craziest things I asked my statistician, Pete Unger, yesterday, for something. And he went to Stat Mews, and it popped up within one second.

That made me be a lot. the greatest AI right there, right? Stapmuse has been around before AI. I know, but I mean, it's really, you can ask it about anything. Yeah, I always pull it up for shot charts and the thing I use it most probably is shot charts, but you can ask it like, yeah, who's the...

Two nights ago, I said, all-time leading rocket score or whatever. Because the Celtics shoot a lot of threes, and I wanted to know how many average threes they shoot per game, and boom, he typed the question in and spit it right out. Yeah, set muses, yeah. It's really good. So, for those of you that are, somewhat stat geeks are like to use it of reference,

Stapmews is your friend. Rossi, what are you signing for? Yeah, of course, man. I know stat meuse. I'm a stat geek. You are. You're just big time. Let's see.

You know what? I would like to apologize a couple of nights ago. We had a caller on the postgame show. His name was Eric. He was calling from Rhode Island. And he wanted to air out some grievances that he had about Adam Clinton. And you know what I did?

I made fun of him. And I mocked his accent. And I turned it into a bit. And you know what? I would like to apologize to Eric. You're a human being and you matter. And sure, you have a crazy Northeast accent. But I shouldn't have just made funny like the way that I did. And I'd like to apologize to Eric in Rhode Island.

Oh, I'm sorry. Now, Carly does not have an accent, right? Unless you've talked to her before. You don't. My daughter. Yeah, she talked like this. She does not. Stop.

No, she doesn't. So let me ask you this. I mean, I haven't talked to her much, but. Do I? Am she going to develop an accent? That's what my question? I don't think so. Can an 18-year-old do it?

But she's going to be up there and that. We could awesome part of the country. I mean, it could happen. It could seep into your brain. Oh, they'll be, I remember your first show. It's the Matt Thomas show, eh? I come from Minneapolis. No, you keep bringing Fargo in.

It's North, that's North Dakota. Oh, the Vikings are number one. Skull, Vikings, let's go. I'm sorry. Yeah, I think it would be fine. And what if she does? You're going to get upset? No, actually, it'll be quite humorous.

Yeah, there'll be some crutch phrase. Okay. Like, I never said y'all until I moved to Texas. She just started saying, Wicked Awesome. Yeah, I don't know. Everybody in their mother's like, Rhode Island, it's amazing. Rossi, I swear to God, you are cordially invited. Yeah.

We should do a weakest shows up there. That's out of my tax bracket, though. Well, but I won't get you up there. Okay. Let me tell you, I got the Airbnb and hang on, I'm not going to charge you much. What? I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding. I just start the cleaning fees. Jonathan, what you got? I'm thinking. You don't have to, if you're cleansed this week, my brother, that's okay. I don't know. Yeah, I've low-keeping a good guy. Really?

Oh. You know what? But I did cut some of the traffic today. I do you have another one too. I have an apology for you, Matt. Jonathan, go ahead. You said one more thing? No, I just cut somebody off of traffic today.

I ain't got nothing. Oh, by the way, I parked horrifically today in the building. I mean... I believe it. And so there was a guy right behind me. Didn't somebody send a picture or something like that? No, they just put a sign and said, a hole.

Mistakes were made. So this morning, the guy was right behind me and I'm like, oh my God, he's going to try to park next to me. And I'm like, so I got out, I pulled behind him, I wrote, he rolled his window, I said, do you want me to move? Because no, no, no, we're doing. I'm parking the spot behind you. Okay. He's backing in. So

that person, thank you for not making me feel like a fool. Others do? He does not. What else you got this week? You should apologize for your parking jobs. And I guess you did, kind of. Sorry. It's awful today You know why? Because I brought coffee. Jonathan, I'm sorry I didn't ring any coffee. I owe you a coffee.

It's okay. No, no, no, no, no. No, no. You should be sorry. But I brought you. I had a cup carrier and so I did not really or finally do a good job on parking my spot. What you got? You know what? You got me this nice big planner?

Mm-hmm. And I did complain about it a little bit last week. And I was really with gifts. Even though this is a gift you forced upon me. I did. Even though I didn't say that I wanted it. You were insistent. I did.

And because of how giant it was. Now, I've gotten a book bag. I got a bigger book bag. I like it. And I do like having the bigger planner. So I'm apologizing for a, I wasn't complaining necessarily. But being, you know, giving negative energy to your gracious gift. Thank you.

So I'd like to apologize to you. He was being ungrateful. I was being a little ungrateful. But, I mean, look at this thing. It's huge. But I'm getting used to it and I like it now. Johnson, I need a ruling from you before I go to the phones. Okay.

if you give someone a gift card and that person says thank you very much but you can kind of tell that they don't love it but they like it but don't love it and then you say to that person why don't you love it and that person says back to you

I mean cashman just is good that's a ruling on that isn't that true though? No am I ruling if someone said that to me I don't know I don't think I'm going to get you know for more present as me I'm not a lie What if they got you a gift card to something you don't use?

What if you got me a gift card for 10 free McRibbs? I'd be like, uh, thanks? Now, you would eat the McRibbs, yes? I would hand them out to homeless people, and then they'd throw them back at me. What is, well, they're not, McRibbs aren't fish. They don't throw, they don't throw them, catch and release. You give them and they eat them. I'm just saying, ruling.

Gift card over, look, everybody wants cash you can spend the way you want to, but gift card means you actually took a little bit of time to go find something for them. You know what? No, we is America. No, we have to get over it. Cash is the gift card that accepted by everyone, including your drug dealer. Okay? You should go with a gift. I like cash. I know gift can feel a little impersonal. But do I want 20 bucks to there or 20 bucks to a Rout rack racehouse where I can get one blooming onion? I'd rather have 20 cash that I can use as I please, including with my bookie. See, I went to a graduation party recently. I went to two of them.

And I got the people like a bunch of gift cards. See, I feel like, but also that's kind of different. Cash is more acceptable at, say, a wedding or a graduation or something, right? Absolutely. I always give cash at graduations. So why is it okay at a graduation, but it's not okay for Christmas? Fair point. Real quick, Bonnie Joe sent us a tweet said that you can get those bottom-filled comb bottoms at all grocery stores now.

Okay, good. Yeah, but they're probably 40% off at Rijey Rex. Yeah, you don't have to get him at Charmer. Moles or R-ray Racks. She's a drummer. God love your body, Joe. You get the bit. All right, phone calls next.

Joe and Stunna have to apologize for something. We'll find out what those are next. 713-212-5-79. If you want to apologize, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. All right, 1149 on Sports Talk 7-90. We had the stripper wake up at noon today. You ready for that? I'm ready, but are the strippers ready?

I actually got a decent night's sleep. I may go 24 seconds. Hi. With the good morning strippers. Are you sure? You say that. and then you get a little, you start, I can see the regret in your face about second 16.

When my head starts getting really red. As you start passing out. Yeah. Yeah, I'll try to give you all 20. That's what I've told Kim before. See, Joan says give a Visa gift card. Like, why can't I get, why do I have to pay a $6 activation fee for a Visa gift card?

Just let me give a, let me give you 100 bucks. I'm the one paying the $6 activation fee. That's what I'm saying. I'm just, I just think it looks. I have to pay $6 to feel a little bit better about you. taking cash? It just looks a little classier. Is it? I don't think it's classier at all. Because people use

those gift cards for scams and stuff. I think it's less classy. Well, it's more classy than a nice, crisp Benjamin Franklin. But what if you give fives and tens? Yeah, if you're giving tens with cocaine residue on them,

that's different. Okay. I'm not giving you a wad of cash. Just throwing it out there. I'm I'm team gift card but we do talk about the things you're talking about all right let's talk to some great people Houston Texas we'll start with Joe on 790 Joe what are you apologizing for

apologizing guys for something I said to my girlfriend I moved out to the Conrad area from the Houston area to live near her bought a house love her and long story short she has a son in his 20s who's a great kid, and he's dating a young lady from a nice family. And she gets the perception that when a young lady visits her house,

that she's less than friendly, like maybe she thinks that they're white trash. Well, I've moved out here to the country. Listen to country music now, trying to fit in. And I said, that's all right. I said, I like white trash. I love white trash. And she took it as I was saying that he, and her were white trash and she didn't take that the right way.

So I just have to say I'm sorry. I think I botched it on that one. So where are things currently with her? Well, she hugged him by me this morning when I called. And she said, do you remember what you said last night when we were talking on the phone? And I said, well, I'm doing. sure it was nice, but apparently she did not take it that way.

Last thing, Joe, you don't have to move to Conroe to enjoy country music. It's enjoyed in every city in this country. I'm just trying to fit in, Matt. I'm just trying to fit in. Okay. I like that. Thank you very much. You know, it's funny.

I live in... I've always thought about what am I going to do when I want to literally get away, which is I never get a chance to get away. I've always wanted to get a beat. house in Galveston, but I'm afforded about hurricanes and insurance and weathering and that kind of thing. That's a lot of red tape. But then I'm not a country person either, so I'm just not going to get

nothing, I'm going to get nothing at all. Let's you go to the beach. We're going to get a hotel. Oh, like a good beach. Galveston's a wonderful beach. Okay, but I mean like an actual destination beach. Well, that may be a possibility. For people outside of Harrison, Montgomery County. I mean, we love Galveston here because it's close. You're saying go to Bay City then. Yeah, there is not people in Canton, Ohio saying,

man, can't wait to get to Galveston. Let me tell you some. I was in Missoula, Montana once. And they said, man, we cannot wait to get to Gabbas. No, they didn't. And then you woke up. All right, maybe not. Stana. On 790 Stunna, what's the matter with you? Hey, what's up, man?

First of all, I want to say congratulations. Hey, man, you ought to be thinking about NIL bills for your daughter. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I got one thing she might want to endorse. It's probably going to be boots for fishing. So she will have that because I've been to Rhode Island and all I saw was water. Yeah, it's a beautiful place.

Yes. She's got to get her galoshes on. I want to apologize to my neighbors. Yes. Because I was cutting the yard, got it all nice and manicure, and he just happens to walk right across my grass. Ooh. And before I could catch myself, I come out of there like a trap spot. Hey, man, that's the hell.

and I don't know we had a leg with Barry, but he made a U-turn and was gone. Wow. I apologize to him. I know I see him every day, but he runs the other way, so I can't say nothing after that. I'm so sorry. All right. Thank you for the phone call. We appreciate it, and thank you for the next words.

Yeah, look, I would love for my daughter to get NIL because that would be less money I've got to send her to sit. How much does it cost to have her say follow Sports RV? Let's make me a deal right now, Agent Thomas. You mean get on her Instagram and say that? Yeah. You know what? You have been a great member of a friend of ours and a member of a family. Friend price is that how you know you're about to get screwed when you get it offered the friend price. Well, here's the question. Do you want to come to her graduation party?

Because if you come, it's at our house. When? In May. What day? I don't know yet. Yeah, I may be doing some traveling in May. You know what? Is it around Cinco tomorrow?

There's a chance I may not even be there. What? Yeah. Oh, playoffs. We had the talk over. I'd talk about the talk we had with her about playoffs. About graduation party and graduation.

I said, there's a chance I might miss both. And she's like, dad, you can't. I said, honey, playoffs. Playoff extra. Playoff checks. Money, bonus. Graduation, you've got to be there. No, I don't.

It's high school. No, no, no. No, no. No, no. Jonathan, I know what you're thinking. Carly's like, dad, you'll be missed. Playoff bonus. Extra games.

Well, I hope you can make it. Yeah. Now, I will fly, if we have a game in the night before, I'll fly in for it for sure. Hopefully it's home game. Or it could be a home game, even better. But yeah. And you guys can have the party at about 10.30 a.m. And then the games at night.

You know, she's graduating at Dinkin Park. What? Yep. That's cool. Jim Prain's written that bad boy? It was supposed to be an NRG, but hashtag World Cup. Okay. So the options were our school had an option either A, and that's so in the weeds.

We don't care about this, but too bad. It was either we could have it at the Fertita Center with maximum eight guests per student or unlimited family and friends Unlimited. At Dyken Park. So the Kingwood students and parents

voted for Dyken Park instead. Okay. So you're invited if you want to. To watch her walk? I go to the party. Thomas? I know. It's Kingwood High School,

That's down the list, Maddie. You know how many Villarraza I had to go to? All right. That's down the list, pal. That's what happened on her day at her assigning. And we're a little too close to X, Y, Z. ABC, D, E, FG. I know.

Yeah, good job, Adams, good job. Carter, Thomas. Thomas. Yeah. I don't think I can make the walking ceremony. I'm very busy that afternoon. You should come to graduation. Party.

We'll see. hopefully Rockets You just want me to bring gifts That's what I'm saying But that's unfair though Because I bring her cash I didn't go to either of the sunsizes Yeah well you

You owe them too I do owe them Yeah And you're bringing cash for Carly No gift card I can't make it Okay All right let's wake the strippers up

We got the news at noon as well 1157 here on Sports Talk 790 This is the Matt Thomas show With Ross In H-H town It's a Friday edition of the Matt Taboo Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. How long do you wait in line for jerkeys?

It's really pretty quick. I hear some of these things in our show, and I tend to forget what they're about. Jerky Power rankings. Black Pepper 1. All right. Terriaki 2? Yes. And Bohemian garlic 3.

I've never had Bohemian garlic before. I've had a Bohemian Rhapsody. before, but I've ever had a Bohemian Garlick. Terriaki, by the way, probably could be a 1A. I mean, you really could fix it up. Black Pepper is the classic, though. All right. Hey, it is total.

You've got people timing your throat. 19? Timing your what? His throat. Let me see. Let me look. Full throat, Thomas. That's what they call him.

I think I got myself at 19 seconds. I probably could have gone one more, but I didn't want to get ill, lightheaded. Yeah, full throat for 19 seconds. That's a record. Oh, Space City, Taylor's got a recording. You can write that down? We're set for next week. What do you say?

What did I say? Nothing. I think I literally forgot what I just said. It's okay. Look at those space city. He's got you at 20.38. All right. Thank you, Space City.

Space City, Taylor. Damn, look at that. My wife would be impressed with 20 seconds. Time for the news at noon. 1206. Oh, 790. Yes, Matt. Let's go ahead and start with the Houston Rockets.

We had Coach Udoka on earlier. You'll hear from him if you miss that in the next hour. Rockets have dropped back-to-back games against the Jalen Brownless Boston Celtics. Can I just not listen to this? And the Hornets who have now won eight games in a row. So the Hornets are playing good ball. they've got some good players but rockets lose

109 to 99 Kevin Durant nice night 31 points on 11 to 21 shooting Chargaretzman junior pretty solid 7 to 10 from the field 17 points

no other rocket in double figures poor night shooting from Alpern Shungoon I'm in Thompson Reed Shepherd was 2 of 10 just some ugly offense and the shots need to start falling again for the Houston

Rockets email Doka of course undeterred not happy with the way things are going, but undeterred. And I'm with him. Things will turn around. They're still going to finish top four in the West at minimum. I'll still submit they're going to finish top three. But they have the day off today. They will be taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow 2.30 p.m. tip on ABC. And of course here on Sports Talk 790.

Then too much needed days off, Matthew, before back-to-back the L.A. Clipper against the L.A. clippers. And then a much-needed all-star break for your hometown hoopers. There was a wise man that said maybe less than 20. 24 hours ago. This will all be forgotten if the Rockets can finish off this stretch before the All-Star break with three consecutive wins. Yes.

Let's go. We're all going to be feeling better. Three straight wins and hit the break. Feeling happy with big smiles on our face. I like it. All right, Matt, would you like a Winter Olympics medal count? Please. No medals have been given out. But they're competing, though. Yeah, they're competing, but

it's zero. It's zeros all across the board for everyone. I think United States doing well in figure skating. Looks like this, a young lady from an Italy is about to do her thing on Peacock. And

Lindsey Vaughn apparently is still going to ski on her torn ACL with a knee brace. I mean, she's crazy. She's posted a video of her doing squats and all this other crazy stuff. She's crazy as it is. I mean, it's going to be her last Olympics, so she's going all in. You've got to respect the game.

Yeah. But she's got a torn ACL, and she's going to going downhill. They go close to like 100 miles an hour according to our Olympic expert Nicholas from yesterday. So. All right. elsewhere in the NBA, free agent guard, Mike Conley Jr. available

on the buyout market. Rockets should, could, would be interested. But he plans to return to the Minnesota Timberwolves according to Shams Sharania. Sides are working on timing of him resigning because he did begin the week as a member of the Wolves, but he was traded Chicago as part of a three-team deal. Bulls quickly flipped him to the Charlotte Hornets in a separate deadline move. The Hornets then elected to waive the 38-year-old point guard. Because he was traded a second time, he is free to sign back in Minnesota. If he was only traded once, he could not go back and be a timber wolf. But now, Mike Conley, going to be off the buyout market. If you were thinking about him as possibly landing here in Houston, he is going to be going to.

going up back to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah, everybody in their mother is asking me this, and I don't have a good answer for you, because, again, the veteran buyout guys are typically guys that haven't played a lot, aren't in rotation or not playing at all. I can't imagine anybody that would come here would be all of a sudden game-changing type acquisition.

You're not getting at the depth. Sure. So if that being the case, we're talking about the fifth or sixth guy off the bench. So I don't have a list of names. But if I find anybody out, I'll be happy to let you all know. Well, Cam Thomas is somebody that is going to be pursued by a lot of teams. Matt, as you know, Cam Thomas last year averaged 24 points per game.

Now, a lot of it, of course, was on volume shooting. Not a great three-point shooter. Not a great shooter from the floor. Vibus down with the Brooklyn Nets. But apparently a contentious relationship with them for the last couple of years, Cam Thomas possibly a name to keep on the radar as far as by out. candidates, maybe not necessarily for the Houston Rockets, but in the NBA.

If they do it, it's going to be for a big man and or another guard, but they just don't have much money. Because again, a lot of the money is tied up with, look, Jabari's got a new deal. Stephen Adams had good money as a free agent. You paid a lot of money for Dorian Finney Smith, and you

paid obviously a lot of money for Kevin Durant. Well, the NFL MVP and other honors were announced last night as well. There were some flubs on some certain names. And we're not going to play those again. But Matthew Stafford headlining it, winning the NFL MVP. He received 366 points.

Drake May 361 points. That's close. Yeah. 24 first place votes out of 50 for Matthew Stafford. 23 for Drake May. Two for Josh Allen and one for Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert? The lone vote, Sam Monson, of Pro Football Focus.

did publicly admit that he was the one vote for Justin Herbert. He felt that Justin Herbert had the most value because of how bad the offensive line was for the Chargers and how good the team was. So he thought epitomizing the most valuable player was Justin Herbert with the Los Angeles Chargers. Well, then they probably should, and I understand where Sam was coming from this.

Valuable needs, everyone needs to know who votes in his. It's just the best. It's not valuable to a team. It's who, it should be the, it's just, it's just kind of like weird to say, the best player in the NFL this year of 20206 was blank. Most valuable is more of a,

it's got a higher value of a name, but you're just saying the exact same thing. Okay, and can we people call him down? I went to Sam Monson's Twitter. Yes. Apparently they've docksed him. They've posted, Patriots fans are all upset that he voted for Justin Herbert instead of Drake May.

So they're coming after, Sam Monson. They've posted his address on Reddit. And literally a guy said to Sam Monson, next Charlie Kirk, with his fingers crossed. Now, I will say, when I was back in high school, I was with people, I knew people that would do that just to get a thrill off. But it's so, that's just weird. That's, uh, what a sad world we're living in. You have an opinion and you vote Justin Herbert for the MVP. and you want to

He didn't have to publicly say that He didn't have to say it was him He came out and said hey it was me And this is why I did it You could disagree with him or not You're posting the guy's address And hoping he gets shot to death What a world is sick

How about the poor Have you heard about the Savannah Guthrie's mother Who's been abducted And she's been gone a week There were apparently there Well I mean heard about it But I don't know the details I should say There was a ransom note out there

That apparently was fake But done by somebody else to draw attention do it that guy got arrested i mean it's just there's a lot of things i really reflect on as i drink my morning coffee and just there's so much cruelty in the world yeah and well unfortunately another well that's one quick sad note that i did want to get to hall of fame quarterback sunny jurgensen dies at age 91 good life yes 91 give me 91 years i'm more than happy with that Yep. So I believe he's going to be, believe it or not? Or should we go Matt Stafford?

Well, I'm not going to be here. That's up to you. Oh, you know, we're not going to do it. Okay. Would you give away some stuff in the final hour? What's for? Because we have nice people that want to listen to the show. Okay. So Jonathan, during the break. No, I'll do it right now. Well, let's see. What's the buzz. Oh, you know what? Right this second? Buzzword. Okay. Let's do this. Let's award people listening right now. And I'll give it away. Here's what we got. Let me see. Let me tell what's in the prize vault from last week. Okay. Here's what we have. We have, we have Black Crows and Wharf. Is there any of those left, Jonathan? Can you check real quick in the prize vault what we got? Yeah, we do.

Okay, how many do we have? We got one. Give me two seconds. We got two. And three, I think. Okay, three sets. Rossi, can you give them away in the one o'clock hour? Yes.

Three sets of tickets to see the Black Crows and Whiskey Myers at their Southern Hospitality Tour August the 8th at the Willans Pavilion. Tickets on sale today. Well, they already have. Tickets are now at Ticketmaster.com. Okay, in the first half hour of the one o'clock hour, If you hear me say snickerdoodle, call in and you'll get the tickets.

There's two. There's two. There's only two pair, two pair. If when I say the word snickerdoodle in the first half hour of the one o'clock hour, call in and you'll get the tickets. First two people. That's for the black crows. How about that?

Thank you very much for doing that. That's kind. Don't know. Don't forget to say it. Yeah, I wrote it down. Okay, good. I'm writing it down here. All right. 1215, Sports Talk, 790.

I have a question that I want to ask all of you, men and maybe a few of you that are ladies that are listening to show about your spouses and or girlfriends or boyfriends that aren't sports fans. We'll discuss that coming back at 1215. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talks. All right. I got a question for those of you that have non-sports fan spouses, girlfriends, roommates,

maybe mom and dad if you live in home still. I want to get a call in first. Let's talk to the great people of Houston. in Texas. I don't anything goes. Friday, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Adam with us. Adam, good afternoon. What's going on? Hey, as someone in the United States, I just wanted to apologize to the international community. And that's because for the last two weeks,

and after it happens every year, we've been running our mouths about how the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in the world. and people from all over the world are watching the game. And I've traveled over 60 countries, and I've traveled during the Super Bowl. There ain't no Super Bowl in India or Nepal or some of these other countries. It's the middle of the night.

And the actual biggest sporting event in the world is actually going on right now. That's the Olympics. And you guys have run ads, but no local broadcasters or sports broadcasters around the United States have really talked about it. Oh, are you there? Yeah, sure. Break down the Winter Olympics for us, Maddie. I mean, Adam, you know what?

I love baseball. It's never talked about nationally either. And baseball is one of the big, quote-unquote, big three sports. Right. So. Yeah, but it's just that, like, I've been to all these other countries. And if you ask, like, people, hey, do you guys ever watch the Super Bowl? They're like, what?

What are you guys talking about? the Super Bowl. You know, I mean, it's getting a little popular in, it's getting a little more popular in Central America, South America. They broadcast regular season games, and it's getting a little popular in Western Europe, but the main population center of the world is Asia, and in Asia, it's the middle of the night. No one watches, hardly anybody knows. No one knows anything about it. Well, Adam, our show is in Houston, Texas, and if we were going to break down the women's short program in the Winter Olympics, we would be losing listeners. I mean, that's just the reality. If you talk about Alyssa Lou, you will not be losing listeners.

We will lose thousands of listeners. No, if you could show her picture, you would not be losing. Okay, but this is a radio show, so that won't do much for us here. Okay. Gotcha. Thanks. Thank you. And too, for Adam, the Olympics, you have to be specialized in what these sports are.

If any three of us start talking about the big ski jump, like what? The big air, curling, figure skating. That's disrespectful to... First of all, it's too splintered in America to hold the attentions between football, basketball, and baseball. Let alone getting into hockey and let alone getting into women's short program, figure skating, speed skating, cross-country skiing, and all that other stuff. I mean, Adam's obviously enthusiastic. Yeah, good for him, but generally speaking, no one cares. I said generally speaking.

I didn't say everybody. You know, watch the Olympics, man? It's still Olympics. I mean, if it's on, I bet I'm not going to, I'm not going to appointment set for it. Is this Alyssa Lou? Is this who he's talking about right here? Did you have a hairy armpits? What? No, that's not hard. That's just part of her dress. Kind of looks like it, though, right? Look at it.

It's called shadow map. Oh. Yeah, she's got a shirt. shadow. So when light is blocked from something, it creates a shadow. She's cute. That's why we as grown-ass men watch it because the women are attractive.

I'm blunt. Okay. You don't you talk about triple axles and whatnot? No. All right. So here's my question. We say roughly 48% of America, right, give or take, watches the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl! Which is incredible. Now, what a share is, when you hear a term share in television,

it's the number of television sets are on. So if there's 10 televisions on and something gets a 50 share, that would mean five of the... It's a fraction, it's a percentage of. If you have 12 televisions on and you have three of them on something, the share would be 25.

Still good, but, you know, nothing gathers numbers... Oh, who's that? Oh, hello. Like the Super Bowl, 48 share, 50 share. But it still means 50% of America ain't watching it. So I want to ask all of you, grown-ass men and grown-ass women.

Yes. If your spouses are not watching the game on Sunday, how are they occupying their time? Let me give you some possibilities. Other room watching television somewhere else, watching something on a streaming service, going to the movies. I don't think it's,

a big day to go to an art museum because it's going to be Sunday at 530. So that's not going to be a possibility. I mean, I mean, it's limited hours. I don't think you're brunching because, again, the game's at five. I don't think people are running out for dinner. You can brunch and then go to Super Bowl and watch Super Bowl. I'm not asking for that. Lickered up.

I know. So if any of you don't have a sports wife. And I'm not even saying, like, die hard, like, hey, honey, let's talk about the two, three zone the rocket should run last time. I'm talking about just, hey, they just like, I don't. care what this Super Bowl is on. I don't know who the teams are. And if nobody's cute in it, like Tom Brady, I'm not going to watch. What are your spouses doing? Or what do you think they will be doing? What do they have done in the past? And what do you, and does it cause any strife

in the, in the, in the household? Like, when my wife and I will watch different things on television, like I will watch a random NBA game. She's not into that kind of thing. So I go to the office. She stays in her, in our bedroom. And everything is fine. No issues with that. But the Super Bowl is a special animal, is it not? Yeah. You would think even a non-sports wife could sit around with other people for just three measly hours or four hours because of commercials in the long halftime. And watch this one sporting America, but it doesn't work that way because, again, 50% of America doesn't watch the Super Bowl. So what is your bride or your girlfriend or in maybe some cases?

you're the girl and you like sports and the guy doesn't like it, what are they watching? What are they doing? They're not planting flowers. They can be reading a book. If you don't have a sports, not necessarily a sports,

but just even somebody to watch it, what are they watching? That's what I want to know. Okay, a sports partner. A sports, yeah. Sports partner. Yeah. That's what you say in 2026.

They despise sports. Ooh, that's probably not going to work out. I couldn't be with. someone who despised sports. You and I could not do that. I had to go exceptional because I had to find somebody that A, like sports, and B, understood that my life was involved lots of travel. 713-212-5-790.

And does this hatred of sports transcend even to Super Bowl Sunday and does it cause any issues in your house? Because let me tell you something. If you get invited to a Super Bowl party, you're not. going solo, I don't think. You can't go to that group of people and say, my wife doesn't like the Super Bowl. She'd rather watch something on the Lifetime

channel. A Lifetime may get super spicy on that day. There's only one Super Bowl, though. You can DVR a lifetime. You can DVR lifetime right now and just roll on it. Maybe she's catching up on her DVR. Maybe she's catching up on Kelly Clarkson episodes. What's she doing? She's a talk show. She's going to quit it this year, by the way. Oh, man, I'm devastated. You've never seen one

episode. I didn't know it existed until just now. 713, 212, 5, 7,000. 9. 1230. It's a Matt Tomas show Ross. This Sports Talk 790. 1233 on 790 and anything goes Friday.

A couple people have sent us some responses on the social media note as Twitter. At SportsMT. At SportsRV. If you want to follow us, we greatly appreciate that. I am just dancing. That's Dave at Texas. Hi, Dave. What's up?

Says she'll watch, meaning his wife, but really be crocheting. Got to make those scarves. Oh, a nice home crocheted scarf? I'd wear it. I'll keep you warm. Let me tell you something, Dave. I'm not a scarfer, but if your wife wants to send me a scarf,

I'll wear a scarf. That's true. Chips and Koso, that's true. We've gone to a few parties over the years. It's hard to watch the game at a party because if somebody invites you to your house, you feel like you just can't sit down on their couch and watch the game and not speak to anybody.

I can't tell you. I normally, it's just like a family get together. For me. I don't remember the last time I went to a party party for the Super Bowl. when we went to the Clantons years ago. Yeah, how long, what was that? That was a long time.

Yeah, they didn't invite you back. For some reason, I didn't get invited back. Was that pre-Carsen or was that post-Carson? No, Carson was born. He was very young, I think, though. Yeah. I think. You know, they've been married like 11 years, I think.

I believe I bet the over under four and a half, so I'm way dead on that. I remember when they were dating and they were so smit with each other. Yeah. They're still smitten with each other. They're still together. And they're still together. Good for them.

Yeah. We got a lot of marriages in this 7-90 troop. Well, three of us. Not a lot. A four of us. Cole's married. That's true. Is he off the couch?

I don't know. I thought he was in the backyard in the dog house, literally. So four the, it's you and. He's lapping up dog water. It's you and Dan. They're the ones that aren't married. Yeah. I'm fighting the good fight.

New comment. Daryl on 790 at 12th. Darrell, do you have a non-sports wife? Yes or no? No, she loves every sport near. So you called me. Yeah, hello, go ahead, yeah. Yeah, so no, she loves every sport,

but I'm not watching Super Bowl this year. I'm a lifelong football fan for over 50 years, a lifelong 49er fan for over 40 years. Okay. There ain't no world. I'm watching the Super Bowl. When I see the Sea Hags logo, No way on the end zone at my house.

And they're going to win that game. No way I'm watching that. There ain't no way. I've never missed the Super Bowl. I've been once and I'm missing this year. Darrell, here's on. Daryl, hold out. Daryl, listen to me very carefully.

Don't hang up. I want you to call back. Because we've had a call about every other year that would call us and say, I'm not watching the Super Bowl. Yeah. And I've always called. BS on it. Yes. So can we

get Darrell, now, Darrell, if you listen to me on the line there. Call us back. Call us on Monday or Tuesday. Call us on Monday or Tuesday. That's why maybe when the calls lines better. And tell the truth. It got to tell's the truth. I can't imagine. Tell the truth. If the Dallas Cowboys played in the Super Bowl, okay, this is really a hypothetical. At NRG. I don't think there's a Texan fan bumping around.

on town and be like, I'm not watching a cowboy logo. No, no, no, no, no. If you're right now, I'm calling, Darrell, I love you. I love you like an older brother. I'm calling BS on this. Honestly, you put it that way. There are a lot of Texans fans who hate the Cowboys. But it doesn't mean you can't watch the game.

You can hate watch. I hate watch a lot of things. Yeah, they might hate watching a lot of things too. There are a lot of people who really get into this Cowboys hate. Not me personally, but I know people who do. But it's going to make you not watch the game because of it. Not saying me, Maddie. But did you hear how passionate Darrell was about that?

He's like, that's my stadium. That's my team. And they're going to put my hated opponent. I thought the Niners hated opponent was the Rams more than the Seahawks. Although the Seahawks been better the last 20 years than the Rams have. Hey, and we, I don't want to put the guy that's put bad news, but we got some bad phone lines going on right now. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was bad.

That was bad with Darry. Oh, even with Mark now? No, no, Mark. Mark, with the one try to call it in. It's not. Okay, so it's around that time of day. For whatever reason, the middle of the midday, when we're on. It's almost like when you go to a hotel and everybody takes a shower at the same time, the water's not nearly as hot. Oh, okay.

You don't notice that. You ever notice that? That's true. That isn't happening at your five dime in places, does it? Really? It's about, because I take my shower as soon as I got off the air with you. Yeah, but you're in there for 45 minutes. You're the one actually draining all the hot water.

Yeah, way. They're all run out of hot water because of you. Lies not detected. But our phone line, yeah, I don't know why. We get throttled in the middays or something on our internet. And our phones are web base, which they said we're going to be better, Matt. Smoother. Nobody said that.

No. They were feeding you lies. Oh, well, it hasn't been better or smoother. Let's see how Mark's line is. This could not go well. Let's take a lesson here. Let's talk to Mark on 790. Mark, good afternoon to you.

Hey, Matt. How are you doing? Good, friend. How are you? I'm good. Hey, first, I've really enjoyed, gosh, for several, for many years, listening to your show featuring Ross with Jonathan. It's been, it's a really great show. Thank you very much.

Thanks you to say that. Yeah, absolutely. And, yeah, actually, you know, that was one of the things I wanted to call about was, have you thought about changing that? You know, Matt Thomas featuring Ross with Jonathan. Jonathan's name on there. Well, we've got to see if Johnson sticks around. Yeah. We try to add in producers,

names of shows, and they leave us pretty much right after they do it. Yeah, I totally understand. So great. Thank you. I appreciate that. And then two other things. To World Traveler, Adam,

man, you are more than welcome to go over to Vietnam and watch the, what's the soccer thing that's going on right now? World Cup? It's later. World Cup. Thank you. Yeah. It's in the summer. So, Adam, you're more than welcome. You know, world traveler, go back to Vietnam, and you can watch the World Cup.

The World Cup's in the United States this year. He was just talking about how other countries don't watch some Winter Olympics and pay more attention than we do, which I disagree. I don't know how big the World Cup is in Vietnam. I don't think somebody sent me an email. Thank you for the phone call, Mark. Is the Winter Olympics popular in India? I don't think so. Probably not.

A Sri Lanka? I'm guessing that our friends in Argentina are not watching endless hours of the winter. They're all over. Well, yeah, they got the Indies Mountains. They probably like to skiing. I don't know if they got any good squads. You don't think Buenos Aires of the WBs not telling, I'm excited about putting on hours and hours of it?

Yeah, they might be. Well, they're definitely all in on the World Cup. They're reigning champs. All right, here's the rule on Jonathan. Jonathan, how long have you been with us? Since March. Okay. Oh, that's close.

11. If you're with us 13 months, not 12, 13, we'll give you a segment every week on the show. Okay. Wow. It could be track and field this week. Ooh. It could be me and my girl. It could become me and my girl did this.

We don't need to know that either. What if they're bouncing around town going to like different museums or a great place to eat or they're catching some live music somewhere? Oh, okay. That's what you mean. I don't want to know about their sexual activities. Why do you say that? Because that's what you thought I was talking about. No, that's not what I thought.

What was I? I think you were talking about like their recipes and food or something. Oh, that's, Jonathan, you don't buy that, do you? So Jonathan, if you're with us, if you're sick, man, you're with a sick human being. If you're with us by May 1st, one, I'll give you like five minutes a week. Okay. Jonathan talks about blank. It just be whatever you want.

I don't mind at all. It could be, uh, again, track and field. It could be new restaurant you checked out. It could be a new music that you listen into. What's new in Jonathan's world? Correct. Because that's a different world. The three of us live in different worlds.

Do people, do you have any kind of nickname, Jonathan? J.A. No, he does. It's hog nuts. Okay, besides that. We're going to go Hognuts World. That's all to everybody that's close to me, they call me JK. No, how about this?

J.K.'s world. How about this? What's happening with Hognuts? Hognut happenings. By the way, in the history, that's the second most popular thing that's ever happened to a producer on this show, but you self-glossing yourself hog nuts. He didn't. That's apparently, never mind. He said he was his mom who called him that.

Okay, well, you telling us publicly? It's the second greatest moment in the history of the show. All right, let's take a break. Let's take a time. 1243. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you missed our conversation with E. E. May Duncan.

What's the greatest moment in the history of the show? Producer-wise? No. Or yeah. Oh, it was for... Creed. Creed. I can tell you the worst moment for a history of the show on producers.

Go ahead. It didn't happen actually at the station. Oh, stop. 713-212-5-790. We'll talk to James next if we want to get to you. E. May ad hoc in the final hour plus non-floor stories. And we need to give you the keyword when we come back to win tickets to see Black Crows, not counting crows. Black Crows.

By the way, I got sent a non-Floristory. Would you like me to send it to you? We're doing those? You guys are doing it at 130? Yeah, you can do it. I thought we were doing EMAIDoka. Well, that's at 120. Or 130.

I don't care. I don't care. I'll be in the car. I don't matter. Whatever. 713, 212.15. 7.90. 1244 on 7.9.

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Another Cougars got BYU. in Provo The Texans ladies Beed LSU. I was a top five matchup. Did Kim Mokie lose her mind? I don't think she did. She was dressed like a king cake.

She was not. I'm just kidding on it. By the way, Ross brought me a slice of kingcake yesterday, and it was delicious. Yeah, see, you're a kingcake hater because you're eating that stale one from the grocery store. That is accurate. You eat good king cake, then you eat good tamales and good enchiladas. and you're going to have some good brisket. I've gotten you good brisket

and you've come around, see? I never was anti-brisket. Yes, you were. It's just, I'm still to this day. You can bring me the best brisket in America. You have a lozage in your throat? I have a tic tacks. That's fine.

Ribs and sausage are where it's at. Texas, you're the worst Mr. Texas in history. They have, they're playing Ole Miss. right here on 790 tomorrow i'm assuming one p.m. start also on esping two we're on the real we're in the real ESPN tomorrow that's nice yeah it's a good basketball program much better than uh texas same amount of championships but much more success over the years won on 790 good afternoon to you hey what's up guys yeah i'm just calling because uh yeah uh so my girl she's not she's not big into sports at all man

She'll come with me to the games and she'll have fun, have her little El Temple Mars or whatever, you know, but she's, uh, nah, she's, when it's at the house, doesn't care about it. Super Bowl as in this weekend, she's going shopping, man. And I'm going to fire up the grill with my brother, going to my brother's house. Yeah. She'll go there and watch it, but, no, she just knock her. Half time, she'll just watch it on YouTube later. Okay, so you're going to send her off to the girl. She's going to do that.

Did you ask her to go to the mall or she said, hey, do you mind? if I go and you're like, no, go ahead, bye. No, I was like, hey, do you want to come watch the Super Bowl? You know, my brothers or whatever? She's like, no, I'm going to go shopping. Would you rather be into sports or a little more into sports or do you prefer that she's not into it at all so you get a little bit of bro time? Sometimes I have asked myself that.

I'll be like, man, it'd be cool, you know, if I had somebody else into sports. Yeah. But then at the same time, you have those girls that are so obnoxious, you know, that you run into the stadium and they're, like, questioning the, like, making some stupid calls a year. Like, oh, my God, because the lady just shut up. So sometimes I'm glad she's not into it.

Sometimes I was, you know, I wish you'd be a little bit interested. But then, you know, not too much, but it's fine. I like it. It's how we roll. All right. Thank you very much for the one for the great phone call.

That's good stuff. I want all of y'all, here's a few things. Okay. If this gets asked at your Super Bowl party this week, beat the hell out of people, okay? Beat the hell out. You ready? Number one.

I thought Sam Darnow was a Viking. What do you think? Would they even know that? They'd probably think he was a jet. Number two. I didn't realize Mike Vrable was the coach of the Patriots. This is from guys, not girls? Oh, that's what I'm saying.

Guys don't know what they're talking about football either. That's one thing I don't like getting in big groups of NBA football because you don't want to be, you know, man. As you know, we're in sports radio. You don't want to be like, I know more than you and I'm better than you or anything like that. but there's so much stuff gets said that's completely off base and factually incorrect and it can be a heck. Okay, so I gave you two. Let's give people five. So again, anybody says I didn't realize Sam Darnel was the quarterback.

Number two, I didn't realize Mike Ribble was the coach of the Patriots. Number three. Where's Russell Wilson? How about this? The Patriots didn't play anybody this year. That's starting me nuts too. I mean, it's kind of true until the playoffs started. Exactly.

They've had a pretty easy path, though. No, but they still won three playoff games. that's saying something. Yeah, C.J. Stroud lost his mind. Jared Stittem. And then what was the other one? Chargers. Oh, yeah. The worst offensive line of football.

Yeah. But they made it. They won like, what, 15, 16 games at this point. All right, two more. Anything else that you would just blow your mind for stupidity? No. Okay, think about it. Okay.

How about, I was going to say, what about these weird kickoff rules? But people, it's been around long enough that that should. should be an issue. Are you going to make a prediction? Yeah. 2717. No, no, no, no, no, no. You did 2818. 2818. Excuse me. 2818. So that's important because that's an over 45 and a half, by the way. Yeah, I'll think you over in a 2818 game.

I put a poll on my Twitter account at SportsRV. Seattle Seahawks minus four and a half. 82% on the Seahawks. Are we underrating the Patriots? Because the line ain't moved. Like you said, this is our line and we like our line. A lot of that is because New England has gone. on the road in one. Not that's neutral for both, but, you know. Are we, are we not giving the Patriots any?

No, you have to have a thought one way or the other. That's what I'm saying, though. I mean, I didn't wake up going, I want to disrespect the Patriots. I haven't heard a single person in my real life that I've talked to about the game that is picking the Patriots. I had two Patriot fans sitting behind me at the Rocket Celtics game. And I turned around and I said, Christian Gonzalez, pick six for the Patriots. Uh-huh. And they were blown away by that.

like, do I should go bet? I said, go bet it. I said, I want some of that commission when you win. Okay. If this hits, it's not. If Christian Gonzalez takes one to the house, it won't. If it does, you think I've been incorrigible over the last 16 years. Well, you have been,

I'm used to it. You'll be times 100 on Monday. I've seen worse, I'm sure. Vince and Midtown at 1256. Hi, Vince. Hey, guys. Hey, first of all, I wanted to tell you guys how much I enjoy y'all's show. do. I used to be a news

horror and I just can't stomach the news that much anymore. That's good. That makes three of us. Thank you very much, Vince. The news sucks. News does suck. No, I've been listening to you guys pretty much almost every day and really like y'all's show and but I wanted to

don't beat me up too much on this because I was going to call in, if you remember correctly I called in a few weeks ago talking about Stroud being scared. And, you know, after we got a eliminated, I was going to call in and say, first thing he needed to do was cut his hair. No.

Did you really say that? You were just thinking that? No, no, I was thinking about all of you guys. I was thinking that. Okay. And I thought, they'll beat me up if I say that. No, no, no, we're never going to beat you up. You listen to the show, we can't beat people that will actually like us.

We got people that we don't like us that I want to beat up and hope they get in terrible car accidents, but then that's a different issue. Wow. Go ahead. But no, no, for real, I thought that'd be a good first step for him. because, you know, it didn't fit him, and he needs to change something. So, anyways. Okay. I appreciate you all, me taking the call and I really love y'all show.

Thank you, Vince. One thing you know on this radio show, we will not discuss the news. We'll have the news at noon, but it's never about the news. It'll be the sports news at noon. And maybe other things, too. Maybe we used to do off the beaten path. We did. We started that.

You want to continue that next week? We could, but it's almost kind of like non-Florida stories. It is. I want to make sure that's a... Well, there's the off-the-beat-path kind of sports story. Did you see that one? You want to use it for the one o'clock hour? No, not really.

Go ahead. It's the skiers who are apparently injecting hyroluronic acid into their junk. Uh-huh. And that's like a real story. Jonathan, you ever put anything in your penis like that? What? Trackstar.

It's a fair question. No, it's not. All right, not a fair question. I'm sorry. Can you give me the quick 30 seconds of how this works? ski jumpers are allegedly injecting their members with hya luronic acid in order to fly a little bit further. The World Anti-Doping Agency, does it make them a little more front-loaded? World Anti-Doping Agency President Witol Banca is looking into this.

It would increase size and give the ski jumpers bigger, you know what's. Does it help with direction? At the point, their suits are measured by 3D scanners. The temporarily enhanced measurements would mean athletes would be giving bigger, looser suit, and like a sail-catching wind, it would allow them to make longer jumps. So you're temporarily making yourself bigger because you have to wear skin-tight suits, apparently. You hear that for the previous caller? You wanted some Olympic coverage? We're giving it to you here.

Just a two-centimeter change in a suit would represent an extra 5.8 meters in the length of a jump. So two centimeters can give you extra length. Depends on how many centimeters you started off with. Correct. So there's an inherent. That means people who don't use this have some inherent advantages, perhaps. Although it's very cold out there, Matt. So the longer you are, the longer you'll go.

You know what? You know what I'm going to give it? I'm sorry for bringing this up. Yes. I'd like to apologize to all of you. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Number four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 7-night. Matt Thomas has ducked out.

He is traveling with the Houston Rockets. He is on the way to Oklahoma City as the Rockets look to bounce back from disappointing losses back to back to the Boston Celtics and the Charlotte Hornets. We have a lot of stuff to get to, including that. Rocket Tech coach IMEU doka coming up in the next segment. We also have non-Florida stories at 1.30. and right now joined also by Chris Gordy. Is this true? Gordy, hello?

Are you there? What's up, Ross? Hey, how's it going? Thanks for the drop-in. What's going on in your world? Are you in, well, I guess I'd imparted unknown at the Palatial Gordy Estate? Correct. Take care of some stuff today, but figured I'd hop on with you and Matt got to go catch a plane.

Yeah, I know. He's very busy. He's a busy man about town, so we'll let him do that. And glad you're joining us. So what shall we start talking about? Okay, let's first go to those rockets. No deadline deal moves. And I will submit, like, people are like,

Raphael Stone said it in his hands. Raphael Stone needs to be fired. He's the worst general manager of all time. Like, okay, relax. If you were paying attention, you weren't expecting any kind of big moves to be made. But when you put that in tandem with back-to-back, disappointing losses,

where the offense looked horrible and no moves were made, you do have a lot of Rockets fans throwing their hands up right now saying what the heck is going on. Yeah, I mean, you can't be a prisoner of the moment and say, because I've seen a lot of people doing that. See, we're not any good. You know, it's like, were you saying this during the three-game win streak? Or are you just saying it now during the two-game losing streak? You know, I think a lot of people have said, you know, this team needs a true point guard and all that.

But like, I think the reality is they're a little bit cash strapped, right? Like in terms of up against the cap, I mean, this. This is what happens when you sign a player like Kevin Durant. He is one of the top 10 highest paid players in the league. And his salary takes up so much space that it just limits what you're able to do. And then combine that with Fred Van Vleet's contract just because he's hurt. Doesn't mean you can get out of Fred's contract. You still got to pay him.

So it's just tough. But like I saw people going, go get Mike Conley and all this. And it's you got to consider there's things called chemistry. There's things called fit. Just because a guy's a point guard doesn't mean he's going to be an automatic fit here. Some people saying, go get Cam Thomas. Okay, Cam Thomas can score, but like, he does, he scores very inefficiently on bad teams. You want to add that guy to this mix?

Like, that's where I just think it's a little ridiculous where it's like, just go get a guy. Just go. They're not going to add a guy just to add a guy. So they can figure this thing out. They got to play much better. Yeah, it's interesting because, you know, Rafael Stone is not perfect and infallible. He makes moves that make you scratch your head. He does know more than us.

He's been in more discussions and more trade discussions. He knows, I mean, we basically know the tip of the iceberg, if even that, in terms of what discussions were had, what trades almost got made, what trades that he tried to make, what deals did get close. And Imodoka has said publicly and Rafael Stone that they're more interested in our players than we are in theirs. And in terms of Mike, Mike Conley wants to go back and be a Minnesota Timberwolf, and that's what's going to happen. And Cam Thomas, as you said, like, okay, yeah, he put up a big number. on the Brooklyn Nets team who are terrible. And then this year he's getting fewer minutes and he hasn't been scoring efficiently

and what's going to happen there? And oh, by the way, you're going to have to get impossible bidding wars for a guy like Cam Thomas who is capable of scoring 24 points per night like he was last year before this one. So it's just a lot of conversation to have and the bottom line being that nothing really happened certainly can be disappointing.

But also, you had no wiggle room. just didn't. You're capped out at the first apron. They only had a million 25 or whatever it was to work with. So you were going to have to send contracts out. And how attractive is a torn ACL Fred Van Vlead, who you want to keep for next

year anyways? You don't want to make moves just to make moves. Rockets were within a rock in a hard place come the deadline. It just really was, that's the way it was. Yeah. And so, I mean, again, it's It's all magnified and fans are times 10 because of the two losses. I get it.

But ultimately, they trust this team. But, I mean, look, I've seen some fans even going to the point of, like, right now you have Kevin Durant healthy, you have Men Thompson healthy, and you have Al-Pi Shingoon healthy. And they're like, this window isn't going to be open very long with Kevin Durant being how old he is, right? So they're basically saying like, why not go all in now at another piece? Because who's to say, like, let's say you get Fred back next year. And then Chingun goes down with a season ending injury. Or Durant missed a significant time. It's like because you're healthy right now, they're saying go for it now.

Instead just going, no, look, we'll pass the buck. If we can make a run this year, great. But you know what, next year when we get Fred back and Stephen Adams back, that's going to be really when we're going to make that run. Yeah, it's not just one thing. It's many things. It is the cap. It is the lack of wiggeroom. It is, I mean, the bad injury luck with two of your major rotation players missing.

And I said this on Twitter and people, it's funny that I literally said on Twitter, I think people are underrating the loss of Stephen Adams. And people are like, well, yeah, the loss of Stephen Adams, who cares? That doesn't matter. It's people proving my point. Like Stephen Adams missing him with the offensive rebounds, what he did as far as a glue guy off the bench to help shore things up when the second units come up and make things easier

for other guys, setting good screens, doing all the little things. You look at the box scores and he's averaging like six points a game and seven rebounds a game, but there was a lot of little things that he did that really helped things out for the Rockets and oh by the way, all those offensive rebounds. So you're missing those two guys

and you're hitting this midseason swoon where you've been yo-yoing back and forth from Houston and on the road a bunch and guys are looking tired and gassed. You've played them in a ton of minutes. You've played Kevin Durant a ton of minutes, and it looks like they're gasping for air come all-star break. And we've seen this before from the Rockets. Yeah.

Again, it's, you know, and the schedule doesn't get any easier, right? I mean, I don't think people realize, do people realize that Charlotte is on a heater right now, too? Like that the team you saw last night is a team that's on, what, a seven-game win streak or something stupid? I mean, they've been on a heater. Actually, that was their eighth win in a row. Yeah, eight in a row now. Yeah, they've been on a heater. Look, going against the thunder tomorrow is going to be tough no matter what planet you live on.

So, I mean, if they lose tomorrow and I'm not going to throw a fit. But then two against the Clippers, who, you know, seem to be a better team, but they traded Harden. So I don't know. Maybe they're going sideways and maybe you get them at the right time. But they ain't get the same Charlotte team again in four games. So, yeah, I mean, and it's tough too. I get the fan perspective when it feels like everybody around you is getting better and making additions and you didn't do anything. But thus the world you live in.

I mean, this is the same thing when the Texans end up paying C.J. Stroud and Will Anderson Jr. And you're going, why didn't they sign any big for agents? Because this is the world you live in when you have a high ticket item. And this is the world you live in when you're paying Kevin Durant as much as you're paying him. All right. We've got to take a quick break here on a sports talk. 790, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Cup.

you on hold. We'll get to you. We have Coach Udoca to get to as well. Non-Florida stories. Well, we might have to push that back a segment. We'll figure it out. Anybody. And your cookie. Don't forget your cookie. I know. We've got to talk about my favorite cookie coming up in the next segment as well. 713-212-5-790. The phone number, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

All right, we got Coach Udoka coming up in just a second here. But James has been holding patiently, so we're going to get to him real quick on the phone lines. Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas with Chris Gordy. James, go ahead. The floor is yours. Yeah? Totally agree.

Okay, a lot of good points there. Appreciate you, James. All right. Thank you for holding. And Gordy, if you'd like to react to that call, go ahead. All right, that's great too. All right, in the meantime, let's go ahead and go to Coach Udoca. Good thing. We've got a pack backup plan. Always a good conversation with Rocket's head coach, Emaudoka.

You may have seen some of the Alpernian-Goon comments going value roll to me that was just Cochidoka being Cochidoka so he addresses that and many other things. Oh by the way my cookie power rankings Jonathan because you were asking me during the break. I'm going to go number three chocolate chunk

number two I will go with peanut butter and number one of course you get the nice sugar cookie with a dusting of cinnamon. I don't know why it's called a snickerdoodle. Do you have any clue why they would call that a snickerdoodle? I don't know. Oh actually that's a It doesn't make any sense, but Snickerdoodles are delicious. They are my favorite cookies. Oh, you know what?

Ranger cookies, either homemade, number one, or from Ahruiska's bakery, people who know what I'm talking about. There you go. Snickerdoodle, number one, on my list. Let's go ahead and hear from Rocket's head coach, EMA Adoka, starting off talking about the bad performances of the last couple of nights. I mean, it looks like our energy isn't there, no doubt. And so for us, you know, before the Boston game, we talked about our last five games, with Boston Charlotte going to O'KC and then the Clippers on the back to back.

We want to finish on a good note. A lot of teams in the league is struggling, are struggling right now, and we don't want to be one of those. We want to go the opposite way, and obviously haven't had the right energy or competitiveness in the last two games. And one of the things that has been such a trademark

of your team while you've been in charge is winning the 50-50 balls, and I'm sure there's a metrics that's determined that the last couple of games, and it feels like those have not been a part of the Rockets' repertoire the last couple nights? Yeah, it's, that's, that's, that's, it's, that's, lack of rebounding, I think, you know, you can count 50, 50 balls, loose balls, or offensive rebounds for other teams.

And, you know, to be, to give up 20 against Boston and then be out rebounding last night on offensive glass by Charlotte, you know, a team that's playing more small than, you know, one, one or two bigs at the time, shows that the competitiveness on the glass is not there, the race to those balls, not there in, and areas that we usually, you know, and, you know, one, one or two biggs of the time. dominated. We're getting beat in. There was a comment that you were responding to about the pick and roll with Alpi and there was some defensive issues

again last night. That's got to be something that Alpi's got to feel bad about, obviously that he got used a couple of times on baskets. He was so fluid offensively and then the last couple of the games. Is that ankle causing maybe perhaps more issues that he was, he's one of the

let on to be at this point? I mean, there's fatigue, no doubt. And, you know, when you tweak tweak it a few times. You're going to be a little limited with your movement, but I don't think Alperin was going to use that as an excuse. So, you know, obviously played through it and had a great game in Indiana, and it's going to be up and down until you can kind of rest it.

But, you know, I think just in general, it's not just on Alpy picking roles as a two-man defense, two people left the guard, and our guards are getting clipped way too easily on screens and not really fighting through. So it's tough when guys are coming downhill. You've got a lot threat behind you. And we just need to do it.

got a job overall, being up at the level initially to take them off the jump shot and then keeping the roller in front of you. On that, you're not teaching this. I mean, these are grown men that have been playing basketball a long time. They've been around picking roles all their life. But what kind of adjustments can you make? Is it simply showing Alpi or anybody else involved in that, that here's what's happening on videos, you've got to fight through these things, you've got to be able to get a step

ahead? What do you all of a sudden in the middle of the season when you're trying to play three games and four nights and say, hey, if this is on tape, other teams are going to try to do this against you? No, you definitely can teach it and still walk through it and, you know, shoot arounds and get our technique back to where we were. You know, obviously training campus for those reasons. And when you're one of the best in the league at it, you know, the technique starts to slip, obviously. And so for us, like I said, it's not just outpern.

It's the guys impacting the ball, getting into the ball when the screen's there and kind of fighting over and blowing it up. But that's the first point of it. And so, you know, we're taking a circular route to try to get back in front or running right in. the screen which leads that two on one and so starts with the ball handler we always put the onus on them to get through and then contest guys and get back in their rear view but if not

Alpsa you know play two for a second hold up for a little bit and let guys get back in front without giving up the lob like I said a similar bad stretch last year heading into the all-star break and then of course we know in December with a lot of traveling games on the road there there were some losses that you guys would have like to

not have what do you take away from that as far as trying to get out of this funk. The shooting will come back around eventually, and that's the, that was the case in December. So it's a little bit different here where, you know, yeah, guys are playing at their best, no doubt, but the energy and the competitiveness was there in December. It was just a case of missed shots. And if you don't compete at the level we did, and you miss the shots like we did, there would have been a lot of blowouts, but they were very close games, there's some overtime losses. And so that's what we got to get back to.

the edge and just the competitiveness on the defensive side, offensively being aggressive and confidence still. And that's the main thing now. You know, it's just missing shots before. And we're still in games, but now we've got to bring the juice and energy that we didn't have in these last two games. Rocket Tech coach, IMA Adoka, with us here on Sports Talk 790. No moves made at the trade deadline.

Was there anything that, as far as discussions you were involved in, where there were some moves that were possibly close? and I guess it seems like the shock topic is that you guys might be active in trying to find some buyout moves. Yeah, no doubt people called. We have a lot of young talented players and a deep team. So teams are definitely calling about our guys that we like where we're at, I think, with our group. You know, you have Fred out, you have Stephen out. So some of our depth has gone there and some of our, you know, veteran leadership and IQ in those things.

but the team that we have now has got us to fourth place in the west right now, not playing our best right now, and we know we have a much higher ceiling that we can get to. And so what we want to see is get back to who we've been. You know, a lot of teams are struggling right now. If you look at the standings or the streets right now, we're seven and three in our last 10, even with those two losses, and a bunch of teams are five and five, four and six, you know,

kind of going through it right now. And that's what you look at OKC or Minnesota or the teams right around us, a lot of teams are going through this right for all-star break. So what we're going to do is stay of the course with our guys, see growth and improvement with our young guys throughout the rest of this season. And that was our mindset with it right now. As far as a buyout, you know, there will be guys out there and there will be opportunities to look. And we obviously can do something then, but it has to fit,

has to kind of go with our plan of improving with our young guys through the rest of the season. And seeing if anything we can add will help us really, really jump in. into that lineup. You know, it's tough to beat out some of the guys that we have now. And so we'll look at that when the time comes. Hey, I don't know if Rafael and you were on conference calls or Rafael came to you, but were there some calls you took that were like, are you kidding me?

Or are you too late in the game to be doing silly kind of trade proposals? I mean, there always are. Guys will throw out names of the guys they like and, you know, throughout scenarios and it's just really exploratory things. and I think for the most part we shut those down pretty quickly. But no, when you have the amount of talent that we have and guys that some of the guys aren't starters, that would be starters in other teams.

Teams are definitely going to call about them and throw out some ridiculous trades and stuff like that. But obviously we love our crew. We love the core of our team. And like I said, it's all about getting back to doing what we were doing previously before these few games. And when it comes to buyout guys and maybe grabbing somebody late, Is that an agent to GM call?

Can a player call you? Can you speak to them? What are the rules about that kind of stuff? No, I mean, once guys get bought out, their agents, look for the best situation for them and, you know, kind of canvas the league and rosters for situations that might be a good fit. And, you know, it's got to be a mutual thing. But, you know, for us, like I said,

it's going to take something incredible to, you know, crack our rotation and, you know, kind of displace some of the guys that are playing really well for us. And so we're more focused. on ourselves, no doubt. There would be some things that will probably be appealing, but we'll see when the time comes. It's definitely a two-way street as far as that. Let's go to read real quick for a let you run. There have been some magical games for him, and obviously he's playing much more than they ever played last year, and it's given you

much more production, but there has been a slump of him about the last five or six games. I don't know if you want to chalk it up to additional minutes going against the greatest players in the world. Ball doesn't leave his hands well, angles. Where have you seen the the down production from Reed say in the last two weeks or so. Yeah, definitely just the main shots. I think, you know, similar to Jabari going through it earlier and I'll be going through it at times.

Young guys specifically are going to have these throughout their career, especially early on. And so it's mentally staying confident, continuing to be aggressive, you know, and slowing down and taking and making the same shots you got. You know, you can't get better looks than we are with a lot of guys. And for us,

It's not rushing the shot or getting anxious with misses. But also, you don't want to just determine a great game on made shots only. And so that's what we reiterate the point to the guys. If you're missing shots, there's still other ways to impact the game. And we've seen guys do that without scoring a ton. But obviously, for scorers and shooters, it can get into your head a little bit when you're missing these open shots. You start to press a little bit. But we want guys to stay confident and aggressive, knowing that it just takes one game to kind of get out of that shooting slump.

But, you know, it sucks that it does happen. everybody and then the worst part is when it's a bunch of guys at the same time you know it's a kind of snowball effect there and we've seen games this year that would that happen and right now a few guys are going through it well let's end on a positive note jabari smith junior was 17 points last night nice to see him

bouncing back and the three point shooting has been better from that slump that he went to in the middle of January just your overall thoughts on him on both ends of the floor and specifically that kind of pet go-to bread and buttershot of his that pull up mid-range is really going down nicely. Yeah, like I said, it's just continue to stay the course. You know, trust the work that you put in.

We have faith that guys will continue to work their way out of these shooting slumps. And he did that. And so it was great to see him back, you know, making the shots that he was making at a high clip early in the year. And we know that's always going to happen. It's going back around. But, you know, as you're going through it, it's hard. But guys understand that they have to continue to be aggressive,

continue to not shy away from things. and then like I said, impact the game in other ways. But Jabari with his size and versatility, you can get to that spot and pretty much shoot it over anybody. And so good to see him, obviously, knocking down the threes, getting back to his mid-range pull-up, which he's very confident and comfortable in. And like I said, once he starts to make his like he has, and Alpe gets his touch back around the basket,

and Reid makes these shots. You'll see it start to flip for us again. All right, there you go. Rocket Tech coach, Ema, Udoka, with us earlier today. Good conversation with the coach, always as the Rockets look to bounce back with a victory tomorrow in Oklahoma City. Then they will get two days off for just the second time in like a couple of months. And then they will play a back-to-back against the Los Angeles Clippers at home.

And then they will hit the All-Star break. Say it with me, three-game winning streak, head into the All-Star break. Let's speak it into existence. All right, time for a quick break here on the Rockets. Well, no, no, it's on a Rocket Show. Cochie Doca, I got into that mode. No, it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. here on a Sports Talk 790.

When we come back, we got none of Florida stories, and then we'll be with you for another segment with you till 2 o'clock. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Adam and Adam coming your way at 2 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. Your home, before your Houston Rockets. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Hugh. It's that time of the week.

Okay, so I'll see you on hold. We'll get to you in a minute. But we do have to get to our Nanda, Florida stories here on Sports Talk 790. And let's go ahead and get after this quickly. I will start everywhere I look, Jonathan, by the way, I don't know what kind of various sources you used to look, but they were all using the acid story, the injecting of acid story that we talked about earlier with the Winter Olympics.

The fact that that's real is kind of, that's nuts. That's crazy. I mean, that's kind of cost some kids. You want to talk about loving the game? And Jonathan, I'm sure when you were a collegiate track athlete, you saw people going the extra mile and doing everything it takes. I mean, it's very interesting. The limits people will push themselves in the name of competitiveness.

I mean, we're talking about Lindsey Vaughn's got a torn ACL, and she's going to go careening at 75 miles an hour down a mountain with a torn ACL in the name of competitiveness. How much pain medicine you think she's on? I saw her doing a workout before. I was like, dude, there's no way. She can't feel anything. There's no way. And she could wreck her knee for life. But I mean, this is her last Olympics, her last shot.

So I guess from an I just don't get it standpoint, I get it. But yeah, if you had not heard, apparently everyone is injecting a high luonic acid into their junk to make their airtight, skin tight suits bigger. that they can fly better like a wind catching like sails catching a wind.

Anyways, catching wind. My story is a little bit more lighthearted. Let me take you to North Carolina where a man named Jonathan Hackett, 41 years old in Kingston, North Carolina, broke into a Little Caesars. Why did he break into a Little Caesars, you ask? Was he just trying to get some crazy sauce?

Was he trying to get the new Detroit-style pizza? No. Apparently Mr. Hackett broke into the Little Caesar shop after it had closed and he started making pizzas and then he began to sell

them. The Kinston Police Department responded to the Little Caesars in reference to a breaking and entering. They were advised that the former employee, so he knew how to bake and make the pizzas, unlawfully entered

the business on two separate occasions. He also allegedly got into a fight with other employees at the shop on the day of the second incident. He had been injured in the brawl and was taken for treatment by the police. He broke into the business while he was occupied by employees, employees to try to attempt him from entering, which in Volt has resulted in a physical altercation. After they closed, he broke back in and tried to make pizzas. and sell them. Police have not revealed the number of pizzas he allegedly made

or how much money he made from selling them. There is not readily available information about his next court date or his bail status. You know what? The man was just trying to make an honest buck. What's the sentence you go off in that? Okay, dishonest buck. Apparently it's multiple felonies. It's obtaining property by false pre-senses,

felony larceny after breaking entering, misdemeanor breaking, entering, and violating the city curfew. City curfew. I'm trying to throw the jail on the whole house on him. Man, he got pieced up. I'm looking at this, he got beat up. Looking at this. There's a picture.

He's got a black eye. His nose is swollen and one of his eyes is closed. You got beat up by the little Caesar's employees. He broke back in and tried to sell some pizzas. Well, I'm wishing Mr. Jonathan Hackett the best. There you go. That's my non-Flority story. What do you got, Jonathan?

All right, mine's coming out of Burnaby, British Columbia. Burnaby, British Columbia. Evan Collins. Evan Collins. After his romantic relationship ended, he just said that he needed to do something. So thus, it was born at the Museum of Personal Failures at Kingsgate Mall in Vancouver. Oh, really? United Press International Report

that Collins posted signs around the region seeking exhibits with the headline failures wanted. The museum has a wall of re-checked. Oh, people putting their own failures up. Everybody, yeah. It's a whole almost like an AA meeting. Yeah. With job application.

Hi, my name is Evan, and this is where I struck out with that one chick after the Super Bowl. Here's a picture of it. That's what they're doing. A knife maker donated his knife because it was unable to sharpen because he messed up. the chemical properties and oil, failed music producers put their music out there on speakers to constantly replay.

Someone, his own mother put her own wedding gown, which she named Threads of Innocence. That's terrible. That's my fun little... All right, you want to talk about your biggest failure, Jonathan? My biggest failure? No, I'm just kidding. See about it. I'll give you one.

One time I was on this flight to Vegas, there was a super cute girl. We happened to be sitting next to each other. I was in the window. She was in the middle. We started chatting. We were hitting it off. I was making her laugh. Like, blonde girl, very cute.

She was a bachelorette party. I was like, man, this is going perfect. She goes to the bathroom. Like, all right. Flight's about to end. I got to ask for her phone number. Like, I got to get the phone number. So I get my phone out.

I'm like, hey, yeah, you guys want to meet up at someone. She's like, oh, yeah, sounds great. Okay, okay, okay. I get my phone out. I start shaking. No, dude. Uncontrollably. because I was

I was chill and cool the whole time but as soon as I asked for her phone number like my heart started pat on my chest no I could tell this is not going well

she gave me her phone number I texted her she never text me back I know I'm hurting for you actually that's so bad it was going so well she's shallow man

it's okay whatever her loss sorry there you go That would be in my personal museum of failures. There you go, Jonathan. You don't have to tell a story if you don't want to. No, well, you know, everybody knows what Texas Relays are.

If you didn't know it sports. Yes. Based in college, we had big names. In Austin. Yep. I was on a 4-by-1 relay. You could tell in Austin. As someone who lives in Austin, I'm like, oh, it's Texas Relays weekend.

Exactly. That's the biggest thing in the sport around here, even just across the country. Yeah. Big names. We had Oregon. We had, big sports names. And then we were just SFA there. got into a good prelim.

And I'm like, all right, we're going to make finals, making time for nationals. Gun goes off. Boom. I was third leg. My second leg's coming around. I'm looking under my legs, getting ready to go. Uh-huh. I'm in an island.

Everything goes dark. I freeze. Really? Runs into me. I dropped the baton. Oh, no. And I'm just getting. Oh, my God.

SFA. It's all posted on the ESPN, a little plus and everything. Everybody sent it to me. I got cut out. They posted you? dropping the baton. It was on there. So it was like,

it was a big deal. And so, and then I had to live with that. And it was a whole, it was a long, I mean, long three weeks. Wow.

I'm sorry to hear about that, Jonathan. It's okay. It's sorry. At least my failures didn't go nationally viral. No, it didn't even go back.

It was just on there. It was on ESPN plus. It was just on there. You could watch it. Oh, okay. No. All right. Well,

I don't think I'll be here if it was viral. Well, that which does, not kill you makes you stronger even if it's embarrassing in the moment. All right, that's our non-flora stories. K, so we'll get to you in a second. We got one more segment to go. You guys

want to get in. You can do that. But final segment on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, ahead of Adam and Adam and the A team here on Sports Talk 790 is coming your way. All right, just a few minutes left for the Matt Thomas show with Ross ahead of Adam

Clanton and Adam Wexler. They call themselves the A team. They're Coming up at 2 o'clock. Koso has been holding patiently, so let's get to him real quick. What's up, Koso? Hey, guys, what's going on? Quick question before I start my Rockets questions. Have you guys ever seen?

It's Florida Man on HBO? I have not. Is it like a documentary or what is it? It's a mockumentary with actors, like actors that you know that portray crazy stories that happened in Florida. And one of the stories was a guy came off a bender, broke into a Little Caesar's pizza and survived off of pizza dough and fountain drinks for two days before getting caught. I thought you got to bringing that up. Oh, is it kind of like a drunk history, but they are Florida stories instead of historical stories?

Okay. I like that kind of format? Yeah, but with actors, like well-known actors, you know, it's like HBO quality. It's really good. It's really funny. You should watch it. All right. I'll put it on my list.

I know you got to get up to it. When I think about this rocket season, I think about kind of what James Hardin was here. He famously said one evening that he is the system. Do you remember that? Yes. That wasn't when he was in Houston, though. I think it was when he was, I don't know,

was he with the Clippers or something like that? But yes. He might be right, but basically he was the system here in Houston. So everything ran through him. was the system. And when I think about this Rocket season, it's basically out the double big lineup

is the system. When you don't have Adams out there and whatever Shingood is going through, the system isn't working. So I think without having the point guard out there, without having Fred out there, it's a pretty tough watch, but

we'll say to Rockets fans, it might be a wash of a season, just try to enjoy watching this team. And next year, you know, when we have everyone back, hopefully it would be a different story and we'll enjoy watching the system with Udoca. I appreciate it, man. Have a great day. Thank you, Kay, so

appreciate you. Look, yeah, first of all, I would say the system isn't really the double bigs. I mean, they did that some, but the system is running a two-man game with Kevin Durand and Alper and Shingoon at the top of the key. And when you put a bit, when they're put, when teams are putting fives on a men Thompson

and you can allow them to sag off, and that kind of just muddies all of those waters. where they're switching everything and then you've got you've got help. You've got a safety net of a big that's sagging off of Amin Thompson. They have to get better and figure those things out. But they're going to be better, I think.

They're going to be okay. Kevin Durant is just amazing. Amin Thompson just looks aghast. Alper and Shingud, I think, has been dealing with an ankle injury and he just hasn't looked 100% and maybe he's tired as well. They need this All-Star break

because they just have not looked like themselves. But missing Stephen Adams is a big piece. Missing Fred Van Vleet is a big piece. I mean, on one side of the coin, we can say, ah, you know what, well, you've known you're not going to have Fred Van Vleet. You tore his ACL. But you can also say that he was the floor general that they wanted,

the point guard that they needed. This team needs exactly what Fred Van Vleet provides. And missing things that Stephen Adams provides matters as well. With the offensive rebounding, with him just being a survival. at getting those and just a bully, a bully and a savant. Great at finding where those rebounds are going to land

and just stronger than everybody else on the floor and able to nab those. And also setting good screens and also being an underrated passer and being somebody that you can find as an outlet and then he's going to find the next guy. That isn't necessarily a high assist guy, but occasionally finding guys on backdoor cuts and finding the right passes as well

and doing all a bunch of little things. To where you're missing, if you're normally, Eme Adoka doesn't have a really lengthy rotation wanting to play eight guys, nine max, two of those pieces are gone, one of them being a starting piece. And added in the fact that Doreen Phiney Smith

has been either hurt or on a minute's restriction all year long and then not playing well when he's out there. And Tari Isson missing time and then also being on a minute's restriction and then can't play back to backs. Those are two of your rotation players. You were talking about you want an eight, nine player rotation,

two are gone and two are on minutes restrictions and can't play back to backs. And I think it's a really good point that EMA brought up. They're playing this rough. I won't say bad, but they're playing this rough. And they're still number four seed. They're still number of the four seed and they can still get better. They've lost these games and they can improve. That's another good point too.

So, yeah, not looking good right now. But we were saying the same thing. In December they turned it around beginning of January. And then they went and ripped off eight wins out. of 10, they can do the same here. So I'm not super worried about it. And I will also say, if your expectation is championship or bust, you're

just not being realistic. The Thunder are probably going to win the championship again unless they suffer a number of injuries. Spurs might have something to say about that, and those teams right now are better than the Rockets. Pistons will see, it doesn't matter because they're in the East. But it's tough. Even fully healthy. Where the Rockets are going to be championship favorites? No.

Because the Thunder are reigning champs in their just that damn good. And when they get fully healthy with Shane Gildes-Alexander back, they're going to continue to be championship favorites. All right, that's going to do it for the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas for the final hour. Thanks to Chris Gordy for hanging out. Thanks to Coach

Yudokin. Thanks to Jonathan Allen for being here the whole duration. Thanks to Matt Thomas for hosting the show the first three hours. I will talk to you folks next. Not until Monday, 10 a.m. on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, but right now do not go anywhere. It's two Adams. They call themselves

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