The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Sit 3rd In The AL West, Rockets Need Tonight's Win After Falling 2-1, Texans Went Full Offense Mode In NFL Draft

Episode Date: April 28, 2025

Astros Sit 3rd In The AL West, Rockets Need Tonight's Win After Falling 2-1, Texans Went Full Offense Mode In NFL Draft

one in H-town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. I'm coming to you from San Francisco, California. Ross is in our Houston studios. We have a lot of interesting sports items to get to today. Almost Rossi, too much sports. We had the NFL draft. We had the Astros finally putting up some numbers yesterday against the Kansas City Royals after going with 26 innings without scoring anything. And then we have the Rocket Saturday performance against the Golden State Warriors. What is this? The loveliness of Paris.

Got a little San Francisco music going for you, Matt. You know what? I kind of need that. Yeah. It's stressful times right now for the Houston Rockets especially. Don't get me started. I'm a hot mess, Ross. I've got to be really honest with you.

Yeah, how's that different from the other day, though? That's true. At least I'm consistent. I'm consistently a hot mess. You're right. You're the consistency. You're the Lou Gehrig of hot messes, Matt. Yeah, if there was a streak of hot messes, it would be me.

Had a great dinner last night. I can tell you that. Here we go. The great Tony Bennett. In San Francisco. Didn't you tell me you went and saw Tony Bennett a few years ago, and he sang a song, and then he started to read it. re-sing the same song right back.

It was like he was everybody's sweet old grandpa. Now actually for a 92 year old at the time he was 92. He sang really well. And he did a good set and everyone was like encouraging him. It was like I said it was like you were cheering on your senile

grandpa and then he came on and did encore and he did a song. I can't remember what it was. It was maybe New York New York or something. He started to walk off the stage, paused was clearly confused. everyone's cheering him on again like I said we're all just like okay what's Tony gonna do then he came back on and did the same song so we got an extra encore out of the deal

yeah but he also said I love y'all Cleveland y'all the best yeah no he I don't think he bothered singing in songs his daughter was the opener she was terrible quite frankly I'm sorry sorry to the Bennett family but oh we've had a lot of gravy trained kids. We've had Frank Sinatra Jr. Gravy train off of Pops. We've had, you mentioned Tony Bennett's daughter. We had

Julian Lennon, gravy train off for his dad. He had one hit, one hit. Hmm. Yeah. Who else? Didn't Bob, did you mention Bob Dylan's son? No, I did not.

But I'm not a Bob Dylan guy here. It was the Wallflowers. They had a song. Yeah. One headlight was their jam. trying to think who else Yeah, Jacob Dylan Yeah, who else Is gravy train off at Pops?

A Glenn Fri's Kid Is, what's that? Nancy Sinatra Uh, sister. Oh, wait, that was his sister? I think so. Oh, I didn't know that. Don't hold me to that.

But Frank Sinatra had Jr. was a performer too. Yeah, he wasn't that bad actually. It sounded fairly similar to his father. Yeah, he basically said I'm just going to do everything I can to steal off pops. It's okay. You got to do what you got to do.

I was like to look it up. Is Nancy Sinatra related to Frank? Oh, I always thought she was hurt his daughter. It's going to bother me now. This is terrible. We got to talk about sports on this show. We've done already. You know, this is my fault.

It is your fault. I told Jonathan to play I left my heart in San Francisco. Yeah. She's the other child. See, his first child. Oh, damn, I'm wrong. See, I was right. How did I get something right about 1970s music over you?

No, she wasn't the 70s. Oh, 60s? Yeah, 60s. Even better. I thought that Leslie Gore was related to Al Gore, and I was wrong about that. Okay. That's kind of a running family bet. You thought Chris Gordy was related to Barry Gordy as well, which was odd, because

Barry Gordy was black. Folks have come to us for sports, and we're giving them terrible music from 45 years ago. You know what it is? We're displacing our angst over what happened on Saturday night. I don't want to talk about the Rockets and you don't. It's procrastination, Matt. Yeah. and not looking forward to tonight, although it is not.

And by the way, we put a moratorium on saying that. Arguing. You can say it. I just don't want to argue about it. No, we're not going to argue about it anymore. But because here's the thing, you still have to, you know, you're down to one of the series. You're going to have to win three of the next, what, four games, basically. Yes. No matter what, whatever order you do it. Right, right. You're already in a bad spot, winning three out of four against the Golden State Warriors.

And talked about it. on the Rockets Wrap program on Saturday? Gary Payton Jr. Her second. Oh, God. It's Gary Payton the second. Okay, yeah. Well, I mean, at least you got to get in the NBA in your own merits. Or the NFL Shador. Yeah, by the way, was that Chador stuff absolutely crazy

that not only did he get drafted where he did, which I believe, again, Pops has had a lot to do with that. I mean, that's the least kept secret in the room. People just don't trust the family. It is what it is. Yeah, I think to an extent, but if he was good, if he was the best prospect on the board,

it and went number one. So, I mean, the NFL just wants to win. They don't care about narratives and dealing with, they've dealt with bad parents and guys with egos. I mean, quite frankly, good thing is, I mean, Shador Sanders is in a criminal. They've dealt with guys who have been beating their girlfriends, stealing stuff, you know, whatever. If you can help an NFL team win, they will draft you. They will. This was not a collusion. This was a mid-level NFL prospect, except for Mel Kuiper, and an arrogant father who's probably going to look for people to get fired to take the job so as king quarterback his son. Short of that, that's the storyline.

Yeah. You didn't need a deep-seating conversation about this. Yeah, it's not that deep. He was a second, third-round pick on a lot of people's board. He went in the fifth. Quinn Ewers was a third-fourth round pick on a lot of people's board. He went in the seventh round. Yeah. So, I mean,

it happens. Yeah, and by the way, just because you consider yourself a draft analyst does not mean the NFL war rooms believe you're a draft analyst. Yeah, Mel Kuyper, sound like he was taking it personal. Mel Kuiper was taking it personal And I don't get it Are you really going to fall on your sword

For Shador Sanders of all I mean he was fighting with people on his set on ESPN Over the weekend That's how bad it got I think You know Matt If you take a hard line stance And I think we see this in politics

And other things too You have to Your only options are to be A believe you're wrong And you don't know what you're talking about Or B say it's a conspiracy And Mel Kiper went with B Because it's harder to admit the truth

Yeah I don't know And again, I've known, Mel and I used to do a weekly show way back in the day before ESPN took all of his time away. And it was really good, interesting, very good on the radio. A guy Ross you'd want to sit and talk to. I mean, very affable person. But this year he lost his damn mind. Mm-hmm. Over Shador Sanders? I mean, Shadur Sanders? Really?

Yeah. I mean, he's, he will be remembered for this. If Chodor is a decent NFL quarterback, he's going to have the greatest I told yourselves ever. If he's wrong and he's nothing more than a backup quarterback or a guy that moves from team to team to team to team, why would I trust Mel Kiper's credibility for anything? Because he spent the entire, every time I turned it on, it was about him arguing with Reese Davis over Shador Sanders.

It was crazy. And yeah, the last time I remember him stumping for a guy that felt like this was Jimmy Clawson. so but nobody nobody gets 100% of the draft picks right so I mean we'll see but nobody does but nobody also spends 36 hours debating the one guy

I mean God don't you just move along and say all right I told you guys know why I feel let's get it the rest of the draft yeah he he's putting his reputation on the line on Shador's career so we'll see how it goes all right Astros get a I mean a huge bomb from Yordon Alvarez yesterday

as the uh... I finally excuse me, take the final game of the series from... They decided to score a run in Kansas City. I like that. Kansas City, by the way, good baseball stadium. Isn't just beautiful watching a game there? Yeah, Coffin Stadium has got that classic look, for sure. Problem is, it's in the middle of nowhere.

I mean, you can't... You know how these new downtown stadiums? You connect everything. It's arrowheads next to it, and it's a beautiful complex of two huge stadiums, but there's nothing around it. So it's definitely one of those cities you have to get a car. car or be willing to spend a pretty significant Uber money on that. So we have a lot to get to today.

I want you all to chime in. Be a part of this radio show. 713-212-5-7-90 is how you reach the program if you want to get in. Let me give me the number again. And everything is up for grabs in terms of conversation. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Astros get some production this weekend. The Rockets play game number four tonight here in San Francisco.

the Texans go heavy wide receiver in the draft, heavy on the outside of the offensive line, and do not even address the interior of the offensive line. Thankfully, we have Ross to break it down for us, as he will give us his draft grade on the radio show today. We mentioned Sodor Sanders, everything. And by the way, more NBA officials saying, oops, we goofed up, we're sorry.

Doesn't do a whole lot for me, does it? Do you? 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-2-2-7-90 with Ross in Houston. I'm at here in San Francisco with a word. 10-17. A little about Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in San Francisco. Ross back in our I-Heart studios back in H-Town.

7-1-3-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90 if you want to jump in. We have Warriors' voice. Tim Roy is going to stop by again with us and visit with us at 1130 today. get his perspective so far through the first three games of the series. And then we will also have a move to tell the truth to 1230 today. So we'll have that for you coming up today. And then, of course, we've got, believe it or not, at 150.

All right, Ross, you are a sports fan beyond being a broadcaster as you sit here with a cup of tea in your hand or whatever you have to be drinking back in Houston. What's the first thing in your mind of what we need to get to in terms of a busy sports week? Oh, man. Whether or not 100 men could defeat one gorilla in a fight. Now I saw that with your poll question. Where am I missing? It was all over Twitter.

I guess it was in my 4-U tab, but not yours. It was, you probably had a bunch of only fans models in your 4-U tab. But I have that may be accurate, but that's really not my conversation to have right now. Yeah, that was taking over the internet. We can debate that later on in the show. I was just joking. I'm going to go with, I mean, yeah, like you said, it was the Astro stuff going on, the draft. But it's playoff time.

So I'm locked in on the rocket. right now. In game number four, a pivotal game number four tonight, Rockets 3 and a half point underdogs. We'll see what happens with Jimmy Butler. So were you, and I'll use the term exasperated over the fact that the Warriors won a game with Jimmy Butler, not on the floor. It was extremely frustrating, especially they started Quentin Post. They wanted to, clearly they knew that they were having some issues on the boards and issues dealing with Alperin's chingoon. So starting Quentin Post and having him on Amin Thompson allowed Draymond Green to take Alpern Shingoon one-on-one. It was a great adjustment by Steve Kerr and out of necessity because

Jimmy Butler was out. So Draymond Green could guard Alperin-Shingun one-on-one and did a pretty good job on him. And then Quentin Post could provide some help down there because you can just sag off of Amin Thompson. And so what the Rockets did, I don't think it was necessarily in the game plan, but the way it unfolded was that that meant Amin Thompson had a lot of space to operate with Quentin Coast on him, and he just couldn't take advantage of it. He went 5 for 16.

So Alpern Shingoon missed a lot of buckets in the paint. You went 19 out of, you can't go 19 to 48 in the paint. You just can't. They went 19 of 48 in the paint, and Alprin Shungoon and Amin Thompson missing a lot of those. Now credit... And by the way, also, not to interrupt me, they also went 5 of 15 on second

chance opportunities. That's one of the things they've lived off of is the offensive rebound and putback. Yeah, and a lot of those, I'm sure, were in the paint. So, yeah, so credit to the Warriors for playing good paint defense, but Amman, especially, need to be better. Jalen Green was missing threes, and he wasn't aggressive, but that was because a lot of the shots did go to the guys down low, and you just add that all up, and it was a disappointing game,

and, oh, by the way, on the other side, Rockets did a really good job defensively, but Def Curry is just an alien. 36 points, 9 assists, 7 rebounds. he was special. Nobody on the Rockets was even I mean above Jabari Smith Jr. had 12 points.

You know, people were talking about him like, oh, yeah, he had a good game. He just 12 points on the bench. It's not like he lit the world up. Nobody scored over 20. Nobody was special. Nobody rose above what the Warriors were throwing at them. Steph Curry rose above what the rockets were throwing at them and they won the game.

Yeah, I think the term that I'm going to steal off for you is special. You have to in a playoff game in a playoff series be special. Jalen Green and game number two was special. He took over the game and did things that made him the guy that the rockets extended and you say, all right, I can build the team around it. That was a special performance. If Jabari Smith was your most effective in terms of on-the-court player, that's not going to be great.

It's not going to be enough. Yeah, he was nice. Three of five from three, twelve points, five rebounds. It was good. Yeah, hits the mid-range nicely. I don't know what's happened on men, but a men's mid-ranges is like going right now at this point. I never thought it was that great. I mean, I think he's best running down to the basket.

And I think it's the Warriors, it's been drilled into them. They're very prepared. This happens. You know, in the season, Matt, you play three games at four nights. That third team isn't ready for a men, Thompson. Like, they know that he can't shoot, but it's not drilled into them. In a seven-game playoff series with days off in between, everybody on that warrior squad knows. Sag off a men, Thompson, make him beat him.

you 10 to 15 feet and he can't do that consistently at this stage of his career and for a guy that doesn't shoot much inside except for inside 15 feet he's only 41% from the floor in the series right yeah and then fred got going really early in the first quarter I think he would have 13 and then finishes with just 17 points and I was I was odd how I thought you know because there have been some nights where friend has taken over hitting it's five or six threes you're like all right if that's what that's what the Rock is going to do this night, let's go for it. I thought Dylan had a good start as well, but he got in the foul trouble really quickly in the game.

The double bigs worked for a while, but unfortunately the free throw line was not their friend. 14 of 24 from the line at 58%. And going back to the most essential thing about anything talking about Golden State, Steph Curry

in theory, not literally, but figuratively is unstoppable. When he wants to take over a game, he does so. Yeah, and Coach Udoca tried to take him out of the game. They blitzed him a lot and double-teamed him a lot on pick and rolls. And it was effective for a little bit, but they adjusted to it. They found what they did was on those pick-and-rolls, they had Gary Payton running basically on a runway,

and then Steph Curry finding him running to the basket, and he got a couple of easy baskets that way. On the flip side, Jalen Green was getting blitzed and double-teamed, and that's one of the reasons he only got 11 shots up, because they were just taking the ball out of his hands, and the Rockets did not adjust to it as well as the Warriors adjusted on the other side. Yeah, our buddy on Twitter, all texting or tweeting, says that teams that go up 3-1 win the series 95% of the time.

Oh, they. Don't say that out loud. All right, I'll keep it to myself. I will not mention again between now and two of a phone. You can say it because it's the harsh reality. It's a very important game tonight. If you could get this win and come home and you have, if you could get this win and have three-game series, with two of them at home.

Oh, man, it would just change a complexion so much because right now I'm not feeling super optimistic. And I hate to say this, but there's, and the new regime doesn't understand this, but us, oh, geez, know this. There's been nothing pleasant about playing Golden State in the playoffs for 10 years.

Yeah. I mean, it's like, that's not our team. That's not us. Well, yeah. Fred, I get it. But Fred, you've also had, there's bad things in your life that I say, oh, Fred, you get past that.

No, we as rocket fans don't want to, we have a hard time with this. Yeah. We literally will take on, we were like, Lakers don't care. You got LeBron, you got Luca. You got James Hardin and Kauai and Leonard and Vitz of Zubots and Norm Powell and Lake Clippers. Ah, no big worries on that. Minnesota, got Ann Edwards, you got Rudy Gober, you got Nasrin. Oh, we'll take that.

I didn't want to play him. Yeah. And again, it's just, it's a byproduct of history. and right, Fred is different, that every team is built differently. This team is the best team it's been, at least in the last handful of years. But there's just something about Golden State, something about Steph Curry, something about Draymond Green, something about getting in fracases and foul trouble and altercations and towel throwing and whatnot that I just don't like it.

I just don't. Yeah, and that's the two biggest reasons they won on Saturday was Draymond's defense and Steph Curry being special. And how many times have we seen that? I need Alpy to get right in Dremont's face and go after him and just do what you can. The pull-ups and the finesse shots. And, oh, there's just times I just want, I want to help me to be the consistent low block, put your ass of the basket, jump hook your way, slides up because your footwork is so incredible. And I know Dremont is an excellent defender for being six foot six.

And you can do that against Post or you may be able to do it against Dremont Green, but there's got to be a little happy medium here, right? Yeah, he needs to be more aggressive, like you said, but I think a couple things. Draymond Green is really strong, and also he does a good job of poking the ball away and just stifling out Brin Schingoon. Yeah, yeah, I agree with you on that. All right, so let's get to a more positive thing. How about the Local 9 winning yesterday against Kansas City? We'll have Yordon and Company do their thing, and Hunter Brown. There was an interesting story today about Hunter Brown's future contract in the athletic today.

we'll run through that a little bit as well. 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-2-790. 7-1-2-7-90. If you want to join our program today, we're with you until 2 o'clock. We'll talk with the voice of the Warriors at 1130 to tell the truth at 1230, believe it on at 150,

and back to Ross in Houston to talk about how we need to get our energy ready for tonight and for the future. Seven hits, one run. Struck out nine. His scoreless streak is over with. He's four-in-one, Rossi, on earning of 1.22.

Is that good? It's really good. Brian King was human yesterday. Oaker gave you a good eighth. Taylor Scott and the ninth. It's fine. It's all right. Taylor Scott.

A big time friend of the show. Big time. I mean, as soon as he became a U.S. citizen, he's like, first thing I'm going to do is got to celebrate and call the Matt Thomas show with wrong. That's true. Unfortunately, we missed the call. We must have been the internet issues at our office. He only gave up one run.

It's fine. He's not been good so far. That's okay. His Ernie right now is five and a half. I mean, he's in a fifth, sixth inning roll right now. Brian King's locking it down and then a bray you hate her. All right. Yoron hits home run number three of the season.

That's nice, but that was a massive. Not easy to hit home runs there. Yeah, he's been hitting bombs. Or, I mean, he's been scalding the ball, as they say, Matt. A lot of high-edged. It makes it Velo. Yeah, that XBA is crushing. It's looking good.

It's a good sign. All right. So the Astros who don't score anything in the first two games, the series score seven. That's just crazy how baseball works, isn't it? I mean, you can't buy a run in the first two games, and you explode for a couple of crooked numbers in the game yesterday. Beautiful.

As we said, of course, Matt, and as you say, that's baseball. You also say it's the most unpredictable game. Yes. All right. So our friend of the show, Chandler Rome, puts out a mailbag every week on Mondays, and I was looking at that before the show started, somebody asked about, you know,

what they should do about Hunter Brown. And Hunter has gone through, this will be Scott Boris and now his third agent in the last two years. And apparently last year, this is according to Hunter, to Chandler's story, it's that the Astros got a phone call from somebody representing Hunter Brown, whatever agency was at the time, and said, hey, do you want to talk about maybe buying out some arbitration?

and apparently the Astros did not send a referring the conversation was minimal is one from what I understand, reading the story. So, I mean, it would be in their best interest to maybe try to have that conversation soon. Yeah, it might be a little late now. Scottie B's like, oh, you got my number now, huh, Dana? Yeah.

And I think that Scott Boris did respond and said hashtag betting on himself. Yeah, he, probably come up with some lame he's always coming up with some lame things and phrases in turns of phrase and catch phrases for his players. What was he saying about

Alex Bregman? He's like, oh, he's got gold glove and he's got this and that. He'll play any position possible. Yeah, I haven't seen his ass anywhere but third base so far. Yeah. Astros, game and a half out of first place.

Seattle in first place, America League West. Did you see the way that Texas, San Francisco game ended yesterday? I thought a little league game broke out. It was literally the hashtag little league home run. Let me tell you what drove me nuts as a little league dad. Okay. When these mothers

are like, my boy hit a big home run today. I'm like, oh, did he hit it to like over the left center field wall? Was it a straight away shot? No, he goes, it was a ground ball to the pitcher and he threw it out to right field. And then when the right fielder threw it to the left fielder, he went all the way around. I was so happy. He got, he got four bases.

It was his first home run of the season. And I would argue with these moms for a while, and then I just stopped arguing. I would turn my back, walk the other direction, swear a lot, and then come back and watch the game. And score that in E1, E9, E6, home run. Yeah. The old obligatory unearned run. But it was really comical how bad they lost the game yesterday. Yeah, that's great.

What a shame. What a shame. By way, a lot of folks have always asked me about what it's like coming to a game here in San Francisco. It's a great ballpark. I don't have you been here, Ross, you're not. But under no circumstances, you go at night. Not because it's dangerous. It's just because it's...

Oh, it's cold. Bitch and cold. Oh, you'd be fine. Put a sweater on. I tried to. I put a park on, and I was tasting my own snot. It was terrible. Oh, right.

See, those are the details we don't need. If you go to a game at 1 o'clock, very pleasant. It says the low is 51 right now. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying, you get to 12.45, 1 o'clock, you're fine. 65 degrees, perfect. Light breeze come out of McCabby Cove. 7 o'clock at night. You're in a parka, you've got socks up to your kneecaps.

Yeah, what is? Shivering, it's not all over your face. It's not a pleasant sight. The Mark Twain quote, or I think it's falsely credited to him, the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. You know what you are? You are Mr. Bay Area. am I putting songs on oh that's true

reciting mark twain quotes how are things out there you haven't got attacked by a homeless person have you I have not actually that is a little bit overblown I have had no problems at this point okay good now grant I'm also in a very affluent part of of downtown San Francisco yeah that's true a lot of shaking a heads Rossi yesterday just a lot of shaking of heads oh you're in your rockets crew

yeah I know especially you guys want to keep getting paid Ross Hey me too I put my business out there like that Hey me too Draft Kings pick six Use code H-O-U picks Let's go Rockets

Stay in the playoffs By the way Pat we'll get more To more of the Rockets a little bit Happy 10 year anniversary And service time for Ross You ready for this? Who got 10 years of service time?

Go ahead I want to see if you can guess You get two guesses Christian Walker No Let me think I'm just going to look I'm just trying to pull up the

No not no It's a sneaky 10 years It is a sneaky 10 years Sneaky 10 years Taylor's good no not Taylor Scott I don't know No say who it is Lance McCullers

Oh Using the light use of the word service time Well I mean it is what it is You know It's more 10 years of hanging out time 10 years of rehab time. But the report out of this weekend was good. I mean, got up to the higher pitch count.

So I think he's going to make one more rehab starts his to Dana-Bron and then he'll be back before you know it. Okay. I think I had May 15th. I'm going to be right around that area, don't you think? Maybe I may lose the. Yeah. No, you're going to lose.

And it's only because he got a stomach bug. Only because he got the runs. Yeah, we can all get those occasionally. You know what I mean? Yeah. But, hey, good start over the weekend. was a five innings pitch to shut out ball and that was double a hitters but still better than him giving up five ernie yeah and then unfortunately i wake up yesterday morning

some two hours behind you guys with forest willies back on the injured list yeah he got a knee was a knee bruise yeah come on fast how much forced how much how much potential uh service time could he have had over his career at this point true it is what it is 713-212-5-790. Astro start a series with the Detroit Tigers tonight. A.J. Henschen Company in town for the first time since or I'll see it last October. Let's talk about what happened then.

It was almost like, that didn't even really count in our world, right? I mean, you don't lose in whimpering two little wildcard games, right? That's not what you're supposed to do. You're the Astros. You're supposed to go to ALCS at a minimum. I think it's ridiculous that you can, for 162 games, division and be out in two games, but

that's because baseball wants more wildcards, because they want more money. Everybody wants more money. Including the NFL who decided over the weekend that we're thinking about playing 18 international games in the future. Really? That is a super gut feeling I had

from many years ago. Because again, Ross, they're tapped out of U.S. I mean, unless you just build up at the 18th game and you get more money out of the TV networks, but sure of that, what else are they going to do? to grab more of the American sports dollar. I think they need to figure something out with these local broadcasts.

Meaning what? I mean, well, yeah, some of the regional sports networks. I've been having some issues across. But what do to do with the NFL, though? Oh, I'm sorry, you're talking about NFL? I'm sorry, I think you were talking to baseball. I'm, I misunderstood you. No.

Nope, nope. They're going to have 18 games, apparently, internationally. And they're thinking about going to taking some teams to Asia, too. Do you know how it's going to screw up their bodies for, like, weeks. They don't care. No, they don't care. Let's talk to James on 790 at 1040. Hi, James?

Yeah, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what Steve Kerr is doing. He's shutting down the paint and making his force us to hit three-point shots. I don't know, I know we have one of the best coaches the NBA, but it seems like they spread out their offense. They could drive to the basket or something. We've got to get that paint back, and we're not going to win tonight. Yeah, I think the whole part of the basketball floor

needs to be better. Thanks for the phone call. Yeah, they are packing the paint because, I mean, look, that's what they're going to do. When you have Amin Thompson isn't a shooter, Alperin-Gungoon isn't a shooter, and then Jalen Green, Fred Van Fleet are not reliable shooters. So at any given point, you can have four people who can't, who aren't shooting well on the floor. So, yeah, they're going to pack the paint. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny because you see when it's a man in the middle of the paint, they sag off and you, you've used that term a couple of times, but it's literally a two-step drop. It's, hey, we're going to give you the open space. Why don't you try to knock that 15-foot mid-range against us?

Yeah, Quentin Post starts backpedaling like he's a corner in playing off coverage. It's just like prevent defense on an NBA court. Exactly. He gives him as much room as he wants. And then so Quentin Post is so big that Men Thompson isn't going to be able to dunk on him. And he can't go past him because of how far he's backing up. So he has to pull up from around 10 feet. And he has to make those.

Well, Quinn Post didn't do much shooting and has not done so much in series, but he had 12 rebounds in the game on Saturday Ross and that was the most he's ever had in the game in its rookie season. So, postseason or regular season. Yeah, so we'll see what happens with Jimmy Butler and how they shuffle the starting lineup with that.

It is 1048 on Sports Talk 790. Chris Gordy with us here, as he is from Monday Stop By. And we are with you until 2 o'clock today. We'll visit with Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden State Warriors, coming up at 1130. Gordy, we're going to be highly confused between the Jalen, the Jadens, and the Jailens

that are now wearing Houston Texans gear. Yeah. That was a little bit of a gamble, right? Taking two wide receivers from one school. I mean, look, I know they like both of them, but like, that just felt very odd to me. And they need wide receiver help. Obviously, we don't know an official timeline on Tankdale

and if and when he'll be back. I mean, most people kind of are expecting. He's going to be out for all of this season, if not a majority of it, with that gruesome knee injury. But two wide receivers from the same school and the same draft in the second and third round, I just, I don't know, man. I'm like, there was nobody else. Like, you took Jayden Higgins and then you looked all around the entire league,

and there was no other wide receiver that you like other than Jalen Noel. I mean, if it works out, it works out. Great. That just felt very weird to me. Well, first of all, they're preparing for a life without Tank. preparing for a life without Xavier Hutchinson. They're preparing for a life without John Mechie. Rossi, they chose no interior alignment in this group here.

Yeah, a bit of a shock, but I guess to what Gordy was talking about, it seems like they were just staying true to their board, like they said, Matt, and they didn't want to reach for anything. And I think if you weren't in a situation where you're staying true to your board, you probably don't take too wide receivers from the same school. And then they didn't feel like they could find anybody that they liked on the interior of the line. The good news is, is generally, I mean, throughout the years, you'll be

able to find guys on the interior a lot easier than you can't tackle. Well, I think, guys, this screams, I mean, like, this screams to me, Titus Howard, you are a left guard. Like, you're not playing tackle. It's going to be, right. Ersary is going to compete for one of those tackle spots.

Blake Fisher's probably going to be your right tackle. We'll see what Cam Robinson and Trent Brown do, but to me, this is a clear sign. Titus Howard, go get your ass at guard. That's where you I wonder how much of it, boys, was also, you know, that deep conversation C.J had with his new offensive coordinator and with Dameko and said, look, Nico Collins is special, but the rest of the guys around me are not going to pose any threat to any corners and secondary guys in the NFL.

We've got to be a little more explosive because, granted, again, I'm only looking at Iowa State YouTube highlights. There's no chance I'm spent a long time watching Iowa State games. But the guys have put together some good numbers. I mean, they were not under position. or picked up wise. They were supposed to be where they were draft wise based off grades and whatnot. So it was just a clear focus to get a little more explosive because, honestly, and I love Tankdale more than life itself. If Tankdale ever plays series football again for the Texans, it would be a considered

a bonus because I just don't think that frame of his is going to be able to stand with playing a 17 game schedule. Well, this to me is where we look at John Betjee and Xavier Hutchinson and say, are one of you guys ready to take this next leap, you know, because Higgins and Noel are coming in to push them and they're coming in to try to play. I think I'm pretty resigned. In fact, Braxton Barrios is just going to be a special teams guy. I don't think they foresee him playing a ton of wide receiver. We'll see on Justin Watson. You know, Christian Kirk is going to play, but isn't he on like a one-year deal? So I don't know how much they're expecting him to be a massive

contributor, but this whole thing's wide open. I mean, like if I'm C.J. Stroud, I'm getting on the phone with all these guys right now. Guys, voluntary OTAs, I need all y'all there. We got to start developing this chemistry and get going here. But I do like what they did with running back. I like Woody Marks. He was a really nice contributor at Mississippi State for four years before he went to USC this past year.

And I got to see him in person in the opener against LSU and USC won. But yeah, he like, that's a nice pass catching back. You know, when he originally got there when Mike Leach was at Mississippi State where they don't run the football a ton. So that's why his rushing. totals weren't that high, but over 1,000 yards rushing at USC this year. But a great pass catching back out of the backfill. I think he'll be a nice compliment to Joe Nixon.

So run game good. I think offensive lines should be solid. I like Eli Cox too, by the way, SEC guy played four or five years at Kentucky. Backup center. But to me, if I'm Stroud, I need these wide receivers in camp and I need to start developing that chemistry. Ariante Urs, although they call him Tay, Ross. Let's make sure you knew that. Yeah.

I like to pick. It's one of their basically top five tackle on everybody's board. He looks apart. He certainly does. And the Woody Marks highlights were very impressed when I saw him being drafted too. So if I'm Damien Pierce, I'm not looking for real estate in Houston. And with taking Graham Mertz, do you start thinking about moving Davis Mills? Probably.

Look, I like Mertz a lot. I've interviewed him a couple times. He is an awesome interview. If we ever get a chance to have him on, like, you'll fall in love with his personality. But as a football player, he's a little mid. And guys, what does it say about Quinn yours that he fell as far as he did to me? That was one of the biggest storylines. Shador got all the conversation.

But I mean, I'm literally at the Cotton Bowl talking to guys on the field before that game with Texas and Ohio State. And these national reporters are telling me they have reports that Quinn Ewers had three to four million dollar NIL deals on the table from other schools. and he turned them down because he said, I'm going pro. And he goes to the seventh round where he's going to get four million total over four seasons. That's a million a year to back up two or third string practice squad with the dolphins. Like to me, you took Graham Mertz ahead of Quinn yours? That was shocking to me how far Quinn fell.

That's why Ross, if you're yours and you know that Arch is going to take over there, don't you just go sell yourself the highest bidder and go say, hey like I've been a starting quarterback. I've been to a national semifinal for two straight years. I got to be worse more than what I'm getting right now or what I'm projected as a draft pick. I said this at the end of the year when people were saying Quinn Ewers was going to transfer and oh, he's going to go to this school or that school.

He's got offers. I said no. Now you don't maybe not, don't believe that Quinn Ewers is an NFL talent. Maybe I don't. Clearly the NFL to an extent does not. But Quinn Ewers believes he is. So he believed in himself. He bet on himself.

Right now he's losing. he has the opportunity to win, but it's not looking likely right now. A lot of seventh round picks don't pan out in the NFL. So that remains to be seen. All right. That's Gordy, hang on with us. He does every Monday and Friday at this time

and got some Astros baseball coming up this week. Gordy back inside Dyken Park. 11 o'clock at H-Town. This is our number two. The Back Thomas Show with Ross. We take this program today until 2 o'clock. We've got three hours left to go. We thank all of you for spending part of your day with us.

hopefully be with us all the way until 2 o'clock. We will mix in everything that has been a very busy sports weekend that includes the Rockets losing Saturday night to Golden State to fall two games down to one. The Astros salvaging the series finale Sunday in Kansas City to lose that series two games to one. But back home for Detroit, we've got the NFL draft. The Texans going with a lot of offense with backup running backs and wide receivers and a backup quarterback. they do get himself to tackle in the second round, but they do not address anything on the interior. And, you know, it felt like to me,

and we again, we'll mix over a variety of different things here, that the media that went to Casario's little shindig after each day, Ross, he was kind of getting cranky with him a little bit. He's like, you know what? Let me handle this. Get out of my way, and I know what I'm doing and leave me alone. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to be honest with you, man.

I didn't hear a whole lot of Nick Casario, but I did. We're not going to play any sound by. It's terrible. I did hear, I saw people on Twitter, like national media talking about him being combative and just looking like he didn't care to be there for media availability. Like, I'm so much smarter than you guys.

Why are you here asking me questions? He gives that vibe off immediately every single time. Yeah. And if you've won World Series and you've won Super Bowls and you've won NBA championships, you're kind of allowed to do that. That's what the New England way was. but here he's not gotten this team

past the divisional round of the playoffs. He's got Super Bowl rings, Matt. Please. Actually, he did get to see. He did. He used to be one up to go check out of a Super Bowl ring in New England and got a slot by the NFL and said, get your ass out of here. Yeah, he is a six-time Super Bowl champion, Nick Casario.

Speaking of that, and I don't know if we can pull the audio, maybe we can do that a little bit later on. And I didn't tell you about this ahead of time. Okay. There is a show on CBS. It's been on Sundays, it's called Sunday morning. Yeah, I saw this. Go ahead.

My assumption is most people that are non-sports fans. It's not a sports show. It's a general news events, very lighthearted. It's got a little, it's got a Sunday morning vibe to it. But one of the things they do, which is really outstanding, is they get some really good celebrity interviews. They've interviewed people from politicians to, old TV stars to

to like musicians and it's I like the show personally because it's there's no agenda to it it's a Q&A kind of thing and they always have one really interesting guests who they talk to so I don't know if you folks have saw this or not

and like I said we'll maybe pull the audio here in a little bit but Bill Belichick was the subject of this week's Sunday morning interview on CBS and they very rarely ever do sports they do as much sports as like a 60 Minutes type show does. So they're asking him a lot of questions about his new book

and questions about the fact that Robert Kraft is not being mentioned at all. We're talking about his days in New England and the final days there. And now he's in North Carolina. And the girlfriend gets brought up. And she's off in the camera, away from the camera,

but she's definitely in the same room. And the interviewer asked Bill Belichick how he meets his 24-year-old girlfriend. She says, don't answer that. I didn't realize 72-year-old or 73-year-old, however old he is right now, has to be neutered, but I guess if you're getting 24-year-olds, you've got to kind of be neutered, right, Ross? I think we do have that, actually. Okay.

Here, let's hear it. Ha! Sounds great to me. Jordan was a constant presence during our interview. You have Jordan right over there. Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship. They've got an opinion about your private life. It's got nothing to do with them, but it's got nothing to do with them.

they're invested in it. How do you deal with that? Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right. How did you guys meet? Not talking about this. No? No.

It's a topic. Neither one of them is comfortable commenting on. The only thing I've ever seen is, weren't they on a plane together, I want to say, Ross? Yeah. So that makes me think that that is a made-up story, and they don't want it to come under scrutiny? Okay, so let's...

Okay, two things. They didn't rehearse it, and so if they didn't rehearse something, then their stories could get mixed. That could be one of it. Or the other side of it is, it's just a flat-out lie, and they're going to keep how they met to themselves,

which makes me then think, how does a typical 72-year-old man now Bill Belichick is not typical one of the most successful coaches in NFL history recognizable did he go to a website did he go to

somebody of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend I mean I think it makes it sound 5,000 times seedier than saying we met on a plane maybe a grandchild's college graduation the Sanem Sharpway

the Shannon Sharpway which was only fans well he said he met her at the gym that girl the one that's suing him but anyways yeah a couple of interesting things here did she shut it down because the story is already out how they met

and they don't want she doesn't want more scrutiny or more talk about her I think that's possible and that we're just running with this or is there something more to this because if there is wouldn't they have gotten their story straight a long time ago especially if you know you're sitting down with CBS Sunday morning

that it's probably the subject's going to come up and you're going to be prepared for that? Even as lighthearted Ross as the Sunday morning news report would be, they're going to bring up the fact that there's nearly a 50-year age difference. Anybody when that situation would be asked about that. And how do you not go through if he ask us this or ask you this, this is what you say? That's why I think it creates way more controversy by her saying what she said off camera. That's why I think that maybe we're making too much of this because Bill Belichick and his attention to detail in football as I'm sure it translates to his regular life. They would be prepared for this question.

I think she's maybe like saying, you know, I don't want to be the subject of this interview. And that's why she said we're not talking about this. Okay. Don't you think Bill would be prepared for an answer? They already put the answer out. Don't you think he would say, oh, we met in a plane and exchanged numbers. Boom. Question answered.

But she was so quick to it. And he's like, he didn't go, no, it's okay. He didn't answer it. Well, that's because he will keep her happy. Let me tell you some. Not that I'm in a situation like that, but there's me some guys out there listening to this audience. It's 72 years old, maybe down the road,

maybe not too long from now. You've got a 24-year-old that wants to spend time with you. You're going to probably listen to her, right? I can do whatever she says. You know, if she pulls on his chain, he barks. What? Yep. She says jump. He says how high?

She's the one kind of jumping more than he is. Actually, she's leaping. He's lucky to just to get off his feet. Yeah, I don't think he can sit up. I don't know. It felt very scourly how that thing went down. It was weird. But like I said, they would have had their story straight by now.

So, I mean, why can't he just go, oh, we met on a plane. And knowing Sunday morning, Ross, like I've watched over the years, it would have been two or three questions. And it probably would have moved on. I mean, honestly, the most, I think the most interesting thing about that whole interview, except for what that went down,

was the fact that there was no acknowledgement of Robert Kraft in Bill Belichick's book at all. Not zero and zilch. And when asked about it, he just, he went mumsies. He didn't say a damn word about it. Mumsies?

Mums the word? I don't know. I made it up. It's fine. Sounds good. I see a mum's the word, yeah? Bill Belich. Then later that night, he was dancing the Charleston.

Obviously, they're pissed at each other, or it's a one-way irritation. Yeah, it was curious for sure. And my first reaction was what everyone is. Like, did that just mean they made on Onlyfans or she's an escort or what? But I could also just see a situation where if they have their story straight by now, they have their stories. They've probably been asked that question a million times. So it could be just her saying, I don't want to be the subject of this interview. We're not talking about this.

well then this she's stupid because when you are an NFL very famous person dating somebody almost 50 years younger than you are it's a conversation yes i'm sorry you have to know that going in especially when you're hanging about at the interview you're in the next you're down the you're not you're in the same room just off sitting in a couch yeah i don't know well let me tell you if i'm ever in that spot what you don't anticipate ever being ross i'll listen to the 24 old yep she's got them she's got them in her purse that's right all right seven one three exactly she's gotten a lot in person since then seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two five seven ninety if you want to join our conversation today as we take you to eleven thirty when we join get joined by the voice of the golden state warriors uh tim roy all right so this jura sanders stuff again uh i've never in my life and i've watched a lot of drafts um not Not like every single pick. I'm a big kind of sewer the first day.

Not so much the second day, and I didn't even make any note of the third day until Shador got picked by Cleveland. By the way, how many quarterbacks is Cleveland to have now, like six or seven at this point? Somewhere. I think Joe Flacco is still there, too. I believe that Bernie Kozhar is being coaxed out of retirement. You've gone to run the Browns.

Brian Seip is being asked to come back. I think Vinny Testa Verdi is going to be over there. Colt McCoy. Yeah, Tim Couch is being brought. I mean, it's like, you can't have enough quarterbacks in the room, apparently says the Cleveland Browns. What a horrible run the Browns have had a quarterback. Yeah. It's

Deshawn Watson, Kenny Pickett, Joe Flacco, Dylan Gabriel, Shador Sanders right now. So they took two quarterbacks in this draft. Well, first of all, I don't think Deshawn's playing this year, so we can take him off the list. Yes. And they're probably thinking Joe Flacco is good for a couple of games,

but he's going to falter and eventually throw a bunch of interceptions and show his age. So, needless to say, It's a wide open quarterback room in Cleveland, and that's their own issue. Oh, man, it's pretty funny. But I don't think you, you know how we have Facebook reels? Twitter has reels where you can just scroll through and see video after video after video after video. Well, the OG, I think, is Instagram reels and TikTok.

Yeah, I would say of the Twitter reels that I was looking at this weekend, eight out of every 10 were about Sherdoer Sanders. Oh, really? I don't think in the history of the NFL, Ross, we've ever talked about a fifth-round quarterback as much as we've talked about. Chardor. Now, we, Tom Brady has talked about as a six-round pick being the greatest of all time. But nobody talked about Tom Brady that day

like they've talked about Chardor Sanders the way that we did this weekend. No. It was interesting. And I think ESPN and well, well, Mel Kuyper kept making a story as well. Yeah. Like Reese Davis was like, dude, can we move on? Yeah. Meanwhile, the NFL

network's like, we're over here, we're talking about everybody and everyone's like, no, we want Chador. I didn't look at the morning TV shows, Ross. because I intentionally didn't want to, but my guess is that 90% is about Shador Sanders today. This is absolutely not very fair to everybody else. Shador Sanders fell to the fifth round to the Cleveland Browns. Yeah. And I'm Mike Goldberg, and I think I know everything.

Greenberg. It doesn't matter. I just, I had to put on ABC's coverage because I just can't. He's a tough watch for me. Maybe I'm a tough people. I'm a tough list for some people. I get it. We love the show, Matt. Or at least I do. I listen to you half the time.

I guess, thank you. Are we on KTRH again tonight for the Rock? News Radio 740, KTRH. How are your calls internet? Post game. Oh, we got a lot. Well, we moved the post game to 790. We're not idiots. That's smart. Yeah, we don't want people getting mad at us because they're not getting there coast to coast. Right.

So, yeah, we got a lot of calls on Saturday. And it seems to always go that way. When I start off the... When I start off the show, ranting, seems to get the calls to pour in. Well, hopefully you are not ranting. Please, I don't want to rant. Let's just have a quiet, no, we can do, I'll do post-game, I love doing playoff post-game,

so we can talk, we can take 15 calls. I just want it to be 15 happy calls. Let's go. It is a group chat Monday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, what's in your group chat today? Anything? I'm going with 100 men over one gorilla. All right.

So let's do this right now, lay it out for us, and then I will give you my answer once you give us the question. Now, obviously, fatigue is going to be a factor for the one gorilla. Now, of course, the first 40 to 50 men have no chance. I mean, they've got no shot. What are the body types of these? They're going to get their... Now, see, that's another question.

Now, are we going with 100 MES or, like, 100 Dwayne the Rock Johnson? That's going to also factor in, Matt. But I think we're just going to go with 100 average. I think enough, this is what you do. Now, in a brute strength, one-on-one fight, you're going to lose. But the men are going to have to fight dirty. We're talking about eye poking, eye gouging, throat punching, I mean, genital punching and or kicking.

And see, I think that's how you win. If you just get one guy to get a pressure point or, you know, one kick in the nads. Okay, let's describe. And you can disable him for a second. And then everybody else goes for the eye gouging. I think you can win. All right.

So let's get to. this now. Let's talk about who these hundred people are. Yes. Let's take the first 100 people that enter the Chase Center tonight in San Francisco. Males? Yeah, he's 100 men versus the gorilla, right? I don't know.

Okay, so the first 100... That is this random of a group of people you can get, right? The first 100 people... Okay, if we're doing complete randoms, I mean, the guerrillas... That tips the scales a little bit more in the guerrillas' favor. But like I said... So, all of those hundred, how many of them are going to be able to take the

gorilla down and hold him. No, you're not holding the gorilla, like I said. You're going for eyes. You're going for eyes, ears, nose, throat, and uh, nads. Are you, now, who wins? Is the gorilla have to die or just have to be

captured? Hmm. That's a good question too. I would say die. Or captured? Okay, we're going with captured. That's, I don't know. Okay, so let's go to the capture card. How many men would it take to hold the gorilla down

until the official came over and said, yes, 100 men. Oh, like pin them like in a wrestling match? I know, I'm just saying in general. Probably about 30. Let's see. I think there are, excuse me, one gorilla is about the strength of about 10 men.

They can lift up to 2, 1.5 to 2 tons. That's pretty good. All right, could the three of us, would we be willing to hold an arm down? No, I don't think we could do it. Like I said, it's going to be fatigued, Now, yeah, at full strength, there's no chance. What you're going to need is you're going to need about 40, 50 martyrs.

We thank you for your service. May you rest. We'll try not to bury you all in one hole together. We'll try to give you all your different, your own graves. So they go down. And then everybody else, once the gorilla's fatigued, like I said, that's when you start poking eyes and whatnot. All right. We've had a thoughtful conversation about this.

Yes. I'm taking the gorilla. No, I can't fault you. I understand. Because again, I'm taking, I have to go with the random 100 people. Yeah, if it's 100 people at the What if it's 100 UFC fighters? Yeah, that'd be different.

Oh, my answer, does that change your answer? Yeah. Okay. But if it says 100 men, I'm going to assume it's just any hundred men. The first 100 people that walked in the dyke in park tonight. Well, yeah, what's the same? Just do able-bodied.

You know, I'm a scared. cat. I would stay. You would, you would be, you would take a loss if I was, I was one of the 100. I'd run away from the situation as fast as possible. No, you don't have a choice, Matt. You got to pick being eye poker or a nag kicker get, pick one of them. Wait a minute, Jonathan, you can't tell me what to do.

I didn't say I was going to give up. So you're telling me there's like 60 of us that just kicked the guerrillas nads over and over again? Yeah, you got a shot. And one of you be successful. That's got to put him down for a minute. When he's down for that minute, that's when you go for the eyes. And that's when you go for the, the, who's going to

who's going to poke a gorilla? I want to know who wants to raise their hand and want to do that. Nobody's going to want to do any of this, Matt. It's a fight to the death. Gorilla wins. Sorry. I think most people are with you. Let's check my Twitter poll at SportsRV. What is your Twitter poll say?

55% gorilla, 45% 100 men. Yeah. Now, if you go to a gym with a bunch of meatheads, you've got a better shot. But just randos, no chance. Go for the nuts. That is your group tag. That's our rallying cry. All right, man, we've got this gorilla backed in a corner.

There's a hundred of us. Say it with me. Go for the nuts. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah. On my group chat, I got, you know how AI is doing some crazy things? Mm-hmm. The Steph Curry at the press conference AI is in the group chat this Monday morning.

The what AI? the Steph Curry talking about going against the Rockets in game three. Oh, I didn't catch that thing. We can't play any of it because first of all, it's 80% of it's swear words. And second of all, the thing that's so

scary about it is, is that it's definitely Steph's sounding, and mouth is moving like he, I mean, whatever they're doing to impose the words in in Steph's mouth, it's working too. It's ridiculously close. So, I'm sick of Steph Curry.

I've been sick of Steph Curry since Steph Curry was leaving Davidson closing his eyes and throwing out these 40-foot rainmakers to just go through the nylon and point one through the clock I mean it's just yeah God he's so good he's so good and you know what I think is even irritating more is that little flippant little underhand high out the top of the backboard about the scoreboard finger rolls the clock and it finger rolls right in the basket too

he's good man people who just pigeonhole them as just a shooter are wrong and not paying attention. Yeah, that is absolutely right. All right, let's check in with the Warriors perspective. We'll do that next here on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. If you want to jump in and join us, please do so at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-213-2-5-7-90. 1130 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross here from San Francisco.

Tonight, game number four of the first round series between Rockets and Golden State. Golden State's up two games to one and a second time visitor of the show in the last 10 days or so on our good friend the very talented, long-time voice of the Golden State Warriors. Tim Roy is with us here on 790. Tim, first and foremost,

there's got to be a huge part of you that's got to be thinking no Jimmy Butler, if we just get a split of the series, we're going to be fine, but to get that win game number three that has to have Warrior fans, the organization, yourself, pretty happy about how things turned out, especially with guys like Gary Payton and Buddy Heald helping the cause on Saturday.

Yeah, there's no question. That was a big, big win for the Warriors. You know, to do it without Jimmy, Jimmy turned the whole season around. And so to do that, to get contributions from other guys, you know, when you're in the playoffs, if you get contributions from role players that are big, you're more than likely you're going to win the game. And so, yeah, it was a big win. And I think that they felt, you know, I'm pretty sure no.

Nobody would say they want to go back to two, but if you had told them you could go back to two, I think they would have taken that. But, but, you know, and now, you know, from the warrior perspective, Dow's trying to get greedy. You know, if he plays or not, if he does return, which I think there's a chance of that tonight, then I think you get greedy and try to go back three-one. Yeah, for sure. It's so funny looking at social media, Tim, and I'm sure you've seen it yourself. But the buddy healed the crowd is a mixed crowd.

He helps you out one night, and then you don't. from him four or five games. Is that how it's been so far as him as a warrior? Is that he comes and goes? On the floor, he comes and goes. Off the floor, he's consistent and he's good for this team. He keeps everybody on, you know, loose.

He's a funny guy. He's a nice guy, and everybody loves buddy. So his contributions are more consistent off the floor than on the floor. But I think that's the way shooters are. You know, he's not, you know, guys who who are, you know, great shooters tend to be a little streaky. And Buddy is that.

There's going to be a night where he's going to be, you know, four of seven and from three, and there's going to be nights where he's one of seven from three. And so you have to kind of figure out where he is on particular nights. But, but again, I think his contributions for this team are really great off the floor that nobody dislikes Buddy Healed. He and Jimmy Butler had this great thing where they interrupt their press sessions and stuff where it's pretty humorous if you listen to them all the time.

But yeah, I just think that's the way it is with shooters. They tend to be kind of a streaky guy. And also, I think in the playoffs, it's harder for a guy like buddy to get going because, you know, the other team's been drilled over and over. Don't give him an open shot. Don't let him get comfortable be on the three-point line. So I think, you know, in playoff situations, I think shooters have trouble getting going because the other team,

unlike the regular season where all of a sudden Buddy Hill pops out of nowhere for the opposition. You know, they're drilled over and over again at every practice. Don't leave him. He's a shooter. And so I think it's harder for those guys in the postseason. Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden State Warriors with us here on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Our time is 1133. So, Tim, you go with a double, a bigger lineup, putting Quentin Post in the starting five.

That is obviously a change of not having Jimmy out there. What did you think of that? and even though Post did not help out in terms of going mono-a-mono against Shingoon, it was more outboring going against Draymond Green. The rebounding numbers were much better than the first two games of the series. And do you think that Steve will go with that lineup again tonight? I think he could, especially if Jimmy doesn't go. I think he would probably go with that.

The other part about it, I remember telling Tom Tolbert, my analyst, during the game, at one point, Quentin Post was leading the Warriors in assists. If you had that on your bingo card, well, you scored big. So, yeah, I thought he played well. For a rookie, the one thing we've known about him since he started to play is he doesn't have any fear. And I think it's partially because in Europe, the younger players play against men. So this is nothing new to them, right? They played against men their entire lives.

And so I think it gives him a better preparation for the NBA. All right. So Steph with Jimmy has obviously been a very successful group, and before that it was Andrew Wiggins, and there was always this thought of, can Andrew be the second score? Clearly that's not the conversation piece with Jimmy. But on a night like Saturday, and you've known Steph for a long part of me, his entire career, you've known him.

Does he have a different mindset with the people around him, or does he pretty much going to every game going, I can knock back 10-3-borders? Or do you think there was a part-of-hear-haping? him on Saturday that said, you know what, no disrespect to Buddy Healed or to Moses Moody or to Gary Payton. But if we're going to win this game, I've got to knock down a bunch of shots. Yeah, I think he felt that going in. I think he understands the situation. You know, he's an unbelievable player. And I think he just made sure that he was going to get his shots. He made sure

that he was going to get free. He made sure that he was going to use his screens and get gil open. use his dribble to get himself a shot. And I think, yeah, I think he was a little more, you know, intent on getting shots up than he would be if Butler was on the floor. So, yeah, so I think he reads the game, and then he plays the game the way, you know, it should be played most nights. There are nights where he doesn't look to score because him being a decoy

is helping the Warriors win the game. So I think he kind of reads that night for night. And I know I know he's not, you know, Houston's, favorite opponent, but man, he's an incredible player. He's an incredible person. And, you know, I think at some point we're going to look back and say, wow, we got to see this guy play in person. Oh, for sure. And it's so funny because Fred Van Vleet, Tim, was like, why y'all tripping? We're a different basketball team. Like, do you not realize the Rockets have had zilts in terms of success against the postseason in 10 years? I mean, you have to kind of read the room a little bit.

And that's the thing that's probably bugging so many people here in Houston is the fact that, look, we've beaten everybody. I mean, when you win championships and go on deep playoff runs, but there's just been one team that has been the kryptonite. And I don't know, has Golden State had as much success against any other team besides the Houston Rockets the way they have over the last 10 years? Wow, that's a great question. I'd have to look back and do some research. They've had good success against Memphis. They played them in multiple playoff series. Yeah.

and Portland, you know, the Damien Lillard, Portland Trailblazers just never could get past the Warriors. But Houston was the focal point. Part of that was that, you know, James Hardin was there, and Chris Paul ended up being there, and the Warriors already had had issues with the Clipper. And so I think their team of destiny kind of switched when the Clippers started to take a step back there for a couple. years, the rocket stepped up. And I think so that was the team that they had the, the Warriors had to get back, you know, the Warriors had to get past Houston to get to the finals. And as we know, those series were not, you know, the Warriors didn't walk over those series. They had to dig deep to win

those games. And so, so yeah, I think it just became a natural rivalry with the personnel, you know, combined with the talent that Houston had, the coaching they had. I mean, you know, unfortunately for the Rockets fans that didn't end up the way they would have liked. But, you know, there were some great games in there, too. There were some outstanding NBA playoff games in there. And it's been a good series, honestly, despite the fact we're on the short end of things. Wrapping us up with Tim Roy, the Voice of the Warriors. So do you think that Steve Kerr and his defensive coaches are marveling at the fact

they've kept Jalen Green in check two out of three games or the fact that a man Thompson has struggled from the floor as much as he has so far? What do you think has been the man? and we're beating our chess moments so far for Golden State, at least from a defensive side of things. For a defensive side of things, I think they're just happy that they've made some people uncomfortable, and I think that's part of it.

I think, you know, for Green and Jalen Green and for Almond Thompson, I think this is part of their growth. This is part of their maturity, because, you know, nothing a coach says, nothing a teammate says, can really prepare you. for the intensity and the atmosphere of a playoff series. So I think in a couple of years, just say for argument sake, say the Warriors win this series.

But in a couple of years, the Rockets are going to win a hard, tough series, and their young guys are going to look back and say, well, that series kind of taught us how we need to be, what preparation we had to do to win a playoff series. I think that's what we're seeing here. And maybe they'll, you know, maybe they'll mature right in front of our eyes in this series. It's happened before. But I think either way, win or lose, I think the Rockets will look at this series in a couple of years and say

that's a series that really helped us because it taught us what we need to do to win a playoff series. And it might even require some position changes and player changes in the off season. We don't know about that. But first things first, we got game for tonight. Tim, thank you so much as always for your valuable time. We'll look forward to seeing you and Tom of the arena tonight. And thanks again for joining me on the show today. Always a pleasure.

We're going to do a position shift for you, too. We're going to put you on the roof tonight. Oh, my God. Why don't you put me into the San Jose Arena? I'll do it from the Sharks' Press Box. How about that? The tank, you got to do the shark thing, then. You've got to do the Jaws thing.

If you get out of the tank. All right. It'll be great. I'll look forward to see you tonight. Thank you, Tim. We appreciate it, as always. Tim Roy, Voice of the Warriors, one of the best in the association to do it,

and we appreciate him spending some time with us here on the program. 1141 on Sports. Talk 7-9. We have the news at noon coming up in about to 20 minutes from now. We also have to tell the truth add to 1230, so we'll look forward to to giving you things. I think Ross, I'm going to give you four takes. I'm going to believe three

of them, and one of them are going to be a total bullfaced line. Okay. I'm ready. I feel like it. What is, believe it or not, today, coming up at 150? Texan's draft picks. Oh, okay. Which one for Ross was the most impressive? Are you asking

me, or is that going to be unbelieve it or not? I think we should, we'll open it up. I'm going to give you Thomas Sports Enterprises sneaky good pick. Okay. I don't know if Thomas Sports Enterprises has plucked anybody from out of the draft at all, have they? Thomas Sports Enterprises have been focusing on the NBA, so it was not fair.

But I'm going to give you my Thomas Sports Enterprises bullish pick on the Texan draft. You picked Brock Bowers last year. That was good. A couple years ago, Will Levis not so good. Yeah, you know, we're still, we remain confident that whatever team he eventually lands, we'll be just fine. Cam Ward disagrees.

I think you're right about that. 1148 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Thanks again to Tim Roy, visiting with us from his perch. Getting ready for the Rockets and Warriors tonight. Game number four. 8 o'clock in the launch pad. Is that correct?

Sports RV over on KTRH? That is correct, Matthew. All right. Network pregame at 830, and then we'll tip it off a little past 9 o'clock. And then when the Astros is done, and we'll shift both game, the game over to 790,

so you can listen to the post game show and listen to Ross to take lots of phone calls from people 1145 at night. Hopefully not ranting and raving, yes, please. Oh my gosh. I mean, can I beg or is that just low? Is it just worse? They're not going to listen, but you can try and beg.

I appreciate that you ain't too proud to beg, Matt. Yeah, I ain't too proud to beg. I am begging for the Rockets to win this series. don't want to go 0 for 5 against Golden State in the last 10 years in the playoffs. Yeah. Not great. And the reason why this would not be a monumental upset is it's really not a two versus seven. It's just not.

Golden State's a completely different basketball team since Jimmy Butler has been out there. There was a mad scramble. You could have had anybody from as high as three to as low as seven. I mean, this bad boy was coming down in the last couple days. This was an atypical season where the stars did not line properly in terms of of seating and whatnot. You had teams fluctuating on a day-to-day basis. Yeah, I mean, you know, Goldstein could have easily been to three-season.

It just could have been. By the way, we're looking at some upsets all around the league. You've got now Minnesota up 3-1 over the Lakers. That's a 6 over a 3. Who told? I told you before the series started. Lakers on fraud alert. I told you.

Yeah, but all I kept hearing was, from Shannon Sharp was the Lakers in 5. Okay, well, he was wrong. He's been wrong about a lot of things lately. He's had a rough go. That was a little hanging for you. He'd been making some misjudgments.

Let's just put it that way. The Lakers, look, it's, LeBron James is old, and Luca Dancho doesn't play defense. The better team is the Timberwolves. And LeBron paid like 40-something minutes last night. Dave. J.J. Reddick played his starters for all 24 minutes.

Well, I think it was all of his starters plus Dorian Finney Smith with Jackson Hayes out. All 24 minutes in the second half. And they got gassed at the end. It worked for a while. Yeah, I know people are taking shots at LeBron for not doing much in the fourth quarter. I don't know. The defense from Minnesota was excellent. And second of all, you again, you're asking a 40-plus-year-old to get into that uncomfortable 43-minute territory.

natural progression. Did not work. Or decline. All right, real quick, before we get to the phones, Rossi, my Thomas Sports Enterprises, bullish Texans draft pick. Oh, okay. Woody Marks, the running back.

Woody Marks. Woody Marks. Okay. Its name is not really Woody. No. Is not Woodrow? No, I think it's nothing even close, right? It's something.

So dare I have. ask, it's uh, Jitavius or G, I'll look it up. And for those you're like, Joe Quavius, Joe Quavius? Joe Quabius? Dare I ask how you get to nickname Woody or do we just now? Oh, I know. You really not know that. I know the answer. Okay. Is it Toy Story?

Yes. He, apparently he wore a costume for multiple years in a row being Woody. Okay, that's good. Should you, should you go back to back with your, with your Halloween characters? Yeah, if any broke, don't fix it, Maddie. No. What is it ever broken on it? He brokeers, he went to a house and said trick-or-treating, they said, we ain't got nothing trick. Bye.

Nobody's going to notice. Nobody cares. If you're noticing the same kid wearing the same costume, you just assume he likes the costume. Or he doesn't, you know, as a kid or as an adult? I would assume he's a kid. Why not?

College? You dress up for Halloween in college. I'm just letting you know right now. That's a great idea. The only women that should be doing that is naughty blank. That's what you should do on a yearly basis. That is correct, Matt. And who do you think goes to the parties with these women?

men guys who were dressed up too who is the greatest college athlete to dress up on Halloween I know you're going to say you're going to say Scooby-Doo. You got that right. Oh, John Mansell. Yeah, you see?

Don't you think John Mansell cares what you say about not dressing up for costumes? John Mansell probably had at least four women in his bed that night. Yeah, but he didn't Scooby-Doo it for like five years in a row. He mixed things up. He was saying, R-roll.

He said, I knew that a Scooby's now. Is that you? Thelma? What was the ugly one? The glasses are shorty. Delma was the hot one. That was the redhead that her and Fred were hooking up all the time. I can't remember her name.

Is it Velma? I thought that was Velma. You're talking about Daphne's a cute one. Velma is the cute one. Who's the cute one? Velma had glasses. Velma with the glasses. Velma underrated. Velma underrated, by the way. Exactly.

Who Velma was? No way. I'm Daphne for the win Okay Daphne won and then The Jets and daughter number two Okay, this is getting weird I remain bullish on Woody Marks Thank you

I just do Joe Quavius Joe apostrophe Quavius Marx Man we got the all-name team here We got Jaylan there's like four Jailens Jaden, Jalen, Jalen, Jalen, and then the Ariante. That one, that's a tough one for the...

I like that one. Arionte Ursuli's like, this kid looks like an Ariante. Ariente Ursuli. But apparently the kid's calling Tay, so we'll keep it nice and short. Then we have a Keontay, too. I'll take your word for it. Yeah, Keontay Hamilton is the seventh round selection. He's a defensive tackle out of...

Oh, that's right. Rutgers. The football fact. But this is the team is littered with big... Look at all these Big Ten schools. Minnesota, USC, Penn State, Rutgers, and Iowa. Yeah, but, I mean, how many of those belong in the Big Ten? Gordy is... He must be pissed.

There's only one SEC player on the team as well. No, no. He got in. Oh, I love Woody Marks at Mississippi State. Oh, that doesn't count. It's where you in. We're transferred. I don't know.

Are you taking credit for Matthew Golden? No. Or Tramon Mark. Both of y'all get your asses. out of there. We don't need you anymore. Bye Matthew Golden. Well, it's very easy. If Matthew Golden's a bust, he's a cougar, and if he's a hit, then he is a Longhorn. That's how I'm approaching

that topic. Stephen and Los Angeles, 1155 on 790. Thank you for holding a good morning. Good morning to you both. Just wanted to talk about the Rockets. Specifically, I'm in Thompson, he's had a

rough series, to say the least, and kind of just spitballing. What do you guys think about, is there any chance that maybe Javari starts the game? I mean, he gives you, obviously, better shooting in the corners. And he's a, I mean, obviously, Amman is a great defender, but he's having, and just everything is out of sorts for him this series to me. You know, he can't shoot, you know, those bunnies in the paint.

Like, like, the game three, they were daring him to make shots and he just couldn't. You know, his rotations seemed to be a bit off. you know, even defensively, and he just can't get into any sort of rhythm. And, you know, conversely, I think Jabari's had a pretty decent series so far coming off the bench. But, you know, maybe you start him to give you, you know, that option of having some better shooting on the floor. And then, because he could certainly hit those mid-rig shots. But I just wanted to hear what you guys thought about that proposal. Or at the very least, if you see him on, I'm in struggling again,

do you give Jabari more minutes because I think he's only been averaging what 23 24? Yeah, the minutes have been low. Thank you, Stephen, for the phone call. Appreciate it. Good stuff. I don't think that EMA is a reactionary one game

to the other, got to flip things around kind of thing. I think it'd have to be a prolonged slump and I would say we're in that range with a man because he's not had any really great breakout games. If I was a betting man, which I'm not on this. I would say that a men still

starts. Could I see Jabari's minutes go up a little bit more? Could I see the trigger to pull him off the floor a little sooner? Yeah. But a men can still, if he gets in the dunker spot, Ross, that's his favorite spot on the floor if he gets there.

He's also going to have a defensive intensity. He's going to probably play as good a defense on Steph. No disrespect to Dylan Brooks, but Amman's going to want to get in there as much as he can in Tar Heeson. so I would say to give you a long-winded answer, Stephen, and I don't know Ross, you agree or not, I don't think EMA shuffles line up at least tonight.

I don't think he does, but I'm very open to it because, I mean, this is kind of what we, we talked about this throughout the season when Jabari did break his hand, and we talked about a men getting in the, you know, men started the season on the bench. Right. And one of the things we talked about him starting every day was going to be the lack of shooting and spacing. So if Udoca, I would, I don't think it would be a panic move.

I mean, if you go back to the starting lineup, you've used earlier in the season. It's not, to me, a panic move. I think it makes a lot of sense. But it's just how does he weigh the spacing that you gain offensively to what you lose from the versatility of a men Thompson defensively? So to me, I would be okay to see Jabari Smith Jr. They're both going to play 25, 35 minutes, whatever it is going to be. So they're both going to be on the floor for a lot of the game.

it's a matter of who starts and do you feel like that extra spacing gives you a chance to start off a little bit better offensively if you don't lose some defensively. But what Amin Thompson has been doing, I know Steph Curry has been going off for like 30 plus points multiple times in this series

but Amin Thompson brings extreme defensive versatility. He's really good and we like what he does on the floor. He's just hurting them offensively. So I'm open to the idea. We talked about it in the post game show on Saturday. I don't think it's going to happen. I'm with you.

But if it did, I don't think, A, it would be super shocking. And B, I don't think it'd be a bad move either. Yeah, men so far, 41% for the floor in the series. He's 13 of 32. Meanwhile, Jabari is 9 of 15. So the sample size is considerably smaller from Jabari, at least through this point. All right. The news at noon is coming up next.

If you like to be a part of the radio program, you may join us at 713-212-5-790. 713, 212.5.7.9. 12.5 in H-Town. What's happening to lunchtomers? This is our number three of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We take this program today until 2 p.m. We're coming up in a half an hour for now. We'll have to tell the truth where I've got four sports takes. I believe three of them. I'm going to be up to Jonathan and Ross to decide which one of the four I do not believe. We've got believe it or not today at 150 about the Texans draft picks. But right now we present to you the news at noon. And we will do that with the

Dave Ward of Houston Sports Journalism. One lonely, Rossville, or yeah. Well, thank you, Matt. Great to be compared to the one of the all-time greats in Houston, Texas. We have a number of things to get to on the news at noon. But let's start out with

Jordon Alvarez, heating up at the plates. O one count. Runners on first and second. One out. And he drives this one to right center field, maybe a little further. Alvarez staring at it for good reason. A three-run shot in the Astros score. Three to nothing Astros on Alvarez's third home run of the season. Oh, my goodness.

He hit that just to the right of the batter's eye, almost got it into the fountains. 436 feet. And the Astros nightmare is over for the time being. 436 feet 110.6 off the bat. Yordaun Alvarez also had a very hard hit double. Astros bats wake up. They finally decide to score some runs in Kansas City. With Hunter Brown on the mound, it gets them a win. Hunter Brown six innings pitch. Did give up seven hits and one run to end his scoreless streak. He also had nine strikeouts on exactly 100 pitches. He is one of the best pitchers in baseball. And the Astros bats did their job and they didn't get swept in Kansas. city, Matt. But he gave up a run, Ross. I know. Bobby Witt Jr. is just can't get the guy out. It's ridiculous. He's on a, what kind of

street? He was on an 18, 19 game hitting streak, whatever he's on. And they bought those arbitration years out, and that's like the best money they've ever spent in Kansas. Yeah, that's pretty smart. Yeah, I mean, Hunter Brown got the best of them a couple times striking him out, but then he had the RBI double to break Hunter Brown's scoreless streak. And then while

Brian King gave up a run, Taylor Scott, give up a run at the end, but that's okay. No harm, no foul. Astros get the win in Kansas City. Elsewhere on the news at noon, Matt, a very important, pivotal, crucial game tonight in Golden State. 9 p.m. late start here on Sports, excuse me, on News Radio 740 KTRH, our sister station. Golden State Warriors favored by three and a half. Go Rockets. That was the line on Saturday before the Jimmy Buffers. Butler news came out. Then it moved to Warriors minus one and a half.

So it seems like at the moment, Vegas thinks that Jimmy Butler is going to play. My gut feeling last week was that he misses one games and plays. What do you think, Matt? Yeah. Every time the TV was showing him, I mean, he wasn't in a wheelchair, put it that way. Uh-huh. I think they were thinking if we can get a split out of this and we can save you. Because, I mean, with the pelvis injury, even if he plays tonight, it's not going to be 100%. you're still running up and down miles and miles and miles and miles and miles. I mean, and there's contact.

And the Rockets, I mean, let's be brutally honest, Ross. They're going to poke at him a little bit, wouldn't you, honestly? Mm-hmm. So I think he's going to go, but I wouldn't put him in the 30-minute category today. Yeah, it feels like a 50-50 call. Now, after missing the time, if it is a bruise and there's no structural damage as the reports have been, on whether or not he'll play. We shall see. Either way, he plays or he doesn't.

Rockets need to win this game tonight in San Francisco. Elsewhere, Matt, one of the big stories of the NFL draft this weekend was Shador Sanders' slide all the way to the fifth round, finally selected by the Cleveland Browns. But a story we have not talked about was the prank call. Right. Made to Shudor Sanders during the NFL draft, Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator

Jeff Ulbrick admitted that it was his son who made the prank call. The Atlanta Falcons story is that his son saw the phone number on his iPad, his dad's iPad, and Jacks Oldbrick made the

prank call. By the way, 99% of men named Jacks are douchebacks. That feels fair. I don't mean to stereotype, but you've got to be honest. name a dude named Jack's J-A-X It's like that guy's assault of the earth

Can't do it Uh Jacks Griffin wait that's Griffin jacks actually You can't do it You just can't Jacks Olbrick apologizing in an Instagram post Saying what he did was quote Completely inexcusable embarrassing and shameful

I'm so sorry I took away from your moment It was selfish and childish Jack Ulbrick said I could never imagine getting ready to celebrate one of the greatest moments your life and I made a terrible mistake and I mess with that moment. You knew exactly what you were doing. Yep. He's just sorry. He got caught. So let me ask you this. If you're the NFL, what do you do on this? What can you do? It's just a prank call. I mean, what should you? You can tighten things up as far as these numbers and you can maybe

set out a memo to everybody like, hey, if this happens again, something something. I mean, you're not going to draft. I mean, what are you going to, yeah, are you going to find a, The Falcons are you going to do? What recourse do you even have? It was just an unfortunate accent. And he got a prank call. Nobody died from it. You know, it's just, it's a bad look.

And Shador Sanders did accept the apology. Well, I mean, yeah, Shadur did the right thing. The 21-year-old did something stupid. These kids are these front office people? Shame, shame, shame. But yeah, Jacks. Yeah, apparently.

Colts tied in Tyler Warren received a prank call before he was selected in the first round by the Colts. And Bill's sixth round pig Chase Lunt said he got four or five prank calls. There was also a prank call last year to Cooper DeGine. So this is not completely uncommon. All right. I don't know how you stop it. I mean, I think I know a way, but I want to hold on to it for a little bit. Ooh, okay.

Maybe part of the tell the truth. Oh, I see you working. Look at this guy The gears are always turning, Matt Yep Sometimes at different speeds But at least they're turning Well, I mean, sometimes

I'm playing a 45 album on a 33 and a third I get it A little grease on the wheels Yes And that's your news at noon All right Yeah, that was interesting

The Malk Hyper meltdown I thought was very interesting For the fact that he just never let it die and then everybody and their mother went to Twitter. They were like Rossi, I've got to do an emergency podcast. I've got things I've got to say.

You know what? Nobody is saying anything out of the ordinary. Everybody's got basically the same thing. You're in the camp of this is a collusion by the NFL or it's that Shador Sanders interviewed horribly. All the reports that were out there about him being

self-righteous and not willing to work out at the senior bone in the combine, all that together said this is a stayaway. I mean, if I'm a general manager of a team Ross, and I don't necessarily need a quarterback, and I'm not completely sure this is the guy that's going to be the answer, and I got a dad who's probably going to be chomping after my team's coach,

I don't need the hassle. Ross ain't got time for mid-level quarterbacks thinking they own the building. And that's clearly the vibe that Chardua Sanders gave to multiple NFL teams. Yeah, if he was good enough, if he was better on tape, he would have been picked higher. That's just the bottom line. 32 teams are not going to not draft the quarterback that they think is really good. Yep.

All right, that is the news at noon. It is 1214 here on Sports Talk 790, 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump into the conversation. Time is 1220. Good morning, or good afternoon, that is. It's the morning here in San Francisco. We're doing a show at 8 o'clock Pacific time in the morning. 6.45 wake-up call hit you a little different, doesn't it supports RV? Sure, why not?

Astros with a win against Kansas City, 2 out of 3 loss series. It's okay. They're only a game and a half behind Seattle. Thank you, San Francisco, for beating the Rangers. Thanks to Texas's woeful inside-the-part, multiple-er defense. That was a little league home run-esque. Two teams in the AOS with positive run differentials now. That's it. Astros and Mariners.

Yeah, the Mariners were, like, beating the Marlins, like, 20 to nothing a couple days ago or something crazy like that. 14 to zero, yeah. 14. I knew it was some sort of football number to it. I don't know. Seattle, Marlins. I think I want any part of that, Rossi. What do you mean?

Like, I've grown to hate Warrior fan because they're just watching a completely different game than we are. Mm-hmm. Do you feel like that every time that we face somebody we just hate that sports fan group? Not everybody. I don't have any Angels fans. But, I mean, okay, there are no such thing as Angel fans. I know. But let's run through teams that the Houston Postseason have faced over the years, okay? Oh, no. Are we just blind homers?

Well, so I'm trying to figure out here. Yeah, probably. Well, I mean, there may be a show after ours that may have one. You don't got to call wax out like that. That's crazy. That's true. Sorry about that wax. All right. When the Texans played the Chargers, that doesn't count because there are no Charger fans. there are some you know something

oh yeah that's right Jonathan's a charging fan oh stop you know such thing Antonio Gaines Philip Rivers oh you get him let me keep going Drew Breeze Lethance Hobson come on now

We have hey everybody We have a Charger fan producing our show Yeah Yeah how about that ass Whopin the Chargers took last year in the playoffs Okay So let's go back

The truth The truth is your team sucked The 4-I&T truth And we have a coach. We didn't have a coast, guys. Come on. Yeah, Jim Harbaugh. What are you talking about? Now we do. This is my season. Oh, okay. Back at it. We don't, okay, I'll give you one. We don't hate Chiefs fan.

Chiefs fan? I don't like them. I don't think so. We're okay with them. We didn't hate Tiger fan last year. Detroit Tigers fans? They don't really have any either. They don't have any, so it doesn't really count. Poor people from Detroit suffering, so. Yeah, it's true. Let's go back. Okay, so over the years, we hated. Red Sox fan, duh.

We hated Yankees fan, duh. We were indifferent to the race because the rays have no fans. Mm-hmm. We didn't hate national fan. Guardians fan? Didn't hate Guardian fan. Twins fan, we felt sorry for because they're playing outdoor stadium in 40-degree temperatures. Yeah, it was chilly up there.

Yeah. Yeah, I think it's the worst. Look, Mariners fan always, they act like they've won 10 World Series. It's weird. It is weird. They've done nothing but get to the playoffs once in 20 years. years and they're sitting there like they've hosted four World Series trophies. And they're obsessed with the Astros and Jose L. Tuvei.

Yeah. He still gets it worn out there in Seattle more than five more. Yeah, it's crazy. Not in the Yankees. I mean, everybody wears up the Yankees. Yeah, only Yankees fans. I mean, they don't have anything better to do. But I just, like I walk around the chase center before the game Ross, and I just want to

just, I want to stranglehold people. You're going to hurt somebody? No, I'm not physically strong enough to do that. I was going to say. What I want to do it. Maybe that's something wrong with me. Do you feel like they're more obnoxious than in other arenas when you're walking around? Yeah, because they don't think Dremont Green does anything wrong.

Dramon's a dirtiest player in the game, and they don't see it that way. That is pretty crazy. But I'll say this. I think Rocket fans, I mean, look, Dylan can get, you know, he can mix it up, but I don't think we turn a, oh, that's still. Dylan in the right there. I mean, we know Dylan's been able to do some things that were less than sportsman-like. Dylan plays dirty, but also, I mean, some people try to argue that Dylan Brooks and Dremont Green are the same.

Like, oh, if you root for Dylan Brooks, you would root for Dremont Green. I saw that from a TV hack. It was terrible. What a terrible take. I just disagree with that notion. Yeah, Dramon Green is way dirty. I don't recall Dylan Brooks gouging people's eyes out for years. And yeah, he doesn't leave people.

or sucker punching a teammate during a practice. He's an instigator for sure, but nobody's to the level of Draymond Green, really. And again, I know Draymond, I know Dylan's on a choir boy. I mean, I totally, totally get it. But I think we're honest with that. I mean, we call him the villain for a reason. Yeah, Dylan the villain. It's a role he's embraced.

And kind of need it around these parts a little bit. I mean, the team takes on its personality of its coach, and I think that there's part of the reason why Dylan was brought here was because he may wants that kind of hard-nosed guy in front of him. And the crazy part is, I don't know if it's an indictment against Rockets or that Dylan's playing better, but Dylan's probably the most consistent outside shooter the Rockets have had from start to finish this year. Yeah, that's why I was thinking, we were talking about getting Jabari Smith Jr. in the starting lineup somehow. It's like maybe for Dylan Brooks, but Dylan Brooks has been your best three-point shooter.

Dylan Brooks isn't the, I think honestly his defense is a little overrated because he plays really hard, but I think guys still get by him, but he's still pretty good defensively, and he's your best three-point shooter this year. So you can't take him out of the starting lineup to me. One of my son's best friends just texts me. He says, I like the thank you. Think you don't hate Chief Fan because of me, and that means a lot, damn it.

Oh, Chase, what a good kid. Yeah, I guess. Because I don't even think Chief Fan's obsessed with Taylor going to the games. I think America's obsessed with Taylor going to football games. I don't think Chief Fan can give two blanks. I guess. Because that's a day and being a dump, it's still a great place to watch a game.

I only saw U of H play Kansas there where the building was only, you know, 30% full, but it's still a great vibe to it. I'm sure it's wonderful. All right. Have that game to go. Let's do this. Let's go to a call, and then we'll get to tell the truth after that. Let's talk to Lewis and Sugar Land at 1227. Lewis, good afternoon to you.

What's going on? Matt and RV, how are you guys doing? You know, wonderful. Matt, I, you know, I got to tell you, I totally. agree with you. I had season tickets for many years, I mean half a season up until the COVID years. And I got to tell you, out of all the fans that would come out and we went to all the games, warrior fans have got to be the most entitled obnoxious fans ever. Okay? They're their t-shirt wearing, entitled, our team doesn't suck, yadi, yada, blah, blah, blah.

And I think part of my hate for them is, yeah, I'm jealous. They've won all those titles instead of us. But there's just something about them that you just want to take a brick and hit them in the face. So if you see somebody walking around the night, if you'll do that for me, I'd appreciate it. Have a great day and go Rockets. Thank you. Ross, if I throw a brick at someone at Chase Center, will I be able to still broadcast the game? Now, that'll probably be attempted murder.

Now, maybe you can get that pled down to assault, but you're probably still going to do some time. Yeah, again, when am I going to find a randau brick around the Chase Center? Well, anytime I'm in Thompson shoots. They do have good garlic fries at Chase Center. I'll give them that. Garlic fries, Ross, I'm going to give you a really hot take. Okay. Maybe the sneaky item of the night when you go to a ball game.

What if it's garlic truffle fries? You get the truffle in there, too, Matt. Oh, Lordy, Ross. We pay him at $14, $15 for those bad boys? At the Chase Center, probably at least cost you about $17. and then after tax? Don't they have a bunch of weird taxes, you said in San Francisco?

Yeah, I was at dinner last night, and I had a 5% tax on for something. I don't know what the hell. It was the pooper-scooper tax, I think. Pooper, or believe it was health insurance for the employees. Oh, that's actually good. I got to be honest,

I think it hurts their tips. I do. Probably, but at least they're getting health insurance. I mean, because I tip properly, but I still think it hurts their tips. At least they can go to the doctor. That's cool. And doctors are overrated.

To tell the truth is up next. 1229, Sports Talk, 790, 713, 212, 579. It's how you reach the show. 713-212-5-790. Thank you very much, Nick. Appreciate your kind words. Rossi, coming up in about 15 minutes, we're going to play some comments from a NFL general manager who went on a radio show today.

He was not happy with the way the media was talking about his draft. Love it. So, needless to say, well, we're never getting Nick on the show. But if we were, we'd be polite about it. Why, Matt? You always crush him when he's off air. Why would you act any different in front of his face? What about I crushed Nick O'Hasser off air?

Let's go. Like you're early today. I'm saying on air, not off air. When he's not on air, our air. What I'd say? You talk about a sweater vest. He got ters with people this weekend. And you think he thinks he's smarter than everyone?

Why wouldn't you tell that to him to his face, Matt? I would say it to him his face. I think you think you're the smartest guy in the room. And he would say, well, you know, there's going to be some guys are going to be smarter than others. I think I'm pretty smart, but I may not be the smartest guy, but I may be the fourth and fifth guy. He depends on the room in. All right. So we're apparently, so the Bills GM's getting...

Yeah, we have the audio. Okay, good. I've been waiting for you to scrap with Joe Espada. He'll be on tomorrow with you. That's true. We won't scrap. I don't have anything to scrap with him about. No, his squad's a game on a half out of free.

place. Let's go. The very wonderful America League West. Hunter Brown, Sai Young. Sy Brown. All right. So I want you to walk me through this because, again, I think you and I are on the same page on this, but we have to think about the logistics.

Okay. I don't, and again, I don't know how many people of our audience watch New York, Detroit. I'm going to say very minimal at best. But if you've seen the highlights on the Sports Center, Tim Hardaway was filed by Josh Hart. And it wasn't even really even close. It wasn't even a judgment call. It was legitimate. contact of the body as the ball was being released on a baseline three that would have given

Detroit three free throws and a very good chance of winning the game. I mean, it literally, that call, if it's made correctly, with the clock showing zero, would have been the right call, or maybe less than a second. I don't know what it would have been. But it absolutely Ross would have made a difference in the game. Now, you can go back and say, well, games aren't decided by one play, and you can say the game was very physically called and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You have to still interpret every play by the rulebook. And the rules say the contact that Josh Hart of the New York Knicks put on Tim Hardaway is worthy of a foul being called. David Guthrie, the crew chief of the game, said as much. They went right in the room where they get dressed, they put the DVR on, they went and watched it, and they said, yep, it was a foul. I mean, Ross, it didn't take much for them to admit that. They didn't go, well, we did this and we did this.

They said, we goofed. He said, after post-game review, we observed that Hart makes body contact that is more than marginal to Hardaway Jr. And a foul should have been called. Also, me, I was watching that game live. And I didn't think it was a foul at first live either. But upon review, yeah, there was some body contact. And unfortunately, we know this. Even if it's a playoff game or not, in the last few seconds, you really got to mug somebody for the referees.

to call it. They do. That's just kind of how it goes. I don't know. I can't be hypocritical. I can't say that if it would happen to the Rockets on Saturday, that I would not be in a full bitch mode for four hours today on the show. I'm just going to tell you the truth.

So if I got a call like I want to see it for the Rockets, I got a call like I see in other games. And I'm not a big Tim Hardaway Jr. He comes across to Shirley A-hole. He was foul on the play. He crushes the Rockets, too. He does. He's certified Rock.

Not so much the last couple years. Yeah, but he's been a Rockets killer in his career. For sure. Then what do you do? Do you just do it to last one minute reviews, Matt? That's what I'm saying. Walk me through this. What can we do to ensure that everything in the most important minutes or two minutes, whatever you want to go?

Man, with the, honestly, with the top of the key look, the overhead look, it looks like Hardaway jumps into him a little. But Ross, this is enough for to interpret. Yeah. The officials interpreted it. and said, in your quote, more than marginal contact to the shooter. Yeah, but upon review, hmm, interesting. It kind of looks like Tim Hardaway jumps into him now. Now I'm maybe okay with the old call, even though Guthrie said it was a call.

Guthrie said it was on a call. Yeah. Let me have another thing for you. You blow a call like that? Is David Guthrie calling him any more playoff games? That guy's a crew chief. Yeah. He's the best.

That was his call that he missed. He was on the baseline. Yeah, I just emailed you the overhead angle. If you want to look at Tim Hardaway kind of jump into him. It's, man, that's bang, bang. That's tough. And there's an... Okay, so let's defend the officials for a second.

It's bang, bang. There wasn't a mugging. There was contact. But you can allow some contact as long as it's not beyond what they term is marginal. It's in the heat of the moment. It was a mad dash to get a ball up at the very last second. You're watching for a variety of things. Yeah, it's a scramble moment.

But there is an official literally right in front of it. All I'm saying is this. I don't want any playoff game involving anybody to end the way that it did yesterday. With the way that it ended, with the very quick admission by the folks that were there at the game saying we goofed and everybody left and went, oh, thanks. It's almost like you'd rather them say nothing than admit the failure. but then we would hold the NBA accountable to say you owe us an explanation on this. Was this a correct call or was this a wrong call?

That's why I want replay in the final two minutes. I just do. And I know that it's going to screw everybody up with timing and it's going to backtrack games even further for those 830 starts and now become an 846 or whatever. But damn, Ross, we've got to get this right. We've got to get these calls right. It's just, it's such a difficult sport to officiate.

And also, I think they should. should go to a, like a replay center where they make the determination, not the referees that are on the call. Because, Matt, if I call that a foul or no foul, I'm more apt to be biased towards my own call. Yes. When you challenge a play, it's up with the crew chief to accept the calls. Now, you get assistance from the video center, but it's a crew chief's call.

No, yeah, I'd like it to be called by somebody at a third party. Not a third party. You know what I'm saying, a referee that's not there. Sort of like they're doing college football a little bit, but putting a guy upstairs. Center. Yeah. Or they do it in European soccer. They call the video assistant referee. It's a whole other referee, and he does the calls.

So it takes the responsibility out of the hands of the three guys that are at the fed. Yeah, because if I call that a foul or not a foul, I could see somebody, it's called choice supportive bias. Where you're supporting whatever you first said. Yeah. I just think it was lousy, and if I'm Detroit fan

today, I'm super mad. I mean, I wouldn't be able to do the show. I would probably, I probably would have you know, yeah. I mean, you know, I mean, we're all emotional about these things, especially with teams that we love. And the Knicks got away with it. They flat out, got away with it.

Let's use technology. And let's start building three-hour games that we have to because we've got to get this right, Rossi. That's what I'm saying. We just got to get it right. You're right. Let's use technology. Let's get every ball and strike called correctly.

Let's go. We're getting there. Apparently one efficient, something in the Mets game yesterday missed 25 calls behind the play. It feels like quite a bit. That's more than one. That's a lot.

You see, um, scorecard on that one. Not good. All right, final hour of the show coming up. If you want to jump into the conversation, please do so. We'd love to have you. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Into the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here from San Francisco. Ross is back in our Houston studios, and we are with you until noon. Pacific 2 o'clock central time. The 8 team will take over and then we'll have Astros baseball here tonight against the Tigers game one of a three game series with the team that eliminated the Astros last year in the postseason. No Tarc scoble in the series. Sports RV. Astros hashtag catch a break. Yeah. But the Tigers been, but Jack Flirty is on the mound. Jack Flirty is a good kid. Jack Flerty is a fine young lad from Limerick. He's been pretty good. drinks it throws a 94 mile prolet of fastball with a pint in his hand I mean at least by ERA three good starters coming up for

the excuse me Detroit Tigers do you know that they have the best record in the American League I did not know that 18 and 10 dang they're pretty good well Astros seem to be good do well against teams with good records so

yeah they're two and one against the Mets who are 19 and 9 they are 0 and 3 against the Giants. They're 19 and 10 of the Giants. That's the second best record in the American League, in the National League. Yeah, they did good against the Padres, but the Padres have lost four in a row.

Pods have dropped off a little bit, and... Swept the Blue Jays, would not be under 500 if the Astros hadn't swept them. Just saying. All right, we got that going on. Texans draft picks. If you know a little bit about them,

you're going to have a chance to win some fabulous prizes coming up on, believe it or not, that'll be in about 50 minutes from now. All right, so we don't ever get Nick Casero on the show. And Ross, I'm going to be honest with that. I think I'm okay with that because it's a lot of word salad. But if we were ever offered him, we'd take him. And I'd say, man, let's just chill.

You mean, Nick. Let's talk some broccoli, some cauliflower, and some chicken breast and no seasoning. And that would be a good way to kind of open things up a little bit, right? That's his daily meal. Okay. Well, the Buffalo Media, and it's a two-sport. town between the Sabres and the Buffalo Bills. But it's prime NFL territory when it comes to its fan base.

I mean, they're diehard Bills Nation. I really thought they were going to go to the Super Bowl this year. But maybe this next year, who knows? So the general manager goes on the radio show. I'm assuming that's going to be the flagship station of the Buffalo Bills. His name is Brandon Bean. He's an enterprising young man, Ross, if you knew that or not. Okay, I'd imagine he is.

He's made it that far in life. So apparently the wide receiver position has been null and void the last couple of years. Remember when they lost Stefan Dix to the trade with the Texans? And they have not really addressed it. So says these Boston, these Buffalo radio hosts. Well, Brandon Bean goes on the radio and says, I hear what you've been talking about. And here's what his response was. No, it was.

It was. I was just listening to last few minutes of your show before I came on waiting on here. All right. Sounds like 2018 all over with you guys. Well, we're very, how so? Well, you guys were bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys wanted Josh Rosen, and now you guys are bitching that we don't have a receiver. I don't get it.

We just scored, hold on, let me talk. We just scored 30 points in a row for eight straight games. A year ago, I get you guys asking why we didn't have receivers, but I don't understand it now. You just saw us lead the league in points when you add all the postseason. No one scored more points. points than the Buffalo Bills, including the Super Bowl champions. So you just saw us do it without Stefan Diggs, same group.

How is this group not better than last year's group? Like, I don't, like, our job is to score points and win games. Where do we need to get better defense? We did that. So I get it. You got to have a show and you got to have something to bitch about. But bitching about wide receiver is one of the dumbest arguments I've heard. Okay.

Wow. Oh. The look of the faces Ross is bad. He dropped in a shut your bum ass up in there. Yeah. So Jonathan, explain to the audience how these talk shows were listening to this and going on. The faces went immediately red when he started talking.

He started laughing over. He didn't start looking at each other. It was so bad. I will say I've had very few combative conversations with front office people and managers over the years. part of it is because they have a tough enough job as it is. Second of all, there's very few times that are just those good old-fashioned head-scratching moments. The only time I ever really got kind of sideways or something was probably Ed Wade. We used to do back in the day, Ross, we used to do these general manager shows once a month.

And remember when Ed was taken over and towards the end, he was selling pieces off and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. and they were trying to tell us that Chris Carter was going to be a future first baseman, and that just wasn't going to work out. And he and I are doing the show, and he texted me during the break, and he was not overly pleased with some of the tones of the questions I was going on my direction. But that's so rare. I mean, I appreciate the general manager going on the show, and I appreciate it's just not this love fest back and forth.

But I think we're doing Buffalo Radio Ross, we'd probably be saying, hey, this has been a position of need for the last couple of years and it hasn't been addressed. Oh, they draft Keon Coleman last year. He was a rookie. Yeah. They just signed Cleo Shakir to a big deal. I'm just looking around. Oh, they got Joshua Palmer. They're hoping Dawson Knox or Dalton and Kaye can be good.

Doesn't seem that terrible. I wonder what the guys were saying that he thought was so unfair. Maybe he thought they would draft one. I'm just pulling up the bill's draft. They went cornerback, de-tackle, edge, de-tackle, cornerback in their first five picks. So they clearly had an emphasis on defense, which I think is smart for the bills. they're pretty set. Josh Allen can throw it to a limp post and be okay because he's going to be running around.

The reality is when the general manager comes on and says, we're here to score points. We score the most points ever. You kind of, not necessarily putting in your place, but it's like, hey, it's hard to argue.

We're just seeing things differently here, and I got some evidence that backs my side up a little bit. Yeah. Like I said, I mean, going heavy defense, and then, yeah,

they took a tight-in in round five, and then went to a cornerback again. So, six of their first seven picks on the defensive side of the ball, that's probably what you need in Buffalo. Yeah. Yeah. But I think when you're in Buffalo and you have nothing else to talk about besides that and the Sabres,

you've got that microscope looking at every single pick and probably trying to overcompensate for it. Yeah, they're probably hoping Keon Coleman's going to develop, which I don't necessarily think he is. I think he's just not good enough, but that's my opinion. Calil Shakir's good, and then they have a couple of tight ends. I thought Josh Rosen was going to be a decent NFL quarterback. I missed out on that one. That was before Thomas Sports Enterprises was currently, by the way.

I thought, yeah, Josh Allen was looking every bit of a bust. He just was. Because we didn't know much about him. He was at Wyoming. Meanwhile, Rosen's at UCLA putting up these prolific numbers, and he looked at part. He had bad accuracy issues, Josh Allen. And generally, NFL history tells you, that those cannot be corrected, but he's done a pretty good job of it.

I think probably the most incredible thing about Josh Allen is his running ability. Yes. Being a big strong-darm 6-5 throw-the-ball deep down the field cannon, he can move. Yeah, he's got a cannon and he's a great runner. All right, so just let you know that if we can go on the air today and say the Texans probably didn't do enough in terms of grabbing interior alignment, at least through the draft, right? That's not unfair to say. I don't think so. But Titus Howard, come on down.

You're at Guard. Titus, you're moving in. Get to know that center really well. As opposed to moving out. I like that. All right. 713-212-579. If you want to jump into the conversation,

it's 713-212-5-790. If you want to join us on Twitter, you may do that as well. We'd like to talk to you, folks. And I put up a poll question, Ross, just a handful of minutes ago. And I'm about to find out the very first results. I have. Who do you got tonight? Oh, 72% of the rockets.

Okay, we're feeling good, Ross. Well, you're a Houston sports figure. I would hope 28% Warriors. I'm sad. Please wait. We need to do something. We need to sacrifice something? No, I don't want to sacrifice anything.

How about what do I need to sacrifice to get a men, Thompson, make some middies? I need some mids. I need no foul trouble for Dylan Brooks tonight. He got fouled out. I got a bunch of fouls early in the first half. Thalprin Shingoon shorts one more jump hook. I'm going to rip my hair out. There's too much finesse in that mid-range, isn't there?

He's... Go up there and act like a grown-ass man in Flex. I'm ready for the flex. I don't know what the deal is. I mean, this has been a storyline all season with Shingun missing some of the easy shots. He dipped under... He doesn't take threes,

and his field goal percentage is under 50% this year. Yeah. He needs a nice... insufficient night like he had what was in game one of the series. Yeah, that was nice. The only thing was nobody else showed up except for Stephen Adams in that game. Yeah. By the way, how about the Stephen Adams mid-court steal and throwdown?

Not on my bingo card. Not on my bingo card. I was like, my eyes, I was like, Stephen Adams tried to go. It was the slowest coast to coast I've ever seen. Coast to coast. It was going on mirror with three changes playing. He was like on the Oregon Trail. It took six months to get down there.

That's funny. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It's 113. It is a Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Come out and join us. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Time is 119.

We had a guest with us earlier today. Tim Roy, the voice of the Warriors. If you miss that perspective, damn shame that you did. But you know what? We're going to let you hear it again coming up at the bottom of the hour. Those of you that weren't with us for a full four. here every day 10 o'clock until two we don't bite we're nice we try to entertain you try to mix

things up texans draft questions will be on today's edition of believe it or not this report is sponsored by whatever you want hooker get away you get your own air time later this report is brought to you by sports r me how about that thank you matt i appreciate it uh next year the draft is in Pittsburgh. It was in Green Bay this past year. Wonderful. It's hard for me to care less. Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't do anything for me in terms of location. I think it obviously it's a big boon to the city that gets it. Good for them. I won't be going. Yeah, I don't know. It would, it feels like it would be like a bad festival to go to.

Not enough bathrooms, not enough places to eat. Can I drop and I just don't get it on that? Like, you want to go dress up in your Green Bay Packers cheesehead gear and put some face paint on and then just sit there for hours while they make draft picks? Because again you're obviously very interested in what your team is doing, but do you think the people in Green Bay can care what Carolina did with their pick?

I don't think so. I mean, unless you're one of these people that just likes to dress up and TV and get on TV and to each his own, that's how you get your jollies, good for you. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure Darlene was probably there in Green Bay, right? Yeah, maybe. Let me tell you know, we'll go sometime. The Texas won the Super Bowl.

Battle Red Matt and Battle Red Rost will go there. But then they're not picking until 32, and you're really sitting around, and you know Nick's going to trade out, so then you really wasted your time. That's right. That's right. I wonder how the Texans draft party went. I mean, you get all these people to go downtown. I don't even know where it was, and they're like, hey, man. Woo, yeah, Texan Drab is 24.

Oh, they traded back to 34. Okay, great. When's that going to be? Tomorrow? Do you think Hannah Texan, Nick said, you better get this right because I got a lot of a bunch of pissed off Texans fans down here? No.

She was probably picking out a tennis bracelet. You know what she's probably doing today? She's like, did I hear right, Washington's getting a new football stadium? Hmm. Oh, is that true? Oh, yeah.

Hmm. Interesting. $1 billion in money coming from the city for it. It's going to be, I think, a $2.7 billion little get together. They're going to build it where the old RFK stadium used to be. Oh, okay.

They're going to tear that down. Build it up. Why would they do that to RFK's legacy, Matt? Hasn't he suffered enough? No kidding. Apparently there's going to be 6,000 places to live in and around that area. Say again? They're building a bunch of living spaces too.

Oh, okay. I thought you were saying they were tearing down like homes. No, no, they're going to build them. So what? You can get a condo at the stadium? Well, I guess around it. I mean, maybe that's what it. That's the thing is, Ross, when we were kids,

all we worried about is our facilities. Now we're worried about places for people to eat and drink and sleep. Yeah, well, it's more revenue. Avenues for revenues. That's what they're looking for, Matt. Money, money, money. Let's get more money, baby. Let's go.

Billion dollars for the district. Yeah, I mean, the Warriors were in Oakland forever and ever. And, well, they weren't always in Oakland, but most of the time they were in Oakland. And then they came over and said, there's a bigger plot of land with some more money and some more dollars to be found in the San Francisco side. It's still a lot of building. I'll say this, it's still super loud, but it has definitely a different vibe over here than it does in Oakland. In what way? Because, I mean, yeah, the Oracle crowds are kind of legendary.

Legendary crowds, a workmanlike, very much East Bay. Not tough. Not as whining cheesy. Not wine and cheese. And the roof was way lower. The roof is really high here because their scoreboard is massive. You know, you can't have those low-hanging roofs anymore. So it just doesn't feel as intimate, I guess, that way?

Yeah, you get 16,000 people. at Oracle with the roof being as low as it was. I mean, you had a hard time thinking. It's still loud in San Francisco, but it's just different. I mean, they're still play really, really well. The acoustics, I got you don't get the cheers bouncing off the walls, off the ceilings, I guess. That's right.

713-212-579. If you want to jump in, let's talk to Troy and Unble on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Troy, thank you for holding, and good afternoon. Hey, man, have a good afternoon, y'all. I just want to pick you guys' brain as a coach for you that he made you talk about. First of all, go Rocks just get to be in the night. But the Rocks have struggled to scold against Golden State, not only in the series, but really every time they played them all season long.

And I'm just kind of surprised that usually during the season when Jalen Green has struggled a bad fleet, he has played Holiday. Are y'all surprised that Holiday is getting no minutes at all? And he's really your best three-point shooter off the bench. And if I'm the Warriors, I probably would risk Jimmy Butler, self and keep it for game five because since you can squeeze out another win because the Rock is a disparate and

Jimmy Butler's coming fresh off the interview he won't be 100% but again I just wanted to ask why do y'all think EMA Adoka so hesitant to go deeper in his business and just stay with an eight-man rotation just have you got good good stuff on that holiday to me

from a defensive standpoint is going to really hurt you and I think he really only can create his shot if they go to zone, which Golden State has not done a lot of. I mean, I would sprinkle them in for a couple minutes here and there. I mean, we've seen that right now with the warrior side of things, Ross, that Steve Kerr has gone deeper to his bench. But I would not say huge difference maker,

but maybe you've got to find something. Again, how do you react to watching Jalen Green struggle from the floor for another game of the series? how do you react to the fact that they put the kibosh on Van Bleed after the first quarter? I mean, I think these are subtle adjustments, and I would say that probably Aaron Halley is certainly in the mix, but I don't think it would be a significant difference maker. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I don't, I just,

I see his being a guy that would be no more than, say, a five or six minute guy on the floor just to spell somebody else, especially if somebody's in foul trouble. Yeah, I think it would be on bench minutes. It would be certainly when Steph Curry is off the floor just for, not that Aaron Holliday is a defensive Siv. He's actually, I think, a touch underrated by some of the fan base,

but it would just be limited bench minutes just to go in there and get up to some threes and see if he can get hot. It's very clear that Udoco wants to make sure he's playing great defense, and the Rockets have played great defense all series long. It's just the offense that has bogged them down and their two losses. What else do you ask about?

I don't go. Oh, by the way, I think Jimmy Butler is going to play tonight. Get a little bit of whispers. Oh, okay. What's it going to ask? Because you know what you want to do if you're Golden State? Honestly, Ross? Don't you want to put the foot on the neck?

Yeah, exactly. You can't say, oh, we can afford to lose this game. It's a seven-game series. You can't afford to lose any game, Matt. They're all of the utmost importance. But could you imagine the conference level that Golden State would have going three-one to Houston to place? They've won plenty of games over the years.

Yeah. me Butler on the floor helps your team. If he can go, you plan. That's just, it's very simple. Yeah. And again, it puts not nearly as much pressure on Steph Curry, though Steph has great games with Butler on the floor and certainly he had one without.

I just, Ross, I can't handle Gary Payton and Buddy Hill beating me. Well, let's hope it doesn't happen anymore. All right, couple of quick calls before we get to a little bit with Tim Roy. Renfro with us at 132 on 7.90. Rentford, good afternoon.

Hey, what's going on, fellas? Hi. I got one question to ask, and I want to know if y'all recognize it. You notice that Texan, they drafted all seniors. If I'm not mistaken, they drafted all seniors. And I want to know if this is the philosophy behind that is because the seniors would have more bodywork in as far as they will be a little bit more cultural with the added experience that they have. So what do you think about all that draft choices being mostly seniors?

Thank you. Thank you, Renfro. I don't really have an opinion on it one way or the other, Ross. I would say that I still believe that the Texans mantra has been, if there are flags up with certain people, we're going to stay away from them. I don't think leaving NF colleges early a year would be one of those flags. So I would chalk it up to coincidental at this point. Yeah, usually that means if somebody's leaving after their redshirt sophomore or their junior year,

that means they're one of the best athletes on the planet. Again, maybe he would say something just to the opposite, but I do not equate older players necessarily meaning that the Texans would stay away from younger players. so they thought that was a better player, but a different position. Yeah, I don't think that's been necessarily philosophy. I think was Kamari Lasseter? I think he was an underclassman last year, right? You have to go look that up. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't. Pretty sure Derek Stingley was an underclassman. C.J. Stroud, I think, had eligibility left. Did was Will Anderson? Will Anderson, I think was, yeah, I think he was, he had eligibility as well. Yeah. So I would say just off of what we just referenced in the last minute that it's just coincidental. It can't be a bad thing.

Experience can't be bad, but maybe the most dynamic and special athletes come out early. Yeah, I mean, think about this. If you are on the draft board in the third round and you left college early, it means there must have been a reason why you probably should have stayed in college, right? Probably, yeah, that's true. Yeah. Let's go to our buddy Willa at 135. Willa, what do you got today?

Nothing much. Good afternoon. Hey, I wanted to ask you, is Thompson's defense that much better than Jabari Smith, that when we need points, we can't put Jabari in? I think he and maybe Adams were only guys that were plus the other day. It's like, and I think he's one of our better players. He's sort of weak sometimes, but he can get his shot off. Thompson can't shoot at all, can't do layups.

If he's not Duncan or laying the ball up, you know, I'm just watching these games. like Jabari, even the first game and the second game, he puts up points, he goes and sits on the bench, and he doesn't come back, and we just watch Thompson, who's an athlete, but is he just that much better defensively that we don't care that Jabari can score at ease

when he wants to? You know, what about Easton? We could even put... Yeah, they're all going to get time. I mean, think about this, well, this is only an eight-man rotation, so I don't necessarily think that anybody's going, man, I'm leaving it all on the floor. Now, could you see an uptick in

Jabari's minutes. Yeah, especially if a man struggles on the floor. But men, despite not having a good shot, still was shooting what, Rossi during the regular season, about 50% from the floor? I mean, granted, a lot of it was in the dunker spot. But that's the playoffs. I'm talking about at the end of the game when we

need points, and he's shooting you know, five foot bricks. You know, like he... Yeah, I know. It's been tough to watch. I can't argue that with you, Ella. I can't. Yeah, it just seems like he doesn't like Smith. I don't know. To me. No, no, no. Far from it. Far, far,

far from it. He likes Jabari Smith a lot. He's talked about, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A fusive in his praise. But you're talking about... But a man just became dynamic in the starting spot. Again, he's a jack-of-all-trades. He's a guy that can play four... He can guard four positions on the court. I mean, there's... And as great as Jabari is defensively, I don't want him on the wing against,

you know, an explosive point guard trying to get past where men doesn't care about that kind of stuff. No, I get that. I get that. I get that. Yeah, I get that. Yeah, I get that, but when we need points. like we've got Van Fleet jacking the ball up right and then we've got Chagoon I don't know what he was doing right the only guy that seemed like to score when he was in was Smith and at the end of the game he just wasn't getting in

and it just seems like he's the only guy that could score right he was like a four for eight well I don't think you're that far off I think they're gonna if a man continues to struggle from the floor you're going to see an effort to see somebody out there they can do it Tarry hasn't shot really well during this series either. I mean, I'm looking at the numbers here, Ross. The Rockets in this series are only shooting. Let's see.

They've been under 40% two of the games, and the one they won, they were 45%. So, I mean, they haven't been over 50%. They're 41% as a group. That's not good. That's not good. And some credit to the Golden State Warriors' defense and Draymond Green, but you're also talking about, as far as what Willow was talking about, it's a defensive-minded coach who likes dogs

and Amin Thompson, he finished fourth and defensive player of the year voted. Like, Evan Mobley had the most first place votes with 11. Amin Thompson had four. So, I mean, there are people that think he is the best defender on the planet. So absolutely, to this point, Udoca has valued what Amin Thompson has brought defensively over his shortcomings offensively.

Yeah. I understand philosophically. I like Jabari Smith Jr. as well. I like him spacing the floor. and if he did start over him in Thompson, I wouldn't think it would be the craziest thing on the planet. I just don't expect it. And the question would also ultimately be

if you all of a sudden asked for Jabari's volume to go up, would there still be the same success? Yeah, he's very limited offensively as well. I mean, he can get the occasional, but he's got five to 10 to 15 foot pull up and then he knocks open and wide open threes. It's not like Jabari Smith Jr. It's just like breaking guys down

and making plays for other people and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, Jabari's played about 25 minutes a game in each one of the three games. And he's taking 15 shots. So I don't think he's going in. Maybe the mentality has to change it. He's got to go in and be a little bit more of a score. Who knows?

I think men's going to give him in every opportunity because of his defensive prowess to stay in the game. And hopefully the dunker spot becomes a better spot for him. All he's got to do, Rossi is hit the elbow jumpers. Because that's what teams are giving him. Can't the elbow jumpers. Well, that includes Alper and Shingoon too. The Rockets are in trouble.

I'm in Thompson taking a bunch of elbow. jumpers. It's not good offense for the Rockets. No, but they're right now giving it to them. A little bit right now with Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden State Warriors, we visited with him earlier today, and we talked about how much of a breather the Warriors have because they were able to at least split the game, well, at least a split here in San Francisco, especially winning game three without Jimmy Butler on the floor. Yeah, there's no question. That was a big, big win for the Warriors.

You know, the deal without Jimmy, Jimmy turned the whole season around. And so to do that, to get contributions from other guys, you know, when you're in the playoffs, if you get contributions from role players that are big, you're more than likely you're going to win the game. And so, yeah, it was a big win. And I think that they felt, you know, I'm pretty sure nobody would say they want to go back to two, too. But if you had told them you could go back to two, I think they would have taken that. But, but, you know, and now, you know, from the warrior perspective, now it's time to get you. greedy. If Jimmy plays or not, if he

does return, which I think there's a chance of that tonight, then I think you get greedy and try to go back to he won. Yeah, for sure. It's so funny looking at social media, Tim, and I'm sure you've seen it yourself. But the buddy healed the crowd is a mixed crowd. He helps you out one night

and you don't hear from him four or five games. Is that how it's been so far as him as a warrior? Is that he, you know, comes and goes? You know, on the floor, he comes and goes. off the floor, he's consistent and he's good for this team. He keeps everybody on, you know, loose. He's a funny guy. He's a nice guy and everybody loves Buddy.

So his contributions are more consistent off the floor than on the floor. But I think that's the way shooters are. You know, he's not, you know, guys who are, you know, great shooters tend to be a little streaky. And Buddy is that. There's going to be a night where he's going to be, you know, four of seven and from three and there's going to be nights where he's one of seven from three. And so you have to kind of figure out where he is on particular nights.

But again, I think his contributions for this team are really great off the floor that nobody dislikes Buddy Heeled. He and Jimmy Butler had this great thing where they interrupt their press sessions and stuff where it's pretty humorous if you listen to them all the time. But yeah, I just think that's the way it is with shooters. They tend to be kind of a streaky guy. And also, I think in the playoffs, it's harder for a guy like Buddy to get going because, you know, the other team's been drilled over and over.

Don't give him an open shot. Don't let him get comfortable beyond the three-point line. So I think, you know, in playoff situations, I think shooters have trouble getting going because the other team, unlike the regular season where, you know, all of a sudden Buddy Hill pops out of nowhere for the opposition, you know, they're drilled over and over again at every practice. don't leave him. He's a shooter. And so I think it's harder for those guys in the postseason. Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden State Warriors with us here on the Matt Thomas Show.

With Ross, our time is 1133. So Tim, you go with a bigger lineup, putting Quentin Post in the starting five. That is obviously a change of not having Jimmy out there. What did you think of that? And even though Post did not help out in terms of going mono-a-mono against Shingoon, it was more outprian going against Dremont Green. The rebounding numbers were much better. than the first two games of the series.

And do you think that Steve will go with that lineup again tonight? I think he could, especially if Jimmy doesn't go. I think he would probably go with that. The other part about it, I remember telling Tom Tover, my analyst, during the game, at one point, Quentin Post was leading the Warriors in assists. And if you had that on your bingo card, well, you scored big. Right.

So, yeah, I thought he played well. You know, for a rookie, the one thing we've known about him since he started to play is he doesn't have any fear. And I think it's partially because in Europe the younger players play against men. So this is nothing new to them, right? They've played against men their entire lives. And so I think it gives him a better preparation for the NBA. And a couple of comments from Tim Roy, the voice of the Golden State Warriors. Game number four tonight.

We'll have it for you on our sister station, News Radio 7. KTRH. We'll kick it off there at 8, the tip off at 9, and then we'll have both 740 and 790 for the Rockets game once the Astros postgame show is completed. All right, believe it or not today, how well do you know the Texans draft picks? 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump into the conversation. 7-1-3-212-5-79. Ross, I'm going to ask you a very important question. If you do not want to answer it, I respect it. Okay.

Who you got tonight? Here's some rockets. Maybe the connection was bad. Let's go Rockets. Did say it with your chest, like a real man? Houston Rockets are going to win. Guys are awful. Adam Clayton, who do you have one of the Rockets?

Who the hell do you think I have tonight? And the next night. Let's go, Rockets. You guys aren't soft. Doing great. No, don't put me in the category. I'm just asking. I'm just asking.

You were soft. I didn't want to put the Warriors. I told you guys that. I admit it. Let's go, rockets. They're great. They're so fantastic. Oh, my gosh.

You sound like a Texans fan is what you sound like. My poll question is 75% rockets. I'm happy about that. Y'all need to get on border. Get off the boat. It doesn't matter who I'm rooting for. I'm going to watch the game. Oh, you need to get.

You need to have confidence in what you've seen from your team this year. Oh, how confident I've seen from this? They're shooting 40% from the football. field in this series. How am I supposed to be confident about that? Defend. Jalen Greens go hides in a cave for two quarters at a time. That's what's going to get his ass traded this offseason.

Well, we'll see. Would you not? Hey, I picked Rockets and 7. I'm sticking with it. Rockets and 7, let's go. Matt, if he has 38 tonight, don't you feel better? Be nice. They're winning if he has 38. Well, they're just going to keep doubling and trapping him.

So, I mean, for whatever reason, he just was deer in headlights. all Saturday when they were doubling and trapping, which he's seen all season long. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it a B.

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Matt. You nap in. Yeah. Rockets win. We're coming back to H-town tied 2-2. You hear me? I didn't stutter.

I like that. I did not stutter. H-town. Handily. Say it. Hand-handle. Let's not you say it. Double digits.

Say it. No. Jalen Green scores 10 crucial points in the fourth quarter. Oh, hell yeah. 105 to 99. And I got one more for you. Alpi Shangoon makes 70% of his free throws tonight. Oh, yeah.

That's what I'm saying. Are they moving the line in tonight or something? Up next, it's Clanton, it's Wexler. It's the A team. I'll talk to you for Rockets at 9 on News Radio 740, KTR. Wee.