The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Dominate vs Raptors, Blue Jays Take The Series to 3-2

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

Rockets Dominate vs Raptors, Blue Jays Take The Series to 3-2

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10.0.1 in the a.m. here on the Sports Talk 790. Hello. And welcome in to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. Toronto.

How many more L's is Drake gonna have to take? Loss of rat beef. Case against UMG dismissed. Apparently he's appealing that. Then he was at the Rockets, game against the Raptors last night. And the Rockets defeat the Raptors 139 to

121. That'll be part of the discussion today here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas with Dan Matthews. What? Hey Dan. I'm still here. Are you all right? Do you do it okay? I mean, you got a fifth hour in you? I thought I got good sleep last night, but apparently I'm

hallucinating. We're hitting you to overtime, pal. We're going full-on Blue Jays versus Dodgers game three on you. think that there's a part of Drake. I mean, you said of all the L's because he didn't, you know, the one that mattered the most last night to him, he didn't. But do you think like if he's in the building there at Rogers Center or wherever he's watching that he's like, I really, really need them to win this?

Like, I really need them to win this. Probably not. He's probably worth about a half billion dollars or something like that. I think he's doing all right. Well, money doesn't erase all your problems. That's true. Well, that's true. I mean, you know, what's the fun in having FU money if you can't say FU, but then also to say FU to the guy that clowned you in front of the. entire world.

Yeah, well, it's hard to have the backs of like Scotty Barnes and, I mean, they're all decent players, Brandon Ingram and the boys. Yacca Pertil. If Yacob Pertil was hurt, unfortunately, he had some back issues or whatever it was. He didn't play. But yeah, Drake was in attendance in the first row. I believe his son was there, Adonis. Yeah, I was wondering.

And Kevin Durant was like picking him up and holding? Like, are they boys? I guess. Is Kevin Durant and Drake? Yeah. They're Broskees? I mean, Drake does hop on every bandwagon. Of course.

He's Kentucky guy. He's been a Raptors guy He's been a Laker He's been with the Lakers He's been representing That's right U of H basketball He showed up over there

And then you know You had Jamal Shed get hurt And well it's time to hop in the Rockets bandwagon Baby they won two in a row We're good We're good That's true We'll stick with Bun B

The Drake curse The Drake curse might be real Yeah Well he'll stick Paul Wall Paul wall yes We gotta keep I mean can we have another

Houston rapper make big hits I know that Travis Scott is out there But he's kind of Missouri City and he's not necessarily of that, like, H-town, chopped and screwed ilk. He's kind of more of his own entity. Yeah, he's mainstream.

Yeah, he's mainstream. Exactly. More mainstream. Because, I mean, we keep trotting Bun B and Paul Wall out there. I mean, they're starting to get in their 50s. Well, I mean, we got to get some new hitmakers, folks. We know that Travis is an Astros guy because, I mean, there was the photo in 17 where he leapt after Derek, Fisher slid across home plate.

Uh-huh. And he does his cactus jack softball cherry game, I think, every year. And then we saw him in Arlington where no pictures. Don't take any pictures of them. Oh. The guy flashing the light. That's true. You know what I should have done right there and maybe this is.

Okay. Let's contextualize this for the people that don't know. Yes. So it is the 2023 ALCS. Myself and Dan Matthews are traveling on behalf of Sports Talk 790 and Carbock Brewing. and we're in the tunnel. And yes, Travis Scott, the Astros, that was after the Jose Altuve home run, correct?

No, this was game four. That was Jose and Bray used three-run Homer that broke it open. Okay, well, so, okay, there you go. And so it was an Astros win, because I remember Travis Scott, like, went into the locker room to go, to go and like, I don't know, give the boys a victory speech or whatever.

And when he came out, do you remember he was like, that boy, that boy's lit in there. They're going to win it all. That boy's lit. I was like, well, I was excited at that time. I was like, yeah, they are going to win it all, Travis? You're right. And he was wrong. But, yes, so we're, Travis Scott is in the tunnels. I'm taking a couple of pictures. I don't know, send him for friends or whatever. I wasn't going to slap them on social media or anything like that.

And then go ahead. Yeah, and then you have the security guy who takes out like a cop little like mag light and like starts flashing it at you like a tactical light. It's like, hey, no pictures. He's like, no pictures. And he's flashing light at me like he's going to ruin my picture. and all that looks on my picture is there's just like a little bit. There's a little peep. There's a little deep of a light on my picture. Other than that, I can perfectly, if anything, he illuminated Travis Scott better for me,

which I appreciate him for. And also, too, because the reason that I knew that Travis was there at that game is pregame, Darren Baker, Dusty Son, of course, somebody had gotten to him and said, hey, Travis Scott's here, do you want a picture with him? And he got geeked up for it. He was pumped. He was like, hell yeah, I do. And Reggie Jackson also.

and then Travis Scott will do in his pictures where he puts his head down, like where you can't see his face. And Reggie Jackson, after the picture, like, kind of like did like the looking under the hood of a car. Almost like, the hell's wrong with you? What are you doing here? Yeah. Well, all right. I guess he's representing for Houston well enough.

But anyways, Drake is representing for Toronto and the Toronto Raptors got beat. All right. So a couple of wins in a row for the Houston Rockets. Big blowout wins as well. Now, of course, two of the league's worst defensive teams in the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors. But the Rockets were like six and a half point favorites in that game. Raptors shot out of their minds in the second quarter. They were like 57% from three.

I think it was like 8 to 14, something like that in that second quarter. And they still rallied. They still won. Kevin Durant is smooth as you like. He is one of the definitions of greatness, I always say, is making the extraordinary look routine. and that's what Kevin Durant can do. He's only four years into his Rockets career

and now for the first time probably in my life maybe for a little bit of Chris Paul being here when I see like a 10 to 15 footer I'm like lay up let's go ahead to the other side of the floor guys like I'm watching I'm starting to look at how the Rockets are setting up their transition defense like it's over

when Kevin Durant gets into his spot and gets those shots that nobody's going to be able to contest until he's like 50 years old. Well I mean it needs even for threes too. I mean, because you had that pinball rebound by Stephen Adams. I think it was in the fourth quarter where it went up offensive rebounds for

Stephen Adams by the way. And Adams finally gets it and you funny enough have Kevin Durant right there at the top of the three point arch and you see he's wide open and you say, hey do your thing number seven and sure enough he did and it was wide open and it was one of the daggers in that game but no, I mean he makes a

difference man. It's fun. I don't think we've had this here since you have Chris Paul and James Harden playing together. I mean, I know that the COVID year with Russell Westbrook, that had some fun, but not to this extent. I don't think so. Yeah, last year it was fun too, but it was a bit of a different identity with the team. It was almost like not quite to the level of bad boy pistons, but it was like, we're going to beat you,

we're going to grind you to the pulp, we're going to be physical. And I liked it. It's a different band of basketball. And it's not completely different this year, I should say. But the identity last year was we were going to grind you to a pulp. We're going to be physical with you. We're going to play lockdown defense. And then we're going to work some stuff with Amin Thompson.

And then maybe Jalen Green's on tonight. Maybe he's not offensively. Well, I mean, it also too. It had its disadvantages too. Where, I mean, how many last check and, you know, last chance shot opportunities that you have where it's just like, all right, where are you going here? And it would rarely ever go your way. So this year, I think that clears up with Durant.

You feel like you're in that situation? Well, then number seven, find him. get him open one way or another and give him the ball. Yeah, this is what I said on Twitter. It's those in case of emergency, Kevin Durant possessions. I saw that. That was good. Like, just throw up to seven.

And he's going to, even if there's like two guys draped up all over him and he's going to get the, he can get the shot up. Nobody's going to give an honest contest because he's seven freaking foot tall with wingspan. And he's in low likelihood, probably going to make the shot just because he's one of the greatest all-time shooters. So, yes, you do have that element of it. That was nice to watch last night. it was a groundbreaking victory for the Rockets, but they took care of business on the road as six and a half point favorites with a blowout victory against the Toronto Raptors. They've won a couple in a row. We can talk about that with you guys, haven't even gotten into the World Series.

Say it with me, Dan. You're wearing the hat. Let's go Blue Jays. Let's go Jays. Woo! Let's go Jays! And somebody, by the way, had a gut feeling. This very young, a prescient man had a gut feeling on Tuesday, and I thought he was crazy. He said the Blue Jays are winning the next three games and winning the World Series. Dan, you hear this, he always, every time I do this prediction. You're right. Not every time. He's always talking down on.

He has like kind of cheap in it a little bit. Hold on. Hold on. How did those SFA jacks do? Maybe the man knows ball. That was your problem. Thank you, Dad. Thank you.

Let's not talk about like it's all been dubs now, Jonathan. Hold on now. Hold on. We got archives with gut feelings. We got the archives. Now he's hitting you with the receipts. Yeah, exactly. That's all good. Well, at least I don't pull the audio of your bad picks like they've done with me. But that's okay.

Yeah, Jonathan, credit to you. If it happens, it's going to be a smash matchup. Yamamoto versus Gousman on the Hill on Friday, October 31st. Yeah, it's Halloween night. It gets spooky every day in October. It might get spooky for the Dodgers coming Friday night. So they might win three in a row. And then the next week we will allow Jonathan Allen to

glow. So we can talk about the World Series. Of course, we've got the Texans in action this week as well against the Denver Broncos. Some angles to cover there. A lot of stuff to get to. Dan Matthew's hanging out for the first hour. We will have Adam Wexler in in in the fourth hour. A couple of hours solo with me as well. We have I just don't get it to get to news at noon. A lot of stuff to get to 570. If you would like to get in and contribute to the conversation, 713, 212 570. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross with the until 2 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. Oh, I see. I didn't mention, we were talking Houston Legends and I didn't mention Scarface. That's on me. I got to do better. I got to go back to the drawing board.

I got to work harder. I got to study harder. And I'm going to be better. This was the credit song at the end of neighbors, I believe. Oh, really? Yeah. The one with Seth Rogen and Zach Efron.

Yeah. It was decent. That was decent. Neighbors, too. Not so good. It just, they tried too hard. Yeah. Like it was like, now he's friends with Zach Efron.

I don't really know how this works. But yeah, how do you forget about Scar? How could you be friends with Zach Ephron? All right. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross, without Matt Thomas, with Dan Matthews. I'm here. At least for the first hour hanging out, wearing his LSU garb. I heard you guys were coming under fire during the show for not talking enough Aggie football.

Is that true? Yeah, I mean, you know, I gave credit where credits do. when we had Peter Burns on at 6.30. So, I mean, we still got that. You got Peter Burns up at 6.30? Well, I mean, he was already up because he's got SEC this morning with Chris Doring. So I asked him, I was like, well, you know, you guys start at 7 o'clock Eastern time. Well, no, that wouldn't make sense.

8 o'clock Eastern time. Yes. So I was like, what you want to do 630? And he was like, yeah, sure. Peter Burns, what a hell of a guy. He really is, man. He's one of my favorite. And he also, too, he has the career path that, you know, the end of the rainbow for everybody.

he and Mark Shlabel have the two best jobs on the planet. During football season, you do football. And then when it gets to golf, you do golf. It's not bad. It really isn't. It could be worse. It could be much, much worse. Go to all these nice country clubs that Augustin National Place.

I'd take it. It's, uh, beats a hole in the head. What's kind of happen? So you guys were talking about LSU. What is the, uh, what is the, uh, LSU Bureau of Sports Talk 790? That would be you and Chris Gordy think as far as the next head coach over there. Well, I mean, yesterday you had some absolute gasoline thrown on it by the governor. Can you explain this to me like I'm five? Why is the governor stepping in and saying the AD is not going to make the hire?

That sounds insane. So the governor makes all the appointments in the state for the board of supervisors, which is the board of trustees. And what he said was that the AD would not be in charge of it. They would appoint a committee. The board of supervisors would. because then there seemed to be a gotcha moment with one of the board of supervisors where the reporter asked it the wrong way. He did not say that the supervisors are making it.

It will be a committee that's making it. But it's just the whole thing, though, too. It's not only just the lunacy that it seems of how this entire process has played out, because it all supposedly started off with him going around from sweet to sweet on Saturday night as they're getting embarrassed by A&M, which you did embarrass LSU. I will give you that. And it was on full display. But he was going sweet to sweet to get the buyout money from the rich people that were up there.

And it's a true political way right there because he knew that people had probably been drinking all day. So it's like, hey, you kick in a few million here? Well, hell yeah, Will. Get this S. S.O.B out of here. I've had enough. Or actually, no, no, no, I'm getting the wrong. Did he have like a little meter he was filling up with a highlighter like your teacher in third grade did when you were trying to raise up enough funds?

He's probably got one of his staffers with them that's, you know, jotting it down for who to call the following morning to collect. He probably had somebody doing that. But, yeah, you know, will you kick in? Will you kick in for this? Is that how he talked? Dude, he haven't heard him? No, I haven't. What's his name?

Jeff Landry. And we've got... Jeff Landry now. We've got... Jonathan, pull either one of the Landries. I want him to hear this. I want to hear Jeff Landry now talking about LSU. You're going to hear...

his voice, but then you're also when you hear him going to think, is this a Saturday Night Live bit? Like, seriously, is it? I'm super excited for this. Just one of the two. Down a failed path. And I wanted to tell you something, this is a pattern.

The guy that's here now that wrote that contract cost Texas A&M, 77 million dollars. Oh, no, now. Right now, we've got $53 million liability. We are not doing that again. And you know what? I believe, I believe that we're going to have a great coach. Maybe we'll let President Trump pick it. He loves winners, you know?

Yes, I do. I'm not going to be picking the next coach. But I can promise you, we're going to pick a coach, and we're going to make sure that that coach is successful, and we're going to make sure that he's compensated properly, and we're going to put metrics on it because I'm tired of rewarding failure in this country. And then leaving the taxpayers on the foot, you know, to foot the bill. So, yeah, absolutely.

Oh, yeah. You don't, you, I love me, I'm Jeff Landry now. You're going to pick the right call for L as you, baby. You don't, you don't want the taxpayers to be footing the bill. Oh, my God. Did he have a washboard and a spoon on him when he was doing that speech? You got my guy with the spoons on the thumbs. Oh, yeah, with the washboards right there.

Yeah, I mean, that's good stuff. Don't get me wrong. Does he finish every speech with a he? I mean, he's from a Canadian, so he probably could. And then he sped off You got to play to your base, brother. He sped off on Fanboat 1. That's it.

I like that. He's going down the Mississippi with, what do they call Cajun Clause? I can't remember what they call Cajun Claus, but Cajun Claus is supposedly pulled down the Mississippi River. Okay. By instead of reindeer, a bunch of alligators in the lead reindeer that is supposed to be like the Rudolph of the bunch is named Gaston. I mean, this sounds like a full-on soap opera. I mean, isn't the state of Louisiana destitute?

I probably have a lot of issues So there's a good buddy of me and Gordy's named Matt Mascona who hosts in Baton Rouge And he has a line famously that says We're first in the categories you want to be last in And we're last in the categories you want to be first in Drinking, gambling Now I love Louisiana

Don't get me wrong I went to New Orleans from a 40th I went to New Orleans from a 30th I've been to Baton Rouge I like Lafayette I've uh where else have I been in there I mean Lake Charles of course I've never once spent time in Lafayette Only driven through

Oh okay But Lake Charles I've been in the Mardi Gras parade at Lafayette. It's wonderful, nice people. So you know that that is actual Mardi Gras, right? Yes. People think that New Orleans is, no. Anthony Bourdain did it a few years ago on Parts Unknown, where they call it.

Not a few years ago. Running the Mardi Gras. He's been missing for a few. Where you just got to, you know, I'd say that's a good way to say it. But they call it running the Mardi Gras. And it's basically, they just have a bunch of drunk Cajuns in a field. and they throw a chicken out there and they're trying to run and track down the chicken.

I was at a parade and there were children there so nobody was tracking chickens. Well, I mean, maybe they already got the chicken because it's for the gumbo that night. But during this episode, during this episode, they're going like to the old folks home and you got this lady in a wheelchair trick in a buttlight. Oh, wow.

It was great. You know it was awesome at the grocery store in Lafayette? You can buy a bag of boiled crawfish. You know how you go to like H.E.B. And you can just get a rotissory chicken. or whatever, like a meal simples. The meal symbols in Louisiana was literally a bag of boiled crawfish, and you could add sausage and corn if you wanted to for extra couple bucks.

It was actually quite affordable as well. I don't know if it tasted any good because I didn't buy it. But I was very impressed, and yes, we were in there buying liquor. You can buy liquor and alcohol in Louisiana, which I mean, we fully applaud them for that. But also seems like a lot of corruption and a lot of misallocated funds. Louisiana politics, brother, with Louisiana politics. and they're all like, yeah, well, you know, we're kind of running out of books in the library, but we're going to go ahead and drop $50 million on buying out Brian Kelly.

Well, I mean, you know, the interstates might not be great, and if you drive through Louisiana, they are not great. They have rickety roads, but that LSU locker room looks nice. If you're riding in that RV like I have been, and you're trying to get some sleep, it ain't going to happen if you're driving to Louisiana. It's kind of part of the charm, though. Oh, of Louisiana. Yeah, no, it is.

But Tiger Stadium was built because of corruption. Okay. He would be, you know, Kingfish. He would be long. He would be long, Kingfiff. The bridge right there going over to Mississippi River. And he wanted to build a football stadium. And the state assembly told him, no, no, no, no, no. We don't have the funds for a football stadium. But then somebody who was savvy enough got to him and said, you know, Kingfish,

what we really need here in this state is we need some more dormitories. So what if you just happen to build a dormitory with a football stadium inside of it? And that's how you got Tiger Stadium. and my dad lived in that said dormitory. I wonder if that happened in Texas. There were some actual classes you could have at the stadium. That's interesting. Multi-use. I mean, hey, look.

Multi-use. Dude, it's the thing. Hey, it's not, but you had to walk up all the steps. You didn't want the class there. It's not a football stadium. It's a multi-use facility. At least back in my day. They might have installed elevators.

I was back there in the dark ages. All right. Anyways, on that note, we're going to take a break. What were we talking about this segment? Not sure. It flew by, though. LSU politics. We got Zatico music.

We got Louisiana politics. My favorite governor on the planet is Jeff Landry. Absolutely, number one. I never heard the man speak until yesterday. I had never heard of him until yesterday. And all I could think of was how the hell did this guy get into a public office? It's Louis, again, it's Louisiana. Oh, it's on a daily basis.

The buddy of mine once told me about politicians, we don't send our best. You know that, right? No. No, well, because oftentimes the people, the people who are fit and good, leaders generally aren't the ones who are the extremely hungry, ambitious types. Those are the people that step on people's faces and backs, and those are the people that end up at the top of politics and corporations. But I digress.

We're going to take quick break here on Sports Talk 790. Rossi, out with you. Dan Matthews's hanging out. He's going to be with us until 11 o'clock. Then we have, I just don't get it coming up at 1130. News at noon. I mean, a ton of stuff. You guys can get on the phone lines if you'd like to as well.

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Don't laugh at me, Johnaman This song had This one, it was Tupac on the cross Rapping in this video, good times. It was 96 somewhere around there. I mean, it's not, you know, me, you mentioning Outcast and one of my friend's sons going, yeah, I love old school.

I was like, you know what, if I could hit someone's kid. Well, it was like 30 years ago. So, I mean, that's like in the 90s. We're talking about music from the 60s. Oh, I'm going to throw up. See, exactly. Thanks for doing that. It's like I was talking with Rod Ryan.

about the Amazon commercial where Chris Farley's brother is running on the treadmill listening to Collective Soul and I'm like it's an old guy, it's a dad. So I said to Rod, I go, so Collective Soul's old guy music now? He goes, yeah, collective soul's old guy music. Yeah, it's fine. We're getting

older. That just means we survived. Yeah, no, hey, we're here. I feel pretty good about it. Yeah, hey. It beats the alternative. Looks like we made it. Time marches forward with or without us, and I'm glad to be here. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas with Dan Matthews. Matt is out traveling.

Now, the Rockets have two days off. I think he's just coming back home to see his, Jonathan, do you have the information on this? His daughter's playing volleyball? Yeah, he's coming back. Is it like a big game or something? It's a playoff game. Oh, they're in the playoffs.

Playoffs? So you're silently judging. Playoffs? No, I'm not judging. Carly only has so many more high school games. I was asking for information. Okay. And she is the all-time Kingwood High School leader, assist leader.

Congratulations to her. Yeah, you're gathering information to make an assumed opinion. And go to, go Rhode Island Rams. Yeah. Also is what I have to say about that. So he is, I don't know where he is if he's in the air or what he's doing, but he is out today. He will be back tomorrow, I think from Boston. No, he said he's going to be here on Friday.

I'm see, I'm confused. So he's going to be physically. He emails us this every week. And I just, I like glance at the email on Sunday morning with like a bleary eyes and then I forget about it. See, that is the thing with email too. Like we're, I'm the worst emailer. Well, I mean, I just, I try to consolidate mine as much as possible. I get so much crap.

Because then it's one of those. Did you get the email? And then my response is which one? Yeah. I need to be better about that. But anyways, okay. So Matt Thomas is out. We are here.

We're talking about a number of different things. Right now, your world. Series MVP is Trey Yassavich, correct? After last night, that's who I would go with for sure. He's got two starts and well, he wasn't that great in his first start. Four innings, two earned

runs and he did, he let me see how many of he strike out. He struck out five and then 12 last night seven innings pitched. Yeah, maybe it's going to be Vlad Guerrero Jr. He had a couple of home runs last night. He had at least one, I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm thinking of the two leadoff basically home runs. He had one of them did Vlad Guerrero Jr. But he's had a couple of home runs in the series. And then Davis Schneider getting the start leading off last night somebody on Twitter had said... I saw that. You know, Davis Schneider, really? And his sister dunked on them and was

like, well, I guess it worked out. Yes, it did. Lead off home run now that he struck out in his other two at batts. Also did draw a walk, but that's okay. Yeah, Vlad Guerrero is OPSing like $1,300 in the playoffs. So he probably wins it. Yeah, probably. He's going to win it. That was nice to see.

though, I mean, it's funny, like the Dodgers do feel like this death star of a team. And well, I guess we do know what happened to the death star in Star Wars, episode four, even though it was the first Star Wars. Very confusing. Thanks for that, George Lucas. But anyways, I'm so happy. I want a George Springer, I saw getting ready to get into the game last night. So he was going to pinch run at the end of the game.

Why would they do that, by the way, when they were up 6'1? It was just going to be like in a dire situation. Because Boba's shed is basically playing on one leg right now. Like he hit the ball all the way of the wall the other night and he only got the first. So, I mean, that's a huge reason right there is he can barely run. And it's going to be, I mean, that's going to be a good one. Kevin Gousman versus Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the World Series on the line, both games at the Rogers Center on Friday night on Halloween.

Well, I mean, and it's funny too because, as I mentioned last night, The bargaining is already happening with Dodger fans like a guy on Twitter at Dodgers Andrew. So you can imagine whose side he's on. Despite the national media narrative of the mighty Dodgers, Dodger fans who watch the team all season know how flawed. And all those flaws are being exposed in this series. So wait a minute. So Mukie Betts is flawed. Freddie Freeman is flawed.

Shohey Otani is flawed. All three of those guys went 0-4-11 with six strikeouts last night. like the bullpen, I'll actually somewhat ride with you on. But then if it was great in that 18-in game. You know, that was the thing. Like, I kept going back and forth this guy. And seriously, I was like, I was like, please let me lead you to the injuries.

Please let me lead you to the injuries because you try to hit me with that. You're not going to get far with that. Yeah, absolutely. Certainly not. When you talk about relative to the Astros. But it's so funny. Have they started accusing the Blue Jays of cheating yet? I'm sure that would happen after the first two home runs in the game.

Yeah, that's probably going to be now. Well, where was O'Rle Herschiser last night? If he had O'Rourl Hershizer there, he would have been like, I don't mean to pick a scab here, but you know what, that Springer guy in the dugout and Miles Straw there? Oh, man, good times. It's okay, hey, look, you know, some people just take the L better than others and Dodger and Yankee fans and the people who want to glom onto them alike.

They don't. I mean, you got Buster Only. That 18-in-game seems like it really took a lot out of the Dodgers. Is that what we're going with? That's what Buster Only is going with. I guess it was a talent evaluator he had spoken with. Oh, gosh. What does that even mean?

I'm a talent evaluator. I think most of us are. It means nothing. Yeah, it doesn't mean anything. You heard what, I think it was Addison Barger that said it, where they're like, man, how did you guys bounce back for game four? Oh, pre-workout and coffee. Yeah.

It's all good, baby. I mean, the Red Sox in 2004, they went with shots of Jack Daniels. Oh, I think people are going with the Dodgers are old. I think it's also what people were doing using. That's another one that I've heard, too, which it's just like. Oh, well, they're a little bit of an older team. Well, good thing you have all that laid away money. to pay down the road. I mean, they went until 2 a.m., but what time was first pitch of the next

game? It wasn't until like 7 p.m. or whatever. Hey, what does Domingo Ryan sell us all the time? They got to play in it too? Exactly, but whatever. That's funny. I love the excuse making for the Dodgers. I hope they lose. That'd be really heartbreaking if they won back-to-back games in Toronto. That actually made my stomach hurt saying that out loud. Robert on the south side wanted to get in on the phone lines. What's up, Robert? Hey, what's going on? Thanks for taking my call. I have something really rambats. I have something really that I was thinking about a couple days ago. Dan, can you do us all a favor?

Can you please do an injury report as the Astros and your Donald Trump impersonation? I think it would be hilarious. Yes. And you'll have a great day. Thanks for taking my call. You got it, Robert. I apologize for jumping in on you right there. But, I mean, of course, you had Luis Garcia who went on the IL September the 10th.

I'll go through them quickly. Don't you worry. Don't you worry. Well, you tend to ramble sometimes. Well, I mean, I can understand that. You know, I am the potus, so I can be up here, and I can speak for as long as I want to. Zach DeSenzo, who had the right elbow strain in addition to the hand. You had Yodon Alvarez, who had the hand inflammation, and then on further review, they found that there was a fracture in there.

Then he had to go on the IL yet again, and they kept telling us, you know, Donald, he's only going to be gone just a few days. But I didn't believe him at the time. And then three months later, he finally shows back up. But then he hurts his ankle again and he was out. There were way too many to be able to go through. But I only went through just a handful of the highlights for you. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Donnie.

I was going to lay in the plane for you there. We appreciate you. You know, I'm so surprised how accurate that is. It's pretty good. It's all about cadence. That's what Frank Calli Endo teaches. It's about cadence. Yeah.

Yeah. You got to be able to his certain points. I just don't want to hear all about the. I was injured. And it's also, you know, like, it's for naming some of the names, too. What you've got pictures like Rinell Blanco.

You've got to get the names wrong to a little bit. And AJ H did a great job of skippering. Yes. Did he say Deshawn Watson was going to be a great quarterback too? I think I had that somewhere. You're going to be really rich.

Well, he is. Yeah, he's got that going from. I don't know what he's doing right now. And supposedly people say the key to your success is the massages. Is that true number four? All right, we're going to take a break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dan Matthews is hanging out, taking requests.

713, 212, 7190. The phone number 713, 212, 5790, anything you guys want to get to. As we'll have Dan with us until 11 o'clock. We have I Just Don't Get it. Coming up at 11 to 30, Adam Wexel will join at 1 o'clock. It's a jam-packed Matt Thomas with Ross without Matt Thomas with you until 2 o'clock. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Here on Sports Talk 7-90 without Matt Thomas.

Which one has James Hardin's jersey retired in it? Oh, are you talking about strip clubs? Uh-huh. I believe it was dreams, but I cannot confirm or deny. Okay. I've also heard that they have some good fried chicken wings at the wing joint in the back. I've heard. Really?

I cannot confirm or deny that either. Because, I mean, my former stop, it was Magic City that was known for the Great Wings. Yeah, you get fried fish, fried chicken wings. I can't remember what else they do. Fried fish. I mean, I can't remember what else I heard they do. I don't think the back of dreams. I mean, I've heard about it before.

Yeah, me too. I mean, back in Manhattan. I mean, Kansas. Yeah, I heard it in a love song. All right, 713, 212-5-790 is the phone number if you'd like to get in. 713-1-2-5-7-90. Yeah, they have freshened up the bump rotation around here. I like it.

In I Heart Media, Houston, which I'm a big fan of it as well. Shout out to the old school screw shop, man. Screw shop still around? Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I think so. I think so. It was over on the north side. I'm going to have to take your word for it.

Because I remember that was always like us St. Thomas guys. Oh, you're going to the screw shop? Yeah, I'm going. Yeah. That's what the good Catholic boys did. That's where you all partied. Yeah. You all are drinking 40s in the parking lot or what?

I mean, it was first, you know, the new stuff, and then, you know, take the CD and be able to have it that night for wherever the Kager was. Holmes Road or Ron Carter was one of the two. You mean Bible study. If you're St. Thomas, St. James, St. James, Lamar, Bel Air, you know what I'm talking about. All right. I'll take your word for it. Southwest side. We got it going. I didn't do that.

I was studying books. All right, a Texan injury report. There was a lot of players listed on there. Dan, unfortunately, limited on Wednesday. And of course, as we go along later today, we'll get some updates. Hopefully we'll get some upgraded to full. Jalen Petrie, limited, foot injury. Nico Collins, limited, concussion.

Christian Kirk, man, I feel like an idiot. Christian Kirk at the start of the season, his over under was like 649 yards. And I was like, hey, man, all he has to do is stay healthy. And he's hitting over. I know he's had some hamstring issues. And literally week one, he's missing with hamstring injuries. And then he plays. You hear that static?

Yeah, he was trying to sabotage us because you're sabotaging him. Yeah, hold on. Who's, who's, is Nick Casario back there in the control room? It's a bunch of garbage. What's going on? It's about the player. It's about the player. Christian Kirk, and then he gets hurt with a hamstring injury again.

Like, what's the deal? He's going to have to. He's got noodles for hamstrings. I don't like this. He's going to have to really get after it. then if you're going to hit your gut feeling right there. I'm going to lose all my gut feeling. That's fine.

I mean, Braxton Barrios Limited with a chest injury. And then you have Jacob Johnson limited with a hamstring injury. So a couple of extra guys cropping up with some limited practices there on Wednesday that we weren't necessarily thinking. I hope Nico Collins plays.

Funny enough, they were able to get the victory without him last week against San Francisco. But Denver, Denver is better. Denver is a better team. They're a healthier team. They're coming in here. If the Texans could get the victory this weekend, I mean, that's going to be the biggest feather in their cap so far this year.

And the funny thing is, is you think as bad as this offensive line is, you know, Sacks giving up this season. The Texans are 20th out of 32. Like, it's not like, you know, CJ's getting hit on every single dropback. And gave you the Jonathan, M. Alexander, you know, the numbers that he gave us a few weeks ago

about, you know, the amount of dropbacks when C.J. Stroud gets hit. And it was less this year than it was last. year. So, I mean, all of those, there's that, but I mean, you've got Nick Benito. You've got Jonathan Cooper that are going to be coming after you. And then this is also a Denver team that does not allow their quarterback to get sacked. They have eight and eight games. Yeah, they have one of the best offensive lines and they have one of the best defensive lines. You add all that up there, they're one of the best teams in football. Now, here's the offensive line part, though, that kind of

has a little bit of a caveat to it is we had Benjamin Albright on from Denver earlier. And he talked about, he goes, but think about the defenses they played, like Dallas, who they played last week. Well, they don't even count. They don't feel the defense, do they? I mean, I think they try. There's 11 guys out there. Okay. Once they didn't have number 11 out there anymore, it kind of, you know, dodge the credibility of everybody else that's out there. Good thing Jerry Jones didn't think they needed them.

Didn't think it was going to be a big problem. You know, hey, we traded away Herschel. We can trade away Micah Parsons and get 1991 and get good draft capital in return. People thought that was all Jimmy? No, I was in on that. And now that, yeah, how's that first round pick looking? Let's see. The Green Bay Packers are 5-1-1-1. So basically and effectively a second-round pick.

You can book in it there. You can be top five for your first one and then be the end of the first round. We're basically, you get a second round pick right there. And Jerry Jones will blow both of them. So that's a great opportunity for him. But yeah, the Broncos, as you said, let me see. Who are the best defense? Well, the Jets defense isn't very good these days.

But they only scored 13 points against him. on the road against the Eagles decent enough Bengals Chargers Decent enough Colts defense has been pretty good but that was also the first game of the season

Yeah Bronco's schedules looked a little bit softer than I thought it was So maybe that's why your Houston Texans are favored in the matchup this weekend All I'm asking for for the audiovisual people over at the Texans is if you're in a situation where you're in a kneel down to end the game please play the Russell Wilson. Broncos Country. Let's ride. Broncos Country. Let's ride. Did you notice, and I brought this up with Gordy earlier,

that none of those videos did well where it was him. Brian Harsson tried to do it. He gets fired at Auburn. Spencer Rattler did it in South Carolina. It didn't go well for him. What did he do? They did like a game cock's country. I think he said Gamecock Country. Let's ride.

Oh, okay. And then JT.D. It's like a curse? Yeah. Yeah, it was the New Age Madden Curse. Yes. Russell Wilson's second year in Denver wasn't that horrible I mean the numbers were actually better than the results

because they were behind in a lot of those games you'd tell you what quality of quarterback he is is when Brian, when Jackson Dart got hurt and Brian Daibble's like running into the blue tent hurry up and get him ready He's like the fastest Brian Daibble had moved in 15 years Brian he might get him out to have Russell Wilson is in

He might be concussed He's fine some smelling salt He's going to put Corningstone on. He's going to put Corningstone on. All right, here we go. There we go. Do we have a sounder for the Dan Matthews?

Yeah, we have the ding for years. We'll get the ding going at some point. I was a little quick on it for him, so it's okay. That's okay. He knows ball, right? That's true. Hey, I believe it, John. Thank you, Dan.

Chana, that all I do is back you up in this world. You're welcome. Especially considering who's normally in that chair. Just know that even when I'm not on one of the microphones, it is always us three against men. Matt, that will always have. That's everyone. It's the world against Matt. Everybody knows that.

Brings it on themselves. All right. We're going to do, absolutely. We're going to take a break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. Dan, thanks for hanging out. You're the best, man. Appreciate you. No, you are.

All right. So I'm going to be flying solo for the next couple hours. We'll be talking some rockets. We'll definitely mix in some Texans, college football, anything you guys want to get into. So the phone lines are wide open if you want to get in. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number 7-13-213. 5-790. Rockets get their second straight win. This one against the Raptors. Do you say, eh, it's the Raptors and the Nets.

Wake me up when they beat a good team. Or do you say, hey, these are two blowouts. Nice victories by your Houston Rockets. I want to hear your opinion on that and anything else you want to get to at 713-212-5-790. Hour number two of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas is next after the short break. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 11-0-1. in the a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. It is our number two of the

Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm going to be honest with you. I almost just said sports RV show. I'm not normally used to opening up hours of programs. That's Matt Thomas's job. Normally I just sit here and make fun of them for four hours every day. But Matt Thomas is out and I am hosting solo with you for the next couple of hours. So if you want to get in the phone lines, They are wide open and available for you at 713. 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Jonathan Allen is here as well. He will bring us the news at noon coming up at, you guessed it. Noon. We also have, I Just Don't Get it, coming up at 1130. And you guys, on the phone lines at 7-13, 212-5-790. Now, I have to get into this big enthralling and engrossing discussion on the Houston Rockets. That's what I plan for this segment.

But I have to do a quick public service notes and a quick aside. Jonathan, I mean, you are how old now these days? You turn 23. Happy birthday. Yeah, so you are 23. You know the rules of the office in a shared kitchen environment in the office. Yeah. The microwave.

Is it okay to heat up shellfish or fish? Did they really do that? That's so gross. It's not okay. Okay. Just tell me it's going to. Soothe me, so when we feel better. Just say you know you're not supposed to do that.

No, I don't know. Okay. I feel like that's kind of ingrained. It's like when you learn that, I don't even know. Like literally the first office you ever work in. You learn you're not supposed to be heating. Somebody heated up shellfish in there. It smells like a two-day old crawfish boil in the kitchen right now.

I went to go get some coffee, mind my own business. And then you get slapped in the face by the funk of funky old. And it's 11 o'clock. Actually, you know, it's pretty good. A half of o'clock in the morning, man. Ain't nobody got time for that. All right, I know it's not Wednesday, but ain't nobody got time for that. That's ridiculous.

And the worst part is there's a couple people who their cubes are like right next to the kitchen, so they're going to have to deal with that. But folks, public service announcement, if you were in a shared office kitchen space, it is bad etiquette and bad form to show up with any kind of fish or shellfish. All right? I thought this was like widely known, but we're having some issues up here at IHeartMedia, Houston. Okay, anyways. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. As I said, if you want to get in, you talk about anything

that we are getting into Texans and Broncos coming up this weekend. We'll keep an eye on the injury report later today, but I mentioned you still have Nico's Collins limited with the concussion, but normally guys miss about one week and then they're back from there. Christian Kirk hamstring, I mean, who knows what's going to happen on that. Funny part is Joe Mixon is still not listed on the injury at all because it was an off-season injury. And at this point, we're just figuring that Joe Mixon isn't going to play at all for your Houston Texans this season, as called by one Matthew Thomas. Kudos to him on that.

But also, we carry your Houston Rockets here on Sports Talk 790. They got their second win of the season. Just judging by a lot of the reaction from last night in the postgame show and so far the start of this show, it doesn't sound like everybody's fully engrossed in Houston Rockets basketball right now. But second win was impressive. Kevin Durant, I said this earlier in the first hour, like, I'm already starting to get spoiled by how good Kevin Durant is.

And that happens to us, you know, when you have somebody in your city and you follow their sport, you almost get spoiled by how great they are. For example, the Jose Altuvays of the world, I think Houston, quite frankly, was spoiled by James Hardin. And what he, dude was dropping 35 a game and getting crushed by Rockets fans. I mean, insanely spoiled. But also that there's some other factors that went into that. Of course, the whole, you know, how much is he invested? How much does he want to win?

The strip club stuff like that. It's like, I don't know if he's at the strip club till 4, that's okay. Game doesn't start until like 7 p.m. You can get his rest in, get his shots up. And then he goes out there and he's dropping 35 a night. Doesn't bother me. But I feels like I'm already starting to take Kevin Durank for granted. The shots that he can make, the, the, the, the,

10-foot pull-ups that are basically lay-ups for him at this point and have been, since he could shoot a basketball, it's been really incredible to watch. Excuse me, got something in my throat there. It's been incredible to watch Kevin Durant. 11 and 19 from the field, 31 points,

only four games in a rocket's uniform, and I'm already spoiled by how great he is. A couple of possessions. He's shooting wide open threes, and you're like, yep, that's in. Go ahead and head to the other side of the floor. This dude is great, man. And I, You can definitely tell that there has been a little bit of slowing down of Kevin Durant.

He doesn't move like he once was. The lateral quickness isn't there defensively while he's been good because he's got length. He blocked a couple of, he got three blocks last night, actually, to where he's basically a seven-footer with a lengthier wingspan than that. He can block shots. And people forget, in his prime, in those Hampton's five lineups, when he was with the Warriors and Draymond Green and Steph Curry and Clay Thompson,

yes, it was a super team, but the alpha dog on that team, go ahead and look up who won the NBA finals MVP's both of those years. It was Kevin Durant. And one of the reasons those Hampton's Fives lineup work with Kevin Durant at the five, because he was actually

a pretty good rim protector in his day. And while he could still block shots, because he is still tall and lengthy. So he was a pretty good defense player. I would say, I would dare to say vastly under rated defensive player in his prime. Now he doesn't have the same step that he did in those days. Now he's 37 years old, but getting it done on both ends of the floor last night with the 31

points and the three blocks. Also didn't turn the ball over a ton. That's something you're going to have to keep an eye on as we go along here because guys like to get into his kitchen. They get up on him and he can dribble the ball off his foot, not necessarily. He's got good handle. He can get to the basket, but, you know, he's not like, I don't know, Kyrie Irving or Chris Paul or something like that as far as.

a dribbler. And that's just not who he's going to be. And that's going to, it's going to always be a part of his game. I think he's been averaging over three turnovers a game for basically his entire NBA career. That's probably not going to change at this point. But still great to see him play well. Alperin Shungoon

almost had a triple double. He had 18 points, 9 assists, and 8 rebounds in 35 minutes. And it was a bit of a slip back from in Thompson with the turnovers. That's certainly something that we are also going to have to keep an eye on and monitor. with the losing the ball handling of Fred Van Vleet.

He had four turnovers, but he had seven assists. Started off slow offensively. He was getting to the basket, and he got 18 points. And overall, I'm starting to, not starting to get encouraged, but it's nice to see the wins pile up. Like the first lost against the Oklahoma City Thunder in a couple of overtimes. You're like, hmm, it would have been nice to get that one.

Didn't work out. The Pistons game was just one of those weird ones of 182. They couldn't make bunnies. They couldn't make easy shots. And they just couldn't find the basket in key moments. They shot under 39% from the floor, and they lost by four. They make just a couple of more of those buckets. You're talking about a victory against the piston.

So coin flip games in the first two, so nice to get a couple of good, important blowout wins against the nets and raptors in the next two. And then they'll be next in action on Saturday, 7 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790 against the Boston Celtics. So you're thinking, all right, no, Jason Tatum, they're not very good. they lost their first three games of the season, but then they blew out the pelicans, and then they completely dismantled the cavaliers on, was it an NBC game or a peacock game?

I can't remember. Oh, no, it was ESPN, actually. Sorry. On ESPN last night, they beat them 125 to 105. So a couple of big wins for the Boston Celtics. That'll be interesting to see as we go along with the Houston Rockets on Saturday here on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number.

If you want to get in, 713212-570. You could also send tweets to at SportsRV if you want to interact with the show that way. Also, I would appreciate a follow on my Instagram at Sports RV there as well. Jose has been

waiting patiently on the phone lines. Let's go ahead and hear from him. Jose, what you got? Yes, sir. Good afternoon. Just the question. I'm not sure if it's already been asked this morning. But when the Dodgers lose tomorrow, we

Houstonians and Astros fans, well, we have to still have to endure the annoying Blue Dream nonsense podcast commercials that have been going on. Jose, I just want to let you know. I'm 100% with you, and we have a couple

of people who have complained and talked about that, and it comes from national. Like, if you've heard a lot of our promos, there's all these podcasts that they're running. Our company, of course, would never waste a dollar. So these are great investments by our company, I Heart Media, and they run these promos nationally.

I mean, just between you and me, Jose. It's a little tone deaf to run Dodgers Blue podcast. Not only here, I mean, if you're running them in, I don't know, New York or Florida or whatever, I haven't heard any other markets that they're running in because I only work in this market. But yeah, we need to do away with the Dodger Blue podcast promos. I'm with you, Jose.

It's literally like someone's scratching or running their fingers or their nails against the chalkboard. Yeah, I think they're going to follow it up with the 2018 Golden State Warriors podcast. And then also the early 90s Buffalo Bills podcast, I think, is next after that. Even better. Even better. It's better. All right. I appreciate it.

All right. Thank you. And then Dame Lillard, all my big shots. That podcast is coming after that. I mean, I love this company. I love having a job. please keep me employed. I heart media Houston. You're the best.

But yeah. I'd say even like it's these national podcasts that our company pays for. So they're going to get run and they're going to try to get money back on their investment and they're going to want to get listeners. And surely not every single person who listens to this station is a Houston Astros fan. But very few of them are Dodgers fans. I mean, come on, man. in Houston?

It comes down from national. We have to run it, guys. So it's not being run here locally. There's not some dude in our studios up here and a Dodgers hat talking about Dodgers blue and a Fernando Veno Valenzuela jersey. That's not happening. It comes from some dudes in L.A.,

and it's a national promo, and unfortunately we are obligated to run it. So as soon as that can get done, I mean, what are the other podcast duzies we had? We like the John Wall podcast. We had the soccer one was that? Oh, the women's soccer. Oh, yes.

Yes, folks. Everybody listen to this podcast. It talks about how the San Diego women's soccer team got founded. Okay, yeah, I can't run to my phone fast enough and download that bad boy. So we run the promos for random podcasts. It's money invested from our company. And high atop their ivory towers and their infinite wisdom have, decided that we should run Dodger Blue

podcast promotions here in Houston, Texas. Yikes. So please, please, don't take it as a strike against us. It's not, it's out of our control. We don't want to run them. We don't like the Dodgers here in Houston. Say it with me, go Blue Jays. But yes, they run. And hopefully

those promos stop running after the, yeah, hopefully the Dodgers can lose game number six, like 11 to 1. First of all, that'll make Jonathan Allen's gut feeling correct. Yes. That'd be nice. Yes. Second of all, Maybe that could be the end of the Dodger Blue podcast promos. All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. You guys want to get in.

You can. Phone lines open. 713-213-2-5-790 is the phone number. If you want to just call in and say, go Blue Jays, I'm okay with that too. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Your thoughts on the Rockets, second win, how we're feeling? Are you saying, wake me up until they beat a real team? Other stuff to get to in the NFL and the sports world.

Anything you guys want to get to. 713, 212, 570. We also have, I just don't get it, coming up at 1130. All right, John, then back me up on this. We did not throw that in there on purpose. Guys, if I knew which one was coming up, I'll take it out. Now, we have to run those. We are obligated.

Let me give you a little inside radio, folks. Things that show up in our little system as blue are things that you have to, have to run. like it's basically like a paid advertisement like if you don't run if they don't run somebody's going to get in trouble things that are like black in color normally like promos from our local

end you can take out you can move around because sometimes you know we get off clock or there's a live event like a sports game and we can move stuff around like these are they're coated blue and that means we have to run them and and that literally the guy

calls in to complain not complain And he's like, hey, can we stop running these promos? Yes, let's go Blue J's. So we can stop running these Dodger Blue podcast promos. And honestly, I kind of tuned into that one since I heard it. I normally tune it out. And the guy, the rings, baby, rings. Okay, come on, dude.

If you want to be talking about a podcast of your team and rings and rings and rings, dude, you got a $321 million payroll, Los Angeles Dodgers. You have like a billion dollars in deferred contracts, Los Angeles Dodgers. All the best pitchers coming out of the Japanese Professional League, it's basically like your straight up minor league system, because many of them, because they want to be closer to home, because of a large Asian fan bases, want to be on the West Coast and want to be Los Angeles Dodgers.

I mean, could you have, you also are in Los Angeles. You have a huge, huge TV deal. that allows you all this financial flexibility. I mean, how many more built-in advantages can the Los Angeles Dodgers freaking have? Now, they have a good farm system. They run a good farm system. They made some good trades.

But at the end of the day, they could also just wallet-whip anyone. And they have all these great advantages. You should be winning the World Series every year. Rings, baby. Yeah, rings. Okay, whatever. That's ridiculous.

outspend everyone and have all your $300 to $400 million pitchers on the mound and you have a unicorn in your stable in Shohei Otani who is one of the greatest hitters and one of the five greatest hitters on the planet and probably one of the greatest I don't know

20 pitchers on the planet it's insane you should be winning you should be ashamed to yourself anytime you don't win the World Series go Blue Jays so I'm sorry we have to run those. They are, as I said, in their infinite wisdom,

our higher-ups from their ivory towers have paid money to have that podcast produced, and they want to get a return on their investment, so they're running pluromos across the country, including here in Houston, Texas. 713-2125790 is the phone number if you want to get in. 7-13-212-5-7-90. You can send tweets to At SportsRV.

You can follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. and we have I just don't get it coming up in about six minutes. But right now, let's go ahead and go to J.W. holding longest on the phone lines. What's up, J.W.? How you doing, bud? I'm doing great. What you got? I love to see what Toronto is doing.

I cannot stand the Dodgers. Oh, they're the worst. Never have. Their fans are the worst and they're an evil empire. They are, they've taken over the Yankees, quite frankly, in my mind. They are the evil empire. baseball. I agree. Anyway, I wasn't talking about the Dodgers, obviously, but go Toronto. What I'm calling about is, what's the chances were the Texans on Sunday? Well, they are favored in the game.

Are you much of a Vegas line guy, J.W.? I don't do that at all. Okay. But you understand, Well, that's probably smart on your part. I'm just going to say. But they are one and a half point favorites. Do you know that? That means they're just slight favorites. You've got to take one and a half off their point total at the end of the game. So Vegas sees them as very slight favorites.

For example, the biggest Packers are 13.5 point favorites are the Panthers. That's, I think, the biggest line on the board this weekend. No, I lied. Rams, 14 and a half over the Saints with Tyler Shuck getting his first start and on the road against that Rams' defense. Good luck. Tyler Shuck. Oh, my goodness. but yeah, one and a half point favorites are the Texans over the Broncos.

I'm just glad to see that C.J. is finally getting his act together along with the rest of the team. Yeah, it's been a lot of confidence in Vegas-wise in Texans the last couple of weeks. I mean, I was sitting here saying last week when they were favored against the 49ers, like, why? The Niners are good. I know Mack Jones hasn't been great, but he's been pretty solid for them, and they had been winning games. But if you look at the result of that game, you look at the yards,

gained. You look at first downs. Vegas had the right favor in that game. The Texans dominated, even though the final score was they won by 11. I mean, the margin of victory could have been much bigger than that if the Texans could get their act together in the red zone, but stop me if you've heard that before, but

they had doubled them up on yards gained. They looked much better. That defense, Mack Jones said after the game is the best in football. So I think that's kind of what we're hoping for this weekend, although it's going to be a little bit of a tougher test, because you've got these Broncos coming in with one of the best defensive lines in football and also one of the best

offensive lines. Run games been pretty good with J.K. Dobbins and R.J. Harvey as a one-two punch. Bo Nix has been very good and he can make some things happen with his legs as well, which gave the Texans fits if you look back to Baker Mayfield earlier in the year and how he was able to make plays, making some scrambles. So it'll be an interesting one. Basically

Vega saying it's a toss-up game and 39 and a half is a very low total. So their implied final is basically like 21 to 19. I hope it doesn't go to their head and hope they play the game.

Nah, yeah, they're not worried about that. D'Amico Ryan, thank you, J.W. Appreciate you. I appreciate you getting in and making the call. Yeah, Damico Ryan's isn't like, all right, guys. Vegas has this as one and a half point favorites this week.

So we got to take it on Easy Street. We're all good. Practice, we don't have to worry about it. Nah, it doesn't. At least a couple of years ago, it would be easier for me to say players aren't paying attention to the spreads at all, but they are. And it just gives you an idea. I don't think that's really preventing anyone from not putting in the work.

I think it was, was it Jerry Judy early on when the Browns were like 10 and a half point dogs to the Ravens? And he's like, at the end of the day, that's disrespectful. That's disrespectful. And then they lost by like 20. But yeah, it doesn't. It's not going to make them not work any harder, in my opinion. Certainly not going to make them not coach any harder. they know that this Broncos team is good.

You see Texans 3 and 4. You see Broncos 6 and 2. You got to take care of business in your house against this Broncos squad. I don't know if the Texans will. Offensive line has been playing a little bit better. What did we have them at? Was it 26th?

I think. Yeah, pro football focus. Now, of course, I always throw in the caveat because there's been a lot of argument about this. Pro football focus grades don't mean anything. I think for the most part, they are extremely unreliable. They can be extremely unreliable with, for example,

quarterbacks. They don't know what Reed 1 was. They don't know if a wide receiver ran the wrong route. Same thing with those guys. But to me, I feel like it's fairly reliable when it comes to offensive and defensive lines. Like you can see what kind of sets the offensive line. And also those guys have miscommunications

and they allow free runners and stuff like that. So there's always a gray area. It's not an end-all be-all with pro football focus. But they have the Colts with the, as the best offensive line in football. I mean, I think it's hard to argue with that. And they have the Broncos is the number two offensive line in football. And I mean, yeah, the I test tells you that those are two of the best offensive lines in the league.

And then they had the Texas at 26th. So they've been improving. They started the season at 32. They've been getting better and better. And another home game, the protections have held up a lot better at home. Because you can run into communication. Any offense, any offensive line can run into communication. issues on the road, especially one where you're kind of moving

of guys around. You've got a lot of new guys in the fold and early on in the season. There was a lot of missed blocks, especially on the road against the Rams and the Jaguars. And they have been better. They've been winning three of their last four. And the protection was pretty solid. Some good pockets against the 49ers. Not a coincidence that C.J. Stroud had his best game of the season. And you're hoping that can happen with this game this coming weekend against the

Broncos, but they have some better pass rushers than do the San Francisco 49ers. Every week, every game can be different and can go any number of different ways. We'll see what happens this weekend at NRG Stadium. It would be the biggest statement of the year. If the Texans can not only win, but that would be winning for their last five and that would square their record up at four piece, then we're really talking about them being in a wild card race. We've got a lot of ways to go for them to be in the division.

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Why does this always happen? XYZ. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. 713-212-5-790 if you would like to get in. All right. I'll go ahead and start, Jonathan. Okay, go ahead, let's go. Now, do you play much fantasy football?

No, no, no, no. Oh, you don't play. Have you before? No, I've never actually. You've never played. You don't understand how it works, though, right? Yes, no, I know how I work. Okay, so normally 10 yards rushing as one point, six points as a touchdown, stuff like that.

So I'm in a few fantasy football leagues, and just before the season was started, a friend of ours, friend of the station, asked me to join his friend's league because somebody had dropped up in the last moment and I'm like, all right, sure, whatever. And sometimes, again, I don't know how relatable this is for you, Jonathan, but it's relatable for some of the people out there. Sometimes you join a league the last second and you didn't kind of fully brush up on the rules

and you're like, what the heck is this? Like, for example, I've joined a league where you get points for return yards. Okay. And that's very out of the ordinary. You can change the rules? In this league, yeah, every league kind of has different rules. Now, for example, you get one full, well, you get one full,

point per receptions for a receiver, which I don't like. I like the half point. Old school back in the day, you did zero point. This is where point per ppr came in full. Would they say PPR when you're hearing Dr. Roto? Point per reception? Because in the old days, fantasy football was dominated by running backs because everybody would run the rock.

And so the receivers were at a disadvantage, so they added in a full point per reception. And that gave, that made wide receivers more viable and draftable and playable. Nowadays, it's a passing league. So full point per reception is ridiculous. You can have some slot receiver who gets seven catches for 37 yards. And that's 10 points. Like, that's ridiculous.

So I like half point. It's a nice, happy medium. So I go with a half point. But anyways, I'm in this league that I joined last minute. You get six points for a rushing touchdown or receiving touchdown, which is normal. You get an extra full six points. for a touchdown over 40 yards. Okay.

So last week in my matchup, I have Sequin Barclay, and he went off for a long touchdown. I was playing against Jonathan Taylor. He had a long touchdown. And some other, like me and this guy scored 200. Normally like a good fantasy football score is like 140.

I scored 240 points, and this guy scored like 200 points. I don't get these leads. with all these crazy ass like point systems yeah these feel like you're throwing in and now I'm happy that I won

and I'm five and three in this league I'm doing all right but I mean man I don't get why these people go with these crazy you get points per a first down I'm in some other league where you get points per completion

for quarterbacks I don't get all these fantasy football teams and leagues that people are running with all these rogue these rogue rules. Now I get it. A lot of them are like, yeah, well, we formed the league in 1996

and we guess kind of, I don't know, that's how we've always done it. Okay, it's 2025. It's time to update. We don't need six point touchdowns and points per completions and return yards. It's too confusing. Yeah, exactly.

I didn't go through a fine-tooth comb for all the rules. I mean, I read the rules, but I didn't see this six-point touchdown. Not that it would have changed the draft much of any. But do you people, and you fantasy commissions with your crazy, wacky rules, I don't get you. You know what? I don't get that either.

I mean, I don't know fantasy football like that, but, man, I don't. You play any fantasy sports, basketball? No, dude, I don't. Are you one of those guys that's like a former athlete? And you're like, I don't play fantasy sports. I play real sports. I play real sports. I was the type because, like, you go around these athletes, you know, I'll do a parlay every now and then.

Oh, okay. I'm not for to invest. You know, like, I'm not. that. Use code 987 with Draft Kings Pick 6 for $50 in play with just a $5 sign up, our $5 entry. Yeah, because

we've had a lot of former football players up here at Sports Talk 790. Well, Greg Cook would play. Actually, kudos to Greg Cook. Until he dropped that last minute and last second. I'm still mad at about that last year. But anyways, Indy Kluid would be like, no, man, I don't play. I'll play fantasy football. I'll play real football.

Like, all right, Indie, whatever. And Sean Salisbury didn't say that, but he wouldn't play the league either. And I think Sean Jones said the same thing to us as well. He's like, no, man, I'll play real football. I had 111 sacks or whatever he had. Like, Sean Jones had a lot of sacks, by the way. You look at the all-time sack list. He's up there. He's like, no, man, I play real football.

I'm not playing any else fantasy foosball. I'm not getting involved in that. Like, all right, sorry. Tough guy. I was trying to have a little fun. Build a community here. Try to get a little money, yeah. Four stock 790. I'm trying to take your money. I'm doing horrible this year. I'm two and six. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right, Jonathan, what don't you get?

And you want to get in something you don't get 713, 212, 5, 790 is the phone number 713, 212, 5, 790. You know, earlier this week, Damiko had a presser for just about the game with 49ers and everything and how he was saying about the outside noise and everything. And just saying that he doesn't care about the negative or the positive, like we're still going to do our thing. What I didn't understand, and I still don't get why the reporters, took it as a personal attack when he came back to Houston and had a press it. I don't. And if y'all didn't hear the clip, I should have had it ready. But they basically are saying, like, we've gave you all this positive reputation these last two years.

This is the only negative criticism you've ever gotten. Why are you saying we don't talk good about you? But he didn't say that at all. He was just saying that his team is good. No matter what, who says what, we're going to do our thing and we're going to keep progressing and going to practice and doing our daily routine. these reporters jump on him ruin the entire contractor honestly

and ruin his entire mood and I just don't understand as a professional a media professional journalist you're not supposed to go and attack almost really attack your client

like you know the person you're trying and I just don't that was very unprofessional with me like it was just like and Jimiko's like you good yeah and the you good

it was like that's warning one and then he said it again like and just shut him up and I don't see I don't see them come back either. I definitely get because, well, this is the thing. First of all, D'Amico Ryans is clearly sensitive. Right.

It's like you got to take the good with the bad. And honestly, you hear more about the good, or excuse me, bad. And the bad, you can hear 10. And this goes for anybody. For myself in media as well, like, you know, 10 people will tweet me. That was the greatest thing I ever heard, Rosser. That was great. The show's funny.

Or that's hilarious. Or they make a joke. And then one guy's like, you're an idiot for staying in this. and that's by human nature that's sometimes what I end up harpo. I'm getting better and better in this, especially in the last couple of weeks, as my media career goes along

at having thicker skin, which I have gotten way better at, and it doesn't affect me nearly as much as it did early in my career to where, yeah, you can hear 10 positive things, that one negative thing is going to be the thing that tears you down. That's anybody in the world. But they weren't even... 10 girls tell you you're handsome.

You're like, that's cool, that's great. And one's like, nah, you're not that. Not for me. And you're like, what? You freak out. But it's like, but Damiko wasn't saying, he was saying just the media in general, but I don't know. He nowhere was he saying the local media or these two guys are, you know, talking down on me. Like they think that they can play football.

They know football more than me. He wasn't saying any of that. He was just saying that his team is good. Don't worry about, and I don't understand why I take him the person. No, no. He was like, yeah, we know, negative noise. There's a lot of negative noise. Like he was twisting the knife.

when they won that game, if you listened to like the postgame comments, Damiko Ryans definitely had heard the noise, and quite frankly, the noise was warranted. You started the season, 0 and 3, with 3-1 score losses. Anything, excuse me, anything that's going to be frustrating in a season to watch. If you get blown out now, people get mad about that, but it's also extremely frustrating to where these little things, quite frankly, Coach Demico Ryans wasn't doing the little things

and they're kicking balls out of bounds They're using timeouts at the wrong time And they're wasting clock at the end of halves And all these little things that they're doing wrong That can cost you in one score games The criticism was fair The criticism was warranted And then Domingo Rines of course

I don't know if I don't know Domingo Rhyans I don't know if he's got rabbit ears I don't know if he's reading all the tea leaves And all this stuff or he's hearing from his buddies Or whoever or whatever Clearly the noise was getting to him And now they won three out of four And it was his time to push back on

it. You can't push back on it when you lost three in a row. So he was pushing back and then the media members pushed back. I get it. Now, it probably didn't feel like the time or place, but what he was saying, all the person was doing was refuting what D'Amico Ryan was saying.

Like, hey, we get negative. I kind of get both sides. And you're explaining that, I kind of get it, like both sides, I just don't see, and like you say, maybe it was not my place for it. We can break down the audio and then kind of go from there. Because it was interesting. It's just more like Why, why at that moment do you feel like you need to check him on the oppressor?

And because it was two people that were like, what do you mean? We say it this, this, and this. Like, okay, now you immediately look guilty. That's what he goes and says. It's like, oh, we find the negative people here already. And it was almost like, as you said, Damiko was trying to, like, twist a knife and find out who was doing that. Or like, he knew already. It's an interesting dynamic.

Yeah, we can play that video and, I mean, play that audio and then go from there and kind of break it down. But we do have to get to a break. anything you don't get. 713, 212, 5, 790, the phone number. A couple of y'all are sending me

your crazy-ass fantasy football scoring. Dude, I'll read this in the next segment. 1361 to 1511? What the heck is this? All right, we're going to take a break. You know what? I'll take your screenshots

of your weird fantasy scoring at Sports RV if you want to if you want to send those my way. We'll get to that. And you guys talking about your fantasy. football leagues as well. We also have some more. I just don't get it if you'd like. 713, 212.5.790.

News at noon coming up at noon here on Sports Talk 790, The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. All right, a couple of you are sending me your random fantasy football leagues, which I love. I get the news at noon coming up here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He is out track. I don't know where he is. Is he in Houston yet? I don't know. He's out, though. Until 2 o'clock. That's when Adam and Adam will take over on

the A team here on Sports Talk 790. And Adam Wexler will be joining at 1 o'clock here on the program. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you'd like to get in. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Anyways, welcome back to the show. Yeah, a couple of fantasy football things you guys sent to me at SportsRV. You can tweet me there if you would like. You can also follow me on Instagram at SportsRV.

I will follow you back for the next until 1230. If you follow me on SportsRV at Instagram, I would truly appreciate it. Trying to get my followership up there. All right. Anyways, sorry, I'm having some audio issues in my ear, but I think everything's okay. So here we go. Fantasy Football League from Tom. This is a free Bizarro League, three starting quarterbacks, and two Superflex quarterbacks.

Does that mean you get five quarterbacks? That sounds like. So every, I mean, there's only 32. starting quarterbacks every week. How many people are in this league? So he shows me the matchup from last week

1361. As I told you, Jonathan, a normal scoring is like 120 to 110 or something like that. Right. Depending on the league. Maybe if it's a full PPR, 140, something like that. This is 1,11 points. Somebody scored against...

1500? Yes. 1361. They got to have some kind of other wonky scoring. Okay, it's a six-person league. Tom got back to me and responded. So, yeah, six people, you start five, that's 30. And I guess you got to keep everybody's backup on your squad? I don't know what the heck is going on there. And then there was another one from Sam Ross.

What are your thoughts on the max number of ads or a fantasy football season? There's controversy in my league over a guy who's upset the max ads won't be increased because he's reached the max already. It's 30, by the way. You know what? This sounds like a segment we should do. We should do final fantasy football judge or fantasy football court. Okay.

Where Matt, no, whenever Matt comes back, Matt and I can be the judges or the jury. We could have a three-person panel, actually. We have a three-person judge. Well, you don't really do fantasy football. I don't know too much. Hmm. Hmm. where people

could bring us their fantasy football like they want to veto a trade or they have some sort of issue with the fantasy football some guys skirting the rules and then we could be the I like this.

I never write this down. Let me talk about this with Matt Thomas. Fantasy football, what would we call it? Fantasy football court? FF court? No, that sounds weird. Fantasy court?

Okay, I like that. But then that sounds like, and then of course, yeah. and Matt would start talking about Valerie Burtonelli or something weird like that. Start bringing up a bunch of women that were in sitcoms in the 70s. But we'll do, make sure you throw

fantasy football in there. Or if you can come up with a snazier name, tweet me at Sports RV. We should do fantasy football court where we could play, here we go, hold on, let me try to find this. Jonathan, you talk for five seconds.

Fantasy court. What do we think, guys? It's maybe something flashy, though. Like, you know, what can we do? Maybe. I wish I can hear y'all. I know y'all are talking to your radios right now. Fantasy.

I feel like we can't say fantasy in the first start. We have to like switch up the name. It can't be just fantasy court. It's got to be something like bizarre court. I know you heard that. What's something that's a cinnamon for bizarre or like different or weird? I can't find this. We have the Law & Order theme somewhere.

The Law & Order theme? Yeah. I think I can find that. Okay. Yeah, you find that. And then, yeah, we, so give fun. the low-in-order music. Ooh, Commissioner's Court, Ryan, with a good tweet.

Ooh, I like that. I like that. Although we're not the commissioners of the league. Commissioner's Court, that works. We'll go ahead and we'll brainstorm these. Oh, this guy says he has Stroud, Pinnock's Allen, Mayor Darton Hertz. Dang, that sounds like a squad in this quarterback league. Okay, anyways, question from Sam.

So the guy is upset that the max ads won't be increased. Yes, thank you. This is why we pay you the big bucks, Jonathan. Yeah, the movie side. Fantasy football court is in session here on Sports Talk 790. Question in from Sam. Maximum number of ads for a fantasy football season controversy in the league over a guy who's upset that the max ads will not be increased because he's reached the max already. It is 30.

Now, 30 is a lot of moves. I'm going to go to the league I'm in right now with everybody here in fantasy football. I have the most moves. See, I'm 2 and 6, folks, but I'm trying. I didn't realize. Normally, on a given year, quite frankly, I have the most moves. I'm always changing defenses and tight-ins and kickers. I'm trying to maximize my odds every week, Jonathan.

I'm putting you on here about how to win, even though I'm 2 and 6. You're 5 or 3. I'm 5.3 in my other league, and I'm also leading in points. But I am back-to-back-to-back-work league champion. It's just not going my way. I had a horrible draft, and I've suffered injuries. other than that has been great. So I have the most moves in the league right now with 25.

Second most league moves is Trey with 20. So Sam says the max is 30. Quite frankly, for a full season, that's about two moves a week. That's not crazy. Two moves a week's free. That sounds reasonable. That sounds reasonable.

And then I asked him a very important question. Did the guy know the rules beforehand? and Sam says yes but I also wanted to know what would be your recommendation for max ads in the season in your ideal league. So I am the commissioner of two different leagues and I have no max ads.

But I understand. Some people do like this, Jonathan, they'll do a dollar a move. So you make as many moves as you want but it's going to cost you a dollar. Also some people do auction leagues, for example. This week the hot pickup on waivers was Tyrone Tracy, the running back for the Giants because Cam Skadigoo is out.

Gettyville got hurt. So Tyrone Tracy becomes a free first team running back. So what other people do is they have a $100 budget for the season and you bid on it. So you can bid big early or you can kind of wait for middle of the season and then you can bid on guys. And it's like a silent auction. Whoever bids the most Wednesday morning, they win it. I like that system. I've talked about to.

Now, I'm also commissioner that listens to my people. We haven't wanted to move to an auction league. so we haven't done that. Which I would be in down for moving to an auction league. I think they're very fun rather than a straight-up draft where you auction off players. But so I do, the league I'm commissioner of both of them, it's just unlimited. You do whatever you want. You put in as many moves as you want.

It's not a big deal. So I prefer unlimited. If you want to limit it to 30, I get it. As long as everyone's clear on the rules pre-season. Like I see it being limited. a lot of people in the league. Yeah, I mean, you know, that's another question.

Yeah, how many team league is this, Sam, if you're listening? I'd say unlimited. If you want to limit it to 30, that's, I guess, okay. That feels a little low to me because I'm somebody that has 25 already. Let me go to this other league. This other league, though, I had a pretty good draft. I haven't been making any as many moves. I've had a million inches.

See, that's the thing, too. I had a bad draft and a million injuries. That's why I've already had, like, 25 moves. This other league, I've got 14 moves. There's a guy with 32 moves. If you end up with a bunch of injuries, now that I think about it, if you have a bad draft and a bunch of injuries,

30 is not enough. So what would you say? How about you do you do up to 25 or something? And then everyone you want after, that's a dollar. What do you think? Well, if you already reached that limit. Depending on how much your league is. What if you're in like a $10 league?

What if you're in a $20 league with the boys and all of a sudden become a $100 league? They could be in like what? I know you can go to like $1,000 leagues. They do $5. Yeah, well, they do. Yeah, they're hundreds and hundreds of dollars. So, I mean, they're like thousands and thousands of dollars.

Dr. Roto told us he's in like $5,000 leagues and stuff with his buddies. Like he's taking it way too seriously. Not way too. Well, I mean, that's also part of this. I mean, he's very good. He ends up in a lot of championships and wins them because he's Dr. Roto. So, hmm, I say 30 is a little too low, especially if you're somebody who you can run into a ton of injuries. Like, dude, in this one league, I got six players are questionable right now.

I mean, you got to make moves. Six? 30 is too low I would say make it like 30 and then it's a dollar afterwards But as far as this guy If he knew the rules beforehand

If he knew that It is a 30 league is the limit And he's bitching about it Sorry buddy Tough you know what The rules are the rules He's don't want to pay up Yeah exactly

He doesn't want to be locked in In week nine You should have said something beforehand And maybe he did I don't know the details from Sam but the rules are the rules, pal. This guy doesn't get any sort of leeway unless the commissioner wants to go ahead and, okay, 18 league. Yeah, 30 moves is a lot for an 18 league.

You don't normally, you normally got pretty deep benches and pretty good players. No, I'd say 30 is still too few. Too few moves. But if those are the rules are the rules. So this guy has no recourse in my opinion. The judge has dismissed his case. He's got no case. He cannot.

I need to gavel. We have one of those. Try play it because I have this song on. I know. We got to tell Matt about this. I actually like to say, Miss. Yeah. Oh, here we go.

Here, plus play on that. There we go. Okay, okay. Case dismissed. Case dismissed. Those are the rules you knew you got into it. You can petition the commissioner after the season, but no, sir. No, sir.

You don't get to make any more moves. Tough, you know what. All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas show, You guys want to get in. You can 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. News at noon coming up next. We also got some more comments on this fantasy football court.

We'll get to those as well. Adam Wexler joining at 1 o'clock. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas with you until 2. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Inside the Shangoon. 39-211, Houston over Toronto. Oh, Drake in attendance. Whoa.

Ow! That was loud. Drake in attendance for the Rockets victory over the Toronto Raptors. So I had to start with a little Drake. Trophies. The Rockets are looking for, 139 to 120 victory. Over the Raptors, their second win in a row. We can talk about that.

We do have to get to the news and noon. But people are calling in with some more. They want some commissioners court. Shout out to Ron. I think that's what we're going to go with, right? That sounds the best. It sounds clean, right? Fantasy football court is a little wordy.

It's got the alliteration. Commissioner's Court. I like this. Commissioner's Court, folks, is in session. Here on Sports Talk 7-I-Dy. Yes. This is great. Okay, so we have some people.

Do they need rulings in Commissioner's Court, Jonathan? Or do they have name for the segment? I think Joe had an idea. Okay. Andy had something about, like, fantasy. Okay. So we were doing this in the last segment, you're not aware.

We had a fantasy football question from somebody. Sam said that there's somebody in his league. He got over 30 transactions, he's got 30 transactions, already hit his limit. And he wants more. And I say if you knew the rules beforehand, that's tough bleep. I'm sorry. I told you, work league. I'm already at 25.

I'm going to go well over 30. It's not going to be close. I still have to get a quarterback, so that's going to be 26. If you get hit by injuries and you like to stream either a quarterback, which Sometimes I do, depending on the year or whatever. Streaming defenses, tight-ins, quarterbacks, you go over 30 easily. But if that's the limit, that's the limit, folks. So I'm sorry, Sam.

We had to rule against the man in his league. And now, Gio wants to, Gio, you got just a name for the court, or did you have a question for the judge? So I got a question, man. So I co-manage a league with one of my family members, and this is a 16-team league. 16, who. Okay. 16, man. And so last year we did the priority waiver, you know, the traditional waiver, pick up things like that. But for whatever reason... Like the person who's in last place gets first priority?

Precisely. But then there would be times where the person who's in last place wouldn't get priority pickup. It'll be the guy who's on like a five-game win streak. So we didn't know what was going on. So for that reason, we went, we cut waiver wires. And now 2 a.m. every Tuesday, it's a free-for-all. You got to want it. You got to want it, Gio. Yeah, we have some people complaining about it, and we have some people who love it. So I just wanted to get your ruling on that. Oh, was it put to a vote?

Or did the commissioner... It was put to a vote, and a majority ruled, and we kept it that way. Okay, another quick question. It was put to a vote, majority ruled, and that was before the season started, right? So people could have backed out? Yes. Yes, because last... season. We had problems with the priority waiver.

So before the season even started, we put it to a vote. All right. You know what? Yeah. I mean, that stands. The ruling stands. If you put it to a vote, majority rules, and then you knew the rules before you entered the league, you'd call on Wednesday and tell them to shut their bum ass up, Gio.

Right on. Thank you, sir. All right, I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, yeah, shut your bum ass up. If you knew the rules, that's going to be a theme, I think, in this segment, Commissioner's Court. If you knew the rules before, like for example, I didn't know, and I'm not, I was talking about this is how this all came up. We did, I just don't get it.

And I'm in a league where you get six extra points for a 40-yard touchdown. And the points are going up like freaking ping pong balls. But, hey, I read the rules. It's on me. It's on me. I can complain and say, what's up with this weird scoring? And then you get like half a point for a first down rushing and first down receiving. It's weird.

But, hey, it's on me to read the rules. to comb through the rules when I agree to join the league. So I'm not blame anybody else on that one. And same thing there in GEO's league. 2 a.m. free-for-all. So do you know what waivers means, Jonathan? I'm getting the gist of it. So you pick up players.

For example, Camp Skadigaboo goes this week. The hot pickup is Tyrone Tracy. Right, right. Normally leagues run waivers like at 3 a.m. on Wednesdays, and you put a claim in. Now, it's like, for example, when a player is let go off of an NFL team or a major league baseball team, you get to claim them on waivers

and it goes in reverse order of the standings. Last place team gets first priority and it resets every week. Okay, okay. So what they're doing, which some people do, and I've heard of this before, I just don't do that because I don't want to be up at 3M. Like, you got to want it.

Like, okay, you want Tyrone Tracy? If your team's hurting, you want a guy that's probably going to get, you know, 15 to 25 touches this weekend and be an RB1. And if you get an RB1 plopped in the middle of your lap in the middle of the season, that's a great asset. for you. So if you really want

them, get up at 2 a.m. or stay until 2 a.m. and you make the moves. That's kind of crazy from Gio, but I've heard of that before. So I'm on Geo's side. If it was put to a vote and majority ruled on that, now next year they might want to vote on that again and say, that was stupid.

I don't want to do that. Someone going to lose sleep with something. Yeah, exactly. Somebody's like falling asleep at work and getting in trouble with their boss. Hey, man. Hey, what's going on? Sorry. I was picking up the Broncos defense. At 2 a.m., man, I'm tired. It's got to move. It was hurt. I had to do it.

Yeah. So that's a little extreme for me, but I have heard of that before. But rule of the rules. I'm sorry. We have to rule in favor of the majority on that. All right, Andy, go ahead. Hey, hey, guys. How's it going? What's up? Hey, Alex. I haven't played fantasy football in a lot of years. But as far as the moves go for a week, what if you... did like 10 to 12 moves every four weeks and either you lose them or use them.

Oh, okay. Well, they can pile up. That's interesting. I don't know. I don't know if you're going to find a website that does that. Go ahead. But you only get to use those picks for that four weeks. Okay.

And then at the end of the then weeks five through eight. I got you. So you can't accumulate. No, you can't accumulate. You know, if you have an injury or something. something comes up in those four weeks, you got some moves you can make and start back over in the next four weeks. Just a thought.

Yeah. All right. Thanks, Andy. I appreciate it. No, look, and I'm probably being biased here, Jonathan, because I told you I already got 25 moves. Yeah, I was saying. You didn't say 30 was too long.

Hey, when my team is underwater, I'm wheeling and dealing. I'm picking up, like, I picked up Woody Marks before he busted out. up, like I got, look, this is how bad my team is. I'm starting Woody Marks and Bam Knight this week. Okay? Like, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got, I got Jalen Noel on my bench, okay? I'm down bad.

I make a lot of moves. I kind of take the shotgun approach. All right, I take a shot at everything, and then hopefully one or two of them works out. That's my, that's my approach when I'm either A, beset by injuries or B had a bad draft and got to figure something out. I make a ton of moves, and I'm all, almost always streaming defenses. right now I've had Brock Purdy hurt So I've had to start

These are quarterbacks I've had to start in the last few weeks I've had to start Joe Flacco I had to start Trevor Lawrence early on in the season So I mean, yeah Times is tough folks Okay I had started Sam Darnold a couple of weeks ago I've started like five different quarterbacks

Because Brock Purdy's been hurt all year And I want to play the best quarterback On a week-to-week matchup Tight-in you got to play I mean you get hit with buys You get hit with injuries I don't think 30's enough at all But

to each his own. And again, I'm biased because I like to make a lot of moves. That's just how I roll. Now, how do you end the segment? What's your thing you go to? Oh, like, Commissioner's Court. No, that's fine. Commissioner's Court, all rise.

Commissioner's Court is no longer in session. All right. Thanks to all of you for some of the positive feedback on the Commissioner's Courts. It's kind of, you can't just schedule that like Wednesdays at 11 because if you don't get a bunch of good questions and you kind of can't have the segment. So I don't know. We'll have to like put out feelers. Right. And how intermittently we can do the fantasy football commissioner's court.

Send all questions to at SportsRV or Ross at Sports790.com if you want to send an email. All right. So I appreciate you all for participating in that. That was fun. We'll have to go to the big boss, Matt Thomas, see if we can do that commissioner's court at some point. I thought that was pretty fun, good stuff there. But one thing that we had to put off because we had a couple of y'all calling in for that was the new at noon, so now we have to get you the news at news

niche. Here on Sports Talk 790 in the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Hey Jonathan. What's going on, Ross? How are you feeling? How's everything? How's your day to day? It's kind of chilly.

I've been waiting for it to get cooled down a little bit. I'm tired of a... How's your lady? Y'all going out for Halloween? No, we might go to B.C. The Wings, though, because we went for the first time the other week and she loved it. I absolutely loved the vibe, the atmosphere.

So we might do that. Watch the World Series. This guy's learning. Let's get those plugs in. I got you. Learn from the best. It's a genuine plug in. I like that.

I like that. All right, Jonathan, what do you got on the news at noon? All right. If you guys are just getting into your cars and, you know, haven't been listening or didn't catch up on the sports last night, Rocket smashed the Raptors 139 to 121 over there in Toronto. The versatile, big lineup looking very promising and more and more sharp as the days go on. a man having seven

turnovers but we knew that was going to happen with Vambly being out so that's not really a surprise for most of us. Katie, still being Katie, 31 points. Jabari, 25. Shangoon, 18 from, you know, it seems a little bit. He got a 75% from field goal. Doing all right.

He's doing amazing, actually. Tari Easton, again, is still showing out after those first two games and, you know, him looking like he was kind of down on the dumps a little bit, but not getting that extension. 54% out from the field to three-pointers, two and two.

And overall, I really don't got much to say about this game. You can chalk it up to the Raptors, like how Ross said earlier, if you weren't listening in. They do have the worst defense right now, one of the worst defense in the league, so it could be one of those things that we just pass on, but all right, we got to wait until we go back to another team like the pistons or

the thunder. But overall, a very good win, very promising win. Yes. I mean, I just look relative to expectation, Vegas odds. Matthew and I always argue about this. He says it means very little. I think it gives you a good idea of what to expect for the week or for the game, depending on what sport you're talking about. Six and a half point favorites.

You won by 19. Offense looked great. Did you know the highest rated offense? Now, this is points per 100 possessions. It correct for pace. You know, some teams play higher pace and others. Right. The number one offense in basketball is your Houston Rockets, Jonathan Allen.

See, we had nothing more about. And who was that dude on Twitter that Matt keeps ridden, that reporter that said Rockets are going to be, I can't think of his name. That's what the A's, his last name. What did he say that the Rockets are going to? Rockets will get like the fifth seat or something, and Spurs would be ahead. Oh, John Hollinger. John Hollinger.

So right now. Has Matt been beefing with him on Twitter? No, he keeps bringing him up. Oh, okay. He keeps downgrading the Rockets. offense because we don't have Van Bleet. And I just, I don't know, man. We look good. And oh my God, look at this video. Oh, hold on. Sorry. Somebody just sent an AI picture of me, Matt, and you. And commissioner's court. Are you serious? Matt does not look like Matt. I would say,

I mean, I would say of us, that doesn't look like you either, really. But that's, he must have used a picture that I posted of you at Champberger. Yeah. It looks like kind of like you, but not really. That's good though. That means it like the same thing. Mine looks kind of like me, but not really. The one for Matt is way off. What? It's his biggest something or what?

All right, I'm going to retweet this at Sports RV if y'all want to see this tweet that Sam just sent with this AI video or AI picture of me, Matt and Jonathan. I got to look at that. Check it out at Sports RV. Oh my gosh. All right. Sorry to interrupt you. I was just. All did. All did.

All right. Hey, moving on to the World Series, Blue Jays dominate Blake Snell, finishing the game 6-1 to put the series 3-2 and going back in Toronto, hopefully closing at the series. And I forgot our call his name, hopefully getting that podcast spot off the air. Oh, my God. Terrible. Jose, I believe it was. And I don't know how to say the, forgive me, the pitcher rookie, your Savage, is how you say? Yeah, your Savage works. Your Savage ends up breaking the rookie record for 12Ks in the World Series.

Wow. Dude, Donnie, he was awesome. He looked like he's been there a longtime veteran. If you guys haven't watched the game, it was beautiful. Otani, I think he went 0 in what six. I don't think he got a single hit there in the last game. Yeah, there was, I think Otani Freeman and Betts all went Ofer in the game.

And Betts has been looking very shaky. And it doesn't seem like the Dodgers are really ready for what the Blue Jazz came in. They probably thought they had a cruise to another ring. Yeah. And it seemed like. They combined O for 11 with no walks. 0 for 11 no walks That's embarrassing

You should be embarrassed Dodgers With your high payroll And your built-in advantages Of course it's baseball If any sport where they're I'm not going to say the Blue Jays are getting lucky The Blue Jays are a very good team

But any sport you can lose Anything can happen I would say baseball is the biggest one of that Especially when you get to the high level The margins are so thin But anyways guys go blue jays and have you heard for over there

I know bring up the LSU controversy again oh yes did you hear of Coach O said he would come back yes did you hear about that

I did hear about that saying that he even would be quoted that he even would be assistant if Lang Griffin Griffin Cliffon he would be the defensive coach

he would be assistant yeah he says he would be assistant coach here on Yahoo if he was there but if you haven't heard guys from over there in Louisiana the governor doesn't want

Scott Woodward to even pick a coach. I wanted to play that. Oh yeah, please play that audio again. We are not going down a failed path. And I wanted to tell you something. This is a pattern. The guy that's here now that wrote that contract cost Texas A&M

$70-something million. Right now we got a $53 million liability. We are not doing that again. And you know what? I believe, I believe that we're going to find a coach. Maybe we'll let President Trump pick it. He loves winners. You know, I'm not going to be picking the next coach. But I can promise you, we're going to pick a coach, and we're going to make sure that that coach is successful. And we're going to make sure that he's compensated properly. And we're going to put metrics on it. Because I'm tired of rewarding failure in this country. And then leaving the taxpayers on the foot, you know, to foot the bill.

So yeah, absolutely. college sports NIL has gotten serious the governor's stepping in and talking bad about the AD I mean this is insane and making administrative decisions and also I have

we have a comment from Coach O this is what he had to say about possibly being into the fold at LSU Thank you coach O appreciate you No you thought it was man

Oh, yeah. And then Coach O, what about just being not the head coach, but possibly being the defensive coordinator? All right. Thank you. Appreciate Coach O and his comments here on the news at noon. Anything else, Jonathan? That's all I got for your day. That's the news at noon, man. Thank you. I appreciate it. All right. We're going to take quick break here on Sports Talk 790. Rosby Ariel with you, Jonathan Allen, as well. Matt Thomas is not. You guys can get in. Phone lines open. Dave. I see you on hold. We'll get you next, I promise. I'm going to be flying solo until 1 o'clock, so you guys want to get in, you can do so. You can also get in

until 2 o'clock, but Adam Wex are going to join coming up at 1. You guys want to get in 713-2-790. The phone number, 7-1-3 212-5-790. All right, do you get a look at that picture, Jonathan? This is actually Do you agree with my assessment?

Yeah, I think Matt looks like you, but not really. I don't know you like me, but not really. I'm glad they got my high hairline in my old age right, at least on this picture. Jackasses. I got a crispy hairline, so I can play. Yeah, all right, shut up. So did I.

I was in my 20s, all right? You'll get there, Jonathan. You'll start to get there eventually. And then, of course, Matt is completely bald, but that's okay. I mean, I look, I mean, it just is what it is. I don't know if you notice, Jonathan. I don't make bald jokes. It's too low-hanging fruit. I don't do that. Others can do that,

but it's like, I got other. I got dozens of other things I can make fun of mad about. I don't have to go with something that he can't control in his as far as. Oh, man, look. I just noticed the hands are all messed up. Yeah, you could tell that's an AI picture. Look at my thumbs. My thumbs are merged.

You see this picture. I retweeted it at Sports RV on my Twitter at SportsRV because we were doing a fantasy football commissioner's court earlier. And you know what? If you need a ruling in your fantasy football league, you can do that. We can get you to commissioners court at 713-21, 575, 790. but I retweeted on my Twitter at SportsRV if you want to

want to look at it. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number. Huh. Stephen says he's got it and I just don't get it, but it's a multiple tweet thing. All right, go ahead and send it, Stephen. Maybe we can read that.

And then also God's Green saying Landry is lying about the taxpayers' footing. PK's buyout is weird. Yeah, Woodward also did not, yeah, we do have to correct. the governor of Louisiana. Woodward hired Fisher, but he did not give him that extension, which was where the big buyout came in.

So slant a job. Yeah, he's a libelous accusations in Louisiana, I don't know. So, I don't know. And also, I think he was wrong about some other contract that happened there. I can't remember if it was the Brian Kelly dealer, whatever else. but clearly he had his, he didn't have his fax straight.

And I had never heard of this in my life. The governor stepping in and saying the athletic director is not going to make the hire for a state program. That's insane. The heck's going on over there. What's in the water over there in Louisiana, folks? Let us know. All right. As I mentioned, phone lines are open.

Dave and Spring has been holding patiently. I wanted to get in and talk some Rockets Ball. So let's go ahead and do that with you. Dave, go ahead. The floor is yours. Hey, Ross. Before I get to the Rockets, let me make a comment on that Louisiana governor. One of the things interesting me, he talks about how, well, we're going to negotiate that buyout.

And I'm like, what's to negotiate me? I mean, the guy has a contract. You're firing them. It's just like Jimbo and just like with James Harrison. I mean, you owe him the money. He's not going to sit down and negotiate a lower number. Well, I think they are trying. Gordy says, now, of course, Chris Gord is the expert of all things, Louisiana, Dave.

I think he said they can negotiate a lump sum for him where he has offsetting language. So if Brian Kelly gets hired and it's offset, normally it's offsetting language where if he gets coaches somewhere else that the money comes off the books. But apparently it's offsetting to where even if Brian Kelly, let's say ESPN's going to pay him $2 million a year, that comes off the books for LSU as well. So they're trying to negotiate, I think, a lump sum that is a lower number and figuring it out with what's going on with. with Brian Kelly's offsetting language, but there's a lot of coach openings right now. And I don't know that Brian Kelly's going to be at the top as far as UF or anywhere else,

but it's certainly possible that he would take a lump sum instead of, in lieu of the long-term payments. I think that's what they're talking about there. All right, well, it is crazy that the governor's involved in it, but let me go on to the Rockets. You know, I heard you talking earlier and we're kind of how we feel about the team, you know, the two and two with the two losses.

I don't feel bad at all. I mean, I think they could be four and oh very easily. And I think the big takeaway so far is how much they miss Fred, you know. I just think that, you know, what Fred brought to the team, getting them into their offense, they haven't figured it out yet. And they, I don't know, let me ask you this question. If you've got this team that's got all the pieces except a point guard, and you got Reed and he's not really doing it so far, and Amman's a great player, but he's not really a natural,

point card. What about Tari Yason being dealt? Because Tari didn't sign his deal, I heard. They offered him a contract. He turned it down. He's betting on himself. You know, what if you've packaged Tari, and maybe even read, I don't know, you don't want to give up on him just yet,

but go around and look for a good point guard who might be available. And I don't know who that would be, but maybe like DeJante Murray on the Hawks or Jalen Suggs on the Magic or a Drew Holiday and older guy, But, you know, I don't know they're not to be able to sign Tari anyway, so you might as well

think about putting them into a deal for a real point card. I mean, we don't have much time. Kevin Durant's 37 years old. It's all like we can sit around and wait until Fred recovers, hopefully. And so, you know, I just wanted to get your thoughts on that, whether a deal should or could be made that involves Tari to get a point guard on board and all those hang up. Yeah, thanks a lot, Dave. Appreciate it.

Yeah, it's interesting. And there's a lot of stuff at play here. first of all, the rockets are basically up against a hard-capped number. They can't make any moves for a couple of months. So for these couple of months, they're going to have to dance with who they brought. And unfortunately, who you brought is Fred Van Vleet, and he's out with that ACL injury. And as you mentioned, I'm in Thompson. Okay.

Two games to go against the nets, he had eight assists, no turnovers. This last game, seven assists, four turnovers. And he can just be prone to kind of losing the handle on the dribble every now. and then Reed Shepherd assist. I think it was an 8 to 2 ratio against the Nets and then it was a 1 to 0 ratio and 18 minutes against the Toronto Raptors on the road. You're seeing some flashes like, okay, yeah, playmaking here,

playmaking there, but you got to bring those guys along and then hope they improve as the season goes along and getting more comfortable in those areas. Because that's what it's going to take. This is kind of who is going to be as far as trading. Yeah, Tar Easton is going to be a restricted free agent. in this offseason as he bet on himself somebody else is going to have to give him an offer sheet and then the rockets are going to have the ability to match that whatever the number is or they can pass on it and say all right you want to sign them to this kind of deal you got them so we'll see what happens with that and over the over the years of course i mean we can think of the guys like chanler parsons and some others who have been restricted free agents

and the rockets have sometimes decided to match sometimes decided not to match depending on the situation and depending on what kind of deal they are depending on how well Tari-Eason plays this season. First two games, not very good. Next two games, very good for Tari-Eason. So it's going to be a little while, I believe, before they can kind of get everybody involved in trades depending on how they want money to be lined up because if you want to package up guys that you've just signed,

like a Josh Okoge or Dorian Finney Smith or whoever else, I think they can't do that for a couple of months. And so this is going to be who they got. now for sure. I think words we used the first couple of games were stagnant and, you know, disjointed, that type of stuff. Sloppy is a word we've used as well for the Rockets offense. But as I mentioned in the news at noon with Jonathan, the number one offensive rated team now after these last two games where you drop 139 and 137 against the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors. The number one offense in basketball, very small sample.

size is your Houston Rockets. And of course, you just went two games against a horrible defense. But you went up against Oklahoma City Thunder. Now it took a couple overtimes, which you scored 120 in that game. That's nothing to sneeze at. 111 against the pistons, where you missed.

They got 111. They shot 39% from the floor. They could have got some of those bunnies and some of those easy baskets. Then they could have scored 120 easy in that game. So overall, it's not the prettiest but they're figuring it out

they're running some two-man game stuff with Alperin Shingoon and Kevin Durant they're building chemistry that to me has been very good where you've had a lot of situations where they're trapping that opposing defense are trapping that and you've got Alperin Shingoon

who can A roll to the basket and finish with either hand and make a couple of moves and score easily in the paint or B he's a very good passer has a very good feel for the game and can make plays four on three. So right now the offense has looked good,

even though overall for the balance of the season, even though the first couple of games it looked a little clunky, is another word that people have used. So they're going to get a little more comfortable. It's not going to be like free-flowing, you know, 2014 spurs. Everybody's moving the ball around because everybody's a great passer type of stuff. There's going to be some ISO with Kevin Durant, some ISO with Alper and Shingoon and guys crashing down on doubles.

It's going to be a Min Thompson. working his way and, you know, a round of the basket where guys aren't necessarily respecting his three-point shot, which he still has not made one all season long. There's going to be some opportunities for growth, and there is. But 139 in the last game, 137 in the game before that, and the number one offense in basketball, in terms of offensive rating, not horrible. So it'll be interesting to see how things unfold because this happens in every game. season of every NBA team.

Rotations and offenses and defenses and everything evolve quickly. What happens in the first handful of games is not going to be what you're going to see in game 70 to 82. Guys are going to get better. Guys are going to get hurt or moved or signed or whatever. The complexion of this team is going to change as the season goes along. But right now, I'm feeling pretty good. Yeah, Min Thompson could be a little bit better, ball handling and starting.

starting actions, but you can use Shingoon for that. You can use Kevin Durant for that. Jabari Smith Jr. is a guy who can stretch the floor, knock down threes. As he did last night, he made four of nine. Kevin Durant somehow keeps getting left wide open a couple of times last night. He was four of eight from three.

Your three point shooting is better. Also of note, your free throw shooting is much better for the Rockets this year. Good story from Daniel Lerner on some of the stuff behind that. Coach Udoka mentioned that there was, did he say it was Jabarsman Jr, I think? He got everybody like signing contract and getting a pack.

Like they've been practicing better. No, it was one of the assistant coaches that. One of the assistant coaches, okay. Deal with them. Making deals like they're all working on their free throws and so far. Okay, just four. Again, we have to say four game sample size, things are looking good. And it is a fact to say you got the number one offense in basketball in Houston at this moment in the NBA.

All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas. show with Ross without Matt Thomas. Adam Wex are joining at 1 o'clock. You guys want to get in. You can. 713212.5 and 790. The phone number 713-212-5-790. With you until 2 o'clock.

It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. Ross flying solo for a couple more minutes. You can get in and talk to me if you'd like. 7-13-212. 5-790 the phone number 713212-5-790 Adam Wexler will be joining in just a couple of minutes for the final hour of the program. Matt Thomas is out traveling back from Toronto, I think. And he's got, I think his daughter's in a playoff volleyball game.

So say it with me, go Mustangs. Kingwood Mustangs, I guess, in some sort of volleyball high school playoff action. So Matt is out. He'll be back tomorrow in studio. In the meantime, as I said, you guys can hang out with me at 713-212-5-790. So yes, Danielle Lerner with the article for the Houston Chronicle is Rockets assistant coach Cam Hodges, examining areas where the team needed to improve and zoned in on free throws. Durant pledging to make 20 free throws in each of his workouts, a deal he agreed to in solidarity with his teammates.

Apparently every Rockets player signed a free throw contract. each player has his terms a little bit different, just tailored to their individual practice routine and what they're going for. So far on the season, looking good. Rockets 81.3% from the free throw line last year, 73.8%, which was the worst in basketball. I think the biggest leap has been Stephen Adams. I want to go pull this up.

Like he, I think, I should, am I jinks again? he's missed one at least. Now, I don't have to jinx it that way. 91.7%. Now, again, we talk about sample sizes a lot on this show or anything with sports, especially when it comes to kind of baseball basketball, football anyway, any sport. Anything in life, folks. Don't take too much out of small sample sizes.

Or maybe sometimes you need to. You don't have a choice. But you know what I'm saying. A career, 53 and a half percent free. throw shooter is Stephen Adams. That's, I think, are you much of a free throw shooter, Jonathan? What do you think? I'm probably a 50-50 guy.

I'll give myself 75. Oh, 75? I'm called BS on that. No, we're going to the- We're hitting the court right after the show. I'll tell you. I'm a shooter. I'm a shooter.

Oh, okay. All right. I don't, I don't know PG. I can't, I'm not jump up the court. Okay. All right. I'm there in the corner. I'm more of a back-to-the-basket guy.

I got, I'll get you, I hit you with some lefty hooks all day. because I'm about 6 foot 2 and if I'm the tallest guy in the floor I'm gonna be good if anybody's taller than me I'm done I have no chance like I can only win with height

I got no athleticism skills are very limited but I can rebounds I get those me bounds I'm the angel Reese of the black top all right drawn I get those me bounds maybe and I'm like oh

after the third one I'm pretty tired so yeah my back to the basket game It's probably like a 5 out of 10. Everything else is like 2 to 3 out of 10. But I like to go out there and shoot. I think I can get 50-50 on some free throws. So 53.5% from Stephen Adams.

And so far he's shooting 91.7%. So free throws have been much improved for the rockets. Of course, there was a big one missed by Kevin Durant at the end of that Oklahoma City Thunder game. And I hope it continues. Again, small sample size, but again, hey, it's better than them shooting 50% four games in. I'd rather be this way, so we can continue to gather data

and they can continue to shoot free throws and hopefully things get a little bit better for them. At the foul line, tip of the cap to Rocket's assistant coach Cam Hodges, as this was what he wanted to do to hold guys accountable for making their free throws. Famously last year, Alpern Shingoon, first half in change of the season. I want to say it was maybe even after January 1st,

when he really kind of fell off a cliff. He was at 75%, which would be great, especially considering how much he gets to the line, and they're called free throws, and then he finished the season at 69.2%. So that's certainly something else we're going to keep an eye on. I would say naturally the number's going to go up because you get Kevin Durant. I mean, that dude's a walking 50, 40, 90 player,

so hopefully he can get over 90%. Stephen Adam's going to be the one I'm going to really be watching. 91.7%. his career high in any season is 61% from the free throw line. So hopefully the Rockets can improve in that facet of the game. And hello, you make your free throws, that's going to score your points. It's going to win you more games. So margins are thin in NBA games, unless you're playing the Brooklyn Nets or the Toronto Raptors.

But for the most part, I mean, a lot of little things, and that's kind of the beauty and the curse of these high-level sports. You know, NFL, if you watch, you know, like, if this ball bounces that way or if this guy doesn't, doesn't get open or if this guy doesn't make that fingertip catch or toe tap at the at the at the boundary anything can go any different way basketball games like that too this three doesn't go in that three doesn't go in that three you know you miss two threes that you would have and in one turnover that's three possessions that could be up to eight nine points in a game and all of a sudden yeah we weren't close we lost by eight like what that's how thin the margins are in basketball and and that's one of the things like darrell mori when he was general manager of the rocket it's like you got to find the little advantages. You've got to find that half a percent here, half a percent there. It'll creep you closer and closer to winning more basketball games and give yourself more of a chance every game. Making more free throws, going to give you more of a chance every single game. And that's good for the Houston Rockets. Hopefully they can keep it up. If they shoot above 80 percent as a team after being 73.8 percent last year, that would

be fantastic. All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, without Matt Thomas. Adam Wexler joining for the final hour. You guys want to get in. Despite what some of you were saying on Twitter, you can get in. 713-213-790 is the phone number. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Our number four of the Matt Thomas show continues with Adam Wexler after this short break. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 101 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Ross v. Real with you. Adam Wexer will be here, I guess, in the next segment, maybe it's my bad. I should have reminded him.

He agreed to do this, but that's all right. He'll be here. We can hold it down. You guys can get in as well if you'd like. It's 7-1-3-21-5-790 is the phone number. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90 talking some about the Rockets as they have the number one at least by offensive rating. It's one metric.

It's early in the season. You've gone against some horrible defenses in the Toronto Raptors and the Brooklyn Nets. but I still say Nice to be number one In offense as far as offensive rating I think they're fourth in net rating Which is your offensive rating Minus your defensive rating

So pretty good stuff So far in the early going by the Rockets They are 19th in defense But overall Pretty good First couple of games are coin flips Fortunately you lost both of those coin flips And then you took care of business

Against the bad teams You're sitting at 2 and 2 Rockets next in action Saturday 7 o'clock start here on Sports Talk 790. It'll be a 6 o'clock Rockets launchpad with Dan Matthews on your home for your Houston Rockets. Sports Talk 790. Phone lines open at 713212-5-790.

You can also send tweets to at SportsRV if you'd like to get in there. As we've been talking a number of different things. You've got the World Series in action right now. Say it with me. Go Blue Jays. Jonathan, are you going to hit that gut feeling? I think you're going to be right. And I'm just going to have to give you your props.

If I hit that, if I hit that, I'm going to be the sad by the other day with the Pacers. On Tuesday, and I thought you were crazy. I did because two of the games were going to be in L.A. And then one of the games, if we're even going to be a game six at that point, Dodgers were up 2-0, 2-1, excuse me, at that point. I just, I didn't believe. And I was wrong so far. You got, but the things I was, they went back-to-back games in L.A.

But the thing is, the first game they won, Dodgers, was John Motto. All right, baseball. Paul savant. Go ahead. This is my thought process. This is my thought process. All right. All right.

All right. Okay. That's fine. They're going to win that game. He's a dog at the non-the-mound, right? Then you go to the next game. Otani had to save him.

Blue Jays were controlled that entire game, the entire game, until he tied it up and helped him tie it up. And for the 18 innings. At that point, it was in anybody's game. I was like, you know what? Dude, Blue Jays got this.

There's no way. Like, they look sloppy. Dodgers look sloppy. Okay. All right. Well, baseball savannah is on it. They won two in a row. If they win three in a row, that'll be a gut feeling hit for Jonathan and he made on Tuesday that I said was crazy at the time. And I'll be wrong.

I think I said, but I also remember I said, I think the Dodgers are going to win. But also, I'm saying that because I said the Mariners were going to win and they lost. Even though it's my true gut feeling. My true gut feeling when they're up to 1 is that they were going to, they were up to 1 with two more games in LA. I thought they were going to win. Go Blue Jays. We talked some World Series. If you'd like, it's a good one Yamamoto versus Gousman.

that'll be Friday. Dodgers right now holding as a minus 140 favorite in that game. And of course, we have your Houston Texans taking on the Denver Broncos. Could be the biggest feather in the cap of the year. And the funny thing is to me, and we've been kind of talking about this really since last year when C.J. Stroud was kind of shaky. It's like, who's the real C.J. Stroud? Well, the real C.J. Stroud, we're hoping, is the guy who showed up last week. week at home against San Francisco 49ers.

That's the best game he has played all year. 318 yards, a couple of touchdowns. He did have the one interception. Now, it was, hmm, how do I put this? You don't want to say it was like training wheels defense that the 49ers had out there, but it's not going to be, hey, come on, man. It's not going to be as ferocious, let's put it this way, is what they're going to face coming up against the Denver Broncos this weekend.

Broncos have the second best offensive line in football, according to pro football focus. And then you've got some really good players on the edge, Jonathan Cooper and Nick Bonito for the Denver Broncos. So this will definitely have some good guys up in the middle as well. So this is going to be interesting coming up this weekend and figure out more and more who is the real CJ Stroud. And of course, we kind of say this for every quarterback. If he's able to get production, if he's able to get time to throw, then he's going to be okay. Well, it's the NFL, man.

Week to week, you're not always going to have a ton of time to throw. You're not always going to be blessed with the best offensive line in football. You're going to have to make something out of nothing sometimes and throw on the run and throw under pressure. And that's one of the things that CJ Stroud was so good at, his rookie year, was throwing under duress. And we just had not seen it consistently this year. I don't know if he had been banged up or whatever. That's kind of the excuse that I went to. this guy doesn't even look like anybody we know.

I have to assume because there's been such a drop-off in performance that he has been injured or something like that. But maybe he's just getting old because he still doesn't move that well. But the Texans we mentioned in Pro Football Focuses, offensive line rankings, moved up to 26 this week. Dominating the 49ers is what they say in the article. 42 passing attempts, only three pressures and no sacks. That is beautiful.

That is exactly what you want to see that type of pass blocking efficiency. Now you are at home and they get another game at home to kind of to work on their chemistry and communication and all that stuff. That's good to not have to go on the road to Mile High Stadium to face this ferocious front seven from the Denver Broncos. But it's a matter of can they hold up? And then what CJ Stroud is he, what is he going to be able to do as far as making those throws under duress? We know that he can throw in her pocket. We know that he can throw in time. I mean, just about anybody in the NFL can do that for the most part.

We know he has that capability. It's about what happens when he is under duress. Texans holding as one and a half point favorites against the Denver Broncos. Here's what C.J. Stroud had to say about that Denver Broncos defense. Yeah, you know, they have a really good rush. It starts on their edge. You know, Benito and, you know, Coup. They do a good job, you know, playing relentless and, you know, just they don't give up.

they play really tough and the interior have really good interior guys as well so they're really good deal on my words cj that's basically what i said ercii arsore again one data point pro football focus is not an end all be all but he had his best pass blocking game of the year they go through a one through 100 grade against the la rams in week one on the road facing off against jared verse like playing some left and right tackle and getting all mixed around he had a 29 grade in that game. He allowed five pressures according to pro football focus.

Two of them allowed against San Francisco and that was an 82.1 grade out of 100. So two of the last three games, he's had his best performances as a left tackle. And of course, with everything we contextualize, on the road against Baltimore, they had been beaten up, but still good that he held up to an extent.

And then at home against San Francisco who had been beaten up as well, probably would have been a different, a bit of a different story if he had to go up against Nick Bosa, but he didn't. This is the NFL. Everybody's got injuries.

Everybody's got key players hurt. I mean, Joe Mixon hasn't played a snap for the Texans this season. Christian Kirk has been in and out of the lineup. Nico Collins is out with a concussion. Like, injuries happen in the NFL. And you play who's out on the field. That's just kind of the nature of the game,

and that's not going to change, especially if and when they go to an 18-game season. Dudes are going to wear down. You're not going to be playing. Basically, even week one, you're not playing full strength teams. Guys are getting hurt and practice and training camp and all that other stuff. So which C.J. Stroud shows up this weekend against the Broncos. A big opportunity to make a statement.

Not like, you know, all of a sudden the Chiefs are going to be quaking in their boots if they be, oh, no. And Andy Reid's going to be sleepless nights against the Houston, Texas or anything like that. But I would say a statement to your fan base is really a statement to yourself in your city. to win this game, get four out of five against a really good Broncos team. That is six and two. That is mega talented on the offensive line, mega talented on the defensive line, and have CJ Stroud show up to where there's no caveats, right?

Every win they have this season so far, eh, it's the Titans, whatever, eh, the Ravens are beat up, whatever, the Niners had a bunch of injuries. You can't whatever if they beat this Broncos team this weekend. So we'll see what happens. One and a half point favorites, according to the Vegas odds right now.

And you know for CJ Stroud, like listening to him in the start and like preseason everything compared to now, it really seems to me like just as an athlete, like the locker room wasn't where it's supposed to be for the entire Texas team. You know what they say? Stagnant.

Was that the word that was making you upset? Complacent. Complacent. But this is, but this is what was changing around. No complacency when you win. I'm just saying, but I think just the locker room and just the vibe of the entire team has shifted, not just because they have won a couple of games, but just in general,

the coaching might have been better or, you know, getting rid of CJ Gardner at the start was a good catalysty by might have been a cancer to the team, you know, all this other things that could happen behind the scenes, right? Yeah, the vibes always improve when you win. Winning cures everything. That's what we've always talked about. You've had locker rooms where guys hate each other and nobody cares of everybody. loves each other and you're losing. And that's another

thing people go to too. And I'm saying you, Jonathan, but I'm saying like, one of the big ones that arguments that people get into is like body language. You know, they're losing because their body language is bad on the sideline. Like, what do you want them to do? You want them to do the chachas slide and high-fiving everybody when you're down 21? I never got that. I mean, guys, come on.

You're going to be upset. Exactly, Jonathan. You lose a race and you feel... I'm in the back. Don't talk to me. You know what I mean? Like, no. Oh, you're losing because your body language. No, my body language is bad because I didn't, because I'm mad at myself because you're frustrated because, because yeah. Body language improves. It happens throughout every basketball season we hear it.

Every baseball season especially, we hear it. Like, you know, the guys are loafing around. We heard it from, there's somebody who was calling me on the post game, like, Tar Easton's body language, it was so bad. Like, okay, when he's making half-court shots and scoring 20 a game, body language is good. Yeah, when he's going, he was going like, you know, two for 10 or whatever he was and only scoring three or four points, body language is bad.

That's how it goes. That's how it's supposed to go. because the other side, not necessarily some people, some people, like, oh, look at them. They're laughing. They're laughing on the bench and they're losing. I can't believe this. These guys don't care. They don't care.

It's a lose-lose. You know who gets out a lot? Jayden Daniels, he could say a lot on the commanders. Every time he's losing or whatnot, he's just smiling, relaxing, and. Okay, he's just a chill dude. It's better you be calm, focused and having fun with the game than you, you know what I mean? And getting in fist fights with the QB coach. Like, come on, man.

It's not going to happen. Like, no, man. This is, these guys are professionals. They pour their lives into this. For the most part, you do have this stray occasional guy who, who doesn't, maybe doesn't care about whatever sport they're professional in. But they have to care a lot to at least some certain level to even, not to just to make it to the NFL, to make it to college, to make it to off the practice squad, to make it into the draft, any of those things. Even Juko, yeah.

Yeah, even Juko guys. Like, they care enough. Trust. All right. We're going to take a break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas. Will Adam Wexler be here in the next segment? Your guess is as good as mine. We'll find out.

Jonathan Allen is here until 2 o'clock as well. You guys can get in at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Of the Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas, and we picked up a hitchhiker. Thank goodness you're here. Mr. Wexler of the A team, gracious enough to hang out a little bit early. I appreciate you, Adam.

Great to be here. Yes, and I'm glad to have you here. Until 2 o'clock, at which point you will be on for four more hours, yes, not on early for any Rockets game. Who are the- No 4-30 Rockets coverage begins. Probably the rest of the year. That was nice, honestly. As somebody who did the post-game, and they moved the game, of course, early because of the Toronto Blue Jays being involved in the World Series

and taking a three to two lead there, which we can get to that in a little bit. But your Houston Rockets in terms of points per possession, number one in all of the NBA. Yeah, I would think looking at their first two games, because I know you did a lot of that last segment, kind of tempering every, I know they're this, but they've played that and the defense here

and the two teams, they, there's a lot of, it's such a small sample size, but I don't think they played offense poorly against either of the Pistons or Thunder. Obviously, if you're looking at totals, they got an extra 10 minutes of basketball for both their offense and their defense. So sometimes looking at total points per game, which some people still do. It can get thrown off by things like that. But they didn't shoot the ball well against Oklahoma City.

They've now put three consecutive games together, three point line from behind the three point line, where they have shot the ball significantly better. No shortage of open looks. We can analyze the numbers plenty. But we can also watch and say, these are shots I hope they get all year. and the people taking them outside of the O-For-7 from behind the line for a men in the only game he will ever do that in his entire Rockets career, I feel safe to say. They're getting the shots they want. I mean, Jabari Smith Jr. could have had 30-something easy last night.

Kevin Durant's clearly getting any shot he wants. Hello, every year he's been in the NBA, no matter who he plays with or who he's playing against. It's something that this team hasn't seen in a while. Even with elite players, he's still elite among the other. elite. If he has the ball, most time the defender is saying, I hope he misses, because I can only do so much to force him into a shot that I want him to take. And at 6-11 with very long arms, you're really not going to do a whole lot to make him miss. And that's what's shown so far this year. His usage rate is, it's not low. It's low for him. It's the lowest of his career. And yet his

shot selection, his points per possession, his three-point, all the things are everywhere you would want them to be. And yes, it's nice when they also take advantage of the opponent. Would have been nicer if the last five minutes last night were clear the bench. They couldn't bury the Raptors. They were up basically nine or more the whole

second half. But it was sitting right there the whole time. If they make a three, then it's down to six. They just never did. So you still had all your starters pretty much out there for the entire game, which is something you'd love to avoid as often as possible, especially after the opener when you played 40 plus for so many. But all

intents and purposes, you know, four games into the season, a week and change. There's way, way more to like than dislike in spite of the obvious problem. We know they're going to have to figure out as the season goes along and maybe when the door opens for them to make a move is figuring out what will actually work

best in a playoff scenario in the back court. Yeah, I was actually kind of surprised when I looked it up and, or maybe it's came across my Twitter or something like that that they had the number one offensive rating in all of basketball because to me, especially the first couple of games we were using those words clunky disjointed a little sloppy and stuff like that because

especially game one was it like 25 turnovers or something like that those numbers have gone down since and i expect them to and you also haven't faced a defense that is the quality of the of the oklahoma city thunder since then but even if it's not feeling like this free flowing complete ball movement it doesn't matter almost like i remember the james hardin days everybody's like well yeah it's you know it's not great offense it's just james hard and dribbles and then he either drives and kicks or he hits a step back three. He's like, hey, if the ball's going in the hoop, it doesn't

matter how aesthetically pleasing it looks. If it is just Kevin Durant and ISO, we're playing a two-man game with Alprin Shungun, and you do kind of have guys, they're standing in their spots because the defense is forced to collapse and they're going to be open from three because that happened with Jabari Smith Jr. as you mentioned,

how many times was Kevin Durant wide open at three last night? And how much does that happen to him in his career? Because guys are having to double off Alpern Shingoon, and that's allowing Kevin Durant and others to be open for three. So maybe it's not the prettiest thing right now, but obviously it's been pretty effective. And their possessions are almost always successful because as long as they shoot the ball, that possession, they're going to score. Because even if they miss, they're going to get a second shot or a third shot.

Thank you, Stephen Adam. As long as they don't turn it over, which last night was a bigger problem than the two games in between. Obviously, you mentioned the Oklahoma City game. they're going to likely have a successful possession. The NBA also, we need the NBA to tell us what they're going to be in 25, 26, because if this is what the NBA is going to be this year, then we're going to have to rethink what some of these numbers mean. Because scoring is outrageous, right?

It's not even a little up. It's so far up, I can hardly believe what we're seeing every night, whether it's the individual players popping for 40 plus like it's nothing, people you've probably heard of, but didn't expect them to have 50-point games. They're doing that too. The Rockets are getting to the free throw line a lot. They did that last year. But they're getting to the free throw line so much and making them.

It just makes it so much easier just the simple numbers of it all. You're going to score more points because you have more opportunities to score. The officials are calling way, way more fouls this year than they have in the last several years. But it's just a one 10-day sample size. You know, it feels like there is as much talent in the league. is probably ever because like the last two nights it's like man Brooklyn Nets they're 0 and 4

they suck they're terrible it's like Michael Porter Jr. is pretty good like he can go off for 30 Terrence man, Cam Thomas and then even last night like the Raptors Brandon Ingram's good player Scotty Barnes was a rookie of the year like Emmanuel quickly Grady Dick is a

like a lottery pick Brady Dick is not a good player but he's so should have been Brandon Ingram is a really poor really poor really poor really poor man Kevin Durant. They have like, every team's got like two to three pretty solid players, even the worst teams in the league it feels like. So the Rockets are shooting 49.4% as a team this

year. So where's that rank? What was the league look like this year? 49.4%. I'll say 15th. It's 8th. Last year it would have been second. Okay. Shooting is up. A great deal in the NBA. I think players and coaches will say, we're more creative. and more sophisticated on defense than we've ever been before. And then other players will say what you just said, because it's definitely true. The offenses are just better. The players are just better. Who on the floor can't make a shot?

You don't play players like that anymore. Even Amend Thompson is someone still try to categorize, great, he can't make a shot. Well, guess why that doesn't matter? Because he doesn't take the shot he can't make. He's the only one on the floor that has limitations truly offensively, basically. Anybody else can go wherever they want on the floor. out there shooting. The bigs are finishing. The smalls are, everybody's able to do it.

And I do think the way they're officiating the game is certainly an assist to that. Mentioned this on our show the other day. There was one player in the NBA last year that averaged more than nine free throw attempts per game. It was just John. He wasn't, he wasn't even second. Really? He was third. But Janice was

the only one, and he was over 10. He was almost at 11. This year, as of yesterday, there were 13 players averaging that many. It has to go down. It has to go down. has to or else we're going to see like I mean pick a game any night and we're seeing something beyond

spectacular look at the week Austin Reves has had this year so far yeah yeah Austin Reeves like he hit the game winner last night because I don't I mean we got a lot better things to talk about but I'm watching it live and then watching it again I'm amazed

and I don't even doubt I don't even really disagree with it that Rudy Gobert has won all these defensive player of the year awards and yet when teams won to beat the team that he's on, guess who they want defending them? Every single time. Golden State did it. The Rockets have done it.

Every team that's played Minnesota in the playoffs has done it. And last night, I was appreciative of the people on the call last night. It was a national game. And they're saying, what you want here is Legler. He was saying, you want to get Rudy. That's who you want to be screening. So DeAndre Aiton comes out, and Rudy

Gobert shows. And Reeves is like, perfect. Rudy's completely off balance. He almost trips over himself provides zero defensive assistance in any way, drives right to the basket, drops in an eight-foot floater, game over, game winner. Was it four first rounders for Rudy Gober? Well, I don't know what you want to say about their team

and Minnesota and all these teams, like, shoot, Utah got all those first rounders for Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert. And? And? Yeah. It's great to have them. It is. They're no guarantee.

They're like, they're in the mystery box. What's in the mystery box? I want the mystery box. All these things, if you can wade through all the numbers and analysis here, the NBA has been as fun as ever to watch. It's fun. I find myself, I find myself watching, I've been watching the Peacott games, the NBC games, the Amazon Prime. Like, I'm watching more NBA basketball so far this year than I have in a long time. But small sample size, even for my watching of the NBA.

I do think, I imagine you'd agree. They set it up in a specific way. with all their new partners. Obviously, you listen to all the games here as we do. Of course. But the ability to watch presumably good matchups specifically set up for the Monday doubleheader and the Tuesday doubleheader and the inside the NBA crew

is around those games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. And it is probably going to help the league. If it helps them generate more money, we'll see when TV deals come around again. It obviously did this time around. And I know the league couldn't have been more eager than to put out that information yesterday about the viewing numbers being higher than they've been in decades.

Yeah, it's been a great product to watch. And as I said, like, even the worst teams have, like, dude, Brandon Ingram and Scotty Barnes in that second quarter were just, they couldn't miss. And it wasn't really even bad defense most of the time. It was just like, these dudes are insane. And the Rockets won by 18. All right, 713-212-5-790 is your phone number.

You want to get in, talk some Rockets, basketball, or anything you want to get to. 713-212-5-790. Adam Wexler, gracious enough to hang out until 2 o'clock. The A-team is coming up after that. But right now, you're listening to The Matt Thomas show with Ross without Matt Thomas with you until 2. Thanks, Jabari. Thanks for knocking out all those shots last night, too.

We appreciate you. He had 25 points on 8 to 16 shooting, 4 of 9 from 3. part of the 139 to 121 Rockets win. We're talking about it a little bit here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas. Adam Wexler is here hanging out. You guys can get in on the phone lines if you want at 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. We might just have to make this a regular segment on this show. KD tweets, because those are always fun to read. And he was active on Twitter last. night and this morning. I like where, let's see, hold on, I just had it. Now I've lost it, of course, where he told that guy, you're not on the team, my boy. That was pretty funny.

When he's talking about, there was a guy tweeting that he did not want Kevin Durant on his team. Kevin Durant says, no, you're not on the team. There's another one where... I'd rather have Jimmy Butler on my basketball team in the locker room. There you go, thank you. Bleep, bleep, Kevin Durant, making my life miserable. We dodged a bleep and bullet, didn't we? To which he responded.

You aren't on the team, my boy, L.O.L. He's so great. I'd love Kevin Durant on Twitter. Ever since he got caught with his burner and now he's like, all right, you know what, bleep it. I'm going to go on my real. I'm going to go on Maine, as the kids would say. Somebody grabbed a Reggie Miller comment

from these broadcast work where he said, why couldn't I have been playing in today's game? Nothing but threes and very little defense. and Kevin Durant responded there. Go watch the 96 Eastern Conference Finals and get off X complaining. Well, some guy was saying I watch the 90s NBA all the time. The defense in this era is trash compared to back then.

Okay. I guess I need to go watch the 96 Eastern Conference Finals. Perhaps Kevin Durant has done that recently. More KD tweets. It's a reason nobody watches this era of regular season because it's trash basketball. Kevin Durant. Okay, what would you like for me to do about this, Alex?

Yes, he went back and forth with Alex a couple times. One of those was what I read earlier. Oh, man, this is great stuff. Also talked about how he can't believe that he's as open as he has been with Alperin Shingoon. That's what I wanted to talk about. Yeah, there was one play in particular last night. He and Alpi are on the right side of the floor. He throws it into Alpi.

And Alpi's not even yet really posting up, but he's getting close as he backs in just a little bit. And the defender at the top of the key on KD starts sliding down and essentially creates a double team on Alpi. Alpi very calmly and very easily throws to a wide open Kevin Durant. Yes, the same Kevin Durant that's going to be in the Hall of Fame. The same player he's always been. Absolutely wide open. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't remember if it was like Scotty Barnes or whoever it was, but whoever that was probably is going to get in the team meeting, going to get that shown and say, don't double off. because the clock was running down, the shot clock was running down on that play. And even the simple math of it all, the double teaming sometimes in the post just from a simple mathematical standpoint. So what? Alpi backs his man down. He shoots a turnaround four-footer and they get two points. Why not? Go ahead. You can have that. I don't want to give you a wide open Kevin Durant three. That's more points. Colin Murray Boyles. That's who it was. Yeah, well, he's a rookie. It's okay.

He's got to learn. He was also being asked to play the five. He's too young to know who Kevin Durant is. that's the other thing about last night's game. He scored 30 at that point probably. The Raptors are one of the smallest teams in the league to begin with. They're only big player. They literally have nobody on their roster even listed above 610 except for Yacob Pertil. And he was out last night.

What did you have? Back spousins or something like that? Some back tightness. A back tightness. Yep. Okay. But you're in a defeatist position. The Rockets smashed them on the boards in every which way.

Now I know the Raptors made a bunch of shots, so there were a ton of offense. rebounds, but they hammered them on the offensive glass, they hammered them on the defensive glass, and it just made it that much easier to, again, you're going to get to 139 points by having few empty possessions. And that's what offensive rebounding does for you. 17 offensive rebounds, eight of them by Stephen Adams. Who had more offensive rebounds last night, Stephen Adams or the Raptors? Let's see. I know the answer.

Okay, so, oh my God, only four total? And Stephen? For the Raptors, he had eight. Yeah. 17 total for the rockets. Twice as many offensive rebounds as one individual human who played only 20 minutes than the entire Raptor's roster for a full 48 minute game. It's beautiful.

Stephen Adams, absolutely awesome. He keeps getting these tippins and ducks. He had to double double again. Yes, he did. 12 and 12. What's his field goal percentage? About 98 so far this season?

He's no Capella. He missed his first shot of the season last night. He finally missed a shot, did Clint Capella. This is going to be fun. It's not going to be the traditional. free flowing. Somebody's got a point guard and somebody's, you know, breaking down defenses. Outside of a men, Thompson's got to be their best dribble driver,

correct? Kevin Durant, not really. I mean, it's a men and it's in a lot of guys back up off of him because well, he's not much of a pull-up threat. He's not much of a three-point threat. Still, though, with his craft guile and speed, he's able to

get to the basket a fair amount of the time, but it's just not going to be like a drive-and-kick type of offense. that we're used to seeing. And right now, still pretty effective. And we'll see if they can get pretty, continue to be effective. That game against the Celtics was looking pretty easy a couple of games ago.

And then? Now they've got two blowouts in a row. That game coming up on Saturday here on Sports Talk 797 o'clock tip. Yeah, they crushed the Cavs who'd been playing pretty well. They've played the whole season without Darius Garland, but if played very well, they did not to play very well. And last night's game, that was very one-sided and very surprising in that the Celtics did that. I'll only got one home game over their next five.

comes against the Mavericks next week. I'm sure between now and then we'll have many more injury updates on Anthony Davis who left last night's game after six minutes and did not return. Went into the game with an Achilles issue, tendonopathy. No word on what exactly it was.

Although he was grabbing at his Achilles, he obviously didn't pop his Achilles. But some injury maybe related to it is what he potentially suffered from. And they survived the terrible Indiana Pacers. Pacer's missed a free throw intentionally with just seconds

remaining down two and they got a wide open three on the offensive rebound, popped it out to Neesmith who left it just a touch short or else they would have lost that game. Pacers, without their two most important players from last year's team, Miles Turner, who's a buck and

Tyrese Halliburton who's injured, they're bad. They just don't have enough talent there and they are still winless. Well, no. hopefully, I don't care. You'll play them when you play them. Yeah, whatever.

Hopefully they're still bad whenever the Rockets play them. How about that? All right, we're going to take a quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Without Matt Thomas. He remains out. He'll be back tomorrow. One more segment to go with Adam Wexler. And then he'll be on the A team with Adam Clinton.

You guys want to get in. You can 713-212-5-790. Back in a minute here on Sports Talk 7-9. Welcome back. to the Matt Thomas show without Matt Thomas, but with Ross and with Adam Wexler. Matt will be back tomorrow here on Sports Talk 790 for a Friday edition. Always the best edition. You get to wake up the strippers at noon.

We get the clips that Jonathan, you got some good clips this week, Jonathan? I don't know. Yeah, I got some good ones. Okay, good clips coming up to open the show tomorrow at 10 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. We've been talking a fair amount of rocket. we've been talking well we haven't well not with Adam Wexler but throughout the show we talked a little bit of World Series

Are you invested? Have you been watching the World Series? Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. How much of that 18-in-game did you watch? I was asleep for some of the teens but went back and watched it was still on when my eyes came back alive and so I just rewounded to where it was because the game

was still tied. You can get you up on a baseball game. Look at his square. I mean there's like 20 seconds between every pitch. Clearly whatever inning it was that I re-errope. I'm like, well, I couldn't have missed much. You were resurrected in the middle of the game? Is that long? Hey, he has risen, yes.

Nothing had happened. Nobody had scored. That's true. So why did you miss? You know, yeah, but totally invested. The games, I think, have been extremely entertaining. There's plenty of drama, even though there hasn't been a ton of late-inning drama. That's the game that there has been.

Yesterday was more of the same. You had a dominant pitching performance, and slowly but surely, the Blue Jays kept extending their lead, and how was that? Trey is Savage. Yeah, I just turned the game on, and then within like five seconds, the Toronto Blue Jays were up 2-0. And he just puts a smile on my face. I hate the Dodgers so much.

Hey, has game 5 started? Oh, yeah, they're one pitch in, and it's 1-0. Yeah. Oh, wait, there are three pitches in. It's 2-0. Well, it's poor Californians. They're just... Poor.

Poor is a bad choice of words when talking about the Dodgers. Especially if you're attending a World Series game at Dodgers Stadium, and you live in Los Angeles. It was, I think, vital. I think the series, as clearly 2-2 would indicate, was very even. But I think the Blue Jays had to win. It was a must-win game. I think they needed to win because of the long-ago thought of Mike Scott.

He's not unbeatable, but we haven't seen a post-season pitcher dominate the way Yamamoto has recently, and he's their game-six starter. You'd hate to go into that game down 3-2. I don't think the Blue Jays really care. They've clearly shown resiliency. See, how are they going to come back after losing this 18-in- inning game? How are they going to come back after? They come back all the time.

And they got down against the Mariners, too, right? Yes. It's not, none of these issues that we think cripple teams have done a thing to the psyche of the Blue Jays. And the biggest reason why is the exact same reason why the Astros never faltered. When the best players are up for the moment, everybody else follows. And the Astros' best players were always up for the big moment. The greatest news was they had about 10 of them. but they always showed.

What are the Blue Jays leaning on? They're best player, and he's having one of the most dominant post seasons in Major League Baseball history. So they're just following his lead. There's no reason to get down or feel down because he's on your team, and things will be fine.

Well, I want them to get down. I want them to lose. But yeah, you mentioned Yamamoto on the mound come game six versus Gausman. A minus 140 slight favorites are the Los Angeles Dodgers on the road in that one. When I'm saying he's having the most, the greatest postseason in Major League history.

I was not referring to Shohei. Oh, you're talking about you, Savage? I'm talking about Vladimir Guerrero. Oh, Vladimir Carrero, okay. He's been... Yeah, that's true. That's what Correa or Altuve or Springer, or, again, the Astros had a ton of them,

so it was a lot easier, but the Blue Jays are just following Vladimir's lead. He's been a better offensive player than Eltoni. He's clearly been a better defensive player. He hasn't been a good of a pitcher, though. Why? He didn't give up five runs. A four earned runs, okay. He didn't give up.

four runs. He gave up no runs. That's true. He hasn't give up in his many runs, but he also didn't have a six-ending shutout performance earlier in the playoffs. Earlier in the play. Yeah, against lesser competition. Well, playoff competition. I'm not trying to say he's a player you'd rather

have, but he's been unbelievable. And his defense does matter. He does. He's throwing rockets out there like he did against the Astros. I know. Actually making me upset again about Jose L2. I got upset about Jose L2-based base running in the middle of the world series. I understand.

I didn't expect to do that. Well, you had a good reason to, unfortunately. Yes, I did. Yes, very much more funny. Very entertaining. The Dodgers lose. I don't, I'd like to say, again, they got two chances. That's how they have to look at it.

The fans will look at it, and they won't. They'll look at it as like, we don't have two chances. We have one. We're going to win the World Series Friday night and game six at home, and we're going to celebrate. Case closed. That'd be beautiful. That also would be a gut-feeling hit for Jonathan Allen, who said that they were going to win the next three games on Tuesday.

We call them Miss. or baseball now. Baseball savant, I heard. Yeah, there, baseball savant. So that'd be nice. I want you to be right, Jonathan. I said that on Tuesday. Because the Dodgers, and apparently, yeah,

their fans are already like, well, you see, we said that this was a team with flaws. See, this proves that we're not perfect. And we don't have the, these financial advantages don't mean a whole lot if you don't win the games in the World Series. No, you still have all the advantages. You still get basically the Nippon Japanese League is your farm system.

And then you lose, that's going to make it even sweeter. Go Blue Jays. Two shots to win into the Rogers Center. As you said, just get it done in game six. As the Dodgers face elimination, their deficiencies are showing up everywhere. Writers can't crank those out fast enough as the series shifts in the Blue Jays favor. That was Ken Rosenthal's piece after last night's game. Oh, my God.

Did he really say that? Yep. What are their deficiencies that Otani, Betts, and Freeman? Well, let's throw Will Smith. Slow down, slow down. You said, they're deficient. What are they? Otani Betts.

You had me at Otani Betts. Because a lot of people think, Otani Betts. And they let him take the fall. I think he's just a nice guy. I think he got duped. They're old. Those are some of their deficient.

Look ahead. Freeman's getting older. Betts is getting older. That 18 inning game really warmed up. They didn't have another game for like 16 hours. Okay? And it's baseball. Okay.

That's the only thing that you can play. If there was a seven-hour football game, there would have been multiple people sent to the hospital. There's a seven-hour basketball game. People are dying on the floor. It's baseball. I'm not saying it's not hard. It's just not the most taxing sport out there. Heaven forbid a seven-hour soccer game, don't make your one-nothing or no goals scored, joke, Adam Wexler.

People would be dying. It's baseball. Okay, guys. The reason why football and football have their end-of-game scenarios, when the time runs out, scenarios is because you can't do like baseball. You can't play forever. It's an inless game. I know some people

poke fun at soccer here and there. Some people. They got, how many guys on the field? Unless someone's been carded off? Well, I mean, you have to keepers. I mean, carded off. Carted? So you got nine or ten guys running around until they are substituted

for for 90 minutes. Literally up and down a very, very large field. Or pitch. Yes. Well, I said soccer, so I'm going to stick with field instead of football and pitch. It's taxing. Yes. Baseball is a ton of, I got to get off my feet because I've been standing. It's a lot of chewing and a lot of spitting. There's more spitting there is walking, I think, in a baseball game. Like, it is kind of funny to me the excuses being, not necessarily excuses being made, but as you said, how the deficiencies of the Dodgers. Yeah, Shohei pitching the next day after the 18 inning game.

essentially he was just attending. He batted nine times. They walked him five times. But in between innings and during the other innings when his teammates are defending and pitching, he's watching. He's sitting in the dugout. It did cut into his sleep time. He loves his sleep.

He gets like 12 hours of sleep a day. He's the JJ Watt of sleep of Major League Baseball. I think you say Kukuchi did that. Him too, right? Yes. So they were like, oh man, he didn't get his sleep. He only got 10 hours today. You says Kukuchi's,

a little off like, what? He only got 10 hours. Doesn't go out with the boys very often. Yeah, I guess he doesn't. He's at home doing, I don't know what. Doing sleepy. Doing sleepy. Is that what he's guessed?

He's at home doing the sleepy. Well, Shoho Tani must say, well, he hasn't been good. And was it a couple of games or was, yeah, he's 0 for his last seven. Probably because. Wow, what a slump. He's 0 for his last seven because he got on base nine times and he missed out on his 12 hours of sleep. So maybe with the day off, he'll bounce back on Friday.

Hopefully not. Go Blue Jays. All right, that is going to do it for the Matt Thomas show here on a Sports Talk 790 with Ross, but without Matt Thomas. Wex, thank you for hanging out. You got it. I do appreciate you making the time. Thanks to Dan Matthews, he hung out in the first hour. Thanks to all of you who got involved in the program via Twitter, via phone lines, via whichever way you made it possible.

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