The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Tonight! Astros Catch A Stride, Rockets Legend Vernon Maxwell Joins The Show

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

Rockets Tonight! Astros Catch A Stride, Rockets Legend Vernon Maxwell Joins The Show

10 in H-town. Good morning and welcome to a must-win Wednesday. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm going to try to be more chipper. May I walk you through my life? Sure.

Well, I mean, it's kind of what we do on the show. It is Matt and Ross here on 790. I went out with you yesterday for a few minutes, and I was just in a very foul mood. Very, very disappointed. Not that I expected to rock. Rockets to go to Golden State to win two. I fully expected them to win at least one.

And the one with no Jimmy Butler in game three especially hurt. Okay. And then watching the Rockets get opportunities after falling behind by double digits, two different occasions, including the awful 18 to 1 start of the third quarter. And they fought back from that and had a chance in the final minute to tie and or win the basketball game. Mm-hmm. And Alpi's mid-range in the third quarter. not fall, defended well by Draymond Green. Freddy V. tries to curl on a right side three

limited time, being chased by a bunch of folks. That wasn't going to go in either. You had the Dylan Brooks foul. So there was just a lot of aggravation and disappointment. And I got on the plane and I put my, I had my pillow and I had my blanket and I wouldn't do a peaceful slumber, put some songs on. We did. Okay, good. We landed about four o'clock Houston time yesterday. PM. PM. Okay. And I got off the plane. I was. I got off the plane. And I was. I did. I was plan, I walked downstairs, and I was on the tarmac, and we're going to get my bag and go to my car. And I had an epiphany. And I don't have many epiphanies in my life.

Where did it come from, Matt? It just hit you like a ton of bricks? Maybe it was the breeze off of the Hobby Airport runway. I don't know what it was. Hot breeze? Hot breeze? It could have been a hot breeze. All right. It smelled like, so you were just inhaling jet fuel fumes. Jet propulsion. Yeah, it could have been very, it could have been the engines going off. We weren't far from the runway. Okay. I'm putting my name on it. Rockets are winning tonight.

Oh! Okay. Okay. I'm on board with it. I hope you're right. Now, if we were in the show in San Francisco, I wouldn't put my name on it because, I mean, it is what it is. Golden State has the Rockets number.

I mean, they've only beaten the Rocket. The Rockets have only beaten the Warriors. And again, different teams, obviously, have only beaten the Warriors once in these last 10 years on the road. So the percentages are vastly against that. And look, Golden State is the significant favorite still in the series. When you have 3-1 and you still have one more home game left for a built team that's been so good at home during the playoffs,

the likelihood of them winning the series is not good. But I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about game five tonight. And I'm putting my name on it. Rockets beat the Warriors. Beat the Warriors. All right, I'm writing it down. Put it down.

Okay. Now, you don't have to do that. I'm not here to convince you for the next two hours. hours and two and hours and 40 minutes to do so. But I'm just telling you. And again, how often do I come in and say something's going to happen? I don't know very often because, again, you could get old takes exposed and make fun of you. You could have your listeners or make fun of you.

I mean, I'm willing to take that. I'm willing to tell you that I'm willing to take the embarrassment of saying the Rockets will beat the Warriors tonight. We'll send it to a game six Friday night in San Francisco. Well, I'm just going to tell you, my initial reaction, Matt, is a deep, down in my heart of heart and my gut of guts, I'm with you. It's just hard to say it with a lot of confidence. Okay. So, because I've been beaten down in this series. Here's what's driven driven me absolutely bonkers. Free throws. Free throws. It isn't about technique. It isn't about form. Well, it, no, because it's about concentration. I could take, you and I could go take

Galper and Shangoon, a man, Thompson, anybody else you want to put in there, we can go shoot free throws at the training facility for an hour and a half, and they can make 90% of the shots. There's just a level of difference when you're doing it in front of 18,000 people as compared to doing it in front of nine. Now, Alpi's form probably is the worst of the two

because it's inconsistent. He falls forward sometimes. He falls back. He falls the side. He's got to stop with the lean in. To talk into the basketball. It feels like it turns off his, It throws off his routine.

Yeah, well, he's been doing that since he was a rookie. Well, and how's he been shooting from the free throw line since he's a rookie? I know. Not great. The reality is this is a rocket team that makes 74% of their free throws during the regular season. That was dead last in the association. It wasn't even close, I think. I think the next team was like 76 or something like that.

So for them to be having the free throw line not be their best friend is not a surprise. But to the level where it's been so far in the series has been very disappointing. And not that you're expected to make a hundred, percent. But Rossi, if they shoot, let me look at my number. I have my stats here in front of me here. The Rockets in this playoff series have made 63% of their free throws. Rossi, if they shoot their season percentage, they win at least one of the games they've lost.

Would that be fair to say? I would think that would be fair to say. I think they would have won game four on Saturday or, I mean, Monday. Golden State in this three-game series, four-game series, Ross, excuse me, has scored 402 points. Okay. The Rockets have scored 3993. Okay. Four games have been separated by a total of nine points in this series.

That's free throws. So they're going to make their free throws at home tonight. That's what you're saying. I don't know how they're going to do it. I don't know if Jalen's going to come out of his shell. I don't know if Alpi's going to put up a huge double-double game or for that matter, or Man Thompson, or Fred hits four more threes, or Dylan hits four threes, or Jabari Smith makes a bunch of shots.

By the way, EMA doesn't like to give out a lot of company secrets. But he was definitely asked after the game then or night about whether or not he might be thinking about a lineup change or a rotation change. I wouldn't be startled. In what way? I don't know. I can't even predict it. But I feel like if Golden State can do it, because they've thrown four different lineups at the Rockets in this series and four games, why can't the Rockets do it? They're the ones at an underdog at this point.

Yeah. At the end of the game, Coach Udoke, Doak. said, I'm going to have Tari Easton on the floor over Jalen Green. Even with a few seconds left, he said, nope, this guy helps me. Even when it was just offense, not offense for defense or anything like that. He said, I am putting, I'm keeping Jalen Green off the floor. He does not give me the best chance to win. And that was huge.

So does that mean he doesn't start? Does that mean he gets fewer minutes? He only played 25 minutes in the game on game four. The trigger was very quick, obviously it was. Well, he came out like a, he came out like he was point shaving for. the Warriors. He's just turning the ball over over again. Poking the ball away at him. He's not, the nonchalance and the lack of focus was just not acceptable for a playoff game with your backs against the wall down 2-1. It wasn't acceptable.

Yeah. All right, we got a lot to get to today. I'm going to put a poll question up. Who you got tonight? The last poll question didn't work so well. I got the rockets. I'm putting my name on it. You hear what I said earlier. Rockets are winning. 7-1-3. I want you to be right. You know what? I'm not even writing this on the file. because you're going to be right. I hope I'm right. If not, I'm going to be clinically depressed tomorrow. Even if you get you wrong, I don't want to write down that you were wrong.

We're going to play all by myself by Eric Carmen in a little four-hour loop tomorrow. Okay, great. All right, Brian Bogusevick with us. Oh, by way, Vernon Maxwell's with us at 1030 today. What? Yeah, Vernon's going to talk to us, get us fired up for the game. Tell us what's going on at the arena early. The Vernon Maxwell?

The Vernon Maxwell. 11 o'clock, Brian Bogusevick. We have shut you old bum ass up at 1130. And we have Astros baseball on the On Deck Show at 12 noon. All right. I'm going to go put the question up right now, Ross. I'm not going to mess around. You're strengthening my resolve, Matt.

You're making me feel a lot better. We'll have. We're making a lot of good points. I hope so. Okay. Let me just give you a variety of intangibles. Okay. Let's go.

Backs against the wall. Okay, sure. That's got to be part of it. Okay. You have played an incredibly close series with this team in all four games. Uh-huh. This is a very small one. It's a younger team.

team the rockets are. This was a quick turnaround. You played a late game on Tuesday. You woke up in the morning and you flew three and a half hours. Third game in five days? Late game and Monday. Excuse me. Late game Monday.

You got on a plane. You flew three and a half hours to Houston. Yeah. Third game in five days, right? Third game in five days. Saturday, Monday, Wednesday. Okay. I'm going to say, and also, by the way,

and the last thing I've said, which I brought up in the very first part of the show, they might think, you know what? we got this and we don't need to full throttle because we got game six in the back pocket in our building in which the rockets just can't seem to win our room put them on a little pressure they'll crack and say

we'll just take this back to the crib yeah warriors are 13 and one lifetime at home against the rockets in the playoffs now granted that's a that's a weird number because again it's not the old rockets of James Hartwell yeah the historical numbers while have been haunting us for sure don't apply a whole lot to this series like you said

yeah And I just I don't know Jalen very well at all. He's very low key, nothing more than a hello, that kind of thing. And you shut off all his Instagram and all his social media pre-playoffs because he was going to lock in. Lock into what? I don't know. I can't imagine he wants to live with his legacy of this series being as bad as it's been.

Yeah, but I thought that after game two, three, excuse me. He had 38 points in game two. He had a total of 24 points. three games. If that doesn't stick out like a sore thumb, I don't know what does. Does he have undiagnosed ADHD or something? Like it's like he just loses focus. Let's

get him to lock in. He's in the clouds out there. I don't get why he just became an innocent bystandard in the game. More so than any other game of the series. Seven, I could not, I was floored. When I was doing the post game show and I looked at the game book that we get

and it saw that he played seven minutes in the fourth quarter, I was like there, I literally went to go like re-downloaded. I thought there was a typo. I was seriously, and not even joking. I'm not making a joke. I thought there was a typo that he played seven minutes in the fourth quarter. He was a ghost.

Zero points, zero assists, zero rebounds, one foul, no nothing, not even a turnover. That means he didn't even touch the ball. I couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it. And that's not what he's here for. That's not why the Rockets drafted him. That's not why the Rockets extended him in the preseason. And it's just it's been a massive disappointment except for one one game where he was incredible.

Yeah. And guess what? That's the Jalen Green experience we've been getting the last couple of years. The Jalen Green takeover is as fun to watch. Oh, man. Because he's fighting off screens. He's going against triple teams. He's going to the lane flipping the ball over his right shoulder.

He's reverse laying up. He's hitting the mid-range jumper. He's hitting the side pocket three. It's contested and it still goes in. But reality is, in the... this series, there hasn't been enough of that. Yeah. It's like your girlfriend yells at you for never cleaning up the house or doing the dishes. And like for one day, you've got the house looking spotless. And then you're good. Like, I'm good for a month. That's what Jalen Green does. Or if she makes sweet love to you one

particular day. You just had to make that turn, didn't you? Go ahead. And you're like, babe, we connected like we never have connected before. And she's like, it'll do you for a while. You don't want to hear that. No, you don't. You don't want to. You don't want to. You don't want to to hear about he scored 24 points and three rocket losses. No. You want to hear about the ecstasy of a 38 point game too? Correct.

To the phones we go. Roger, on the Matt Thomas show with Ross at 1024. Roger, good morning. Good morning, Matt. Good morning, Ross. Hey, man, I just want to say, I want to score some matchups because if you coach, you don't can throw it out there.

But before that, we've got to give more love to Stephen Adams. I hope the Rockets can keep them on this. team as long as they can because a guy like that other team is never a bad thing. That guy is a monster. It's comical for me to see these, trying to see these guys try to move him out to lay after offensive rebound after offensive rebrand. It's hilarious. And I just love to see that stuff, man. A guy like that under team is always good. Anyway, so coach Yidoka said he's going to sports and possibly. I would hope. I would hope because he's a pro he's a top round pick too. that he can, you know, if anything's possible, maybe it's, it's, it'll concede, maybe he's, he's not ready right now,

but if you can, maybe for the, the possibility of Reed Shepherd chasing step around for a bit, maybe he can get a free of, no, stop, no, that's not happening. Reed Shepard's not playing in this series. He's just not, I'm sorry. Well, neither is Jailie Green. So I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I mean, I just, I'm just, you're wasting your breath, Roger, I appreciate you, but it's not happening. It's not happening.

Yeah, it's not. The rotation is set. Reed Shepherd hardly played in the regular season. Why are you putting him in the mix of a try of a do-or-die-die-game five? I will tell you this. If we see Reed Shepherd, Matt, things have either gone very, very good or very, very bad for the Rockets. There really is no middle ground on that. And look, Reed's going to be given every opportunity next year to make this rotation go.

I mean, when you're the third pick of the draft, you're supposed to be a guy that's supposed to be an impact maker. Now, granted, last year's draft pound for pound was not very good. By the way, the guy behind him yesterday, Stefan Castle, was named rookie the year in the NBA. That's great. Well, at least they were locked in on Reed Shepard and thought he was the best player in the draft. So that's for next year. But for here and now, we know who the eight guys are. If there is a ninth guy, it'll be Aaron Holiday.

I would tend to agree with that. So we'll see. I don't think it's going to be, like you said, Reach yet. It's not going to be Jeff Green, not going to be Jack Landale. We had a lot of people calling for Kansas. Kim Whitmore yesterday and in the post game. You have to be really disciplined in the playoffs. By the way, defensively, Golden State would be able to put the Kaibosh on Whitmore.

Coach Udoka does not trust Cam Whitmore in the regular season. He's not going to trust in the playoffs. Yeah. Rotations are reduced in every form of basketball. College basketball tournament gets reduced. NBA playoffs, it does. Now, Golden State has gone with a few more players, but it's been nobody that has necessarily made a huge difference. I mean, Kavana Luni plays a spare minutes.

He played five minutes. Moses Moody. You know, it was a little impactful early in the series, but he's been back. And Jonathan Kaminka, who's a guy that probably could play for, I don't know, 20 to 30 NBA teams, get the DMCD most nights. Or the reason why he played in the series was because Jimmy Butler was hurt. Yes. And then, I mean, he was turning the ball over and Steve Kerr looked pretty fed up with him in that game. All right.

So we've got an interesting day of sports coming up. Brian Bogusovic is going to join us in a half an hour. to talk about the Astros. But first, we've got Vernon Maxwell to join us next year on the radio program. It is exactly 10.30 here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. A friend of the show, Rockets Legend, University of Florida, championship team 1994. Still the best lockdown two guard I've ever seen in my play,

especially against Michael Jeffrey Jordan, is Vernon Maxwell. He's on the show. Mad Max, you're going to be at the arena tonight early, aren't you? Definitely, yeah, we're going to be there. I need everybody to show up early, and let's show out. Everybody's going to wear their Vernon Maxwell jerseys for tonight's game. Is that correct? I hope so.

I don't know how many jerseys they have on in the arena, but yeah, that's a Port-O mad max. But we definitely need a win tonight. That's the most important thing. We've got to get a win. I know. I hate that term must win, but we've got to go to it at this point. Hey, what would you do if you were able to pull Jalen Green aside for tonight's game? What would you?

What kind of great guidance would you give the young man? Just go out there and play and do what you've been doing all year, you know, because it works, you know. And, you know, don't think it's, you just play the game. When you think the game so much, you know, tend to, you tend to play like a robot. Just go out and play the game free like he always been playing all ever since he's been a kid and everything else to take. care of itself. Just play free. It is incredible how a little bit of difference in this series,

a few intangibles. We were talking about there's a nine point discrepancy between the Rockets and the Warriors in these four games. And that can be free throws and that certainly has been a huge part of that. I was telling the audience, and maybe you can back me up on this as a former player. You can go to a practice facility. You can go to game day

on shoot around and shoot 500 free throws and make 498 of them. It's a different animal when you got 18,000 people screaming at you, is not? Absolutely. That's, that's a good out of space. Yeah, but, no, that's true. That's a lot of pressure, you know, in the playoffs especially.

You know what I mean? Every point counts. I mean, like you say, it's a little detailed things that matters the most in the playoffs and turnovers and making air free throws and things that. I mean, right now, you know, we just need to go out and play, man, get us a win, man, and just play free. And down the stretch, just make some shots, man. we got to make shots down the stretch and get stopped down the stretch.

So what have your emotions been during this series with all these games being as close to they have? I mean, I don't know if you're a guy that can sit still, if you're jumping around, if you're swearing in people. What's been going through your mind these days? A lot of swearing up and down, man. It's been up and down for me because, you know, one minute we're playing well and playing like we, you know, like Yudoka got a like him to play. and then next minute we plan like we're tight like we're trying to like play just to preserve there just to hold on to the way but not you got to keep doing what you did to get the lead just keep playing you know what I mean if that means blowing somebody out and then playouts just keep playing don't

stop playing just keep playing the way you play to get the lead there's a happy hour going on do you know what the specials are don't need to find out for myself uh man we got hot dogs Colette. We got half a... No, we got... We got everything. You know what a happy hour is. Come out and join old mad Max

and old Stephen franchise. It's going to be a good show. It's going to be a good thing tonight. We're signing autographs. We're going to have a little party. And get everybody ready for the night's day. Why don't you play a one-on-one game right now? We'll set up a makeshift corner on the promenade somewhere.

I don't think that will work for me because I'm 60. You know, I'm 60. I think Stephen Frances can have that. I would let him have that. I hadn't played ball and probably about... I shoot around, but as far as playing, like, competitively... Oh, no, I don't do that anymore. Game of horse then.

Okay, no, I don't work now. I'll do that. Now, that's a good show. That'll be something I would love to do. But that plan, I wouldn't do that. I can't play anymore. I'm just a shooter now, catching shoot back. All right, Max, we're on a FCC family radio stations.

You've got to be careful on this. I'm going to give you a question. Give me some thoughts about Dreamon Green. He just does whatever it takes for his team to win. You know what I mean? I love that about him. You know what I mean? I wish he was on our side, you know, in this series.

But unfortunately he's not. But we got to do it. Like I keep saying, it comes down to we have to do whatever we got to do tonight to get this victory. but one thing I need though for real I'm just saying that now I need all our fans I need them to show up early man I need to last time I was here I knew

fans was coming they came in late I need to come in early I need the fans to be in the seats early tonight you know what we should do we should get everybody that's going to the game tonight get their phone numbers and then you get it to them and then you call them at 445 say where I's at right now let's go get inside this building that'd be a way it'd be easy way to do it make it happen we're gonna make it happen you don't let's it you don't have to make 18,000 phone calls you're not that busy these

days you're 60 remember you told us that oh hey man you're right I'm just telling I'm just telling you you're absolutely right you're absolutely right I'm just telling unless I got the podcast going I'm free yeah man man you're gonna be careful with that language occasionally don't you don't you well No, we're uncensored, so. That's why I do so well with that because, you know, I can pretty much say what I want to. And it's nothing, nobody like to recommend and telling me all knowing the back over there way that while I'm live, telling me, no, you can't do that.

You can't say that. So, you know, that's when I'm at my best when I can pretty much say that word I always use a lot. I know. I don't know. Are you doing that with, is that with Matt Barnes you're doing that podcast with?

Who else you're working with on that? Yeah, Stephen Jackson and Matt Barnes on all the smoke. So, yeah, yeah. It's a great, I was glad to be able to join those guys. All right,

last question for a let you roll, Max. I want you to close your eyes unless you're driving and give me to paint the picture for the Houston audience right now how this game's going to go down tonight. All right.

Okay, we know it's going to be a tough game now. It's going to be all the way through. It's going to go back and forth all the way through. But just down the stretch, I just got to rock. It's winning by a slim margin. But we're going to win because, like I said, all the time, you know, I think this year, every game that I came to, we had a loss. So, and so I'm here now. So, and but I think going down to stress, we just got to make shots down the stress and get some stops, you know, and I mean. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, just keep our composure. And that's hard for me to say.

I know. We've got to keep our composure too out there, you know, because, you know, we got, it's just going to be a real hostile game. And I know the guys coming out there, we're going to fight and get back, you know, but we just got to keep our composure. We've just got to do it.

We've been doing all years. And that's why, yeah, and that's why Max, Draymond scares me, because I think he knows they're up 3-1. He's gotten all sorts of wiggaroons so far. He's going to do whatever he can to get the rockets out of, their psyche at this point.

Absolutely. It's going to be dirty, Graymond tonight now. Everybody better get used to get ready for it. So that's what's going to happen. You're going to legal screens and whatever you've got to do. Get up on somebody's skin and get somebody kicked out. So, I mean, so.

But we just got a whole lot of composure, man, and just go out and do what we did them. All right. Max? And going on on Windows stuff. You guys, that's right. Max and CB Franchiser are going to be at the arena tonight beforehand doing autographs, hanging out in the Corona area.

I guess you can be all bumping around the arena. to go find him, go say hello. He'll take a picture where he's got a sweet smile and he still can hit a mid-range jumper like nobody's business. That's Vernon Maxwell. Max, it's a pleasure to have you on our show today. Thank you very much for coming on with us.

Hey, yo, guys. Thanks for having me. We'll see you later. Okay. All right. Vernon Maxwell with us here on Sports Talk 790. He's cool. He feels it.

That's good. Pressure. Let's go. Man, I'd be a little worried if Maxx's like, man, I don't know how things are going to work out today. I don't feel so hot. Oh, man. They're going to win.

I put my name on it. You did. I'm proud of you. I don't think in the history of this show I put my name on anything one minute into the show. Probably not. Maybe something related to the Cougars?

Yeah. My guess is Monday and I, that championship game in San Antonio, I probably put my name on it. I thought they were going to win too, Matt. I get the eraser made out and scratch it out and put congratulations of Florida Gators.

Gross. You have to bring that up. I'm not going to. Astro is going to. for the sweep today. It's AJ Blue Ball season and Rockets going for... We got the twin billing. Some people probably going to both games.

It works out perfectly. One 10 and 630? Are you kidding me? Yeah. Stop off at the Rurt Rar for a couple of drinks in between. Who's picking up the tab on that? You? Go to the Toyota Center early. That's what they get the... Oh, that's true. Go to Happy Arrow with Stevie Franchise

at Vernie Maxwell. Yeah. Get there early. Get some autographs with Stevie Franchise and Vernon Maxwell. We're not promising you a horse game, but Vernon sounds down. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he'll shoot free throws with you, right? At least. Matter of fact, you know what you that I'd do

would be a really funny thing. It would be try to score against Mad Max. He's 60. I still don't think I can. You think you could score against him? I don't think so. He's like 6'4, right? Or 6.5? How tall is Vernon? A hundred Vernon Maxwell's versus one gorilla. In his prime? That gorilla's got no shot. Yeah, the girl's got no shot.

60-year-old, Vernon Maxwell might be a little a bit of a major issue. Yeah, you're 6-4. I think I can only score on people. foot and below. That's funny. All right, 1041 on Sports Talk 790. We're going to talk to Brian Bogus of it coming up in 20 minutes. Matter of fact, let's get to the Astros

coming back. Back to back games, Ross. They fell behind early and won both games. Comeback, Shros? Thanks again to Matt Max for spending a few minutes with us here. 1048, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and we are with you today until 1240.

We'll send it over to Robert Ford and Steve Sparks as they wrap up the series of the Astros go for the sweep against the hated Detroit Tigers. Two wins against the team with the best record in the America League coming into the series. Yeah, suck it, AJ Hinch.

I mean, I wouldn't say that. Oh, never mind then. I mean, I would say, sorry, AJ. Peace be with you. Yeah, well, he's still got scoreboard from the playoffs last year. Yeah, he and the Tigers and the Yankees are now tied for the best record

in the American League East, both with a 600 winning percentage. Astros are game back at 16 and 13, Mariners are in first place in the American League West at 17 and 12. The Astros and the Mariners are both plus when it comes a run differential. The Rangers are a minus three. The athletics who are 500 on the season are a minus 34 in run differential. The angels who are, let's see here, four under 500.

That's not terrible. Minus 35. So if you beat the Angels and the Athletics, you're beating them pretty. badly. Either out of the, or they're not scoring any of the runs in any of the games they lose. So we got that going on as the Astros try to go for the series. And then we got the Rockets at 630.

Last night in the NBA, the Indiana Pacers knocked off the Milwaukee Bucks. And that first one, Milwaukee had a super lead late. What a choke. Man, we are, here's the reality. And even Charles Barkley said this last time on the post game show. We never used choke in sports.

But we've used the word. choke more in the last five years than we have in the previous 50 in sports talk about because it has been basically taboo for athlete to athlete to say it. It's it's been taboo for sports fan to athlete to say it. And it's certainly been taboo for sports radio hosts to say it.

The spot that I will use the word choke is when I think the moment was too big and somebody panicked. Yeah. And that's when I think there was that's when I'll use the word choke. That's what I reserve it for. If you lose a 20-point lead, I mean, that kind of happens in NBA basketball every day. But if there is a moment at the end where it's a huge moment and it becomes too big and you get swallowed up and you fail, I think that's a choke. And choke is a tough word. It's one of those words that automatically people cringe when they say it.

But I think again, and I think in college athletics, Ross, we're saying it more than ever before because of the money that is now being put out there. they're not they're not amateur athletes they're they're being paid like professionals and if you don't make the catch in the fourth quarter of a national championship game or you surrender a bunch of turnovers or whatever in basketball I mean you're you're going to get that label 39 seconds to go

the bucks were up 118 to 111 that's a choke so after the game immediately after the game Tyreys Halliburton by the way makes the winning lay up to give them the win.

Yes. Tyrese's dad I saw this too. Makes a beeline which first of our he must have hellacious testicle size to do this.

This is Tyrese Halliburton's dad I believe his name is John. Don't hold me to it but I believe it's John. Makes a beeline for Janus Athentagumpo and starts smack-talking him. Yanis He's got a blank look on his face

like what? He's stunned. And then he goes back and says something, something, something, something, something, something. And they had to be separated. Yes. Janus is, what, 6, 11, 7 feet? Yeah. And maybe Tyrese's dad's 5'8?

He looks, yeah, he looks shorter than he is probably because he's next to Janus. And by the way, Janus has got like the shoulders of a Terminator. He's built. He could take his fist, club him Fred Flintstone. style and pound John Halliburton into the ground. Like Helmer Fudd? Yeah, like boom, boom, bomb, bomb,

you know, like you're putting a nail into a wall. Yeah. Right. Squish him. I know we've got shut you a bum ass up coming up in 40 minutes or now, but here's an early one. Parents of NBA players, shut

your bum asses up. Storming the court and going after a opposing player, that is next level. So Tyree Saliburton was asked about it right after the game last night. He's like, I got to talk to my dad. He was embarrassed. Yeah, he should have been. He was absolutely humiliated by the fact that his dad did what he did.

Yeah, his dad was probably liquored up. I'm going to imagine. But, man, you're going against one of the five most impactful players in the NBA, who you just beat. By the way, you had nothing to do with it whatsoever. Now you birthed the child who obviously had a little something to do with it. I mean, it was. There was one special night.

I get it. And Tyrese is really good. Damn. All right. Late night. And again, I would expect very few of you to stay up to late to watch this. The Nuggets beat the Clippers. And now they leave the series three games to two.

James Hardin for a second consecutive game did not meet with the media. Oh, geez. Come on, James. He is going to get fined for that. Which he doesn't care. He's making crazy money. No, he doesn't care. The point being is this, is that some guys are stand-up guys that we're willing to say,

hey, we didn't play well, we've got to be better, we got a chance to get back on this. Some guys will get dressed as fast as possible and head to the airport. And James has done that for two straight games. Jamal Murray had 43. Denver's sneaky good. They really are. I know America's not tapping into Clippers, Denver. It's been a great series.

Well, yeah. Maybe America is. Houston isn't. But Houston, at least, is not. So all I'm saying is let's Come on James, you've been doing this a long time. You've had a lot of playoff failures. I mean, you're kind of used to this.

You know what the rig and roll is. You know what the deal is. Get up there, answering questions. The media's going to treat you basically with kid gloves because it's hard to go to an athlete and say, hey, what's it like to see your team lose these games a way that you have? 11 points, 3 of 9 shooting.

8 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 turnovers. and got dressed very quickly. And being around James, like I was for all those years, you know, James is the last one to get dressed. Maybe he had an appearance at the club that he had to make. I wonder if he took, I wonder if he got out of there so fast that he was like, I'm not waiting for the jet. I'm going to take my home, PJ, and go back to L.A.

Maybe he did. You can afford that. Yes, he can. PJ, is that what the kids called private jets, Matt? You're all up in the lingo. Look at you. Just saying. I'm impressed.

I figured you did. I'm impressed, twin. Oh, my God. you're the worst. You are absolutely the worst. All right. Brian Bogusevick's going to join us to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Raw. 713212-5-790. We do have shut your bum ass up coming up in about 35 minutes from now. Looking forward to that. 11 o'clock, Sports Talk, 790. Let's spend 10 quality minutes with our good friend Brian Bogusevick, who is a television star on Space City Home Network.

And he's a star here on Sports Talk 790 on a weekly basis. he joins us every Wednesday at 11 o'clock. Hey, Brian, we were just talking about this a few minutes ago. The Astros, look, it's been a, it's been better, obviously, but it's about a 500 team so far, give or take a couple of games. But the amount of wins against quality opponents, this has been pretty stout. You knock off the match, you've got the Padres,

and you've taken the first two games against the best team, at least record-wise, the American League. Yeah, I think it's a very encouraging thing that some of their best ball has been played against the better teams. you know, oftentimes when we see teams coming in to play the Astros and you're looking at, you know, what have they done over the past week or two? You know, a lot of times teams who look like they're hot, you know, have come off a series where they've been playing Colorado or the White Sox or somebody of that nature.

So when you're beating good opponents, when you're beating teams that, you know, pitch very well, hit very well and kind of have all-around game, I think it's a sign that number one, the Astros are starting to play better. we know what kind of team is in there and when it all comes around what they can be and that's a team that can stand toe to toe with anybody. I don't think there was any question that that was in there. It was just a question of when are we going to see it

and then how consistently can we see it once it comes out? And the fact I also love it, not only are you beating the good teams, but you fell behind in both games against Detroit and put together these crooked number innings. I think we've seen more crooked number innings from the Astros in the last week, Brian, maybe you saw in the first three or four weeks of the season. Yeah.

it's nice to see that there are different paths to victory for the team. You know, it seemed like the wins that they were getting early. It was, you know, we're going to have one inning where we score a couple of runs and then, you know, we're going to basically turn it over to the pitchers and try to hang on for dear life to see the fact that they can extend leave and add on late, you know, have an inning where they score on a big hit to drive in a couple runs, but then maybe get another hit or two later like they did yesterday, or just, you know, we can get down early and if our pitcher lets us hang around, we can go beat up on a bullpen

and have a win. You know, you've got to be able to win multiple ways. And I think even when we see the best version of this team, it's going to be very pitching forward and they're going to be a pitching and defense first team, but they've got to be able to outslug people every once in a while. And I think it's nice to see that the offense can kind of lead the way when need be. Brian Bogus-Evick with us here on Sports Talk 790. And there's been some shuffling in the lineup. Let's just start philosophically first. What do you think about how big of a deal it is for a team with lineup construction and also for a player individually where you're going to be in the lineup? I think it is a big deal and it isn't a big deal. It's not a big deal in that

you're going to find some magic formula and everything's just going to fall into place, right? The way that the offense is going to start being the best version of itself is going to be, you know, a collection of individuals getting it going themselves. And that's not just going to happen because you put them in a certain order. However, you know, doing things on a day-to-day or week-to-week basis to maximize what is going right is always a good thing. and also, you know, doing things to get guys a little bit more comfortable. You know, the thing with Altouvae, if he felt like he was being rushed coming in in the top half of the first inning to hit, then, you know, make him feel comfortable

and maybe that gets him going a little bit. You know, it's playing mind games as well as playing, you know, matchup type of games. And that's, you know, kind of the art of being a manager is you've got to manage people. and it's not just, okay, what does the numbers look like on paper say that it should be? I think it's also, you know, telling to the quality of people they have in the clubhouse that everybody's open to it. You know, there are a lot of teams and a lot of players across the league where if you start messing with guys and, you know, move a guy from first to third or from third to sixth in the order or whatever, you know, it'll put them into pout mode. and that is not the case with anybody in this team. And I think, you know, the number one reason for that is that Jose Al-Tuvae is the guy who's most open to whatever needs to be done.

So it's nice to see that the players are giving the coaches the leeway to go and move some things around. And one of the things that's been moving around is Christian Walker bumped down. He's been hitting a lot better. We're seeing some home runs from him as well. What are you seeing from his approach and swings that is making this improvement? confidence. The swing doesn't necessarily look any different than it did. The swing decisions certainly look better. And a lot of that has to do with trusting himself and just trusting that he's fine. You know, when you're looking up at your batting average and it says 150, you know,

it just puts that doubt in your mind of like, man, maybe I'm not seeing it well. Maybe my swing isn't going to be there if the ball does show up in the middle of the plate. But if you all of a sudden believe that you're going to recognize and swing at good pitches and take tough pitches. And you believe that if you swing at a heater down the middle, your barrel is going to get there, you know, all of a sudden you can be freed up a little bit. And he looks very free. And the swings that he's taking, obviously the balls that he's hitting and driving, they look good. You know, he's had some balls that he's, you know, fouled off, that he's taken really aggressive,

you know, convicted types of swings. He doesn't look like he's feeling for anything anymore, which is where he was for the first, you know, 15, 20 games when he was, when he was searching for something. And it looks like he found whatever it was he was searching for. Bogey, the roster construction, you know, there have been a lot of managers over the years that have always tried to get at least one left in their bullpen. Some teams go without it. I know the Astros, even during part of their heyday, would go without a left-handed reliever. The Astros have bucked that trend with all the guys that can go from the South Paul side of things. First of all, are you intrigued by that?

and is are we going to see a new trend because it feels like to me was still predominantly a right-handed hitting lineup like the Detroit had, you can definitely use that to your, or I should say left-hand hitting lineup. You can use that to your advantage in terms of being able to try to mix things up a little bit, especially if you've got

teams that you've been coming up with a primary left-hand-handed lineup. Yeah, it'll certainly play into your favor when you have those lefty dominant lineups that you're facing. I've always been a proponent of you want the best guy. you know, and of course you want different looks and different matchups, but, you know, not at the sake of quality stuff.

And they were kind of in a situation coming out of spring training where it was, let's just take our best guys and we'll figure it out from there. Now, you know, you get the four lefties, you know, hater, don't even put him into that conversation. His role is, you know, closer, we know what that is. It's been a really positive thing that both Brian King and Stephen O'Kert have been good against writing. especially O'Kert. You know, the kind of book on him coming in was really good against lefties, you know, don't know how he's going to be against righties. He's dominated both.

So now all of a sudden you don't need those guys to be matchup type pitchers. They're more leverage type pitchers and then throw Sousa in the midst to where you can, you know, spot him into places where you like him for different parts of the lineup. So it gives Joe a lot of options to play the handedness. matchup and the platoon matchup, but what it's also been is Brian King and Stephen O'Kirk kind of emerging as guys that we can lean on at the end of games also. So, yeah, best guys are going to get the biggest innings, and they've got guys who are making cases to be those guys.

We're about to see a six-man rotation coming up with a limit number of off days, and whether that's blue ball who gets a start is in that group or whether Lance McCuller takes that spot. How do you massage that? you're going to be down an arm in the bullpen. What are your general thoughts about a six-man rotation? And how much do you think that Joe's got to differently manage because of the fact he's got one less guy to go to?

Yeah, it becomes a necessary thing. You know, when you have these stretches of, you know, 16, 17 games in a row and then it adds up, you know, it's like a 25 and 24 days or 24 games and 25 days, whatever. That takes a toll on a pitching staff. And especially when you have, a guy, you know, Wesnowski, he threw like 80 innings last year. He's not going to be able to throw 160, 180 innings. So you're going to have to massage it at some point. It all comes down to

what kind of lengths are you getting out of your starters. And with, you know, Hunter Brown, you know, seemingly being a lock for six plus innings, Frommber's been that way for most of the last three years. If you can consistently get those guys deep to where you're not overextending the guys in the bullpen, then you'll be fine. If all of a sudden it starts, you know, you get a three-inning start, a two-inning start where it throws the bullpen into flocks and all of a sudden you're eating up innings and you're having to bring in Josh Hater in a situation to where you just need somebody to throw, that's where you get yourself into trouble.

But it was going to happen at some point because of A, scheduling and B, just trying to limit some innings for guys. and maybe you're going to have to lean into pitchers every once in a while and tell a starter you're going to have to push to 100 or 105. I would especially point to Hunter and Framber as guys who you can lean into a little bit more heavily. But yeah, it's something that you know is going to have to happen at some point in the season and you just hope your starters can hold the line for it. Cam Smith with the day off yesterday, Brian.

What have you been seeing from him? He had that big two home run game, but things have slowed for him since. Yeah, it's still a work in progress. You know, it's still a lot of the same things that he's been working out from the start of the season, right? He's trying to get a little more rhythm pre-pitch, which will allow him to get started on time, which will allow the bat head to get out front. You know, when your primary focus as a hitter is I'm trying to get the bat. out and get to the fastball, you can also become susceptible to breaking balls.

And sometimes you can get caught in this little in between where you're not quite out there to really get on the heater, but at the same time, you're sped up enough to where you're not laying off the breaking balls. So this is why it's really difficult to learn at the major league level, because you're not going to get mistakes to help you out along the way. You're not going to get, you know, guys, you know, a start day from a guy. guy who doesn't really belong. You're just getting nasty stuff every day. So he's better. It is much better than it was at the start of the season in terms of where his contact point is and where he can

hit the ball, you know, driving the ball in the middle of the field. But he's still trying to get going a little bit and get that bad hat out front. All right. Late word coming in for let you run. Lance McCuller is going to start on Sunday. Boy, this has been a long, winding confusing, aggravating road for LMJ and he's going to finally get the opportunity to get back on that mound for the first time and quite some time. This is, I'll be honest

with you, I don't know that I can think of anybody who's had that much time anybody who's down for more than a year plus, it's almost like you never see them come back. And as big of a win as this is for the team and the organization,

you just got to be happy for the guy. I mean, what it's like to come back from injury, what it's like to rehab, go down to Florida and rehab on your own, show up at the field and do all your work before the rest of the team is there. It sucks, and it's miserable, it's depressing. So I'm just happy for Lance that he gets to come back and get back out there on the mound and, you know, add into the fact that if he's right, that's a damn good arm that you're adding into that rotation.

So that's exciting news. Bogey, thank you for the visit. As always, great job on the Space City stuff and look forward to visiting with you again next Wednesday. Enjoy your rest of your week. All right, guys. Thank you. Brian Boga-Septic with us here every Wednesday. And it's a great addition to our midday show here.

We really appreciate him stopping by. Yeah, LMJ, Lance McCullors Jr. We'll start on Sunday. We'll give you the rundown of the starters for the weekend after this. Plus, at the bottom of the hour, Ross, tell some people to shut their bumasses up. We got shut your bum ass up. We may just want to call this to shut your bum ass.

Brought to you by Draymond Green. How spicy do you think he's going to be tonight? Well, let me give you this. Now, we have to lay odds on this. Draymond behaves himself is a plus 400. Hmm. As in like no technicals? No technicals, no skirmishes.

And a flagrant one. In game four, he had five fouls, a flagrant one and a technical. It was able to survive all of it. That's pretty good. I mean, that's making the most of your time. filling up the box score in one way. Okay, so plus 400, there is absolutely nothing involving

against termish. Technical fight, flagrant, that's got to be at about a minus 280. Okay, yeah, there will be some sort of issue. Got to be. Oh, my gosh. Just terrible. Just absolutely terrible.

But, you know what? It works. And it's funny, I'll say this. Now, the guys, the rockets don't like him. But Stephen Adams on the podium a couple days back, it's like, you know what? I like him. He plays hard. Even Vernon Maxwell's like, I like, there are probably more players that would,

that had that certain DNA that are like, they bother by him. Mm-hmm. I think Dylan Brooks likes them in a way. Yeah. You know, like how Doc Holiday like Johnny Ringo. Say that one more time? That's a Tombstone reference. Yeah, I had no idea what that is.

If Adam Clanton's listening, he got it and he liked it. That's like one of his favorite movies. Tombstone? Yeah, Tombstone. I know you've never seen it. I mean, I've heard it's obviously It's very popular. Yeah.

But that's not my... Val Kilmer, Kurt Russell. May he rest in peace? Sam Elliott. Still alive. A younger... What's his name that married Angelina Jolie and Billy and Bob Thornton? Weren't they related by cousins or something?

Are they cousins? I don't think... I don't know. There's something that was creepy about their relationship, was there not? I don't... Well, it was creepy that they had vials of each other's blood on each other's. That's what it was. That's what it was.

By the way, we've got a little bit of breaking news on the NFL side of things. We do? It's not worthy of a sound or anything. Okay. The National Football League went to the line of Falcons and find them $250,000. Oh, for the, yeah. Jeff Albrecht, who's their defensive coordinator, he got dinged personally $100,000. That hurts.

For the leak of Shador Sanders' phone number during the NFL draft. That's a big chunk. 100,000? Yeah, how much is a de-coordinator making? Two million. Okay, that's still, that hurts. No, it hurts. Because after taxes, he's probably making one.

That's like a tenth of his salary. Oh, you're right. That's all of my... Now, again, I heard two million. I don't know that for a fact, but I... If you may want to check that for me, I don't... What's his name again? Oldrick?

I shouldn't be flippantly throwing out guy's salaries, but U-L-B-R-I-C-H, O-B-R-C-C. Google says 1.6 million. Okay, so, but still, he can afford it. He can afford it, but it hurts. Woo! Now, he said I'm going to leave my iPad laying around no more. Now, again, his son, Jacks, spelled J-A-X, which 90% of men named Jacks are douchebags. Yeah, also, Jeff Ulbrook has been fined $50,000 for naming his son, Jacks.

I'm actually, I'll be honest with you guys. I'm more offended by the name Jackson and what about putting the phone number out there. Come on, Jacks. You ready for this? Jacks. Get over here, Jacks. Jonathan, argue with me about this. Put that down, Jacks.

The two biggest douche names out there are Jacks and Brody. No, bro, I was going to agree with you. I grew up with a Jackson that was just the worst. Oh, my God. Yeah, hear you hear that in the young man's voice? Yeah. How about a Brody? You think Brodies are douchebags?

I met like three brodies and they're all the same type of character. Uh-huh. Things are in three, Ross. Give me the third jukex and Brody. And? Michaela. No. Is Dylan a douchebag name?

Sometimes. B-Y-L-A-N? Bob Dylan? No, he's just overrated. Oh, Dylan Brooks? That's D-I-L-L-O-N. I'm not going to call him a douche. You better not.

You better not. I like the villain, by the way. I don't even call him Dylan anymore. I say, what's up, villain? You say, what's up, villain? What's up, twin? I'm working with a voice. We're trying to build that relationship.

What's the third douche's name? The broskeys. Would a Blaine be in that mix? Hunter? Oh, I got one good friend of Hunter. Now Hunter's really good dude Adam Oh easy

That's it Done Brody Jackson Adam I'll go I'll go look to the list I'll just go through male names Is there a list called duchiest names

No I'm just going to mail names All right You know I forgot to do I forgot to put a poll question Who's gonna win Who you got tonight Oh people are saying Cameron

Nope No no no No, they're not. They better not be. Beat that ass. There's a lot of Jailens and Jadens around these days. What is up with that, by the way? Half the Texans team is now Jailans.

You know, the name was invented by Jalen Rose's mom. And now there's like a billion Jailens. Well, there's two Jailens, two Jailans, two Jailen Williams on the Oklahoma City roster. Now they spell their names differently. I know. And the Texans drafted three Jalens. Yeah.

And a Jaden, I believe. Yes. It's very confusing. And then that offensive lineman that's got a name I've never heard before. Ariante. Ariante. It's A-I-R.

I just call them Tay. That's what the kids call them. Okay. All right. All right. I'm going to put this up for... Are you doing this right now? Right now.

Six hours and ten minutes. Matt Thomas is stolen because he's making a Twitter poll. At SportsM-T. All right. Why don't you give him a follow? You should follow me. At SportsM-T. Oh, this is an interesting one.

Line two. Okay. It says douche name suggestion. Well, let's hear it. Tyler? I am here. So what about the name Cooper? Oh.

Like Cooper flag? Huh. Interesting. Interesting. Now, go ahead. Unfortunately, I named our one-year-old son, Cooper. No, wait a minute. You just came on a radio show to admonish your

your own name for your son? You're calling your one-year-old son a douche? It was my wife's suggestion. I said that name is D-Bagworthy and she did not believe me. And now we are stuck with it. All right. So let me give you the two reasons why I didn't go with it because that name Cooper was on our shortlist for our last kid, which happened to be a girl. So it was kind of moot. You could name her, Coop. I don't think so. Cindy Cooper. Two reasons why. Number one, we would have named a second member of the Manning family. after our kids and I said to my wife I said that's a bridge to far. That's just

way too creepy, okay? That was number one. And number two, I don't, the name Coop drives me crazy. And all of his bros, Tyler, are going to name, are going to, when he's playing basketball, what's up, Coop? Or at the movie theater or online. What's up,

Coop? He's, is he going to correct his name the rest of his life? No, he's going to accept the fact that he's no longer Cooper. He's just going to be flat out, flat out coop. So if Tyler, if your son disowned you at some point, it's really more your fault than anything else because you knew this is going to be ahead of time and you did

nothing to stop it. And to make it even worse, I call him coop. Coop a loop. What do you call when kids, is it an emancipation? Is that what that is? No, I guess so. What is it called when you try to conservatorship and then they get emancipated? You try to

separate yourself from the family legally. Tudor, you've got no children at this point. You just don't know it yet. I have zero. I have zero, and now that makes sense after talking to y'all. Are you going to have another child, or are you guys done with one? No, we're going to go with another one, but I'm going to call y'all for name suggestions. Tyler, I swear to God, you must call me ahead of time.

I will not steer you in the wrong direction, and if we've got to put your wife on the show, we'll do the exact same thing. We're not going to let you mess. We're going to let you bet 500 with these names. All right. I'll do it. Absolutely. Thank you, Tyler. We'll see it later.

Good sport. He just called his own son a douche. What a legend. It's rude. But it's really his wife. He's probably is a douche when he's like spitting up on you and stuff. Or one-year-olds? There was a time Cameron, I don't mean to haught my son, but we went to Roo-Rux, a very staking stone grab place.

Roo-Rux. Oh, my gosh. That's high-end. That was over 25 years. How was Milo there? He was 24. Mildo's live. Cam's 24 now.

He was less than a year old, and I'm holding him about to sink in my, teeth into this beautiful dinner. I'll start to inferred you guys. But before you guys go to break, this guy's name is Adam, and he's trying to say that his son's name is Jackson Cooper. Oh, no. Okay, we'll get to that in a second. But more quick,

so Cameron is just soiling himself all over my white shirt. I mean, it's just rolling down. I don't know why I told that story, but it's just, it's going to happen. Yeah, you get spit up on. Spitt up. I'll take spit up over the other stuff. Okay.

Adam is with us here quickly before we get to shut your bomb ass up. Now, is Jackson J-A-C-S-O-N or is he J-A-X-S-O-N? No, it's the traditional with the C-K. Okay, then you've been spared embarrassment. I'm going to tell you that right now. Well, at least that much, yes. But some people will call him Jacks, but literally his first name is Jackson, his middle name's Cooper, and my first name is Adam. So I'm...

I've got thick skin. You hit the, Adam, you hit the trifectum of it. You've knocked out all the check, all the boxes. I only said Adam because of our 2 o'clock hosts. I was joking. Yeah, now, how old are you safe, Adam? How old is Jackson, by the way? Jackson is 14.

14? Yes, sir. And he goes by Jackson or does it go by Jack? He goes by Jackson. My late mother used to call him Jack Jack, but some of his friends will call him Jacks. Okay. Yeah, the nickname is fine.

I just, I just, I wanted no part of the letter X is part of his name, Adam. That's what spares you from the grief. So I congratulate you on that. Yeah, I appreciate it, guys. I was listening to the conversation and the further it went. Oh, you were, let me tell you something. You were swearing at the radio and you're like, I have to call you an embarrass these guys. He's just sitting there mind in his business.

He's like, Jackson here. I'm just trying to listen for a rocket rate breakdown. Adam? Oh, I got to call it. Now, one of my best friend's son's name is Jackson, and he calls him. Nobody ever calls him Jack. He is Jackson the entire way. Jackie.

No Jackie either. Like Jackie Wilson. There's no men called himself Jackie. Oh, you tell Jackie Robinson that. I can't. Oh. All right. Ladies and gentlemen.

Wow. Matt hates Jackie Robinson. Moron and then the next segment. If you want to tell Draymond Green to shut his bum ass up, this is, you got a half hour to do it. Actually, everybody call in just to see how many we can get in just to say Draymond, shut your bum ass up. How many people can call this show right now at 713, 212, 5, 770. can we get a streak of Draymond Green

shut your bum ass up man or you know what or ain't nobody got to time for I'll open it up to anything Warrior related Jimmy Butler yes Steve Kerr Warriors fans

Warriors fans can we get a streak a lot like a silver streak of nothing but shut your bum ass up to the Warriors 713 212 5790 hey no one again tap Hey nobody got time.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Hey, nobody got time for that. All right. I'm going to leave by example. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-790. Now look, every one of our callers doesn't have to be shut your bum ass up, Dremont Green.

I mean, it can be, but I'm just saying if you got something else in your life going on, like I got two for you here real quick that are non-Dremont Green. So I'm going to go three in a row. one to the HOV lane yesterday going from hobby to 59 to home. The freeway was going faster than the HOV lane was. And I paid $4.50 to be in the HOV lane. And I was going 26 miles per hour. Ain't nobody got time for you not to pretend that you're not on the Indianapolis 500 when you're on the HOV.

Go as fast as humanly possible. Ain't nobody got time for that. Hey nobody got time for that. When you get in an HOV lane, you must speed. as fast as humanly possible. Your car's... Oh, the speed limit's 60, man. No, no, no.

You got to go minimum 78. Minimum. 78? Correct. I would say more in the 80 category. 8082. I would encourage people to follow the law, Matt. I think you should shut your bum ass up then.

You know what? I think, well, I'm hearing from the Texas Department of Transportation, they're saying you need to shut your bum ass up. I'm going to tell you. Shut your bum ass up, man. If in the HOV lane, if I'm going 26, and the people in the five lane 59 are going 49, 50, 50, There's a problem.

I'm paying $4.50. Shut your bum ass up. HOV. Let's go on a Sunday drive drive. Shut your bum ass up, man. Number two. I get family takeout for the family yesterday at Readers. It's the closest place.

It's not. Readers. Reader's Marie Rill. Readers, Marie. I don't know. It's fine. It's burgers, chicken sandwiches. Sure.

Why not? I don't know. Shit your bum ass. Don't shut you by man's shop yet. Yeah, if you can't figure it out. That's pretty funny. All right. You used to be the name of the team of the...

I got you. I know it is. Okay. Okay. So my son orders a set of wings from there. And they're mid. But if you want wings, you got wings. I'd rather you go to Big City wings, but it was closer and faster.

We needed to get home quick. I said, sir, I'll take barbecue wings, which, by the way, is for children. I don't want my son at 24 insist on barbecue flavor. It's... Barbecue sauce? Yeah. Or, like, barbecued on the grill. No, barbecue sauce.

What if it's honey barbecue? Okay, maybe. Point being is this. And I want two ranch dressings and barbecue wings. We get home, I open it up, wings, no sauce on them whatsoever, and no ranch dressing either one of them.

Well, you got to check your food for you, leave, Maddie. Clearly. So I said, and I did this because I was a dumbass, I said, hey, I'll go back. And I was full expecting my son to say, no, dad, it's okay. he said thanks dad

I went back he called your bluff he did call my bluff so to Reader's Marie Rill get your damn wing order right by the way if you're going to wings you should go to Big City

I'm just telling you the flat out truth because I got a burger I'm going to eat wings at that midplace and give me the damn sauce anybody got time to make a second trip to Reader's Marie Rill

I'm sorry Matt why don't you tell your son to drive his ass over there no because I'm a good son I'm a good dad and lastly kid gloves Traymond Green, you five fouling, penalty one flagrant, technical foul, every damn game, push shove, kick, scratch, claw, pull the jersey of Tyrese and shut your bum ass up, mate.

Shut your bum ass up, man. God, I felt good. I just, I unleashed a lot right there. Yeah, you did. I'm proud of you, Matt. You look more calm. What's the matter with you? I'll go, Draymond, too.

Why not? Go ahead, give him to us. You're eye-gouging, nut-kicking, complaining, should have been thrown out of game number four. Dremont Green. Ain't nobody got time for your antics. Ain't nobody got time for that? 7-13-212-5-7-9-Jon.

What's the matter with you? You know, I had a good week this week so far. Then say something about Dremont Green and shut your bum ass up there. I got some, you know what? To Dremont Green. Get him. Get him. Stop making my coworkers mad and shut your bum ass out.

There it is. That'll work. He should make you mad too. He has no. You know he's got no fire in his belly for Ramon Green. You know what you're a fraud. You know he's a warrior fan. Warrior fan Jonathan Allen.

You know what you are, closet warrior fan. Yeah, what are you? You charge you, you go, charges go. You southern California loving, northern California loving sports fans. Shut your bum ass up. Everybody has time for you. Shut your bum ass up, man. Matt on 790, Matt, what's the matter with you?

Matt. Apparently, I'm supposed to believe the guy has restless leg, since you want some crap here. What was up in his legs? Who falls under control like that and gets her legs on someone's neck? He keeps them there. Seriously. Then we have Reggie Miller here defending it like it's physics.

Give me a break here. How is that physics? Seriously. And the last thing here, these pants are wearing it right now. Inner zipper. Make your zipper work. I had your pets off the other day and cut my zipper open to get my damn keys out. And my kid almost crapped herself, okay?

That's the end one there. But thank you guys. Okay, thank you. Nobody had time for... Reggie Miller was defending Draymond Green. Everybody's like, by the way, and look, you shouldn't be watching Reggie Miller. Me, I know Kevin Harlan's a goat.

I know. But Reggie Miller, oof. Watch Space City. Take care of my guys, Ryan and Craig and Vanessa. They need the help over there. Come on now, help the folks out. Get you a little local flavor. Of course, listen to me, too.

$7.90. Do it all. Put your radio on and put Space City on. Yeah, exactly what you want you. do because I'm going to kill it tonight because the Rockets are beating the Golden State Warriors and we're going to play Game 6 in San Francisco on Friday night.

I hope you're right. Better hope I'm right. I'm going to be a hot mess. I need therapy tomorrow if we lose. We'll fly out to tell you right now. We'll see. Ken, what's the matter with you? I want to just say real quick,

Draymore Green, Jimmy Butler, and Steve Kerr, all three of you shut your bum asses up. All right. Yeah. Right to the point there. My man's up, man. You know, it doesn't have to explain the situation either. We just know it.

How about Tyrese Halliburton's father? How about any parent? Know your role. Do you think I would do that with Carly's dad? If Carly had a big volleyball man, you think I'd go to the other team and put it in their face? Well, Mrs. Thomas, Mike. Oh, that's true. So here's a preventative.

Kim Thomas, shut your bum ass up when Carly plays well. Shit your bum ass up, man. She's going to kill me if you find out about that. I'll send her the audio right now. No, you will not. Yep, texting it over. on seven on a camera what's the matter with you man two people one draymond green if you weren't too busy playing tech and on the cord and basketball you may have won that dpo i this year and second to

the h o a lady who sent me a letter because my trash can was behind my fence shut your bum ass up you know what you are 100% right i hate our h o a too everybody's h oa let us live our life with our trash cans and shut your bum ass up anybody got time for you taking reading the letters this letter is to inform you that your trash can was three foot behind the line of where it should have been. If you could just go ahead and shore that up, that'd be great. This is a warning and next time we'll constitute a fine. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to defecate on the next time I get a letter like that.

Oh, my God. You got that right. I didn't swear. You're going to take a dump on the letter and send it back to the HOA office? First class mail, of course. Okay. Feels like that could be a federal crime. Yeah.

What kind of crime is it? I don't know. Like I said, you get the USPS involved and gets federal, Matt. All right, maybe I won't. I'll think about it. Maybe I've thought about it before. You're just going to go light a bag of poop on fire in front of the HOA? I don't even know where the HOA offices.

You better find it. Although they did have a nice crawfish bowl for Carter this week. So I got a shout out to the neighborhood for that. Oh, look at that. All right. More phone calls up next 1144 on Sports Talk 790 with a... Want a shout out a brand new sponsor to the Matt Thomas show, RiseHealth.com.

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coming up here. Oh, yeah. All right, let's go. Geo, 790. Geo, what's the matter with you? All right, man, I've been waiting all week for this. Yes, sir. As you guys know, I called him before, my son is a died hard, uh, warrior's fan, and a courage. fan. So, you know, we have been bumping heads past couple days like crazy, all right? And the other day, you know, when we lost, my son's all in my ear chirping, chirping and chirping away, right? So I'm, I'm P-Oed. And then I got my wife who I love with her death and she's pregnant. I called about

her earlier. I don't know if you guys remember another day, but she's over here talking about, oh, well, you know, since Xavier's favorite team is in words, I'm going to support him too. So to my son Xavier and to my beautiful wife, who even though she's pregnant, if you want to support his blasphemy, both y'all can shut y'all bum asses up. Let's go Rockins. Yeah. Get your bum ass up, man. Gio, I'm right there with you.

So Mrs. Gio, shut your bum ass up, woman. Shut your bum ass up, man. Anybody got time for you to be a young child raising, or I say a young boy being raised as a Golden State fan. Hey, nobody got time for that. No where you are. No your role. Know your city. Hmm.

It's tough scenes. lot of curry kids. Gut feeling? It's gonna be fine. I mean a lot of curry jerseys and Curry jerseys in the building tonight. And it wasn't in the building in game two. It wasn't that bad in game one.

One of them was bad actually. Okay. They can smell blood, I think. I think a lot of Rockets fans sold their tickets. Is that what you're saying? I hope not. Brian and Pearland, you're on 790. Brian, what's the matter with you?

It's all the people waiting on the shoot and drop on a Lance McCuller's injury on Saturday. before it start on Sunday. Shut your bum ass up. And Steve Kerr and all the other warriors, you guys get the benefit of every damn call that the NBA.

You know they ain't going to throw Draymond out of a playoff game if they don't want to throw them out of a regular season game. Shit your bum ass up, man. And just take your medicine and keep going. All right. Thank you, Brian.

They've been joining that medicine so far. People have been waiting for the other to drop them the colors, and I understand. But I'm rooting for him. And I did have a gut feeling that he would contribute in a positive way. Several starts this season for the 25 Astros. So I lose on that. Which is okay.

That's all right. We're proud of you. Howie, did you see what the white socks are going to wear on Friday night for their city connects? No, I didn't. Oh, the red ones? They're the Chicago Bulls jerseys, basically. Oh, really? We're in white socks gear.

It's pretty good. Okay. Pretty, pretty good. Brad. Oh, no. Brad, is this? This is a different Brad? Hi, Brad.

What's the matter with you? Hey, I was a guy. I'm here. There's maybe a spot that needs to change a shirt again. I don't know. I want to say it. All that Golden State Warriors fans, especially. Get your bum ass up.

Yeah, thank you very much. To our phone system here. Yeah, I don't know if that was our R.R. It's totally in our end. Shut our bum asses up. We haven't to be. Oh, yeah. Okay, so I didn't know that this was supposed to be Bulls.

I thought they were honoring, I don't know, Chicago Fire Department or something. No, those are Bulls. Those are bulls. Because you're on their own by the Winesdor family, so. I like them. Cool. Oh, they got a literal Bulls logo on there. Yeah. Okay. They ain't messing around. They are not.

All right, let's check the Twitter poll question today. We don't have to. Yeah, we do. Let's take a look. Ooh. 202 votes are in. Okay. 30 minutes ago.

The poll ends in five hours and 39 minutes. Rockets 69% Warriors 31. Now, it was significantly, I think it was 75, 25, 25 after game number three, I think. So less confidence this time. Yeah. Great. Yep, yep, yeah. I am listening on IHeart Radio.

This is from Backward Bloom 80. I'm in a meeting. And I keep bursting out laughing and keep getting looked at for laughing. I need you both to shut your bum asses up. Love your show. Thank you very much. Shut your bum ass up, man. No, we can't shut our bum asses up.

It's our job. It's a four-hour talk show. Well, not four hours today. Not today. All right. Let's make our predictions. 103-98 rockets. Jalen Green doesn't go off, but he has a bounce-back game, 23 points.

I was going to say I would put the over under 20. So you're going to go over. Well, it's been 18 and a half. on draft Kings pick six. I'm going over the 18 and a half. Okay. More than, I'm sorry. Yeah.

And 23 points from Jalen Green. Nice little bounce back. Shangoon is good. Who's the hero? There's no hero. The defense is the hero. They win like 107 and 100. Steph Curry, 24 points over under on that.

Under. It's 17 in game four, and yet they still won. Astros on deck is next. 1157 here on Sports Talk 7.8.