The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - The Matt Thomas Show 2-6-20

Episode Date: February 6, 2020

The Matt Thomas Show w/ @SportsMT, @SportsRV, and @ProNickLow 2/6/20Trade Deadline Clock Is Ticking (0:00)Rockets Trade Jordan Bell for Bruno Caboclo (11:09)Rockets Taking on Lakers Tonight (28:47)Hank Aaron Wants Astros Players Banned From Baseball (48:37)Snoop and 50 Cent Slam Gayle King (58:24)Non Florida Stories (1:39:02)

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You're not larger than life. Yeah! Lunchtimers is the Matt Thomas Show. 1202 in H-Town. What's happening in lunchtimmers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Alongside Nick Lowe, our producer back in Houston, sports RV, Ross Villarillo, co-host, friend, Patriot. I'm Matt Thomas coming to you from Beverly Hills.

California. Ross, I feel like I'm in a different stratosphere when I'm in Beverly Hills. I bet you do, Matt. I bet it's the it's the pinnacle of fancy madness. It really is. I mean, we travel to 29 other NBA cities and most downtowns are about the same. This one's not. This is just beautiful people, L.A. snootiness and just it's just like I'm in a different world, literally. And I wish I could explain to you. I did by showing you the gas prices. I got to a city called Culver City, which is adjacent to Beverly Hills, but

still were regular like normal people, I guess supposedly live. I love their hamburgers. Oh, that's a different culvers, but that's another here nor there. 419, Frontland of Gas, Ross. 419, and that's not by the airport. You know how airport gas

stations always doubt you? Or the gallery in Houston's pretty high. Yeah. This is 10 miles from LAX. Maybe a little bit less. $4.19 a gallon. Just think about that as you're pumping your 198 gas this morning. That's why we love our city, Houston, Texas. Ross, today is a very interesting day on the show.

I'm here in L.A. for tonight's Rockets, Lakers game, which you can hear right here on Sports Talk 790 at the 9.30 tip time. But today is a very important day in the world of the NBA. And it's a day that we... I always feel like we have the trade deadline clock always available to us on July 31st and February 6th of every year. Because yes, Ross, we are down to an hour 56 before anybody else can make trades in the NBA.

And I think the rockets are still working the phones trying to chase the center now that Clint Capella is officially Atlanta Hawk. Does Darrell-Mory's phone just stay plugged in to battery, like all day? Because you know he's draining. He's got probably multiple phones, number one. Well, I know he has multiple phones. And then they're probably all getting down to like zero percent, even like starting at like 9 a.m. You know what?

I would think if you're a general manager of an NBA team and you're in that position, you have to get one of those long cords too. Because you just, if you're using the one that Apple gives you, that gives you about two feet of rope, right, give or take? Yeah. Maybe even a little bit less. No, usually they're like three feet. Okay. Oh, boy. Are we ready?

We've got, well, it's not on rockets aren't in. involved doesn't look like, but yes, we've got our first woge bomb of the show bat. Okay. Golden State has agreed to trade DeAngelo Russell to Minnesota for a deal that includes Andrew Wiggins, a 2021 protected first round pick, and a

2022 second round pick. League Horses Tell ESPN Warriors will send Jacob Evans and Omari Spellman to the Timberwolves as well. So there you go. There's your first woge bomb of the Matt Thomas show. Wow. I'm looking at his

likes and retweets, you know, if I get a like, I get like one, two, three, five, ten, thirteen. It has gone up, it goes up 200, now it's up to 10,000 likes, 11,200 likes. I'm doing this live as it happens. Right.

11,500 likes. He just went from 5.1,000 retweets to 6,000. He's at 6,000 retweets in a minute. 12,400 likes. I've never had 6,000 retweets in the history of my account combined. What am I going to do, Ross? What are we going to do to get this kind of track? Matt, you got to do the side eye emoji.

Are you going to do it? At 156, I am. No, don't do it at 156. You got to do it earlier. Like when you're going to do it. When should I do the side eye? I'm thinking about 155. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 1255.

So 1155 your time. 10.55. It's actually 10 o'clock here in the Pacific time zone. Okay, so in 49 minutes, I will do a side eye. Yes. And people are going to then ask me what it's about. I'm not to respond. Right. Don't say anything.

Even after it's all over, don't say anything. Okay. I'll retwe. I'll make sure to retweet it. And I want to get a bunch of it. Or you know what? Should I quote tweet and say, uh-oh, something brewing in Rocketville? No, you should say, Matt, what's happening?

Or how about I put in all caps? Tell us, Matt. Yeah, do that. Whatever you can do to fully embellish this. Yes. He's up to 18,000. 19,000. It is out of control his likes.

Well, he's also got a million followers, too, right? Like four million followers, yeah. Good gracious. Okay, so the first big trade has happened. Do you think he's had a, is he going to have a four million follower party? He probably has that next week. If I could get woe, and I don't even know, I've only spoken to him one time in my life. We had him on long, long, long, long time ago.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember what he was because he had gone to Yahoo for a little bit, remember? Right. And we could talk to him. The ESPN people were very difficult. to get on the show because they believe their brand is only good for their brand and they don't believe in really talking to people that have audiences, but that's not here nor there. He's on the list of people that got way too big for the show.

Okay, let's run through the list of people that got too big for the show. Steve Tasker for a while. Yes. But he got downgrading. Sam Amick? Sam Amick? Zach Lowe. I can get Sam on once in.

I bet I see Sam tonight. He can be here for this game. You know, you know somehow he is, though, even when you ask him. Before you even built a relationship with him doing the Rockets, he had started ghost us as the kids say. Okay. The kid says it goes to. Zach Lowe.

For sure. Tom Curran. Oh, Tom E. Kern of Comcast, New England. Yeah, there's a few. There's about five or six. Yeah. There's a bunch of guys that we used to really be able to rely on. We're good guys.

And then, like Joe Client, he's probably in town for the Houston Roughneck Skin. He hadn't called us. Want to break bread, have some lunch, do something, have a cock, He didn't drink anymore, but you know what I'm saying? I mean, yeah. I'm telling you, when I get to 30,000 Twitter at some point in my life, I will not forget you little people. I just won't. At sports empty.

At sports empty. Okay. So let's do this for quick. Your gut feeling, do the rockets get a center between now and 2 o'clock central time today? I will say no. I think that will get something. I'm just going to, this is me just spitballing. I'll say they get something in the, in the biomark.

Hmm. Okay. Now, apparently there were some rumors this morning that Tristan Thompson was on the Rockets radar. I don't see how that's possible. He's under a big contract, right? Right. The dollars did not make sense. Yeah, people are saying Tristan Thompson or Miles Turner or Kevin Love, I mean, I just don't see how that's possible for that to materialize for the Rockets. Can I ask, can I just say one weird thing about Tristan Thompson being a rocket if it was going to happen? Would it be awkward between he and James? Correct.

You think so? You think they would be high-fiving? Well, they're both not with her anymore. Oh, yeah. Well, that's true. Well, they can commiserate. I didn't even know. I thought Tristan was still with her.

No, I think. I don't know. Proudly, I have no clue if they're still with the Cardiff. You know what? I'm proudly can say, I don't know either, but I know that he has not behaved himself, right? Yeah, no, they stick together through that, I thought. Oh. No, I think, okay, we'll look at during.

Nick, Nick's doing nothing right now. Nick, are Tristan and What's Her Face still together? Oh, they split in February of last year. Yeah, I didn't have to look that up. Yeah. So maybe it wouldn't be nearly as awkward. And of course they have a daughter together. Her name is True.

T-R-U-E? Yes. Well, that's the least confusing of all the Kardashian children names. Isn't there an Apple southwest to northwest, the United to Delta? The Apple is Gwyneth Paltrow. Isn't there a spirit? I'm not spirit. No.

Wouldn't want them named Frontier? No, I don't think so, Matt. Okay. There's not a Braniff, Kardashian. Braniff, that's going old school. Really, really old school. All right, so the show today is going to feature us staring at our computers looking for the next woge bomb. Although DeAngelo, help me out with this.

And now I'm going to spend a lot of time of DeAngelo Russell, but what makes him, is he supposed to be all that in a bag of Chiops? Excuse me? A bag of what? Chips. I don't think so. I mean, he's good. But this is the thing. Minnesota acts like he's like the second coming of Michael Jordan.

They think they're getting Magic Johnson, John Stockton, and Michael Jordan wrapped up in one player. I was listening to it was a Zach Lowe podcast maybe a week or two ago. And he was talking about how the Minnesota Timberwolves in their mind, yes, exactly. In their mind, for whatever reason, DeAngelo Russell is. magic and Jordan and everyone else, like all the all-time greats reincarnate for whatever reason. Yeah, it just doesn't make any sense to me that they would put that much value in them. But Andrew Wiggins has been a massive disappointment in the NBA. Looks the part, but doesn't play the part.

I'm trying to figure this out from a warrior standpoint. I guess they're just trying to accrue assets with the picks that they're getting. And if they get the number one pick in the upcoming NBA draft, we're just going to have to shut the NBA down. Man, if they have Steph and Clay... Don't even bring it up. Don't say Steph, Clay in the first overall picking the NBA draft. Don't do it. And Raymond?

Oh, man. Stop. And maybe Andrew Wiggins who will give a damn? I mean, that's a pretty good team. We got over at the Rock. Wiggins is getting $30 million the next three years. Well, he's not very good. He's not worth that.

No. I'm confused. We got that to get to today. We will keep you on the NBA trade deadline clock. Plus, one of the greatest. players in the history of baseball says that any of the Astros that were involved in the cheating and the stealing of signs should be banned from baseball. Is this old school guy talking? Or is this how Major League Baseball Hall of Famers feel? We'll discuss that and welcome your phone

calls this afternoon. Not Florida stories at 2.30 today here on Sports Talk 790. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel Walker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. All right, Ross, tell them. Breaking news here on the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. My sources have told me and my source is Adrian Wojnerowski via Twitter that the Houston Rockets have traded Jordan Bell to Memphis for Bruno Caboclo. Source tells ESPN teams have also exchanged second round picks. Are you confirming this from Roach?

I am confirming that I read it on Adrian Woj Rowski's Twitter page, yes. Seriously. Sports reporters that confirm other stories that people work hard for is ridiculous. You know what? I'm going to tweet it right now. I can confirm I read this tweet. I'm going to confirm that you're going to confirm it too.

Okay, cool. By the way, if you're looking for Bruno Caboclo to play, probably not for a little while, he's been out since mid-January with a bruise in his left knee. So now you have to tweet out, Matt. you know what you have to tweet out. What was your favorite Jordan Bell's a Houston Rock and Horse? I guess. Yeah, right?

You have to. But he never put the uniform on. Who is a better rocket? Jordan Bell or Derek Fisher? That's a better. You know, that's better. No, I think I'll go a favorite moment. I'm going to go with that.

What was your favorite? Yeah, it's your stick. You have to. It's your signature line. What was your favorite? I don't like to type and talk at the same time, so entertain the audience. Okay. 713, 2, 1,25.

7. is your phone number on a deadline Thursday here on the Matt Thomas show. We already have DeAngelo Russell going to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Apparently Gerson Roses and the team over there hold him in very high regard and have been pursuing him to put him as a perfect point guard with Carl Anthony Towns. So they get their man and the Warriors get Andrew Wiggins, who I guess they think can be a serviceable wing and pair him with Clay Thompson and Steph Curry. they also get a first round pick in the deal.

And now this much smaller deal coming down that the Houston Rockets have made. And Bruno, by the way, a small forward 6'9 from Brazil. Stretch. A former Rio Grande Valley Viper Great. He was in training camp, but the Rockets, not this training camp, but previous training camp. And a trait that Darryl Morey Covets. He has an almost 7-foot-7 wingspan, man. Oh, same as me, actually.

That's ironic. No, I don't think so. No, my wingspan is much greener than you think it is. No, it's not. Okay. Well, so needless to say, people, and people may be just Rockets Twitter. Because that's a separate subculture, correct? Oh, Rocket's Twitter.

Rocket's Twitter is shooting for the moon. They want Miles Turner and Tristan Thompson and Kevin Love. For what? And don't forget Andre Drummond. They want him, too. Andre Drummond, is that right? or Iguado. Oh, no.

What's Drummond from Detroit? Oh, they want Drummond? Yes. What's going on? How does that fit? Because he's in the trade block. Yeah, how are the Rockets going to get him? No, no, it doesn't matter if that's how they just want him.

Okay. That's why I was like, did I miss pronounce his name? Well, this is my question, Matt. Why do they want all these people when they think Isaiah Hartnstein is like the next Ben Wallace? Yeah, Rocket's Twitter's a little grumpy. Yeah. Rockets Twitter would also like to see if they can kick the tires on trying to get Paul George and Coi Leonard to come to the Rocket. Trueisms of Rockets Twitter is they want every single player that's on the trading block on every team

and every player on the end of the Rockets bench is an all-star being held down by Mike Danton. And that, um, Tillman Furtita because he's not going to go over the luxury tax is a cheap sum bitch. Chris Clemens, Chris Clemens would be averaging 25 a game if he could just get a shot. Oh, here's the thing about Chris. He can get a shot. It's just, you know, well, I mean, he makes him too. He's... I just mean, gets the chance.

Yeah, because what he will do is if he is a guy face guarding him, I mean, he's 5'9. I mean, it's not 510, not 5, 7, he's 5, 9. I mean, he's just going to have some limitations. So he just takes a step back and says, I can shoot it one foot further. I mean, that's, that's his modus operandi. I mean, he don't care where he shoots it. He's going to just shoot him up. Um, yeah, there's just, you know, you, everybody roots for guys 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 50.

Right. You put them in per 36 minutes. You put them in for 48. You put them in for 15, 20 minutes, and you're going to kind of get the result you thought. There are smart people running NBA teams. There are guys that have played 12, 13, 14, 15 for a reason. So, um, yeah, I mean, there are, look, there are Clint Capella fans. And I understand.

And you know what, Ross, you and I spent a lot of the show yesterday. We are Clint Capella fans. I'm a huge Clintapella fan. There is very. you in a guy that's a double-double machine. But this rocket organization, whether you like it or not, believe they need more outside scoring prowess. They need more consistency, and they believe that Robert Covington in their system will be

the guy that will be able to do that. It is funny, how all these former rockets that have come back in some form of action. It is weird, right? Yeah. I mean, you can go down the list, like Jeremy Lynn. Remember that Dary wanted Kyle Lowry back? Yep. Robert Covington, of course.

Brooks came back. Aaron Brooks? Yeah, Aaron Brooks came back for sure. Steve Francis came back for a little bit. That's a little bit further down. Remember he came back? Remember his second stint as a rocket? It was very forgettable.

I don't actually remember that at all, so that makes me feel pretty good about myself. He thought he was going to cut, well, according to him, he was going to come save the team. It was late Tracy McGrady era. Did Cory Brewer have two cups of coffee with the rockets, or it felt like it did? I believe that's accurate.

Well, yeah, at least. one and then I think he was like shooting and then in the practice Trevor Reza was here twice. Trevor's been here twice. Bruno Caboaklo has now been here twice. Robert Covington. Yeah, this NBA world is a crazy one. Guys moving around left and right. Brewers only a rocket once.

Okay, but it just felt like he's been around twice. That's because he scored 50 on the rockets and then became a rocket. Actually, it was a 76er and scored a bunch of points against the rockets too. And there was one home game. He may have been a Laker that was scoring a bunch of points too. These whole rockets come back and haunt us for some reason. All right, 713-212-5-790. So lots of fluidity when it comes to the trade deadline.

We're down to an hour 36. And Nick is a good producer of the show. If I ever mentioned the length of time remaining on the NBA trade deadline clock, the obligatory game show music should be playing. There you go. I think it adds drama, doesn't it, Ross? It's very dramatic, Matthew. I think people are like, oh, my gosh.

Is something going to happen? And something has happened. Yeah, Cablochle is not a 6-9, but not a true five. There's no true five, really, except Tyson Chandler on this team and Isaiah Hart. He's listed as a small forward, well, at least on his Wikipedia page. Yeah, yeah, there's no, yeah, there's only two fives remaining on this team at this point. Is it going to be famous Bruno's on, believe it or not today? Hmm.

Oh, I think you could do at least questions about Robert Covington and Bruno Koboclo, right? Bruno Mars? And you could also, no, no, no, you stay with those two guys. No, that's no. And then I'm not asking Bruno Cabloca questions on believe it or not

There's nothing on him How about things about Jordan Bell The former short time rocket No I already had an idea I think I was going to do Deadline deals or not Or something like that

Oh that's not a bad idea And how about this You got to leave space For at least two questions At the very end Because something might happen Before 2 o'clock this afternoon Yeah maybe we should just

You're right We should just skip it all together I don't think so We skipped it yesterday I got to do it today By the way I loved yesterday if you listen to the show, the story about the women that are stuck in Miami kind of grew legs.

Did it not? It did. And those poor, poor women who bought one-way tickets. You know why they probably bought one-way tickets? No, I don't because they're idiots? Well, they're not particularly bright. I'm going to give you that. But they probably thought, well, why should I hold myself to a date and when I can just buy the ticket if I'm making more money than I, maybe I'm staying here for a month?

Or maybe I'm staying for four or five extra days. That's the reason why they did it. Because do you think the average stripper can call an airline and signing to cancel my ticket and rebook without them being thoroughly confused? Does a stripper have a travel agent? Because here's the thing. If you call an airline, Ross, you're not talking to somebody in the United States. You're talking to somebody in Bangladesh or in Indonesia. These airlines outsource, and there's just no way you're having a civil conversation between a trust stripper who flies once a year.

and somebody that lives 4,000 miles away. That conversation is not going to end well. So what they did is they bought a one-way ticket. They said, I'll get to Miami, I'll make my $4,000 or $5,000, and then I'll leave whenever I want to. And when I leave, I'll go to the airport and I'll buy me a first-class ticket. Instead, Ross, you know what they're doing? They get to the airport.

They are not flying first class. Well, if they're making a lot of money during the week, stripping at the Super Bowl, they are. Nah. Economy Plus, at the most. At the most, okay. Let's say how to some folks. 713, 212-5-7-90.

Let's go to Jeremy in Tiki Island. That's one of my favorite parts of town. Hi, Jeremy, what's going on? What's happening? All right, I got three things. How do I get a stripper to call me to change a fight? That would be amazing. I love strippers.

Number two, I wish we had Montres Harold right now. I think he'd be perfect for his offense. He could come to his second stint, or would that be his third? I can't remember. Last thing is, Ross, what is he over? and under, let's put it at 35 minutes, over or under how long it'll be until Matt Thomas tweets, what was your favorite Bruno Caboclo moment? Wow.

He thinks that could happen, huh? He's going to be flipped? Well, he's already flipped Jordan Bell, so that's not the worst thing I've ever heard of. Well, you mean, you flipped Jordan Bell for Bruno, who they've been apparently pursuing since they let go of Gary Clark. You know, Cabo? Another Hall of Famer held back by Mike Tanton, by the way. Yeah.

Cabocco is not terrible, by the way. He can shoot a little bit. Yeah. He's got length and he can shoot. Yeah, yeah. That's got Darrell Moore. He's Brazilian. You haven't heard of him.

He's lengthy and he can shoot three-pointers. That's got Darryl-Mori written all over it. It's like on Darry's Facebook favorite page. Right, exactly. He's got Brito Cabocoe. He's had that bookmark for like five years. Right. That's actually pretty funny.

Yeah, I mean, when Caboccoe comes back, and I have not really paid much attention about how long he's been on. I just saw the note. when he is able to get going again, he'll get some minutes. You know what he'll frankly be? He'll probably take them in as a tibyl-Sephaloia, to be really honest with you, would be my guess. But you know the thing about it is, Ross? I can't figure out until I see it on the court what the rockets are

because you've got PJ Tucker playing the five now. By the way, there is an IG photo of him. Have you seen the photo of PJ Tucker this one? On stilts? On stilts? Yeah, that's pretty funny. PJ actually liked it. He laughed his ass off on it.

And he's telling the truth. If PJ Tucker was seven feet tall or 6-11, Ross, he'd be the highest paid center in the NBA. Because he never gets hurt. He doesn't care about the matchup size-wise. And he's always willing to throw his body around multiple times and get his head bashed in on the ground. I mean, the man, I feel like every other night, PJ is getting some sort of a head injury. He welcomes the pain. You got to love him for it.

do. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. Baseball, football, basketball, and Houston. Home for your own teams. Time is 1238. It is the Matt Thomas show. Good afternoon to you. Ross and Nick back in Houston.

I'm in the 90210. Matt said that, Ross. Will that still ring? People when I say I'm in the 90210. Do you make any sense to most? Yeah, why not? I think so. Because I don't think anybody ever goes, hey,

Where do you live? I live in the 7-7247 or whatever. You know, I don't think, we don't do too much zip code talking in Houston. That's true. But a 902.1 is a little bit different. And it was reboot. Is the reboot still going? No, it got canceled.

Oh, that's a shame. How devastated where you won to 10? Well, you know, I've had a lot of immature and impure impure thoughts about Jenny Garth over the year. That's true. So, the answer is 10. Really? So here's the bit.

What's she up to now? Oh, I don't know, but I'd like to get her home address just to say hello. better to the game tonight. Yeah, why not? That sounds creepy. By the way, real fast for us. Hey, I would like to get your home address. Okay, well, I mean, I can DM her on Instagram, but that's not going to do me much good.

Does she follow you? No, but I'm just saying that's just, that's what all the kids do. Ask her home address is much more intimate. It's much more weird. It means you're going to show up. Yeah, that's true. I don't have transportation. That's a hatchet and a Jason mask, hockey mask.

Uber is very expensive in Southern California. That's true. Okay. So, real fast, before we go back to the phones, I had breakfast downstairs in the hotel, and there were two men sitting next to me that were talking a lot of television stuff, and I just want to interrupt them, saying, what shows y'all trying to push? I didn't pull the trigger, because I didn't want to come across as eavesdrop guy. Does that happen to you very often where you just want to say something, and you just know

you can't? I'm usually on the other side. Like, I'll be talking, or like, you ever talk? with somebody and you're like the back of your Uber and you're having a conversation and then the Uber driver just hops right in. You're like, okay, dude. It's kind of, is that rude of me to be like, stay out of our conversation? I feel like if you're not involving the Uber driver, he doesn't need to say anything.

That is absolutely correct. Most Ubers are best with no conversation at all. And I can say that because I'm a former Uber driver, Matt. I wouldn't just hop into people's conversations. I would love for you to reestablish that career of yours. I think you first won't make a, he'd be a celebrity Uber driver. Yeah. I'm not a celebrity, but okay.

They were talking about television shows and what they're going to push and pilots, which is initial episodes for shows. I'm like, I just want to say, what are y'all talking about? What's the name of the shows? Who are the Stars? Because I really want to find out if I want to watch them or not. I did one time have, I had a rider who started just randomly talking about sports radio and he had listened to our show.

Yeah. And I didn't tell him who I was until he got out of the car at the very end. He was drunk and he was talking about 790. I was like, oh, cool. What do you think about the Matt Thomas show? He's like, oh, man, I like that show. I listen all the time. And then I was like, okay, what about that?

And then he was, and then he mentioned me. Oh, nice. And then so he didn't realize it was you on the Twitter. I mean, on Twitter on your ride because it says your person's name. Yeah, it just says my name is Ross. Oh, you know what? I think I might have been Paul because that's my first name. Okay.

And then I, at the end, I just shook his hand and said, hey, by the way, I'm Ross. I work on 7.9. He's like, oh, my gosh. So this is my second trip to the hotel. I made my third trip. One trip I'm sitting next to TV executives, and I don't know who they are, but I really wanted to talk to them. And then the previous time, it was Adam Sandler, and I just wasn't afraid. I went up and I didn't talk to him.

Okay. So I'm telling you, this is California life. Ross, the Matt Thomas show here from Beverly Hills wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. It'd be kind of pricey. I don't know if we get forwarded. It would be kind of pricey. Plus, I don't think they let me stay in his room every day from 10 to 1. All right.

Let's go to the phones. Rockets, again, the clock shows one hour. 19 minutes, one hour 19. Let's go to Roger and the RGV on 790. Roger, what do you have today? How are you doing, Matt? Let me show. Thank you.

You know, I don't, small ball is the theme that's going to go on with the rockets, the rest of the season. Here's an honest opinion. Do you think they have enough chance to beat those twin towers that they have at La La Land? Because it seems to me that in order to go through the finals, it's going to go through, I guess, California. Am I correct? L.A., etc.

or the clippers, whatever. Now, do we have enough punch to, you know, on the center position, the power forward position, because it looks like they want wings and guards and et cetera. and I don't see anything out there before one hour through the deadline to go after a championship. I don't know what's going on out there. And I'd like to hear your honest opinion if you think we can get through any of the clippers or Lakers to get to the finals. Thanks a lot, guys. Love your show.

Thank you very much. I appreciate you calling in. Roger, we'll give you the answer to that about what stands in the way of the Rocketshorn in the West. When we come back in a moment, our time is at 1243. It is a Matt Thomas show here from Los Angeles. Ross and Nick back in Houston. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on Sports Talk 790. Times 1248. It is the Matt Thomas show here from the 902-10. Ross and Nick are back in Houston. Okay, so Ross, when the Rockets and Lakers met the first time, Anthony Davis did not play in the game, and the Lakers still won the contest.

They actually started Kyle Kuzma. I cannot believe that Kyle Kuzma still is being talked up in trade conversations. Am I missing something? I think he's really, really good. Does he still have that silver hair? That's probably the reason why. He does. But that hair does match Southern California, though.

He's very up and down. I think he's more up and down. here's the thing. If they're fully healthy, they're really going to be very difficult to stop. I mean, LeBron is not showing any signs of slowing down. AD has fit in perfectly there. McGee slash Howard is a good five combination.

Danny Green always seems to do the rockets in somehow, some way. And Avery Bradley is just a guy. I mean, you know, fact of the matter is, though, that's a basketball team. that it's deep and then if you have Kuzma coming off the bench you got Ketavia's call I mean they're on paper to me to be the team that would be the most difficult to knock off so how do you beat a team that really has good depth and has you know obviously two major superstars in their front court you launch and make a lot of three-pointers and hope for the

best on defense if you're talking about the Rockets right how they beat them Well, here's what happens. If the Rockets can shoot, and we've seen it happen against the excellent teams. Remember Ross this year they have beaten the Clippers twice. They have beaten Philadelphia. They have beaten Toronto at Toronto. The Rockets of this year, and another who have been some aggravating losses along the way, clearly, losing the Sacramento's and losing a game to like Goldstein and Christmas. San Antonio, who's terrible.

You know what I mean? There have been some tough, embarrassing losses. But there have been some quality wins, too. and the key is, and this is oversimplifying it, is they have to shoot lights out. And they've been able to. Russ doesn't shoot the poor threes anymore like he used to early in the season. James can get on a role where he can knock down

seven, eight, three-pointers, get to the free throw line 17 times. I mean, you know, it's easy to say if everybody plays at their best, then it still comes down to who has the best roster top to bottom. But I feel like if the Rockets could, you know, get that. three-point game going. Eric Gordon hitting his shots, Daniel House doing his thing. If Covington can add some to the mix as well, from a three-point perspective,

there is another team in the NBA, especially because Golden State isn't what Golden State used to be, that can stay mono-mono with the Rockets from a three-point perspective. So that's how you kind of beat him. Am I oversimplifying or is it how you would think of it as well? I think that's going to have to be the Rockets formula is pretty much that. It's going to be difficult.

Well, how about we just look and see what happens with the trade line today, Matt, and then tried to start evaluating and making Western Conference matchups. And also, they're going to have to worry about getting out of whatever first-round matchup they're in. Yeah. Yeah, I just... Because here's the thing.

They're up to the... Well, tied for the four spot now with the Jazz. Utah, by the way, is crumbling like what they thought they would. They've lost five in a row. Well, they won 19 of 21. Now they've lost five in a row. Streaky does not begin to describe it. Well, as I told you before, the wins that Utah had were again.

some of the second tier team. I mean, there were some Charlottes, there was some Atlantis, there was some Washington. No, still count. If you win 1921 NBA games against whoever, those, you're a good team. But I ran them off during the game broadcast, and there was like maybe one winning team in that mix.

Okay. So you know what? You know, the Rockets have lost to the Blazers. They're not a winning team. The Rockets have lost to the other ones. We've just rattled off. But the difference is, the difference is everybody kept wanting to make them title contenders.

So, yeah, you give them credit for beating, you know, the poor sister. of the world and then they go against a group of teams that are good and they lose every single one of them especially last night they played the denver nuggets last night did you see this ross that the nuggets had seven players available to them seven on utah's home floor and still lost the rockets did not have westbrook hardin and capella for that game and they got beat badly by that rocket basketball team so that's why i think there's a case of pretenders versus contenders and that's why i think you're a case of pretenders versus contenders and that's why, even though, again,

you applaud somebody for being the teams that are in front of you, but every once in a while you need to have an impressive victory in the mix, and they just didn't have so. Just didn't have it. All right, 1253 on Sports Talk 790. In the next hour, coming up in about five minutes from now, six minutes from now, we're going to play some audio from one of the greatest players.

I mean, he's on the short list of, is he Mount Rushmore? Of Hall of Fame baseball players? Who's that? Well, I don't want to say the name. I guess I shouldn't happen. Well, then how do I know? Okay, Hank Aaron. Mount Rushmore?

Oh, wow. We don't do that much in baseball because there's so many decades or so many players or so many pitchers or so many Hall of Famers. I'm going to go, I'm going Ruth and Ted Williams, one, two. Yeah. Three and four you could really have for conjecture. Yeah, I mean, do you want to go? I mean, are we going like way back?

Are we going doing like Walter Johnson? Ty Cobb. Yeah, Luke Garrig and Ty Cobb and... All right, forget about the Mount Rushmore. Just, I mean, if you were to get to the... If you open the doors of baseball's Hall of Fame, who's in the... Barry Bonds?

Who's in that front room? Hank Aaron would be... Okay, if Hank Aaron's out Mount Rushmore, he's pretty darn close. He's really close. So he had some comments. I want you... We'll hear from him coming up in the top of the next hour.

We are down to an hour and five on the tray clock. Rockets, if you just joined us, have made a minor move sending extremely short-term Jordan Bell. Wouldn't that be funny if somebody bought a Jordan Bell Rockets jersey? Were people buying, and I wasn't here? No, no way. You would have to order probably a custom, and they wouldn't have shipped you, I don't think. Right.

Did anybody ever buy a Derek Fisher Rockets jersey? Was I here in town when that happened? Yeah, I think so. When did that do? I was within the last 10 years. Okay. Because, I mean, he was there for such a, I mean, there's actually a running joke.

That's 2012. Okay, so he must have been here, what, a day? Did he even fly in? I wonder if he even flew in. Did Jordan Bell even fly to Houston? You just fly in, eat at Papa Doe, and hang out? You know who he would ask if Jordan Bell arrived in Houston, of course? That would be Mark Berman.

Mark Berman, who's got a one-bedroom apartment in the United Club at the airport. Right. Could you imagine going to Intercontinental right now and going to the conference room and there's a sign that says reserve for Mark Berman, 10 p. 6A. He's like in slippers and he's making like some eggs and bacon on a hot plate. Yeah, he's asking to people. Putting on a pot of coffee.

He's asking, hey, where's the milk? He's rummaging through the air to the wet bar area where all the drinks are. Like, can I find some 2% somewhere? I got to meet an athlete at 7.45. Hey, this is a little weird. Do you have any Pam? He's not cooking his own food in the United Club. He's not?

No. No, he's trying to, you know what Mark's trying to. He's trying not to be overly. scene so he's like eating frosted mini-weets in the box you know the little four-ounce boxes you get and he just wants a bowl and milk he's not asking anybody to make him out anything

of the ordinary he's not you know he wants to make sure his area where his sleeping bag is in the United Club where the TV is nice and clean and kept no he's not he's not creating his own omelet bar at the United Club before you're waiting for athletes to show up you think he likes uh he puts he's putting bell peppers and onions in there

no he's having cereal for lunch that soup they always serve at United Club, and then he's eating the celery and the olives off of the Bloody Mary Bar for dinner. And Auntie Ans for dessert. That's a Mark Berman Airport Athlete Watch diet for him. All right, let's get the second

hour started of the Matt Thomas show. We've got the Rockets coming up with the Los Angeles Lakers out here. Who will be in uniform? It sounds like Robert Covington will be in uniform tonight for the Rockets. I've not seen him here at the hotel. By the way, can I call him Roco? I've got to find if I can do that or not. Yeah, Roco 4-3.

Yeah, you got to work on that, Matt. Well, I'm going to say Roco when I'm calling play by play. That makes it nice and easy. But what are you going to say it on the P?A. That's the question mark. Is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, here we go at 101 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show from Los Angeles.

Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers at 9.30 tonight. No Rockets wrap. So what are you going to do, Ross? Geron and I may be set on the phones at midnight one and talk about this bad boy. What are you going to do? Have them him your home number?

No, I'll give them your hotel room number. They can call you. Well, actually, we're flying right to Phoenix after the game, so they'll be calling and not being able to get a whole of them. Oh, that's wonderful. I'll give them your personal cell then. Okay. If you all want to talk to Ross, get on his Twitch channel

and talk Rockets with him during the year. Are you going to Twitch and watch the Rockets at the same time? No, I'm not going to do that. I don't think I'm going to Twitch tonight. Twitch.com. Twitch.tv. slash sports rb oh by the way tomorrow you and brian t smith will have mike dantonie at that's right um yeah i i saw coach this morning and and he threw his shoulders up in the air he's like i don't know

what's going on i said i truly believe you on that because that's the thing that's now you know look darrell and and mike have a good relationship in terms of player and coach and general manager but a lot of these things and this happens in every sport that's the one thing that i out that i think people don't seem to understand sometimes is that the coaches don't get final say on this, especially if they're not running the personnel side of it. This comes more so from the baseball side than it does from the basketball side. But, you know, Mike, if Daryl's thinking of something, he'll go to Mike and say, hey, what do you think about this? And there'll be a little bit of vice versa. Hey, can you plug this guy on his system? But, you know, ultimately some things are done with the general

manager saying, hey, we're going to bring this player in because we think this is going to help. our metrics tell us this. So when coach threw his shoulders up in the air today, it wasn't like I don't know what I'm doing, it just I haven't heard anything. So that's why I figured it'd be best to get him on tomorrow because you'll get a chance to talk to him directly about

the newest members of the team. And I think he'll have a spot obviously for Robert Covington. And that's what I think will be the most exciting thing about this is that there is, you're adding another wing perimeter shooter who's got length. It's got the wing span like I do Ross. So I think he'll definitely be an asset.

You don't have a basketball team, Matt. Have you seen me play lately? I can really cover multiple positions. When's the last time you shot a basketball through a basketball net? Mm, got to be days? Days? I don't believe you. Unless you're playing in the driveway.

With my hoop's basketball goal? That's actually a bad idea. Are you backing down the kids? I was like, are you giving Carly like forearm shivers? And turn around hook shots? Now to this situation that real. that wasn't me I know it wasn't

Carlis in volleyball mood but once she gets to basketball I'll be ready to get to her alright hey Hank Aaron said some things well I actually said one thing about the Astros that's coming up in a matter of moments here on the Matt Thomas show

713212-5-790 Steve on the west side of town on 790 hi Steve hey man how's LA doing out there I'm going to be out there in a few weeks It is amazing, frankly.

Hey, reason I called. Jason's saying that the Utah game a week or so ago might have had something to do with these trades and hear me out. What I'm saying is this, I know all the pundits on the sports stock shows on NBA and Stephen Smith, they're saying no way that the rockets could compete, you know, with the big lineups like the last. Lakers and some of these other teams with size and length. But, you know, without Hardin-Lessberg game, without Capella, I think to all of our surprise, they ran Utah, which I think is a pretty big team down low with Rudy Goldberg Company.

Right. They ran them out of their own building. So, you know, maybe there's something, too, being a good transition shooting team. I would not say that Steve one game would make a decision like that, but let's be honest, you know, PJ Tucker has been backing up Capella a lot over the last season or so because the Rockets just haven't been able to rely. I mean, think about Ross Capella's backups have included Hartenstein, Tyson Chandler, Nenei.

Am I forgetting anybody else? True legit centers? Not really, yeah, flying Ryan Anderson was we use as a backup five. A little bit on the five. I don't know if Mike, Dan Tony, going back to his career on all the year, I mean, remember how the relationship with, you know, about using

Shaq and Phoenix wasn't the way that, you know, Mike's offense wanted to go? Maybe Mike just isn't. This is something that you guys could definitely ask him tomorrow when you visit with him. Oh, yeah. Small ball question is going to be, well, out of the, probably pretty close out of the shoot if not first. But my point is that

he's lived without having a true dominant five. And does the Mike Dan Tony offense ultimately can it still thrive if you have the shooters and you don't have to sit in there and worry about who's going to block who's going to get somebody in the low block? I would think from a rebounding perspective,

it's a little aggravating because size does matter when it comes to that. But ultimately, Mike's success as an NBA coach hasn't been because of a dominant five. Right. And let me tell you a little secret, Matt. I like secrets. The Rockets have weighed their options on this. The Rockets, Darryl Morey didn't just flip it

watch the Utah game and say, you know what? I just had this bright idea. We're going to go small ball the rest of the season. This is something that has been weighed and measured and thought about. And they have every number that you can possibly conceive of on a basketball court, they know. Five man units, rebound percentages, you know, defensive rating with PJ Tucker at the five. All these types of things have been considered. And that's one of the things why we can criticize Daryl for his moves, right? Or we can criticize. him if something doesn't work out or if he did something and made a bad move and it doesn't turn out to work out very well. But I will tell you this, when he makes a decision, he's not just

pulling a name out of a hat. He's not just flipping a coin. There has been a lot of thought and a lot of preparation. And so that's why I'm very, I'm weary of rolling small ball as much as they're going to be doing. But I know that Darry and the Houston Rockets have done their research on this. and if they seem to think it's viable, I'm willing to let it see it play out. How much of this, and I don't have the answer to this, because I'm not asked this to Daryl or Mike directly, but how much of this is the last two years of the Rockets' playoffs,

there have been stretches where Clint has gone longly absent? I mean, well, that's some of it. I mean, that's matchups. It's like we said, he disappears against the Warriors because they switch everything. So, I mean, I'm not exactly sure what the Lakers' defensive philosophy is if they switch everything. I can't remember, I guess. I'll look tonight and see what they do.

But, I mean, if they're going to do like that, if there's other teams that are doing that, then Clint Capella is not going to be effective offensively, so you're effectively not missing a whole lot on that end. And while he's a solid rim protector, the Rockets like to switch themselves, and he's not the greatest switchable defender ever. He can do okay on the perimeter against some good players.

I think he's done also, you know what? I'll give more credit than that. I'll give him credit because it's not easy for a guy that's 6-11 having a guard Damien Lillard, 28 feet from the basket. It's just not. It's not easy, but it's easier if Robert Covington's doing it, or PJ Tucker's doing it, so that's what they're going with. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, I'm trying to think, um, because Shaq was with him, uh, in Phoenix. He had Dwight in Los Angeles. I don't even know who the center was with the, with the Knicks. Um, but just,

I mean, you know, he would, wouldn't he use, wouldn't he use Stadamire's a five sometimes with Phoenix, too? Am I making that up or? I just feel like there's, there was just been some, Marty was like a five. They used Boris. I think Boris Diao was kind of stretched out five there for a little bit. Yeah. Who's that guy? Was it Tim Thomas or whatever Thomas? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not Kurt Thomas. I think it was Tim Thomas. Okay. I'll go with that. But point being is this, tonight, as you watch the game and hopefully listen to it here on Sports Talk 790, spend a little time looking at what the team does defensively if Covington is in uniform tonight and how they switch around guys.

This will be Rosson. Help me out. Because look, Gobert has had some success against the Rockets, but he's been far from dominant. And he's not keep, you're not, Gobert's not backing down to the basket and putting up hook shots 20 times a game. So nobody's doing that. Yeah, Nikolich is the same way. Nikolaj is fading away like a mutter all the time. Yeah, exactly. He's at the elbow making passes. I mean, you don't, you can. Is this the only team, realistically, that is going to try to back? And again, you're not, you're not looking for Javille McGee and Dwight Howard to do a lot of things offensive. Right. Hell, Anthony Davis is going to pop all.

All these big men today in the NBA Ross are stretched guys. They just are. You're doing yourself a faith. If you're going small and then your opponent is saying, you know what, we're going to run our offense through Rudy Gobert in the low block because they're going small. We're going to run our offense through Javail McGee. You're actually taking the ball out of the hands of Donner Mitchell or LeBron James.

So that's helping you. So, I mean, teams aren't going to do that. So, I mean, I'm saying it all makes sense. Am I saying it's going to work? No. No, it scares me. I don't know. It's scary. Absolutely. What scares me is rebounds, offensive rebounds by their team second. Because what Javelle McGee and Dwight Howard will do, if you're in a knockdown, dragout seven-game series, is they're going to go crash the boards and they're going to give LeBron and they're going to give Kyle Kuzma and they're going to give Contamious Caldwell Pope.

They're going to give anybody else a second and third chance opportunities. And that's where the Rockets could be in real trouble. Yeah, I think, I mean, the putbacks, I think, even, even, more than the second chances as far as like resetting the clock and getting an extra possession. I think the putbacks have been an issue when they go to these smaller lines. All right. As promised, Hank Aaron speaks, albeit so briefly, on the Astros. We'll hear that next. 112 is our time.

It is the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 7.9. If you want to chime in, we are down to 48 minutes until the draft. The trade deadline comes and goes 2 o'clock, local time, Houston time. There's the clock. 47 minutes now. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. For the quarter, and that's go! Home of your Astros.

Rob Manfred, the Commissioner of Baseball, is out with some news. He says he is aiming to complete the Red Sox investigation before camps open up, which will be late next week. And he says this, as with... The Astro Pro players... You interrupt me? What? Are you interrupting me? Another Wojohn, Matt.

In the middle of me reading about Rob Manfred? I'm sorry. Andre Drummond is going to be traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. According to Adrian Wojian Rowski. You interrupted me for that? I'm sorry. An All-Star player being moved on the trade deadline day?

To the Cleveland Cavaliers, they suck. Nobody cares. If Andre Drummond was going to return to the rockets, then I would want you to interrupt me. Oh, he's not. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Rob Manfred did what now?

See, you don't even paying attention. You said Red Sox investigation. Go ahead. He says, and he says this, he says, as in the case with the Astros, any Red Sox players who give up the information will be given immunity. Okay? So for the 5,000th time,

everybody in baseball who's bitching and moaning about the Astros not getting penalized for what they did during the 2017 season. There's a reason why because they weren't, the Major League Baseball and Rob Manfred were not going to get the goods unless they came out and said, this is, you know, we need to know, give us the evidence, and we will make sure you don't get punished. Here's his quote, we made a decision that in order for us to get the facts we needed, somebody had to get immunity, and that is not a novel thought. It happens all the time in law enforcement. Can we put this arrest that everybody is bitching and moaning about the Astros not getting penalized?

Oh, by the way, that segues us into what Hank Aaron said today on the Today Show. It does. It does. It does. Were you surprised? I was surprised. They didn't steal signs back in your day? They did. They didn't steal it medway.

Do you think the punishment fit the crow? No, I don't. I think whoever did that should be out of baseball or the rest of their life. Rossi, that's as old school as you get right there. Yeah, what's Hank Aaron? He's in his 80s now? How old is Hank Aaron? 86.

So that'd be old school. Like, really old school. Mm-hmm. Okay. So for the final time. And I'm not speaking to the Houston audience because you guys in Houston know this. This is for every other baseball player. This is for Hal Steinbrenner.

This is for anybody that's going to the Dodgers. Bob, did you see the Dodgers fan rally at Anaheim for the Astros Angels has now reached 5,000 people? No, please. What a bunch of losers. Seriously. You know what we should do, Ross? And I haven't know my schedule. We should go to L.A. that weekend.

Yeah. In Astros gear and get in the head by L.A. Dodgers fans. And you know what? Let's get it on like Donkey Kong as a kid said. No, I'm not going to go get stomped out by some Dodgers fans. Screw that. Okay, when is that way? Let me look at my rocket schedule out right now because I can't miss a game for this.

I mean, think about it, Matt. A lot of those Dodgers fans for years are Raiders fans. You don't be messing with them. Ooh, I didn't think of that. But when is that open? Let me look at my schedule here. Let's get some. I got the schedules here.

The Astros play the Anaheim Angels. I don't even call them L.A. They're not really Los Angeles' team. April 3rd, 4th, and 5th. What are the Rockets doing? Ooh, the Rockets play Golden State on Thursday the 2nd. Three and four, they're off. Friday the 5th, they play in early evening game against Toronto. We could go for two games.

This is hand-on-chin-moji. I'm not going. You don't want to go? No. You don't want to go to Anaheim for a couple days? Anaheim, what's in that, what's there? Disney? No, it's a really nice,

it's really pleasant. It's not, it's not like inner city, L.A. This is chill, Orange County. Don't you watch the Real Housewives? You should know this. I do not. Gretchen, my all-time favorite, Real Housewife hasn't been on the show for years, but it's on here nor there.

I don't need to go to Disney World. Okay, I'm just thinking out loud. Astros, Matt Thomas show, gets to meet Dodger fan. It would be like in Anchorman where all the different TV stations meet up. You had Angel fan in one corner, which is like one person. A bunch of Dodger fans in another corner. It's a Garrett Cole's family, and that's it. And then you got the Matt Thomas Sports Talks 790 Matt Thomas show audience behind me.

Just saying, wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. Any travel agents out there want to organize a group trip. Your boy, I'll go with you. Can't go for all three games. I can go for two. Just saying. Okay. You know, this isn't intrigue you at all?

No. They're not going to get into fights with them. We're just going to call them a bunch of names. I'm not risking it. All right. Nick, you want to go? No, I'm good. Top ten things to do in Anaheim.

They literally have the House of Blues listed on this. Well, let me. All right. Orange County Shopping. It's not terrible. The Outlamaw is one of the top ten things to do in Outland. Okay, let me tell you, I have been to Anaheim about five or six times in my life. Let me tell you what you can do.

You can go to Disneyland, which is much better than Disney World. That's one. Two, you have the Angels game Astros Friday. You have the game on Saturday makes three. Knottesbury Farms make four. A day trip to L.A. is literally one of the top ten things. One of the top ten things to do in Anaheim is to get out of Anaheim. Well, I'm not going there.

We're going for the good to defend the honor. I don't have any honor to defend. You know, we're doing it for the H. These people are idiots. We're doing it for the H. I'd rather spend as little time in California as possible. All right. I mean, I like California.

I just don't want to go to Anaheim. If M.Bem wants to go and give me their Southwest of United points, I'll be happy to go and represent the station. Hashtag for the H. We're thinking about Hank Aaron's statements, though. Is this old-school guy just being crudged to get off my long guy? He's senile. No, he's not senile.

He's 86, Matt. Don't you talk about what the home run hair of all time. I'm sorry. He's not the home-run king. Barry Bonds is. No, he's not. Hank Aaron's a home-run king. Let me go look up the stats real quick.

There's an asterisk next to Barry Bonds name. No, I don't see one. No, I'm going to put one there, though. You're going to put an asterisk next to Hank Aaron for taking him? taking amphetamines. Well, didn't everybody do that at that time? Well, didn't everybody juice when Barry Bonds was juicing? No.

No, not everybody did. But the problem is when Hank was popping those greenies, they were playing scheduled double-headers. They took no days off. I'm sorry. They would play night game, night game, day game, day game, day game, fly commercially, day game, day game, night game. They never arrested.

Man's got to take an infatamine once in a while and get ripped up for the big game. That's where men and men And now boys are boys See, yeah, List of Major League Baseball Career Home Run leaders Number one looks like Barry Bonds With a big old asterisk next to it

Yeah All right 120 I will I will go If anybody wants to go to Anaheim with me We'll go A couple days And we'll go

We'll go ride Disneyland We'll go to on Space Mountain And have a great time I'm very I'm still intrigued by the fact That top 10 things to do in Anaheim One of them is to leave Anaheim that's because it's probably a joke website. No.

It says take a day trip to L.A. That's one of the top things you do. Here's the thing. You can raise a family in Orange County. You can't raise a family where I am unless you have $8 billion. Unless your last name's a Kardashian. I'm not raising my family in Orange County. These studio apartments across from my house.

I see what these housewives get up to. I actually don't. Don't do that. 127 on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. It's how you reach our. show 713-212-5-790 we are 30 minutes away I have a simple question if I could trade Ross before the deadline what could I get in return that's what we need to do let's put you up for

trade are you worthy of draft picks I think so all right well they'll give me at least a third rounder we'll discuss that's true you are a third round pick in the NBA that is exactly Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 7-9th. Your Rockets, your Astros, your voice. All right, quick check of headlines of the day. So far, we are halfway home with the Matt Thomas show at 132. Ross and Nick back in Houston, I'm here in Los Angeles for the Rockets and the Lakers. News of the day, the Rockets have picked up Bruno Caboclo from the Memphis Grizzlies in return for Jordan Bell.

Cabocle has not played a lot this year. He's been hurt. I don't think he'd be active even if he still remains a rocket. We are down to 27 minutes before the end of the trade deadline. DeAngelo Russell is now a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Andre Drummond is now a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. That's the basketball side. If you didn't catch it late last night,

Andre Agadala is now a member of the Miami Heat. That's a really good basketball team. We'll talk more about that in a second. Baseball, Rob Manfred, saying moments ago that the Boston Red Sox investigation is nearly complete. and just like the Astros, anybody that speaks to what happened with the Red Sox in 2018 will be granted immunity,

which, again, far too many people don't understand that's how they got the information, was that they had to promise the players they were going to be given no threat of any punishment. That's why they were so forthcoming. So the Red Sox could be next, and Ross, my guess is the Red Sox are going to be dinged just as heavily as the Astros will be.

because my guess is Alex Corr's techniques in Houston certainly were brought to him now managing the team in Boston. He probably even had a greater scope of what exactly they got away with. It'll be interesting to see. I don't know because obviously things will have to be had been modified to some degree, right? Because, I mean, we haven't heard anything about trash can banging. Right. And all those games are available on the internet like the Astros were.

And I don't recall anybody breaking down a bunch of videos where there was trash can stuff with the Alex. CORA regime with the Red Sox. So I'm wondering, I mean, what were the methods? What's going to come out? I'm looking forward to reading that lengthy report as well and finding out what happens to the Red Sox. But of course, I mean, they're not going to suspend the manager because he's been fired. Yeah. From what I understand.

Or the manager. Mutual parting of ways. Yeah. Well, that's bunk. Right. What I understand, the distance between the video room at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox and their bench and their dugout is just. just a handful of steps. I mean, so there may not have been nearly the type of information

or banging up trash cans or whatever anybody was using. There must not have been much to have to worry about in terms of communicating what was on the field to what was being shown in the replay room. Again, I'm in the same spot. I want to see what they've done. But if Alex Corr was the mastermind in Houston, you knew he had to have done a lot of things of similar in Boston.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 is how you reach our show. We've got a lot of different things going on again. We are down to 24 minutes before the trade deadline comes and goes, and the Rockets at this point have only made one minor move today, and that is picking up Bruno Caboclo from Memphis. Here in Los Angeles, obviously, Rockets and Lakers, and still, I was watching the news last night, Ross.

There's still probably three to four stories on every TV station about the passing of Kobe Bryant. Gail King is, well, to be brutally, brutally honest, she's Oprah's best friend. You know, that Gail King? How close are they, Matt?

I would say besties. Okay. Gail's been able to get a lot of her jobs in her life because of her relationship with Oprah. I mean, what does she do outside of that? She has her own show or anything? Yeah, she's on CBS News this morning. Okay.

And this is where the conversation is going with this. So, you know how Kobe has been very much an advocate for women in basketball? Do you remember the week before he passed how you and I talked about how he thought there were at least three players in the WNBA that could play in the NBA? Yes. And that's nothing to do with the story. But you know with his daughters, especially his oldest one, who passed in the accident, that he was a big opponent of women playing basketball. So Gail King, I don't know when this happened, but it had to be able to do. then the last couple days did an interview with Lisa Leslie,

the former WNBA star, who was very close with Kobe 2. And Gail King in this conversation she had with Lisa asked, are you torn a little bit because of the player that you so admired and so looked up to was also a guy that was involved with a serious rape allegation in 2003. And it obviously put Lisa in a very uncomfortable position, and what Lisa basically said, and I'm paraphrasing is, I'm not going to like something like that, especially when you don't know all the facts,

ruin the entire legacy of one of the people that I've looked up to have known and grown and came to appreciate. Well, Gail got a lot of blowback because of that question pointed to Lisa. And Ross, sometimes in the world of celebrities, that sometimes people like to go to their IG accounts or to Twitter to give commentary. At SportsMT or? Sports RV.

Of course. Or Snoop Dog. Yes. And Snoop Dog. And Snoop Dog had a response to Gail King asking Lisa Leslie that type of question. Gail King, out of pocket for that shit. Way out of pocket. What do you gain from that?

I swear to God, we're the worst. We're the fucking worse. We expect more from you, Gail. Don't you hang out of that. with Oprah? Why are y'all attacking us? We your people. You ain't coming after fucking Harvey Weinstein asking them dumb-ass questions. I get sick of y'all. I want to call you one. Is it okay if I call him one? Funky dog hit, bitch. How dare you try to tarnish my mother fucking homeboy's reputation? Punk, motherfucker. Respect the family and back off. Bitch before we come get you.

Damn, damn, damn. Oh, my God. Are you okay, Matt? We need a body bag, quick. Ross. He annihilated her. Mm. I don't know what to say.

Yeah, you know what? You don't have to say anything. If you listen to that, you know exactly what you're thinking. Uh, wow. He destroyed her. Oh my God. He said, would have come get you? So Nick found,

now, Nick, was this the response to the questions to Lisa Leslie or the response to what Snoop Dog had to say? This is Gail King on Twitter responding to the backlash from her question to Leslie. Yeah, not directed at Snoop Dog specifically. I want her to, why can't she drop a disc track where she's rapping and talking about Snoop Dogg? All right, go ahead. I've been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant.

And I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I'd be extremely angry with me too. I am mortified. I'm embarrassed. And I am very angry. Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview. totally taken out of context, and when you see it that way, it's very jarring. Do you believe her? I mean, how long was the interview? I can see where she's coming from. If you did Matt, if you did a 30-minute interview about Kobe Bryant and his life and how influential he was,

and you're asking about him being a great father, and 99 out of 100-year questions were about how great Kobe Bryant was, but you say, hey, there's this footnote, and this happened in 2003, which is a fact. there was a criminal case and all that type of stuff. And you brought that up. And that was only one part of everything you covered. And that was all that got focused on. I could see where she could be taken out of context. So I need to know a little bit more about this interview and what the question she was asked.

But yeah, I think I get where she's coming from. Yeah, I could. You just described something that's never happened to me directly, but it very easily could. Yeah. So you know what, Ross? you gave you laid the foundation for a yeah that's that can certainly be sincere when she what she said but that but that's a problem with with media now ross is that you're not going to if if if if gail king does an interview for cbs sports and she's in a cbs news and she's talking to lisa leslie the clicks aren't

coming from the 30 or 40 nice things that uh that lisa said it was the one kind of wow gotcha moment. And the question then becomes, does Gail King authorize the wow gotcha moment? She sounds like she did not authorize that. Right. But then the question then becomes, is she throwing somebody into the bus to save her own reputation?

Or is she being genuine with that? I mean, I would have to see the whole interview. I don't know if there's a transcript available somewhere or something like that. Well, even if the interview is what you said it was, which I believe it to be. somebody has to authorize that little snippet going on social media. I think it was on, I think it aired on TV. Yes. But I saw the clip in during Twitter as I was hearing Snoop just completely destroy her.

Snoop. Let me tell you something. I see Snoop at Clipper games occasionally. I've never seen him in a Rockets game. I've seen him in a Rockets Clippers game. You don't want to get sideways with him. He will crush you like a grape. Mm-hmm. Who is it?

He was a Steelers fan randomly, so he was crushing Todd Haley. Well, no. What was it where he was? He was crushing the Lakers, too, when they were losing, and he was like, I'm going to give you all my suite for free. We had a lot. Let's go find that one. We played a lot of Snoop Dog over the years. Let's go get that Snoop, L.A. once, so we're out here in Los Angeles, kind of for old time's sake, now that LeBron and everybody else is healthy here. But last year, when they weren't healthy, he wanted no part of the L.A. Klipper team. Let's take a short time out.

We've got some folks. I want to talk about the Clint Capelotrade. 17 minutes, Ross, before the deadline. 17 short minutes. And maybe even some stuff afterwards that will come out. Ooh, I never thought of it that way. 143. It's a Matt Thomas show.

713-212-5-790. Back to Matt Thomas. Drives this deep to left-center field. This is Sports Talk 790. Home of Astros baseball. Ross. There are very few things you're 100% right about. Go on.

I tip the eye rolls and I'm getting massive tweets and likes. I told you. Oh, my gosh. Look, we've got Welcome Home, K-Love. We've got, it's 14 minutes before the deadline. What do you know? What is it? You know something we don't.

Please, not now. Tell us. Snoop. Talk to the Rockets confirmed. Say something. I will at 201. Lame, if this is just a joke. Don't bleep with us, Matt Thomas.

Oh, my goodness. Instead of mood music, we need like 15 seconds of the countdown clock. We are down to 11 minutes. How many followers? We need to keep count of how many followers you get for this. I'm going to wind up losing followers, I think, on this deal. But this is not my idea. Oh, are you going to put this all on me when people get mad at you?

Oh, look at this. That's not nice. Don't blank with us, Matt Thomas. Something called Busty Daker. Follow me on Twitter. Is that Dusty Baker's Evil Twin? I don't know. For those of you just joining us.

I told you it was going to happen. Ross told me to put the side eyes out there. I said if you want a shill for followers to do it. And you will flip people out. Joel N.B. just did it. Everybody's doing it. Everybody, everybody go to your Twitter or do the side eye.

It's okay. I'm going to quote tweet yours with more side eye. Oh, no. You are the worst. Let's go to Manuel, Southern California. Manuel, why don't you come take me to lunch? What's going on?

I'm down here in Irvine, Matt. It's about an hour away from you or so. Yeah, I'm down here in the O.C. area. Hey, hey, are you going to go to that Astros' Angel series, all those Dodger fans? No, I don't like either team, but I probably will definitely do. I think the Astros play the Dodgers this year. So I probably will definitely go to that for sure.

All right, what's going on? Yeah. All right. I just want, you know, Rockett's Nation to take a deep breath. I mean, I know Capella is a young center, and he had, you still got some upside a little bit left in them. And, you know, right now it seems jarring because we don't have nobody over 6'8 on the team. But it's going to be all right. You know, these guys are pretty smart.

I'm pretty sure they know more basketball than we'll ever know. So we just got to calm down and breathe. and see what happens. You know, like tonight's game, yeah, it's not going to be really a good, it's going to be a test, but we're just getting together. Let's see how the months go along, how everything works out. And, you know, it might even just be something for next year, too. You know, in the off season, I think we're going to have a lot of, you know,

extra, a little bit of extra money. We can go out and maybe make a deal then and sign somebody or trade for somebody. So it's just not just right now. we got to think remember we have the future we do have Westbrook and we have Hardin for like the next at least four years I think at least both don't want to contract the next four years but I'm like that's only isn't the answer then he isn't the answer

we'll get somebody who is we just all need to calm down and just like it's going to happen for us you know we wanted to we all wanted so badly that we just can't we don't understand it right now we got to just sit back and see the big picture well I'll say this there's also going to be a veteran buyout market the rockets could be involved with. And ultimately,

and here's the thing. And thank you for the phone call manual. Nice to hear your voice calling us from Irvine. The fact of the matter is there were two things, Ross. The rockets weren't satisfied with their perimeter game, ultimately. And they wanted to shave some money so they don't pay the luxury tax. And that was the goal

going into the trade deadline, and they're staying with it. And they have so far accomplished that. Unless something big happens here in the next six and a half minutes. Trade has gone down. Number one, Adam Wexler, tweeted my quote tweet of your quote tweet with side eyes as well. But number two, former rocket great James Innes has been traded to the magic from the Philadelphia 76ers.

What? Can we get a big, huge bombastic trade? Andre Drummond moving is pretty big. And you're just like, oh, who cares? Let's talk about Commissioner Manfred. What is Cleveland doing with him? I don't know.

Are they going to play him next to Tristan Thompson? I don't know. God, it just doesn't make any sense. It just, like all these moving part, like, why is, now Memphis making some moves is interesting because they're in the 8th scene in the playoffs right now. They are playing well above expectations.

Miami making the deal with Andre Agu Dada makes a lot of sense because they want to get firmly into the top three in the Eastern Conference. Well, they're not going to catch Milwaukee, but they've got a chance to catch everybody else in front of them. The Philadelphia is the, who else is, the Bostons of the mix in the world. I mean, there's a chance.

That team could be as high as a number two seat. They're getting better. They were even trying to go get Danilo Gailonari away from Oklahoma City, and that has not come to pass yet. Oh, Marcus Morris is going to the clippers? Is that old? Or is that now? That just happened?

No, that just happened. Because Marcus Morris was both the Lakers and the clippers were going after him, hard. There you go. Marcus Morris is a clipper. According to Shams Sharania. That's not good. They're better now. Yes.

And the Knicks just got worse, which seems like impossible that would ever happen. Well. All right. For the final time, let's play the clock. Because we're going to take a short break here at the top of the hour. Will there be something magical, amazing, that's going to happen with the deadline now, four short minutes away? 713 212 5790

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What is today's edition of believe we're not coming up at 252 I'll go ahead and hit the crickets Nick I don't know Matt What should it be Well Did this trade deadline deal happen or famous Bruno's Bruno Mars, Bruno Caboclo

Bruno The movie Is there an Uncle Bruno? Probably Well Bruno San Martino Uncle Bruno's Deli and No, there's Bruno San Martino

the former WWF wrestler Yeah All right Is the Matt Thomas show What? At Louis ESP 65 told me to F off. Doesn't follow me. He's very upset.

Oh, he doesn't, yeah, he doesn't follow me either. Guess what? Hey, I got a little something for him. Mute Louis S-65. Goodbye. I will never see his tweets again. Yeah, I get, I'm getting a bunch of hate tweets. A guy has got one follower.

Just mute them all. I'm getting, so I had tweeted yesterday that I was going to be rooting really hard. for the Astros to win the World Series because I think it would be hilarious. And I got like all these weird people from like New York and the middle America in Boston and L.A. flooding my mentions talking about the Astros. And I just muted every single one of them. The mute button is your friend, Matt. I'm just starting to block people now.

It's much easier. No, because then this is what happens. They're like, oh, look. They'll screenshot that they got blocked and then they'll tweet it to all their followers. and they're like, look at this snowflake who blocked me, or look at this guy, he's big mad, or look, he's butt hurt, he blocked me. Don't give him the satisfaction.

Just mute them. Go on your way. The best thing you can do is not even let them know that you're not seeing their tweets and let them scream into the void. That's the best part of it to me. For those of me, we were not doing this because we were trying to get you all mad.

We were doing it because it was a funny thing that Twitter does. I put the side eyes out 10 minutes ago, and I got 36 new. followers. It's funny. You didn't want to follow me when I was putting out real information. I put out an emoji and people go lose their minds.

It's pretty fun. I told you it was going to happen, Matt. Aye, aye, aye. The deadline is gone. We can't put the music anymore, can't we? I mean, we can. No, doesn't work. The song doesn't work.

Doesn't work. All right, well, remember, Zach Granky, we found it officially was done as an astro or was an astro, like at 310 as compared to 3 o'clock. So something could be happening. I know we're all staring at Woj right now. And by the way, seriously, y'all on Twitter, chill the F out. Siri, I mean, good gracious. Calm down, man. It's fine. People are idiots.

People are idiots. And that's why I want to say this. This comes from the bottom of my heart. If you're listening to this show and have, and you knew we were doing an hour ago, you are laughing your ass off. You're like, yep, you all proved, you exactly said what was going to happen.

But little keyboard warriors out there at 1.4, already went out there and tell me what they wanted me to do to myself. All right. Y'all are mean. So don't come asking me for tickets or don't come ask me to take a picture on the court after the game or don't ask for tickets to a monster jam. When I know who you are, all of you, it was a joke. It didn't hurt anybody.

It wasn't offensive. It was a case in point of I put a pair of rolling eyes out there. And you know what it could have been, Ross? My eyes went to a side roll based on what I put. paid for breakfast this morning. That's a side roll. That's the beauty of this, Matt. It's the beauty of the internet.

It's the beauty of the trade deadline day. This is funny. I'm afraid to even look now. Mean tweets, the side roll NBA trade deadline edition. You know, it's funny, Ross. These people don't care about the rockets unless it's the trade deadline. were we all after the big win against Toronto or the terrible loss against Golden State?

Y'all just ran to Twitter and just couldn't be mad enough on that. Your little friendly radio host here who works for the team and calls games and loves screaming about the team. Y'all can't run and tell me what I can do to myself fast enough, can you? All right, see how y'all are. Twitter non-friendly place. I was going to buy y'all tickets overcoming game, but forget it now. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90.

It cracks me up. It really does, because, you were... Ross, you were right. You were absolutely right, and I hate when you're right on things. Happens a lot. All right, Ross, do us... Oh, my God. What?

Thanks. Snoop. By the way, today has been a very strange day, beyond the trade deadline. Yes. So at 11 o'clock, local time, your time. 9 o'clock back here, I'm getting ready for the show, and the president is speaking. and this is the first time he's spoken since he was found not guilty by the Senate. So I'm typing up my Twitter and writing up some show notes,

and I swear to God, I thought I heard the president say BS in the middle of this major press conference in the Oval Office, okay? Maybe not in the Oval Office, but one of the Easterms or whatever. And I did a double-think. I'm like, did the President of the United States say BS in the middle of an impromptu press? press conference. So what did I do? I went to Twitter and hit the word Trump. Well, I didn't realize I had muted the word Trump off my Twitter account. So I had to unmute the word Trump and then everybody said, yeah, the President

United States just said BS on live television. You are fake news. No, I'm not. I got the, we have the evidence. Very fake news. We have the evidence, Mr. President. You dropped a BS on a press conference when everybody was waiting to watch the view. You shouldn't treat people that way. Or the Price is Right.

Or the Wendy Williams Show. All these shows are preempted for you to drop a BS on us on America. Excuse me. My turn. If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her. That's the best one. So I fully expect at ProNiclo for you to have that in our Sound Vault, not today, but certainly within the next 24 hours. And that's something that Nazi Germany would have done and did do. That might be my second favorite.

Because, Ross, I mean, say what you will about whether you're not, you like the president or not. You just don't hear a BS during a presidential press conference that often, do you? No. It's going down to Tubers. Donald Trump is an American treasure. He really is. All right, Ross, run through the trade deadline moves, if you don't mind. Oh, my gosh. You really want this?

Just a couple. I mean, let's see. Andre Drummond is a Cleveland Cavalier. The Clippers, Nixon Wizards agreed on a three-team trade that will want. Marcus Morris and Isaiah Thomas with the Clippers League sources tell Adrian Wojnerowski. Let's see, Mo Hartless and a 2020 first round pick. And Jerome will go to the Knicks. And Jerome Robinson, whoever that is, will go to the Wizards.

Jerome Robinson sounds like a- Bruno Cabo. That's a big move over the day. Bruno! Like a bass player for a funk band in the 70s. And on the base people. Please say hello to Jerome Robinson from Detroit, Michigan. All right. How about what, where does Bruno Caboclo

sound from? He just the sign from the old west. Bruno Caboclo? Bruno Caboclo. I don't know. He's from Brazil. Yeah, Brazilian. Brazil works. James Innes is going to the magic. Yes, Bruno Caboclo is now a Houston rocket.

Jordan Bell is out. As Matt Thomas has said, what's your favorite moment for Jordan Bell as a Houston rocket? Let's see. The big one is DiAngelo Russell going to Minnesota for Andrew Wiggins and a first-round pick. other players involved as well. I think that's most of the big ones, right?

That's it. And by the way, we're done. The rockets are done for now. Oklahoma City was trying to deal Danilo Golanari, but I think he is remaining in Oklahoma City Thunder. Yeah, there was a lot of rumors of him going to Miami. Could you imagine Golanari and Iguodala going to Miami to help that team already as it is? They're already a two seed. Yeah, Miami is scary good.

Wow. Okay, so let's do this. Since all of you angry, well, I shouldn't say those that are angry or listen to show. Just people on Twitter that are at work that can't call the show. But if you're an angry rocket fan or a happy rocket fan, I tell you that Robert Covington is wearing your gear. And once Bruno Caboaklo comes back, he'll be wearing your gear. He's hurt currently right now.

There's Nord Jordan Bell. So the Rockets, Rossi, help me out here. The center position is PJ Tucker, followed by Isaiah Hartenstein, followed by Tyson, Chandler, is that right? I would think say so, yes. Okay. Isaiah's going to have to play. Because PJ was backing up Clint at the five when they didn't trust Isaiah.

I mean, for the time being, unless there is a veteran buyout and somebody's coming here in the not too distant future, Isaiah is going to have to get into the good graces and get into the rotation somehow some way, right? Can't play better defensively. because let's say that Dan Tony just doesn't like his defensive work and he gets into foul trouble and his spacing is bad who's backing up PJ

you move house of the five he technically is an inch taller than PJ not nearly as wide you know bulky but he'd be the tallest player after PJ it doesn't matter as much I mean you just start PJ on whoever the big man or the low block guy is and then they're going to switch everything that's why they have that's why PJ Tucker is their five

because they're playing mostly basically positionless basketball. Okay, there it is. 713. 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Are you mad, sad, indifferent, happy on what the rockets are going to do

between now and the end of the season? 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The Matt Thomas Show takes you to 3 o'clock. We have non-Florida stories at the bottom of the hour. Ross, where is your story from this week? I'm narrowing it down to a couple of them.

Okay. That's not true. I have a couple for real this time. I like it. It's a rare treat here on non-flora stories. The Matt Thomas Show. Back to it on Sports Talk 790. Escalated.

Home of the Stroes. Who's not afraid to give us comments about Gail King. You heard those a few minutes ago. This is a classic from last year, Ross. when the Lakers were, I think, hurt, right? What was the context behind this? I think this is where he was discussed about how the team was playing and here is Snoop discussing such event.

Bad year, man. It was terrible watching my Steelers play this year, and it's fucking terrible watching my Lakers play. Somebody got to go. Somebody got to go. Matter of fact, a lot of the kids got to go. Starting with the coach. well

this shit ain't gonna work this is not the LA way ship all the n'clock get a slave ship and ship all them sorry motherfuckers the fuck out of here

sick of it's trying to act like it's gonna be all right it's gonna be cool they're gonna figure it out they're gonna grow these sorry motherfuckers ain't gonna do shit nothing

get LeBron some fucking help because these goofballs ain't gonna do shit they sorry they fucking suck I'm selling my fucking booth right now

I got a booth for the next two year, three years, this year, y'all can have it. $5 for the motherfucking booth to the Laker Games. $5 is the price. Anybody can have it. All the homies hit me, blow me up right now. I feel like Ross, a part of the show every day should be the daily Snoop Dog commentary, you know?

I think so. We all need a daily dose of Snoop in our lives. Because, I mean, he could talk politics, music, sports, media. And granted, it's 90% of it is our words that we're. we'd never been able to say on the radio. But gosh, almighty. Well, if you didn't hear the Gail King earlier, you may want to put that on the blog,

because I don't have the time we're going to have time to play it before the show. But, boy, he eviscerates her. Oh, God, does he do so? And she came on basically and said, if I would have seen that too, I'd have been mad too. So she is acknowledging some of that. 713-212-5-7-90. You saw you reach a show.

713-212-5-790. Let's go to Conroe next. I had a Kevin on the Matt Thomas show. Kevin, thanks for holding. What's going on? Hey, how's it going, Matt? Good. What's going on?

You know, Cabaloco, we had him before. Yes. And the Rockets let him go. You know, but Matt, listen, ma'am, I'm going to tell you, the rockets, regardless of the players, we can get a row. We can get 15 studs on this team. Then Tony will only play seven or eight. You know, it's like it go through this.

We go through this every year. You get players of trade deadline. And the guy won't play them. He has a hardens time. Why in the heck will you have Sepulosa that you're going to put? him talking about playing him at center and you have someone who can play center yes hardinstein he files but that gum and he isn't going to clean up his files sitting there on the bench i can remember when uh when when capella first came in the league he can stay on the floor he can stay on the floor

five minutes but they played him you know and when when they did play hardinstein those games the guy was productive he has to get on the floor in order to get on the floor in order to get better. He has offensive skills. He reaches, but he gets rebounds. He can create his own shot. He can do offensively way better than Capella could ever dream of doing. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's simmer down here. You are, Kevin, first of all, what you see and what the Rockets coaching staff in front office sees are two different things. So that's first and foremost. Secondly, to put him in the level of what Capella does in terms of what Capella has been as a double-double machine, it's just not fair.

That's just not accurate. He's not, Isaiah Hartinstein is not the same player that Clint Capella. That's just not the truth. I said offensively better than Capella. All Capella has is the law. Capella never even developed any type of post-up at all. And so that was the reason why we had the problems in the playoffs. Because once they stopped that lot, Kattella could do nothing. And there was proven time and time again. You know, he never, he was in the summer.

He's out there shooting outside shot. Why aren't you creating, why aren't you learning how to shoot in the post? You know, and that would open up things on the outside if he had to been better in the post. He had no post-up game, none whatsoever. You know, and so quick out there. You're saying that Isaiah Hartinstein does. If he does, I can't wait to see it.

Yes, yes, our heartstein has a better post-up move than Capella does. It's without a doubt he has that offensively. Yes, Capella, he is not as big as Capella because of his weight, you know. But as far as offensively, there's no way Capella could even come close to him offensively. You know, and I know if you watch that, you know, and not just, you know, one likes Capella, double, double machine. Stats can be, can fool you too with that. double, depending on when and how you're getting your rebounds and where it is in particular parts of the game.

Capella had a big-time issue protecting the paint. Man, he has so many guards going right up for a layup. He wouldn't switch over. You know, he just sit there and watch. If the man got beat, he wouldn't switch over and help to stop that from. He stay over there on the center, on that center. You know, that's the reason why the Rockets got rid of him was for a reason, you know. And so, but the part of the matter is what I'm saying is.

Then Tony runs a short bench. And unless he plays these guys, it doesn't matter who more he goes out there and get, he's going to have to play a bigger bitch in order to make this work with this team. Otherwise, just playing seven or eight, they're going to get blown out in the second round because the guys are going to get tired, you know. And so I don't know what he's going to do. The team won't change until they change the head. He can keep switching the rock player all he wants to,

but until they change, Don Tony, the Rockers will not win with Dan Tony, point blank period. Okay. I feel like that you're putting a lot of stock into the Isaiah Hart and Sign Basket. And if he can come and help, that would be extra.

That would be a terrific rotation player. Rossi, I just don't know if the Rock could see it that way. Thus the reason why they are going with P. Jay Tucker at the five. I want 20 post-ups for Isaiah Hardinstein tonight. I'm at 20 post-ups, please. The way Kevin tells it, the man is a post-up genius. He's on offensive force to be reckoned with.

G-League finals MVP. Rebounds, blocks, hook shots, post-moves, Isaiah Hardinstein. Kevin, thank you for the phone call. And if everything he says could come to be true? It can. I would love that. I just don't see what he's seeing right now.

And I don't think the Rockets are seeing what he's saying. I don't think anybody, I don't even know if Isaiah Hardinstein's mother is seeing what Kevin is seeing. Mrs. Hartinstein's like, I would love for my son to have the previous caller brag on him. I mean, imagine what Kevin and Comrow would see if actually Hartnstein played 10 or 15 minutes and scored six or seven points. And, you know, and look, this is not anti- Isaiah. Was that Kevin Hardinstein? Oh, you think it was his brother? Nah, all the families in Germany.

And Isaiah's a good kid. I mean, he has done everything they have asked him to do at the RGB level. There just hasn't been. And look, let me tell you something. If the Rockets had metrics, and remember, gang, I tell you this all the time, the Rockets have metrics on every one of their players, Ross. Yes, they do. There's very little gut, very, very little gut feel to,

what they think is best. There's more data than we can eat. There's an ocean of data on speed, change of direction, what positioning, what percentage they shoot from this spot of the floor, or that spot of the floor, how they do in post-ups,

how they're spacing defensively, every single little thing. Do Russell and James like having Isaiah on the floor at the same time? Now is all that data? I mean, is it all perfect? Does it make all the decisions the rockets make perfect? No. No.

But it helps. know more than we do. I'll put it that way. Oh, my goodness. But let me tell you something, Kevin. From your mouth to the basketball God's ears, because I would love what you just described to actually happen for the Rockets in the remaining portion of their schedule. Because I do think size matters. It just does. But right now, they just don't have it.

And the guys they trust are not in that category of what you speak of Isaiah Hartnstein. But you know what? Things can certainly change. This could be ultimately in some respects a wake-up call. There's no more Clem Capella. Tyson Chandler probably isn't going to play a hole out the rest of the year. There's no more today. This is it. Unless they go into the free agent market or the buyout contract market and go grab somebody at an affordable price.

Time is 226. Non-Florida stories are up next. Every radio show in this country can give you some smaltzy story about what happened in St. Augustine, Florida, or Tampa, or Miami or Accala. We take the other 49 states. We can do it for you here on the Matt Thomas show. and it's up for you to decide who has the best non-Florida story. It's Matt, and he's back.

The Matt Thomas Show on 790. Houston's home for Houston teams. Time now for the non-Florida stories of the week where Ross, Nick, myself, come up with stories that are found outside of the state, the Sunshine State, because, you know what? Other states need their love, too, when it comes of wackiness. I will give you my story.

Ross and Nick will give you theirs, and then you guys help us decide who has the best non-Florida story of the week. I won a couple of times by default, but this is more Nick's game. And Nick has decided just like Ross to add audio to his to help his cause. I do not have audio, so I will go first. According to gentlemen, the leader of the people for the ethical treatment of animals, her name is Ingrid Newkirk.

She believes that Poxetani Phil undergoes, quote, great stress every year on groundhog day and should be replaced by a robot quote it is a burden that phil should be spared according to the people for the ethical treatment of animals as a prey species groundhogs actively avoid humans she writes in a newsletter being in close proximity to public causes these animals great stress new kirk adds that when phil is dragged out of his hole and held up to the lights and crowd he has no idea what is happening Newkirk suggests an animatronic groundhog with artificial intelligence should replace fill. The techno-savvy fill would actually be able to predict the weather.

An al-fil would renew interest in Poxetani, generating a great deal of buzz, which like Sony's robot dog, Albo, which walks, plays, misbehaves, and responds to commands. By creating an al-Fil, you can keep Paxetani at the center of Groundhog. But in a much more progressive way. Gentlemen, your thoughts on a robot over Paxasani Phil for Groundhog Day. Is she going to build this? I think it's already been built. I don't really get a Groundhog Day anyway. If I'm going to replace them for something, it's going to be nothing.

It's just a daily, it's just a yearly bit. No big deal. I'm sure it generates money for the, you know, the town of Punksitani. So I don't think they want to do away with it. Do I believe there are animals out there that are abused, that are, uh, put in very, very in harm's way. Of course, we're not naive to that. But you're going to replace a groundhog that gets used for five minutes once a year with a robot?

I would disagree with this, PETA. Groundhog Day should feature Pontotny Phil, not a robot. I mean, he did go off that cliff with Bill Murray that one time. That's enough. Ross, you're next. Well, Matt, speaking of robots, let's talk about the world's first sex doll. experience opening in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas sex doll experience prides itself on boldly going where no one has gone before,

but insists they are not a brothel. They are now opening on Pecos Road in Las Vegas. The business offers clients the range of sex dolls and the chance to try them out before they commit at $150 per session. They aim to help customers, quote, create and interact in erotic atmosphere that is perfect customized to each individual's tastes. What? You mean you can pre-program it?

I don't know. I'm sure they can change the hair and stuff. Apparently local residents are not happy with the neighborhood's latest edition. I would think one woman told the Las Vegas Review Journal, we've got apartments and houses on the other side of the road on PECOS, and we've got houses over here with children.

It should not be allowed, and I didn't think by law it was. And it's not. But the way they're using and getting around it is saying, are test drives that the customers are taking for $150. So that apparently is legal. It's not a brothel. It's a toy store.

And also sex worker Roxanne Price was interviewed in this article. Are they happy about it? She is calling it, quote, a slap in the face. Aw. I love my job as a Las Vegas aerial legal prostitute. I work hard to comply with all regulations in Nevada. And I'm happy to travel to nearby rural areas in order to legally. sell my sexual services, but this doll brothel is a slap in the face to me and other hardworking

sex workers who are trying to make our way in the world. So when's your guys, when's your guys next Vegas trip? Uh, we're going to go in September. Now, we're not going to that, are we, Ross? I am not going within 500 yards of this place. By law. No, uh, no, I'm not, I'm not going anywhere. There. Let me ask you this. Why don't you have audio attached to this story like you usually do? Um, We have not procured any. Okay. So let's recap the stories.

Mine is very PG. That's PETA saying that this should be a robot for Poxetowny, Phil. You have a story about Las Vegas brothels using computerized robots for sex. And last and certainly least, here's Nick. All right, my job's going to be very easy today. My story is from Yukon, Oklahoma. And I'm going to go ahead and let Oklahoma City's Channel 4 tell the story. for me. Oh boy. And now to this situation that really sucked, a man accused of bringing a Roomba

to a fight with his neighbor. And that's not even the craziest thing that happened here. Newsforce, Peyton Yeager, asked this story. And Peyton, I know you spoke with one of the neighbors who tried to fight back during all of this. Kevin, David Baird, messaged me. A full-on standoff was happening right outside his window. He says he never had a problem with his neighbor before until this happened. I told him if you break through the fence, I'm going to shoot you. David Baird gun in hand after his neighbor, John Stafford, allegedly started trying to break down their shared fence with a Roomba vacuum cleaner. I was scared for my family.

His wife and kids huddled inside their Yukon home after a 12-hour ordeal with the man next door. Through fecal matter out in the driveway into our yard. Eventually, the SWAT team, the bomb squad, and the robot called out. Baird and his neighbors staying up late, capturing it all on video. You must come out. Time to ready to go. Stafford barricading himself inside his home, making several calls to police. I'd like to report a dach bag.

Sir, you'd like to report a what? A dach bag. Can you speak like an adult, please? And tell me what situation you're having. B-O-U. Again, I'm going to ask you to tell me the problem that you're having. B, B, B, A, G. Fagg.

Did you hear that? OKC and Yukon dispatchers taking six 911 calls from him and all. Yukon 9-1-1, what's the location of your emergency? U-Kon-1-1, what's the location of your emergency? It's a d'a-jag. Okay, I'm getting you back over to Oklahoma City. I'm going to run you guys into the ground. Okay, have a nice night.

Stafford's night, about to end. negotiators in the street try to lure him outside, eventually releasing canisters of pepper spray to get him out. I'll take any threat against my family. It's dead serious to me. Police still trying to figure out why Stafford was in such a violent state, and he's still sitting in jail at this hour. And there you have it. You win. I know. What is going, what was going on over there? The guy attacked his fence to start the whole thing with a Roomba. Now, I don't, Think he was just driving the Rumba into the fence because I would do nothing. I think he was actually had it in his hand and was beating the fence because it looked like there was some damage to the fence.

Yeah. Then his neighbor threatened to defend himself with a gun and they barricaded themselves inside their own home while he threw fecal matter all over their driveway and then barricaded himself in his home. SWAT team had to respond to diffuse the situation. Can I ask you a question? Was he prank calling 911? Yes, the entire time you just kept calling 911. Now, Rossi, when I was a kid, I prank call people all the time. I believe that.

Oh, for sure. Pre-call our ID, I did it all the time. But I would never call 911 and prank call an operator. Even the dumb Matt Thomas at 12 years old wouldn't do that. Well, I guess if you have the SWAT team out in front of your house, it didn't really matter at this point. You're already in enough trouble. So he was calling a report a douchebag? Is that what he said he was recording?

Yep. Reporting on? Okay. Nicholas, you've now asked me to step up my game. I will have audio for my report next week. Good luck. I'm going to beat you to it. So Poxetani, Phil, the robot, not going to happen.

Sex robots in Las Vegas, not going to happen. A man prank calling 911 and taking a room. to destroy a man's fence that happened that those are the non-flora stories of the week believe it or not is next do we come up with a category once and for all yes and we'll find and that is we'll find out when we come back after you can't put the crickets he's got the questions ready there's no chance the matt thomas show continues on sports talk 790 where rockets and astrol is playing Real Texans talk. I want to remind folks that tomorrow on the show, we get into Phoenix super, super late. So Brian T. Smith is going to fill in with Ross tomorrow. You guys are going to have Mike Dantonia at 1230 tomorrow on your show. It should be a good show to talk about a Lakers Rockets game from tonight.

And what the future is going to be like for the Houston Rockets? Yeah, it should be good. What do you think he's going to say? Hopefully he's in a good mood. Hopefully the Rockets win tonight. Yeah. Do you want to guess what MDA would say? You've never done this before.

This is before the interview. My thinking he's going to say, if there's anybody that can handle being undersized and going against fives, it's PJ Tucker. He's also probably going to say that this team lives on those matchup size that, you know, you put James Hardin. Frankly, maybe James Martin may be at the end of the day a better low-block defender than he is on high, right?

So if you're going to try to put guys in the best possible spacing, you're going to put those two guys in the low block over other guys that may not be nearly as effective. I agree with that. So these are things to think about. By the way, still Russell Westbrook questionable for tonight's game with a thumbspray. My guess is if he doesn't go tonight, he will try to go tomorrow against Phoenix. But my thought is if there's any way he can go,

he knows that the national TV game. He knows that the stars are going to be a lion. many celebrities out here. This is a big sexy game. This is a potential second round playoff series, honestly. Right now, the Rockets find themselves with the number are they four spot now? They got to the four spot now with Utah's falling

off the earth? They're tied with Utah in the four spot, I believe. So if the season was to end today, the Rockets would open up the playoffs if the home court advantage against Utah in a 4-5, and then they would take on the winner of the Lakers versus Memphis series. Lots of

different trades today. Again, if you're just joining us, A, where you've been, B, we're glad to have you. Bruno Koboklo, who is currently injured, got traded today from Memphis to the Rockets and returned Jordan Bell going to Memphis. And that's it from the Rockets. Andre Drummond goes from Detroit to Cleveland.

DeAngelo Russell goes from Golden State to Minnesota. Am I missing anything else in terms of impactful moves today? I think you got them all, man. I think there may be a couple others. Adam and I will run through all of that today as part of their show. I don't know if they're going to have Daryl Morian or not. I know for a fact that we will have Mike Dan Tony tomorrow with Brian T and with Ross, and that'll be at 1230 tomorrow here on Sports Talk 790.

Anything else, Ross, you want to get to before we get to play in the game? Follow SportsMT on Twitter for all the Breaking Rockets news, especially around the trade deadline. And you suck, you are awful, you're not funny, you're not a comedian, stop. Just typical keyboard warrior stuff. If you listen to the show, you knew we were going to do that, and we were going to have some fun with it. But instead, you all turn something funny into something mean and ugly because some of you on Twitter are nasty.

And I'm not talking about the people who listen to show, Ross. The people that are nastiest in the Twitter don't follow me and don't listen to the show, which makes me happy. Because I don't need that in my life. Do you, Ross? Funky dog hit, bitch. Five minutes have to go in the show. What should we do?

Ross, I just want to play Snoop Dog sound bites for the rest of the show. Would that be okay? That'd be great. I'd rather play him sound bites of him than Bill O'Brien or Donald Trump, to be honest with you. But instead, for now, we'll play America's fastest-growing sports game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-75790. 7-1-3-212-750.

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103, not a question. He was a stalwart of the dead or alive, believe it or not. We'd used him for years because I thought he was passed for years. We've got to have to take him off the list, unfortunately. I'll reach a statement about Kirk Douglas. statement's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Malibate it. Erroneous full of buck or made up, you'll say this.

Not. Two of those in a row get you're prize. One, Matt. One. Yeah, sorry, we must have a plethora of prizes available. We'll be playing for. Go ahead. Yes, Matt, we've got four-pack of pre-event pit party passes and tickets to the first monster jam of 2020 this Saturday, February 8th at NRG Stadium. And all it takes

is one correct answer. Line two. Lewis, On 790, Lewis, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, I'm ready. Believe it. Thank you, sir. Kirk Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor following his performance in the 1960 film, Spartacus. Believe it or not?

Not. Not. That was correct. Wasn't even nominated. Ross, that's a travesty, correct? Sure, why not? David on 790. David, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Kurt Douglas' parents were immigrants from Belarus. Before changing his name, he was known as Izzy Dempsky. Believe it or not. That is correct. Another win. Poor Nick's going to be grumpy before this show. Sorry.

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Believe it Believe it Is right All right Last chance here because we got all of our lines already lit with winners. Line four, who is this? Neil. Neil, Kirk Douglas was suspected to be a communist by U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy,

but he was never placed on the official Hollywood blacklist. Believe it or not. Not. That is correct. Not. Ross, I believe you owe Nick an apology. It is what it is. We need to offload these tickets anyway.

I'm okay. The generosity of our friends back in Houston. All right, stand by. We've got Adam and Adam next there. The A team, they will run through all the NBA stuff, get you ready for the Rockets and the Lakers. And a reminder, tomorrow, 1230, Mike D'Antonia for a visit from Phoenix. Hopefully the Rockets will be celebrating yet another victory.

Thanks to Ross and Nick and all of you that listen, called, email, tweeted, even when you sent nasty things to me. My skin's getting thicker by the day. Have a great rest of your day. Craig and I on the broadcast. It's a one-two broadcast punch tonight for the Rockets, and the Lakers. Our coverage begins here at 8.30 with a tip time of 9.30 on Sports Talk 790.

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