40 Burst results for "Rockets"
The Dan Bongino Show
Jesse Kelly: Communists Purposely Destabilize Society
"-Communist Manifesto. you Now see why the book is rocketing up the charts. Jesse, you're so right. I've made this case on this show repeatedly that we fell in kind of the John McCain model, that, oh, if I just go up and vote down on changes to Obamacare with the infamous thumbs down moment because it didn't follow normal procedure. Then The Washington Post and New York Times will love me and the Democrats will say, oh, look, there's John McCain. What a dignified man. he respects procedure over everything. Maybe we'll consider Republicans. No, no, bro. That's not what's happening. You are dealing with people who are like, hey, that 90 year old, someone cut should his nuts off. He's playing with a Barbie doll. This is insane. They don't give a, oh, gosh, I hate FCC rules about procedure or the thumbs down. These people, what they only care about is the the destruction of the present system to usher in this new era of top down collectivism. That's all they care about. It's all they care about, Dan. And maybe the best example of this, it drives me insane is when I see these Soros prosecutors, when I hear them discussed on the right, the right almost universally will say they're soft on crime, prosecute. He's just a soft on crime, making him sound like some flowery liberal hippie who just happens to want to be really nice to criminals. No communists in the revolutionary phase from Lenin on turned murderers and rapists loose intentionally so they will murder and rape more to lies a society. These are communist foot soldiers intentionally causing rape and murder. And we can't even speak like that on the right. Instead, once again, well, I mean, he's soft on crime. Barf. I can't take the low T
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "rockets" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"-WTOP. That's -WTOP. 866 -304 There was this one time I went snorkeling in the Caribbean when I was a kid. It really just blew my mind. We saw the most beautiful corals. I remember thinking they were waving at us as they moved with the ocean. And then there were all these amazing fish. I'll never forget it. It completely changed the way I look at the ocean. Most of us have a memory of being nature in we'll never forget. Let's protect the world's natural places so more memories can be made for generations to come. Visit worldwildlife .org. That's the sound of the most powerful rocket ever made by NASA. Hey there, it's Luke Garrett from WTOP's DMV Download the podcast. See, these rockets are going to propel the Artemis II mission to the moon. The first time the US will bring people back to the moon's orbit in over
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Guest Host Carl Jackson Describes the LGBTQ Risk to Our Population
"If if all we do is promote Lesbian and gay relationships and we never promote Heterosexual relationships. What do you do you depopulate the earth? I'm sorry fact check gays and lesbians can't reproduce children Yes, they can adopt. Okay, great great. I I'm not I That goes counter to my belief system. Okay, but gays and lesbians can adopt they they can't produce babies This is this isn't rocket science, this is really simple and if you don't have Conservatives and people that are willing to just speak the truth and love and in kindness. No, no vitriol, but just be straight up The trans issue is really sad.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "rockets" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Download See these rockets are going to propel the Artemis II mission to the moon the first time the US will bring people back to the moon's orbit in over 50 years on the show I talked to Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman about his fears hopes and excitement I characterize this this current moment as the Golden Age in spaceflight hear it all on the latest episode of the DMV Download podcast we'll see you there it is Saturday morning June 10th welcome to the weekend thanks for starting with us here in the 1 am hour at WTOP it'll be clear and comfortable we as head towards daybreak code yellow air quality continues getting better as we head through the weekend low in the 50s before we're done we're at 55 in our nation's capital right now it's 1 45 good morning late breaking news on former president Donald Trump's federal indictment this week in the classified documents case the former president is accused of directing an aid to hide documents from investigators with some of the papers being found in a bathroom and shower at his Mar -a -Lago residence we have one set of laws in this country and they apply to everyone that is special counsel Jack Smith this week Friday making his first public comments in the case he says prosecutors will seek a speedy trial here Mr. Trump is scheduled to appear in court next week Tuesday in South Florida he faces the possibility of prison if convicted in this case WTOP's Dimitri Sotis speaks this morning with CBS News correspondent Scott McFarland about what's being called a a indictment damning here you needn't have a law degree to recognize we're in unchartered criminal charge against a former president of the United States on any which of these counts could be punishable by 10 to 25 years in prison and quarter of a million dollar fine but the granularity and the absolute overpowering nature of some of these accusations striking they're making clear in this charging document the former president is alleged to have overseen some of the movement of these boxes with America's most classified top secrets concluded that the former president was also knowing that these records were being sought part of a conspiracy to obstruct the investigation to block information from getting to a grand jury or to investigators and it is clear these are state secrets allegedly being shared by the former president with people who didn't have security clearances outside of a secured compartmental nation facility and it was done on more than one occasion we've learned the judge Eileen Cannon who is a a Trump appointee will oversee the case she's made some favorable rulings for him in the past I don't know that little we can say this tips the case in somebody's favor or not but isn't that a big factor now Scott it certainly is I mean it's certainly a factor whether it's something that's consequential on the ends of justice is a different story but Eileen Cannon is a Trump appointee which means that the first time in American history president's going to be criminally charged with a case that goes before a judge he himself appointed just on reflect the significance of that for a moment the practical impact Judge Eileen Cannon to somebody for whom the Department of Justice might seek to have the case moved it may be very comfortable with it going to a Trump appointee to be beyond reproach another factor that takes politics potentially out of the criticisms of this case she operates out of a smaller venue in the Southern District of Florida she's not Miami based she's actually in West Palm Beach smaller courthouse different jury pool in West Palm Beach than there'd be in Miami or in Key West for example and that may impact the jury selection process and ultimately a trial if this goes to trial it's always worth reminding folks less than 5 % of federal criminal cases ever end to up going trial and when they do you don't really get to see much of it there's no cameras in courtrooms there no are booking shots released it's quite possible the former president is brought in and out of the courthouse invisibly through a secured entrance private a lot of this is going to be happening in a way we can't see. CBS news congressional correspondent Scott McFarland on WTOP. Recapping our top stories now on WTOP breaking this morning or throughout this day the indictment against former president Donald Trump is unsealed showing the odd places apparently he kept classified documents at his Mar -a -Lago estate and what was in them and here at home no bond for the Maryland funeral homeowner accused of shooting and killing a pallbearer at a ten -year -old girl's funeral service recently you are listening to 103 .5 FM and WTOP .com good Saturday morning June 10th traffic
AP News Radio
North Korea spy satellite launch fails as rocket falls into the sea
"North Korea fails to launch its first spy satellite into space. In parts of South Korea and Japan, residents took shelter after North Korea launched a rocket, which later crashed into the sea. Admitting failure is a setback to leader Kim Jong-un's push to boost military capability amid tension with the U.S. and South Korea, but North Korea is now promising to look into what went wrong and try a second launch soon. Any North Korean satellite launch is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that ban the country from launches that use ballistic technology. I'm Mimi Montgomery
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Rockets" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"Org slash learn smile train changing the world one smile at a time Saturday morning welcome in June 10th at 141 on wtop glad you're with us this is news wtop Britain's former prime minister Boris Johnson says he is quitting as a lawmaker his announcement coming this week after he received apparently the results of the partygate report that report by privileges committee looked into whether or not Johnson misled lawmakers over lockdown breaking parties at 10 Downing Street in a statement Johnson accuses the inquiry this weekend of attempting to drive him out altogether he quits you may remember as prime minister last year amid multiple scandals but as remained a lawmaker at that time now we turn to the case connected to this morning to the disappearance suspected and murderer of American teenager Natalie Holloway nearly 20 years ago in Aruba Friday this week the prime suspect Joran van der Sloat was arraigned this week in Alabama in a courthouse on charges of of extortion and wire fraud CBS correspondent Janet Shamblin was there as Vander Sloate pleaded not guilty Vander van der Sloat was one of the last people seen with Holloway leaving a club in Aruba before she went missing during a high school graduation trip he was twice arrested but never charged then in 2010 he asked Natalie's mother Beth for $250 ,000 Holloway paid $25 ,000 as part of an FBI sting the information was was false and there's word this morning that Florida's Dr. Deep has apparently finally resurfaced from a watery a Florida professor known as Dr. Deep has resurfaced after spending a record 100 days living underwater Dr. Joseph de Turi raised his face to the Sun Friday for the first time since March 1st that's when he started living in an underwater lodge for scuba divers at the bottom of a lagoon in Key Largo the diving explorer and medical researcher shattered the previous mark of just over 73 days set by two Tennessee professors at the same lodge in 2014 de Turi says his interest was never about entering the record books he's more interested in expanding knowledge about how the body responds to extended exposure to extreme pressure and isolation the educator from the University of South of Florida hopes to present findings from his deep water experiment at a conference this fall I'm Lisa Dwyer. You are listening to 103 .5 FM at wtop .com three one two that's the sound of the most powerful rocket ever made by NASA. Hey there it's Luke Garrett from WTOP's DMV Download See these rockets are going to propel the Artemis II mission to the moon the first time the US will bring people back to the moon's orbit in over 50 years on the show I talked to Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman about his fears hopes and excitement I characterize this this current moment as the Golden Age in spaceflight hear
AP News Radio
What to Know About the N.B.A. Draft Lottery
"The Victor webinar sweepstakes is about to have a winner. The NBA draft lottery is Tuesday night in Chicago and 14 teams will hope that the ping Pong balls will bounce their way, giving them the number one pick this year and the chance to draft web and Yama. The Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets and San Antonio spurs all have the best chance of winning the lottery and getting the number one pick 14% or about 7 to one odds. The 19 year old web and Yama averaged 21.4 points, 9.9 rebounds and 3.1 blocks in 29 games for his French LMB pro a league
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "rockets" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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AP News Radio
Islamic Jihad leader: Cease-fire reached with Israel, but fighting persists
"An Egyptian brokered ceasefire deal between the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and Israel has been announced. A leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group in Gaza confirmed the deal had been made. However, rocket fire persisted after the deadline. Leaving the deal in question shortly before the truce was to take hold, Israel reported a heavy burst of Palestinian rocket fire towards southern and central Israel, while Israel said it was striking targets inside Gaza after the deadline, Israel reported additional rocket fire and Israeli media said warplanes were responding. I'm Karen Chammas
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Rockets" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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AP News Radio
Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza trade fire; 3 Palestinians killed in West Bank incidents
"Israel and Palestinian militants exchanged fire for a 5th day. Rockets shoot out from Gaza towards Israel, hopes for an imminent ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic shahad were fading as the Israeli military earlier bonds and apartments belonging to a commander of the Islamic Gerard group in retaliation, the group fired a barrage of rockets towards southern Israel where thousands of Israelis were instructed to remain close to safe rooms in bomb shelters. In a statement, Islamic Jihad promised a further onslaught, in the occupied West Bank, tensions were also high as the Israeli military raided the balata refugee camp near the northern city of nablus, the raids sparked a firefight that killed two Palestinians. After the raids, schools of Palestinians took to the streets, Israeli–Palestinian fighting has surged in the West Bank and Israel's most right wing government in history. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as Cairo presses on with efforts to mediate truce
"Israeli aircraft destroyed three houses apparently belonging to members of Islamic shahad in northern and southern Gaza, claims which have been rejected by those who lived in the properties. Children gathered by the rubble of the destroyed building in the enclave's southern city of Khan yunis. It belonged to un Jihad Al ara, where she said she lived with her disabled husband and children. In 2014, they hit the house and burnt it with shells, but we repaired it because we didn't have another house. Now they destroyed it again. Another air strike at a sprawling housing complex in Khan yunis destroyed the upper floor of one of the buildings, where Israel said a senior commander was killed along with two others. The air strike caused damage to three surrounding buildings. Residents Abdullah Hamad described an abnormal light in two explosions, and then finding his children crying in shock. When I reached them, I found them covering themselves with bed covers and screaming out of fear. Meanwhile, rocket fire towards southern Israel continued, even as Egypt pressed on with attempts to broker a ceasefire. I am Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Journalist working for AFP news agency killed in Ukraine
"French international news agency Azure France press says it's Ukraine video coordinator was killed on Tuesday during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of bakhmut. The agency says 43 year old Amman sardin was with a team of AFP journalists traveling with Ukrainian soldiers when the group came under fire with grand rockets the rest of the AFP team was uninjured. The late afternoon attack took place in the vicinity of chassis via a town near Batmobile, Russian forces have been trying to capture the city for 9 months, making that the focus of the war's longest battle. The AFP's chairman says Sundance death is a terrible reminder of the risks and dangers faced by journalists every day covering the conflict in Ukraine. I'm Charles De Ledesma
AP News Radio
Officials: US to send Ukraine $300 million in military aid
"With the spring offensive expected and reports of low ammunition supplies, the U.S. is sending its 37th tranche of military aid to Ukraine at the same time Russia's spurring its industry to boost weapons production. I'm Ben Thomas with an update. Russia's defense ministry has released footage of tank crews firing on targets. It says, are Ukrainian forces. At the same time, minister Sergey shoygu says he's instructed the state owned company that makes high precision weapons to double production in the shortest possible time, a UK defense ministry assessment says Russia does not have enough munitions to successfully remain on the offensive. On the other side, the Biden administration is sending Ukraine another $300 million in military aid. Artillery rounds howitzers air to ground rockets and ammunition. Plus Hydra 70 unguided rockets that are fired from aircraft and the rockets for high Mars, high mobility systems, U.S. Military aid to Ukraine since Russia's invasion now totals about $36 billion. I'm Ben Thomas
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Is J-20 Powerful Enough to Compete With F-21 in Warfare?
"There technology when it comes to military hardware as good as our is the J 20 capable of keeping up with the F 21, for example? Look, I think that their air force, their navy, which have been the two focuses over the last quarter century, as well as the rocket forces or formidable. These are the things that we need to be training against doing tabletop exercises against like we saw members of Congress doing just the other day. I think it was good that they were doing that. But war, the thing that makes me uncomfortable is that we don't know for sure how a war would play out.
AP News Radio
Relatives bury children killed in Russian missile attack
"Relatives are burying those killed in a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Uman. Almost all of the 23 victims of the attack died when two missiles slammed into an apartment building, including 6 children. As mourners hold candles cross themselves and sing, the priest waves a vessel containing incense over the coffins. He says he knew the children personally and baptized them at the very same church that now holds their funerals. Russia's war has brought more death elsewhere as the governor of a Russian region bordering Ukraine says four people have been killed in a Ukrainian rocket attack on a nearby village. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Judge rules against Google, allows antitrust case to proceed
"A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that an antitrust case against Google can proceed. I Norman hall. Federal judge Leone brinkema green light at the government lawsuit alleging Google wheels monopolistic power in the world of online advertising. Google had earlier tried to get the case consolidated with a similar lawsuit that's been ongoing for several years in New York, but judge break him a road last month at the case can proceed in the Alexandria courthouse, which is known as the rocket docket for its reputation of adjudicating dispute swiftly, the lawsuit alleges that Google corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry by seizing control of a wide swath of high-tech tools used by publishers advertisers and brokers. I Norman hall
AP News Radio
AP source: Rockets hire ex-Celtics coach Udoka as new coach
"Set to name email DOCA as the team's new head coach, a source tells The Associated Press, the 45 year old udoka spent one season as the coach of the Boston Celtics, leading the team to an NBA Finals appearance last season, however udoka was suspended by the Celtics for the 2022 23 season after a month long investigation found multiple violations of team policy, the Celtics officially parted ways with udoka in February while naming interim Joe Missoula as head coach. Udoka will replace Stephen Silas in Houston following the rocket's 22 and 60 season.
The Trish Regan Show
Elon Musk's Most Powerful Rocket Ever Just Blew Up
"Oh, not good. Not good, thank goodness. Nobody was actually in the starship. This is Elon Musk's spaceship. This particular rocket, it was supposed to be sort of the be all end all. This is a big part of the company's overall plans to bring people up into space. So this was a big deal. It's actually considered the most powerful spaceship ever actually built. And so there was a lot of hope that was going into this. Don't forget, this is sort of what he was working towards. But in the last couple of days, he had started to downplay some expectations. So maybe there was a sense of maybe it just wouldn't work. Well, it didn't. It actually exploded just shortly after it took off. This was a test flight. No people on board, so that's good news, but you know, there's haters out there, and already they've surfaced and there's people saying, eh, you know, typical Elon Musk, they don't like them anyway, so they kind of rejoice in this. And I would just say this, look, don't rejoice in this, because we need Elon Musk, working with our government right now. I think it's a great partnership between
AP News Radio
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
"SpaceX's giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. The rockets took off after a countdown full of hope and excitement and on Musk's company was aiming to send the nearly 400 foot starship rocket on around the world trip from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites. However, within minutes, commentators on the live space ex broadcast realized something had gone wrong. Obviously this is does not appear to be a nominal situation. The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after lift off, but that didn't happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf, in a tweet, Musk called the Tess launch exciting and that he learned a lot for the next test launch in a few months. I'm Karen Chammas
Ethereum Daily
Rocket Pool Atlas Upgrade Goes Live
"Rocket pool successfully executed its Atlas upgrade at blog height one 7 zero 6 9 8 9 8, the release enables compatibility with Ethereum's ship pillow upgrade, allowing rocket pool and node operators to claim rewards and execute validator exits. The release also brings gas optimizations and an increased deposit pole limit among other updates. Atlas reduces the staking requirements for mini poles from 16 ether to only 8 ether over 800 new aether meaning poles coined as lab 8 mini poles have gone live since the Atlas upgrade existing node operators with 16 ether meaning poles can also convert their poles to 8 ether poles, meaningful operators earn a 14% commission from our eth stakers.
AP News Radio
SpaceX calls off 1st launch attempt of giant new rocket
"SpaceX had to cancel the launch of its massive starship rocket because of a technical glitch detected at countdown. We're inside T -8 minutes and counting. The 400 foot rocket was on the launch pad in the southern tip of Texas and was being fueled for its test flight across the globe when a problem was detected. SpaceX, mission control. Flight director is talking about the issue we've had on first stage working the pressurization system. A stuck valve scrubbed the launch. Even though fueling was completed as a dress rehearsal for the next attempt, which could come mid week. Space enthusiasts had gathered near south padre island, RVs and cars jammed the road that leads to the launch pad. Some express disappointment they didn't see it fly. Starship is planned for travel to the moon and eventually to Mars. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Breakdown
Will Withdrawals Drive a New Institutional Ethereum Narrative?
"All right, so there has been a lot of macro and big picture thinking this week around things like AI, so for the weekly recap, I wanted to shift back and catch up on the big crypto news. And obviously we need to start with the biggest protocol level event of the week, which is Ethereum's much anticipated chapella upgrade, which was actually kind of two upgrades in one that went live on Wednesday night after months of work. This was in many ways the culmination of Ethereum's transition to proof of stake. The key feature added in this upgrade was enabling stake Ethereum to be withdrawn. Some of the earliest takers have had their tokens locked up for years at this point, so there was rampant speculation around whether these investors would withdraw their stake to realize any gain or loss. Now it should be noted that over the last year the rise of liquid staking options like lido and rocket pool have allowed investors to maintain liquidity while still receiving their staking yield, which you would think somewhat reduces the need to withdraw to access liquidity for at least some investors. Also worth noting that withdrawals are limited by a cue system restricting the number of stakes that can be withdrawn per day. Going into the upgrade, the data seem to indicate that the demand for withdrawals would be fairly minimal. Last Sunday, ave founder Mark zeller pointed out that the concerns about a long line of stakers waiting to get out just hadn't materialized. He wrote, one thing they won't tell you, you can withdraw now. If you're afraid, you can voluntarily exit right now, meaning you'll be first in line to grab your eth post Shanghai, with Shanghai in three days, the empty withdrawal cues tell you everything you need to know. Zero panic. What happens if you exit now? You don't earn around two days of staking revenue. So around four 50 per node, then when Shanghai hits, your exit is proceed and you get your 32 eth back and all yield when it's your turn on partial withdrawal cue. Anyone can do it, no one is doing it. End quote. Crypto quant noted that 60% of stake de supply around 10.3 million eth is currently sitting at a loss compared to when it was staked. Some analysts suggest that large selling pressures tend to form around realizing profits rather than locking in losses, so this unrealized loss among stakers could in fact cause investors to hold their positions even though withdrawals are available.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"rockets" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"The 5 on four break, it's a problem, but it's not a unique problem to the Lakers. That's something you see around the NBA. Yeah. And I know Trevor, you've been very upset about it very vocal about your frustration with that this season. And again, the schedule is only going to get tougher. I think they only have 6 home games left the rest of the season. A lot of these games out of the stretch you have a big road trip coming up. Minnesota, Toronto, Washington Cleveland, and then you come back home for a game and they have three top ones on the road. So again, the schedule is all you're going to get topper. In the Lakers and what should be an easy win on the road, it gets a bad rockets team. I mean, what makes you think they're going to get up for, I mean, they've already shown they don't get up or Oklahoma City, let alone New Orleans. So it's aggravating, man. John Robertson Dallas said it's hard for a Lakers fan that you'd still watch every Laker game this season even with an atrocious season. Yeah, look, hey, you're a real one. If you're still watching right now, you're real one. I know some of the people in the chat didn't really watch the game, just kind of had it all in while they were doing other stuff. Understand, but man, it's not easy getting through some of these games. That's for sure. Matty James said, Trevor and Sean, any off season free agents that would be a good fit for next season or players you'd want to re sign once Russ is gone. Malik monk is a guy that I would love to see the Lakers resign Eric pink is over at bleacher report did a piece about this about that would be one of and we've spoken about this here as well. One of the potential pros of waving and stretching Russell Westbrook is now you're probably looking at bringing back Malik monk because now you can get into the mix with a full mid level exception offer. Now overall, I don't think stretching process is a good idea. I think it's probably not the correct path to go down, but that's the silver lining to doing that. That's the positive is if you do that, you can probably put yourself in the mix to hang on to a guy like Malik monk. Maybe you don't need to go there. Maybe you find out through whatever channels you need to that he'll play for the mini mid level exception, the taxpayer mid level. That's possible too. But that's kind of the silver lining. Other free agents that are out there, the free agent market is not very deep this year, and there's also not a lot of cap space. And those two things are connected. There's not a lot of cap space because teams spent their cap space because they saw there's not a lot of players out there on the free agent market this year. So it's going to be pretty competitive going after free agents. I don't know there's going to be a ton of different difference makers. I do think that's going to create to have very trade heavy NBA off season because teams are going to see they can't get the pieces they want on the market. So instead they're going to try to trade. But in any event, we've got plenty of time to get into the off season stuff. I haven't looked at every single free agent out there..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"rockets" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"'cause think about it. It's coming to a point. You're likely going to let Frank Vogel walk anyway. That's the point. Yes. The team is, the team has played like this for a total, probably about 15 games this season. And I get it, Frank boger does have a bunch of guys defensively who will lock in and play with the tense effort, but respectfully there's no way in heck that you should give up a 139 points of the Houston Rockets who are the second worst team in the NBA. That's an excusable and then the lack of effort that they've shown again for at least 15 games this year. And it just looks like the guys they just give up at times. And I hate to use that word because I think teams want to win and I think guys players the players want to win because if you don't want to win, why are you playing basketball? Like you're in the wrong profession, but they just look like they quit. Honestly, in, again, I hate using that term or whatever, but that's what it looks like. And I think part of that is slightly on Frank. And I think Frank's done some things. He probably regrets. I think the rotations have been lack thereof, not good this season. The offense has been bad unless LeBron or 80s going Berserk, the offensive is bad, defensive. Way to inconsistent somehow they're still ranking at 17th, I think, person energy, which the reliable I get my film from them. So there's somehow ranked 17th in the NBA and defense, but man, it's rough. So I would at least get Bohemia shot going into next season. I don't know, Daniel espinoza said, so what's the solution, Trevor? I mean, as a professional athlete, you should take pride in your heart and hustle. Agree. A 100% agree. And that's why I think that the only thing is that organization you really can do is say, well, let's see if a change of the coach shakes things up enough to get us some energy through the remainder of the season. That's about the only thing about aside from that, it's do we just pack it in and start benching some guys put on the guys that are going to hustle because look, let's face it..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"rockets" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"You already know what to expect. The Lakers found a way to lose to the Houston Rockets, just when we thought that we had hit rock bottom when they got blown out by the pelicans and we wondered, could there be another low can it get lower? The Lakers said yes. Yes, we can give you that. We can knock you down a little bit further. And we can lose a game to the Houston Rockets. We've got a lot to talk about in this, what a lot of things to break down, unfortunately, I can already see in the chat. A lot of people upset. And rightfully so, you've got plenty of reason to be upset after this game, we'll talk about it. We'll vent the very least. We will get through it together. Joining me is Sean Davis from Lakers nation dot com. Sean, I don't even know what to say. This was, that was brutal. That was awful, awful, terrible. And all I can do is laugh. Yeah, you laugh to hide the pain, but I wanna really quickly applaud all of Lakers nation, the fans are great staff for somehow managing to get through the season because it's been rough men and guys are real ones for stick it through I can't see right now how many people are in here live with us, but you guys are all real ones because if I have to do this I wouldn't be here right now. It's rough on for sure. Yeah, this is this has been really, really bad. This is particularly when you look at this game and I guess here's going to be my big picture point for this. My take away so when the Lakers when the score was tied and the Lakers had the ball and we're heading into the final play of the game, I'm thinking, okay, the Lakers they're going to get the last shot. And I was thinking, all right, even if they score here, the discussion isn't necessarily going to be, hey, the Lakers won this game. It's not going to be a celebration, really, because we all know what we saw. We all know what we saw the Lakers do in this game. We saw them not play basketball. Not put forth much effort, not really look like they cared to be out there. It looked like the worst parts of an All-Star Game. Frankly, to me. And the rockets have an excuse. It's a young team..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"rockets" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"In case you want to just go down off season memory lane. Yeah. But no, yeah, it's the most frustrating thing with me. Like, Deandre Jordan, I know, still has a pretty decently sized name when you bring him up with casual fans. But he's just not the same player and through 8 games. Because trust me, we saw this a lot with Marc Gasol last year who was also a very slow footed big who couldn't really defend as many actions. But at least Mark provided spacing and passing. Deandre Jordan was still definitely a law threat when he has space enough to get up there. But after that, though, he just hasn't been as good on the glasses I would have expected either. We had a lot of fans complaining about offensive rebounding for other teams, which means a Lakers aren't defensive rebounding. Deandre just hasn't been that good either. He just doesn't have the same lift. He just doesn't seem to get the boards that we expect pigment to get. That's been another complaint of mine. So not to dump on the guy completely. I do think he'll try his uses some nights, but I just think going forward long term, the best version of the Lakers doesn't have him in the line. I mean, 9 he had what, 9 boards tonight? Three of them offensive? I mean, that's not terrible, but still there were enough moments defensively where I thought this is going to be better when Dwight's in this rotation. Right. And I mean, to be fair, if you want some added context, they're playing the rockets who didn't have Daniel Tyson, the game. Sure. Because he was out for the night. So I think when you have, when you play other teams with more size, I think you'll notice that Deandre just isn't as effective on the glasses used to be there. Definitely is not makes that an even more curious move that the Lakers decided to go with the Andrew Jordan. Look, the Lakers and rockets tied in offensive boards, 11. They won the rebounding battle over all the Lakers did 43 to 38. But again, the rockets are missing their starting center. You would think that would be a bigger discrepancy there. Yeah, you would think so, but it just doesn't have that's not the case right now. All right. Let's take a let's do one more. One more question. You know what? One of the things that I've been doing lately. Because the last couple of shows have been solo. Has been our favorite moment from the game. And it kind of like a little de facto award that we throw in. So what was your favorite moment from tonight's game Matt?.
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"No, I mean, I'd have to watch it again to you, but I did do a double take. It looked like it was about to hit the rim and Deandre grabbed it, which is why the rockets are falling goaltending. So I don't know, but what's worse there if you missed that badly or if I don't know, I don't know. It ended up in the song. So but I mean look, if whether it hit the river or not, if it was a total air ball, if he just missed the rim, then that's not goaltending. If it did touch the rim, it bounced straight off. It's not like it bounced up or anything and it would have gone straight into his hands. I'm guessing it probably didn't hit the rim because so many people were asking, was that a pass or a shot or what was it? We'll call it a pass, though, just for Avery Bradley's sake. Yeah, great, great corner lob. Yeah. All right, let's I've had a lot of people asking about this. I want to get into some other topics. I want to talk about Deandre Jordan. I want to talk about that's the reaction. I want to talk about him. Want to get in some other stuff? I need to talk about Anthony Davis three point shooting. A lot of things there. But I've got so many people talking about this moment and I know it's going to be our master lock in the night. So let's just get into it, Matt, let's talk about what happened. We already know we already know what it is. The master lock of the night was the referees taking two points away from the Lakers because of what they call this was their language, a correctable error. Where Kent bazemore got to shoot two free throws by mistake. They thought that the rockets had 5 fouls. They actually only had four, so they thought they were in the bonus. They gave Kent bazemore two free throws. He shot them. What was it a couple minutes had gone by? Sometime had gone by. And then they went back and said, oh, wait, we made the mistake and took the two points away. The reason why this is a master lock is because it rob the Lakers of a possession. If that was the case, right? If they had made that mistake, okay, but you just wronged the Lakers with that mistake by going back and fixing it because if they called it correctly, it would have been the ball out of bounds to the Lakers. Now they just lost the point and didn't get the possession of the ball. I have literally never seen this. I haven't either. In all my years of watching basketball, you know, I made kudos to the rest for trying to get a call right, but you don't take away two. They literally took points off the board. And you know, at the time, I don't remember what the actual score was, but I know the Lakers were up and they had maybe a two possession leader. But you take two points away. No, actually I remember now. It was a 5 point lead for the Lakers. They took two points away, it became a three point lead. LeBron was able to nail a jumper and put it back to 5. But that should have been 7 and a three possession game. And it had a real implications because like we said, the rockets could have won. Yeah. They would have won. So yeah, I just don't understand. I can't imagine that's in the rule book..
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"Start thinking, this could be the one and how many people are watching this game because we're playing the Lakers. This is gonna be our night tonight. If the Lakers would come out defensively and just put the clamps on from the get go, that thought never enters the rocket's head and then they wind up having a much easier night, but instead they created problems for themselves by not taking care of business. That's not what you want to see out of a veteran team that knows better. Yeah, I agree. Look, the final score of this game was one 19 one 17. The last time these two teams met, it was 95 to 85. So obviously scoring was not an issue. And I cracked the joke on Twitter a bunch of times that defensive option was that's honestly what it felt like for most of the game. Obviously, you expect the rockets to be a bad defensive team. They're young. They're still growing. They're learning how to be professional MBA players, but you've got a veteran team like the Lakers under Frank Vogel, that knows better and still are outright trying to just outscore teams rather than clamping down defensively like you mentioned. So yeah, it's a little frustrating and this is what I was kind of referring to previously and other shows is that I still have no idea what the identity of this team really is. It's very Jekyll and Hyde. They look so great in spurts. I thought the Lakers that we saw against the Cavs was pretty indicative of the type of team we could expect to see down the stretch or going forward. But then you get nights like tonight where you're like, okay, I'm not too sure now. So it's one of those things that I know they're going to still be working through. And 8 games is still a relatively small sample size. But I do really think that, again, this is going to be the norm for the Lakers where we're going to get up and down performances for at least I believe, like maybe the next one. And that roller coaster fans buckle in. I'm going to talk a little bit about that too. The fan reaction, we'll get to that in just a bit, but toxic toxic bash Bosh from YouTube with a super chat..
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"Dot com live postgame show the Lakers did pick up the win over the rockets a close one. They almost lost at the buzzer. Too close for comfort, not what we were expecting from a Lakers rockets game but got the win nonetheless. That's the important part. We're gonna break down the game here tonight. Quick reminder, if you're not already subscribed to the Lakers nation YouTube channel, make sure you do subscribe and don't forget to turn on those notifications as well. If you're coming in from YouTube from Facebook from Twitter, welcome in, we'll be taking your questions and comments. If you're listening to the podcast version of this, make sure you do follow us over on Apple podcasts Spotify wherever it is that you listen to podcasts. Joining me tonight is Matt the optimist Peralta. Matt, how are you doing, man? How stressful was that? Was that game? I am never going to be able to watch a Lakers game this season in peace, Trevor. This one was way too close for comfort, as evidenced by the last couple of minutes. Of course, the wind is nice, but it's one of those wins that doesn't feel too great. It shouldn't have gone disclosed and to be honest, the Lakers should have even been in this position to begin with. But, you know, the Lakers move to 5 and three, which is I believe good for third, now in the Western Conference and this early part of the season. So that's good. We're now 10% of the season away. So all things considered, things could be worse, but again, it's just one of those things where you wish the Lakers played better and didn't have to tried this hard toward. I think the frustrating part for me was it felt like against the calves and then again against the rockets, the Lakers had taken some steps forward, right? Like the last game against the rockets, there was never much of a doubt about who was going to win that game..
Big Fellas Basketball
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"Skills. And so i don't really see a world where mobile wins like the top three rookie year. Just because the stuff that he's good at is particularly the sort of thing that wins you now the rookie of the year. Even like predictive of it's basically just i. It's sort of like six points per game than you know. Yeah i i agree. I think you know i mean like you said earlier. There's very there's very rarely a rookie. Who comes in and is actually good late. And i do think this draft is going to kind of create a bulk of. I think there's gonna be a good amount of players in this draft you are rotational players for the near future How many of them are impact for near one. Will we'll see we'll very much cbo before we before we end. I do want to ask you two questions one. If you are in the rockets war room. I mean you might not know who the rockets wants today. But in your opinion at those twenty three and twenty four big who would you take a tough question And i'm in so much of it is tied to who you take it to. So i'm gonna toss out a number of names ago for Who possibilities i mean. This is a draft. Were again so many things are going to happen. Say something things can happen. Because i just believe so many things will happen. I agree yeah. it's gonna be wild night So you know we. We've tossed out a couple on if he stays in this draft. Oppression is a very interesting for who can do a lot of thanks. Ram he is a like a down l. player in a very positive way Probably going to be one of the leaders of repeat dumps Because a keep he truly believes he's going to dump on everybody He can give them a little bit of a playmaking role which is ideal or like. It seems like the style of guard the houston was going for. You're gonna need some big man or or some big wings and making To if the cup morley catches expecting to go on a high bicknell repossession.
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"Name's image and you guys can find me on twitter at finding twenty three and a podcast at jazzy rockets. And now we are only twelve days away from the drafts. The rockets still have the second the twenty third and the twenty four th pick a little bit of drama going around with those picks maybe we trade up for number one and take gade cunningham and maybe we pressure you know detroit possibly take jalen green number one And there's a lot of things that can happen but today we're here to talk a little bit about some prospects of the rockets could take a some prospects in this draft and a little bit about how to go about the draft process. We're here with one. Of in my opinion the best guys on draft twitter of great at breakdowns. Anybody watch some recently. And if you haven't definitely go check it out Very very in depth. And i learned a lot just from watching those pd web pd. How're you doing today. We're entering stretch The most stressful times of the year of rumors were for trying to get everything done and trying to feel. Like you're in a good place but Yeah it's also the most exciting time it's it's very exciting and you know with the situation that the rockets are in especially with all the stuff that happened last year a three picks in this draft might just be the best way to kind of really get the rebuild started especially with the number two big and you have a guy that you think we should take number two but before we get into that. I wanna ask some things about the draft process and the process of scouting And specifically what kind of things do you look for in prospects What are the things that stand out to you. And what sort of attributes do you think are the most important. I think that there's not a universal most important I think the who. When i'm looking at a general prospect I'm thinking like what they're what they're nba. Skill is the thing that they're going to do it like a questionable in the nba. And then you know once once they have that skeleton say like they're they're an mba plus shooter than it's tearing you know what is that look like forgot korca's for catching shoot For a guy like a bone thailand bets shooting in in in versatile situations. And then you know to figure out where somebody belongs kind of. Try to thank you. Know what is the will how it a medium. tv's it's like has a good developmental environment team. That has a like a fine situational fit. What is the worst possible fit for them. Like what is the best possible but in kinda work from there. I mean my general idea is if somebody is you know in this draft process. There is a circumstance where they can be a really positive player as just trying to find the best circumstance for everybody and trying to find the more the the players highest likelihood of finding no good outcomes whenever you're looking at like these different attributes for players and seeing if they're translatable to the nba. Are there any kind of attributes that you know in. Your opinion are easier to translate than others. I think that like like soft skills always translate well so like really good communicators players with with good movement skills so the ability to turn their hips..
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"I always predicted. I've said many times i think it's gonna take the fda three months to approve the applications from the time of first submission. I think that's a reasonable timeline. Might slip a couple of weeks. It might slip into early september. But i think the timeline of three months from the receipt of the initial application is what. Fda's working on in my view given my experience at the agency. So i think this is coming up in terms of what is gonna drive. I think on the margin. It probably will drive more confidence about getting vaccines probably are people. For whom the deterred from getting back state because it's not fully approved. But i think more likely what's going to happen is going to give Healthcare institutions and other employers more impetus to mandate vaccination once it's no longer experiment perceived as under an emergency use authorisation. I think a lot of businesses a lot of healthcare settings are gonna mandate vaccination going into the fall and it's got finally the yankees last night canceling that game with the red sox at the last minute. A lot of people were already. There are on the road waiting for that to happen. Why does it keep happening with the yankees. Just the test is you'd yeah baseball. I think it's going to continue to happen with baseball. Because of what what the environment is. You're very close quarters. You get a single introduction of infection to that setting particularly more contagious very like like adult ovarian and it's going to spread. Someone introduced it into that setting and spread through the clubhouse. What i don't understand why these baseball teams don't require everyone to be vaccinated. The individual introduce that infection into the clubhouse forced the closure of that game put other players on the disabled list costs that team a tremendous amount. And so why why. These baseball teams allow players to go into that setting unvaccinated and put other players at risk is hard for me to understand the other players that are at risk around vaccinated. So i don't know maybe they deserve each. I don't understand either the scott but If you're vaccinated you can't catch it. And so what do you mean who who are the unvaccinated people giving it to other unvaccinated people. There were some supposedly vaccinated. People don't believe you believe in. I don't know i. I have some doubts. You believe that people would be vaccinated today. That's my story. And i'm sticking to it or maybe they got one or something. I don't know i. I don't know what do you think how's it happening. You don't wanna congestion here. Tell scott what do you think. Look the reporting some of those people were vaccinated somewhere in back saying we don't know who introduced into setting where we probably never know. Because i don't think the yankees will disclose that but my hunch is that unvaccinated individual introducing setting in that kind of a setting. When you're close quarters some people even who were vacc- are going to catch it so with us on this. I want to thank.
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"I'm cnbc producer. Cameron kosta today on our podcast. The fed speaks and sodas inflation in the aftermath of extraordinary measures. There really is nothing on tv. Because these are the things i'm thinking about. The delta variant is on the rise. Dr scott gottlieb on who's getting it and who's spreading it and what we can do to curb it. I suspect that there's a lot of young people right now. Getting infected and we are seeing the tip of the iceberg getting hospitalized and getting very sick and space tourism in full swing for billionaires. Anyway it's almost time for us to hit the space dusty road franklin institute chief astronomer derrick pitts on the two trips of a lifetime the branson flight was essentially like a space plane took off from runway land slaughtered runway again. The basis flight with the shepherd is really a rocket that has capsule atop. it's friday july sixteenth. Twenty twenty one..
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"Thursday, welcome everybody 2, episode 18 of James Rockets. I'm your host team involved and you can find me on Twitter at Finding Nemo, twenty-three and the show on Twitter at Jen's Rockets. Today, we're going to have a very fun conversation about the collective bargaining agreement. I have three people with me all, all very interested in topic and all very very well-versed. We have a repeating offender an Alan for his first time in a while mackade also back and for the first time we have a car washing 10:00 on the show, but will go through one at a time. Let us know where we can find you guys how and how you doing today? I'm doing good. You can find me on the twitters at a talent show, dog. I'm fun. So how's it going? It's good. You can follow me at McDade. M, c, c a d e p. 8, I will talk about later. Go ahead and how how you doing? How's your welcome to the show for the first time? Appreciate, I'm doing fantastic. Guys. You can follow me at a underscore, a underscore r. O n 25 on Twitter, and I also have my name is cash or basketball podcast. That's b, c basketball, too. If you guys are, should follow me on Twitter over there, awesome. And definitely check out everybody's accounts and everything that they do. You always some of my favorite people that I've follow on Twitter as well. And that's part of why I wanted to have you guys on here. For this conversation, we're going to talk about some big topics this year with. There's a very big fight free agency going on this year. You know, very, very interesting. There's not a huge pool, but a lot of teams have money. We're going to talk about the salary cap and implications for different teams. This offseason go into the next CBA agreement, and twenty twenty-three. And then log, About some, you know, some hypotheticals we'd like to see be brought up potentially in the next CBA agreement. So going on to start with some teams and just some of the biggest salary cap implications, this is Rockets podcast. So we're gonna go ahead and start with the Houston Rockets Allen. What do you think is the best move for the Rockets to go about this offseason? I mean, obviously there's a lot of things up in the air with whether or not that pick pans out, but we have about, I believe it's, we have about a maximum amount of space of about Seventeen million dollars this year. And that's, you know, if she, if we were to also get rid of Kelly Embrace Kap R. Kelly very well, if you're also able to get rid of Kelly, Olynyk scaffold, we have about Seventeen point, eight million dollars in cap room. But, you know, you get that number one pick that's about an eight or nine million dollar contract, I believe, in, in year one. So that brings you down a lot and you probably want to bring back a Linux or what do you think is the birth? The the best thing that like the rockets need to do. So there are two schools of thought out there. There's, there's a large sector of rockets fans who say Houston should show me about John Wong. Clear cap space that way..
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"rockets" Discussed on Big Fellas Basketball
"Everybody into episode eighteen syncing rockets. I'm your host and you can find me on twitter at finding nemo twenty three and the show on twitter at gen z rockets. Today we're going to have a very fun conversation about the collective bargaining agreement. I have three people with me all all very interested in topic and very Very well versed. We have a repeating offender allen. I first time in a while Mccade also back and for the first time we have erin washington on the show We'll go through one at a time. Let us know where we can find. You guys alan. How're you doing today. Good you can find me on twitter at at allen show. Yeah i i i'm flying. So how's it going. It's good you can follow me at mccade pizza. Mcc adp eight. Now talk about that later. Go ahead how how you doing. How's your welcome to the show for the first time appreciate. I'm a fantastic is you can follow me at a underscore a underscore twenty five on twitter. And i also have by busy casual basketball. Podcast that spec- basketball too because interested. Follow me on twitter over there. Awesome definitely check out. Everybody's accounts and everything that they do. Y'all my favorite people that i follow on twitter as well. And that's part of why. I wanted to have you guys on here for this conversation. We're gonna talk about some big topics this year with is a very big free agency going on this year. You know very interesting. There's not a huge pool but a lot of teams have money. We're gonna talk about the salary cap implications for different teams. This offseason go into the next. Cba agreement and twenty twenty three. And then talk about some. You know some hypotheticals. We'd like to see brought up Potentially in the next Cpa agreement so going on to start with some teams just some of the biggest salary cap implications. This is a rockets podcast. So wearing go ahead and start with the houston rockets Alan what do you think is the best move for the rockets to go about this offseason. I mean obviously there's a lot of things up in the air with whether or not that pick pans out but we have about. I believe it's We have about a maximum amount of space of about seventeen million dollars this year. And that's if if we were to also get rid of kelly oubre as cap or not kelly oubre. Whoa nellie also able to get rid of kelly. Lennox cap hold We have about seventeen point. Eight million dollars in cap room. But you know you get that number one pick. That's about an eight million nine million dollar contract. I believe in in year one. So that brings you down a law and you probably want to bring back lennox. What do you think is the best. The best thing to like. The rockets needs to do so. There are two schools of thought out there. There's there's a large sector of oxana who say houston should ship out. John wall clear cap space that way. Maybe entice it with pigs or one that got a lot of traction with the idea of the hypothetical of porzingis for wall because your yearly obligation goes down. But you have more years and it opens you up in two thousand twenty two For a potential Max free agent. I don't necessarily love that. Because i don't think porzingas in would get along well enough or it would work well enough and i think for zinc to really rebound his career..
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"rockets" Discussed on Big Fellas Basketball
"Everybody into episode eighteen syncing rockets. I'm your host and you can find me on twitter at finding nemo twenty three and the show on twitter at gen z rockets. Today we're going to have a very fun conversation about the collective bargaining agreement. I have three people with me all all very interested in topic and very Very well versed. We have a repeating offender allen. I first time in a while Mccade also back and for the first time we have erin washington on the show We'll go through one at a time. Let us know where we can find. You guys alan. How're you doing today. Good you can find me on twitter at at allen show. Yeah i i i'm flying. So how's it going. It's good you can follow me at mccade pizza. Mcc adp eight. Now talk about that later. Go ahead how how you doing. How's your welcome to the show for the first time appreciate. I'm a fantastic is you can follow me at a underscore a underscore twenty five on twitter. And i also have by busy casual basketball. Podcast that spec- basketball too because interested. Follow me on twitter over there. Awesome definitely check out. Everybody's accounts and everything that they do. Y'all my favorite people that i follow on twitter as well. And that's part of why. I wanted to have you guys on here for this conversation. We're gonna talk about some big topics this year with is a very big free agency going on this year. You know very interesting. There's not a huge pool but a lot of teams have money. We're gonna talk about the salary cap implications for different teams. This offseason go into the next. Cba agreement and twenty twenty three. And then talk about some. You know some hypotheticals. We'd like to see brought up Potentially in the next Cpa agreement so going on to start with some teams just some of the biggest salary cap implications. This is a rockets podcast. So wearing go ahead and start with the houston rockets Alan what do you think is the best move for the rockets to go about this offseason. I mean obviously there's a lot of things up in the air with whether or not that pick pans out but we have about. I believe it's We have about a maximum amount of space of about seventeen million dollars this year. And that's if if we were to also get rid of kelly oubre as cap or not kelly oubre. Whoa nellie also able to get rid of kelly. Lennox cap hold We have about seventeen point. Eight million dollars in cap room. But you know you get that number one pick. That's about an eight million nine million dollar contract. I believe in in year one. So that brings you down a law and you probably want to bring back lennox. What do you think is the best. The best thing to like. The rockets needs to do so. There are two schools of thought out there. There's there's a large sector of oxana who say houston should ship out. John wall clear cap space that way. Maybe entice it with pigs or one that got a lot of traction with the idea of the hypothetical of porzingis for wall because your yearly obligation goes down. But you have more years and it opens you up in two thousand twenty two For a potential Max free agent. I don't necessarily love that. Because i don't think porzingas in would get along well enough or it would work well enough and i think for zinc to really rebound his career..
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"The rockets won five out of the six matchups actually in ninety three to ninety five the two years that michael wasn't there. The rockets were two and two against them and put my but the thing. Is you put michael on those teams. They still didn't have an answer for hakeem. Lajoie michael jordan and south has said. We didn't wanna see houston because we didn't have an answer from a key. Everybody in the league at the time. Everybody at the time knew that if the rockets and the bulls met up in the finals they had no answer for a lot. Now did the rockets. Have an answer for michael jordan. Nobody in the league nobody in the league but it with the rockets out was they had a bunch of the league wing. Defenders that you can just toss at akim any You can just toss at michael over and over and over and over and over and over again eventually. something's gonna take eventually one game. It's gonna work the differences mean that though is you know you. You're able to lock him out. Maybe one or two minutes and then he figures out how to beat the guy and then you switch it over twenty two meds exactly beat the guy. They had zero people who can hold a team for thirty seconds. Like hey chemo dominated the bulls. We have seen an insane stat. Line of all my god. this guy. Average forty twenty eight in playoffs and it's not eight assists. It's eight blocks a game. You know like like the fact that people say that the ninety four ninety five rings are not real. Because michael template mind you. He did play a ninety five. And i don't care about the fact that he only had seventeen games or whatever and he was wearing number forty five not number twenty three. It's still michael jordan. And he still plagued professional sports. And you want me to believe that. This man wasn't just playing basketball in his free time. He was like i'm completely retired. I'm not going to touch the ball for two years. Come on by..
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"rockets" Discussed on Big Fellas Basketball
"From professional players coaches and executives from all over the world and see the court and a brand new way and now joining you courtside your gen z host. John hart phyllis the franchise briars and nemo what's going on it going Doing all right ready for my on my semester to end so definitely. It's coming up soon for for the both of us Just on on this beautiful friday. We have made a couple more days left until the semester on summer break and of course just just more gen z. Podcast we're goodness Excited for that coming up. Today's episode is is the first episode of franchise fridays. I'm super excited about it. Basically will be having other our other. Gen z podcast hosts like me coming on the show and talking about the history of their respective franchises for niemand. Die hard fan his whole life. So we're going to get right into it. I'm actually a huge akina. Lifelong fan a pretty big rockets fan and he was was actually the first episode of big fellas basketball back in june of last year. A significant have. I have a huge affinity for. This team is asian. But no one. I think i've ever met matches your rockets accurate. So let's take it all the way back. Talk to slow bit about the early days of the rockets and what that might have looked like for team. That didn't even start in houston. Yes so Actually the rockets didn't even start. Use the actually started in san diego in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven so the nineteen sixties. There was a space race. And like you know whenever you think about like oh houston rockets will. The johnson space center was built in usa meets in houston actually live really close to it. I like go. What used to go there all the time. Pass by all the time when i go to my house like great place. Actually team actually lives near there. He did his houses at state was right next to the johnson. Space center when you think about. It's like oh the name in the city kind of go hand in hand space city the houston rockets. But actually in the nineteen sixties. Sandiego had a huge aerospace industry and they were given a franchise in nineteen sixty seven hundred sixty seven. What happened in the nineteen sixties the space race right so sandiego was huge usually involved in the space race. There's a lot of city pride for that. And so the city decided on the name of the rockets. So we have the san diego rockets from nineteen sixty seven to nine hundred seventy one. The craziest thing about san diego is honestly like the history of that team literally goes back to your one. We have a huge name. The very first pick from the san diego rockets..
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"Oh what just happened. It's like an eclipse know it was Anthony Davis. It was flying in. I don't know where it just shuts down everything the one kid from Houston tried to dunk on him trying to dunk on him. Don't do that. Don't try to dunk on Anthony Davis. He got it rejected in his face. He he's like when he does this on the defensive end the Lakers about Unstoppable and I said this in my pregame video I said if the Lakers played defense like they did in the first game against Houston thousands nothing Houston can do it's over the game is over before it even starts. Because Houston can't do anything with that. And so I guess that leads us to the question are the Lakers this good or is Houston this bad and I think it's a little bit of both. I think we have seen the Lakers flip the switch. I think we've seen a Lakers team that was really mad after the loss to the Spurs against Chicago. They tried to kind of get things going but then Anthony Davis came back and that turned things around a lot. I also think she has just just matches up terribly with them the way they're constructed right now and Houston came into this game knowing they would lose. That's really what it looked like from the opening tip. Houston's body language was off. They look like they wanted zero to do with the Lakers like they did not want to be out on that floor at all. I don't know if that's a James Harden trade thing. I don't know. I'm sure that's weighing over the franchise. That's that that's not an easy thing to go through for the organization's not a thing for the other players on the team rumors flying and things like that and then people have got to wonder, you know, well if Harden gets traded am I going to get wrapped into a trade in the next thing, you know, I'm being sent somewhere else or I'm being said she third team is part of a deal, you know, that kind of stuff can certainly disrupt team but the Rockets do not look like they enjoy playing basketball right now and part of that may very well just be they don't enjoy playing against the Lakers. There's no six wins in a row when you go back to the playoffs to for the Lakers over the Rockets. I feel like the Lakers not only are the Rockets going into these games knowing that they're going to lose its like they're traumatized like the Rockets are going into this just going please just get this game done as quickly as we can. And the Lakers came out with energy and made sure that if the Rockets had any little hints of competing with them, they snuffed that out like instantly just jumped all over them and said you're not going to come close tonight. You guys can go through the motions for the game. And and this is done. It's the Lakers are really really good. The Lakers are really good when they want to be but what we saw tonight. This level of dominance is a combination of the Lakers being really good and the way it's being not good not enjoying playing basketball together..