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Chapter 1: What are the highlights from the Oklahoma City sports scene?
Our number three of the program begins with the two-minute drill brought to you by Joslyn's. I am your host, Jack Johnson. Kyle Collier is producing this thing. And we're going to go around the country here. Talk a little college baseball. Talk a little NBA, NFL. There really won't be much that we don't cover.
And we're going to kick things off in OKC with Mark Rogers of WWLS, the sports animal, 98.1 FM. Mark, how are we doing this evening?
Great, Jack. Good to talk to you.
Good to talk to you as well. And I know in OKC, maybe one of the talking points over the last couple weeks, or was at one point, the Oklahoma Sooners dominating North Carolina in Game 3 of the College World Series. I know nationally, not a lot of people were expecting Oklahoma to make this type of run.
They, of course, swept Kansas in the Super Regional, and we were covering that for a couple of weeks. But was this a surprise to Sooners fans?
Oh, yeah. You know, they won three games and Arlington to open the season and get some really good teams. And we're in the top 10 for a while. But the pitching kind of abandoned them.
Late in the year, they lost their last four series in the SEC, got beaten the first game of the SEC tournament, and then they get sent to Atlanta to face Georgia Tech, which is an incredible hitting team, and then they're down 8-2 in an elimination game there. So from then on, the bats, the arms, the defense, all of it came together, and they played incredibly well.
I mean, you saw the team in Kansas. I mean, those games weren't even close. So to beat the teams that they did on that run was pretty incredible.
Moving over to the NBA, we know the Thunder lost in Game 7 to the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals before the Spurs fell to the Knicks in the NBA Finals. How would you evaluate, though, what they did in the NBA draft, adding a guy like Mara out of Michigan, one of the top centers in college basketball, doing a trade later on in the draft?
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Chapter 2: How did the Oklahoma City Thunder perform in the NBA draft?
Those the right picks for the Hornets as they try to maybe reshape a little bit?
Yeah, obviously we had a little bit of chaos after those picks, and maybe Christian Anderson made a little more sense after Romello got traded not too far after that. Yeah, no, the way the board fell, Steinbach was one of their targets. I think any of the Michigan guys would have fit nicely, but once they were off the board, they needed a big, and if they didn't get Steinbach there...
Say he went one pick in front of them where Miami picked in the Milwaukee spot. Ultimately, if Steinbach didn't go there and they needed a big, I don't really know what they would have done there. In that selection. So I think he's a great rebounder. He fits in a physicality and a toughness and exactly what they need. And now they got they got the right guy there.
Anderson wasn't talked a lot about at 18. We thought Bennett Sturtz is a guy they wanted and maybe they did. And he went right before them. But then, you know, Melo gets traded hours later, and it makes a lot of sense of why they would want a point guard like that to be the backup to Kobe White, who's now the starting point guard.
Yeah, last one for you here, Travis. Really appreciate your time. It was a blockbuster trade, as you bring up, with Lomelo Ball. Why make this move, though? Because he had really been that centerpiece for a number of years. Does this just need a change of scenery? You need to try to get as many picks as you can. You get Nas Reed.
Why did Charlotte, in the end, pull the trigger on a deal like this?
Yeah, they also get a $42 million trade exception. So we'll see how that plays in, which might be the biggest part of all this. They get a nice player in Nasri. That's the million-dollar question. And right now, because it's not the league year, the Brats doesn't have to answer questions until July 6th. So we're all kind of waiting to figure out. What was the exact reason?
Was it basketball reasons? Did they not like Melo sort of the character that he is? We've heard a lot of different stuff. Was ownership not in Ambrose? Was Melo the person? Was it, you know, Zach Lowe did a great breakdown or he thought it was basketball related where when you look at what you need to go forward with, you know, the teams we just saw, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, the Knicks,
There's a level of physicality. There's a level of toughness, and they feel that for as good as Melo is, is there a ceiling where ultimately he wouldn't overcome those guys to get where they want to go? So we're all trying to figure out, is it basketball? Is it personality? Is it off the court? We really don't know. It's all speculation, and maybe it's injuries.
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Chapter 3: What are the offseason plans for the Oklahoma City Thunder?
So I don't feel like LeBron is a liability to this team. It feels like he's still got a little bit of gas in the tank. He's not their number one. Probably not even their number two, but he's good enough to play professional basketball and he brings butts in the seats.
So at the end of the day, the owners, being the Mark Walters group, Guggenheim, etc., now that the buses don't own them anymore, they want butts in the seats too. So things are going to be different now that Guggenheim owns the team or the majority of the team. But when it comes to this, I don't think it's going to be that dramatically different. I think it's Yeah, it's a dance.
It's back and forth. He's going to pretend like there's other options on the table. But in reality, to me, it feels like at this age, why would he want to pack up and go back to Miami? I know that they're a hot team right now. And, you know, they're very interesting because of Giannis and so forth and so on. But I mean, anything's possible with LeBron for sure. We've seen that.
But I would be surprised if he's not a Laker in his final season.
We saw the Clippers take one of the local kids here in Keaton Wagler with the fifth overall pick. How do you see it going in year one for a guy like him who had such a great year at Illinois in his true freshman season?
It's always a huge question with the Clippers. You just never know what you're going to get. Obviously, they're going to want him to be good and ready probably before he is. This is a team that is very mediocre. Kawhi Leonard is still there. Whether or not he's a liability is another big question. And whether or not they should keep going down that road.
He's old and he's on the bench, you know, rooting more than anything. I mean, Kawhi Leonard is a check casher. That's what he is. You know, he can show up once every three or four days and put up 30 to 40. But does that make you a good team? No, it doesn't. And they're just... They don't have the pillars of a foundation of a good organization.
So I feel like this guy to the Clippers is their future, which won't involve Kawhi Leonard. So it feels to me like they're hoping that he can take over and become a leader of this team and they can rebuild around him because what they have now is just parts. They're a chicken nugget of the NBA.
And lastly, I do want to talk a little baseball with you. The Dodgers at 52-29 sit atop the NL West. They are trying to make it three straight World Series. And we know the trade deadline is approaching. Still got a couple of weeks to go here. But do you see them upgrading anywhere? We know they're always aggressive. We know they have the best roster in baseball.
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Chapter 4: What trades are impacting the Charlotte sports landscape?
The thing is, he was a hydraptic and we haven't seen anything about him. And he went to a lab in California to do a study on his body and why he continually gets injured. They found the fact that he had imbalances in his muscles between his two legs. They worked on that to strengthen the other to even it out. And they believe he's going to be able to finally get healthy.
It's the same thing that Christian Watson went through, who we talked about last time when he got his extension. And it seems to be devastating. doing good things. His nickname on the team is the Yeet Cannon. So if you want to look into his explosiveness, that's sort of the thing everyone's really excited about.
Now, speaking of Josh Jacobs, is there anything new with his status with the team?
Not anything at all. There is rumor, there is conjecture, nothing I feel comfortable saying or reporting with any sort of certainty. He has been with the team, he has been at practice, and I think we're just going to wait to find out from the local Brown County DA if they're going to pursue charges against Josh Jacobs or not.
And lastly, I do want to talk some baseball with you with the 49-29 first-place Milwaukee Brewers. We still have a couple of weeks to go before the trade deadline, but as of right now, do you see any pressing needs that they need to fill out there at the deadline?
Nothing sticks out in particular. We just saw Brandon Woodruff come back throw an absolute unbelievable game, which was then matched exactly by Brandon's throw. I do think pitching depth is something the Brewers should consider and think about because you can never have too many pitchers. Obviously, Jacob Mizorowski looks to be the Cy Young at this point in the season.
Kyle Harrison is a sure-fire all-star. But when you are looking down the barrel facing teams like the Phillies and the Dodgers, you can never have too many pitchers. I think that would be a great avenue to go. I've been pushing for the idea of Tariq Scooble. Now, will it happen? We will have to see. But the Brewers are just filled with prospects, young guys, young, exciting guys.
And they have, frankly, more guys at short and second base and third base than they'll be able to play in the future. So I do think they have an opportunity here to add in a meaningful way and not just add, you know, someone along the Jesse Winker lines, but somebody who can actually make a change when it comes to playoff time.
Josh, appreciate your time, man. Have a good weekend. Thank you so much. You guys as well.
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