Payne & Pendergast react to a glorious weekend in Houston sports.
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00:00If you're a Houston sports fan, that was about as good a weekend as you could get. Friday,
00:05beating up on OKC at home, full strength OKC. Saturday, Ben, play the music, by God. Yeah,
00:11let's do this. Yeah. Saturday, Cougs, we just heard that. You beat Duke, and you beat Duke
00:17in a way that is going to sting for them for a long, long time. And then yesterday afternoon,
00:23the Astros come back from down 7-1 against the hated, yes, you heard me, hated Minnesota
00:27Twins, hated by me. Then last night, you beat up on Golden State by 16 in a game where
00:32Draymond and Steph combined for single-digit points, and Draymond loses his mind the entire
00:39game. Oh, Seth, what a weekend, man. It was a great weekend of days today, Sean. Today
00:44is Monday. We are here. Thank you. It's going to be a great week. You ran the gamut Friday,
00:50Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Good job. You got all the days right and everything. It's a
00:56The spirit of Clutch City is raining down upon you. I liked yesterday during the Astros
01:07game, Callus continually invoking the Cougs in the Astros ability to come back from a
01:13seemingly insurmountable deficit, and more than anything else, watchable baseball. There
01:21was, for a half of that game yesterday, I had thought to myself, you know what? This
01:25is watchable baseball and I'm here for it. Oh yeah. I was I was out to brunch with several
01:31friends of ours at a Cadillac bar a table of eight. We had three mimosa towers and while
01:37we were drinking the mimosa towers the Astros were getting their heads handed to them. But
01:42once we got done drinking mimosa towers and we went home that's where the fun began for
01:45the Astros. So I blame us all our friends for drinking mimosas during because the Astros
01:50were playing like they were drinking mimosas mimosa tower look like it's a stacked up champagne
01:56glass. Yeah no no no. It's literally like you know those you know those candy things
02:00they have in the press box at NRG Stadium like with the M&Ms in it and you just hit
02:05the latch and it spills out M&Ms into a cup for you. Yeah it's like that but thinner and
02:09with mimosas in it. So a big tube tube of mimosas. Yep. That you can just it's got a
02:14dispenser at the bottom faucet at the bottom. Yeah yeah. Does it have different flavors
02:18of mimosas? They may but we got the same. Multiple different tubes? No it's just three
02:23of the same tubes and we went after it man. We got after it because it was a great weekend
02:26to do it. Weather was nice. It was great. So good morning my friend. How are you feeling
02:32after this weekend? I feel good. I do feel awesome. Obviously that that was one for the
02:37ages with the Cougs and credit to all of them and Calvin Sampson for just flat out being
02:45Honestly there's somebody you're going to invoke for a long long time as hey don't don't
02:50leave yet. Don't get out of your seats. Don't go try to beat traffic. Don't be one of those
02:55cold and timid souls that believes that it's over because they just kept doing their thing
03:01and ultimately the Duke Duke couldn't handle it. Duke hadn't faced a top 20 defense in
03:07this calendar year and they go up against the best defense in the league and all of
03:10a sudden just go completely dry in the last three minutes of the game. It was beautiful.
03:16Yeah, they went dry. Yeah, they went dry for a while. They they had a stretch the Cougs
03:19did of about six minutes and change a basketball where they only gave up one field goal. Yeah,
03:25they were the the debt the Blue Devils were stuck on 59 for a long time and there were
03:29some man just listening to Calvin Sampson talk about it after the game where in multiple
03:34interviews he said man, we just we our goal was to get it so that there was game pressure
03:39on Duke in the last minute or two of the game because they hadn't faced a lot of that they
03:44average, you know, they've been blowing teams out if we can just get some game pressure
03:48on them and when they were down by 14 with about nine minutes to go that sequence where
03:53you get crier hits a three to get it to 11. They get the they get the technical foul on
03:58Mason Gillis on the scrum after the after the made basket where he gets an elbow. I
04:04forget which Cougar was but right up in somebody's face and you get a technical free throw you
04:09get to you missed one of them, but you get another possession and they score again. That
04:13was a big swing. That was six points. They chipped away when they were down 14 in a matter
04:17of seconds and that got it back to manageable, you know, you're always trying to get it you're
04:21down by 14. Let's get it down to 10 9 8. So they were that 10 9 8 range and then the Emmanuel
04:27sharp three with 34 seconds to go that made it a three-point game was like, okay. Well
04:31this this is now interesting here and credit to Juwan Roberts who in the second half they
04:38so what on Roberts can handle Cooper flag on his own. We're letting too many of these
04:42other guys Dinkin Dunk us through their opportunities. They're getting by trying to focus all of
04:47our energy on Cooper flag the Cooper flag. This is something that was known going into
04:51the game a couple times this year has struggled has not been a guy who looks like the number
04:58one overall pick in the draft when in the final minute of a close game. Yeah. So to
05:04be able to force the shot to Cooper flag and not give him an easy shot and for him to miss
05:10it at the end like Juwan Roberts did what he had to do that entire second half. So what
05:15we talked about before the game at the very least look Cooper flags gonna eat and he was
05:19their leading scorer, but they made him inefficient and he shoots less than 50% and you just thought
05:25you get you just got to take them off of what works best for them and they did it. They
05:30did in hindsight a brilliant job of it, but obviously needed that that stretch of brilliance
05:35at the end. They walked a tightrope to do it. That's for sure. And so now they play
05:39Florida tonight. Yeah, here was here was Kelvin Sampson. This is the interview that
05:43I think got most people's they did several interviews after the game and they were all
05:46great. I mean, is it this coug team is a but they're a great story. This was Kelvin Sampson
05:52his on court interview with Tracy Wolfson with his team surrounding him on the floor
05:57after the game on Saturday.
06:27I don't play in the big 12 helped us shout out to my big 12 brother.
06:36Coach Brett, your Mark and all the great coaches in the big 12. Okay, so don't sleep, but don't
06:37sleep on Houston was the money quote there. If that's not on a t-shirt, it should be,
06:42you know, there's not a budget already. I've seen others. Somebody's probably trying to
06:45yeah. Trade market at this morning. Yeah, we got, we got a lot of good t-shirt outlets
06:49here in town. I'm sure there's a bunch of cougs in San Antonio tonight that will be
06:52wearing some version of don't sleep on Houston on their body. I would guess. I liked him.
06:56I liked him getting big, big 12 love there as well.
06:59Although the big 12 will never lend itself
07:01to as catchy a chant as SEC, SEC.
07:04What did he call it?
07:05The Toy Poodle League?
07:07Yeah, yeah.
07:09He takes,
07:11Kelvin Sampson is,
07:12he'd be good, he'd be a good guest on the Petty Cast.
07:15You know, he's, he can take,
07:17the funny thing is like the ACC
07:19didn't get a lot of love either.
07:19Like the SEC had however many teams in the tournament
07:22and here we've got a final.
07:23Well, the final is Florida.
07:24I guess we had Duke and the ACC yesterday.
07:27So yeah, they're repping the big 12 tonight, man,
07:28against the SEC in Florida.
07:30I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to conjure up
07:32any of my, you know, white on white hatred for Duke,
07:35like you typically do so easily.
07:36Yeah, yeah.
07:37I just haven't been able to dredge up any hatred
07:39for Cooper Flagg,
07:40but that cold nipple knipple there,
07:42I'm done with him.
07:44He hit that backdoor cut in the first half
07:46and that's it, that's like, I despise you.
07:48Dude, he's-
07:49Colonizer!
07:50He's annoying, he's annoying and be ready
07:52because from what I hear his family
07:54is like the next version of the Plumlees.
07:57Like there's that are coming up through the ranks
08:00of high school right now.
08:01I can't wait to hit the knipples.
08:02Yeah, dude, it is.
08:04I'm watching Stranger Things right now
08:05and the Demogorgon always comes back every year.
08:08You think you killed him and then he comes back.
08:10That's what the knipples are.
08:11They're the Plumlee Demogorgon, right?
08:13Like the monster is here
08:15and it's the knipple family coming.
08:18So this is what the level of improbability.
08:23I love stats like this when the team
08:25I'm rooting for is on the good end.
08:26Unlike the Texans where they had like three losses
08:28like this this year were like,
08:29hey, teams that did this are normally 152 and two
08:34and now they're 152 and three.
08:36Oh yeah, the Texans had all the like
08:38forcing five interceptions and still losing the game.
08:41They had like three of those this year.
08:43So Duke did this thing where since 1986,
08:48teams that had the following things happen
08:50in a tournament game were 335 and 0.
08:53Higher field goal percentage in their opponents,
08:56more free throw attempts in their opponents,
08:58more assists in their opponents.
09:00Saw that.
09:01Fewer turnovers in their opponents.
09:02Yeah.
09:03Duke didn't have many turnovers in this game.
09:05They only had seven turnovers in the game.
09:06It felt like a football game in that regard.
09:08Yes.
09:09The turnover battle was very lopsided.
09:10Very lopsided, yeah.
09:11More steals than their opponent.
09:13If you did those five things since 1986,
09:16you were 335, you were part of a group that was 335 and 0.
09:19They are now 335 and one.
09:21Thanks to John Shire, Cold Nipple, Knipple, and Duke.
09:26Yes.
09:27The win probability chart is one for the,
09:29you could put that on a t-shirt too.
09:31Yes.
09:32Because it was extreme the entire way.
09:35Houston had a couple spots there in the first few minutes,
09:39win probability.
09:40That's it.
09:40But then it looked like a bear market to an extreme degree.
09:45We were flat out in the Great Depression
09:47there at the bottom.
09:47Yeah.
09:48And then all of a sudden,
09:49we invented the personal computer.
09:50Yeah.
09:51There's one red line shooting straight up at the end.
09:54Yeah.
09:55That's it.
09:56You can never predict exactly what's going to pull you out
09:58of a depression.
10:00Sometimes it's a world war, whatever.
10:02This time it was just brilliant.
10:06It was.
10:07And I would say too, like, you know, on the Duke side,
10:09they're probably calling it a choke job.
10:11And I think it just depends in the eye of the beholder.
10:13Like, oh, Houston.
10:14It was so nice to see all those stupid Duke fans.
10:17Oh, crying?
10:18Well, I said to Amy,
10:18because we, I didn't get to see the whole game
10:21because I had an event on Saturday.
10:22We did get to watch the last two minutes of it
10:23at the bar afterwards.
10:24So that was cool.
10:25And anybody I talked to yesterday about it was like,
10:27well, that was the only part you needed to see
10:28was the last two minutes of the game
10:30if you're rooting for Houston.
10:31But I rewatched the last 15 minutes of the,
10:34I rewatched from the time they got down 14
10:36through the rest of the game last night.
10:39And yeah, I said to Amy the same thing, Seth,
10:41after the game where they were flashing around
10:42to different Duke people crying.
10:44I'm like, I could watch two hours of this.
10:46I could watch this like it was a feature film,
10:48just Duke people crying.
10:50It was great.
10:52What was your event on Saturday night?
10:54It was the Joe Necro Foundation
10:56for AVM and aneurysm research.
10:59Oh, that's right.
11:00Yeah, they talked about Joe Necro a good amount yesterday.
11:03Yeah, all-time leading wins.
11:05On the broadcast.
11:06Yeah, all-time leading wins for the Astros.
11:07Amy won the raffle for,
11:09she won a 2.4 carat diamond in the raffle.
11:12Oh, wow.
11:13Yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:14It's a big night for the Pendergast.
11:16So she's going to put it-
11:172.4 carats?
11:19Yeah.
11:20She's going to put it in a pendant.
11:22Yeah.
11:23Yeah.
11:24So that's, yeah, yeah, a pendant.
11:26You should carry it around.
11:27There's nothing that feels kind of badass
11:28carrying around loose diamonds.
11:30Oh, I felt badass at the bar.
11:32Get on an airplane or something
11:33just so all of a sudden they're like,
11:34hey, why are you carrying loose diamonds?
11:36Yeah, just because.
11:38A little gangsta appeal there.
11:39Because I don't have any emeralds on me.
11:40How's that sound, all right?
11:42That's why I'm carrying diamonds, okay?
11:44That used to be kind of a currency
11:46in the underworld, wasn't it?
11:47Just carrying around loose diamonds instead of crypto?
11:50I wouldn't know.
11:50Okay.
11:51Yeah.