Pardon My Take
Celtics HC Joe Mazzulla, NBA Play In Games, Who’s The Next “Can’t Win The Big One” Guy + Guys On Chicks And The Year Of Junk Science
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
NBA Play In games and the Magic and Warriors are officially in (00:00:00-00:17:20:25). Nico Harrison does a no camera/no recordings press conference and Cam Ward admits he’s a Tennessee Titan (00:17:20-00:25:24). With Rory winning the Masters we find the next narrative guy who can’t win the big one (00:25:24-00:51:32). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including a wild Paige Bueckers tweet and Colorado retiring Travis Hunter and Shedeur Sanders numbers (00:51:32-01:15:34). Celtics Head Coach Joe Mazzulla joins the show before his team’s title defense to talk new motivation tactics, could he fight Jayson Tatum, Hank’s invite back, and tons more (01:15:34-01:53:31). We finish with guys on chicks and a dive into junk science (01:53:31-02:12:05).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What happened in the NBA Play-In games featuring the Magic and Warriors?
Congrats to Jay Butt. Play in Jay. Play in Jimmy. Play in Hemi. Oh, play in Hemi. I like that. Yeah, he went off tonight. That was a fun game. I liked watching the Warriors and the Grizzlies. Bad part about the play-in tournament is you don't get to develop a sense of a series out of it because I would like to see these two teams play a bit.
Yeah, I'm anti-playing game, but that was a fun game. Also, for anyone who's watching on YouTube, we're all at our own homes to get the play in. We wanted to watch the play in games, give you the instant reaction. The rest of the show will be back in studio together. Yes, we'll start with the Warriors. The Warriors, I just love watching Steph Curry play basketball.
That really is all it comes down to. I know Jimmy Butler was awesome and kind of carried them in the first half, but there's just something. It's like watching Steph Curry, you know there's only so many years left, and even that big three that didn't go down, the one that rattled out that there was a foul underneath, Like, that was kind of shocking. That's how good he is.
When a three doesn't go down, you're like, what the fuck just happened? He's just so much fun. And the Warriors, Draymond just trying to, you know, chuck threes. John Morant taking his Advil. I'm sure that was Advil. Did you hear that part when Reggie Miller was like, oh, yeah, he's probably popping some Advil. He'll be fine.
He crushed up some aspirin. He's probably on the same stuff I'm on, me and Ja. I thought he was done for the entire offseason. I thought that it was Ja Morant questionable for starting next year. When he came down on his ankle, it was a bad-looking injury. But then he's like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to go back in.
I did like Reggie Miller's advice where he was like – because Ja had to shoot the foul shot afterwards. And Reggie Miller's advice was when I had to do that and I was hurt, I would just go to my happy place. I would just think of things in my life that made me happy as I'm shooting a foul shot.
I think all of America thought the same thing, and that is John Moran is envisioning the AK-47 in his hands right now.
He's literally just drone footage of the Ukraine-Russia war is what's going on. By the way, John Moran, one of the coolest plays, the alley-oop to himself, how does that not get a bazooka? I don't know.
That was crazy. It's a good point because he went from pretending that he was shooting people to acting like he got shot tonight. Right. So, yeah, he's got both sides of that coin. He's fun to watch, man. Zach Eadie, he shows me like he's improved still. I would say he's like slightly better than he was as an athlete when he was in his last year at Purdue.
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Chapter 2: What was discussed about Nico Harrison's no-camera press conference?
That's crazy. Also crazy, the fact that Quinn Snyder didn't see the cocaine check.
Yeah.
True. I feel like he would have probably had eyes on her big time.
That would have been a match made in heaven. All right, so we recorded the rest of the show earlier, and PFT, you commented or made the point that Nico Harrison was doing his closed-door press conference with no cameras, no audio recordings. So that took place since we last were together. Did you see some of the reports from it?
No, I have not.
Okay, so some of the lines that he's used, defense wins championships. He said that again. He also was said – I guess he hammered home the point that there was no – it was not guaranteed that Luka was going to sign the Supermax, which – Maybe the dumbest point ever.
He like that Luca was going to willingly give up a hundred million dollars while he's building a house and he's crying about his video. So that's a, that's an interesting line that he's using.
And then he also had, I mean, also if you take into account state income taxes, yeah, it's more than a hundred million.
Yeah, yeah. And he also said, my obligation is to the Dallas Mavericks. It's what's the best interest of the Dallas Mavericks, and that's the most important thing. Some of the decisions are going to be unpopular, maybe to Dirk and maybe to the fans, but my obligation is to the Dallas Mavericks. I'll say this. I think the fans in Dirk are probably part of the Dallas Mavericks.
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Chapter 3: Who is the next 'can't win the big one' narrative in sports?
Yeah, but Jalen Brown did say he was going to win seven NBA titles. The narrative is kind of still going because Jalen Brown was nice enough to win MVP. True. So then now it's like that narrative just evolved.
Yeah. Jalen Hurts winning the big one. Yeah, just Philly. That was kind of a narrative we lost. So I was thinking, like, what could be the next guy for you? So I have some names. PFT has some names. Throw it out to you. You want to start with golfers because that is your favorite sport. Please. Sure.
your number one sport uh yeah so you mentioned it is it is it is right yeah you like watching golf more than football get him off the show thanks fired it's not it's the truth i know if you saw last week the pep in his step going into the masters was unlike the masters sunday was better than super bowl sunday whoa week nine whoa Whoa, did you mean to say that? No commercials, drama.
He's pissed me off so much with these takes that I'm not going to tell him that he has food in his beard like he always does.
The Masters Sunday is better than... If the Super Bowl was a better game, would you say that? No. Right, so... We're a football podcast.
Sometimes the Masters is a blowout too.
Yeah, no, that's... Objectively, Hank is correct that this Masters was more intriguing than this year's Super Bowl.
Disagree. This Masters was phenomenal. Agreed. But we're talking about football. Speaking of which, are we going to get our schedule? Are we getting schedules soon? I feel like we should.
Best day of the year. We haven't gotten the schedule.
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