And tonight's featured guest,
Here he is, Paul Gallant from
ESPN 97.5 in the building.
Good to see you Paul. Good to see you guys. You
know Paul, It's interesting youd
mentioned about all these potenl
reboots and sequels coming to Houston.
Sports potentially like James Harden,
DE Andre Hopkins,
Patrick Beverly, maybe Clowny.
You thought Houston's getting a little crazy.
Do you mean crazy good or crazy?
Well, I think that very often we
have memories of our ex, if you will.
That's entirely based in nostal.
You remember all the good moments, right?
You don't remember the bad mome.
Now, I think with James Harden
and the Rockets, things have ben
so bad we're kind of desperate.
And I think with DE Andre
Hopkins in the Houston Texans,
it's kind of the same thing.
But it has been interesting guys this summer,
just to see the amount of names
that we're cycling through, lik,
hey, maybe they'll come back.
Well, Houston is a great city.
We all agree on that, right?
But to reboot every team, I don't know.
I don't see clowny happening.
I just don't D hop. Probably no.
Pat Bev could happen and
James Harden could happen.
I asked Udoku the other
day when they had the.
Get together over there in Friedman Town,
which was a great event.
They were refurbishing a house.
I said, hey,
I I mentioned his restaurant.
I was just having some flower.
I mentioned James Hardens
restaurant. Hey, it's a few blocks away.
And he said, yeah, you know,
we need to check it out.
The guys are talking about, oh,
would you mind being on the hand bank,
being on your team.
And he walked, just walked off camera.
And of course I was
chastised later about that.
Hey, it's gonna be tampering.
I was just having some fun.
Clearly e-mail knows James.
He would know what he's getting into.
Clearly. He's a good coach.
We see what he did with the Cel.
We know what he did under Pop.
I don't know if it would work or not.
It would definitely make
things interesting around here.
Especially I think if Pat Bev came back.
Also.
I'm not saying I'm for that exa,
but it would definitely
make things interesting,
that reboot.
Beverly seems like the exact right guy
to bring in with Udoka, even ifs
not the same player he used to .
We all know he has that persona,
and I think Udoka really wants t
of this Rockets team. Harden it,
it doesn't seem like it would work to me.
And this is coming from somebody
who's watched a lot of Celtics
basketball the last couple of y.
When Udoka took over as head
coach for Brad Stevens,
there was a lot of just laying down the law.
This is what your role is.
You got to accept it.
Is James Harden willing to accet
that now that he's an establishd
player in the league,
where he's coming back to a place that has,
let's be honest,
essentially genuflected to him d
every single wish that he's had,
right?
Speaking
of movies, it is summer movie season.
Lots of blockbusters on the way.
OK, we have our Houston sports
teams over there on the big boa.
I want you guys to go over ther,
pick one, and then tell me
which summer movie title.
Best fits that team.
And Paul, you're going first.
OK, well look. OK, this is one y
favorite movie franchises that there is.
The Astros are my favorite team in town.
The Houston Astros are fast 10.
Family. Now let me tell you about why
you're probably thinking to yourself,
Paul, the Fast and Furious
franchise isn't even good.
You're wrong, first of all.
Second, it's so successful,
just like the Astros,
and the people who don't
understand cheating are like the
people who don't understand the
Fast and Furious franchise.
The ends justify the means.
Even if someone's driving a
car in outer space and saving
the world from dinosaurs or something
like that, the
Astros take it to a new level ad
the consistency with which theye
operated over the last six year.
It reminds me a lot of the.
Fast and Furious franchise. Excellent.
Excellent. You know, Paul, my t.
I'm going to head over here as .
Go back over there. OK, OK.
I want to talk more.
Fast and Furious. It's fine.
I'm going to go right here.
I'm going to say the Rockets,
the Houston Rockets.
And I wrote this down just so
I had the date on June 23rd.
There's a movie opening up with Jennifer
Lawrence and Matthew Broderick.
It's called No Hard Feelings.
And obviously, if the Rockets
decide to bring James Harden ba,
there are no hard feelings.
Given how he left and how James Harden
said things weren't good enough,
He couldn't win a title here.
So I'm going to say no hard feelings.
That is the movie title for
your Houston Rockets.
Matt, what do you have?
I want to see that movie.
That's what I want to see.
I was really torn, guys.
I'm very pressed with those,
but I was really torn.
I came up with a couple of titles, First off.
I was thinking,
I was really thinking right out,
straight out of the chute, Transformers,
Rise of the Beast for the Texan.
But I don't know if they
live up to that billing.
I just don't know if they would.
So I'm going to go,
Polly's talking about reboots and everything.
I'm going to go for an Indiana Jones movie,
Dial of Destiny.
I'm going to pin that on
the Astros because look.
No matter what happens with that team,
people complain about Dusty Bak,
his managerial moves, this,
that and the other what what
they didn't do in the offseason.
But their destiny seems to be
to be in the World Series again,
in spite of changing rosters,
losing pitchers,
bringing up a guy like JP France, I mean,
they are dialed in to their des.
This is a golden era.
Of Houston Astros baseball.
I've covered every playoff
team in Astros history.
This is the golden era.
No doubt about it. So that's my pick.
Dial of destiny.
Indiana Jones style.
Well,
did you ever figure out which is better?
Is it reboots or sequels? Well,
I can't think of 1 good
reboot honestly. Ever. I mean
sequels. You got Terminator 2.
Empire Strikes Back.
Die hard right?
All the die hard Where?
With reboots. I mean you're.
Trying to start something over ,
generally an entirely new
cast doesn't usually work.
Trying to make money.
That's what they're trying to c.
Grab. All
right. We love it when this
guy's part of the cast.
Paul Gallant from ESPN 97.5,
Thanks for being on
Sports Extra. Thank you. This was fun.