Rory McIlroy Repeats at the Masters, Doc Rivers Stepping Down from Coaching & Rapid Fire Takes

Rory McIlroy makes history with back-to-back Masters wins and we break down a wild Sunday at Augusta. From Scottie Scheffler’s missed putt that could’ve forced a playoff to shocking collapses and unexpected storylines, we cover everything you need to know from Masters weekend.

We also dive into the Milwaukee Bucks firing Doc Rivers after a disappointing run, debate his coaching future, and react to one of the strangest NBA seasons in recent memory.

Plus, rapid-fire takes on:

•  Travis Hunter’s projected NFL role after a major Jaguars move 
•  Mikal Bridges’ insane ironman streak 
•  Sophie Cunningham re-signing with the Fever 
•  Jalen Hurts vs. NFL QBs playoff wins debate 

 00:00 Masters Sunday Recap
 01:22 Pool Picks & Rory Debate
 04:29 Biggest Surprises & Collapses
 05:25 Wild Moments + Hole-in-One
 07:38 Golf Trip + YouTube Golf Talk
 09:55 Doc Rivers Fired Reaction
 12:54 What’s Next for Doc?
 14:38 Travis Hunter NFL Role
 16:13 Mikal Bridges Ironman Streak
 17:29 WNBA + Jets Stat Talk
 19:16 Jalen Hurts Debate
 21:34 Wrap-Up + Playoff Preview

Transcript

Spencer 0:00

Big game energy. April 12th. We are recording James. It is Sunday night after a great master's weekend. Roy McElroy going back to back. We're gonna talk about that and we're gonna talk about Doc Rivers being let go from the Milwaukee Bucks organization. No longer to be the head coach and then we'll wrap it up. With our rapid take segment.

James 0:22

Yep.

Spencer 0:23

How was your Master's weekend?

James 0:24

Man, it was phenomenal. My pool pick from the other day we did not so great. But the Sunday afternoon, man, it was great. The scoreboard, man on that. On that last round, man looked like the stock market. The, we thought who was gonna win was up top. Then he went down, we thought these other guys were gonna come up, and then they went down at the end of the day. I can't believe it. To say for the longest we used to dog Rory about not being able to win the big one. Choker, choker, choker. But in all honesty, man, for Rory to win back to back for the first time since oh 1 0 2 Tiger. You couldn't have had it any other way. And for me, I wish Scotty Scheffler would've made that last putt on the 18th, but man. Sometimes, Hey, sometimes it costs you, to, start poorly off the first round. And Scotty's been like that all year.

Spencer 1:11

Yeah, it, he made it really interesting on Sunday for a lot of the day. But that one putt man, I wish he had that one back'cause we would've been into a playoff after that. I felt horrible. My pick from the pool and what led me to victory over you, James. Yes. Yes, you may be better than me in real life, James, but this is the old saying, just because someone plays it better than you in real life does not mean they're better than you at knowing how to predict the sport. That's what we tell all those football analysts, right? Dan Orlovsky and freaking Emmanuel Ocho. I don't care that you played bad takes or bad takes. Doesn't matter if I didn't play. So James, you are way better than me, but. My guys better than your guys.

James 1:53

Yeah, man, dude, you definitely cooked me on this one and I was done for it once. Bryson de de sham bum, did not even make the cut.

Spencer 2:00

Yeah. That was your top guy. And I'll say Bryson fan, he was probably the biggest disappointment for me on the weekend, especially when you consider all the other guys that were towards the top of the betting odds going into the masters. We're all. Up made the cut and all of them were mostly towards the top of the leader leaderboard. Even Lu Oberg who didn't have a great day on Thursday, he ended up finishing very strong, finished negative three 21st on the standing. So he got a nice little purse. But Justin Rose was my guy and James, I thought he was going have his master's moment. Justin Rose was in the lead and it was like at that moment you and I texted, you said Justin Rose. And I said, he is cooking. And it was like right when I said that he is cooking, it all fell apart and Justin Rose started hitting some terrible, terrible shots. The worst one was the one where he had an amazing approach. Shot to get onto the green. On that par five I got, I forget what hole was, but he's on the green, had an eagle putt. Had an eagle putt, pushes it far, misses the birdie putt and had to settle for a par and you could just see in his face he was so dejected'cause he had a chance for an eagle and just messed it up. Ended up three putting for par. It was terrible to see James Rory though you mentioned it, he is back to back and. As much as we don't want to see this,'cause we're not fans of Rory, I don't think anyone's ever questioned that he is one of the best golfers in the world. I mean, what's he, he's definitively right behind Scotty. It's Scotty, and then it's Rory, and then there's a pretty much a gap. And then there's the rest is what I would say.

James 3:43

That's what I would say.

Spencer 3:44

And I think Rory reminded us that today, and I don't know. Going into this tournament. I thought he might be a little more complacent. Since he won last year, he finally got the monkey off his back. But it honestly seems like now since he knows the course and he's got the monkey off his back, he's playing freely. He's playing loose and. He got it done. Although I think all the freaking private jet plane trips to the course in the middle of the season was, takes his daughter to work, then flies over to Augusta and gets a practice round in, I don't know.

James 4:16

A little sketch, man. I

Spencer 4:16

don't, yeah, well, I mean, hey, he couldn't have done that beforehand, right? Right. He couldn't have just done that. You have to be a winner to be able to do that. So he finally won and was able to do that, I guess, I don't know, but a little sketchy, a little unfair advantage some might say.

James 4:29

Yeah, some might say, I will say some other guys that I really wish I thought this guy was gonna win at first. At the beginning, I think it was like his first three holes was Cameron Young.

Spencer 4:38

Yeah.

James 4:38

He was phenomenal. And then he just missed. Like easy par putts and it just boom, boom. And, you know, shooting a 73 going one over after his miraculous, like third round on Saturday was, I felt bad for him. I really surprised Colin Awa a guy who before everyone didn't think he was gonna do well because he, his last appearance, he's, he stepped out'cause of a back injury. He did really well. Sam Burns. Really choked off and he didn't he just wasn't that good. Hoa Max Holman. I love how Ben is

Spencer 5:09

strong today, man. Really strong today.

James 5:12

Yeah. Him and Xander Shale, like these two guys, like, I, you know who we probably both we just shoot these low scores. It's like, dang man. I wish they would've done this earlier, but man, hey, some of these shots, man, it, it matters. I will say one, one big surprise, that's off the course is a, is the, I forget if it was like the first time in 20 or 30 years, there was no rain on in this tournament. Like usually there's rain either on Thursday or Friday. There was no rain, and I guess everyone was pretty struck by that. I know some of the greens were very dry, a lot of approach. Shots were falling off the, falling off the, oh yeah,

Spencer 5:48

yeah. Shane Lowry. Oh man. Oh God. He came into today with a legitimate chance to win and then shoots an 80.

James 6:00

Oh, matter of fact,

Spencer 6:00

that is gut wrenching.

James 6:02

Yo, you know, it's crazy. Everyone's gonna, no one's gonna remember that because what he did in the third round, he shot that hole in one and it was like the first hole in one at the Masters for like the first time in like five years. And if, I think you would've bet. There would've been a hole in one, I think it was plus one 40 odds. So whoever got that this week, glad you got some little money on the side. Matter of fact, Spence, no. There's another guy I wanted to mention. His score was really funny. I can't pronounce his name, but it was the Asian guy. His last name was like Lee.

Spencer 6:34

Lee, okay.

James 6:35

Yeah. Lee. Oh yeah. HT Lee. Yo, hear this out? Oh, if they show me the. His scorecard. I, man, I would really love to see his scorecard. He shot, he was like in the top 10 and then it was hole 1314. He goes triple bogey on a par three and then a, he scores a 10 on a par five. Yo, he was one

Spencer 6:57

of us.

James 6:58

Yo, he was there like he was right there and just, he just wet to bed on that one. But it was funny'cause if you see the one photo trending. Spence, it is him like literally in the woods hitting a ball out of the woods and I don't think it went further. But yeah, he is one of us. He definitely, he's definitely one of us scoring a two or five. Hey, all I'm saying is. Dr. Trip. Amen. Max is double bo. We just move on.

Spencer 7:23

Absolutely.

James 7:24

Yeah, I know. We're here for a good time, but I don't care. Like if I know you're at a double bog, you better sink it. If not, you're just getting double bog. And we're

Spencer 7:34

at least on, at least on one of the days that we we're out. There at least on one of the days that we're out there. By the way, we legit are gonna record. I'm going to bring something to record. We're gonna record something while we're out there. Mark our words. You will get some BGE content from me and James in the DR from the Dominican Republic, Punana. It's gonna be good.

James 7:54

I cannot wait for people to be like, yeah, you guys suck. And I'd be like, Hey, look, if Bob does sports, did it. Yo, why can't we?

Spencer 8:00

Yeah. And we'll be just as entertaining to watch us be bad at golf Trust.

James 8:05

Matter of fact, one thing I noticed the other day when Bob does sports, shot the video with LeBron, if you haven't watched it, is great. LeBron's like funny as hell. And he curses a lot. Like he, he just curses.

Spencer 8:17

Yeah.

James 8:17

But the one thing

Spencer 8:18

I think he got on a platform where he realized he's not censored, he's not like on. Yeah. Cable television or on national tv, ESPN. He, he can cuss on YouTube and he's like, yes. He's like a fifth grader that's founding out that he knows how to cuss for the first time.

James 8:32

Right? The one thing I realized that I was really shocked about now, Smith, now I, I know some people take a little while to get good at sports. You practice, practice, practice, you get good. But for Bobby Berg. Who I'm gonna assume has been doing golf, YouTube content, we'll just call it. I, since I've noticed it, we'll call it four years. Four years. So you know, they're playing a lot and he gets paid basically to shoot content and play golf. And on the start of his video said like he still hasn't broke 80. Bro, come on man. Like, bro, you shoot content all the time. You gotta break 80 now, man. Like us. Average Joes who only golf like once a a a month or practice two times a month. And some of us have broke 80 before. Yo, come on Bobby, man, God you golf too much. Not to break 80 by now,

Spencer 9:18

but would his content be as good if he was amazing? Like people aren't watching him, like they watch good, good. They're not trying to see really quality golf.

James 9:25

Well, I agree. It is not the quality of golf, I think. I think for me it's just like you play so much. I think you should have done it. At least by now. Like still, yeah you still get the hilarious commentary. You still get the stupid, I don't know why Bobby asked those lame questions to LeBron like in the cart like it was. I don't know. That was me though. But all in all, Bobby, get your act together man. Break 80 this year. God dang man.

Spencer 9:48

Yeah. He better break 80 before I break 90.

James 9:50

You're breaking 90 at the dr. We'll find a way.

Spencer 9:52

We'll see. We'll see.. Hey, if I use all your shots, maybe. Fun news in the NBA Doc Rivers is out as head coach in Milwaukee. It should have never been a thing in the first place. Never been. It was a ridiculous hiring at the time. Everyone knew we would get to this point. Now, I'll be honest. James, I knew he had been

James 10:12

there. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Did you say I'll be Gianni? That's all. I,

Spencer 10:15

I'll be honest, James., I knew he is been there for a minute. I was shocked to know it was three full years. That feels like it was just kind of a couple months ago, honestly, that it was Adrian Griffin, but he is out as head coach now. I did see a news blurb a little bit before we went live. Started recording. That he might still be with the organization in like a front office advisory type of role. Why? I don't know. And maybe it's one of those things that's like, Hey, you know you can have me just in name only to save face kinda, and I'll work in the background and you can pay me out my guaranteed money. You're gonna have to pay me anyways. I don't know. But James, he's gone. Will Doc Rivers ever get another head coaching job?

James 10:57

So look, this is the issue I have. The other video, last week we drop about Doc Rivers gonna the Hall of Fame. And some people will say yes'cause he won a championship with the Celtics back when dinosaurs roamed. It just feels like a long time ago. And for Doc Rivers, we agreed when Adrian Smith got fired, and we all know that when Bud got fired from the Bucks, that's when everything went down. But Adrian Smith had this team 30 and 13. And ever since then, dock Rivers has taken the bucks 97 and 103. Through 200 games, Spence, that is not good. Now I get yes injuries that happen. Some front office decisions happen. Yeah, cool. But no, I don't think Doc River should get a job. But guess what's about to happen, Spence? I agree. We agree he should not get a job. You know what ESPN's about to say, doc Ri, you know you're gonna have all these former players and all this, podcast people saying, man, doc River should have never got that job in the first place. But guess what's gonna happen? Why are there enough black coaches in the N

Spencer 11:54

nba?

James 11:55

Yo bro, we dog Doc River.

Spencer 11:58

Do people say that about the NBA? I think that's probably an NFL problem.

James 12:01

It's still an NFL problem, but you know how this is going to get turned. Hey, it's going somehow it's gonna be a Friday.

Spencer 12:07

You just need to mute Jemele Hill. That's it. Just mute Jemele Hill's account. That'd be the only one that would say something like this.

James 12:12

I'll tell you and it's going to happen, but no, you see this And Doc Rivers has just been, I think his time has just really passed since his time with the Clippers. It just, ever since then, it's just, it's been, it is been done. He's already a hall of famer. This, hey, this is, when people earlier in the, in the NFL season, were saying like, Russ Russell Wilson is playing his way out of the. Hall of Fame, whatever his potential hall of fame. This is what Doc's doing. This is what I actually see, doc. This is really moving him out of the Hall of Fame. Now he's going in the basketball Hall of Fame. That's locked in. But should he get out? That meant how he played the Bucks should be the reason.

Spencer 12:49

Yeah. And make sure y'all Google him, by the way. Google him.

James 12:53

Yeah, Google him.

Spencer 12:54

But you already know James. It's gonna be a couple years, and I think he's got one more in him. One more team is gonna do something silly to their current head coach and think, hey. There's a guy out there that's quote unquote experienced and a winner and proven leader, and they're gonna give him one more shot, and then that will be the one he finally retires from. Can I tell you, my fear is that that could be the Rockets?

James 13:20

No, man, I really hope that's not it. I wanted to joke and be like, you saw how Mike Malone became the Tar Hills head coach. Why don't he just become like the Kansas Jayhawks coach, or, whenever that time comes around or. One of these blue bloods like, yeah, just do that bro.

Spencer 13:35

Maybe I would, he want to be a recruiting at that age. It takes a toll on people. I don't know.

James 13:41

It does take a toll on

Spencer 13:42

college Coaching nowadays is a young man's game. I feel like you gotta have that Bobby Hurley type of edge.

James 13:47

Yeah,

Spencer 13:48

I think Doc Rivers will live out his days in. Advisorial roles, quote unquote, with the bunny ears. If you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, bunny ear quotation marks, very much important on those. Yeah. Doc Rivers, thanks for the memes. Thanks for the funny resume. And yeah, if you do Google, you, we went see you that yeah, you wanna. Championship with the 2008 Boston Celtics, but you only won one. And beyond that, you're mostly known for having some of the most egregious postseason choke jobs in history and not being able to manage egos at epic proportions in multiple different spots along your career. But hey. Congrats on a good tenure with the bucks there. There're doc.

James 14:34

Doc man. Alright man.

Spencer 14:37

Alright, James, let's go. Let's end it up with our rapid takes now before you get new New Year's. James.

James 14:43

I was ready. You said

Spencer 14:44

rapid. Did you see there was some big news in the NFL this week? Travis Hunter. A little bit of a fraud now, in my opinion. Now we can look at this in hindsight, Travis Hunter will not be playing wide receiver besides a few packages this year. James. What do you think now, in hindsight? I think now if you could go back in time, if you're drafting just corner bag, Travis Hunter, is he worth trading multiple future draft picks to go get if you're the Jaguars?

James 15:12

No, not at all. We agreed. When he came out, we thought he was a better corner than receiver. Some people thought he had the best hands since Jerry Rice and, some experts, as they say, he should have been a receiver. Now, I do find this disappointing. I wish Travis Hunter was playing both sides of the ball. You did see some glimpses. I'm not saying Travis Hunter is gonna be the peak receiver, but at least get him out there. Make him a gadget player. Do something. I hope this season he plays, won a full season at Corner. Great. For the Jaguars,'cause in the A SC South where who knows who's, gonna be playing quarterback with the Colts and all that. You got the Texans and you got the Titans. Hey man, always you need defense wins championships. So I like that there.

Spencer 15:53

All righty. Yeah. For me the big thing is just the fact that they traded future first round picks to move up to get this guy and. Now he's only playing one side of the ball. Even if he's all pro on that side of the ball, he better be like all time. Great. Otherwise, that's gonna be a bit of a questionable move.

James 16:10

Bit of a questionable move. Yeah.

Spencer 16:12

Alright. What you got for me, James?

James 16:13

All righty, Spence man. Rapid takes. Here we go, Spence. Now tonight, our guy MHA Bridges logged in 23 seconds tonight in the finale NBA season. Now guess what? Bridges has extended his NBA longest active streak to 638 consecutive games. Spence, this guy's an all pro. Am I right, man?

Spencer 16:34

Yeah. Put ML Bridges in the basketball Hall of fame right now. You cannot tell the story of basketball without talking about this Ironman streak that Mikhail Bridges is on the goat of playing basketball games,

James 16:51

man. Yeah, I will give him credit though somehow his. Slender, physique has somehow got him, God dang, almost 10 full seasons. I know if I'm doing the math rights, almost like eight full seasons, but it's impressive, but yeah, in the basketball Hall of Fame, he's, he should be a Hall of Famer by now. No one's done that. GOAT status,

Spencer 17:08

I'll never forget those two weeks where he was a Brooklyn net and everyone swore he was gonna be a superstar Max contract player. And then he came back down to Earth and now he is firmly. A role player for the New York Knicks.

James 17:23

The

Spencer 17:23

New York. A pretty good one though. No, no disrespect.

James 17:26

Yeah, no disrespect, but just not for the package. I agree. Alright, spin man. Hey, we switch it over now. Earlier we talked about Rory McElroy winning back to back for the first time since oh 1 0 2 Tiger Woods. Now, are you impressed with this, Rory? Rory has won two masters since the Jets have had an interception. Are you impressed with Rory? Are you more disappointed with the Jets not playing any defense?

Spencer 17:50

Oh I'm way more impressed by Rory McElroy because it does not take a lot for us to find insult stats about the New York Jets. And yes, that is a sad state of affairs, but what have we come to expect from the New York Jets?

James 18:06

Oh man, nothing but. Utter misery, but makes our heart the warmest man. Yep. It's almost like the Grinch at the last scene of the, the Grinch movie, bro. Our heart has grown three times bigger. Yes. Every time we get the anti Jett stuff. Alright man, spins, man's keeping it in the league, but with the women's side, bro. Hey, this is important one for us man. The Indiana Fever have resigned. Sophie Cunningham, bro. Let's get this going. Woo.

Spencer 18:33

I'm not gonna lie, James, I was heartbroken when I heard this news because I'm a Houston sports fan. As the Connecticut Sun are relocating. I was hoping that the Connecticut Sun would make a run. At Sophie Cunningham and instead they got Brittany Griner. Wamp Wamp for me. But luckily Brittany Griner is a good basketball player, but so is Sophie Cunningham, and for obvious reasons, I really wanted us to have Sophie Cunningham.

James 19:00

Yeah, I would've loved that too,

Spencer 19:01

because she's a great enforcer, obviously.

James 19:03

Correct? Yes. And she will protect your biggest asset.

Spencer 19:06

Correct.

James 19:07

And that, that's Caitlyn Clark. Are we picking the fever to win it all this year?

Spencer 19:10

We gotta have Clayton Clark actually play basketball games for that to happen.

James 19:15

All right. Spin man. Last one. Yo, why I, I, I'm an Eagles fan and I just hear so much bashing about my guy, Jalen Hurtz, my guy Jalen. But Spence if I gave you the Jalen Hurtz stat of the day, Jalen Hurtz has as many career postseason wins as Kirk Cousins. Carson Palmer, baker Mayfield, Dak Prescott, Phillip Rivers, Warren Moon, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Justin Herbert, to a tongue of a Loa, Archie Manning, Andy to Carson wins. John Kitna, Trent Green, Sam Bradford, Derek Carr, and Gus Fare combined.

Spencer 19:52

I don't wanna hear that stat anymore. Some of those names in there. Shut your mouth. Talking about Gus fart. You, Eagles fans will have the freaking y'all just have a, Inferiority complex. When people criticize Jalen Herz, you're pulling out names like Gus Fer rot to make yourself feel better. These eagle stats are insane, and I'm not a Jalen Herz hater as but come on, that's coping.

James 20:17

Yo. All I gotta say is all he does is win, but it ain't good enough. I will say this, Vince, to turn.

Spencer 20:22

That is a crazy stat. It's true though.

James 20:25

It's true.

Spencer 20:26

You are right. It is a factual statement.

James 20:28

Imagine how many like quarterbacks they could have put, like, who would've never

Spencer 20:31

Oh yeah.

James 20:32

Not have been stupid.

Spencer 20:33

I think you said Andy Dalton in that, right?

James 20:35

Yep. Andy Dalton's on that

Spencer 20:36

one. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much any quarterback that's ever had a meme made about them not succeeding in the playoffs. Yeah. If you had their playoff wins together, they'll have luster, Jalen Hertz had.

James 20:46

Yeah, but you know what's crazy? Let me switch this up real quick and then we'll wrap up. Spence, I don't know why, I saw a photo and it was a joke towards Justin Rose. It was saying like, when Justin Rose needs to win a big major, they put Josh Allen on the clip. I saw

Spencer 21:00

that.

James 21:01

I saw that. It was funny. So I thought it was funny, but then I thought about it and I was like, Spence, how would we proceed? Josh Allen, if he had Jalen hurt stats in the one Super Bowl title?

Spencer 21:12

I if he had Jalen hurt stats in a Super Bowl title. I do, do I get the eye test with Josh Allen also, or,

James 21:20

yeah, with Josh Allen. Like you, you know

Spencer 21:23

how I think I'd be calling Josh Allen, one of the greatest players we'd ever seen.

James 21:27

Let's go, man. That's all I need to hear. End of discussion, bro. Hey, quit hating on Jalen Hurts. All right, Spence, man, I'm done for the night.

Spencer 21:34

All right, this has been big game energy. We will be back on Thursday. We will be having our entire, we'll record Wednesday, James, but the people will hear us on Thursday.

James 21:45

Oh, I was like,

Spencer 21:45

come on James. This is how promoting things works, man. Sounds good. Thursday morning we will have our full NBA playoffs preview. We'll give you all of our first round picks. We will then go into who we think are gonna be the champions at the end of it all. If you have not, make sure you get us over there on Instagram and TikTok, big Game Energy sports, and make sure you subscribe on YouTube. If you're catching us on Apple and Spotify, give us a five star review. We'd appreciate that a lot. So until then, y'all take it easy.