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Are the KNICKS the best team in the Eastern Conference? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Dicks dominate the Spurs and Force 7 Wemby turnovers.
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On Sunday afternoon, the Knicks hosted and dominated.
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The Spurs won 14 to 89 to give the Spurs their first loss since
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January 31st and the lowest point total they've had in in
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game in a game this season. After the Spurs took a 19 to 7
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first quarter lead, the Knicks went on a 26 to two run
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including Jaylen Bronson having the final eleven points of the
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first quarter. The Knicks defense led by OJ
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Nanobi, force 7 Wembe turnovers the second highest total of his
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career. 6 Knicks players were in double figures including two
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bench players in Mohammed DORR and recently acquired Jose
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Alvarado. Karl Anthony Towns, Josh Hart
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had double double S and Mikkel Bridges led the scoring with 25
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points on 5/3 pointers to go along with five steals.
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Outside of Wembe who had 25 points, 13 rebounds and Devin
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Vessel who had 18 points and Stefan Castles who had 13
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points, where the only two were the only two players of the
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Spurs to reach double figures due to the Knicks smothering
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team defense. The Knicks now have the third
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best home record in the NBA, 23 and 8, which is amazing only
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behind the the two number one seeded teams, the Pistons and
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the Thunders. The Knicks are one of five teams
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along with the Spurs, the Timberwolves, the Celtics and
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the Thunder that have or that are top ten in both offensive
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and defensive efficiency this season.
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Mike Brown should get a lot of credit for this.
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I know a lot of people were questioning the Mike Brown hire.
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Tom Thibodeau was a guy that everybody loved and Tom was a
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nick through and through. He's really born here in New
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York. While he was born in
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Connecticut. He grew up a New York Knicks
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fan. He came up under Pat Riley and
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Jeff Van Gundy. We all know the the story behind
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the Tom Thibodeau story. Mike Brown has grown up as a
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coach in the NBA behind two successful coaches that have won
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multiple championships, Greg Popovich and Steve Kerr.
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Now, everybody knows I'm not a Steve Kerr.
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Everybody knows, but Steve Kerr plays the triangle offense, a
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somewhat of a triangle offense. He also was an assistant coach
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under Greg Popovich as well, Steve Kerr.
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So his style is, is a unique style.
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And Mike Brown was under Steve Kerr for a significant amount of
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time, 2-3 years. He took a Cavalier team before
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he went to the Spurs in the Golden State Warriors all the
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way to the Finals. Yes, with LeBron James and they
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they failed, they lost. But Mike Brown has been a
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successful assistant and coach in the NBA.
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Look what he did with Sacramento.
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He want, if I'm not mistaken, he want coach of the year.
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I think Thibodeau did, but I think he was he was second.
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This is a guy that obviously weighed out as welcome over
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there with Sacramento. It didn't work out over there.
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Maybe because of the players, maybe because of the
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organization. It is a a failing organization,
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one of the worst basketball organizations and professional
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basketball. But Mike Brown, what he's done
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with the Knicks, slowly you got to buy in.
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A lot of people thought that Karl Anthony Towns was not
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buying in. But over the last couple of
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weeks, since the All Star break, it's been 2 weeks, he's played
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better. Now I want to see Karl Anthony
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Towns do this in the play offs. I want to see Karl Anthony Towns
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play at a top level when you need him to play at a top level.
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That's why a lot of people are talking about Giannis if he
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fails to do so in the play offs once again.
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But those secondary players, Josh Hart, high pick and roll
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what they used in this game against the Spurs.
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And I'll tell you this about the Knicks.
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This is not something to say. Well, the Knicks were lucky and
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and, and the Spurs are one of the best teams in the Western
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Conference and they haven't they haven't lost since January 31st.
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That's not true, guys. The Knicks beat them in the cup,
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the cup finals. That's why they won the cup and
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then it just beat them. They tortured them.
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Now Mike Brown knows how the Spurs like to run their offense
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and their defense because it's the same way Greg Popovich likes
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to run his defense and his offense.
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So he knows the distinct way they like to run things over
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there in San Antonio. So the Knicks, it's all about
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matchups. Everything in in in basketball,
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you can have the best players in the league, but if if your team
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matches up against them and you have pests like Jose Alvarado
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and OG Ananobi, you're going to cause a lot of problems
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defensively for guys like webbing yama now webbing Yama is
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one of the best big man in the league.
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If you can argue he's one of the top six top seven players in all
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of the NBA. I've been saying this over and
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over and over again about him as a player.
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He's 7 foot five. He has these long legs stilt
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legs. I will say this, if you're a A
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basketball fan and understand what it takes to be an elite
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player in this league, and I'm not saying that webbing Yama is
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not training and going to get bigger and kind of trying to get
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stronger. He is doing that.
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But the problem right now with webbing Yama is his development
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and he'll develop as a young player.
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He's what, 20 years old, 21 years old, still a kid and his
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his legs will get stronger, his body will get stronger.
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But when you're playing against guys that are men, they're going
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to push you around webbing. Yama is is not a man yet OG and
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Anobi is a man. This man is a 230 LB, six foot
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66 foot 7 guard that could defend or a three you could say
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small forward that can defend multiple positions, all 5
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positions. And Josh Hart, he's been used in
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these games as a swing man, a guy that can swing and and do
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things. The high pick and rolls you,
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they used them in this game a lot on the high pick and rolls
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with Jalen Bronson, kind of like a Draymond Green and me and Fish
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were talking about this off air. What makes the Knicks so unique
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is if all these guys play at a high level, nobody's going to
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beat them. Nobody if OG and Nanobi plays
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this way defensively game in and game out and gives you about 15
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to 16 points and gives you about 7 to 8 rebounds.
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And Mikkel Bridges is your third option and can give you 18
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points and he's he's not going to miss more than he's going to
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hit and he's going to play shut down defense and rebound 6 or 7
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rebounds a game. And they have Jalen Brunson
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that's going to give you 35 to 40.
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And and Karl Anthony Towns definitely needs to give you 25
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and 10. If that happens, there's no way
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the New York Knicks are going to lose against anybody, including
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OK C, the Spurs, Detroit, the Celtics, when Tatum comes back.
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This team is as good as anybody in the league if they play on
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all cylinders. But the problem with the Knicks
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is they're inconsistent. Inconsistency does not work in
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the playoffs. It doesn't.
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That's why they lost against Halliburton in Indiana in the
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Eastern Conference Finals last year.
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The Spurs are young. They're up and coming.
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Harper's. Dylan Harper's going to be a
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special player. Give him a couple of years.
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This guy's going to be one of the best point guards in the
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league. Castle was Rookie of the Year.
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We know what he is. This guy is a great player.
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He was a great find, a great find by the Spurs.
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Devin Vessel, good offensive player.
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It's going to give you 20 and 8:20 and 7:00.
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The guy is a great player offensively if he can stay
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healthy. Fox.
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Fox is going to be a big part of it.
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If they make the playoffs, which they will, he's going to be a
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big part of their run webbing. Yama needs the help and what the
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Knicks did was very unique is they had OG and Anobi defend
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Webiyama in the paint, Force Webiyama to do things that he
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was uncomfortable doing. What a lot of teams do against
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Giannis in the play offs, what they do and what we've seen that
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has worked against Giannis in the play offs against Milwaukee
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is they keep Giannis on the outside, keep him out of the
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paint, make him shoot the ball, which he's uncomfortable doing.
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Now, Webiyama is a much better shooter than Giannis.
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Much better. Not athletically, but I think
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webbing. I think webbing Yama is a little
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bit less athletic than Giannis is.
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But webbing Yama could do. He can post off, He can shoot
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that 1819 foot jumper. But the Knicks was swarming him.
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They were getting under him. They were pestering him.
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They were pissing him off, made him feel uncomfortable and made
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him four shots that he wasn't comfortable doing.
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That is Mike Brown, the fast-paced offense up and down
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the court. Play defense, stick defense,
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make sure you play good perimeter defense, force them to
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try to beat you in the paint and make sure you that you beat them
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on the boards. Mitchell Robinson was a big part
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of why they won the Cup. Mitchell Robinson is going to be
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a big reason why the Knicks if they plan to win a championship.
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He is going to be a big part of the rebounding and the defensive
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side of the rim. We understand why the Knicks
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made a move for Jose Alvarado. We got it.
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And if, if I can argue this, I will argue this to all the
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Knicks fans. I'll, I will argue this to every
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single fan in the NBA right now. Leon Rose is the best trade
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deadline GM or executive in the NBA right now.
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Do you want me to tell you why? Let's, let's go back.
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Let's go back in time first. At the trade deadline, he made
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that move for Josh Hart. Do we remember who they traded?
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Speedy, Do we remember? I don't off hand.
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How about you fish? Do you remember who we traded?
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Believe it was Cam reddish and a late 1st.
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And where is Cam Reddish now? Selling sneakers at Foot Locker.
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And what happened to that first round pick?
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Nobody knows exactly. Nobody.
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Yeah. Then he made that trade for OG
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and Anobi. He traded RJ Barrett and
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Emmanuel Quigley. And I'm not saying RJ Barrett
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hasn't been successful with Toronto.
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He's been good, Quigley's been good.
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But OG and Anobi, when he is on the court and he is healthy,
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he's as good or maybe the best shutdown defender, perimeter
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defender in all of the NBA who could defend multiple positions.
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I'm talking about all 5 positions.
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You know, OG reminds me of, and I told Fish, Magic Johnson, he's
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the same size as Magic Johnson. Magic Johnson with 68-O GS,
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about 6-7, same size, plays the same way, plays and defends
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multiple positions and can do it at a high level.
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He's strong, he gets under you and he forces you to do things
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that you're uncomfortable doing. That was RJ Barrett where he
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wasn't successful. RJ Barrett was 1/3 option and he
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wanted to be a second or maybe even a first option and that's
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why they nick straighted him. OG knew he wasn't the second or
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he wasn't going to be the third option on this team when they
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made that move from a guy like Carl Anthony Towns.
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And then this season when they added Jose Alvarado, they traded
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a piece that wasn't working when they signed 76ers.
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I'm, I'm sorry, what was that? Yabasheli?
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Yabasheli. They traded him for a no name
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guard and then they moved that guard and I think a pick, a
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second round pick of some kind and they added Jose Alvarado.
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They gave up nothing for Jose Alvarado to the Pelicans that
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were just wanted to get rid of them and everybody.
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Jose Alvarado wanted to come home.
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He's from Brooklyn. He was ecstatic when they Nick's
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made this move. And I remember, I remember in
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his first game, he was talking to Jalen Brunson.
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He says what do you want me to do?
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Where do you want me at? And he was like, just be
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yourself, play your own game. We all we want you to do is be
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yourself. And then he sat down with Jalen
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Brunson's father, Rick Brunson. And throughout the first
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quarter, if you watch that first game, he was talking to Rick
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Brunson. And I'm sure Rick Brunson was
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telling him the same thing. Be yourself, play your game.
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And slowly but surely, you're getting a chance to see why the
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Knicks made that move for Jose Alvarado.
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Jose Alvarado has been a big part of that perimeter defense.
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You can bring them on. You can bring them on in late
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games, especially against their best guard and stick them and
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tell him to stick him. He could shoot the three.
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He's a very good 3 point shooter.
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This team overall from top to bottom, even bring in Sochen
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and, and Sochen has really barely played.
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We haven't seen enough of Sochen, but we're going to see
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him. I, I think the Knicks are going
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to move them into that rotation, that secondary rotation as the
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playoffs come along because they're going to need him.
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He's a big body, he's a defender, he's a rebounder, he's
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a tough player to play against. And when you play against teams
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like the Detroit Pistons, you need those tough players.
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Mike Brown. Say whatever you want about Mike
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Brown, love him, hate him, dislike him.
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Mike Brown is one of these coaches that is an XS and OS
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type of guy. It was Jalen Brunson calling
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that team meeting that changed everything for this team.
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Ever since that team meeting when the Knicks were like 2 and
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9 or three and nine in 12 games, that team meeting changed
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everything for this team. Yeah, they lost against the
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Cavaliers and they haven't showed in some of these games,
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but we've seen them beat elite teams.
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Look what they did against Houston coming back from Houston
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after 18 points. They were down by 18 points
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going into the practically the fourth quarter.
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They came back and won that game by two.
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Why? Because Karl Anthony Towns and
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there are games that there are other heroes.
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This game was Mikhail Bridges problem with Mikhail Bridges.
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What scares me about Mikhail Bridges is he disappears in
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games so does OG. They need to be more consistent.
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If both players are as consistent in games, one could
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play defense, two could play defense, one could play offense,
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both could play offense in defense.
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If they both are consistent players, the New York Knicks are
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easily going to come out of the Eastern Conference.
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Because as good as the Celtics are right now, if Tatum comes
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back, he is not playing more than 2728 minutes in a game.
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He's not. He's not playing 40 minutes
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coming back from an Achilles hair.
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Not a chance in hell coming back as quick as he did.
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No, it's going to be all Jaylen Brown.
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They don't have a lot. As far as I'm concerned, as
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concerned as size, the Celtics are not a big team.
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So the Knicks are a big team. They have size.
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They have ability to match against some of the bigger teams
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in the NBA because of it. The Knicks used to be very
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small. Over the years.
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They brought in Sochen. Sochen is A-69 guy.
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He's a guy that you can bring off the bench.
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He's pretty big. You can move him at the three,
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you can move him at the four. He could defend any one of those
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positions. Mitchell Robinson could defend
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the three. I mean he could play.
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He could defend the five, the four or the three.
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Jose Alvarado could defend the one or the two.
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Josh Hark can defend the one, the two or the three.
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All these guys OG and nobody could defend all 5 positions.
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When you have those abilities and you have that kind of bench
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and you have these type of players, these style of players
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that can give you that kind of pressure defensively, you're
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going to be able to compete against anybody in the NBA.
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We were talking earlier about this, I heard Zach Lowe talk
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about like just what he Josh Hart was doing and how teams are
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playing him offensively because Hart's this semi liability on
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offense, right? He's really good in transition,
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but he's not a great 3 point shooter.
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Shots a little herky jerky with the motion at times.
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He gets streaky with the three, but you don't have to shoot the
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three if you can facilitate the offense and you could do ball
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screens. And the simplest thing to do is
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what they keep doing with Bridges in him.
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It's just OK, give the ball to heart, have him dribble inside
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the top of the key and then just hand the ball off one way or the
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other as you as Bridges runs around him and use his heart's
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body as a screen to initiate the offense.
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And then everyone cycles off of that.
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I mean, if you can do that, you're basically Draymond Green
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offensively. And what he did was facilitate
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great shooting around him. And if you get great shooting
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around him, you can run that offense.
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Even if you have a guy who's not great at shooting like Hart, he
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can do enough that it's not a liability.
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In fact, it enhances the team and they killed him yesterday by
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letting Hart do that. Well, we got a caller.
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Who do we have on? We have one of Nathan's friends.
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Nathan's friend. Can you hear us?
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Yes we can. How you doing?
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What's going on, my friend? Who we speaking?
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To Hey, it's Joe from NY Yankee mania.
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Hey, Joe, how are you? Good.
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How you doing, my friends? That's good, man.
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Glad that I got a chance to give you guys a call.
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As always. You're knocking it out of the
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park, of course. Thank you.
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So how you guys doing? Well, I'm not dancing.
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I mean, if I was, I would be tap dancing right now.
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But we're talking Knicks basketball.
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I know you're a Knick fan. You're a Yankees guy.
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We're we're good, man. What did you think about the
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Knicks knocking off the San Antonio Spurs?
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I was very, very surprised. Really.
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Yeah, I was, you know, listen, being in New York for so long,
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you get it. You get a feel of what the teams
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are going to do. I don't know.
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I guess it's just a premonition that I have.
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Even then, I just know when a team's going to win or lose
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here. Call me crazy, but it's the
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truth. I've seen so many games in my
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life. I've worked with them and and I
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know more or less. So that threw me before a loop.
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I mean, to be, to be, you know, honest with you again, I, I just
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never, I, I just thought it's always one disappointment on top
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of another. So maybe this year's different.
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Just like I think it's gonna happen with the New York
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Yankees, I think a lot of people are going to be very surprised
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with this team. I I would agree with you and we
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will get into some Yankee conversation because the WBC is
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right around the corner Wednesday.
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We have Aaron Judge, a leading the United States team.
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You have Japan and Otani, the deferred Dodgers might be
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lurking in many different areas over there on Japan.
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I mean, there's a couple of for, well, couple, couple of Dodgers
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right now on that roster pitching, pitching players.
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But I, I, I would agree, I think the Yankees going to be a lot
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better than people think they're going to be this year.
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I, I think a lot of people don't understand what pitching Staffs
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could be if everybody is healthy.
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So, and I think the Yankees are going to have one of the best
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pitching Staffs, if not the best pitching staff in baseball.
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But I think that when you look at the Knicks and, and by the
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way, we're talking to Joe and he has a great podcast.
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What is your podcast, by the way?
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It's it's called New York Yankee Mania and we do play by plays
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and we also have a morning show at 9:30 E and that's that's on
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in New York City and all over. Well.
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And I appreciate you asking. Absolutely.
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And I just want everybody to hear it and and they're gonna
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get to hear it on all the different platforms after the
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show cutting and chopping it up. But you know what's interesting
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when, when you think about what the New York Knicks are doing,
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it's it's kind of, it's kind of something that you you don't
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expect with the New York Knicks, especially against great teams
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in the NBA. The Knicks have had problems
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against top talented teams. Last year, they weren't as good
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of a home team in the NBA. They were, I don't even think
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they were one of the better teams in the NBA.
25:18
I think they were one of the worst home teams in the NBA.
25:20
They were a better away team. Now this year, there are better
25:24
home team now. Yeah, the Knicks need to be a
25:26
better home team, especially if they expect to win.
25:29
You need homecourt advantage. You need to win those homecourt
25:33
games in the playoffs and at Madison Square Garden when it's
25:36
loud, where all the fans are going to be rooting and cheering
25:38
for you. You need to succeed and go out
25:41
there and play your game. And I think that I think the New
25:44
York Knicks have done very, very well this year has a lot to do
25:46
with Mike Brown, the offensive style of game he likes to run.
25:49
And this offense that he is running right now is going to
25:52
work work in the playoffs. They had a problem scoring the
25:55
ball in certain series, especially against the Indiana
25:58
Pacers. I don't think the Knicks are
25:59
going to have a problem against teams like the Celtics or teams
26:03
like Detroit. Even though the Knicks played
26:04
very well against Detroit and I think it was the first round
26:07
last year. This is a different Detroit
26:09
team. Cunningham has played at MVP
26:11
level this year. Duran has been as good of a
26:14
center in the NBA. And by the way, Duran was and I,
26:17
it's funny to say this, he was a Knicks draft pick, so.
26:20
And it was like traded until after the fact.
26:22
The Knicks drafted him and then traded him to Detroit and got a
26:26
future first round draft pick, which turned into nothing
26:28
because it was a protected first round draft pick.
26:30
So it's typical. I don't understand this
26:32
unprotected, protected crap that the NBA has.
26:34
But what I love about that, what the New York Knicks are doing
26:37
right now is they're giving now players an opportunity to be the
26:42
forefront offensive player on that roster.
26:45
Now, Mikhail Bridges, he was the best offensive option in this
26:48
particular game. I want to see more of this.
26:50
I want to see, I'm not saying I don't want to, I want to see
26:53
less than Jalen. I don't I, I want to see Jalen
26:54
Brunson play his game. But if Jalen Brunson is not on
26:58
that night, give the ball to Karl Anthony Towns.
27:00
Let Karl Anthony Towns take over the games.
27:03
Because if you look, if Karl Anthony Towns is is the leading
27:06
scorer of the New York Knicks, if I'm not mistaken, the Knicks
27:08
this year 11 and one or something or 11:00 and 2:00.
27:11
Their their record is ridiculous.
27:12
When Karl Anthony Towns is leaning leading the scoring when
27:16
it when it comes to the team, he's the number one option.
27:19
Now, when you look at statistics, statistics will tell
27:21
you that it would work. Now the isolation basketball
27:24
never works in the playoffs. It never does.
27:26
It never does. You need to move the ball and
27:28
that's Mike Brown and I think that's what Mike Brown is trying
27:30
to get this team to do. And when you see it against the
27:32
Spurs and you saw it in this game, this was not isolation
27:35
basketball. They were moving the ball.
27:37
They they they definitely put these players in the right
27:39
position. And Mikhail Bridges, he wasn't
27:42
forcing the ball into places that he wasn't wasn't
27:45
uncomfortable or he was uncomfortable doing over the
27:47
last couple of weeks. I think he was more comfortable
27:50
at, at the way he was positioning himself.
27:52
And I, I think that's why when you have Mikkel Bridges doing
27:55
what he did last night and you have OJ Anobi defending the way
28:00
he can do and the way he can play.
28:02
And all these guys are playing on all cylinders and you're
28:04
getting the bench help that you're getting, giving you
28:07
double digits. You're going to win every single
28:09
game. I, I, I'm telling you right now,
28:11
they're going to be able to compete against anybody in the
28:13
NBA if they play this way. Question is, will they be able
28:16
to? Consistency from the supporting
28:18
cast is what you're going to need.
28:19
And Joe, Joe, you're kind of mentioning too.
28:20
Like you were said, you weren't surprised that the Knicks beat
28:22
up a team like the Spurs. This is a Spurs team that is
28:24
hyper efficient offensively to believe they're 8th and they
28:27
have a lot of guards. A lot of guards even want to be
28:30
being a big man. But even with guys like the Cell
28:32
and Castle that could really do well and the Knicks took
28:34
advantage of that like one-on-one matchups wise too.
28:37
And that's a good sign of confidence when you look at even
28:39
if they do like going into the playoffs, even besides those
28:42
teams, like they have more talent and depth than Detroit
28:45
does on paper. And look at the Celtics,
28:49
obviously, like you said, are without Tatum not being as as
28:51
prevalent minutes wise. They have good depth with with
28:54
Pritchard and some of the young kids that they have all off the
28:56
bench. But it's not better than the
28:57
Knicks on paper. And the Cavs now trading Garland
28:59
too for hard and James Harden. We know chokes in the playoffs
29:01
all the time. Like the Knicks should have the
29:02
advantage there. But now you're going with the
29:04
gauntlet in the West too. This is going to be one of those
29:06
teams. But this?
29:07
Is this is going to be a different James Harden because
29:09
James Harden now knows that he is not the number one guy over
29:13
there. Even with the Clippers, Kawhi
29:15
Leonard couldn't stay healthy, Paul George couldn't stay
29:18
healthy. It was James Harden's team.
29:20
It was James Harden's roster. Now James Harden.
29:23
He knows Donovan Mitchell is the guy.
29:25
He knows it. He has to accept.
29:26
It he has to accept that. But now you can play off each
29:30
other. So I don't know if the Cavaliers
29:31
are going to be or this is going to be the same James Harden.
29:34
Donovan Mitchell hasn't been good in the playoffs.
29:36
Not with Utah, not with the Cavaliers.
29:39
Mitchell's weird because Mitchell does really well like
29:41
the first round of the playoffs all the time, and then he either
29:44
wears himself out or the just doesn't have to lose, even if he
29:47
still plays well in the second round.
29:49
And that's why he's never reached the conference finals.
29:51
He he tries to do too much. That guy always puts it on his
29:54
back, especially when he's on Utah.
29:56
But his playoffs numbers overall are like they look good on paper
29:59
just because he does really well in the first round, the first
30:00
half of the second round, apparently.
30:03
We'll see, Maybe you'll get over the hump one day.
30:05
I just don't think a team that trades for like their second
30:08
best player at the deadline, usually they don't gel fast
30:13
enough. I just don't see that really
30:14
kind of come together. I think it's a it's a Hail Mary.
30:17
I mean, Harden's a Hall of Famer, so you would imagine if
30:20
anyone can do it, maybe he has enough powers left.
30:22
But I want to talk a little bit about Bridges before we finish
30:25
this up because Bridges was awesome in this game. 5 steals.
30:30
He was in the passing lanes all day.
30:33
He's playing real great perimeter defense offensively.
30:37
I mean, he's not shooting like Reggie Miller, but he was
30:39
running off screens like Reggie Miller.
30:41
He was, you know, going inside the three-point line, going back
30:44
to the three-point line. Just a pain in the ass he has to
30:47
deal with. Fish, he's just inconsistent.
30:49
That's why everybody keeps complaining.
30:51
I've I've, I've been on Quran's show, I've been on many
30:54
different Nick's shows. I've come on different podcasts
30:57
and gone on different podcasts and, and I've been in that
31:00
conversation about the real problem right now with the New
31:03
York Knicks is Mikkel Bridges. If Mikkel Bridges isn't another,
31:06
if he's not the third option on this roster, they're not winning
31:09
anything. He needs to be the third
31:10
offensive option. OG and Anobi Ready has taken the
31:13
back seat. He knows he's the best defensive
31:16
player on this roster. I don't think it's an argument.
31:18
He might even be the best defensive player in the league
31:20
at the way he plays at a high level.
31:22
But OG already knows if he scores 1516 points, he earned
31:26
his $40 million. He is, besides Carl Anthony
31:30
Towns, he's the highest paid player on this roster and and
31:33
the Knicks wanted him and the Knicks were going after him for
31:35
the last three or four years before they got him it because
31:39
of his defensive skills, the defensive prowess that he gives
31:42
to this team and his roster. Mikhail Bridges, he does both.
31:45
He can give you the defense and he can give you the offense.
31:48
And Mikhail Bridges was the number one option on that Nets
31:50
team. Look at Michael Porter now,
31:51
that's the problem. Everybody looks at what Michael
31:54
Porter's doing. He was 1/3 option on the Nuggets
31:55
and now he's the number one option over there.
31:57
He's putting up #1 numbers right now, averaging 24 points a game.
32:02
Why? Because he's the only guy that
32:03
can shoot the ball. That's the same thing with
32:05
Mikkel Bridges. But Mikkel Bridges did it at a
32:07
higher level than Michael Porter and he's a younger player than
32:10
Michael Porter. So you would expect that Mikkel
32:13
Bridges is going to be that guy who the Knicks paid in the
32:16
offseason and believe that he was the guy that they traded 5
32:19
picks for. I want to see more consistency
32:22
with this guy, especially in the big game.
32:24
He didn't show up in the Detroit series, but he showed up in the
32:26
the Celtic series series and then he didn't show up in the
32:30
Indiana series. I want to see consistency, see
32:32
from a guy like Mikhail Bridges, especially what you're paying
32:35
him and what you gave up for. Before we wrap up this segment,
32:38
I just want to mention for those of the fans that were looking
32:41
for Chris Childs, he will not be able to make it tonight.
32:43
Had to deal with the family emergency.
32:45
His mother-in-law had to be rushed to the hospital.
32:46
So we will not have Chris tonight.
32:48
Joe, you have anything else before we let you go?
32:51
No, you just just one, one quick thing.
32:54
If the, the Knicks, like you said, they have to, they have to
32:57
play well at the Garden and, and, and they have to come out
33:01
fighting because the Garden we, you know, that they could have a
33:05
secret weapon there, but for some reason something is just
33:09
goes on. You know what?
33:11
And working in the Garden and seeing the people, it's like, I
33:14
don't know, there's just something about that place with
33:17
the Knicks and sometimes now with the ranges that just
33:21
doesn't click, and that's got to change.
33:23
Well, I will say this, they sell out games and you know, and
33:26
Knick games in the playoffs after the games the are going
33:30
crazy outside. They crummet.
33:32
They're they're absolutely controlling the streets of New
33:36
York City. It's, it's incredible.
33:38
I mean, people, people set up trucks with basketball courts
33:43
outside, like about a block away by, by Macy's.
33:47
I mean, it's incredible. The fans are just.
33:50
Not absolutely insane. Do you know?
33:52
Do you know if the Knicks win a championship at any point, the
33:56
fans will go absolutely nuts. I think they'll push down a
33:59
building. That's the kind of fans that
34:01
they are. I mean, they were climbing
34:03
poles, winning a first round. Or how about when they knocked
34:06
off the Celtics? What they were doing, they were
34:08
dancing around and prancing around like they won an NBA
34:11
title or they were going to the Finals.
34:13
That's the way Nick fans are. They they really, I would say
34:16
out of the old. Hungry though, I mean come on,
34:18
what, 5050 or 60 years they are hungry?
34:21
So a lot of these other teams, especially the Yankees, haven't
34:25
gone, haven't won a championship in 1516 years.
34:28
They're hungry. Too they are and I'm not saying
34:31
not to and I want one and though I want that 28 in the worst way
34:34
but. So did Joe Girardi, so does
34:37
Aaron Boone. I mean, they JoJo already
34:39
changed his number 28. It never got, never lasted that
34:42
long. So.
34:43
There's a there's just one thing before before I go, I just I
34:48
just hope and pray that these rumors that I'm hearing today
34:52
are not true with Gary Sanchez possibly coming back as a non
34:56
invitee, I think I don't want him him anywhere near Yankee
35:01
land. Please stay away.
35:03
I don't think that's happening. I don't think that's happening.
35:06
I I know that's a story and that's a rumor.
35:08
You know what's crazy about Yankee rumors?
35:10
As soon as somebody brings it up, it becomes the biggest rumor
35:13
in sports. It really Gary Sanchez.
35:16
I mean, Gary Sanchez the the guy that had really a half a season
35:20
that was just an outbreak. Everybody was like, oh, the next
35:23
Babe Ruth, give me a break. I mean.
35:25
Please. And the other thing I can't
35:27
stand guys and I, I know you could.
35:29
You'll agree with me on this. These people out there, I know
35:34
everybody wants to get attention, but they got to stop
35:38
putting out these things of Paul O'Neill has cancer.
35:42
This one is this 1 is going to die.
35:45
This see this act is going to die.
35:48
I mean, but people and people are eating this stuff up and
35:52
they're getting millions of views and something's got to be
35:56
done. I don't understand the platforms
35:59
of YouTube, Facebook and all. Why did they let this happen?
36:04
It's got to stop. It's not going to.
36:06
It's not going to, unfortunately, Joe, it's never
36:09
going to stop because social media is king.
36:12
That's what it is. How?
36:13
Do you how do you how do you say poor the you know the guy's dead
36:17
when he's when he's alive and well, thank God doing his TV or
36:21
whatever. I'm to me that's disgusting.
36:25
They should get the the the I number and get him or get them
36:30
or I don't care. Boy girl, I don't care who it is
36:33
out the door. Get lost.
36:35
It's not fair for people like you that are out there giving
36:40
the fair and the correct information.
36:44
Thank you. That's not fair and I will go to
36:46
bed for that. If there's anything that we can
36:48
do, as with all of us as a team, my God, I'm ready to do it
36:55
because I think that's disgusting.
36:58
I, I would agree with you, but I, I will say this, Joe, you're
37:01
great. Congratulations on all your
37:04
success on YouTube and we will be talking very, very soon.
37:08
I'm I'm looking forward to joining your show in the very
37:10
near future and. Well, thank.
37:12
You you guys do such a great job so thank you for calling my
37:15
friend. Oh, you're welcome.
37:17
Listen guys, stay healthy. God, God be with all of you.
37:21
You guys are great. Thank you, Joe.
37:23
Joe, ladies and gentlemen, fantastic call.
37:26
I will say this. I don't go on social media.
37:29
I don't go on Facebook unless I'm posting something about our
37:31
show. I'm not putting anything out.
37:33
It's my father's birthday. I'll post up something about my
37:36
dad. I, I don't really go out of my
37:39
way to spread out my, you know, my private life.
37:42
It's none of anybody's business. The problem right now with
37:45
social media is really when you have TikTok and Instagram and
37:49
Facebook and YouTube, everybody as long as you have a mic and
37:53
it's crazy if, if you have a niche, if you're talking about
37:56
asses or boobs or anything you put it up on on YouTube, people
38:02
are going to tune in. Why?
38:03
Because there's nothing out there.
38:05
It's my niche. Boobs are my niche or asses are
38:08
my niche. If it becomes a niche, it's it's
38:11
a draw and it doesn't make any sense.
38:13
And then we're because we're talking all sports.
38:16
We speak about all sports, and we're not sticking to just the
38:19
Knicks or the Yankees or the Mets or the Islanders or
38:23
Rangers. Oh, we're not a draw on YouTube.
38:26
It doesn't make any sense. I don't get it.
38:27
But I guess that's the algorithm.
38:29
It never makes sense and it never should make sense.
38:32
But hey, you know, that's social media.
38:34
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't get it.
38:37
Anyways, yeah, with the Knicks, you want to think that this team
38:42
is going to figure things out and they're going to play more
38:45
organically as a team. You don't want to you don't want
38:48
to see them play well against the Spurs and then play horrible
38:51
against these bad teams like the Hawks and, and, and they lose
38:55
against teams that are not good, like Indiana.
38:58
Indiana's trying to lose. And then you, you lose a game
39:00
against Indiana, they lost like 10 games or 9 games in a row and
39:03
then they play the Knicks and they beat them in Madison Square
39:05
Garden. Does that make any sense to you?
39:07
It doesn't. You cannot let the Indiana
39:11
Pacers beat you when they're trying to lose it's.
39:15
Embarrassing. Maybe the Knicks are being
39:16
strategic to make sure they can't get a lottery pick.
39:19
I have no idea, but hey, they could get the wizard's pick as
39:23
long as they fall out of out of the 8th pick out of the 8th the
39:26
top 8. Keep the Pacers out of the top
39:28
five. That's not going to happen
39:30
because the Knicks have always been screwed.
39:32
They got screwed, but with Porzingis, they've gotten
39:35
screwed by all these. Look, look at Duran.
39:37
They, they had Duran, they drafted him and then they
39:41
decided to trade him for a, a future first round draft pick.
39:43
And what did that? It was a, a protected first
39:46
round pick. And because they were so bad the
39:48
next, the last two years, the Knicks never got it.
39:51
They got a second round pick, which turned into, I don't know,
39:53
maybe Kollick, maybe maybe it was a Kollick kid or the French
39:57
kid. It, it just, it doesn't work.
40:00
And, and I, I don't know, that's why the NBA, if there's
40:02
something that the NBA needs to change with the CBA rules and
40:05
when, when, when they go to strike or whatever the hell they
40:08
are going to do in the future when it comes to their new
40:10
concept. Tracks the the one thing I would
40:13
try to get rid of and banish is the unprotected and protected
40:16
draft. Picks.
40:16
Hopefully, hopefully the NBA goes on strike so they can find
40:18
a a new commissioner post LeBron James, Yeah.
40:21
Figure that one out. LeBron James is hopefully going
40:24
to be gone soon. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
40:27
my golf clap of the week. This deserves a golf clap, no
40:32
doubt. Golf clap.
40:33
Golf clap and ladies and gentlemen, my golf clap of the
40:39
week goes to the UConn women's undefeated Huskies.
40:44
Ariema is is one of the greatest coaches in college basketball
40:48
history. I'm talking about men's and
40:51
women. This guy is a champion.
40:53
If you look at the level that he has brought this team to year in
40:57
and year out, it's it's unbelievably extraordinary.
41:01
Listen to this if you want to know what this guy and his
41:04
success story is. 12 NCAA Division One tournaments from 95
41:12
2002, 1002, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2 thousand 2524 NCAA
41:21
Division One Regional Final Fours from 91 all the way to 2
41:25
thousand. 2523 Big East tournaments from 1989 all the
41:31
way to 2026. Seven ACC tournaments from 2014
41:37
to 2002. Thousand 27 ACC regular seasons
41:42
from 2014 to 2020 and awards. Eight time Naismith coach of the
41:47
year. I mean ridiculous.
41:49
Seven time WBCA national coach of the year, nine time AP coach
41:55
of the year. I mean, I could go on and on and
41:58
on and on and on. And why are the UConn women so
42:04
special? You know, it, this guy, the one
42:08
we call Gino Gino Auriemma, Yeah.
42:11
I mean, it's an unbelievable feat.
42:13
Congratulations to God. They have been unbelievable.
42:16
When you talk about the man, you talk about what Danny Hurley has
42:18
done. I think people forget what the
42:20
women are doing and how dominant the women have been for such a
42:24
long time. And look at how many WNBA
42:27
players top and WNBA players came from that that that
42:31
program. It's been unbelievable.
42:33
So my my golf clap goes to dominant Yukon that have been so
42:38
dominant and now going into a tournament that are favorites to
42:42
winning the whole thing and not surprised as this guy has been
42:46
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44:01
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his father's passing. We we love you Jabba.
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I hope everything's going well with you and your family.
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Take care, take care of yourself and shout out to Quinton couples
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and and all the guys. We we love you and we'll talk to
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you Thursday. Goodnight it.
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