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The Knicks COLLAPSE in historic fashion vs. the Pacers in Game 1! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  Believe the Mets are going to give him a significant You're
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  going to have a ton of money to spend.
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  Why not putting in one of the top three offensive players in
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  the league? We're going to be looking at
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  Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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  Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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  You don't see LeBron doing that a game.
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  Where you got to go before? I told you, giant feet, Saquon
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  Barkley, and this Let's do it.
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  Mouth. Welcome, welcome, Welcome to a
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  say, 63 one, 672-3108. If you're a Knick fan, you can't
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  be happy today. You shouldn't be happy for the
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  debacle we watched last night. It was absolutely demoralizing.
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  I, I, I was so upset after last night.
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  I was yelling at Speedy probably after the game, probably an hour
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  and a half throughout the night before we, we moved on.
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  I took him, I took him home, but we were setting up the studio.
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  Obviously, Tommy is now our new producer, so it was a lot of
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  shifting, a lot of moving around, a lot of work, 3 and at
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  3 1/2 hours, I think it was a long, long time.
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  But we're very happy to be here, as we always are.
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  Jabba, how are you, my friends? Good man.
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  Just had Carter's first bullpen being back from his PRP and so
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  don't be surprised he Facetimes me when he he was on the
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  shitter, he said. So he said give me 5 and so, but
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  no nice to be out watching the boys play baseball.
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  And you know, the weather's great here.
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  I've been watching a lot of college baseball right now.
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  It's just such a fun time for college baseball and, you know,
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  being able to, you know, watch all these tournaments.
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  I don't like some of the way that the tournaments are set up.
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  And then, you know, I'm watching baseball and I'm watching the
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  Knicks just pee down, right down their leg and pee.
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  Down. I've never heard that before.
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  Is this like a? Right down is.
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  This a Nebraska thing? You pee down on your.
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  Leg just pee pee right down on your leg.
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  It's just laying there that's. Definitely a Nebraska thing.
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  That's not a Long Island thing. But you know, it's interesting
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  because you sit here and if you're a Knick fan, you watch a
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  game that was up and down. The Knicks had a 14 point lead
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  with 4 1/2 minutes left and you would have thought that the
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  Knicks were going to pull away and and win the game.
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  But we, as we always say, the New York Knicks are very shifty
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  and they make you sick to your stomach.
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  So we will get into that in just a few moments.
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  But you know what's so funny? It, it's been raining all day.
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  It's been pouring all day. It looks like a monsoon outside
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  here in Long Island. And everybody was talking about,
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  well, when are we going to get rain again?
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  When are we going to get rain again?
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  We haven't a rainstorm in about 3 weeks.
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  A really bad one. At least we get a little drizzle
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  here and a little drizzle there. It's bad over here with pollen.
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  I mean, if you're allergic to pollen, you're allergic to
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  grass. Allergies are killing everybody
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  here too. It's bad.
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  It's, it's seriously, if you look at the pollen right now, if
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  you look at your cars. Oh, like on your cars?
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  Oh my. God, it's like 3 layers of it.
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  This year you can't even breathe.
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  My sister's coughing every time I speak to her on the phone, she
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  barely can finish a sentence before she coughs.
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  It's really, really bad. And if you're a Long Islander,
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  you, you're putting on your air conditioning or air conditioning
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  right now when it's not even hot because you're trying to breathe
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  in your house. It it, it's like a vacuum
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  cleaner of all the, the crazy stuff in the air.
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  So I just, I hate this time a year, springtime, I'm born in
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  the spring because it's I'm born in April, but I can't stand this
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  time because of the pollen. And I can't stand after the
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  summer when the leaves are falling because then you have to
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  clean all that crap that you have to deal with before the
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  winter time. So my favorite time is the
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  winter because everything's down and all you have to contend with
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  maybe here in Long Island at some point is snow, but we
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  haven't seen a lot of that for a long time too, so.
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  Do you guys, do you guys get a lot of snow?
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  We used to not anymore. This year we got a couple of
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  snowstorms, but nothing bad, nothing big.
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  So I unfortunately with the everything that's going on with,
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  you know, the change of weather and global warming, it's been
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  really, really bad here in New York.
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  And hopefully that will change. But I'm not a weatherman and I'm
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  not going to assume that I can change the weather with a snap
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  of my finger. But if I have the power, ladies
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  and gentlemen, and I was God, I would absolutely do it.
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  As a matter of fact, I probably keep the winter all year round.
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  So my my mom always tells me if you want the winter all year
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  round, go to Alaska because but Alaska is not even cold all year
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  round. It's six months in a year, I
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  think it's dark and the other six months it's light out and
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  it's the summer is really a summer over there.
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  You, you're getting 80°, but sometimes 78° weather.
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  So unfortunately I don't get that privilege.
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  Antarctica would be the place I would have to go.
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  We don't either because we get bipolar.
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  It was 90°. And now this, this whole week,
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  we're gonna get rain all weekend and then it's gonna be 60 to
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  70°. Like, so it's like you can't put
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  away like your sweatshirts cuz at night.
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  And then it's like you don't figure out like what it's like.
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  Can I put stuff away? Can I not put stuff away?
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  Yeah. Like it's bipolar.
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  Yeah. Hey, you'll understand that when
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  when we get in, Obviously I was talking about college, college
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  baseball. Yes, when we do ACWS 1 and we'll
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  get you guys down here, you'll you'll see how bipolar this this
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  weather is is here. If yours is bipolar, we're we're
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  on another level because I don't understand this weather either.
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  It, it doesn't make any sense. And then when the summer comes
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  around, it's like 100°, you're sweating your ass off.
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  And I wish I was dead because I can't.
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  Go. Is it?
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  Is it humid there as it is here? Oh my God, it's worse.
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  We live right on the water, so. Oh, that's true.
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  The worst place to go in the summertime is Florida.
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  And that's why I would never live there if I had to.
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  If if we had to go down there and do the radio show down
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  there, I would be pushed to go and do that.
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  But I would advise anybody that wants me to move down there, you
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  better pay me a lot of money because I am not moving down to
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  Florida unless you do that, buddy.
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  I'll do it. Goody.
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  Goody lives there. Goody wraps himself up with a
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  blanket at 85° weather and he says it's, it's cold.
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  I I don't. Get it?
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  They literally complain about it all the time.
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  Like my assistant's down there who was with me throughout my
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  career, and he's like, man, it's like 70.
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  We got like long pants and jackets and I'm like, what is
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  wrong with you? I don't get it.
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  I don't get it. I would definitely not live over
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  there unless you paid me a lot of money.
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  Like I said, good luck on that. I could never do it and
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  everybody loves Miami. Go to Miami, go to Sarasota, go
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  to one of these nice cities over there in Florida.
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  I don't care where it is, I'm not going in the water and I
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  hate the goddamn beach so. And I live on a beach.
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  I mean Long Island is a big huge beach.
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  There's like 8 beaches here in Long Island and I don't get it.
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  I don't go to any of them. So why would I want to move down
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  to Florida and deal with the beach and the beach life over
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  there? I used to surf, but I don't go
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  in the water anymore because of sharks.
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  That's a whole nother level. 9:00 We will be talking to
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  Memphis Grizzlies play by play broadcasters.
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  Been on a show before and we're very happy to have him on.
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  I'm sure he has his own take on the Memphis Grizzlies this year.
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  Eric Haseltine, he has been awesome on our show.
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  So if you haven't heard him and you want to hear him, well, you
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  better listen to him on at 9:00. He is sensational, great
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  personality, knows his basketball and I'm sure he has
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  his own take of the Knicks absolute debacle last night,
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  which was absolutely crazy. Speaking of the Knicks in game
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  one of the. Easter.
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  Conference Finals The Knicks lost to the Pacers in overtime
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  after having a 14 point lead with two minutes and 51 seconds
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  remaining in the game. There was a controversial call
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  with the Knicks up by 5:00 with under 30 seconds to go,
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  overturning A foul originally called against OG and Anobi
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  which led to the Pacers 3 pointer.
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  OG then missed a free throw leading to Tyrese Halliburton
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  hitting a game tying buzzer beater which almost looked like
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  a game-winning shot as we all watched on you know, and
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  probably had our hearts watching him choke himself.
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  There was also a goaltending call in overtime that was
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  missed, which would have put the Knicks up by 6 instead, leading
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  to the Pacers starting A7 nothing run with a three
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  pointer. Guard Aaron Nesmith hit 83
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  pointers in the game, a Pacers franchise record.
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  That was the first time out of 978 NBA playoff games ever,
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  A-Team held a 14 point lead with under 3 minutes to go and lost
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  the game. Well, ladies and gentlemen, if
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  it's the Knicks breaking records that want to make you sick,
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  well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen.
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  It absolutely made me sick. Reggie Miller calling the game,
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  sitting there laughing. Tyrese Halliburton after hitting
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  that shot at the end of regulation, trying to choke
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  himself and making himself look like Reggie Miller when he
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  played the Knicks in, I think it was in 1993.
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  Nothing made any Knicks fan happy watching that debacle of a
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  game and and. And shouldn't, shouldn't you get
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  home field advantage like homecourt advantage with the
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  with the bounce and then they give it to Halliburton like what
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  are we doing? I'm going to get into the
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  homecourt advantage because homecourt advantage doesn't work
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  in the New York Knicks minds, except the New York Knicks fans
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  that are absolutely lost after that game.
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  Here's the facts. I watch every single Knick game
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  in the playoffs. Every single one of them.
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  In the last 25 years. I haven't missed one playoff
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  game in 25 years. And it doesn't matter where the
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  Knicks are. For some reason the NBA don't
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  like them. They don't like them.
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  I really believe that nobody over there, when it comes to the
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  commissioner, the vice president of basketball operations, likes
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  the New York Knicks because for some reason they put these
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  referees in charge of these games and you wonder if they're
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  actually giving the Knicks homecourt advantage.
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  Usually the the home team has the advantage, not the New York
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  Knicks, not Madison Square Garden.
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  As loud as the fans and how crazy the fans are and how the
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  NBA really promotes New York basketball.
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  For some damn reason, the New York Knicks never get the call.
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  How did they but Errol, how did do they?
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  Do they pick like and speedy? You may know this better than I
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  do from the basketball side of it.
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  Do they pick the referees for postseason based evaluations
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  through regular season or how? But I don't know exactly how the
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  NBA is doing it now. I mean, it's been like that for
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  years. But again, you don't know what
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  Adam Silver with the LJA is running as far as the
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  organization and the the league because the LJA has decided so
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  many different things that make you shake your head.
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  Especially watching the lottery draft just a week ago and
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  watching A-Team like The Mavericks win it after there was
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  a chance of what was a chance 1.8. 1.81. .8% chance that they
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  were going to win the number one draft pick and they get the
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  number one draft pick. Why?
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  Because Luka Doncic is playing with the LJA LeBron James over
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  there, the the association is working in his favor.
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  But I honestly getting back to this game, it's despicable.
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  It's despicable watching Karl Anthony Towns.
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  Everybody says, well, look at the game, Look at the numbers
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  Karl Anthony Towns had in game one.
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  And this is what you want your big man superstar to have.
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  Here's what I don't like about Karl Anthony Town Towns when it
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  comes down to a big shot. First of all, why is he shooting
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  14 of 4050 foot jumpers at the three-point line?
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  Why isn't he not standing behind the line and shooting a normal 3
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  pointer? It doesn't make any.
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  He's not Steph Curry. OK, he's not.
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  And he's got to stop believing that he is.
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  Because every single time I see this guy pick up, get a pass
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  over there 6-7 feet behind the three-point line and he's
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  tucking up threes. And 90% of the time they don't
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  go in. And then this guy gets fouled
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  and he's a 92 or 93% free throw shooter and he misses big shots
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  at the free throw line in the fourth quarter.
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  It doesn't make any sense. And every single time I see
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  this, it just, it reminds me of the 94 Knicks.
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  It's a luck, the bad luck the 94 Knicks had against the Rockets.
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  This isn't even the Finals. And I watched that New York
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  Knick team up three to two make so many common mistakes that
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  this team has done really throughout the playoffs.
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  Look at what they did against Detroit.
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  Look at the games against the Celtics, the games that they
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  lost against the Celtics, They were getting crushed and getting
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  demolished. Even the games that they won,
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  coming back from 20 points, that is despicable.
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  You are a great defensive team. You got you got a great player
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  in OG and Anobi. OG plays an unbelievable
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  defensive game throughout the Celtic series, especially in
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  Game 6, and then all of a sudden in game #1 he disappears
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  defensively against a Pacer team.
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  That's a shell of what the Celtics are.
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  They are. They're a shell of what the
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  Celtics are. They're a good team.
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  They were the hottest team right now going into the playoffs in
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  basketball. The Pacers are, they're very
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  well coached with Rick Carlisle. They've got this guy, Ness
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  Smith, who probably nobody knows who he is unless you watch the
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  Pacers. There's the Celtics draft pick
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  and the Jeff hated it at the time.
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  Yeah. And, and this is a guy that was,
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  what, fourth or third in the league in three-point
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  percentage? And but no, nobody realized that
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  until he was hitting three pointer after three pointer
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  after three pointer in the fourth quarter.
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  It makes you sick to your stomach.
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  It really does. And then you look at the Pacers
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  team as a whole. This is not a very good roster.
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  Nobody thinks that this all around is a better roster than
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  the New York Knicks. And when you have Mikkel Bridges
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  and then Jaylen Bronson and by the way, Jaylen Bronson, why are
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  you getting into foul trouble? You don't play defense.
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  Why are you defending anybody? Why are you out there fouling
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  different people now? Some of the fouls were uncalled
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  for and what they were doing to Jalen Bronson throughout the
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  game was despicable. The referee should have been
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  calling flagrant fouls. There were times in the game
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  that guys were elbowing Jalen Bronson and they were getting
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  away with it. They hit him in the neck, they
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  hit him in the face at least three times in the game.
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  No flagrant fouls were called. And you have Tyrese Alberton on
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  the sidelines talking how great Mitchell Robinson is, but he
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  forgets that he is undercut. The undercut guy over there,
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  their best player in Jalen Bronson throughout the game was
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  absolutely terminating him in every point of the offensive
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  part of the game. The only problem with the New
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  York Knicks is pretty simple. The Knicks, when they get these
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  big leads or they they put themselves in a great position
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  or they have a good rotation, and when they had guys like
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  McBride on the court in the fourth quarter when they were up
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  14, why would you take McBride out?
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  Why would you do that? It makes no sense.
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  You're up 14 with three minutes left of the game.
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  McBride's playing great defense. Hal Burton has not done anything
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  in the fourth quarter, really. And then you take him out to
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  replace him with Jalen Brunson, who doesn't play a lick of
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  defense. I'm not saying Jalen Brunson,
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  he's in the part, a big part of this team.
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  He's the captain of the team. He's the best offensive option.
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  But when you're up 14, why even worry about the offensive side
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  of the ball? Play defense you're letting.
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  These guys that's what we talked about on coaching, watching by
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  feel and watching the game like IA 100% agree with you at that
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  point it's like, OK, you know he's in foul trouble you're up
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  14. Why like let's not mess up with
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  what we got, even though your captain and your best player
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  isn't in there, but you're still up 14.
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  Why why would you change that? And that goes to kind of what we
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  talked about, right, stubbornness with is he doing
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  the like, hey, they have to go in at this time and what have
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  you or are you just watching the game and be like play it by
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  field? Like if they get in with 10,
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  then yeah, OK, probably make a change.
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  But right at that point IA 100% agree with you.
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  Like what are you doing? What?
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  First of all, you you don't. You should never ask Tom
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  Thibodeau to play it by field, because if he plays it by field,
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  he'll keep every single player his starting lineup in for the
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  whole game, all 48 minutes. The guy makes no sense.
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  His rotation makes no sense. Mitzel Robinson should be out
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  there a lot more than he is. It it, it none of it makes
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  sense. And I know he has a love fest
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  for Karl. Anthony Townsend, Jaylen
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  Brunson. They're important pieces to the
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  team. They don't play a lick of
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  defense. Both of them don't play a lick
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  of defense. And you have guys like Mikkel
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  Bridges who gets himself into foul trouble.
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  Makes no sense. OG and Anobi, who at some point
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  I wonder if he's even playing in the game.
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  He completely disappears in certain games when he's so
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  talented. And then when he's getting hot.
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  What is what is a guy like Tom Thibodeau do?
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  He brings Jaylen the Brunson back when you have a hot player
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  shooting the three and doing the things that he's been doing in
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  the fourth quarter, which he hasn't done at the whole game
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  because Jaylen Brunson hogs the ball.
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  That's the facts, Jack. That's why the Knicks never move
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  the ball when he's on the court. It's the Jaylen Brunson show
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  now. He's much better than Carmelo
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  Anthony. He is much better than he is.
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  He hits big shots. He's big game Jay, whatever they
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  call him, big game Jay on the what's the show that they have.
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  I don't know what their roommates, the roommates as we
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  know, Josh Hart calls him big, big game Jay.
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  That's what that's what all the guys on that show that go on the
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  show, that's what they call him. I that's great.
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  He's a great, great big time shooter.
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  But when it comes to the big time parts of the game, when the
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  Knicks need defense, he don't play a lick of it.
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  And they need that defense if they expect to beat this baser
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  team that's young. One can go up and down the court
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  as fast as any team right now in basketball.
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  They don't give a crap and they have nothing to lose.
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  They have nothing to lose right now.
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  They know they could beat the Knicks.
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  They beat him last year. Yes, the Knicks weren't 100%
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  healthy and they're healthier this year, but they know they
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  can beat him. And you have guys like Tyrese
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  Halliburton, who is a cartoon character.
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  He's dancing. He he's SpongeBob SquarePants.
• 19:59
  He's dancing around, prancing around, holding his neck.
• 20:02
  Every time he hits a big shot. He's telling the New York Knick
• 20:05
  fans to go kiss his ass. I, I mean, this is what this guy
• 20:08
  does. And if if Knick fans want to
• 20:10
  shut this guy up? Go out there and beat him.
• 20:13
  Go out there and shut his mouth up.
• 20:15
  Don't go out there after the game and while you're on social
• 20:19
  media and TikTok saying, oh, if he ever walks out there and we
• 20:22
  see him in public, we're going to beat the hell out of him.
• 20:25
  You think he cares? This guy's making millions and
• 20:27
  millions of dollars. He doesn't care what the Knicks
• 20:29
  fans say as long as the Knicks get knocked out of the playoffs
• 20:33
  and he's the reason why they do that.
• 20:35
  He don't give a crap. So New York Knicks fans stop
• 20:38
  going on social media and giving him a reason to make jokes and
• 20:42
  laugh and put it on that little board over there in Indiana or
• 20:46
  in their locker room saying, look what I'm doing to the
• 20:49
  Knicks fans, poke, poke, poke. I'll tell you what Tyrese Albert
• 20:52
  did that he shouldn't have done. He poked the bear.
• 20:56
  And we all know when you poke the bear, it's not a good thing.
• 21:00
  And we know after the New York Knicks game in game #5 the
• 21:05
  Knicks were not happy. Jalen Brunson was not very
• 21:07
  happy. Josh Hart was absolutely.
• 21:10
  He was upset beyond I've ever seen Josh Hart upset.
• 21:15
  And what did he do at the press conference?
• 21:17
  He said, listen, if we play like that, we don't deserve to win.
• 21:20
  We're going to go out there. We're going to be a different
• 21:21
  team. After this game.
• 21:23
  You saw Jalen Brunson's face. Not only was he shocked, he was
• 21:27
  upset. He didn't even want to stay up
• 21:29
  there and answer any of the questions.
• 21:31
  And when you see a player like that and you see somebody like
• 21:34
  Jalen Brunson and he's the captain of the team, what do you
• 21:37
  think he's going to do after that press conference?
• 21:39
  He's going to go into that locker room and he's going to
• 21:42
  shut the door. They're going to have a team
• 21:43
  meeting, and it's not going to be a happy team meeting.
• 21:45
  Tom Thibodeau, he's a lot quieter than he used to be.
• 21:49
  I, I don't know if anybody knows Tom Thibodeau.
• 21:51
  I don't know personally, but I remember with the Chicago Bulls
• 21:54
  when after he lost the game, he'd go out there, his face
• 21:57
  would be red screaming at the press.
• 21:59
  He wouldn't, he couldn't finish his sentence before he's mocking
• 22:03
  everybody. Not yesterday.
• 22:05
  He was calm and collective. He was upset.
• 22:07
  He said, listen, we are the better.
• 22:09
  He pretty much said we are the better team.
• 22:11
  We choked at the end of the game.
• 22:14
  We gave that game up and that could cost the series or I'll
• 22:18
  get my team back into this series and let them realize that
• 22:21
  we're not going to just run through this team.
• 22:23
  It's this is going to be all the way to the end.
• 22:25
  This is going to be a race. This is, this is a marathon, not
• 22:28
  a it's not going to happen. And you know, in five, five
• 22:32
  games, it's not going to happen. Probably in six games.
• 22:34
  It could happen in seven games. I I just think that the Knicks
• 22:37
  need to understand something. This Pacer team is not going to
• 22:40
  go away. They're not going to go away.
• 22:41
  They're ants. That's what they are.
• 22:43
  And what does a ants do? They protect the queen and when
• 22:46
  Rick Carlisle is out there speaking to the referees and
• 22:51
  calling and that guy, you want to talk about an energetic guy
• 22:54
  at the press conference, go watch his press conferences.
• 22:57
  That guy's crazy and you can see the way his team plays.
• 23:01
  They play just like him. He goes out there and he says I
• 23:05
  don't give a crap. My team's going to go out there.
• 23:07
  We're going to play hard, hard nosed basketball, old time
• 23:10
  basketball, and if you beat us, you beat us fair and square.
• 23:13
  That's the way he goes out and plays the game and that's what
• 23:16
  you want to see the Knicks do. But if Tom Thibodeau does not
• 23:19
  fight fire with fire and he plays these baby games and lets
• 23:23
  this cartoon character go out there and barrass the Knicks on
• 23:27
  their home floor, this series could go this series could go in
• 23:30
  five. This team needs to wake up.
• 23:32
  They need to go in Game 2. They need to show up on Friday
• 23:35
  and and not even make this game close.
• 23:37
  They win it by double digits and they make sure they know that
• 23:40
  when we go back to Indiana, it's not going to be one of those
• 23:43
  ears easy series at home. We're a better home, we're a
• 23:46
  better away team than we are at home.
• 23:47
  Yeah, you also look at the way that their offense is structured
• 23:50
  too. Like obviously they're one of
• 23:51
  the fastest paced teams in the league.
• 23:53
  Yes, pun intended. I'm not going to go crazy like
• 23:55
  Josh did on his show, but they play at one of the highest rates
• 23:57
  in the league, the 7th ranked offense in the league in terms
• 24:00
  of offensive efficiency. And like you were saying with
• 24:02
  Nemhart, one of the biggest offensive 3 point shooting
• 24:05
  prowesses we've seen between Nemhart, Halliburton, Benedict
• 24:08
  Matherne to shoot threes. Like they have a lot of guys.
• 24:10
  Even Turner for a big man is one of the better ones in the league
• 24:12
  shooting threes. So the Knicks had to realize
• 24:14
  that when it came to the defensive matchups late in the
• 24:16
  game and they they just didn't do it enough.
• 24:18
  I had a problem when we were talking about the Celtics
• 24:20
  blowing out the Nixon game three.
• 24:21
  They were not guarding the top of the key threes whatsoever.
• 24:24
  I saw a lot of that problem come into effect in this game too.
• 24:27
  And I think the rotation like like we were talking about
• 24:30
  earlier with bringing Jalen Bronson, if you're going to
• 24:32
  bring Bronson and take talent out like you could have done
• 24:34
  that, put Robinson at 5, put OG at the four, so Robinson's not
• 24:38
  guarding the perimeter. Rotate the defense a little bit
• 24:40
  more. I I don't get it.
• 24:42
  Why is Robinson playing? Do you think though, Mitchell
• 24:45
  needs to play more than in 20 minutes a game?
• 24:46
  Yes, and I also don't think he should be switching as much on
• 24:49
  the perimeter because he got he got toasted in overtime and late
• 24:53
  in the fourth quarter against guys driving in the hoop.
• 24:56
  That's how the Pacers. Are you know how you know
• 24:57
  Mitchell Robinson is healthy? You know how he's healthy?
• 25:00
  Because he's going out there at the perimeter and he's defending
• 25:03
  the point guards. He is all over the place that
• 25:06
  that's how you know Mitchell Robinson's 100% healthy because
• 25:09
  when Mitch is healthy, he's all over the place.
• 25:12
  He's jumping, he's running all over the place.
• 25:14
  That's what you want to see a young big man do you know, play
• 25:18
  And he is 27 years old. He had a major injury last year.
• 25:22
  He was out for a significant amount of time.
• 25:24
  He comes back. He the first two weeks him back,
• 25:27
  he's played very, very light basketball.
• 25:29
  And now finally he's got his legs under him.
• 25:31
  This is when you want to see Mitchell Robinson take over
• 25:34
  games. I don't want to see Karl Anthony
• 25:36
  Town sounds out there in the fourth quarter.
• 25:37
  I want to see your best defensive player out there
• 25:40
  rebounding, offensive rebounding and getting into these guys
• 25:43
  faces, making sure they know. Remember Tim Hardaway junior
• 25:46
  against the Detroit Pistons when every time Mitchell Robinson was
• 25:50
  out there at the, you know, around the perimeter or even at
• 25:53
  the free free throw line, free throw line, when he's standing
• 25:56
  there waiting for the the free throw to go up, he's talking to
• 25:59
  Tim Hardaway junior, getting him pissed off.
• 26:01
  He's getting into their heads. That's what Mitchell Robinson is
• 26:04
  good at. He gets into people's heads and
• 26:07
  that's why he is an important piece to their defense, the
• 26:10
  anchor of where this defense could go and that's they want to
• 26:14
  be a champion. If they want to win a
• 26:15
  championship, Mitchell Robinson needs to be Mitchell Robinson.
• 26:19
  And do you like it? Do you like them switching on
• 26:21
  the perimeter? To no that's what I'm referring
• 26:23
  to. Like the switching defense is
• 26:26
  good with the wings because the wings are versatile enough to
• 26:29
  make it work. Josh Hart can defend a three and
• 26:31
  maybe sometimes a a smaller 4 if he has to.
• 26:33
  OG could defend A23 and A4 like those are the switches you want
• 26:37
  to have, not Mitchell Robinson go out on the perimeter where he
• 26:40
  looks like Rudy go like the Rudy Gobert in the past too with with
• 26:43
  Utah teams did this to the playoffs all the time, switched
• 26:46
  him on the perimeter. Phoenix did it very well.
• 26:49
  The Clippers did it very well with Kawhi Leonard and Paul
• 26:51
  George like that. That's the matchups you don't
• 26:53
  want because Rudy Gobert did not look as good in the perimeter
• 26:56
  and Mitchell Robinson was the same kind of way and he got
• 26:58
  toasted in the end of that game on defense.
• 27:01
  And yes, the minutes we were talking about yes, should be a
• 27:03
  lot higher. Mitchell Robinson should be
• 27:04
  playing the five a lot more, especially since he's done
• 27:06
  better hitting his free throws now.
• 27:07
  And there's a rule in place now where you could actually pick
• 27:11
  your free throw shooter that the Knicks found a loophole in with
• 27:14
  the NBA rule book. So Mitchell Robinson, if as long
• 27:16
  as he doesn't have the ball in his hands, they could pick a
• 27:18
  different free throw shooter for that kind of thing.
• 27:20
  So those are the matchups that they have to pay attention to.
• 27:22
  And I don't think they did enough of it in the game.
• 27:24
  I would have played, this is how I would have played the end of
• 27:26
  the game if you. Want to bring Bronson speedy?
• 27:28
  Hold on. So is that what the like the
• 27:30
  hacker Mitch they can pick if he doesn't have the ball?
• 27:32
  He doesn't have the ball in the inbounding.
• 27:34
  Yeah, that's what the loophole that they found later in the
• 27:36
  series against the Celtics when the Celtics were doing it a ton
• 27:39
  in Game 2, they were they they found that loophole.
• 27:43
  Now what I would have done this is the if you're going to take
• 27:45
  put Brunson in the last five minutes, take talent out because
• 27:48
  he's not as good defensively. Robinson plays the five, then OG
• 27:51
  at the four. Then you have McBride stay in
• 27:52
  the game with the 2 with heart at the three.
• 27:54
  Like have a defensive line or Bridges at the three.
• 27:56
  Have a defensive line up like that where you could guard the.
• 27:59
  Perimeter, if you're up 14, it doesn't matter.
• 28:01
  That's the point. Even if Mitch is playing, it
• 28:05
  doesn't matter. Hack a Mitch hack of this hack
• 28:08
  of that. It doesn't matter if he's on the
• 28:09
  court. As long as they're up 14 and
• 28:12
  they got the defense and they can rebound the ball, that's all
• 28:15
  that matters. I, I don't want to hear about.
• 28:16
  Well, they need Brunson on the court.
• 28:18
  They need Carl Anthony Towns on the court.
• 28:20
  They don't need offense. That's the problem with the
• 28:22
  Knicks. They are always trying to
• 28:23
  compile points. Compiling points against the
• 28:26
  Pacers are not going to work because we've seen Rick Carlisle
• 28:29
  do that with the Dallas Mavericks.
• 28:32
  The Dallas Mavericks, when they won their championship, you know
• 28:35
  what made them so good? It's their team defense.
• 28:38
  That's what they did. That Jason Kidd, they had Dirk,
• 28:41
  even Dirk Nowitzki played some kind of defense.
• 28:44
  That's what they're going to need.
• 28:45
  They had players that could defend the perimeter and rebound
• 28:49
  the ball. That's why Dallas beat Miami.
• 28:51
  And if the Knicks plan to beat this young Pacer, gritty team,
• 28:55
  and you want to stick it right up Mr. Tyrese Halberton's ass,
• 28:59
  this is what you got to do. You got to put Mitchell Robinson
• 29:02
  on Tyrese Alberton and you need to foul his ass and let him know
• 29:06
  that I am not going to let you go up there for an easy layup.
• 29:09
  I'm not going to let you go up and shoot an easy three.
• 29:12
  You're going to feel every single time my wrath if you do
• 29:15
  that. Who cares if he fouls out?
• 29:17
  It doesn't matter. You need that aggressive play.
• 29:20
  The Knicks got to play aggressive because that's what
• 29:22
  the Pacers are going to do against the Knicks.
• 29:24
  I'll do you one better, Errol. Not only would I have Mitch help
• 29:28
  out on every single thing that he's coming on down in the drive
• 29:31
  and give him a hard foul, I'd have Deuce McBride follow him
• 29:34
  around the court the entire night and not let him breathe.
• 29:37
  Pick him up full court. This is what needs to be done.
• 29:40
  And then when he gets tired, you put bridges on him.
• 29:43
  And then when he gets tired, you put someone else on him and you
• 29:46
  make him work so hard that he's a sieve defensively.
• 29:50
  Because that's, I mean, look, Brunson already destroyed him.
• 29:53
  It was 41 points he and it wasn't a hard fourty one and
• 29:58
  then I think he got tired late in the game.
• 29:59
  That's my worry right now. These minutes are piling up.
• 30:03
  Townsend Brunson shots were consistently short in overtime
• 30:06
  and that's why they were missing and late in the game.
• 30:09
  That's not what you want to see. That's tired legs that you
• 30:12
  that's why you're short. That's the last thing as a team
• 30:14
  you want to see happen at this point in the year.
• 30:16
  They need to keep it going for another three weeks to have that
• 30:19
  energy with those legs. So I'm a little worried in a
• 30:22
  shootout with them. But again, let's just play
• 30:26
  better defense because defense was not played last night.
• 30:28
  And I'm 100% with you. No reason for Towns to have been
• 30:31
  out there at that point in the game when you could have put
• 30:34
  Mitch in there. You could have had found a way
• 30:36
  to make sure they wouldn't switch Mitch on to like the top
• 30:39
  of the pick and roll or something.
• 30:41
  He just needed to be because Carlisle's smart.
• 30:44
  You said it like Carlisle, he knows the game inside and out.
• 30:47
  He knows how to get like he's a champion, he's a champion.
• 30:50
  He knows how to get a guy like Mitch out of his way if you're
• 30:54
  not careful. And they got him out of his way
• 30:56
  when he was in. So Tibbs didn't really have an
• 30:57
  answer. He's like, I'll just go with my
• 30:58
  five guys were winning anyway. I mean, there was a stat arrow
• 31:01
  that the Knicks were a 99.96% chance to win that game with a
• 31:06
  couple of minutes left that if that's what it's going to take
• 31:10
  Tom Brady, like the Pacers to win Brady, like if that I think
• 31:13
  it's actually worse if that's what it takes for the Pacers to
• 31:16
  win. I I still like the Knicks
• 31:18
  chances this. Series.
• 31:19
  I think a lot of people, I think a lot of people like the Knicks
• 31:22
  chances in this series because you watch the Knicks play as
• 31:25
  good a basketball as we've seen the Knicks play in the fourth
• 31:27
  quarter. They played very well until the
• 31:30
  last five minutes in the fourth quarter and they didn't even
• 31:33
  need Jaylen Bronson to help them do that.
• 31:35
  Jaylen Bronson was not on the court when the Knicks went on
• 31:38
  that. Why 12/1 run or 12 two run and
• 31:42
  and and and It was OG and Anobi, it was Miles McBride.
• 31:46
  It was these guys, the guys that were secondary players right
• 31:50
  behind Jalen Brunson that were taking over the game.
• 31:52
  OG and Anopi did not have one of his better games.
• 31:55
  But in the in the fourth quarter when you needed OG to hit a
• 31:58
  three, he hit a three. When you needed OG to go up
• 32:01
  there and dunk the ball, he dunk the ball.
• 32:03
  That's what you want to see aggressive type of playing.
• 32:06
  And I want to see more of Karl Anthony Towns go into the hole
• 32:09
  not shooting up 60 foot jumpers. I don't get Karl Anthony Towns.
• 32:13
  Everybody looks at his line of scoring.
• 32:16
  Wow, he had a great game. But guess what guys?
• 32:19
  When it came down to the big parts of the game, was Karl
• 32:21
  Anthony Towns really playing well?
• 32:23
  The answer was no, he wasn't playing well.
• 32:26
  And when Jaylen Bronson isn't on the court, you expect Jaylen, a
• 32:29
  guy like Karl Anthony Towns to take over the game and he can't.
• 32:32
  He's not that type of player. And I've said this many, many
• 32:35
  times and you guys remember this.
• 32:37
  I said the most important player on this team is Karl Anthony
• 32:40
  Towns. Did I not say that?
• 32:41
  I've been saying that for a very long time.
• 32:43
  And here's the reason why I think Karl Anthony Towns is more
• 32:46
  important than Jaylen Bronson and every single one OG and
• 32:49
  Anobi is because Karl Anthony Towns has one thing the Knicks
• 32:52
  have not had in such. I don't even remember last time
• 32:55
  the Knicks had it. They have a big man that is very
• 32:58
  athletic that can go to the hole, shoot threes and get
• 33:02
  fouled and go to the free throw line and shoot 92% at the free
• 33:07
  throw line. Could you remember a New York
• 33:09
  Knick player or big man that's ever done that?
• 33:12
  I've got 1. Who?
• 33:14
  And it was like a year and a half of Porzingis before he got
• 33:17
  hurt and was on and off. The let's not talk those numbers
• 33:19
  he has. Let's not talk about that here.
• 33:21
  Let's never talk about that idiot.
• 33:23
  Let's not even. That was the hope, though.
• 33:24
  Like we want, always wanted that guy.
• 33:26
  They were drafted ironically, Same draft.
• 33:28
  Yeah, same draft ironically. And they won games at the end of
• 33:30
  the year and got a worst draft position.
• 33:33
  You know, this is like the New York tradition.
• 33:34
  All my favorite teams end up screwing themselves that way.
• 33:37
  We ended up with Towns anyway and he's a flawed player, but he
• 33:41
  has so much talent and he does things that other teams can't
• 33:44
  stop, so as long as we make him a weapon and not a liability.
• 33:47
  How do you make him a weapon? How do you make him a weapon?
• 33:50
  And I'll tell. You, I think you saw it in that
• 33:51
  run, right? You have him taking up space and
• 33:54
  you have the other forwards and wings.
• 33:56
  Handle the ball. Go to.
• 33:57
  The hole, Go to the hole and draw fouls.
• 34:01
  You're a big man. There's nobody on that team.
• 34:03
  He's a stretch 5 though. He's a stretch 5.
• 34:06
  He's the best shooting outside shooting big man that's in the
• 34:09
  league by far. But if you look what he did
• 34:11
  against the Celtics in game four-game six, look what he did
• 34:15
  in game six. What did he do that was so
• 34:17
  important in that game was go to the hole and draw a foul?
• 34:20
  That's what. Well, Jaylen Brown got into foul
• 34:22
  trouble. Why?
• 34:23
  Because at points he had to shift over to the Karl Anthony
• 34:27
  Towns and try to defend him. When he's hitting that shot,
• 34:31
  though, that's when teams have to play up on him in the
• 34:34
  perimeter and then he can blow by them.
• 34:36
  And then he can do that too, but he's not that great with his
• 34:39
  back to the basket. But if he's hitting a shot and
• 34:42
  then being able to to get in and validate what he's doing where
• 34:48
  they have to come pressure him, then he's better at that drawing
• 34:51
  fouls. But I just don't think he's that
• 34:53
  great with his back to the basket of trying to get in and
• 34:55
  draw fouls like that. There's one thing that could
• 34:58
  solve this team that they are facing and I don't know if they
• 35:01
  can pull it off because it didn't look good when they tried
• 35:03
  it last series. When they play them both
• 35:06
  together when they play Robinson and Towns together because
• 35:10
  theoretically they should cover each other's weaknesses with
• 35:13
  their strengths. Robinson can rim protect when
• 35:16
  Towns can. Towns can do the outside
• 35:20
  shooting and the more of the offensive game and Robinson can
• 35:23
  just get layups in Ollie. Oops, that's all he needs to do
• 35:26
  on offense. But that hasn't worked yet.
• 35:29
  Jamie Lee in the comments section, I said that's what
• 35:31
  surprised me the most. Thibodeau team giving up on
• 35:32
  defense at the end of the game. Yeah, they they did and they,
• 35:35
  they never. Adjusted Tom Thibodeau's defense
• 35:37
  hasn't been good with the Knicks for two years.
• 35:39
  This has been a really bad defense.
• 35:42
  Up and down, up and down. I.
• 35:44
  Mean for tip for Thibodeau is bad because he's always been
• 35:47
  that guy, right? He was the defensive coordinator
• 35:49
  of the Celtics championship teams when they faced Kobe with
• 35:53
  KG when Thibodeau. Came to this team, Fish came to
• 35:57
  this team. This team was a top five defense
• 35:59
  for almost three years. Top five.
• 36:02
  It was that good of a defense. Now you add OG Nanobi, Mikhail
• 36:05
  Bridges and Josh Hart and you have Mitchell Robinson.
• 36:09
  You have 4 elite defenders and I'm sorry, Miles McBride too,
• 36:14
  who's really an elite defender at the point guard position.
• 36:17
  You have five guys that could defend multiple positions and
• 36:22
  you're letting this Pacer team run all over you when you have a
• 36:25
  1415 point lead with five 5 minutes left of the game,
• 36:28
  embarrassing on your homecourt in front of all those great
• 36:31
  movie stars and X Knicks jumping around.
• 36:35
  But by the way, I don't want to see John Starks anymore.
• 36:38
  I don't want to see him anymore because as much as I love you,
• 36:41
  John, I remember nothing more than those 17 bricks and game
• 36:46
  seven against the Rockets. I don't want to see you out
• 36:50
  there. I don't it.
• 36:51
  Was 10 but it felt like 17 it. Was the second most.
• 36:53
  Brick. It was 17 in my eyes.
• 36:55
  It. Was the third most bricks ever
• 36:56
  built in New York basketball. Julius Randall second.
• 36:59
  Ben Simmons is first. It was embarrassing, and it's
• 37:01
  embarrassing, by the way, Carmelo Anthony never won with
• 37:04
  the Knicks. Stephon Marbury never won with
• 37:06
  the Knicks. Patrick Ewing never one with the
• 37:09
  Knicks. Go on.
• 37:10
  Jr. Smith was there.
• 37:12
  Never one with the Knicks? Give me a break.
• 37:14
  I don't want to. I don't.
• 37:15
  I saw Jr. Smith when I went to commercial.
• 37:17
  I was like, isn't that Jr. Smith?
• 37:19
  Speedy? He was standing right there.
• 37:20
  He was like, I don't want to see Jr.
• 37:24
  Smith. Party, Let's face it.
• 37:25
  I don't 100%. I could care less.
• 37:27
  I Errol, one of our one of our guys at a regular listener, my
• 37:31
  boy Tommy, he was just like, he literally was like stay out of
• 37:35
  foul trouble. And that's on Tibbs, exactly
• 37:37
  what you said. It's like, why in that aspect
• 37:40
  you bringing him in? And I, I agree with you guys
• 37:42
  that 100% on on that aspect. This this is a little bit
• 37:46
  probably on Tibbs, more so than some of the little bit of of bad
• 37:50
  play towards the end of the game.
• 37:54
  Well, yeah, again, you look, there's many different
• 37:56
  adjustments that I think Thibodeau could have made in the
• 37:59
  timeouts. But again, at the same time,
• 38:00
  like they're on the players too. Like I think the lineup was bad
• 38:03
  the way they did it. But I think when you look at the
• 38:06
  adjustments regarding the primer, you can let them get
• 38:08
  inside baskets for two. So you could foul them, you
• 38:10
  could do other things. If you're getting beat on the
• 38:12
  threes, you don't want to have them come back with threes.
• 38:14
  That's why this scenario was so rare.
• 38:16
  First time in 978 games, 14 point lead was blow.
• 38:19
  I don't even care how many games and how many playoff series
• 38:23
  there have been. And since this has happened, it
• 38:25
  doesn't really matter. Here's the problem.
• 38:27
  It happens only to the Knicks. It only happens to the Knicks.
• 38:33
  Y'all are struggling up there, y'all.
• 38:35
  Struggling. It it only I sat there to hurt
• 38:37
  him yesterday. Speedy was I was standing right
• 38:40
  in front of my 65 inch TV in my my living room and I told speedy
• 38:44
  with three minutes, I'm sorry, 5 minutes left in the game when
• 38:46
  they were up 14. They're going to lose this game.
• 38:49
  They're going to lose this game. I don't even want to watch this.
• 38:51
  I'm pacing back and forth and as every single three went in by
• 38:54
  Nesmith, I was telling Speedy this get this game is over.
• 38:58
  I'm telling you how Burton's going to hit a game winner and
• 39:00
  we're going to watch this team absolutely choke.
• 39:03
  And what happens? He practically hits a three.
• 39:06
  He practically. And by the way, what are the
• 39:08
  chances that something hits off the rim 15 feet in the air and
• 39:13
  falls in and it it, it just, I mean.
• 39:16
  Perfect spin on. The ball.
• 39:19
  Shoot. But that's like, that's like a
• 39:21
  video game thing. You should.
• 39:22
  You should only get that at home, not on the.
• 39:24
  Road impossible Java. Check the spin rate.
• 39:28
  Look, Nesmith isn't going to go 8 for 9 from three again this
• 39:33
  series. I'm pretty confident in saying
• 39:35
  that that was ties of Pacers record.
• 39:37
  That doesn't mean he shows Reggie.
• 39:39
  Right. I'm not worried about that.
• 39:41
  I'm worried that they don't play enough defense and that they
• 39:44
  don't, you know, they get themselves into foul trouble and
• 39:47
  they play dumb games. That's not even what I'm worried
• 39:48
  about. You know what?
• 39:49
  I'm worried if they. If they, if they don't, if they
• 39:51
  stay in foul trouble, they're a better team.
• 39:53
  They just got to play defense. I'm worried about worried, I'm
• 39:56
  worried about them watching them, them go down the way they
• 39:59
  did in game #1 and it's caught in their brains.
• 40:02
  And if they go up at any point in the fourth quarter, it's
• 40:05
  going to be in their minds that they're going to lose the lead.
• 40:07
  And that's what happens. That's what.
• 40:10
  I mean, outside of game six of the Celtic series, though, what
• 40:14
  game did they have a big lead like that that they.
• 40:16
  Had doesn't. Look like that was the first
• 40:18
  time all play what was. It game one.
• 40:20
  It's the exact opposite. They were getting blown out.
• 40:23
  Then they come back and. They came back games one and two
• 40:26
  of the Celtics series now. A little taste of their own
• 40:28
  medicine coming back on them. I better be a freaking wake up
• 40:32
  call because if it's not, you're a Knick fan South.
• 40:35
  I think you're a Knick fan and that's what a Knick fan would
• 40:37
  say. It's better be a wake up call.
• 40:39
  I don't think it's a wake up wake up call for the new.
• 40:41
  York, I mean they outplayed them the whole game.
• 40:42
  Doesn't matter. Last 6 minutes we've seen.
• 40:44
  This before What are you? What are you guys blind?
• 40:46
  You don't remember some of the games that we've seen in the
• 40:48
  past. And I think what Errol is
• 40:49
  getting at is the Pacers had a clutch identity, too.
• 40:51
  They came back down 10 three times.
• 40:52
  Again, look at what they did against the Cavaliers.
• 40:54
  The Cavaliers were the best team in the East all season long.
• 40:57
  They go in to Cleveland and absolutely, completely turn them
• 41:01
  over. The Cavalier fans.
• 41:03
  No, this series was over after Halperton hit that 3 pointer in
• 41:07
  game one. It gave the series was over.
• 41:09
  And what did he do in game one against the Knicks?
• 41:11
  He hit practically the same shot and it went in even though it
• 41:15
  took him to overtime and the Knicks had a chance to, to stop
• 41:18
  that choking sensation that he had in the fourth quarter.
• 41:22
  And the problem is, and I, I see it from you, you're a Knick fan
• 41:25
  and all the Knick fans out there.
• 41:27
  Oh, I listen to Josh's show game on before our show.
• 41:30
  And he says, listen, I still have.
• 41:32
  I still believe that we're the better team.
• 41:34
  I still think we have enough to beat this team.
• 41:37
  Here's what I think. I don't think anything because
• 41:40
  the word think always comes into my vocabulary when I think about
• 41:44
  the Knicks. Think, think, think, think,
• 41:46
  think. And when that word comes up in
• 41:48
  any Knicks mouth, it means they're going to lose.
• 41:51
  Think, think about it. They always lose.
• 41:55
  And that's what bothers me about this team and the way they lost
• 41:58
  in game one. This is a different.
• 42:00
  Team No it's not. No, it's not.
• 42:01
  They haven't done this. They haven't had a keep a lead
• 42:05
  like that. This team is a better team than
• 42:07
  the Pacers. They are better.
• 42:08
  At almost I remember you said that I don't.
• 42:11
  Think there's a position that they have a starter that's not
• 42:13
  better than their guy on the bench.
• 42:15
  Maybe we could talk about it. But on the front court, I think
• 42:19
  Cat's better than Turner. I think OG is better than, well,
• 42:22
  I'll say Yoji has some trouble with Siakam, but I thought OG
• 42:25
  and Siakam, they'll play to withdraw.
• 42:27
  I think they obviously know each other very well from Toronto
• 42:32
  days. Look, Bridges is better than
• 42:34
  whoever they got, Hearts better than whoever they got, and
• 42:37
  Brunson is better than Halliburton.
• 42:40
  That's how I see it. And that team should.
• 42:42
  Win and you know and you know how.
• 42:43
  I and they almost. Did you know how I see it?
• 42:45
  The Cavaliers by far were better than them.
• 42:47
  They were I. Think the Knicks would have
• 42:48
  taken the care? Of it doesn't matter too, the
• 42:50
  Cavaliers were that much better than they were.
• 42:52
  And what happened to the Cavaliers in that series?
• 42:55
  They lost. They lost him five.
• 42:57
  They lost. No problem.
• 42:58
  OK, no problem. I I'm going to tell you this
• 43:00
  right now, then expect to show up in game.
• 43:01
  It'll be two 2 heading back and then they're going to take 5 at
• 43:06
  home in a in a blowout and then just rain on their parade in six
• 43:09
  in in Indy. This is this is a true Giant
• 43:11
  fan. This is a true Giant fan, ladies
• 43:13
  and gentlemen. This is a guy.
• 43:15
  This is a guy. This is a guy that never, ever
• 43:19
  turns on his team. But here's what I'm going to
• 43:21
  say. I don't care if I'm a Knick fan.
• 43:23
  I don't care. You with all your multiple teams
• 43:25
  that you like. Multiple teams.
• 43:27
  What am I? I Why?
• 43:28
  Because I like Philadelphia? Because I grew up a Mcdan fan.
• 43:31
  What? What else?
• 43:32
  I'm a Knick fan. I'm a Yankee fan.
• 43:34
  I'm a Yankee fan. Kind of have two teams.
• 43:37
  No, I don't. He just changed hockey teams
• 43:39
  over the course of his. Life I'm Yeah, but no, I first
• 43:41
  of all, I was 11 years old or 12 years old when I became a
• 43:45
  Florida Panther fan because I was a Van Beesbrook fan and when
• 43:48
  he went to the Islanders, I became an Islander fan.
• 43:51
  I'd been an cylinder fan really, since I was 1560.
• 43:54
  Results. I feel like Errol people our age
• 43:57
  and I'm going to lump myself in with you because I'm feeling old
• 43:59
  as hell. I think we used to be more only
• 44:03
  team fan type guys. I think you were kind of an
• 44:06
  outlier when we were growing up, but nowadays I think kids are
• 44:10
  like you where they follow players a lot more than we.
• 44:14
  Take shots out all the time. Hold on one second.
• 44:16
  I follow players. I followed one player 2.
• 44:19
  Players. You did McNabb.
• 44:20
  You did, Van Beesbrook. First of all, first of all, I
• 44:24
  was a Donovan McNabb fan when I was a kid.
• 44:27
  I watched college football and for some reason I was a Syracuse
• 44:31
  fan growing up. So when Donovan McNabb was
• 44:34
  coming up from high school and I heard about him, I became a big
• 44:37
  fan of his. And I said to myself, wherever
• 44:39
  he goes, wherever he's drafted, I'm going to root on for that
• 44:42
  team. And then, and The Jets were
• 44:43
  always bad. They.
• 44:45
  Always get him on the show. For the record, by the way, we
• 44:47
  should get Nathan on getting him.
• 44:49
  On I will say this, Donovan McNabb was this close of joining
• 44:52
  our show when we were at the Super Bowl, he passed us and he
• 44:55
  was this close. And Donovan McNabb, I've
• 44:57
  interviewed him before. I met him in Miami at the Super
• 45:00
  Bowl and he was so gracious because every, he had a big,
• 45:03
  huge bouncer. Guys, he was huge.
• 45:05
  He was like 6 foot 8 and he was pushing people away.
• 45:08
  And as soon as he walked past me and I gave him a couple of
• 45:11
  numbers that I remember him in Syracuse, he turned around, he
• 45:14
  smiled at me and he just turned out.
• 45:16
  And he turned around and started speaking to me.
• 45:19
  And I had a picture with him. We spoke about 15 minutes.
• 45:21
  And I'm like, where are you going, man?
• 45:22
  And he says, I'm getting the hell out of here.
• 45:24
  I don't want to deal with the people.
• 45:25
  So. And that's a true story about
• 45:27
  Donovan McNabb. I love Donovan McNabb, but I
• 45:30
  didn't follow players. I I followed.
• 45:32
  I'm saying like you, you follow your favorite.
• 45:34
  Team I had, favorite players I did.
• 45:36
  But I'm the favorite player. I was always.
• 45:38
  That's how true is the team. It's not the name.
• 45:41
  I was a. Jed.
• 45:42
  I was a Jed fan, but I was a Donovan McNabb fan.
• 45:46
  I was a Jet fan and and I. I can understand why The Jets
• 45:49
  could do something like that to you.
• 45:50
  Who's you know who my favorite Nick was of all time?
• 45:54
  It was Charles Oakley. It was Charles Oakley.
• 45:57
  He was my favorite Nick of all time.
• 45:58
  And my favorite team growing up out of all the sports was the
• 46:01
  Knicks. It was an I was a hockey player
• 46:03
  and it was the Knicks. I was a die hard Knick fan.
• 46:06
  I bled orange, blue and white. That's what I bled all my times.
• 46:13
  I used to take that like baseline turnaround fade away
• 46:16
  that Ewing tried to do and say because I airballed it.
• 46:19
  One of the most overrated New York Knicks.
• 46:22
  Of all but he was He was still 20 and 10.
• 46:25
  Let's face it, he was, for a very long time, 20.
• 46:29
  And 10, stop this stop, stop, stop, stop with this Patrick,
• 46:33
  you and crap. If I saw Patrick in front of me
• 46:35
  right now, I would do this for for I would mock him like Tyrese
• 46:39
  Halliburton. I would grab my neck and say he
• 46:42
  was a choke artist because that's all he was.
• 46:45
  I love Patrick Ewing, but I don't want to hear from Nick
• 46:47
  Fitzer. The writers, big man, the Nixon
• 46:49
  are at That's a lie. That's a lie.
• 46:51
  Remember Willis Reed? Does anybody remember him?
• 46:53
  Come on, guys. Even to Buscher was practically
• 46:56
  what, 6869 or something around? He was a better big man in those
• 47:00
  times. That was a big man.
• 47:02
  I would say. I would say to Buscher was a
• 47:04
  better play. It doesn't matter, I'm just I'm
• 47:07
  tired of hearing. I'm not disagreeing with
• 47:09
  possibly the Buscher being better because the Buscher is
• 47:11
  Hall of Famer so. So was Patrick Ewing.
• 47:13
  He's a Hall of Famer. No, I know, but like, we're
• 47:16
  arguing Hall of Fame versus Hall of Fame.
• 47:17
  Obviously, I don't kind of. Everybody's a Hall of Fame in
• 47:19
  the NBA now. Everybody goes to the Hall of
• 47:21
  Fame. It makes you sick.
• 47:22
  It makes you sick. Everybody, I mean, right now,
• 47:25
  practically the whole league's a Hall of Famer.
• 47:27
  Every single one of those. LeBron LeBron will make sure JJ
• 47:30
  Radical get the Hall of Famer. Smith is going to be a Hall of
• 47:32
  Famer because he hit, he hit 8. 8 Three hits, eight out of nine.
• 47:35
  If he's talking, all might as well be give me a break.
• 47:38
  I mean, it's crazy. I mean, there's there's some
• 47:40
  guys that are there's a guy that I think is a surefire Hall of
• 47:43
  Famer, Errol that didn't get the MVP for some reason this year.
• 47:48
  You freaking believe that. That's what I think.
• 47:50
  That's what I think. I think, I think great.
• 47:54
  A great segue though. Yeah, good work.
• 47:56
  The figure, the figures with the New York Knicks and everybody
• 47:59
  that's probably listening to us right now and saying this guy's
• 48:02
  nuts. You're a Nick hater.
• 48:04
  No, I'm not a Nick hater. I'm an honest Nick fan.
• 48:06
  And I'm just telling you guys, when you hear you think that
• 48:10
  worries me, that worries me Knick fans, when you hear any
• 48:13
  Knick fan like Mr. Fisherman over there says.
• 48:17
  I never said I think I'm said I'm very confident they're going
• 48:20
  to win six think you're just making shit up.
• 48:22
  You said I think that's what you said.
• 48:25
  Oh my goodness. I think you took 6 letters and
• 48:28
  said it changed my entire opinion.
• 48:30
  You said I think, did you not? I said I'm very confident.
• 48:34
  No, you you didn't use those. They barely beat them.
• 48:37
  They had a point O 14 to beat them with three minutes left and
• 48:41
  this has been that's like having pocket aces and four of a kind
• 48:44
  and getting beat with the royal flush on the last call.
• 48:47
  Now we're going to play a couple times.
• 48:48
  That happens once in 17 lifetimes.
• 48:52
  We just saw this. Doesn't want to do.
• 48:53
  Any rare basketball games that ever happens?
• 48:55
  This doesn't want to do anymore. You're a joker, that's what you
• 48:58
  want. I got to get off this before.
• 48:59
  Yeah, Joker should have been MVP in my bill.
• 49:02
  Chris Alexander won an NBA MVP award this past week.
• 49:07
  Yes, it was yesterday ladies and gentlemen, beating Nicola Yokich
• 49:11
  and Giannis for that wonderful award.
• 49:14
  Shy got 71 out of 101st place votes, while Yokich got 29 of
• 49:20
  them. Shy also got 913 total votes
• 49:24
  compared to Yokich with 787 and Giannis 480.
• 49:28
  Despite finishing second in the MVP voting, Yokich joins Bill
• 49:32
  Russell and Larry Bird as the only three players to finish
• 49:35
  first or second in MVP voting 5 consecutive years.
• 49:39
  Shy was the 10th player in NBA history to win an MVP when
• 49:44
  leading the league in scoring and leading his team with 260
• 49:48
  wins. Nine of those ten players one
• 49:51
  NBA MVPS, with the lone exception being Karl Malone
• 49:56
  winning an MVP over Michael Jordan in 96 and 97 that season.
• 50:02
  Yokich finished the season with a triple double, averaging 29.6
• 50:06
  points per game, 12.7 rebounds per game, and 10.2 assists per
• 50:12
  game. Shy finished the season with
• 50:13
  32.7 points per Game, 5 rebounds per game, and 6.4 assists per
• 50:19
  game. By the way, congratulations to
• 50:21
  Shy Alexander. I'm not going to take any shots
• 50:23
  at the kid. Very well deserved.
• 50:25
  I love the kid, I love everything about his story.
• 50:28
  Coming from Kentucky, a guy that really wasn't even the superstar
• 50:32
  over there when he was there, a lot of people were questioning
• 50:35
  if the guy was going to transition into the NBA the way
• 50:38
  he did. So it's an amazing story and if
• 50:41
  you know anything about Shy Alexander is a Canadian player
• 50:44
  and a lot of Canadians that come into the NBA are really not
• 50:46
  successful. They're really not.
• 50:48
  Could you name the last Canadian that one in MVP?
• 50:51
  The answer? Steve Nash.
• 50:53
  Steve Nash was the last one. He's the only one.
• 50:56
  He was the only one from Canada that's one in MVP and he want
• 51:01
  two of them. Shia Alexandra has a chance to
• 51:03
  win three, maybe even four of them.
• 51:05
  He is a special player, but I'm sorry, Yokich was the best
• 51:08
  player in the NBA all season long.
• 51:10
  I'm not going to. There's no question that he was
• 51:12
  to average a triple double as a big man, and the way he did it
• 51:15
  in a Western Conference, that is more impressive than scoring 32
• 51:19
  points. And but you, you brought this up
• 51:21
  barrel. It's what the the NBA or the LGA
• 51:25
  however you want. To call lja, it's.
• 51:27
  They didn't want to give it to him like how how do you not give
• 51:31
  a guy that is a big man averaging a triple double
• 51:35
  because he's already got his MVPS right.
• 51:38
  And as you've have, you stated on the show plenty of times and
• 51:42
  you're 100% right, because you call it, it's like he should get
• 51:45
  another one, but they're not going to give it to him because
• 51:48
  they want this this other Ave. of a guy with dope.
• 51:53
  He he's a great player. Dope what he did for his team
• 51:56
  mates, buying them all Rolexes. Like good for him.
• 51:59
  Like that's awesome because it it shows that he understands how
• 52:03
  important his team mates are, whether he's doing it for to
• 52:05
  show face or that's who he is. I don't know him as a person, so
• 52:08
  I can't speak on that, but it's great that he did that to his
• 52:12
  team mates. But I agree with you 100%.
• 52:15
  You called it from the beginning when we started talking about
• 52:17
  this that he was going to get the MVP, but Yokich is the best
• 52:21
  player. When you average a triple,
• 52:22
  double in the standards that he's doing it, position that
• 52:25
  he's doing it without a doubt, like he's going to be in the
• 52:28
  conversation every year because we haven't seen a big man like
• 52:32
  that do what he does. He's the greatest big man we've
• 52:35
  seen really since Tim Duncan. Honestly, if you go back at the
• 52:40
  positions that both of them play, and obviously he's a, he
• 52:42
  plays A5. Tim Duncan played the four and
• 52:44
  A5. But Tim Duncan revolutionized
• 52:47
  the game the way he did as an anchored defender.
• 52:49
  And he was just, he was boring to watch, but he did it so well,
• 52:53
  OK. He made the He made the bank
• 52:55
  shot sexy. Yeah, he made everything sexy
• 52:57
  because he always won. And and if you ask Greg
• 52:59
  Popovich, when was the last time on Gregg Popovich won a
• 53:02
  championship, you can't remember because Tim Duncan was on that
• 53:05
  team. And I'm sorry, Gregg Popovich
• 53:08
  was only as good as the player that he coached and that was Tim
• 53:11
  Duncan. As far as I'm concerned, Yokich
• 53:14
  is the best player in the NBA. There's no argument to that.
• 53:16
  I think Shy absolutely believes that too.
• 53:19
  The fact is the NBA has been doing this for a long, long
• 53:22
  time. This is this is factual.
• 53:24
  The NBA is not going to give these guys back-to-back to back
• 53:27
  MVPS because if that was the case, LeBron James should have
• 53:30
  won five of them in a row. Michael Jordan should have won
• 53:32
  ten of them in a row. Michael Jordan was by far the
• 53:35
  best player in the NBA for like 10 or 11 years straight.
• 53:38
  And if Michael Jordan didn't retire the two years after his
• 53:41
  father died, he probably wins 7-8, maybe even 9 championships
• 53:45
  in a row. The guy was unbelievable.
• 53:47
  The greatest basketball player of all time.
• 53:49
  Shy Alexander. He kind of is unique on the the
• 53:52
  game and the way he plays the game.
• 53:54
  He's a great offensive player. He reminds me a lot like a an
• 53:58
  offensive Kobe Bryant. The guy can do everything on the
• 54:02
  basketball court. He could shoot threes.
• 54:03
  We've seen him shoot fade away threes.
• 54:05
  The guy is an absolute offensive phenomenon.
• 54:09
  He's also an unbelievable defender.
• 54:12
  I I think people forget how good shy is defensively.
• 54:15
  Kobe Bryant was a great two way player.
• 54:17
  Michael Jordan was a great two way player.
• 54:19
  Shy Alexander, when he came into the league, nobody knew how good
• 54:22
  his offensive game was going to transition there.
• 54:25
  His game really coming to the NBA and as why he was such a
• 54:28
  high draft pick was his defensive style of game.
• 54:32
  And why do you think guys like Calipari actually recruited him?
• 54:36
  It wasn't because of his offensive side of the game.
• 54:38
  It was his defensive prowess. And look what he's turned out to
• 54:41
  be. We've seen players come into the
• 54:43
  league and transition their games.
• 54:45
  We mentioned the Spider. When he came into the league, he
• 54:48
  was a defensive player, Louisville Pitino.
• 54:51
  Pitino recruited him because of his defensive prowess.
• 54:54
  When he came into the NBA and he was drafted 13th or 14th, the
• 54:58
  Knicks wanted him. When he came into the league, he
• 55:00
  transitioned his game at Utah to an offensive style of game.
• 55:04
  He kind of took away from the defensive side of the game and
• 55:08
  transitioned into that style of NBA game that a lot of these
• 55:11
  players are playing now. Kawhi Leonard when he came into
• 55:14
  the. But do you think they value
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  defense when they come into the league as much?
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  As middle draft picks. Especially because you're not
• 55:21
  going to get like of. Course.
• 55:22
  There's a lot of great shooters in college that are just going
• 55:25
  to be either undersized or not athletic enough to be in the NBA
• 55:27
  with defense. It usually requires a lot of
• 55:29
  athletics. Here's the problem.
• 55:31
  That's the problem. We mentioned Karl Malone.
• 55:33
  OK, Karl Malone never played a liquor defense.
• 55:36
  Anybody watch the Utah Jazz in the olden days?
• 55:39
  Where any Was anybody a Utah Jazz fan?
• 55:41
  He never played the mailman. That's why they called him the
• 55:43
  Mail. Does anybody know why they
• 55:44
  called him the Mailman? I actually watched Utah because
• 55:47
  that's where my dad went. Because he delivered.
• 55:50
  That's right. He delivered and he never
• 55:52
  delivered a championship. That's what I always said.
• 55:54
  And John Stockton was one of the greatest point guards of all
• 55:57
  time, that people. Don't.
• 55:58
  I was. I was a Jeff.
• 56:00
  Well, I was. Basically, you get it into him
• 56:02
  and or Kick It Out to Hornets, yeah.
• 56:05
  Guess what? I was.
• 56:06
  I did like Jeff Hornets. I can tell he coached the New
• 56:08
  York Knicks. Then I couldn't stand him.
• 56:10
  I couldn't look. I couldn't stand looking at.
• 56:12
  Him. I had to throw that in.
• 56:14
  Team too. Look, I agree with Jabba.
• 56:17
  I think great offense beats great defense in the NBA.
• 56:20
  Like you can hit a really hard shot over someone playing
• 56:23
  perfect defense. That happens all the time in the
• 56:26
  NBA. So I think when they draft,
• 56:28
  they're always looking for offense first.
• 56:29
  But defense super duper important in the scheme.
• 56:33
  Shy Alexander has shot 52% from the field this year and he's a
• 56:38
  three-point shooter and he shots 37 1/2 from three.
• 56:42
  But you know how many shots were that close to the rack compared
• 56:45
  to the average person? Jalen Brunson, who has a great
• 56:49
  shooting percentage, shoots 48.9.
• 56:52
  That's how good Alexander was this year shooting the ball.
• 56:55
  So the reason why you got to give him this award is he just
• 56:58
  hit every shot. He.
• 57:00
  Just felt like he would hit every shot.
• 57:02
  Compare comparatively. Look, a great interior guy is
• 57:06
  going to shoot like 60%. When was the last time?
• 57:09
  When was the last time you seen a player get a triple double and
• 57:13
  not win the MVP? I know.
• 57:15
  Well, I mean Russell. Westbrook, James Harden, all
• 57:18
  both those players won the MVP and and by the way, they weren't
• 57:21
  even the leading scorers of the league when they won the MVP.
• 57:25
  So don't give me that crap. That's why he deserves it.
• 57:27
  Don't give that to me. A triple double is.
• 57:29
  Hard. So here's the thing though.
• 57:31
  You know the reason why he got it over.
• 57:33
  Why is that? Isn't just the stats, it's
• 57:36
  because you always give the MVP to the team on the historic team
• 57:40
  with the amount of wins disagree. 68 wins disagree
• 57:42
  compared to 52. You're giving it to the guy on
• 57:46
  the 68 win team if it's close. And that's how it's been in the
• 57:50
  NBA forever. They've always done that.
• 57:52
  So what? So finish what?
• 57:54
  What does MVP mean then? Well, that's that's the great
• 57:57
  debate, right Job that's. Why everyone's?
• 57:59
  The most valuable to your team because like, if it's most
• 58:01
  valuable team, it's Jokic, because without Jokic, that team
• 58:04
  wins 20 games. I mean, Porter's washed up, so
• 58:08
  Murray's good every other game. Russell Westbrook.
• 58:10
  Won the MVP right? Was his team.
• 58:13
  Not both seasons that he had. It doesn't matter when he won an
• 58:15
  MVP. Was his team the best team in
• 58:17
  the NBA? No.
• 58:18
  No. Well, I think.
• 58:19
  It's big. I rest my case.
• 58:21
  You just said I would have voted.
• 58:23
  I'm just trying to be the devil's was James Harden, was
• 58:26
  James Harden? I'm just saying was James
• 58:28
  Harden? Was he was he on the best team
• 58:31
  when he won the MVP? No, that's a bunch of crap.
• 58:35
  A bunch of Chris Paul doesn't go the NBA, the MTA conference
• 58:39
  finals, screw them all and silver in his big ass buck ass
• 58:43
  ears. We all know that was the that
• 58:47
  was better than the Finals that year when it was Chris Paul and
• 58:50
  James Harden on that Houston team versus that Steph team that
• 58:54
  was I think Durant was that was that one.
• 58:56
  Of the Durant Durant's first. Year that that was the really
• 58:59
  close series and then Chris Paul blew out his hamstring and then
• 59:03
  it was a walk off right. It was like nothing there and
• 59:05
  Harden didn't show up. Game seven, it was over.
• 59:07
  Just. Like every other game.
• 59:08
  Before that happens, they were even.
• 59:10
  Man, I think Harden had the ability to win that year if he
• 59:14
  if Paul stayed healthy. Maybe, but James Harden?
• 59:17
  Woulda Coulda should, even if he won't be.
• 59:21
  I'm just saying. I'm tired of hearing this.
• 59:24
  Alexander Thorpic. Points a game, Sell this 52% to
• 59:27
  whoever you think doesn't know basketball.
• 59:30
  That's a bunch of crap. And for you to think for one
• 59:33
  second Yokich shouldn't have won the MVP just shows you how much
• 59:37
  you want to lick his ass right Speedy?
• 59:39
  I'm not licking anyone's ass, but.
• 59:41
  Ball bag. I will.
• 59:42
  I will reference the comparison with Russell Westbrook's Triple
• 59:45
  W that he did win. And.
• 59:47
  Like Russell Westbrook's Triple W.
• 59:48
  He just charged. To win.
• 59:49
  I know people were saying LeBron at the time and they're, I
• 59:52
  forget who the third candidate was, but people were saying,
• 59:54
  look, because Russell Westbrook was doing it in a very, I guess
• 59:57
  inefficient way for an MVP. Joka just do get a hyper
• 1:00:00
  efficient way for an MVP for an MVP candidate.
• 1:00:02
  Anyone. That's where I think the voters
• 1:00:06
  missed it. Now Shy had some very efficient
• 1:00:07
  sets and Brett Siegel when we had him on the show a month ago.
• 1:00:09
  Mentioned some of the point guard is.
• 1:00:11
  Really insane for the amount of volume that he's shooting.
• 1:00:14
  But Jokic's between the true shooting percentages between the
• 1:00:17
  efficiency he had with with inside is some of historic
• 1:00:21
  numbers for for a big man that you hadn't seen probably since
• 1:00:23
  Bill Russell and and Wilt Chamberlain.
• 1:00:25
  Like it's crazy the numbers he was putting up and he's
• 1:00:27
  averaging a triple. Double the fact that anybody
• 1:00:29
  puts, and I'm saying that Shy Alexander in the same
• 1:00:32
  conversation as Larry Bird is despicable, OK?
• 1:00:36
  He is not Larry Bird. And I have one season putting up
• 1:00:39
  these numbers, and that's fine. I'm not saying that Shy
• 1:00:41
  Alexander is not great, and he had a great season last year.
• 1:00:44
  He's a great offensive talent. He's great defensively.
• 1:00:46
  He wasn't the best player in the league.
• 1:00:49
  He wasn't. Let me ask you guys a question.
• 1:00:52
  If Shy doesn't play on OKC, do they make the playoffs?
• 1:00:57
  Yeah, I think they do. OK, let me ask you this
• 1:00:59
  question. If Yokich was not playing on the
• 1:01:02
  Nuggets, do they make the playoffs?
• 1:01:05
  No, they're a lottery team. They're a lottery team.
• 1:01:08
  So what, when you look at these kind of things that I'm kind of
• 1:01:11
  expressing to compare and contrast these players, who
• 1:01:15
  would you take as your MVP knowing that?
• 1:01:18
  If it's me. Answer the question.
• 1:01:20
  Answer the goddamn question. Just spit it out.
• 1:01:23
  Stop it, fish. What are we?
• 1:01:25
  What are we trying to catch it with?
• 1:01:26
  Hulk? Just do you want me to throw the
• 1:01:28
  worm in the water? I mean, seriously, I don't.
• 1:01:32
  Think you'll see Speedy's world? You know if.
• 1:01:34
  It will catch advocate if it will catch it with weeks.
• 1:01:36
  That said, Jokic should win this over Shy.
• 1:01:38
  So what is I've said that for weeks.
• 1:01:40
  Where we going? I'm just trying to tell you why
• 1:01:42
  he won, because obviously. Because it's the LJ.
• 1:01:45
  Of the NBA feels differently than us because if it was
• 1:01:48
  because that's 71 first place votes that went to him so that
• 1:01:51
  67 would be 2/3. It's more than 2/3 of the league
• 1:01:54
  that feels that way, and that's why the thing I came up with
• 1:01:57
  Errol is the shooting percentage and the fact that he was the
• 1:02:00
  best player on the team with the best record.
• 1:02:02
  See. You just gave it.
• 1:02:04
  I had to come up with a reasoning because I couldn't
• 1:02:07
  find one. That's it.
• 1:02:09
  I'm trying to find a sports. Show I got to distribute the
• 1:02:11
  conversation. We can't just agree with each
• 1:02:13
  other. Here's my reasoning.
• 1:02:15
  I think the NBA is lame. I think the NBA knows who the
• 1:02:18
  best player in the league is, and they're really robbing the
• 1:02:21
  best player in the league for an award that he should have won
• 1:02:24
  every single year for the last past 5-6 years.
• 1:02:27
  It's. Dispensable but that's exactly
• 1:02:29
  what we were talking about and and speedy said the same thing
• 1:02:32
  that's in every sport. What does MVP mean most value
• 1:02:36
  because as as as we just stated in what we agree on in fish
• 1:02:41
  being the devil's advocate because we we don't talk about
• 1:02:45
  stuff we all agree on there there has to be some some.
• 1:02:48
  Prologue. I don't want it to be similar, I
• 1:02:51
  understand. No, not at all.
• 1:02:52
  But it comes down to exactly what does that truly, genuinely.
• 1:02:57
  Mean I'm going to tell you. But but as we said, without
• 1:03:02
  Joker, they're not. They're a lottery pick.
• 1:03:05
  They're not. They're not even in the playoffs
• 1:03:07
  shy. They probably get it.
• 1:03:08
  They still probably get 60 to 62.
• 1:03:11
  Wins probably. I don't know about 6062.
• 1:03:13
  I think they win about 4543 somewhere around there.
• 1:03:16
  They have a good team. They have a very good roster.
• 1:03:18
  Harnstein is a good big man. We've seen how good he's played
• 1:03:21
  for them. He's been a real really big
• 1:03:24
  anchor and one of the best offseason acquisitions
• 1:03:28
  throughout the league. I will say what MVP should be
• 1:03:31
  called. It should be called MVC Most
• 1:03:34
  valuable Chump. That's what it should be called
• 1:03:37
  because that's what the NBA is selling to us.
• 1:03:40
  Us as fans being chumps, that's where we are.
• 1:03:44
  We are chumps. We actually have to sit here and
• 1:03:46
  argue and believe it. I'm a chump.
• 1:03:49
  Screw you out of Silver, LJA. Go to hell, LeBron James, you
• 1:03:54
  idiot. Go to hell.
• 1:03:56
  Our Lakers, Luca Doncic and all you body bastards.
• 1:04:02
  What a. Crap, top five awards look a lot
• 1:04:06
  different. Obviously, LeBron will give the
• 1:04:07
  MVP to himself, his sons, number two, number three Nico harrisons
• 1:04:13
  #4 and no Clue and Kyrie Irving #5 I'm.
• 1:04:17
  Tired I'm tired. I argue this all the time
• 1:04:21
  because this is what the NBA does to me.
• 1:04:23
  I want to believe that the NBA has a reasoning behind
• 1:04:26
  something, but the only reasoning that comes to my head
• 1:04:28
  every single day that I think about it is LeBron freaking
• 1:04:31
  jams. He goes to his Barber shops.
• 1:04:33
  He invites all his sickos and I mean sickos you.
• 1:04:37
  Anybody that knows what I'm talking about, the P diddy's of
• 1:04:39
  the world and the you know. Easy, I'm.
• 1:04:43
  Just telling the truth here. I have.
• 1:04:45
  We've seen him hang out in the Barber shop, as we all know, and
• 1:04:49
  they like to talk about things on on camera, but after the
• 1:04:51
  camera they're talking about something else.
• 1:04:54
  That's all I'm. Going to say about that in the
• 1:04:55
  Illuminati era, I don't. Know what they're into?
• 1:04:58
  I don't want to even say what I really think they're into.
• 1:05:00
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• 1:05:04
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• 1:05:32
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