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The Knicks with TWO historic comebacks vs. the Celtics! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Stephen Mets are going to give him a significant, They're going
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to have a ton of money to spend. Why not put it in one of the top
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three offensive players in the league?
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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Jabba, what's up, man? Not a thing, not a thing.
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Just enjoying week. We got up to 82 today, so got a
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nice little workout in, got a nice little run and just kind of
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roam the neighborhood and it was kind of nice.
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Though you run or jog? Or do you walk?
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Speed walk. No, no, I jog.
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Like the days of running are over for me.
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I don't need to do that. I just, I just do it for fun and
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I actually I'd like, I like running.
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I mean it's like 2 miles. It's nothing, nothing crazy, but
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it's just I've I've always liked running because I used to be
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super, super fat and then I just really got into running and it
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just they say you when you talk about a runner side it it's real
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and then you just keep going so. I, I, I do, I do a lot of speed
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walking and today whenever I do my phone calls.
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So after I get a chance to come home, I make my phone calls and
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my landlord's outside. I live in a cul-de-sac.
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And every single time he tells me, This is why you need to have
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a, a house phone downstairs. And I'm like, I don't want to be
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downstairs. I don't want to sweat
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downstairs. I, I have a big, huge place
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downstairs in the whole house and I just, I want to be
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outside. I want to smell the fresh air.
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I want to hear the birds chirping, the insects making
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different sounds and, and the craziness of the kids running
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around all over the cul-de-sac. So I actually enjoy it.
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And obviously my landlord just is intrigued on how much I walk
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in a circle. I, it's like it's weird.
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That is my my cardio throughout the week is me be on the phone
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when I'm in the gym, I'm doing lifting and all the other stuff
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that I do, but I enjoy just speaking on the phone and
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interacting with all my friends and family that call me up
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before the show. So.
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Thank you. They do.
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They do say that like the I was reading an article, I think it's
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Google like during their press conferences.
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They have treadmills in there. I'm sure because they say as
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you're like moving, you think better.
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It's probably true, but I've noticed too, like I'll go for
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walks and next thing you know, it's like you're just catching
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up with a buddy or like just you got to make a phone call and
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you're like, oh, next thing you know, it's like 45 minutes later
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you're like, dude. That's cool.
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I'm on the phone sometimes for an hour, hour and a half, just
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interacting with people. And then I have four people
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speaking. I have my friends on the call
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and everybody goes back and forth.
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It's craziness. It's havoc in my life, but I
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actually enjoy it and, and just getting a chance to speak to
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some of my friends who will live all, you know, all parts of the
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country and, and it's just really, really cool.
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And then some of my friends live in other countries.
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So it's cool when they get on the phone and we can interact
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with one another. And even my sister, I was
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yelling at her today about a bunch of stuff.
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So I got the experience of people listening to me scream at
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my sister on the phone. So thank you again to our
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interns. They're fantastic.
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The New York Knicks came back once again from a 20 point
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deficit in each of the first two games versus the Celtics, the
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first time since 1996 where a team has done that in both
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regular season and playoff games.
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In game one, the Knicks were down 20 points in the third
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quarter and then went on a 31 to 11 run to tie the game and force
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in overtime and game #2 The Celtics had a 20 point lead in
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the third quarter and a 16 point lead almost halfway through the
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fourth quarter. And then they didn't hit a
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basket for 8 minutes after going scoreless for 3/4.
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Mikkel Bridges had a 14 points in the fourth quarter and the
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game-winning block against yes you know it, Mr. Choke setter
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himself Jason Tatum. Karl Anthony Towns also scored
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21 points and Josh Hart led the team with 23 points as the
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comeback. Kids are back, ladies and
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gentlemen. The Celtics have missed 75 three
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pointers in just two games, the most in NBA history.
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Rd. Teams that take a two to nothing
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series lead have won the series 85.7% of all time, ladies and
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gentlemen. I mean seriously, if you're a
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Knick fan you should be so excited because we haven't seen
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this in a very long time. It goes back, I believe in 99
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it. Does anybody remember?
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And that was the Eastern Conference finals, when we
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remember Grandma Ma, yes. And all the players, yes.
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And Luttrell Sprewell and even the end of Patrick Ewing's era,
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because after that he went to the SuperSonics.
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That team went on an Immaculate, you know, unbelievable Ron and
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and this team kind of resembles that now.
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This is a better team. They have more talent.
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You have OG and Anobi who's really become Kawhi Leonard
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esque. He's become that kind of player.
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And then you got Karl Anthony Towns, the size and the ability
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that he has on the offensive boards.
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And and then you have a guy like Jalen Bronson and we we've never
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seen a point guard this good since really I walk.
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Clive Frazier was the last point guard you can remember, or maybe
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Bernard King if you want to go back of those times, the Knicks.
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And then you have Michael Bridges, and I'll get into
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Michael Bridges in just one second.
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This is a team that has a tremendous amount of depth and
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defensive prowess and their wings with Josh Hart and Mikhail
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Bridges and OG and Anobi, they've given the Knicks the
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depth that they've needed over the years at the wing positions
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defensively against these sharp shooting teams like the Boston
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Celtics. And I said this before the
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series started. Porzingis is going to play a big
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part if the Knicks are going to win this series that I got.
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They got to keep Porzingis under 20.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday they kept Porzingis to
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14 minutes and seven points. Porzingis is not healthy.
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This has been a huge problem for the Boston Celtics keeping
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Porzingis healthy and we've always known that as we all know
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Porzingis as a player. The quote on quote, as Kevin
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Durant says, the Unicorn has not stayed healthy really since he's
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come to the league with his knee problems, his stupidity off the
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court, jumping off of ships. This has been a guy that has had
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problems staying healthy. But you go back and you look at
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what the Knicks are doing right now to the Boston Celtics, it
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says a lot about the heart of this team.
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They've got a tremendous amount of heart When you go down 20
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points and you're trying to fish your way back in a game and you
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watch the the expressions of the team on the sidelines.
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They they didn't quit. There was no quit in the New
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York Knicks faces when Thibodeau's calling the timeouts
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and you would think teams are going go at each other and
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calling each other names or saying whatever.
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I've seen fights on the sidelines when teams go back
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over the years in in series and you're yelling at each other
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across the the sidelines. It it's been tremendous watching
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this team really work together. Josh Hart being a leader, A-Team
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leader, Josh Hart's on the sidelines talking to the team
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saying that we're not out of it we're not out of it.
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We can come back and it's been unbelievable.
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And for all those haters on social media taking shots at
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McHale bridges that the Knicks gave up five first round draft
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picks for McHale bridges. It was a big mistake.
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What are you guys saying now? What are all you Knick fans
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saying now about McHale bridges? You know what the answer is
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nothing. You know why?
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Because if, and it wasn't from the Carol Bridges in this
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series, as good as Brunson is, as good as Karl Anthony Towns is
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and Ogianobee and Josh Hart's been, this is the guy that's
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taking over in games in the fourth quarter and the overtime.
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He made the important block against Jayson Tatum at the end
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of the game, up 9190 as Jaylen Brunson score and shot his two
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free throws. He has been as important as any
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player in this series. And you look at guys like Leon
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Rose and Worldwide West and you say, wow, no, these guys
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actually know what they're doing.
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The Knicks actually have executives that actually know
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what they're doing. And we don't hear any more about
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James Dolan ruining A-Team and throwing A-Team away as the New
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York Knicks for years have been doing that.
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And no Charles Oakley stuff and no sideline crap.
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No, you guys are getting the chance to see Patrick Ewing on
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the sidelines. You get to see Reggie Miller
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come out and say that he would love to see the Knicks get
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through this round. So maybe they meet the Pacers
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and we can see that old Knicks, Pacers type of Eastern
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Conference championship. This has been unbelievable.
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And you Knick fans sitting here today should be nothing but
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excited. Nothing but excited because this
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team actually believes. And when you see this usually
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means that these are the teams that have the ability to go all
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the way. Now, again, we have to see what
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they're doing. And I forgot one person that I
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got to give a lot of credit to, and that's Mitchell Robertson
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for all those people. And I was.
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Other than that, free. Other than that, free throw.
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That was rough. Well, you can't.
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Spark, they need a job. He can't shoot free throws, The
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guy can't shoot free throws. He's just not very good at it.
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But what he does so very well is he is an anchor of a defense.
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He is as important as any defensive player on this roster.
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And there's so much to see that you miss of Mitchell Robertson
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all season long. The Knicks have not been 100%
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all season long. We haven't seen Mitch and Karl
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Anthony Towns and Josh Hart and the Carol Bridges and OG Ananobi
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and Jayla Brunson play together as much as they've played in
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these series and Detroit series. I mean, there were some
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questions in game #2 and game #5 the Knicks choked the way they
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did. But nevertheless, what the
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Knicks showed was heart. And what the Knicks are showing
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right now is they believe. And when you believe like they
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are. And by the way, a plus, if I'm
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not mistaken, I think Fish told me a + 32 right now for a guy
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like Robinson who's been unbelievable defensively for the
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New York Knicks, I think he's got his feet under him now.
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I think that this defense is the best we've seen it all season.
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When you guys have and when they yet when you look at the Knicks
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and you see what they have and Josh Hart is a wing player,
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McHale Bridges, and then you have OG and Anobi and Mitchell
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Robertson and you can play him with Bronson and you could fit
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him with different other players in a rotation.
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You have to see what a defense can do when it comes to win
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championships, and the Knicks are a championship contending
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team. Sit here and argue it all you
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want, all you Boston fans that thought this was going to be an
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easy run to the Finals. It's not.
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It's not going to be easy, and the Knicks are not going to make
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it easy. They're going to Madison Square
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Garden at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon and the Knicks fans
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are going to be screaming and crying, 19,000 fans saying.
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Oh, and, and me and they'll say other things too.
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I'm just not going to say it on live radio.
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But this is a Knick team that you have a reason to cheer for.
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And I sit here today and I'm one of those guys.
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I have not held back. I had the Knicks winning at 7
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and I'm going to stick by it. They're going to win at 7.
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I think Boston is going to claw themselves back into the series.
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But I think the Knicks are that type of team that no matter what
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Boston does in the series and what Boston team shows up in
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game three and game four, I think they have the edge.
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I think they have. They have the control that they
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have played defensively and offensively to get in the minds
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of Jaylen, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and understand that
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Porzingis isn't 100% healthy and they're going to drive it down
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the one and only Celtics throats until they choke and they give
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up. Yep.
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And you also look at the trade that they made in the offseason
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and with Mikhail Bridges and then trading last year for
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Rorgiano Nobi, they kind of built this team to be able to
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defend the Celtics because the Celtics are built on these wing
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shooters that could do a lot of different things and create 3
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point shots, create even inside shots normally.
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But the problem is Mitchell Robinson's defensive presence
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has just shy them away from just going inside the role.
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Really outside of Porzingis in the limited bit, he did play in
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game three because he was limited in the first half, then
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he started to take over more in the second-half.
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They have no inside game. And Jason Tatum, I've never seen
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him that flustered in a long time really since maybe the
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Miami series in the bubble. Like the Knicks are doing a
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great job on him, changing it up on him where they're not making
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it easy for him. And when Tatum is off, it really
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has hit the rest of his offense. Derek White played well, fine.
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Jalen Brown did better than he did game one, fine.
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But the Knicks team defense, this is the team defense you're
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looking for when you have build up all these wings, when you
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hire Tom Thibodeau as your head coach, a defensive minded, old
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school fiery coach, this is the defense you want to see play,
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not the defense you saw at certain points against the
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Pistons letting these old men shoot threes.
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You're not seeing that in the series.
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You're getting the intensities there.
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And the Celtics are never thought of that way as a talent
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driven team relying on it. And it seems like they're doing
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that in this series. And you would think the Celtics,
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they would learn from game one when they were doing that,
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chucking up these threes and missing.
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And the Knicks were sticking their game plans, not fouling,
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not putting them up the free throw line to get extra stuff
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there. And that's where you got to give
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Tom Thibodeau a little bit of credit, but it's mostly on the
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players. Leg and Missoula has been
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absolutely huge. No, he has been.
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Did anybody watch the press conference after the game?
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Did anybody hear what Missoula said after the game?
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He has no answers to anything. And he says, listen, this is the
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way basketball is played. Sometimes you you go on the
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rolls and and you're it's on your side or it goes from you
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know, it goes on the other side and he says we fell on the other
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side. Do we think this series is over?
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No. And then you hear Jason Tatum
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today at the press conference, you know, speak highly of
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himself, as we expect superstars like to do.
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Ladies and gentlemen, give themselves a little pat on the
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back. Jason Tatums has to figure out
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how to play basketball because if he doesn't, his team could
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lose four games. They could lose and sweep, be
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swept by the New York Knicks. And where is Charles Barkley?
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Why isn't Charles Barkley coming out and saying, you know what?
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I was wrong, I was wrong. Everybody thinks that guy is
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funny. I think he's an idiot.
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He's a Jackass. That's what I think Charles
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Barkley is. He's a hater.
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And right now he's got nothing to say.
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There's nothing to say about the New York Knicks besides go New
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York, go New York, go, because that's all you Knick fan should
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be doing right now. You should be very, very
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excited. And Jabba, I know, I'm not sure
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if you're a Knick fan right now, but you might sway that way.
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You did beat, you were a Yankee and you did sway to the New York
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Knicks when you were here. What are your thoughts to the
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one and only New York Knicks? The way they've won the two
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games, it never felt like, like you can always see body language
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and read body language it their body language never made it feel
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like they were out of it. And I think that goes a long way
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just in believing in yourselves and your ability.
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And the other one was just how there were certain guys at
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certain times of the game that stepped up when they needed
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somebody to step up, whether it's on the defensive end or
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they were scoring points. You see it from McHale Bridges,
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you know, not score for 3/4, then go out and give you 14.
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I think the balance that they have and and that's where you
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kind of got to give the worst haircut of a head coach ever and
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Tibbs and and just shave it off. If they win, can we make a bet
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like and be like, can he just shave his head?
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That thing is horrendous. Maybe there is some kind of bet.
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Maybe there's something lying over there in that locker.
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It's definitely Josh Hart definitely has to be involved
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with that bet, by the way. 100% yeah.
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So 100% their coaches come into American whiskey.
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So I'll throw the I'll throw it in there here.
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But I just like the balance that they've had when they picked
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each other up, whether it was defensively or offensively and
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just kind of the way they knew and they know their roles when
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it comes into it. I think that really is the
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important part. And he's he's out coaching
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Missoula with with one eye open. And I wanted to touch on this
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too, because it has to do with it.
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Do you think Paul Pierce really walked that whole way?
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No, no, I think he did some. I think I think what's going on
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right now is Tips has figured out how to maneuver Mitchell
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Robertson in that defense and in the structure in the fourth
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quarter where he can rotate Mitchell Robertson in the times
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that he needs the defensive prowess that he can give to Carl
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Anthony Towns, who doesn't play any defense at all.
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Right. And he played 22 minutes and Cat
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played 34. Yeah.
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So the balance, that's why I said the balance is there when
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you need to give him a blower. You need that stop and you need
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that presence. I I think it's he's just done a
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great job. And, and you see how all the
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guys have stepped up in, in certain aspects of the game and
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certain timing of the game. And I just felt like, yeah,
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you're like, oh, you know, a bunch of like, did you watch the
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game? And I was like, yeah, but it
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kind of sucked too, because at times you kind of disengaged
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with the game because they were down 20 plus.
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And you're like, all right, we'll just keep it on.
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And it wasn't like. Another game we're going to
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touch on where they just looked disinterested.
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It was just, you know, the ball wasn't dropping and they weren't
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doing certain things, but you know, they didn't give up and
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you've seen what happened and just crazy how in a division and
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the conference that all Rd. teams won game one, which has
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never happened before. Yeah, and also also all the with
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the Knicks, you look at like doing it twice in a row, like
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that kind of confidence level. I know it's still there for
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these players, but all that kind of statistical anomaly is still
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very hard to believe that the Knicks would be able to do it
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twice. They held the Celtics scoreless
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without a basket, only free throws for 8 minutes straight,
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which that that was something we talked about in college
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basketball a couple times. You rarely ever see that in the
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NBA. That's unheard of.
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And Jabba, to your point, Mitchell Robinson's defensive
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presence, I think made the Celtics scared like they never
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tried to. Have nothing to do with scared.
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Stop with the Celtics aren't scared of the Knicks.
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What's going on right now is the Knicks have their their games,
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they're playing team basketball. They haven't had a chance to
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play with one another all season long.
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Mitchell Robinson's finally getting his feet under him.
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And now you're seeing how important Mitch Robertson is to
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the New York Knicks. That's why the Knicks didn't
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trade him this offseason, ladies and gentlemen.
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That's why the Knicks didn't trade him at the trade deadline
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when the the Lakers were interested in bringing a big
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man. We all know the story.
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We all know the Lakers were out and trying to draw the New York
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Knicks to trade Mitchell Robertson over there to them.
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And maybe that would have helped the Lakers.
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Mitch is that is is important as OG, Ananobi, McHale, Bridges,
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and any one of those defensive players, including Josh Hart, he
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is the anchor to that defense. And when you got that kind of
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player and you use them in the right motion when it comes to
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defense, they're a different team.
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They are absolutely different team.
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And yes, you should be excited about the Knicks.
22:08
We haven't seen a defense like this with the New York Knicks
22:10
since the 90s, since the 90s when we saw Anthony Mason and
22:15
Charles Oakley and Patrick Ewing and all those play Xavier
22:19
McDaniel and all those guys that played that kind of defense.
22:23
Hard nose press defense. Charlie Ward, remember him?
22:27
I mean, this was a defense. Even Charles Smith who couldn't
22:30
hit a layup if your ass depended on it, he actually played some
22:34
defense. This that New York Knick team,
22:36
the Pat Riley, Jeff Van Gundy, New York team, it.
22:40
They haven't been like that with the guys like Carmelo Anthony
22:44
and Amari Stottlemeyer. That wasn't a defense.
22:47
Even though Woodson was a great defensive line, they weren't a
22:50
good defensive team. Carmelo Anthony was subpar at
22:54
best defensively. He was old.
22:56
Yeah, but I think this is a young team and this team is
22:59
going to be good for many, many years.
23:00
But this is their time, ladies and gentlemen.
23:03
If there's a time for them to sneak into the Finals and maybe
23:07
surprise the world, it's right now.
23:09
Because the Cavs don't know what their identity is right now and
23:13
they're losing 2O against the Pacers.
23:15
The Pacers, as good as they are with depth and they have
23:18
Halliburton, I don't know if the Pacers have enough to beat the
23:21
Knicks if they get through the Celtics and right now in the
23:24
Western Conference, Come on, we we Golden State's old, they're
23:28
an old team. And you'll look at the other
23:30
teams that are in this in in the Western Conference.
23:33
The Nuggets, they're up and down.
23:35
OK, see they they've made some mistakes, even though they have
23:38
tremendous amount of talent. And then we all know the other
23:41
team over there. It it just I don't know if the
23:45
Western Conference is as good as it's been over the years.
23:48
I think if the whoever wins this series, if it's the Knicks and
23:52
the Celtics can win the whole thing, That's the crazy thing.
23:56
The only team that probably can commit to competing with them
24:00
right now is OK C maybe the Nuggets and I just, I don't
24:05
know, the Knicks have completely beaten the hell out of the
24:08
Nuggets all season long. I know it's the regular season,
24:11
but and as we've said this many, many times, and Fish would know
24:14
this and let's get Fish in here. I'm going to tell you this right
24:17
now. I look at the Knicks right now
24:19
and if they beat the Celtics in this series, it's a shoo in that
24:23
they're going to the Finals. You heard it from me, they beat
24:27
the Celtics. It is a shoo in a shoo in to the
24:31
finals does the. Momentum carry over, do you
24:34
think 100% like if they obviously like getting these two
24:37
wins are huge. I don't think it's going to be a
24:39
sweep, but you start gelling together, We've seen teams win
24:43
and you're like, they didn't stand a chance and then all of a
24:45
sudden they got hot. And I think that could be
24:47
something that really like as they come and gel together and
24:51
balance their life, I think. And obviously it's shown in the
24:54
first two games. I am not scared of the other two
24:58
teams in the Eastern Conference. I, the Cavs, the Knicks beat two
25:02
years in a row leading into this third would be the third year if
25:05
they face them, if they come back against Indiana and I won
25:08
another shot at Indiana because the Knicks almost beat them with
25:11
no one left healthy on the roster.
25:13
If you remember game seven in that series, or was it, I don't
25:15
remember who was six or seven, he was 7.
25:17
OG got hurt then. OG Josh Hart played through what
25:22
looked like an AB strain in that game and was like a shell of
25:25
himself and Jalen Brunson broke his hand and they still almost
25:31
beat them. And I'm not afraid of those
25:34
guys. So here's the deal.
25:36
If they win this next game, Game 3, and go up three O, that's
25:40
going to be really hard for Boston to deal with.
25:43
And we haven't even talked about the injuries.
25:45
Jaylen Brown is not healthy. He's not he's not able to do it
25:49
all game. You saw early in the game he was
25:51
unstoppable. Where was that the rest of the
25:54
way? That guy used to do that all
25:57
game. He can't do that right now.
26:00
Derek White doesn't scare me right now.
26:02
He just looks like a guy out there and not one of the alleged
26:05
best defensive guards in the league.
26:08
And Porzingis they are, only they're throwing him out there
26:12
less than Tips throws out Mitch. They're not going to win that
26:16
way, not with Al Horford getting cooked every possession that
26:19
he's out there because he's my age.
26:22
And they lost another one, actually, yeah, another one hurt
26:24
too. Well, the bench Hauser.
26:25
I think he's older than you actually.
26:28
I remember when he, I remember when he was in college with Noah
26:31
winning the championship is the Twin Towers in Florida when I
26:34
was in college. With Nick's legend joking now.
26:36
In my life ago and Billy Donovan, the Chicago Bulls
26:39
coach. Back-to-back.
26:40
Long Islander baby, give it to the Long Island guys.
26:46
I don't take pride in every long I look.
26:47
I like Tobias Harris. First of all.
26:50
Tobias Harris is the biggest ass you'll ever meet.
26:53
I actually met Tobias Harris at a club I was DJ ING at.
26:56
Everybody was like Tobias Harris.
26:57
This is before he was drafted. He's going to be an NBA first
27:00
round pick. I could give a crap the way he
27:02
was treating women and the way he was acting.
27:04
I couldn't stand him. When I met him, I looked up, I
27:07
was like what an ass. He walked around like he was
27:09
Michael Jordan. OK, Tobias Harris has had a long
27:12
career. He's made a lot of money.
27:13
I can't stand the SOB, so that's OK.
27:16
Sorry to cut you off there, Fish, but I had to hear that he
27:19
brought Tobias Harrison. There's only one teammate I got
27:21
to mention because how do you not talk about these last two
27:24
games? If you don't talk about Mikhail
27:26
Bridges, how do you not talk about him, what he did in the
27:30
last possession of each game? Can you be more clutch
27:35
defensively than what he is and more clutch offensively than
27:39
what Brunson is at the same time?
27:41
That's incredible that we have both of those guys on the on the
27:44
team. He had the the presence of mind
27:47
in the first game to steal the inbounds pass and just run under
27:51
it and like pick it off like it was a safety and wrestle it away
27:55
like a freaking manchild. And in this game, he knows the
27:59
right time to help off of Jaylen Brown that cut off the pass,
28:02
which if it got to Brown, that's a wide open 3.
28:05
But he knows how to do it because he's, I mean, his arms
28:08
are ridiculously long for a guy. I mean, he's tall, but his arms
28:11
are like a centre's length. He's he's like awesome
28:15
defensively, even when he's not shooting well.
28:17
And Jabi, you said it, he went off in the fourth quarter too.
28:21
This guy's fantastic. In fact I might give 5 non
28:24
lottery first round picks for him and I'm glad they did.
28:28
Yeah, Errol's mentioned to get beat this team.
28:30
Errol's mentioned to get with the social media like all the
28:32
all the Nets fans were taking shots at the Cal.
28:34
Bridges every single net fan and even Knick fans.
28:38
Losers all the Knick. Fans, Nets fans for a second.
28:40
Because I lived, I lived in New Jersey when they were still in
28:42
Jersey and I grew up in Brooklyn and had the choice when the
28:47
Knicks were terrible to switch and I just couldn't do it.
28:49
And thank God I couldn't do it. Thank God I couldn't do it.
28:53
You guys stink. You're a bunch of whining
28:54
babies. All right, all right, You do
28:56
this about you do this with jet fans.
28:59
You this is what you do with fans you can't stand.
29:01
Come on, wait, stop, stop all the time.
29:03
This is what you do. You do it you do it with
29:05
Islander fans. If you're not, if you're not
29:08
rooting for the team, this is what you do.
29:09
You put down the other team. I I think it's.
29:11
Ridiculous. You like to rhyme your team.
29:13
No, I don't. No, I do not.
29:15
I do not. Do are you are one-of-a-kind?
29:18
I do not. I speak the truth of my teams.
29:20
I don't go back and go, oh, my team's so great when they're
29:24
not. I've taken shots at the New York
29:26
Jets all season long. I thought they were wretched in
29:29
so many ways than one. Robert Soller, and you know
29:31
what? I call him Bambi.
29:33
I knew he was going to get fired.
29:34
He was should have been fired two years ago.
29:36
I I'm, I'm honest. I sit here today and I've always
29:39
been honest about my teams. And to sit here and listen,
29:43
Fish, ever since you've been on the show, and I I love you.
29:45
You, you attacked Jet, The Jets organization.
29:48
Fine. You want to talk about The Jets?
29:50
Yeah. Well, guess what?
29:51
What are the science have done over the last couple of years?
29:53
Nothing. They've done nothing.
29:55
They've been a mockery of the the NFL and their draft picks
29:59
have been a mockery. Then you go back and you look at
30:01
your Rangers. Oh, by the way, they resigned.
30:04
Chris Drury, fantastic move by the New York Rangers.
30:07
The end. Mike Sullivan, is that going to
30:09
make a difference? Good for them.
30:10
They've had how many Stanley Cup champion coaches?
30:13
Good job to the New York Rangers.
30:15
And then let's go back to the Yankees, who I'm a fan of two.
30:18
What have they won since 2009? And Chopin knows all about that
30:23
one because he was a part of it. They've won nothing.
30:26
Absolutely zilch. But then you all know what Fish
30:30
likes to do. He likes to go after the Mets
30:33
and the Mets haven't won anything.
30:34
Pick on them. The the landing many baby Mets,
30:38
I'm going to pick on them. And then the Islanders and then
30:41
The Jets because they're the little cells and hate them like
30:48
carton. It's just absolute bull crap.
30:51
I'm I'm telling you right now, stop being a kiss ass to your
30:54
own teams and sit back and let these teams get chance get a
30:58
chance. I want to see I want to see
30:59
Cooper flag go to the Nets. I want to see it because what
31:03
it's going to do, it's going to drive people don't want to go to
31:05
net games now and watch Cooper flag.
31:07
One of the great young power forwards we're going to see in
31:11
the NBA in very in a lot of years that we haven't seen.
31:15
I mean, we we talk about all these power forwards that are
31:17
going to come up and they're going to be great.
31:19
None of them transition into anything.
31:21
This kid is special and I'm telling you, I'm I'm going to
31:25
get a chance to see him play. If I get a chance to see him
31:27
play in Brooklyn, I'm getting season tickets, even if I'm a
31:29
Knick fan because I want to see Cooper flag.
31:31
He's special. Speaking of special, Oh my God.
31:35
After game one's loss to the Warriors, Timberwolves head
31:40
coach Chris Finch criticize Anthony Edwards for having just
31:44
one point in the first half. He mentioned Edwards struggled
31:48
early and Light went out of a for him and he he has to set the
31:53
tone early as a leader of the team.
31:56
He also mentioned that if he knows he's struggling to shoot,
32:01
he has to keep the energy and help out his teammates.
32:05
Edwards told ESPN they can blame whoever they want, but nobody
32:11
played well enough to win the game.
32:14
Edwards rally back in the second-half to finish with 23
32:18
points and 14 rebounds, but the Timberwolves still lost by 11 in
32:23
game one. The Timberwolves will look to
32:25
bounce back in game #2 tonight versus the Warriors, who still
32:29
will not have Steph Curry as he is out with the hamstring
32:33
injury. Curry is expected to be out at
32:35
least a week, but possibly longer.
32:38
I'm going to tell you this right now, the series is over.
32:41
If Steph Curry doesn't come back, it's over.
32:43
As good as Jimmy Buckets is, he is not going to be able to keep
32:46
this team on his shoulders, especially with the
32:49
Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards is not going to
32:51
play as bad in the first half ever again in this series,
32:55
especially when the coach is going to come out and take shots
32:58
at him. I believe Anthony Edwards is
33:00
going to put up a 40 spot tonight.
33:01
I think Anthony Edwards is the most electrifying player we've
33:04
seen in the NBA in a very, very long time.
33:07
I think he's he's a man child. His mind is all over the place.
33:10
But when he gets on the basketball court and wants to
33:13
prove himself, boy, oh boy, he likes to shove his fingers right
33:16
up somebody's derriere. And this is a guy that
33:19
understands what he is and he understands where the
33:24
Timberwolves are. If the Timberwolves have a
33:26
chance to go to the Finals, it's this year.
33:29
Because to me, who they're playing against in Golden State
33:32
is an old team. Jimmy Buckets, who's not 100%
33:35
healthy and Steph Curry with a hamstring problem probably
33:38
shouldn't be be back in three weeks.
33:40
This is a bad hamstring problem. If he comes back in one week,
33:44
he's not going to be 100%. So get lot, get get ready to
33:47
watch this team probably get knocked out in a week's time.
33:50
And then there's the OK C and Nuggets.
33:53
I just I don't think that any of those teams are going to scare
33:57
me As good as Shy Alexander is and as good as Yokich is, I
34:02
think this team is like up and down.
34:04
Both teams are like up and down. I think the Timberwolves have
34:07
the best roster. I think the Timberwolves
34:09
understand what it takes to win after losing in the Western
34:12
Conference Finals last year against the Dallas Mavericks.
34:16
I just think that this is the this is the year the
34:19
Timberwolves could breakthrough and go to the finals if they
34:23
find a way to get Anthony Edwards in the game and his mind
34:27
into the game and not with his goddamn video games.
34:30
I watch enough of Anthony Edwards, Offset, and he's on
34:34
social media and all he's doing is playing on Twitch and doing
34:37
all that stuff. Dude, you have a kid.
34:39
If you want to pay attention to somebody, pay attention to your
34:42
daughter, or get on the damn basketball courts at 5:00 in the
34:46
morning like Kobe Bryant did and make sure that you're ready for
34:49
game #2I. I just, when you look at the
34:52
talent that he provides on a basketball court, how many
34:55
players could say they're as talented as this player?
34:59
He is as good as anybody we've seen in United States basketball
35:04
is since I think in the last 10 years.
35:06
That's how good he is. LeBron James says that this guy
35:09
could be the face of United States basketball for the next
35:12
20 years, but guess what? He doesn't want to be and stop
35:15
this crap. Go out there and show everybody
35:19
why you're special. Go out there and don't let your
35:22
coach bitch you after the game and show you that you can't be a
35:27
leader of this team. You are the leader.
35:30
You're the face of United States basketball.
35:32
You're the face of the NBA. Go out there and show everybody
35:36
who you are not. Tell everybody, everybody, show
35:39
everybody, and take responsibility when you're not
35:42
playing good. That's what a leader does.
35:44
Don't sit back there and say we all didn't play well.
35:48
Go out there and tell people I didn't play well.
35:51
I'm the leader. I got to be better.
35:54
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is when people start to respect
35:58
you as a man and as a superstar. It's always been twofold with a
36:03
lot of the Anthony Edwards comments we've talked about over
36:05
the last year or so, really dating back to the Michael
36:07
Jordan thing. Obviously the the football thing
36:09
in the middle of the season and the offseason.
36:11
Oh, I could play in the NFL and be a tight end or something like
36:14
that. And the Olympics, like you were
36:15
saying, like with all the stuff he was saying, oh, label himself
36:17
the truth. And some of them were also fan
36:19
driven narratives too, Like, oh, Anthony Edwards is the closest
36:22
thing to MJ because he had that great first two rounds of the
36:24
postseason. That was a fan driven narrative.
36:25
So I gave him a little bit of of slack for that one.
36:27
But this kind of thing is not something that you want to have
36:31
for the Timberwolves roster that's had their playoff woes
36:34
with other teams. We talked about how bad Julius
36:36
Randall was in the playoffs with the Knicks.
36:38
You don't want to shoot his confidence down like that.
36:40
Rudy Gobert has been iffy in the playoffs in moments with Utah in
36:43
the past. You don't want him to be shot
36:45
down like that either. This is a Minnesota team that
36:47
has an opportunity with Steph Curry out to make a big
36:49
difference. Make a big statement in the
36:51
series like we were talking about with the Knicks series
36:52
like you want to be well rested in the NBA.
36:55
The NHL playoffs are a little different because I think the
36:58
NHL playoffs sometimes sitting too long is a bad thing in the
37:00
NBA. It's not really because you
37:01
want, there's a reason people low manage in the regular
37:03
season. So these kinds of things, you
37:05
can win this series in five games and you're going to lose
37:08
this confidence doing this way. And same kind of thing with the
37:10
coach too, like the coach. We've seen these coaches get
37:12
fired all the time at the end of the season.
37:14
Right now it seems to be a modern trend.
37:16
Let's not act like this coach could be any less safe for his
37:19
job position either. He's a good coach, but these
37:21
coaches are very expendable now. Yeah, I think there's a lot of
37:26
factors are good and you make a great point on you know how
37:28
people, you know, moan and groan about load management, but also
37:33
when you get in the grind of, you know, 7 game series, you
37:36
know, every round it it gets a lot.
37:38
And yeah, the the warriors, they're old.
37:43
I don't know if, if Jimmy can hold it together and who knows
37:46
what Buddy Hield you'll get. And I, I just think with what
37:51
the Timberwolves have, I think their, their best shot is I
37:55
just, I, I don't know what I think about Ant because there
37:58
are some things you're just like, wow.
38:00
And then there's other things like was he really so nonchalant
38:04
when the he found out they were 12 or 76?
38:06
Like you didn't know that. Like they don't get sheets
38:08
afterwards or whatever. Because you're not even.
38:10
Looking at them on the desk. Yeah, maybe not in the moment,
38:13
but I guess it's something that could pile up in your head
38:16
thinking that way. And the menace, they were so
38:18
lifeless offensively and and they just kept trying to shoot
38:21
the threes and he kept trying to shoot the threes.
38:23
But I guess he was saying, oh, everyone else was doing it too.
38:25
This is the problem. This is the problem with the NBA
38:27
now it's become the Steph Curry NBA.
38:30
Everybody's trying to be Steph. These 3 point shots, chunking up
38:33
threes, the Splash Brothers. This has been a problem the NBA
38:38
has always run through. Getting in the paint and
38:40
dominating, shooting those 1718 foot jumpers, drawing fouls.
38:44
That's what Michael Jordan did. That's what he accomplished all
38:47
his championship teams and the way he accomplished great.
38:51
Now all of a sudden everybody wants to be Steph Curry.
38:53
Everybody wants to be the next big three-point shooter.
38:55
It hasn't helped the league. It hasn't helped the game.
38:58
The average 3 point shots in the 90s were under 20.
39:02
You know what the average 3 point shots right now in the NBA
39:04
is 35. Think about that that's like
39:08
1718 more 3 pointers now than it ever has been Why?
39:13
Because of great Steph Curry. The what what Steph Curry is
39:16
really brought to the league. Does it make it better?
39:18
I don't think so because I just think that teams forget what
39:22
their identity is. Jaylen Brown for the game #1
39:25
forgot who his identity was and then game #2 in the first
39:29
quarter, he figured it out. Jason Tatum, he's become a luck
39:32
chucker. Why isn't he getting into the
39:34
paint and dominating in the paint?
39:36
He's so long and so good when he gets in the paint with his 1718
39:40
foot jumpers, he forgot how to do that.
39:42
It's. A big problem the coaches step
39:44
in when they see. Because he sucks.
39:47
Because he sucks. That's why he's terrible.
39:50
He's a garbage dump over there with the Celtics.
39:54
That's what the garbage the Celtics have put out there.
39:57
And everybody says we'll look at the talent they have.
40:00
Look at look at Holiday, look at White.
40:02
White, nobody wanted he they. I'm not going to say that White
40:06
isn't a good play and he hasn't transitioned.
40:07
This guy was a journeyman. The Celtics made a trade and
40:11
brought him in. He was a defensive player.
40:13
Now all of a sudden he's figured out how to shoot a three and he
40:15
chucks it up there and maybe he hits it, and most of the time he
40:18
doesn't. It's pathetic and that's what
40:21
the NBA is. That's why nobody watches the
40:24
regular season. It's become a three-point game.
40:28
Let's play horse, ladies and gentlemen, let's be Steph Curry.
40:31
Let's shoot from the free throw. I'm sorry.
40:34
Let's shoot from the middle of the court and see if we can hit
40:37
it 5 out of 10 times. It's boring.
40:40
The NBA has become boring because they all want to be
40:44
stuff. That doesn't take away from his
40:46
greatness. It just takes away from the game
40:49
and what the the game has developed over the years.
40:51
The Kobe Bryant's the fadeaway jumpers are the Shaquille
40:55
O'neal's power and beat you inside the Patrick Ewings or the
41:00
Elijah Wan, the dream shooting those fadeaway jumpers.
41:04
And we will remember what happened in 94 when John Starks
41:07
decided, hey, you know what, I'm going to shoot 73 pointers.
41:11
What happened? They lost to Elijah Wan in
41:13
Houston when they were a shoe in to win the championship up 3
41:16
two. That was the Knicks.
41:18
It is become horrible and if you're a Knicks fan, stay away
41:23
from the three. Do what you're doing right now.
41:25
It's working for you so. Jabba, I was mentioning it to
41:28
you last show too, with like the position emphasis.
41:30
There's not as many good point guards in today's NBA.
41:32
There's not even any raw centers that are as good in the NBA
41:35
either. And that's why a lot of people
41:36
have tried to adopt the Celtics model as trying to be that kind
41:39
of thing. But when you're the Celtics
41:40
shooting all these threes, 100 threes in two games, like it
41:43
still is, defeats the purpose of what you tried to build.
41:45
How many teams tried to duplicate the Warriors and
41:46
failed? And the Sun just tried to do it
41:48
recently. Look what the Knicks did, those
41:49
speedy, the Knicks built A-Team to stop this Celtics team,
41:53
right? It was intentionally built to
41:55
stop this team and they are stopping this team.
41:58
How do you stop a team that shoots a lot of threes, get a
42:00
hand in their face constantly? They're not a lot of open threes
42:05
for this team. I remember watching a lot of bad
42:08
Knicks basketball with Tibbs not that long ago, where guys were
42:11
getting open shot after open shot and if they made them, the
42:14
Knicks lost and if they didn't, the Knicks won.
42:17
That's how the season went for the first half of this season.
42:20
And now you see the playoffs in your right arrow that the level
42:23
of play in the irregular season does not match the playoffs.
42:26
I wouldn't say that it's no one's watching it.
42:29
Obviously people are watching it.
42:30
They're getting more deals, You know, they're making billions of
42:33
dollars, these guys. Oh, that's the LGA for you.
42:36
Well, someone's making money. And they said viewership's up
42:39
this year. It is they, they, they have new
42:41
ways to measure. No one even knows how to measure
42:43
viewership today, which is probably the biggest issue with
42:46
all of it. But I, I just, I, I just want to
42:48
get back to Anthony Edwards for a second before we move on from
42:52
him. That guy I don't trust at all.
42:55
Finch is right for calling him out.
42:56
How do you show up like that? Go over in the entire basically
43:00
the entire first half hits like 1 foul shot and then is laughing
43:05
and joking after the game with Julius Randall.
43:08
You just lost to Steph. The warriors without Steph.
43:11
He he left that game in the first half scored 88.
43:14
They they scored 88 points. Are you serious?
43:18
That's an embarrassment. Are you like that's that's
43:21
really if they lose. Now look, playoff Jimmy's a real
43:24
thing. I, I, I don't I wouldn't put it
43:27
past you to see say playoff Jimmy steals another game or two
43:32
and Steph comes back in like game six or seven and wins it
43:35
for him because they decided to blow this game.
43:38
And Anthony Edwards decided to no show because he just doesn't
43:42
care enough consistently. And I think that's what his
43:45
coach is frustrated with. Jabba, you ever play with
43:47
somebody, you don't have to use any names, but you ever played
43:50
with some guys could have been at a younger level, Errol could
43:53
have been you playing hockey. There's guys that had all the
43:55
talent in the world, but they couldn't focus.
43:57
They just didn't care enough. You just.
44:00
They're surprisingly, yeah, I. Could give you a name.
44:03
I could give you a name. I'm not afraid to give it to
44:05
you, but I'll let Jabba answer it and I'll give you one name
44:09
before we go on. I'm not going to dime anybody.
44:12
I will, I don't care. They yeah, it wasn't like
44:18
necessarily like they, they were so nonchalant because it was so
44:22
easy for him. And so it was like, yeah, OK,
44:25
whatever. And there's been people called
44:28
out, but yeah, I wouldn't say it was so nonchalant, but it's just
44:31
like, OK, I'm going to show up. I'm going to get paid millions
44:33
and I'm just going to do the bare minimum.
44:35
Like that. That was probably more so than
44:38
like the nonchalant because it doesn't look like he ever takes
44:41
it serious like when he's doing. And that's why I said I don't
44:44
know if I say wouldn't trust him because he has all the ability
44:46
in the world, but it's just like which which does he wants to be
44:50
the fun loving guy, the like by fans?
44:53
Does he just want to be that? Like I just I don't know if he
44:56
truly know. He said he doesn't want to be
44:58
the face of the league. But if somebody's already
45:01
labeling you that of the standard of LeBron, like you got
45:05
to take some consideration and be like, wow, he sees that in
45:08
me. Can I look myself in the mirror
45:09
and think about that? So I don't, I don't know what
45:13
he's doing, but whatever. I've got 1 and he's actually
45:17
your GM over there with the New York Rangers.
45:21
Chris freaking Drury Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I got a chance to
45:25
skate with that ass and and he talked a lot of crap.
45:28
And then when I got on the ice and I was playing hard nosed
45:32
hockey with him, he was a bitch, OK?
45:34
And that's all he did. He went on the ice and he wanted
45:37
to talk crap and that's what he did on this.
45:39
I'm that I'm great on this. And every time, every time I
45:43
went in the ice with him, I would beat him with minutes on
45:47
the ice and obviously shots on the net.
45:50
The guy was overrated. And yeah, he was drafted and I
45:53
wasn't because, you know, obviously everybody knows the
45:55
story behind my whole story. But nevertheless, I've always
45:59
thought Chris Drury was a selfish piece of you know what?
46:03
And he still is, as Ranger fans are sitting pretty right now.
46:07
Because you got to deal with him for at least another year, maybe
46:09
even 2:00. You got the right coach, but you
46:12
had the right coach last year with Peter Laviolette.
46:14
You had the right coach the year before when he took you to the
46:17
Eastern Conference finals. It's all bull crap.
46:19
The guy doesn't know how to lead.
46:21
He wasn't a leader on the ice. He thought he could have played
46:23
professional baseball. What a joke.
46:25
And his father was the same way. He was out there.
46:29
My son asked my son that. My father didn't even know what
46:31
was going on in the hockey game. My father couldn't stand the
46:34
Drury family. So that's the truth.
46:36
That's the truth behind the real Chris Drury.
46:40
You Rangers and you Ranger fans. He has he has a demented piece
46:45
of of horseshit. I'm sorry to curse, but that's
46:48
what he is. The Pacers took a 2O series lead
46:52
versus the Cavaliers after winning 120 to 119 on Tyrese
46:56
Halliburton's game-winning 3 pointer with one second left.
46:59
This came after he got his own rebound off a missed free throw
47:05
and took a ball himself behind the three-point line and shot.
47:09
Many fans believe that the Pacers got away with a lane
47:12
violation on the missed free throw and the and the the NBA
47:16
confirmed they missed the three lane violation on the Pacers
47:21
with 48 seconds left. The Nuggets are and Thunder are
47:25
tied 11 after the Thunder dominated the them last night at
47:30
149 to one O 6 in game #2. The Nuggets won game one on
47:35
another Aaron Gordon buzzer beater this time A3 pointer.
47:39
In the battle of the MVP, Shy Alexander is averaging 3033.5
47:44
points per Game, 7 rebounds and eight assists per game, while
47:48
Jokich is averaging 29.5 points per game, 15 rebounds and six
47:53
assists per game. Right now, Shy Alexander is
47:56
playing like the MVP, but I I look at Yokich.
48:00
I'm going to tell you this right now, if you think for one second
48:04
Jokic cares how many points he scores, all he cares about is
48:08
winning. And I'm going to tell you this
48:10
right now, I don't. I'm not counting out the Nuggets
48:13
after they got their butt smacked, they couldn't hit a
48:15
shot. Russell Westbrook was forcing
48:17
shots in game number 2 when he was so good throughout last
48:20
series and the first game not to just throw up 3 pointers and
48:24
four shots. It's been a big problem over the
48:26
years. Russell Westbrook.
48:27
I think that the Nuggets have the depth and I think they're a
48:30
good enough team to knock off the OKC Thunder.
48:33
But Shia Alexander has his own rights and he has a belief in
48:37
his team and what his team is all about.
48:39
And this is a great offensive team.
48:41
You could see how important Harnstein is.
48:43
He he was beaten up a guy like Yokich down the court.
48:47
And and by the way, if there's anybody that could put pressure
48:51
on you in the pain, it's it's Harnstein.
48:53
We've seen Harnstein do it with the Knicks.
48:55
That's why they spent money in the offseason to bring him in
48:58
and Knicks couldn't afford him. This is going to be the series.
49:01
If Yokich can do what he can do against Torn Stein, I think they
49:05
win the series. This is going to go down to the
49:07
nitty and the gritty. I think this goes seven games.
49:09
I love this series. I think it's going to be so fun
49:12
to watch all the way to the end. As far as the Pacers are
49:16
concerned, they're getting lucky.
49:18
They're getting lucky and and and Halpert is a sensational
49:21
player. I love what I see with Halpert.
49:23
I can't stand his father and I don't want to see his father run
49:26
on a cord on anybody. But I love what I see with the
49:29
Pacers. They show grit.
49:31
They show a hard nosed type of basketball.
49:33
But here's the facts. The Cavaliers aren't healthy.
49:36
Garland is not healthy. As we were talking fish.
49:39
He has a broken toe as we expect it to be.
49:42
We we see the injuries and and what the list of injuries they
49:46
have right now, they're not 100% healthy.
49:48
That's not an excuse. Their depth all season long came
49:52
from their bench. Why isn't their bench providing
49:54
it? And and I love Kenny Atkinson.
49:56
Where's the defense in this series?
49:59
Why can't they stop Hal Burton? You know he's their best player.
50:03
Double team the ass. Make the other players beat him,
50:06
make the other players beat you. It's been absolutely pathetic.
50:11
You know he's the best player on the court.
50:12
You know he's going to get the ball.
50:14
You know he's going to shoot up threes.
50:16
You know, he's not going to give up doing what he does best and
50:19
that's four shots and make sure that he gets more than he
50:21
misses. I I just don't understand it.
50:24
And that goes to the coaching And I love Kenny.
50:28
But Kenny, wake up, smell the coffee and find a way to get a
50:31
win for your Cavaliers. Beat them, beat the Pacers at
50:35
their own game, go to Indiana, beat them two games, and then go
50:38
home and win three games in a row and get back into this
50:41
series and show everybody why you were the best team, I
50:45
believe throughout the season in the NBA.
50:48
Yeah, Kenny Atkins is good job for the most part, but yeah, he
50:50
does have to make some adjustments on Halliburton
50:52
because we've seen Halliburton get that playoff confidence last
50:55
year and the Cavs are now, they're not very new.
50:57
They're kind of the same experience level as the Pacers.
51:00
But it's still one of those things where they have a lot of
51:02
young players that haven't been tested with that kind of
51:04
adversity. And you mentioned it, a lot of
51:05
their bench was the reason they struggled in Game 2 to hold that
51:08
lead in the fourth quarter. And while the lane violations
51:10
did look a little tacky at certain points, again, they
51:12
could have made those free throws very easily too.
51:14
So it might have not mattered what to in a point where the
51:17
Pacers maybe still tie the game or force overtime even if they
51:20
do get those free throws against them.
51:22
But either way, the Pacers are still playing with great depth.
51:25
This is the same thing they did last year.
51:26
And we thought it was a fluke because, OK, they beat an
51:28
injured box team last year. Then they beat the Knicks when
51:30
they were all hurt last year and like, OK, is this really that
51:33
good of a team? But they're establishing
51:35
themselves as a four seed as far as the Nuggets and Thunder
51:37
series. This is going to go right down
51:38
to the wire. The The Thunders got the depth
51:39
and Nuggets. That was my old team.
51:40
That was my old show name. Yes, it was.
51:42
Down to the wire. And it's because it's because
51:46
the Nuggets have that level of experience.
51:48
Where's my drop, baby? Where's my drop?
51:50
I'd see if it's still there, but.
51:52
Let's get that. Out but but the official love
51:54
it, the Thunder a lot of farts. The Thunder have the experience
51:56
like you said, the size inside that is really making it tougher
51:59
on Yokich from a scoring perspective.
52:01
At that point, but. Like you're saying, he's still
52:03
scoring, he's still passing, he's still rebounding like
52:05
crazy. So it's not like they're
52:05
actually dominating. But Shy is stepping up big and I
52:08
had Thunder and Six initially, but it's going to see it's going
52:10
to be very close down the stretch.
52:13
Yeah, I think the I think the bases it's first of all, do they
52:17
not teach fundamentals in basketball?
52:19
Like blacks out, like let's just try to tip it back to somebody.
52:22
Like he got his own rebound off a tip and then let somebody else
52:27
beat you. Don't let the best player that
52:28
you know is going to take the shot, like bring bring help, do
52:31
something. I'm watching this and I'm just
52:33
right it. You're seeing it unfold and
52:35
like, and I wanted to choke myself out watching myself.
52:40
Do you want me to do it for you? I'll grab your neck right now.
52:43
Yeah, I mean just like box out, like it's the first thing you
52:45
use and you never let literally. Speed your best player.
52:50
Beat you, let somebody else beat you.
52:53
So yeah, I just and, and then I mean health, it sucks.
52:56
I mean, it's it's a grind and and I understand that, but you
53:00
know, if if it is a broken toe, you know how hard that is to
53:02
play. I don't care how much Toradol
53:04
and stuff they shoot up in your foot, that can't be fun running
53:07
up and down. But yeah.
53:09
And I think the Nuggets OKC is gonna go back and forth.
53:13
I think it's gonna go 7 and I'm gonna, I'll take Denver and
53:17
seven. I do just think the back and
53:19
forth is gonna make it a bearable series.
53:23
That game was horrendous. To watch Nuggets have been
53:25
champions before they've been here before.
53:27
So if they if it goes 7, I'm going to trust that the older
53:31
veteran team that's been there before is going to figure out
53:34
how to get that easy or quick basket where it's going to make
53:38
shy Alexander force up shots and OK, see shy's been really
53:43
incredible. I didn't get a chance to watch
53:45
shy all season long. I did take shots to Shy
53:48
Alexander because I just think that the NBA forgets how good
53:52
and he deserves to be the MVP every single year.
53:55
He is the Michael Jordan of basketball right now.
53:58
I don't think there's anybody better than him there.
54:00
You could go up and out. He's not Michael Jordan, but
54:03
when you look at his talent, a 7 foot guy that could see the
54:06
court, he's Wayne Gretzky on a basketball court that can shoot,
54:10
that could defend, that can get to the hole at will and dominate
54:14
and nobody could stop him. Nobody could stop him.
54:17
In Game 1, he had 42, 22 and 6. Yeah, it's ridiculous.
54:22
He's ridiculous. It's ridiculous and but
54:25
unfortunately he's going to have to do that for them to win
54:28
against this team. This is a great team.
54:30
They won 68 games this year. I don't know how their coach
54:33
didn't get more consideration for coach of the year with over
54:37
Kenny Atkinson. He only got like 2 votes.
54:39
You would think that they would be closer than that.
54:41
I don't. Really, I guess they just think
54:42
pressed. He's that kind of AGM.
54:45
I guess it's a really loaded team.
54:48
You have depth pieces everywhere.
54:50
I think they're exposed with this shed experiment because I
54:55
don't think they should play him inside and he needs to try to.
54:58
He's just too frail. Did you see the picture of his
55:02
legs compared to Jokis legs and like why are they having him?
55:05
Tried playing the paint he's got.
55:07
Chicken worried about him out of the draft for that reason.
55:09
He's got chicken legs. First of all, I I disagree with
55:12
you speed. I knew he was going to be.
55:14
Good. You're dead.
55:14
I remember that. I knew he was going to be so.
55:16
Talented, but in a playoff series where the banging
55:19
underneath is legitimate, not like what you see in the regular
55:23
season. He's not there yet.
55:25
No way. I mean, I remember Kevin Durant
55:27
came into the league. He didn't even bother with the
55:29
post game for a long time. And I don't think this guy
55:32
really should either, to be honest with you until he builds
55:35
up some strength. I mean, look at Durant now.
55:37
You know, he can do everything obviously, if he wanted to.
55:40
He's also 7/1. I don't think that's that big,
55:42
but it's that's kind of an issue for them in this series because
55:46
Aaron Gordon's a strong freaking man.
55:48
That dude's just all beef. Like he's a dunk champion for a
55:52
reason. He can hit threes now.
55:54
He's he's been a lot better than I thought he would be for this
55:57
Nuggets team. He stepped up more than his role
55:59
was when they won the championship.
56:01
There's been some cool stories about him too, like losing his
56:04
brother then switching his number.
56:06
And being bitten by a dog. And being eaten by a dog.
56:09
He. Hit that.
56:11
He hit that three because he wore 50 and his brother was 32.
56:15
He hit that three with 3.2 seconds left on the clock.
56:18
Oh wow, crazy. You know, that's crazy.
56:20
It's incredible. And I, I will sit here today and
56:24
say this, you need the understanding how to win.
56:28
If you're not, you've never been there before.
56:30
And OK CS never been there before.
56:32
If it goes seven games, the pressure is on them.
56:36
The OK C Thunder, where everybody expects them to go to
56:39
the Western Conference finals because they've been the best
56:41
team in the West. And that goes to the Celtics
56:43
too. If it goes seven games, even if
56:46
they come back, guess what? Who's the pressure on if the
56:49
next if the Knicks lose? Nobody expected them to be
56:53
there. So even if they come back in
56:55
this series, the Knicks have the opportunity to have the benefits
56:59
of being the underdog. So I know everybody's sitting
57:03
here and everybody's going to try to figure out and try to
57:05
make excuses on where and what this series is going to turn out
57:10
to be. I just think that the the
57:12
Thunder is the the obviously the benefit team because they've
57:16
been the best team in the Eastern.
57:18
I mean the Western Conference finals, but the the team that
57:21
has the most experience, the Nuggets, So and the Pacers.
57:23
I don't really care about the Pacers honestly, it whoever
57:26
comes out of the Celtics and Knicks series is going to have
57:29
the advantage. Everybody knows that no matter
57:32
who comes out of this series, they're going to have the
57:34
advantage. Advantage against the Cavaliers
57:36
that are not 100% healthy and the Pacers that don't shut the
57:38
hell up and they think that they're better than everybody
57:40
else. And I love that.
57:42
Reggie Miller wants to see it, ladies and gentlemen, because
57:44
when Reggie's sitting there talking with eye and Eagle and
57:48
I'm laughing, when the Knicks knocking out like they did years
57:51
and years ago because Reggie had a problem, I'm knocking out the
57:54
Knicks. I'm going to laugh as the Knicks
57:58
are going to head to the finals and finally maybe get over the
58:01
hump. Since then, 94 debacle against
58:04
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