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Game 1 Showdown: Knicks vs Spurs — New York’s Shot at a Dynasty · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, everybody, and what's going on, folks? Welcome to the Deconstructed Top Podcast.
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  I like to do a little bit of animation here going on because we got the New
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  York Knicks on game one tonight. We're making it happen.
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  It's going to be real quick, real short, because I'm kind of like running out
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  of time. The Knicks game is tonight.
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  I'm trying to get a little bit of saucy too, you know what I mean?
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  And trying to enjoy the night as well. Responsibility, we got the Knicks game
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  one. my finals breakdown, or at least game one breakdown.
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  We make it happen to New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs.
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  I know some people like to say it is a beat match of the 1999 NBA finals where
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  we got, that's all I can say.
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  Dave Robinson and Tim Duncan, what a beast. But you know what?
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  This year is different because none of those players probably existed at that time.
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  No, but more or less, it is something that, hey, listen, you know, two teams play.
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  Can this be the repeat, or can the Knicks just be like, you know what?
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  We need to get this championship for the New York City and all those Knicks
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  fans across the city, across the boroughs, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island,
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  excuse me, Queens, and all that, and across the nation, and across the world,
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  because Knicks Nation, we already here.
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  We making it happen. I mean, that's what I'm talking about because,
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  hey, listen, I'm a wrestling guy.
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  And these next team right now, we are playing with Cero.
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  Let's go. We make it happen. It's going to be a good one. I mean,
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  you know, real quick, we got Bronson and all that.
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  They's having to have won a championship in 1973.
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  We got Jalen Bronson late in New York. Then we got Victor Wemba. Oyama Wemby.
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  Toe Du, Young Du, 7'5", players like he, owns the whole court.
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  I can't really say much about him. And, wow, it should be very interesting.
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  And this is our finals matchup. Again, we're going to bring it up to 1999.
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  I know that a couple of people say, come on, David, that's not a rematch.
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  But, you know, again, in the scope of sports, sometimes they are franchised
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  that tend to play and play and play in the finals because that builds those
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  kind of rivalries in the future.
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  And obviously in the NBA, we got the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers.
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  Hey, listen, that's what's going on. So it's going to be like kind of like a
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  superstar type of field energy throughout San Antonio.
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  So I get it. You know what I mean? And, yeah, listen, New York things,
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  we've been playing on a 11-game playoff win streak ever since we lost game four,
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  like, against Atlanta in the first round.
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  And I, myself, was like, this can't be. Am I bugging or what's...
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  Going on with that, you know, we fire Tom Thibodeau last year for this and Mike
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  Brown and all that, and then, you know, to say, hey, listen,
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  there's a reason the echoes of Mass Square Garden just rose up and say,
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  you got this, New York, because the fact is that we lost those couple of games
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  against Atlanta a little bit close, so we kind of just said, you know what?
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  I'm dialed up. I often have said when it comes to the New York Knicks,
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  For some reason, they tend to last year and the last couple of years switch on.
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  Twitch switch on. On and off. On and off. On and off.
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  And then this year, we kind of been doing it the same. But now we collective
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  have the good players coming from the bench, Bronxin, Bridges.
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  Oh, man. What can I say? Cat and all those people. Now we got that switch on and just leave it on.
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  Even if we get electrocuted. No, no, no funny stuff. But I'm just saying it
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  should be a good one. But you know what?
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  San Antonio, despite the fact
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  that they went to Game 7, they beat the defending champion OKC Thunder.
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  And really, OKC, they give it all. Hey, they are the defending champion after all. But let's see.
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  But let's see, you know, history have shown that the team that comes here with
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  the most rest is the team that wins.
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  You might say, OK, San Antonio probably has three or four days less to rest
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  than the New York things.
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  But you might say, listen, David, when it comes to that, these are young cats out there.
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  You know what I mean? These are not crazy plays over the age of 30.
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  I mean, for the most part, these are still young cats, so they're going to recover.
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  But once again, sometimes that energy, because keep in mind,
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  even though San Antonio might have rested, and even though, but the fact is
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  this, resting is resting, but you still have to practice.
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  Practice? Somewhere about practice? No, no. But I mean, you have to.
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  So the thing is that the Knicks need to kind of continue that momentum.
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  We need to kind of continue, continue, continue.
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  Turn, leave that light on. You know what I mean? leave it all,
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  leave that on, especially Bronson and all those cats.
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  The Spurs? They think.
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  You know, because even though the Spurs is the number two best team in the league,
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  the fact that you have like 62 wins or whatever wins, 61, 62,
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  the fact that you're still number two, any other NBA season you'd be at number
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  one, they're playing with a ship on the shoulder to say we're the best.
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  We're not just the best in the West, but we're the best in the whole NBA.
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  Can this be something? Can the Spurs be that team that this can't be the beginning
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  of the dynasty? See, I'm hoping not because my Knicks, can this be the beginning
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  of a little dynasty or good run?
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  Absolutely. Absolutely. So, you know, we got a couple of key matchups.
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  And one of the things is that it comes down to what exactly?
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  Brunson and Wemby. I'm just saying, even though one is a guard,
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  small dude, you know, Brunson ain't, with all due respect, with the title being small guy. Come on, man.
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  Stop playing, Becky Hammond. Relax out there. Brunson knows how to play.
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  And Wemby, you know, Wemby, even though despite the fact that people covered
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  him back in whatever he was doing in Europe, the fact is this.
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  You know, a lot of people kind of say, you know, he could be like a little Kevin
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  Durant, you know, a little bit too slim for the NBA, but the fact is this.
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  Durant, he have had a successful NBA career, despite his length,
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  I mean, his stature, very, you know, slim in the body, you know what I mean?
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  But the fact that they, you know, they bang hard.
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  And they're like, these people just disappear through the sun or something like
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  that, through the wind. I'm like, no, they play hard.
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  So one of the things is that, hey, we need to control the tempo.
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  And Bronson is that dude that, you know, his father played with the Knicks.
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  He was drafted by the Knicks.
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  So he comes from that basketball lineage of something.
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  You know what I'm saying? Shout out to his pops and his parents out there.
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  So he, since a young age, you know, he probably picked up a Christmas present
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  that was all basketballs.
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  No funny stuff. All balls. You know what I mean?
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  He's like, hey, that, that, you know, been around players, been around the fact
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  that he was he around the 1999 Knicks?
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  The fact that this young fella has been around basketball he's smelly,
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  he's sensey he's like a Spider-Man slash Wolverine of whatever it is,
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  he the dude is basketball and Wemby, huh,
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  What the hell he came from? Again, you know, historically speaking,
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  most 7 feet players, 7 feet, 7'2", 7'3", who are a bit on the slimmer side,
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  hey, listen, he's young, so this is his second year.
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  But the fact that sometimes they tend to be a little bit fresher and a little
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  bit nimble on the feet, but Wambi, I'm telling you, Wambi's a different beast.
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  So that's all I can say, because Wambi could just put in some 20-plus points.
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  He's going to get 10 rebounds just.
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  Just putting his hand out that's it he don't even need to jump and he could
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  just hit blocks like poof I mean again he doesn't even need to jump he just
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  goes like that you know remember the camera no no no not in my house,
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  well we could just do that but just with a pinky be like,
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  no not here but that's when with that French accent.
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  But the fact that the Knicks need to kind of be physical here.
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  Cat Robinson, who's hurt with the pinky, maybe, you know, let's see.
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  But the fact that the Knicks need to be a little bit physical, especially with Wemby.
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  Now, I know that Wemby's a little bit fast, and he could just do something like that.
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  But, I mean, you know, sometimes in the NBA, we might allow certain plays.
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  I'm over here winking, but we might allow a couple plays here and there.
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  You know, I'm not trying to say hurt the kid. I'm just saying that play physical.
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  Despite that he is young, I mean, again, he got 7'5", or something that you could just, you know.
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  Play some physical. The Spurs, they do tend to play a lot of the pace. They tend to relax.
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  They tend to play a little bit old school. Their former coach,
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  Greg Popovich, one of the greatest of all time, tends to kind of play big.
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  No funny stuff. But the fact that, you know, the Spurs have had a history,
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  the team that was that franchise, that team that was that destiny to have dynasty,
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  I'm sorry, to be that right there, whatever it is,
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  you know, it was David Ronson and Tim Duncan and Tim Duncan and,
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  you know, fast forward, you know, during Devin Robinson once he retired,
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  the fact that the Spurs play big, they play to a pace that surrounds the center.
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  So that's going to be Wemby. So that's going to be Wemby.
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  So the Knicks need to, despite that we outpaced, we need to,
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  you know, let the captain, let Bronson just focus on whatever it is,
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  defense, rebound, you grab it, you know, and make sure that when you shoot the
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  ball, make sure that Cat is playing outside so that Wambi might not be in the perimeter.
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  Because if we could just take Wambi off the rim, we could just probably do some work.
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  You know, just focus on that defense for the Spurs. I say, listen,
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  they probably wouldn't match up well against the Knicks.
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  Run, run, run. And the fact that they're a young team, a young team,
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  so their energy is going to be elevated, like pow, pow, pow,
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  pow, pow. They're going to do some crazy stuff.
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  Oh, there you go. Oh, there you go.
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  So I'm just saying, I mean, as far as the Knicks, even though we got a couple
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  of more of the experience plays in terms of age,
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  in terms of been there, done that, But I think that that's one thing that we
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  might forget, even though the Spurs is that this team, but the fact that Ninks
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  in the last couple of years, we've been there.
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  You know, the fact that we played Sam, you know, we got bumped last year against
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  the Indiana Pacers. They went to the finals.
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  You know, they lost that NBA final through the OKC Thunder.
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  But the fact that we played that team, you know, we've done that thing with Boston.
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  You know, we bang hard with Boston, with Detroit. Hey, listen,
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  Detroit, it's a great team. They just happened to fall short.
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  And, you know, for Draymond Green to say, well, in the East,
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  you know, whatever the case might be, this is the chance for the Knicks.
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  Because the fact is this, we've been in that little pool of whatever nonsense.
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  That you might say, oh, garbage teams in the East.
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  The fact that here in the West, again, youth is youth with San Sonia,
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  but they had experience with the Knicks.
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  Hey, we got that little matchup going on.
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  In regards to, look, and the devil, Ken Anthony and Bridges...
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  And all that good stuff, you know, we're going to play against the young players.
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  And I think that if we get on this little big lead, let's say Wemby gets into
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  like little fire troubles or something to that effect, I think that the young
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  players might be rattled.
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  And I think that this is the perfect example, wherever Wemby goes,
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  the young players will follow.
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  So if Wambi's a little bit rattled, not playing well, missing his shots,
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  taking wild shots, or whatever the case might be, I think that's going to be an issue.
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  So I think, you know, that young core of the Spurs team, you just got to keep watching it.
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  Because, again, bridges and towns and so on and so forth don't mind me.
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  I'm just a little bit over here like me, me, me, me. Did a lot of networking
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  today, a lot of podcasting.
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  So in the last 24-7, because we got, go New York, go New York, go.
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  So game one is going to be about, you know, you're going to have the feel,
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  the nerves, and so on and so forth.
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  But I think this Knicks team, again, as a Knicks fan, Knicks team,
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  they're together. So they feed off each other.
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  The fact that against the Cavaliers in game one, that we was down like by 20
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  points or whatever case with eight minutes, seven minutes.
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  The fact that we were just focused and prunching stuff up and talking about
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  the guys like, hey, come on.
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  Come on, let's go. We just came off a big win, destroying, demolishing team.
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  And guess what? The niggas just turning up.
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  And they just looked hard on that sweep on the basis of that fourth quarter.
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  So that's going to be definitely interesting.
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  It's going to be Sanso again Sanso even though they had the home call advantage,
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  And they favorite on this one because of the home court and because of the best
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  record or whatever it is.
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  You know, the Knicks kind of match up good. They kind of match up.
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  And then, you know, we had the NBA Cup situation going on early in the year.
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  Again, it was months ago.
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  San Antonio is a much better team. But I'm going to say that the Knicks are
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  a much better team since then. Especially in the last couple of weeks,
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  we've been just in that trajectory.
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  It's a shame by one of my favorite wrestlers right now, Jacob Fatou,
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  let's go, is that, hey, listen.
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  What's that saying that he goes? All gas, no breaks, basically.
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  Something to that effect. It's a nod that, hey, listen, you just going.
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  You ain't stopping. And I think that the next, for this game,
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  to set the setting, you start wherever you finish in game four.
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  Just use that extra energy because you got to keep in mind is this you got to
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  test the San Antonio Spurs if they really tired tired tired and then they haven't gotten full rest,
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  then do you test them out because you're supposed to be the team that has the
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  most rest and you knock them on the boom you knock them right there boom boom boom boom boom,
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  do a couple of things there you just want to kind of get that feel and that's
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  what I say I understand that game one is kind of like that boxing fight.
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  You want to get the feels, but at the same time, you know what?
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  Just relax. Just go crazy.
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  Push the tempo. Go on a 10-0 run or whatever the case, opening the first five minutes.
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  If I see that the Knicks are winning like 20-8 or something like that,
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  and that tempo, I think you got to be, I'm not going to say I think.
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  I believe San Antonio would be a little bit rattled.
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  Tired, yes. How can they overcome their tiredness with youth? So props to that.
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  Should be an interesting first half. And then, you know, I'm pretty sure that
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  Santonio is going to be kind of, you got Greg Popovich, even though he's not
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  the coach, he's out there somewhere watching.
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  I'm pretty sure he's going to tell them, hey, listen, just relax.
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  But I'm going to say that if the Knicks start with that run,
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  a 28, you know, 20-8 run or whatever the case might be, Yeah,
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  I think that's going to be the difference.
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  But if it's me, you already know. I'm ready for New York, and we're making it happen on game one.
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  We got to push that tempo. We got to just continue, continue to put that press
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  the way we've been doing it against the Cavaliers, against the Sixers,
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  against Atlanta in the last three games.
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  Just go all crazy, 100 miles per hour, nonstop, because we got to bring that
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  orange and blue skies all the way to San Antonio, Texas.
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  People are gonna say oh it's antonio texas remember the alamo remember
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  the nicks that's for sure but anyways hit up
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  we make it happen for the new york nays because we are go new york go new york
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  zone let's get it anyways i'm out of here the boy deconstructing topic podcast
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  Let's make it happen. I'm out of here. Peace.