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Jayson Tatum tears his Achilles: What's next for the Celtics? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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com. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's
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been clear. It's been beautiful.
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It's been hot and rainy here in Long Island, New York.
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And yes, if you're hot and rainy and you like the hot and rainy
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weather, well then Long Island is hot and rainy for you.
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Speaking of hot and very rainy, that is the New York Knicks and
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we will get into the whole New York Knicks Game 5.
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For all you Knick fans that thought this was going to be a
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shoe in, well, ladies and gentlemen, Knick fans are
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probably wondering what's going to happen at Game 6 at Madison
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Square Garden. I've got some rumors.
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Well, I don't, I'm not the rumor guy that that would be Josh.
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He was before our show. But Speedy, how are you?
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By the way, before we get to you, our executive producer, you
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just saw him as he did our introduction, Mr. Aaron Fish,
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Fishman and the one and only Mr. Tommy Scoops is here to do our
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sportsman and give us some of the back end information that
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we're going to need throughout the show.
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And our PR guys right now backstage, as he's working over
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there somewhere in New Jersey, Mr. Kniffin, AKA I need a Leash.
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I'm putting you on a leash now. Now, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speedy, what's going on? Yeah, it was interesting you
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brought up Josh's show. It felt like it was a 2021 all
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over again when he was with us on the sports label venting
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about the New York Knicks. I think the only thing hotter
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than Josh's head might have been Tom Thibodeau's head.
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Well, I don't know about hotter right there.
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I don't even know if there's a word called hotter when it comes
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to Josh. I think it would be ugly.
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I'm just kidding, Josh. There.
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There is ugliness to Josh's thoughts when it comes to the
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New York Knicks. If it doesn't go his way, he's
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complaining. He's crying.
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Like all you Knick fans. When the Knicks are winning,
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you're dancing around with your your pants off your chest.
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You're bare chested, sticking out, dancing around on a on a
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camera center stage for all you Knick fans.
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And when they're losing, you're making crybaby antics all over
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social media and crying and complaining all over the world.
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So it is typical New York at its fullest.
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But I, I will say this, I, I look at what is going on in
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professional sports, you can only wonder, is this a business
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or is this something to do with the league and what it's all
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about? Now we all know about the NBA
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and the LJA, the LeBron James Association, the NHL.
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I love what Gary Bettman's doing right now for all the people out
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there that Boo him every time at the draft thinking that this guy
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doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know how to bring
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money into their association. Well, you're absolutely wrong
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with the new CBA that they brought in some of the new TV
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deals that they have. I think the NHL is doing very,
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very well. And then you look at the NFL.
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We all know Roger Goodell doesn't need to do anything.
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He can wipe his ass and he's going to get a new sponsor, a
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new advertiser because the NFL is the NFL here in in Long
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Island, New York and around the world.
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We all know how sports is when it comes to New York and, and,
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and really throughout the United States.
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So we know Rodger Goodell is going to find a way to bring in
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money and and sell it to every single person out there that's
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enjoying the sport of football. But what really bothers me more
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than anything is the way the NBA runs their product.
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I don't like anything about what the NBA does.
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I don't know if I would fully blame LeBron James, but look,
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it's really started to happen when David Stern step stepped
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down and gave it to Adam Silver. And Adam Silver, even though
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he's bringing so much money and so much cash for the new TV
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deals that they're getting and, and all the different
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advertisers that they've been bringing in over the last couple
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of years, including Nike, which is a world phenomenon really for
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the last 30-40 years, Nike is bringing in so much money for
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the NBA. The problem right now really
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lies between what Adam Silver is doing for the players.
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It's not anything about the fans anymore.
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It's not about anything when it comes to the money that is being
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brought in by the fans. It's all about the players and
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what the players could do when it comes to the product.
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And I don't like what the NBA is doing right now as we watch the
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NBA playoffs. And it's fun to watch as we're
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watching so many great series, the Nugget series, the Golden
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State series which just ended, and then obviously the Knicks
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series, the Pacer series that was an absolute blowout.
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But All in all, it's been fun. The playoffs are always fun, but
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it bothers me when I look at the league and what it's doing and
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how they don't appreciate the fans.
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The fans are not the number one priority.
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And it's been a big problem over the last couple years.
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And I blame LeBron James and all the other players, the Kevin
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Durants, those type of players that are selfish me type of
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players, including Kyrie Irving for over the years of all the
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craziness that he has done on and off the basketball court.
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But I'm not going to get into that.
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ESPN reports that Jason Tatum suffered A torn Achilles injury.
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He suffered in fourth in the fourth quarter in Game 4 versus
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the New York Knicks. Tatum had a surgery already and
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is expected to miss all of next season.
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Tatum surgery was done by the same doctor.
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Kevin Durant got his surgery in 2019 and Durant was able to
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return in the beginning of 2020. In the season, the Celtics blew
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out the Knicks in game five of their series, 127 to one O 2
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with Derek White leading the Celtics to a 34 point game.
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Jaylen Brown nearly had a triple double, 26 points, 12 assists
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and eight rebounds. Tom Thibodeau was criticized by
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the media in regards to giving the starters too many minutes
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and Tibbs said you have to play, play the best players to have a
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chance to win. Charles Oakley defended Tom
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Thibodeau saying that minute police, but I'm sorry, the
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minute police's or police, the Knicks fans have no idea what
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they're talking about when it comes to tips.
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You know, I love Charles Oakley, I love everything about him.
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I got a chance to meet him. I got a chance to interview him
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a couple I would say about a year ago.
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It was fun to interview him. He was one of my favorite
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players as a New York Knick, and I'm not going to sit there and
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harass or attack what Charles Oakley has to say because he
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knows what it takes to win. He was there in 94 when the
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Knicks went all the way to the NBA championship against the the
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one and only Hakeem Olajuwon. Rockets.
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We all know about that choke that they had in Game 7 and
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really Game six. We know the whole background.
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So I'm not going to attack Charles Oakley.
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What really bothers me is Tom Thibodeau.
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Tom Thibodeau has a chance to close out the Boston Celtics in
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five games, give his team at least a couple of days of rest
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before they got to go into that Pacer series where you have a
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young Pacer team that's flying high.
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They just knocked off the Cavaliers and what five games
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and Cavalier team that was unstoppable, as everybody said.
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And some people thought were going to be up to win an NBA
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championship this year with Kenny Atkinson and obviously the
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Spider. But the Spider wasn't 100%
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healthy and the team was fighting injury really for the
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last two weeks of the season going into the playoffs.
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But I I look at Tom Thibodeau and he's made an excuse all
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season long. And the problem with Tom
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Thibodeau is really giving his players a relief on the bench,
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giving them time to rest, giving them and using a rotation that
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actually fits and gives the Knicks the best chance to win.
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It's been a big problem all season long.
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And when you have guys like Cam Payne who shouldn't be playing,
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I know he was big in the Detroit series in one game and he made,
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he needs some shots. He forces shots.
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He really doesn't defend. And you have Jalen Brunson who
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fouled out for the first time. I don't remember the last time
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Jalen Brunson fouled out in the game in in the last couple of
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years. He fouled out in an important
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game in the fourth quarter with about 7 minutes left.
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And it just shows you one thing. Are the Knicks ready to take
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that next step? We've been saying this forever,
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but I, I don't know, I, I don't know what Nick team is going to
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show up every single night. You're in Madison Square Garden,
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you're in Celtic, Celtic, Ville over there in Boston.
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I don't know what it is, but for some reason, the Knicks cannot
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be consistent. There are games that Mikhail
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Bridges disappears for the 1st 3/4 and then shows up in the
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fourth in the overtime. There are games that OG and
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Anobi can hit shots and not miss.
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And then there are games that he can't hit any shots and then the
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defensive side of the ball. Why is it that a guy like, and
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I'm going to say this to be honest, and I'm saying this to
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be true, Derek White is not a good offensive player, never was
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and really has really transitioned into a decent
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offensive player. This guy is built on defense.
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That's why he's on this team. That's why the Celtics traded
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for him. And that's why he's he got his
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extension and that's why he made the Olympic team because that's
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what he does defensively. He's a great defender at the
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perimeter. He is not a three-point shooter.
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He is not a great offensive player.
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Why is he scoring 34 points against a Knick team that should
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absolutely be able to defend him?
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It doesn't make any sense. And Jaylen Brown, I I don't know
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if anybody knows his story after Tatum went down after the game.
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Tatum Jaylen Brown had a it close, had a close conversation
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with all his teammates in the locker room saying that we
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should be playing better. Tatum or no Tatum.
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We are one of the best teams in the NBA and we can win this
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series. And we got to go out there and
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play our game. And they did in game five.
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And if they continue doing it in Game 6 and Game 7, the Knicks
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are going to go down. But I don't know why anybody
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thinks that this was going to be a shoe in game.
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I did not think it. And and by the way, there are
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guys that were coming off the bench and you know who I'm
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talking about, the big man Speedy and and I to me, he was
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the player of the game. Every time they needed a big
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rebound, every time they needed a a big defensive player.
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This guy was everywhere to be. And he was actually a a former
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Nick. The Knicks didn't hold on to
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him. And then?
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He looks. He looks 50.
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He could look 50, he could look 60 if he plays.
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That way, two years of college too, at Duke.
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If he plays that way, they're going to have a chance to win
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this series because the Knicks have no answer to their
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secondary players. Why is Al Horford, when he gets
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into the game, actually hitting jump shots that are open?
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Why is it that the Knicks don't understand what a rotation is
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and this defense is more than good enough to knock off this
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Boston Celtic team? Jaylen Brown's the best player
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on this roster right now. Porzingis isn't 100%.
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You have Jason Tatum that's out for the rest of the season and
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next year. So the Celtics are not the same
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offensive team they've been all season long.
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And then it's beat them with Jason Tatum.
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How do you let this team completely dominate you in Game
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5 when you should have just absolutely pride, you know,
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trounced on them? It was just, it was embarrassing
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and I'm not going to sit here and I'm not going to cry about
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it. They got a chance to end any
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game number six. If they let this go to a game #7
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the momentum is on the Boston Celtics side and they get to
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play it at home. They get to finish the the
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series at home and that gives them the full momentum.
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The Knicks do not want, wants this, this series to go to a
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Game 7. Now, I'll sit here and I'll be
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honest with you, I don't trust Tom Thibodeau.
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I don't trust him in a hole in a wall.
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I don't think this guy knows what he's doing.
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I think he's always choked. We've seen him go to Eastern
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Conference championships against Miami with Derrick Rose and that
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team, that great Bulls team that was the best team in Eastern
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Conference that year. And, and Derrick Rose, I if I'm
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not mistaken, he was the MVP of the league.
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And you let LeBron James and Miami play the way you did the
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play the way they they did in that series and completely
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dominate a a team like the Chicago Bulls that was very
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round, very good and rounded all the way through from the
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defensive side of the ball, from the offensive side of the ball.
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And they just completely dominated because LeBron James
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decided to take his defensive side of the and his prowess to
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Derrick Rose and made Derrick Rose try to beat him.
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And, and Tom Thibodeau had no answer for Derrick Rose.
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And now you look at Jalen Brown. I don't.
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I know you look at Jaylen Browns numbers, they don't really stick
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out. I know he had a triple double,
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but you would have thought that Jaylen Brown would be shooting
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most of the shots. Jaylen Brown would be scoring 40
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points just like Jason Tatum. But Jaylen Brown does so many
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things so good. He doesn't need to score 40
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points. He can get you assist, he's
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going to get your rebounds and he's going to defend multiple
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positions. And if you can't take Jaylen
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Brown, it doesn't matter if Derek Wright scores 34 points on
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you. If you keep Jaylen Brown down 20
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points and keep him out of his confidence and his structure of
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his game, then the Knicks are going to win the series.
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Porzingis is a no show. If you get 15 to 20 minutes for
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Porzingis, you're lucky. The Celtics know that Porzingis
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is not 100% healthy. The only reason why he's playing
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and he's playing as many minutes as he has in this series is
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because now that Jason Tatum's down, and really, they know that
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he is a decoy on the court for the New York Knicks.
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And I, I got to give a shout out to one player.
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Robertson played a sensational game and I, I'll say this about
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Mitch. Mitch actually practice like I
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was saying on Monday, he needs to figure out his free throw
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problem. He did.
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He was 6 for six in Game 5. So if he plays like that and
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he's shooting his free throws, they're not going to play hack a
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Mitch, but they need this defense, this team.
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And by the way, Karl Anthony Towns, stop flopping, stop being
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a bitch cuz that's what he is, and stop complaining to the
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referees and go out there and play your game.
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You are one of the best players on this team.
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And if Jalen Brunson is fouling out and he's not having his best
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offensive day, you should be the next guy up, not OG and Anobi,
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not McHale Bridges, not Josh Hart.
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You should. That's why the Knicks brought
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you here, that's why the Knicks wanted you so bad.
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And Leon Rose would do anything to make that move to bring you
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over there from Minnesota to New York.
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Go look at the other players right now.
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Randall's playing well. Minnesota's going right now to
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the Western Conference finals for back-to-back years.
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Dante Diva, Chancel's playing well.
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This is the second year in a row the Timberwolves have a chance
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to go to the finals. And they got a very good chance
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because the West is really not as good as it's been over the
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years. So, and there's no surprises
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here. We expected this.
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So I, I just, I don't understand the, the problem right now and I
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don't understand the, the rotation of the Knicks
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offensively and defensively. And the Knicks got to figure out
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why are they putting in pieces in the game.
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I campaign and, and even McBride, who hasn't played well
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really throughout the playoffs. If McBride and campaign are not
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at the top of their game, you got to try other guys.
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Why isn't precious playing? Why aren't the bigger guys
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playing? You have a chance to use your
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size against a team that's not as big as you, not as strong as
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is you, and you are. When you're at full, full
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strength with Mitchell Robinson and Karl Anthony Towns, you're
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arguably the best offensive rebounded team in the league.
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Yeah, You also look at the matchups that the Celtics had to
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play in this game. Luke Cornett playing a lot more
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for Porzingis, I think was a big reason for that because
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Porzingis, especially on defense, looks like a big
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liability in that game as well. And then Sam Houser in the
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second-half playing as well as he did coming back from his
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injury. Like, these are not matchups
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that the Knicks should be losing with those guys on the floor
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with Robinson and especially with Towns, who had a lot of
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problems defensively in that game, had a lot of problems
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defensively even in other parts during this postseason.
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And the Celtics stuck with that. And they could have kept
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Porzingis back at, oh, he's going to ride the hot hand and
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still go with let's bring Porzingis back.
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No, they stuck with Cornett and Cornett obviously at 7 blocks,
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he was everywhere on the defensive side of the ball and
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made the other difference. You were talking about Jalen
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Brown too. Like Jalen Brown could have
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easily gone into his post season woes that he's had in the past
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two where he's overshooting the threes and being very
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inefficient with the ball. He did not do that in this game.
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And I think the Celtics recognized that.
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They finally used a depth to their advantage.
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I was talking about the adversity factor in Game 2 when
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the Knicks of the two O lead. This is a talent driven team,
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not an adversity driven team. They're back to the being the
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adversity driven team. And now it's up to the Knicks to
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find their own adversity too. When like you said, Jalen
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Bronson's in foul trouble. If Towns was in foul trouble in
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the past, where is that adversity coming from?
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Their bench has been awful the last three games.
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Wake up. And yeah, Tom Thibodeau has to
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be more creative and not so stubborn with his rotations
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because otherwise it can come back to haunt him again,
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especially with campaign who can't do anything right.
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Yeah. And we've talked about it
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already with how he's managing the rotation.
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And I mean, and then obviously you come in, you lose a guy like
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Tatum, then you get a guy like Cornet that gives you 1077
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blocks and 9 rebounds and, you know, plays, you know, 23 solid
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minutes and got after it. It's I mean, it's just it's hard
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to watch cat on the defensive side.
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I know fish has fish has got something up his sleeve.
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So I'll I'll let him go on his rant for that one.
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But it's just, I feel like he gets lost like in the moment of
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the game, like where he has kind of scripted and he's not
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watching how the game ebbs and flows of when to bring in.
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I agree with you Fish. I, I don't think Porzingis plays
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more than 12. He he played 18, then he played
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23 and then his last game he only played 12.
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And it's just I. I don't know if he's lost or if
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it's just T. He's not healthy.
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Obvious. Yeah, he's obviously not
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healthy, but nobody's healthy right now.
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Let's just be. Honest.
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No, he's really He shouldn't even be in this series.
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I don't know why he's still playing.
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Right now, they won't say what it is, Errol.
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Yeah, some weird illness. They won't.
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They won't say. He should not be playing.
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So, yeah, but I mean, when you lose a guy like that, I think
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Errol, you're right. Like if they they laid an egg,
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right? OK, that's fine.
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But now it's, you know, a little bit of moment, all right?
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You know, they beat us with Tatum, but then we stepped up,
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we had guys step up and it's, it's a little different.
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But they I me personally, if they don't end it the next game,
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then I I think they lose the. Series I disagree I I I still
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think the Knicks have a chance to win game seven.
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I I still have the Knicks winning in game seven.
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But the momentum will be on the Celtic side.
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If the Celtics come back from A2 game remember they were down 3
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to 1. If they win two games
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back-to-back games and they go back home in Boston, they have
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the momentum. But again, the pressure's still
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on them because the Knicks were not supposed to win this series.
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The Celtics were so I I know you everybody thinks that if the
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Knicks lose this game and it's over, it's done.
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I know Josh said it on his show on game on.
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I disagree. I just don't like the way the
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Knicks have played when they have the advantage against
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Detroit. They had the advantage in that
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series really back and forth and then they'd lay up a lousy goose
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egg. You're a better team than
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Detroit. I don't care what you did in the
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regular team again season against them.
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I don't care what your record was against the Celtics in the
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regular season or the Cavaliers. I expect what you're I want to
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know what you're going to do in the playoffs and I expect better
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in the playoffs with the. Talent that you have around
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Jalen Bronson, you brought in Mikhail Bridges, you brought him
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in for the playoffs. You brought him in because he's
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a great wing defender and he could take over games.
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We've seen him do it. We've seen him do it in
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Villanova with guys like Jalen Bronson and Josh Hart.
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And then you go to OG and Anobi. Why did you give OG and Anobi
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$240 million in the offseason? Because you expect him to be a
20:44
Kawhi Leonard type of player. Can take over defensively, can
20:48
rebound, could shoot, get to the line and defend multiple
20:52
positions and OG disappears in certain games.
20:55
I don't get it. And it's really and it has to do
20:59
with coaching. Tom Thibodeau needs to step up
21:02
to the plate, stop making these ugly frown faces on the
21:06
sideline. And it just, it makes me
21:08
disgusted every time I watch this guy coach because I just
21:12
don't know if he knows what he's doing.
21:14
He's making him that one guy. He's making those faces at Karl
21:18
Anthony Towns Karl Anthony towns must be the most frustrating
21:21
great player to ever play this game.
21:24
I've never seen a guy with as much talent shooting with
21:28
shooting touch from outside ability to pull up from well
21:31
beyond the three-point arc ability to drive to the lane
21:34
ability to pass while driving to the lane and post up.
21:38
But at the same time he he it's like he's playing NBA jam out
21:42
there. He, he he's so he just fouls
21:45
everybody. There was a sequence arrow where
21:48
he does the two handed NBA Jam. You hit, you know, like the, the
21:52
whatever 2 buttons at the same time to foul him in the arcade.
21:56
He got it was his second foul. And then he gets the next
21:59
possession. He tries to take a three.
22:02
He's what, 611? He gets blocked by Derek White
22:05
and then what does he do? He then reaches over Derek White
22:09
and wrestles him and gets a foul, compounding the mistake
22:12
and now he's got 3 fouls. That's what happened with around
22:15
7 minutes left in the second quarter.
22:17
And the Knicks actually played better because Mitch has been
22:20
playing great on defense and they did this hack and Mitch
22:23
thing, but he had all six of his foul shots, which is awesome.
22:26
Don't expect them to be 100% from the foul line every game.
22:29
Career 58% so if he gives you half of them.
22:32
I'm glad he did and. We'll take 6 of.
22:34
That pressure. But look, this it's a
22:37
traditional, you know, the rally at home for the troops game, all
22:41
of their guys were hitting shots.
22:42
Derek White couldn't miss. Pritchard was great, you know,
22:46
but there's a there's a rule about this in the playoffs is
22:50
the bench doesn't travel. Campaign was terrible.
22:52
OG and Michael didn't have their shot.
22:54
They didn't have their shot at all.
22:55
Niles Bridges shooting over 50% for this series so he's actually
22:59
been like their savior for any offense when Jalen's not on the
23:03
court. And Jalen got in foul trouble
23:05
because they were calling ticky tack shit against him in that
23:07
game and it was bullshit. But if you like the guys that
23:11
are, you know, coming out the bed that are only playing like 2
23:13
minutes, one of my boys who watches our show and he's at the
23:17
game, Tommy, shout out to him. He listens all the time,
23:20
especially when it comes to his Knicks.
23:21
He's passionate about that. He says he wishes they would
23:25
play Precious a little bit more in the rotation to get him more
23:27
like 11:50. Minutes So like the thing with
23:30
Cat is you want I think what they want him to do is you want
23:35
that second offense when Jalen's kind of taking a back seat to be
23:39
you want to have they tried this two center thing.
23:41
It doesn't work because he can't play stretched out as a four.
23:45
So it just doesn't work defensively.
23:47
But they do try to get the miles Bridges of miles.
23:50
I keep saying it, Mikhail Bridges and Cat like 2 man
23:54
offense going when Jalen's not on the court, you know, at the
23:57
end, at the beginning of the second quarter, beginning of the
23:59
fourth quarter and it does look good.
24:01
They need to get him going, but he was Invisible Man on offense,
24:06
hitting shots that didn't matter.
24:07
Maybe he had one good big shot in the entire game, hit a good
24:10
three at one point. That was in a big moment in the
24:12
game for momentum swing. But everything else was just
24:15
like nothing. And defensively he's exposed.
24:20
So he's the guy that's being frustrating and you can't have
24:24
these horrible fouls. And once that happens, it's a
24:27
chain effect. Right now, guys have to play out
24:29
of position to make up for the fact that he's not in there.
24:32
And they got to play small when they didn't want to play small.
24:34
OG's got a guards guard cornet, who apparently is the second
24:37
coming of I. I don't even like who is it Sean
24:41
Bradley blocking ability, but some but some like great power
24:44
forward. Honestly, it's like, it's like,
24:47
I wish we had Julius Randle right now.
24:50
No, you don't. No, you don't.
24:52
Playing great. You don't want Julie.
24:54
No, you don't. Because I don't really do
24:56
because but it's like I do he, he.
24:59
Didn't do well here in New York. Maybe he's doing better because
25:02
there's less pressure over there with the double you.
25:04
Know 20 point, triple double he's he's leading the way.
25:07
But he already knows. But he when he was here with the
25:10
New York Knicks, he always thought he was better than
25:12
Jaylen Brunson. He always thought he was the
25:14
guy. That's what he thought.
25:16
And then he goes over there with Anthony Edwards.
25:18
He already knows he's not the other guy and that's why he
25:21
takes a step back and he lets Anthony Edwards do what Anthony
25:24
Edwards does very well and that's take over games and be
25:27
crude and, you know, idiotic sometimes on and off the
25:30
basketball court. And Mitch and a guy like
25:33
Mitchell Robertson, you would expect that he gives that evil
25:36
like that, I guess, that angry type of player on the basketball
25:41
court that the Knicks haven't had all season long because Karl
25:44
Anthony Towns is like a little girl running up and down the
25:46
court. That's what he is.
25:48
He doesn't take over games when he gets pushed around.
25:50
We've seen it. Look at Detroit.
25:52
Look what Detroit was doing to Carl Anthony Towns in that
25:54
series. They were pushing him around,
25:56
pushing him in the wrong places or in places he was
25:58
uncomfortable in. And then Carl Anthony Towns went
26:01
stay away from me and push him away like a little baby.
26:04
And then you have guys like Mitchell Robertson that will not
26:07
like Tim Hardaway. Remember Tim Hardaway Junior
26:09
when he was pushing him around, he was at the foul line getting
26:12
technical fouls because he was like, don't touch me, don't put
26:15
your hands on me, I'll smash you like a bug.
26:17
So you need that, that type of aggressive type of player.
26:21
And the Knicks have it with Mitchell Robinson and I think
26:23
Mitch is starting to get comfortable.
26:25
But here's the problem with Mitch on the court, you lose
26:28
that offensive option. And if Michael Bridges is not
26:31
hitting shots and OG Anobis not hitting shots, and by the way,
26:35
why do the Knicks start so flat? They start so flat in every
26:41
single game. They did it against Detroit and
26:43
except maybe I think two or three games and they doing it
26:46
against right now, the stuff. There's not one game in this
26:50
series the Knicks haven't started flat.
26:52
Go look, In every single first quarter, the Knicks were
26:55
practically down by at least double digits.
26:58
That's a problem when you're playing catch up with a team
27:02
that's a champion. You could say whatever you want.
27:04
That's. What this team does though,
27:06
right? That's this.
27:06
That's why they were champions. They just get big leads on you
27:09
because they shoot it and they shoot it early in the shot clock
27:12
and they shoot it off in and they get guys to get rebounds
27:15
and then they can cut off of it and hit more threes because they
27:18
had Tatum and they had Brown doing all The Dirty work.
27:21
But now they don't have Tatum and they won't have them next
27:23
year with the torn Achilles for a single game.
27:25
So now it sets their clock back. And I kind of wanted to before
27:28
we leave this, what exactly is going to happen to the Celtics
27:32
team next year? So I, I think the Knicks will
27:34
win tomorrow night. They should I, I think they will
27:38
and I think it might. They'll win kind of easily.
27:40
I disagree. It's I think.
27:41
It's going to be close and then I think they'll run away with it
27:44
in the 4th. And I I think that's that's what
27:46
this series deserves is the Knicks to have that because the
27:50
Celtics have our battle tested team.
27:52
They were awesome in that game. All of their role players
27:55
stepped up. Don't expect the role players to
27:56
do that on the road. So now we talk about guys that
28:00
are out there in their contract. Porzingis doesn't play in this
28:02
game. He they benched him in the
28:04
second-half. I don't think he's going to see
28:06
the. He's not healthy.
28:06
I think it's going to be, I don't think they should put him
28:08
out there. He's a liability.
28:10
Even Towns was making him look bad while he was out there and
28:13
Towns played like shit, so it was that bad for Porzingis.
28:17
He's gone. They're going to get rid of him
28:19
for whatever they can. Drew, a holiday is going to.
28:21
Yeah, he's going to be gone. And again, they're going to be
28:24
looking in the offseason either to add a player, make a big
28:27
splash, because we know Brad Stevens likes to do that.
28:31
He's a Danny Ainge type of disciple that that likes to find
28:34
things that are not there. And all of a sudden in full
28:36
right into the the Celtics lap. It's happened many, many times,
28:40
including Porzingis. Who would have thought that they
28:42
were going to land Porzingis? And they did.
28:44
That was a Brad Stevens move. I think that in the offseason
28:47
they're either going to decide, Hey, Jayson Tatum is not going
28:49
to be back next year. Maybe we're a decent team.
28:52
We're we're amongst the we're a top eight team in the East.
28:56
Even if we fall out of the playoffs, we have a chance to be
28:58
a lottery team and maybe the NBA, just like what we've seen
29:02
with The Mavericks, what we've seen with the Spurs and the
29:05
76ers. Maybe we'll get lucky and the
29:07
LJA will put us in the top three and we'll get a player to come
29:10
and play with Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum.
29:13
When Jason Tatum comes back, say whatever you want and I love
29:15
Jason Tatum. When he went up on social media
29:17
and he said I'll be back. Reggie Miller was talking,
29:20
talking to him during the game and Reggie Miller said that
29:23
Jason Tatum, he can't wait to come back in, that he wants to
29:26
prove to everybody he can come back from an injury like this.
29:28
I'm going to tell you guys this right now.
29:29
Jason Tatum will not be the same player when he comes back.
29:32
He will be 30 years old. Jason Tatum right now is going
29:36
to be 28. In two years he will be 30.
29:39
He's right there on the cusp. If I'm not mistaken, he's 28.
29:43
He's going to be 28 at the end of this year or something of
29:46
that magnitude. He is going to be about 30 years
29:49
old. He's at the tail end of his
29:52
basketball career and now you, your Achilles, Kobe Bryant was
29:55
never the same. Kevin Durant was never the same.
29:58
You watch all these guys that look at Klay Thompson, he was
30:00
never the same. Every one of these guys that
30:03
tore their Achilles, they were never the same.
30:05
Speaking of a team that just completely dominated and and a
30:09
Cavalier team that was never the same was the Pacers knocking
30:14
them off in game number 5114105 to advance to their second
30:19
straight Eastern Conference finals.
30:21
Donovan Mitchell played 38 minutes minced having an ankle
30:25
injury and finished with 35 points and 9 rebounds.
30:29
Evan Mobley had 24 points, but no other Cavalier player had
30:34
more than 12 points including Darius Garland, which I thought
30:37
was very important if they were going to win that series.
30:40
The Pacers came back from down 19 points, their third time
30:44
coming back from a double digit deficit in this series.
30:48
Rick Carlisle said that the Cavaliers are the the better
30:51
team when healthy, but the Pacers.
30:54
Pacers have gotten hot at the right time and showed it all in
30:58
this series. Carlisle now has 34 postseason
31:02
wins with the Pacers, already surpassing his total when he
31:06
coached with The Mavericks here. It's pretty simple.
31:10
The Pacers to me were the healthy team.
31:13
They had the best player in this series and Tyrese Halliburton,
31:17
he he seems like he thrives when their pressure is on him.
31:20
After what happened in that Buck series and and, and what his
31:24
father did, I think he wanted to step up and show everybody why
31:27
he's one of the best point guards in this league.
31:29
I think this guy is is a huge personality.
31:32
The NBA needs a player of this magnitude.
31:34
He stands up for all the different players over the years
31:38
that couldn't succeed over there with the Pacers.
31:41
I can go on and on and on and teams, great Pacer teams that
31:45
couldn't get over the hump. This is a Pacer team that has a
31:47
chance to go to the finals this year.
31:49
Last year they went to the Eastern Conference finals.
31:51
It seems like they get better and better and better.
31:54
Rick Carlisle is one of the most underrated coaches in the NBA
31:57
right now. Defensive minded, but really has
32:00
transitioned his style of play into an offensive style of play
32:04
in a fast pace young youth type of rotation.
32:08
I love what Tyrese Halberton stands for.
32:10
I just don't like how he opens his mouth in certain aspects,
32:16
either during the game or after the game where he throws other
32:19
teams under the bus, players under the bus.
32:21
We heard what he saw said about the New York Knicks last year.
32:24
We've heard what he said about numerous teams over the last
32:28
couple of years. I think he needs all that.
32:30
He comes by it honestly, obviously, as from what we've
32:33
seen, yeah, from what his dad is.
32:35
Yeah, well, I think he's cocky, but it's good to be cocky when
32:39
you trust in your game and you trust in your personality.
32:42
You love what he stands for. Evan Mobley, he needs to be
32:45
traded in the offseason. Evan Mobley just doesn't stand
32:49
for what you're looking for, for a big man that's going to want
32:52
to get paid a lot of money. This is a guy that I think just
32:55
got extended. If I'm not mistaken, he just got
32:57
extended and even though he scored 24 points, it was in a
33:00
game that you want him to take over you.
33:03
If you know your your best players in 100% healthy,
33:06
Garland's not 100% healthy. You expect this guy to score 35
33:10
points, dominate on the offensive side of the board?
33:12
Why are you letting other players out play you on the
33:16
boards and defensively? Mobley is not the player I
33:19
thought he was going to be when he came out of USCI.
33:21
Think he needs to be an optional player that they look to move in
33:25
the offseason if they want to get better.
33:26
Maybe at a Giannis and trade Mobley and a bunch of players in
33:30
that trade to to land a superstar to go and play with
33:33
Donovan Mitch. I don't know.
33:35
But to me in this series, it really stands for one thing.
33:38
The Pacers are ready to take that next step forward.
33:41
They're going to either go have to go through the Celtics and
33:43
the Knicks. I believe whoever wins this
33:46
series with the Celtics and the Knicks are favorites of coming
33:50
out of the East and winning the NBA championship.
33:53
There's only one team out of the the four teams in a Western
33:56
Conference I think could beat the Knicks or the Celtics before
33:59
Tatum went down. And that that team is the
34:01
Nuggets, the Timberwolves. I question their rotation.
34:05
I question is, is a guy like Randall, if, if the Timberwolves
34:10
go to the Finals, are they going to be able or is he going to be
34:13
able to step forward and beat the Knicks in Madison Square
34:16
Garden where the fans are going to be prouncing on him as
34:20
they've done many, many years when he was over there when he
34:22
was shooting bricks. So I I just think that this
34:25
series really lies on the the Knicks getting through the
34:29
Celtics and then challenging a young Pacer team and a Tyrese
34:33
Halperton and how you shut him down.
34:35
Yeah, and that's the advantage of the Pacers have getting in
34:37
this series done as quickly as they did, even amidst all the
34:39
injuries before that, too. They were still coming back in
34:41
Game One and Game 2 to win those games.
34:43
That's not going to be taken lightly.
34:44
That was before all they had all three of those guys out.
34:47
And you're bringing up Rick Carlisle.
34:49
I talked about this with Jim Harbaugh and Jim.
34:50
Harbaugh by the. Chargers I thought he had to
34:52
change his coaching style if he wanted to adapt to the.
34:55
Young, I am a legend. And remember the fallout he had
34:57
with Luke Godonchick? It was pretty ugly at the end of
34:59
his tenure with Dallas. I think he's changed his
35:02
philosophy to adhere to these younger players very well,
35:04
getting Halliburton to another. Level.
35:06
I got to go back off now since. He's gotten there, they trade
35:08
him from the Kings. I think it was the second year
35:10
Carlisle was there and he is the anti Tom Thibodeau.
35:13
He'll actually play 8 or 9 guys off the bench and know when to
35:16
use them in the right ways. And that's a big tactic to be
35:19
able to use against Thibodeau, who's the opposite or.
35:21
Against I farted. Joe Missoula, which maybe he's
35:24
showing some adversity, but he's still not a great overall coach
35:26
compared to Rick Carlisle and that's it's a big deal for the
35:28
Pacer to have for Cleveland. Just unfortunate with all the
35:30
injuries that piled up. But you do have to be a little
35:32
worried with Darius Garland. He's been very inconsistent in
35:34
the playoffs too. For a second option.
35:35
That's not an ideal thing. You're muted.
35:40
Yeah, I got it. I was trying not to laugh too
35:43
hard as it's going a. Lot of hot ladies.
35:50
I think and you talked about it and I think Rick Carlisle is
35:55
really, really like adept to seeing how the game, like I said
35:59
earlier, is like the ebbs and flows of the game.
36:01
But he's got 10 people with over 10 minutes and it and I think,
36:04
you know, obviously, you know, you never want to see obviously
36:07
Cleveland renew the obviously great regular season, but just
36:10
injuries sometimes just you bite you in the butt and that's just
36:13
kind of the way it is. I just could always I always
36:17
like looking at these series too.
36:19
When now a team is going to have extra rest days.
36:22
Does that hurt or hinder them? Usually it helps in basketball,
36:26
it hurts in hockey. Right, right.
36:29
And so I, I like seeing it in and then I like, I like here and
36:33
there because it's always a question that gets presented is
36:35
like, did you take the extra time?
36:38
You know, do you think you guys lost momentum or, you know, it's
36:41
time for you guys to, you know, bandage some bumps and bruises
36:45
or what have you? So I I always like when they're
36:48
because this is obviously they're going to get, I think
36:51
three extra days off. Yep, I believe that's right.
36:53
I don't know how long this is still going.
36:54
To have we a week after this series.
36:56
Is over. It'll be close to a week.
36:58
It's almost a week, yes. So, and and therein lies to
37:02
where that momentum can, you know, kind of diminish a little
37:05
bit, but you also, you know, with the ability to, you know,
37:10
recover and get that. So, Jabba, that's one thing.
37:12
Jabba, the advantage I think the Pacers have for the for the rest
37:15
of the playoffs, no matter how far they go, is they have the
37:18
best coach in the playoffs by far right now.
37:21
If you look at the the coaches from OK C to the Timberwolves to
37:25
the Knicks to even the Celtics, Rick Carlisle is the best coach
37:29
out of all of them. He's a champion.
37:31
He's played, he's coached multiple great teams over the
37:34
years. He comes back to the Pacers
37:36
after stepping down and walking away from a Dallas Maverick team
37:40
that won a championship a couple of years ago with Dirk Nowinski.
37:44
You have Luka Dodgek, you have all the players, and then you
37:47
give the reins to Jason Kidd. You go over there to a young
37:49
Pacer team and really completely change the transition of a young
37:54
team after you make a trade for a guy like Tyrese Halbern.
37:58
I mean, that's the advantage the Pacers have right now going in
38:01
and every single series is they have by far the best, most
38:05
knowledgeable coach in the NBA and it and throughout the NBA
38:09
playoffs, really this season and the last couple of seasons.
38:12
That's why the Pacers went all the way to the Finals last year
38:15
and had nothing to do with their talent.
38:17
Because if you look at right now, do you think they were more
38:20
talent than the Cavaliers, even though the Cavaliers weren't
38:22
100% healthy? Not a chance in hell.
38:24
It was not even a chance. And I'm not taking shots at
38:27
Kenny Atkins. Kenny Atkinson is a great coach,
38:30
but Kenny Atkinson has never taken a team as a head coach to
38:35
an Eastern Conference finals. I don't even think he's taking a
38:38
team to the semi finals ever, even with the Nets.
38:41
So no, I think he was fired the year one year they did.
38:43
Yeah, so I I don't think he's ever gone that far as a head
38:47
coach. He was there for the Golden
38:49
State Warriors. He did win a championship with
38:50
the Golden State Warriors, but he was an assistant head coach.
38:53
So there's a lot of pressure on Kenny Atkinson.
38:55
I think eventually he'll get over the hump and this team is
38:58
really, really good. I I just think they're missing
39:00
something. I the Pacers, they're not a good
39:03
team, but why couldn't they win a championship?
39:05
If you look at those Pacers teams, and I know we got to move
39:08
on. If you look at the Pacer teams
39:09
that were championship competitive team, who is the
39:12
best player on that team? Reggie Miller, who is the second
39:14
best player on the team? Rick Smits.
39:17
I mean, they didn't have great players.
39:19
Jalen Rose. I mean, they weren't good there.
39:23
Jalen Rose was they? They were good on NBA Jam
39:25
though. Yeah, they were, they were mean.
39:28
They had the 2 Davis guys. I mean, Antonio, it wasn't
39:31
Antonio Davis, but they the 2 Davis, they called him brothers,
39:34
but they weren't brothers. But they had the Davis boys at
39:37
one time they had Mark Jackson, but they weren't their secondary
39:41
options offensively were not good.
39:44
Why were they so good coaching one and the way they played,
39:48
they were tough and that's what this Pacer team is.
39:51
They're tough. That's what they are.
39:54
You know, Miles Turner really has become a really good 3 point
39:57
shooter for a big and with him being able to play that stretch
40:00
5 for them, it makes them very dynamic offensively with with
40:04
Halliburton being able to dice everything up.
40:06
And I I would say that Carlisle out coach Kenny Atkinson this
40:10
series. Now Kenny did that one gambit
40:12
where he switched into his own defense, a 2-3 zone, and they
40:15
stole the game. Carlisle is such a good coach
40:18
that in a long series, all he has to do is watch the film and
40:21
he knows exactly what he has to do to adjust and it.
40:24
And after that, there were no answers left.
40:26
He had nothing he could do. And Donovan Mitchell was just
40:30
beside himself after the series. I don't know if you saw his
40:33
quotes. Yeah, I.
40:33
Saw what he said to him. He was basically just sitting
40:36
there in disbelief that this just happened because he thought
40:39
the season can't be over. Like, how did that just happen?
40:42
We were great the whole year and they were, they were incredible
40:47
and they got taken to the woodshed.
40:49
Maybe they just couldn't stay healthy.
40:50
And this Pacers team is a lot healthier than they were last
40:53
year. Matheran's a lot better young
40:56
player. I, I, he's something that he's
40:58
going to, when we watch him next series, you're going to be like,
41:00
that guy's just jumping off the page.
41:02
I was hoping he'd fall to the Knicks in that draft, but I
41:04
think he's got taken at 7:00. He's pretty good, man.
41:07
And I look it, we didn't see Halliburton play this well last
41:12
year. Halliburton was not playing at
41:14
this level he's playing at right now.
41:17
So I am a little concerned. However, I think the Knicks
41:21
length, if they make it and Boston, even Boston matches up
41:25
pretty pretty similarly with them.
41:27
I just don't know if they'd have an answer for Turner with
41:30
Cornett having to play out there.
41:31
I don't know how he is playing out that far out.
41:33
Cornett, I I know he was kind of a liability when the Knicks had
41:36
him. They.
41:37
Might have to rotate him. Someone like Xavier Tillman
41:39
who's a really good defender. He just doesn't score a lot.
41:42
Yeah, So, you know, they they might have some answers.
41:44
I think that Boston is going to really struggle, you know, with
41:47
with either team, with any of the teams they face just because
41:50
they lost Tatum and that's they're such so part of their
41:52
identity. But I think the Knicks can
41:54
handle this Pacers team. I think that Pacers team was way
41:57
better than what the Cavs were and they just weren't ready.
41:59
They're young, man. They haven't gotten past this
42:01
stage. Kenny's first year as a head
42:03
coach. Give them, give them credit, you
42:05
know, give them their flowers. But now, next year, it's for
42:07
real. You got to.
42:08
You don't know when you're going to get there again and you had a
42:11
chance to get over the hump. This was it really after Tatum
42:14
went down. This was their best chance to go
42:16
all the way to the Finals. And I, I think the Cavaliers, if
42:19
they get out of that, that Pacer series, maybe that they can't,
42:22
the Knicks can't keep up with them if the Knicks because, you
42:25
know, the Cavaliers would have got healthier as as the playoffs
42:29
started to move along. Maybe Garland.
42:31
I mean, there's a lot of mismatches for the New York
42:33
Knicks. This guy that should go there
42:35
and we talked about him the other day.
42:37
His name is Giannis. Yeah, there's a Giannis.
42:39
There are a lot of places Giannis could go.
42:42
But if you trade, Mobley was defensive player of the year.
42:46
I I I don't know where. Look, you can say what you will
42:48
about him, but don't act like he wouldn't be a major, huge piece
42:52
that would fit in a Giannis trade.
42:54
No, I, I think, I think it makes a lot of sense.
42:57
Just like when we could say the Knicks on OK C, there are a lot
42:59
of teams that are going to be. Interested in the I think that
43:01
move that they still have the center position taken care of
43:05
and it's a younger player. Milwaukee would jump all over
43:08
that and they'd ask for probably a couple of picks.
43:10
And make a rotational. Player probably a Coro,
43:13
absolutely. And I don't that's a very doable
43:16
team and it keeps that nucleus of really good guard play around
43:20
for them. I think that's we may hear a lot
43:23
more than whispers about that. There's a lot of teams.
43:25
You're gonna hear a lot of whispers.
43:27
It's not just the Knicks, it's not the Cavaliers.
43:29
You'll might even hear Boston, OKC, the Timberwolves.
43:33
Everybody's going to be involved.
43:34
If you hear that Yanis is going to be available to possibly be
43:39
traded. So trust me, it's not going to
43:41
be only these teams, it's going to be all 30 teams in the NBA
43:45
that are going to go after a guy like Giannis who can help your
43:48
team go right over the hump and win a championship.
43:51
Don't be surprised if Miami doesn't go after him too.
43:54
Pat Riley is the type of guy that finds a way to squeeze
43:57
these players in and bring them to the his organization and his
44:01
team. Another superstar in Miami
44:02
wouldn't be surprising. The Timberwolves eliminate the
44:05
Warriors without Steph Curry by winning Game 5 by the score of
44:09
121 to 110. Anthony Edwards nearly had a
44:12
triple double with 22.7 rebounds and 12 assists after having
44:16
back-to-back 30 point games. Steve Kerr congratulating
44:19
Anthony Edwards after the game and called him the best player
44:22
in the series. Yeah, OK.
44:24
Jimmy Butler had just 17 points and shot just 36%, his lowest
44:31
total in an elimination game since 2019 against the 76ers.
44:36
Steph Curry will likely likely going to play was likely to go
44:42
play game six if the Warriors were to extend the series, but
44:46
said even he couldn't be Superman to play in game five.
44:50
He wouldn't have been Superman. The Timberwolves advance to
44:53
their second straight Western Conference finals after
44:56
previously only having one in the air in their entire
45:00
franchise history. I I will say this,
45:03
congratulations to the Timberwolves from moving on once
45:07
again to the Eastern Conference Finals.
45:08
We have to see if Anthony Edwards is going to show up in
45:11
the important games in the Western Conference finals.
45:14
I just, again, I, I know Jimmy Buckets is old.
45:18
I, I don't think Jimmy Buckets was healthy.
45:20
Jimmy Butler was not healthy in this series and they were
45:23
fighting really to get through this series without Steph Curry.
45:27
Steph Curry is an important piece to this puzzle reason why
45:31
is he draws 2 two players every single time he comes up the
45:35
court. He is that great of a shooter
45:38
and when you double team him, you have Jimmy Butler open, you
45:41
have other players that can hit open shots and it makes the the
45:44
Golden State Warriors a totally different team.
45:46
Now Jimmy Butler, we've seen him do this.
45:48
We've seen him take over games over the years with Miami.
45:51
This is not the Miami Heat. This is not the same Jimmy
45:55
Butler that was what he was with the Heat 3-4 years ago.
46:00
This is an older Jimmy Butler. That doesn't mean that Jimmy
46:03
Buckets cannot be the player that we've seen him be in the
46:07
playoffs. He just wasn't in this series.
46:09
Again, this isn't a younger Timberwolves team.
46:12
He got Julius Randle playing. Well, I, like I said, John
46:15
Dante, Diva Chancellor has been super really coming off the
46:18
bench the way he has, adding that 3 point prowess that he
46:22
gives them and, and, and really for a guy his size has helped on
46:26
the offensive side of the boards as well.
46:28
So they're getting that as far as Steve Kerr is concerned.
46:31
I don't want to hear it from Steve Kerr.
46:33
I don't ever want to hear Steve Kerr talk.
46:35
You know why? Because he's congratulating a
46:37
guy that he coached with the Olympic team.
46:39
He was also the guy that had backlash in during the season
46:43
about what Anthony Edwards stands for and what he has said
46:47
to the press over the years. He was one of the guys that
46:50
obviously said what he said about Anthony Edwards words.
46:53
You know, you go out there and play the game.
46:54
Don't don't, you know, don't put yourself center stage in front
46:58
of the press if you don't expect to be smacked around.
47:01
And and Anthony Edwards had his own thoughts to Steve Kerr.
47:03
Now all of a sudden he's kissing his ass.
47:05
That's that's typical Steve Kerr, ladies and gentlemen.
47:08
And I don't know how long Steve Kerr has left over there with
47:12
the the Golden State Warriors, because you would think that
47:15
Steve Kerr has a great career after the, you know, coaching in
47:19
the NBA. And we've seen guys from the
47:21
Golden State Warriors. The GM, when the GM realized
47:24
Myers, I think it was his last name on.
47:26
Yeah. It was that one football.
47:28
When he decided, hey, you know what, Mike, this team is getting
47:30
older. I, I won my championships.
47:33
I put this team together, Maybe I step down and go work with
47:36
another sports team outside of basketball.
47:40
That's what he did. And now he's an analyst for the
47:42
NBA, for ESPN. And this guy's making more money
47:46
doing that than sitting behind as an executive and dealing with
47:49
some of the the rubbish that you have to deal with with guys like
47:53
you know, they're well, I'm not even going to mention his name
47:56
as I owe it. You know what?
47:57
Screw it. You know what I'm talking about
47:59
Mr. Green himself, who goes out there and throws his team under
48:03
the bus and, and, and spits out the the garbage that he puts on
48:06
his podcast. And then you have guys like Klay
48:09
Thompson over the years that at the tail end of his career over
48:12
there with the Golden State Warriors wasn't the same player.
48:14
He wasn't a Splash Brother. He was really a shell of himself
48:18
after he tore his Achilles after tearing his ACL.
48:21
So Myers just wanted to step down.
48:23
He didn't want to deal with that crap on and off the court.
48:26
So he made the smart move. What do you think Steve Kerr is
48:29
going to do, guys? What do you think he's going to
48:31
do? He's going to step down and
48:33
teams are going to go after him. He's going to say, you know
48:35
what? I'm just going to do my
48:36
broadcasting, build a podcast and do what I'm doing over
48:40
there. I was making a lot of money with
48:42
TNTI, was making a lot of money on the side on some of the stuff
48:45
I was doing with Sirius Radio. Why the hell do I need to be a
48:48
coach anymore? I win multiple championships.
48:50
I'm going to be considered one of the greatest coaches of this
48:53
era. And, and you know what?
48:54
The only reason why is because he coached so many great
48:56
players. I'm tired of Steve Carr.
48:59
I don't want to see Steve anymore.
49:01
He makes me sick. OK, I feel bad about the
49:04
background and his story with his father.
49:06
I, I, I feel terrible. But as a person, as a as a head
49:10
coach, I think he's one of the most overrated coaches in NBA
49:14
frigging history. He is not a good coach.
49:16
I'm telling you, look, they bring in Jimmy Butler.
49:19
They were barely a playoff team. They bring in Jimmy buckets.
49:21
They squeeze into the playoffs and everybody was like including
49:24
your surely, Oh, maybe, maybe they can win.
49:26
And Steve Kerr saying, you know, yeah, we're a good team.
49:29
Let's just get into the playoffs and see how.
49:31
And then, you know, as we heard over the last couple of weeks,
49:35
hey, maybe Steve Kerr believes a really good win.
49:37
Maybe they can get over the top. Maybe they can beat these young
49:40
teams. Give me a break, Steve.
49:43
Stop kissing people's ass asses. I don't want to hear it.
49:46
Go to the go take the San Antonio Spurs job.
49:49
Oh, I forgot. Yeah, they already gave the job
49:51
to somebody else and watch you. So I'm so tired of hearing Steve
49:56
Kerr speak. I already know what the Edwards
49:59
is. I already know what the
50:01
Timberwolves are going to be in the next series.
50:04
It it really depends on who they match up against.
50:06
If they match up against the Nuggets guys, the Nuggets were
50:10
beaten by this Timberwolves team in the semi finals, a team that
50:14
won the championship the year before.
50:16
Don't you think the Nuggets have come out with their best?
50:18
Don't you think the Nuggets are going to do whatever they can to
50:21
knock off the Timberwolves in the Western Conference finals
50:23
and embarrass Anthony Edwards? 100% I I just think they match
50:27
up. Believe it or not, I know
50:29
everybody's going to think I'm crazy.
50:30
I think the Timberwolves match up with OK C more than they
50:34
match up against the Nuggets. So they better pray it's OK C
50:38
and not the Nuggets. Yeah, the size and size could
50:41
make it hard with the size of versus the Timberwolves,
50:43
especially if Julius Randle becomes the defensive liability
50:45
that we've seen him be with the Knicks at times, too.
50:47
And again, the Timberwolves, like I was talking about, the
50:49
Pacers, are going to have the advantage of like the rest
50:51
potentially because this series with the OKC in Denver looks
50:54
really ugly right now. The last two games, OKC had the
50:56
big comeback in Game 5, but they were not shooting the ball very
50:59
well before that, especially from three.
51:00
And the Nuggets like do you? Trust the OKC Thunder.
51:04
I don't. They've been kind of up and down
51:06
like I think. This Do you trust the OKC
51:08
Thunder? No.
51:11
Not at all. I'm just, I'm just Jabba.
51:13
You trust OKC? I mean, they won 68 games.
51:18
That doesn't matter. That looks very up and.
51:20
Down. I'm so regularly.
51:21
Sending top ten all time. Yeah, spot games again this
51:24
series and and I mean this series they again they swept
51:29
they swept the first round fine, but this series they've looked
51:31
very streaky as a whole. They they survived they survived
51:34
game one they Game 2 they lost on the buzzer beater game one
51:37
they lost on the buzzer. I think it mixed up, but they
51:39
had the 1 blowout and that was it.
51:41
This game that they had, they had this insane comeback because
51:43
they finally got Luge Dort to get hot.
51:45
Like those are so very random, the way these kinds of things
51:47
happened, like they're not playing sustainable basketball.
51:50
The Nuggets fired their head coach within a week before the
51:53
playoffs. They're beating they're they're
51:56
competing with an OKC Thunder that has the same coach, same
51:59
team, some same rotation, 100% healthy.
52:02
There's no excuse to this I they won 6768 games and you can't
52:07
knock off a Nugget team that fired their coach.
52:09
Coach have a rookie coach who's never coached in the playoffs
52:12
before in his career. Give me a break.
52:15
This is embarrassing. I don't trust OKCI, really
52:18
don't. And if they're challenged
52:20
against the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves are going to run
52:22
all over them. Yeah, a fish.
52:23
I think that the Thunder kind of remind me of not the early stage
52:26
with the Celtics with the score, but kind of that second stage
52:28
where they they lost to the Bucks in five games.
52:31
They barely survived. I think a Sixers team that had
52:32
the injuries galore like this is not a team that's had the great
52:35
adversity despite having the talent.
52:37
And I think if that's so, if it does go to a Game 7, they can't
52:40
win tonight. I think the Nuggets are winning
52:41
the series. I think it's ironic the two one
52:43
seeds are very similar in that they both really haven't been
52:47
there and they have a lot of young players.
52:48
You know, you got Jalen Williams has not played to the level that
52:52
we saw him play during the regular season for OKC.
52:55
Chet's physicality is a problem in the playoffs.
52:58
We're seeing that right now for OKC and Shy has been fantastic.
53:03
He's great and he's he's helping them go and they're moving the
53:06
ball because he's so good. But Yokich is so.
53:09
So. Good.
53:10
And I still can't believe they're going to give Shy the
53:12
MVP over Yokich because Yokich is that entire team.
53:16
It is absolutely crazy how he they don't need to have a coach.
53:20
Errol, he's the coach on the floor.
53:22
He's directing the offense. It's like great, like you said
53:24
it the other day, Gretzky at the late stage, his career operating
53:28
from behind the net. I'm just going to find somebody
53:30
that's going to be the right decision every single time.
53:32
And if it's not there, I'll take the shot and I'll make it too.
53:34
Did you see when they went to the sideline, like Jokic was
53:37
actually standing, like where the coach was like pointing and
53:40
like basically just in? He's the coach.
53:42
Hosting the huddle himself. But you also got to remember
53:45
too, when after their first series, when Jokic was like
53:48
giving credit to the coach, but it's like he's giving credit to
53:51
himself. And so they lose this game.
53:53
I'm going to show you highlight Jabba.
53:55
Look at this Jogic is a bad pass late in the shot clock.
53:58
Chet on him, 7 foot tall. Just a turn around.
54:01
Look at this. Yeah, Swish what that's that
54:05
shouldn't be possible so easily and look at the bench reaction
54:09
like that should exactly that should not be possible.
54:12
And it's not like homegrown short.
54:15
Or a bad defender. No, you know, as he's actually a
54:18
pretty good perimeter defender for a big man because he's so,
54:21
you know, lanky and mobile and doesn't matter.
54:24
There's no way to stop Jokic when he's playing this way.
54:27
And I think Jokic is going to find a way tonight, and I think
54:29
they're going to find a way to probably win this series.
54:31
Yeah, they just, they show the average in the playoffs.
54:34
He's averaging 30 and Shy's average in 28.
54:37
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear who's better when you see them
54:40
head to head, and that's why I really was excited to see this.
54:43
Even if Denver loses, I think Jokic acquitted himself in that
54:47
argument pretty well. I think it's going to be very
54:50
interesting to see what happens if this does go to a game seven.
54:54
I expect, I expect Jokic to take this to a Game 7 tonight and it
54:59
this is going to be a fun final Game 7 because I think this is
55:04
really this was the series I wanted to see go all the way to
55:07
game seven. I didn't want to see the Knicks.
55:09
I. Think we all had it going.
55:10
Game 7 didn't. We, we did, we did.
55:11
And I think I don't trust OKC in a whole, in a wall, as we all
55:16
know. Bagel Hole.
55:17
The bagel hole is definitely going to be split in many
55:21
different ways, speedy if this happens and it goes to a game
55:24
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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. Do we have anything on Monday?
56:05
Not yet. Speedy, take your hands out of
56:08
your pants. Speedy's mom.
56:12
And make sure that you call your mom.
56:13
We want to get her on the show. What do you think?
56:14
Not happening. What?
56:16
She's a great. Not happening.
56:17
She's a great guest. I mean, I'll have Jabba
56:20
interview her. I'll.
56:22
I'll stay away. OK.
56:23
So maybe Jabba will, you know, do some interesting things.
56:27
You just made my nipples hard. As long as she's using dude
56:30
wipes and taking care of my 2 hole I'm good.
56:32
So she'll be, you know, taking care of her 2 hole.
56:35
What do you think? Not happening.
56:36
Pulled it out of my ass. All right, that's it for our
56:40
show. We will be back on Monday with
56:43
new guests and new content. Enjoy Friday's game.
56:47
Hopefully the Knicks end the suffering of the Celtics and
56:51
suffering for us as fans. I don't want to see them go to a
56:54
Game 7 and I watch out. Pacers, OK, watch them out
56:59
anyways, and the Nuggets 3/3 as we expected, it's going 7, so
57:04
we'll see what happens over the weekend.
57:06
That would be Saturday for the Nuggets and the OKC Thunder.
57:10
So. So there's two more series left,
57:15
one of them that's three to two and the other one's three to
57:17
three. So we'll see what happens over
57:18
the weekend. That's it.
57:20
Good night. So long farewell.
57:22
They'll come. A day of life, as we all know.
57:26
Speedy goodbye. Yum Yum.
57:33
I need a genuine tonic.