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Brian Geltzeiler | Host on Sirius XM NBA Radio & Contributor at NBA TV | 06-09-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Brian Geltzaler of course, NBA Radio on Sirius XM, and
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  Speaker 1: been doing my radio shows coming back to my days
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  Speaker 1: in South Florida for fifteen years. And Francesa loves him.
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  Speaker 1: I love him. He's an NBA genius. Now, you said
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  Speaker 1: before the start of this series that you thought the
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs would win it in seven. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: look good when the Knicks took the first two games
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  Speaker 1: on the road and came home with a chance to
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  Speaker 1: go up three to nothing in their own building last night.
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  Speaker 1: But with the Spurs winning game three, is this Game
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  Speaker 1: four almost a must win for the Knicks?
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily. I think it's more of a must win
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  Speaker 2: for the Spurs. Frankly, listen, the Spurs falling behind two
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  Speaker 2: to zero at home obviously puts you in a massive,
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  Speaker 2: massive hole. But I also will say this, I think,
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  Speaker 2: and this is this not only goes for this series,
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  Speaker 2: but kind of for the NBA playoffs over the last
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  Speaker 2: five years. Home courts means less, and so I think
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  Speaker 2: you kind of we maybe overrated the Spurs losing at
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  Speaker 2: home actor in terms of how excited everybody got over
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  Speaker 2: how good the Knicks look, and where this was going,
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  Speaker 2: and the Spurs reminded you last night how good they
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  Speaker 2: could be. What I found interesting last night is that listen,
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  Speaker 2: the atmosphere was something like we'll never see shit, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't see It. Seemed to be that the Spurs
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  Speaker 2: were able to almost fend off the atmosphere. They were
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  Speaker 2: annoyed by it and not distracted by it, and it
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  Speaker 2: seemed to fuel them a little bit. The Knicks seemed
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  Speaker 2: to be kind of in all the atmosphere a little
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  Speaker 2: bit early on X got off to a rough start
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  Speaker 2: yea and spent some time recovering from it.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's true. They were down sixteenth to six.
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  Speaker 1: I think they were still looking for President and Trump
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  Speaker 1: and the ramters head. You know, we're making turning the
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  Speaker 1: basketball over and not making not making shots. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, the Spurs outplayed the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: last night. They deserve to win. But Nick head coach
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown, who was a very easy going guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: not one of those fiery coaches who kicks things and
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  Speaker 1: yells and screams, he was pissed with a capitol p
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  Speaker 1: after the game that the Spurs went to the pre
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  Speaker 1: throw line twenty four times in the second half and
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks went eight. And if you watch a game
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  Speaker 1: on TV, which I did, I wasn't there. They constantly
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  Speaker 1: were showing you where the Spurs were being overly physical.
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  Speaker 1: They should have called fouls and they didn't. So usually
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  Speaker 1: you don't win a home game every time, but at
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  Speaker 1: least you get home cooking from the referees. That was
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  Speaker 1: not the case last night. Do you think Mike Brown
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  Speaker 1: was justified in his criticisms, Well, listen.
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  Speaker 2: My friend's doing his job and it's something that he
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  Speaker 2: needs to do in this spot and shine a spotlight
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  Speaker 2: on some of the officiating. I thought it was a
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  Speaker 2: very oddly officiated game in this respect. They were letting
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  Speaker 2: everything go in the first half, and they decided in
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  Speaker 2: the second half almost called a completely different game and
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  Speaker 2: called touch fowls and the players, especially on the Knick side,
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  Speaker 2: had a very hard time adjusting to that. Listen, this
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  Speaker 2: Spurs got away with some stuff. But I will tell you,
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  Speaker 2: if you watch what happened off the ball with Carl
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  Speaker 2: Towns on Victor wen Binyama, they could have called twelve
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  Speaker 2: fouls on ten. So I kind of think some of
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  Speaker 2: that went two ways. With all that said, I don't
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  Speaker 2: blame Mike Brown, like you know you certainly you want
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  Speaker 2: to point out a free throw disparity to help you
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  Speaker 2: into the next game. The problem is the free throw
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  Speaker 2: disparity reflects less uneven officiating and more of the style
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  Speaker 2: of play. When Binyama was omnipresent defensively last night, he
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  Speaker 2: was a shadow for Ananobe off the dribble, and Ananobe,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, was pretty good with him off the
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  Speaker 2: dribble and took it to him and didn't see the
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  Speaker 2: ball enough. But he was a shadow on Brunton as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you look at how Wendy played the nick shied
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  Speaker 2: away from going to the rim outside of og Ananobi,
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  Speaker 2: and their level of free throw attempts, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: second half, reflected the fact that they did not go
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  Speaker 2: to the rim like they had earlier in the series.
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  Speaker 1: That's fair. Brian geltsilo right here, and Wenby certainly assorted
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  Speaker 1: himself more offensively early in the game. He had four
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  Speaker 1: field goals almost right away, and instead of standing outside
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  Speaker 1: and burying threes, which he did bury in early three,
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  Speaker 1: he was underneath the basket. You know, when he gets
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  Speaker 1: a bad Capaldi's seven foot five, he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: jump the duncan right there self.
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  Speaker 2: He is, he's used so good, said, and it's sometimes
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  Speaker 2: what these young guys do is go away from him.
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  Speaker 2: Harper and Castle and the Cell and even Fox a
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  Speaker 2: veteran player, they just there's PiZZ Like at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the first half, he touched the ball in the
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  Speaker 2: last possession of first half. That was his only touch
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  Speaker 2: in the last five minutes of the second quarter. And
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  Speaker 2: notice in the last five minutes second quarter, Micks man
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  Speaker 2: a run to take a seven point lead. Like they
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  Speaker 2: go away from him so much, and he's so good,
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  Speaker 2: and not only the fact of he can get himself
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  Speaker 2: the spots where he's comfortable scoring. Once he gets in
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  Speaker 2: the painting, he's so long it's very hard to stop
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  Speaker 2: him there. But we saw it last night. He could
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  Speaker 2: shoot the basketball for the perimeter two. So like it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to understand why they spend so many possessions not
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  Speaker 2: getting him the ball, because when they do, they get
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  Speaker 2: results like they got in the second half last night.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk Brunson. A lot of Nick bands
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  Speaker 1: were ready to put him third ahead of Patrick Ewing.
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  Speaker 1: They'll still do if the Knicks end up winning this championship.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of nick Mans are gonna put Brunts in
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  Speaker 1: three regardless of his effort the rest of the way
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  Speaker 1: because he's won and Patrick didn't, right behind Clyde and Willis.
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  Speaker 1: But to beat bear as amazing a nickas Brunson is,
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  Speaker 1: and he's been tremendous as postseason the NBA Finals. These
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  Speaker 1: three games not exactly great for Jalen Brunston. So the
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  Speaker 1: next if you look at it, kind of lucky either
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  Speaker 1: of two games to one, because Brunson has been for
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  Speaker 1: the most part ineffective.
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  Speaker 2: Yes he has, He's played listen, and the reality is
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  Speaker 2: he's played about one good quarter in twelve quarters. And
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  Speaker 2: I give a lot of the credit there to the
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs for how they're defending him. They were
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  Speaker 2: switching much less last night. They were trying to fight
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  Speaker 2: through screens and keep their matchups on him, and they're
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  Speaker 2: making life hard for him. Inefficials say he get him
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  Speaker 2: thirty two, it took twenty five shots to do it. Shaid,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to be a fly on the wall one
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Brunts and watched his film from last night because
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  Speaker 2: the Spurs did something in game three that they didn't
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  Speaker 2: do enough in Game two, which was guard the next
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  Speaker 2: ninety four feet in bringing the ball up the floor.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that's happened with the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: offense is that the Brunton's been playing more off the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and that's unlocked and unleashed everything. But when the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: have to devote Brunson to bring the ball up the
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  Speaker 2: floor every time number one that wears Jalen down number two,
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  Speaker 2: Brunson has a bad habit of bringing it up and
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  Speaker 2: not getting it out of his hands and not leaving
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  Speaker 2: the ball. Brunton has been at his best here for
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks in these playoffs, spending a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: playing off the ball with they're running things through towns
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  Speaker 2: now Listen, they did a very good job of blocking
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  Speaker 2: Town's passing lanes, having Wemby not guard them but play
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  Speaker 2: off a heart and the paint. It made life harder
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  Speaker 2: to run through things at the elbow. But I'd be
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  Speaker 2: interested to see what Jayalen Brunson would think of his
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  Speaker 2: own performance, and we won't ever hear it in the
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  Speaker 2: media in terms of the fact that when he did
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  Speaker 2: get the ball over mid court, he wasn't relinquishing it
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  Speaker 2: often enough or fast enough for the Knicks to run
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  Speaker 2: offense outside of him isolating, and I think that was
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  Speaker 2: the fundamental problem with the Nick offense last night. Be
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  Speaker 2: very interested to see what of adjustments they make to
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  Speaker 2: deal with that, because it may require putting another skilled
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  Speaker 2: Paul Handler on the floor next to him. Listen to
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  Speaker 2: Heart's a good Paul Handler not good enough for this
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  Speaker 2: kind of defense. Bridges decent Paul Handler, not good enough
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  Speaker 2: for this kind of defense. So I'm be curious to
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  Speaker 2: see how the Knicks, personnel wise and scheme wise adjust
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  Speaker 2: for the fact that really did kind of trap Brunson
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  Speaker 2: into playing the kind of offense san Antonio wants him
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  Speaker 2: to play.
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  Speaker 1: So if Hart can't do it and Bridges can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: is that guy on the Nick roster.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question. And there are two guys potentially
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  Speaker 2: on the bench that can. Neither of them played well
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  Speaker 2: last night. One is Duce McBride and the other Jose Alvarado.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with Alvarado is as a perimeter player, he's
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  Speaker 2: just too little for this series. And listen, McBride took
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  Speaker 2: a bad shot in the second quarter and Mike Brown
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  Speaker 2: buried him till he did which I don't blame him
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  Speaker 2: for was a terrible shot. But the thing is is
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  Speaker 2: that he went back to him in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: He really didn't have it in the fourth quarter either.
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  Speaker 2: But Bride's had a very good year for this team,
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  Speaker 2: and if you didn't get hurt, would have been a
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  Speaker 2: candidate for six Man of the Year. That may be
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  Speaker 2: the guy here. He went to Clarkson effectively, and Clarkson, granted,
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  Speaker 2: made a couple of bonead plays, you know, after he
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  Speaker 2: got taken out, but before he got taken out a fourth.
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  Speaker 2: But I think going to McBride here that may be
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  Speaker 2: the answer to see if he can help get the
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  Speaker 2: ball up the floor a little bit and take some
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  Speaker 2: pressure off Jalen Brunson because listen, san Antonio was really
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with the Knicks having a Jalen Brunson centric offense.
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  Speaker 2: When things are spread around has been san Antonio. I
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  Speaker 2: struggled with New York here in this series.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do this again for sure, maybe even twice,
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  Speaker 1: because you're so damn good. No, you gotta run, Brian Geltzaler,
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  Speaker 1: amazing job. Love you, thank you so much, Love.
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  Speaker 2: You, buddy. We'll do it against Sue. Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.
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  Speaker 1: What a great job. Brian Geltsala right there NBA Radio
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  Speaker 1: on Sirius xcent.
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