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Inside Crew & Reggie Miller Preview Knicks vs. Pacers ECF · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the rivalry renewed tonight in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 2: I knows star Stoyle says, he said, he said he'd
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  Speaker 2: been not seeing you tonight. I got him, John.
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  Speaker 1: This has got to get your blood pumping here, Richie,
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  Speaker 1: this is this building and for these stakes.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it.
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  Speaker 3: Last year these two teams met went seven games, but
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  Speaker 3: it was the second round. There was another round left,
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  Speaker 3: and then obviously the finals.
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  Speaker 2: There's a difference because.
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  Speaker 3: You are four wins away from achieving the ultimate goal
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  Speaker 3: and that's playing in the NBA Finals. So obviously the
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  Speaker 3: stakes are heightened. And let's face it, this league has
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  Speaker 3: always been about stars Shaq, Charles Michael, Magic, Draymond Stop right, No,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're defensive Player of the Year.
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  Speaker 4: But what to me has truly.
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  Speaker 3: Been something has been the rivalries between two teams Boston
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  Speaker 3: and the Lakers Chicago and Detroit US in New York.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you get two fan bases that really
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  Speaker 3: don't like one another, it adds to the rivalry. And
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  Speaker 3: both teams don't like one another. We didn't in the nineties.
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  Speaker 3: We respected them, don't get me wrong, but we didn't
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  Speaker 3: like them. And I think it's kind of poured over.
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  Speaker 2: To the new generation.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, let's get it clips. Yea, the Knicks fans
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  Speaker 4: don't It's not that they don't like the places.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like you.
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  Speaker 4: It's you. It's not the paces like you.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like trash at.
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  Speaker 1: The fan that was crazy nineteen ninety three to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand six. Times those teams met. When you see somebody
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  Speaker 1: that also of that, it fuels everything right there, it does.
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  Speaker 3: And I look, I've had a lot of highs and
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  Speaker 3: loans in this building. You know, people just think I've
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  Speaker 3: come in here and we magically won. I was three
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  Speaker 3: and three in those series you're talking about. So there's
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  Speaker 3: been a lot of ebbs and flows and likedhead Bucks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but there needs to be more people like John Starks
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  Speaker 3: who don't understand how much of a competitor.
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  Speaker 5: John Stark is.
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  Speaker 2: Don't try to be nice. Now, who's downstairs waiting on you?
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  Speaker 2: I hope he is, John, who's downstairs?
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  Speaker 3: I hope he is?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Reggie, Reggie, you had you had great performances in
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  Speaker 2: this building being a Indiana that and he pulled Tyres
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  Speaker 2: to the side and say, hey, this is how you
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  Speaker 2: should have it. This is what you should do. This
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  Speaker 2: is what you should do to expect.
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  Speaker 3: I think Tyresee is creating his own legacy because when
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  Speaker 3: your peers come out and call you overrated. Now I
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  Speaker 3: know there was only like thirteen people that said that
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  Speaker 3: or whatever on that anonymous pole, but when your peers
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  Speaker 3: come out there and say you're overrated, I think not
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  Speaker 3: only did that light of fuel underneath him, but if
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  Speaker 3: his teammates were like, wait a minute, this is you
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  Speaker 3: don't understand stand what this guy goes through every every day.
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  Speaker 3: We see it every day in practice. I think it
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  Speaker 3: is light a fuel under the Pacers and that's why
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  Speaker 3: not only his performance is during this postseason, but the
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  Speaker 3: way the team has played a lot that has to
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  Speaker 3: do with the athletic pole.
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  Speaker 2: I agree they're playing for him, yes, like they're playing
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  Speaker 2: to prove something for him. Yes. And the togetherness of
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  Speaker 2: this group is West carry then, and you know they
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  Speaker 2: made Cleveland look disjoint it because of how together they were.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that's the sound of a great team
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  Speaker 2: four together for your guy, a great leader as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 6: I think I like Halliburn, but I think the reason
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  Speaker 6: that Paciers are here is Siakam. I think he's the
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  Speaker 6: most underrated player in the NBA. He's the best player
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  Speaker 6: on their team, but he's the most underrated player in
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  Speaker 6: the NBA. And me and Dremm was talking. He's one
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  Speaker 6: of the few players in the NBA who you can
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  Speaker 6: never run a play for and he gets you twenty
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  Speaker 6: six like pissibility and man he is so he's so
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  Speaker 6: he so who's.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna be running a lot of plays for him
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  Speaker 3: in this series because least the one player you put
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  Speaker 3: him and Halliburton in that pick and roll, and we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna see that a lot creates those mismatches. And I
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  Speaker 3: know Annaanobe is going to start on him, but I
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  Speaker 3: know they're going to try to get Runson into those
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  Speaker 3: switches like we saw a lot in that Boston series.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, me and Kenny talk about is a lot how
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  Speaker 6: bad defensively the NBAS day because everybody switches everything, but
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  Speaker 6: the players want to jack up threes and never take
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  Speaker 6: advantage of the mismatches.
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  Speaker 2: That's the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 6: And they like, Yo, man, if a big guy's guarden a.
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  Speaker 4: Little guy, y'all, do know that mean a.
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  Speaker 6: Little guy's guarding the big guy somewhere out here?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to see both of these teams take advantage
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  Speaker 3: of those mismatches, because Brunson does the same thing for
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  Speaker 3: the knickt when he gets a switch on to him,
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  Speaker 3: and we see what Tyreees has done when those big
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  Speaker 3: switch out on him.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I love pregame one of a series
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  Speaker 1: like this because it's this blank canvas. All you have
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  Speaker 1: right now is well, here's something that should happen, and
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  Speaker 1: here's based on the way they've played. Look, if they
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  Speaker 1: don't rebound with them and keep them out of the paint,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana's got no chance. Hey, if Indiana shoots a three
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  Speaker 1: like they do when they try, they're able to run
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  Speaker 1: up and down, the New York doesn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 1: And then we see the games played, and then we
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  Speaker 1: see the way all of those pre series numbers shape up.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you what are you hanging your head
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  Speaker 1: on right now? As this canvas is still clear.
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  Speaker 5: Pace and rebounding.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's going to be everything in this series.
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  Speaker 3: Indiana wants to make this a track meet. We saw
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  Speaker 3: that in the first two rounds versus Milwaukee and Cleveland,
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  Speaker 3: and even so much Kenny Atkinson said after that Game five,
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  Speaker 3: we were just exhausted.
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  Speaker 4: They beat us down.
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  Speaker 2: They put so much pressure on them.
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  Speaker 1: They play like a college team.
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  Speaker 3: You say, just their tactics. Remember now they go nine
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  Speaker 3: deep and rebounding New York and watch this Mitchell Robinson
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  Speaker 3: and Josh Hart. To me, Josh Hart is going to
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  Speaker 3: be the X factor in this series for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: He is great on the offensive glass. There's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a lot of Knicks and matching. If nim Hart and
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  Speaker 3: those guys do not find Josh Hart, he is going
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  Speaker 3: to destroy them on the offensive glass.
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  Speaker 4: Saying that Indiana Chuck says as the most underrated player
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  Speaker 4: and Siakam and then they have the most overrated player.
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  Speaker 1: They said.
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  Speaker 2: It out.
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  Speaker 4: But for one thing for me, I think the difference
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  Speaker 4: for the Knicks to why they've been here is called
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  Speaker 4: Anthony Towns. He brings them size to the position. Last
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  Speaker 4: year they were I thought played over the heads because
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  Speaker 4: they didn't have size and they were playing small ball.
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  Speaker 2: But he brings the size to it. But I think,
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  Speaker 2: for me, when I'm looking.
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  Speaker 4: At the paces, your paces, I'm looking at Karl Miles.
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  Speaker 4: Turner has to win that match up. They both play
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  Speaker 4: similar in terms of they will ship threes, picking Pop
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  Speaker 4: he has to win the matchup against.
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  Speaker 2: Carl Anthony Towns.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm interested to see what Obie Topping does coming
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  Speaker 4: in as a rebounder and an athlete, and he's so
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  Speaker 4: he's a bigger version of what Josh Hash does Hart does.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm interested to see those two guys for Indiana,
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  Speaker 4: Miles Turn and Obi Topping, be the supporting cast and
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  Speaker 4: get them over the top and get them into the
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  Speaker 4: NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 2: Drey Bonar got a question for ye, because when y'all
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  Speaker 2: play Houston in the first round, there's the first round,
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  Speaker 2: they throw a lot of bodies of Steff. You think
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  Speaker 2: Indiana will throw a lot of bodies at Brunton because
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  Speaker 2: they do have a lot of bodies to throw him
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  Speaker 2: and give him that full corporation. I think they will
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  Speaker 2: throw a lot of bodies at him. And I think
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  Speaker 2: early on you'll see them Har who's been incredible defensively
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  Speaker 2: all playoffs. I think you'll see them Har. I think
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  Speaker 2: you'll see Nie Smith. I think you'll see Mathurin Matherin,
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  Speaker 2: the long kid that come off the bench, Winston. I
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  Speaker 2: think you'll see a mixture of all of those guys
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the game. But I'm telling you
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  Speaker 2: down the stretch, if they want to win this series,
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  Speaker 2: they need to have those guys chase him around us
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  Speaker 2: all first three quarters, and then when it comes down
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  Speaker 2: to be for the fourth quarter, they need.
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  Speaker 4: To put size on him.
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  Speaker 2: So then you need to go Siakam, You need to
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  Speaker 2: go Obie topping because when it comes to the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: he's just getting his spots and raising up on you,
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  Speaker 2: and that's when you need to lane. So let those
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  Speaker 2: guys iron them out three quarters and then put the
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  Speaker 2: size on them if they want to try to negate
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  Speaker 2: them in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: June second, two thousand, that was the last time the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks played a game in the Eastern Conference Finals. That's
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  Speaker 1: all about to change. At the top of the hour,
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  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller was here back then, Yes, he two thousand, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we can't wait for the start of Game one. Ritchie,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much.
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  Speaker 5: Chant Yes, Sergy Richie, you have to be a bad
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  Speaker 5: boy to wed, I said him.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. One