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What do the KNICKS have to do to finish off the HAWKS? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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say this. If you're AI almost said you're
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a Yankee fan, if you're a Giants or Jets fan, you should be very,
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very happy about the draft. Very, very happy about the
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draft. If you look at what The Jets are
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doing right now, I believe Darren Moji knows what he's
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doing. We have to see what Aaron Glenn
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is going to bring to the table. But this squad is starting to
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build up into an Aaron Glenn squad as they added David
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Bailey, who I think is a beast. He's going to be at that line.
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I know Quentin loves him. Stanford guy.
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He went to Stanford for three years and, and he finished his
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his college education at Texas Tech.
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And boy, oh, boy, did he rock the world last year.
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Oh, this year at the end of the season with 14 1/2 sacks, he was
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one of the best and more dominant edge rushers in college
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football. And and then you know what they
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did on the offensive side of the ball?
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We got to get into the New York Knicks because this series has
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been incredibly crazy. Incredibly crazy.
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The Knicks beat the Hawks in game 4114 to 98 to even up the
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playoff series with the Hawks two to two.
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Karl Anthony Towns had a triple double with 20 points, 10
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rebounds and 10 assists. It was his first triple double
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in the playoffs in Katz career and his fourth playoff triple
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double in Nick's history. OG Ananobi also added a double
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double, finishing with 22 points and 10 rebounds.
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Thank God the Knicks defense contained Jaylen Johnson,
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holding him to only 14 points on 4 for 12 shooting from the field
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and one for five shooting from three.
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Besides Mikkel Bridges, all four other Knicks starters had a
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ratings of plus 10 or higher, while all Hawk starters had a
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rating of -9 or lower. The Knicks have outscored the
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Hawks by a total of 441 to 416 in the series, but the series
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remains tied two to two. Now, I have said this, and I
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know Q has gone out there and said that this is going to be a
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very, very hard series for the New York Knicks.
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This is a young team. The Hawks, they're hungry.
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Jaylen Johnson is a star. We we've seen him enough this
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year to know when he is healthy. This team is playing on all
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cylinders. This team could be unbeatable.
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There are some points of this season where you can see what
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this team could be if they add a couple more pieces in the
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offseason. CJ McCollum is a great veteran
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player. We've seen him in his career for
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Portland. He's jumped a couple of teams
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over the his career, but he has a sensational player.
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He's add some you well, he's added some depth and he's also
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added some veteran personality to this line up.
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And you look at the Hawks and I I I'll say this.
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If you're a Hawks fan, you should be proud of this team.
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Even if the Hawks lose this series, if it goes seven games
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or if they win the series, you'll be shocked because they
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shouldn't win the series. The Knicks are the better team.
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They are. They're absolutely the better
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team. But there are players like
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Mikhail Bridges that for some reason doesn't show up to these
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games and hides. And I'm not saying that he hides
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on the bench, but he hides when he's on the basketball court.
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He disappears. He doesn't even know what he is
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as a player on this team. The Knicks gave up five first
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round draft picks for this guy, five first round draft picks.
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And he has produced diddly squat in the series.
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And this is what happened last year when they play Detroit,
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Mikhail Bridges was nowhere to be found, nowhere to be found.
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And then when they play the Celtics, when they needed
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Mikhail Bridges to defend Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown, he played
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at A at a great level. This guy is so inconsistent.
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So inconsistent. Yeah, you have to worry about
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him and and as a Knick fan, as a person that roots off, roots on
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this team and thinks that this team is credible.
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This team is a championship competitive team put together by
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Leon Rose. They brought in Mike Brown.
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I don't know if they have the fire they had like they had last
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year with Tom Thibodeau as the head coach.
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I wonder when I look at this roster if this team is built to
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win together. You have two players, two stars
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and Karl Anthony Towns and Jaylen Brunson, that don't play
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defense. I don't care what any fan says.
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I don't care if Karl Anthony Towns shows up one day and
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doesn't show up the next. He's not a defensive player.
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He really isn't. Cat is not a defensive player
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and Jaylen Brunson we know is not a defensive player.
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When these guys are both on the court, it creates havoc on the
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defensive side of the ball. And then you have OJ Nanobi.
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He has to switch off play the better defense, play the better
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wing guy, play the better point. I I mean, he's defending
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McCullum, he's defending Jaylen Johnson, he's jumping ship,
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moving around. If if you're an OG Anobi fan,
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you, you wonder, is he tired? Is he worn out already?
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Because he's playing multiple positions, defending multiple
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positions And you wonder, is Mikhail Bridges helping out?
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I'll say this, Jose Alvarado after Jalen Brunson went down
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last game in game four, he played a big part of the Knicks
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coming and playing, coming back in the second-half and playing
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at a high level. And I mean, they gave the Hawks
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a chance in the third quarter to come back.
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And then Jose Alvarado. Alvarado put his foot down and
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he played defense. He stuck it to CJ McCollum and
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he gave them that. That needed defense at the point
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guard position because Jalen Brunson isn't going to play
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right in on your chest. He's not that type of defensive
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player. He's a guy that likes to play
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isolation basketball. But you can see why the Knicks
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added Jose Alvarado, why Jose Alvarado is very, very important
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as a secondary player at the point guard position because to
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me, McBride is inconsistent to everybody could say what they
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want, they like McBride, whatever.
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McBride's going to be a guy that the Knicks are going to be
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looking to move in the offseason.
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You have too many guys at the point guard position.
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You're if you're looking to add a player like Ganis or and I'm
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not getting into that right now because it's the play offs.
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Oh boy. But right now you look at this
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team, they need Karl Anthony Towns to play at a high level.
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If Karl Anthony Towns plays like he did in game four and game
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game one, actually it was Game 2 when Carl Anthony Towns came
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back, you know, played well even though they lost.
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Right. If Carl Anthony Towns plays at a
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high level and maybe Mike Brown needs to switch it off, maybe
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Jalen Bronson in the first half plays as the number one guy and
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then Carl Anthony Towns plays at the number two guy.
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You can't do that. But you're going to have to
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switch off because if Carl Anthony Towns doesn't touch the
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ball and he doesn't understand that he is as important as Jalen
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Bronson is on the on the court, he doesn't play at a high level
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if if he gets lost in the skirmish.
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And that's to me the problem right now with the New York
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Knicks. I worry about this team because
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it just seems like sometimes Carl Anthony Towns is more pass
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happy. He doesn't want to shoot the
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ball. He's forcing shots.
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He's shooting these deep 3 pointers because nobody's giving
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him at at his point where he can shoot and he can make those
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shots. He's shooting 30 foot, 35 foot
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jumpers. He is not Steph Curry.
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He's not not that type of player, but he is one of the
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best offensive big men in the league.
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We understand he can shoot the three.
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We've seen him win the three-point contest in the All
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Star game. But this is not the All Star
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game. This is not a competition.
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This is about winning a championship and this team do
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not play on all cylinders. You got five guys on the court
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and all 5 cylinders are not working.
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It's either 3, it's two and sometimes it's only 1 and that's
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the problem. This was the first game besides
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Mikhail Bridges, where everybody was playing on all cylinders.
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And that to me shows me that if Mikhail Bridges cannot play at a
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high level, he should not be playing.
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You sit him and you bring him off the bench.
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You play guys that want to play. You play guys that are going to
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go out there and play hard. Because to me, I don't want to
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hear about his, oh, he's hurt, he's crying, oh, this or that.
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Because I know Mikhail Bridges was the reason why Tom Thibodeau
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was not there anymore. Mikhail Bridges.
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Mikhail Bridges was one of the guys that did not want Tom
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Thibodeau there. He was complaining all.
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Season. He got that kind of crowd,
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though. Come on, let's.
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He he was complaining all season long.
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If you watch the Knicks and when.
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He's fans in the medium. No, that's not true.
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All Yeah, all they kept talking about, you're running them into
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the dirt, you're running them into the ground.
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That's all y'all was talking about the whole year.
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Y'all got the man fired now. You missing.
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The only two guys that stuck up for Tom Thibodeau was Jalen
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Brunson and Josh Hart. I'm telling you right now,
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Mikhail Bridges had his own thoughts to Tom Thibodeau.
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And remember, you had to give up five first round draft picks.
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You extended his contract. You're going to listen to the
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players. You're not going to listen to
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the coach, Jalen Brunson. Jalen Brunson, they didn't care
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what Jalen Brunson had to say. It was to me.
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He's the number one. He's the number one, but guess
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what? It's about team, right?
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Basketball is about teamwork. It's not about talent.
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It is about talent, but you need a team.
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You can't have one guy if two of your guys on your roster is the
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only one saying that they want Tom Thibodeau there and and the
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story is Karl Anthony Towns didn't want him there.
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Mikhail Bridges didn't want him. OG had his own thoughts and he's
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OG said at the end of the season he was tired when they went to
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the Eastern Conference finals. OG looked tired in that series.
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He looked like he was worn out because he played at an ultra
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competitive fashion last year and he was defending and playing
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at such a high level. And that's why I say to the NBA
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and the voters, how could you leave this guy out?
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How was he the 9th or 10th defensive player of the year on
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that list? That guy was the best defender
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at the wing all season long. He defended all the top wing
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guys in the NBA, every one of them.
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So the fact that nobody gives this man credit because what we
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have seen, OJ and Anobe, I think people are forgetting.
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Look what he's done to Jaylen Johnson in the series.
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Jaylen Johnson, who has been an elite player for the last, I
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would say three months, is not scoring as much as he was during
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the season. This man was scoring between 25
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and 27 points a game in the last two months of the season.
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Do you realize why he's not scoring?
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It's because OG and Nanobi is taking him out of games.
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OG and Nanobi is taking it to him.
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Dude, watch the game, watch the game, watch the game.
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Can't be a number one shooting 12 shots.
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What are you talking? About he is sticking him.
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He is. Oh, stop.
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You're going to tell me this has nothing to do with OG and Anobi?
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It has nothing to do with OG and Anobi, that this guy is one of
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the best wing defenders in all of the NBA.
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It has nothing to do with it. He's defending them the whole
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time. Best defender?
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Wing defender. He is the best wing defender
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right now in the NBA. According to.
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You. No according to statistics.
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Analytics would tell you. Analytics would tell you OG and
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Anobi is the best wing defender in the NBA.
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You know the second one is Kawhi Leonard.
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Kawhi Leonard. I take kawhi.
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I take Kawhi every day, twice on Sunday.
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Nobody's saying that Kawhi Leonard isn't a better overall
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player, So why? OG and Opie No, we said
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defender. Yes, right now I would, I would
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take Koji. He's younger, he's faster.
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He's never had a a major injury. He's never had a knee injury.
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I mean, Kawhi Leonard's had two knee surgeries.
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You're talking about a younger player, five years younger than
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Kawhi Leonard. Still take Kawai, yeah?
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Well, I disagree. And of course you take Kawai
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because you're a Boston Celtic fan.
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You're going to go take Kawai? Everybody.
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He's not a threat to us. He's not a threat.
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He's not a threat to us. I I think OG and Obi was a
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threat to the Celtics in the last time they met in the
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playoffs. You got you.
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Guys, are you telling me, are you telling me right now, OG,
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are you going to tell me right now the Celtics aren't worried
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about playing the Knicks? In the second round, people by
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30. Oh, you're playing the 76ers.
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You're playing the 70 76ers, a team that doesn't have a big
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man. I think honestly, I would
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probably rather play the 76ers. I would rather play the 76ers
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than I would do the Hawks. The Hawks are young.
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The Hawks. The Hawks are young, they're
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talented and they're hungry. The 76ers, they have a bunch of
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fans that don't even show up to their own games.
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You talking about fans support we?
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Talk. Oh, really?
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We're not talking about fan support.
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That's what we know. We're talking about players.
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Why don't you? Why don't you?
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Take off those Kitty glasses. I think you're blonde.
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Why you take you're blonde. You think take?
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Off those Kitty glasses. I think you're blind, man.
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I think you're losing it. I think you're losing it.
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No, you you picking and choosing when you want to go to
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analytics, then you go to tell me.
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No, I'm not picking to go and choose analytics.
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I'm telling you what the. Other when Janet Johnson only
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taking twelve shots. I'm just saying I'm just.
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Saying it's just why is he taking twelve shots?
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Why do you think he's taking twelve shots?
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Because they played inconsistent.
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He's not ready. We don't know what they're
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doing. Wait a second, wait a second.
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So you're telling me, you're telling me right now that
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Jaylen, Jaylen Johnson, who's touching the ball about 48% of
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the time in the game, the only reason why he is not scoring is
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because he's shooting 12 shots? What are you?
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Blind not, not the. Why are you blind?
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I'm talking about based off the last game.
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Are you blind? Are you watching the game?
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Are you? Are you watching the game?
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Yes. OK, So what are you seeing?
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I'm not. An OG offense then I am in his.
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Defense. Oh, OK.
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And what I'm saying there, if you got an All Star or a
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superstar that's leading your team that takes 12 shots, he
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don't need to be defended to lose that game.
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That's what you failing to realize.
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He don't he's not he don't need to take he he don't need nothing
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extra to help him lose this game when you only take a twelve
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shots as a superstar. That's what I'm telling you.
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And that's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong.
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That's where you're wrong, that's where you're wrong.
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And I'm going to tell you this, just because he only shoots the
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ball 12 times does not mean by touching the ball 48% of the
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time he's not seeing and he's not looking to shoot.
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There's because there's the reason because of that is
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because OG Ananobi. OG Ananobi has been sticking
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Jalen Johnson throughout this series.
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He has been one-on-one with Jalen Johnson.
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Jalen Johnson is not scoring right now.
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Jalen Johnson is not playing at the high level he was playing
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all season long is because he has to deal with OG and Anobi
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every other night. He's got to be stuck with that
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man who is sticking him with his long arms, his wing defending
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skills, his claws. As I have said, he's got such
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big hands and he is not going to bite down and let this guy get
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to the hole or shoot over him when he's joking up threes like
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he was doing all season long. And I'm going to say this for
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all you Nick fans, this team has not played yet at an ultra high
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level. And that what's that's what
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scares me right now because the Hawks are young.
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We know they're going to have bumps and they're going to have
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bruises and we know they're going to walk into a wall one
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way or another. But I'm going to tell you this
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right now, what I've seen with this Nick team is not only
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inconsistency, I'm going to say this.
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Mike Brown sometimes is lost. Oh my.
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God, he is lost. You don't need a coach.
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He is absolutely lost. I don't know if he knows where
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he is half the time when he's calling timeouts.
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I wonder with this team and this this Nick team, if they really
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buy into what he is doing on the sidelines.
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He's calling up plays and they're doing other things and I
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don't know what he's doing. And then when he's calling a
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timeout, you have the players talking.
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You don't have Matt Mike Brown sitting down and listening.
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That is not Tom Thibodeau, that it was not this Nick team last
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year. Tom was the guy.
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He was the general and the players were the soldiers.
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Not this time, not Mike Brown. It's Jalen Bronson and Carl
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Anthony Towns are talking in the mix of God or Josh Hart speaking
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to the team and they have you have Mike Brown sitting there
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listening to the conversation. Earl, ain't that what you said?
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Ain't that what they need? Isn't it talent run the NBA?
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Don't you remember that? So why do you want a coach to
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give his input when you got 2 superstars like Jaylee Bronson
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and Carl Anthony Towns? Why do you need a coach?
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You got 2 superstars and let's not forget OG because you said
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OG is good. But back to that OG point.
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You know when they lost Friday, Johnson had 29 points right?
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Shot 19 shots. Guess what O GS plus minus was?
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What's that -4 OK, where's, where's this extreme defense at?
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What, so you're telling me right now?
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I'm telling you is he's not. Dude, you can look at you.
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Can have a good game, but he's. Not so you're looking Joe,
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you're looking at a -, 4. And that's what that's how
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you're telling me that OG on OB isn't taking Jaylen Johnson out.
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But the analytics will tell you that who's taking Speedy?
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Who is taking, who's defending Jaylen Johnson?
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OG, OK. And what is Jaylen Johnson
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averaging right now in this series?
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1616 points. What was he averaging throughout
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the season? 222324 points a game.
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So you're going to tell me he's scoring 6 or 7 points less less
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right now in this series? And it has nothing to do with OG
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and an Obi. You can go look at your stats.
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It doesn't matter. He's taking twelve shots because
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he's got a player taking him. He's got a player sticking.
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Him you're talking about OG and an Obi.
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I got to take your side on this arrow.
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We've got some advanced stats about shooting efficiency.
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Johnson shooting 20%. When they put OG on him in the
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game, he was the primary defender, but Johnson had a game
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worst -19 in that game, which meant they shut him down
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completely. When he tried to leave OG and
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get put on somebody else, it wasn't any better.
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So it was just a disaster throughout the entire game for
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them. Well, why do you think that they
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were so successful in that game and not in the previous games?
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Q. Because he's only taking 12.
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Shots, but the previous game he had like 25 points, right?
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He had 29 and then he had he had took 20. 4 he had 29 then he had
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a 24. Guess what?
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OG didn't guard him like that in those games.
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And Mike Brown, they're they they dedicated to be more
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physical on him. He made him the primary
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defender. You know Johnson plays the
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perimeter. Sometimes they use OG inside,
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you know, if OG is going. To he they did a great job
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overall. The team was way more physical
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than Atlanta, which is the reason why they won.
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I mean they were stealing the ball on the sideline, taking the
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ball out of their hands, just ripping apart.
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Atlanta did not come to play this last game, you know what I
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mean? So, and overall, I'm not, you
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know, I'm, I'm happy for the Knicks.
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You know, I want the Knicks to win because they they'll have to
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face you know who next round and that'll be good.
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That'll be my CTV. And I would love to come up here
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each and every Monday and Thursday and talk about how
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we're leading the series. So I'm cool with that.
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I want them to win, but they don't have a winning recipe.
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Like, I think it was more about Atlanta than it was the Knicks,
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because the Knicks are still trying to figure out what are
23:02
they going to do, how they're going to go.
23:04
Like Earl just said a while ago, he's trying to figure out
23:06
whether it's going to be Brunson or Cat Turn.
23:08
You can't do that. You got to go with the flow of
23:11
the game and it starts with Brunson because he's the point
23:14
guard. So Brunson's been struggling
23:17
with his shot in this whole series.
23:18
And there's a lot of people who are saying, you know, they just
23:20
got a lot of, you know, like tall guards.
23:23
They throw at him one after another, including, you know,
23:26
small. They'll throw Dyson Daniels
23:27
really small forward. They'll throw him on him too.
23:30
Anyone that just makes his life a living hell out there.
23:33
And that's basically what Brunson's been doing the whole
23:35
time, is just trying to get by these guys.
23:37
And they just have unlimited guys.
23:39
So they realized and Errol now that you're back like they went
23:42
through cat in these last in this last game specifically.
23:45
Which is the winning recipe? If they do that, they can win.
23:49
So, but it's that's Mike Brown. Mike Brown made that change.
23:52
They were more physical defensively and they ran the
23:55
offense through Cat because it let Cat be the facilitator.
23:58
Brunson wants to shoot more than he wants to pass anyway.
24:01
So if you have Cat being more facilitator, now you don't have
24:04
to depend on Brunson getting through 2 elite defenders and
24:08
then a third guy to make the play and Cat can see over
24:11
everybody and he's more physical than anyone.
24:13
They got Ocongo can't handle Cat.
24:15
We knew that was going to be the thing during the.
24:17
Here's what Cat show up though, because Cat can be out there
24:20
shooting threes all night and never get down there and bang.
24:22
But that's the last game he banged and this is the reason
24:25
why they win. Listen, you do that.
24:26
You're going to, you're going to sit here and I, I know you want
24:29
the Celt, you want the Celtics to play the Knicks because you
24:32
have unfinished business. And I think the Knicks have
24:35
unfinished business with the Celtics too, because they want
24:37
to stick it to the Celtics. Because all the Celtic fans and
24:40
everything that you're hearing on the back end, because your
24:43
baseball team isn't doing much of anything.
24:45
They got to hope that this Celtic team is going to go all
24:48
the way to the Eastern Conference finals.
24:51
You're going to sit here and you're going to say we want the
24:52
Knicks. You don't want the Knicks.
24:54
You do not want what do you guys you.
24:56
Do not want the Knicks because the match up the Knicks, the
25:00
Knicks match up right now to the Celtics.
25:03
There's the Knicks match up better with the Celtics than
25:06
they all 100 percent, 100%. And what does the Celtics have?
25:11
What depth? What depth does the Celtics
25:14
have? What does the depth?
25:15
Rotation. I see rotation.
25:17
All right. Who's your second?
25:19
Who's your second? I've got a question for you.
25:21
Who's your second big man? It's either Cato or Vuchu.
25:25
Oh, please. Oh please.
25:27
Oh please. That that's what you're going to
25:28
sell to us. Is that what you're going to
25:29
sell to us right now? I like Cato's house.
25:32
If they let him play. If they let him play for sure.
25:35
You're, you're on. You're on drugs, man.
25:37
Mitchell Robinson. You household name.
25:39
He's not a household name. Household name, but when?
25:41
You asked me. Why he's not a name?
25:43
Household. You'll see why.
25:45
You'll see why. You'll see why I I think, I
25:47
think the Knicks match up better than them because.
25:50
You Kleenex. You've got Kleenex I need to
25:53
clean up, and what are you going to do when you're wiping the
25:59
tears and the Knicks? Beat.
26:00
Yeah, Yeah. What are you going to do that?
26:02
Bar no, it's severe injury. I hope, I really much hope,
26:05
you're wearing your Celtic jersey, wearing your Celtic hat
26:08
during that series. If this goes, if the Knicks beat
26:10
the Hawks and they match up against the Celtics, I can't
26:14
wait until this happens. You see what the?
26:16
Crazy. I can't because it's going to.
26:18
The second round really we got to if you guys.
26:20
What are you talking about? What right now, what is?
26:23
What is the? It's what 3 to one right now?
26:25
Yeah, it's. Three to one, yeah.
26:27
It's three to one right now. So.
26:30
So we're, we're, we're arguing and we're making jokes about
26:33
this. You're gonna the 76ers who don't
26:36
have their big man, they have no size right now.
26:38
So he came back, but he was terrible like the guy, the guys.
26:42
They don't have hold on an appendix let.
26:45
Me, he's not going to be able. To let me let me.
26:47
I know we can't you guys. You didn't let me speak.
26:50
I'm on your. Side on this one.
26:52
I'm going to help you here. I'm going to help you here.
26:55
Joel Embiid played, but he's not back, OK?
26:58
He is not back. This isn't the same Joel Embiid.
27:01
He is not healthy. He came back.
27:03
He's just like, to me, it's what do they call that?
27:07
It's like a trick. They're they're using them as a
27:09
disguised player on the court, decoy, A decoy because they
27:13
think it's going to open it up for Maxi or Paul George.
27:16
It's not doing anything for this team because I believe the 76ers
27:20
are washed and in in the offseason, they're going to have
27:23
to decide what decide what they're going to do with Maxi.
27:26
Do they want to build a team around Maxi or do they want to
27:28
move them and try to build through the draft?
27:31
Because to me, the 76ers are done.
27:33
They got a bunch of old guys, a bunch of washed up guys that
27:36
can't win. And that's the fact.
27:39
And if you're going to sit here to me and you're going to try to
27:41
sell me that the Knicks are worried about the Celtics, I
27:45
think you're crazy. We saw what happened last year.
27:48
Last year, but we've been whooping you out forever.
27:50
Whipping All right, what was it? What was the Celtics talking
27:54
about? What was the Celtics?
27:55
What was the Celtics record against the Knicks this year?
27:58
I. Don't know where was it?
28:00
What was? It they played four times,
28:01
right? I'm pretty sure they did.
28:03
I think the Knicks beat them three times this year.
28:05
I think it's three. I think the.
28:06
Knicks three. I don't.
28:08
Oh, so that's the oh, that's the secret.
28:10
Now enjoy. That's the secret.
28:12
Everyone enjoy good job. So so that's what you're selling
28:15
us right now. You're selling us.
28:16
Enjoy they weren't healthy. Enjoy.
28:17
They weren't healthy. Enjoy your regular season.
28:19
And they're healthy now and they're healthy now and they're
28:22
healthy now. And you're telling me they're
28:23
healthy now? Yeah.
28:25
So you're so you're telling me Jason Tatum is 100% healthy?
28:28
He just scored 32, that's who. Cares he's playing a 70. 632 in
28:32
that. Nobody's defending him.
28:34
Who's defending him? Who's defending?
28:37
Oh, oh, so you're going to tell me peg legged Paul Joy?
28:41
He's not anymore. He is.
28:43
If you look at the analytics. The analytics would tell you in
28:47
the last three years he hasn't been the same defender.
28:49
That's why. Because you're, you're, you're
28:52
telling me right now that the reason why Jaylen Johnson is not
28:56
shooting is because there's no excuse.
28:58
He's just not shooting. No, the reason why he's not
29:00
shooting is because he has OG and Anobi sticking on every
29:03
single game. That's why.
29:04
And you're lost and you don't believe it because you're not
29:07
watching the game. You're not watching the game,
29:09
buddy. You're not taking the shots and
29:11
it's okay. You're lost.
29:13
But Knicks, Knicks is tied. So let's talk about it.
29:16
Knicks are tied, all right. That's the three now, right?
29:19
Q. There's just Knicks have two
29:21
games at home, best of three series.
29:24
It's just simple and I think the Knicks solved, you know what the
29:28
Hawks were doing. You put OG on Jaylen Johnson,
29:31
you be physical with your bigs and you dominate through Karl
29:35
Anthony Towns. They don't have an answer for
29:37
that style. They got nothing.
29:39
I'm a little concerned on whether or not the Nets could
29:41
shoot at a shot last. Game, of course you're a little.
29:43
Concerned they were shooting you're.
29:45
Concerned. But Brunson hasn't shot well at
29:47
all. Like Brunson shot terrible this
29:49
whole series. He's he, he, he, he.
29:51
He's too ball dominant. But like he does shoot.
29:55
But that's the thing, you, that's what everyone says, he.
29:57
Scores and get fouls. Yeah, yeah, I like.
29:59
I like. He always, but you don't realize
30:02
he usually shoots a lot better than this.
30:03
He doesn't look like he should because those shots look like it
30:06
shouldn't go in. And he's done it for now three
30:08
years straight and he's amazing. And as soon as he gets back to
30:12
playing amazing and I think against the team with less size
30:15
that they can throw at him, like the Celtics have good guards,
30:18
but maybe not as much size, I'm not as worried.
30:22
I'm not as worried about that Celtics team at.
30:24
All. Size advantages.
30:26
But we have, we matched up with you guys last year, and Mitchell
30:30
Robinson will destroy whatever nonsense center you have as a
30:33
backup. He'll erase him and he'll be off
30:35
the court. They can't do nothing about it,
30:37
you guys. Mitchell, just wash him out.
30:40
Mitch is real. They got a nine, they got a nine
30:42
man rotation. You're saying like they don't
30:44
got a rotation. They got Mitch who can erase
30:46
everything. They can move everyone else in
30:48
the starting line up down a forward spot so they can who's
30:51
who's. Grassley Garden.
30:53
Well, and that's that's the whole point they can bring in
30:55
Mitch. And then you can hide.
30:56
McHale Bridge is going guard. McHale Bridge is really good.
30:59
McHale. Bridge who's Who is he going to
31:00
guard? He'll probably guard Jaylen
31:02
Brown. So wait, wait a second.
31:04
So I'll, I'll say this, I don't trust Mikhail Bridges.
31:07
I don't trust him. But I will say this, I will hold
31:11
on what I will say, and I want to hear Speedy's take on it.
31:14
What I will say about what Mikhail Bridges does very, very
31:17
well is every time he shows up to a Celtics game, he shows up
31:21
and plays hard. I don't know what it is, but it
31:24
it seems like maybe it's Jalen Brown calling team meetings
31:28
after the Knicks beat him because he did it this year.
31:30
As soon as the Knicks beat the the, the Boston Boston Celtics
31:35
early in the season, what did Jaylen Brown do?
31:37
He called it, he called the team meeting and tried to get fire up
31:41
the troops because it's the Knicks.
31:42
How are the Knicks beating us? Yeah, it's a disgrace.
31:45
Yeah, OK. It's a disgrace.
31:46
It Yeah, it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace that you lost
31:49
four games to one against the Knicks in the second round last
31:52
year, right? Was that a disgrace?
31:53
And I'll just get, then I'll just lose, just completely get
31:56
tortured, tortured at home. Did you win it?
32:00
Yeah, it doesn't matter. They they beat, they won that
32:02
series. They won that series.
32:07
You guys blew 2. 20 point leads at home.
32:10
That's something that's never happened in NBA history.
32:12
I'm going to set what we did. What are you?
32:14
Seeing through those ugly glasses, What are you seeing
32:17
through? We used to win it, we're used to
32:19
win it, so I get it. When you guys beat the
32:21
Champions, it pays off. Champions.
32:24
Yeah. But you guys are a stable
32:26
organization, there's no doubt. But the Knicks have also beat
32:28
built a blueprint. Well, hold on one second.
32:30
You said they're a stable organization.
32:32
They're an organization that has a new owner, do they not?
32:34
Their owner, They have a new owner there.
32:37
Hold on, They have a new owner there.
32:39
You say it's a stable organization.
32:40
This isn't the same organization that had the same ownership.
32:43
It's a different owner and it's a different it's, it's a
32:47
different ownership. It's a different organization.
32:51
And he's still winning. He's still winning.
32:53
OK and they're still winning in a year that didn't have
32:55
expectations. That being said, Q the Knicks
32:57
did beat a blue, built a blueprint with the wing defense
33:00
like Fish was describing that countered the the Celtics.
33:03
I'm not saying that Brown and Tatum are are are not a better
33:05
duo. They are than Bridges and OG,
33:07
but they still built a system that works to to counter the
33:11
strength on strength with the Knicks and the Celtics.
33:13
Now, obviously they've gotten exposed in other instances.
33:15
The Knicks lost to the Pacers. They I I think that they didn't
33:18
have the right transition game and same kind of thing with the
33:20
Hawks this series. I think they're a team that the
33:23
Hawks like to play fast. They pilled 11 guys in their
33:26
rotation, which is different than what Quinn Snyder normally
33:28
did when he was with Utah because Utah, they didn't use a
33:30
lot of their depth as well as they should have, and they're
33:32
countering that very well. You saw that in Game 3 when the
33:35
Hawks are getting some good bench contributions in that
33:37
game, and obviously CJ McCollum was going off.
33:39
But the Knicks had the counter game plan in Game four to make
33:43
Mccullum's job harder in the first half and it really got him
33:46
going. And they've done well on Johnson
33:47
all series, and Errol's right about that.
33:49
They're bracketing him very well, switching OG across the
33:52
perimeter and inside against Johnson.
33:54
They're forcing Dyson Daniels to try to be the one shooting
33:57
threes because he can't shoot threes.
33:58
He shot like 19% all year from three.
34:00
And they're making that kind of thing work on the defensive
34:02
side. Now.
34:02
The offense has to be more consistent.
34:04
But finally, they played a steady dose of consistent
34:06
basketball in this game, which you hadn't seen all series long.
34:09
And it's exactly what Errol mentioned in his article.
34:11
Cat finally being aggressive. He was like that in game one and
34:14
that was a big difference maker. Got got to the line 10 times for
34:16
the free throw line and he was so passive after that and he
34:19
finally got it going. Again, if Cat plays like that,
34:22
the Knicks are almost impossible to beat.
34:25
If Cat plays at that level, the Knicks are almost impossible to
34:29
be. I don't care what anybody says.
34:31
You can laugh, you can giggle, you can jump around.
34:34
With those, why would you say something that crazy?
34:37
Say what? Crazy.
34:38
I'm telling you facts. You really believe that?
34:40
No, if cat plays that good. 100% if.
34:44
If cat plays like that, 100% a hundred.
34:48
Percent. Why y'all?
34:48
Just why this last time? Yeah, he had a great game.
34:50
He had a triple double, but you guys were shooting lights out
34:53
and you guys was out physical. That's the reason why that game
34:56
was so lopsided this past Sunday.
35:00
OK, that's it. All this other stuff that you're
35:03
talking about. I think those glasses, I think
35:05
those glasses, I think those glasses are making you lopsided.
35:09
OK, lopsided to believe there's garbage that's coming out of
35:12
your mouth because it's garbage. I I smell the puke.
35:16
I smell the puke. I smell the puke that comes out
35:19
of your mouth right now. You're probably throwing up at
35:22
the break. The.
35:23
Two games ago didn't he have a great game?
35:26
Wait a second, wait a second. Are are we going to go back and
35:29
forth on this and and argue points that make no sense to the
35:32
argument? Because that's what you're
35:34
doing. You're going and you're arguing
35:36
about something that has nothing to do with what happened in Game
35:40
4. Nothing.
35:42
If he plays like this they can't be stopped.
35:44
So I reference two games prior to this in regards to where he
35:47
had a good game and they lost. Well, he didn't play like this.
35:51
Oh my God. He didn't have 20.
35:53
He didn't have 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 is his.
35:55
Keep moving the needle, that's all I'm saying.
35:58
Moving 21. Points, but he had no free
35:59
throws the needle. That's not being.
36:01
If I'm moving the needle, it's sticking you right in the ass.
36:04
That's what it's doing. That's what the needle's doing.
36:07
That's what's doing. I mean your 66200 and 50 LB ass
36:12
is getting smacked around right now.
36:14
You're trying to figure out what this thing Sir claims.
36:17
If cat plays like this then #1. Listen, guys, fans, listening to
36:23
the show right now, if you want to spit into a mic and you want
36:26
to talk selfish crawbage that comes out of somebody's mouth,
36:29
there it is, ladies and gentlemen, Those Kitty glasses,
36:32
that fake Yankees hat, because he's a real Met fan.
36:36
This guy is a Met fan and he is sitting here with this garbage
36:41
and it's coming out of his mouth.
36:42
Never got the 40 games yet. Give us a shot.
36:44
We just got swept by a team. That lost 120.
36:46
Games last year, 40 games. Interesting.
36:50
We just lost to a team that lost 120 games last year and is
36:53
considered the National League poverty franchise.
36:55
Like the Rockies organization might make the Pirates look
36:58
smart. I know.
37:00
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So I hope everybody understands that's what we're trying to do,
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give you a different view and the way we look at sports.
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So that's it. Who do we have on Thursdays?
38:00
Meta World Peace is joining us. Formerly Meta World.
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38:05
Thank you to Nathan and you know, it's been great.
38:08
I'm going to be working on a Trevor Bauer story tonight with
38:11
his no hit. I am not going to make it to his
38:15
pitching on Saturday. So somebody's going to go on my
38:18
stay. But I will say this, I, I, I
38:21
love interviewing him. I think he's a great, he's a
38:24
great personality. And I think people, when you get
38:26
to know him and, and get to see what type of person that he is
38:28
on and off the field, you, you kind of, you kind of fall in
38:32
love with him as as a player and, and I think that's what he
38:34
is. I think the media really loves
38:36
him. He's a media darling and, and
38:38
you can see it and the fans love him over there too.
38:40
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