Latest / Kenny For Real / The New York Knicks Are 2 Wins Away
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm trying to make this work. This is the most
- 0:02Speaker 1: janky setup I've ever done in a YouTube video before,
- 0:05Speaker 1: but I gotta do it. Game two, the Even Finalist rap.
- 0:08Speaker 1: I'm in Dallas. I'm in Dallas right now. I was
- 0:10Speaker 1: at an event for the Finals. I was watching it
- 0:13Speaker 1: at like the cosm, y'all know what that is, with
- 0:14Speaker 1: like the big old screen. It was crazy and had
- 0:17Speaker 1: to zoom back to the telly at the zoom back
- 0:19Speaker 1: to the telly because I need to make a video.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Game two was phenomenal. My goodness. The Knicks have won
- 0:25Speaker 1: thirteen straight playoff games and I made a tweet right
- 0:28Speaker 1: just in the moment. I can't even compute thirteen straight
- 0:32Speaker 1: playoff wins. The Warriors did it, Yeah, but like you
- 0:36Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, this team winning thirteen straight
- 0:39Speaker 1: playoff games is ridiculous. And they almost fumbled it. They
- 0:43Speaker 1: almost fumbled it, but they didn't. That's all over the matters.
- 0:46Speaker 1: The Knicks went into San Antonio as the other dog
- 0:49Speaker 1: in both games and walked out too one. Say that
- 0:53Speaker 1: one more time. The Knicks went into San Antonio and
- 0:57Speaker 1: walked out victorious two times. Josh Hart after the game
- 0:59Speaker 1: of one where Chris Hanes said, we didn't come to
- 1:01Speaker 1: San Antonio with that da of winning one game. They
- 1:03Speaker 1: got the two. And it's like, what, I don't know.
- 1:07Speaker 1: I bet there's some stats out there somebody saying it
- 1:09Speaker 1: when the role team wins two games in the playoff
- 1:12Speaker 1: or the first two games of playoff series, the winner
- 1:14Speaker 1: of the series ends up being that team ninety percent
- 1:17Speaker 1: of the time. At ninety nine percent, I don't know.
- 1:19Speaker 1: The Knicks are potentially two wins away from being NBA champions.
- 1:24Speaker 1: This was another rough collectively a rough women Yama game.
- 1:28Speaker 1: First half. The Knicks have been just doing such an
- 1:31Speaker 1: amazing job of pushing Victor Wimbyama away from the spots,
- 1:34Speaker 1: making them just super uncomfortable. This is one of the
- 1:36Speaker 1: few times of Wombenyama's career where you watch and you say, hmm,
- 1:40Speaker 1: this ain't looking like him. You know, it happens to
- 1:43Speaker 1: every player's career, right, A couple of games here or there.
- 1:46Speaker 1: But this game, I'm watching the first half with everybody else,
- 1:48Speaker 1: I'm like, they don't like women Yama, potential best player
- 1:51Speaker 1: in the world type of guy. Carninion Towns has done
- 1:54Speaker 1: such a phenomenal job just making him look really uncomfortable, Saint,
- 1:57Speaker 1: though Mitch Robson. Mitch Robson gave them some huge minutes
- 2:00Speaker 1: down the stretch, which we will get to. I got
- 2:02Speaker 1: interviewed at halftime because again I'm there for an appearance
- 2:04Speaker 1: and I just can't watch the game. I gotta work
- 2:06Speaker 1: the game too, and they were asking me, like, what
- 2:08Speaker 1: are you expecting to see in the second half, I said, Hey,
- 2:11Speaker 1: if the Spurs want to win this game or potentially
- 2:13Speaker 1: have a chance in this series, because again, winning this
- 2:15Speaker 1: game is kind of winning the like keeping the series
- 2:17Speaker 1: alive in a way, I needed to see a ridiculous
- 2:19Speaker 1: third quarter for women Yama, and we eventually got that.
- 2:21Speaker 1: I think he scored twelve points. This is the most
- 2:24Speaker 1: comfortable he had looked overall. And part of it, I
- 2:26Speaker 1: think Richard Jefferson even said it on the broadcast. Part
- 2:28Speaker 1: of it simply was just taking shots and making shot
- 2:32Speaker 1: like he was like, oh for four in the first half, right,
- 2:34Speaker 1: I'm just realizing the lighting here is crazy. We gotta
- 2:36Speaker 1: do what you gotta do, so taking shot, making shots.
- 2:40Speaker 1: But as weirdly as it sounds, because obviously those shots
- 2:43Speaker 1: mattered in the grand scheme of things a lot of
- 2:45Speaker 1: the buckets that came in the third quarter for me Yama,
- 2:48Speaker 1: I looked at and felt like, hmmm, that didn't feel
- 2:50Speaker 1: like an impactful eight points in a row, you know,
- 2:52Speaker 1: you know what I'm trying to say something along those lines.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Fourth quarter comes around, and my goodness, the Knicks almost
- 2:59Speaker 1: fun with the game. There's one stretch of this game.
- 3:01Speaker 1: I think it's extremely extremely important. Carnkny Towns picks up
- 3:04Speaker 1: his fourth foul. In my goodness, some of the whistles
- 3:06Speaker 1: that you saw on y'all, y'all know, I'm not an
- 3:07Speaker 1: officiating type of guy. Some of the whistles you saw
- 3:10Speaker 1: in this game were crazy, or the lack thereof whistles
- 3:12Speaker 1: is kind of crazy. I think the fourth foul that
- 3:15Speaker 1: you got from Cronkin the Towns was one of them
- 3:17Speaker 1: bang bang plays, and I was just surprised that they call,
- 3:19Speaker 1: considering they hadn't really been calling much for the entire game.
- 3:22Speaker 1: And again, I'm watching it at the cosm, and I
- 3:25Speaker 1: really recommend this is not an afrotough. I promise, just
- 3:27Speaker 1: not that that you just look at a screw like
- 3:29Speaker 1: type in cosm basketball, right. Part of the angle that
- 3:33Speaker 1: you get when you're watching that the cosm is right
- 3:35Speaker 1: at the stanchion, right under the basket, so it becomes
- 3:38Speaker 1: very apparent when a player drives to the basket and
- 3:41Speaker 1: they get hacked or they get fouled. So I'm watching
- 3:44Speaker 1: this game, but I'm so surprised that, like until you know,
- 3:46Speaker 1: O John Andobi had that three pointer that was turned
- 3:49Speaker 1: around to a foul they had, the VIGs had three
- 3:51Speaker 1: free throw attempts in the entire second half. Because I'm
- 3:54Speaker 1: watching this game, like both of these seems are beating
- 3:55Speaker 1: each other rop Okay, so I would the whistle saw
- 3:57Speaker 1: even LJ on the broadcast, like, I'm surprised, I'm saying this,
- 4:01Speaker 1: but this game is getting a little bit too physical. Anyway,
- 4:04Speaker 1: Corney Towns picks up that fourth foul, and it also
- 4:07Speaker 1: so happens to correspond with Jaylen Brunch's rest. So now
- 4:10Speaker 1: the Knicks are running the lineup with basically everybody from
- 4:13Speaker 1: the bench in mckel Bridges, four bench players of michel
- 4:16Speaker 1: Bridges versus the Spurs whore running three or four starters.
- 4:18Speaker 1: I forget exactly what the lineup was, and I thought
- 4:21Speaker 1: in my mind that this is gonna make or break
- 4:23Speaker 1: this game for the New York Knicks and that lineup.
- 4:26Speaker 1: Let me see if I could quickly find the data.
- 4:28Speaker 1: I'm doing this whole video without knowing if it'll ever
- 4:30Speaker 1: be able to come out because the internet in this
- 4:33Speaker 1: hotel room. What I'm recognizing over the last two days
- 4:35Speaker 1: is stand here is kind of trash, even the advanced one.
- 4:38Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, So there was five minutes total in
- 4:41Speaker 1: this game. Mostly again it's because of foul trouble from
- 4:43Speaker 1: Coronthony Towns. Five minutes and twenty seconds in this game
- 4:45Speaker 1: where there was no Jaylen Brunson and there was no
- 4:47Speaker 1: Carnthony Towns and the Knicks in those lineups outscored the
- 4:51Speaker 1: Spurs eleven to six, and it felt like that deuceding
- 4:53Speaker 1: Bride tough mit range jump shot. Mckel bridges just all
- 4:57Speaker 1: game long after his first miss, just not down, knocking
- 5:00Speaker 1: it down, playing his game right. His game is pretty
- 5:04Speaker 1: important to this series because y'all know for the majority
- 5:07Speaker 1: of the series or this season, he didn't really want
- 5:09Speaker 1: to go to the basket. He wants to pull up
- 5:11Speaker 1: from five feet away and women, Yama, that's the shot
- 5:14Speaker 1: he wants to give up. He don't want you to
- 5:15Speaker 1: get to the basket. So I remember one play he
- 5:17Speaker 1: got the ball like five feet away from the rim
- 5:19Speaker 1: and he just got to turn around me and Rich
- 5:20Speaker 1: Jumps I said, oh, that goes Michel Bridges. So I
- 5:22Speaker 1: think that stretch was important. But here comes the Spurs
- 5:26Speaker 1: because the Knicks are turning the ball over, the Knicks
- 5:28Speaker 1: are missing shots. Jaylen Brunton just has a horrific game
- 5:31Speaker 1: shooting from the field wise. You know, a couple wide
- 5:33Speaker 1: open looks just missed completely. And here comes the Spurs,
- 5:37Speaker 1: big shot, Devin Visel women Yama with another shot, and
- 5:40Speaker 1: so on and so forth, and then we get down
- 5:43Speaker 1: to the nitty gritty. I forget the exact score. Let's
- 5:45Speaker 1: say one point TI game whatever. Jaylen Brunson gets fouled
- 5:48Speaker 1: and he makes the first free throw, and I don't
- 5:50Speaker 1: know if the broadcast picks U up because again I'm
- 5:51Speaker 1: watching it from a very specific angle. Jaylen Brunson walks
- 5:55Speaker 1: to the line for the second free throw. He gets
- 5:57Speaker 1: the ball, and then the rev calls were back, and
- 5:59Speaker 1: then this is the second free throw. I'm like, the
- 6:01Speaker 1: rep is ice Jalen Brunson right here. And then we're
- 6:04Speaker 1: gonna get to the moment where everybody's gonna talk about
- 6:09Speaker 1: they get the stop that they want. I think Jaylen
- 6:11Speaker 1: Brunton takes a mit range jump shot around the elbow
- 6:14Speaker 1: being guarded by Victor Wimbiyama. He misses, The Spurs get
- 6:17Speaker 1: the rebound in Wimbanyama without looking se fine Castle, I
- 6:22Speaker 1: guess without looking it's e turnal. When Banyama throws that ball,
- 6:25Speaker 1: it hits the fon Castle in the back, and that's
- 6:28Speaker 1: that's the moment of the game. Yo, that's the moment
- 6:30Speaker 1: of the game. But even a couple of possessions before them,
- 6:34Speaker 1: the Spurs have ball with thirty something seconds left, right
- 6:39Speaker 1: they go for a quick two for one and the
- 6:42Speaker 1: shot that they get is a Victor Wimbenyama shot over
- 6:46Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson on the right wing slash corner. That was
- 6:50Speaker 1: super heavily contested. And I understand managing the clock in
- 6:54Speaker 1: the way so that you do get the last shot
- 6:56Speaker 1: if everything goes the way you wanted to, But boy
- 6:59Speaker 1: did I I just would have rather a better look.
- 7:02Speaker 1: And I'm watching this, I'm like, that is that unrealistic? Kenny?
- 7:05Speaker 1: Are you? Is your expectations too high? Because they had
- 7:08Speaker 1: been struggling to get good looks from me, ya'm an
- 7:09Speaker 1: all game long. So maybe this is the best lift
- 7:11Speaker 1: they could get with thirty secs ago and he misses
- 7:14Speaker 1: that shot and then the rest of the game plays
- 7:17Speaker 1: out to be the way it is. I'm going to
- 7:19Speaker 1: go back to Carnthony Towns because two games in Carnthony
- 7:24Speaker 1: Towns is he finals MVP of the series, and you
- 7:27Speaker 1: know they have to close out the series obviously, But
- 7:29Speaker 1: there's this entire arc where, like, I can't, I can't
- 7:33Speaker 1: imagine talking about Carnthony Towns in ten years when you
- 7:36Speaker 1: think about everything that he's endured in his NBA career,
- 7:40Speaker 1: from being in Minnesota where they struggled to make the
- 7:42Speaker 1: playoffs and the one time they make the playoffs, the
- 7:44Speaker 1: first time they make the playoffs for Cornthony Towns, the
- 7:46Speaker 1: guy they helped them get there, Jimmy Butler, publicly is
- 7:49Speaker 1: telling the world that that that big fella is a
- 7:52Speaker 1: soft He's a soft player. You know. The Minnesota Timbwolves
- 7:56Speaker 1: decide that you know, Julius rand and Rudy Gobert is
- 8:01Speaker 1: a better fit for their future, and they ended up
- 8:03Speaker 1: making two conference finals, right, so jesus all my guess,
- 8:06Speaker 1: But we look back on and say, mankind of the
- 8:07Speaker 1: best player in the series right now the finals, and
- 8:10Speaker 1: then it gets through New York and the conversation continues
- 8:12Speaker 1: to go, can Carnthon Towns be your five man? If
- 8:17Speaker 1: you know, can he be your five man and you
- 8:19Speaker 1: win a championship? And if two games away from that
- 8:22Speaker 1: being true because the defensive lapses, the mental aspect of defense,
- 8:27Speaker 1: Carthen the Towns has completely locked in on. Nobody's ever
- 8:30Speaker 1: questioned the talent of Carnthony Towns. Everybody questioned this part.
- 8:33Speaker 1: Everybody questioned them big ass feet that he that he
- 8:36Speaker 1: can the sas twenty two's he carried a round and
- 8:39Speaker 1: I just think all playoffs loan from this series to
- 8:41Speaker 1: the to the conference finals, to the second round to
- 8:43Speaker 1: the first round, Carnthen and towns Is defense has been
- 8:47Speaker 1: B plus the eight plus. Given the specific game, I
- 8:52Speaker 1: don't know how many people would have projected that Carthony
- 8:54Speaker 1: Towns would look leagues better than win beIN Yama and
- 8:59Speaker 1: two into the series because we all got respect from Kat.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Remember just seven years ago, six years ago the NBA
- 9:06Speaker 1: GM survey, the gms were asked, if you can start
- 9:09Speaker 1: an organization today who would you started with Karnthony Towns
- 9:12Speaker 1: one with flying colors like it is, it's not surprised
- 9:15Speaker 1: that he has the talent to do some of these things,
- 9:16Speaker 1: but as you get later in your career, the idea
- 9:19Speaker 1: of turning into the best version of himself, that light
- 9:21Speaker 1: demmers and demers and demers. And here you are on
- 9:23Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and he just had twenty one, thirteen
- 9:27Speaker 1: and four. The pass that he made to the corner,
- 9:30Speaker 1: who git that shot? I'm kel Bridges. The past that
- 9:33Speaker 1: Karnthi Town's made to the corner in this game might
- 9:34Speaker 1: have been second quarter. I'm like, oh my god, this
- 9:37Speaker 1: light in this I look like a whole different person.
- 9:39Speaker 1: The past that he made to the corner right there,
- 9:42Speaker 1: I'm like, it's kar Anthony Jokic. It's Karl Anthony jokicch
- 9:47Speaker 1: there's no other. There's no other Carl Anthony. I'm dul Jabari.
- 9:50Speaker 1: I don't know he's doing everything. The fact that they
- 9:54Speaker 1: were able to survive a game where Jay le Brunton,
- 9:56Speaker 1: let me look at this final box score seven of
- 9:58Speaker 1: twenty five, I'm always gonna commend to us star player.
- 10:00Speaker 1: That's like hell, and we're gonna go out. I'm gonna
- 10:02Speaker 1: shoot the hell out of the ball. I respect that,
- 10:03Speaker 1: but the shots when I fall in for jay leb
- 10:05Speaker 1: Brunton tonight. I think overall, the defense was great, especially
- 10:08Speaker 1: considering from both sides. The WOOSU was being swallowed by
- 10:12Speaker 1: the referees. So to survive that and be in that
- 10:16Speaker 1: environment in San Antoni again I was. I was at
- 10:18Speaker 1: game one. I don't know if you're know I was
- 10:19Speaker 1: at Game one. That's why I'm in Texas. I was
- 10:21Speaker 1: at Game one and that environment was the most hype
- 10:24Speaker 1: basketball experience of my entire lifetime. So to go into
- 10:28Speaker 1: game number two and do that as well, my goodness.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Mckel bridges, em mckel bridges, he was. He had a
- 10:37Speaker 1: zero point game in his playoffs. Remember that mcoverbridgeay zero points.
- 10:39Speaker 1: Mcovery's got bench and everybody to say five first round
- 10:42Speaker 1: fix five verst row picks, five first round picks. Damn it,
- 10:44Speaker 1: they're two games away from making it happen. Lanzer Shammon
- 10:48Speaker 1: continues to just be one of the most valuable off
- 10:51Speaker 1: the bench players in the entire league. From his offense
- 10:54Speaker 1: and his defense. I was listening to Bill Simmons pod
- 10:56Speaker 1: because I had to drive from San Antonio to Dallas,
- 10:58Speaker 1: and it's said four hours, but it ended up being
- 11:01Speaker 1: five hours. I don't know if the hell I did,
- 11:03Speaker 1: I didn't. It's no exits anyway. So I'm listening to
- 11:06Speaker 1: a ton of podcasts on the way down, and I'm
- 11:08Speaker 1: listening to Doc Rivers on Bill Simmons Show, and he
- 11:12Speaker 1: says like something along the lines of, like I coach,
- 11:14Speaker 1: I can't do the Doc Rivers voice I coached. He said,
- 11:17Speaker 1: I coached sham Landry Shalammon. And the big thing about
- 11:20Speaker 1: him is that we just couldn't keep him on the
- 11:21Speaker 1: floor because of his defense. That's that could not be
- 11:24Speaker 1: further from a truth today where most of this is
- 11:27Speaker 1: because you know, Josh Hart wasn't that great, but like
- 11:29Speaker 1: Landry Shaman has opportunities in some of the biggest moments
- 11:32Speaker 1: because the defense is like, you can't pick on Landry
- 11:34Speaker 1: Shalmon like you were able to do even just two
- 11:36Speaker 1: years ago. Right, So he's been great. Mitchell Robinson stopped
- 11:39Speaker 1: on their last possession when women Yama gets a shot
- 11:42Speaker 1: is amazing. That's an amazing moment. And though Mitchell Robinson
- 11:45Speaker 1: technically ended with just how many offensive rebounds, two offensive
- 11:48Speaker 1: rebounds two of I counted two more where he batted
- 11:52Speaker 1: the ball out where the Spurs touched it last it
- 11:55Speaker 1: ended up with the Knicks retaining possession. So like everybody
- 11:58Speaker 1: came to play the whole Alvarado men has continue to
- 12:01Speaker 1: be a good thing when Jalen Brunton is on the bench.
- 12:03Speaker 1: That is a mid season acquisition for what Dalen Terry
- 12:08Speaker 1: and two second round picks like something along those lines.
- 12:10Speaker 1: So the Knicks man the Knicks, the Knicks, the Knicks,
- 12:14Speaker 1: the Knicks on the opposite side. Again, many many conversations
- 12:20Speaker 1: about timeline and breaking the mold, and that's what the
- 12:24Speaker 1: Spurs are actively doing right the youngest team to make
- 12:27Speaker 1: a Finals appearance since bla blah blah blah blah. This
- 12:32Speaker 1: series due to games and again they were one shot
- 12:35Speaker 1: away from winning this game or in the last game
- 12:38Speaker 1: ended up being a ten point win if I'm not mistaken,
- 12:39Speaker 1: but that was a close game two many side. But
- 12:41Speaker 1: there are just too many periods of time where they
- 12:44Speaker 1: look like a team that average ages twenty two to
- 12:46Speaker 1: twenty three, and that has been one of the biggest
- 12:49Speaker 1: determative factors. Though not a lot of these Knicks players
- 12:52Speaker 1: have been in the finals. They look like a team
- 12:54Speaker 1: that is more experienced, and that's truly what they are.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Mike Brown looks like a coach that it's been in
- 13:00Speaker 1: the finals before, and he has been as an assistant
- 13:02Speaker 1: and as a head coach, and Miss Johnson is still
- 13:05Speaker 1: trying to run things out. There was a lineup. Let
- 13:06Speaker 1: me see, if I've didn't miss misspeak here, there was
- 13:09Speaker 1: a lineup. If I'm not mistaken, they had Harrison Barnes
- 13:12Speaker 1: on the on the court with like let me see,
- 13:14Speaker 1: let me see, let me see. It might have been
- 13:16Speaker 1: card of Brian Harrison Barnes. It was. It was the
- 13:20Speaker 1: lineup of the Aaron Fox, Devin Visell, Champagnee, Harrison Barnes,
- 13:27Speaker 1: and Luke Cornett. And though it didn't play much to
- 13:29Speaker 1: play like a minute total time, I remember watching like,
- 13:33Speaker 1: that's a lineup we running with right now. You know,
- 13:35Speaker 1: castles in foul trouble, sure, I'll give you that, but
- 13:38Speaker 1: that's the line up we running with right now. In
- 13:40Speaker 1: Game two of d NBA Finals. I would, I would
- 13:42Speaker 1: if I'm miss Johnson shout out to Black Falcon. I
- 13:45Speaker 1: just don't know how much I'm giving minutes to Harrison Barnes,
- 13:49Speaker 1: and even my guy called Bryant nothing but of love
- 13:52Speaker 1: and respect him. He plays with this intensity defensively that
- 13:54Speaker 1: they desperately can use that sometimes. But now you're down
- 13:57Speaker 1: though two and you've never been in this position before.
- 13:59Speaker 1: You short in their rotations. If it's a fucking kot
- 14:01Speaker 1: for a Q rebuild video, you short in that rotation. Man,
- 14:07Speaker 1: I ain't had that problem all video somewhere else you
- 14:12Speaker 1: shorten a rotation to keep it eight man, Because you
- 14:14Speaker 1: do have a league guard off bench in Dylan Harper.
- 14:17Speaker 1: You will have a wing in Keldon Johnson, and you
- 14:19Speaker 1: will have a big and Louke Cordnett. I don't think
- 14:21Speaker 1: you need Harrison Barnes minutes unless somebody's in major foul
- 14:25Speaker 1: trouble that plays a similar position over the next three days,
- 14:30Speaker 1: because I think game Saturday, Sunday, game next three days,
- 14:35Speaker 1: My goodness, they gonna eat women, yead my life. Just overall,
- 14:40Speaker 1: not a great game, and then the possessions down the
- 14:41Speaker 1: stretch from again a bad two for one shot to
- 14:44Speaker 1: the turnover and then the final shot. The rough the
- 14:48Speaker 1: roughest period of his career for sure, and again thinking
- 14:52Speaker 1: about where Oh my god, the lighting here is stretched. I
- 14:54Speaker 1: don't care because it's the end. Thinking about again where
- 14:57Speaker 1: I was watching the game under the stanchion, or many
- 15:00Speaker 1: times when you look at Wimby's face you say, I
- 15:02Speaker 1: ain't saying he was floating way too much in the
- 15:05Speaker 1: first half, and again though he has an amazing third quarter.
- 15:08Speaker 1: It can't it can't be that long before we turn
- 15:11Speaker 1: it up. This is the NBA Finals, right, Thinking about
- 15:15Speaker 1: you know, when they were playing against OKC and a
- 15:17Speaker 1: lot of the games that they ended up losing, I expressed,
- 15:20Speaker 1: there's way too many times where to play for wimban
- 15:23Speaker 1: Yama is he's big, give him ball instead of running
- 15:26Speaker 1: something some type of action to get him something easier.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Nothing came easy today and that's what the Knicks have done.
- 15:32Speaker 1: So I don't even know if this video is gonna
- 15:34Speaker 1: come up because of the goddamn Internet, but goddamn, I
- 15:37Speaker 1: love y'all. I'm on my flight back home to Chicago
- 15:40Speaker 1: in seven hours, so I gotta get this up. Why
- 15:44Speaker 1: is this son like this about to explode? What is
- 15:46Speaker 1: that ticket noise? What was that ticket noise? Oh? Okay,
- 15:50Speaker 1: it's turn it off or bomb one of the other,