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The Knicks hire MIKE BROWN as their next head coach! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  Bats are going to give him a significant You're going to have
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  a ton of money to spend. Why not put it in one of the top
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  three offensive players in the league?
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  We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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  can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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  I played 82 games. You don't see LeBron doing that
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  a game. Where you got to go for four?
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  I told you giant things. Saquon Barkley, at this moment,
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  Let's do it. You're listening to Jabba and
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  the Mouth. Mouth.
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  Oh, you just heard fish. He's back.
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  He's on. He was on vacation hanging out
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  with the woman who knows where he was.
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  I know he was at Yankee Stadium. He was.
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  He was hanging out with some Jabba Chamberlain fans.
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  Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, you're
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  listening to a new show of Jabba and the Mouth.
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  I'm your host, Darrell Marx, my Co host Jabba Chamberlain and
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  Speedy PD Go to our website at www.worldwidesportsradio.com.
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  Check out all our shows throughout the week, including
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  You can call us ladies and gentlemen, if you have any time
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  to reach out to us during the show, you're more than welcome
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  to. Our number is 63167 2:30 one O
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  8. Anyways, Mr. Jabba, what's up,
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  man? Not a just enjoying the heat.
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  You're enjoying this. Yeah, it's not too bad.
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  I mean, I've got about 18 different tan lines working
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  right now, but got some, got some things to blow up and going
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  to hang out with some friends and family and chill and grill
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  out, eat too much and, you know, do the normal stuff.
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  Got a got the good old 4th of July gear ready to go.
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  Got me some new some new trunks. You always have to add every
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  year to the. You have a swimming pool at your
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  house. No, no.
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  So you're going to a friend's house.
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  You're hanging out at a friend's house and.
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  Laughing out, we're kind of going to be all over the place.
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  Like my son's going to be at the lake with all of his buddies.
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  Yeah, they're too cool to hang out with parents anymore.
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  They just, they just want money for fireworks at this point.
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  So they're going to do all that and hang out and it'll just kind
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  of bounce around from from. Friends and family tell them not
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  to hang out with JPP because we all know what happened to.
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  JPP. Hanging out with fireworks and
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  shooting them up. And if you're a fish.
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  And by the way, thanks. Thanks to all the fans reaching
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  out to me and asking me where fish was.
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  Fish was out. He's celebrating his anniversary
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  with his wife. I enjoy the five day vacation.
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  He's back for a Wednesday show. No, we're not going to have a
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  show tomorrow. It's I guess 4th of July eve.
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  I'll be with my mother, taking care of some things with her.
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  So we are decided to move the show to Wednesday, obviously for
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  family reasons, but happy 4th of July.
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  To all the friends and families out there listening to our show
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  right now, this is my. Favorite.
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  Yes, this is my favorite holiday of the year.
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  I don't know why it is, but for some reason it is.
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  Everybody likes Halloween, they like Christmas because of the
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  gifts. Even Thanksgiving because you
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  can blow up like a balloon. I have no idea why.
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  I like 4th of July and has nothing to do with fireworks
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  because I don't like them. So I just, it's it's something
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  about this holiday, maybe it's the beginning of the summer,
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  even though I can't stand the summer, but it's great.
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  And I'm going to be hanging out with the beef for the 4th of
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  July. So maybe Speedy will be hanging
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  out if he's not in La La Land or Speedy Land, because sometimes I
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  wonder if he's actually here and some maybe in Mars or Jupiter,
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  because sometimes I don't even think he's listening to me.
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  But what are you doing anyways? What are you doing?
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  What am I doing? Yeah, what are you doing?
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  Are you paying attention to this show?
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  Are you just your heads up your ass telling stories?
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  I'm telling stories, but you never pay attention to them.
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  I you're, you're in another world.
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  I, I have no idea sometimes where Speedy is.
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  Speedy is not here. Has anybody played Twister
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  before? Has anybody played that game?
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  Twister? Could you imagine Speedy playing
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  Twister seriously because he doesn't listen as it is?
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  Could you imagine him try to twirl and fine, you know, try to
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  move, maneuver his body around your legs or your scrotum?
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  I mean, Speedy would probably really be good at doing that,
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  but nevertheless, I I don't think he listens very well.
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  So we'll see. Maybe we'll play Chutes and
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  Ladders on this. Show solid.
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  Yeah, I like Chutes and Ladders. That's.
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  A good old school. Yeah, I.
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  Love old school? If you go, if you go to a 4th of
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  July and you have to make a choice, are you a hot dog?
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  Or a Hamburger Guy hamburger burger.
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  I'm a burger guy and and by the way, I'm pre diabetic now as my
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  doctor told me the other day. So I got to be away from all
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  these sugar drinks. So what I'll be doing for the
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  next four months is drinking yes, ladies and gentlemen, water
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  with a little meal. You will not see me drink any
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  more sugar drinks. Now I can eat other things, but
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  I've been very careful over the last 42 hours and I plan to stay
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  that way because I went on that, that trip and I ate a lot of
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  junk food. And over the last a couple of
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  months, because the DJing season, the entertainment season
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  has begun. I go to these parties, there's
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  ice cream, there's candy, there's cake.
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  And I love that I'm a sweets type of person and you know, I
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  got caught up, but I, I'm sure I can get the numbers down, but
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  obviously. Take care of Are you a tea
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  drinker? No, I'm not.
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  I don't like hot drinks. I don't like coffee.
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  I don't like tea. I don't like.
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  Hot cocoa. You can have cold tea.
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  Like, like, yeah, I don't like the, I don't like the taste of
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  it. I, I just, there's something
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  about the taste and when I was a kid, when I was sick, my, my
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  father always stuck tea down my throat and it made me hate it.
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  Just like I hate gravy. Everybody asks me when Gravy's
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  out with potatoes and, and circuit Turkey.
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  I I can't eat gravy because what my grandmother used to do when I
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  was a kid is she is like Italian off the boat Italian.
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  She used to stick gravy, potatoes and Turkey in front of
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  my face and make me drink a cup of milk after my meal.
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  And I could yeah, my grandmother, that's a very
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  that's an Italian thing. You anytime, anytime you have a
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  meal, they always stick milk in front of your face and you got
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  to drink it and I was not. Always after the meal though.
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  You could drink your dirt in the meal.
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  Would you like to mix milk and Turkey and mashed potatoes or
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  any of that garbage and make you sick?
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  And I, I would sit at the table after and I want to barf because
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  I had that, that that gravy taste in my mouth.
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  So I hate gravy. Every time I look at gravy, I
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  want to hurl. It is disgusting.
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  It makes me sick to my stomach. So everybody, buddy, if you're
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  celebrating 4th of July and you see gravy on the table, don't
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  think of me. That's all I'm going to say.
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  Don't think of me because if you do, you probably imagine me
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  throw up all over that table because I get sick to my
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  stomach. So.
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  Do you watch the Nathan's Hot dog eating contest?
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  Always. Always I love, I mean the way
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  they get fired up I it it's, it's a great way to start
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  because it's early in the morning so you're getting stuff
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  done. It's just a great way to start
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  when they bring the dudes in and you got Book of Badlands, he's
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  rapping, you got all kinds of that's great, and then Joey
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  Chestnuts. I call him cheese nuts.
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  That's what I don't call him chestnuts.
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  I call him cheese nuts. And we, we saw Joey Chestnut
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  actually at the Super Bowl, actually fish walked up to him,
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  noticed him and just like announced them And he asked
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  Chestnut if he wants to come on our show one of these days.
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  So maybe we'll reach out to Joey Chestnut and see if he would be
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  interested in jumping on the show after, after the 4th of
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  July, you know, hot dog eating contest.
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  But that's cool I I think. Anything.
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  Let's let's make a fun prediction.
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  I say he wins. But how?
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  Let's let's make a guess and let's and then if who's ever in
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  our in the chat to let me look, let them and whoever gets the
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  closest will do something. All right, how about this?
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  I'm going to predict 72 hot dogs.
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  Poops has 68, Fish has 64. I'm going to go 70.
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  I'm going to go 72, speedy 65, all right.
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  Jake already took 65 all. Right.
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  Pick a one up 66. 66 and I got. 72 So we got anywhere from 64,
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  you had 72, right? Yes, 72.
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  Perfect. Yeah, it'll be fun.
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  I'm interested to see what's going to happen.
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  Speaking of what's happening, well, the New York Knicks,
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  finally. Pick.
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  Their coach. It's been a crazy ride for the
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  last month. After the season, they fire Tom
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  Thibodeau within 48 hours after they get eliminated by the
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  Pacers and people were questioning, do the Knicks
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  actually know what they're doing?
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  ESPN reports that the Knicks have hired Mike Brown as their
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  new and next head coach. Brown was recently fired by the
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  Kings 31 games into the season, but led the Kings to their first
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  playoff appearance in 16 years in 2023.
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  Where they have, I'm sorry, where they had the number one
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  offense in the NBA. Brown is a two time coach of the
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  year, winning with the Kings that season in 2023 and also
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  with the Cavaliers in 2009. Brown made one NBA Final
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  appearance with the Cavaliers in 2007 and also won four NBA
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  titles as an assistant coach with the Spurs and the Warriors.
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  Brown was the only coach that got multiple interviews with the
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  Knicks after meeting with James Dolan and Leon Rose yesterday.
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  Timberwolves assistant coach Mackay Nori, Pelicans assistant
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  coach James Borrego and former Grizzlies head coach Taylor
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  Jenkins were the only other coaches to get interviews by the
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  Knicks. Brown has 454 career wins and a
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  .599 career winning percentage. Among active coaches that have
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  coached multiple seasons, only Joe Missoula and Steve Kerr have
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  a higher winning percentage than Mr. Mike Brown.
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  I, I was shocked. I was shocked that the Knicks
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  pick Mike Brown. I'm not going to lie to you
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  guys. Now, do I think he's a bad hire?
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  I trust in Leon Rose. Leon Rose has made a lot of
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  different decisions over the last couple of years and he's
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  made the right ones. He brought Jalen Bronson in for
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  $58 million. Now he's the captain, He's Mr.
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  Clutch. Am I going to take shots at Leon
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  Rose when he made that move? No.
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  He gave RJ Barrett an extension. He used RJ Barrett to get OG
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  Ananobi. OG Ananobi is one of the best
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  wing defenders in the league, a Kawhi Leonard prototype now.
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  He has been very good and he's been healthy.
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  So is that a home run? Absolutely.
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  He signed obviously a guy like Robertson, Mitchell Robertson,
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  to a 64 year, 60 to $63 million contract.
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  Is Mitchell Robertson one of the best centers in the league when
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  healthy? I would believe he is.
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  Now. He's not an offensive player.
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  He's one of the better rebounders, offensive rebounders
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  in the league and one of the best blockers in the league and
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  rim protector. So was that a bad move?
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  No, He made the trade for Karl Anthony Towns.
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  Now, is Karl Anthony Towns one of the best offensive big men in
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  the league? Yes.
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  Does he work well well with Jalen Brunson when they're both
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  on the court? No, because both of them don't
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  play a lick of defense. But that is why I believe they
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  made the move to bring in Mike Brown and here's the reason why.
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  Mike Brown is a different style of coach.
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  He is a defensive minded coach as Tom Thibodeau was a defensive
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  minded coach. But what makes Mike Brown a
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  little bit more interesting when it comes to defense?
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  He plays man. That's what he does.
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  He sometimes uses the zone, zone defense, but mainly plays man.
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  That means if Mikkel Bridges and he sets up Mikkel Bridges to
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  defend Tyrese Halpert in the whole game, that's what Mikhail
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  Bridges is going to defend the whole game.
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  There's no changing up. There's no rotation.
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  It's none of that. It's man on man.
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  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason why Indiana beat
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  the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  But you'll, you'll look back of all the coaches over the last
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  couple of years with the New York Knicks and how much they
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  have failed, Jeff Hornacek being one of them.
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  Jeff Hornacek was a good, he was a decent NBA player.
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  He was a three-point shooter. He played on that Utah Jazz team
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  with John Stockton and Karl Malone, went to a couple of
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  finals but choked. And he was a terrible head coach
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  with the New York Knicks. Derek Fisher, who likes to sleep
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  around with other people's wives and girlfriends.
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  Derek Fisher, he won a couple of titles with the Lakers.
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  Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, he got his first coaching job
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  with the Knicks and within years, and I mean years, because
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  it was really 2 1/2 years, he was fired.
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  I wonder if the Knicks are still paying him so because he's never
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  got another job. And then you got, you go through
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  the line of guys that have succeeded.
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  Charles Woodson was a good, he was a good head coach.
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  He really was. Now, the problem with Charles
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  Woodson was he didn't have the fans, you know, respect.
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  He was a good coach, but he wasn't that bright light coach.
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  He wasn't that name in the stars where everybody says all we got
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  Charles Woodson. He wasn't like that.
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  Now, Phil Jackson, we thought by bringing him in as the GM or
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  whatever president of the organization, you would have
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  thought that Phil Jackson one way or another, because of how
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  bad the Knicks have been coached over the last, you know, 20
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  years, he was going to come in and take over the coaching
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  duties. It didn't work.
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  It didn't work with Phil Jackson.
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  As a matter of fact, he was falling asleep at the combines
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  when he was trying to scout players.
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  So it didn't work with Phil. But over the years, the Knicks
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  have been up and down with head coaches.
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  Tom Thibodeau was a successful coach with the New York Knicks.
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  Nobody's taking that away from him.
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  The problem with Tom is you could never get over the hump.
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  He went as far as he could with the Timberwolves.
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  He did, and he only went to the semis with the Timberwolves.
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  Could never get to the Western Conference Finals with the
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  Timberwolves. He went with Chicago to the
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  Finals and who did he bump into? He bumped into the Miami Heat
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  and with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and Ray
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  Allen, it was never going to work.
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  They were never going to get over the hump.
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  And that was really the last year Derrick Rose was really as
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  elite as he was when he came into the league.
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  The problem over the years with the New York Knicks is the
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  transitional players that they bring in and how the coaches do
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  not work with those players. McHale Bridges after the season
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  as I heard and went in to the executives with Leon Rose, James
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  Dolan and World Wide West and relayed his thoughts to the
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  organization and where he thinks the organization is heading if
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  they keep Tom Thibodeau. He was the guy, and I believe he
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  was the first that opened up his mouth and said he's tired.
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  He was tired. Now, this is the same guy,
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  Miguel Bridges, who the Knicks traded for five first round
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  draft picks, five of them to bring him from the the Brooklyn
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  Nets to the New York Knicks. McHale Bridges was a big part of
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  the first and second round of the playoffs.
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  And then what happened in the third round in the Eastern
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  Conference Finals, he fell off Why?
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  Probably because he was tired. And that is the problem right
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  now with the New York Knicks. And it's been the problem with
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  the New York Knicks year in and year out.
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  Tom Thibodeau wears these guys out and it doesn't even matter
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  to him. He will play 7 guys all season.
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  If you look at the Knicks starters, all 5 starters were in
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  the top 11 in the league with minutes played in games in the
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  regular season. That is a problem.
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  I don't care what anybody says. Look at Josh Hart throughout the
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  playoffs. It looked like as the playoffs
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  move forward, he was getting tired and he wasn't the same
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  player. He wasn't that defensive
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  offensive player that the Knicks were expecting to get from
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  either in the starting lineup or even coming off the bench as the
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  6th or 7th guy off the bench. He wasn't that guy in the
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  finals. Why?
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  Because he was tired. Then he was making mistakes, he
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  was fouling people and he was putting himself and putting the
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  Knicks in bad positions to succeed.
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  Mike Brown, I think will be a decent fit now.
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  I don't know what Mike Brown's going to be in New York, but he
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  is a winner. Everywhere he's gone, he's won.
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  You could say whatever you want. It's not easy winning an NBA
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  championship. Is Mike Brown a guy?
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  I think he's better than Joe Missoula.
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  Joe Missoula took over for Brad Stevens.
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  And what is it, Doka? I always mess up his name in
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  Houston head coach because he was playing with somebody else's
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  woman. But it seems like that that's
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  the trend right now with coaches and executives.
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  As we all know, Isaiah Thomas was doing that as well.
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  But but the fact is the New York Knicks needed to make a move
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  that makes sense now. Leon Rose over the last couple
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  of years. I'll go back to what I was just
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  saying in the beginning of the monologue.
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  Everything he's touched, practically, he's hit.
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  They're slam dunks now. Mike Brown, coming in from
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  multiple interviews, tells me that he very much impressed
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  Worldwide West and Leon Rose. Nobody cares about James Dolan.
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  Nobody gives a crap about what James Dolan is doing except when
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  he goes on a mic and he plays his stupid guitar and he's
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  fiddler. He's Fiddler on a Roof when he's
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  over there at Madison Square Garden.
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  Do we really care about that either though?
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  No, but when you have a career winning percentage of 599 that
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  ladies and gentlemen tells me that he is a quality head coach.
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  Now, will the Knicks win with Mike Brown?
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  Only time will tell. Madison Square Garden is going
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  to be very loud about this when he gets introduced, probably on
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  Monday because they're not going to introduce him on the weekend
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  because it's 4th of July to holiday expected to be on Monday
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  when they introduce Mike Brown. He's not going to be the world
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  beater that everybody wanted. There were a lot of people that
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  wanted the kid and, and, and, and, and somebody like him was a
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  guy that was coaching right under Tom Thibodeau and that was
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  I always mess up his name, Johnny Bryant, Johnny Bryant.
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  Johnny Bryant is a is a guy that has been a successful defensive
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  mind with the New York Knicks, with Tom Thibodeau.
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  He was the second guy over the over the the first two or three
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  years with the New York Knicks before he decided to go and part
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  ways with the Knicks and go over there to Cleveland to work with
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  Kenny Atkinson. Everybody thought John Bryant
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  Bryant was the guy. Then Mike Malone.
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  He gets fired before three games or four games before the
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  playoffs. He was the big sexy name that
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  every Knick fan wanted. He didn't even get an interview.
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  The Knicks didn't even interview him.
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  So obviously Knicks had no thoughts of bringing in a guy of
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  that magnitude. The reason why I think Mike
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  Malone didn't get an interview is a lot of people compare his
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  his coaching ability to a Tom Thibodeau, an aggressive guy
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  that doesn't really say much. And he and he he plays that
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  shift and that rotating defense. That didn't work here in New
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  York. But again, Mike Brown's a
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  different style of coach. The way he runs his offense,
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  he's it's going to be a different style of offense.
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  The pick and roll at the top of the key will probably be
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  changed. He'll probably move and spread
• 21:01
  out the offense. He's going to play like a
• 21:02
  triangle offense like Steve Kerr did in the Spurs.
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  He comes from the Spurs organization.
• 21:07
  Greg Popovich. She's going to run a a triangle
• 21:10
  style of offense. It's not going to be completely
• 21:12
  a triangle, but a triangle style of offense.
• 21:15
  And why does that work with the Knicks?
• 21:18
  Well, one of the main reasons why is Jalen Bronson.
• 21:20
  He's a one-on-one player. He's an isolation player.
• 21:23
  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what you can use during a
• 21:27
  triangle type of offense. Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, even
• 21:31
  Kevin Durant when he was over there, over there in Golden
• 21:34
  State, that's what they like to run.
• 21:36
  They were either running the offense through Kevin Durant,
• 21:38
  Steph Curry or Klay Thompson. Whoever was hot and whoever was
• 21:42
  not, that's the guy they were running the offense to.
• 21:45
  I just think that that's the way the Knicks are going to play
• 21:48
  their offense. That's the way they're going to
• 21:49
  run their offense. Again, I am not excited with
• 21:53
  this hire, but when you look at his numbers and as you put it
• 21:56
  up, speedy very nicely, 599 winning percentage and he's only
• 22:01
  behind Joe Missoula and Steve Kerr over the last what cut
• 22:05
  multiple. Years among active head coaches
• 22:07
  right now in the. NBA.
• 22:08
  I mean, that says a lot about his coaching style.
• 22:11
  He was also in a Western Conference with Sacramento.
• 22:14
  Sacramento had a young D, Aaron Fox and a Sabonis, and he was
• 22:19
  the I think he was the guy that decided to part ways with Tyrese
• 22:23
  Halbern. I'm not sure.
• 22:24
  He was hired, I think slightly after that, yeah.
• 22:27
  So I I think that when you look at the position that the Knicks
• 22:32
  have put themselves in, especially in the Eastern
• 22:35
  Conference, when the Celtics are not going to have Tatum probably
• 22:38
  until the end of season, maybe not at all next year and they're
• 22:41
  not making any big moves. They traded Porzingis, they
• 22:43
  traded obviously Drew Holiday. They're going to play what what
• 22:47
  they have right now. And then you have the Cavaliers.
• 22:50
  The Cavaliers have done really nothing.
• 22:52
  They added a couple of pieces, but nothing exciting.
• 22:56
  This is going to be the same Cavalier team.
• 22:58
  And by the way, who play who worked with Kenny Atkinson a a
• 23:02
  couple of years and that was Mike Brown, who who knows Kenny
• 23:07
  Atkinson more than Mike Brown? Mike Brown knows his style.
• 23:10
  He knows what he likes to run. He knows how he runs his
• 23:12
  offense, he runs his defense. So I know Jalen Bronson and Josh
• 23:17
  Hart wanted to keep Tom Thibodeau.
• 23:18
  There were those guys, what I heard were the only two guys
• 23:22
  that were vouching for Tom Thibodeau's return next to this
• 23:25
  coming season. The problem is, as good as both
• 23:29
  those players are and as talented as Jalen Brunson is, I
• 23:32
  think the organization wanted to move forward with another coach
• 23:36
  that would give them a better chance to make that run to the
• 23:40
  finals, which they haven't done since 1999.
• 23:43
  Yeah, we talk about all the time how a lot of these veteran NBA
• 23:46
  coaches have just been dismissed randomly by certain teams over
• 23:49
  the years because it's become like last 10 years, obviously a
• 23:52
  player run league. And there's a lot of these
• 23:53
  surprising firings that do end up happening.
• 23:55
  And Mike Brown, I think, was a victim of that with Sacramento
• 23:57
  this past season. The Kings started off at slow.
• 24:00
  They started 13 and 18, and it wasn't all their fault.
• 24:03
  And like we were talking about before the show, Scott Perry's
• 24:05
  in that front office and that front office is not very well
• 24:07
  run as it is. Obviously they haven't been able
• 24:09
  to sign players. They haven't been able to keep
• 24:11
  players on that team. Like you said, they traded
• 24:13
  Halliburton and they got Sabonis, which was nice.
• 24:16
  But again, it hasn't gotten them besides the one season which
• 24:18
  Mike Brown was coach of the year to be that team of the future.
• 24:20
  I thought they would be evolving into that the next year.
• 24:23
  I picked them in the Western Conference finals that year.
• 24:25
  It didn't amount to anything. And obviously he gets fired and
• 24:28
  kind of scapegoated by the Sacramento Kings.
• 24:30
  It's a really bad front office. And I talked about with Rick
• 24:33
  Carlisle too, and I don't think he's Rick Carlisle good,
• 24:36
  obviously. But Rick Carlisle had to change
• 24:38
  his coaching style to adapt to the young players with Indiana
• 24:42
  when he got fired from Dallas. And obviously he didn't work out
• 24:44
  with Luka Doncic because he had to change.
• 24:46
  And I talked about that in football too, with Jim Harbaugh.
• 24:49
  Jim Harbaugh going from the NFL to college back to the NFLI.
• 24:51
  Think Mike Brown is that type of adaptation because he's learned
• 24:54
  with the Spurs, who at the time he was kind of a veteran team in
• 24:57
  the Warriors that were kind of a younger team in transition when
• 25:01
  he won with the championship in 22 before he got the King's head
• 25:03
  coaching job. So I think he's a little bit of
• 25:06
  an adaptation type coach as well that can work with the Knicks
• 25:09
  backcourt type of presence, which is similar to the Golden
• 25:11
  State Warriors to backcourt type of presence.
• 25:13
  Now the Warriors are more offense driven, the Knicks
• 25:15
  probably more defensive driven in the backcourt, but Jalen
• 25:17
  Brunson spaces the floor very well, just like Steph Curry did.
• 25:20
  You got Klay Thompson, 3 ND guy, OG 3 ND guy.
• 25:24
  This is a very similar type structure to what he could bring
• 25:26
  to the concepts with the Warriors.
• 25:28
  I could see why they bought Jordan Clarkson and I I think
• 25:31
  they knew Mike Brown was going to get hired because of the way
• 25:34
  Jordan Clarkson likes to run through the offense.
• 25:36
  Now, Jordan Clarkson is good shooting.
• 25:38
  He's a good offensive player. He doesn't play a lick of
• 25:40
  defense. I think what the Knicks are
• 25:42
  going to do now is they're going to use Mitchell Robinson.
• 25:45
  Mitchell Robinson, don't be surprised now if you see Mike
• 25:48
  Brown start Mitchell Robinson and Karl Anthony Towns.
• 25:51
  They move Karl Anthony Towns to the four.
• 25:53
  Mitchell Robinson will be playing the five and all Mitch
• 25:56
  is going to be doing throughout the season as long as he stays
• 25:59
  healthy is guard the hole. That's what they're going to do
• 26:01
  with him. Make sure that he's an offensive
• 26:03
  rebounding machine, which he obviously, if you remember the
• 26:06
  Spurs and what that when he was over there with this Spurs and
• 26:09
  with Mike Brown, that's what the the Spurs were doing with their
• 26:11
  big men. And then the same thing what we
• 26:14
  saw over the years with the Golden State Warriors when they
• 26:16
  were using their big men, they were using and I'm not talking
• 26:18
  about Draymond Green, it was Looney.
• 26:20
  Looney. They were talking about Looney.
• 26:22
  I mean, Looney was the type of guy that was just guarding the
• 26:24
  hole and he was rebounding. That's what they used them for
• 26:27
  in a shot blocker. Mitchell Robinson's a better
• 26:29
  player, a better big man. And I think that's what you're
• 26:32
  going to see more with Mike Brown, which you did not see
• 26:34
  with Tom Thibodeau over the last, I would say 2 years.
• 26:37
  Even with the big men they have when they had Precious there and
• 26:40
  they had Mitchell Robertson, they were not doing that.
• 26:43
  They weren't running their their defense like that.
• 26:45
  I think it's going to be different with Mike Brown
• 26:47
  because he's going to play man defense and that helps Carl
• 26:50
  Anthony Towns and it helps a guy like Jalen Brunson, two guys
• 26:54
  that don't play a lick of defense.
• 26:55
  Yeah. And also.
• 26:56
  Do you think, oh, good, good. I'm.
• 26:58
  Going to say, I'm going to emphasize the ball movement
• 27:00
  aspect because he comes from the Spurs and.
• 27:02
  It's going to be a triangle offense.
• 27:03
  They like to move the ball. It's it's going to be a pass
• 27:05
  friendly offense. Motion, motion, motion.
• 27:08
  And off ball motion, that's the biggest thing I think that
• 27:10
  Golden State doesn't get enough credit for.
• 27:12
  It's just a three-point shooting.
• 27:14
  It's their off ball motion, the way they move away from the ball
• 27:17
  that makes the Golden State Warriors offense tough to
• 27:19
  defend. And the Spurs are the same kind
• 27:20
  of way. The Spurs probably emphasize
• 27:21
  more of an inside game with their obviously Tim Duncan with
• 27:24
  the mid range shooting and the guys are Kawhi Leonard with the
• 27:26
  mid range shooting when he developed his game more.
• 27:28
  But they always emphasize ball movement.
• 27:30
  They always, it wasn't the isolation offense.
• 27:32
  Not that they couldn't do it on occasion, but that was the thing
• 27:34
  that I think the Knicks are lacking at certain points too,
• 27:36
  where the Knicks, especially with their wings during the
• 27:38
  postseason were stagnant offensively.
• 27:41
  That's why OG had his disappearing axe at certain.
• 27:43
  Point It was the defense. It was absolutely the defense
• 27:47
  and the transitional defense that Tom Thibodeau was running
• 27:50
  in the playoffs that pissed off Leon Rose and Worldwide WI don't
• 27:54
  know if anybody watched the second round of the playoffs and
• 27:57
  had a chance to see Leon Rose on the sidelines when he was out
• 28:01
  there and when the Knicks were falling behind the faces he was
• 28:05
  making by the transitional defense.
• 28:07
  It was bad. It was really, really bad.
• 28:09
  And the Knicks got out of the second round and they actually,
• 28:12
  as much as everybody thought that they dominated the Celtics,
• 28:15
  the Celtics had a chance. Besides the the the three or
• 28:19
  four games that the Knicks came back from, the Celtics had a
• 28:22
  chance to win this series. It wasn't in a complete blowout.
• 28:24
  Even though the Knicks won, what was it, four games to two?
• 28:28
  The Celtics probably if the Celtics didn't choke the way
• 28:32
  they did in two or three of those games, the Celtics win the
• 28:35
  series and it it wouldn't even, it wouldn't have even been any
• 28:38
  close. The Knicks came back because of
• 28:41
  what they did in the fourth quarter.
• 28:42
  It was really the luck of the draw.
• 28:44
  I don't think Mike Brown's that type of coach.
• 28:46
  Mike Brown is going to play with the lead and he's going to use
• 28:49
  his guys to do the things defensively that he liked to do
• 28:53
  and how he runs his defense. Yeah, and you mentioned that in
• 28:56
  big men inside too. Like I think the random guys,
• 28:58
  he's gotten to work even in San Antonio.
• 28:59
  Not even just Tim Duncan, Boris D out, Tiago Splitter, he
• 29:02
  coached over there were good rebounders.
• 29:03
  Golden State, you mentioned with Looney, too.
• 29:05
  Looney was the guy who's got 10 points, like 20 rebounds in a
• 29:07
  game sometimes, too. That's what the Knicks need out
• 29:09
  of the depth of their big men, too.
• 29:11
  Do you think too like in, in the picking of a coach is kind of
• 29:15
  what personnel you're working with or like you, you, you
• 29:18
  brought in Jordan Clarkson and, and how that pertains to Mike
• 29:21
  Brown. Do you think any of that like as
• 29:24
  seeing the personnel and what you have and, and what you saw
• 29:27
  that could have worked? It worked at times, but didn't
• 29:30
  do it enough? Do you think that played a part
• 29:32
  in who they were picking and how they went about it and, and kind
• 29:37
  of the manner of like, hey, this is kind of what we saw, this is
• 29:40
  kind of what we want to do and did that play a part in
• 29:44
  basically the final decision to bring Mike Brown?
• 29:46
  In absolutely, and I'm going to tell you this right now before
• 29:49
  they they announced that Mike Brown was going to be hired by
• 29:51
  the Knicks. They went to Jaylen Bronson,
• 29:54
  they went to Josh Hart, they went to McHale Bridges, they
• 29:56
  went to Karl Anthony Towns. They wanted to ask all their
• 29:59
  stars if this was going to work, if if this fit was going to
• 30:03
  work. And before, and I'm saying
• 30:05
  before they even announced Mike Brown was going to be the coach
• 30:08
  today. I think they already knew it
• 30:10
  five days ago. I and that's why they brought in
• 30:12
  Jordan Clarkson. Like you said, absolutely why
• 30:15
  they brought in Jordan Clarkson is because Mike Brown probably
• 30:18
  knew and wanted a guy like Jordan Clarkson to come come to
• 30:22
  the Knicks and be his second secondary point guard.
• 30:25
  Because I do believe now that you bring in Mike Brown, they're
• 30:28
  moving Miles McBride, they're absolutely moving him.
• 30:31
  There's no reason why they're going to keep 3 guards that are
• 30:34
  playing the point on this roster, Mike Brown.
• 30:37
  And by the way, the one thing I can tell you about Mike Brown,
• 30:39
  he likes to play young guys. That's something that Tom
• 30:42
  Thibodeau does not like to do. Mike Brown does like to do that.
• 30:46
  If you remember on the Cleveland Cavaliers, they were practically
• 30:49
  all young players on that roster with LeBron James and all those
• 30:53
  other guys. A lot of the young players got a
• 30:55
  chance to play and he rotated his offense through 13 to 14
• 30:59
  guys. I expect the Knicks to use
• 31:01
  between 13 and 14 guys all season.
• 31:05
  Jalen Brunson is not going to be playing for 3544 minutes.
• 31:09
  I I could see Jalen Bronson playing 3637, Karl Anthony Towns
• 31:14
  playing 3536. That's where they're going to be
• 31:17
  playing. He's not going to run these guys
• 31:19
  out there and run them out early in the season and where they're
• 31:22
  huffing and puffing and they're not ready for the playoffs.
• 31:25
  That's not the way Mike Brown likes to run his offense and his
• 31:27
  defense. It's a different offense and and
• 31:30
  it's a different way he's going to be coaching moving forward
• 31:32
  for the New York Knicks. I disagree a little Errol, with
• 31:36
  what Thibodeau did to this team and what why Brown's going to be
• 31:39
  different, right? They're both defensive coaches.
• 31:41
  They're both notorious hard asses.
• 31:43
  Brown forced his way out of Sacramento after getting coach
• 31:46
  of the year because he couldn't stop going after D Aaron Fox for
• 31:49
  being lazy and just like telling him that this you got to see in
• 31:53
  this game and he would like put him on blast in the media.
• 31:56
  Tibbs never did that to his guys in the media, but let's face it,
• 32:00
  he's going to coach him hard. Is there any team ready for a
• 32:03
  team that's going to be for coach that's going to coach him
• 32:05
  hard? It's a team that just had Tibs,
• 32:07
  so I'm not worried about that from Jalen Brunson and the crew.
• 32:10
  I think they're actually going to take to him very well.
• 32:12
  They they're the type of group of guys that can take that
• 32:15
  constructive criticism because no one's harder on Brunson than
• 32:17
  himself, right? The Aaron Fox, not the same guy,
• 32:19
  let's face it. But that's that's the thing.
• 32:22
  The thing about the playing them until they retired, I disagree
• 32:26
  with that. I think the thing that Tibbs did
• 32:28
  that was so wrong was that he played them so much.
• 32:31
  He never got the bench minutes to the point where the guys like
• 32:35
  Hart and all the other pieces knew where the the backup
• 32:39
  players were going to be in the defensive rotation.
• 32:41
  They didn't know where they're supposed to space when they were
• 32:45
  on transition. So that's why the transition
• 32:47
  offense look like crap. You're going to tell me?
• 32:48
  Putting guys out, you're going to tell me.
• 32:50
  You're going to tell me a bunch of professional players that
• 32:53
  have played in the NBA multiple years, don't know where?
• 32:55
  They're playing and 100 percent, 100%, if you haven't played all
• 32:59
  year with them, you don't. That's bull.
• 33:02
  No way. No way.
• 33:03
  Bullshit. They don't practice very much
• 33:04
  during the regular season. You know that.
• 33:06
  They don't have time. They have game after game after
• 33:09
  game and they have one practice. Every morning they practice
• 33:11
  every. Every couple of weeks they have
• 33:13
  a real practice. They practice.
• 33:14
  They have walkthroughs. That's a practice, and they're
• 33:18
  running. It's not.
• 33:18
  Yes, it is. You're going to tell me you
• 33:20
  don't? Learn really how to get you're
• 33:22
  going to tell me off of the you're.
• 33:23
  Going to tell me the press guys that we've had on on our show
• 33:26
  telling me every. Everyone would agree.
• 33:28
  With this, I just everyone would agree.
• 33:30
  I just you can't come in cold. I never play.
• 33:32
  I disagree. Like you're sticking up for Tom
• 33:35
  Thibodeau. Now you're sticking up for Tom
• 33:37
  Thibodeau making I'm not. I'm telling you why Thibodeau
• 33:39
  was wrong. No, no, he was wrong.
• 33:42
  Because you're telling me Mike Brown and Tom Thibodeau are
• 33:45
  practically the same time, coach?
• 33:47
  They're not not what I'm saying. I'm saying they're the same type
• 33:49
  of hard what you. Said They're all hard ass type.
• 33:52
  All the great coaches are hard asses.
• 33:55
  Pat Riley is a hard ass but Greg Popovich was a hard ass.
• 34:00
  The only reason why he was nice after he changed with Todd.
• 34:02
  When Tim Duncan came to, the team asked the Admiral how
• 34:06
  Popovich coached him over the years before Tim Duncan came
• 34:10
  into the came into the came on the roster.
• 34:13
  Oh, I know. And Brown worked for Popovich
• 34:15
  and and learned championship ways in that kind of style of
• 34:18
  coaching. The only.
• 34:19
  Ask have a problem with that? That's the only he's so
• 34:22
  different though, Brown in how he plays the young guys and you
• 34:24
  mentioned it, Errol. That's the big difference.
• 34:27
  Now, what you saw Tibbs doing in the playoffs was the equivalent
• 34:31
  of how I used to get chewed out as AJV football coach of drawing
• 34:34
  plays up in the dirt. Because when you haven't gotten
• 34:37
  guys like Speedy the Lawn, right?
• 34:42
  Did he play at all for like a month and a half?
• 34:45
  You know, he came in, gave them energy the first game he was in
• 34:49
  and guess what, by the by the time those guys are in, after a
• 34:51
  while, if they have to play with the starters, they haven't
• 34:53
  played with them in practice. The guys in practice, the stars
• 34:56
  are playing with the starters, are going against some of these
• 34:58
  backups. When it comes to actually
• 35:00
  playing with them in the rotation in the in the second
• 35:03
  quarter, in the late third quarter, early fourth quarter,
• 35:06
  you saw the Knicks just not able to do it.
• 35:09
  Tibbs didn't want to play that lineup and Brown will.
• 35:12
  So I think that's why they went with him.
• 35:14
  I am excited about it. I think that he's going to get
• 35:17
  the bench ready. And there's just one other thing
• 35:20
  that has to be mentioned about this.
• 35:24
  No one coaches guys harder than tips.
• 35:26
  No one plays guys more minutes than tips.
• 35:28
  Whoever they come from, that's going to be next.
• 35:31
  It's going to feel like they're on vacation, that they have all
• 35:34
  this energy at the end of the season.
• 35:37
  It's going to be so much better from that part.
• 35:39
  You're saying, Errol, that's true.
• 35:40
  Maybe it'll keep guys happier. Will it make them?
• 35:43
  I don't think. I think the bigger problem was
• 35:45
  that he was basically drawing it up in the dirt with guys that he
• 35:47
  never played, yeah. You know, I also look at like
• 35:51
  with Mike Brown, I think the familiarity aspect of bumping
• 35:53
  around different teams too and still getting respect across the
• 35:56
  league too is something that I think is this Knicks team
• 35:58
  definitely get needs to get to. Obviously, I think they're get
• 36:01
  respected across the league. I think they're now established
• 36:03
  as not the laughingstock Knicks that they were five years ago
• 36:06
  and stuff like that. But I think from the player
• 36:08
  standpoint to trying to take that next step to want to guys
• 36:12
  who want to come there because the Knicks are doing that now.
• 36:14
  Jalen Bronson has been doing that since he's gotten there.
• 36:16
  They got bridges. They got out of nobody.
• 36:17
  This is all like, these aren't the home grown teams that you're
• 36:20
  seeing all the time while you're building the same core all the
• 36:22
  time. This is a a team that a lot of
• 36:24
  trades and a lot of new pieces. The Knicks fans are not happy
• 36:27
  with this move. I, I everything that I've read
• 36:29
  on social media, they're not happy.
• 36:32
  I think they would probably. Have been Who do you think they
• 36:34
  wanted? I, I don't know, obviously it
• 36:36
  was probably Bryant. That's that's the way.
• 36:38
  I I think that's crazy. He was coach of the year 2 years
• 36:41
  ago. Yeah, he was coach of the year 2
• 36:44
  years ago. He is by far the most qualified
• 36:48
  guy out there. He's not a sexy name, but
• 36:50
  neither was Tibbs. It's the type of guy that makes
• 36:53
  this Leon Rose group who we should all have faith.
• 36:56
  That's the one thing I believe in.
• 36:58
  That's the one thing I believe in is Leon Rose knows what he's
• 37:00
  doing. He's not an idiot.
• 37:02
  And he knows that if Mike Brown came in and he wooed him, which
• 37:06
  he probably did, he understood what this team is all about.
• 37:10
  And, and again, Jalen Bronson isn't Steph Curry.
• 37:13
  He's not. But what Jalen Bronson does very
• 37:15
  well is he understands how to draw fouls and go to the hole
• 37:20
  and make plays in the open court.
• 37:22
  That's something like Mike Brown likes to do.
• 37:24
  He likes to create spaces and and understands what what Jalen
• 37:28
  Brunson strengths are and what obviously the other players
• 37:32
  like. Carl Anthony Towns is as a big
• 37:34
  man on what he does very good. The one thing I could say about
• 37:37
  Carl Anthony Towns this offseason and he needs to clean
• 37:39
  up is stop shooting those 60 or 70 foot jumpers at the
• 37:43
  three-point line. That is not going to work if if
• 37:46
  the Knicks plan to run again with the same roster they have
• 37:51
  right now, they have to get Karl Anthony Towns more involved
• 37:56
  offensively and run the offense sometimes through him.
• 38:00
  It was mainly run through Jalen Brunson.
• 38:02
  And then when Karl Anthony Towns was the only guy on the court,
• 38:05
  when it was the only, the only big time superstar on the court,
• 38:09
  it was run through him. So I want to see both guys work
• 38:12
  together and they'll be able to run the offense through each and
• 38:16
  every one of them if need be. If one's hot than the other, Tom
• 38:19
  Thibodeau, even when Jalen Brunson was not hot, he was
• 38:22
  still running the offense through Jalen Brunson.
• 38:25
  He needs to, if somebody is hot, run it through that guy.
• 38:29
  If Mikhail Bridges is hotter than Jalen Brunson and he's
• 38:32
  hotter than Karl Anthony Towns, run the offense to Mikhail
• 38:35
  Bridges. If OG and Anobi is hotter than
• 38:38
  every single one of those guys, Karl Anthony Towns and and, and
• 38:41
  Jalen Brunson, run your offense to OG.
• 38:43
  I, I remember and I, I against the Celtics, I don't know if it
• 38:47
  was game four or Game 5, the, the Knicks couldn't hit a lick
• 38:50
  and in the fourth quarter OG and Anobi hit like 6 straight
• 38:53
  points. Remember that?
• 38:55
  Six straight points. And then all of a sudden he
• 38:58
  decided the, the Knicks started to Jaylen Brunson came back and
• 39:02
  Jaylen Brunson hasn't been on on the court for like 3 or 4
• 39:05
  minutes. They started running the offense
• 39:07
  through him and said OG and Anobi, who was hot.
• 39:10
  That didn't make any sense. And that's Tom Thibodeaux.
• 39:13
  He has more trust. He has too much trust in Jalen
• 39:16
  Bronson and Josh Hart. By the way, how many times do we
• 39:19
  see Josh Hart take the ball up and try to go to the hole and
• 39:23
  make mistakes while he was doing pass the ball, throw the ball
• 39:26
  away? That is not the way Mike Brown
• 39:28
  likes to run his offense. I I think it's going to be a
• 39:30
  different style. What we, we didn't see what Tom
• 39:34
  Tippett over the last five years with Mike Brown.
• 39:36
  I think that's why the Knicks decided to go with him and not
• 39:38
  go with Bryant or Jenkins because obviously they thought
• 39:43
  they were more of a Tom Thibodeau prototype than a guy
• 39:47
  like Mike Brown who's going to play his own style, his own way.
• 39:50
  And like you said, Fish. I think that the Knicks
• 39:53
  understand where they want to be and where the Knicks have a
• 39:56
  chance to be next year is in the Finals because they're the
• 40:00
  Eastern Conference is going to be the weakest it's ever been.
• 40:04
  There's too many injuries. How many times did we see it in
• 40:07
  the playoffs? How many guys went down in the
• 40:09
  playoffs with the Achilles tendon injury?
• 40:11
  We saw it in every single series.
• 40:13
  Seriously, we saw it. Mr. Dane, Dane time he tore his
• 40:18
  Achilles, he could be out for the season.
• 40:20
  Jayson Tatum. Tours Achilles, he's out for
• 40:23
  probably the season and then obviously Tyrese Halliburton
• 40:27
  tearing his Achilles in the finals, he's out for the season.
• 40:30
  You're talking about superstars going down.
• 40:32
  It could be out for the season and now the Knicks are sitting
• 40:35
  pretty because they're healthy. They're they were super healthy
• 40:38
  in the playoffs and now you have a chance where you're the,
• 40:42
  you're the king of the hell. Now you're the team that people
• 40:45
  are going to want to beat in the Eastern Conference.
• 40:47
  And the Cavaliers, they're choke artists.
• 40:49
  I I've seen enough of the Cavaliers over the last three
• 40:53
  seasons, no matter who the coach is, even Kenny Atkinson, who's a
• 40:56
  great coach, they they're just have too many choke artists when
• 41:00
  they get into the playoffs. They just are not the same team
• 41:03
  they are in the regular season. It's.
• 41:04
  Not no. And you also look at the
• 41:06
  identity that the Knicks, Knicks have brought.
• 41:08
  They've had playoff series that have been good, obviously,
• 41:11
  obviously progressing from where they were in the past where they
• 41:14
  couldn't even win a series most of the time.
• 41:15
  But again, they still struggle a lot more than they should have.
• 41:18
  And I think that's the other identity that you want somebody
• 41:21
  like Mike Brown, who's under coaches and programs that have
• 41:24
  dominated playoff series too with the Spurs and with the with
• 41:27
  the Warriors too. The Knicks haven't had that
• 41:29
  sense of like, where is that consistent like throttling sweep
• 41:32
  that we've seen in the playoffs? Like even the Piston series this
• 41:35
  year was a six game series and a lot of those games were close.
• 41:37
  The Knicks had the physical endings with two of those games,
• 41:40
  obviously Towns at the big shot. But again, it's not enough of it
• 41:43
  for the Knicks to be able to take that next step.
• 41:45
  Now, obviously we talk about all the parity in the NBA now where
• 41:47
  you haven't seen that level of dominance in one series.
• 41:49
  Even with OKC that won the title this year, they had a lot of
• 41:52
  seven game series. But the Knicks have the talent
• 41:54
  and like you said, the circumstances to make that next
• 41:56
  step with the Eastern Conference being the Cavs, them and who
• 42:00
  else. Do the Knicks fans want to see
• 42:02
  Kolak this year? Absolutely.
• 42:03
  The Knicks fans wanted to see Kolak all season last year and
• 42:07
  he barely played because Tom Thibodeau just does not like to
• 42:10
  play young players. Kolak is a ball handler.
• 42:13
  Some people think that he's quite capable of being a starter
• 42:17
  on this team. If he earns a spot on this
• 42:19
  roster, Why? Why wouldn't Mike Brown give
• 42:22
  Kolak a chance if he gets hot shooting the ball?
• 42:24
  So he's a, he's quite capable of moving.
• 42:27
  He's a great ball handler by the way, I've seen his pre workouts
• 42:30
  on the basketball court when he practices, he's kind of like
• 42:33
  Steph Curry on that magnitude. He goes out there, he's
• 42:37
  dribbling with two balls, crossing over with two balls.
• 42:39
  He likes to practice using both hands and in many different
• 42:43
  ways, if you know what I mean. But nevertheless, I, I want to
• 42:45
  see colic play. I want to see what the Knicks
• 42:48
  have on that bench, these young players that they drafted.
• 42:50
  How about the 2 French kids that they're bringing in now?
• 42:52
  I want to see these guys. They were on the national team
• 42:56
  for the France French team that went in the silver in in in the
• 42:59
  Olympics. These guys are actually good
• 43:02
  players. This French team, which is a lot
• 43:04
  of people think besides Team USA could be the elite team, the
• 43:08
  team that could be united the United States in in the next
• 43:11
  couple of years. That's what I want to see.
• 43:13
  I want to see these young kids develop and maybe become
• 43:16
  something something that we wouldn't believe they would be
• 43:19
  over the, you know, after all these years of the Knicks draft
• 43:21
  picks and finding and searching these guys and falling short
• 43:25
  quickly was a good player. That was a Leon Rose guy and
• 43:28
  then Leon Rose traded him and that RJ Barrett trade and they
• 43:31
  brought in OJ and Opie. That was a big move for the New
• 43:33
  York Knicks developing him. Look at Obie Topping.
• 43:37
  Obie Topping played a big factor with the Indiana Pacers.
• 43:40
  It didn't work in New York because he didn't get along with
• 43:42
  Tom Thibodeau. And then he goes over there in
• 43:44
  Indiana and played a big factor as their 6th man off the bench
• 43:49
  when they needed that aggressive dunker or that aggressive, you
• 43:53
  know, shop blocker OB Toppin was there.
• 43:56
  I I think this is what you want to see what Mike Brown Speaking
• 44:00
  of the NBA offseason. And this is going to be this has
• 44:03
  been an A crazy couple of days. The Grizzlies gave Jaron Jackson
• 44:08
  Junior A5 year, $240 million extension with a player player
• 44:15
  option in 2029. It I'm I'm going to go through
• 44:19
  this first. Let's go through each and every
• 44:20
  one of these. Let's not even mention it.
• 44:22
  I Jaron Jackson Junior is a great defender.
• 44:28
  He is not a $240 million player. He's not, and anybody that
• 44:33
  believes that he is. Now, obviously if he doesn't get
• 44:35
  $240 million from the from them, he goes somewhere else and he
• 44:39
  gets 220 or even 230 and he's still an elite defender in the
• 44:44
  NBA. The problem right now is with
• 44:47
  the Grizzlies and there's a lot of questions to who if John
• 44:50
  Moran is actually going to last there, if they if the Grizzlies
• 44:53
  are going to decide, hey, you know what?
• 44:54
  We don't want to deal with his antics.
• 44:56
  We're going to move away from him.
• 44:57
  We don't want to deal with it. That's an interesting reason why
• 45:00
  I believe they they brought back Jaron Jackson Junior.
• 45:04
  Now Jaron Jackson Junior is an All Star.
• 45:07
  He's been an All Star for the last two seasons or even three
• 45:09
  seasons. He's a good player, he's a
• 45:11
  quality player and he's a fan favorite.
• 45:14
  I just don't think he's a 200 and $50 million player.
• 45:17
  And that to me with the free agent market, what what are?
• 45:20
  We going to say Errol, there was some breaking news about him
• 45:23
  today that speedy didn't get down at right after he signed
• 45:27
  this deal. He had a non affiliated with the
• 45:31
  team injury. He has a bad turf toe injury.
• 45:35
  He shut he shut down for 12 weeks before they re evaluate
• 45:40
  him. If you don't know what turf toe
• 45:41
  is, that means you tore the ligaments in your big toe.
• 45:45
  That's what turf toe is, and you probably have nerve damage as
• 45:47
  well. You may never get that feeling
• 45:50
  back and the full range of motion in that toe.
• 45:53
  So that's not a great way to start.
• 45:56
  Do you remember? Do you remember the last player
• 45:58
  that got an injury like this and was never the same player?
• 46:01
  Remember Jacquin? Noah.
• 46:02
  Remember him, Noah. Remember, well, Noah, he played
• 46:07
  for the Bulls. He had five great seasons with
• 46:09
  the Bulls, but Derrick Rose in that team, that was a good
• 46:13
  overall defensive and offensive team.
• 46:15
  Jimmy Buckets was there and then what happened?
• 46:17
  He got turf toe and after that he was never the same player.
• 46:20
  The Knicks gave him an extension.
• 46:22
  He comes to the Knicks and how many games did he play with the
• 46:25
  Knicks? He played barely anything and
• 46:26
  that was a Phil Jackson sign. Phil Jackson.
• 46:29
  So it doesn't work. I think this is a terrible
• 46:32
  injury and I'm very surprised that they didn't have a
• 46:35
  physical. They didn't give him a physical
• 46:37
  before this. It was the next day he did.
• 46:40
  He did it the next day like at some like pick up game.
• 46:44
  It's unbelievable. That's horrible, unbelievable.
• 46:46
  Bad break, bad luck for Memphis, right?
• 46:49
  So Speedy, I don't think you had them written in a great order.
• 46:52
  So I put them up here. Errol.
• 46:53
  The big news was the historic contract to Shay Gilgeous
• 46:56
  Alexander. As far as guys that weren't
• 46:58
  going anywhere have them split up.
• 47:00
  He's getting have the highest annual value for contract
• 47:04
  getting 71.25 million on average over the four year 285 Max deal.
• 47:10
  Again, he wasn't drafted by the Thunder, therefore he's not
• 47:12
  eligible for the five year version of.
• 47:14
  It I will say this, I, I, I think Shay deserves any money
• 47:18
  that gets offered. Every player I know, I don't
• 47:20
  attack any players making their money, $71,000,000 a year is a
• 47:24
  little ridiculous. The last player that I remember
• 47:27
  got that kind of NBA contract was Dame Don game time when
• 47:31
  Portland gave him a two year, 60 million a year.
• 47:34
  I think it was 120 million for 122 million for two years.
• 47:38
  When I saw that number, I was like, this guy is making $60
• 47:41
  million and he's like 30 to 33 years old.
• 47:44
  I, I, Shay is a young guy. He's what, 26 years old?
• 47:49
  He's he's not even in the prime of his career yet.
• 47:51
  He's already won his first NBA title.
• 47:53
  He's won his first MVP. This guy is electrifying.
• 47:57
  He's a great defender all around player.
• 47:59
  He's not A1 dimensional player. This guy is going to be around
• 48:02
  for a long, long time. And this is a cheap contract
• 48:05
  because just imagine what it's going to be 2-3 years down the
• 48:09
  road, what these stars are going to get.
• 48:11
  You see him making 71, you're going to see the next guy make
• 48:14
  about about 80 or $90,000,000 a year.
• 48:16
  And we've been talking about this with the NFLII mean Patrick
• 48:20
  Mahomes is taking less money over the last couple of years
• 48:24
  because he wants better players and he wants this team to to be
• 48:27
  a championship competitive team. Tom Brady too, we've seen it.
• 48:30
  This Shay Alexander, he's not going to take less money, but he
• 48:34
  is with basketball. If you have a player of this
• 48:36
  magnitude and you can run your offense through him and remember
• 48:40
  they are A1 dimensional offense. That's what they are.
• 48:43
  Everything gets run through Shay and then everybody else.
• 48:46
  Shay is going to get you 30 to 32 points a game.
• 48:49
  He's going to do everything right on the defensive side of
• 48:51
  the ball. Is he worth it?
• 48:53
  Absolutely. If there's anybody in the NBA
• 48:55
  right now worth that kind of money at the age of 26, it's
• 48:59
  Shay Alexander. Congratulations to him on a
• 49:01
  great season and a great run in the playoffs. 71 Errol Hey, how
• 49:05
  about this, this breakdown? So 71.25 a year, 5.9 four a
• 49:11
  month, 1.48 per week, 868,000 per game, 212,000 per day,
• 49:21
  8.8000 per hour, $147.26 per minute and $2.45 per second.
• 49:30
  He just made like $32 in the time I read that.
• 49:33
  Well listen, if he ever divorces with his wife, I'll hook him up
• 49:36
  with one of my sisters. You know, I might take him at
• 49:41
  that point. Chapelle had his skit back in
• 49:44
  the day where he got like Oprah pregnant.
• 49:46
  It was like he pretended he won the lottery.
• 49:49
  A couple of other ones that. Is winning the lottery that is
• 49:51
  winning the. Lottery.
• 49:53
  It's a way, it's a version of winning the lottery, that's for
• 49:55
  sure. Speedy A couple of names that
• 49:58
  are a little bit more obscure. Jakob Purdle got $104 million
• 50:03
  from the Raptors, so the Raptors reaching can have, well, the
• 50:07
  Raptors have been pretty bad. Speedy, can you give some
• 50:10
  rationale? Purdle's been a pretty good
• 50:12
  player for a while. Yeah, he's a solid like big man,
• 50:14
  like traditional big man. Now, again, that type of money
• 50:17
  for a traditional big man, I mean, there's only a few teams
• 50:19
  that would have given it to him because like it's not as valued
• 50:22
  in today's game as more. I always liked him in college
• 50:25
  coming out of Utah. He was always never great.
• 50:27
  He was never a great shooter, but I always thought he was a
• 50:29
  good passer for a big man. I think Toronto values that kind
• 50:31
  of thing. That's why I did drafted him and
• 50:32
  he was a good bench player on that championship team.
• 50:34
  But again, really hasn't developed much since then.
• 50:36
  So a little bit too much, but I think again they had to overpay
• 50:39
  to keep him I guess. Toronto don't don't hold on to
• 50:42
  players. Over the years, they've had a
• 50:44
  problem holding on to players, as we saw one go all the way to
• 50:47
  the finals with Indiana. So it has been a big problem
• 50:50
  over the years for the Toronto Raptors.
• 50:52
  And again, I, I didn't watch a lot of Toronto basketball all
• 50:56
  season long, but I, I do know this kid.
• 50:58
  Is he worth $104 million? Nobody's worth $104 million.
• 51:02
  But with the NBA and the way they, they pay their players,
• 51:05
  remember there's 15 guys on a roster.
• 51:07
  The money's got to be, you know, he evened out some way and and
• 51:12
  he's like what? The sixth guy he really is, I
• 51:15
  don't even think he's a starter. He's like the sixth guy on the
• 51:18
  Toronto Raptors and you're paying him four years, $104
• 51:21
  million. If I was the 8th guy that I saw,
• 51:24
  if I'm not mistaken, it was a Sacramento, their 14th guy is
• 51:28
  making like 5 or 6,000,000 a year and he never steps on a
• 51:31
  basketball court. So I just think about that.
• 51:34
  You can't attack these players for what they're getting.
• 51:37
  They earned the right to play in the NBA.
• 51:39
  They earned. And it's guaranteed.
• 51:41
  It's guaranteed. It's not the NFL.
• 51:43
  The NFL is the only sport that the money isn't guaranteed.
• 51:47
  The only sport. And that's why I think the CBA
• 51:50
  and the NFL and the players union has to figure out how to
• 51:53
  make this work because it's not fair to the NFL players.
• 51:55
  They're putting their lives, their bodies and their heads on
• 51:58
  the line and they're not. They're not getting guaranteed
• 52:00
  money except the signing bonus. And that's why all these players
• 52:04
  are asking for a big signing bonus when they sign their long
• 52:06
  term deals. Or restructure, I guess let's
• 52:10
  get through the other 3 speedies.
• 52:12
  And I I really want to hear your take on Julius Randall in a
• 52:15
  second. But first, James Harden resigned
• 52:17
  with the Clippers two years, 81.5 million, not surprise,
• 52:21
  ensuring that 40 million a year gets spread out amongst the
• 52:24
  strip clubs in Los Angeles. Great job for all those and his
• 52:29
  and. His beard and his beard
• 52:30
  maintenance. Beard maintenance companies as
• 52:33
  well, he obviously. Has one of the best of beard.
• 52:35
  Yeah, when he first came into the league, when he was drafted.
• 52:38
  That's freaky. Brutal.
• 52:40
  He was good in college, too. He was college.
• 52:41
  He was. Great in college.
• 52:44
  So that was hard and the T wolves decided that they're
• 52:49
  going to go all in on the Julius Randall experiment.
• 52:51
  They traded for him. They got D Vincenzo and Randall
• 52:54
  for towns. They resigned Randall for three
• 52:57
  years, 100,000,033.33333 million a year, right.
• 53:02
  So I don't know I I find that to be an interesting deal,
• 53:06
  especially after he kind of really did the Julius Randall
• 53:10
  thing in the last round of the playoffs they were able to be in
• 53:12
  and he really no showed. I don't know why you give that
• 53:15
  guy money. That's I.
• 53:16
  Can tell. You why the Knicks did, but they
• 53:19
  kind of Barry put them in this hole.
• 53:20
  Errol, you know, you start with you.
• 53:23
  How do you feel about this, Randall?
• 53:24
  Three years, 100 million deal. I don't think it's a bad deal
• 53:27
  for the Timberwolves because I don't think anybody's going to
• 53:29
  want to go and play over there. Nobody wants to play with
• 53:30
  Anthony Edwards. He throws his teammates under
• 53:33
  the bus. We've seen that over and over
• 53:35
  and over again. Do you think a superstar like
• 53:37
  Giannis wants to go and play with Anthony Edwards?
• 53:39
  He couldn't get along with Karl Anthony Towns.
• 53:41
  That's why he was traded. Jimmy Buckets obviously couldn't
• 53:44
  get along with him. He said superstars play with him
• 53:47
  and they're all gone. It doesn't work.
• 53:49
  Watch, Gobert is going to get traded too because he can't
• 53:52
  stand Anthony any Edwards either.
• 53:53
  He doesn't work well with teammates.
• 53:56
  Julius Randall, he can handle Anthony Edwards.
• 54:00
  You know why he can handle Anthony Edwards?
• 54:01
  Because he's the same type of player as Anthony Edwards.
• 54:05
  A cry bear, a crybaby bitch. That's what he is.
• 54:08
  He cries about things and he believes that he's the best
• 54:12
  player on that roster. Now he's taking a step back
• 54:15
  since he's gone to the Timberwolves.
• 54:16
  I believe he thinks that Anthony Edwards is the guy.
• 54:18
  He's the second guy. But nevertheless, when he was
• 54:21
  here with the New York Knicks, he's he thought he was better
• 54:23
  than Jalen Brunson. He thought he was the leader of
• 54:25
  the team. And that is why he's no longer a
• 54:28
  nick and he doesn't play well in big games.
• 54:32
  He's not a big game player and either is Anthony Edwards as
• 54:35
  we've seen over the last couple of years.
• 54:37
  So they're practically the same identical player.
• 54:40
  And Anthony Edwards and him are probably butt buddies.
• 54:42
  Who knows? They're probably screwing each
• 54:44
  other in the shower room. I could careless by the way,
• 54:47
  Anthony Edwards broke up with his baby's moms.
• 54:49
  Did you guys see that? And the Child Support, he paid
• 54:54
  the Child Support upfront to his, his, his fiance, whatever
• 55:00
  she was, just so we can get it out of the way and he doesn't
• 55:02
  have to deal with it in the future.
• 55:04
  Could you believe that? That's Anthony Edwards, ladies
• 55:06
  and gentlemen. That story came out a couple of
• 55:09
  days ago. I read it.
• 55:10
  I don't know if it took it to be true, but what I've heard is he
• 55:14
  broke up with his baby's moms and he paid her upfront the
• 55:17
  Child Support because he doesn't want to deal with her in the
• 55:20
  future. That's Anthony Edwards boys.
• 55:22
  Yeah. Anthony Edwards.
• 55:24
  What great leadership. What an ass.
• 55:25
  Oh yeah, what an absolute ass. Has a daughter and that's what
• 55:29
  he does. There was only one left, Speedy
• 55:32
  just quickly mention it. This is the guy that people were
• 55:36
  like, couldn't believe wasn't in the Kevin Durant trade.
• 55:39
  Jabari Smith Junior. It's a five year, $122 million
• 55:43
  deal from the Rockets. It's I still don't understand
• 55:45
  how they were able to get Durant for as cheap as they did this.
• 55:49
  This was the guy that you, the son, should have been asking
• 55:52
  for. I guess they were told no.
• 55:55
  Yeah. What do you got, Speedy on
• 55:57
  Smith? No.
• 55:57
  Definitely, definitely. Obviously the top three pick in
• 56:00
  the same draft with Chet Holmgren and Bonchera, a lot of
• 56:02
  people thought he could have gone number one at the time.
• 56:04
  His offensive prowess, I don't think has really been as good in
• 56:07
  the NBA so far on a consistency basis.
• 56:10
  But he's a good team player, could do a lot of different
• 56:12
  things and I think for what the Rockets need with the identity
• 56:15
  they're trying to bring, especially with the Doka being
• 56:18
  that Celtics type coach where stressing that defense, he does
• 56:22
  a lot of different things and he's 22 years old still.
• 56:25
  So still a lot of room for him to grow.
• 56:26
  They're paying him early where the market will get up for those
• 56:29
  types of players later on, especially with the league
• 56:31
  getting younger as it is. All right, time to talk trades.
• 56:35
  There weren't any huge, huge trades, but the Nets made a
• 56:38
  little news trading with the Nuggets for Michael Porter
• 56:41
  junior giving up Cam Johnson. Love this move for the Nets.
• 56:44
  Love deal, love, that's interesting that you do.
• 56:46
  I was going to say I love this move for the Nuggets.
• 56:49
  I'd like to hear your take on. This Well, Michael Porter
• 56:51
  junior, I think is a better player than Cam Johnson.
• 56:53
  He has been a journeyman since he's coming to the league.
• 56:55
  Now Cam Johnson is a two way player.
• 56:58
  Michael Porter is is an offensive player.
• 57:00
  And I, I do believe the Nets need a player that they can
• 57:03
  build their offense around. They don't really have that.
• 57:05
  They have Thomas there. But Thomas, I don't know, is the
• 57:09
  bright light guy that you're going to say, oh, we got my we
• 57:12
  got Thomas on our team. I think a guy like Michael
• 57:15
  Porter, he's a known guy. He's a known commodity.
• 57:17
  He's won an NBA title. He's a winner and I think he's
• 57:21
  quite capable of being the number one guy on a roster.
• 57:24
  Now he is going to be the number one guy there.
• 57:27
  He's going to give you if he's, if the offense is going through
• 57:31
  him, he's going to score 2425 points a game.
• 57:34
  He's he's capable of doing that as a third guy on, on that
• 57:38
  Nuggets team. He was averaging 1718 points a
• 57:41
  game. Now he's the number one guy.
• 57:43
  He he can absolutely win games in the Eastern Conference and
• 57:46
  the Eastern Conference is so much more weaker than the
• 57:48
  Western Conference, especially when it comes to the back end of
• 57:52
  the Eastern Conference. So you're going to see Michael
• 57:55
  Porter put up numbers that we've never seen Michael Porter do.
• 57:58
  Cam Johnson, I obviously the Nuggets are going with him
• 58:02
  because of the contract. They don't have to.
• 58:04
  Michael Porter is making more money, Cam Johnson is making
• 58:06
  less. And I think, you know, swapping
• 58:09
  both players and getting a little bit more for the bang for
• 58:12
  the buck with Cam Johnson because he could do he could be
• 58:14
  A2 dimensional player. That's why I think the Nuggets
• 58:17
  went with Cam and why they got Cam and and not make a move with
• 58:21
  another team and bring in another player in a trade to
• 58:23
  trade Michael Porter. So I that's the only reason why
• 58:25
  Cam Johnson is cheaper than Michael Porter.
• 58:27
  Junior yeah, that I think that the root is the bigger reason.
• 58:29
  We were talking about the Nuggets lack of bench production
• 58:31
  last year, a lot like the Knicks at certain points during the
• 58:34
  year. And obviously that was a big
• 58:35
  reason why Malone got fired. And again, these veterans that
• 58:39
  didn't want to come back like Russell, Russell Westbrook
• 58:41
  already said he he had no desire to come back.
• 58:44
  He signed. I don't know he signed yet, but
• 58:46
  you look at now the collective, they got Bruce Brown as well as
• 58:49
  a free agent, which they probably wouldn't have been able
• 58:50
  to do if they kept Porter's contract.
• 58:52
  And the Nets also get a high upside type guy that they still
• 58:54
  could develop. They want to stay young all at
• 58:56
  once. If he could stay healthy, he's
• 58:57
  probably the best player that they have.
• 58:59
  And scoring wise he doesn't. You're right, Fish.
• 59:02
  He doesn't do great defensively, but I think he's still better
• 59:04
  than a lot of the ones they have there.
• 59:06
  He's going to average 25 points a game.
• 59:08
  Michael Porter, junior, that's what he's getting.
• 59:10
  If he could stay healthy though, like this is not a guy that's
• 59:12
  the picture of health. He came into the league with
• 59:15
  back questions. That's why he dropped originally
• 59:17
  in the draft and then he sat out a year.
• 59:19
  This is this is the type of guy that he's a traitor.
• 59:23
  You worry. Well, you're right.
• 59:24
  I mean, because then that's aren't close, right, But the the
• 59:26
  idea is they, you don't realize they also got an unprotected
• 59:30
  first round pick in 2032 to get off of Porter because the league
• 59:35
  views Porter is much lower asset than Cam Johnson because Cam
• 59:38
  Johnson, Johnson was a 39% three-point shooter last year,
• 59:41
  better than Porter and Porter's supposed to be the offensive
• 59:43
  player. So I, I would honestly look at
• 59:46
  Cam Johnson as a better player going forwards.
• 59:49
  The age, I don't know if the age is big of a difference, but
• 59:51
  Porter's been around for a long time.
• 59:53
  Everybody knows that he's not that it feels like he's not the
• 59:56
  same player as he was a couple of years ago when they were
• 59:59
  winning. Obviously a lot of things fell
• 1:00:00
  apart there in Denver. We don't know the whole picture.
• 1:00:03
  It's very interesting that he gets a fresh start.
• 1:00:05
  I just. I really Cam Johnson.
• 1:00:08
  I thought Cam Johnson was at times the best player on that
• 1:00:10
  team for long stretches for the Nets.
• 1:00:13
  I don't think it's consistent enough.
• 1:00:14
  To be a number of I think you're I think you're looking at Cam
• 1:00:17
  Johnson a little bit higher than you should be I.
• 1:00:20
  Do not? Well, I mean they just traded a
• 1:00:21
  first round pick and Porter for Cam Johnson.
• 1:00:24
  The reason, the reason why they did that, I'm going to tell you
• 1:00:27
  why. The reason why they did that is
• 1:00:29
  because Michael Porter is a little bit older than Cam
• 1:00:32
  Johnson. That's the only reason why they
• 1:00:34
  did that. That's the only reason why they
• 1:00:36
  did that. And Michael Porter is an injury
• 1:00:38
  prone player. Cam Johnson, besides the the
• 1:00:41
  couple of years I think when he was on the Suns, the Phoenix
• 1:00:44
  Suns, he he's been fairly healthy with the the Nets and
• 1:00:48
  and Michael Porter is an injury prone player.
• 1:00:50
  If you would ask me right now, you ask any expert who's better,
• 1:00:53
  Michael Porter junior, Cam Johnson.
• 1:00:55
  I think a lot of those experts would tell you Michael Porter
• 1:00:57
  junior when healthy is much better than Cam Johnson.
• 1:01:00
  But Michael Porter is not. Michael Porter is never healthy,
• 1:01:03
  and that's the problem. And I think the Nets only
• 1:01:06
  brought him in to be to use him as a trade ship.
• 1:01:08
  If he has a good season, they're going to move him at the trade
• 1:01:11
  deadline to a team that's going to overpay for him if they need
• 1:01:15
  an offensive option. Well, we know.
• 1:01:17
  We know Michael Porter is definitely better because Nathan
• 1:01:19
  said that Kev Johnson was better.
• 1:01:22
  The the Nuggets also added Yonas Valanciunas, the big center
• 1:01:27
  kind. Of like bygone.
• 1:01:29
  Generation does hit the three a little bit.
• 1:01:31
  Traded him for Dario Sarich, who I didn't even know was still in
• 1:01:34
  the league, but the Nuggets are definitely trying to retool a
• 1:01:36
  little. Bit.
• 1:01:38
  Nikhil Alexander Walker signing trade to the Hawks.
• 1:01:41
  The Hawks keep making moves. Errol we saw during the draft
• 1:01:45
  they started with before the draft.
• 1:01:46
  Even with Porzingis, we saw them make the move in the draft to go
• 1:01:51
  back and add that unprotected pick next year, so they have a
• 1:01:55
  real shot at retooling. They're trying to build around
• 1:01:58
  Trey Young. I don't know if that's the
• 1:02:00
  wisest decision, though. That's.
• 1:02:02
  Where I believe that. I don't believe that with the
• 1:02:05
  Hawks. I think that one way or another,
• 1:02:07
  they're going to trade Trey Young.
• 1:02:08
  If not this year, next year. I don't.
• 1:02:10
  Makes no sense though. Why are you adding like
• 1:02:13
  ancillary pieces? Because like these guys.
• 1:02:16
  Because this is an organization that doesn't do anything right.
• 1:02:19
  When was the last time they did something right?
• 1:02:21
  OK. And, and, and Trey Young, he's
• 1:02:24
  the prototypical guy that you're going, he's going to give you,
• 1:02:27
  if he's healthy, he's going to give you 2829 points a game.
• 1:02:29
  There is going to be a team out there willing to overspend for
• 1:02:33
  him. And by the way, next year's
• 1:02:35
  draft class is much better than it is this past year.
• 1:02:38
  And I'm telling you right now, don't be surprised at the trade
• 1:02:42
  deadline that the Hawks just completely pull everything away
• 1:02:45
  and say, you know what? We're trading this guy.
• 1:02:47
  We're trading that guy. Oh, yeah, Trey Young, we're
• 1:02:49
  trading them here. We'll go trade them.
• 1:02:51
  They're the Golden State Warriors because the Golden
• 1:02:53
  State Warriors are going to give us their first round traffic.
• 1:02:55
  It's it's to me, this is just what the Hawks do all the time,
• 1:02:59
  every single time. They're they're a good team.
• 1:03:02
  They just trade them away. I it doesn't make any sense.
• 1:03:04
  Yeah, the Hawks had a stretch obviously with 2008 to I think
• 1:03:07
  2019 where they the longest playoff success rate in the NBAI
• 1:03:11
  think the longest. I like, by the way, I like the
• 1:03:13
  Valanciunas move. I love that move for the
• 1:03:16
  Nuggets. That is a great move for the
• 1:03:19
  Nuggets because this guy is great on the boards and he's a
• 1:03:22
  good offensive player in the paint and he's mean.
• 1:03:25
  He's mean like Yokich and, and that's what you want.
• 1:03:29
  I I think they're going to play an aggressive type of game and
• 1:03:32
  and Valanciunas is an aggressive player.
• 1:03:34
  So I like that move by the Nuggets.
• 1:03:36
  Great. That was a slam dunk move.
• 1:03:38
  I know it's not like something that really stands out to you
• 1:03:41
  guys, but you watch with him and Yokich playing back and forth
• 1:03:45
  with one another and we can go off each other.
• 1:03:47
  It's going to work. Yeah, it's going to work.
• 1:03:48
  You always look at the depth of big man of of being important in
• 1:03:51
  some facets when it comes to just the production on the
• 1:03:54
  rebounding end. And again, we saw that like
• 1:03:56
  accumulating depth wise. Now Valanciunas wasn't on the
• 1:03:59
  Toronto championship team, he was traded for Marc Gasol, but
• 1:04:02
  he still was valuable in certain areas to get them to rise to
• 1:04:05
  that point and the Nuggets to the same kind of thing.
• 1:04:07
  You want to use Aaron Gordon more as the offensive type big
• 1:04:10
  man. He's not as good of a raw
• 1:04:11
  defender as somebody like Valanciunas inside.
• 1:04:14
  That's been steady his whole. Career loves to pass the ball
• 1:04:17
  and this guy loves to dunk the ball.
• 1:04:19
  You're going to see a lot of highlights with Valanciunas and
• 1:04:22
  like I said, he is mean. He's a mean player.
• 1:04:25
  Hard fouls, he beat you up in the paint and that's what you
• 1:04:29
  want to see from a player. Yokich is going to love him.
• 1:04:32
  These guys are going to be fun to watch, definitely.
• 1:04:34
  The best backup center he's had. To work with 100% hundred.
• 1:04:38
  Percent you got to love those big Eastern European dudes just
• 1:04:42
  like like 7 foot tall in the. Paint there take up space and
• 1:04:45
  bang and know their they don't. They don't ever try and do too
• 1:04:48
  much. Don't try to mess with them too
• 1:04:49
  much. They're obviously guys.
• 1:04:53
  I wasn't here yesterday and job I kind of wanted to hear your
• 1:04:56
  take. First I I need to know what you
• 1:04:59
  think about the Malik Beasley thing because they immediately
• 1:05:02
  the Pistons sign and traded Duncan Robinson to play
• 1:05:06
  basically the Beasley role. Now that we know that Beasley
• 1:05:10
  ain't playing basketball no MO, What?
• 1:05:13
  What was your take boys, yesterday starting with Java?
• 1:05:16
  Yeah, it was, it was interesting.
• 1:05:17
  And and Jake brought up a great clip on just, you know, just how
• 1:05:22
  and I I said it's like the tip of the iceberg.
• 1:05:24
  We only see so much. And so who knows how deep this
• 1:05:27
  really goes. Yeah, it was, it was just
• 1:05:31
  interesting to see how quick it turned and how it got legs so
• 1:05:37
  fast. But it's also interesting Arrow
• 1:05:40
  brought up something why, like the District Attorney and stuff
• 1:05:42
  was involved and you're just like, well, was he, was he
• 1:05:46
  laundering money? Was he doing something?
• 1:05:48
  So and, and we, we were all kind of like interested in it, but we
• 1:05:53
  don't really know exactly like the whole story of what it is
• 1:05:56
  and why there's so many people involved in it.
• 1:05:58
  But the clip that Jake showed us was really, it was a 12 pointer.
• 1:06:03
  They were 11 1/2. And he literally takes it,
• 1:06:06
  sprints down the court and dunks and then covers.
• 1:06:09
  And so you're just like, oh, OK, well, nobody does that now.
• 1:06:13
  It's looks a little fishy. So this will be interesting to
• 1:06:17
  see how it plays out. But yeah, he he ain't going to
• 1:06:18
  be playing for a while. I I like, first of all, I think
• 1:06:22
  players should be allowed to bet on sports, not their own games,
• 1:06:26
  but other games. And I don't know if he bet on
• 1:06:28
  his own game, but if the District Attorney is involved.
• 1:06:31
  They're saying he did. They're saying that he did, and
• 1:06:33
  it was like fraught bets. Fine, fine.
• 1:06:35
  But why is the District Attorney involved with, unless there were
• 1:06:38
  laundry bring money? Because it was legalized in
• 1:06:41
  Wisconsin. That's where it happened, right?
• 1:06:43
  It happened against the Bucks. So if it's legalized in
• 1:06:46
  Wisconsin, why is the District Attorney involved with it?
• 1:06:49
  Nobody knows the true story, but everybody is saying, well, we're
• 1:06:52
  never going to see Beasley again in the NBA.
• 1:06:54
  That's a bunch of crap if you ask me.
• 1:06:56
  And and again, if you're going to come out and say, oh, you're
• 1:06:59
  going to come out with these stories and you're going to say,
• 1:07:01
  well, this guy's involved and that guy's involved and the
• 1:07:03
  District Attorney is involved. Why don't we know the whole
• 1:07:06
  story? Why do we have to wait?
• 1:07:08
  We knew all about the Otani thing when that came out.
• 1:07:10
  Why don't we know about this do? We know everything about the.
• 1:07:14
  No, I told you the MLB brushed it under the rug.
• 1:07:18
  We all know what happened. That's the facts.
• 1:07:21
  Fact that Jack and I don't get the Beasley thing.
• 1:07:24
  And if I were the Knicks, if I were the Knicks, when Beasley
• 1:07:28
  becomes available, if he becomes available, I'd bring Beasley.
• 1:07:31
  Dude, he. Won't be playing.
• 1:07:33
  He's going to be in jail. He's going to be in jail for
• 1:07:36
  point shaving. We'll still.
• 1:07:38
  Join Jonte Porter on Tim Donaghy's Prison Basketball
• 1:07:41
  League. I you got to prove it, you got
• 1:07:43
  to prove it so. Tim, Tim Donaghy's basketball
• 1:07:46
  league, That would be the place for just a couple of basketball
• 1:07:49
  signings. Before we get out of this guys,
• 1:07:52
  we have to talk about the Bucks waving Dame Lillard using that
• 1:07:57
  old stretch provision invented for Who's Speedy Stretch.
• 1:08:02
  Provision Miles. Turner Oh, the stretch.
• 1:08:05
  Who did it? Who did the Knicks hat?
• 1:08:06
  Who did the Knicks decide to stretch that ruined them for
• 1:08:09
  years? Decided to stretch.
• 1:08:12
  Miles Turner, Lady spit it out. No, no, not miles.
• 1:08:16
  No, I'm talking about Miles years ago.
• 1:08:17
  I don't care about this stretch and the Knicks.
• 1:08:19
  I care about this the. Stretch provision was like
• 1:08:22
  originally it was called like the Alan Houston rule and they
• 1:08:26
  had the modified, they modified it the Knicks when they put it
• 1:08:29
  in as a rule, the Knicks decided to to do the stretch position
• 1:08:33
  that Chauncey Billups because they thought if they did that,
• 1:08:36
  they'd have enough money to make a run and it ended terribly.
• 1:08:39
  So the Bucks are pulling that move, taking the salary that was
• 1:08:43
  due for Dame, the big money, and stretching it out over five
• 1:08:46
  years so they could afford to go get Miles Turner on the.
• 1:08:49
  Floor. This hurts Indiana.
• 1:08:51
  This hurts Indiana. They lost, certainly.
• 1:08:53
  Does. Now you think about Indiana
• 1:08:54
  right now. They lost Tyrese Halperton for
• 1:08:57
  the whole season with his torn Achilles.
• 1:08:59
  Miles Myles Turner is a is a big man who could shoot the three.
• 1:09:03
  He could do so many things on the boards.
• 1:09:05
  And now you lose him to free agency and now and you lose
• 1:09:09
  Tyrese Halpern. Indiana went from one of the
• 1:09:11
  best teams in the east probably falls to like 8 or 9.
• 1:09:15
  They're nowhere close to the team they were this past season.
• 1:09:19
  And that absolutely hurts them. So I, I, I, I didn't know, I
• 1:09:23
  didn't understand why Indiana allowed Miles Turner even to go
• 1:09:26
  to free agency. And and again, it just tells you
• 1:09:29
  one thing about Indiana. They had a chance to get Giannis
• 1:09:32
  and what Hal Burton did and his father did after that series in
• 1:09:38
  in the first in the first round, probably get pushed away or gave
• 1:09:42
  him no chances of getting Giannis if he becomes a van
• 1:09:44
  available because he's not going to want to go and play in the
• 1:09:47
  with Indiana when how the hall Burtons are there.
• 1:09:50
  So I that's what would have made made sense to me.
• 1:09:53
  Oh, we lose Miles Turner, we're going to get Giannis.
• 1:09:56
  It's not happening anymore and Giannis is getting traded.
• 1:09:59
  It might not be right now, It might not be in the beginning of
• 1:10:02
  season. Giannis by the trade deadline is
• 1:10:04
  getting traded. He's not happy with this
• 1:10:06
  organization and losing Dame. Dame wasn't playing for the rest
• 1:10:10
  of the season anyways. He was not playing this year,
• 1:10:12
  especially at his age. He's what, 3536?
• 1:10:15
  He tore his Achilles. But Giannis wanted Dame to be
• 1:10:19
  there. That's why he decided to extend
• 1:10:21
  his contract. And now Dame is gone.
• 1:10:24
  Best believe. Giannis, Harold, do you think?
• 1:10:27
  Do you think as the leader of that team and Giannis, do you
• 1:10:31
  think they even gave him the respect or wherewithal to talk
• 1:10:34
  to him and ask him? No, he was surprised.
• 1:10:37
  He was upset and he was. Surprised, I think that's what
• 1:10:39
  that's when it came out and said he was upset.
• 1:10:41
  Like I think if you make that effort to know like why he why
• 1:10:46
  he signed these because he wanted that guy.
• 1:10:48
  If you literally like just go and be like, hey, you know what,
• 1:10:52
  he's getting older and like kind of he may not like it, but at
• 1:10:55
  least he has to respect you for the fact that he was given the
• 1:10:59
  respect of like, hey, this is kind of the direction we're
• 1:11:02
  going. You can't really be pissed about
• 1:11:04
  that. If they don't, you know, do it
• 1:11:06
  behind your back and you find out via Twitter or somebody
• 1:11:09
  tells you, right? It's horrible.
• 1:11:11
  I I think that that's going to push Giannis out.
• 1:11:13
  And this is an organization that's been behind his family.
• 1:11:17
  They're the one that this organization moved Giannis
• 1:11:20
  family from Greece to America, taking care of him, made sure
• 1:11:24
  that he was happy, gave him how many contracts?
• 1:11:26
  I think this is his third contract with the Milwaukee
• 1:11:29
  Bucks and he's made a lot of money here in in America.
• 1:11:33
  But now Giannis is at the tail end of his career.
• 1:11:36
  He wants to win another championship and he knows he's
• 1:11:38
  not going to win it in Milwaukee.
• 1:11:40
  This team is old. There's no talent there.
• 1:11:43
  And I don't care if they bring in Miles Turner.
• 1:11:45
  Miles Turner is not a superstar. He's a good player.
• 1:11:48
  He's a quality player. He's not a star.
• 1:11:50
  So I, I, I don't know how this is going to work.
• 1:11:53
  I think Miles Turner is going to be Giannis.
• 1:11:56
  Not as good as Giannis, but he's going to be.
• 1:11:58
  He's going to be playing the role of Giannis when Giannis
• 1:12:00
  gets. Traded and it's also he's going
• 1:12:02
  to have to play the role as like a second option on offense,
• 1:12:04
  which we can get away with if you're the Pacers offense and
• 1:12:06
  had a lot of other good shooters around him.
• 1:12:08
  Milwaukee really doesn't have that right now.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah, Milwaukee has a lot of similar style type bench
• 1:12:14
  players. They have a lot of defensive
• 1:12:16
  forwards type thing and I think they even they resigned Bobby
• 1:12:19
  Porter's, but I think they lost someone else.
• 1:12:21
  They lost Brook Lopez too. So like it just I don't have a
• 1:12:24
  lot of depth. Obviously we know Doc Rivers is
• 1:12:26
  not not the greatest coach either and he's going to run
• 1:12:29
  that team into the ground if the front office hasn't done more
• 1:12:31
  enough of it already. And that's definitely going to
• 1:12:33
  make Giannis much more frustrated.
• 1:12:35
  Now, again, the rumors did not say Giannis requested the trade
• 1:12:38
  officially, but it seems like it's leaning in that direction.
• 1:12:42
  Well, if you're a Rockets fan, Jabba, you would absolutely have
• 1:12:46
  to be pumped about pumped up about this offseason.
• 1:12:49
  We already mentioned the trades that we mentioned the big move
• 1:12:53
  to get the big man Durant, not having to give up Jamari Smith
• 1:12:56
  and extending him. Look at what they also did.
• 1:12:59
  They got Clint Capela back, their old rebounder.
• 1:13:02
  They brought him back three-year deal at older age and they
• 1:13:04
  brought in another guy locally that we've seen for a while,
• 1:13:07
  Dorian Finney Smith on a four year, $53 million deal.
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  As a fan just in general Java, if your team is loading up like
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  that, how excited are you? Well, I think it's they're
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  filling holes and not spending a buttload of money, not just
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  putting all your eggs in one basket.
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  And you know, when you, when you go and see kind of where you
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  need to fix and not necessarily fix, but you know, add and
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  subtract and, and to be able to do it and with, you know, good
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  contracts that are good for, you know, obviously Capella being a
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  little bit older and, and knowing his role, but you know,
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  get that three-year, that comfort and to fill those spots
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  and, and Finney Smith with what he is able to do.
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  I just think when they're filling spots and see that
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  they're making an effort, you can only be excited about them
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  trying to put that team in a position to win.
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  So I, I think they filled some holes that that they really,
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  really needed and. Clint Capela has been a
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  journeyman for the last, I don't know, 5-6 years.
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  I was going to say like 7-8 years probably.
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  He's been a journeyman. He's a good player.
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  He's a good defensive player. His offense is really one.
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  He doesn't have much of an offense.
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  He doesn't shoot very well for a four sometimes.
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  You know, with the Hawks, he was playing five at some points of
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  the season. So a Capella is a good player.
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  He's a good rebounder, but he's not a great player.
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  So he's a good guy off the bench.
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  That's what I would say Clint Capela is.
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  He's not a starter anymore. That's definitely not a starter
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  anymore, but still a useful guy in the league.
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  And we said the other team that's loading up is the Hawks.
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  They also add Luke Canard, A Dookie, Errol, an old Dookie.
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  A nice sharpshooter on a wing player doesn't play a lick of
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  defense. Canard was on the Duke team that
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  lost to South Carolina. Got news for you guys?
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  Most Duke players don't play defense when they come to the
• 1:14:54
  NBA. JJ Reddick is another one.
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  Shane Battier played a lot of. Yeah, Battier did.
• 1:14:59
  Grant Hill played two. He was A2 dimensional player.
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  Kyrie Irvino play a lick of defense.
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  I mean, if you go up and down the the great Duke players that
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  have played in the NBA, Jason Tater plays defense, but very
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  few of them that become good players in the NBA play a lick
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  of defense. So that's very that's very Coach
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  K Esque who actually preaches defense.
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  So figure that one out. It doesn't make anything.
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  That's true. At least the guys that play for
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  him slam their hands on the floor trying to pretend like
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  they're playing defense. The last guy I got here, speedy
• 1:15:31
  Gershon Yabaselli, goes to the Knicks.
• 1:15:34
  I like this. And that's the guy from the
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  French team. That's the, I guess he's like a
• 1:15:39
  6-8 center, sort of, yeah. But he's an outside stretch guy,
• 1:15:43
  basically. Right.
• 1:15:44
  He's going to be like a stretch 4 type thing, could do a lot of
• 1:15:47
  different things and again, a good contract for a player well
• 1:15:50
  round he always like to see that when a player is not just one
• 1:15:52
  type of specialist either. You could use him in many
• 1:15:54
  different rotations. We were talking about where
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  we're talking about the Knicks with Mike Brown, how he's going
• 1:15:58
  to like play the best to be a lot different.
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  And that's I think a big key. When you look at somebody like
• 1:16:03
  that, he's a perfect type of prototype.
• 1:16:05
  You saw him a lot have a lot of those types of players with the
• 1:16:06
  Cavs when LeBron was younger, those types of rotational power
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  forward types. And Sacramento, it didn't work
• 1:16:12
  as well, but they I think it was more they just built the team
• 1:16:14
  that way because they were much more backward oriented.
• 1:16:15
  Team and I, I will say this, what the Knicks are trying to do
• 1:16:19
  now is pretty obvious. They're going French.
• 1:16:21
  That's where they're going. They got 3 French.
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  Players. For three years.
• 1:16:27
  I, I hope not. I, I mean, I'm not a Wendy fan.
• 1:16:30
  I know a lot of Knick fans would be excited to have Weben Yama,
• 1:16:33
  but I, I just, I'm not a fan of his.
• 1:16:36
  So those are one of the guys I know everybody says, oh, you
• 1:16:38
  don't like, how could you not like Steph Curry?
• 1:16:40
  Why are you not like Weben Yama? I, I just think he was overrated
• 1:16:44
  when he come to, came to the NBA.
• 1:16:45
  And anybody that wants to come out and say that this guy could
• 1:16:48
  go down as one of the greatest or if not the greatest NBA
• 1:16:51
  player of all time, you're on drugs because nobody's going to
• 1:16:54
  be better than Michael Jordan no matter how many championships,
• 1:16:57
  webbing, Yama wins. And by the way, I'll be
• 1:16:59
  surprised if he wins more than two.
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  OK, that's all I'm going to say about that.
• 1:17:04
  That's. It all right and guys, there'll
• 1:17:06
  be more stuff, I'm sure, and basketball this offseason.
• 1:17:09
  But for now, that was the first rendition of our free agent
• 1:17:13
  round table. And I I want to say something
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  else. This is not great Popovich
• 1:17:17
  anymore. The Spurs, they brought in Dylan
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  Harper. I love Dylan Harper.
• 1:17:21
  I think he's going to be a great player.
• 1:17:23
  How it and everybody's attacking me on TikTok right now saying
• 1:17:27
  how could you say that the Aaron Fox and Dylan Harper won't work
• 1:17:31
  And it's pretty simple D Aaron Fox is 6 foot 3.
• 1:17:35
  So what are you going to do you're going to move Dylan
• 1:17:37
  Brooks to a shooting guard position where he's more of a
• 1:17:40
  point guard. You're going to play A2
• 1:17:42
  dimensional point guard game where these guys are going to
• 1:17:45
  crossover and hog the ball and not give the ball to webbing
• 1:17:48
  Yama. It's not going to work you're
• 1:17:50
  going to see it's not going to work they're going to have to
• 1:17:52
  decide and they're going to decide to go with the rookie
• 1:17:55
  Dylan Harper. This has happened.
• 1:17:57
  This the same thing happened in Sacramento when you had Hal
• 1:18:01
  Burton there and D Aaron Fox. They they had to make a
• 1:18:03
  decision. Do we want to keep the Aaron Fox
• 1:18:06
  or do we want to keep Tyrese Halpern?
• 1:18:08
  Well, guess what? They made the wrong decision.
• 1:18:10
  As much as I like the Aaron Fox, Tyrese Halpern has been the
• 1:18:14
  better player over the last two seasons.
• 1:18:16
  That's the fact. Jack Sacramento has not gone
• 1:18:20
  past the first round. Indiana has been in multiple,
• 1:18:24
  multiple positions to go far in the playoffs.
• 1:18:28
  As a matter of fact, last year before this year, they were in
• 1:18:30
  the Eastern Conference finals when they got knocked out by the
• 1:18:32
  Celtics. And this past year they were in
• 1:18:34
  the finals. Maybe next year.
• 1:18:36
  Well, not next year because they're not healthy.
• 1:18:37
  But you, you got what I'm saying?
• 1:18:39
  Hal Burton is a game changing player, is the Aaron Fox.
• 1:18:44
  He's not. And that's that's all I'm going
• 1:18:46
  to say. You got to you got to decide who
• 1:18:47
  you're going to keep. And I know fans are not going to
• 1:18:49
  like it. It's going to be Dylan Harper.
• 1:18:51
  And by the way, Dylan Harper is a beast.
• 1:18:54
  He is a beast of a player, defense, offense, 6 foot 6 and
• 1:19:00
  his father. Does anybody know who Ron Harper
• 1:19:02
  is? Well, go look him up.
• 1:19:04
  He played on those Chicago Bulls teams.
• 1:19:06
  He is a all world defensive player.
• 1:19:09
  And if Dylan Harper has any kind of style of defense like his
• 1:19:12
  father, his father wasn't a really good offensive player.
• 1:19:15
  Dylan does. You have an offensive player and
• 1:19:17
  a defensive player like a prototype of Ron Harper.
• 1:19:20
  Watch out. This guy could be as super as a
• 1:19:23
  superstar should be. So.
• 1:19:25
  Ron Harper, the guy that would hypothetically shut down the top
• 1:19:28
  4 ball handler of all time, Steph Curry, according to
• 1:19:31
  somebody. I'm going to tell you this,
• 1:19:32
  right? Now what an idiot it's going to
• 1:19:36
  be, isn't it? Isn't it funny Dylan Harpers
• 1:19:38
  rookie contract is more than his dad made in his career?
• 1:19:41
  Yeah, that sounds accurate. But you know, when you're when
• 1:19:45
  your father is Ron Harper, you think Ron Harper gives a crap,
• 1:19:48
  He's going to get a piece of that money.
• 1:19:50
  His old Sonny boy will take care of his old daddy Dukes and his
• 1:19:54
  mom. By the way, his mom was a good
• 1:19:56
  athlete too. So if you know the background of
• 1:19:58
  the Harper family, I think he has a sister that's a good
• 1:20:01
  athlete, a track and field runner.
• 1:20:03
  I mean, the family is loaded with talent when it comes to
• 1:20:06
  athletic ability. So congratulations to Dylan
• 1:20:08
  Harper. I, I can't wait to watch him
• 1:20:10
  play with Webb and Yama. I'm not a Webb and Yama fan, but
• 1:20:13
  I'm a Dylan Harper fan. And I will buy a Dylan Harper, a
• 1:20:16
  Dylan Harper jersey because I root him on he he played for a
• 1:20:20
  New Jersey. Jersey team, he's out here on
• 1:20:21
  the East Coast and I love watching him play, so it's
• 1:20:25
  going. To be I'm glad he's in the NBA
• 1:20:26
  so I don't have to watch him beat our ass every year.
• 1:20:29
  The big team. They got 2.
• 1:20:32
  Great. I'll tell you this, both Rutgers
• 1:20:34
  going to be stars. They're going to be stars.
• 1:20:37
  Now one of them just needs to learn how to shut his mouth.
• 1:20:39
  Dylan Harper doesn't talk. He he lets his game do the
• 1:20:42
  talking. We'll see what happens with the
• 1:20:44
  guy over there in Utah. Everybody enjoyed it.
• 1:20:46
  We will be back on Monday next week.
• 1:20:48
  We will be doing Monday and Thursday next week.
• 1:20:51
  After next week, we will be moving to Wednesdays.
• 1:20:55
  So it'll be Monday and Wednesdays for all the fans out
• 1:20:58
  there tuning in and that will stay like that moving forward
• 1:21:02
  into the NFL season. So stay tuned for that.
• 1:21:06
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• 1:21:09
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• 1:21:13
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• 1:21:17
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• 1:21:20
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• 1:21:23
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• 1:21:27
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