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ONELEGUPALEX MEDIA INSTANT REAX TO KNICKS ECF SWEEP 5-25-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, two minutes twenty two seconds to go.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do this to get this on record,
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  Speaker 1: as we've talked about it for weeks, about a month
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  Speaker 1: since the Hawks and Nicks that coming behind went by
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  Speaker 1: the Hawks. We talked about this Knicks resilience team. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about how this is the prime and if you
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  Speaker 1: were to tell me when I started this show in
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  Speaker 1: October two thousand and nine that the Knicks would be
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  Speaker 1: two minutes and twenty two seconds from the NBA Finals
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  Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen ninety nine, at that point,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, are you kidding me? That team back
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  Speaker 1: in A nine, ten, eleven, twelve, it felt in disarray
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. They had that playoff appearance in thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Of course, he went eight years without
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  Speaker 1: a playoff appearance, and twenty one, twenty three, twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five has been something remarkable. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years of the East Coast Conference alone
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  Speaker 1: East Conference Finals, loan, you gotta had some home but
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  Speaker 1: this time when they came back from twenty two down,
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  Speaker 1: when you have a healthy bench and a healthy rotation,
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  Speaker 1: as Mike Brown has had three for Clarkson no good
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  Speaker 1: rebound thereby Bridges slams at home or actually that's probably
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  Speaker 1: Robinson there for two on the slam one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight eighty eight, one hundred twenty eight eighty eight.
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  Speaker 1: And that slam, by the way, probably the punctuation that
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  Speaker 1: I will have to see. And the Calves keep missing
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  Speaker 1: those shots as they have have ever since blowing that
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  Speaker 1: twenty two point lead. And by the way, think about
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  Speaker 1: that night it was and there's a three, no good.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have to get the ball with a minute
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  Speaker 1: twenty to go. But when they lost that twenty two
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  Speaker 1: point lead, they probably did take the air out of
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  Speaker 1: them because they had just gone through that grueling seven
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  Speaker 1: game series against the Pistons, and the next refreshed, they
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  Speaker 1: were arrested, they had a little time off, and I
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  Speaker 1: know how that would play out either And it kind
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  Speaker 1: of looked a little rusty at the beginning, right that
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  Speaker 1: shot for Colic no good one on four to a
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  Speaker 1: minute to go, a minute to two to go, ninety
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  Speaker 1: the first half again like that Hawks clincher, and against
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  Speaker 1: the Hawks in twenty in Game five, it was dominant
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  Speaker 1: seventy points, seventy points by the first half, and we
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  Speaker 1: were like, what Knix is that? And there's a two
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  Speaker 1: for Colic and I talked about him before the kid
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  Speaker 1: had that day on Christmas Day and the Knicks never
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  Speaker 1: really looked back. They had their struggles short in January,
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  Speaker 1: but with forty seconds to go, they were in a
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  Speaker 1: commanding lead. And look if I'm the Spurs, if I'm okay, see,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be scared. This is not just a well oil machine.
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  Speaker 1: This is a dangerous theme to face right now. And
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of fitting that Colic well let the clock expire,
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  Speaker 1: but it's thirteen seconds to go, and with ten seconds
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  Speaker 1: to go. Jalen Brumson, you know his dad Rick was
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA Final with the Knicks in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine in Alan Houston Latrell's Freewill. We had a good
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  Speaker 1: core there, but this this is special and I went
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  Speaker 1: five seconds to go, but we knew in the second
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  Speaker 1: quarter was reality and the Knicks for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety nine are going to the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: What a moment. And I'm very happy for Mike Breen
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  Speaker 1: it gets to be on this call as well for
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  Speaker 1: ESPN because we've all been through this after ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks had gone through a carousela coaches, Lenny Wilkins, Woodson,
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  Speaker 1: Mike dan Toni, Larry Brown was in the mix too,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas Bibbs, but it took the first year and
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  Speaker 1: coached for the Knicks his first year here, Mike Brown.
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  Speaker 1: But we all thought was done after that comeback by
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  Speaker 1: the Hawks. Turned his whole team around, turn the ship around.
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  Speaker 1: And now with the Knicks fans in Cleveland and the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks fans at Radio City, and the Knicks fans all
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  Speaker 1: across the Burroughs and the country, the team that used
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  Speaker 1: to be a laughing stock of the league is going
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  Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals and this is their prime, this
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  Speaker 1: is their time. And if he can keep this balance
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  Speaker 1: and Leon Rose is there, he did an incredible job.
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  Speaker 1: He's done an incredible job. This acquistion of Alvarado also
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  Speaker 1: changed the year as well, Brunson carrying the team through
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  Speaker 1: those troubling moments against the Hawks and then sweeping the Sixers. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: we're not just talking about a series victory. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about back to back sweeps here. This is this is
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  Speaker 1: mind blowing because we're not used to a next team
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  Speaker 1: that would sweep a series after series, and what's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: The difference here, The difference here is that they're all healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Not one guy is her on this team right now,
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  Speaker 1: thank god, going into the finals, and you know why
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  Speaker 1: because work road management. I saw Christian from the Daily
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  Speaker 1: and who's talking about the call Bridges who said White
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  Speaker 1: stellar postseason as well? He's right. He is one of
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  Speaker 1: those weapons that's sort of underrated. I mean he is.
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  Speaker 1: He is a key to this team. He's key defensively.
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  Speaker 1: And then who did we miss the last two years? Really?
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  Speaker 1: Who do we miss in this run the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years? Obie. I've said it over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: o Giana. Obi is the guy that's a difference maker
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  Speaker 1: on the court. And you see what happens when he's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: He was healthy against I think it was a Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course last year against the Facers, things
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  Speaker 1: would have been different, Things would have been very different.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Josh Hart, a heart and soul of this
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  Speaker 1: team truly, and he his game was actually game uh
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  Speaker 1: game two. I mean put the team motives back for
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  Speaker 1: that one and that was the Josh Hart's night. But
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  Speaker 1: he's a contributing factor here and then well, I'm missing
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  Speaker 1: the start in five. I mean Robinson, he had some
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  Speaker 1: key buckets here tonight. But you look at the ferociousness,
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  Speaker 1: the speed, the veracity of that team and the aggressiveness
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  Speaker 1: they had coming out the gate. Yeah, they went down five, nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but that was nothing the end of the half with
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  Speaker 1: seventy points. Seventy points, and I'll tell you, I said
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  Speaker 1: it was my friend Cherry. Since I've started the show,
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  Speaker 1: we had the Giants winning eleven twelve the eleven twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve season. We had the Rangers in fourteen, good
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  Speaker 1: series going into the sand Cup finals. Of course we
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  Speaker 1: don't know what happened against the Kings. You didn't really
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  Speaker 1: have enough confidence against the Kings twenty fifteen Mets versus Royals,
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  Speaker 1: or when they swap up the Cubs in the NFCS
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  Speaker 1: and twenty fifteen. I thought they were going to do
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  Speaker 1: something bigger against the Worlds. I really did, but they
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  Speaker 1: were stopgap that they reach it dead end in that
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  Speaker 1: year and I got to meet Daniel Murphy yes, over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend at Cooper Salvage. Pretty good, I'm pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I congratulate about that year. In twenty nineteen, fast forward,
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  Speaker 1: so from fifteen to twenty four, there was nothing. The
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  Speaker 1: Knicks were falling short. The Yankees were getting ousted by
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  Speaker 1: the Astros and the Alcs. That's after that fifteen year
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  Speaker 1: weren't really the same, their core broken. And of course
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  Speaker 1: they got to the postseason with one hundred and one
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  Speaker 1: win year in twenty twenty two, but they got asked
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  Speaker 1: in the wildcard round. And then the Rangers.
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  Speaker 2: We all know they should have been in the Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cup at least a couple of times, so should be Island.
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  Speaker 2: But the Yankees will be the next one in twenty
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  Speaker 2: four and you did not really have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: confidence against the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what's interesting. In twenty four, who
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  Speaker 1: did they beat in Cleveland to get to the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: The Guardians. Almost two years later, a year and a half,
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  Speaker 1: who did the Knicks beat to get through to the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals another Cleveland team, the Cavaliers the Synchronousy There
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  Speaker 1: is interesting. But my point to all of this is,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time since that old nine World
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  Speaker 1: Series where you felt confident the Yanks were going to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Phillies, and they did. It was the first time.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time in all these years of
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  Speaker 1: this show, I can say I'm confident about a New
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  Speaker 1: York team in the championship round. I didn't feel that
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  Speaker 1: in twenty four. Loved the Yankees, but I didn't feel it.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen maybe, but you weren't sure. The Worlds were really
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  Speaker 1: good that year fourteen against the Kings. Yet gentle than
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  Speaker 1: quickened that that was almost impossible. But this, like the
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  Speaker 1: Confidence Conference finals I was thinking of. There's a Confident
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  Speaker 1: Finals two that I'm thinking of for this team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but the Spurs are fast paced and okay, see, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care put us up against the defending champs. I
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  Speaker 1: still think we have us a leg up against them.
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  Speaker 1: They're injured a little bit. They haven't had the perfect
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  Speaker 1: series yet against the Spurs. And if you're if it's
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs Wemby, sure that'll be quite the matchup.
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  Speaker 2: But but.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this team could be slowed down. And
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm right. I hope they're not slowed down.
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  Speaker 1: I I'm not drinking. Somebody saying this, but Mike Brown's
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  Speaker 1: got this team as a well little machine right now.
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  Speaker 1: It is perfect. I see the alley oops tonight, did
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  Speaker 1: you see the Alley oops Jalen Obie. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was Obie to a couple other guys. They were just
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  Speaker 1: there were Alley ooping the hell out of that first
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  Speaker 1: half and email me Alex at Alexis dot com. Email
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  Speaker 1: me right now. Do you think do you think you
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  Speaker 1: are less confident in the next period in the few
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  Speaker 1: postseason series we've seen them in the last few years,
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  Speaker 1: or is this the most common you felt. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you can remember all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: oh nine, but overall, is this the most confident you
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  Speaker 1: felt about any of our New York teams in the
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  Speaker 1: five thousand plus day drought without a championship, And that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be my premise in the first in the five
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  Speaker 1: thousand plus days without a championship New York City has faced.
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  Speaker 1: This is the most confident I am feeling right now,
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  Speaker 1: right now of a team to break that drought. And
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  Speaker 1: we were not gonna settle for the NBA Cup. Interesting
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  Speaker 1: it was against the Spurs and I against the Spurs.
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  Speaker 1: Clyde and Patrick Ewing are provider, are giving Brunson MVP?
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  Speaker 1: Come on? How cool is this ship? Right now? This
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  Speaker 1: is Nick's history passing it down The next generation of
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Bronson. This is Bronson's team and they named him captain, Captain.
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  Speaker 1: They made it the right move. They made the right move.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, in the five thousand plus days since a
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  Speaker 1: champion has been crowned for New York, this next team
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  Speaker 1: is the most confident. I felt. That's what Jaylen has
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  Speaker 1: to say. And Spike Lee taking pictures. You cannot get
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  Speaker 1: more New York than this. You cannot get one of
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  Speaker 1: your net Spike we taking him pictures of courts come
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  Speaker 1: on chills, chills everywhere. And Jalen is very soft spoken,
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  Speaker 1: actually very humble, but he gets the job done and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he is captain clutch and that's why this
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  Speaker 1: team since two thousand and nine and since twenty eleven
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  Speaker 1: twelve when the Giants won against the Patriots a second time,
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  Speaker 1: this team is the most confident. I felt to snap
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  Speaker 1: a five thousand plus day drafts and boy, I hope
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  Speaker 1: I'm right, and I hope we get that parade down
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  Speaker 1: the Candy Heroes. One game at a time, though, But
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  Speaker 1: the knickser what we got to the NBA Finals? Can
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  Speaker 1: you believe it? I'm Alex Garrett more to come for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And one look of alex mm HM