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Knicks Stumble in Game 3 — Wemby's Moment, Must-Win Game 4 Looms · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, everybody, and what's going on, folks? My name is David,
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  and I'm your legendary host of the legendary podcast, the Deconstructed Topic
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  Podcast. I almost forgot.
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  I'm like, I got so much in my mind today.
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  You already know that today is Tuesday, June 9th.
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  Today would have been a great, beautiful day for us things fans to wake up and say one more.
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  But sadly, we still got dos mas, two more. But anyways, welcome to the legendary,
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  podcast of the Deconstructed Topper Podcast.
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  And listen, in my podcast, we grab an episode and we talk about a little bit
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  of it all. And you already know off the bat, we are talking about the New York
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  Knicks who lost yesterday 115 to 111.
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  And it's one of those games that you'd be like, okay.
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  Okay, how can we bounce back? You know, and, you know, despite all the distraction
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  there, I'll do another podcast in regards to that because we're talking basketball.
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  Let's go. Anyways, I'm a little bit, uh, taking a deep breath because I'm excited.
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  I'm anxious. I'm like, can we, come on? We sure got two more. Let's get it tomorrow.
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  And game three, hey, listen, game three was one of those games that you say, hey, we got a series now.
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  We have a series. And the fact is that the San Antonio Spurs beat the New York Knicks, 115-111.
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  And it's a game that, hey, listen, we got to go back, and I'm hoping this is
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  not the beginning of when Benyana says, take it away a long time to say that name.
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  Holla at me if you are in from the 90s. It took me a while to kind of say Akeem Olajuwon.
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  If you look at, you know, his basketball card and you try to say Aluha Huan, yo, chill, my four.
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  But the fact that once you started getting cable watching ESPN and listening
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  to the 1994 Knicks-Rockets game and all that good stuff, Akeem Olajuwon,
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  I heard that name a little bit too much.
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  But shout out to Wen, Wen Bayama. Hey, listen, young cag, young fella,
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  you doing your thing. I see you.
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  You came big yesterday. No funny stuff. I mean, when the young man,
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  you know what? The dude is so tall that if even he points his finger up,
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  he's touching Master's Garden, the top of Master's Garden. I tell you.
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  But it's a situation where the Knicks –,
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  You know, we had a little thing going on in halftime, man. Shout out to a lot
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  of my peoples, my colleagues, my close friends, and everybody in between,
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  fans and all that, hitting me up in the chat. Let's go, Knicks.
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  Let's go, Knicks, when we are winning in halftime.
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  And I just had to respond like, hey, listen, I don't say much because I'm an
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  anxious New York Knicks fan.
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  We don't know when we're going to get this chance, but we are two games away.
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  And welcome to my podcast because we're going to get into what happened in game
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  three and what to expect as you can see right here on the information on my left right,
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  left right hey i'm watching you i'm that dude my sense of humor sometimes you
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  get out there because hey i'm the coolest guy ever and that's what you could
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  find me in the circuit city,
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  air condition section that's how cool i am circuit city shout out to the circuit
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  city i should be saying the whiz,
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  for those who people out there know in new york city i think the whiz was like
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  a east coast northeast kind of staple and it was actually owned by uh james
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  dolan the owner of the new york knicks so,
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  when i say nobody beats the whiz nobody beats the knicks let's get it but yesterday,
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  the uh spurs came and the spurs ate they brought in that game,
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  and the fact that we were winning people hitting me up talking about, yeah, let's go, Nix.
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  Yeah, woo, woo, woo, boo, boo. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. But, you know, I'm going to say it's this about the Spurs.
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  A very young team. And boy, oh, boy, as this team have learned how to play together.
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  And the fact because of Wambi, Castle, and some of these other players,
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  they're doing something like, hey, we're here.
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  Despite the Nix having more playoff experience and having some,
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  you know, some some heartbreakers in the last couple of years when it's Boston
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  you know Indiana whatever it is we here we're here so,
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  You know, the defense, especially in the third quarter, like once the defense
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  came up, we were just not doing anything or they couldn't just stop.
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  You know, once the Spurs started to get that lead, and I kept on telling people,
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  okay, this is the thing when the Spurs got the lead and how we will play yesterday.
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  The Spurs a couple of times had a 5, 6, 7-point lead, 8-point lead,
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  10-point lead, whatever it is.
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  We'll chop it up. We'll cut it to half. We'll cut it to three.
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  But, you know, turnovers and mistakes. You know, the Spurs, you know,
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  playing that one, playing that defense, playing one-on-one. So.
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  Especially with Brunson.
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  And Brunson looked like, you know, he was in a boxing match.
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  Him taking a hit. And he took one from Wemby. And I'm going to say it's this way with that.
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  So, Wemby just said, for something like that, any other player would have gotten a frigging foul.
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  Or in any other era, depending on the player. See, the NBA always have had this
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  thing when it comes to sports. and this is across every sport, but primarily the NBA.
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  When you got a player like, let's say, Wambi, whether it's Jordan,
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  whether it's Curry, whether it's Magic, you know, Larry, Dr. J..
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  The NBA always have this thing that when they got this next superstar,
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  the stars is aligned, the NBA is aligned, and that person is going to get away
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  with certain things that other players won't.
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  That's just the NBA in a nutshell. You see, the NBA is not loyal to,
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  and when I say the NBA, the National Basketball Association,
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  they're not loyal to the New York Knicks, despite the headquarters being in New York.
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  The most winningest team of titles when it comes to, you know,
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  the NBA is Boston, and then what? Lakers behind them.
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  So you see, the NBA is loyal to ratings.
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  You might say, oh, but New York is a big market.
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  But the NBA, when it comes to certain things, they're a little bit funny.
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  And people were kind of like calling out the refs like, yo, what's up?
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  But again, the NBA is going to probably look at it and say, hey,
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  the future looks bright with a guy like Wemby.
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  So I'll leave that at that. He has been getting away with certain things.
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  Young kid, young dude. I mean, I give them props, but I'm just saying.
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  And we were just missing shots. You know, the Knicks were just missing shots, even wide open ones.
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  But for the most part, you know, the defense of the Spurs, they step up.
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  Again, they are the younger player.
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  They got a little bit of extra spring, extra movement.
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  We are just happy to play a little bit more physical, and that's why I say,
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  how can we rebound? How can we win? And we have to. I'm going to say it's a
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  must that the Knicks win game four. But we got to play our defense.
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  And, again, I want to say give it to Cat because it's Cat and Wemby.
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  Either he's going to block your shot or he's going to be call or foul.
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  Now, again, the refs here, you know.
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  And I'm just saying, refs, I get it. I get it.
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  But Cat is a little bit bigger. You know, a cat can do this little thing going on here.
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  Give him the ball. Let him score. Let him discourage Wemby. Wemby's still a young kid.
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  That's why he had that game, too, where he was making mistakes.
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  Off the bat, because of his youth, not his athleticism, but because of his youth,
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  he's got a big, mad mistake.
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  He'll bounce back with some crazy dunk where he's coming off the rafters,
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  taking all the Knicks Eastern Conference final flag, whatever Atlantic Division flags.
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  Even the Rangers flagged that the dude would just jump so high and dunk the
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  ball that somewhere down the line, we got to say, okay, if he's going to do
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  that, then we got to discourage him.
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  Or at least kind of make him question him. That's what happened in game two.
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  You want that in this game four.
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  You know, the turnovers was a little bit crazy. Protect the ball,
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  I mean, at all costs. You've seen Bison protect yourself at all times.
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  When it comes to protect the ball, cut those turnovers.
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  Brunson, you know, I'm going to say, Brunson's a clutch player, but, you know.
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  He's taking some hits. Now, sadly, the other time that he takes hits,
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  no foul, he loses the ball. Hey, listen, all fair. You know,
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  it's all in the line. It's a turnover.
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  Spurs got it. They're doing their thing.
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  You know, I've rattled GTA 5. That's my dude. But, hey, you know,
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  I best need to a little kind of step up a little bit, a little bit,
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  take the pressure off of our starters.
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  Remember, we got here a lot because Shamit, you know, Alvarado and some of these
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  other, you know, Robinson, you know, we got here because of our bench. You know,
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  Robinson is there, but you know what I'm saying? We got other players that come
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  in, and hey, we got to do that thing.
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  The one thing that I've said in regards to this situation in this series, it's been tight games.
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  Very competitive. Even the 10-point win against the Spurs in Game 1,
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  it was a little competitive game. Game 2, you already know.
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  Game 3, it was one of those games that it kind of feels like the score did not match,
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  that it kind of felt like we were just more, especially in the second half,
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  following the Spurs, we was kind of more catching up, trying to play catch-up, and we couldn't.
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  So that's why I said, if there's one thing that the Knicks got to do,
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  and remember, and go back, and yeah, obviously the Spurs is a different team,
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  because there's a lot of youth in that Spurs team, a lot of energy.
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  You know, these are not the Cavaliers that they have some of these good veteran
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  players, but still, you know, a little bit up there in their age,
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  and they might slow down a little bit.
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  So it was easier for the Knicks to kind of, like, finish strong and just wipe
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  out those teams, Milano, Philly, Cavaliers. Now, not with the Spurs.
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  But what I'm going to say is this. We have to come to the second half,
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  and we have to do what we have been doing previously.
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  Just do it. It doesn't matter. I know that the Spurs is a different team, but just do it.
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  You have to come to the fourth quarter with a 20-point lead.
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  Now, obviously, in basketball, a 20-point lead might not be a lot,
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  but we got to take them. We got to rip their heart out.
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  We got to rip their heart out. We got to own that second half.
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  We got to rip their heart out like eight.
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  Because a lot is going to tell.
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  If we rip their heart out tomorrow and we win by 20, I think the psychological game is there.
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  Now, obviously, back then in the NBA, shout out, hit the like and the comment.
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  And comment if you do remember. Back then, even in the 1994 NBA Finals,
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  It used to be that when the New York Knicks, let's say, played the Rockets at
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  that time, it used to be 2-3-2.
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  So two games where Houston had the best record, three at Madison Garden,
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  and the last two in, how can I say, you know, the Houston Rockets,
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  the team with the best record at that time.
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  So it used to be that four, man, and I get it. I get why they changed it.
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  I think a lot of sports did that because I'm one to say, like,
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  Why should you, as the second best record, should be awarded to play three games in a row at home?
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  I know that they did that a lot due to scheduling, but, you know,
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  time has changed. Listen, again, why should you, as the second best team,
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  be rewarded with three games in a row?
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  You know what I mean? Because a lot of times when a game goes,
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  let's say, 1-1, You know, you went, let's say, with the Knicks,
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  that it was 1-1. You called three games, Massacre Garden, and then you basically
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  got home full advantage there.
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  Now, the Knicks only won two out of three, and then, you know,
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  Houston kind of finished it off six and seven.
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  But you get the idea. We have to play strong on the second half.
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  We have to finish it. We have to set a tone. And it's not even set a tone.
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  It's just basically remind them, because the Knicks tend to have this switch.
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  And I think that yesterday, their switch was like, you know what?
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  I'm going to turn the switch to, like, the last, you know, five minutes in the
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  second quarter and then turn it off and then just – the Knicks got this switch,
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  and I hate that. And I remember –.
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  How can I say it? I'm trying to think of this other team in sports.
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  And I think, you know, even right now, if you're not a hockey fan,
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  the Vegas Kings, right, against the Carolina Hurricanes, the Vegas team is a
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  weird team. But, yeah, I believe they're the defending champion.
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  And right now, I believe they went into game 2-1 or something like that.
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  Correct me if I'm wrong. But the Vegas Kings, they only won 39 games or something to that effect.
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  And I think every team that they play, the other team has a better record.
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  But the whole point with the Vegas Kings is that it's one of those teams that
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  for some reason they turn off the switch. They turn on the switch in the playoff.
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  One game, they're going to look horrible. It's going to be 7-3.
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  Then the next two games, it's like clutch, 4-3.
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  One game, it could be done 7-3. So it kind of reminds me of that situation in
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  regards to the Knicks and turning on the switch, let's just hope that the next
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  two games, they link that. They leave that switch on and they'll turn them back.
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  Because we need this. The city needs the championship. The Knicks need a championship.
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  So you already know. Let me know who you think. Let me know what you think about game four.
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  You got to set the tone. All I'm saying, we can be doing this every game.
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  It looks like every game, every game. We either lose about double digits,
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  catching up, then we start winning. We start getting hot, but there's a difference
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  between when you're trying to climb here and once you're here, you're here.
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  Because remember, the Spurs are still here.
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  They're not playing that bad. They're not playing that great. They're here.
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  So when you start playing this bad, you know, San Antonio is still even killed.
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  Shout out to that young team. Wambi and them.
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  But, you know, as a Knicks fan, we got to make it happen.
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  Anyways, hit me up. You already know. Hit the like, subscribe.
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  Please share. Talk to your peoples. Let me know what you think about this game four.
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  Game three was whatever. Whatever distraction. I think that's like what I would
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  call the OJ game. Too much outside distraction. But that's fine.
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  We're going to make it happen. Game four. All right, kiddos.
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  Holler at me. Holler at you.
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  You already know. The Constructing Tower Podcast. And I'm out. Peace. Yeah.