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Knicks Win Game 2 of NBA Finals · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The rex was
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Betty Rubbell.
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  Speaker 4: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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  Speaker 4: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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  Speaker 3: He caught them the game last night. Although they won
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening just to Godson Company.
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  Speaker 4: is rare to get me to work on a Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 4: and yet here I am, And this is how special
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  Speaker 4: of a day it is.
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  Speaker 3: The Knicks win.
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  Speaker 4: Two games away from an NBAH championship. Taylor had to
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  Speaker 4: be in New York City, wanted to be around the
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  Speaker 4: buzz of the city. Taylor, were you terrified towards the
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  Speaker 4: end of that game?
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  Speaker 3: Because I was.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't terrified. I am ultra confident in this team.
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  Speaker 5: I hope you guys are processing and appreciating what you're watching.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen straight playoff wins.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, Dare I say this might be the sports story
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  Speaker 5: of our lifetime, where teams find new ways to lose.
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  Speaker 5: We always hear that expression. This next team, they find
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  Speaker 5: new ways to win, right. Jalen Brunson has an off night,
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  Speaker 5: He's seven of twenty five. But you know what, the team,
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  Speaker 5: the team, the team, This is the best team in
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  Speaker 5: the NBA. The Knicks took San Antonio's best shot on
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  Speaker 5: the road. The Spurs got every call. We shot five
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  Speaker 5: free throws the entire second half, and the only reason
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  Speaker 5: we shot three of those free throws is because Mike
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  Speaker 5: Brown had a challenge in ogn and Obi foul. And
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  Speaker 5: before I pass the ball to somebody else, this message
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  Speaker 5: is to de'aron Fox, We're not blinking, bitch.
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  Speaker 6: He has worked out a stud First of all, can
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  Speaker 6: you hear that off At the distance, it's like like
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  Speaker 6: forty miles south of us, it's a group of really
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  Speaker 6: angry chickens, the Kentucky fraud chickens. Perhaps because there must
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  Speaker 6: have been fear in Taylor Hippolis. Okay, yes, during the
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  Speaker 6: fourteen oh run perhaps or even while that jump shot
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  Speaker 6: was in the air.
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  Speaker 3: An elbow jumper.
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  Speaker 7: We yes, exactly which we'll get to.
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  Speaker 6: That was a terrible choice by him, But Taylor, you
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  Speaker 6: were not super confident when the Spurs were basically getting
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  Speaker 6: every call, making those shots and then having even after
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  Speaker 6: that ridiculous Victor Wenbinyama turnover the shot to win it.
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  Speaker 5: We talk about how Wemby is going to dominate the
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  Speaker 5: league for the next ten to fifteen years. That felt
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  Speaker 5: like this was the moment that we look back on
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  Speaker 5: and be like, oh, this is where the Wenby dynasty started,
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  Speaker 5: and when to be to be honest, when when that
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  Speaker 5: SHOT's going up, that shot has gone in every time
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  Speaker 5: against the Knicks for the past thirty years of my life.
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  Speaker 5: Where I'm watching and I'm like, it can't end like this.
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  Speaker 5: You can't blow a fourteen point lead midway through the
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  Speaker 5: fourth quarter. The other shoe always drops with this franchise
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  Speaker 5: where the joke of the league it's the same old Knicks.
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  Speaker 5: Jalen Brunson is gonna have to carry around this loss,
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  Speaker 5: going seven of twenty five and playing probably the worst
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  Speaker 5: game we've seen Jalen Brunton play in quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: As a Nick. He's gonna have to carry this loss
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  Speaker 1: like a scarlet letter.
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  Speaker 5: Where we look back on the Spurs winning the championship
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  Speaker 5: and being like man, the Knicks were so close to
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  Speaker 5: going up two ozho and instead.
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  Speaker 1: We avoided the disaster.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yes, everywhere scared.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was terrified. I think I paid on the
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  Speaker 1: Ye had to be.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the best player in alien and had the ball,
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  Speaker 4: he was fifteen feet from the basket, had a chance
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  Speaker 4: to win it. And by the way, never should have
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  Speaker 4: put himself in that position because he turns the ball
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  Speaker 4: over late in that game and gives the Knicks an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to win.
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  Speaker 3: That's a game the Knicks had no business winning.
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  Speaker 4: Terrified down the stretch, and I got to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like Wendy figured something out there in the
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  Speaker 4: second half and sort of the Spurs and I'm terrified
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  Speaker 4: moving into Game three right now?
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  Speaker 1: Is heally am at this watch party I was at.
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  Speaker 5: I'm celebrating the win and somebody comes up and with
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  Speaker 5: a broom is like, hold on, we have to clean
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  Speaker 5: up your pee from when that shot went off.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because you gave the Knicks perspective on that, on
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  Speaker 6: what that would have felt like on the run on
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  Speaker 6: this from the Spurs perspective, I don't know how close
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  Speaker 6: you were watching sort of coming in and out of
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  Speaker 6: time outs, there Taylor. But Victor had the big speech
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  Speaker 6: moment right when they were down twelve about five something left,
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  Speaker 6: and then like immediately after that, we're two terrible plays.
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  Speaker 6: It was like a want want to Victor Wenbinyama. It
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  Speaker 6: was a misshot and then it was og Anobi two
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  Speaker 6: hand dunk with Victor right behind him, and it was like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 6: the speech isn't going to work. And then goes at fourteen,
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  Speaker 6: no run, and then it's like, all right, you got
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  Speaker 6: to finish the deal now, weebat, you did it. You
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  Speaker 6: got this far, and then it's stupid turnover and I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna say missshot. I want to say stupid shot because
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  Speaker 6: your Victor Webinyama rolled to the basket.
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  Speaker 7: Just roll and throw yourself at the rim.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody's probably gonna value I don't really love that shot, but.
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  Speaker 7: Whatever, he got an elbow jumper. He just didn't close it.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why it just felt like it was supposed
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  Speaker 6: to be that comeback for the Spurs. Instead, it's a
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  Speaker 6: change of narrative, if you will, for the Knicks organization.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, is he he did play better last night. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of people ask him to play closer to the basket.
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  Speaker 4: The stat line was better. He was closer to the basket.
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  Speaker 4: But today's not about san Antonio. Although that mistake, I
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  Speaker 4: did feel bad for Wemby because that's you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: Nick Anderson type stuff. That is Chris Whatber called a
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  Speaker 4: time out. You don't turn the ball over. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, those guys,
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  Speaker 4: Tim Duncan are not making that mistake in that situation.
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  Speaker 3: And it was odd to see before I get to the.
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  Speaker 7: Next because it is a nixt test of Bunny what
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  Speaker 7: is he?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think happened?
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  Speaker 8: Like?
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  Speaker 4: That's Wemby and Castle making some eye content there and
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  Speaker 4: then just having some sort of miscommunication. Wemby thought he
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  Speaker 4: wanted the ball, Castle thought he was keeping the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how that happens in that late game
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  Speaker 4: situation with a chance to tie the series up.
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  Speaker 1: At one game apiece.
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  Speaker 6: It happens because a lot of the things that happened
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  Speaker 6: to the Spurs. It happens because of their youth. And
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  Speaker 6: you saw dearon Fox, the veteran sitting there calling for
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  Speaker 6: the ball, and I understand Victor Wembinyama is you know
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  Speaker 6: mister everything, and you can't question him. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: let's have some structure, let's have some Hey, it's a
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  Speaker 6: tie game. Take a breath, let's look at what's happening.
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  Speaker 6: Your point guard's right there asking for the ball. Give
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  Speaker 6: them the ball. And so you said eye contact. It
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  Speaker 6: was pretty much a lack of eye contact, at least
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  Speaker 6: not long enough for Stefon Castle. He immediately saw Vic
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  Speaker 6: with the ball and turned up. I would have given
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  Speaker 6: it a few more beats to see if maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 6: Vic wanted to give me the ball. But yeah, that's
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  Speaker 6: a lot of what happened in that second half is
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  Speaker 6: the Spurs showing their youth, and even when it was
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  Speaker 6: very much a nip and tuck game, they weren't really
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  Speaker 6: taking advantage valuing every possession. They were just kind of
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  Speaker 6: playing for the sake of playing fast, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: it came up to bite them at the end.
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  Speaker 8: Isy.
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  Speaker 5: This is what I was talking about with the the
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  Speaker 5: pre series narrative going into this final, where if we
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  Speaker 5: lose to a starting five with an average age of
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  Speaker 5: you know somewhere around twenty four. Okay, Like I went
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  Speaker 5: maybe a step further and said I'll tip my hat
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  Speaker 5: which I would never tip my hat to the Spurs team,
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  Speaker 5: but they'll have earned it if a group of twenty
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  Speaker 5: four year olds finds a way to beat this Knicks
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  Speaker 5: team who has kind of come up through through the
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  Speaker 5: ringer together. There's only one player in either starting lineup
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  Speaker 5: that that's won an NBA title, and it's og Ananobi,
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  Speaker 5: who's been one of the most consistent players for the
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  Speaker 5: Knicks this postseason. But it does feel like this Knixt
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  Speaker 5: team they like drag you into the deep water and
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  Speaker 5: force you to tread water with them. Where after Game one,
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  Speaker 5: the narrative is san Antonio is like, we're fine, We're
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  Speaker 5: gonna play better in Game two, and after Game two
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  Speaker 5: Wemby saying I could have been better at recovering from
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  Speaker 5: the high of the conference finals, where they're making the
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  Speaker 5: San Antonio Spurs question everything the same way we saw
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  Speaker 5: the Sixers questioning everything, the same way we saw the
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  Speaker 5: Cavs questioning everything. I can't believe that the Knicks are
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  Speaker 5: up to h in the NBA Finals, going on the
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  Speaker 5: road and coming back to the Mecca two wins away
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  Speaker 5: from an NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 6: Real quick, did you say og was the only person
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  Speaker 6: on either roster who had won a championship, starting lineups,
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  Speaker 6: studying line Okay, just want to correct you. I just
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  Speaker 6: want to make sure I heard you right. So yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so I Yes. One of the things that I texted
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  Speaker 6: Taylor last night's do was it feels like, maybe outside
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  Speaker 6: of Josh Hart, who's been a bit of a roller
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  Speaker 6: coaster this offseason and this postseason rather but it feels
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  Speaker 6: like everybody for the Knicks just seems to be like
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  Speaker 6: peaking at the right time. Yes. Yeah, Josey Alvarado didn't
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  Speaker 6: hit a shot yesterday, but even Miles McBride a couple
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  Speaker 6: of shots that he hit pretty tough.
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  Speaker 1: Tough two.
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  Speaker 6: When you know, when that lineup without Kat and Brunson
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  Speaker 6: needed some confidence, he's the first one to hit a
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  Speaker 6: tough shot. Obviously Shamant was out there hitting you know,
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  Speaker 6: three big three pointers. It feels like they've been you know,
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  Speaker 6: the confidence has been instilled in them, and even when
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  Speaker 6: Jalen Brunton is struggling, it feels like Karl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 6: can be calm, and that's something that was never the
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  Speaker 6: case before.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, Josh Hart is averaging one point five points per
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  Speaker 4: game in the NBA Finals, I don't know if they're
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  Speaker 4: all peaking, but you're right. In that second quarter of
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  Speaker 4: last night's game, it was Mikhale Bridges who kind of
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  Speaker 4: kept them in the game, got them back into the
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  Speaker 4: game offensively. It was Karl Anthony Towns just out playing
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  Speaker 4: Lemby in the first half, and then it's guys like
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  Speaker 4: Og in the second half who kind of carried it
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  Speaker 4: home for the next I thought Bridges was the Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: They gave up five first round picks to get them,
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  Speaker 4: but last night it paid off because I thought Bridges
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  Speaker 4: start to finish was the best player.
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  Speaker 1: On the floor for the next.
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  Speaker 4: Last night, I did Karl Anthony Towns was great, but
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  Speaker 4: without Bridges, they don't win that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The thing I love the most about this KNXT team,
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  Speaker 5: it's not really even a skill thing. It's just them
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  Speaker 5: being the ones that are willing to take the fight
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  Speaker 5: to San Antonio, where we talked about game one, where
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  Speaker 5: they looked a little timid with Victor Wembin Yamas as
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  Speaker 5: this rim protector and Wemby was changing a lot of shots.
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  Speaker 5: We're in game two. You see Cat going right at him.
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  Speaker 5: You see ogn Ando be not afraid to try to
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  Speaker 5: dunk the ball. You see dearon Fox trying to get
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  Speaker 5: in Jalen Brunson's face and Jalen Brunson not having any
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  Speaker 5: backdown where it's it's corny and cliche to say, like
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  Speaker 5: New York City, all we want is a team that
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  Speaker 5: just represents New York City and the mentality of what
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  Speaker 5: it's like from being here, and this team does exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Jose Alvarado. I would die for Jose Alvarado today.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, you know what this sounds like Stuve nicked culture.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh no, Listen, nothing says New York City like
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  Speaker 4: three kids from Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Four kids.
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  Speaker 6: When you include Duce McBride, it is a little easier
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  Speaker 6: to be the bully. And there's a bunch of kids
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  Speaker 6: on the other side, so that that is kind of true. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: they are representing and they are being tough, but it
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  Speaker 6: is twenty twenty one and twenty two year olds on
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  Speaker 6: the other side. I think, you know, Kat Jalen brunts
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  Speaker 6: and take a little bit of advantage of that as
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  Speaker 6: a shot.
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  Speaker 1: Isy, what were the mistakes?
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  Speaker 4: What were the main outside of the obvious ones for
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  Speaker 4: San Antonio down the stretch, Because truly, I was terrified
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  Speaker 4: down the stretch of that game, and I thought Wemby
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  Speaker 4: was going to hit that shot. And I still can't
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  Speaker 4: believe that a guy of his caliber turned the ball
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  Speaker 4: over and that situation with a chance to win that game.
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  Speaker 1: But what did you see?
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  Speaker 4: Because I said earlier, I'm terrified about San Antonio. It's
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  Speaker 4: as if they figured something out in that second half,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not certain if it will translate over into
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  Speaker 4: Game three, but I know most Knick fans are going
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  Speaker 4: to spend the entire weekend celebrating thinking they have won
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  Speaker 4: an NBA championship, And I would say, not so fast,
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  Speaker 4: my friends. I am not going to be surprised if
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  Speaker 4: San Antonio wins Game three, because they were the better
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  Speaker 4: team for the most part in the second half last night.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. No, they were mostly honestly, just late in the game.
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  Speaker 6: It was like the last five or six minutes, because
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  Speaker 6: again they were still down twelve with five or six
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  Speaker 6: minutes left. And I think what the mistakes were, if
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  Speaker 6: that's what we were asking was if you paid attention
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  Speaker 6: to the way they made that run, it was a
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  Speaker 6: lot of what looked like organized offense. It was hey,
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  Speaker 6: dearon Fox, Victor Wembanyama let's try to run this pick
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  Speaker 6: and roll. Hey, let's try to get Victor Wembiniama in
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  Speaker 6: that high post somewhere, you know, within eighteen feet of
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  Speaker 6: the basket, so he's not starting his offense so much deeper.
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  Speaker 6: And it's that type of attention to detail that you
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  Speaker 6: were hoping to see a lot more often through the
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  Speaker 6: first three and a half quarters. And then you know,
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  Speaker 6: lo and behold. Shots start falling as a result, because,
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  Speaker 6: like I said earlier, just felt like their youth was
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  Speaker 6: showing at times because they would rush through possessions or
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  Speaker 6: they would Devin Vassell took a couple of threes that
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  Speaker 6: weren't really open, and it's just like that there's more
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  Speaker 6: time in the shot clock, you can keep playing and
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  Speaker 6: keep you know, working the offense. And so that part,
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  Speaker 6: to me, was the biggest mistake that could have been,
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  Speaker 6: you know, instead of the Knicks being up you know,
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  Speaker 6: ten fourteen points in the fourth quarter, it could have
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  Speaker 6: been a nip and tuck game where that fourteen oh
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  Speaker 6: run then turns the Spurs you know, into a runaway win.
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  Speaker 6: So it just felt like for me, if you go
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  Speaker 6: back and watch it again, it looked like the Spurs
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  Speaker 6: were a little bit more youthful, a little bit, and
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  Speaker 6: you saw all the pressure the Knicks were the Spurs
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  Speaker 6: were trying to put on those ball handlers. And still
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  Speaker 6: the turnovers were sixteen to twelve. San Antonio had four
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  Speaker 6: more turnovers than the Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: I mean Castle was picking up Brunton at half court.
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  Speaker 4: I mean basically the ark higher game right. It made
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  Speaker 4: it difficult for brunts in.
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  Speaker 5: I do agree with Stu though, that the series isn't over.
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  Speaker 5: It's not even close to over at this point.
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  Speaker 6: Still have another phase of just craziness to hit you
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  Speaker 6: with the Spurs, dude.
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  Speaker 1: But the Knicks, the Knicks.
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  Speaker 5: Where we are at is the Knicks just have to
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  Speaker 5: win two of the next five games. Like you could
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  Speaker 5: not be in a better spot right now if you
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  Speaker 5: are the Knicks. But Isy, I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 5: through two games, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Seen you get busy.
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  Speaker 4: Some credit here for saying the Knicks would be more
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  Speaker 4: relaxed on the road than they would be at home
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  Speaker 4: to open up the series. And by the way, last
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  Speaker 4: night a classic. That's why game two's are so important. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead, Tyler.
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  Speaker 5: Also, is it really a road game? Did you see
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  Speaker 5: that crowd somehow, somehow, Knicks fans are taking over every building.
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  Speaker 4: How about when they came Yeah, how about when they
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  Speaker 4: came back from halftime? I mean, it's the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 4: this is not Game forty two against the Charlotte Hornets.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, get your.
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  Speaker 4: Asses in the seat, san Antonio, what do you do
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  Speaker 4: with Nick fans stayed glued to their seats, No time
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  Speaker 4: for beer, no time for hot dogs, no time for nachos.
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  Speaker 1: Only time for the Larry O'Brian Trophy.
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  Speaker 4: And meanwhile, San Antonio their fan base casually just walking
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  Speaker 4: around the one hundred level outside smoking Jay's having a cigarette.
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  Speaker 1: Lord knows what they were doing. Get your asses in
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  Speaker 1: the seat for the start of the third quarter. Your
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  Speaker 1: team needed you.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the lowest moment I had yesterday
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  Speaker 5: was during the Spurs comeback. They flashed the nuns on
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  Speaker 5: the screen, the San Antonio Nuns, and I just yelled out,
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  Speaker 5: get those nuns off the DV.
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  Speaker 3: It's two games to nuns.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: Is he the question I wanted to ask you that
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  Speaker 5: I've seen going online right now, the online discourse from
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  Speaker 5: Knicks fans and just NBA fans in general through two games.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Kat is the Finals MVP right, because yes, he's putting
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: together a historic postseason. And the question and the concerns
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: with Kat have never been about talent. It's just can
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: he put it all together? Can he play with the
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: right mindset? Something has clicked for him this postseason and
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: on nights when he's rolling and he's playing his best
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: basketball like last night, like that one drive that he
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: had where he somehow found mckel bridges in the corner
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: on that one pass was unbelievable. On nights when he's rolling,
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: you can convince yourself he's like the best player or
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: top five player in the NBA.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: If you were to tell me that it was Karl
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: Anthony Towns that spent the off season with Monks, I
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: would say that makes a lot of sense.
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: He seems like just.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: A different person. He seems a little calmer. Yeah, he
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: says he he's at peace with himself. Yeah, he is
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: at peace. You know, he had the whole moment, you know,
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: pointing up at the sky like his mom was with him.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: You know, it's possible that his life, which it's what's
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: been rough since COVID, you know, has come to a
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: place where he can just like put it all together
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: and just be like the best version of himself that
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: he can be, because yeah, it was, like I was
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: saying earlier, even when things were not, were you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: sort of panicky Carl Anthony Towns was not. He was
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: and normally he would be the guy that would you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: at least his play would show that he was panicky,
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: and he's not. And I would say, yeah, you're right.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: Right now, he looks like the finals MVP through two games.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: And I'll tell you the point where I recognized that
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: is there was a couple of plays back to back
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: while the Spurs were about to cap off that fourteen
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: oh run and Taylor, they went to McHale Bridges ISOs.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: They put Jalen Brunson in one corner and then Jalen
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Brunston in the other corner, and I'm like, this is
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: your clutch player.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: This is your you know, a year removed clutch player
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: of the year, I believe, right, And you're going to
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: ISOs to mkal who's obviously shooting the hell out of
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: the ball, but not because he's isolating, right, It's because
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: he's catching the ball in good positions and making shots.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: And so that's when I realized, oh, wow, they're not
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: trusting Jalen right now, which is crazy.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: He's having a bad game.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: And then of course when they do give him the ball,
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: he hits a clutch shot and makes you realize that
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: they should have given him the ball. But that's when
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: I was just like, oh yeah, this has not been
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: the first the great to first two games for Jalen
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: because even his coach is saying, hey, give somebody else
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: the ball right now.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: Remember the game two and three in Atlanta when the
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: conversation was whether Mike Brown should or shouldn't bench mckel bridges.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Since Game four, the start of Game four, mckel bridge
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: is playing like one of the best players in bestall.
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm saying that about every player on
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: the Knicks.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: But right now, well there's only you know, there's only
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: like twenty four basketball players who are who are remaining,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: So you're just you're judging against the guys.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Who are playing right now. Yes, if before.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: The series the Knicks were wearing Spurs jerseys and the
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Spurs were wearing Knicks jerseys, the Knicks with the Spurs
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: jerseys would have been like minus four hundred to win
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: this series because everybody had been would have been like,
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: look at these guys experience. Stefan Castle is a rookie
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: in this Knick jersey, and.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: He's really listen. He's emotional, he's reeling. He's not making sense.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: He represents everything that's going on in New York right now.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got a glaze. Look.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Ariel Hawani was texting me at two thirty in the morning.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I think he's gonna join us in a little bit
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: because he's crazy. He was watching the highlights over and over.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: No one's making sense, is he all? You need to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: just come out and say, hey, two more, just two more.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I don't know what he's talking about. Taking jerseys off
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: and putting them on other players and then aware the
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Spurs jerseys and the Spurs areware the Knicks jerseys.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: It's all confusing.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: We're two fucking games away from winning an NBA championship.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Does that make sense? Yeah? And I think I can
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: sit befire for you.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Is he?
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: If you saw the Knicks walking into the arena with
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: the Spurs uniforms on, everybody would have said, these guys
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: are clearly winning.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: They would have said, what are they doing wearing Spurs
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: uniform It's the finals.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: This is cosplay, nonsense. What is happening, Hey, listen to me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: You want him to act like he's been there before,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: but he's never been here before. He doesn't know what
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: he's saying. He has no clue what's He doesn't care
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: if it makes sense or not. He knows these two
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: games away.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: And rename while we're at it, renamed the Triborough Bridge
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: the mckel bridges, please.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Because listen, no I would tell you this.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: The entire bridge system, all of them, the Tryborough, the GW,
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: every single bridge.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: They should be renamed McHale Bridges.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Okay about that.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: This Tryborough Bridge. What did RFK do to deserve a
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: bridge named after him? He's born in Massachusetts. This bridge
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: is in the New York. Michel Bridges has done more
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: for the state and the city of New York than
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: RFK ever did.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Let me just say this, I want to give my
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: New York bona fides because they're on the verge of
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: potentially winning a championship.
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: I was born in New York. You guys get this right, Yeah,
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: I was born. You don't try to do that thing.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah you don't, don't, don't, don't, don't you did listen.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: We love you, and we love having you. We love
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: your support, we love you for your NBA analysis. There
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: are a few that are better at visit Betty, but
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: don't try to do this thing where.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I was born in New York. Therefore I have the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: right to roof.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: For two years of my life were spent in New York.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Many, arguably would say the most formative years of your
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: life are your first two.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Right, two years? How old are you?
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: That's not important.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I just want to circle back to something, stud Did
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: you have RFK as a president?
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just kind of tried to tell you about.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: J the airport.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Now we're reeling, We're all over the place, no one,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: nothing's making sense.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Here's what I know, two games away at the Mecca
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: from winning an NBA championship.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: That's what I know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: But that's a good segue though, because the Mecca is
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: going to be like probably the main character in this
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: next game, the president will be there, and I know
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: that's just going to add a crazed element to what
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go ahead and predict will be the craziest.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Basketball scene of my lifetime.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Like we've seen big Lakers games in that in
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: the forum of the old form or you know whatever,
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: and it's and it's it feels like a huge game.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Nothing is going to compare to I think this Game
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: three feel now Madamson Square Garden.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, just because of the the atmosphere, the buildings
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: lowed as is.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: They've been waiting for this for a long time.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: You throw in celebrities, you throw in two games away
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: from an NBA championship, you throw it an entire weekend,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: You get yourself lathered up for a big Game three,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: and then you sprinkle in the President of the United States,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the most polarizing president we have ever had had in
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: our nation's history. I hope he sits court side, helps
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: link Stuve.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: This might be a rare situation where team is up
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: two oh going home in a series where Game three
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: feels like a must win.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, right, don't give him life. Yes, do not
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: give that alien life. We were about to give him
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: life last night. That's why I was so terrified. I
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: hope it doesn't translate over to Game three. But don't
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: think that guy's not a don't think he's gonna sweat
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: that environment.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: He's going to embrace it. He doesn't care.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: He's embarrassed about what happened towards the end of last
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: night's game, but still he'll put that behind him because
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: the great ones do, and he's one of the great ones.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: And you heard him talk about it after the game
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: last night. Yep, it's on me. It will give me
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: a motivation moving forward here. That's what you're supposed to say.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I believe he actually thinks it and doesn't just say it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: In the case of Wemby, but that guy will not
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: be scared of the moment. And your right tailor, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: can't believe I'm saying this. It's the first time in
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: history three where a team is you know who is
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: up two games to nothing, okay, and they're headed home
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: for two games at the most famous arena anywhere in sports.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I can't believe I'm saying it that that Game three
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: is he is a must win game for the Dicks.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You do not allow Wemby back into this series, don't
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that would make game three pretty pivotal game, not
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: a support as Game two.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: It does feel like it does feel like I must win.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna lie.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: And because already, Taylor, there are people having discussions as
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: if the Knicks have won this right like move over
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Chris Paul and Kyrie Irving. Jalen Brunson has already moved
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: ahead you, ahead of you in the all time rankings,
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: which could be true.
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: But he's still got two more games.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: To finish this dude.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, is he We talked about the Wemby turnover earlier,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: and I'm curious because I thought this at the time.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: When when Brunson misses that shot and when Ben Yama
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: gets the rebound before he pushes, this is Mick Johnson
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: kind of getting a little, a little uh scaping some
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: of the blame here, because if he calls a time
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: out and gets his young team settled down, you don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: put your your seven foot four player that wants to
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: be a shooting guard out there in that bad spot.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: The only thing that makes me hesitate from saying you're
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: one thousand percent right is that he should have called
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: the timeout. And that was one of the elements that
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: I talk about when showing their youth, because he's a
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: youthful head coach. Is that damn three point pull up
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: that he hit against the Thunder in Game one?
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: You know, right that time out?
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Yes, right, and so if it was if they were
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: down a point, if they were down a point, I'd say, yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: absolutely got to call a timeout. Get yourself the best
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: possible shot in a tie game, you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: At least for you just give it a look.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: And that's basically all the time that took, right. It
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: was just one look, boom pass, damn it, turnover. And
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: so yes, he hesitated to call the timeout. And maybe
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: you could argue and I and most nine out of
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: ten want to call that time out, but he just
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: showed us, you know whatever that was seven games ago,
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: that you can have a really good result from that stude.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: For Game three, I've been going in with the mindset
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: I just want to be in New York. I don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: care about going to the game. Something changed last night
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: where I've I've started to put out feelers too, some
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: of I'll say, some of my richest friends and being like, hey,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: if you get me a ticket, I will find a
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: way to give you two hundred and fifty dollars for
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: the next forty months every first of the month when my.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Rent is planned. Every first of the month bears.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Well with this this never heard of process before, like
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: repaying a loan.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I said, please, no interest, no interest rates. But I will.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: I will set up a payment plan every first of
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: the month, and when I pay my rent, I will
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: send you two hundred and fifty dollars for the rest
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: of my life. If I could just go to Game three,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: my life.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: All right, for the rest of your life, because I
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: had it a year, forty months with its ten thousand dollars,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: with Zach you sitting in the last row of the Mecca.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, just to be a building.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: You just why don't you get a media credentials He
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: can help you out.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's too late. I think that window.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: He's like, listen, Dominique, I don't think you've ever heard
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: of this before. But if you give me all of
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: this money, I will very slowly pay you back over
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: the course of time, and boom, we're even you ever
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: had that?
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I mean it is he's offering a deal that no
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: one could refuse. Get me ten thousand, and I will
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: pay you with no interest for the next forty months
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: to forty months.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: From now, You'll have your money.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: You'll have your money back and the memory of how
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: much I enjoyed that game.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: But if you're Chris, if you're Chris Simms, if you're
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Dominie Foxworthy, if you're Beaumani Jones, if you're Mac Collins,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: you don't need interest from me for you give me
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: ten thousand dollars or what you want fifteen thousand dollars
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: ya aiming of this loan.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: No, you're helping out a friend. You're doing a good thing.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: You're right, But the only true friend and all the
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: people you just named is Mac Collins. And Maccollins absolutely
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: has enough money, has some clout, has the ability to
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: get you in that building.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: That's the guy you need to go to.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That's the guy you need to work because if he
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: cares about you the way I think he cares about you,
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Sims doesn't care. I mean, if Simms has spended ten grand,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: it's not on you, it's on him. And same with
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: everyone else she just named. But Moni wants has no
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: interest in going to any of these games. He's planned
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: a vacation to get the hell out of the years.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: No money for being in that same the fiscal range,
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: like that's.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: That HBO money was different. Dominy could consider me a friend.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: He would, but he wouldn't consider giving you ten thousand
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: dollars with no interest.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: He's a smart friend.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: He would consider loading you ten thousand dollars to be
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: paid back over a lifetime with no interest in.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: How long forty months is?
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: So after the game last night, I am texting with
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Ariel Halwane, who I believe is most representative of everything
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: that's going on in New York right now. Taylor's up
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: in New York now, so he's starting to feel some
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: of this buzz Arel, but he joins us right now
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: on a Saturday morning.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Just to talk about his New York nigs.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: And last night I get a text from him STU,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I can't process this. This is too much, follow by
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: watching every postgame and every highlight. Ariel Hawane, have you
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: slept even one minute since last night's game?
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: I don't feel like I have, if I'm being honest
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: with you, I'm feeling that that great kind of tired
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: after you had like the greatest center of your life
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: and you're still trying to put it all together, you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: so you don't really mind that you're tired. I mean,
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: it's a Saturday morning, it's beautiful weather outside, it's June,
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: and New York City. This might be the peak weekend
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: in the history of New York City, the knicker of
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: tow to oh going into the weekend. There's no game
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: this weekend, which is a gift from the gods. You don't,
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: we can just revel in this for an extra day.
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: I just don't. It's just every time you think, okay,
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: it's going to end, and you know what the problem is,
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: the possibility and the prospect of a loss feels so
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: much like heavier because we haven't experienced it since the
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: April twenty third, And so when they're coming back last
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: night and you're like, oh my god, please not like this,
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: Please do not like this, And then the final sequence,
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: it's it's just a lot, man. I don't know if
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: I can make it like we I want to sweep,
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: just because like, I don't know if I could survive.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: I really don't know. I really don't know if I
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: could survive. I don't know if my heart could survive.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: I think I speak for all of us when I
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: say it's just a lot, Amand does it feel good
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: being up to Oh?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, it sure does. Could you put us there?
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: As Wemby As that shot goes in the air from
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: the elbow, Wemby was a chance to win the game.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine was terrifying in your head.
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: Jalen missed that free throw, and I was so worried
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: with him as a lot. I mean, I couldn't even
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: look I couldn't even look at the free throws. I mean, golly.
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: And then I thought we got the rebound, and we
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: did it, and then R Jay's giving us like some
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: kind of hope, saying it's a kickball, but obviously nothing
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: came of that. And then you think, of course, this
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: is it. This is where the legend, you know, is born.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Wendy's going to hit this shot. It's just tailor made
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: for him, and that place is going to go crazy.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: And there's stupid cowboy hats and they're stupid put up
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: vida and there's stupid colors, and they're all going to
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: be celebrating in our faces and we're going to be
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: going back one one. And my reaction was delayed. My
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: reaction was delayed because I thought the whistle was I
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: didn't realize that the whistle was over. I thought the
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: whistle was they were calling a foul on the cell
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: shot that like he and so I was like, oh my,
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: I didn't know. I didn't know how to react. I
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: don't know what's going on. I don't know. I have
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: no idea what's going on. Mitchell Robinson did he punch
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: a wall a week ago? Who's who knows? But it too.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: His two defensive stops on Wemby unbelievable. What about the
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: fact that in the in the final possession of until now,
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: the most important game of the season, our two best
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: players aren't on the floor. Right in what universe has
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: that happened? Jal and Acat aren't on the floor And
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: that's okay, And that's how deep this team is. Michel
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: Bridge is unbelievable. Landry Shammon, I mean, please give him
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: all the money in the world to say Alvarado was great,
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Og was great, Everyone was great. I mean it was
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: just we will we will be talking about these games
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: for the rest of our lives. And it's amazing to
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: be living it and to kind of see that light
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: just barely at the very end, the light at the
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: end of the tunnel, and it's just I don't want it.
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: There's a part of me that wants it to end,
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: and I don't want it to end. I understand. I'm
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: very incoherent right now, but we.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: All are no, we all are tailor for some reason.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Earlier before you came on, had the Nick players working
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Spurs uniforms and had Spurs players wearing Nick uniforms, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: me and Easy were completely confused, and I just.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Let it pack, Harriel.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: The point I was making was if the next showed
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: up in Spurs uniforms before the series, everybody would have
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: said they would be the overwhelming favorite because of how
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: much experience this Nick team has.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: One hundred percent. By the way, I've seen that tweet
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: and it did hit me the same exact way. I
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: was like, Wow, First, I don't know what. Maybe it's
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: because we're so used to futility and the Spurs are
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: kind of you know, the Patriots if you will, of
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: the NBA. But I completely understand the phenomenon. But thank god,
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: those guys. I mean, what about Can we talk about
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: Cat for a second, Like his post You know, Cat
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: used to be like this, this, this, this, this butt
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: of the joke in the NBA, and people would say, oh,
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: this and that, and his postgame interviews like the clarity
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: and the poise and the grace in which he is
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: handling these moments and then that first half, and you know,
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: the referee. I will never I'm not a referee guy, like,
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: I don't complain about the referee, but that was I mean,
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: that was truly bizarre for them to take their first
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: breathrows in the first fourth quarter. The last one they
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: took were in the second quarter. I think they took
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: spive three throws in the second half. They called that
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: offensive foul and cat. That was really weird the way
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: that game was called. And so for them to battle
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: through all that and overcome it all, Matt Square Garden
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: on Monday is going to be I don't even know
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: what it's going to be. It's it's going to be
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: unlike anything. I'm very, very lucky to say that I
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: will be there in attendants and I can't freaking.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Wait, Wow, you purchased a ticket, Huh?
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: I got I got them, not not not the I
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: definitely purchased them, not the second hand or second market
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: whatever eleven k's. But luckily, you know, I know some
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: people who know some people, and I was able to
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: get them face value, and I feel extremely lucky, extremely.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Well, that's special. That is special. You get too, right,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: you got two tickets yes.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: So when I when I when I asked for them,
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: they're like, okay, it's two max. And I said, look,
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: I can't go if I can't get three, because I'm
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: not leaving one of my kids at home. And they're like,
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. I'm like please,
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: and then and so you got to like put your
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: credit card in and then you got to wait seven
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: or eight days because I did it before the finals started.
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: And then all of a sudden, I get an AMEX
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: notification and I quickly run to the thing and see
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: how many and there were three, and so you know,
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: definitely worth it. And I just I can't I can't wait.
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: I just I don't know how to like, I don't
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: know how to act right now too. I don't know
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: how to act. We're up to the NBA Finals.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: What is this life? What is this alternate universe that
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: we're living in right now?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, if they held firm and said two tickets,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: is there any thought there to send both your kids
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: and be like I'll pick you up after.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: I want you to let me tell you this area,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: No matter what yeah. Let me tell you this, Ariel.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: My dad took me. We had season tickets to the
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: Islanders back of the eighties. They won four consecutive Cups,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the most famous game on Nice Trim to Tanelli where
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Tanelli Tani strom Uh and the Islanders won a cup.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: So we had season tickets, two tickets.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: But I was young enough with my dad during the
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: regular season games could just sit me on his lap, okay,
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: or just we figure out why to kind of wedge
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: me in. But for that game, he didn't want to
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: decide between me and my brother, so we dropped us
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: off both of the game, waved in the parking lot,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: and then we got in the car and he.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Drove us back home. You're not doing that though, right.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: No way.
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: Wow. Wow, by the way, what a saint. That is
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: a beautiful man right there. That is amazing.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: I thought about that, and I said, the fun of
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: this for me is to experience this with them, So
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: maybe that's selfish. So I saw it like if we
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: all can't go, none of us are going to go.
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: But maybe if I was forced in the moment, I
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: would have said yes and figured it out. But it's
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: just it's just listen, I bought them here, all right.
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: I gave them the gifts of being a New York
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: Knicks fan, all right, so I better be in that
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: damn building as well. And luckily all it all worked out.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Dude, I have Ariel doing the old like two people
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: on each other's shoulder with a with a trench coat movie.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: Oh I would have been, I would have been, I
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: would do I would have done anything. I honestly, like,
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: I asked myself how high am I willing to go?
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: And luckily I didn't reach that number, meaning the tickets
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: were actually like reasonable considering what I thought it was
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: going to be. Right, No, there's nothing. This is everything
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: that we dreamed of. This is it. This is it, man,
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: This is like I've watched all those videos of the
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: seventies and what that game was like game seven thirty
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: six points Wald Fraser nineteen assists. It was on tape
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: delay on NBC. Like to think that we're getting potentially,
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: potentially potentially our version of this, I have to say though,
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: and maybe this is just like the eternal pessimist jew
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: in me, like I still don't feel I don't feel
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: you for it, like I don't feel the laboratory right now.
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: Mickael Bridges was up to oh in the NBA Finals
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: in twenty twenty one. Now he wasn't going home as
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: a member of the Sons. They were going to Milwaukee.
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: But still, like we do you remember ninety three. I
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: will never feel comfortable with the two to zero lead
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: ever because of ninety three. They were up to oh
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: on the Bulls, but they were going to Chicago. So
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: this is different. This is a little bit more like
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: the Celtics series last year up to oh going back home,
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: which is supremely rare, and it's only happened twice before
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: in the NBA Finals, and that was actually ninety three
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: Bulls against the Suns and ninety five Rockets against the Magic.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: And this first team does feel a little ninety five
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: Magic esque, meaning they're incredible, but it may be just
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: a little bit too early for them, but you know
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: when you got those guys. Dylan Harper has been amazing.
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: He's not welcome back to New Jersey, by the way,
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: he can stay wherever he is in Texas. But he's
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: been incredible.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Are you saying even for these games or once we
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: once we get rid of Dylan Harper.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: He's just not welcome. I've had enough of Dylan Harper.
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: I said, he's not welcome back.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Ariel in the power rankings of who deserves a statue
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: when it comes to this Nick's historic run, where does
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Dan Howsen rink?
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: The Dan Housend thing is unbelievable, it really is. And
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: if he actually, like, if this actually happened, I mean,
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: he'll be able to sell out Madison Square Garden. This
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: is not a comedy act that was sort of viewed
• 38:14
  Speaker 8: as like an indie act if you will intil wrestling
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: and now, like I will admit, at the beginning, I
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: was like, come on, man, like, don't mess with our emotions.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: This isn't this is too serious for you to just
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: turn this into a wrestling gimmick. Now I believe, I believe.
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: I thank the guy like I believe. I want him
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: at the parade. I want him on one of those buses.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: I one hundred percent believe. I'll believe in anything. I
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: don't care. I don't care who we have to thank,
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: I don't care what we have to do. It's just
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: I've seen so many friends go through these magical runs.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: I was talking to a great friend of mine, Chuck Minnenhall,
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: who I think is the best writer in sports. He's
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: a longtime Nuggets fan, and I remember when the Nuggets
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: won and he finally got to see his Nuggets team win.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: What was that twenty twenty three, I believe, and I
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: was there and I was so happy for him. But
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: I will admit, I will admit that they're There are
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: times where I'm like, man, when is it going to
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: happen to us? You know, like, when are we going
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: to get this? And I'm a Bills fan as well,
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: and so I'm thinking like, is this ever going to happen?
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: Or did I just pick the wrong teams? Right? You
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: know what I mean? And he actually wrote he actually
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: wrote me this yesterday, which I thought because I've been
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: having a hard time trying to verbalize all this, And
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: he wrote to me, to see your team, to see
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: your team win, Freeze the captive spirit. Excuse me, I'm
• 39:24
  Speaker 8: screwing this up. To see your team win, Freeze this
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: captive spirit, this need rooted in your youth that can
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: never otherwise be fulfilled. And my god, you will have
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: a better understanding of what it means to be satisfied.
• 39:37
  Speaker 8: And I love that so much because I do feel
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: like a kid when I'm watching this, and I feel
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: like that kid that thirteen year olds can finally hopefully
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: celebrate in a couple of games, like that kid picked
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: the right team in the end and it was all
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: worth it. All those years are all now worth it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Listen, Taylor and I both have because we're terrified and
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: like you, we're not going to believe it until we
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: actually see it.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: And I'm just paranoid terrified in general.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: But Game three, me and Taylor are both dubbed a
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: must win game for the next You agree.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: And.
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, then now you're really on their neck right now,
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: you're on this. You can't let it back in because
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: then you know how and we'll all do it. It's
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: two one, okay, fine, But then they win Game four
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: somewhere somehow, and you're going back to Tantonio like, we can't.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: This is it. This is it, man, none of us.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: None of us will survive if this doesn't go the
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: way we want it to go. Like, I don't think
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: we will survive as a collective fan base. You know
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: what I mean.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: You've arrived at a point where you you are so
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: close you could touch it. You could feel it, you
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: can taste it. That if it doesn't happen, you simply
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: won't survive.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying.
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: I don't think we'll survive. Yeah, I don't think I'll
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: be able to watch sports again. I just don't think.
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: I don't think it's it's it's like right there. It's
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: literally I can see the freaking thing. It's right there,
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: and I love everything. Like these guys don't even celebrate hardly,
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: Like did you see Michel Bringes after he's like mad
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: zero zero. He doesn't want to talk about being up
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: to Oh. Jalen hasn't cracked a smile the entire time.
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: It's just been unbelievable. What about Mike brown Man, there
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: was a you you they had that stretch end of
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: the third quarter. He's got Bridges, Shamant, Mitch, Deuce and
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: uh hopeing Alvarado. I've never seen this lineup before. The
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: biggest guy on the court was Mitch and of course,
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: but then after that was Bridges, O g was in there,
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: Part was in there, Brunton was there, Cat and those
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: guys they like they hung in there and then they
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: started the fourth quarter. I'm like, who would have thought.
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: This is unbelievable. I'm so happy for him too, because
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: he was so you know, he's kind of do as
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: like a mid tier coat. It's just been amazing. It's
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: just been amazing. I pray to God, pray please, And
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: what a summer will be if these guys can pull
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: it off.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, otherwise we want to survive. So all right, get
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: out of here. We appreciate it. Your emotional I'm so
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: happy for you. You take both your kids to game three. Uh,
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: we have to talk to you after Game three winner lose,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: just to just to check in on that experience.
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: It's only wins. It's only wins, Okay, only win talking hopefully, yes,
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: only wins.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: I just want to say, you're spiraling so out of
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: control right now what you just did. And I don't
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: really I don't think you realized you did it. And
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: it doesn't matter. It's not as if the Knicks are
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: going to do it. I believe earlier you gave Landry
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: a blind check, you gave him a Max deal. I mean,
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: he's been great on the season. He ain't a Max guy. Okay,
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: who cares?
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: I'm contributing? Are you kidding? A sports he deserves it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: Are you out of your mind? The guy's got balls
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: of steel. I love that guy. I'm building the statue
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: as we speak, in my in my backyard, Landry Shaman.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Oh my God, I love you.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Away.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: We're too away, real two games away.
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: Oh my god, God, bless us all