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Can the Knicks pull off a miracle vs. the Pacers? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The Knicks make a 3rd 20 point comeback this postseason and
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Game 4 tips off tonight as the Knicks try to stay out of foul
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trouble and even the series on the road after getting blasted
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the Western Conference Finals. Shay Gilgeous Alexander in the
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Thunder bottled up Edwards in their one 28126 game 4V, putting
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OK C up 3 to 1 and Minnesota's season on the brink.
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And before we dial it up and talk NHL Conference Finals, we
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That's what we're getting in first.
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But it's been a crazy, crazy weekend.
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I want to give a shout out to all our soldiers.
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keeping us safe, keeping us healthy and keeping us very
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aware from any attackers from all different parts of the
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world. So thank you for all our
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soldiers. Jabba, how are you?
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Good, good. Second that notion.
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Appreciate all you guys. A sacrifice.
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And we're the ones that that didn't get to come home.
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The ultimate sacrifice. So we're we're able to to do
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what we do. And obviously all the respect
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goes to them and their families. But yeah, it's it's warm in New
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York and it's back to like 58° here.
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So and it rained all weekend and I don't think it got above 60.
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So yeah, it's the the bipolar in this weather of Nebraska is.
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Back. Wait a second, is that why
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you're wearing a beanie? Because it's 58°.
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Yeah, it's cold. It that's cold to you, 58°, I
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mean you in fish and even this guy right over here, Mr. Tommy
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scoops. You guys wear these beanies and
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it's it's summertime, it's springtime, summertime.
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Nobody wears beanies but you guys.
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It's the bean amigos. You will never see me wear a
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beanie. It's it's a very rare thing if
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you see me wear a beanie. I've got a ton of them, Nick
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ones, Islander ones, Jet Ones. I never wear them.
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I get them for the holidays all the time.
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And I'm like, why are you buying this for me?
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I'm never going to wear it. I even made myself a Jabba in
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the Mouth beanie and I'm never going to wear it.
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So what was the point of doing that?
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It makes no sense. I don't wear beanies, I wear
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hats. But then again, there are people
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out there, it doesn't matter what kind of weather, 80
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degrees, 8590°, they're outside wearing beanies.
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They're running with their shirt.
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Who wears a shirt? They're running without a shirt
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and they're wearing beanies while they're running.
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Does that make any sense to you? I mean, I see a lot of like,
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like long distance runners. Like there was, there was a
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group running by the, the high school that my son went to and
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it, it wasn't warm out, but I think 1, I think one did have
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like a beanie on, but they didn't have any shirts on.
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It wasn't super hot either. But I got a buddy, one of
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Carter's best friend's dad. It doesn't matter if it's -30 or
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if it's 100 never wears pants. He always wears shorts.
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Like he'll wear jacket and gloves and everything.
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But shout out to Bartling because ever since I've known
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him, he literally he wears shorts no matter what.
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And I'm like, you are crazy because there's we get during,
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during spring, it gets it gets frosty at those baseball games
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and he's still rocking his shorts, but he'll have gloves
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and a coat on. I wear during the winter time, I
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wear shorts, I wear T-shirts, I'm outside with flip flops.
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I I'm not really cold in the winter time, especially over
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here, it has to be under 30 for me to even button up and wear a
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coat. So I don't understand people
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wearing beanies. I don't understand people
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running outside when it's like 58° with a beanie on their head
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with no shirt. None of that makes sense to me.
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But then again, in this world, there's a lot of crazy people
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out there that will do crazy things.
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But like I said, it's going to be a crazy show tonight.
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The Knicks came back down 20 points in the second quarter to
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beat the Pacers one O 6 to 100. In game three.
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The Knicks were down 55 to 35 with three minutes to go in the
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second quarter and outscored the Pacers 81 to 65 since then for
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the first time this post season. The Knicks used nine man
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rotations with obviously right and Mr. Chimetz getting minutes
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in the for the first time in this series after having just
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four points all game. Karl Anthony Towns had 20 points
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including four three pointers in the fourth quarter.
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The Pacers had just one player with 20 points which was Tyrese
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Hall Burton. The Knicks are the first team in
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NBA history to come back from 320 point deficits, which is the
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most in a single postseason in history.
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You know, I know New York fans sitting here today are excited.
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They love it. They love the comeback and they
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won one O 6100. I'm not too excited.
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And the reason why I'm not too excited is because going into
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this series, I believe the New York Knicks were the better
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team. I believe the Knicks were the
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healthiest they've been all season long.
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But the problem with Tom Thibodeau, and I will say this
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again, his rotation makes no sense.
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And you can hear it from Shaquille O'Neal and Charles
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Barkley after the game, after winning the game.
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And they interviewed Jaylen Bronson.
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He they pretty much asked Jaylen Bronson, well, what is this?
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What is this rotation all about? I mean, does he actually know
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what he's doing with his rotation?
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And he smiled and he says, I'm not going to say anything.
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I've got a joke, but I'm not going to say anything.
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You know, it's interesting when you think about a guy like Tom
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Thibodeau. The guy is a unique personality,
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obviously knows a no order when it comes to speaking to the
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press, and he loves to be passionate about what he
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believes in as far as defense is concerned and who and what fits
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when it comes to a rotation. But this rotation over the last
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couple of weeks, even against the Celtics, there's a lot of
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questions and the point guard position, especially when
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McBride's not playing well, which he has played in the last,
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I would say, the last two series.
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But in the first series against Detroit, he was not playing
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well. And you have guys like, right,
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who's an experienced 65 point guard that can play the
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position, defend the position. Why wasn't he getting any time
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on the basketball court? And I understand that Tom
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Thibodeau has his own thoughts on how he believes this team in
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this rotation should work throughout the playoffs.
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He's got a tremendous amount of talent in their lineup.
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But the problem is, throughout these playoffs, the Knicks have
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had so much problems keeping in the game.
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And what I mean by that is they have so much foul trouble go
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through every single game. And throughout the two series
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that they played against Boston and now Indiana, they've had
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foul problems. Jalen Bronson's been having foul
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problem all throughout this series.
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Even at the end of the last series, he's had foul problems.
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And then Karl Anthony Towns and then Mikhail Bridges and then OG
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and Anobi, all these guys cannot stay out of foul trouble.
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And you have Mitchell Robinson who's finally playing at the top
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of his game. And I, I love that he started
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Mitchell Robinson in the start of the fourth game.
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And the reason why is we've been saying this, me and Speedy have
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been talking about this, that Mitchell Robinson fits playing
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with Karl Anthony Towns and Jaylen Bronson in the beginning
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of the game. He gives them size, he gives
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them defense. And by the way, Mitchell
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Robinson could defend multiple positions, including the point
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guard and two guard position. The problem with Mitchell
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Robinson is he can't hit a free throw if his life depended on
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it. And that's why a lot of people
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say hack a Mitch. But guess what?
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In the beginning of the first quarter, you're not going to
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hack Mitchell Robinson because you don't want to get into foul
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trouble. And that's what he should have
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been doing really throughout the Boston Celtics series once he
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got his legs under him. And then you look at Josh Hart.
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Josh Hart is better off the bench.
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He plays better off the bench. He gives you that that talent
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that you need coming off the bench that can rebound, assist
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and score. Josh Hart is a much better
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shooter than people give him credit for.
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And he gives you automatically that offense you need off the
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bench. The Knicks have been really
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throughout the playoffs, one of the worst off the bench teams in
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all of the NBA in the playoffs. Yeah, Josh Hart to the mix now
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on the bench you're getting you, you actually outscored the
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Indiana Pacers bench in in game four.
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And when you can do that and what the Pacers strength is, is
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their bench, their starting lineup is good.
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Ness Smith is he's fantastic. And and obviously we could see
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he's a great 3 point shooter and he gives you that that absolute
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guarantee that if he sets up and he pitches himself at that line,
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he's going to hit that 39 out of 10 times.
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But he is not healthy. He hurt himself, he rolled his,
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he rolled his ankle. He's not going to be 100% in
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this game if he plays. So now the Knicks have the
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advantage. The Knicks are almost 100%
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healthy, as healthy as you can be, and you have every single
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one of your players at the positions that you expect them
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to play ready to get into the game, no matter off the bench or
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the starting lineup and give you consistency.
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Now if the Knicks expect to win this series, they have to beat
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Indiana in game four. They have to because going back
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home down 3 to 1, the pressure is on the Knicks, not Indiana.
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They Indiana's beating the Knicks both times in New York
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and they have no pressure on them and if they lose in New
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York, they just go back to the Indiana and really end the
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Knicks. The Knicks have one win in the
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new in their history against Indiana in the playoffs and that
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was the other day. That was Sunday.
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The Knicks were O and nine against Indiana in the playoffs
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in Indiana. Now you have one win.
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Now, could they do it back-to-back times?
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Only time will tell. If the Knicks could do it
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against Boston with Tatum and Jaylen Brown, the championship
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team that they were, they could do it against this Indiana team.
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They got a tremendous amount of talent.
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They do. And and Halpern, you know, he
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likes to dance around and prance around on the sidelines.
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We are hearing that his father is now going to be in the press
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box. So maybe it's good luck for the
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Indiana Pacers. I don't believe so.
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If you're if you're a New York Knicks fan, you have to expect
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the Knicks to come out stronger than they have in the last
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couple of games. They need to score early, they
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need to get an early lead and they need to make sure that they
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are going to play with the lead throughout this game.
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If they go down 1015 points against Indiana and it
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continuously keep doing this, eventually it's going to catch
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up to you. You don't want to see the Knicks
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fall in these situations. I want to see more of OG and
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Anobi offensively. He has been up and down in this
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the series. I want to see him more
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consistent and if he's hitting his three-point shots, you got
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to pitch him the ball. Jalen Bronson's got to stop
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playing isolation basketball. It's been a big problem.
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Now, I'm not saying Jalen Bronson shouldn't get his, but
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this isolation basketball is not going to play well against the
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Indiana Pacers. In Indiana.
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You need to pitch the ball. You need to move the ball around
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the perimeter. You've got guys that can hit
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shots. McHale Bridges, when he gets
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hot, he can hit shots. McBride's been very well, very
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good hitting shots. Even Carl Anthony Towns, when
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you need him to step up in the fourth quarter, his fat ass was
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hitting shots. I don't want to see this
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isolation basketball. It never works for the Knicks,
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it didn't work with Carmelo Anthony, and it's definitely not
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going to work if Jalen Bronson believes that this team has a
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chance to come back in the series and beat the Indiana
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Pacers. Isolation basketball has been
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dead for a while now and I think the last team that's really won
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a title doing that kind of system was over 13 years ago,
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probably with either Miami or even you can go back further
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maybe with the Lakers, like that's how long it's been.
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You can't be able to do that on a consistent basis, especially
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with players like Jalen Bronson who can get worn down very
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easily. Jalen Bronson is a great
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playmaker and floor spacer. You don't want him having to
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drive to the hoop and hold the ball forever and in that kind of
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regard. And we've seen that same kind of
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thing with Towns, too. Towns has done that in the past.
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We've posted up for 15 seconds, then he decides to either shoot
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the ball recklessly or pass or try to drive inside.
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And then he draws contact and thinks he gets bowled.
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And like, Errol's done many times, he'll just complain about
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it flopping and whining at the refs and gets called.
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He doesn't get yeah. And that that kind of system
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does not kind of work. And they need that kind of extra
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ball movement from the wings, too.
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OG and a Nobi, like you're talking about Josh Hart, Miles
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McBride when he comes off the bench.
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I think, I think McBride's been better in this series than he
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has in the in the playoffs in the past when it comes to
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spacing the floor out. But here's the biggest key that
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they didn't have these, the other two bench guys you talk
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about, right and Shaman, they the ball was moving a lot better
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when those two guys were on the court rather than obviously
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campaign. You want to see Karl Anthony
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Towns more, especially in the fourth quarter, but you want to
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see him throughout this game go on these these runs where he's
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hitting 5-6 shots in in on a run.
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Karl Anthony Towns stepped up in the fourth quarter when the
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Knicks were in foul trouble and that Jalen Bronson was in foul
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trouble with four fouls. And it's so funny to think that
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everybody said that Karl Anthony Towns is not as important as
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Jaylen Bronson is. Throughout this season.
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I said the most important player on this team is Karl Anthony
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Towns, not Jaylen Bronson. Not because I don't think Jaylen
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Bronson is the best player on this team and the captain his
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team. It's because Karl Anthony Towns
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was a number one pick. He was the first pick in the
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first round. This guy was as good of a
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three-point shooter as a big man the NBA has seen in a very, very
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long time. You need to get this guy hot.
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He's got to stop shooting 4050 foot jumpers.
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He needs to step behind the line and make those shots.
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If Carl Anthony Towns is making shots like that and having 20
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point quarters, the Knicks are going to win this series.
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There's no way, and I'll say this again, there is no way the
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Indiana Pacers, as talented and as young as they are, can
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withstand the talent that the Knicks have on all corners of
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this basketball court, especially with the four top
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players that they have. There is nobody besides Tyrese
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Halliburton that's better than Mikkel Bridges or OG Ananobi or
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even Karl Anthony Towns. Tyrese Halliburton is their
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superstar player. If Tyrese Burton's not playing
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well and you keep him from a bare minimum of a 20 to 25
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points and the other guys under 20, you're winning the game.
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There's no way this team is going to beat you.
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But the problem with the New York Knicks over the last couple
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of weeks, including against Boston, is they play this game
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shot for shot. You cannot do that.
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You are a good two way basketball team when you want to
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play two way basketball. It hasn't been this year, but
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when you play 2 dimensional basketball and you have arguably
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one of the best anchored defensive big men in the NBA
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playing at the top of his game right now, there's no reason why
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you're playing catch up against a team you're better then.
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So I I think you have to expect the Knicks in game four to show
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up and start scoring early and I want to see Jalen Bronson stay
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out of foul trouble. This has been a big problem
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throughout this series and in late in the Boston Celtics
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series. If they keep playing and they
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keep fighting fire with fire, the New York Knicks are going to
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go down 3 to 1 and going back to New York.
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It doesn't bode well when we see Tyrese Halpern hit that ugly,
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ugly shot that took him in overtime and practically one
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game, one when the Knicks should be up to 1, not down to one.
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Yeah, and. That's the difference, I think,
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with game three and a lot of the other games we've seen against
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the Pacers, even going back to last year against the Pacers, if
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Halliburton can have his moments because he's a great player.
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But remember, last year it was TJ McConnell that was a big X
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Factor in that series. And yeah, the Knicks had
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injuries fine, but it's freaking TJ McConnell like a 10 year
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veteran that is just a three-point shooter off the
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bench. In game one it was nee Smith.
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Nee Smith was a a journeyman. Like he's at a Celtics draft
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pick that Jeff hated for a while.
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He's not supposed to shoot 8 threes in a game.
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And sometimes I got, I think they overcompensate too much for
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one player all the time. Maybe they try to take out
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Siakam, then they try to take out Halliburton and Siakam went
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off. And then that's the problem that
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the Knicks ran into even in the first series against Detroit
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when Kate Cunningham had this great game too.
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Then he the Knicks over adjusted and then the game three that
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they lost Kate. Cunningham is not halber, I know
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that, but. What I'm saying is that the
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Pistons role players should not be going off the way Dennis
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Schroeder and Tim Hardaway were going off in that game.
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And I think that the Pacers sometimes have gotten into that,
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too, with McConnell, with Nick Smith and a bunch of these other
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guys. And I think Tom Thibodeau has to
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learn to adjust to that kind of thing, trust your defensive
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players one-on-one and not have to switch so much like you do.
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And it's gotten these players exposed a lot more often than
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they should, like Towns and even Mitchell Robinson sometimes on
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the perimeter when he's better guarding inside.
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Yeah, I think too, like if if you look at some of the foul
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trouble too, I I think there's a selfish side of me.
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Like some of those brunts and fouls were very selfish.
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Like weren't, weren't needed. They they came out and they're
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like they could've been 5050 on a block or a charge call,
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whatever. But there was a few like on on
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towards the sideline, like the ball is getting pressured in and
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he like kind of just like pushed and like, you know how important
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you are to this team, like have a little bit better feel.
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I think the rotation was a lot better.
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Obviously you're going to have your three main guys taking
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shots from the Knicks side, obviously, and Bridges, Brunson
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and Cat. I would I mean, I know this
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isn't going to happen. We've kind of, you know, beaten
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a dead horse on this one. I'd like to see Cat be a little
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bit more aggressive on the offensive boards.
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He's going to get them either way.
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But just, I mean, when you're you're that big, that good, and
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you're only getting one offensive rebound and then you
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got a guy like Josh Hart just, you know, finds the basketball
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and and goes and plays his hard out him off the bench.
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I thought was great. And everybody that I talked to
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was like, yeah, that it makes more sense because it's energy.
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You know, you have that link to be able to guard the perimeter.
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And as we've seen, even when they're switching out on the
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perimeter, as as we saw in the last game, it, you know, being
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able to have those guys like, you know, Mitch Robb be able to
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have the link to get side to side and force the shots like
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that. So yeah, it's our three headed
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monster. On the Knicks side, is is
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nothing compared to the Pacers. I also, I also think and I going
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back to what you were saying about Mitchell Robinson and what
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this team is doing off the bench for the New York Knicks.
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I also believe that the Knicks again are going to have to get
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more from OG and Nanobi. OG and Nanobi disappears in
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certain quarters. He's not scoring enough and he's
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not giving them enough when he gets hot.
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And then the Knicks, when he does score, when he's hitting
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one or two shots, all of a sudden, what is it?
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What do they do? Jayla Brunson comes in and he's
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he's forcing up shots and that the momentum completely tears
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away from what OG and Nanobi was doing throughout the early parts
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of the quarter. You have to get him that
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opportunity, opportunity where he is going to get hot and he's
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going to have the feel. And once OG and an Opie has a
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feel, his defense is different, his offense is different, He's
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completely different in the game.
22:03
He is the missing piece to really take the Knicks to that
22:07
next level. If he is playing at the top of
22:09
his game, the Knicks are unbeatable right now out of all
22:13
four teams. If OG is playing with Mikhail
22:16
Bridges and Karl Anthony Towns and Jaylen Bronson and they're
22:18
all playing at the top of their game and you're getting
22:20
rebounding and and the defense that you need for Mitch Robinson
22:24
and now Josh Hart coming off the bench, which we've been saying
22:27
fish, we've been saying that all season long.
22:29
Why isn't Josh Hart coming off the bench?
22:32
He is consistent every single time when he's coming off the
22:36
bench and even starting, he is the guy that they need to get
22:39
consistency off the bench with Miles McBride.
22:41
If they could do that, there's no doubt in my mind the Knicks
22:45
should win this this game tonight and maybe even sweep
22:48
them throughout the rest of the series.
22:49
I think this goes seven games if they win tonight.
22:52
If it doesn't, this is a six game loss series loss for the
22:55
New York Knicks. Well, Fish, I'm going to go real
22:58
quick and owed you to your point.
23:01
Like get him involved, but he's obviously stayed out of foul
23:04
trouble. So if you go back and look at
23:05
the history, like he's playing the most minutes, he just can't
23:08
get the consistency factor. Like he's averaged a little over
23:11
35 minutes more than anybody in these playoffs.
23:13
So it's just, you know, he's got to catch fire sometimes because
23:16
it's been hit or miss and I think he's a huge part.
23:19
You know, we we were having a meeting during the during the
23:23
part of the game and I was they were down 20.
23:25
I thought they were going to go down three O in the series.
23:28
They look, they outplayed him game one and they lost at the
23:31
end. They gave up the comeback they
23:33
get so they get the comeback this one on the way back.
23:36
So now that we're even on the comebacks close game, game two,
23:40
then it doesn't go the next way. Shooting doesn't go their way.
23:43
But there's an inside game that Rick Carlisle is playing with
23:46
Tom Thibodeau and Errol. You mentioned it before when we
23:48
had Nesmith. Nesmith is the type of pest that
23:53
Brunson is like kryptonite for. He's got a little bit more
23:57
length than Brunson, he's just as physical as Brunson, and he
24:00
fights over every single screen because the Knicks do not set
24:03
great screens. How many offensive fouls has
24:06
Karl Anthony Towns trying to do God and taking us?
24:08
He's had like 5 hip check fouls. Because he's a terrible screen
24:12
setter and we're just not good at it.
24:14
So Brunson isn't able to shake loose that easily from Naismith.
24:17
He's still good enough to take shots that way, but that's what
24:19
was happening in Game 2. They're going to lose that match
24:21
up. If Brunson's playing ISO ball,
24:23
like you said, speedy, it's not really what you want to see at
24:27
this level of the game. So what do you do?
24:29
You do what we said. You put them in that two towers
24:32
line up and and you get to have Towns run the offense.
24:35
Except Towns was taking dumb ass fouls in the first half as well,
24:39
because that's the problem with Towns in the fourth quarter.
24:42
He woke it up. I mean, Brunson had four fouls
24:44
before halftime. This is not this is the problem.
24:48
If they aren't getting in foul trouble, I don't think we have
24:51
as much trouble. But I have to say, there's one
24:53
big thing about game three of that made me so happy and was
24:57
that the campaign that I've been running to get campaigns minutes
25:01
disappear finally worked because that guy has been pissing me off
25:06
all season. I never really wanted him on the
25:08
Knicks because he's a chucker of the highest magnitude.
25:11
And look, when it's going in, that's great and he's and I'm
25:14
sure the guys like him and everything like that.
25:16
He's a veteran around the league, but he's not a winning
25:18
basketball player. He's never been a winning
25:20
basketball player in my opinion. He's got 2 good years and a lot
25:22
of minutes. I can't stand campaign every
25:24
time I see him and he has the ugliest shot he is.
25:27
Weird lefty shot. Remember, remember Sean Marion?
25:30
He played on the Phoenix Suns. Remember him when he came into
25:33
the league, How ugly, ugly his shot was?
25:37
Well, that's. What but his?
25:38
What him though? Yeah, I mean, he if if it went
25:41
in, it bounced off the backboard.
25:43
I mean, he never, it never went flush in.
25:45
And Marion was horrible when it came to shooting.
25:48
He had the ugly shot. That's what he reminds me of.
25:51
Paint cannot campaign should not shoot at all and and I'm
25:55
campaigning it for him not to shoot the ball.
25:58
It's just absolutely horrible. Every single time I see him go
26:02
out there and he's running up and down the court and then the
26:04
way he gives up the ball, he's trying to pass the ball in he
26:08
and then he's calling for the referees flopping all over when
26:11
he makes a mistake, making it seem like it wasn't his fault.
26:14
The guy stinks. I do not know why.
26:17
I don't know why the Tom Thibodeau thinks that campaign
26:21
is a is a piece to help the Knicks get over the hump against
26:24
this Pacer team. They're young, they're fast and
26:27
I'm going to tell you this right now you what makes the Pacers
26:29
dangerous is and which they haven't did, they haven't done
26:32
in this series, especially in game Fours run up and down the
26:35
court and make the next chase them.
26:37
That's why they mix actually stayed in the game and including
26:41
the fourth quarter. They stopped running up and down
26:43
the court and losing Nesmith. Nesmith as long as they did and
26:48
him coming back from a roll ankle.
26:49
He is playing tonight. There's no doubt about it, but
26:52
he's not 100%. And I'm going to tell you this
26:54
right now. Don't don't think for one second
26:57
they're not going to give him a ball because all he needs is
27:00
confidence. And I've seen this before
27:02
Michael Jordan with his flu and I remember him.
27:05
He was sweating and he couldn't even sit on the sidelines.
27:07
He needed oxygen and he hit 9 consecutive 3 pointers.
27:12
So don't don't expect this guy did not have a big game for the
27:17
Indiana Pacers. They're going to play him and
27:18
he's going to play close to the same amount of minutes if he
27:22
wasn't hurt, I guarantee. So so there's there's one other
27:25
thing that I think is really important that the Knicks have
27:27
to make an adjustment and Brunson getting all those
27:30
blocking fouls trying to, you know, guard Naismith trying to
27:33
guard Halliburton driving into the lane.
27:36
Why is he even doing that? Well, the reason is they're
27:39
switching the guys so much that Mitchell Robinson isn't
27:41
underneath protecting that cats not underneath protecting.
27:45
If those that was the case, he could play off of them a little
27:47
bit more and not have to be so physical with them as they're
27:50
going. So we need to find a way to get
27:53
Mitch underneath and being the rib protector instead of
27:55
switched out into the into the corner or instead of switched
27:58
out into a, you know, like a kind of like a wing roll in that
28:01
defense in this situation. Like, they have to fix that
28:05
because Brunson can't get get into foul trouble the way that
28:07
he did. And then they expect to win, you
28:09
know, coming back from 20 every night, that's not a.
28:12
Real, they need to play right. They need to give him at least 5
28:14
to 10 minutes in this game. He's he's a veteran player that
28:18
can defend multiple position. He's long for a point guard and
28:22
Hal Burton, when he was playing, he was defending Halperton.
28:25
Hal Burton had problems with him because he's long.
28:28
Halperton's a long point guard. That's what the lawn right is.
28:31
He's he's a great long point guard and he's great defender.
28:34
Is he going to give you a lot of offense?
28:36
No, but he's going to give you enough defensively as far as the
28:39
point guard position is, and that's what you need.
28:41
You need guys that are going to go out there and force Tyrese
28:44
Albertan to make mistakes. That's been a big problem for
28:48
Tyrese Hallbertan throughout this playoffs.
28:50
When he plays, when he's on, he is on.
28:52
But if you can get into his head, he doesn't play very well
28:55
in Indiana. Go look at his points.
28:58
He's he's averaging eight points less at home than he is away
29:03
throughout the playoffs. That says a lot.
29:04
And throughout the season, he had problems scoring at home
29:08
from from what he was doing away.
29:09
So I expect Halliburton to have problems shooting the ball.
29:14
You got to put 2-3 guys, force the ball out of his hands, let
29:18
the other guys beat you. That's how you win this game.
29:21
And by the way, rebound the goddamn ball.
29:24
Rebound the ball. Why are you guys giving them
29:27
second and third chances? You're the bigger, stronger
29:30
team. Why are you letting this team
29:32
out match you on the boards? It's been pathetic at Karl
29:36
Anthony Towns. You got to wake up, man, in the
29:39
first, second and third quarter. Wake the hell up.
29:42
Rebound the goddamn ball. If you have Mitch playing with
29:44
you, there's no reason why you guys aren't out rebounding by 10
29:49
or 15 rebounds. And you have the best offensive
29:52
rebounder, rebounder in all the basketball for the last four
29:55
years when he's healthy, and that's Mitch Robinson.
29:58
It's pathetic. Errol, that goes to what Fish
30:00
was saying earlier. It's when you start switching on
30:03
the perimeter and you have one of the best rebounders, now
30:07
you're taking him out of position like you guys were
30:08
bringing up earlier, like get him down to the block more so
30:11
that we can use that advantage with both of those guys.
30:14
And instead of, you know, Mitch getting 6 rebounds and now he's
30:17
going to have 11:50 where now you're not making him a
30:20
perimeter wing guy trying to guard that where now you get him
30:24
under the basket and now he goes from six rebounds to 12 and
30:27
maybe we get some more offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds.
30:30
I just when they switch on everything and do that on the
30:33
perimeter, they just, I think that takes away a huge part of
30:36
Mitch's game, even though he's capable of guarding out there,
30:39
but I just think that takes a big part of his game away.
30:40
Yeah, because you also have these guards that are tipping
30:42
the bowel out instead of actually grabbing the.
30:44
Rebound, Yeah. So when did that start becoming
30:46
a thing? Instead of like grabbing, it's
30:48
like tipping it. Fast break opportunities they
30:50
want to create. But Tyson, former Knicks legend
30:52
Tyson Chase and Chandler. Tyson Chandler who?
30:55
By the way, it started to become rebounding and that's how Tyson
30:58
Chandler actually won defensive player of the that year where
31:02
he's like smacking the ball out to the perimeter.
31:04
Everything. He tipped everything and counted
31:06
as a rebound. He was doing that every single
31:08
time. He was getting like 10 rebounds
31:10
a game doing that. I.
31:10
Think there was what gave you? How the hell is that a rebound
31:13
I. Think there was what gave you 6
31:14
points to 22 rebounds that doesn't?
31:16
Make any sense? Just for Jr.
31:18
Smith to Chuck it up and hit the back iron every time, those are
31:22
some great Knicks teams. These teams are better.
31:25
The OG matchup with Siakam is something I do want to talk
31:29
about before we leave it because that's the former teammates from
31:32
that Toronto championship team that Siakam had quite a game too
31:38
dominated. I think he had just shy of 40
31:40
points in that game and he's a problem.
31:43
If he's going like that. He can be a real problem, but he
31:45
can get frustrated and OG played some great defense on him in
31:50
Game 3 and that's why you didn't hear so much from him
31:53
offensively. Although OG has been very
31:55
consistent, 16 points in each of the games on on the offensive
31:59
end in this series. It's just nothing that's wowing
32:02
you, and you know he has the capability of wowing you on the
32:04
offense. He's so important.
32:06
He is so. So much of his time on Siakam
32:08
right now, like you, it's hard to play great offense and lock
32:12
down defense on an All Star. Power and I want to say.
32:15
What he's got to do? I want to say something.
32:16
Rick Carlisle at the press conference, he was not happy.
32:19
He was not happy the way his team played in the fourth
32:22
quarter. I expect this team to come out
32:24
strong and try to put the Knicks away early in the game because
32:27
he wants, they want to get the crowd on their side.
32:30
They don't want to hear the boos and and the Knicks love that.
32:33
The Knicks play better when the boos start coming out and they
32:36
know they're getting the boos because that's the way the
32:40
Knicks have played all throughout the playoffs.
32:42
The Knicks have more wins away than any team throughout the
32:45
playoffs so far. They're six and one away.
32:48
That's how good the Knicks have been throughout the playoffs.
32:51
So I expect the Knicks to try to keep getting into the the Pacers
32:55
heads and Rick Carlisle get this team in foul trouble early.
32:59
So then he starts to do things that Rick Carlisle doesn't like
33:02
to do. He start he starts to move his
33:04
rotation in ways that he doesn't like.
33:07
And that's when the Knicks play the best at throughout this
33:11
series is when they get Carlisle to to kind of guess on who he
33:15
should put out and who what are the matchups in this series and
33:18
how it's going to work. So I want to see Rick Carlisle
33:21
get a little frustrated, call timeouts early, then you know
33:24
the Knicks are playing at the top of their game.
33:27
The Thunder took a three one series lead over the
33:30
Timberwolves with a one 28126 win in game four.
33:34
SHY nearly had a triple double with 40 points, 9 rebounds and
33:38
10 assists in game 4. Jaylen Williams also had 34
33:41
points one game after going down with an injury.
33:45
In game three, SHY is averaging 30.8 points per game, 4.8
33:50
rebounds per game, and 8.3 assists per game.
33:53
In this series, Anthony Edwards struggled once again, which are
33:57
16 points and only one made three pointer.
34:00
Besides the Minnesota's blowout win in Game 3, Edwards has been
34:06
a -48 when he has been on the court. 95.6% of the team with a
34:13
3-1 lead have advanced to the NBA Playoff.
34:17
In NBA Playoff history, with only 13 teams ever that have
34:22
come back from A31 deficit. Well, I will say this, OK C is
34:28
definitely, they definitely have the advantage.
34:31
And by the way they get to go home, they could close it out in
34:33
OK C, which by the way, they're one of the most impossible teams
34:37
that beat in OK C. So why wouldn't you think
34:41
they're going to be able to end this Timberwolves season?
34:44
Anthony Edwards has been absolutely horrible, except one
34:46
game. He showed up in game #3 and
34:49
everybody was like, oh, that's what we want to see with
34:50
Anthony. And then after the game, he was
34:53
bragging and pressing and saying, listen, I got my feet
34:55
under under me. I think I'm going to be a
34:57
different player. And then all of a sudden in game
34:59
#4 he did it once again. What a coinky dink.
35:02
He didn't show up to the game. And then after the game, I
35:06
wouldn't say he was pointing fingers, but he wasn't taking
35:08
responsibility for losing that game.
35:11
Everybody but him actually had a good game.
35:14
Julius Randall had a good game. And all these secondary players,
35:17
they needed to have big games. If Anthony Edwards even scores
35:20
25 points, they win. They absolutely win.
35:24
But it was just absolutely embarrassing.
35:27
And and again, Anthony Edwards doesn't take responsibility.
35:30
And that'll go to me. And I've said this many, many
35:33
times this, this has gone through what I have said over
35:35
the last couple of weeks is Anthony Edwards, Kevin Durant
35:40
and Anthony Edwards favorite player is Kevin Durant.
35:42
Growing up, he watched Kevin Durant, but Anthony Edwards
35:46
obviously realizes that Kevin Durant didn't win until he went
35:50
to Golden State. He couldn't win as the guy.
35:53
He had to go to Steph Curry's team with Klay Thompson and
35:57
Draymond Green and all the talent that they had over there
35:59
and win with that team because he couldn't do it himself.
36:02
And he did have Russell Westbrook and James Harden, 2
36:05
losers that never have won. So now you're looking at Anthony
36:08
Edwards. Anthony Edwards had Carl Anthony
36:11
Towns, he now has Julius Randall who's playing the best
36:14
basketball of his career in the playoffs and they still can't
36:17
get over the hump. So you you wonder if Shia
36:21
Alexander Alexander the reason why OKC has been dominating the
36:24
series and the answer is no. Guys like Williams, Jalen
36:29
Williams, when he is playing at the top of his game and you're
36:32
getting secondary offense, 34 points or even 24 points from
36:36
Jalen Williams, there's no way you're beating the OK C Thunder
36:40
and there and here's another thing, Anthony Edwards and this
36:43
Timberwolves defense has been one of the best defenses in the
36:46
league all season long. Where is their defense?
36:49
Where has their defense gone in this series?
36:52
And don't tell me shy is that great of an offensive player.
36:55
We can't stop them. I can name a bunch of great
36:58
offensive players in the past that had great playoffs and then
37:01
they play against a great defense.
37:03
AK, do we remember the Toronto Raptors?
37:06
Remember Kawhi Leonard? Remember who they played in the
37:08
final? Speedy, do you remember that
37:10
Golden State Warriors? The Golden State Warriors and
37:13
what did Kawhi Leonard have to do?
37:15
And yes, obviously Klay Thompson went down and Kevin Durant
37:18
wasn't 100%, but. The Raptors are already up three
37:20
LO at that point. What did they do?
37:22
Why they put him on Steph Curry. They put him on Kevin Durant.
37:26
When you have a defensive player of that magnitude and you can
37:30
put him on anybody to defend multiple positions and actually
37:34
have him shut down, that player that gives you an advantage.
37:37
Why hasn't Anthony Edwards, who's a great two way player,
37:41
defending multiple positions and when he is on the players that
37:45
he should be defending, he doesn't even know how to play
37:48
the play the defensive side of the ball.
37:50
And Jalen we we all know Julius Randall doesn't doesn't play
37:54
defense, but Dante Di Vicenzo does.
37:56
Those other guys do. It's been a poor showing for the
38:00
Timberwolves who went here last year.
38:02
They were Western Conference team.
38:04
They went to the championship last year, lost against Dallas,
38:07
and by the way, Anthony Edwards played unbelievable throughout
38:11
the playoffs last year until they hit.
38:13
They played against the Dallas Mavericks and it had a no show
38:16
for Anthony Edwards. If Anthony Edwards cannot play
38:18
under pressure, well then ladies and gentlemen, Anthony Edwards
38:21
needs to go somewhere where he's the secondary player and he's
38:24
the second best player on the team because he can't take the
38:26
pressure. No.
38:27
And you also look at Minnesota throughout their playoff history
38:29
with Edwards there too, like it. It seems like when he has the
38:32
pressure of taking on other players that are better than
38:34
him, sometimes you've seen that be a trouble for him.
38:37
And even look at this playoffs so far, Luka Doncic is a better
38:40
player than him. He wasn't 100% healthy, but
38:42
again, Minnesota was still scraping by.
38:43
A lot of those games against the Lakers too, outside of the, I
38:45
think the game one where they had the blowout, that was the
38:48
only one and then game two, I didn't think they would have won
38:50
the series anyway. But Steph Curry's hurt too.
38:52
So that puts a burden off of you to take that kind of pressure
38:55
when you're talking all this crap and trying to elevate
38:58
yourself to a higher level in your press conferences.
39:00
And then all of a sudden you have a dud after you have that
39:02
blowout winning Game 3, a big let down factor.
39:05
And then you could go, you could go prove yourself, go toe to toe
39:08
with shy Alexander with him having a 40 point near triple
39:11
double. You go tied toe toe to toe with
39:14
him and even have 30 point triple double.
39:15
You win that game. The series is 2 to 2 and all of
39:18
a sudden you're looking at all the pressure shifting back to OK
39:20
C. But now the shift, the pressure
39:22
shifts back to you. And that's the thing that
39:24
Anthony Edwards I don't think has been able to overcome yet.
39:27
The one obstacle that's elevating him from taking that
39:29
next step. He's a top ten player in the
39:31
NBA. He's a top five player.
39:33
Right. I was going to say even top five
39:34
on his best days, but again, we haven't seen those best days in
39:37
a very long time outside of that one.
39:40
Game I agree with you. I don't know what you're talking
39:42
about. I I think the only reason why
39:44
Anthony Edwards isn't playing well in the series is because
39:46
the pressure is on him and he can't handle the pressure.
39:49
That's the facts right now. Anthony Edwards cannot withstand
39:52
the pressure of no matter where he's playing, where everything
39:56
is on him. He didn't like the fact that
39:58
they traded Karl Anthony Towns to the Knicks.
39:59
He was very upset in the beginning of the season, but as
40:02
soon as Julius Randall got healthy.
40:04
And Dante Deficento settled in. This team was playing great
40:08
two-dimensional basketball. As a matter of fact, they were a
40:10
better 222 dimensional basketball team than they were
40:13
last year with the players that they brought in from that trade.
40:17
Unfortunately, right now when you you can use somebody like
40:21
Karl Anthony Towns that gives you mismatches against, you
40:24
know, obviously A-Team like OKC that you do have Hornstein, they
40:27
do have length, but they've had problems over the last couple of
40:31
months against big, long, big, big men that can shoot the ball.
40:35
They don't have that. They don't have a guy that can
40:38
do that. We all know what they have.
40:40
And and by the way, they've had problems rebounding the ball in
40:43
this series. You look at OKC, they're a good
40:45
rebounding team, but when you're having and I'm not saying
40:48
Hornstein's not a great rebounder.
40:49
He's not a great player. Hornstein really didn't become a
40:52
great player. He was a journeyman in the NBA
40:55
until he went to the New York Knicks when he found himself
40:57
under Tom Thibodeau. He got a big time contract with
41:00
the Knicks, did not want to lose.
41:01
They if the Knicks could have brought him back with the
41:04
players that they added in the offseason, they would have.
41:07
And maybe this is a different series, even with Heinstein.
41:10
But again, it's grit and they don't have any.
41:13
Edwards doesn't have any grit. The players that they have over
41:17
there, there's no grit over there.
41:19
And Julius Randall, we all know what Julius Randall is.
41:22
When the going gets tough and the pressures on Julius Randall,
41:25
he is the brick layer. I've been saying this over and
41:29
over and over again. And I, by the way, the most
41:32
consistent player in this series is Julius Randall.
41:36
The crazy thing about that? Yeah, and if you're going to win
41:38
like that, it's going to be hard to be able to be a team like,
41:40
OK, see that being that good with Julius Randall, that being
41:43
your best scorer for a lot of it too.
41:44
And I I noticed when they had the comeback, even in the third
41:47
quarter when OKC was up pretty big at half time and then
41:50
Minnesota had a big third quarter was a lot of those role
41:52
players that were getting it going because they were actually
41:54
playing good team basketball. And you talked about it last
41:56
week, Geral. Anthony Edwards doesn't know how
41:58
to play team basketball sometimes.
42:00
And I think that's something that OKC, he knows how to do
42:03
Eric Hasselstein, when we had him on last week was mentioned.
42:05
He's such a good player, man. He's so fun to watch.
42:08
It just upsets me when the guy it, you know, early in the game,
42:12
once he gets into his own head, he doesn't play his game and he
42:16
completely disappears. How many dunks has he missed in
42:19
this series? I think he missed like four or
42:21
five dunks. You're one of the best players
42:23
in the league and you're missing dunks.
42:25
I mean, come on, guy. But I think, I think Errol, you,
42:28
we've, we've talked about this when he said he didn't want to
42:30
be the face of basketball. Do you think he knew?
42:33
He's trying to tell us something that we don't know.
42:35
Why would he care to do that, though?
42:36
Because like, he's supposed to still elevate himself.
42:39
Like, oh, I'm going to make a statement that I don't want to
42:41
be the face of basketball. Like why are you choosing the
42:43
playoffs to do that? And again.
42:45
Well, I'm just saying maybe he's telling us something.
42:47
It's like, yeah, I don't have that it gene or whatever.
42:49
Like, he's a tremendous basketball player, but you could
42:52
be a tremendous regular season player and never win anything.
42:54
Did you see what he did with Barack Obama when he was talking
42:57
to Joel Embiid and he and he was talking about his game and he
43:00
says he asked Joel Embiid what type of player is, is Anthony
43:04
Edwards. And he says he's he's a decent
43:06
player and he's a decent. I'm the truth.
43:08
Remember when he said that when you when you compare yourself to
43:11
Paul Pierce, you got to show up to playoff games.
43:13
Paul Pierce is one of the best playoff players in NBA history.
43:17
You don't. Have to like Paul Pierce him in
43:19
the playoffs. Other than when he had to fake
43:21
his dookie, that's about the only one.
43:23
No, he he's, he's a great player in the playoffs.
43:26
And by the way, this is this is going again with the New York
43:28
Knicks. The Knicks cannot fall behind on
43:31
this team if they let the Pacers play that high pace, you know,
43:35
running gun game. The Knicks aren't winning this
43:37
game. They have to slow the pace down
43:39
and play 1/2 court basketball game.
43:41
That's how they win this game. Well, Towns has already got 2
43:44
fouls sitting down after his arm.
43:47
Was over the pick and he's got 2 points and two fouls already.
43:52
Did we not just talk about this? Well, this is the problem.
43:55
Like, he's not a great playoff player.
43:59
And we thought that Julius Randall was a bad playoff
44:01
player. And I'd rather have towns, you
44:05
know, all things considered. It's just you can't do that and
44:09
you can't win if you're not on the bench, man.
44:12
And both of those, both of those fouls were stupid.
44:15
It's it's like he gets frustrated that he got beat to
44:17
the spot and he just takes the foul and he doesn't realize
44:21
there's a lot more place because there's a lot more place.
44:25
Carl, you lost on that play. So next one you lose on a lot of
44:29
plays. Just don't take the foul on a
44:32
fighting over a screen in the first quarter, man.
44:35
Like that's just so dumb. I mean, at least we got Brunson
44:38
just doing his thing all the time.
44:41
And this is going to be back and forth, Errol.
44:42
This is going to be another one of those coming.
44:44
Well, OG one. Of these games, what you want to
44:46
do is you want to get OG and an OB in this game and that's what
44:49
they're doing they're giving him these easy layups, these easy
44:51
dunks. That's what they're going to
44:53
have to do if they want to win this game.
44:54
OJ needs OG needs to get hot in this game.
44:57
He needs to score at least 20 points in this game.
44:59
And they got to let they got to stop giving Siakam all these
45:02
easy donks, these easy layups and letting them go to the free
45:06
throw line and even Chuck up threes, which he's no good at.
45:09
The Knicks cannot play catch up. They need to get an early lead
45:12
and let them chase the Knicks. That's what the Knicks need to
45:16
do. But again, the Knicks have not
45:18
done that really throughout the playoffs.
45:20
They've been playing chasing basketball.
45:22
And again, Jalen Bronson needs to get hot in this game.
45:25
He needs to score at least 35 points in this game.
45:27
Even if Karl Anthony Towns gives you 15 and 15 if he's if he
45:31
scores 3540 points, the Knicks have a chance to win this game.
45:34
And also a better defense overall.
45:35
I saw some perimeter stat with talent like Towns all guard in
45:38
the perimeter. I think teams have made like 9
45:40
out of like 12 shots against them in the series and inside
45:44
even worse. And here's another thing,
45:46
Michael Bridges has got to stay out of foul trouble too.
45:48
Michael Bridges is so important to this team.
45:52
OG and Michael Bridges are going to be the reason why the Knicks,
45:57
you know, move forward in the playoffs and progressively beat
46:01
the Indiana Pacers because the Indiana Pacers don't have any
46:05
answers to these guys. They're the most athletic
46:07
players in this series. As good as Tyrese Halperton is,
46:12
he is not more athletic than these two guys.
46:15
When they play together on a basketball court, one guy's not
46:18
better than two. These guys can go up and down
46:20
the court, defend multiple positions and defend Tyrese
46:23
Alberton. Tyrese Halperton cannot defend
46:26
any one of these guys so. You know who you know who else
46:29
can defend multiple positions? Just getting back to the OK C
46:32
stuff. Lou Dort.
46:33
Oh my goodness. There's a reason why Anthony
46:36
Edwards is not doing that well. It's because of first team all
46:38
defense guard Luigenz Dort, who has been shutting him down in
46:44
this game, in this series. Not every game.
46:46
You're not going to be able to stop a great player like that.
46:48
Good, great offense beats great defensive, great offenses
46:50
hitting shots in in basketball, I believe.
46:53
But it's making it really hard for him and he's getting
46:56
frustrated. I mean, he took thirteen shots,
46:57
Errol. He complained in game one when
46:59
he took how many shots? 13 shots in game one as well.
47:04
This is your own fault. Like take the shots, demand the
47:09
ball. Like speedy.
47:10
You're right, I don't believe in ISO ball as being a solution,
47:14
but every once in a while if you have so if you can get a switch
47:17
off the door to get a pick and roll on them, my goodness, get
47:21
that guy off of you, Anthony Edwards.
47:22
Just got to space the. Floor like he's not doing it
47:25
enough off the ball and I, I another thing I want to mention
47:28
we we with Eric, Eric Haseltine talking about it last week too,
47:31
like that's what made the warrior so tough because they
47:34
know how to space the floor off the ball.
47:35
Like you don't have guys standing still off the ball.
47:39
And sometimes I feel like Edwards, whether it's because of
47:41
lack of effort or whether it's because of just his ego.
47:44
By the way, the Knicks are going tick for tack.
47:46
It's Tyrese Halliburton versus Jalen Bronson, and they're going
47:48
back and forth on the band basketball costume.
47:51
It's awesome. This is what you want to see
47:52
from your best players. That's what you want to.
47:54
Say, man, it's exactly what you want to see.
47:57
I mean, as far as Halliburton goes, I'd like to see Bridges
48:00
attack him on the defensive end a little bit to make him have to
48:03
work a little bit on defense to try to slow up his offensive
48:06
game. Because Bridges is more than
48:07
capable of taking Halliburton to the hole he's got.
48:10
He's, I think it's probably the same size, if not a little bit
48:12
bigger than than Halliburton and, you know, a little bit more
48:16
physical and he. Got him on the block 1
48:18
possession. He got him on an and one.
48:19
I'd like to see a lot more of that and just make Halliburton
48:22
have to worry about that side of the court a little bit more than
48:25
he's had to, because when he has to worry about just offense,
48:28
that guy is. Awesome, and Brunson needs to
48:30
stay away from fouling. Good.
48:31
Just stay away. Let him shoot the ball.
48:34
Who cares? Stop fouling and putting
48:36
yourself in position where you're off the basketball court.
48:39
They need your offense. Why the hell are you putting
48:42
them in a bad situation where you're going to trust Miles
48:45
McBride to keep you in the game or give you the points that
48:47
you're going to provide when you're on the basketball court?
48:50
That's a big problem that the Knicks have had throughout this
48:53
playoff, this series is because they're they're trusting that
48:57
their best player, who by the way, all season long really
49:00
never fouled out really at all. And then all of a sudden in two
49:04
playoff series, they fouled out in two of them.
49:07
So you you don't put your team in a situation where you can't
49:10
play. So it's I mean.
49:12
He knows it too, though, You know, like that was the first
49:14
thing he said when the game was over.
49:16
He's like, I got to stop fouling.
49:17
He's that was his first thing out of his mouth and he knows
49:20
it. And he's he's got you got to get
49:22
to your spots faster. And if you got to be smarter
49:24
with your contests, you just got to be smarter about it.
49:27
You can't just go for every single contest.
49:30
Look at them bringing in Precious right now.
49:32
I think that's the first time he's been in.
49:34
Rotation I mean. And the and the terrible fouls.
49:37
I mean, look at look at what Josh Hart did.
49:39
Why are you fouling? Why are you pushing the guy
49:41
behind? Why are you putting this?
49:43
Very offensive foul. They're so stupid.
49:45
Why are you doing that? Just let them.
49:47
If they're going to rebound the ball, let them rebound the ball.
49:50
Why are you putting your team in harm's way?
49:53
This is why the Knicks get into these situations.
49:55
You know the Knicks are going to make a run in the fourth quarter
49:58
and then you're letting Tyrese Halberton get these free throws.
50:02
Why are you? Letting that it's a lot of
50:03
pressure to put on Precious when he hasn't been out there in a
50:07
long time and you don't have. I get this.
50:09
They have no towns, no Robinson and no OG on the court right
50:13
now. And Precious has to just hold it
50:15
down. That's asking a lot.
50:17
I mean, it is against, you know, they still have their some of
50:19
their starters out there. Let's see what the guys have.
50:22
You know, heart. This is when heart shines.
50:23
This is when guys like, you know, Brunson just put their
50:26
head down and get to the hoop. So I'm excited for this game.
50:29
Luckily, Turner's not in the game right now, but.
50:33
You're letting them go on these stretches where they're scoring
50:35
a lot of points. You got to stop them.
50:38
You cannot play tick for tack. And and that goes for the same
50:41
with the Indiana Pacers and how hard it's a 3 pointer.
50:44
But again. And and just got a rebound.
50:46
Yeah, well, I I want to see more of these guys actually want it.
50:51
There are parts of these games where I just think that they
50:54
give up and they're better than Indiana.
50:56
Indiana is a young team. They're going to go up and down
50:58
the court, they're going to play good basketball, but then they
51:01
throw the ball away like that and they'll they'll 3 on ones by
51:05
the way, that was an offensive foul.
51:07
That was an offensive foul and they didn't call that I'm.
51:09
A little bit ahead of you it's it's just going to go like this
51:11
back and. Forth dude, you know you're a
51:13
little the. Series that's not going to go
51:14
back and forth is this game five that's coming up for Oklahoma
51:19
City and Minnesota. Guys, that one's not going much
51:21
more. There's no way this, that was
51:24
their chance. They gave everything they had.
51:25
There's a close game the whole way.
51:27
They blew him out in game three. You know, it's a great response,
51:30
but you got to do it consistently to be a great, to
51:33
be great in the NBA. And that's what, you know,
51:35
Anthony Edwards got to learn. You know, I was most critical of
51:37
them earlier on, you know, even before the playoffs, because I
51:40
hated the stuff he was saying. I really just hated the stuff he
51:44
was saying. It didn't sound like a guy.
51:45
I want to be the best player on my team.
51:47
In fact, it reminds me a little bit of Carl and I think Towns,
51:50
who I don't want him to be the best player on my team.
51:52
I want him to be the second best player.
51:53
Maybe if somehow, you know, every once in a while OG plays
51:57
better than him or something like that.
51:58
But I'd like him to be my second best player.
52:00
And Anthony Edwards might have to be somebody's second bananas
52:03
before he wins a title if he's going to play like this when
52:06
people are counting on a man. Because I don't, I don't like
52:09
what I see. The eye test is bad, Errol, and
52:11
we know you're a big eye test guy.
52:13
I'm also an Anthony Edwards fan and I, I just, I don't know if
52:16
he can win without playing with another superstar right beside
52:21
him. And it just seems like that
52:22
that's the route it's going. And, and I think it obviously
52:25
Alex Rodriguez now owns the team do and I, I don't see Alex
52:28
Rodriguez trading away his best player.
52:30
But if you have a chance to probably add two young, two
52:34
young players to this roster in a, in a future 3-4 first round
52:39
draft picks, maybe that's the route you go because Anthony
52:42
Edwards is just not getting it done.
52:44
Remember with the Timberwolves with Stefan Marbury and
52:46
obviously Kevin Garnett, they eventually they traded Stefan
52:50
Marbury and what did they do? Then eventually they traded
52:53
Kevin Garnett because they couldn't get over the hump.
52:55
They couldn't win with these two guys and and again, they have
52:58
not played in the finals. So this team has been an
53:02
expansion team and they never played in the finals with the
53:05
talent that they've had over the years.
53:07
They've never gotten over the hump to get into the finals with
53:09
all the trades they've made. They had Karl Anthony Towns,
53:12
they had they had Butler, Jimmy Buckets, they had Tom Thibodeau
53:17
and they had Anthony Edwards there and then they make a trade
53:19
with Utah. They had another big man it it
53:22
just doesn't. They gave up five first round
53:24
draft picks and they they still can't get over the hub.
53:27
They're to me, Anthony Edwards is the problem.
53:29
That's just my point. Before we wrap up, I just want
53:32
to mention Carl's comment too, the timber of the Thunder doing
53:35
a great boxing one on Anthony Edwards too.
53:37
And yeah, and I think that's something that.
53:40
The best players find a way out of.
53:41
It and that's where I think he's actually referencing your Kevin
53:43
Durant analogy too. Like I think Kevin Durant early
53:46
in his career was very much like that where he just either kept
53:48
shooting or was taking the wrong types of shots when he got a
53:51
little bit of pressure on him. And it took a little while for
53:54
him to even overcome that. Now, even after the first couple
53:56
of years in OKC, Durant actually became a very good playoff
53:59
player after that where he was I think averaging 29 points a
54:01
game. But like you said, still can't
54:03
win a championship until he can't left the Golden.
54:05
State you need to win and be a winner and and again Steph, I'll
54:09
take shots of Steph Curry all the time, but he's a winner.
54:12
He's a winner he find found a way.
54:14
It doesn't matter who he played with and I I give him credit, he
54:16
still won. So and and it took Kevin
54:19
Garnett, I mean Kevin Garnett to win a championship by leaving,
54:22
leaving the Timberwolves to go to Boston.
54:24
And the same thing with Durant. It took Kevin Durant to leave OK
54:28
C to go to Golden State to win a championship.
54:30
Yes, he was the best player on that roster in that team, but he
54:33
needed to play with another superstar and it wasn't his team
54:36
where the pressure was off him. Anthony Edwards might be another
54:39
guy that might just have to go somewhere else to win a
54:42
championship with another player.
54:44
So unfortunately. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
54:47
our golf clap of the day. This deserves a golf clap.
54:52
No doubt. Golf clap, Golf clap and the
54:57
golf dab. The car, it was about the golf
54:59
dab. But the golf clap of the day
55:01
goes to the New York Islanders. Finally, they make a unormous,
55:08
and I say unormous because it's a word that makes no sense.
55:11
Enormous move as they added AGM to this team and finally made
55:17
the right choice. There were a lot of
55:19
conversations that they were going to add these veteran guys
55:22
that have ruined organizations. Holland was the big name that
55:26
everybody was talking about from the Edmonton Oilers after
55:28
getting fired last year. He's the one who hired Knobloch.
55:32
He's the one who obviously was a part of those runs with the
55:35
Edmonton Oilers who are could be on their way to another Stanley
55:38
Cup finals. But guess what?
55:40
They went with the young guy, Matthew Darsh, who, by the way,
55:44
was a part of the Lightnings organization for the last three
55:47
to four years. He won a Stanley Cup there.
55:49
Stevie Eisenman, before he left, hired this guy to be a part of
55:53
that executive side of the puck. And he has been a guy that a lot
55:57
of people said should have gotten a job last year.
56:00
But again, the there were a lot of teams that passed up on them.
56:04
But the Islanders finally made a good choice.
56:06
They bring in a young guy that understands consistency and
56:11
speed, something the Islanders know nothing about over the last
56:14
couple of years with Lou, AKA sleeping Lou, who sleeps before
56:19
he even thinks, before he makes a move.
56:21
But this was a great move for the Islanders executives, their
56:25
their ownership, Ledecky and obviously Malkin.
56:28
This is a sensational move. I think Matthew Marsh is going
56:32
to be sensational for the New York colleges with all the draft
56:35
stock that they had thanks to sleeping Lou, the number one
56:38
pick in this year's class and possibly could trade out of that
56:41
pick and still had a good player and have three first round draft
56:45
picks next year. But they can get they can get me
56:47
some. And I think that's where I
56:49
believe the organization is going to go instead of Hagen.
56:51
But look at Hagen, look at the United States team winning their
56:55
first championship since 93 years, by the way.
56:59
And guess who were the best player on that roster was
57:02
Thompson, who by the way, didn't play for Team USA in that All
57:06
Star Olympic, whatever the hell they call that Four Nations
57:09
crap. How did he not make the team he
57:12
is that he was a by far the best player in that tournament and he
57:16
he had scored forty goals again this year with the Buffalo
57:19
Sabres. Maybe United States will be
57:21
thinking for the Olympics next year when you're picking your
57:24
team. But yeah, congratulations for
57:26
Team USA and congratulations for Darsh.
57:28
I think it's a great move for the New York Olingers.
57:30
I think it puts the Olingers in a very, very good position.
57:33
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58:00
have on Thursday. That's our end of the show, our
58:01
friend. Former Ravens and Falcons all
58:03
pro full back OV Muhali. Muhali.
58:05
God do it speedy, do it. Do it, Muhali.
58:11
There you go. There we are.
58:12
He loved that the first time we did that.
58:14
Speedy, are you going to lick his ass?
58:15
Are you going to lick his ass? God, are you going to do it?
58:18
Oh. My God, Muhali was like that.
58:20
Of course, there comes the butt. Reference it's definitely.
58:22
Definitely couldn't make bagel hole.
58:24
Bagel Hole Nathan, It's hard to put one of your famous butt
58:26
plugs on Errol's mouth. A lot of hot ladies.
58:29
Anyways, that's it for our show ladies, ladies and gentlemen,
58:32
We'll talk to you on Thursday. Goodnight, Goodnight.
58:34
Goodnight. Screw you, the Knicks.
58:36
Screw you, the Knicks. Screw the Knicks.
58:39
Screw you, Speedy. Screw you all.
58:42
I mean, good night.