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Terminello’s Take Heading Into Knicks Game Six and Forward Thinking On New York Rangers Hockey As they Advance 5-16-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Here's your host, Alex Garret. All right, well it's another addition of
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Terminello's take. And you know, Lou, it's kind of cool. I've
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been live streaming after games on a new app called Pro Sports Fan, so
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trying to get the one leg up name out there. And maybe I'll try
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and live stream some of our stuff on the app as well. But the
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last two nights have been kind of like a tail of two cities. Right,
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So the Rangers lose on Monday night, but then the Knicks come to
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the Garden last night and win. And I don't know, Lou Terminello,
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when the Knicks win, they're just a different energy in New York. You
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could just feel it different than when any other New York team wins. If
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I'm honest, Well, I think Alex always thank you for having me back
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appreciate it. Uh. I actually think it's because of basketball court. It's
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only is you know, ninety four feet long, and the fans are close
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to the action, closer than any other sport. You can see their faces,
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you can see celebrities faces, and uh, yeah, I kind of
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agree with you. It's a little bit it's a little bit different than other
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sports. You know I get gross on the show. Can I just get
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a little gross because the nets are in the news again. But I'll tell
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you, as you know, sometimes I digestive issues. And I gotta say
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I was court sided when AI came to visit Brooklyn, New Jersey. I
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should say, thanks to the kindness of Lewis Kats. And my mark was
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that I actually huked on the sideline. Okay, so I implored and I
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pew BET's allies. I gat, But it was a question I prop obviously,
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I was in the building that night. I wonder if I read I
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saw that that situation. If you saw across the way a kid hurling with
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one leg, that was me. And I'll tell you what. It was
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still a fun night because you got to see AI and you have Vince Carter
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and everything. But back in the day, I was a big AI finished.
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So I'm up close like that in the in the Conninal arena was pretty
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cool. So I got to say, those quart sides and I do miss
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it. And by the way, quart side seatings should be for the fans.
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I know it's all about celebrity row and whatnot, but the fans the
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ones that make the juice happen that make it come alive. Well, I
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would agree with that. And before we get into the meat of the Knick's
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great victory last night and the status of this that series and the range of
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series and the NBA and NHL in general. When I first joined the Nets
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back in nineteen eighty one and we sold we had one hundred and seventy court
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side seats, and the Knicks really didn't have any at that point. We
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just sold them to fans. They were twenty dollars twenty dollars a pop.
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And then next year we raised it to twenty two. Then we raised it
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to thirty five and people were getting upset, and then we raised it to
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fifty and people really getting upset. Now they're three thousand dollars, five thousand
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dollars. Who even knows. But I would go to the Garden a lot,
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obviously, the meadow Lands and the Garden were only seven miles away from
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each other, with one of my friends who was in the media, and
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we would call for seats, and my friend knew the assistant PR director for
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the Knickerbockers, and they didn't sell those seats on the floor. They really
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didn't have court side seats. The benches were close to the center court,
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the two team benches at the Garden. I mean, I'm sitting on the
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court. I could tell you probably five, six, seven times pumped gratits.
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Those seats were killed. They weren't even in a system. And now
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the celebrity row at the Garden has become, you know, such a status
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symbol for for people who go to two games at the Garden. And then
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obviously it's transferred to other arenas Jack Nicholson seats, you know with the Form
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and then Staples Center. So yeah, that's the evolution of the U of
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the court side seats. Yeah, no, when when Lewis Katz gave us
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that? And guess why I walked by a guest of the show. Actually,
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Matt Lachlan was doing his pregame stand up at kind of an airlines for
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Fox Sports, So there's a lot of time in there, so it's all
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relevant. And I mean, who I meet when I first walked into the
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elevator going downstairs Byron Scott? So how about that? A lot of stuff
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in one moment. But no, the court side seats, you know,
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I know, and now they have a they have sort of a list of
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who gets to be on celebrity row and whatnot, and I'm like, just
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give it to the fans, man, give it back to the fans.
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This is why Eddie was such a great movie, because Eddie was the soul
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of every New York fan. Will Be Goldberg, I think, portrayed every
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New York Nick fan. Would you agree? Well, it's funny. I
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saw I saw the premiere of Eddie at an NBA League meeting in Orlando,
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Florida, and it was an interesting, cute movie for sure, and it
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was about the fans. They have burned down. Won't quide praise Journey Jersey.
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I'll never forget what Marv Albert said that that was great. So yeah,
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but we'll we'll. We'll maybe get the cheap seats one day if the
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playoff run continues, because I do want to get there, and I just
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feel like this podcast belongs there, doesn't it loud just to cover the the
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atmosphere is so fun, even if you're outside of the garden. One hundred
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correct, by the way, even the cheap seats are not cheap anymore.
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Three five. I think I saw it for the range. Yeah, that's
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unbelievable. Well, when I got to sit behind the bench with my future
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father in law. I was exciting. I mean to see to stand next
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to Jonathan Quick, an Hall of Fame goalie. That meant a lot because
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the guy, as I've said before, won the Cup ten years ago in
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that very building with the Kings. I mean maybe I think they won at
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home, but anyway, he went to the Garden, beat the Rangers a
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couple times and won the Cup. And now he's got a chance, a
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real chance to help guide the Rangers. But let's go back to last night,
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because the Knicks, I was more impressed at how everybody stepped up.
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Alec Burks with about eighteen points, McBride was seventeen. You had Josh part
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contributing, Yeah, brun Sand forty four. But I'm looking at the guys
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around him stepping up in the absence of o G. That's where the heart
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is right now. Well, you gotta give coach Thibideau credit for inserting Miles
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McBride into the starting lineup. That was a stroke of genius. The Knicks
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came out on fire. Obviously, I expected to come out more focused after
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what had happened on Sunday, and uh, basically what Indiana did to the
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Knicks on Sunday, the Knicks to Indiana last night. You know, the
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Knicks were just played harder. The Knicks were more tenacious. The Knicks were
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not going to lose last night, led by their superstar. And again,
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I know I always repeat this, we were the first ones on this show
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to crown Jalen Brunson a superstar, a difference maker. He's the best player
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on the team. He's the best player in the Eastern Conference. He's a
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difference maker. And uh, there's not more what you could be said about
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the greatness of Jalen Brunson. Obviously everybody, everybody played well last night.
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It wasn't a big scoring night for Dante DiVincenzo. But again every game we
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are seeing how good this kid is. Uh. He can run the floor,
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he can hit three, he can block shots. Uh, he can
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read. He has a high basketball like you like. Brunson has a high
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basketball like you like. Josh Hotka has high basketball like you and all three
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of those guys. And I guess it's from playing at Villanova. For Jay
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Wright, they're fearless unlike Indiana. Now we all talked about and Wi,
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I mean, everybody in the NBA, the media talked about Tyreet's Halliburton,
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especially in December when the Pacers are on a good run, when he was
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on a good run and they almost won that meaningless in season tournament, Halliburton
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was nowhere. Last night, Brunson was everywhere. And if you want to
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compare two stars, Brunton's a superstar. And I guess people think that Halliburton
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is approaching that level. Well, Brunson left him in the dust last night.
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I mean, there is nothing that Brunson can't do, and at six
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foot one, his effectiveness is remarkable. Well, I love the little over
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the back kind of you know, layup that he had in the fourth quarter.
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That was fun. And he has a way to score with finesse too.
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Not just scoring, but he does it in artful ways. If you
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remember in the Sixers series he leaned in and just threw it up there and
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went in. That was a great shot and a great photograph to take two
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of him leaning in like that. Well, he is a shot maker,
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which I did not think he was when when he got here. He's he
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makes everybody better. I don't like I said, we're not going to be
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the dead horse, but He's better than anybody could have ever hoped for,
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and he is a legitimate NBA superstar. Case closed. And if the Knicks
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closed out the series, and if Boston closed out this series, while it's
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Boston should win the next series, it will be no cakewalk. And I'm
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going to tell you one thing. The Celtics play scared sometimes, and the
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Knicks don't play scared. They might get beat, but they don't play scared.
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So that's gonna be That's not going to be a Celtics cakewalk. If
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the Celtics win, it's going to be a six or seven game series.
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And if they look and all the pressure in the next series Alex is on
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the Celtics, not on the Knicks, not on the Paces. If they
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win these next two games, all the pressures on the Celtics. Now,
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do I think the Knicks will close out the Pacers in one of these next
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two games? Yes, it might be a series like the Cleveland Orlando Magic
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series where each team went to seven, but each team won at home.
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I hate those kinds of series, but it is what it is, so
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we'll see. Let me say this, I've been playing the scenario in my
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head for the Knicks. I just want to see them win one of two
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if they advance. Should they advance, I think if they will, but
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hibetically here they face the Celtics. You want to win one at each one,
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one at home ideally too, but that's asking a lot against the Celtics.
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One each one at hole in one on the road, and the rest
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is fair play. As far as I'm concerned, games five through seven,
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what don't you say? I would say so, I would say five to
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seven is who's the healthier team, who's the more courageous team? Really,
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when it gets that far, it's a bounce of a basketball, it's,
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you know, a hot shooter. Who's the more effective team from the three
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point line? That means so much. You know any situations, Have you
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felt the momentum slip away from the Knicks at all? Or did you know
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they pretty much still had that edge even going back to New York tie too.
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I felt like they lost a little momentum, especially after third Friday nights
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lost, but they've regained it back. I think Cohen into Indie for games.
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I actually thought that they were going to be in a little more troubled
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last night, but they quickly after the first five minutes when they were down
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sixteen to seven, sixteen to nine, they put that the rest and they
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dominated the rest of the way eleven oh run, which is something we haven't
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seen really in a couple of games from them. So that was good to
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see that they were on an eleven oh streak which helped put them put them
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up even more. You know, I gotta say the parallels here are very
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eerie, very interesting at Eyeri. At the same time, I mean,
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these two teams now going to a game six, Rangers and Knicks, It's
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almost like they have a symmetrical playoff run going on here, wouldn't you say?
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It? Sure seems that way. I did not think the Rangers were
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going to lose at home on on Monday night. That did surprise me.
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I figured they would that they would win. This is the first game of
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the five where one team was superior by a good margin then the other.
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All the other games were one goal games, and obviously a Ranger's specialty teams
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helped them win those games, while Caroline especialty teams were just nowhere. But
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the last two periods, the last two periods and a half, the Rangers
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were a lot of their guys were invisible. I don't expect that tomorrow night,
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and it could go seven, but I expect a much better effort from
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the Rangers. And as I was watching the game on Monday night, you
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know, Frederick Anderson was shaky. The Ranges just didn't pepper him enough,
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or get into his face enough, get into the paint. He was flopping
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all over the place. So I mean, he's got to come through with
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two more big games for them, and he really didn't have a big game
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the other night because the Rangers didn't test them. So I think about the
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four goal dump, you know, dumping that eventually turned out to be in
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that third period with the three goal, you know, with the goals scored
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there. But I think, like the Knicks, they were a little tired.
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They have had a rough road trip in the sense of the Saturday night
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and then you come home and maybe a couple of days off fresh legs.
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But it's gonna come down to coaching, and Laviolett now has to show he's
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different than Galotte, meaning he can't let a collapse happen. He won't let
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it happen. But I think there's a bit of a pressure on him to
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show he's not gallant and he's not gonna let them collapse like that against the
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Devils last year. Well, there's a funny scenario that Peter la Volette nos
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in twenty ten when the Flyers got to the Stanley Cup Finals in the lowist
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of the Blackhawks, they were down to the Boston Bruins three games to none,
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and the Flyers came back to win that series at Boston, and they
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were down in Game seven, three to nothing. So Laviolette knows, and
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he can go into that locker room and he can talk firsthand how this could
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happen. How the Caroline the Hurricane. I don't think they will, How
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the Hurricanes can come back from three to zero. It's only happened five times
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in major sports in North America with the three leagues that played for out of
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seven. One time in Major League Baseball when Boston came from me Hind from
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three nothing to beat the Yankees and four, and then the other four times
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in the NHL, once in Stanley Cup Finals beat Toronto coming back from Detroit.
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The Islanders did it to Pittsburgh, as I just said, the Flyers,
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I did it to the Bruins. And in twenty fourteen, the Jonathan
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Quick year that you were talking about when they won their second Stanley Cup in
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three years. They were down three to zero to the San Jose Sharks and
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they came back to win it and eventually won the Stanley Cup again. So
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and you know what, he was a great player, but dangerardi that giveaway
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in their own zone, leaving Lungfist very vulnerable. I'll never forget that because
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that giveaway cost them the series. I know it was only Game one,
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but that momentum shifted right then and there when that goal was scored. But
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that's then. This is ten years later, and they have a very different,
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differently built team. Two. I would say that ten years ago,
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well, this is the deepest team the Rangers have at that had I would
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say since that since that time, maybe the deepest team since, you know,
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since ninety four. But you know, I think I still think the
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Ranger are in good shape all right, well across the rest of the playoffs.
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So, you know, everybody's talking about the Nuggets and the and the
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Wolves, but it seems like that series is kind of equaled itself out,
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meaning you know, the Nuggets are back in control of it, aren't they
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yes they are. They are back in control. Now I can those seven
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the first four games won by the Row team. Last night, Denver behind
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an old world performance. But call it Jokic, who's just an amazing player.
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They won fairly easily. Tomorrow night, Minnesota can win at home.
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Minnesota is young and but Denver looks like they have righted the ship. So
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it'll be interesting to see what happens in Minneapolis tomorrow night or was it tomorrow
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night or Friday night? But in you know, in game six, Denver's
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tough to be their champs for a reason, and they got the best player
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in the league. And then and then you got the thunder who's the number
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one. You know, when they come on after the Knicks or even the
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Celtics, I feel like the areas out of the room, if you will.
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So it's tough to focus on those. I don't know if you're having
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trouble focus on them. But it's like, all right, we put a
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lot of energy into the next Now just turn off the TV for the rest
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of the night, right, Well, I mean a lot of people do
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that. I mean I try to watch and follow even teams that are not
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teams. I root for I think okay See and I think they have a
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better lineup than Dallas. Yes, Dallas has Kyrie Irving and they have Luka
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Dantich, but I think Oklahoma City has a deeper team and Shay Gillis Alexander
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had a spectacular game the other night as they came from behind to tie it
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up at Tutu when it really looked like most of the game Dallas was going
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to take a three to one lead. I still favor OKAC the rest of
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the way. And they're an up and coming team. Many people don't know
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how good they are, but they are an up and coming team. And
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Shake Guillless Alexander is a superstar in his own right. We just obviously know
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about him, but people don't know about him that much because he plays in
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Oklahoma City. But he's a fantastic player. Well, it's a lot of
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moving pieces in both conferences. And I will tell you on the NHL side,
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we talk about this off air the West. On the NHL side seems
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a little dysfunctional, does it? Like one night is one team other Knights
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that you know the other team ties up being that the Stars in the absence,
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you got the Canucks and the Whalers. I feel like makes your head's
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been just trying to follow the Western Conference right. Well, it looks like
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Dallas has overcome their to nothing deficit where they lost their first two games at
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home in the first round to Las Vegas. They ended up winning that series.
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They took over that series after they lost their first two games at home,
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and it seems like they're that they're they're cooking. And I thought Colorado
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and Dallas was going to be a knockdown, drag out series. It's not
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so far. It still could be. You look at the lineups Dallas as
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a very deep team. Dallas probably has the best goaltender in the Western Conference
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of the playoff teams that are left and Notinger, but not but Otinger or
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any goaltender in the Western Conference, teams can match can match either Boston's Jeremy
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Swayman or Sergey Brabowski of the Florida Panthers or Igorsha Sterkin, and that I
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think gives the Eastern winner and I think the Eastern Conference winner, I would
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have to say it would be the favorite in a in a playoff series.
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We talked about it at the end of last season. If you if you
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want to go back and on one of the podcasts that we did to close
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out the hockey season, beware the Dallas, the Dallas Stars, and they're
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deep. They have a lot of prospects. This Wyatt Johnson, who's just
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twenty years old, has been a revelation for them. They brought him upwards
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the end of last year and he's he's going to be a superstar. Remember
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that name, Dallas. Dallas could win and they're well coached, and you
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know, we'll see what happens. I like whoever comes out of the East.
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I like to win the Cup. But we'll see, we'll see.
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I mean, Swayman hasn't given up a bad goal. Bbowski hasn't given up
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a bad goal. Shasterkin hasn't given up a bad goal. Is in all
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these playoffs and that one saves, that one savement or makes a difference.
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So, Uh, Colorado's gotten a terrible starts against Dallas. I don't think
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they've scored in the first period. I think Dallas has scored like six or
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seven goals. Uh, you know so, And Dallas has a deep team,
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but Colorado probably has the two best players on the ICID in Nathan McKinnon
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and and Cale mccarr. But they'll be fighting for their life. So it's
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it's sometimes it's it's it's hard to figure out why teams really really perform anywhere
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near where you think they would. Some of these games, especially in the
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in the NBA, some of these games are routes. So so we'll see,
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Yeah, it takes a lot. Now, obviously we haven't really talked
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baseball, but that's on the back burner right now because in addition to all
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the playoffs, if I didn't ask you this question and be dumb journalism,
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Vince Carter naming the number in the rafters next year, what can you tell
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me? Maybe we'll have Jimmy on Jimmy Lambrello on for a further conversation about
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the impact Vince Carter had on that Nets organization while the two of you were
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basically running the place. Well, you gotta remember that he is with Vince
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Carter, and congratulations to Vince Carter forgetting his number retired and really one of
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the nicest players that I had an opportunity to meet in two thousand and four.
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At the end of the two thousand and three two thousand and four season
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one we lost Game seven in the Eastern Conference Semifinals to the Pistons. Kenyan
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Martin was a free agent and we lost him to free agency. We offered
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him a good deal. We offered him sixty six million dollars for six years,
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and the Denver Nuggets gave him a MAX deal, so he went.
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He went to Denver. Jason Kidd had hurt himself early in the season,
23:26
but played the whole season with a cracked and damaged knee, and after the
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we lost to Detroit in the seventh game, he has he had his knee
23:37
operator on and his knee operated in. The operation was extensive that he missed
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the first twenty games of the next season, where we got off to a
23:45
terrible start. I mean, we had no kid, We had no Kenyan
23:49
Martin. And then when he did come back, he was on a minute's
23:56
limit. So there was a couple of games. I remember there was one
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game in particular against the Knicks. One we were way ahead and he hit
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his minute limit, which was between twenty and twenty four, and we blew
24:07
the game to the Knicks. And I was not happy, I remember,
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and I was somebody from our organization said, just walked by me. They
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saw how how I wasn't wasn't the thrilled of what was going on, and
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he said, you'll be happy later in the week. I had no idea
24:22
what he was talking about because the deal was kept so under wraps. And
24:29
then on that Friday in the afternoon was announced that we got Vince Carter,
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and really for we didn't give up anything. Really the Alonzo Morning, a
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couple of dead contracts of some other players, and Vince Carter saved the season.
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We made the playoffs. We did lose in the first round to the
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eventual champion, Miami He but Vince Carter became the third leading score in Net's
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history. He probably after draws and Petrovitch was the second best jump shooter in
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that's history. And he is easily if you want to take Doctor J out
25:07
of the equation and just put doctor J in the nets ABA history. Vince
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Carter is the best dunker in nets history. And there's a famous dunk where
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he dunked over Alonzo Morning, if you want to go on YouTube and and
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look that up. He scored fifty two points he in a game, which
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was a next record for a while. And like I said, he really
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stabilized the franchise for a couple more years and we were able to make some
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playoff runs. Great player, and like I said, he was a very
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good guy and very in the community. If I'm not mistaken. He was
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always out there with live box back in the day, right school visits and
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that was a cool era because the YES Network had just picked them up around
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that same time. And boy, Yes and Yankee Nets happened at the perfect
26:03
time because the Yanks had just come off those championships. The Nets were heating
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up and it was almost every night you got a nice little doubleheader going on,
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whether it be the Nets burst the Yankees first, right, I remembered
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all that now. It was, I mean we our second time. The
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second Eastern Conference Championship was our first year on YES, the first year we
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went to the finals, and when the Eastern Conference Championship, it was our
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last year on MSG. So yeah, that was that was a fun time.
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And again Vince Carter saved us, he said he really did. When
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we got in there was such a void after Kenyon left UH and kid coming
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back from the knee surgery. He really saved the season. And excellent player
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just played hard, you know, gave you no trouble. I mean,
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really really nice guy. And by the way Iron Eagle is calling I believe
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he's still calling me the Nick games right now when it's on TNT. I've
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heard him a few times, so you know, the Iron Eagle effect continues.
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Yeah, I know. I guess Brian Anderson did the game the other
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night. I don't know who's doing the game. Who's I don't know who's
27:15
doing the game tomorrow night. But Iron Eagle is obviously Kram Dela Cram.
27:19
He's as good as as they come. You want him doing. He should
27:22
do all the games well, and I know that people listening to this or
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are you know I certainly wrote with the jim Spinarkle Iron Eagle Connection team team
27:33
on yes back in the early two thousand, remember that whole thing, and
27:37
they still go on. I think they're still doing that together. Well they
27:41
still do. They still do college basketball together. Jimmy Spinarkyle an excellent basketball
27:48
analyst and underrated, very underrated, and he still does obviously tournament games for
27:55
CBS and college basketball regular season games for TV for CBS and some other networks.
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Excellent broadcaster and a good person without a doubt, well you are too,
28:07
Louis, and it's it's awesome. We get to talk with all these
28:10
people, and to have cross paths with them is even more cool. You
28:12
get talk with them, and having cross paths with them, you get to
28:15
know them a little more. I mean, I I think he told you
28:18
the story. I saw him at the US Open and I said, do
28:22
you ever sleep? He's like, what sleep? So that's the kind of
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you know, down to earth guy he is. And I love every time
28:27
I got to see him around the part of these parts. Well, that's
28:30
what he is. He is a regular guy. He's down to earth.
28:33
He remembers everybody's name. He's a brilliant broadcaster. He's funny, he's accurate,
28:41
and I'm so glad he's had a successful career. And the Nets are
28:45
very lucky to have him. I and Chris Carino there, they're TV Iron
28:52
Radio Chris Carino, they are the Nets. They are the Nets. Whether
28:56
it was in New Jersey and now in Brooklyn, those two brought cast as
29:00
they are the Nets. One. While I have you and when we're talking
29:06
a little sports, can't let this conversation go by without mentioning the other party,
29:11
Yes, which is the Yankees classics, and I'm sure yesterday when they
29:15
had a moment they aired Doc Goodan's no hitter. The anniversary was yesterday,
29:19
nineteen ninety six. And uh, you know, I mentioned that because everything's
29:23
going on in the sports scene, but the historical part of all these things
29:26
are being buried amidst the fast paced action. So that's why I bring it
29:30
up, because I don't want it to be buried. Right, a history,
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whether it's sports, no matter what type of history, they shouldn't be
29:38
buried. And that I agree with you one. You're one hundred percent right.
29:47
And I guess because he's gotten retired by the Mets, I still feel
29:49
like people should acknowledge the Yankee accomplishments. Yeah, just like a balanced thing
29:55
for me, I guess so well, his Yankee accompliments were very few,
29:59
I mean, besides that noe. I mean, they didn't even put him
30:00
on the playoff froster that year. Strawberry had more accomplishments as a Yankee,
30:08
that's for sure. And but when Doc got to the Yankees, he basically
30:15
was running on fumes. Strawberry was not. Strawberry actually hit a home run
30:19
at Shay as a Yankee. They keep playing that clip over and over when
30:23
the renovations and that were actually really a beam had fell, and I remember
30:29
that and they had to move the Yanks over to Shay and my dad and
30:32
I were at that game shocked that shot. That shocked me, and I
30:38
think it kind of it kind of turned George Simmer's stomach that they'd be home
30:42
at Jay Stadium because he never really liked to play at Shae, you know
30:45
what I mean, Like he we always got to him. Who who didn't
30:52
want to play it Shane, I mean George Steinburn. I'm sure it took
30:56
a lot for him to try and move everything in to Shae because I know
30:59
that he's not a big fan of the Mets, you know, So it's
31:03
what can you do? That's life interesting trivia, Well my favorites. Also,
31:07
while we're on this is there were a couple of times where the Yanks
31:08
were having the day game and the Mets have the night game in the Subway
31:11
series, and we go to both Louis. That's kind of how we were
31:15
back. Yeah, I only went I only went to the day game.
31:17
I didn't go to the night one. I go on on about the playoffs
31:22
because we had that moment where the Mets run of the day, we were
31:26
at Yankee say him at night because they played the same day and we were
31:29
falling asleep during the A's route of the Yanks one of those playoffs games.
31:33
So a lot of back and forth between Shane Yankee as you know, yep.
31:37
And the other thing that's a big day today is the NFL schedule release,
31:41
so before you know it, we'll know who the Jets and Johns will
31:45
be playing. Thank God, thank God that that Giant game is not a
31:49
home game in Germany, because that would not be right to play one hundredth
31:53
year, one hundred season and you have a home game not at home.
31:57
I'm glad that didn't work out that way. Yeah, I think I think
32:00
it's a Giant road game, but you know, Jets are opening up at
32:05
San Francisco, the Giants are opening up at home the Jets on the Monday
32:09
night, and the Giants wroping up at home against the Vikings the day before.
32:15
And the Giants will be for the second time in three years on Thanksgiving
32:17
Day against Dallas, which I was surprised, especially since Dallas has just barbecued
32:24
the Giants over the last half decade. And the Jets will be playing October
32:31
sixth in London against the Vikings, and I think the Jets home opener is
32:38
against the Patriots on a Thursday night. So it's all about the bad part
32:44
about the NFL schedule. It's all about television. It's not about the fans.
32:47
It's not about it's all about TV. It's not about any convenience for
32:53
the fans. It really isn't. So I don't know what's that, Louis.
33:00
I feel, yeah, you're right, you're right, But there you
33:05
go. That's that's where we're facing right now in in New York sports.
33:10
And of course when you say roasting and I'm just in my head thinking is
33:15
a getting any better this year? I mean, now you don't even have
33:17
Sakwan, You're you're pretty much I'm not sure what's gonna happen at running back
33:23
right now. And that's not easy waters to charter, right if you're a
33:28
football team. Well again, running back by committee isn't the worst thing in
33:32
the world. So we got to see what the Giants are going to do
33:36
there they I mean, obviously their offensive line needs to gel, just like
33:42
the Jets offensive line I mean, you look at the two biggest question marks
33:45
on each team. I don't care who they have around them. If their
33:49
offensive line doesn't gel, neither team are going to be successful. Now.
33:53
The Jets have a better roster significantly at this point than the Giants do.
33:59
If Aaron Rodgers stays healthy, the Jets, I think, and obviously the
34:05
Rosses aren't set yet. I think the Jets are the best team in the
34:07
AFC East, along with Miami. I think Buffalo's taking a step back,
34:13
but uh, they're not. They're not going into rebuilding mode, not when
34:17
you have a player like Josh Allen as your quarterback. So so we'll see
34:22
it should be in and and again, anything can happen in football, and
34:24
of course more that's so than any of the sport. You gotta stay healthy,
34:31
exactly, and that was why they didn't want to put a price tag
34:35
on because his health was not. By the way, I see Week eleven,
34:39
Chiefs and Bills, you know, or Bills are Chiefs. But the
34:43
point is, Josh Allen can have all the success in the world during the
34:46
regular season, but I still have yet to see him beat the Chiefs in
34:51
the postseason. That's all I'm gonna say, is we can hype up the
34:53
regular season one, but I want to see him, all right, I'm
34:55
gonna I'm gonna get young Alex. I'm gonna challenge on that. Two years
35:00
ago he put up thirty four points that Kansas City in the frigid weather.
35:05
Uh, the reason that they lost wasn't because of Josh Allen. And last
35:09
year Josh Allen had him beat again. Maybe if he got a little help
35:14
from Stefan Diggs and he made that catch, they would have won that,
35:20
they would have won that game. And so I might challenge I might challenge
35:24
you on that. So it's but again, yes, the quarterback always gets
35:29
to blame, always gets always gets the uh the credit. So so we'll
35:35
see. Yeah, and believe me, nobody knows it's more than Josh Allen.
35:38
Believe me, he knows. I believe you. It's not. It's
35:42
not your valin. It's just the Bills on the whole have seemed to be
35:45
cursed against the Chiefs. I mean, it's like it's like the Yanks trying
35:49
to beat the the Ass in the playoffs. And I think I think if
35:53
both of those happened in our lifetime, Mountains will move. Okay, that's
35:59
out right now. The Astros have a long way to go to get back
36:04
to five hundred. I don't think they're dead, because remember, you just
36:07
got to finish six and there's still five months to go. We're only at
36:12
the at the quarter pole of the playoffs of the baseball season. So the
36:19
Astros still are in the playoff hunt. But you know, you see Bregman
36:23
batting one eighty five. And that's the other thing, Alex, What are
36:25
all these major league hiters Batton so far under their lifetime batting average. You
36:30
can go team to team Matt Olson batting one ninety five. I mean,
36:35
obviously, one of the reasons why the Mets are under five hundred is because
36:39
McNeil and Lindor and Alonso and Nemo they're all under two twenty five. Yesmo
36:49
has a high end base percentage, but he's still under two twenty five.
36:52
Baby, Yeah, all right, it's only a second year, it's been
36:54
two forty. But and you go through a Rosa rain the batting one.
37:00
Yeah, Paul Golschmidt didn't get a didn't get I didn't get a double until
37:06
the third week of the season. What's going on. Well, maybe pitchers
37:09
have found out. I mean, look, Aaron Judge was struggling. He's
37:13
up to two thirty six now. He was under the Mendoza line at one
37:15
point. And I mean, I look at all these teams and guess who
37:21
has the best percentage? By far? Are the Dodgers. They have about
37:25
four or five guys in the three hundred range, you know, Mookie Betsleing
37:29
the way, Otani. But that's a funny team because once they hit the
37:32
playoffs, another one that seems to that's all. That's all that matters,
37:37
That's right. It's all about the play for the Dodgers. But those first
37:39
four guys bets, Otani, Freeman and Will Smith, they're all crushing the
37:47
baseball. But that's really the only team. And then of course they are
37:52
doing okay. They're there. They've got one of the most wins in the
37:57
league right now. But you know they have some good pitching too, I
38:00
think, so it's it's not all opened for these teams. By the way,
38:05
I do like when the Yanks win a two nothing game, because that
38:07
proves they can win the close ones. If they're blown out at him every
38:10
night and don't win the close ones that tells you something, right, Oh,
38:15
I think so, and I mean like, I like, I like,
38:16
I told you. I think here the Yankees, what were they twenty
38:20
seven and twelve, twenty eight and thirteen or whatever? That what their record
38:22
is. I think the best is yet to come for the Yankees. I
38:25
really do. As Frank Sinatra says, You're probably right on that one,
38:31
Louis. So it's uh, it's gonna be fun, and I know you
38:37
are going to keep an eye on it for us. On Terminolo's take,
38:40
as we go through another couple of games, another anxiety you know, filled
38:45
a couple of games, sixes here down the stretch tomorrow and Friday. But
38:51
I do love the back to back vibe of it. I love the Rangers
38:54
one night the next one. It gives us hope every night, does it?
38:59
Sure? Oh? Absolutely? First of all, it gives that.
39:01
I mean, it raises the interest where you could focus on one on one
39:07
team one game. It's not like they're both playing at the same time on
39:12
the same night. So yeah, it absolutely does. And the Knick fans
39:17
follow the Rangers. People think they're just Ranger fans follow the Knicks. That's
39:21
what I've been learning this whole post season, like people are transversible over here.
39:24
Well, I know a lot of fans who are Knicks fans and are
39:28
not Ranger fans. And I know a lot of Ranger fans who are not
39:31
Knicks fans more than you would think, And that that always is a little
39:38
bit of an eye opener, I know, And I always wonder what the
39:44
cultural difference is that the Ranger fans aren't out there jumping around on the plaza
39:49
after a win, but they're the Knicks are. It's just a different vibe
39:52
every night. So it's yeah, mhm. And you know, hockey fans
39:57
are considered more rabbit than NBA fans, and but you're right, it's just
40:05
I guess you'd say the rain the hockey feel is a lot more corporate than
40:08
the basketball field. I guess I would say it that way. So there's
40:13
that too. I I don't I really don't. I don't know. I
40:15
mean, I'm sure a lot of corporate dollars going into buying NBA tickets,
40:21
that's for sure. But yeah, it's just a it's just a different energy
40:27
when the Knicks win. That's that's all I have been noticing. That's where
40:30
we started the conversation, Louis is that energy of the city. No matter
40:32
who's winning, they come alive. And that's after four years of freaking pandemic
40:37
talk. Thankfully, something else is hit the that the news waves, if
40:42
you will, absolutely I'm sick of the pandemic. All right, that's been
40:47
Terminalo's take. Once again, our long conversation because we haven't been chatting for
40:52
a while, so why not catch up. But I'm glad to always catch
40:54
up with my pleasure, Alex, thank you as always for having me two