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I'm your host Mack with your Co host Jack as we cover the latest
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in sports as we start off this weekend.
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And Jack, you know, I, I was going to start off with the MLB
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pitchers, but I want to start off with a, with a guy going to
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the Olympics. He went there first at 19 years
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old. He's going to be there again at
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40 years old. And of course, that's LeBron
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James. And, you know, I think because
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of the comparisons to Jordan and some of the other great ones, we
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kind of, you know, we kind of shove LeBron to the side a
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little bit. Not that I'm a big fan of what
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he's doing with coaching, with the coaches he played for, some
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of the personal things he's done.
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And maybe a lot of people think that he put Ronnie James in the
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bad position, you know, kind of leading the way for making the
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road smoother getting to the Lakers.
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But listen, this guy is unbelievable and he's going
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there to win gold at 40 years old.
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If he gets this gold medal and he's influential and then
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winning these games. Jack, can we finally say that
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maybe he's better than Michael Jordan?
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Maybe he is the greatest basketball player of all time.
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Not because of the Olympics, Mac.
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No one takes the United States winning an Olympic gold medal
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that seriously. I mean, it's a wonderful
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accomplishment, but the USA has the best players in the world.
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They're expected to win. The team is back.
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They're expected to win. It doesn't mean they're
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necessarily going to win because the other countries have kind of
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caught up to a large extent. They have certain star players
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and they have certain star NBA players.
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And welcome to the Mac and Jack show.
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Good old Mac. Once again a throwback.
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We are doing our shows in honor of Mac all this week.
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Good morning, Jack. How are you?
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Good, good. You gave us a highlight and then
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you cut it off. I wanted to hear what I had to
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say. I was actually enjoying this
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segment. It was timely.
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Apparently it took place. You got out of the files
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something that happened within the year after the Lakers
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drafted Brownie James because he talked about Brownie James going
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to the Lakers. But it was right before the
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Olympics in the United States did win the gold medal as
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expected. And it it doesn't change
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Lebron's status. But the longer LeBron plays as
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an open to open up the comparison to him and Jordan
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Nick and they continue to go on to the longer he plays, the more
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he compiles numbers, the better chance in time that he can be
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recognized perhaps as a greater play than Jordan.
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And if you want an example or point out Joe Lewis and Muhammad
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Ali. People don't realize when
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Muhammad Ali retired from boxing if it the majority of people by
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far rated Joe Lewis ahead of Muhammad Ali as the greatest
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heavyweight champion of all time.
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But of course, generations pass, people pass on, new generations
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come up and the young people kind of bond with a more recent
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athlete. And they they bonded with Ali
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over Joe Lewis because Joe Lewis became a relic, OK, you know,
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to, he recognized his greatness, but he he wasn't as revered as
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Ali was to the newer generation. And I think as the decades
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passed, Jordan, you know, another players come up, Jordan
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will still be revered, but I think it'll be a case of one or
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two other superstars, LeBron, maybe Wemby in the future.
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Someone like that is going to catch up to Jordan and status.
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Or we're going to say maybe they were a little better than
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Jordan. I don't know.
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Yeah, I mean, and I purposely stopped that right there because
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I, you know, that really wasn't too long ago that that show was
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filmed, especially because Bronny hasn't been, you know,
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quote UN quote in the league that long.
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And of course we've seen him more in the G League now, Jack,
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than we have with, you know, his dad.
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And and and then Mack mentioned that LeBron was 40 and LeBron is
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still 40. So that video was actually
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sometime last year that it was filmed bringing it out of the
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archives. And and here we are talking
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about NBA today. The NBA playoffs are going on.
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Jack and LeBron is not a conversation right now because
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they have been eliminated early on.
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But the Knicks and Celtics Max team.
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The Knicks now have a 20 lead over the Celtics.
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I'm shocked. Are you?
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I thought the Knicks are going to win one of the two games in
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Boston and I thought they'd take this series, the six games.
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I'm surprised how disorganized the Celtics saw.
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But I got to point something out.
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And people hardly speak about this.
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Poor singers has has some type of virus.
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He's limited. He's not the same player.
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He played 14 minutes in the last game.
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He was OK when he was in there, but he's limited in how much he
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can give. And poor singers is a difference
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make on close games, an absolute difference maker.
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Jalen Brown's been terrible. You see some of these shots
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people are taking. And when I, when I hear people
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say, well, the modern NBA players, you know, on teams, you
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know, you put a team of the modern top NBA players, how
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superior they'd be to the teams in the 60s and 70s.
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Just watch this Celtic team. That's all they're doing is
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taking 3 pointers, long jump shots.
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I mean yesterday there was this play with Drew Holiday.
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He was right under the basket, lay the Don ball up.
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So instead of laying it up, Drew Holiday kicks it out, you know,
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to Jaylen Brown past the three-point line.
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Like what the heck was that all about?
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I mean, these changes, run and gun 3 pointers get in position.
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I understand what the analytics say, what the percentages are,
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but if you can get an easy 2 pointer, a shot from close
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range, A2 pointer, why take a much more difficult shot and try
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to set up from three points? I just don't get it.
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I mean, Jason Tatum's been inconsistent.
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You know, you mentioned the other leaders poor shooting.
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He went 5 of 19 Jack for only 13 points in Game 2, far below what
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his his average has been for the franchise.
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He's known as the cornerstone of this team.
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He also has looked like he has a lack of aggression.
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He's just not as as momentum as he has been.
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He's been settling for the contested jumpers instead of
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attacking the rim and defending those fouls or trying to draw
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fouls and some instances he just doesn't look like he's the
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leader that he has been in clutch performances.
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Yeah, you just get the feeling the next a little more focused
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here, but the next have a 2 nothing lead.
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They're going back to Madison Square Garden and it's Boston in
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this series. Absolutely.
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They're very much in the series number teams have come back from
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A2 nothing deficit. And consider this, Boston does
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play bad on the road than they do at home.
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And all Boston has to do is win the third game.
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And the mindset of this whole series changes.
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And for all the people who had picked Boston and are now
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doubting the Celtics, consider this.
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People were thinking the Knicks wouldn't even take it to six
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games. The Celtics and Beedman four or
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five games. Well, if that's the mindset,
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then keep that mindset because the Knicks have to win two more
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games. So Boston was going to beat them
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in five games. They have five games left.
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Let them go four games to 1, and that means they would have won
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the series in seven games. But I really think the Celtics
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have to win this third game because once a team gets in the
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three, nothing hollow. It's an upward climb.
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But a couple of years ago, remember, the Celtics were down
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3 nothing to Miami in the Eastern Conference finals.
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The Celtics won the next three games, the 4th.
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It was a 7th game at home, and they were awful in that seventh
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game, Jimmy Butler, and he stepped up and they wound up
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going to the Finals to play the Lakers.
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That that was about, what, five years ago?
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Whatever. And they lost to the Brands
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Lakers. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, but you made a good point.
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That's what's going to bring up Jack.
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They have to win this next game. I mean they look like they are
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mentally and emotional fragile right now.
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Let's talk about those leads that they have blown.
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They have lost double digit leads in both games, one and
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two, especially concerning a veteran team.
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They are veteran team. They're coming back.
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They're defending champions. I mean, critics have really
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hopped all over this to look at the visible frustration.
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You can see the frustration on these players faces when
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throughout the team, throughout the Celtics team, when things
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are not going their way, they have been overly relying on
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these three pointers. I blame Steph Curry, you know,
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he's been the three-point king and everybody seems to think
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that's what you do in playoffs. But the Celtics have gone from
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cold to frozen, Jack. I mean, their three points are
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not 3 pointers, are not going in.
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They do not have diversity on their offense and let's be
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honest, they just don't even have a back up plan.
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They're so relying on these three pointers to catch up and
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make the difference that they're below these leagues.
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Meanwhile, the Knicks are playing aggressively.
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They're guarding the perimeter, and they're forcing the tough
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looks. Yeah.
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I mean, you use the keyword diversity, OK?
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The Celtics really don't have it.
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They've just been shooting 3 pointers and they're shooting
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has been really poor. But it's going to get better.
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So if I'm the next, I would be somewhat concerned because the
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Knicks are going to have to make certain adjustments and they
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basically give a lot of minutes to their start.
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This is most teams do. I mean, just look at any NBA box
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score and you have about 6-6 guys with the DNP next to their
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name. We're not even seeing any time
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you want the Knicks to start utilizing Mitch Robinson a
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little more. He gives you a certain defensive
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presence that Karl Anthony Towns doesn't give.
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Now, Karl Anthony Towns is fine grabbing rebounds and he's not a
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bad defender, but Mitch Robinson is a little bit better as a
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defender. But you can't have him on the
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court towards the end of the game because, I mean, one of his
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foul shots the other day was laughable.
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Like what happened if that ball slipped out of his hand?
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That's why I was like, that could not have been a real shot.
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I was watching that and I was like, it was, was that supposed
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to happen? It just looked like the ball had
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some type of debris on it because the IT was just such an
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uncontrolled shot. And the Celtics kept fouling
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them at the end when they had fouls to give.
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And Tom Thibodeau wisely took Mitch Robinson out of the game
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when he'd finally be forced to shoot.
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OK, He didn't have to go to the line on the two fouls before
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that that when they filed them. So it was OK to leave Mitch
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Robinson then. Then Tom Thibodeau thought, I
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can't leave him in the game anymore because next time he's
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going to have to go to the line. And that's a terrible percentage
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situation for the Knicks because if he goes to the line for two
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shots, chances are he misses one of the two.
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If you're giving a possession back where the other team could
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get two or three points, he kind of analytics wise, you're
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putting the Celtics in position to catch up.
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Listen, the Celtics are going to hit a number of those shots they
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missed going forward in these playoffs, OK?
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So the Knicks are going to have to step up as well and it's one
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game at a time. I look for bounce back from the
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Celtics in game three. I hope not.
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I hope the Knicks are riding a wave of momentum.
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You're hoping the Celtics are a little bit down in the dump.
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So they're shooting woes continue and the Knicks can go
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up three one against the Celtics because if they go back to
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Boston and the Knicks have a three one lead, chances are
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Boston's favor to win game five. It doesn't mean they will.
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And then the next time a lot of pressure for Game 6 because they
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don't want to go back to Boston for Game 7.
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So in other words, any thought of the Boston demise, forget
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about it. No one thought the Celtics would
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be down to nothing at this point.
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No one. I mean, I thought, I thought in
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the game, you know, the night before last that they would,
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they would not by double digits, 15 points or so.
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When they got up to 20 point lead, I said why didn't I pick
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them to blow the Knicks out? I should have known better.
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You know, they lost game one coming out with a vengeance and
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they're going to set things straight.
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And the Knicks clawed back and forth.
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You know, Jalen Brunson, I don't know if you rate the top ten
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players in the NBA, how many people would put them in the top
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ten. If they did, I think he would be
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rated 8th and 9th at a lot of party.
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I I don't have a list for that. If I have one Criticism of Jalen
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Brunson, sometimes he tries to do a little too much, carried a
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whole team on his back. He holds the ball, holds the
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ball, holds the ball and tries to score by force.
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You know what? Listen, Jalen, for instance, the
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leader of that team, he wanted to be a neck.
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And what were the maps thinking when they let him go?
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They didn't give him the contract.
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I mean, they didn't think he was going to be that good, and they
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had him. But his dad's an assistant coach
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with the Knicks that he's at the place he wants to be.
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And he took a little less of a contract than he could have
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gotten Jalen Brunson because he wants to keep things intact.
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Also, McHale Bridges the Knicks gave up a boatload and future
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draft choices for. McHale Bridge, yes.
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You, you don't give up what the Knicks gave up unless you're
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getting a superstar type player, true impact player.
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But I'll tell you this. If the Knicks win the NBA
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championship, and it's not far fetched now because if they
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beat, if they beat the Celtics and there's a good chance the
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Pacers beat the Cavaliers in their series, the next can beat
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the Pacers in the Eastern. And whoever's coming out of the
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West, the next have a shot to beat anyone coming out of the
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West. It's not like you have the
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Lakers of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant the way and you're
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like a powerhouse. No, not at all.
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They can. Beat anyone in the West if they
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won an NBA championship the next?
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Are you kidding me that Mikkel Bridges deal?
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It is worth it, no matter what happens in the seasons to come.
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I mean, they're really going to have to bank on that because
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they've the Celtics as a whole have been priding themselves on
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defense, but there's been slow on their rotations.
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They allowed key Knicks role players to get hot, Josh Hart
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and Dante Divisino. They've been struggling to
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contain Jalen Brunson, who you talked about him.
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They've been, you know, he's been picking apart their
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mismatches. Now they need to make some
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coaching as. They've been saying no.
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You're thinking less. Yeah.
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You know, he's still understandable.
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Yeah, no, But yeah, you're thinking of the other.
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You're thinking of the other game, you know.
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Yeah, because we were bringing up Jalen Brunson, but with Joe
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Missoula's game, well. They played together, Villanova.
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That's why you thought that they were teammates at Villanova.
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Well, well know that they've they've been picking apart him.
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The Celtics have been doing that to Jalen Brunson, is what I'm
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saying. They cannot contain him.
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They can't contain Jalen Brunson.
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That was what I was saying. Like he's been, he's basically
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been picking them apart. They can't hold him down, you
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know what I'm saying? But there's got to be some
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coaching adjustments with Joe Missoula because right now Tom
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Thibodeau is not playing house money.
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He's playing chess while Joe is playing checkers, their timeout
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and rotations. I mean, they're not using good
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game clock management at all. That's why they're trying to do
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all these files at the end Jack to try to make up and they're
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blowing these leaves and they have lack of game adjustments
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within in the game like it's. Horrible.
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Yeah, well, Branson got fouled at the end of, you know, towards
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the end of the game, went to the line, hit his shots.
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But Joe Missoula, you know, they won an NBA championship last
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year. People in Boston are calling
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from to get fired. I mean what?
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What have you done? I don't.
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Care. Listen, I don't care if he had a
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is having a lousy time coaching in the playoffs.
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I'm not saying he is, but I don't care if he is.
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There isn't. You don't find a guy who just
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won you an NBA championship unless, unless things are so out
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of control for whatever reason. You you just don't do that.
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It's what have you done for me lately?
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And all they're seeing is what's happening now.
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They they forget about the past. You know how quick people forget
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about the past, Jack? It's like if it's not happening
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now, it doesn't matter. It's like when, now when every
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time or else we hate you and we are tired.
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We're trying to get rid of you now.
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You brought up the top ten NBA players and I look while we've
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been sitting here and shockingly, Jalen Brunson is not
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on that list. Yeah, I he wouldn't be on the
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level lists because there's so many great players in the NBAI
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mean, even pairing the Knicks and the Celtics, OK, would we
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put them ahead of Jason Tatum? Probably not Jason.
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Tatum's on this list is number. 4 right, right, right.
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I'm just saying you just look at teams.
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Would I put them ahead of Brown? I actually would.
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I some people wouldn't. That's the thing about it.
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And then you look at the other playoff series.
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I mean, you look at Denver, would you put them ahead of
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Jokic? No, no, not.
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Obviously not. Would you put them ahead of Sean
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Gilly, Gilchius Alexander? I don't think so.
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No joke is number one a three times MVP.
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Right, most. Offensive big man in the league.
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Would you put them ahead of Giannis?
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No, Giannis is like, yeah, Giannis is number 2.
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Would you put them ahead of Steph Curry?
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No. Steph is #6.
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Yeah, I'm just saying you, you think of the team now, this is
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an interesting one, really an interesting one.
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Would you put him ahead of Anthony Edwards?
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I knew you were going to say that, so I probably would.
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And Anthony Edwards is not on the top ten list.
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Yeah, so without Anthony Edwards, you know, we'll see how
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his series concludes and everything.
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You know, rather they and we'll see how it's season, we'll see
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how this season concludes. Yeah, like maybe top top 20
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players for sure. Yeah, but I would put Brunson.
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I would feel comfortable putting Brunson ahead of other
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outstanding players like Devin Booker.
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Yeah, I would put him in like #9 or 8.
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Iris Maxi, I would put him ahead of those guys.
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You could say it's close if you want, you could say it's close,
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but I would put him ahead of those guys.
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OK? I would put him ahead of Jay
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Morant. I would place them above a lot
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of top of the line guys. I mean, but you bring up John
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Morant. I mean, would we, would we
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really even put him in the same category?
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No, no, not even the same category.
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What if I look at someone like Luca?
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Everyone would put Luca ahead of Jalen Bronson.
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But the more you think of it, Luca has the liability on
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defense. We know.
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We never consider that. You know, reminds me of baseball
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where you look at a guy's numbers.
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Oh, he has a high batting average.
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He knocks in a lot of runs. He hits a lot of home runs, but
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meanwhile, before they had the designated hitter, the guy would
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be floundering around the outfield, you know, and giving
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up runs the other way. But it didn't show in the box
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scores. By the way, my favorite player,
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I hate to say it, 1 your favorite player.
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Freddie Freeman got off the great study.
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He shouldn't be my favorite player.
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I'm a Yankee fan. I relate.
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I relate to Freddie Friedman because I was the first baseman
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who wasn't good enough to make the major leagues.
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And yeah, yeah, but I. But Freddie Freeman was just
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great role model, great Atlanta Brave.
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Gray has his legacy as a Dodge. It all worked out for him.
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But we'll talk baseball, I guess.
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Another Yeah. I miss him every time I see him
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suit up for the. Dodgers Oh yeah, yeah.
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Wonderful. And faster than the game.
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You know everything good about the game's.
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Ready. He is the face of the Braves.
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I don't care if he is on the West Coast.
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We I have. A really hot Wait, wait, wait,
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wait. Yeah, yeah.
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You're an Atlanta Brave fan. I'll stick on baseball a little
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bit. You know, you remind.
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You want me a Mac? We bounced all over the place.
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We would like the Celtics out of control.
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No, no. Well, you had a game plan, but,
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you know, I I guess I threw you off with the plan.
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But what's the feeling towards Freddie Freeman in Atlanta?
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Has he lost a tiny bit of popularity?
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Just a tiny bit. No, not really, because when I
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go to games in person, when we, you know, when we see anything
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about the Dodgers or things like that, like the fans still show
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up and they wear his actual shirts.
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Like I have a shirt with his name on the back and they just
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act like he's an extension of the team still.
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It's kind of like Dansby Swanson, you know?
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I mean, we just still have these players.
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But Freddie was so long tenured here.
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Like I said, he literally is like the face of the Braves.
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And so and and Freddie didn't want to go.
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Everybody was mad that the Braves got rid of him.
24:49
They were like, you know, of course they want a championship.
24:52
Everybody wants more money and they just they didn't pay him.
24:56
They paid Ronald Lacuna Junior and they got.
24:59
Rid of Well, they didn't really pay Ronald Lacuna Junior.
25:01
The Braves, a smart organization.
25:04
No, no, they paid him, but they didn't pay him.
25:06
Let me explain. They gave Hakuna $100 million
25:10
for 10 years when he was a young player because they projected he
25:15
was definitely going to make it. He was going to be a star.
25:18
You sign them early, you give them that money, you get a
25:20
bargain now. And obviously that's life
25:24
changing money and anything can happen.
25:27
The greatest player to get injured all of a sudden he could
25:31
forget how to play, and getting the $100 million contract made
25:36
Hakuna set for life unless he foolishly blows the money.
25:41
But Hakuna would have been worth so much more money later on in
25:47
the Brave sign of all those years.
25:49
And other teams do that sometimes.
25:52
They project the guy to be a great player going forward.
25:56
They sign them immediately for a lot less than they have to give
25:59
later on. And they don't have to compete
26:01
with anyone. But the Braves did offer Freddie
26:06
Freeman a contract. It didn't work out.
26:07
And then Matt Olsen, they signed Matt Olsen from Oakland.
26:11
It was like a good deal. You know there to be the first
26:14
baseman and he's worked out. We still got a Zuna, Marcella
26:18
Zuna still there, of course. And and we've been trying to
26:22
show some type of change in our win loss pattern.
26:26
I mean, we barely lost to the Reds a couple days ago, four to
26:29
three and well, yesterday and we actually had shut out the Reds
26:34
on the 5th of May when we match up the series.
26:37
But we're going to be playing the Pirates starting Friday,
26:40
tomorrow, later today, this afternoon.
26:43
And hopefully we can really, really regroup because we've
26:46
been struggling ever since, in my opinion, they started letting
26:49
those guys go and. I want to thank the Braves for
26:52
not signing Max Freed. He went to my Yankees and right
26:56
at this moment, he's the best pitcher.
26:59
He's the best pitcher in baseball at this moment.
27:03
He has been incredible, Jack. You couldn't wait till that
27:08
dagger. You couldn't wait.
27:10
I told you that who signed an 8 year contract with the Yankees
27:16
and he's been sensational. I mean, I can't tell you how
27:20
good the guy has been. I mean, and we needed them with
27:24
Garrett Cole getting injured, being out for the season.
27:27
But with Freddie Freeman, you know, my favorite player really
27:30
should be Aaron Judge as he represents everything good with
27:34
the game and he is the best player in the game.
27:36
But I kind of relate to a first baseman a little more and I felt
27:41
for Freddie Freeman having leaving the Braves.
27:45
He fired his agent after that was because.
27:48
Of the reason why that's the reason why Jack, his agent did a
27:52
horrible job trying to negotiate the deal with the Braves and and
27:57
Freddie said he didn't even know about it Jack.
27:59
What But but if the Braves valued Freddie Freeman and
28:03
there's certain players who should be legacy players, who
28:07
should be with their team their whole career, it's more than
28:11
just what they're worth on the field at that moment.
28:15
They're very few players should be legacy players.
28:18
There's there's so few. But Freddie Freeman was one for
28:22
the Braves. So in defense of Freddie
28:24
Freeman, if I'm the Braves and I want him to be my legacy player
28:29
regardless of his age, and I say, Freddie, you home now?
28:32
Can I stop by your house? And I say, Freddie, this is the
28:36
situation. This is it.
28:39
This is crunch time. OK, well, we love you here, but
28:43
this is what we're offering. We're not negotiating anymore
28:46
with with serious. We'll give you a few days, but
28:50
we're not negotiating further. And I would basically just tell
28:57
them we're moving on. But they signed.
28:59
But what happened, the Braves before they officially cut ties
29:03
with Freddie Freeman, they covered their bases.
29:06
They signed Matt Olsen. So he kind of got a little
29:09
blindsided. It's not like they said, thank
29:12
you, Freddie, good luck to you. And then, and if they didn't
29:16
sign Matt Olsen and they told Freddie Freeman we're moving on
29:20
from you, his he may have called back Freddie Freeman and said,
29:23
look, I want to stay at Atlanta. And that's that.
29:26
But it didn't quite happen. Yeah.
29:29
I've still heard about that. So, and if he goes, would you
29:32
be, would he still be a favorite player if he plays let's say 6
29:38
more years for the LA Dodgers? They win a couple of other
29:41
championships. He's outstanding.
29:45
And when he goes in the Hall of Fame, he elects to go in as a
29:48
Dodge instead of a Brave. So I still really like him.
29:56
I mean, I'm a fan of Solaire also and Asuna and Dansby
30:02
Swanson. Like I'm a fan of that whole
30:04
championship team. But Freddie Freeman was like my
30:08
favorite. And so I kind of, I mean, I'd be
30:12
rooting him on, but I would be a little sad that he didn't go in
30:15
as a brave. I mean, I, I don't know if they
30:17
do it like they do the NFL, even if they play, can they come back
30:20
and, you know, go in as another player?
30:23
No, no, you. Sometimes the player is split
30:27
down the middle, like he's had a great career of equal status
30:31
with both teams. And it's such a hard decision
30:35
what to do. Major League Baseball made a
30:37
decision on Gary Carter, who was the Montreal Expo catcher and
30:42
the Met catcher. And Carter was like a big part
30:47
of the Mets winning the 1986 World Series.
30:50
Was loved in New York, famous Met, yet they decided he was
30:55
going to go in as Montreal Expo, Major League Baseball.
30:58
Decided that Dave Winfield played a lot, a lot of years
31:03
with the Yankees and with the San Diego Padres.
31:07
It was kind of close which one he'd go in with, But the Padres
31:11
wanted him to go in as a Padre and they gave him $1,000,000 to
31:15
go in as a Padre, you know, and at that time $1,000,000, you
31:20
know, retired players would buy that, that a lot more than they
31:25
would today. So he took the money, the
31:27
$1,000,000 Winfield took, and he went in as a San Diego Padre.
31:31
Mike Usina had like an 18 year career, 10 with the Baltimore
31:37
Orioles, 8 with the New York Yankees.
31:40
He got into the Hall of Fame. He elected to go in as neither
31:43
nor really Yankee because he couldn't decide.
31:47
He couldn't decide. I'll give you another case.
31:49
He goes in independent. He just goes in as an
31:52
independent player. Is that how?
31:53
Yeah. Kind of as an independent, yeah.
31:56
That's like weird. Reggie Jackson played a total of
32:02
he played for the Yankees, the Angels, the Orioles and the
32:07
Athletics. But primarily he played he, he,
32:11
I think he played five years for the Angels, but he was never
32:14
going into an Angel. He played five years for the
32:16
Yankees, nine years as an Athletic.
32:20
He won three World Series as an Athletic, 2 as a Yankee.
32:26
But of course his most famous moments of individually were
32:30
more so the Yankee. He elected to go in as a Yankee
32:33
even though his body of work is in Oakland Athletic was greater
32:38
and Major League Baseball didn't stop him because he, you know,
32:42
he had the famous three home run game and or you know, created a
32:47
big buzz during the time he was in New York.
32:50
But he went in as a Yankee and that's that's what it is.
32:55
Yeah, well listen, y'all know my phrases.
32:59
The verdict is still out and it's still really early in
33:02
baseball. I got to pin us back real quick
33:05
because we did not get a chance to talk about the Nuggets and
33:09
Thunder. They are tied for one and one
33:12
right now and the Thunder had a dominant performance.
33:16
I mean 149 and one O 6. There was no match up
33:21
whatsoever. They literally let Denver know
33:25
we are going absolutely no here. We are not laying down.
33:29
And actually Jack, this is maybe where you know, Denver fans may
33:34
look at it like, OK, This is why we have an interim head coach.
33:38
It finally showed in that game. Well, I'm going to say Denver.
33:44
Going into the OKC series, we thought they'd be a tire team.
33:49
They had that seven game series with the Clippers.
33:52
Even though they won Game 7 decisively, there had to be a
33:56
lot of emotions. OKC was rested waiting for him.
34:00
Yet Denver stole game one against OKC at the end of the
34:04
game. I mean, OKC had a three-point
34:07
lead with what, 9 1/2 seconds left and was a classic case of
34:11
over coaching by, you know, OK, Steve, but you know, that's done
34:18
and OK C, you know, I mean, it didn't stay with them.
34:24
To their credit, they lost that game to them.
34:27
OK, we lost the game. Forget about it.
34:29
The series is now starting for us.
34:31
They came in with a rat a great attitude.
34:34
They were raring to go, and I kind of have a feeling that the
34:39
Nuggets were so emotionally drained from beating the
34:42
Clippers and then winning game one at OK C and knowing they
34:46
were going back to Denver for Games 3 and 4.
34:50
They're probably thinking, well, we won one here, we'd like to
34:54
win another one. But OK C came out with a
34:56
vengeance. They're not playing around.
34:59
They, I mean, they took it to the Nuggets.
35:01
They didn't only want to show them that they were the better
35:04
team. They want to show them they were
35:05
the much better team and I think that they kind of made a little
35:10
bit of a statement in Game 2. But if you're the Nuggets, you
35:15
look at it as a throwaway game, OK, better, you know, get the
35:19
game out of the way. We're tired, we lost.
35:21
We know we're not going to sweep them.
35:23
We needed to take a step back. We don't care how much they won
35:27
by. We'll be ready for them when
35:28
they come to Denver. You know what the big difference
35:31
in this game was? Then?
35:33
Game one, Jack Nicola Jokis, he fouled out in the third quarter.
35:38
He only had 17 points as opposed to the 42 points he had in game
35:43
one and the 22 rebounds in game two.
35:48
OK C set a franchise playoff record and tied the NBA playoff
35:53
record with 87 points in the first half, 87.
35:58
I mean, they didn't have to do nothing the rest of the game.
36:00
This shy Julia Julius Alexander's efficiency.
36:04
He led the Thunder with 34 points.
36:06
He was the new the new joke it 34 points, 11 from 13 from the
36:12
field and 11 of 11 from his free throw line.
36:15
He was flawless with eight assists.
36:17
Jokish was the difference maker by him filing out.
36:20
He and he never gave an opportunity for the Nuggets to
36:24
come back. You know, Jokish is arguably the
36:28
best all around center in the history of the game.
36:31
I mean, arguably I'm, I mean, we keep hearing about the great
36:36
centers. We hear about Russell
36:38
Chamberlain, Kareem, you know, Shaq, Elijah Wan, etcetera,
36:43
etcetera, etcetera, who does all the things that Jokic could do.
36:47
Now, Kareem was pretty good. If he was asked to do it, Kareem
36:51
could actually dribble, and he was enough of a talent that if
36:55
they needed Kareem to play a little guard in an emergency, he
36:58
could dribble. Well, people don't realize about
37:01
Kareem, but the way Djokic passes the ball, he hits the
37:04
open man, he gets out. What concerns me about Djokic,
37:08
it's kind of his big body. He looks like he's always tired
37:12
and they he's like, he love the ring all the time.
37:14
Now, LeBron James has a big body too, but he seems to run the
37:18
court, you know, with a little more abandoned and you know,
37:23
Jokic, Jokic kind of lumbers up and down the court, but he's
37:26
always there when you need them. He's always there when you need.
37:31
Them. And I like the idea when I keep
37:33
hearing all well, the old timers couldn't keep up with the modern
37:37
NBA players. Just look at them.
37:38
If you insert Djokic into 19, sixties, 1970s, he'd look like
37:43
the other guys. Lumbering the corner.
37:45
Is that not the tiny shorts though, Jack?
37:49
No, no, not not that. But then, then.
37:54
But because they won an NBA title a couple of years ago, is
37:59
a favorite in a lot of people's minds.
38:01
But that really shouldn't figure into things I don't want to
38:05
hear. Well, Denver knows what it takes
38:08
to win. Yeah, they do on that one year.
38:11
The players like Murray, Gordon, you know, with Jokic, of course,
38:15
but they also know what it takes to lose because I started that
38:19
one championship year. They've gotten eliminated the
38:22
other years. So I I don't want to hear about
38:25
it. I mean, what a team's done in
38:28
the past usually doesn't have, you know, much to do in the
38:32
future. Once in a while, yeah, you can
38:35
call upon the experience. If you've played a number game
38:39
sevens before, it'll help you. If you're playing a current Game
38:45
7, because you've been there, you can control your nerves
38:48
better. You know, you're not as hyper.
38:51
And so we'll see. But it's it.
38:54
But then for OK C, you know, I kind of wonder, you know, is how
39:02
long Denver is going to hang in there.
39:03
Believe it or not, I like OKC. I know this is a little bold.
39:08
I like OKC to win games three and four in Denver.
39:11
How's that? That's a bold statement.
39:14
That's a bold statement, but then that means that they are
39:17
done because. They'll be done.
39:20
They'll be done. It's.
39:22
A wrap. And then we'll see what happens,
39:25
you know, with the winner, you know, between Golden State and
39:29
Minnesota, you know what'll happen there.
39:32
But I can't say. OK, see it then.
39:34
But but, but, but I think of all, we haven't talked about
39:38
another series, the Cavaliers and the Pacers.
39:42
Now that's surprising the heck out of me.
39:44
That's the price. And I think Cleveland, they look
39:48
pretty much cooked to me here the way it is now.
39:51
Now, I don't say it with confidence, OK, CS going to win
39:54
games three and four. Don't get me wrong.
39:57
I'm just coming up with a bold prediction, you know, and and
40:02
when the show's over, I'm probably going to say, yeah,
40:05
they'll probably split in Denver.
40:07
You know, I'll, I'll reassess. I'm just, I'm just acting a
40:11
little arrogant now with that prediction you brought up a
40:14
little arrogant, but but. Yeah, but Cleveland and and the
40:19
Pacers? Those are some challenging games
40:22
right there. I mean, zero and two, they're
40:25
down. Like, I mean, one, 21112 in the
40:30
last game, 1/21/19 and a close nail biter for Game 2.
40:35
And I mean, you know, Tyrese Halliburton and this whole this
40:41
whole fiasco, I mean, Donald and Mitchell being on a, he's
40:45
expected to come back for Game 3.
40:48
So is Darius, Garland, Evan Mobley, DeAndre Hunter, they may
40:52
even attempt to play in game three.
40:54
This may be their only saving grace, but their status is still
40:58
uncertain. Jack.
40:59
Did you hear what your favorite sports analyst had to say?
41:05
I knew you were going to talk about him.
41:06
You know what? He was getting on Darius Garland
41:11
of all people. I mean, I guess Darius Garland
41:14
to get his name out there and he was putting them down.
41:17
He was saying I don't, he said, I'm paraphrasing.
41:21
He said something in effect. I'm not questioning the
41:24
brother's toe, whether it's really injured.
41:27
I'm not. Yeah, he's throws in the word
41:29
brother, you know, whatever. But he's he's or he's not
41:35
questioning the severity of the injury.
41:38
Why Darius Garland can't fight? But unless your toe is falling
41:42
off, you better dawn get yourself on the court with the
41:45
season on the line. I don't.
41:48
Doesn't he think Darius Garland wants to win bad enough?
41:52
Does he think Darius Garland can play but can't go?
41:58
Only Darius Garland knows the way he feels.
42:01
You know, once in a while, I'll just say Sonia now, I'll finish
42:06
quick on this. Once in a while, you had to have
42:09
a player who kind of milks out an injury.
42:12
I understand that. But some people felt that way
42:16
about Ben Simmons. I can understand questioning it,
42:19
but not not Darius Carlin. If his toe prohibits him from
42:23
get being able to jump, put any weight on it.
42:27
I know as a runner you get shut down.
42:31
I mean, what's baffling to me is how loud Stephen A always is.
42:36
And he's never played a down in the NFL and he's never caught a
42:40
basket in the NBA as a writer. He was a writer, a well known
42:46
writer, but the fact that he can always come out because this is
42:50
not the first time he's made comments about players, injuries
42:53
and be the basically team expert.
42:56
He knows more than the medical doctors.
42:58
These professional teams have professional doctors who can
43:02
tell whether or not someone's injury is significant enough for
43:06
them to miss games. And the fact that this team is
43:09
in the playoffs, there is no way a team doctor is going to say,
43:14
oh, he can't play just because he's told him not to say that
43:18
they are trying to win a championship.
43:20
And so Stephen A is loud and wrong as usual.
43:24
Yeah, no, I like Stephen A don't get me wrong.
43:27
I actually like to listen to Stephen AI don't feel he's a bad
43:32
guy. And I'm friends with Max
43:33
Kellerman and, you know, I'm Max, you know, and him didn't,
43:38
you know, not the most pleasant falling out, you know, stuff
43:43
that I was told I'm going to keep to myself always.
43:46
But. But there was a case years ago,
43:50
OK, years ago, a pitch on the Houston Astros.
43:54
I don't know where they heard of him.
43:55
Jr. Richard, he couldn't pitch.
43:59
He kept saying he's not feeling well.
44:01
He's not feeling well, He's not feeling well.
44:03
The doctors would check him and say, Nah, he's good to go.
44:06
And he said he wasn't good to go.
44:08
And he was accused of dogging it.
44:10
And then he had a stroke a little after that.
44:13
So he did have, you know, something bad that threw him off
44:18
the way he felt. And, and you know what?
44:20
That's why I wouldn't question. I hope no one questions poor
44:24
Zingis if the Celtics lose this series, because I know how it
44:28
feels. You have a virus, OK, Because I
44:31
had a virus a few years ago. It put me out for like 6 weeks.
44:36
I would like, I can hardly, I can hardly do anything for six
44:43
weeks. And if I, and I thought to
44:45
myself, you know, if I, if I was a ballplayer and I had to play
44:49
the Super Bowl, the way I'm playing now, I'm staying home.
44:54
I'm not even trying to play. I'm, you know.
44:57
We saw that with Jalen Hurts when he had a some type of flu.
45:01
They made sure they said it was a cover, but he traveled
45:04
separately and everything last year when the Eagles were
45:07
eliminated. But believe these players if
45:10
they if they can't play whatever, you know, it happened
45:14
a time something remember the Bear quarterback Jay Cutler, I
45:18
think when was he on the Bears then or whatever was in the
45:23
playoff game and he left the game early and he was standing
45:29
on the sideline because he left early because of his knee and
45:32
everyone was criticizing them all.
45:35
He should have gotten in there, tried to play.
45:37
He's a quitter. He's standing.
45:39
That's a big difference with him playing and standing if your
45:42
knee hurts. That's because Jay Cutler never
45:45
gave a darn. Everybody knows that.
45:48
He went into retirement and then the Dolphins drafted him and
45:51
everybody was like, he looked like he cared more about playing
45:54
for the Dolphins that one season than he did with the Bears.
45:57
Jay Cutler was horrible as far as showing enthusiasm about the
46:02
game. He would throw an interception
46:04
and it was no his poker face was unwrinkled.
46:07
He didn't even care. So when he had that little knee
46:10
situation, Bears fans went crazy.
46:13
They were like, we're sick of him, get him out of there.
46:16
Because he listen, me as a Panthers fan, I knew how Jay
46:20
Cutler was and we only played them like every three to four
46:23
years. And I even knew he had AI don't
46:25
care attitude. Now, Jack, we got about 9
46:29
minutes left and I do want to talk some NFL since you brought
46:31
that in there. Speaking of not playing and
46:34
injuries, I want to talk about my team, which is something I
46:37
rarely do. But there was 2 roster moves
46:39
today with the Panthers, Carolina Panthers that is, is
46:42
Jadavia Clowney was released veteran pass rusher.
46:46
It's been talked about for a few days now.
46:47
Will it happen today? He was a three time Pro Bowler
46:51
and former number one overall pick.
46:54
Only recorded 5 1/2 sacks and 46 tackles and 14 starts during
46:58
this season. His release fees Jack $7.8
47:02
million in cap space for the Panthers.
47:05
And then secondly, since you're talking about injuries, Jonathan
47:09
Brooks, who the Panthers drafted last year drafted him.
47:12
He was injured. He was on crutches at the draft.
47:15
They drafted him, he got better. The team doctors put the
47:19
Panthers team doctors at the time cleared him to play.
47:22
He got a torn ACL on his second leg, second foot, second leg.
47:27
And so the Panthers fired their medical staff that cleared him
47:31
because they cleared him prematurely.
47:33
Well, today the running back has been placed on the PUP list.
47:37
Not just for a couple of weeks or a couple of months, the
47:40
entire 2025 season, Jack, because he got hurt again in
47:44
December, making his second major knee injury within the
47:48
same amount of years. Well, I don't understand.
47:51
Maybe you're doing. You could explain it to me.
47:54
Brooks isn't going to be playing this year, but the inactive list
47:58
he was put on, is he still technically a member of the
48:01
Panthers mean he wasn't was he caught a just put on an inactive
48:07
list that is there's a big difference If he was caught once
48:11
he gets healthy, he could try out for any other team that what
48:15
did the Panthers still have to write to him?
48:17
Because it seems a little odd and it would seem a little cold.
48:20
You fire, you know, a train on the medical staff because of the
48:24
way he handled and then cut the play on it.
48:27
That seems a little cruel. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going
48:30
to, I'm going to look because one article has he was released,
48:33
the other one just talked about him being on PUP.
48:36
But you're right, it's two different things.
48:38
So basically they're saying right now he's on the PUP list.
48:42
The decision follows his torn ACL that he got in the Eagles
48:46
game, no doubt with them, and it was a non contact injury
48:50
basically when a rookie ran out and tried to cut during the run.
48:53
But let me see what he's got with him available.
48:57
Or with Clowny. Yeah, Barbara, so clowny.
49:02
I wouldn't shed too much of A tear.
49:04
His career has been a disappointment.
49:07
Number one overall draft choice taken by the Houston Texans.
49:11
They were going to match them with JJ Watt.
49:15
Terrific 1-2 punch and clowny. You know, he was a he's been a
49:23
good player. No more than good.
49:26
You know, I like to give grades. You know what I Clowny's like?
49:31
He's a university student with AB average AB.
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No, no, but listen. But meanwhile, when he was given
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his scholarship to college, he was considered the smartest
49:46
student in his whole high school, the best grades in his
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high school. Now he gets to college and he
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can't get A's. He's AB.
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You know, three times pro Bola he's been, you know he's been
49:58
OK, but he hasn't given you what you want to number one overall
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draft choice to give you as a position play.
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And our quarterbacks are hit and misses.
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Number one overall draft choices like a Jamie S Winston.
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They you give quarterbacks a long time, you don't know how
50:16
they're going to fare. But we're clowny.
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He'd have certain flashes where he'd look really, really good.
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But he was never really a dominant player, never showed
50:26
any long term consistency. 3 Pro Bowls.
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He's had a nice little career. He's.
50:36
He's had a career, all right. So let me tell you real quick,
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Brooks, they're expecting him to make a recovery and and we'll
50:42
see him in 2026. So the Panthers are going.
50:44
To keep him. He wasn't cut.
50:46
He wasn't cut. The Panthers did it the right
50:50
way. Kudos, especially because him
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being cleared is really the Panthers fault to begin with
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that he got that second injury. Now Clowny, the thing Jack, they
50:59
tried to trade Clowny and nobody wanted him.
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He's been in the league seven years and been on seven teams
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already, so he's with a new team every year.
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He's with the Texans, the Seahawks, the Titans, the
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Browns, the Ravens and the Panthers.
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I mean, who want you at this point?
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It's like, who's going to want him?
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Someone will pick him up, if not immediately.
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At some point, the defensive end is going to get injured on one
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of the teams and neck and they might look too clowny.
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I mean, it's just the way it works a little.
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Listen, Hassan Reddick, for example, coming to The Jets was
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an absolute nightmare. He held out, he lost some money.
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Then eventually he rejoined The Jets and he was missing in
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action when he was on the field. He was missing in action when he
51:49
was off the field. He was missing in action Hassan
51:52
Riddick when he was on the field.
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No one ever sat a siding of him even when he came back and then
51:59
Tampa Bay. But Tampa Bay signed him in the
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off season because he has a reputation and Clowney has a
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little bit of a reputation. And some team is going to, you
52:11
know, step up and at some point not signing for big money.
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But he'll, he'll get a job somewhere, maybe a deal with
52:18
certain incentives, I don't know.
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Well, I mean, a couple of days ago, Pittsburgh released George
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Pickens, sent him to the Cowboys for a couple of picks.
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I. Traded.
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Him was, you know, I said sent traded.
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Mike Tomlin was behind that report.
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That's what I thought. They said Mike Tomlin was
52:38
pushing for it because this dude is a head case, Jack.
52:41
He's an emotional disaster. He's a locker room.
52:46
I score. You know, he he is just a ruin.
52:49
And so sending him out there with CD Lamb people have and
52:53
this is where we're going to we're going to wrap all this up.
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They still don't even have their their quarterback really even
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with Kitty Pickett, they are not sold on him.
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You send him to the Cowboys. I mean, there's no competition
53:05
there because they're in the NFC there in the AFC, but they're
53:11
yes, that's. What I'm saying, Zach Prescott
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is a good leader. But he's not going to be a
53:19
number one. He's not going to be a #1
53:21
receiver. And that's what he wants to be.
53:23
But because the Cowboys have CD land, they already have their
53:26
number one target. He's going to be pitching a fit
53:28
because he's not getting targeted because he's #2 again,
53:32
in the locker room. And let's be clear, we have not
53:35
seen Dak throw since he's had his hamstring surgery that he
53:38
had in the offseason. He missed all most of last
53:41
season. So they're still a mess, but but
53:44
some critics are saying that we may see a glimpse of the Michael
53:48
Irwin run in the 90s with the Cowboys with him coming out
53:51
here. But it's worth the gamble for
53:54
the Cowboys. Think of what they gave up.
53:57
They gave up a third round draft choice and they flip-flopped 5th
54:01
and 6th, right? So 5th and 6th isn't that big of
54:05
a deal. You know, it means a little, but
54:07
it's not that big of a deal. And so if it doesn't work out
54:10
for the Cowboys, they lost the third round draft choice.
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It has value, but it's worth taking a chance.
54:15
And what happens if it does work out?
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What happens if there's a chemistry with that Prescott and
54:20
Pickens and Pickens us, you know, happy that he could
54:24
produce. You know, obviously he's very
54:27
talented. And it's worth a gamble for
54:30
Dallas. And also, Dallas had to do
54:34
something in the offseason. They would heavily criticize not
54:37
making moves. And this is a move just, you
54:40
know, just so quiet their fan base for the time being.
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Oh, we are doing something. We picked up George Pickens, who
54:47
could make an impact. Let's see what he does.
54:51
Yeah, that's true. And and Speaking of Speaking of
54:54
Dallas, but not the team Dallas, Dallas go there to tight end for
54:57
the Eagles has finally restructured his deal despite
55:01
them talking about trading him. They are going to keep him with
55:04
the Eagles next season. He restructured his deal with
55:06
them. Also say Quan Barkley is
55:09
training a 360° spin move, some new move he's coming up with
55:15
that he's going to be aiming to debut next season.
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And let's not forget some of these critical rules that are
55:21
coming into like the movement of the chains is going to be all AI
55:24
generated Jack. So it won't be no more
55:27
challenging for the first down the the index card measuring
55:30
none of that. Let me tell you a new rule I'd
55:33
like to see in the NFL, and no one is met, no one's mentioned
55:36
it. OK, If I'm an official and I'm
55:39
conferring with the other officials, I don't want players
55:42
standing right behind me. I mean, that should be a rule.
55:45
Any player that's within, you know, 5 yards of the officials
55:51
or whatever, you know, you throw a flag.
55:53
You can't go near the officials when they're discussing things
55:57
and give you $0.02. It would be highly annoying to
56:01
me if I'm an official. I always wondered about that
56:04
because I'm like, it's like they're right there.
56:08
And I always thought growing up that players were not supposed
56:11
to communicate with officials, that, you know, they're the
56:13
unbiased. I don't know what they're.
56:14
Communicating verbally, I shouldn't say that, I really
56:18
shouldn't say that, but I know they're standing right behind
56:22
the official. And sometimes they're miked up,
56:24
you can hear them. Yeah.
56:27
Yeah, I mean, well, the schedule comes out next week, Jack.
56:31
May 14th, we get a chance. I mean, of course, most teams
56:34
know the opponents, but they don't know the exact dates or
56:36
what have you. The Week 1 is going to be the
56:39
Chargers are going to be hosting a game in Brazil, marking the
56:42
second year that the NFL is going to have their season
56:45
opener over there. And then the Browns and your
56:48
team, The Jets, are going to be hosting Games in London, and the
56:53
Colts will host their game in Germany, making it the first NFL
56:58
game in Berlin, Germany. And then the Steelers are going
57:01
to be hosting a game in Dublin, Ireland, which is the NFL debut
57:06
in that country. So as we wrap up here, we knew
57:08
Roger Goodell talked about spreading the NFL worldwide.
57:12
I mean, is this a step in the right direction?
57:14
They're adding three more countries.
57:16
I mean, it's oh, they're going to have a team in another
57:21
country. Is it viable to have an NFL
57:23
franchise in England? I mean, teams from the West
57:28
Coast of the United States can't really fly there.
57:31
Let's say you put them in The Jets division for whatever
57:34
reason. It's like a 7 hour flight or
57:37
something like that. Is it doable?
57:41
Would be interesting. Otherwise it's just exposing the
57:45
NFL, you know, like on a DM basis.
57:48
But if it makes fans happy and for the players, I don't know
57:53
how they feel about it. Is it an adventure to them or
57:56
what is it? It's annoying to them.
57:59
Some of them might like the idea of traveling the other country
58:02
playing the game. Then there's security concerns
58:04
with the world we're living in, too.
58:06
There's definitely security concerns and it was a security
58:09
concern even last year with the opener because they didn't
58:13
realize that the team was going to be restricted to their hotel
58:16
and certain movements because of the colors of the team being,
58:20
you know, controversial to to gangs that were in the area,
58:23
Jack. So security for that reason, you
58:27
know, I personally don't want to travel to another country if I'm
58:29
going to be limited to my hotel in certain Square.
58:31
You don't get a chance to to have some downtime at all.
58:35
But of course, with that schedule coming out, I'm sure
58:37
they're going to be beefing up their security measures and
58:40
making sure those are countries that we can actually still
58:42
travel to because that do not travel is is being updated on a
58:46
weekly basis. I'm getting emails about that
58:47
all the time. So I'm sure the NFL is going to
58:50
be definitely cognizant of. That I want the NFL, you know,
58:54
to have teams wear the same Don uniform throughout the year.
58:59
They keep changing it. I could understand if they're
59:01
wearing a throwback uniform to what they wore earlier when they
59:05
were franchise. OK, I like the, you know, the
59:08
Jet green the way they used to have it, but you know, Giants
59:12
blue, you don't you don't see it quite the same way.
59:15
Sometimes you look at some of these uniforms and like what
59:18
team you're watching. They better, they better stick
59:21
with just white when they're traveling internationally to be
59:25
on the safe side. Jack, always a good conversation
59:28
with you, lots of fun. We wish everybody a great
59:31
weekend. We'll be with you guys tomorrow
59:33
morning for the debate show our both of us and Jay Trey will be
59:36
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We go.