Latest / Kenny For Real / The Knicks Are 1 Win Away From The NBA FINALS
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I can't
- 0:02Speaker 1: believe it.
- 0:02Speaker 2: The New York Knicks are one game away from being
- 0:05Speaker 2: in the NBA Finals. I'm gonna say a one more
- 0:07Speaker 2: again in case you ain't. It ain't registering your brain.
- 0:09Speaker 2: The New York Knicks are one game away from the Finals.
- 0:13Speaker 2: A reminder, no team has ever come back from down
- 0:15Speaker 2: three zero, So you might as well get your pin
- 0:17Speaker 2: and write it in that the Knicks are gonna be there.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Just watch out West. Is it gonna be okayee, it's
- 0:21Speaker 2: gonna be San Antonio. Regardless, the Knicks have all but
- 0:24Speaker 2: punched their ticket.
- 0:25Speaker 1: To the finals. That's crazy.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Like ninety percent of my my life is an NBA fan.
- 0:30Speaker 2: The Knicks have been one of the laughing stocks in
- 0:32Speaker 2: the league. From James Dolan and ownership, from management decisions
- 0:35Speaker 2: to coach into the players, it is always a bit weird.
- 0:39Speaker 2: And yes, we can make an entire view about the
- 0:41Speaker 2: Cleveland coverliers, but guess what, We'll have an entire offseason
- 0:45Speaker 2: talk about them, talk about potential moves, what happens next
- 0:47Speaker 2: with Donovan Mitchew within the organization, if they get swept
- 0:51Speaker 2: or lose in five. Revisit the Darius Garland trade. Darius
- 0:56Speaker 2: garlod Is twenty six. They trade up for a thirty
- 0:58Speaker 2: six year old guy and James Harden. All of that
- 1:01Speaker 2: will come at a further date, But I do think
- 1:03Speaker 2: we should really take the time to talk about the Knicks.
- 1:07Speaker 2: This team is currently doing something pretty damn legendary. That's
- 1:10Speaker 2: kind of going under the raid because I think we're
- 1:12Speaker 2: all infactuated with the battle out West. Two of the
- 1:15Speaker 2: youngest teams in the league, two of the best team,
- 1:17Speaker 2: the two best teams in the league for the for
- 1:20Speaker 2: most of the regular season going battling to see who's
- 1:23Speaker 2: gonna represent the West. But like the Knicks have won
- 1:25Speaker 2: ten straight games this postseason, there is no better time
- 1:29Speaker 2: to click than in the postseason. And that is what
- 1:31Speaker 2: happened with the New York Knicks right now. The two
- 1:34Speaker 2: games they've lost were basically CJ McCollum game winners. So
- 1:39Speaker 2: there's a world I don't want to play this game,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but I'm gonna do it just in fame for the Knicks.
- 1:43Speaker 2: There's a world that like CJ misses two more shots
- 1:46Speaker 2: and the Knicks are eleven and zero right now, Like
- 1:49Speaker 2: that's that's that's nuts. Yesterday you made the video talking
- 1:53Speaker 2: about Game three of Oka See versus San Antonio, and
- 1:57Speaker 2: I was looking it up about the Spurs defensive raiding,
- 1:59Speaker 2: and I was surprised. It's not surprising since that it
- 2:02Speaker 2: was brand new information, but I didn't realize that the
- 2:05Speaker 2: Knicks defense had got to the point where it was
- 2:07Speaker 2: better than the Spurs defense in this postseason and in
- 2:10Speaker 2: the first at the end of the first quarter, Carthion
- 2:13Speaker 2: Towns's interview and he was he was YadA ya YadA,
- 2:15Speaker 2: and he said, yeah, the thing IL mostissed about was
- 2:17Speaker 2: we gave up twenty seven points in the first quarter.
- 2:19Speaker 2: I'm like, man, Cardi Towns, I had talked to like
- 2:21Speaker 2: Kevin Garna defensively and guess what, the team is fucking
- 2:24Speaker 2: great defensively. So twenty seven points felt like, yeah, we
- 2:28Speaker 2: were we did terrible that. I think they gave up
- 2:29Speaker 2: twenty seven like every quarter for the rest of the game.
- 2:32Speaker 2: The offense is what got going. But still this is crazy.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Before Leon Rowse is their reminder they this NIXT team
- 2:38Speaker 2: was drafting Frankney Lakino's they were drafting Kevin Knox. You
- 2:43Speaker 2: remember Kevin Not to the Fortnite thing.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Yeah. RJ. Bear is a good NBA player, so I
- 2:47Speaker 1: want to talk bad about him, but the R J.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Bear is a third overall pick and Leon Rowse came
- 2:52Speaker 2: into the team, and it's just I don't know, I
- 2:54Speaker 2: just wouldn't have expected this, mostly based on the history
- 2:57Speaker 2: of James Dolan. James Dolan had been one of the
- 2:59Speaker 2: most hands owners in all of sports, and he found
- 3:02Speaker 2: a guy in Leon Rose that he basically gave the
- 3:04Speaker 2: car keys too. To be able to turn it off
- 3:06Speaker 2: like that is so surprised to me. Even though we
- 3:08Speaker 2: you know, a lot of people believe that Leon Rose's
- 3:10Speaker 2: relationships and his smart mind to be able to turn
- 3:12Speaker 2: some things around. Nobody believed that James Dolan would have
- 3:15Speaker 2: allowed him to do the things that he was He's
- 3:17Speaker 2: been able to do, but Dolan has I feel like
- 3:20Speaker 2: I haven't heard once from Dolan like two years. I mean,
- 3:22Speaker 2: I think before the season started he said, this is
- 3:25Speaker 2: a year that we should be in the NBA finals,
- 3:28Speaker 2: and that's a dangerous thing to say before the season starts.
- 3:30Speaker 2: But Deman, he's a game away from that being like, yeah,
- 3:33Speaker 2: I told you, this team is just so different than
- 3:37Speaker 2: any of the other teams that are actively in the
- 3:40Speaker 2: final or in the conference finals race. I'm actually, let's
- 3:42Speaker 2: just look at the two teams out was the Oklahoma
- 3:45Speaker 2: City Thunder made a trade to get Shave, but Shae
- 3:47Speaker 2: was a year two player. I don't know if anybody
- 3:48Speaker 2: thought he was gonna be a two time MVP. Chet Holmgreen.
- 3:51Speaker 2: They drafted Jay Dubb, they drafted Caruso was there via
- 3:55Speaker 2: trade Aj Mitchell, They drafted Lou Dor, they got as
- 3:59Speaker 2: An as an undrafted guy. The list goes on and no,
- 4:02Speaker 2: they have a very traditional way of team building. We're
- 4:05Speaker 2: gonna suck for a few different years. We're gonna draft, well,
- 4:08Speaker 2: we might make a trade here there. We're gonna trade
- 4:10Speaker 2: the guy we drafted was sixth overall, fifth overall and Josh.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Gatty to go get Caruso.
- 4:14Speaker 2: We're gonna use the little money that we have because
- 4:16Speaker 2: everybody else on the team is young, to go get
- 4:18Speaker 2: Isaiah Hardenstein. That's the team that we built. That San
- 4:20Speaker 2: Antonio Spurs were a top five drafted team for three
- 4:24Speaker 2: years in a row. We got Wynbayama, we got Sifan Castle,
- 4:26Speaker 2: we got Dalon Harper, and then we make a trade
- 4:28Speaker 2: for a guy like d R Fox, but a lot
- 4:30Speaker 2: of the other players on the team were built through
- 4:32Speaker 2: the draft. The Knicks basically have nobody on their team
- 4:35Speaker 2: that they drafted, like nobody. Is that not crazy to
- 4:40Speaker 2: anybody else? Jaylen Bronton was a offseason signing like let
- 4:45Speaker 2: me let me quickly go look this up real quick,
- 4:48Speaker 2: because I think I have an idea of what it was.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Jaylen Brunton before he got to New York. His last
- 4:52Speaker 2: season ever sixteen points per game. But a reminder, that
- 4:55Speaker 2: was a year that Luka Doncic was injured in the
- 4:57Speaker 2: first round of the postseason versus the Jazz. If I'm
- 4:59Speaker 2: not MINSA, and that guy jay Le Bronton went off
- 5:03Speaker 2: against the Jazz and it made a lot of people
- 5:04Speaker 2: believe that he could be a starting point guard in
- 5:06Speaker 2: the NBA. He goes to New York Knicks for a
- 5:08Speaker 2: good contract for a god that never really was truly
- 5:11Speaker 2: a starter for an entire season, and somehow ended up
- 5:14Speaker 2: being one of the best contracts in the league very
- 5:16Speaker 2: very fast. He was from a sixteen point per game
- 5:18Speaker 2: player to a twenty four point per game player and
- 5:20Speaker 2: becoming an All Star pretty early.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Cool.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Not only was that that happened, and his first contract
- 5:26Speaker 2: with the Knicks ended up being an underpay basically after
- 5:29Speaker 2: two months, but once he was eligible for more money,
- 5:32Speaker 2: he said, y'all keep that money. I want you to
- 5:34Speaker 2: build a team around me. They say bet. They go
- 5:37Speaker 2: out there and they trade for Oldchandanobe, they trade for
- 5:39Speaker 2: m keil Bridges, they trade for kar Anthony Towns.
- 5:41Speaker 1: Like the list go.
- 5:42Speaker 2: The whole team basically are people that they acquired on
- 5:45Speaker 2: the secondary market. Other than I guess Males McBride, I
- 5:47Speaker 2: think it's their draft pick who they traded for in
- 5:50Speaker 2: Draft night. But like Ladry Shamon, they talked about in
- 5:52Speaker 2: the broadcast two nights in a row or two games
- 5:54Speaker 2: in a row. How Landry Shalmon didn't even have a
- 5:56Speaker 2: goddamn roster spies between him and Garrison Matthews. And I'm
- 5:58Speaker 2: thinking about buying a Landry Shape in forty four Jersey
- 6:00Speaker 2: because that guy's amazing. Mitchard Robson also a draft pick
- 6:04Speaker 2: of theirs or was he a drafted regardless, he was
- 6:07Speaker 2: somebody they got in via the draft or right around
- 6:09Speaker 2: the draft, but everything else in that lineup was via trade.
- 6:13Speaker 2: And it just shows that there's multiple ways to the
- 6:15Speaker 2: team building. I think this what Leon Rose has done,
- 6:17Speaker 2: is the hardest direction when it comes to team building,
- 6:21Speaker 2: but it makes sense. Right before Leon Rose got there,
- 6:23Speaker 2: I mentioned the Frankly Lakina's and Kevin Knox of the world.
- 6:26Speaker 2: The Knicks fans had just seen you be in a
- 6:28Speaker 2: lottery five years in a row, because before RJ. Bar
- 6:31Speaker 2: wasn't it Christasperzingis, So you just saw them go to
- 6:33Speaker 2: the lottery every single year. Were just like, man, we
- 6:36Speaker 2: just need something to finally compete. Chulius Randall becomes a
- 6:41Speaker 2: part of the team, he leads them to a postseason,
- 6:43Speaker 2: and then Jaylen Brunson comes in and say this is
- 6:45Speaker 2: my shit and build the team around me, and they're
- 6:48Speaker 2: one game away from, you know, stopping a lot of
- 6:52Speaker 2: the criticism that you can have about a team like
- 6:54Speaker 2: this now.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Granted, who knows what's gonna happen in the NBA Finals.
- 6:57Speaker 2: I think both of those teams out West are better
- 6:58Speaker 2: than the Knicks, but the way the are actively playing,
- 7:01Speaker 2: I think you'd be crazy to say they have a
- 7:02Speaker 2: zero percent chance to win a series against either of
- 7:04Speaker 2: those two teams. Both of those two teams right now
- 7:06Speaker 2: are beat the hell up. We just found out A. J.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Mitchell's gonna miss Game four. J dup is day to day.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Dr Fox tweet this ankle again. Dylan Harper said his
- 7:14Speaker 2: verse was good, but you watch the game a game
- 7:15Speaker 2: the three, his verse was not good. Luke Cornett is
- 7:18Speaker 2: also dealing with a foot injury, so like you'd be
- 7:20Speaker 2: kind of crazy to say that they don't send a chance,
- 7:23Speaker 2: especially based off last season when we saw the Pacers
- 7:25Speaker 2: who didn't have a chance went seven against OKC.
- 7:28Speaker 1: This team doesn't miss right now?
- 7:31Speaker 2: Would Old Johnanoby and mckel bridges have been able to
- 7:34Speaker 2: do in this postseason?
- 7:35Speaker 1: Is nuts?
- 7:35Speaker 2: Oh, chilea noob went to the free throw line today
- 7:37Speaker 2: and they showed his postseas the stats. It was like
- 7:39Speaker 2: nineteen point eight points per game. It was like sixty
- 7:42Speaker 2: percent from the field, forty eight percent from three.
- 7:45Speaker 1: On twenty PPG.
- 7:48Speaker 2: Mckil bridges ain't missed a shot in like nine games
- 7:51Speaker 2: bro he was eleven for fifteen today, only attempted a
- 7:54Speaker 2: three pointer a one, the shot that the Cavs are
- 7:59Speaker 2: giving up with the It's the exact shot mckill has
- 8:01Speaker 2: been trying to take all season long, and he's just.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Knocking it he's just knocking it down.
- 8:05Speaker 2: And I do want to say, I'd be so pissed
- 8:08Speaker 2: guarding mckil bridges because every time he does something, let's say,
- 8:11Speaker 2: gets to the pain. He finishes through contact or whatever.
- 8:14Speaker 2: The first possession, one of the first posess of the game,
- 8:16Speaker 2: he finished over one of the bigs.
- 8:17Speaker 1: I remember if it was Mobile or Jared Alley. He
- 8:19Speaker 1: did one of these. Fine, that's fine.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Later in the third quarter he got a he had
- 8:24Speaker 2: a breakaway layup that was contested by Donovan Mitchell, I
- 8:26Speaker 2: want to say, and he laid it up over Donald
- 8:28Speaker 2: Mitchell and he just pointed out him.
- 8:31Speaker 1: That would piss me off as a defender.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'd be hot. But that's the type
- 8:35Speaker 2: of stuff that MIKEL Bridges is doing. So again, I'm sorry,
- 8:39Speaker 2: going back, going back to the team building, the aspect
- 8:42Speaker 2: of it all again, none of this is really possible
- 8:44Speaker 2: without Jaylen Brunton. Mckil bridges went for five first round picks.
- 8:48Speaker 2: That is a heavy, heavy price, and for a majority
- 8:51Speaker 2: of this season, Knicks fans was not rocking.
- 8:53Speaker 1: With the experience.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Towards the end of the season, we talked about it
- 8:56Speaker 2: here that it felt like the Man had the yips
- 8:58Speaker 2: Even early in this playoffs, he had a zero pol
- 9:00Speaker 2: It felt like he was afraid to go to the
- 9:02Speaker 2: bas Even now, he still don't get to the basket
- 9:04Speaker 2: pretty often, but he still he does it more than
- 9:06Speaker 2: he did in that first round. It felt like he
- 9:08Speaker 2: had the yipsie like Man five first round picks. And
- 9:11Speaker 2: I remember that pretty heavily on that one game that
- 9:13Speaker 2: Atlanta came back against the Knicks in like the third
- 9:15Speaker 2: and fourth quarter and McHale just really couldn't play o.
- 9:19Speaker 2: Johnanoby has always been this damn good. I'm sorry, he's
- 9:22Speaker 2: always been good, but I think he's hit a whole
- 9:23Speaker 2: another level within the last year or so.
- 9:26Speaker 1: And I think he is a player.
- 9:28Speaker 2: One of the best defensive players in the world, and
- 9:29Speaker 2: he made All Defensive second Team yesterday. But he is
- 9:32Speaker 2: one of those guys like, Okay, I can guard Jered
- 9:34Speaker 2: Allen for an entire game if you need me to.
- 9:36Speaker 2: I can guard James hard At for an entire game
- 9:38Speaker 2: if you need me too, And I'm gonna be damn
- 9:39Speaker 2: good at both. Josh Harrt had four turnovers today and
- 9:42Speaker 2: some of them three of them turnovers I remember off
- 9:44Speaker 2: the top of my head. With two of them, he
- 9:45Speaker 2: tried to throw a pass where there was nobody there.
- 9:50Speaker 2: I think it may have been Landry Shaman through him
- 9:52Speaker 2: a pass and he stopped looking. So three of them
- 9:54Speaker 2: turnovers is bad. But like for the most part, Josh
- 9:56Speaker 2: Hart is the exact type of player that this team
- 9:58Speaker 2: needs because I remember, just throughout the last year or so,
- 10:01Speaker 2: you question the effort level within the team as a whole,
- 10:04Speaker 2: and jos Hard doesn't allow his teams to have poor
- 10:07Speaker 2: effort level. Everybody's playing their role perfectly. The first two
- 10:12Speaker 2: rounds of the postseason, Carthony Towns was used as an
- 10:14Speaker 2: individual hubs a bonus like he was used like Baby
- 10:17Speaker 2: Jokic and even today some of the passes he was
- 10:19Speaker 2: able to squeeze through the small defenses like god Lee
- 10:22Speaker 2: Carthory Towns, but the Calves were ultra prepared for him
- 10:26Speaker 2: to be used as a hub, and the Knicks have
- 10:28Speaker 2: so many different options that they've basically gone away from
- 10:30Speaker 2: thathing the majority of this series. And say, hey, Cardneal
- 10:33Speaker 2: Towns can still be a really impactful player even if
- 10:35Speaker 2: he's not used at a hub. I think his defense
- 10:37Speaker 2: has been the greatest thing you've seen from carth that
- 10:40Speaker 2: the towns are you serious going back to it? Thom
- 10:44Speaker 2: gotta win the series if you get to the finals.
- 10:46Speaker 2: But the biggest thing you can say about the Knicks
- 10:50Speaker 2: before all of this was, could a team who has
- 10:54Speaker 2: a let's say six to one point guard that's not
- 10:57Speaker 2: a great defensive player and center and cards in the
- 11:00Speaker 2: town who has a reputation of abysmal defender, could that
- 11:05Speaker 2: type of team really go on a true NBA Finals run?
- 11:09Speaker 2: And what they're teaching us is absolutely they can, because
- 11:13Speaker 2: I think both of those guys are fighting very hard.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Jay leb Brons is just at a disadvantage because of
- 11:18Speaker 2: his size, But both of those guys are fighting very,
- 11:20Speaker 2: very hard. But if you're adding old Johananoby all defensive
- 11:23Speaker 2: Chel Bridges, who I think is playing at an all
- 11:25Speaker 2: defensive level.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Again, I think that the last two years.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Mikel Bridges had got kind of lost in the shuffled
- 11:29Speaker 2: in a lot of ways where I feel like it's
- 11:31Speaker 2: off ball defense and just falling off a cliff for
- 11:34Speaker 2: the last couple of years.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Now in the postseason, that's not the case.
- 11:36Speaker 2: He getting back to that Micheal jail stuff from when
- 11:40Speaker 2: he was in Phoenix. So you add Old Johananoby, Michel Bridges,
- 11:43Speaker 2: Josh Hart who can straight up just look James Harden
- 11:45Speaker 2: in his eye say you got you got a tough
- 11:47Speaker 2: night today to Landry Shammon coming off the bench that
- 11:51Speaker 2: will not conceee the switch on a pick and roll
- 11:53Speaker 2: at all. I fucking love Landry Shammon for that reason alone,
- 11:55Speaker 2: even if he goes OH for twelve for the rest
- 11:57Speaker 2: of this playoffs, him not conceding switch.
- 12:00Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite things about him as
- 12:02Speaker 1: a ballplayer.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Mitchell Robinson cleans glasses. So like they've been able to
- 12:06Speaker 2: make it work. Now the other two teams that they
- 12:08Speaker 2: potentially see in the finals, OH teams are another level
- 12:11Speaker 2: offensively than like this Cavs team or any other teams
- 12:13Speaker 2: they see. But they're really really putting it together. They
- 12:17Speaker 2: straight up do not miss. They don't miss, And I
- 12:22Speaker 2: can imagine that is very, very demoralized because I think
- 12:25Speaker 2: the Calves probably say, we played a pretty solid defensive
- 12:29Speaker 2: game all things considered. We took away this, we took
- 12:32Speaker 2: away that, but they had counters to us taking away this,
- 12:34Speaker 2: and they had counters for us taking away that and
- 12:36Speaker 2: our three point shooting has not fallen for anybody in
- 12:40Speaker 2: this series for us, So what a time to be
- 12:43Speaker 2: a Knicks fan. I was on the radio last monthy
- 12:46Speaker 2: you should tune it into my radio show every Monday
- 12:48Speaker 2: at twelve o'clock Eastern on Series XM, and somebody called
- 12:51Speaker 2: in that was New York Knicks fan, and they say, hey, man,
- 12:53Speaker 2: I'm really excited to be a Knicks fan, but I
- 12:55Speaker 2: can't help but to look at the other side of
- 12:57Speaker 2: the bracket and get kind of afraid of.
- 13:00Speaker 1: What could potentially be to come.
- 13:02Speaker 2: And I was just explaining to him, there's no better
- 13:05Speaker 2: time to be a Knicks fan than right now. Regardless
- 13:08Speaker 2: of what's going on over there. This team is easy
- 13:12Speaker 2: to roof for and really good. And I think that
- 13:16Speaker 2: what we're seeing right now is replicatable for next season,
- 13:18Speaker 2: and they would get After the next season. I think
- 13:20Speaker 2: some contract stuff may push up and then they got
- 13:22Speaker 2: to make some decisions. But there's no better time to
- 13:25Speaker 2: be a Knicks fan. Truly speaking, Jalen Brunson is dangerously
- 13:30Speaker 2: close to being crowned, like I don't know, not the
- 13:34Speaker 2: best nick of all time, but greatest nick of all
- 13:36Speaker 2: time when you consider the pay cuts two conference Finals,
- 13:39Speaker 2: one game away from the finals, obviously winning one.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Cement him as that but Wow.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Reminded that the Knicks also drafted Keishawn George and traded
- 13:51Speaker 2: him on Draft night. Also reminded that the Knicks draft
- 13:54Speaker 2: that Aj Mitchell and traded him on Draft Knight. That
- 13:56Speaker 2: was the same draft, and it said they've all the
- 13:58Speaker 2: way we're Progoma Daddy. So Leon Rose is really good
- 14:04Speaker 2: at trades and maybe not so much at drafting. Over
- 14:08Speaker 2: topping at eight in twenty twenty, that's a tough one,
- 14:11Speaker 2: but everybody missing twenty twenty, I felt like, man, that's
- 14:17Speaker 2: so crazy. Bro, They're going to the finals, all right,
- 14:21Speaker 2: That's all I really got. I think I feel like
- 14:23Speaker 2: I can go even further. I don't even know what
- 14:25Speaker 2: I've said. I've just been kind of gushing over the
- 14:26Speaker 2: fact that the Knicks are really good.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Easy team to roof for. Shout out to New York Man,
- 14:32Speaker 1: Shout out to the Knicks.