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TERMINELLO’s TAKE ON KNICKS 2026 FINALS PREVIEW AND LOSS OF CLAUDE LEMIEUX 5-30-26 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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  Speaker 1: All right, well it's another another week and Blue Terminella.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't really get a chance to recap what happened
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  Speaker 1: with the Knicks past Monday. They're going to the NBA
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Finals for the first time from nineteen ninety nine. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting is you were in the Nets
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  Speaker 1: organization in that era. So what's the perspective like this
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  Speaker 1: time around. What's Terminal's sake this time compared to when
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  Speaker 1: you were in the league twenty seven years ago?
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  Speaker 2: Well, twenty seven years ago when the when the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: got to the finals, that that was probably the they
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  Speaker 2: had another year or two, but that was probably about
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  Speaker 2: ann eight or nine year run that the Knicks had
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  Speaker 2: of being a contending team. Obviously, the best shot being
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety four when they beat when they got
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  Speaker 2: to the finals, beat the Bulls without Jordan, and that's
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  Speaker 2: always going to be a you know, a little black
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  Speaker 2: mark on that Nick team for not taking advantage of
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  Speaker 2: Jordan being retired where they lost to the Rockets four
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  Speaker 2: games to three. But then the next couple of years
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  Speaker 2: that's when the team started to go into this long draft.
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  Speaker 2: But it's exciting and I think the Knicks have reached
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  Speaker 2: their goal when the season began, that was there. They
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  Speaker 2: had to get to at least the NBA Finals. And
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  Speaker 2: they did. Yes, they did not. They did not play
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  Speaker 2: a gamut of great teams. But that's not the Knicks fault.
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  Speaker 2: It's not it's not the Knicks fault that that those
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  Speaker 2: were the three opponents. The Knicks have gelled. They'vejeled since
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  Speaker 2: falling behind two games to one to the Hawks, which
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  Speaker 2: might have been a wake up call for them. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they won eleven playoff games in a row, which is
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  Speaker 2: which is you know, remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: I've said that basically since two thousand nine yesterday when
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  Speaker 1: I heard.
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  Speaker 4: The show.
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  Speaker 3: When the World's Series a couple of weeks after it
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  Speaker 3: started the show, then you had the Giants and eleven twelve.
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  Speaker 1: But then you had all the god the Rangers in
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup, finally had the Mets.
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  Speaker 2: You had the Devil's in the Stanley Cup Final.
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  Speaker 3: Also Devil's and Stanley Cup Final.
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  Speaker 1: You also had well, you had the Yankees in twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there were some almost, but of all the
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  Speaker 1: heading into those series, I feel like I'm most commonent
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  Speaker 1: with the Knicks. I wasn't covenant with the Yankees in
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  Speaker 1: twenty four I wasn't covenant really in.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I know the Mets had a run in the NLCS,
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  Speaker 1: but Kansas City was a really good team that year,
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  Speaker 1: so that was gonna be a tough time.
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  Speaker 2: They were yep, and and then and the Mets had
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  Speaker 2: a great chance to win those games, all those games
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  Speaker 2: from close.
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  Speaker 1: And uh and then the Knick and then the King Rangers.
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  Speaker 3: You know, johnaan Quick was the difference maker that year
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  Speaker 3: for the Kings undoubtedly, so that was their year. But
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  Speaker 3: this year, I feel really comfort.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first time a team has made the NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals since I've done the show where I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we could actually celebrate it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually more confident than I am no Onix fan,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see them win. But but as we always say
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  Speaker 2: on Terminello's take, you will get fair and balanced sports analyzation.
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  Speaker 2: I more confident now than I was at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the playoffs. I really am. I think the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: can can win this final. I do, especially if San
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  Speaker 2: Antonio pulls off the upset tomorrow night in Oklahoma. City.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the San Antonio, don't get me wrong, is
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  Speaker 2: a team of incredible talent, but we saw some signs
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  Speaker 2: of immaturity because they're so young, even last night when
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  Speaker 2: they were way ahead. But so I think that would
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  Speaker 2: be the better opponent for the Knicks. Now that being said,
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio might beat them in five. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, obviously, Victor webin Yama is just an amazing player,
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  Speaker 2: but he has to be consistent in the finals for
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  Speaker 2: for four games. The Knicks chemistry right now is the
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  Speaker 2: best that it's been in twenty five thirty years. They're
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  Speaker 2: playing so well, and they have they have a superstar
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  Speaker 2: in Brunson. And we said Alex, we said it two
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  Speaker 2: years ago he was approaching superstar status. And there's no
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  Speaker 2: doubt he's as good as any point guard in the
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  Speaker 2: league offensively, and he's their key guy. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that they I think they'll have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's okay, see, we learned last night alone. We
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  Speaker 3: learned last night alone. As to be held back a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, I mean only at twelve, well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was looking, I was analyzing, okay, see, in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of different ways. They crushed the Suns they they boat
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  Speaker 2: race the Suns and the Lakers, and they didn't have
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: they didn't have Jalen Williams, their second best player. He
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  Speaker 2: played eleven minutes last night. I don't know what his
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  Speaker 2: hamstring status is for the finals or for tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: But and Shaye Gilgas Alexander, it's only he gets thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine percent during the playoffs and there's still there's still
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  Speaker 2: one game away from getting back to back to back finals.
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  Speaker 2: So what does that mean? Does that mean they're better?
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City is better than we all thought. They don't
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  Speaker 2: then they don't need not that they don't need, don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong. They don't have to depend on Alexander
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  Speaker 2: Gilds Alexander all the time. You know, they get contributions
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  Speaker 2: from other areas. And we know that Gilgas Alexander is
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  Speaker 2: going to shoot better. Is it going to be in
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  Speaker 2: the finals. If it's in the finals, the Knicks are
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  Speaker 2: in huge trouble. I don't think they could beat them
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  Speaker 2: for out as seven. But sometimes you're seeing it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I saw Jerry, the Great Jerry West, who was a
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  Speaker 2: great postseason player, have uh go through a shooting slump.
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  Speaker 2: Uh in in the NBA playoffs. So you don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but the Knicks are playing with great confidence and if
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  Speaker 2: and if by playing teams that weren't great in the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference playoffs, if that gave them confidence, greats, that's
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  Speaker 2: great for the Knicks and they they should run with that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's I think it's gonna be a very interesting series.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever the Knicks play, it will be an interesting series.
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  Speaker 2: Whether they play San Antonio, which I would face, I
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  Speaker 2: would favor the Knicks. If they play Oklahoma City, I
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  Speaker 2: would favor Oklahoma City, but Alex not as much as
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  Speaker 2: we talked about even three weeks ago. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be It's gonna be close. And we even said
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  Speaker 2: three weeks ago that the two weeks ago that we
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  Speaker 2: thought the Knicks would give Oklahoma City, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: real run, and I think they will. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be for for the NBA has a little intrigue, uh
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  Speaker 2: for tomorrow night and for next week, which is a
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  Speaker 2: good thing as far as the league goes, and then
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  Speaker 2: it should be very proud of what they did. It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to win eleven straight playoff games in two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and three, the next one ten straight playoff games. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we won them against better teams than the next day,
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  Speaker 2: but that's neither year are there. It's tough to win
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  Speaker 2: eleven straight playoff games. So it's gonna I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to it. I'm looking forward to the font the to
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals for the first time and then in
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  Speaker 2: a while.
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  Speaker 1: So WHI would be fun to turn around this team
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  Speaker 1: because when they were down to one, they had that awful.
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  Speaker 3: I would almost have a stadium, you know, bloat.
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  Speaker 1: Choke of a game against the Hawks that we got.
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  Speaker 1: But he held his team study and now they're in
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  Speaker 1: the finals.
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  Speaker 2: He said to them, Well, I mean, obviously, uh, they
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  Speaker 2: he's more and I hate to say it, he has
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  Speaker 2: more of a rapport with his players than Thibodeau had.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm not knocking Thibeau, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it just happened that they, uh that that they lost.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously Mike Brown, his temp maybe his temperament. The
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  Speaker 2: players relate to him more, you know. And Uh, it's working.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, Alex, it's working. Whatever he's doing in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room, whether he's however, he's soothing their egos, however,
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  Speaker 2: he's soothing their psychees. However, he's building their confidence. It's working.
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  Speaker 2: I mean even the kel Bridges, who was basically three
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago, how could we have given up all those
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  Speaker 2: draft picks to now? Okay, he's playing great. And remember Alex,
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  Speaker 2: if they win the championship, nobody gives a shit about
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  Speaker 2: those of five number one draft picks. No by it
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  Speaker 2: gives a crap. So you know, and uh, he's playing
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  Speaker 2: he's playing great. So he's been What what Brown has
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  Speaker 2: done has been able to bring the team together. He
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  Speaker 2: has There's no doubt about it. They could have collapsed
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  Speaker 2: after losing those two one to point games to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: We never thought they were gonna lose the series. But
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  Speaker 2: if they did, right now with Mike Brown could have
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  Speaker 2: been fired. Uh. You know, the Knicks could be talking
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  Speaker 2: to other teams about breaking up the team. They could
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  Speaker 2: be made. They could have been talking to Milwaukee and
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  Speaker 2: making them. And I think the big mistake, whether whoever
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  Speaker 2: gets them, whether it's uh whoever gets them, of bringing
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  Speaker 2: in a nettakoupo in so uh obviously, if the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: that Knicks are in the finals, I don't think the
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  Speaker 2: team is being broken up. And if they win the finals,
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  Speaker 2: the team's not being broken up, so I think it
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  Speaker 2: will be very interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Louis, I gotta ask you this.
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  Speaker 1: The Culbridge just though that that was a point him
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: having months of games after his disappearance. The first couple
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: of games, they want a turnaround for him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well for sure. Yeah no, then well I'm sorry.
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: No, Well she has this plays out. Obviously the city
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: is going to be chaotic, so that'll be And.
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: I noticed so oh yeah, I'm sure the uh bandwagon
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: jumpers are at an old time high. People who don't
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: even know how to spell mix are now telling everybody
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  Speaker 2: their long time Nick fans. But that that happens. That
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: happens every uh, you know, in every situation, every postseason team.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was say it was, you know, unlike
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  Speaker 3: other Warum series runs.
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  Speaker 1: Although the Yankees have the city encapsulated it in the
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  Speaker 1: two in the nineties, but I don't know when the
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Knicks do something big, it's like the whole city differences
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  Speaker 1: of preside whether you like the metsa Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I I I I agree with you. I agree
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  Speaker 2: with you on that. Let's face it, When when the
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Yankees are in it, met fans don't want them to win.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: When the Islanders are in it range of fans don't
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: want them to win, vice versa. I really think, and
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: you know, I was with the Nets for twenty eight years.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that that difference. I was with a
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: bunch of Net fans last week. They don't want to
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: see the next one. Guys I used to work with,
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: and guys I knew. But the uh, the difference isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't. That isn't white at all. It's when the
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: Knicks are going like they're going now, yeah, it's it's
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: everybody wants to see the next one. That everybody wants
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: to the next one. I can't disagree with that at
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: this at this stage in time, here in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: He Lou, I gotta ask you this, like you Cheryl
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: wants to bring the Nets back to New Jersey. Is
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: that a possibility in that.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's an impossibility. In the impot it shows you
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  Speaker 2: how clueless this clueless governor we have is. That's just
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: that's not even worth talking about.
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: That's never happened. To get your take on that, but uh,
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  Speaker 3: it was just a random story that popped up amidst
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: all this.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Louie.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what happens game seven. My joke is,
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  Speaker 1: whoever wins Tomorrow night, they'll still be Mayhem on seven Avenue,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: cursing out that team that wins.
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: You watch, there's gonna be chaos tomorre night, no matter.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the good thing is that even though tomorrow it's
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: gone to seven games, the winner has three days off,
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: so no team can complain, Oh, they rushed us into
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: the next series three days the Oklahoma City or San
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: Antonio winner, whoever wins the monit it's gonna have three
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  Speaker 2: days off. Unless one of the key guys gets hurt
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow night, they won't be they won't be fatigued when
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  Speaker 2: they play the Knickson game on on on Day night.
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  Speaker 3: You know they had.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: Adrenaline going into that three quarters where they beat up
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  Speaker 1: on the Knicks. I'm talking about the Cavaliers, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if the team player role in their collapse.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it could have because they did play well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the We'll get to the Cavaliers real quick.
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  Speaker 2: But I said Thursday night, I think it's Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 2: Game one is Wednesday night on on ABC Wednesday, not
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  Speaker 2: Thursday Night. The Cavaliers should be ashamed of themselves. They
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: really should and that and uh, you know, to get
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  Speaker 2: steamrolled like they were steamrolled, Alex, Uh is embarrassing. They
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe Kenny Atkinson is uh didn't get fired.
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  Speaker 2: Their players should be ashamed themselves. They actually they did
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  Speaker 2: the worst thing the team could do, Alex. They gave
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: up and Uh, the Knicks pounded them, and they Knicks
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  Speaker 2: did what they had to do. They pounded them and
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  Speaker 2: there was no pushback, none at all, and it was bad.
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  Speaker 2: It was a bad look for the Cavaliers, who, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if they've had good regular seasons, but we know about
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  Speaker 2: regular seasons and how useless they could be at times.
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  Speaker 2: But the performance by the Cavaliers those four games are
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  Speaker 2: one of the all kid embarrassments in the NBA. And
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  Speaker 2: Kenny Atkinson, who was saying that that they we were
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  Speaker 2: winning the series analytically, what did you say that meaning
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: that or did you say that to kind of slap
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Cavaliers analytics team and say, hey, who cares
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  Speaker 2: about analytics? I don't know where he was going with it,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: but if you watched any of Kenny Atkinson's postgame press conferences,
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  Speaker 2: from Game one when he was the reason that they
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: blew that twenty two point league. He as the coach,
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: need to get him over to finish line. He did
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  Speaker 2: nothing to help his team. And then those other press conferences.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe that the Cavaliers have said, oh, he's
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: back next year. Kenny Atkinson, who had the shine has
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: come off. Kenny Atkinson in my as far as him
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  Speaker 2: being a good coach, to me, Kenny Atkinson is an
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  Speaker 2: overrated coach, and he asked he would have he asked
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  Speaker 2: to win me back. As as as an NBA watcher
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  Speaker 2: and observe he.
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  Speaker 3: Actually thinks they're analytically up three to one right now.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, right, I mean, well, what does that do?
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: What does that do? That's that's crazy.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: That's like saying Yankees won the World Series because Nester
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Cortez was.
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  Speaker 3: A better matchup for Freeman.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, I mentioned that because I did find
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: an interesting The last time in the year team did
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: go to a World Series was through Cleveland. In fact,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: the Yankees a year and a half ago went through
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Cleveland to beat them almost the same way actually as
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  Speaker 1: the as the very interesting parallel. So we'll see, but
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: this might yield a different result, you know. And by
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the way, who would love that NBA Cup rematch?
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  Speaker 3: They loved that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, yes, then that's the Nickson san Antonio
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: played the NBA the NBA Cup Final. I forgot about that.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have all right.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give something more serious because just a
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  Speaker 1: few days after carrying the torch in the game three
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  Speaker 1: for Montreal club, you who you know has been this
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: loss affects New Jersey because of his devil's years and
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: all that. I mean eight what a sad situation, a
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: shocking shockings.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a very sad situation. And I was watching
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Monday night when he carried out the torch. You know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Canadian tradition for the playoffs and iconic Canadian carries the
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: torch out. They've been you know, that's been a long
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  Speaker 2: time a theme for Montreal in their locker room, and
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  Speaker 2: I think inside their uniform collars the quote, you know, to.
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  Speaker 4: To to you.
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  Speaker 2: Failing hands, we throw with a torch, be yours to
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  Speaker 2: hold it on high. And uh, you know, he carried
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: it out on Monday night and on Thursday he was gone,
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  Speaker 2: and it's very sad. He is a four time Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cup champion. He was one of the toughest guys in
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: NHL history. He was one of the best clutch players
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: in NHL history. Yes, he's gone. He went over the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: line many many times. There's I mean, obviously the rivalry
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: with the Red Wings, the Chris Draper incident where Lemieux
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: checked him from behind and Draper's face basically was broken.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: He needed reconstructed surgery and on his face, eye socket,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: cheek bone. It was terrible. But this this guy was
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: a great player. I mean, he scored eighty playoff goals.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: He had one hundred and fifty eight points in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: He scored three hundred and seventy nine regular season goals.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I was in the building the night that the Devils
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: won their first Cup and he got the con smythe
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  Speaker 2: trophy heish in nineteen ninety five. He's one of those guys,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: the classic guys. You know situation. Uh, if he's on
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  Speaker 2: your team, you loved him. If he was on any
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: not on your team, you hated him. But uh, he
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: was truly truly an excellent player, even though he crossed
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the line many times. And it's really sad what happened. Uh,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: you know he won and Alex he won four Stanley
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  Speaker 2: Cups with with three different teams.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: That's pretty remarkable. And now he was not related to
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: the Lemieux that we all know, Mario, right, I mean.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: No, he was not related to mew to Mario Lemieux. Uh.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: He had a son, Brandon, who played in the NHL
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: for a while. Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: And but.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: His first clutch moment and I think I think it
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: was his rookie year. If it wasn't his rookie as
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: his second year, in a Game seven against the Heartred Whalers,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: he scored a goal in overtime twins that in nineteen
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: eighty six, with a rookie goaltender Patrick Waugh, the Canadians
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: won the Stanley Cup beating beating Calgary. And he was
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: a you know, a tremendous player. I mean, there's nothing there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: It's nothing h more you can say the Devils. He
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: played for the Devils. He went to Colorado, he won
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the Cup there, then he came back to the Devils.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Mister Lamarello were reacquired. Because he knew how important he
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: was in those clutch games. He was a key part
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: in the Devil's success.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: He was.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: He was a tremendous player, and when when the game
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: got tougher, so did he.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Well, let's stay with that series overall.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And and I'm sure little Morella has devastated about this too,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: but let's let's stay with that series.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I guess the Hurricanes are three to one. I mean, look,
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the Canadians have showed fight.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: They they have now. The thing is, you know, you
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: see how Carolina plays now. Really the last three games
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: they have smothered. They have been structured, and they have
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: checked at for checked the Canadians into the ground. The Canadians,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: you know, they had twelve shots in Game three, they
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: had thirteen shots in in game well in game two,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: in game three they had thirteen shots. Then in Game
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: four they had no shots in the third period until
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: two and a half minutes to go. But still in
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: games two and three, even though Carolina smulled into overtime,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: So once you get to overtime, Montreal just needed one
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: that one goal to have a series tied. Now or
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: even if they got really really lucky, they could have
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: been up three to one, but Carolina game in Montreal
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the other night could be the death knell for the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Canadians this season. They're playing tonight, I expect Carolina to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: close them out. But who knows the fact that Montreal
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: is two and six at home with the kind of
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: crowd support they have is a head scratcher, Alex. It
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: really is.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: A shame because the Canadians look like they're on the
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: up and up. And I would have won of them,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: see up ending of Carolina. That would have been fasting.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: No, and even if they lose tonight, the Canadians are
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: still a team on the rise. They are going to
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: be They are going to be a power next year,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: no doubt about it. I know I said this last
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: round against Buffalo in Game seven, I thought you might
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: see Brendan Gallagher inserted in the I think he's only
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: played three playoff games. I really would be surprised if
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you don't see Brendan Gallagher in the lineup tonight. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: don't know why he hasn't played more than three games. Yes,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I know the Canadians have tremendous young forwards. Brendan Gallagher,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I mean he Brendan Galla has a little claudeally New
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: in him. Nowhere near Claudal New, but a little bit
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: of that spiciness that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Jam always as well in this for that team. All right, Yeah,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I want to get to the other side because we
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: called it here at Terminalo's taking one look a ballots
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: that Vegas could be a team up in the ABS,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and they actually, I mean, I'm sorry. I know McKinnon
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: was hurt, I know kill mccar was hurt, but the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: sweep is still surprised.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and and McKinnon got hurt, uh, you know, laid
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: in game three when uh uh it looked like Colorado
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: was done. So it's not that that that he missed
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the whole series, losing mccarf the first two games. You know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: arguably the best defenseman in the world obviously plays a factor.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: But Vegas. Vegas played disciplined. They dictate the pace of play,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: They dictated the style that they that they wanted to play.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Never Vegas never let up and let Colorado adjust to
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Vegas out of their style. That's why Colorado and scored
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: seven goals in four games. You know, a couple of
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: things here Tortorella. I mean, he's only he doesn't have
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: a contract for next year and he's doing what he
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: does best. Nineteen four and one with him including regular
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: season and playoffs. He only has an interim contract through
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the end of the finals. But you know, Tortorella, we've
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: seen in the past short term success is great. When
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: he's there a long time, that's when he starts wearing
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: out on lift the team.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: But let's think about this for a second.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, oh b the way we go.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: But you know the poetic thing about this is do
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you think Larry Brooks is supporting his friend John Trella
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: from above?
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I mean amazing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Well, they had some knockdowns ragout of fights. You remember that.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Too, and I wonder if, like you know, the spirit
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of Larry didn't carry it because you know, Golden Knights
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: were not supposed to be this far to the Sanley
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Cup Finals.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Alex, the Islanders had a better record than them, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: they didn't make the playoffs. The Islanders won forty two
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: games and the Golden Knights only won thirty nine.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Amazing. But no, I think it's amazing the year or
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: morning Brooksy Towrderella. It's amazing how life works that way.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, So that that's a story line. There's other
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: The Tortorella storyline for the finals is paramount. The Mitch
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Maner storyline we talked a little bit about last week.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, as complete a hockey players as you want.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: He leads the NHL playoff scorers. He's on his way
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to possibly winning the con smythe Trophy a year after
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: getting run out of Toronto by the fans and by
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the Toronto media, which we know both of them are relentless.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: So this could be a great achievement if Marner finishes
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: it off, even if he just wins the cup. Jack Eichel,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I mean he's playing great. I mean, you know, we
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: talk about and we know we can score, and he's
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and I believe he might be the second leading scorer
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. I know only has a couple of goals,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: but he has like fifteen or sixteen assists, and he
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: plays a great defensive game. Underrated defensively. And then the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: other storyline is Carter Hart, the goaltender. They were having
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: goldtender Raginals of all year. Carter Hart didn't sign with
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: them because of the situation where him and four of
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: his teammates in the twenty seventeen eighteen World Junior Championships
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: with that sexual assault case. All the players were indicted,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: but Carter Hart is playing just outstanding goal goaltending for Vegas.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: He my trophy it is. It's an amazing three prong storyline. Tortorella,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Mitch Marner, Carter Hart and Vegas, who really was in
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: a weak Pacific Division poo poohed through the way through
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: the season and now is within four games of winning
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup doing something I did not think possible,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: sweeping the Colorado Avalanche, the highest scoring team in the
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: NHL this year, the winning his team from day one,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and they're going home and not a good not a
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: good ending from Nathan McKinnon, a great player who obviously
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: disappointed didn't win the gold medal in in Milan, and uh,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna get his uh a little
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: statisfied by winning the Cup. But they didn't flame out.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: They were they were really uh totally choke choked off
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: to the end and they're done so but they'll still
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: be a contender next year. They will be contender next
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: year to win the Cup. So we'll we'll see what happens.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: But uh they if it's if it's Vegas and cal
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: uh Carolina, it's gonna be it'll be an interesting matchup.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll met the train station.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Now on the way to the Games for the physically challenged.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I don't really care about baseball right now, that's not
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: bad line to me. I don't know what else you've
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: got going on, but I'm not the way to the
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: Games for the physically challenged. And you know about this company,
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: this organization very well, and the fact that the that's
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: I kind of came in to rescue the game. So
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: they get forty years. I'm gonna for thirty. So I
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: feel kind of old today, Louis.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're still young. Yes, I'm old. You're young,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: my my, my friend. Well, enjoy the enjoy the evening.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful evening for the games.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: And before we sign off for this edition, I'm sorry
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Alex for any party words you got tonight, any party words.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Let's see, Uh, let's see what's going on? Well, uh yeah, nothing.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: So in Roland Garrison, we've got Jocovic and center down
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Opera is already out because of injury.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: This is a very different French Open than we were.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Louis, Well, it's funny. Everybody said, uh Sin, it's you know,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: it's wide open for Cinner and then he lost yesterday,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: so I said, okay, it's why open for Djokovic to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: win another another major, and he got knocked out today.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: It's very very very unusual French Open, to be sure,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: very unusual major that. You know, we don't even finish
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: week one and the only top seed that's still around
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: is number two seed. So uh uh yeah, and uh
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I think I think both Sinner and uh Djokovic lost
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: great opportunities to add to their ed, to their trophy case.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: So but that that's a big that's a big deal, Alex.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: You are correct, it is.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He was on the burge getting twenty five slam, so
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll get it at Arthur Ash.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know yet. We are going in September, so
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: that'll be very interesting to see who's in there at
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the quarter final. That's where we're going. But let's see.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: We're being a friend of mine and I now, this
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: is what makes it a doll amazing because he mastered
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: that court like that.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: It's his play court.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: You know, he was the king of play.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, Louis, this has.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Been great and I'm on the way to Long Island,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: so I'll talk to soon.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But thanks for catching up with us at.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: One log of alex Media today, Alex, thank you so much.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: And