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Brian Geltzeiler | Host on Sirius XM NBA Radio & Contributor at NBA TV | 06-03-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: If the New York Knicks were to win a championship courtney,
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  Speaker 2: I mean when you talk about tears of joy, I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling right that, I mean legitimately, no no bricks from
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  Speaker 3: It will mean that much to me.
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  Speaker 2: If the New York Knicks, and I'm speaking on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of so many New Yorkers, you will never see you
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  Speaker 2: nothing Yankees winning, Mets winning Jets. Josh you will never
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  Speaker 2: see New York in the emotional state it will be
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  Speaker 2: in if the New York Knicks capture an NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Championship, this would be huge. Ain't gonna save the city,
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  Speaker 3: Mam Doonnie is still the mayor and ain't gonna save
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  Speaker 3: the state to face. Hkle is still the governor. But
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  Speaker 3: we'll go a long way in making New York. Who
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  Speaker 3: was happy? It all starts tonight in San Antonio, twenty
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  Speaker 3: seven years after the last time the Knicks made the finals,
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  Speaker 3: when ironically they suffered the loss to San Antonio went five.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Geltzeiler was on my show down in Miami those
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  Speaker 3: eleven years a lot. He's really fantastic. Does NBA radio
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  Speaker 3: on Sirius XM, and he's back. Brian. It's great to
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  Speaker 3: talk to you again, buddy. How are you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm great, Shid. Yeah, it was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 4: It was on in Florida when no one was put
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  Speaker 4: me on a radio. You were put me on a radio, dude.
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  Speaker 4: It is absolutely my pleasure to spend some time with
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  Speaker 4: you today on this incredibly successfu show that you have.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Brian, and you're great. You've got you
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  Speaker 3: boot yourself a tremendous career NBA. Everybody in those circles,
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  Speaker 3: they all know you. They all love your local guy
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  Speaker 3: too in New Jersey. And we kind of flipped the
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  Speaker 3: switch because most of the time I was talking to
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  Speaker 3: you down in Miami, he was about the Big Three
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  Speaker 3: Lebron James and Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, and those
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  Speaker 3: guys did go to four consecutive NBA Binals and win
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  Speaker 3: them every year. They won two of them. But that
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  Speaker 3: was quite a time to be done in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: It was fantastic and really it was. It was peak Lebron.
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  Speaker 4: Lebron has never been better than he was in those
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  Speaker 4: four years in Miami and watching him in Dwayne Wade
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  Speaker 4: and Chris Bosh do what they did, and maybe the
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  Speaker 4: most incredible thing was that regular season twenty seven game
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  Speaker 4: win streak they had. They were able to do some
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  Speaker 4: things that just the way the game has evolved, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that you'll Nate, we'll ever see again at
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  Speaker 4: this point in terms of how they were able to dominate,
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  Speaker 4: how they were able to stay healthy. The game has
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  Speaker 4: changed so much, with the speed of the game and
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  Speaker 4: the pace and the tempo being much quicker. You're seeing
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  Speaker 4: guys sit game more, guys are being injured a whole
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  Speaker 4: lot more frequently, and it's just it was an incredible
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  Speaker 4: time sid and and something that I cherish.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's funny. I was thinking about the spur
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  Speaker 3: Is today and they had a great run too, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with Tim Duncan and Manujenobley and Tony Parker, David Robinson
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  Speaker 3: the end of his career, and the engineer of that.
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  Speaker 3: The coach was Greg Popovich. And just so you know,
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  Speaker 3: I hate Greg Papovitch obviously, all right, I love Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Trump's one of my best buddies. And you get this
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  Speaker 3: guy Papovich who's right there with Steve Kerr and Golden State,
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  Speaker 3: even stand Van Gundy, guys that are very public about
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  Speaker 3: their disdain for President Trump. I never understood why Papovic
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  Speaker 3: how to do that. So, yeah, he's a great coach,
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  Speaker 3: but I couldn't stand him. I gotta tell you, Brian,
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  Speaker 3: if you asked the average guy on the street to
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  Speaker 3: tell you who's coaching San Antonio today, I think they
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  Speaker 3: have a hard time.
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  Speaker 4: I would agree. Every you know, it's Mitch Johnson is
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  Speaker 4: I can't say he's an unheard of because keep in mind,
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  Speaker 4: Sid his father played for the championship Seattle super Sonics
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  Speaker 4: team in the late seventies, John Johnson.
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  Speaker 5: So he did come up.
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  Speaker 3: He was on that game with Jock Sikmau, Gus Johnson,
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  Speaker 3: all those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, with Gus Williams, that group Brown. Yes, his dad,
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  Speaker 4: John Johnson was on that team. So Mitch Johnson's got
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  Speaker 4: a basketball background. I he brings some energy to this thing.
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  Speaker 4: He's a really good coach. And listen, there's some things
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  Speaker 4: on the sidelines that you know. He has good guys
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  Speaker 4: in the sidelines. Listen to him. Sean Sweeney, who just
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  Speaker 4: got through Orlando job as his associate head coach. He's
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  Speaker 4: got former sixer coach Brett Brown there with him. But
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  Speaker 4: Mitch Johnson has injected an energy into this group that
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  Speaker 4: I think is very very special. And san Antonio is
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  Speaker 4: tough up and down the line. The thing about san
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  Speaker 4: Antonio is, and maybe the experience factor rears thats ugly
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  Speaker 4: head here in this series for them, the fact that
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  Speaker 4: this is their first time here. They don't act like it,
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  Speaker 4: they don't play like it. They get in big spots
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  Speaker 4: in New Jerseys own Dylan Harper is at twenty years old,
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  Speaker 4: you can't believe. For Nick fans that haven't seen him yet,
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  Speaker 4: you can't believe how composed and calm this kid is
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  Speaker 4: in big spots. Not only that, he's an incredible talent,
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  Speaker 4: and most teams, including the Knicks, don't have a player
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  Speaker 4: at that talent level coming off that match.
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  Speaker 3: NONI that the Spurs may have the best player in
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  Speaker 3: the NBA. I mean, I think he's still young, and
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  Speaker 3: he's you know, he's still maturing, but Webin Yama, he
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  Speaker 3: may already be there. If he's not there, he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be. Trust me when I tell you he's going
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  Speaker 3: to be very very soon the best player in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: And they're not going to be easily and intimidated these
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  Speaker 3: young guys when you consider the fact they had to
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  Speaker 3: win two straight against the reigning NBA champs, including a
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  Speaker 3: game seven road win in Oklahoma City. So if you
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  Speaker 3: think you're going to intimidate the Spurs even at the Gordon,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't see that.
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  Speaker 4: No, there's nothing about this moment that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: too big for the San Antonio Spurs and Sid I
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  Speaker 4: want you to think about this. Listen, Victor wending. I'm
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  Speaker 4: at the age of twenty three, is the unquestioned leader
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  Speaker 4: of that group in every single way. Back to the
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty four Paris Olympics, Victor Webbinyama played in a
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  Speaker 4: gold medal game against the US team with Lebron James,
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Durant, and Steph Curry on it. Victor webmbanam in
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  Speaker 4: that game and listen, they didn't win. He didn't win
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  Speaker 4: the game for France, okay, but what he did to
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  Speaker 4: take those guys to the brink. It took a Steph
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  Speaker 4: Curry three point barrage in the last three minutes of
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  Speaker 4: that game to get the US over the hump. It
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  Speaker 4: was incredible. But what Victor Weber Yama did was carried
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  Speaker 4: a relatively pedestrian France team against the best the US
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  Speaker 4: had to offer. That moment, Okay, two years ago wasn't
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  Speaker 4: too big for him. This isn't going to be too
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  Speaker 4: big for him. And you see, guys follow his emotional cues.
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  Speaker 4: You saw a situation couple games back where he felt
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  Speaker 4: as though he was not being treated all of that
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  Speaker 4: well by the officials and being knocked around by Oklahoma
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  Speaker 4: City late in the blowout. He sent Mason Plumley and
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  Speaker 4: Bismack Biambo out in the court to do a little
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  Speaker 4: goon work for him, and they went right and did
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  Speaker 4: it immediately. There's something with wm Yama at a young
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  Speaker 4: age where he's just an it guy that has it
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  Speaker 4: all together, and the Spurs are smart enough to follow
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  Speaker 4: his lead in everything that they do. He's a highly
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  Speaker 4: emotional player, he's a highly competitive player, but he's really
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  Speaker 4: really wise beyond his years. And listen for Nick fans
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  Speaker 4: that haven't seen him, this is something unlike anything you've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen on an NBA basketball now.
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  Speaker 3: They should have seen him, of course, because the Knicks
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  Speaker 3: won that Silly Cup series that they played midway through
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  Speaker 3: the season, and the Knicks actually beat the Spurs, so
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  Speaker 3: we've seen him, we've beaten them, But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that that's going to translate to an NBA Binals when
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  Speaker 3: either way, this is the great Brian Geltzil or an
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  Speaker 3: amazing basketball guy. Sirius XM the NBA radio channel, So
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  Speaker 3: what do you think Brian Mikemo said Mike Woods In,
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  Speaker 3: while what do you think Mike Brown said to this
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  Speaker 3: group of Knicks after Game three against Atlanta? The down
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  Speaker 3: two games to one. We know what's transpired since eleven
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  Speaker 3: consecutive victory is the majority of which can blowout fashions
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  Speaker 3: and voting three road winds in deciding games for the
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  Speaker 3: one by thirty or more. What the hell do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Mike Brown said to the Knicks after the game, Free
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  Speaker 3: lawns to the Hawks. That has turned this group into
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  Speaker 3: maybe the most dominant Nick group ever.
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  Speaker 5: Two things involved here.
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  Speaker 4: SID. Number one was a decisive shift in what they
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  Speaker 4: did defensively, and so listen, this was more tactical than
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  Speaker 4: it was spiritual, SID, because what they did defensively is
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  Speaker 4: made the decision we are not going to blindly switch everything.
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  Speaker 4: We're not allowing Atlanta to dictate matchup and get Jalen
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  Speaker 4: brunts and switched on to CJ McCollum, which was a
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  Speaker 4: matchup that Atlanta really liked a lot. The second part
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  Speaker 4: of it, to my understanding, and I think this has
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  Speaker 4: been reported by somebody.
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  Speaker 5: I talked about it the other day on Mike Frances's podcast.
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  Speaker 4: There was a meeting Carltown's approached the lead assistant Christian
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  Speaker 4: and said the Christian kind of showed them some diagrams
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  Speaker 4: and some stuff where if we run more offense through
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  Speaker 4: me at the elbow, everybody's gonna see it. Here are
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  Speaker 4: some different things that we can do, and Gent was
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  Speaker 4: intrigued enough to show it to Mike Brown. Mike Brown
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  Speaker 4: wanted to sit down and meet with Carl to find
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  Speaker 4: out more that he had in mind, and kind of
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  Speaker 4: came back to their team and said, we're gonna try
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  Speaker 4: this right now. We're gonna see if we can run
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of this and if this is where
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  Speaker 4: the Knicks offense is exploded, because in the half court,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's seeing the basketball the variations that they can run
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  Speaker 4: off of towns having the ball at the elbow and
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  Speaker 4: initiating the offense there. The other thing is this said,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody forgets this. Jalen Brunson made his bones in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA playing as an off ball player with Luka
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  Speaker 4: Doncic in Dallas. Jalen Brunson, this side of Steph Curry,
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  Speaker 4: is one of the best off ball players you will
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  Speaker 4: see because of how well he moves without the ball
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  Speaker 4: and how tactically sound he isn't fundamentally sound. Brunson being
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  Speaker 4: off the ball also spares him all of this having
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  Speaker 4: him bring the ball up and have it in his
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  Speaker 4: hands all the time, so he's not exhausted late in games.
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  Speaker 4: And you saw that in Game one of the Cleveland
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  Speaker 4: series where the Knicks didn't play well and Brunson had
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  Speaker 4: a whole.
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  Speaker 5: Lot of gas in the tank and a whole lot of.
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  Speaker 4: Energy to carry the team on his back. So there's
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  Speaker 4: been kind of a co it. Listen, Mike Brown's whole
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  Speaker 4: thing walking in was collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. Here was a
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  Speaker 4: situation where he had his eyes and his ears open
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  Speaker 4: and listened to somebody's idea on what they can do
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  Speaker 4: to be able to improve what what the team was doing.
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  Speaker 4: And there was a player that did it and it
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  Speaker 4: benefited the player in a big way. Except for one
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  Speaker 4: thing right now, decided Jalen Brunts and Carltowns and he
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  Speaker 4: may be more important than.
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  Speaker 5: Jaln Bruns into this team for what's it going to
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  Speaker 5: need from him.
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  Speaker 4: In this series? And he has been incredible in these playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: I the unsung hero, the next Karl Anthony Towns.
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  Speaker 3: My great Brian Geltziler here, see you mentioned the fact
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  Speaker 3: you're on Mike bran cessa won legend. Part of that
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  Speaker 3: Mike and the Meadoor combination a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 3: So I got a couple of fan guys on here
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  Speaker 3: every week. Craig Carton's on, but the legend Joe Baningo,
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  Speaker 3: who still does a Saturday show on the band, and
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  Speaker 3: he's on with me every week. And he said to
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  Speaker 3: me a couple of days ago, he said, Sid, this
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  Speaker 3: team is so deep. He said, I'm willing to have
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  Speaker 3: any one of Listen to this now, any one of
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  Speaker 3: eight guys take the last shot. You never hear that, right,
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  Speaker 3: you got Yeah, Michael Jordan would give it up to
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  Speaker 3: Packs and oll Curve, but you got two or three guys,
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  Speaker 3: he said, Sid, I am willing. Now. That's a testament
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  Speaker 3: to Mike Brown too, because we know that Thibodeau ran
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  Speaker 3: his starters ragged. That's one of the reasons why he
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  Speaker 3: was gone, besides the obvious, which is townsendn't like him.
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  Speaker 3: But Mike Brown made a decision to play a lot
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  Speaker 3: of guys throughout the season and in the playoffs. This
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  Speaker 3: team goes nine or ten deep. Any one of eight
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  Speaker 3: guys to take the last shot. That's big statement, Brian.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 4: It may be a little bit of a stretch also,
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  Speaker 4: and I love Joe, but it's I think you're probably
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  Speaker 4: in the neighborhood of more of five to six guys.
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  Speaker 4: It's your five starters and maybe Shannitt I'll say this, Listen,
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  Speaker 4: Tom Thibodeau didn't have the same kind of bench last
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  Speaker 4: year that Mike Brown did. Listen. I'm I'm a Thibodeaux loyalist,
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  Speaker 4: and I actually look at him as you know, being
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  Speaker 4: an enormous figure. And why the Knicks are here because
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  Speaker 4: Mike Brown was smart enough to carry all the good
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  Speaker 4: things from Tom's culture and Tom was a one voice guy,
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  Speaker 4: so he wasn't great with collaboration, and that's been a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of the difference here. But Mike's carried a
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  Speaker 4: lot of that through. But you're Joe's correct, and the
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  Speaker 4: fact that you can have a lot of different guys
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  Speaker 4: take shots here. The one thing I will say about
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  Speaker 4: the Knixt bench, and I do worry a little about
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  Speaker 4: it a little bit in this series, is that the
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  Speaker 4: Knicks bench outside of Mitchell Robinson is small, and you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna see the spurs here. Bring some perimeter guys off
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  Speaker 4: the bench. I mentioned Dylan Harper earlier, Carter Bryants, another
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  Speaker 4: rookie that plays minutes for them. That's a big six
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  Speaker 4: to six kid on the perimeter, and that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a challenge for the Knicks. And the guys that
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  Speaker 4: I worry about contributing in this series for the Knicks
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  Speaker 4: are McBride and Alvarado, just because I think they're a
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  Speaker 4: little small to play with the Spurs perimeter guys. The
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  Speaker 4: Spurs are giant on the perimeter. Their smallest perimeter guy
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  Speaker 4: is de Aaron Foxton only because he's skinny. Steph Castle
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  Speaker 4: is a linebacker.
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  Speaker 5: Like they bring big Doozy.
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  Speaker 4: So that's going to be the interesting part for the
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  Speaker 4: next year that he's used a bench a lot, Mike Brown,
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  Speaker 4: this may be the series where that's challenged a little
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  Speaker 4: bit and he may lean back into some Thibodeau philosophies
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  Speaker 4: and only playing seven. You know the way it gets
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  Speaker 4: in the NBA playoffs, sid you shorten up that bench,
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  Speaker 4: which comes to shove and big spot. It's the guys
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