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The NEW YORK KNICKS lead the CLEVELAND CAVALIERS 2 games to 0! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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There you go. There's a lot of people
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listening to the show right now and I want to give a shout out
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to one person that to me has been a big fan of the show and
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Congratulations as he is going to have a daughter.
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So congratulations to him and we're very excited for him.
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Shout out to my friend Kev. And by the way, I there was a
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lot of sadness before the show. Kyle Busch passed away at 41
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years old. That is just a completely sad
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story to think about a 41 year old man getting sick the way he
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did and, and and just pass away. He there was conversations that
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he wasn't going to drive this weekend and now all of a sudden
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he passed away. So my heart goes out to the Bush
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family. It's a horrible, horrible story.
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One of the true legends over the last 15 years of racing.
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This is a two time champion, two time cup champion, a guy that
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will always be remembered for his fast pace mouth and love to
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fight in the cockpit. So he this is a guy that loved
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to argue, not only with his teammates, everybody else out
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there, but my heart goes out to the Bush family.
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It's a horrible, horrible story. And I, I just wish, I wish not
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to hear something like that before the show.
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That's just horrible. Kyle Busch, 1985 to 2026.
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He actually died at 41 years old.
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I'm 44, so he's three years younger than I am.
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And to see somebody like that and one of at one point one of
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the best race car drivers in the world and to see him go down
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sound like that, it's a horrible, horrible story.
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So my heart goes out to the Bush family.
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It's a crazy, crazy show. We're going to light it up
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tonight. We're going to get into a lot of
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Knicks conversation. What are we going to get into
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first? Of course, we're going to get
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into the Knicks as they historically came back against
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the Cavaliers in game #1 The Knicks came back to beat the
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Cavaliers 115 to one O 4 in overtime in a game where they
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trailed 93 to 71 with just under 8 minutes remaining in the game.
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The Knicks then went on an 18 to one run, led by Jaylen Bronson
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having 11 points in that stretch and Landry Chamet making
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multiple 3 pointers which cut the Cavaliers lead to 9489 with
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three minutes and 30 seconds to go.
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After Evan Mobley made a three-point shot on the next
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possession, the Knicks went on another ten to two run, led by
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2-3 pointers from Mikhail Bridges and another three
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pointer from Chemet to tie the game at 99.
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James Harden made a jumper to give the Cavaliers the lead with
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31 seconds left, but then Jalen Brunson responded to hit a shot
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to tie the game for the Knicks with 19.3 seconds left,
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eventually sending it into overtime where the Knicks
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dominated. During the 18 to one run the
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Knicks forced James Harden to switch on Jaylen Bronson to
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become the primary defender on him at eight straight
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possessions and the Knicks scored every possession.
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Harden also had six toner turn turnovers and made just 5 field
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goals, now his 48th career playoff game with more turnovers
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than field goals. Teams trailing by 20 points in
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the fourth quarter in the in the NBA season only came back to win
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once compared to 521 losses, and the Knicks became just the four
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team in the last 30 years to come back in a playoff game down
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by 20. I will say this for all the
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Knick fans out there that watching the game, I was one of
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the Knick fans that wanted to shut it off.
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I did not want to watch the game.
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I was sick to my stomach going into the fourth quarter.
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I thought it was an absolute loss.
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It was, to me just a cold game and a lot of Knick fans sitting
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there would probably say, well, the Knicks had eight games or 8
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days off. They were getting healthy.
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OG and a Nobi needed to get healthy.
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Mikhail Bridges needed to get healthy, Jalen Bronson, Mitchell
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Robertson, and they came out really, really cold.
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They how many, how many 3 pointers did both teams miss in
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the first half? That was horrible shooting.
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It was a horrible, horrible game to watch.
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It was something that nobody wants to watch if you're a Knick
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fan or even a Cavalier fan. And then the third quarter came
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and the Knicks continue to play bad.
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But I will say this one thing about Mike Brown is the
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transition going into the half and changing up the lineups,
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trying to figure out what is going to work.
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Josh Hart was not defending Donovan Mitchell in the first
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half very well. Donovan Mitchell was playing
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great basketball, but he looked like he was getting tired in the
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second-half and you can see it. And Landry Chamet, when he
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brought him in, change the pace of the fourth quarter, he really
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did. And we're going to get into
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statistics, but statistics don't sell what happened in this game.
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And I'll say this, if you're a Knick fan right now, and if
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you're not a Knick fan, what you saw was something that you'll
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probably never see again. Something like that does not
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happen in Eastern or Western Conference Finals.
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It doesn't happen in the NBA Finals.
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To watch a team completely breakdown the way they did.
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And Kenny Atkinson has a lot to be blamed for his timeouts.
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He had four timeouts. He didn't call any of them.
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And after three minutes, you lose 2 timeouts.
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That's the way the NBA works in the fourth quarter.
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And Kenny Atkinson had no answers to the media after the
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game. And we'll get into that too.
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Jalen Bronson, who was not shooting the ball very well
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throughout the 1st 3/4, he really wasn't.
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But in the fourth quarter, as we call him Mr. Clutch, one of the
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best clutch shooters in the NBA, this guy is one of the best
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really takedown players in an all of the NBA.
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He just went on a run that we probably will never see again.
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To score 38 points and score 11 points in less than I would say
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5 minutes and do it at such a high pace at a high clip, to
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watch this guy just put the team on his shoulders and win this
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game, really tie the game in and eventually win it overtime was
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absolutely amazing. I don't care what anybody says
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now, I everybody's trying to argue that Jalen Bronson is the
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greatest nick of all time already.
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He has a lot more to go before we can say he's the greatest
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nick of all time. If he wins a championship, we
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can argue it, but Willis Reed won an MVP.
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Willis Reed is the only nick to win an MVP.
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Patrick Ewing for a 10 year span was one of the best big men in
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the NBA. He didn't win a championship
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with the Knicks, but he never had players like Mikhail Bridges
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and OG Anna Nobi and Karl Anthony Towns.
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He never had those type of players.
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He had good players. Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason,
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we can go on and on and on. Xavier McDaniels, we've seen
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some great Knicks, but they weren't elite players in the
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NBA. But what we saw in the fourth
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quarter was absolute domination. Donovan Mitchell look tired,
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James Harden look like James Harden, absolutely pathetic,
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flopping around, making mistakes, not playing defense,
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trying to play defense and flop around his stupid jump back
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shot, which nobody likes. It's one of the most ugliest
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shots in NBA history, which has worked for many, many years as a
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trickery shot as the NBA. Don't call it double dribble or
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I don't know what you want to call it.
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The problem right now for the Cavaliers is when you lose a
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game like that, how do you come back from it?
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How do you come back from a game that you were up 22 with less
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than 8 minutes left? Think about this.
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The Knicks outscored the Cavaliers 44 to 11 / 12 minutes
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and 49 seconds in NBA history, 663 and O.
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When a team has a 22 point lead with 7 1/2 minutes left of the
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game, the Knicks are the first team to break that.
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Think about that when you talk about breaking records and what
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the Knicks have been doing throughout the playoffs,
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especially in the fourth quarter, is absolutely amazing.
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The Knicks are probably the best third quarter team in the
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playoffs. They're the best 3 point shooter
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shooting team in the playoffs going into that particular game,
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which was horrible to watch. And what we are seeing right now
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is this the year? Is this the year that the Knicks
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are going to win a championship? I know for years we see all
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these Knicks fans after the games jumping around excited.
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You see them right there in the picture, happy go lucky, crying.
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This team is going to wipe the floor with the Cavaliers, wipe
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the floor with the 76ers. They went to the 76er game and
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outmatched the 76er fans as they were given free tickets to go to
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the games. The Hawks showing up to the Hawk
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games in Atlanta and and just being Knick fans.
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Crazy nuts, absolutely redundant to anybody around them.
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And like Kevin Garnett says, I don't believe there are any fans
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out there like the Knick fans. It doesn't matter if they win a
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championship, as long as they win a game.
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This team will go crazy no matter what.
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It's unbelievable how these fans act after a game, after a win.
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They're all over the place. They're climbing poles, ripping
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down cars and and doing whatever the hell they're doing.
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I have, I've never seen anything like it except the Philadelphia
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fans after winning a Super Bowl eating horse crap, which I've
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I've heard many, many different stories about that.
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But the Knicks fans are crazy. We see Yankee fans.
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Yankee fans aren't like this. We've seen Yankee championships.
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Yankee fans are crazy, but they're not like this.
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How about Giant fans? I've seen crazy Giant fans.
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Giant fans are not like this. Jet fans are crazy.
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I said. Even even if they win a playoff
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game, which they haven't won one in, like, I don't know, 16-17
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years, but nevertheless, when they win a playoff game, they're
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crazy, but not crazy like this. Knick fans are nuts, and Jalen
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Bronson, Mikhail Bridges, OG Ananobi, Karl Anthony Towns,
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Landry Schmetz, Josh Hart, Mitchell Robertson, Mikhail
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Bridges. I said that already.
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Every single player on that bench and Mike Brown, they're
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going to make you believe that this team can not only win this
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series, but win an NBA championship we haven't seen
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since 1973. 1973 was the last time the New York Knicks won a
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championship when it was black and white, black and white.
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TV's Willis Reed coming out limping on the basketball court.
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Walt Clyde Frazier, the pusher, All these guys, all these great
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players, Phil Jackson. We all remember Phil Jackson,
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not the the coach Phil Jackson, the player Phil Jackson who won
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two NBA championships with the New York Knicks.
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When you watch this New York Knick team, you have to be
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excited. But it's not over.
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And Knick fans like to believe that.
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Oh we, we came back from a 22 point deficit.
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This series is over. Anybody would believe that.
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You really drive a stake through the Cavaliers heart and and
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Kenny Atkinson, who is a New Yorker, a true New Yorker, a
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Long Islander, a guy that I look up to, he does a lot of camps
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out here in the Hamptons in the summertime.
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The guy is such a good person, good hearted soul.
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He was like a deer in the headlights, ladies and
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gentlemen. A deer in the headlights after
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the game, making excuses, pointing fingers at players, not
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figuring out the pace of the game, calling time outs when his
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team was tired. None of it made any sense and
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his opinion and his argument to it was absolutely ridiculous.
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Think about it when you go out there and you speak to the media
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and he knows all about the media because he worked with the
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Knicks for a long time. He helped Jeremy Lin, he's
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helped a lot of Knick point guards.
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This guy is a great, great head coach.
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His excuse to why he didn't call timeouts was is that he didn't
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think his team was tired. He wanted to catch the Knicks
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off balance when the truth was that James Harden had no idea
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who he was defending. And when he was on, Jalen
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Brunson was absolutely dominated.
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And Donovan Mitchell look like after the game, he just wanted
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to limp off the field, want to limp off the court, wondering
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what the hell happened, how did this happen, Why did this
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happen? What happened to my Cavaliers?
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And you want to know something? I'm sure Donovan Mitchell is
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wishing that the Knicks made that trade to bring him over
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there. Now, maybe Jalen Brunson
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wouldn't be a Knick. We all know the whole story.
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They decided to go after Jalen Brunson over Donovan Mitchell.
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But Donovan Mitchell grew up a Knick fan.
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He lived 45 minutes from Madison Square Garden.
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He watched a lot of bad Knick teams.
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His favorite player growing up was John Starks, who's sitting
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right there on the sidelines standing up for the New York
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Knicks. Isn't that so?
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And we say this about Jose Alvarado.
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He grew up a Knick fan. He always wanted to be a Knick.
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He got his dream. The Knicks made the trade.
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Leon Rose added a point guard. They needed guard depth.
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And they had they added one because two of their guards were
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not healthy. But you, you think about this,
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the real truth, if this team wins the championship, everybody
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wants to give it to Jalen Brunson.
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Everybody wants to say Mike Brown's a genius and all this
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other stuff. The real guy that people are
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going to have to give a lot of compliments to is Leon Rose.
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Leon Rose came here to the New York Knicks and changed this
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organization. You could say whatever you want.
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He was the one that decided to bring Jalen Bronson in and
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extend and give him a three-year deal.
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He also extended him after that. He gave Mitchell Robertson a
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four year deal, which has been a big, big part of the growth of
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the youth of this team. Then he made a trade, trade RJ
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Barrett and quickly to Toronto to bring OG Ananobi.
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And we've seen how what OG Ananobi has turned into.
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Then everybody was complaining about the five draft picks that
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they give up from Mikhail Bridges.
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You see why now? Mikhail Bridges is such a big
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part of why they decided to make that move.
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And then the Karl Anthony, Karl Anthony Towns trade, which a lot
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of people thought was it too much?
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Julius Randall, Dante de Vicenzo, a pick and all this
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other stuff. How did this make sense?
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It was called freaking Anthony Towns.
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Carl Anthony Towns, the best offensive center in the NBA.
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Now we haven't seen Carl Anthony Towns play like this.
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And even when he plays bad, he doesn't show up and, and pass
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the ball, share the ball and, and, and show people what type
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of what type of game he can have as an NBA player.
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Nicola Jokic has changed the game.
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He has become the big man that not only shares the ball,
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dominates when he needs to dominate.
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Carl Anthony Towns. If somehow he transitions his
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game at 30 years old into this, not only is he going to add five
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more years to his career, we're talking about championship,
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speedy championships. Yes, and that's the biggest
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thing, the biggest difference from last year when you saw when
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he was struggling, he still would try to shoot threes.
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He would still try to do the thing, the shots in the paint,
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those turn around shots that he liked to do and he still shoot
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himself out of games. Now you could see him be a more
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selfless passer. You've seen him more be a guy
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that's going to focus on defense.
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Karl Anthony Town's fourth quarter defensive game was
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another big reason for this comeback.
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It's not going to show in the stats because of the Knicks 18
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to one run, but his defense was very strong down the stretch and
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that's something I don't think you would have seen last year
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and I don't think you would have seen in his playoff times with
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Minnesota. And while he isn't a great
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defender overall, it's those effort defensive plays that can
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make a difference in the playoffs for an 18 to one run
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that was very impactful and you saw something you saw the Knicks
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do that very well with the rotational, the bench players as
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well, getting guys in the right positions defensively to start
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this transition run. Another big reason that the
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Knicks were able to get Brunson a lot of good transition baskets
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in addition to those screens on James Harden was the fact that
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they got open spaces and got quicker defensive reps.
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And I think that was a big key. And Mike Brown definitely
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deserves some credit, But you said Leon Rose deserves some
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credit for getting guys that fit the better pace of basketball.
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That the Knicks didn't have last year, and Jalen Brunson was able
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to take smart shots because of that.
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Landry Shamit took smart shots because of that, Yes.
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Did they get a lucky bounce? Yes.
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But those are going to happen once in a while.
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Obviously, the Knicks got screwed by one last year against
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the Pacers. Now, I think the other thing
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too, that the Knicks duped Cleveland in the I.
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Love that word. Dupes, yeah.
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Cleveland in the very. Well is use your.
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Word forcing Donovan Mitchell to try to do too much on the
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defensive side of the ball and I think it really wore out his
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offense. And we know Donovan Mitchell is
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a good defender, but OG and Anobi and Josh Hart were doing
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so many switches that it really confused him and eventually
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enforced James Harden, the terrible choke artist defender
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he is to Bronson as well. And once they started to do
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that, they Cavs had to overcompensate to double team
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Bronson so much more often led by Donovan Mitchell, which
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isolates Donovan Mitchell away from another one-on-one
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defender. So even with Harder wasn't the
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primary defender then, the Knicks were still getting good
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shots because of it too. And the Knicks were not forcing
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bad shots either. Even down 22 the Knicks had the
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mindset still still take smart shots.
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Now, I think it took him a while because Jalen Bronson, I think
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in the first quarter adjusted to that teardrop shot very well in
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the paint where they scored I think seven of the first like 10
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points the Knicks had in that game.
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But then they kind of deviated away from it.
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And I think they were trying too many threes at that point after
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that. And you were even saying it,
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too, like why are the Knicks shooting so many threes in the
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second quarter? They looked horrible, absolutely
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horrible. Both teams look horrible, Yeah.
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Cleveland struggled to shoot threes early in the game, too,
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but in the second and third quarter got it going there and
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the Knicks still tried to do it. But it's once they started to
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adjust more away from that. Even at the start of the third
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quarter, when the Knicks were still kind of exchanging baskets
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before their big runs, they were at least taking smarter shots
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offensively. They just need to get stops.
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And eventually they started to get stops.
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They started to pick on James Harden.
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And I agree with you about Kenny Atkinson, too.
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Kenny Atkinson? Yeah, there's one thing you say,
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all right, your teams not tired. Don't preserve the timeouts.
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But you have to take time out to game plan too.
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And it it took you to the end of the 18 one run do that it was 93
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to 71. Then it turned 9489 and there
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was only one TV time out in between.
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These two guys coached on the same team together.
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Yeah, They know each other very well.
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Mike Brown and Kenny Atkinson were on the Golden State bench.
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They knew each other very, very well.
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They they both run the kind of the same style of offense, like,
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like Kurt does and Popovich does.
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It's not a triangle offense, but they like to isolate certain
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parts of the game. Donovan Mitchell is an isolator
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and so is Jalen Brunson. And they play kind of the same
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style of game. Both guys dominate the game,
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dominate the ball when they need to.
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But Donovan Mitchell for some reason in the fourth quarter
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could not get the ball. And when he did get the ball,
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Landry Chemet was all over him, all over him in the fourth
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quarter. Donovan Mitchell had how many
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shots in the fourth quarter, how many points did he score in the
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fourth quarter? And, and he didn't look good in
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the overtime either. So it it just shows you that
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Mike Brown transitions better than Tom Thibodeau.
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Tom Thibodeau is going back to Chicago.
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Let's be honest, ladies and gentlemen, we saw enough for Tom
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Thibodeau. A lot of people took shots at
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Leon Rose in the offseason. Why did you fire him?
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He went to the Eastern Conference final.
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We all know Tom Thibodeau took the Knicks as far as he possibly
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can. He's taking the Chicago Bulls
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all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals.
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He didn't do much with the Timberwolves.
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We all know he took over as AGM and head coach.
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And then he took the New York Knicks as far as he possibly
23:25
can. Mike Brown has coached in the
23:28
finals. He has been an assistant coach
23:30
in the Finals. He's won championships as an
23:32
assistant coach, never as a head coach.
23:35
This is a guy that deserves an opportunity to to be the guy
23:40
and, and, and, and, and. I think Leon Rose has been not
23:43
only a genius, he has believed in his pace and his
23:48
understanding on where this team is going and what he thinks this
23:52
team is capable of doing. It's been unbelievable.
23:54
Leon Rose has been not only one of the top three GM's in the
23:59
league, he might be one of the best executives not only in New
24:04
York Knick history, New York sports history.
24:07
Yeah, Crazy to think when you look at the kind of
24:10
unconventional logic that they went with, when you look at some
24:13
of the models that teams have used, obviously we talk about
24:15
the Thunder getting all those draft picks that they did,
24:17
hitting on all those undrafted players.
24:19
We talk about the Celtics accumulating the the picks the
24:22
way they did and the way Brad Stevens is drafted, both as a
24:24
coach, as a player. Those are kind of what you would
24:26
consider the new models. And then the Knicks kind of did
24:28
it on a little different where they were training those draft
24:31
picks earlier than we expected. Barrett obviously being the big
24:33
one, but also also Quigley. Also they experimented with Cam
24:38
Radish. They once that didn't work.
24:39
They traded him to get Josh Hart.
24:41
They made those kinds of trades when you probably wouldn't have
24:43
expected it to. And then like you said, the cat
24:45
trade was until obviously the Lukodontik trade last year, it
24:48
looked like the biggest fleece job in the league when you look
24:50
at all the Knicks fans. I want to trade Julius Randall
24:52
at that time. And they people were thinking
24:54
that Towns was going to warrant at least two first round picks
24:57
and maybe 3. And the Knicks only had to trade
24:58
one more first round draft pick away in order to do that.
25:01
And they still were able to get a guy in town that's been
25:04
durable, like you said, probably the most skilled big man
25:07
shooting wise. And besides Nicola Yokich, he's
25:09
now elevated his game to be one of the best passing.
25:11
And he's not shooting 80 foot jumpers anymore.
25:14
And that's no more of that. That's.
25:16
Why? I was just driving me before
25:17
with the instincts that you would have seen from him this
25:19
year compared to last year. And maybe Mike Brown has
25:20
something to do with that, maybe with their attention at the
25:22
beginning of the season, Brown Town taking shots at him for not
25:25
getting him more involved in the offense.
25:27
And he catered back to the other direction where he if he knows
25:29
he's not scoring, because he did struggle at in the first half to
25:32
score, he knew to make selfless basketball plays and that was a
25:35
big difference. Yeah, I think it was more Cavs
25:41
issues more so than it was about what New York did.
25:44
I think New York played their game throughout the whole entire
25:48
game. And when you look at the Cavs,
25:51
they just didn't deliver. They had nothing to offer.
25:54
I think they went more data analytic, which has been proven
25:57
again once in the playoff that analytics isn't the end all be
26:01
all. Like you said earlier, around a
26:03
730 mark of the fourth quarter, it was a 99 Percent, 99.9%
26:07
chance that there was going to win the game.
26:09
And I think Kenny just sat on timeouts and just sat there
26:12
like, hey, there's no way we're going to lose this game.
26:14
So he just kept playing. But the Cavs is going to go as
26:17
far as Evan Mobley if he can't give them a consistent 20 or
26:20
more points that if you go back and just look overall in regards
26:24
to their schedule and the games that they played, if he don't
26:28
score 20 points or more, he's not they're not a very good team
26:33
overall. They'll be top heavy with James
26:35
Harden or they'll be top heavy with Donovan Mitchell, But it's
26:38
not going to be enough to actually be the complete team,
26:41
especially when you have some people, you know, on the bench
26:43
that are contributing to the the points on the other side of the
26:47
ball. So I think that yeah, Kenny,
26:50
Kenny, I think it was a tough lesson for obviously, I think
26:53
Donovan Mitchell need to understand that he's the number
26:55
one option. James Harden isn't the number
26:57
one option. He didn't come over there to be
26:59
the number one option. But I believe that because of
27:01
his offensive gifting, Donovan Mitchell has kind of deferred to
27:05
him because at the end of the day, Donovan Mitchell caught
27:07
fire. He was hot for a while
27:10
throughout the game and then he just as you go back and look at
27:12
the game, you just see him passing the ball to James
27:15
Harden. I'm and myself and I'm in the
27:17
living room like what's going on?
27:18
Why are you passing him the ball in?
27:20
Especially when you have the hot head.
27:22
When you have the hot head, you have that privilege to take
27:25
extra shots. You have that leverage to be
27:27
able to miss some shots because you have the hot head.
27:31
You're the reason that we have this lead.
27:33
You're the reason that you are contributed to the 2022 point
27:36
lead that we have over the Knicks and whatnot.
27:39
I knew they were going to come out down the job because they
27:42
had knits was going to come out down the job because they had
27:44
nine days layoff. But it really had nothing to do
27:47
with the Knicks to me. It just had to do with the Cavs
27:50
just sitting back, not playing good defense, which they're not
27:53
really a good defensive team. And all they got lit with
27:55
obviously with Jared Allen and Evan Mobley, but they don't
27:58
really play real good defense. Not have been.
28:00
Mitchell is the average. James Harden is terrible and
28:04
nobody else is on the bench or on the, in the start, a group
28:08
that can actually like, stop somebody.
28:09
Dennis Schroeder is a good defender in regards to coming
28:12
off the bench. I would say that from the point
28:15
garbages, he can actually apply pressure.
28:17
But he was even during the point of time of the game, Dennis
28:19
Schroeder was actually taking more shots than Donovan Mitchell
28:22
and James Harden. And I'm just thinking myself
28:24
like, this can't be life. Like, you know, yeah, the guy is
28:28
a good player, but this can't be real.
28:29
But yeah, I think the Cuban Cavaliers have, you know, they
28:33
blew that game that was supposed to take that game one, but now
28:35
they don't. Gave momentum back to New York
28:37
and they probably gonna steal one tonight and then it'd be
28:41
done after that 41. I watched the OKC Thunder last
28:44
night with the Spurs. OKC pulled it off well, we'll go
28:47
into that in just a few moments. But I what really and I, I
28:50
disagree with you, Qi completely disagree with you as far as the
28:53
defensive side of the ball. The the Cavaliers were a top 15
28:58
team this year defensively. They have Evan Mobley, who's a
29:01
good defender. Allen is a good defender.
29:03
Donovan Mitchell is a good defender.
29:05
James Harden is not a good defender.
29:07
But their team defense is pretty good.
29:08
They're good defensive rebounding team, offensive
29:11
rebounding team. They just for some reason
29:14
thought that the game was over in the fourth quarter and the
29:17
Knicks never say die. And that has a lot to do with a
29:20
guy like Mr. Clutch, the captain of the New York Knicks.
29:23
He doesn't think that the game is over.
29:24
He doesn't think that there's any chance that if there's 7
29:28
minutes left or 8 minutes left or 10 minutes left, that the
29:31
team is completely done. And I, I watched what I saw with
29:35
the New York Knicks on Tuesday was one thing.
29:38
The New York Knicks are not the same New York team they were
29:42
last year against Indiana in the Eastern Conference Finals.
29:45
When Halliburton hit that shot to take it into overtime, which
29:48
everybody thought it was a three pointer, but he stepped on the
29:50
line. It went to overtime after the
29:52
Knicks lost that, that game, everybody thought that the
29:55
Knicks were going to lose that series.
29:57
Everybody, every Knick fan thought they were going to lose
29:59
that series. Now after what Jaylen Bronson
30:03
did and Jaylen Bronson did not play well in Eastern Conference
30:06
Finals last year, Indiana defended him very, very well.
30:10
Rick, Rick Carlisle is one of the best defensive minded
30:13
coaches in the NBA. He knows how to stop your best
30:16
player. He is the Bill Belichick of the
30:18
NBA. That's what he does.
30:19
He's going to stick your best player.
30:21
You got to beat me with the other players and they couldn't
30:23
do it. This year it's different.
30:24
Karl Anthony Towns is a different player.
30:27
OG Ananobi is having one of his best playoff runs.
30:30
Remember OJ Ananobi, he won. OG Ananobi played and he won a
30:34
championship with the Raptors and he played.
30:36
He was a big factor but he wasn't 100% healthy.
30:39
The time that kawhile Leonard is there what OG and Nanobi could
30:42
do and he didn't have a great game.
30:44
If OG and Nanobi is 100%, he plays at a high level.
30:48
If these guys, Mikhail Bridges, OG and Nanobi call Anthony
30:51
Towns, it doesn't matter what Josh Hart does.
30:53
If these four guys are playing at a high level, nobody is
30:56
beating the Knicks in the playoffs.
30:59
Not OKC and not the Spurs. They done the temperature go be
31:03
in. Really.
31:04
We'll get. Into that, yeah, you celebrate
31:06
the finals, but this, the temperature come out of the
31:08
West. You can see a big let off when
31:10
you look at the Western Conference.
31:11
Find them in the Eastern Conference.
31:12
I disagree. I think you're seeing a lot
31:14
fresher of the Knicks team than you did last year, and I think
31:17
that's the biggest difference. The biggest difference is Tom
31:20
Thibodeaux would run his players into the ground.
31:23
They'd be playing 48 minutes a game in the regular season.
31:26
If you think about old teams that Tom Thibodeau coached, the
31:29
Derrick Rose teams, it was give Derrick Rose the ball and
31:32
everybody get out of the way. That's what they ran last year.
31:34
This year, they're moving the ball a lot better.
31:36
They're getting open shots. These open shots are falling.
31:39
If you were going to tell me in game one that they were going to
31:42
shoot 11% from three in the first half and then be down 20,
31:45
like, yeah, all right, the Cavs stole game one.
31:48
But no, they came back. They hit the open shots.
31:51
And the the other thing is he was quick to the bench.
31:54
So Deuce McBride was not doing a good job on Donovan Mitchell.
31:57
He didn't make his first couple shots.
31:59
He wasn't playing well. He moved, he moved on.
32:02
He moved Josh Hart on the Donovan Mitchell.
32:04
Now they're similar size, but not as he's not as athletic as
32:07
Donovan Mitchell. Andrew Shamit, that's what he
32:09
did. And Andrew played great with his
32:12
ability to be agile and quick and stay in front of Donovan
32:15
Mitchell. He made it difficult for him and
32:17
you saw he folded, he started passing the ball Border Harden.
32:20
And they weren't getting easy shots at the end and they were,
32:22
they were turning the ball over. A lot.
32:25
Yeah, there were 4-4 players in the top eight last year for
32:29
Thibodeau on the Knicks that had the most minutes played per
32:32
game. And you definitely could see the
32:34
difference there. And you're right, they kind of
32:36
rotated different bench players, bench guards to make it work.
32:39
Alvarado defensively at the start of the fourth quarter was
32:41
very good as well. And then Shannon, like you said,
32:43
on both sides of the ball, it was an important factor.
32:46
And Q, the reason why I you can't count the Knicks out yet
32:49
either is because a lot of the Spurs, if they play the Spurs, a
32:52
lot of those prevalent guards that they have are guards at the
32:56
Knicks have enough defensive guards against.
32:58
Them and here and here's another thing.
33:00
If you look at all four teams that are still in the playoffs,
33:02
who's the most healthiest? The New York Knicks.
33:04
The Knicks are the healthiest team right now going into the
33:08
Eastern and Western Conference finals.
33:10
OKC just lost Jalen Williams. He could be out of significant.
33:13
I'm going to play with him all year.
33:15
He's the goal. Dylan, that's fine.
33:17
The playoffs are different. It's all about depth basketball.
33:21
That's the reason they really they really.
33:23
Don't have as much depth as you think they.
33:25
Do they? Don't they really Don't?
33:27
They really don't. I think it's a.
33:30
Different offensive player coming off the bench for the
33:33
Knicks. Think they're bucket getters.
33:35
Jordan Clarkson gets buckets. Landry Shaman, if you leave him
33:38
open, he he's going to hit it. Deuce McBride, you saw him get
33:41
hot in the sweep game. OKC doesn't have that coming off
33:43
the bench. No, they got they got Caruso and
33:46
everybody's all right. So you're going to tell me right
33:49
now, because Caruso's having a good series, that he's going to
33:53
continue doing this against the Knicks?
33:54
Who's the best? Who's the best defensive?
33:57
Team in the NBA the. Spurs are going to win that
33:59
series. Say they going.
34:01
To be the best team in the NBA defensively is the New York the
34:05
defending. Chance until they're not.
34:07
That's fine, That's fine. What does that?
34:09
What does that mean? What is that hypotheticals over
34:11
here Hypothetical. They'll go back to 1977 where
34:15
they played it like but the new. York not a franchise in 1977.
34:21
The hypothetical here is you're talking about a team that was
34:25
the best defensive team in the NBA all season long, and that
34:29
was the New York Knicks and a top five offensive team in the
34:31
NBA. Mike Brown is a different coach
34:33
than Tom Thibodeau. And I'm going to tell you this
34:35
right now. It doesn't matter if it's OK C
34:38
or the Spurs, they got to get through the Cavs Cavs series
34:40
series. And if they get through the Cavs
34:42
series, I'm not worried about OK C and I'm not worried about the
34:45
Spurs. And the reason why is because I
34:47
think the Knicks have the size to beat the Spurs and I think
34:50
the Knicks have the the depth to beat OKC and I.
34:54
You say they don't, but what makes you think that they don't?
34:56
You were the one that said the Atlanta Hawks were going to.
34:59
Beat the Knicks. You were the 1 to say that the
35:03
you're the one, did you not? Did you not say that we're.
35:07
Going to say what, Harper? What are we talking about?
35:15
All right, keep trying to overlook these guys, all right?
35:17
They just some average Joes, these these guys.
35:19
The West is thick over there, right?
35:22
It's tough over there. That's where the championship.
35:23
Dylan Harper, first of all, has a worse hamstring pole than OJ
35:28
Nanobi does. It's a great one.
35:30
So he could be out for the rest of the playoffs.
35:33
Big mouth for the best, for the rest of the playoffs, for the
35:37
rest of the playoffs. And you're going to sit here and
35:40
say Dylan Harper? That's what you're pitching us,
35:42
Dylan Harper. It's just, it's just a please.
35:46
Come on, you're going to. You're going.
35:47
To try to sell that. To us, I just gave him as a
35:50
death row, you know what I mean? You still got there, Fox.
35:52
You still got. Dr. Fox, you still got wigs.
35:55
I. Hope you.
35:56
Have all these parts. You keep making it seem like
35:58
these guys are slouches. D Aaron Fox has not bad ankles.
36:02
They're going to make it to the finals, they're going to get
36:04
swept and we're going to live. All Oh yeah, they're going to
36:06
get swept. Gentleman swell or either swell,
36:09
Yes, one of the. You're out of your mind.
36:11
You trust your mind. You're.
36:13
I don't know about that. Guarantee, Guarantee.
36:17
I don't know about that, hey. I tell you what?
36:19
I tell you what. I tell you what, I tell you
36:21
what. I'm not going to be able to keep
36:23
up with that pace as they doing now and the Western government
36:26
said they got that type. Of if the Knicks.
36:28
I think it's a repeat of the Spurs, Knicks 90 million playing
36:33
championship this year. NBA Cup, baby.
36:36
NBA Cup. The Emirates Cup, I think.
36:40
Emirates, are you saying we have the?
36:42
Script writers on our side. That's what you're going to see.
36:45
And yeah, Mitchell Robinson is going to be key in that, in
36:47
that. Vicky, are you saying the NBA,
36:50
the Knicks have the script writers on their side?
36:51
Because the NBA will be like, let's hope our NBA Cup.
36:54
To be honest, I thought the script writers were on our side
36:56
last year and I thought it was going to be Timberwolves now.
36:59
We won the NBA Cup. That's a big difference for
37:01
them. I'm sorry, I'm not going to sell
37:03
myself to think. That hey, if it is a rematch and
37:06
we win the championship, you got to hang a banner for the NBA Cup
37:09
too. Probably the only time that ever
37:11
happened. Very low around.
37:13
Here, Qi don't know. The Knicks were undefeated
37:15
against the Spurs this season, including.
37:17
I don't care about regular season because the same thing
37:20
happened with. Why am I worried when they have
37:22
nothing? But you.
37:24
But did you Hold on, Hold on. Hold on.
37:27
Hold on last night. Hold on.
37:29
Did you not just say that the Cavaliers throughout the year
37:33
were one of the worst defensive teams?
37:35
And they're not a good defensive team.
37:37
I didn't say they were. Too worse.
37:38
How would you declare that? How would you declare that?
37:40
Go back. You're looking at the game.
37:42
You're looking only. It's only inside the paint
37:44
defense. You're wrong.
37:45
It's not around the perimeter. You're wrong.
37:47
Look at this. You're wrong.
37:48
Oh look, you're well in the paint.
37:50
They were. Top. 15 dead ass in the least in
37:53
the paint. Go dive a little bit deeper into
37:56
the details arrow. I need to tell you inside the
37:58
paint they are good defenders. When it comes to outside of the
38:03
they are not good defenders. And it's like they're average.
38:06
They're good and it's OK, but we're not in, we're not average
38:08
about a league that leads with. Donovan Mitchell is better than
38:12
average as a defender on the outside.
38:14
For you to say that Donovan Mitchell is an average defender
38:18
just shows you how dumb you really are.
38:19
Yeah. I'm done.
38:21
Yeah, the dog take he got. You never heard?
38:23
Somebody say Donovan. Mitchell, it's a.
38:25
Great defender he is. You just said something about it
38:28
earlier and you're taking no. He's a good defender.
38:30
He is looking tired. He looks like he does.
38:33
But Donovan Mitchell is more than an average defender.
38:36
This guy came into the league from Louisville as a top
38:39
defender and this year. Now.
38:41
All right, I'm going to tell you right now.
38:43
Talk about. All right, I'll talk about Ron
38:45
right now. Top five defender at his
38:47
position this year was Donovan Mitchell.
38:49
Top five, Go look it up. Big mouth, go look it up.
38:51
Big mouth, go look it up. Big mouth, Go look it up.
38:54
Go look it up. Yap yap yap yap yap yap yap.
38:58
In front of him. Donovan Mitchell is 1.
39:01
Who's the four in front of him? Stop talking about him.
39:04
Alexander. What?
39:05
I'm. I'm done.
39:06
What? SGA.
39:07
Yeah, SGA is go ahead. Yeah, he's in front of him.
39:12
What do you? Want to bite you?
39:13
That's gonna bite. You mean it's gonna pull me?
39:15
What do you mean it's gonna bite me?
39:17
What does it matter what? I have to know my head.
39:20
I gotta pull it. Here's a top five.
39:22
He has a top five. What do you mean I'm looking?
39:25
You pulled. How about this?
39:26
No, I didn't. I didn't pull anything.
39:28
So you just made it up out of top of your?
39:29
Head. I know he's a top five defender.
39:31
I know I, I don't know, get the producers to do it.
39:35
What do you want me to do it for?
39:37
I'm hosting a goddamn show. You're going to ask me to do it?
39:41
I know he is. I know he is.
39:43
I know he is. Anybody, any, all the fans, they
39:45
want to look it up. Look it up.
39:47
Right now. Donovan Mitchell is a top five
39:49
defender at his position this year.
39:50
It's not even an argument. He.
39:52
Got worn down by double teams and he Knicks were smart in
39:55
their game planning. There is a difference in how
39:57
they adjusted to that. Jayden Brunson struggled when he
40:00
had the 610 guy on him. But the 610 guy is not a great
40:03
defender. He's just 610, you know what I
40:05
mean? And that's what, and that's what
40:06
the Knicks figured out. That's why they started doing
40:08
the highball screens so that they can get him off of so Jalen
40:11
could do his thing. And then in the second-half,
40:14
they found James Harden everywhere.
40:16
They it was like every highlight was like James Harden was
40:18
getting scored. On that.
40:21
You know you. Hate calling away from a good
40:22
defender Down at. A high level for so long, but
40:25
like to be honest it they literally took advantage of the
40:29
weakness that they that they had in front of them and every time
40:31
they found James. Let me before we move on to the
40:35
Western Conference, I just wanted to say like one of the
40:37
games within the games, you know that the coaches are doing,
40:39
Kenny Atkinson came out ready for the Karl Anthony Towns point
40:42
center stuff. They were they shut it down
40:44
immediately. Towns turned the ball over 7
40:46
times in the game because they did it from the high block and
40:49
they put a smaller guy on Towns. I don't think there's.
40:51
Any adjustments after when they started after the hack of Mitch
40:55
and then they took Mitch out after that, he stopped making
40:57
adjustments. It well, he they realized that
41:02
they're not going to stop Brunson.
41:03
So they went to the old Brunson offense when they couldn't do
41:06
the, you know, the Karl Anthony Towns point center thing, but
41:09
they did it from the top of the key.
41:10
I was listening to a couple of guys and I said the same thing
41:13
while we're watching him. This guy, he's got a six six guy
41:15
on him. He had that that wing that they
41:17
have the the Strusen, the other guy they throw at him.
41:20
I think Strusen was on him for a little bit.
41:22
And Wade is, well, they're a little undersized for guarding
41:25
Towns and they could, he could just bring him to the to the
41:29
post if he hasn't set. Up.
41:31
Harden was on him four times and I thought he was going to post
41:34
him up and he didn't. So just set him up and the low
41:37
post the, you know, the low block instead of the high block
41:40
and do the same stuff. And I'm pretty sure they're
41:42
going to start doing that. And that was, you know, but it's
41:45
really nice to see a coach. And you were mentioning earlier,
41:48
Dickie, with Tom Thibodeau. Thibodeau didn't do anything
41:52
other than just, you know, just put that offense out there and
41:55
just run those guys and just try to out hustle people and there
41:58
was no adjustments. Watching Brown coach this team
42:01
and kind of tinkering with a lineup, as you guys mentioned
42:04
and then go with the some of these different schematic
42:06
things. It's kind of awesome to watch on
42:09
top of having a guy like Brunson who can just dominate at the
42:11
end. Man awesome.
42:12
It's. Been crazy executive producers
42:14
pulled up the top five and top ten shooting guards, and Donovan
42:18
Mitchell isn't in either one of those guys.
42:20
He is, he is. Yeah.
42:22
You want me to give you the list?
42:23
Can they put it up? Go ahead, you.
42:24
Can pull it up, he is. He's a he's a Jason Daniels for
42:27
the Hulse is #1 he's a top five defender.
42:30
He's in Cancun 2. Derek White with Celtics was 3.
42:34
Drew Holiday. Was in Cancun 2.
42:36
Cason Wallace Five. Yeah.
42:38
So yeah. How?
42:40
What? How many of those guys are still
42:41
still playing? Cool with it.
42:42
I didn't say I'm just saying he was a good defender.
42:44
I didn't say he was he. He went on to say he was the
42:46
best. He's one of the best offenders
42:48
at his position. No, we we covered it Q we
42:51
covered it last year. He had an like an A really
42:53
outstanding defensive season last year.
42:56
But once they traded Hardin to him, the defense, you can't like
43:00
hover up Hardin's defense if you're playing both of them at
43:03
the top, you know, like, it's just really hard.
43:05
You can do your responsibility. You can play your.
43:07
Well, you want, you say that, but you know, Q as a, you know,
43:09
as a football player, it's a lot easier to play tackle when you
43:12
have a a stud nose right next to you as opposed to, you know, a
43:15
guy who's average. It's still five across the
43:17
board, so you still got to beat 1 somebody.
43:19
You know I'm not wrong. You know you're eating more.
43:21
If you got a better guy next to you, you know that's how it
43:23
works. You still got to beat your one,
43:26
so that's just. Right, you're right.
43:27
I can't get excused because he get double teamed.
43:30
I still got to beat by 1 and that's all I'm saying.
43:32
I'm just saying it's easier to be good when you have good guys.
43:34
I'm saying it's basketball so if Douglas Mitchell shut his bed
43:38
down and James Harden get 8 alive like he did like game one,
43:41
then it don't fall. It don't impact.
43:43
James Harden always gets eaten up alive.
43:46
Everywhere he's gone, he's been eaten up alive.
43:48
I think his grandmother could probably pass on a basketball
43:51
court. The guy stinks and he double
43:53
dribbles all the time. He walks with the ball all the
43:56
time. He steps back, which to me is
43:59
illegal in in the NBA for many, many years.
44:02
And how they they became it became legalizes because this is
44:05
the LJA, the LeBron James association with the new rules
44:09
and every single thing that LeBron James has brought to the
44:11
game has been absolute garbage. It's not his step back.
44:14
How is it LeBron James? LeBron James just created a
44:17
completely different game. He did a border rule.
44:20
Absolutely is. James Harden, Step back.
44:23
Let's implement. Absolutely, Absolutely.
44:26
LeBron James has done a lot of things.
44:28
I mean, I'm nuts. LeBron James practically has 5
44:31
or 6 steps all the way to the hoop with before he dribbles the
44:34
ball and he. Yeah, because of LeBron James.
44:38
It happened. It all started when LeBron
44:39
James. Came to the league.
44:40
No, here's here's why it happened.
44:42
It's because they won't entertainment.
44:44
They don't entertain them. So therefore there are we're
44:47
going to. Send me stuff.
44:48
That when we grew up, all wasn't allowed.
44:50
It's because they have to make the game more entertaining, to
44:53
sell more tickets, to get more. Okay, so let's just play I.
44:57
Have noticed I have noticed a lot more travel calls in the
45:00
playoffs than the regular season.
45:03
Yeah, not with James Harden. It's like.
45:06
Won a game instead of none. How would James Harden, Howard,
45:09
James Harden, ladies and gentlemen.
45:11
I mean, I've been watching the Cavaliers all throughout the
45:13
playoffs. And how many times do we see him
45:15
walk? Three times all the way to the
45:17
hole? You can count it 123.
45:19
We'll watch it tonight. Let's count how many times he
45:21
goes to the hole and how many steps he makes.
45:24
Oh, we could do Janet Burson. We could do everybody.
45:26
Jaylen Bronson I don't know why you just trying to single out
45:28
one person. Bronson.
45:29
Everybody travels. No, he doesn't.
45:31
There's no one person who. Doesn't, dude.
45:33
He doesn't. I watch it.
45:34
He doesn't not do that. Donovan Mitchell doesn't do that
45:37
either. I watch it again.
45:39
Crazy. I'm saying Donovan Mitchell
45:42
especially to do that right. There.
45:43
And he does. Donovan Mitchell does not double
45:46
dribble like James Harden does. I didn't say it was that
45:48
convention. I didn't say he did.
45:50
What he did, he has a cat. His his like famous move is a is
45:53
a giant carry that that high dribble going through the
45:57
through through the defender like that.
45:59
It's a camera doesn't see it. They don't ever call it he
46:01
don't. Ever see that he didn't wear his
46:02
glasses? I don't have to wear my glasses.
46:04
I could tell you right now that James Harden is an absolute
46:06
Walker and we might as well watch dodgeball.
46:10
It. Should be dodgeball.
46:11
It should be dodgeball with the basketball.
46:13
Ladies and gentlemen, that's what we watch in the NBA.
46:16
That's what it is. You can make as many steps as
46:18
you possibly can and the referees just sit there.
46:24
Let's go time out, let's challenge it.
46:27
It's ridiculous. Thank you to our new our new guy
46:30
in Dickie Braggs for joining us. We really appreciate you.
46:33
You were fantastic in your first show.
46:35
Dude, you're going to be a part of the show every Thursday, so
46:37
we're very happy to have you. And Q is falling in love with
46:40
you. I mean, you're.
46:41
Looking at he's got work Dick man where the team up man you
46:44
came calling the Dick man. I used to get jumped.
46:47
I used to get jumped by all three of them on the show.
46:50
So it's good to have a little balance here tonight.
46:53
I got you out of here. Appreciate.
46:55
It let's thank the Dick man. Yeah, Arrow sepsis 2.
47:01
Call me whatever you want, I don't care.
47:03
The Dick man do the Dick Dick, Dick, Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick
47:07
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Enjoy the great weekend. It's going to be crappy weather
48:49
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48:51
All our veterans, veterans. You mean the Hamptons?
48:53
No, you didn't. No, I'm not going to the
48:55
Hamptons, I'm going to Mohegan Sun.
48:58
That's where I'm going. You're going to Mohegan.
49:01
I'm going to the Hamptons. What are you doing in the
49:02
Hamptons? Where are you going?
49:04
It's probably Kim Kardashian there.
49:07
You go there every summer. I'm from there.
49:10
I grew up there. Dinky Brags is going to dance
49:12
with the women in the water. But a little.
49:15
You know. This.
49:16
That's going to be a little cold.
49:17
So indoors, just watch out. You don't have a guy with a blue
49:20
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49:24
the blue blazer. You know he might.
49:26
Ben Simmons might be a. Finkle his iron horn.
49:29
Anyways, Yeah, that's it for a show.
49:31
Gotta go, I'm tired. You gotta hit the toilet,
49:33
ladies. No, I'm gonna actually eat the
49:35
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49:36
Goodnight, farewell. Enjoy the weekend and we'll see
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