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Who will win the WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS between the SPURS and THUNDER? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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Lose their star player, they lose their star closer.
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That's are in a bad spot right now.
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I've never seen a Ranger team quick before the Olympics.
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that you
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can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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I played 82 games. You don't see the fun doing
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that, but Jack Hughes did after getting his teeth knocked down
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to play every single shift he got back in the game.
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Hello, you're listening to the New York sports Loudmouth 63.
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Come on, talk to me. And this is a documentary of
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craziness. I don't know if he's a
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distinguished gentleman. I don't know what he calls
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himself. Maybe.
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He's a wannabe. A wannabe Mr. Quinton Couples
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and my other Co host, the producer and the craziness and I
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will get into it a little bit later in the show.
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Mr. Speedy PD, executive producer, Mr. Aaron Fishman, as
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And I will say this for all the fans out there, I enjoyed my
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wonderful birthday celebration. But I will say this for all the
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people out there, don't try anything that you've never
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tried. I will say that because when you
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do something like that at a party, it pushes you into places
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of throwing up, taking a dump, and hiding in the bathroom.
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So ladies and gentlemen, that's what I dealt with with Speedy PD
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on Saturday nights. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
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ladies and gentlemen, we had fun.
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Speedy enjoyed the food. Well, did he?
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I don't know if he ate because he was burning from his stomach
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to his ass. And then he ran to the bathroom.
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And let me tell you, it was something of a documentary story
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that I can never forget because anybody that knows me and tells
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a story about Speedy's birthday, he's either throwing up where
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he's hiding in the bathroom. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is what he did on my birthday. We had to rush him to the hotel
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room because he was hallucinating or whatever he was
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doing. He was drinking, trying to get
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some water, some ginger ale. I don't know what was burning in
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his throat. Hopefully was GERD and not
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something else, if you know what I mean.
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But I will say this, when you go out to a party and you enjoy
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yourself and I'm not going to, there's a lot to get into.
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By the way, I'm, I'm hanging out in the bathroom with fish.
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We're we're hanging out waiting for Speedy to get out of the
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toilet and somebody comes in or he's washing his hands and he
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tells us what's going on. And I said, he's not feeling
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very good. He's throwing up, he's taking
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dumps, he's doing all this other stuff.
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And he tells me, take him to a strip bar, take him to a strip
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bar, he'll enjoy it. Take him to a strip bar, he'll
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feel so much better. I'm looking at him then I'm
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looking at fish. And I'm like, what?
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I'm going to take him to a strip bar after he's sick?
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How does that make any sense? The kids throwing up all over
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the place. And he's, he's sitting on a
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toilet with his legs up. Like, it was like, what was that
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movie Dumb and Dumber? Remember that?
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I mean, that that was what Speedy was doing.
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And this guy just says, take him to a strip bar.
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You'll feel really good. He walks right out.
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He's laughing, giggling. Yeah, it's real funny.
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But nevertheless, it was fun. After that.
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I don't want to give a shout out to Fish and his wife.
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They took him, took him and my girlfriend back to the hotel
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room. Brittany wasn't feeling very
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good either. And then we we had a little
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sight for sore eyes. We we enjoyed ourselves in
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different places of Mohegan Sun. It was fun.
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I wish it could have been better.
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I didn't want anybody to get sick.
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But it seems like when you take Speedy out to the open layer of
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life, something's going to happen.
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And it did. And I I see nothing dancing.
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I don't know what he's doing there.
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There's something going on in this guy's brain.
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Yeah, there it is. Talk to me.
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The so-called fly. Guy hey, that's kind of hey,
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shout out the fish. That's that's kind.
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Of you wearing glasses, could you tell me why you're wearing
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glasses? Why are you wearing glasses?
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It's just, it's just so bright in here.
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Yeah, that's what it is. My defense, I barely what I got,
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what I got. Bring it to the table tonight.
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It's just going to be too bright.
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I barely see your head. I see half of your neck and I
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see a guy with the Yankees hat glasses.
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Yeah, shout out to the Yankees, man.
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I'm they're going to get things the better, you know, I'm the
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good luck charm so. Oh, you're the good luck.
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Charm. Wait a second, weren't you a Met
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fan? A couple.
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Of I'm a Met fan. I'm so where do you where do you
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become a lucky charm? Because when I put my takes and
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when I put. When you put your takes, you
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scare people. Away I put my takes and my
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confidence behind teams. They win, you know, that's
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really yeah. Because before, before, hold on,
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hold on a couple of games, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold.
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On They beat the Yankees, by the way.
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The week before the Knicks were going into the Cavaliers series,
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you had the Cavaliers winning in six.
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I did. It Yes, you did yes, you did.
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I went back, just so you know, I went back.
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You had. To.
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You had the Cavaliers. You did.
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I went back, buddy. I went back.
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You may have said I said they can.
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Oh, you had the Cavaliers. Winning in six, but I had the
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Knicks coming out this season. That's not what you said.
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Out of this. You're taking back what you
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said. No, I don't.
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I don't. I got them getting swept.
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No, all right. You could put that, you could
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put that. I know that for sure, but I'm
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just saying. Yeah, out of your mind if you
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think they're. Getting I've stated numerous
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times on the show that the knits were coming out of this.
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Season, ladies and gentlemen. I said Cleveland was a problem
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like they would. They would have been an issue to
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deal with, but I don't have, I don't have the, I didn't have
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the winning. Guys, liar, absolute lies coming
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out of Quinton couples mouth. He's a liar, ladies and
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gentlemen, I'm just speaking the truth.
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I tell the truth on this show and he is lying.
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He is lying. You don't like that when I
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challenge you, you'll go to. Oh, I can't wait till you
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challenge me. To do stuff like that, you'll
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go. To.
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I can't wait. Don't believe coaching is
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necessary. I can't prove that coaching is
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necessary about a lot of stuff. Oh, I'm not lying about
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anything. I'm telling the truth.
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You add the Cavaliers winning in six, and then you changed your
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mind after game one. We could clip it and bring.
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It in, I'm going to clip it. I'm going to send it to you, I
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want to say. Wrong.
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Send it to the fans. I don't have to send it to
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anybody, they all know. I'm telling the fans see it
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because they heard me say it numerous times, Yeah, that the
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news was coming out. After the fact.
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That the Cavs was a more scarier team, that child.
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No, you didn't. You didn't say that.
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You said the Cavaliers were going to win in six.
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And I know what you said, and I will bring it back to you, I
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promise you. Spurs and Thunder are tied to
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two entering Game 5 tonight in Oklahoma City.
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The Thunder won Game 3 led by 76 points.
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I'm several 6 points from their bench, which is the highest
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total in the conference finals or finals game since 1971.
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The this bench scoring spree was led by Jarrett McCain scoring 24
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points, Jalen Williams scoring 17, Alex Caruso scoring 15, and
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Cason Wallace scoring 11. SGA had 26 points and 12 assists
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and shot 12 for 12 from the free throw line in game three.
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The Spurs bounced back in game 4, led by 33 points, 8 rebounds,
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5 assists, 2 steals and three blocks from Wembe.
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The Spurs defense was phenomenal, holding Chat
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Holmgren to just 10 points and 348 shooting and holding SGA to
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just 19 points on 6 foot 15 shooting.
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Dylan Harper, Stephen I'm Sorry, Stephen Castles, Devin Vessel,
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and Wemby all rating, I'm Sorry all had a rating of plus 20 or
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higher, while Chat Holmgren was the only Thunder starter with a
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positive rate at just +2. You watch this series against
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Wembe and SGA. If you watch the fourth quarters
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and I watch every single game, every single minute, every
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single second of every single game and you understand the game
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of basketball. It's not because of the schemes
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that wins these games in the fourth quarter.
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It's because of their best player.
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It's the guy that's going to take over the game and put it on
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his shoulders. And that's what we have seen in.
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That's why this series is 2 to 2 and we'll see what happens
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tonight. Who's going to play better in
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the fourth quarter? Is it Wemby who's going to take
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over and put it on his shoulders or is it going to be SGA?
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It's when you look at the players that they have, there
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are great players that you have Caruso, who's played very well.
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He's a, he's a second round draft pick.
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He's a guy that was given up by many teams.
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This guy was a journeyman. He was a journeyman and he's
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become a good player with OKC because he fits what OKC is
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running offensively and defensively.
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He plays a style of defense that OKC needed and it's changed
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everything for the Thunder in the last two seasons.
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And then there's Jalen Williams, who is a great number two option
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offensively. But is he going to stay healthy?
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Is he going to play at a high level?
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And I, again, he's a guy that to me is not a #2.
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He's more of a #3 on any other roster.
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The way I look at it is if you can keep SGA to under 30 points,
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you got a chance to win. You got a chance to win every
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single time. And with Wembiama, Wembiama and
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what he does, Wembi is a sensational player.
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He can dribble, he can be the point center, he can do all
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those things, rebound at a high level.
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He's 7 foot, 5 wingspan, barely, doesn't have to jump and all
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that other stuff. He's a great shooter.
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He's a great everything. He does everything great on a
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basketball court. He can steal, he can block.
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He averages what, three blocks a game?
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He won Defensive player of the year, could have won the MVP
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this year. He is a national 21 year old
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player that as long as he stays healthy and the blood clots
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don't come back, this guy is going to be the Nbas version of
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Tim Duncan or Shaquille O'Neal, a dominant force for many, many
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years to come. I look at what this series is
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bringing. I expect this series to go to
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seven games because I don't think one of these players are
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going to quit. They're going to go and they're
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going to go hard. And it's really going to come
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down to who wants it more in game seven, who is going to lead
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their team all the way. And, and I'll tell you, this is
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good for the Knicks. As much as everybody wants to
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say it's not good that this goes 8 days, it goes to a Game 7 or
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however long it goes and the Knicks are waiting.
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This is good for the Knicks because as good as these teams
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are, they're fighting injury right now.
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Dylan Harper is not healthy. He's playing Fox.
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Deron Fox is not healthy. He's playing with bad ankles.
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If you look at all these players, every single player,
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Castle's not 100% healthy. Jalen Williams is not 100%
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healthy. They're they're not healthy.
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Both teams are not healthy. And as long as this series goes,
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no matter how good these teams are on paper, I think the Knicks
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have the advantage. Now, when you look at what the
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sports books are saying and and how good these teams are,
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there's no question throughout the season, these were the
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better teams. I don't think you can argue
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that. What OK C OK C did all season
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long, SGA winning the MVP, which I disagree that he won the MVP.
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That's my opinion. I've I've gave my take on it,
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but he is the MVP of the league and what they've done as a team
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all season long. Chet Holmgren was runner up for
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defensive player of the year. I disagree, but he had a great
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season, good blocker, but he's not the problem right now with
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OK C is Chet Holmgren is not playing well in this series.
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He's not. He's not playing at a high level
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and you can see it. If you're getting 10 points, 348
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shooting in a in a game from Chet Holmgren, you need 1920
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points from Chet Holmgren. He is going to be your second
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option. He is, to me, your second option
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over Jalen Williams. And if you're not getting that
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from him, you're not beating the Spurs.
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And I'm going to tell you this, the reason why this series is
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close is because it's Chet Holmgren.
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He is not playing at a high level.
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I don't know if he's hurt. I don't know what's going on.
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He looks like a deer in a headlights.
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After the game. He speaks to the media, his
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heads down. They're asking him questions.
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He can't answer the questions at a high clip and you can see that
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he is frustrated. And maybe it's webbing Yama.
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Maybe these guys have been playing against each other for
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years since they were in high school.
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They know each other so very well.
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We know webbing Yama doesn't like him and check, even though
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the media is trying to get more out of him.
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And when it comes to speaking about webbing Yami, he he will
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not bite. He will not take the bait.
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But the fact here is the reason why OK C hasn't ended the Spurs
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is because it's Chet Holmgren. Because SGA as much as we've
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watched the games that they've won and webbing Yama and and the
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Spurs have won, SGA is not playing at a high level.
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He's just not. And when they are winning, SGA
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is playing at a high level. So to me, when I watch these two
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play 2 teams play it, it's not. And I, I love both coaches.
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I'm not going to say that the the Spurs and OKC don't have two
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very good young coaches in the NBA.
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They're good. But when I watch the NBA over
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the years and I look at talent, it's not like it was in the 90s.
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Phil Jackson, he ran the triangle offense.
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We've said this right now, I'm not going to go in and out of
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this. Michael Jordan fit the triangle
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offense. So did Dennis Rodman, and so did
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Scottie Pippen, and before that, Horace Grant.
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They all fit the triangle offense, but you need the player
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that can close. Remember when Michael Jordan
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closed on the the Cavaliers in game #1 when the Cavaliers were
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winning, who hit that shot? Who hit that game-winning shot?
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Michael Jordan, you need stars to take over game webbing.
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Yama, he hit that half court 3 pointer in this in the second
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quarter, which ended the half and he nailed it.
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He switched it. When you have players that can
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do things like that that are there, it is right now shooting
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that fish is pointed out right here.
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That was, it's an unbelievable shout when you have players that
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can do that. Steph Curry.
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Everybody talks about how great Steph Curry was and how great
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Steph Curry is as a player. Steph Curry became a phenomenon
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because of the way he shot the ball, the way he shoots the ball
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at such a high clip at such a high level.
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If you have a guy that can do this rebound, barely jumps,
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donks, dominates you on the boards and whenever he wants,
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get 24 rebounds in a game like he did in game number one.
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It's almost impossible to be a player like this.
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And I'm going to say this. The only reason why I think the
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OK C Thunder is not playing and not possible.
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I I think the Spurs are winning the series.
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And the only reason why is Heinstein is not the answer.
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Chet Holmgren is not the answer. They have no Dort is not the
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answer. They don't have anybody that can
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stop this guy. And if this guy keeps playing at
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this and he plays what he did in game #4 it will go 7.
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But I don't care where it is. Is OK OKC, which it will be in
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OKC or in San Antonio. They don't have anybody that
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could stop them. They do have guys that can stop
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or even not stop them but keep them at a clip.
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SGA That's the difference in this series, ladies and
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gentlemen, and that's why I think the Spurs are going to
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win. I know a lot of experts think
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it's OK. CI don't think that I I think
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the Spurs are the better team because they have nobody to stop
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him. That's the reason why.
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Yeah, Chet Holmgren and definitely cannot play like this
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if the Knicks or if the if the Thunder want to win this series.
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Because he had a couple games like that last year in the NBA
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Finals against the Pacers and they fell behind in that series
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and it looked like they lost their confidence after the
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Pacers were up two to one. And then he stepped up big in
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Game 7. He was probably the best player
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in that Game 7 and Thunder end up winning the series.
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But if he has lows like he did in this game, it's going to be
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very hard. As good as the Thunder death has
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been, obviously the 76 points in Game 3 is historic.
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No team has ever done that in the since 1971.
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And they had four players scoring in double figures.
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That all could replace the the combined production with luge
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Dort struggling and then with Jalen Williams out of the game.
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And yeah, you have that, but you don't have anybody that's like a
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home grade besides Hartenstein. But Hartenstein, besides that
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first game, besides game two, I should say, hasn't looked great
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overall on offense. Defensively, he's been fine I
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guess, but he wasn't great in I wouldn't say he was great in
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Game 4, but I get it was mainly the Thunder offense.
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Like you said, they could beat SGA in a different thing.
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So he had 26 points. So he still shot well from the
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free throw line, but they made sure that he didn't shoot
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threes. They made sure that he still
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took some tough shots inside and that's a good game plan that the
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Spurs have defensively, even with the Aaron Fox not 100%
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healthy and obviously Dylan Harper not 100% healthy or two,
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two good defenders. And that's where I'll give like
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Johnny Reno was saying last week, Mitch Williams, their new
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coach, a little bit of credit. I'm not saying he's a great
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coach either. He's probably the most
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questionable the four teams remaining.
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But like he had a a game plan that out coached Dana, who won a
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championship last year with the back court play that they have.
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And they use their guard depth to their advantage very well,
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even with just being able to defend SGA and keep their focus
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on him and let Wendy do his thing on offense pretty much
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because the Spurs 103 points is not a great offensive showcase.
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But defensively, they were phenomenal in that game.
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If OKC can get the bench production they did in Game 3,
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they're still going to be tough because hunger and you would
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think will wake up at some point.
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But if he keeps having doves like this, yeah, the Spurs are
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definitely winning the series. Yeah, like like you said, I
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think Homer would definitely have a breakout game at one of
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these games. Obviously he's not been playing
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up to his caliber in regards to you know, him being a 2025 point
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guy at night, but I think SEA has, you know, will end up being
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defeating or end up defeating the Wimby in this in this series
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just because this team has experienced this team has been
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there and although San Antonio is very talented, I don't see
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them getting over that edge yet. Yes, Wimby is playing out of his
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mind. He's a great talent and he's,
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you know, what they call an idiot, and I do think the NBA is
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trying to push. For San Antonio to make it to
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the finals to play New York. But I do think that the bitch
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and the experience that OKC have will allow San Antonio to to win
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two of the next three games. And so, yeah, it's it's it's one
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of those things where, you know, you see win me as a great talent
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and you believe that he would be unstoppable.
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But I do think that if they could contain him anywhere
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between 20 to 25 points and not let him have that 3540.1315
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rebound game, I think that's enough to kind of kind of do
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whatever they have on offense from the San Antonio side.
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Because at the end of the day, everything flies through him.
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And if they could keep him out of the paint and make him be
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more of a jump shot, even though he can't hit the jump shot, I
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think they have a better shot at beating San Antonio.
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But I do think that the late adjustments that OKC make in, if
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you go back and look over the overtime, they make very good
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late adjustment and in the series.
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And once they do that with San Antonio, I think that they would
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come out on top and allow them to be victorious in the series
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and play New York in the finals. What's going to be key for them?
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I think for Amber, they may be able to stop Wemby is a lot of
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the a lot of the things they were forcing him to get inside
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in Game 2. Like the Thunder did a good job
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in Game 2 led by heart inside. But also a lot of their bench
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guys on defense and not letting him go in the paint that Errol
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talks about all the time with Giannis.
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Like you keep him out of the paint.
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Sometimes you can make him play a different game.
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Now Wemby shoots better than Honest did at this point in his
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career already in year 3, but you also look at it's not the
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main strength of his game and he's not the Super prolific
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passer like you see with a like a Giannis or somebody like that
21:41
that is a ball handler of his size either.
21:43
That has to be the game plan to be able to contain women because
21:46
even though like when we will still get his, they'll struggle
21:48
get his. He still had 21 points in that
21:49
game and that game three. But like SGA in game game 4 of
21:53
26 and making it tough. That's still going to be an
21:55
issue for them that OKC has to figure out.
21:57
When you look at both both teams, both those guys are going
21:59
to get the ball, both of them are going to get their touches,
22:01
both of them are going to get their opportunities to score.
22:04
I think that Wemby is harder to defend.
22:07
He you can, they haven't had anybody that could stop him.
22:10
And I think Wemby in those games where he scored 21 points in the
22:13
in in the third game, he was the reason why he had enough shots.
22:17
He was shooting enough. He wasn't hitting the shots.
22:19
He was off, especially in the second-half of the game.
22:22
And it had nothing to do with defense.
22:23
It had something to do with webbing.
22:25
Yama, he was going up for layups.
22:26
He was pretty much over there. It was like 5 feet away from the
22:29
hoop 3 or 4 times and he was easy layups.
22:32
If webbing. Yama is doing what he does best
22:35
at a high level. As good as SGA is, he's great.
22:39
They have players that can defend him, they can double team
22:42
him, they can triple team him. At some point force the ball out
22:45
of his hands. There's got to be other guys
22:46
that are going to be able to take over the games.
22:48
Caruso's been great, but are you going to depend on Crusoe all
22:52
series long? I, I don't know if I can
22:54
defense, yeah. Offense.
22:56
I'm talking about offense, Caruso.
22:58
Get 10 to 12 out of them. Yes, but Caruso scoring in
23:01
certain games. He's scoring 2030.
23:03
Points. That's what I'm saying.
23:04
So that's plus that makes up for shit being disabled.
23:09
But here's the thing on Game 4, when you look at Chet, Chet is
23:12
the guy he is, he has to be the other guy.
23:15
He's he's the guy that knows webbing Yama more than anybody.
23:18
These guys have been playing against each other since they
23:20
were 14 years old at such a high level. 1 went to Gonzaga, the
23:25
other one who's over there playing pro basketball at the
23:27
age of 16 in France. These guys know each other very,
23:30
very well and Chet is the guy that everybody thought was going
23:33
to. I was one of the guys.
23:34
I picked him in that. What's that game that we play?
23:37
Save your tears. Save your tears.
23:38
I picked Chet because I thought Chet was going to play at a high
23:41
clip in a high level. I was wrong because Chet has not
23:44
shown up in the series. I don't know what's going on
23:46
with Chet. I don't know.
23:48
Maybe he is really hurt. Maybe he just doesn't play well.
23:51
Again, Webiyama. If you look at his career
23:53
against Webiyama, it hasn't been good.
23:55
If you look at when they were kids in high school, who was
23:58
winning those championship games?
23:59
Who was winning in those World Championship games?
24:02
It was webbing Yama. So maybe that's his poison.
24:05
Maybe that's something that you have to look at when you're
24:08
talking about Chet. Maybe Chet is not the guy.
24:10
Maybe in the offseason or in the next two years, they'd think,
24:14
hey, we could get a lot for Chet.
24:15
Let's bring somebody in that can play the position at a higher
24:18
level. So I'm just, I'm not saying here
24:20
and saying that Chet Home Korean isn't good, and I'm not saying
24:23
that Chen Holmgren wasn't a big part of why they won the
24:26
championship last year. I'm saying that Webbing Yam is
24:29
going to be here. He's 21 years old.
24:31
He is going to be here for a long, long time.
24:34
And if we're watching the future of the Western Conference Finals
24:38
become the Spurs in the OK C Thunder, if you're an OK C fan,
24:43
you'd have to worry because Webbing Yam is only going to get
24:46
better. And Chet seems like he's getting
24:47
worse against Webbing Yam. Yeah, he's going to need some
24:50
help, I think. So you can't have him go
24:51
one-on-one the whole time. I think.
24:53
Heart Stein's obviously the big key if they get Jalen Williams.
24:55
He's not going to be there next year.
24:56
Yeah, I don't think Hearts I'll be back there next year either.
24:59
I agree. Jalen Williams, if he does come
25:00
back in this series, he's going to have to be the other one.
25:02
Now he's 6 foot seven or something like that.
25:04
It's not ideal circumstance, but they need somebody to help
25:07
because Holmgren, well, he's a smart defender and he is quick
25:10
for his size. I again, I do think that his
25:12
more of his thin build is not a good match up with Wembe.
25:14
He was all this length and all this all the same quickness,
25:17
even better quickness than he does.
25:18
And that's where I think that's cute, where you're talking about
25:21
the coaching with what they know.
25:22
They're going to have to adjust their normal defensive scheme,
25:24
which is a really good scheme. It has been for a while, for the
25:26
last three years, but they have to adjust to do some different.
25:29
Things Michigan is the that kid Mahr who's going to be available
25:33
in this year's draft. If I was OK see I would do
25:36
anything I can. He's a top ten pick, I think.
25:39
I don't know where they're draft 12.
25:40
They're 12 in somewhere else. I think the 20 something they
25:43
have two first round draft picks.
25:45
If I were them, I would try to move up and get more if he's
25:48
sitting there at 10 or 9 because he's the.
25:51
Center the 73 Mara, I think Mara.
25:55
Mara, whatever. It's Mara.
25:57
Whatever. The day.
25:58
Yes, I know who he is. I watched him play in the
26:01
tournament. He was the best big man.
26:03
He's probably the best big man in this in this draft.
26:06
There are other teams going to be looking at him.
26:08
I if I'm OK, C, that's the guy I'm going after because you're
26:12
going to need help. They're going to need a lot of
26:14
help with webbing. Yama, and he again, I've always
26:16
said this about webbing Yama. Nobody's going to take away his
26:19
talent, his ability and what he does on a basketball court.
26:22
He's special. The one thing I would worry
26:24
about is his health. These 7 foot five guys, Yao
26:28
Ming, Now he's not as heavy as Yao Ming foot problems, he's got
26:31
blood clot problems. He's had a couple of problems in
26:34
his career so far. Early in his career, if he stays
26:37
healthy for 10/12/13 years then we could start talking about
26:41
like Draymond Green trying to compare him to the great.
26:44
But until that happens, we have to see him stay healthy and play
26:47
at a high level and win some championships, which he hasn't
26:49
done yet. I think we in this prime when it
26:51
comes to Whimby right now. Obviously you just mentioned
26:55
guys that are like 73 and +727374.
27:00
He's 75 S At the end of the day, it's it's only an amount of
27:04
time. I hate to see it or I hate to
27:06
say that I don't want to put nothing on him in regards to
27:09
looking forward to him getting hurt.
27:11
But it's just the, you know, the nature of the beast. 75 you
27:14
playing at a high level, you playing deep into the playoffs
27:17
is bound to happen. And so at the end of the day,
27:19
nobody's going to be able to technically stop him.
27:22
It's just more so a containing, like I said, if you could get
27:25
him between 20 to 25 and 12 to 13 rebounds and force everybody
27:29
else to fill in those gaps of that 20 point gap with him
27:33
making 35 to 40 points on an average night, that's your best
27:36
chance of beating them. But in regards if you just let
27:38
him score 40 and getting 1520 rebounds, there's no answer for
27:42
that. That's it's not enough points in
27:44
the world that's going to cover that deficit that when he's
27:47
going in and rebounding at that rate.
27:49
I agree, and I think if you're a webbing Yama fan, I don't know
27:52
if he's in the prime of his career.
27:54
I don't know if he's playing past 30.
27:56
Right. That's what I'm saying.
27:57
So be you know, we see the best that we probably going to see.
28:00
He's 21, so I think in the next three or four years, we're going
28:04
to see him at such a high level and, and, and how special he
28:07
really is, not only as a defensive player, but as an
28:09
offensive option. Now if webbing Yama gets his
28:12
game at a high, we've seen guys develop their game shooting and
28:16
webbing Yama becomes a three-point shooter at 4748%,
28:19
which he can, he really could and he doesn't have to go inside
28:23
as much. You can use him as a deep threat
28:25
and something of that magnitude where you can get 20 something
28:28
points from a guy that can shoot the ball and pretty much can't
28:30
be defended because he's 7 for five.
28:32
Then you you have an optional player that can play longer, but
28:35
the way he plays, any bangs, you see how he gets inside and he
28:39
tries to dominate in the paint. That's a lot of torque on his
28:42
knees. That's a lot of torque on his
28:44
feet. I don't know if he's going to be
28:45
the same player 10 years from now.
28:48
And that to me with the Spurs. The optional thought right now
28:51
is get the players around him to win as many championships,
28:55
championships as you possibly can because he's not Tim Duncan.
28:58
Tim Duncan was a six 10611 power forward that can play center
29:02
multiple positions, great defender does everything right.
29:06
This guy, he does everything right.
29:08
But what worries me is his the way his he's built his legs.
29:12
Everybody's going to say well, wait a second.
29:14
Remember Mitchell Robinson when he came into the league, he was
29:16
thin. Mitchell Robinson is only 7 foot
29:18
7 foot one. He's not 7 foot five.
29:20
He doesn't have blood clot, blood clot problems and anybody
29:23
that knows blood clots, for anybody that understands medical
29:26
situations, if you have blood clots at this age, there's a 40
29:30
to 50% chance between 40 and 50%, you're going to get it
29:33
again. Chris Bosh ended his career
29:35
early at 32 years old because of the blood clots.
29:38
And and that's and and Chris Bosh was a pretty big dude.
29:42
He was six 10611 big guy. He wasn't as big as Wembe, but
29:46
he if you have it in your family and you have it, you're probably
29:50
going to get again. That's what worries me about
29:51
Webby. I'm not that the way he is and
29:54
and how talented he is and to compare him to Kobe Bryant
29:56
science or Michael Jordan or LeBron James or Kareem Abdul
30:00
Jabbar, You can't compare him for all the fans out there that
30:03
want to compare him to the greats.
30:04
We got to see him do great things before you compare him to
30:06
the greats. And then you got to be even
30:08
greater to be considered great. That's what I'm.
30:12
Errol, we talked about this I think the other day, you know,
30:15
you, you should be comparing him to Yao Ming.
30:17
You should the other 7 five guy that took the league by storm
30:20
that came from another country. If he didn't have the foot
30:22
injuries, who knows how good of a career that could have been.
30:25
He's still a Hall of Famer anyway, probably because you
30:27
know, just of how important he is to the game, especially
30:29
overseas. I, I, I look as a Knicks fan, I,
30:33
I just want to see them beat the crap out of each other the next
30:35
three games. This game tips off any second
30:37
right now and we know that already.
30:41
The Thunder down Jalen Williams, who re aggravated the hamstring.
30:44
That's a huge loss because he's the secondary ball creator, shot
30:47
creator on that team. And AJ Mitchell, who's this
30:49
super sub for them. He's also hurt and he didn't
30:53
play the last game. He's got a calf strain.
30:55
We've heard a lot about calf strains in the NBA playoffs in
30:58
the last couple of years, and you know that Harper and Fox are
31:01
both really banged up, you know, playing through it.
31:04
But Harper has not looked good since he's been playing either.
31:07
That's why there's a beneficial position that the Knicks are in
31:10
because no matter what, Jalen Williams, if it's OK C or if
31:15
it's the Spurs, you're going to have to they're going to have to
31:18
deal with these injuries. The Knicks are 100% healthy and
31:21
they have 8 or 9 days to rest whatever injuries they have and
31:25
they're watching these teams beat up each other.
31:26
So I know everybody's going to sit here and say, yes, if on
31:29
paper you want to position yourself to say as the books are
31:33
positioning OKC to be a -, 275 or whatever the numbers are, or
31:39
the Spurs, if they beat the OKC, Thunder or -185 yeah, you're
31:44
going to take those teams because of their dominance of
31:46
what they did in the regular season.
31:47
But the way the Knicks are playing right now, it doesn't
31:50
matter who they're playing against.
31:52
It's the way they're playing against them.
31:55
That to me says a lot about this team.
31:57
I don't know what the Knicks are going to be against these two
31:59
teams. I don't really know.
32:00
And I'm going to sit here and say that I'm only hoping that
32:03
they're going to play at what they've been playing throughout
32:06
the playoffs against the Cavaliers, against the Sixers
32:09
and against the Hawks. But I will say this, OKC is
32:13
watch what the Knicks were doing against the Cavaliers, and there
32:17
is no answer to Jalen Brunson. They don't have an answer to him
32:21
and they don't have an answer to some of the other players that
32:23
the Knicks have. That's why.
32:24
And and again, it's all about injuries, health.
32:27
That's where. OK, See, last year, why did they
32:29
win the championship? They were all healthy.
32:32
They were as healthy as any team in the playoffs and they played
32:35
healthy all season long. They're not healthy.
32:38
Now, the Spurs are not healthy. So yeah, if you're going to sit
32:42
here, and I'm not just because I'm a Knick fan, I'm just
32:44
telling you, if I'm going to put two and two together and I'm
32:46
going to say A-Team that's sitting out for eight games or I
32:49
mean 8 days and is watching this and they're healthy at full
32:52
strength and they got to play one of these teams.
32:54
I'm going to take the Knicks. I'm going to take the healthier
32:57
team and the more dominant team and the more I think together
33:00
team right now they're playing together.
33:03
And and that's to me I think is the problem with both of the
33:06
Spurs and the OKC Thunder. That doesn't mean that they
33:08
can't beat the Knicks. I think both teams could beat
33:10
the Knicks and on any given day. You know, this phrase that we
33:13
appearing in the sports media the last couple days was
33:15
connected. The Knicks are very connected.
33:18
It's like that old Phil Jackson saying about how he wanted the
33:20
guys to play in the triangle where it's just Bing Bing Bing.
33:22
That's because Jalen Brunson understands basketball at an
33:25
incredibly high level. Couple of those guys been
33:26
playing together since college. As you know, the Nova Knicks and
33:30
talents has been incorporated and they let Townsby A
33:33
distributor now and since he's so good offensively, it's a
33:36
beautiful thing like this team. You can't even look at the
33:38
anything from the regular season queue.
33:40
You're right about it and not we'll get to our guests are
33:43
starting to come in for our Knicks panel.
33:44
You're absolutely right. The regular season don't mean
33:47
nothing anymore. This Knicks team did not exist
33:49
in the regular season. They're 10 deep and they have
33:52
another week of rest for the second straight time.
33:55
That's incredible. Yeah, but arrest coming out of
33:58
arrest, you guys haven't done so well.
34:00
But hey, I'd rather be rested than hurt.
34:02
But look, before we end this segment, Tony Brothers is a
34:05
referee tonight. I know you guys don't believe in
34:07
it. Scott Foster was the referee
34:09
last the gas gay, he's the extender Tony Brothers tonight.
34:12
So I look forward to OKC winning this and we see y'all back in
34:16
San Antonio. All right, my golf clap of the
34:20
week. Deserves a golf clap, no?
34:24
Doubt. Golf clap.
34:25
Golf clap All right, my golf clap of the week goes to yeah,
34:30
Florida. I don't know what the hell is
34:32
going on with this. Now they have a Teddy
34:35
Bridgewater Act, which I'm I'm trying to put two and two
34:38
together. I don't get it.
34:39
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Teddy Bridgewater Act
34:43
into law on Friday. The regulations allows state
34:47
high school head coaches to spend up to $15,000 in personal
34:51
funds annually on player expenses such as food,
34:55
transportation and recovery services.
34:58
Former NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater served as an
35:02
inspiration for Laws after being suspended from coaching at Miami
35:07
Northwestern. The Miami, FL native was cited
35:12
for financing meals, transportation, transportation
35:15
and recovery expenses for players last year.
35:20
Well, actually two years ago. I, I will say this for all the
35:23
fans out there sitting today and I'm wondering what Florida is
35:27
doing and why they're doing it. It's because Daddy Bridgewater,
35:30
yes, he's a multi millionaire. Yes, he was an accomplished
35:33
quarterback in the NFL. If he wants to spend his own
35:36
money to help students help kids with their finances when it
35:41
comes to transportation, meals and recovery, it should be
35:44
allowed. NIL deals are coming, people.
35:47
Kids are making money. If this guy wants to dig into
35:49
his pockets and help kids succeed, yeah, Then find a coach
35:53
that actually has the same amount of money or find a coach
35:55
that's willing to to go into his own pockets and help kids out.
35:59
Where are schools out there? There are high schools.
36:01
There are parents that have businesses and all that other
36:04
stuff. If they want to help these
36:05
students really achieve their goals, then open up your
36:09
pockets. I think Teddy Bridgewater was
36:10
attacked. I thought it was horrible the
36:12
way the state of Florida treated him at the point.
36:15
And now Ron DeSantis, the great governor over there in Florida,
36:19
came out and says, you know what, if he wants to spend his
36:22
own money up to $15,000, he should be allowed to.
36:25
And it's just, it's sad because when Ted Bridgewater got another
36:28
job in the NFL, he was attacked. He was attacked by the media.
36:32
After he signed, who did he sign with as the backup quarterback?
36:35
If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Alliance.
36:37
It was alliance. I remember after he signed with
36:40
the clients, after that whole thing, all the questions they
36:43
were asking him was why did you do this and why did you do that
36:46
and why did you spend $15,000? Are you paying these kids?
36:50
Are you making sure that these kids are going to the schools
36:52
that you want them to go? It just, it was, it was sad
36:54
because Teddy Bridgewood, all he was doing was trying to help
36:56
these kids get come from nothing.
36:58
Some of these kids from Florida have nothing.
37:00
They live in these, these homes that you have like 6 families
37:04
living in and, and these guys are young football players
37:07
trying to get to that next level.
37:09
So I, I think it's a golf clap for Ron DeSantis.
37:13
I, I got to give him a golf clap because what Ron DeSantis is
37:17
doing and stepping up to the plate only shows you that Ted,
37:21
Teddy Bridgewater was only trying to help these kids.
37:23
So Ron DeSantis, congratulations.
37:26
Thank you very much. And Teddy Bridgewater is, is
37:29
looking even better by the day. There you go.
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