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Hour 1 – Knicks Stay Alive · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: talking football extensively tonight. Lots to get into, but we
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  Speaker 2: start with hoops as the Knicks. The Knicks got Game
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  Speaker 2: five on Thursday night. They force a game six, which
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  Speaker 2: listen if you're a Pacers fan, you don't love but
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  Speaker 2: if you are a basketball fan, you gotta love this
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  Speaker 2: because we have sports to watch this weekend. If you
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  Speaker 2: look at the playoffs here in the NHL and the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: we wouldn't have anything going on this weekend. If the
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  Speaker 2: Pacers won Game five the NHL Conference Finals, they're over.
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  Speaker 2: They're done with Florida Panthers, moving on, Edmonton Oilers. They
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  Speaker 2: finished dismantling their foe over there, the Dallas Stars, So
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  Speaker 2: Edmonton moving on. So that's wrapped up the other side
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  Speaker 2: of the NBA playoffs in the Western Conference, OKAC already
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  Speaker 2: polished off the t Wolves in a gentleman's sweep, So
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  Speaker 2: if the Pacers won Game five, we'd have a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of nothing going on in terms of the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. So we've got Knicks Pacers Game six on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: The story of Game five, few couple of bullet points here.
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  Speaker 2: First one is the Knicks. They played great defense. They
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  Speaker 2: held the Pacers to only ninety four points on forty
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  Speaker 2: percent shooting. And the way the Pacers have scored in
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  Speaker 2: this series throughout the pace that they play at just
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  Speaker 2: fast tempo, they're hard to defend. So give the Knicks credit.
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  Speaker 2: They played some really solid defense on Thursday night. Karl
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Towns, it always makes me laugh when you'll hear
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  Speaker 2: these comments after the game, but Kat was right. Karl
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Towns said, Hey, we just came out with energy
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  Speaker 2: and we're the first ones to throw a punch, and
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what happened. He's right about that. I just
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  Speaker 2: don't understand these teams. And you'll hear some sound here
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  Speaker 2: pretty soon after the game they're like, yeah, we just
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  Speaker 2: we didn't play as hard as they did. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: how is that a thing? How? How is that ever
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  Speaker 2: a thing? It's just the playoffs, you know. They just
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  Speaker 2: competed harder than us. They just wanted it more than us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how any athlete can say that at
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  Speaker 2: the end of a game, but you'll hear a pacer
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  Speaker 2: say that in a few minutes. First off, let me
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  Speaker 2: bang on Tyrese Haliburton just for a little bit over here.
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  Speaker 2: So give the knickt credit. First off, heavy focus on
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  Speaker 2: Tyrese pressured him all night, made life miserable. But on
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  Speaker 2: the heels of justin epic Game four performance, he was
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable Tyrese Haliburton in Game four, not Thursday night, not
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  Speaker 2: the game tonight, but the game before tonight. It's Game four.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two points, fifteen assists, twelve rebounds, five made three pointers,
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  Speaker 2: zero turnovers. Was it the first ever playoff performance? A
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  Speaker 2: thirty point triple double with zero turnover? He's the first
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  Speaker 2: guy to do it in NBA playoff history. How does
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  Speaker 2: he follow it up? What does he do for an
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  Speaker 2: encore on Thursday Night? Well, that would be eight points
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  Speaker 2: on two of seven shooting, with six assists and two rebounds.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't make a three all night long. This is why
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people think and say that Tyrese Haliburton
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  Speaker 2: is overrated. Now I don't subscribe to that, but I
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  Speaker 2: can understand why someone else would and why they think
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  Speaker 2: and say those things. What you saw in Game four
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  Speaker 2: was the complete opposite of what you saw in Game five,
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  Speaker 2: and the lack of consistency is what's driving the overrated
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  Speaker 2: bus in terms of people saying those things against Tyrese Halliburton.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be productive, if you're a star, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to find a way to be productive in impact
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  Speaker 2: each game. And he just does. And it's he's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit like the Boston Celtics as a whole, because
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  Speaker 2: listen from a sports gambling standpoint, the Celtics and Tyrese
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  Speaker 2: Haliburton can be difficult to gamble on because they're both
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  Speaker 2: talented enough to make you look like an idiot if
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  Speaker 2: you fade them, but they are both inconsistent enough where
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  Speaker 2: they can make you look like a dufus if you
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  Speaker 2: back them. And so it's a mixed bag when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to those teams, the Celtics collectively and Tyreese Halliburton,
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  Speaker 2: because they're just so talented. On a certain night you
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  Speaker 2: could just marvel at them, like Wow, look at this show,
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  Speaker 2: and then the next performance you're like, what is happening
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  Speaker 2: right now? And Thursday night was one of those what
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  Speaker 2: is happening right now performances from Tyreese Halliburton. To compare
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  Speaker 2: Game four to Game five, So tonight he had twenty
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  Speaker 2: four less points, nine fewer assists, ten few rebounds. The
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  Speaker 2: less fewer thing always confuses me, so you're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to have some crazy with me. I don't know which
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  Speaker 2: one to use, but less all across the board. Let's less, less, fewer,
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  Speaker 2: few or viewer, whichever is the right one. You can't
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  Speaker 2: have you can't be minus twenty four in points, minus
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  Speaker 2: nine and assists, minus ten in rebounds. Intonight's game compared
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  Speaker 2: to your game four numbers. It's night and day. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the one thing I'll give Jason Tatum a lot
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  Speaker 2: of credit. Think of the Boston Celtics Superstar that was
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  Speaker 2: the series right before, Like the Knicks are playing the
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  Speaker 2: Pacers right now in the Eastern Conference Finals in the
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  Speaker 2: season prior, they were facing the Celtics in the second round,
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  Speaker 2: and before Tatum went down with the Achilles injury, which
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  Speaker 2: is brutal, before he went down, Jason Tatum, Yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: might have a quieter evening, he might have a lesser game,
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  Speaker 2: but his stat line isn't gonna be eight points, six assists,
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  Speaker 2: two rebounds. It's he's gonna be much more productive than that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the difference between a player on Tatum's level.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about healthy Tatum, not currently injured Tatum, not
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  Speaker 2: rehabbing Tatum, right healthy Tatum. That's a big difference between
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  Speaker 2: healthy Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton. Because Tatum, he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to have a playoff stat line of eight, six and
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  Speaker 2: two he's certainly not gonna have eight six and two
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  Speaker 2: on the heels of thirty two, fifteen, and twelve. Like
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  Speaker 2: he just doesn't do it. He puts up much more
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  Speaker 2: consistent numbers than Tyrese Haliburton. And that's the other thing too.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you gave Haliburton the benefit of the doubt
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday night and said accurate things like, man, the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks really focused on him. He just went off in
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  Speaker 2: Game four. They paid attention to him. They pressured him
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  Speaker 2: all night, they sent different bodies at him. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they played with force all of the What do you
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  Speaker 2: think they do against Jason Tatum? Tatum puts up some
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  Speaker 2: monsters that lines, and they do all of those same things,
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  Speaker 2: and Tatum yet will still put up more numbers than
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  Speaker 2: eight six and two. So there's no benefit of the
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  Speaker 2: doubt that Haliburton deserves for a Game five dud. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why some people call him overrated. And I know
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a cool slogan now like Puma came out
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  Speaker 2: with his logo and everybody's wearing the T shirts over
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  Speaker 2: there that cheer for the Indiana Pacers. But Game five
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  Speaker 2: is an example, and it fuels all of those criticisms
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  Speaker 2: of Tyrese Haliburton. You can't just disappear in a closeout
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  Speaker 2: type situation and he did. You gotta call it like
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  Speaker 2: it is, and he just he disappeared something else that
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  Speaker 2: was wild. It was a little bit of deja vu
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday with a completely different outcome. So first the
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  Speaker 2: deja vu part, the Knicks led Game one right, first
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  Speaker 2: game of the series against the Pacers. They led Game
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  Speaker 2: one by fourteen points with two minutes and forty five
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  Speaker 2: seconds remaining. That was the same exact situation Thursday night
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  Speaker 2: in Game five, the same thing. Literally, the Knicks led
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  Speaker 2: by fourteen points with two forty five remaining. Now the
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  Speaker 2: major difference the Knicks one tonight by seventeen points. Somehow,
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks lost Game one outright, Like when you have
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  Speaker 2: a fourteen point lead with two minutes and forty five
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  Speaker 2: seconds remaining, that should be a w every single freaking time.
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  Speaker 2: It was an easy win on Thursday night in Game five. Somehow,
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  Speaker 2: some way, it was a loss in Game one, which
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  Speaker 2: is astounding, and that's still a loss that the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: are chasing in this series. That's why they're still going
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  Speaker 2: to be facing elimination in Game six is that they
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  Speaker 2: kicked away Game one. And look, I I understand you
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  Speaker 2: got to give the Pacers some credit where you had
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  Speaker 2: Nie Smith just go nuclear, just bombing three after three
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  Speaker 2: after three, he caught fire. But you still can't. It's
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  Speaker 2: gotta be a w every single time. I don't care
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  Speaker 2: if Nie Smith catches fire, whoever catches fire. You can't
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  Speaker 2: miss free throws. You can't you know, have a silly
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  Speaker 2: turnover or a mental lapse here or that. You can't
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  Speaker 2: do any of those things that open the door so
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  Speaker 2: ever so slightly for the Pacers, and they kicked it
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  Speaker 2: through that cannot It still blows my mind that the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks somehow lost Game one. It was the same scenario
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday. I'm watching it and I'm like, holy cow,
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  Speaker 2: they're winning by fourteen points with two forty five remaining.
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  Speaker 2: It's like burned into my brain now. It's almost like
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots beating the Falcons in the Super Bowl, where
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight to three is just burned in your forehead forever. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Knicks leading by fourteen points with under
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  Speaker 2: three minutes to go. Somehow that was a loss in
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  Speaker 2: Game one. Somehow they won Game five by seventeen points.
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  Speaker 2: How can that be? How can you win one game
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  Speaker 2: by seventeen and lose the other game out right? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Somehow we're here. That blows my mind. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing that blows my mind. This is why I
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  Speaker 2: was alluding to earlier. Pascal Siakam, who's had a really
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  Speaker 2: strong series and has made his presence known throughout, had
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  Speaker 2: a monster game earlier on. We scored almost forty points
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  Speaker 2: right around there in Game two. Everything runs together now,
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  Speaker 2: but now after Game five, Pacers lost the game. They
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  Speaker 2: never led throughout the entire night. This is what Pascal
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  Speaker 2: Siakam had to say in the postgame press conference. They
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  Speaker 2: played harder than us.
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  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think they played harder than us, you know, on
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  Speaker 2: lose balls, like rebounds, like all that.
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  Speaker 3: We got to be able to win that battle.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with them, but it blows my mind that
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  Speaker 2: a player could say that at the end of a game.
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  Speaker 2: How can that be? I listen, I love basketball. I
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  Speaker 2: love the NBA. I understand it's not everybody's cup of tea.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine. I love it. I always have, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to turn it into like an NBA versus
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  Speaker 2: NHL thing. A lot of people love to do that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really not that guy. You can love both. I
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  Speaker 2: love the NBA playoffs. I dabble with the NHL playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: but I can recognize how great the NHL playoffs are.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to pick one and just talk trash
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  Speaker 2: about the other. You can enjoy both. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why people act as if you can't just enjoy both,
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  Speaker 2: but whatever. So I'm not the one that like pits
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  Speaker 2: one against the other. But I will say this, even
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  Speaker 2: though I'm not that guy to bang that drum, this
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  Speaker 2: is not an NHL thing. Have you ever heard an
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  Speaker 2: NHL player after a playoff game say, yeah, they just
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  Speaker 2: kind of wanted it more than us. Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 2: you know, the loose pucks, the fifty to fifty situations,
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  Speaker 2: they just they got everything out, hustled us. We just
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  Speaker 2: we didn't bring the energy they I've never heard that.
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  Speaker 2: But the NBA, as much as I love it, you
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  Speaker 2: will have games. This happened. Okay, see just one in
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  Speaker 2: a Gentleman's sweep over Minnesota. It crushed them throughout, but
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  Speaker 2: they lost Game three by what forty two points? And
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  Speaker 2: SGA at the end of the game, he was just
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  Speaker 2: like yeah, you know, we just didn't bring it from
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  Speaker 2: an energy and a focused standpoint. Just yeah, didn't have
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  Speaker 2: that either of those things. And I'm sitting there like,
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  Speaker 2: how how is that that. I know, they're a young team,
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  Speaker 2: they're immature at times. You have a two zero lead,
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  Speaker 2: you can explain it, but it still baffles me. Where yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you could even explain it with the Pacers to a degree.
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  Speaker 2: Where the Pacers are the ones with a three to
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  Speaker 2: one lead, maybe they feel like, all right, we don't
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  Speaker 2: have the same sense of urgency. We've got game picks
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  Speaker 2: at home in our back pocket, the Knicks. This is
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  Speaker 2: it do or die. So yeah, you can explain it
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  Speaker 2: to a degree. But just like Siakam said right there,
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  Speaker 2: they played harder than us. How can anyone outplay how
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  Speaker 2: can anyone just out effort you? It blows my mind.
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  Speaker 2: I never will understand that, Like, yeah, we just didn't
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  Speaker 2: have the energy tonight. We just you know, they outworked
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  Speaker 2: us all night long. But you will hear that. Man,
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy to me. But I'll tell you what. The
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  Speaker 2: Pacers have a secret weapon for game six that they
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  Speaker 2: did not have for game five. You know who that is.
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  Speaker 2: That is John Halliburton, that's right, Tyrese Haliburton's dad was
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  Speaker 2: not in the garden. He was not in the building
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  Speaker 2: for Game five. Tyrese Haliburton DoD performance. You go back
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  Speaker 2: to game four, John Halliburton in the building, huh, in
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  Speaker 2: the building over there at gamebridge Field House, watching his
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  Speaker 2: son dismantle the Knicks. So Papa Halle will be there
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  Speaker 2: for game six in Indy. That is the good luck charm.
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  Speaker 2: That is the kryptonite for the Knicks right there. They
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  Speaker 2: have to compete against the Pacers and John Halliburton. It
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  Speaker 2: does give me an excuse to play maybe my favorite
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  Speaker 2: audio of all time. This goes back to John Halliburton.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't attend any Pacer games at home since the
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  Speaker 2: Bucks series because he went out on the floor and
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  Speaker 2: he was talking smack to Jannis. This is what he
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  Speaker 2: said afterward. This is like a follow up interview with
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  Speaker 2: John Halliburton in his own words, what was going on
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  Speaker 2: as he stood in front of Yannis saying things seem
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  Speaker 2: to be talking trash. This is what he said to
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  Speaker 2: TMJ four.
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  Speaker 4: It might have seemed like I was looking at him,
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  Speaker 4: but I really will I were looking through him.
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  Speaker 2: That is my favorite just excuse slash description of all time.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking through him. No, I wasn't talking trash
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  Speaker 2: to him. I was just looking through the guy. I
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  Speaker 2: still I love that he said that with a straight face.
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  Speaker 2: It's I want that excuse to work for me sometime.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if I get caught looking at an Instagram
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  Speaker 2: booty model, I could just say no, no, no, I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't looking at her. I was looking through her booty,
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  Speaker 2: is what I was doing. That's all I was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine that excuse actually flew? That was amazing
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  Speaker 2: piece of audio. But anyway, John Helliburton, not at Game five.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be at Game six. We'll see how it shakes out.
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  Speaker 2: We have sports to watch this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, very nice. We got a lot to do.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, phones are always open. Love being interactive
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  Speaker 2: with you guys. Whenever I fill in for Big Ben,
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  Speaker 2: I will be doing a Big Ben impression coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: You can look forward to that. It's either an impression
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  Speaker 2: or a blatant ripoff. I'm not sure which it's gonna be,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll see how it lands. You know, it's sports radio.
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  Speaker 2: We just roll with it, and you guys determine what
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  Speaker 2: it ends up being, you know, coming up next. Something
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  Speaker 2: pretty crazy has happened in the NFL in each of
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  Speaker 2: the past ten seasons, but will it happen again this year.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great stat and I'm gonna blab about it
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  Speaker 2: for at least fifteen minutes straight unless someone calls in.
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  Speaker 2: That's basically what's gonna happen. I'm pribaban no in for
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  Speaker 2: Listen to that my girl Mary Mack spinning the metal
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  Speaker 2: and she didn't come in just like sticking her big
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  Speaker 2: toe in the water. This is a cannonball in the
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  Speaker 2: deep end. You kidding me? We're letting our hair down
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  Speaker 2: here in the early hours. Love that nice pull by you.
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  Speaker 2: Very good job, Mary Mack. Yeah, very nice. Like we
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  Speaker 2: didn't get fined by the FCC either. You knew exactly
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  Speaker 2: when it was when the mf was coming. That was
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  Speaker 2: beautiful right there. I was I gotta be. Here's not
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  Speaker 2: your first go around, Mary Mack. You know the veteran
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  Speaker 2: veteran leadership love that. Okay, So, uh, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: to a crazy This NFL stat blows my mind. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna get to it in just a couple of minutes. First, though,
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  Speaker 2: some people want to check you in and uh, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if I say we're gonna be interactive here, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to be interactive here, right, it's false advertising if we're not.
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  Speaker 2: So you chime in, militia. We'll get you on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go first out to New York. Eric is
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  Speaker 2: up first, Eric, what's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 2: You're on Fox Sports Radio to sir Goodbue. What's on
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  Speaker 2: your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Okay? I have a quick trivia question. Who is the
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  Speaker 5: only player did a home run for the Milwaukee, Boston
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: and Atlanta Braves.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: It's easy, No, no idea, no anyway?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: What is it? What's it? It sounds like Hank Aaron?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: But what's the trivia question again?
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: Who's the only player did a home run for the Atlanta,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Boston and Milwaukee Braves? What did you say?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I said it initially sounded like Hank Aaron, But I
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: have I don't know.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: It's Eddie Matthews. And how about this one? What's the
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: chant for Kent Towns and Brunson? What's the chair for them? If,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: if I may say so?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: What to win the series?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: No, what's the chance for Brunson in Towns? What's the
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: chant about? They say Towns and uh once and co
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: m vps CO m VP's baby.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. Like what for the Eastern Conference Finals?
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: That what you're saying?
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the MVP suring the whole year Brunson in Towns
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: and I like. I like when Brunson shoots the fadeaway
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: to jump shot. I like when uh. I like when
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: they pick up the ball the big man booms up
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: the doll and hert is good on the fast break.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: I think the Knicks is gonna win Game six in Indiana,
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: which they should, and then come back to Madison Square
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: go on a baby where they mech is Mill. The
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: New York Knicks will prevail ay that runs and uh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I just want to give a shout out to Brianna.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: She's a nice worker, and keep up the good work
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: and hopefully she'll get a good job one day, you know,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: in the future.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: All Right, Eric, we appreciate that, man. Nice. Yeah, I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: don't think the Knicks are going to force game six.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: John Halliburton is gonna be in the building in game six.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You know you got to compete with that. That's a
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: lot to deal with right there. But all joking aside
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: the Pacers. I know they had a dude in game five,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: but that's the Knicks backs against the wall. It's a
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: much different situation going on the road and taking down
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: the Pacers. They're gonna be going one hundred miles per hour.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I think the Pacers close them out. But hey, that's
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: why they play the games. We'll see what happens. Let
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: me go out to my guy, Emmitt is in Olympia.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: You gotta got a high standard to live up to.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Eric started us off on a very fast track over here,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: and but what is on your mind? Buddy?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Oh Brian, and that was so fast. I mean this
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: man he was on role. But how you doing, Brian?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Good to talk to you. It's been a while, you know,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: I know you've had a lot going on, but you've
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: you never missed a show on getting you know, big
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: shots to you, going through all the hell things and
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: then being back. What was it four or five days
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: after it initially happened and being back on the air
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: for Countdown. That's incredible.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, well thanks, I appreciate that. Yeah, it was
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I didn't even realize it was on Synco de Mayo
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: for those that don't know, I had a stroke. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: had freaking had a stroke on Cinco de Mayo and
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: uh yeah, I made it to Countdown on Saturday. It
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: was weird, emmed. I'll just tell you real fast. That
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: first show that was a trip, man, because I would
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: speak for like a minute and it felt like I
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: ran a ten k. I just have to sit there
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: and be like, Holy I felt like I was going
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: to pass out. But I'm feeling a lot better now. Yeah.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Good to hear it. Man, you sound great. You sound
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: like you never lost a step, So shout out to you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: But I want to talk about the Knicks Facers Game five. Now,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I completely agree.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, this was the.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Worst time for a Halburton dud. But to be fair,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe like there's a bit conspiracy that he
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: wants to close it out. You know, the Daddy's touched
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: with John Holburt in Game six Indiana, So I think
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that that's what's gonna happen. But this Knicks team, like,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: they're a fun team. Man like Jalen Brunton and Kat
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: it is a great duo. Even though that last call
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: wer I still don't know what he was trying to
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: say there, But they're awesome, but I think they're lacking
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: a little bit of defense. And the New York Knicks,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: you know what they give me, they give me Indiana
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Pacers vides where they're gonna be here this year. They're
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: gonna come back. You know, Brunton and Kat it was
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: the first year there officially together on the same team
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: and it really worked out. So they're gonna come back.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: You know, have this offseason to read, you know, fine
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: tune the roster, get some guys out there that can
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: make the team more deep. Get some defense because I
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: think Jalen Brunson and Cat it's kind of a defensive liability.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Mitch Robinson, he's trying, but I mean he's not anything
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: too special, but he's been followed. But they need to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: refix this roster and they will be in the Eastern
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Conference final those next year. I'm booking it. They'll they'll
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: be back. They're gonna be a scary team. Brunson is
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: a dog.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, man, I Nick thinks are good.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I don't want to undersell them in in the East.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna be one of the teams that
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you know have have a shot to win the conference.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: But I don't know what you're gonna do to really
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: tweak it to the point where you know they got
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I still look at them against Boston and if Tatum
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: doesn't go down, that changes the dynamic. Hey, maybe the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Nicks still win. Are they still good enough to beat Cleveland,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: who they didn't play this year?
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: I I think they're gonna be that b I wentn't crazy,
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: but to be fair, And it could be the collapse
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: by Cleveland they had there in that second round against
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: the Pacers that was horrible.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, it could be one of those things where
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: maybe the Cavaliers are like the thunder and you know,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: they just take this year, get the experience, and guys
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: like Evan Mobley and Darius Garland and DeAndre Hunter will
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: be fully healthy next year. It's gonna The NBA is
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: so interesting and it sucks that you know, no one's
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: watching it during the regular season because we've got so
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: many fun teams.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there are, but that's the thing you gotta
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: ask yourself. And the Pacers smacked around the Cavs in five.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Can you see the Knicks smacking them around in five?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I have a hard time seeing that. So if we're
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: talking about the Knicks coming out of the East, next
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: year's PACER's still gonna be there.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: But it's good to talk to Emmett. Very good stuff.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Now, here's the NFL stuff I want to get to,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: which I think is tremendous. So here's the stat and
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: it blew my mind. It's a little wordy, but it's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: not so wordy that you're like, what's even happening right now?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: So the stat is, each of the past ten seasons
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: has included at least one team that drafts in the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: top eight and then makes the playoffs. Okay, so you
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: have to think of the teams that draft in the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: top eight. One of those teams that is drafted in
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the top eight has made the playoffs in each of
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the last ten seasons. That's a pretty intriguing stat. So
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: if you apply it to this season, I was looking
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: at the teams that drafted in the top eight. Which
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: teams do you think have a legitimate shot to make
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the playoffs? And who are you like? Yeah, no, not,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna be a playoff team. So the top
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: team the Tennessee Titans. You think the Tennessee Titans have
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: a good chance to make the playoffs. I would go
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: with the old Vince McMahon theme music right here. Yeah, no,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the Titans are not making the playoffs this year, not
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: in year one. That roster needs a lot of work.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: And you could sit here and say, well, hey, first
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: year starting quarterback, rookie starter, cam Ward number one overall
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: draft pick. What if he's like Jadon Daniels. Look at
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: what Washington they went from four to thirteen to twelve
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: and five. Just a glimpse into the future. Cam Ward
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: is not Jaden Daniels. Jayden Daniels a special. I think
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: cam Ward is just a guy. Time will tell if
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: that's correct or not. But I watched cam Ward a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: lot and he does that playmaking ability. But I just
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: talked about Tyrese Haliburton in the first segment, right. One
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: of the main reasons people call Tyrese Haliburton inconsistent is
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: call him overrated. It's because he's so inconsistent, have one
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: great game and then one dud game. Now cam Ward,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: he won't necessarily have one great game in one dud game,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: but he'll have an outstanding play and the next play
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: you're like, what was that? The decision making is hideous
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: at times from cam Ward. I don't think cam Ward
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: is gonna be a special NFL player. I think he's
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: gonna be average. I think he's just gonna be a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: shrug your shoulders like, yeah, he's serviceable. That's what I
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: see from cam Ward, and I'll be happy to eat
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: my words if he proves me wrong. I'm not gonna
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: be stubborn about it. But I just don't see a
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: difference making quarterback, certainly in year one with that roster.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I do not see the Titan sniffing the playoffs. Now,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the team that drafted second overall, that would be Jacksonville.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville traded up, they got Travis Hunter. What do you
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: think about Jacksonville's chances to make the playoffs? I would
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: go here.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: So you're telling me there's a chance I would.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I would not close the door on Jacksonville making the playoffs.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Why why would that be? Well, Trevor Lawrence got hurt
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: last season. Now, I'm not gonna sit here and tell
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: you Trevor Lawrence walks on quarterback water. He's left a
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: lot to be desired, but got drafted number one for
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: a reason. Has a ton of potential. A lot of
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: it has been unrealized in the NFL. But they have
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: made the playoffs before. They went nine and eight and
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: back to back seasons until last year the wheels fell
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: off the track, right. But new regime in town. You
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: get Leam Cohen over there, the Tampa Bay offensive coordinator.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: He's new the head he's the new head coach in town.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Hate how he said Duvall, but he knows his offensive stuff.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But listen to this. When you have Trevor Lawrence coming
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: back from injury, he's got Brian Thomas Junior to work with,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Travis Hunter to work with Offensively, they get out, they
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: get another piece. The Ammie Brown is not outstanding, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a decent like number two ish receiver. I mean that's
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: a decent that's a decent receiving corps to work with.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And again, if you're looking at a team that had
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: its quarterback miss multiple games, if you're blessed with better health,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: That makes a big, big difference. It's a trash division. Yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the Titans are in the same division, but you've got
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback and a roster that isn't as good
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: as Jacksonville. I give Jacksonville at least a chance to
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. Who else? So we're looking for other
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: teams that drafted in the top eight, because one of
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: these teams the last ten years has made it to
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. So third, the Giants drafted Abdul Carter. What
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: do you think about the giants chances to make the playoffs?
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Huh No chance? Yeah, no, it's not happening. That's a
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: brutal schedule. Now, this is all based on what happened
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the previous season, but it's the most difficult strength of
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: schedule based on their opponents winning percentage last season. Now,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: we know things can change from year to year, but
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that's not a great starting scenario for the Giants. You're
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: hoping that what all these teams that were good in
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four all of a sudden take a dramatic
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: step back in twenty twenty five. We know not all
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: of them. Will they play a tough schedule, whether it's
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the toughest or like a top five tough schedule, top
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: ten toughest schedule, something like that. It's still a tough
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: road for the g Men. And look at them offensively.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: You've got the two headed monster of Russell Wilson and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Jamis Winston. You've got Jackson Dart over there. How many
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: starts is he gonna have as a rookie? I just
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: do not. I don't see playoffs written all over the
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: g Men over here. It's a tough division with the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Eagles in Washington. Two teams in your own division were
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in the NFC Championship Game last season. So no, I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: think there's a better chance the Giants are under five
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: and a half wins, that's their season win total, then
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: they make it to the playoffs. How about the Patriots?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: They drafted fourth. What do you think about the Patriots
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: chances to make it to the playoffs. I think they
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: look pretty good. I can't even play the dumb and dumber.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: So you're telling me there's a chance their chances are
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: much better than that. In my opinion, you went out,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: you upgraded massively. And this is a Dolphins fan talking
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: this way. Man, I'll get to my Dolphins here in
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: a little while. But oh gosh, man, the heavens are falling.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Not too long ago, the Dolphins were trying to compete
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: with the Bills for the AFC East. Now the Patriots
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: have passed them up. Patriots have a better roster for
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: sure than the Dolphins. So the Pats they play a
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: last play schedule. They are only four and thirteen last season,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: but a ton of free agent acquisitions and some draft
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: picks that I think will help Will Campbell, Trayvon Henderson.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You gets to Fine Diggs, you know, you go out
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: and get Morgan Moses, solidify the offensive line, like I
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: like a lot of things that the Patriots have done.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Milton Williams comes over, You get Carlton Davis as a
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: cornerback to go opposite Christian Gonzalees. Like, their roster is
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: way better than it was last season. And I think
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Drake may is a real quarterback. So yeah, I actually
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: think the Patriots have a decent shot to make the playoffs.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's crazy at all. Fifth would be
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: the Browns and they trade it down from number two
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: to number five. When you think about the Browns chances
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: to make the playoffs, huh, looking good. Yeah, that's not happening.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: That's They've got five quarterbacks and in twenty twenty five,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of them are going to be
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: any good. Like that's a problem. Uh yeah, I just
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think you need to go in depth. The
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: roster isn't very good. It's a tough division. They don't
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: have a quarterback. They're just not good enough to be
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a legitimate playoff threat. How about this one team that
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: drafted sixth that would be your Las Vegas Raiders took
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Ashton gent What do you think about their chances to
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: So you're telling me there's a chance.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say there's a chance, there's an out, very
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: outside chance. I'm not gonna sit here saying I'm gonna
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: take their season win total over and I love their chances.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave the door ever so slightly cracked for
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the Raiders because one thing I can't get away from
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: is that two years ago they were an eight to
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: nine football team and Aidan O'Connell was their leading passer. Now,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: I know Geno Smith is not top five, he's not
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: top ten, but he's better than what they've had the
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: last handful of years, Gino Smith is at least an
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: adequate starting quarterback. You look at Geno's numbers, like, would
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: you know did last year? I think a lot of
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: people be surprised about it. If you say, what do
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: you think Geno's passing stats were, you know, like yards, touchdowns, interceptions,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: What do you think, Oh, Geno did last season? Touchdowns,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: interceptions not awesome twenty one and fifteen. But through for
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: over forty three hundred yards with a seventy percent completion
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: percentage or completion rate. You know that that's Hey, that's
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: not awful. And so it's gonna be an upgrade for
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the Raiders. It's gonna be tough with the Chiefs and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the Broncos and the Chargers. I don't love their chances,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: but for some reason, I don't know. Normally, I'm just like, oh,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I get out of here. Not happening, then forget it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I gotta at least give them a puncher's chance to
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: make it to the playoffs. Now, the Jets, they drafted seventh.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: What do you think about the Jets chances to make
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: the playoffs?
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: Here?
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: No chance? Yeah, no, it's not not happening. The cliffs
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: notes version Justin Fields is their quarterback. I don't think
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I need to go further than that. Just roster isn't
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: good enough. They went five and twelve with Aaron Rodgers
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: putting up respectable numbers. Justin Fields isn't gonna be able
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: to put up Aaron Rodgers' numbers? And what they're gonna
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: be a playoff team all of a sudden, come on,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: no way, no chance? The last one Carolina Panthers drafted eighth.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Do you think about their chances?
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: So you're telling me there's a chance, yeah, I.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Would say they've got a chance. Again the NFC South sucks.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Bryce Young looked like an actual quarterback for a good
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: portion of last season, So if he's able to play
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: at a similar rate or even improve, like, yeah, you
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: got a legitimate chance to sneak in as a playoff team.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: I would say that they're alive. So there you go.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I would give four teams in the top eight, you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: draft wise, a pretty decent chance to make it to
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. Four others I would say, no happening. But
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: what a stat huh. Each of the past ten seasons
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: has included at least one team that drafts in the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: top eight and then goes on to make the playoffs.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So if you're a fan of one of these teams
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: that drafted in the top eight and you're on the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: heels of like a three or four win season, hey,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: there's hope. There is hope. And Washington great example, right,
• 35:25
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  Speaker 2: as I said before, I'm not the guy that's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I love the NBA playoffs, so the NHL playoffs suck. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not that guy. I think it's silly. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a waste of time. The reason I bring this
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  Speaker 2: up is that there are a lot of NHL fans
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  Speaker 2: that like to say, oh, man, blowout city NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? You want to watch some entertaining playoff games.
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  Speaker 2: You want to watch a close playoff game for a change,
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  Speaker 2: try the n HL. I've heard that for years and years,
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  Speaker 2: and you can't play that game. This year. You cannot
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  Speaker 2: play that card. If you look at what's happening in
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  Speaker 2: the NHL playoffs, it is beat down city. So twenty
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  Speaker 2: of the last twenty two NHL playoff games have been
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  Speaker 2: decided by at least two goals. Now, you could sit
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  Speaker 2: here and say, hey, it was a close game. One
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  Speaker 2: team was up by a goal, there was an empty
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  Speaker 2: net goal at the end. So granted some of those
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  Speaker 2: are closer games. Some how about this that ten of
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  Speaker 2: the last eleven NHL playoff games have been decided by
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  Speaker 2: at least three goals. That there's no well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean there were like four empty net goals at
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  Speaker 2: the end there. I mean, come on, man, like, no,
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  Speaker 2: these are not close games. So well, I've been hearing
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  Speaker 2: that for years and years, and it has been true
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of years. If you are looking for close,
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  Speaker 2: competitive playoff games, the odds are it was happening more
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  Speaker 2: frequently in the NHL than it was in the NBA playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: But this year not the case. The Conference finals is
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  Speaker 2: beat down city. What Edmonton did to Dallas, Holy cow,
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  Speaker 2: it's illegal in at least thirty states. What Edmonton did
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  Speaker 2: to Dallas. That was Dallas lost all nine of their
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  Speaker 2: playoff games by at least three goals. They have blown
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  Speaker 2: out in every loss. So NBA fan can at least
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  Speaker 2: look sideways like you remember, I used to tell us
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  Speaker 2: every year that the competitive games were in the NHL playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really looking like that right now, not really
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