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Some CLOSE championship series in the NBA and NHL! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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I've been dealing with being sick and it's been a big
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I'm on steroids, I'm on antibiotics.
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I'm on 2 antibiotics now, almost 2000 milligrams a day and it's
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My ears have been popping all day, so I've I haven't never
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been in a in a position like this where I'm not sure which
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ear is going to work or both of them going to be working
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throughout the show. So I'm I'm kind of like deaf in
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one ear. I even on my my left ear.
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I'm having problems hearing right now, but nevertheless, I'm
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happy to be here. Jabba, how are you?
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How was your weekend? It was good did some work and
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getting ready for the the College World Series, which will
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kind of fall out of perfect time because you'll be gone and you
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don't really care about college baseball.
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So my Forte in my backyard and so got some stuff done.
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We got we got goodies tigers in there and so we're going to try
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and work on getting him down here to maybe get us a little
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LSU love. And so just looking forward to
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that. It was a nice weekend, kind of
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chill. And even though it's only 50
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minutes away, it's just sometimes nice just to get out
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of town and hang on. And I, I don't know about you
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guys, but I sleep great in hotels, like fantastic.
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I didn't, I don't think I made it to 11:00 the whole time I was
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there. I was like, turn it down to as
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low as it can go, order some food, watching sports.
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So yeah, it was. It was, All in all, a good.
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I cannot go away and sit in a hotel room and, and I get bored
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in a hotel room and I have to have the AC up completely.
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I, if I'm sleeping in a place that I don't know of because I,
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I like to cover myself with two or three blankets.
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I, I do not like hotels for one reason, because if I'm in a
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hotel, I know I'm away and I want to party.
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I want to have a good time. And by the way, you say I don't
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like the World Series. I just don't watch it every
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single year. It depends on who's in it and,
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and, and the competition in the World Series.
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Obviously it's the two best teams in college baseball and
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LSU is always there and Nick is a graduate.
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He played for the LSU Tigers. So I could see why he's excited.
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It just obviously here in New York, there's not many great
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baseball teams, especially college baseball teams.
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The last one to go to the College World Series that we
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know Stony Brook is Stony Brook. And how long ago was that?
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So it does, yeah. It doesn't usually happen here.
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So it's not a big story. It's not one of those where
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downtown. Yeah, it's it's way different
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too, because you got to remember it's always been here.
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So it's something even if you, even if Nebraska hasn't been in
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it since me in 2005. It's still big, so baseball is
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big over there. Nebraska.
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Yeah, it's humongous just because it's here every year and
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you know, it's a lot of generational things that come
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with the World Series. And it's a little different
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because it used to be at the zoo at Rosenblatt.
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Now it's like downtown, closer to the airport and more hotels
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and stuff like that. So it's got a little bit kind of
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skewed in the fact it's more corporate than it was with,
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well, I used to be at the zoo. It's.
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Always going to be corporate because the.
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Corporate it was. It was never that way when it
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was at this. Of course, of course.
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And, and it's changed even here in New York, everybody thinks,
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oh, this New York is is a baseball town because we have
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the Yankees here and the Mets are playing great baseball.
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But it really, it really isn't. It's really a basketball town.
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And with the Knicks, we're playing as well as they have
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this season. It's coming back to that.
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But believe it or not, the biggest sport here in New York
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is basketball. Then I would probably swing
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towards football. Then I would say then I, I don't
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even know. Now I baseball is it's a flip
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flop because the Rangers are very popular right now.
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They've always been popular here in New York.
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And then there's the Yankees, because the Yankees are expected
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to win. They're expected to make the
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playoffs every single year, but they haven't won since 2009.
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And until the Yankees win another championship, we're
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always going to be looking at, hey, Arthen, even though the
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Knicks haven't won a championship in like 50 years,
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you're still going to look, hey, I'd rather see the Knicks go to
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the Finals than the Yankees. I'd rather see the Knicks go to
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the Finals, except probably more than the Rangers or the
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Islanders. So it's it's interesting, but
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sports is big here. When we win.
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The problem with New York sports is we don't really win.
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So it's been a huge problem. The last time a a New York team
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has won a championship was 2011 and that was the Giants.
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That was the last time a New York team won a championship.
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So it's a long, long time. You're talking about over 10
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years. That's it's about 14 years since
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a New York team won a championship.
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And that's crazy because we live in a city where our teams are
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like life here. You think about the Knicks, if,
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if you know anything, think about New York fans, they bleed
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blue, orange, they bleed it. The Ranger fans bleed white, red
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and and blue. And then and the giant fans and
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even the Jet fans, the unbelievably sucky New York
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Jets. The Jet fans are the biggest
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fans in the world. They, they, they live and sleep
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New York Jets football throughout the season.
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That's why there's a million podcasts as a as a matter of
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fact, the two biggest podcast right now in the country, two
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biggest ones are New York podcasts.
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So which sports? So it's it's really crazy how
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New York sports still, even though it's so damn bad, they're
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still very likable by the fans over here because.
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They support. Their sports.
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Nathan Nathan brought up something good.
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What about the New York liberty they've won?
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Yes, last year they won, but that again and I I'm not going
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to take that away from them either.
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I, I forgot about the Liberty. The Liberty, which it's just the
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WNBA is growing right now. Right now it's starting to
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obviously grow with Caitlin Clark and obviously Reese.
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So you're seeing all this different opportunities that the
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WNBA is going to grow. And yeah, the Liberty did win.
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So I guess if you want to say the Liberty were the last and
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also the Red Bulls, they won too.
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They won a couple of years ago too.
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So if you want to put, I'm talking about the four major
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sports, a New York team has not won since 2011.
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That's what I meant. Major sports.
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WNBA is not a major sport right now.
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And obviously we all know that soccer or European football is
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not big as much as it should be here in the United States.
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So that's just what I'm saying. Again, I'm not taking it away
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from anybody or any fan out there that's going to say,
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Errol, you suck. How could you?
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How could you not support the Liberty?
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I support the Liberty. I'm supporting women's
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basketball as I'm wearing a Caitlin Clark Fever jersey, 1/3
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jersey, which is almost impossible to get.
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I actually am wearing it tonight so it's a beautiful jersey and
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I'm supporting WWNBA basketball so I know what everybody's going
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to say. You can't say anything that I
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don't support the women's women's games because I do.
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Let's get into some basketball because that's the story right
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now. The NBA Finals is tied 11 after
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the Pacers won game one and the Thunder won Game 2.
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The Pacers won game 1111 to 110 on a game-winning shot by Tyrese
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Halberdon with 0.3 seconds left. That was the only time the
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Pacers had the lead in the game. The Thunder led the Pacers by 15
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points with 942 remaining in the game, just like the Knicks, and
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the Pacers went on a 31 to 16 run for the rest of the game.
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Despite the loss, Shy got 38 points in his NBA Finals debut,
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third most in NBA history. In a Finals debut, the Thunder
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dominated the Pacers 123 to one O 7 to win Game 2.
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The Pacers had seven different players with double digit
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points, but no players over 20 points.
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Shy had 34 points in Game 2 and now has 72 points combined in
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game game one and Game 2, the most in NBA history.
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Shy Alexander is one of the great offensive players we've
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seen in a very, very long time for the NBA.
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The NBA should be very excited for the growth of this young kid
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and where the NBA could be going with some of the young stars
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that they have. You saw it, you got a chance to
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see a couple of them. Anthony Edwards, as much as
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people don't like how he plays in the playoffs, he's a special
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player. Shy Alexander, we're watching
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it. He is a special player.
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Tyrese Halberton, a lot of Knick fans don't like him.
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He is a special player. Jalen Brunson, who's been
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sensational since he's gone to the Knicks and taken over as the
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starting point guard for the Dallas Mavericks, has been
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sensational and he's a great young player right now for the
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NBA. There are quite a few really
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good guards that we have just mentioned right there.
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Those all, all those guys are guards 2 or once.
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And that's what the NBA is starting to deliver right now.
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We're getting a chance to see. In the 90s, it was really about
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the bigs. It was about the power forwards
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and it was about obviously the centers.
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That's what they built around. You talk about Hakeem Olajuwon,
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Patrick Ewing, David Robertson, Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal,
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and on and on and on and on. It's not like that anymore.
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And if you're not a big that can't shoot the the NBA is not
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going to catch up to that kind of player anymore.
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That's why Mitchell Robertson is a, to me, A1 dimensional player.
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That's the way teams are going to look at him.
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Shy Alexander is what makes Shy Alexander so freaking special is
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what he does on the basketball court.
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We talk about Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, guys that could
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play back and forth, defense and offense.
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Shia Alexander doesn't hideaway from it.
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As much as we've seen Tyrese Halliburton offensively and
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defensively over the last couple of series, how good he's been.
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He falls apart in certain games. He can't defend certain guys
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because he's not good enough defensively.
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Shia Alexander, no matter who's standing in front of him, what
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guard is standing in front of him, he's going to be able to
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defend against him because he's a shutdown defender.
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That's what's special about Shia Alexander.
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And Shia Alexander, with what we've seen with OKC and what the
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Thunder like to do, they like to run the offense through him.
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But when Shy Alexander is getting double team and
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sometimes moving around the perimeter, he opens up the
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court, he opens up the accord for guys like Dort and guys are
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like Williams, guys like that that can open and spread the
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offense up. Where some of these young
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players that they have right now are showing you why they've been
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one of the best teams in all of the NBA really for the last two
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years. But watching these two games and
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I know everybody was shocked. We were doing our show last week
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on Thursday, game one and, and where how it happened.
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This is the same thing that happened to the New York Knicks,
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same thing that happened to the Cleveland Cavaliers when they
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get when Hal Burton came back and won the game and Hal Burton
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didn't even win the game when he hit that Nick crushing, you
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know, dance around the the basketball court when he beat
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the Knicks, it was in overtime when he beat it, but never the
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Nevertheless, the Knicks had a 14 point lead with 2 1/2 minutes
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left of the game and Hal Burton and Naismith came back on this
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display of just unbelievable offense.
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The Pacers need to be slowed down.
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And what did OK C do in that game and game number 2, they
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slowed them down. And Tyrese Halperton early in
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the game made a lot of mistakes. A guy that doesn't really make
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passing blunders. He made four or five mistakes
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going into the going all the way into the fourth quarter.
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When Halpernon is not making mistakes in the game, he's
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keeping his team close in the game.
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And when they're doing that and they're within 9 to 10 points,
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the Pacers are dangerous team. But really in game #2 it was
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dominated by OKC. They didn't give him a breath.
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The Pacers had no way of breathing from the first quarter
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all the way to the fourth quarter.
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The only reason why the game was even close is because the OKC
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Thunder, with six minutes left of the game, took all their
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starters out. They were up at at one point in
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the fourth quarter by 20 something points.
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So it it's not like the game was even close.
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And I predicted this to happen on Sunday night because I do
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believe the OK C Thunder is a much better, more talented team,
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the Pacers. But again, it doesn't matter
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about talent. It matters who wants it more,
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who's going to go out there and make the shots, make the big
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plays. And that's the, that's something
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that we could say about Rick Carlisle and the way he coaches.
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When his team doesn't play well one game, the next game they
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transition and play a different style of basketball.
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I expect to see that in game #3 and and again, going back to
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Alexander, Shy Alexander is been the best player in the league
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besides Yokich all season long. It hasn't even been close.
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Yokich I believe was the MVP of the league.
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But the NBA don't like to really give it to back-to-back guys,
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especially guys as good as Shy Alexander.
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That some people could say that Shy was up, should have been up
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for the MVP last year. What makes this so fun to watch
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is Shy Alexander is not quoting himself after the game that he's
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the best player. He's not going out there after
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the game and say and complimenting himself and
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patting himself on the back. He says I wouldn't be here today
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and we wouldn't have won this game if everybody wasn't playing
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at the top level of their game. That's what's special about Shy
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Alexander. That's what you expect from your
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superstar players, that you're going to back those players,
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your teammates out there, and when you're losing, you take
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responsibility for losing those games.
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And shy's not going to say that I was off in the game because
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Shy Alexander's going to give you 30 to 35 points game.
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That's the type of player he is, that's how talented he is.
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And that's how to me the dominant player he can be.
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He could be week in and day in and day out and game in and game
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out. I also say this Tyrese
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Halliburton at the end of the game.
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It to me shows me why a lot of teams do not like him after the
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game. And and by the way, I don't want
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to hear what his father has to say.
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I obviously the NBA is not interviewing his father.
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But there he was on a bunch of different, you know, radio shows
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after the game on Monday. And he was saying like, oh, my
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son, didn't you know, he wasn't getting the calls this, this and
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that. It's always an excuse for the
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Halliburton's. The problem with Tyrese
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Halliburton is he needs to take a step back.
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He needs to hear himself out and realize when you're winning,
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you're going to get all the compliments because you're the
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superstar. When you're losing, you got to
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take responsibility for your bad game.
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Your reason why your team lost is because you didn't have a
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good game. You didn't do what you were
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supposed to do like you did in game one when you needed to hit
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the big shot. That was why you lost.
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The GameStop blaming other people, and he didn't really
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blame anybody, but it seems like he doesn't want to take
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responsibility. Speed.
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And that to me is the problem right now, and I think it's
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going to affect this team, win or lose in this series, this
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team to grow and be an NBA champion.
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Yeah, I'm not going to say Tyrese Halliburton is quote UN
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quote playing with fire yet, but it's definitely something that
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is heating up a little where you don't want to turn into the
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Anthony Edwards syndrome of what you happened last round.
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Anthony Edwards Yeah, yeah, he had some weird comments
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throughout the 1st 2 series, but was still for the most part
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playing well. And besides that one Warriors
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game then all of a sudden he let it affect him against the OKC
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Thunder. He has three God awful games and
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Minnesota's eliminating 5 S Halliburton cannot let that
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happen because like you said, they had a good game plan for
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him in Game 2. Much more suffocated defense
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even against even with some of the backups when OKC was subbing
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out, they were playing great defense on Halliburton.
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They didn't change the game plan on him one bit and it affected
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the rest of the team. There are enough role players
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like you were saying, the seven different scores.
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They have. That did well enough in Game 2.
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They played their game enough. Obi topping at a bad game after
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he had a great game one. But every other role player with
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the Indiana Pacers played well, and a lot of times when you have
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those types of successes, it does well.
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I had a lot of fights with somebody I'm not going to
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mention. He's probably listening to the
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show about Naismith and he says that Naismith is a chip piece to
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trade for a superstar. That he was telling me on the
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phone that you can use Naismith and maybe one or two other guys
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on that team to to land a guy like Giannis.
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And I said, you're nuts when you're trying to compare.
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Let's say you look at Naismith. Are you going to compare them to
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Mikhail Bridges? Are you going to compare them to
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OG and Anobi? Not a chance in hell as.
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Who does Naismith has been over the last what, year and a half?
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Because last year he didn't really pick up his game until
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the second-half of the season. Honestly, Naismith still has a
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lot more to prove himself. And remember, this guy wasn't a
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high prestige draft pick like guys like Mikhail Bridges when
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he came from Villanova, even OG and Anobi, the player that he
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was when he came out of college. So I, I know a lot of people
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want to say, well, Naismith is a chip that you could trade for
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Giannis. I think you're nuts.
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He's a good player. He's the second chip.
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In the deal, not the first chip, the.
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First chip, I think he's a third dairy chip maybe.
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Maybe even the first chip has to be Siakam.
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If you're going to trade anything with any type of
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Giannis deal with the Pacers, it has to be start with Siakam.
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There's no other You wanted to say you want to use those trade
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chips for something else like a second tier star.
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Yeah, you could new Nemhart, NEMSA, something like that for a
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second tier star. Definitely not for Giannis, but
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going back to the NBA Finals game, you saw in game one of the
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Nuggets series against with OK C, them collapse in similar
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fashion. Aaron Gordon hits the buzzer
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beater, they fall apart and what do they do in Game 2?
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They bounce back right away. That's a different sense of
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adversity. I think this OK C team has,
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which is a good thing to really see for a young team.
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You saw that happen obviously with the Celtics and they lost
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Game 2 to the Knicks class in a similar fashion.
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The Knicks did it in game one versus the Pacers.
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They never really recovered besides that one comeback that
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they had in game three. They never recovered to that
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same extent. OK, CS locked in in a different
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way, and you see it with the defensive side of the ball
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really making a difference. If they're going to win, they're
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going to win with their defense as as indicated.
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And they never gave up that game plan, no matter who they rotated
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out of the game. Game one, you saw Rick Carlisle
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in that comeback sell out all 5 starters.
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That's the problem also with Rick.
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Rick Carlisle, he was a defensive minded coach.
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Now he's transitioned. His team is more of a prolific
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offensive team. They like to go up and down the
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court. He changed his style of coaching
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for the players that he has on his roster and they're not the
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defense that everybody thought they were going to be.
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Remember when Rick Carlisle went there?
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They were a completely different defense until they brought in
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Tyrese Halliburton, when they made that trade for Tyrese
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Halpern. That whole defense and the style
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that Rick Carl likes to run his defense, Drew, make a mistake
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and bring the ball up and down the court.
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It's not like that anymore. They have to play that high pace
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game and the problem is OKC is as young as the Pacers are and
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they could play that speed pace game with them, something that
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the Knicks couldn't do and that's why the Knicks had
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problems against them in the fourth.
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Quarter. A lot of these veteran coaches
22:27
that do it end up getting fired in very strange circumstances,
22:29
as we've seen this year, as we've seen with Carlisle in the
22:31
past. I don't think anyone was
22:32
thinking when Mavericks fired Carlisle at the time that it was
22:35
a good move. But he had to change his
22:36
coaching style to a certain extent in order to do that, to
22:39
adapt with some of these teams that are much more talent driven
22:42
and a team that has built up this amazing perimeter defense
22:45
like we've seen the last couple NBA champions really have.
22:47
The Celtics had that great perimeter defense last year.
22:49
The Nuggets had the great perimeter defense when they won
22:51
a championship. Milwaukee had a great perimeter
22:53
defense. So they had to adjust to that
22:55
kind of style and I think OKC adjusted right back.
22:57
It was just better coach, better adjustments on their point from
23:00
their players. Obviously Carlisle's a better
23:01
coach than Mark Dayno, who's a pretty good coach with OK C, But
23:05
Carlisle's a better coach, got the better of him game one by
23:07
selling out all 5 starters and the role players stepped up and
23:10
OK C. That's really the one weaknesses
23:11
they have sometimes with they had the Celtic syndrome.
23:13
They shot themselves out of game one and they actually adjusted
23:16
in Game 2 by still trying to draw a foul, still trying to
23:18
control the ball. And they end up winning that
23:20
game while still playing suffocating defense.
23:22
And they're showing their defensive depth at the same time
23:24
being just as good as Indiana's offensive depth.
23:27
And and that's why they were able to win Game 2.
23:29
And we saw them in the Nugget series, even though that Nugget
23:30
series won seven games, had some ugly games mixed in there, they
23:33
knew they were still the more dominant team and they showed
23:35
it. And I expect them to do the
23:36
same. Here this is having a very
23:38
nugget type feel of a series in I think the coaching and the way
23:44
that you know you're going to have to play chess throughout it
23:48
and and you can't just have a set type of hey, we got to focus
23:54
on this in game three. It's like, OK, well, all right,
23:56
we might have to make a little adjustment here, you know, for
23:59
the second-half or the second quarter and I think we've seen
24:02
that. Individual timeouts too.
24:05
Right, right. And how you, how you use them
24:08
and what you and what you take to your advantage and how do you
24:12
capitalize on it. But yeah, I just think that
24:15
coaching right now and obviously everybody's heard it's a long
24:19
year. I mean, their playoffs are long
24:21
in itself. And so I think it's just going
24:23
to come down to execution, not only on the court, but also
24:28
execution from the bench and how they take advantage or how they
24:34
make the adjustment in the way that they fit as the game plays
24:38
itself out. So this series is playing out so
24:42
far just like I thought it would.
24:44
Halliburton is. I mean, can you remember a guy?
24:48
Has he done it in every round or is it 3?
24:50
Straight, yeah, it's the most. It's the most since like 95, I
24:55
think. He has like 5 or 6 I think.
24:57
It's unbelievable. He did it back-to-back to back
25:00
games. Three games 3.
25:02
Right. So it's 3 three straight game
25:04
ones, is that right 3. And they beat them all, and all
25:07
three games happen within 5 seconds.
25:10
So all it's absolutely. Crazy when Nick's one was
25:13
ridiculous. Well, they didn't win that.
25:14
This one might have been more ridiculous.
25:16
That was a game trying. That was a game.
25:18
Time, yeah. It would have been wonderful if
25:21
he did the choke and then he lost the game.
25:23
I would have loved every second of that.
25:24
It didn't happen. Power to him.
25:26
He's still going. Carl Anthony Towns hit his free
25:28
throws. It would have still would have
25:29
been over for them but. If the refs actually called a
25:32
goaltending like they should have, maybe.
25:34
We'll take a day off from talking about how I think the
25:36
Knicks are going to get rid of Carl Anthony Towns this
25:38
offseason. But I really, I really think
25:42
that OK, C is a significantly better team than Indiana.
25:45
And I think the only thing they have going for them is
25:48
Halliburton's heroics and Carlisle being just, I think
25:51
showing off that he's either the best coach or top two, top three
25:54
coach in the NBA. And people should stop
25:56
disrespecting him that way because he is that good.
26:00
That that being said, I know was really good as well.
26:03
And he was very smart. And how they decided to OK,
26:07
Halliburton, if you're not going to go take your shot, we'll give
26:09
you shots and just you'll pass it to somebody who's covered.
26:13
And they just decided to put the full court press on everyone
26:17
else on the court except for Halliburton just playing kind of
26:19
straight up, which is what teams had not done in the past.
26:23
And guess what? Those guys weren't open and they
26:25
weren't hitting shots and they weren't able to play play as
26:27
fast-paced as they like to play. Put that on top of the fact they
26:30
have Lou Dort and Alex Caruso and Shay hounding them on
26:35
defense, three of the best wing defenders, guard defenders and
26:39
entirety of basketball. They don't have much of a
26:42
chance, I don't think. They.
26:44
Stole the game. I think they they led for .3
26:47
seconds and it was the final point 3 seconds of game one.
26:51
But that's the entirety that they've LED in the first two
26:53
games of the season of the of the series.
26:56
That's not exactly a good plus minus differential, right?
27:00
So Indiana plays that high paced game.
27:03
They have guys like Naismith. You mentioned Naismith, a good
27:06
rebounding guard. He has a great gets really
27:08
streaky hot from three and he plays good defense.
27:11
He'll stay, he'll go over screens.
27:13
I wish we the Knicks had more guys that did that.
27:15
I think it would have been a different story.
27:16
They had a guy like Naismith. That being said, the three
27:20
guards I just mentioned are like kryptonite for Naismith.
27:24
Matheran did nothing. You saw Shay doing the too small
27:27
to Matheran after he hit a shot over him.
27:30
Matheran is out of his element. And those are two Canadians.
27:33
They know each other. They know each other pretty well
27:35
from that Canadian team. So I don't think it's going to
27:39
be close. Chet hasn't even gotten going,
27:41
by the way, in those first two games because he does have the
27:44
task of handling Siakam. He does have to handle some of
27:47
that. Siakam is a load, we know that,
27:50
but I don't think it's going to be close to.
27:51
Right. He was only a load against the
27:53
Knicks because they're slow. Besides Mitchell Robertson and
27:56
Mitchell Robertson hack a Mitch. And that was the only reason why
27:59
the Knicks had problems keeping him on the court is because they
28:01
kept hacking him and and the Pacers knew how to keep him off
28:05
the court. Karl Anthony Towns is a slow fat
28:07
guy who can't keep up with the guys.
28:09
And that's the problem right now.
28:11
When you look at the Knicks, they need a big that can
28:13
actually go up and down the court, not choke, not slow down
28:17
on the basketball court because he's out of breath because he
28:19
ate Twinkies before the game. Again, going back to your your
28:23
Pacer take, I disagree with you. I think the Pacers could
28:26
absolutely stay in this series. They've got to tell they've got
28:29
the guys that can hit big shots as we've seen that before.
28:32
You don't necessarily have to have the best team to win
28:35
championships. I can name a bunch of years,
28:38
Miami, Miami Heat against the Dallas Mavericks, same coach
28:41
Rick Carlisle. They had a good team.
28:43
They didn't have a great team. They had a bunch of old guys, JC
28:46
kid, Dirk Nowitzki, all these other guys.
28:48
They were an older team and and they had guys come out of the
28:51
the woodwork, guys that you wouldn't expect to, to pick up
28:54
the pace and play well in the playoffs, which they did.
28:57
Again, going back to my thought on why those great teams don't
29:02
always win the OKC Thunder, they they had a great team for years
29:06
with Russell, Russell Westbrook and James Harden and Serge Ibaka
29:10
and Kevin Durant. We mentioned this many, many
29:12
times. Why couldn't they get over the
29:14
hub? Because they bumped into a team
29:16
that was just as good as them put together by LeBron James, as
29:19
we all know, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and the players that
29:22
they had on that roster. So the OKC Thunders had very
29:26
good teams over the years and talented players.
29:29
I just think the Pacers, the one thing that I don't like the
29:32
Pacers in the series is, is that Shy Alexander and OKC, they're
29:37
the youngest team in the NBA. They could go up and down the
29:40
court just as much as the Pacers can.
29:43
They're fast, they're athletic and they're they.
29:45
They could do all the things the Knicks can't do and they could
29:48
play guys power forwards that could go up and down the court.
29:51
Multiple guys go up and down the court, even if they're not good
29:54
defenders, put their bodies in front of these guys and make
29:57
them work for their shots, something the Knicks couldn't do
30:00
in that series in certain quarters.
30:03
So the only difference is in the Knicks series, I thought they
30:06
had really good defenders and I thought they had guys that were
30:08
better than the guys that we had in certain spots.
30:11
I didn't think we had an answer for Siakam.
30:13
I didn't think at all there was no answer for see.
30:15
I think Siakam is very overrated.
30:17
I think you make him. Out but it's it's not about it
30:20
overrated it's does your team have a guy that can guard him
30:23
when we get to the playoffs? If you don't don't, he's they
30:26
don't, so that that doesn't matter if he's not like a top
30:29
ten player, he's not, but he's a top 25 player, probably towards
30:32
25 and he killed. Us.
30:34
But here, here's what I would have done if I was the coach of
30:37
the New York Knicks. What I would have done is put OG
30:40
or McHale Bridges on Siakam. Make him work for every one of
30:44
his shots. Not this twist and turn.
30:46
OK, we're rotating guys from the perimeter because we have two
30:49
guys that don't play defense and Jaylen Brunson and Karl Anthony
30:53
Towns. That's the problem with the
30:55
Knicks. They got to stop with this
30:56
rotation crap. That's.
30:58
The problem, but that's the problem that's why the Knicks
31:01
didn't beat the Pacers. Honestly, it would have been
31:03
more fun to watch watching the New York Knicks play against OKC
31:07
one because if the Knicks had the right coaching and they put
31:10
themselves in the right position, I think the Knicks
31:12
match up very well against the OKC Thunder.
31:15
They got the offense to stay in contact with them and obviously
31:18
have a guy that could be game changing in Jaylen Brunson, who
31:21
by the way, Shire Alexander, the two times he played against
31:24
Jaylen Brunson this year had problems defending them.
31:27
So that's the thing. You have to have a guy, a game
31:30
changing guard that can absolutely outplay the other
31:33
guard or play somewhere around the other guy, not outplay him,
31:37
but play it, compete with him every single part of the game.
31:40
That has been the problem. That's the.
31:42
That's a great point, Errol. You know that the matchup the
31:45
Knicks would have had with OKC would have been a much better
31:48
matchup for the Knicks than Indiana has with OKC.
31:51
That's saying that saying that the Pacers were a tough matchup
31:55
for the Knicks. They just were.
31:57
I think the Knicks would have done better against OKC, even
31:59
though he's a better team. I think Rick Carlisle was a bad.
32:02
Match up for him. Thibodeau is just not a guy who
32:05
adjusted enough and you saw it defensively, especially if his
32:08
way didn't work. He wasn't going to switch it up
32:10
to his own. He wasn't going to switch up how
32:13
they were playing man. He was going to stay with him.
32:14
Did you see the numbers? Did you see the numbers for the
32:16
playoffs? The NBA Finals?
32:18
See the numbers? The the ratings.
32:20
The ratings, do you see the numbers?
32:22
They're bad. I have not seen that bad.
32:23
I'm assuming they're bad because nobody cares about those two
32:26
areas. They.
32:27
Love their basketball. We actually we actually touched
32:29
on that and was like wondering what the I guess what the number
32:35
will be and it if it would be the least watch.
32:37
They're 8 1/2. Million.
32:39
They're eight and a half million down from what they were in the
32:42
first two games of last last year's playoffs.
32:45
In the Finals, they're 8 and 1,000,000, down 8 and 8.6
32:48
million or something like that that I saw.
32:50
It's not really good. And, and again, that's the
32:53
problem with the NBA. As much as as you would have
32:56
liked to see these young teams go at it one-on-one, you really
33:00
wanted to see the OK C Thunder in the New York Knicks.
33:03
Why? Because they're New York Knicks
33:05
fans and New Yorkers all over the country.
33:07
And that's what would have draw or drawn all these fans that are
33:11
probably not basketball fans, more baseball or even hockey or
33:15
or football fans to stay tuned and see what the Knicks are
33:19
doing in the in the Finals. So a team that hasn't been there
33:22
since 1973, so. I I just think it are we saying
33:26
they're not rigged now that the NBA is?
33:28
No, it is, because if it was, they wouldn't.
33:30
But if it was rigged, they would have given us the Knicks.
33:32
No, because ratings. But here's here's why I think
33:35
it's rigged. It's because that the Pacers
33:37
were not expected to win the series.
33:39
And as far as money is concerned, and when it comes to
33:41
betting, the Pacers were the betting was the betting per, you
33:46
know, you know, what do they care?
33:48
What do they say? That the betting stand out from
33:50
the public bet? Yeah, they were the public bet
33:52
where you're going to make more money than betting on the
33:54
Knicks. And that's why the NBA, even
33:57
though the NBA is hurting on this, they're really not because
33:59
Shia Alexander is going to win. OKC is going to win their first
34:02
title. Shia Alexander wins the MVP and
34:05
now you're going to try to compare and contrast.
34:07
Hey, Shy could be the next Michael Jordan.
34:09
This OKC Thunder team could be the next Bulls of the 90s if
34:13
they want to, or the Golden State Warriors of this past era.
34:16
So that's what they're doing. That's what the NBA likes is
34:20
just superstars and a guy that stands out from all the rest.
34:23
And right now, no matter who's in the finals against this guy
34:27
Shy Alexander, he is the, the NBA is trying to popular, make
34:32
him the popularity, the the voice of reason for the NBA.
34:36
The LJA wants to make Shy Alexander the superstar of the
34:40
league and that's what he's becoming right now.
34:43
And by the way, he's not American.
34:44
And by the way, the last two superstars, actually 3
34:48
superstars that were MVPS besides Joelle MPD that are are
34:53
still in the league and still dominant are all foreign
34:56
players. Yokich, Shy Alexander, who's
34:59
Canadian and Giannis who's Greek, all three of those guys.
35:03
If you look at the last 7 MVPS, those three guys now hold I
35:08
think six of them. So it it just tells you how it's
35:12
transitioning. America is not the favorites now
35:17
moving forward or the future until Anthony Edwards or Cooper
35:21
flag or one of these other guys come in, this BYU kid, it's
35:24
going to be in be in college basketball.
35:27
Everybody says it's going to be a superstar and maybe, maybe one
35:29
of the boozers. We're we're looking at United
35:32
States basketball when LeBron James and Steph Curry and Kevin
35:35
Durant step down and they, you know, ride off into the sunset
35:38
with their Twitter feeds. I mean, we're wondering where
35:42
NBA, where American basketball is going to go for the Olympics
35:46
in the next couple of years. It doesn't seem very good and
35:49
it's not positioned very good for the NBA.
35:51
And I'm sorry, I'm not sitting here and busting anybody's
35:55
chops. The fact is, right now, the NBA
35:57
knows what they're doing. They're trying to bring
36:00
international basketball to the NBA.
36:03
There is more international fans.
36:05
Soccer is the biggest sport worldly worldwide.
36:09
If you can bring basketball to the forefront where you're
36:11
taking fans away from hockey and football, American football and
36:16
even European football to bring it to their sport, it changes
36:20
everything for a product that they're trying to sell to get
36:24
over the NFLI don't know if they will, but they're trying to get
36:27
to that point where they can jump the NFL with the the, the
36:31
endorsements and the sponsorships that they could
36:34
bring to the forefront. I think this is a great idea.
36:36
I think the NBA and obviously out of Silver, I can't stand.
36:40
I think he's a terrible commissioner.
36:41
I, he understands, he understands where the the the
36:46
game is going and international is the way you want to perceive
36:49
and push it to be. So I think it's a good idea.
36:52
Fish, you were talking about how how popular the NBA Finals were
36:55
last year, 8.6 billion more than this year.
36:57
If only Luka Harris, Luka Doncic was more popular like Nico
37:00
Harrison wanted. Well, the problem is he like to
37:03
celebrate by drinking a beer and we just can't have that in
37:06
Dallas. That's not the Dallas is.
37:08
Did you know that Dallas is actually like a a St.
37:11
Like it's very religious, very uptight.
37:13
There's no, you know, no sleaziness going on.
37:16
Jerry Jones has never been, you know, considered that type of
37:19
person. Does everyone, does everyone in
37:21
this political group go by the Nico Harrison School of
37:24
Conditioning? I can't believe that guy got
37:28
bailed out with Cooper flag. I still can't believe it.
37:30
It's it. I don't know what deal they had.
37:32
Now. If you want talk about Rig
37:32
Darrell, I'll talk. We'll talk about that.
37:35
Cooper flag goes to Dallas after Lucas goes to the Lakers.
37:39
That we could talk about it being rigged about.
37:41
That's the LJA money you're talking about.
37:44
It's not just in the NBA, it's the NFL, too.
37:47
The NFL understands what their superstars are and every.
37:51
And Lamar Jackson's probably the most overall talented player in
37:54
the NFL, but he's never going to win.
37:56
You know why he's never going to win?
37:58
Because the NFL don't want to see Baltimore win.
38:00
Nobody wants to see Baltimore win unless you have a superstar
38:03
like on your roster. They don't have a personality
38:07
like that. Lamar Jackson, as good as he is,
38:09
is he really a personality? He's quiet.
38:12
He doesn't say much when you have Ray Lewis going over there
38:14
praying and doing a stupid dance when he comes out every single
38:17
time. I mean, that's what the fans
38:19
want. They want a guy that's going to
38:20
stand out. I, I want to get a Reggie Lewis.
38:23
I'm I'm Ray Lewis jersey or Reggie Miller jersey.
38:26
Reggie Miller was a superstar for the Pacers.
38:28
The Pacers don't have a personality like that.
38:30
The only reason why Tyrese Halperton is trying to
38:33
transition into the player like that because he knows it's going
38:36
to bring dollars and what dollars brings it brings faces
38:39
to the Pacers. An organization let's be honest,
38:43
hasn't won a championship and might never win a championship
38:46
because they can never put 2 or even 3 superstars together.
38:50
Because you got idiots like Hal Burton's father running on a
38:52
basketball court after the game the the the first round and
38:57
telling a superstar player like Jana saying you lost you suck.
39:01
OK, you don't say that to an MVPA, multiple MVP and one of
39:05
the best players the NBA seen foreignly in in probably our
39:09
past for the last 25 years. I'm sorry, I'm trying to correct
39:12
myself here. I'm trying to get the right
39:14
words out of it. It kind of pisses me off.
39:16
There it is. Hal Burton's freaking father
39:18
going to going to Giannis and talking crap to him.
39:21
That doesn't make any sense. And by the way, where's Hal
39:24
Burton's father after game #2 as he was yapping his big fat mouth
39:28
with Pat McAfee and Triple H taking pictures in game one.
39:34
You didn't see that game #2 you didn't see Pat McAfee wearing a
39:38
a Pacers hat after the game, dancing around and prancing
39:41
around with the Pacer fans. Give me a pint.
39:43
How did Giannis not just haul? I mean they were forehead.
39:47
He is a gentleman. Oh my gosh, it's like I was mad
39:51
for him and wanted to hit when I was watching it and I'm like,
39:55
how did he, how did he not like lose his?
39:58
I would have lost my gore. He's like Halber and his dad's
40:01
like Flavor Flav without the clock.
40:04
He just gets phase. He's get another court just
40:08
thinks he's part of everything he.
40:09
Looks like Earl Manigault. Does anybody know who Earl
40:11
Manigault is? He's arguably the greatest
40:13
basketball player of all time that never made it to the NBA
40:16
because of drugs. But if you read the story, the
40:18
Earl Manigault story, you can look about, look what he looks
40:21
like. Go look at what Earl Manigault
40:23
looks like. And you compare and contrast
40:25
what obviously Tyrus Hal Burton's father looks like.
40:28
They're almost identical. I, I actually thought when I
40:31
first saw Hall Burton's father that it was Earl Manigault.
40:34
I found out I knew Earl Manigault died and died like
40:37
10-15 years ago. Yeah, he died a long time ago.
40:40
But if you look at Earl Manigault and his father,
40:43
they're almost identical looking.
40:45
It's, it's so funny the way they look.
40:47
And by the way, Earl Manigault was the kind of guy if, if
40:50
nobody knows who he is, he was a guy that you could put like
40:52
money on the top of the backboard and he would grab the
40:55
money off the top of the backboard.
40:56
That's how high he could that's. What I'm seeing online that he
40:59
was like a crazy, crazy athlete. He was a crazy athlete, leaper,
41:04
Michael Jordan. Some people think he was Michael
41:06
Jordan before Michael Jordan, that that's the way they were.
41:09
Compared, he would have been coming up in the 70s or 60s,
41:11
late 60s or 70s. Right.
41:13
It was 70s, seventies, 80s, late 70s, 80s, somewhere around there
41:18
in the 80s. So that's where he that's where
41:20
he was playing. So he played college ball.
41:23
I think in 77 or 76 he couldn't stay on the college team because
41:26
of crack. And he got a girl actually
41:28
earlier. He was born in 1944, so he would
41:30
have been playing in the early 60s.
41:32
OK, maybe it was 60s. I don't know.
41:34
I just know about Earl Manico and I know his story.
41:37
I know he comes from New York. A lot of people talk about he
41:39
he's the one who made Rutger Park what Rutger Park was.
41:42
Everybody says who's the first star to ever step on a
41:45
basketball court and play play at Rucker Park.
41:47
It was Earl Manigault. That's who it was and it was the
41:50
house that Earl built. Anybody that knows the story
41:53
knows that Earl Manigault was the first big name that ever
41:55
played basketball in Rucker Park.
41:57
But I I want to get into the Stanley Cup because we got a lot
42:01
more to get into the Stanley Cup is tied 11.
42:04
The Oilers winning game 1/4 to three and the Panthers winning
42:08
game 2/5 to four, both in overtime.
42:11
Leon Dry Seidel had two goals, including the game winner in
42:15
Game 1. He he has the most playoff goals
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of anybody in the last five years with 45 Connor McDavid and
42:23
multiple points in both games of the series, and now has 28 for
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his career. Both Marshant and Bennett have
42:33
combined for three goals in the first 3 and in the first two
42:37
games of this series, including double overtime winner by
42:41
Marshawn in game #2 Sergei Babaratski has made 42 saves on
42:47
46 shots in each of the two games of the series.
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This is the first time since the Rangers in the Kings Stanley Cup
42:55
in 2014 where the first two games have gone to overtime.
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This is what you want to see if you're a hockey fan.
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You want to see these teams fight and fight and fight all
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the way to the end. Go to double overtime, go to
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single overtime, go to triple overtime.
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That's what you want to see. And you want these games to be
43:12
closed because what does that do?
43:14
It's good for hockey because right now the NBA Finals, like
43:17
we were just saying, is to me nothing that stands out.
43:21
You have the Pacers against the OK C Thunder, two young teams
43:24
and one superstar. Right now you have the biggest
43:27
player, the most popular player, the best player in the world
43:30
playing the series, and arguably the second best player in the
43:33
world playing on this same roster.
43:35
So now you get a chance to see in the forefront 2 teams that
43:38
played against one another back-to-back years, one team
43:41
that won last year and another team that's trying to win their
43:44
first title since the 90s since the Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier
43:48
era when the Edmonton Oilers won fourth championships in a row.
43:52
So they haven't been there for a very, very long time.
43:55
Now you're getting a chance to see these superstar players play
43:59
at the top of their games. Talk about Brad Marshawn.
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Brad Marshawn is one of the best playoff players we've seen in
44:05
the last 15 years with the Boston Bruins.
44:08
The Boston Bruins, they want a title.
44:09
Why? Because Brad Marshawn had a lot
44:11
to do with it. They also went to two 2 Stanley
44:15
Cup Finals. I was out one of them when they
44:17
lost. Brad Marshawn is the biggest
44:19
pest. He's like a flea that doesn't go
44:21
away and you could see him in the games you see him in
44:23
overtime games, even in the third third period.
44:26
Brad Marshawn had more shots on goal in the third period than
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any player in this in any of the games.
44:32
Why? Cuz Brad Marshawn puts pressure
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and he plays a high paced game. Doesn't matter how old Brad
44:38
Marshawn is. Brad Marshawn puts pressure on
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every single team he plays against offensively.
44:44
And another thing that Brad Marshawn does very, very well is
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he plays very, very well shorthanded.
44:49
And Brad Marshant is the first player in NHL history to go and
44:55
score a goal in overtime in a finals game shorthanded.
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Okay, He's the first player to ever do that and that's what
45:04
makes this series so interesting.
45:06
We could see be right. We could see records be broken.
45:08
And I'll say this again, Skinner has not played well.
45:11
He has not played bad in this series.
45:13
If he plays at a pace like this, they can beat the Florida
45:17
Panthers because they have the firepower to do it.
45:20
If Dry Sidle plays like this, I mean, he's almost impossible to
45:24
stop. And I've said this again, we
45:26
have not seen Dry Sidle play at the top of his game really
45:29
throughout the playoffs. And now in the big game when the
45:31
game is on the line and the lights are on them, Dry Sidle
45:35
shows up and he's showing you why I believe he's the second
45:38
best player in the world, right behind his counterpart and
45:41
Connor McDavid. Another thing I will say about
45:43
this series, it's pretty simple. Both teams have not played very
45:47
well defensively. They have not.
45:49
They've been horrible. Both teams who have, I know I
45:52
would say the Edmonton Oilers are a game beating defense.
45:56
They're not. They're not known for their
45:58
defense. They are better defense this
45:59
year than they were last year. They were much better this year
46:02
than they were last year, but they have not played very well.
46:06
And if they keep doing this and play at this pace, if, as if, if
46:10
somehow Florida figures it out, they do have great defensive
46:13
parents. If they figure out what they're
46:15
doing wrong defensively and help Bob Arotsky out, Bob Rotsky out.
46:19
I mean, I, I think Florida wins the series like I was
46:22
predicting. So right now when you look at
46:25
the the, the teams they're playing back, back and forth,
46:28
they're playing good speed hockey.
46:30
This is what you want to see. You want to see high flying goal
46:33
scoring games. But this is not good for a team
46:36
like the Edmonton Oilers that have less of a goalie.
46:40
And their defense, as good as it's been this year, has not
46:43
been anywhere close to as good as Florida when they're playing
46:46
at the top of their game. We talked about it in the
46:48
basketball finals too, like we were seeing a lot more
46:50
transition basketball than we've seen in years past where it was
46:52
the playoffs are always more of a half court game.
46:54
We're kind of seeing the same kind of thing the last couple
46:56
series with the NHL 2 where the transition, breaking the puck
46:59
out of the zone and trying to make it work to get breakaway
47:02
chances have been the recipe for success for both of these teams
47:05
on offense. And that's why you're seeing a
47:07
lot faster pace of these games, 2 high scoring games so far and
47:10
it's crazy. Like Babarovsky 42 saves it both
47:13
of the games so far. Like this is unheard of when
47:15
you're seeing Florida's defenses in years past.
47:16
I don't think Florida's defense throughout this post season has
47:18
been as good. Maybe Carolina, even though they
47:21
even though they lost that series, they kind of exposed
47:23
some concepts to it. They were still putting up goals
47:25
in Edmonton with much more offensive talent than Carolina
47:27
does is really showing that kind of thing.
47:29
Now, like you said, Florida's offense is still being able to
47:31
play fast too, because Edmonton's wingers are a little
47:34
a little older and Edmonton's defense, their depth defense is
47:36
still a little bit older too. The problem is Matthew Kachuk
47:39
hasn't gotten it going in the series.
47:40
Edmonton's actually had a good game plan on him.
47:42
I don't think he had a shot on goal until the third period of
47:44
that game. So if Martian is the only
47:46
production that they have from the wing, that's going to make
47:49
it tough for Florida to get the depth scoring that they should
47:51
have an advantage. And I was talking about the
47:52
second and third lines being a distinct advantage for Florida.
47:56
Bennett's scoring three goals, but where is the rest of it
47:58
coming from at that point after that?
48:01
And Babrovsky, I know he struggled in years past and
48:03
they've still been able to overcome it, but is he going to
48:06
be make it as adversity? Because Skinner, we know could
48:09
bounce back. Like he gets pulled and he
48:10
bounced back and has a shutout at certain points.
48:12
As bad as he could be, it's been a weird pattern for him.
48:15
My rear end is burning but. Brofsky, He's been a Hall of
48:17
Fame caliber goalie his whole career.
48:19
Will he be able to handle getting?
48:20
Rattled. I need a blow pop.
48:21
Too, which we've seen in certain instances like in the Toronto
48:24
series, but that's also Toronto too.
48:26
So it'll be interesting to see how both those.
48:27
Teams I lovely Sam. To those types of matchups, but
48:30
so far Edmonton is weathering the storm with the first line.
48:32
Their stars are coming out like you're.
48:33
Saying blow my back up. Dry Sidle and their defense is
48:36
actually played really well offensively as bad as they're.
48:38
Playing playing with my pickle. But like fish, like you said in
48:41
the past too, can they overcome the injury to Hyman?
48:43
Get enough. Score in the.
48:44
Second and third line, that'll be a big key because eventually
48:46
Florida's defense is going to stop some of their stars and
48:49
that'll be up to Edmondson to adjust as.
48:50
Well, my rear end is burning. Well, I got I got someone whose
48:56
rear end has been burnt to a crisp in these first two games
48:59
and it's the Selkie Trophy award winner Alexander Barkov.
49:02
Barkov is a -, 4 with no points in the first few games.
49:07
He has been torched by the stars of this Edmonton team.
49:13
Oh my God, they cannot have this happen.
49:16
This is the big matchup problem. If he can't get anything at all
49:21
because he's not doing anything offensively, he's going to be a
49:23
defensive presence. And if he can't stop at all, Dry
49:29
Sidle or McDavid, whoever they're putting them on.
49:31
I would assume he's probably following around Dry Sidle a
49:35
little bit more because he's as a either.
49:36
Way they're going to have to try to find some kind of other
49:38
adjustment, whether it's center ice, whether it's just staying
49:41
in his own in the in this offensive zone.
49:44
It's it's bad and to Chuck had no shots in that game.
49:48
Speedy he had one game with he had one.
49:50
He has one assist in two games. He's 0 plus minus, but only
49:55
three shots in goal and they were all in the same game and
49:58
he's blocked one shot. He's got he's doing like nothing
50:01
out there and he's got to be a big time player for them.
50:05
Marshawn look, he used to kill the Panthers when he was on
50:08
Boston. Now he's really saving the day
50:11
for them right now, at least early in this series.
50:13
So I'm a little worried about Florida if they can't get
50:17
Barkhoff going a little bit. If I mean, Ekblad hasn't played
50:20
well. There's a couple of, I mean,
50:21
Seth Jones looks good. You know, there's some guys that
50:24
are. New yeah, he was a big X Factor
50:25
because he's been very up and down since he's been bumped
50:27
around so many different teams. He he looks good right now, but
50:30
again, you don't know how consistent that's going to be.
50:33
My, my question right now is can they play a little bit more
50:36
defensive hockey? Errol, you said it.
50:38
This is great to watch, but if you're a coach, especially for
50:42
Florida, you can't like this pace.
50:44
I would say pace can't be what you want to do, right?
50:48
You can't want to play this way. They, they have to find a way to
50:51
slow this down or else they're not going to win this series.
50:54
That's my fear. I I hope it goes 7.
50:57
I hope it goes seven man because this is a lot of fun to watch.
51:00
Yeah, the pace. Definitely favors fans like the.
51:01
Pace definitely favors Edmonton too because they have they have
51:04
much more youth with their defense as well as like I was
51:06
saying with Eck Coleman, some of the other veterans nurse in the
51:09
second pairing like the rest of their defense is all very young
51:11
can. Space.
51:12
That's why I was. Mentioning in the stat last week
51:14
with Bouchard to the way he was able to possess.
51:16
Fish wears panties. You could have a skater like
51:19
that that could transition his own that quickly and create
51:21
opportunities like that that benefits that type of pace game
51:24
as old as their other. Winners could be.
51:26
That that pace still definitely favors Edmonton, whereas like
51:29
you're saying, Florida still wants to play that physical,
51:31
like middle of the ice type. Trap how does any?
51:34
Which has worked for most series so far the last two years.
51:37
It was a Edmonton counter than West.
51:40
It's definitely a wet experience when you're watching hockey.
51:43
There's no question. But I will say this, going back
51:46
to what you both are saying, Matthew could Chuck needs to
51:49
start playing at the top level that he has over the years.
51:52
He This is why they made that trade.
51:55
That's why they brought him in. I'm not saying Matthew Kachuk
51:57
hasn't earned every bit of that trade.
52:00
I think he's been sensational. He's really stood out from all
52:04
the different players over the years that we've seen the
52:06
Florida Panthers trade for or move, move to bring in and trade
52:11
away superstar players while doing it.
52:13
I just think that Kachuk needs to stand, stand up and play his
52:17
game. If you look at Kachuk against
52:19
McDavid over the last really during the season against him in
52:24
that that All Star thing and then you watch him right now in
52:27
in in the playoffs, in the finals, he doesn't show up
52:30
against these big superstars. The the biggest of all, he's
52:33
going to say he's going to say whatever he wants.
52:35
If somehow Edmonton wins this series, comes back and wins the
52:39
series and gets a Florida Panther team that they're much
52:42
by the way, the Florida Panthers are much better than this
52:44
Edmonton team. Well, then you're going to have
52:46
to make excuses once again. Why Connor McDavid?
52:49
Connor McDavid has the best of you in a big, big game now.
52:53
Connor McDavid showed why he's the big superstar.
52:56
Remember Sidney Crosby years and years ago in those world the
53:00
World Hockey Classic when he played Team USA?
53:03
What did Sidney Crosby do in the big game?
53:05
He scored that big goal to beat USA.
53:07
The same thing happened this year.
53:09
Wasn't the World Baseball what World Hockey Classic classics?
53:13
It wasn't the IT wasn't the Olympics.
53:16
It was some stupid All Star game that the NHL put together drew a
53:19
lot of people and it when it came down to it, Chuck wasn't
53:23
healthy and who needed to step up?
53:25
The guy that always stays healthy, that goes out there and
53:28
gives you 110% the superstar in the face of the NHL economy,
53:32
David. And that's why you're looking at
53:34
and you're you're realizing right now, this is this is it.
53:37
And this is this is what makes the hot.
53:40
This is what makes the NHL playoffs so fun to watch and why
53:43
the NHL playoffs moving forward could be big because you're
53:48
going to. You could see Florida and
53:49
Edmonton here next year with the talent that they have here on
53:52
these rosters. Yeah, both teams have built up
53:54
good youth as well. This was a team that these are
53:56
two teams that built on a lot of veteran course for a while to
53:58
build around their stars and they couldn't do well in the
54:00
playoffs. Remember Florida?
54:01
Florida when even before Quinnville was there was in the
54:03
playoffs a lot, but they never won a playoff series at all.
54:06
And Edmonton, if they did win, it was AI guess a team that
54:08
wasn't very good and it's just because they they could take
54:10
down one star and just let the other one do their thing and the
54:13
rest of the team disappeared. And that never works in hockey.
54:16
You need at least 2 lines that have done well with defensive
54:19
depth. I still think the name of the
54:22
game is the power play in this series.
54:24
If they've got to keep Edmonton off the power play, they can't
54:27
take dumb penalties. Chuck is a guy that sometimes
54:30
takes dumb penalties and they have to make sure that they
54:33
don't allow those guys to all get on the ice at the same time
54:36
because they're going to score. Mcdavis got 5 assists in two
54:40
games. He's pretty in a couple of
54:42
PowerPoint power play assists, right?
54:44
This guy's incredible. They he can.
54:47
I don't know if he's going to be denied Errol it.
54:49
It could be like last year was his Gretzky year where he loses
54:53
and then he's going to go on a run.
54:55
This guy is that good. He's just dicing people up.
54:58
Best defenders in the league. He's dicing up.
55:00
They need goaltending. That's Edmonton's going to still
55:03
come back. And even though Skinner's played
55:04
well for them, if they if they lose again in the playoffs
55:08
against the Florida Panthers, you're going to go back to the
55:10
offseason and the drawing board and you're going to say
55:12
Knoblocks a good young coach. You have two of the best young
55:15
players, two of the the best players in the world, but you
55:18
can't get over the hump because you don't have good goaltending.
55:20
As we've seen this many, many times, goaltending wins
55:22
championships. That's it for a show.
55:24
We'll be back on Thursday. Who do we have?
55:26
On all right, returning to the show, who the first time in a
55:28
while for him Tobin Anderson returning the show at the time
55:31
we had him on, he was the Iona head coach infamously won the as
55:34
a 16 seat with fairly Dickinson. We've had a few of their players
55:37
on the show as well and now he's actually assistant coach at USF
55:41
after Iona. As A mentioned in my previous
55:43
watch, that smell strangely fired him, but he's now special
55:46
assistant to the head coach at USF.
55:48
And by the way, I, I just got a text message that we should be
55:52
getting in the next couple of weeks, Tyler McGill on the show.
55:54
So that's something, you know, Peterson didn't work out,
55:59
unfortunately, but a boy, Mr. Agent himself hooked us up.
56:03
He got, he went, he went to a signing autograph thing and he
56:07
talked to Tyler. And Tyler says he would love to
56:08
come on the show. So be fun to get Tyler on the
56:11
show and hear what he has to say about the New York Mets and
56:13
their pitching staff, which is pitched very, very well this
56:16
year. So we'll see. 2.81 team ERS.
56:18
Stop it. Stop jerking off with something.
56:20
Whatever the hell you doing is stop.
56:22
Well, I'm so just hitting 244 when he gets already complained
56:24
about him earlier. All right?
56:25
I'm just saying $768 million of waste dog shit that could.
56:30
Have been wasted on worst pictures.
56:31
That's true. I mean, the Yankees got 3 for
56:33
the price of 1. Wait, we tried that already with
56:35
Max Scherzer and Justin Verley. We.
56:36
Got to go, OK, People got to go to bed.
56:38
People got to go to sleep. Anyways, thank you to all the
56:40
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