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The Knicks Aren t Ready For The Season To End · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: After Game number four, Tom Thibera went to the post game,
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  Speaker 1: pulled him and said, Hey, now that we're down three
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  Speaker 1: to one, we have to play the game, not the series.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt that, and I guess his team felt
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  Speaker 1: that because tonight, in this Game five, they played the
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  Speaker 1: game recognizing the stakes. Hey, if we lose this, our seed,
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  Speaker 1: our season is over. The garden is jumping, you know.
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  Speaker 1: The fans recognized it. Coming back down three one is
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  Speaker 1: really really tough in this league and almost nearly impossible.
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  Speaker 2: But they didn't feel that.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd was electric, even though there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of like eight to oh ten oh runs where they
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  Speaker 1: were like, oh, not again, not again. The crowd was
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  Speaker 1: electric and the Knicks this is the second time in
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  Speaker 1: the series where the defense was so smothering that I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching it thinking to myself, why the hell haven't they
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  Speaker 1: been able to do this more often than the series?
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  Speaker 1: Why do they need to be down three to one
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  Speaker 1: for this defense to be as handsy as active as
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  Speaker 1: it was tonight?
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  Speaker 2: This was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Not a single player on the Pacers or in their
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  Speaker 1: starting five head of a game, we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: Tyrey's Haliber performs because how of hell. He gave us
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  Speaker 1: a historic performance last game in Game four where he
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  Speaker 1: put up numbers that nobody's double for other than Big
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  Speaker 1: O and Nicole Oakins, and then tonight give us his
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  Speaker 1: absolute stinker. I think it was I think I know
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  Speaker 1: it was Tim Legler, who's one of the best in
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  Speaker 1: the world, and talking about this sport. He was asked about,
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  Speaker 1: if you were Tom Thibodeaux or so and so, what
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  Speaker 1: would you do differently defensively against.
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  Speaker 2: The Indiana Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing he noted was he would pick up
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  Speaker 1: Tarry's Halliburton earlier, right, instead of waiting until he get
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  Speaker 1: around the three point line or so on or the hash.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of waiting until the end to start the defense,
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  Speaker 1: how about we started up earlier. You know, the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: have been bringing ninety four feet to jay Len Bronson
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every single game. The Knicks don't have the
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  Speaker 1: same personnel to be able to do that. But how
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  Speaker 1: about we pick him up around half court? How about
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  Speaker 1: we have them start their offense so early on or
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  Speaker 1: so high up that it makes it difficult for some
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  Speaker 1: of the other stuff to happen. And I thought today
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  Speaker 1: they did exactly that, where there is not a single
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  Speaker 1: thing that the Pacers did offensively that they felt or
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  Speaker 1: look comfortable doing. So I don't know if what they
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  Speaker 1: did tonight is replicatable for game number six or game
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  Speaker 1: number seven, But the end of the day, again, if
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  Speaker 1: you are Tom Thibodeau, you are not playing the series.
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  Speaker 2: You were playing the game. All you needed to do
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  Speaker 2: went tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You know, even if it don't that the defensive scheme
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  Speaker 1: doesn't work on Saturday. You only need it tonight and
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  Speaker 1: then you worry about Saturday once you get to Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So the defense was one
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  Speaker 1: of the things even even Reggie, Reggie's on the car
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  Speaker 1: and you know Reggie, you know who Reggie going Foh,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But even Reggie has to
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  Speaker 1: recognize how ridiculously good this defense was tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't just good when it was Mitchell Robinson
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  Speaker 2: on the court. It wasn't just.
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  Speaker 1: Good when it was So and So Card the towns
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  Speaker 1: of the court, no Brunton or Brunton on the court,
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  Speaker 1: No Card, then it's and dandem And it hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: the case in this series where they even showed the
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  Speaker 1: on off stats of Jalen Bronson, and I think we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned this a little bit after their last game. Somebody asked, like,
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  Speaker 1: what do I make of the on off stats of
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Bronson? Tonight was one of the Knights where it's like,
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  Speaker 1: our defense is playing so good right now, we can
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  Speaker 1: afford to do this and do that, And it was
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  Speaker 1: really respectable the first quarter, in the third quarter for
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Bronson, absolute masterclass. I mentioned this before, but I
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  Speaker 1: have this the utmost amount of respect for a player
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  Speaker 1: like Jaylen Brunson, and I'm talking about these supreme individual creators. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunson uses screens and so on and so forth
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  Speaker 1: to get an advantage, as everybody does in basketball.
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  Speaker 2: But if you are.
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  Speaker 1: Defending Jalen Brunson, you have to nearly be perfect to
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  Speaker 1: get a stop. The footwork is elite for somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: six foot. He's using his body in his lack of size,
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  Speaker 1: to his advantage drawing fouls. He's able to play through
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  Speaker 1: contact and finished plays and ones. I know there's conversations
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  Speaker 1: around him and Shay and the way they get whistles.
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  Speaker 1: That shit has never mattered to me. It's an art form.
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  Speaker 1: The what Jaylen Brunton is able to do with that
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  Speaker 1: size and ones in the first quarter in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: absolute massive class with Jaylen Bronson for him to end
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  Speaker 1: up with thirty two, five and five with eighty one
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  Speaker 1: percent TRU shooting, and I thought he competed defensively tonight,
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  Speaker 1: which again is all you can really ask for for
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  Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunton. This was a superstar performance recognizing the stakes.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know the stats, but I feel like
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  Speaker 1: Jaylen Bronson is so damn good and close out games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see if I can look at a right now,
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  Speaker 1: because I just I don't know. Maybe I'm bugging. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he ain't got no NBA championship, so he's played in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of close out.
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  Speaker 2: Games that didn't go his way. But I just I just.
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  Speaker 1: Feel like he's been able to just win and play
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  Speaker 1: really good in closing games. So that's just me, that's
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  Speaker 1: just I test Kiddy Beachum first close our game of
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  Speaker 1: the postseason against Detroit, he had forty I remember that went.
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  Speaker 1: The last one against Boston he had twenty three, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe not his best performance, but damn it.
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  Speaker 2: He shot fifty seve percent from the field.
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  Speaker 1: And then tonight it's not a close out game for them,
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  Speaker 1: but an opposing team close out again, just rising to
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  Speaker 1: what his team needs. Carthony Towns also amazing on tonight.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I love Carthy Towns as a shooter,
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  Speaker 1: I love him more when he is using that big,
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  Speaker 1: burly body to his advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Viasus.
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  Speaker 1: Car Anthony Towns, as clumsy as he can look at
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  Speaker 1: times on the court, has a mesh of a big
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  Speaker 1: ass body, but also a foot speed that he should
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  Speaker 1: not have, so just putting his head down, get into
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  Speaker 1: the basket, finishing through contact. He had five free throws tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I truly I felt like he should have had more.
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  Speaker 1: That's how much contact he was drawn on his drives
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  Speaker 1: and using that size Josh hart something happened in these
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  Speaker 1: last two gameshere, Josh Hartess had butterfingers and just turning
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  Speaker 1: the ball over a little more. But Mitchell Robinson gave
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  Speaker 1: them a couple of stretches. And I'm actually surprised that
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  Speaker 1: we are this far into the series and we're still
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  Speaker 1: getting Mitchell Robinson eleven minute spurts in the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: because by a minute number seven or eight, the man
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  Speaker 1: is gas hands on his hips, and I'm just surprised
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  Speaker 1: that Paceer didn't take advantage of that more in this game.
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  Speaker 1: But he had a stretch in the third quarter before
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  Speaker 1: they went to hack a mitch where he was on
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  Speaker 1: the glass.
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  Speaker 2: He was finishing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And like there are a few times when the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: did go on like an eight h run, seven oh run,
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  Speaker 1: and you can hear a pin drop in the.
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  Speaker 2: Guard because like game number one again, no.
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  Speaker 1: Not tonight, because they were able to match those run
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  Speaker 1: with their own run. So this is an amazing game for
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  Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, and they continue to have this
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  Speaker 1: series can be elongated if you will. Now on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of things, let's talk about from the Pacers' perspective.
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  Speaker 1: We got siakam poor game, we have Tyree's poor game.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like every single TJ McConnell turnover was very
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  Speaker 1: important to the for the Knicks tonight, where like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we got a little wrong going TJ McConnell leaves his
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  Speaker 1: feet and only a few people can lead their feet
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  Speaker 1: and successfully pass that ball. TJ usually is one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys. Not tonight, Mouse Turner in twenty four minutes
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  Speaker 1: five points, nim Hard getting fried on the defense side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball and only scoring six. So Tarres Haliburn
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  Speaker 1: gave us a performance last game was legitimately legendary to
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  Speaker 1: go up three to.
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  Speaker 2: One, and for him to do is tonight.
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  Speaker 1: He just didn't adjust as fast as I thought he
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  Speaker 1: would have in a game like this, Like I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: how Harry's Halliburn is climbing up that list of becoming supercomputers,
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  Speaker 1: and you know there's still guys at the top, like
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  Speaker 1: a Bron, like a Luca, like a Yolkic, And you
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  Speaker 1: know you can name the other people that you might
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  Speaker 1: fit into this category. When I talk about supercomputers, I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about people that process the game at a whole
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  Speaker 1: another level that are two to three steps ahead, and
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  Speaker 1: typically that is Tarry's Halliburn. I thought today kind of
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  Speaker 1: showcases why he's just not at the level of those
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  Speaker 1: other supercomputers. Because those other supercomputers, but okay, they're doing
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  Speaker 1: this this possession like we've seen Luka Doncik's play a
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  Speaker 1: team in the Minnesota Timbles last year last year where
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  Speaker 1: on a possession by possession basis, they were hedging, they
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  Speaker 1: were dropping, they were doing just doubling on pick and rolls,
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  Speaker 1: They were doing everything, and it felt like Luca Dons
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  Speaker 1: was able to pinpoint exactly whether it be a damn
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  Speaker 1: tail that Rudy Gobert was given on defense for him
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  Speaker 1: to know, Oh, they're about the blitz this. Oh they're
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  Speaker 1: about to head this. Oh they're about to play drop.
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  Speaker 1: And he took advantage again being one or two steps ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Tyree's didn't do that tonight, and actually Tyres Haliburn got
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  Speaker 1: two feet into the back. I can't wait to rewatch
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  Speaker 1: part of this game. He got his two feet into
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  Speaker 1: the paint a few times, and you wouldn't be able
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  Speaker 1: to know based on his final stat line because I
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  Speaker 1: felt as though once he did end up getting those
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  Speaker 1: two feet into.
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  Speaker 2: The paint, everybody else stayed home.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks decided like, we're just gonna chill out, and
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  Speaker 1: if Reese wants to go out with that layup, you
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  Speaker 1: can have a layup. And he never went up to
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  Speaker 1: try to finish those buckets, and instead he was jump
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  Speaker 1: passing and just getting it out to reset the offense.
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  Speaker 2: When he at the offense, he had too at.
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  Speaker 1: The rim, he had it right there, and everybody else's
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  Speaker 1: stayed home to prevent it from being a game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, a super explosion Aaron Nee Smith game or
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  Speaker 1: nim hard hitting four threes or whatever, whatever. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the few games in the series where I
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  Speaker 1: thought the Knicks played their game like the Pacers have
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  Speaker 1: been leading this series, not just in the total amount
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  Speaker 1: of wins in the series, but having the Knicks adjust
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  Speaker 1: to them, and tonight I.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like they had.
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  Speaker 1: They did a poor job of actualizing their true identities
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  Speaker 1: that they've showed us over the course of his playoff runt,
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  Speaker 1: and the Knicks were like, no, this is who we are,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's interesting. No idea what's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: in Game number six. This this playoff series, or the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs in general have been as unpredictable as any playoffs
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  Speaker 1: I've ever really covered. So I'm just excited to see, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what will Rick Carlisle do next? As this team that
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  Speaker 1: has lost what every single Game three of the postseason
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  Speaker 1: so far, always came out in game number four and
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  Speaker 1: just were better than Game three in mates than nes
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  Speaker 1: serie adjustments. Now we're seeing them lose a game outside
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  Speaker 1: of Game three, and we'll see if they're adjust for
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  Speaker 1: Game number six. A will the Knicks be able to
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  Speaker 1: go into Indiana and win a game again. Regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what happened. I am fully seated and it's getting my
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  Speaker 1: full attention. It's just super excited. Shout out to have
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  Speaker 1: been to the Math in the second game in a row
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  Speaker 1: where he gave them really good value. He's putting so
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  Speaker 1: much pressure on the rim, getting into the basket and
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  Speaker 1: finishing through contact and everything. So all we got Jerrs Walker,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought was pretty cool, and Johnny Furfey played
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  Speaker 1: at the end of this game. So I shout at
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  Speaker 1: Johnny furfy who we interviewed when he was coming into
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  Speaker 1: the draft, and he walked into the room and I,
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  Speaker 1: who was a teenager walk into this room.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's gonna be in the NBA. Damn.
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  Speaker 1: All right, shout out to the next Keep the series alive, baby,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be watching