WEBVTT - What's Wright - Game 1 Reactions: Knicks STUN Celtics, Nuggets GAME-WINNER vs. Thunder 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome in What's drive in the Great episode three twenty 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:08.720 eight after, for my money, the single best day in 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:13.600 the NBA all season. Those two games last night were 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:24.000 absolute theater and it We had talked for the last 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.960 month or so of the regular season that we could 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:34.240 get some absolute classic round two matchups if the brackets 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:40.200 held that we could get OKC potentially in round two 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.120 against Joker. We're getting it a Nick Celtics matchup, which 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.040 seemed like we knew we were getting that in round 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:56.680 two starting four months ago. And then maybe Pacers, I'm sorry, 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.920 Calves Bucks, Calves, Pacers, And then I thought, of course 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.720 we'd be getting Lakers somebody, but we didn't get that. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.559 But that one hasn't started yet. And three round two games, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:15.280 three road victories, three huge underdogs, all nine plus point 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:21.120 underdogs winning, and I thought the Nick Celtics game was 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.679 arguably the game of the playoffs, or were on the 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.840 very short list, and then it might not have even 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.600 been the game of the night. So we will get 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.680 to all of that demand. Welcome in great to see 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.760 you return from the met gala, which Demanse was in 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:41.119 attendance for last night. Back in La overnight flight, your 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.280 Mom and I actually went to a met gala like 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:51.840 pre dinner. That was a really nice, cool event that 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:58.720 I was probably not the best date for because I 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.800 was just watching Nick Celtics on my phone for the 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.160 first half and then got out of there in time 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.840 to be home to watch the close of that game 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:13.400 and then the entirety of Nuggets Thunder, which I thought, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.960 Knicks Caves could be a game. I'm sorry, Nickscaves nick 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:22.440 Celtics could be a game. I thought it's weird because 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.040 I thought Nick Celtics could be a good game one, 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:33.040 but didn't really give the Knicks a chance in the series. Meanwhile, 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.600 I thought Thunder Nuggets that the Nuggets had a real 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.920 shot in the series, but thought Game one would be 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.960 a giveaway game the Nuggets coming off a seven game series. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:50.600 The thunderfully rested all of that. So it turned out, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.440 obviously that that is not how that went. And did 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.720 Game one of Nick Celtics change my thoughts on the series. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.080 We'll get to that in a moment, but first, what 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:06.360 missed the cut? Mitch Johnson is replacing Greg Popovich in 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:11.560 San Antonio. Evidently Aaron Rodgers had a wedding band at 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.560 the Kentucky Derby. I saw that story, I did not 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.400 click on it. And Lebron misses the MET Gala because 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.320 he got hurt. Now, listen, I understand in some corners 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.560 of the internet, Lebron's not allowed to suffer injuries, even 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:31.359 injuries we see on camera, injuries we watch happen. It's 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.080 then all phony and fake. But look, you're shaking your head, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:37.680 what do you mean? 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.560 Like you're saying he's not allowed to be injured. But 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.760 like he went on and he tweeted that he wasn't 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.720 gonna make the met Gala because he got injured in 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.480 the playoffs. I think people were just like big whoop, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.320 you know, like you're not making the met gallup. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.800 Well he was where this is where it's important to 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.440 you know, actually understand things. Sorry, demon say I do 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.680 this to you, and not just go with what the 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.520 internet saying. He was one of the chairs of the event, 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:08.480 so it wasn't just like I'm he's here. It was 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.480 just this year, so he was supposed to be there. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.960 I don't know that he's ever gone to a Met 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.640 Gala because his team's normally still in the playoffs and 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.600 he was. But regardless set that aside. The story is 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.160 not lebron and the met Gala. And by the way, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.840 you know how much tickets for that thing cost? Give 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:29.560 it a guess. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:32.320 Is it like the How is it how it would 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.440 be in a stadium like Closer, I'd say, like, no, it's. 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:42.000 Just uh, seventy five thousand dollars a seat. Now it 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.599 all goes to charity. But it's seventy five thousand dollars 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.640 a ticket and you really can't get single tickets. You 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:53.039 can only buy tables. It's quite the event. Reminder to 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.159 everyone out there. For all your Met Gala and NBA 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.320 Playoff coverage, like rate subscribe review to What's Right with 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.800 Nick Wright and Demonse. Let's get Demonse. 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:03.159 Two. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.040 The Knicks against your beloved Celtics. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.920 The Knicks pulled off the upset last night. Yeah, pretty embarrassing. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.680 I don't know what was going on. The Celtics were 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.480 relying on the three. The Knicks are down by as 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:19.400 much as twenty. They mounted the comeback with Brunson on 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.520 the bench. You call Game one a must win for 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:22.000 New York? 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:22.760 Yeah? 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.200 How are you feeling about the series? Is there anything 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.200 I should be worried about? Being a Celtics fan. 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.680 Well, here's what I so. I'll get into the game 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.159 in a second. But here's why this series to me 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.080 is so fascinating and so interesting. The Knicks built an 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:43.440 entire team with this two week period. In month they built, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:49.200 they made massive changes, fired all their draft pick bullets, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.200 traded away Julius Randall, broke up the Villanova crew before 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.440 they could ever play a game together. They trade four 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.279 McHale Bridges, but then trade away Dante And it was 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:09.000 with one series in mind, can we put together our 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:15.839 version of Boston, meaning five excellent starters. Can we build 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:20.599 a team where for your Jason Tatum, we have Jalen 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:25.080 Bronson for your Jalen Brown, we have Karl Anthony Towns 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.240 for your Chris STAPs Porzingis. We have Mikhale Bridges for 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:35.120 your Derek White, we have og A Nanobi for your 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:42.280 Drew Holliday, we have Josh Hart. That's the idea. Five quality, switchable, 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:48.240 good starters who most of which can shoot, four of 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.920 them can defend, and that that is that's what we're 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:57.280 going to do. And then all year long it looked like, okay, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.719 cool story, bro, but you can't beat any of the 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:05.320 good teams. Ever, and after getting blasted by the Celtics 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.960 in their first three matchups, the Knicks had the ultimate 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.720 moral victory loss in their final regular season matchup when 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.480 they took the Celtics to overtime and at least had 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.960 a little something to hold on to, like, well, maybe 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:27.600 maybe we can compete with these guys, Because once a 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.120 month into the year, when the Cabs raced out to 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.760 that one seed, it was very clear the Celtics were 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.040 content with the two, the Knicks were going to be 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.600 the three, and that this was gonna be our Round 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.760 two matchup. And then for two and a half quarters 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.240 it went about as poorly as it could have for 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:51.200 the Knicks, despite the fact that Boston couldn't hit a three. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.320 I shouldn't say couldn't hit a three, because they made 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.160 fifteen of them, which is a fine number, but despite 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.960 the fact that Boston seemingly only wanted to shoot three 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:05.239 of their ninety seven field goal attempts, sixty were threes. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:09.360 In the third quarter, seemingly every field goal attempt was 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.960 a three, they missed forty five of them, but it's 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.200 still at seventy five twenty five with five forty seven 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:22.679 left in the third quarter, and then and I tried, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.920 I was gonna tweet it in real time, but I 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.920 was watching in the car on the way home on 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.360 my phone, so you can't watch the game and then tweet, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:38.439 uh it. The Knicks turned a twenty point deficit into 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:44.920 oh we're fine faster than I can ever remember a 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:50.960 team doing it. They went from down twenty to down 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:56.800 six in five game minutes, from five forty seven left 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.160 in the third to twenty eight seconds left in the 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.400 third and now the Celtics still. They did hit a 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.280 three at the very end of the fourth third quarter 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:10.240 to give themselves a little breathing room back up to nine, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.160 But in that moment, the Knicks felt like, we're fine. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.360 We were going to get blown out. We now have 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:22.040 made it a game again, and if it's close late, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:28.120 we trust our closer more than we trust your closer. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.480 And I know Brunson missed the layup to win the game, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.040 but I and I was shocked he missed it. He's 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.520 been so good in those spots all year and all 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:46.040 postseason that once Tatum took the terrible dribble dribble tie 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:51.360 Game three, that I thought, oh, the Knicks are just 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.920 gonna flat win this in regulation, they of course don't, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.160 and normally demanse if the other team is BA better 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.760 than you, and it takes a furious comeback, and then 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.960 you have a chance to win the game in regulation 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.600 and it ends up going to overtime. That is such 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:16.920 so emotionally deflating that then the better team water finds 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.920 its level, the better team wins in overtime. And instead 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:26.720 the Knicks raced out to a six point lead in overtime, and. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.120 Celicia's didn't do anything in overtime. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.240 No, well, they made two baskets. I think they made 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:37.080 two baskets in overtime and still had a chance potentially 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.000 for a game tying three. And the Michale Bridges, who 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.360 did not have a good game at all offensively, just 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.480 took the ball from Jalen Brown. And now the Knicks 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:53.840 are here saying we're in the fight, guys, the I 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.680 the Knicks. I'm sure this isn't how they're looking at it. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:07.199 But the way I would look at it is because 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:12.880 you stole game one, now you simply have to win 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.920 one of the next three. By winning one of the 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:23.840 next three, you guarantee yourself you are getting a Game 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:29.199 six in the Garden, which will be if the Knicks 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:34.600 win one more game in the next four, but really 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.240 in the next three, that Game six in the Garden 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.720 will be the biggest game played in Madison Square Garden 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:53.080 this century. It will be the biggest game the Knicks 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.800 have been involved in in their building since the ninety 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.240 nine season with spree Way in Houston and that magical 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:08.160 run to the finals as an eight seed. That's what 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:15.280 it's that's what we're looking at here and for it 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.720 not to be a night where and we can say 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.200 the Celtics just didn't have it. And I understand the 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:26.040 forty five miss threes are an absurd number, an absurd number. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:31.400 I get that we held the Timberwolves in their victory 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.440 over the Lakers in Game five, I think tied the 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:39.520 record for missed threes with forty when they went seven 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.839 of forty seven. But they it. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.719 Took all that to go to overtime win by a 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.120 couple of points. I think the Celtics will game plan 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.280 and maybe not rely on the three as much when 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.280 it's not hitting and takes them inside shots. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:03.439 I listen, I get that mindset that this is it 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:08.800 took a historically inefficient shooting night for the Knicks to 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:14.240 escape in overtime. I get that, But what you also 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.599 though have and the reason I called Game one a 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.320 must win is for the Knicks. I don't care how 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:27.160 confident athletes are and how sure of themselves to get 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.600 to where they are they had to be. If a 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.400 team beats you five times in a row and every 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.760 single time in a season, it's very hard to convince 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.160 yourself not only can we beat them, but we're about 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.319 to beat them four of the next six, right, And 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.240 that's the position the Knicks would have found themselves in. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:54.760 I also I thought, I thought Tatum settling at the 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.840 very end of regulation. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:01.240 You got Mitchell Robinson Garden. You was just a big stake. Yeah, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:06.080 the game. It's not like we were down like that. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.559 That that's that's the problem there. So I down two 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.319 at the end of you know, in the waning moments, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:20.080 the math is very very clear that shooting a three 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.000 is better than basically any option other than a wide 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.880 open layup, because down to a two only gets you 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.840 an extra five minutes, as opposed to a three that 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.560 can win the game but obviously down one or in 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.520 this case, a tie, game drive to the basket, you 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:40.880 know what I mean, put some pressure. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.080 They get it with a second left or something. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.800 But yeah, and so I don't think they could let 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.520 me double check that, I don't think they could hold 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.160 for the last shot there if if I'm almost certain 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.360 of that, because if they could that no, it was 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.920 like four second there was like four second different. Yeah, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.440 so you can't listen if he would have gone early there, that's. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.040 A that's a exact dangerous. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.120 He didn't go early, but at least I mean a 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.720 couple seconds early. But the Knicks were going to get 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.400 another shot no matter what. And so that part I 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.600 totally that, that part's fine. It's just when you are 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.480 in that moment, if you're Jason Tatum, you are what 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.720 was he from three? I mean he's finished four for fifteen, 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.720 so I don't know what he's shot in overtime, but 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:34.840 in that moment, it's not like his three. And so 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.800 that to me was a mistake. And you know, obviously 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.280 should be noted they got nothing from Chris STAPs because 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:49.080 Christaps left the game with an illness, and so you know, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.240 thirteen minutes zero points from Chris STAPs is you know, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.920 and Luke Cornett having to play seventeen minutes, Horford having 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.640 to play thirty four minutes. That's not really on your 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.640 Bingo card. I understand that. And White, Tatum, and Brown 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.600 combining to go doing this on the fly twenty of 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.080 sixty one from the field, none of that's on your 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:17.600 Bengo card either. However, the Knicks built a team to 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:24.800 defend Boston, and it just feels like last night, the 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:32.280 only chance we had of getting a series is the 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:37.840 Knicks winning that game. And when they're down twenty twenty 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:44.120 midway through the third quarter, it feels like, Okay, Boston's 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.680 just head and shoulders better than them, and the Knicks 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:53.000 found a way to come back and steal it. I said, I. 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.440 Now there's a couple other Knicks pieces I want to 0:16:55.480 --> 0:17:03.240 get to here, which is I am imploring coaches around 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.240 the basketball world. If you have a player on your 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.639 team that you want to play, that you want to 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.919 give minutes to, but the other team is going to 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:21.320 do the hack of player strategy, and he's so bad 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.560 at free throws, you are going to blink and take 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.280 him out of the game. If they do that, then 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:35.080 you must adjust your rotation patterns so that player gets 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.760 a disproportionate amount of his minutes at the very end 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.720 of quarters and at the beginning of quarters. So the 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.160 Knicks want to play Mitchell Robinson, and they did play 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.760 him twenty one minutes and the Celtics, and there's another 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.439 reason why the numbers can be misleading. The Celtics and 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.080 Tatum saying, you know, we should play without refts and 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.240 basically about the physicality. And then the Knicks shot thirty 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.200 one free throws, the Celtics only shot twenty six. 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:06.000 Still that said play without refs. I'm sorry, did Tatum 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:06.800 say that for the game? 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.960 Tatum said that. Yeah. Tatum was like, it's so physical, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.760 you might as well just want into. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.320 The refs up the court to get a call. 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:20.160 Man, correct, that's yeah. But what I was saying about 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.840 the free throw discrepancy is the free throw numbers are 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.720 misleading because eight of the knicks thirty one free throws 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.320 were hacka Mitch Robinson, you know what I mean? Like 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.960 that that those were those were fouls you wanted called. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.000 But the point I'm making is Tibbs needs to adjust 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.639 the rotation where Mitch is getting minutes at the start 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.560 of the second or it's you're probably not gonna start 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.359 the half with him at the start of the fourth 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:53.040 because nobody goes to hack a player when you're at 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:57.520 zero team fouls. They're not gonna just burn five team fouls. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.920 Put you in the bonus get the guy at the line. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.840 Where you get in trouble is when you put him 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.320 in with five minutes left in the quarter. The other 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.120 team's already at four team fouls, and then they can 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.000 just put him on the line. But Mitch, despite the 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:19.560 free throws, being brutal was useful for them. Listen, they decided, 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.080 I implored on the show, see if Miles McBride Duce 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:29.159 McBride can give you some minutes. He did. They couldn't 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.280 guard in those minutes as the problem. And I do 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:38.240 wonder if Precious becomes more of a featured player in 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.439 this game, if they feel they can't in this series, 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.720 if they can't play Mitchell Robinson. But you just play 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.560 Mitchell Robinson, like if his stint is we're putting him 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.919 in with two minutes left in the first when you 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.359 can't foul away from the ball, and he is continuing 0:19:55.400 --> 0:20:00.280 that stint into the first five minutes of the second, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.040 when you're not in the bonus, you don't have to 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.280 worry about the hack of strategy and then do the 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.159 same thing the third into the fourth, and now all 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.640 of a sudden you have fourteen Mitchell Robinson minutes where 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.520 the hack of strategy is totally neutered. Like that, to 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.240 me is something I'd look at if I were tips, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.480 And so I'm listen, I am going to try to 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.439 go to Game three at the Garden. Those I looked 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:33.520 it up. It is the the prices of these games 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:38.679 at the Garden are so outrageous, so the same and 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.080 I'm not talking court side, but I like fifth row, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.840 so really good seats, but not courtside. Those seats for 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.639 Game one Timberwolves Warriors and the Warriors are either the 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:56.119 biggest of the second biggest straw in the sport in 0:20:56.240 --> 0:21:04.440 Minnesota are like twelve hundred ticket. Those exact seats at 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.640 MSG for Game three are right now selling for eleven 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.440 grand a ticket. They have listed courtside seats for fifty 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:19.040 grand a ticket. It's that the games at MSG, playoff games, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:26.040 the prices are just and it literally is cheaper to 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.159 fly to Boston, get a hotel, and it's not like 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.840 Boston It's not like Celtics don't have great fans and so, 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:36.520 but I want to go to game three. 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.680 Experience man, and. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.120 I mean your mom and I went to game two 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.960 of Nicks Pistons. This would be something else. And so 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.920 shout out to the Knicks. That was a great win. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:52.760 And can you win one of the next three and 0:21:52.960 --> 0:22:00.119 guarantee yourself you're getting a game six at MSG and 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:05.840 then if all of a sudden you're in a game seven. 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.439 The lesson every few years about a game seven is 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:15.119 some random might have the night of their life. Buddy 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:18.639 Heal did it over the weekend. You and I were together, 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:22.560 de Monsay watching Grant Williams do it. Hit to Milwaukee 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:29.359 in twenty twenty two, game seven of the thirteen Finals, 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:33.760 the game after the Ray Allen game. If people remember 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:36.280 it because Lebron had thirty seven and twelve and the 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.360 Heat went back to back. What people forget about that 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.240 game is Ray Allen and Chris bosh in that game 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:49.480 combined for zero points. And the reason the Heat were 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:54.320 able to stay ahead of the Spurs route was because 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:59.600 Shane Battier off the bench hit six threes. The you 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.560 know what I mean, the random role player. Oh yeah, 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:05.679 Danny Green did it, not in the game seven, but 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.400 Danny Green did it in the finals. But the random 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:13.000 role player that just catches fire, and it's like, holy shit, 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:16.399 this is how my season's going to end. Like again, 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:20.639 the Knicks are drawing incredibly slim, but they would be. 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.320 They would have been drawing dead had they lost last 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.920 night and they didn't. You've got a couple follow ups 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.200 here and then we can move on to So. 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:34.280 I mean, for the way you talk, I could assume 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:36.480 that you think the Knicks are the worst version. But 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:38.359 you said that the Knicks are the version of a 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:40.200 repeated version of the Celtics. 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:41.720 Do you think that they're the worst version? 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.199 Yeah, well, listen, they're not as good. They're clearly not 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.639 as good, but they built the team with the Celtics 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:55.480 in mind, and it is it's just like a every 0:23:55.600 --> 0:24:00.240 at every step, it's a slightly worse version, you know 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:05.159 what I mean. So, like, Brunson is awesome, and listen, 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:08.399 maybe we'll feel differently after the series, but Brunson is 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:13.040 just a tick beneath Tatum as a player, Karl Anthony 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:18.600 Towns because of his lack of consistency, and you know, 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:20.960 He's a very different player than Jalen Brown, but he's 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:25.160 a level below Jalen Brown. Now, those other three guys 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:36.800 Bridges annobe Hart versus Chris STAPs White Drew Holliday, depends 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.040 on the night, those guys can kind of be playing 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:41.719 each other even But then when we get to the bench, 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:47.320 Horford's a far better back up big than Mitchell Robinson, 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:52.879 and Peyton Brichard is a way better energy off the 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:59.400 bench shooter than Deuce McBride. So it's just it's Kevin 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:03.119 O'Connor's said this to me about I forgot what we 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:08.000 were talking. Oh yeah, we were saying Joker to Shngoon 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:14.840 to Sabonis. He said, is the Pokemon meme the shars are. 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:17.480 I don't like where it's like three different versions of 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.040 the same Pokemon, but they just get stronger and stronger. 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:22.800 I don't know Pokemon, so I don't the I'm butchering that, 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:27.720 but that's kind of what the Knicks are to the Celtics. 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:31.800 The question is, for two weeks, can Jalen Brunson out 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:35.760 play Jason Tatum. For two weeks, can Karl Anthony Towns 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:39.560 play Jalen Brown to a push like can they do it? 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:46.720 Probably not, But now they've got Now, now they're more 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:49.760 than a puncher's chance. Go ahead, We've got a little, 0:25:50.960 --> 0:25:53.560 a little bit of life. And for me, selfishly, I 0:25:53.600 --> 0:26:02.840 want to say something I I would intense joy because 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:05.359 I'll be honest, I don't have a lot left to 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:09.480 root for in these playoffs. I have stuff to root against. 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:18.600 The I already the the the will. The take that 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:22.040 will age better than any of my takes is the 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:25.679 when the Warriors win, steps in the goat conversation, and 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:30.160 when they lose, nobody you know it, nobody cares, and 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:36.320 as evidenced by yesterday morning on ESPN, were served up 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:39.720 steph is three series victories away from being in the 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:45.440 goat conversation Like okay, uh fine, so be it. The 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:50.800 after the Buddy healed game, I got it. So I 0:26:50.840 --> 0:26:55.200 get like, I I guess I'm rooting against that. I 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:57.960 historically am not a big Celtics guy, So I guess 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:00.680 I'm rooting for the Nicks. Your mom's claims to be 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:03.920 a Knicks fan, now, all this stuff. Oh, but here's 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:11.960 what I'm truly rooting four in this postseason. Selfishly, all 0:27:12.119 --> 0:27:20.320 last year I had to I'll go back two years. 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:26.719 Two years ago, at the end of the regular season, 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:34.480 Kevin Wilds was just like the Bucks. Here's the reason 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:37.639 why the Bucks are the best team. They and this 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:40.960 one I didn't totally disagree with them on They would 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:43.520 have gone back to back, but they dealt with injuries. 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:48.240 It's so obviously and clearly the Bucks, and then they 0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:54.600 get popped in Round one last year. All year long, 0:27:55.960 --> 0:28:01.000 Wild's is only consistent take, No one's beating Denver in 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:05.359