Speaker 1: If we're speaking about postgame pressers, let's talk about this
Speaker 1: Giannis club that's gone viral. You've probably seen it, if
Speaker 1: you're not living under a rock, I have thoughts. A
Speaker 1: reporter asked if this season was a failure to Jannis,
Speaker 1: check out this bullshit. I just asked about the exact
Speaker 1: same question. But I'm curious for you. Do you view
Speaker 1: this season as a failure?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Okay, because I'm not that up. You
Speaker 2: asked me the same question last year. Eric, Okay, uh,
Speaker 2: do you get Do you get the promotion every year
Speaker 2: on your job?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Right? So every year you work as a failure, yes
Speaker 2: or no? No, Every every year you work, you work
Speaker 2: towards something, towards a goal, right, which is to get
Speaker 2: a promotion, to be able, to take care of your family,
Speaker 2: to be able, I don't know, provide the house them,
Speaker 2: or take care of your parents. You work towards. It's
Speaker 2: not a failure. It steps to success, you know. And
Speaker 2: if you've never I don't know. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: I don't make it personal. So he was.
Speaker 3: A hold up. I just realized he was about to
Speaker 3: say to.
Speaker 1: The reporter, if you've never accomplished anything good, in your
Speaker 1: entire fucking life.
Speaker 3: You won't know what that means.
Speaker 1: He almost said that that's what he was about to say,
Speaker 1: and then he was like, hold on, let me not
Speaker 1: make that personal.
Speaker 2: There's always steps to it, you know. Michael Jordan played
Speaker 2: fifteen years, one six championship. The other nine years was
Speaker 2: a failure. That's what you're telling me. I'm asking you
Speaker 2: a question, yes or no? Okay, exactly, So why are
Speaker 2: you ask me that question. It's the wrong question. There's
Speaker 2: no failure in sports. You know, there's good days, bad
Speaker 2: days days. Some days you are able to be successful,
Speaker 2: some days you're not. Some days it's your turn, some
Speaker 2: days not your turn. And that's what sports about. You
Speaker 2: don't always mean some other other people's gonna win, and
Speaker 2: this year somebody else is gonna win. Similar as that
Speaker 2: we're gonna come back next year. Try to be better,
Speaker 2: try to build good habits, try to play better, not
Speaker 2: have a ten days stretch with playing bad basketball, you know,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we can win a championship. So fifty years
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy one in twenty twenty one that we
Speaker 2: didn't win a championship, it was fifty years of failures.
Speaker 2: No it was not. It was steps to it, you know,
Speaker 2: and we were able to win one. Hopefully we're given
Speaker 2: another one. You know. I sorry that I didn't want
Speaker 2: to make it personal because you asked me the same
Speaker 2: question last year, and last year I was in the
Speaker 2: in the right mind space to answer the question back.
Speaker 1: So everybody was slobbing on your honest's noob over this.
Speaker 1: They thought it was like the most insightful philosophical comment
Speaker 1: that any athlete has made after losing the first round.
Speaker 1: That's this is insane. This is this is a team.
Speaker 1: Can we just back it up here. This is a
Speaker 1: team that was the number one overall set that lost
Speaker 1: to an eight seed that had to scrap and caw
Speaker 1: just to get into the playoffs, and you lost to
Speaker 1: them in five games, giving up double digit leads in
Speaker 1: games four and five. That's not a failure of a
Speaker 1: season to you, folks.
Speaker 3: This is exactly what if.
Speaker 1: This isn't shoots in ladders, fam Like, this is pro sports.
Speaker 1: There are billions of dollars on the line. That is
Speaker 1: a failure. You got your ass waxed, your coach collapsed,
Speaker 1: you fucked up, you missed thirteen free throws the postseason
Speaker 1: the season as a whole, what you were trying to achieve.
Speaker 1: You failed, you as a human being, obviously not a failure.
Speaker 1: But your goal every year is to win a championship.
Speaker 1: That's actually the only point of this whole thing. That's
Speaker 1: the only goal. It's not like, oh, Eric nem uh
Speaker 1: messed up on one article about Yannis and so it's
Speaker 1: a bad season for this this writer who asked Yannis
Speaker 1: about whether this season was a failure. No, it would
Speaker 1: be like if the entire goal for Eric Neme was
Speaker 1: to write a feature on.
Speaker 3: Yannis and then he didn't do it, it would be
Speaker 3: like that this is a spin job.
Speaker 1: We are people collectively all going crazy being like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, y honest, he's so grounded, everybody, and show
Speaker 1: this to your kids.
Speaker 3: What kind of participation trophy? Shit is this?
Speaker 1: Like, there's no failure in sports, there's only growth. No,
Speaker 1: No growth comes from admitting that you failed. That's where
Speaker 1: we're at right now. This is like, there's gonna be consequences.
Speaker 1: You're which is probably fired, You're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to extend or pay Brook Lopez. You're probably gonna
Speaker 1: let Chris Middleton go, Jew holidays on and expiring.
Speaker 3: What's he gonna do?
Speaker 1: All of that is a downstream effect of failure. Is
Speaker 1: it a failure for the Orlando Magic that they did
Speaker 1: not win a championship this year? No, because of Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic or a lottery team. The Orlando Magic have been
Speaker 1: a lottery team for the last decade. They've had the
Speaker 1: number one pick overall last year. The fact that Orlando
Speaker 1: Magic won like sixty five percent of their games at
Speaker 1: after the All Star breaks, that's a success.
Speaker 3: That's something to build on.
Speaker 1: No, No, Jannis, there's nothing to build on for you
Speaker 1: except for championships. This isn't steps to success. This is like,
Speaker 1: is Jannis trying to be Ted Lasso? Are we thinking
Speaker 1: like Giannis is a college football coach that decides to
Speaker 1: go to England and coach and EPL team and has
Speaker 1: no idea what he's doing, because that's how he sounds
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: The mistakes have been egregious.
Speaker 1: The Bucks should have been at home in five waiting
Speaker 1: for their next opponent, and instead they're home in five
Speaker 1: watching their opponent move on and play the Knicks. The
Speaker 1: path was there for you. You got to play the
Speaker 1: Knicks in the next round. How are they gonna defend Giannis. Nope, no,
Speaker 1: you failed. You fucking choked to me. This was the
Speaker 1: most telling quote that Yanna said. Hey, they were playing
Speaker 1: to beat us, and we were playing to win a championship.
Speaker 1: We were a bit ahead of ourselves, to be honest. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they were playing to beat you.
Speaker 3: Goal achieved.
Speaker 1: You were planning to win a championship failed. Your goal
Speaker 1: was only.
Speaker 3: To win a championship. That was only the thing in
Speaker 3: your mind.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking crazy. I think I've taken
Speaker 1: crazy pills. You got Emmanuel Aacho being like, show this
Speaker 1: to your kids. What kind of gold star nonsense is this? Like?
Speaker 1: This is shirking accountability, This is tr of spins on
Speaker 1: your way into continuing to have the same exact thing
Speaker 1: as you did before.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be a storyline for the for the offseason.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of decision they're gonna make,
Speaker 1: but they have some them to make and I would
Speaker 1: not be surprised if coach Budenholzer, with two years left
Speaker 1: on his deal, is out. So Knicks close out their
Speaker 1: series in what was a real shock to a lot
Speaker 1: of people, five games. If you wanted to bet Nixon
Speaker 1: five oh I'm sure it would have been huge value.
Speaker 3: I'm sure the odds on that would have been crazy.
Speaker 1: Everyone at ESPN picked the Calves or the Knicks and
Speaker 1: like six or seven, and you know what, they were
Speaker 1: all wrong. The Knicks out tough. The Calves, Brunson and
Speaker 1: Heart were incredible. They're probably the best backcourt right now
Speaker 1: in the league, consistently in the East.
Speaker 3: At least.
Speaker 1: They're not only dominated on the court. They were hilarious
Speaker 1: and postgame presser you had Josh Hart eating chicken wings
Speaker 1: and Brunson is.
Speaker 3: Being like, yo, stop eating while I'm in the middle
Speaker 3: of the press conference.
Speaker 1: Hey, and you got Josh Hart turning his back on
Speaker 1: bruntson and still eating his wings.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Heart then calls Brunson undersized, overrated, overpaid. These guys are awesome.
Speaker 1: They did the best. The Calves had zero answer. They
Speaker 1: had no idea what to do. Cleveland Riders are calling
Speaker 1: calling out JB. Bickerstaff, but the Calves got bounced because
Speaker 1: they have roster issues. We knew that two bigs does
Speaker 1: it work well. The two teams that decided to go
Speaker 1: with two seven footers are both sitting at home right now.
Speaker 1: So you tell me Minnesota Timberwolves and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 1: So that big lineup thing isn't really working reality. You
Speaker 1: have no you have zero players who are both good
Speaker 1: shooters and good defenders. Isaac Acquarrel really good defender, terrible shooter.
Speaker 1: At one point he was shooting seven percent from three
Speaker 1: point I'll say it again, at one point he was
Speaker 1: shooting seven percent from the three point line. You got
Speaker 1: Alan and Mobley, who at some point, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: under the spotlight, could not score. Of offensive players like
Speaker 1: Mitchell and Garland, who are like tissue paper in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: can't defend a person. And also Donovan Mitchell just underperformed offensively.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight points in a closeout game not enough. You
Speaker 1: need fifty six, like Jimmy Butler and the Calves have
Speaker 1: we known all year has been this way. They've beaten
Speaker 1: teams under five hundred and teams over five hundred.
Speaker 3: They just didn't. So it was kind of like something
Speaker 3: that we could see coming, right.
Speaker 1: They on their dream list have mckel bridges, but let's
Speaker 1: be real, they're not getting mckel bridges.
Speaker 3: They have no draft capital.
Speaker 1: They traded it all for Donovan Mitchell and look where
Speaker 1: they are at home in April again. So yeah, they're
Speaker 1: in a bad spot.
Speaker 3: They need to improve.
Speaker 1: Isaac mccuoro and Seti Osman Chetty Osmon have both had
Speaker 1: their worst seasons as Cavaliers. They're probably gonna need to
Speaker 1: get moved. It's not gonna be easy to find a wing.
Speaker 1: Those are really really hard positions, as you guys know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like the hardest one. It's the hardest one.
Speaker 1: The fine a good win as the Portland shoilb Blazers,
Speaker 1: So they're gonna probably have to trade Jared Allen as well.
Speaker 1: Alan said this about his play, even for me, the
Speaker 1: lights were brighter than expected.
Speaker 3: Oh that is bad. That is telling.
Speaker 1: Now the Knicks move on to play the Miami Heat
Speaker 1: in the battle of the underdogs, the scrappy team. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be incredible. The first thought probably is that the
Speaker 1: Knicks should be favorites. Hero is out for the year,
Speaker 1: but all of this depends on Julius Randall Is his
Speaker 1: ankle okay, because he re injured it in Game five?
Speaker 1: Why was he out there? I have no idea. Tim
Speaker 1: said that we're hopeful that it's not that bad. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody is all Knicks fans around the country
Speaker 1: are worried about that as well. Without him, I think
Speaker 1: the series is a toss up. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: reason Jason Tatum said that he didn't see the Heat
Speaker 1: winning as an upset because the Knicks are gonna have
Speaker 1: their hands full. Jimmy Buckets and their world defenders could
Speaker 1: not you know, the Bucks could not stop Jimmy Butler,
Speaker 1: but a bunch of all defensive guys could not stop him.
Speaker 1: So I have it on good authority that Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: called a couple of Knicks executives as soon as he
Speaker 1: had that fifty six point performance in Game four and said,
Speaker 1: I'm coming for that ass.
Speaker 3: I'm coming. You're next.
Speaker 1: Nicks will fucking see you at Madison Square Garden and
Speaker 1: now we will Sunday at the Guard.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a doozy