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Speaker 3: What's up, everybody?
Speaker 6: Welcome back to the Draymond Green Shows that Knicks continue
Speaker 6: to run behind Jalen Brunson incredible play. Every series has
Speaker 6: at least one game play so far, so we'll talk
Speaker 6: about those. We got an interesting fun guest, how about this.
Speaker 6: It's actually the first non non basketball guests on The
Speaker 6: Draymondgreen Show. But he is a basketball guess in an
Speaker 6: interesting way, and we'll get to that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep that a secret for now.
Speaker 6: But for those of y'all out there, you know we
Speaker 6: are on live on the Bleacher Report app, so make
Speaker 6: sure you throw your questions in the chat. We will
Speaker 6: get to those later before we finish out the show.
Speaker 6: And like I said in the meantime in between this time,
Speaker 6: we'll have a guest here. Don't forget the scripech a
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Speaker 3: Let's get into it.
Speaker 6: The Knicks beat the Pacers one thirty to one twenty one,
Speaker 6: and remember I said, the Patiers kind of need to
Speaker 6: be the first to one twenty and that only doesn't
Speaker 6: work if you give up one hundred and thirty points.
Speaker 6: We also discussed how I didn't think the Pacers wasn't
Speaker 6: eighty was a sixteen game team. I think they're more
Speaker 6: of an eighty two game team because they don't play defense.
Speaker 6: And you give up one thirty and Jalen Brunson misses
Speaker 6: an entire quarter, you give up one thirty and og
Speaker 6: On Noby has twenty eight points in twenty eight minutes
Speaker 6: and goes out the game with a hamstring injury. You're
Speaker 6: you're kind of playing no defense, and that's who the
Speaker 6: Pacers has been all year. I think they're having it.
Speaker 6: They've had an incredible season, but the buck stops at
Speaker 6: some point when you don't play defense and you think
Speaker 6: you're just gonna outscore people, that has never worked in
Speaker 6: the NBA and never will work in the NBA.
Speaker 3: So that's that.
Speaker 6: Some more interesting news out of the Knicks camp, Jalen
Speaker 6: Brunson has now passed Carmelo Anthony in playoff points. And
Speaker 6: I know it's been this debate about is Jaylen Brunton,
Speaker 6: uh like one of the greatest Knicks ever already and
Speaker 6: all of these things. And I have a hard time
Speaker 6: saying Jaylen Brunston is higher up to Melow because I
Speaker 6: came in the league underneath Mellow. You know, Melo is
Speaker 6: one of the superstars in the league when I came in,
Speaker 6: and you know, just watching Mellow my entire life, you know,
Speaker 6: I feel like one of those old heads that be
Speaker 6: hating on the younger guys, like when our generation when
Speaker 6: this guy did that, and can never see past that.
Speaker 6: But I still got to roll with Mellow for now.
Speaker 6: But Jaylen Brusson is making his mark, and I think
Speaker 6: right now is a great time for us to bring
Speaker 6: on our guests, because if we're gonna talk Nicks, I
Speaker 6: want to talk Nick Nix with these crazy ass Knicks.
Speaker 3: Fans that they just banter and banter and Bencher.
Speaker 6: So let's welcome our guest to the show, the host
Speaker 6: of the All In podcast, one of the most successful
Speaker 6: Angel investors.
Speaker 3: Of our time.
Speaker 6: Jason cal Kane is my friend, jabs up, my brother.
Speaker 4: It's good to be here.
Speaker 1: And I have been watching and taking notes on the
Speaker 1: Draymond Green Show. I know you have a lot of
Speaker 1: feelings about the Knicks, and you know I have a
Speaker 1: lot of feelings about the Knicks.
Speaker 4: H And I've been rooting for that my whole life.
Speaker 1: Since the Patrick Ewing when I got to see Jordan
Speaker 1: and Ewing and Alonso Morning and all this stuff.
Speaker 4: And you've been.
Speaker 1: Dogging me in the group chat and that poker for
Speaker 1: over a decade about my Knicks.
Speaker 4: And here we are.
Speaker 1: You're in Cabo, getting that fishing in in May, getting
Speaker 1: that early sun, and my Knicks, my Knicks in six
Speaker 1: in the first round, versus the MVP, with our future MVP,
Speaker 1: and here we are.
Speaker 7: Looks like the brooms are out for Pacers.
Speaker 1: I called it a gentleman sweet five and I'm ready
Speaker 1: for Celtics. I'm ready for Celtics. And you know what,
Speaker 1: the Celtics who not want to play in the Knicks, I.
Speaker 6: Can tell you that you you y'all actually think that
Speaker 6: your number one. He talks about me being out of
Speaker 6: the playoffs. So again when I talk delusional Knicks fans,
Speaker 6: he talks about me being out of playoffs, being in
Speaker 6: fishing in Cabo in early May, as if they won
Speaker 6: a championship. Y'all are in the second round, like it's
Speaker 6: the second round of the play.
Speaker 1: You have no idea drama on if you If you
Speaker 1: have a man who's dying in the desert, right and
Speaker 1: you give them a dixie cup of water, that's like
Speaker 1: swimming in an ocean. For us, man, this is you
Speaker 1: just pop champagne bottles. I'm at the buffet. We have
Speaker 1: been starving for decades. We got a little bit of carmelo. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, but since then, you know, we've had a
Speaker 1: lot of pain. You know, we had dead Tony, we
Speaker 1: had Eddie Curry. I mean, we've had pain and suffering. Man,
Speaker 1: let us enjoy it is what I'm trying to tell you,
Speaker 1: draanma let us dream.
Speaker 7: But I have questions for you.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I just want to say your
Speaker 1: podcast is so great out of the gate, and you
Speaker 1: went from doing you know what's really easy, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: being part of a panel or popping in other people's
Speaker 1: podcasts to the second most difficult, which is doing solo podcasts.
Speaker 1: And you know, doing a solo podcast is so hard
Speaker 1: and you do it so tight, especially after you're getting
Speaker 1: off the court, you know, when you do it after
Speaker 1: a game, I mean unprecedented, And so I just want
Speaker 1: to give you a lot, a lot of kudos for
Speaker 1: that because it's it's impressive to me for somebody who's
Speaker 1: done two thousand episodes of podcast.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: The question I have, you know for you is, you know,
Speaker 1: brunts and we as Nick fans, have been watching him
Speaker 1: get better and better and better, and he had those
Speaker 1: moments you know on the MAVs when Luca was out
Speaker 1: and I asked Mark Cuban, we're friendly, and I said,
Speaker 1: how good is this kid we traded for here?
Speaker 4: And he said he's very good. I said, how much upside?
Speaker 1: He says, he's got upside, But this is more upside
Speaker 1: than the entire NBA expected. So putting aside, you know
Speaker 1: the fact that you're very rarely not in the postseason
Speaker 1: and the Knicks are never in the postseason, I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you, as a player, what are we seeing
Speaker 1: from Brunton because there's people, you know, Chuck and Shaq
Speaker 1: who are kind of dog in the next you're a.
Speaker 4: Dog in him.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about that player because I've been watching
Speaker 1: all season as he gets better and better and more.
Speaker 7: Unstoppable and more unstompable.
Speaker 1: And the floater, the three, the picks, I mean, the
Speaker 1: mid range. This kid can do it all. So how
Speaker 1: good is he? Putting aside the Carmelo comparison, just how
Speaker 1: good is he?
Speaker 4: And is their upside?
Speaker 3: Left? My two questions for you, y'all see this crazy
Speaker 3: bro mance going on.
Speaker 6: This man just gave us a complete rundown the Jalen
Speaker 6: brust On a Draymond Green show. But I'm here for
Speaker 6: because I actually like and respect Jaylen Bruston. Jaylen Bruston
Speaker 6: is a winner, has been a runner, so he got
Speaker 6: my respect. But here's the thing, j cal If Jaylen
Speaker 6: bron said was who he is today, and.
Speaker 3: Everybody believed that he would be who he is today.
Speaker 6: He wouldn't be a nick because you don't let no,
Speaker 6: you don't let star players get away, let alone walk
Speaker 6: for nothing. And he walked from the Dallas Mavericks for
Speaker 6: absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: The fact that they are actually in the position that
Speaker 3: they're in.
Speaker 6: When you lost a guy like that for absolutely nothing
Speaker 6: one year prior, it is absolutely incredible in itself. But
Speaker 6: no one expected Jalen to be this No, he also
Speaker 6: wouldn't have signed. When Jalen signed his deal, which I
Speaker 6: think is right around four years, one hundred million or.
Speaker 7: Something like that, Yeah, about twenty five million a year.
Speaker 6: Everybody was like, Oh my god, he's he's he's overpaid.
Speaker 6: I can't believe they paid him that money. Do they
Speaker 6: think he's going to be a number one option worldwide?
Speaker 6: West is paying him because he's had a relationship with
Speaker 6: him since he was a kid.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, Leon Rose. They're taking care of their
Speaker 3: ca guys.
Speaker 6: And although it appeared that way that that that's what
Speaker 6: was happening.
Speaker 3: I mean, the NBA even launched an entire.
Speaker 6: Tempering allegation thing over because Uncle West was so close
Speaker 6: to Jalen and the family all these years, and all
Speaker 6: of those things were launched from the NBA standpoint, meaning
Speaker 6: nobody thought that this was who this kid would be
Speaker 6: and that it was only happening.
Speaker 3: They were only signing him to the Knicks.
Speaker 6: Because they were taking care of family and Jalen has
Speaker 6: made everybody look like idiots. He's made He's put the
Speaker 6: New York Knicks on his back. He's got people talking
Speaker 6: about him and within the ranks of the greatest Knicks
Speaker 6: of all times.
Speaker 3: And although the Knicks hasn't won a.
Speaker 6: Time the great Knicks that have played like there's been
Speaker 6: great Knicks that have played for the team. And when
Speaker 6: you look at what he's done over and over and
Speaker 6: over again. He missed the entire second quarter last night
Speaker 6: and has twenty plus points in the second half to
Speaker 6: carry those guys to a win. I mean, it's been incredible.
Speaker 6: To Mark's point, he has some upside for sure, but
Speaker 6: no one believes that he had this much up because
Speaker 6: no one, well the Dallas Mavericks would have never let
Speaker 6: him walk.
Speaker 1: No, they would have got some picks, they would have
Speaker 1: done a sign in trade. This was the best signing
Speaker 1: that we've seen, like a straight up signing since when,
Speaker 1: Like when do players ever just get signed in the
Speaker 1: free market?
Speaker 7: Doesn't happen anymore.
Speaker 6: It doesn't happen unless you're Kawhi Leonard Paul George who's
Speaker 6: just trying to get back home, right like they were
Speaker 6: trying to get back to Los Angeles. But you don't
Speaker 6: really get signings like that. And like I said, it's
Speaker 6: not even so much just signing because we've seen big
Speaker 6: guys like Kevin Durant signed with the Warriors, right, like
Speaker 6: we've seen Shaquille O'Neill. Like you've seen over the years
Speaker 6: star players sign other places. But the thing about Jalen
Speaker 6: is the thing about this signing is again the value
Speaker 6: of the.
Speaker 4: Contract is incredible.
Speaker 3: So they got this guy.
Speaker 6: Now here's the thing for Jalen when like he had
Speaker 6: to make all NBA and do these things so that
Speaker 6: he can get the full max extension because if not,
Speaker 6: if he doesn't and I'm not even sure that that's
Speaker 6: how the route works, but Jalen with years of service,
Speaker 6: I don't think he'll be able to sign a max extension.
Speaker 6: And don't fully quote me on that because I could
Speaker 6: be a little off with the rule, but I don't
Speaker 6: think he'll be able to sign a full max extension
Speaker 6: unless the Knicks have cap space.
Speaker 3: And if they have cap space, they can use that.
Speaker 6: But because the extensions work on the last number of
Speaker 6: your contracts, so you get a seven and a half
Speaker 6: percent raise, I think he's able to get on the
Speaker 6: last number of his contract, that doesn't put him near
Speaker 6: to full max. That's the situation the Knicks are in,
Speaker 6: and that's what makes this signing even better than the
Speaker 6: player is looking.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now I got another question for you, and
Speaker 1: I think that that's a really important way to set
Speaker 1: the table for my next question, because Dallas didn't know
Speaker 1: what they were giving up, and obviously nobody in the
Speaker 1: league knew he had this much potential, and the Knicks
Speaker 1: obviously knew he had potential, but they were putting him
Speaker 1: alongside Randall and our number three pick at the time,
Speaker 1: mid Jay.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry RJ.
Speaker 7: Barrett.
Speaker 4: I never liked the kid. Jesus come on and drove
Speaker 4: the basket.
Speaker 7: He would miss layups. You can't miss layups.
Speaker 3: So Knicks fans hated RJ.
Speaker 1: Bart We just felt he was a blocker and not committed.
Speaker 1: He didn't feel like he had the conditioning, the heart,
Speaker 1: He didn't dry. He didn't fit the dog mode that
Speaker 1: Tibbs and the Knicks fans want. We want dogs on
Speaker 1: our team. We want Mason, we want Oakley, we want Starks,
Speaker 1: we want grit. We want people who play both sides
Speaker 1: defense and if there's a scruff.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: We basically want Oakley Draymond level of players who are
Speaker 1: going to fight to the end. This is why when
Speaker 1: I met you, I said, you know, like in another
Speaker 1: lifetime you would have been a nick.
Speaker 7: Because the Garden would love you.
Speaker 4: Draymond. You know that.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how many years you got left
Speaker 1: in the tank, But anyway to get you on my.
Speaker 3: Knicks, you think y'all got better, we'll getting RJ out.
Speaker 1: I absolutely believe RJ was a blocker for our success
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, because you got to remember who did
Speaker 1: we get when we got rid of RJ? We got
Speaker 1: Ogg and Og is the Tibbs Tibbs player. He'll play,
Speaker 1: He'll play forty forty two, forty eight, whatever number of
Speaker 1: minutes you give him. He'll play defense, he'll set screens,
Speaker 1: and he can score the three.
Speaker 4: This is what TIBs wants.
Speaker 1: So this is my next question, how much credit you
Speaker 1: give to this front office because you worked with the
Speaker 1: best front office I don't know, in twenty years and
Speaker 1: you put together the two best, most beautiful teams since
Speaker 1: you know the the what was it, the seventy.
Speaker 7: Three win Bowls, the seventy two win Bowls.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 3: There's only one team with seventy.
Speaker 7: Three seventy three that year and then seventy two was theirs.
Speaker 1: So let's pause for a second here. They got Og
Speaker 1: the year before we got Heart. We got your guy
Speaker 1: al Dante. He was underrated clearly. And then this kid Hartenstein,
Speaker 1: who is like I mean, a passing big man with
Speaker 1: the soft touch on the floater. How good is our
Speaker 1: front office? Because we have nobody. I think our highest
Speaker 1: rated draft pick is maybe the sixteenth or seventeenth, you
Speaker 1: know something about going low in the draft and then
Speaker 1: as becoming.
Speaker 4: An All Star and a champion. How good is our
Speaker 4: front office?
Speaker 7: Because we've now established that we got brunts and for
Speaker 7: a steel.
Speaker 1: Now go down the line the four players I just
Speaker 1: talked about, Hartenstein, hart Og, and your guy al Dante.
Speaker 7: How good is our front office right now?
Speaker 6: I think y'all front office has done great for all
Speaker 6: those for all those things that has happened with y'all
Speaker 6: team that you just named, I think the front office
Speaker 6: has done a great job and putting together a team
Speaker 6: that is just good enough to excite Knicks fans in
Speaker 6: the garden and just good enough to win a couple
Speaker 6: of playoff series and not quite good enough to win
Speaker 6: a championship. I think y'all front office has done incredible
Speaker 6: job of that. I'll also tell you another underrated move
Speaker 6: at the front office bringing in TIBs, because Tims actually
Speaker 6: fits your like to your point of what you just
Speaker 6: described with the New York Knieds, Tims actually fits what
Speaker 6: New York culture is. It's go go, go, hustle, bustle.
Speaker 6: You hit the streets of New York, you're walking to
Speaker 6: this meeting, you're running to that meeting, you're crossing over
Speaker 6: in front of this taxi, like it's go, go, go,
Speaker 6: go go. Josh Hart's playing forty eight minutes, Jalen Brons
Speaker 6: is playing forty six minutes, Dante's playing forty five minutes.
Speaker 6: Like that.
Speaker 3: He actually fits the New York model like barn.
Speaker 6: Now here's the thing, though, when you start talking about
Speaker 6: all of those limpic excuse me, all of those minutes
Speaker 6: Oh gianna Noobi hamstring, you know, like it don't always
Speaker 6: show up right then, but it shows up and the
Speaker 6: most simpleant times and let and yet kind of the
Speaker 6: worst times, like o Giannobe is probably now out.
Speaker 3: For this series, like that's a big game changer.
Speaker 6: And Sam, right, he's probably like, he's probably won't be
Speaker 6: back until midway through the next series, and when he
Speaker 6: gets back from now, he probably still won't be right. Like,
Speaker 6: that's gonna take a while to get over because you
Speaker 6: also got to get over that mentally. And so to
Speaker 6: your question, I think the front office has done an
Speaker 6: incredible job, from the coaching staff they've they've put together,
Speaker 6: to the roster that they've put together. But I'm gonna
Speaker 6: tell you this, Coach Izzo used to tell me this
Speaker 6: term all the time, and he used to say, Draymond,
Speaker 6: we have this term in basketball and coaching.
Speaker 3: We have this term in coaching that we like to use.
Speaker 6: And he and you know, when you look around, a
Speaker 6: lot of guys really fit into the motive. I'm like,
Speaker 6: all right, coach, what's the term? Just good enough to
Speaker 6: lose with? And that's what I think the Knicks are.
Speaker 6: I think the Knicks are team to watch. I think
Speaker 6: they're hard nose. I think they got guys that compete,
Speaker 6: but I don't think they quite.
Speaker 3: Have enough to get over the finish line.
Speaker 6: And guess what, it's looking like, there's gonna be a
Speaker 6: new champion in the NBA this year, a young champion
Speaker 6: that we've never seen in the NBA before as a
Speaker 6: champion leading a team to a championship that looked like
Speaker 6: it's pretty much gonna happen, because I think Denver's toast,
Speaker 6: and so the only chance that doesn't happen is if
Speaker 6: Denver wins again. They don't stand a chance. However, I'm
Speaker 6: sorry to tell you, j Cal, I don't quite think
Speaker 6: it's the next year.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, we don't necessarily think like this
Speaker 1: is the year.
Speaker 4: The year we've lost.
Speaker 1: We've been down, We've been down basically three starters, four
Speaker 1: starters this year, and we still put up a fifty burger.
Speaker 1: Fifty burgers are on the grill without without the Blockness Monster,
Speaker 1: Mitch Robinson, without Randall, who's a bulldog and had his
Speaker 1: best season and he seemed to got his head straight
Speaker 1: this year and accepted a roll and you know, got
Speaker 1: downhill and just made quicker moves because I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you saw the Atlanta Series a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: Man the big stage of the Garden, he.
Speaker 3: Was it was really bad.
Speaker 4: He was bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, this year was his best best performance I'm
Speaker 1: kind of bummed about him.
Speaker 7: Uh and so you know, we we're realistic.
Speaker 1: It ain't pretty, but it's gritty, and nobody wants to
Speaker 1: face us because you were out there saying, oh, we're
Speaker 1: not getting past the seventy six ers, Joe l embiid,
Speaker 1: We got no answer.
Speaker 3: The guy could not.
Speaker 8: Move seventy playing on a half of a knee. He
Speaker 8: can't move like, come on, but listen, they were going
Speaker 8: to beat us.
Speaker 6: Were going to tell you what this is going to
Speaker 6: lead the nixt too. I'll tell you what this is
Speaker 6: going to lead the next two. Okay, you just mentioned
Speaker 6: the Atlanta Hawks. Okay, and when they beat y'all, and
Speaker 6: when they beat y'all in the YEP, that team then
Speaker 6: thought that they had a squad that was ready to compete,
Speaker 6: and they haven't reached near the.
Speaker 3: Conference finals since then.
Speaker 6: They've barely reached the playoffs since then, because like in
Speaker 6: the Eastern Conference, the Eastern Conference week as fuck.
Speaker 3: In the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 6: You can sometimes get the right matchups, even all the
Speaker 6: way up to the conference finals. So I'm gonna tell
Speaker 6: you this, there's a zero percon chance in the NBA,
Speaker 6: I mean, excuse me, in the Western Conference that you're
Speaker 6: going to get to the conference finals without facing like
Speaker 6: a dog gass team, and in the Eastern Conference you
Speaker 6: can get to the conference finals Atlanta Hawks with like
Speaker 6: playing very mid teams.
Speaker 3: And so that's kind of what y'all are doing right now.
Speaker 6: And I think what this is setting up for y'all
Speaker 6: up for is what happened to the Atlanta Hawks three
Speaker 6: years ago when they made the conference finals and they
Speaker 6: never got back. Another team to give you some perspective
Speaker 6: on this, but one second, another team that did this
Speaker 6: to give you some perspective on this was the Portland
Speaker 6: Truil Blazers years ago when they had Alfaarukaminu, Alan Krabb,
Speaker 6: all those guys. They had all those guys, and they
Speaker 6: went to the conference finals and we swept them pretty
Speaker 6: much without Steph Curry coming because Steph Curry came back
Speaker 6: Game four of the sweep, came off the bench, had
Speaker 6: five points or six points the whole game and then
Speaker 6: went crazy and overtime. That's and that Portland Trail Blazer
Speaker 6: team they never did anything again.
Speaker 3: They however, you know what they did.
Speaker 6: They ran off and paid all of those guys because
Speaker 6: they thought they had a team that had a chance
Speaker 6: and it was a fluke. And so that's what the
Speaker 6: Knicks are setting y'all up for right now. And it'll
Speaker 6: be probably another fifteen years of misery that we all
Speaker 6: sit around and laugh at Knicks fans with their delusion
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 3: You know what happens.
Speaker 4: You know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Now. Everybody wants to play on the big stage. You
Speaker 1: said it yourself, you'd love the Garden. It is the mecca.
Speaker 1: And now we have a high functioning team and our
Speaker 1: owner he's busy.
Speaker 7: He's busy with his fear.
Speaker 1: He's happy. Dolan's happy. He's got music, he got tech,
Speaker 1: he's in Vegas. He got the Eagles, he got you two.
Speaker 1: He's not court side. And you know who we got
Speaker 1: court side. We got Oaks, Starks to bush, I mean,
Speaker 1: got to bush, the recipees. But we got everybody, the gts,
Speaker 1: the barber on the south. This we got the Knicks
Speaker 1: dialed in. We have more picks than we could ever use.
Speaker 1: We have more picks, first round picks, second round picks.
Speaker 4: We are stocked.
Speaker 1: And you know what, this is the time that a
Speaker 1: great player could be Spider could be somebody else, says
Speaker 1: you know what if I was part of that squad,
Speaker 1: I'd be the missing piece, and you know about getting
Speaker 1: the missing piece because you've helped maybe sort of kind
Speaker 1: of you know, no tampering, but you've kind of sort
Speaker 1: of talked to people about, you know, where maybe their
Speaker 1: future lies.
Speaker 7: So you think, you think not going down there, going up?
Speaker 3: You think if y'all get Donovan Mitchell, that gets you
Speaker 3: all over the hump?
Speaker 6: Is that?
Speaker 3: Is that what you and Nick.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about getting better every season, which is
Speaker 1: what we've done since Tims has gotten here in the
Speaker 1: front of.
Speaker 3: Here's the problem, Jay Cal.
Speaker 6: You only get so many seasons to be getting better
Speaker 6: and not win until they break it up. So who
Speaker 6: is the guy that you you think or hear and
Speaker 6: before we get out of here, who's the guy that
Speaker 6: you think or you here that is available around the
Speaker 6: league that Knicks fans will want to see come in
Speaker 6: and not only ce come in, but can see past
Speaker 6: the Knicks fans blinder because y'all ain't never won ship
Speaker 6: in a in forty something years, can see past those
Speaker 6: blinders and say, this guy can actually get us over
Speaker 6: the top, not come in and get us to the
Speaker 6: conference finals. Because we're just happy because we're Knicks fans
Speaker 6: and we never win.
Speaker 3: Who is the guy?
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 1: I hear people say Spider, I hear them say Michael Bridges.
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of names come up.
Speaker 4: You tell me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're in the league, and you know we
Speaker 1: had KD go to the New Jersey Nets instead of
Speaker 1: coming to the Knicks.
Speaker 7: I mean, the worst career move in history.
Speaker 1: Not only did he leave the dynasty where he was
Speaker 1: cherished and loved out here, he went to the worst
Speaker 1: franchise like in the league and it was a complete disaster.
Speaker 7: So I mean, are we not a place that player?
Speaker 3: What I mean?
Speaker 4: You know the back general?
Speaker 1: Do players look at the Knicks differently in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four than they did when KD and other people just said,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's.
Speaker 7: Whack, the owners whacked. Don't go there.
Speaker 6: Be honest, If I'm honest, I think it may be
Speaker 6: a little more intriguing than it was then because people
Speaker 6: there was a time in the NBA where guys weren't
Speaker 6: really looking to go to a Knicks, weren't really looking
Speaker 6: to go to the Lakers till Lebron went to the Lakers.
Speaker 6: The Lakers weren't getting any free agents for five six
Speaker 6: year period, right, like where they weren't getting any They
Speaker 6: signed Roy Hibbert in free agency.
Speaker 3: Timoth to be moth guys moscov and.
Speaker 4: Free agency gave him all.
Speaker 3: Right, I love lou All Dang.
Speaker 6: They signed lou All Dang at the tail end of
Speaker 6: his career and gave him money. Like So, there was
Speaker 6: a time where the Lakers couldn't get free agents at all.
Speaker 6: The Knicks couldn't get free agents at all. And I
Speaker 6: think guys were really over playing in the big market,
Speaker 6: like like those like it didn't really matter if you
Speaker 6: went to the big market at that time. Uh you
Speaker 6: know that was around Timpol. George was a free agent,
Speaker 6: Kawhi Leonard was a free agent. Like. You had guys
Speaker 6: that could go to these these two huge market teams
Speaker 6: and they chose not to. And so I don't however,
Speaker 6: I think that has changed now. And Harris, why I
Speaker 6: think it has changed. I think that has changed because
Speaker 6: of social media. I think that has changed because of
Speaker 6: all the other things around basketball, all the business around basketball.
Speaker 3: That is not basketball.
Speaker 6: I think that has changed because guys are now looking
Speaker 6: at these particular organizations in these cities and saying that
Speaker 6: organization that city can help me with X. So if
Speaker 6: I go there, then I'm allowed to I'm able to
Speaker 6: do this. For instance, Lebron James came to La he
Speaker 6: Maverick Rich. They built empires in la in six seven years, right.
Speaker 6: And so I think guys are now starting to look
Speaker 6: at those two teams, in particular Warriors, and you know,
Speaker 6: from a silicon body standpoint, like, I think guys are
Speaker 6: starting to look at these teams now and say, what
Speaker 6: does that city, what does that organization have to offer
Speaker 6: me from a standpoint that is much bigger than basketball.
Speaker 6: And so I don't think you guys will struggle in
Speaker 6: free agency like you have before, because I think you
Speaker 6: can sell those if you got good free agency pitch,
Speaker 6: you can sell those things like if I'm if I'm,
Speaker 6: if I'm you know, if you're the New York Knicks.
Speaker 6: You can take someone like yourself in a meeting and
Speaker 6: say yo, like like you know, like there's just so
Speaker 6: many other things now that you can do. Uh, And
Speaker 6: obviously you have to be very selective and what you
Speaker 6: can do if you take someone like yourself into a pitch,
Speaker 6: because the Knicks aren't just allowed to say, hey, we
Speaker 6: bring you in. You can invest with Jakow. But these
Speaker 6: are the type of people that are our fans, that
Speaker 6: would love to.
Speaker 1: Mention in the stands, and they'll be around after the games.
Speaker 1: You might be able to network, and people are really
Speaker 1: savvy now coming into it. So in my dream scenario,
Speaker 1: we get better. We use these picks wisely. Final two
Speaker 1: questions I have for you. If we have Mitch and Randall?
Speaker 1: Do you think we would make it to the finals?
Speaker 1: And how far will we go? You don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to be Boston. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a dog. I think it's going seven games. We'll see
Speaker 1: if Gezaarah or not. And then so that's first, if
Speaker 1: we have Mitch healthy and we have Randall healthy or
Speaker 1: either one, how far we go? And then number two,
Speaker 1: you already told us the worst case scenario, so you
Speaker 1: can get your knicks for clicks. I understand it's a business.
Speaker 1: Everybody rate and subscribe posts in the comments.
Speaker 7: Turn on the alert bells right here. Okay, we got
Speaker 7: that out of the got that out of the way.
Speaker 4: Pfessionalism.
Speaker 7: Best case scenario.
Speaker 1: But when I'm on next year and we're in the
Speaker 1: in the finals finals, not just the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 4: Who will we have picked up?
Speaker 7: What is the best case scenario for the next.
Speaker 3: If y'all go to the finals this year?
Speaker 6: M we can. We can do it entire like you.
Speaker 6: I won't even come on the episode. You take, and
Speaker 6: you take and do whatever you want to do with
Speaker 6: it that episode. It could be all Nicks. It could
Speaker 6: be it could be like crushing, like whatever you want
Speaker 6: to do, you and you run with it. If the
Speaker 6: Knicks are in the finals, there's yer road chance the
Speaker 6: Knicks are going to the finals. If y'all had Julius
Speaker 6: and if y'all had Mitchell Robinson, I don't think either
Speaker 6: one of those.
Speaker 3: Guys put you over the top.
Speaker 6: They like, if you got Julius Randalls, if you got
Speaker 6: Mitchell Robinson, neither one of those guys make you better
Speaker 6: than the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I also think if you got Julius Randall, and early
Speaker 6: on I actually thought opposite, and Jaln's changed my mind.
Speaker 6: Early on, I thought if y'all had Julius Randall, it
Speaker 6: gave y'all a much better chance because you had that
Speaker 6: second score. And it's that However, the way Jalen is playing,
Speaker 6: I think Julius would actually be in the way.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: See I said that, and people on like Knicks Fan
Speaker 1: TV and everything, they were like giving me tomatoes in
Speaker 1: the chats, and I said, I feel like the offense
Speaker 1: flows much better.
Speaker 7: And I think the ascension.
Speaker 1: Of Brunson has to do with getting Rgie Rgie out.
Speaker 4: And Randall out of the way and they flow better.
Speaker 1: So that means you maybe think we trade him this
Speaker 1: summer and maybe find another piece.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if it's necessarily that you have
Speaker 3: to trade him.
Speaker 6: However, the pieces, all of the pieces have to fit right.
Speaker 6: Like you got Josh Hart getting downhill, you got Jylen
Speaker 6: Brunston getting downhill, and then you know even Dante's getting downhill.
Speaker 6: And so if you have Julius on the court, A
Speaker 6: I'm gonna sag off a little more because I'm gonna
Speaker 6: trust that. Yeah, Julius is going to shoot the three,
Speaker 6: but I'm much better being in help position and then
Speaker 6: closing out late and getting a good contestant. He can
Speaker 6: make some threes, right, but like that's not his strong
Speaker 6: the strongest suit of his game.
Speaker 1: Too much iso from him, you know, he every time
Speaker 1: he gets in the playoffs, he defals this ISO game
Speaker 1: instead of the when he catches the ball.
Speaker 7: Making a quick decision like you do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think like the basketball, there's like his
Speaker 1: fitness is amazing, his skill is obviously unbelievable, but on
Speaker 1: a basketball like Q Basis, he he kind of gets
Speaker 1: into this ISO and it's not what the league's about
Speaker 1: right now, it's just so easy the counter, right.
Speaker 6: No, the ball stops. The ball stops for sure. And
Speaker 6: so if you look at it, and here's how I
Speaker 6: also look at it, Jay call again And it's not
Speaker 6: necessarily that it's like, oh, he needs to be traded.
Speaker 6: But if you look at how well the knicks are flowing, right,
Speaker 6: you got Jalen, you got Dante, you got josh Hart,
Speaker 6: you got og and you got hert and sound right, well,
Speaker 6: you got to pull one of those guys out of
Speaker 6: the lineup to put Julie's in there. Yeah, And so
Speaker 6: which one do you pull out? And quite frankly, all
Speaker 6: of those guys are just named has been extremely vital
Speaker 6: into the success that y'all are having right now. So
Speaker 6: which one of those guys do you pull out? All
Speaker 6: of a sudden heart's not playing forty eight minutes right, Like,
Speaker 6: I actually think him playing forty eight minutes is helping
Speaker 6: y'all now, like in a major way. Now, I don't
Speaker 6: think it's overall good for him in the long term,
Speaker 6: but right now, now, in this moment, it's helped you all.
Speaker 6: And so when you now with og going down, that's
Speaker 6: where you will like really make a difference, right because
Speaker 6: you have depth. But as far as the way that
Speaker 6: the team has, this team has been flowing for y'all,
Speaker 6: I don't think it flow to say if Julius is
Speaker 6: out there just because of the dynamic that he has,
Speaker 6: not necessarily like the pieces can't go into place, and could.
Speaker 7: You ask him to lead the second unit or would.
Speaker 4: That just not work?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: I mean it's a sacrifice.
Speaker 6: Most coaches won't do that, right, Like Steve will do that,
Speaker 6: and you know, but most coaches in the NBA will
Speaker 6: not act an all star to take a role coming
Speaker 6: off the bench because it just it's like it never
Speaker 6: really works. Like we've won championships and all that you've
Speaker 6: seen it work. There's proof and the pudding of it working.
Speaker 6: But like you're going to ask Julius round hey man,
Speaker 6: I want you to come off the bench so ogi
Speaker 6: I know we can start. Julius first thought he never
Speaker 6: been an All Star. I'm an All Star. Well what are
Speaker 6: you talking about? You know?
Speaker 3: And so I don't think that.
Speaker 6: It's just apples to apples, like, oh, he'd be in
Speaker 6: it and we'd be better, like because you're the.
Speaker 4: Same number of minutes.
Speaker 1: Players don't want that because it damages their it damages
Speaker 1: their brand in their next contract, right, exactly, exactly, So
Speaker 1: it's money at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, Jacob, my brother.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you coming on letting people hear this delusion
Speaker 6: of Knicks fan this guy.
Speaker 7: And I appreciate you being in denial and good luck.
Speaker 1: I hope you got a good box of lures and
Speaker 1: I got the right bait lined up for you to
Speaker 1: get those big Marlin.
Speaker 7: I'm rooting for you out there about it's got to
Speaker 7: be tough for you to be watching the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Does it make you crazy to watch it?
Speaker 3: You do not be there, And we'll end on this note.
Speaker 3: I was just telling it makes you crazy. I was just.
Speaker 6: Telling a friend yesterday I said, it's very interesting watching
Speaker 6: these playoffs because all year, I said, all year I
Speaker 6: watched the NBA, and you could kind of see a
Speaker 6: change of guard happening, like you could one hundred percent happening,
Speaker 6: I said, And for me, I think a couple of things.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny. I think it's cool to watch.
Speaker 6: And I was telling him, I feel like the reason
Speaker 6: that I feel like that, that's how I feel about it,
Speaker 6: Like it's funny and it's fun to watch, and like
Speaker 6: it's super dope seeing his young guy because I've been
Speaker 6: a part of the change of guard before, Like, yes,
Speaker 6: I've been in the league and been a part of
Speaker 6: the change of guard, and watching it from that standpoint
Speaker 6: of the change of guard and not watching it from
Speaker 6: this vantage point, it's super dope to kind of see
Speaker 6: both sides of it and actually understand it. However, and
Speaker 6: winning four championships, I'm cool with the change of guard,
Speaker 6: like I'm However, I think there's a lot of guys
Speaker 6: in the league and if you start talking about to
Speaker 6: change of guard, they.
Speaker 3: Ain't really feeling that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And so I said all of that to say,
Speaker 6: I'm enjoying watching these playoff So I think it's been
Speaker 6: fun to watch. I think, you know, just really sitting
Speaker 6: back spending time with my family. Uh, you know, taking
Speaker 6: it all in with with no dog in the fight
Speaker 6: has been great.
Speaker 3: But we back next year. Jake call I can't do
Speaker 3: this shoe.
Speaker 4: It's just it's wonderful to watch.
Speaker 1: It's been wonderful to be friends with you and to
Speaker 1: watch your career and now this second act here, you know,
Speaker 1: with the new media.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're just so good at what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You bring joy and fun to it, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: that's just like such a great combination somebody who's having
Speaker 1: the joy and has the skill and then you put
Speaker 1: another access on there that you don't care, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do you that is what makes you so special.
Speaker 4: Don't lose it. You bring it to the pod.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 4: I've watched so many games.
Speaker 1: It's just so beautiful to watch those Warriors teams, both iterations.
Speaker 1: When you had Boget, when you you know, when you
Speaker 1: had d Lee and then now, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: been extraordinary to watch and to be your friend, and uh,
Speaker 1: just love you, Besty, And I.
Speaker 6: Love you too, Bestie. I appreciate you. I'll see you soon.
Speaker 4: Ya can't wait to see you.
Speaker 6: And if these bombs make it to and not bombs
Speaker 6: literally like I like the guys, but just the Knicks overall.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Knicks is if the Knicks make
Speaker 3: it to the finals.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'll drop in for when we're up, you know,
Speaker 1: three two games versus Boston. I'll invite myself on the
Speaker 1: show when we're three two versus Boston. We'll have a
Speaker 1: little conversation about your ability to predict with the Knicks,
Speaker 1: which this is something you can improve on as a broadcast.
Speaker 1: I think you got to watch a little more of
Speaker 1: the regular season to get a flavor for how the
Speaker 1: Knicks are playing. We're dogs. It ain't pretty, but it's gritty.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll have you back when when they get those
Speaker 6: gentlemen brooms out.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think that's what. What do you think Pacers
Speaker 1: is going to be a six game series? Do you
Speaker 1: think it's six now?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Chances is going six? Five?
Speaker 4: Max five?
Speaker 3: Max? All right?
Speaker 4: Love you brother, all right.
Speaker 3: Love you too, brother. Thank you?
Speaker 6: Oh man, that was fun, great friend of mine. So
Speaker 6: how about this so ja cow and we're going to
Speaker 6: talk about these thunder and Mavericks. J Cale back at
Speaker 6: Oracle way back in the days when I was a benchwarmer,
Speaker 6: Nicks Uh Bogit and David Lee, who was a once
Speaker 6: a Nick. They play in this poker game that I
Speaker 6: play in and it's with j Cal and a bunch
Speaker 6: of other our friends. And this was before A signed
Speaker 6: my first big deal. But b got in the poker game.
Speaker 6: I hadn't even learned how to play poker yet. And
Speaker 6: it's this guy sitting next to our bench like going
Speaker 6: ape shit, like trolling Bogan, trolling David Lee, like going crazy.
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting here like, Yo, this guy is nuts.
Speaker 6: And this was before, like you you know, the NBA
Speaker 6: would kind of really monitored to that. And so he's
Speaker 6: just going crazy on David Lee, crazy on Boga. He's
Speaker 6: crushing them. And then come full circle, they're like, Yo,
Speaker 6: that's our boy, j Cal, huge Knicks fan. So I'm
Speaker 6: happy you all got to see the delusion of the
Speaker 6: Knicks Thunder and the Mavericks one seventeen to ninety five
Speaker 6: on Tuesday. Kyrie twenty points, seven for fourteen from the field,
Speaker 6: three assists. Luca Luca has been struggling nineteen points, nine assists,
Speaker 6: six rebounds, six and nineteen shooting and only one in
Speaker 6: eight for three and who a lot of people believe
Speaker 6: were the MVP snub Shay Gilges Alexander twenty nine, nine
Speaker 6: and nine eight for nineteen eleven for thirteen from the line, Man,
Speaker 6: I know, I told you all I think the Dallas
Speaker 6: Mavericks are winning this series, and they just got mopped.
Speaker 6: And I've spoken to you all about how hard it
Speaker 6: is to win game two when you win game one
Speaker 6: the way that Thunder did they won game one, and
Speaker 6: the worst possible way you can win it for yourself.
Speaker 6: Moving forward in game two, they now going to have
Speaker 6: a very upset Luca, very upset Kyrie, a very upset
Speaker 6: Dallas Mavericks team, and they got to hold that off.
Speaker 6: I still think the Mavericks are ultimately would take this series,
Speaker 6: but I saw something that the Mavericks were doing that
Speaker 6: I think they really need to. I think they really
Speaker 6: need to. I think they really.
Speaker 3: Need to adjust on the offensive end.
Speaker 6: And that is a lot of times Kyrie Irving was
Speaker 6: standing in the corner, Dallas was bringing a guard into
Speaker 6: the ball screen to set the first screen on lou Dort,
Speaker 6: essentially to try to get to switch and off of Luca.
Speaker 3: And then they were bringing in the big.
Speaker 6: And what was happening was the big was all the
Speaker 6: way up at the level water screen. But even more importantly,
Speaker 6: the guard who was supposed to switch the initial wasn't switching.
Speaker 6: He was almost just jumping into a corral and corral
Speaker 6: and Luca and then letting and then letting h lou
Speaker 6: Dort get through. And now Loudort's back into the body
Speaker 6: of Luca. He's closer to the se and you just
Speaker 6: got that big up at the level. Well, then proceeded
Speaker 6: to happen from that point was one of two things.
Speaker 6: They weren't honoring number one. They weren't honoring that first
Speaker 6: guard to say you had Derek Jones sending, you had
Speaker 6: Josh Green sedding. They weren't honoring those guys at all.
Speaker 6: They did not care about those guys setting the screen.
Speaker 6: That was number one. So then what proceeded to happen
Speaker 6: was Luca had no other choice but to hit Gafford
Speaker 6: on the role. Luca had no other choice but to
Speaker 6: hit Derek Lively on the roll. And when he's hitting
Speaker 6: those guys on the roll, excuse me, on the roll
Speaker 6: there Gaffer was just going to the hole trying to finish,
Speaker 6: but he's catching the ball so far out that it
Speaker 6: wasn't the type of finishes that Derek Gaffer was getting.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, Daniel Gaffer.
Speaker 6: When Daniel Gaffer was making thirty three shots in a
Speaker 6: row and we were hearing about this throughout the season
Speaker 6: free fill goal attempts in a row.
Speaker 3: He was getting dunks, he was getting lovet he was
Speaker 3: getting rebound on putbacks.
Speaker 6: Now, so what being up at the level of that
Speaker 6: screen did was it made the pocket higher, meaning Gafferd's
Speaker 6: catching the ball so much further out to where by
Speaker 6: the time he gets to the rim. Okayse's having three
Speaker 6: guys at the rim contested, and although they don't have
Speaker 6: much size, it's a lot of bodies to get through,
Speaker 6: and they're in such great position, that legal guarden position.
Speaker 6: If they just jump up, it didn't really matter how
Speaker 6: much size they had because.
Speaker 3: He was jumping from so far out.
Speaker 6: And so I think number one, if they're going to
Speaker 6: continue to hit Gafford in the pocket that high up,
Speaker 6: Gofford at some point is going to have.
Speaker 3: To look weak side and spray.
Speaker 6: Now and looking weak side and spray, you're spraying to
Speaker 6: Josh Green. This is also where the Mavericks will miss
Speaker 6: Maxi Klabers. Nobody wants to talk about Maxie Klaber being out.
Speaker 6: That's a big loss for Dallas. They're spraying out to
Speaker 6: Josh Green, They're spraying out to Derek j was their
Speaker 6: spraying Jones Junior.
Speaker 3: They're spraying out the PJ Washington. And those guys didn't
Speaker 3: shoot the ball well at all last game.
Speaker 6: So okase he lived with those guys catching and shooting
Speaker 6: and it did not work. It did not work at all.
Speaker 6: Derek Lively, I actually thought was the opposite. He wasn't
Speaker 6: aggressive enough and was only looking for the skip out.
Speaker 6: But with his skip out again, who were you skipping
Speaker 6: it out? Who were skipping it out too? And so
Speaker 6: I think that was really big. And I think if
Speaker 6: Dallas is going to continue to set that screen first
Speaker 6: screen with the guard to try to get the switch,
Speaker 6: the screen has to be set with Kyrie Irving. And
Speaker 6: the reason it has to be set with Kyrie Irving
Speaker 6: is because when Kyrie Irvins slip out in college, when
Speaker 6: Kyrie Irvin slip out in space and they're in coverage,
Speaker 6: Kyrie Irving can now make a play.
Speaker 3: So guess what, they can't stay in coverage.
Speaker 6: They can't corral because if you hit Kyrie with a
Speaker 6: man down, Remember the biggest up the floor already on
Speaker 6: the opposite side, waiting on Luca to come off. So
Speaker 6: and Kyrie Irving, man is there. Now you got Kyrie
Speaker 6: Irvin coming downhill. Forget the other two shooters. You can
Speaker 6: bring all three guys in. Kyrie Irving's finishing over three guys.
Speaker 6: Two guys floater mid range pull up. Kyrie Irving is
Speaker 6: finishing that stuff. And so I think they're gonna have
Speaker 6: to bring Kyrie into more action, more ball screens with
Speaker 6: Luka and Kyrie setting in for each other. Let's see
Speaker 6: how they handle that. Now we got the switch. Now
Speaker 6: you sprint the big into it. Now they're trying to react.
Speaker 6: Now you got lou Dort got to pull in for help.
Speaker 6: Lou Dort's been all over these guys, right, So once
Speaker 6: lou Dort then switches off and he's on Luka or Kyrie,
Speaker 6: he's not helping off those guys. Now you got that
Speaker 6: guy coming off to make the play with the big
Speaker 6: rolling fast because he's came up sprinting.
Speaker 3: Now you can get.
Speaker 6: Into the actions that you want to get into. Now
Speaker 6: you can have Luca making the reads that he can make.
Speaker 6: Now Luca won't be one for eight from three because
Speaker 6: he'll be more in the rhythm and those shots will
Speaker 6: get easier. It'll soften the defense up. And so I
Speaker 6: still think Dallas is winning this game. I mean, excuse me,
Speaker 6: winning this series. Okay, see looked really good. You gotta
Speaker 6: get those guys a lot of credit. But I still
Speaker 6: think I got Dallas taking it. And who's going to
Speaker 6: have to play better and he's kind a down year,
Speaker 6: Tim Hardaway Junior. Tim Hardaway Junior going to have to
Speaker 6: play better. You're going to have to make some shots
Speaker 6: if this team is going to win. Like I said,
Speaker 6: especially without Maxi Klaiber, Tim Hardaway Junior must have a
Speaker 6: game or two in order for them to win this
Speaker 6: series because they need to shooting, They really need, really
Speaker 6: need to shoot in and so Tim, I think Dallas
Speaker 6: has a real chance.
Speaker 3: Of competing to get to the finals. I really do.
Speaker 6: And Tim is going to have to play better, and
Speaker 6: I think Jay Kidd does. They're gonna have to do
Speaker 6: some things to loosen up Luca Moore and not have
Speaker 6: him operating at the at the free throw and I
Speaker 6: also think they're gonna have to speed their pace up
Speaker 6: a bit.
Speaker 3: You speed your pace up. Now the defense isn't getting
Speaker 3: set every time.
Speaker 6: And if lou Dort wants to pick up Luca the
Speaker 6: way he was, start setting that screen up higher. Start
Speaker 6: setting that screen up at half court. You set the
Speaker 6: screen at half court. Now you got Luca coming downhill.
Speaker 6: Let the big and the whole floor opens up. Now
Speaker 6: you got Lou Door chasing the play. Well, guess what
Speaker 6: lucas six six eight, what two and forty pounds, big body.
Speaker 6: Once you get behind, he's gonna put you in jail.
Speaker 6: You're not getting back in front of him. And by
Speaker 6: the way, if you fight to get back in front
Speaker 6: of him, welcome to the world of Jaylen Bruston step
Speaker 6: back because you fighting to recover as opposed to riding
Speaker 6: the hip and so and if you ride Luca hipp
Speaker 6: he's got.
Speaker 3: So much size.
Speaker 6: He just put you on the hip and like see over,
Speaker 6: you get the shot he wants. And so I think
Speaker 6: they're gonna need to play with a little more pace
Speaker 6: as well. Set some higher up screens, free Luca up
Speaker 6: and then also get the ball in Kyrie Irvans hands
Speaker 6: a little more twenty points on seven for fourteen shooting,
Speaker 6: and Luca only took what eighteen shots?
Speaker 3: Nineteen shots?
Speaker 6: Kyrie Irvan needs to attempt more than fourteen shots. So,
Speaker 6: as you all know, I got the Mavericks beating the
Speaker 6: Thunder and I still think it's happening. I'm not getting
Speaker 6: hell bent over a twenty two point loss. It's one oh,
Speaker 6: and that's all that means. Before we get out of here,
Speaker 6: Well take our questions. Joker, third MVP and fourth seasons
Speaker 6: Shade runner up. Do I feel it was the correct decision?
Speaker 6: Here's why. I mean, Joker's great. However, I think the
Speaker 6: way Shae closed the season. He had a great season
Speaker 6: all year, but the way he closed the season, the
Speaker 6: way it came down the stretch of who was going
Speaker 6: to get the number one seed, like the number one
Speaker 6: seed and all that stuff mattered when Joker got the
Speaker 6: number one seed, but now it don't matter when Shake
Speaker 6: get the number one seed. I thought the way the
Speaker 6: season closed out, I'm not necessarily going to say Shay
Speaker 6: should have won. I think it should have been a
Speaker 6: lot closer.
Speaker 3: Though. I think the race should have been a lot closer.
Speaker 6: But a lot of these voters have their mind made
Speaker 6: up far before they should.
Speaker 3: You know, God see it in January like this is
Speaker 3: my MVP.
Speaker 6: Mine's made up too early and it's hard to move
Speaker 6: them off that And I think you know, Shae was
Speaker 6: hit with a case of that and it's unfortunate, but
Speaker 6: he got you know, sha Shaale continue to get better
Speaker 6: as he has in this league and I think his
Speaker 6: time is coming.
Speaker 3: But congrats the Joker, well deserved.
Speaker 6: You know, the work that he continues to put in,
Speaker 6: what he continues to do to opposing defenses every night
Speaker 6: is unmatched and unlike pretty much anything we've ever seen
Speaker 6: in the league at the way he's going to bout
Speaker 6: it from the position that he's doing it. So shout
Speaker 6: out the Joker. Congrats on another one Jackson. Before we
Speaker 6: get out of here, can we get a couple questions please?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir from keV g Z. Has Jalen Brunson become
Speaker 9: the best point guard in the NBA with his performances
Speaker 9: in the playoffs so far?
Speaker 3: Fuck? No, Steph Curry in the NBA?
Speaker 6: Dude?
Speaker 3: Are you crazy? What? Come on?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Next? That's ridiculous. Steph Curry still in the NBA is
Speaker 3: still great? Come on? Stop it?
Speaker 9: What from at Savta. Should the Timberwolves be the favorites
Speaker 9: to win it all?
Speaker 3: Right now? Luca Doncis is also a point guard.
Speaker 9: As is Shay Gods Alexander.
Speaker 3: Jesus kidding me, God Lee, what is wrong with these people?
Speaker 9: So go ahead and stay out of gear from at Sava.
Speaker 9: Should the Timberwolves be the favorites to win it all?
Speaker 5: At this point?
Speaker 3: Should they be the favorites?
Speaker 6: What has Boston done wrong to take them off being
Speaker 6: the favorite? It's like, I don't I don't know that
Speaker 6: Boston has done anything wrong to lose their spots as
Speaker 6: the favorite.
Speaker 3: The timber was our plan great.
Speaker 6: But Boston is pretty much doing what everybody expected them
Speaker 6: to do, So I don't know what.
Speaker 3: They did to not be the favorite anymore.
Speaker 6: In saying that, I think, h yeah, I believe in
Speaker 6: I believe the Timberwills should win, But I just don't
Speaker 6: know what all these people in the world are like, Oh,
Speaker 6: Boston is not the favorite. I was never of the
Speaker 6: assumption that Boston was a favorite because I thought we
Speaker 6: were the favorite.
Speaker 3: But that's the story for another day.
Speaker 9: Okay, let's do on the topic of the MVP and
Speaker 9: on the topic of the Celtics from at being x
Speaker 9: pac Is. Has Jason Tatum become underrated? People are discrediting
Speaker 9: him because of all the talent around him.
Speaker 3: Has JT become I don't think he's become underrated. I
Speaker 3: just think.
Speaker 6: When you're in superstar territory, which Jason Tatum is a superstar,
Speaker 6: when you're in superstar territory, there's this imaginary clock that
Speaker 6: people start on you. And once they start the clock,
Speaker 6: you essentially have a certain amount of time to step
Speaker 6: your second foot through the window, like your first foot in,
Speaker 6: like you're halfway in and halfway out the window, and
Speaker 6: then they need you to step your second foot in
Speaker 6: the window.
Speaker 3: And how do you do that?
Speaker 6: Well, Jason's clock started with going to what five or
Speaker 6: six conference finals in the first six seven years of
Speaker 6: his career, and.
Speaker 3: So his clock started.
Speaker 6: And because his clock started on that front, obviously he's
Speaker 6: already a great player, but his clock started on that front.
Speaker 3: And they have not won.
Speaker 6: And so now because they haven't won, what Jason is
Speaker 6: up against is not winning because everybody viewed, oh, this guy,
Speaker 6: they went to the conference finals, he's young, they are
Speaker 6: going to win it, and he hasn't, And so people
Speaker 6: are now holding that against him, and so no, I
Speaker 6: don't think he's underrated. I think everyone thinks very much
Speaker 6: still that Jadson Tatum is who Jason Tatum is. However,
Speaker 6: that imaginary clock that gets to running on people when
Speaker 6: they have success early in the league, ala Devin Booker
Speaker 6: from a scoring standpoint, his clock started running on is
Speaker 6: he going to become a superstar now?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: That clock starts running and if you don't step in it,
Speaker 6: it closes. The Memphis Grizzlies clock started running because they
Speaker 6: start barking they were playing against us, We're gonna beat them.
Speaker 6: I'm running up the chimney. The clock started running. They
Speaker 6: haven't stepped into that window. Guess what everybody's on to
Speaker 6: no longer talking about John morn there on that Anthony
Speaker 6: Vers in the Minnesota Timber was when your clock starts,
Speaker 6: you got to step through that window or people are
Speaker 6: on to the next one. And that's what I think
Speaker 6: Jason Tatum is up against. So I don't think he's underrated.
Speaker 6: I think that imaginary colt is getting him right now.
Speaker 6: And unfortunately there's not much you can do about the
Speaker 6: imaginary clock. So in order for Jason to get back,
Speaker 6: what people believed and to get back to being viewed
Speaker 6: as that gotta win the championship. And it's unfortunate and
Speaker 6: it's unfair because it doesn't happen to everybody. But you know,
Speaker 6: life ain't fair, as they say, although I think life
Speaker 6: is very fair and I think everybody end up getting
Speaker 6: what they deserve. Ad that's what they say, so we
Speaker 6: shall see. But that is a rap from this episode
Speaker 6: of The Draymond Green Show. Thank you all for tuning in.
Speaker 6: Thank you JCL for coming to show the supporters of
Speaker 6: the Draymond Green Show how fucking delusional Knicks fans are,
Speaker 6: how satisfied they are with a first round win and
Speaker 6: being up to on the second round, and they'll get
Speaker 6: to the conference finals and act like they won four championships.
Speaker 3: And that is just who the Knicks have been. But
Speaker 3: good luck to them. Till next time, Peace,