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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Monday. Is it really? Yes? It is.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of crap going on right now, Harmon.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of stuff happening right now. Got

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Speaker 1: the Hurricanes, I shepherded them do a three to one lead.

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Speaker 1: I got the Mets in the ninth inning, tied with

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Speaker 1: the Pirates, the I got the course the Knicks up

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Speaker 1: by nine with three minutes left to go. I'm dealing

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Speaker 1: with a lot of stuff right now. I'm looking bulldorm.

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Speaker 1: We got to get what a live rooster to take

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Speaker 1: the curse off of Hector's glove We're dealing with. I'm

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Speaker 1: dealing with a lot of I got a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff going on right now. Yeah, I can see you're

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Speaker 1: completely amped up. We watched the end of that Stanley

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Speaker 1: Cup playoff game Fantastic You called for the public flogging

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Speaker 1: uh and release of Francisco Lindor, get rid of Indoor

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Speaker 1: and and acun you get rememberoth Erizon the ninth and

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Speaker 1: get Mber.

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Speaker 3: You went on a five minute rant, not ten minutes

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Speaker 3: prior telling me he's the greatest thing of all time.

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Speaker 1: He was bored bla, he said, And doesn't matter that

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Speaker 1: yet too. Peter Alonzo is gonna win this game with

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Speaker 1: a walk off sack fly Mets get the w Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm two thirds of the way there. I'm not just

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Speaker 1: halfway there with bon Jovie. I got the Hurricanes, I

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Speaker 1: got the Mets. Now I got shot him.

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Speaker 3: Hey shot a man, I got a steal and a

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Speaker 3: nine point lead, and Jason Datum laying in a heap

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Speaker 3: shot him May with a lot of shots of Al

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Speaker 3: Horford as they went to a commercial break.

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Speaker 1: that's where we sit right now. The Knicks with a

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Speaker 1: one thirteen, one oh four lead over the Celtics with

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Speaker 1: three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Look, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to go too crazy because I know somehow

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Speaker 1: this game is gonna be tied with a minute left. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go to I know that's what's gonna

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Speaker 1: Somehow the Knick Celtics is gonna be tied with a

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Speaker 1: minute left to go. Okay, I'm okay with that. But

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Speaker 1: let me just say this, for the the it's been

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Speaker 1: kind of a thing the last few days. You have

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Speaker 1: seen the oh the NBA is unwatchable crowd come out

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Speaker 1: again with a lot of different things. Right, all the

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Speaker 1: NBA is unwatchable, The NBA's on watchmap, Uh, this game tonight,

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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be a big update we're gonna bring

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Speaker 1: you with Jason Tatum coming up in a second. All

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Speaker 1: you have to do is watch this beach that. All

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Speaker 1: you have to do is just watch This is the

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Speaker 1: Tatum Brunson game, right and now, Jason Tatum just got

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Speaker 1: hurt for the second time in the second half. Twisted

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Speaker 1: his ankle. He was helped off the floor. I assume

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Speaker 1: that is going to be it. We're not gonna see

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Speaker 1: him again the rest of the night. But this game,

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Speaker 1: up until this point, this has been Tatum bruntson Tatum Brett.

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Speaker 1: Anything you can do, I can do better. Every time

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Speaker 1: Brunston hits a shot, you go, my goodness, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe it. Tatum comes down the other way and it's

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Speaker 1: a three. Look. The guy can get his shot more

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Speaker 1: shot at any situation. It has been amazing to watch

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Speaker 1: these two guys duel this entire game. The Celtics hit

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Speaker 1: all a bunch of threes, it was looked like it

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Speaker 1: was gonna be a runaway. Then Jalen Brunson brings the

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Speaker 1: the lane. Really, it has been some kind of Brunts

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Speaker 3: Huge first quarter where you see the barrage towards the

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Speaker 3: end and it became in all right, here we go

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Speaker 3: game three look once again, but bit by bit as

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Speaker 3: you lay out with Jaylan Bronson.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't come alone, right.

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Speaker 3: He brought friends to the show this time around, as

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Speaker 3: opposed to making it a one on one conversation. This

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Speaker 3: was like the fight between the news teams in Anchorman,

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Speaker 3: where more guys come to the party. Right, Because Bridges

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Speaker 3: has twenty three, you got twenty one from Kat eighteen

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Speaker 3: from Ananobi, including a number of huge defensive plays, and

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Speaker 3: that's the thing that's got to be under you know,

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Speaker 3: underscored here in the fourth quarter, filling passing lanes, aggressive

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Speaker 3: with each possession, no easy buckets except for the one

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Speaker 3: that literally, as I say, no easy buckets. But all that,

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Speaker 3: other defenders, just wreaking havoc, causing so many turnovers and

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Speaker 3: down the stretch, Go New York.

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Speaker 1: Go New York Frostburg drive driving that bandwagon. It is

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Speaker 1: a ten point lead for the Knicks with just under

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Speaker 1: two minutes left to go in the fourth quarter. Right, well,

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Speaker 1: what plenty of time for Brunson. However, we got it

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Speaker 1: right now, he has helped off the court, as we said,

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Speaker 1: an ankle injury on a turnover. Ogano Noby has had

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Speaker 1: a terrific game. He has stepped in the passing lane

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Speaker 1: Had lost the ball.

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Speaker 1: his right leg he just collapses. It's a non contact injury.

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Speaker 1: just shown coming off in a wheelchair with his hands

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Speaker 1: of injuries we've seen. It could be an achilles injury.

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Speaker 1: It could be an ankle injury, but he doesn't turn

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Speaker 1: his ankle. It's a straight step back, which tells me

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Speaker 1: it does look like it wasn't like I don't know

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Speaker 1: it could be a calf or an achilles non contact injury.

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Speaker 1: He simply tries to plant and step forward and he can't,

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Speaker 1: players as they came off again. A non contact injury

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Speaker 1: for Jason Tatum, and suddenly this throws the rest of

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Speaker 1: the playoff, the rest of the playoffs for the Celtics

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Speaker 1: in flux. They're gonna lose this game. They're gonna go

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Speaker 1: down three to one to the Knicks, and now it's

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Speaker 1: is Jason Tatum going to play again? When is he

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Speaker 1: gonna be able to get back? Because you have the

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Speaker 1: non contact grabbing at his achilles that none of this

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Speaker 3: Number of your Internet doctors, all folks that I have

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Speaker 3: on and immediately would you have five staffers get out there?

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Speaker 3: So just a horrid end to I mean, he'd been

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Speaker 3: fantastic all night long. Every time Bronson or Ananobi or

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Speaker 3: Who's much debated in terms of his rank in the

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Speaker 3: hierarchy of the current NBA goes down. Hopefully, hopefully the

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Speaker 3: video does lie in this regard.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's three things you look for right

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Speaker 1: in plays where where you say, okay, how bad is

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Speaker 1: this injury? Non contact is always the worst, right, that's

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Speaker 1: always the worst. But a non contact could always be

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Speaker 1: something where you turn an ankle, it's a tweak and

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Speaker 1: you come back, but non contact the worst, no pressure

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Speaker 1: we talk about injuries, and injuries affect the NBA playoffs

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Speaker 1: the NFL, more than Major League Baseball because superstars are

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan is coming back to do stuff for NBC. Yes,

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Speaker 3: In rewind, we go back and turn back the clock

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Speaker 1: You'd have to the Internet things. The Internet was new

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Speaker 1: Want to watch Nick Pacers tonight? Yes, Rick Smith's will

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Speaker 3: Nobody was texting or messaging about the dunkin Dutchman.

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Speaker 1: People said, oh, you're Jason, You're just crazy. It's a

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Speaker 1: I have no choice. We're gonna play the Pacers. If

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Speaker 1: The fever dream that you had to try to arrive

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Speaker 3: Now all the things you've been wishing for are coming

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Speaker 1: And I can see the Knick showing up tomorrow going yeah, whatever, hey,

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Speaker 1: Right here, this is my brain with next, next, next, next, yes,

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Speaker 3: Maybe you've been treating your family a little better, maybe

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Speaker 1: Maybe I bought a Knicks cards, had it wrapped wrapped

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Speaker 1: That was one thing. I mean, that was awesome, But man,

428
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Speaker 1: a mobile McDonald's to drive up and just stop and go, hey, hey, go,

429
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Speaker 1: what do you want, Big Mac? How many ice co

430
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Speaker 1: That guy was a menace? How many you want? Yeah?

431
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Speaker 1: And what else? You want? Fries? And what else? Shake?

432
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Speaker 1: And what else? More? Shakes? And what else? And a

433
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Speaker 1: gallon of coffee and and and you know what here,

434
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Speaker 1: just take my credit card. It'll be like James Old

435
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,120
Speaker 1: Jones says in Field of Dreams. Uh, they'll fork over

436
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Speaker 1: twenty dollars a piece without even thinking about it. They'll

437
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: give you there, they'll give you their cash. They could

438
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Speaker 1: be washing the memories. I'll get whatever you need. Just

439
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Speaker 1: give me stuff off this mobile McDonald's. Try and then

440
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Speaker 1: I'll follow you around the city so that because I

441
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Speaker 1: can't you know, look, you can't stop in my neighborhood

442
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Speaker 1: the whole time. You gotta go out of the place. But

443
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Speaker 1: I'll follow you. Just don't go too fast, so I

444
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,640
Speaker 1: could follow you and stop one I'm done. I'm ready

445
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Speaker 1: to have something. Damn pied piper. Yeh, yeah, buddy, Well

446
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Speaker 1: they have the molten lava apple pie available. I think

447
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna have everything, Mike, except the ice cream obviously. Yeah,

448
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,640
Speaker 1: I crea the ice cream will never be worth broke. Yeah,

449
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Speaker 1: machines broke.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, seems like you get have parlayed that into your

451
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Speaker 3: own trade school.

452
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Speaker 1: What do you do? We just fixed McDonald's ice cream.

453
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: What else? What else can I learn here? Nothing? No,

454
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Speaker 1: that's it. That's all you got. I don't know. I

455
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Speaker 1: just think maybe that all that what the McDonald's has decided. Listen,

456
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Speaker 1: when the when the machine, when the ice cream machines break,

457
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Speaker 1: We're not going to fix them. Just tell people they're

458
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Speaker 1: down it's not worth it. We don't make enough money

459
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Speaker 1: on it. We're not gonna kind of like how uh

460
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Speaker 1: uh the story that uh Disney didn't want to do

461
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Speaker 1: season two of Hawkeye because it was too much money,

462
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Speaker 1: so they low ball Jeremy Renner. So because they knew

463
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Speaker 1: he would say, no, okay, we don't want to do

464
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Speaker 1: the season. That we don't want to do the season

465
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Speaker 1: at all, So we're gonna low ball Jeremy Renner. He

466
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Speaker 1: says no, and we don't do Hawkeye too. That that's

467
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Speaker 1: kind of what's happening. Just tell me more some Hailey

468
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Speaker 1: Steinfeld in my life. It takes it takes way too

469
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Speaker 1: much money to fix the ice cream machines. Just gonna

470
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Speaker 1: bring just tell people were just not here. Is half

471
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Speaker 1: the man he used to be. We're not gonna fix him.

472
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Speaker 1: He's got a new back out. He's back now. Jeremy

473
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Speaker 1: Runners back. Now, he's back. He's back. He's back like

474
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Speaker 1: the knickxer back. He's back that Nicks in the nineties

475
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Speaker 1: when they did that little pose trying to save the world. Yeah,

476
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 1: oh everything what everything old is new again. We are

477
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Speaker 1: back in the nineties. And look, let me just say this, right,

478
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,920
Speaker 1: because here here's the Cavaliers, who it's just a stunning

479
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Speaker 1: loss for them, uh, falling to the Pacers. Pacers win.

480
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Speaker 1: It won fourteen one to five, a game they once

481
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Speaker 1: led by nineteen. Clearly, yes, regular season success and postseason

482
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Speaker 1: success are two completely different things. But to go a

483
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Speaker 1: little bit deeper than that, the Pacers are pretty good.

484
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Speaker 1: This is an Eastern Conference Finals team from last year.

485
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Speaker 1: And if you want to go back and look when

486
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Speaker 1: the calendar change at twenty twenty five, not many teams

487
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Speaker 1: have won more games on the pace. I think the

488
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Speaker 1: Pacers are won the second or third most games in

489
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Speaker 1: the NBA since the calendar turned to January. Right, this

490
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Speaker 1: is it that they almost look like a mirror image

491
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Speaker 1: of the Knicks, where you talk about a strong starting

492
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Speaker 1: five with guys that have very similar roles. The bench

493
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Speaker 1: is somewhat okay, but these are two really similar teams.

494
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Speaker 1: I'm already previewing the Knicks in the basin. You've been

495
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Speaker 1: watching a lot of Andrew Nemhar. People don't. People don't

496
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Speaker 1: give the Pacers credit because and look, and Pascal Siakim

497
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Speaker 1: is such a huge addition to them. The clutch shots

498
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Speaker 1: he made down the stretch, Halliburton figuring out okay again

499
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Speaker 1: I need to get to the rack, and he once

500
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Speaker 1: again took control of the game again a little bit

501
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Speaker 1: too inconsistent for my taste. He has too many games

502
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Speaker 1: where you say, what was that all about? But this

503
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 1: Pacers team, people don't really They were really good. Yes,

504
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Speaker 1: they had a bad start to the season, but it's

505
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Speaker 1: a bad first couple of months. You say bad start,

506
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Speaker 1: it's it's November December, Okay, the season is just getting going.

507
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: But since January again, second or third best record in

508
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Speaker 1: the NBA. And so for them to come in here,

509
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: and we already told you when the seat when the

510
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Speaker 1: series started, the Pacers are a bad matchup for the

511
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Speaker 1: for the Cavaliers. Because NBA preis it's all about match Sure,

512
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: they are a bad matchup. So when you saw the

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Speaker 1: series start, yes, could the Cavaliers maybe have had a

514
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Speaker 1: better beginning if they were healthy. Yes, a lot of

515
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Speaker 1: things went against them, but this is not as surprising

516
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Speaker 1: because of those things. The Pacers were good. They match

517
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Speaker 1: up really well. We've seen them do it before. We've

518
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Speaker 1: seen the Pacers get to the Eastern Conference finals. Haven't

519
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Speaker 1: seen Don and Mitchell get out of the first round.

520
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Speaker 1: So when you're comparing the two teams and you think about, all,

521
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Speaker 1: what a shot with it, you think back and go, well,

522
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Speaker 1: maybe not as much as you thought it was going

523
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Speaker 1: to be, because this wasn't even a seven game thriller

524
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Speaker 1: and escape with a ball that bounced off the rim

525
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: three times. This was four to one. This was a beatdown.

526
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Speaker 1: This was you don't deserve to be on the same

527
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Speaker 1: floor as the Pacers, despite the fact you won sixty

528
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Speaker 1: four games in regular season. I just didn't finish the job, right.

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Speaker 3: You look at Donovan Mitchell tonight that I don't know

530
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Speaker 3: that I expected to see him play, but give it

531
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Speaker 3: the old college try. But he does, and he puts

532
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Speaker 3: up twenty five shots. Well he hits eight of them.

533
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Speaker 3: As a team they shoot thirty nine percent owing to

534
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Speaker 3: the length and the swimming abilities and what Carlisle's done

535
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Speaker 3: with this Pacers squad. You know, Haliburton didn't put up

536
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Speaker 3: a ton of shots, but he's ten to fifteen from

537
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Speaker 3: the field, hit six three point shots for the what

538
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Speaker 3: the game high, Well second to Mitchell, of course, but

539
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 3: it comes down with thirty one points. You get good balance,

540
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 3: your gout nemhard all five starters in double digits. And

541
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Speaker 3: here's the stat of it all. Home field in home

542
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 3: court advantage. We talk about it in all sports, but

543
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 3: certainly basketball in these playoffs hasn't mattered.

544
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Speaker 1: Right. You look at the Cavaliers for the year thirty

545
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 1: six and five at home against teams not from Indiana,

546
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Speaker 1: OHO and five against the Pacers on their home court,

547
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 1: bad match time and again, and the Pacers good enough

548
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: to claw back and to wait you out and come

549
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: up with the big stop when it mattered.

550
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Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened here. Looked like they were

551
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Speaker 3: gonna get back into it. Calves clawed back. You had

552
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Speaker 3: the three pointer from Mitchell making it a three point game,

553
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Speaker 3: but that was it. Uh Pa end up distancing themselves

554
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 3: and winning the series. And now they wait, Well, the

555
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 3: winner of Boston and New York, Well, here we go.

556
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: And already I've watched Rick Carlisle is already complaining about

557
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: the East Finals officiating in his post game. Now, he's

558
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: already very upset about how the East Finals officiated. He's

559
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: very upset. He's already trying. He's very upset me to

560
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: just crown you king. He's really mad. Last year, he's

561
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: really mad about the officiating. Already, he's the celebrate. He's

562
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: pounding the tables. Actually really a series and get there,

563
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: really upset for small market teams not getting a big run.

564
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: I mean he's really he is really mad about this.

565
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: He's really mad about the East Finals officiating. Justin make

566
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: you want to Celtics come back? Any of this talk?

567
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: Hell no, okay.

568
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

569
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

570
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Two minutes to go in the third quarter. The party

572
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: is underway at MSG. The Knicks lead the Celtice. I

573
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: should say it like Marv Albert does. The Necks leave

574
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: the Celtics eighty nine to fifty one with a minute

575
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: fifty seven left to go in the third quarter. Uh,

576
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: it has been all Nicks from the jump. Make it

577
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Speaker 1: ninety two fifty one After an Ogiano Nobi Thie. I

578
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: think Joe Mizzoula is gonna call time out and they're

579
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: all gonna leave. I think it's out, just gonna leave,

580
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: and it's just gonna be a big party. Michael Straighthan

581
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: is excited. This is the bill, looks to flog you got,

582
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: you got Marbury there. This is This is a party,

583
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, It is an absolute party. But you're gonna

584
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: be the disapproving girlfriend with the coat over her arms

585
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: going we can leave whenever you want to. I know

586
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: you're having fun, but we can leave whenever you want to.

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00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna play that role tonight. I can already tell.

588
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: I can already tell, just by your countenance, just by

589
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: the way you are, just by you're gonna be that.

590
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: I'm ready to leave. I didn't want to go to

591
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Speaker 1: this party at all. I'm ready to go home.

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Speaker 3: This is where you have your kid who's hopped up

593
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 3: on sugar and you let them run around hoping that

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Speaker 3: at some point they just fall out napping. That's where

595
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 3: I'm at right now, because I have already had forty

596
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 3: minutes of this, yeah, leading into the start of the show,

597
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 3: And I've said for a very long time, there's a

598
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 3: jealousy to a point of your fandom, okay, and we've

599
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 3: tipped past that jealousy of the excitement. Okay, Jude, shut.

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Speaker 1: Up, all right. I'm not happy when your teams get,

601
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: you know, the little success they have, So I mean,

602
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Speaker 1: I thought you'd be happy for me, but okay to

603
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: a point, I see where because you're screaming at at

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Speaker 1: the like they're going to win, to go to the

605
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Speaker 1: Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since I was

606
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Speaker 1: in my thirties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that was presumptive when we got to halftime

608
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: when Kendrick Perkins said, they need to find Jesus to

609
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 3: play the second half. That's what he said about the Celtics.

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00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 3: They're like any closing thought, get Perk. It's like, you

611
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 3: know what they need and there's a pause, and you

612
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 3: know everybody on sets looking at him, nervous.

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Speaker 1: What he's gonna say to find Jesus. He said that

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Speaker 1: go on a diet. If the Knicks blue the lead,

615
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: they would go on a diet. If the Knicks bleue

616
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: this lead at halftime and they have grown it out,

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00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: it is a forty one point Nick lead, now ninety

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Speaker 1: two to fifty one with just under a minute half

619
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Speaker 1: to go with the third quarter, Bird and Michale are

620
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Speaker 1: ready to check in for the Celtics in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: I don't even think they They don't want any minutes

622
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 3: of this. This is where you go find what was

623
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Speaker 3: that guy's oh the ninety three Dino Rajah and guys

624
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 3: like that. Will you start bringing those guys in or

625
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 3: to get some minutes. But like Jalen Brown did what

626
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 3: Nikola Jokic did the other night, except this is an

627
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 3: elimination game and he tapped out.

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Speaker 1: Porzingis is sick.

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Speaker 3: I can't make any jokes about him sitting because I

630
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 3: have no idea what's going on there. I hope he

631
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 3: finds whatever solution he needs in the offseason. He's ready

632
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 3: for twenty twenty five. But this is a gutless effort,

633
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 3: right You're down six to start the second quarter, you

634
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Speaker 3: score four points in the first half of the second quarter,

635
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 3: and then it's like you waved a white flag.

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Speaker 1: Right effort.

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00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 3: Plays are non existent. You're seeing reach in files, just

638
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 3: sloppy play. It's like no sense of urgency whatsoever. It's like,

639
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 3: all right, we're down twenty five, what are we gonna do.

640
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 3: Let's run the shot clock down to two and then

641
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 3: you're still contesting every shot because I mean, that's the

642
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 3: celebration of what the Nicks have been here. They smelled

643
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 3: the blood in the water like any shark movie and

644
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 3: attack the hell out of this squad. So I give

645
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: full credit to whatever Thibodeau said. It pregame whatever they.

646
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 1: Needed in the fuel of the New York media to

647
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: go finish this thing off, because they never let the

648
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: Celtics get a quarter breadth no on once it really

649
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: started to get out of hand in the middle of

650
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: that second look. And this is why I told you

651
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: all week when I can't no one believe me when

652
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: I said I'm fine they lose Game five. I told

653
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,239
Speaker 1: you we're gonna lose Game five. We're gonna show up

654
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: and kind of play. All right, we'll kind of play

655
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: if the game is there. Maybe they try to close

656
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: in the second half, but it wasn't there. Brunson fouls

657
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: out of the game five thousand and one. Quarter Karl

658
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: Anthony Townsend foul trouble said, Okay, this is how it's

659
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: gonna go. But it's gonna be a different story on

660
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: Friday night. What if I said the last two days, Hey,

661
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: Friday night, I'm going to the Eastern Conference Finals for

662
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: the first time in twenty two years. I was absolutely

663
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: fine because I knew this was the next team we

664
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: were going to see on Friday. Bad feeling about Wednesday.

665
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 1: I knew was gonna Hey, Okay, we're not gonna get Rick.

666
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: Bucker had a great comment on that with us the

667
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: other night, saying, Hey, there's lots of teams in the

668
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: NBA that come in to close out type games like

669
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: the Knicks did, and you know, like we've seen in

670
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs elsewhere as well, where it's been, hey, we

671
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: know we're not going to get the calls, and if

672
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: the calls go against you in the beginning of the

673
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: game at Sea, we're not getting him. Let's put it

674
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: away for the next game. And that's kind of what

675
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: the Knicks did, and we see that it's not just

676
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,480
Speaker 1: the next thing the same team to do that strategy. Sure,

677
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: and I tell it, but tonight was gonna be different.

678
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: It was gonna be physical, and it was gonna be

679
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: a Karl Anthony Towns night. And this was how it

680
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: was gonna go. You guys didn't believe. You thought I

681
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: was nervous. And Frostburg's going on, what are you gonna

682
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: say in game seven? Are you say in game seven?

683
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: I knew we're never getting to Game seven because this

684
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: was gonna be the game we're gonna get tonight one.

685
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 3: You did not predict a forty point burial and that

686
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 3: the Celtics would quit.

687
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: I said, I said, whend, I say fifteen. Last night,

688
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: I said ten to fifteen we met our. I said, no, there's.

689
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: A difference between Hey, we win by ten because down

690
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: the stretch we're making free throws and finishing the job,

691
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 3: right Jalen Bronson getting to the following versus, I should

692
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 3: have said fifty. Here's to win by fifty. Look in

693
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 3: in game betting, I was laughing before it was thirty

694
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 3: thirty two, when you and I were sitting before we

695
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 3: started this soire on a big Friday night party for you.

696
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: Where it sits now? I can only uh, I can

697
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 3: only guess because it's it's bloomed it is now at

698
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 3: its still only thirty three. If you really want to

699
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: go that, that's basically saying the Knicks are gonna quit

700
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 3: and start sipping wine playing with three fourth quarter something

701
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 3: like that. They're they're relegated, they have to take half

702
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 3: court shots, or whatever the case may be. But you know,

703
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 3: the you're officiating thing from the other night rings true,

704
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 3: and there are a number of times where it's just like, really,

705
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: that's that's a continuation file. Again, it's a thirty point game,

706
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 3: so who the hell cares, But at the time it

707
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 3: was thirty five. Karl Anthony Towns gets fouled quite clearly.

708
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 3: Al Horford bangs him three feet off of this spot

709
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 3: and then he goes, ah, forget it, I'll take the

710
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 3: extra step and throw the ball up, all right, and

711
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 3: one it's like what are we doing? So again the

712
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 3: officiating issue, but by that point it's long gone. I mean,

713
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown tapped out, so all of the talk and

714
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: we heard this got really loud about what a better

715
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 3: effort they get when Jason Tatum isn't there. Just just

716
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: hang up your microphones, just quit. You know, the record

717
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 3: is not always indicative of what you're gonna get, and

718
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 3: you can do things for one game. We've seen at

719
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 3: time and time again in playoffs. We see it in

720
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 3: the regular season, the heavy underdogs that can come up

721
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: no matter the sport, and certainly in the NBA, as

722
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 3: you alluded to, the all right, it's really not coming

723
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,919
Speaker 3: together for us. We'll live to see another day. There's

724
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 3: no reason to play another twenty labor and you know,

725
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 3: laborious minutes when we've got a game two days. Hence,

726
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 3: look at what I did there, Yeah, I went fall

727
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 3: on dictionary.

728
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: Hen and my literary world.

729
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 3: But like, when you only play five or six guys,

730
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 3: why play them an extra twenty minutes when you're done?

731
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: So that strategy the other day certainly comes to bear.

732
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 3: But from Missoula and Company, like when exactly did you quit?

733
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 3: Like that's the first question I would ask him in

734
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 3: the post day, When would you quit?

735
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: The Knicks? The Knicks have been playing tonight. They're playing

736
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: with a twenty five point lead, like the game is tied.

737
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: There's been no let up. There's been no open shots

738
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: for the Celtics because the Knicks have decided, hey we're

739
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: up by twenty six and everything is fine. There's been

740
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: no running around to offensively. It has been there playing

741
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: this game. Like in fact, you would think the Knicks,

742
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: if they win this game, would be winning the NBA Finals.

743
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: The way that the Knicks are playing, the way fans

744
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: are responding, we will be going to the Eastern You

745
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: still have two more rounds to finish, but eight more wins.

746
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: But hey, we're going to the Eastern Conference finals. And

747
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 1: the party is like we're winning it all, like that's

748
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: what it is.

749
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 3: But that's okay, But that's the party like watching watching

750
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 3: that connection right, and you know me, one of the

751
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 3: mantras of the show is the love of live events

752
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 3: because very few places in the world you have energy

753
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 3: and agreement of what's going on and the energy going

754
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 3: in the same spot.

755
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: So the fans feeding.

756
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,240
Speaker 3: Off the effort, the players feeding back off the fans,

757
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 3: and that frenzy. You know, every shot is contested. There's

758
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 3: no way, all right, I missed the assignment. It's like no,

759
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,919
Speaker 3: They're still cursing at each other. You had a play

760
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 3: down low where Jalen Brown loses the ball and it

761
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 3: gets tapped and eventually goes off his leg. They were

762
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 3: up thirty five and they immediately three guys are sick

763
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 3: doing the Thibodeau to challenge it, which they did and

764
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 3: they won the challenge. It's that kind of thing. Look,

765
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I don't love it. I just I

766
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 3: just have a headache. Look the Nicks, they came out

767
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 3: for blood. They came out for blood, and it's a party, right,

768
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: That's that's exactly what Mad Shalom has been shown ninety

769
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 3: seven times. Spike Lee doesn't have to accost the referee

770
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 3: chasing him down the court.

771
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: He's just sitting there. No, doesn't. He's gott he's gotten

772
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: don't because he's got no role to that. We don't

773
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: need coach Spikes. He's just like as happy as he

774
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 1: should be when they show him. He's like, I wanted

775
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: a contested game. What do you got, Frostburg? I mean,

776
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: this game is so out of hand that the Necks

777
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 1: have just rolled out four players to play four on five.

778
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: They're going with my team is on the court, and

779
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: one of them is Clyde Fraser, Ben Stiller, Stefan Marbury

780
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: and bad Bunny. I think we had we probably were

781
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: winning by thirty three right now, going twenty five, Uh,

782
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: we're going so now all right now, I guess eight

783
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: and a half has gone to on Wednesday. This is

784
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: very poor Frostburg. So now are you gonna be because

785
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 1: you're with Obviously we'll celebrate your fan so to yo

786
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: where it it doesn't just end after the game. It's

787
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: you'll celebrate tonight after tonight at eleven one to give

788
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: him dabs you in the face. Okay, all right, that's

789
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: and the duel will come in. So the celebration is tonight.

790
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: Who cares about tomorrow? Celebration tonight and it's go Inde,

791
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: go Inde, go. All right, Bill Bradley is at the game. Yeah,

792
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Bill Bradley. While I really thought you

793
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: were gonna start singing. We've got tonight. Who needs tomorrow.

794
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: I'm doing a little bats making last babe. Ten minutes

795
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: to go in the fourth quarter, the Knicks lead the

796
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: Celtics ninety six to sixty two. We will begin our

797
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: Knicks Pacers Eastern Conference Finals preview coming up a little

798
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: bit as we'll have more on this game as the

799
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: party tonight is going to be off the hook. We've

800
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: already ordered pizza. We had all kinds of pizza and

801
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: wings coming. It is a Knicks party Friday. But coming

802
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: up next as we continue to track the biggest game

803
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: of the night, all as freely all the time, maybe

804
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 1: the biggest game all year. Coming up next, do we

805
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 1: have an NFL story coming your way because somebody really

806
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: got paid. Go New York, Go New York Coast. And

807
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: when does Tatum come in?

808
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 6: Uh?

809
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: Wow, in the next time next, next official time out?

810
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 3: You know what, he would have at least wheeled himself

811
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 3: around and giving you an effort.

812
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: Actually, Tatum O'Neil is coming in nots who's coming about that?

813
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: Shack's brother and TJ click, you know you ruin, you

814
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: ruin my bad news Bears line tysher, you know nothing today,

815
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: You're about to win, all right? Yeah, it's nothing he

816
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: says or plays he can play. Everybody wants to rule

817
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: the world forty five times in a run. I don't care. Yeah, whatever,

818
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter.

819
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

820
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

821
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

822
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: From outside of Madison Square Garden at the top of

823
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 1: a light pole because Knicks fans is celebrating like they

824
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: won the finals tonight. Nicks insider John Schmielkey is on

825
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: Twitter at shmilk, longtime friend of the show. How you

826
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: doing man? You sent me that picture of you at

827
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: the game. I can imagine it must have just been

828
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: an entire party since midway through the second quarter.

829
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 6: Here, I just.

830
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 5: Drove through the Lincoln Tunnel. I did not need my

831
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 5: car to get home. I could have floated.

832
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,319
Speaker 1: Home or flown home.

833
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 5: I just don't want to have to go back into

834
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 5: the city tomorrow morning to get my car. So this

835
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 5: is just convenience. I could have lunched myself from thirty

836
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 5: third Street and Eighth Avenue and set my butt back

837
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 5: to Central New Jersey. Baby, oh man, twelve.

838
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 6: Look, still work to do.

839
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 5: Let's be very clear about that. Still work to do.

840
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 5: You gotta beat the Pacers, but twenty five years is

841
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 5: a long time. Enjoy the stick fans.

842
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I have no one believed me on

843
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: the show this week when I said, oh, they lose

844
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: Game five, I said, I'm fine, we are gonna blow

845
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: the doors off of them in game six. It's gonna

846
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: be different. It's gonna be officiated differently. The Knicks are

847
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: gonna be more physical. They're smelling blood. They kind of

848
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: halfway went for it in Game five, and they all

849
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: thought I was crabbed. Oh, you're just you're just trying

850
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: to You're trying to show us you're not nervous. I'm like, no,

851
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,399
Speaker 1: we are gonna win big on Friday night, and there

852
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: we go. It happened.

853
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 6: Yeah. Look, I did not think I'd be sitting there

854
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 6: in that building tonight and the.

855
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 5: Knicks would be leading by forty one points in the

856
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 5: third quarter. That I mean that place for twenty four

857
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 5: minutes of basketball, and like an hour and a half

858
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 5: of real time was just a party. The only thing

859
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 5: people got mad about is that Thibodeau wasn't taking the starter.

860
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 5: That place was absolutely lit, guys, And look, I said,

861
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 5: as you know, twenty five years since they've been to

862
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 5: Thesetern Conference finals, that might have been the best defense

863
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 5: I've seen a Nick team play in twenty five years too.

864
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 5: They shut the Celtics down. The cout Bridges eraced, Derek White,

865
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 5: Jalen Brown fouled out in the third quarter. It was

866
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 5: utter domination in every facet of the game.

867
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: At what point did the did you think the Celtics quit? When?

868
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: When did the spirit leave the body?

869
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 6: I think when Shireman made an appearance in the third quarter. Look,

870
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 6: I think it was a point.

871
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 5: At the end of the second quarter where the Celtics

872
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 5: I think had won three and it looked like they

873
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 5: were about to make a run. And then the Knicks

874
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 5: counted with like three straight baskets and they're up by

875
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 5: thirty points at a halftime.

876
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 6: The game wasn't over yet, but.

877
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 5: It was darn close.

878
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 6: And then you know, Celtic's mad.

879
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 5: A couple of shots to start the third, Nicks bounced

880
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 5: right back. They got a bit you know, forty and

881
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 5: then guys, that was it, you know, Badulla pold everyone

882
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 5: and man, just.

883
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 6: What a game.

884
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 5: And again it's I don't think fans understand.

885
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 6: How I mean they do, but if you're the root

886
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 6: for the next.

887
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 5: How bad the last twenty five years have been, or

888
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,279
Speaker 5: at least twenty the last twenty five years watching you know,

889
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 5: Ron Baker and Kyle O'Quinn, who is probably one of

890
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 5: the better guys he got to watch.

891
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 6: I mean, my gosh, Alexei Schived, who Nick fans were

892
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 6: in love with, Damian Botson, my gosh, go.

893
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 5: Through the list.

894
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 6: It was bad.

895
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 5: David Fizdale's regime, Larry Brown four year, my god, isay it?

896
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 5: Thomas it was.

897
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 6: It's as bad as.

898
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 5: It was the lowest of the lows. And to finally

899
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 5: get to see this in that building for a night,

900
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 5: it was a blast and it was.

901
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 6: So much fun.

902
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: So as we look at the squad, because Jason and

903
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 3: I were really celebrating, and I did so maybe a

904
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 3: little muted because my guy's been at volume. You know,

905
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 3: you turn into eleven on spinal tap. He broke the

906
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 3: knob off, John, I mean, there's just no about it.

907
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 3: But all of that, with the defense still up thirty,

908
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 3: still challenging plays, all of that, it's like, I like it.

909
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,280
Speaker 3: The uh I believe you actually said, you know, don't

910
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 3: don't get off their necks, and they didn't.

911
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 6: They didn't, they did not lay it off.

912
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 5: And look, if this team can play like that defensively

913
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 5: the rest of this postseason, they can win an NBA

914
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 5: championship if they can keep that level of intensity on defense.

915
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 5: Karl Anthony Towns was locked in. Boys. You do not

916
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 5: see that very often for a non defense. That dude

917
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 5: was locked in. If he can play like that for

918
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 5: two more rounds, the Knicks can win a championship. That's

919
00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 5: not hyperbolic, that's facts. That's where we're at. This has

920
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 5: not played that way consistently this year. They didn't maddeningly inconsistent.

921
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 5: But if you can bring that type of effort defensively,

922
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 5: you the Knicks can be NBA champions in the Year

923
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 5: of Our Lord twenty twenty five.

924
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 1: The Knicks are here to save the playoffs, John, They're

925
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: here to set the playoffs because we got Minnesota and

926
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: maybe Oklahoma City and the Pacer. The Knicks are here

927
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: to save the playoffs.

928
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, you're telling me Mike Silver doesn't want in Indiana,

929
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 5: Minnesota or Indiana Olahoma City NBA Finals. But you have

930
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 5: not had any luck on this planet since the uing lottery.

931
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 6: They have that zero.

932
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 5: Luck, they've gotten no help.

933
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 6: Time to start pulling some straights. Baby, you're gonna get

934
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 6: the big ball, get into the finals. Adam Silver, Well.

935
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: Hey, that's it. What a week it's been. But look

936
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: at where we're at. John, Listen, it's already gonna be

937
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 1: a Knicks Final four. It's gonna be like a Wholemark

938
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: Christmas movie because it's the Knicks and the Pacers who

939
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: are synonymous with the Knicks and the playoffs. Randall and

940
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 1: deven Chen and probably Hartnerstein. It's an entirely Knicks final four.

941
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: It's everything we need right now.

942
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 5: Look, this goes back to the nineties and Nick Pacers,

943
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 5: where they've kind of went back and forth, like neither

944
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 5: team dominated in the nineties. One year the Pacers would

945
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 5: win and the Knicks would win.

946
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 6: Well, guess what, boys, payback's a bitch here cuts the Nick.

947
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 6: There lost of the faces last year.

948
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 5: Harry Halliburn. Look, he's a really good player, but he

949
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 5: is such a perfect like sequel to Reggie Miller.

950
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 6: He's lanky, he's.

951
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 5: Skinny, he fires threes, he's annoying, he flops heavy. He's

952
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 5: like Reggie Miller, not as good, but reincarnated. This could

953
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 5: not be.

954
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 6: It's just it's the.

955
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 5: Nineties all over again, and it's gonna be so much fun.

956
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 5: But you're right, Look, whoever gets out of the West

957
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 5: that if you're a Nick fan, I would root for

958
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 5: the Denver Nuggets. I want no part, no part of

959
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 5: the Oklahoma City Thunder. So if I'm a Knicks fan,

960
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 5: I rooted for Denver. Maybe you guys disagree, but look,

961
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 5: that was a hell of an effort. And Guys, I

962
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 5: can't believe I'm saying that the Knicks have a real

963
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 5: chance to win an NBA title this year.

964
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 6: I can't believe I'm saying it on the radio and

965
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 6: to millions of people.

966
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 5: But them's are the facts, boys.

967
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: And you know I love that. Well, all Knicks like

968
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: you and I. We're all celebrating like we won the title.

969
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: They're climbing lightholes, we're all talking about who the Knicks

970
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: are going to play in the finals and it's like

971
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: they've been to there. We gotten out of two rounds

972
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, but it's like we won the whole

973
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: thing tonight.

974
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 5: Hey, look like I said. That's why when the first question, boys,

975
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 5: you ask me, and what I say, there's still work

976
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 5: to do. You did not put this team together to

977
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 5: win two rounds in the playoffs. You put this team

978
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 5: together to win an NBA championship. But there's a realistic

979
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 5: window here. You know, the Knicks finisher the day at home.

980
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 5: The Nicks have a homeportant advantage in the Eastern Conference

981
00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 5: title to compute effort.

982
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 6: Good boy, all right, And by the way, if the

983
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 6: Timberwolves go to the finals, you know who's gonna have

984
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 6: the home court advantage in the NBA finals too.

985
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 5: You're New York next. So this is real. There's work

986
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 5: to do. They have to keep playing well, but there

987
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 5: is enjoy the series win. Plenty of work to do.

988
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 5: But this is real. You know, I'm always one the

989
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 5: poor cold water on stuff. I'm very realistic. I've seen

990
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 5: too much. You guys have seen too much as Nick fans.

991
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 5: It always goes wrong. They have a real shot here,

992
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:36,479
Speaker 5: that is real.

993
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 3: I gotta ask the obvious question. First, you John dn Smith,

994
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 3: You'll just punch me, is uh? You know, after the

995
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 3: euphoria wears off and you punch yourself out and you

996
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 3: go to sleep, how soon did the nightmares of Reggie

997
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 3: Miller come back?

998
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: You think we're gonna sleep, Well, eventually you're gonna pass out.

999
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's a it's a natural. Hey, I'm

1000
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 3: going to bad thing. Eventually your body's just gonna collapse.

1001
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 5: So hey, look here, here's.

1002
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 6: The thing about Reggie Miller.

1003
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 5: Reggie Miller had some really awesome moments against the Knicks.

1004
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 5: The Knicks also had some really awesome moments against Reggie Miller.

1005
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 5: They knocked him out of the playoffs more than once

1006
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 5: in the nineties. So yes, Reggie got the Knicks a

1007
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 5: couple of times, and a couple of times in heartbreaking fashion.

1008
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 5: But you know, the Nicks beat to go to the

1009
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 5: NBA finals. Four Pacers boys. So yeah, Reggie Miller, you

1010
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,760
Speaker 5: hate him, he's he's the worst, But Nicks.

1011
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 6: Beat him, and now it's time to be Prearry Tyler

1012
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 6: Barton too.

1013
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: Mix insider John Schmilkey. He's on Twitter at s milk.

1014
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: You can find him. There are at the top of

1015
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: any kind of light pole somewhere in the New Jersey

1016
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 1: metropolitan area. After the win tonight, John, thanks a bunch, buddy.

1017
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you during the East Finals.

1018
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna land in New Jersey. I'll talk

1019
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 6: you guys to Nick the conference finals.

1020
00:49:58,320 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: Let's do it.