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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Eeha.

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Speaker 1: Game four of the Eastern Conference Finals in the books,

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Speaker 1: and it is the Pacers. Thanks to a forty three

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Speaker 1: point first quarter, they cruise by the Knicks one thirty

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Speaker 1: to one twenty one to take a three games to

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Speaker 1: one lead in their playoff series. All I'm seeing is

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Speaker 1: Pacers have never lost up three to one, teams up

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Speaker 1: three to one, or you know, five hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: four and thirteen all dad, Yes, yes, I know I

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Speaker 1: know all of this. Everything I know I know. Is

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Speaker 1: it crushing soul? Are you just kind of shrugging your

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Speaker 1: shoulders and going, well, what do you do? Here's the thing?

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Speaker 1: You think I'm gonna be mad? And jumping around and

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Speaker 1: throwing a tantrum, and no, because what can I say?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: What have I said from the beginning of this series

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Speaker 1: giving away Game one? The Knicks are still mentally trying

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Speaker 1: to come back from giving away Game one, and the

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Speaker 1: Pacers are still dining out on the confidence of their

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Speaker 1: comeback in Game one. There's not a lot I can

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Speaker 1: say because the biggest thing that's going on right now, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing, Tom Thibodeau is getting completely out coached

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Speaker 1: by Rick Carlisle. It really reminds me of when I

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Speaker 1: would watch the Patriots and Bill Belichick's hate. I mean

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Speaker 1: not at the end when he was awful and you

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Speaker 1: didn't know what he was doing, but in the heyday

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Speaker 1: of the Patriots, where I would watch them play different

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Speaker 1: teams in the AFC East Why and the first time

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Speaker 1: they not just the Jets, but when they played the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins or the Bills, and they would have one game

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Speaker 1: plan that would work right, it was, oh, hey, this

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Speaker 1: was Stephen Ridley. What a huge game. Twenty carries, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and five yards. Brady didn't nearly need to throw

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Speaker 1: the ball a lot. They were able to keep the

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Speaker 1: Bills offense off the field. Okay, so the second game

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Speaker 1: the Bills, how do we adjust? What do they do

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Speaker 1: to us last time? We're ready for this and then

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Speaker 1: it's a completely different game plan from Belichick where we're

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Speaker 1: gonna throw the football and suddenly it's a big day

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Speaker 1: for Wes Welker. Right, fourteen catches for Welker. He had

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Speaker 1: three catches in the first game. This is what Belichick

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Speaker 1: used to do to team. Right. This is why I

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Speaker 1: go back and say, despite Spygate, all of it, he's

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Speaker 1: the best coach I've seen because he can change game

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Speaker 1: plans on a dime, even sometimes when you're playing the

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Speaker 1: team again two weeks after you play them, with those

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Speaker 1: kind of quirks in the schedule. This is what Belichick

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Speaker 1: used to do to teams. He used to frustrate the

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Speaker 1: Jets be ready for this, but it's gonna be something

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Speaker 1: else different the second game. And this is what Karl

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Speaker 1: is doing to the Knicks and doing to Tom Thibodeau

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Speaker 1: because the first game, the Knicks had no answer for

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Speaker 1: the comeback in the fourth quarter. Right, they knew that

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Speaker 1: the Pacers new we can get shots. We know that

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Speaker 1: Nie Smith can get his own shot because Josh Hart

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Speaker 1: can't stay with him. Anob we can't stay with him.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks had no answer, was on roller skates. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they lose game one, okay, game two. The Knicks have

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Speaker 1: is how we have to attack things. Halli Burton has

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Speaker 1: doing X, Y and Z. We're gonna learn our lessons

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Speaker 1: from game one. What does game two happen? Pascal Siakam

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Speaker 1: take game two. Okay, another one check mark for Rick

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Speaker 1: Carlisle because the Knicks clearly are you said, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. Sometimes it's Brunson, sometimes it's Andrew Noby.

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Speaker 1: just looked so lost defensively. Like tonight, the Knicks had

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Speaker 1: Pacers played at their own pace. They played at that

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Speaker 1: More on him in a couple of minutes. But the

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Speaker 1: whole thing with the Knicks is that I couldn't get

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Speaker 1: They're just going to find a place in the shot

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Speaker 1: whether it's one on one and they're more athletic getting

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Speaker 1: and I watched their body language and it's terrible. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's the same thing down the court. Again, there was

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Speaker 1: in this it was just the same thing. And I

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Speaker 1: On defense, they were just relying on the Pacers missing

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Speaker 1: but the Pacers missed some shot, Yeah, they missed some shots.

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Speaker 1: an open three and we missed. We had it, we

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Speaker 1: And again the Knicks had no answer to this advantage.

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Speaker 1: Rick Carlyle, Huge, You could talk about game one and

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Speaker 1: the comeback for the Ages and Halliburton up one hundred

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Speaker 1: they're executing more and and and Tibbs is just sitting

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Speaker 1: like Phil Jackson, not even Phil Jackson with the Lakers

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Speaker 1: if a series is four to two, feel happy you

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Speaker 1: legend that Rick Carlyle is being made out to be

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Speaker 1: in this yea, I did you go back to game

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Speaker 1: three and there were some movement right Obviously he gets

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Speaker 1: some minutes from Shammitt and folks that want to stick

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Speaker 1: up for Tibbs and talk about his acumen and what

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Speaker 1: he's been able to do with the squad. Game three

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Speaker 1: was a good one, right in terms of pulling strings,

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Speaker 1: finding some minutes off the bench, McBride whatever, And that's fine.

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Speaker 1: It's it was a short lived solution. Today you were

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Speaker 1: the unfortunate run of loose ball's finding the waiting hands,

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Speaker 1: Loose ball fills the aggressiveness and physicality waiting on a

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Speaker 1: call that never comes right, Ah initiated content. Well, you're

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Speaker 1: not getting that call. Play the other way right a

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Speaker 1: number of times where you're going back and you're now

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Speaker 1: they had a number of set plays and opportunities off

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Speaker 1: inbounds plays where you just miss wide open. Looks like

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Speaker 1: we saw it down the stretch with chances to really

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Speaker 1: Towns hands holding near the top of the key before

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Speaker 1: he shugged him off. No get off me. It's like

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Speaker 1: your kid's like, no, no, no, come on, we gotta go. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: get your hand, like I'm a big boy, now let

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Speaker 1: end of the first Well, look, and that's the big thing.

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Speaker 1: You want to say, this is overrated a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but it's not. And the Pacers go ahead and break

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Speaker 1: your arm, patting yourself on the back, picking the game

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Speaker 1: to put Halliburton's dad back in so he could come

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Speaker 1: see it. Right, What did I say after Game three?

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Speaker 1: It's a panic move. They want to try to get

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Speaker 1: some look, blowing that twenty point lead. We don't know

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Speaker 1: where we are. Are we fragile now, so we don't

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Speaker 1: want the Knicks to have an advantage. They could have

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Speaker 1: put Halliburton's dad back in the game for Game three,

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Speaker 1: but no, let's save it. They needed it for Game four.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think there's any there's any coincidence that

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Speaker 1: has the greatest game of his career. A stat line

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Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs we have never seen in NBA

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Speaker 1: history thirty two fifteen assists, twelve rebounds, zero turnovers zero.

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Speaker 1: NBA and basketball history like going all the way back

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Speaker 1: to like the mid nineties, and they first started to

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Speaker 1: keep a track of stuff like this way. You know,

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Speaker 1: no one blow a lead like that. It's game one.

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Speaker 1: big deal. They brought him back for a reason. They

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Speaker 1: are down three to one. That's just the way it is. TJ.

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Speaker 1: You're taking care of the basketball for the most part

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Speaker 1: and moving on. And then it starts getting sloppy. The

426
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Speaker 1: extra pass around the wing for the Pacers finds its

427
00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,919
Speaker 1: intended mark and they hit a big shot, whereas with

428
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Speaker 1: the Knicks it would be all right, let's try to

429
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,760
Speaker 1: force it inside to where you'd have Siakam or Turner waiting,

430
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 1: and you're not getting an easy look. And if it's Brunson,

431
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,679
Speaker 1: you're not necessarily getting the call when he gets bodied

432
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,240
Speaker 1: off the ball. Turnover going the other way, the number

433
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,920
Speaker 1: of out of bounds plays where it just became a

434
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:50,000
Speaker 1: rugby scrum and bodies flying all over. It's like it's

435
00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: not conducive to cohesive offensive play and winning basketball. And

436
00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,199
Speaker 1: to your point, again, if you're trying to play in

437
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,119
Speaker 1: a game like this, like the over under was, I

438
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: want to say, like two twenty we ended up with

439
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,200
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty one points. Yeah, you're not winning games,

440
00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 1: but the fact that it's a nine point game is

441
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Speaker 1: is a bit shocking. That means you've got some some

442
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Speaker 1: juice down the road. Brunson did finish with thirty one,

443
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: but that this is not a game the Nicks win. No,

444
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,439
Speaker 1: this this type why I never really looks. That's why

445
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't go crazy about the look. They

446
00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,680
Speaker 1: won Game three and that was great, But what they

447
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,680
Speaker 1: did was I told you they bought themselves a couple

448
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,000
Speaker 1: of days. Now you gotta win game four. The series

449
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,679
Speaker 1: is over because you see math, right, you know you

450
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 1: don't come back from down three. We got a good statue.

451
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Speaker 1: Want to fourteen to fourteen this time around? Yeah, you

452
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,520
Speaker 1: know since nineteen ninety five, when teams have had a

453
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Speaker 1: nine point lead with fifty one seconds left to go,

454
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,439
Speaker 1: teams are fourteen hundred wins and one loss. But you

455
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: know that's just crazy. That's got one that's got to

456
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Speaker 1: fall them. You gotta stop dancing here, you gotta you

457
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Speaker 1: gotta answer the question. Well, let's let's hear from him first.

458
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Speaker 1: Do you really want to Yeah, yeah, look, got to

459
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Speaker 1: hear from the first. Let's hear from a fight. It

460
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: might anger you if I'm gonna say fire tips. I

461
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,080
Speaker 1: want to hear from him first. After this game, you

462
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 1: need to hear from him, Yes, I do. I fired

463
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,199
Speaker 1: him in the first round just like Look, just like

464
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 1: last night where he said, wow, Anthony Edwards was really terrible,

465
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: and boy, this is he just disappears in big games.

466
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Speaker 1: You wanted to hear him say at the end of

467
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Speaker 1: the game, I don't think I played bad. That was

468
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: so good. I played just fine. I made I made

469
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Speaker 1: the right basketball play. Oh, by the way, that's really

470
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Speaker 1: an example of today's takes. The night before, boy, I

471
00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: saw that and Edwards take the we had last night

472
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Speaker 1: everywhere today, man, congratulations, just send us a check for money.

473
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Speaker 1: That's all you have to do. But let's hear from

474
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Speaker 1: Nick's head coach Tom Timbadeau talking about what went wrong tonight.

475
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 1: I mean, all he has to do is say everything

476
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Speaker 1: and walk away. Okay, we're done dropping the mic. Uh

477
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: what went wrong for the Knicks to night and their

478
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 1: loss to the Pacers? What did you see defensively?

479
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Speaker 3: That wasn't We knew it was going to be a

480
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,639
Speaker 3: fast game, you know, so that was gonna that was

481
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Speaker 3: the priority was, you know, defensive train to get set.

482
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 3: But we hurt ourselves with our turnovers, putting them in

483
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Speaker 3: the open floor.

484
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Speaker 1: Look, I said this going into the playoffs. If the

485
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Speaker 1: Knicks losing the first round, Tibbs needs to go right

486
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: and they win the first round, they beat the Celtics, fantastic.

487
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: Now here they are getting exposed. And the thing is

488
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Speaker 1: Tibbs is getting out coached in the third round in

489
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Speaker 1: the in the Eastern Conference finals, he's getting out coached.

490
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Speaker 1: And the team and the team and the team has made,

491
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, around what Tibbs wants.

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Speaker 3: Right.

493
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Speaker 1: So here's a roster that gets to this point and

494
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: still you see that it's not quite the roster it

495
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: needs to be. And and Tom Thibodaux, whose identity is defense, right,

496
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: that's what he's brought the entire time to the NBA

497
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: The Knicks don't do that anymore, right, they don't do it.

498
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 1: They play a little bit more physical when they can.

499
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,159
Speaker 1: They're more physical than the Celtics, and that's why they

500
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,639
Speaker 1: won that series. But like Tibbs's hallmark is is is defense,

501
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: and if the team has gone so far away away

502
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: from it, like okay, is TIBs really what they need now?

503
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 1: Is he really what they need at this point? If

504
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: if what the whole reason you brought him in? This

505
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: is why he's The defense has been great. This is

506
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 1: what they do now. They're getting worked constantly, defensively, constantly,

507
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: And yes, part of it is because Brunson and Karl

508
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns aren't great players defensively, but you ask a

509
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: great defensive players on that team, you got, you got

510
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: an All NBA caliber guy and Ogannoobi and he suddenly

511
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 1: can't even can't even stick with with with Nie Smith

512
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, in the fourth quarter of games, Like, dude, again,

513
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: this is not Steph Curry running around the court, How

514
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: are you falling down? How is this happening?

515
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: Like?

516
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: I mean it, like you have to look in and

517
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: the Knicks are gonna make one or two big chance.

518
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: I guarantee you coming out of this right, you're ready

519
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: for a big take on TIBs in the fut go.

520
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: One of two things is going to happen. Okay, one

521
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: of two things is gonna happen because the Knicks are

522
00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: gonna leave this series and say, Okay, what what went wrong?

523
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 1: What do we need for next year? One of two

524
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: things is gonna happen. Either Tims is gonna be replaced

525
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: or Towns somebody else will go somewhere for Joannis. Something

526
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,439
Speaker 1: is going to happen because the core of this team

527
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: is not made up to achieve long term postseason success.

528
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: The Pacers are running circles around them, right. So we

529
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: talked about it a couple of days ago. This is

530
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: a really bad failure. But you're seeing the way the

531
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Speaker 1: Knicks are constructed, and they don't have a bench. There's

532
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: no McConnell's, there's no Matherins, there's no Obi Toppins coming in.

533
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: There's nobody. Right, you have you have six guys that

534
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: you play that play a bunch of minutes, and Mitchell,

535
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: Robinson or Hart, whoever comes off the bench is gonna

536
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: give you a lot of those minutes. That's not enough, right,

537
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: the Knicks are really top heavy, and and the way

538
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: Bridges played earlier in the playoffs. Okay, maybe we're gonna

539
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: stick with him, but Towns especially because he's someone who

540
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,080
Speaker 1: can bring you back somebody in a trade. Typical Knicks fan. Yeah,

541
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Speaker 1: we're in the middle of the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm

542
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: talking about next year. Let's tell what we do it

543
00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: for next year. But that's yeah, we're circling the drain.

544
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: But those are That's what's going to happen, because this

545
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: this fit of Towns with the Knicks and what's going on,

546
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: It's gonna be are we are we a Brunson Towns

547
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: team or are we a Tibbs team? One of those

548
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 1: and Brunton's obviously not going anywhere as good as he is,

549
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: but there's gonna be some kind of move where it's

550
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,199
Speaker 1: either gonna be Tibbs or it's gonna be Towns and

551
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 1: another player to bring in a star like Giannis, and

552
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: potentially we're gonna spend some money on a couple of

553
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: bench guys because clearly we need some sort of more athleticism,

554
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: We need some sort of defensive presence that can help

555
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: us out a little bit when the Pacers do things

556
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: like this. You're seeing this series where the Knicks are

557
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 1: seeing their rotster. They're saying, yeah, this is not nearly

558
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: as competitive as we should be. Well, I'm just gonna

559
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: throw this out there. If I'm a Bucks fan, I'm preemptive,

560
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,360
Speaker 1: preemptively getting in front of this, and I'm writing all

561
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: my writing, my congressman, I'm writing the team two letters

562
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: a day, like I'm a handy Dufrain. If they traded

563
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 1: Yannis away for Carl Anthony Towns with anybody, I quit,

564
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:06,399
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not putting a deposit down. I'm not

565
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: giving you any what. I'm basically putting up a white

566
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: down town. Say I'm done towns and Ananobe towns or something.

567
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta know something, you gotta do something.

568
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: You gotta do something. How are you gonna do it?

569
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: How you be? What are you gonna get? You saw

570
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,679
Speaker 1: what you gotta be able to You saw what the

571
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: Lakers had to give up for Luca. See that to

572
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: give up for Luca. No, that's that's still a fraudulent trade.

573
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,440
Speaker 1: And you can't tell me otherwise. I know it went

574
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: down and it's been signed off on and rubber stamped

575
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: and moved on. Uh, there there was no open market

576
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: for trading Luca donches.

577
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 2: There was done.

578
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: That was a backdoor deals when they're GM is a idiot, Well,

579
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: I mean it helps give take that first off or yes,

580
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: like wait, you mean there are actually twenty eight other

581
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: teams that might want to get involved with this. I

582
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: gotta think there's twenty eight other teams that can come

583
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: back with a better package for you, particularly knowing that

584
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard's not gonna play and that's your team is

585
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 1: But if this is where Yannis want. But the thing is,

586
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: remember Jannis has talked about my New York my favorite

587
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: place to go play. Yeah he never said that, Yeah

588
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: he did, he did that chat. It was just a no.

589
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: Is Yon have the quote Jannis on a chat whiles

590
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 1: was before New York. No, it's where's your favorite place

591
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: to play in the road he said, new York. I

592
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,160
Speaker 1: don't I don't think so. Yeah, he said, new York.

593
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: You have you have you have a I Nico Harrison

594
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: right there, I think on your on your screen. I

595
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: think that's what you're looking at. I don't want to

596
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: play with any other player except Luca. Right last time

597
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: I checked Luca does not play for the next No,

598
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: that is Joe. Well, you never know, you never know,

599
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: loot Uh time not to find out what's trending in

600
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: the wide world of sports. Someone who's been called the

601
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: Yannis of Fox Sports Radio. He wants to explore, explore

602
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: the room, other places, and he also loves to go

603
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: to New York on vacation. It is disinger and the

604
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: Mediterranean food. It's fun.

605
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Speaker 4: Sure, thank you triple double for Tyrese. Haliburton and Indiana

606
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 4: beat the Nicks one thirty to one twenty nine in

607
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 4: the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals tonight, three games to one

608
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 4: lead for the Pacers. It was such a rare and

609
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 4: great performance by Halliburton to playoffs or regular season have

610
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 4: a game with at least thirty five points, ten rebounds,

611
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 4: fifteen assists and no turnovers that it only happened twice

612
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 4: before since they started tracking turnovers about forty years ago.

613
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Speaker 4: Nikola Jokic had an early season.

614
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 1: Game like that.

615
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,719
Speaker 4: About a year and a half ago, James Harden had

616
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 4: a regular season game like that. Nobody in the playoffs

617
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 4: have done this, And when you throw in the fact

618
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 4: of those numbers including no turnovers, and to make at

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Speaker 4: least five to three pointers in the same game. Nobody

620
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 4: had ever done that in NBA history, regular season or

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Speaker 4: playoffs until Haliburton Tonight, and the three point shots been

622
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 4: around in the NBA for more than forty years. So

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Speaker 4: the Knicks lose won thirty to one twenty one. They

624
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Speaker 4: have allowed at least one thirty two times in the

625
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 4: same playoff series. The Knicks franchise did that only once

626
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 4: before ever, that was nineteen seventy eight and in fact

627
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 4: a great stat from AP If you look at the

628
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Speaker 4: Knicks postseason history start in the nineteen ninety during the

629
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Speaker 4: nineteen ninety playoffs up until recently, the Knicks went almost

630
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Speaker 4: two hundred straight playoff games without allowing one thirty and

631
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Speaker 4: now last year's Game seven against the Pacers, they got

632
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Speaker 4: one thirty to eliminate New York twice in this series,

633
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Speaker 4: one thirty including tonight.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

635
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Speaker 4: NBA Finals start June the fifth. Indiana leads this Eastern

636
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Speaker 4: Conference Finals three games to one.

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Speaker 1: Are you happy, NBA? You're gonna get Indiana and Oklahoma City?

638
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: Are you happy? Good luck?

639
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 4: The West Game fives in OKC on Wednesday, Thunder leading

640
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 4: three games to one, already over Minnesota by the way.

641
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 4: In the WNBA, Minnesota five and O Edgcattle eighty two

642
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 4: to seventy seven. New York four and OH beat Expansion

643
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,320
Speaker 4: Golden State ninety five sixty seven, and Paige Beckers at

644
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 4: Connecticut had twenty one points. It was a battle of

645
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 4: OH and four Dallas at OH to four Connecticut. Dallas

646
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 4: wins at one OH nine to eighty seven. To the

647
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 4: NHL Playoffs, Edmonton up three games to one in the

648
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 4: West Final after beating Dallas four to one. Coco Goff

649
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 4: swept her first round match at the French Open. American

650
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 4: Jessica Pagoula also advanced to Major League Baseball. The Padres

651
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 4: were down six to nothing in the top of the first.

652
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: Inning to Miami.

653
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 4: It's now Padres seven to six over the Marlins. In

654
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 4: the bottom of the sixth inning, shohe Otani with his

655
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 4: twentieth homer of the year that leads the Majors. Dodgers

656
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 4: won nine to five at Cleveland. Detroit defeated San Francisco

657
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 4: three to one. The loss to Logan Webb despite ten

658
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 4: strikeouts in six innings. The Yankees are leading in Anaheim

659
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 4: three to nothing over the Angels in the bottom of

660
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 4: the seventh inning. It's now Diamondback six' to two over

661
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 4: The pirates in the seventh and we have The Seattle

662
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 4: Washington Game mariners over The Washington nationals seven to one

663
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 4: the top of the eighth.

664
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: Inning that just doesn't sound, Right, Ben, Seattle, washington and

665
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: yet that doesn't sound but, yeah that's.

666
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 4: It oddly it is taking place In, Seattle. Washington Col

667
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 4: roll two Long balls is eighteenth and nineteenth of the.

668
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 4: Year you were talking about how few are.

669
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: So raw is playing In? Seattle, okay very, Good so

670
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: we know, that all, right very, good that's. Right And

671
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: carolina is playing. Tomorrow, Okay so what's the stat line

672
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: For Myrtle beach? Tonight what do we? Have what's?

673
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 4: That although somebody Named, Myrtle i'm sure it's. Enterttenmans you

674
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 4: were talking about the few RBIs for the leadoff Man

675
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 4: otani of The, dodgers and you're right at the bottom

676
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 4: of the order largely has not been.

677
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: Great twice home run and twenty two RBIs this year

678
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: for show hamd not quite thirty, five but thank. You

679
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: there was a former play by play guy who pointed

680
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: out to me That rob deer for the nineteen ninety

681
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: Two tigers finished with AND i looked it, up thirty

682
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: two home runs and sixty four RBIs, Whoa meaning he.

683
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 4: Batted himself in as often as he betted in anyone.

684
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: Else that's impressive right. There, wow that IS i, like

685
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: that's that. Line that's better Than dave king Because i'm

686
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: pretty Sure Dave kingman one year for The mets thirty

687
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: six home, runs seventy EIGHT rbi and he hit one

688
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: ninety eight eight two oh. One, Look i'm pretty sure

689
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: that was one of his. Years thirty, six seventy eighty

690
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: two oh, one thirty, six eighty, eight thirty, six eighty, eight,

691
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: okay any two on one it was two thirty one

692
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: oh two. Thirty, wow that's a big year for. Him that's,

693
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: like that's like one ninety eight in uh nineteen eighty

694
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: three when he returned to The mets a.

695
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 4: Career hitter of about two.

696
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: Thirty, yeah that was in keeping with the. Career kinglan

697
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: hitting two thirty is Like Mookie betts hitting four. Fifty

698
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: like that's that's that's the eighty forty two career home

699
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: runs and eighty.

700
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 4: Five stolen base and three and one game against The

701
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 4: dodgers one.

702
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: Day that was a. Gummy that was a great performance

703
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: he had in that. Game, storm that was a phenomenal.

704
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Performance thank, You, Steve Jason, Smith Mike carmon lot from

705
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: The Fox Sports radio studios coming, up and that's got

706
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: another BIG nba story coming your. Way how about a

707
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: fifty one million dollar story coming your? Way that's, Yes.

708
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 2: Fox be sure to catch live editions Of The Jason

709
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 2: Smith show With Mike harmon weekdays at ten Pm, eastern

710
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 2: seven Pm, Pacific.

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00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith show with my best

712
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: Friend Mike. Harmon, yeah and we'll get back Into game

713
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: four of The Eastern Conference final coming up in a

714
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: couple of. Minutes pacers beat The. Knicks let's get ready

715
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: for The pacers and The thunder The ultimate. Yet, yes

716
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: but another big story out of THE nba, Today according To,

717
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: Shamshania Lebron james is going to opt in to the

718
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: final year of his cough track with The. Lakers so

719
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: he's got to report he's going to make fifty one

720
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: million dollars for next. Year file this under the category

721
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: of THINGS i could have told you And i'm not

722
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: AN nba inside. Insider right, here. Insider, yeah between that

723
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: and the ads for our plays And Dick Sporting. GOODS

724
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: i MEAN i could have told you to. ADD i

725
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: mean like he had a. Choice, okay no. One and

726
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: this is and this is the thing About lebron right,

727
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: now is that he Isn't. Lebron Mike north is. Here

728
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: he's a selfish Bastard Lifetime Achievement award, Right he's Not

729
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: Lebron james. Anymore he's still a terrific, player but he's

730
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: not the. Answer, NO i mean the answer Like Alan.

731
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: Iverson he's not the answer like he was with The

732
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: lakers a few years. Ago he is on the outside

733
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: looking in with The, lakers who are now building Around

734
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: luca for the next seven to eight. Years no one

735
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: is going to go crazy for. Him to give him

736
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: fifty one million, dollars would there be, Interested i'm, Sure

737
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: but to give him fifty one million dollars next? Year,

738
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: No and you, Know lebron is never gonna go somewhere

739
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: else and not get the maximum amount of money that he.

740
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: Can so there was no other. Choice nobody else is

741
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: gonna pay. Him he wants fifty one. Million of, course

742
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: he's gonna opt in for fifty one million dollars like, That,

743
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: again SOMETHING i could have told you without being AN nba.

744
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: INSIDE i have it on good authority that Tell Lebron

745
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: james will opt in to his contract with The lakers next.

746
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 1: Year but how could you say that anonymous? Sources who are?

747
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: They come? On tell me who are? They the voices

748
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: in my head common sense and. Logic and the other

749
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: part of this report is That sham said that conversations

750
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: will happen With lebron and The, Lakers AND i find

751
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: it funny that he, said you, Know lebron wants to

752
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: make sure that The lakers stay. Competitive so you now

753
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: you know Where seaan's is getting his information. From, Oh

754
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: lebron wants to make sure The lakers are. Clutched, client isn't?

755
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: He they just bleep and traded For. Luca they just

756
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: tried to open up the championship window by training for

757
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: a guy you wanted to play. With and, REALLY i

758
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: want to make sure The lakers are. Competitive i'll tell

759
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: you this is the conversation that's gonna. Happen right here's

760
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: a Conversation lebron's going to commit and, Say, Hey, lebron

761
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: let's not have this let's worry about this, year because

762
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: if we don't get further this, year then we did

763
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: last we don't get to The Western Conference, finals you're

764
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 1: gonna be finishing your career someplace. Else And i've said

765
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: outside of A Western Conference finals appearance for The lakers next,

766
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: Year lebron is finishing it because he still has time

767
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: left to, play. Right he's still a fantastic, player but

768
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 1: he's not the answer. Anymore he will finish someplace. Else

769
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: he'll play the last two or three years of his,

770
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,399
Speaker 1: career maybe With, bryce and it'll be In. Cleveland he'll

771
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: go home one more time before he finally. Retires he's

772
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: done THE la. Thing he's established himself out, here his production,

773
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: companies everything. Else but The lakers are gonna, say you know,

774
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: what they're they're moving away from The lebron. Era and

775
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: if things don't get better THAT i mean to cut

776
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: bait on it right now would not be. Smart you

777
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: want to give him more than two and a half

778
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: months to play again With. Luca let's figure things out

779
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: as things. Go but if things don't get better next,

780
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: year that's.

781
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 3: It.

782
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 1: Man The lakers aren't gonna, Say, Okay, Lebron we're still Gonna,

783
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: no it's gonna be we're building Around. Luca they're gonna

784
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: go get a rim runner for him this. Year they'll

785
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: go get the center that everybody, Says, oh if we

786
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: just had an, oh by the way, center The lakers

787
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: would still be. Playing they will make, moves but they

788
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: will be moves made Around luca and around and they

789
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: will take that fifty one million For lebron and they're

790
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: gonna spend it other, places and The lakers will they'll,

791
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 1: say thank, You, lebron we won a. Championship wasn't quite

792
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: everything we, thought but we did. Win thanks so, Much

793
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,959
Speaker 1: good luck the rest of your. Career we are moving

794
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: on spending that money someplace, Else Western Conference finals next,

795
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: year Or lebron's In cleveland the year after. That, YEAH

796
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: i mean they printed, money, Right so fifty, million, fine

797
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: you make fifty million plus off his presence here in

798
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: terms of all of your your media and advertising and

799
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: partnerships and everything. Else there's no question. There and certainly

800
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 1: the last couple of months there's been some verbal slat

801
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: fighting in the, media Right lebron taking his shots at roster,

802
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: construction his little joke of well the last guy to

803
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: say something referring To Anthony, davis you, know got himself traded.

804
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: WHATEVER i, mean there's there's certain you're trying to get

805
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: to that realization you're not the number one guy. Anymore

806
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 1: and that's, hard, right it's a hard. Thing we've watched

807
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: it for. Years take it to THE. Nfl how many

808
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 1: wide receivers like you, know you can have a really

809
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: good career if you and extend, things if you're willing

810
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: to be a number two and, recognize you, know you're

811
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: not the number one. Time and NOW i can't do.

812
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: That i'm. Out i'm not becoming a possession guy and

813
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: a blue. Guy, no that's not gonna. Happen but For Lebron, james,

814
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 1: YEAH i mean curious to see what this offseason, brings

815
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: like moderate rumors of you, Know zubac coming, back you,

816
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: know coming from The clippers or whatever big man they

817
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: go into the. Market is It connect traded again or

818
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: is it you, Know Austin reeves that's gotta. Go and

819
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: even with that nice contract he's on now it's not

820
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: gonna look the. Same but, yeah you run it back

821
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: one more time and then everybody shakes, hands say congratulations

822
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: on a job. Done exit out bout A fresco exit swollen,

823
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: Dome Jason, Smith Mike. Harmon coming up next Is Tyres

824
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 1: halliburton as great as everybody says he. Is our answer

825
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: is gonna surprise Youson Mike Fox Sports radio