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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, second Friday, Welcome inside, as we

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Speaker 1: break down Game two of the Eastern Conference Finals, which

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Speaker 1: really should be Game four of the Eastern Conference Finals,

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Speaker 1: because the Knicks aren't winning a game. This series is over.

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Speaker 1: It's broke, it's own. It's broke, and I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: this going on next week. You see what I did.

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Speaker 1: I said it was owned. No, No, it's done. The

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Speaker 1: Knicks aren't winning win a game. They're gonna lose Game

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Speaker 1: three by twenty and Game four by thirty. That's what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. By That's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you they're just gonna quit. Is that what

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Speaker 1: you're saying? Look, let me just let me just let

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Speaker 1: me just say this, right, because this is a big

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Speaker 1: thing coming off the game, and this is it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a weird it's a weird thing to think about,

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Speaker 1: but it makes a lot of sense. The Pacers come

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Speaker 1: in tonight and Pascal Siakam has the game of his

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Speaker 1: life right with thirty nine points, and I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: he's a third different player with thirty points at the

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Speaker 1: pace in the first two games. We we talked about this,

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Speaker 1: the the out coaching of Tom Thibodeau, which what Rick is,

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Speaker 1: what Rick Carlisle is doing now. But there is this

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Speaker 1: to be said, and I I you know, this is

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Speaker 1: this should be made more of a part of it,

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Speaker 1: but it's not. Teams have great home court advantage, right

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Speaker 1: and and you see it. And there was a really

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Speaker 1: fun thing right before the Eastern Conference Finals started where uh,

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Speaker 1: you saw Trey Young say, ah, you think New York

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Speaker 1: is great? Is great because the crowd is amazing for

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Speaker 1: the game six against the against the Boston Celtics, and

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Speaker 1: but Oklahoma City's crowd is louder. Right, Okay, there's lots

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Speaker 1: of great crowds. There's lots of big home court advantage crowds,

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Speaker 1: and you would think, okay, well, Madison Square Garden MSG

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Speaker 1: huge deal. There are places that you go into that

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Speaker 1: it's a hostile environment. There are places you go into

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Speaker 1: where you know, as a team, I gotta buckle down

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Speaker 1: and I have to understand that we're gonna be in

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Speaker 1: for it and it's everything we can do to try

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Speaker 1: to get a win here. It's gonna be really really difficult,

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Speaker 1: right like in Oklahoma City and that. And you go

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Speaker 1: you know, thinking about it focused, knowing that it's a

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Speaker 1: hostile environment right now that you're getting intimidated. But there's

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Speaker 1: different home court advantages. You're think, well, MSG, it's the

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Speaker 1: nixt it's it's the greatest arena in the world. It's

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Speaker 1: all the stars. Yes, but nobody goes into MSG in

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a war to come out of there,

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Speaker 1: or the win doesn't happen. Players go into Madison Square

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Speaker 1: Guard the most famous arena in the world, and they

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Speaker 1: are jacked up by the challenge and they feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: playing on the knicks. Well, look, Lebron James said it

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Speaker 1: his entire career. I love playing at MSG. He goes

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Speaker 1: off every time he's at MSG. It's why you should have

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Speaker 1: called the Knicks. But I love Madison square guard, and

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Speaker 1: so what happens. There's no intimidation factor. There's no I

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Speaker 1: The Pacers play a MSG like they're playing at home.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, you see the confidence they have. There's

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Speaker 1: would think they're the home team. There's no panic, there's

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Speaker 1: nothing that the crowd. There's no effect the crowd has

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Speaker 1: on the game. It's a great crowd, right, It's a

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Speaker 1: great crowd. You see it again Game six against the Celtics.

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Speaker 1: It was a It's a perfect atmosphere for that game.

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Speaker 1: the last ten years, I'd want to beat the last

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Speaker 1: of big superstars, and Knicks are winning big. That's what

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Speaker 1: I would want. But teams don't come into MSG and

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Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden so often. It's how the Pacers, who

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Speaker 1: it's different here at Madison Square Garden. You have guys

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Speaker 1: You had Nie Smith looking like Steph Curry in his

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Speaker 1: Nooby says, ah, I'm gonna give you some room to

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Speaker 1: shoot a three. Oh, that's great, thanks. You had Pascal Siaka,

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Speaker 1: who's a really good player and an all start. He's

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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant tonight in this game, and the Knicks couldn't

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Speaker 4: It's not like, hey, he's you.

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Speaker 1: Know, he's rebounding, missus or he said no, he's absolutely dumb.

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Speaker 1: And you know was the game plan off the bat

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Speaker 1: Rick car Carle again out coaching Tom Thibodeau new we're

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Speaker 1: But we know we can do this, like this is

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Speaker 1: what happens when you play at MSG. So it's not

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Speaker 1: certainly lots of arenas where we don't mind playing there.

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Speaker 1: The crowd is not that into it. It's it's okay.

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Speaker 1: This is where I'm jacked up by the challenge and

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Speaker 1: I accept it and I'm excited to play, and I

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Speaker 1: to phase me in this There's not a real home

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Speaker 4: And look at look at their playoff history. Look at

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Speaker 1: Right here, Pacers are down fifteen with three and a

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Speaker 1: we're done, it's not our night. We're down fifteen. Nope,

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Speaker 1: we're still pouring it down the court. We're still hitting

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Speaker 1: This is all they're doing and tonight, oh we're not

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Speaker 4: And here we go.

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Speaker 1: We got the game plan and we're excited and Halliburton's

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Speaker 1: This is how teams come into MSG. They're excited to

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Speaker 1: There's no in fact that the one thing I can

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Speaker 1: say is that I wish they Knicks really didn't have

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Speaker 1: maybe it's a more even playing field for them. It's weird,

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Speaker 1: but that's the reality of playing at Madison Square Garden.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not quite a neutral site game. But we've

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Speaker 5: certainly seen the the notion across sports, as maybe baseball

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Speaker 5: still with the fact that you're playing at different angles

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Speaker 5: and measurements and whatever else, so you can still, you know,

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Speaker 5: build your team for the eighty one home home game slate.

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Speaker 5: But everything else we've seen home court home field advantage.

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Speaker 5: That coefficient is shrunk for the most part across sports.

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Speaker 5: Even in these playoffs. We've seen it and that's not

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Speaker 5: to say what you know, just isolating these two games

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Speaker 5: that we've just watched. For the Pacers. New York's a

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Speaker 5: different animal, right, bright Light's a Broadway and you mentioned

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Speaker 5: Lebron James, go on down the line. Look at all

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Speaker 5: the games Jordan had, Look at all the games some

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Speaker 5: that stage. Because if you go in and beat the Knicks,

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Speaker 5: even if they're not these knicks that were expected to

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Speaker 5: reach great heights, you're still winning in New York, which

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Speaker 5: means you're being talked about in New York, which means

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Speaker 5: you're being talked about across nationwide. Giving the histories of

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Speaker 5: be magnified on a whole other level. So, yeah, you win,

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Speaker 5: you build your brand, because that's the other part of it.

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Speaker 5: It's brand building, right, It's seizing the moment, but recognizing

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Speaker 5: like Helliburon most overrated guy.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 5: Only ninety guys voted and for those that want to

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Speaker 5: but guess what, it's over thirty. I can count so

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Speaker 5: fourteen of those people saying he's overrated. You don't think

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Speaker 5: he took that to heart. Of course, you don't think

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Speaker 5: his teammates rallied around that. The timing of that doesn't help.

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Speaker 1: But also but also look Halliburton, who had games in

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Speaker 1: get the great Halliburton. Sometimes you get the Halliburton that

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Speaker 1: just kind of sets passivity and what have you. You

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Speaker 1: this way all the time, right, get that a little bit,

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Speaker 1: Not not about the knicks, but it's just like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, why I get that you get a little

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Speaker 1: this all the time? No, I'm gonna save it for MS. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now I'm mad well I'm gonna save it for the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: We're playing a massive bard, but like, why aren't you

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Speaker 3: He does?

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Speaker 1: This is personal what they heard some Yahoo on the

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Speaker 1: radio saying that with the Knicks, we got something for

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Speaker 1: the Pacers this year, and I took it was you.

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Speaker 1: I took that personally.

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Speaker 5: But all of that to say, winning there holds a

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Speaker 5: whole other level of ownership and angst. Uh that you're

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Speaker 5: creating for the fan base, for media members forever. So

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Speaker 5: that and adding to a laundry list of near misses. Uh,

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Speaker 5: you have to relish that. If you're Carlisle, if you're

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Speaker 5: we can go finish the job, right. Siakam coming off

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Speaker 5: the jump six of his eight shots in the first quarter,

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Speaker 5: But he's hitting all those shots he only took. He

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Speaker 5: get him going in the end you have six guys

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Speaker 5: not not happening, like Back to the Future four, not happening.

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Speaker 4: Mark. What's happening?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 3: Uh? I don't say that the troll, but I'm probably

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you absolutely are one hundred percent.

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Speaker 4: But by the end of the show.

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Speaker 1: I will be fine because I knew this was coming.

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Speaker 3: So let's just establish. Am I here to console troll

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: How about how about this? How about is tu up?

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Speaker 1: And we'll go from there? How about that?

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Speaker 1: It sounds good percentage chance this series is over because

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Speaker 4: This series is over.

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Speaker 3: I think it's only seventy five percent chance. I think

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Speaker 3: So I think it's point for better and for worse.

432
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Speaker 3: Like their roster, they have to bring it and if not,

433
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Speaker 3: they're going to get blown out.

434
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think market's about who to play. But clearly, hey,

435
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Speaker 1: the Pacers did you know, succeeded in Game one, and

436
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Speaker 1: the Knicks clearly expected something they weren't getting because from

437
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Speaker 1: the beginning you could tell the plan was is gonna

438
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Speaker 1: take over this game. Right, you don't just accidentally score

439
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Speaker 1: the first eleven points of the game like they knew,

440
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Speaker 1: we're going to take advantage of this situation. And Siakam

441
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Speaker 1: has a game of his life and the Knicks didn't

442
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Speaker 1: know how to respond. So whatever it's like, whatever Rick

443
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Speaker 1: Carlisle has had, you know, has had as his play

444
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Speaker 1: the Knicks can adjust to. And that's what I mean

445
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Speaker 1: by by Tibbs is getting like he's he wasn't ready

446
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Speaker 1: and they couldn't adjust toe Siakam having the hot hand

447
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Speaker 1: and still he's opened for big threes, He's still.

448
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Speaker 4: Able one on one.

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Speaker 1: He looked like Brian Kevin durant tonight, like he was

450
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Speaker 1: Durantela in his prime.

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Speaker 3: That's what tonight, Mark, You know what that that is

452
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Speaker 3: a fair point. You know, rotations. I don't fault tips,

453
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Speaker 3: but here's where of the next urt fault both coaches

454
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Speaker 3: and players. They got to play at their own pace.

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Speaker 3: If you're going to get in a track me with

456
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Speaker 3: the Pacers. It's going to be you Saint Bolt versus

457
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Speaker 3: Jason Smith in a foot race. That not really it's

458
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Speaker 3: so lopnized out even funny. So you know, again, the

459
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Speaker 3: Pacers are doing this because they have the speed, they

460
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Speaker 3: have the depth. The Knicks they have to muck it up.

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Speaker 3: They gotta be nineties nicked. They have to be physical

462
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Speaker 3: and I haven't seen enough of that discipline on closeouts

463
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Speaker 3: as well as just being organized. You know, you don't

464
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Speaker 3: have to be, you know, the fastest or most rugged

465
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Speaker 3: team in the world, but if you communicate you're on

466
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Speaker 3: the same page, you can often minimize those stakes. And again,

467
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Speaker 3: it's just fuddling that it was still overwhelming despite the

468
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Speaker 3: fact that the Knicks you know, want the rebound in

469
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Speaker 3: battle Tyres Halburn did not shoot the ball well their

470
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Speaker 3: star player Jay and Brunt has played outut of his mind.

471
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Speaker 3: You add all those things up. In a normal circumstance,

472
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Speaker 3: that shouldn't mean a win for the next but because

473
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Speaker 3: of the pacing issues, it became a much different outcome.

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Speaker 5: And Jason's already to ship cat out of town for

475
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Speaker 5: anybody with a near a max deal.

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Speaker 1: This is why I'm not a good GM because I

477
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to make a movie Bridges before the playoffs started. Yeah,

478
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Speaker 1: he's he's taking them all out.

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Speaker 4: Mark.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, Uh, we're talking about the Wolves

481
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Speaker 3: and their struggles. I mean maybe they swapped Julius Randall. Given,

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Speaker 3: can we get games, we'll go out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get Devincenzo back. Now, I'll be fine that

484
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Speaker 1: I'd like that.

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Speaker 5: Trade that trade back, trade back baseball cards where someone's

486
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Speaker 5: parent went and figured out what the true value of Mark.

487
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Speaker 5: If you're gonna give that card back, Mark, If we

488
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Speaker 5: make that trade, it's going to be Karl Anthony Townsend

489
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Speaker 5: O g Hannoby for Jiannis.

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Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 4: Okay, just.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, I think that the Bucks should

493
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Speaker 3: be trading means up to Kumbo that had three first

494
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Speaker 3: round exits. Damian Lillard is probably not going to be back,

495
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Speaker 3: and if he is, he's not the same player. They're

496
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Speaker 3: going to be in the Hampshire Wheel. If they just say,

497
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Speaker 3: oh we got to keep our star player just because

498
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Speaker 3: so you know what, this might be a blessing the

499
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Speaker 3: sky Jason that just think of how sad and upset

500
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Speaker 3: and angry you are right now, This just greases the

501
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Speaker 3: wheel for that huge deal, and then next year is

502
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Speaker 3: when that championship parade finally happens. I know you've heard

503
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Speaker 3: it before, now you're here it again. Just wait till

504
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Speaker 3: next year.

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Speaker 5: If the trade that he proposes goes down, Mark I

506
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Speaker 5: will literally walk into the commissioner's office and say, show me,

507
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Speaker 5: you know, frozen envelopes, prove to me none of these

508
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Speaker 5: conspiracies are real. If it's oh Gianna, no, but yeah,

509
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Speaker 5: because that's bringing the Bucks closer to anything.

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Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, I think they would have to trade

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Speaker 3: their whole starting to get you.

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Speaker 1: Honest, that sounds about right now. We'll just know, we'll

513
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Speaker 1: keep brock Brunson and Jonnis. We'll play two one five

514
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Speaker 1: will be good.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So you gave the Knicks twenty possibility of coming

516
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Speaker 5: back from two to ho t Wolves?

517
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Speaker 1: What half that? A third that and ate that?

518
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Speaker 4: What are we talking?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think this is a Mary Swanson ods to

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Speaker 3: Lloyd one. Here's the thing that Thunder, they're a much

521
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Speaker 3: different fiece when you have the MVP with shay Gojus Alexander,

522
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Speaker 3: the best defensive team in the league, so many wing defenders,

523
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Speaker 3: great front court players, great chemistry, and they're young. You

524
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Speaker 3: know what that means. They're night and day above and

525
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Speaker 3: beyond the challenges of the Wolves face and the playoffs

526
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Speaker 3: with a Golden State Warriors team that had Steph Curry

527
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Speaker 3: on the bench because of a hamstring injury, and a

528
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Speaker 3: Lakers team that didn't have any real centers and no

529
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Speaker 3: real defenders. So I say that with full recognition that

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Speaker 3: the Wolves are legitimate team. They've raised their game to

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Speaker 3: another level up until this series. Julius Randall is not

532
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Speaker 3: the Julius Randall the New York Next of being either

533
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Speaker 3: ineffective or not healthy in the playoffs, and he Edwards

534
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Speaker 3: has grown once again as a young star in every category, scoring, shooting, passing, leadership.

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Speaker 3: And they do have bench deff it's just not the

536
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Speaker 3: same kind of depth that the thunder have. And so

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Speaker 3: they're putting up a good fight. They don't lack for confidence.

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Speaker 3: It's just that, you know, the Thunder just above and

539
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Speaker 3: beyond ahead of the rest of the Western Conference. So

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Speaker 3: I think if it goes more than a sweep, now

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Speaker 3: it's just a gentleman's sweep because of Thunder leather Guard

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Speaker 3: downing game career Game four. But I can't see how

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Speaker 3: this is going to be competitive the rest of the war.

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Speaker 1: I'll go what go? You won further Market. We talked

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Speaker 1: about this last night. If I put the over under

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Speaker 1: for Oklahoma City Thunder losses the rest of this playoffs

547
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Speaker 1: at two and a half, I'm taking the under because

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody out of the East can give

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Speaker 1: him a series in the finals. They're just that much

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Speaker 1: better in their proving. I think we're gonna look back

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Speaker 1: at the end of the playoffs and go, man, how

552
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Speaker 1: did the Nuggets take them to seven? Like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're really just playing that much better?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, look, I think the Pacers have shown through

555
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Speaker 3: each round that they're a real deal. They're respectable. I

556
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Speaker 3: mean they beat Cleveland even though they weren't fully healthy.

557
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Speaker 3: That team was still the best team in the East.

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Speaker 3: You know, they're running laps around the Knicks, and they're

559
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Speaker 3: not gonna beat the Thunder in a presumed NBA Finals,

560
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Speaker 3: but I could see them win a game or two.

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Speaker 3: Tyres Halburn not only is the best passer in the NBA,

562
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Speaker 3: but you know when he's aggressive, he can be a

563
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Speaker 3: really lethal scorer. As we saw in Game one that

564
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Speaker 3: crazy shot. Stories on the line, hit the back of

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Speaker 3: the rim and dropped in. He can have those kind

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Speaker 3: of moments, but the thunder Shay is just a scoring machine.

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Speaker 3: He does it naturally with his amazing playmaking, but he

568
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Speaker 3: also does it to the annoyance of opponents with finding

569
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Speaker 3: the angles, flailing, exaggerating and getting some SAG awards. But

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Speaker 3: he's also has a lot of good options around him,

571
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Speaker 3: like Jaleen Williams has become a much more consistent score

572
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Speaker 3: He's prepared for that moving on and off the ball,

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Speaker 3: his pick and roll coverage chemistry with Ched Holmgren and

574
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 3: Isaiah Hartenstein, it's just like clockwork. And then defensively, that's

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Speaker 3: what really drives the offense. They have so many wing

576
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Speaker 3: defenders in case the Wallace Aux Curses, Jalen Williams Blue Door.

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Speaker 3: They create so many easy baskets because you're getting steals, deflections,

578
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 3: chasing loose balls. They really don't have any weakness other

579
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Speaker 3: than they might not bring their a game every single night.

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Speaker 1: So finally it's it's the end of award season.

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Speaker 5: We saw the all NBA teams announced today SGA with

582
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Speaker 5: the MVP Award. Any shock in any of the first

583
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Speaker 5: or second team. Seeing Lebron as the second team or

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Speaker 5: any of that stand.

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Speaker 3: Out to you. No, not really. I think what you

586
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Speaker 3: saw was what you expected, right, I mean Lebron's second team,

587
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 3: he would bat and I if it was in his prime.

588
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 3: But he's forty years old, so I think if anything,

589
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Speaker 3: that's like wow, like to still play an All Star

590
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Speaker 3: caliber level, it's still pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: So waity, don't you write a whole column about how

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Speaker 1: Bronni was completely snubbed off the All Rookie team.

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Speaker 4: I think I thought you.

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Speaker 1: Wrote that article.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, You're right. I'm exposed here, I'm exposed. Yeah, Ronnie,

596
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 3: Ronnie Bronni should get a Max steal this upcoming summer

597
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 3: instead of trying to give Luca doncic to an extension,

598
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 3: because it's about the Lebron and Bronny show. It's not

599
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 3: about Luca.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Hi, good, Just wanted to make sure. Just want

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Speaker 4: to make sure.

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Speaker 1: You can follow on Twitter at mark G Underscore Medina.

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Speaker 1: That's at Mark G Underscore Medina Marks always buddy, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff. We'll talk to you next week when we

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Speaker 1: for real we preview the Pacers and the Thunder.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm sure we'll start working shopping some more

607
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 3: next trade ideas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very good.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, we don't need any more.

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Speaker 1: No, it's honest, like yeah, yeah, it's honest that that

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Speaker 1: that's the that's what's happening. There's no other trade offer

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Speaker 1: going on. It's honest.

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Speaker 5: He's holding up his one finger like he's doctor Strange

614
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Speaker 5: one telling all the possibility this is.

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Speaker 1: This is this is only a nick fan thing where

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Speaker 1: they could be in the middle of the Eastern Conference

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Speaker 1: finals and no, I want to talk about next year.

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Speaker 4: See you buddy, have fun market all right, take it.

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Speaker 1: I I really do feel like I am gonna be okay,

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Speaker 1: and maybe about an hour and a half from now.

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Speaker 4: I am, I am, I am.

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Speaker 1: You got a bowl of ice cream? Were good?

623
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Speaker 4: Bowl of ice cream? Sandwich?

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Speaker 1: No, we had a lot of cheese tonight. They had cheese, cheese,

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Speaker 1: cheez It's good now. Time to find out what's trending

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Speaker 1: right now in the wide world of sports. From someone

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Speaker 1: who's been called the Yannis of Fox Sports Radio because

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Speaker 1: New York is his favorite place to go on the road,

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Speaker 1: it is Steve de Saga.

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Speaker 6: I thought you're gonna say, and Lebron will retire and

631
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Speaker 6: I'm going to LA. I will sell everything. By the way,

632
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Speaker 6: we have a great ballgame still going in New York.

633
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Speaker 6: To the bottom of the twelfth Mets and Dodgers tied

634
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Speaker 6: five to five. Here we're well after twelve thirty Eastern time.

635
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Speaker 6: There's a rain delay and the top of the third

636
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Speaker 6: about an hour and a half. And one of the

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Speaker 6: reasons we are still playing is because what happened after

638
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Speaker 6: the rain delay. In the fourth inning, the Mets scored

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Speaker 6: on a sacrifice fly.

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Speaker 4: Even though the.

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Speaker 6: Runner was thrown out at the plate, the run was

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Speaker 6: awarded to New York because the Dodger third baseman Max

643
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Speaker 6: Munsey walked in between the sightline of the runner who

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Speaker 6: was looking out at right field waiting for the catch

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Speaker 6: to be made so he could take off. No physical

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Speaker 6: obstruction visual of construction was called on the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: How many times I've seen that, called, Steve, that's that's

648
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Speaker 1: like I see the Tuck rule never all the time, Yes, exactly,

649
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: It's just like the Tuck rum.

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Speaker 6: So once we got to the bottom of the ninth

651
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Speaker 6: and the Dodgers were up five to the LA closer

652
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Speaker 6: who's not having a good week, Tanner Scott gave up

653
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 6: three runs. We've been five to five ever since. The

654
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 6: Dodgers in the top of the tenth had bases loaded,

655
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 6: but Monsey grounded into a double play to end the inning.

656
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 6: The Mets had a couple on and the bottom of

657
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Speaker 6: the tenth could not score. In the bottom of the eleventh,

658
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,239
Speaker 6: the Mets had bases loaded and a three to zero

659
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 6: count and wound up grounding out and leaving the runners

660
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Speaker 6: on base. The Dodgers are truly out of pitchers because

661
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 6: Luis Garcia is embarking on his second inning out of

662
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Speaker 6: the pen.

663
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: Each Louise Torrens is playing first base for the Mets.

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Speaker 4: He'll be pitching, certainly.

665
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Speaker 1: Mike Sosha is catching for the Dodgers.

666
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Speaker 6: They need his bat here in the Lake going of

667
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 6: course they.

668
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, they showed that.

669
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Speaker 6: So each team has used eight pitchers in this game.

670
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Speaker 6: And this will be the Fox game tomorrow night. Yeah,

671
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 6: they might just sleep in the dugout and be ready

672
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Speaker 6: for the game tomorrow.

673
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Speaker 1: Jan Soda was over eleven tonight in the game.

674
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Speaker 4: For the Mets.

675
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 6: He is over, that's for sure, but he's only betted fight.

676
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: Sorry, he's left eleven runners on bass. Sorry that's what

677
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: he's done.

678
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Speaker 6: Sorry, So he's got a batting average down to two

679
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 6: thirty six and the Mets have just loaded the bases

680
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Speaker 6: in the bottom of the twelve. Can we just say

681
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 6: this is over?

682
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Speaker 1: It's like no, no, because we load, because we've loaded

683
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Speaker 1: the bases in the last two innings that we couldn't get.

684
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Speaker 6: Out pitching in the previous sitting over.

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00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, dude, just got down a bunt, Yeah,

686
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Speaker 1: Starling Martine, how about that? Just bunted for a base

687
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: hit and did not pull a hamstring those two things. Yeah,

688
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: wait a minute, he's out at first. They got to

689
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: review this, right.

690
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 4: They're looking the bunt and he is.

691
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's out of that out.

692
00:32:58,880 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 4: I didn't get what he wanted to do.

693
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, the way he got the runners over, that's all.

694
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: He's gonna be bases loaded and they're gonna walk so

695
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: to or you know, he stinks they may pitch to him.

696
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 4: They may pitch too.

697
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: He's gotta take the bat off his shoulders, shits to.

698
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 6: Him underhanded, and it's that bat who knows it'll still

699
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 6: be only one out and the Mets on the verge

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Speaker 6: of victory at the bottom of the.

701
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: Twelve Martea standing on first base and he's last. I

702
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: will not leave because he knows he's gonna kick all that.

703
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 4: He is out of first. Yeah.

704
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 6: The Angels won their eighth game in a row, seven

705
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Speaker 6: to four over Miami. Colorado beat the Yankees three to

706
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 6: two tonight, even though Aaron Judge he had his seventeenth homer.

707
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 6: Seattle's Col Rawley with his seventeenth home run of the season.

708
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 6: The MS one at Houston five to three. Saint Louis

709
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 6: and Minnesota with wins. The Twins hit a two run

710
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 6: homer bottom in the ninth edge Kansas City three to one.

711
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 6: Victory's for the White Sox. In Tampa Bay, the Padres

712
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 6: got a solo homer in the ninth for Manny Machado

713
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 6: to win at Atlanta two to one. That ends San

714
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 6: Diego six game losing streak. Boston won the first of

715
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 6: a scheduled doubleheader nineteen to five over Baltimore. Game two

716
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 6: was rained out. They'll play a twin bill on Saturday.

717
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 6: Victories for San Francisco and Cleveland. Pittsburgh won in ten

718
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 6: innings with two in the bottom of the tenth on

719
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 6: an era and a wild pitch to beat Milwaukee six

720
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 6: to five in ten, and the Cubs were down six

721
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 6: to two at Cincinnati after six innings and still beat

722
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 6: the Reds thirteen to six. The Indiana Pacers won at

723
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 6: New York one fourteen to one. Oh nine, Passcal Siakam

724
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 6: with thirty nine points. Pacers up two games to none

725
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 6: in the Eastern Conference Finals. Jalen Brunson did have thirty

726
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 6: six points and eleven assists. He now has the most

727
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 6: thirty point playoff games in the history of the Knicks,

728
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 6: nineteen of him and only thirty eight postseason games in

729
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 6: his career. Patrick Ewing had eighteen thirty point playoff games

730
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 6: in almost one hundred and thirty eight playoff games in

731
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Speaker 6: his Knick's career.

732
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 4: Oh how's that?

733
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: Where's that gotten the Knicks in the first two games

734
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: of the series?

735
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 6: Exactly?

736
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.

737
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 6: There are teams in the last decade included that had

738
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 6: been down two to zero in a best of seven

739
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 6: and after losing the first two at home, still won.

740
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Speaker 6: I mean, the Clippers came back Celtics and after being

741
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 6: down two to oh still finish the series.

742
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: They showed up for the games they still played.

743
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 6: And the Mets have just grounded into a double play.

744
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 6: We are going to the thirteenth inning in New York

745
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 6: five five Mets and Dodgers.

746
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 4: My goodness, no, the game is over. No can I

747
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 4: say the game is over? The game is over, The

748
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 4: game is up. You could go home.

749
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what's trending next hour. The Dodgers bring in.

750
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: The reason that this is going to the thirteenth inning

751
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: is because the Mets can't get a hit with any

752
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: bleeping runners on base. But Dave Roberts brought Tommy edmund

753
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: in from the outfield. The Dodgers had five infielders for

754
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: that at bat with Lurise Torrens, and he grounds to

755
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: a spot where it's an easy grab for Key k

756
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: Hernandez flipped a second first and Torrens is out by

757
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: three steps getting down the first baseline.

758
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 4: Illegal shifts.

759
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: That's Mets baseball, man. I'm telling you, this is not

760
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 1: my night in sports.

761
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 3: This is not my night, man.

762
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 1: This is where I need to call a time out,

763
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: tag out and be replaced.

764
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 5: Well, you thought you were winning in the bottom of

765
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 5: the time and now it just keeps going. Free Baseball

766
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 5: Syracuse hasn't played yet this weekend. Oh no, wait, stay

767
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 5: tuned No, we'll lose tomorrow to Maryland in the lacrosse

768
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 5: Final four. We're losing the final four. We'll lose like

769
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 5: six to two or something crazy like that, because Maryland's

770
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 5: a great defensive team.

771
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 4: That'll happen.

772
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: Sure, it'll all happened.

773
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 4: Who else? What other my teams? Hurricanes will get eliminated?

774
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 4: What else? I gotta all get all I it's all happening.

775
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: It's all falling. I'm like, uh, I'm like uh Leo

776
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: in Wolf of Wall Street. It's all falling apart all

777
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,240
Speaker 1: at once. Here comes Kyle Chandler. I'm having a stroke

778
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: trying to get my car. It's all falling apart for me.

779
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 6: You're already pounding your chest.

780
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 4: Look at him Twitch.

781
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 3: Thank you.

782
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: Steve coming up next. Hey, it's not just Yannis. We're

783
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 1: talking about potentially moving on after this year. What about

784
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: Lebron James, Lebron James. That's next, Jason, Mike Fox, I'll

785
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: be losing all by myself.

786
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Speaker 2: Sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show

787
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 2: with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.

788
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best

789
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon yes, sir, really, not my night. In sports,

790
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: Dodgers have two in the top of the thirteenth. They

791
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: lead the Mets seven five.

792
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 4: The Mets.

793
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm not lying, I'm I'm not saying anything that I'm

794
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: being The Mets have left eight runners on base in

795
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: the last three innings, no runs. And this is why

796
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: we can't have nice.

797
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 4: Just like when I say you deserve to lose, you

798
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 4: deserve to lose. Not my night. This is not my night,

799
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 4: Mike Garment, not mine.

800
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 5: You know what, You'll get up and get after it again.

801
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 5: Tomorrow you'll stop and maybe you'll get a donut. Not

802
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 5: my night, nice big coffee, not my night. You'll sing

803
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 5: some show tunes in life will be better.

804
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: So we talked about potentially Yannis being on his way

805
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,479
Speaker 1: to the Knicks. You know, certainly Karl Anthony Town's getting

806
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: benched in the fourth quarter tonight. It's not quite been

807
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 1: the season that the Knicks have expected from. Karl Anthony Town.

808
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 4: Got shut down.

809
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: I think it started out how they thought it was

810
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: going to, but it just didn't. I don't think that

811
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: they said I think they expected this offense and and

812
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: Carl Anthony Towns to be a little bit different spot

813
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: right now than it is and getting bench with a

814
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Wow, man, I go with Mitchell Robinson all

815
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: the way.

816
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 5: You basically saying we don't need offense now, we need

817
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 5: someone who's gonna get at least give us some modicum

818
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 5: of extra effort.

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: I mean it is you know that that really that's

820
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: really something. It's really something when you're number two guy,

821
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: he's bench with the entire fourth quarter. So yeah, could

822
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: I see a Karl Anthony Towns Anernobe type deal for you? Yeah? Absolutely,

823
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: I can see that for you, honest.

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00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 5: But the other one that they say that forty five times,

825
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 5: it just magically by saying it one more time.

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Speaker 4: Will it happen? Uh?

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Speaker 1: The other thing is, and we told you this a

828
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, get ready for this to be

829
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: the last year in LA for Lebron. A couple of

830
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: reports in The Athletic also sam Ammick that Lebron's relationship

831
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: with the Lakers is quote a frosty one. This is

832
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: something that came out earlier. Today's relationship with the Lakers

833
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: is frosty. And you know, potentially there's always a chance

834
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: he can walk.

835
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 4: Now.

836
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen. He's not going to

837
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: turn his back on fifty million dollars. He's not going

838
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: to get that from somebody else. But short of a

839
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals run next year, this is it, we

840
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: told you this year is it for Lebron in LA.

841
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: They have already hit Frosty, They've already put him at

842
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: arms length. He has already been someone that look, you

843
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: don't run the team anymore. They trade ad. You and

844
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 1: Rich Paul don't have the pull that you once did,

845
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: so Lebron is kind of on the outsider.

846
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 5: Now.

847
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: The Lakers aren't going to simply just say, okay, we're

848
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: gonna do it now, rip the bed and no. They

849
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: want to give Lebron and Luca more than two months

850
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: to get something go because maybe it works out. But

851
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: clearly I see this short of a Western Conference Finals

852
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: appearance next year, and that might not even be enough.

853
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 1: Lebron is finishing his career the last couple of years

854
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: someplace else, probably Cleveland. And he is finishing his career

855
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 1: someplace else. It's not LA.

856
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 5: One year, fifty two million dollars, no trade clause, one

857
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 5: of the rare contracts in the NBA. He's taken swipes

858
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 5: at the front office, go back to a d right.

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00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 6: Ah.

860
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: And you know the last guy that talked about big Man,

861
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: he got traded.

862
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 4: So no, I'm not gonna do that.

863
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 5: Should you know what advice you're gonna give Luca about,

864
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 5: you know, helping to build and whatever. I don't have

865
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 5: any advice for him, right, That's not my thing to

866
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Speaker 5: talk about that. So he's distanced himself in every respect,

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Speaker 5: and certainly Luca coming to town realizing you have to

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Speaker 5: him to take it. But certainly the frosty relationship that

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Speaker 5: does not surprise me, something we talked about weeks ago.

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Speaker 5: As you start reading the tea leaves of how they're

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