WEBVTT - What's Wright - Best Of - Knicks TARGETING Kevin Durant or Giannis after Thibs firing? SGA's 2025 better than Steph's 2016? 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:02.720 Welcome to the best of the Week for What's Right 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.440 with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.039 week on the show. Enjoy. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:11.880 Yeah, So, after two games away from the NBA Finals, 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.360 the New York Knicks have fired TIBs. We talked on Tuesday. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.560 You seem to think that his job was pretty secure. 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.120 Myself as well. I couldn't see them fire and TIBs. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:20.799 But here we. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.320 Are, they fired him. Where did they go from here? 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:24.759 What's the assessment? 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:26.279 Okay, so. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:33.160 I react, this happened ten minutes before the TV show started, right, 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:40.520 And I actually said on the air, sometimes the reacting 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:45.000 to breaking news are my favorite shows when I look 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.000 back on them, and sometimes they're the most annoying shows 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.920 because I'm like, gosh, darn it, I just didn't have 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.920 that piece of information, you know what I mean, And 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.480 so everything that we said ends up becoming irrelevant a 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.360 few hours later. I think the TIBs show might end 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.920 up falling into the former category my favorite shows, and 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.960 here's why. So my snap reaction to the TIBs firing 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:18.680 was there's really only three ways to view it, Like 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.720 there's only three I guess rationales to the firing rationale 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:24.440 one was. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.200 They So let me back up. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.680 The reason I'm framing it like this is because everyone 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.880 is framing it the way you did, Demonse, which is 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.080 it was the best season in twenty five years. You 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.280 made your first conference finals in twenty five years, you 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.560 were two games away from the NBA Finals, you were 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.640 favored to go to the finals, and you fired your coach. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:50.840 So logically speaking, that would mean one of two things 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.720 is true. Either A, at the end of the regular 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:01.360 season they had determined were move moving on from Tom Thibodeau. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:06.320 Anything short of a championship or making the finals, we're 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.680 firing that. That's where they were, kind of like the 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.320 Nuggets were with Michael Malone. But the Nuggets just did 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.640 it beforehand and they weren't going to let this playoff 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:16.639 run dissuade them. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.400 That's kind of option A. Option be. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.920 If that's not the case, if at the end of 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.120 the regular season his job was safe, then that would 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:31.120 mean option B, which is somehow this playoff run hurt 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.760 TIBs in the front office er ownership's eyes, right, if 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.120 he would save at the end of the regular season 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.040 that they looked at it and they were like, you 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:45.000 know what, Demons was right that victory over the Celtics 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:45.519 was a fluke. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.760 Shouldn't have happened down fifteen in every game. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.320 We're actually not that good, you know what I mean, 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.239 Like we were trailing Detroit a Bune, we got lucky 0:02:54.280 --> 0:03:00.240 against Boston and so like those are, in theory, the 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:04.160 only two viable paths. And this is why I'm kind 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.200 I feel like Tuesday's TV show is going to age. Well, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.040 I said that, and then I said, there is, however, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:16.919 a third path, a third rationale I should say, which 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:22.840 is they are firing Tom Thibodeau because there is a 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.920 player they are trying to acquire that they think they 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.560 will be more likely to acquire if they fire Tom Thibodeaux. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:36.920 And the what I was implying without really saying, is 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:46.160 was it possible that someone from Giannis's camp said, hey, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:53.240 you know, if person X was your coach, maybe not 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.520 only you know, would it pushed Gyan is closer to 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.960 asking for a trade, but maybe he would ask for 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:04.640 trade to the Knick specifically. So I just kind of 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.320 threw that out there as a possibility. I don't think 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.560 you would have to fire a Tibbs in order to 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.240 give yourself a better chance to get Kevin Durant. Yannis 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.400 is the other big name out there. So I just 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.760 threw that out there on Tuesday. And then, Demons, did 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:26.400 you see the kind of weird report about one of 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.919 the coaches the Knicks might want to go after? 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:30.920 Because I did. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.800 It was a coach who currently has a job, and 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:41.200 it was Jason Kidd. And if people remember, Jason Kidd 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:48.760 coached Yannis in Milwaukee, and when Jason Kidd was fired Yannis, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.000 the reporting was he called Jason Kidd and said, is 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.560 can I fix it? Should I call ownership and say, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:02.680 unfire you? I'm paraphrasing again, I'm not, I am. I'm 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.720 literally I could not be further away from reporting anything here. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.760 I have been gambling NonStop for the last thirty six hours. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.599 I've not been working the phones. I've been playing poker. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:21.440 I'm simply saying the firing TIBs. It was odd enough 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.880 that a little alarm bells went off. And then when 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.720 I cause the reporting, demanse was there were two coaches 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.240 who currently have jobs the Knicks were interested in. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.440 It was Jason Kidd and emy Udoka. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.000 And I'm like, okay, well, Emay Udoka is not going 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.560 to be available like and so it felt to me 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:52.360 and again maybe maybe I'm wrong, like Udoka was included 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.040 in that, like, hey, yeah, there's a lot of. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.640 You know, established coaches that you know we might like. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.360 It's really that one name. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.120 It was really about exactly. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:10.000 And then this morning on the walk over from Aria 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.560 where I'm staying to Horseshoe where the World Series of 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.120 Poker is, I was listening to Brian windhorse Show. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.440 The Hoop Collective. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.080 And anybody, by the way, who tweeting me or asking 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.160 me or whatever about Lebron once again going at Wendy, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.400 I would please. What I would like to say about 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.600 that is it makes me very sad and I wish 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:39.120 you wouldn't do it, and I you know, I appreciate 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.840 you respecting my privacy at this time, I do not 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:47.480 like it. But bright I was listening to Brian Windhorst 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:55.240 on his great podcast with Tim bond Temps and Tim McMahon, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:07:00.480 Tim McMahon who covers all the Texas teams free ESPN, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.120 and the Jason Kidd thing came up and Tim McMahon 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.760 did not who just wrote a book on Luca who's 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.120 very close to the MAVs When the Jason Kidd thing 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.760 came up, Tim McMahon did not say, Oh, no chance, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.840 there's no way the MAVs are letting him leave. There's 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:22.560 no that didn't happen. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.560 So Jason Kidd might want to leave Dallas. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.520 I don't think that's a situation. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:33.840 Yeah, listen, I know they have Cooper flag coming, but 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.680 it's still kind of a toxic situation. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:36.960 And here's the other thing. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:43.360 Even if like it wasn't a toxic situation, so much 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.640 easier to win in the East right now, right now, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.760 I'm going to add one other piece of this because 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.880 obviously Jim Dolan was involved to some level. I don't 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.200 know how much of a level, but to some level. Okay, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:03.880 So I'm gonna I'm gonna build a long bridge to 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:10.320 get to this point. Somebody I didn't interview a couple 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.880 of weeks ago, and that silly like face of the 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.920 network thing came up again when the guy asked me 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.640 about FS one and me and I answered what I've 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:25.000 always answered, which is, for the last almost decade, Colin 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:29.120 Cowhard has been an hat for every single day the 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.040 face of FS one, and he will be until he 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.800 stops broadcasting for US and people think like, that's just 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.880 you know me, you know, kind of paying tribute to 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.720 a guy who's my professional idol and friend, and you 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.800 know all that, and some of that's true whatever, but 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.400 it's also it's not like an emeritus title. He's also 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.760 as like the kids on Twitter would say, still throwing 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.120 ninety eight on the black whenever he wants. Because Coward 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.800 had the best Jim Dolan take ever and he just 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.880 said it as an aside a few years ago, and 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.240 it's so perfect that I'm here in Vegas. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.160 When we're talking about this, which. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.800 Is Coward said, do you know why the Knicks all 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:23.959 of a sudden got good, good management, good coaching, They 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:29.280 were a functional adult franchise And he said it was 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.400 because Jim Dolan was building the Sphere in Las Vegas 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.800 and and was distracted. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:38.120 And I'm like, oh, that's exactly right. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.679 Like Jim Dolan's favorite toy forever, ever since he inherited 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.360 cable vision and MSG from his dad, has been the Knicks. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:53.559 But then his company was building the Sphere in Vegas 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.320 and that was his new toy, and so he had 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.960 to leave the Knicks alone. And like, all right, Leon 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.320 rose in world Wide West. You guys handle it like 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:04.120 you know what I mean. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:09.720 It's the greatest take it, and it's why Colin's the 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.280 greatest to ever do it, because nobody, nobody else's brain 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.680 works that way. But the moment he said it, I'm like, God, 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.360 damn it, you're off percent right. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:25.440 It makes perfect sense. It's exactly what happened. It's exactly 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:30.120 what happened. But here's here's my contribution to that take. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.120 Guess what, Demanse. The sphere is built and it's up 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:40.200 and running and it's self sustaining, and the Knicks just 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.960 had this magical playoff run and so guess what this 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.960 is like a toy story, Buzz Aldrin Woody situation, that 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.040 toy that you threw in the back of the closet 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.960 because the other one was taking up your attention. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:59.040 It's like a way, what did I say? What did 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:00.480 I say? Something like that? 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.080 Oh? Bus, so he's the third man to walk on 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.880 the moon or second man to walk on the moon? 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.640 Im sorry, Buzz Buzz Lightyear and Woody No. But then 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.840 all of a sudden, the Knick, the Knicks, the spheares 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.520 up and running. The Knicks are fun. Now, Shalo mas 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.320 there they're making runs. Jim Dolan's like, I'm back, baby, 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.360 Let's make some Let's make No, I'm not saying they're 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.640 gonna suck. What I'm saying is all of a sudden, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.360 they're making drastic moves again. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.600 Right, He's like, what if we fire the coach? What 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.680 if we try to poach Jason Kidd? What if we 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:34.000 do this? 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.320 So it's just I and with all that said, I 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:43.000 don't necessarily think this is the wrong move. Here's though, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.679 I do have the I want to bounce this off 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:50.800 you pal okay, because people were disappointed with the Knicks, Like, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.400 I'll give the fair criticisms of Tibbs in a second, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.080 but here's one of the things, like that the Knicks 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:01.040 were bad defensively in these playoffs, large portions of it. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.600 Here is what I would be worried about and the 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.679 risk they would run they are running. Is it because 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.440 Tibbs calling card his whole career has been great defense? 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:12.440 Right? Right? 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:15.960 Is it possible. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:22.640 That the defense the Knicks had this year, while maybe 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:28.000 disappointing to some, was actually the best defense you can 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:33.199 realistically have. If Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns are 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.079 your two best players. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:36.280 You know what I mean? 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.880 Like, were they actually, because of Tibbs better defensively than 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.360 they should have been? But because of those two guys 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:49.240 defensive limitations, was it still not good enough? 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:49.680 Pardon me? 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.360 Like that's that would be the that would be the 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.679 concern that I think is potentially a real concern, right right? 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.320 That makes sense. He was just working with what he had. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:00.920 I mean, I you see, I have no choice but 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:02.840 to play Cat and Brunson. What are you gonna do? 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:04.000 Right? 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.520 So's now, here's what I think is a fair criticism 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:14.240 of Tibbs and also a reminder for everybody. And this 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:18.319 applies mostly to basketball coaches, but you can find a 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.079 way to make it apply to any walk of life. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:27.080 It's always risky to make it clear to your boss 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:32.000 that you don't think your boss has done a great job. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:40.079 And here's what I mean Tibbs's stance of and he 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.920 bent on it a bit at the very end in. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.480 The playoffs, but was probably too late. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:51.679 Stance of I have to play these five guys forty 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:56.439 plus minutes because I don't have enough other good players 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.520 is always risky when the person who picked the players 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:07.360 can fire you like it wasn't intentional, but whenever a. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:08.640 Coach this this happened. 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.720 This is why Calvin Booth was mad at Michael Malone 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:13.880 and then the owner there was like, you're both fired, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.360 but it was Michael Malone was like, no, Russ has 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.040 to play forty plus minutes because the young players stink, 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.240 and the Calvin Booth was like, I picked those young players. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.400 I think they're quite good. And so if you're like, 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.640 if you're Leon Rose, and Tibbs is like, sorry, McHale 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.120 Bridges has to play forty five minutes a game because 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:38.720 I can't play Landry Shammitt or Delon right. Leon Rose 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.720 is like, I don't know. I thought those guys were 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.760 good enough to bring in here. That's always a bit 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.680 of a bit of a risk. Now, I also think 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.520 they did not get enough out of Michale Bridges this year, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.240 and you can put some of that on Tibbs. And 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.080 I also do think this there is and we talked 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.360 about this. We don't have to spend too much more 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.600 time on it. There is a real benefit or real 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:07.000 risk to not experimenting with lineups in the regular season 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.640 is you don't get the real time reps and be like, oh, shit. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:17.800 Delon Wright plus Duce McBride, cat Og and McHale bridges 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.760 that lineup can cook, like the different lineup combinations or whatever. 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.520 Oklahoma City now they won sixty eight games, but they 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:30.520 are the standard. Oklahoma City played every lineup combination imaginable 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.120 through the regular season and now they go into the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.600 playoffs with real date on all of it. So I 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.640 know we have TIBs follow ups, but so let's get 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.520 to them. But there's my big picture TIBs take. And 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:49.480 I apologize to Adam Silver, who just did a great 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:54.920 interview on breakfast Ball and Thunder and Pacers fans because 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.320 they're like day one of the finals and you're talking 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:01.040 about a fired coach. In my defense that we did 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.440 a lot of finals preview stuff on Tuesday because the final, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.040 like that is a weird thing about the NBA playoffs. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:12.160 It's just every night eyes bleeding from watching so much basketball, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.000 and then there's like a week where we're just chilling 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:15.960 and and so. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.440 But uh, but all right, what are the tips follow 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:18.920 ups going? 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.840 Honest, look, he always shaking up the NBA man. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.160 Well, again, this is just a this is just a 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:25.960 theory by me. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.200 I'm not reporting it's. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.920 It's not even close to one hundred. It's just an idea. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:33.680 It's just an idea. But go ahead. 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.960 So we'll do a game of likely maybe what if 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.040 to see who will be the next head coach at 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.720 New York. So it's like, it's likely that Blank will 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.600 get the job, but maybe Blank gets the job, and 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.480 what if this person gets the job? 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:47.360 So likely? 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:54.080 Okay, so the I mean Brew kept, Brew kept saying, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:56.320 I want to make sure I get this right. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.720 Uh what who? 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.720 Gosh darn it, it wasn't I'm gonna Johnny Bryant. Bru 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.840 kept saying Johnny Bryant, and Brew Brew is one of them. Now, 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.399 Bruce said he didn't make any calls, he didn't know 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.000 anything on it. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.160 It was just his speculation. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.720 But then right after the show, Johnny Bryant was the 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.080 Vegas favorite for it. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.119 Now it's also true. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.280 This is one of the rare times where like first 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.600 things first might have kind of helped set the line 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:34.119 in Vegas because this thing broke it two fifty. Brew 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.200 is on the air at three oh two talking Johnny Bryant, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.960 and then the sports books like what do they you know? 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.040 I think they're probably you know what are people saying 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.600 whatever it was, and so I don't know if that 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.200 was kind of the tail wagging the dog. The odd 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.280 thing to me about Johnny Bryant, And I said this 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.600 to Brew was right now, he's the Cavs associate head coach. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.439 He was an assistant under Tibbs. So do they fired 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.439 TIBs bring in Johnny? I don't know, but Brew so 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.879 I think likely it's Johnny Briant. And the other piece 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.119 of this is the Knicks fired TIBs the day Johnny 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.320 Briant was named a finalist for the Son's job. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.160 He then didn't get the Sun's job. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:21.760 Maybe it's Jason Kidd. And then the what if is 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.639 this demanse because this is the other piece of it. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.760 I haven't talked about what if it's Rick Brunson because 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:37.720 if it's not, that's an awkward piece of this, which 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:44.360 is when they're interviewing head coaches, so they say, by 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:48.399 the way, one other thing, you can pick your whole 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.360 staff except for one spot Rick Brunson's got Like are 0:18:53.359 --> 0:19:00.439 they firing Rick Brunson? That would seem tricky, like you 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.200 know what, like honestly like what he doesn't mean? No, 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.280 not I don't think. I don't think so at all. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.879 My point is, no, no, no, I don't think he 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:18.480 is at all. 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What should they make any moves people want 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:47.600 to come at cat. 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.400 If they just run it back, I think that's totally reasonable. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.920 Run it back and be like, hey, runs it a man. 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:03.800 While everyone's been focused on Luca's it might be that 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.120 of the all the players on the twenty twenty two 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:13.320 Dallas Mavericks, you were the biggest defensive liability, like moving forward, Like, hey, 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.399 I know that in Brunson's awesome. He's awesome. It's a 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:25.000 great player, legitimate superstar. But Game four for him was 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.159 really rough on that side of the ball, and it 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.840 was the biggest game of their season, So like, can 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:33.840 you get a little bit better there? Kat? Can you 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:38.480 watch the film from your game three fourth quarter again 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.359 and again and again, and try to activate that more. 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:43.720 If you know, McHale's just got to be a little 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:48.359 better throughout the year. Josh Hart just just be passable 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:52.879 from three, Mitchell Robinson nothing but free throws all summer 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.320 like those you do those things with the Celtic Sorry, 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.879 kind of off the chessboard. The East is wide open. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:08.439 That would be reasonable. I now, as far as transactions, obviously, 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:12.480 if you can get Yannis, you'd get Yannis. I do 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.320 not think they have the best package to offer, so 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.040 I think that would be tough. Now, maybe if he 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.719 demands only New York, May Milwaukee will accommodate. 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:22.119 I don't know. 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:32.600 Let's talk about the Durant thing, Demanse, because I do 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.280 think if you traded Cat for Durant, if you offered that, 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:41.880 the Suns would say yes. Now, Durant is six years older, 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:51.359 and that shortens your window considerably. However, the argument for 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:56.920 it would be twofold one is it is a back 0:23:57.000 --> 0:24:02.320 door out of what is going to be a really 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:10.639 tricky Cat contract situation, because Cat's got three years left 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:18.000 at fifty three, fifty seven sixty one. I don't know 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:26.280 if you love that is he extension eligible? Let me look, no, 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:28.800 hold on, sorry, I want to check that, because that's 0:24:28.800 --> 0:24:34.840 the other thing. If it's like, hey, and I also, yeah, 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:38.640 he is extension eligible. So it's like you owe him 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:41.280 sixty one and three years, and he might be like, 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:43.640 and I'd like two more years on the back end 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:47.120 at sixty three and sixty five. Like that's that might 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:51.720 be untenable. But the other reason you would do it 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:55.600