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Speaker 1: had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Spend some time reflecting

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Speaker 1: on why we have this weekend. Remember, some gave all

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Speaker 1: and it's just one of those things to think about

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Speaker 1: as we enjoy the last few days and why we

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Speaker 1: can and uh, you know, I want to say this

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Speaker 1: because you know the Open and the Knicks and everyth

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Speaker 1: that I want to say, How am I after after yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna surprise you. I'm good. I'm good because what

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Speaker 1: the Knicks did was they bought a day. They bought

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Speaker 1: a day, they bought a game. Right, they didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: They bought a game. The series could have ended and instead, okay,

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Speaker 1: we bought a game. Now they gotta go get game

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Speaker 1: four because down three to one, you see what happens

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Speaker 1: down three to one coming back from them. Oh, it's fine,

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Speaker 1: but they bought, they bought a day, they bought a game.

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Speaker 1: And I'm happy, but I'm not sitting here with choke

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Speaker 1: gestures with the Pacers blowing at twenty points. I will

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Speaker 1: save that if we win the series. But I'm not.

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Speaker 1: It's they bought a game. They bought a game, they

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Speaker 1: bought a day. It's okay, great, you you found a

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Speaker 1: way back in a game that made absolutely no sense.

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Speaker 1: It made no sense. The Knicks won this game. Karl

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Speaker 1: he just hits for twenty in the fourth. Like Brunson

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a big ga. How did they win it?

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Speaker 1: This game? This series makes absolutely no sense. So okay,

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Speaker 1: but that's I'm okay, I'm not insane. I mean that

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Speaker 1: was insane Jason Nicks fan. But but now I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we're right on the edge right now.

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Speaker 1: Things things aren't going as we thought. But that's basically

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Speaker 1: what the Knicks did. They bought a game, and now

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Speaker 1: it's all about game four because really you could say,

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Speaker 1: well they won the one, Yeah, they could go home. No,

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Speaker 1: you don't go home to win three game. You don't

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Speaker 1: go home and then leave it and come back. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll just hit fast forward on the button to win

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Speaker 1: three games. Doesn't happen that way, doesn't it? How you

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Speaker 1: go back? Game one obviously one that was so soul ripping.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to talk about it anymore, all of that,

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Speaker 1: but talk about it. No Game two, close game about

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Speaker 1: that again, psychologically jarring. At times, Karl Anthony Towns was

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Speaker 1: good chunk of that, he didn't. We saw Shamitt check

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Speaker 1: Tibbs has truly lost his mind. Now the synapses aren't firing,

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Speaker 1: and we got some craziness because now the guys are

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Speaker 1: getting extra minutes. Well you get eleven from him, thirteen

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Speaker 1: from right. Josh Hart, who more or less benched himself

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Speaker 1: in all of his comments. Between Game two and Game three,

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. I'm saying, how the hell did this?

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Speaker 1: But all, don't try to break this series down because

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Speaker 1: They're gonna need a better version of him, and he

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Speaker 1: and Kat are gonna have to figure out what their

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Speaker 1: problems are. But you bought a day. You bought a

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Speaker 1: couple of days. And look, the first two games, as

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Speaker 1: much as they may have been jarring, were close games, right,

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Speaker 1: gave one away? Okay, fine, you rally, you took one back.

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Speaker 1: What was it? The New York Posts back page was

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Speaker 1: I like that with a giant picture of cat screaming

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Speaker 1: and losing his mind, which is great. But now we

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Speaker 1: mat TIBs can find in terms of lineup switches and

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Speaker 1: juice that you can get McBride gave him a couple

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Speaker 1: make the day. It makes no sense, It makes absolutely

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Speaker 1: no Shallow May showed up. Shout him May, shutamy what

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Speaker 1: you got, Frostburg.

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Speaker 3: I totally that went in a different direction than I

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Speaker 3: Your whole take on the.

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Speaker 1: They bought. They bought two days.

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Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna go with you were talking

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Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna go with, I'm enjoying my

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Speaker 1: knicks as their games are numbered. Well, yeah, we gotta

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Speaker 1: the finals. It's I I I can't think too much

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Speaker 1: that's it. You're gonna go back home and win where

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Speaker 1: you've already lost twice. They need to come back to

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Speaker 1: Indiana and win and then, I mean, I know, Caitlin

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Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden to win there. Now, Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 1: normally riding the lightning and now the open would suggest

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Speaker 1: as such, you've been fairly measured. I mean, a little

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Speaker 1: sky is falling towards the end of last week. But

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Speaker 1: oh the sky had fallen after game, but it had

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Speaker 1: we were picking up the on Friday, it became the well,

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Speaker 1: putting up pictures of Danny Hurley Giant Heart that said

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Speaker 1: d yes Nick, how do we get Yannis? How do

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Speaker 1: we get Yannis? Package? Can we put together for Yannis?

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Speaker 1: All of these things? Okay? By that kid? So I

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Speaker 1: the money works, We'll give throw throwing a couple. But

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Speaker 1: I would say this right we're watching game four now

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Speaker 1: of this Western Conference Finals, and in game three of

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Speaker 1: that series, suddenly he had a re emergence of Julius Randam.

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Speaker 1: Remember he did a disappearing act in game two. Uh,

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Speaker 1: in this series he came back just fine. So Kat

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Speaker 1: funny you say we'll left more on this series. And yes,

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Speaker 1: the return of John Halliburton coming for game four. I'm

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Speaker 1: in a glass case of emotion. But where we sit

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Speaker 1: right now, Thunder lead the t Wolves early in the

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Speaker 1: third quarter sixty eight sixty four. Teal's got a couple

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Speaker 1: Is exactly why I picked the Thunder to win this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like I pick the Thunder from the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: playoffs you had the Wolves. You and I are opposite

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Speaker 1: I have more confidence that SGA is going to be

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Speaker 1: consistently great over the course of this series than I

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Speaker 1: am Anthony Edwards, because ann Edwards still gives you games

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Speaker 1: where you're saying, where the hell is he? Right? Game

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Speaker 1: one was a no show right then suddenly okay, picked

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Speaker 1: blog great, But I told you there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: times a series where Aunt Edwards doesn't show up and

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Speaker 1: you can't do that again. You can do that when

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Speaker 1: you're playing teams that you have an advantage against that

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Speaker 1: can't have your best player not show up for two

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Speaker 1: world in which it and Edward the next Michael Jordan,

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Speaker 1: in which he takes two shots in the first half

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Speaker 1: what you doing, really, I mean, you're lucky you're still

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Speaker 1: in the game. And luckily they were because hey, McDaniel's

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Speaker 1: he had points off the bench, now, so that's good, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Devincenzo's got a three. You know, you're hitting some

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Speaker 1: threes off the bench? Is what's keeping you in this game? Oh,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't keep turning the van ball over too,

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Speaker 1: I mean a number of mindless turnovers and sequences. They

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Speaker 1: I don't know how the next great player that and

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Speaker 1: early in the second half, but he's taken three shots

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Speaker 1: right now that he's take Hey, take eight shots in

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Speaker 1: the first four minutes. But this is where I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: first half. The face of the league doesn't take two

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Speaker 1: shots in the first half of the playoff thing? Right,

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Speaker 1: It's like I understand the old let the game come

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Speaker 1: to you to a degree. You're in the Western Conference, finals.

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Speaker 1: And I can also understand, hey, you've got a bunch

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Speaker 1: sitting at a minus sixteen lost getting bumped off the

426
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Speaker 1: block and again if you're not gonna call the the

427
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Speaker 1: fall as he's trying to get through a screen and

428
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 1: those kind of things consistently, because it's like any other sport,

429
00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 1: right you watch with your kid's soccer game, any of

430
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 1: you out there or youth basketball, whatever, you're not calling

431
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,840
Speaker 1: all the falls because you can't, right, And that's certainly

432
00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,760
Speaker 1: what's happened in this playoff series where you start pushing

433
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Speaker 1: the boundaries of how much can I get away with

434
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,080
Speaker 1: a body or a hand hand check or do you

435
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,119
Speaker 1: have to really leave an imprint of all four fingers

436
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 1: across the guy's wrist and go, hey, Rev, I'd like

437
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 1: a challenge on this one, because that's what we're seeing,

438
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of holding down on rebounding attempts.

439
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,359
Speaker 1: So big challenge. Fourth quarter coming up. So here we

440
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 1: are again, an eleven point lead for the Pacers over

441
00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,199
Speaker 1: the next fourth quarter, just underweight. Now we make a

442
00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 1: big deal. Obviously, John Halliburton, Tyre's Halliburton's dad daddy at

443
00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,560
Speaker 1: the game tonight for the first time since getting banned

444
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,400
Speaker 1: because he couldn't control himself and had to troll Giannis

445
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:08,840
Speaker 1: after the Pacers eliminated the Bucks a couple of weeks ago.

446
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:10,919
Speaker 1: So he gets to come back to the game tonight.

447
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 1: And now, look, I don't think there's any I don't

448
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: think there's any any question as to Hey, like I said,

449
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 1: they did the right thing. We brought him back at

450
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Speaker 1: the right time because look at the night Halliburton's having. Now,

451
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Speaker 1: Frostburg says, we have the pregame speech right of Halliburton

452
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Speaker 1: and tres speech.

453
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Speaker 3: It's more of a chat between him and Pops, a.

454
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Speaker 1: Chat between the Tyres and his dad. We have that.

455
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Speaker 3: Okay, Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Exclusive.

456
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's say so this is this is Tyres and

457
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Speaker 1: John Halliburton pregame. All right, let's go.

458
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Speaker 3: Do you want to hear it?

459
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,399
Speaker 1: Yeah? I got it. I can hear. I gotta hear

460
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Speaker 1: what spurred Tyre's Halliburton onto this incredible night. Wait for

461
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 1: you ready? Yeah, I'm dude, everybody's ready. Man waiting with

462
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 1: baited breath. Make your daddy proud. You hear me. It's

463
00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: gonna make you proud, daddy. I'm gonna make you so proud.

464
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Speaker 3: He made you, daddy proud.

465
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be so proud, proud, proud. That is really emotional,

466
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: that really gotten that. I'm now affected as this uh

467
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 1: Yeah he did. I mean there was a lot of

470
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Speaker 1: back and forth on that make me proud. I will

471
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Speaker 1: I think I will. I got it. I think we'll

472
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Speaker 1: do it. I think we got Okay, I'll make you proud. Well,

473
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 1: I mean not just ask and answered, you know, the

474
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Speaker 1: knowing nod or anything. It's a deep resonance to that exchange,

475
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Speaker 1: which makes me say, if you if you have the opportunity.

476
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,240
Speaker 1: You know, call, call your dad, call your grandpa, call

477
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 1: that person in your life and say that if he's

478
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,719
Speaker 1: been banned from a game, and make sure he's okay.

479
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Speaker 1: But no, I mean, do I make you proud.

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Speaker 3: If he not?

481
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Speaker 1: I mean where I now speaking of Dad's being banned

482
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Speaker 1: from games? Okay, speaking of dad's tonight, I bought my

483
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Speaker 1: dad a ticket for the from the Ache game tonight.

484
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: He is down there and Anaheim Erry sent me a

485
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Speaker 1: picture from his seats already. He parked in Ron Washington spot.

486
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: He said to me, tell him how he's it is

487
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Speaker 1: to play first base? Watch he calls me, right, because

488
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: I told you last I went to the game this

489
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Speaker 1: past week and when when I saw the Angels in

490
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: the Marlins, A lot easier to get tickets for that, right, well,

491
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: just a little bit. And uh, you know, and I

492
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: tell I always tell you how great it is and

493
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Speaker 1: you get you get service at your seat, they bring

494
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,439
Speaker 1: you food. It's fantastic at Angels games. I mean, the

495
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,600
Speaker 1: thing is you have to watch the Angels. But uh,

496
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: my dad gets down there and my dad said, so

497
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: I decided to splurge for preferred parking. And I said, okay,

498
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Speaker 1: he goes and he calls me. When he gets there,

499
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Speaker 1: he goes, you know where I'm calling you from right now?

500
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: I go, all right, what happened? Like he's calling me

501
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 1: on the way into work. And when he calls me,

502
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, what what's going on? What's something? Dad?

503
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 1: What's going He goes, you know, I'm calling you from

504
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: my dad never says that I'm calling you from right now.

505
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, prison, hello Dad, and I'm in jail.

506
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 1: Are you in Are you in Angels jail? Are you

507
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,120
Speaker 1: in like a jail under the stadium? Did you get arrested?

508
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: What happened? He's going bootleg merch. He goes, I'm in

509
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: my parking spot and I'm about twenty yards from walking

510
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Speaker 1: right into the stadium. Now, how much is preferred parking

511
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Speaker 1: at Angel Stadium from my dad who's a vet? Uh oh,

512
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 1: there's a discount for a vet. I think it's like,

513
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: oh yeah, we had well, we had to actually had

514
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: the vet discount at the playoff game with the Mets

515
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,719
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers last year. We had they let they

516
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: saw him and they said, hey, come on right through

517
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,719
Speaker 1: because he's got the Vietnam vet. Everything as soon as

518
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: we pulled up, they go, no, sir, come right through here.

519
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: We're like, oh wow, my dad gives the wave and

520
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 1: they waved him like yeah they did. And then my

521
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 1: dad came out and he had a big hat on,

522
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Speaker 1: he had the sunglasses on. He took him off. Does

523
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,440
Speaker 1: he wear all that every time he can? Did? Just

524
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Speaker 1: see what kind of discounts he can get. Yes, he

525
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 1: wears it. When he goes to Pavilions to go to

526
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Speaker 1: the supermart, comes walking in, He's got wristbands on. In

527
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,479
Speaker 1: the whole nine yards This uh twelve pack of Guinness

528
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: is sixteen dollars not yes, sir, Oh, oh sir, No,

529
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: so he got nine dollars. That's what I thought, Thank you.

530
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,480
Speaker 1: So he calls he guy. He goes, I'm twenty yards

531
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Speaker 1: from walking into the stadium and he says, I'm just

532
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 1: gonna kind of saunter my way in and get there

533
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Speaker 1: for batting practice. He was so excited. Did he really

534
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: use the term saunter though? Yeah, oh yeah, no, my dad,

535
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: that's great, my dad, you get some stuff. You'd be

536
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: surprised because you see, you know, when my dad comes

537
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: on the show. Some of the things he says right,

538
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised. My dad is one of the smartest

539
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: people I've ever met, Like some of the things that

540
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: he that he says and comes up with, and the

541
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: way he can do that. The New York Times crossword

542
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: puzzle on Friday and penn in about a minute and

543
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: a half where he just goes along and go, wow,

544
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: there were there were you know, thirty seven across clues.

545
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: You've only got thirty five of them. Yeah, I go,

546
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: I'll see what the you know, the sweetish word for

547
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 1: bed bug is on the way back down, I'll get that.

548
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: And then no, he doesn't know. He generally takes him

549
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 1: at least he says he has a bad day if

550
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,439
Speaker 1: he gets to four for wordle I was like, wow, okay.

551
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: I'm like sometimes I'm like, you know, sweating that out

552
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: at six, but I'm like, you know, I get it done.

553
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: But my Dad's like, yeah, four is like a bad time.

554
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, geeze, okay. He's like that. If there was

555
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: a cross if there was a speed crossword puzzle Olympics,

556
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: my dad, I know my dad would be at the

557
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 1: top of that. No, there's probably a professional circuit. So

558
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: they complain saying that the Okay, if if there was

559
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 1: like him, we're coming in and ruining it for if

560
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: there was an over sixty five, you know, like like

561
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 1: the like the Senior Crossword Puzzle Tour. But I said,

562
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: with all this weez injury, how do we put him

563
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: to work for good? How do we profit off him?

564
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: You'd be a bet on him. He goes, he goes

565
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: to a he goes to some right, and we get

566
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: him drunk and he's walking around like yeah, yeah, yo, dude,

567
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 1: no one's gonna bet on this guy. And then boom,

568
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: just like color of money and then boom, the odds

569
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: go all the way down the tubes. You make all

570
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: kinds of cash on him. Yeah. We can only run

571
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: that circuit so long. It's a small thing regionally. He's

572
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to be willing to travel. I am a genius.

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Speaker 1: I think this works.

574
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

575
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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

576
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: One eleven ninety four. The Knicks win tonight. So the

578
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: first before I get to where I think the Knicks

579
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: might have had a little bit of extra help tonight,

580
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a second. Remember when I

581
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: told you what the live line was though, h hang on,

582
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: hang on, go at halftime, just as the third quarter

583
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: was a third, right as we were getting ready to

584
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: start the show. It was was it eighteen and a half? Sixteen?

585
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: Sixteen Nicks minus sixteen? Oh nick minuet four? Hey no, ma, folks,

586
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: no such thing as a useless bucket at the end

587
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: of a fifteen point Oh sir? Well, look where am i? Okay,

588
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: Obviously it's a little bit different because Jason, you're running

589
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 1: around like a lunatic and nearly cursing on the air. Yes,

590
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: that was the old meat. No, that was the pregame

591
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: won meet. But I'm telling you something broke in me

592
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: in game one and when something breaks, you need time

593
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: to fix it. So where am I right now? Yes,

594
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: I'm extremely happy the Knicks extended the series. Now you

595
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 1: never know what can happen in game six, and but

596
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: they played really well. I was happy that they came

597
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: out tonight with a big effort, and I knew they would, right.

598
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 1: That's one thing I'm proud about because this is kind

599
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: of in the knixt DNA. It's the not in the

600
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: next DNA to quit, to not show up to say

601
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: things aren't going our way and the Pacers just have us.

602
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: There's nothing else we can say because the Pacers on

603
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: honestly the first four games of this series, this is

604
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: the best they could ever hope to play. They are

605
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 1: playing at one hundred percent capacity. Again, four guys on

606
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: this team having the greatest day of their NBA lives

607
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: in three games of this series, right you see with

608
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: with Halliburton and even another night tonight for for Matherin

609
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: who had twenty three points, right, but he had the

610
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: other big night in game four, and you had uh

611
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: Neie Smith's game in game one, right you see? You

612
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: see there's so many for you know, four players in

613
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: Siakam again who looked like Kevin Durant in game two.

614
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: They've been playing so incredibly well. But I knew the

615
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: Knicks would come out with this kind of effort because

616
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: that's that that's who they are. We're gonna come out.

617
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: We're at home, We're not going away. We're gonna show

618
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: you we're still in this thing. And the Pacers played

619
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: the game I expected them to play. We're gonna try,

620
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay in it. But if things aren't going

621
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: our way, we're gonna back out a little bit. Right

622
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: when you got to the fourth quarter. Who was on

623
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: the bench. Tyre's Halliburton. Right. So this is where the

624
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: Pacers understand, all right, we're not getting the night the

625
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: way he went at it this game, We're not. Yeah,

626
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: I mean it is a non fact. This was this

627
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: was bad Haliburton, right? Eight points? Right? How does Halliburton

628
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: have eight points? But really, how does every start everybody

629
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: in the starting lineup for the Pacers except for Siakam

630
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: score in single digits? Right? This is a Pacers team

631
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: that say we're gonna see if we can hang around,

632
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: and if we can hang around, all right, we'll show

633
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: you a little something in the fourth quarter. But even

634
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle sa, okay, this is probably not there for us.

635
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: The best they did was cut it to twelve. The

636
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: Knicks got it out to sixteen eighteen easily again, and

637
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: that was it. Right, But this is what teams do. Now,

638
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: This is not something that is a that is a

639
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: big hot take and go. You should be ashamed of

640
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 1: yourselves for showing up this way. You should know this

641
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: is how it works. Hey, I'm still gonna say that

642
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: in games where it's you gotta close out opportunity. Come on, Yeah,

643
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: you can disagree with that. I'm with you on it,

644
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: but this is just a very common strategy. Now. It's hey,

645
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: you got two, you got two remaining. Yeah, we're we're

646
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: looking at it like we're not gonna go crazy to

647
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: do this because we don't want to risk injury. We

648
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: don't want to risk uh, you know, a big momentum shift.

649
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: It's ay, they're winning this game. It's okay if we

650
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: pull everybody back. That keeps our players in a positive

651
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 1: frame of mind and full of confidence, because that's really

652
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: what it is. It's about. Hey, if we go for

653
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: it all the way through to the end of this

654
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: game and we don't win, this gives the Knicks more

655
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: confidence that, hey, we finally closed out a game at

656
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: home where the Pacers had all their starters in and

657
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: they were all the way to then maybe we're figuring

658
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: things out. And conversely, for the Pacers, it's boy, have

659
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: we run out of magic? Right? Oh? You know, while

660
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: we're going home, everything's gonna fine, But in the back

661
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: of your mind is a little bit of boy, we

662
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: close these two games out earlier, and now that the

663
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: Knicks just put the pedal down and did it to us.

664
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: So this is why teams pull back. It's it's injuries.

665
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: It's also that's not our night. We want to have

666
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: our players still in a great frame on it and

667
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,239
Speaker 1: feeling confident going back home for Game six, which we

668
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 1: expect to be the closer for us. And if it's not,

669
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: we've already won two games in MSG. If we got

670
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 1: to come back for game seven, we still feel really good.

671
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: We have two chances to win one game, the Knicks

672
00:30:57,840 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 1: got to win both. So yeah, it's more of it's

673
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: an natural thing now because look, go back in the

674
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: playoffs the last ten twelve years. How many times do

675
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: we see thirty forty point blowouts where this team was

676
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: just up three to one, they were looking that this

677
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: is the best the team has ever played. How do

678
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: they lose by sixteen? How to no start scoring double

679
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: figures because teams don't put forth the effort right, Rick

680
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: Bucker is gonna join us coming up in about fifteen minutes.

681
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: He talked with us about this a few nights ago. Yeah,

682
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: teams come in and just say, hey, we're gonna go

683
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: for it. But then if things don't go our way,

684
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: we don't start getting calls and it looks like it's

685
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: getting away from us. Okay, we're gonna put it away

686
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: and just kind of, you know, just kind of mail

687
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: it in and go back and get ready to win

688
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: Game six. We see it all the time now. Yeah,

689
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: Unfortunately you and I are on Era as we watch

690
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: it happen, which means it becomes a far less compelling

691
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: product to try to chronicle as we go through it.

692
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: But the reality of it is, to your point about

693
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: injuries putting heavy minutes on, You've already played one hundred games, right,

694
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: No matter how efficiently you've gone through these playoffs and

695
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: season workouts and everything and travel whatever, you're at a

696
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: point where you're trying to steal minutes and steal rest

697
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: wherever you can. And in this case, you saw large

698
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: swathes of time where Haliburt was on the bench. Didn't

699
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: affect the game a ton when he was there again

700
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,239
Speaker 1: on the bench, But he's on the bench like at

701
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: one point it was like a staredown because Jalen Brunson,

702
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: they're buying him minutes before he's got to come back,

703
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: and they're like looking at each other like they're both

704
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: in the penalty box. Sure, after fighting in hockey like

705
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: all right, three two, all right, all right, we're both

706
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: gonna check back in and make it exciting for the

707
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: people for a couple more minutes. But for the Knicks

708
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: huge to actually get a win at home, extend the season.

709
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: All your conspiracy theories, you know, just keep wearing your

710
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: tinfoil hats exceed. The NBA gets another game, they get

711
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: into the weekend, in those glorious weekend spots to televise

712
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: a game in prime time. Scott Foster is standing by

713
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: for your phone call. The Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan

714
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: was the scheduled Is there a replacement with Dennis Quaid?

715
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: Is there a place I can get all of these

716
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: fouls in one place. Yes, if you call now, Scott Foster,

717
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: the Extender will put all of these fouls on Nie

718
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: Smith and Halliburton in Game six. You love her abb

719
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: in Elementary, you'll love her even more in the Parent

720
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: Trap Go Back. You'll get fouls like offensive fouls. You'll

721
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: get fouls, You'll get fouls like blocking calls. You'll get

722
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: all of them here in this one easy to grab

723
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: cd uh and they get a bonus disc of all

724
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: of the challenges and the conversations had by the officials

725
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: as we go to the sideline table. So where am I?

726
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: I'm happy? Obviously, I'm glad they won. I feel like

727
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: I did. I feel a lot like I did after

728
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: they won Game three. Okay, what did they do? They

729
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: bought themselves another couple of days. Well, because this is

730
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: the end, like this just could be ending, This could

731
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: be it they anymore? The killer awoke before its gonna

732
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: be he put his boots on. But I but I'm

733
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: they you know, they won a couple of games. I'm happy,

734
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: but I'm more of the Okay, this was great. Now

735
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 1: he don't don't get too happy now. Now we gotta

736
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: go for game six. Like when in a Bull Durham,

737
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: when uh, when Tim Robbins comes off the mat and

738
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: he's all happy because he struck out the side and

739
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: he goes, hey man, this is great, and and Kevin

740
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: Coss says, you kidding. Your fastball was up here, your

741
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: curve ball was here. In the show, they would have

742
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 1: ripped you. And he goes, can't you let me enjoy

743
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 1: the moment? He said, the moment's over and he goes

744
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: up to hit like, okay, that's great. Like the Knicks

745
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: won this game. Okay, it's over now, Now you gotta

746
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: go Game six. I will be very excited and crazy

747
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: again if the Knicks win Game six. But what did

748
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: they do again? I feel like they did after game Hey,

749
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: they won Game three, they made the next couple of

750
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: days matter. They won tonight. They make the next couple

751
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,760
Speaker 1: of days matter. Not gonna yell and scream or suddenly

752
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: at the end of the show, go you know what.

753
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: I have a time to sit here and think about this,

754
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: and I've had a lot of alcohol, and I'm telling

755
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 1: you we're gonna win Game six. We're gonna go win

756
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: game sex. Like, this is where I'm at. This is

757
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: the Hey, great tonight. Awesome, they showed up to win.

758
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: But okay, now we get onto games. I'm not getting

759
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: that excited. Well, it is a big Thursday night. Summer

760
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 1: has unofficially started, So I mean the bars are gonna

761
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: be full on a Thursday night. You can go and

762
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: get after it a little bit. I mean, I'll fill

763
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: a buster and then you can come back after a

764
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: couple of shots to close things out. Shoting a beer,

765
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: shot a beer. No, the thing that you know. The

766
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: thirty thousand foot view you being Knicks fan, me trying

767
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: to keep you calm, right, highs and lows, you know,

768
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: ride the lightning. The roller coaster of it all is

769
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: as a guy watching the NBA and thinking that you

770
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: know who teams are and their identities, particularly at this

771
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: point in the year, right, we often get into the

772
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: NFL playoffs going I have no idea what I'm getting

773
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: from this squad. And for the NBA, we we we

774
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: think we know their identity. And if the Knicks had

775
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: gone back to Madison Square Garden and gotten punked tonight

776
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,919
Speaker 1: by the Pacers, then they were all frauds the entire time.

777
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: So I knew they'd or I had hoped, I guess,

778
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: and hope being a dangerous word, is that they'd show

779
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: up with the physicality and the effort of we're not

780
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: going down like we just watched the Timberwolves, because don't

781
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: tell me, to a man, they didn't watch the way

782
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: that game went down and go, man, we can't do that.

783
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: And in New York, I mean, if you're the sports

784
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: sports section editor, you're like, I just need to reserve

785
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: a lot of column inches. I know, Look, the Yankees

786
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: don't play the Dodgers till tomorrow, so we got you know,

787
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: and we've already got the preview of that that's in

788
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 1: the can. Here's what we have to work with. It's

789
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: all of this game, and the poison pens are out

790
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: if it goes the wrong way. And the players and

791
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: staff they knew damn well coming into that opening tip

792
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: that people were ready to go after them. For Kat

793
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: and Jalen Brunson given their defensive liabilities at time, and

794
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: we chronicled them through the regular season. It's nothing new

795
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: new to to us. I mean we we've watched it

796
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 1: and probably commented it up more nationally than anybody else would,

797
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: of course, as we are apt to do. But you know,

798
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: watching this squad in the bench, players, the McBride file,

799
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: whether you thought it should have been a plaguing or not,

800
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: that's that's the identity of who this team. I thought

801
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: they were so to see some of that said, it

802
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: took to game five to get it, but you got

803
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: it tonight, which means I can't wait for game six

804
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: to see, you know what kind of effort they bring in.

805
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: Whether Halliburton's Dad's back on at court side now it

806
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: may not matter. Because I got this tweet from Amy okay,

807
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: who sent me a picture from a Reddit and and

808
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: this is this is crazy if this you know, but

809
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: you had me at She sent me a picture a

810
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: picture of him from from a Reddit thread that someone

811
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 1: who was a Knicks fan put out, I just paid

812
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: a witch on Etsy to cast a spell to help

813
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: the Knicks win night. And then they they added like

814
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: what they paid and here the I was like twenty

815
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,479
Speaker 1: one dollars and they had like twelve dollars in credit,

816
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: so they paid, they paid eight dollars credits they had credit,

817
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: so it was twenty one bus what they ordered the

818
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: previous time. That's what I want to know. I don't know,

819
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: but it was item total was twenty one to twenty.

820
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: So apparently buying a spell to help the Knicks is

821
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: twenty dollars in tax. But whoever this was also had

822
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: a twelve dollars credit so or maybe it was a

823
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: group on I don't know, but it was you're still

824
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,439
Speaker 1: a thing eight dollar oh yeah, yah? Group I still okay, yeah,

825
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: but eight bucks you know overall to cast a spell

826
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: for the Knicks to win, you know, right on pch

827
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: right by the house. We've got someone who advertises all

828
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: the readings and whatever else. Maybe they could help actually

829
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: do those what's up, Frostburg, I actually do those? You do?

830
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, you know, you know what I charge?

831
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: What do you charge? Seven dollars? What about six minute

832
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: of that? He's gonna give you seven minutes a con Yeah,

833
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: but are you a license?

834
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 3: Which I mean, too bad? None of this, none of

835
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 3: this anything any none of this now at all.

836
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: Of course it matters. None of this matter. If the

837
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: if the beause you had their funeral planned for tonight. Yeah,

838
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: well apparently we did. We you know, there was a

839
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: problems with the weather. You have to set this one out,

840
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: set this one out. You don't get the said as

841
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: I think I gave a pretty absolutely where I am. No, No,

842
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: you need two nights ago, you know. But I think

843
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating the last night. I think I am pretty

844
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: pretty honest about where I am and where I am

845
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: celebration wise with this. All right, So for you, it's

846
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: eight dollars, eight dollars for me. But you got to

847
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: show me that you're a like legitimate witch or wizard

848
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: or warlock. Like you got to show me you're casting

849
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: crazy spells on the next Really, are you going to

850
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: use all your spells for the Yankees. Yankees pose no threat. Okay,

851
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure Judge drop another fly ball. Yet

852
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 1: it's an end of May, beginning of June series