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Speaker 1: sports tired. I'm tired. Big Nap today, Big Nap boy. Today,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Scott van Pelt. He was on the
Speaker 1: call there with Sports Center before and after the game.
Speaker 1: Van Paz will join us momentarily at the airport headed
Speaker 1: to San Antonio. The Knicks will be five and a
Speaker 1: half point underdogs in that game. I don't think it
Speaker 1: matters what the point spread is.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I mentioned that Game three, it was two and a
Speaker 3: half point favorite for the Knicks, and I said, boy,
Speaker 3: I would take the Spurs. Last night, I thought the
Speaker 3: Knicks were going to win. Then they're down twenty nine,
Speaker 3: and I go, maybe they could make this respectable and
Speaker 3: have a little momentum. Going back to San Antonio, nine
Speaker 3: and a half minutes to go, New York out scores
Speaker 3: the Spurs thirty to eleven, holding them to two for eleven.
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Speaker 3: Roger Bennett, men In Blazer's co host as the World
Speaker 3: Cup gets underway today. United States in action tomorrow My
Speaker 3: Golden Knights at the Hurricanes game five tonight on ABC.
Speaker 3: Let's make way for Scott Van Pelt, Sports Center host
Speaker 3: at the Garden Van Paz.
Speaker 2: When you're at halftime, what's the building like?
Speaker 4: Well, the building was on fire because the Wu Tang
Speaker 4: clan was on the floor, daan And as you know,
Speaker 4: as you know, the Wu Tang clan ain't nothing to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 4: It was actually I felt terrible because you know, here
Speaker 4: comes the Wu Tang. This is New York Royalty, and
Speaker 4: I mean they're down by million, and they did the
Speaker 4: best they could to get the building kind of back.
Speaker 5: But I mean, I see Timothy.
Speaker 4: Shaloman at halftime. We're fast friends now and me and
Speaker 4: Tim and he's like, I don't know. I said, there's
Speaker 4: a saying it's a cliche in sport, but next play,
Speaker 4: next play. And the thing about NBA games, you know this,
Speaker 4: you've covered them for many years. That forty eight minutes
Speaker 4: is a long time. Man, that's a long time. And
Speaker 4: so I'm talking to my guys Stanford Steve, and I say,
Speaker 4: you think they get this to single digits at any point?
Speaker 4: And he said, I think they will. And I said,
Speaker 4: I do not, and as we know, they did, but
Speaker 4: it was at halftime. There were not many optimists in
Speaker 4: the building.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I kept waiting to see was there going
Speaker 3: to be a moment or can I pinpoint a moment?
Speaker 3: And I just mentioned with nine and a half to
Speaker 3: go they go on a thirty two to eleven run.
Speaker 3: I just kept wondering what Mitch Johnson was thinking, because
Speaker 3: unless he wasn't thinking in the moment of this is real,
Speaker 3: he might think, Oh, we're going to win this. The
Speaker 3: question is how much are we going to win this by?
Speaker 3: How accountable do you make him? I know we can
Speaker 3: talk about dearon Fox, but let's start with the head coach.
Speaker 4: I thought there were a number of moments where a
Speaker 4: timeout just would have made sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are you saving them for?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: I mean, just call a time out, tell everybody to
Speaker 4: take a deep breath and calm down and stop hoisting threes.
Speaker 4: They were incredibly hot first half. As a shooter yourself,
Speaker 4: you know, when you start missing, put it on the paint,
Speaker 4: get to the line, figure out a way to get.
Speaker 5: An easy bucket.
Speaker 4: And they seemed intent to keep chucking threes. And I'm
Speaker 4: thinking the same thing you're thinking, Dan, at some point,
Speaker 4: call a timeout and just if nothing else, let everybody
Speaker 4: gather their thoughts and recognize we cannot let this get away.
Speaker 4: And you know, by the time they started calling timeouts,
Speaker 4: it felt too late because it wasn't nine anymore again,
Speaker 4: it was five.
Speaker 2: Now it's four.
Speaker 5: Now You're like, holy crap, they could win this game.
Speaker 4: And I mean the fact that the Knicks already did
Speaker 4: it once this playoff run against Cleveland, I raced a
Speaker 4: twenty two point lead.
Speaker 2: In a fourth.
Speaker 4: You know, there's this buy in, there's a belief that's
Speaker 4: it in actually having done it. You know, it's not
Speaker 4: like everyone says Ogananobi tells me afterwards. We keep believing
Speaker 4: and I don't I roll them, but I at the
Speaker 4: same time, I'm like, brother, you're down twenty nine once,
Speaker 4: Like I can't. We're going to stay in the fight.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, they seem to really genuinely believe.
Speaker 4: And as I say, they've shown way.
Speaker 3: And I think when the series started we thought, okay,
Speaker 3: this is a young team. Yeah, well okay, dearon Fox,
Speaker 3: you know, he's supposed to be the veteran, he's the
Speaker 3: leader that in a big moment, you know, maybe not
Speaker 3: Stefan Castle with the ball or Wemby, you got Daron Fox. Well,
Speaker 3: that didn't go as scripted because I couldn't understand how
Speaker 3: you don't do the math. You don't need a basket,
Speaker 3: you need to take time off the clock. He just
Speaker 3: had a two minute stretch that is going to be
Speaker 3: unforgivable in NBA.
Speaker 4: Lore I agree, and it's the player I've liked for
Speaker 4: a long time. I was thrilled that he got to
Speaker 4: San Antonio and got out of sort of being stuck
Speaker 4: where he was, where he was playing games that were inconsequential,
Speaker 4: you know, and you have the ball in the lead,
Speaker 4: the clock's your biggest ally, you don't need another point
Speaker 4: at that point, I thought, and I'm standing right down
Speaker 4: there at that baseline, I thought he was going to
Speaker 4: do that thing where you hesitate and then you use
Speaker 4: the burst of speed to go baseline to the far
Speaker 4: corner and just keep bleeding clock. But as he takes
Speaker 4: it to the rim, oj Ananobe does an incredible job
Speaker 4: to not foul them and get the block. And then
Speaker 4: it's two things that were basketball one oh one that
Speaker 4: and then you have to get a body on anenobe,
Speaker 4: and when one Binyama comes floating out to challenge the
Speaker 4: three from Brunson, I mean his I don't know if
Speaker 4: you've ever seen him in person, Dan, but I mean
Speaker 4: his length. You can't process it in your brain. So
Speaker 4: I understand challenging the shot from one Binyama, but if
Speaker 4: he exits the paint, someone has to get a body
Speaker 4: at anenobe. Not one person did, and so it's two
Speaker 4: Coop one oh one tenants that were abandoned there and
Speaker 4: they cost the Spurs dearly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was just saying this about ten minutes ago. It
Speaker 3: drives me crazy that nobody boxes out anymore. I guess
Speaker 3: in high school you had to college a little bit
Speaker 3: in the pros forget about it, and you know the
Speaker 3: Aaron Fox can't lose sight of Anenoby. I know he
Speaker 3: comes out, but I mean, there were just some fundamental
Speaker 3: plays that should never those mistakes never should have been made.
Speaker 3: Nobody wanted to leave the garden when it was over,
Speaker 3: so everybody's just kind of milling abound. You had to
Speaker 3: stay for postgame for Sports Center, But what was that
Speaker 3: atmosphere like when everybody's walking around kind of bewildered.
Speaker 4: That's the thing, Dan, Like, we've both been fortunate and
Speaker 4: we've talked about this a lot through the years, like that,
Speaker 4: we've done it for a while, and so you know,
Speaker 4: the day after, you try to resist the urge to say,
Speaker 4: never see anything like it. You never see anything like it,
Speaker 4: all right, there's no historical context for this, but it's
Speaker 4: I mean, so as I'm walking out on the floor,
Speaker 4: there's Sharla Man, He's like, we did it, and I'm
Speaker 4: like yeah. And there's Taylor Swift, and then Jimmy Fallon
Speaker 4: and Tersey Morgan are just spinning in circles, hugging each other,
Speaker 4: and it's New York Hip Hop Royalty, and there's nas
Speaker 4: and here's you know, all the New York nick legends
Speaker 4: and a lums on the floor and this is New
Speaker 4: York City, Dan, like, this is not a place that's
Speaker 4: easily impressed or easily moved. And they're singing Journey, they're
Speaker 4: singing don't Stop Believing. I'm taping an interview with Spike
Speaker 4: and they're playing New York, New York. John Traturo walks in,
Speaker 4: kisses him, kisses him on the cheek. As we're doing
Speaker 4: the interview and I'm just thinking to myself, like, this
Speaker 4: is the city, man, Like this place is unhinged with
Speaker 4: joy in a way that like, as a non New Yorker,
Speaker 4: I just I don't remember seeing them moved in that way.
Speaker 4: And I give the Garden credit it. Like, you know,
Speaker 4: games over, let's get move and let's get out of here,
Speaker 4: let's go home. No one was in a hurry to
Speaker 4: push them to the exits. I'm sitting on the floor
Speaker 4: with a small set and Spike gets up screaming the
Speaker 4: last refrain of New York, New York og and Andobi
Speaker 4: sits down. And you know this because you again, you've
Speaker 4: done it and it's your job. But I got to
Speaker 4: tell you, man, in the midst of it, you're pinching yourself, going, man,
Speaker 4: I've been lucky and I've seen some stuff, but I've
Speaker 4: never never seen this.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy. Uh say travels to San Antonio.
Speaker 4: Great to say, no, no, Dan, We're going to DC baby
Speaker 4: Stanley Cup tonight post game Stanley Cup.
Speaker 2: The show goes on, goes on constant road trip for you. Huh.
Speaker 4: You know what, zero complaints. Championship season. The Stanley Cup
Speaker 4: has been awesome. The NBA Finals been awesome. We you know,
Speaker 4: we'll see you when the when the see when the
Speaker 4: game's done.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, buddy. It's always rather be good.
Speaker 3: Scott Van Pelt going to DC and then then going
Speaker 3: to San Antonio after that. Some of the back room
Speaker 3: guys know that I'm old, and they know that I've
Speaker 3: been around a lot of big events. If I just
Speaker 3: did basketball being in person, now, if that was for
Speaker 3: the title last night, that would probably be the greatest
Speaker 3: moment finish in NBA history. If I looked at it
Speaker 3: was a twenty nine point you know, come back, you
Speaker 3: do it, you do it in dramatic fashion, to tip
Speaker 3: in almost at the buzzer, it would be it would
Speaker 3: be tough to try to surpass that. Now, Jordan in Utah,
Speaker 3: that was for a title, and people forget that he
Speaker 3: has the strip on Carl Malone at one end setting
Speaker 3: up the game winning shot. We think that's Mike's last game,
Speaker 3: that's his last shot, that's his last moment. And then
Speaker 3: I was in the Boston Garden when Magic hits the
Speaker 3: skyhook over Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish. That's for a championship.
Speaker 3: Last night was not for a championship. Had it been,
Speaker 3: that probably would have Sir Pat. Now, if I'm in
Speaker 3: the moment and I'm there, that would have surpassed the
Speaker 3: other two that I saw. But you know, the Celtics
Speaker 3: losing at home, and you would have had last night,
Speaker 3: you know, with the Knicks winning a championship at home,
Speaker 3: and it's been fifty three years, so I would factor
Speaker 3: that in.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't for the title.
Speaker 3: Magic on the road, hits the runner and Michael you
Speaker 3: know with the jump shot to beat Utah. Those are
Speaker 3: two of the best basketball moments and I don't know
Speaker 3: if there's anything that's even close to that. The eighty
Speaker 3: six Mets with the ball with Buckner. That wasn't for
Speaker 3: the World Series title. That was just to get to
Speaker 3: a Game seven. Had that been, you could make a
Speaker 3: case that's the greatest finish in baseball history. Now Masaroski
Speaker 3: hit a home run and that won a World Series,
Speaker 3: Well you gotta I mean there's been these. Joe Carter
Speaker 3: I was there when he hit the home run off
Speaker 3: Mitch Williams. I mean, I got so many moments that
Speaker 3: I need a rolodex. But but I've seen the moments
Speaker 3: when they happen in a championship is at stake, That's
Speaker 3: when it's different.
Speaker 2: Yes, Marvin, do you.
Speaker 7: Think more people do you think this would have been
Speaker 7: more iconic in history if oj Ananobi was Jalen Brunson, like,
Speaker 7: he's not on the level of a Magic or Michael Jordan,
Speaker 7: where the iconic player hits the iconic shot.
Speaker 3: Yes, you're waiting for that moment. You're waiting for that
Speaker 3: guy to come to the plate. You're waiting for your
Speaker 3: future Hall of Famer to have his moment. The fact
Speaker 3: that Magic took the shot, and you think, if there's
Speaker 3: going to be a skyhook, it's going to be Kareem.
Speaker 3: But Magic taking that shot and going over two seven footers,
Speaker 3: great defenders and hitting that shot and stunning the garden,
Speaker 3: and then everybody in the building knew why he wasn't
Speaker 3: see I'm gonna get into now, I'm gonna get angry again.
Speaker 2: I never now.
Speaker 3: I know Packson hit big shots, Steve Kerr hit big shots.
Speaker 3: I don't want Michael Jordan taking that shot. I don't
Speaker 3: want him to be able to go right.
Speaker 8: Gues.
Speaker 2: Did he push off, Yes he did. Would I have
Speaker 2: double team do Yes?
Speaker 5: I got a double team.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if oj Ananobi makes that, you win a
Speaker 3: championship in New York, that'd be tough to surpass. Now,
Speaker 3: there were moments, you know, I vaguely remember the Celtics
Speaker 3: in you know, nineteen sixty nine and before that, probably
Speaker 3: really started watching basketball in nineteen sixty nine. I remember
Speaker 3: Jerry West, but they didn't win the championship. When he
Speaker 3: hits that three quarter court shot, they didn't win the championship.
Speaker 3: But there have been a lot of moments that I watch,
Speaker 3: But then being in person, it's just different. It's that atmosphere.
Speaker 3: It doesn't leave the building, even if you open up
Speaker 3: all the windows and all the doors, it doesn't. That
Speaker 3: will remain in that building throughout our lifetime.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Paulie, I was thinking this morning, if the next
Speaker 9: go on to win in five or six, and it's
Speaker 9: not a special win, those games, OG's moment will be
Speaker 9: will override the rest of the series, And it kind
Speaker 9: of reminds me a little Apples and oranges. Kirk Gibson's
Speaker 9: home run for the Dodgers in eighty eight, that was
Speaker 9: Game one, but in my mind that was to win
Speaker 9: the World Series when I look back, but I know
Speaker 9: it's Game one, but that overshadowed the rest.
Speaker 3: Of the series. I wasn't in the building for that,
Speaker 3: but that's a moment where they were big underdogs to
Speaker 3: the A's and Gibbe Homer's and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you've got It's weird. It's like when the Reds in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety with Eric Davis beating the Oakland A's. Once again,
Speaker 3: the A's were big favorites, and I just remember, all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you were like, they're not invincible, and
Speaker 3: it would be like just a moment a play a hit.
Speaker 3: You know, if Shilling had pitched with the bloody sock
Speaker 3: and that was the game clincher, that would be up there.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's already up there, but you're talking about
Speaker 3: these moments. I was there when Luis Gonzalez had a
Speaker 3: little salt off base knock against Mariana Rivera that won
Speaker 3: the World Series.
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't a dramatic hit or anything.
Speaker 3: It was he got his maryon Rivera through the pitch
Speaker 3: that he wanted to throw, and I think he broke
Speaker 3: Gonzalez's bat, but he somehow flared it and they ended
Speaker 3: up winning the World Series.
Speaker 2: Yes, Dylan.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think at what people remember too, like Bill
Speaker 10: Buckner game in eighty six, that was game six. No
Speaker 10: one remembers game seven, like obviously the mesie and you
Speaker 10: were there for that.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that is one of those when you when
Speaker 3: you have an atmosphere when the ball went through Buckner's
Speaker 3: legs and Ray Night scores that the sound, the sound
Speaker 3: has never left me.
Speaker 2: It was, oh my god.
Speaker 3: It's this is an earthquake, and people jumping out of
Speaker 3: the stands. Everybody was going on the and this is
Speaker 3: only game six. You still have game seven and then
Speaker 3: I think there was a rain delay and Bruce Hurst
Speaker 3: was pitching, he was dealing in game seven. Like it
Speaker 3: was okay, you won game six. Now it's like the
Speaker 3: Bartman game that was game six, so you still had
Speaker 3: game seven. Carrie wood Homers like you're you're gonna be okay,
Speaker 3: we'll survive Bartman. But like, that's what are you gonna
Speaker 3: do for an encore? And it's tough to provide an encore? Yeah, Marvin, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Think og and Andoby will be up there with Magic
Speaker 7: Johnson because people don't realize. I think that Magic Johnson
Speaker 7: hook Shop was to go up three to one in series. Oh,
Speaker 7: it wasn't that the Larry Bird shot? Yeah, where he's
Speaker 7: wide open when Worthy loses. Yes, that's the next play. Oh,
Speaker 7: and they will go up three to one in the
Speaker 7: series instead of two to two.
Speaker 3: Man, when you bring that up to James Worthy, Worthy
Speaker 3: is like Pete on himself. Oh I know he did
Speaker 3: say that. Uh well, then e me because I thought
Speaker 3: magic because I was there. They were celebrating in that
Speaker 3: high school locker room there, and it was about, you know,
Speaker 3: my side of the man cave here. It wasn't even
Speaker 3: this big in there. It was like a couple of showers.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's any hot water. I just remember
Speaker 3: you get a bunch of you know, tall basketball players
Speaker 3: in there, some champagne, a trophy, and you know it
Speaker 3: was some wild atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dyl Yeah, But.
Speaker 10: That's all almost to the point where it's like it's
Speaker 10: not always the game seven or the series ending game
Speaker 10: that is what truly stands out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like Paul said, they could they could just go
Speaker 2: on the way.
Speaker 10: It could just be a regular game, Nicks win semi comfortably,
Speaker 10: and then this is the game that will be the
Speaker 10: defining moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like David Tyree's catch didn't win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: Plexico burus Is touchdown did and having been there for
Speaker 3: that as well, like you you know some of those
Speaker 3: Super Bowl moments. The Roethlisberger throw to Santonio Holmes. Boy,
Speaker 3: that's up there. That is a throw that I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe there's two or three quarterbacks who can make that throw.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe, but in that moment to win a Super Bowl,
Speaker 3: it's pretty good. Yeah. More the Ray Allen shot Game six.
Speaker 3: Ray I went there for that, but yeah, Ray Ray
Speaker 3: with that? All right, let me take a break. Got
Speaker 3: more phone calls? How do the Spurs respond? Stanley Cup tonight?
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Speaker 3: How do the Spurs respond? We've credited them because they're
Speaker 3: young and they may not know what they're supposed to
Speaker 3: know or not know. Now you come home, this is
Speaker 3: where you go. Okay, let's just take care of business.
Speaker 3: We don't need style points. We just need to win
Speaker 3: the game. Then you take your chances going back to
Speaker 3: the garden. If that's the case, then I think once
Speaker 3: again that pressure goes back on the Knicks.
Speaker 2: If it goes back to the garden, I.
Speaker 3: Know you're up three to two, but now the Knicks
Speaker 3: seem to play better when they're on the road. That
Speaker 3: atmosphere seems to get to them. They don't start well.
Speaker 3: Karl Anthony Towns picks up two quick fouls, and I'm thinking, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is your blueprint. Get him in foul trouble, get
Speaker 3: Wemby in the paint, and then the second half, nobody's
Speaker 3: in the paint, nobody's trying to score, nobody's you know,
Speaker 3: from the standpoint of taking it to the hoop, I mean,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of things that had to unfold
Speaker 3: on both ends for this to happen. Because we love
Speaker 3: to ask the question, well, did they lose or did
Speaker 3: they win? You can get up, I'm gonna give you credit,
Speaker 3: But then you allowed them to come back. And if
Speaker 3: you think about it, the Spurs' worst case scenario should
Speaker 3: have won by ten, Like that's worst case scenario, maybe nine,
Speaker 3: maybe eight, And then you say, wow, you guys blew
Speaker 3: a twenty point lead, not a twenty nine point lead.
Speaker 3: But I think the shocking part of it is, and
Speaker 3: you don't know how younger players, well, players in general,
Speaker 3: are going to respond when there's so much pressure. Every
Speaker 3: possession now matters. We're up by twenty nine, this is awesome.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, we're up by twenty.
Speaker 3: It's still awesome. We're up by twelve, it's not as
Speaker 3: awesome as it was. And then it got to single digits.
Speaker 3: That's when you knew. This is when you get tight
Speaker 3: and you throw the ball and somebody's not looking, you
Speaker 3: take a shot. You'll advise you don't box out, just
Speaker 3: little things and you put them all together.
Speaker 2: It's almost like a Rubik's cube.
Speaker 3: You really had to work it where it was going
Speaker 3: to be complete if you start to maneuver, and you
Speaker 3: keep maneuvering, and you know in the fourth quarter, all right,
Speaker 3: we're kind of oh boy, the colors are starting.
Speaker 2: To match up, and now we have it. Yeah, Martin, I.
Speaker 7: Think one of the bigger coaching miscues that miss Johnson
Speaker 7: has had is not putting the ball in Dylan Harper's
Speaker 7: hands more, because he's been unbelievable this series now and
Speaker 7: you're giving it to Daron Fox's doing the complete opposite
Speaker 7: of what Dylan Harper's been doing this series.
Speaker 3: But This is why you have dearon Fox. You get
Speaker 3: a veteran point guard for a young team, a young superstar.
Speaker 2: This is why you have him.
Speaker 3: Now you can put up numbers in Sacramento, and I'm
Speaker 3: the only one who's gonna notice. Now these are important
Speaker 3: numbers that you're putting up. You can put up twenty
Speaker 3: eight and we're going, man, all right, now, I need
Speaker 3: you to put up eighteen and not throw the ball away.
Speaker 2: Make smart decisions. Yes, yes, Dylan, Yeah.
Speaker 10: I mean that dearon Fox play where he goes for
Speaker 10: the lamp and gets blocked as opposed to like, uh,
Speaker 10: dribbling out the clock. A little bit stands out, but
Speaker 10: another one was like just another two minutes left. Wemby
Speaker 10: misses those two free throws, and that just like that
Speaker 10: seemed to kind of have first stamp that, like the
Speaker 10: momentum had fully swung the wrong direction.
Speaker 3: And you can't be talking trash, you know, And he
Speaker 3: was pointing to his head like I'm out smarting you.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, make the free throws,
Speaker 3: make that jumper that you had, you know earlier in
Speaker 3: the series, like these this is what great players do.
Speaker 3: Legendary legacy stuff hit the jumper, make your free throws.
Speaker 3: He did have the block that led to d'errean Fox
Speaker 3: fast break. Oh, shock shock. It's just fundamental basket Like,
Speaker 3: this isn't high IQ stuff. This is just simple stuff. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 3: it does.
Speaker 9: Feel like years from now, if the next go on
Speaker 9: to win, you'll remember Og and you'll forget some plays,
Speaker 9: or remember Fox and forget some plays. I was looking
Speaker 9: back at twenty eight three and the Patriots win. There's
Speaker 9: so many plays like the Edelman catch on thir third
Speaker 9: down on where the ball was going to hit the ground,
Speaker 9: and then there's like a Julio Joon sideline catch and
Speaker 9: this Trey Flower strip sack, and there's so many little
Speaker 9: plays that led up to it. Because the math doesn't
Speaker 9: work with twenty eight three unless all goes your way.
Speaker 3: But then High Tower had the sack on Matt Ryan.
Speaker 3: Dante High Tower history should remember him for two of
Speaker 3: the biggest moments because he tackles Marshawn Lynch at the
Speaker 3: one and a half yard line. It's him against Marshawn
Speaker 3: Lynch and then has the sack against Matt Ryan that
Speaker 3: takes him out of field gold range. Those are two
Speaker 3: of the biggest plays in Super Bowl history. Now, I
Speaker 3: know we focus on Tom Brady, where we focus on
Speaker 3: whoever you know the quarterbacks are, but these are plays
Speaker 3: that you don't get those chances to win without those
Speaker 3: smaller plays.
Speaker 2: James in Virginia, Hi James, what do you have for me?
Speaker 12: Oh? Thanks for taking my call, brother, Happy Thursday. DP
Speaker 12: didn a salute the commanders man, or so I say,
Speaker 12: salute the Knickerbocker man. Holly smokes DC the only way
Speaker 12: that I can explain it, And I'm sorry, Paul. It
Speaker 12: takes me back to twenty twenty four with Jayden Daniels
Speaker 12: and the Hail Mary against the Chicago Bears. The improbableness
Speaker 12: of that and what's and I think Goodwill hit it
Speaker 12: on the head man. The Spurs never took the Knicks seriously.
Speaker 12: And I was just thinking about the Lebron Hyrie. What
Speaker 12: Og did if that play is so amazing because it
Speaker 12: starts with Brunton. He sees the double team and he
Speaker 12: jocks up the shot with like five seconds leap instead
Speaker 12: of one or two seconds. And if you see Og,
Speaker 12: he's actually going towards Brunton and when he sees him
Speaker 12: pull up, he bean like Tabaka and no wing. No
Speaker 12: one could box him out because no one even saw
Speaker 12: him for me, and I think you hit it on
Speaker 12: the head. All these great plays I think in sports history,
Speaker 12: the one that you were just talking about but didn't
Speaker 12: get to it with the Malcolm Butler play, the Lebron block,
Speaker 12: I mean, the baby sky hook, the Jordan one. Even
Speaker 12: as a knick name, the Jordan one has to be
Speaker 12: number one, but Og has to be up there number
Speaker 12: two all time man, and going forward. I mean, I
Speaker 12: don't think the Spurs can survive even in Game five.
Speaker 12: This is just such a knockout blow for them. Man,
Speaker 12: so excited. Man, let's sell Nick or Bombers drive a
Speaker 12: great bit. Thank you for taking my call, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even put Malcolm Butler in there. I
Speaker 3: mean that won a Super Bowl. That that and to
Speaker 3: witness that, you know, it's thirty feet away, and to
Speaker 3: witness that, that's right up there with Roethlisberger, with Santonio Holmes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Paul, we.
Speaker 9: Were on the sidelines for the three Fiesta Bowl when
Speaker 9: Ohio State thought they had lost, Miami thought they won,
Speaker 9: and then they had that flag in the end zone
Speaker 9: and goes to.
Speaker 3: Overtime Brett in Florida. Hi Brett, what do you have
Speaker 3: for me today?
Speaker 13: Hey, DP, Good morning guys. So one of the comment
Speaker 13: and a question.
Speaker 12: For you last night. I'm not a.
Speaker 13: Frequent watcher of the NBA, but that was crazy, and
Speaker 13: boy am I glad I watched. There's a thing in
Speaker 13: baseball score early score often didn't seem like the Spurs,
Speaker 13: remember the d often part, But just crazy to see
Speaker 13: how the Knicks we're able to come back. And I
Speaker 13: had a question for you. So with the US Open
Speaker 13: coming up, PG kind of changing up their schedule a
Speaker 13: little bit, I know chances are slim, but last time
Speaker 13: I called in was during COVID. You guys gave me
Speaker 13: some good advice because the Masters was in the fall
Speaker 13: time and I was about to have my son, which
Speaker 13: he's now five. But why don't we get you on
Speaker 13: the dan Nette's take on another audition for a tradition
Speaker 13: unlike any other in the fall time?
Speaker 8: Thanks guys.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I followed the addition in the fall, Brett,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I followed that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, So what do you all think about having another
Speaker 13: Masters in the fall time versus the spring?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, no, no, No, I like it in the spring,
Speaker 3: unless you're saying we have another Masters, and I'm not
Speaker 3: for that either. I like this special of it and
Speaker 3: it just has that feeling of Okay, spring is here.
Speaker 3: It's like that's the unofficial start of spring. Yes, doing Yeah.
Speaker 10: And when DJ won that during the COVID Masters they
Speaker 10: destroyed Augusta, he was like twenty one under like it
Speaker 10: was the conditions weren't played, way easier than you would
Speaker 10: get from your usual springtime Masters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love the springtime there, the way it looks, smells,
Speaker 3: feel everything about it, and that you know it's springtime
Speaker 3: and it looks like that down there. All right, let
Speaker 3: me take a break. We'll get some more phone calls
Speaker 3: coming up. We're back after this, Dan Patrick Shaw.
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Speaker 3: of New York City.
Speaker 5: It's I've been on these streets with you before, Danny.
Speaker 3: It's Adam Sandler joining us big time celebrity there at
Speaker 3: the garden last night. How would you describe the atmosphere
Speaker 3: last night?
Speaker 14: It was tremendous. It was absolutely one of the I met.
Speaker 5: Before the game.
Speaker 14: I was saying to my wife, I think this is
Speaker 14: gonna be the highlight of our sporting career, going to this.
Speaker 14: Uh you know what I'm saying, and uh and uh yes.
Speaker 14: And then the first half, the first quarter didn't go
Speaker 14: well and there was some devastation, but you kept thinking, like,
Speaker 14: there's a chance, there's a chance. And then you started going,
Speaker 14: I don't know if there is a chance of anything
Speaker 14: coming up. I guess we'll figure it out game five.
Speaker 14: And then it just it just started doing what they've
Speaker 14: been doing, just chipping away, and and then san Antonio
Speaker 14: was missing shots and holy cow, it was it was
Speaker 14: just complete love.
Speaker 5: It was complete love. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 14: WU tangs was halftime show like it just felt loose.
Speaker 5: It felt loose.
Speaker 14: People were still having fun even though we were down
Speaker 14: so much and it took so long to chip away,
Speaker 14: there was still kind of a good vibe and little
Speaker 14: little kids were all over the place having fun. And
Speaker 14: oh my god, when the team won. I look back
Speaker 14: at these nice little kids who were being funny the
Speaker 14: whole game, and they were all crying, and there was.
Speaker 5: One of the biggest moments I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: Man, did you give any thought to leaving in like
Speaker 3: all third quarter?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, none of that. No, no, it was
Speaker 5: too much. It was too exciting. Still, too dude.
Speaker 14: San Antonio was so locked in that it was fun
Speaker 14: even watching them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, take a picture.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 5: This nice lady's taking a picture of us, Danny and
Speaker 5: we go. Boom.
Speaker 14: I oh, she's got the five four three two one going, Danny,
Speaker 14: This is fantastic.
Speaker 5: Okay, boom, thank you, thank you, thank you. So yeah,
Speaker 5: that was good.
Speaker 14: But yeah, no, no, san Antonio was so they were
Speaker 14: just they looked so cool out there.
Speaker 5: They couldn't miss a shot.
Speaker 2: Who are you sitting next to?
Speaker 14: I was?
Speaker 5: I was next to the Wu tang Co. Uh I
Speaker 5: was hang on, I got I got it. No, dude,
Speaker 5: I'll get you right after.
Speaker 6: I loved it.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I bom with the great Dan Patrick.
Speaker 12: You can't.
Speaker 5: You can't mess with him. But uh, I was.
Speaker 2: Who are you sitting next to?
Speaker 5: I was next to?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 14: Who's that next to Rock. Was it Rock and Rock's
Speaker 14: mother coach? Yeah, cal Perry was. He was such a
Speaker 14: great dude. He was fun to sell. He's gonna send
Speaker 14: me some sneakers. That was nice, and uh and all
Speaker 14: the wou tang and then just the whole night you
Speaker 14: saw somebody that you were excited to see, but mostly
Speaker 14: mostly I had crazy Nick fans screaming at me the
Speaker 14: whole time.
Speaker 5: We gotta get this at him.
Speaker 14: You know, they put a little pressure on poor sand Man.
Speaker 14: I I'm doing the best I can.
Speaker 5: Everybody, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you got your your buddy, Timothy Shallow Man.
Speaker 14: I saw that sweet, slick young man and he was excited.
Speaker 5: Everybody was.
Speaker 14: Everybody was at halftime kind of giving.
Speaker 5: Those looks to each.
Speaker 14: Other like, uh, all right, man, I mean it's possible,
Speaker 14: but but.
Speaker 5: This does sting.
Speaker 14: You know, it made it just made you automatically started
Speaker 14: thinking about game five like a crazy person. And then
Speaker 14: I don't know, man, that last five six minutes you
Speaker 14: I started to believe like, well, they're really like making
Speaker 14: such great stops and putting buckets in.
Speaker 5: And then and then that that heart, that heart dude
Speaker 5: was so on fire. Yeah that it was terrifying.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 14: Every three he hit every their whole team, and then
Speaker 14: Wemby is just to see you live. I saw one
Speaker 14: other time out playing the Lakers, but I was way
Speaker 14: up in a box and I couldn't. I couldn't really,
Speaker 14: you could just feel the fun of it. But when
Speaker 14: you're down on the flo you see him.
Speaker 5: You go, holy cow it.
Speaker 14: It really is like when your big brother toying with
Speaker 14: you the whole time, Like I got that, gimme the
Speaker 14: just ripping it out of your hands anytime you want.
Speaker 5: It was just so cool.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: But what a og man, that guy.
Speaker 14: I've loved him since he's on the team, but you
Speaker 14: just depend on him so much. He's such a badass
Speaker 14: brunts and such a badass cat. When Cat got two
Speaker 14: fouls up top, that's.
Speaker 5: What everybody was talking about.
Speaker 14: The ref's calling that goofy foul on Cat up top,
Speaker 14: and you were like, well he just changed everything.
Speaker 5: We can't.
Speaker 14: The ref kind of ruin things for all of us.
Speaker 14: We were mad at the ref. I was thinking of
Speaker 14: things to yell at the ref about him and his
Speaker 14: family and stuff, and.
Speaker 2: Then I stopped, how long you in New York for?
Speaker 5: I've taken off.
Speaker 14: I'm going to see my kiddoh and then I'm taking off, buddy,
Speaker 14: but I'll be back. And we were writing yesterday and
Speaker 14: we were writing your part, and it's gonna be the best, Danny.
Speaker 5: I promise you, we're gonna have fun to get.
Speaker 3: When do we start shooting? When I have to make
Speaker 3: time for this grown up three.
Speaker 5: I promise you.
Speaker 14: I'll have the schedule in like two weeks, but we're
Speaker 14: gonna start I think in the beginning of August.
Speaker 2: Now. Uh, does oj and Anobi get a part?
Speaker 5: Oh my god. Yeah, whatever Og needs he's got, he's gotta.
Speaker 5: He's gonna be tipping in all my jokes.
Speaker 14: I got this sand Man, let me I know that
Speaker 14: that joke was a complete and miss let me get.
Speaker 2: It for you, all right. Uh go be a celebrity there.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 14: I'm gonna I'm gonna wander around here. But I love you, Danny.
Speaker 14: Congratulations to the next fans.
Speaker 2: That was fun, all right? Tell Jackie I said, hello, thanks, Danny.
Speaker 5: Okay, by you soon.
Speaker 2: That's send.
Speaker 3: And Adam Sandler, big Knicks fan, he's breaking it down there.
Speaker 3: He's right that that second foul on uh cat Uh
Speaker 3: that that wasn't a good call because that all of
Speaker 3: a sudden changed the whole offensive philosophy.
Speaker 2: That was tough.
Speaker 3: Weby got another flagrant. I mean it may not matter,
Speaker 3: but got another flagrant there, Yes, Marph.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it didn't look good when Jeremy Sochan got in
Speaker 7: the game for the Knicks and.
Speaker 2: I was like, who in the blue hell is this?
Speaker 5: I had to look up online to see.
Speaker 2: Who that was. Bobby and san Antonio. Hi, Bobby, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 12: How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm great.
Speaker 6: Oh. I just wanted to thank you for echoing everything
Speaker 6: I've ever been thinking for the last ten or twelve
Speaker 6: years about fundamentals, people not boxing out, not shuffling their feet,
Speaker 6: taking unnecessary threes. Having said that, I don't want to
Speaker 6: take the spurs off the hook for that. I think
Speaker 6: a lot of the NBA has fallen to or going
Speaker 6: away from fundamentals. So last night wasn't an anomaly. It
Speaker 6: was more the standards of the NBA for the last
Speaker 6: ten to twenty years.
Speaker 3: So oh, I know, I look, nobody wants to hear
Speaker 3: the trumpy old man get off my lawn, but it's
Speaker 3: it bothers me, you know, just simple plays. We love
Speaker 3: this spectacular. There's always going to be room for the
Speaker 3: guy who makes the smart, simple place, and last night
Speaker 3: they didn't make smart, simple plays. You got the ball
Speaker 3: eleven seconds to go, You don't need a layup, don't
Speaker 3: need points, you need you know, time to tick off
Speaker 3: the clock, boxing out, you know, just little things.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: The Spurs wiped out a twenty nine point deficit. And
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Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Marcy in South Carolina, Hi, Marcy, Hey, good morning to
Speaker 2: dp's six one two five.
Speaker 15: So yesterday you made a comment and it didn't hit
Speaker 15: me until that happened while I was watching the game
Speaker 15: last night where Wenby picks up that Slagra style and
Speaker 15: I remember you saying that, let's say Wenby picks up
Speaker 15: the four and then doesn't get to play on one
Speaker 15: of these games, how does he stay disciplined in these
Speaker 15: next this next game to make sure he doesn't pick
Speaker 15: up that four, because the Spurs are gonna need him
Speaker 15: down to stretch if they have any shot of winning
Speaker 15: the same.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they need him. But even last night with
Speaker 3: the flagrant against Karl Anthony Towns like he does. He
Speaker 3: knows that he hit him, and he even, you know,
Speaker 3: kneels down to say sorry, Karl Anthony Towns. He didn't
Speaker 3: mean to, you know, nas Reed felt like he meant
Speaker 3: to hit somebody in that Minnesota series. But yeah, you
Speaker 3: can accidentally hit somebody and it will be a flagrant.
Speaker 3: The question is is it going to be a basketball
Speaker 3: or non basketball move?
Speaker 2: Yes, Dylan, Yeah.
Speaker 10: Do you think if they don't go with the no
Speaker 10: call on the what was really a flag at the
Speaker 10: previous game that they called this or it was this
Speaker 10: a makeup call?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think it was a makeup call. But
Speaker 3: I you're right if they do have the flagrant with
Speaker 3: Brunch and they boy would be tough not to call
Speaker 3: that though. I mean, you hit him with your elbow,
Speaker 3: But I they might have just called a foul. I
Speaker 3: don't know, but this is what we wondered, you know,
Speaker 3: is it a makeup call? Alan Minnesota?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 2: Al?
Speaker 8: What's up?
Speaker 12: Band?
Speaker 8: Donnert five ten, one hundred and eighty pounds fault soft
Speaker 8: A blue date night last night? Ah, watching the game.
Speaker 8: But here's the thing. I watched the first half of
Speaker 8: the game, and I was like, I hurt my wife
Speaker 8: so bad. I was like, oh, at halftime the score
Speaker 8: was so big. I was like, I'm gonna go upstairs
Speaker 8: and comfort my wife. Go upstairs, fall asleep with my wife.
Speaker 8: You know, we didn't have date night. I wake up
Speaker 8: at eleven o'clock, I come downstairs. Game over Nix ran.
Speaker 8: Oh man, my parlays looked terrible at the beginning. I
Speaker 8: have fought. I was like, yeah, yeah, my parlays just
Speaker 8: kind of full apart, I guess. But New York needed
Speaker 8: this win. The city really needed this win.
Speaker 3: Yeah they did. Yeah, and maybe make it up to
Speaker 3: your wife. Thank you all. Yes, do you want to.
Speaker 2: Play a quick game?
Speaker 11: Sure?
Speaker 10: All right, So last night was the largest comeback in
Speaker 10: NBA Finals history.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Do you know what the largest come back in NBA
Speaker 10: playoffs history was.
Speaker 5: I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 10: It was in twenty nineteen and it was thirty one points.
Speaker 2: No, yes, Paul, the Nuggets.
Speaker 10: No, it was the Clippers coming back against the Warriors.
Speaker 10: And then the real game is do you know who
Speaker 10: hit the game winning shot? And I'll give you another hint.
Speaker 10: He's currently playing in this finals. Seeler Ognobi, Landry Shammitt,
Speaker 10: Marvin Zone who did go over for three last night?
Speaker 2: From three?
Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't you say that he was going to be
Speaker 3: the key? Wasn't that they.
Speaker 7: Needed him to be the key? But Jose Alvarado, he
Speaker 7: played well. That was a great coaching move. You've talked
Speaker 7: about going with a hot hand. They needed another ball handler,
Speaker 7: which we talked about after game three. Yes, you needed
Speaker 7: somebody else to take the pressure off of brunts and
Speaker 7: would not having to bring the ball up to get
Speaker 7: over half.
Speaker 3: That they had not played together before in a game.
Speaker 3: But isn't his nickname grand theft Alvarado? It's pretty good, Yeah, pauling,
Speaker 3: but that's the NIXT coach.
Speaker 9: Knowing I've got Alvarado in, you don't rotate him back
Speaker 9: out when he's playing well. You stick with what works.
Speaker 9: Daron Fox not playing well and you stick with him.
Speaker 5: It's the opposite.
Speaker 3: Update the poll results there for the second hour doing.
Speaker 10: After game four, who is your finals MVP, Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 10: og Anobi or other? Fifty five percent say Anenobi? And
Speaker 10: did you bail in the game last night when the
Speaker 10: Knicks were down by twenty nine? Fifty six percent say no.
Speaker 10: Probably some liars in there.
Speaker 7: Yes, Marvin, I feel bad for Deanner Fox because he's
Speaker 7: now in the j R. Smith category.
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