Speaker 1: Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors trying to stave off elimination. Tonight,
Speaker 1: we'll see if the New York Knicks can advance to
Speaker 1: their first Eastern Conference Finals since two thousand and of course,
Speaker 1: Minnesota trying to get it done as well. Our next
Speaker 1: guest played pro basketball for a number of years for
Speaker 1: a number of teams, including said New York Knicks. It's
Speaker 1: a pleasure to welcome in Quentin Richardson to the program
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, on a Wednesday afternoon. Q. Happy Wednesday, man,
Speaker 1: how are we doing.
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. Appreciate you I having me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the time. So do you think the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks get it done tonight? Boston eight and two
Speaker 1: without Tatum this year, they're a four point five point
Speaker 1: favorite at home? Q?
Speaker 3: How do you think it goes down in Boston tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm skeptical right now, man, because on the one hand,
Speaker 2: I do think that the Knicks have the advantage. They
Speaker 2: got the momentum right now, and they've already won two
Speaker 2: games on their home court in this series, so they should,
Speaker 2: with all the intents and purposes, be able to get
Speaker 2: the job done. But I just hesitate a little bit
Speaker 2: because the Celtics our champions, they do have pride. I
Speaker 2: don't think they want to go out in that fashion,
Speaker 2: just saying, you know, every all of the rest of
Speaker 2: those guys individually, they don't want to feel like the
Speaker 2: once Tayton went down there was just all over for them.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure they're gonna put their best for it
Speaker 2: and come out with a with a with a championship
Speaker 2: type effort for the night. But I think as long
Speaker 2: as as long as New York stays out, you know,
Speaker 2: letting it become a big lead and having to fight
Speaker 2: back from that, you know, and they get brusting into
Speaker 2: into crunch time, I think he can get it to
Speaker 2: eat and get it done.
Speaker 1: Kil Is somebody who played in the league for a
Speaker 1: number of years. All kind of concede to your opinion here,
Speaker 1: And I understand that the system is the system in Boston,
Speaker 1: the five out spacing, We're gonna shoot a lot of threes.
Speaker 1: But when the threes aren't falling and you have like
Speaker 1: a fourteen to twenty point lead, why don't you adjust
Speaker 1: a little bit?
Speaker 3: Like, look, I am all in on New York.
Speaker 1: I want to see the Knicks do it, but I'm
Speaker 1: kind of stunned that Joe Missoula and the Celtics haven't
Speaker 1: made more adjustments.
Speaker 3: Kind of help me understand this, yah, I mean.
Speaker 2: I mean when teams come into it, you know, once
Speaker 2: you get to this point in the season, you are
Speaker 2: who you are. You played the way you play. But
Speaker 2: I do agree regardless of that, regardless if you got
Speaker 2: the personnel that they have, you have Jason Tatum and
Speaker 2: Jaylen Brown those first two games, it should have never
Speaker 2: gone down that way with them guys just continuing the
Speaker 2: fire fire, fire away. When you got guys that are
Speaker 2: that good at driving the ball and drawing files and
Speaker 2: getting in the pain and making different things happen, and
Speaker 2: for them not to not do that either of those games,
Speaker 2: and watching the twenty point league collapse, that I felt
Speaker 2: like it should have been some type of change. Even
Speaker 2: if that he is your philosophy, at some point, you know,
Speaker 2: you got to try to do something else. Not to
Speaker 2: say you completely abandoned the three, but you got to
Speaker 2: try and you know, mix something else in there, try
Speaker 2: something else as well.
Speaker 1: Tell me what stands out most to you about the
Speaker 1: evolution of Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 3: I mean, we saw him.
Speaker 1: We're in Salt Lake City and the final playoff series
Speaker 1: that the Jazz had with Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: was against the Dallas Mavericks and Luca got hurt and
Speaker 1: Jalen was the primary offense initiate, and so we saw
Speaker 1: what he could do out here, at least.
Speaker 3: In a truncated space.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people thought the Knicks were taking
Speaker 1: a big gamble on a guard that doesn't have great size,
Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily a modern day NBA approach. What
Speaker 1: stands out most about how good he's been qu in
Speaker 1: New York, I.
Speaker 2: Think that for me, it's the mental aspect of it.
Speaker 2: You know that his mental makeup. I think that's a
Speaker 2: big part of what makes him as good as he is.
Speaker 2: I mean the player, he's unbelievable to be able to
Speaker 2: do the things he does in his size and without
Speaker 2: as much athleticism that he has. I mean, he's unbelievable
Speaker 2: with shooting the ball, and you could tell everything is repetition.
Speaker 2: Like people ask where this confidence come from. It comes
Speaker 2: from him getting in the gym and doing things so
Speaker 2: many times that he expects it to work. And I
Speaker 2: mean the other part of that man to play in
Speaker 2: New York and the high the type of mental makeup
Speaker 2: he has. It's a perfect marriage because he doesn't get
Speaker 2: too high or too low with anything. And I don't
Speaker 2: think he pays attention to a lot of the noise.
Speaker 2: And there's not a lot of people that could do that.
Speaker 2: People say, yeah, I don't care. I don't listen to
Speaker 2: what nobody say. Oh, I don't read anything, I don't
Speaker 2: look at anything. Ain't but they do. And I think
Speaker 2: either whether he does look at it or not, I
Speaker 2: don't think it has an effect on him because he
Speaker 2: doesn't put a whole lot of stock into it, either
Speaker 2: way up.
Speaker 3: Or down as somebody you played in that city.
Speaker 1: What will the reaction be of Knick fans in New
Speaker 1: York if the Knicks can get it done at advance
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I can't. I can't tell you how much
Speaker 2: pandemonium there will be, because I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 2: the Knicks fans, I think in championship, and I mean
Speaker 2: rightfully so, they absolutely have a crazy good opportunity to
Speaker 2: win the championship in the first one. If they've ever
Speaker 2: ever had a chance in a long time. So I
Speaker 2: mean they got it. They got a right to be,
Speaker 2: you know, to be excited and things like that. But
Speaker 2: I would be very cautious and respectful before I start
Speaker 2: saying we getting to the finals, you still got to
Speaker 2: eliminate Boston. You still gotta watch the Pacers. The Pacers
Speaker 2: are not gonna be an easy series. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: I do think the Knicks can beat them, but it
Speaker 2: won't be easy at all.
Speaker 3: I don't think, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: I mean Rick Carlisle, of course, is a Chanceampionship coach,
Speaker 1: and they've got They've got a bunch and Q you
Speaker 1: know this. I mean they have a bunch of just dogs,
Speaker 1: pit bulls on the perimeter.
Speaker 3: I mean guys that can really guard.
Speaker 1: And we had Donovan Mitchell out here for five years
Speaker 1: before he was traded to Cleveland, and we all kind
Speaker 1: of pull for Donovan want to see him do well.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you what stands out most about
Speaker 1: just how Indiana is playing the right way at the
Speaker 1: right time of year.
Speaker 2: I mean, it has a lot to do with you said, man,
Speaker 2: they got a really good team. They got a deep team,
Speaker 2: they got a lot of guys that they can shuffle in.
Speaker 2: They go about nine to ten bat and that's a
Speaker 2: big deal when you look at the New York teams
Speaker 2: that only go six seven to eight beat. So, I
Speaker 2: mean when you think about that Indiana, they play at
Speaker 2: a fast paced you know what I'm saying, Tyree Kelly
Speaker 2: Burden and getting guys the ball. Guys are running and
Speaker 2: then like you say, they got the intangle moves man,
Speaker 2: they got a mouth turner who doesn't get enough credits.
Speaker 2: I feel like he's one of the few big men
Speaker 2: that really impact shots at the rim and that paint protection.
Speaker 2: He impacts it at a high, high level, but also
Speaker 2: goes out there and shoot three. It's like a it's
Speaker 2: like a you don't really get that a lot from
Speaker 2: guys that are shot blockers that can shoot at the
Speaker 2: high cliff that he can and the mid post and
Speaker 2: everything else. I like top to bottom man, they got
Speaker 2: they got a deep rock to them hard Matt Durin.
Speaker 2: They come off the Smith off the Bennie Smith is
Speaker 2: an absolute dog on defense. I don't know if everybody
Speaker 2: is a lot of people have paid close attention because
Speaker 2: it hasn't gotten like the whole ride rod to it.
Speaker 2: But if you just take a couple possessions and you
Speaker 2: just watch him, just follow him. He is all over
Speaker 2: his man. He is getting over screens, through screens, around screens.
Speaker 2: He's getting up into people when they get the ball.
Speaker 2: He's pressuring the ball up the court. He is He's
Speaker 2: tremendous on defense. I'm a big fan of Aaron E.
Speaker 2: Smith on defense.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about Donovan who I think it's
Speaker 1: now eight straight years that he's not been able to
Speaker 1: get out of the second round.
Speaker 3: And look, it's obviously a team sport. It's not all
Speaker 3: on him.
Speaker 1: And I've seen Donovan Mitchell have individual playoffs scoring nights
Speaker 1: that is very rarefied air. Do you think he is
Speaker 1: a number one Q on a team that can win
Speaker 1: a championship?
Speaker 2: I do. I do think he can be a number one,
Speaker 2: but it has to be the right right team. He
Speaker 2: has had the right type of support. So I mean,
Speaker 2: that's like you said, the years that he has in advance,
Speaker 2: you can go through the numbers. I can't. We can't
Speaker 2: just you know, put it on him like, yeah, he
Speaker 2: if you want to consider him the best guy to
Speaker 2: lead on the team, that falls on him from that respect.
Speaker 2: But I mean he's put in major work, Like you said,
Speaker 2: rear fied Ear with some of the numbers he's been
Speaker 2: putting up in these losses and things like that. And
Speaker 2: then every every instance you can point to someone else
Speaker 2: there that could have done more, been more, that are
Speaker 2: more expected of, for more for them.
Speaker 1: Now there are some rumblings the staff is going to
Speaker 1: try to go tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that's going to look like.
Speaker 1: Do you give the Warriors any shot of at least
Speaker 1: getting this thing back to San Francisco.
Speaker 2: I give everybody a shot. Man could just because I
Speaker 2: know the pride of an actual of us as athletes,
Speaker 2: Like you know what I'm saying. It's one game. We
Speaker 2: just got to turn up one time and worried about
Speaker 2: everything else after that. So they definitely, I mean they
Speaker 2: got they got. Even if step doesn't play, I still
Speaker 2: give them an outside shot. I mean, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: be surprised at Minnesota go ahead and close it out
Speaker 2: and handle their business. But I'm not gonna say that
Speaker 2: I don't give the Warriors a shot. I know what
Speaker 2: Jimmy has in him, Draymond is a champion, some of
Speaker 2: those other guys, these are pros man, we got pride
Speaker 2: and they not just gonna lay down.
Speaker 1: So coach Chadleman elected to leave Nikola Jokichen every minute
Speaker 1: in the fourth. Jamal Murray too, and I understand why
Speaker 1: Denver's not as deep as Oklahoma City, but of.
Speaker 3: Course the Nugets just ran out of gas.
Speaker 1: And now we go back to Denver to see if
Speaker 1: Denver can get this thing back to game seven.
Speaker 3: I know you say you give everybody a.
Speaker 1: Chance, and certainly nobody would bet against Nikola Jokic, But
Speaker 1: what do you make of what we've seen so far
Speaker 1: with Denver and OKC and how do you think it
Speaker 1: plays out?
Speaker 2: I had Okay see winning this series. I would say
Speaker 2: that I'm surprised because of the coaching aspect, because I
Speaker 2: don't expect the team that priors their coach three games
Speaker 2: before the rec before the playoffs, I didn't expect them
Speaker 2: to have any type of run I thought they might
Speaker 2: have got. I wouldn't have been surprised they got eliminated
Speaker 2: in the first round because of that. But I mean,
Speaker 2: when you like I said, that's as players, we got
Speaker 2: pride Man, they got they got Joker, who could be
Speaker 2: possibly the you know, arguably the best player on the planet,
Speaker 2: right now, and Aaron Gordon has played out of his
Speaker 2: mind this postseason. He's been I mean off season, but
Speaker 2: particularly this is postseason with the game winners and the
Speaker 2: timely baskets and things he's been able to do for them.
Speaker 2: And Jamal Murray has has has the superstar Jamal Murray
Speaker 2: has showed up, so right now anything could go. I
Speaker 2: still don't consider this is a full long conclusion for
Speaker 2: ok see, they definitely had to take this as a
Speaker 2: as a and come in with a sense of urgency
Speaker 2: and not not allow them to get the crowd going
Speaker 2: and get get into this game because Denver is not
Speaker 2: gonna lay down. This is gonna be a dogfight.
Speaker 1: I feel like, Hugh, I know you're doing the media
Speaker 1: thing now, and I know you played for a handful
Speaker 1: of different teams. Do you have a rooting interest in
Speaker 1: any of the teams left? Is there a team you'd
Speaker 1: like to see goin the thing?
Speaker 2: Oh? Not particularly, man, I just I just really want
Speaker 2: to see you know, good good basketball, good series, hard
Speaker 2: falk games. Teams you know, turn injuries off. I hate
Speaker 2: what happened to Tatum and anybody else that got injured.
Speaker 2: I want to see guys get teens get to go
Speaker 2: at it with a full compliment and just see who
Speaker 2: the best team is. Man. You know, I got I
Speaker 2: got a lot of different ties to different ball clubs
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. The New York Knicks. I'm once
Speaker 2: the Knick, always a Knicks. So I definitely would be
Speaker 2: excited if they were able to win the championship because
Speaker 2: I know what that would mean to that to that
Speaker 2: fan base, to the to the franchise, to the folks
Speaker 2: that work in them buildings, that's been working there fall
Speaker 2: them years and they've got to go through the you know,
Speaker 2: ups and downs and things like that. So I know
Speaker 2: what it would mean from that standpoint, from being there
Speaker 2: for a period of time and seeing how you know,
Speaker 2: on on hands on the ground, and seeing how how
Speaker 2: impactful the Knicks are to that city. I mean, I've
Speaker 2: seen the Giants win, the Yankees win, but everybody still
Speaker 2: talks about how how they waiting to see when the
Speaker 2: Knicks win, how it's gonna be. And I would love
Speaker 2: to see it last.
Speaker 3: Thank you all. You got to run.
Speaker 1: But reports are that Yannis is now open to being
Speaker 1: traded from Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Is there a team that you like as far as
Speaker 3: the fit goes.
Speaker 1: You think, should you know, should trade for Giannis and Antonio.
Speaker 2: I would love to see the Yin and Yang to
Speaker 2: his powerful dominance playing alongside the Unicorn or the alien
Speaker 2: that that win. Biyama is all right now. I think
Speaker 2: they got enough assets and everything with the draft picks
Speaker 2: they just got in some of the young players they
Speaker 2: can move and things like that with the contracts and
Speaker 2: so I think they can make it happen.
Speaker 1: There you go, Q, thanks for the time. Enjoy the
Speaker 1: game tonight. We'd love to have you back on soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, man, anytime fellas All right?
Speaker 1: Quentin Richardson he played in the NBA for twelve years,
Speaker 1: played for the Clips, the Suns, the Knicks, the Heat
Speaker 1: and the Magic that actually resigned with the Knicks to retire.
Speaker 1: Uh played only a game for them. Was a really
Speaker 1: really good shooter, good two way player, kind of a
Speaker 1: three and D guy before.
Speaker 3: That kind of became in vogue.
Speaker 1: I's got a podcast called Knuckleheads? Is that with uh
Speaker 1: Darius Smiles? Darius Miles because they both were the knuckleheads?
Speaker 3: Right yeah?
Speaker 1: You can look on YouTube right right now to watch
Speaker 1: me do the knuckleheads. Can people see me doing this. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: this is cue right now, that's what they used to do.
Speaker 1: WASQ part of the Nick teams that you kind of
Speaker 1: fell in love with when you were early on in
Speaker 1: your basketball fandom?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I actually was. He was part of the
Speaker 4: Knicks teams early, right, And you man, I don't think
Speaker 4: there was a check its overlap It was four h
Speaker 4: five maybe, No, there was not, right, So it was
Speaker 4: it was kind of some of those late nineties Knicks
Speaker 4: players were still hanging around a few of them, and
Speaker 4: Q was on those teams. I really really liked his game.
Speaker 4: It just it was a little before the game became
Speaker 4: what it is today. Which, man, you would love to
Speaker 4: have a Quent Richardson from two thousand and five, two
Speaker 4: thousand and six in a NBA roster today. And then yeah,
Speaker 4: he signed with Mellows playoff run Nicks, right, the team
Speaker 4: that ended up going and beating the Celtics in Round one,
Speaker 4: beating Kevin Durant and Paul Pearson in that team. Quint
Speaker 4: was on on that roster. So yeah, he was. He
Speaker 4: was a guy I liked a lot and then has
Speaker 4: been good to me in the in the the media's
Speaker 4: versions he joined, So he's a he's a friend of
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, McDonald's all American, and I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: she was really good. But I thought I thought Darius
Speaker 1: Miles was going to be like a ten time All Star, right,
Speaker 1: he's an He's another one that's like.
Speaker 4: That type of explosiveness, that type of athleticism and the length.
Speaker 4: For sure, it pops on a college floor so much.
Speaker 4: And then you know, or even the high school stuff
Speaker 4: right with you look AT's like stroll Miles Swift. I
Speaker 4: think the same thing. Guys that showed that type of
Speaker 4: domination at the previous levels, and that the NBA almost
Speaker 4: everyone's like kind of like that, or they're seven feet tall,
Speaker 4: so it evens the play for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Darius was six'.
Speaker 1: Nine he committed to play At Saint, john's then decommitted
Speaker 1: when he realized he was going to be a top.
Speaker 1: Pick he was a number three pick overall and never
Speaker 1: fully developed the way that we thought that he. Would
Speaker 1: he played in THE nba for nine, years bounced around
Speaker 1: a little. Bit his best years were actually In, portland
Speaker 1: not with The. Clippers spent a couple of years In
Speaker 1: cleveland as. Well but, yeah interesting stuff there so a
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of interesting games. Tonight it looks
Speaker 1: like the reports are that they're going to maybe attempt
Speaker 1: to Give Stephen curry some minutes.
Speaker 3: TONIGHT i don't know how that's going to.
Speaker 1: GO i, mean hamstrings are so, tricky but it's do or,
Speaker 1: die and of Course steph will give it his.
Speaker 3: All that's going to be a tough place to.
Speaker 1: Play The Target center In minneapolis when the when The
Speaker 1: timberwolves are, good it's very much like The Delta center
Speaker 1: when The jazz are, good, loud the fans are right
Speaker 1: on top of, you and it just feels the feels
Speaker 1: like The timberwolves kind of have the The warriors. NUMBER
Speaker 1: i don't fully understand Why Jimmy butler hasn't looked as
Speaker 1: engaged AS i thought that he. WOULD i, mean this
Speaker 1: was a guy that like single handily took The heats
Speaker 1: to the finals just a few years, ago and With stefan,
Speaker 1: OUT i thought we would see more of The butler
Speaker 1: show than we've, seen and he's been just a little bit,
Speaker 1: Hesitant and you, know is this kind of the Moment Anthony,
Speaker 1: edwards who already has a tremendous playoff, pedigree even as
Speaker 1: a young player even takes that proverbial next, step it
Speaker 1: feels like we're high speed ahead To minnesota And. Oka,
Speaker 1: See i'm not ready to Bury denver just. Yet denver
Speaker 1: just has so many depth. Issues AND i understand why
Speaker 1: Coach adaman last night went With jokic And murray And
Speaker 1: gordon and the entire group in the fourth, quarter the
Speaker 1: entire fourth. Quarter the bio rhythms with that team is
Speaker 1: Typically jokicic takes about the first three or four minutes
Speaker 1: off of the fourth to kind of get him to finish,
Speaker 1: it and then usually they'll Bring jokic back in and
Speaker 1: sit them all.
Speaker 3: For a little, bit but all hands on.
Speaker 1: Deck they had like a fourteen point lead in the
Speaker 1: fourth and then if you were, watching every one of
Speaker 1: their three point shots were.
Speaker 3: SHORT i, mean the legs were.
Speaker 1: Gone and the problem Is Oklahoma city has a team
Speaker 1: Where Mark dagnoll can go like twelve deep if he,
Speaker 1: wants and they're all. YOUNG i, mean off the top
Speaker 1: of my, HEAD i think the oldest player might Be Alex,
Speaker 1: caruso AND i Think alex is still in his. TWENTIES i,
Speaker 1: mean that's Where denver's running into. Issues they're so top,
Speaker 1: heavy and they're just a little bit. Older they don't
Speaker 1: have the ability to supplement the Non jokich or Non
Speaker 1: murray minutes the way THAT okc can even do with
Speaker 1: the Non sga minutes because they can Have Jalen williams
Speaker 1: be their primary ball. Handler So warriors T wolf Tonight
Speaker 1: Target center In, minneapolis and then for the first time
Speaker 1: since two thousand against The Indiana. Pacers ironically, enough The
Speaker 1: New York knicks will attempt to make The Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: Finals The Boston celtics are a favorite at. Home they're
Speaker 1: a four point five point favorite at last. Check even
Speaker 1: Without Jason. TATUM Td garden's going to be. Crazy you,
Speaker 1: Know Bill simmons as the whole Like Patrick ewing theory
Speaker 1: which is based off Those Nicks night ninety nine when
Speaker 1: they went to the finals with you in on the,
Speaker 1: sideline and his whole theory is, that you, know all
Speaker 1: of these guys are really good players in pro, basketball
Speaker 1: and when the best player on your, team AND i
Speaker 1: do Think Jason tatum is the best player on The
Speaker 1: celtics to respect To Jaylen, brown who was The FINALS
Speaker 1: mvp a year, ago there's like this collective effort that
Speaker 1: kind of comes to the, forefront And boston has plenty
Speaker 1: left even Without Jason. Tatum eight and two Without tatum this,
Speaker 1: year of, course it sucks to have an injury adversely affect.
Speaker 1: You so those are the two games tonight with The
Speaker 1: nicks and The celtics and then The warriors and The.
Speaker 3: TIMBERWOLVES tnt will have that for.
Speaker 1: You The pacer stuff is really, interesting And Rick carlile himself,
Speaker 1: postgame Both Rick carlisle actually And Kenny atkinson last. Night
Speaker 1: So Kenny Atkinson coach of The Year Cleveland, cavaliers.
Speaker 3: They get rid OF.
Speaker 1: Jb, bickerstaff he goes To, Detroit kenny came, in did
Speaker 1: a really good job With, cleveland And kenny admitted last
Speaker 1: night like they're just playing.
Speaker 3: At a level that we're not out right. Now and
Speaker 3: when you.
Speaker 1: Look At rick carry lot What Rick carlisle has, done
Speaker 1: Inserting Andrew nemhart into the starting lineup And Aaron nesmith
Speaker 1: who was injured for a, while Alongside Pascal siakam who's
Speaker 1: been An All, star And Miles turner who's like Mister
Speaker 1: pacer for ten.
Speaker 3: Years he's been a steady big for.
Speaker 1: Them and then obviously Their lynchpin Is Tyree, saliburton but
Speaker 1: they also can go nine deep With Obi, TOPPIN tj,
Speaker 1: McConnell Benedict matherin who wants to fight, everybody And Ben
Speaker 1: shepherd's a good. Player they've got four or five wings
Speaker 1: that will cause The knicks a lot of problems if
Speaker 1: The knicks can get passed The celtics. Tonight but that
Speaker 1: is the perfect example of a team that kind of
Speaker 1: slow played it and then just figured it out comes
Speaker 1: spring and they are simply playing the right way at
Speaker 1: the right time of. Year and interesting to HEAR q
Speaker 1: talk About Donovan mitchell as the number one option for
Speaker 1: a championship.
Speaker 3: TEAM i.
Speaker 1: DON'T i honestly don't really. Know And i'm conflicted here
Speaker 1: Because i've Seen donovan have individual scoring outbursts in playoff
Speaker 1: games that put him alongside the leait names in the
Speaker 1: history of this, game Including Michael, jordan Including alan iverson
Speaker 1: some of the great postseason scores we've.
Speaker 3: Seen donovan has numbers to match.
Speaker 1: Them but there's just something that happens down the stretch
Speaker 1: where he cowers away from. Physicality so you hear this
Speaker 1: thing about him where he understands the moment and he
Speaker 1: steps up when the moment is the, biggest AND i
Speaker 1: would actually counter that he steps up until the moment
Speaker 1: is absolutely as big as the moment can. Get if
Speaker 1: that makes, Sense and it sounds like a, criticism and
Speaker 1: in a, way maybe it, is But.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to be.
Speaker 1: CRITICAL i just don't know BECAUSE i saw it here
Speaker 1: over and over and over where he'd have these games
Speaker 1: where he dropped like forty or sometimes even half a,
Speaker 1: hundred and then you look at the box, score, like
Speaker 1: you can't be critical About donovan because he had, Forty
Speaker 1: but what you don't see are weird turnovers down the
Speaker 1: stretch or simply cowering away From Benedict matherin or Aaron
Speaker 1: Ne smith and not responding to physicality in big playoff
Speaker 1: moments the way superstars have to. Respond If i've said it,
Speaker 1: Once i've said it a thousand, times And i'll say it.
Speaker 3: Again my biggest.
Speaker 1: Thing about are you a legitimate superstar in pro? Basketball
Speaker 1: is you get it down in the playoffs on the,
Speaker 1: road when the moments are at their, biggest and when
Speaker 1: the moments have been as big as they can. Get
Speaker 1: donovan just hasn't met them. Yet twenty, seven twenty eight years.
Speaker 1: OLD i think he's twenty eight years, Old so he
Speaker 1: is smack dab in the middle of his. Prime and
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