WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.320 Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors trying to stave off elimination. Tonight, 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.160 we'll see if the New York Knicks can advance to 3 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:10.800 their first Eastern Conference Finals since two thousand and of course, 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:13.199 Minnesota trying to get it done as well. Our next 5 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:16.000 guest played pro basketball for a number of years for 6 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:19.199 a number of teams, including said New York Knicks. It's 7 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:22.039 a pleasure to welcome in Quentin Richardson to the program 8 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.359 on Wednesday, on a Wednesday afternoon. Q. Happy Wednesday, man, 9 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:25.839 how are we doing. 10 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:28.600 I'm good, I'm good. Appreciate you I having me. 11 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.079 I appreciate the time. So do you think the New 12 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.200 York Knicks get it done tonight? Boston eight and two 13 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:36.679 without Tatum this year, they're a four point five point 14 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:37.560 favorite at home? Q? 15 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:39.520 How do you think it goes down in Boston tonight? 16 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:43.679 I'm skeptical right now, man, because on the one hand, 17 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:46.200 I do think that the Knicks have the advantage. They 18 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:48.960 got the momentum right now, and they've already won two 19 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.439 games on their home court in this series, so they should, 20 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:54.719 with all the intents and purposes, be able to get 21 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:56.799 the job done. But I just hesitate a little bit 22 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.399 because the Celtics our champions, they do have pride. I 23 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:02.439 don't think they want to go out in that fashion, 24 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:04.120 just saying, you know, every all of the rest of 25 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:05.959 those guys individually, they don't want to feel like the 26 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.359 once Tayton went down there was just all over for them. 27 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:10.959 So I'm sure they're gonna put their best for it 28 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:13.640 and come out with a with a with a championship 29 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:16.000 type effort for the night. But I think as long 30 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:17.959 as as long as New York stays out, you know, 31 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.079 letting it become a big lead and having to fight 32 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:22.079 back from that, you know, and they get brusting into 33 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.200 into crunch time, I think he can get it to 34 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:25.200 eat and get it done. 35 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:27.799 Kil Is somebody who played in the league for a 36 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:31.799 number of years. All kind of concede to your opinion here, 37 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:35.560 And I understand that the system is the system in Boston, 38 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.319 the five out spacing, We're gonna shoot a lot of threes. 39 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:41.760 But when the threes aren't falling and you have like 40 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:45.680 a fourteen to twenty point lead, why don't you adjust 41 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:46.159 a little bit? 42 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.400 Like, look, I am all in on New York. 43 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:49.840 I want to see the Knicks do it, but I'm 44 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:52.200 kind of stunned that Joe Missoula and the Celtics haven't 45 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:53.159 made more adjustments. 46 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.159 Kind of help me understand this, yah, I mean. 47 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:57.879 I mean when teams come into it, you know, once 48 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.640 you get to this point in the season, you are 49 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:01.680 who you are. You played the way you play. But 50 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.120 I do agree regardless of that, regardless if you got 51 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:08.120 the personnel that they have, you have Jason Tatum and 52 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.080 Jaylen Brown those first two games, it should have never 53 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:13.439 gone down that way with them guys just continuing the 54 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.000 fire fire, fire away. When you got guys that are 55 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:18.919 that good at driving the ball and drawing files and 56 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:21.120 getting in the pain and making different things happen, and 57 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.960 for them not to not do that either of those games, 58 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.120 and watching the twenty point league collapse, that I felt 59 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:28.840 like it should have been some type of change. Even 60 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:31.120 if that he is your philosophy, at some point, you know, 61 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:33.680 you got to try to do something else. Not to 62 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:36.159 say you completely abandoned the three, but you got to 63 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.400 try and you know, mix something else in there, try 64 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:39.400 something else as well. 65 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:42.360 Tell me what stands out most to you about the 66 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:43.919 evolution of Jalen Brunson. 67 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.159 I mean, we saw him. 68 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.520 We're in Salt Lake City and the final playoff series 69 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.960 that the Jazz had with Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell 70 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.280 was against the Dallas Mavericks and Luca got hurt and 71 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:01.319 Jalen was the primary offense initiate, and so we saw 72 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:03.879 what he could do out here, at least. 73 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:04.800 In a truncated space. 74 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:06.520 But a lot of people thought the Knicks were taking 75 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:09.800 a big gamble on a guard that doesn't have great size, 76 00:03:09.840 --> 00:03:12.680 and that's not necessarily a modern day NBA approach. What 77 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.000 stands out most about how good he's been qu in 78 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:17.039 New York, I. 79 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.360 Think that for me, it's the mental aspect of it. 80 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:21.639 You know that his mental makeup. I think that's a 81 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.520 big part of what makes him as good as he is. 82 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:26.680 I mean the player, he's unbelievable to be able to 83 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.199 do the things he does in his size and without 84 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:32.759 as much athleticism that he has. I mean, he's unbelievable 85 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.120 with shooting the ball, and you could tell everything is repetition. 86 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:37.560 Like people ask where this confidence come from. It comes 87 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.919 from him getting in the gym and doing things so 88 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:42.280 many times that he expects it to work. And I 89 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:43.919 mean the other part of that man to play in 90 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:45.960 New York and the high the type of mental makeup 91 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.879 he has. It's a perfect marriage because he doesn't get 92 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:51.919 too high or too low with anything. And I don't 93 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:53.879 think he pays attention to a lot of the noise. 94 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:55.439 And there's not a lot of people that could do that. 95 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:57.599 People say, yeah, I don't care. I don't listen to 96 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.439 what nobody say. Oh, I don't read anything, I don't 97 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:02.240 look at anything. Ain't but they do. And I think 98 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:04.319 either whether he does look at it or not, I 99 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.479 don't think it has an effect on him because he 100 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:08.719 doesn't put a whole lot of stock into it, either 101 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:09.360 way up. 102 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.240 Or down as somebody you played in that city. 103 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:14.800 What will the reaction be of Knick fans in New 104 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:16.879 York if the Knicks can get it done at advance 105 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:18.240 in the Eastern Conference Finals. 106 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:22.079 Oh man, I can't. I can't tell you how much 107 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:24.560 pandemonium there will be, because I'm telling you right now, 108 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.759 the Knicks fans, I think in championship, and I mean 109 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:32.519 rightfully so, they absolutely have a crazy good opportunity to 110 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.720 win the championship in the first one. If they've ever 111 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:36.879 ever had a chance in a long time. So I 112 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:38.959 mean they got it. They got a right to be, 113 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.839 you know, to be excited and things like that. But 114 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:45.680 I would be very cautious and respectful before I start 115 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:47.519 saying we getting to the finals, you still got to 116 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.959 eliminate Boston. You still gotta watch the Pacers. The Pacers 117 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.040 are not gonna be an easy series. In my opinion, 118 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.160 I do think the Knicks can beat them, but it 119 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:56.240 won't be easy at all. 120 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:57.680 I don't think, no, not at all. 121 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.839 I mean Rick Carlisle, of course, is a Chanceampionship coach, 122 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.680 and they've got They've got a bunch and Q you 123 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:06.079 know this. I mean they have a bunch of just dogs, 124 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:07.319 pit bulls on the perimeter. 125 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:08.759 I mean guys that can really guard. 126 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.639 And we had Donovan Mitchell out here for five years 127 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:13.720 before he was traded to Cleveland, and we all kind 128 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:15.560 of pull for Donovan want to see him do well. 129 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.600 But let me ask you what stands out most about 130 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.959 just how Indiana is playing the right way at the 131 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:22.759 right time of year. 132 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.279 I mean, it has a lot to do with you said, man, 133 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:28.360 they got a really good team. They got a deep team, 134 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.079 they got a lot of guys that they can shuffle in. 135 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.199 They go about nine to ten bat and that's a 136 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:33.959 big deal when you look at the New York teams 137 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.120 that only go six seven to eight beat. So, I 138 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:40.600 mean when you think about that Indiana, they play at 139 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.560 a fast paced you know what I'm saying, Tyree Kelly 140 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.199 Burden and getting guys the ball. Guys are running and 141 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.120 then like you say, they got the intangle moves man, 142 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.560 they got a mouth turner who doesn't get enough credits. 143 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:51.519 I feel like he's one of the few big men 144 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:56.279 that really impact shots at the rim and that paint protection. 145 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:58.959 He impacts it at a high, high level, but also 146 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:01.639 goes out there and shoot three. It's like a it's 147 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.560 like a you don't really get that a lot from 148 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:05.319 guys that are shot blockers that can shoot at the 149 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.600 high cliff that he can and the mid post and 150 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.040 everything else. I like top to bottom man, they got 151 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:12.160 they got a deep rock to them hard Matt Durin. 152 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.519 They come off the Smith off the Bennie Smith is 153 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.560 an absolute dog on defense. I don't know if everybody 154 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:20.839 is a lot of people have paid close attention because 155 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:23.600 it hasn't gotten like the whole ride rod to it. 156 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:25.759 But if you just take a couple possessions and you 157 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:29.839 just watch him, just follow him. He is all over 158 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.920 his man. He is getting over screens, through screens, around screens. 159 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:35.959 He's getting up into people when they get the ball. 160 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:38.639 He's pressuring the ball up the court. He is He's 161 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.079 tremendous on defense. I'm a big fan of Aaron E. 162 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:42.160 Smith on defense. 163 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:45.120 Let me ask you about Donovan who I think it's 164 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:48.040 now eight straight years that he's not been able to 165 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:49.040 get out of the second round. 166 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.800 And look, it's obviously a team sport. It's not all 167 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:52.319 on him. 168 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.639 And I've seen Donovan Mitchell have individual playoffs scoring nights 169 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.240 that is very rarefied air. Do you think he is 170 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:02.480 a number one Q on a team that can win 171 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.319 a championship? 172 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.920 I do. I do think he can be a number one, 173 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:09.639 but it has to be the right right team. He 174 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.639 has had the right type of support. So I mean, 175 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.639 that's like you said, the years that he has in advance, 176 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.319 you can go through the numbers. I can't. We can't 177 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:19.800 just you know, put it on him like, yeah, he 178 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.680 if you want to consider him the best guy to 179 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.839 lead on the team, that falls on him from that respect. 180 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:26.600 But I mean he's put in major work, Like you said, 181 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:28.560 rear fied Ear with some of the numbers he's been 182 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.959 putting up in these losses and things like that. And 183 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.680 then every every instance you can point to someone else 184 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.040 there that could have done more, been more, that are 185 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:38.759 more expected of, for more for them. 186 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:43.040 Now there are some rumblings the staff is going to 187 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:44.160 try to go tonight. 188 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:45.879 I don't know what that's going to look like. 189 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.079 Do you give the Warriors any shot of at least 190 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:49.800 getting this thing back to San Francisco. 191 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.720 I give everybody a shot. Man could just because I 192 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.879 know the pride of an actual of us as athletes, 193 00:07:57.959 --> 00:07:59.319 Like you know what I'm saying. It's one game. We 194 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:01.720 just got to turn up one time and worried about 195 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.839 everything else after that. So they definitely, I mean they 196 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:06.439 got they got. Even if step doesn't play, I still 197 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:09.120 give them an outside shot. I mean, I'm not gonna 198 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.160 be surprised at Minnesota go ahead and close it out 199 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.199 and handle their business. But I'm not gonna say that 200 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:15.839 I don't give the Warriors a shot. I know what 201 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.879 Jimmy has in him, Draymond is a champion, some of 202 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.600 those other guys, these are pros man, we got pride 203 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:23.160 and they not just gonna lay down. 204 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.319 So coach Chadleman elected to leave Nikola Jokichen every minute 205 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:30.600 in the fourth. Jamal Murray too, and I understand why 206 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.159 Denver's not as deep as Oklahoma City, but of. 207 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:34.759 Course the Nugets just ran out of gas. 208 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:37.360 And now we go back to Denver to see if 209 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.240 Denver can get this thing back to game seven. 210 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.320 I know you say you give everybody a. 211 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.120 Chance, and certainly nobody would bet against Nikola Jokic, But 212 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:45.759 what do you make of what we've seen so far 213 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:47.559 with Denver and OKC and how do you think it 214 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:48.080 plays out? 215 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.720 I had Okay see winning this series. I would say 216 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:57.840 that I'm surprised because of the coaching aspect, because I 217 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.480 don't expect the team that priors their coach three games 218 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.799 before the rec before the playoffs, I didn't expect them 219 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:05.360 to have any type of run I thought they might 220 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:07.360 have got. I wouldn't have been surprised they got eliminated 221 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:09.600 in the first round because of that. But I mean, 222 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.639 when you like I said, that's as players, we got 223 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:13.879 pride Man, they got they got Joker, who could be 224 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.399 possibly the you know, arguably the best player on the planet, 225 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:18.799 right now, and Aaron Gordon has played out of his 226 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:21.759 mind this postseason. He's been I mean off season, but 227 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.480 particularly this is postseason with the game winners and the 228 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.360 timely baskets and things he's been able to do for them. 229 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:31.080 And Jamal Murray has has has the superstar Jamal Murray 230 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.840 has showed up, so right now anything could go. I 231 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.159 still don't consider this is a full long conclusion for 232 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:38.840 ok see, they definitely had to take this as a 233 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.759 as a and come in with a sense of urgency 234 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:43.039 and not not allow them to get the crowd going 235 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.399 and get get into this game because Denver is not 236 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:47.279 gonna lay down. This is gonna be a dogfight. 237 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:49.799 I feel like, Hugh, I know you're doing the media 238 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:52.440 thing now, and I know you played for a handful 239 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.759 of different teams. Do you have a rooting interest in 240 00:09:54.759 --> 00:09:56.799 any of the teams left? Is there a team you'd 241 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:57.960 like to see goin the thing? 242 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:04.240 Oh? Not particularly, man, I just I just really want 243 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.399 to see you know, good good basketball, good series, hard 244 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:11.039 falk games. Teams you know, turn injuries off. I hate 245 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:13.399 what happened to Tatum and anybody else that got injured. 246 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.080 I want to see guys get teens get to go 247 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:17.519 at it with a full compliment and just see who 248 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.679 the best team is. Man. You know, I got I 249 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:21.960 got a lot of different ties to different ball clubs 250 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:23.919 and stuff like that. The New York Knicks. I'm once 251 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:26.000 the Knick, always a Knicks. So I definitely would be 252 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.679 excited if they were able to win the championship because 253 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:30.080 I know what that would mean to that to that 254 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:32.919 fan base, to the to the franchise, to the folks 255 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:34.960 that work in them buildings, that's been working there fall 256 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.759 them years and they've got to go through the you know, 257 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:38.879 ups and downs and things like that. So I know 258 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.080 what it would mean from that standpoint, from being there 259 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.559 for a period of time and seeing how you know, 260 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.240 on on hands on the ground, and seeing how how 261 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.039 impactful the Knicks are to that city. I mean, I've 262 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.559 seen the Giants win, the Yankees win, but everybody still 263 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.919 talks about how how they waiting to see when the 264 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:57.200 Knicks win, how it's gonna be. And I would love 265 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:58.240 to see it last. 266 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:00.320 Thank you all. You got to run. 267 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.519 But reports are that Yannis is now open to being 268 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.519 traded from Milwaukee. 269 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.159 Is there a team that you like as far as 270 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:08.759 the fit goes. 271 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:12.720 You think, should you know, should trade for Giannis and Antonio. 272 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:15.279 I would love to see the Yin and Yang to 273 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:21.320 his powerful dominance playing alongside the Unicorn or the alien 274 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:25.480 that that win. Biyama is all right now. I think 275 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.159 they got enough assets and everything with the draft picks 276 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:30.039 they just got in some of the young players they 277 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.879 can move and things like that with the contracts and 278 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:34.279 so I think they can make it happen. 279 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.360 There you go, Q, thanks for the time. Enjoy the 280 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.039 game tonight. We'd love to have you back on soon. 281 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.000 Okay, all right, man, anytime fellas All right? 282 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:45.120 Quentin Richardson he played in the NBA for twelve years, 283 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.240 played for the Clips, the Suns, the Knicks, the Heat 284 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.120 and the Magic that actually resigned with the Knicks to retire. 285 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:54.320 Uh played only a game for them. Was a really 286 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:56.720 really good shooter, good two way player, kind of a 287 00:11:56.759 --> 00:11:58.399 three and D guy before. 288 00:11:58.159 --> 00:11:59.559 That kind of became in vogue. 289 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:04.799 I's got a podcast called Knuckleheads? Is that with uh 290 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:08.519 Darius Smiles? Darius Miles because they both were the knuckleheads? 291 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:09.120 Right yeah? 292 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.240 You can look on YouTube right right now to watch 293 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.279 me do the knuckleheads. Can people see me doing this. Yes, okay, 294 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.200 this is cue right now, that's what they used to do. 295 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.559 WASQ part of the Nick teams that you kind of 296 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:20.480 fell in love with when you were early on in 297 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:21.559 your basketball fandom? 298 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:25.000 Yeah, so I actually was. He was part of the 299 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:29.480 Knicks teams early, right, And you man, I don't think 300 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:31.919 there was a check its overlap It was four h 301 00:12:32.039 --> 00:12:34.240 five maybe, No, there was not, right, So it was 302 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:38.399 it was kind of some of those late nineties Knicks 303 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:40.799 players were still hanging around a few of them, and 304 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:44.360 Q was on those teams. I really really liked his game. 305 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.399 It just it was a little before the game became 306 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.120 what it is today. Which, man, you would love to 307 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:53.240 have a Quent Richardson from two thousand and five, two 308 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:57.799 thousand and six in a NBA roster today. And then yeah, 309 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:01.960 he signed with Mellows playoff run Nicks, right, the team 310 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.919 that ended up going and beating the Celtics in Round one, 311 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.399 beating Kevin Durant and Paul Pearson in that team. Quint 312 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:11.159 was on on that roster. So yeah, he was. He 313 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:12.919 was a guy I liked a lot and then has 314 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:15.720 been good to me in the in the the media's 315 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:17.919 versions he joined, So he's a he's a friend of 316 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:18.240 the show. 317 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.360 Now, yeah, McDonald's all American, and I'll tell you what, 318 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:25.039 she was really good. But I thought I thought Darius 319 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.960 Miles was going to be like a ten time All Star, right, 320 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:29.879 he's an He's another one that's like. 321 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:35.279 That type of explosiveness, that type of athleticism and the length. 322 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:40.279 For sure, it pops on a college floor so much. 323 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:44.039 And then you know, or even the high school stuff 324 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:48.000 right with you look AT's like stroll Miles Swift. I 325 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.840 think the same thing. Guys that showed that type of 326 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.519 domination at the previous levels, and that the NBA almost 327 00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:59.000 everyone's like kind of like that, or they're seven feet tall, 328 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:01.120 so it evens the play for a little bit. 329 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.519 Yeah, Darius was six'. 330 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.559 Nine he committed to play At Saint, john's then decommitted 331 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.120 when he realized he was going to be a top. 332 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:12.000 Pick he was a number three pick overall and never 333 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:15.240 fully developed the way that we thought that he. Would 334 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.159 he played in THE nba for nine, years bounced around 335 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:20.320 a little. Bit his best years were actually In, portland 336 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.600 not with The. Clippers spent a couple of years In 337 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.159 cleveland as. Well but, yeah interesting stuff there so a 338 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.440 couple of a couple of interesting games. Tonight it looks 339 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:33.480 like the reports are that they're going to maybe attempt 340 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:35.039 to Give Stephen curry some minutes. 341 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.519 TONIGHT i don't know how that's going to. 342 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.000 GO i, mean hamstrings are so, tricky but it's do or, 343 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:43.399 die and of Course steph will give it his. 344 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.639 All that's going to be a tough place to. 345 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.120 Play The Target center In minneapolis when the when The 346 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.840 timberwolves are, good it's very much like The Delta center 347 00:14:50.840 --> 00:14:53.519 when The jazz are, good, loud the fans are right 348 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.720 on top of, you and it just feels the feels 349 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.559 like The timberwolves kind of have the The warriors. NUMBER 350 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.320 i don't fully understand Why Jimmy butler hasn't looked as 351 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:05.840 engaged AS i thought that he. WOULD i, mean this 352 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:08.080 was a guy that like single handily took The heats 353 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:11.039 to the finals just a few years, ago and With stefan, 354 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.320 OUT i thought we would see more of The butler 355 00:15:13.440 --> 00:15:15.480 show than we've, seen and he's been just a little bit, 356 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.799 Hesitant and you, know is this kind of the Moment Anthony, 357 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:22.799 edwards who already has a tremendous playoff, pedigree even as 358 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.919 a young player even takes that proverbial next, step it 359 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:28.879 feels like we're high speed ahead To minnesota And. Oka, 360 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:32.039 See i'm not ready to Bury denver just. Yet denver 361 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:36.799 just has so many depth. Issues AND i understand why 362 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.320 Coach adaman last night went With jokic And murray And 363 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.480 gordon and the entire group in the fourth, quarter the 364 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.480 entire fourth. Quarter the bio rhythms with that team is 365 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.960 Typically jokicic takes about the first three or four minutes 366 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:51.759 off of the fourth to kind of get him to finish, 367 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.639 it and then usually they'll Bring jokic back in and 368 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:55.240 sit them all. 369 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:56.679 For a little, bit but all hands on. 370 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.639 Deck they had like a fourteen point lead in the 371 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.200 fourth and then if you were, watching every one of 372 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:03.519 their three point shots were. 373 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:04.840 SHORT i, mean the legs were. 374 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:08.840 Gone and the problem Is Oklahoma city has a team 375 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.399 Where Mark dagnoll can go like twelve deep if he, 376 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.759 wants and they're all. YOUNG i, mean off the top 377 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:16.480 of my, HEAD i think the oldest player might Be Alex, 378 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.519 caruso AND i Think alex is still in his. TWENTIES i, 379 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.080 mean that's Where denver's running into. Issues they're so top, 380 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:24.840 heavy and they're just a little bit. Older they don't 381 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.480 have the ability to supplement the Non jokich or Non 382 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:30.399 murray minutes the way THAT okc can even do with 383 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.000 the Non sga minutes because they can Have Jalen williams 384 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.360 be their primary ball. Handler So warriors T wolf Tonight 385 00:16:36.399 --> 00:16:38.840 Target center In, minneapolis and then for the first time 386 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:44.519 since two thousand against The Indiana. Pacers ironically, enough The 387 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:46.639 New York knicks will attempt to make The Eastern Conference. 388 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.440 Finals The Boston celtics are a favorite at. Home they're 389 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.440 a four point five point favorite at last. Check even 390 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.679 Without Jason. TATUM Td garden's going to be. Crazy you, 391 00:16:55.720 --> 00:16:58.200 Know Bill simmons as the whole Like Patrick ewing theory 392 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.840 which is based off Those Nicks night ninety nine when 393 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:02.399 they went to the finals with you in on the, 394 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:06.440 sideline and his whole theory is, that you, know all 395 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.839 of these guys are really good players in pro, basketball 396 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:10.920 and when the best player on your, team AND i 397 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.799 do Think Jason tatum is the best player on The 398 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:16.039 celtics to respect To Jaylen, brown who was The FINALS 399 00:17:16.119 --> 00:17:20.359 mvp a year, ago there's like this collective effort that 400 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.559 kind of comes to the, forefront And boston has plenty 401 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:26.759