WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:07.080 Halliver. Hen'll take it. He'll backpen on a free for 2 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:17.280 the real I wanna come back, he tried me to 3 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:22.359 Eves Sports Radio. It is May the twenty second, twenty 4 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:26.000 twenty five. I got Shannon behind the glass. It is 5 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.760 phone number five zero two five seven one seventy nine 6 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.600 hundred Sports Talk seven ninety k r D. Now we've 7 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:35.759 got that out of the way. I got my younger son, 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.560 Anthony Eves on the line with me. Aunt, Well, we're 9 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.719 watching it. What do you think, Anthony, what do you 10 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:44.840 think of that last shot? 11 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:49.200 We got pacers in four that's all. 12 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:57.079 You've gone crazy. That's not gonna happen. But but I'm 13 00:00:57.119 --> 00:01:00.840 telling you what, Anthony. Listeners, listen to me. I have 14 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:06.599 watched NFL football games and screamed at the television. Everybody 15 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:09.480 knows I'm just a football person. I really am. My 16 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:11.319 dad wouldn't let me play football in high school. I 17 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.239 was heartbroken. Best decision he ever made for me. But 18 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:20.879 I love football. I have screamed at the television numerous times. Guys. 19 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.280 When that shot went in is the first time I 20 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:28.040 can ever remember watching an NBA playoff game, something that 21 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:31.400 I did for a living, that I screamed like it 22 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:34.920 was an NFL football game, and I mean I screamed. 23 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.599 I could not believe that ball went in the basket. 24 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.120 I was like, oh my goodness, Reggie Miller reincarnated. And 25 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:45.439 I said, well, don't go that far. Halliburn's not Reggie, 26 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:49.879 but he's Anthony. Three game winners are game tying shots 27 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:53.599 this playoffs. And I screamed, you know I did. So 28 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:56.079 you jumped up, started to run around the basement. Your 29 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:01.239 mother was screaming, Anthony, last night's game, it's gonna go 30 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:03.680 down and infamy. I'm being honest with you. I loved it. 31 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.439 What did you think before we get into the inertia 32 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:10.520 of what happened, what do you think that was? 33 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:11.800 That was incredible last night? 34 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:12.199 That was. 35 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:16.639 That shows you just know anything can happen in playoff basketball. 36 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:20.000 Obviously watching it for some reason, I don't know why, 37 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:21.800 Like I had like a little like a little thought 38 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:22.960 in my head. I was like, I was like, hmm, 39 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:24.919 because they hit it three. I said, they done fourteen, 40 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:27.800 three and a half minutes, two and a half minutes. 41 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.039 I was like, they come out there and hit another 42 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:32.800 shot and get a stop. I was like, this, see 43 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:34.439 the digit ball game. I was like, go put pressure 44 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:37.520 on the Knicks. Little I know they'd come down there 45 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.000 and Nee Smith would hit seven threes in a row. 46 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:43.599 But I wasn't exciting it to go like that. I 47 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.000 thought they would make a comeback, you know, you know, 48 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.800 hitting a couple of shots, you know they they probably 49 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:50.759 would end up losing. It would just be a close game. 50 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.560 But I was wrong. I think I think a lot 51 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.840 of us were surprised. Even Pager's fans were surprised. Knicks 52 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:01.639 fans were surprised. The master surprise. Master Garden is still 53 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:03.000 still up right now. 54 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.280 They found out of that place quickly last night. I 55 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:11.400 know that they showed them leaving Anthony. I've seen a 56 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:15.039 lot of basketball games I have played and coached in 57 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.360 Madison Square Garden. I've been there. I know it like 58 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.719 the back of my hand. I was telling you and 59 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.319 your mother it was over. I said. The Pacers know 60 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:30.520 how to finish, they know how to close. The first 61 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:33.879 problem is this, and it's not a slap at all. 62 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.960 Runson was off the last four minutes. When he came 63 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.120 back in after the foul trouble, Anthony turned the ball 64 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:45.319 over three times. And that's just uncharacteristic of Jalen Brunson period. 65 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.400 I know his dad Rick so well. He's played. Brunson 66 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.520 has played so well for them. But that's the first thing. 67 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:54.560 Turnovers are always a key factor and letting a team 68 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.800 back in the game, that's the first thing. Second thing 69 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.000 for our listeners, Anthony, I want them to understand score, 70 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.360 four and clock. When I watched college games, I lose 71 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.759 my mind. I just have no idea what that means. 72 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:13.439 And everyone says, play the same way the entire game. No, 73 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.000 you do not. The last two minutes you start to 74 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.680 play time and score, and yes, Anthony, your team has 75 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.399 to hit free throws. People will say, well, we missed 76 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:25.240 the free throws. Then they have to work on them. 77 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:29.040 It's still the right way to play. Indiana Pacers went 78 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.519 one for two critical time in the game, one for 79 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:38.240 two and Anobie and Carl Anthony, Anthony, still the right 80 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.199 way to play. So last night, after we did all 81 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:43.720 the screaming, I went to the play by play. I 82 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:47.959 wanted to say, see, here's exactly what the Knicks did wrong. 83 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.920 They shot the ball too quickly when they were up fourteen. Anthony, 84 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:56.800 That's what I thought, just watching the game, that's not 85 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.680 what happened, Anthony. The Knicks did run the clock down. 86 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:02.759 The Knicks didn't. They shot it quickly. One time Corinthony 87 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:05.560 Towns had a lay up opportunity. I taught my team 88 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.519 take lay up opportunities. Put the two points on the board. 89 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:10.879 He did. That is the only time that they shot 90 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.360 the ball within twelve seconds of the shot clock. The 91 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:17.600 rest of the time, Anthony, they did work. The time 92 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:22.600 you're playing, both the score and the time you're playing, 93 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:24.800 both two things are going on. People don't know that 94 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:28.759 you're just looking at the score. No, So the Knicks 95 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.920 on fifty percent of it. And you heard coach Tibodeau say, 96 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.560 we've got to watch the tape. They're going to watch 97 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:36.879 the tape. Guys, they're not going to be critical of 98 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:40.680 their time management with the ball. I'm trying to keep 99 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.360 this where people can understand it without it being too 100 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:47.839 much Anthony of basketball lingo. But as long as you 101 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:52.319 have the ball, your opponents can't score. So the longer 102 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.519 you keep it in the twenty four second shot clock 103 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:58.199 the last two minutes, the less possessions you give your opponent. 104 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:02.639 That's the first part. Second part, Anthony, on the other 105 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:05.480 end when they watch the tape today, which they're going 106 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:07.600 to do, and the players want to win. Guys, they're 107 00:06:07.600 --> 00:06:10.680 playing now. Nobody's taking off plays, they're gutting it out. 108 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:15.879 I loved watching it. They did not force the Pacers 109 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:20.199 to shoot twos. That allowed them to shoot threes. And 110 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:24.279 you know, there is the luck of the game. John 111 00:06:24.279 --> 00:06:27.560 Wooden said it the luck of the game. I love 112 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:29.439 Need Smith. Anony's a good player, but he'll never go 113 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:33.279 eight for nine again. I'm sorry you will not. He's 114 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.560 not gonna go eight for nine, Anthony. He's not gonna 115 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.959 make every three the last two minutes of a game again. 116 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:41.319 I don't care if anyone says I'll put up a dollar. 117 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.920 So by allowing that and he making the shots, Anthony 118 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.279 and the Knicks going one for two at the free 119 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:53.480 throw line, it allowed them to go into overtime. So 120 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.240 the facets of the game that I want people to understand, 121 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:02.160 clock management, understanding when if you have it, they don't. 122 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.480 When you're up and you're leading, you want to keep 123 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:09.120 the ball as long as possible. They can't score it 124 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.040 when you're playing a better opponent, like I used to 125 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:15.160 do a lot with all the pay games, at A 126 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:19.519 and T, Anthony, I told my team, don't take bad shots. 127 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.680 I'd rather the thirty second shot clock twenty four in 128 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.199 the NBA, thirty in college would run out, because it's 129 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.439 better for us to let the better team take the 130 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.279 ball out of bounds and we set our defense then 131 00:07:31.319 --> 00:07:34.639 turn it over. Which brings me to the key why 132 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.800 the Knicks lost fifteen turnovers, Anthony, compared to the Pacers seven. 133 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.560 That was the difference in the game. And Brunson had 134 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:49.720 critical turnovers down the stretch, which he's going to watch 135 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.560 himself on tape. He's a great team leader, Anthony. Both 136 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:57.519 teams I love their coaches. You don't see the negativity. 137 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:59.680 You don't see the code. The player's trying to run 138 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:03.519 the code. Let's give Rick Carlisle all the credit. He 139 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:08.480 held his challenge, Anthony, you see Lebron, I hate to 140 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.680 tell you, you'll see all the great players start spinning 141 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.040 their finger. Let's review it in the first quarter. A 142 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:17.399 good coach should tell his team, don't even look at 143 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:20.480 me in the first, second or third quarter. Don't even 144 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.319 motion to me that we're looking at it. That's when 145 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.519 you know you've got a well coached team. It doesn't 146 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:27.639 mean anything. If I lose the game in the first quarter, 147 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.639 they were going to beat me. So again, when you're 148 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.080 watching the game as I do, when I see those 149 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.320 guys spinning looking at the coach, and then you see 150 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:38.759 the coach turning around looking at the staff behind, which 151 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.679 is looking at the computer, to say, we may have 152 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.799 a good chance. That's a coach and not in control. Anthony, 153 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:47.679 I don't even care what happens to the fourth quarter. 154 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:50.320 I'm holding my challenge. I'm just telling everybody I am 155 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:53.879 holding my challenge. Your team should know that they shouldn't 156 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.080 even look at you. That's what I'm trying to tell you. 157 00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:00.799 The coaches, some are letting the inmates run the asylum. 158 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.759 That's all. One flew of a cuckoo's nest, like you said, 159 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.559 are we all crazy on this bus and you're too 160 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.200 young to know it? And chief said yes, and one 161 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.279 flew over the cuckoo's nest? Well, yeah, we know it's 162 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:17.879 on the bus. Players Are they're crazy? You don't listen 163 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:22.240 to so Carlisle, Congratulations, that's the butcher Beard's prodigy. Just 164 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.200 like I am for holding your challenge, I'm just telling 165 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.000 you should never use it. I don't care if it's blatant. 166 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.519 You don't use it. You have no idea what those 167 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:33.639 rests are going to say. You don't use it. And 168 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.960 when Rick used it, it was a critical block, a 169 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:40.320 critical block. So looking at the facets, looking at what 170 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.960 the Knicks are going to have to go through, they're 171 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:44.399 going to watch the tape and they're going to give 172 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:46.679 you clock management. They were good at that. All you 173 00:09:46.799 --> 00:09:49.120 have to do is go to the play by play 174 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.759 on ESPN and you'll see when the Knicks had the ball, 175 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.480 they kept it twenty seconds twenty one seconds of a 176 00:09:55.519 --> 00:09:58.360 twenty four second shot clock. They did their job. They 177 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:03.279 did not shoot the ball. Quick got me the second facet, 178 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.440 which they did not take care of. When they had 179 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:08.960 the ball. They went one for two critical points of 180 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.200 the game at the free throw line. Still the right 181 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:13.480 way to play. Your players have to make the free throws. 182 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:17.399 Derek Smith, sixty six percent free throw shooter, rolled them 183 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:20.840 both in in the championship game. Guys, like I told you, 184 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:23.240 you just have to make them. Doesn't make that Towns 185 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:25.360 is not a great player, and someone else went one 186 00:10:25.399 --> 00:10:28.000 for two. I forgot who it was, Anonobe, But again, 187 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.600 you just have to make them. That's all. There's a 188 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:35.159 time you have to deliver, period, point blank. Jerry's had 189 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:38.000 to make the eighteen foot left wing jump shot that 190 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.039 Denny Crumb said, and Daryl Griffith, you're gonna have to 191 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.919 shoot it. Jerry's had to make the layup to tie 192 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:47.720 the game. You have to make it. There's certain times 193 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:49.960 in the game you got to come through anthemy. So 194 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.279 they'll watch it car Anthony Towns and then we'll get 195 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:55.000 in the gym. They'll shoot free throws. They'll make them. 196 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.799 The biggest critical mistake is they did not force the 197 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:05.720 Pacers to shoot twos. What does that mean? Two four six, 198 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.240 eight ten. Let me say that again. Two four six, 199 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:16.480 eight ten five possessions, three six nine three possessions got 200 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:20.679 me less possessions, more opportunities for points. You have to 201 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.279 force them inside a three point line. You almost have 202 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:26.120 to be playing on the outside. Reggie Miller said on 203 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.919 one they had to switch it out. I don't care 204 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.559 if the big man posts be in scores. I don't care. 205 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:34.600 You switch your big out to take away Nisse Smith's 206 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.519 three Anthony, which they did not do, which is what 207 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.039 they'll practice today. I guarantee you they will go through 208 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.720 it and when it happens again, it may not win 209 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:47.519 the game, but you will see them execute better. That's all. Well, 210 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:49.879 the big mental score on ing Jerry. All I want 211 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:52.559 to make sure is my players know, do not file him. 212 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:54.720 Make them bring the ball down the floor, make them 213 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:56.840 enter to the post, make him turn and shoot it. 214 00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:59.480 Make them score two. You get the ball in bunce 215 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:03.320 more possessions. So we're gonna get to break in at 216 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.000 seven seventeen. When we come back, we're gonna talk more 217 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.360 about it. I want to ask you when we come back. 218 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:10.559 When he looked at Reggie, how can you to be 219 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:14.240 You've got Reggie Miller over there, Anthony with the choke side, 220 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:17.120 which again is a personal friend of mine, know him well, 221 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.320 and you see that Halliburton is trying to say I 222 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:23.480 did what you did Reggie. Well he did, and he 223 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:25.919 was close. He died the game. But he's out Reggie 224 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.360 Miller yet. This is the Sports Radio. We'll be back 225 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:35.559 after the break. Welcome back to Eve Sports Radio seven 226 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:39.799 one made the twenty second twenty twenty five. I was 227 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.159 screaming last night in this chair. It was a great game. 228 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:46.519 I told you all. I watched the NBA playoffs and 229 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:51.360 they've been a very entertaining playoffs. Okay, see and the 230 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.720 Nuggets was a really good series. I enjoyed watching that one. 231 00:12:55.080 --> 00:12:58.720 I wanted to see the Timberwolves and the Warriors. But 232 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:01.559 when Curry went down, of course, we know I was 233 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:04.440 watching Draymond Green announcing. Then he does an excellent job. 234 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.759 He's a better announcer than he his player. That's all 235 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:08.600 there is to it. But we know they had no 236 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.240 chance when Curry went down. Golden State had no chance. 237 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:14.759 So Anthony, what did you think about the choke side? 238 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.600 And is Halliburton going to be the next Reggie Miller. 239 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.159 That's a tough comparison. We're comparing, you know, the guy 240 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:27.320 who's been an NBA All Star maybe once or twice 241 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.200 to a Hall of Famer. So I can't throw him 242 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.559 in that category. Yet, Dude, his the potential to I 243 00:13:31.559 --> 00:13:34.320 think he does. I think he's on the right teams 244 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:36.600 with the right organization, with how he plays in his 245 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.360 plays down. A lot of people talked about it too. 246 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.039 They said, you know, he's not a flashy All Star, 247 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.240 but all the All Star said that he's the type 248 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:46.799 of All Star that you would won on your team 249 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:49.720 because how he plays, he's not selfish. He can play 250 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.639 without the ball. There's times you'll see it. It will 251 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:54.519 be five six positions in the row. He'll just be 252 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:57.159 going down into the corner. He won't even move. So 253 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.080 he lets other people work the ball and try to 254 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:00.919 get into a rhythm as well, rather than just being 255 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:02.960 so ball heavy like a lot of the All Stars are, 256 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.440 which is one thing I do like because sometimes it's 257 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.720 I hate when players like, oh, he's shooting bad, or 258 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.240 he's on Lebron, he's not hitting shots. I'm like, we 259 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:13.480 gotta understand, if you've ever played in any type of 260 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:15.759 basketball game, it's hard to get into a flow when 261 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:17.840 you're just doing suicides up and down the court for 262 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:19.960 ten minutes straight. Then you finally get it and you're 263 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:22.000 almost surprised that you get it, and you ain't touch 264 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.039 the ball in ten minutes and you shoot it, you 265 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:25.720 shoot a brick. I'm like, it just kind of is 266 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.399 what it is, and that's and that's the facts. You know, 267 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:30.159 when I'm not knocking some of the All Stars, I 268 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:32.639 know that's just kind of their role on the team. 269 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.600 But well, no, the NBA's turned into iceo ball. Anthony Anthony. 270 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:38.080 The NBA's turned into iceo ball. I hate it. That's 271 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.320 why I don't watch it, Anthony. It's a pick and 272 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:43.879 roll and you'll see one player dominate the ball. I mean, 273 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.679 without a doubt, you'll see him dominate the ball. And 274 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.480 that's kind of what it's turned to. But you're right, 275 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.000 Halliburt and Anthony. I didn't love him last year because 276 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.399 he turned the ball over and the crunch didn't get 277 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.159 a shot off. But he's starting to grow on me 278 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.720 and he has made big shots, Anthony. He's made big 279 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:07.679 shots now, just like OKC. Indiana has got a very 280 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:10.600 good team top to bottom, Anthony. They do. They have 281 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:12.320 a lot of young players. I think they're going to 282 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.320 be good. You played against Pascal and a lot of 283 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.200 people don't know that at New Mexico State when you're 284 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.159 at Chicago State. I was at the game. He was 285 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.120 really good at New Mexico State. He's really good, Anthony. 286 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:26.039 He is really good. He knows how to play. People 287 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:28.200 don't know how big he is. He's truly six'. Ten 288 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:32.639 that kid's. Good turner's. Improving Niece, smith what can we? 289 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:36.960 Say here's my. MIND i just can't Believe Nim Hart. 290 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.200 Anthony in the, playoffs he's twice the PLAYER i want 291 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:44.360 people to. Understand regular, season he's a good player in the. 292 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:47.080 Playoffs that three he made in overtime was the, game 293 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:49.279 the shot that made won the game for The. Pacers 294 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.279 if he doesn't make that Three pacers get beaten, overtime 295 00:15:52.759 --> 00:15:55.799 he has just playing the lights. OUT i, Mean, anthony 296 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.519 he was six or, ten two for, three one for, 297 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:02.399 two fifteen. POINTS i, mean that's great production out of that, 298 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:05.159 Kid great production out of a kid that doesn't play 299 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:08.000 that well regular. Season BUT i like their bench, ALSO 300 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:10.919 i love. TOPPING i mean it was a three point 301 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.399 Played Anthony topic dunked on that boy and got filed 302 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:18.039 period point blank jumps out of the. Gym he used 303 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:19.519 to be a. NICK i was glad to see. That 304 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:23.200 SO i like their. TEAM i LIKE tj. McConnell i, 305 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.759 MEAN i Like Rick. CARLISLE i, Mean i've Known Rick 306 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:30.519 goalley forty. Years SO i like The pacers. GROUP i 307 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:32.960 didn't think they were that good AN i didn't think 308 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.480 they would be where they, Are but they're starting to 309 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.679 show people that they can play and they can put 310 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.679 different lineups on the floor THAT i. Like So you've 311 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:42.960 got to Give halliburton credit for, that because you're. Right 312 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:47.360 the rest of the team has a. Personality Sometimes anthony 313 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.840 would start. Players the rest of the team does not 314 00:16:49.879 --> 00:16:54.360 have a, personality and that's that's a. Problem so it's 315 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.519 a series, Now, Anthony that's all there is to. IT 316 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.120 i thought it would be The knicks and six pretty, 317 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.639 easy go up two to zero in one game In, 318 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:05.200 indiana be three to, one come, back finish in five or. 319 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:07.519 Six AND i think we got this a seven game, 320 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:10.119 series but we have to wait and. See we have 321 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:12.599 to wait and. SEE i do think That Tom thibodeaux 322 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.400 and The knicks will not pull A. CLEVELAND i do 323 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.359 think that they will fix some of their. ERAS i 324 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:21.960 think they'll finish closed games at the. End LIKE i told, 325 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.680 people they did one of the three facets. Correctly missing 326 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:28.519 the free throws is still the right way to. Play 327 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:31.160 the players just have to make. Them THAT'S i, mean 328 00:17:31.519 --> 00:17:35.400 they have to make. Them so we'll see what happens, tonight, 329 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:40.440 though ant can anybody do anything with THE? Mvp and 330 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:44.799 can Aunt man bounce back from the thirteen shots which 331 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:47.279 everyone is talking about? Now and, YES i want to 332 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:52.119 say it, Again, anthony at this point of the. Season 333 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:55.680 your star players got to be star. Players either they're 334 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.839 the goats and they, miss that's well they, miss or 335 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.000 they're the reasons why they make all the. Money so 336 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.720 does Ant man bounce? Back can he bounce? Back can 337 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:09.720 they do anything With okac At okac tonight. 338 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.480 And man will definitely bounce. Back will their team as 339 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.440 a whole bounce. Back i'm not. SURE i think that's 340 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.200 a little bit more to predicated on How Julius randall 341 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.200 And Anthony edwards. Played Julius randall has showed up the 342 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:25.839 last couple of. Games he showed. 343 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.920 Up NOW i didn't Like jesus that boy's showing. Up 344 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:31.559 he's shown up in the, playoffs ANY i GOTTA i 345 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:34.599 have to give him his. DUE i don't like. HIM i, thought, 346 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.559 BOY i said The knicks stole that. One Julius randall's 347 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:41.599 played lights. Out anthony he has And i'm not a, 348 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.759 fan but he's posted. People, yes he hit, threes a 349 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.039 lot of threes in the last. Game But, anthony he's 350 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:49.839 played to his. STRENGTH i mean he's tried to play. 351 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:54.680 Defense he's been running back on. DEFENSE i mean he's 352 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:56.160 got to come up. Big but he played well for 353 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:58.400 him in the last. Game he's played well for him 354 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:01.359 in these. PLAYOFFS i think he's found a home also. 355 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:05.039 Myself do you Like randall his style of? 356 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:10.119 Play it's gotten better throughout the, Years i'll say that. 357 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:12.160 Much WHEN i WHEN i first saw, him even when 358 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:14.000 he was on The, lakers and when he went to The. 359 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.960 Timberwolves i'm be completely, HONEST i didn't Like Julie, Randalls 360 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:18.720 like his game is kind of just it's kind of 361 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:21.400 stuck to, me AND i just and it. Was it 362 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:24.200 was weird because he was he's sixty, nine two, seventy 363 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:26.039 but he wants to play like a shooting. Guard AND 364 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:27.799 i was, like you're not really playing to your strength 365 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:30.200 because you're not that great of a. Shooter you're not 366 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:33.160 the best ball, handler and you're not the best, facilitator 367 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:35.240 but you want to do everything that appoints our. DESK 368 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:36.920 i was, like you need to work more in the 369 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:40.359 low post mid range area and really dominate the, people 370 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:44.119 because You he is a. Mismatchmaker if you gets put 371 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.680 by big sinders and power, forwards he's fast enough and 372 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:48.359 strong enough where he can blow by him and. Finish 373 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:50.839 if you put a small guard on, him he'll put, 374 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:54.200 it he can finish every. Time he's finally starting to 375 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:57.039 realize that and developing that to where he's consistently going 376 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:58.880 out there and giving you twenty five thirty points a. 377 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:00.440 Night in the, playoffs he's done it. 378 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:01.480 Provides six games in a. 379 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:03.799 Row i'm, like he's finally starting to figure out his play, 380 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:06.640 stoff how he can dominate to get past that all 381 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:09.559 star role to become more of a superstar in that 382 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:12.119 running mate With Anthony. Edwards Anthony edwards has figured it. 383 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.200 Out he didn't do it last, night but he even 384 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.799 needs sending his postgame interview that he can't go out 385 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.680 there and shoot thirteen shots and inspect his team to, 386 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:22.640 win WHICH i still, hate and it sounds and this 387 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:25.480 is crazy off, topic BUT i hate that he said 388 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:27.599 F ford one time and they charged him fifty thousand, 389 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.480 dollars but they won't charge anybody for flopping in. Games 390 00:20:30.519 --> 00:20:31.000 it's just. 391 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:33.799 Okay we'll talk about the, flop but ANY i don't want, 392 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:38.319 him and everybody's. Listening AND i got Told jan everybody's. 393 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:40.440 Listening they go in the locker. ROOM i get on, 394 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:43.079 coaches So i've got to get On. Anthony here's the 395 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:46.759 reason why they have a cool. Downtime they do not 396 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:49.440 make you walk in front of the. Mic most of the, 397 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:51.759 time they go to the winning. Team you didn't see 398 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:54.359 him grab the losing team. Yesterday right, away they grabbed 399 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:57.279 the winning team and we watched him do all the postgame. 400 00:20:57.319 --> 00:20:59.599 Interviews but the key is they're supposed to go in 401 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:02.160