Speaker 1: Welcome back to Eve's Sports Radio. I mean, what a laugh,
Speaker 1: what a day, beautiful day. Outside of course it's Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I do believe it's June fourth, twenty twenty five. But
Speaker 1: you won't know not to trust me every day most
Speaker 1: of the time, but not all the time. But yes,
Speaker 1: it is June the fourth, twenty twenty five. Beautiful morning.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone's gotten up and gotten to work. I've
Speaker 1: got a fantastic showing store for you. Of course, this
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Speaker 1: We've got Shannon behind the Glass sports Talk seven ninety KRD.
Speaker 1: I was in the office yesterday, had to cut a
Speaker 1: commercial for Court, first time I'd been in in a while.
Speaker 1: I was looking for you, Shannon. I was looking for you.
Speaker 1: I got Anthony on another line. Anthony, welcome back to
Speaker 1: the show. How are you now?
Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic this morning. How about yourself?
Speaker 1: Well, Anthony, I was at the studio yesterday and I
Speaker 1: was looking for Shannon, and somebody said he had slipped
Speaker 1: out the back door. Shannon, Was that true? Now?
Speaker 3: Come on, I'm not hard to find. You know where
Speaker 3: I'm at I'm sitting in the same studio every day.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not hard to find.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I missed you. Gusta and I
Speaker 1: were both running late, Shannon, we were both running late,
Speaker 1: so I rushed in, knocked that commercial, and rushed out.
Speaker 1: This golf outing is driving me crazy. You should know.
Speaker 1: Do you help Matt with his golf outing at all?
Speaker 3: I don't play, but I'm there. Yeah, we did the
Speaker 3: show from there, and we set up as a hole,
Speaker 3: and you know, watch everybody else hit balls into the
Speaker 3: lake there should.
Speaker 1: Go exactly well, it is what it is. The week
Speaker 1: before it is like h I don't know. I never
Speaker 1: did pledge, but I guess it would be like pledge week,
Speaker 1: the worst week, whatever that means. That's the final week
Speaker 1: of the golf outing. Twenty eight teams, four players, five
Speaker 1: per team celebrities. I've got Jack Gibings coming, I got
Speaker 1: Roger Berkman coming, Scoot to mc cray, coming to Bradford
Speaker 1: Smith coming. But I got Jack. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: tie Jack up. Shannon, you better come and help Jack.
Speaker 1: You might gain Jack.
Speaker 3: I don't think he needs my help.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so either. But we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of people coming. We're gonna have a great, great time.
Speaker 1: But anyway, guys and Anthony, bottom line, the New York
Speaker 1: Knicks are the New York Knicks. That's all I can
Speaker 1: say to both of you. For people that are watching
Speaker 1: from the outside, it's surprising. All I can tell is
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks will always be the New York Knicks,
Speaker 1: always and forever. You got to thank you. So, guys, Anthony,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it to you quickly, what do you
Speaker 1: think of the firing? Then we're gonna listen to Steven
Speaker 1: a his explanation and some of the coaches that are
Speaker 1: up for the job, because the people don't know the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks fired Tom Thibodeaux as their head coach yesterday,
Speaker 1: thinking if you listen to all the reasoning, Anthony, that
Speaker 1: they should have won a championship with this roster, which
Speaker 1: we'll get into, which is comical in a joke, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me. So and then before we go
Speaker 1: to letting people listen to some of the talking heads
Speaker 1: from New York because it's going crazy. What did you
Speaker 1: think when you saw that the New York Knicks had
Speaker 1: let Tom Thibodeau go after his fifth year, four playoff runs,
Speaker 1: back to back fifty win seasons. What did you think.
Speaker 2: I wasn't surprised. I really wasn't.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that any knock to Thibodau because
Speaker 4: I think Thibodeau knocks checked up all the.
Speaker 2: Boxes that you could ask for any coach, especially in
Speaker 2: such a short time span. Being as a franchise, everyone.
Speaker 4: Looks at the Knicks as such a successful franchise, like
Speaker 4: the Celtics and the Lakers Miami Heat, and I hate
Speaker 4: to say it, the.
Speaker 2: Knicks franchise, in my opinion, is not that great.
Speaker 4: They haven't been good in a very long time. They've
Speaker 4: underachieved pretty much every season probably since the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4: Since two thousand and Dolle, the Knicks haven't achieved anything.
Speaker 4: This is their first time in the Eastern Conference Final
Speaker 4: in twenty five years, So you know, I know, I
Speaker 4: always debate and talk with people all the time. They're like, Oh,
Speaker 4: the Knicks is a great franchise.
Speaker 2: Not really. They've had good players.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's the greatest great franchise. They're not
Speaker 4: sitting there with a million different banners in the Raptors.
Speaker 2: Even in the last two decades.
Speaker 4: You can say the Celtics and the Lakers, the Miami
Speaker 4: Heat have all won championships within the last ten to
Speaker 4: fifteen to twenty years. Knicks have not Knicks time you
Speaker 4: made to the Eastern Conference Finals, which is even worse
Speaker 4: than that. It's not like you get there and you
Speaker 4: don't win. You know, it's happened to Boston, it's happened
Speaker 4: to La it's happened to Miami, even a couple of
Speaker 4: other noble teams that are starting to make their mark
Speaker 4: in the NBA. But not the Knicks one time in
Speaker 4: twenty five years, and you.
Speaker 2: Part yourself a great franchise. It's just that the numbers
Speaker 2: don't add up.
Speaker 4: And for all the things that he did for the
Speaker 4: Knicks over that season, realistically, for them to think that
Speaker 4: the Knicks were really gonna win the championship this year
Speaker 4: is kind of a joke because everyone knew they weren't
Speaker 4: gonna win. I'm surprised they even made it to the
Speaker 4: Easton Conference Finals. So with that being said, I just.
Speaker 1: No no one thought Anthony. Everybody thought the Celtics would
Speaker 1: sweep them. No one thought that they would get through
Speaker 1: the Celtics. No one and now here we are no.
Speaker 2: I agree, I just even Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Everyone thought either Cleveland or Boston was gonna be one
Speaker 4: of the favorites.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously, no one that really.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if anyone really expected the Pacers
Speaker 4: to make it this.
Speaker 1: Far, well, no one did. No one thought it would
Speaker 1: be the Knicks and the Pacers, either team. But let's
Speaker 1: just throw it to Shannon. We're gonna listen to stephen
Speaker 1: A for about a minute and let him explain to
Speaker 1: you his frustrations and what they think. He's a New
Speaker 1: York Knick fan. I'm not a Knick fan. Anthey, you're correct.
Speaker 1: The Knicks have not won a championship since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: Anthony I was thirteen years old, Heady, I was thirteen
Speaker 1: years old last time the Knicks won a championship. They're
Speaker 1: not a great franchise. No they're not. They were a
Speaker 1: great franchise, but they have not been here. One hundred
Speaker 1: percent correct on that, one hundred percent correct. So Shannon,
Speaker 1: let's listen to Steven A and we'll get back. We've
Speaker 1: got a little Jayleen Brunson will listen to about the
Speaker 1: firing of Thibodeau, and then I'm going to give you
Speaker 1: all my comments. Where do you want me to start?
Speaker 1: You take me through and I answer you questions. Where
Speaker 1: do you want me to start? There's so many Where
Speaker 1: do you want me to start?
Speaker 4: No, I guess the best thing is, obviously everyone wants
Speaker 4: to know who calls Thibodeau to lose his job, because
Speaker 4: there's got to be something behind the scenes that we
Speaker 4: don't know about for someone with all those accolades in
Speaker 4: the last five years to just all of a sudden
Speaker 4: lose a job and I do get into the NBA.
Speaker 4: The NBA, it does happen in those senses, but they
Speaker 4: usually happen when coaches don't achieve expectations, or they're not
Speaker 4: getting to a certain landmark, or players are having disagreements
Speaker 4: with the coach. Jalen Brunton had his interview and even
Speaker 4: said that he thought Thibodau was the guy for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, since you brought that up, let's
Speaker 1: just play Jalen so that we can finish it and
Speaker 1: then I'll answer your questions. If you're ready, Shannon, please
Speaker 1: play the Jalen interview when the reporters asking him does
Speaker 1: he think that Tom Thibodeau is the man for the job?
Speaker 5: Jalen, you know, in terms of vote, Katcher said, you know,
Speaker 5: you make the moves to win. There are obviously a
Speaker 5: lot of big moves this offseason. How confident are you
Speaker 5: that this group has enough to take that next step?
Speaker 6: And uh the most confidence over confident? Seriously, I don't
Speaker 6: there's not an ounce of any type of doubt that
Speaker 6: I'm not confident with this group.
Speaker 7: Jentlem when you talked about the confidence, obviously, I feel
Speaker 7: like nobody takes more criticism than Tom, and this team
Speaker 7: obviously has turned around during his tenure. Do you kind
Speaker 7: of feel that going forward he's the same guy? Lift
Speaker 7: you guys the rest of the way that next.
Speaker 6: Level this is? Is that a real question right now?
Speaker 6: He just asked me if I believe that if he's
Speaker 6: the right guy.
Speaker 1: Yes, thanks guys, come on, okay, Anthony and all our
Speaker 1: friends listening. You know that was Jalen Brunson speaking to
Speaker 1: the reporter saying, do you think that's a true question? Well, yes,
Speaker 1: he lost his job. Jalen, it was a true question,
Speaker 1: and yes they were going too far. Tom Thibodeaum. So, Anthony,
Speaker 1: your first question, it's kind of ironic how those things go.
Speaker 1: Sometimes players know, sometimes they don't. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. I've only been in the NBA. Played
Speaker 1: for four and a half five years. I coached for
Speaker 1: Oh Golly seven and a half eight years. I scouted
Speaker 1: two years with the Utah ja Ass. I've been in
Speaker 1: the NBA a long time, made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is the NBA makes no sense,
Speaker 1: it never has. But the New York Knicks, Anthony, to
Speaker 1: answer your first question, who lost his job? Tom Thibodeau
Speaker 1: did because he did it the right way. Let me
Speaker 1: answer your question again. You're not gonna hear this from
Speaker 1: the talking heads who lost and who is the cause
Speaker 1: of him losing his job? Was Tom Thibodau. Because he
Speaker 1: did it the right way. That's why you're not going
Speaker 1: to hear anything negative from Tom Thibodeau. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: have interview at all speaking poorly about the Knicks or
Speaker 1: the Knicks players. Tom Thibodau does it the right way,
Speaker 1: and that's all there is to it. What does that
Speaker 1: do that Rubs management the wrong way and that Rubs
Speaker 1: players the wrong way when the coach does it the
Speaker 1: right way. So Anthony the person. So we all listen
Speaker 1: to all the espns, you're not going to hear. The
Speaker 1: person that lost Tom Thibodau's job was Tom Thibodaux. But
Speaker 1: because he didn't lose his job, he did it the
Speaker 1: right way, management and the players couldn't handle it. Don't
Speaker 1: forget that. That's all first and foremost before we get
Speaker 1: into all the things. James Dolan. I'll get into James
Speaker 1: Dolan after the break. Leon Rose and known Leon. He's
Speaker 1: represented a lot of people. He used to represent Tom Thibodeau.
Speaker 1: Let me just give it to y'all straight. It's a business.
Speaker 1: I know he used to represent Tom Thibodeaux. He's represented
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson before, guys, he represented his dad. I met well.
Speaker 1: I already knew Rick from when he was a player
Speaker 1: I was coaching. I know Rick really well from Temple.
Speaker 1: His dad is a great person. His dad would have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the firing. His dad worked with
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau before Jalen ever played for them. So let's
Speaker 1: just get that part straight. Really really good person. But
Speaker 1: I met Rose for the first time with Rick Brunson,
Speaker 1: the father and Philadelphia the first time I've ever met
Speaker 1: mister Rose. So again when we're sitting here, going how
Speaker 1: could this happen? How cowardly this is that you heard
Speaker 1: Stephen a what a coward the Knicks work. The only
Speaker 1: person that lost his job for himself was Tom Thibodeau.
Speaker 1: And he'll do it again because Tom Thibodeau is going
Speaker 1: to do it the right way. So we're at seven
Speaker 1: nineteen when we come back. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: things to talk about an answer with this madness called
Speaker 1: the NBA. But I guarantee you when Tom Thibodeaux wants
Speaker 1: another job, he will have it. Don't worry about Tom Tibodeau.
Speaker 1: He just signed a three year extension last year for
Speaker 1: great money. He'll have another job when he wants, and
Speaker 1: Tom Timbodau will do it the right way. He was
Speaker 1: assistant coach for John Lucas. Tibodau and I used to
Speaker 1: just talk about one day, will we ever get our break,
Speaker 1: will ever be a head coach? We ever get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to sit in that seat all the time like
Speaker 1: a brother to me. I mean, just it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Everybody in the assistant coaches in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Everybody's striving to get to the thirty jobs, Anthony. Everybody
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to get there. He was. I was
Speaker 1: able to get to my perfect job. The job God
Speaker 1: wanted from me was North Carolina, and t loved that place.
Speaker 1: Gave me an opportunity to sit in that seat and
Speaker 1: make decisions. And guys, I want you to know, only
Speaker 1: difference between the college job and the pro jobs, the
Speaker 1: high major jobs and the low major jobs, is the
Speaker 1: amount of money on the end of your contract. But
Speaker 1: the decisions are the same. It's seven twenty. It's e
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Shinnon take us away when we come back.
Speaker 1: If the system works for us perfectly, when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get it more of this New York Knicks
Speaker 1: and some of the characters that consider themselves that have
Speaker 1: titles that work for them, talk to you all in
Speaker 1: a minute. Welcome back to the sports Radio seven three guys, girls,
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Speaker 1: appreciate it because it's better than a lot of people.
Speaker 1: So welcome back to Esports Radio, Anthony. We're talking about
Speaker 1: the madness. The world is talking about the New York Knicks,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about them in a form of madness,
Speaker 1: which is the New York Knicks guys. I mean it's
Speaker 1: been nineteen seventy three, Anthony, the last time they were relevant,
Speaker 1: Coach Beard Anthony played for the Knicks. I just let
Speaker 1: you know how long it's been for the Knicks, guys.
Speaker 1: They have been this reason way for a reason, Anthony.
Speaker 1: That's all that I can say. So, first and foremost,
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau is the person that got Tom Thibodeau fired
Speaker 1: for all the right reasons because he did it the
Speaker 1: right way. And the reporter that asked, when he asked,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson, do you think he's the one, Jalen said,
Speaker 1: are you really asking that question? Yes, Jalen, because you
Speaker 1: played for the Knicks and they know who the Knicks are.
Speaker 1: So I hate to tell you, the reporter was spot on.
Speaker 1: So Anthy, what do you think going from there? What's
Speaker 1: the next What do you think is the next question?
Speaker 1: People would't want to know about the Knicks? I know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I know everything. I know the bowels of Madison Square.
Speaker 1: I can take you to every nook and cranny. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know I've been in that place, front to back,
Speaker 1: back to front with Coach Beard. I can walk through
Speaker 1: it in my sleep in the night at dark. Even
Speaker 1: when they redid the locker room for Alan Houston's team,
Speaker 1: when pat Riley was there, they redid the locker room
Speaker 1: for the first time in forever. Anthony, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know all about the garden. So what do you need
Speaker 1: to know about those Knicks? What do you think people
Speaker 1: want to know?
Speaker 4: Huh? I just think people want to know that. I mean,
Speaker 4: obviously when we heard Steve man interview, and obviously a
Speaker 4: couple of other things that we spoke about, is you
Speaker 4: know they thought the Knicks was a championship contender team,
Speaker 4: and we I just want to go to a short
Speaker 4: breakdown of some of the players. They're noble players that played,
Speaker 4: even the ones that started. Any person that knows basketball
Speaker 4: knows this is not a championship team. It's it's really not.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 4: You know you got o Gna Nuby. Obviously he's won
Speaker 4: a championship with the Raptors. I is he a good player, Yes,
Speaker 4: he's a good piece for your second and third option,
Speaker 4: which he was.
Speaker 1: Yes, quality players sometimes yes, yes, but he's a quality piece.
Speaker 1: Has a lot of work to do to when it
Speaker 1: comes to Town to winning a championship. I agree, somebody
Speaker 1: has to push him to the level to win a championship.
Speaker 1: But he's talented. Oh hees bad files, yes, and all
Speaker 1: those things are in growth. When you're trying to play
Speaker 1: to win, Anthony, you won't do those things. Just like
Speaker 1: Charles Barkley asking directly, you gotta stop doing them stupid files,
Speaker 1: and he answered Charles with you're correct. If that is
Speaker 1: correct without a doubt. That's all in the winning process.
Speaker 1: But o g has won a championship. He's a quality starter.
Speaker 1: Towns is not. But he can into Western Conference finals now.
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference finals. He's not far away, Anthony. He has
Speaker 1: to be talked. That's why I hate that they let
Speaker 1: Tipis go. But he's got to be taught. But he
Speaker 1: is a quality piece.
Speaker 4: Keep going, No, of course, you go through it. You
Speaker 4: know you got Josh hart as well. Josh hart Is.
Speaker 4: He's a quality player, but he is. He has a
Speaker 4: weird role.
Speaker 2: He's only six to four.
Speaker 4: Two hundred and fifteen pounds, but he practically plays the four.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's not a starter.
Speaker 1: He's not a starter on the championship team. He can't
Speaker 1: be the sixth man. He can be the eighth man,
Speaker 1: not the sixth man. If Josh Hartson your top six,
Speaker 1: you're not winning one. Keep going, period, point blank. At Andy,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else to say. He is an NBA player.
Speaker 1: He's gonna make a lot of money. He's better than
Speaker 1: Jerry Eves. I want people to understand, but you're doing
Speaker 1: about winning an NBA championship. He cannot be his in
Speaker 1: your top seven? Next player? Why are you leaving out
Speaker 1: the one and only? Why did you not talk about
Speaker 1: your boy Brunton. You went from Towns. You went from
Speaker 1: o G the third best player to Towns. Who is
Speaker 1: the second best player, but you didn't say anthing about
Speaker 1: Davion Brunson. Why why, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4: We all know you're to Jalen Brunton. But you know
Speaker 4: what we know, Jalen Brunston is technically their number one
Speaker 4: scoring option. But the only reason why I didn't bring
Speaker 4: him up.
Speaker 2: First is because of that payroll.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 4: Definitely reason why.
Speaker 1: Okay, your way, We'll say keep going.
Speaker 4: Obviously, we all know that Jalen Brusklyn took a pay
Speaker 4: cut two halfs on these players there to give Nicks
Speaker 4: even a slight chance, and I think that's one of
Speaker 4: the biggest reasons why he's more upset than anybody else.
Speaker 4: If you look on the payroll sallary wise per year,
Speaker 4: Karl Anthony town is at forty nine point two million dollars,
Speaker 4: then you want to go up Josh Hart at eighteen million,
Speaker 4: Michael Bridge is at twenty three point three, and Ogn
Speaker 4: Newby's at thirty six point six. Josh Hart, Jalen Brunston
Speaker 4: is at twenty four point nine. It's like the fourth
Speaker 4: or fifth highest got paid guy on the team to
Speaker 4: technically be their number one option guy.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's a great person. His dad is a great person.
Speaker 1: I want people to understand that the little kid is tough.
Speaker 1: I like him, Anthony, but you're not winning a championship
Speaker 1: with him. You're leading store score. Never. They were lucky, guys.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. They were lucky to be Boston. Boston's
Speaker 1: up twenty the first two games, guys, Boston was up
Speaker 1: double digits and for the games and lost them. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. For the games they were up double digits.
Speaker 1: Two of the games are up twenty, guys. It was
Speaker 1: just everything felt right for the Knicks. I love Jalen Brunson. Guys.
Speaker 1: Everything about him is quality. I'm telling you, but if
Speaker 1: you're talking about winning a world championship, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: That's all there is too. So let me give you
Speaker 1: people a little experience with this Anthony. In Charlotte, we
Speaker 1: were really good. Paul Silas was a very quality coach,
Speaker 1: and we had Derek Coleman. Everyone remembers Derek. The first
Speaker 1: really high paid NBA player was Derek Coleman. We coached
Speaker 1: him with the New Jersey Nets. Paul and I as
Speaker 1: assistance to Butch Beard. Paul again, we coached him again.
Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornet's Paul was the head coach. I was his assistant,
Speaker 1: and we knew for us to go far, Derrick Coleman
Speaker 1: had to be our seventh or eighth man. He could
Speaker 1: not be in our top six. So what did Bob
Speaker 1: Ass and Paul Silas do. We shipped Anthony Mason and
Speaker 1: Eddie Jones. Eddie Jones was a great person, guys, people
Speaker 1: from Temple telling you, guys, quality people. Cheney did a
Speaker 1: super job with those kids. I'm telling you quality. Ann
Speaker 1: You were just too young to know him, but I
Speaker 1: guarantee you, Aunt, you'd have loved him, and he'd have
Speaker 1: loved you. Just good people. We shipped them away and
Speaker 1: we brought in mash Burn and PJ. Brown. Everyone knows
Speaker 1: Mashburn from Kentucky. Anthony, you talk about meticulous, you talk
Speaker 1: about the ultimate professional. That's mash Burn. Without a doubt.
Speaker 1: He had his own stretch coach, Anthony, before there were
Speaker 1: stretch coaches. He was at the gym. Practice started at
Speaker 1: eighty eleven. He was there with me. If he didn't
Speaker 1: beat me there, it was a race. We used to laugh.
Speaker 1: He was always the first guy in the building with
Speaker 1: this stretch coach, stretching two hours before practice, always stayed
Speaker 1: after practice, always on the treadmill and knocking around. He's
Speaker 1: the one who got me eating bagels, Anthony. I wasn't
Speaker 1: a bagel eater until I started Bess with mash Period
Speaker 1: raising bagels. We loved them. But we went and got
Speaker 1: a quality, a person that could be your leading scorer,
Speaker 1: that could take your team a long way. That was
Speaker 1: a Mashburn got me done it in college. We knew
Speaker 1: when we brought him didn't mind playing with a bunch
Speaker 1: of runs and said let's go get it. And that's
Speaker 1: who he was, Anthony. So I want people to understand.
Speaker 1: We go to the Eastern Conference semi finals. We're up
Speaker 1: three to two against Milwaukee, one of the best scoring
Speaker 1: teams ever. Simple George Carl was the and Mashburn was
Speaker 1: our leader. We end up losing in seven games. But
Speaker 1: he was a person that could do that same thing
Speaker 1: with little Jalen. He's not Derek Coleman, He's not the
Speaker 1: cancer of Derek, but he cannot be a leading scorer.
Speaker 1: The Knicks are gonna have to find a person. It
Speaker 1: could be car Anthony Towns Anthony, if taught, if they
Speaker 1: allow coach to force him to get in shape, transition
Speaker 1: every time, post up, mid range, then three pointer, not
Speaker 1: three pointer mid range, post up. There are things that
Speaker 1: he has to be taught that he can do, Anthony.
Speaker 1: But they've got to go get a Mashburn, period, point blank.
Speaker 1: It is not Jalen Brunson. If they try to build
Speaker 1: around Jalen Brunson the New York Knicks, they won't never.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you now, I don't think they get back
Speaker 1: in these stern Conference finals. I just don't if he
Speaker 1: has to be a leading scorer. So that's all there
Speaker 1: is to it. They're gonna have to make a very
Speaker 1: very tough decision with that quality young man. Though. Gave
Speaker 1: up tons of money so that they could go get
Speaker 1: other players. But you're not gonna go far with a
Speaker 1: six to two deliberate post up point guard. That's all
Speaker 1: there is to it. They should have never beat the Celtics,
Speaker 1: and the Celtics need to just shoot themselves because Anthony,
Speaker 1: if they played the proper way, they'd be in the
Speaker 1: World Championship again this year, and it should be. The
Speaker 1: most talented teams are the Celtics and Okase. But the
Speaker 1: Celtics again did not play the right way, Anthony. They
Speaker 1: did not. So it's already seven thirty four. Let's get
Speaker 1: to break. Everyone knows we're talking about this New York
Speaker 1: Knicks situation. It's crazy as it can be. We do
Speaker 1: have oh, University of Louis will be playing, Anthony. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit about the baseball program, what's
Speaker 1: going on with that. Hopefully the rain will hold off
Speaker 1: for their games and my golf outing. It's These Sports
Speaker 1: Radio seven thirty four. If you've got to be at work,
Speaker 1: it's time to get moving. We'll talk to you all
Speaker 1: after the break. Welcome back to Eve Sports Radio seven
Speaker 1: thirty eight. I hope you've had a fantastic warning, gotten
Speaker 1: your coffee and gotten in your car. But let's get
Speaker 1: back to it. Anthony. The New York Knicks have fired
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeaux. Tom Timbodau, Guys, I want you to understand
Speaker 1: he has won fifty seven percent of his games. He's
Speaker 1: the only coaching NBA history to win fifty seven percent
Speaker 1: of his games and never been in an NBA final.
Speaker 1: The reason why he's never had a team that had
Speaker 1: the talent to go there not because of his coaching ability.
Speaker 1: It's lack of talent. The Knicks have some talent, but guys,
Speaker 1: they were never ever they would have got swept by
Speaker 1: OKC periods swept would have been embarrassing. Had no chance.
Speaker 1: The Celtics should have swept them. The Celtics should have
Speaker 1: beaten them all four games. They're up double digits and
Speaker 1: lost the series up two games by twenty. Just to
Speaker 1: let you know, the Knicks were fortunate. But bottom line,
Speaker 1: the only person that calls him to lose his job
Speaker 1: was Tom Thibodau. And I guarantee you he's eating his
Speaker 1: toast and drinking his coffee with a smile on his
Speaker 1: face today because he did it the right way to
Speaker 1: answer your question that before I throw it back to
Speaker 1: you the next The New York Knicks, The Great Knicks
Speaker 1: sixty eight sixty nine, fifty four wins, sixty nine to
Speaker 1: seventy sixty wins, seventy seventy one, fifty two wins, seventy
Speaker 1: two to seventy three, Championship year fifty seven wins, nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eighty one. Hubie Brown Years fifty wins nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight nineteen eighty nine, fifty two wins. Guys as you see,
Speaker 1: it started to get sparse. This is the first time
Speaker 1: they've had back to back fifty win seasons in twenty
Speaker 1: five years, and they fired their coach. So I'm throwing
Speaker 1: it to you, what do you think is next that
Speaker 1: people need to know about this, this dysfunction of New
Speaker 1: York Knicks.
Speaker 4: They're gonna get in a bad sitle. They were already
Speaker 4: in the backcycle, I said, getting a bad cycle.
Speaker 2: They're gonna get back.
Speaker 4: And when they were kind of getting into a flow
Speaker 4: of kind of getting that Knicks fan based really back
Speaker 4: in tune with the team, a real connection with the
Speaker 4: city because they were starting.
Speaker 2: To win games.
Speaker 4: They're starting to see I know, a slight race on
Speaker 4: their chart of you know, their.
Speaker 2: The competitive levels, competitive level.
Speaker 4: The skills they were getting in and obviously championship contentions.
Speaker 4: When you go out and you fire coach, I think
Speaker 4: it's it's a mental restart for everyone. It's just you know,
Speaker 4: it's not it's not in the same case.
Speaker 2: You know, we've seen it so much from superstar players
Speaker 2: getting coaches fired.
Speaker 4: You know, I hate to say, if.
Speaker 2: You're gonna knock on me, Lebron's done over about every coach.
Speaker 4: He's never coach with They'll win championship with a coach
Speaker 4: and they get fired the next year. That never made
Speaker 4: sense to me. But that's the only time we've seen
Speaker 4: a coach be very successful and get fired out of
Speaker 4: a player's quota. This one doesn't make sense because the
Speaker 4: players wanted him around. I think it's I think it's
Speaker 4: placed out how he coached, even even during the playoffs.
Speaker 4: His adjustments that he was making, I think that they
Speaker 4: were efficient. I think they were timely, and I think that.
Speaker 2: They were correct.
Speaker 4: Now, I just don't think he just had the talent
Speaker 4: to be able to suffice all the decisions he made.
Speaker 4: And that's not coach's fault. You know, the players can't
Speaker 4: go out there and hit shots if they can't start.
Speaker 4: They can't stop Nie Smith from hitting forty points in
Speaker 4: their face on all three pointers.
Speaker 2: You can't blame the coach for that.
Speaker 4: That's all the players. Then you got to go and
Speaker 4: when you're talking to gms and you're talking to owners,
Speaker 4: you gotta go out there and tell them to defend better.
Speaker 4: In most cases, and even in this case like that,
Speaker 4: no coach will go out there in the last seven
Speaker 4: minutes of a game like we have to double Nie
Speaker 4: Smith to where he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Get the ball.
Speaker 4: Neie Smith, that was the best game we're ever having
Speaker 4: his entire career at some point as a man, as
Speaker 4: Michael Bridges, Josh Hart Brunson.
Speaker 2: You gotta go out there and you gotta get a stop.
Speaker 4: That's all I can tell you. He's not Reggie Miller.
Speaker 4: He's not Tracy McGrady. He's not Carmel Anthony.
Speaker 2: He's not Lebron James scoring twenty points straight in a quarter.
Speaker 2: He's not that guy.
Speaker 4: You gotta go out there and get him stop making,
Speaker 4: make him pass the ball, make a mission shot and
Speaker 4: get the rebound, and go down there and finish the
Speaker 4: game off.
Speaker 2: That's on players.
Speaker 1: No. I agree the game that they lost, they gave
Speaker 1: that away, Anthony and correct. But here's the problem, Anthony.
Speaker 1: People don't want to talk about Leon Rose and oh
Speaker 1: how could we talk about William Wesley. People are like,
Speaker 1: who's that? That's world Wide West Rose and Wesley an
Speaker 1: agent and a connector. I'm being polite. Bottom line, guys,
Speaker 1: Worldwide West just knew how to hang around the right people. Period.
Speaker 1: He's done a great job for himself being honest with you.
Speaker 1: So I'm not mad at him because he played the
Speaker 1: system correctly at all. But he's always known how to
Speaker 1: use people, period, point blank. So let's move on from there.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem when Jalen Rose and William Wesley start
Speaker 1: making decisions. Who is Leon Rose President? Who's William Wesley?
Speaker 1: I'm not even calling worldwide anymore? Vice president, Senior basketball advisor.
Speaker 1: Got me start to talk to James Dolan, who everyone
Speaker 1: knows about James Dolan. I don't have to say anything.
Speaker 1: That's just a cast of characters, that's all. And the
Speaker 1: Knicks have had a cast of characters for quite a
Speaker 1: long time now. That's all there is to it. But
Speaker 1: if you think this roster, anyone thinks this roster was
Speaker 1: supposed to win the championship, they have rocks in their head.
Speaker 1: I don't care about you should develop players. They didn't
Speaker 1: hire Tom Thibodeau to develop anybody. Again, I hate when
Speaker 1: management speaks out of both sides of its mouth. Jim
Speaker 1: Paxson did the same thing at Cleveland with John Lucas
Speaker 1: Anthony when you were a little bitty kid going to
Speaker 1: the games, and we both got fired. Don't play Zagoskis
Speaker 1: win games. It's like with the youngest see our pro
Speaker 1: team the Key Cleveland Cavaliers. Anthony was younger than every
Speaker 1: team in this state this year playing college basketball, Chris Mim,
Speaker 1: Jermaine Jones, Ricky Javis, DJ Wagner. I mean, why not DJ,
Speaker 1: but his dad Anthony. We had a younger roster than
Speaker 1: any of the college teams had this year in the state,
Speaker 1: including Bellopman, and they wanted to just win games. That's
Speaker 1: when management speaks out of both sides of its mouth.
Speaker 1: It wanted Lebron James, so it wanted to say we're
Speaker 1: trying to win to its fans and make sure that
Speaker 1: they lost. That's all. So this roster, when you look
Speaker 1: at Brunson quality young man. I love him. He can't
Speaker 1: be a leading scorer. They better go get a Mashburn
Speaker 1: car Anthony Towns Anthony. He could be the leading scorer
Speaker 1: if somebody forced that boy first thing to get in
Speaker 1: shape and play box the big box. That means low post,
Speaker 1: mid range, which he has and he can't shoot the three.
Speaker 1: If they turned it around from low block to mid
Speaker 1: range through to monde el bowl, let him just say
Speaker 1: and make some excellent passing. He's a tremendous passer for
Speaker 1: a mid range fifteen footer two to three. He could
Speaker 1: be a leading scorer. If not, they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go get a guy that can score the ball without
Speaker 1: dominating it. Like the Knicks played better when Jalen was
Speaker 1: on the bench in the playoffs, and the announcer said
Speaker 1: it publicly, it's just a fact. Jalen has to be
Speaker 1: so deliberate to get you in position to score the
Speaker 1: ball on you. Period. It's not inducive for a championship team.
Speaker 1: But Michel Bridges, guys, he came from New Jersey, Jersey's
Speaker 1: wasn't nothing. Ever. Josh hart Heart playing, you gotta love
Speaker 1: him better than Jerry's. I was the same way, Anthony.
Speaker 1: I was gonna give you all I had. But then
Speaker 1: when you start talking about looking at the bench, Mitchell Robinson,
Speaker 1: get out of here. When you start looking at Cameron Payne,
Speaker 1: stop when you're talking about PJ. Tucker, he's older than
Speaker 1: I am. You got me, Anthony, when you're talking about right, yeah, right, Anthony,
Speaker 1: their bench is garbage. There is no developing in those
Speaker 1: three people. James Dolan, Leon Rose and William Wesley are
Speaker 1: kidding themselves if they think this roster wins anything next year.
Speaker 1: They're kidding themselves. It's a joke, period, point blank, absolute,
Speaker 1: positively a joke. Tom Thibodau put that team and took
Speaker 1: that team, made it a workhorse team. You know, everybody
Speaker 1: says Kenny Smith got Thibodau fired when he said that
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodau wouldn't play nine players in a baseball game.
Speaker 1: Got me anthony that he wouldn't go nine deep. Let
Speaker 1: me just tell you something Denny Crumb told Jerry Eves
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two. Pick eight players, you'll be
Speaker 1: a better team at the end. Pick eight. Make a decision.
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodau is just doing what great coaches have taught
Speaker 1: a lot of other people. Make a decision. You'll be
Speaker 1: better in the long run. So again, I love Kenny Smith,
Speaker 1: He's been on my show. He's a great person. But again,
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau did the right thing seven forty seven and
Speaker 1: he we're gonna leave the Knicks alone. Cast the characters.
Speaker 1: His name is James Dolan rich Man. I told you
Speaker 1: that rich Man. Dad was a rich man. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let you all put an adjective after his name. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do that. Then we've got mister Rose,
Speaker 1: very good agent. I don't know how good of a
Speaker 1: manager you want to say that he is, but he's
Speaker 1: a very good agent as the president. Then William Wesley,
Speaker 1: I connect what did they say? He's so good with
Speaker 1: connecting the dots. They're gonna get all the star players
Speaker 1: that come to New York and play for them because
Speaker 1: of William Wesley. Well, I hate to tell you, all
Speaker 1: the NBA teams have money and pay and William Wesley
Speaker 1: does not have an advantage from anybody else. That's why
Speaker 1: this roster looks the way it looks. So again, that's
Speaker 1: a joke. It's Eastworts Radio sev forty eight. We'll be
Speaker 1: back in a minute. Welcome back to Eastports Radio seven
Speaker 1: fifty one. How quickly this thing passes? And then he
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Before we slide, you know, I've been
Speaker 1: letting you slide, and before we have you hit everybody
Speaker 1: with the base ball. You haven't said anything about Zion Williamson.
Speaker 1: Allegations of rape your duke, boy, you're a dukie. You
Speaker 1: are a dukie. What's going on, Anthony, Well, nothing's proven,
Speaker 1: but allegedly.
Speaker 4: All we've seen both sides of it coming out lately.
Speaker 4: Obviously the allegations aren't aren't easy to hear, not even
Speaker 4: as a Duke fan, just just in general, just for anyone.
Speaker 4: It's just like, like, why are you yourself in the
Speaker 4: situation being something mixed up like this? Or you know
Speaker 4: you could you get in your career, you could you
Speaker 4: could in even out even more than.
Speaker 2: The career you shoot you could.
Speaker 4: You change your whole life in a matter of a
Speaker 4: couple of days, even in an instance. And I'm just
Speaker 4: work out for the best.
Speaker 1: If you put your hand on a female shoot you,
Speaker 1: my dad would kill me. You know that you grew
Speaker 1: up in my house. You know that it never ever
Speaker 1: transpired every and more, guys and games. I fought in
Speaker 1: at the jump circle when everybody says, oh he's a thug. Guys,
Speaker 1: I fought in the jump circle at the fair Grounds
Speaker 1: against Wes Matthews. Anthony we fault. I'm not a thug,
Speaker 1: but in that game, at that time, Anthony, I'd have
Speaker 1: fault you. It is what it is. But when you
Speaker 1: leave that coliseum and those four lines, you better know
Speaker 1: how to act. Now all this is allegedly only thing
Speaker 1: Coach Crumb, I'll tell you guys. He was the best.
Speaker 1: He told me, play eight. Make a decision, Jerry. Yes,
Speaker 1: players are going to be upset, but you'll be a
Speaker 1: better team at the end. He says. Don't have a
Speaker 1: ton of rules either, He says, Jerry, a ton of
Speaker 1: rules just puts you in a hole, that's all. He says.
Speaker 1: People have great parents, they know what's right and wrong.
Speaker 1: Don't come out with a huge rule book. But he
Speaker 1: says one thing that coach crumb Ever, he says, but
Speaker 1: females and males, you're supposed to make sure you take
Speaker 1: care of them. The only rule I'm gonna bring on,
Speaker 1: Nick Simpson, Thomas Coleman, I'm gonna bring on my players
Speaker 1: from Anti. They'll tell you and I can handle drugs, drinking, speeding, males,
Speaker 1: fighting males, all those things. All those things I can handle,
Speaker 1: no problem. We would make a decision on how I
Speaker 1: was going to punish you. What they'd have to do,
Speaker 1: running extra work, do some things for their teammates. We
Speaker 1: did a lot of things, do some things for professors.
Speaker 1: We did a lot of things when we were trying
Speaker 1: to have creative ways to punish our players. But I
Speaker 1: would never put them off Anthony. But they touched the female.
Speaker 1: They didn't even touch go. They knew it was history.
Speaker 1: That was the only rule I had. So I hate
Speaker 1: to hear these kind of things, Anthony, because like I
Speaker 1: told you, I fought in the fairgrounds where you had
Speaker 1: your graduation at Ballad Anthony, with my mom and dad
Speaker 1: in the stands. I fought, Anthony. My dad wasn't mad
Speaker 1: at me, dang it. At that time, Antony, I had
Speaker 1: to fault you. It is what it is. It's competitive,
Speaker 1: and people when we're playing are very competitive. But when
Speaker 1: you leave, Frankie's used to say you better have discipline
Speaker 1: and self respect for you. And if a male puts
Speaker 1: his hands on a female, if all this is allegedly,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Ion did it, but I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you how I was taught. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: He would have put his hands on me. So, guys,
Speaker 1: I hate to hear it. We're gonna have to wait
Speaker 1: and see these things play out. I hate to see
Speaker 1: these athletes going through this. They do have seminars. I
Speaker 1: know people get emotional, but the bottom line is you
Speaker 1: can't touch females, period, point blank, and no is no.
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. And I wish the men
Speaker 1: would say no to the women more and the Edwards
Speaker 1: at man say no to some of them women just
Speaker 1: say no. Hope, it doesn't hurt your feelings, like my
Speaker 1: dad used to tell me. Sure doesn't hurt mind, just
Speaker 1: say no. So anyway, and I had to hit you
Speaker 1: with that. What's going on with the baseball before we
Speaker 1: get out of here? When's we will play super Regionals?
Speaker 2: Anthony?
Speaker 1: Congratulations?
Speaker 4: Everybody everybody plays Friday. They play Friday, but Louisville does.
Speaker 4: They have they have an ACC matchup, so they play
Speaker 4: in Miami.
Speaker 2: So they play.
Speaker 4: Friday at three pm. Toy play on ESP and two
Speaker 4: and ESPN Plus for the baseball championship, the Louisville Super Regional. Honestly,
Speaker 4: if I could slide out work a little bit early,
Speaker 4: I'd go of that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna try to slide out, Anthony. Even though
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get this golf outing together. I've got
Speaker 1: people coming in on Thursday to be a part of
Speaker 1: the Simmons Collgee Golf outing from all over the country,
Speaker 1: So I'm a little busy, But I do want to
Speaker 1: stick my head in and see a few innings. I
Speaker 1: really do Jim Patterson Stadium will be on fire, and
Speaker 1: congratulations to the team. The guys work hard. They live
Speaker 1: at Wagner's Restaurant. And I talked to Lee Wagner. I
Speaker 1: told you, I put the app out on his miss today, Anthony,
Speaker 1: and of course here's the league. He leaves me a message.
Speaker 1: You're it. I said, I'm not it, But he'll be
Speaker 1: in our golf outing like always. But they eat at
Speaker 1: Wagner's restaurant every morning. So if you want to meet
Speaker 1: some of the Louisville baseball players, just go to Wagner's Restaurants. Guy.
Speaker 1: It's one of my best friends and sponsors. So Anny,
Speaker 1: we got some great games going on Tomorrow night. We
Speaker 1: get the game and Anthony, your uncle, your uncle, Carrie,
Speaker 1: my brother. You a kay? He says, do you think
Speaker 1: can the Pacers keep it within nine? I guess that's
Speaker 1: the spread, I said, Carrie, I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: don't gamble on games. Well you know what Carrie said.
Speaker 1: He says, I'm gonna bet on the halftime score one
Speaker 1: way and the game scored the other way. I said, well,
Speaker 1: you should just keep your money. You shouldn't bet it all.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't bet it all Sandy. Tomorrow, you're gonna let
Speaker 1: me know about the spread and what Vegas says about
Speaker 1: this OKC Indiana Pacers series. So Shannon, great job, Anthony,
Speaker 1: great job. God will and I'll be back tomorrow, see
Speaker 1: all later, love you, Bye bye,