Speaker 1: So, of course I really want to see the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks come back in the series and win. But
Speaker 1: there is a part of me that is cheering for
Speaker 1: the Pacers to play the Thunder in the finals so
Speaker 1: we can hear these Prima Donna, ESPN media guys bitch
Speaker 1: and moan about their routes.
Speaker 2: Between these two cities.
Speaker 1: Our next guest certainly is not in that group. Certainly
Speaker 1: is not in that category. He is a man of
Speaker 1: the people. He enjoys the small towns and cities of America.
Speaker 1: Dave McManamon, Happy Friday, sir.
Speaker 2: How are you yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, I was born in a small town, just
Speaker 3: like John Cooper Bella Camp.
Speaker 2: Right, let's go okay.
Speaker 1: Now, the question right off the topic is who's going
Speaker 1: to be the most bummed out if it's Indianapolis and
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Adam Silver.
Speaker 3: Probably my wife because she loves New York.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: But obviously we're all here for great basketball, and I
Speaker 3: do believe the way the Nicks have pulled themself off
Speaker 3: the mat clearly if they get to the finals, they'll
Speaker 3: be a formidable team. And India I believed throughout. I
Speaker 3: mean I may have told you this before. JJ Reddick
Speaker 3: may be Indiana's biggest fan. Throughout the regular season, he
Speaker 3: just lauded them for being so good on both sides
Speaker 3: of the ball, being so disciplined, having a deep bench,
Speaker 3: having so many switchabule defenders who can also shoot, and
Speaker 3: that's come to bear in the postseason.
Speaker 2: That's because he's buddies with TJ.
Speaker 1: McConnell and don't feed me this hole and don't feed
Speaker 1: me this whole. I'm just cheering for good basketball. No
Speaker 1: part of me believes that day for a second.
Speaker 3: I am cheering for the personal experience of being able
Speaker 3: to cover an NBA Finals game in Mad Square Garden.
Speaker 3: So there's my bias there. Obviously, had some great memories
Speaker 3: of the Big East Corn in the Garden with Syracuse
Speaker 3: when I was in college. I would just love to
Speaker 3: see the city electric for it. However, Indiana is a
Speaker 3: great basketball town as well, and that place can get
Speaker 3: rocket as well. We were just there for All Star Game,
Speaker 3: you know, last season. They were great hosts city. So
Speaker 3: whatever worked out so long is what I am truly
Speaker 3: rooting for is a six or seven game series. I'm
Speaker 3: tired of these five game series has got the last
Speaker 3: couple of years.
Speaker 2: Now I'm with you there.
Speaker 1: What do you think the small market will do to
Speaker 1: the TV number? Because you know, nobody that loves basketball
Speaker 1: will ever have anything but reverence for the great Spurs
Speaker 1: teams when they were spurring at the highest level of spurring.
Speaker 1: But some of those finals numbers were not great as
Speaker 1: far as the TV audience goes. And New York Indiana
Speaker 1: has been through the roof, but okay, see Minnesota, those
Speaker 1: numbers have not been great. Dave, what do you think
Speaker 1: the small market potential nature If the Knicks can't get
Speaker 1: this done, we'll do to the eyeballs watching the finals?
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously if the next art there will be a
Speaker 3: lower number. Part of the Minnesota OKAC series I covered
Speaker 3: it was really it was one good game out of five.
Speaker 3: I mean the other four were quite frankly trash. You know,
Speaker 3: you had twenty point, forty point thirty point blowouts in
Speaker 3: those other four games, and that had something to do
Speaker 3: with it. I do I mean cliche. It will sound
Speaker 3: like it's kind of like you, you write a good story,
Speaker 3: We'll find an audience if these are good basketball games,
Speaker 3: and we'll find an audience, And you know, I think
Speaker 3: that will be the challenge on whatever team that's coming
Speaker 3: out of the East will face is you're going against
Speaker 3: a rested, well oiled machine that will have home court
Speaker 3: advantage of the thunder. And can you make it a
Speaker 3: series that will be compelling basketball? Because if it's compelling basketball,
Speaker 3: like you just kind of throw your hands up and
Speaker 3: you're like, okay, well, you know that's that's what the
Speaker 3: league wanted anyway, Right, this whole new CBA was about parody.
Speaker 3: And if the parody leads to the two teams that
Speaker 3: getting to the final pinnacle, ability to you know, match
Speaker 3: styles and and make it a series where it's like
Speaker 3: teams that are worthy of that pedestal. Like, then I
Speaker 3: think you live whatever the number is. If the Knicks
Speaker 3: get there and they get swept in four games, like
Speaker 3: that doesn't do the league any good any either.
Speaker 2: You know, it does not.
Speaker 1: All Right, before we get I do want to talk
Speaker 1: Pacers Nicks. But before we do that, let's talk about
Speaker 1: what happened out this way, because of course you got
Speaker 1: a front real seat. But before you get there, when
Speaker 1: you heard Shack's speech last night.
Speaker 2: Didn't make you nervous, Yeah, just a little bit. Who
Speaker 2: do you think he was talking about specifically.
Speaker 3: I will not venture a guess. He didn't choose to
Speaker 3: disclose any names on that one, so I will look
Speaker 3: forward to seeing how the partnership bears out. I'll say
Speaker 3: that I personally have had a great relationship with pretty
Speaker 3: much everyone with that numbory. I was just spend a
Speaker 3: time with Terry Greenberg and okay, see, you know, we
Speaker 3: spent time of the bubble. I've known EJ and Charles
Speaker 3: and Shack on a personal basis, not Kunny as much,
Speaker 3: but you know, I think it will be a great
Speaker 3: partnership that will have some quirks to it, I think
Speaker 3: to figure out at the beginning, but I think it's
Speaker 3: to be cool to have those guys, you know, holding
Speaker 3: the FPN mic flag at the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: It is so wild.
Speaker 1: You still come on this show when my when my
Speaker 1: goal every single week is just to make you sweat
Speaker 1: and corner you and see if I can get you
Speaker 1: to say something you'd regret.
Speaker 2: You're very good at this day, you know it is.
Speaker 3: It's like a mental challenge. It's like my Sudoku coming
Speaker 3: on here and try not to slip off, just keep my.
Speaker 1: Brain shout well, good, look, I want to keep you
Speaker 1: on your toes. I've got I've got to I've got
Speaker 1: to keep you honest because I'm sure the other affiliates
Speaker 1: you go on like, hey, tell me about schematically, how
Speaker 1: Jalen Bruns and guards are pick and roll. I want
Speaker 1: to keep you frosty, Dave. I want to keep the
Speaker 1: energy up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I really want to know exactly who
Speaker 3: you are. Were you impersonating there? Now? I need to
Speaker 3: put it on you like they're out?
Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, so you know what. Let me
Speaker 1: let me just ask this question. Can either Indiana or
Speaker 1: New York make Oklahoma City sweat? Like when when they
Speaker 1: lock in, when they are guarding, when they're flying up
Speaker 1: and down. It's of course the shay thing is the
Speaker 1: shay thing. But they're so deep they're impossible. And you
Speaker 1: know they have been all year. They're eighty and eighteen,
Speaker 1: they're twenty nine and one against the East. Do either
Speaker 1: New York or Indiana have a shot in the hell
Speaker 1: against OKAC?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think, having seen them completely dismantle a
Speaker 3: Wolves team that I cover for two rounds and believe
Speaker 3: that they had a legitimate shot of beating them, I
Speaker 3: doubt it. Whether the Knicks in that Rockets atmosphere that
Speaker 3: be of the Garden would be able to maybe get
Speaker 3: a little bit further because that would be a true
Speaker 3: home court advantage. Possibly the same time, they're not like
Speaker 3: a perfect team. The thing that gives them a larger
Speaker 3: margin of error to work with is they create so
Speaker 3: many turnovers that and they're also a really good crashing those.
Speaker 3: Last is that they get like on average in the
Speaker 3: Minnesota series, who is close to like six or seven
Speaker 3: more shots on goals in the games that they want,
Speaker 3: So you don't need to shoot as good of a
Speaker 3: percentage if you get an extra seven tries to try to,
Speaker 3: you know, keep up offensively. Shake gillis Ender is a
Speaker 3: master young master of the game, and even if you
Speaker 3: take away the foul shots, he's still one of the
Speaker 3: best scores of the twenty twenty five playoffs. So he's incredible.
Speaker 3: Where I think they do have some vulnerability is a
Speaker 3: Chip looked great in Game four against the Wolves, but
Speaker 3: he wasn't a huge factor of most of that series,
Speaker 3: and heart and seeing can get in foul trouble and
Speaker 3: you know, so they are a little vulnerable in the middle.
Speaker 3: They guess a team like the Knicks that they get
Speaker 3: there with certainly what we've seen from it to Robinson
Speaker 3: in Colonnthrea Towns in the Eastern Conference finals. But I
Speaker 3: think like with the Knicks, the straw that sorts of
Speaker 3: drink in Jalen Brunson being you know, a little bit
Speaker 3: undersized and you know, can get you know, kind of
Speaker 3: crowded by bigger defenders, like they're gonna give him a
Speaker 3: heck of a time when he gets there. If it's Indy,
Speaker 3: I think they are the most equivalent team in the
Speaker 3: East to playing the Thunderstile in terms of like it
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter who gets the numbers. It has spread
Speaker 3: you out type of style. They can also defend with
Speaker 3: multiple bodies. I do this kind of feel like like
Speaker 3: the Knicks, though would would have a slightly better chance.
Speaker 3: But I will start, you're romantic. I like the add
Speaker 3: of a team breaking through and winning. You know, we
Speaker 3: all know it's been whatever, what's this fifty three years.
Speaker 4: Since the next of one m h yep, yep, And
Speaker 4: we'll see We'll get there in a moment though, But
Speaker 4: ultimately the Minnesota takeaway and look, I cheer for the
Speaker 4: Timberwolves because we had Rudy here of course.
Speaker 1: And who doesn't like Mike Conley. If you don't like
Speaker 1: Mike Conley, it's a you problem. Nikio Alexander Walker was
Speaker 1: here wildly. Quinn never never played him, and he was
Speaker 1: kind of like exactly what they needed. They preferred Royce O'Neill,
Speaker 1: but we don't have to do a Royce O'Neil vers
Speaker 1: Nikkeil Alexander Walker segment today.
Speaker 2: And then obviously Joey Ingles as well.
Speaker 1: I know we're supposed to be mad at Aunt, I
Speaker 1: guess because I watch your network. I like it's odd
Speaker 1: to me because he's twenty three years old, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel like some of the reaction has
Speaker 1: been people upset that he's not more upset at twenty
Speaker 1: three years old. With all the game in the world,
Speaker 1: he's got plenty of time to live up to the
Speaker 1: hype as far as you know, face the league, best
Speaker 1: domestic player or so many of the MVPs as if
Speaker 1: late been international guys. They probably need to make a
Speaker 1: decision on Mike because as much as I love him,
Speaker 1: it just didn't look great this year.
Speaker 2: He's under contract one more year.
Speaker 1: You know, as a Nick fan, I'm uniquely qualified to
Speaker 1: talk about your issues if Julius Randall is your number
Speaker 1: two offensive option. Even though it looked awesome for a
Speaker 1: minute against or excise me, against Golden State, I thought
Speaker 1: Julius is probably the best player in that series.
Speaker 2: And they were also able to beat the Lakers.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be fine based off the fact that
Speaker 1: they have a superstar who is twenty three years old.
Speaker 1: But it's clear now two straight years in the Western
Speaker 1: Conference finals, they've got to find whatever's next to get
Speaker 1: them to that next level. And the problem is the
Speaker 1: next level, at least for now and probably for the
Speaker 1: next three or four years, will reside in Okac. But
Speaker 1: what's the offseason look like for Minnesota? They also have
Speaker 1: to make a decision about Tim Conley, right. I think
Speaker 1: he's a free agent, right, you.
Speaker 3: Know, in speaking to you know, people with knowledge of
Speaker 3: the new ownership structure, they're big fan in Mark Laurie
Speaker 3: and Alex Rodriguez are big fans to Tim Conley. So
Speaker 3: I believe there's a ton of motivation got an extension
Speaker 3: done there now. Of course, though, because he's proven himself
Speaker 3: in Denbury and Minnesota, like, there could be some guys
Speaker 3: how they're off or somewhere else. Like, you got to
Speaker 3: always keep that in mind. But I think the intention
Speaker 3: would be to Keith Conley there. The biggest thing that
Speaker 3: the Wolves can do in terms of getting better for
Speaker 3: next year is it's really of course, they got to
Speaker 3: take care of Nazrita to the opts out Joyce Rayndoll
Speaker 3: if he opts out. I don't think Nikhil Alexander Walker
Speaker 3: will be extended by them. I think he's going to
Speaker 3: be the guy that they're going to have to see
Speaker 3: walk and then hope they can replace his production with
Speaker 3: Terrence Chang Junior and Rob Dillingham and Jalen Clark who
Speaker 3: you know, Terrence Chang Junior at thirty five points of
Speaker 3: the last three five games of the Western Conference Finals
Speaker 3: have to really not play in all playoffs long. And
Speaker 3: you know Chris Finch after Game five admitted that on
Speaker 3: him he needs to lengthen this bench with some of
Speaker 3: those younger guys. It's those will be the guys that
Speaker 3: fill the Alexander Walker spot. But really I think the
Speaker 3: biggest room for improvement here is will be anchetting to
Speaker 3: the level which we all assume he will. But then
Speaker 3: Jane McDaniels, and McDaniel's so much better than it was
Speaker 3: a year ago, but still there's a big gap between
Speaker 3: him and say Jaylen Williams, who's the second best player
Speaker 3: for Okay see and you saw that in the series.
Speaker 3: You know, in game five, Jane McDaniels goes zero for
Speaker 3: six to start the game and they're down twenty before
Speaker 3: there's a blink of an eye, And yeah, give him
Speaker 3: credit for you know, looking to see open scoring opportunities
Speaker 3: and taking them. That they need a guy to do that,
Speaker 3: but then you obviously have to convert. So I think
Speaker 3: they were a team that were treading water a lot
Speaker 3: of the year. They had some injuries, they were an
Speaker 3: awkward fit, trying to make Julius work, trying to make
Speaker 3: Donja dvids and so comfortable going away from obviously the
Speaker 3: system they had had with Kat and Ant being the
Speaker 3: two pillars for them for three straight years. There's still
Speaker 3: a lot of encouragement there. I think the part that's
Speaker 3: concerning is that, like they are still in a super
Speaker 3: crowded Western Conference, And this is what Finch said after
Speaker 3: the game. Game probably says like forty two and forty
Speaker 3: might be a good year for a team in the
Speaker 3: West next year, and then you're talking about an uphill
Speaker 3: battle again in the playoffs where you don't have one
Speaker 3: court advantage, and when you got to go in and
Speaker 3: play a place like ok See, where it's a madhouse,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a tough one a series that way, Is.
Speaker 2: There hurt your feelings that you're not on the Hoop collective?
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it probably saves my sanity from
Speaker 3: having to listen to him and Tim every day. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a good group. I would like to be involved
Speaker 3: a little bit more, you know. I'll go out to
Speaker 3: the live show in Vegas. They had me on stage
Speaker 3: for a couple of years ago, so we'll see if
Speaker 3: I guess to call up for that. But it's kind
Speaker 3: of see. The thing about it is none of those
Speaker 3: guys actually cover a team that everybody cares about on
Speaker 3: a daily basically the Lakers. So my time is better spent,
Speaker 3: you know, dealing with Luca and Lebron and the Lakers
Speaker 3: most of the time to carve me out an hour
Speaker 3: and a half to hear those guys talk about the
Speaker 3: same issues over and over again. But they do do a.
Speaker 1: Great job Hey, ay, Porter, I want you to clip
Speaker 1: that answer, except the final part when he said they
Speaker 1: do a great job, and it's a good time to
Speaker 1: remind folks that Tim McMahon covers the jazz.
Speaker 2: All right. You know you've mentioned Finch's postgame press conference.
Speaker 1: Did I hear him right when he said there are
Speaker 1: thirteen teams in the West that will be jockeying for
Speaker 1: home court?
Speaker 2: Did he say thirteen? Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? He did say thirteen. So that's maybe a bit
Speaker 3: of an overextension, but I mean it's not absurd.
Speaker 1: Well, it also clearly excludes two teams. One probably resides
Speaker 1: here in Salt Lake. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3: I think that's fair to say. Yes, But I think
Speaker 3: no one in your city, informed listeners, having paid attention
Speaker 3: to a show would be shocked by that.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Callier broke John Stockton's rookie assist record, Dave, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you read that.
Speaker 3: I actually didn't know that. I'm glad that you shared
Speaker 3: that information with me.
Speaker 1: John Stockton also averaged fourteen minutes a game as a
Speaker 1: rookie because the starting point Griver's rookie green. Anyway, moving on,
Speaker 1: does Lowry Marketing start for Oklahoma City.
Speaker 3: He does not, Dave, Yeah, I don't. I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think he does. Yeah, I don't think he does.
Speaker 1: What does that say about your team when your best
Speaker 1: player would not even start for the team that's in
Speaker 1: the finals.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a really good question to Brazil. I
Speaker 3: think there's a certain style that Okay, see plays that
Speaker 3: you know, Lou dort is. They would decide to go
Speaker 3: with a guy who's limited offensively because he's such a
Speaker 3: beast defensively in that position. Mark is a very good player.
Speaker 3: I mean, so I think it's a little unfair to
Speaker 3: the wedge that conversation in because I think he could
Speaker 3: start for, say, the Knicks, like he could start over
Speaker 3: Josh Hart.
Speaker 1: That's you know what, we're hanging the banner. Our best
Speaker 1: player would start over Josh Art. We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: hang that here in sall, like, okay, before we'll end
Speaker 1: with Nick Spasers. But before we get there, let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question without the uh sarcasm laced in it.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There are now, as a result of the way that
Speaker 1: the CBA is structured, several avenues. How as far as
Speaker 1: how you can build a contending team. Uh, it's no
Speaker 1: longer was Lebron born in your city? Or does he
Speaker 1: want to live in South Beach? And and certainly with
Speaker 1: Luke and Lebron and other you know, Golden State grabs
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. There always will be those teams that can
Speaker 1: grab the star to put next to other players like
Speaker 1: but ultimately, when you look at Indiana, when you look
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma City, Uh, even the way the Knicks did it,
Speaker 1: the next did it slowly? You know it really? Jalen,
Speaker 1: of course turned out to be a great decision. How
Speaker 1: do the Jazz take advantage of this parody era in
Speaker 1: the NBA? And the CBA expires in twenty thirty and
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to be massive changes.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people don't love.
Speaker 1: How punitive some of the second Apron stuff seems to
Speaker 1: be for owners having the right checks, just for the
Speaker 1: right to have the roster. So if we say that
Speaker 1: the Jazz have at least five years in this new
Speaker 1: ecosystem of pro basketball, how do.
Speaker 2: They do it?
Speaker 3: Dave?
Speaker 1: Because it's hard to draw a straight line between who
Speaker 1: the Jazz are now and who Oklahoma City is now,
Speaker 1: even though Oklahoma City not too long ago, was in
Speaker 1: this rebuilding space.
Speaker 2: Presty has just knocked it out of the park. Like
Speaker 2: they drafted the right guys.
Speaker 1: They were able to receive their generational piece in exchange
Speaker 1: for Paul George, and they found guys off the scrap
Speaker 1: peak they weren't even drafted. It's hard to say, do
Speaker 1: a Presty because he's done it so brilliantly. But we
Speaker 1: are a basketball market star for a decent team. Danny
Speaker 1: and Jay z give is done.
Speaker 3: So it starts with you got to draft well. And
Speaker 3: when you're in the position where you're in the lottery
Speaker 3: for you know, three out of five years, whatever it
Speaker 3: will end up being for the Jazz. Like if you
Speaker 3: get even one of those guys wrong, like you're putting
Speaker 3: yourself beyond eight ball. Then you gotta look at the
Speaker 3: Pacers identifying Tyree Halliburton as someone who was underutilized and
Speaker 3: turning him into a guy they did it through a trade.
Speaker 3: The next same way with John Bruns that they did
Speaker 3: it through free agency, identified a guy who was underutilized
Speaker 3: and took him to another level. I think the Jazz
Speaker 3: kind of tried to do that with a guy like
Speaker 3: Colm Sexton and probably they unleashed a slightly higher level
Speaker 3: than he showed in Cleveland. But he's not one of
Speaker 3: those two guys. But you have to continue to try
Speaker 3: to find a guy that fits that archetype. And then
Speaker 3: you need a system and a coach and a clarity
Speaker 3: of vision. And you know, you and I are both
Speaker 3: I think aligned and being will Hardy fans. So they
Speaker 3: got that part done. I think the jury is still
Speaker 3: out on how they've done on the draft. You know,
Speaker 3: obviously there's probably a reason why so many people are
Speaker 3: calling about Walker Kestler, probably because that was a probably
Speaker 3: a pretty good pick, and so that's a guy you
Speaker 3: can build around. And hey, you just told me you
Speaker 3: got the guy breaking stasist record, so maybe that's another
Speaker 3: guy you can build around as well. I mean, Collier
Speaker 3: has built like a young Marcus Smart and if you
Speaker 3: can turn that body into a defensive engine, then I
Speaker 3: like kind of my inside outside pieces of the built around.
Speaker 3: And then again you got to marketing. It was another
Speaker 3: guy that they identified. I just think the market and
Speaker 3: kind of timeline won't fit with where they're at right now.
Speaker 3: So you're probably gonna have to commit to staying in
Speaker 3: this mode for a bit hit with some luck, you know,
Speaker 3: the ping bom ball, got to go your way and
Speaker 3: get the right guy. And you know, like again, I
Speaker 3: know we were talking about the idea of this being
Speaker 3: you're already on the fast track with Cooper Flag, but
Speaker 3: you know it could be you're already on the fast
Speaker 3: track if you get to beta out of Boyu. It's
Speaker 3: just a year delayed from what we thought. Maybe it
Speaker 3: would be.
Speaker 1: All right, before I set you loose, Let's do a
Speaker 1: little Eastern Conference finals. And you know, if you were
Speaker 1: like on vacation overseas and did not watch the first
Speaker 1: four games of Nick Spacers and came home last night,
Speaker 1: like I'm going to watch the basketball, you'd be like,
Speaker 1: why is this close? I mean, it was a mismatch,
Speaker 1: and it really was Dave from my vantage point. And
Speaker 1: it's ironic here because Tom is such a defensive minded guy.
Speaker 1: But this is not Oak and Mace and Ewing and
Speaker 1: Anthony Bonner. If we want to go deep, this is
Speaker 1: not like a big, physical, defense dominant basketball team. I
Speaker 1: think they were thirteenth in defensive rating this year and
Speaker 1: they were close to top five in offense. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they finished top five in offense, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear after last night because it was the first
Speaker 1: game that they were actually closing out in respect to
Speaker 1: the Pacers.
Speaker 2: Like guard Aaron E.
Speaker 1: Smith game one, don't give Tyree Salabert in a bunch
Speaker 1: of airspace in game three, like actually play defense, you know,
Speaker 1: And last night was a concerted defensive effort for the
Speaker 1: thirty two to thirty four minutes. It was competitive before
Speaker 1: kind of things got loose in the fourth. Can they
Speaker 1: replicate that in game I guess it would be Game
Speaker 1: six now in Indianapolis, because you know what, man like
Speaker 1: I am to the point with this series, I can
Speaker 1: see all three of the scenarios unfolding.
Speaker 2: I could see the Pacers winning on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I could see the Knixt winning on Saturday and losing
Speaker 1: Game seven. I could see the next winning Saturday and
Speaker 1: winning Game seven. Like, all three of those things still
Speaker 1: are on the table. But the Knicks are gonna have
Speaker 1: to guard last night in a way that they have yet.
Speaker 1: Can they replicate that performance for two more games?
Speaker 3: Primarily I completely rearview all three of those things around
Speaker 3: the table. The Knicks, you know, with the anonob's that
Speaker 3: they have Robinson. Really, for a guy who came in
Speaker 3: with an offensive reputation, has completely sacrificed that part of
Speaker 3: his game to give his energy and attention towards defense
Speaker 3: this series. But it's been really impressive to me. And
Speaker 3: then you got some of the Karl Anthony Towns who
Speaker 3: seems committed more than we normally see him committed to
Speaker 3: attacking the paint, and then I think that aggression offensively
Speaker 3: is carrying over to what he brings defensively. Now he's
Speaker 3: not you know, pick your gionnaskupo down there, but he's
Speaker 3: bringing some of that level to it. I think it
Speaker 3: will come down to you know, Tyres Albert quite frankly.
Speaker 3: I mean, Haliburton was invisible in Game five and that's
Speaker 3: not the way things are going to work for this team.
Speaker 3: And he doesn't net score thirty two and have a
Speaker 3: you know, a near perfect offensive game with fifteen assistants
Speaker 3: zero turnovers like he did earlier in the series, but
Speaker 3: he's got to be a guy who's attacking the paint,
Speaker 3: braking down the defense, kicking it out to those shooters.
Speaker 3: So even when they the Knicks are committed to closing out,
Speaker 3: they have already collapsed on Halliburton, so it's a longer
Speaker 3: close out to get out to Anee Smith or you know,
Speaker 3: get out to Mathurin, who you know is really starting
Speaker 3: to catch fire a little bit. So the Pacers should
Speaker 3: feel good about things right now. They are going home.
Speaker 3: They took their lumps, sure, but now they have the
Speaker 3: human nature side. If I want to make up for
Speaker 3: what just happened, and that's a place that gets rocking
Speaker 3: to the field House, which I don't well, I don't
Speaker 3: even what they called it. So many different things that
Speaker 3: field I don't feel confident in saying is it games Bridge?
Speaker 2: Now I believe it's games Bridge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they should feel good. At the same time, the
Speaker 3: Knicks are like, we see our pathway and so like
Speaker 3: it is a toss up, it could be tossed up.
Speaker 3: I think it's beautiful that we get a Saturday night
Speaker 3: with what could be the best game of the playoffs
Speaker 3: thus far, and it's been a pretty damn good playoffs.
Speaker 1: If Kenny Smith corners you in Bristol, do you think
Speaker 1: you can handle that?
Speaker 3: I believe, I believe I can. I've seen his races
Speaker 3: to the big board with those knock knees. I'm not
Speaker 3: too worried about if he was going to start something
Speaker 3: with me. I just run away my tactic.
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