Clutch Genes: The Knicks Steal One in San Antonio

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[00:02:04] You know what I'm saying? Game two of the finals is underway. Nick took away game one down in the Alamo. I'm in the Alamo. I'm 2-5. As I said, he's Mr. Logical. He's cool, calm, and collected. We're going to get into some game one reaction, talk about game two, and then we're going to talk to you about the Protect College Sports Act. But first, like, review, subscribe, share, rate, do all the free things, do all the good things.

[00:02:33] Liquid Death in hand. We are everywhere that you get your podcasts. Let's get it. So, Mr. Loddickle. You're... I think we're both on track. Good evening. You know, you told me that the Knicks were going to win, and I said Spurs in five. So we're both on track here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People on both sides kind of conundrum, right? Yeah.

[00:03:02] You know, but I just got one question for you first before we get... Before we dig deep into this. Pause. Did you see anything in game one? Because it was just game one. And, you know, we know guys like LeBron James would take game one as the experiment game. Did you see anything in game one that made you concerned for either side?

[00:03:28] The only thing that I really saw that's, I want to say concerning, but the Wimby to Cornette rim attack ratio. When Wimby's not in there, they go straight to the rim. And then when they can pull Wimby out using Cat, that gets them to the rim as well. That's probably the only concern that I see.

[00:03:57] With the Knicks, I think they came out, like we said, they would kind of sluggish because they've been resting. We're looking at like about eight to nine days, I believe they were resting. Yeah, it might have been more than that. Yeah. Yeah. So they were at home for a while. And then, you know, they figured it out. I think they have a guy who's averaging like nine points in the fourth quarter playoffs the last few years. And it was a big body Brunson. Now, I think that's the new.

[00:04:28] That's the name. But yeah, I'm not really concerned. I think the Spurs would knock down shots that they, you know, they missed in game one this game. I think this game will be a lot like game one. I can't be like, oh, yeah, the Knicks are going to win it. I mean, I did pick them. But like, you still got to be real. This is home court advantage. Stadium's packed. There still is a lot of Knicks fans. But yeah, like I said, I'm not concerned.

[00:04:56] The only the only concern I really have is the the way the New York tax the paint when Wemmy's not in the game. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, this is going to be a very competitive finals, you know, sad. And I mean, honestly, my Knicks in five. I mean, Spurs in five was a little tongue in cheek. I could actually see this going seven for real. But a couple of things that I was concerned about some serious, some not really that serious.

[00:05:26] I don't expect Wemmy to play like that again. You know what I mean? That's first and foremost. You know what I mean? Like, even though the Knicks have defended him very well over the years, they're probably one of the better teams, if not the best team that has defended him since he's been in the league. You know, the non-serious thing is Dylan Harper. Stay off of TikTok, man. Oh, I guess he liked something that said that. He reposted it.

[00:05:54] It was somebody that made a video and it was basically like De'Aaron Fox dedicated his stat line tonight to play off Harden. And so, you know, so, of course, because, you know, you don't want to question game one, right? It is game one. But there was a moment where I looked at Mitch Johnson and I said this to a couple of people the other day. Of all playoffs, I was wondering when the Spurs youth would come in his show.

[00:06:23] And I think game one was that game. You know, Castle came out pressing, missing layups early because he just looked too excited to get the layup. You know, Mitch Johnson, why did he sit Dylan Harper? You know, Dylan Harper was the best player for the Spurs and might have been the best player in the whole game at times in game one. But those last four or five minutes of the game, he went with the veteran De'Aaron Fox. But why not play both at the same time?

[00:06:50] Like, so I get the thought of you want the vet. He's been in, you know, he's been in these moments. And De'Aaron Fox is clutching his own right. He was the first person to win that new clutch award. So there's no problem with trusting him. But obviously he was having a bad game. But I was thinking Champinney came out on fire. And he just hit another three earlier. You know, Champinney came out on fire in game one. But by the time we got to the fourth quarter, that was dead.

[00:07:18] So my thought was, why not take out Vassell or Champinney and let Dylan Harper close the game? And that's one of my problems with coaches in general is that they're so beholden to this is my rotation or, you know, this is my substitution pattern. You know what I mean? It's like this is game one of the finals. Go win the game.

[00:07:43] Yeah, but I think it's because it's a simple decision. I went with the vet at the end of games, which is not a non-standard, like, process for coaches. Like, hey, it's a close game. I'm going to go with the vet. And, you know, the young guy is going to get his opportunity. But I'm going to go with the veteran.

[00:08:10] I think it's because it was like the four minutes, but it was a very frantic four minutes. There's a lot of clawing back. The Knicks, mainly Jalen Brunson, was hitting every shot. So I think you're just more concerned, like, what's happening on the floor versus, like, what can I do in these last few minutes to switch it up? It's like it's almost too late to get him back in. Like, Wimby's a guy you can put in a few minutes left in the game because he's at foul trouble.

[00:08:37] You can put him back in because you know he's definitively going to alter how they play offense, how they play defense. Moving De'Aaron Fox out and putting Harper back in, there's no guarantee that you're going to get more out of it, especially in that time of the game. So, yeah, I didn't think it was a big deal. I just noticed people brought it up. That's the only reason I even thought it was, like, I didn't think it was a big deal. I thought it was a big deal just because I don't think it's an every night thing. So I'm not saying, like, hey, for the rest of the series, this is what you better do.

[00:09:06] But, you know, we talk about this all the time. I'm all about the moment. You know what I mean? Like, you have your coaching philosophy. But when you have the chance to win a game, you have to do the thing. So Dylan Harper came out the other night and had six rebounds in the first half. You know, and, you know, he was the only steady person that was really on the floor for the Spurs at any point during the game besides when Champagny was hitting his shots.

[00:09:31] You know, you got to take players are they play in half like Champagny went five for six from three in the first half. And I think he finished the game with 16 points. I think he got a free throw or something like that. And the other thing, the other thing that I was concerned about, and you already know what I'm about to say, you know what I mean? I don't know if the Spurs are going to get another whistle like they got in game one. You know what I mean? Because, like, that game was all over the place.

[00:09:58] Wimby, I think, shot, was it 16 free throws or something like that? Yeah, he shot a lot of them early, too. Yeah, and I don't know if you're going to get another whistle that one-sided again. You just can't rely on that. You know what I mean? But Brunson went 12 to 31. That's the other thing, because before the game, you know, people were asking me, like, hey, we should game one prediction. And I was kind of being facetious but also half serious. I said, Jalen Brunson's going seven for 21 tonight.

[00:10:28] And there was a point in the game where he was seven for 21. The Spurs were up 14. And then this is a symptom of this NBA that we live in today where three-point shots galore, even if I'm the team that is up 14, I'm still shooting threes for some strange reason. Both teams hit 11 threes, but the Knicks took seven less. So, you know, that's where you get into the efficiency side of it. Not analytics. I'm not trying to be a nerd.

[00:10:56] But that's where you get into the... Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley yelling at us. Yeah. But, you know, but that's where... I know he already mad that all the women down here on Ozipic anyway. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, so neither team played well in game one. You know what I mean? Fox and Vassell combined seven of 24. Combined one of 10 from three. Fox and Wimby combined nine of 34.

[00:11:23] Like, you're not going to win any games that way. And for the fact that it was a game within, I think it was about two, two and a half minutes left, there was still a chance because the Spurs went on that 9-0 run. Yeah. That would be a little concerning if it wasn't game one. But since it's game one, I'm willing to look past that. If this was like game three or game four, I might take that a little bit more seriously. But game one is the fill out game. And hats off... I mean, the topic says it. Hats off to Cat.

[00:11:53] You know what I mean? He's been under fire for the last... Yeah, I told y'all, like, I don't know where all of the cat rhetoric comes from because it's not as if he was ever, like, a dominant player in the league. I think he's always just been really good. I mean, and he's just been a really good basketball player. He's consistent. You know, fairly healthy.

[00:12:22] He, throughout Bucsworth's career, doesn't miss a lot of games because of, you know, injuries and things of that nature. Like I said, I didn't like the deal trading him out of Minnesota because it was like, oh, you got too many tall guys down low. Like, well, effectively use both of them and you'll be fine because Mitchell Robinson is doing just fine when Cat's on the floor with him. The same thing Rudy Gobert could have been doing. The rules are no different. Catch this lob pass, get this rebound, defend these floaters at the rim.

[00:12:52] That's all Rudy Gobert is going to give you. So, like, I never liked that trade in the first place. I never liked it for Minnesota. I liked it for New York. And then I saw something today where it's like, basically, they were like, all right, Cat, you are probably the most versatile piece we have offensively because of your size, your ability to pass, see over the defense. We're going to work the ball through you and let Jalen kind of run off screens and not have to dribble the air out of the ball. That way he can get better shots.

[00:13:20] And then you can just be more involved with the offense by setting it up like a bigger version of Draymond Green, but, you know, more of an effective shooter. So I like his role. Like I said, I think everybody on the Knicks is playing their role to an A level. And that's when crunch time comes, things don't go sideways. I was talking to someone the other day at work. I was like, there was a drive or a possession where Landry Shammie got a rebound, brought the ball up court, or somebody got the rebound.

[00:13:48] Somehow he got the ball, but he wasn't ready for catch and shoot. So he just dribbled it through the lane, came back around to the top, gave it to Jalen, reset the offense up. He didn't dribble through the lane and shoot like this fallaway jumper because he had the space. He's just like, you know, that's not my role. That's not what I'm here for. What would you add to Noby? He catches the ball in the corner. He jabs that, jabs that in that corner.

[00:14:14] I'm going to try to take your baseline because normally he gets the ball in the corner, catch probably at the top. So I'm going to try to take a baseline. It's not working. Kick it back out, swing it back around. It's like everyone just kind of knows what they're supposed to do. Josh Hart has to stop fouling. Three fouls in seven minutes. I think he has, I think he might have a couple right now. Like I seen the whistle, but I have it on mute. But I think he has maybe two right now. He's not on the floor. So I'm assuming he has at least two, if not three.

[00:14:43] I seen the whistle blow when he was in the vicinity. So he has to stop fouling because he only had three points. He had 16 rebounds, four steals, six assists. He is the engine, but I don't think there's a fall off when the role players come in because those guys come in with a different role, different mindset, but they play it so well. That's the issue you're having with guys like Vassell and Champagny and those other guys.

[00:15:13] They're not there to be scorers. They will go four for 14 if you give them 14 shots because they are there to be just big guards, slashers, opportunistic scorers, but not, you know, those aren't 14, 14 shot kind of guys. And like right now, I think Wimby's off the floor, Cornette's on the floor, Knicks are down for five minutes, 545 left in the first. Watch when the Knicks get the ball back.

[00:15:41] It's going to be to the rim, to the rim, to the rim. I'm going to imagine the score will be 24-21 here very shortly. Knicks can be up. Yeah, so like I was mentioning Wimby, obviously, like he's the key here. He has to go do, you know, what he does. You know what I mean? And Steph Castle, you know, Mr. Logical knows that was my guy coming out of college. You know, I was all about Steph Castle.

[00:16:07] You know, and, you know, he's going to be a key to this series as well because the same way that you were just talking about Josh Hart, he has to stay out of foul trouble as well. Because, you know, he was on the edge a couple of times in that OKC series of fouling out himself. But to your point about Cat, I'll admit it. I'm still mad about 38-0. You know what I'm saying? I'm still mad about 2015. You know what I mean?

[00:16:33] But also, Cat early in his playoff career, he was real hard in like as far as he would have these disappearing moments. You know, he would have these two for 10 games and things like that, which always amazes me because obviously I'm not an NBA player. But when I see a guy like Wimby go 6-for-21, I'm like, that should not be possible. You know what I mean? Well, I like the 21 shots. I'd rather him go 6-for-21 than 6-for-10. Well, it's the 2-for-9.

[00:17:02] It's the 2-for-9 from 3 that concerns me because even at his best, at his best, ooh, Harper, Wimby is about 35% from 3 at his best. It's just the dagger mindset. Like I think he wants to just put it, wants to be the guy that, shame it, nothing. Harper.

[00:17:31] Yo, it still amazes me too that Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. Every time we do a show and it's live and we're both watching TV, it's like, I'm pretty sure people watch it like, yo, y'all need to say something. But yeah, so with Wimby, I think he just likes, I think he wants to get the psychological edge because he already has a physical advantage. And I think he forces these threes. And OKC, he was hitting them.

[00:17:56] And even at the game, the tie to get into overtime, the 115, the 118, 115, it just was like, that was a, I was like, wow. But that is, I think that's what he wants. I think he wants people to see him do that. And then that in turn turns into 44 and 21. Oh, not my gosh, sham it with the air ball.

[00:18:18] But, you know, so I think the free throws are a catch 22 because theoretically, right, the free throws are chances for you to see the ball go through the basket. They say scorers just have, if their scorers are having an off night, they have to see the ball go in. But I also think that at times, and I think what happened in game one was that there were so many free throws that a guy like Wimby just never really got into rhythm.

[00:18:45] You know, because he wasn't getting clean shots, you know, outside of those threes. He wasn't getting clean shots. So he was hitting his free throws. But he, because there was the one play game on the line and he dribbled it off his foot. And, you know, it was just one of those things where it's like he was tired, I think. And I know, like, the adage is, and you always talk about it, like, yo, these dudes are young, you know, saying they're not tired.

[00:19:11] And I'm like, but we got to remember, Wimby was on a minutes restriction in the regular season. So that was out there training in the pool with the weights running underwater. I know, but think about frustration. But think about this. Think about this. Look at us. And if we were playing basketball and, you know, I'm playing, you know, my game, you're playing your game, and you're leaning on me, you know what I mean?

[00:19:40] And I can't really push you back. Like, that wears you down. You know what I mean? So, like, so that's what the Knicks had was that Cat was able to body him a little bit. Mitchell Robinson was able to body him a little bit. So when you get to the full order. Realistically, how much, and I don't want to be dismissive of, like, the impact that these guys, but it's like you had a couple days rest.

[00:20:04] It's not like you had to go work a 12-hour shift at Amazon, then go to sleep, then go to practice, and then come to the game that night. Like, let's keep it rolling. How much sleep, how much time, how much recovery time do you need at 22 when you probably have a special made bed already because you're 7'5". So I imagine that that thing is built to the T. I'm pretty sure the facility has chambers and trainers. Like, I'm just not buying that he's exhausted. Well, no, because there's a-

[00:20:33] I think he's tired of, like, I don't think he's, like, exhausted to the point where it's like, oh, this is unsustainable. Like, yeah, I imagine that that game is probably pretty exhausting. But he also, like, when the shots, when his three is falling, he plays differently. And I think when- No, but there's an element to this. I think he loses confidence. I think he loses confidence. But there's another element, though. He doesn't fall. But there's another element to this is that the mental side of the fatigue. You know what I mean? Because, like, yes, his body may not- Like, his legs might not be rubbery. But, you know what I mean?

[00:21:03] Like, you remember we talked about the reaction when they won game seven. And it was like, yo, you throwing confetti already? Like, he was on such an emotional high. And then, you know what I mean? They came out sluggish, but they still had a 14-point lead. And then, you know, the Knicks, Jalen Brunson, mostly walked them down. Like, I think there's some mental fatigue there, too, where, like, it's kind of the ebbs and flows of the emotion, too. Because these are young guys.

[00:21:28] So, as much as they have an advantage on the physical side of being young, there might be a disadvantage on that mental part of the game. Because a lot of these guys, this is their first time in the playoffs, too. And against OKC, they saw the air leave the body of OKC every time they threw Atlanta to body blow. You can see it in the crowd. You can see it in the coach's face. You can see it in SGA.

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[00:22:53] Seriously fun, hands-on learning. To impose my will on so the team is working. It doesn't work with the Knicks. They didn't back down. So it's like, oh, we're in a real struggle because we're actually battling this team who is not at all worried about us, even with our big down low. Like, they were taking it to Wimby. Alvarado did something smart. Like, he knew. The same thing that we said OKC should do. Boom. Just throw it off the backboard.

[00:23:22] Because you know he's going to want to get everything. He got on the backboard super quick. Got the goal tending. They're doing a hack of Robinson right now. Yeah, yeah. Wimby goal tends probably more than he doesn't. You know what I mean? It's probably 55-45. You know, but yeah. So I think that tonight, you know, you got to ride Dylan Harper pause until, you know, he gives you a reason not to. You know what I mean?

[00:23:50] Like, because at this stage, Harper is, I mean, Fox is still hurt. You know what I mean? He's not healthy. And that was one of my issues with OKC was we were talking about Embiid a couple years ago. Like, OKC, attack that ankle. Yeah, like. He's dragging that leg and you setting the screen on the other side. Yeah. Like, it's like, what are you doing? Like, you know what I mean? And that's why, like, sometimes, you know, I do the joke where I'm like, sounds like coaching to me. You know what I'm saying? Because it's right there.

[00:24:19] I wonder how many people, because, like I said, I'm a fan of sports. And I'm like, I've watched, you know, hundreds of my son's games through multiple sports. And I'm thinking to myself, it's like, I'm thinking this in the crowd. It might be somebody else, like a parent, thinking the same thing. I'm like, what are the coaches on the sidelines seeing? Because, like, we talked about the injury. It's like, there's no coach that kind of tracks little things like that. Like, hey, this guy just went back to the locker room. This guy looks a little exhausted.

[00:24:50] They took him out with five minutes left in a second. They normally take him out with two minutes left. Maybe, maybe. I'm sure there are. But it's like, like, especially with the Embiid thing, he was literally dragging that leg. I'm like, just set the screen on that side and make him either fight through it or switch everything and then give it right back to the other guy and make him move side to side. Because you can't be that big handing off defensive assignments at the top of the key. There's just too much space.

[00:25:19] But someone has to be able to identify that. And I think the Knicks, like I said, Mike Brown said, Rick Brunson was like, yo, shut the hell up. Stop complaining about the rest. But he needed to hear that. He said himself, he was like, we were all just losing our minds over the rest. And you get smart assistant coach that has the ear of the coach and says, yo, everybody shut the hell up. Play basketball. The shots are going to fall.

[00:25:43] And I think that's the important piece is that you have, like I said, just playing your role to a T. Like, I'm playing my role as a person who jumped on the bandwagon. I know it clearly. I'm not denying that. I'm not like, oh, I've been a Knicks fan forever. No. I clearly understand. Like, this is a bandwagon decision. And I'm riding with it. But it's honest. So I don't have to justify it. I don't have to dance around it. Josh Hart, listen. This is what you do.

[00:26:12] Stay out of foul trouble. You'll get you back in the game. Jordan Clarkson, you are an attacker with the basketball in your hand. Attack. Alvarado. You're very patient. And you're from San Antonio. You're very patient. Make it happen. Like, so it's just everyone just kind of knows what they're doing. Mitchell Robinson, they're going to foul you. So, dog, try to knock down one out of two. And, hey, everybody else try to get the offensive rebound. And, you know, Josh Hart did have 15 rebounds and six assists in game one as well.

[00:26:42] So he does provide that value. Like I was saying, he's the Knicks version of Caruso, but he's more aggressive than Caruso. So, you know, so you have to know where he is at all times. Game five, six, and seven, Caruso. Well, Caruso will shoot it quicker than Josh Hart will. Now he's out there like Conor McGregor throwing people around. He put Castle on the ground into the stanchion multiple games.

[00:27:12] In a row, too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So in the fourth quarter, Jalen Brunson, the Spurs only beat him 19 to 13. And, you know, the Knicks are now the seventh team to ever win 12 straight playoff games. So, you know, got our eyes on that. See if they get close to Golden State's record of 15. But, like, just like tonight, right, I'm attacking Brunson, too, because, you know,

[00:27:41] I don't know what he's feeling like today, but I know he went off the court twice, you know, in game one. So I want to see how healthy you are. And that's why, like I said, like, you know, Mike Brown does a great job of masking certain things. Like, you know, so Brunson's never really cool. He had Steph Curry. He had Steph Curry for those years. So he figured out a way to hide a – Yeah.

[00:28:09] To hide a – I wouldn't call him a poor defender. Just a guy that's at a disadvantage. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, I don't know if he's a bad defender. I just know he's not a good one, but it's because of his limitations more than anything else. You know what I mean? But so what do the Spurs got to do tonight? Well, apparently it's Hacker Robinson. I hate that so much. They've done it. It looks like three possessions.

[00:28:36] Weren't they the ones talking about – wasn't Wimby the one talking about ethical basketball? It's like as soon as Jalen Brunson gets the ball across half court, someone's following him. You know, people – I like people. Well, it's funny because people – It's a waste of possession, but – Well, it was funny because after game one, I had to tell people, including you, I'm like, oh, now y'all see that the Spurs are just OKC but taller.

[00:29:07] I don't think the Spurs – I don't think they were flopping. I just felt like – Oh, Wimby was. Oh, Wimby. Yeah, Wimby is Wimby. Wimby flops. He flails and flops all the time. I – No, this is just bad TV right now. But I think the rest of those guys were just – they were just getting calls. I just felt like – I felt like Brunson and guys that were driving to the rim were on the ground a lot and not getting any calls.

[00:29:35] Like, there was a lot of shots being contested at the rim, and then the New York player would end up on the floor. And I just thought it was like, how come they're not getting that call? Especially when it was like one – like, you know, one-on-one fast break, and Jay LeBrunson ends up in the cameraman. It's like, OK, nothing? And it was like – it felt like that was – from the time they started calling fouls in the first quarter, I felt like they were all going –

[00:30:03] I don't think I've ever seen – like, whatever Harper and OG are doing right now, I don't think I've ever seen that before. Like, on a free throw. Like, I'm – The anticipation that he's going to miss it. Well, not from like that long before the free throw, though. Like, they were going at it like for four or five seconds before he even shot the free throw. Yeah, San Antonio was doing that thing.

[00:30:31] Like I said, that hack of Robinson basically is frustrating. Jalen Brunson's getting a little frustrated. I'm a little ahead of you. Yeah, he was – yeah, he – well, I'm at 201 right now. Yeah, I'm at 127. 127. How did you get so far? We were just, like, at the same minute mark. But, no. But at the – But at the end of game one, he – you know, I saw him, you know, he was having a conversation with Scott Foster, you know, very animated.

[00:31:01] So, you know, so, yeah, the frustration is set in. And it's funny, you know, to be – Wait till you see this travel they don't call. Yeah, see, the Spurs getting out in transition, too. And, you know, and that's another thing that the Spurs needed to do is that they need to push the ball. And I don't know, like, how these teams get caught up like this. Because in the OKC series, it was OKC that I was saying, hey, you've got to get up the court. Don't let the Spurs set up their defense.

[00:31:31] You know what I mean? As much as you can. Whereas, like, so far in this series – well, this game, I should say, the Spurs are picking up the pace now. And it's like – Are you supposed to travel yet, but they didn't call? Not yet. I'm at 114. It's about to happen. Is it Wimby? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Brunson had a couple of those in game one, you know what I'm saying? Because he tricks you with that jump stop.

[00:31:57] And, you know, there are rules that protect that from being a travel, but he still goes beyond. Wimby took one, two, stop, turn, pivot, stepped over, went under, then got the foul call. Yeah. Yeah. So, if you're the Spurs for Brunson, are you switching who you throw at them, or do you keep a dedicated defender on?

[00:32:24] They're going – it looks like they're doing the same thing they did to SGA. They're trapping them at the free throw line. They're sending a big guy. They got Harper just basically antagonizing them right now. Now, as Wimby was shooting the free throw, Brunson walked over to the bench just talking to his dad and talking to Mike Brown. And Harper was, like, on his hip, just following him around, just antagonizing him. He's getting a little frustrated, you can tell. But I think Rick probably just told him to calm down.

[00:32:49] But Harper literally, like, followed him all the way to the sideline and just walking around. So, I think they're going to attack him the same way they attacked SGA. I believe Mike Brown will have a counter for that and get the ball to shooters quicker, maybe get Cat back in the game to get him to get the ball and run the offense to him.

[00:33:12] Because without that, if OKC could have gotten the ball to Chet in those situations where he could have divvied out, I think that blitz tactic would have been they could have hurt him because those guys were coming far up. I mean, the three point line is 23 feet. These guys were trapping him at 28, 29, 30 feet. If someone would have flashed to where he didn't get the pass early, now it's a scramble drill.

[00:33:37] Yeah, you got Wimby protecting the rim, but someone has to help. And if you help off the guy in the corner, you kick it to the corner and this guy's got an open look. But I just felt like OKC did that very slow. And I think the Knicks are doing the same thing. They're not attacking it right. But I think Mike Brown will figure it out, come up with something. So I think the second quarter will be a little bit more offensively proficient for Nick. I think something I would like to see the Spurs do.

[00:34:05] And, you know, I don't know how feasible it is. So it would have to be something that you try out. But I would like to see the Spurs do more pick and roll with Wimby as the point of attack versus being the roller. You know what I mean? So have Wimby handling the ball and have... I don't think he can handle the trap. Dribbling. Getting it up and passing it over the top, maybe. But I don't think he can handle a blitz if they decide to...

[00:34:35] Well, it doesn't have to be something that you do every play. But I think you could just mix it in every so often. I think they would attack him. I think they would attack him because he would go to his spin move, which people already kind of know is coming. That's because that's what Josh Hart... That's how he got with the four steals in game one. Because most people try to attack his arms as soon as he comes... Like, as soon as he goes to spin. Hart just waited on him. So he spinned up the other guy. So then he's spinning right into me.

[00:35:04] And now I can attack the ball. Because he's going to show you the ball because of the spin. And I think you just wait on that. And I think if he was involved in some kind of pick and roll action, I think that opens him up for that. I think they should play... Like I said, I feel like an adjustment for me. And I don't know how much Plumlee is ready to play. But like I said, when I bring Cornette in, I'm bringing in Plumlee as well. I just need another big body that's going to be scrappy. That's going to go for rebounds.

[00:35:33] You think that's enough offense, though? If I get Dylan Harper, Castle, and Champini... Because I don't want to be disrespectful. I don't want to be disrespectful. But I'm done watching Harrison Barnes play basketball. Yeah, I don't know. I wouldn't have Harrison Barnes in there in that rotation. I've had Harrison out there with Wimpy. You know, let him get some shots up.

[00:35:56] But like I said, I just think that the Knicks attack that lineup with Cornette at the five. They attack him. And the Knicks had Robinson in the first quarter. So they were able to do Hacker Robinson. But if they didn't, they would have been able to get to the rim every time. At least attempt to get to the rim. Because Cornette is only so much he could do. He ain't got the block on Harden's time. But that's not what he's going to be.

[00:36:26] I think that at some point in this series, too, I think I need Mikael Bridges to look for his shot a little bit more. You know what I mean? Not necessarily trying to go ISO or anything like that. But, you know, he only took six shots in game one. And it's almost like... His shots, Wimpy's, the shark-infested Wimpy water, that's where his shots are from. So it's like, this might be a waste of possession if I try this. Let me do other stuff.

[00:36:56] And then open up my opportunities when we zone. But I just feel like every now and again, you have to show the defense something different. You know what I mean? Even if you just do it once in the second quarter. And maybe later in the fourth, you fake it. Like you're going to do it again. And then you do something else. But I just feel like he can contribute so much. You know what I mean? Because OG is kind of at that point where... I don't want to say he's turned into like the corner shooter.

[00:37:25] But OG generally doesn't drive to the basket as much as you would think that he would. He's standing in that corner. You know what I mean? So I feel like there's room for Mikael... He's like, listen, I'm still a big body. So you can close out on me. Now you got to follow me to this hoop as I take you down the baseline. And I'm going to fight through you the entire way to the rim. Yeah, but I think that there's room for Mikael to kind of operate in that free throw. And it depends, right, who's on the court.

[00:37:54] Because you probably can't do that with Cat on the court. Because that's Cat's operating area in the middle of the floor behind the three-point line and coming in. You know what I mean? But when Cat's off the floor, you know, I feel like he could at least get to that elbow. You know what I mean? Especially when he's not on the floor and he's on the floor. You know what I mean? But I just think he has to look for it, you know, because I would like to see him somewhere between 11 and 13 shots, you know, versus just six.

[00:38:23] You know, but that's just me. The Spurs, you know, two for 19 from three in the second half in game one. But turnovers is where the difference came in, you know, because the Knicks had eight in the first half and, you know, only one in the second half. So, you know, like they were able to kind of slow things down and get set up. So, here we go. We're in the second quarter now. You know, Dylan Harper still getting some minutes. I like it.

[00:38:52] You know, Castle with the three. So, I'm at 37-25 Spurs. So, my text for tonight, they asked me what's going to happen. I said Spurs by 15 tonight. You know what I mean? But I was going off of the refs in game one when I said that. There's Cat. Yeah, they're not calling anything. Yeah, they're letting them play tonight. You know, like this is the way that. They're letting the Spurs play. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're letting the Spurs play. Yeah.

[00:39:22] See, this is what I don't understand. Like, like, like, like, Steph Castle literally walks up to defenders in two hand, pushes them to the chest. Like, he doesn't even have the ball in his hand. He just pushes people and they don't call anything. Yeah. Like, they, they, but Shamit just, Shamit's going to meet him at the rim here. Yep. That was clean. Yeah. See, that's, and that's another thing that happens when the refs. Uh-oh, Calvin Johnson.

[00:39:52] Calvin Johnson coming up lane. See, here's Wimby. See what I'm saying? I'm at 1025. And see, and here's Wimby shooting these threes again. You know what I mean? Like. Because he wants, he wants the crowd to go wild. It's, I think it's a young, I want to say young, like immature, but I think it's like, I want this game to be exciting. But boring wins.

[00:40:18] You can win any basketball game at any level if you can effectively run pick and rolls and back screens. If you can rebound, play defense without filing and just get good open looks. You can play a whole game and get zero dunks and win that game 110 to 99 if you play properly. It could be, you could have a guy doing all kinds of crazy crossovers and the crowd can be all into it, but he'll do all that and miss the jumper. And you get the rebound, run it back up, lay up two points. So he got the crowd.

[00:40:48] We got the points. And I think he is trying to get that dagger, that bang, bang, the Mike Green call versus just like, you know what? I'm seven foot five. Yeah. Come over here, get this ball. I'm going to roll off this screen, lob it to me at the rim. Yeah, this is crazy. Like, you know, like Castle, he just always looked like he's ready to fight at any given moment. Yo, I think he would have been a top tier safety. Even at six things.

[00:41:17] I just think, I think he has a little football in his, oh yeah, that's the offensive foul. No. So they're getting, oh my God. So are you, grab him. So are you really not going to, I know this is like off topic, but are you really not going to go to the NBA draft? The NBA draft? Yeah. You know, it's in Barclays.

[00:41:46] See, it sounds close. But it really isn't. Like, New York is geographically close. Right, right, right, right. Like, I was at the beach last week and looking up the shoreline. You can see the city. But getting on the roads or getting in the train or getting in the subway to get out. A whole other story, huh? It's a whole other story. You know.

[00:42:15] It's like, you ever been, I don't know if you've ever been to Hawaii, but people are like, oh, Hawaii is a small island. But it's like, yeah, you're stuck in traffic. Yeah, I've been to Honolulu. Yeah, so kind of like that. So it's, like I said, it's a great trip. If you're going to, if you're going to Manhattan and you're going to walk around Manhattan, logistically it's perfect. But if you try and go to, like, Brooklyn and all that, it's like, it's a little bit more. Or, like, the tolls are crazy, too.

[00:42:43] It's like $20 across the bridge, $20 to get back. Yeah, it's nuts. Okay, Kat. You know what I'm saying? Talking trash and everything. You know what I'm saying? Like, kiddie no more. Oh, Andy block, come on, block it on the other end. Look at this. Like, I don't even recognize this guy right now. Telling you, man, like, all you need is a little bit of love.

[00:43:12] A coach that believes in you. And you're in there. Yeah. Yeah. You know, but, you know, like, I'm loving this series already, man. I know we're only two games in and not even really fully done with two games. But I'm loving the intensity. Like, you know what I mean? Because, like, a lot of people, you know, a lot of the criticism about the NBA over the years is like, hey, these guys look like they don't care. You know, they're just there for the check or, you know, whatever the case may be. Like, no, these two teams want this.

[00:43:43] They want this. And my public service announcement to New York City Mayor Zoran Mondani. You might want to go ahead and apply for those emergency funds because you're going to have to hire a lot of security. If the Knicks. If the Knicks win tonight, you might have to call in some off duty NYPD police officers.

[00:44:09] Well, you know, if they win it all, you're going to have to call in all. I don't know. I think someone said, like, the NYPD is bigger than, like, a lot of countries entire army. You might have to call them all in. Well, you know, the mango. Because they will terrorize the city. If they, if they, if the Knicks win this NBA finals, like I'm predicting, they are going to need to call in a national guard. They're going to have to have a predictable route.

[00:44:39] It's because it's going to be. And you know, you know, the mango going to be at game three. Who? Cheeto. Why? Joker. Yeah, right. He said he going to be at game three. He better not go to your UFC match. Go hang out with, you know, Covington and all those dudes.

[00:45:05] You know, so, so yeah, like, you know, like the Knicks are scoring, you know, when Mitchell Robinson ain't on the court. You know, so, so besides the obvious, you know, so besides Brunson, besides Wimby, and I'll even throw Kat in that conversation. Who is the most important player for each team for them to win this series?

[00:45:34] Well, you said his name a lot. I think Dylan Harper is very important because I think he, he plays with such confidence and the physical stature and he plays. His confidence is kind of rooted in his physicality as well. So, I think he'll be able to continue to battle anybody, any guard that they put on him for the Knicks. He's bigger than that guard. Maybe Adenobi might not be.

[00:46:02] Adenobi's probably the only one that's probably bigger than him. I think everybody else, he is a physical matchup. He can win. I never, like, De'Aaron Fox looked like Kendrick Lamar. It was, like, he looked like he, I don't know. But De'Aaron Fox, I think, is pretty key too. I think he's pretty. He's playing well right now. Yeah, and, like, he has to keep this up because he can put a certain pressure on the defense that Dylan Harper can't.

[00:46:31] You know, just from the speed standpoint. That's double dribble. It was a double dribble. Did they challenge it? I don't think so. I'm still. Mike Brown's got to start challenging himself. He's about to shoot the free throw. You're talking about the De'Aaron Ann one, right? De'Aaron Fox, yeah. Yeah. That was a double dribble. Yeah, it was. You know what I'm saying? Well, before that, you know, like, Josh Hart tried to put him in a Ricky the Dragon steampoad armbar. And, you know, the refs didn't call nothing.

[00:47:01] Hey, listen. It's not the fact they didn't call that. They didn't call the double dribble. It was very clear. Yeah. But I think, like I was saying, because, you know, there was a point where people were debating, like, who's faster, De'Aaron Fox or John Wall? And, you know, so when you've got that kind of downhill speed, that makes life easier for your Champagnes and Vassells. And I would also say Vassell is very important, too, you know,

[00:47:29] from the standpoint of, you know, when he's knocking down shots, the Spurs are at a whole different level. Like, you know, when he's turned up. Because he came into the league as a defensive player. And then he got to the Spurs. Yeah. And then he just decided, like, hey, I want to shoot a lot. And then because we were talking about – because I was – like, when I went to the Spurs game a couple years ago, I was like, trade Vassell, man. Like, this dude does not like Wimby or –

[00:47:58] you know, like, you remember when LeBron got drafted and Ricky Davis was like, yeah, they brought him in here to help me. You know what I mean? Like, that's how Vassell treated Wimby. Yeah, it's like, no, they brought him in here to change the game. Like, this guy is an anomaly at the basketball thing. But, yeah, Castle just got another foul. Foul him a three-point shooter. Yep. Being aggressive late in the shot clock. Alvarado misses the first free throw. You know what I mean?

[00:48:26] Like, but Alvarado's been a very underrated pickup for the Knicks this year, too. You know what I mean? And, you know, especially, you know, native New Yorkers, so you know he's represented. Yeah, I love it. But I think for the Knicks, you know, I would like to see Deuce McBride get loose. You know what I mean? Like – Yeah, yeah. I've only seen him – I haven't seen him make a shot yet. I mean, I might have missed it, but like – Well, he hit that crazy corner three in game one, but I think he went like two for seven overall.

[00:48:56] Like, he hit one falling out of bounds in that left corner. You know, that's the only shot I really remember seeing him make. But it's like there's players like that in the league, like where it's like – I swear I watch a lot of basketball and I've never seen this dude make a shot. Like, I don't think I've seen – I don't think I've seen Kyle Kuzma make a shot in like three seasons. Hey, there's Mikel Bridges from the corner. There you go.

[00:49:25] Yeah, I think you're – I'm at 701. Yeah. Yeah. But there's like a lot of – Why don't we jump – I don't know how we're jumping around like this. Well, my – I turned off the TV and now I have the game on my phone, so you know how it is. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. It's a digital world. When games used to be on regular channels and I could just watch it. But now it's on. Like, I got to use this app and I got to use this app. It's like everybody wants to get paid. We'll talk more about everybody. It's like – It's like I don't –

[00:49:54] It's like I don't think I've ever seen a Sar Thompson score and it wasn't a dunk. Who else is like a bad – Just an odd shooter? It's a lot of guys in the NBA. It's like – Like Jackson Hayes. I think I've seen him hit one three. Like the fact that guys go their whole career without hitting threes. I think Drummond had like gone forever without hitting any threes. I think the last couple years he had like 15. It's like – Yeah. You never just been standing there wide open?

[00:50:23] It was like, yeah, I'm just going to take this three. Well, you remember – I think it was last year. I think Shaq had too in his career. When Quentin Grimes first got to Philly and McCain was hurt, Maxie was hurt, and he was having all these 30- and 40-point games. And then when I started watching the Sixers, I ain't never seen that dude hit a shot. Three or four points. You know what I'm saying? How is that even – Like I don't know. Like there's just guys like that. Jeff T. talks about it like when he says like they sit you down and say,

[00:50:53] hey, you're getting 14 minutes, you're getting 19 minutes, you're getting six shots. And then you're like, oh, what if I got like 22 points? What if you get 22 points in 14 minutes? So you had a hell of a game. But you go ahead and sit down. You're getting 14 minutes. You see Terry Rozier got to pay this money back? How much? I think it was like 26 million. Then I'm out. You know what I mean? I'm out.

[00:51:21] Whatever happened with – Come find me in Switzerland. Whatever happened with everybody else? Like what's up with Chauncey right now? It's probably – like it's probably so deep in the people involved, and there's going to be some handshake deals because people with money love to do nefarious stuff with other people with money. And then if you do it with the right person who has – who's in a position to be protected,

[00:51:49] then by default you might get a little protection yourself. So it might be one of those situations. You see Portland still hasn't hired a coach yet. Portland one of organizations. And this is why certain teams – the Spurs, this is why they are the way they are. Like they'll suffer for a couple of years and rebuild. So they'll – hey, you're injured. Well, no, the NBA usually helps them out. Like the NBA is like, yo, here's David Robinson.

[00:52:18] Here's Tim Duncan. Here's Wimby. Here's Steph Castle. They got three of those guys. Steph Castle was the number one pick. I know, but a lot of these teams don't get one of those guys in their history. I think a lot of these teams get those guys. They just want those guys to do other things. Like we talked – remember that guy – what's it? Justin Jackson from – he went to Kansas. Oh, Josh Jackson. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Josh Jackson.

[00:52:43] He could play the way a sore and a man and all these other guys played. But they wanted him to shoot. It's like, no, he can't shoot. Don't grade him on a guy that can shoot. Grade him on a guy that's 6'7", lengthy. You could be a great defender. You could do 12, 13 years of sleep. Let him – Yeah, let him be. Be healthy. Be what you physically are capable of doing. Not like, oh, we want to mold you into something else. Like, Cat.

[00:53:10] Cat can't be a big that's going to bang with the Marcus Cousins down low all the time. We all see the meme. Yeah. That's just not what he's going to be able to do. But, hey, man, give him a couple of bumps, turn that shoulder, and try to shoot that fade away. That's what you're capable of doing. Or if you can dribble past him, that's what you can do. But I'm not going to demand that you just – you got to bang with all these other guys. And that's the difference with these organizations. You can tell. So, like, Dan – No one Harper. See, why does Wimby only have four shots right now?

[00:53:40] I mean, he's not on the floor right now, but still. Yeah. Because the three didn't fall when the three – it's like – remember when they talk about Tyrese Halliburton? Mm-hmm. Like, if he doesn't hit one of his first two threes, like his shot total for the game is like – it goes from 18 to 10. Yeah. But if he hits one of those two threes, then he'll shoot around 18 shots for the game. That's kind of the same thing. It's like, oh, I didn't make these.

[00:54:10] I didn't make these. So, I'm off tonight. Let me get other people involved. Yeah. Well, De'Aaron Fox looks pretty healthy tonight, you know, so far. Well, maybe he – maybe Dylan Harper retweeted that to piss him off. Maybe. Maybe this is his 45-15-5 night. Nope. He's – oh, they got Harrison Barnes in the game, so – I know. That's why I was – Go ahead and eat. Get on your run.

[00:54:39] Oh, no. Hold on. See, Dylan Harper messed that one up. That was all – Harrison Barnes had a dump right there, but Dylan messed up the pass. You know, and Bissell is just – like I said, like, Bissell is – when he's off, like, it's just – I don't even know. Oh, good block, OG. Josh Hart coming down the court leading the break. Uh-oh, Mikael going to pull up. There it is. As a wise man would say, bang! Yeah. You know? I've always wanted to do that.

[00:55:09] He said he'd give them a triple bang if they knocked down a three to win the NBA finals. That's what he told the – Oh, that would be crazy. Yeah, he said, I'll give you a triple bang if you guys – he said in game seven, if you hit a three to win the NBA finals. All right? Yeah, OG. You don't challenge OG like that. Hey, it's time to hear – That's the thing. Cat said it in the – he said it in the huddle game one. He was like, the offense will come.

[00:55:38] Just stay locked in defensively. Oh, there's Wimby. He was like, just like game one in Cleveland. He was like, just stay locked in. We'll be good to go. Oh, they put Wimby back in the game. Josh Hart and Bissell. Like he – Bissell poked the ball out and then tripped over Josh Hart and wants a foul call. Yeah.

[00:56:08] You know, it was like, oh, Josh grabbed his foot. I didn't see that. That's why he wanted the foul call. Are they looking at it? I don't think that was enough for him to fall like that. But they're going to go look at it, it looks like. Come on, man. Like y'all didn't call it on the floor. This is what I mean. How are you not calling the double dribble that was clear and then you guys get together and go review it?

[00:56:36] If he didn't call it on the floor, you can't just – Let it go. You can't just arbitrarily just – Well, I guess they were – Well, I guess it's the whole thing where you're looking for like the whole, you know, did he hurt him? Did he try to intentionally take him out and all that? I don't know, man. The ref is right there on the spot.

[00:57:01] Like, yo, this is – and this is the problem and this is why people feel as if there's rigging going on in the league. He didn't look – I mean, maybe he didn't. Even if he did it on purpose, he didn't call it. You don't get to put it in slow motion and slow it down frame by frame and be like, yep, he definitely did it.

[00:57:23] But it almost kind of reminds me – it almost kind of reminds me of that play with Len Mello and Bam, you know what I'm saying? Where like it was very minimal, but it was enough, I guess. But he was looking at his foot. Yeah. Like he was looking and then – Tony Brothers, you know, soon to be – what did he try to be the mayor of Norfolk I saw? Yeah, somewhere in Virginia, I believe. Yeah, I think it was Norfolk. Yeah.

[00:57:54] You know what I'm saying? I like how Virginia just randomly decided, like, we ain't going to say that L in that word. Yo, it's – but it's the same thing with Newark. People from here – like people say – It sounds like they say Norfolk. Yeah. Yeah. But people are like Nor – it's like Nurk. Yeah. It's almost like they're trying to say New York and they're learning how to speak English. Yeah. And it's like – it confuses people.

[00:58:22] So I heard people say Norfolk. I'm like – Yeah. It's fuck. All right, here we go. What's the call going to be? Let me turn this up real quick. Flagrant foul. Flagrant foul penalty one. There you go, Mr. Logical. Sound off.

[00:58:42] The NBA PA should really sit down and consider holding out until they can get some real clarity on – because, like, I don't like – if you call a foul on – it's a block or charge or a hold or whatever the case may be. If you call a foul on Hart on a rebound. Yeah. Yeah. And then they review it and like, oh, no, Vassell is actually holding him, so the foul is on him. Like, no.

[00:59:11] You didn't call in a live action. The only thing you get to review is that call. Like, if it's in the NFL, they do it right. If it's a catch or a fumble, they don't – or catch or a drop, they don't come back and say, oh, well – I saw pass interference. But I saw pass interference. Yeah. So it's pass interference and the ball is at that spot. Like, you're literally altering how the game is going because you missed a call. And now on this particular call, you get to go to the replay.

[00:59:40] It's just – it's asinine. That's so crazy. Champagny was talking and he was trying to, like, cover his mouth. And with his beard, it looked like he had a cell phone right there. But now, see, this is what I want to see now. These free throws, you know, Vassell goes to the line, knocks down both free throws. Now, you know, saying, are we going to see more aggressive Vassell or is he going to start hitting shots now? And here comes Wimby driving that Mitchell Robinson crossover.

[01:00:09] Pass out to Champagny who shot over Brunson just because Brunson is little, but that was a bad shot. You know, so Kelton Johnson is an interesting guy, you know, not just because he went to Kentucky, but, you know, he's the sixth man of the year. And every time I watch him play, I say, why? Like, why was he the sixth man of the year over somebody like Hawkins or, you know, like somebody like that?

[01:00:38] Oh, we got a tech? We got a tech on Mitchell Robinson. That was on Mitchell Robinson for – it was one of those fouls where they were about to inbound the ball and he pushed Wimby or – Wimby was pushing him. Come on, this is getting ridiculous, man. The Knicks are going to win this game, though, just because the Spurs have nothing going other than they got the whistle. But see, that's the problem that I have, right, because a few minutes ago – They're getting the whistle. Well, not just that. They're getting no rhythm. Well, not just that.

[01:01:07] A few minutes ago, maybe 10 minutes ago, right, I was telling you, hey, look at Harper and OG at the – you know, I've never seen that on a free throw. And they didn't call nothing. Steph Castle walk up to you, two hands you in your chest. They don't call – why they call this? Because they should have walked up and been like, hey, cut it out. Let's go. But it's like they want to interject themselves. It's just about control. We're going to talk about that later. But see, the problem is – the problem is they got this because Wimby won't eat.

[01:01:38] That's the only reason they got this. And then he leaned back into them and pushed them both hands. Right, that's what I'm saying. If Wimby was like 15 pounds heavier, they don't call that. He pushed them with both hands. I know. And they call it – this is just – it's nonsense, man. It's just absolute nonsense. That's why the Knicks are going to win because it's like, here we go. No foul. Okay.

[01:02:03] You got to damn near get tackled to get a foul call if you're wearing orange and blue in San Antonio right now. Hey, don't worry. It'll switch when they go to the East Coast. It'll switch. And – It's going to switch in the second half. Every time Wimby need a break, Cornette's going to foul. And you know what I'm saying? And then when the Knicks start getting the calls, the people cheering for the Knicks ain't going to say nothing about it. I'm going to say about time. See, that's what I'm saying.

[01:02:33] That's the wrong thing to say. I don't want to ever. I don't think it's going to invert. I just think the Knicks – I think the Knicks are just going to play through it. Josh Hart does have three fouls too, by the way. Because he just got that – Yeah, because he got the flavor. I believe it. It counts as a foul or it's a tech. I know a tech does, but – A tech doesn't count as a foul. It used to. In college. In college. Yeah, in college it does, yeah. Which sucks because you only get five. Same thing in high school.

[01:03:01] You only get five, but a tech counts as a personal foul. Let's see here. You know, yeah, it does. Yeah, the flavor does count as a foul. As a foul. And there's Wimby shooting free throws. And then we'll switch over here to talk about this Protect College Sports Act in a second after these free throws. So first free throw is up, and he misses it. Boy, I don't lie.

[01:03:31] Yeah, we'll write this out until halftime. Because I'm still – This is another thing about this NBA playoffs. I'm happy that it's the – some guy who's underwriting for face of the league as Wimbyama. And then a big city team. Even though, like, my personal opinion about big market versus small market,

[01:03:58] you watching the game on TV shouldn't have anything to do with this – where the basketball team practices at and plays their home games. Like, that should be irrelevant if you want to watch a good basketball game. If you have stars in the game, that's all that matters. And to get to the NBA finals, you need stars. We need all stars. Somebody take a shot. Yeah. There's Mikael Bridges. See, there you go.

[01:04:28] Nobody wanted – Swing, swing, swing, swing. Yeah, that's why I was getting frustrated. See, look at that. Wimby just, like, knocked out Landry Shavitt. Like I said, it's going to get called. Oh, there you go. Knicks with the lead. 337 left in the second quarter. Yo, Landry Shavitt looked like – Well, I was just about to say –

[01:04:58] Well, I was just about to say the Knicks got to feel good because Brunson spent a chunk of that time on the bench. You know what I mean? So, like – And they got back in this game. Because every – It's a chess board. Oh, what'd I tell you? There's the cell from three. Hey, why Landry Shavitt looked like he could play the Passion for Christ dude, though? He is a strange-looking dude. Did he knock it down? Knock it down to three. They have two.

[01:05:28] Oh, they called a foul? Oh, I didn't even see that. If they did, I didn't even see. I thought they called – I thought it was a timeout. Oh, I thought it was a timeout. Let's see. Let's see. He hit him in the hair. Like, not necessarily the head, but the hair. And see, that's another thing that I get frustrated about. He didn't even complain about it. So, that's how you know it didn't happen. Well, that's another thing that I get frustrated about, too.

[01:05:56] Because sometimes on their – like, sometimes on a shot, like, they'll call the foul on the follow-through. But even that's not consistent. You know what I mean? Like – Yeah, Wimby slapped Cat in the face game one. And they challenged it and reversed it. Well, yeah. Wimby gave him the forearm shiver. You know what I'm saying? Like, they used to call it back in the day. I think he did – I think he did it to Chet, I believe, in game seven. But he got the ball first. So, they were like, oh, he got the ball first.

[01:06:26] It was good to go. But this time, he didn't get the ball. Oh, Vassell about to get another one. Oh, put it on the floor this time. Go to the basket. Oh, no, he couldn't make it. Cat with the defense. You know what I'm saying? Oh, Jalen with the step in. Nope. Wimby with the rebound. 2.38 left to go in the second quarter. Wimby bringing the ball up. The court spurs up one. Knicks seven to 18 from three. Spurs six of 16.

[01:06:52] De'Aaron Fox at the top of the key against – here we go. Champagny dribbling against Cat. Cat probably dragged that foot just a little bit. Vassell misses the three. Here comes Brunson. Get the ball to OG. OG going at Wimby's body. Wimby got a piece of that out of bounds. Knicks ball. So, like, yeah, like the Knicks – and this is all I was asking OKC to do.

[01:07:21] This is all I was asking him to do. He's going to block your shot from time to time. But you got to go in there. Like I said, I thought OKC players – but they started losing guys, so guys had to shift to different roles. So that does alter, you know, your game plan. Right, because remember game one – I thought putting McCain in a starting lineup kind of solidified the bench guys because, like, okay, now you still can come in and do your bench.

[01:07:51] Because I think McCain is a starter who just happens to play on the bench. I think he would have been a starter probably most of these teams around the league because he plays with great confidence, great balance. He's like a bigger – like his body frame is like taller version of Jalen Brunson. Like he's not a lanky guy. Like you could tell he's a pretty solid guy. So I think he handled the role of the starting lineup pretty well because, you know, he has a bit of a green light to shoot. I just felt like the guys – like I thought Hartenstein played poorly defensively,

[01:08:21] and I thought Chet just played very passive like the entire series. So that hurt them. Right now the Knicks, everyone is doing what they do. Like you said, you called for Mikael Bridges. He was like, all right, bet. I can't work the middie. I'm going to take the shortest three-pointer, which is the corner three, which is a few feet deeper than, you know, his mid-range game. So like now I'm taking that shot. Guy's taking it to the rim against Swimby. It's like he can't block everything. And if you get it on the rim quickly, then, you know, maybe –

[01:08:51] Get him out of position on the – well, get him out of position on the block, then you get to follow. You know what I mean? And just attack, and just attack, attack, attack. And I think that's something that OKC – Well, that's what I was saying. Like in game one – well, in game one of that series, yeah. Yeah, Jalen Brunson attacks the rim, whereas SGA gets his spot. That's the difference.

[01:09:14] And I think the team went as SGA went, whereas I think Jalen is like, yeah, we're attacking downhill all game. Well, that's why I was going to say in game one of that Western Conference Finals, you know, Jada, you know, he was getting to the rim whenever he wanted. You know what I mean? And that's why when they lost him, it was kind of – you know, like they still got the game seven, so hats off. But you know what I mean?

[01:09:42] It was going to be tough without the guy that can get to the basket. Yeah, especially with the – like the aggression that he was getting out downhill. And that's what the Knicks – the Knicks are playing at all three levels. They're attacking the rim. They're attacking the mid-range. They're passing the ball well. They're not dribbling the air out of the ball. Because, like I said, the – San Antonio is playing four big guards and a unicorn-sized center. Like that is their lineup no matter who's on the floor.

[01:10:11] So, Harrison Barnes on the floor, you can consider him a forward. But for the rest of these guys, they are just big guards. So, like I said, getting Mason Plumlee in the game, I don't know how effective you think that would be. But I'm like, I figure a guy 6'10", 6'11", at a minimum, they'll just rebound. Right. Defend Cat, make it tough on Cat and rebound. That way Cornette can stay near the rim. Because other than that, if you pull Cornette more than 8 feet from the hoop, it's open season at the rim.

[01:10:42] And that's – I think that's why the Knicks are able to call. Because at one point, they were down 12. Mm-hmm. Like the start of second quarter, they were down 12, 37, 25. And now you look up and what is it, 52, 51, they got the ball. Mm-hmm. Like I said, I'm a few seconds behind you. So, they're probably already – Yeah, they're just showing the Wimby quote right now. Yeah. You know, about how they were spoiled kids in game one. You know, so here they go again.

[01:11:11] You know, 4 for 19 in the second quarter, 2 for 9 from 3. Yeah, I saw a stat the other day, yesterday on First Things First. They use a 12-minute span from like 5 minutes and 35 seconds in the third and 5 minutes, 35 in the fourth. Over that 12 minutes, the Knicks had outscored them 40 to 19, only had like one turnover. The Knicks just have – like – yeah, like I said, right now – Chapman – Nope.

[01:11:41] Here comes Brunson about a minute, 43. Cat at the top. Brunson with Harper on him. Cat's got De'Aaron on him right now. He's going down low now. So, now he's matched up with Wimby. Oh. Yeah. Cat just grabbed Harper's arm. No call as he was going for the steal. OG for 3. No. Vassell with the rebound. Champagny coming down. About a minute 20 left. Vassell over to Wimby.

[01:12:10] Wimby tossed the ball away from Vassell. Knicks ball. He not even looking to be aggressive. So, like, I don't know. Because normally, right, you would have these moments where Phil Jackson would kind of talk about, like, Mike is really good at letting the game come to him. Wimby's not letting the game come to him. He's just not doing anything. But he told Mike and Kobe the same thing. Like, listen. You know you could get yours.

[01:12:38] I'm going to get you eight shots every quarter. Just work the offense and then get your – it was like four to six shots or something like that. Like, I can get you – we can get you four to six shots every quarter. And that's – you'll get your, you know, 29 to 30 points because you are who you are gifted offensively.

[01:13:01] I think sometimes coaches have to do that because what happens, guys come out with the energy game. Your role players play differently. Champagny is five for six from three. Then in the second half – The second – don't say anything. The second half comes. Now you got to get – you got to get your stars to play like stars. And now the role player doesn't take that open shot. They get it to Wimby.

[01:13:27] They – okay, yeah, that makes sense. He said where's the – no, I was laughing because he said where's the foul. Oh, yeah, he's saying where's the foul. Turn, turn. All right, so Cat – here we go. McHale Bridges. There you go. McHale Bridges again. You know, from the paint this time, De'Aaron Fox. Swiper coming down the lane. Calvin Johnson backing it out.

[01:13:57] Wimby at the three-point line going baseline against Cat. Cat throws it to Brunson. Here comes Brunson, 22 seconds left. He brings it across the timeline. I've always wanted to say that too. Yeah. You know, here comes Vassell with the trap. Gets at the Bridges. Cat in the corner alone. Bang. 56-52. Eight seconds left. De'Aaron Fox dribbling like it's a minute left. You know, here he comes going.

[01:14:26] Probably got fouled. No call. That was close. Halftime. 56-52 Spurs. I mean, Knicks, sorry. Yeah. 56-52. Like I said, I'm still at six seconds with De'Aaron Fox dribbling the ball up slow. See, and this is where the Spurs are in trouble, right? Because I talked about Brunson going 12 for 31 the other night. He's 3-4-11 right now. And you know what I mean? And the Knicks are winning at halftime.

[01:14:53] And like I said, so Victor Rumbigama is 2-4-4. Yeah. Seven points. Your game plan has to be get him more involved in the second half. So that means I don't know if Kelton Johnson shoots that three if he catches in the corner. If the planets get the ball. He will. He don't care. But yeah, so like that's the kind of.

[01:15:24] That's funny. So yeah, there we go. All right. So Mr. Logical. Your guy, Ted Cruz. You know, introducing legislation into Congress called the Protect College Sports Act. So.

[01:15:54] Pull my notes up. So I'm going to say this one thing real quick. And I'm going to let you have the floor. Well, I'm going to say two things real quick. All right. So there is a report, or I should say a study.

[01:16:08] And this was referenced by Brian Murphy of WRAL News that since 2024, March 2024, more than 415 college teams have been cut, merged, or reclassified nationwide. That includes more than 40 Olympic programs, including swimming, tennis, and track between May of last or 2024 and July of last year.

[01:16:37] You know, Arkansas had to cut men's and women's tennis, but then they got bailed out with some short-term funding. So one, people are concerned about the future of the Olympics. And the numbers that he was quoting came from edcircuit.com. Now, the second thing I was going to say, and this is the part where you laugh. So I heard Ted Cruz on On 3 with Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman.

[01:17:03] And he said that at the rate that we're going, in three to five years, there might only be 50 teams left, you know, football teams left. And just in the state of Texas alone, you got Texas and A&M because they're going to be fine. But there will be no Baylor. There will be no TCU. Oh, you were supposed to laugh. You didn't laugh. Because it upsets me.

[01:17:33] And the reason it upsets me is, let me read, it's the same playbook they use for everything to get their way. And when people do actual tangible math or just apply logic to these conversations, it blows up.

[01:18:00] The problem is, these senators have pushed this, we are going to lose unless you guys let us take over. They already have the great replacement theory thinking that, like, all these minorities are coming into the country and white people are going to be minorities. Like, the math doesn't work out. It simply does not work out. But they'll just say that and no one does the research. They don't have to cut these programs.

[01:18:29] They cut these programs because they want to spend all their money on football because that's all they care about is football and basketball. You can say, no, we can't afford to get this guard from this prep school in Florida to come play here at Arkansas because we don't have,

[01:18:49] we are not going to take $10 million from the swimming program to get this guy so he can help us win 27 basketball games versus the 21 we normally win. They can say no to spending $10 million on that, but they don't. They want to win so bad because that drives people to the football games to get them more money for football. They don't have to take money from the tennis program, the swim program.

[01:19:18] They don't have to make lacrosse a club program. They have to balance the money they get better because these $10 billion TV deals, if you can't balance some sports programs at your college where people are paying to go there, people are paying for food, people are paying for houses, people are getting guaranteed government loans that are getting money, and you're getting state tax money into your schools, you're getting federal money into your schools,

[01:19:47] and you're getting revenue of everything you sell at your school. If you can't manage that money, then you shouldn't be in that position. You shouldn't get to go to Congress and beg and say, hey, please take over control because we are mismanaging our money in the pursuit of victory. Everybody's not going to win a national championship, so don't go spend $10 million on a quarterback that's transferred three or four times because the player isn't generating his money himself and buying his way onto the team.

[01:20:14] The teams are finding the money somehow, some way to get these players there. So it's not the player's fault that you can't afford what you started to buy. Like if someone's in $100,000 credit card debt, you don't go to the government and say, hey, I really wanted to buy all this stuff in my credit card. Now you got to bail me out. Like, no, you went out there and overspent because you indulged in this stuff and you wanted it. These teams want these players. And for Nick Saban to be up there talking about, oh, I'm not going to say who,

[01:20:43] he was begging the boosters to give him money because he says Texas A&M bought their whole team. So he was just as complicit in this getting money from boosters process as anyone else. Did you hear the numbers that he quoted? I heard him say something. I watched his intro. It was like $11 million. He was like $2 million, $7 million. Yeah, he said the first year of their collective, they had $2.7 million. Then the next year it went up to $10 million, $17 million, and then $24 million.

[01:21:14] Where are they getting all this money from? Exactly. Because that's what I mean. He literally, and he even mentioned it in his soliloquy, his opening statement, that I did mention the team some years back. I'm not going to mention it now. Now, you did the same thing that you claim is out of control. You literally went to a boosters meeting and said, I need more money from you to buy players.

[01:21:39] And then once you realize that if you give a 19-year-old kid or 20-year-old kid $150,000 to come play football, you no longer have the leverage to say, I kick you off this team. Cool. I'll just take my talent and my $150,000 and I'll go to Tulane or I'll go to UAB. I'm going to go play football somewhere. And that's the problem.

[01:22:05] It's not a matter of not finding the money because we found all this money to bomb the shit out of Iran. We found all that money to bomb Iraq. We found all that money to bomb Afghanistan. We found all this money to send to Ukraine. We found all this money every single year to send to Israel, which he's a big proponent of. Stop sending that money there and send the money to the schools so we can keep lacrosse and tennis in our Olympic program. Don't sit here and try to tell a guy who gets money off his name, Imogen Likens, because he's worked, put his body through the rigors to get in this position to change his life,

[01:22:34] that he shouldn't be able to do that. But yet you can vote every single day to give tax cuts to billionaires, to send money overseas, to all these different conflicts, and send people's children to battle and everything else. But now all of a sudden kids want to go to college and play sport. You tell them there's not enough money left. Fuck all that nonsense. But this is the other thing, right? Realignment, right? So I knew you were going to get to that. So you did, did you?

[01:23:04] I knew you was because like me and you think alike. Okay, so I'm looking at Arizona State's schedule right now. And the reason that I'm looking at Arizona State's schedule is because there used to be this thing called the Pac-12 once upon a time, you know, where they would play the Oregons, they would play the California schools, their neighbors, so to speak. So like looking at their schedule this year, right? You wouldn't have to leave their time zone. They get my Baltimoreans in, you know, week one.

[01:23:35] Then they come down here to play A&M. You got Kansas going out to Arizona. Baylor going out to Arizona. Hawaii flying to Arizona. Hawaii's a whole different thing. Hawaii is the only school that's ever been a predicament where they got to fly all over the place because they're on an island. Then they got to come to Lubbock, Texas. You got another Kansas school going out there to Arizona.

[01:24:03] You know, Utah's next door, so they play BYU. Okay, not so bad. Colorado, not so bad. That game against UCF is a conference game. That they are flying from Tempe, Arizona to Orlando, Florida to play that game. You know what I mean? Like ridiculous. You know what I mean? A school in Arizona doesn't play a single game in the state of California for a whole football season. Side note, Mr. Logical.

[01:24:32] Utah hosts Arkansas this year. You know, but anyway, so like, you know, so when you look at that, you know, you think about it, right? Like Texas, the same thing, right? They were in the Big 12 where, you know, you had TCU, Baylor, A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State. All the Texas schools, all the Northwest schools. Yeah, and then what? Last year, they had to go to the Swamp. You know, the year before that, they went between the hedges.

[01:25:02] They went to Ohio State at a conference last year. You know what I mean? So like as you look around, it's like y'all, for one, if there is a money issue, you did this to yourself. Because now, and it's not about the Texas football team. Like, the Texas football team be all right. The problem is, is that you got schools like, say, Mississippi State, you know what I'm saying,

[01:25:29] that has to send their baseball team to Texas. Or they have to send their tennis team, you know, out of state. That's the problem, you know, when you get into that stuff. UCF has to play, has to send a team, their swim team, to Arizona for a swim meet that's going to generate way less money than the cost to go there.

[01:25:52] Meanwhile, if we just were playing against FIU and teams in Florida and teams from Alabama to Georgia, South Carolina, if that was our region, we'd charter a 45-minute flight, a 90-minute flight. So check it out. So you already got crazy stuff going on, right? Because you got a possibility of like UCLA playing Rutgers, right? And you know what I mean? Last year, Maryland and UCLA had a game.

[01:26:21] Maryland and Washington had a game, rather. And, you know, but looking at the Big 12, since that's where we started, right? You got West Virginia and UCF in that conference. The rest of that conference is two Arizona schools, two Kansas schools, Colorado, you know, Iowa State, you know what I'm saying? Oklahoma State. Two Utah schools. Two Utah schools and like four or five Texas schools. Like, you know what I mean?

[01:26:49] And you're talking to me about you don't have money. You think? So then on top of that, Mr. Logical, something else that was presented in this bill, and you'll love this one. You're going to love this one. I got the breakdown. Yeah, they were talking about potentially pulling the TV money. It's not the money.

[01:27:11] This is a problem with people who are, whose personality has been molded through either academics, environment, the tone of the nation, whose, they were adults in 1985.

[01:27:39] They should have adapted by now, and they don't, because they are locked into how they grew up and what they believe. It does not work out. The reason that a lot of these old coaches are leaving is because they don't have that same authoritarian, militant control over the players. Yes, there should be some provisions put in. But firstly, you have to go to like, okay, what's the root cause of our problem?

[01:28:04] The root cause of the problem is that every single winning program sacrificed logic for money. There is no reason that the Pac-12 shouldn't exist, especially considering the caliber of California high school football

[01:28:26] that basically fed every single Pac-12 school in some form or another, and even as far east as Utah and Colorado. A lot of players from California were going to Arizona schools. They were going to Colorado schools, and they were going all up and down the east coast, along with the in-state guys already. So, I'm a kid from Fresno, California. I can go to Cal.

[01:28:53] I'm playing games at Stanford, UCLA, LA, Oregon, Florida State. DJ was from Cali, right? What was that? DJ Alphabet? Yeah. Yeah. He went to St. John Bosco in Southern California. So, if I'm recruiting the player and he's from Northern California, well, the Pac-12, we're going to have games over and down the west coast.

[01:29:20] Your parents, your family, your friends, your old coaches, your high school teammates, everyone will be able to come see you. But if you're Cal and you play games at UVA, Virginia Tech, Miami, Clemson, like who's making it on top of the fact that you're probably going to lose? So, now you have zero fan support.

[01:29:39] You're just literally flying 3,000 miles away with an inferior program because you can't lock in because you didn't get the money that you need. So, now you're chasing the money and now you can't get the recruits because you're playing a level up. Missouri has done a good job of like being competitive. But not since Michael Sam and Chase Daniel and like I think Drew Locke, I think they've just been like a good team. You know, 10-2.

[01:30:07] I think they went 10-2 last year. Yeah. Or 9-3. It's been a good team. Because they had an injury. Their quarterback got hurt. Yeah. Yeah. But like, but that took years. And the best you're probably going to get out of them is 10-2. 9-3 on average. So, you know, over an aggregate sort of years because everyone's chasing the money. If you reasonablish it, if you went back to regional-based sports.

[01:30:30] ACC, I don't know if they give it two or three, four years to figure out these contracts and say, hey, 2030, renegotiate these contracts starting in 2031. We're going back to, this is the ACC. This is the SEC. This is the Big 12. This is the Mountain West. This is the Pac-12. Realign. And then the money won't, you won't need to just be doing all this other stuff. And the money will be more sense. Well, see, the problem is, so the problem is with the pulling the money idea.

[01:30:59] You know, of course, you know, the SEC and Big 10 are fully against that. Whereas the ACC and Big 12 are for it, obviously, because they're the ones on the lower end of this. But, you know, the other thing is the Lane Kiffin rule, right? You know, prohibiting schools from poaching coaches during their – what you going to do, fire them? What you going to do, suspend the coach for a year? What you going to do – what are you going to do about it? I like the rule, but how do you enforce it? What are you going to do?

[01:31:28] You enforce it the same way NFL does. You going to fine them? I mean, it's like you just – you can't go. Like, you can't go get hired. You simply just can't do it. So, if right now the Spurs have an assistant coach that I believe is hired – Yeah, he got hired by Orlando. By Orlando. He's not in Orlando practicing with that team.

[01:31:53] It's like it's understood like, hey, you have to ask permission of the Spurs to interview him. He agrees. And now he has a job in waiting. But he's not in Orlando setting things up. Lane Kiffin was negotiating before his team was locked into the college football playoffs to the point where we were debating, would you let him coach the team if they made the playoffs? So, like, they were in the thick of a very important aspect of college football,

[01:32:21] especially the amount of credence they put to the national champion. And made it to the semis. Yeah, they were in the middle of that, and he was like poaching players from the team. That's a problem. You can just – you can align the dates. It's all about alignment. The NCAA and college football, they're completely misaligned because everyone's trying to do something different for the money. So, everyone's doing some other kind of thing to get the money.

[01:32:51] So, if you just simply, hey, let's line it up. Let's line up the football year. The Spurs just literally committed like three turnovers in probably about 45 seconds. Yeah. So, let's line up the football year with the academic year. Students go back to college in August. Play the first game in August. Be done with the national championship on New Year's Day.

[01:33:21] I know the Rose Bowl is a tradition. Move it back to Christmas. Tell the NFL, hey, whatever. We taking Christmas back with the Rose Bowl. Play the Rose Bowl on Christmas. Play the national championship on New Year's Day. No matter what day of the week it is. You play it. Then guys can transfer out and be in school before the second semester of these colleges start, which is normally around 8 to 12 January, somewhere in that range. Oh, gee. So, you will line that up.

[01:33:49] You will line up the conferences by geographical region. You need to be somewhere near the Atlantic Ocean to be in the ACC. You cannot be in Ohio and be in the ACC. You can't do it. Big East, whatever you got to do, divide that back up. Records, I'm sorry you had a good run in the Big Ten. You weren't competitive in any single year you're in the Big Ten, so you're not losing on anything. Go back to your conference up here. That way you're playing all the schools around here.

[01:34:18] You can even bus. You can get nice, real nice buses and bus the guys there without flying on airplanes if you got to play a game in Maryland and you're in Jersey. So, Rutgers, Temple, Maryland, all you guys can play games. Same thing at ACC. SEC, Florida to Louisiana. That's it. Nothing north of that. Yo, it's a block party. It's a block party, but it's the guys from the East Coast with all the blocks.

[01:34:46] So, Ted Cruz, he continued to talk about the transfer rule. You know, they want to get it down to one transfer. But he did give us the rules that could get you a second transfer. You know what I'm saying? And these are the rules that will get you the second transfer. If your coach leaves, if there's a sexual assault or harassment. Are you ready for this one? Let's hear it.

[01:35:15] If your program shuts down. You know what I mean? Like, come on, man. But anyway, so on top of that, Pete Bacavaca, you know, the athletic director for Notre Dame, we remember him from the battle with the ACC about the ACC support in Miami. Knicks up 10 timeout Spurs.

[01:35:43] He used the word that we've been saying for a couple of years now. Super League, you know, that he thinks that this is going to lead to 30 to 40 teams or, you know, so that are just going to be a mini NFL. And this is where, you know, I guess these guys are coming from, from the standpoint of we don't want to turn college football. We don't want to turn the amateur sport into professional sport.

[01:36:11] Like, one, it's too late for all that. You know what I'm saying? The trains left the station. As they say, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. You know, so with that being said, all I'm hearing is I want their labor without them being employees. Because now we're talking about, because my whole thing is, like, I'm okay with contracts. I'm okay with contracts. You know what I mean?

[01:36:39] Like, maybe you sign a two-year deal or something to start out. You don't say it. No, you don't have to sign it. But it could be an option. It could be an option. If you went to – Because generally – Well, I think generally speaking, if you go to a school and want to go to the school. If you went to Maryland – Yeah, if you went to Maryland and you want a degree in physics, and you realize, I don't like the area. I want to go to Clemson. They have a good physics program. You're not beholden to that contract. No, you're not. But I would also tell you that –

[01:37:09] The only reason you want to be the contractor. I would also tell you that you should have known that before you came to the school. Not really. You get there – Like, I thought I was going – You don't research those colleges? I thought I was going to hate Utah until I realized, like, oh, these mountain views and this fresh area is that bad. No, but you're talking about a place. That's different. You're talking about a place. That's what I'm saying. I'm talking about – You don't like the area.

[01:37:27] If I wanted to be a journalism major, and I know that the schools are generally Missouri, Syracuse, Northwestern, Arizona State, I can't go to Michigan and be like, y'all didn't have the journalism program I was looking for. Or, like, I don't like these professors. I don't like the schedule. I don't like the dorms. I don't like – like, I went to Atlanta last summer. I had no idea Atlanta had all these hills. I was exhausted walking around Atlanta. It was like walking around San Francisco.

[01:37:56] I did not realize Atlanta had so many hills. So, if I was a guy like, I want to go to Atlanta for school, and I get there, and I'm like, god damn, everywhere I go is uphill. You feel like you're in Colorado all over again. I'm like, yo, I'm losing – like, my Air Force was heavy. I was like, man, I'm not – the little – we were walking and it said 900 feet. And I looked up – But we're talking about – we're talking about the best 900 feet. We're talking about athletes. We're talking about our old asses. No, I'm talking about, like, just you go to a place and realize you don't like it. Just because you're a college student, you're allowed to leave.

[01:38:25] Just because I play football and you have monetized what I do doesn't mean you get to then control me because you make money off what I do. Correct. That's what I'm saying. And that's what I'm saying. That's where the beauty part comes in. You go to a contract that no other student here is obligated to uphold. The only reason you want me – now you have a proverbial sense of you.

[01:38:47] You want me as an athlete under contract is because you're profiting off of me, but you'd be damned if I get what I want monetarily out of it. But you want me to stay here out of some kind of obligation with no financial contract or even protections because I'm not an employee. You're just like, hey, it's like telling a barber you can't go cut other people's hair because I want you to cut my hair.

[01:39:15] It's like, dog, I got to get paid from everyone. Like, yeah, but you cut my hair. I like how my hair looks so you – I don't want you wasting your time cutting anybody else's hair. So I don't want you going anywhere else and doing the thing that I get you to do for me for free or the thing that's profitable for my organization somewhere else to be profitable for them.

[01:39:38] So, like, I'm not signing a contract because that's not – I'm not going to be beholden to that when that's not the standard for every student because I am a student. No, no, I get that. I get that. But what I'm saying is that's where the employee part would come in is that, you know, you start talking about – But that's the part they don't want to commit to. No, I know. I know. I know. You've got to commit to my insurance. But that's where – but now, stay there for a second. Stay there. My Medicaid.

[01:40:03] Like, you have to make me either a – what, a 1040 Easy employee or whatever. But stay there. That gets into what we were talking about last week. That gets into what we were talking about last – or last time we had this conversation. That's where you get into the whole boycott stuff. You know what I mean? Like, if you're not going to make us employees, if you're not going to give us benefits, we don't play. That's where you get into that side of it.

[01:40:32] These guys are there to play. It's not their fault that people who wear suits and ties and work at TV studios got greedy. It is not – my son is 17 years old. He is getting recruited to play college football. It is not his fault that he wants to play college football, and he desires to play college football, because this school decided to align themselves in this conference, and now they promised some money that they can't pay him.

[01:41:00] That's on the – that's on the adults. Everyone's trying to throw – I still don't believe that part either. They got the damn money. Yeah. On the rules – on all these rules on the shoulders of these players, regardless of age, it's like it's not my job to make sure you run a profitable athletic department. My job is to come here, be a student. Bridges.

[01:41:24] And then play basketball, play football, swim, play lacrosse, be on the chess team, be in the band, whatever it is that I came to do as an extracurricular activity to being a student at Michigan, Ohio State, Akron, Toledo, wherever the hell I'm going. That's my job. It's your job to figure out how to make sure that these programs that you have put in place are funded properly. So you need to go back to the drawing board.

[01:41:51] So if they feel like college football is getting away from what it used to be, then take some of the old stuff that worked. What do you think about salary caps? All these things – it's not a salary if I'm not an employee. So you can't call it a salary cap. And once again, you can't tell me how much money I can make of my name and likeness. Case in point, I used it before. Kim Kardashian could get a million dollars for a post.

[01:42:20] If Coke called her and said, hey, we got this new cherry Coke, we're calling it Kardashian Coke, whatever the hell they want to do. You drink it, you take a sip of it, post it, and we'll give you a million dollars. Yeah. You can't be like, oh, and then they call SGA and they go give SGA $250,000. You can't be like, oh, well, Kim Kardashian got a million. So if I'm only getting $250,000, you got to cap that $250,000. You're like, no. So if you're not going to make me an employee, it's not a salary.

[01:42:48] Figure out who is bringing in the money. Vet those people. Make sure the money is legal. Make sure the money is available because a lot of guys are promising money that they don't have. And vet the adults that are getting their sticky little fingers into this process because that four-star kid that went on a visit this last weekend who picked Miami over LSU has nothing to do with how the money gets to LSU or how the money gets to Miami.

[01:43:16] He just knows I came here to play defensive tackle. I came here to play wide receiver. I came here to play quarterback. Which is the other part of that because they damn sure found that money to get Lane Kiffin. You know what I'm saying? They found that money. They found the money to pay Brian Kelly's buyout. They found Jimbo Fisher's money. The sell for the corner. Nope. wouldn't be what the tip is. So 70-61 Knicks with 645 left in the third.

[01:43:44] Yeah, so like the conversations surrounding like, oh, we don't know where to find the money or college basketball is not college football, college sports. We're only going to have this stuff. The only reason that's the case is the people who are in charge of the money are directing the money to basketball and football. There's no reason why you can't regulate yourself and police yourself and say, hey, we have $50 million for the athletic department.

[01:44:09] The swim team needs $1.5 million for this and cut them to check for that $1.5 million. That is your job. Yeah, and see, and that's the thing about this whole thing that stinks is that all we're seeing is society play out in real time. You know what I mean? There's been a certain group of haves since this country has come into existence.

[01:44:30] And for equality to exist or whatever you want to call it, like it comes from you, from the standpoint of other people have opportunities and can do things and get things that only you have had access to. And that's where we are in this situation is these schools have been the haves making all the rules, coming up with all the policies. Every ounce of leverage.

[01:44:55] And now that the players are getting just a fraction of what they make, I don't even want you to have that. Like, you know what I mean? And that's where we are, like society playing out through sports. Yeah, and for anyone that says this, these public things that we are seeing are systemic in nature. And once you try it one place, you just replay it. You replay the same thing.

[01:45:25] Like, you can literally take clips from 2002, 2003 before United States invaded Iraq. And the talking points were exactly the same as they were last few months ago when we decided to invade Iran. It was the exact same talking points. You play the same theory out. Like, it's just a system. The system you apply any other way. So now you tell people that they're going to lose all the other sports because football is taking all the money.

[01:45:54] Football players are not taking anything. They do not control the bank. They don't control the transfers. They don't control the checkbook. They don't control the negotiations. All they control is what they do on the field. Baseball, football, basketball, softball. No matter what they do, that's the only thing they can control. That's a cheap foul they just called on Cat, man.

[01:46:25] Yeah. Let me see this again. That was cheap. You know, besides the fact that, you know, Castle is holding him and grabbing him. Like, Castle initiated all of that. You know what I'm saying? Like, he initiated all of that. I mean, Cat did have him hooked, but that's because Castle put his arm in there. Cat didn't grab him. Yeah.

[01:46:51] But, yeah, the Spurs are just out of sorts right now. You know, 72-64. And, yeah, now Calvin Johnson wants to talk. Yeah. You know, so, hey, since we're watching the finals real quick, just a quick note. 2-2, 1-1-1, or 2-3-2? 2-2, 1-1-1. Say more.

[01:47:19] 2-3-2 gave home court advantage to the visitor. Okay, the lower seat. To the worst seat. Okay. Because... 3 for Castle.

[01:47:36] You get your opportunity to steal a game on the road, and then you get three opportunities at home to... What the hell was that? I know Brunson had to get fouled on that. Yeah, then I don't call anything. Oh, the alley-oop for... Oh, he missed it! I think that might be the first lob we've seen tonight.

[01:48:05] Mikael Bridges again with the turnaround. Mikael Bridges telling him to calm down. Yeah, so... That's 16 points. I told you, that's the guy that's got to come through. Because I think the last time I remember... I know they changed it a while ago. I think... I know the Lakers had it when they beat the Celtics, the 6-for-24 series. I know that they... That might have been the last one. But they played... Yeah, and the Lakers played games... 6 and 7 at home. 6 and 7 at home.

[01:48:32] But they also had to play three games in Boston. And they were down 3-2. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Trapp... Oh, here comes Passion of the Christ with the pull-up. Yeah. Short. Vassell with the rebound. 3-54 left in the third quarter. I like 2-2, 1-1-1. I think it gives a definitive... Oh, win-by for three. It keeps the home team... You know...

[01:49:02] Keeps their advantage. And right to the rim... At Anobi. I hate the forearm that offensive players get away with. Every time they dribble the ball. Move. Oh, nice move. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway... So, going back to this... So, what do you think about the point about the Olympics?

[01:49:31] As far as these schools cutting the Olympic sports... If you cared about the Olympic sports... There might be a... If the schools cared about the Olympic sports, they wouldn't take the money from the program. It's that simple. Because football players get to every game. Basketball players get to every game. They get to the tournaments. They get a bunch of coaches. They get buyouts for the coaches. All the money is available to get everything for the football and basketball teams. Make... Just don't spend all your money. It's nothing saying you have to cut the lacrosse program.

[01:50:00] Nothing saying you have to cut these Olympic-based programs. Nothing saying you have to do that. Other than your greedy desire to try to fund a football team that might not be that good. If you want to... Yeah, like I think what? Texas is like a 40 million roster this year? Like... Like Coastal Carolina. You come to the game, the concessions are free. So you'll get everybody in the stadium. So if you want to make sure you get...

[01:50:29] You want to fill your stadium no matter what your school's record is, make it advantageous for the students. Have a huge student section. You know, you want a 12... You want... If you're one of these big schools that have, you know, these large stadiums that hold 60 or 70, 80,000 people, then alumni student section. Just do things. Get creative in generating money for your most popular sport.

[01:50:58] That way there's money left over for the sports that don't generate that kind of money. Don't funnel all of your money into the sport that's supposed to generate all of your money. And then when nothing happens at the end of the season because they're 7-5 and they don't get a national championship invite, or you don't win any... You don't want to go to the bowl game. Be like, damn, swimming. You guys don't get any money now. It's like, no, dog. You put all the money into hiring all these extra coaches and buying all these weights and putting the school emblem all these weights.

[01:51:26] You can just have regular black weights. You can have a regular locker room. It doesn't have to be state-of-the-art. It's just weights. You know what I'm saying? Get your wife to get a cricket or a silhouette and she could put the damn... Exactly. You don't need Florida International owls on every single plate. It could just say 45. And then you put it on the bar and then you...

[01:51:52] You lucky there's only like four Florida Atlantic fans in the world right now. It was... They are the owls. Yeah, Florida... Yeah. So... Like, so you don't need... You don't need that, but they spend all this money because they say, oh, if we have this place, we'll get the recruits. And that's why... Well, see, and that's... But that's the problem with it itself. You had every perk because the entire state pours into your two times.

[01:52:21] But see, but that's the problem with it itself, to your point. Schools like Florida Atlantic and Florida International are trying to keep up with Miami and Florida. You know, and they just can't. And they just can't. So that's why my argument has always been... And I hate to be that guy because you know how I feel. I love the G6 and everything. Half the people in my cul-de-sac... They shouldn't be playing the same level of football as these schools. Yo, half the people in my cul-de-sac got Teslas.

[01:52:50] I can't run out and get a Tesla just because they all got one. I'm rocking with my kid. We doing good. Like, that's the difference. That's my understanding of like, okay, I got other things I got to pay for. So I have four kids and a grand kid. Like, I have other priorities. I have to do what I can do with my money. I can't be like, yo, because we live in the same area. We got to have... I got to have the same stuff. Like, no.

[01:53:18] You need a good weight room that's healthy and safe. You need a good strength and conditioning coach. That's what you need. You don't need to have... Oh, Spurs getting on the floor. Okay. The state-of-art, you know, room and everything else that rivals Oregon. Because Oregon has a billionaire donor. That's why they have more stuff. I don't know. It's just... Yeah.

[01:53:40] So if there's enough support, you know, to push it forward, then the Senate needs 60 votes to pass it. There's 53 Republicans in the Senate right now. But two Democrats did co-author this bill. So theoretically, you have at least 55 votes as it is.

[01:54:07] And then, of course, if it goes past there, the Republicans have the House, you know, as well. So, you know, we'll see how that plays out. So far... Because so much of it is illegal because they're not going to... You can't impose... Like, I don't know constitutional law. Like, I just know enough about it in the sense that there's not much of a precedent. But I know there's a lot of antitrust laws, a lot of labor laws.

[01:54:36] It's a lot of stipulations that you have to get through in order for you to set salary caps and things of that nature. So it's like, that's why the vote shouldn't go through because most of this documentation is illegal. Like, I'm going to pull up some of my notes. Hold on, let me pull my notes up real quick. Okay. And then while you say that real quick, you know, so yeah, this is where we are, you know. For one, you know, my argument has been Congress has no business in this.

[01:55:06] Like, if the NCAA can't run their House, then find another governing body. Congress can't run their House. That too. But, oh, so... But to your point... Out of Congress right now. If you go to D.C. right now is people on your route to work that are sleeping in tents on sidewalks. And you're trying to tell me you're going to regulate what happens on a football team in Lubbock, Texas? Cut it out. But to your point...

[01:55:33] I need to figure out what's going on in this little area you live in with the damn... All the other shit that's going on down the street from where you work every day. It's a lot more stuff going on in community. But to your point, they're trying to get this onto the floor. You ready? They're trying to get this onto the floor before the month-long recess in August. So they take a month-long break. Yes. Getting paid. Yes. To do nothing. All the contracts that they pay for.

[01:56:03] All the waste management contracts they have. All the cleaning contracts. All the people that clean all the buildings. All the weapons contracts that these guys help lobby and negotiate and... Riches! But like I said, just a couple of things that I think you could probably sue. The transfer freedom allows you to transfer once without penalty again when you're to sit out.

[01:56:27] If you're going to say I'm an employee or you're going to try to instill some kind of salary cap, then you not letting me work is a violation of that. So I'm going to sue you for that if you try to make me sit out and not get paid. Five years of eligibility. I'm not opposed to that. I think five is enough because... That gives you a red shirt.

[01:56:55] He said it was 50 guys in the NFL draft that were 25 years old. So I'm on board with the five years of eligibility. Okay. And that clock... It said the clock starts at your 19th birthday, high school graduation, or full-time enrollment, whatever comes first. So I'd say... Upon arrival to school. Yeah. Upon arrival to school, that's when you... Like, as soon as you get to school, even if you red shirt, like you have five years.

[01:57:22] So from 19 to 24, you got to figure out if college football is going to be the life for you or not. So I do like some of the things, like I said, the coaching ban, I think that's something that the NCAA should be able to work on. I think everything that's listed here, the NCAA should be able to work on their own. The reason that they want to go to Congress and get it put in this way as a law is so local judges and local lawyers don't look at it and really break it down for what it's worth and say, this is illegal. So... Or I...

[01:57:51] Having some technical difficulties here.

[01:58:25] All right. Having some technical difficulties here, it looks like. But, you know, at the end of the third quarter, Knicks 84, Spurs 75. That youth is coming out again. You know, San Antonio just can't get any rhythm at all. They... They're not moving the ball. They're just straight up getting locked down by the Knicks because they're... One, they're not getting Wimby involved intentionally.

[01:58:53] Wimby is getting the ball at different points of a possession and then just making a decision on whether he's going to try to score or not. You know what I mean? Versus San Antonio deliberately saying, we got a giant out here. Just throw the ball up in the air and let them get it. And don't get me wrong, right? Like, Carl Anthony Towns, Mitchell Robinson, the Knicks in general are doing a good job on him. But he's still hitting shots.

[01:59:20] You know, he's still able to get to spots where he can get a shot off because he's 7'4". So if you just deliberately run a play or two, kind of slow it down a little bit and get Wimby in a position where he can catch the ball, you can effectively run your offense.

[01:59:40] But they're just dribbling into defenders and they're getting frustrated because, like Mr. Logical said earlier, the calls that they were getting in the first half, they're not getting now. You know what I'm saying? He said, hey, Alohi, you know what I'm saying? But, like, you know what I mean? But it's just, you know, it's frustrating, you know, to watch this. And not even saying that because I picked the Spurs to win this series. I'm not even saying that because of that.

[02:00:06] It's just mind-numbing to how you can have the biggest dude on the court and then you just decide, nah, you know what? I'm going to take this shot, Kelvin Johnson. I'm going to take this shot, Steph Castle. Yeah. The, yeah. The, the, I just think the, there should be an easier way to attack the rim with the guy who can touch the rim flat-footed.

[02:00:36] It's ridiculous. Like, just literally. And Jalen Brunson ain't even doing nothing. Like, have whoever Jalen is guarding, set the back pick on whoever's guarding Wimby on the baseline and just throw it up near the rim. Even if you have to throw it off the backboard, just get him. So either the force of switch where you have Jalen Brunson, what are we going to say, a foot and a half shorter than Wimby?

[02:01:04] Like, like real, it's like no more, because he's like seven foot five. So if you, if you had, if you have him at six feet tall, just literally like a foot and a half. Like, that's a substantial size difference on a pass where his arms are up here too. So like, I don't know why you don't run that action more where like he's flashing to the paint, catching the ball at the free throw line. Because one dribble and a turn, he's at the rim.

[02:01:33] Well, even if he just stops and just shoots a floater, his arm has him five feet from the hoop when he lets the ball go. I just, I just feel like there's easier ways to get him involved that they still haven't done. Well, you got Josh Hart, you know, with fouls again, you know, Jalen Brunson is a combined. And these two games, Mr. Logical? Yeah. He is a combined. Hold on, doing math.

[02:02:04] He is a combined 16 of 47. And you're about to be down 2-0. Hey, man, when you know your role, you play it well. Oh, that should be a foul on Wimby. Now, right then, like they, you know what the Spurs need? A traditional point guard.

[02:02:29] No, what the Spurs need is a center so Wimby can slide over to the four. That's what they need. Or play Cornette and Wimby at the same time. They need, they need, they need, they need, they need the Gobert to Wimby's cat. You know what I'm saying? Or the Nesterovich. How about that for a name? The Nesterovich. Or not, no, that's the wrong guy. That's the wrong guy. Who was the center for the Spurs back in the day? I can't even think of his name right now.

[02:02:57] But, but, but like Tim, Tim Duncan was able to play the four because they had these centers. Well, they had T.A.L. Splinter. When they had T.A.L. Splinter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was thinking, I was thinking like the original championships after Robinson retired. I can't think of the name. Only name I remember from them is Sean Ellis. Sean Elliott. Sean Elliott. Steve Kerr. Avery Johnson. Got a couple of shit. Avery Johnson.

[02:03:26] I like to play basketball with my friends. That's nice. Yeah, see, Wimby, Wimby's hit another three. But that, I think he, I think he likes, I think he wants his game to be like that flashy game. I don't know how they didn't get a foul on that, but it's cool. Kelton Johnson for. Yeah, like Kelton be straight up roughhousing. Out here, don't he?

[02:03:57] Yeah. Landry, is he? Oh, it was Nesterovich. It was Rostov Nesterovich. Yeah. You know what I mean? So, like, you know, you had him out there that allowed Tim Duncan to not necessarily have to bang with Shaq and all that kind of stuff, you know, like a lot. So, that's what the Spurs need. They need somebody where, like, you go do the dirty work and let Wimby worry about offense. Like, he's obviously going to still block shots. But, you know what I'm saying?

[02:04:27] But I don't want Wimby chasing people around and then relying on him to score 30 points, too. Yeah, I knew it was Nesterovich. I just had to double check myself. You know, but yeah, here comes the inbound. Vassell, Steph Castle, Dunk, what a play out of bounds. 87-80, Knicks with about 10-0-8 left. Josh Hart bringing the ball up the court. Castle, look at that, hugging Brunson all the way up the court. Yeah. That's so sweet. Right in front of the ref.

[02:04:56] You know, that's so sweet. He's a lover, not a fighter. You know, a bitch. Oh! That was probably a goaltend on Wimby, but okay. Jalen Brunson with the steal. One-on-one against Wimby. Take it back out. All right, Josh Hart at the top of the key. Cat to Brunson on the perimeter. Guarded by De'Aaron Fox. Brunson. Yeah, he's going to get him. Oh, yeah. Here we go. Get in his face. Yeah.

[02:05:27] Yeah. Yeah. Wildcat. Wildcat versus Wildcat. What's good? You know what's going to be funny is when Tony Brothers gives Brunson tech and nobody else. He's going to give it to Rick Brunson. Rick was all the way down on that end. He's getting close. Oh, you see that? You ain't tough. You know what I'm saying? Rick about to throw down.

[02:05:57] Don't mess with his son. Your Kendrick Lamar looking ass. Yeah. I had to start learning to shut up in the stands. Son get pissed off at me. I'm like, all right. You ain't tough. You ain't tough. You don't want no problems with the terror squad. You ain't tough. They've been known to make people lean back. All right. Here's Jalen Brunson again. Bridges. Shamit for three. Short. Cat with the rebound.

[02:06:25] Bridges to Brunson for three. Short. Vassell with the rebound. First coming down the court. Harper across the timeline. Going all the way to the basket. Layup. 87-82. Wimby is literally sealing, like, moving screen. I don't know. There's, like, I get it. It's NBA finals. So you got to let, you got to let them play. But some of this stuff. Look at this. Harper and Brunson hugging right now. He's holding them. He's hugging them. Yeah, he's just, like, literally holding them.

[02:06:56] There you go. You know what I'm saying? That's the sports report. It's a little bit of a statement. Yeah. You know. Wimby, there's a lob. Oh, he missed it again. He missed another lob. Then he flopped. All right. So here's Shamit again. Brunson, center of court, right on the trophy, guarded by Castle. Wimby pushing Cat for no reason. You know.

[02:07:25] Shamit for three from the corner. Three it is. 90-82 timeout Spurs. 818 left. He was pushing a hell out of Cat. I know. I think I'm lined up with you right now. He was pushing. Because, Chris, he is worn out. Because, like I was saying earlier, you know, he was on a minutes restriction this season. For the majority of the season, he was only playing 25 minutes a game. And, you know what I mean? This is the first time in the playoffs. You know what I mean?

[02:07:55] Then you got the mental part of the game, too, where a guy like Shamit is hitting that open shot like that. You get frustrated. You huff and puff. You know what I mean? Like, and then you try to do too much. Yeah. And that's. I'm predicting an offensive foul out of this timeout. I think it's going to be somebody who's going to try to press too hard to get the hard screen or the heart. Or, like, just going to push off. And then the Knicks fans are going to get loud again.

[02:08:25] Yeah. And then, so yeah. But that's the thing. But it's still the same thing. They're not running plays for Wimby. They're not saying, and I'm not even saying, I mean, obviously you don't expect Wimby to post up consistently or anything like that, right? But he is 7'4". Just go down the middle of the court and I'm going to just throw the ball up. Just get it. Just catch it at the free throw line. Or he could do that thing. Remember against Oklahoma City?

[02:08:53] He was literally missing shots on purpose just to get the rebound and put it back. You know what I mean? But that's the thing. All you got to do. That's the thing. All you got to do is like, it's managed. If he catches the ball at the free throw line, then the help defense is still irrelevant because where he can hold the ball. So you can't blitz him from there.

[02:09:16] And then if he turns and you do send a double team, he can see over every single double team, even Chet at 7'1". And Bede at 7 feet tall. Like he can still see over every double team no matter which direction he's coming from. So he'll never have to duck down to protect the ball. He can just hold it up. And then you get the guy, he's standing in the corner, champagne, wide open, or a guy just cutting to the hoop. It's like, I think they make it complicated because... Yeah, they're just not getting easy shots.

[02:09:46] Because the Knicks, even though they're shooting threes, they're wide open because of the overcommitted. And their three-point shooter is a three-shooting them. Yeah. Right. Like Josh Hart isn't putting up threes. Like the Spurs just aren't getting easy buckets. They're not creating easy looks for themselves, which is going to be tough. And it's going to be tough to win basketball games like that. But yeah, I'm here for it.

[02:10:11] Like I said, if Mondani, if he's listening to this show, dog, go ahead and draft it up right now. Get with the commissioner. I know you can't just regulate and lock down the city. Well, that's the other part, Chris. Well, that's the other part of it, Chris.

[02:10:34] So a lot of times when we're evaluating basketball, we put everything at the star player's feet. And we should, right? Because they are the star player. But it doesn't help that Vassell's not knocking down shots. It doesn't help that Calvin Johnson's not knocking down shots. So Wimby doesn't have the space that he needs because the rest of the team isn't necessarily there with him.

[02:10:59] So it's easy, like we're saying, get Wimby the ball if that's what they should be doing. Yep. And that's just what I was talking about. But you know, but like it's hard. That's what happened to SGA to a lesser degree where, you know, without J-Dub, Chet wasn't doing anything. SGA had to find space to get off shots and he was being doubled. And nobody else besides McCain until game seven when Kaysen Wallace went off.

[02:11:27] Nobody else was really hitting shots in a consistent way. So with the Spurs right now, you know, these guys like Vassell, Champagny, you know, De'Aaron Fox, who had a good first half, but they've been quiet in the second half. So the Knicks don't have to necessarily help off of Wimby. You know what I mean? To get Wimby a one-on-one situation because the other guys aren't hitting shots. Got two more free throws for San Antonio.

[02:11:56] So, like, and it's still like, I don't want to invoke his name. And he pushed off. I don't want to invoke his name, but it's the LeBron thing, right? Like, Wimby's got 22. He's 8 of 14 from the floor. It's still not enough shots, but he's not playing bad. You know what I mean? It's just that everybody else isn't at their best. So, you know. I think when other guys are playing, when other guys are knocking down shots, it creates space.

[02:12:25] You know, like, as they got the camera on Ginobili. Ginobili was a guy that was like, I'm a gamer. I'm here. Tough. If it's my turn to take my guy off the dribble, I'll do it. But, yeah, like I said, I think their lack of a desire to play a four along with Wimby is the part that's, like, killing me.

[02:12:49] Yeah, and guys like De'Aaron Fox who are super quick, but they also look to score so much. See, this is where, and I know he's old now, but this is where they had a guy like Chris Paul recently. Hold on, let me see. He's got Wimby's hand. But they both, they're all on the ball. Well, Wimby was on the ball. Josh Hart was on Wimby. And I know he was on the ball, too.

[02:13:18] Yeah, I know he was on the ball. But, you know. When you're that big, they shouldn't be giving him those bailout calls. Like, yo, you should be able to get that rebound. Like, this is the NBA Finals. Like, he didn't grab his elbow. Like, they're all going up for the ball. Like, it's, I mean, I don't know. I just think it has to have a little discernment. All I'm saying is, if the Spurs win this game, don't be surprised if you see Scott Foster on Monday. Jalen Brunson, oh, there you go. Jalen Brunson to the cup.

[02:13:48] 92-83 Knicks. 725 to go. Harper's in the game. Fox is not. So, let's see what happens this time around. You know, Wimby at the top of the key hits Vassell. Perimeter, there's the screen. Vassell gets fouled. So, like, and this is what I'm saying.

[02:14:08] Like, why are you, like, when Wimby sets that screen and he shades off, get that ball over there. Like, you know how many different passes there are in basketball? It's like bounce pass, chest pass, behind the back pass, like something. There's no bad pass to a guy that's 7'5". Uh-oh, Castle's down.

[02:14:39] He's lifting it to the court. Because he was trying to create contact. Adonome, no. Castle misses the rebound. McBride, bang! 95-83. And this is what I'm talking about, Chris. Like, Wimby can't do it all. Like, I know that he's 7'4". But, you know, Castle had the ball in his hands for that rebound right there and couldn't wrap the ball up. I can't blame Wimby for that.

[02:15:11] That's why it's a team sport. You know what I'm saying? If it was one-on-one, Wimby would be the champion. You know what I mean? But, like, these guys, the other Spurs need to do their jobs. These are young guys that are just being swallowed in the moment. Pause. You know, but this is their first time on this stage in this way. You know, OKC, you've got to remember. OKC had their second-best player go down. They had their point guard go down. And they had Chet no-show.

[02:15:40] And don't get me wrong. The Spurs still won. I'm not trying to take away from the Spurs. But those things are just facts. And that helped the Spurs win that series. You know, now that they're playing against this team full strength that had all this rest, they've got to dig deep. And they don't know how to because they haven't been here before. And they play a very, I don't know, I think, what was the rotation? Like eight guys? Yeah, you figure they're starting five. You've got Keldon Johnson.

[02:16:09] You've got Harper, Cornette, Harrison Barnes to a lesser degree. And Harrison Barnes. And yeah, I think that's it. So they're running about eight guys. And like Harrison Barnes got a little early run. But he seems to not be as effective as you need him to be. So yeah, like I said, I think the Knicks are running about 10 guys. I think Knicks are running two full lineups.

[02:16:37] They've got McBride, Robinson, Shamit, Alvarado. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I haven't seen, I don't think I've seen Jordan Clarkson very much tonight. Not tonight. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because with the foul trouble of Josh Hart, they've just been kind of relying on. You know what would be.

[02:17:00] Where Bridges scoring is kind of making up for the absence of Josh Hart because these very cheeky tack foul calls. You know what would be so Nick though? Like just going off of the past. It would be so Nick for them. Yeah, they lose both games at the Garden. Yeah. That would be so Nick. That would work.

[02:17:25] But like I think the reason Indiana got them last year because they, Indiana had, they had the run where like God dropped like 24 points in a row. Yeah. Yeah. Then they had like the miracle shots and stuff like that. And that kind of, you know, it takes the wind out of the sails of a team. But I don't think guys were playing as fluidly last year as they are this year.

[02:17:54] I think having a guy like Alvarado come in, changing things up like that trade, I think that was huge. I think sometimes his trades seem like, eh, whatever. But like Shannon Penny, he was in Philadelphia riding the bench and then, or getting a little right. Well, they cut him to get Mac McClung. So he can get in the dunk contest. Yeah. Yeah. And then, you know, you saw Nick Kane in the Western Conference final. What happened to Shannon Penny's brother? I don't know.

[02:18:23] I want to say he was playing for the Wizards. Well, I know he was playing for the Wizards at one point. Yo. Yeah, they're done. He's too emotional for it being game two. Yeah, he's still playing for the Wizards. Yeah. He's like, Wimby is literally damn near in tears. I get the passion, but the difference between...

[02:18:53] He's telling them, yo, we came too far for this. But you got to tell it, you got to tell it with like, you know, some toughness and not this whininess. And in the second quarter. So that way that they're activated by now. Down 12 in the fourth to a team that's won 12 games in a row. Hey, but you know what? But if they come back and win this game, it's going to be the Tim Tebow moment.

[02:19:20] Yeah, but now they're in this point where he's out of position now. See? It's youth. We think it's not a factor because these guys are so athletic and everything that they do. But you can tell the last couple possessions, like the offensive possession and the defensive one, he's overplaying. Well, they've been weird the whole second half. Remember I told you when they started the second half?

[02:19:48] They started with like three turnovers in the first 45, 50 seconds or something like that. Yeah. Like they're just out of, and Harper's the only one. And Harper's the only one that's actually like deliberately trying to attack the basket. But even he's only doing it in transition. It's not like they're just running an offense and doing this. Like where's Castle's energy to dunk on people like when they were playing?

[02:20:15] And it is, and it is going to be nuts tonight. And I don't want to get into the whole like hyperbole of it. You know what I mean? But like, did they shoot their load against OKC? Like were they just that amped up to prove that they were better than OKC? That they, they get, they put it all on the line and now they don't got a lot left. Well, I think a lot of the conversation was, and you know, it's very similar to last year with this passage with a Super Bowl.

[02:20:44] It was like the NFC championship was a de facto Super Bowl. Right. And I think that conversation, no matter how you look at it, you're going to hear it. You're going to get it via social media clips that your friend sends you. You're going to hear it through social media clips and sports in the takes that you personally see. So you're going to think that. And I think Nick Wright said on First Things First is like his, Wimby's reaction to win the Western Conference Finals was a lot like,

[02:21:11] I just stepped into a position where like, I'm going to easily win my first NBA Finals. Yeah. Well, that's what I told you. Like when they, I didn't say those words, but when we were talking about it, I was like, yo, like they just broke out the confetti of, you know, like you would think that they won the championship the way that he was acting. You know, like it was like very akin to Jordan on Father's Day crying with the trophy.

[02:21:38] Like that, like that, that's how he looked, you know, in that game seven. De'Aaron Fox, next one down. Next, next up nine. Timeout next. Yeah. So you're a little ahead of me now again. Yeah. You know, said I just saw the shot, but Kendrick Lamar from three, you know, but like. I don't know, man.

[02:22:01] Like, like, I mean, this game obviously isn't over because when you do have somebody like Wimby, you know, who can score. I don't want to say at will, but you know what I mean. Yeah. Like, so they still have a puncher's chance. You have guys that can defend. I'm, I don't know the count off the top of my head, but I do. I have seen a lot of shot clock violations by the Knicks, you know, you know, because they're trying to get the, they're trying to get a great shot.

[02:22:32] And Wimby's kind of, you know, causing problems. So I've seen a lot of those. And then, you know, like they're not really getting the, we're definitely in favor of San Antonio. But where's, where's Carter, where's Carter Bryant? You know what I mean? Like he only played about two, three minutes in this game. And are you getting this commercial? Which one? Is this the Wimby commercial? Oh, this is Durant.

[02:23:02] That man ain't used lotion since like 2006. He hasn't used lotion since he got drafted. Yeah. Since he was in college, losing in the second round of the NCAA tournament. But yeah. But yeah, like, but the Spurs, like I said, I just don't understand how this happens because like, obviously you give credit to the Knicks, right? You know, like, like the Knicks are taking them out of their game.

[02:23:31] So I don't want to do that thing where I'm like, the Spurs are losing. They suck now. You know what I mean? The Knicks are making this happen. But I don't understand how, especially at home, after coming off of game one, how you look so discombobulated. Like if the Knicks beat you, the Knicks beat you. But why do you look like this? Because like we talk about, we talk about the youth. I don't think the Knicks are afraid. And their coach is young.

[02:24:02] Like they almost got a shot clock violation there. They had to get a shot up quickly. So like, I think the Spurs have it. They just got, somebody else has to knock down shots and let Wimby just be. You can argue that Wimby fouled Cat right there too. Yeah. They've been following us. On that rebound. Yeah. Now they got another 7-0 run. But yeah. But yeah.

[02:24:24] So like, I think you just need, you need De'Aaron Fox for the next few possessions to just do what he does with his energy. Just penetrate. And leave Wimby out of it. Yeah. I think Wimby's going to try something here. They out here looking like that version of Jay-Z that Dame Dash said he wouldn't sign.

[02:24:55] 9-0 run, just like game one. Yeah. It's tough. I mean, like. You can't keep a good man down. Hey, I wasn't even trying to, I wasn't even trying to pod this long, but I guess we might as well finish out the game. That's what I was thinking. Like, I guess you're going to finish out this game. But yeah. I don't know. I think Wimby needs a rest. But you can't. You can't. You can't. Because you can't go down 0-2.

[02:25:25] It's a lot. You know, they talk about when you have to claw back from these leaves. So I think the Knicks were up like about 15 or 14 or 15. I mean, he's getting a rest right now, technically. Man, that shouldn't. Like, he probably just sat down. Maybe he got a Gatorade, the towel. At this point, I don't even know if I could sit down. This commercial's going to end, and then it's going to be back to the broadcast. So we're looking at 90 to 120 seconds. I don't even know if I could sit right now.

[02:25:53] Like, I don't want to sit because I don't want to, like. Like, because you know, like, we're older now, obviously. But, like, I went out on the basketball court one day, and I played about four or five games. My shot was falling, everything. The moment I sat down, it was all over in the blink of an eye. I came back on that court, and I looked like I got shot. You know what I'm saying? Like, when I was supposed to be resting. Like, you know. But, yeah.

[02:26:23] Let's see what we got here. That was a weird face. That Wimby just made. And Brunson's five of 19. Oh, Cat. Oh. They tried to flop. Oh, Vassell. It's a two-point game. And I didn't make that up. Jalen Brunson is five of 19. Yeah. And Wimby just got another block.

[02:26:53] Look at that. See? See what happens when they hit a shot or two? When somebody else. See that, Chris? When somebody besides Wimby hits a shot or two, what happens? Make that five of 20 for Brunson. Oh, yeah. Now you're a little ahead of me. Oh, no. No, I think you're ahead. Oh, Bridges. Oh, Brunson. Five for 21.

[02:27:25] All right. See, Harper's up the court already. Nobody's there. Now he's going at Brunson. There it is. Tied game. Tied game. Oh, now he's laughing with his tongue out now, huh? Tied game. 14-0 run. That's crazy. 2.50 to go. See, you were just writing their obituary. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Oh, that's a foul. Here comes Passion of the Christ. Adenove. Nope.

[02:27:56] Shot clock. Was that shot clock violation? What they call? Oh, he must have stepped out of bounds. Hey, the Spurs got a chance to take the lead here. Alo, Hilani, where are you? Hey, Mike Brown better chill, but he can attack up in here. This ain't the moment to get it. I think he's calling for a challenge. What was the call?

[02:28:23] I think they called out of bounds or something on Adenovey. I don't know. That might have been clean. That might have been clean. That's a foul. That might have been clean. I got to see it again. That might have been clean. Nah. That might have been clean. No, but see, but see, but that goes back to what I was talking about earlier, right? Sometimes on the shot, you can hit the ball and hit the hand and they won't call nothing. And then sometimes they do.

[02:28:53] Like, I wouldn't call a foul right there. I wouldn't call a foul right there. You hit the hand from the side. They just called it on Josh Hart for the rebound. I know, but this is the problem. But this is the problem. Like, just looking at this game as a whole, like from whistle to now, like the stuff that they've been letting the teams get away with, you can't call that foul. David, Dylan Harper has shot like six free throws this quarter because every single time. Because Dylan Harper is a man.

[02:29:23] So, if you had to get three free throws for the Knicks, Knicks could go back up three. I need to get a Dylan Harper jersey, man, just off the street. Yeah. He clearly hit him, so it's like, we'll see. But yeah, that's, this is a hell of a, this is a hell of a, yeah, look, watch. He doesn't get the ball at all. It looked like they gave it to him. Yeah. Tony Brothers looked like a damn pit bull.

[02:29:58] Three free throws, yep. Yeah. Adenobi, you know what I'm saying? Out of the University of Indiana. NBA champion. Adenobi. Yeah, this is, this has been, I can't believe they went on a 14-0 run. But like I said. This is what they did in game one. This is what they did in game one. They went on that 9-0 run and then Wimby started dribbling off his feet.

[02:30:27] They, they blitzed, they blitzed Jalen Brunson. They're blitzing anyone who's getting the ball. Because they're. What's his man doing, bro? Wimby just be like. I think Wimby is getting into that part of his career where he knows that the camera's on him. And he just be doing random ass things. I, I think the, the, the, I think he feels like the window is right now.

[02:30:59] I think he feels like the window is right now. And he just wants to win like right now. Because there's no guarantee to get back. So like right now while you're in it, you're home. You got home court advantage. You just knocked out. I know more. The Knicks already stole home court. You know what I'm saying? In this one. All right, here we go. You got to steal it back. Oh, there's the lob. There you go. There's the first lob that worked.

[02:31:29] One point game, 222 left. Brunson across the timeline. And just to let you know, I'm going to say across the timeline for the rest of this series. You know, De'Aaron Fox with the defense. Mikael Bridges takes over at the trophy, getting the ball way too far out. Bissell, here comes Adanobi. All right, Bridges still dribbling. Two seconds left on the shot clock. Adanobi! Misses the layup. Out of bounds. Nick Ball. 158 left.

[02:31:58] One point lead for the Knicks. Ooh, one point. Yeah. Bridges got that ball way too high. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You don't want Bridges dribbling from all the way out there. Looks like Castle's about to come in. Castle hurt his knee. Oh, no, he hurt. Oh, he's walking back. Never mind. He's walking back. All right, here we go. So Brunson on the inbound. Bridges. Oh, right back to Brunson. Layup.

[02:32:28] 6 of 22. But Jale and Brunson. All right. Three-point game. De'Aaron Fox. Just take it all away. What are you doing? See what I'm saying? Like, just do something. Brunson. All right, Vassell. Get it to Wimby. Yeah. Oh, here comes the three. Oh, air ball. That might have just lost the game right there. All right, here comes Brunson. Going to the bucket. He misses. Probably a foul.

[02:32:57] All right, here comes Harper. All the way to the basket. Oh, what a block by Cat. Oh, they called a goaltend, but they call. Yo, see, this is what I'm talking about. They can't call that. They can't call that. Like, it's not a goaltend, first of all. But if you're going to call that, then Wimby got about five. It was close. It was close.

[02:33:26] He timed it. Yeah, yeah. It was close. Oh, he hit the back. Yeah, hit the back more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but if that's a goaltend, which it is, then Wimby even got like four goaltends in this game. All right, so here we go. Like, 102-101, 124 left. You know what I'm saying? We're going to see this through. Oh, so the Knicks challenging?

[02:33:55] No, it's just an official review. Okay. Is this our under two-minute in the NFL rule? Hey, yeah, that's goaltend. It's clear. You made the right call. Like, get the ball back in. Yeah, that was quick. Yeah. I wouldn't even waste any time. Don't even let these guys wipe their sweat off. Mike Brown giving Josh Hart the marching orders. All right.

[02:34:22] Jalen Brunson, 6-22, but he's missed the clutch. You know, say what's going to happen. All right, here we go. Harper, you know, McHale Bridges at the Frost Center sign. 13 on the shot clock. See, this kills me at the end of games, too. You're just letting the shot clock count down for no reason at all. Here comes Bridges. Loses the ball. There was probably a foul there, too. Here comes Harper against Adanobi.

[02:34:52] Almost traveled. Here comes Wimby. And one. Mr. Logical might be calm. That's not a foul. Oh, my God. Mr. Logical might be calm, but he is not collected right now. That is not a foul. That was a foul. Harper almost traveled, too. That was not a foul.

[02:35:23] Do they have a challenge left? That was not a foul. Oh, there's the nuns. Uh-oh. I'm getting Sister Jean energy. Where's the foul at? All right. Two-point lead for the Spurs. 57 seconds left. Here comes Brunson. Harper pressing up on him. Reaching. Stop reaching, young man. Stop reaching. Brunson spins across the timeline. Champagny meets him at the three-point line. Brunson back out. Crossover.

[02:35:52] Fade away. Yes! You knew he was going to make that. Timeout Spurs. 104. 104 with 39 seconds left. 7 for 23. Oh, what a game. You know what I'm saying? This is... Wimby just needed to wake up, I guess. You know, but it took for De'Aaron Fox to be aggressive. Harper to drive to the basket.

[02:36:22] You know, for Wimby to get this action that he's getting now. 7 of 24 make that. This is crazy. The Knicks... See? Yo, nobody has epic playoff meltdowns the way that the Knicks do. Like, if they lose this game... That would be tough. But like I said, shout out to the NBA. Because I'm...

[02:36:47] This is probably the first time I can recall you and I having this long of an episode surrounding basketball. Yeah. Usually this is like an NFL draft. Yeah. We'll be doing like... We'll be talking... We still will be talking about Miles Garrett. We'll be talking about somebody's contract. But... Yeah. This is a different time. And like... I like it. I hope it doesn't go to overtime. Because like... We're already at 2 hours and 3 minutes. Yeah.

[02:37:17] And hey... Just for y'all keeping track at home... Jalen Brunson is now in Game 1 and Game 2. A combined 19 of 55. And the Knicks could still go up 2-0. All right. We're back. You know? So... Let's get it going here. Dylan Harper on the inbound. I don't like the point guard inbounding either. All right. So Wimby with Mitchell Robinson on him.

[02:37:47] Shake. Pull up. Why'd he shoot that? Get to the basket. Adenobi with the rebound. Timeout Knicks. Mike Brown is smart. Because I think it's a couple times that... I think they should have challenged that last Wimby foul call. But he was like, you know what? Mercedes timeout. Oh, see. They're doing it. You see it? They're showing his speech again.

[02:38:17] He's about to have his Tim Tebow moment. Yeah. I get it. But like... He went right out there and turned the ball over. And then he got a couple of... Yeah. He got some lobs. I like it. I get it. And, you know, like I said, he is the face of the league. And he is like a very young guy. And they're playing with a lot of energy. And I get it. I like it. I like it for the NBA. I like it for the team. I just...

[02:38:45] You know, like I said, I picked one team the other way. Listen. I said Nixon six. Second half scoring. I mean... The only way you say anything negative, you got to be hating. I'm not a hater by any means. So... I hate the way that you walk. The way that you talk. I hate the way that you dress. This could be... If Mike Green's on the call, I think this got to be a triple bang. If somebody knocks one down to win it.

[02:39:16] All right. Here we go. You know where the ball is going. You know who's going to hit the shot, right? Right. Brunson? Cat going to hit it? Cat going to hit the shot. I swear if he hit it, he's dead to me. You know what I'm saying? After 38, no. He's going to hit the shot. All right. Here we go. All right. Here we go. Bridges on the inbound. You know who got the ball. Mini-me. With Castle on him. Right by the timeline. And Castle gives up the foul. Oh, my God. He fouled him? Yeah.

[02:39:45] They had a foul to give. But I don't know why you do it there. Before he passed it. I just don't know why you do it there. Like, unless you got. I mean, I got it on mute. So, I don't know how many fouls the Spurs have to give. But here comes Brunson. I think they said one more. Over. Wimby. No. Wimby with the rebound. 12 seconds. Oh, no. What are you doing?

[02:40:15] Don't say anything. I haven't seen it yet. So, you know what I'm about to say, right? We just going to watch. No, no, no. You know what I'm about to say, right? If you're Wimby, why are you passing the ball right there?

[02:40:44] To get the ball up. I like it. Get it up court. Get up the court quick. Oh, bro. If they lose this game off of that. Oh. Heartbreak city. That is. Oh, man. This. Heartbreak city. This is NBA basketball. This is the basketball that people want. I hope people are watching. I haven't heard any comments about the ratings. Because game one was so good. And, you know.

[02:41:14] And this one being NBA, you know, ESPN classics. This is already at that level, no matter how it ends. Oh, he missed it. What the hell? Oh, sorry. My bad. My bad. My bad. It's so shocking. I'm just shocked.

[02:41:46] I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Harrison Barnes in. You know, as Jada Kiss would say, I'm sorry tomorrow. You know what I'm saying? All right. Let's see. Was anybody out of bounds? They gave the Spurs ball. Oh, he got it. They got the timeout. Yes. Kawhi. OG almost had it, too. Yeah. OG almost had it, too.

[02:42:18] Oh, I'm sorry tomorrow. Seven and a half seconds left. Cornette kicked the ball. Seven and a half seconds left. Spurs. No. That was their last timeout. Nick's got one left. And I'm going to put my hands over my mouth. And I'm not going to make any sounds. I'm not even going to look at you. I'm not going to make any sounds or anything. Your eyes would do something.

[02:42:48] No. I'm going to be looking at my TV is to the right of me. So I'm not looking. But I can. You could do this. All right. I'm going to do like this. No, I got you. No, you're good. You're good. I was going to say, I'll turn my camera off for a second. No, no. You're good. You still got to do a show. So I can't see you. Just don't say anything. Okay. I'm chilling. Oh, this is crazy.

[02:43:30] That's not the play you want, is it? It's not. It is not. It's the person you wanted. It's the action you wanted. I just wish it was more downhill. Especially with the calls that he's been doing. Inside the free throw line. Yeah. Yeah. Inside the. I'm just looking for inside the free throw line. Floater.

[02:44:01] Mike Brown taking Jalen Brunson out for the defense. That's like. That's coaching, right? All right. Let me watch this again. Watching the replay right now. Yeah. So Castle inbounds to Fox. You know, guarded by Bridges. Clock is going. Wimby comes off the roll. And then he tried to do the SGA in fall too. Like it would have been crazy if Vassell would have got that though. Like.

[02:44:32] But it was already after. Oh, was it? Yeah. Yeah. Two more wins, Kat. Kat. Two more wins. And Carl Anthony Towns could be an NBA champion. That's crazy. So who's the MVP so far? Kat? It's got to be Kat. Honestly. Honestly. Okay. Okay. Let me. Let me say this. So.

[02:45:01] See what the stat line was tonight. 21 and 13. Yes, Kat. With four assists. He had 18 and 12 in game one. Yes, Kat. I was going to say. Matter of fact, I can go ahead and download right now. I'm going to download one of these apps. Place a little $75 on Kat for the MVP.

[02:45:34] Because I'm pretty sure it has to be Wimby and or Jalen Brunson have better odds than him. At this moment right now. Yeah, with Kat's defense, it has to be him. But they don't win this game tonight without the person that I pointed out at the beginning of the show. Oh, Mikkel Bridges? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like he had like nine points in the third quarter alone.

[02:46:01] And he went something like four for four from three. You know, or at least he hit his first four. I don't know when he finished. But he hit his first four. Let me see. Let me look at it real quick. Yeah, he finished four for six. But eight of 13 overall. Bro, Jalen Brunson is literally 19 of 56 in these two games. And they won both of them. He's going to go for 41 game three.

[02:46:34] He's not going to talk on the plane. Especially after the missed free throw. Yeah. I have a feeling like he's got a big game. Yeah, that would have been so crazy too if Wimby would have actually got that. And then off of the Brunson miss, that would have been. Yeah. Off the turnover. The missed free throw. Yeah. The jumper.

[02:47:03] Like I said, you still don't like the play call. I mean, it's. I didn't like Wimby making that pass to Castle. I didn't like it. Like, you know, you're Wimby. I don't dislike it. I'm like, get the ball up quick. Ain't that some shit? The first time the Knicks have ever led 2-0 in the NBA Finals. Well, they've only been there three times, right? I don't know. I know they won in 72.

[02:47:33] They went before that once, I think. Like, they had the Rockets. Rockets, Spurs. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Yeah, a lot of teams haven't been up 2-0 in the NBA Finals. I love that to be put. I see if it was like the Lakers who won like 17. Oh, they've been eight times. Oh, okay. That's a little different then.

[02:48:03] You should have been up at least one. Yeah, this is number nine. This is their ninth appearance in the Finals. This is craziness. Told you I was a bandwagon fan. Oh, the city is nuts right now. They are. So let's see this here.

[02:48:27] We got – is that right? What's that? Oh, so they're 2-6 all time in the Finals. They won in 70 and 73.

[02:48:53] And, you know, in a course, like, shocking enough, they beat the Lakers both times. With Willis Reed as the final MVP both times. You know, but yeah, so ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for a great game two, a great time.

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