00:00let me let me address the elephant in the room then the new york knicks lost last night to
00:04cleveland cavaliers first time they've played him since james harden became a cavalier and
00:09while statistically uh the narrative that carl anthony towns is having a bad year just is not
00:14true if you want to look at a guy solely on what is cumulative stats this year in comparison to
00:21the guys he's actually having a really good statistical year and a much better year than
00:26he did last year and we all agree he had a good year for the next last year so herein
00:31lies the rub
00:32though this is why you have to be guys like me and tyrone to be able to do this for
00:35a living
00:36last night the new york knicks i don't say got embarrassed because i didn't think they got
00:40embarrassed but they were playing from behind the entire game and the offense as it does too many
00:46times this season just didn't look right it was never in sync and the cleveland cavaliers while
00:51a decent offensive team are a lousy or average and best defensive team that's a team you can
00:57score against and by the way donovan mitchell did not have a good game uh last night that being said
01:03i want to focus on carl anthony towns just for one second because there's there's a part of his game
01:08that i don't understand maybe you can help me out okay so last night the knicks lose 109 to 94
01:14they had an 11 point third quarter that's where the game was lost in that third quarter 11 points in
01:20the third quarter okay but i went to the buy i watched the game obviously because i'm a nick fan
01:25and it was impossible to watch that second half that third quarter was embarrassing basketball
01:30but i didn't realize till i woke up this morning carl anthony towns stat line carl anthony towns at 14
01:37points he had seven rebounds uh how many shots do you think carl anthony towns took
01:44no i actually saw a lot of this game because it was a blowout so i know yeah so carl
01:51anthony towns
01:52took five shots in the entire game last night played 29 minutes which is low for him obviously
01:59that game was around the fourth quarter so i understand coach's decision on that but how is it
02:05that your second best player and the guy that needs to score a minimum of 20 points a game
02:11for your offense to be clicking how do you only take five shots and here's the crazy thing about
02:17it he did not miss a single shot he was five for five last night and i'm watching the game
02:23and he did
02:24not commit you know dumb penalties only two fouls two personal fouls the entire night now only at seven
02:30rebounds which is part of the problem with him that he doesn't like playing in the low post as a
02:34big man
02:34because he likes shooting the ball from you know 10 15 20 25 feet out and he's got a great
02:39shot
02:40maybe the best outside shooter of any big man in the game for a long long time but i'm looking
02:45at
02:45saying how does carl anthony towns only take five shots and that's going to be my narrative today
02:51about why the knicks lost and then i slapped myself in the face and i said that's lazy you're right
02:57five shots is not enough for your second best player and then i went down to og ananobi
03:03og ananobi to me is outside of what you know jalen brunson having a good night and carl anthony
03:09towns doing his thing what did og ananobi do last night og last night had five points only made
03:16two baskets so all we can yell and scream about carl anthony towns they were typically right when
03:22we're critical of his game because his game has holes in it and we see it far too often the
03:27begging
03:27for calls the flopping on the ground not getting back on defense you know not playing smart basketball
03:33all that stuff og ananobi last night made two baskets so then i i started looking more in depth
03:40starting five for the knicks how many guys of the starting five made seven shots or more last night
03:47and i'm not expecting you know the answer the answer is just brunson nobody not even brunson
03:53jalen brunson made six baskets last night took 19 shots mikhail bridges made six baskets last night
03:59took 17 shots carl anthony towns made five shots only took five shots josh hart who's not there to be
04:07a
04:07scorer he's there for everything else and if you get points out of him because he can't score and he
04:12gets to the rack pretty good you know that's bonus points he had yeah four made baskets last night
04:18og ananobi last night two made baskets now let's go to the bench mitcher robinson is the best
04:24offensive rebounder in the game i had a bunch of putbacks last night made five buckets alvarado off
04:30the bench made two kolik off the bench made two diawara off the bench made two there's not a single
04:39guy on the nick roster last night that made seven hoops or more so i don't care who you play
04:46play the calves
04:47play the thunder play the pacers play the wizards play the lakers doesn't matter if not a single
04:53guy on your roster can make seven baskets you are never going to win a basketball game and that means
05:01for me i now have to start doing what i don't want to do and start looking at the head
05:06coach
05:06coach
05:06you
05:06you
05:06you
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