00:00What happened last night, Joe, down in Atlanta, the New York Knicks coming to town, a one-to-one
00:05series tie, pivotal game number three, and a 109-108 victory here, Joe, by those Atlanta
00:12Hawks down in Big A town here, some late game heroics for the Atlanta Hawks, not much heroics
00:18there for the New York Knicks, Joe, and by the way, we're going to hear from both coaches
00:21right now.
00:22Let's get caught up.
00:23We guarded multiple actions and helped each other, too.
00:30It didn't foul.
00:31That was a huge part of it.
00:35I thought, you know, Onyeka showed his hands, you know, J.K. pursued, Dyson, you know, got
00:44knocked down and got back up and I think, you know, was shifted and really made it congested
00:52in the lane.
00:53So, a lot of good things happened on the possession from, you know, it's one of those
00:58kind of all five guys.
01:00You know, the reality of it is, and I told them this, it's a seven-game series for a reason.
01:05You know, stuff's going to happen.
01:09There are plenty of teams that have been down one-two.
01:14You know, should I even think Oklahoma City was down one-two last year and they end up
01:19winning it, so I'm not saying we're going to win it or anything like that, but the reality
01:23of it is, it's seven games and you take one game at a time.
01:27Each game is its own entity and that's what I told the group.
01:30Now, this should stay because we gave ourselves a chance knowing that we didn't play our best
01:37basketball.
01:39So, it should stay, but we need to feel it and get ready to be locked in for the next
01:46game, which we will be.
01:48Joe, Mike Brown stung you last night on your play of the night.
01:51Come on now.
01:51What's he talking about?
01:52We're down one-two and I'm not saying we could win this thing.
01:54No, you're supposed to say you're going to win this thing, Joe.
01:57Come on.
01:59All right, please.
02:00Exactly.
02:00I mean, you got to be kidding me.
02:02You were a road favorite again.
02:04You close as a road favorite here against an Atlanta team who's not been there and done
02:08that and CJ McCollum sticks it to you one more time here and what is Brunson?
02:15Hello, Brunson had a shot there at the end, but decided to turn the ball over.
02:21Just the Knicks find ways to shoot themselves in the foot here and that's kind of been the
02:27MO.
02:27I mean, listen, give credit to the Hawks because they led pretty much from the opening tip,
02:32Donnie, right through there.
02:33I mean, it was, they dominated.
02:35They had the lead at the half.
02:37They had the lead at the end of the third and guess what?
02:40They had the lead when the game was over.
02:42So great job by the Hawks, but the Knicks better figure it out because they look still
02:48to me like a team that is trying to like, wait, what just happened here?
02:52Did we just lose?
02:53That's a problem.
02:54I'll tell you, it wasn't a problem last night.
02:56The Raptors getting three and a half, smoking the Cavaliers in the fourth quarter, Joe.
03:0043 points to 23 points.
03:02That's how you get it done.
03:03And again, best bets going to come up in hour number two, Joe.
03:06But how about this?
03:07Ratings bonanza in the NBA.
03:08I always preface this to say the rate, the regular season NBA stinks.
03:12The playoffs are fun because everybody wants to play.
03:14Everybody's playing to the best of their absolute abilities.
03:17But also, this front office sports tweet says the opening weekend of the NBA playoffs averaged
03:214.3 million viewers across networks.
03:23The second most watched opening weekend since 2011.
03:26Understand this again.
03:27In September, big data changed the way they're actually using the rating scale.
03:31We have to wait till next year to see if all of these hold up.
03:34So every league is putting out every ridiculous, oh man, never been better.
03:38No, it's artificially inflated.
03:40And we'll find out next year if it's actually true.
03:44We will, Donnie.
03:46But in the meantime, we're just going to have to deal with a little more of every event.
03:51I mean, listen, how much you want to make a bet, the NFL last night, the first round
03:56of the draft is going to be the highest rating for opening round of the NFL draft.
04:00It's the greatest, most watched ever.
04:03And yes, that's happening, Donnie.
04:06And by the way, it was very weird.
04:07ESPN and ABC covering it.
04:09But both were tape delayed, Donnie.
04:11So, you know, one was about 10 seconds ahead of the other.
04:15It made absolutely no sense.
04:16But hey, maybe that's how you get double the ratings.
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