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The Atlanta Hawks fell to the Knicks last night in a lopsided Game 5 in New York, and Steak discussed the shortcomings of this team in this series. Is it as simple as not having the proper depth to keep up?
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00:00after steak does his little diatribe here i'd love to talk to you uh as a as a hawks fan
00:06because
00:06what i find fascinating about the nba is they're literally playing a different sport
00:11in the playoffs like it in the nfl when there's 17 games week nine and the first weekend of the
00:20wild card don't look any different right there is a sense of urgency the team's game plan the same
00:27way you don't change your perspective and play a guy 41 minutes but in the regular season play him
00:32you know 32 minutes like everything about the nba playoffs is different than the regular season
00:39because guys don't go as hard because the refs don't ref it the same way because the entire
00:45it's like you're entering you know it's like this was a normal nice league and now you're going up
00:54to the big leagues and the big leagues just means the playoffs the big leagues just mean you're in
00:59the playoffs and for the hawks we're getting exposed that these guys that are nice talented
01:08athletic nice basketball players are not ready for the physicality and the mindset that it takes
01:17in the postseason we are getting absolutely bullied we are lucky to be 3-2 i'm sorry you
01:26have been blown out of the building every game it looked like you were going to get blown out you
01:30found a way to get back in game two you had your game three probably you know one of the
01:34great nights
01:34for the hawks in a long time because you hung on after being up by 18 but i mean let's
01:38be honest
01:39this you know sandra kept asking me yesterday what's the matter with you like why can't you be i said
01:45well i was there saturday night there's nothing about this matchup that favors us like that like
01:53these teams you know one team is physical and tough and playoff ready one team has been here many many
02:00times one here one team has an absolute assassin in uh jaylen brunson you know and then you know we
02:08have a nice team that's never really been in this situation like there is nothing about it last night
02:13didn't surprise me i'm disappointed i'm a huge fan i as i mentioned earlier those moments are great
02:19moments but like there's a reason cory kispert can score 13 points in the regular season right
02:27off the bench there's a reason that gabe vincent's fine in the season you know coming in and playing
02:34backup point guard now tony bradley because of you know glandale being out tony bradley wouldn't look
02:41good in the over 50 league at the jcc right now i mean tony bradley is falling all over himself
02:46i
02:47don't know what's going on with that guy if that guy went down to the concourse and played in their
02:51wednesday night league he'd have about 10 big guys that could dominate him i mean i don't know what
02:56he's doing but it the fact that we even have to play him is just a is just like that
03:03bench of
03:04jonathan kaminga who every shot he takes make it or miss it is not in the flow of the offense
03:10like
03:10jonathan kaminga won't be here next year so you don't think it's a big deal i saw three or four
03:15shots in the second quarter that went from my we went that we were down six and down 14 and
03:21i blame
03:21kaminga because kaminga takes shots he's not a three-point shooter he has no clean release on
03:27that shot there's no arc on it all right i don't like it anytime he takes it and he likes
03:33to take pull
03:33up like jonathan kaminga is fine going to the basket there's a reason steve kerr all those years
03:39didn't want to play him when it mattered and jonathan kaminga won't be here and by the way he's
03:43doing a better job than anybody else off the bench okay like that group of kispert gabe vincent
03:52like nobody's ever said that guy's going to be a problem the boston celtics are taking peyton
03:58pritchard off the bench right we're we're taking gabe vincent as a backup point guard the timberwolves
04:05are taking ayo disumu who had 39 the other night when anthony edwards went down that was what disumu
04:13had i think 39 or 40 we're taking gabe vincent right cory kispert beat out luke canard i mean like
04:22in the
04:22battle of white boys like the ultimate white boy challenge and that's you know that's what we're
04:27trying to combat the knicks with jose alvarado is really different from gabe vincent jose alvarado
04:35provides a lot gabe vincent is just an nba player so 4047260929 4047260929 we have the number one pick
04:47in the nba draft we have the number one pick in the nba draft as sexy a brand as there
04:54is with the
04:56tens of thousands of kids that play basketball every day the dream of going to the nba the notion
05:03that you are the number one pick overall ever is zachary researche and we're down 30 and he can't
05:12get in the game like he has fallen this guy started most of the year for us i would have
05:19played
05:19him last night and listen does that have any effect on on what's happened no but i would have started
05:24i
05:24would have played him last night and said maybe he hits a couple of threes get some confidence maybe we
05:29can use him in game uh six because our bench is just abysmal so you know what do you think
05:38i'll ask
05:39bo and dylan what do you think the uh percentage of number one picks in the last 20 years
05:50that have hit what do you think the percentage the last 20 years uh across the whole league
05:57and the nba number one pick overall say last 20 years where you go wow and by the way go
06:04ahead go
06:05how many 10 come on number one yeah dude come on these are these are the what's our uh buddy
06:14over
06:14here say did he hear the question or is he just cutting up sound oh dylan what do you say
06:19top 20
06:21last 20 number one picks how many think how many teams can say by the way if it's 10 that's
06:27like the
06:2718th pick in the draft how many of the last 20 number ones you think were like great pick
06:32solid pick at the last 20 20 number ones less than 10 uh i would say probably i'll probably go
06:41with
06:41eight all right let me give you the last 10 okay cooper flag where this is a vote we're all
06:48team
06:48here cooper flag absolute win yes a plus yes zachary risa shea right now just about a failing grade
06:54yes can't get off the i mean literally can't get off the bench uh victor victor women yeah i'm in
07:00that work out okay i think that i think that's going pretty good we have six blocks last night
07:03yeah uh paulo banquero absolutely yeah uh cape cunningham yes absolutely freaking lutely
07:10anthony edwards yep absolute freaking lutely now zion williamson he's still you can't say it was a bad
07:18number one a bad pick right i think that's still kind of tbd a little bit but it's there you
07:23see
07:23he's an nba star yeah you see it dandre ayton probably you don't give a thumbs up or not i
07:29give him a c i think a c so he's not a star okay he's a role player but at
07:33least we'll say out of
07:34those last eight six or seven are are good good yeah yeah that's true yes yes so now the 10
07:40years
07:41before that markel faults right no he didn't i mean he was he he had a nice nba career but
07:48he didn't
07:48really work out nice nba career dude i mean come on ben simmons no carl anthony towns yes andrew
07:56wiggins not i'm not going to give us andrew wiggins no anthony bennett absolutely not uh anthony
08:04davis yes kyrie john wall blake griffin derrick rose uh and and then you have a horrible stretch
08:12after that greg odin and uh andrea bargnani andrew bogut so listen it hits at about a 60 70 percent
08:22rate we said that's what it was yeah i mean pretty remarkable kate cunningham palo bencaro victor
08:29women yama cooper flag anthony edwards and zion that's that's a run six of the last seven what's the
08:36one glitch zachary risa shea like if you don't think it's a problem that we landed the number one
08:43pick and that guy is basically going to be off our team very good chance his agent's going to ask
08:50to
08:50be like that's a problem and god bless that we have a top four pick i'm hoping coming up right
08:5845
08:59chance of getting that but like this guy is buried on that bench and we're playing cory kispert and
09:06tony bradley and gabe vincent and uh jonathan kaminga and zachary risa shea is the number one pick in
09:14the draft like i'm not going to get all over uh i mean listen alexander sar was two right he's
09:21better
09:22than risa shea obviously was a reed shepherd and uh castle yes yeah stars yeah i mean
09:29i mean redraft you i mean castle's obviously number one yeah castle's one and i gotta look
09:35at it closer but are we assuming that reads close to two or whatever it is yeah he'll be up
09:40there so
09:42like that's just adding its identity am i high am i bullish on the hawks yeah i said in three
09:47years
09:47we're going to compete for a title because i think the core of 20 year olds in dyson daniels nakiel
09:52alexander walker uh obviously jalen johnson uh a lottery pick that's coming up that's going to be
09:58a phenomenal pick um you know a con glue the money we're going to go get big guys with like
10:04i think
10:04we are going to be in a great place but let's be honest dude when you've got the number one
10:08pick
10:09and that's what you got you look at a redraft by the way yeah well i'm not looking at a
10:13redraft but
10:13i'm looking at the how the draft played out yeah definitely castle reed shepherd uh donovan
10:18clingan hasn't been he's been fine use him in this series yeah for sure ron holland's been
10:24okay uh rob dillingham i guess just a terrible draft but yeah this is this is not a good draft
10:30it's a terrible jared mccain would be higher too probably yes mccain would be higher look good
10:34so um but it's a bad other than that it's it's not like this one but but please don't tell
10:40me
10:40about the referees please don't tell me about new york bias please don't of course i hate the nick
10:45fans of course i'm sick about it that referees don't affect a 30 point game stop it
10:544047260929 4047260929 you want to talk basketball you're driving around atlanta listen on the odyssey
10:59app love to chat with you about it anything i say not make sense teams don't easily recover from
11:08blowing the number one pick and it's pretty safe to say that we blew it on a really bad draft
11:14so i'm
11:14not all over listen uh he sure got a lot more votes on c soleil for best uh executive brad
11:20stevens
11:20ran away with it yesterday so he's been phenomenal he's getting his number one draft picks back one
11:25after another he's got us in the lottery got us nakil he got us dyson he's been amazing but that
11:30pick
11:31and that bench in this series damn 4047260929 we come back we'll tell you about why the ncaa tournament
11:41is making me even more depressed and it's it's a morning i'm having to fight it i'm fighting it
11:47i want to be positive
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