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Andy and Randy break down the absolute wreckage of the Atlanta Hawks' season-ending 51-point loss to the Knicks. It felt like "14 dumpster fires on a sinking Titanic with a Hindenburg collapse on top of it."
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00:00I stayed up late last night because I'll tell you something, Andy.
00:06When disasters happen, and last night over at State Farm,
00:10I don't think you'd call it anything other than a disaster.
00:12Yeah, there's some other words.
00:14There's some other words, but we can't say FCC regulation and all those things.
00:17But, boy, they took me out when they were talking about the Young Jock video,
00:22down 50, took me out, dude.
00:24My wife was like, can you please go to bed?
00:26I was crying laughing.
00:28And then they showed the Swag Surf.
00:30Who wants to Swag Damn Surf down 60 damn points?
00:33No one does.
00:34Man, you can cast it.
00:35No one does.
00:36You know what I'm saying?
00:37I always feel bad in those situations because you've got to keep the –
00:41you're in there and it's planned.
00:44People were paid and blah, blah, blah.
00:45But I just remember the Swag Surf because it's between the third and the fourth quarter.
00:49How many points they were down?
00:51A hundred points.
00:52I don't know.
00:53Who knows?
00:53There's no amount of points that you can convince me that they were not down.
00:57Yeah, man.
00:58They were down 60, but it was really 600.
01:01But I just remember the Swag Surf between the third and the fourth quarter
01:03of that Game 6 East Finals game against the Bucs.
01:07It was the same thing.
01:08Like, they were getting blown out.
01:09It kind of was what it was.
01:10It was like, man, this is a bummer.
01:11This is not really a Swag Surf.
01:13It's more of like a sad surf.
01:14Last night was worse than that.
01:16Like, I don't know.
01:17I never – you know.
01:18The only thing that kind of came to mind,
01:19and I know people have made this comparison already,
01:22it was the 10-run first-inning Fulte game against the Cardinals.
01:26That's what I thought of.
01:26I know there's other disasters that have taken place,
01:28but they're not those.
01:29It's not Super Bowl.
01:30No, no, no.
01:31It's not.
01:31It's not because that team was really good and made and won games
01:34and had a huge lead in that game.
01:36Yeah.
01:36This was – yeah, this was kind of that.
01:38It was like the best thing that I could come up with.
01:40But, yeah, I mean, embarrassment, joke.
01:44I mean, to be down 50 points in the first half of an elimination game at home,
01:48it's almost impossible for that to happen.
01:50I mean, it never had happened before.
01:51No.
01:52But now it has.
01:52But you saw it from the get.
01:53Like, I turned the TV off.
01:55I turned that game off before the end of the first quarter
01:57and didn't go back.
01:59Yeah.
01:59I was like, I'm not going to watch it.
02:00I'm not going to watch it.
02:01But I'm going to tell you this, man.
02:04And I appreciate what they did after the break
02:06and all those different things, Andy,
02:08and everybody deserves credit and everything like that.
02:11But I don't know Tony Ressler.
02:12I don't know nothing about him other than how he makes his money
02:14and the owner of the Hawks.
02:15You can't tell me that him and his people last night
02:17weren't sitting there and thinking about fire Quinn Snyder.
02:20You think so?
02:20I think so.
02:22That is one thing to lose.
02:24But it's one thing to do that.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Now, me, am I saying that Coach Quinn's going to fire him?
02:30No.
02:30Yeah, he's not.
02:31No, he's not.
02:31He's not.
02:31But you can't tell me that Tony Ressler,
02:33while he was walking out of the owner's box,
02:36I'm sorry, the governor's suite,
02:38with his people,
02:39did not think about firing him last night.
02:41That was one of the worst first quarters I've ever seen
02:46because I ain't seen nothing else.
02:47Because I didn't want to.
02:48They were down 25 at the end of the first quarter.
02:50You know what I mean?
02:51They had more turnovers than field goals.
02:52And it just kept going.
02:54Somebody decided to get a technical last night.
02:56Uh-huh.
02:56Yeah, you know what I mean?
02:57But that wasn't a solo ass whipping.
03:02That was, you know,
03:03knocked your mama plant over you and your cousins,
03:05and she whips all y'all ass
03:06because she told you to sit down and won't nobody tell.
03:08That was a collective beatdown,
03:10and everybody had a hand in it.
03:13Nothing was good about the game.
03:14No.
03:15Nothing.
03:15No.
03:16There's nothing good to say about the game
03:17other than that, thankfully,
03:19we don't have to watch him do that again.
03:21Yeah.
03:22Now, we said all this week
03:24we were going to start talking about offseason.
03:27Okay.
03:27Yeah, here we are.
03:28Here we are.
03:28We're here.
03:28We're here.
03:29Because I'd rather talk about the offseason
03:30than last night.
03:31Yeah.
03:31Because there's really not anything to say about last night.
03:33But I'll say this.
03:34We could talk about the great run,
03:36the young talent,
03:37and all this thing.
03:38Today, nobody want to hear that, man.
03:39Everybody want to be mad.
03:40And you know me,
03:41we always go back and forth.
03:41I ain't telling you how to say it.
03:42You want to be pissed off, be pissed.
03:43You want to call for jobs, call for jobs.
03:45You want to say these guys are bummed,
03:46say they are bummed.
03:47Because that performance last night
03:49was pathetic.
03:51And that, I mean, there's, again,
03:53there's other words we have for those things,
03:55but we can't say it because we'll lose our damn job.
03:58But that was,
04:00it was,
04:01to get foot,
04:03like all the way past the knee.
04:05Like they were at the,
04:06then their hip,
04:07hip,
04:08hip deep in the hogs.
04:09Might have been more.
04:10Might have been more.
04:10They might have been up to their nipples in heat,
04:12in hogs.
04:13Yeah, they were fishing.
04:14Yeah.
04:15They had waders on both feet.
04:16They were fishing.
04:17It's just like,
04:18it's just crazy.
04:20Yeah, because game four
04:22was a,
04:23a back against the wall,
04:24were more talented than you,
04:26win,
04:27that the Knicks had.
04:27Game five was
04:29more talented and tougher.
04:31Yes.
04:31Game six was more talented,
04:33tougher,
04:33and the Hawks rolled over.
04:35Yes.
04:36And,
04:36and that's the part of it where I understand where you're coming from as far as,
04:39you know,
04:40like,
04:40look,
04:40the Knicks are better than the Hawks.
04:41They were probably going to beat them in six games,
04:44five games,
04:44six games,
04:45seven,
04:45whatever it was.
04:45Like,
04:45they're going to beat them in the series.
04:47But it's one thing to get beat.
04:48It's another thing to get beat like that.
04:49And you can't get beat like that in a playoff game unless effort is involved.
04:55Yes.
04:55Right?
04:55You don't lose by 50 points at home unless some,
04:59some level of quit takes place.
05:01And maybe it was when they were down 40 to 15 at the end of the first quarter.
05:05Maybe it was at some point in the second quarter,
05:07but like they went on a 60 to 11 run in the first half of that game.
05:12That doesn't,
05:13that can't,
05:13that just doesn't happen unless you allow that to happen.
05:17And that's a problem.
05:18Yeah.
05:18Yeah.
05:18And that's what I'm saying.
05:19Like the Knicks came in,
05:20they took your soul.
05:22They took,
05:22it took more than that.
05:23They took everything.
05:24You know what I mean?
05:25And that was the part of like,
05:26everybody played for them.
05:28Everybody,
05:29every,
05:29every player got in.
05:30Oh yeah.
05:31Everybody.
05:32Yeah.
05:32Asa Newell had seven minutes.
05:34Buddy Shield was the first guy off the bench,
05:37or at least maybe the first in the start of the second quarter.
05:39Like,
05:40Quinn Snyder was like,
05:41all right,
05:41to hell with it.
05:42Whatever.
05:42Put Buddy in there.
05:43I got no answers.
05:44There were no answers.
05:45The Knicks were so focused.
05:47And the thing about it was they were focused and they didn't let up.
05:52And that was the one thing that you're sitting there.
05:55You're like,
05:55okay,
05:56fine.
05:56You got the first punch.
05:58Can you like absorb that?
06:00Get out the corner and everything like that.
06:02Use a box.
06:02No.
06:03Yeah.
06:03Vic said,
06:04no,
06:04we're not going to let up.
06:06We're going to embarrass you.
06:08Yeah.
06:08Cause there's a couple of different ways last night can go,
06:10depending on how the team that's up three to two and clearly more,
06:14more talented is built.
06:16Um,
06:17and there's a lot of times in the NBA and we've seen it in these playoffs in
06:20other series where a team will just kind of take their foot off the gas
06:23and take a night off.
06:24The Knicks weren't going to do that,
06:26but like they could have been kind of resting on their laurels a bit with a
06:2930 point win in game five,
06:31knowing they're better.
06:32We get back home game seven,
06:33whatever.
06:34They had the mentality of if we keep doing what we did in game five and do it to
06:39another level,
06:39which they did in the first quarter,
06:41we can break these guys because we're tougher than them.
06:44Yes.
06:44And I'm not what a soft,
06:45whatever,
06:46but like the Knicks are a tougher,
06:47better,
06:47more talented basketball team.
06:49And they kind of,
06:50they,
06:51maybe they saw something in the second half of game five,
06:53whatever it was.
06:54They're like,
06:54if we lean on these guys like this and smother them at the perimeter and make
06:59them turn it over and don't let them get into their offense and take it to
07:01them,
07:01we can break them and they broke them and that sucks.
07:04It does.
07:05It's crazy to feel like you got broken like that in the playoff series,
07:07but they did.
07:08The Knicks broke them last night and it does seem like they might've broke them
07:10in game five.
07:11And it's a possibility because you saw the more physical brand of basketball that
07:15the Hawks just are going to struggle with because of personnel.
07:19That's what it is.
07:20that's right.
07:20It's just what it is.
07:21But now you,
07:22you're go back and you just like,
07:24if you're a Hawks player,
07:25I know they're doing the exit interviews right now.
07:27Let's get the hell out of here,
07:28man.
07:28Cause I don't want to be here either,
07:29you know?
07:30And,
07:30and,
07:31you know,
07:31we can,
07:32again,
07:33you can't,
07:33what happened last night in my,
07:35if this is in my eyes,
07:36it's not diminished how they got to where they are,
07:37but it damn sure was like,
07:39I'm telling you,
07:40that's one of those situations where you're like,
07:42okay,
07:42there's gotta be a change.
07:44Somebody's gotta go.
07:44Like,
07:45this is one of those situations where somebody gotta,
07:47somebody gotta be the,
07:48the,
07:48the whipping boy.
07:49Somebody's gotta be that guy,
07:50the example.
07:51I don't know who it's going to be.
07:53And that's why I said,
07:53I'm sure Tony Russell thought about it.
07:55There's no way you're telling me that you're a basketball team.
07:58Got beat down.
07:59that one,
08:00five point loss,
08:0110 point loss,
08:03even 20,
08:03even 30 in game five,
08:04but to get the hell beat out of you like that,
08:08historic,
08:09historic,
08:09historic ass kicking.
08:10That's what I'm saying.
08:11His story.
08:11Like this is,
08:12ain't nobody ever done that.
08:13It's never happened.
08:14And it wasn't in New York city.
08:16It was right across the street.
08:17It was the biggest first quarter deficit.
08:19It was the biggest halftime deficit.
08:20It was the most any team's ever been down in a playoff game.
08:24What'd you say?
08:24It was 61 at one point.
08:26That's crazy.
08:28That's crazy.
08:29How do you,
08:30that's the NBA team though.
08:32Yeah.
08:32This is not,
08:33this is not a high school game.
08:34No.
08:34You know,
08:35it's not like,
08:36you know,
08:37cause you see this sometimes in that,
08:38this is not an early season Kansas playing against some like,
08:42get ready for your conference schedule game.
08:45This was game.
08:46By the way,
08:46how'd they win too?
08:48Like how'd they beat these guys twice?
08:50The Knicks let them win.
08:50I don't know how it happened.
08:51I mean,
08:52I watched those games and the Hawks actually looked pretty good.
08:55Like,
08:56like CJ McCollum.
08:57And like,
08:58there was some really fun moments in this series.
09:00It's hard to believe that that even happened.
09:02Like,
09:02and I'm with you,
09:03like losing and like,
09:05as this sort of fades away a little bit,
09:07maybe you can look at,
09:09all right,
09:09you know,
09:09this is what they did down the stretch and this guy did this and this guy
09:11did that.
09:12Obviously nobody wants to do that today.
09:13No.
09:14Like we're less than 20,
09:14the rest of 24 hours removed from the biggest ass kicking in playoffs
09:18ever.
09:18No one's really trying to do a silver lining at this point.
09:21At some point,
09:22maybe you will.
09:23Well,
09:23you know,
09:24there,
09:24there,
09:24there are a lot of good things that happened this year,
09:26but none of them happened last night.
09:28exactly.
09:28I mean,
09:29that exactly.
09:29That's why,
09:30you know,
09:30you,
09:30when you talk about when you,
09:31we were mentioning earlier,
09:32it's like,
09:33yeah,
09:33you can't take away how they got here.
09:35You know what I mean?
09:36They got here by doing it the hard way,
09:38the grind.
09:39I mean,
09:39I know,
09:39I know more people are bringing about the schedule and all that other things
09:42like that.
09:43The hell they won damn games.
09:43And nobody thought that this thing was going to happen,
09:46especially when you trade away,
09:48trade young and all those different things.
09:49And you kind of rebuild on the fly,
09:52sort of,
09:52even though you got guys here,
09:53you kind of rebuild on the fly and you were able to find something and get
09:56into some position.
09:57It sucks.
09:58Now that the Hawks lost on purpose to play the Knicks.
10:00So there,
10:01that's adding more to it.
10:02You know,
10:03y'all ask for this ass whooping,
10:04you know what I mean?
10:05I don't say that's exactly what happened.
10:08Y'all don't want them chain y'all to the wall.
10:10They have on steel boots and kicking your butt.
10:12They should have tried to win that last game a hundred percent.
10:14Cause I don't think the Cavs would have done this to them.
10:17That's what I'm saying.
10:18But that's correct.
10:19Now that's back.
10:19Well,
10:19they called us out.
10:21Yeah.
10:21They wanted us.
10:22They wanted some new y'all.
10:24Yeah,
10:24man.
10:25It doesn't,
10:26you go,
10:26I go back to some of the reactions a little bit to game three to like,
10:29even like CJ in the post-game commentary was so understated.
10:33And he was like,
10:33you know,
10:34I'm not a villain.
10:35I'm not.
10:35Cause they,
10:36they know like,
10:36all right,
10:37we got by on some stuff in these first couple of games.
10:39Yeah.
10:40They're going to make some adjustments.
10:41Cause you remember what we said,
10:43and it was true at the time when we said it,
10:46coach Quinn was out coaching Mike.
10:47He was.
10:47Yeah.
10:47For the first three games.
10:49And then Mike said,
10:50okay,
10:51I didn't want to show this until Boston.
10:54Yeah.
10:54We're going to win this series.
10:55I don't think he realized he was going to need to put his best defender on CJ.
10:59Yes.
10:59But then you look at it from this standpoint and they make it,
11:02the,
11:02the,
11:02some of the analysts,
11:03like don't make the ones that don't make my,
11:05my,
11:05my head hurt was saying something so key.
11:08And it was so,
11:09and I had to go back and think about it,
11:10how they switched up their offensive scheme.
11:13It's just how fricking go to state plays.
11:16And Mike Brown came from there having Draymond initiate the offense like cat.
11:20Yeah.
11:20Having when Steph without the ball,
11:22Jalen Brunson,
11:22without the ball and the Hawks had no answer,
11:26no answer for it.
11:27And I mean,
11:28again,
11:28the Knicks are better knocks.
11:29We knew that coming in.
11:31Definitely.
11:32Yeah.
11:32We did that.
11:32I predicted the Knicks to win the series at six.
11:35I didn't,
11:35I didn't think this was going to be how they were going to do it.
11:38But I just thought that they were four to two better than that.
11:40That's never happened.
11:41Yes.
11:42No,
11:42no one predicted this.
11:43The Hawks were what?
11:44Two point underdogs last night.
11:45Yes.
11:46So even Vegas.
11:47Got probably took a haircut on this one.
11:49That's what I'm saying.
11:50Like this gentleman's sweep is four one,
11:55right?
11:55Yeah.
11:55What this?
11:56Like give them hope,
11:57I don't know what it is.
11:58It was nothing gentlemanly about these last three.
12:00Give them hope.
12:02You know what I mean?
12:03Like,
12:03yeah,
12:03that was a torture sweep.
12:05Like watch.
12:06Cause like,
12:06yeah.
12:07Cause winning game three,
12:08the way the Hawks did,
12:09cause they game three is the only game.
12:11The Hawks really played better than the Knicks.
12:12They beat them in game two.
12:14Cause they kind of collapsed down the stretch and they were able to,
12:16to sneak that one on the road.
12:18Um,
12:18game three,
12:19they played better than them.
12:20They got them to run.
12:21They were up by like 18 in that game.
12:22And then the Knicks went on a run late and they,
12:24they won by one.
12:25You know,
12:25what's crazy is the Hawks won two games in this series.
12:27I can't even imagine what the plus minus was because the Hawks won two games
12:31by one point.
12:31The plus the,
12:32the,
12:33the point differential in this series,
12:34it had to be like a hundred,
12:36105.
12:38And it wasn't a sweep.
12:39Yes.
12:40It went six games.
12:41The point differential in this six game series plus one Oh five for the Knicks.
12:45How did they win two games?
12:46I don't understand it.
12:48Like,
12:48honestly,
12:49that's almost a miracle that this,
12:51that this series went six,
12:52the way that the final three games went.
12:53I mean,
12:53that's,
12:54you know,
12:54it's,
12:55uh,
12:56it's,
12:56I've never seen anything like it.
12:57I've never seen anything like what happened last night except for,
13:00you know,
13:00maybe those one or two examples we could have of like out outlandish Atlanta
13:04sports failure and collapse.
13:06Yes.
13:06Now leave it to us,
13:07you know,
13:08leave it to us to break the record for biggest ass kicking in a playoff game.
13:11If it was going to be somebody,
13:13it's going to be the Hawks.
13:14It's going to be the Hawks.
13:14Yes.
13:15One thing we'll take credit for.
13:16If we're going to lose,
13:18it's going to be 14 dumpster fires on a sinking Titanic with a Hindenburg collapse
13:23on top of it.
13:24Oh,
13:25they got,
13:25oh,
13:25they got a new meme.
13:26Uh,
13:27the gas can guy in front of state farm.
13:29Okay.
13:30Yeah.
13:30That's not far from Mercedes Benz.
13:33He's just walking across the street.
13:35God,
13:35man.
13:36I am.
13:36Oh boy.
13:38Ooh.
13:39Yeah.
13:42God.
13:43I mean,
13:44just the fact that you're sitting and like,
13:47they lost by 51 and outscored them in the fourth quarter.
13:52The Hawks won the fourth quarter.
13:54I still lost.
13:55I'd lost by 51.
13:58Oh,
13:59it's shy.
14:00I can't believe it.
14:01I can't.
14:0251.
14:02I cannot believe 51.
14:03I'm not surprised.
14:04They lost.
14:05Like they lost.
14:06The Knicks are better.
14:06They're onto the next Celtics.
14:08They're kind of collapsing too.
14:09So the Knicks,
14:10who knows?
14:10The Knicks might go on a run.
14:11They're pretty good.
14:12They're pretty good team.
14:13Good God.
14:1451 points.
14:16Lord.
14:17All right.
14:17All right.
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