00:00backdrop the conference finals can't come quick enough for the knicks josh hartz was starting to
00:06get squirrely sweet is great right you know i mean but dog seven days minimum off no games that's
00:13torture i'm over here just doing nothing hanging up to feel something yeah adam come on we gotta
00:18lock in so basically what you're saying is you would have rather like a seven game battle
00:22it's not what i said there's like an in-between there buddy what a gentleman sweep six game battle
00:27what would you have wanted i don't know i just i don't like this too much time we're in a
00:31good
00:31rhythm right now jb's passing the ball getting off the rock cats passing the ball not yelling at the
00:36refs oh geez oh geez needed a break yeah he's probably out whooping mike brown found his glasses
00:42he's locked in deuce mcbride we're there deuce mcbride five trays like we're solid we're in a
00:48good rhythm yeah my guy josh hart on the roommate show he is all sorts of fired up and listen
00:54it's
00:55been a minute now for the knicks but now we officially know that the knicks are going to
01:00face the cleveland cavaliers and the eastern conference finals and it's really interesting
01:05when you start looking at it from a rest versus rust when you start talking about it for the calves
01:12being hot or being tired there's a lot of those things that come into this series right i mean
01:18the knicks haven't played seemingly literally in ages right this is a long layoff normally you would
01:26get nervous if you're a knicks fan because the knicks have won seven straight games and not only
01:31winning they're kicking everyone's ass and the way that they've played in terms of the offense and
01:36just destroying the sixers and the final three victories against the atlanta hawks it's inspiring and
01:42we're picking the knicks to win and make the nba finals and the expectation is that they have a real
01:46shot to win the championship right here right now this season i also think it's interesting the calves
01:53are playing brilliant ball donovan mitchell we just got done talking about has taken his game and his name
01:58to a totally different level this team is obviously confident you look at how allen and mobley how they
02:04have played i think that is absolutely tremendous i still don't trust james harden in a big spot he was
02:09terrible last night not going to rip him because james harden did an excellent job after really dealing
02:15with some adversity during the course of that series against the detroit pistons now i do think which is
02:22interesting to hart's comment about the long layoff there are two things that i want to stress number
02:26one ojaninobi practiced fully on friday and saturday talked to the press saturday he seems like he's ready
02:34to go the calves enter in this series as a supremely confident and hot team they just won back-to
02:45-back
02:45series they were this group last three years kenny atkinson keeps talking about it 11 and 15 the last
02:51three years in the playoffs including a bad series loss to the knicks one that frankly mitchell robinson
02:57destroyed the bigs we know what jalen brunson brings to the table i think cleveland is very
03:03talented well coached and i think they're hot but on the opposite side of the knicks with the whole rest
03:09versus rust confidence versus fatigue for cleveland i mean cleveland's hot they've played 14 grueling games
03:18seven game series against toronto seven game series when you take a look at what transpired against
03:25detroit and the backs were against the wall consistently over the course of this postseason
03:30so i favor new york i think jalen brunson is going to absolutely dominate i think the knicks and again
03:36we'll flesh this out from an x's and o's perspective and just get into all the match-ups on tomorrow's
03:42sizzling edition of shine time but i think jalen brunson is going to rock and roll i think carl anthony
03:48towns
03:48is the offense going to continue to go through him healthy ojaninobi i think mitchell robinson
03:54serious x factor in this series i love jared allen mobley is i'm a huge evan mobley fan he's a
04:02little
04:02thin robertson has eaten him alive in a couple of big spots and in the playoffs before cleveland
04:07absolutely is coming in with confidence but the way that brunson's playing i just don't believe he's
04:13going to be denied the way cat is playing i don't think he's going to be denied you know i
04:17was constantly
04:18asked who i'd rather play from a knicks fan perspective the calves or the pistons and it
04:23was cleveland but not for you know major reasons but number one was home court really i mean home
04:30court advantage is an advantage i want to start the series at msg i want to game seven if necessary
04:35to msg so i'm thrilled the knicks finally have a team they're going to face i think that they have
04:42done an excellent job in terms of saying all the right things doing all the right things you know game
04:47one frankly would scare me a little bit but i think the knicks will distance themselves and
04:50ultimately get that win i could see the knicks splitting at home i could see the knicks winning
04:55both games or splitting in cleveland we're going to go knicks in six that's the reaction
05:00we'll slam it home tomorrow but as long as og and an ob is healthy and he practiced fully on
05:06friday
05:06and saturday go new york go new york go and it feels like the knicks haven't played in a minute
05:12but if you want just jog them at the rolodex remember what they've looked like over the last seven
05:16and i expect the new york knicks to go to the nba finals with a chance to win it and
05:23i know that's
05:24going to happen
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