00:00so let's recap what happened last night uh quick and tidy win for the new york knicks
00:04uh full transparency i was i was at a baseball game covering that not watching this but as i
00:10was walking i glanced over and saw somebody in you know at lone depot park in miami watching
00:17this game like wait a second are you supposed to be watching the marlins game but they were watching
00:20the knicks and caps so i stopped and i saw in the third quarter what the score was and i
00:24said
00:25all right that's it they're up big but you know i i guess carlin the thing is for me
00:30is that are we right now overstating the knicks because i think cleveland haven't we done this
00:38with cleveland like the last few series it looks like they're done it looks like they're out and
00:42then all of a sudden they creep back into the series and hang around i know right now living in
00:46a
00:46prisoner of the moment is easy to do and just say hey knicks win nick sweep knicks win in five
00:50is that the direction you're going here or are you going to take a pause on this based on what
00:54you've seen you tell me yeah if i could figure out cleveland i would be a millionaire right now
01:00because i would just kind of bet and figure it out with this team because they they're they're
01:04really the example of you know inconsistency in the nba and it's wild to think they've been able
01:10to get this close to an nba finals like they're four wins away from being in an nba finals they're
01:15eight wins away from winning an nba championship and if you're detroit you know you're sick to your
01:19stomach right now because you're saying like we could have done that like we could have went out
01:22there laid on the ground for the next pound us in submission you know and everybody would have
01:26said this is a successful season for us because you know number one seed they took the level up and
01:31everything else and maybe become an attractive destination for a star player that's disgruntled
01:36and you know want to play with kate cunningham jalen duran maybe a lot of players want to do that
01:40the california cavaliers are head scratchers and and and really because you know i would have expected
01:46going through the wars that they went through in the first two rounds that they would realize that
01:50there is a level of physicality and a level of want to to play in the playoffs and they still
01:55have
01:56not figured that out it seems to me when they're not making shots they kind of just hang their head
02:00and then say all right like we're just going to get bullied around the court and that's what the
02:04nicks are doing to them and and it's unfortunate because cleveland has the talent to be better than
02:09what they're showing now do i expect them to go back home and play well yes do i expect them
02:13to win
02:14four of the next five absolutely not especially not with the effort that they've had so
02:18they're tired i give them that but also it looks like they're mentally and physically just beat down
02:23and you know that's not going to get it done you really have to rise your level right now and
02:27it
02:27feels like they keep dropping levels at the moment here in the eastern conference finals yeah josh hart
02:32had 26 that was one of the bigger stories there but i suppose if i told you a week ago
02:37that the
02:38knicks were playing and it was the east finals and they didn't score 110 you probably would have said
02:43oh they're back to normal and they lose but the calves only put up 93 points yesterday and in this
02:48day and age of the nba that ain't going to get it done by any stretch of the imagination so
02:53right now
02:54new york let's take a look at it i mean if you think cleveland has a shot in here you
02:58stand to make
02:59a lot of money plus 570 on your 100 bet nicks you can't bet that anymore at minus 820 nicks
03:06are heavily
03:07favored not just to win the series but to win in four or in five as you can see there
03:11they're minus two and a
03:12half minus 160 on the money line so uh let's pivot over to the next game where the odds makers
03:20certainly have to make cleveland a favorite because they have played excellent no matter how you slice
03:26it at home they have been dominant at home in the playoffs they're two and a half point favorites the
03:32total 213 and a half carlin in this one do you think cleveland wins in cleveland in this series
03:41i'm actually a little bit afraid of this number uh though craig because if you consider all the
03:44factors here at hand they're back at home this is a must win game because the season's online like
03:49you go down oh three it's over right so just to be two and a half point favorites shows you
03:54that even
03:54vegas isn't you really kind of confident in this cleveland cavaliers team that they're going to get
03:58the job done i do expect them to win the game though like i i expect them to win game
04:03three i think game
04:03four for me is the one that maybe if they're going to lose it they're going to lose in game
04:07four at home
04:08and and then you see what happens to the rest of the series but i expect them to win game
04:12three here
04:13get their backs off the wall try to give us some hope and make this series a little bit compelling
04:18but uh you know i'm not that confident honestly i'm picking the cavaliers in this one like i i'm
04:24gonna do it because you have to pick a team but honestly i'm not confident in this cavaliers bunch
04:28at all uh and then that actually i will give credit to the knicks because they've shown that killer
04:32instinct you remember in the philly series same scenario philly was going back home some momentum
04:36and then all of a sudden you know that it was garden south for them uh and they end up
04:41sweeping
04:41the the 76ers i don't expect there to be that many nick fans in cleveland if there is you know
04:46cleveland should be embarrassed but you know i i do expect some to travel uh and i expect the nicks
04:52to
04:52kind of make it tough and really punch cleveland in the mouth but they should make some more shots
04:57get some more calls get to the free throw line etc and you hope there's a better effort so
05:01i'm taking cleveland very reluctantly okay this one
05:04you
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