00:00The Cavs, you know, it was as somebody, you know, you go back to game number one of Thunder Spurs
00:07and somebody was on San Antonio plus seven.
00:09Every overtime was very stressful because I felt I completely deserved my cover and I got it in the Spurs
00:15actually won outright.
00:17No matter any jokes that the Cavs will get, no matter how much credit the Knicks will get, you know,
00:24we are doing sports betting here.
00:25And if you bet Cleveland, you absolutely deserved to cash that ticket.
00:33And also, if you bet those unders, you really deserve to cash those tickets.
00:37And my heart does break for you in that instance.
00:40But coach, game one in Madison Square Garden, the Knicks with an unbelievable comeback.
00:46What was your reaction?
00:49Shock, stunned, surprised.
00:55And it was, it was, there's a lot of ways you could take it.
01:00And I want to just take this, I want to take the fandom of myself for being a Knicks fan
01:04and just put it as a coach.
01:10Kenny Atkinson is lucky that he had himself a job after game one.
01:15And his coaching was, it was malpractice.
01:22And I'm going to say something else before I get into why.
01:26A lot of people are going to blame just Kenny Atkinson.
01:30And I've been an associate head coach.
01:33What the hell was Johnny Bryant doing the whole time?
01:37Because you got to get in your coach's ear and tell them, okay, very simple.
01:43Rub screen action, switch James Harden onto Jalen Brunson.
01:49Uh-oh, that's not good.
01:51Well, they did it once.
01:53Nope, did it twice.
01:54The Knicks did it like six straight plays.
01:57And there was no adjustment.
01:59Not only that, when they, they ended up having four timeouts.
02:06And just so, and I don't know, Brian Winterhorst, and I, sometimes I can't say one of them, he was
02:09so great when he talked about this earlier this week.
02:12You could only have two timeouts with two minutes left to go in a game.
02:17They had four.
02:18He burned one timeout in a 22-to-one run.
02:23One.
02:24One.
02:25So, I thought that there was this malpractice in regards to what he was doing in regards to his coaching
02:32and that part.
02:34Then I get to this part, which happened a little bit in game two as well.
02:37If you double Brunson as New York did, you sent someone to the middle of the floor.
02:44Why was Jared Allen or Alvin Mobley sitting underneath the basket?
02:48Like, they were getting like almost like little push floaters in the middle of the lane.
02:52I thought Cleveland looked scared.
02:56They looked nervous.
02:58And if this is going to be a team that we're talking about legacies, well, damn it, we need to
03:03start talking about Kenny Atkinson.
03:05Because what he's done the first two games is he's made Mike Brown look like Red Auerbach in this series.
03:12Yeah, man.
03:15Yeah.
03:16Look, Kenny.
03:19Oh, that was rough.
03:21Look, man.
03:22Kenny Atkinson's stuff was jarring.
03:24No doubt.
03:26Very rarely does James Harden have one of those type of performances.
03:32And you come away thinking it was somebody else's fault more so.
03:37If we could just take me full.
03:40I think the Kenny Atkinson blame is 100% valid.
03:46Um, I do think we have to give the New York Knicks credit, though, because they are finding themselves now
03:57with a little bit of a reputation here.
04:00Um, this team down 20 is not scared.
04:06This team down 20 keeps going.
04:09And it's just been a run for the ages.
04:16It's a Knicks team that were down 2-1 to Atlanta.
04:21And in that moment, McCall Bridges was going to be shipped off for a bag of basketballs.
04:29Mike Brown was going to be fired.
04:33And the Giannis deal might already be done.
04:38That is, that wasn't an in-season thing.
04:42That was, this playoff, that was a literal month ago.
04:48And they've responded with the nine consecutive victories.
04:55And in that, they've really unlocked a bunch of different things.
05:01What is interesting to me about New York, because I don't mean to be disrespectful to Cleveland, but I really
05:09didn't think Cleveland had much of a chance coming into this series.
05:12Some with the level that the two teams have been playing at.
05:16A lot to do with the fact that Cleveland had played a seven-game series in round one and round
05:20two.
05:21And the Knicks were off for a week.
05:22And I think that that type of rest deficit is just too big of an advantage for New York.
05:28I really believe that.
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