00:00Rick Barry joins us now here.
00:01Rick, that was some Western Conference Finals.
00:04Thank you so much for doing this, man.
00:05I appreciate it.
00:06But, I mean, how did they get there?
00:09What did you think of the Western Conference Finals, Rick?
00:12Well, I thought it was highly competitive.
00:15Obviously, both teams played exceptionally hard.
00:18Again, it was crazy physical.
00:20You know how that drives me nuts that they allow that to happen.
00:23But it's also gotten to the point now where the officials are letting the
00:25offensive players get away with murder.
00:27How many times do you watch SGA push off before he shoots the ball with his
00:33arm?
00:34I mean, they all do it.
00:35Now, it's crazy.
00:36I wish I had that ability.
00:38You know how easy it is to get a shot off if I can go ahead and just move you
00:41back and go the opposite way?
00:42I mean, it's ridiculous that they let him get away with that.
00:45But, you know, I'm a perfectionist, and so those kinds of things drive me
00:49nuts.
00:49But I love the competitiveness.
00:52I love the resilience of both teams coming back in different situations.
00:56But the better team actually won.
00:58I mean, come on.
00:58Look at how many times they played during the regular season and who won most of
01:02the majority of the games.
01:03I don't know why everybody was saying that San Antonio didn't have a chance.
01:06I mean, San Antonio was a dominant team between the two of them with all the
01:10regular season contests they had and in the playoffs.
01:13Now, unfortunately, Columbus City didn't have – they weren't at full strength.
01:17You know, they didn't have all their people ready and healthy.
01:20But, you know, that's what happens in sports.
01:23But I just thought that San Antonio played exceptional.
01:26And the best thing for them was winning game six the way that they wanted to be
01:30able to go to play game seven.
01:32I mean, they just – they manhailed.
01:34They really took care of business against OKC.
01:37And that's a great thing mentally to go into the next game knowing you have to beat
01:42them again doing it so convincingly.
01:44I thought that was great for them.
01:46And I think they're going to cause the Knicks a lot of problems the way that they
01:51play those last two basketball games.
01:53But the Knicks, I thought, were playing the best basketball of all the teams in
01:56the playoffs, both ends of the court.
01:59But the competition wasn't as tough.
02:02They didn't play against as many good teams as the teams in the West had to play.
02:06Now, here's the biggest thing, Dan.
02:09That long layoff is going to hurt the Knicks some because there's no way – I don't
02:12care how much you practice, how much you play in scrimmage, you're not going to be the
02:15same as playing actual competition against another team going into this first game.
02:20But for the Knicks, it's an advantage that they're playing the first game actually on
02:24the road.
02:25Because if you're playing at home and you lose that first game because you really
02:28aren't playing at the same level you played prior to the break, now you've lost home
02:33court advantage.
02:33At least in their case, if they lose the first game, they still have another game and
02:38they had a chance to get themselves back together to hopefully play well enough to win
02:41the game because they have to win a game in San Antonio to win the title and stay undefeated
02:46at home.
02:47So for them, it's an advantage.
02:49It's going to be interesting to see at what level the Knicks are able to play with that
02:52long, long layoff.
02:53So for them, what level the Knicks are able to score?
02:53So let's go.
02:53Let's go.
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