00:00everybody knows that i can't stand that the knicks are going to win the nba finals and i
00:03and i hate watching it but you know what i guess i i have to watch it only because i
00:10never have to
00:10see how far away that my boston celtics could be on winning another championship when i look at the
00:17new york knicks and i understand you have jalen and jason and that's the basically the foundation
00:22of the team but when i start to look at look at the knicks role players and then i start
00:28to look
00:28at the celtics role players and i'm like oh man they are way off and to your point may go
00:33can you
00:34win an nba title with just jason tatum and jalen brown and a bunch of other guys and if those
00:41other
00:42guys are not at a specific level which i think that level needs to be really high like you know
00:47when we saw poor zingas or we saw how derrick white was playing or even al horford at the time
00:52it just
00:53i i hope that brad stevens does something extremely big this offseason because if you run it back with
01:00the celtics team i mean i don't know if you're going to get by forget about the knicks i don't
01:06know if you're going to get by cleveland or even philadelphia and um in the postseason just because
01:13i don't just think this team's role players are in a position where they can play at a high level
01:20in the postseason and when they're needed to be those guys you know when you got other guys and
01:27then you sam hauser's just the guy that you need to come off and give you a couple spurts here
01:31and
01:31there you can get away with it but i don't think watching this knicks series and the knicks look good
01:37and i just think from a celtics fan perspective is it slipping away from us well jason tatum's going to
01:46be 100 yes so that changes things he also coughed up a 3-1 lead i mean i so against
01:53the sixes yeah
01:54but you were there i mean like you should have closed that series out but you didn't yeah but
01:59you really think the nba is decided by role players i kind of think in this new cba it's going
02:05to be a
02:06lot more important because curtis you're not going to be able to put together the the warrior super
02:12teams with kevin durant or and like make a serious run you just have to get into a second apron
02:17yeah
02:17if you're not willing to spend money then you need the role players that you're going to have to find
02:22are going to have to be guys when we saw like your role players are going to have to be
02:26poor zingas and
02:27derrick white playing at an extremely an all-star level it can't be you know shireman hauser
02:34you know the way kato was playing like those guys cannot be the the foundation of your role
02:42players if both tatum and brown play to their ability do they beat the sixers yes okay yeah i
02:48think so if tatum's healthy and and they are able to play to even just slightly above their average
02:55so you get back in playoffs you get past the sixes yeah all right and then you see the knicks
02:59eventually yeah so i mean they can win a series i feel so differently wiggy right where i i feel
03:06like
03:07watching this knicks team probably validates a lot of the ideas that the celtics already have
03:14which is we don't need to trade jalen brown for janice and have this like guy that we bring in
03:21just to be
03:22a wemby stopper because look at that spurs team is still got some work to do maybe it's different if
03:28you see them in the finals next year but like that's a really young team and there's no guaranteeing
03:34they're getting back there like as i said before i think they're probably looking at it and being
03:38like chemistry is going to be what makes sense for this i'm not worried they need to bring in a
03:42big
03:42for sure i'm not worried about the spurs like i i mean i think the spurs are a good basketball
03:47team
03:47but who you see how this the new nba is now i don't i don't necessarily think that the spurs
03:52are
03:52going to be right back in the finals next year because of what you're seeing i think wemby is a
03:57great
03:57player who the hell knows how it's going to all play out i'm just talking about the celtics
04:01tatum brown yes are they in my opinion that you know the best duo in the nba i would say
04:08yes but i
04:09think it's more about those other guys because you're gonna have games when you're gonna need
04:14like what we've seen the knicks is some of these role players stepping up and i just don't know if
04:20the role players that you got if you're putting too much on the role players that you have well the
04:25problem is that you have two max guys and that's when it comes to to finances that unless bill
04:32chisholm is willing to get into that second apron you're gonna have two guys that you're paying an
04:36absolute ton of money to what is wiki what is bill chisholm and mega everybody what does he have to
04:41do
04:41this offseason to make you feel like okay he's really winning is very important to him he needs
04:46to bring in a legit big yeah somebody that like if it's like sabonis from sacramento somebody that
04:52when you go oh okay he's gonna move the needle that guy is is gonna move the needle can't be
04:58a
04:58gaza situation or it can't be a kata situation or even why am i drawing a blank on um from
05:06the
05:06center from chicago that they traded for yeah it can't be like a vucevic situation luke longley
05:12it has to be somebody that you go all right they're really trying to do something right here
05:17i think the one thing like if you really want to see the celtics play style change from the three
05:23pointers if you're watching the knicks right now does that give you the indication that the celtics
05:28are going to look at that and be like yeah our three-point math doesn't make sense i mean that's
05:33what the knicks do well they they're a little bit more like they can go to other dimensions
05:37and score in the paint right but what is the story of their of this hot winning oh yeah it's
05:44been
05:44guys like chairman and you know uh the kid vincent role players i mean i'm vincent mcbride
05:50hitting a bunch of threes so yeah it's been those guys knocking but it's their defense man their
05:54defense has done an amazing job not just against the whole spurs team but especially kyle anthony
06:01towns and mitchell robinson against wemby you think uh you think the spurs get this one tonight though
06:07right i think the spurs can get this one tonight they they have to split at msg they have to
06:12if not
06:12that's embarrassing oh and i'd like to win the lottery the finals that is so bad that's what
06:18it's headed for that i i think i do think there's a chance if spurs can split and especially if
06:25they
06:25split tonight they win tonight rather and then they lose game four and then it goes back to san
06:31antonio they're down three one can they get game five there and then they at least make it a six
06:38game
06:38series and they save some face that way it's not happening they need at least a gentleman's sweep
06:43but i think with six games you can at least say like okay that spurs team is still ultra legit
06:48they're
06:49not just super young the lights were so bright they lost both games in san antonio and new york's best
06:56player had two bad games in jalen brunson and new york he had an amazing fourth quarter right but
07:04the first three quarters weren't very good and the other thing new york does extremely well that
07:09they did not do on the road which i don't think is gonna follow them to to back to msg
07:16is they
07:17weren't their three pointers weren't falling for them so i think they're gonna fall their three
07:22pointers will fall at home jalen brunson will have a great game
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