00:00You know, that's the thing that you want to have.
00:02You know, say a good worker.
00:04Because even though it's awkward, you should have a good working relationship.
00:06I just remember when Russell Wilson and Matt Flynn were in their quarterback competition
00:09and Russell Wilson was asked if they're looking at tape together.
00:12And he goes, I'm not watching tape with him.
00:13Yeah.
00:14Yeah.
00:16But that's why.
00:16Because I'm trying to take his job.
00:17And the thing about it, maybe I have listened to the wrong clips of Michael and Tua
00:21because when I heard Michael's clip about the competition,
00:23it didn't look like Michael and Tua were friends.
00:25Oh, it didn't?
00:25Yeah, it didn't sound like it to me.
00:26I can't stop raving about it.
00:28Yeah, I haven't heard that.
00:30It must have been happening last week when I won't hear it.
00:31Especially Tua.
00:31Because I didn't hear nothing like that.
00:33What did you hear?
00:34I just heard the way Michael sounded.
00:35He was like, I'm going to do what I got to do.
00:38Oh, yeah.
00:39Yeah, Michael's more kind of understated anyway.
00:42He's not going to really say much.
00:42But, yeah, look, I hope behind the scenes they're feeling like that.
00:46We don't need buddy buddies.
00:48You know the other one that got a little weird the past day or two is in Vegas
00:54where Cousins refuses to, like, allow himself to be called a mentor
00:58to Fernando Mendoza.
00:59As he should.
01:00As he should.
01:02They've kind of been in line for a while, and then he's like,
01:04it's a bit of a reach to consider me a mentor.
01:07As he should.
01:07Because he's trying to play.
01:09Yeah, as he should.
01:10That's why when we went all the way back to it was Ryan Tannehill and Malik, wasn't it?
01:14I don't know who said it first, but the answer was right then, and it's right now.
01:18It's not your job to be their mentor.
01:19It's not my damn job.
01:20You see these coaches, it's their damn job.
01:22I'll be a good teammate, but that extends itself this far.
01:26Like, I don't have to do extra stuff.
01:28I'm not arm around.
01:29I'm not underwing, whatever.
01:31Like, that can happen at other positions because other positions,
01:34multiple guys get to be on the field at the same time.
01:36Yes.
01:36Quarterback, there's one.
01:37One.
01:38Especially when they're competing for a starting job in the future of the franchise
01:40like what's happening in Minnesota.
01:42Well, kind of.
01:43And here as well.
01:44But anyway, yeah, Kyler's going to win that job.
01:49Yeah.
01:50I don't think he's winning the job.
01:51It's Kyler's job.
01:53Yeah.
01:53It's Kyler's job.
01:55It's Kyler's job.
01:55Now, that is also a similarity that I see.
01:58I do think it'll be a competition between Tua and Penix,
02:01but I think the new guy is going to win the job here too.
02:04But if we all agree that it's Kyler's job, and I agree with you both,
02:08no competition, then why isn't he getting the reps?
02:10I don't know.
02:11And would it be beneficial at this point in the offseason if he were?
02:14I think he's fine at this point.
02:16You know what I mean?
02:17He obviously doesn't feel that way, or he wouldn't have brought it up, right?
02:20I know, but we can't say it's no big deal for Penix to be resting on days in June
02:24and then be like, it's a big deal for Kyler to be getting.
02:26Yeah, but again, it's just.
02:27You know what I mean?
02:27But it's a real competition here.
02:29It's not there.
02:30Right.
02:31I don't know.
02:31I guess it's about J.J.'s feelings.
02:33I don't know.
02:35Whatever.
02:36Exactly.
02:37Whatever.
02:38Whatever.
02:38NBA playoffs tonight.
02:39Yes.
02:40NBA playoffs.
02:40Finals.
02:42Game four.
02:44I think we talked about it.
02:45Game three just seemed like there was so much going on.
02:49Outside of it just being a basketball game.
02:50Yeah, it was a whole circus.
02:52Yeah, a whole thing.
02:53And is it before?
02:54And now it seemed like it can go back to just being a basketball game.
02:58Yeah.
02:58I mean, I hope so.
02:59You don't care who's there.
03:00I do wonder how much the guys, does that affect the game?
03:04You know what I mean?
03:04Hopefully not that much.
03:05I hope not.
03:06But I think my biggest thing that I don't want tonight to be is the referees being the damn
03:10story.
03:11I agree.
03:11Because that's all people have been talking about for the last two days.
03:14The mush.
03:15The Mike Brown talking about the free throw discrepancies.
03:18All these different things.
03:18I just don't want that to be a part of tonight.
03:20Yeah.
03:21I just don't.
03:22Be honest with you.
03:22I just don't.
03:23I think the Wemby face push should have been a foul.
03:25I think he should.
03:26I mean, you know.
03:27I don't know that it needed to be a flagrant or whatever.
03:29But I think it should have been a foul.
03:31It wasn't.
03:31Okay.
03:32Outside of that, I thought the game was really well officiated.
03:34I thought the teams were really physical.
03:36And I thought that the refs allowed them to be.
03:38And I think that's great.
03:40But they've been sitting around listening for the last two days about what's going on.
03:43That's my only.
03:43I haven't had an issue with the officiating.
03:45I just think.
03:46I thought game two was officiated worse than game three was.
03:48I just don't want them to be a part of it.
03:50You know what I mean?
03:51I don't want them to call the game tighter.
03:52I don't want them to, you know, have to, you know, set the tone.
03:57I don't like when referees set the tone for a game.
03:59Yeah.
04:00I mean, right.
04:01Unless somebody comes out and does something stupid early.
04:04Like, oh, we see how they're going to call this game right now.
04:06I don't want that.
04:07I just don't want that right there.
04:08My thing is, you know, the retaliation and all that.
04:11Get out of here, this soft ass.
04:12Ain't nobody retaliating.
04:14Yeah, no one's going to do that.
04:14You know, because the thing about it is, now the referees are going to be looking at that
04:17closely.
04:17So if you come set a screen on Wimby, okay, you can screen him.
04:22Yeah.
04:22You know, but if somebody does something dumb, they're going to get kicked out of the game
04:25and then you're going to cost your team a chance to win.
04:28Yeah.
04:28If the Knicks win, they're up three, one.
04:30Yes.
04:30Why the hell do I need to retaliate?
04:32Okay.
04:32Everybody gets mush.
04:33Let's retaliate by winning the championship.
04:35That would be the best retaliation possible.
04:38If they, I get, I don't see them doing anything, doing anything sort of outside the lines in
04:43this one.
04:43Um, and I hope that they don't, and I hope that the refs aren't on alert because of what
04:47anybody said.
04:47And I don't think that they will be because I do think that it's been a pretty well-officiated
04:51series by and large.
04:52Um, I just think it's two really evenly matched teams that have played three really good games.
04:57Five points.
04:58Five points.
04:59Yeah.
05:00And it very easily could have gone.
05:02I mean, I felt like, um, San Antonio probably, well, I don't know.
05:06They had to come back down double digits in the fourth quarter, but it felt like they were
05:09going to win game two.
05:10And then it kind of felt like the Knicks were going to end up getting game three.
05:13Those games went the opposite direction.
05:15But again, that's what great series are.
05:17Um, I hope that that's what tonight is again.
05:19And I have no reason to think that it won't be the difference to me tonight is going to
05:23be if the Knicks kind of other guys don't show up the way that they did it in game three.
05:28You're going to have Bridges has to play.
05:30He has to play.
05:31If they're going to win the championship, Bridges has to play.
05:33He stayed.
05:34He was in foul trouble early in game three.
05:36Absolutely.
05:37Noby was great.
05:38That's when they're good.
05:39They need to go back to the play the way they played before.
05:41You know, when they went on his 13 game win streak, they need to get caught involved.
05:45He has not scored a point in three, fourth quarters.
05:48That is correct.
05:49Yes.
05:50Which is why it's always dumb to be doing NBA finals, MVP stuff after one or two games
05:54anyway.
05:55Yeah.
05:55But that's makes it the dumbest.
05:57Yes.
05:57He hasn't scored in the fourth quarter.
05:58Fourth quarter.
05:59He's playing.
06:00He's playing well.
06:01Jalen Brunson has as many assists as he has turnovers.
06:04Yeah.
06:04He's shooting 30.
06:05Like, he's getting his point total.
06:08He's just getting, I think, I saw this right this morning, 81 shots.
06:1281 shots, 83 points.
06:13Yes.
06:14Yeah.
06:14Like.
06:14As many assists as turnovers.
06:15Yes.
06:16But they're hounding his ass.
06:17They're on him, dude.
06:18If he wasn't as good as he is, it would be way worse than that.
06:20Yeah.
06:20And the thing about it, they're playing him tough.
06:22I love himself, Castle.
06:23I mean, this dude, he's a tough, tough-minded guy.
06:26But then, okay, let's switch somebody else on him.
06:29You know?
06:29And I think that's the biggest thing with him is that they're making him uncomfortable.
06:32And what happens when, you know, eventually you wear it out?
06:35He ain't the biggest dude in the world.
06:36But his biggest asset, when he gets to his spots, is he likes to push off.
06:41Well, he's not pushing them.
06:42They're not going anywhere.
06:43Yeah, you can't.
06:43And they're making the shots so tough on him.
06:45And so, my thing, who comes out aggressive more, him or Wimby?
06:48Because we understand, when Wimby comes out aggressive, San Antonio's a different team.
06:53We understand that.
06:54Just like in game three, he comes out two dunks in the layup to start the game.
06:57What was that?
06:58Because when Jalen Brunson comes out aggressive and he's making it, he's going to be aggressive.
07:02But it's like, is he making the shot?
07:04Because one of these games, he's going to go off.
07:06And he's going to be efficient and all those different things.
07:08Is it tonight?
07:09Is it going to be, you know, because I know Steph Gassel said, yeah, we're going to win tonight.
07:13We're going to win next game.
07:14We're going to win next game.
07:15Great.
07:15All right.
07:15Good.
07:16That's exactly the mentality you should have.
07:17Good.
07:18I don't know.
07:18Yeah.
07:18That's the guy.
07:20And that's what he looked like in the fourth quarter, too.
07:22They got him the ball in that must-foul situation because they knew he was the guy they wanted
07:26on the free throw.
07:27That's a hell of an amount of trust for a 21-year-old.
07:31You know what I mean?
07:32Yeah.
07:32For a guy who's in his second year to be like, yeah.
07:35And it was Fox that kicked it to him, too.
07:36And he was standing there.
07:37He stood right up there.
07:38And he nailed him.
07:39Okay.
07:39Just no pressure.
07:40Didn't touch the rim.
07:41Fox is another one.
07:42Like, he's got to stay aggressive and play better and all those things.
07:44But he had big shots down the stretch.
07:46We talked about it, like, late in the game.
07:47Put the ball in his hands.
07:48Let him settle things down.
07:49All right.
07:50All right, guys.
07:50We're up by five.
07:52All right?
07:53We've got up by five.
07:54Two and a half minutes left.
07:55Let's get in our offense.
07:57Let's do a high-screen roll or high whatever it is with Wemby.
08:02And Wemby, take a good shot.
08:03I'm interested to see what Wemby looks like just because in the OKC series on days
08:11where they just had the one day off, he looked like he had donated plasma those days.
08:16Like, he looked exhausted in those games, which is – I mean, again,
08:19I know he's playing more minutes than he's ever played before.
08:21And he also is asked to do everything.
08:23Like you just said, he's setting high screens and then rolling all the way to the basket
08:26from the half court and then also defending the entire paint on the other side of the floor.
08:31Like, if they had one of those little monitors on him throughout the game,
08:36he probably runs 10 miles the whole game, the amount of action that he has.
08:39So, if he looks tired tonight, then he's not going to be able to do the kind of stuff
08:43that he did to start game three, right?
08:45I mean, don't look tired.
08:46You're young, right?
08:47That's what you say.
08:48But, like, he looked like that against OKC multiple times.
08:51For no explanation that I have other than he was.
08:53Right.
08:54You know?
08:54I mean, he played the whole fourth quarter last game.
08:56I know.
08:56You know?
08:57And he's going to have to be – this game is going to come down to the wire.
09:00Totally.
09:00Probably.
09:00Absolutely.
09:01And so he's going to have to play – he's going to be 40-plus this game.
09:04And if he looks tired, they're going to get beat.
09:06Yeah.
09:07Because that's what happened in those games against OKC.
09:09I mean, that's – I mean, he's going to – again, because of the way they're playing
09:13and everything, Josh Hart's – he's got to go off the line.
09:16Josh Hart's got to take advantage of those things.
09:18But the thing about it, if he has it going, you've got to keep – beat the ball.
09:21Like, don't go away from the hot hand.
09:23I know it's Josh Hart and all those different things, but he's capable.
09:25And we've seen when he's given opportunity and when he's making his shots how difficult it'd be.
09:29Spurs have to shoot better from three, too.
09:31And Dylan Harper has to shoot better from three.
09:32As much as I love him, he – yeah.
09:34He was one of eight from three.
09:37Yeah.
09:37De'Aaron Fox was 0 of five from three.
09:40Steph Castle was 2 of five, but obviously one of those was that incredibly important prayer
09:45late in the game that went in that helped them win.
09:48Those guys can't go a combined three of 18 from three.
09:51If that happens again, they're probably going to lose.
09:53They're probably going to lose.
09:53Yeah.
09:54Or don't take as many.
09:55Like, De'Aaron Fox doesn't even seem like he wants to take threes.
09:57Don't take any.
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