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On The Midday Show, Andy and Randy discuss the physical play surrounding Victor Wembanyama and why they don't expect any retaliation in Game 4. With the NBA Finals intensity rising, the focus remains on winning the game, not settling scores. Will the Knicks respond on the scoreboard instead?
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00:00We'll give you $150.
00:01Yeah.
00:01Well, I got to give you $150.
00:02Right.
00:03But did she think that she was hanging out with him because he was cool, too?
00:06Or because of the money?
00:06I really hope not.
00:08I really.
00:08Because Paul Pierce knew the reason she was there is because he had the money, too.
00:11Yeah.
00:11But I really hope it's not one of the, golly, she likes me.
00:15Yeah.
00:15You know what I mean?
00:16Well, those guys might think that.
00:17I don't know.
00:17Yeah.
00:17But, like, the price is the price.
00:20Yeah.
00:20You know?
00:21Like, if they can get the bag, they're going to get it.
00:23But the price was $50, probably.
00:25That was $150 because of them.
00:26Right.
00:27Yeah.
00:27I know.
00:27So, why does Paul act like, why can't I stay at $50?
00:31You know what I mean?
00:31Why can't I just stay at $50?
00:33Yeah.
00:34You know what I mean?
00:34Why can't I stay at $50?
00:38Well, because those guys are going to pay, what, $50?
00:40And I'm hanging out with them for the same reason I was hanging out with you.
00:43You know what I mean?
00:43Because they're paying me.
00:44Dude.
00:45Oh, and then Charles Barkley.
00:46This man.
00:49I can't read the comments out loud what he said about Cardi B.
00:52Can I get?
00:53Sure you can.
00:53Oh, I can say it?
00:54Okay.
00:54He said it on ESPN.
00:55We can say it on 92.9.
00:56But the funny thing was that he said, he said, he hopes they fire him over it.
01:01Yeah.
01:01I hope they fire me.
01:02Those guys.
01:03So they can pay me for the $60.
01:05Those guys take great pleasure in daring ESPN to do something.
01:09Yes.
01:09Like, that's like their favorite thing.
01:11Do it.
01:11What are you going to do about it?
01:12Do it.
01:13What are you going to do about it?
01:14Do it.
01:14Nothing.
01:15You're not going to do anything about it.
01:16Because also, like, they could get fired over that.
01:18I don't know.
01:19I'd be out of it.
01:19Yeah.
01:20He said Cardi D's.
01:21Yeah.
01:22We were all thinking the same thing.
01:23Now, maybe not that exact joke.
01:25That's a good joke.
01:26Well done.
01:26Because I didn't know.
01:28She performed at halftime.
01:29She performed at halftime.
01:31I don't know.
01:31She was out there.
01:32Because we know that Wu-Tang is performing tonight at halftime.
01:34Uh-huh.
01:34So that's going to be awesome.
01:36That's going to be awesome.
01:37Wu-Tang in New York City.
01:38All of them?
01:38Well, I mean, you know.
01:40All of them.
01:40They just, I'll be outside of ODB, obviously.
01:43But they just did a residency in Vegas.
01:46I'm just saying, like, because halftime, you don't, you know.
01:50NBA halftimes are pretty quick.
01:51Yeah.
01:52So you only get about eight minutes to perform.
01:54Yeah.
01:54And they got a lot of guys.
01:55Yeah.
01:56Now, maybe not everybody's going to get a verse.
01:58Yeah.
01:58I think that's one thing.
01:59That's all I'm saying.
01:59Is everybody going to get one?
02:00Yeah.
02:01I don't know.
02:01But I mean, just do cream.
02:05Got to do that one.
02:05Yeah.
02:06But I'm just saying just do cream and extend the version of it.
02:08Extend it and get out of there.
02:10Okay.
02:11That's what I'm thinking.
02:11Okay.
02:12Then get, like, a couple, like, extra verses maybe.
02:14Yeah.
02:14Yeah.
02:15All right.
02:15Now, Inspector Deck gets to come do one.
02:16Exactly.
02:17All right.
02:17Exactly.
02:18Just stretch that out.
02:19Okay.
02:19And just go from there.
02:21That'll be fun.
02:22Is that going to, the big story is what?
02:24Going to be the Braves or is it going to be basketball?
02:27I don't know.
02:29I just want to talk to Grant.
02:30So let's talk basketball.
02:31Okay.
02:31Great.
02:32Let's make the big story basketball then and we can get into game four tonight.
02:34We'll talk to Grant about the Braves in about 15 minutes.
02:37Let's get to the big story of the day to kick off the one o'clock hour.
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02:45Boop.
02:46Boop.
02:47Boop.
02:48I truly love it.
02:49I love that dude and everything he's done for this team, this city, as a friend.
02:54He's been fantastic.
02:56There you go.
02:57Yeah.
02:57Galen Brunson raving about his friendship with Carl Anthony Towns.
03:01He sure ain't come to your defense.
03:02Yeah, that's true.
03:04That's true.
03:05If it was a flagrant foul the way so many think that it should have been, nobody did anything about
03:11it.
03:11That's what I'm saying.
03:12Nobody did nothing.
03:13Nobody did nothing.
03:13Now, my thing with, and I go back to with, you know,
03:16maybe Carl still shook from, because there's nothing funnier than the face he was making
03:21or what he was doing when Draymond joked out Rudy Gobert and, like, he was trying to get
03:26Draymond off.
03:26I was like, stop it!
03:27Stop it!
03:28And he could still be shell-shocked from that.
03:30Oh, right.
03:30The last kind of scuffle?
03:32Yeah, the last kind of scuffle.
03:32You know, he saw the death stare of Draymond.
03:35You know, but I mean...
03:36Or maybe nobody thought it was that big of a deal.
03:38Exactly.
03:39Because it wasn't that big of a deal.
03:40And if there was no retaliation in the moment in Game 3, there certainly won't be any tonight.
03:45Wemby elbowed a man in his esophagus.
03:48All right.
03:48Okay.
03:49Now, let's relate to Wilson Sits.
03:51Now, that is one thing I will say.
03:53Yeah.
03:53Like, you asked me about it afterwards, like, is Wemby going to be suspended?
03:57And we're like, no, probably not, because he doesn't have a track record.
03:59Right.
03:59But a lot of times in the playoffs, like, Draymond got suspended for kicking somebody in the junk,
04:04because he had, you know, he was a habitual junk kicker.
04:06Yeah.
04:07I think Wemby, a couple years from now, we're going to be saying, is a habitual...
04:11He kind of loses his cool every once in a while.
04:14Yeah.
04:15Like, the elbow to Nas, obviously, he did mush Jalen.
04:17It wasn't that big of a deal, but he did react like that in the moment.
04:20I think Wemby, every once in a while, has a hard time controlling his frustration.
04:25Yep.
04:25Which, eventually, will probably get him suspended, but it won't miss.
04:28Yeah, but, I mean, what we're talking about, the keys to the game, usually, is, for San Antonio,
04:33how fast does Wemby start?
04:35How aggressive is he from the start?
04:38And, usually, when he's like, they go into winning games.
04:40He's going to have to play big men's again tonight.
04:42We understand that in three games, there's five points to separate in three games.
04:46Can Carl Anthony Towns score in the fourth quarter?
04:49More than anything.
04:50Can they give him a ball to go score?
04:51Yeah, because that's the thing.
04:52It's like, you know, we can make it about him, and maybe he needs to be more demonstrative
04:58and go get it.
04:58Give me the ball!
04:59But, like, they also don't pass it to him.
05:01That's what I'm saying.
05:02Like, Jalen Brunson forgot that he, and has done this at times, did it in the Hawks game
05:08early in the series, forgets he has teammates and starts to isolate and play hero ball.
05:14Now, again, it's worked in series games as well.
05:19Like, in game two, it worked.
05:20And in game one, it worked.
05:22So I don't blame Jalen Brunson for doing that in fourth quarters, because he's one of the
05:25best fourth quarter players in the NBA.
05:26But, yeah, it'd probably be a good idea to spread the wealth around a little bit and
05:30get the ball in Carl Anthony Towns' hands in the fourth quarter.
05:33They completely forgot about him in game three, which is a big reason why they lost game three.
05:38They also didn't give the ball to OG Ananobi, who was playing like Dwayne Wade.
05:41Yes.
05:42He was off Sandy.
05:43I'll be honest with you.
05:44Like, I knew he was a good player.
05:45This playoff run, I had no idea that OG was capable of.
05:48OG's a really good player, man.
05:50He's, like, great if he plays like this.
05:52He's a really good player.
05:53But I think, you know, they're going to, you know, like, I'm assuming if you're San Antonio,
05:58your defensive strategy will be the same as it was.
06:01Let Wimby be the role of guarding Josh Hart, things like that.
06:04Can the Knicks go back to playing the way they played before this game and not be so –
06:08because the thing with Brunson is when they go back to him just dominating the ball the
06:12way he does, it doesn't go well because they're mixed.
06:14They've got to get him off the ball.
06:16Because – and that was the key thing when they started taking him off the ball,
06:19was that he was able, first of all, to avoid those double teams because if he got the ball
06:22all the time, okay, we're just all – everybody's eyes are on you.
06:25And so they were able to move him around.
06:27But, I mean, the way San Antonio plays defense on the wings, these guys are physical and
06:31they're big and they can wear him down.
06:33And so that's what you've seen.
06:35He has not – to my Jalen Brunson has not had a great shooting percentage this whole series.
06:38Now, he's going to make baskets in the fourth quarter because it's so damn clutch.
06:42We understand that part about him.
06:43But getting those other guys – like you said, when Bridges is playing well,
06:47and Bridges was in early foul trouble last game, when Josh Hart is hitting those threes,
06:52especially when Cat is the one who's at the top of the key with the basketball,
06:55that's when they beat the hell out of you.
06:57Yeah, that's been the whole reason they've gone from, oh, this team's really good
07:01and they're better than maybe they were last year and stuff, to now up 2-1 in the finals,
07:05is guys that are paid like their stars are playing like stars.
07:12Yes.
07:12Like, we were talking about Mikel Bridges midway through that first-round series with the Hawks.
07:16Like, they made one of the worst mistakes in NBA history.
07:20Yes.
07:20Giving up five first-rounders for him and paying him that money.
07:23And then he played incredible for two straight series.
07:25They didn't lose a game.
07:26And he played well early in this series as well.
07:30They've been getting really good production from role players too.
07:33Like Landry Schammett had been – I mean, what did he go, 11 of 12 or 12 of 13 from
07:383 in the East Finals?
07:40He shot the best percentage ever for a shooter from 3 in the East Finals?
07:44Yeah, but you look at those guys, Alvarado, Jordan Clarkston, those guys like that when they come off the bench.
07:49Who gets more bench – because when Wimmy goes to the bench or when Jalen Brunson goes to the bench,
07:55who's going to be the guy that's going to help out with the score?
07:57Yeah, that's a great question.
07:58The other thing that the Spurs have to figure out is if they're going to shoot – and they're going
08:02to shoot threes.
08:02I mean, it's the modern NBA.
08:04They're going to shoot threes.
08:04Now, they don't bomb threes the way that some teams do.
08:06But if they're going to shoot 35 threes, they can't – they have to shoot a better percentage,
08:11especially from De'Aaron Fox, Steph Castle, Dylan Harper, like the main guys that are going to be out there
08:18shooting.
08:19Champagny's been really good from three.
08:21And Wimmy was really good in game three from three as well.
08:25But if those guys are going to be out there – because the Knicks are leaving them.
08:28They don't trust them.
08:29Dylan Harper and Fox specifically.
08:31They're like, be my guest.
08:32You've got to make them pay.
08:34Like, you have to make open threes.
08:35Otherwise, they're not going to win this game.
08:38I think the Spurs are going to win again.
08:39I think it's going to be 2-2.
08:40I think it's going to be 2-2.
08:41I think Knicks got it tonight.
08:42I think it will come down to – but my thing, I said this earlier in the show,
08:45it's been a lot of talk about fouls.
08:48Now, they've letting them play.
08:49And I'm just talking about the talk.
08:51It's just been a lot of it.
08:52I do not need them coming out and doing some crap.
08:54Yeah, if this game is a ref – like, if we're talking about the refs tomorrow.
08:59Like, come on, man.
09:00That would – because, like – because the thing about it, they're on high alert.
09:07What Mike Brown did is what all coaches do whenever their teams aren't getting fouls
09:12and everything.
09:12You put the bug in the referees' ear, things like that.
09:14They'll remind them again tonight when they go through the pregame warm-ups
09:18and all those and everything.
09:18I don't want that.
09:19I just hope it's not a whole bunch of Jalen Brunson flopping ass and things like that, man.
09:24Because I think he flopped.
09:25Because I don't think Wimby hit him that hard.
09:26He does flop.
09:27But I don't think Wimby hit him that hard.
09:28I think he flopped.
09:29Well, he definitely flopped on the castle one.
09:31Oh, yeah.
09:31No doubt about that.
09:32He flopped on the Wimby thing.
09:33He took a – you're hot on that one.
09:35Yeah.
09:36Because I'm tired of that guy.
09:37He barely – Wimby barely touched him.
09:39All right, now, Wimby ain't that strong.
09:41Now, I know he got a long arm.
09:42But he ain't that strong to throw him down the way he threw him down, man.
09:45Whatever, man.
09:46Whatever.
09:46He does flop.
09:47It's hard, though.
09:49I'm with you.
09:49I hate the flopping.
09:51But it's hard to really criticize anybody for it because everybody does it.
09:55I hate –
09:55They're a bunch.
09:56It's the whole league.
09:58I hate the head back.
09:59And I love the league.
10:00And I'm not going to spend time during the NBA Finals complaining about the issues I have with it.
10:04We did the whole season on tanking.
10:07But, yeah, I can't – they all do it.
10:09I just hope –
10:10The goal is to – if I don't make the thing, let me get to the –
10:13I just really, really hope that it's not one of them.
10:15They work with refs in the offseason about how to game the foul system.
10:19It's going to be a touchy, whoop, you know, I just don't want that.
10:23No, because I – honestly, and hopefully they feel this way because they should.
10:27I think it's been a really well-officiated series.
10:29I've not had a problem with it.
10:30I think it's been really good.
10:31I think there were times in the OKC Spurs series where it was – where they were over-officiating
10:37and they were getting a little bit ticky-tack with some of the stuff that they were calling.
10:40But I think the finals have been really good so far.
10:43And I know Knicks fans don't agree with the way that last series went.
10:45But, I mean, some of that stuff was incidental and some of it was floppy.
10:49Josh Hart was all mad at Cornette for trying to hand him the ball.
10:52Like, the Knicks are playing into it as well.
10:54Yes.
10:54I hope the refs don't fall for it.
10:56That's my only thing, man.
10:56You would hope that they've got people in the finals that are strong enough to be like,
11:00no, I know what I'm doing.
11:01I don't know who's reffing tonight.
11:02I haven't checked.
11:04Anyway, hopefully we're not talking about the refs tomorrow.
11:06We don't have – we're not.
11:07We're not talking about the refs.
11:08Hopefully not everybody's talking about the refs.
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