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The New York Knicks are world champions after another comeback win over the Spurs in NBA Finals Game 5.
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00:00i was a trash talker okay let me tell you one thing trash talking is not when you're up trash
00:05talking is you do this 24 7 100 of the time if you only talk when you're up you're a
00:13fraud
00:14okay game five win must win he showed up with 19 points that little dude on the other side
00:23the shortest guy on the course six to 45 there is something inside of brunson that i did not pick
00:30up inside of wimiyama and this is not trying to pile on it because they lost they lost because
00:37they couldn't hold on to it they were leading by double digits in every five games it's crazy they
00:43won one dude for me i mean you're totally right and brunson has been around a while and probably
00:50had time to learn and grow into the winner he clearly is right but i for me i look at
00:58the spurs
00:58the knicks scored 13 points in the first quarter of game five one three dan marino 13 you gotta kick
01:08their ass yeah you cannot lose a game where your opponent in the nba scores 13 in the first quarter
01:16and they just between that they had a 30 point lead in game four yeah like i've read something
01:24they had they had the lead in 76 percent of this series yeah yeah the totality of it and they
01:30lost
01:30in five john that's something on them i don't know if it's coaching i don't know what that is it's
01:36it's
01:36it's it's coaching has a lot to do with it as well like that guy mitch mitch was promoted by
01:42popovich
01:42right but popovich didn't know if he could handle the situation yeah he was a great steward for you
01:47he was a great student under you but you were still there to help him you're not there to call
01:52a play to him and and set up stuff for him now but what john topovich is always saying everybody
01:57cares
01:57about who starts he said b watch the game at the end is who finishes who does the coach put
02:06in the
02:06game in crunch time who does the coach put in the game when he wants to see things happen sure
02:10so
02:10yes we can worry about the starter but it's the finishes and like you said 76 percent of the time
02:16they were winning it's crazy guess what like like a lot of times you'll go if the season was over
02:21now
02:22right if the game was over when they were leading they could have been 4-0 but it's not when
02:29you're it's
02:29not when the game is early it's when the game ends who's winning and they couldn't get to that point
02:34i it was coaching it was players and all and the thing of it is for me is this you
02:40can grow as a
02:41person who has to fight through stuff who has to been battle tested and then all of a sudden you
02:46know how to finish it up or you could be a person where everybody already call you to go and
02:51already
02:51call you this that and the other before you do anything and some people they just think it's going
02:56to happen it's not going to happen unless you make it happen and i think wimmy is going to have
03:02to
03:02find a way because he's got to develop a go-to offensive move because like you said you said
03:07it early say he has no move he could just go to whenever he wants to get it should he
03:12should
03:12apparently does not credit to jeff he's the biggest dude on the court he should be able to take
03:18advantage of people whenever he wants but when he needs to he can't if they design up stuff for him
03:24in the beginning of the game he could do all that but when it comes to i throw out the
03:30scheme
03:30throughout the game plan i'm going one-on-one against you and ain't the damn thing you could
03:35do about it he has not developed that yet and the question would be will he ever because i think
03:40the
03:40nick showed a lot of people how to play him very physical yeah i mean listen i think if if
03:47you're a
03:48spurs fan the future is still incredibly bright right like at on some level would the spurs have
03:56been better off if they lost game seven to okc because that was kind of what was expected right
04:01you're on the road oklahoma city defending nba champ two-time mvp and then it's like all right the spurs
04:07the spurs showed you they're coming but instead they win that game and then just get this was like
04:13if you're a spurs fan this had to be mental torture to watch the repeated meltdowns of this team
04:20but what changed for me after game four i i didn't think i did not think the spurs were going
04:27to be
04:27able to win this game and even the knicks were down and they were down a lot at various they
04:35never
04:35seem to be out i never thought they were losing yeah and and brunson to his credit bad man right
04:43the knicks scored 94 points he had 45 of them yeah that's what 47 percent of their point total
04:51yes yes dude and in various in various stages for this knicks team as throughout the finals i think
04:58og and anobi had a tremendous series throughout but like kind of nobody else was good in game five
05:05like nobody else really stood out except brunson cat was just awful i mean just
05:12just just really really bad and brunson it was like what i find so remarkable about him and i
05:19don't know if you ended up in these like weird social media scrolls where you're just getting
05:24all this knicks you know i didn't i don't care listen i don't get on the real i don't care
05:29if
05:30the team i'm pulling for is winning or losing i'm not gonna get involved with that type of stuff
05:34because i just mean it makes videos kept popping up on my instagram there's a video i saw now listen
05:40like
05:41his dad's an interesting character right but his dad's also clearly a major part of his life and
05:48a major driver in his basketball journey to what is now world champion yeah and i saw this video of
05:55the father and brunson doing a workout jalen had to be 11 10 9 i don't know what years and
06:03he's working
06:04on this like crossover pull up at the top of the key and it was just like to think about
06:09because
06:10he's listed at six two yeah i think he's my height honestly basketball heights are normally done with
06:17their shoes on right yeah like for him we can have this debate of where he ranks i mean i
06:24think sga is
06:24probably a better player i well it doesn't matter right yeah for him to have gotten to this mountaintop
06:30with team in that organization that hadn't won in 53 years yeah like you can there's never a
06:37yeah jalen brunson but it's just jalen brunson and whatever that relationship with his father and
06:43i just think about the amount of work that was put in over a lifetime how old is brunson late
06:5020s
06:51yeah like he he's been doing this for 25 years and to accomplish this you can have these debates
06:59about greatest nick of all time whatever like once you have the hardware and you can speak to
07:05this as a human once you have the hardware the debate periphery where do i stack up nobody cares
07:12irrelevant but i think no one cares listen we had the guy on last week and i think he was
07:18he was
07:18swinging on whatever's of the new york of the uh spurs when he said they were slowing down brunson
07:25and i think he was the most ill-advised he was the most ill-equipped guy to be saying it
07:34i forgot the
07:34guy last week yeah it was a rough time at that point he was averaging 29 5 a game he
07:41had only scored
07:41under 30 or higher one time in four games then he finishes up with 45 my question is where the
07:49hell
07:50they stopped him at i mean this is what i know down the stretch he was going to be taking
07:56shots
07:56yeah i asked the question who stopped him i if you know it's like it's like if there's a talking
08:05point that jalen brunson was stopped the talking point's incorrect when you when you hear people
08:09say things i i at that point i i understand the media way and i was respectful you were i
08:17wanted to
08:18say are you out your damn mind but you'll never get another uh interview from the guy my whole thing
08:22was dude he's averaging almost 30 and then he comes back and follow that up with 45 and you say
08:30they were stopping him brunson in this series over five games went 30 20 32 36 45 but they're stopping
08:39that's asinine i think i think what i it's very bizarre because i do not root for new york sports
08:48teams really whatsoever but this the knicks have always been different because when i was a kid
08:55was kind of the ewing john starks teams that were likable and maybe i had like some affinity towards
09:01patrick ewing from the georgetown days even though i was like barely aware of life at that stage
09:07but like i just knew he had some connection to dc whatever it was and they ran into michael jordan
09:12who to me is the greatest basketball player ever the greatest competitor ever yeah and
09:18they just never got through right and honestly until this series my like the biggest memory i had in my
09:26life of nick's basketball was the finals game with the oj simpson car chase remember they like broke
09:33into the footage with the oj simpson car chase and that was when they were playing the rockets and
09:37the rockets won but like this knicks team i don't even the mike brown redemption arc like yeah i thought
09:45mike brown coached his ass off i think he did absolute circles around mitch johnson yeah and and i think
09:52like to fire thibodeau was a big move for that knicks they need to do that and dude i came
09:57you know i i come
09:59out of this series as just a massive like the dude i want the whiz to find is og i
10:07don't know how
10:07you find that because he's he's more than a role player but it's brunson's team but like to win
10:14playoff series it i don't think it's an accident that ananobi now has two championship rings yeah
10:19because i'm pretty sure he was on that toronto team right like it's not just the person at the top
10:23everybody has to do a job at a high level sure and when i look at the knicks team i'm
10:28not a knicks fan
10:29either but when i look at them what hit me was this the knicks played as a team totally they
10:38had
10:38guys that people counted out hard uh even brunson what's the other guy brunson 100 the guy that
10:45played school with them um bridges bridges all three of these guys come from the same team now listen
10:51they gotta connect and and one thing i'm pulling people to learn about sports you can go find that
10:57one superstar but if there's no chemistry amongst the rest of the people you got a problem the knicks
11:03were a team when ryan carries down you step up right so look at it cat was up early handling
11:12stuff
11:12for him in those first two games then cash started to go away everybody else started to step up
11:17and nobody was there the whole time they bring guys off the bench maybe if they come in for four
11:23minutes five minutes they came in alvarado this is when i watched them i saw the terry oars the ron
11:31middletons yeah the donnie warrens the guys that never get the credit that mark rippon and gary
11:36clark and and darryl greenham got but those guys were just as important because they were the guys
11:42making the plays to make everybody else look good 100 and i think that's what i saw in the knicks
11:46team
11:47that made me uh like them and pull for them more what i saw on the other side was
11:53wimby is astronomically good okay i like castle i like for sale but you know what about all of them
12:01they all seem to have an individual mindset once they get going uh darren fox darren fox want to be
12:10the guy that they're talking about win the damn championship they'll talk about all y'all for the
12:15rest of your life but they are too busy trying to be the one up on everybody else on their
12:20team
12:20instead of saying you know what i care i don't care if i get the press or not i just
12:24want to get the
12:25damn the hardware they are they have san antonio has a darren fox problem now and this is why i
12:33think
12:33if they had lost in game seven a lot of these things became so amplified are not as amplified right
12:39like if they lost in game seven oklahoma city it's like all right spurs are coming that you know they
12:44got to gel a little bit they got to figure some stuff out but now i don't think you can
12:49roll in
12:49to halloween nba season starts up you got to turn the keys over to castle and harper period and
12:58fox and harper are good bro fox's contract is incredibly substantive i think it's
13:03b i swear to god i heard this over the weekend i think it's four years 220 i think he's
13:09making
13:09whatever that is 58 a year or whatever and like but he's he is such a good player where
13:15somebody has taken but on this team he screws up the chemistry totally now i don't he's good
13:22offensively he's a damn he's a liability defensively i don't know what you do if you're san antonio
13:30the the thing that has to happen whatever they got to figure out fox they you know maybe you want
13:37harper to engage more on the offensive end whatever it is it all comes down to wendy like
13:44he has got to dude he became kind of a villain in this series like he was just who did
13:55wendy
13:56like he did because listen they were gonna have to suspend him if there was a game six the elbows
14:02when you start throwing elbows like like he did people are turned off by that and then
14:11the acting like a a little child totally when things don't go his way but that walking off the
14:17thing he was before the game was damn near so as the second hit he was in the damn tunnel
14:22dude you listen bro that little moment right there people gonna see that you know i saw him and the
14:29other guy who didn't even play i guess he's a backup center because he was tall as hell too
14:33they were gone i remember being in uh in philly and we lost to the rams nfc championship game
14:45and all the young dudes like man what you do i said you stand right here with me
14:50why i say you want to watch this because in this off season when you don't want to be uh
14:55working out
14:55this will make you work out a little more and they're like man b why you crying you've been
15:00playing a long time dude i don't no matter how long you play you don't have a losing competitive edge
15:06and i said then i watched him i felt all that confetti and it was it was hurting but it
15:12was
15:12igniting me for the sea for the for the off season so many times we are we we parents you're
15:18the worst in
15:19the world right now you hightail and run somewhere instead of making your kids stay and fight change
15:24team make them learn how to do something this aau bs i cannot stand it make your kid learn how
15:31to fight
15:32through something one time and that's why i kept the young guys there with me and then in the off
15:37season they were like yo og man dude you been around you don't have to do all this no i
15:43don't have
15:43to do it probably but if i don't do it you get a chance to take my job and i
15:47ain't letting it happen
15:47so it's about sometimes if you've been through something you can fight through it but when
15:53everybody just hand you stuff you get used to being soft you get used to being coddled and you
15:59can't fight through it everybody has a fire inside of them and we allow a lot of people a lot
16:05of coaches
16:05a lot of teachers a lot of parents they put the fire out and they make the kid think they're
16:11supposed
16:11to be handed stuff and i think that's what the spurs were a little bit when they were up
16:18when they were down who gonna give it to us right you know i really believe when he made the
16:23comment
16:24people don't think we can but i know we can he thought the league was gonna help him out the
16:28league didn't help y'all because let's be real the bigger story with a nicks getting back on top
16:35and sometimes it seemed that the league was trying to help them they try sometimes yo but to your point
16:40be you know who did not coddle whatsoever brunson's dad hell no and you can say what you want about
16:47where he is now and how he got there whatever like i that's what stuck with me was that this
16:52video of
16:52those of the father working out with his son and like not to compare it at all but like shelby
16:58has
16:58this lacrosse tryout in a couple weeks and she and i've been going up to the park every day and
17:03what
17:04makes me proudest is we get done with our workout and then she's like can i run a lap cradling
17:08i'm like
17:09yes you know what i mean like you gotta want it and the spurs really that i don't want to
17:15judge
17:16whatever their personal character is the nicks wanted it more period when you have dudes like
17:21josh hart ogie ananobi jalen brunson just the the level of guts they show night after night
17:26the spurs they have a they have a long runway to a bright future but good for the nicks man
17:33and i don't
17:33say much positive about new york sports teams but i i am happy with that
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