May 20, 2026 • 42 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon are sweating as the Knicks are down by 22 with nine minutes left in the game against the Cleveland Cavaliers! Plus, Justin and Alex make Jason wear the Knicks in Four chant!!!
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Nixon for Nixon, for Nixon, for Nicks, in for Nick
and for Nixon, for Nixon, for Nix and.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
For how did this shallow made breakup effect the Knick's mindset?
Entry Game one eight seven seven ninety nine.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
It's still the third quarter quarter of the game. It's
the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Fo Okay, save this So when the Knicks come back
and win, we play at the beginning of next down.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So we're never gonna play the same hell beginning of
next out considering what they've just watched this third quarter.
Because I'm watching it's it's sex and.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It's not been great, Bob, No, it's not been great.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
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buying should be. Minute a half to go in the
third quarter. The Cavaliers eighty one sixty six lead over
the Knicks. This third quarter for Cleveland has been incredible.
For the Knicks, it has been abysmal. They have just
fouled Mitchell Robinson. The last three times he has had
the basket, he has not made a free throw. The
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hacker Robinson working for the Cavaliers. It is a fifteen
point lead. They are doing whatever they want to Offensively.
They look like the team that is more polished coming
off rest. The Knicks look like a team that is
looking for answers, which is the exact opposite. Obviously, with
the Knicks coming off the big rest, the Cavaliers having
played on Sunday and right now they are enjoying the
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vapors of that seven game win. And really it's been
the Cavaliers in the third quarter. The Knicks are chasing defensively,
they're over pursuing so much, and Josh Hart on Donovan
Mitchell is just not working right at the beginning of
the third quarter, I said, this is not working, gotta
change it up. This is not working that he is
absolutely torching Josh Hart. Mitchell is the only one really
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having a phenomenal game on the Cavaliers tonight. Everything is
going through him. He's got six deals to go along
with the twenty four points. Cavaliers are up big with
a minute to go in the third.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, thirteen career playoff games game ones for Donovan Mitchell.
He's averaged thirty three points a game en route to
another one of those performances.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Tonight.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He's been fantastic. You look at Harden's plus nineteen only
nine points, which matches the season low that occurred in
the game seven. But offensively, they've just been motoring through
the Knicks roster. And we've talked about it a lot
of wondering how much the end of the regular season
and the first couple of rounds were really indicative of
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where they're at defensively, or whether that could be exposed
and tonight flat footed, a lot of standing around and
opportunities getting to the rim. You've seen some wide open
into the lane for Mitchell for Harden, and then talk
about turnovers. It's been fairly ugly in that regard over
the course of the night, and the Knicks cold shooting
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out the gay They're four of twenty three from three
point range.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, it's not been great. It's not been great. And
you guy, hey, I'll give you a positive. Yeah. The
rest of the are ten of eleven from the follow up.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, no, everybody else long as Mitchell Robinson stays the hell.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Away from the game, everybody else is great.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
However, it is four fouls on Donovan Mitchell right now,
four fouls still late in the third quarter for him.
So that's gonna be something to watch. The way I
look at this game right the way I see this
game going. And you're gonna call me crazy, but you're crazy.
Even if it ends, Thank you, Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You're crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Even if it ends with Cleveland winning this game, I
still feel pretty good this What do you mean if
this feels like.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
The whole fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Have you seen an NBA game? These these leads tend
to disappear at times. Uh, this seems like a feeling
out game, and and the you know, look when when
when a team ends a series and one team hasn't
played in a while, another team has played just a
couple of days ago. Look, I thought this was gonna be, Hey,
James Harden was gonna be falling on a Sneakers and
it was gonna be a Knicks blowout. But obviously sometimes
(04:59):
we see that a team that has just played, Hey,
we're still in that mode playing every other day. Here
we are again, here, new opponent, and we've played. We
take you a little bit by surprise. I think everybody
is surprised the way the Cavaliers are playing, the way
they're moving, maneuvering the offense, they're getting down low. The
Knicks defense is not playing well again, they're over pursuing,
they're too aggressive. This feels like it's one of those okay,
(05:23):
feeling out games where it's not going well for the Knicks.
But I haven't seen anything tonight that tells me, all right,
this is going to be a problem the rest of
the series. The Knicks do have to figure out the
best way to guard Donovan Mitchell, because, as I said,
Josh Hart is not the answer. But outside of that,
I see a lot more aggressiveness from the Cavaliers. I
see a lot more of them moving around. And that's
kind of why we are where we are right now.
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I haven't seen where the Cavaliers are going to really
give anybody problems, the problems the rest of the series,
but I see tonight right now, this was not what
the Knicks had expected. Things are not going well. Their
body language is bad, and here we are at the
end of the third quarter and the Knicks are going
to be by at least fifteen going to the fourth.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
So while overall not a great night, I look.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
At it say, Okay, obviously the next game is a
big one, but I expect a big adjustment again still
fourth quarter ago, but I expect them to adjust more.
I haven't seen anything tonight that's really shary. Buried the
thunder last night and they went to double over Duk
all of a sudden, Wenby's turned into I am Superman,
I'm Galactus to.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Do that for three more games versus here. I mean,
they've handled you pretty easily.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, I think the Knick shooting is the Knick shooting
is gonna come back, and I don't think they're at home.
They're not gonna shoot like this from three. Brunson's not
gonna miss free throws like he is to the Pistons.
It's a it's a This is a bad night for
the Knicks, that's what.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And the Magic and the Celtics. You know, Look, I
thought it would be the reverse of this.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I thought the Knicks would be out after the hunger
and coming out, but I think they they get a
little bit of a reality check here. The playoffs have
gone so well for them. Yeah, I mean it's a
bad night, right, It's a bad night. Allen Brunt is
having a bad night. The Knicks have a bad night. Defensively,
everything is not going their way. Cleveland is playing well.
I give Cleveland a lot of credit. They have come
in attacking the basket, they're making the extra pass that
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the Knicks are doing a lot of things I have
not seen them do in the playoffs. So it's one game.
I honestly, I feel like it's just one game because
I'd be the first guy saying, well, I can't believe
I got loaned into this false use security went beating
the Sixers. Man, they stink Any would have lost to
the Celtics. No, I'd be giving you that if I
felt that way. I just feel like tonight not a
great night for them. And Game one and Game two
(07:32):
are gonna be two different things.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We shall see. We've got one more quarter to go
for this one. I like your optimism trying to stay
glass half full as you watch the replay of James
Wood and his inside the Park grand slam just moments
that was really a fortune so you were doing you No, hey,
you know what. He tried to make a tough play.
He tried to catch a fly balls so and didn't
catch it. No, no, no, that was that was Pete
(07:55):
Crow Armstrong against the Brewers with with plenty of space between.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I did not watch our watch.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He did not yell at a fan in the stands
and and lose his mind and.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Say bad stuff. He did not do that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Well. He at least crashed into a wall and made
an effort, whereas uh PCA was LOLLI gagging, much like
we've seen.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Defensively, just standing still. You would think with.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
All the days off, with the weight of everything that's
gone on and the hyperbole around this team, right, because
we owe to the fact that you haven't been on
the biggest stage since nineteen ninety nine. You got two
series and now in theory the Red Sea parted because
we got James Harden and Donovan Mitchell coming to town.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, well look, I mean, look, Mitchell has been terrific, right,
you know, showing up tonight wearing the Mets hat to
the game, which is a bit. Why is don bitch
wearing a Mets Obviously he's grown up, he's a New
York kid, he's a Mets fan, so it's hard for
me to hate him because he loves the Mets. I
do still have to hate it now because he's still
I still feel like, you know, he's wearing that hat
to troll de Troll.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Hey, you could have had me, but you do whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Danny Aings wanted the entire world where you just wouldn't
trade you to the Knicks, so it's not like it's
the Knicks fault.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
But yeah, this is a bit.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm excited to be back here and I'm gonna show you. Right,
he's like Reggie Miller or Halliburton walking back into the
garden where I am extra motivated because I'm playing in
Madison Square Garden where I'm not gonna be this guy
most other nights, but oh a MSG with the lights on, Look,
how good I'm gonna be right, that's the kind of
night that Mitchell is having.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well. But we talked about it, right, just the game
ones he has come to play. Now you just have
to see can you keep that energy defensively? What answer
do they have? That's the bigger question? Right, is this
the Knicks team that for the first half plus of
the season we openly mocked. He can go find all
sorts of tape about the lack of defensive acumen.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, look, I told you from the beginning, Josh Hart
on him is a bed. I told you last night
before we were talking about Game one. I feel like
I could coach the Nicks. I'm like Josh Hart on Donna.
Mitchell's not a great matchup. Josh Hart should be on
James Hardens.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Harden is going to try to foul bait. It's getting
late in the playoffs. He's thirty seven. As long as
the Knicks keep him off of the free throw line,
he's going to struggle. Josh Hart is the guy for
James Harden. Maybe you want bridges, Maybe Annonoby whatever it's
going to be, but it needs to be somebody a
little bit more athletic on Donovan Mitchell. And as you see,
Josh Hart is picking him up right at the arc
(10:21):
and Mitchell just blowing by him.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well, I mean this is not even close. Like, okay,
how much how much.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
More do you have to see that Josh Hart on
Donovan Mitchell is not working? Like I really expect there
to be a big change in the fourth quarter at least,
if anything, to set up Game two that Okay, it's
we're gonna make it a little bit harder for Donovan
Mitchell to really run things like he is tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Eleven of seventeen from the field is Mitchell right now?
He has shot one free throw James Harden zero, Nick
and Fournix and four Neck and four Jayson Nixon four.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It still can be Nixon four. We got the whole
fourth quarter, We got the whole fourth quarter. The go
Stott listen, dumb Hey, hey, how's that?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
How's that? What time the leg?
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
What sounds like you tonight? What time is it?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Like you didn't know this was coming?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
But you didn't know this is coming? You're just really.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Love was coming love, James Harden all of the poop.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
In their Really it really didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
That's all they do, Jason, I hope the Lakers are
enjoying kankun.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I hope you're enjoying your time. I'm left. I hope
of a sudden, your Nicks aren't that good? Are they?
My team is in the Eastern Conference Final, are they?
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They haven't showed up to.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
My team is I'm kind of watching them on television
right now. I'm watching them kind of.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Three quarters. I'm not watching good.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm not watching your team anywhere. I'm not watching your
team anywhere. I haven't seen your team anywhere in a while.
Maybe like better about your team getting blown out at home. No,
it makes me feel good that my team is playing
and your team is not not really paying just bitter
man really playing. The Knicks live rent free and they
rank free in your head.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
For X and four, But that's not possible anymore.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Never rooting for the Knicks and four. Harmon's not even
rooting for the Knicks and four garbage.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No no Knicks, no, no Knicks, no, no Knicks no.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Uh So we are into the fourth quarter. First minute's
still eighty three sixty nine Cavaliers with the lead. But
again it's not gone well. But I have not seen
anything crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You know, I'm a hardened guy, So I mean, you know,
the the old guys that are still out there, a
little bit of acting and whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
He's hiding in that beard. Yeah, I I am. I
am firmly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, well, look, they've not been good to I'm telling
you good shooters. They're all hiding everywhere.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
It's been.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I can't tell you one aspect of the Knicks tonight
that has gone well, right because they suck. Brunson has
not been good. Dude, Your team is right, yes, because
suck is what they do. Play in the Eastern Conference
finals back to back.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
When's the last time you got to a conference final?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
What's that? Seventeen eighteen championships? I lost?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
No, No, let's let's play. What have you done lately?
Because you're saying they always do this?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Sorry, this isn't about us to say about.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
This is a Wendy's doing the show tonight, right, This
is a Wendy's Yeah, and one team is showing team isn't.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Yeah, the Calves are playing in there.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
The Knicks live rent free in your head. He actually did.
Just get you there.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
And one team is playing tonight, the Cavaliers are playing.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Hey, Jason, your diaper's full.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Uh huh uh.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Just enjoy all the off season looking ahead at the draft,
because that's you should be doing right now. You're looking
ahead at the draft.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
That's what you're doing. That's what you do. I don't
know you can do that. Can you do that?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Can we do that? That's a stunday, we can do that. Okay,
just want to make sure. I just want to make sure.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
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Speaker 5 (13:39):
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Harden and Mitchell both with four fouls.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Again, Yeah, like I said, if I felt if I
felt awful, I would feel worse.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
You feel worse.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Did you have a big MAC before you came in
helping you? I I positivity. It's a it's a bad game.
It's like I said, it's a bad game. Everything is
not gone. Well, they've not shot free throws. Well, that's
a team. Everybody shot well, yea, everybody shot well. But
that's the thing is everybody go to the free throw line.
(14:17):
It's not the whole team, it's one guy goes to
the free throw line. Nothing has gone well and and
it's it's been a night for the Cavaliers. All the
loose balls, all the rebounds off of the long threes,
offensive boards.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
For them, everything is good. The Calves are playing great tonight.
I am I am okay with where they sit. Even
if they lose this game, I'll be all right. Everything
will be just fine. Trust me, it's all right. And
we still got another quarter to go. Maybe the Nichel
score seventy five points, we got tacos and against seventy
five points.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I don't know, they're still stuck at sixty nine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And the other thing is this game, this game, no
matter who you're rooting for, this game is not making
anybody forget about last night.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, no, you know what it is.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Much as you and I may have talked off hair
about what else is there to talk about last night?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I'd like to go back and revisit that game a
little bit more.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Can we just replay the the wemby Otani line that
is up and our social team did a great job
getting that up. That often imitated never duplicated today's takes
last night. But yeah, this game is certainly nobody's masterpiece.
No no, no, no, yeh as good as Mitchell has
been anybody not a whole lot that you hang your
(15:26):
hat on.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Here can we talk about Alex Crusoe.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
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Speaker 4 (17:24):
Don't look now, the Knicks have cut it to seventeen. Yeah,
the big three point shot, Allen. The Knicks have cut
it to seventeen uh ninety three, seventy six, pleasing with
the lead right now six and a half to go
in the fourth quarter. It has been all Cleveland since
just before halftime this game.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Cleveland got out to a big lead early. The Knicks
come back after a bad first six seven minutes. They
take the lead after the first quarter, Cavaliers run it
back to halftime, and they have been in control of
this game since the midway point of the second quarter,
and it has been.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Frosts are yelling Cavs and for uh.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Look, I'd be the first one to tell you if
I was so unbelievably worried. But it feels like an
adjustment game. It's an adjustment game for the Knicks, not
playing Cavaliers coming off how well they've played their big
win Sunday night. They're doing what they wanted to do
coming in here. It feels like it feels like an
adjustment game, where Okay, Game two is gonna look and
(18:22):
feel a lot different now. The pressure obviously, you want
to stay in this series. You gotta win game two.
It's a must win now. But I feel like I've
not seen again, I've not seen anything that tells me, Okay,
the Knicks clearly or out manages as a bad matchup
for them. They're over pursuing defensively, they have a bad
matchup on Donovan Mitchell. They gotta find the right guy
to put on him, because Josh Hard is not that guy.
(18:43):
Jalen Brunson is not that guy. You might you might
have to move things around a little bit, but you know, defensively,
the Knicks have found a way. So but outside of that,
it's like, okay, now we're adjusting from what we watch
with MAXI running the team and then and then then
beating the last round. Now here's Donovan Mitchell who's playing
at a high level. That's about them. That's what the
Knicks have to do is adjust for a game two.
(19:03):
But again, and it's an adjustment game. That's how I
look at it. Seen it many times, many many times,
many times I've seen it. Wow, they come in to
win game one and then all of a sudden, it's
a clinic the rest of the series.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
And that's where.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I go, You're gonna get a clinic sudden. So all
of the you know, either Nixon four or five seem
to be the consensus, Like, all right, I know they've
had a great year, and I know they're the people's
champion because everybody loves Jalen Bronson. They've grown to love
Karl Anthony Towns to a degree with his new role
(19:36):
and flow here you have an opportunity to send a
message home court you've been sitting on your ass for
a week. You couldn't get into the met gallup parties,
all of that stuff that you are ready to come
out and show the world that you're the big bad Knicks.
And there was no intensity, no ferocity at all from
(19:58):
this squad.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's been a stinker. It's been a it's been a
craptastic game. I can't, I can't, I can't he about it.
Get it's craptastic. They're terrible to this terrible Sunday they are.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Let's go through all of the playoff failures that we
have seen, such a Lacklanser's coverage.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
How many times you have to see, hey, here's a
couple of passes and it's mobile, or Jared Allen for
a slam down low, uncontested, like that's that's what the
game has been, men, they've been crap task.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
That's my fear is that the team we thought couldn't
play defense for the first half plus of the season
got fat against and all of a sudden, they got
a team that's willing to body up. Because you know,
as much as people dismiss the Cavaliers and a lot
of it is, you know they have a liking problems
with James harden Rest. These guys are pretty damn good,
(20:52):
especially when you talk about that front core.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oh, look, like I said, this is the game, this
is where we're gonna be at for game two.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You even got O g back and he's he has
shown he's a guy that is rusty like you, Gus.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
He's got three points tonight. He has not had a
big night. He has not impacted the game at all.
Like I said, it's you know, I expected it to
go the other way.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
But seeing how the game is going, because I've seen
a basketball game, adjustment game.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I just saw the super cut of the nine thousand
celebrities there. But I really do have to ask, does
the Jenner Shalo may breakup?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
But I don't know. I don't know that they're broken up.
I don't we're still friends.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He put it up on Yeah, but I but yeah,
I don't, you know, seeing some I'm not sure this
could wind up being the Now. This is where I
give the Cavaliers a lot of respect. If they are
trolling everybody, if they're behind this CHALLO may breakup like
with with with Kylie Jenner if they're behind this, Like, now,
that's genius to do that, right, you know game one
(21:52):
of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Hey, we have all we have, we have the videos
or the pit what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Jacob Elordi and her were supposedly in a in Hawaii
the past weekend together. Hey, guess what, Donna Mitchell's got
these minutes here? You know, TMZ, I know you don't
want to miss the boat like you did with Rabel
and Rassini. Here's the videos out there for you. Like
if this is a troll job by the calves, this isn't.
This is an epic troll job.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Because he was he was in what the Weathering Heights? Right,
and then he was in Frankenstein.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Yeah. I thought that movie was overrated and Weathering Heights
I didn't bother. There was a desire for here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There was a desire to see Frankenstein in another Weathering
Heights that was out there like, oh, you know what,
people want to see another remake? No, I mean you
know another remake of Weathering Heights. That's people want to see.
That's been a minute, that's what people want. Uh So
let's get a new Pride and prejudice hing. Yeah, while
we're at it, we'll have more on this game coming
up in a bed. Steve de Sager will have the
latest on what's trending. It is a twelve point lead
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now for the Calves with five and a half left
to go. The garden coming back to life a little bit.
Stop playing with your food. Now, if today went any
different a year ago, well I shouldn't say that doesn't
makes sense. So what happened today? Okay, base I would
saying this, there's a reality where Jason Kidd is coaching
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this game for the Knicks. Okay, it was last year.
If you remember when the Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau, what
was the first thing they want? Who was the first
coach and wanted to talk to? Jason Kidd?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Rick Buker joined us that I went and found it
a goal. I remember Buker telling us the first night
when they fired Tips, he was at the top of
their list. And Buker said, Jason Kidd is at the
top of the Knicks list who they want to talk to.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
The Mavericks said no, and we're gonna give you a
contract extension. Now, We're not gonna let you do it right,
and there was a lot of go I'm sure the
league was we're not gonna help the Knicks. We don't
want to make any of our guys available, even though
Jason Kidd seemed like he was open to talking to
the Knicks. But we're not letting you do it, not
letting you do it well. Fast forward a year where
today the MAVs fired Jason Kidd. They owe him forty
(23:51):
million dollars. They are eating the rest of that contract.
A year ago was we want to keep him from
the Knicks. We're gonna keep him here, and now a
year later, thing went so bad they want him gone.
They are eating forty million dollars. Forty million dollars to have.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Him go away.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now the story, according to a couple of sources, he
wanted a bigger role. He wanted to be able to
move upstairs a little bit, but when they hired massai
U Jerry, that wasn't happening. And now it's Jason Kidd
is out. They're looking for a new head coach for
Cooper Flag and they are starting over in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Twenty six and fifty six, he did coach the rookie
of the year, so he had that going for him,
but otherwise just an absolutely abysmal season. Look, he's always
been a guy seen as a bit abrasive, I think
would be the kind way to put it. So if
things are going south and there's such dysfunction around the
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organ and maybe Cooper flags like I can't do this,
I'm not running with this, and it was abysmal, and
it's not like he was playing with a full hand.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
By the way, Yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Guys you made deals for guys you counted on to
be part of this rotation. We're unavailable, old, defeated and unavailable,
and it was all about Cooper Flag. So you know,
I'm waiting for all the backstories to start flowing out
of this because you know, again, Jason Kidd's history isn't
exactly clean in most of the breakups with his past
(25:22):
coaching expeditions, but this he went thirty nine to forty three,
they win the one point eight percent shot to get
Cooper Flagg and then this year was just an unmitigated
slug and just a miserable eighty two game March.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Exit about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason Smith
Show with My Best Friend Mike Harmon. We'll have more
on the Jason Kidds situation coming up, because it's just
so poetic for them that, oh, we're doing all we can.
We want to keep you away from another team, and
now they got to eat all of that money.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The thing is, I get it with Jason Kidd, right,
I get it because you are getting to the new whatever.
You're getting to the new era of the Dallas Mavericks, right,
and this year didn't go well. It's built around Cooper
flag and so this is where you're at now.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So all right, so what do we do.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, Now, it didn't go great, and we need somebody
new to come in. The Luca trade went down, and
really you have Jason Kidd has left over. Now it's
everybody from the Luca trade now is gone, right, So
everybody who is there sure, and you're seeing a lot
of what today was. Oh there's no way Jason Kidd
wasn't in on Luca and all this blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. So now it's really part of
it is, yeah, you want to start over, but that
(26:37):
desire people forget the Luca trade is still hanging over
the organization. It's like this is something they probably should
have done a year ago, where we need to move
on from this because it's still hanging over the organization.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You can't get rid of all the players, right, but
what do we do? Anthony Davis has gone, Nico Harrison
has gone, now Jason Kidd has gone.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Where Cooper Flag driven? Sometimes you need to continue to
beat that entire bad vibe out of the organization to
say okay, before we can move on. And that's kind
of where you're at right now. Or Okay, here's a
guy who has left over and now we're now we
have new coach, new GM, new leadership, knew everything, new
Cooper Flag. We are putting this in the rear view mirror.
I would be surprised if they make an announcement that
(27:16):
the high the new head coach, no questions about the
Luca trade. Please, that is not who we are. We
have moved on from that, no new question. So there
is a part of that that's big.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Well, some of that you get away from it, and
everybody is kind of pointing fingers for the last year
pluces as to who knew what and how and why
and when and everything else and look, Kyrie Irving was
unavailable to you for the whole season, right, So I
mean there's there's a big part of what might have
been in terms of a player on the court, leadership,
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whatever else to help facilitate. Because Cooper Flag we watched
many a weary minute trying to do everything and handling
the ball and all of that. But to your point,
sometimes the organization should just needs to shift, even if
even if it doesn't look as bad in hindsight because
Luca was unavailable.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, So some of the guys are going, hey, I mean,
how many how many voices did you hear suddenly taking
kind of my tack to it of Nico.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I mean, look, maybe maybe it wasn't the worst.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
What we talked about a lot on the show, right
of health, contract, all of those things.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Suddenly it started to shift a little bit.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But you're never gonna get that out because the idea
of what Luca was is still too great even if
you got that one point eight percent consolation prize in
Cooper Flag.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
So just get that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
The part of it is, yes, Jason Kidd, you can
talk about, oh, what were the relationships like and what,
but part of it we just got to get outside.
A mean, what's left over from If we have the
same vending machines, we have to get rid of them,
all right. If we have the same if we have
carpet in the whole way, we have to change our
color scheme. We gotta change everything. We got to get
rid of everything that's left over from the Luca toxics era.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
We have bring back that old uh angry horse logo
that you ran with all those years when it was
when the green I like that, ye was pretty the
horse riding in for the apocalypse, right, the four horsemen.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So there it is for Jason Kidd. And don't look now,
but there's a game at the garden. The Knicks have
cut into the Cavaliers lead, and not just cut in it.
It is now. It is now a five point game.
Joining us now with the details on it is special
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Speaker 5 (29:36):
What do you got?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
The Calves were leading at New York ninety three seventy
one with under eight minutes to go, ninety four eighty nine,
now the lead with just over three minutes left, and
in the knicks long playoff history, in any playoff game
where they were down by thirteen or more at the
end of three. The Knicks have lost forty playoff games
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in a row in that scenario, back to nineteen seventy three,
a comeback against the Celtics. There wasn't much scoring in
the bulk of the first half. This is Game one
of the NBA's East Finals. Calves in the first quarter
only scored sixteen points, which tied for the fewest in
game one of a conference final in the last fourteen seasons.
But by the end of three the Calves were up
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fourteen points, and in Cleveland playoff history, when they're up
double digits to start the fourth quarter, they're sixty four
and one. Thing is the one loss in that scenario
was last year when they blew a fourteen point lead
and lost second round in a game to the Pacers.
Right now, it is Caves ninety seven to ninety at
New York under three minutes to go. Donovan Mitchell twenty
(30:42):
nine points and six steals. Calves have seventeen turnovers in
this game. The Knicks are led by Jalen Brunson's thirty
four points, although New York from three point range is
six for twenty six. Tomorrow, Game two of the West
Finals after the classic last night, when the Spurs took
the opener in double overtime at Oklahoma City. Victor Wim
(31:03):
and Yama had forty one points twenty four rebounds in
that game. San Antonio is now five to one against
OKC this season. Jason Kidd is no longer the MAVs
head coach. As the club put it, they mutually parted
ways as Kidd had four years left on his contract.
The new team president there in Dallas is messiou Cheery.
No NHL tonight, but Vancouver fired coach Adam Foot and
(31:24):
his staff after one season. That team has a new
general manager. The NHL's West Final starts Wednesday, Colorado host Vegas.
Vegas has yet to give permission for teams to interview
its former coach, Bruce Cassidy, who still has a year
left on his contract. Minneapolis was voted to host the
NFL Draft in twenty twenty eight, and Nashville will host
the Super Bowl in twenty thirty in its new stadium.
(31:46):
NFL owners voted on that today at the league spring meetings.
Arsenal clinch the Premier League title for the first time
in twenty two years. They had finished second three straight
years until this The league season ends this weekend, Arsenal
will be the Champions League, one of the two final
finals teams at the end of this month, going up
against parisander Man Carlos Alcarez will miss the French Open
(32:09):
and Wimbledon due to his wrist injury. He's already won
four all four majors in his career. The French Open
starts this Sunday. To Major League Baseball, the Cardinals have
scored two in the ninth, gaming up two and the
ninth to send it to a tenth inning. It's now
Pittsburgh sixth, Saint Louis six in the tenth. Trying to
keep an eye on this game in New York, they're
(32:30):
under two minutes to go now. The Cavs have just
taken a ninety nine to ninety three lead at New York,
again under two minutes to go in Game one of
the East Finals to Late Night Baseball. To the fourth inning,
Padres have four to two on the Dodgers thanks to
two two run homers against LA starter Emmitt Shean. Dodger
(32:50):
pitcher Blakesnell had his elbow surgery today. The Padres, who
won seven of nine, are the first place team in
the NL West half game over the LA Dodgers and Milwalk.
He is now first in the NL Central half game
over the Cubs. After winning in Chicago five to two
against the Cubbies winning pitcher Jacob Mazerowski six scoreless innings,
eight strikeouts. Tampa Bay is still three games up on
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the Yankees in the AL East. The Rays have won
twenty of twenty four. After beating Baltimore four to one,
the Yanks held on for a five to four victory
over Toronto, beating Dylan Cees. Yankees pitcher Garrett Cole will
make his season debut Friday against the Rays. After Tommy
John surgery last year, Cole missed all of last season.
Cincinnati won at Philadelphia four to one. That ends the
(33:35):
Phills five game winning streak. In fact, the Phillies offense
went three for twenty nine with fourteen strikeouts. Kyle Schwarber
of the home team was out again due to illness.
The Phillies record now sixteen and five under the interim
manager Don Mattingley. Wins for Atlanta and Cleveland on the road,
wins for Boston and Houston on the road, and in
DC the Mets were down, excuse me. Mets were up
(33:57):
five to nothing in the second inning. Bobashett a couple
of home run, but eventually the lost to Nolan MacLean
Washington nine to six over New York James Wood at
the Nationals and Inside the Park Grand Slam after the
left fielder missed a leaping at tenth at the outfield wall.
Updating the basketball, the Knicks have tied the Calves ninety
nine all under forty seconds to go in Game one
(34:19):
of the East Finals.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Jason, thank you, Steve O. A Landry Shammitt three. That's right,
a Landry Shammitt three that looked like the big Kawhi
Leonard three from the NBA Finals few years ago. That
hit the rim, hit the back of the rim, bounced up,
bounced down, bounced in to tie the game.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
It is now one oh one, one oh one.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Jalen Brunson with a layup that has tied the game
with sixteen seconds left to.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Gust it's a radio on the call.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Are we going to be seeing overtime? Will the Cavaliers
win it with a big shot from James Harden. I'll
tell you in a couple of seconds, because it looks
like we could be getting over time. The Knicks have
erased that twenty two point lead. The Cavaliers miss a
(35:10):
three at the buzzer. We go to overtime. One oh
one a piece. Didn't think this was coming. Hey when
I threw that out there to day, you know what, Hey,
it's not the game that was last night.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Oh, I don't know. We had a better fourth quarter
than last night. Go New York, Go New York. Co,
Go New York, New York Coat. No cheering in the
press box. One oh one, one oh one.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
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Eastern Conference Final. Stefan Marberry is clapping like crazy. That's
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Speaker 1 (37:00):
A scant forty nine minutes ago, nothing look possible, But
here we are now with two minutes to go in overtime,
and it's the Knicks with the basketball and a one
oh seven, one oh one lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
A twenty two point Cavaliers lead disappeared Jalen Brunson with
(37:25):
a bucket to tie the game at the end of regulation,
and now a Landry Sham at three has just given
the Knicks a one ten, one oh one lead with
a buck forty nine left to go in overtime. I
see your one great Wenby shining moment game and I
(37:47):
raise you one Knicks comeback.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
You look so upset, Mike Carmen.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
You do not I like sad Jason Smith that we
do not look happy right now. I don't like bad,
bad strategy, bad execution, and thinking that the clock's suddenly
going to disappear. This is like watching your favorite football
team go into a prevent defense and then watching a
lead road because that's what the Cavaliers did. Started playing
(38:13):
passive basketball, slow footed, no offensive vent. You actually had
a twenty four second violation. How many times do you
see that a basketball game?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
You don't do that because everybody's running to get a
three point shot up as fast as they can, no
matter what the size of the lead is.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And in this it's it's been miserable.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Harden's been awful, Mitchell's been erased, and Jalen Brunson took
over the game. Well look, it became the Jalen Brunson
Show in the fourth quarter, and so your tone and
tenor you were the low stephen A. Smith consol.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Ridiculous and now you're over the top and screening.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Well, I'll tell you what's happened.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
It was a twenty point lead, Brunton hits a three,
they get a turnover bucket, they cut it to fifteen,
and it was just slowly from there. The Knicks could
do no wrong. As bad as the first three quart
three and a half quarters were all of a sudden,
all the shots are going bank, shots are falling, and
it's insane to watch. And what the Cavaliers did was
(39:17):
they stopped going underneath and they started settling for threes,
and they kept taking threes, and Knicks would leave them
open for threes. They kept leaving them open threes, threes, threes,
and the Cavaliers kept missing, right, James Harden is not
having a big game, and the long rebounds the Knicks
were getting them, and they were coming up up and
down the floor making their shots, and the Cavaliers were
(39:38):
just settling right. This was a game where they were
on their heels. They were way on their heels and
the Knicks were able to continue to keep you know,
throw the hammer down there. They did hit a three,
you know, to give them a six point lead with
about a minute a half left to go, but the
Knicks would not be denied. And you look at this game.
You've seen it again, You've seen it so many times.
Here's a team with a big lead. We start playing
(39:58):
not to lose. We'll settle for threes. We've been making
our threes, okay so far in the game. Not anymore now,
sixteen to forty eight from three point range.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
They took eight three point shots in the fourth quarter.
They made three of them. They had four shot attempts
inside the paint. They go one of four.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
Like you've been living in the lane.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
For three plus quarters and you stop riddle' be that batman. Now,
there a couple of things. I'm sure Atkinson he's got
at least three or four calls, and he's gonna ask
raise a hand to Scott Foster and his crew and
be like, hey, what have we got here?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
But overall, you let a lead like you get nothing,
you get nothing. You get what you get.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
So one ten, one oh four, the Cavaliers did hit
a three to make it a six point game with
a minute forty five left to go in overtime. So
a nice timeout on the floor, a nice time to
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Speaker 3 (41:19):
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Speaker 5 (41:24):
Far it's still the third quarter. It's quarter of the game.
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Speaker 1 (41:35):
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Speaker 2 (41:49):
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Speaker 4 (41:49):
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Speaker 1 (42:09):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome A one
coming up next? Is it an unbelievable Game one comeback
from the Eastern Conference Finals, the opposite of what happened
to them last year? Or are the Cavaliers back on
their way to taking Game one? That's next Right here,
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Speaker 5 (00:50):
It's still the third quarter quarter of the game. It's
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
Fo Okay, save this So when the Knicks come back
and win, we play at the beginning of next down.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So we're never gonna play the same hell beginning of
next out considering what they've just watched this third quarter.
Because I'm watching it's it's sex and.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
It's not been great, Bob, No, it's not been great.
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buying should be. Minute a half to go in the
third quarter. The Cavaliers eighty one sixty six lead over
the Knicks. This third quarter for Cleveland has been incredible.
For the Knicks, it has been abysmal. They have just
fouled Mitchell Robinson. The last three times he has had
the basket, he has not made a free throw. The
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hacker Robinson working for the Cavaliers. It is a fifteen
point lead. They are doing whatever they want to Offensively.
They look like the team that is more polished coming
off rest. The Knicks look like a team that is
looking for answers, which is the exact opposite. Obviously, with
the Knicks coming off the big rest, the Cavaliers having
played on Sunday and right now they are enjoying the
(02:23):
vapors of that seven game win. And really it's been
the Cavaliers in the third quarter. The Knicks are chasing defensively,
they're over pursuing so much, and Josh Hart on Donovan
Mitchell is just not working right at the beginning of
the third quarter, I said, this is not working, gotta
change it up. This is not working that he is
absolutely torching Josh Hart. Mitchell is the only one really
(02:46):
having a phenomenal game on the Cavaliers tonight. Everything is
going through him. He's got six deals to go along
with the twenty four points. Cavaliers are up big with
a minute to go in the third.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, thirteen career playoff games game ones for Donovan Mitchell.
He's averaged thirty three points a game en route to
another one of those performances.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Tonight.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He's been fantastic. You look at Harden's plus nineteen only
nine points, which matches the season low that occurred in
the game seven. But offensively, they've just been motoring through
the Knicks roster. And we've talked about it a lot
of wondering how much the end of the regular season
and the first couple of rounds were really indicative of
(03:30):
where they're at defensively, or whether that could be exposed
and tonight flat footed, a lot of standing around and
opportunities getting to the rim. You've seen some wide open
into the lane for Mitchell for Harden, and then talk
about turnovers. It's been fairly ugly in that regard over
the course of the night, and the Knicks cold shooting
(03:50):
out the gay They're four of twenty three from three
point range.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah, it's not been great. It's not been great. And
you guy, hey, I'll give you a positive. Yeah. The
rest of the are ten of eleven from the follow up.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, no, everybody else long as Mitchell Robinson stays the hell.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Away from the game, everybody else is great.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
However, it is four fouls on Donovan Mitchell right now,
four fouls still late in the third quarter for him.
So that's gonna be something to watch. The way I
look at this game right the way I see this
game going. And you're gonna call me crazy, but you're crazy.
Even if it ends, Thank you, Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You're crazy.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Even if it ends with Cleveland winning this game, I
still feel pretty good this What do you mean if
this feels like.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
The whole fourth quarter?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Have you seen an NBA game? These these leads tend
to disappear at times. Uh, this seems like a feeling
out game, and and the you know, look when when
when a team ends a series and one team hasn't
played in a while, another team has played just a
couple of days ago. Look, I thought this was gonna be, Hey,
James Harden was gonna be falling on a Sneakers and
it was gonna be a Knicks blowout. But obviously sometimes
(04:59):
we see that a team that has just played, Hey,
we're still in that mode playing every other day. Here
we are again, here, new opponent, and we've played. We
take you a little bit by surprise. I think everybody
is surprised the way the Cavaliers are playing, the way
they're moving, maneuvering the offense, they're getting down low. The
Knicks defense is not playing well again, they're over pursuing,
they're too aggressive. This feels like it's one of those okay,
(05:23):
feeling out games where it's not going well for the Knicks.
But I haven't seen anything tonight that tells me, all right,
this is going to be a problem the rest of
the series. The Knicks do have to figure out the
best way to guard Donovan Mitchell, because, as I said,
Josh Hart is not the answer. But outside of that,
I see a lot more aggressiveness from the Cavaliers. I
see a lot more of them moving around. And that's
kind of why we are where we are right now.
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I haven't seen where the Cavaliers are going to really
give anybody problems, the problems the rest of the series,
but I see tonight right now, this was not what
the Knicks had expected. Things are not going well. Their
body language is bad, and here we are at the
end of the third quarter and the Knicks are going
to be by at least fifteen going to the fourth.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
So while overall not a great night, I look.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
At it say, Okay, obviously the next game is a
big one, but I expect a big adjustment again still
fourth quarter ago, but I expect them to adjust more.
I haven't seen anything tonight that's really shary. Buried the
thunder last night and they went to double over Duk
all of a sudden, Wenby's turned into I am Superman,
I'm Galactus to.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Do that for three more games versus here. I mean,
they've handled you pretty easily.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah, I think the Knick shooting is the Knick shooting
is gonna come back, and I don't think they're at home.
They're not gonna shoot like this from three. Brunson's not
gonna miss free throws like he is to the Pistons.
It's a it's a This is a bad night for
the Knicks, that's what.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And the Magic and the Celtics. You know, Look, I
thought it would be the reverse of this.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I thought the Knicks would be out after the hunger
and coming out, but I think they they get a
little bit of a reality check here. The playoffs have
gone so well for them. Yeah, I mean it's a
bad night, right, It's a bad night. Allen Brunt is
having a bad night. The Knicks have a bad night. Defensively,
everything is not going their way. Cleveland is playing well.
I give Cleveland a lot of credit. They have come
in attacking the basket, they're making the extra pass that
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the Knicks are doing a lot of things I have
not seen them do in the playoffs. So it's one game.
I honestly, I feel like it's just one game because
I'd be the first guy saying, well, I can't believe
I got loaned into this false use security went beating
the Sixers. Man, they stink Any would have lost to
the Celtics. No, I'd be giving you that if I
felt that way. I just feel like tonight not a
great night for them. And Game one and Game two
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are gonna be two different things.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We shall see. We've got one more quarter to go
for this one. I like your optimism trying to stay
glass half full as you watch the replay of James
Wood and his inside the Park grand slam just moments
that was really a fortune so you were doing you No, hey,
you know what. He tried to make a tough play.
He tried to catch a fly balls so and didn't
catch it. No, no, no, that was that was Pete
(07:55):
Crow Armstrong against the Brewers with with plenty of space between.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I did not watch our watch.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He did not yell at a fan in the stands
and and lose his mind and.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Say bad stuff. He did not do that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Well. He at least crashed into a wall and made
an effort, whereas uh PCA was LOLLI gagging, much like
we've seen.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Defensively, just standing still. You would think with.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
All the days off, with the weight of everything that's
gone on and the hyperbole around this team, right, because
we owe to the fact that you haven't been on
the biggest stage since nineteen ninety nine. You got two
series and now in theory the Red Sea parted because
we got James Harden and Donovan Mitchell coming to town.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, well look, I mean, look, Mitchell has been terrific, right,
you know, showing up tonight wearing the Mets hat to
the game, which is a bit. Why is don bitch
wearing a Mets Obviously he's grown up, he's a New
York kid, he's a Mets fan, so it's hard for
me to hate him because he loves the Mets. I
do still have to hate it now because he's still
I still feel like, you know, he's wearing that hat
to troll de Troll.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Hey, you could have had me, but you do whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Danny Aings wanted the entire world where you just wouldn't
trade you to the Knicks, so it's not like it's
the Knicks fault.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
But yeah, this is a bit.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm excited to be back here and I'm gonna show you. Right,
he's like Reggie Miller or Halliburton walking back into the
garden where I am extra motivated because I'm playing in
Madison Square Garden where I'm not gonna be this guy
most other nights, but oh a MSG with the lights on, Look,
how good I'm gonna be right, that's the kind of
night that Mitchell is having.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Well. But we talked about it, right, just the game
ones he has come to play. Now you just have
to see can you keep that energy defensively? What answer
do they have? That's the bigger question? Right, is this
the Knicks team that for the first half plus of
the season we openly mocked. He can go find all
sorts of tape about the lack of defensive acumen.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, look, I told you from the beginning, Josh Hart
on him is a bed. I told you last night
before we were talking about Game one. I feel like
I could coach the Nicks. I'm like Josh Hart on Donna.
Mitchell's not a great matchup. Josh Hart should be on
James Hardens.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Harden is going to try to foul bait. It's getting
late in the playoffs. He's thirty seven. As long as
the Knicks keep him off of the free throw line,
he's going to struggle. Josh Hart is the guy for
James Harden. Maybe you want bridges, Maybe Annonoby whatever it's
going to be, but it needs to be somebody a
little bit more athletic on Donovan Mitchell. And as you see,
Josh Hart is picking him up right at the arc
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and Mitchell just blowing by him.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well, I mean this is not even close. Like, okay,
how much how much.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
More do you have to see that Josh Hart on
Donovan Mitchell is not working? Like I really expect there
to be a big change in the fourth quarter at least,
if anything, to set up Game two that Okay, it's
we're gonna make it a little bit harder for Donovan
Mitchell to really run things like he is tonight.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Eleven of seventeen from the field is Mitchell right now?
He has shot one free throw James Harden zero, Nick
and Fournix and four Neck and four Jayson Nixon four.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It still can be Nixon four. We got the whole
fourth quarter, We got the whole fourth quarter. The go
Stott listen, dumb Hey, hey, how's that?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
How's that? What time the leg?
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Exactly?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
What sounds like you tonight? What time is it?
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Like you didn't know this was coming?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
But you didn't know this is coming? You're just really.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Love was coming love, James Harden all of the poop.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
In their Really it really didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
That's all they do, Jason, I hope the Lakers are
enjoying kankun.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I hope you're enjoying your time. I'm left. I hope
of a sudden, your Nicks aren't that good? Are they?
My team is in the Eastern Conference Final, are they?
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They haven't showed up to.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
My team is I'm kind of watching them on television
right now. I'm watching them kind of.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Three quarters. I'm not watching good.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
I'm not watching your team anywhere. I'm not watching your
team anywhere. I haven't seen your team anywhere in a while.
Maybe like better about your team getting blown out at home. No,
it makes me feel good that my team is playing
and your team is not not really paying just bitter
man really playing. The Knicks live rent free and they
rank free in your head.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
For X and four, But that's not possible anymore.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Never rooting for the Knicks and four. Harmon's not even
rooting for the Knicks and four garbage.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No no Knicks, no, no Knicks, no, no Knicks no.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Uh So we are into the fourth quarter. First minute's
still eighty three sixty nine Cavaliers with the lead. But
again it's not gone well. But I have not seen
anything crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You know, I'm a hardened guy, So I mean, you know,
the the old guys that are still out there, a
little bit of acting and whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
He's hiding in that beard. Yeah, I I am. I
am firmly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, well, look, they've not been good to I'm telling
you good shooters. They're all hiding everywhere.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
It's been.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I can't tell you one aspect of the Knicks tonight
that has gone well, right because they suck. Brunson has
not been good. Dude, Your team is right, yes, because
suck is what they do. Play in the Eastern Conference
finals back to back.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
When's the last time you got to a conference final?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
What's that? Seventeen eighteen championships? I lost?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
No, No, let's let's play. What have you done lately?
Because you're saying they always do this?
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Sorry, this isn't about us to say about.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
This is a Wendy's doing the show tonight, right, This
is a Wendy's Yeah, and one team is showing team isn't.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Yeah, the Calves are playing in there.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
The Knicks live rent free in your head. He actually did.
Just get you there.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
And one team is playing tonight, the Cavaliers are playing.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Hey, Jason, your diaper's full.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Uh huh uh.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Just enjoy all the off season looking ahead at the draft,
because that's you should be doing right now. You're looking
ahead at the draft.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
That's what you're doing. That's what you do. I don't
know you can do that. Can you do that?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Can we do that? That's a stunday, we can do that. Okay,
just want to make sure. I just want to make sure.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
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Speaker 5 (13:39):
No, that's oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
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Harden and Mitchell both with four fouls.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Again, Yeah, like I said, if I felt if I
felt awful, I would feel worse.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
You feel worse.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Did you have a big MAC before you came in
helping you? I I positivity. It's a it's a bad game.
It's like I said, it's a bad game. Everything is
not gone. Well, they've not shot free throws. Well, that's
a team. Everybody shot well, yea, everybody shot well. But
that's the thing is everybody go to the free throw line.
(14:17):
It's not the whole team, it's one guy goes to
the free throw line. Nothing has gone well and and
it's it's been a night for the Cavaliers. All the
loose balls, all the rebounds off of the long threes,
offensive boards.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
For them, everything is good. The Calves are playing great tonight.
I am I am okay with where they sit. Even
if they lose this game, I'll be all right. Everything
will be just fine. Trust me, it's all right. And
we still got another quarter to go. Maybe the Nichel
score seventy five points, we got tacos and against seventy
five points.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I don't know, they're still stuck at sixty nine. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And the other thing is this game, this game, no
matter who you're rooting for, this game is not making
anybody forget about last night.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No, no, you know what it is.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Much as you and I may have talked off hair
about what else is there to talk about last night?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
I'd like to go back and revisit that game a
little bit more.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Can we just replay the the wemby Otani line that
is up and our social team did a great job
getting that up. That often imitated never duplicated today's takes
last night. But yeah, this game is certainly nobody's masterpiece.
No no, no, no, yeh as good as Mitchell has
been anybody not a whole lot that you hang your
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hat on.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Here can we talk about Alex Crusoe.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
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Speaker 5 (15:44):
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Speaker 4 (17:24):
Don't look now, the Knicks have cut it to seventeen. Yeah,
the big three point shot, Allen. The Knicks have cut
it to seventeen uh ninety three, seventy six, pleasing with
the lead right now six and a half to go
in the fourth quarter. It has been all Cleveland since
just before halftime this game.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Cleveland got out to a big lead early. The Knicks
come back after a bad first six seven minutes. They
take the lead after the first quarter, Cavaliers run it
back to halftime, and they have been in control of
this game since the midway point of the second quarter,
and it has been.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Frosts are yelling Cavs and for uh.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Look, I'd be the first one to tell you if
I was so unbelievably worried. But it feels like an
adjustment game. It's an adjustment game for the Knicks, not
playing Cavaliers coming off how well they've played their big
win Sunday night. They're doing what they wanted to do
coming in here. It feels like it feels like an
adjustment game, where Okay, Game two is gonna look and
(18:22):
feel a lot different now. The pressure obviously, you want
to stay in this series. You gotta win game two.
It's a must win now. But I feel like I've
not seen again, I've not seen anything that tells me, Okay,
the Knicks clearly or out manages as a bad matchup
for them. They're over pursuing defensively, they have a bad
matchup on Donovan Mitchell. They gotta find the right guy
to put on him, because Josh Hard is not that guy.
(18:43):
Jalen Brunson is not that guy. You might you might
have to move things around a little bit, but you know, defensively,
the Knicks have found a way. So but outside of that,
it's like, okay, now we're adjusting from what we watch
with MAXI running the team and then and then then
beating the last round. Now here's Donovan Mitchell who's playing
at a high level. That's about them. That's what the
Knicks have to do is adjust for a game two.
(19:03):
But again, and it's an adjustment game. That's how I
look at it. Seen it many times, many many times,
many times I've seen it. Wow, they come in to
win game one and then all of a sudden, it's
a clinic the rest of the series.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
And that's where.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I go, You're gonna get a clinic sudden. So all
of the you know, either Nixon four or five seem
to be the consensus, Like, all right, I know they've
had a great year, and I know they're the people's
champion because everybody loves Jalen Bronson. They've grown to love
Karl Anthony Towns to a degree with his new role
(19:36):
and flow here you have an opportunity to send a
message home court you've been sitting on your ass for
a week. You couldn't get into the met gallup parties,
all of that stuff that you are ready to come
out and show the world that you're the big bad Knicks.
And there was no intensity, no ferocity at all from
(19:58):
this squad.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's been a stinker. It's been a it's been a
craptastic game. I can't, I can't, I can't he about it.
Get it's craptastic. They're terrible to this terrible Sunday they are.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Let's go through all of the playoff failures that we
have seen, such a Lacklanser's coverage.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
How many times you have to see, hey, here's a
couple of passes and it's mobile, or Jared Allen for
a slam down low, uncontested, like that's that's what the
game has been, men, they've been crap task.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
That's my fear is that the team we thought couldn't
play defense for the first half plus of the season
got fat against and all of a sudden, they got
a team that's willing to body up. Because you know,
as much as people dismiss the Cavaliers and a lot
of it is, you know they have a liking problems
with James harden Rest. These guys are pretty damn good,
(20:52):
especially when you talk about that front core.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oh, look, like I said, this is the game, this
is where we're gonna be at for game two.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You even got O g back and he's he has
shown he's a guy that is rusty like you, Gus.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
He's got three points tonight. He has not had a
big night. He has not impacted the game at all.
Like I said, it's you know, I expected it to
go the other way.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
But seeing how the game is going, because I've seen
a basketball game, adjustment game.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I just saw the super cut of the nine thousand
celebrities there. But I really do have to ask, does
the Jenner Shalo may breakup?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
But I don't know. I don't know that they're broken up.
I don't we're still friends.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
He put it up on Yeah, but I but yeah,
I don't, you know, seeing some I'm not sure this
could wind up being the Now. This is where I
give the Cavaliers a lot of respect. If they are
trolling everybody, if they're behind this CHALLO may breakup like
with with with Kylie Jenner if they're behind this, Like, now,
that's genius to do that, right, you know game one
(21:52):
of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Hey, we have all we have, we have the videos
or the pit what is it?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Jacob Elordi and her were supposedly in a in Hawaii
the past weekend together. Hey, guess what, Donna Mitchell's got
these minutes here? You know, TMZ, I know you don't
want to miss the boat like you did with Rabel
and Rassini. Here's the videos out there for you. Like
if this is a troll job by the calves, this isn't.
This is an epic troll job.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Because he was he was in what the Weathering Heights? Right,
and then he was in Frankenstein.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Yeah. I thought that movie was overrated and Weathering Heights
I didn't bother. There was a desire for here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
There was a desire to see Frankenstein in another Weathering
Heights that was out there like, oh, you know what,
people want to see another remake? No, I mean you
know another remake of Weathering Heights. That's people want to see.
That's been a minute, that's what people want. Uh So
let's get a new Pride and prejudice hing. Yeah, while
we're at it, we'll have more on this game coming
up in a bed. Steve de Sager will have the
latest on what's trending. It is a twelve point lead
(22:45):
now for the Calves with five and a half left
to go. The garden coming back to life a little bit.
Stop playing with your food. Now, if today went any
different a year ago, well I shouldn't say that doesn't
makes sense. So what happened today? Okay, base I would
saying this, there's a reality where Jason Kidd is coaching
(23:07):
this game for the Knicks. Okay, it was last year.
If you remember when the Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau, what
was the first thing they want? Who was the first
coach and wanted to talk to? Jason Kidd?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Rick Buker joined us that I went and found it
a goal. I remember Buker telling us the first night
when they fired Tips, he was at the top of
their list. And Buker said, Jason Kidd is at the
top of the Knicks list who they want to talk to.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
The Mavericks said no, and we're gonna give you a
contract extension. Now, We're not gonna let you do it right,
and there was a lot of go I'm sure the
league was we're not gonna help the Knicks. We don't
want to make any of our guys available, even though
Jason Kidd seemed like he was open to talking to
the Knicks. But we're not letting you do it, not
letting you do it well. Fast forward a year where
today the MAVs fired Jason Kidd. They owe him forty
(23:51):
million dollars. They are eating the rest of that contract.
A year ago was we want to keep him from
the Knicks. We're gonna keep him here, and now a
year later, thing went so bad they want him gone.
They are eating forty million dollars. Forty million dollars to have.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Him go away.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now the story, according to a couple of sources, he
wanted a bigger role. He wanted to be able to
move upstairs a little bit, but when they hired massai
U Jerry, that wasn't happening. And now it's Jason Kidd
is out. They're looking for a new head coach for
Cooper Flag and they are starting over in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Twenty six and fifty six, he did coach the rookie
of the year, so he had that going for him,
but otherwise just an absolutely abysmal season. Look, he's always
been a guy seen as a bit abrasive, I think
would be the kind way to put it. So if
things are going south and there's such dysfunction around the
(24:46):
organ and maybe Cooper flags like I can't do this,
I'm not running with this, and it was abysmal, and
it's not like he was playing with a full hand.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
By the way, Yeah, like.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Guys you made deals for guys you counted on to
be part of this rotation. We're unavailable, old, defeated and unavailable,
and it was all about Cooper Flag. So you know,
I'm waiting for all the backstories to start flowing out
of this because you know, again, Jason Kidd's history isn't
exactly clean in most of the breakups with his past
(25:22):
coaching expeditions, but this he went thirty nine to forty three,
they win the one point eight percent shot to get
Cooper Flagg and then this year was just an unmitigated
slug and just a miserable eighty two game March.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Exit about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason Smith
Show with My Best Friend Mike Harmon. We'll have more
on the Jason Kidds situation coming up, because it's just
so poetic for them that, oh, we're doing all we can.
We want to keep you away from another team, and
now they got to eat all of that money.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
The thing is, I get it with Jason Kidd, right,
I get it because you are getting to the new whatever.
You're getting to the new era of the Dallas Mavericks, right,
and this year didn't go well. It's built around Cooper
flag and so this is where you're at now.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So all right, so what do we do.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, Now, it didn't go great, and we need somebody
new to come in. The Luca trade went down, and
really you have Jason Kidd has left over. Now it's
everybody from the Luca trade now is gone, right, So
everybody who is there sure, and you're seeing a lot
of what today was. Oh there's no way Jason Kidd
wasn't in on Luca and all this blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. So now it's really part of
it is, yeah, you want to start over, but that
(26:37):
desire people forget the Luca trade is still hanging over
the organization. It's like this is something they probably should
have done a year ago, where we need to move
on from this because it's still hanging over the organization.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
You can't get rid of all the players, right, but
what do we do? Anthony Davis has gone, Nico Harrison
has gone, now Jason Kidd has gone.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Where Cooper Flag driven? Sometimes you need to continue to
beat that entire bad vibe out of the organization to
say okay, before we can move on. And that's kind
of where you're at right now. Or Okay, here's a
guy who has left over and now we're now we
have new coach, new GM, new leadership, knew everything, new
Cooper Flag. We are putting this in the rear view mirror.
I would be surprised if they make an announcement that
(27:16):
the high the new head coach, no questions about the
Luca trade. Please, that is not who we are. We
have moved on from that, no new question. So there
is a part of that that's big.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Well, some of that you get away from it, and
everybody is kind of pointing fingers for the last year
pluces as to who knew what and how and why
and when and everything else and look, Kyrie Irving was
unavailable to you for the whole season, right, So I
mean there's there's a big part of what might have
been in terms of a player on the court, leadership,
(27:46):
whatever else to help facilitate. Because Cooper Flag we watched
many a weary minute trying to do everything and handling
the ball and all of that. But to your point,
sometimes the organization should just needs to shift, even if
even if it doesn't look as bad in hindsight because
Luca was unavailable.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Yeah, So some of the guys are going, hey, I mean,
how many how many voices did you hear suddenly taking
kind of my tack to it of Nico.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
I mean, look, maybe maybe it wasn't the worst.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
What we talked about a lot on the show, right
of health, contract, all of those things.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Suddenly it started to shift a little bit.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
But you're never gonna get that out because the idea
of what Luca was is still too great even if
you got that one point eight percent consolation prize in
Cooper Flag.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
So just get that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
The part of it is, yes, Jason Kidd, you can
talk about, oh, what were the relationships like and what,
but part of it we just got to get outside.
A mean, what's left over from If we have the
same vending machines, we have to get rid of them,
all right. If we have the same if we have
carpet in the whole way, we have to change our
color scheme. We gotta change everything. We got to get
rid of everything that's left over from the Luca toxics era.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
We have bring back that old uh angry horse logo
that you ran with all those years when it was
when the green I like that, ye was pretty the
horse riding in for the apocalypse, right, the four horsemen.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So there it is for Jason Kidd. And don't look now,
but there's a game at the garden. The Knicks have
cut into the Cavaliers lead, and not just cut in it.
It is now. It is now a five point game.
Joining us now with the details on it is special
(29:34):
delivery Steve to Sega SD.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
What do you got?
Speaker 6 (29:37):
The Calves were leading at New York ninety three seventy
one with under eight minutes to go, ninety four eighty nine,
now the lead with just over three minutes left, and
in the knicks long playoff history, in any playoff game
where they were down by thirteen or more at the
end of three. The Knicks have lost forty playoff games
(29:58):
in a row in that scenario, back to nineteen seventy three,
a comeback against the Celtics. There wasn't much scoring in
the bulk of the first half. This is Game one
of the NBA's East Finals. Calves in the first quarter
only scored sixteen points, which tied for the fewest in
game one of a conference final in the last fourteen seasons.
But by the end of three the Calves were up
(30:19):
fourteen points, and in Cleveland playoff history, when they're up
double digits to start the fourth quarter, they're sixty four
and one. Thing is the one loss in that scenario
was last year when they blew a fourteen point lead
and lost second round in a game to the Pacers.
Right now, it is Caves ninety seven to ninety at
New York under three minutes to go. Donovan Mitchell twenty
(30:42):
nine points and six steals. Calves have seventeen turnovers in
this game. The Knicks are led by Jalen Brunson's thirty
four points, although New York from three point range is
six for twenty six. Tomorrow, Game two of the West
Finals after the classic last night, when the Spurs took
the opener in double overtime at Oklahoma City. Victor Wim
(31:03):
and Yama had forty one points twenty four rebounds in
that game. San Antonio is now five to one against
OKC this season. Jason Kidd is no longer the MAVs
head coach. As the club put it, they mutually parted
ways as Kidd had four years left on his contract.
The new team president there in Dallas is messiou Cheery.
No NHL tonight, but Vancouver fired coach Adam Foot and
(31:24):
his staff after one season. That team has a new
general manager. The NHL's West Final starts Wednesday, Colorado host Vegas.
Vegas has yet to give permission for teams to interview
its former coach, Bruce Cassidy, who still has a year
left on his contract. Minneapolis was voted to host the
NFL Draft in twenty twenty eight, and Nashville will host
the Super Bowl in twenty thirty in its new stadium.
(31:46):
NFL owners voted on that today at the league spring meetings.
Arsenal clinch the Premier League title for the first time
in twenty two years. They had finished second three straight
years until this The league season ends this weekend, Arsenal
will be the Champions League, one of the two final
finals teams at the end of this month, going up
against parisander Man Carlos Alcarez will miss the French Open
(32:09):
and Wimbledon due to his wrist injury. He's already won
four all four majors in his career. The French Open
starts this Sunday. To Major League Baseball, the Cardinals have
scored two in the ninth, gaming up two and the
ninth to send it to a tenth inning. It's now
Pittsburgh sixth, Saint Louis six in the tenth. Trying to
keep an eye on this game in New York, they're
(32:30):
under two minutes to go now. The Cavs have just
taken a ninety nine to ninety three lead at New York,
again under two minutes to go in Game one of
the East Finals to Late Night Baseball. To the fourth inning,
Padres have four to two on the Dodgers thanks to
two two run homers against LA starter Emmitt Shean. Dodger
(32:50):
pitcher Blakesnell had his elbow surgery today. The Padres, who
won seven of nine, are the first place team in
the NL West half game over the LA Dodgers and Milwalk.
He is now first in the NL Central half game
over the Cubs. After winning in Chicago five to two
against the Cubbies winning pitcher Jacob Mazerowski six scoreless innings,
eight strikeouts. Tampa Bay is still three games up on
(33:12):
the Yankees in the AL East. The Rays have won
twenty of twenty four. After beating Baltimore four to one,
the Yanks held on for a five to four victory
over Toronto, beating Dylan Cees. Yankees pitcher Garrett Cole will
make his season debut Friday against the Rays. After Tommy
John surgery last year, Cole missed all of last season.
Cincinnati won at Philadelphia four to one. That ends the
(33:35):
Phills five game winning streak. In fact, the Phillies offense
went three for twenty nine with fourteen strikeouts. Kyle Schwarber
of the home team was out again due to illness.
The Phillies record now sixteen and five under the interim
manager Don Mattingley. Wins for Atlanta and Cleveland on the road,
wins for Boston and Houston on the road, and in
DC the Mets were down, excuse me. Mets were up
(33:57):
five to nothing in the second inning. Bobashett a couple
of home run, but eventually the lost to Nolan MacLean
Washington nine to six over New York James Wood at
the Nationals and Inside the Park Grand Slam after the
left fielder missed a leaping at tenth at the outfield wall.
Updating the basketball, the Knicks have tied the Calves ninety
nine all under forty seconds to go in Game one
(34:19):
of the East Finals.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Jason, thank you, Steve O. A Landry Shammitt three. That's right,
a Landry Shammitt three that looked like the big Kawhi
Leonard three from the NBA Finals few years ago. That
hit the rim, hit the back of the rim, bounced up,
bounced down, bounced in to tie the game.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
It is now one oh one, one oh one.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Jalen Brunson with a layup that has tied the game
with sixteen seconds left to.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Gust it's a radio on the call.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Are we going to be seeing overtime? Will the Cavaliers
win it with a big shot from James Harden. I'll
tell you in a couple of seconds, because it looks
like we could be getting over time. The Knicks have
erased that twenty two point lead. The Cavaliers miss a
(35:10):
three at the buzzer. We go to overtime. One oh
one a piece. Didn't think this was coming. Hey when
I threw that out there to day, you know what, Hey,
it's not the game that was last night.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Oh, I don't know. We had a better fourth quarter
than last night. Go New York, Go New York. Co,
Go New York, New York Coat. No cheering in the
press box. One oh one, one oh one.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
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Eastern Conference Final. Stefan Marberry is clapping like crazy. That's
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Speaker 2 (36:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (37:00):
A scant forty nine minutes ago, nothing look possible, But
here we are now with two minutes to go in overtime,
and it's the Knicks with the basketball and a one
oh seven, one oh one lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
A twenty two point Cavaliers lead disappeared Jalen Brunson with
(37:25):
a bucket to tie the game at the end of regulation,
and now a Landry Sham at three has just given
the Knicks a one ten, one oh one lead with
a buck forty nine left to go in overtime. I
see your one great Wenby shining moment game and I
(37:47):
raise you one Knicks comeback.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
You look so upset, Mike Carmen.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
You do not I like sad Jason Smith that we
do not look happy right now. I don't like bad,
bad strategy, bad execution, and thinking that the clock's suddenly
going to disappear. This is like watching your favorite football
team go into a prevent defense and then watching a
lead road because that's what the Cavaliers did. Started playing
(38:13):
passive basketball, slow footed, no offensive vent. You actually had
a twenty four second violation. How many times do you
see that a basketball game?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (38:23):
You don't do that because everybody's running to get a
three point shot up as fast as they can, no
matter what the size of the lead is.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
And in this it's it's been miserable.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Harden's been awful, Mitchell's been erased, and Jalen Brunson took
over the game. Well look, it became the Jalen Brunson
Show in the fourth quarter, and so your tone and
tenor you were the low stephen A. Smith consol.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Ridiculous and now you're over the top and screening.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Well, I'll tell you what's happened.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
It was a twenty point lead, Brunton hits a three,
they get a turnover bucket, they cut it to fifteen,
and it was just slowly from there. The Knicks could
do no wrong. As bad as the first three quart
three and a half quarters were all of a sudden,
all the shots are going bank, shots are falling, and
it's insane to watch. And what the Cavaliers did was
(39:17):
they stopped going underneath and they started settling for threes,
and they kept taking threes, and Knicks would leave them
open for threes. They kept leaving them open threes, threes, threes,
and the Cavaliers kept missing, right, James Harden is not
having a big game, and the long rebounds the Knicks
were getting them, and they were coming up up and
down the floor making their shots, and the Cavaliers were
(39:38):
just settling right. This was a game where they were
on their heels. They were way on their heels and
the Knicks were able to continue to keep you know,
throw the hammer down there. They did hit a three,
you know, to give them a six point lead with
about a minute a half left to go, but the
Knicks would not be denied. And you look at this game.
You've seen it again, You've seen it so many times.
Here's a team with a big lead. We start playing
(39:58):
not to lose. We'll settle for threes. We've been making
our threes, okay so far in the game. Not anymore now,
sixteen to forty eight from three point range.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
They took eight three point shots in the fourth quarter.
They made three of them. They had four shot attempts
inside the paint. They go one of four.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
Like you've been living in the lane.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
For three plus quarters and you stop riddle' be that batman. Now,
there a couple of things. I'm sure Atkinson he's got
at least three or four calls, and he's gonna ask
raise a hand to Scott Foster and his crew and
be like, hey, what have we got here?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
But overall, you let a lead like you get nothing,
you get nothing. You get what you get.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
So one ten, one oh four, the Cavaliers did hit
a three to make it a six point game with
a minute forty five left to go in overtime. So
a nice timeout on the floor, a nice time to
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a twenty two point lead for the Cavaliers as we
opened up tonight, and that's our play of the day.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Nixon for Nixon for Nicks, In for Nicks in.
Speaker 5 (41:24):
Far it's still the third quarter. It's quarter of the game.
It's the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Okay, save this. So when the Knicks come back and win,
we play at the beginning of next down. So we're
never gonna play, say.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
Oh, play of the day, play of the day, Right, I'm.
Speaker 4 (41:45):
Sat you fast Wow of scant fifty three minutes later.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (41:49):
You know what the biggest change in this game was
Mitchell Robinson got put in carbonite. Since It is the
Mandalorian and.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Grogog very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
He goes in the carbonite in the Star Wars universe,
very because he couldn't do anything, and they set his
ass down and everything went right thereafter.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome A one
coming up next? Is it an unbelievable Game one comeback
from the Eastern Conference Finals, the opposite of what happened
to them last year? Or are the Cavaliers back on
their way to taking Game one? That's next Right here,
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