May 20, 2026 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon break down the madness of both game one's from the eastern and western conference finals, and longtime friend Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to break down everything MLB!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Go new your co nix in mix in fornix In
for Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My
bass friend Mike Harmon Mix. It's still where I am
from the future, and I don't think you need any
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more evidence than what we had earlier. Tonight on the show,
The Knicks with an unbelievable comeback, biggest playoff comeback in
thirteen years, one hundred and eighty degrees from Game one
of the Eastern Conference Finals last year, where it was
the Pacers doing this to the Knicks. The Knicks trailed
by twenty two with seven fifty two left to go,
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they erased the deficit. Jalen Brunson is phenomenal. They blow
past the Cavaliers and overtime to win it one fifteen,
one oh four, and who I really need to thank
for this win an a surprising source. I need to
thank for this win. Coming up in a couple minutes,
I need to thank a source however evidence I'm from
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the future God. When we started the show tonight at
seven oh one and thirty seconds West Coast time, the
Knicks were down twenty just a mere two hours ago
was ninety three seventy three, and there was a very
happy justin Frossburg and Alex Tyser on the other side
of the glass watching the Knicks was Alex Tischer did
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a lot of research into what basketball is and the
Knicks and the season and what games are like. Uh
and so you know I told you before the series,
Nicks are gonna win this in four right, nix and four,
nix and five we say nix and four, nix and four.
So with a Knicks down twenty to start the show,
they had a little bit of fun. But then listen
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to who has the last laugh at the very end
of the beginning of the show. This is an entirely
stipp It entirely cut from the first minute of our
show two hours ago.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Nixon for Nix and for Nicks in for NICKX in
far Nick, and.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's still the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Quarter of the game.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's the third quarter and four. Okay, save this. So
when the Knicks come back and win, we play at
the beginning of next hon So we're never gonna play
say now, that's like, this is like the fourth time
we've played it. This is like the fourth time we've
played I am from the future of my car. What
would you like to know about your life? What would
you like to know?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh no, I'm done denial, anger, bargaining. You were in
the bargaining phase of the stages of grief at that point.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I feel like I was like, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
No, no, no, no, no, no, hell on, hold on to hope.
I mean, there's no atheists in foxholes or Knicks fans.
When it comes to you, please you are.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Right and wrong. I am always in the bargaining phase.
I am the bargaining. I live in the bargaining because
you heard.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Of them, because you got a bion ahead of the bargaining,
because the depression was before.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We got out air. Look and you were when the
Knicks were, when the Knicks were losing this game. What
did I say? I didn't see anything from the Cavaliers tonight.
That showed me that the Knicks can't still win this series. Right,
This wasn't where Hey, watching the thunder last night, how
are you gonna beat wemby three more times? The problem
is I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't think any of us believed you and I
it sounded like you were giving.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yourself a p Get that mold. You really think I
hold back when it comes to the no that you
were if you were holding out home after your Nixon.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Four no, no no, you were like, I can't, I
can't let it go yet.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
If I can't. If I thought it was gonna be over,
I would have said the G word, Yannis. Okay, I
thought it was over. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Remember, it's all of a sudden, he's he's he's healthy,
and he's not fourteen years in the league. Everybody immediately going,
he's the answer to everybody's big man problems.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like no, no, no. The other week you were saying
he was done. Oh y'all. I would have said, yannest.
But what did I say? I said nothing. I saw
tonight The Cavaliers are playing really well. This is a
team that sometimes we see this in the first game
of a of a series where one team has a
layoff and the other one is coming off playing just
thirty six hours before. Usually it's a giveaway game, and
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the team, especially playing at home, rolls over that team
that had just played a couple of a couple of
days ago. But sometimes you get the opposite, where a
team continues on and they it's an extension of their series.
They still they're they're in the mode of what they
were doing. What they were doing well. Donovan Mitchell creating
and he was playing a phenomenal game tonight, and the
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Knicks looked like a team that's struggling off a big laft.
All their shots were long early, they were over aggressive
on defense, they were leaving the Cavaliers players open. I
said beginning of the show, I said, I'm not seeing
anything that isn't more than this is an adjustment game,
and the Knicks will adjust from Game one to Game two.
I have no doubt in my mind. I still felt
great about it. I didn't think they do all their
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adjusting in the final six minutes of the fourth quarter,
but they did. And like I said, you could talk
about many things. Landry Shamiz three that bounces off the
rim seventeen thousand times and falls in Brunson's big shots.
There are so many things to talk about. It was
just an absolute wave that kept coming in coming, like
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one of those waves from Point Break at the end
when they go to wherever it is, that's that part
of the world where it's the largest waves ever and
you go surfing on them. It's like other footway.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
That was the wave that was coming in on the
Cavaliers in the fourth quarter of this game. Like I said,
it was a magic carpet ride. They won this game,
but I saw I didn't see anything that wasn't the
Knicks adjusting. Now, all this being said, all this being said,
there's somebody I need to thank for this win tonight.
That two things this person did that the Knicks would
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not have won without. First thing, I have to thank
Kenny Atkinson, head coach of the Cavaliers, for not using
any time out.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh yeah, I know he's down the stretch. I gotta
thank him for deciding No, no, I want to save
those timeouts. I don't want to disrupt the Knicks momentum
at all. I want them to keep rolling through. I
want the Madison Square guard to keep going nuts. I
want the Knicks to keep feeling it. I don't want
my guys to take a couple of minutes to catch
their breath and refocus. I don't want that. I don't
need that from my My guys are good.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Maybe we go to the white boarding. We can get
a defensive game plan. I have slowed things down.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't know. I want to thank Kenny Atkinson for that.
And if you think I'm lying here, he is after
the game talking about why he didn't use his timeouts.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, timeouts.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You know that's a real quote.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
That's not why.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, I try to hold out of my timeouts. And
now the Knicks are screwed because the Calves are carrying
over all those timeouts the next game. Now if they'll
be calling time out all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Just the way you responded, it was it was almost
like the glib Bill Belichick or Popovich or whatever responds
like oh yeah, you know, like where he doesn't really
mean it and he's being start guy like no, no, no,
that really seems to be the sentiment here. I'd like
to have those late guess what you gotta make it
to where it's lead and it's still matters.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sometimes you need. Sometimes you have to understand when things
aren't going our way. And I get that. Hey, there's
two different schools of fault when it comes to momentum.
I believe in momentum. Some people don't, but that's fine.
But what's tangible is that, Okay, your guys are reeling
right now. They were playing perfect basketball for three and
a half quarters, and all of a sudden, this is
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a twenty two point lead. That's a fifteen point lead,
it's a twelve point lead, it's a ten point lead,
it's a seven point lead, it's a five point lead,
it's a three point lead. At no time did you
use a time out to say, Okay, you know what,
let guys, we gotta we gotta, we gotta at least
to do something where we're gonna drop a play agains
us an easy bucket. Right, we're gonna drop a play
against an easy bucket. Or give you guys some time
to rest a little bit, get back out there, refocus.
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There's things you need to do as a coach that's
gonna help the help your guys. And he did not
do that. I'd like to save him for the end.
I get you, Like Sam Fa, you feel good about him,
feel good about having them at the end. I mean,
I mean, come on, man, like you have to. You're
winning the game. Find a way to win the game
other than I want to save him for the end
where I really might need them. No, you really needed
them then because you needed to find a way to
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get a good bucket. Because what were the Cavaliers doing.
They were settling for threes all the last six minutes.
They had stopped trying to get the ball inside where
they were doing it with great regularity, and every other
play seemingly was Donovan Mitchell penetrating to either Jared Allen
for a dunk or a lay in, or to Mobiley
for a dunk or a lay in. It was. It was.
It was like they were playing a pickup game up
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and down the floor. You needed something and they didn't.
He didn't call a time out. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, but the bookends to this game are absolutely incredible,
because they were four for twenty in the first quarter.
They were awful again, settling for a lot of long
range distance shots before the final the next two quarters
said okay, let's go inside. They still lost the Battle
of the Paint by twenty points. Due to the brilliance
of what Brunson was able to do, particularly in that
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fourth quarter in overtime, but the tail of the tape
at the end final twelve forty nine, they will four
of eighteen.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So we got all of that.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So I would dispute the we played really great basketball
for three quarters, like, no, you were close. You didn't
play well in the four it was closed. It was
not good. But all of that to say, you got
timeouts and they're exploiting it time and time again. Mike
Brown laughing about it basically in his post game of yeah,
well they we knew we had to try to figure
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out how to see Harden and Mitchell on the on
their offensive possessions. But we knew we could go at Harden,
so we went at him. And what did Jalen Brunson
do iso him time and time again. The highlight video
is right now, just like six minutes to Hero by
Enrique Iglesias of Jalen Brunton just cooking James Harden.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, that's the other that's the other
reason I have to thank Kenny Atkinson is for doing
the Sam Mitchell. Now I'm gonna single guard Kobe Bryant
while he's going for eighty one. I'm gonna leave James
Harden on Jalen Brunson, or I'm gonna find a way
to allow Brunson to hunt James Harden on the defensive
end for a bucket like at some point. Again, maybe
a timeout would have worked to say, okay, okay, they're
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finding a way to iso Jalen on James. We have
to figure something else out here. But no, no, no, we're
gonna get We're gonna keep thirty seven year old James
Harden in the fourth quarter of a game where he's
not really playing all that well. You could tell how
tardy was his three at the end was Was it
a complete air ball? Yeah, a couple of horrible long misses. Again,
we talk about in the fourth quarter in overtime where
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Brunson lived in the lane. He only made one three
point shot. That's it. That was it for the night.
He was one of six.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Otherwise, it's just a bunch of nice blue dots in
the painted area.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
The Knicks do not win this game without Kenny Atkinson
doing his part to help the Knicks along. I fire
him today, shake it out. I don't know what's worse,
not using the timeouts or allowing Jalen Brunson to continue
to cook James Harden. You know, well, look, because here's
the thing is that sometimes, and this happens with coaches, right,
I'll give you something a little bit deep, Sometimes coaches
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get caught up watching the game and not coaching it.
Right where usually you see a coach as a game
is going on, and the best coaches are always in
the mix no matter what the situation is the scores,
but sometimes you get caught watching the game. And that's
kind of what I feel like Kenny Atkinson did. He
got caught watching the game, whether it was hey, my
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guys will pull it out, or we need a couple
of things to go our way. We didn't catch a break,
but I felt like he got caught watching the game
instead of coaching it. And not that Mike Brown did
an unbelievab Look, you can't say, oh, we did a
horrible job the first three and a half quarters a
great job in the fourth quarter. Look, obviously, Jalen Brunson,
go do your thing because that's the offense. But clearly,
hey hunting Harden being able to do that playing better defense,
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forcing the Cavaliers to settle for threes like the Knicks
did so much more in this final six minutes. And
that really underscores that the Cavaliers just kind of went
through the motions in the last six minutes of the game. Right,
So it's I don't want to say, oh, Mike Brown
completely out coached Kenny Acketts all these different things. Yeah,
Brown did a really good job, but it was more about, Hey,
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I did not see the Cavaliers really hold up any resistance.
How do we show, Hey, there was no I got this,
no get on my back, here's a big hoop by me,
here's a time out here. I saw nothing from the
Cavs in the final few minutes to show any kind
of resistance in this game.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, the other thing that is just unconscionable is that
you get the Jalen Brunson to tie it. And that's
still what nineteen seconds left, right, That's what it at
nineteen point three, and the best you can do is
settle for a bailout jump shot from Merrill as like,
you don't attack the basket. I know James Harden at
that point was a bit gassed and wasn't necessarily having
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the same level of effect this, But you didn't even
drive the lane for a kickout, like he's playing at
the arc and just swings it over to maryl who
misses the three points. Like you don't get a better
possession out of that, Like just time and time again,
just raising your hand, going, coach, explain this to me,
like I'm a five year old, because I've watched a
lot of basketball, and I'm not claiming I'm some wizard
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in this, but I get down in distance in football,
I get clock management and settling for terrible shots when
you've got an opportunity if nothing else, see if you
can draw a fall. Yeah, right, maybe you get it,
maybe you get a you know what, not enough contact?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Does it rise to the live James Harden to do
it so many in this day.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Right, he got an offensive fall call on Brunson that
people are still mad about. But in terms of that
last possession, it's it's just a microcosm to the overall
overarching theme of all right, you're just watching this erode
and not stopping it right momentum reel Arn imagine emotion
and human emotion and how they respond to situations is
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individually and collectively and with eighteen thousand lunatics screaming from
the top of their lungs, including those that were really
mad because they got an offer if you were a
season ticket holder to buy more seats at a high price,
and then the Knicks had to come back to them
because those seats didn't sell, so either way, they were
all in attendance. There were five thousand guys on star Row.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thank you, Kenny Atkinson. Tonight's win would not have been
made possible wired. Thank you. You're fire.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
You know, you know, get coach team the next game, Tibbs,
get him to play some defense. Down the stretch, Exit out,
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Time Now for our Tuesday visit with a longtime friend
of the show who is in morning right now. Because
his Pistons were watching Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Shame MLB Network insider extraordinary. He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
(17:37):
It is the Pope, John Paul Morosi. Pope, what's happening?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Man? How are you?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
That game should have been in Little Caesars Arena tonight
And I'm still not quite over what happened. Not so
much in game seven. Obviously the Pistons just didn't have it.
Cunningham had powered him throughout the playoffs. It just seemed
like he hit the wall, which sometimes happens. This series
was lost in Game five at home. You might also
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be able to say Game three on the road, they
had a real chance to see the moment and seize control.
But at the very least I could say this about
the Pistons number one, It now leaves it very apparent
that they have to get some more scoring help for
Cade and also potentially more of a true two way
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post player. That's what I would say on the Piston side.
And then the other part is they don't have women Yama,
so if I suspect we're gonna be talking about him
for a long time and they don't have anyone who
could quite compete with him. I'm not sure that any
team does, and that may also include the New York
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Knicks if they should prevail. But I would say Spurs
Knicks NBA Finals would remind us of some matchups back
in the nineteen nineties and could be a pretty classic.
What if it ends up go in that direction.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, look, and I'll help you out here, John Paul.
I mean, I wanted to set you to eat because
I know it's probably rough last couple of days in Michigan,
rough couple of days for my wife's family. You lost
to the Knicks anyway, so it doesn't matter, so there
you go.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Well, and what I'm saying is, if it's any consolation,
the Knicks would lose to the Spurs too, So.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There we'll say.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
We'll say, well, we're all in the same great and
unfulfilled boat as as we voyage now into the middle
part of me, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We've already beaten the Spurs for a title. You forget
in November when we won the IST, we beat the
Spurs to win the title. We're trying to go back
to back.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Now, what does that stand for.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I'm at the point where I'm it's making my head
or hurt. So I'm going to make the next.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Thirty and what does it actually say that those are
the big questions?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It is the in season tournament, and Adam Silver will
call you after we get off the phone and explain
just how important the different floors and the crazy schedule
is to the future of the NBA.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I I look forward to that. It seems to me
we have moved quite a distance away from the days
of yore, when the Red Sox and Yankees played eighteen
times a year, standardized, and the schedule made complete logical sense,
uniformity all throughout. It does not appear that is a
foremost concern of the schedule in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
All right, well, let's speak to those Yankees.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
As you mentioned him there, JP Garrett Cole going to
get the start on Friday, straight to passes go, gets
his JO hundred dollars, he gets back on the mound immediately.
Any reservations on this, is it a little bit of
a desperate move? I'm a little confused by it.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I would actually not call it desperate. To me, Mike
that they've been pretty deliberate throughout this process of bringing
Cole back. Obviously he's now more than a year removed
from surgery, and he hit ninety nine point six miles
an hour in his last outing. So when when you're
at that level velocity wise, when you've been able to
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get deep into games as he's done in the minor leagues,
to me, Mike and Jason, there's not much of a
need to keep him in the minor leagues for one
more start. So the need is there. They've had to
go to their core starting pitchers who are healthy quite
often this season in terms of not letting them get
the additional days of rest, which the Dodgers staff, for example,
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enjoys quite frequently. And so when you look at that context,
the Freed injury might be part of it, but I
wouldn't call it a panic. They've had Schuldler's pitch so well.
Warren has pitched well and again a big win for
the Yankees tonight over the Blue Jays. So for me,
I've seen enough consistency with his progressions for Cole and
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the way the overall context of the rotation is looking
right now, this is the logical move. It makes sense,
even though it does appear to be a week earlier
than some projections had it all right JP.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
When it comes to the big story of the last
few days, the p crow Armstrong situation with a fan,
he you know, blows a play in center field. Fan
tells him he sucks, he goes back right out or
uses some choice language, he doubles down on it. Then
he apologizes, he is fined for his outburst. I feel
like this story is over. I mean, it's not a
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great look for Pete crow Armstrong in the Cubs. Where
do you where do you come down on what you saw?
As this evolved over the past seventy two hours.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
The way that he was disciplined is fair in my
estimation that this was not something that should result in
a suspension necessarily, but that some level of discipline is
warranted where where the league clearly communicates that what he
said was not acceptable, and it wasn't. Obviously, it's not
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something that a player in uniform should be saying in
the context of a game, nor was what the fan
was saying, to be honest with you, something that should
be said in the context of a game. There's there
are different lines and standards of what appropriate conduct looks like,
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and obviously the reasonable people can disagree where those lines
ought to be. But I am of the mind that
that players, those that have the privilege of playing the game,
should be held to a high standard, and so in
that sense, Peter Armstrong was fined and that's I think appropriate.
I'm glad he was not suspended. I don't think that
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would have been the appropriate way either if he had
been suspended, because that opens up an entire level of
potentially some fans trying to provoke the opposing players even
more because they want to try to get a suspension
out of it. If you will reminiscent of the way
that a hockey player might try to poke the other
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team and get him to take a still penalty, well,
if you, as a fan believe you could succeed in
bringing a star player on the opposite team off the
field by provoking him, it really sets up a whole
layer of really I would say, unwanted incentives, you could
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call it for misbehavior to actually continue to be amplified.
So my hope is that we don't see incidents like
this in the future. Obviously, the reality is there have
been incidents in the recent past between players and fans.
They shouldn't happen, and when they do, happen. The league
is clearly communicating that they don't accept it, and it's
a good reminder to everyone, whether you're a player or
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not a player, what acceptable conduct at the ballpark looks like.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And then in the midst of all of this, he
makes a terrible play in the outfield today to help
the Brewers and Miserowski go to victory. Now, let me ask,
as we've had the torn labrum over the years, all
these different injuries, is twenty twenty sixty year of loose bodies.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
There are so many loose bodies in baseball right now,
so many, and and some have been repaired in a
relatively quick fashion, which is what we've seen obviously be
the case with with what Trek scooble is is attempting
to do. Blake Snell is the latest to have the
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the the micro, the the nano technology surgery, if you
want to call it, the express version of it, that
that seems to be in vogue now. When when it's appropriate,
when it's when it's warranted. And that's that's where the
bone ship, which is what what they called it back
in our day, gentlemen, that they were called bone chips.
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If the bone ship is in such a place that
it can be accessed easily by this this new nanotechnology,
the laser technology. Then it it's a little bit of
a lower lower lift in terms of how long the
pitcher is going to be out. So it's a great innovation.
It actually was mentioned on MLB Network this morning. It
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actually even began with Connor Hellibuck in his procedure which
allowed him to get back in time with a gold
medal Team USA at a very physically demanding position. So
clearly it works. The procedure works, it's going to be
able to tighten up the timeline, and not just for Schooble,
not just for Snell. I know Schwellenbach with the Atlanta
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Braves has had similar issue. So this does appear to
be the year of the loose bodies, and I'm not
sure if we'll fit that on the official MLB registry
as we had for many many years that the old
hardcover boundbinder, but we will do our best to make
sure that it is represented fairly in the annals of
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the game. Last year, of course, Torpedo Bats now the
loose Bodies and will.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Be Network insider John Paul Morosi, our guest all right, Pope, No,
I got it. Give you credit for something, and then
you're gonna have to explain something.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Sure, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Now, before the season started, I vividly remember you coming
on the air and tell I said, hey, give me
a surprise playoff team for this year, and you said
White Sox. Yeah, I said, playoff surprise playoff team? Hey,
I said, not surprise.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Now, what's the big move at the what's the move
at the deadline?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
JP, Let's go? You said, Hey, do not be surprised
to see the Athletics in the playoffs this year. You
talked about the young lineup, the amassing of talent. The
good news is if the season ended today, the Athletics
would be in the playoffs. However, every single team in
the AL West is under five hundred. John Paul of
(27:42):
Fie said to you, the odds we have the AL
West winner finishing with less than eighty one wins. What
would you tell me.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
The odds I believe are and I don't calculate odds. Well,
I've always been told never to do math on the radio.
But I will say if I'm gonna go with a percent,
which you are free to calculate and do whatever derivative
you need there. I think that there is still a
better than fifty to fifty chance. I'm going to put
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at about sixty four percent. I've got sixty four percent
that the eventual winner of the American League West has
a winning record. I'm going to go with about a
six percent chance that the winner that division is exactly
(28:31):
at five hundred, and then there's a thirty percent chance
to the losing record. I believe that all adds up
to one hundred. And yes, I chose thirty in part
because it was a nice round number. But my general
thesis is that one of those teams, and maybe it's
the Mariners, will get hot in the second half. But listen,
the A's have played good baseball and they're going to
(28:54):
get better because their core is just coming into their own.
So like the A's, I still still like the Mariners,
even though they've got some flaws to them. I will
point out that Luis Castiu came in out of the
bullpen tonight for the Mariner, So maybe some aggressive managing
for Dan Wilson to get cast you in a bit
of a bullpen roll. But so yes, I think better
(29:17):
than the fifteen to fifty we have a team with
a winning record, and who knows, maybe it's going to
be the A's that I very very optimistically forecast from
West Sacramento as the season began.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
He's John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John Morosi, that
is at John Morossi Pope, as always, Buddy, appreciate the time.
We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the games, really enjoy.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
The conversation my friends. And again I'm still watching the
NBA Playoffs even though the Pistons are not in it.
That is how much I value these conversations and our friendship.
I want to make sure I've got good talking points
to discuss with you and the New York Necks.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
How about that, Jason, Hey, great stuff as always, buddy,
Remember you mix and fourth, nix and four, John Paul Nixon, four,
remember that nix and four. There we go. I want
him to know too well.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I mean, it's just science. I mean Dan Housen cursed
the Miz and the Gas.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I mean Dan Housen went on ESPN and cursed the
Calves and like it didn't work to help the Mets obviously,
but I mean this is really wow.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Nixon forbody, right, there you go, second highest selling merch
in two months.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Time.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
There you go. That's how a bit works. Time not
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But guys would called the Dan Housen of Fox Sports Radio.
He also curses all the time. No, it's Steve to
say he likes human moneyes.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Okay, I'm completely lost on both fronts. But it was
one year ago game one of the Conference Finals that
the Knicks gagged a late lead and lost in overtime.
But tonight a comeback overtime winning game one of the
East Finals beating Cleveland, and Associated Press guys has done
the heavy lifting to let us know exact exactly how
unlikely this New York victory was. They were trailing the
(31:04):
Cavs ninety three seventy one with under eight minutes left
and still won in overtime one fifteen one oh four
Jalen Brunson thirty eight points. So they looked up all
thirty years of stats in the play by play era,
that is thirty years ago. They started listing every play
as it happens in the game and kept it as
part of the stat book, so you can find out
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such a team was behind by this much at exactly
this moment of the game. You go back before thirty
years or farther than thirty years, you don't know that.
So in the last thirty years, what was the win
loss record of an NBA team playoffs or regular season
went down twenty two or more in the last eight minutes?
The answer is, such teams were three and eight thousand,
(31:47):
one hundred and eighty eight until tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Three wins and eight thousand and one hundred and eighty
eight losses. That's correct, that's fad. That was also the
Knicks nineteen ninety eight season.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Sorry, and the Knicks, by the way, in the last
thirty years themselves were winless in such situations playoffs or
regular season, down twenty two or more with a I mean,
it's just incredible. They were zero and to seventy seven
in that slot until tonight, and then Jalen Brunson came through.
In fact, in the last twelve and a half minutes
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of the game, including the ot, Brunson scored seventeen points.
The Calves had eleven as a team. So it's one
game to none for New York. They'll be home again
in a couple nights. Remember, Conference final schedule is every
other night you're playing in your series, so tomorrow is
Game two of the West Finals. For example, James Harden
from three point range finished won for eight in the loss.
(32:44):
He also again had more turnovers than baskets six turnovers,
five made field goals. That six times this postseason he
has done that and thirty two times in Harden's playoff career.
And the Calves, of course, had plenty of turnovers in
this one, especially first three quarters. Even as they were leading,
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they give up twenty eight points off turnovers, which is
the sixth time this postseason they have allowed that many
points off turnovers, the most such games by any team
in a single postseason the last thirty years. Giving up
points through turnovers that way an amazing comeback for the Knicks,
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a forty four to eleven run to end the game.
No other NBA team in the last twenty years had
ended a game like that, regular season or postseason, scoring
forty four of the last fifty five points of a
game in the last two decades. Jason Kidd is no
longer the Mavericks head coach. They mutually parted way, as
the club said the new team president in Dallas is
(33:46):
Messiu Cherry.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
He could coach the Cavs in Game two. He'll call
time out to the end.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Yeah, and in fact, he'll spill a drink if he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Have aut Oh, nothing to see here.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
That's a deep thank you i'd had. That was part
of his great assistant coach resume. A kid had four
years left on his contract. Where's over forty million dollars?
He'd been there five years as head coach the Trailblazers
with the new owner reportedly fired about seventy workers today.
Michigan's more As Johnson is staying in the NBA Draft
after reportedly doing well in last week's draft. Combine one
(34:20):
WNBA game tonight, Expansion Toronto a winner at Phoenix ninety
eight ninety Chicago's Rikia Jackson out for the year with
a torn ACL No NHL tonight, but Vancouver fired coach
Adam Food and what a finish in San Diego as expected,
it's turning into a great series. Dodgers at Padres. Dodgers
are back into first by a half game over San
(34:40):
Diego after winning five four down South Freddie Freeman with
two home runs that ends the Padres four game winning streak.
The loss to the elite closer of the Padres have
Mason Miller, who hadn't lost a game in a full
year A but his heir in the ninth was key.
He had a man picked off at first and threw
the ball down the right field line. Arizona, with four
(35:02):
runs bottom of the ninth beat San Francisco five to three.
Could tell Marte game winning three run Homer White Sox
with two in the top of the ninth one at
Seattle tow to one over Luis Castillo in relief. The
Mariners offense went one for twenty eight with thirteen strikeouts,
and the late game in Anaheim has just ended A's
fourteen to six over the Angels. Milwaukee beat the Cubs
(35:22):
five to two to move into first Back.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
To you, thank you. See now I want to go
back now. The Canucks fired Adam Foot as their head
coach tonight and his staff. You know how Chris Berman
would announce this, uh oh and clearly tj the Canucks
giving Foot the boot after another bad season.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Honestly I should have seen that coming.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Well, well, speaking about what you should see coming, Yeah,
wait till you hear what Knicks fans were chanting outside
of MSG following the wind tonight over the Calves.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Nicks in for Nicks, in for out, Nicks, in for no,
it wasn't some of them were. It was something else
that's next.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
JAB.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
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Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (36:17):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bess friend
Mike Carmon. I don't know how we're gonna top the
last two nights the NBA players, but I can't wait
to see what we have the next two nights after this.
A twenty two point lead for the Cavaliers is erased
by the Knicks in the final seven minutes. They blow
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past Cleveland overtime one fifteen, one oh four, and Knicks
fans like myself went from boy, all right, we gotta
come back in game two. This is an adjustment game.
This is terrible too. A ready, I'm ready for the
NBA phos hilarious.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
You listen to the podcast as Alex and Justin and
the team get it all together tonight. The opening was
you like you were sitting in front of a mirror,
convincing yourself everything was gonna be okay. The life had
been turned upside down. Someone was taking your dog and
carting away your your car and everything else you own.
(37:13):
And then all of a sudden, it's yeah, like you
you go home, beat it, Gilbert.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You know, I'm watching the comeback and I'm going I'm like,
I don't want to get too excited. I want to
get too happy. This is it's a twenty point deficit,
it's fifteen, it's twelve, it's nine, it's five. Then they
tied it, and it would It just got absolutely insane.
And now Knicks fans like me are saying, like I've
said this a few times tonight, but now Knicks fans
are really believing it.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Here's a chant from outside of MSG earlier tonight, following
the Knicks victory in Game one over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Nicks in for Nicks, in for Nicks, in for everybody
else already hit the bars.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
It was a yeah ours crowd that was very loud.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I mean it was like you're right on top, like
you're pumping in crowd doing you're Indiana or in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I like, how clear? It was too crystal clear? Condense
your microphone like no others A couple of Knicks maths.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
So do we have the the other chant from post
game tonight, Knicks fans outside of MSG already dismissing the
rest of the Eastern Conference Finals Nixon far.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Nix in far Nicks in for Nixon fars.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Again they do. They get louder, a little violent at
the end. It was like very aggressive. Well that's Knicks fans.
We're not We're not not aggressive. We're not unaggressive. We're
very aggressive.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Always next level. Say what you want about hate Knicks fans.
We always show up, man, when the team's terrible, we
show up with the team's good, which hardly ever happens.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
We show up, show up.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Told you before there was a great report, uh you
know season ticket older because they've done the thing everybody
trying to keep the other fans out, and we know
the Cavaliers have been pretty good about bussing and getting
employees and fans there. That they sent down things of
the season's tickettholders going hey, you can have more tickets
and here's the face value, and they all responded with
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beat it. So they had to send a second email
with a lower price entry so those folks were happy
to come in at a lower price.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
So here it is the chant outside of MSG following
the game one win over the Caps. Hey, man, that's
kind of psychedelic, man Like, I'm hearing a bunch of
different layers to that, man like getting cloned, like the
(39:47):
Minie Danhausen. I could hear the bass and the rhythm
guitar and hear the lead guitar come in. Man, it's
really layers. Actually the guitar. That was really well done
multi tracking. Yeah, Knicks fans, outside of the game, we're chanting,
(40:12):
we want Wemby. Where's the drunk guy in the middle going,
what are you doing? No?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Why are you trying to bring this one?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
What did I tell you? Ten seconds after the Knicks
one game one? Wemby? I'll see you in three more games. Okay,
I'll see you in three more games, Wemby. We'll be
ready for that.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Again, the consolable crying to the basketball gods for forty minutes,
and then immediately there after, Chesty Nixon.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Fun Nick guess Hey, who knew the ist was just
gonna be the first championship between the Knicks and the
Spurs this year? Who knew Nicks in four, Nicks in four.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
You're really something that I've explained many a time in
our long partnership here on Fox Sports Radio and other
folks who've sat in the chair in your stead.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Uh, it's it's I I'd long to be in.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
That world again, that little kid that lives and dies
with each and probably gets punched every now and again
forgetting a little too chesty when the things are going well.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Hey, seven more wins, seven more, seven away, seven away
from the title. Seven more wins. That's all it, seven more,
that's it. Uh coming up next. If you like what
Kenny Aatkins had to say this hour, way do we
tell you? And you hear what Mike Brown had to
say following the game. Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Go new your co nix in mix in fornix In
for Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My
bass friend Mike Harmon Mix. It's still where I am
from the future, and I don't think you need any
(00:50):
more evidence than what we had earlier. Tonight on the show,
The Knicks with an unbelievable comeback, biggest playoff comeback in
thirteen years, one hundred and eighty degrees from Game one
of the Eastern Conference Finals last year, where it was
the Pacers doing this to the Knicks. The Knicks trailed
by twenty two with seven fifty two left to go,
(01:10):
they erased the deficit. Jalen Brunson is phenomenal. They blow
past the Cavaliers and overtime to win it one fifteen,
one oh four, and who I really need to thank
for this win an a surprising source. I need to
thank for this win. Coming up in a couple minutes,
I need to thank a source however evidence I'm from
(01:31):
the future God. When we started the show tonight at
seven oh one and thirty seconds West Coast time, the
Knicks were down twenty just a mere two hours ago
was ninety three seventy three, and there was a very
happy justin Frossburg and Alex Tyser on the other side
of the glass watching the Knicks was Alex Tischer did
(01:53):
a lot of research into what basketball is and the
Knicks and the season and what games are like. Uh
and so you know I told you before the series,
Nicks are gonna win this in four right, nix and four,
nix and five we say nix and four, nix and four.
So with a Knicks down twenty to start the show,
they had a little bit of fun. But then listen
(02:15):
to who has the last laugh at the very end
of the beginning of the show. This is an entirely
stipp It entirely cut from the first minute of our
show two hours ago.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Nixon for Nix and for Nicks in for NICKX in
far Nick, and.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's still the third quarter.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Quarter of the game.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's the third quarter and four. Okay, save this. So
when the Knicks come back and win, we play at
the beginning of next hon So we're never gonna play
say now, that's like, this is like the fourth time
we've played it. This is like the fourth time we've
played I am from the future of my car. What
would you like to know about your life? What would
you like to know?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh no, I'm done denial, anger, bargaining. You were in
the bargaining phase of the stages of grief at that point.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I feel like I was like, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
No, no, no, no, no, no, hell on, hold on to hope.
I mean, there's no atheists in foxholes or Knicks fans.
When it comes to you, please you are.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Right and wrong. I am always in the bargaining phase.
I am the bargaining. I live in the bargaining because
you heard.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Of them, because you got a bion ahead of the bargaining,
because the depression was before.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
We got out air. Look and you were when the
Knicks were, when the Knicks were losing this game. What
did I say? I didn't see anything from the Cavaliers tonight.
That showed me that the Knicks can't still win this series. Right,
This wasn't where Hey, watching the thunder last night, how
are you gonna beat wemby three more times? The problem
is I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't think any of us believed you and I
it sounded like you were giving.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yourself a p Get that mold. You really think I
hold back when it comes to the no that you
were if you were holding out home after your Nixon.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Four no, no no, you were like, I can't, I
can't let it go yet.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
If I can't. If I thought it was gonna be over,
I would have said the G word, Yannis. Okay, I
thought it was over. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Remember, it's all of a sudden, he's he's he's healthy,
and he's not fourteen years in the league. Everybody immediately going,
he's the answer to everybody's big man problems.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Like no, no, no. The other week you were saying
he was done. Oh y'all. I would have said, yannest.
But what did I say? I said nothing. I saw
tonight The Cavaliers are playing really well. This is a
team that sometimes we see this in the first game
of a of a series where one team has a
layoff and the other one is coming off playing just
thirty six hours before. Usually it's a giveaway game, and
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the team, especially playing at home, rolls over that team
that had just played a couple of a couple of
days ago. But sometimes you get the opposite, where a
team continues on and they it's an extension of their series.
They still they're they're in the mode of what they
were doing. What they were doing well. Donovan Mitchell creating
and he was playing a phenomenal game tonight, and the
(05:01):
Knicks looked like a team that's struggling off a big laft.
All their shots were long early, they were over aggressive
on defense, they were leaving the Cavaliers players open. I
said beginning of the show, I said, I'm not seeing
anything that isn't more than this is an adjustment game,
and the Knicks will adjust from Game one to Game two.
I have no doubt in my mind. I still felt
great about it. I didn't think they do all their
(05:23):
adjusting in the final six minutes of the fourth quarter,
but they did. And like I said, you could talk
about many things. Landry Shamiz three that bounces off the
rim seventeen thousand times and falls in Brunson's big shots.
There are so many things to talk about. It was
just an absolute wave that kept coming in coming, like
(05:43):
one of those waves from Point Break at the end
when they go to wherever it is, that's that part
of the world where it's the largest waves ever and
you go surfing on them. It's like other footway.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
That was the wave that was coming in on the
Cavaliers in the fourth quarter of this game. Like I said,
it was a magic carpet ride. They won this game,
but I saw I didn't see anything that wasn't the
Knicks adjusting. Now, all this being said, all this being said,
there's somebody I need to thank for this win tonight.
That two things this person did that the Knicks would
(06:12):
not have won without. First thing, I have to thank
Kenny Atkinson, head coach of the Cavaliers, for not using
any time out.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Oh yeah, I know he's down the stretch. I gotta
thank him for deciding No, no, I want to save
those timeouts. I don't want to disrupt the Knicks momentum
at all. I want them to keep rolling through. I
want the Madison Square guard to keep going nuts. I
want the Knicks to keep feeling it. I don't want
my guys to take a couple of minutes to catch
their breath and refocus. I don't want that. I don't
need that from my My guys are good.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Maybe we go to the white boarding. We can get
a defensive game plan. I have slowed things down.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I don't know. I want to thank Kenny Atkinson for that.
And if you think I'm lying here, he is after
the game talking about why he didn't use his timeouts.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, timeouts.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
You know that's a real quote.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
That's not why.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, I try to hold out of my timeouts. And
now the Knicks are screwed because the Calves are carrying
over all those timeouts the next game. Now if they'll
be calling time out all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Just the way you responded, it was it was almost
like the glib Bill Belichick or Popovich or whatever responds
like oh yeah, you know, like where he doesn't really
mean it and he's being start guy like no, no, no,
that really seems to be the sentiment here. I'd like
to have those late guess what you gotta make it
to where it's lead and it's still matters.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sometimes you need. Sometimes you have to understand when things
aren't going our way. And I get that. Hey, there's
two different schools of fault when it comes to momentum.
I believe in momentum. Some people don't, but that's fine.
But what's tangible is that, Okay, your guys are reeling
right now. They were playing perfect basketball for three and
a half quarters, and all of a sudden, this is
(07:57):
a twenty two point lead. That's a fifteen point lead,
it's a twelve point lead, it's a ten point lead,
it's a seven point lead, it's a five point lead,
it's a three point lead. At no time did you
use a time out to say, Okay, you know what,
let guys, we gotta we gotta, we gotta at least
to do something where we're gonna drop a play agains
us an easy bucket. Right, we're gonna drop a play
against an easy bucket. Or give you guys some time
to rest a little bit, get back out there, refocus.
(08:19):
There's things you need to do as a coach that's
gonna help the help your guys. And he did not
do that. I'd like to save him for the end.
I get you, Like Sam Fa, you feel good about him,
feel good about having them at the end. I mean,
I mean, come on, man, like you have to. You're
winning the game. Find a way to win the game
other than I want to save him for the end
where I really might need them. No, you really needed
them then because you needed to find a way to
(08:40):
get a good bucket. Because what were the Cavaliers doing.
They were settling for threes all the last six minutes.
They had stopped trying to get the ball inside where
they were doing it with great regularity, and every other
play seemingly was Donovan Mitchell penetrating to either Jared Allen
for a dunk or a lay in, or to Mobiley
for a dunk or a lay in. It was. It was.
It was like they were playing a pickup game up
(09:02):
and down the floor. You needed something and they didn't.
He didn't call a time out. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, but the bookends to this game are absolutely incredible,
because they were four for twenty in the first quarter.
They were awful again, settling for a lot of long
range distance shots before the final the next two quarters
said okay, let's go inside. They still lost the Battle
of the Paint by twenty points. Due to the brilliance
of what Brunson was able to do, particularly in that
(09:29):
fourth quarter in overtime, but the tail of the tape
at the end final twelve forty nine, they will four
of eighteen.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
So we got all of that.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
So I would dispute the we played really great basketball
for three quarters, like, no, you were close. You didn't
play well in the four it was closed. It was
not good. But all of that to say, you got
timeouts and they're exploiting it time and time again. Mike
Brown laughing about it basically in his post game of yeah,
well they we knew we had to try to figure
(09:59):
out how to see Harden and Mitchell on the on
their offensive possessions. But we knew we could go at Harden,
so we went at him. And what did Jalen Brunson
do iso him time and time again. The highlight video
is right now, just like six minutes to Hero by
Enrique Iglesias of Jalen Brunton just cooking James Harden.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, I mean, look, that's the other that's the other
reason I have to thank Kenny Atkinson is for doing
the Sam Mitchell. Now I'm gonna single guard Kobe Bryant
while he's going for eighty one. I'm gonna leave James
Harden on Jalen Brunson, or I'm gonna find a way
to allow Brunson to hunt James Harden on the defensive
end for a bucket like at some point. Again, maybe
a timeout would have worked to say, okay, okay, they're
(10:40):
finding a way to iso Jalen on James. We have
to figure something else out here. But no, no, no, we're
gonna get We're gonna keep thirty seven year old James
Harden in the fourth quarter of a game where he's
not really playing all that well. You could tell how
tardy was his three at the end was Was it
a complete air ball? Yeah, a couple of horrible long misses. Again,
we talk about in the fourth quarter in overtime where
(11:02):
Brunson lived in the lane. He only made one three
point shot. That's it. That was it for the night.
He was one of six.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Otherwise, it's just a bunch of nice blue dots in
the painted area.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
The Knicks do not win this game without Kenny Atkinson
doing his part to help the Knicks along. I fire
him today, shake it out. I don't know what's worse,
not using the timeouts or allowing Jalen Brunson to continue
to cook James Harden. You know, well, look, because here's
the thing is that sometimes, and this happens with coaches, right,
I'll give you something a little bit deep, Sometimes coaches
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get caught up watching the game and not coaching it.
Right where usually you see a coach as a game
is going on, and the best coaches are always in
the mix no matter what the situation is the scores,
but sometimes you get caught watching the game. And that's
kind of what I feel like Kenny Atkinson did. He
got caught watching the game, whether it was hey, my
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guys will pull it out, or we need a couple
of things to go our way. We didn't catch a break,
but I felt like he got caught watching the game
instead of coaching it. And not that Mike Brown did
an unbelievab Look, you can't say, oh, we did a
horrible job the first three and a half quarters a
great job in the fourth quarter. Look, obviously, Jalen Brunson,
go do your thing because that's the offense. But clearly,
hey hunting Harden being able to do that playing better defense,
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forcing the Cavaliers to settle for threes like the Knicks
did so much more in this final six minutes. And
that really underscores that the Cavaliers just kind of went
through the motions in the last six minutes of the game. Right,
So it's I don't want to say, oh, Mike Brown
completely out coached Kenny Acketts all these different things. Yeah,
Brown did a really good job, but it was more about, Hey,
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I did not see the Cavaliers really hold up any resistance.
How do we show, Hey, there was no I got this,
no get on my back, here's a big hoop by me,
here's a time out here. I saw nothing from the
Cavs in the final few minutes to show any kind
of resistance in this game.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, the other thing that is just unconscionable is that
you get the Jalen Brunson to tie it. And that's
still what nineteen seconds left, right, That's what it at
nineteen point three, and the best you can do is
settle for a bailout jump shot from Merrill as like,
you don't attack the basket. I know James Harden at
that point was a bit gassed and wasn't necessarily having
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the same level of effect this, But you didn't even
drive the lane for a kickout, like he's playing at
the arc and just swings it over to maryl who
misses the three points. Like you don't get a better
possession out of that, Like just time and time again,
just raising your hand, going, coach, explain this to me,
like I'm a five year old, because I've watched a
lot of basketball, and I'm not claiming I'm some wizard
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in this, but I get down in distance in football,
I get clock management and settling for terrible shots when
you've got an opportunity if nothing else, see if you
can draw a fall. Yeah, right, maybe you get it,
maybe you get a you know what, not enough contact?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Does it rise to the live James Harden to do
it so many in this day.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Right, he got an offensive fall call on Brunson that
people are still mad about. But in terms of that
last possession, it's it's just a microcosm to the overall
overarching theme of all right, you're just watching this erode
and not stopping it right momentum reel Arn imagine emotion
and human emotion and how they respond to situations is
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individually and collectively and with eighteen thousand lunatics screaming from
the top of their lungs, including those that were really
mad because they got an offer if you were a
season ticket holder to buy more seats at a high price,
and then the Knicks had to come back to them
because those seats didn't sell, so either way, they were
all in attendance. There were five thousand guys on star Row.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Thank you, Kenny Atkinson. Tonight's win would not have been
made possible wired. Thank you. You're fire.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
You know, you know, get coach team the next game, Tibbs,
get him to play some defense. Down the stretch, Exit out,
bout of Fresco, Exit swollen down. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
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(17:16):
Time Now for our Tuesday visit with a longtime friend
of the show who is in morning right now. Because
his Pistons were watching Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Shame MLB Network insider extraordinary. He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
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It is the Pope, John Paul Morosi. Pope, what's happening?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Man? How are you?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
That game should have been in Little Caesars Arena tonight
And I'm still not quite over what happened. Not so
much in game seven. Obviously the Pistons just didn't have it.
Cunningham had powered him throughout the playoffs. It just seemed
like he hit the wall, which sometimes happens. This series
was lost in Game five at home. You might also
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be able to say Game three on the road, they
had a real chance to see the moment and seize control.
But at the very least I could say this about
the Pistons number one, It now leaves it very apparent
that they have to get some more scoring help for
Cade and also potentially more of a true two way
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post player. That's what I would say on the Piston side.
And then the other part is they don't have women Yama,
so if I suspect we're gonna be talking about him
for a long time and they don't have anyone who
could quite compete with him. I'm not sure that any
team does, and that may also include the New York
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Knicks if they should prevail. But I would say Spurs
Knicks NBA Finals would remind us of some matchups back
in the nineteen nineties and could be a pretty classic.
What if it ends up go in that direction.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, look, and I'll help you out here, John Paul.
I mean, I wanted to set you to eat because
I know it's probably rough last couple of days in Michigan,
rough couple of days for my wife's family. You lost
to the Knicks anyway, so it doesn't matter, so there
you go.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Well, and what I'm saying is, if it's any consolation,
the Knicks would lose to the Spurs too, So.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
There we'll say.
Speaker 8 (19:18):
We'll say, well, we're all in the same great and
unfulfilled boat as as we voyage now into the middle
part of me, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
We've already beaten the Spurs for a title. You forget
in November when we won the IST, we beat the
Spurs to win the title. We're trying to go back
to back.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Now, what does that stand for.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I'm at the point where I'm it's making my head
or hurt. So I'm going to make the next.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
Thirty and what does it actually say that those are
the big questions?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
It is the in season tournament, and Adam Silver will
call you after we get off the phone and explain
just how important the different floors and the crazy schedule
is to the future of the NBA.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
I I look forward to that. It seems to me
we have moved quite a distance away from the days
of yore, when the Red Sox and Yankees played eighteen
times a year, standardized, and the schedule made complete logical sense,
uniformity all throughout. It does not appear that is a
foremost concern of the schedule in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
All right, well, let's speak to those Yankees.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
As you mentioned him there, JP Garrett Cole going to
get the start on Friday, straight to passes go, gets
his JO hundred dollars, he gets back on the mound immediately.
Any reservations on this, is it a little bit of
a desperate move? I'm a little confused by it.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
I would actually not call it desperate. To me, Mike
that they've been pretty deliberate throughout this process of bringing
Cole back. Obviously he's now more than a year removed
from surgery, and he hit ninety nine point six miles
an hour in his last outing. So when when you're
at that level velocity wise, when you've been able to
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get deep into games as he's done in the minor leagues,
to me, Mike and Jason, there's not much of a
need to keep him in the minor leagues for one
more start. So the need is there. They've had to
go to their core starting pitchers who are healthy quite
often this season in terms of not letting them get
the additional days of rest, which the Dodgers staff, for example,
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enjoys quite frequently. And so when you look at that context,
the Freed injury might be part of it, but I
wouldn't call it a panic. They've had Schuldler's pitch so well.
Warren has pitched well and again a big win for
the Yankees tonight over the Blue Jays. So for me,
I've seen enough consistency with his progressions for Cole and
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the way the overall context of the rotation is looking
right now, this is the logical move. It makes sense,
even though it does appear to be a week earlier
than some projections had it all right JP.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
When it comes to the big story of the last
few days, the p crow Armstrong situation with a fan,
he you know, blows a play in center field. Fan
tells him he sucks, he goes back right out or
uses some choice language, he doubles down on it. Then
he apologizes, he is fined for his outburst. I feel
like this story is over. I mean, it's not a
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great look for Pete crow Armstrong in the Cubs. Where
do you where do you come down on what you saw?
As this evolved over the past seventy two hours.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
The way that he was disciplined is fair in my
estimation that this was not something that should result in
a suspension necessarily, but that some level of discipline is
warranted where where the league clearly communicates that what he
said was not acceptable, and it wasn't. Obviously, it's not
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something that a player in uniform should be saying in
the context of a game, nor was what the fan
was saying, to be honest with you, something that should
be said in the context of a game. There's there
are different lines and standards of what appropriate conduct looks like,
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and obviously the reasonable people can disagree where those lines
ought to be. But I am of the mind that
that players, those that have the privilege of playing the game,
should be held to a high standard, and so in
that sense, Peter Armstrong was fined and that's I think appropriate.
I'm glad he was not suspended. I don't think that
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would have been the appropriate way either if he had
been suspended, because that opens up an entire level of
potentially some fans trying to provoke the opposing players even
more because they want to try to get a suspension
out of it. If you will reminiscent of the way
that a hockey player might try to poke the other
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team and get him to take a still penalty, well,
if you, as a fan believe you could succeed in
bringing a star player on the opposite team off the
field by provoking him, it really sets up a whole
layer of really I would say, unwanted incentives, you could
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call it for misbehavior to actually continue to be amplified.
So my hope is that we don't see incidents like
this in the future. Obviously, the reality is there have
been incidents in the recent past between players and fans.
They shouldn't happen, and when they do, happen. The league
is clearly communicating that they don't accept it, and it's
a good reminder to everyone, whether you're a player or
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not a player, what acceptable conduct at the ballpark looks like.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
And then in the midst of all of this, he
makes a terrible play in the outfield today to help
the Brewers and Miserowski go to victory. Now, let me ask,
as we've had the torn labrum over the years, all
these different injuries, is twenty twenty sixty year of loose bodies.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
There are so many loose bodies in baseball right now,
so many, and and some have been repaired in a
relatively quick fashion, which is what we've seen obviously be
the case with with what Trek scooble is is attempting
to do. Blake Snell is the latest to have the
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the the micro, the the nano technology surgery, if you
want to call it, the express version of it, that
that seems to be in vogue now. When when it's appropriate,
when it's when it's warranted. And that's that's where the
bone ship, which is what what they called it back
in our day, gentlemen, that they were called bone chips.
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If the bone ship is in such a place that
it can be accessed easily by this this new nanotechnology,
the laser technology. Then it it's a little bit of
a lower lower lift in terms of how long the
pitcher is going to be out. So it's a great innovation.
It actually was mentioned on MLB Network this morning. It
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actually even began with Connor Hellibuck in his procedure which
allowed him to get back in time with a gold
medal Team USA at a very physically demanding position. So
clearly it works. The procedure works, it's going to be
able to tighten up the timeline, and not just for Schooble,
not just for Snell. I know Schwellenbach with the Atlanta
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Braves has had similar issue. So this does appear to
be the year of the loose bodies, and I'm not
sure if we'll fit that on the official MLB registry
as we had for many many years that the old
hardcover boundbinder, but we will do our best to make
sure that it is represented fairly in the annals of
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the game. Last year, of course, Torpedo Bats now the
loose Bodies and will.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Be Network insider John Paul Morosi, our guest all right, Pope, No,
I got it. Give you credit for something, and then
you're gonna have to explain something.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Sure, Okay.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Now, before the season started, I vividly remember you coming
on the air and tell I said, hey, give me
a surprise playoff team for this year, and you said
White Sox. Yeah, I said, playoff surprise playoff team? Hey,
I said, not surprise.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Now, what's the big move at the what's the move
at the deadline?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
JP, Let's go? You said, Hey, do not be surprised
to see the Athletics in the playoffs this year. You
talked about the young lineup, the amassing of talent. The
good news is if the season ended today, the Athletics
would be in the playoffs. However, every single team in
the AL West is under five hundred. John Paul of
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Fie said to you, the odds we have the AL
West winner finishing with less than eighty one wins. What
would you tell me.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
The odds I believe are and I don't calculate odds. Well,
I've always been told never to do math on the radio.
But I will say if I'm gonna go with a percent,
which you are free to calculate and do whatever derivative
you need there. I think that there is still a
better than fifty to fifty chance. I'm going to put
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at about sixty four percent. I've got sixty four percent
that the eventual winner of the American League West has
a winning record. I'm going to go with about a
six percent chance that the winner that division is exactly
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at five hundred, and then there's a thirty percent chance
to the losing record. I believe that all adds up
to one hundred. And yes, I chose thirty in part
because it was a nice round number. But my general
thesis is that one of those teams, and maybe it's
the Mariners, will get hot in the second half. But listen,
the A's have played good baseball and they're going to
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get better because their core is just coming into their own.
So like the A's, I still still like the Mariners,
even though they've got some flaws to them. I will
point out that Luis Castiu came in out of the
bullpen tonight for the Mariner, So maybe some aggressive managing
for Dan Wilson to get cast you in a bit
of a bullpen roll. But so yes, I think better
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than the fifteen to fifty we have a team with
a winning record, and who knows, maybe it's going to
be the A's that I very very optimistically forecast from
West Sacramento as the season began.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
He's John Paul Morosi on Twitter at John Morosi, that
is at John Morossi Pope, as always, Buddy, appreciate the time.
We'll talk to you next week. Enjoy the games, really enjoy.
Speaker 8 (29:41):
The conversation my friends. And again I'm still watching the
NBA Playoffs even though the Pistons are not in it.
That is how much I value these conversations and our friendship.
I want to make sure I've got good talking points
to discuss with you and the New York Necks.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
How about that, Jason, Hey, great stuff as always, buddy,
Remember you mix and fourth, nix and four, John Paul Nixon, four,
remember that nix and four. There we go. I want
him to know too well.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I mean, it's just science. I mean Dan Housen cursed
the Miz and the Gas.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I mean Dan Housen went on ESPN and cursed the
Calves and like it didn't work to help the Mets obviously,
but I mean this is really wow.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Nixon forbody, right, there you go, second highest selling merch
in two months.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Time.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
There you go. That's how a bit works. Time not
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But guys would called the Dan Housen of Fox Sports Radio.
He also curses all the time. No, it's Steve to
say he likes human moneyes.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Okay, I'm completely lost on both fronts. But it was
one year ago game one of the Conference Finals that
the Knicks gagged a late lead and lost in overtime.
But tonight a comeback overtime winning game one of the
East Finals beating Cleveland, and Associated Press guys has done
the heavy lifting to let us know exact exactly how
unlikely this New York victory was. They were trailing the
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Cavs ninety three seventy one with under eight minutes left
and still won in overtime one fifteen one oh four
Jalen Brunson thirty eight points. So they looked up all
thirty years of stats in the play by play era,
that is thirty years ago. They started listing every play
as it happens in the game and kept it as
part of the stat book, so you can find out
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such a team was behind by this much at exactly
this moment of the game. You go back before thirty
years or farther than thirty years, you don't know that.
So in the last thirty years, what was the win
loss record of an NBA team playoffs or regular season
went down twenty two or more in the last eight minutes?
The answer is, such teams were three and eight thousand,
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one hundred and eighty eight until tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Three wins and eight thousand and one hundred and eighty
eight losses. That's correct, that's fad. That was also the
Knicks nineteen ninety eight season.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Sorry, and the Knicks, by the way, in the last
thirty years themselves were winless in such situations playoffs or
regular season, down twenty two or more with a I mean,
it's just incredible. They were zero and to seventy seven
in that slot until tonight, and then Jalen Brunson came through.
In fact, in the last twelve and a half minutes
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of the game, including the ot, Brunson scored seventeen points.
The Calves had eleven as a team. So it's one
game to none for New York. They'll be home again
in a couple nights. Remember, Conference final schedule is every
other night you're playing in your series, so tomorrow is
Game two of the West Finals. For example, James Harden
from three point range finished won for eight in the loss.
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He also again had more turnovers than baskets six turnovers,
five made field goals. That six times this postseason he
has done that and thirty two times in Harden's playoff career.
And the Calves, of course, had plenty of turnovers in
this one, especially first three quarters. Even as they were leading,
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they give up twenty eight points off turnovers, which is
the sixth time this postseason they have allowed that many
points off turnovers, the most such games by any team
in a single postseason the last thirty years. Giving up
points through turnovers that way an amazing comeback for the Knicks,
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a forty four to eleven run to end the game.
No other NBA team in the last twenty years had
ended a game like that, regular season or postseason, scoring
forty four of the last fifty five points of a
game in the last two decades. Jason Kidd is no
longer the Mavericks head coach. They mutually parted way, as
the club said the new team president in Dallas is
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Messiu Cherry.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
He could coach the Cavs in Game two. He'll call
time out to the end.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Yeah, and in fact, he'll spill a drink if he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Have aut Oh, nothing to see here.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
That's a deep thank you i'd had. That was part
of his great assistant coach resume. A kid had four
years left on his contract. Where's over forty million dollars?
He'd been there five years as head coach the Trailblazers
with the new owner reportedly fired about seventy workers today.
Michigan's more As Johnson is staying in the NBA Draft
after reportedly doing well in last week's draft. Combine one
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WNBA game tonight, Expansion Toronto a winner at Phoenix ninety
eight ninety Chicago's Rikia Jackson out for the year with
a torn ACL No NHL tonight, but Vancouver fired coach
Adam Food and what a finish in San Diego as expected,
it's turning into a great series. Dodgers at Padres. Dodgers
are back into first by a half game over San
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Diego after winning five four down South Freddie Freeman with
two home runs that ends the Padres four game winning streak.
The loss to the elite closer of the Padres have
Mason Miller, who hadn't lost a game in a full
year A but his heir in the ninth was key.
He had a man picked off at first and threw
the ball down the right field line. Arizona, with four
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runs bottom of the ninth beat San Francisco five to three.
Could tell Marte game winning three run Homer White Sox
with two in the top of the ninth one at
Seattle tow to one over Luis Castillo in relief. The
Mariners offense went one for twenty eight with thirteen strikeouts,
and the late game in Anaheim has just ended A's
fourteen to six over the Angels. Milwaukee beat the Cubs
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five to two to move into first Back.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
To you, thank you. See now I want to go
back now. The Canucks fired Adam Foot as their head
coach tonight and his staff. You know how Chris Berman
would announce this, uh oh and clearly tj the Canucks
giving Foot the boot after another bad season.
Speaker 5 (35:39):
Honestly I should have seen that coming.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Well, well, speaking about what you should see coming, Yeah,
wait till you hear what Knicks fans were chanting outside
of MSG following the wind tonight over the Calves.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Nicks in for Nicks, in for out, Nicks, in for no,
it wasn't some of them were. It was something else
that's next.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
JAB.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my bess friend
Mike Carmon. I don't know how we're gonna top the
last two nights the NBA players, but I can't wait
to see what we have the next two nights after this.
A twenty two point lead for the Cavaliers is erased
by the Knicks in the final seven minutes. They blow
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past Cleveland overtime one fifteen, one oh four, and Knicks
fans like myself went from boy, all right, we gotta
come back in game two. This is an adjustment game.
This is terrible too. A ready, I'm ready for the
NBA phos hilarious.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
You listen to the podcast as Alex and Justin and
the team get it all together tonight. The opening was
you like you were sitting in front of a mirror,
convincing yourself everything was gonna be okay. The life had
been turned upside down. Someone was taking your dog and
carting away your your car and everything else you own.
(37:13):
And then all of a sudden, it's yeah, like you
you go home, beat it, Gilbert.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
You know, I'm watching the comeback and I'm going I'm like,
I don't want to get too excited. I want to
get too happy. This is it's a twenty point deficit,
it's fifteen, it's twelve, it's nine, it's five. Then they
tied it, and it would It just got absolutely insane.
And now Knicks fans like me are saying, like I've
said this a few times tonight, but now Knicks fans
are really believing it.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Here's a chant from outside of MSG earlier tonight, following
the Knicks victory in Game one over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Nicks in for Nicks, in for Nicks, in for everybody
else already hit the bars.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
It was a yeah ours crowd that was very loud.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I mean it was like you're right on top, like
you're pumping in crowd doing you're Indiana or in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I like, how clear? It was too crystal clear? Condense
your microphone like no others A couple of Knicks maths.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
So do we have the the other chant from post
game tonight, Knicks fans outside of MSG already dismissing the
rest of the Eastern Conference Finals Nixon far.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Nix in far Nicks in for Nixon fars.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Again they do. They get louder, a little violent at
the end. It was like very aggressive. Well that's Knicks fans.
We're not We're not not aggressive. We're not unaggressive. We're
very aggressive.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Always next level. Say what you want about hate Knicks fans.
We always show up, man, when the team's terrible, we
show up with the team's good, which hardly ever happens.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
We show up, show up.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Told you before there was a great report, uh you
know season ticket older because they've done the thing everybody
trying to keep the other fans out, and we know
the Cavaliers have been pretty good about bussing and getting
employees and fans there. That they sent down things of
the season's tickettholders going hey, you can have more tickets
and here's the face value, and they all responded with
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beat it. So they had to send a second email
with a lower price entry so those folks were happy
to come in at a lower price.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
So here it is the chant outside of MSG following
the game one win over the Caps. Hey, man, that's
kind of psychedelic, man Like, I'm hearing a bunch of
different layers to that, man like getting cloned, like the
(39:47):
Minie Danhausen. I could hear the bass and the rhythm
guitar and hear the lead guitar come in. Man, it's
really layers. Actually the guitar. That was really well done
multi tracking. Yeah, Knicks fans, outside of the game, we're chanting,
(40:12):
we want Wemby. Where's the drunk guy in the middle going,
what are you doing? No?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Why are you trying to bring this one?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
What did I tell you? Ten seconds after the Knicks
one game one? Wemby? I'll see you in three more games. Okay,
I'll see you in three more games, Wemby. We'll be
ready for that.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Again, the consolable crying to the basketball gods for forty minutes,
and then immediately there after, Chesty Nixon.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Fun Nick guess Hey, who knew the ist was just
gonna be the first championship between the Knicks and the
Spurs this year? Who knew Nicks in four, Nicks in four.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
You're really something that I've explained many a time in
our long partnership here on Fox Sports Radio and other
folks who've sat in the chair in your stead.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Uh, it's it's I I'd long to be in.
Speaker 4 (41:06):
That world again, that little kid that lives and dies
with each and probably gets punched every now and again
forgetting a little too chesty when the things are going well.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Hey, seven more wins, seven more, seven away, seven away
from the title. Seven more wins. That's all it, seven more,
that's it. Uh coming up next. If you like what
Kenny Aatkins had to say this hour, way do we
tell you? And you hear what Mike Brown had to
say following the game. Fox
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