May 9, 2024 • 36 mins
Rick Carlisle was NOT unhappy with the whistles in the Pacers-Knicks series. And Charles Barkley would love to see the Knicks get stomped by the Celtics!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Jason.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, what he got Frostburger TVs went out in the
studio here. I didn't see what happened. Did the Oilers win?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, they beat the Kings? Oh, sorry that was I went.
I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, you know, so just another year they beat the
Kings and then they pooped their pants.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's like you know what it's like. It's like it's
like the Nuggets and the Lakers, Like, hey, here are
the Nuggets. They beat the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Now that the Knicks win one game, Mike, he's chesty
now one game.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh that's right. He made it to the second round
for the first time ever.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting to watch a replay in the
studio because for some reason, you guys have left this
on just to screw with me one more time.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, you should watch that game again because it was awesome.
That's why you want to watch that again. Because Jay live,
I've bet the runs.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
See if you can remember all the sequences and everything else.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I did. Like that video.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I just sent it to you, guys of the Ben
Stiller before the game walking past Reggie Miller.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Ben Stiller is living
his best life right now. He's at Ben Stiller is
having more relevancy right now than in like the last
fifteen years. Like what's the last good movie he did?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
That show that he's directing with Adam Scott's really good.
I could tell you which movie it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, No, he's apologized for that. Yes I should, he said.
I thought, you know, it seemed like the second one.
It's like they did, you know, within the first five
years after his release.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But you know, I mean it's like, really, what, when's
the last time he's like enjoying He's enjoying a like
it's the nineties, right, Like it's hey, it's reality bites
into uh nonnagical treasure.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Jason, when's the last.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Time any of those celebrity row guys at Madison Square
goten were.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Relevant outside of Brian Cranston and Jason bateon.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now, wait a minute that Chris Rock got slapped by
Will Smith. He did? He did?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And Tracy Morgan that's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Tracy Morgan was in thirty Rock up until like twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Come on, man, that was ten years ago, a decade ago. No,
it was, but fast that comes at you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm saying. I'm saying the nineties. It's like MSG is
like a time warp. Man, Hey, what was life like
a few years ago. Let's go to Madison Square Gardener
watching Nick's basketball game.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh, hey, remember the eighties.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We We're gonna get Jim Brewer as goat boy your
celebrity row here.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's like it's like it's like I remember a few
years ago when I was out at a bar with
a bunch of friends and they had this crazy night
where they said, oh, yeah, we have Paps Blue ribbon
on specially like, oh, I'm gonna have that, would you not?
Because it's Paps Blue ribbon?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
And then you turn to someone and you say, hey, Gabe,
come on, it would have been great.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I said, Paps Blue ribbon. Wait it was. Yeah, it's
a special. It's a cannon Paps Blue ribbon for a dollar.
And I said, oh, if it's a dollar, I'll gal
have one. Yeah, sure you it's a dollar. Come on.
So apparently they had this Pats ribbon they wanted to
get rid of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So I get the can, I get the cannon Paps
Blue ribbon, and I open it and I take a drink,
and I turn a wife and I go, I'm traveling
through time right now, it's nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
This is unbelievable. But was it an actual twelve ounce can?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't know that I've seen anything but tall boys
in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh, I forget if it was sixteen it might have been. Yeah,
it might have been, but it was like this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Now I want to have blue, did you instantly, great
hand Pam or whoever I hat?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
All the su I had hair? I was thinner. I
was wearing nick'sed gear like that that that was really
big on me, like shorts and went.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Down to pass my knees.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Look at this, I'm home back in the night.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And now you got one of those little change things
on you like you know, like you do when you
got on the subway in Chicago or in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Instead it's doling out hats.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh sure, I was giving which one am I going to?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's equivalent at a quarter.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's eighteen eighty seven for the kid again.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, you know, you could have saved yourself a lot
of money by getting a bunch of those little baseball
mini helmets out of the gumball machine and you get
handle those out.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
In the words of the Great Frank, the tank once
it touches the lips.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Man, oh taste.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So it was, it was, I'm go traveling through time.
I'll let you know when I stop. I'll let you
know what I stopped. But that's at the sip of
this Babs blue ribbon. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
The quest has begun.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But look speaking of the drama at MSG tonight. Rick Carlile,
head coach of the Pacers, lost his mind in the
final minute. He was very upset. Look the Knicks wind
up winning twenty one. They pulled away from the Pacers
in a game that the Knicks they closed all right,
just really quickly. Me they escaped game one. They closed
(05:30):
Game two like Jalen Brunson got away with maybe a
couple of turnovers that almost were called in game one
that he got lucky, a couple that he didn't turn
the ball over. This is the Knicks closing game two
without Andrew Nobi, with a banged up Brunson. They closed.
They hit their shots, they hit their free throws, they
put the they put the hammer down in this game.
(05:51):
But you saw Rick Carlyle get very upset and get
thrown out of the game because he was upset first
over a call that got received. Final minute of the game,
the Pacers are still down six, but they're rallying a
little bit. They've hit a couple of shots, they've gotten
a turnover, and Isaiah Hartenstein is trying to dribble the
ball across half court because the Pacers are pressing and
(06:13):
Hartenstein is dribbling, and all of a sudden, a whistle
comes and it looks like the referee signals double dribble,
and it looks like it's gonna be Pacers basketball. Th'll
wait a minute, wait a minute, And they look at it,
and there's clearly nothing that happened on the play, and
so it was an inadvertent whistle, and so the Knicks
retained possession. The Knicks didn't lose the basketball. Hartenstein didn't
(06:34):
lose the ball, The Pacers didn't steal it. They weren't
going the other way saying look at us, now you're
gonna blow the whistle. No, none of that happened. So
the Knicks got the ball back, and Rick Carlyle lost
his mind, was incredibly yelling about the call. Is on
the court screaming about it. And just understand that this
is frustration from the non kickball call from game one,
(06:54):
because he's yelling he wants the ball after an inadvertent
whistle where the Knicks didn't lose possession and the Pacers
didn't take it. So I don't understand really what he wants. No,
you blew the whistle, so you have to give us
the basketball. It doesn't make any sense. But Rick Carlisle
gets thrown out of the game because he continues to
jaw at the refs and he's clapping his hands right
(07:15):
in the referee's face, and he gets tossed. The Vincenzo
makes some free throws and Nicks wind up winning well.
Following the game, he decided to take his beef with
the officials to the next level. He was asked about
the officiating in Game two and also game one as well,
and this is what Carlile had to say about where
he thinks the officiating has been for the series.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know, one guy just said he did indulgibble.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
But it looked to me like, you know, Tims went
out there and argued and they changed it.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
That's what it looked like, you know. So I can
only go by what I see. What I saw, And.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Yeah, that's that's that's small beings compared to everything else,
you know. But you know, small market teams deserve an
equal shot.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
They deserve they deserve a fair shot, no matter where,
no matter where they're playing anybody else.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So young So okay, all right, let let's let's just
deal with this now. Again, he wants the ball because
officials blew the whistle and made a mistake. Nothing happened.
They didn't get the ball, and we want the ball
for that. Oh Tims went out and argued and they
gave it back. There was nothing there. There was nothing there,
he would say, triple He went on. He went on
to say it as postgame presser that there's twenty nine
(08:47):
calls that they saw that they're going to send to
the league. And as soon as you start saying stuff
like that, it's I think the general average fan goes,
what are we really saying here? You really there's there's
that kind of conspiracy. We want to call our own files.
If this, let's go. Rick Buker broke it down perfectly.
The difference in this series has been the Knicks are
more physical than the Pacers. The Knicks are more comfortable
(09:09):
in a physical game, and they are dictating the pace,
especially at home, and when the Pacers try to play physical,
it doesn't work because it's not cut quite what they do.
And Rick did a great job talking about it. Look, Halli,
Burton and Siakam when they try to play physical, it's
not the same as Brunson, Because he did the Knicks
know how to play physical more so. I get I
get it. I get that Rick Carlyle's upset. I get
(09:31):
that he's going to get a big fine. I understand
all of this, but boy, there's a lot of stuff
I'd rather see Rick Carlyle own instead of saying again, oh,
the officials, the officials, big market, small mark. It's a
load of crap. What I want to say is, okay, Rick,
I understand that, But boy, hey, what was behind taking
your two best players in the fourth quarter out and
not having them play down the stretch? And by that
(09:53):
I mean you took out Obi Toppin and you took
out TJ McConnell. The Pacers bench kept them in the game.
They were winning the game. They were causing the Knicks problems.
TJ McConnell was causing problems. He comes off the bench
and has a double double with ten assists. Okay, Obi
Toppin can't be stopped in the first half, especially he's
hits three threes, and it's the Knicks have no answer
(10:15):
for Obie Toppin. And I'm watching this going I'm gonna
have to spend three and a half hours talking about
a former Nick coming into Madison Square Garden winning a game,
and when the Pacers were running with this lineup, they
were doing a lot of damage. Yes, Jalen Brunson sat
out in the second quarter, came back in the third.
The Knicks played much better. But you're talking about taking
out your two most effective players because at this point
(10:37):
they were the most effective players. As good a game
as Halliburton had, he had a really again, he was
invisible down the stretch right. These were the guys were
making big shots and making big plays. And I don't
know if it's Halliburton, if he's still injured, he's not
quite the same player. I don't know if he's suddenly
paralysis by analysis, but he's not the same guy. These
were your two best players. You're starting five. If you
(10:58):
were Indiana or combined minus seventy for the game, and
you were four players off the bench who were combined
plus forty two, at some point you have to sit
back and say, oh, I gotta own this man. This
was my fault because I took the guys out of
the game that were helping us control the game. Now.
Was Brunson still scoring, Yes, but McConnell was in his
(11:19):
hip pocket, causing him problems making the knicks work for
a lot of things. He was also contributing on the
offensive end. It's not like a defensively he was out,
so I had to take him out of the game
and put more offense. And yes he wanted to go
with his starters in the offense, but in the playoffs,
if it's not your night, I'm sorry, right, but it
wasn't Pascal Siakam's night. It wasn't Miles Turner's night. It
(11:39):
was Toppens night, it was McConnell's night. These were the
guys that had to play down the stretch, and he's
got to own it. Boy. I got caught with just
doing what we normally do. Okay, the bench guys played great.
Now my starters are going back out there. Nuts. This
is not game fifty seven. This is not the second
night at back to backs where you're playing Utah and
then you're playing the Clippers. Says you gotta win this
(12:01):
game or you gotta face the possibility of the series
is over. And if these guys are playing it are effective,
they stay in the game. I mean, it was a gift.
What do you think Jalen Brunson thought coming out there
on one leg and then midway through the fourth quarter, going,
mcconald's out of the game, really, because what did Brunson do?
He cooked everybody that tried to guard him down the stretch.
(12:21):
He stepped back and hit threees, got to the rim,
hit buckets, hit free throws, hit short jumpers. He cooked
everybody that dried. This is what I'm sitting here going,
Jalen Brunson's the greatest basketball player in the world. But
this is what Carlisle's got to own because his decisions
there that absolutely killed the Pacers in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Top of add twenty points in twenty minutes of play
and was a plus nine. McConnell ten points in his
twelve assists off the bench, and he was at least
he was a gnat right on Brunson. He made him
work and the two of them collided more time, like
a lot of body blows from Jalen Brunson. Yeah, he
might have got the better of it. Short term. He's
(13:01):
in the ice bath now, right after all of that
extra work. Not to mention the foot injury, but Toppam
didn't see the court again after the nine minute mark.
McConnell left at seven point thirty or thereabouts, and then Shepherd,
who was pretty effective off the bench as well. In
his twenty minutes he had eleven points, he was plus twelve.
He didn't come in until there were three minutes remaining
(13:22):
in the fourth. So substitution pattern and trying to utilize
your hot hands certainly not what Rick Carlisle had his
sleeve here. And Turner's been fairly ineffective for two straight games.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I mean, he just has to own that there's no
other there's no other there's no other way to break
it down, and I hope he does. But no, he
really is more invested in talking about the officiating, and
I get that he's trying to get something called. He's desperate.
I can feel the desperation off the television while he's talking.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But I give Haliburton all credit in the world. They
asked him about officiating, he left, He goes they up
played us. Yeah, you know, I can't worry about the officials.
We just have to be better.
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Definitely the Celtics.
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Speaker 1 (17:26):
We're gonna get to the happiest team in the NBA
coming up in a couple of minutes, because after tonight,
the happiest team is not the Knicks. But first, let's
hear from Charles Barkley. Right, this is on TNT following
the Knicks win tonight over the Basers and the unbelievable
all world performance of Jalen Brunson. Who hey, not my words,
but Rick Buker telling us how Brunson is doing Michael
(17:46):
Jordan type things, which is to do it so that
gets the appearance I hope so, I hope so too.
Let me tell you this is the outside of the
Mets in twenty fifteen. This is the most fun run
I've had. And this includes the jets two runs to
the title game in twenty two thousand and eight, two
thousand nine, which is a long time ago. This includes
this is just so unbelievably exciting. But Barkley did have
(18:09):
a word of warning for the Knicks getting into Game
three against the Pacers. Let's listen, you know, if the
Knicks win, that'll be good. You care who win? Cut it.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
I don't care who wins, but I will tell you
what I would love to see them get. They ask
stump by the Celtic that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You care who wins?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
I mean, I'm just saying, whoever, whoever win this year
is gonna get stumped by the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You said you'd be happy to see it.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Yeah, because the New York Isse.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Y'all deserve it. Y'all think all the greatest things.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
That slice bird Chuck, Come on, y'all, ain't that good
in New York?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What else? Chuck?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Come on, man, y'all overrated?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What else? Chuck?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
It's cause y'all make good pizza and good bagels and
use crime and hold on, Chuck, don't forget about the
so you know they didn't. I ain't gonna say bad about.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
The Street Meet Love the Street Met Yeah, New York Nicks.
I don't care what kind of mean.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
It is good even if you no idea, no stop raccoon.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It tastes good. Cat.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Put some of that white sauce on it and away
you go. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I like how Shaq was just so instigating air? What else? Chuck?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What else? What else?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Chuck?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What don't get that?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Chuck? What else?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You got a muskrat dinner? But think about it.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We may be in the final throes of getting to
see these guys banter like this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, you never know. Well, I got a feeling they'll
all wind up running to NBC. They'll find some way
to get out of their contracts a TNT and go
to NBC.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They're saying that it's gonna be like a two point
five billion dollar bid.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, dude, they'll play. They'll play round Ball Rock and
Ernie Johnson will show up and they'll or they'll just
use Ai Marv Albert to run stuff. That's all you
need if you were playing.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
The first time that they come on air, Tesh has
to be there to do it live right.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Uh No, you need Marv there. Marv is the guy
you need there, or you need Ai Marv whatever you need.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Ai again in a suit or lingerie.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Stop in a suit that was a long time ago.
Uh yes, Like don't you need him now? Nickot's Nick's Pacers,
I mean, don't you need him now? And coming up
now on NBA on NBC, Patrick Ewing m the next
Reggie Miller and the Pacers Game three from Conseco field
House in Indiana, up coming right now, myself and Matt
(20:23):
Gucus on the call.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Little Maddie, I did that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Myself and Billy Cunningham on the call, Like, don't you
need that?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You say, the Knicks they have more than a lot
of bark, They really have some bite.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, Yeah, I'm sure he would say that. Hey, maybe Mark,
once you go back.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Now, I think I think a small percentage of the
audience listening tonight across the world.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Sure he wants to understood the reference.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You should know. I think they did as well off
just saying I don't think Mark say that if they
got of that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Did you see what I did there?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Welcome inside a saltou Concigo field House. I don't know
what I read in the prompter just now, but we're
gonna move on and figure out what is happening with
the tzar of the Telestrader Mike Frittello. What do the
Knicks need to do to slow down either Dale or
Anthony Davis here in game three? Mike, But look, Barkley
(21:20):
gets us into a great conversation. Be street meat. Yeah,
let's go street met sure. Sure O. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
you can get good street meet anywhere, man, Like, it
doesn't need to be New York, Like I.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Get good Street from experience.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Dude, you go outside, you leave the Staples. Every time
I leave Staples Center following like a Lakers game or
a or a something. U when did they go Lakers game?
L year one? It's been it. But I just went
to to Staples not too long ago. Okay, uh, I
(21:56):
forget whe did I go see at Staple Oh? I
would see the King's Play not too long ago. So
like you walk out, you walk out and and it's
like that that smell of sausage and pepper and bacon
wrapped hot dogs. You just go, oh, give me four
of them. I don't care how much it is like
because they're right there cooking it. Oh dude, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Of you know Biden Street Met there is there is.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
A license on the side of it, Jason's nickname Street Meet.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You know how much you know how much I feel
about New York and getting stuff the best street meet
you could possibly have that smells the best Fenway Park
It's not even close, man. Really, you walk out, you
walk out of Fenway Park and I went to a
bunch of Red Sox games. I was at ESPN, and
you walk out there and the sausage and pepper subs
just you like, where am I want to go to there,
(22:48):
and it's like you have no It's like you come out.
It's like a movie where suddenly there's something in the
air and you're hypnotized and you can't do anything else.
You just walk up and go and say and say
what do you have? Give it to me? You know,
people will, people will fork over twenty dollars. You can
look around for a while. Ray, no one's going to
care here. Take my money.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Give me a sausage, give me all the sausage juices.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Give it to me. I'll tell you, man, nothing smells
better than the sausage and pepper subs outside of Fenway.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I do enjoy the walk from the train going over
to Guaranteed Raide Field because now you have the street vendors,
but you also have folks with the giant coolers where
you can buy a mini bottle of any type of
alcohol you want.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Cops, Okay, well that's good, and you sneak it in right.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Or drink it on the way. I mean, everybody's just.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Gotta you're going to see the White Sox. I think
that might dare you want to.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Just because I laid that up on a tee and
said go ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Did that was that was up on a tea.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
When I nod my head, you hit it when.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You're asking what NBA team is the happiest right now, right,
especially after tonight? Right, Nick win tonight, But now you
have no idea what's going on in Game three? You
have no idea if Ogano nobody's gonna play. I'd like
to think he would, but it doesn't look like it.
With a strained hamstring. Jalen Brunton is hurt. Maybe they
sit him. Look, I've told you this series doesn't feel
(24:07):
like it's over, and it doesn't because I can easily
see the Pacers winning Game three in Game four and
suddenly we're back at it in Game five and which
it's two to two, right that, this series does not
feel over. But the happiest team is not the Knicks.
The happiest team is not the timber Wolves, even though
they're up two zip going home against the Nuggets. Happiest
team is not the Thunder. The happiest team, without a doubt,
(24:30):
are the Boston Celtics. Now there is a caveat here
because with the happiness comes an enormous amount of pressure,
because the Celtics are like the the Nuggets were last
year where the Nuggets played through an entire season and
they stayed healthy and teams they played against lost a
(24:50):
lot of players right as they when they went on
to win the title. It was a It was a
season where everything went right right, everything went right for
for the Nuggets. Last year. You saw injuries that happened,
doesn't matter. This is where you're at for the Celtics.
The Celtics are sitting here rolling through teams going it's
(25:11):
not this easy? Is It's not this easy. We didn't
have to worry about Giannis he was out, didn't have
to worry about the heat. Jimmy Butler, Yeah, Jimmy Butler
was out, he missed the playoffs. Now we're we're gonna
roll through a Cleveland team because already they have to
be defeated, and then we're gonna maybe get the Knicks
in the conference finals and they're gonna be without half
their team by these guys are gonna play forty five
(25:33):
forty eight minutes a night. By the time we get
to the Eastern Conference Finals, they're gonna be cooked. We
can't believe our fortune. If the Celtics don't win the
title this year, they'll never win it because this is
laid out on a platter for them. You're healthy, Yes,
Porzingis is dinged up, but obviously you haven't missed him
so far, and likely he will come. You know, he'll
be one hundred percent at some point soon. So you're saying, Okay,
(25:57):
this is our path. We're gonna get there. And in
the Western Conference, we could watch the Timberwolves and the
Thunder going through seven games of blood on the floor
and hair on the walls and all kinds of crazy
ass stuff, and the Celtics act to be saying this
is it, like this is how you draw it up,
like it does. It doesn't get easier than this. We
have an easy path to the finals. The players are
(26:17):
all hurt on the teams here in the Eastern Conference,
and it's not like the East was deep anyway. We're
clearly the best of all of these teams. And now
we're gonna face somebody that went through a little bit
more through the fire, and it's a little bit more
dinged up, a little bit more tired than we are.
We could take the NBA Finals the first couple of
games and never look back. This is where it's at
for the Celtics. Now that being said, boy, is that
(26:39):
pressure when it's really an NBA title or bust season,
not get to the finals, not get to the conference finals.
When it is now win the title or bust? How
do the Celtics re respact and respond to that when
you are now the overwhelming favorites because you look at
what's happening to everybody else around the league.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Oh, he looked at it, you know, coming into the year, right,
where are they going to break things up? Was Missoula
gonna get fired by the way things ended? They decided
to bring it back. What you've also added, in addition
to whatever porzingis shows up again is Derek White has
just been phenomenal for them.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
To this point.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Jason Datum hasn't had to play many a weary minute. Right,
they're bludgeting everybody, just like they did all throughout the season,
winning the Eastern Conference with the best record by what
twelve games? Right, that was the gap between them and
the Knicks, right after the Bucks did what they did
down the stretch, after Doc Rivers came on board and
(27:33):
Giannis got hurt and everything else. But you're looking at
a squad that we had those grandiose expectations. You can
go back to the early betting odds. The expectation was
you're getting right back to where you were, and now
you have to win it from Missoula. We can't have
one of those let down games like you had last round,
where we were looking at each other in studio going,
what the hell's going on here?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Why is there no sense of urgency with the squad?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Don't they know this all matters point and that the
expectation is greatness and nothing else, Particularly when you're looking
at that Tatum and Jalen Brown combination. Right there's the
well they will this ever work? Has their window run
out all of those things. No, you've got a loaded
squad and again Derek White coming up big for them,
(28:19):
and they're not having to play forty minutes of weary
minutes and body blows like we're watching with this Knicks
Pacers series. Look if the best thing that could happen
for the Knicks is somehow they're able to sweep these
guys and then go into a cryogenic bath for seventy
two hours, guess what. Pacers ain't going down that easy.
(28:39):
These have been two hard fought games. So the last
man standing is the guy that tries to take down
the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
If Boss is not in the final, something's wrong. Yeah,
And if that doesn't happen, if that doesn't happen, if
they're not in the finals. And I said, look all
by Nick, look, I understand the Knicks run of magic carpet, right,
however long it goes, goes right, because how much can
you win when now you you start, you're playing with
four guys now. But if they I will easily put
the Celtics on my never again list because this is
(29:11):
that kind of Okay, it's that kind of year. I
will never pick the Celtics to win anything again. Never
they'll be They'll be on the never again list if
they don't make it to the finals this year.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
So angry, No, No, I'm just telling the truth. Like,
hey man, you keep this up, you won't have any
teams left to pick.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All of a sudden. Every year I'm picking the Browns. Well,
maybe the Browns this year, Browns, Well, maybe the Browns
up It could be the Browns, could be the Browns.
Wait till I pick the Jets to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
You're really not gonna do that?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Uh? Coming up? Next. Yes, we'll have final thoughts on
the Knicks win over the Pacers, plus a one liner
from a big story run all night respect right here,
Chasing and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Be sure to catch line editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (30:06):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the tire rack dot Com Studio. Yeah,
uh now a one liner. I we'll get to We'll
get to our final thoughts on the next Pacers coming
(30:27):
up in a minute. But a Pacer, I've been dunk.
I've been no, no, no, I've been waiting to run this
all day because this is still a big story. As
Indianapolis Police again, this is not a nixt Pacer story.
Indianapolis Police announced Wednesday they've opened an investigation into end
quote NBA player and citizen altercation that happened at Gambridge
(30:48):
Field House on the night when Patrick Beverley threw a
ball at a fan in the final minutes of that
season ending loss to the Pacers. The police sited a
news release this case has been forwarded to detectives who
are investigating the situation. And take all accusations seriously. So
police are investigating that Patrick Beverley throwing a basketball back
(31:11):
to a fan. Police are not involved with this.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Well, I mean technically it isn't assault.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No, true, No, you're right.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Right if we want, if we want to go technical
letter of the law, especially when he asked for it
back and then drilled the second guy like he was
playing dodgeball.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Now you're ready for you ready for my one line?
Here's my one line right for all day? Uh Now,
I'm gonna help the police here, right, I'm gonna help
How are you gonna help the police, Because I'm going
to help the police. I'm gonna help them with their case.
I'm gonna help them with.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
They're Okay, let's let's see. Let's hear it. This is
this is one. It's here, Matt Locke.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
We needed we needed to have this guy on our
on our team. We're investigating this. At some point, you're
gonna need to interview Patrick Beverley. He is not gonna
talk to you unless you subscribe to his podcast. So
make sure whoever the officers are they've subscribed, and then
(32:06):
Patrick Beverley will talk to you.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Let's get all the preliminaries out of the way. We
subscribe your stupid podcast. Now, why the hell the ball
off this person's head?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Prove it? Prove it here here, here's my name.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I didn't say I listened to it, but I said
I subscribed.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You gotta give me a click. You gotta click on
just click on the very beginning so you can say
I can get that click. All right, there you go. Okay,
Now I'll answer your questions about throwing the next.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
On the forty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Did he talked to the cops and did they subscribe
to his podcast?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
When you look at the clicks, god, and there were
none from anywhere in the Indiana range of police officers?
Was this a big lie to get Beverley to talk?
Can the conviction get thrown out in court? That's coming
up next, entrapman.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Can you imagine him telling the judge in court, I
ain't saying nothing. You don't subscribe to my podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Chris Beverley, you need to address the court. Yeah, I'm sorry, judge,
but I'm not good talking about he's not subscribing my podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I gotta get my numbers up here, Judge.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Sorry, I'll talk to jump and knucklehead four seven, four six,
because I know that guy subscribed to my podcast a
few hours ago. You want to ask me a question,
go ahead, hit me up on Twitter. I'll answer it
for you.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Run in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Uh Now, speaking of the look, the Knicks win Game two,
and there's two big things coming off of this. The
first one is who knows how healthy they're gonna be? Right,
Like if they've been playing with fire the entire playoffs, right,
and their entire rotation is decimated. Right, we know they've
been playing without Julius Randall. Okay, uh No, bog Danovich,
(33:43):
he's out for the playoffs. He was playing a good
twelve fifteen minutes. He's done. Mitchell Robinson done for the
playoffs as well. He was one of the Iron seven
that were coming off the bench. Now no and u Nobi.
Who look, when you only play five guys, he's one
of the most important guys. But he was a guy
to transform the team when he showed up. If he
is out, I mean, I don't know. I don't know
(34:04):
how you overcome this. If he's out for the rest
of the series and Brunson slowed down, I can see
the Pacers winning the next four I mean, this is
just me being a fatalist Knicks fan, but I could
see the Pacers winning the next four if Awn Noby
is out and suddenly it's guys like a Chua who
have to play. And there's a reason why these guys
aren't in because they come in and you see there,
they're minus four in ninety seconds and it's like, okay,
(34:27):
I gotta go back to the starters. So eventually it's
gonna get to a point where the Knicks are gonna
have an injury that's gonna be too much to overcome.
And man, I'll tell you Anunoby might be that guy
if he's out for a while. I don't know, man,
I mean, I could see the Pacers still winning the series.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Josh Hart remember and told the New York Post quote
my wife arguing with me. That makes me extremely tired. Otherwise,
he's a guy that's playing every minute, much like Tims
did to Jimmy Buckets back in the day.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No gonna play all the minute.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
You see what he can come up with. But yeah,
two hard fought games. Carlisle's laid all the groundwork. Did
you just kind of say, hey, hey, what about us?
As for the small market squads. Remember the other small
market squads in this Minnesota and okay, see they're eleven
in oh combined.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Now, let me just say this, because we've talked a
lot about Jalen Brunson and how great he has played.
But let me tell you, we talked about the Knicks
closing out tonight.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
You've made him an American hero. Oh, he is kind
of like Daniel bleeping Boone. He's the best player in
the playoffs. He's the best player in the playoffs. It's
not even he's the best player.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
It's not accurate.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But what what what the Knicks were able to do tonight?
Just think about this. This is what makes Brunson so valuable.
When this when the Pacers were trying to double him
and deny him the ball and make it difficult and
try to force turnovers, the Knicks were getting the ball
into the hands of their other playmakers. And the important
thing is they went to the hoop and were decisive.
When Brunson in the final two minutes comes out of
(35:51):
a double team and he's able to get the ball
to heart Devincenzo, it's not let's wait until Brunson gets
open again. Give him the ball. And see the Pacers
set their defense. It's we are decisive going to the
basket or going to get a shot right away while
we have the man advantage because the two players are
still too far out because they're on bruns and the
Knicks have figured that out that the Pacers have to
figure something else out at the end of games.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
The rest of the series can't wait to see how
Carlisle covers up the invisible man when they're playing four
on the court
Speaker 1 (36:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Jason.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, what he got Frostburger TVs went out in the
studio here. I didn't see what happened. Did the Oilers win?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yes, they beat the Kings? Oh, sorry that was I went.
I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, you know, so just another year they beat the
Kings and then they pooped their pants.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's like you know what it's like. It's like it's
like the Nuggets and the Lakers, Like, hey, here are
the Nuggets. They beat the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Now that the Knicks win one game, Mike, he's chesty
now one game.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh that's right. He made it to the second round
for the first time ever.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting to watch a replay in the
studio because for some reason, you guys have left this
on just to screw with me one more time.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Well, you should watch that game again because it was awesome.
That's why you want to watch that again. Because Jay live,
I've bet the runs.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
See if you can remember all the sequences and everything else.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I did. Like that video.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I just sent it to you, guys of the Ben
Stiller before the game walking past Reggie Miller.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Ben Stiller is living
his best life right now. He's at Ben Stiller is
having more relevancy right now than in like the last
fifteen years. Like what's the last good movie he did?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
That show that he's directing with Adam Scott's really good.
I could tell you which movie it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Yeah, No, he's apologized for that. Yes I should, he said.
I thought, you know, it seemed like the second one.
It's like they did, you know, within the first five
years after his release.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But you know, I mean it's like, really, what, when's
the last time he's like enjoying He's enjoying a like
it's the nineties, right, Like it's hey, it's reality bites
into uh nonnagical treasure.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Jason, when's the last.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Time any of those celebrity row guys at Madison Square
goten were.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Relevant outside of Brian Cranston and Jason bateon.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Now, wait a minute that Chris Rock got slapped by
Will Smith. He did? He did?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And Tracy Morgan that's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Tracy Morgan was in thirty Rock up until like twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Come on, man, that was ten years ago, a decade ago. No,
it was, but fast that comes at you.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm saying. I'm saying the nineties. It's like MSG is
like a time warp. Man, Hey, what was life like
a few years ago. Let's go to Madison Square Gardener
watching Nick's basketball game.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh, hey, remember the eighties.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We We're gonna get Jim Brewer as goat boy your
celebrity row here.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's like it's like it's like I remember a few
years ago when I was out at a bar with
a bunch of friends and they had this crazy night
where they said, oh, yeah, we have Paps Blue ribbon
on specially like, oh, I'm gonna have that, would you not?
Because it's Paps Blue ribbon?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
And then you turn to someone and you say, hey, Gabe,
come on, it would have been great.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I said, Paps Blue ribbon. Wait it was. Yeah, it's
a special. It's a cannon Paps Blue ribbon for a dollar.
And I said, oh, if it's a dollar, I'll gal
have one. Yeah, sure you it's a dollar. Come on.
So apparently they had this Pats ribbon they wanted to
get rid of.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
So I get the can, I get the cannon Paps
Blue ribbon, and I open it and I take a drink,
and I turn a wife and I go, I'm traveling
through time right now, it's nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
This is unbelievable. But was it an actual twelve ounce can?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I don't know that I've seen anything but tall boys
in the last twenty years.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh, I forget if it was sixteen it might have been. Yeah,
it might have been, but it was like this whole thing.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Now I want to have blue, did you instantly, great
hand Pam or whoever I hat?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
All the su I had hair? I was thinner. I
was wearing nick'sed gear like that that that was really
big on me, like shorts and went.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Down to pass my knees.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Look at this, I'm home back in the night.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And now you got one of those little change things
on you like you know, like you do when you
got on the subway in Chicago or in New York.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Instead it's doling out hats.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Oh sure, I was giving which one am I going to?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's equivalent at a quarter.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's eighteen eighty seven for the kid again.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, you know, you could have saved yourself a lot
of money by getting a bunch of those little baseball
mini helmets out of the gumball machine and you get
handle those out.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
In the words of the Great Frank, the tank once
it touches the lips.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Man, oh taste.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So it was, it was, I'm go traveling through time.
I'll let you know when I stop. I'll let you
know what I stopped. But that's at the sip of
this Babs blue ribbon. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
The quest has begun.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But look speaking of the drama at MSG tonight. Rick Carlile,
head coach of the Pacers, lost his mind in the
final minute. He was very upset. Look the Knicks wind
up winning twenty one. They pulled away from the Pacers
in a game that the Knicks they closed all right,
just really quickly. Me they escaped game one. They closed
(05:30):
Game two like Jalen Brunson got away with maybe a
couple of turnovers that almost were called in game one
that he got lucky, a couple that he didn't turn
the ball over. This is the Knicks closing game two
without Andrew Nobi, with a banged up Brunson. They closed.
They hit their shots, they hit their free throws, they
put the they put the hammer down in this game.
(05:51):
But you saw Rick Carlyle get very upset and get
thrown out of the game because he was upset first
over a call that got received. Final minute of the game,
the Pacers are still down six, but they're rallying a
little bit. They've hit a couple of shots, they've gotten
a turnover, and Isaiah Hartenstein is trying to dribble the
ball across half court because the Pacers are pressing and
(06:13):
Hartenstein is dribbling, and all of a sudden, a whistle
comes and it looks like the referee signals double dribble,
and it looks like it's gonna be Pacers basketball. Th'll
wait a minute, wait a minute, And they look at it,
and there's clearly nothing that happened on the play, and
so it was an inadvertent whistle, and so the Knicks
retained possession. The Knicks didn't lose the basketball. Hartenstein didn't
(06:34):
lose the ball, The Pacers didn't steal it. They weren't
going the other way saying look at us, now you're
gonna blow the whistle. No, none of that happened. So
the Knicks got the ball back, and Rick Carlyle lost
his mind, was incredibly yelling about the call. Is on
the court screaming about it. And just understand that this
is frustration from the non kickball call from game one,
(06:54):
because he's yelling he wants the ball after an inadvertent
whistle where the Knicks didn't lose possession and the Pacers
didn't take it. So I don't understand really what he wants. No,
you blew the whistle, so you have to give us
the basketball. It doesn't make any sense. But Rick Carlisle
gets thrown out of the game because he continues to
jaw at the refs and he's clapping his hands right
(07:15):
in the referee's face, and he gets tossed. The Vincenzo
makes some free throws and Nicks wind up winning well.
Following the game, he decided to take his beef with
the officials to the next level. He was asked about
the officiating in Game two and also game one as well,
and this is what Carlile had to say about where
he thinks the officiating has been for the series.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
You know, one guy just said he did indulgibble.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
But it looked to me like, you know, Tims went
out there and argued and they changed it.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
That's what it looked like, you know. So I can
only go by what I see. What I saw, And.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Yeah, that's that's that's small beings compared to everything else,
you know. But you know, small market teams deserve an
equal shot.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
They deserve they deserve a fair shot, no matter where,
no matter where they're playing anybody else.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So young So okay, all right, let let's let's just
deal with this now. Again, he wants the ball because
officials blew the whistle and made a mistake. Nothing happened.
They didn't get the ball, and we want the ball
for that. Oh Tims went out and argued and they
gave it back. There was nothing there. There was nothing there,
he would say, triple He went on. He went on
to say it as postgame presser that there's twenty nine
(08:47):
calls that they saw that they're going to send to
the league. And as soon as you start saying stuff
like that, it's I think the general average fan goes,
what are we really saying here? You really there's there's
that kind of conspiracy. We want to call our own files.
If this, let's go. Rick Buker broke it down perfectly.
The difference in this series has been the Knicks are
more physical than the Pacers. The Knicks are more comfortable
(09:09):
in a physical game, and they are dictating the pace,
especially at home, and when the Pacers try to play physical,
it doesn't work because it's not cut quite what they do.
And Rick did a great job talking about it. Look, Halli,
Burton and Siakam when they try to play physical, it's
not the same as Brunson, Because he did the Knicks
know how to play physical more so. I get I
get it. I get that Rick Carlyle's upset. I get
(09:31):
that he's going to get a big fine. I understand
all of this, but boy, there's a lot of stuff
I'd rather see Rick Carlyle own instead of saying again, oh,
the officials, the officials, big market, small mark. It's a
load of crap. What I want to say is, okay, Rick,
I understand that, But boy, hey, what was behind taking
your two best players in the fourth quarter out and
not having them play down the stretch? And by that
(09:53):
I mean you took out Obi Toppin and you took
out TJ McConnell. The Pacers bench kept them in the game.
They were winning the game. They were causing the Knicks problems.
TJ McConnell was causing problems. He comes off the bench
and has a double double with ten assists. Okay, Obi
Toppin can't be stopped in the first half, especially he's
hits three threes, and it's the Knicks have no answer
(10:15):
for Obie Toppin. And I'm watching this going I'm gonna
have to spend three and a half hours talking about
a former Nick coming into Madison Square Garden winning a game,
and when the Pacers were running with this lineup, they
were doing a lot of damage. Yes, Jalen Brunson sat
out in the second quarter, came back in the third.
The Knicks played much better. But you're talking about taking
out your two most effective players because at this point
(10:37):
they were the most effective players. As good a game
as Halliburton had, he had a really again, he was
invisible down the stretch right. These were the guys were
making big shots and making big plays. And I don't
know if it's Halliburton, if he's still injured, he's not
quite the same player. I don't know if he's suddenly
paralysis by analysis, but he's not the same guy. These
were your two best players. You're starting five. If you
(10:58):
were Indiana or combined minus seventy for the game, and
you were four players off the bench who were combined
plus forty two, at some point you have to sit
back and say, oh, I gotta own this man. This
was my fault because I took the guys out of
the game that were helping us control the game. Now.
Was Brunson still scoring, Yes, but McConnell was in his
(11:19):
hip pocket, causing him problems making the knicks work for
a lot of things. He was also contributing on the
offensive end. It's not like a defensively he was out,
so I had to take him out of the game
and put more offense. And yes he wanted to go
with his starters in the offense, but in the playoffs,
if it's not your night, I'm sorry, right, but it
wasn't Pascal Siakam's night. It wasn't Miles Turner's night. It
(11:39):
was Toppens night, it was McConnell's night. These were the
guys that had to play down the stretch, and he's
got to own it. Boy. I got caught with just
doing what we normally do. Okay, the bench guys played great.
Now my starters are going back out there. Nuts. This
is not game fifty seven. This is not the second
night at back to backs where you're playing Utah and
then you're playing the Clippers. Says you gotta win this
(12:01):
game or you gotta face the possibility of the series
is over. And if these guys are playing it are effective,
they stay in the game. I mean, it was a gift.
What do you think Jalen Brunson thought coming out there
on one leg and then midway through the fourth quarter, going,
mcconald's out of the game, really, because what did Brunson do?
He cooked everybody that tried to guard him down the stretch.
(12:21):
He stepped back and hit threees, got to the rim,
hit buckets, hit free throws, hit short jumpers. He cooked
everybody that dried. This is what I'm sitting here going,
Jalen Brunson's the greatest basketball player in the world. But
this is what Carlisle's got to own because his decisions
there that absolutely killed the Pacers in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Top of add twenty points in twenty minutes of play
and was a plus nine. McConnell ten points in his
twelve assists off the bench, and he was at least
he was a gnat right on Brunson. He made him
work and the two of them collided more time, like
a lot of body blows from Jalen Brunson. Yeah, he
might have got the better of it. Short term. He's
(13:01):
in the ice bath now, right after all of that
extra work. Not to mention the foot injury, but Toppam
didn't see the court again after the nine minute mark.
McConnell left at seven point thirty or thereabouts, and then Shepherd,
who was pretty effective off the bench as well. In
his twenty minutes he had eleven points, he was plus twelve.
He didn't come in until there were three minutes remaining
(13:22):
in the fourth. So substitution pattern and trying to utilize
your hot hands certainly not what Rick Carlisle had his
sleeve here. And Turner's been fairly ineffective for two straight games.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I mean, he just has to own that there's no
other there's no other there's no other way to break
it down, and I hope he does. But no, he
really is more invested in talking about the officiating, and
I get that he's trying to get something called. He's desperate.
I can feel the desperation off the television while he's talking.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But I give Haliburton all credit in the world. They
asked him about officiating, he left, He goes they up
played us. Yeah, you know, I can't worry about the officials.
We just have to be better.
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Definitely the Celtics.
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
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but I really enjoyed that. That's a great guitar solo.
Mad It's the best thing they have, Like they have
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Speaker 1 (17:26):
We're gonna get to the happiest team in the NBA
coming up in a couple of minutes, because after tonight,
the happiest team is not the Knicks. But first, let's
hear from Charles Barkley. Right, this is on TNT following
the Knicks win tonight over the Basers and the unbelievable
all world performance of Jalen Brunson. Who hey, not my words,
but Rick Buker telling us how Brunson is doing Michael
(17:46):
Jordan type things, which is to do it so that
gets the appearance I hope so, I hope so too.
Let me tell you this is the outside of the
Mets in twenty fifteen. This is the most fun run
I've had. And this includes the jets two runs to
the title game in twenty two thousand and eight, two
thousand nine, which is a long time ago. This includes
this is just so unbelievably exciting. But Barkley did have
(18:09):
a word of warning for the Knicks getting into Game
three against the Pacers. Let's listen, you know, if the
Knicks win, that'll be good. You care who win? Cut it.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
I don't care who wins, but I will tell you
what I would love to see them get. They ask
stump by the Celtic that'd be great.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
You care who wins?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
I mean, I'm just saying, whoever, whoever win this year
is gonna get stumped by the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
You said you'd be happy to see it.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Yeah, because the New York Isse.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Y'all deserve it. Y'all think all the greatest things.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
That slice bird Chuck, Come on, y'all, ain't that good
in New York?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What else? Chuck?
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Come on, man, y'all overrated?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What else? Chuck?
Speaker 8 (18:41):
It's cause y'all make good pizza and good bagels and
use crime and hold on, Chuck, don't forget about the
so you know they didn't. I ain't gonna say bad about.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
The Street Meet Love the Street Met Yeah, New York Nicks.
I don't care what kind of mean.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
It is good even if you no idea, no stop raccoon.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
It tastes good. Cat.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Put some of that white sauce on it and away
you go. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
I like how Shaq was just so instigating air? What else? Chuck?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What else? What else?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Chuck?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
What don't get that?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Chuck? What else?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You got a muskrat dinner? But think about it.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
We may be in the final throes of getting to
see these guys banter like this.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, you never know. Well, I got a feeling they'll
all wind up running to NBC. They'll find some way
to get out of their contracts a TNT and go
to NBC.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They're saying that it's gonna be like a two point
five billion dollar bid.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, dude, they'll play. They'll play round Ball Rock and
Ernie Johnson will show up and they'll or they'll just
use Ai Marv Albert to run stuff. That's all you
need if you were playing.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
The first time that they come on air, Tesh has
to be there to do it live right.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Uh No, you need Marv there. Marv is the guy
you need there, or you need Ai Marv whatever you need.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Ai again in a suit or lingerie.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Stop in a suit that was a long time ago.
Uh yes, Like don't you need him now? Nickot's Nick's Pacers,
I mean, don't you need him now? And coming up
now on NBA on NBC, Patrick Ewing m the next
Reggie Miller and the Pacers Game three from Conseco field
House in Indiana, up coming right now, myself and Matt
(20:23):
Gucus on the call.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Little Maddie, I did that.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Myself and Billy Cunningham on the call, Like, don't you
need that?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You say, the Knicks they have more than a lot
of bark, They really have some bite.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, Yeah, I'm sure he would say that. Hey, maybe Mark,
once you go back.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Now, I think I think a small percentage of the
audience listening tonight across the world.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Sure he wants to understood the reference.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
You should know. I think they did as well off
just saying I don't think Mark say that if they
got of that.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Did you see what I did there?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Welcome inside a saltou Concigo field House. I don't know
what I read in the prompter just now, but we're
gonna move on and figure out what is happening with
the tzar of the Telestrader Mike Frittello. What do the
Knicks need to do to slow down either Dale or
Anthony Davis here in game three? Mike, But look, Barkley
(21:20):
gets us into a great conversation. Be street meat. Yeah,
let's go street met sure. Sure O. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
you can get good street meet anywhere, man, Like, it
doesn't need to be New York, Like I.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Get good Street from experience.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Dude, you go outside, you leave the Staples. Every time
I leave Staples Center following like a Lakers game or
a or a something. U when did they go Lakers game?
L year one? It's been it. But I just went
to to Staples not too long ago. Okay, uh, I
(21:56):
forget whe did I go see at Staple Oh? I
would see the King's Play not too long ago. So
like you walk out, you walk out and and it's
like that that smell of sausage and pepper and bacon
wrapped hot dogs. You just go, oh, give me four
of them. I don't care how much it is like
because they're right there cooking it. Oh dude, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Of you know Biden Street Met there is there is.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
A license on the side of it, Jason's nickname Street Meet.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
You know how much you know how much I feel
about New York and getting stuff the best street meet
you could possibly have that smells the best Fenway Park
It's not even close, man. Really, you walk out, you
walk out of Fenway Park and I went to a
bunch of Red Sox games. I was at ESPN, and
you walk out there and the sausage and pepper subs
just you like, where am I want to go to there,
(22:48):
and it's like you have no It's like you come out.
It's like a movie where suddenly there's something in the
air and you're hypnotized and you can't do anything else.
You just walk up and go and say and say
what do you have? Give it to me? You know,
people will, people will fork over twenty dollars. You can
look around for a while. Ray, no one's going to
care here. Take my money.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Give me a sausage, give me all the sausage juices.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Give it to me. I'll tell you, man, nothing smells
better than the sausage and pepper subs outside of Fenway.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I do enjoy the walk from the train going over
to Guaranteed Raide Field because now you have the street vendors,
but you also have folks with the giant coolers where
you can buy a mini bottle of any type of
alcohol you want.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Cops, Okay, well that's good, and you sneak it in right.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Or drink it on the way. I mean, everybody's just.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Gotta you're going to see the White Sox. I think
that might dare you want to.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Just because I laid that up on a tee and
said go ahead.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Did that was that was up on a tea.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
When I nod my head, you hit it when.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
You're asking what NBA team is the happiest right now, right,
especially after tonight? Right, Nick win tonight, But now you
have no idea what's going on in Game three? You
have no idea if Ogano nobody's gonna play. I'd like
to think he would, but it doesn't look like it.
With a strained hamstring. Jalen Brunton is hurt. Maybe they
sit him. Look, I've told you this series doesn't feel
(24:07):
like it's over, and it doesn't because I can easily
see the Pacers winning Game three in Game four and
suddenly we're back at it in Game five and which
it's two to two, right that, this series does not
feel over. But the happiest team is not the Knicks.
The happiest team is not the timber Wolves, even though
they're up two zip going home against the Nuggets. Happiest
team is not the Thunder. The happiest team, without a doubt,
(24:30):
are the Boston Celtics. Now there is a caveat here
because with the happiness comes an enormous amount of pressure,
because the Celtics are like the the Nuggets were last
year where the Nuggets played through an entire season and
they stayed healthy and teams they played against lost a
(24:50):
lot of players right as they when they went on
to win the title. It was a It was a
season where everything went right right, everything went right for
for the Nuggets. Last year. You saw injuries that happened,
doesn't matter. This is where you're at for the Celtics.
The Celtics are sitting here rolling through teams going it's
(25:11):
not this easy? Is It's not this easy. We didn't
have to worry about Giannis he was out, didn't have
to worry about the heat. Jimmy Butler, Yeah, Jimmy Butler
was out, he missed the playoffs. Now we're we're gonna
roll through a Cleveland team because already they have to
be defeated, and then we're gonna maybe get the Knicks
in the conference finals and they're gonna be without half
their team by these guys are gonna play forty five
(25:33):
forty eight minutes a night. By the time we get
to the Eastern Conference Finals, they're gonna be cooked. We
can't believe our fortune. If the Celtics don't win the
title this year, they'll never win it because this is
laid out on a platter for them. You're healthy, Yes,
Porzingis is dinged up, but obviously you haven't missed him
so far, and likely he will come. You know, he'll
be one hundred percent at some point soon. So you're saying, Okay,
(25:57):
this is our path. We're gonna get there. And in
the Western Conference, we could watch the Timberwolves and the
Thunder going through seven games of blood on the floor
and hair on the walls and all kinds of crazy
ass stuff, and the Celtics act to be saying this
is it, like this is how you draw it up,
like it does. It doesn't get easier than this. We
have an easy path to the finals. The players are
(26:17):
all hurt on the teams here in the Eastern Conference,
and it's not like the East was deep anyway. We're
clearly the best of all of these teams. And now
we're gonna face somebody that went through a little bit
more through the fire, and it's a little bit more
dinged up, a little bit more tired than we are.
We could take the NBA Finals the first couple of
games and never look back. This is where it's at
for the Celtics. Now that being said, boy, is that
(26:39):
pressure when it's really an NBA title or bust season,
not get to the finals, not get to the conference finals.
When it is now win the title or bust? How
do the Celtics re respact and respond to that when
you are now the overwhelming favorites because you look at
what's happening to everybody else around the league.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Oh, he looked at it, you know, coming into the year, right,
where are they going to break things up? Was Missoula
gonna get fired by the way things ended? They decided
to bring it back. What you've also added, in addition
to whatever porzingis shows up again is Derek White has
just been phenomenal for them.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
To this point.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Jason Datum hasn't had to play many a weary minute. Right,
they're bludgeting everybody, just like they did all throughout the season,
winning the Eastern Conference with the best record by what
twelve games? Right, that was the gap between them and
the Knicks, right after the Bucks did what they did
down the stretch, after Doc Rivers came on board and
(27:33):
Giannis got hurt and everything else. But you're looking at
a squad that we had those grandiose expectations. You can
go back to the early betting odds. The expectation was
you're getting right back to where you were, and now
you have to win it from Missoula. We can't have
one of those let down games like you had last round,
where we were looking at each other in studio going,
what the hell's going on here?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Why is there no sense of urgency with the squad?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Don't they know this all matters point and that the
expectation is greatness and nothing else, Particularly when you're looking
at that Tatum and Jalen Brown combination. Right there's the
well they will this ever work? Has their window run
out all of those things. No, you've got a loaded
squad and again Derek White coming up big for them,
(28:19):
and they're not having to play forty minutes of weary
minutes and body blows like we're watching with this Knicks
Pacers series. Look if the best thing that could happen
for the Knicks is somehow they're able to sweep these
guys and then go into a cryogenic bath for seventy
two hours, guess what. Pacers ain't going down that easy.
(28:39):
These have been two hard fought games. So the last
man standing is the guy that tries to take down
the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
If Boss is not in the final, something's wrong. Yeah,
And if that doesn't happen, if that doesn't happen, if
they're not in the finals. And I said, look all
by Nick, look, I understand the Knicks run of magic carpet, right,
however long it goes, goes right, because how much can
you win when now you you start, you're playing with
four guys now. But if they I will easily put
the Celtics on my never again list because this is
(29:11):
that kind of Okay, it's that kind of year. I
will never pick the Celtics to win anything again. Never
they'll be They'll be on the never again list if
they don't make it to the finals this year.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
So angry, No, No, I'm just telling the truth. Like,
hey man, you keep this up, you won't have any
teams left to pick.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
All of a sudden. Every year I'm picking the Browns. Well,
maybe the Browns this year, Browns, Well, maybe the Browns
up It could be the Browns, could be the Browns.
Wait till I pick the Jets to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
You're really not gonna do that?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Uh? Coming up? Next. Yes, we'll have final thoughts on
the Knicks win over the Pacers, plus a one liner
from a big story run all night respect right here,
Chasing and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Be sure to catch line editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the tire rack dot Com Studio. Yeah,
uh now a one liner. I we'll get to We'll
get to our final thoughts on the next Pacers coming
(30:27):
up in a minute. But a Pacer, I've been dunk.
I've been no, no, no, I've been waiting to run this
all day because this is still a big story. As
Indianapolis Police again, this is not a nixt Pacer story.
Indianapolis Police announced Wednesday they've opened an investigation into end
quote NBA player and citizen altercation that happened at Gambridge
(30:48):
Field House on the night when Patrick Beverley threw a
ball at a fan in the final minutes of that
season ending loss to the Pacers. The police sited a
news release this case has been forwarded to detectives who
are investigating the situation. And take all accusations seriously. So
police are investigating that Patrick Beverley throwing a basketball back
(31:11):
to a fan. Police are not involved with this.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Well, I mean technically it isn't assault.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
No, true, No, you're right.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Right if we want, if we want to go technical
letter of the law, especially when he asked for it
back and then drilled the second guy like he was
playing dodgeball.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Now you're ready for you ready for my one line?
Here's my one line right for all day? Uh Now,
I'm gonna help the police here, right, I'm gonna help
How are you gonna help the police, Because I'm going
to help the police. I'm gonna help them with their case.
I'm gonna help them with.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
They're Okay, let's let's see. Let's hear it. This is
this is one. It's here, Matt Locke.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
We needed we needed to have this guy on our
on our team. We're investigating this. At some point, you're
gonna need to interview Patrick Beverley. He is not gonna
talk to you unless you subscribe to his podcast. So
make sure whoever the officers are they've subscribed, and then
(32:06):
Patrick Beverley will talk to you.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Let's get all the preliminaries out of the way. We
subscribe your stupid podcast. Now, why the hell the ball
off this person's head?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Prove it? Prove it here here, here's my name.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I didn't say I listened to it, but I said
I subscribed.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You gotta give me a click. You gotta click on
just click on the very beginning so you can say
I can get that click. All right, there you go. Okay,
Now I'll answer your questions about throwing the next.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
On the forty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Did he talked to the cops and did they subscribe
to his podcast?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
When you look at the clicks, god, and there were
none from anywhere in the Indiana range of police officers?
Was this a big lie to get Beverley to talk?
Can the conviction get thrown out in court? That's coming
up next, entrapman.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Can you imagine him telling the judge in court, I
ain't saying nothing. You don't subscribe to my podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Chris Beverley, you need to address the court. Yeah, I'm sorry, judge,
but I'm not good talking about he's not subscribing my podcast.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I gotta get my numbers up here, Judge.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Sorry, I'll talk to jump and knucklehead four seven, four six,
because I know that guy subscribed to my podcast a
few hours ago. You want to ask me a question,
go ahead, hit me up on Twitter. I'll answer it
for you.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Run in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Uh Now, speaking of the look, the Knicks win Game two,
and there's two big things coming off of this. The
first one is who knows how healthy they're gonna be? Right,
Like if they've been playing with fire the entire playoffs, right,
and their entire rotation is decimated. Right, we know they've
been playing without Julius Randall. Okay, uh No, bog Danovich,
(33:43):
he's out for the playoffs. He was playing a good
twelve fifteen minutes. He's done. Mitchell Robinson done for the
playoffs as well. He was one of the Iron seven
that were coming off the bench. Now no and u Nobi.
Who look, when you only play five guys, he's one
of the most important guys. But he was a guy
to transform the team when he showed up. If he
is out, I mean, I don't know. I don't know
(34:04):
how you overcome this. If he's out for the rest
of the series and Brunson slowed down, I can see
the Pacers winning the next four I mean, this is
just me being a fatalist Knicks fan, but I could
see the Pacers winning the next four if Awn Noby
is out and suddenly it's guys like a Chua who
have to play. And there's a reason why these guys
aren't in because they come in and you see there,
they're minus four in ninety seconds and it's like, okay,
(34:27):
I gotta go back to the starters. So eventually it's
gonna get to a point where the Knicks are gonna
have an injury that's gonna be too much to overcome.
And man, I'll tell you Anunoby might be that guy
if he's out for a while. I don't know, man,
I mean, I could see the Pacers still winning the series.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Josh Hart remember and told the New York Post quote
my wife arguing with me. That makes me extremely tired. Otherwise,
he's a guy that's playing every minute, much like Tims
did to Jimmy Buckets back in the day.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
No gonna play all the minute.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
You see what he can come up with. But yeah,
two hard fought games. Carlisle's laid all the groundwork. Did
you just kind of say, hey, hey, what about us?
As for the small market squads. Remember the other small
market squads in this Minnesota and okay, see they're eleven
in oh combined.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Now, let me just say this, because we've talked a
lot about Jalen Brunson and how great he has played.
But let me tell you, we talked about the Knicks
closing out tonight.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
You've made him an American hero. Oh, he is kind
of like Daniel bleeping Boone. He's the best player in
the playoffs. He's the best player in the playoffs. It's
not even he's the best player.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
It's not accurate.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
But what what what the Knicks were able to do tonight?
Just think about this. This is what makes Brunson so valuable.
When this when the Pacers were trying to double him
and deny him the ball and make it difficult and
try to force turnovers, the Knicks were getting the ball
into the hands of their other playmakers. And the important
thing is they went to the hoop and were decisive.
When Brunson in the final two minutes comes out of
(35:51):
a double team and he's able to get the ball
to heart Devincenzo, it's not let's wait until Brunson gets
open again. Give him the ball. And see the Pacers
set their defense. It's we are decisive going to the
basket or going to get a shot right away while
we have the man advantage because the two players are
still too far out because they're on bruns and the
Knicks have figured that out that the Pacers have to
figure something else out at the end of games.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
The rest of the series can't wait to see how
Carlisle covers up the invisible man when they're playing four
on the court
Speaker 1 (36:20):
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