June 11, 2026 • 41 mins
Dan and the Danettes recaps Game 4 of the NBA Finals with the Knicks pulling out a miraculous win against the Spurs 107-106, despite the Spurs having a 29-point lead for majority of the game. NBA insider Vincent Goodwill joins the show after being in New York for the game.
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My Golden Knights in Carolina Game five on ABC. Where
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to Start? Where to end? What a wild night and
a night that probably is still going on for some
people in New York when you're down twenty nine, you
might have stayed tuned in to see just how bad
it was going to get. But the Spurs end up
losing one o seven to one oh six despite being
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up by twenty nine. So now up three to one,
you head to San Antonio, and San Antonio can use
an extra day because the next game will be on Saturday.
That'll be Game five Saturday in San Antonio. And in
case you're wondering, the nixt will be five and a
half point underdogs according to DraftKings. We'll have a play
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the Dan Patrick Show. There's a lot of credit to
go around, boy, there's a lot of blame to go around,
and we usually like to start with the blame, starting
with Dearon Fox, he's on the floor because he's the
elder statesman on this team. He's the guy who's supposed
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to be smart in these big time situations. He's the
former clutch guy of the year. I think in twenty
twenty two, he's the guy you want to have the ball.
He wasn't the guy you wanted to have the ball
last night, and once again we tend to focus on
the mistakes at the end of the game. I'm going
to focus on mistakes that were made throughout the second half,
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and I'm going to blame the coach, Mitch Johnson. You
can play at a frenetic pace in the first half,
everything you're making everything. You can't play at a frenetic
pace in the second half because that plays into the
Nick's ability to try to come back. Milk the clock.
I don't want you to play not to lose, but
I want you to take extra time. You can't be
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taking threes with ten seconds on the shot clock. Now,
the Knicks could have lost this game. I'd still be
critical of the Spurs allowing them to come back. The
Knicks are resilient. The Knicks have played that way and
it showed last night because Jalen Brunson was asked after
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the game, like, you know, did you ever think we're
never coming back from twenty nine? He said, you have
to be aware of the situation, like we're down twenty nine,
Now what do we do? And this is what coaches
will tell you in the huddle. Hey, let's get it
to twenty let's get it to fifteen, so you're not
thinking about twenty nine. You're thinking about nine, five, five. Now,
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we want to get it to single digits. And then
once you do that, then all of a sudden you
saw San Antonio act like the youngest team in the
league and dearon Fox, uh didn't understand the math. And
that's what the end of the game was about. It
was about math, and hey, I've got this layup. I
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don't care about the points. I care about the clock.
You got to do the math, and Darren Fox did
not do that. It's like the running back who's not
supposed to score touchdown. Hey we're up eight, No, they
can come back and tie us with a touchdown and
two point conversion. Darren Fox takes that ball with ten
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seconds to go and rather than force a foul or
dribble the clock out as much as you can. Og Ananobi,
who should be the MVP of this series. He went up,
got the block and then at the other end had
the tip in and even Brunson taking the three. Now
in the moment, I'm thinking, why are you taking the three?
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With Wemby on you? But then you know, after the game,
you start to get information, and all of a sudden
you realize I'm gonna take the three with four seconds
to go. Wemby is out of the picture. He's guarding
or on the perimeter with Brunson. Now I've got guys
who are bigger, who can go to the basket and
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maybe get a tip in, maybe get an offensive rebound.
That's exactly what happened. I take Wemby out. Now, all
of a sudden we have a size advantage inside, but
one for the ages. And it feels like every other
week I'm saying the same thing, just when you think
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you've seen everything and I haven't. I mean, it's mind
boggling that you can get a twenty nine point lead,
be that great, lose a twenty nine point lead, still
have a chance to win it, and then do stupid
things you're shooting. I think at one point, what eight
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or nine three point attempts in a row? Why I
want Wemby inside? He got Karl Anthony Towns and found
trouble early, Like this is just this is fundamental basketball.
Call a timeout, call another time out. You don't get
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to carry them to San Antonio with you. And even
the last play that the Spurs diagrammed and we were
discussing this. Paulie thought maybe it was going to Wemby,
and then some of the back room guys said no,
there was going to be a pick and it was
going to be Stephan Castle with a lob to the hoop,
which I like that. I mean, I do like that
play because you're thinking one point two seconds to go.
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I got to get something that he can get it
off quickly, and Wemby to get set shoot that would
have been difficult. Karl Anthony Towns got a fingertip on
it and foiled that last play. But the Knicks' that's
just resilient. I mean, that's where you say, Okay, we
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can still do this. You know, you're down twenty two
against Cleveland, but this is the NBA Finals. This isn't
supposed to happen even if you go, let's make it respectable.
So maybe we take some momentum to San Antonio. That's
the thought that I had. I thought, Okay, maybe they're
going to lose by seven, but they were down by
twenty nine, and maybe you go to San Antonio. But
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I talked about the pressure on the Knicks, and they
played like they had pressure last game Game three and
Game four, San Antonio has played better than the Knicks.
They could easily be up three to one, but that's
not the way it works. New York has done what
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they needed to do when they needed to do it. Remarkable.
And now we go to San Antonio on Saturday night.
The Nicks are five and a half point underdogs. Here
is the call of the game winning tip in by
og Nenobi.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Five point seven left, no timeouts. Ramainic Anenobi is handed
the ball, finds Brunson at midcourt, launches a straight on
three mister George tip by Ananobi.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
He put it in.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Ananobi put it in. The Knicks take the lead with
one point two to go. Here is the Spurs call
of the Anenobe tip in no timeouts.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Armani for the Knicks, so you gotta get it in
five point seven to play.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Anonobi to inbound.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Anonobia looking looking get to the fronts at tiptoesal line
saves it pose up to three off.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
The front of the rim tippy.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The books stop tapping.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
The lead within one point two seven to oh g
Edaby with a.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Follow up ten.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
He is second as far as odds to win the
MVP held if they win, he's the MVP in my opinion,
And we talked about this start the series. If you're
going to look for somebody and say, you know that
guy could win the MVP. Og Annoby was the guy
that I picked because he I thought was going to
be probably playing defense on Wemby. And I think he's
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a lot better at score than you think. In fact,
his points per game in the finals, I think he's
up depending you know, going back to the regular season
around sixteen or seventeen, he's up to twenty four. That's
a pretty big jump. Last time we had that was
Kevin Durant back with Golden State. I think he averaged
twenty five during the year, thirty five in the NBA Finals.
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But og Ananobi has played great. Jalen Brunson right now
is your odds on favorite to be the MVP. But
Anenoby with a shot that will live in history, that'll
be thought of, you know, you want to talk about. Now,
they got to win. I know, three games to one,
and the hardest one to win is the last one.
But when you think about this Knicks team, yes, it'll
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be Brunson. Hall of Famer Karl Anthony Towns Hall of
Famer and people will be like, he's like the David Tyree,
even though he's a better player than David Tyree. It's
one of those New York moments, and it'll be about this.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Yes, Marv, I know I might be prisoner of the moment,
but this right here has to be top five moments
in the Garden history finals coming back from twenty nine down.
Now you go up three to one instead of being
tied to to going back to San Antonio everything. It's
almost like the Mullin shot for Yukon. It depends on
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like what was at stake, and I think that's what
makes this a top five moment in the history.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Of the Garden. Well, how many great moments have the
Knicks had in the Garden? I would just say in
the Garden period? Oh period? Okay, So Mike coming back
for the double nickel, yes, Goger, Kobe bigger, Steph Curry bigger. Yeah, Well, Niah,
I know it's bigger because it's for a championship. I'm
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looking at the top five.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Yes, nothing will top probably in my head will read
just coming out of the tunnel in Game seven in
nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I agree, But that's one of those moments where
it was on tape delay. I think people don't even
know how many points Willis scored in that game seven
and when you say he scored four and people are like, wait,
that's it. Yes, he made his first two hoops and
that was it. And then Walt Clyde Fraser took over.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yes, Dylan, where does Billy Joel playing like one hundred
shows in a row at the garden?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah? Yeah, Fritzy wants to put that in there as well. Yes,
Paul I.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Was looking back at the play by play of the
fourth quarter. There was a series with maybe eight minutes
to go, when it was still about a fourteen point game.
The Spurs missed a two, got the offensive rebound, kicked
it out, put up a three, immediately, got another offensive rebound,
put up a three immediately. They could have burned the
clock twenty five seconds a couple of times. It wasn't execution,
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it was decision making, and the lack of it set
up the ending.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I got a Now, I got a lot of text
messages last night during the game, and one is from
I don't want to say his name, but he's semi famous.
He says. Series is over San Antonio, playing so much
better basketball, shooting lights out, but their defense is what's winning. Impressive.
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This was at nine point fifty two last night, and
then he follows up with better team exclamation point. Greg
Popovich is one happy dude. Exclamation point eleven thirty nine.
Never mind exclamation point never mind.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Yes, Dylan, As someone who likes to bet on games,
I can relate to that whole roller coaster all too well.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh my goodness, it's been great. Even if you don't
have a team like the Knicks team, they're not dislikable.
You might have a problem with some of the fans,
but the team itself like, they play hard. No diva's
on there. Karl Anthony Towns, who's you know, reignited his career.
He's going to be a Hall of Famer if they
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win the title. Jalen Brunson his place in history. UH
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Poll question Dylan. Yeah, that one quick thing that back
to the annob MVP. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Case he was the only one who really had like
a legitimate good game in their loss too, Like Brunson
played good, but like he was I think the most.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He's been the most consistent by far, and you.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Add on last night's performance, I'm like, he should be
it should be in his hands.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, I think it was. What were the odds for
him when the series started plus ten thousand, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
And then it went down he was plus two thousand
before yes, last night's game, and now he's like plus
two to eighty.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I think Brunson's gonna if the Knicks win, they'll give
it to Brunson. But keep in mind with og Anobi,
he played with the Raptors, but he had an emergency appendectomy.
He didn't play in the finals. The Kawhi Leonard Toronto
Raptors winning the title. Now he gets a ring. I
don't know if he proudly displays it this one. I'd
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put it on the hood of my car, or I'd
put it around my neck or whatever. You're gonna know, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
If oj Anobi wins Finals MVP, he'll be in that
andre iguidalas Cedric Maxwell category where he might not be
a Hall of Famer, but he'll always be remembered in
that town for winn Finals MVP.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And that was the comparison I was making that sometimes
he I have the stars and they cancel each other out,
and I use the OG and Anobi andre Igudala winning
the finals MVP wasn't the best player on the floor,
but what he did defensively, he made plays and they
gave him the MVP.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Yes, Deil, Yeah, I mean like with baseball, you look
at past the World Series MVPs, A lot of them.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Are just no name guys. Yeah, like you don't really
hear from them much again, just you know, role players.
All right, So what's poll question for the first hour?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, we can throw a couple out, I feel like,
off of our topic. After game four, who is your
Finals MVP? Jalen Brunston, og and Nanobi or other? See
what the people have to say, did you bail in
the game when the Knicks is down by twenty nine,
there's gonna be some liars out there.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, that's where if you're in the front row at
the garden, you can't leave. You can't have that camera
panning and all of a sudden there's two seats and
who was sitting there? You must stay for the entire time.
Then Taylor Swift was there with a Stevie Nicks and
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it was spelled like the New York Knicks. I'm gonna
give her credit, but that's where she's getting married here
in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
There's mixed reports, but I have some sources close to
sources that I wanted to find out if Travis Kelsey
was playing at the American Century Golf Tournament, which is
the week after when they're supposed to get married in
the garden. And somebody told me, who knows somebody, who
knows somebody, Travis Kelsey's not going to play in the
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event this year. His brother is. But his brother wouldn't
be going on a honeymoon, but Travis Kelsey probably is. Yeah,
take that TMZ, Yes, Stilly.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Are they actually doing it at the garden. That seems crazy.
You have Joel Austin be the Efficient or something like.
It's that kind of gives.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Like weird megachurch vibe her wedding. Yeah, I think a
thousand people, that's what they're talking about. It's kinda look
empty in there. Yes, well, they're gonna have curtains around it.
They'll make it nice.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Yeah, Pull, I'm throwing the BS flag on the garden.
I will take Rhode Island versus the field still.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I've heard the garden. TMZ's reporting
the garden. I thought from the beginning it was gonna
be Rhode Island. She's got a place up there. They
were preparing for that. Yes, Dylan, I.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Saw our neighbors' houses on the market for it's gonna
be the most expensive home in Rhode Island, like twenty
five million or something. Hers her neighbors like direct next
door neighbors. Oh, I don't know why I saw that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
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We'll settle on a poll question first hour, and your
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seven to seven to three. DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
dot com, Twitter handle at TP show Vincent Goodwill Junior,
the third ESPN, NBA senior writer. There in the garden
last night and this morning. What time did you leave
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the garden?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
That's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
All I know is that the people, the garden workers
were breaking down the floors and everything else. Funny thing, Dan,
I am a junior, not a third.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
How do you? I don't even know how you encapsulate
what happened last night?
Speaker 11 (19:12):
You can't there's a phrase, you know, I think pat
Riley coined it about twenty or thirty years ago, being
an active participant in your own rescue. Right, there's that
one side of it, and then there's the other side
of it. It's being the darn fox of it all,
the San Antonio Spurs of it all. The Knicks have
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had the tendency to continue playing through a forty eight
minute game.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Dan they're never really out of it.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Like if people saw my tweets last night and the
Knicks were down like twenty one, and I'm like, I
don't think they're out of this, you know what I mean, Like,
it just never felt like they ever let go of
the game. And it's not because they're playing the Cleveland
Cavaliers or Philly or whomever. Like, it's just their own
collective character and their collective will. And on the other side,
the San Antonio Spurs were playing like this was a
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game at the Rucker. I have never been more frustrated
as a basketball fan watching the decision making of a
so called good team of a really good team than
I was in the San Antonio Spurs yesterday, especially their
veteran point guard who might have single handedly thrown the
game away from him yesterday.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, if you look at the last two NBA playoffs,
there have been a total of nine comebacks of twenty
or more points. The Knicks have had five of those nine,
and I think there was the reality of his twenty nine.
But as I mentioned, anybody who's been in the huddle
when you're getting blown out, if you have a good coach,
he's going to say, let's get it to twenty. Let's
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get it to fifteen, let's get it to ten. Now,
single digits. Now we put some pressure on them. But
this is why you have dearon Fox in the game, Vincent.
He's supposed to be the guy you want with the ball,
doing the smart things, and he didn't do the math
Like I don't want your layup want I want seconds
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taken off the clock, let them value and now there's
seven seconds to go. I just does that have to
come from the coach? I mean, Darren.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Foxho that if that's Stefan Castle, it comes from the
coach like a person who've never played the point guard
position at this high of a level disconsistently. Remember de
Aaron Fox was a former Clutch Player of the Year.
Think of all the mistakes just in a what ten
seconds span? Right, Dan from the bad shot first off,
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with Ognanobi guarding you, which is a fool's errand because
Ognoby's one of the best defensive players in the league.
Then you chase down the loose ball. And the thing
to me, Dan, while you're chasing down the loose ball,
you have time to think. You have time to say,
when I get this loose ball, what am I going
to do with it? He had time to make that decision,
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and his thought was, I'm going to go up against
o Giananobi. Right, silly mistake he hit on the arm.
Nobody's calling that.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
And then Dan the coupdi gras.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
You foul Jose Alvarado as he's on the verge of
stepping back court. He's about to go back court. Jalen
Brunton is bottled up. There's no way they can give
them the ball. You almost got them double teams.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
I know.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
The understanding of the philosophy is you don't want the
opposing team to have sort of like an unbalanced floor.
You know, teams like to go run and spread and
everything else. But you had this guy bottled up from
your veteran Mac salary point guard. It was one of
the worst meltdowns I've ever seen in my years of
watching NBA basketball.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But I didn't understand the second half philosophy of the Spurs,
Like you're you're jacking up threes. I think you took
eight or nine threes in a row. Not And I
don't want you to play not to lose, but I
want you to be smart with the shot clock. I
want Wemby down low like you got Karl Anthony toown
and found trouble to start the game. You know, the
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Knicks are completely discombobulated. Everybody wants to get theirs. We're
gonna pile on the points and then we're heading home
and we will be in control. I just call the
time out. I just like it's one of those where
you go, hey, if you turn it off at down
twenty nine and you realize that they won that game,
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You're like, there is no possible way. But the Spurs
played a large role in that making it possible.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Dan is a failure at all three levels. When you
think about the coaching. You don't take a time out
when the Knicks are on a twenty to four run
just because you're up twenty nine doesn't mean you don't
stop the bleeding because you're at Madison Square Garden, because
this is the NBA Finals, because you've already had a
melt down this series. So that's on Mitch Johnson and
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his inexperience. It's also on d Aaron Fox, your veteran
point guard. It's also on Vic the wim Benyama because he, hey, Dann,
I gotta saying it's hard to breathe when your arms
were wrapped around your neck because they choked.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
And Victor, for everything that he has.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Going for him, fatigue and everything else, he choked. Nobody
is free from this. The Spurs built the lead. They
were eleven of sixteen from three to the first half.
I've never seen them shoot that well, but it was
their process. They were driving down the lane, getting the
ball inside and kicking it out. And the third they
were just like, hey man, this is Sunday afternoon at
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the why they had mentally made the decision this series
is tied, we're going home. They never treated the Knicks
like the Knicks were a threat to win the game.
That was the thing that was supremely frustrating for me.
Like I watched a Game one. Part of the Game
one with Charles Barkley and San Antonio, and Charles was saying,
the whole first half of the first game, this team
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has bad shot selection, this team has bad shot recognition.
And you're looking at it and you're you're thinking, oh,
today's NBA. You just take the open shot seven seconds left,
blah blah blah, And then you start to understanding, you
can't play that way in June. You gotta have better
IQ and this and that comes from coaching a point
guard play.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Vincent Goodwill, ESPN NBA senior writer, there was a portion
I forget when it was, but I'm thinking Wemby has
been playing more minutes than anybody. I think, thirty nine minutes. Okay,
you're up big. How about I have him sit for
a while, just just rest him, because I'm already thinking
(25:28):
about next game, Like, I don't want him play in
forty minutes. I don't need to play in forty minutes.
Let him take a breather because second half he was
out of gas. He's missing those free throws. He did
not play well in the four. You know, in the
second half he was exhausted.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
Yeah, Dan, we tend to excuse me. We tended to believe.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
That the Spurs learned all their lessons by beating Yoklahoma
City Thunder. We thought that they had sort of sped
up the curve of maturation, and they didn't.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
They have not.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
They have had double digit leads in every single game
of this series and they've won one of them. And
a lot of that is mismanaging of the game on
the floor and on the sidelines. And victim Wiminyama plays
twenty nine minutes tonight in the regular season. He out
playing thirty eight minutes tonight, and the game is more physical,
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and he's getting touched up every time down by Jose
Alvarado and Mitchell Robinson and Carl Towns and Josh Hart
who are all intent on getting some level of vigilante
justice and got them yesterday. That happened with him in
Jalen Brunson. As a coach, you have to understand, this
guy may be tired because of accumulative effect. He ain't
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gonna ask out, but I have to manage the game
to make sure that he's got something left. And he
had nothing left. It was a failure. I know Nick
fans are going to hate y'all you hit my team.
Blah blah blah. No, it's not that you get all credit.
Ogn andob put himself in in NBA Finals lower yesterday,
you know what I mean. Like Jalen Brunton is one
of the best leaders in the NBA, if not all
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of sports by the way he gets his guys to galvanize.
But damn it, that was a Spurs collapse.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Uh what if the Knicks had lost that game?
Speaker 11 (27:15):
I still think they would have been in line to
win the series. Because this is the weirdest series I
think I've ever covered, or even ever been a part
of and seen, because there is no connective tissue from
game to game. Like Dan, you've been around these things.
Usually by game four, it's like a rhythm. It's a
dance now, and you kind of know exactly where it's
going to go. You know who the best team is.
You know if it's going to end in five to
(27:37):
six or seven games. Game four probably said that this
ends in five games. I don't know if the Spurs
can really rev this up emotionally and come back from
this right. And I think it would be unfair to
expect this young team too. But man, this is just
to me, then this is just weird. This is just
a weird and funky series. And I think hath the
Knicks lost this game. It would have been devastating in
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a way, but they also feel more comfortable playing on
the road because you don't have to worry about all
the trinkets or James Dolan arguing with the commissioner and
the mayor about watch parties and all this other nonsense
outside the game.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
They would have been just fine. I think had they
lost this game.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
If you had to vote for MVP today.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
I mean, didn't oh g Anenoby do the Lebron and
Kyrie Irving thing in the same game in the same
span of like five seconds or so.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
It's kind of hard man.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
He is averaging around twenty fourtnine on fifty six fifty
seven percent shooting. He's unbothered about victim winm Binyama. How
many times has he driven it and dunkting on him?
They have no answers for him. I know Jalen Brunton
is going to get the glory and everything else, and
I don't think not winning an MVP in the finals
diminishes him in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
But as of today.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Right now, it's probably between Ananobi and Brunton and maybe
Anenobe's fingertip from God. It's hard to say that's not
the biggest player of the series, if not the biggest
play in Knick's history in the past thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Great to talk to you, get some sleep.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
That's August, Thank you, Vincent, Vincent Goodwill Junior, the thirty
ESPN NBA senior writer. It'll take a while to digest
this with everything that happened, reaction, in real time, reaction,
(29:30):
and then postgame. Now you go to San Antonio. Now
you get that extra day rest, which they're going to need.
I just I would have been thinking about game five.
If I'm Mitch Johnson, you're up big. I don't need
Wenby out there. Or I would give him a chunk
of breathing room there because and who knew that there
(29:52):
was going to be a fourth quarter comeback. But I'm
thinking about game five. I want him not to play
thirty nine nine minutes. I want him to play thirty one.
Put Cornett in. But I would also say to my guys,
stop jacking up threes. Let's be smart. You got an
open one. Great Chris and Syracuse leads us off. Good morning, Chris, Hey.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
Thank you, Dan yeh. I want to comment on last
night's game. Yeah, that Nick's crowd never gave up. I
think that really helped fuel the comeback, and the Spurs
chose not to guard the inbounder with five point seven
seconds left, and that left Ognobi with a clear path
to the rim and with Wemby out contesting Brunson's three ball,
it was a perfect storm for the Knicks. And props
to nixt gm Leanne Rose for going and getting Og
(30:42):
and Andobi for RJ, Barrett and Emmanuel quickly. He caught
a lot of grief initially for that trade, but o
Jananoby is the kind of player you need to build
a champion around, and I think he's a much better
version of Draymond Green without the baggage and all the drama.
And also, Dan, you were mentioned earlier in the week
about that sixth there's great championship team led by doctor
(31:02):
j Og also reminds me a little bit of the
great uh Bobby Jones and that team. And if that
were a Game seven last night, I put that loss
for the Spurs right there with the Atlanta Falcon Super
Bowl loss because, like you said, Dan, the Spurs should
have taken time off the clock with their possessions in
the second half, just like the Falcon should have.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Thank you, Chris. Here's another thing that drives me crazy.
Nobody boxes out. Nobody now used to be fundamentals in
high school, even junior high always turn find your man.
These guys they don't do that. If you box out,
you win that game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I know there's other things that happened. All I'm asking
is find your guy, put a body on him instead
of everybody goes to the hoop.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Yes, I'm watching another angle. The final play at Brunson shot,
og sends it into Brunson. Fox is supposed to be
on og O g sprints to the three point line,
calling for the ball back from Brunson. Fox goes to
help on Brunson and leaves his man. Nobody else picks
him up. He just cruises to the basket for the tip.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
End.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, Mark, Yeah, that's why I'm so disappointed in Josh Hart.
Josh Hart played for Jay Right at Villanova. You played
Big East basketball for four years. You know, if there's
one guy in that game, he's gonna box out, He's
gonna make the right play, and he did not. Josh
Hart is breathing a sire relieve right now.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
He probably gonna send a Christmas card to de Aaron
Fox just say, man, did you bail me out because
I had a couple of bad plays? Yes? Yes, Dylan, Yeah, if.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
They they'll look on Josh Hart's face after that, and too,
it's just like he's like, this is this is gonna
be a long night. It's gonna be along a few
days for me if we don't pull this out.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
All right, we'll take a break, we'll update our poll results.
We we'll get to more phone calls as well, and
our play of the day.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
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Speaker 10 (33:16):
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Speaker 3 (33:17):
Rumson gets it fires up at three shot.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
No God, but that's gone. It's gone. It's gone with.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
One point two pervading nets take the lead.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh ja nob he's one o seven, one o six.
Pavla Mara at the garden. They can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
I was calling him og out of nowhere when he
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Good morning, Red, What do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Hey? Dad, thanks for taking the call. Damn watching this
finals here you could go to all different dipations which
you want to talk about this far, then you can
talk about it for days and days here. But what
I like about this final you learn a lot about
a young coach and a learned a young team. They
gonna have these moments, and it wouldn't surprised me to
get back to Game seven. But what happened to Miss Johnson?
(34:42):
I would like it for him and the old moment
make coaches moves in the fourth quarter to stop the bleeding.
It's something he could have did to stop the bleed
and they ought to noble out. And now up on
the side. Whatever we're gonna call, we gonna call it.
But adopt him. That game would have been won last night.
So of course he's the MVB. And then stay interview before. Man,
(35:05):
the way you set up these guys to lead them on,
to give you everything that you wanted an interview, Man,
that guy sinsy Goodwill is a great interview and you
need to have him all more often, Dad, And thanks
for taking the call.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Dan, Thank you. Red. Yeah, I'm a big fan of
Vincent Goodwill. And we had him on I think he
worked at Yahoo Sports and we had him on maybe
four years ago, and I just thought, Man, I'm sitting
down having a beer or having dinner with a guy
and we're just talking and he gets it. There's an
old school feel to him. I did reach out to
(35:39):
NBC in Peacock to see if maybe he could work
on their NBA coverage, and then next thing I know,
he pops up on Sports Center and you know, first
take and I go, I'll be damn good for him.
He's a really good guest. He is great reaction. David
in Ohio, Hi David, what do you have for me?
Speaker 12 (35:59):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I got a stat of the day for you. Last night?
Speaker 5 (36:02):
The San Antonio Spurs now what people are calling the
San Antonio Falcons blew a twenty nine point lead to
the next in Game four, setting up brand new NBA
Finals record held by the Boston Celtics, who blew a
twenty four point lead in Game four of the nineteen
eighty five NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. The
San Antonio Falcons soaring high for three quarters, then migrating
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south for the fourth. Pandora, please thank you, Stata.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
J Stanta, the Jay We love your.
Speaker 11 (36:35):
Status day, Stata, the j Stanta, the j oh damn.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Give us thank you, Pandora. New York's comeback is the
biggest in the finals in league history, surpassing the Celtics.
They had a twenty four point comeback against the Lakers
Game four of the eight Finals. Zach and Knoxville, Hi,
Zach a GP, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 13 (37:03):
Just want to get your thoughts on the Knicks fans,
and it's to me it seems like that they are
taking away from what seems like a really likable team
with the Jalen Brunson unlikely superstar and just all of
the selflessness that they play with.
Speaker 12 (37:19):
E see that deterring from you know, the nationwide reaction.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I don't know if I could speak to that point nationwide.
I don't know if the you know, rest of the
nation is caught up in the Knicks fans. You know,
those who showed up at the garden last night didn't leave.
Now you can be bothered by the celebrities. Uh, you
know who's a real fan and who's not. Did we
do that with the Lakers?
Speaker 12 (37:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
You say it's Hollywood. You want to see stars New York.
It's got to be all you got to be a
New Yorker? Like, are you a true fan? How long
have you had season taken? Like if there's an interrogation
and interviewing, you know process here. I like how Charles
Barkley had Ben Stiller on the pregame show and they're like, man,
(38:04):
you've been a fan a long time. How long you
have season tickets for you? Goes? I don't have season tickets.
They just give these to me. Yes, Dylan, Yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Saw j Low the other day was on this show
Subway Takes, which is big on social media, and her
take was that you're not a New Yorker unless you're
born in New York, unless you're from there.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Okay, do you subscribe to that? I don't even get caught.
I don't care I couldn't care less. Ye, But it's
j love. I mean, my wife's a New Yorker. But
we don't sit around and say, nah, is that is
that person a New Yorker? Yeah? Yeah, Oh they're born
on Staten Island. That's not really a New Yorker. That's
New Jersey. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 9 (38:50):
Or you're born in New York, your family moves away
at age three to the suburbs. Are you a New
Yorker or vice versa. Yeah, you move there at age three,
you live there fifty years? Are you in New York?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I couldn't care less, yes, Marv Michael Jordan new Yorker, Brooklyn. Yeah,
born in Brooklyn. He's a true New Yorker apparently. Sewn
and Oregon, Hi, Sean, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Dan?
Speaker 12 (39:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Sean?
Speaker 12 (39:18):
I've watched you from CNN all the way to ESPN,
But you came legendary when you went by yourself a
legend and you brought the right people with you.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 12 (39:29):
I've watched you the whole time. I have to ask
you this, would you fire that head?
Speaker 7 (39:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Not yet. No. I don't think this is going to
be a Doug Collins kind of moment where all of
a sudden he only got Michael Jordan to a certain
point and then you got to bring in Hey, you know,
people forget Phil Jackson was an assistant coach. I believe
under George carl In the CBA, the Continental Basketball Association,
they brought him in to be the head coach, taking
(40:02):
over for Doug Collins. Like Mitch Johnson, I think is
a good coach. He made mistakes. He's gonna get an
earful from Greg Popovich when he goes back home.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
Yes, Dylan, Yeah, I mean he did take like a
bunch of eleven year olds to the NBA Finals. Like
everyone's talking about how young, like they can't believe they're
even here. I think it's like everyone probably relaxed a
little bit. Obviously it was a shock.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah, but once you get there, no excuses. Yeah, Like
it's a cute story it's they they're a year ahead
of schedule. Okay, now you're here, you got by. Ok See,
how many people said, Hey, whoever wins the West is
going to be a re NBA champ. All right, everyone, Yes,
now you get here, and now you got to make
(40:48):
big boy decisions. And he didn't do that. Yes, morva.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
And it's a different animal because just like Benny Goodwill
said earlier, they've been up by double digits in every
single game.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
In this series. Oh, I didn't know if you were
adding to them.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Oh that was it?
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Dan?
Speaker 9 (41:04):
Okay, yes, Bully, But it's like the Patriots Falcon super Bowl.
There was still overtime. There was still a chance. You know,
the Spurs. It's not over. The Spurs can still wipe
this away.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
If you're watching on Peacock, I will be in the confessional.
Where does this game rank amongst all the NBAA Finals
games that I've witnessed. I'll have that for you coming up.
Our two on the way, Fritzy Dylan, Marv Pauli Ars
truly in the back room, guys, we're back after this
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Who time to ax sale nine and fifty three days
since the last time the Knicks won a game in
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My Golden Knights in Carolina Game five on ABC. Where
(01:17):
to Start? Where to end? What a wild night and
a night that probably is still going on for some
people in New York when you're down twenty nine, you
might have stayed tuned in to see just how bad
it was going to get. But the Spurs end up
losing one o seven to one oh six despite being
(01:37):
up by twenty nine. So now up three to one,
you head to San Antonio, and San Antonio can use
an extra day because the next game will be on Saturday.
That'll be Game five Saturday in San Antonio. And in
case you're wondering, the nixt will be five and a
half point underdogs according to DraftKings. We'll have a play
(01:58):
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the Dan Patrick Show. There's a lot of credit to
go around, boy, there's a lot of blame to go around,
and we usually like to start with the blame, starting
with Dearon Fox, he's on the floor because he's the
elder statesman on this team. He's the guy who's supposed
(02:19):
to be smart in these big time situations. He's the
former clutch guy of the year. I think in twenty
twenty two, he's the guy you want to have the ball.
He wasn't the guy you wanted to have the ball
last night, and once again we tend to focus on
the mistakes at the end of the game. I'm going
to focus on mistakes that were made throughout the second half,
(02:41):
and I'm going to blame the coach, Mitch Johnson. You
can play at a frenetic pace in the first half,
everything you're making everything. You can't play at a frenetic
pace in the second half because that plays into the
Nick's ability to try to come back. Milk the clock.
I don't want you to play not to lose, but
I want you to take extra time. You can't be
(03:03):
taking threes with ten seconds on the shot clock. Now,
the Knicks could have lost this game. I'd still be
critical of the Spurs allowing them to come back. The
Knicks are resilient. The Knicks have played that way and
it showed last night because Jalen Brunson was asked after
(03:24):
the game, like, you know, did you ever think we're
never coming back from twenty nine? He said, you have
to be aware of the situation, like we're down twenty nine,
Now what do we do? And this is what coaches
will tell you in the huddle. Hey, let's get it
to twenty let's get it to fifteen, so you're not
thinking about twenty nine. You're thinking about nine, five, five. Now,
(03:49):
we want to get it to single digits. And then
once you do that, then all of a sudden you
saw San Antonio act like the youngest team in the
league and dearon Fox, uh didn't understand the math. And
that's what the end of the game was about. It
was about math, and hey, I've got this layup. I
(04:09):
don't care about the points. I care about the clock.
You got to do the math, and Darren Fox did
not do that. It's like the running back who's not
supposed to score touchdown. Hey we're up eight, No, they
can come back and tie us with a touchdown and
two point conversion. Darren Fox takes that ball with ten
(04:30):
seconds to go and rather than force a foul or
dribble the clock out as much as you can. Og Ananobi,
who should be the MVP of this series. He went up,
got the block and then at the other end had
the tip in and even Brunson taking the three. Now
in the moment, I'm thinking, why are you taking the three?
(04:53):
With Wemby on you? But then you know, after the game,
you start to get information, and all of a sudden
you realize I'm gonna take the three with four seconds
to go. Wemby is out of the picture. He's guarding
or on the perimeter with Brunson. Now I've got guys
who are bigger, who can go to the basket and
(05:13):
maybe get a tip in, maybe get an offensive rebound.
That's exactly what happened. I take Wemby out. Now, all
of a sudden we have a size advantage inside, but
one for the ages. And it feels like every other
week I'm saying the same thing, just when you think
(05:34):
you've seen everything and I haven't. I mean, it's mind
boggling that you can get a twenty nine point lead,
be that great, lose a twenty nine point lead, still
have a chance to win it, and then do stupid
things you're shooting. I think at one point, what eight
(05:55):
or nine three point attempts in a row? Why I
want Wemby inside? He got Karl Anthony Towns and found
trouble early, Like this is just this is fundamental basketball.
Call a timeout, call another time out. You don't get
(06:16):
to carry them to San Antonio with you. And even
the last play that the Spurs diagrammed and we were
discussing this. Paulie thought maybe it was going to Wemby,
and then some of the back room guys said no,
there was going to be a pick and it was
going to be Stephan Castle with a lob to the hoop,
which I like that. I mean, I do like that
play because you're thinking one point two seconds to go.
(06:39):
I got to get something that he can get it
off quickly, and Wemby to get set shoot that would
have been difficult. Karl Anthony Towns got a fingertip on
it and foiled that last play. But the Knicks' that's
just resilient. I mean, that's where you say, Okay, we
(07:01):
can still do this. You know, you're down twenty two
against Cleveland, but this is the NBA Finals. This isn't
supposed to happen even if you go, let's make it respectable.
So maybe we take some momentum to San Antonio. That's
the thought that I had. I thought, Okay, maybe they're
going to lose by seven, but they were down by
twenty nine, and maybe you go to San Antonio. But
(07:25):
I talked about the pressure on the Knicks, and they
played like they had pressure last game Game three and
Game four, San Antonio has played better than the Knicks.
They could easily be up three to one, but that's
not the way it works. New York has done what
(07:47):
they needed to do when they needed to do it. Remarkable.
And now we go to San Antonio on Saturday night.
The Nicks are five and a half point underdogs. Here
is the call of the game winning tip in by
og Nenobi.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Five point seven left, no timeouts. Ramainic Anenobi is handed
the ball, finds Brunson at midcourt, launches a straight on
three mister George tip by Ananobi.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
He put it in.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Ananobi put it in. The Knicks take the lead with
one point two to go. Here is the Spurs call
of the Anenobe tip in no timeouts.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Armani for the Knicks, so you gotta get it in
five point seven to play.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Anonobi to inbound.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Anonobia looking looking get to the fronts at tiptoesal line
saves it pose up to three off.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
The front of the rim tippy.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The books stop tapping.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
The lead within one point two seven to oh g
Edaby with a.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Follow up ten.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
He is second as far as odds to win the
MVP held if they win, he's the MVP in my opinion,
And we talked about this start the series. If you're
going to look for somebody and say, you know that
guy could win the MVP. Og Annoby was the guy
that I picked because he I thought was going to
be probably playing defense on Wemby. And I think he's
(09:11):
a lot better at score than you think. In fact,
his points per game in the finals, I think he's
up depending you know, going back to the regular season
around sixteen or seventeen, he's up to twenty four. That's
a pretty big jump. Last time we had that was
Kevin Durant back with Golden State. I think he averaged
twenty five during the year, thirty five in the NBA Finals.
(09:32):
But og Ananobi has played great. Jalen Brunson right now
is your odds on favorite to be the MVP. But
Anenoby with a shot that will live in history, that'll
be thought of, you know, you want to talk about. Now,
they got to win. I know, three games to one,
and the hardest one to win is the last one.
But when you think about this Knicks team, yes, it'll
(09:54):
be Brunson. Hall of Famer Karl Anthony Towns Hall of
Famer and people will be like, he's like the David Tyree,
even though he's a better player than David Tyree. It's
one of those New York moments, and it'll be about this.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Yes, Marv, I know I might be prisoner of the moment,
but this right here has to be top five moments
in the Garden history finals coming back from twenty nine down.
Now you go up three to one instead of being
tied to to going back to San Antonio everything. It's
almost like the Mullin shot for Yukon. It depends on
(10:30):
like what was at stake, and I think that's what
makes this a top five moment in the history.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Of the Garden. Well, how many great moments have the
Knicks had in the Garden? I would just say in
the Garden period? Oh period? Okay, So Mike coming back
for the double nickel, yes, Goger, Kobe bigger, Steph Curry bigger. Yeah, Well, Niah,
I know it's bigger because it's for a championship. I'm
(10:55):
looking at the top five.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Yes, nothing will top probably in my head will read
just coming out of the tunnel in Game seven in
nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I agree, But that's one of those moments where
it was on tape delay. I think people don't even
know how many points Willis scored in that game seven
and when you say he scored four and people are like, wait,
that's it. Yes, he made his first two hoops and
that was it. And then Walt Clyde Fraser took over.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Yes, Dylan, where does Billy Joel playing like one hundred
shows in a row at the garden?
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah? Yeah, Fritzy wants to put that in there as well. Yes,
Paul I.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Was looking back at the play by play of the
fourth quarter. There was a series with maybe eight minutes
to go, when it was still about a fourteen point game.
The Spurs missed a two, got the offensive rebound, kicked
it out, put up a three, immediately, got another offensive rebound,
put up a three immediately. They could have burned the
clock twenty five seconds a couple of times. It wasn't execution,
(11:53):
it was decision making, and the lack of it set
up the ending.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I got a Now, I got a lot of text
messages last night during the game, and one is from
I don't want to say his name, but he's semi famous.
He says. Series is over San Antonio, playing so much
better basketball, shooting lights out, but their defense is what's winning. Impressive.
(12:19):
This was at nine point fifty two last night, and
then he follows up with better team exclamation point. Greg
Popovich is one happy dude. Exclamation point eleven thirty nine.
Never mind exclamation point never mind.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Yes, Dylan, As someone who likes to bet on games,
I can relate to that whole roller coaster all too well.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh my goodness, it's been great. Even if you don't
have a team like the Knicks team, they're not dislikable.
You might have a problem with some of the fans,
but the team itself like, they play hard. No diva's
on there. Karl Anthony Towns, who's you know, reignited his career.
He's going to be a Hall of Famer if they
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Poll question Dylan. Yeah, that one quick thing that back
to the annob MVP. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Case he was the only one who really had like
a legitimate good game in their loss too, Like Brunson
played good, but like he was I think the most.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
He's been the most consistent by far, and you.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
Add on last night's performance, I'm like, he should be
it should be in his hands.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, I think it was. What were the odds for
him when the series started plus ten thousand, yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
And then it went down he was plus two thousand
before yes, last night's game, and now he's like plus
two to eighty.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I think Brunson's gonna if the Knicks win, they'll give
it to Brunson. But keep in mind with og Anobi,
he played with the Raptors, but he had an emergency appendectomy.
He didn't play in the finals. The Kawhi Leonard Toronto
Raptors winning the title. Now he gets a ring. I
don't know if he proudly displays it this one. I'd
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put it on the hood of my car, or I'd
put it around my neck or whatever. You're gonna know, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
If oj Anobi wins Finals MVP, he'll be in that
andre iguidalas Cedric Maxwell category where he might not be
a Hall of Famer, but he'll always be remembered in
that town for winn Finals MVP.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And that was the comparison I was making that sometimes
he I have the stars and they cancel each other out,
and I use the OG and Anobi andre Igudala winning
the finals MVP wasn't the best player on the floor,
but what he did defensively, he made plays and they
gave him the MVP.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
Yes, Deil, Yeah, I mean like with baseball, you look
at past the World Series MVPs, A lot of them.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Are just no name guys. Yeah, like you don't really
hear from them much again, just you know, role players.
All right, So what's poll question for the first hour?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, we can throw a couple out, I feel like,
off of our topic. After game four, who is your
Finals MVP? Jalen Brunston, og and Nanobi or other? See
what the people have to say, did you bail in
the game when the Knicks is down by twenty nine,
there's gonna be some liars out there.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well, that's where if you're in the front row at
the garden, you can't leave. You can't have that camera
panning and all of a sudden there's two seats and
who was sitting there? You must stay for the entire time.
Then Taylor Swift was there with a Stevie Nicks and
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it was spelled like the New York Knicks. I'm gonna
give her credit, but that's where she's getting married here
in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
There's mixed reports, but I have some sources close to
sources that I wanted to find out if Travis Kelsey
was playing at the American Century Golf Tournament, which is
the week after when they're supposed to get married in
the garden. And somebody told me, who knows somebody, who
knows somebody, Travis Kelsey's not going to play in the
(16:36):
event this year. His brother is. But his brother wouldn't
be going on a honeymoon, but Travis Kelsey probably is. Yeah,
take that TMZ, Yes, Stilly.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Are they actually doing it at the garden. That seems crazy.
You have Joel Austin be the Efficient or something like.
It's that kind of gives.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Like weird megachurch vibe her wedding. Yeah, I think a
thousand people, that's what they're talking about. It's kinda look
empty in there. Yes, well, they're gonna have curtains around it.
They'll make it nice.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Yeah, Pull, I'm throwing the BS flag on the garden.
I will take Rhode Island versus the field still.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I've heard the garden. TMZ's reporting
the garden. I thought from the beginning it was gonna
be Rhode Island. She's got a place up there. They
were preparing for that. Yes, Dylan, I.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Saw our neighbors' houses on the market for it's gonna
be the most expensive home in Rhode Island, like twenty
five million or something. Hers her neighbors like direct next
door neighbors. Oh, I don't know why I saw that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
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We'll settle on a poll question first hour, and your
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seven to seven to three. DP show email address Dpadanpatrick
dot com, Twitter handle at TP show Vincent Goodwill Junior,
the third ESPN, NBA senior writer. There in the garden
last night and this morning. What time did you leave
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the garden?
Speaker 10 (18:52):
That's a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 11 (18:54):
All I know is that the people, the garden workers
were breaking down the floors and everything else. Funny thing, Dan,
I am a junior, not a third.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
How do you? I don't even know how you encapsulate
what happened last night?
Speaker 11 (19:12):
You can't there's a phrase, you know, I think pat
Riley coined it about twenty or thirty years ago, being
an active participant in your own rescue. Right, there's that
one side of it, and then there's the other side
of it. It's being the darn fox of it all,
the San Antonio Spurs of it all. The Knicks have
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had the tendency to continue playing through a forty eight
minute game.
Speaker 10 (19:36):
Dan they're never really out of it.
Speaker 11 (19:38):
Like if people saw my tweets last night and the
Knicks were down like twenty one, and I'm like, I
don't think they're out of this, you know what I mean, Like,
it just never felt like they ever let go of
the game. And it's not because they're playing the Cleveland
Cavaliers or Philly or whomever. Like, it's just their own
collective character and their collective will. And on the other side,
the San Antonio Spurs were playing like this was a
(19:59):
game at the Rucker. I have never been more frustrated
as a basketball fan watching the decision making of a
so called good team of a really good team than
I was in the San Antonio Spurs yesterday, especially their
veteran point guard who might have single handedly thrown the
game away from him yesterday.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, if you look at the last two NBA playoffs,
there have been a total of nine comebacks of twenty
or more points. The Knicks have had five of those nine,
and I think there was the reality of his twenty nine.
But as I mentioned, anybody who's been in the huddle
when you're getting blown out, if you have a good coach,
he's going to say, let's get it to twenty. Let's
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get it to fifteen, let's get it to ten. Now,
single digits. Now we put some pressure on them. But
this is why you have dearon Fox in the game, Vincent.
He's supposed to be the guy you want with the ball,
doing the smart things, and he didn't do the math
Like I don't want your layup want I want seconds
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taken off the clock, let them value and now there's
seven seconds to go. I just does that have to
come from the coach? I mean, Darren.
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Foxho that if that's Stefan Castle, it comes from the
coach like a person who've never played the point guard
position at this high of a level disconsistently. Remember de
Aaron Fox was a former Clutch Player of the Year.
Think of all the mistakes just in a what ten
seconds span? Right, Dan from the bad shot first off,
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with Ognanobi guarding you, which is a fool's errand because
Ognoby's one of the best defensive players in the league.
Then you chase down the loose ball. And the thing
to me, Dan, while you're chasing down the loose ball,
you have time to think. You have time to say,
when I get this loose ball, what am I going
to do with it? He had time to make that decision,
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and his thought was, I'm going to go up against
o Giananobi. Right, silly mistake he hit on the arm.
Nobody's calling that.
Speaker 10 (22:02):
And then Dan the coupdi gras.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
You foul Jose Alvarado as he's on the verge of
stepping back court. He's about to go back court. Jalen
Brunton is bottled up. There's no way they can give
them the ball. You almost got them double teams.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
I know.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
The understanding of the philosophy is you don't want the
opposing team to have sort of like an unbalanced floor.
You know, teams like to go run and spread and
everything else. But you had this guy bottled up from
your veteran Mac salary point guard. It was one of
the worst meltdowns I've ever seen in my years of
watching NBA basketball.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
But I didn't understand the second half philosophy of the Spurs,
Like you're you're jacking up threes. I think you took
eight or nine threes in a row. Not And I
don't want you to play not to lose, but I
want you to be smart with the shot clock. I
want Wemby down low like you got Karl Anthony toown
and found trouble to start the game. You know, the
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Knicks are completely discombobulated. Everybody wants to get theirs. We're
gonna pile on the points and then we're heading home
and we will be in control. I just call the
time out. I just like it's one of those where
you go, hey, if you turn it off at down
twenty nine and you realize that they won that game,
(23:24):
You're like, there is no possible way. But the Spurs
played a large role in that making it possible.
Speaker 11 (23:32):
Dan is a failure at all three levels. When you
think about the coaching. You don't take a time out
when the Knicks are on a twenty to four run
just because you're up twenty nine doesn't mean you don't
stop the bleeding because you're at Madison Square Garden, because
this is the NBA Finals, because you've already had a
melt down this series. So that's on Mitch Johnson and
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his inexperience. It's also on d Aaron Fox, your veteran
point guard. It's also on Vic the wim Benyama because he, hey, Dann,
I gotta saying it's hard to breathe when your arms
were wrapped around your neck because they choked.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
And Victor, for everything that he has.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
Going for him, fatigue and everything else, he choked. Nobody
is free from this. The Spurs built the lead. They
were eleven of sixteen from three to the first half.
I've never seen them shoot that well, but it was
their process. They were driving down the lane, getting the
ball inside and kicking it out. And the third they
were just like, hey man, this is Sunday afternoon at
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the why they had mentally made the decision this series
is tied, we're going home. They never treated the Knicks
like the Knicks were a threat to win the game.
That was the thing that was supremely frustrating for me.
Like I watched a Game one. Part of the Game
one with Charles Barkley and San Antonio, and Charles was saying,
the whole first half of the first game, this team
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has bad shot selection, this team has bad shot recognition.
And you're looking at it and you're you're thinking, oh,
today's NBA. You just take the open shot seven seconds left,
blah blah blah, And then you start to understanding, you
can't play that way in June. You gotta have better
IQ and this and that comes from coaching a point
guard play.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Vincent Goodwill, ESPN NBA senior writer, there was a portion
I forget when it was, but I'm thinking Wemby has
been playing more minutes than anybody. I think, thirty nine minutes. Okay,
you're up big. How about I have him sit for
a while, just just rest him, because I'm already thinking
(25:28):
about next game, Like, I don't want him play in
forty minutes. I don't need to play in forty minutes.
Let him take a breather because second half he was
out of gas. He's missing those free throws. He did
not play well in the four. You know, in the
second half he was exhausted.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
Yeah, Dan, we tend to excuse me. We tended to believe.
Speaker 11 (25:51):
That the Spurs learned all their lessons by beating Yoklahoma
City Thunder. We thought that they had sort of sped
up the curve of maturation, and they didn't.
Speaker 10 (26:01):
They have not.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
They have had double digit leads in every single game
of this series and they've won one of them. And
a lot of that is mismanaging of the game on
the floor and on the sidelines. And victim Wiminyama plays
twenty nine minutes tonight in the regular season. He out
playing thirty eight minutes tonight, and the game is more physical,
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and he's getting touched up every time down by Jose
Alvarado and Mitchell Robinson and Carl Towns and Josh Hart
who are all intent on getting some level of vigilante
justice and got them yesterday. That happened with him in
Jalen Brunson. As a coach, you have to understand, this
guy may be tired because of accumulative effect. He ain't
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gonna ask out, but I have to manage the game
to make sure that he's got something left. And he
had nothing left. It was a failure. I know Nick
fans are going to hate y'all you hit my team.
Blah blah blah. No, it's not that you get all credit.
Ogn andob put himself in in NBA Finals lower yesterday,
you know what I mean. Like Jalen Brunton is one
of the best leaders in the NBA, if not all
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of sports by the way he gets his guys to galvanize.
But damn it, that was a Spurs collapse.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Uh what if the Knicks had lost that game?
Speaker 11 (27:15):
I still think they would have been in line to
win the series. Because this is the weirdest series I
think I've ever covered, or even ever been a part
of and seen, because there is no connective tissue from
game to game. Like Dan, you've been around these things.
Usually by game four, it's like a rhythm. It's a
dance now, and you kind of know exactly where it's
going to go. You know who the best team is.
You know if it's going to end in five to
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six or seven games. Game four probably said that this
ends in five games. I don't know if the Spurs
can really rev this up emotionally and come back from
this right. And I think it would be unfair to
expect this young team too. But man, this is just
to me, then this is just weird. This is just
a weird and funky series. And I think hath the
Knicks lost this game. It would have been devastating in
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a way, but they also feel more comfortable playing on
the road because you don't have to worry about all
the trinkets or James Dolan arguing with the commissioner and
the mayor about watch parties and all this other nonsense
outside the game.
Speaker 10 (28:12):
They would have been just fine. I think had they
lost this game.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
If you had to vote for MVP today.
Speaker 11 (28:20):
I mean, didn't oh g Anenoby do the Lebron and
Kyrie Irving thing in the same game in the same
span of like five seconds or so.
Speaker 10 (28:28):
It's kind of hard man.
Speaker 11 (28:29):
He is averaging around twenty fourtnine on fifty six fifty
seven percent shooting. He's unbothered about victim winm Binyama. How
many times has he driven it and dunkting on him?
They have no answers for him. I know Jalen Brunton
is going to get the glory and everything else, and
I don't think not winning an MVP in the finals
diminishes him in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 10 (28:50):
But as of today.
Speaker 11 (28:51):
Right now, it's probably between Ananobi and Brunton and maybe
Anenobe's fingertip from God. It's hard to say that's not
the biggest player of the series, if not the biggest
play in Knick's history in the past thirty years.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Great to talk to you, get some sleep.
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Sleep.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
That's August, Thank you, Vincent, Vincent Goodwill Junior, the thirty
ESPN NBA senior writer. It'll take a while to digest
this with everything that happened, reaction, in real time, reaction,
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and then postgame. Now you go to San Antonio. Now
you get that extra day rest, which they're going to need.
I just I would have been thinking about game five.
If I'm Mitch Johnson, you're up big. I don't need
Wenby out there. Or I would give him a chunk
of breathing room there because and who knew that there
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was going to be a fourth quarter comeback. But I'm
thinking about game five. I want him not to play
thirty nine nine minutes. I want him to play thirty one.
Put Cornett in. But I would also say to my guys,
stop jacking up threes. Let's be smart. You got an
open one. Great Chris and Syracuse leads us off. Good morning, Chris, Hey.
Speaker 12 (30:19):
Thank you, Dan yeh. I want to comment on last
night's game. Yeah, that Nick's crowd never gave up. I
think that really helped fuel the comeback, and the Spurs
chose not to guard the inbounder with five point seven
seconds left, and that left Ognobi with a clear path
to the rim and with Wemby out contesting Brunson's three ball,
it was a perfect storm for the Knicks. And props
to nixt gm Leanne Rose for going and getting Og
(30:42):
and Andobi for RJ, Barrett and Emmanuel quickly. He caught
a lot of grief initially for that trade, but o
Jananoby is the kind of player you need to build
a champion around, and I think he's a much better
version of Draymond Green without the baggage and all the drama.
And also, Dan, you were mentioned earlier in the week
about that sixth there's great championship team led by doctor
(31:02):
j Og also reminds me a little bit of the
great uh Bobby Jones and that team. And if that
were a Game seven last night, I put that loss
for the Spurs right there with the Atlanta Falcon Super
Bowl loss because, like you said, Dan, the Spurs should
have taken time off the clock with their possessions in
the second half, just like the Falcon should have.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Thank you, Chris. Here's another thing that drives me crazy.
Nobody boxes out. Nobody now used to be fundamentals in
high school, even junior high always turn find your man.
These guys they don't do that. If you box out,
you win that game.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I know there's other things that happened. All I'm asking
is find your guy, put a body on him instead
of everybody goes to the hoop.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
Yes, I'm watching another angle. The final play at Brunson shot,
og sends it into Brunson. Fox is supposed to be
on og O g sprints to the three point line,
calling for the ball back from Brunson. Fox goes to
help on Brunson and leaves his man. Nobody else picks
him up. He just cruises to the basket for the tip.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
End.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Yeah, Mark, Yeah, that's why I'm so disappointed in Josh Hart.
Josh Hart played for Jay Right at Villanova. You played
Big East basketball for four years. You know, if there's
one guy in that game, he's gonna box out, He's
gonna make the right play, and he did not. Josh
Hart is breathing a sire relieve right now.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
He probably gonna send a Christmas card to de Aaron
Fox just say, man, did you bail me out because
I had a couple of bad plays? Yes? Yes, Dylan, Yeah, if.
Speaker 8 (32:38):
They they'll look on Josh Hart's face after that, and too,
it's just like he's like, this is this is gonna
be a long night. It's gonna be along a few
days for me if we don't pull this out.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
All right, we'll take a break, we'll update our poll results.
We we'll get to more phone calls as well, and
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Good morning, Red, What do you have for me?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Hey? Dad, thanks for taking the call. Damn watching this
finals here you could go to all different dipations which
you want to talk about this far, then you can
talk about it for days and days here. But what
I like about this final you learn a lot about
a young coach and a learned a young team. They
gonna have these moments, and it wouldn't surprised me to
get back to Game seven. But what happened to Miss Johnson?
(34:42):
I would like it for him and the old moment
make coaches moves in the fourth quarter to stop the bleeding.
It's something he could have did to stop the bleed
and they ought to noble out. And now up on
the side. Whatever we're gonna call, we gonna call it.
But adopt him. That game would have been won last night.
So of course he's the MVB. And then stay interview before. Man,
(35:05):
the way you set up these guys to lead them on,
to give you everything that you wanted an interview, Man,
that guy sinsy Goodwill is a great interview and you
need to have him all more often, Dad, And thanks
for taking the call.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Dan, Thank you. Red. Yeah, I'm a big fan of
Vincent Goodwill. And we had him on I think he
worked at Yahoo Sports and we had him on maybe
four years ago, and I just thought, Man, I'm sitting
down having a beer or having dinner with a guy
and we're just talking and he gets it. There's an
old school feel to him. I did reach out to
(35:39):
NBC in Peacock to see if maybe he could work
on their NBA coverage, and then next thing I know,
he pops up on Sports Center and you know, first
take and I go, I'll be damn good for him.
He's a really good guest. He is great reaction. David
in Ohio, Hi David, what do you have for me?
Speaker 12 (35:59):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I got a stat of the day for you. Last night?
Speaker 5 (36:02):
The San Antonio Spurs now what people are calling the
San Antonio Falcons blew a twenty nine point lead to
the next in Game four, setting up brand new NBA
Finals record held by the Boston Celtics, who blew a
twenty four point lead in Game four of the nineteen
eighty five NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers. The
San Antonio Falcons soaring high for three quarters, then migrating
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south for the fourth. Pandora, please thank you, Stata.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Speaker 11 (36:35):
Status day, Stata, the j Stanta, the j oh damn.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Give us thank you, Pandora. New York's comeback is the
biggest in the finals in league history, surpassing the Celtics.
They had a twenty four point comeback against the Lakers
Game four of the eight Finals. Zach and Knoxville, Hi,
Zach a GP, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 13 (37:03):
Just want to get your thoughts on the Knicks fans,
and it's to me it seems like that they are
taking away from what seems like a really likable team
with the Jalen Brunson unlikely superstar and just all of
the selflessness that they play with.
Speaker 12 (37:19):
E see that deterring from you know, the nationwide reaction.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I don't know if I could speak to that point nationwide.
I don't know if the you know, rest of the
nation is caught up in the Knicks fans. You know,
those who showed up at the garden last night didn't leave.
Now you can be bothered by the celebrities. Uh, you
know who's a real fan and who's not. Did we
do that with the Lakers?
Speaker 12 (37:44):
No?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
You say it's Hollywood. You want to see stars New York.
It's got to be all you got to be a
New Yorker? Like, are you a true fan? How long
have you had season taken? Like if there's an interrogation
and interviewing, you know process here. I like how Charles
Barkley had Ben Stiller on the pregame show and they're like, man,
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you've been a fan a long time. How long you
have season tickets for you? Goes? I don't have season tickets.
They just give these to me. Yes, Dylan, Yeah, I.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Saw j Low the other day was on this show
Subway Takes, which is big on social media, and her
take was that you're not a New Yorker unless you're
born in New York, unless you're from there.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Okay, do you subscribe to that? I don't even get caught.
I don't care I couldn't care less. Ye, But it's
j love. I mean, my wife's a New Yorker. But
we don't sit around and say, nah, is that is
that person a New Yorker? Yeah? Yeah, Oh they're born
on Staten Island. That's not really a New Yorker. That's
New Jersey. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 9 (38:50):
Or you're born in New York, your family moves away
at age three to the suburbs. Are you a New
Yorker or vice versa. Yeah, you move there at age three,
you live there fifty years? Are you in New York?
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I couldn't care less, yes, Marv Michael Jordan new Yorker, Brooklyn. Yeah,
born in Brooklyn. He's a true New Yorker apparently. Sewn
and Oregon, Hi, Sean, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 4 (39:14):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Dan?
Speaker 12 (39:15):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Sean?
Speaker 12 (39:18):
I've watched you from CNN all the way to ESPN,
But you came legendary when you went by yourself a
legend and you brought the right people with you.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Thank you, Sean.
Speaker 12 (39:29):
I've watched you the whole time. I have to ask
you this, would you fire that head?
Speaker 7 (39:37):
No?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Not yet. No. I don't think this is going to
be a Doug Collins kind of moment where all of
a sudden he only got Michael Jordan to a certain
point and then you got to bring in Hey, you know,
people forget Phil Jackson was an assistant coach. I believe
under George carl In the CBA, the Continental Basketball Association,
they brought him in to be the head coach, taking
(40:02):
over for Doug Collins. Like Mitch Johnson, I think is
a good coach. He made mistakes. He's gonna get an
earful from Greg Popovich when he goes back home.
Speaker 8 (40:15):
Yes, Dylan, Yeah, I mean he did take like a
bunch of eleven year olds to the NBA Finals. Like
everyone's talking about how young, like they can't believe they're
even here. I think it's like everyone probably relaxed a
little bit. Obviously it was a shock.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah, but once you get there, no excuses. Yeah, Like
it's a cute story it's they they're a year ahead
of schedule. Okay, now you're here, you got by. Ok See,
how many people said, Hey, whoever wins the West is
going to be a re NBA champ. All right, everyone, Yes,
now you get here, and now you got to make
(40:48):
big boy decisions. And he didn't do that. Yes, morva.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
And it's a different animal because just like Benny Goodwill
said earlier, they've been up by double digits in every
single game.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
In this series. Oh, I didn't know if you were
adding to them.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Oh that was it?
Speaker 7 (41:04):
Dan?
Speaker 9 (41:04):
Okay, yes, Bully, But it's like the Patriots Falcon super Bowl.
There was still overtime. There was still a chance. You know,
the Spurs. It's not over. The Spurs can still wipe
this away.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
If you're watching on Peacock, I will be in the confessional.
Where does this game rank amongst all the NBAA Finals
games that I've witnessed. I'll have that for you coming up.
Our two on the way, Fritzy Dylan, Marv Pauli Ars
truly in the back room, guys, we're back after this
Hosts And Creators
Todd "Fritzy" Fritz
Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
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