Friday: Barking

Charles Barkley calls out the Knicks… and he’s right.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
We've got more carnige chappening at the US Open. Did
that land in another hole?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
I didn't see the shot, so I know that Rory
has resorted to throwing clubs.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
That was awesome to see. You could sense the frustration.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He's eight over and he's probably gonna be nine here
in a minute because it's just not going his way today.
Sam Burns and Tristan Laurence sorry at three under JJ
Spawds backed up to minus two. We'll go throughout more
US Open stuff here in just a bit. Charles Barkley
on Wednesday Night said the New York Knicks are stupid.
He didn't mince any words, he didn't pull any punches.

(00:38):
He just flat out and said they're stupid. They don't
know what they're doing. And listen, I've said this about
the Knicks for a long time. James is James Dolan, right, correct.
James Dolan is a billionaire who found a cable vision
and then basically turned I guess turned that into MSG
Network in TV, and he owns the and he's owned

(01:00):
them for a while and the executive decisions that he
has made in his tenure as owner have been about sizzle.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Give me guys that are sizzle.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
He hired Phil Jackson, he hired Isaiah Thomas, he hired
other he had other ex players and ex coaches and
xgms that at least since the early nine and I
don't remember when he actually took control of the team,
but in the last twenty years they have been a
pretender more than a contender. They had a chance this
year to get to the NBA Finals. I don't know

(01:29):
that they would have beaten Olama City and they certainly
didn't beat Indiana. And I think that the only fault
that Tom Thibodau had was he didn't play enough players.
But that's on the Knicks for not giving him enough players,
especially after Brunson decided to take a hometown discount, and
you didn't spend that money on getting other players so
that bench could be at least the nine or ten deep.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
He's owned them since ninety nine, so.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right right after the I guess right after the Spurs
beat them in the finals are right before is what
he took over ownership of the team. They don't have
a direction and if you're going to fire a coach,
you don't just fire a coach to go Okay, what
do we do now. You have to have a direction,
you have to understand, you have to know what we
want now. Like Denver, they fired Michael Malone and they

(02:12):
got to the semifinals of the conference and they were
satisfied with that, and they thought the guy that came
up that took over for him, don't even remember his name,
kind of obscure coach, assistant coach. They thought he was
good enough, so they gave him the job. But there's
there's unemployed coaches out there, and for some reason those
are not on the knixt list. David Adelman, Yeah, David

(02:34):
Adelman's now the Denver coach because he had a decent
playoff run and all the players like him. And obviously
they don't have to spend a whole lot of money
to make him head coach. They don't have to max
out somebody that is more popular or has more experience.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
And so Barkley's one hundred percent correct. And I think it.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Was Rachel Nichols yesterday said what the New York Knicks
are doing is asking for the spouse, of asking if
they can marry your spouse. Yeah, and they're calling every
team in the league to call up and say Hey,
are you ready for a divorce from your coach? We'll
give you a draft pick if we can talk to
them and maybe hire them. Yeah, And so it's it's

(03:12):
just kind of a mess right now. And not that
I really care whether the knickt win, lose or draw,
and probably you don't either, but they are a big
market team that a lot of people would like to
see have some success for the first time in fifty
three years. For five o'clock hour, next, it's coming up
on Sie?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is it? Four fifty six on the tipping