The Knicks Demise Continues

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
You want to know what the Knicks are. You want
to know what the Pacers are. They are poised, they
are relentless, they are confident. They communicate everything you do right.
You heard their coach say, whatever happens tonight, it's going

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to be in the details. And when we see the details,
we see things like at the end of that game
where Indiana is talking, They're communicating, everybody's moving around, everybody's
using signals, everybody knows what's going on at all times.
With the Knicks, it looks like they're just doing what
they've done all season long, and that is fly by

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the seat of their pants. Everything is on a whim,
everything is just figure this out real quick here. There's
no contingency plans in place for anything, and the Pacers
have all of those things together. Eventually, living on the

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edge catches up to you because there's somebody out there that,
quite frankly, they just don't put up with it. You
think you get to be all cute and win games
in the fourth quarter all the time, and it's a
lot of fun and it's entertaining, and they got a
decent record out of it, and they got all the
way to the Eastern Conference Finals. But at some point

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you have to be consistent and as good as the
Knicks have played in some facets of the Eastern Conference Finals,
the Pacers have just been better. They've been better. They
deserve the credit, they deserve the wins that they're getting.
They're not stealing games in New York. They are dominating.

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They are taking control at the end of games. I
don't want to hear about that quote unquote lucky basket
from Halliburn in Game one. I said that the night
that had happened, the Pacers didn't get lucky. New York
blew the game. They are really showing how undisciplined they are.

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Jalen Brunson Jersey Hold. The pass was horrible, and it
begins with again the detail of Jalen is just chasing
somebody around instead of positioning himself to begin with in
the correct spot. All right, I'm gonna turn around and
you're going back over there. I'm just gonna slide and
it's gonna put me in front of you, and even

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if you catch it defensively, you're gonna run into me
and I'm gonna create a foul situational basketball in the moment.
Who is more disciplined. Even when the Pacers made a
mistake like they did right there, the Knicks made an
even bigger mistake. It's in the details. The Pacers are

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just better in these aspects of the game. Then you
have the experience Pascal. You know, It's something that I've
talked about with him every time the Pacers win. I'm like, look,
it's his experience. And when you think about what's happened
with him and Buddy Hilton, that whole thing, I'm ninety

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nine percent sure there were people out there going, really,
we're doing this. Who's it working out for right now?
You know, record often can reflect to who a team
is in the NBA playoffs. It hasn't been that way
this season. It's really been all about getting hot at

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the right time. Sure, I guess you could say that,
but for me, it's really truly been about discipline. You
stay disciplined, you stay with it. The teams that have
remained disciplined, those are the teams that are winning games
right now. The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana, and let's
be honest, Indiana is just man, It's like they'll miss look. Man.

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I am a lifelong Knicks fan, ever since I was
a kid. Sure was a Jordan fan grown up, but
everybody in my generation in my age was a Jordan fan.
But I was a Knicks fan. Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason,
Patrick Ewing, John Stark's greatest team to never win a
championship in my opinion period had it not been for

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twenty three and then John Stark's playing really pretty subpar
in the NBA Finals against the Rockets, that I mean,
they should have won a title. Period. When MJ left,
to me, even as a kid, it was like, well,
it's it's the Knicks. This is a this is a
foregone conclusion. What are you talking about the point what

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I'm saying is I'm saying all these things as a
Knicks fan. There's no bias here. I'd look, if they
played great, I'd say they played great, they played good,
they just didn't play great. Indiana played great. It's refreshing,
not just as a ball fan, but as a Knicks fan.

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So it's like you're watching a team like Indiana and
you go, guys, this is how we should be playing.
This is how you do it right here, this is
how you win these types of games. Discipline, communication, They
just know each other so well, and everybody's dialed in.

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They don't ever celebrate like you know they just won.
They wait until they win, then they celebrate, and sure,
you know, Indiana would get up, New York could come back,
and it was always like, oh, New York's never really
out of it. I just watched that game and I

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just felt like, they're not actually in this game. When
you're constantly playing from behind like that, you're not doing
as good as you think. When you make the game
close again, it's really symptomatic more of you're playing poor,
undisciplined basketball. All of a sudden, you get disciplined, you

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start playing the way that they should, and then you
lax again. To me, that is the appropriate way to
define the New York Knicks right now. I don't think
there's any other way to say it. All right, really quick, care,
apparently I need to clarify something, and I'm going to

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be fairly short in this delivery because there's really not
a lot to say about this. Darrell du Set popped
off last year when this entire thing initially started with
the flag football and NFL guys potentially being able to
do it, the league just voted on it. So NFL
guys can now compete in Olympic flag football. And Darrell

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du Set popped off and he said, look, I feel
like I'm better than Patrick Mahomes because of my IQ
of the game. And then he had to go back
and say, guys, look I said flag football. I didn't
say I'm better than Mahomes. I didn't think say I'm
smarter than Mahomes. Especially after Mahomes use the fifty cent?

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What did he say after me? For right? So you
Haddrell du Set not really retracking or retracting I should say,
or backing off or any of that. In fact, this
year he's doubled down on it. But he was just like, look,
I'm just saying it comes to flag football. And he's
also said that he thinks it's disrespectful to other guys.

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The NFL guys just think that they could show up. Well,
here's the thing, Brohm number one, I am fully aware
that what he meant is flag football. It's in my
comment sections, in everybody else's comment section. There's some guy going,
look from his perspective, if I get it, or he's
talking about flag football, man, you know, lighting up if

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anybody thinks that Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson or any
of these other guys Josh Allen can't adjust to the
flag football game. The man, I got a wonderful beachfront
property that I would love to sell you. That's in Nebraska.
It is especially warm in a month of February. Great property.

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You're gonna love it. Next, let's be clear. If Ducett
could be in the NFL, he would be in the league.
But he's not in the league. He's in flag football.
And why is he in flag football Because he's not
good enough to be in the NFL. Whether it's in tangibles,

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physical skill sets, the IQ of the game, whatever it is,
he's not up to snuff. And that's all there is
of that. Finally, I'm trying to be nice about this.

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If he wants to prove that he's good enough for
flag football, let's take the NFL out of the equation.
If he wants to prove that he's good enough in
flag football, that he's got the higher IQ for flag football,
they're gonna have tryouts. If he could beat out Mahomes,

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then he can beat out Mahomes. If he could beat
out Lamar, he could beat out Lamar if he could
beat out Alan Russell Wilson, who the hell ever, then
he could beat him out. To me, when I hear
Darrell Ducet talk right now, what I hear is somebody
who's rightfully so partially offended by what's going on, but

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he's also very scared of losing his position because, as
we know, Olympians do not get paid. Everything that they
do is predicated upon sponsorship. And if he's not on
an Olympic team, he doesn't have sponsorship, which means he
doesn't have his money coming in. He's literally lost his
way of life. But let's be clear, if it's possible,

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a dream team is what they are gonna use, and
it's really not that complicated. And I understand where Ducet
is coming from, but at the end of the day,
if Mahomes is better, then he's better, and there's nothing
anybody can do about it. Just because an NFL guy
says I'm going out and I'm gonna play, it doesn't

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mean that they're gonna get selected. There's still a process
to all of this, and if du Set wants to
prove that he's better, then he's gonna have to just
go out and do it. He should feel that he's
better fine as an athlete, have that competitive drive, but
now you're gonna have to put your money where your

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mouth is, which is gonna be a lot more complicated.
And even then, let's be clear, if they go, well,
who can I have do? Set or the already multiple
times Super Bowl champion in league MVP of the NFL,
Patrick Mahomes, who automatically am I gonna pick? No disrespect kid,

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but I'm taking the guy that I've seen over and
over and over again do way more than what a
lot of people said he was gonna do when he
was in college, and that includes me. It wasn't until
I saw him in the preseason I thought, WHOA, Alex
Smith is screwed. He's gonna have to win a super

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Bowl where that's it, And even then I don't know
if he'd have been able to keep his job. Then
I saw the game against Denver, and even though it
was a pretty much meaningless football game, I was like, boy,
well the league is in trouble. And everybody saw it
and everybody knew it. It was a simultaneous gasp that

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everybody took when they saw Mahomes on the professional football field.
You damn right. The league was on notice. Sorry, dude,
nobody's doing that for you do set nobody. You could
be mad all you want to, but at the end

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of the day, if there's better, they are going to
take better. Don't front like if you weren't in that position,
you wouldn't do the exact same thing. Sure, sometimes there's
a thing We're just a matter of respect, right, you
know the forty nine ers, they almost traded John Elway

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for Joe Montana. But at the end of the day,
Joe Wall said, I just couldn't do it to Joe.
You liked him too much. Maybe that plays a factor
into it. Maybe you get lucky and something like that happens.
Guy goes man, I just I can't do that to
d d Man. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, or

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