May 11, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike react to the Knicks losing Game 3 to the Pacers. And Why Andrew Nembhard’s game-winning shot should officially be the new Eighth Wonder of the World.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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to Fox Sports Radio. Shut Cluck down to eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Caliverton double team shot Cluck at four them Mart's gotta
put it up, step back his three point of sun
them heart not the three down, tie out, next step
even he looks surprised he hit the shot.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What are you gonna do? A game? I thought the
Knicks are gonna lose by twenty. They should have won
too many offensive rebounds, too many misfree throws, and still
they needed Nemhard to make a knee knocking shot where
he didn't think it was going in, the smile on
his face like they told him he was just won,
mister America. They were putting the crown on his head.
He's like, can you believe I just made this shot?
(01:09):
What are you gonna do? What? Are you gonna do
pacers win game? America? How there should be if you do?
Miss I know the America, mister Olympia and wait and
all bodybuilding is anybody nicknamed mister America. I don't know
Captain America is coming back? Asked, Yeah, but we know
we have a captain. But like, mister like, is mister
America thing because like I think that could be a thing. No,
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there's not, but that's what he looks at me. I
could be mister America. The look on his face, as
of course there's mister America. Who's mister America. What's mister America?
When you the bodybuilding champions, mister America? He is okay,
all right? So it's sometimes made me want to raffle.
Then that's what it is. It's got Do you want
a big body building raffle? I think n No, that's
(01:54):
mister Olympia. That's what Harmon's taught. That's why America is okay,
and it is a thing started in nineteen thirty nine,
but it's not on TV. I haven't heard anywhere. There's no. Yeah,
I haven't heard that term in a while though, Mister America.
I don't think i've ever heard what do you mister America?
I don't know. You guys gotta get out more there, dude,
(02:17):
No no, I had did Joe Weader, books and everything
growing up. It was always, you know, the quest was
from mister Olympic Man. I just witnessed an absolute miracle
tonight with the Pacers making that shot by Nembard with
fifteen seconds left in the game. Man, you mean this
shot you say as a miracle?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hali Marton double team shot cluck at four. The Mart's
got to put it up, step back.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There's three quarters time out next seasons. Over All I
need is a miracle. All I need it is what
are you gonna do? What are you do? The big
possession of the Knicks Pacers game, it's tied, it's twelve
seconds left. The nixt to everything they wanted to do.
Haliburton picks up his dribble. He's not getting the ball back.
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Nem Harden wants nothing to do with this, but he
has no choice because he has the ball and the
shot clock is ticking down, and he's five feet behind
three point line and he makes a three and I
mean it. His face looked like someone said, you and
the winner of the fifty to fifty raffle and it's
gonna take on the brand new bicycle is Andrew Dembart. Congratulations,
that's a guy that the random shot the other day. Congratulations.
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You looked like a big shot contest winner in the end.
Is what is kind of entertaining is if you look
at the shot chart for the fourth quarter for both squads,
it's just a bunch of empty circles, no shot making whatsoever.
Right Jalen Brunson when he hit that big three that
was their fourth make of the fourth quarter. Yeah, well,
look there's a reason and I'm going and I'm gonna
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submit this electronic. They were tripping over their tongues. There
were seventy eight non calls on the pacers just in
the final four minutes of this game. There was a
great clear out where there were at Hartenstein. There were
fourteen fouls by Siakaman one play that were not called fourteen.
I'm gonna submit this to the end. Look at you.
(04:10):
If it's only gonna cost you thirty five grand I
think it's worth thirty five grand win. I gotta submit
this out. I mean I counted them. I got there's one,
there's another one. There's another one. There's another one. There's
another one. Now I'm obsessing over. Mister A is really
bothering me. But keep going, Jason, There's only one play
that mattered from tonight though. What's the one play for Rosberg?
Shut fuck down?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hey, Hall of marton double team shut cluck at four,
the Mart's gotta put it up step back has three
quarters time out.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Next, you're playing this like it's the butt fumble. The
guy made a mirror. He lost to a bunch of nobody.
There's no the patiently nobody. We lost to nobody's We
played the dude. Hold on though, hold on, you did
actually have twenty You outscored them. Run the bench, Alec burks.
All of a sudden, Hey, we're gonna dust you off
and you're gonna play some minutes. We didn't quite see that. Look,
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I mean, yeah, you got twenty four points off the bench.
Look I'm fine. I'm not going to complain about the
officials or any calls. It did. It didn't happen, because
you know what, the Knick should have won this game.
I thought it was altogether awful. They missed free throws
down the stretch, right Brunton missed a big one. Josh
Hart missed a big one. How many offensive rebounds for
the Pacers on their final two possessions. Way too many? Right,
that's why thirteen for the game. When when you give
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a guy enough chances you can even get a miracle.
The backtaps and all of that. I mean, Haliburton had
the ball, gets it off to mart who I don't
think they had any clue how much time was left
on the shot. I look at what Haliburton picked up
at the top of the key. Yeah, I know it
was done. There was no offensive set. What's say, Wow,
we're gonna Nick's gonna get the ball back here with
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the chance to win the game in regulation, but he
makes it. What are you gonna do? I mean Brunton's decision.
But look, this is a game the Knicks should have
lost by twenty. The Pacers should have won this one
going away. Should have sat there guys in the fourth
quarter who looked more tired the next of the Pacers.
The Pacers did. The Knicks were playing a couple more
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guys off the bench, and it comes down to the
end and they should have won, and they didn't, And
you needed a miracle shot to win, to proof that
there are miracles that still happen. Maybe that's the ninth
wonder in the world, right, King Kong is the eighth wonder,
Pyramids of the seventh Wonder. And Andrew m hard shot
the ninth wonder of the world that he makes that
shot that he wanted absolutely no part of. And the
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Pacers win, Well did they won? They won. It's still
a series. But they walk out a walk away from
this and going, oh yeah, we want to feel great.
You want to feel great, dude, you really this is
a game that you should have blown the knicks out
of the water on and still you almost lost it,
and you should have lost it. Congratulate your coach all
the complaining he did. You got calls you wanted. You
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had a foul call overturned in the final minute, there
was a pretty big call you got, You got everything,
and you won. It's awesome. They won. It's a series. Okay,
we'll see you on Sunday. Well, we'll get ready for
game We'll get ready for Game four. I told you
I fully expect this to go back to New York.
Tied it to a piece. The Pacers are good and
here and I'll put my money where my mouth is.
If I'm going to tell you Rick Carlisle is ridiculous
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for complaining about the officials. I'm not going to complain
about any call that was or wasn't made the end
of this game, because you know what I look at.
I think of the two miss free throws, the offensive rebounds,
and Nembard's miracle three. That's what lost the gig gets
still complaint. It's normal radio. It's Friday night. Let it
out ahead of the weekend. You got to empty the
chambers beause otherwise you're going to carry that back to
your family. No, No, you got to leave it here
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on the air, with your online family all across this
globe and the iHeartRadio app and your family here in
the studio. I am true to myself and and and
that's because that's honestly how I feel. I'm not going
to look at one call like the Pacers are going,
oh still, we'd be up three nothing if they called
the kickball in game one. No, that's not the confusing
one still is the was he folved? Did he tap
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it out of bounds? The thing where they called the
jump ball like that, That review took forever and in
the end, I don't think anybody really was clear and
evaluate the Nick's got the ball, so I mean it
really it didn't end up winning the TECH and then
none of that mattered. This This is what happens in
a game. I tipped my hat to the Pacers in
a game they had to win. They gutted it out.
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I'm more proud of the Knicks because this is a
game they could have folded. And you can see that
they have the better hand and the better amount of play.
They are coach better, they pick things up better. Their players,
even though they're playing more minutes, are better, more well conditioned.
Maybe now Josh Hart can't sit out at all. Maybe
you got to play them all forty eight minutes. Come on,
so what had to happen? Can't sit them out now?
But look, they lost, they lost, they lost, and the
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Pacers made a miracle shot. What am I gonna do?
That's how it goes. No congratulations, they won and it's
two one and it's a series. Okay. The physicality was
off the charts, and so this is one of those
in terms of how many whistles you're gonna swallow over
the course of the game when you got bodies flying
everywhere and even on the broadcast, and kind of like,
all right, they're gonna have to try to find that
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that line of demarcation of what's just good physical contact
this is, you know, because it came out that the
Knicks had more or less through every back channel they
could lodge their complaint. Now, no word as to whether
they had seventy eight calls mixed therein, but certainly they
I'm but they still they clearly went out of their
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way because you saw this from all of the the
would be uh experts in the punditry of the NBA saying, well,
through back channels, they're they're complaining about the contact that
Jalen Brunson takes on each play. It's like, you know what,
he initiates about eighty percent of it. So I don't know,
I don't how much weight that holds. But that's fine,
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and it's it's better than wasting your night instead of
sleeping or watching a Broadway plane evaluating the seventy eighth
call that didn't go your way. Just say, in general, hey,
Jalen Brunson's getting his ask kicked down there. He needs
a little more consideration because he's a superstar. Look, I'll
tell you what I saw tonight. I see, here's what
I saw tonight, And I am stunned. The officials let
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Tyrese Halliburton dribble the ball too forcefully down court like
he was. He really dribbled like he meant to get
down court. And you can't allow him to do that. Well,
he was trying to get down court, he was trying
to burrow. They allowed him to get close to the
basket for layups. When you come on, man, you can't
get that close and not blow the up. You can't
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let that. I mean, I'm watching every time, but there's
a layup for Haliburt. How do the officials let that happen?
How do the officials let more or less? And Tibodeau
was on the sideline yelling, how does he get a layup? No, yeah,
we don't give up layups. I mean, I mean, how
does he? I mean, I don't understand. You don't have
that many fouls to give you understand have that deeper rotation.
I mean, I don't get it. I don't. I mean
Pascal Siakam really and and the thing with Pascal Siakam
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all game, holding the ball up high in the post
so nobody could grab it out of his hand. How
do the referees not call that? I really have a
referee not call that law. I don't get it. I
don't get it. Your guy, Josh Hart another eighteen point effort.
He did only played forty three minutes though, Yeah, slacker,
maybe's Ted slacker. He's Vingenzo thirty five. He was absurd.
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Referees yelling while Hart and Brunson are shooting free throws.
You saw the one that Josh Hart missed. The referee
went right when he shot and screwed him up. I mean,
you can't do that, and I did not see that
on the take. All right, enumerate all of that, but
you know I would be remiss. But we didn't put
a bow on it because back in the day, I
mean you did, haved Ken Waller, Mike Katz and Corny
(11:27):
lou Ferigno all were mister America. But it goes back
to seventy three. That's when it was in its heyday sixties,
and then it disappeared like it got carved up into
different federations and who owned the rights or whatever like,
because I don't recognize any of the names past, like
seventy seventy three with Lou Ferigno. Yeah, there's a couple
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of guys from like nineteen seventy with the other Federation
when they were fighting over the name. Pretty crazy stuff,
wild times in the body building world. You want to
hear a great story, Yeah, Broca, it all comes back
with the pumping iron, right, it's like all of these
guys that were part of that movie in college. In college,
there was a guy in the dining hall. I think
we were juniors, as seniors maybe juniors, and he looked
(12:10):
like Lou Forigno, my roommate and I was my best friend.
We all thought he looked like lu Forigno. Okay, there's
Lu for Regno, here's so was he green? None? He
looked like Lou Forigno. Right. So one time we went
to a late dinner after a happy hour, so you know,
we're all feeling it, right, it's a whole bunch of
us at the table. We're like, oh, there's that dude.
(12:32):
It looks like dude looks like looks like Lu Forrigno.
So we were daring each other. You're drunk, so we
were daring. I don't know how drunk. I was drunk.
I was still I was because I was still coming
up with the ideas. Like we were. We were doing
a whole. We were playing the whole. I dare you right? Okay,
so I go to this guy's and okay, you're there.
I'm gonna write something down on a piece of paper
and you have to do it. And the guy's on
and come on, I'll do it too. Do rup it
(12:54):
a piece of paper? You walk up to the guy
that I tell you to and you ask him, when
you're not angry, do you who looked like Bill Bixby?
And so that's why I write it the piece of paper?
And he goes all right, Which, dude, that guy right there,
and we're all ways in big dudes. Ears are coming
out of her eyes because we know he's gonna do
it right, and he he just walks up to him
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and we just see him say something and the and
the guy that looks like Lou Forigno just looked at
him and like huh. And then the guy walked away
back table laughing. The guy was like, he ain't no
idea what I'm doing. No one's told you you look
like lou Dude, you look just like Lou for Rigno.
But I mean, I'm hoping that he delivered the line
right because he could have. You know, he got a
butcher in an altered state. But like, when you're not angry,
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do you look like Bill Bixby? I was so proud
of that Bill Bixby. Part of it might have been
the thing that threw him though, oh man, that might be.
I might have been. But if you've if people have
told you you look like Louigno, you know, you know
who Bill Bixby is? Not necessarily sure you do? What
else do people who knew Lou Frigney, he was TV's
incredible hulk and then mister America Bill Bill Bixby turned
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turned into the credit You know, if you know Lufarigno,
you know Bill Bicks's Bill mixedb ever on the Battle
of the Network show. You're gonna say, Bilbo back and Bill, Well,
they've had a number of deaths in the Lord of
the Rings world, bring up why do you do that?
But that the b because I'm not a Lord of
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Speaker 1 (16:42):
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just have it in. We have big news coming into
the studio. Now. Uh, that shot by Andrew Nemhard has
now replaced the Grand Canyon as the eighth Wonder of
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the world. About that, I mean really, it's kind of
a I was I was surprised, but it's already the
eighth wonder because what was he won for seven for
the night, I had two points on the game. I'm
just gonna chuck it up and oh, look at a miracle.
I'm going to play the lottery, just full on, swish, USh,
go ahead the shot or Mike Brean's call, man O.
Mike Breen's calls are always great. Now this one is epic. Yeah,
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Well it's great because you're wearing it well. And he's
I mean generally, isn't he not a Knicks fan? He's
guy right, But that's being a pro, right, that's you know,
he's called the one, and this is the greatest highlight
he's ever called. The Pacers beating the nixt. I want
to I want to let you know Early Frostburg here tonight.
It's good. You gotta talk louds. It's hard for me
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to hear you because I'm all the way up here
in the playoffs. Well, you're all the way down out
of the playoffs, so it's hard for me to hear
all the way down there staring at my seven down.
I'm not staring at any manners. I really thought you
were going to end that sentence differently, and I had
my hand on the plunger. Oh it's too early. I'm
all the way up here in the play you're all
the way down here, not in the playoffs. I'm all
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the way up here with a head coach. You're all
the way down here without a head coach. On yeah,
and you got Doc Rivers on the way. So how
about that. You want to talk about going loan to
play me one on you want to play me one
on one? Over the line went Doc Rivers. Wow, that's
a full swinging neck break around Friday night right there. Boy, Oh,
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I did not see that coming. Oh no, No, that
was a sneak attack right there. And I'm pretty sure
I'm seeing voting right now. Is actually I'm seeing live voting?
Uh nem hard shot could actually pass the hanging Gardens
of Babylonia. Really, I could get about past that. It
could have. Anybody really remember the hanging Gardens? And I
remember I remember in seventh grade history hearing about that. Okay,
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and it could they say, depending on how voting goes,
it could be neck and neck with the Pyramids for
being for me getting even higher as the wonder of
the world. So there's that. Just think about that for
a second. Yeah, I mean we know that King Tutt
moved to Babylonia, Yes, yes he did. And I don't
remember the hanging gardens, and and uh, who is it
(19:16):
David Gray did Babylon right, was it? Yeah? But there
the song sucked. Yeah, you know what I want.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I want a singer songwriter who is a little bit
older that just gives me a song that I can,
you know, just kind of jam out too, because I'm
forty and I don't want to really look like I'm
still listening to hair metal because I don't know, maybe
this is not my thing, but I want I want
women to think I'm cool. So I listened to go
to the David Gray concert.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You want to go with me? See David Gray. I
always thought the eighth wonder the world to you was
the ballpit at McDonald's. Oh no, that's like the second wonder.
That's the second one. Wasn't the giants up higher? That's
up under the giant was the eighth wonder for a
long time. The Grand Canyon all the Astrodome right, wonder
for a while, King Kong when the Bear Bears played there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was bed two or three too, I think, No,
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which one would they go to they go to Japan?
Oh did they go to Japan? First they go to
no breaking training? It was it the hang On. No,
they play in the astrom was the second one, when
they play in the astrodome, right, then they go to Japan.
Breaking training was second. Okay, that's in the astrodome and
then Japan. Then Japan was there, But at that time
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they replaced like Walter Math that was done. I think
like Alan Thick was the was the coach talking Dennis
the well, I mean he was Walter Math. I was
in that. I thought the mall was like the eighth Wonder. No,
that's that's up higher, like you have to pass the
taj Mall. Uh uh man No. I don't think so.
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Most of the eighth Wonders are all of the Greek
and Roman architecture and the pyramids and and Egypt and
and we're going way back into you. I mean, if
you could pass the hanging gardens of Babylonia, that's pretty cool.
I've heard people say the coliseum was an eighth Wonder coliseum. Yeah,
you mean the Los Angeles Coliseum of the San Diego
Coliseum's who they say. Qualcomm was the eighth Wonder. Oh,
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the Colisseum where the Clippers played, because you could walk
into the You could walk into Qualcomm in twenty fifteen
campus and it was nineteen eighty seven. I go back
in time when I go to I just remember the
last Super Bowl that they hosted. You couldn't park anywhere
near the stadium because they needed the generators. I don't
tell Jason Qualcomb's not there anymore. No, when it was
(21:30):
qualcommb this is when it was. We took a Jets
Chargers game. Yeah it was. Was it really a game?
Was it like forty five to nothing? I think you
guys crossed half field in the in the midfield in
the fourth court.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Wit.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I went to a game where we never did that
for the Bears. I don't know Jerry Rice's final home
game in congratulations, Terrell Owens got twenty pass Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's right. Jerry Rice was not a happy on Jerry
Rice Day. Tarall Owens was Kate mcdown and the Bears
offense did not pass midfield. I still had the flip
they gave me and my ticket stone Man, well listen,
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I did before I tell you about who's got to
wear the goat horns for the Knicks. I am happy
for Andrew Nemhard because now, no matter what happens in
his career, he can go to autograph shows and and
and and sign that three pointer for twenty five bucks
the rest of his life. Man, Hey, oh you want
to sign that three? Here you go right here, here,
you go, right here? Do you want to see inscription
I'm the new Reggie Miller here. Okay, what do you want?
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What do you want me to write? I'll just I'll
just sign twenty five bucks. Here you go, just him
getting the ball and looking so nervous before he shot it,
and then it goes in and just to look, ah,
I can't believe it. Congratulate when you make a miracle
shot like that. Hey, that's great, that's great. All it was.
All you're doing though, right now, is you're really diminishing
him to a nothing. What I'm saying, look, he did.
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It was a bad play by the by the pacer
saying everything they want un down. That's where the old
saying goes. It's better be lucky than good. You know what,
There's a lot less effort involve being lucky. That is true.
That is true. My uncle always said everyone, Look, you
want to work hard, all that's all funny, good, but
it's better to be lucky than good. Just be remembered.
Just remember that. Look, the Knicks got everything they wanted.
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He did not want to take the shot, but he
had to. And I bet you here, I bet you
asked him, hey, what happened on that last play? He
would say, Oh, I been, dude, I blacked out. I
have no idea. I have no idea, man, I don't
know what happened. I know where's the I couldn't even
tell you. I don't even know. I don't even know what.
I guarantee you it's a lucky shot. What can you do?
But look, and this happens once in a while, and
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I've seen it in the playoffs. But the guy who's
got to really wear a little bit, wear the goat
horns for the final few minutes and it's stunning. Is
Jalen bruns sure? Because you know, yes, he missed a
big free throw, but it's still a game. When you're
down three with fifteen second or twelve and a half,
fifteen seconds left, you go down. They would have allowed
him to get to the rack and get a quick two.
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The Knicks would have to foul and put the Pacers
at the free throw line, right, They would have allowed
to do that. But instead he gets caught up with
trying to take a really bad three, and the Pacers
make a great decision. They lay off him and Brunson
tries to draw the foul and he complains after that
he got hit and I'll be honest, well he did
not get well, he got swiped before the shot. But
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the shot, you could have called it on the ground, Yeah,
if you if you were going to call that foul,
like he can complained to that, but it was not
the old Magic Johnson continuation. No no, no, And he
goes up and throws up an awkward three that he
thought he was going to get a foul call on.
And that's the game right there, And I'm saying, that's
a horrible decision. I'm sorry, that's a Lebron James. Horrible
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decision by brunts. I get the heat check, I get
you're taking. Then James, you're going to give him a
little sign him it's a shot because I didn't even
get on Twitter yet. But look, because because the play
there is to get to the hoop, they had three
guys out on you just keep going to the hoop.
They're not going to foul you. Put you on the
free throw. So now it's a one point game with
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ten seconds left, you're fouling and then you're going for
a three if you have to, or go for two
if the Pacers missed. Pacers had been hadn't been making
a lot of three free throw so far in the series,
and they clearly were bamboozled and discombobulated that last possession.
So are they gonna be able to get the ball
to Halliburton or who they want to get the ball to.
Maybe not. So the potential there to win the game
was still there. But Brunson decides on an all or
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nothing play where he's off balance and doesn't even draw iron.
Like that's a horrible mistake, man, Like if you look
at the two worst things in the last minute, you know,
for the Nicks and say, okay, what happened, because they
had they had the game. Brunson missing the free throw
and that was a horrendous decision. I mean it. And
I've seen him make bad decisions before. And it looks
like like he gets something in his head and he says,
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I'm gonna do this, and it turns out to me because
it's telegraphed and the other team knows it's coming. Like
when he gets in his head, I'm going to make
this pass and it's like, okay, everybody knows in the
world you're making this pass and the other team is
allowed to get in the middle and turn it over.
He's had a couple of those moments this series, and
it happens to him at times. I did not think
it was gonna happen. In the last moment there, I'm like, Okay,
this is where the Knicks have app grace under pressure,
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they get they extend the game. Right, You're extending the
game because you're gonna get in, get a hoop, make
them make a free throw, get down, do what you
can do it. Maybe you're shooting a two to tie
the game, or at that point you can shoot a three.
But I'm always a big fan of extending the game,
and Brunson decided we're not going to do that when
clearly they with three guys out on the perimeter, they
would have allowed Brunson a clear path of the hoop.
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So yeah, So if you're looking for, hey, who really
came up short? Who's to blame the final minute? I
can't believe I'm saying it, but it's Jalen Brunson who
had a bad last minute. Yeah. I mean, as a squad,
they had an awful fourth quarter. The shooting was miserable,
just four makes, and for Brunson in that moment though,
I would excuse it, explain it. However, you want to
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say it here, you've been getting. You've drawn contact every
time you've touched the ball, So you're anticipating no matter
where you are on the court, at least someone's gonna
come and body you up, which I didn't. They kind
of gotten. His way is obstacles more than anything else.
And then you have the one swipe towards the arm.
The other is you've been living, right man, Everything you've
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thrown up in this series and in the series last
has gone your way. So it becomes the Hey, if
I put it anywhere to the net, I'm getting he's gotten.
The shooters touch a couple of times, right, Oh, that
looks off. Bounce, bounce down, like all of that. So
if you're Jalen bruntson and three against the Sixers that
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took the series, if that bounces up, if that bounces that,
it may not win, but you keep going all the
way down through and it's basically being and for today,
Devincenzo came up huge with his thirty five points and
heart living on the offensive glass. But when you're bruns
In and it's maybe you start reading your own press clippings.
(27:49):
How about that, maybe you read the iHeart media thing
from the Jason Smith Show. That could be Hey, right now,
Steph Curry's going, that's the guy who say you wanted
to have the ball at the end of the game,
not me. Well, he still got a shot off, he
just didn't make it. I mean, it happens, It happens,
but I'm really surprised it was such a bad decision.
I mean, look, we're watching the game of the kitchen.
I go no, because that's not something that very unhappy.
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I mean, that's the strategy of trying to draw contact,
to go to the free throw line to shoot three
free throws when you just missed one a few seconds ago,
and you and you didn't miss it good, You missed
it front of the room. It didn't have a chance
on that first one. So I don't, I don't. I
don't get that. But that's a testimony, a testament to
his confidence in himself that he wanted to get right
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back to the lines. I'm glad, I'm glad, but what
he should have done it would stop the clock. I'm
gonna eat it if he only made two out of three.
I mean, because two out of three ain't bad. Have
told us in this particular gaze because it would have
stopped the clock and you would have gotten essentially your layup. Yeah,
but that was not the right play, and I can't
I can't believe that's something Tom Thibodeau is not telling
Jalen Breton. Dude, what are you doing? Man? I mean,
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I get it, I understand that, but but really, because
you had the time out that brought it into the
front court. Yeah, right, so you didn't have to go
there have been three seconds. They would have been ten
seconds left in the game. There were three guys up
top coming up to swarm him, and I forget who
was up there in that little cluster with him, but
you had a pretty easy driving lane to the basket.
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There would have been ten seconds left, more than enough
time to foul and get down and get a shot.
Now they were out of timeouts, so they couldn't advance
the ball again. But still, okay, if you're fouling the
pacer with seven seconds left, you got seven seconds to
get the ball up court and get a shot. You
can do that. I mean, you really can do that.
It's it's not that out of the realm of possible.
But of course, at that point there was no guarantee
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they were getting a rebound if they needed a rebound
because they were gassed. Yeah. Yeah, both teams towards the
end of this game though, And you look at that again,
that fourth quarter shot clock or shot chart, and it's
not all three pointers. Here's a lot of shots around
the rain. They're contested, but the legs aren't there to
go up for the big finish either.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Look, but I told you that the biggest things in
this game why the Knicks loss is I'm not saying
anything about this. It's not it because the two miss
free throws in the final minute by by Hart and Brunson,
the numerous i think five offensive rebounds the Pacers had
in their last two possessions. But even that, I have
to say, they were all off of threes. So they're
all going to be long rebounds, and that's going to
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give you a better chance to always have a better
chance at offense rebound when it's a long three, and
the Knicks could so even then, I'm like, ah, but boy,
they could have just gotten one rebound, it would have
flipped the game. And then of course you have Nembard's
miracle shot that that he didn't want at all and
you said two points in the entire game, and it's
probably gonna be the highlight of his blue hate him
so much to find a couple of trading cards that
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you can burn when he His Wikipedia page is going
to be about eight sentences long, and the second sentence
after when he's born is going to be best known
for making a miracle three for the Indiana Pacers in
Game three of the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Semifinals.
That's already killed this guy's career. You know, he doesn't
hit another shot against you with that's a dagger as
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this series. Because he's one choice in life. He made
the one best one in his life. I'm so angry.
He's already putting James Dolan's face on his body. Sure
because he owns the damn Nicks. Sure he does eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six nine. Look, Brunson's gotta wear
it bad decisions in the final. You gotta wear it
too bad. We're up to one. I'm fine, gotta but
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you know what the fine coming off a thread. He
does have the ding dong latte that he is going
to try and we'll get to get the reaction. We'll
get to Jing, We'll get to ding Ding Dantes coming
up in a bit like our guy Tim Conway Jr.
Ding Dong No no, no harmon. Harmon sent me a
video yesterday saying, Hey, look where I am. And there's
lattes from the grocery store with all different hostess flavors.
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There's cupcake and Twinkies and ding Dong and I go, oh,
get me a ding Dong ice latte. So he brought
it in Now you love. I'm gonna drown my sorrows
in this next hour on the show. So we're gonna
do That's how you do it. That's how you do roll, man,
That's how I roll on a Friday night. Look Out,
I'm gonna balance my checkbook when I get home. Look Out,
I'm freaking you've never balanced a check book? No, I
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don't know. My wife always was saying, you're bounced Checkmick. Now,
how do you know much money you have? Well, the
bank statement tells me. I kind of look and say, yeah,
that looks about right, and I move on. Coming up next,
they get him pumpkin or something. Speaking of the NBA playoffs,
We'll talk to you about what the most overrated storyline
of almost any playoff game is. That's next right here, Jason,
I'm like Fox. Be sure to catch live editions of
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
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the tire Rag dot Com Studios. Thirteen seconds ago before halftime,
and the Denver Nuggets have finally shown up yay for
this series against the Timberwolves. They leaded fifty six to
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forty one. All it took was a guy not getting suspended. Yeah,
I mean, surprise, surprise. Uh wait to go, Adam Silver,
it's a fifteen. It's gonna wind up being a fifteen
point lead for Denver at halftime of this game. Again,
a huge, huge first half for Denver. Jamal Murray, who
did not get suspended, was able to play in this game.
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And whether you agree or disagree, you can't deny it's
a huge impact on the game. Now Minnesota has the
set that has halftime to go. What just happened to us?
We were coming into this game to throw the hammer
down and win it. Instead, we're down fifteen at halftime,
so we'll have more in this game coming up in
a few minutes. But you know, it's funny. Monsey brought
this up a few minutes ago and we talked about
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Jalen Brunson, you know, banged up and how he was
playing today and Luca, you know, banged up in the
game he had last night. You got got last night
when he had that one sequence, You're like, oh, he's
really hurt. It's like, na, you know he stepped back
and hit a three. You know, you jerk. I don't
know that there's any more overrated storyline in the NBA
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Playoffs than player X playing and he's banged up and hurt.
Because I really can't. I really have a hard time
believing they're actually injured or they're really hurt and they
didn't just tweak something for a second. Because there's no way.
If Luka Doncic is limping like he was limping last night,
he should have been able to play, right. There's no way.
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If Jalen Brunson is nicked up as he is, he
shouldn't be able to do what he can do controlling
the ball up and down the floor, there's no way
if you're hurt, you can't play this way in the NBA.
You just can't. Well you can do what some podcasters
of notes too, and just start speculating that everybody's juiced up,
you know, I mean historical figures and current Look at
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you don't even like politicians. I think FDR was on steroids.
He was president for three terms. Come on, man, you
know he was on something. But like even Joel embiid
round one, look at him beat on one leg. Yeah, okay,
the dude on one leg shouldn't be able to score
thirty nine points, right. So it's a couple of things,
and I think it's probably a combination of two things
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for star players who were showing, oh, I'm injured, I'm injured. One,
it's part of the strategy of the game where if
you're injured, the other team doesn't quite know what you're
capable of. All this guy can't this guy can't blow
by me because he's hurt. So you play him a
little closer defensively, and then he blows by you. It's like, well, okay,
sell the speed to do that. So it's some kind
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of strategical advantage that you get if another team thinks
you're hurt, what can you do? What can't you do?
Suddenly become a wildcard. And then the other part of
it is, I think a lot of stars know that
if we lose or or for whatever reason, if I'm injured,
if I look like I'm hurt, no one's gonna criticize me.
It's gonna be what do you want from the guy.
Guy's playing on one leg, guy's playing with one arm.
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The guy's playing without a head. The guy's playing with
no toes. He lost four toes in the second quarter,
and still look at him. Stop slide step three, he
makes it, I mean, and especially hit me watching Luca
last night, where going down the court, it looks like
he's got to come out of the game. Next time
down the court, slide step step back three, Okay, all right,
he's looking He's okay. Then back down the court. Doesn't
move on defense. Oh he can't move it all. He's
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have to come out of this next time down I'm
driving to the hoop for an end one bank off
the glass. Really, how injured are you really? I mean,
how injured are you really? I think it's a combination
of players strategically for the game, and because they know
I'm not gonna get blamed because how many times do
you see a guy wincing in pain and somehow the
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camera is right in the guy's face? Sure, right, I
mean they know, they know when the cameraman comes off
the sideline and gets right up to Luca's face when
he's standing there with his hands on his shorts, he's grimacing.
He knows this is a shot that's going on television.
He knows people are gonna say, look at Luca, look
at the pain he's and what a hero he is.
There's no way guys are this banged up and they're
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still playing great. So I know it's exaggerated. Right. When
Hollins was in last Friday Night, I asked him about that,
I said, our guys, he goes, I can't tell you
a guy that went off on me for like fifty
once and they told me this morning in the morning
he might not even play right. And he went for
fifty and I was up against him for like thirty
five of those points. He didn't look injured to me,
So I really I think the injury part of the
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playoffs is overblown for those reasons, because there's no way
at this high level of the game, if you're that
hurt you're able to still do all of these things
and be great. There's just no way. Oh. We discussed
it a little bit last night as the Lucas stuff
happened in real time. Is you know in the NFL,
at some point it goes out that, yeah, the guy
played hurt and he'll get the report. Oh you know
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he had a torn late from since week nine. I
was like, I don't care. He was on the field,
so obviously whenever they did to get him ready to
get on the field, he played. And if it affected
them negatively, guess what bad job by him and bad
job by the training is to have a bad job
by the coaches. Likewise, in the NBA, we all want
our guys to be warriors, right. All the comparisons back
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to the eighties and nineties, particularly when the Knicks and
the Pacers get together, is you know, those series were
what defined by the toughness of guys being able to
take a hit and get up and keep moving. All
the rocky cliches and same thing here and now it's
the badge of honor in the age of load management. Well,
my guy was on the and he was hurt looking
at it, right, So that's the I'm maybe only slightly
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more injured than that guy who's sitting out, but in
a in a world here, going back to your eighth
wonder of the World, thing might as well be the
Grand Canyon as to how tough I am versus that guy.
It's like, and it's an oxymoron where hey, and a
really banged up player Rex scored thirty nine with eighteen rebounds,
and tennisis like, no, you can't do that if if
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you're that thinged up. I know, if I have a
bad case of food poisoning, I'm not gonna be able
to move or stay away from the toilet. Now. Granted,
I'm sure teams have better drugs to help you along
with things, but if you're really hurt, you can't. You
can't have games like that, man, You just can't. Not
in the NBA, not when it's no no, because it's
set to no. It sets up the superhuman column and
the super cut for the ten o'clock local news playing
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on one leg. Look at it go. I can't really
blame you. I know we got swept in the thirties,
but look at all the look at the PostScript for
the Sixers. Imagine if Joel Embiid had been healthy, Think about,
what whatever is he gonna score seventy because he scored
forty every game, But he's gonna score seventy. Look how
much better he will? Was going? Really, the more I see,
and it happens all the time now because if you're hurt,
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you come right out of the game. I know if
a guy is hurt, he would walk right off the
court and go, hey, I can't go. I gotta come
off the court and said, oh, I'm gonna limp down court,
and I think I feel good and the camera sees
me and maybe the other team wonders what I'm doing. Yeah, No,
it's so much of that is for show. O ROPI dope?
Then wa exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome
coming up next? Ooh, how about a big fat NFL
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(00:24):
to Fox Sports Radio. Shut Cluck down to eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Caliverton double team shot Cluck at four them Mart's gotta
put it up, step back his three point of sun
them heart not the three down, tie out, next step
even he looks surprised he hit the shot.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What are you gonna do? A game? I thought the
Knicks are gonna lose by twenty. They should have won
too many offensive rebounds, too many misfree throws, and still
they needed Nemhard to make a knee knocking shot where
he didn't think it was going in, the smile on
his face like they told him he was just won,
mister America. They were putting the crown on his head.
He's like, can you believe I just made this shot?
(01:09):
What are you gonna do? What? Are you gonna do
pacers win game? America? How there should be if you do?
Miss I know the America, mister Olympia and wait and
all bodybuilding is anybody nicknamed mister America. I don't know
Captain America is coming back? Asked, Yeah, but we know
we have a captain. But like, mister like, is mister
America thing because like I think that could be a thing. No,
(01:31):
there's not, but that's what he looks at me. I
could be mister America. The look on his face, as
of course there's mister America. Who's mister America. What's mister America?
When you the bodybuilding champions, mister America? He is okay,
all right? So it's sometimes made me want to raffle.
Then that's what it is. It's got Do you want
a big body building raffle? I think n No, that's
(01:54):
mister Olympia. That's what Harmon's taught. That's why America is okay,
and it is a thing started in nineteen thirty nine,
but it's not on TV. I haven't heard anywhere. There's no. Yeah,
I haven't heard that term in a while though, Mister America.
I don't think i've ever heard what do you mister America?
I don't know. You guys gotta get out more there, dude,
(02:17):
No no, I had did Joe Weader, books and everything
growing up. It was always, you know, the quest was
from mister Olympic Man. I just witnessed an absolute miracle
tonight with the Pacers making that shot by Nembard with
fifteen seconds left in the game. Man, you mean this
shot you say as a miracle?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Hali Marton double team shot cluck at four. The Mart's
got to put it up, step back.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
There's three quarters time out next seasons. Over All I
need is a miracle. All I need it is what
are you gonna do? What are you do? The big
possession of the Knicks Pacers game, it's tied, it's twelve
seconds left. The nixt to everything they wanted to do.
Haliburton picks up his dribble. He's not getting the ball back.
(03:03):
Nem Harden wants nothing to do with this, but he
has no choice because he has the ball and the
shot clock is ticking down, and he's five feet behind
three point line and he makes a three and I
mean it. His face looked like someone said, you and
the winner of the fifty to fifty raffle and it's
gonna take on the brand new bicycle is Andrew Dembart. Congratulations,
that's a guy that the random shot the other day. Congratulations.
(03:29):
You looked like a big shot contest winner in the end.
Is what is kind of entertaining is if you look
at the shot chart for the fourth quarter for both squads,
it's just a bunch of empty circles, no shot making whatsoever.
Right Jalen Brunson when he hit that big three that
was their fourth make of the fourth quarter. Yeah, well,
look there's a reason and I'm going and I'm gonna
(03:49):
submit this electronic. They were tripping over their tongues. There
were seventy eight non calls on the pacers just in
the final four minutes of this game. There was a
great clear out where there were at Hartenstein. There were
fourteen fouls by Siakaman one play that were not called fourteen.
I'm gonna submit this to the end. Look at you.
(04:10):
If it's only gonna cost you thirty five grand I
think it's worth thirty five grand win. I gotta submit
this out. I mean I counted them. I got there's one,
there's another one. There's another one. There's another one. There's
another one. Now I'm obsessing over. Mister A is really
bothering me. But keep going, Jason, There's only one play
that mattered from tonight though. What's the one play for Rosberg?
Shut fuck down?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hey, Hall of marton double team shut cluck at four,
the Mart's gotta put it up step back has three
quarters time out.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Next, you're playing this like it's the butt fumble. The
guy made a mirror. He lost to a bunch of nobody.
There's no the patiently nobody. We lost to nobody's We
played the dude. Hold on though, hold on, you did
actually have twenty You outscored them. Run the bench, Alec burks.
All of a sudden, Hey, we're gonna dust you off
and you're gonna play some minutes. We didn't quite see that. Look,
(05:06):
I mean, yeah, you got twenty four points off the bench.
Look I'm fine. I'm not going to complain about the
officials or any calls. It did. It didn't happen, because
you know what, the Knick should have won this game.
I thought it was altogether awful. They missed free throws
down the stretch, right Brunton missed a big one. Josh
Hart missed a big one. How many offensive rebounds for
the Pacers on their final two possessions. Way too many? Right,
that's why thirteen for the game. When when you give
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a guy enough chances you can even get a miracle.
The backtaps and all of that. I mean, Haliburton had
the ball, gets it off to mart who I don't
think they had any clue how much time was left
on the shot. I look at what Haliburton picked up
at the top of the key. Yeah, I know it
was done. There was no offensive set. What's say, Wow,
we're gonna Nick's gonna get the ball back here with
(05:49):
the chance to win the game in regulation, but he
makes it. What are you gonna do? I mean Brunton's decision.
But look, this is a game the Knicks should have
lost by twenty. The Pacers should have won this one
going away. Should have sat there guys in the fourth
quarter who looked more tired the next of the Pacers.
The Pacers did. The Knicks were playing a couple more
(06:10):
guys off the bench, and it comes down to the
end and they should have won, and they didn't, And
you needed a miracle shot to win, to proof that
there are miracles that still happen. Maybe that's the ninth
wonder in the world, right, King Kong is the eighth wonder,
Pyramids of the seventh Wonder. And Andrew m hard shot
the ninth wonder of the world that he makes that
shot that he wanted absolutely no part of. And the
(06:30):
Pacers win, Well did they won? They won. It's still
a series. But they walk out a walk away from
this and going, oh yeah, we want to feel great.
You want to feel great, dude, you really this is
a game that you should have blown the knicks out
of the water on and still you almost lost it,
and you should have lost it. Congratulate your coach all
the complaining he did. You got calls you wanted. You
(06:52):
had a foul call overturned in the final minute, there
was a pretty big call you got, You got everything,
and you won. It's awesome. They won. It's a series. Okay,
we'll see you on Sunday. Well, we'll get ready for
game We'll get ready for Game four. I told you
I fully expect this to go back to New York.
Tied it to a piece. The Pacers are good and
here and I'll put my money where my mouth is.
If I'm going to tell you Rick Carlisle is ridiculous
(07:12):
for complaining about the officials. I'm not going to complain
about any call that was or wasn't made the end
of this game, because you know what I look at.
I think of the two miss free throws, the offensive rebounds,
and Nembard's miracle three. That's what lost the gig gets
still complaint. It's normal radio. It's Friday night. Let it
out ahead of the weekend. You got to empty the
chambers beause otherwise you're going to carry that back to
your family. No, No, you got to leave it here
(07:33):
on the air, with your online family all across this
globe and the iHeartRadio app and your family here in
the studio. I am true to myself and and and
that's because that's honestly how I feel. I'm not going
to look at one call like the Pacers are going,
oh still, we'd be up three nothing if they called
the kickball in game one. No, that's not the confusing
one still is the was he folved? Did he tap
(07:57):
it out of bounds? The thing where they called the
jump ball like that, That review took forever and in
the end, I don't think anybody really was clear and
evaluate the Nick's got the ball, so I mean it
really it didn't end up winning the TECH and then
none of that mattered. This This is what happens in
a game. I tipped my hat to the Pacers in
a game they had to win. They gutted it out.
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I'm more proud of the Knicks because this is a
game they could have folded. And you can see that
they have the better hand and the better amount of play.
They are coach better, they pick things up better. Their players,
even though they're playing more minutes, are better, more well conditioned.
Maybe now Josh Hart can't sit out at all. Maybe
you got to play them all forty eight minutes. Come on,
so what had to happen? Can't sit them out now?
But look, they lost, they lost, they lost, and the
(08:40):
Pacers made a miracle shot. What am I gonna do?
That's how it goes. No congratulations, they won and it's
two one and it's a series. Okay. The physicality was
off the charts, and so this is one of those
in terms of how many whistles you're gonna swallow over
the course of the game when you got bodies flying
everywhere and even on the broadcast, and kind of like,
all right, they're gonna have to try to find that
(09:02):
that line of demarcation of what's just good physical contact
this is, you know, because it came out that the
Knicks had more or less through every back channel they
could lodge their complaint. Now, no word as to whether
they had seventy eight calls mixed therein, but certainly they
I'm but they still they clearly went out of their
(09:22):
way because you saw this from all of the the
would be uh experts in the punditry of the NBA saying, well,
through back channels, they're they're complaining about the contact that
Jalen Brunson takes on each play. It's like, you know what,
he initiates about eighty percent of it. So I don't know,
I don't how much weight that holds. But that's fine,
(09:43):
and it's it's better than wasting your night instead of
sleeping or watching a Broadway plane evaluating the seventy eighth
call that didn't go your way. Just say, in general, hey,
Jalen Brunson's getting his ask kicked down there. He needs
a little more consideration because he's a superstar. Look, I'll
tell you what I saw tonight. I see, here's what
I saw tonight, And I am stunned. The officials let
(10:04):
Tyrese Halliburton dribble the ball too forcefully down court like
he was. He really dribbled like he meant to get
down court. And you can't allow him to do that. Well,
he was trying to get down court, he was trying
to burrow. They allowed him to get close to the
basket for layups. When you come on, man, you can't
get that close and not blow the up. You can't
(10:25):
let that. I mean, I'm watching every time, but there's
a layup for Haliburt. How do the officials let that happen?
How do the officials let more or less? And Tibodeau
was on the sideline yelling, how does he get a layup? No, yeah,
we don't give up layups. I mean, I mean, how
does he? I mean, I don't understand. You don't have
that many fouls to give you understand have that deeper rotation.
I mean, I don't get it. I don't. I mean
Pascal Siakam really and and the thing with Pascal Siakam
(10:46):
all game, holding the ball up high in the post
so nobody could grab it out of his hand. How
do the referees not call that? I really have a
referee not call that law. I don't get it. I
don't get it. Your guy, Josh Hart another eighteen point effort.
He did only played forty three minutes though, Yeah, slacker,
maybe's Ted slacker. He's Vingenzo thirty five. He was absurd.
(11:07):
Referees yelling while Hart and Brunson are shooting free throws.
You saw the one that Josh Hart missed. The referee
went right when he shot and screwed him up. I mean,
you can't do that, and I did not see that
on the take. All right, enumerate all of that, but
you know I would be remiss. But we didn't put
a bow on it because back in the day, I
mean you did, haved Ken Waller, Mike Katz and Corny
(11:27):
lou Ferigno all were mister America. But it goes back
to seventy three. That's when it was in its heyday sixties,
and then it disappeared like it got carved up into
different federations and who owned the rights or whatever like,
because I don't recognize any of the names past, like
seventy seventy three with Lou Ferigno. Yeah, there's a couple
(11:49):
of guys from like nineteen seventy with the other Federation
when they were fighting over the name. Pretty crazy stuff,
wild times in the body building world. You want to
hear a great story, Yeah, Broca, it all comes back
with the pumping iron, right, it's like all of these
guys that were part of that movie in college. In college,
there was a guy in the dining hall. I think
we were juniors, as seniors maybe juniors, and he looked
(12:10):
like Lou Forigno, my roommate and I was my best friend.
We all thought he looked like lu Forigno. Okay, there's
Lu for Regno, here's so was he green? None? He
looked like Lou Forigno. Right. So one time we went
to a late dinner after a happy hour, so you know,
we're all feeling it, right, it's a whole bunch of
us at the table. We're like, oh, there's that dude.
(12:32):
It looks like dude looks like looks like Lu Forrigno.
So we were daring each other. You're drunk, so we
were daring. I don't know how drunk. I was drunk.
I was still I was because I was still coming
up with the ideas. Like we were. We were doing
a whole. We were playing the whole. I dare you right? Okay,
so I go to this guy's and okay, you're there.
I'm gonna write something down on a piece of paper
and you have to do it. And the guy's on
and come on, I'll do it too. Do rup it
(12:54):
a piece of paper? You walk up to the guy
that I tell you to and you ask him, when
you're not angry, do you who looked like Bill Bixby?
And so that's why I write it the piece of paper?
And he goes all right, Which, dude, that guy right there,
and we're all ways in big dudes. Ears are coming
out of her eyes because we know he's gonna do
it right, and he he just walks up to him
(13:15):
and we just see him say something and the and
the guy that looks like Lou Forigno just looked at
him and like huh. And then the guy walked away
back table laughing. The guy was like, he ain't no
idea what I'm doing. No one's told you you look
like lou Dude, you look just like Lou for Rigno.
But I mean, I'm hoping that he delivered the line
right because he could have. You know, he got a
butcher in an altered state. But like, when you're not angry,
(13:37):
do you look like Bill Bixby? I was so proud
of that Bill Bixby. Part of it might have been
the thing that threw him though, oh man, that might be.
I might have been. But if you've if people have
told you you look like Louigno, you know, you know
who Bill Bixby is? Not necessarily sure you do? What
else do people who knew Lou Frigney, he was TV's
incredible hulk and then mister America Bill Bill Bixby turned
(14:00):
turned into the credit You know, if you know Lufarigno,
you know Bill Bicks's Bill mixedb ever on the Battle
of the Network show. You're gonna say, Bilbo back and Bill, Well,
they've had a number of deaths in the Lord of
the Rings world, bring up why do you do that?
But that the b because I'm not a Lord of
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Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from
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just have it in. We have big news coming into
the studio. Now. Uh, that shot by Andrew Nemhard has
now replaced the Grand Canyon as the eighth Wonder of
(17:05):
the world. About that, I mean really, it's kind of
a I was I was surprised, but it's already the
eighth wonder because what was he won for seven for
the night, I had two points on the game. I'm
just gonna chuck it up and oh, look at a miracle.
I'm going to play the lottery, just full on, swish, USh,
go ahead the shot or Mike Brean's call, man O.
Mike Breen's calls are always great. Now this one is epic. Yeah,
(17:28):
Well it's great because you're wearing it well. And he's
I mean generally, isn't he not a Knicks fan? He's
guy right, But that's being a pro, right, that's you know,
he's called the one, and this is the greatest highlight
he's ever called. The Pacers beating the nixt. I want
to I want to let you know Early Frostburg here tonight.
It's good. You gotta talk louds. It's hard for me
(17:48):
to hear you because I'm all the way up here
in the playoffs. Well, you're all the way down out
of the playoffs, so it's hard for me to hear
all the way down there staring at my seven down.
I'm not staring at any manners. I really thought you
were going to end that sentence differently, and I had
my hand on the plunger. Oh it's too early. I'm
all the way up here in the play you're all
the way down here, not in the playoffs. I'm all
(18:10):
the way up here with a head coach. You're all
the way down here without a head coach. On yeah,
and you got Doc Rivers on the way. So how
about that. You want to talk about going loan to
play me one on you want to play me one
on one? Over the line went Doc Rivers. Wow, that's
a full swinging neck break around Friday night right there. Boy, Oh,
(18:34):
I did not see that coming. Oh no, No, that
was a sneak attack right there. And I'm pretty sure
I'm seeing voting right now. Is actually I'm seeing live voting?
Uh nem hard shot could actually pass the hanging Gardens
of Babylonia. Really, I could get about past that. It
could have. Anybody really remember the hanging Gardens? And I
remember I remember in seventh grade history hearing about that. Okay,
(18:56):
and it could they say, depending on how voting goes,
it could be neck and neck with the Pyramids for
being for me getting even higher as the wonder of
the world. So there's that. Just think about that for
a second. Yeah, I mean we know that King Tutt
moved to Babylonia, Yes, yes he did. And I don't
remember the hanging gardens, and and uh, who is it
(19:16):
David Gray did Babylon right, was it? Yeah? But there
the song sucked. Yeah, you know what I want.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
I want a singer songwriter who is a little bit
older that just gives me a song that I can,
you know, just kind of jam out too, because I'm
forty and I don't want to really look like I'm
still listening to hair metal because I don't know, maybe
this is not my thing, but I want I want
women to think I'm cool. So I listened to go
to the David Gray concert.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You want to go with me? See David Gray. I
always thought the eighth wonder the world to you was
the ballpit at McDonald's. Oh no, that's like the second wonder.
That's the second one. Wasn't the giants up higher? That's
up under the giant was the eighth wonder for a
long time. The Grand Canyon all the Astrodome right, wonder
for a while, King Kong when the Bear Bears played there. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that was bed two or three too, I think, No,
(20:03):
which one would they go to they go to Japan?
Oh did they go to Japan? First they go to
no breaking training? It was it the hang On. No,
they play in the astrom was the second one, when
they play in the astrodome, right, then they go to Japan.
Breaking training was second. Okay, that's in the astrodome and
then Japan. Then Japan was there, But at that time
(20:24):
they replaced like Walter Math that was done. I think
like Alan Thick was the was the coach talking Dennis
the well, I mean he was Walter Math. I was
in that. I thought the mall was like the eighth Wonder. No,
that's that's up higher, like you have to pass the
taj Mall. Uh uh man No. I don't think so.
(20:49):
Most of the eighth Wonders are all of the Greek
and Roman architecture and the pyramids and and Egypt and
and we're going way back into you. I mean, if
you could pass the hanging gardens of Babylonia, that's pretty cool.
I've heard people say the coliseum was an eighth Wonder coliseum. Yeah,
you mean the Los Angeles Coliseum of the San Diego
Coliseum's who they say. Qualcomm was the eighth Wonder. Oh,
(21:10):
the Colisseum where the Clippers played, because you could walk
into the You could walk into Qualcomm in twenty fifteen
campus and it was nineteen eighty seven. I go back
in time when I go to I just remember the
last Super Bowl that they hosted. You couldn't park anywhere
near the stadium because they needed the generators. I don't
tell Jason Qualcomb's not there anymore. No, when it was
(21:30):
qualcommb this is when it was. We took a Jets
Chargers game. Yeah it was. Was it really a game?
Was it like forty five to nothing? I think you
guys crossed half field in the in the midfield in
the fourth court.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Wit.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I went to a game where we never did that
for the Bears. I don't know Jerry Rice's final home
game in congratulations, Terrell Owens got twenty pass Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's right. Jerry Rice was not a happy on Jerry
Rice Day. Tarall Owens was Kate mcdown and the Bears
offense did not pass midfield. I still had the flip
they gave me and my ticket stone Man, well listen,
(22:03):
I did before I tell you about who's got to
wear the goat horns for the Knicks. I am happy
for Andrew Nemhard because now, no matter what happens in
his career, he can go to autograph shows and and
and and sign that three pointer for twenty five bucks
the rest of his life. Man, Hey, oh you want
to sign that three? Here you go right here, here,
you go, right here? Do you want to see inscription
I'm the new Reggie Miller here. Okay, what do you want?
(22:26):
What do you want me to write? I'll just I'll
just sign twenty five bucks. Here you go, just him
getting the ball and looking so nervous before he shot it,
and then it goes in and just to look, ah,
I can't believe it. Congratulate when you make a miracle
shot like that. Hey, that's great, that's great. All it was.
All you're doing though, right now, is you're really diminishing
him to a nothing. What I'm saying, look, he did.
(22:49):
It was a bad play by the by the pacer
saying everything they want un down. That's where the old
saying goes. It's better be lucky than good. You know what,
There's a lot less effort involve being lucky. That is true.
That is true. My uncle always said everyone, Look, you
want to work hard, all that's all funny, good, but
it's better to be lucky than good. Just be remembered.
Just remember that. Look, the Knicks got everything they wanted.
(23:11):
He did not want to take the shot, but he
had to. And I bet you here, I bet you
asked him, hey, what happened on that last play? He
would say, Oh, I been, dude, I blacked out. I
have no idea. I have no idea, man, I don't
know what happened. I know where's the I couldn't even
tell you. I don't even know. I don't even know what.
I guarantee you it's a lucky shot. What can you do?
But look, and this happens once in a while, and
(23:33):
I've seen it in the playoffs. But the guy who's
got to really wear a little bit, wear the goat
horns for the final few minutes and it's stunning. Is
Jalen bruns sure? Because you know, yes, he missed a
big free throw, but it's still a game. When you're
down three with fifteen second or twelve and a half,
fifteen seconds left, you go down. They would have allowed
him to get to the rack and get a quick two.
(23:55):
The Knicks would have to foul and put the Pacers
at the free throw line, right, They would have allowed
to do that. But instead he gets caught up with
trying to take a really bad three, and the Pacers
make a great decision. They lay off him and Brunson
tries to draw the foul and he complains after that
he got hit and I'll be honest, well he did
not get well, he got swiped before the shot. But
(24:15):
the shot, you could have called it on the ground, Yeah,
if you if you were going to call that foul,
like he can complained to that, but it was not
the old Magic Johnson continuation. No no, no, And he
goes up and throws up an awkward three that he
thought he was going to get a foul call on.
And that's the game right there, And I'm saying, that's
a horrible decision. I'm sorry, that's a Lebron James. Horrible
(24:36):
decision by brunts. I get the heat check, I get
you're taking. Then James, you're going to give him a
little sign him it's a shot because I didn't even
get on Twitter yet. But look, because because the play
there is to get to the hoop, they had three
guys out on you just keep going to the hoop.
They're not going to foul you. Put you on the
free throw. So now it's a one point game with
(25:00):
ten seconds left, you're fouling and then you're going for
a three if you have to, or go for two
if the Pacers missed. Pacers had been hadn't been making
a lot of three free throw so far in the series,
and they clearly were bamboozled and discombobulated that last possession.
So are they gonna be able to get the ball
to Halliburton or who they want to get the ball to.
Maybe not. So the potential there to win the game
was still there. But Brunson decides on an all or
(25:21):
nothing play where he's off balance and doesn't even draw iron.
Like that's a horrible mistake, man, Like if you look
at the two worst things in the last minute, you know,
for the Nicks and say, okay, what happened, because they
had they had the game. Brunson missing the free throw
and that was a horrendous decision. I mean it. And
I've seen him make bad decisions before. And it looks
like like he gets something in his head and he says,
(25:43):
I'm gonna do this, and it turns out to me because
it's telegraphed and the other team knows it's coming. Like
when he gets in his head, I'm going to make
this pass and it's like, okay, everybody knows in the
world you're making this pass and the other team is
allowed to get in the middle and turn it over.
He's had a couple of those moments this series, and
it happens to him at times. I did not think
it was gonna happen. In the last moment there, I'm like, Okay,
this is where the Knicks have app grace under pressure,
(26:04):
they get they extend the game. Right, You're extending the
game because you're gonna get in, get a hoop, make
them make a free throw, get down, do what you
can do it. Maybe you're shooting a two to tie
the game, or at that point you can shoot a three.
But I'm always a big fan of extending the game,
and Brunson decided we're not going to do that when
clearly they with three guys out on the perimeter, they
would have allowed Brunson a clear path of the hoop.
(26:26):
So yeah, So if you're looking for, hey, who really
came up short? Who's to blame the final minute? I
can't believe I'm saying it, but it's Jalen Brunson who
had a bad last minute. Yeah. I mean, as a squad,
they had an awful fourth quarter. The shooting was miserable,
just four makes, and for Brunson in that moment though,
I would excuse it, explain it. However, you want to
(26:48):
say it here, you've been getting. You've drawn contact every
time you've touched the ball, So you're anticipating no matter
where you are on the court, at least someone's gonna
come and body you up, which I didn't. They kind
of gotten. His way is obstacles more than anything else.
And then you have the one swipe towards the arm.
The other is you've been living, right man, Everything you've
(27:08):
thrown up in this series and in the series last
has gone your way. So it becomes the Hey, if
I put it anywhere to the net, I'm getting he's gotten.
The shooters touch a couple of times, right, Oh, that
looks off. Bounce, bounce down, like all of that. So
if you're Jalen bruntson and three against the Sixers that
(27:28):
took the series, if that bounces up, if that bounces that,
it may not win, but you keep going all the
way down through and it's basically being and for today,
Devincenzo came up huge with his thirty five points and
heart living on the offensive glass. But when you're bruns
In and it's maybe you start reading your own press clippings.
(27:49):
How about that, maybe you read the iHeart media thing
from the Jason Smith Show. That could be Hey, right now,
Steph Curry's going, that's the guy who say you wanted
to have the ball at the end of the game,
not me. Well, he still got a shot off, he
just didn't make it. I mean, it happens, It happens,
but I'm really surprised it was such a bad decision.
I mean, look, we're watching the game of the kitchen.
I go no, because that's not something that very unhappy.
(28:13):
I mean, that's the strategy of trying to draw contact,
to go to the free throw line to shoot three
free throws when you just missed one a few seconds ago,
and you and you didn't miss it good, You missed
it front of the room. It didn't have a chance
on that first one. So I don't, I don't. I
don't get that. But that's a testimony, a testament to
his confidence in himself that he wanted to get right
(28:35):
back to the lines. I'm glad, I'm glad, but what
he should have done it would stop the clock. I'm
gonna eat it if he only made two out of three.
I mean, because two out of three ain't bad. Have
told us in this particular gaze because it would have
stopped the clock and you would have gotten essentially your layup. Yeah,
but that was not the right play, and I can't
I can't believe that's something Tom Thibodeau is not telling
Jalen Breton. Dude, what are you doing? Man? I mean,
(28:56):
I get it, I understand that, but but really, because
you had the time out that brought it into the
front court. Yeah, right, so you didn't have to go
there have been three seconds. They would have been ten
seconds left in the game. There were three guys up
top coming up to swarm him, and I forget who
was up there in that little cluster with him, but
you had a pretty easy driving lane to the basket.
(29:16):
There would have been ten seconds left, more than enough
time to foul and get down and get a shot.
Now they were out of timeouts, so they couldn't advance
the ball again. But still, okay, if you're fouling the
pacer with seven seconds left, you got seven seconds to
get the ball up court and get a shot. You
can do that. I mean, you really can do that.
It's it's not that out of the realm of possible.
But of course, at that point there was no guarantee
(29:37):
they were getting a rebound if they needed a rebound
because they were gassed. Yeah. Yeah, both teams towards the
end of this game though, And you look at that again,
that fourth quarter shot clock or shot chart, and it's
not all three pointers. Here's a lot of shots around
the rain. They're contested, but the legs aren't there to
go up for the big finish either.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
No.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Look, but I told you that the biggest things in
this game why the Knicks loss is I'm not saying
anything about this. It's not it because the two miss
free throws in the final minute by by Hart and Brunson,
the numerous i think five offensive rebounds the Pacers had
in their last two possessions. But even that, I have
to say, they were all off of threes. So they're
all going to be long rebounds, and that's going to
(30:18):
give you a better chance to always have a better
chance at offense rebound when it's a long three, and
the Knicks could so even then, I'm like, ah, but boy,
they could have just gotten one rebound, it would have
flipped the game. And then of course you have Nembard's
miracle shot that that he didn't want at all and
you said two points in the entire game, and it's
probably gonna be the highlight of his blue hate him
so much to find a couple of trading cards that
(30:40):
you can burn when he His Wikipedia page is going
to be about eight sentences long, and the second sentence
after when he's born is going to be best known
for making a miracle three for the Indiana Pacers in
Game three of the twenty twenty four Eastern Conference Semifinals.
That's already killed this guy's career. You know, he doesn't
hit another shot against you with that's a dagger as
(31:00):
this series. Because he's one choice in life. He made
the one best one in his life. I'm so angry.
He's already putting James Dolan's face on his body. Sure
because he owns the damn Nicks. Sure he does eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six six three six nine. Look, Brunson's gotta wear
it bad decisions in the final. You gotta wear it
too bad. We're up to one. I'm fine, gotta but
(31:22):
you know what the fine coming off a thread. He
does have the ding dong latte that he is going
to try and we'll get to get the reaction. We'll
get to Jing, We'll get to ding Ding Dantes coming
up in a bit like our guy Tim Conway Jr.
Ding Dong No no, no harmon. Harmon sent me a
video yesterday saying, Hey, look where I am. And there's
lattes from the grocery store with all different hostess flavors.
(31:44):
There's cupcake and Twinkies and ding Dong and I go, oh,
get me a ding Dong ice latte. So he brought
it in Now you love. I'm gonna drown my sorrows
in this next hour on the show. So we're gonna
do That's how you do it. That's how you do roll, man,
That's how I roll on a Friday night. Look Out,
I'm gonna balance my checkbook when I get home. Look Out,
I'm freaking you've never balanced a check book? No, I
(32:06):
don't know. My wife always was saying, you're bounced Checkmick. Now,
how do you know much money you have? Well, the
bank statement tells me. I kind of look and say, yeah,
that looks about right, and I move on. Coming up next,
they get him pumpkin or something. Speaking of the NBA playoffs,
We'll talk to you about what the most overrated storyline
of almost any playoff game is. That's next right here, Jason,
I'm like Fox. Be sure to catch live editions of
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten
pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Live from
the tire Rag dot Com Studios. Thirteen seconds ago before halftime,
and the Denver Nuggets have finally shown up yay for
this series against the Timberwolves. They leaded fifty six to
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forty one. All it took was a guy not getting suspended. Yeah,
I mean, surprise, surprise. Uh wait to go, Adam Silver,
it's a fifteen. It's gonna wind up being a fifteen
point lead for Denver at halftime of this game. Again,
a huge, huge first half for Denver. Jamal Murray, who
did not get suspended, was able to play in this game.
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And whether you agree or disagree, you can't deny it's
a huge impact on the game. Now Minnesota has the
set that has halftime to go. What just happened to us?
We were coming into this game to throw the hammer
down and win it. Instead, we're down fifteen at halftime,
so we'll have more in this game coming up in
a few minutes. But you know, it's funny. Monsey brought
this up a few minutes ago and we talked about
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Jalen Brunson, you know, banged up and how he was
playing today and Luca, you know, banged up in the
game he had last night. You got got last night
when he had that one sequence, You're like, oh, he's
really hurt. It's like, na, you know he stepped back
and hit a three. You know, you jerk. I don't
know that there's any more overrated storyline in the NBA
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Playoffs than player X playing and he's banged up and hurt.
Because I really can't. I really have a hard time
believing they're actually injured or they're really hurt and they
didn't just tweak something for a second. Because there's no way.
If Luka Doncic is limping like he was limping last night,
he should have been able to play, right. There's no way.
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If Jalen Brunson is nicked up as he is, he
shouldn't be able to do what he can do controlling
the ball up and down the floor, there's no way
if you're hurt, you can't play this way in the NBA.
You just can't. Well you can do what some podcasters
of notes too, and just start speculating that everybody's juiced up,
you know, I mean historical figures and current Look at
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you don't even like politicians. I think FDR was on steroids.
He was president for three terms. Come on, man, you
know he was on something. But like even Joel embiid
round one, look at him beat on one leg. Yeah, okay,
the dude on one leg shouldn't be able to score
thirty nine points, right. So it's a couple of things,
and I think it's probably a combination of two things
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for star players who were showing, oh, I'm injured, I'm injured. One,
it's part of the strategy of the game where if
you're injured, the other team doesn't quite know what you're
capable of. All this guy can't this guy can't blow
by me because he's hurt. So you play him a
little closer defensively, and then he blows by you. It's like, well, okay,
sell the speed to do that. So it's some kind
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of strategical advantage that you get if another team thinks
you're hurt, what can you do? What can't you do?
Suddenly become a wildcard. And then the other part of
it is, I think a lot of stars know that
if we lose or or for whatever reason, if I'm injured,
if I look like I'm hurt, no one's gonna criticize me.
It's gonna be what do you want from the guy.
Guy's playing on one leg, guy's playing with one arm.
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The guy's playing without a head. The guy's playing with
no toes. He lost four toes in the second quarter,
and still look at him. Stop slide step three, he
makes it, I mean, and especially hit me watching Luca
last night, where going down the court, it looks like
he's got to come out of the game. Next time
down the court, slide step step back three, Okay, all right,
he's looking He's okay. Then back down the court. Doesn't
move on defense. Oh he can't move it all. He's
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have to come out of this next time down I'm
driving to the hoop for an end one bank off
the glass. Really, how injured are you really? I mean,
how injured are you really? I think it's a combination
of players strategically for the game, and because they know
I'm not gonna get blamed because how many times do
you see a guy wincing in pain and somehow the
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camera is right in the guy's face? Sure, right, I
mean they know, they know when the cameraman comes off
the sideline and gets right up to Luca's face when
he's standing there with his hands on his shorts, he's grimacing.
He knows this is a shot that's going on television.
He knows people are gonna say, look at Luca, look
at the pain he's and what a hero he is.
There's no way guys are this banged up and they're
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still playing great. So I know it's exaggerated. Right. When
Hollins was in last Friday Night, I asked him about that,
I said, our guys, he goes, I can't tell you
a guy that went off on me for like fifty
once and they told me this morning in the morning
he might not even play right. And he went for
fifty and I was up against him for like thirty
five of those points. He didn't look injured to me,
So I really I think the injury part of the
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playoffs is overblown for those reasons, because there's no way
at this high level of the game, if you're that
hurt you're able to still do all of these things
and be great. There's just no way. Oh. We discussed
it a little bit last night as the Lucas stuff
happened in real time. Is you know in the NFL,
at some point it goes out that, yeah, the guy
played hurt and he'll get the report. Oh you know
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he had a torn late from since week nine. I
was like, I don't care. He was on the field,
so obviously whenever they did to get him ready to
get on the field, he played. And if it affected
them negatively, guess what bad job by him and bad
job by the training is to have a bad job
by the coaches. Likewise, in the NBA, we all want
our guys to be warriors, right. All the comparisons back
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to the eighties and nineties, particularly when the Knicks and
the Pacers get together, is you know, those series were
what defined by the toughness of guys being able to
take a hit and get up and keep moving. All
the rocky cliches and same thing here and now it's
the badge of honor in the age of load management. Well,
my guy was on the and he was hurt looking
at it, right, So that's the I'm maybe only slightly
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more injured than that guy who's sitting out, but in
a in a world here, going back to your eighth
wonder of the World, thing might as well be the
Grand Canyon as to how tough I am versus that guy.
It's like, and it's an oxymoron where hey, and a
really banged up player Rex scored thirty nine with eighteen rebounds,
and tennisis like, no, you can't do that if if
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you're that thinged up. I know, if I have a
bad case of food poisoning, I'm not gonna be able
to move or stay away from the toilet. Now. Granted,
I'm sure teams have better drugs to help you along
with things, but if you're really hurt, you can't. You
can't have games like that, man, You just can't. Not
in the NBA, not when it's no no, because it's
set to no. It sets up the superhuman column and
the super cut for the ten o'clock local news playing
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on one leg. Look at it go. I can't really
blame you. I know we got swept in the thirties,
but look at all the look at the PostScript for
the Sixers. Imagine if Joel Embiid had been healthy, Think about,
what whatever is he gonna score seventy because he scored
forty every game, But he's gonna score seventy. Look how
much better he will? Was going? Really, the more I see,
and it happens all the time now because if you're hurt,
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you come right out of the game. I know if
a guy is hurt, he would walk right off the
court and go, hey, I can't go. I gotta come
off the court and said, oh, I'm gonna limp down court,
and I think I feel good and the camera sees
me and maybe the other team wonders what I'm doing. Yeah, No,
it's so much of that is for show. O ROPI dope?
Then wa exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome
coming up next? Ooh, how about a big fat NFL
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