Gil's Arena - Mero Breaks Down The Knicks' Playoff Run With Gil's Arena

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

Shai Gilgeous Alexander's NBA Playoff Masterpiece DAZZLES The Gil's Arena Crew as Gilbert Arenas & The Gil's Arena Crew react to Shai & Jalen Williams both dropping playoff highs to lift the OKC Thunder to a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals over the Minnesota Timberwolves and break down how the Thunder pulled off an improbable win by slowing down Anthony Edwards & Julius Randle. Next, they invite legendary New York Knicks fan The Kid Mero into the Arena to preview Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Knicks & Pacers and break down the series from the perspective of a Knicks super fan. They discuss what Jalen Brunson means to this franchise as he pushes them towards the NBA Finals and gives on honest take on how high Tyrese Haliburton is rising in the hierarchy of most hated opponents in Knicks history. Finally, they react to Adam Silver continuing to tease the idea of a USA vs the World All Star Game as Giannis Antetokoumpo has joined Gil's Arena in advocating for the change to the NBA's midseason classic, sparking a debate on if the NBA's new TV deal is putting pressure on the league to increase viewership. Please give us a like and subscribe!!! Gil's Arena Crew - Gilbert Arenas, Josiah Johnson, The Kid Mero, Rashad McCants & Kenyon Martin Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GIL and get up to $1000 in Bonus Credits and A FREE Pick: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gil's-arena Use our code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/ARENA10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/jkz7rlm8 #CashAppPod *Referral Reward Disclaimer: As a Cash App partner, we may earn a commission when you sign up for a Cash App account. Join the Playback chat to interact with Gil and Josiah https://www.playback.tv/gilbertarenas SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAvjYgmwadC682OoC4Cc6TQ SUBSCRIBE To Mero's Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLDgeSZxtU9xnyZKrfbHN3A Join the Underdog discord for access to exclusive giveaways and promos! https://discord.gg/underdog 0:00:00 - 2 Min Countdown 0:01:57 - Show Start 0:07:50 - Giannis Wants A USA vs The World All Star Game 0:39:38 - Shai's Masterpiece Gives Thunder 3-1 Lead 0:55:04 - Should The NBA BAN Fouling Up 3? 1:10:45 - Shai GETS REAL On Being a Free Throw Merchant 1:18:41 - The Kid Mero Previews ECF Game 4 With Gil's Arena 1:55:17 - Jalen Williams Emerges As A Legit #2 Option 2:01:02 - Ant-Man Struggles In Game 4 2:18:53 - MostlyFans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Thunder bounced back from a 40 point blowout to take game four in Minnesota and a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference Finals. What do the Wolves need to do to avoid the gentleman sweep? And said, he needed to shoot more, but 13 shots, same as game one. That's under defense. Back on it, SGA, Damner had a 40 point triple double.

Wills might be in trouble. Cat, balled out on Dominican's Mother's Day to help the Knicks stay alive in the Eastern Conference finals, how much pressure is on the Pacers to stop New York from taking back home court advantage in game four? And with the All-Star Game viewership on the decline, Adam Silver says the league may shift to a USA versus the world format, but is that the right move?

But before we get into all that, as always, the show is brought to you by Underdog. Go ahead, download the app, use promo code GIL, get up to $1,000 in bonus cash plus a special pick-em. As for tonight, Sonny has some picks up in his partner pack on the Underdog app. Let's take a look at this weekend. Oh, shit.

Oh, shit. I'm about to make some money. Oh, oh, oh. Jaylen Brunson, higher 2.5, three-pointers made. Tyrese Halliburton, higher 3.5, three-pointers made. Kat, higher 1.5, three-pointers made. I'm noticing a trend here. OJ Ananovi, higher 1.5, three-pointers made.

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I just want to know why I was asked to send some picks in as well. Okay, we have your picks coming up. Got your picks coming. Your picks are coming. Oh, okay. I just was wondering like, shit. It's only one second. It's only one second normally.

Just like. We doubled up. Hey, it's some new shit going on, my man. Excuse me. Excuse the hell out of me. Excuse me. Yeah, I really listened because that's the interesting. Hey, there's some new shit going on, my man. Excuse the hell out of me. Excuse me. Yeah, I'm gonna listen, because that's interesting.

The talent, the Halliburton joint, yeah. He got to get four tonight. He has to get four. No, he has to. But will he? but will he? yeah I got some interesting news to report normally the chat rides with your partner packs

wait a minute give it some time I'm stalling no you're not we just popped it right up now we vamping waiting we have 50, we have 55. 37. I hope it's low.

I hope it's low cause that mean I'ma win. Okay, but winners is rollin' with you. We asked to chat, currently 48% of the chat is ridin' with your pick for tonight. First time. Might be the first time I ever saw. First time. Under 50.

I think I'll get the whole joint tonight. First out. If you try. Why I don't get the whole joint? Go ahead and roll with Sonny's partner pack. As for tonight, Kenyon also has some picks up on his partner pack on the underdog app. Let's take a look at K-Mark's picks. Tireese Halliburton, higher 35.5 points, rebounds and assists.

Carl Anthony Towns, the big bodega, higher 21.5 points. OG Ananobe, higher 15.5 points. And Josh Hart, higher 24.5 points. OG N'Nobi higher 15.5 points. And Josh Hart higher 24.5 points, rebounds and assists. If you roll with this partner pack, you can win more than 14 times your bread on the underdog gap. How we feeling about these? OG and Josh.

Halle's dad is back. OG, OG and Josh. And either one of them dudes, teams have a chance to win, them dudes gotta play it again. Yeah, they gotta play it again. I don't know if Josh gonna have a tough time, man. He been, he been struggling.

Fuck around and have a triple-double. Shoot. They'll play the lot coming off the bench. Or is it going to the bench? I'm not sure, but still, I mean, Tiz basically said whether he starts or comes off the bench, he's still gonna play those starter minutes

Numbers a little bit down. Yeah, but nonetheless Crucial game for both sides. So can you we asked to chat if they're riding or fainting with your picks tonight 57% of the 50 50 some percent of the chat said that they were riding went down to 56, but I don't wanna now 57 again If you like these things was like yeah It up or go ahead vote on download the underdog app He's promo code get up to thousand dollars of bonus cash plus a special pick them and you can't watch this show live with us On YouTube we have audio version available on Apple Spotify wherever we get your podcast So we got some playoff to talk We're gonna talk some other stuff first two-time MVP

Yannis and in the cupo had a lot of free time this summer has been using social media very actively Keeping us all entertained in the process yesterday The Greek Freak brought up an interesting conversation to accompany a graphic that he posted. Let's take a look So Yannis quote tweeted a graphic with a team USA lineup of ADKD LeBron Stefan Tatum versus a world team featuring himself, Wimby, Luka, Jokic and SGA with the caption, this should be next year all-star game format, must see basketball, 100 emoji, fire emoji. So Greek Freak isn't the only person who thinks this is a good idea. This is actually being considered by the league

for the 2026 All-Star Game. Here's what Commissioner Adam Silver told Joe Varden of the Athletic recently. He said, quote, our All-Star Game will return to NBC next season in the middle of their coverage of the Winter Olympics. Given the strong interest we've seen in international basketball competitions,

most recently in last summer's Olympics in Paris, we're discussing concepts with the Players Association that focus on NBA players representing their countries or regions instead of the more traditional formats that we've used in the past. He went on to say, it's not lost on us. We'll be in LA, the home of the 28 Summer Olympics, and we'll be competing in the arena at Intuit where the basketball competition will take place in the 2028 Olympics. So I think all those factors when they come together it presents an enormous opportunity for us to do something with international competition instead of the traditional all-star

formats that we've used. So currently about 25% of NBA players were born outside the United States. This year's all NBA teams featured four players that play internationally with SGA, Joker, and Giannis making the first team while Kat was a third team selection along with four more players in Shangoon, Zubats, Sabonis, and Tiakam who cracked the top 24 in all NBA voting this year. Luke and Wimmy were both ineligible for postseason awards as they did not meet the minimum games requirement but you agree with Yannis that the NBA should move to a USA versus the world all-star format. Kenyon, we'll start with you. Just one simple question. Are there enough all-stars to have an all-star game?

I gave you ten. No. So I gave you ten right there. So that's where they gonna play 5-1-5 the whole game? No, I'm saying ten international players. They're gonna play 5-1-5 no subs? So eight international players cracked the top 24 in all NBA voting. Luca and Wimby were not eligible because they didn't play enough games. But that's 10 guys right there. To make the all, it's an all-star for me. I get it. The all-star is not, that 65 game shit is after.

You know what you're saying is, doesn't matter. Say it again, that's the sit again? Yeah, it's halfway, it's an all-star. The sack, that 65 game is irrelevant I'm just saying eight players finished eight international players finished top 24 yeah but we're talking about half what we're talking about February here we're talking about from November to February mm-hmm this that part of the season so are there enough will there be enough people that fit this criteria to have the world versus the USA in an all-star

format. I highly doubt it, but let's see. There was also, obviously, they did the four-team format. Doubt it, he said. Okay. Excuse me, Gil. Let me hug. I know you stand on this.

That's why I'm asking you last. Okay. I know. You're not rolling, but they did a four-team format. Nobody was rolling with it. Eight players on each team, so there's a potential to extend it. Obviously, they took it. See, they did this gimm format. Nobody was rolling with it a players on each team So there's a potential to extend it. Obviously they took it is gimmick shit. Yeah, see you see once again. It's a gimmick Go back to just playing basketball man East versus West let them where they got damn uniforms out there and go play basketball

Right. Why we got to do the gimmicks? Like y'all just you just had a gimmick People everybody hated it fans. People, everybody hated it. Fans, players, coaches, meet, everybody hated it. Here you go with another gimmick. Once again, people go hate it once again. Five on five, East versus West, wear their uniforms, all West, pick a color, whatever you want to do. East versus West, man. Simple. Let's move over to Sonny. Sonny, do you agree with Giannis that the NBA should move to a USA vs. the world All-Star format?

It seems that we have amnesia. Me and Brandon brought this point up two summers in a row. We have had discussions about it. Exactly, or All-Star. This discussion, because they already doing it. So it was like, yeah, line it up. And we kept asking Gill to line up his rosters against ours. Yeah, we did this already.

But they're not All-Stars though. They're gonna have to be. You're talking about the best players though, right? They're gonna have to be All-Stars now. See that's the argument that we were having, everybody, we're talking about the best USA players versus the best European players, right? This is not that argument.

It's the same because you're gonna have to pick new All-Stars for that new team. But it's international every, they're gonna say. The international players on the international All-Stars. So how many players made it, this is the most that made it this year at All-Stars, six. Six made it this year. There's 24 All-Stars, six made it this year at All-Stars, six. Six made it this year. There's 24 All-Stars.

Six made it. That means there's 18 Americans. Last year, four made it, which means there was 20 Americans. So you're saying, and you wanna tell us that, we're gonna take six Americans, I mean, six Euros this year, then add six more that wasn't even fucking

capable of making a game. We're just going to pull them because they're good Euros. That means six All-Stars that are All-Stars are taking off the team. They're trying to use shade. They're trying to use shade. It doesn't matter. The world is bigger than Europe. It doesn't matter. the team Because he's pretty much the only all-star but it's so sick so that means someone like

Hmm who makes it pick one pick one pick a guy who wasn't an all-star this year He gets to make it and someone who's not who was an all-star gets taken out They'll be okay nor pals. They'll be okay. They've been snubbed before guys get snubbed every day You get snubbed every day making team, but is he a put so it's a perennial all-star. I'm just saying He could I couldn't shoot semantics, man I'm sure he hopes. Like, yo, and we know where I hope. OK, so we're going to keep talking about hope.

I'm going to bring her here. So if we had to pick, remember, if there's going to be 10 on 10, right? Even though the all-star right now is 12 on 12, so that means they're going to cut two off of each team off the jump. Yep, they should. Right?

Because they ain't playing half the whole game. So now, can you just name 10 All-Stars? There's five. I only have to name four. Worthy. I only have to name four. No, but the team is six already. The team is six.

We already have six from last year. Like you just said, it was six All-Stars from international last year. Six. You want to know the six? All I need to name is four now. Okay, so you got Shea, Jokic, Sangoon, Pascal, Wimby, and... Yannis ain't on there.

Yo, Yannis first. Yannis? That's it. Who else? That's it? So no MB? No, he's not on there. We didn't make it All-Star last year.

All right, so it can be MB next year. He's in America. We're talking about 2028 too, right? This is 2026 all-star game. 2026 all-star game. And it's not Olympic too, so we're talking. Silver, Silver basically saying 2026 will be in the same venue as 2028.

But they're gonna count him. No, no, no, no, he play USA basketball. He's from Africa, whether you like it or not. He's in America, you don't get to do that. I can tell you right now. If it be in B, he's in the down an American. Okay, don't get to do that We'll do that so he's an American will count America with our read No, you don't he's an American for USA basketball. Did you play your seat? Marketing marketing

Did not mention Luca Luca Luca Luca that's two I need two more. Mm-hmm We didn't we named Wimby like I said, Shane goon Zubats both finish top 24. Hey, thank you Oh, you want to do saying good ends. Oh Rudy will go go go bear Rudy go bird go bear soccer a blue Well, y'all get y'all ass who? Somebody I'm missing You got the ball tomorrow Mary you got Wagner walk with. You got Jamal Murray. You got Wagner, Wagner, Jamal Murray can make it for the first time in his life. Okay.

We can mix them. We got to cover, like you said, the Wagner, we got to cover them up. We got to cover them up. We can throw in there. But will they be playing well enough to feel... And we don't care about playing well enough. We don't matter, right? See, that's the problem.

We're calling an all-star game that's rewarded to all-stars and one group they don't have enough all-star players playing at an all-star level. So you get rewarded worthy of making it. But that ain't why I had that conversation. We should just talk about the game. Okay then let's talk about the game. Because it means something to make it. No man but they gonna put it how they put it. Okay let's talk about the game. Let's just say they do it how No, man, but they're going to put it how they put it. Okay, let's talk about the game. So let's just say they do it how they do it. Let's just say now you got U.S.

We're getting away from the conversation. Them versus them. Giannis is like, line it up. He's that shit. What's up? Okay, line it up because he's worthy. The team he's going to be on is worthy. What do you mean?

He's saying we'll beat y'all. But it means something. That's what he said. He said line it up. Okay, let's line is worthy. It is me. He's saying we'll beat y'all but it means something Yeah, right what he said? Let's line it up line it up. No beat y'all you're gonna beat us when Since they've made the all-stars game. There's only one European that actually plays hard That's Giannis the guy who wants to line it up Can you can someone tell him what yokes looks like in the all-star game? Oh, can you tell us what? at the

Him what they're gonna look like Say tell us what let's go look like when he played marketing look like when he put there's only one European that actually takes all starstar weekends here. The Europeans been playing so bad they don't even mention them when they say these guys are not playing hard. It's only the Americans that playing hard but if you look up those stats we got a guy who's a three-time MVP, triple double guy who fucking averages six and three in the all-star game. It's an impressive six and three It's an impressive In a all-star game and you were telling us that this should be a matchup. Yeah

Yeah, and Yana says it You facts how they play now if we go off of what? Same way what makes them not playing that cuz they're gonna play together Yeah, just like they do overseas when we with our people to understand pass pass pass Don't you just chuck up shot? You'll get just tired of just coming down watching y'all shoot. So look if we own the same team We all know how to play Cut and move and we got them playing deep On a player going to play to you always say someone's gonna play together your opinion. No, it's not your opinion basketball No, it's not your no. It's European basketball. No, I don't give a fuck. This is not a game

This is an all-Star game. Why haven't they taken a series yet? Because it's not their style of play. So that's why. So it's going to be their style when they play together. Yes, and they compete for something. What are they competing for? What are they competing for?

To beat the USA. What do you mean? It don't count. Yes, it do. I don't care. Everything counts when we win competition. Look, you may not think I'm keeping score, but I'm always keeping score. Can you give me this?

It's an All-Star game. Give me this. It's still an All-Star game. It's still a win or loss. It's still a win or loss when they've been playing for the last fucking six hundred years. So don't it matter? So don't it matter when's the losses? Not this game.

Oh, no, don't. Did it count for you? Did it count? It counted every time we lined up. Not this game. It counted every time we lined up. So it counted when Yolkish played last year and every time we line up When Yonkers play last year in every time you get who can drink the water the fastest like not this game Like you know, I won it's your opinion. But the fact is have they taken it serious It's a winner loss when they've been on it. They're gonna be the metric when he changed the format

He don't give a fuck about them playing hard or not. It's good line it up now Acre all-star games Yonkers average is 6.5 rebounds, 4.3 assists. Say it again. 6.5 rebounds, 4.3 assists. How many minutes? He's averaging 16 minutes per game. How many minutes? 16 minutes per game. He issued it 67% from the field though, 40% from the field.

You say how many minutes? 16 minutes per game in those eight career All-Star games. Like a quarter and a in a in a Two-minute quarter like fourth a quarter and a third. I'm a just young how much you want them to do in that I'm not just young is how much you are 16 minutes come on John is also played in a career For no reason man 25 a rebounds three assists. That's what he averages. That's what he averages. He said that again

25 points a rebounds three assists. That's what he averages. That's what he averages. He said that again 25 points a rebounds three and how many with this he's playing 22 minutes per game. You understand the coupon? He's having 25 points a rebounds 2.8 and how many MVPs he has one two two the other one has three They're two different guys. They're two euros. Yeah one's playing hard to euros There's two of them it ain't gonna matter though. One's playing hard. Yeah, there's two of them. It's not gonna matter. It ain't gonna matter, because they're gonna blow them out.

Can you give me Luca? Give me. Yannick, Joker, Luca, and Shea on the same team. Give me Luca. Give me Luca. So Luca, Luca, more impressive than Joker, but not Yannick's. Averaging seven points, five point forces,

two point six rebounds, five career all-star games, 23 minutes per game. Oh, he playing more than that. He's facilitating. Why are we wasting our time with a bunch of people who don't even actually play hard or take it serious? Oh my God. There's only one European that takes it serious. Do you think they would play hard if it was an international team with a chance to support America?

You answer the question for me. I don't need American players to play hard. What is your incentive though? Josiah, name me the American players that he's saying it's been a very mediocre There's 20 he said it's 20 guys and then the six Europeans don't play hard. So tell me which American players play hard Jane and Brown Tatum I know he does

LeBron James, we can go, you want to go Dame? Had a 50 point lead with Dame? Keep going, keep going. You want to go? Keep going, keep going. I got six, you ain't got, you got one. No, we got six and six. LeBron 22, six and six in 20.

Keep going, Tatum. That's 12. Are you just going to say everybody plays hard? Tatum, 19, four. Does everybody play hard? Keep going, no, he gonna name him. Again. Who reading his stats? Who says are you just gonna say everybody plays on him 19 for He's going no, he gonna name him again reading a step. Come on What's the stopper Not an enjoyable game. We're not for playing hard Well, I mean, yeah, but these guys, so I know you're saying your opinion.

So the best stat is playing hard. So I don't need to play. I don't want your I can ask you a question. Oh, make these the guys that he's naming all these guys trying to go get MVP. Yep. That don't mean they brought it up. I didn't for that night. I just shooting the ball.

Hey, I'm going for what? What do you need? Jen Brown? You said they're not playing hard. No, why are we changing the format? It's because they don't play hard for the last four years. You say man, they got these guys trying to get MVP is what I'm saying. Why did Larry Bird go in the locker room and say, hey

guys, can we play hard this year? We got in the brown 21 and six. He's at 21 and five crew. I'm making it shit up. Everyone we've named so far is average over 20. You can look. You have three times MVP. That's average in six and this includes the nasty format for I'm making a shit up everyone we've named so far is average over 20. You can look VP that's average in six and this includes the nasty format for some of these guys with these these dudes trying to go get MVP

Because the six euros don't play hard that's what I know for a fact So will these international players play hard with the opportunity to thwart America? He's saying to... No, no, no. I need you to understand the rationale. The people who are averaging 20 in the game are not playing hard and he has an excuse for the people who are averaging 6 and 7. You're moving the goalpost for the whole conversation. The whole conversation is about them five against this five and you're talking about Rotations and who's playing hard. I don't want to give the fuck about that We are gonna line up and play hard when we play up against y'all. So we're about some other shit You have you heard about the wrong shit what I'm saying we good with how we play

But they have we're going we're going we are going to Have it either Say something behind that they play hard it either Why don't y'all say something behind that? The Americans don't play hard either What is your comeback? They played harder than them We're playing harder than you So now we're playing hard If we're not playing hard enough

You're not playing hard enough Everybody don't want to watch this shit no more Because nobody's playing hard enough Do You're not playing hard enough. Everybody don't want to watch this shit no more because nobody's playing hard enough. Do you want to go to another European? If your guys are better than us, who wants to lead the whole pack by playing a little bit harder so we have to follow suit? If we're averaging 20 and you're averaging what, six? Six and seven.

There's always one guy that's going hard. He's trying to get MVP. But Yannis cooking. Let's give Yannis his dough. Seven? Right? Yannis just plays hard all the time. It's Yannis.

He plays hard all the time. I'm pretty sure Yonis Hey, look, you see the person who says yeah, I like this the one who plays hard. Let me see when your kids are So you think he's saying I want to do this cuz he plays hard or he he actually thinks we can beat you Dude it's an all-star game. That's what we do, we don't got no answers. It's an all-star game. It's formally clear that you got a guy that's saying line it up, it's going to be entertaining 100% because we'll beat them. He's going to be entertaining.

Him. It's an all-star game. So the five guys that's with him, the four guys that's with him are not entertaining basketball or NBA? On their team. On their team. Or they're not individually entertaining? Yes, on their team, yeah.

So all five of them together wouldn't be entertaining? Not in this format. Oh my lord. It's still an All-Star game. They're not playing for nothing. We know where we're at right now, but like Giannis Grafik pointed out, you got Steph, Katie, LeBron, Geyser

on the tail in their career. They're likely not being in the league in the next five years. Who won the game last year? What's game the? Doll sorry, it was four different teams who won it Not the NBA. Huh? I honestly don't know. I didn't watch was the Shaxe team. I I was acting right. I mean you should know you had most of those shot guys now if we want to give some type of example

Charles Barkley picked all six euros on his team he said he wants to go international he don't want an Americans so he had on his team Yanis Shay, Jokic, Sangoon, Victor on his team. He had Ed Cascau and he had Townes. He had all of them. They got they ass whooped. Cause they didn't play hard. Remember, you remember, LeBron didn't play, right?

That's that team, you know, you had them cause you won the All--star remember you won the money A way to feel like you're winning, bro. You've already got cooked. We were talking about one thing Chuck had six zeros which means sir there's six of them on one team not one of their motherfuckers decided they wanted to play hard together. It's a new day it's 2025 going on 2026. Did did did Wimby not and this is the bad part about didn't win be not tell these motherfuckers Hey, let's go out there and play hard. Let's go out there and play hard. Let's not go there They're all on the same team. They wasn't spread out. It was all Europeans on one team. He told them

I want to let's play hard to win these French no good. We let's win He's stretching it and there was only one player out. He's fine, man If you want an example this is the first example. We're talking about these five versus these five. It's the first example. All of them are on the same team. Out of how many players? One two three four five six seven eight out of eight players. Six of them were international. Seven if you count towns. The world is bigger than your world. Seven if you count even. Seven! If you count towns! The world is bigger than Europe. Wait, hold on. Seven, if you count towns. If you count towns, because the report...

The Dominican legend. Seven out of the eight. I know black. Seven out of the eight. The only one who was not a European was Donovan Mitchell. So this is the first example of Euros on one team. Are we not? Am I saying something wrong here?

Yeah. There's seven. You need three more, and the seven that was over there showed no effort in this game besides Wimby. What about the other side? Did they show effort? Say yes. They won.

Say yes. They won. They showed effort. They won. Do you remember? So if you don't show effort and you win, you could literally just be like they won right

They won right as long as you win right? Was that not European technically was that not European versus Americans? Well We asked the chat should the NBA have a USA first world all-star game 77 70% of the chat thinks they should have a USA first world all-star game 77 70% of the chat thinks they should have a USA first of everything with the chest 70% I'm just community don't but we have to check wins in a USA first the world all-star game Is it obvious 64% of the chest says USA wouldn't that be good for American spirit? Though good just to see us dominate some some internationals scared of the smoke

though, Gil, just to see us dominate some internationals. Scared of the smoke. Everybody ducking the smoke. But every year, every four years, I get it. Stop ducking the smoke, man. But really, my next question, though, and this is in all sincerity. You got guys like KD, Steph, LeBron, all kind of getting on their way out.

We're seeing an emergence and explosion of international players. Do we think we're close at some point to this actually being a viable format? Next five, 10 years, perhaps? No. players do we think we're close at some point to this actually being a viable format next five ten years perhaps no and no the reason I I say no is because the present it's it's two positions that we're seeing these guys fill up right so it's the power forward in the center spot where that's where they're dominating. If you actually listen to the team, he said he only had three guards.

Everybody else was centers and power forwards. So for the most part, that's where the stagnant is. It's the big man. It's the international big that's coming over dominating. But you do have some dominant guards on Inlu. You have a few, but you're talking about putting teams together. The Dorter Chamber. So we're gonna have to wait to see if eight or nine actually creep in too. The Tom's and Twins between the two.

What does positionless mean? Or voting that... I ain't saying voting. I'm just saying. It's about voting. Can you tell me what positionless is? Did you just put Luthor on this thing? The Dorter Chamber, can you show some respect?

Did you? For defensive purposes. Yeah, yeah. Might as well, shit, you'll make it. Shit, if you need a guard, he'll make it. Can we say that one of the Tom's Twins is a few years away, at least, of being a viable option, representing the beautiful nation of Jamaica?

That's what I'm saying. So think about who, for this to happen, who's not making a team You're having you're having guys right now that's averaging double doubles 28 and 11 is getting snubbed So now take eight of them out. Yes, take them out. What are you gonna? What are you taking them out? You're taking eight of them think about what the game is think about what I'm saying Right now there's players. I guess snub average in double doubles hide like they're leading the league in sis shit like that yes now since they're already snubbed you got eight more you

got to trim off right trip trim off eight more now to fill that up with a bunch of players that's not even on this radar even up getting snubbed What does the game look like? The elite there's no we leave the evening is gone You're the elite the best of the best the best that can fill these slots Literally, what are we talking about? What is there anything that the league can do to make us care about the all-star game? Yeah, you like east verse west dude. Are you saying go USA verse the world? What are we talking about man? Is there anything that the league can do to make us care about the All-Star game? Yes, do this!

You saying go back East versus West? Do this! You saying go USA versus the world? What do you mean? You gotta pick a side at this point? Like we've been saying from the get, me and Brandon saying the same, it's gonna make it competitive. We're talking about one. Because now you're not just going up against your peers, you're representing something.

And it's a game that used to be just fun and all we hear is like, like man they might run y'all out the gym and it's gonna look nasty. They might not still care because they say it's all star. It's just fun and games. It is what it is. But Yannis is like yo, line it up. Line it up. We with it. What's up? Well, we will see if Adam Silver actually goes through with the USA vs the world format. Not. Alright, well I'm just letting you know. So then we will see that he didn't do it. Watch him.

I'm going to try. I just want people to hear the names. Like, if we did it this year, right? We got 10, right? So I'm going to go. We're going to say, all right, Tatum, LeBron, Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis, Steph, Anthony Edwards, Evan Mobley. Donovan Mitchell right from the way the records were right. That'd be our 10.

Which means James Harden gets cut. Jalen Brown gets cut Jalen Williams gets cut Jaren Jackson gets cut Tyler hero gets cut. There is Garland gets cut, Jaylen Williams gets cut, Jaren Jackson gets cut, Tyler Hero gets cut, Davis Garland gets cut. K, cut in there? No, you put him on the thing. And then you're gonna have to replace, you're gonna have to put four Europeans that's better than them.

Okay. four Europeans that's better than them. Okay. While keeping them. Cause I know if Luca was, what year was it then played this shit? Cause I know if Luca was playing, Landon B was playing. That did not make sense at all to me. None of that shit made sense.

What didn't make sense? None of it. Like what were you talking about? Okay, literally. There's 24 all stars. There's 24 all stars. There's 12 and 12. Okay? Take those old guys off.

So let's take these old guys off because we're talking about years down the line. No, we're talking about next year. Because you want to do next year because they're not going to do next year. He didn't say next year. He said potentially a potential 2026 option. Then I asked the question five to ten years down the road

He asked the question Five to ten down You say five to ten? Five to ten down the road So not next year But he said Five to ten Hey how about take your opinion out of it

So let's just say Give him the question Let's just say KD KD, LeBron and Steph right? These three You gotta replace them with the other guys that he mentioned That's on the James Hart He gotta replace them with the other guys that he mentioned, that's on the James, he got to replace these guys.

The Euro guys, they still young, they gonna be there. So you talking about lining this up, we're using these guys just cause they there right now, that's why they saying it now, they using them guys, you got to use LeBron, KD and Steph. 35, 38, 30, they all old. It was for next year. So, they gonna get mopped against the other five.

The five up, five up, they mopped. So then the people you just named, we wanna see what that, we wanna see that lineup. We wanna see the second against the second. Whoever we pick on the euros against them. We line it up because we know what's going to happen with the first five. I have no idea what you're talking about. We know what's going to happen with the first first five.

First, you say D and M against Giannis and them. We know what's going to happen. You say second five were our euros. You say you didn't understand. I thought you didn't understand that, you know, that you got to take eight players off and then you got to add don't care about taking nobody off y'all deal with that how y'all deal with it bro we don't care we got our team you get your team we don't care who's not on y'all get snubbed every year anyway so what it wasn't a problem when Norman Powell got

snubbed and LeBron took his place it didn't even play you didn't you didn't make an argument there about being snubbed I mean the front of that please LeBron could have gave Norman Powell his spot. He's late. He took his place Whatever No, it's other way around. It don't matter. You know, you're cooked either way. No, you're cooked either way Take his Norman Powell was supposed to play an all-star. He's supposed to be an all-star take his place He's supposed to he's supposed to be in All-Star. Take his place means.

He's supposed to be at All-Star. Who says who? He was supposed to replace LeBron. Who was injured? They said it. It was reported. It was reported. Who was Norman Powell's going to replace?

Norman Powell was a snub if LeBron would have pulled out earlier. Don't say it out loud. Joe, you're supposed to text him that. Ain't not listening to him. He's going to change it like the day. They come out and say he was next up on.

No, they did not. Okay. All right. Well, let's keep this guy. I hate using potentials and it said that those are fake fucking words, man. You should use that potential. You use hypotheticals all the time.

You use potential in this in effect of draft the young players. You see it all the time. You use potential in the fact of drafting young players. You say it all the time. What are you talking about? Potential. You use potential when you talk about young players coming into the league. Draft the young players. No, I said they draft off of potential.

So don't say you don't talk about potential. I said they potentially draft them. No, that's a fact. Don't say you don't talk about potential, though. You talk about it all the time. I said what they do is a fact. Norman Powell isn't being next wasn't a fact. You said potentially no he would have been up next. That's a fake. He was up next. Analyst. That's fake. He

was up next. Well let's keep this thing moving. Don't tell you I just told you. No what did you say? I said potential option. Don't know what the NBA is going to go ask Adam Silver if he ever gives me an NBA credential to any event. Just like Trey Young was a potential option. Everybody who got snubbed, potential option. All right, well let's keep this thing going. I was a potential option. So I was not. Keep this thing moving.

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avenge their worst playoff loss in franchise history to take the series back home with a chance to close it out. Let's take a look at the highlights. This was the most closely contested game of the series with the lead never getting larger than 11 points for either team. The Wolves got some huge games out of role players. Jadah McDaniels dropped 22 points on 9-15 shooting. Dante DiVincenzo had 21 points going 7-11 from the floor and Shea's cousin Nikhil Alexander Walker had a huge game dropping a playoff career high 23 points on 9-15 shooting. The Minnesota Stars were not as successful at scoring in this one with Ann dropping 16 points going 5 for 13 from the field to go along with 6 assists and Julius Randall struggled scoring 5 points on 1 for 7 shooting in

28 minutes of action. That's a low scoring game in Randall's career. He's played a total of 29 career playoff games. On the Thunder side SGA had a career playoff high 40 points. He shot 13 for 30 from the field but found a way to get to the line 14 times, sinking 12 of those attempts. He joined Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook as the only players to score at least 40 points in a playoff game in a Thunder uniform.

Jalen Williams dropped a playoff career high of his own with 34 points. He was 13 for 24 from the field, six for nine from three, and led all fourth quarter scores in the game with 14 in the period. Thunder led by eight points at half with Minnesota cutting that to five by the end of the

third quarter. The fourth quarter was back and forth with both teams making runs and the Timberwolves cutting the lead to three in the final 30 seconds but the Thunder continued to foul to prevent the Wolves from getting a three up and were able to protect the lead for the rest of the game. And now the Thunder taking a 3-1 lead in the series. Definitely expected more from the Wolves dynamic duo. I think they had just six points combined in the first half of the game. After game one when Ant shot five for 13 from the field, he said he needed to get some more shots up.

Game two he had 26 shots. Game three he had 17 shots. Game four, back to 13 shots thunder threw a bunch of defensive looks at him Cannot handle thunder wolves had one last chance tie the game a point three seconds remaining Jaylen, William stole the inbound pass Thunder preserved the victory three one lead in the series So they're back home for game five on

Wednesday this tweet from statmuse really summarizes how odd it was for the Thunder to pull off this win let's take a look. Timberwolves led the game in rebounds assists points off turnovers fast break points points in the paint second chance points free throw attempts free throw makes field goal percentage three-point percentage and free throw percentage but they still lost. Now I bring it to this couch. How the hell did the Thunder win this game?

So how many, so what they led the game in as well, look how many turnovers they had. Yeah. Was it 22? So, you want to talk about what they led in. They had 20 at the end of the fourth. Gotta go talk about the negative shit. 21 turnovers to the Thunder 14.

That's how they lost. How many offensive rebounds did the Thunder have? I think it was 19 each. So, that's how you lost. Offensive rebounds, turnovers. 19 apiece on the offensive side. Yeah, the conversions. The points balanced turnovers. 19 apiece on the offensive side. Yeah, the conversions. The points off turnovers.

Points off turnovers, yeah. I think what? 25. Let's go back to the first clip, though, please. Thunder gave up 25 points on their turnovers. The Wolves got, I think, 22 points off there. Three. That's three points.

Can y'all run this clip? Stop. Stop it, please. Let me ask y'all a question. Guards have a hard time guarding this man. Elite defenders have a hard time guarding this man, right? Guys that move their feet much better than Rudy Gobert. Much better.

Play it. Stop. Like, that's a wide open shot before you get that's a wide open shot for this guy man. So at no point that he has your seven foot two center right here on the island. Did nobody think to run at him like try to get the ball out of his hand at no point. And this is a consistent theme with this. That's why they're down 3-1. That's why the game is over. The series is over the next game, right? Because it's the lack of attention to detail and sense of urgency to win. Right? You came out, you had a hell of a game three and You're at home and you come out and look like it's game 42 of the regular season

Yeah This man can say is a hell of a one-on-one basketball player he's proven that for the last three fourth years He's proven He is one of the better elite scores and they consistently let this man play one-on-one. Watching him. Watching him dance and dance on your teammate. No one does anything. Bucket, run down court.

If he comes within the paint, then you guys wanna, but let's try something different if we wanna have a chance. But obviously they can't and they incapable of making adjustments as a team as a coaching staff as whatever is is not being done and this is alarming man just consistently switch picking roles switch picking roles then manipulate who they want to get in the pick and roll and y'all just watch and

play one-on-one well I just gotta apologize to my pops first. He told me all this shit would happen. And stand his ass. Your pops told you. Yeah, he said, he said, he said, man, say he's gonna play better. He's going to get his files and they're gonna knock the air out of them in the first half. I said nothing

Not a chance Pop pop use a smart man Pops watching basketball I knew hey, I knew I can give them cheer for one of us He knows what he's buying. He must be a Lakers fan. He's going to win for the McCann family. He must be a Lakers fan. He's going to get paid. He's got to say congratulations to one of us, God damn.

Sean, is your pops a Lakers fan? No, Nicks. What do you think I'm a New York? Luca fan? No. Get down with real niggas. What you talking about? Austin Reeves? Hey, James, you better tell them. James!

SGA, 40 point playoff career high. I said one earlier in game two, we had the 38. Damn near triple. Playing one on one, bro. Four free throws, game three. 14, game two. That game wasn't out of control in the third game. Don't try to spend it like he was,

he got a bunch of free throws. You know my thoughts about getting to the free throw line up. I Don't try to spend it like he was. He got a bunch of free throws. You know my thoughts about getting to the free throw line up. I don't believe in that foul merchant. It's not a real 14. It was a 9. But shit, a 7. He got fouled.

He shot 7 free throws in the last 30 seconds that he was fouling. Points are points. 12 seconds. 15 seconds. But he was 13 for 30 from the field though, so I'm just saying just make sure you know Foul baited in it's not all 14 7 of them was there was fouling him and he's shooting free throws It's only foul baiting if they call the foul, so Sound like people's problem with the refs not with Shay, but that's personal opinions aside

Sound like people's problem with the refs, not with Shay, but that's personal opinions aside. 40 piece, either way, playoff career high, like I said, joins KD and Westbrook. Only Thunder to accomplish that feat in doing so. Oklahoma City playing, they wanted it more, man. Like they came out and hit them boys in the mouth, man, early, and they didn't know what to do. Lou Dort, as you wanted to put him on,

you were his world team. The Dortcher Chamber. He was motherfucking bothering the hell out of Anthony Edwards. Defensive stalwart. And they did a good job of crowding Anthony Edwards, putting two on him when they have two. But they got relentless pick pick up points, right? He's picking Anthony Elvis up at half court, bruh.

Yeah. Through a bunch of different looks at Ant. Yeah, he get into spots, but they make him play in the crowd and he's choosing to pass it out for threes and different things like that rather than four shots, so He could have took 30 shots you should have I accept him for who he is I can't have a guy in the pain a lot But he's a lot of them threes Walker God and I'm a dudes got like came from his 27 points per game though in his playoff career

Who is Antman? You can't critique him for who he wants to be. If he wanna be this guy who can say that, I did all I did and did all I can. And you can't tell a man how much effort he put into it and all of that. But it looked different. It looked different from the last game to this game.

First quarter, last game, first quarter, this game. Taking one shot. I don't contribute that to the defense at all. 12 for 7, kick from the field. He get to that rim whenever he wants. When he decided to get to the rim, he got there. No problem. And it was almost like we was talking.

I was like, the homie was like, he's gonna wait till the second half to come out and go hard, go hard. And he did till the second half to come out and go hard. And he did, the third quarter, like he started out strong. And then he just evaporated. But you could see he get to the rim when he wanted to. It's about him deciding that. I think he's trying to play that Jimmy Butler.

How many shots he take? Yeah. Jimmy Butler basketball, he's trying to play the right way. And I think him and Ju. So in 13 shots, game one 26 shots attempts in game two, 17 in game three. It was 12 for 17 from the field in game three in that blowout. Him and Ju this round can't play that way together, so. Ju's ran a one for seven.

Yeah, they can't. I wasn't expecting it, so I don't know what to think right now. Well guess what? Shit. Hey bro. Here it comes. On three. It's crazy.

Cabo also a nice destination. Absolutely. That out to the highest evil. All inclusive. I guess what he was telling young boy on the bench, yeah you know in this 40 point, we're down by 40 points if we do that, we're going to the highest evil. All inclusive. I guess what he was telling young boy on the bench, yeah you know, in this 40 point, we're down by 40 points if we do a couple things, you know, we still lose by a twit. I guess that shit really means something to him, is all I'm saying, because the one that

she was laughing at that said that didn't take it serious, took it serious. You also heard J-Dub say he lost by 60 points in college, so it could always be worse. Sounding like he didn't take it serious. He came in, took it serious. So I guess they demeanor what we seeing don't matter, because when the game start, them motherfuckers put, what did you say? When you said, put boot to the ass, belt to the,

what is it? Absolutely, foot to the ass. They put foot to the ass. So the ones that's not serious, or don't seem serious, they put foot to ass. So I guess, I guess we must have missed something in that three hour game when he was trying to explain what was going on.

Cause you lose by 40, then you drop 40 on motherfucker. That's crazy. The heavy pick. 40, 10 and nine. because you lose by 40 then you drop 40 on motherfucker. That's crazy. The MVP. 40, 10 and nine to be exact. 40, 10 and nine. A near triple double. Yeah, this shit over, they gonna beat you. He over there smiling like, yeah, so look, check this out. So what happened was like, we was, you know,

they didn't fuck, they didn't next here. It's their birthday. You know, we had 40, these niggas tear, it's they birthday. You know, we had 40, you know, if we hit some shots, some early turnovers, we'd still lost by 30. Girl, man. Yeah, these niggas just trash. You know what I mean? I mean, he could have said, you know, I'm gonna give him.

Was that the Canadian way of saying it? You know what I mean? I'm gonna give him 40 and 10 and nine. Hey, who hungry? That's what he did. You know, ain't nothing open after the game. Where we going? Room service? She's Minnesota. Room service open. Yeah. And the ones that said, you know, this ain't over yet. You know, we still got something to do. Yeah, exit meeting.

Still got exit meeting. Hey man, you can rah-rah like the Mamba. The Mamba's only the Mamba. It's only one of them. You can have Mamba mentality. You don't know what that is. This shit over. Oh, that rah-rah shit.

You leave that to him. You gotta have your own mentality. This shit might look like game one Oklahoma City Memphis. When you look at Jalen Williams SGA, combined 74 points, 54 of the 95 shot attempts for OKC were from either SGA or Jalen Williams. Yeah. Man, look. That's what you demand from your two best players.

I'm trying to tell y'all, man. It's like a suburban kid, right? Suburban kid who got a lot of money, who's like a suburban kid, right? Suburban kid who got a lot of money, who's been fucking with everybody, right? He don't know no better. He don't take shit serious, right? He don't know this, that's real danger. That's these kids today, right?

They lose by 40, they don't care because they coming back the next day whooping ass. There's no star that's dropped something on and is like, oh shit, this is real. There was one last player. But what I'm saying, there's nobody that they fear in the league, there's nobody who, there's no Allen Iverson, there's no Kobe

that's sitting here on demon time. 68 games a season. So, hey, we played them before. We played a lot of them before. We won 68 games playing them. So we know, that was a fluke. So we see them again. We just, yeah, so we not worried.

They did, I believe, split their regular season series, but this is a new Thunder team. But I was saying, there's no Michael Jordan Jordan with 72 Bulls where they coming in and No, they they are them They are they are that they are the Bulls They are Golden State when it was walking through everybody you put them on that level now you win 68 games. You're dominant Like do they have that when you think about the mentality and a talent? No, but the record says otherwise

So talk talent, but it's so they lose by 40. I did that what what's scaring these kids? They were 70 games next year, but what's scaring them? They showed you they're not afraid of nobody That was a fluke you are flukes. We are real. We lost by 40. What's up? Deep bench. They might go after the record. Trying to get 73. They're young enough to do it. So let's talk about something else in this game. There's a lot of discussion online about how the game ended with OKC in Minnesota trading free throws since the Wolves were down three and the Thunder wanted to prevent them from attempting a game tying three which they successfully did. It burned

them earlier in the playoffs when they lost to Nuggets obviously with that approach. It worked this time. So here's one tweet from the Legend Master Test said Adam Silver please ban the intentional foul down three. It's not good for the game raising a whole generation of cowards Huh, you got four against then there was a lot of discourse about that after the game that they should ban the intentional foul why It's part of strategy it is a strategy strategy. It is a strategy that hasn't, that wasn't utilized before the teams lost because they didn't utilize this strategy. You give a team an opportunity to make a three and you're, and they hit that motherfucking you don't event, trust me, foul. Trust me. Foul.

If we foul the Pistons in 04, they don't win a fucking championship. Chonson don't hit that three from half court and we fucking beat them. So, Foul! God damn it. Yeah, I, yeah, foul. Yeah, absolutely. I'm, yes. If we foul, they don't, win a champ, I yeah, foul. Yeah, absolutely. I'm yes. And we file. They don't win a champ. This is so it's part of strategy, man.

It is a it is a hacker shack. It is you whatever you sport intentional walks or you want them to take out intentional walking baseball too then? Like, so this is, it's part of strategy, you can't, you, like. We're not allowed to intentionally walk in youth baseball, so I just tell the pitcher, just throw four bad pitches.

Yes, so. Not your best stuff. Yeah. But, you're absolutely correct. So you want to take away the own sidekick in football, which they tried to but it's still it's a special situation It's a it's a you don't going into the game that we're gonna do it It's not every game. It's it's when the shit matters. It's when it is so But we see fans complain a lot about that side of it because they ain't never played and nothing that mattered

That's but this is what the game was down They ain't never played in nothing that mattered. But this is what the game boils down to. Shit. They ain't never played in nothing that mattered. Instead of the fucking desk. I'm not a fan of, like, that foul. Because I mean, I've lost to, you know, and, you know, we're up three, and they got the ball, and Coach says, lost two, you know, and you know, we're up three, they got the ball, and coach says, Eddie, you know, we're going to foul, put them at the free throw line. I even ask the question, hey, but what if they make one miss a free throw?

I'm one of those. We was up four. Foul. What is that foul up for? It was up four, and we fouled. How much time was left in the game, if you remember? It was bad, coach. I don't remember. Okay. and we foul. How much time was left in the game if you remember? This is bad, Coach.

I don't remember. Okay. But they made the one free throw, missed it, kicked it out, they hit the ball out, Pargo hits a three-tide again. This is when I made the jump roll on the Bulls in the playoffs. That was our strategy going there. I'm not a big fan of it because what ends up happening is it's, it puts too much pressure on you to still be good at the free throw line.

So if I foul, they make both, they foul me. Now I have to go bake both. To then foul them for them. So now I'm still in competitive mode to still make free throws. Well, if they shoot the three, at the end of the day, if you miss it, that's game over. Because now I go up four or five. If you make it, nothing.

It's overtime. I mean, it's tie game. I still might have time to go finish the game. A non-pressure shot, because we go to overtime. Now, what Shanenim did yesterday, they could've technically lost that game. Because what ends up happening is you're down three, you foul.

They make both free throws. They foul you. You missed one. Now that three that you were scared of, now that becomes a game winner. Yeah, but you put the ball in your best player hand, you expect him to do what he's fucking always done Go to the line and make free throws, but that's the thing you're supposed to now

Now the shot isn't to go to overtime or tie it the shot is not a win the game but they So like even when he threw the ball out of bounds if they put six seconds left in this is what it was 0.6 and you get a three off that's like that this shot right this possession can actually win this game not tie the game so it's it's it's all about just confidence at the time and just let me ask you a question you don't watch this sport you didn't watch this sport a lot of us is watching sport for a long time have y'all seen before as many meltdowns in the Blake game and the playoffs as in this year? In one singular playoff run throughout the game that you've watched, been a part of,

watched before you got there and after you got done playing. In one singular playoffs have you seen this many meltdowns? I mean shit, the Pacers been responded to for a bunch of them. I'm just... And it's the, it's the people that's playing, man. They dumb. Like they are dumb basketball players. You watch the games on playback.

You were, how many, how many times you like, fuck what you doing? Why would you do? Right why is you doing? Wow how many times are you? Doing at the TV. Oh my god, right you yelling at the guy. I'm screaming coming out of the game They know sub at the he's still running up and down the flow Why so how many times are you questioning what dudes are doing in real live game minutes? So how many times are you questioning what dudes are doing in real live game minutes?

And it's a consistent theme. It ain't just one. It's a consistent theme. Pissing me off. I see a bad habit and I've never seen it so consistent. Hart does it a lot and I'm surprised that he does it so much for being a winner. Especially, you're one in college, you're considered a winning guy. Jalen Williams, I expect that shit from him. At the end of the game, on the free throw line,

when the free throw's made and the team is pressing what's the one thing you do not supposed to do first? Oh Grab the ball as The guy taking the ball out grab it and rush out of bound that not nigga to count starts Where your people ain't even in position? So one thing you do first, huh? First thing you do first thing you do is let the ball bounce and make the referee The ref usually a ref would give it to you or he might get fun Hey, come on, start counting you grab it Yeah, but the soon as the ball bounce they heard you have and take it out and then they not in trying to run with it

I'm like, how do you keep doing that? Jaylee Williams yesterday the ball about he hit the bitch out of bounds like oh get it I'm like, oh now the count starts bro. Now the count counts five. Yo man even touch the ball yet He ain't even catch the ball by the time he got his three seconds left. Now you got a throw in now Yeah, that's just rush I'm like y'all don't even let y'all team get set up in a vision wonder why y'all be having so many fake trap like It's already taught ball bounce. Let it bounce get above the free throw line Get above the free throw line so you have more space to run start

Yeah, you sitting here under the basket doing one of these and shit. And he taking the ball. He taking the ball out underneath the basket. That scatterbrain shit. They get scatterbrain. He right up underneath the basket trying to take the ball. Yeah, I'm right on the basket.

I'm thinking about it. I'm like, yo, I'm. Those are the things I'd be looking at. I'd just be like, like, yes, man. What the fuck do y'all be doing in practice? They don't practice. It's the shit that you work on in that month we was having training camp. A lot of shit we started covering, but they don't practice to work on these things.

It's just these little things like even out of, remember I called the out of bounds. I said, oh, this is gonna fail. Because it was one of those things where, yeah, Lou Dort run, right? Dead, man. We're not that dumb. I don't know how they should have trapped Shay. And then Shay pops up.

And I said, yo, you want to catch it back there. You don't want to catch it because you're going to catch it right by the half court. So now you can't go back half court. Now if they trap your ass there, who do you give the ball to? Right? And that's exactly what happened. Right?

Damien almost got trapped because the only person that's open is Luke Dort. If Luke Dort's man came in double, Luke Dort's in the back court. You can't pass it to him. You're trapped right here. But they wasn't smart enough to recognize that. I don't understand why they don't adjust defensively. Doing what they do against Ant Edwards. Okay, see, Timberwolves refuse to do

the same thing against Shea. And the one thing that I hate is I hate when Ant, McDaniels, Alexander get stuck on screens. They hit the screen and they get stuck on screens. They hit the screen and they get stuck and then they switch. One thing that OKC don't do and Indiana don't do, they get the fuck over the screen and they refuse to get screened,

which fucks up your whole offense because now there's no pick and roll. Y'all just keep doing this, keep doing this. New York get hit, they stop on screens. Minnesota, they get lazy, they don't rotate. It's just, to me, it's more coaching. He's chasing him over the top. He keeps the big off of it, dog.

He there for support. Bro, he's not there to switch. This is the thing, like, that Rudy go, listen up. Hey, hear me out, y'all. The big fella, the four time defensive player of the year that y'all got, he there for support. Help. The big fella before time defensive player the year that y'all got he there for support help He he can't go on

Y'all can't guard him cuz good. He gonna get by y'all You need him back there. You don't need him on the ball get him off the ball immediately Soon as you see him out there run him off get off Rudy Somebody run at it somebody somebody take the rim while we got a rotation somebody stay at the rim somebody run at him I don't care you got four other guys somebody run at him I think they get confused sometimes with that trophy I think the trophy tells a coach that these niggas is Superman yes no he he is defensive player of the year in this area absolutely this area he does very well the color the color part of the court above this area. Absolutely. This area he does very well.

The color, the color part of the court. Above that, that's not his area. He do not want to be out there. That's just me up there. He don't want to be out there. Right, I mean that's me. He's just getting his, it's the work, this is, give him an arenas up top.

Listen. That's why they keep pulling out, oh this a nigga weak back here. His area of expertise is in this area. Hey, another reference. Go buy you a fish, take it out the water and see what the fuck happened. Hey, it's gonna stop flapping. I can tell you that.

You motherfucking ain't comfortable. He got you. It will struggle. Yeah, motherfuckin' ain't comfortable. You know, he got you, hey. Mm-hmm. It will struggle. Just, hey, hold your breath now. Go. Keep going. That's how motherfuckin' Rudy feel out there trying to go our goddamn shape. Listen, man, he's a rim protector. He's not an on the ball defender.

It never has been, never will be. A seven foot guy on the other team got him dancing. Chet got him out there motherfucker, dancing out there bitch, hey. Behind the back, he mother go up, he ain't got a chance to hell guard and shake. So y'all just gonna continuously do it. And then down two, we lose by two. And our two guys didn't show up.

We're not gonna say no if. We know that they did not. Did not perform at the level. That was not a hypothetical. Our two best players did not show up for game four. Dynamic duels, they've been going at certain points. And we lost by two. So out of all of the scenarios we can muster up, losing by two,

your best player only takes one shot in the first quarter when he had 12 points in the first quarter of the last game. So we just look at the scenario like what the hell, where did we fuck up? Where did we make mistakes? How can we get better from this? We got game five coming up. We look at this film, we say how did they beat us? How did they beat us?

Because they didn't beat us by 20 or 30, like we beat them by 40. They didn't blitz us. So we're not embarrassed. We're like, well, where did we lose this game at? Yeah. One for seven. Julius Randall. Five for 13 for anything.

One for 10 right now. Damn, and even if you're talking about two, not one. Both of them. The one guy is supposed to shoot 25. Cool. One guy. The other guy is supposed to get me to double double. He could get me to shoot 25. Cool.

One guy. The other guy's supposed to get me to double double. He could get me to double double. Well, the last time they was in this building that they going back to, the one guy that just took seven shots had six points. And I can tell you right now, role players typically play well at home.

So Alexander Walker, he ain't gonna, you, him, he ain't go play that way in Oklahoma. So he made up for whatever points that Julien. He's not gonna play that well in Oklahoma. He ain't been playing well at all. That rookie dude who they just threw out there that ain't played at all. I like him though.

It's gonna be so, listen, that sound good. It's gonna be so loud in there, man. He might fuck up, but he's gonna be out there. Fuck it. He play hard. He gonna play hard? Put his energy out there all day. He gonna make Madonna that shit.

He ain't gonna be out there like he just, he gonna play hard. I dig it, but it's gonna be a little different environment. Close out game. Them boys, listen, they plan to get to the finals. They ain't got a chance. Hey, them, that city plan to get back to the finals. I don't give a what adjustments Minnesota try to make.

They ain't got a chance when your best player say, I did enough, I thought I did what I was supposed to do. The fact that they shot 51% from the field, 44% from the three. Yeah, it was a good game. Loss. It was a good game. I don't know how you get better

when your bench goes 12 for 20 from the three. They can't shoot no better. Everybody play good stuff for the two guys that are supposed to do the average. They ain't even do the averages. Well, I mean, shit, the bench made up for it. Yeah, the bench had been struggling earlier in the series. What I'm saying is, if you give Anthony Edwards the 23

that Alexander Walker gave, I mean. Who took the shots in the last five minutes of the game from Minnesota? Did Ant take any shots? That's the question. Like what was he doing down the stretch? Trying to figure out not to lose, I'm assuming. Well, let's talk a little bit more about SGA.

MVP had a 40 piece, went 12 for 14 from the free throw line. And as he was at the line, Minnesota fans chanted free throw merchant at him a Doris Burke even mentioned on the broadcast saying this is why he's called the free throw merchant. We hear Doris. RJ quickly corrected her and then she changed her tune but after you earn one of his trips. When did you say that? During the game. What part of the game? You know?

Well, I was on playback with Mr. B. Oh, just, okay. We were doing our own game. Is that asking anybody? Second quarter. Second quarter? But I said it previously in the series. Here was SGA's response to being called that after the game.

But what do you think of the free throw merchant, whatever you want to call label, accusation? Like the way I see it is like, the fans are going to do whatever they can do to help their team win and knock me off my game being the head of the snake of our team like and that's their that's their job that's what they're that's what creates home court advantage that's what creates a fan base that's what creates energy in the building and they want the Timberwolves to win they don't want the Uncle St. Donovan to win so I expect nothing else and it's in terms of the label I don't care I never cared I said this before like I've shot more free goes in a season that I did this season like I think because we're on the

top everyone's radar it's a little bit more noticeable and now people care about it but um I kind of see it as a compliment and I kind of see it as a compliment. So he sees it as a compliment. We had SGA's Pops Vaughn here in the arena earlier this season, he also talked about it as well. And again, the whole free throw merchant thing is- So what does he trade? Hmm?

So I'm, since they call him a merchant, right? Yes. So merchant a company, a person or a company involved in wholesale trade Especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade So what does he trade? He call huh call what is he trading he's taking he's taking free those he's giving them ass whooping giving them ass whooping. Okay.

The barter system. The barter system. So this is, like I just want the like, the people like they're using phrases and shit so sometimes you gotta, like I got my gear on right? So I got my gear on real quick. So um. The belief is, the belief is he's trading flops for calls. A person or a particular aptitude for a particular activity or viewpoint.

He has an aptitude for getting to the free throw line. Related to merchant trade or commerce. The announcers or whoever media, they just come up with stuff to sound different than everybody else. Just like this is a, what is the word they use, the phrase? This is not an unguardable, what is it? I hate this.

Positionless basketball. Oh, okay. Like when they just say shit and then people run with it. But I think that's more, the positionless thing is just used for, we're taking the 15 best or the 10 best or the five best. No they've been saying we had our two guards. No they said the game is positionless. Right? We're playing

positionless basketball. I don't know if you know positionless basketball means all five players on both sides can play all five positions. Yeah, like putting LeBron that point guard. Yeah. Put Curry at center. See how that goes. Yeah, the center. Can he guard center? Can he play center?

No. The center has to guard Steph Curry now. No, no, no, no, no, no. Can he play the center? Can we post him up against Yokel? He don't have to post up. He's Steph Curry playing the center position. He don't have to be down there.

That's what- He just put a C next to his left? He don't have to be down there. Why not? Just put a C next to it? Because he can dribble the ball, that center position. He don't have to be down there. That's what he don't have to be down there. Why not just put a little ball that center position. You can dribble and shoot threes. So this center's can't even play center position. Well, you put Steph at center. He's not going to be playing through.

You can't even get Rudy to basketball and say play center. But you can get LeBron a ball and say play point guard. Yes. So what's the difference? Positionless basketball means what? If I say this is a topless environment, I think you will go in there hoping every girl in there

is topless, right? So when you say positionless basketball, you would think all 400 players can play positionless. Until you go in there and you see a girl with a shirt on, right? Not four players. You see a girl with a shirt on, right? You go in there, oh this is topless, but then there's five girls in there with a shirt on. not everybody's topless. Not a topless ball. Yeah, because not everybody's topless. Because it's by choice, right? Because if I want to take it off, I can. That's the difference. Or a nude beach, if you will.

You can't say positionless if there's only four fucking positionless players in the league. I can if I can play every position. You can! Not the game! Huh? The game. You're saying the game is positionless. You mean we can play anybody? Clay Thompson can't play even point guard. We can put anybody in the line.

Let alone power forward, let alone center. So why was the youth of Iraq is playing small? I'm sorry, let me just make it simple. Why do people play small? Let me just play, let me just make it simple for you. What is small ball? Small ball. Is it positionless?

Small ball. Is it small? No, it's called small ball. So we're putting somebody in position they don't belong. It's called small ball. It's called small ball. I'm asking. Yeah, we're just throwing light sized guys at you. You're throwing light sized guys at me. Am I throwing someone who doesn't belong in a position that he does not play? If we're playing small ball. It's called small ball. You're not answering my question. We did. It's called small ball. We're giving you the name of what it's called. That's why you named it Small Ball. So if we play Small, that means Draymond from the four is gonna play the five.

He can play five, yes. Can he, he can play the five. Is he being treated like a five man? What? Positionless basketball is really just this. It's just this simple. It's bigger guys being able to do little shit, right? Is Giannis be able to bring the ball up the court and make passes is

Yokeage being able to dribble and make passes It's a power forward or small forward like a LeBron James or a Magic Johnson being able to play the point guard or Play the small fourth or be the center in our day sounds like this and listen me in our day. We had a guy by the name of Lamar Odom Kevin Garnett Sometimes Kenyan can guard all five. It's usually just a few fucking players in the league But you're talking about saying hey PJ Tucker we want you to play the five man Yeah, that's not positionally. That's just dumb. So why they doing it?

dumb Dumb but you promote it but you promote and go for you like you love it who you When? When? Oh, God. When did that happen? Oh, God. I've always said that's a fake. It's fake. It's just somebody just making up shit to sound smart. Position is just bigger guys knowing how to do guard shit.

It's never the other way around. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's just... What's up? You know what I'm saying? There's a few guys that are just that fucking gifted, that can make it run through one through five, and you pretend everybody else can do it, just to...

So we will get back to this discussion in the Western Conference Finals. Like Draymond. In just a moment. He can play five, he can play four, he can guard the one, two, three, he can do whatever the fuck he wants. It's Draymond Green.

So we'll get back to... Can't Loonie do that? Or is he just a fucking five man? We'll get back to this discussion in Western Conference Finals in a moment, but we got something that's gonna unite this side of the couches, that you guys are both Knicks fans. Woo!

Got a special guest making his first appearance in the arena. You've seen him on late night TV as one half of the legendary Deezus and Mero crew on Showtime and Viceland. Also one of the best followers on Twitter. You may have even seen him in my film, Memes and Nightmares, now streaming on Hulu.

He's one of the co-hosts of 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony, also has his own YouTube channel, according to The Kid, featuring his Victory Light podcast as well. Die Hard Knicks fan from the Bronx, that's gonna go crazy if they tie up the series with the win over the Pacers tonight a steam writer producer comedian and man of the people the kid Mero Welcome to Gills arena

On the East Coast right now you got your finger on the pulse of everything going on in the Knicks world. So you were watching game one with us on playback, obviously that didn't go the way you wanted it to go. Game two didn't go your way either, but the Knicks stole one from the Pacers on the road and game three on the positive side, completing yet another 20 point comeback

to make it a two one series. After the big bodega, Carl Anthony Towns dropped 20 in the fourth quarter. What was your reaction to the Knicks' comeback after Kat turned up on Dominique's Mother's Day? Bro, listen, first of all, you know what I'm saying? First of all, you know what I'm saying? Happy Mother's Day.

You know what I'm saying? It's at all my mommies out there. I know, Black. Be late it. Happy Be Late It. Yo, cut that shit out, yo. Yo, listen, Kat started playing like a big man, bro. He started going to the rack. He started playing aggressive, bro.

He was imbibed by the spirit of a million Dominicans on the Dyckman, bro. And that's what he needs to do. You know what I'm saying? I heard Brandon was talking about, you know what I mean, the paces to take foot off the gas. Nah, man. Cat started playing like cat. You know what I'm saying? The Knicks turnt it up. That's what they got to do. You know, I mean the paces took their foot off the gas. Nah, man cats are playing like cat You know I'm saying the next turn turn that up. That's what they got to do You know I'm saying if we do that we're good. You know saying that's what I'm not even tripping no more, bro I was worried about going down to oh and I was like, wait a minute. Hold on I'm sitting on the couch watching game the last game and I'm just like yo We're down by a lot coming out of half. Let's see what they do. And you know I'm saying they do what they had to do

Y'all agree. I'm keeping calm. I'm not going to spaz. You know what I mean? Cause everybody's like, yo, Mary, you jinxed it. Y'all bro, you spaz. Last time game one, niggas hit that shot. They wasn't supposed to hit that shot. They wasn't supposed to hit that shot. That was the luckiest shot of the whole playoffs. If we being real, y'all all Hoopers, man. I'm not a, I'm not a pro Hooper. Y'all all pro Hoopers. That being off the back in the air for 20 minutes Bro, just falling through the net bro. That's the luckiest. That's some LA fitness run. You playing against your uncle bullshit, bro

That was a lucky-ass shot So we have two Knicks fans here on this couch y'all drew a mirror Y'all think the Knicks gonna take it tonight tie the series up Two Knicks fans Tied the series up. Two Knicks fans. This nigga is wild. I mean, he said it's three of us, but on the couch it's just two of us. Trial membership.

He's been a member a little bit longer than me, so you know, you got a big dog. Come on, fam. Let me hear it. Nixon 6, man. Nixon 6. Let's go! That's what I'm talking about. You know how we do, man. It's Nixon 6, man.

Like he said, we figured it out. I think the same thing. I was watching the same game. I'm mad at Tibb still. I'm never going to forgive him because we're supposed to be up 2-1. And I'm never going to talk that down. But we got to deal with what we're dealing with.

I think that Brunson need to come back with the same type of understanding That cat is gonna take us home in the end. Yeah, y'all gonna win four straight. Yeah, Wow No way for York y'all gonna win four straight. We got a win We gotta win four straight hey bro, you don't got no choice We gotta win for straight hey, bro, you don't got no choice Again, I just I stated Listen, I had to eat words the other day because I was like if they get down 20 in Indiana I didn't think they was gonna come back. I said those are my words. I Still don't trust the fucking nicks. They got down 20 once again

Like I've been saying this every game they played in the playoffs that damn we've been down double figures in every single game About us if we can go run out dog. It's exhausting. It's fun. Yeah, go run out Relying on the comeback. No, No, no, no keep relying on the comeback He goes to the game. I can't talk to a girl. You need to go talk to me Now you call it people you forgot name motherfucking Larry Shaman you up there digging him. Yeah, I didn't like that Why you love a game play, right? They cardio terrible cuz you're not practicing right man daily almost out there Was like damn I can't believe he threw me out here to call it now you have to make sure you had a goddamn

Jersey on me Which I know how to give it up I know tips he put he wouldn't play nine dudes in a baseball game You know saying so like you know what time it is with him like, you know You just gotta you gotta you know, you gotta be get ready be be ready with your numbers cool You feel me like, you know, get your cardio in Yeah, they're they championship basketball This is the this is the game to go a we go we lose this game it is fucking

We lose this game, it is fucking over. This is gonna put an all impression on them boys and that man and that Tiff, wrong as shit, man. Man. Hey, Tiff, dead wrong. Thank you for being ready. Throwing the boys out there like, thank you for being ready. My ass, stay your face, man.

Hey, Tiff, don't do that shit again, dog. Man, Maybride got it in three. Expanding rotation, man. Look, look at that, man. Expanding rotation. Because the vet would have told him, hey, Tiff, don't do that shit again, man. Say what now?

They gotta expand, you gotta expand the rotation, man. You can't just have seven dudes up there, man. Say what now? They got expanded rotation, man. You can't just have seven dudes up there, man, and just rotate the same two dudes in and out. Nah, yeah, you can. You got it, like I said. Yeah, you can. I mean, you can, but then, you know, like, came on stage, like, you know, they got cardio, but they don't look

like they drinking down the top of the video up there. They broke against Shamitz. They broke against Shamitz. Yeah, the only shot he made was the first game of round one. I'm scared. He made one last game, so he shut me the fuck up for a minute or two. But you put a guy in who ain't made a bucket since game

one against Detroit. And that's who I supposed to rely on on the bitch? Yeah. I know Tim's here. You, what's here? You to rely on on a bitch. Yeah. You. You. What's your. Somebody. Somebody.

You know what you call it. Yeah. Like no, no. Yeah. Yeah. Is that is that Maubury? Give you a goddamn jersey to ball. Well, Frazier.

Go ahead. There's no everybody said no. J.R. Sit down. No. Mary Melo, all of them over here. He got no source on down there. He start seeing numbers, 73. He got 12 fucking people.

Hey, hey, 33, hey. To call Pat Ewan out there, motherfucker. Hey. Hey, hey, hey, Pat Ewan, Pat come over with the Jamaica Oak effect, bro. He stay ready. But I mean, listen, if you're aicks fan, if you're the Knicks, you're down 2-1,

but you've played great basketball. Game one, you beat the shit out of them, and everything that can possibly go wrong from like the five-minute mark on went wrong. I mean, there was no way. I mean, the basketball gods was really letting you know, this was final destination, nigga. Your ass was supposed to lose.

Because I mean, even think about it. You remember the inbounds to Josh Hart, and he almost slipped? That should have been his field, go the other way. When Brunson got stuck in the baseline, and he was trying to hit it off the dude And it went and they end up getting it somehow that that should have been a turnover, right? So there was a man. It's how about that one boy? Well, how about the pin down with Mitchell Robinson was in it why was Mitchell Robinson in the game

Who can who can you blame that shit on but I mean by the but what I'm saying We need for y'all trying to make a buck. No, I'm just talking about when it got to that if you look at all the things that was happening in the game Like you y'all should have they should have lost that game by fucking 10 at that point because they was just doing they was just on Some dumb shit. So that game you let it get away from you game two you played great. You just mismanaged in the fourth quarter You just mismanaged the game in the fourth quarter. Oh, well, thank you. You didn't have your star player. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

So you let that get away from you. You end up coming back, winning this game. So you're down 2-1. I would hope that they can say, yeah, we can win this game. This is good. Just stay focused. Don't do no dumb shit. None of these stupid fouls are getting foul trouble.

I got him in seven. Can I say this, though? Murl, tell me if you agree with me with this or not. Nope. Nick's 3-0. Right now, you managed to gain the way you saying it. What I'm saying? He don't get, Neesmith don't get them shots.

If we manage to gain the way we supposed to, he get hot, two shots he hit, shut that water off, he don't get them shots. And see he hit, how many, seven in the fourth? Six? 20 points in the fourth quarter. Come on bro, he hit, shut that water off, he don't get them shots. You see he hit, how many, seven in the fourth? Six? Come on bro, he hit the first two, we cutting that off, cool. That's game one, we managed that game to win by one.

Or two. All right, game two. You don't got Cat in the fourth quarter until three minutes left. You got Mitchell Robinson in the game who's not giving you points, but you're using him because the defensive aspect. So you used the cat, wasn't playing defense,

Mitchell was playing, he was doing good. We wasn't getting no points. We lost by how many points again? Just brought off that court without Brunson, and then you went down like eight or nine. We was up 14, right? No, no, you went down like nine or 10 with Brunson out of the game.

I thought we went up when Brunson went up. And then they took Cat out the game. So when they took Cat out of the game. I thought we went up when Brunson went up. We all went down. And then they took Cat out the game. So when they took Cat out of the game, that's when they came back. But game three. No, I'm talking about the beginning of the quarter, I think. Game three, we look at game three, we say,

okay, what happened? Exactly what we needed to happen. We played ball. Cat bounced back and said, hey, Tiv, listen, don't do that no more. Dominican mother. Don't do that no more, bro. That's it. Don't do that no more. Dominican mother. Don't do that no more, bro. That's it.

That was it. That was it, bro. It was like. It wasn't like. Y'all still down 2-1. Yes, we were. But that's 3-0. I mean, that's managing the game.

We are 3-0. In the three minutes, so it was 81-81. Brunson didn't start that quarter. And by the 9-minute mark, that first time out, they were down 94, 85. So they're down nine, and then Brunson went in for Cat. And Cat didn't come back in until the three-minute mark. Man.

20 points. You got to have your best players on the floor and crunch time, bro. Period. I still give it 2-1, because if you win the first game, it probably gives you enough energy to win game two and then being

Desperate in game three. I think they win that home game So I'll still say it probably would have been to one next but what is it to one? Y'all just tried to sell me a motherfucking beach in Nebraska. Like, god damn, like y'all was just, y'all motherfucking New York, some real New York city on the corner shit, you trying to sell me this? Like, yeah, like nigga, that's hot.

Damn. K-mo, you can build a beach anywhere, look at Dubai, that shit all made me. Right, yeah. I'll build a beach anywhere. Look at Dubai. That shit all made me First of all real you got to understand Kmart and gil are both salty cuz they teams are in Cancun Denver Denver you pick Denver What do you mean? Tall I don't My team is a Utah Jazz

So he didn't pick no thing no, no, we are in big teams can you know you talk to me we are in big team No, we are in big teams. Can you know you talk to me? We are in big team Anyway, my other point being don't take the tape job New York New York New York is the only team playing right now Yeah, yeah, you're all the bias in the air. They don't feel that way. They go ahead at energy because they want us to lose In New York Yankee hats all day be I don't know. Hey with me are big teams. I'm with me. Y'all are off-peak teams, I know that. With me, I have the Lakers. And my team is the only one left. I didn't have an East Coast team, so I took this advantage to sign up for my membership on the East. Right?

I got to have a West and East. That's only fair. And this year, these two look nice. I just played a card in the mail. Right? These two look nice, so I'm going with these two. So, it's us. All of y'all.

This is man. The Nicks got this, bro. Lucky for me, I'm on both sides of this, so I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two.

So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm going to go with these two. So, I'm I'm going with these two. So it's us. All of y'all. Lucky for me, I'm on both sides of this, so whoever wins, I win. Listen, let's keep it a beam, bro. As basketball fans, man, the business of basketball, nobody wants to see motherfucking Indiana in the finals, dog. Let's keep it a buck, bro. No shots at Indiana.

Shout out to y'all. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to Michael Jackson. Motherfucking Indiana and the final let's keep it a book bro. Like I know shots in the end I'm trying out the y'all you know, I'm saying chapter Michael Jackson Shout out to everything out of Indiana. Shout out to the Hoosiers, bro My gifts my gifts Mike Epps, you know saying everybody, you know saying something yet But man, no don't know nobody want to see no motherfucking pieces in the final, bro If you don't live in the state of Indiana, so let's call Indiana a little bit Merrill Tyrese Albert Here your next with the Reggie Miller choke sign after hit

game time bug Come back at the end of regulation to game one. So we know Trey young was the most hated man in New York by Nick's fan But where does Halle rank on your most hated Nick's opponent to list? Bro, he's not even the air He's not even there, dog. He's trying to be there real bad, bro. He hit that choke shit, and then he put it in the Richie Miller, like, yo, we're going to go get matching belly button tattoos, champ. After this, like, that shit out of here, bro.

That shit don't rock in New York, man. You a clump. Trey Young at least went and violated the logo and did all this other stuff, you know what I'm saying? And he's over there twerking for fouls, no doubt. Halle, your jumpers looks crazy Your pops is holding you down babysit you in the arena cut it out, bro Cut it out that motherfucker he got on a bus he went straight to the hotel after that boy

That motherfucker was not walking down Broadway talking about yo, Indiana Fuck out of here. They're not going we're not going we not going like Benny said Belly button tattoo belly button I forgot about red Reggie has a belly button tattoo. Get him out of here. He got the belly button little son thing. So who's number two? You got a son.

Is it Trey Young? Son of a son. No. Is Trey Young number two hate behind Reggie? It's Trey Young just because it's a meme. It's not even a real, you know what I mean? It's just like, you ask any New Yorker on 7th ad, yo, how you feel about Trey? Fuck Trey Young. That's because of the praise. That shit just 7th ad, yo, how you feel about Tre?

Fuck Tre Young. That's just like a praise. That's just became a, like, how you feel? Yo, New Yorkers just be like, yo, suck my dick to everybody. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's just another, it's fuck Tre Young. You know what I'm saying? It's just a thing that motherfucker say.

If your bus is late. That's a sentence. Yeah. So wait, wait. So is he worse than Reggie did? Is he in front of Reggie? Yeah, he shot dice on the floor. Absolutely.

He hit his point, too. He did hit his point with the imaginary dice. Yeah, he shot dice on the garden floor. Absolutely. That's crazy. You know what I'm saying? But like, damn. Yeah.

When you become a Freyze? That's why. That's why he can never go into no triple digit number streets in New York. Yeah. Yeah. He can go Trey Young. Know it, eh?

Fuck Trey Young. Now, look at him now. Yeah, fuck Trey Young, man. He better. He can come on the Puerto Rican Day Parade and try to blend in and hide in the crowd and shit. Until he sees you. Because he got the little fluffy girl.

Until we see her. OK. OK. What if he gets traded to y'all? Man then that's that nice a whole different stuff But that'd be the flip side of it right there now he's nice So y'all brought up Reggie Miller. 4.56. Still most hated man in New York.

Color commentator for TMT during these Easter Conference finals. How do you feel about Reggie Miller doing commentary for this series knowing that he is a Pacers fan? Bro, it is lame as fuck. Like, out of all the people that y'all could have found, y'all need to... Yo, Chris Webber, what is he doing? Where he at? Like J. LaRose, bro?

Anybody, bro. Like literally anybody. Reggie Miller, like, dog, even his voice. Like if you want to ruin the next game for me, have Richard Jefferson and Reggie Miller on the court. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. It fucks it all up right there.

It fuck my whole shit up, bro. Give me Clyde and Mike. Get everybody else the fuck out of here, bro. We're not trying to hear y'all. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm listening to y'all. But in fact, shameless plug, I'd rather listen to y'all. I'd rather watch y'all on playback.

OK. You just got to put it on the Telemundo, you know what I'm saying, than put it on the Coach Katcha, you know what I'm saying? It sound a whole lot different, man. I'm trying to tell you. So the opposite of haters' love, of course, which Knicks fans certainly have for Jalen Brunson,

the king of New York, can you describe what Jalen Brunson means to Knicks fans? Bro, let me tell you what Jalen Brunson means to not only Knicks fans, to New York City sports fans. Because Aaron Judge right now is batting like 5,000. You know what I'm saying? And all we talking about is J. Lebrunson. You feel me?

So he is holding that, he got the city on his back right now, you know what I mean? The Knicks ain't seen success in how long? You know what I'm saying? So, you know, as opposed to the Yankees, who's like, you know, historically, you know, successful franchise, Knicks been dog water for the longest.

So you got a motherfucking six foot two, bro, built like a strong stud, you know what I mean? Like out there pooping, bro. You feel me? He built my shirt at the end of the line. He got the hair like a strong stud. He hit you in the shoulder, nigger. In the head.

Back you up. Body you up. And he abandoned it. No, no. Built like me. I like your strong Bro you gotta stop man, you gotta stop that's violence throw you in New York That's violence. Throw you in New York. That's my dog. That's my dog. That's the captain. That's the captain. Built like a strong.

And they made me look at it differently now because it's hair and you know. You feel me? Come on. Yes. So Nick, you gotta give me young ma. Young and big all over again. Ooh. Ooh. I'll do it all over again. Ooh! Ooh! Ha ha ha! Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, I'm sweating. Nick's down 2-1. Obviously, you want to avoid going down 3-1 in this series.

What's the formula for the Knicks to win game four? This is for everybody. But Maril, we'll start with you. Cat got to play big. Jalen Bruster got to play his game. You know what I'm saying? Cat got to cut it out with the stupid fouls. I would start Mitch and Cat.

You know what I'm saying? At the same time. See what happens in the first five, six minutes, if it ain't working. Switch it up. That's the thing. If Timbs finally gets like, not even like change your whole approach, but just like slightly tweak your approach to utilize the fucking personnel that you do have, dog, and we can't lose.

You know what I'm saying? Like that's it and that's all, man. Fam, if you get Miles turning the fuck out of here, shut him down, shut Halle down, those two guys, bro, make Nemo Hart beat you, bro. Make Nesmith beat you, dog. You know what I mean? That's what you got to do. Yep. Cat got to go to the fucking rim and he got to start dunking on motherfuckers. He got to

start screaming shit and cursing in Spanish. You know what I'm saying? Doing all that. That's what he gotta do. Hell yeah. He gotta get one tech in the first half. You know what I mean? Just one.

And we got it. How about for our Knicks fan, shot a long time Knicks fan. You said fan. It's fans. Splitting it up. Shot a long time Knicks fan. Trial membership. Trial membership it up. It's been a long time since I've been a fan. Gil, trial membership. Trial membership, yeah.

Tim's on the way. Yep. How long is the fucking membership, Gil? 30 days. It's only three days. No, no, no. He's already in. It's 30 days.

He's already in. No, you in, bro. You in. You in, bro. It's the 10th day. After the 10th day, it's like, you know how you sign up for a free trial? Oh, I'm automatically a member. You just get the bill in the mail?

Hell no. You about to get that bill in the mail. Because Pacers gave me 30 days. I didn't know y'all gave me 10. See, he's trying to play both sides, man. He's on both sides. I just want to see what has the best, you know what I mean? Just, okay.

Come on, dog. I know this is not the dog, nigga, but you can't hatch. You know what I mean? Okay? You know what I mean? Man, Kat goes show up, but I think it's Bridges. It's Bridges and McBride. Those are the two, and they need to really, really show up, but I think it's Bridges. It's Bridges and McBride. Those are the two that need to really, really show it

because they the other two shot makers that need to hit shots. Need to take shots, hit shots. And then you always got OG who's going to be whoever the hell Siakam allow him to be. And that's going to be the difference right there. It's like, you're going to allow him to just keep shutting you down

or you're going to step up to the plate and take us over the top. So those three guys to me, those are the X factors. Yeah. Red, this is managing a game in a sense where you have to be able to recognize when Pat is in La La Land. There it goes. There's no way she should have four points

going into the fourth, in a game like that. So there has to be some type of, hey, how many points you got today? Four, hey, run this for him. Because sometimes when even when Brunson goes out, Kat get lost and they playing offense without him because they happy to do stuff. So Kat has to be engaged early,

knowing that if he's engaged early, he gonna still be playing well later. Dumb files, like, I mean, the files that just, these random motherfuckers just moving through and you wanna do some dumb shit like that for no reason. You wanna sit here and just play arm wrestle with someone. Right, you cut that shit out. Tips, change how you sub.

What you're doing is you're letting Brunson play all the way into the end of the third, then he sits the first three minutes. Maybe you don't wanna do that now, right? Think about this. If you guys are up or have some type of league, sit them at the end of the third Start them both your starters in at the beginning of fourth for the first three minutes

Maybe sub one out at the six minute mark like you figure it out right there Versus starting the game out without them and then that's where the lead is caught up like start taking advantage of a second unit Because you know they're gonna sub out Holly at the end. So, he ain't gonna start off. Maybe that's when you need to rev your engine up. Right, you gotta play the chess game right here. Yeah, I hear you. Can you give me a thumbs up? Nah, nah, nah, don't do that, nah, don't do that.

Can you give me a thumbs up? Hey man, you know what? Hey man, what the fuck? Yo, Nick's jersey. I wanna wear your Nick's jersey. I will bring it to you. No, but, nah, don't do that, don't do that. Can you give me a thumbs up? Hey man, you know what? Hey man, where the fuck your Knicks jersey? I wanna wear your Knicks jersey. I will bring it in to you. No, but, yeah. We're in game four.

No, they need to make adjustments. They need to make some adjustments in the way he subs. I agree with that wholeheartedly. Yeah, they just, whatever they've been doing to get down 20, 20 games, don't do that. I don't know that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. I don't know what else it is,

but whatever you've been doing to get down in every game, let's try something different. Cause you've been every game, and you've been down double figure, 10, 14, 20, 25, 23, 17. Dude, the fuck is going on here? They got iPads. Are they comfortable?

Are we comfortable with knowing that we can come back? See that's the problem. That's bad basketball. It is but I'm saying is that the thing? Because you know it is a thing. Because you can't sustain that shit dog. And you tire yourself out on the comeback. So the third quarters are when they do it, they come back in the third quarters.

Trying to get 16 wins doing that shit bro. Listen, good luck. But that's what i'm saying it's like that's the thing i'm listening i'm throwing on a number three kenny martin jersey for the game tonight by the way you know i'm saying i'm gonna find it i got it somewhere i'm throwing on for good luck but some of them out there somewhere but what they gotta do man is like i said manage the game you know what I mean like there's there's certain things that they're just like you getting down 20 is not just like you said it's not sustainable you know what I'm saying if you're up 10 keep your foot on the gas bro play defense keep scoring don't

trade threes for twos don't start chucking all them heat check fucking logo threes the cat was shooting bro get them out of it get to the hoop draw contact draw fouls like Gil was saying, those stupid walk through fouls that you be doing, them fucking Matador weird fouls. Don't do that bro, just get the fuck out the way. Or if you're going to foul a dude, really foul him bro. How we end up getting down 20 is because of the bad shot selection. You hit, you shoot a three, miss, they score, shoot another three, they score.

Now we've just wiped away a six-point deficit just going to bash shots they come down and get an extra rebound the second chance point now turn to hit another three like that's how the shit happens it's all collective and it's a game of runs but the Knicks I think they know they can make runs that's can can bring them back but like you said it's dumb basketball when you play like that. And I think they play like that all year. They've been playing like that where it's like, oh, we had to come back and win in the end

because we got Brunson, but it's like, we can't keep doing that all the time because that ain't gonna be easy. They let y'all ass off the hook. Everybody been in foul trouble. That was nasty. They should have beaten about 40 that year. Let their ass off the hook.

Or short. I stopped really watching. Me too. It was old, but I wasn't really looking at the way they came back. And I look up and the mother fuckers down three. I said, oh my God. I watched that third quarter and it was different. So I was like, I ain't going to give up on them yet because Indiana is not a very disciplined team. They very young. They do the little stupid shit. And then when Miles turn to the side, he wanna be lazy, they really look bad. So I think Nick's always got a chance to come back. They ain't that disciplined.

Like if Cat like, I'm telling Cat, listen, if your toe ain't on the three point line, if it ain't right there, don't shoot it. Cause I'm pretty sure your percentage is zero at the logo. At the half court, I'm pretty sure you're shooting zero, dog. You're just doing that shit because it's fun. There's no way. Just to do it.

He's just doing it like I haven't seen him make one backflip yet. My god. He just do it. Just to do it. Yo, dog, listen. I'm 40 years old, fam. I've been watching basketball a long time.

I never played professionally. In any fucking league, I haven't rec league, nigga. Fucking school. If you shoot that fucking shot You are sitting down for the rest of the fucking game. Yes This ain't game time you ain't I ain't never seen you do one of these this shit right here corner three Yeah, that's short three corner three the one where you did this and shot it start looking that was right there that line That half course shit you think of you la mellow ball that ain't working, bro

You do you do at least three of those per game at the wrong time That half course shit you think of you, LaMelo ball, that ain't working, bro. You do at least three of those per game at the wrong time. And at that point you can't be looking at Tiv like, why you not playing me in the fourth when you doing shit like that. Now that's the difference maker. And I don't think that's the reason why, but that could be a reason that I'll sit your ass down, or you just shooting that shit, because you think you can you can and I'm not gonna say nothing to you. Like that's a Motherfucking nobody gonna go. Yeah, man, especially if you're not open. Yeah

Man two steps over half you just shooting that shit like man what so let's keep it moving Nick's fans historically Turned up, but we've seen them take it to another level this season celebrating on seventh Ave after every win in these playoffs Oh things even getting out of hand after you closed out the Celtic series in game six with fans Spotting a highly fan on the street throwing trash at him hurling insults. He had to be saved by the police We've even saw fans sitting on top of billboards I don't know how they got up there these were Caucasian Knicks fans but how they got up there but why have Knicks fans been acting so crazy during these playoffs or is this just normal? Yeah you know I'm glad that you made this

specification that they was Caucasian bro cuz they from the mountains of Caucasus that's why they was able to climb that high. You know what I'm saying? They used to climb the mountains. But yo, let me tell you, listen, we starving, bro. Knicks fans are starving for success, be for victory. You know what I'm saying? Like, as a Yankee fan, I'm not.

You know what I mean? We made the World Series last year, lost, don't matter. We'll be back there next year. But like with the Knicks, it's like bro for years for years before years before gambling was legal bro I think I told you this last time before gambling was legal I was calling a bookie being like yo y'all doing player props how many rebounds do you think Jackie Butler's gonna get over three and a half rebounds you know I'm saying like that shit is pathetic, bro. So we been in the state of mind forever. So now that we have some success, it's like, bro,

it's like the, I call it the Knicks Coke, bro. It's like, woo, like, yo. The Knicks Coke. That shit gets you like, yo, let's fucking go. Turn it up. I hope it ain't no motherfucking, Indiana ain't no goddamn fit, no. No, no.

No. Cause, hey, y'all better, hey, cause heaven forbid that shit three one, hey, dawg. We got a chance, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say,

I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say,

I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say,

I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, Because the way y'all been acting for sure Oh Sam Adam and where y'all been acting bro Y'all better win goddamn it because have to be a child don't boy Gonna be a lot of crime in the city. I'll be a person at the turn over the yellow cap I don't condone attacking other fans in the street, bro. You know what I'm saying? But the yellow cap can get it, though. The yellow cap can get it.

I don't condone violence in the street. I'm not going to say that on film, on camera, you know what I'm saying? But all I'm going to say is about New York City, man, if you scared, get a dog. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you scared, go to church. Because this is New York City. It's 7-5. If the garden is lit, you know what it is, man.

Woo! Hey, serious note. If the Knicks don't win, is this a successful season for y'all? Eddie. Mm-hmm. Gilbert. Gilbert. You asked me this last season in the playoffs when we lost Gilbert.

Tell him, welcome to it, welcome to it. Of course this is a success. Of course, we make an Eastern Conference final and you call it, you say it's a fail, come on. Come on. Come on. I gotta be honest. Why you ask me this? Why you ask me this? Last season you asked me this, it's like you want reaction from me reaction to get a sound bite or something i can i'm here to play basketball and that that is all man i'm here to play and that is all i'm going to do if we look at the next lose that listen if the next lose the season to me was still a success. We just build on, you know, keep on building on what we've already built, you know what

I'm saying? Which is like, last year, what was it? Second round, this year, making it to the Eastern Conference finals, perhaps, you know what I'm saying? Like, maybe the finals, you know what I mean? If you get, my thing is if it's a success, if you elevate where you was last year, you know what I mean? Whatever it is, if you get, my thing is if, it's a success if you elevate where you was last year. You know what I'm saying? If you get further than you did last year, it's a success.

Ultimately, you build, build, build towards a championship, you know what I mean? You're tweaking off season, you do what you gotta do. But I got confidence, bro. I'm confident as a motherfucker, man. All right, man. If Shastradamus picked the Knicks to win, the Knicks is gonna win,

because all of my teams win. All right, Mero, before we let you go- Talk to me! Anybody else in Tulum, Shadradam! Yeah! Before we let you go, you talked about Reggie Miller's belly button tattoo earlier. We have a photo of that, that we like to shoot.

Look at that shit. Look at that shit, bro. Oh, damn! That's pretty. That's crazy, gang. No other tats. No other tats, bro. That's crazy. That's crazy gang. No other tats. No other tats. That's the only tats.

Bro you laying down in the chair like this. Yo let me just get this right here though. Come on now. How do you start that? That's the first one. You in the belly with the coming up in it. Come on gang. What's the meaning of this tattoo?

Hey, come on. No, hey, fuck that. I hear all that shit. With the basic shirt on. Hey Reggie, what's the meaning of this tattoo? Hey. Don't go in! No, hey, fuck that. I hear all that shit. With the basic shorts on! With the basic shorts on! Yeah, but the fact that he chose to go there of all places. Yeah!

That's crazy! Reggie tough as fucking nails, fuck what y'all talking about. I didn't get my stomach done till lately when they started making numbing cream. So, and I had tattoos everywhere else but my stomach. So trust me, I hear y'all, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Him to sit there around his belly button. No. You know how sit to that area is. That's a three hour tattoo, check. You know what sensitive that area is? That's a three hour tattoo, champ! You know what I'm talking about? That's crazy! Yeah! That's intricate and detailed as fuck, man! Come on, a lot of small needles and lines, bro! Man, that man said if I had another belly button, I'd get another one! What? I'd get another one! I only got one! Bro! How he walk into a Mexican tattoo parlor on vacation and say, give me the Starbucks logo right my belly button,

dog. That's crazy work. Insane. Mayor, we appreciate you. Oh, no. Yeah, what you got? Trying to look at it up close, close. I knew he went there with Rodman.

That's the Rodman guy? That was on the Converse? The only two people. I was like, wait a minute. I never knew he had it. But I seen that shit somewhere before. Which freaky motherfucker out there got that? And then I looked at it, it's Rodman with the little star around.

So they must have went together. Damn. It was in Vegas. It was a Pelagio. Mero, we appreciate you pulling up to Gill's Arena. Presenting $100. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And make sure to subscribe to Mero's YouTube channel according to the kid. Check out Victory Light is podcast also 7 PM in Brooklyn

with Carmelo Anthony Mero. Appreciate you. Got to get you on the couch next time you in LA or we head back that way. Yeah, sir. Let's get it. All right. Hey, Lakers in five, baby.

Lakers in five, Mero. Let's go. Woo. All right, hey Lakers and baby Lakers in five I love the Lakers but Mix is in it right now Nick's in seven. We're the New York Knicks suck our New York. Whoa These niggas alone niggas will get over now, but appreciate you Merrill take care. We'll see you Yeah, thank y'all. All right. All right. Let's shift back to the Western Conference finals We got to talk a little Jalen Williams all defensive selection all-star all

NBA Every moment the only other player to do that this season He was impressive last night playoff career high 34 points in 39 minutes have 14 in the fourth quarter There was some speculation in the postseason as to whether he would be able to carry the torch as a second option But after what we saw last night, are you starting to trust Jaylin Williams as a legit second option behind SGA? He said a legit I mean he's a legit second option and SGA yeah Starting to trust it's starting to trust You've been had that trust with him in the second option.

I never said anything different. On a championship level too. Yeah, I thought he was going to have to up his play in the playoffs absolutely for him to have a chance to win. More than he has in a regular season absolutely. He he's been trending in that direction. He was an all-star this year for a reason so we expected him to Start trending in that that real number two role as playing on the long side and MVP, so The last night was no surprise He's very capable of that

shot it well Was confident in this approach The last night was no surprise It's very capable of that shot it well Was confident in this approach? Coming off the way the team played previous game Excellent bounce back So average of 23 six rebounds forces in this postseason or in the four games It's gonna be first the wolves in this conference finals Because you believe in we had obviously SGA's Pops here a couple months ago, said that was gonna be the key

to success for this Thunder squad. There was a lot of talk about him obviously being young and experienced, but from what he's shown this season being an all-star, all-NBA selection, now stepping up when his team needed him the most, 34 piece, him and SGA combined it for 74 points in that game. That's the real dynamic duo left in this postseason. Look, so you changed the question?

Ask your question. So another question. OK, so another, are they the most dynamic duo remaining in these playoffs? Joe, fuck, all of them. He had he had an answer. He had an answer prepared for the other question. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Well, this is guilty to present my underdog will always be ready. Not just wanted to see what he average in regular season to see if he was a plus guy in the playoffs and you know, just this just this round is but overall playoff is His scoring is down just a tad bit, which is fine. It's not like not like cat like six points, but um

Yeah down to look down one point. Yeah, he's probably probably the most consistent number two For somebody being that young. So I mean, your question, yes, this is probably the most dynamic duo that's still left. Not a lot of options. You got obviously Ant-Man, Julius Randall. Yeah. Just like Brunson Cat. Yeah.

So yeah, Bob. Yeah, I'll take these two there. Okay. I'll take these. Not a tough one. Yeah, so. Now you agree or disagree? What's the question? Yeah, cause you asked you agree or disagree?

What's the question? Yeah, because you asked two different ones. Most dynamic duo left in these playoffs. Do I agree? We asked a lot of questions on this show. There's not just one question that's for the entire episode of Gills Arena presented by 100 Dog Woo Woo. I don't agree.

I think Cat and Bronson are. But, you know, it's my take. It's always way off. And back to the previous question, do you believe that Jalen Brunson or Jalen Williams, a legit second option might ask you another question? On their team? Yeah. Who is the other option to be second? I'm saying a legit second option.

On their team? On their team. Or just period, in a league? Period. In a league. So I have a question for you. A weird question, but he's the only guy that's legit. That's why it's a question with a question mark.

Oh. I'll say yeah, I mean, okay, so. Well, if they were getting smacked right now. Yes, when you're thinking about the landscape of second options... So he wasn't legit in game three? And really, the real point is, did you guys ever doubt him as a second? Yes. No, not as a second option.

To help carry to a championship, yes, there was some doubt. There was doubt. Because of his age and, you know, just the maturity level of his game and you know the consistency that you would need for to be a second option in the NBA In the playoffs and you know, he's been consistent Offensively, you know, he's finding a way but defensively Yes, he's been a stud. And that's why these two are probably the best two because they're playing offense and defense.

And even if the offense has dropped, the defense has been steady and rock solid, unlike other teams that if one playing offense and not playing defense, if they're, you know what I mean? So, you know, yeah mean so you know yeah I think you know offensively and defensively you know I can say he's playing at a B. Okay. Give him a B if you had to grade him I say you know being young maybe A- but I give him a B. You said a stud I was thinking about Meryl saying that

Jalen Brunson built like a stud. Strong that was a strong stud. He's a strong stud. My favorite part of this particular episode. So we asked the chat, are SGN, JW the most dynamic duo left in these playoffs? 60% of the chat said yes, that they are. So let's move on to the Timber Wolf side of things. They got some really good contributions out of their role players in this one.

Nikhil Alexander Walker, Jada McDaniels,, Dante DiVincenzo combined for 66 points. However, their stars Ant-Man and Julius Randall combined for 21 points. Julius Randall again as a reminder, 5 points, 1 for 7 from the field. Tough contrast to the Thunder Stars, SJ and Jalen Williams who combined for 74 points. After the game, Ant was asked why he struggled, but pushed back on that idea. Let's take a listen. I don't look at it like I struggled or he struggled.

It just, they had a good game plan, making us get off the ball. Especially for me, man, it was super in the gaps. I made the right play all night. So I don't really look at it like I struggled. I didn't get enough shots to say I struggled. So that might be how you guys look at it, but yeah, I didn't get enough shots to say I struggled So that's my it might be how you guys look at it. But yeah, I'm just When you hear and say that so you brought this up earlier in the show, but when you hear it

Actually say that what's your reaction? That he's not thinking that the other team is making you do that so that you think that. Their strategy is to make you think that you're playing the right way so that your team doesn't have the advantage to win. Make Ant feel like he's getting his teammates involved. Hey, Lou, did you feel like he wanted to get the ball every time? Did it feel like it was a sense of urgency when he, like he was going to get 40 tonight, like he did the game before?

I didn't see that, so like I said, I'm going to let Ant be him. Because if you're going to get that answer, that just means like, we get swept, we get swept, we get swept, we lose, we lose. We did all we're supposed to do, you know, next season. It's what it is if that's the energy. And do you agree or disagree with Ant-Man's reaction to the game? The point that he didn't take enough shots to struggle, yes.

I agree with that statement in itself, yes. I said there was a lot of opportunities for him at the rim that I think he could have made some plays at the rim if he, but he chose to pass the ball in certain situations. He's having to work too hard on the ball. New daughter's an excellent on the ball defender. Let's see how well he move off the screens. Let's see how the list let's put in some different actions so he doesn't have to work so hard bringing the ball up the floor and let's please For the life of me, Minnesota

You run the same size pick and roll they moving screens they do this Let's stop the pick and roll thing where Anthony I was in because they're not letting him play basketball They're not gonna let him play especially Lou Dort is on they gonna make it as difficult as possible So and play basketball. They're not gonna let him play, especially Lou Dortez. They're gonna make it as difficult as possible. So he could be more aggressive, yes. Him saying they did certain things the way they were trying to play. I see that the way they were trying to guard. Yeah, but you being the man on the team and guys they need you to score in order for y'all to have a chance to win, you have to be more aggressive. You have to be more aggressive at that rim. And there was a situation, it was his mentality normally, situation he drove to the basket, I thought he got the two, I thought he was about to do his Anthony Edwards take that

motherfucking put in here and he fucking laid it up. And during the commentary, I think Mr. Reggie said, I think during the game like, oh, I was expecting him to, and I was too. And he decided to lay it. And I was like, that ain't what's... Cruisin'. was two and he decided to lay and I was like that ain't what cruising right so it's situations like that where you can make a statement and his passiveness at the rim throughout the game showed on that play so yeah he need to be more aggressive to give his chance his team a chance to win he needs to be more aggressive to give his team a chance to win. He has to be more aggressive. But they gotta get him off the ball, man.

He hasn't worked too hard with the ball in his hand. Let him turn the corner and we'll get to the rim. Run some double pin downs, let Lou Dort chase him out the corner and somebody switch out, let him turn the corner. Some different shit to make him- They don't have it. Shit. That... shit. You think he's hearing a lot of voices? That is obvious.

You think he got everybody telling him what he should be doing? Owner, gym, coach, agent, players, everybody like... You should... you should... you should... You gotta... They're not smart enough to tell him what to do. But he played like it was like, man, I'm done doing what y'all saying. Y'all telling me to do all Well he played like it was like man I'm done doing what y'all saying y'all telling me to do all this other shit I'm trying to get trying to do what the coach say now. That's what it looked like and that was the answer it

was like me and you play a good ball today I think we just we did everything he asked us to do he asked us to play like this today. Do you think Finch said hey Julius Randall go out there and go one for seven from the field and score five points? Get off the ball. Told him to get off the ball. This is where sometimes you have to look at history to understand what to do. You want Dort off you. And you've been trying to do it one way.

How about just reverse it? Just reverse the thought process. It's like being guarded in the box in one. You become the screener because the idiot guarding you wasn't taught to do it that way. Right? He, they only been working on it.

You have the ball and he fights over. From there, if Louis not on you, they're learning to switch. So if someone, if Conley has the ball and you go over and set the pick, what are they gonna do now? Set the double, you the second. Cause this man who's used to switching, he's gonna be thinking switching.

Lou Dort might fuck that up. Yeah, cause he's used to staying attached. He's used to staying attached, so he might stay attached. He gonna stay attached when he's supposed to. They haven't been taught to go over or go under so you become the screener and Let them come off the pick and make him decide what to do now hit this dumbass switch Guess what happened?

Pop out now. You got the man you wanted Called basketball on it. It's called basketball. You just reverse engineer the fucking joint. That's it. The discipline instruction you need for that to pull that off is you need somebody to actually set a real screen. You are the screen setter. You know what I'm saying? Opposite of Ant. Like Ant being that, yeah, he's gonna be able to do that. But what he did earlier in the game when they was trying to play off ball with him, with Dort, when you saying he was staying attached to him,

they wasn't setting those screens for him to get open. That's why he wasn't getting open. He was trying to get down there and come off something. Nobody was setting those screens, and then you got only one screen setter, and Rudy don't be really setting no fucking screens. And it's two part though, that ain't gotta set him up. You gotta set him up.

He just trying to run straight out, dude, no. And then it gets the offensive fouls. That's where Ju gets fucked up a lot. He gets offensive fouls because they don't set the screen and he don't set them up. So then you're behind the eight ball already because even if you finching, you trying to set it up, you're like, man, our players aren't even disciplined

to actually set a real screen, hold the screen, run off the fucking, the pin down, turn, shoot, make a move, do something, let's make a play. But like he said, the guard to guard fucking screen, when you setting that guard to guard and they're in a box of one You got to let ant set the screen So if you're not doing that y'all are just switching everything and you just got anteran just trying to play Tetris out there He's like well, I don't know what they're doing. Well fuck I

Was passing the Jewish you was saying the same thing. He's saying they just swing it to Alexander. He'll shoot it. Oh Yeah, he'll shoot it. You know, we make it he definitely will It's just what he's coaching coaching bro. No, Ben coaching. No No, it's been coach. Oh, they haven't what like we've watched we've watched plays, right? We've watched plays, right? We've watched plays over. Reggie Miller, have you not realized how Reggie Miller got the three, right? The back screen, then he slips it, right?

Because his man is supposed to be attached. Now he's sitting in the back screen. This guy goes to a lob, who is this help? If my man is attached, that's a lob. So my man bites on it, I flare out got him off me. It's But they're not throwing a switch who gonna be the switch guy They throwing a switch to Rudy. They don't want to throw that that bitch to Rudy when you got they just switching everything No, what I'm saying is ants man door does that he's design. It's he's

He's playing man to man. He's not switching off. But if he gets hit, they do switch. They switch it all on the outside. So if he happens to get hit down there. So if I'm man to man and I set a pick and he flies off and Lou Dort takes him, then you gave me what I wanted anyway. So I just pop out and I get to play my one on one

without Lou Dort. If you don't and they go for that lob, that's a naked playback there. Because Lou Dort is like I'm not leaving. But they not looking for that. That's what I'm saying. The discipline for them, that's the progression of any kind of situation, right? You got the pin down, he come out, you deny that. Then you deny this. Then you should have Rudy right there, wide open. Throw it to Rudy. He should be open That's not happening because they just switching everything saying look we don't we don't think they're gonna throw it to Rudy over the top

What are you not and then if they do we don't think he even gonna catch it to even begin with so we don't care So we're just switching all everything on the outside. They try to do a pin down. They try to do anything They're not set no real screws Nasri want to pop They try to do a pin down, they try to do anything like that. They not set no real screens. Nasri want to pop, Jude Randall want to pop. Nobody want to get nobody open. Everybody want the ball. It's all discipline at the end of the day. Yeah, they screen just to get the ball.

Just to see, that's it. They're screening because they're just switching it. The screener has to be the guy who has a man that's designed not to switch. If you ever learned that,, what's golden Steph is the Reggie the guy you have Reggie like I Got is really good because most most times the guards are not used to bumping No, right our job is not the bunso our job is the trail So when you have a guard that can set screens very well

He's the one who gets open the most caruso said good screens. He used to be open on them, on them shade shits. Bruh. Well, let's see. But that's what I would do game. That's what I would do if I'm them. I would just reverse engineer it. Good luck. Get the ball out of his hand, make him a screener and see how they play it. If he don't want it, he ain't gonna get it. That's all I know.

All I know is one guy in playoffs, man, you gotta give me the ball. I've seen him do that, I'm like, I'm not gonna have expectation from him. I'm not gonna set him up for that. And they don't set good screens, it could be detrimental too, he don't motherfuckin' have that ball and he can't get that bitch,

cause Lou Dort is not getting screened out there. He's not getting screened, he's just in the space. Even if you're not screening, right? They're switching everything, right? You're switching everything, right? Mm-hmm. Put them, yeah, no. Flip one. Two.

One time, not, not, go screen, I'm running up, and then I just, ah! You talking about the slip? Yeah, you just, a couple,, I haven't seen one slip yet. They too smart. Run up there. Who's too smart? Dirk is too smart.

He not going to fall for it. He'll follow him. Follow who? With the slip screen, because it ain't no screen. Because there ain't no screen. He's so blitz, he and that man. No, if Ann has the ball. If Ann has the ball, and then, no, I'm just talking about,

like, let's say, if Julius and what's her name? Nas Reed, right? If one of them had the ball and the no I'm just talking about like let's say if Julius and what's the name Nas Reed right if one of them had the ball and the other one comes and slip it because they're so used to just switching everything they're not used to someone slip because they don't even do it I don't think they switching with Ant Doris not trying no no no he's not I'm talking about the guy the other ones that's in the ground okay they can run up and just slip that every single time because they're designed to just come both stop. Yeah Yeah, I get what you're saying right there not taught the one stay under just in case one dive

They both just are switch out being lazy with it because they're both they put yeah, cuz everybody's on the perimeter Yeah, right. So they're using Caruso on the opposite of what you saying They they they using that where they switch it and Caruso still on the nail That's what aunt is still seeing on that slip that slips in they actually running that whoo. They're running that play No, they're both popping. That's what I'm saying. They pop it. That's no no slip is a slip Go to the basket slip is slip was over a y'all I'm coming up to see like I'm sending pic to Mo Williams And as soon as he thinks your guy as soon as he feels his guy talking about he slips it about down

I'm put the flip roll. I'm talking'm about to flip like what they've been doing. No, that's it. Hey, no, that's slip Hey, they ain't doing no I'm talking about running up your guys running up the switch with me and I just to the room Okay, they're in they're not doing that. I know cuz ain't nobody that's a bad shot You is the only one that can do that and nobody gonna do that You're gonna shoot it. I mean nausea like he want to shoot the three He's the one fading Jew can do that but Ain't nobody gonna shoot him. He's on the panel. He's gonna shoot. Shoot his hand? Nah, I mean, nah, he's like. He wanna shoot the three. He's the one fading.

Ju can do that, but what you want after that? What you want him to do after that? There's a couple, a couple, three, just three of those fuck up they defense. Yeah. Good luck. Good luck. They ain't dead yet. So ask the couch, do you believe that the Wolves still have a chance in this series?

Start with you, Sonny. Yeah. They can win. They can rattle off three straight. They can rattle off two. Before it's a game seven. Anything that happens is game sevens as we know. But they gotta get their confidence

and their leadership back. That's number one. If they ain't got their leader really locked in, like, man, they'd never be okay to just lose and say I shot that mitten. Nah hell nah Okay, see 35 and 6 at home during the regular season 7 and 1 in the 2025 playoffs Wolves are 4 and 3 on the road this season Good you believe the wolves still have a chance in this series even just to send it back to Minnesota for game 6 Oh, yeah, I know what you're gonna say.

They have a chance though. They have a chance to show up to the game. You know, they do have a chance, you know, to make sure they all get on the plane, show up, get their ass whooped going on back home. And would you fly back to Minnesota or are you just going directly to your vacation destination? Now that's now that's a good question.

Thank you. That's the most realistic question. Like what happens after they get the ass whooped you over here talking about game six in a second. Okay, they played a man amazing basketball these last week is over man. They're not shooting 12 of 20 coming off the bench motherfucker scored 90 points off the bit They're not doing that shit no more man. It's it's can't cool man. It's over man I don't even know if it's can't cool anymore the way these niggas make money man

There are a lot of different vacation destination Santa was a Santorini issues shit like that Santorini Santorini is this place like that where they going? There's a Santorini and shit, this shit like that. Santorini. Santorini, this place is like that where they going. Fiji always a school. So I'm taking the high or the lower, or how many players get back on that plane and go straight home?

It feels a bit. It's a higher, lower, 6.5. Okay, finally, you believe the Wolves still have a chance in this series? No. Okay, does chance in this series? No. Okay. Does chance work with hope? Chance, potential. They all work at the shake joint.

He the bouncer. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Nah, they ain't. Nah. Not going back to Oklahoma. If they was going back home, no surgery.

Man, they'll probably get there tomorrow morning. Yeah, one. Ain't no point in getting a hotel, my niggas. Fly in, they'll. You just gonna fly to deal like hey, hey, you wake up. Hey, what you doing? Hey, what you doing? Hey, we got business meeting, man. We ain't got no rooms, man.

No room. We'll take a shower at the goddamn thing and just get the fuck on back home. That's how they look. They kind of look like. Organization. Like they better get this shit over with man. Like man, this is a long year man. Well guess what, Oklahoma City gonna help them.

Well, they will oblige. Act light. Oh trust me, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a no bag trip. Got a carry on. Laptop bag. Everybody got a carry on. Got my laptop bag. This is gonna be a quick trip no bag trip. We got a carry on. Everybody got a carry on. This is going to be a quick trip. All right, well,

let's move on to MostlyFans. Presented by the good folks at Underdog. Download the app. Use promo code Gil. Get $1,000 in bonus cash. Plus a special pick-em. What is... I'm trying to figure out this name. Oh, D-Low. We have a question from this name. Oh, D-Low, okay.

We have a question from Underdog user, D-LowAction95. Which team has the most to gain by winning the championship this year? I just read the question. Say it again. Which team has the most to gain by winning a championship this year? New York Knicks.

Uh-uh. The most again? OKC. Winning championship. MVP and still got all them damn draft picks. Winning! I would go with NYX. I mean, they win the championship, the evaluation of their team skyrockets, and then it becomes a place where free agents, young guys want to go, right?

Because it's the mecca of basketball. That's what it was. And the fact that if they won a championship, New York would be the most, it would be lit this summer. Everybody and their mom are gonna wanna try to go to New York for something. There's gonna be barbecues everywhere, and it just will put that franchise back into a place where it hasn't been in a long time.

And free agents would be like, yeah, I need to be a part of something like this. So I just think the franchise is up, Indiana wins is not like they gonna get a new arena. That bitch still gonna be 17,000. It's not like they salary cap gonna go up. It's Caitlin Clark gonna still run a motherfuck city.

Right? So it ain't nothing gonna change. There's no free agents are coming to them or to Oklahoma. So it's nothing changes just like it didn't do for Denver. You don't think free agents be interested in coming to Oklahoma? Did Oklahoma. So it's nothing changes, just like it didn't do for Denver. You don't think Freyans be interested in coming to Oklahoma? Did they try to do Denver? Huh? Huh?

Hm? Damn, Joe. Stand down. Just stand down, bro. Stand down. It's the 27th. Direct deposit. Sam Preston, evaluation of having a championship

under his belt. I think but they also. He looks great. He first time you guys have said not a desirable location to live in but to be able to play with that team to see the camaraderie that that he said the team I'm just when Golden State won little shit. Silicon Valley went up. Motherfuckers start getting players over there like yeah, that's what it looked like when you

Yeah, yeah Like how they did in Cleveland no Small city like they won even go up. No what what Cleveland didn't go up? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Assets and then they had to get some trades to come in and no free agents last big free agent was Larry Hughes That was a last big free agent that signed there as a free agent like nigga I want to come there He's the only one that had boots on I want to come as he's the only one, you know, st. Louis today That's they traded for a D wait Where he's a free agent? Watch just asking for a friend. I just want to know how much a D way

I'm asking But he wouldn't I don't care what he was just saying with you so D way got bought out by the Bulls Then he signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers How much they pay for these guys? What was the highest contract? Over the hill players that come over there when it's the last trying to win with LeBron we're talking about free agent I see one year 2.3 million trying to win with LeBron we're talking about free agent. One year 2.3 million.

1.2, say it again. One year 2.3 million. Now what did Larry, who signed that? Duane Wade. Duane Wade, say it again. One year. 2.3 million. Now what did Duane, cause we're talking about.

Was Kevin Love a free agent? No. He got traded? Yeah. He was a five year 70 million. Five year 70 million. And a free agent in 2005. In 2005. year 70 million dollars five years 70 million agent in 2005 in 2005 that's the biggest free agent

they've signed 2005 that wasn't the question that was but it wasn't what we're talking about yeah it is i'm saying after the champion the biggest no we said free agents no we're saying you're naming people you moved the goldpost because we're saying after the championship You're talking about contracts and people that can help No, first of all, it started off as after the championship and then you named some guys I wasn't even part of a championship after the championship when LeBron won a championship with that team which free agents came I was talking about before that Yeah, of course you moved it. The question was the franchise after winning the championship

That was the question that wasn't and I said well kids who came there after they won nobody Then you brung up Cleveland And I said who came there after they won a championship nobody Nobody came to his name. They won't wait. No, but I know that's before a champion. But it's that was before the championship. You're not going to correct him. Was that before? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Let them do it

He convinced me like yo, okay Okay, okay after the war also went because because Kyrie won't leave do it. Okay after they won and did nobody think that Cleveland Cavalier team was gonna win shit. So it was a Kyrie trade. And did nobody think when Shaq went to Cleveland they was gonna win shit. But what is my, but my point is still my point that no free agent, like if New York win, free agents will come to New York.

The Klay Thompson's, those guys. They don't need to win for free agents to do that. You know, it's to do. What happened to New York the clay Thompson's those guys either win for free agents to do that You know, it's like what happened in New York. They've proved. Okay, then prove it We will when no no no no no no this is our first year getting this far. So wait wait wait Hold on. Hold on. Well, the next summer's there'll be some wait. We're saying free agents We're saying big free agents will sign there because it becomes a thing after they win. We don't need to win I just say we don't know that means if we don't need to win that means you get that means the No, no, no, no, that means you have an example right now. No, we don't have to name all the free agents since they haven't won

Name all the great free agents that sign there before in the last 20 years, but I'm not gonna do that. Of course not Well on that note I'm not gonna do that. Of course not well on that note Ladies I'm in this two oh eight p.m. Pacific. I mean you could have just said Brunson We appreciate all y'all in the chat for pulling up supporting show shout out to the kid Merrill We're pulling up to spread his Nick's fandom. Yeah, appreciate everybody on this couch This has been another episode of gills arena presented by underdog. What we will see y'all tomorrow