Cavs & Mavs Level Series + Knicks’ MSG Magic | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by Tim Bontemps and New York Times Bestselling Author Kirk Goldsberry to react to the Cavs getting a huge win over the Celtics, the Mavs picking up a clutch road win over the Thunder and the Knicks continuing to find new ways to amaze at MSG. Plus, a preview of Kirk’s new book Hoop Atlas.
0:00 Welcome Back Kirk
8:18 Cavs Dominate In Boston
24:40 Mavs Bounce Back In OKC
39:53 “Nova Knicks” Connection Still Huge For NY
57:41 Pacers’ Issue With Officiating
1:03:21 Thanks For Watching!
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49 Comments
people hate on bontemps but he keeps it 100
Why does Botemps speak like an angry robot all the time?
This Kirk guy worked for the spurs?? His comment about kyrie makes him look like a basketball noob. Kyrie didn’t score much but he played high level defense and play maked for his teammates. Smh he talking like a casual that doesn’t watch games.
Wish I knew at the start they were gonna blow MJ and the greats for the first 20 min! Jesus just get to the mavs pls and thx!
If Brunson can ball and u seeing it u can’t say what AI couldn’t do Brunson is no AI js Wendy smh shut up
Let’s goooooo knicks … you know Tim is wishing he was covering the knicks series hah can see it on his face
Nah let’s not forget when embiid fell his full body weight on Mitchell Robinsons leg on purpose… it was not jus when Mitch was up in the air and embiid pulled his legs.. there was another play that was bad and injured it
Lol, Tim upset much that Windy got the Knick assignment this round hahaha
Mavs in 6
on the schneid!
Kyrie is the litmus test of who watched the game or who read the boxscore. Kyrie was fantastic, distributed and played incredible defense all game. 11 assists and so many steals and deflections.
Kyrie didn’t have a miserable game though. His mindset was clearly to facilitate and hit the rim runners and the shooters on the squad. At times, it was frustrating because I felt like he was being way too deferential and not looking for his shot enough. But to say he played miserable is just so disingenuous. Like, did you even watch the game bro? 😂
31:00 mark… what's wrong with Josh Giddey, did he get himself caught up in a MINOR infraction(is it GIDDEY or GIGGITY, like QUAQMIRE)?? 😂😂😂
Should be mcmahon and the hoop collective. B2b pods where windy doesnt wanna stay up for tim to finish mavs coverage even tho hes the star of the pod
Ecf Boston vs New York or cavs vs pacers 😂🤔
Dallas will beat OKC
Don’t invite Kirk back, he didn’t watch the game.
Please don’t bring back this guy again! He’s boring as hell, same as Spears. We need both Tim’s and Windy, that’s it!
Typical bait and switch, eastern conference is all they care about
It’s amazing at how little a lot of these guys seem to know about basketball. I’m convinced some of them just look at the box score and draw their own conclusions.
They were talking about Boston like they were going to win the title. Meanwhile, the Knicks won back to back at home with one starter and four bench players, people forget, hartenStein, Josh hart and Dante weren’t starters at the beginning of the year
The big forehead dude is unbearable to listen to
I like how folks mention our home playoff record but fail to mention our dominant road record lmao
This is supposed to be a real basketball podcast? That Kyrie take is embarrassing. He epitomized a guy who just wants to win and knew he had to get his teammates involved to win the series instead of focusing on his numbers. This being the best ESPN can offer is a joke
Kirk is a Casual fs
Bob Pettit ?
These are the people that vote for nba awards. Do not take media votes awards seriously.
Tatums so overrated 😂
Bontemps must have a hard on because the Celtics loses last night
Kardiac Cavs in 6 🕸️
Th vibes are off on this one
There's no reason for "series" to have an apostrophe on the right end in the thumbnail
Bomtemps refuses to say anything good about the Mavs after a win, but has so many things to say after a Mavs loss
Man, Tim Bontemps is insufferable
All the fouls/calls Indiana submitted are probably for "carrying" & travels etc that should be called but haven't been called for a long time.
SMH I hate when ppl talk about the Mavs but don’t watch the games 9pts not everything he also had 2 steals 11 assists
If embiid grabbed the other leg, which leg do you think Robinson landed awkwardly on?
Ricky Davis dropping 35 ppg in the playoffs almost gave me whiplash and had me thinking Brian is on something besides sleep deprivation.
Show boring without the Lakers
Tim is so grumpy lol
It happened when embiid jumped on him for a lose ball
2 things I can tell you as a Raptors fan, one is OG gets hurt like 5 times a year, he is fragile, hence he was injured the entire 2019 championships run, and two pascal gets worse as the pressure gets more intense.
Adam corolla needs to sue.
Man we definitely need Goldsberry on more! Gotta grab that book for sure
Spyda Mitchell fried the Celtics.
Living in the 90s?you sloppy f___ the nerve of you
like every other commenter is saying, it's easy to see you didn't watch mavs/thunder if your take was that kyrie didn't impact the game. on the jokic front, ppl just want consistency. jokic had a good year but it was worse than his previous years (something that was held against giannis in 2021) and his team clearly wasn't completely focused on the regular season (something that's been held against lebron in multiple years). shai led a team to a 17 game improvement in wins (and the 1 seed), leading one of the youngest teams in the league while having a better individual season than he ever had, including being the best two-way guard this regular season. personally i still had jokic (bc my tiebreaker is who's the best player, and i think jokic is better), but i can see why ppl were annoyed shai wasn't closer (or even the winner)
“Jarrett Allen is the moat important interior defender on the cavs.” No. No he is not.
Stop it y’all… Kyrie played a good game by Draymond Greene standards but it was not a great game by Kyrie standards. There’s no reason for Kyrie to not score in double figures. It’s not like he had 20 assists or 20 rebounds.